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Archive for the ‘Child Custody’ Category
September 27th, 2012 6 comments
Kids benefit from having two healthy parents who can focus on the children’s developmental needs and a healthy family life. Too often, the courts and government set up situations in which parents are encouraged to pursue sole custody and cut the other parent out of the children’s life. That parent is then forced into traumatic battles over just being able to see the children.
Sometimes one or both parents in such a battle degenerate into horrible monsters because of how their child custody disputes are being mishandled. Courts and government agencies fan the flames and encourage bad behaviors which often lead to years of continuing or even escalating conflict.
Often parents who refuse to share their kids with the other parent abduct or even kill the children when they do not get their way. Sometimes, they enrage the other parent with abuse causing him or her to eventually crack and to start using the kids as weapons of revenge just like the originally selfish parent.
Father Murdered Child To Get Revenge On Mother For Child Access Blocking
As an example of parental custody disputes leading to child murders, here’s a story about Ramazon Acar of Australia.
Acar was often prevented from seeing his daughter by her mother. After some time, he was fortunate enough to occasionally get to see his 2 year old daughter Yazmina Acar. Reportedly this was an unusual occurrence. He said he was going to take the child to what has been variously described as a nearby “candy shop” or “milk bar”.
Instead, he kept the child with him as he proceeded to taunt her mother, Rachelle D’Argent, over Facebook about how he was going to kill the girl. This wasn’t just an unfortunate choice of words or even an evil joke. He stabbed the child to death and then continued to write on Facebook about what he had just done.
Why would he do this? He says it was to get revenge on D’Argent, with the intention of making her feel like she had made him feel when she blocked him from seeing their child.
Like so many parents who murder their kids, he says he also wanted to kill himself but could not do it.
This man didn’t just kill a baby and break a mother’s heart. He hurt a lot of other people in the process.
He stabbed in the back the many fathers who merely want to have reasonable time with their kids and would never do anything remotely like his crime.
He slashed at the hopes of the many children who are suffering from being deprived of time with one parent or who are forced to endure an abusive childhood because of an irate parent who has sole or primary custody and refuses to treat the kids and the ex reasonably.
Acar also has encouraged the paranoid fears of many mentally ill mothers who are already acting horribly in regards to their children and ex, encouraging them to act even worse than they already do. You see these people often spouting off about how “all fathers” are bad evil people who should never see their children again. What Acar did pushes even more people into supporting these abusive nutcases.
Child Abuse, Child Custody, Children, Crime, Family, Parental Alienation
Australia, Child Abduction, Child Abuse, child murder, murder, Rachelle D'Argent, Ramazan Acar, Yazmina Acar
Family law courts habitually fail to recognize that women can be sociopaths that are dangerous to the children. Even when they show strong signs of a sociopathic personality disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder, the courts and government agencies like CPS often ignore warning signs and fail to act to protect the children when there is clear reason to believe they are in danger from their disturbed mothers. They make orders that indicate a belief the children are somehow better off living with a female sociopath who breaks the law and court orders than with a safe and sane father who is repeatedly falsely accused of things he did not do and is following the law and court orders.
This pattern is exactly what we are seeing play out in the case of Gordon Smith and Tiffany Smith of Delaware. Tiffany Smith has executed a distortion and harassment campaign against Gordon for more than three years. He has been repeatedly arrested based upon false accusations. Reports from late August 2012 were 8 arrests for 14 false allegations.
The exact numbers of the moment, which have changed rapidly in the past few months as many more false allegations were made by Tiffany Smith, is not particularly important. What matters is that the cost to Gordon has been the loss of his time with the children, severe harm to his career, major financial damages, and repeated suffering from false arrests and incarcerations. All this happened despite him having not been convicted of a crime and the police being in possession of solid evidence that many of the accusations were outright lies.
The Smith children suffer from lack of their father and living with a mother for whom two of her foremost goals in life is to prevent them from seeing their father and to put their father in prison using malicious false allegations. Tiffany Smith clearly isn’t thinking of the best interests of the children, but the courts continue to leave the children in the custody of a monster.
Tiffany Smith Finally Arrested
Until recently, Tiffany Marie Smith got away with her abuse of Gordon Smith with zero consequences to herself. On August 31 or September 1, 2012, Dover Police Department finally arrested Tiffany Smith for recent false allegations and reports to police because they had clear cut evidence that she lied to them which had caused them to falsely arrest Gordon Smith. The official police department statement is:
Child Abduction, Child Abuse, Child Custody, Children, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family, Government Abuse, Legal, Parental Alienation, Partner Violence, Police, Prosecutor, Psychology, Restraining Orders
Bonnie Hoult, California, Cindy Dumas, Damon Moelter, Delaware, Dover Police Department, Elizabeth Fontaine, Eric Moelter, false accusations in divorce, Gordon Smith, Jason Fontaine, Orange County, Parental Alienation, San Diego, sociopathic abuse, supervised visitation, Thomas Schulte, Tiffany Marie Smith, United States
August 30th, 2012 2 comments
UPDATE: About two days after we published this article, Tiffany Marie Smith was arrested for three of her most recent false police reports. Please read Tiffany Marie Smith Behind Bars for more information.
As of mid-September 2012, the Smith children continue to be blocked from seeing Gordon Smith despite all charges against him being dropped now that police are convinced Tiffany Smith is a liar. These kids are still in harm’s way of Tiffany Smith and the government needs to act to protect them from their mother.
Over the past couple of years, Gordon Smith has been accused of domestic violence more than a dozen times and arrested at least eight times by Delaware law enforcement. The exact number of allegations and arrests is difficult to track because it keeps growing in many recent months. The man must report to a probation officer and wear a GPS tracking device at all times. From this, you might surmise that he was convicted of one or more crimes. But in fact, Gordon Smith has not been convicted of a crime.
Tiffany Marie Smith, Serial False Accuser
Tiffany Marie Smith
Evidence points to repeated lying by his ex-wife Tiffany Marie Smith to block Gordon’s contact with their children and to harm him. When she filed a report that he made “terroristic threats” over the phone to her, he was in fact in a courthouse where cell phones are not allowed and court video surveillance did not show him using a phone. When she filed a report that he left a note threatening to kill her and the kids, witnesses and other evidence placed him several hundred miles away in Georgia. When she claimed he was violating a restraining order by being at her home, video surveillance at a Taco Bell shows he was eating there at the time. When she made another allegation of a threatening note, GPS tracking showed he was nowhere near where she claims a new threatening note was left on her car.
The GPS tracking of Gordon Smith is being done by the government that has forced him to report to a probation officer and submit to restrictions on his freedoms deemed suitable for convicted domestic violence offenders when in fact he has not been convicted of any such crime.
The evidence suggests that he is the victim of crime. But instead of helping Gordon escape harassment by a malicious lying ex-wife, the government is helping encourage and reward what appears to be ongoing criminal filing of false police reports and perjury by Tiffany Smith.
While it is not possible to prove that Tiffany lied about every allegation, none of her allegations to date have been substantiated. For at least four of her allegations, there is solid evidence that she lied including filing false police reports. There is also a consistent pattern of what appear to be false and unsubstantiated reports going back more than two years that have been repeatedly used as basis to falsely arrest Gordon Smith and to engage in systematic violation of his civil and Constitutional rights.
The police seem to be suggesting that Tiffany Smith might have just been “wrong” without malice in some of her allegations and that nobody can prove who actually left the notes. However, the sheer quantity of the allegations and the number of times it is clear she was lying makes it evident she is a serial false accuser, liar, and perjurer who has the unlawful aid of the police and courts in her reign of terror over her ex-husband.
Gordon Smith’s Civil Rights Suit Against Police
Smith has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the police. It has merit in part because the police have acted against him completely without any legal authority to do so whatsoever. They arrested him for trying to call his kids, who were 3 and 4 years old, by calling his ex-wife’s cell phone. There was no basis for them to arrest him for this, and in fact it is fairly ordinary for child custody orders to require that parents are to permit the children to talk with the other parent.
In Delaware, a complaint such as “I told him not to call” or a false accusation “he threatened to kill me on the phone” by the ex is all that is needed for you to be arrested, forced into a probation program, and even to have a GPS tracking device attached to your body by the government.
Quoted from Injustice in Delaware:
There are a few things already quite clear. This is a nightmare turned real for Mr. Smith, who, among other things, was arrested by the Delaware State Police for calling his ex-wife’s cell phone to make contact with his children, who were not old enough at the time to initiate contact with him (3 and 4 years old respectively), when there was no restraining order preventing him from doing so. He was arrested simply on the word of his former wife, who told police that she had asked him not to call.
Gordon Smith is being harassed, persecuted, and harmed in violation of the US Constitution to reward his ex-wife’s baseless complaints and continued lying. The Delaware State Police are co-conspirators in these crimes as they arrested him without checking readily available evidence and then, when evidence show Tiffany lied, they failed to file charges and arrest her for filing false police reports.
Child Custody, Children, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family, Government Abuse, Legal, Partner Violence, Police, Politics, Prosecutor
Barack Obama, Delaware, Delaware 30th District, Gordon Smith, GPS tracking, Joseph Biden, Kent County, NDAA, Tiffany Marie Smith, VAWA
August 10th, 2012 No comments
Leila Marie Tarantino (DOB 10/24/1976) of Citrus Springs, Florida, claims that on July 17, 2011, she was pulled over by Citrus County Sheriff Department officers on South Columbia Street in Beverly Hills, Florida, for rolling through a stop sign, an offense she denies committing. She claims she fully stopped at the stop sign, then a police car did a U-turn to stop her vehicle. She says her two kids ages 4 and 1 were in the car with her and got a full view of the malevolent antics of the police as they pointed a gun in her face, removed her from her car, and put her in a squad car for two hours. She claims that when backup arrived, the cops then proceeded to strip search her along the side of the road, and forcibly pulled a tampon out of her in a search for contraband. She was then released with a traffic citation for violating restrictions on her driver’s license.
Here’s a copy of the lawsuit filed against the Sheriff Jeffrey Dawsy (who is alleged to have personally approved of the strip search in this incident), the department, the Citrus County government, and six other unnamed officers including five men and one woman. The female police officer is the one alleged to have pulled the tampon out from Tarantino.
Tarantino Tampon Lawsuit
According to Florida Statute 901.211, strip searches are unlawful for such a traffic stop:
2011 Florida Statutes: 901.211 Strip searches of persons arrested; body cavity search
(1) As used in this section, the term “strip search” means having an arrested person remove or arrange some or all of his or her clothing so as to permit a visual or manual inspection of the genitals; buttocks; anus; breasts, in the case of a female; or undergarments of such person.
(2) No person arrested for a traffic, regulatory, or misdemeanor offense, except in a case which is violent in nature, which involves a weapon, or which involves a controlled substance, shall be strip searched unless:
(a) There is probable cause to believe that the individual is concealing a weapon, a controlled substance, or stolen property; or
(b) A judge at first appearance has found that the person arrested cannot be released either on recognizance or bond and therefore shall be incarcerated in the county jail.
(3) Each strip search shall be performed by a person of the same gender as the arrested person and on premises where the search cannot be observed by persons not physically conducting or observing the search pursuant to this section. Any observer shall be of the same gender as the arrested person.
(4) Any body cavity search must be performed under sanitary conditions.
(5) No law enforcement officer shall order a strip search within the agency or facility without obtaining the written authorization of the supervising officer on duty.
(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting any statutory or common-law right of any person for purposes of any civil action or injunctive relief.
Is Tarantino Truthful?
But did this incident happen as Tarantino describes? The Citrus County Sheriff Department says Tarantino is lying and making false accusations. They point to Tarantino’s extensive court history including criminal history including a history of alleged domestic violence in 2011 and numerous traffic violations including hit and run driving, repeated DUIs, and repeatedly driving with a suspended license.
Child Custody, Children, Civil Rights, Crime, Domestic Violence, Family, Government Abuse, Legal, Police, Politics, Restraining Orders
Beverly Hills, Citrus County, Citrus County Sheriff Department, Citrus Springs, Domestic Violence, false accusation, false accusations, false accusations in divorce, false police report, Florida, Jeff Dawsy, Leila Tarantino, Nicholas Austin, police abuse, strip search, traffic violation
Alienated Moms Have It Bad Due to NOW’s Support of Child Abuse
July 17th, 2012 1 comment
Parental alienation is a form of emotional child abuse that occurs when one parent teaches the children to fear, disrespect, and/or avoid the other parent. It’s a common problem in divorces, but unknown to many alienation often gets started in marriages well before a divorce.
Studies of parental alienation show that alienators are almost exclusively parents with sole custody of the children. Statistics on child custody arrangements show that around 80% to 85% of children of divorce in the US end up in the sole custody of their mothers and that this has been the case for multiple decades despite changes in family law and society. These two observations combined mean that parental alienators are predominantly mothers and the parents they are teaching the children to hate are primarily fathers.
Alienators are emotional child abusers, often in more ways than just by teaching the kids to hate the other parent. Many alienators suffer personality disorders and also engage in emotional parentification (also known as emotional incest) by inappropriately using their children as emotional crutches for themselves.
To deny the culpability of these mothers who are child abusers, feminists belonging to groups such as the National Organization of Women (NOW) deny the very existence of parental alienation. They usually offer statements that there is “no scientific evidence that parental alienation is real” and “parental alienation is an excuse for why children do not like child abusing fathers.” Richard Gardner, a psychiatrist who was among those early in describing and defining Parental Alienation Syndrome (commonly abbreviated as PAS, it is a severe form of parental alienation in which the child aligns completely with the alienating parent), made it clear that alienation was not at work if the child disliked a parent who was truly being abusive to the child. But the feminists, in their zeal to treat all women as victims and trash all men as abusers, completely overlook that fact.
There are a growing number of alienated moms in which the child abuser in the family is the father. Typically this occurs in families in which the father has a narcissistic personality and has some advantages such as:
He is more wealthy.
He has more education.
He has professional certification such as a doctor, lawyer, judge, or law enforcement officer.
He is more politically connected.
He is a native operating in his own culture and the mother is an immigrant.
These advantages for a narcissistic man often aid him in reversing the usual anti-father bias in family courts, generally producing an anti-mother bias in these cases. Although anti-father bias is clearly wrong, it is disgustingly ironic that often when the bias becomes anti-mother it is happening in cases in which the fathers actually are behaving abusively.
Child Abuse, Child Custody, Children, Civil Rights, Divorce, Family, Marriage, Parental Alienation, Politics
Amy Baker, Child Abuse, emotional parentification, Fathers & Families, feminism, National Organization of Women, Parental Alienation, personality disorder, Richard Gardner
Los Angeles DA Must Prosecute Wanetta Gibson for False Rape Allegation Against Brian Banks
July 10th, 2012 6 comments
Brian Banks was a 16 year old high school football star in Long Beach, California, when a lying girl and the government collaborated to ruin his life. He was falsely accused of rape by classmate Wanetta Gibson after the two had kissed in a stairwell. Gibson concocted an elaborate story claiming that Banks dragged her across campus and raped her. Even though Banks did not commit the crime and in fact there had been no rape at all, his attorney advised him to seek a plea bargain to get a lighter sentence as the government was threatening him with 41 years to life in prison. Choosing what he saw as the lesser of two bad options after his lawyer suggested he would be convicted because he is black, Banks plead “no contest” and was imprisoned for over five years was then put on probation. Upon release, he was forced to wear a GPS monitor, register as a violent sex offender, and was restricted from living near or going near schools.
The Brian Banks Story
False accuser Wanetta Gibson is the real rapist (as in financial rape) in this story. She and her family got a large settlement (variously reported as either being $750,000 or $1.5 million) from the Long Beach School District on the basis of her lies and claims that lax school security contributed to causing her “rape”.
Gibson this year admitted Banks did not rape her, but was worried she might have to repay the fraudulently obtained settlement. Students, investigators, and attorneys associated with the California Innocence Project helped to obtain evidence that Gibson had falsely accused Banks which resulted in the overturning of his conviction on May 24, 2012.
As the California Innocence Project web page on the Banks case explains:
Banks was faced with an impossible decision at the time – either fight the charges and risk spending 41 years-to-life in prison, or take a plea deal and spend a little over 5 years of actual prison confinement. Although it would mean destroying his chance to go to college and play football, a lengthy probationary period, and a lifetime of registration as a sex offender, Banks chose the lesser of two evils when he pleaded no contest to the charges.
Teri Stoddard of SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) is calling for the prosecution of Wanetta Gibson as part of their effort to quash the epidemic of false allegations of crime and violence that are ruining the lives of many innocent people. She reports that roughly ten percent of Americans have been falsely accused of child abuse, domestic violence, or sexual assault and there are very few protections for such people.
Gibson should be prosecuted for perjury. But that doesn’t go far enough. She should also be prosecuted for criminal fraud that cost taxpayers and insurers an enormous settlement plus legal fees in this case featuring a lying girl and an irresponsible government that encourages more liars to level false allegations by failing to prosecute such crimes.
Significant financial restitution and assistance to Brian Banks and his family is also warranted. It should be paid by the LA County District Attorney, the State of California, and Gibson to Banks and his family.
This boy was placed into prison at the age of 16 years old for 5 years for a rape that did not occur simply because a girl lied against him and the government failed to do its job to determine the truth, instead preferring to bully an innocent child into letting himself be steamrolled by the government because he was male and black and therefore was assumed to be guilty based merely upon a disputed accusation and his race and gender.
Brian Banks is a poster case for the injustices against men and African-American men in particular. If his accuser had been of some other racial group (she is African-American, too), you can get her crime would be the fuse in a powder keg of a potential racial uprising in Los Angeles. There is no doubt that racial bias played a part in the success of the State of California coercing Banks into pleading no contest.
Child Abuse, Child Custody, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime, Divorce, Family, Government Abuse, Legal, Police, Politics, Prosecutor
Brentford Ferreira, Brian Banks, California, California Innocence Project, Clark County, Clyde Ray Spencer, false allegations, false child sexual abuse, false rape, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Michael Davidson, Sharon Krause, Shirley Hanson, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, Teri Stoddard, United States, Wanetta Gibson, Washington
Summers And Holidays Are Seasons of Elevated Child Custody Conflict With A Psycho Ex
June 29th, 2012 No comments
Pop culture would have you believe that summer is a carefree time for kids and the holidays are a wonderful time of the year for family. But many parents suffering from the psychological warfare campaign of a psycho ex dread the summers and holidays because it is often at these times of the year that the psycho ex creates even more conflict than usual. Whether the dreaded ex best fits the label of a psycho, an alienator, a Borderline, a Narcissist, or a sociopath, the behaviors regarding summers and holidays are usually highly disruptive and destructive to both the quality and quantity of time you have with the kids.
School Schedules Help Ensure Child Time Share Consistency
When the kids are in school, there is often consistent structure and predictability to the time you can see your kids. Picking up kids from school and dropping them off there often works very well for several reasons. First and foremost, the other parent has no business being there at those times so the loyalty conflicts and emotional and verbal abuse that go hand-in-hand with the presence of the psycho are often not so severe at school. Secondly, the kids see that school pickups and dropoffs are exactly what all their other classmates are doing, too, even the ones whose families haven’t been destroyed by divorce and child custody battles. This generally means they don’t feel as stigmatized or traumatized about exchanges done at school. Finally, the school schedule tends to be rather consistent. This means the kids know what the expect. The reduced uncertainty takes a bit of their worries away and you don’t have to renegotiate your time with the kids every week.
But when school is out, you are stuck with having to find alternate pickup and dropoff locations. With a psycho ex, you may be best off hiring a professional custody exchange service or using a police station that has extensive video surveillance to help reduce the chances of being falsely accused or stalked.
Childcare Centers and Camps
Childcare centers can be convenient pickup and dropoff locations as they share some features with school exchanges. A childcare center is more likely to be neutral and safe than a private residence. Also only one parent needs to be there at a time regarding child pickups and drop-offs.
Sometimes the summers and holidays result in the whole schedule going up for grabs, even if the court orders are not written that way. Some psycho parents put their kids in childcare virtually all the time, even when the other parent volunteers to provide free childcare for the kids during weekdays and let the psycho ex have the weekends. Then the psycho ex sends the other parent the bill for the needless childcare, demanding the abused parent pay half or all of the childcare expenses. Some of these psycho parents are so mentally ill that they would prefer to have little time with the kids so they can stick it to the ex for childcare expenses.
But sometimes instead of a basic childcare center, the psycho parent instead seeks out camps that have schedules that will interfere with the other parent’s time with the kids. Psycho dumps the kids in all-day camps or even overnight away camps that make it more difficult for you to retrieve the kids. For instance, she or he may sign them up for a camp that buses the kids to some location an hour away or has them on the water or at an amusement park on rides where they cannot be readily retrieved when your time with them is supposed to start. So your regular midweek visit with the kids suddenly gets cut short an hour, two, or more because of this active interference.
Court Order Violations
Dumping the kids into camps that curtail your time with them is often a direct violation of court orders that state that parents are not to schedule activities for the kids during the other parent’s time without prior written agreement. But if you have a psycho ex, you know that these mentally damaged people interpret court orders to constrain your actions while believing court orders have no effect whatsoever on them.
BPD, Child Custody, Children, Courts, Divorce, Family, Legal, NPD, Parental Alienation, Psychology
borderline personality disorder, child custody exchange, contested child custody, family law court, holidays, narcissistic personality disorder, Parental Alienation, school exchanges, sociopathic abuse, summer
A Vote for Bonnie Dumanis Is A Vote For Corruption And Abuse
May 22nd, 2012 No comments
In the heavily contested election race for San Diego mayor, there’s one candidate whom you should clearly not support: Bonnie Dumanis, the District Attorney of San Diego County. It’s probably impossible to create a full list of all the nefarious actions and inactions she has committed during her career, but the following are a few highlights to give you a flavor of what Dumanis represents. You can also find additional concerning reports regarding Dumanis on Maura Larkins’ summary of coverage on the suspicious actions of Bonnie Dumanis.
Dumanis Ignores Crimes By Lawyers and Government Employees
As the San Diego Union Tribune reported, the San Diego DA office frequently fails to prosecute lawyers and other current or former government employees for serious crimes. DA Bonnie Dumanis is well known for her pattern of irresponsible failure to prosecute people who have connections to the courts and government.
Quoted from Critics: DA should prosecute problem lawyers:
After a trial late last year, the State Bar Court of California concluded that Carlsbad lawyer Patricia Gregory improperly withdrew more than $112,000 from client trust funds.
A judge recommended Gregory for disbarment in March, and the attorney is fighting the decision. She is not eligible to practice law while the review process runs its course.
Gregory has not been prosecuted, nor have several other attorneys who faced such findings from the bar. Critics say the District Attorney’s Office should act in such cases, but the staff says there are many complicating factors, such as different standards of proof and the need to set priorities.
In San Diego County, you can expect that short of mainstream media raising a crime by one of these people to the public’s attention, there will be no prosecution even when it is warranted. A lawyer stealing funds from a client such as former DA employee Patricia Gregory (who was eventually prosecuted for taking over $100,000 in client funds), government employees and contractors perjuring in court and causing millions of dollars in damage to their victims, and engaging in malicious false prosecutions are all among the types of crimes the San Diego DA would like to ignore. Failing to prosecute such crimes in presence of compelling evidence they did occur thereby encourages such criminal conduct to continue.
In the case of Patricia Gregory, Dumanis was forced by public pressure to prosecute her and a conviction was obtained. But how many other cases were brushed under the carpet and stayed there because the public didn’t press the DA to prosecute obvious criminal behaviors for which credible evidence was available?
San Diego family court critic Eileen Lasher has also criticized District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis for failing to protect the community from lawyers committing crimes. One of her examples is how San Diego attorney Theresa Erickson engaged in “baby selling crimes” violating California adoption and surrogacy laws for years as DA Dumanis and the San Diego courts looked the other way. Seemingly because of the severe corruption throughout government and courts in the San Diego region, it took US federal government intervention to put a stop to the baby selling ring.
Dumanis Prosecutes Based Upon Political Agenda
If you are a decision-maker working for the government who is friendly to her or are a wealthy friend of somebody in such a role in San Diego County, Bonnie Dumanis will tend to ignore your violations of the law. That is unless you are running for office against her or one of her friends. Then she is ready to abuse the powers of her office to wrongly harass you for daring to oppose her, even when no crime has been committed. She organized a “Public Integrity Unit” run by Patrick O’Toole which was obviously used to implement this policy.
Child Abduction, Child Custody, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime, Government Abuse, Legal, Police, Politics, Prosecutor
Bonnie Dumanis, Cheryl Cox, Cindy Dumas, Cynthia Sommer, David Malcolm, Greg Cox, Jason Moore, Laura Gunn, Patricia Gregory, Patrick O'Toole, San Diego, San Diego County, San Diego Police Department, Steve Castaneda, Todd Sommer
Treatment of Depression and Anxiety from High Conflict Divorce and Child Custody Battles Using Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines Is Risky
May 19th, 2012 10 comments
NOTE: This collaboratively written article incorporates text by multiple authors including Rob, Alison, and Chris.
Divorce is one of the most stressful experiences most people endure, right up there with a death in the family, job loss and extended unemployment, or a medical catastrophe such as cancer. When you add to the mix a child custody battle with a Personality Disordered Abuser as your adversary, you will likely experience years of false allegations, be kicked out of your home, see your kids and family suffer the abuse of parental alienation, experience frequent misconduct by the courts, see your reputation ruined by defamation, suffer job loss and chronic underemployment or unemployment, and many other damages. During such a hellish experience, it is only natural to be depressed, anxious, and suffer chronic sleep problems. The continual stress results in what may initially appear as psychological problems but which inevitably result in physiological damage to one’s health.
Many suffering from this nightmare will seek medical help from their general practitioner or psychiatrist. At some level they know the stress-related symptoms they are experiencing are not “all in their heads” as some may claim. Sometimes medical practitioners do help, other times they begin another series of upsets to their patient’s health. That’s because the mainstream therapies used by many doctors often include too quickly prescribing common antidepressants and anxiolytic medications that have a plethora of adverse effects on health. Fortunately, there are alternatives that can often help without the need for these medications or can help to reduce the prescription medication dosages required and thereby help avert some of the worst of the side effects.
Psychotherapy Is Not A Cure
When you visit your doctor or psychiatrist and explain how you can’t sleep and are depressed and anxious from the horrors of the family law system, first of all you should realize that most of these medical practitioners don’t really understand you or your situation. Unless one has been through the nightmare of the family law courts or has seen the destruction they inflict upon a close family member or friend, it’s hard to have any real understanding of this miserable reality.
Some medical providers may brush off your request for medication, pointing out that your stress is temporary and will go away in a few months and advise you to see a psychologist or therapist. While good psychologists and therapists can certainly provide some help, what they can do is often not enough as the manifestations of the family law crisis often include physiological illness brought on by chronic stress.
Many psychotherapists simply aren’t much use in such difficult situations. First of all, for a chance of good results you must find one who has some experience with the family law system and forms of child abuse including parental alienation. If you pick a therapist who has never set foot in a family court room and seen how dysfunctional the system is, you are far less likely to get competent treatment or helpful advice.
Many psychotherapists have zero experience in family law battles. They may be experts at substance abuse, marital arguments, or helping people suffering job loss but know nothing about extreme divorce and child custody battles. Even those who do have some experience often lack a full appreciation of how abusive, arbitrary, and destructive the family law courts are to their victims and how it frequently takes nothing but an unproven false allegation to put a good parent who has broken no laws and abused nobody into a no-contact or expensive supervised visitation situation that is itself a form of emotional abuse.
Naive therapists may be operating under the mistaken impression that you can’t be kicked out of your home and have all your property and assets taken from you without a chance to present your side of the story or at least some evidence of wrongdoing. But in today’s family law courts, it is not unusual for that to happen. One lie is all it takes to ruin months or years of the lives of the falsely accused parent and his or her children. A second lie is often all it takes to amplify the damage tenfold. The general public fails to understand this, and so do most therapists.
A really excellent therapist for you should also be expertly familiar with personality disorders and sociopathic abuse patterns. Some therapists run away from personality disorder cases as fast as they can. They know how dangerous these people can be to them personally. Others are totally ignorant of how destructive personality disorders can be to the misfortunate ones who married and/or had children with a person suffering one of the DSM-IV Axis II Cluster B personality disorders including Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic, and Antisocial personality disorders. Ideally, you want a therapist who knows a lot about personality disorders and is brave enough to help you face off with one of these people. “Brave” applies here because it is common for the Personality Disordered Abuser to seek to defame and even file complaints seeking to revoke the license of a therapist who dares to challenge their abusive behaviors or help their victims.
Unfortunately, finding a suitable therapist is often very difficult to do. For many people, joining a high conflict divorce or parental alienation support group or web discussion forum and asking for referrals from the people there may be one of the few realistic means they have to find a therapist who might be of some help.
If you are fortunate enough to find a good therapist familiar with family court abuse, you are likely to get some useful support and advice that may help you weather the long storm. But even when you have found a good therapist and are starting to build some rapport, the odds are strong that by then you will be suffering physiological symptoms of extreme stress that even an excellent therapist cannot resolve. Lots of talk therapy isn’t enough on its own to turn around severe depression, anxiety, or sleep disorders. Realizing this, you’ll probably go back to your doctor again looking for medical help.
Psychiatric Medicines Are Not Panaceas or Candy
After hearing that you’ve got a psychotherapist and are still suffering, even conservative doctors are going to whip out the prescription pad if they haven’t already. They are likely to quickly prescribe an antidepressant, an anxiolytic, and possibly a sleep medication from their list of favorites. Every doctor has favorite meds, ones they have used for years or new ones they want to try because they got a box full of samples or a fancy $100 surf ‘n turf dinner, golf outing, or a week long tropical vacation in the dead of winter from a big pharma rep pushing a lucrative new pill. So what you will be prescribed may often have little or nothing to do with what will actually work.
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Eileen Lasher and Dr. Emad Tadros Interviewed Regarding “Kids for Cash” San Diego Family Law Court Crimes
April 21st, 2012 5 comments
Eileen Lasher of the California Coalition for Families and Children was interviewed twice in 2011 by Walter Davis on his show Progress in San Diego. Dr. Emad Tadros, an outspoken critic of the San Diego family courts, joined them in the first interview. The second interview was shown in two segments.
In the interview segment below, Lasher discussed her experiences with the misconduct of minor’s counsel attorneys and how taxpayers and parents are paying for what is in her view an organized criminal enterprise. She says children and parents are being abused by the courts and points out the taxpayers and the abused parents are paying the financial costs for this misconduct.
San Diego Family Courts: Organized Crime Ring Targeting Middle and Upper Classes
Lasher contends the San Diego family law courts are operated as a criminal business that siphons the wealth from families and places it in the hands of the attorneys and experts such as custody evaluators. She views judges who appoint custody evaluators and minor’s counsel attorneys and many of those attorneys as particularly culpable. A minor’s counsel attorney is to participate in a custody case by representing the children. However, such attorneys often have conflicts of interest. They also typically run their own family law attorney business and are also in some cases are attorneys who are involved in probate cases and serve as “pro tem” judges in family law court.
Discussion focused on how low income families seldom have minor’s counsel attorneys and psychological evaluators ordered by the courts. These families have little money, so it is not lucrative to put them through the family court extortion process reserved for people who have some money. Middle income or higher income families often suffer from these expensive costs because they have significant assets and income that can be exploited by the divorce industry.
You have a house, so the attorneys and court want your house to be forced into sale so they can keep the proceeds and ensure their own wealth and job security at the expense of you and your children. You have retirement savings, the attorneys want those, too. There are college savings for the kids? Those can be raided, too.
How better to extort all or nearly all of a family’s wealth than to threaten their children? The attorneys and judges know how lucrative this extortion is and are eager to bring it into play when they see income and assets that can be pillaged.
If the parents don’t have substantial assets, the grandparents might. The court and its allies know that threatening their grandchildren is often an equally effective means to “financially gang rape” the family.
Generally speaking, San Diego family law courts operate by finanically raping the parents and deep-sixing their children’s futures. While there are probably some judges in the system who do not approve of the corruption and criminal conduct of other judges, it is evident that many do. It is in the judge’s own self-serving interests to increase the amount of litigation in the system. Busy inefficient courts mean more judges are “needed.” It is also in their interests to line the pockets of their attorney and custody evaluator friends, many of whom contribute to judicial re-election campaign funds or who may support them in future runs for political offices. And if they decide not to run for re-election, having funneled millions into the hands of their friends makes it easier for them to secure other employment in the same corrupt divorce industry.
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CCFC Protests San Diego Family Courts on April 15, 2010
Personality Disordered Abusers in Psychological Evaluations
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Title: Comparison of the rapid methods for screening of group a rotavirus in stool samples
Authors: Pattara Khamrin
Dinh Nguyen Tran
Wisoot Chan-it
Aksara Thongprachum
Shoko Okitsu
Niwat Maneekarn
Hiroshi Ushijima
Issue Date: 1-Oct-2011
Abstract: In this study, the sensitivity and specificity of three immunochromatography (IC) test kits for rapid detection of group A rotavirus were compared and evaluated with stool samples collected from children, who suffered from acute gastroenteritis during February to June, 2009 in Japan. A total of 86 stool samples were tested and compared with a reference RT-PCR method. The sensitivity among IP-Rota V, Dipstick Eiken ROTA and ROTA-ADENO test kits were 97.2, 95.8 and 88.7%, while the specificity were 100, 93.3 and 100%, respectively. It was demonstrated that the IC kits evaluated in this study could be used as an alternative method for the rapid screening of group A rotavirus in fecal specimens, especially during acute gastroenteritis outbreak season. © The Author [2010]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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All issues / Volume 11 (2017) / Issue 3 (March)
Hydrogen storage and polymers
S. Fakirov
MMT and LDH organo-modification with surfactants tailored for PLA nanocomposites
S. Coiai, F. Cicogna, A. de Santi, L. Perez Amaro, R. Spiniello, F. Signori, S. Fiori, W. Oberhauser, E. Passaglia
Low molecular weight polyesters were end-functionalized with ammonium and carboxylate salts and used in ionic exchange reactions with respectively cationic (MMT) and anionic (LDH) clays. The hybrid organic-inorganic substrates were structurally analysed to determine the ester oligomers’ modification degree and their thermal behaviour owing to confinement effects. The dispersion of such hybrids in polylactic acid (PLA) matrix was performed and the ultimate structural, morphological and thermal properties of the collected nanocomposites were investigated and correlated to the tailored interfacial properties with the different inorganic substrates. While the composites with MMT proved to be stable under thermo-oxidative conditions, the samples obtained by dispersing the LDH hybrid suffered from poor final thermostability owing to molecular weights decrease. Deeper insights about the effect of the interactions at interface (polymer chain-surfactant and polymer chain- inorganic surface) evidenced that by promoting an intimate contact between PLA chains and LDH surface (through oligoester used as inorganic substrate modifier) a certain extent of PLA hydrolysis triggered by both surfactant and inorganic surface (LDH) occurred and cannot completely avoided.
Photopolymerization of electroactive film applied to full polymer electrochromic device
P. Y. Chang, C. H. Yang
Electroactive films of thiophene-acrylate polymers were simultaneously photopolymerized by means of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation using diphenyliodonium hexafluorophosphate and acrylate special photoinitiators (PIs) as a mixed photoinitiator. Free radicals from PIs can promote cationic polymerization of thiophenes. Electrical conductivity and transmittance of the electroactive film are high to 10–2 S•cm–1 and >90%. Electroactivity of the photopolymerized polymer film was confirmed by electro-polymerization of aniline on this film in aqueous solution and employed to assemble a full polymer electrochromic device having a superior optical contrast of 36.6%.
Interface design of environmentally friendly carbon nanotube-filled polyester composites: Fabrication, characterisation, functionality and application
C. S. Wu, H. T. Liao
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) composites containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were prepared using a process of melt-blending three-dimensional (3D) printing filaments. Maleic anhydride (MA)-grafted polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA-g-MA) and chemically modified MWCNTs (MWCNTs-COOH) were used to improve the compatibility and dispersibility of the MWCNTs within the PHA matrix. Structural, morphological, thermal and mechanical characterisations revealed dramatic enhancements in the thermal and mechanical properties of the PHA-g-MA/MWCNTs-COOH composites compared with PHA, because of the formation of ester carbonyl groups through the reaction between MA groups of PHA-g-MA and the carboxylic acid groups of the MWCNTs-COOH. For example, with an addition of 1.0 wt% of MWCNTs-COOH, the initial decomposition temperature and tensile strength at failure increased by 72 °C and 16.0 MPa, respectively. Moreover, MWCNTs or MWCNTs-COOH enhanced the antibacterial activity and static dissipative properties of the composites. Composites of PHA-g-MA or PHA containing MWCNTs or MWCNTs-COOH had better antibacterial activities and antistatic properties.
Modeling polymeric gels: The role of chain fexibility on the structure of physical gels
R. G. Pereyra, M. A. Al-Maadeed, M. A. Carignano
Using molecular dynamics simulations and a simple model for chain molecules we study the gel formation under different conditions. The main characteristic of the model is the short attractive range of the non-bonding interaction, which leads to the formation of a single percolated cluster trapped in long lived metastable state that resemble the properties of polymeric physical gels. The gels are formed by imposing a sudden quenching on well equilibrated high temperature conformations. In particular, we investigated the effect of concentration and polymer persistence length on the resulting percolated structures. Using a Monte Carlo approach, we characterize the size of the cavities that develop inside the bulk of the gels. The results show that polymers with higher persistence length produce gel structures with smaller cavities.
Preparation and characterization of a thermoplastic proton-exchange system based on SEBS and polypropylene blends
K. Polat, M. Sen
The paper focuses on a series of blends prepared with different contents of polystyrene-block-poly-(ethylene-ranbutylene)-block-polystyrene (SEBS) and polypropylene (PP) for the purpose of examining the potential as proton exchange membranes. Polymer blends were prepared by twin-screw extrusion and then compressed by means of a hot-press device into thin films of 125 µm and then ionic sides were created by solid state sulfonation in a chlorosulfonic acid solution. Obtained films were characterized by means of water-uptake, mechanical properties, ion-exchange capacities (IEC) and ion conductivities. It was observed that the rigidity of the films increased with rising sulfonation durations. However humidity absorption from the air decreased the rigidity at high sulfonation levels. Improved water uptake values were obtained when compared to previously reported values in the literature. On the other hand ion exchange values showed an increase parallel to the sulfonation duration up to 45 minutes, but a decrease thereafter was observed due to the diffusion of some sulfonated polymer chains into the ion-exchange medium thereby calculated ion exchange values of S-SEBSH45 and S-SEBSH60 were found less than expected. All films showed ion conductivities up to 432 mS/cm at 25 °C. Only S-SEBSH45 and S-SEBSH60 were successful in conducting protons at 80 °C owing to the high water retaining capacity.
Self-lubricating, wear resistant protic ionic liquid-epoxy resin
M. D. Aviles, N. Saurin, T. Espinosa, J. Sanes, J. Arias-Pardilla, F. J. Carrion, M. D. Bermudez
A new self-lubricating, wear resistant epoxy resin material (ER+DCi) has been obtained by addition of a 9 wt.% of the room-temperature protic ionic liquid (PIL) tri-[bis(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium)] citrate (DCi) to the mixture of the prepolymer and the hardener composed of a mixture of amines. The highly polar tricationic protic ammonium carboxylate ionic liquid shows a high contact angle on the resin surface and distributes inside the epoxy matrix as spheres of around 50 µm in diameter, with a mean density of approximately 38 mm2. The presence of the ionic liquid fluid phase inside the cavities has been determined by SEM observation of fracture surfaces and FTIR microscopy. The DCi phase reduces the residual curing enthalpy and the glass transition temperature, as determined by DSC, without significantly changing microhardness or electrical resistivity values. DMA analysis shows that DCi reduces storage modulus, loss modulus and tan δ values. The tribological performance of the new material has been compared with that of the neat epoxy resin under pin-on-disc sliding conditions. ER+DCi shows more than 50% reduction of the friction coefficient with respect to neat epoxy resin, and no surface damage, in contrast with the severe wear that takes place in the case of neat epoxy resin. A self-lubrication mechanism by release of the ionic liquid lubricant under load is proposed.
Self-healing properties of carbon nanotube filled natural rubber/bromobutyl rubber blends
H. H. Le, S. Hait, A. Das, S. Wiessner, K. W. Stoeckelhuber, F. Boehme, Uta Reuter, K. Naskar, G. Heinrich, H.-J. Radusch
In the present work, the development and characterization of an intrinsically self-healable material based on butyl imidazole modified bromobutyl rubber (BIIR)/natural rubber (NR) blends, which are filled with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are reported. It was found that the addition of CNTs and the blending with NR significantly enhance the tensile strength of the BIIR composites. The use of butyl imidazole as physical cross-linker for the BIIR phase provides the blend composites the non-covalent bondings, which are responsible for their self-healing properties. Owing to the increase of the viscosity of the BIIR phase upon its physical crosslinking the island-matrix morphology of the blend changes over to a co-continuous structure. The preferential wetting of the CNT surface by the low-loading NR phase in the NR/BIIR blends can be explained by the good rubber-filler interaction between the linked phospholipids of the NR molecules and the π-electrons of the CNT surface. As a result, the favored localization of the CNTs in the NR phase strongly improves the electrical properties of the blends according to the double percolation theory. On the other hand it does not deteriorate the self-healing of the BIIR phase. The high electrical conductivity provides us a possibility to heat the blend by application of an electrical voltage in order to accelerate the self-healing process.
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The greening of Boris™
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2020-03-08 14:20
There are currently a number of climate realists feeling betrayed by Boris Johnson's enthusiastic adoption of climate alarmism. They were foolishly led by previous mocking and sceptical articles he wrote to assume he meant what he said.
The surprise is that they are surprised. Consider the following indisputable facts:
Boris Johnson appears never in his adult life to have meant anything he said. On any subject. These utterances have always been just rhetorical bluster to get him over the next ten minutes.
Boris Johnson ultimately betrays everyone, whether women, wives, children, colleagues or principles. Correction: as far as principles are concerned, he cannot be said to have any.
As for his current 'Net Zero' enthusiasm, this arises from the tactical need for the 56-year-old to ingratiate himself with the 36-year-old woman onto whose finger he has just slipped an obscenely expensive rock. She works for an environmental activist agency. There is no other explanation.
He proposed to her on an obscenely expensive holiday in the West Indies over the New Year.
Parliament is still attempting to clarify the financial background to this holiday two months after the fact, since Johnson's own declaration turned out within hours to be a lie. We expect that in due course it will all be squared and some rich enabler will cover for him as usual.
We old-fashioned minds have given up trying to comprehend the probity of a person who, before his most recent divorce was finalised, became engaged to his current mistress and fathered with her his sixth(?) child. This is just the current state in a sequence of broken marriages, affairs, not to mention an abortion, a miscarriage and at least one illegitimate child.
Has there ever been a UK Prime Minister of such moral depravity? What does it say about our era that we have such a creature now?
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Michael McCormack is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Silver
Moonbeam Film Production with over 25 years experience in broadcast television telling
stories. Michael spent over 15 years bringing Breaking Out to completion. In 2019 when
Breaking Out played for the first time at the Galway Film Fleadh it received a prolonged
standing ovation. Michael has multiple projects in development.
Background to Breaking Out
“When I was 15 I was working at a charity concert in Dublin, Ireland, featuring a host of Irish
bands. I was a teenager, underwhelmed by the music I was hearing, but then Interference took
to the stage. When the lead singer of this band started to sing I was transfixed. Holding onto the
microphone stand, he sang with a passion I hadn’t seen before. When the band finished he
made his way slowly off stage and sat into a wheelchair. The bar was raised for me that night as
a young music fan.
Fergus O’Farrell was driven demented by me over the following years as I became a regular
fixture at their gigs. When the band reformed and started gigging once more in 2002 I was there
again. Fergus’ Muscular Dystrophy had progressed but the voice was as powerful as ever. I
approached him after the show and asked if I could visit him at his home in West Cork. I travelled
down with my camera and filmed with him for the weekend and knew that I was about to embark
on the greatest journey of my life.
That was in 2004. I never imagined I’d spend the next 12 years filming whenever I could, but I
knew that I had to. He lit up the screen and I knew the story that I was documenting was a
powerful, universal one about a gifted individual who gave so much not just through his music,
but his whole attitude to life.
I always thought I would finish the film while Fergus was alive, that it would be a vehicle to share
his music, his story, with the world. I took two years out to do nothing else but find a way to
complete it and set up Silver Moonbeam Film Production for that purpose. He passed awaty
during the first year. I now understand he never had any intention of letting me finish until he was
gone. Breaking Out was to be his greatest performance; his legacy.
I filmed with Fergus O’Farrell up until his death in February 2016. I then raised the budget
through private investment and with the support of Screen Ireland, to complete the vision and tell
this remarkable story with the production values it deserves.”
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New video has emerged of the moment a ‘Canadian spy’ met a teenage
New video has emerged of the moment a ‘Canadian spy’ met a teenage in istanbul Turkey Law Firm before he allegedly smuggled her into Syria.
Footage obtained by the shows Begum, then 15, and two other East London schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase, transferring between cars at the Turkish capital’s main bus station in 2015.
The video was filmed by Mohammed Al Rashed, who is accused of moving the girls from Turkey to ISIS-controlled Syria at the same time as he was working as an agent for .
This information was allegedly covered up by Canada even while the was leading a huge international search for the trio.After Britain was eventually informed, it was then also persuaded to keep quiet, it is claimed. If you enjoyed this write-up and you would such as to receive even more details regarding Lawyer Law Firm Turkey istanbul kindly see our web site.
Ms Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join ISIS.
In a forthcoming BBC podcast, called, Ms Begum insisted she would have ‘never’ been able to join ISIS without Rashed’s help.
‘He (Rashed) organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria…I don’t think anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers.
‘He had helped a lot of people come in… We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn’t know anything.’
Shamima Begum and her two teenage friends were smuggled into Syria by a spy working for Canada – before Justin Trudeau’s nation then then conspired with the UK to cover up its role, it is claimed
Today, Ms Begum’s lawyer Tasnime Akunjee told MailOnline the new development significantly strengthened his client’s case and Lawyer Law Firm Turkey istanbul made it likely she would now be readmitted to the UK.
‘This confirms Shamima was a trafficked person under the Modern Slavery Act,’ he said.
‘When someone is a trafficked person the UK has various treaty obligations and there is a very strong legal pressure to have that person repatriated.
‘This was an allied state that was meant to be working to protect our citizens but in their algorithm of risk decided they would put the lives of British children at stake.’
Today Sajid Javid, the former Home Secretary who made the decision to bar Begum from the UK, insisted he still stood by his decision.
‘I’m not going into details of the case, but what I will say if that you certainly haven’t seen what I saw,’ he told Good Morning Britain.
‘And if you did know what I knew, because you are sensible, responsible people you would have made the exact same decision.’
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked if he was aware of the reports during a visit to Barrow-in-Furness, to which he said he would not comment on ‘intelligence stuff’.
Rashed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while leading the Turkish side of a gang smuggling people to IS, according to the BBC and, using information from The Secret History of the Five Eyes by Richard Kerbaj.
He facilitated the travel of British men, women and children to IS for at least eight months before he helped Ms Begum and her two friends, it is claimed.
He was reportedly arrested in Turkey days after smuggling the jihadi bride to ISIS, Lawyer Law Firm Turkey istanbul and told officials he had shared a photo of the passport she was using.
The so-called Jihadi Bride was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join the Islamic State (IS)
The Secret History of the Five Eyes, by journalist Richard Kerbaj, alleges that Canada finally admitted its involvement in the plot as bosses feared becoming exposed, then also managed to convince Britain to cover-up its role
The Secret History of the Five Eyes alleges that Canada finally admitted its involvement in the plot as bosses feared becoming exposed, then also managed to convince Britain to cover-up its role.
The book claims: ‘The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) remained silent about the explosive allegations, taking refuge in the one thing that protects all intelligence agencies, including those within the Five Eyes, against potential embarrassment: secrecy.
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Claire Sommer – Kayak Media
Author: Claire Sommer
I started Kayak Media in 1999 to support my kayaking adventures. By partnering with my clients, I create responsive writing that moves their business forward. From a strong base of business writing at all levels and for all audiences, I'm expanding into environmental reporting and the next waves of my career. Contact me to get your waves rolling
8 Things to Know about Business and the Global Goals
Let’s talk about the world’s audacious plan to achieve humanity’s 17 biggest challenges in the next 12 years.
To start, here are the Goals. In a nutshell, the UN Global Goals tell us what – the 17 challenges demanded by science; the who – all of us; and where – everywhere. But not how. How might we ensure that all people, everywhere – starting right here in our community – have the opportunity for a decent and dignified life? How will we ensure that our businesses help us live and work in ways that ensure prosperity and good health today and in the future?
I don’t have the answers. I’d posit that some of you do, or at least some of the right questions. Many of you are already using the Global Goals in your organizations and businesses – perhaps in how you design employee and community engagement programs, in reporting to your key stakeholders, and the products and services you offer today and are planning for the future. We can build on what’s already working and create new solutions together.
What I can do is share what I know about what is happening today with the UN Global Goals and business. I can tell you with certainty that there is an incredible opportunity for all of us in this room to collectively do more together than we can do alone. It starts here, today, with this conversation.
Here are 8 Things you need to know about Business and the SDGs.
It’s historic: The master plan is formally called the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – which includes the 17 SDGs – were unanimously adopted by 193 nation states in September 2015. We also call them the SDGs or Global Goals.
This was the first of two times that all of humanity agreed on something. The 2nd time was the Paris Agreement for Climate Action in December 2015.
They are universal: The SDGs are for business leaders everyone, everywhere – from global multi-nationals to the small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) that make up the vast majority of our businesses. They belong to all of us, and it’s our responsibility to achieve them. At the same time, The SDGs are non-binding, voluntary, and without the force of law.
It’s happening: First of all, we are here. If you want to see how businesses are making positive impact for the SDGs, visit AIM2Flourish.com. You’ll find 2,000+ examples of business’ solutions for the SDGs, scouted and written by business students around the world.
The business marketplace of SDGs tools, platforms, impact investing schemes, and networks has exploded in the past year. As an example, C-Change, a Switzerland-based think tank, mapped the number of online platforms that explicitly offer ways for people to collaborate for the Goals. Over 200 so far.
They’re complex, interdependent, and act as a foundation for Targets and Indicators: The bricks make it easier to talk about the Goals, but they truly exist as an interconnected system. Yes, 17 Goals feels like a lot. Because life is complex.
Under each goal, there are science-based Targets – 169 in total. For Goal 3, a target is to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
And for each Target, there are 242 indicators – surveys and measurements that already exist to tell us if we’re making progress toward a Target. For example, an indicator for reducing road traffic accidents is published death rates due to road traffic injuries.
There’s money to be made & marketplace position to be gained. The January 2017 “Better Business, Better World” report estimates that the UN SDGs are a $12 trillion dollar opportunity wrapped up in the biggest crises facing us and our world. Short term profits don’t matter in a world that fails. The businesses that understand this challenge and take action will be a step ahead. If you are looking for investment dollars, the SDGs are emerging as a unifying framework. It’s now common wisdom that younger employees are seeking workplaces with purpose and consumers want to connect with brands that they feel good about. I’m betting that prospective employees and customers will start asking about SDGs engagement in the same ways.
As business leaders, Climate – Goal 13 – Emerging as the Galvanizing Lens. New IPCC report estimates we have a decade at most to stave off the worst of the coming climate-related disruptions. In September 2019, the UN Secretary-General will host a Climate Summit as part of the annual UN General Assembly. The young-people-led March 15 Climate Strike events gathered 1.4 million people in over 100 countries.
As business leaders, The Goals are the best frameworks we have. They aren’t perfect, by a long-shot. “Goalwashing” (a play on “greenwashing”) is a real concern. And at the same time, there is no other global framework that has a better shot of authentically aligning finance, business, civil society, and governments in service to greater prosperity for all people.
As business leaders, The Goals tell us What. The How is Up to Us. The SDGs present local opportunities for business, in the form of sustainable cities, climate-smart agriculture, clean energy, and improved medicine and health care. These are all things we care about right here.
So let’s talk about the How – starting with what’s happening.
There’s no one place in the world where you can look to see who is doing what for the SDGs in an apples to apples way. One proxy is to analyze what businesses say about themselves in their annual reports.
In November 2018, PwC published a report called: Does business really care about the SDGs?”
“Our top level findings suggest that, despite the SDGs being part of global business conversations for more than three years, and a significant number of companies pledging a commitment to the Goals, there remains a gap between companies’ good intentions and their ability to embed the SDGs into actual business strategy.”
In this study, 72% of companies mentioned the SDGs in their corporate and sustainability reporting . . .
But only 23% disclosed meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets related to the Goals – suggesting the selection of priority SDGs isn’t backed up by meaningful action or monitoring
This tells us that more businesses are engaging with the Goals, but not yet in ways that are embedded into strategy, performance and results.
Another way we can gauge action and impact is by looking at global networks for business and the SDGs. Here are 8:
UN Global Compact – This is the network of businesses that support the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. Out of the 10,000 Compact members worldwide, 532 of them are in North America – about 5%. See the Blueprint for SDGs Leadership plan).
The Global Reporting Initiative offers the Reporting on the SDGs report.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development have supported SDGs from the start, including the SDG Business Hub.
B Corporation (the non-profit behind the B Corps movement) is embedding the SDGs into the next release of the B Impact Assessment.
IMPACT2030 is a network of 75 businesses globally that support their employees SDGs’ volunteering.
Business for 2030 is an initiative of the United States Council for International Business. Its website offers something different in that it maps business actions to each of the 169 targets, rather than the Goals.
There is a booming ecosystem of websites that collect examples of business actions for the SDGs. Two of my favorites are AIM2Flourish.com (where I served as Director) and SupporttheGoals.org.
While not exclusively focused on business, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), based at Columbia University and led by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, has created tools, collaborative communities, and an action platform.
For all that is happening with the SDGs, it isn’t happening fast enough and in enough places.
There is a leadership role to be filled to bring the SDGs challenge and opportunities to every business, everywhere. It’s up to us.
May 2019 Featured Journal Article
May 2019 Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Journal Featured Article
Delighted to share my May 2019 co-authored Featured Article in Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner journal about the AIM2Flourish.com initiative, experiential learning, the UN SDGs (or Global Goals), and business’ role in achieving them.
Collaborating with Professors Lindsey Godwin and Jacqueline Stavros was an absolute pleasure.
It’s good to be back!
This Week’s Reading, Writing, Links
DNVGL latest sustainability roundtable “The road less traveled: Pathways to Transformation” http://t.co/BCU4HrpkiB
What it all comes down to. http://t.co/ovjIQvKBPw
Revkin: Tracing @Pontifex’s Climate Plans for 2015 http://t.co/s8mY7WMBth
Thoughtful read for 2015 | Gus Speth: Building the new environmentalism http://t.co/zH7DO5Uhx5
Good wrap-up & examples of Big Biz CSR leadership “Doing Good Is Good for Business” http://t.co/FDXE5EygUV
Required reading: New Yorker story on graphene http://t.co/ZjfC79pwMI
READ-HUGE The “New Power” http://t.co/1ZTRW3NFZA
Good News day decimates website’s readership http://t.co/wioQbtcuyE
Monday feel-good: Jan 2007 NYTimes “Happiness 101” on positive psychology http://t.co/ydLtvbYQgT
Nice round-up of the 2015 climate action state-of-play http://t.co/pdE4c5Mvoj
2014 good news: 5 Climate innovations http://t.co/JOCeko6TDM
Good news for 2015 NJ solar http://t.co/EQsVmdXbsN
3 examples where US business leadership can step up for climate policies that help everyone http://t.co/Vgxe1ukkNP
Level-headed editorial on why climate action is good for NJ citizens http://t.co/yHjnd04kk3
NJ used to lead on climate action & we can again | OpEd http://t.co/Jzv3vz5rlc
Graphene is on my 2015 innovation watch list…Wonder material could harvest energy from thin air http://t.co/yJLfiw4QU5
NJ ‘s future. Almost 7K UK properties will be lost to rising seas: http://t.co/GSHudKOnrc
“We are capable of kindness, goodness, & generosity” http://t.co/dEGYsY5X09
261 businesses already in NEW UN climate actions examples portal; share to make it 100x http://t.co/lRZ1Yl3dHT
Catholic Bishops Call For ‘An End To The Fossil Fuel Era’ http://t.co/otmUrisjIx
Pope Francis emerging as global climate justice leader the world needs? http://t.co/4yvmThSvmB
New site uses tech & socent for US resilience http://t.co/uAJImmROWE
Can “green” Pope break the climate deadlock? http://t.co/DZ8tXEPOSh
The Secret Side of Business Sustainability http://t.co/YmSJxQmYV7
Encouraging biz & investors to phase from Fossilfuel->#renewables http://t.co/vYHbkS1DPi
Fracking reparations in W. Virginia http://t.co/uQMPqsDlLL
Catching up: Clifbar shared cocoa sources 12/3. Kudos 4 transparency, support to do more http://t.co/IYo1WjqVoI
2014 fave, highly sharable: 8 Steps to Becoming a Truly Sustainable Brand http://t.co/Yk0pO9Wrt3
LOVE. Sustainability Leadership | 3 new frontiers http://t.co/Rk9MAfpiQM
2015 is the year we change this | The press has a problem reporting good news http://t.co/aA3yaMpRrx
Financial Success Now Requires Sustainability http://t.co/0teYz7l7vA
Global Green Bond Sales 3x to $35B in 2014 http://t.co/5pbxIdFVOJ
Apple, IKEA, Walmart: 12 leaders in on-site renewables http://t.co/HY41yF8ilc
Christmas Day in midcoast Maine. Merry & bright best wishes to you & yours http://t.co/cn1dMYyBmY
3 signals why 2015 is looking good http://t.co/oXvS6nTq2J
State-Based Climate Solution That Doesn’t Need Congress http://t.co/PytjtRVirG
Restored Forests Breathe Life Into Climate Change Adaptation http://t.co/05l1JMkwlC
Pope may call for 100% renewable at Vatican http://t.co/LPxoc0dztb
Heads-up: will be big for 2015 | Grand Strategy Project http://t.co/NH9l7ntSYT
Beautiful “It’s not the last man standing who wins. But the first man who kneels. And plants his garden” https://t.co/cw6mlI5ljM
There is an invisible global army of people in big companies pushing for CSR http://t.co/qRS7XSQrkh
Monday cheers for Eudaimonia, a word for flourishing http://t.co/9BDMR3lSbG
DC passes sea level rise ‘tipping point,’ more cities to follow http://t.co/LS4ZJp6GZL
SHARE: A $10m #Fairtrade grant shows exponential Biz for Good can happen more, in more places, faster http://t.co/3RiEnRQbCs
Collaboration! NetPositive: The Next Frontier of Sustainability Leadership http://t.co/1Sm6P4RAHl
INSPIRING innovation, leadership & FUN | http://t.co/jYhGeuQsTM
I believe in a New Story about #BizforGood, about Business as an Agent of World Benefit…These folks do too https://t.co/aI1fbqmqR6
GREAT Business for Good innovation story | What if blood tests took a drop & cost pennies? Blood, Simpler http://t.co/CAM79wHXsQ
How more companies can do good while doing well http://t.co/dSQCWleSzH
5 startups that could radically transform the world around us: http://t.co/J3t4IzVQv5
GREAT examples of Biz for Good in unexpected places | Using Entrepreneurship to Save the World. http://t.co/Mem4txFME3
Wonderful! Visual storytelling on culture of dialogue | AppreciativeInquiry http://t.co/Sx87XhFkuW
Business Takes a Decisive Leap: Breakthrough in Collaborating for Good #sustainability http://t.co/SHF66MUdn5
Posted on December 31, 2014 June 3, 2019
Wishing you and yours a peaceful beginning to 2015.
Ocean Point, East Boothbay, Maine December 25, 2014
“CVS Effect” Article Picked as 2014 Top Leadership Article on Sustainable Brands
I’m extremely proud to share that one of my “CVS Effect” articles was picked as the top leadership article for “Best of 2014 in Sustainability.”
It’s this one: The “CVS Effect” in Effect: Apple, Disney and Chipotle Step Up
Five major brands have just made news for decisions that buck the bottom-line mantra. Could this be momentum for the “CVS Effect”? Take a look and see if you agree. And note too how brands are joining with allies on these issues, while one brand — Chipotle — is potentially breaking major new ground. Keep reading…
ASBC Summit Attendees Chart Path and Policies to a Sustainable Economy
My latest for Sustainable Brands.
The American Sustainable Business Council’s (ASBC) third annual summit Nov. 13 and 14 in Washington, D.C. brought together 150 entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors and elected officials to discuss the state of play—and possibilities—for policies that advance a sustainable economy.Founded in 2009, ASBC is a national business advocacy policy organization representing over 200,000 businesses across the nation. ASBC works on a wide range of policy issues at the federal and state level, working to advance a sustainable economy by shifting markets and policies. ASBC raises up the voice, presence and power of business to create jobs, grow business and build a sustainable US economy.
“We invited our members here to Washington to discuss the business case and policies needed for a sustainable, just, prosperous, and vibrant economy,” said ASBC vice president and co-founder Richard Eidlin.
He explained that ASBC is a direct response to the presence of traditional business interests such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who spend hundreds of millions often advocating for policies that deter the economy from becoming more innovative, equitable and sustainable. While claiming to represent the will of American businesses, especially small companies, these entities do the opposite. ASBC is working to ensure that other important voices in the business community are heard in Washington and the media.
Among the attendees were representatives from sustainability-focused retailers Earth Friendly Products, Ecco Bella, Greyston Bakery and Eileen Fisher.
At a kickoff reception on Nov. 12, ASBC presented its Sustainable Policymakers Award, the “SUSTY,” for “exemplary leadership from members of Congress, administration officials and businesses.” This year’s awards went to U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and ASBC business member, New Belgium Brewing.
An overall theme that emerged over the summit was that the values at the core of a sustainably run business need to be reflected in the policies that govern how business operates, for workers, customers, and society as a whole. “This isn’t about the environmental case. This is about the business case — that the economy can be more sustainable and provide opportunity to a much greater array of Americans,” said ASBC co-founder David Levin in his opening remarks. “And in the process, a more prosperous economy is created. But it takes businesses speaking up to make that case,” added Levine.
Thursday’s mix of plenary and breakout sessions mirrored these priorities with discussions about pricing carbon, raising the minimum wage, supporting the growth of clean energy technologies, supporting the next generation of American farmers, tax reform, the growth of shared ownership business models like ESOPS and cooperatives, and a panel on conservative thought and sustainability.
In a broad-ranging, candid discussion about putting a price on carbon, the question seemed firmly on the side of when, not if. Emily Enderle, Chief Environmental Policy Advisor for U.S. Senator Whitehouse said that the Senator plans to introduce a carbon pricing bill in the next few weeks. Eidlin said that the ASBC will be advocating for a price on carbon going forward, citing that the “dialogue is beginning to shift.”
A panel on shared ownership business models included comments from U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah from Pennsylvania, who shared his support for employee owned businesses. B Lab’s policy director, Erik Trojian, noted that diversifying ownership is one way to ensure a company’s longevity. And in a measure of how embedded worker ownership is in the U.S. economy, “There are 29,000 cooperatives in the US – and many Americans belong to more than one,” said Michael Peck from Mondragon North America.
Another panel discussed the likelihood that movement on sustainable economic and environmental policy initiatives for the next two years is most likely to happen on the state and local levels. JR Tolbert, executive director of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators pointed out three places where there’s traction and broad support for sustainable business policy: chemical reform (such as on phthalates and toxic flame retardants), solar, and a price on carbon.
“Solar is an issue where the right and left come together around energy freedom. This is where citizens can decide where their energy comes from,” he said.
On Friday, the day started early with a Women’s Working Group breakfast session to set priorities for the coming year of interest to women members, including access to capital and workplace initiatives such as Leave Insurance. The entire summit group then attended a several-hours-long briefing at The White House and spent the afternoon on Capitol Hill meeting with over thirty elected officials and staffers from ASBC members’ districts.
Concurrent with the Summit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced $3 million in small business funding for green technology and research in eight states. On a Nov. 12 press call before the Summit began, McCarthy reiterated the agency’s commitment to strengthening economic growth, supporting sustainable businesses, and combating the impacts of climate change.
Speaking about the summit overall, Eidlin said, “Our members are demonstrating by the way they act that business can be profitable, environmentally responsible, and care about workers and their communities. There is no contradiction.”
Case in point is Naturepedic, a company that manufactures non-toxic, organic mattresses and bedding products in Ohio. David Anthony, director of corporate affairs, said, “As a small business, on our own we don’t have the money or the network to make effective change in Washington on the things that matter to us and our customers. So ASBC helps us have a seat at table to voice our concerns. Going to the White House and meeting with my senator is American democracy at its finest, made possible because we are associated with a strong group.”
Eidlin stressed the importance of making the voice of sustainable business heard in Washington and at the state level.
“The $4 billion spent in the recent election is a case in point. Most of the policies and programs pushed by that $4 billion were not in the interests of sustainable businesses and will not move the economy in a sustainable direction,” he said.
“When you show up as business leaders, that makes all the difference.” Too often, those who claim to speak for business think that profit and the single bottom line are the only thing that matters. That’s why we say, ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.’ It’s crucial that sustainable business leaders engage in policy, because if they don’t then someone else who doesn’t reflect their values will.”
JOIN: Complimentary sustainability webinar w/inspiring, solution-focused successes | Nov18 2-3 EST http://t.co/jAvRHEQ8Ql
SAP Severs Ties With #ALEC: http://t.co/iQ8aMFk0o1
Personally heartened to see @Greenbiz @SustAbility convo on #lowfood #slowfood http://t.co/ouYivMvosU
Andrew Winston: New Big Think interview http://t.co/rcnjO0T3D3
UN Sec Gen advises pension funds to #divest from #fossilfuel http://t.co/pRqqG5QLEM #climate #actonclimate #CSR #socinv
See you there @ASBCouncil: Only one week until #ASBCSummit2014 kicks off – RSVP: http://t.co/6H1UpkSREy
+1 Read @joconfino: “Making a profit is no more the purpose of business as breathing is the purpose of living” http://t.co/ZtNwX3ynsV
RT @350: These next few years are a crucial window. If you’re a U.S. voter: Don’t stay home today. Vote. #climatevoter http://t.co/OaPtWcRW
How do we get more financial institutions to offer #greenbonds? http://t.co/o3zdKYbH4W
HuffPo covers Business as Agent for World Benefit w/insight from @dlc6David http://t.co/uYSKIJ8oZT
Is this a big deal? Yes. “BofA Merrill Lynch launches #greenbonds Index” http://t.co/fPr325LO8d
MORE LIKE THIS PLS: “Set aside the quarterly financials and do something good in this world.” Rich Kylberg of @ArrowGlobal
That’s #leadership: “Talk about what you believe in, rather than what you do.” Rich Kylberg @arrowglobal
Mod @Sallyuren asked @Heineken’s Dickstein abt selling less beer as #CSR. Ans: “less, but over the long term, better” #SB14London
@MichDickstein offers his “What if?”: all sustainable hops by 2020. Like it, thinking abt healthy soil & bees @Heineken_UK #SB14London Nov 04, 2014
THIS: Doing good–>doing well “The Greenest Companies Consistently Outperform Markets” http://t.co/DLHycvCRdI
Jo Confino Q-ing Barclay’s Wheldon on exec bonuses w/Polman quote: “The reason banks need to pay so much money is bc it has no purpose” #sb14london
Proud to be on the Business Alliance for the Future team. Follow @BA4F #BA4F for breakthrough #collaboration & #collectiveaction news
Follow @ASBCouncil for more like this: Post-election: What sustainably minded business people want from Congress http://t.co/KO1ay88QSj
@Billmckibben goes there. If you care about zombies & #Ebola, care more abt #climate @guardian: #IPCC: http://t.co/e7l2U0p2bf
@Guardian: IPCC: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop ‘severe’ impact of climate change http://t.co/dgzf05gD9U
Global Forum Attendees Design ‘Flourishing’ Solutions to Real-World Challenges
My Sustainable Brands coverage of the Third Global Forum for Business as an Agent for World Benefit.
On Thursday, the first full day of Flourish & Prosper: The Third Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in Cleveland, Ohio, the morning’s plenaries and CEO panels explored how business can move beyond how social and environmental responsibility are thought of today, to a new mindset of “full-spectrum flourishing” where “companies prosper, people excel, and nature thrives.”
By the afternoon, it was time to get to work. “Speakers give you seeds of ideas and food for inspiration. Now it’s time to get us going in a different direction,” said David Cooperrider, author and professor at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
He invited conference attendees to split into eight smaller “design studios,” where each group used Weatherhead’s Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit method and facilitation to design, and work on, a specific, real-world innovation challenge.
A similar process at past Global Forums has resulted in breakthrough developments. At the 2006 event, participants designed the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) with the UN Global Compact Office. PRME is a global network and framework for academic institutions to advance corporate sustainability and social responsibility. Launched in 2007 by Ban Ki-Moon, PRME signatories today include 500 leading business schools and academic institutions from more than 80 countries worldwide.
In each of the studios, attendees created an action plan for moving forward on a project or challenge, based on the dozens of ideas and work of everyone in the room. Attendees worked with facilitators to go from the brainstorming stage of collecting ideas (ideation), narrowing these ideas down into promising concepts, generating workable prototypes for discussion, and then into the final design phase with an action plan. After barely eight hours of work total, the teams presented draft — but tangible — vision statements, timelines and next steps on the main stage late Friday morning.
The studios worked on:
Cities as centers of full-spectrum flourishing
Transitioning to 100 percent clean energy
“Consciousness of connectedness” in the workplace
A “U.S. Grand Strategy” based on sustainability
New metrics for sustainability-as-flourishing,
Transforming the linear economy into a circular one, and
Showcasing businesses working for good, with Nobel Prize-like awards and recognition
In the renewable energy group’s report, spokesperson Matt Renner, executive director of the World Business Academy, shared the group’s plan to accelerate a pathway to a 100 percent renewable energy economy. The group proposed using existing technology based on micro-grid platforms, funded by a global energy bank.
The U.S. Grand Strategy project has been in motion for several years starting with a 2003 whitepaper commissioned by the Pentagon and authored by Patrick Doherty. The team is now housed at the newly launched Strategic Innovation Lab at Case Western with co-directors Mark “Puck” Mykleby and Doherty. Their group shared ideas for engaging businesses, regions and citizens across the country to work on a U.S. grand strategy based on sustainability.
The final studio, “Showcasing Business as an Agent of World Benefit” opened with the inquiry to find ways to change the stories we hear about business and the world. As a whole, we mainly have negative ones that dominate our media and conversations. Instead, business can help elevate the larger, truly positive stories that are out there, but unheard, of companies doing well by being good for their customers, society, employees, and the environment. By sharing and scaling up these stories, “they can become known and become living reality in business and society,” said Cooperrider.
To this point, Harry Halloran, Chairman and CEO, American Refining Group and ARG Resources said, “People would be astonished to find out all the good things already happening in business.” (Halloran Philanthropies supports the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western.)
Work on this initiative is already underway at Case Western and other institutions. Business students are conducting thousands of business leader interviews about innovations, breakthroughs, and excellence, using the Appreciative Inquiry method.
In the group’s report to the conference, they shared ideas for an online platform to house the stories, an app to share them, a MOOC, exhibitions, and global business awards.
While the conference concluded on Friday, the design studio work and all the connections made at the conference will continue, to create a flourishing world.
More about “full-spectrum flourishing” can be found in the new book, Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business by Chris Laszlo, Judy Sorum Brown, John R. Ehrenfeld and others.
Moody-Stuart Challenges Global Forum Attendees to Collaborate to Eradicate Malaria
My Sustainable Brands coverage of the Third Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
UN Global Compact chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart used his time on the main stage at the Third Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit on Thursday to propose how business can join the global fight to eradicate malaria.
In addition to his role with Global Compact, Moody-Stuart also serves as the chairman of the IVCC Board of Trustees. IVCC is a not-for-profit public-private partnership that was established as a charity in 2005. The group’s mission is to save lives, protect health and increase prosperity in areas where disease transmitted by insects is endemic.
Moody-Stuart shared how IVCC is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UKAID, USAID and Swiss Development Corporation to engage with major agro-chemical companies to bring three new antimalarial insecticides into production. “Innovation funders and business partners have brought us this far,” he said, but the project still needs $50-100 million to come to fruition.
Malaria seen a remote problem that’s not connected to business, but Moody-Stuart argued it’s not.
“Healthy employees, customers and communities are good for business,” he said.
The problem, as Moody-Stuart explained, is that people fighting to eradicate malaria need to rely on the continuing generosity of governments and philanthropists such as the Gates Foundation. And as the problem continues, they’re asked to do even more.
“Or someone else has to do the job. To me, it has to be done by companies in the affected areas,” he said.
Which is where his proposal came in, with the question: “Would societal benefits be enough to get companies to give a few million dollars a year to bridge the gap?”
Companies that contribute to the effort would be helping bring a solution over the finish line.
Malaria is one of the world’s most preventable illnesses and causes of death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria kills over 600,000 people each year and sickens over 216 million more. Increased prevention and control measures have reduced malaria mortality rates by 42 percent globally since 2000 and by 49 percent in the WHO African Region.
But these gains are threatened because of increasing resistance to insecticides that are used in life-saving sprays and bed nets. Similar to antibiotic resistance, the long-term effectiveness of insecticides relies on more than one kind and the ability to rotate them. But with a lack of human welfare funding on a global basis, these new insecticides are not being made.
The economic case for eliminating malaria can be found in the research that tallies the annual costs of death and illness due to malaria to governments. The Centers for Disease Control estimates the direct costs from malaria from drugs, illness, and premature death to be at least US$12 billion per year. As the CDC outlines, the cost in lost economic growth is many times more than that: “Costs to governments include maintenance, supply and staffing of health facilities; purchase of drugs and supplies; public health interventions against malaria, such as insecticide spraying or distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets; lost days of work with resulting loss of income; and lost opportunities for joint economic ventures and tourism.”
Businesses bear many of the same costs with lost employee productivity and costs to care for ill employees.
Dr. Nick Hamon, CEO of IVCC, remarked: “For companies who want to grow in Africa, now’s the time to get your brand out there with a small group of motivated companies who want to be part of the solution.” Hamon estimates that 5-10 companies contributing $1 million a year for 10 years would be sufficient to bring these three already-tested insecticides to market and make malaria eradication closer to reality.
As well as being the right thing to do, for companies who operate in areas impacted by malaria, this can also be seen as an opportunity for companies looking to grow and be seen as a human welfare leader.
“They can be a part of the solution right up front, with something we know is going to be successful,” Hamon said.
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SNF 2014.12 - SNF: Spear, Shield, and Shadow
Description: Set upon the beaches of Southtown, this battle is based on the premise of an odd re-enactment of the Battle of Troy. Trojan, Spartan, and dark God meet on the field of battle and clash against the tides of fate to determine who shall emerge victorious! (Winner: Makoto)
The air is full of many things today. The fresh unmistakable smell of brine is the most obvious of these things, salt and sand mixing together to create the unique and pungent aroma of the sea. For an island nation such as Japan, the deep blue tides of the vast ocean represent many things: sustenance, prosperity, protection. It is a force of nature that both shields them from the outside world and provides for many of their needs.
But like any force of nature, the ocean can also be a herald of death and destruction; an instrument through which the gods of old displayed their great power and terrible wrath. Few believe in those gods these days. Mankind, for the most part, has evolved to place its faith in science instead of sorcerery. Fire and thunder hold no more mysteries that must be explained away with tales of deities and demons.
Today, however, a harkening back to those days of yore has been set forth. The ancient kingdom of Troy, much like Japan, relied upon the seas for its needs and protection. The Gods were a part of every day life for those that dwelled within its walls but the masters of the great Mount Olympus were a petty and unpredictable lot. Caught in the midst of a jealous god's quarrel, the city was besieged and eventually fell to trickery and deceit. That famous battle, whether a tale of historical truth or merely another fantasy born from an age of epic legends, will be reenacted here today!
When most people think of historical theatre of this nature they imagine hordes of strange men in authentic costumes playing war on a big field. Today is more of a homage to the ancient Greek epic. Why? To spice things up, ofcourse! Just go with it.
Makoto has taken a similar outlook on the entire thing, despite how ridiculous it is. Any event organized by such a famous corporation is sure to draw crowds and that means more publicity! She's even gone so far as to put on the costume they provided and now that the moment draws near, she's starting to enjoy the set up.
Dressed in what appears to be period appropriate leather armor, the small karateka stands atop the wall of a wooden fort that has been erected on the sands of the Southtown beach. Banners and flags flutter in the chill winter breeze but despite having only a traditional pteruges to protect her legs, those kilts of iron-studded leather you always see in movies, she doesn't appear to be terribly bothered by the weather.
With crossed arms and a stern expression, Makoto stands like a stoic guardian over the gates of 'Troy', awaiting the arrival of her enemies.
It's a glorious day, a rather nice day
A day for a wonderful FIGHTING
A re-enactment, my dear, to be perfectly clear
Re-enactment of historical FIGHTING
Lucrezia Loncar is on that triremeand looking out towards the wooden fort that has been erected in order to represent the land of Troy. She is wearing a diaphanous toga that is certainly form flattering, even once it's been cinched up so it doesn't drape or flop everywhere, along with a rather imperious spartan helmet. How can you tell it's spartan? From the brush plume on top... and the fact that it has been painted green.
Maybe she went to MSU.
She has that fancy e-cigarette, also with a green tip, hanging from her lips as she stands there, glancing off towards the recording area and awaiting a signal. Periodically she exhales a little green vapor. It's clearly a theme with her... the MSU pride theory grows in strength.
But then there's a signal. Lucrezia reaches over to pluck up her spear from where it's leaned against the gunwales (well, spearwales?) of the boat, twisting it around and flourishing it over her shoulders as she warms up. As she steps towards the side of the landed trireme she grabs something...
And after landing in the sand she puts it on the tip of her spear. Like a golf club caddy.
It's a tiny horse mask.
Lucrezia huddles behind it and starts to crab-walk towards the gates.
(Can't believe i'm going through with this.... oh well. May as well make it fun!)
It is a nice day indeed..... what better to do than add MORE fight! This is exactly what Munin plans to do as she watches Lucrezia approach the 'gates' from her hiding place not far. As the pair close, she puts on some theatrics, causing a small burst of shadowy chi from her body as she quickly leaps into view from the shadows.
Munin, too, dressed for the event, clearly drawing on more... modern sources. She is wearing a black toga, sandals on her feet, dark metal bracers around her hands with a glowing violet gem set into each. She dyed her hair a dark blue, and from her form shadowy wisps of chi drifts like black mist as she locks her glowing purple eyes on the pair and gives an intense, twisted smirk.
Crossing her arms, she calmly approaches to within range of where all three will eventually ultimately do battle, waiting to see how this unfolds before throwing attacks of her own.....
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia has started a fight here.
Lucrezia 0/-------/-------|
Despite her love for all things battle related, foreign history isn't really one of Makoto's strong points. Sure, she's heard of the Battle of Troy, but it's not like she's a giant mythology buff or anything. So she's mostly winging it here.
The girl remains silent as the 'hidden' warrior approaches the gates of the city-fort behind her incredibly detailed recreation of the Trojan Horse, merely glaring straight ahead in an almost statuesque manner. Only the wind billowing through her armor and hair, and ofcourse the long yellow hachimachi tied around her neck, gives any indication that she isn't made entirely out of stone. It is not until the mysterious Horse is before the gates that she speaks, her voice easily bellowing across the open expanse of the beach for the benefit of the spectators.
"Halt! Who approaches the gates of this mighty fortress?"
Lucrezia takes the thing out of her mouth and puts it up in her helmet somewhere. (There may be a space for holding pens. This helmet may be from MSU's engineering program.)
She clears her throat.
"Nobody," she replies, even as her eyes cut towards Munin. Lucrezia's approach to the gates slows now, becoming more of a steady creep.
For now, Munin seems content to watch the shenanigans. It's still a 'mortal' affair, and not for the 'gods' to directly interfere with.....
At least, not yet!
As comically ridiculous as the answer is, Makoto plays it straight and merely lapses into grim silence once more until the Horse is directly at the gates beneath her. At this point, she turns to the crowd and throws her arms wide, shouting with a joyous tone.
"What is this? The Greek attackers have quit the field and returned to their own shores! As pennance for their crimes against our fair land, they have left us a gift - a great wooden statue in the shape of a sacred horse! Surely this is a sign that the Gods have favored us! We shall take this offering into the city and devote it to our Goddess Athena!"
A chorus of mixed responses erupts from the onlookers, some displaying their support of the ham-fistsed performance with laughs or cheers while others yell useless warnings about the folly of such action.
Makoto ignores them all. Dropping down from her perch with fearless leap, the girl falls to the sandy beach within the fort and strides over to its large doors. Without any hesitation, she heaves the 2x4 plank bracing them shut aside and throws the gates open with a dramatic flair.
COMBATSYS: Makoto has joined the fight here.
Makoto 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Lucrezia
Lucrezia realizes belatedly she had the wrong pagan myth going on there. Oh well, she thinks, even as Makoto makes her enunciation. She lets out a small sigh, glancing off to the crowd, and when Makoto hops behind the wall and starts fussing with the 2x4, she winks.
She then turns and raises her arm, taking her time watch closely. She sees the doors swing open - and just as they reach their apogee, Lucrezia HURLS the spear forwards!
So, therefore, the first thing that the erstwhile Trojanwoman sees is a rubber-masked spear flying towards her. The horse's huge blank eyes are terrifying yet liberating, but is this just a sign of friendship?
Neigh way, Jose.
Looking over, the underworld 'goddess' Hades seems to have vanished back into the shadows! Once the spear is thrown, however, she reveals herself once more, leaping from the shadows to the side to come at Lucrezia from behind while she appears to be open to attack!
With a feral grin, Munin shouts "To attack the city without first showing proper respect to it's gods demands retribution, mortal!", as she rushes in with a sweep of chi from her palm!
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here in the center.
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COMBATSYS: Makoto dodges Lucrezia's Numquid Ego Te Hinc?.
The gates creak ominously as they swing ponderously open to allow the great gift that has been left entry into the city. Makoto the Trojan stands oblivious to the trap that lies in wait for her, one arm stretched to either side in order to pull the great wooden barriers apart. Sunlight floods through the crack, blinding her momentarily with white haze, but a figure explodes to fill the void of blurry color only moments later.
Reacting on pure instinct, the leather-clad warrior pulls to the side at the last second and the horse-shaped spear tip thrusts into the air mere centimeters past her face. Legitimate surprise washes over the girl and she spits a curse, stumbling back onto her butt in the sand.
"What is this?!" She lifts a finger, pointing it accusingly at the very green woman that stands before the now open gates. "We have been deceived! To arms!"
Seeing as she's the only defender of this here fort, Makoto takes her own advice and scrambles to the back of the small construction where several shields and other replica weapons are aligned on racks. She snatches up one of the large wooden barriers and then, after a moment of thought, grabs another. Now armed with a large disk on each arm, she turns to face the would-be invader with a fierce glare!
COMBATSYS: Makoto focuses on her next action.
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia blocks Munin's Mirror Image.
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Makoto 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Lucrezia
Munin rushes in and tries to lay the slap on Lucrezia! Who is temporarily without her spear, and thus unable to do a ton about it. As Makoto points at her, she throws up an arm - and Munin's blow strikes home, but not right on her head.
Though she's got that helmet, doesn't she?
Either way, Lucrezia lunges inwards and picks up her spear where it landed on the other side, and says to Makoto, "Hold on! Before you do anything, listen to me for a moment, alright?! I mean, now I've gotten where I want to be, right? But there's something you're overlooking."
Lucrezia points with the tip of her spear. "This whole thing is the fault of a big argument up on Mount Olympus, right? We've been played for fools for the amusement of the gods! We shouldn't be fighting each other!"
Typical greek sophistry!? (Yes.) Lucrezia is gasping for breath as she does it, though. Maybe she's had more taken out of her by that shot on the part of Munin than she's letting on.
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia focuses on her next action.
To this Munin headtilts, then grins viciously "Such blasphemy in the presence of the gods shall not go unpunished, mortal". The wisps of shadow-like chi drifting off her form thicken a bit "Don't worry. I am not without mercy. I'll take your cries and screams of agony as payment in place of your life for such transgressions".
COMBATSYS: Munin focuses on her next action.
"It is not for us to question the will of the Gods! If the Greeks cared for such intrigues then you should have considered such things before laying seige to this place!"
Doesn't look like she's going to get out of it that easily.
Apparently done with words, Makoto bellows a challenging war cry and throws herself at the spear-wielding girl. Bringing one of the shields up infront of her body, she uses it as a battering ram, aiming to simply run Lucrezia over like a zamboni.
COMBATSYS: Makoto knocks away Lucrezia with Hayate.
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Makoto 0/-------/-======|>>>>>>>\-------\0 Lucrezia
As Makoto raises her shield, held fast by her giant truckasaurus hands, Lucrezia brings her spear around as if to try and brace for the blow. Sadly, while this defense would be just, it is not to be. Makoto eludes her, smashes into her, and sends her flying down into the sand, trampled underneath her mighty sandals!
But wait!
Lucrezia pivots around onto her belly, showing her backside to Munin, who may be tempted to strike deep and penetrate her defenses. But in the meantime, she lunges forwards towards the heel of the passing Makoto, aiming to give her quite the dolorous stroke on the Achilles' tendon!
Ironic, isn't it?
It would be correct to assume Munin would take a shot at Lucrezia as she turns her back. However, as the gal is fast to move in, it is a very quick strike, a simple kick to her rear-end, more for humiliation than for damage, and for Munins own amusement.
As Lucrezia moves back in on Makoto, the goddess Hades circles sideways at a moderate pace, giving the two time to engage each other a bit before going for blood again at one of the two!
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia successfully hits Makoto with Hengen EX.
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Makoto 1/-----==/=======|>>>>>>>\>------\1 Lucrezia
"Urk!"
Makoto lets out a squawk of pain and surprise as the wooden shaft slams into her ankle from behind. She hadn't been expecting a counter attack so quickly and it catches her completely off guard, neatly knocking the leg in question out from under her body and sending the girl sprawling face-first into the sand.
The small girl lies there for a few moments, butt sticking up in the air as she struggles to right herself with a shield affixed to each arm. Eventually, she just rolls forward and twists to the side, popping back to her feet with a neat little hop.
Her glare affixes first on the Greek still in the sand but the interference of the very glowy interloper draws her attention a moment later. "Hades!" She cries out the god's name with a mixture of anger and contempt, fists tightening on the leather straps of her shields. "You have business here! Be gone, foul one! I shall send this Greek dog to your doorstep soon enough!"
It quickly becomes clear that she isn't asking. Makoto lowers her shoulder and barrels in with another charge, stepping lightly around the fallen Lucrezia to try and avoid any treacherous back stabbing, before swinging one of the large shields at Munin in a wide arc.
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia blocks Munin's Light Kick.
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Lucrezia's butt is about to be kicked - but she arcs one leg up, partially deflecting Hades's low blow! The impact makes her roll onto her back, and she says to Makoto with defiant speed, "Not if I get you first!" The spear is stamped down, between her legs, and she pushes herself upright, sand flying out behind her...
"Or if I slay you," she says, looking at Munin with a gleam in her eyes. "For wouldn't you have to go back and put Persephone in charge?!" And with that she advances forwards, stabbing with increasingly short pistoning blows as she twists and spins and closes the distance, concluding with a backhanded swing that, maybe, will send Munin staggering into the path of Makoto's mighty mitts!
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Makoto's Random Weapon.
Makoto 1/-----==/=======|>------\-------\0 Lucrezia
COMBATSYS: Munin counters Landsknecht Ultio from Lucrezia with Blink Strike.
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Makoto 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Lucrezia
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As Makoto moves in on Munin, the dark goddess scoffs "Betrayal most foul. Hades has as much right to be here as any other of Olympia!". About this time Lucrezia moves in with her stabbing attacks, and when it comes in, Munin splits into two, the shadow-copy left behind taking the strike while she herself ducks sideways and slides around behind the woman, ducking Makotos shield attack in the process!
With a blur of black movement, Munin rushes past Lucrezia, a single fierce strike with a lance of chi from her palm sent at the womans side in the process!
Now past the pair, Munin abruptly turns to face the pair once again "Such is the fate of all who challenge the gods of Olympus!"
Makoto spins a full circle as she swings the shield, the heavy object dragging her along for the ride as it whirls through empty air. The small brawler rides the impromptu piroette out, turning to face the dark god of the Underworld as she slips past both attacks using foul magic.
"Athena is the patron of this land! I shall not see its beauty defiled, by spear nor god!"
Hefting up her chosen weapons, the stalwart defender wheels and swings one of the large shields at Lucrezia. The object is heavy and unwieldly but like every other challenge, Makoto bullies her way through with raw strength. But she doesn't stop there, spinning with the attack, she turns and carries through with her other arm, slamming the opposite shield at the cocky god with enough force to make the air whistle.
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia blocks Makoto's Random Weapon.
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Makoto 1/-----==/=======|=======\-------\0 Lucrezia
"But Athena isn't invincible! She can be beaten!" Lucrezia points out, before a sudden lancing of chi smashes into her side. She lets out a huge cry of dismay, staggering towards Makoto --
Who is bullying her!!
Well, if you can call it bullying. "Ugh!" she says, twisting her spear up and catching that blow on her right hand rather than 'the spear's haft, which would flex a little and absorb the shock, reducing the amount of injury she suffers.' She hisses in through the agony screaming through her crunched up fingernails --
And twists the spear around to try and clout Makoto on her head. "Take this, you Trojan dog! I bet you're empty and hollow up here at the end!!"
COMBATSYS: Makoto successfully hits Munin with Random Weapon.
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Makoto 1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0 Lucrezia
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The spinning attack of Makoto is too fast for Munin to evade, and before she can do much in response, the strike collides with her side! She has to catch herself from the sudden burst of pain to keep in-character, but she makes one note to remember:
Makoto hits like a truck!
"Such foolish actions against one of your gods! You as well as this heathen shall suffer!" comes Munins response, and she points a hand at Makoto, sending a burst of shadowy chi flying towards her!
COMBATSYS: Makoto blocks Lucrezia's Pflug EX.
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Makoto 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\0 Lucrezia
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COMBATSYS: Makoto blocks Munin's Shadow Wave.
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Makoto 1/-======/=======|=======\-------\0 Lucrezia
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The spear smashes down like a club but Makoto is quick enough that the bludgeon catches on the edge of the large shield rather than her head. The latter might actually be more solid but the shield doesn't feel as much pain. The blow lets out a resounding crack and sends a jarring shock through the girl's arm but she holds fast against the assault.
The god fares a little better against the resolute defense of the Trojan soldier. Dark energy explodes against the wooden surface of the other shield and while it absorbs the brunt of the terrible wrath, it shatters apart for its effort, raining splinters over the battlefield. The explosion blasts Makoto onto her butt in the sand but she grits her teeth, stubborn as always, and by the time she gets her feet underneath her once again she's already charging at the person who happens to be closest.
Lucrezia in this case. The tiny Trojan lets out a wordless roar and dives at the spear-fighter, attempting to push past her reach in a blitz of sudden speed, her now free hand going for the girl's throat.
COMBATSYS: Makoto successfully hits Lucrezia with Karakusa EX.
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Makoto 1/=======/=======|=======\=------\1 Lucrezia
There is only one god, Lucrezia thinks, before Makoto lurches upright with astonishing wrath and furious anger, thanks to those two shields reinforced by the previously established truckasaurus hands. Lucrezia steps back a pace, and then -
"Ghhhk!!"
Her throat is grasped by Makoto and wrapped most firmly. She has her eyes roll back in her head, her helmet falling partially off her head as she kicks her legs and twitches several times. This is not feigned distress.
She twists her spear around at the last moment, her defiance speaking its truth as she shoves that rubber horsehead towards Makoto's side! Indeed, this blow and the pressure it brings may make her defeat over the forces of Greece quite Pyrrhic - a suitably mythical ending for this conflict?! Or just a way for her to jam a horse into Makoto's navel?
COMBATSYS: Lucrezia can no longer fight.
Makoto 1/=======/=======|
Seeing the shield shatter on the impact of her attack, Munin manuevers herself from a side angle when Makoto goes after Lucrezia. Once she engages, Munin rushes in, a small glowing lance of chi flaring from her palm as she aims a very focused palm strike at the gals side!
COMBATSYS: Makoto dodges Lucrezia's Landsknecht Ultio.
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COMBATSYS: Makoto interrupts Shadow Spike from Munin with Seichuusen Godanzuki.
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Unfortunately, this particular historical re-enactment is taking a different route.
Makoto's fingers crush into the windpipe of her victim, just enough to cut off the flow of blood and air for a few moments, but not enough to actually snap the girl's spine. It's enough to render the last ditch attack a futile gesture. The Trojan, expecting the counter attack, twists to the side and easily slips out of the spear's path. She continues the motion, swinging Lucrezia around like a sack of potatoes and tosses her into the path of the incoming flank strike.
It's not quite enough to completely divert the energy punch but she knocks Munin far enough off-course that she's able to slip under her guard while the two girl's get entangled amongst each other. Clenching her fist tightly, Makoto takes a step forward and drives the boney sledgehammer down into the divine groin of Hades proving very quickly that even Gods don't get to walk away without a limp when facing this amazon brawler.
A barrage of punches hammers at Munin from the side before the first blow can drop her to the ground and with a fierce roar of battle lust, Makoto spins and blasts both of the other fighters with the flat of her still intact shield, batting them away with her absurd strength.
Like the proverbial potatoes, Lucrezia skids out and hits the wall, her spear falling next to her.
Tragic.
But will she insert a coin in time? No. But that just means now Makoto can insert her FISTS into Munin without distraction!
*THUMP!* is the sound made as the shield impacts Munin, and as much as she tries to make it look good, she sadly fails miserably!
The impact of the shield from Makoto sends her flying! She bounces once, kicking up sand, and manages to right herself in time to land on her feet, sliding to a halt a few feet further.
"So you defeated the invader. This is a good thing. However, you still must contend with me for your blasphemy!". In a blink of speed, Munin once again closes the distance, sending a quick strike at Makotos face. This, however, is distractionary, as she abruptly spins low and lashes out with a high-powered kick aimed at Makotos abdoman! Both attacks happen in rapid succession, in an attempt to get through the strong girls iron-clad defenses!
COMBATSYS: Munin blitzes into action and acts again!
COMBATSYS: Makoto endures Munin's Aggressive Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Makoto interrupts Fierce Kick from Munin with Abare Tosanami Kudaki.
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"Tch. The Gods saw fit to sit on their laurels while we fought against the Greeks! I fear you not, dark one!"r
The punch catches Makoto square in the jaw as she rushes forward to meet the blue-haired god. She feels the impact, registers the pain somewhere in the back of her mind, but for the moment it slides off of her like water. The small Trojan appears to recoil from the blow but rather than fall, she leaps into the air, flipping backwards against the nearest wall of the small fort.
"Back to your own realm!"
Makoto explodes from her perch in a rush of colors, one foot lashing out to drive its heel into the other girl's stomach. The moment she drops back to the sand, the karateka lifts her knee as the first of a rushing barrage of attacks. A hard roundhouse kick snaps up to crash against Munin's head and practically before her foot has even touched the ground, Makoto scoots forward and unleashes a final devastating uppercut with the shield.
The wooden circle shatters apart at the blow, the cheap prop finally succumbing to the repeated abuses it has suffered at the fierce warrior's hands.
If Makoto was paying attention, she may have witnessed a small smile creep onto Munins expression just before the attack hits her. She sees well ahead that the blow is coming, and won't be avoidable. (Best end it here on a dramatic note! Makes for a better story!).
The uppercut with the shield strikes her under the chin, and with a screech, she explodes into a burst of shadowy chi, and vanishes from sight!
In truth, she is just off 'camera', having manuevered herself so that the strike would send her out of view, while she used her chi to make the effect happen to sell the 'finality' of Makotos attack! While not unconscious, she IS knocked silly by the hit.
While Makoto finishes up her dramatic closure of the events that have occured, as the 'successful hero', Munin gives a thumbs up and stays out of sight!
COMBATSYS: Munin takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Munin can no longer fight.
And thus the city of Troy was saved!
Wait, that's not how this is supposed to go! Oh well, it was still a pretty good fight!
The crowd goes wild as both of the invaders are punched out, one after the other. Hades' exit is particularly spectacular and gets a lot of cheers and applause before the announcer's voice comes over the intercom declaring the winner of the battle.
Makoto turns and leaps atop the battlements of the small fort, thrusting a fist into the air triumphantly, earning more cheers and fanfare. Definately a good day for publicity. She's sure to get some applicants to her dojo after a fight like that!
COMBATSYS: Makoto has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:48:46 12/24/2014 by Makoto, and last modified on 00:51:27 12/25/2014.
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A to Zap!
by Sunburst
For Ages 3 to 6
See also the Summary Rating Table for comparisons with other Early Learning Software, and the SuperKids Buyers Guide for current market prices of PC and Mac versions.
Pentium90 with 8MB and a 2XCD,
PowerMac 6100/60 with 8MB and 2XCD
Sunburst positions this program as an introduction to "important early learning skills" including letter and number recognition, spelling, telephone dialing, and music. Using a spelling-based model, they generally succeed.
The program is built around a main screen that has a set of alphabet blocks arrayed on a shelf. Beneath the shelf is a toybox. The user clicks on a block, and a word is written across the face of the toybox, as a voice reads the letters. A toy then arises from the box, and clicking on the toy leads to an activity. For example, the letter "A" spells the word "Airplane"; clicking on the airplane takes the user to another screen, where a skywriting airplane awaits the user's selection of a letter to be drawn.
"A to Zap! has lots of creative ideas," said one parent reviewer, "but the limited number of words (26) makes it repetitive for older children." Another noted that "some of the words (e.g. elephant, telephone, light) were too difficult to read for most children in the indicated age range."
Ease of Install / Use
"A to Zap! was the easiest program I have ever installed on a PC," stated a parent reviewer. Our editors agreed! We simply put the CD in our computer, opened the program manager and clicked on the words "atozap.exe" found in the CD drive, and we were up and running! Software developers take note: this is a wonderful feature!
Users are actively involved in the learning process in A to Zap! This is not a passive, just sit there and be fed through your eyeballs, type of program. A to Zap! requires exploration and action by the user to move around and through the program. For example, clicking on the letter "O" transports the user to a grassy field, where three turtles appear, climb atop one another, and unfurl a banner that says "over." A rabbit them appears and jumps over the stack of turtles when the user selects a jumping device (pogo stick, balloon, or jet pack). Even better, the letter H reveals a hammer that is used to hammer-out the correct spelling for 26 prepared words, plus however many additional words the parent or teacher cares to enter, both visually and orally.
Proxy Parent Value
SuperKids uses this term to measure a program's ability to hold a child's attention, with an educationally useful activity, while a parent or caregiver is occupied with some other task. A to Zap! scored highly on this scale with our 3 and 4 year-old testers, but less consistently with our 5 and 6 year-old reviewers.
A to Zap! is best for those children old enough to comfortably interact with the computer, yet young enough not to have mastered reading.
This is a reasonably fun, educationally sound program that will introduce young learners to a variety of skills and knowledge factoids.
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Alberta Beardtongue
Penstemon albertinus Greene
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Penstemon albertinus (Alberta Beardtongue) is a species of perennial herb in the family Plantaginaceae. They have a self-supporting growth form. They are native to Canada, The Contiguous United States, and North America. They have simple, broad leaves and blue flowers. Individuals can grow to 0.61 m.
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0980073
Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span extends over more than two growing seasons, c.f. annual, biennial, ephemeral, of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic
Attribution: Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossaryi_p.html#perennial
Definition: whole plant herbaceous
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/self-supportingGrowthForm
Definition: an organism relying on its own supportive tissues rather than a climbing habit to achieve vertical growth
URI: http://www.geonames.org/6251999
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0020042
Definition: A leaf in which the lamina is undivided
Definition: A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's width being notably higher than its length.
Definition: A color hue with low wavelength of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers.
Attribution: [database_cross_reference: Dictionary:http://dictionary.reference.com/]
after harvest regrowth rate
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AfterHarvestRegrowthRate
Definition: Indicates the relative rate of regrowth of a herbaceous plant after a harvest of above ground herbage.
Attribution: USDA PLANTS database Characteristics Data Fields. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
Definition: Increased rate. A rate which is relatively high.
anaerobic soil tolerance
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AnaerobicSoilTolerance
Definition: The relative tolerance of the plant to anaerobic soil conditions.
URI: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/260413007
calcareous soil tolerance
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/CalcareousSoilTolerance
Definition: The relative tolerance of the plant to calcareous soil. Calcareous soil is defined as soil containing sufficient free CaCO3 and other carbonates to effervesce visibly or audibly when treated with cold 0.1M HCl. These soils usually contain from 10 to almost 1000g/kg CaCO3 equivalent.
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FireResistance
Definition: The ability of an organism to resist burning.
Comment: If a plant can carry a fire—and most can—it is scored as "not fire resistant" in the USDA PLANTS database where this characteristic is evaluated with reference to problem fires in California. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/yes
Definition: This statement is true; the answer to this question is yes.
fire tolerance
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FireTolerance
Definition: The relative ability of a plant to resprout, regrow, or reestablish from residual seed after a fire.
Attribution: USDA PLANTS database Characteristics Data Fields (Fire tolerance). http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
low tolerance
Definition: decreased tolerance to: A tolerance quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's decreased ability to endure a stimulus.
fruit or seed color
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FruitSeedColor
Definition: The predominant and conspicuous color of the mature fruit or seed from a landscaping aesthetics standpoint.
Attribution: USDA Plants database. Characteristics Data Fields. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
Definition: A color consisting of dark orange, red, of very low intensity.
Attribution: [database_cross_reference: Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown]
geographic distribution includes
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
native range includes
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeRange
Definition: Lists jurisdictions in which a given organism is a member of the undisturbed fauna or flora.
planting density
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PlantingDensity
Definition: Recommended minimum number of individual plants to plant per area.
4800 per acre
precipitation tolerance
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PrecipitationTolerance
Definition: Minimum tolerable rainfall (in inches), expressed as the average annual minimum precipitation that occurs 20% of the time (i.e., the probability of it being this dry in any given year is 20%) at the driest climate station within the known geographical range of the plant. geographical range of the plant. For cultivars, the geographical range is defined as the area to which the cultivar is well adapted rather than marginally adapted.
Comment: Minimum precipitation tolerance: Minimum tolerable rainfall, expressed as the average annual minimum precipitation that occurs 20% of the time (i.e., the probability of it being this dry in any given year is 20%) at the driest climate station within the known geographical range of the plant. Maximum precipitation tolerance: Maximum tolerable rainfall, expressed as the annual average precipitation of the wettest climate station within the known geographical range of the plant. For cultivars, the geographical range is defined as the area to which the cultivar is well adapted rather than marginally adapted.
seed spread rate
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeedSpreadRate
Definition: The capability of the plant to spread through its seed production compared to other species with the same growth habit.
seeds per pound
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeedPerPound
Definition: The number of seeds per pound in an average seed lot.
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Alberta beardtongue. View this species on GBIF
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Architecture Editor's Pick History Italy region per region Liguria Offbeat & Unusual Top 10 Travel tips
January 20, 2015 August 6, 2018 Slow Italy
Genoa, like Turin, is one of these fascinating Italian cities that remain off the tourist radar: world famous as the birth place of Christopher Columbus, yet relatively unknown to the millions of tourists who visit Italy every year.
View from our hotel room (see at the end of the article) over Piazza Principe. The building that looks like an opera house is the railway station! In front is the statue of Christopher Columbus and on the left in the background, the Lanterna, emblem of Genoa. Photo © Slow Italy.
Dubbed La Superba by Petrarca, Genoa was one of Italy’s two largest maritime republics (together with Venice) that enjoyed enormous power and prestige as early as the Middle Ages. Multi-faceted and in perpetual mutation, the city ranges from the most luxurious aristocratic palaces in the Strade Nuove district – admired even by Rubens who wanted to apply some of the concepts to Antwerp -, to the Kasbah-like, narrow streets (caruggi) in the historic center.
The “Vertical Town” – forced to “climb up” the Sarzano hill as it extended from the sea -, is a surprising and startling city, where you enter in some buildings from the top floor, move around town using lifts, and where even the corridors inside the homes can be sloped and winding. There is also a unique church built above shops, an unusual elevator, the only one in the world that moves first horizontally then vertically and impressive fortified walls, the longest defensive city walls in Italy. Not to mention the pesto, focaccia, freshest fish and delicious confectionery. The whole city is just an amazing combination of strong colors and flavors, contrasts and curiosities, giving you at least 10 reasons to visit Genoa next time you are in Italy.
One of the historic bookshops of Genoa, founded in 1810 and very well appointed. Libreria Bozzi in Via Cairoli 2. Photo © Slow Italy.
1. The Strade Nuove
The Strade Nuove (“New Streets”) were built by the most influential Genovese families to show off their prestige and power during the city’s “Golden Age” (1557 to 1627). The initiative resulted in a unique ensemble of magnificent late-Renaissance and Baroque buildings, one of Italy’s most sumptuous streets.
Via Garibaldi on a rainy day. Photo © Slow Italy
The Strade Nuove were one of the first examples of an urban development project in Europe that was carried out with a specific purpose, namely that of developing a system designed to offer accommodation to illustrious guests and noblemen on state visits in the city. The system was known as that of the Palazzi dei Rolli, after the lists or rolls on which these aristocratic residences, which had the privilege of hosting important visitors, were included. The residences were organized into three levels (bussoli) representing the luxury, size and beauty of the palaces and the importance and dignity of the guests.
Via Garibaldi. Photos © Slow Italy.
The site chosen was located in a more recent section (hence the name “Strade Nuove”), on the periphery of the civitas (city), in the so-called burgus, where the marine and agricultural activities of Genoa were originally located.
Via Garibaldi (from the left clockwise: Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola at nr 2; Palazzo Lomellino at nr 7; Palazzo di Angelo Giovanni Spinola at nr 5; Palazzo Rosso at nr 18; Palazzo Tursi at nr 9; Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino at nr 4. (Photos by Jacqueline Poggi, Slow Italy and Sailko).
The main, most sumptuous street is Via Garibaldi (then known as Strada Nuova). Its magnificent palaces were all built between 1558 and 1584 (except Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco) with spectacular open staircases, courtyards and loggias overlooking gardens in a relatively tight space. The former Palazzo Tursi at number 9, now the townhall (municipio), includes the violin of Paganini and letters by Christopher Columbus, both native of Genoa.
However, the system of Rolli extended well beyond Via Garibaldi, including at least 120 palaces of which 42 have been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2006.
The majority of the other palaces are located on Via Cairoli, previously Strada Nuovissima, (closeby is also the San Siro Church, the first cathedral of Genoa), Piazza della Meridiana, Piazza delle Fontane Marose, Salita Santa Caterina and Largo Eros Lanfranco, but a few are also to be found on Via Balbi, along Via Lomellini and Via San Luca. Don’t miss the characteristic Via del Campo, cited in a song by the Genovese Fabrizio De André, one of the most important Italian songwriters of all times.
Loved the smart name of this bar in Via Garibaldi.:) Good coffee and lovely also inside. Photo © Slow Italy.
2. The Golden Gallery
Galleria Dorata. Chamber of Commerce, via Garibaldi 4. Photo © Slow Italy.
This is an insider tip! At number 4 in Via Garibaldi, you’ll find Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino-Carrega Cataldi, seat of the present Chamber of Commerce. The palace was built between 1558 and 1561 for Tobia Pallavicino, one of the wealthiest and most influential Genovese nobleman of that time.
Chamber of Commerce, chapel, facade and corridors. Photos © Slow Italy.
At the first floor of the Chamber of Commerce is a magnificent meeting room, known as the Galleria Dorata (Golden Gallery), all covered with frescoes and gilded decorations. Designed by Lorenzo de Ferrari (1680-1744), the room is not only his last and most important task, but also one of the most refined examples of Genovese rococo. Just enter the palace and kindly ask (best in the afternoon) if you can visit the “Galleria Dorata”.
Galleria Dorata. Photo © Slow Italy.
The owner after which the palazzo is named, Tobia Pallavicino, made his fortune by trading alum all over Europe. Alum was an essential mordant used to fixing dyes in the textile industry, a key sector in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian economy. Pallavicino practically held a monopoly on the precious ore, which was extracted in Tolfa, near Viterbo (province of Rome). Previously, alum had to be imported from the Middle East, from mines under Turkish control, through Venice, at excessive prices.
From 1541, Pallavicino and his brother controlled the importation of alum. His sons established themselves in Rome, London and Antwerp and further developed the family business. Needless to say that at the death of the patriarch his wealth was inestimable. The Galleria Dorata and other important renovations, however, date from the 1700s, when the palazzo was owned by the Carrega family.
3. The Centro Storico and the Mura (part I)
The historic center is a maze of narrow streets (caruggi), beautiful squares and ancient historic shops, worth exploring. While Genoa’s historic center is not the largest one of Italy – the ones of Naples and Rome are more extended -, it is definitely the one with the highest density of historic buildings (only ¼ of the buildings date from after WWII).
L’Albero delle Lettere, Via di Canneto il Lungo, 38. Photo © Slow Italy.
The caruggi is a typical Ligurian term that refers to the quaint, narrow and shady streets in the historic center of Genoa. The term probably derives from the word carriaggi, from the French charriage (goods transported by cart), maybe to designate the backstreets where goods were being transported and downloaded using carts. They can be indicated as “vico”, more rarely as “vicolo”, but sometimes also as “via” or even “piazza” (even if a very small one).
Piazza Matteotti and Chiesa del Gesù e dei Santi Ambrogio e Andrea. Photo © Slow Italy.
The most ancient part of the Centro Storico corresponds to the area located within the 9th century city walls (Mura), also known as the Carolingian walls (La cinta muraria Carolingia). The original walls had four gates and four towers, which were all destroyed. The area covered approximately 22 hectares and went from the ancient San Pietro gate (more or less where the San Pietro in Banchi Church is located), to Porta di Serravalle (off Piazza San Lorenzo) to the former Porta Soprana, and Porta del Castello (area of metro Sarzano and Via di Santa Croce).
Relic of the ancient wall between the gates Serravalle and San Pietro in Via Tommaso Reggio. Photo by F. noceti.
An even earlier fortified area dates back to Roman times and was situated within the oval formed by the convent of Santa Maria di Castello, the archeological area of San Silvestro (salita San Silvestro), Via di Santa Croce and Via di Mascherona.
In total, Genoa counts seven rings of walls that were built during subsequent periods, each corresponding to a different wave of expansion of the city. Actually, the city has more and longer walls than any other city in Italy. The last and most imposing walls, the Mura Nuove (New Walls), were built at the beginning of the 17th and are the longest defensive walls in Italy, and one of the longest in Europe. Today, only part of the original gates, forts and stretches of walls have survived.
Via Cannetto il Lungo. Photo © Slow Italy.
Very characteristic of the historic center is Via Cannetto Il Lungo. The street reminded me of some of the streets in the Tribunali district of Naples, which are dark even at midday as the buildings on each side of the street seem to bend towards each other at the top leaving only very little space for daylight to come through.
Caffè degli Specchi, Salita Pollaiuoli 43r. Photo © Slow Italy.
Worth seeing is also the Caffè delgi Specchi in Salita Pollaiuoli 43r and several artisan shops as well as Pescheria Risso, a characteristic fish stall with an impressive display of beautiful fresh fish in Via Canneto Il Lungo 48r.
Fish stall in Via Canneto il Lungo. Photo © Slow Italy.
Fun trivia: as you may see the address above contains a “/r”, which stands for “rosso” (red). In Genova, street numbers are divided into black and red numbers, the black numbers being assigned to the main entrances of the buildings, while the red numbers were originally reserved for secondary entrances, usually leading to a (work)shop.
Proceed towards Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza San Matteo, a square with a definite medieval flavor, with its black-and-white striped houses, which belonged to the Doria Family, and Church of San Matteo. Andrea Doria was a great admiral (he consistently refused the position of doge) who gave Genoa its first aristocratic constitution which conferred it the status of mercantile republic and put an end to the factions which divided the city.
Piazza San Matteo and Chiesa di San Matteo (1125). The Church was originally the Doria family’s private chapel. The crypt contains the tomb of Andrea Doria.
Within the most ancient part of the historic center lies also, of course, Piazza San Lorenzo with the Duomo (see further).
4. The Duomo and Piazza San Lorenzo
Cathedral San Lorenzo.
The magnificent, black and white striped Church of San Lorenzo became Genoa’s cathedral in 985. It was preferred over San Siro, the first cathedral of Genoa, which was located outside the Carolingian walls and therefore considered unsafe. Moving the cathedral was an important decision, which transferred the main center of the town to Piazza San Lorenzo. At that time, the original Piazza San Lorenzo was much smaller than today. The surrounding buildings were subsequently demolished in the 17th century to enlarge the piazza and make the cathedral seem even more impressive.
Photo © Slow Italy.
It took several centuries to complete the cathedral, even after it was consecrated in 1118. Important extensions and changes were made in the 13th and 14th centuries with the help of Pisan, Lombard and French artists. The black and white horizontal stripes date from the 13th century, while the two towers were added in the 15th century, resulting in a unique mixture of styles.
Cathedral of Genoa. Photo © Slow Italy.
The largest of the side chapels is dedicated to St John the Baptist, patron saint of the city. It holds the relics of the Saint, which were brought to Genoa from the Holy Land during the Crusades in 1098.
Note the pharmacy at number 38 on Piazza San Lorenzo, which has been in operation since 1849, still with its original floor and furnishings. Opposite Via San Lorenzo is Via di Scurreria, named after the shield makers who used to have their workshops there. Most of the streets in the historic center bear names referring to the artisans who had their workshops here. Today the street is lined with fashion boutiques and jewelry shops.
When you walk parallel to the Duomo from Via di Scurreria to Via San Lorenzo crossing Piazza San Lorenzo, you clearly feel that the piazza is sloping, which together with the black & white stripes of the Cathedral, easily gives you a strange, unbalanced feeling!
On Via San Lorenzo at number 91r you’ll find the excellent Focacceria San Lorenzo. They have the most delicious Foccacia di Recco (with melted Stracchino cheese). The dough is very tasty and thin, leaving all the space for the delicious Stracchino to melt in the mouth. To die for!
Focaccia with melted Stracchino cheese. Focacceria San Lorenzo, via San Lorenzo 91r. Photo © Slow Italy.
5. The Barbarossa walls and historic center (part II)
The next city walls, known as the Barbarossa walls, were erected between 1155 and 1163, to defend the city against Federico Barbarossa, German King, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor. It contained a greatly expanded area as compared to the previous walls: 55 hectares instead of the original 22. The walls had three main gates with high semicircular towers, two of which survived to these days, Porta Soprana (the main entrance to the city) and Porta dei Vacca.
Porta Soprana. Photo © Slow Italy.
Today it is possible to walk partly along or on top of the remains of the Barbarossa walls, which were once concealed by the buildings that enclosed them.
Walkway on the Barbarossa walls between Porta Soprana and Sarzano. Photo by Nellorolleri.
Worth seeing within this part of the historic center is Piazza Banchi, one of the most picturesque squares of the city, with its unique Chiesa di San Pietro built above a series of shops, which financed the construction of the church. Piazza Banchi was once one of the city’s busiest market places, where moneylenders would set up their stands, hence the name.
Piazza Banchi and Chiesa di San Pietro. Photo by cercamon.
Stroll along Via Luccoli and Via Macelli Di Soziglia, two picturesque streets of the historic center.
The two streets meet in Piazza Campetto e Soziglia, where two of Genova’s most ancient historic confectionery shops are located: Romanengo and Caffè di Klainguti, where you can completely indulge yourself!
The maze of caruggi in the Maddalena quarter and surroundings is full of delightful little shops and ancient botteghe.
Santa Maria Maddalena Church in the background in the Maddalena quarter, one of the ancient sestiere of Genova.
6. Christopher Columbus’ house
Christopher Columbus’ house on the right, with one of the Soprana towers in the background. Photo © Slow Italy.
The tiny Casa di Cristoforo Colombo, located at the foot of Porta Soprana, is (supposedly) where the famous explorer Christopher Columbus spent his childhood. He lived here from the age of 4 to 19, when his father was the guardian of the Porta Soprana between 1455 and 1470. The house was rebuilt many times, the current version dating back to the 18th century, but the lay-out and and size have kept close to how it probably looked like at that time.
Piazza Ferrari. Photo © Slow Italy.
On your way to Christopher Columbus’ house, don’t miss Piazza de Ferrari with the Palazzo della Borsa (1907-1912), the Teatro Carlo Felice, the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, the Palazzo of Regione Liguria and the Palazzo della Borsa.
Piano di Sant’Andrea. Photo © Slow Italy.
From Columbus’ house, proceed towards Porta Soprana and the charming little square Piano di Sant’Andrea, inside the walls. From there take one of the caruggi towards Piazza delle Erbe.
7. Trekking in the city and Spianata Castelletto
The Spianata Castelletto offers one of the most scenic views over the city. Either take the public lift from Piazza Portello to the Belvedere Luigi Montaldo, or, for the most courageous among you, you may also choose to walk up the hill (about 30 min).
Interesting is also the view from the Museo delle Culture del Mondo housed in Castello d’Albertis. The museum itself contains a large, interesting collection of historical artefacts from all over the world stemming from the various trips done by Enrico d’Albertis. Even more impressive than the museum is the way to reach it! The castle can be reached from the center (top of Via Balbi) by the lift Montegalletto, the only lift in the world that moves first horizontally and then vertically!
Forte Diamante – Parco delle Mura. Photo by Tommy.
Beautiful to trek through is also the Parco delle Mura, which can be explored on foot or by bike within a wonderful natural reserve. Various trails connect the forts that were part of the 14th century and the New Walls. The latter were built along the ridge of the hills around the city and stretch from the Forte Tenaglia, Forte Sperone and Forte Diamante in the west to Forte di San Martino and Forte San Giuliano in the east, just to name a few.
View from Forte Sperone. Photo by Walter Dellepiane.
Another way to hike the city is following the crêuze (or creuse), a network of tiny, steep, cobblestoned pedestrian paths that connect the city center with the bucolic hinterland. The creuse network is unique in its kind in Europe, providing an alternative way to reach the hill quarters of the city. They offer a peaceful relief from the busy center by bringing slow moments immersed in the bucolic country life almost in the city center. The typically Ligurian term became famous with the album by Fabrizio di André, called Crêuza de mä, sung entirely in Ligurian language.
A steep creuza in the Sant-Ilario quarter of Genoa.
8. The Porto Vecchio, Lanterna and Aquarium
The Porto Vecchio is the curve that stretches from the Molo Vecchio (Old Wharf) to the Lanterna, the 76m hight lighthouse and emblem of Genoa. The area of the Porto Vecchio was renovated by the famous architect Renzo Piano at the occasion of the international expo commemorating the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America, creating a single pedestrian zone that goes from Piazza Caricamento into the port. Renzo also built the Bigo and Sfera. The Bigo looks like a large, white crane. It contains a panoramic lift that rotates at 360° offering an amazing aerial view of the city and its amazing maze of caruggi (narrow streets).
Porto Vecchio. Photo by Jacqueline Poggi.
The Sfera, designed like a “drop” of steel and glass suspended over the sea, recreating a miniature rain forest, includes a small, but rich, botanical and animal garden hosting plant and animal species coming from tropical forests threatened by human exploitation. Birds, amphibians, butterflies and reptiles circulate freely.
Genoa’s lighthouse and emblem, the Lanterna, is visible to all those who put in at the port, from whatever direction. It was last rebuilt in 1543. Walk up the 375 steps to admire the beautiful panoramic view from its terrace.
Lanterna. Photo by Silvia Molinari.
Also located in the Porto Antico is the Genoa Aquarium (Acquario di Genova). Opened in 1992, it is Europe’s largest marine attraction hosting 800 different species and more than 10,000 marine creatures. At the moment of its opening it was the second largest aquarium in the world. A complete visit takes about 2 hours 30.
Acquario di Genova. Photo by Paul.
9. Boccadasse
For beautiful scenic photos, head to the picturesque old fishing district of Genoa. With its colorful houses, pebble beach and colorful boats, Boccadasse, offers a beautiful backdrop for your photos. You can reach the narrow bay of Boccadasse following Corso Italia from the center.
Boccadasse. Photo by Paolo Margari.
Note that La Boca, a district in Buenos Aires, was founded by Genovese immigrants from Boccadasse.
10. Museo Diocesano and the oldest jeans in the world
To close our visit of Genoa, I’d like to end with an interesting etymological trivia about the city. You may not know this, but it was from the city’s name that the common word “jeans”, used in almost every language of the world, is derived.
Indeed, Genoa was once renowned for manufacturing work clothes that were tinted with indigo blue. At that time it was customary to name fabrics after the city from which they originated. The jeans fabric from Genoa was stamped as Gênes (the French name for Genoa), which, when the fabric arrived in England, where it was processed, was pronounced with the English accent, which gave a word sounding like “jeans”.
Painting on a canvas of jeans representing the Passion of Christ (1538). The work is attributed to Teramo Piaggio and was probably inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s Great Passion series.
The oldest denim in the world, originating from Genoa, can be seen in the Museo Diocesano (close to the Duomo). The jeans cloth was used as a canvas in 1538 to represent a painting of the Passion of Christ.
We stayed at Grand Hotel Savoia, ideally located within walking distance of the Strade Nuove, the historic center and Porto Vecchio. Ask for a room with city view over the beautiful Piazza Principe (see photo at the beginning of the article). From its rooftop terrace, the hotel offers a beautiful panorama over the entire city. Other pluspoints are the beautiful breakfast buffet, comfortable rooms and very friendly staff.
Grand Hotel Savoia
Via Arsenale di Terra, 5
Even though Genoa has a wide range of typical trattorie and restaurants, I’d like to mention this wonderful fish restaurant a little outside Genoa (about 15min by car from the center). The place is a bit off-the-beaten track, not frequented by tourists, but offers an incredible choice of the finest and most delicate fresh fish, in a friendly, unpretending atmosphere.
Trattoria Barisone
Via Siracusa 2/r
16154 Genoa – Sestri Ponente
For starters we had an amazing choice of anchovies, prepared in five different ways, novelli (baby octopus) and bianchetti (minute whitebait of anchovies, prepared in five different ways, a delicacy!). Actually, we decided to stick to the starters, as the variety and quantity of dishes were really gargantuesque!
From top to bottom and clockwise: anchovies 4 different ways (the 5th dish, unfortunately, didn’t fit within the photo), bianchetti and novelli (fried baby octopus). Photo © Slow Italy.
Photo credits: all photos and photo collages © Slow Italy, except (from top to bottom): ancient wall in via Tommaso Reggio by F. noceti; Walkway Barbarossa by Nellorolleri; Piazza Banchi by cercamon; Forte Diamante by Tommy; Forte Sperone by Walter Dellepiane; Porto Vecchio by Jacqueline Poggi; Lanterna by Silvia Molinari; Acquario by Paul; Boccadasse by Paolo Margari.
Collage Via Garibaldi Palces indoors (from the left clockwise): Palazzo Pantaleone Spinola by Jacqueline Poggi; Palazzo Lomellino by Jacqueline Poggi; Palazzo di Angelo Giovanni Spinola by Jaqueline Poggi; at nr 5; Palazzo Rosso fresco by Gregorio de Ferrari by Sailko;; Palazzo Tursi by Postcrosser; Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino by Slow Italy. Collage San Matteo (from the left, clockwise): Piazza San Matteo by Riccardo; 2 photos by Jacqueline Poggi. Collage San Lorenzo Cathedral (from the left, clockwise): © oreundici/Fotolia.com; © lappa85/Fotolia.com; © paolacarobbi/Fotolia.com; © lamio/Fotolia.com and © victormendini/Fotolia.com.
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Wet Dream Film Festival
"We got It off a week before In Amsterdam with the Wet Dream Film Festival organized by SUCK - the first European Sex Paper - in conjunction with the Nederlands Filmmakers Coop, between 26-29 November, 1970."--Canyon Cinema News (1969) page 44
""But, what exactly did the audience see at the blue film festival? Precisely that. Blue films. Four days of blue films. Low budgets. High budgets."--Naughty! (1971) by Stanley Long, 12:21, on the first Wet Dream Film Festival
The Wet Dream Film Festival is the title of two film festivals held in Amsterdam. The first was held in 1970, the second in 1971. They were organized by the Amsterdam-based editorial board of the countercultural magazine Suck, The First European Sex Paper (1969 - 1974).
1 First festival
2 Second festival
3 Wet Dreams (book)
First festival
The first was held on 26-29 November of 1970 and had an international jury consisting of Germaine Greer, Jay Landesman, Richard Neville, Michael Zwerin, Didi Wadidi and Al Goldstein.
The first prize went to Bodil Jensen in A Summer Day. The "Blast from the Past" award went to Jean Genet's film: Un chant d'amour. The Walt Disney Memorial Award went to Christie Eriksson's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Other prizes were awarded for Peter Flemming, Walter Burns and Falcon Stewart.
Second festival
The Second Wet Dream Film Festival was held in 1971 between October 20 and October 25, again organized by Jim Haynes. Festival jury included Germaine Greer, Al Goldstein, William Holtrop, Didi Wadidi, Anna Beke and Michael Zwerin plus new-comers Mama Cass, Roland Topor, Heathcote Williams, William Burroughs, Carlos Clarens, Tomi Ungerer, Betty Dodson, Marie-France and Miss Angel. Jens Frosen (“Quiet Days in Clichy”) documented the event.
Lou Sher, president of Sherpix, who picked up “Adultery For Fun and Profit” at the first festival, put up $1,000 for the first prize this year plus a promise of U.S. theatrical distribution. Organizer Haynes told Variety: “What most people don’t understand about last year’s Wet Dream Festival is that we are not concerned with pornographic aspects primarily, but with the libertarian concept. It is an attack on paternalism because it asks why people can’t see any image they want.”
Wet Dreams (book)
Title: Wet Dreams: Films & Adventures Presented by Suck.
Author: (SUCK). William Levy
Description: Amsterdam: Joy Publications,
Designed by Willem de Ridder.
Profusely illustrated throughout.
In part an illustrated catalogue of the festivals
Incl. contributions from and/or interviews with Jim Haynes, Betty Dodson, Felix de Mendelssohn, Jim Haynes, Al Goldstein, Ron Reid, Mel Clay, Brion Gysin ("Sister Vaseline"), Lynne Tillman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and many others, plus a catalogue of all films shown at the two Wet Dream Festivals.
"arguments about how to create revolutionary porn," and true stories from festival participants. *Banned from Britain at the time, and "the end of the civilized world as we know it" wrote Rolling Stone.
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Arriving in Iceland
It is said the Bifrost, the bridge between heaven and earth, the gods and humankind, is usually invisible to the human eye. Only when rain and sun meet each other it is revealed in all its glory.
We spotted our first rainbow, as ignorant people call it, when slowly descending through the clouds towards this rugged and barren island in the North Atlantic Sea.
We had come here for 10 days of camping in the summer season. Despite all warnings received, little did we know about the heavy cold winds that a July day could bring. Renting a 4×4 with a rooftop tent to explore Europe’s most sparsely populated country had occurred to us as the perfect birthday gift for Lindi.
KuKu Campers was the company we rented a small Suzuki Jeep from. After our arrival, a shameful meal at Taco Bell and a night in a warm bed on the outskirts of Reykjavik we picked up the car and equipped ourselves with sleeping bags, blankets and a camping cooker. The next most important purchase of the day was the camping card that would allow us to sleep at dozens of campsites around the country.
After a short stop at the grocery store to fill our car with all essentials of a balanced diet, namely Heinz beans, pesto and bread (the most lavish lifestyle we had come to afford) we started our journey following a prepared google map pitted with small yellow stars. When talking to friends and colleagues at home we had gotten a long list of places to visit on our roadtrip. Little seemed to evolve around cultural sites and all around a vast and beautiful landscape that seemed to only miss one thing, trees! As we would come to learn later Iceland had been robbed of most of its trees with the building of ships and the expansion of grazing lands in previous centuries. So much so, that we got jokingly told any collection of more than three 1-meter high trees would definitely be a forest.
With all preparation done and a car that being 4×4 was allowed on all public roads our trip around the island had begun. Unable to ride on the Bifrost to Asgard we would soon discover that heaven and earth are close companions in this country so full of natural wonders.
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Allied Aircrew Memorial Dedication
by Simon Hamon
The role of Allied airmen in World War Two was marked by the dedication of a memorial outside Guernsey Airport on 9th September 2015.
It follows more than 50 years of research into the subject by Channel Island aviation historian and Society Archivist John Goodwin, which has found 153 names of those airmen killed in Bailiwick of Guernsey waters during WW2.
The 6m (20ft) tall Allied Aircrew Memorial made as a stainless steel sculpture features representative models of a USAAF B-17 and seven Spitfires. Written around its base are the names of the airmen known to have died off Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm many of whom have no known grave.
Airforce attaches from America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Czech Republic attended the ceremony along with a representative of the Royal Air Force. Brig Gen Dieter E. Bareihs, US defense attache based in London, praised the “special recognition in the memorial to the Mighty Eighth and the United States Air Forces”. He went on to say “I look at the memorial and I see the B-17 flying in formation with the Spitfires and that kind of represents our two countries standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder, not just in World War Two but the legacy that started there and continues to this day.”
John Silvester, chairman of the Allied Aircrew Memorial Committee, said it was fitting the memorial was dedicated in the 70th anniversary year of Guernsey’s liberation from German occupation in World War Two and dedicated around the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. He said it had only been possible due to help from local contractors, who offered their expertise for free, meaning the memorial cost about half of the originally estimate of £125,000 and of course the generosity of the people of the Bailiwick.
The design of the Memorial involved many local experts and professionals: architects, structural engineers, designers, advertisers, metal welders, concrete experts, builders and lighting designers. The design was always intended to be both striking, appropriate and to match the look of Guernsey’s modern airport. The cost of the monument had been raised by local donations and much of the work carried out ‘pro bono’ by local companies.
The very moving and thoughtful dedication service was conducted by the Vice-Dean of Guernsey The Reverend Mike Keirle and during the service the names of the 153 Airmen were read out by six of the Lt. Governors Cadets, whilst a gentle lament was played by a single bagpiper and simultaneously children from the two schools in the Forest Parish, the Forest Primary and Le Rondin School placed a single red rose around the memorial one for every Airman. The last three names were read out by John Goodwin before he placed a single white rose for peace on the memorial.
The Bailiff Sir Richard Collas representing the people of the Bailiwick of Guernsey laid the first wreath followed by wreaths laid by the six Airforce attaches, representatives of the Nations of those on the memorial. The last post was sounded and seconds after the closing speech was a well timed dramatic fly past the memorial by The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Dakota flying over the memorial. Originally planned to have been the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane the Dakota was a last minute stand-in after the original flight went technical showing the fragility of the aircraft from WW2.
Following the service the dignitaries meet the children and then unveiled six tress planted in memory of the six nations represented on the memorial. Of course many will know the Patron of the Allied Aircrew Memorial fund was the late Air Marshall Sir Peter Walker CB CBE, who died just days before the memorial was officially dedicated and so in tribute to him the last words should be his written before his untimely death.
“I congratulate everyone involved in the production of this permanent memorial to those aircrew of all the nations who lost their lives in Bailiwick waters during the course of World War II.
I hope, that in unveiling this memorial today, we will bring comfort and closure to the relatives of the gallant airmen who died, and that it will serve for generations to come as a reminder that the privileges we enjoy have come at the cost of great sacrifice by people from all nations who travelled in their prime of life far from home, that we may be free.”
A list of those named on the memorial, compiled by John D Goodwin, can be found in the Roll of Honour.
Below are some photos from the dedication ceremony – all photos courtesy of the Allied Aircrew Memorial:-
Two Guernsey Air Cadets to a drum roll ceremoniously unveil the names.
Two of the 36 children from the Forest Primary and Le Rondin School placing a single red rose around the memorial one for every man named.
Ruri Johnson one of the six Lt. Govoners Cadets who read out the names of the fallen.
John Goodwin at the memorial reads the last three names and places a single white rose for peace.
The six air attaches of the RAF, RCAF, RAAF, RNAF, USA and Czech Republic laying their wreaths after the Bailiff salute the memorial.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Dakota flying over the memorial.
The dignitaries meet the children who made the event so special linking the past with the present and into the future.
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