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The terms transition town, transition initiative and transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability. The Transition Network, founded in 2006, inspired the creation of many of the projects. A number of the groups have officially registered with the organisation. The first initiative to use the name was Transition Town Totnes, located in the United Kingdom. Transition initiatives have been started in locations around the world, with many located in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia
The organisation see local complementary currencies as a way to create sustainable local economies
this is why i didn’t add in past.. thinking.. not deep enough.. disengage from money as os..
http://www.transitionus.org/transition-towns
as of today.. latest transition town us.. #160 – ft collins
http://transitionnetwork.org/meet-transitioners/
learned about them via p2p and Michel and Kevin and ..and Rob Hopkins (founder/figurehead of the Transition Towns movement)..
Transition Network is a charitable organisation whose role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the Transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emission
..et al.. some time ago.. so i’m sure have words on many pages that now won’t be linked to this.. why chip ness will be lovely..
adding page while taking in doc: a new story..
*naresh giangrande (@nareshgg) (https://transitionnetwork.org/people/naresh-giangrande-2/):
Co-founder of Transition Town Totnes, the first Transition Town, and of Transition Training, Naresh has been involved in designing, running and evolving many of the events, groups, and trainings that have been at the heart of the enormously successful Transition project. He has delivered the hundreds of Transition Trainings to thousands of participants in twenty countries worldwide.
His work for Transition Network has lead to a passion for working with self-organising systems, and how participatory learning can be fostered and strengthened across the movement. This has lead to coordinating Transition Network’s work with academic researchers. He is fascinated by data analysis and the *block chain, while being painfully aware of the preciousness of life, his capacity for love, and acceptance of his own mortality.
*hosting-life-bits
what i see transitions doing is.. creating a new cultural story.. by building it. i don’t want to put ecovillages down.. because they have their place.. fantastic ie’s of where we might be going..and where we might get to.. really inspirational.. but to bring those eco concepts and social tech into where most people are living at this time is a really crucial piece of what needs to be done and that’s what we’re doing that’s what transition towns are.. you don’t have to go away to an ashran somewhere to an ecovillage.. you can just start where you are now with the people you know and start to create the world you want
Rob Hopkins et al
find/follow:
Official Transition Towns Twitter Account. Mission: to inspire, encourage, support, connect and train the Transition Movement.
their site:
https://transitionnetwork.org/
Transition is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. Here we explain what it is, why people do it, how the movement started and give you a sense of our underpinning principles and approach…
Transition is an approach rooted in values and principles. These are described slightly differently in different parts of the movement, but broadly:
We respect resource limits and create resilience – The *urgent need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, greatly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and make wise use of precious resources is at the forefront of everything we do.
*for (blank)’s sake…
We promote inclusivity and social justice – The most disadvantaged and powerless people in our societies are likely to be worst affected by rising fuel and food prices, resource shortages and extreme weather events. We want to increase the chances of all groups in society to live well, healthily and with sustainable livelihoods.
We adopt subsidiarity (*self-organisation and **decision making at the appropriate level) – The intention of the Transition model is not to centralise or control decision making, but rather to work with everyone so that it is practiced **at the most appropriate, practical and empowering level
*self-org
**decision making
***public consensus always oppresses someone(s).. a nother way
We pay attention to balance – In responding to urgent, global challenges, individuals and groups can end up feeling stressed, closed or driven rather than open, connected and creative. We create space for *reflection, celebration and rest to balance the times when we’re busily getting things done. We explore different ways of working which engage our heads, hands and hearts and enable us to develop collaborative and trusting relationships.
*self-talk as data – eagle and condor ness.. a and a (deep enough)
We are part of an experimental, learning network – Transition is a real-life, real-time global social experiment. Being part of a network means we can create change *more quickly and more effectively, drawing on each other’s experiences and insights. We want to acknowledge and learn from failure as well as success – if we’re going to be bold and find new ways of living and working, we won’t always get it right first time. We will be open about our processes and will actively seek and respond positively to feedback.
let’s try this: a nother way.. to facil all the ways.. all the 7 bn plus.. everyday.. anew
We freely share ideas and power – Transition is a grassroots movement, where ideas can be taken up *rapidly, widely and effectively because each community takes ownership of the process themselves. Transition looks different in different places and we want to encourage rather than unhelpfully constrain that diversity.
*let’s go deeper/faster.. for (blank)’s sake…
We collaborate and look for synergies – The Transition approach is to work together as a community, unleashing our collective genius to have a greater impact together than we can as individuals. We will look for opportunities to build creative and powerful partnerships across and beyond the Transition movement and develop a collaborative culture, finding links between projects, *creating open decision-making processes and designing events and activities that help people make connections.
*redefine decision making et al
We foster positive visioning and creativity – Our primary focus is not on being against things, but on developing and promoting positive possibilities. *We believe in using creative ways to engage and involve people, encouraging them to imagine the future they want to inhabit. **The generation of new stories is central to this visioning work, as is having fun and celebrating success.
*rev of everyday life.. involving 7 bn people
**hosting-life-bits via self-talk as data
jan 2018 – Our work is to recover wisdom and imagination – via Manish
https://www.robhopkins.net/2018/01/31/manish-jain-our-work-is-to-recover-wisdom-and-imagination/
20 min – this is a core issue for transition town.. the solution to ed crisis is not reforming schools.. it’s re engaging community life..
in the city.. as the day
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Tag: WILD10
Partnership Rewilding Europe and WILD Foundation extended
Rewilding Europe and US-based The WILD Foundation have extended their partnership agreement by signing a “Collaborative Conservation Agreement” for 2014–2015.
Proceedings of the Rewilding Europe seminar at WILD10 now available
February 24, 2014 | News
The vision of how Europe can be rewilded showing some of the latest insights, experiences and successful working examples is presented in the brochure “Making Europe a Wilder Place, a series of presentations of the forefront of rewilding in Europe”. This 34-page brochure is now available. The proceedings are the result of a full-day seminar organised by Rewilding Europe on October 9, 2013 at WILD10, the World Wilderness Congress in Salamanca, Spain.
In Celebration of Rewilding Europe
November 15, 2013 | Blog
Silent, motionless, perched on a ledge at Las Batuecas, intent on capturing nuances of ancient lines that depict the might and manner of wild goats, I gain awareness of a large bird, voicing its coarse, high-pitched song in peaceful interludes from the trees behind me.
The Salamanca Statement
November 6, 2013 | News
Rewilding Europe is among the 10 leading international conservation organisations that endorsed “The Statement from Salamanca”, one of the two major policy initiatives of the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WILD10). This statement shows a strong commitment of the organisations to collaboration and practical, positive actions to make the world a wilder place.
It’s all about inspiration and collaboration – messages from WILD10
October 29, 2013 | Blog
At the time of the previous World Wilderness Congress in 2009, I was quite busy becoming an ecologist in the lecture rooms of the VU University in Amsterdam. Just four years later I find myself sitting amongst great colleagues in a huge conference hall in Salamanca, listening to the closing remarks of what has been the 10th edition of this Congress, the world’s longest-running international conservation event. And what an inspiring experience it has been! Let me just make a little trip down memory lane about how wonderful WILD10 really was.
Rewilding Europe at WILD10: Establishing rewilding as a concept and a number of new initiatives
Rewilding Europe was visually very present and thoroughly presented during WILD10, the World Wilderness Congress in Salamanca, Spain, 4–10 October. WILD10 was an unforgettable week of happenings, media attention, world-class speakers, meetings and intense discussions, for example about the concept of rewilding, both in a global and in a European setting.
Global Gathering launches new “Vision for Wilder Europe”
October 6, 2013 | News
Environment leaders have launched a new “Vision for a Wilder Europe” at Wild10, the world wilderness congress in Salamanca, Spain. Nine organisations from across Europe have promoted the Vision that seeks to build on the significant conservation achievements in Europe that have seen the comeback of some of our most iconic wild species such as the wolf, bear, sea eagle, salmon and beaver.
Central Apennines announced as our 6th rewilding area
The Central Apennines (Italy) was announced as the sixth area within Rewilding Europe today during WILD 10, the World Wilderness Congress in Salamanca, Spain (4–10 October). The Central Apennines, known as “the Wild Heart of Italy” is a perfect example of a rewilding area that is very close to a big city. This the newest of our rewilding areas is only an hour and a half’s drive from Rome.
ReWILD10ing Europe: see you in Salamanca!
WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress runs in Salamanca, Spain from 4 to 10 October 2013: a massive, inspirational international event for a whole week. Hope to see you all there! And please do not miss out on the Rewilding Europe activities!
Rewilding Europe Travel Club – October 2013 draw
September 1, 2013 | News
Roaming with vultures and jackals, staying at a century-old mountain station, situated where no roads lead, wolf tracking, inspirational photography in the cold, spectacular birding and hide photography, or a remote wilderness vacation in a genuine working guest ranch?
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Nate Diaz Officially Removed from UFC 230 Co-Main Event
10th Oct 18 6:27 am by Bree
Just three weeks before the promotion brings the action to Madison Square Garden in New York, Dustin Poirier pulls out of UFC 230 fight against Nate Diaz. The third-ranked lightweight fighter, “The Diamond”, withdrew from his bout against Diaz according to an ESPN initial report Tuesday night.
The UFC welterweight contender, Jorge Masvidal, offers to step in against the 33-year old “The Stockton Slugger” at UFC 230. However, it appears that the former lightweight title fighter will not accept a short notice bout against a new opponent.
Nate Diaz Is Done with UFC 230
Months ago, the 29-year old Poirier called out the Stockton finest for the inaugural 165-pound fight. This happened when the promotion was in desperate need of a headlining act for UFC 230.
Due to Poirer’s untimely injury, he was forced out of his fight against Diaz on November 3 in NYC. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reported via Twitter that UFC 230 has lost its co-main event fight, though there were no further details about it.
UFC President Dana White confirmed to the L.A. Times that Diaz will no longer compete at UFC 230. Sources close to the situation via MMA News had previously confirmed that the Diaz vs Poirier bout was in jeopardy regardless of the injury that ultimately doomed the fight.
Whilst the details are sketchy; it appears there was a conflict between Diaz and the UFC. It’s an issue that has already raised questions about whether or not he would compete on November 3.
In the hopes of headlining the card in NYC, Diaz attempts to change his fight against Poirier to a 165-pound contest. However, UFC first attempted to make a fight between Valentina Shevchenko and Sijara Eubanks.
Rather than introducing a new weight class, UFC has set the Octagon for the vacant women’s flyweight title. Announced on Tuesday, a heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Derrick Lewis will headline the event.
Keeping that in mind, UFC 230 has lost its co-main event fight as Poirier and Diaz are off the card.
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Lalique Car Mascots: Complete R. Lalique Mascot Collection At Auction March 10th!
Rene Lalique Car Mascots are among the glass maker’s most sought after artful objects.
It all started in 1925 with several mascots including the R. Lalique Cinq Chevaux Car Mascot, a mascot you can read a little bit about in the linked Blog article, and it ended just 6 years later as the spreading global depression changed the buying habits of both decorative glass and automobile buyers.
Lalique mascot collectors today that are attempting to assemble a complete collection, generally try to acquire 30 items, to include the Naiade paperweight along with the 29 objects that were marketed as car mascots. Note that some of those 29 objects were dual marketed as paperweights.
And there actually is a 31st Lalique Car Mascot, the mascot Levrier-1, believed to have been made as a non-commercial model for Prince George, the younger brother to Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII, and Prince Albert (later King George VI). This mascot is extremely hard to find.
In French, Lalique was selling Bouchons De Radiateur; radiator caps. Today they are referred to not just as Car Mascots, Bouchons De Radiateur, and Radiator Caps, but also Mascots, Mascottes, Hood Ornaments, and Figureheads.
A brief history of R. Lalique Car Mascots appears in the Biography of Rene Lalique here at RLalique.com, where you’ll also find useful links to all the Car Mascot resources and information on the website.
The R. Lalique collector market is only a part of the demand for these great art glass mascots. Car collectors comprise a huge part of the market, car mascot collectors are also a big part of the demand, and to a lesser extent there is museum interest as well.
As is true in several other collecting areas (such as perfume bottles and opalescent art glass to name a couple), if you are a collector of Hood Ornaments, the most sought after are the ones from the great Rene Lalique.
Complete R. Lalique Mascot collections rarely appear at auction.
There are only two in recent memory, one of which was part of the amazing Gerald Pulver R. Lalique collection. Before he passed away. Gerry lived in Key Biscayne Florida and at one time may have had the greatest collection of R. Lalique in the world. He was also a great guy and did a couple of great (unsung) things for the whole collecting field. A complete set picked from Gerry’s mascots was offered by Bonhams on May 1st, 2004 at their sale in Brookline Massachusetts along with additional lots of individual mascots from his deep collection. The catalog from that auction is available in the Lalique Library. It can be found in the Library section on modern auction catalogues that partially contain R. Lalique. It has photographs of the entire collection as well as all of the individual lots and the sales results. The catalog stock number is 657 and we only have two left to sell.
The other complete collection, and the one we are most interested in, appeared at RM Auctions in September 2000.
It was said to be one of two complete collections owned by Marvin Tamaroff, and it sold at that auction for $550,000.
We are reliably informed that the collection coming up for auction on March 10th at RM Auctions in Florida is that same collection.
The pre-sale estimate is $800,000 – $1,200,000 but the collection is offered with NO RESERVE!
The collection on offer is currently owned by Ele Chesny.
She is known throughout the antique auto world as one of the great car collectors, and she may be the foremost female collector in the field.
Without reserve and therefore definitely selling, it should be an interesting and exciting sale day for the works of Rene Lalique.
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Interesting. Hood ornaments began appearing shortly after automobiles started to be mass produced. Owners would decorate or individualize their vehicles by topping the radiator cap with small metal figures. The most famous of all hood ornaments was the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy — or the Flying Lady — dating from 1911.
René Lalique was born in 1860 and started designing jewelry in 1881. Lalique was also a shrewd businessman. He turned to glass as his favorite medium in about 1910.
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A Tribute to Roman Food Inside Amazon’s Spheres
Chef Renee Erickson has opened one of the most anticipated restaurants of the year in Seattle.
By Jeremy Repanich on October 29, 2018
Photo: courtesy Aaron Leitz
Seattle’s history can be largely divided into eras defined by the massive companies that have variously led the city’s economy. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, when it was a way station for gold prospectors en route to the Klondike, a Swedish immigrant, John W. Nordstrom was there to supply them. As the region’s timber industry grew, Weyerhauser became an important player in the region. During and after WWII, Boeing drove the region’s economy. By the time the century drew to an end, Microsoft had become the region’s dominant company, until being displaced this decade by Amazon.
During those latter economic eras, the dining scene came to be defined by certain restaurateurs. Victor Rosellini (with the help of my grandfather, chef Chester Smith) served continental cuisine to the city’s elite during Boeing’s midcentury heyday. Tom Douglas, led by Dahlia Lounge and Palace Kitchen, ascended in concert with Microsoft, by creating seasonal fare tinged with global influences. Now, the Emerald City’s leading restaurateur and company will join forces, kind of. Today Renee Erickson opens Willmott’s Ghost inside Amazon’s downtown Seattle geodesic domes called the Spheres.
Erickson began her Sea Creatures restaurant group with Jeremy Price, and Chad Dale by opening acclaimed seafood restaurant the Walrus and the Carpenter in 2010. They’ve since grown their empire by adding the Whale Wins, the outstanding steakhouse Bateau, French Atlantic-inspired Bar Melusine, doughnut shop General Porpoise, and more.
Amazon has transformed Seattle with a $4 billion campus stretching from South Lake Union to downtown, and the centerpiece is the three domes that opened earlier this year. The Spheres are largely a private botanical garden for the company’s employees, but there are also public-facing businesses opening inside, including Erickson’s new spot, named in honor of the flowering plant that botanist Ellen Wilmott used to plant widely.
Like restaurants she’s opened before, the food at Willmott’s Ghost has an autobiographical bent. “Willmott’s draws inspiration from the country where I first fell in love with food,” says Erickson, who studied in Rome in college. Like Danny Meyer and Joe Tarasco’s Vini e Fritti in New York, the restaurant will be a celebration of Roman aperitivo culture featuring spritzes, fried bites, and cured meats. Willmott will also serve pizza al taglio, rectangular pizza served by the slice.
The restaurant will be open all day during the week starting at 8 AM, will serve dinner on Saturdays, and is closed Sundays.
Inside Renee Erickson’s new Roman-inspired restaurant. Photo: courtesy Aaron Leitz
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Jackie Chan keen on love story movie in Sarawak
Jackie Chan keen on love story movie in Sarawak – Bernama
Datuk Jackie Chan says he will love to do a love story movie in Sarawak. – File pic, April 11, 2015.
Asia movie megastar Datuk Jackie Chan reveals his soft side when he says he will love to do a love story movie in Sarawak.
“Sarawak is very beautiful. The river (Sarawak River) is also very beautiful. I would love to do a love story in Sarawak.
“I love to produce movie which I love where I can speak what I want to speak and do what I want to do. It is not all about making money,” he told a press conference today.
Jackie has long been known to fans for his superb kungfu skill, his funny antics, death defying stunts and also his hard stoic character.
He is here to attend the gala night of the second Asean International Film Festivals and Awards (Aiffa) at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) this evening.
Meanwhile Jackie, who has just celebrated his 61st birthday early this month, said he had done about 4 movies in Malaysia.
“I have to be very careful when doing movies in Malaysia. When I first did ‘SuperCop‘ I almost destroyed the whole downtown of Kuala Lumpur.
“There were the traffic jams daily when people would stop to watch me doing my stunts hanging from a helicopter and flying around in the city,” he said in jest.
On his recently released ‘Dragon Blade‘ movie, Jackie said he had spent US$60 million (RM220 million) to do the film about unity, peace and harmony.
“I am its producer and also its ambassador. As producers, directors and movie stars, we all have the same responsibility of making our society, community and the world better, united and peaceful,” he said.
On his presence at the international event, Jackie said he was here to help support Aiffa.
“I am also here at the invitation of the state government,” he said, having had to cancel his trip to Dubai and Korea in order to visit the state.
While in the state capital, he paid a courtesy call on Sarawak Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Tomorrow Jackie is flying to Shanghai and Beijing for its film festival before heading for Macau, Hongkong, Taiwan and back to Beijing for the film festival’s closing.
Relating the tight schedules, he said he loved making movies as it would keep him in a place for a while.
“If I do not make movie, I will be flying here and there. If I make a movie I can stay where I am,” he added. – Bernama, April 11, 2015.
– See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/jackie-chan-keen-on-love-story-movie-in-sarawak#sthash.Ze2qDIAS.dpuf
#SuperCop #JackieChan #DragonBlade #JackieChanSarawakLoveStory
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Posts from the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Four highlights from “Getting Simple Right” by Milton Friesen (Comment Magazine)
Loved reading this essay in Comment magazine. You should read it too. It will take about 30 minutes. Link.
On minimalism:
There are many ways for simplicity to become a harmful form of minimalism. Minimalism, characterized as the efficiency- and control-driven expression of modernity, means getting rid of overlap, redundancy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and complications. The impulse is to pare things away until all superfluous elements have been removed. But if you don’t know what is vital and you reduce the living complexity of something, it becomes more fragile. A fragile entity is vulnerable to unexpected disruptions. It turns out to be very difficult to simplify a living thing without doing great harm to what makes it alive. There are strong parallels with human organizations.
On bureaucracy as a mindset:
Size is commonly invoked to explain bureaucracy—that you need to be big to be bureaucratic. Think of a government, or a major corporation. But these dynamics are not about size, per se. If it were, only the big players would face the risk fragility through the wrong kind of simplification. The challenge is that you don’t need to be big to be fragile. A group of any size can—and often does—fall prey to this same way of thinking. More than a hundred years ago Max Weber, in Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, argued that while we may claim that our particular organization, as a social structure, is unique or different because it is a charity or a school, such organizations are actually not that different. He claims that whether we have in mind a church, military unit, or business organization, it is the spirit of the impersonal and the efficient, the bureaucratic, that may pervade them all. Their functional ideal, said Weber, is that they operate “without hatred or passion and hence without affection or enthusiasm.” Bureaucracy is an attitude, a spirit, a sensibility. It was this spirit that Hannah Arendt flagged in her controversial evaluation of Eichmann as a banal civil servant enacting horrors from a bureaucrat’s desk.
On mission statements:
Amid the complexity and challenge of organizational leadership, it is easy to make the fatal mistake of thinking noble statements of mission, purpose, or vision are sufficient to protect you from harmful constraints or peer pressure—that the words somehow are what give you focus. The most natural and powerful state for an organization is realized when your actions and your statements are so integrated that even if it isn’t written down, you and those you lead just live it out. This is, of course, both rare and difficult in our all-to-normal times. Far more common are managed simplifications that use formal methods as a means of selling their legitimacy. Such compromises will inevitably lead to organizational erosion over time. Success can cover that up for a good while, but the mask won’t bear weight for long. Simplicity is not saying your mission statement louder or longer or getting it written in granite on your building. Who cares. If you need a bumper sticker to tell people how great you are, you probably aren’t.
On Monasticism and fruitfulness:
Bosch argues that the monks did not set out to change or preserve Western culture and spirituality per se but in pursuing a clear purpose together over time, by taking on a particular organizational form and ethos, they ended up doing just that. This is not the place for a review of the rich, long, and varied life of monasticism as an organizational form, but this form suggests very important insights. Convents and monasteries practiced a form of organizational simplicity rooted in clarity, purpose, stability, wholeness, correction, fitting of roles, natural cycles of time, and many other dynamics that enriched both their common life and the lives of those around them. This kind of simplicity was a buttress against the various cultural temptations that permeated other organizations and structures around them. They failed and faltered as well, but there is a substantive core that persists even today. The dynamic of simplicity with fruitfulness is an elusive dynamic for organizations even today.
Complicated Ethics
In this post I want to complicate (express frustration at) (bemoan) (dunk on) the overly simplistic views of ethics that I call “Freshman Year Ethics.” I will try to avoid big words but as a philosophy student I am literally trained to do the opposite of that.
My three main points: that all ethical decisions are situational, that action and consequence cannot reasonably be separated, and that an ethical decision should be understood as the best possible choice, not the correct one
Unrelated, but I need a photo so the shareable link looks worth clicking. The sweetest place on earth.
First, that all ethical decisions are situational. Growing up in a very conservative church culture, “situational ethics” was a dirty word. The radio shows I listened to, and the politicians I could understood, bemoaned moral relativism which opposed the Bible. Obama was the chief culprit behind the destruction of American Values and the Traditional Family and The Moral Fiber of This Country, because he doesn’t stand for Absolute Truth. Around then, some lefties wanted situational ethics classes taught in public schools. By teaching young, impressionable students morality as situational, I was told, such ethics classes would lead a whole generation away from Christianity. Don’t you know? Murder is never right! Lying is never right! Sexual immorality is always wrong! Forget about the situation!
What does that miss? A definition of what “murder” is, what “lying” is, or what “sexual immorality” is. The first one: “murder” is an ethically-charged way of saying “killing.” Killing is just a brute fact of the matter, but murder is a claim that a certain killing was morally wrong. Killing someone in a morally wrong way is murder. But when is it morally wrong to kill someone? Always? We seem to believe that self-defense is a good exception. If someone attacks you, and they have the capacity to kill you, and you’ve used all possible non-violent ways to deter them, then sure, kill them. Another exception is accidental killing. The reason we label car accident deaths “vehicular manslaughter” instead of “murder by car” is that the killing was not intentional, so we say that the killer cannot be held morally responsible in the same way as a true murderer. In these cases the brute fact of “I killed them” is true but the ethical claim “I murdered them” is not. Another exception is going to war, which usually involves killing. Over the past thousand years Christians have developed a Just War tradition that gives clarity on when entering a war is justified, and then once in the war, what actions can be justly taken. Maybe the deaths in Just Wars are killings, not murders.
But wait a second, you say. “Going to war” is not one action. Going to war is millions upon millions of actions. Let’s list a few. 1. An eighteen year old drops out of high school to sign up. 2. An enlistment officer uses a certain tone and messaging to convince recruits to join. 3. The generals decide to cut electricity in a city they are invading. 4. One solider uses a civilian as a human shield when fighting breaks out, but that civilian was already directly in the line of fire anyways and so was already highly likely to die. 5. The army decides to bomb a building housing enemy combatants, but only five of the seven people who decided on the bombing were aware that the next-door building housed civilians. 6. Remotely piloted drones hit a doppelganger of the intended target, but interestingly, the intended target happened to also be within striking distance, and he dies too. 7. …
We could keep going. There are millions of actions nested in “going to war,” which is why we cannot answer the question “was War X right or wrong” without massive oversimplification. What we perceive to be one decision often is a large number of decisions held together by our perspective on the situation. We make one choice, but what if there were 15 hidden choices within that choice, some of which were up to us, but others of which were out of our control? How do we account for these unchosen aspects of our choices? For this reason, all ethics is situational ethics, because all ethical decisions are made by people, and people are always in certain situations. All ethical decisions are situational.
(I only addressed murder. Lying is the morally charged way to say “not telling the truth,” which also is okay in some cases. Jokes. Parables. Misspeaking. When Hitler wants your sworn allegiance but you have decided to assassinate him for unrelated ethical reasons. Again, not telling the truth in a morally wrong way is lying. Sexual immorality is just another way of saying “sexual badness,” so that will face the same problem. Yes, you should not practice sexual immorality. But having sex is not itself immoral. Sex, in a morally wrong way, is sexual immorality. The same holds for theft, slavery, arson, libel, etc.)
Second, that actions and consequences cannot be separated. Two big schools of ethical theory are deontology and consequentialism. Simply put, what aspect of our decisions holds its morality? Do we locate the morality of a decision in the action taken, or in the consequences that result from that action? Kant says that lying, stealing, murdering, etc., are wrong not because they make others’ lives worse, but because the actions are wrong in themselves. Even if, somehow, stealing my phone would make me a better person (which honestly may be true), you still should not do it. Even if killing Leopold II of Belgium could have saved ten million Congolese lives, still a no.
On the other side of the debate, consequentialism would say that the consequences matter, not the action taken. If stealing the internet connections of everyone involved in Pizzagate (probably 200 people) could have produced .0001% more joy in the rest of the populations lives (370m people), then even though it would have been 20% less joy for them, we should have done it. 200 x 20 = 4000, but .0001 x 370m = 37,000. Therefore society would have been about 37,000/4000=9.25 times better off with those modems stolen. If numbers like that are unavailable—and they are never available—just think about it generally: we ignore the action itself and focus instead on the consequences.
What if actions and consequences are not so different? What if we stopped peddling that egregious dichotomy and recognized the spectrum between?
There are two ends of the spectrum. On the one end, you have cases that you know with 100% certainty the outcome of your actions. For those cases, the moral analysis of Kant and Mill should be exactly the same, because when a consequence is the necessary outcome of an action, we say that the action is tantamount to the consequence. If I have full certainty that killing Fred will land his children in foster care, I am not just killing Fred, I am putting his children in foster care.
On the other end of the spectrum, we have consequences that are highly uncertain. Could John Calvin have predicted that his concept of vocation would be secularized into profession, the driving force of industrial capitalism? No. He could not have. But it was the consequence of his action.
In between these extremes of total certainty and total uncertainty, we have a million degrees. Did George Bush know the War in Iraq would result in the formation of ISIS? Probably not exactly, but he could have known that eventually we would have to leave, and that regime change always creates a power vacuum, into which horrible people are drawn. So, maybe he is somewhat responsible. But not for everything that happened.
To complicate things further, not only is there a spectrum of our ability to predict consequences, but there is also the bundling effect from above. Our “single moral decisions” are usually a bundle of moral decisions, and the spectrum of predictability applies to each one of them. I envision all sorts of consequences left in the wake of my decisions, but the further those ripples move, the less I can predict what ripples they will have of their own. So then, we should be held responsible both for what—all—we chose, and the consequences to the extent that we knew them.
In 1797 Kant was asked a question that often is used as a case-in-point. A knife-bearing murder knocks on your door, and when you answer, he asks, “is your son home? I’d like to kill him.” You have some options. You could lie. You could tell the truth. You could tell the truth and then body slam the murder to the ground. Which would you choose? For Kant, lying is forbidden even here because it breaks the moral law. But my objection is, isn’t telling the truth tantamount to killing your son? If you know that this murderer has a greater capacity to kill you than you him, and your son is home, and there is no way to warn your son, then answering yes seems to be morally wrong. You can claim to be passively rather than actively killing him, fine, but he still dies and you have still participated in his death in a way that, without your participation, he would not have died.
In other words, I think we should take a wider-angle-lens view of actions. Our actions are never “in themselves” because actions always have consequences, and to the degree that they are successfully predictable, we should consider those consequences along with the action taken.
So who is right, consequentialism or deontology? And what about those Virtue Theorists who say a person’s inner state and motivations are what really matter? Maybe the most Christian answer I can give is that the Bible relentlessly affirms all three parts of the action as relevant factors: motive, the “before” step, action, the “during” step, and consequence, the “after” step. This is why reading modern ethical theory back onto the Bible is always a mistake. And so, I think that Christians can have genuine disagreements about how exactly to fiddle with the ethical priorities between motives, actions, and consequences. (There is a better way to hammer out the system than vaguely saying, “let’s use them all.” But at minimum, let’s use them all.) Actions and consequences cannot be separated.
Third, that ethical truth should be understood as a best possible choice, not a correct one. Something that the Situational Ethics Will Destroy God’s Chosen Nation of America crowd got very wrong was that situational ethics does not mean totally situational ethics. There is a continuum of worse and worse things that, at a certain point, we all agree are wrong. On the good side we have Mother Theresa’s ministry to the lepers in India; walking the proverbial old lady across the street; donating $20 to charity; picking up litter on your walk through the park; and smiling at strangers in a non-creepy way. Then in the middle you have taking a single penny from the tips container so that the cashier doesn’t have to arduously scrounge up coins; wearing a shirt you agree with but that makes your friends uncomfortable; being sassy back to the person who unnecessarily told you to hurry up; and downloading the audio of Youtube videos that were not monetized and are not copyright, like song covers with 120 views. On the far side you have spraying non-violent protesters with full-power fire hoses; stealing millions of dollars of diamonds in an epic heist with your girlfriends; subjecting the native Irish population to a Protestant Ascendancy that takes their land and selectively eliminates primogeniture for them but not the colonizers; human trafficking; and ultimately mass genocide like in Rwanda, the Shoah, Srebrenica, East Timor, etc.
Nobody disagrees that those first things are moral; nobody disagrees that those last things are immoral. The disagreement lies in the middle things, those ethical decisions that cut both ways across our basic moral intuitions. How do we decide those? We would do much better to look to the Wisdom Tradition like in Proverbs than to a one-size-fits-all meta-ethic like Kant or Mill or Bentham. These middle issues may require complex knowledge, like what digital intellectual property means, or, when boundaries are crossed in unspoken cultural assumptions, or, whether rudeness comes from deep in the heart or from a surface level response we have conditioned ourselves to have. Kant can’t help us on those. And so we must move on, past what could pejoratively be called Freshman Year Ethics. We need to accumulate an enormous body of ethical principles which we can structure together into a system. Was the action intentional? Was it truly meant or mostly reflexive? Would the person have acted differently in other contexts? Does prejudice play a role in the person’s thinking while they make the action? Would this decision be made behind the veil of ignorance?
Paul does this in Romans 14. When presented with a dilemma in the local church, he brings up a new ethical principle and applies it to the situation. Don’t do something that would cause a weaker sibling in the faith to stumble. Don’t eat meat sacrificed to idols in front of them if you know they will get super freaked about it. But, crucially, Paul does not say that neither side is right. We know which side he was on, because he calls one side weaker and the other side stronger, rather than the one side looser and the other holier, or some third way of phrasing it.
So I don’t want to imply that there is no right answer. Unlike the caricature of situational ethics I have described above, I think that situational just means “complicated” and not “non-real.” We agree on the extreme goods and bads. So, there is moral truth! But where do we draw the twenty dimensional boundary line between them? It is so complicated that in these non-obvious cases, that we may want to talk of “morally best” choices rather than “morally right” ones. The right moral choice is always the best one. Ethical truth should be understood as a best possible choice, not a correct one.
Some ideas that have been influential in the history of ethical theory were important at the time but have since been ripped to shreds. There are no strict deontologists anymore, and barely any strict consequentialists; only a million cross-contaminated positions between. We cannot afford to oversimplify the debate into these frameworks, or we risk holding some people back from doing what is right, and letting some others off the hook for doing what is wrong.
Do not spare yourself the hard work of thinking carefully about ethics. Do the painful labor of examining the motives, actions, and consequences involved in the decisions you make. Be okay with people disagreeing, while still holding firmly to your conscience, because you could be right. Do what is morally best. Embrace this complexity, live in it, and celebrate such a God-given task: to live wisely, and so, rightly, in our time.
Two recent posts about apologetics
Here are two recent statuses from my Facebook about apologetics method. This topic has become important to me lately, and more so as I’ve been gearing up to finally read Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. My blog may begin to focus on it more as well. My goal in the long term, I guess, is to think of apologetics in terms of theological anthropology — how should we share the truth of the gospel, given what it means to be a human being? — but we’ll see how that goes. For now here are the two posts; click the links to see comments from some of my friends. (More pushback on the second one).
(unrelated: first snowfall of the Winter was the very day we left for a Fall retreat at camp.)
1. About presuppositionalism (here)
It has taken me an entire college degree in Philosophy to realize that “presuppositional apologetics” is just Christian Philosophy but done in an annoying way.
The presup tactic is to expose the other person’s unspoken assumptions, and show how those assumptions make their non-Christian answers a foregone conclusion. “I don’t believe in God because I only believe in the 5 senses” is exposed by the question “can you know that the 5 senses are reliable using the 5 senses?” which implies that the person does not have good grounds for disbelieving in God. They had to chose that starting point (the 5 senses) and of course their conclusion is atheism; but we could have just as easily chosen any other starting point (“I believe in what seems rationally intuitive” or “I believe what my traditional community tells me”) and get any other number of results.
What I am just now realizing is that, in addition to being the most annoying tactic a person can possibly use during an in-person conversation… this is not much different from the extremely annoying dialectic that Socrates used. “Why?” “Why?” “Why?” “Ah, I see that we’ve reached bedrock, but do you have reason for believing this particular claim?”
The presup method is not much of a method at all. It is just Christian philosophy. But can’t we be so much more straightforward, so much less annoying, and so much more clear by just stating our epistemic grounds right at the beginning, instead of waiting for the other person to imply theirs and then question it into existence?
2. About religious epistemology and the Apologetics Industry (here)
So many times I have heard folks associated with the apologetics industry argue that we need a “cumulative case” approach to proving Christianity. Maybe one argument does not convincingly lead to the conclusions we want, but it almost does; another argument also almost does; so do these other ones over here, and look over there! More arguments that almost work.
But obviously, two 50% convincing arguments do not make a full truth. Nor do four 25% convincing arguments, nor do four-thirds of a 75% convincing argument, or even one-hundred ninety-ninths of a 99% convincing argument. If every single argument can be ruled out as flawed in some clear way, then they all fail. Full stop.
The solution to this does not seem to be “make better apologetics arguments” seeing as that has not worked well to date, but rather, “rethink apologetics methodology” or “rethink religious epistemology altogether.” This is why presuppositionalism has become the standard brand of Christian philosophy, along Plantinga’s lines.
But there is no reason why that has to be so. Why can’t there be other ways of understanding religious epistemology? Paul Moser in The Severity of God and his other books seems to have a viable competitor, and one that lines up more closely with the faith that apologetics tries to prove.
I am working on a paper right now (literally right now) on this topic and while writing it, it has become more and more obvious that there is an entire Apologetics Industry that feeds on bad arguments and shallow epistemology by failing to reckon with any new developments in epistemology since… say… the 1700’s. Why do we give them so much credit? And why are they, of all people, the ones whose work is popularized so that it reaches the common student in youth ministry?
This underscores the point I made in the post a few weeks ago about presuppositionalism: that what we need is not a shortcut method that leads to our conclusions, but a full-fleshed Christian philosophy that unashamedly grounds itself in the Gospel of Christ — both in content and in method.
Helping a student understand the existence (and presence) of God
With my group of middle school campers this week, one pulled me aside during the day to talk about his struggles and doubts with faith. Let’s call him Aidan. Aidan had a really hard school year with grades and sports and family life, where it seemed like a lot had fallen apart. He felt like God had abandoned him, but then got around to questioning if maybe what was happening was that there is no God at all.
This is not an uncommon train of thought. I have asked the exact same question at times over the years. If it wasn’t for a really solid background in Christian Apologetics, I would have certainly become an atheist. (Instead I continued to believe in God while writhing in pain over his abandoning me. Doesn’t feel much better.)
So as we talked, it became clear that several different issues were mixed up in Aidan’s thinking. And I wanted to sort them out, one by one, before answering any of them. The first question is why God would abandon me if God is good. The second question is, implicitly, can God be real even if we do not experience him? The third question is, does God exist at all? And a fourth lingering question is, how can I trust God if he has abandoned me before?
In order, these are the answers. First, there are a number of good reasons God could have for leaving us on our own for a season. Sometimes God knows that we are proud and wants to humble us by allowing us to see the fruit of life without him. Other times, God will lovingly withdraw himself from us so that we can grow in faith in different ways than those we have already grown in. Some call this “pruning.” A tree can bear good fruit, yet need to be cut back so that it can bear better fruit. Similarly, in our Christian lives sometimes we are doing well but God has unseen horizons for us to cross. He must allow us to fall so that we can rise in Him. (All of these answers, of course, leave out the most common answer of all: that we have no idea why God does what he does, but in retrospect he works it all out). These “dark nights of the soul” are bitter but common. David experienced it in Psalm 42. Mother Teresa described a period lasting fifty years like this. So too can God use it in our lives to further what is good.
Second, yes, God can be real even if we do not experience him. I drew two pictures for Aidan on my cabin chalkboard. Here they are:
Y-N
Can God be experienced?
And the point that I was trying to emphasize was the further space between Yes and No in the second question. The existence of God seems to be a binary. Either he exists or not. But there is a whole other dimension to the existence of God, in a pragmatic way, that sees God not as a truth but as a lived experience. Can I experience God? At times the answer to this is yes, and at times the answer is no, regardless of the actual existence of God. When a person believes God exists yet does not experience him, this is the dark night of the soul. When a person does not believe in God yet does experience him, this is what Charles Taylor calls being “haunted” by God. God is dead to you, yet his presence lingers on in your life. These two mismatches between reality and lived experience are very uncomfortable. Nobody likes them. So while the actual question of the existence of God can be argued all day from the merits of scientific evidence and philosophical reasoning… the question of the presence of God is elusive to these types of argument. This is so true that I even said to Aidan that there have been points in my life “where I have experienced that God is not real… even though he is.” The phrasing is intentional.
The answer to the third question, on the existence of God, is that yes, God does exist. We know this because of a demonstration called the Kalam Cosmological Argument. In this argument we find that everything that begins to exist has a preceding cause. (A preceding cause is something that comes before and leads to another thing happening. Also, it cannot just be the thing it causes, or else it isn’t really a “preceding” cause at all). Because of new developments in astrophysics the past 100 years, we know that the Universe began to exist. So, it must be true that the Universe has a preceding cause. What could be the Universe’s preceding cause? Well, the Universe is made of matter, time, space, and energy. And the preceding cause to these properties cannot be the properties themselves. So whatever is the preceding cause of the Universe, it must be immaterial, outside of time, not bound by spatial dimensions, and not just energy (must be a being). These fit the classical description of God, and at minimum imply that atheism cannot be true. It doesn’t get you all the way to Jesus, to the Trinity, to the Bible being true. But this argument does offer strong support than there must be something beyond the physical world and the five senses.
Can I trust a God who has abandoned me? This fourth question is much harder than the others. My own past is riddled with situations (some still sting today) where it feels like God has abandoned me. In my youth ministry in junior high. In my school as an eighth grader. Once, as a junior in high school, I lost a really important student council election that I had invested a lot into. In that moment, I prayed that God would give me the emotional courage to handle the loss well. I did not handle the loss well, at all. Why would God not agree to a prayer that is so obviously the right thing? Why would God abandon me when all I asked for was his comforting presence? More recently, through a bizarre turn of events, I have landed on academic probation at school and I’m not sure anymore how the future looks for me. This is unsettling because of how obvious God’s direction was of my college choice and program choice. He wanted me here. So why does it now look like that may not be true anymore? Has God abandoned me halfway through?
And, again, I’m not sure that this question has an answer in words. Or in categories. Maybe the answer to this question is one that must be a lived experience. That our relationship with God cannot play out in theory, it must take place in time, in history. And so the answer to the question, “Can I trust a God who has abandoned me” is not actually an answer but instead an action: to trust him anyways and see what happens.
Of course, in my life, I have seen in retrospect that God works out all things according to the good of the those he has called. That each of those times I had felt abandoned had been for a greater purpose and ultimately for the glory of God. While my feeling of abandonment was real, that I had been abandoned was not real. God was there, intervening even in times of his silence to prepare me for the season of life that was next.
As I tried to communicate this perspective, I would ask Aidan how he was feeling, and what his thoughts were. Over the conversation it became clear that I had left my own voice behind and was speaking from a different voice. One richer than my own, one fuller than my own, one more graceful than my own. And this voice, while materially coming from me, was the Spirit of God intervening to give Aidan exactly what he needed to hear. He would later share with our cabin — nay, with our village — nay, with the entire camp — that in this moment he felt moved in a new way to follow God and live for him. Something clicked in a way that gave Aidan hope for the future in his faith. He wants to find a youth group in his town so that he can be mentored by people who love God and so that he can learn more about the Bible.
What more could I ask God for?
Romantic and Modern Visual Art
[A term paper in preparation for my study abroad next month in Europe.]
To the Classical artist, there was no tension between representation and expression. As they focused on the object of their composition, representing it as it appeared through shape, perspective, plane, figure, and color, they sought to capture its true objective essence, expressing its form as it is. These tendencies come from a broad philosophical mindset in the Enlightenment period that prioritized reason and objectivity. As the Enlightenment mindset gradually broke down, so too did its art forms break down.
First, as objective expression was abandoned, the Romantic movement sought to represent their world through subjective emotional sentiments. They concerned themselves with the human element implicit in all things, rather than the highest Ideal aim of Reason. If all artists seek to find what Goethe called “what holds the world together most deeply,” then the Romantics “saw the path to this knowledge as lying not through the rationalism of science, but through exploration of their own, subjective perceptions, thoughts, and emotions” (621). While this did provoke a brief counter-movement of Realism, it would not be long before the second of the two pillars of Classical art would fall: representation. By the time of the Post-Impressionists, Cubists, Surrealists, and Dadaists – all of whom can be fairly tagged as “Modern” – visual art did not seek to express emotion in and through the real appearance of a subject, but in spite of the reality of that subject. Hence, Van Gogh: “I use color in a completely arbitrary way to express myself powerfully” (698). As Modernism progresses into the mid twentieth century, its artists increasingly left behind representation and objective expression.
What enabled these changes in visual art? How did representation and expression come to be opposed to one another? This paper will contrast Romanticism and Modernism by discussing first their perspectives on the world in general, then the major themes in each movement’s visual art, and finally one exemplary painting of each era.
The Romantic period emerged in response to many of the excesses of Enlightened thought. Enlightened thinkers like Rousseau and Locke considered all humans essentially alike, only differing in how civilized and ordered, or uncivilized and disordered, they were. Hence, a universal Reason and common rationality which all man could inhabit together. The tendencies of Romanticism were first seen beginning with the Sturm und Drang movement in Germany, then later blossoming into an entire period. This thought prioritized the particular over the general and expressing the inner emotions over the outer sensations. This is true on a personal level, but also collectively as societies:
As Goethe and Herder argued, peoples such as the Germans and the French had different spirits, which found expression in everything from the folktales told around their peasant hearths to the architecture of their greatest buildings. These writers advocated a return to nature, to the simplicity of the common people, and, as many of the Enlightenment authors had also urged, to sentiment. Out of these ideas would come the artistic, musical, and literary movement known as romanticism (589).
As Romanticism spread, it came to define the subjects and perspectives of artists in Europe. This mindset began to be seen in visual art with landscape painting, depictions of heroism, dramatic brushwork, light-dark contrast, and sad or suffering subjects. Romantic tendencies “[overturned] long-established stylistic practices and unsettles its audiences” (603); this was an intentional effort to provoke the audience (though not close to what the provocateurs of the twentieth century would attempt). They “put new emphasis on their audiences’ emotional reactions and tried to connect with them on a visceral level through a succession of vivid images,” with wider, less precise brush techniques, greater (and less real) coloring, and sharper lighting contrasts, all in an effort to “[ridicule] reason, preferring to celebrate life in all its glorious disorder” (621).
One exemplary Romantic painting is Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830).
The main subject, the Goddess of Liberty, stands atop a pile of bodies killed in the July Revolution. Horrifically, these twisted bodies together form a landscape characteristic of the Romantic period. She stands before the rebels – the people – waiving the national flag to symbolize that in them, and not the government they oppose, rests the heart of France. Delacroix has depicted a scene which would be sad, even devastating to experience. The white cloud of smoke behind Lady Liberty both centers the painting on her and alerts us that the scene is in motion, not still as classical art had largely been. The cloud also creates a misty, hazy look that was characteristic of the period.
The first pillar of Classical art to fall was objective expression; here, Delacroix has gone far out of his way to express the subjective, emotional quality of the people in rebellion, in mourning. However, the second pillar remains: the picture represents something, and it uses specific (if imprecise) techniques to capture the scene.
Though the next hundred years of art – which I will recklessly skip in order to limit this paper to six pages – saw the Romantic school close, its tendencies lingered into later art. Post-Romantic artists would continue to sacrifice representational clarity on the altar of emotional expression. What caused these changes to continue?
First, Modernism “represented a conscious break with earlier styles of art” (696). The mid nineteenth century “historical turn” would eventually “join hands with the religious and artistic movements of the period” (623). Artists would study not just the techniques of old, but the entire progression of movements leading up to the present day, and so begin to react against the old art forms for the sake of reaction. In any context, this effect radically spirals out of control into nihilism, because “originality” cannot be a good in itself. Second, and third, and fourth,
Modernism has many other, complex roots. Modernist artists, writers, and composers sought to capture something of the fractured, frantic, and whirling existence they associated with urban life in the fin de siècle. They sought to give artistic expression to what was often perceived as the destruction of traditional certitudes by heady advances in science… deliberately sought to assert the value of their work by differen-tiating it from the unchallenging, sentimental compositions, artworks, and literature that were being churned out in ever greater numbers to satisfy the demands of burgeoning middle-class audiences. (697).
In this setting, Modern visual art used techniques like “the expressive use of brilliant color and coarse brushwork” and “strong colors, shapes, and departures from realistic representation” (696), the “pure play of color, light, and shape” (697), “deliberately [violating] the traditional rules of perspective and plane, [reducing] its distorted figures to the essentials of shape, and [placing] them at unconventional angles to one another” (698), and “wholly abstract compositions of lines and colors in a grid pattern” (750). With these techniques the Modernists began to push beyond both pillars of classical art, into non-representation and subjectivity.
One exemplary Modernist painting is Picasso’s Girl with Mandolin (1910).
Here, the titular subject faces away (perhaps?) from the viewer as she plays her mandolin. The background, not to mention the subject herself, is composed of the famous cube forms from which Cubism takes its name. The painting is monochromatic, with differing tints and shades of tan.
Girl with Mandolin is representational – of a girl, with a mandolin – but does not seek to depict the subject as she would appear in reality. Indeed, Picasso ten years earlier had said “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them” (698), which clearly has remained his style a decade later. Her face and neck are a continuous block with two different widths; her eye is level with her nose; her breast, shoulder, and right arm are disjointed and attached at unnatural angles. Clearly this is moving beyond representation, and with it, Picasso seeks to express the subjective impression with which the Girl leaves him, rather than how she is herself.
The Classical movement’s twin emphases of representation and expression were gradually abandoned as they became opposed to one another. This occurred when expression became not an expression of the objective item being painted, but of the emotions underlying the item, and ultimately an expression of the painter himself. Now representation and expression stand opposed, and in order to resolve the opposition, artists increasingly favored the expressive end. Now the opposition is brought to its nihilistic conclusion, as non-representation and subjective expression together reach the mindboggling anti-synthesis that is late Modern visual art.
In both Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and Picasso’s Girl with Mandolin, we have seen the turn to subjective self on full display, but it is only with the latter piece that non-representational art (if that is not already a contradiction in terms) begins to be seen. What can come after non-representational art? Now that these changes have taken place in the development of visual art, can they be reversed? Or should we seek a new form-of-art, one in which the art’s representation and subjectivity cannot be separated from each other?
Grafton, Anthony and David A. Bell. The West: A New History. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Maturity, a Twostep
In the first step we cut out things that do not belong.
Do you domineer conversations? Cut it out.
Does your humor make others uncomfortable? Stop it.
Did that social faux pas need to happen? Never again.
In the second step we add things that do belong.
Can I be more encouraging to others? I should start that.
Could my jokes be funnier? Let’s improve them.
Would my generosity help people? Time to give.
The twostep of maturity is a complicated dance. As in the real twostep, our feet feel awkward moving in the same direction at the same time. It takes time and experience to learn. But you know what is even more awkward? Moving one foot forward, again and again. Likewise in life it is easy to fall into phases of cut-cut-cut or add-add-add.
When we keep eliminating things, but do not replace them, we become empty inside. Instead of becoming a fuller, more alive person, we become the hallow shell of the lesser person we once were. Remember that stoic, emotionless guy you met in 8th or 9th grade? That could have been you. It was me. Being in control of your emotions does not mean killing them. The mistake is that to mature is to cut out bad emotions. Sure, do that. But without replacing them with better emotional states, you have not grown.
The same is true of seasons of adding. We can add all kinds of new character traits or habits. But in time we will have accumulated the baggage of old ones that should have died, hard. When I receive harsh criticism that seems out of place for “how mature I am” generally, this is the problem. In total I have grown, but in this one area I have not eliminated the old way.
We dance the awkward step-step-restep until, by their grace, someone comes by to help. They show us how to dance life. By watching them, we see new things to cut, new things to add. This, by the way, is mentorship. Teaching others by example how to grow.
Enter David Hume.
Hume wrote a book in the 1740’s called “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.” The book focuses on the limits of what we can know. In the first chapter, he includes a great meditation on what it means to be a human being:
Man is
•a reasonable being, and as such he gets appropriate food and nourishment from the pursuit of knowledge; but so narrow are the limits of human understanding that we can’t hope for any great amount of knowledge or for much security in respect of what we do know. As well as being reasonable, man is
•a sociable being; but he can’t always enjoy—indeed can’t always want—agreeable and amusing company. Man is also
•an active being; and from that disposition of his, as well as from the various necessities of human life, he must put up with being busy at something; but the mind requires some relaxation, and can’t always devote itself to careful work.
Here are three different dimensions to our lives: thinking, socializing, and acting. In each dimension we bump into limits, at some point. We can’t know everything, we can’t always have good company, and we can’t always work. Our minds are finite, and as Hume will argue later, knowledge cannot be certain. (I’ll also add that socializing can drain us of action, and action can drain us of socializing. So those limit each other.)
It seems, then, that nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable for the human race, and has secretly warned us not to tilt too far in any of these directions and make ourselves incapable of other occupations and entertainments.
‘Indulge your passion for knowledge,’ says nature, ‘but seek knowledge of things that are human and directly relevant to action and society. As for abstruse thought and profound researches, I prohibit them, and if you engage in them I will severely punish you by the brooding melancholy they bring, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception your announced discoveries will meet with when you publish them.
Moderation is not something that we, as Americans, usually care about. If something is good, gimme as much as possible. If something is bad, keep it away. But seeking moderation is still helpful in all kinds of ways.
There is a difference between values and virtues. A value is something that you always want. Joy is a value — if I can have more, I’m taking it. Hope is a value. Peace is a value. Love too. Each of these is, itself, good.
Virtues can be overdone. Patience is a virtue because you should not be patient with everything. We exercise patience when a child throws food; we do not express the same patience with an adult. Courage is also a virtue. You can be too “courageous,” which we call recklessness. Running into battle without a shield is not courageous. It is reckless. So we need to have enough courage, or we are a coward. But not too much courage, or we are reckless.
David Whyte is one of my favorite poets. He says maturity “is not a static arrived platform, where life is viewed from a calm, untouched oasis of wisdom.” I agree, though for different reasons than Whyte meant. We seeking moderation in life, but our margin for error is thin. A little too much, or a little too little, and failure is inevitable. Maturity is not achievable because moderation is elusive.
An asymptote.
The golden mean.
Knowledge, socializing, acting — Hume says that these are all virtues, not values. We can only want them in moderation, never too little, never too much.
He ends with a summary:
Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.’
Now that is a quote for a philosophy major.
My first take-away from Hume is the obvious one: don’t be a Brain. Have a brain, and use your brain, but do more than that. Feel things, be sociable, create something, and be adventurous. Live a little.
The other, more circuitous take-away is that you must add and subtract to find this balanced life. If you cut-cut-cut out the negative sides of yourself, then on exactly 50% of virtues you will err. Likewise with adding.
We dance the twostep of growing older because in it we grow closer to the balanced life.
Certainty, God, Lived Experience, etc.
As I veered wildly toward Atheism about two years ago, something key to the Christian life had been lost that I didn’t realize until later. I finally now have the categories to understand and explain this idea. It used to be vague and nebulous, but now it is clear.
The Christian Life is not phenomenologically possible without confidence in the existence of God. There are a couple of things to break down here. First, The Christian Life. This is the lived experience of being a Christian. Not the beliefs of Christianity — those are one thing. Instead, this is talking about things like the rhythms of prayer, fasting, Sabbath, and study. The community in which one lives. The subtle attitudes that emerge from believing the truths of Christianity. If the Christian message is true, how does that impact my day-to-day behavior, and how I engage in the ordinary things of life?
This is what the gross word “phenomenologically” means. Eliminate the suffixes. Phenom. Ology. The study of. The way that things appear. Truth questions can be asked separately from lived experience questions. My reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age lately has opened my mind up to this whole topic of study. What do things actually look like in practice?
If a belief is “not phenomenologically possible,” then nobody can live like that. The belief does not work in practice. The truths can all be there, the premises confirmed, the logic holds, the argument sound. But if it cannot translate into real action, what does it translate into? My newfound favorite example of this is Calvinism, and by that I mean Determinism. Determinism is not phenonemologically possible, meaning that you cannot live as if Determinism is true. If Determinism is true, then you have no motivation to do anything. There is not meaning in life. There is not meaning in anything. Also, since there is no free will, there cannot be moral responsibility for things that happen. Who is responsible for my sin? God, of course, because he decided I would do it. But no Christian, no matter how Deterministic they are, actually lives like this. They avoid sin as if they are an Arminian. They evangelize like they are Arminian. So, Determinism is not phenomenologically possible.
Confidence in the existence of God is important. The Bible is straightforward on this.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6.
An important point here gets misplaced sometimes.
As Christians, we are not supposed to have faith in the existence of God. We do not “have faith” that he exists. No, the Bible treats the existence of God as a basic given, and then moves from there. We “have faith” that Christ’s work of atonement can be applied to our account. That is what we have faith in. There is no real reason that we should feel justified that the crosswork of Christ would mean anything in relation to us. But that is what faith is.
The existence of God, along with “believing that he rewards those who seek him,” are treated as basic givens that must be true in order to have faith. But faith is not just “believe in God + believe that he rewards.” It is something greater than the combination of the statements in Hebrews 11:6. Something like “drawing near” which is an action, not an idea. Nonetheless, those two ideas must be true for faith to happen.
The Bible never seriously poses the question, “does God actually exist?” because it doesn’t need to. God is all over the place. He sends fire, he communicates directly to people, Moses got to see him (but only backwards?), prophets speak in his name and are correct. Prayer withholds rain from the sky for three and a half years, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, and himself from the dead. God has created the world. God has put conscience in all people (“the gentiles are a law unto themselves”). The Jewish religion continues in perpetuity because of the promises of God.
Similarly, in The Christian Life, we cannot entertain the idea that God does not exist. Get it figured out. Decide. Does he exist or doesn’t he? Look at the Kalam Cosmological argument. The Ontological argument. How about the Teleological one? Recall from your own personal experience the work of God in your life. Become an Atheist, or resolve to be a Christian. But the worst of all options is to remain in perpetual uncertainty. Evaluate the evidence once, and then put the counterarguments out of your mind until, a few years later, you decide to reopen the case file.
I say this because all the great aspects of The Christian Life are impossible in the absence of such confidence. Without believing that God exists, you cannot have faith. You cannot experience the power of the Holy Spirit. You cannot encourage fellow Christians in the way of the cross. You cannot testify to the goodness of God, must less experience it yourself. You certainly cannot evangelize. How could you persuade someone to draw near to God if you aren’t sure he exists? You won’t. You’ll just give up on evangelism. You cannot exercise the giftings of the Spirit in the context of the local church.
At least, I didn’t. And I’m sure that my experience was not unique. Atheism may be true. But if it is, then you cannot also phenomenologically live the Christian life. And Christianity may be true. But without confidence in one of its most basic premises (“God exists”), it cannot be lived.
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HomeIraq says oil shipments to Turkey include crude from Kirkuk
Iraq says oil shipments to Turkey include crude from Kirkuk
November 20, 2014 Walter
Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said that the oil extracted from the Kirkuk fields is shipped across the infrastructure built by the Kurds with the implementation of an agreement reached with the Kurdistan to end the long dispute over oil revenues.
After years of wrangling entered the Kurds and the central government in Iraq in last week’s agreement gives the Kurds the federal government in Baghdad in which 150 thousand barrels per day, which is equivalent to half of the total exports in return for Baghdad to pay the salaries of public servants Kurdish Fayalmntqh.
Kurds currently pumping 300 thousand barrels per day over the KRG’s pipeline to Turkey.
And damage to the northern Iraqi pipeline Kirkuk-Ceyhan of the Federal Government and signed him to the sectors under the control of an Islamic state in the group earlier this year, which would make it unusable.
And many analysts said that the only possible option to sell its oil through the north of Baghdad, is the use of the pipeline, which was built by the Kurds.
He said that Abdul-Mahdi percent and fifty thousand barrels per day, including some from Kirkuk oil fields.
He said that the Iraqi government allowed the entry of shipments across the Kurdish line as a gesture of goodwill.
He added later that most of this amount still comes from Kirkuk, which is controlled by the Kurds.
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Justice still fails people of colour, says victim of 'careless racism'
Equality Court won't make former yoga studio manager cough up more in 'racism' row
Philani Nombembe
A yoga teacher says an equality court “slap on the wrist” in her racial discrimination case has left her in an unhappy position.
Kafui Awoonor hauled her former manager at Yogazone in Cape Town, Will Lindeque, before the equality court in Cape Town after a casual exchange which she said had twisted her life out of shape.
Lindeque said to her: “It is really hot today. Let’s pretend we’re at the plantation so that you can fan me.”
Awoonor said she was devastated, and unable to set foot on her yoga mat for 10 months. She asked the court to order Lindeque to write an “unreserved, unconditional public apology” and perform community service at an NGO that teaches yoga to inmates at Pollsmoor Prison.
She also demanded R40,000 in damages from Lindeque that she would share with a charity of her choice.
But magistrate Ingrid Arntsen ordered Lindeque to pay Awoonor just R300 for her medical expenses and said he must continue with the community service he had chosen. Last month, Lindeque told the court he taught yoga to children at an aftercare in Khayelitsha.
Arntsen also considered that Lindeque had already lost his job at Yogazone as a result of his utterances.
“It would appear that [Lindeque] has suffered, and will suffer further, from the loss of his job as a consequence of his careless racism,” said Arntsen. “There is really no need for the court to impose any further sanction than that.”
Awoonor described the sanction as a slap on the wrist.
“Over 24 years after the official end of apartheid, the justice system is still failing people of colour,” she said.
“The system still fails to fully protect and serve justice to the oppressed. It still does not work for black people. It works to diminish our dignity and humanity.”
Last month, Awoonor told the court she lost her job after the incident and needed the help of a psychologist and healers. Lindeque apologised to Awoonor on WhatsApp and Facebook and admitted the remark was discriminatory.
But Awoonor said his apology was not genuine and he contacted her only after she posted a video on Facebook about her intention to sue.
“The damage and trauma that his actions have caused me must be considered within the context of me being a Ghanaian woman,” she said. “I come from a country and a region that was impacted most by the stealing and kidnapping and raping and wanton killing of black people by Europeans.”
She lodged a racial discrimination case against Yogazone at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, but it was dismissed.
Lindeque said he had apologised to Awoonor.
In court papers, he said the “tongue-in-cheek” comment stemmed from a conversation about his disagreement with another studio that made cleaning staff stand outside yoga classes with a tray of warm facecloths.
“I expressed that it smacked of colonialism,” he said.
He said he had lost his job amid the social media furore stoked by Awoonor and that no studio wanted to employ him.
Contacted for comment after following the judgment, Lindeque said: “I thought that the magistrate was very fair in her decision. I think she understood that although my comment was a bit careless and irresponsible, there was no malicious intent. I wish Ms Awoonor all the best. I wish she can find peace.”
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Study In Contrasts - 最後まで諦めず不可能が可能にする
Study In Contrasts
Facebook/Friends list: OMG! A 7.0 earthquake in Japan, with a tsunami warning! I HOPE EVERYTHING'S OK!!!!
Local newspaper: Strong earthquake rocks northeastern Japan, prompting a tsunami warning. Residents were advised to evacuate. (story continues)
Japanese newspapers: *sound of crickets*
Seriously. The top headlines were about a counterfeiting case, Madoff, some baseball news, a train wreck in India, and the most recent F1 race. Earthquake? Tsunami? Not worth mentioning.
Folks, a little perspective. This 'quake was about 120 miles off the coast, so the people in the area closest to it felt about what folks in Paso Robles felt during Loma Prieta (aka the '89 great SF 'quake). Shaking, yeah, and it might have knocked some stuff off the shelves. If you're reading this LJ you've probably gone through a 5.5-6.0 yourself, and that's the level we're talking about. Not my favorite recreational activity, but still in the "no harm-no foul" region. Realize also that after every large 'quake officials automatically issue a tsunami warning. That doesn't mean The Wave Is Coming, it means take appropriate precautions just in case. Residents in coastal areas are well trained to know what level of shaking means it's time for a nice hike up your closest hill, and their object lesson of four months ago is still quite fresh in their minds. In terms of structures, the coastal areas that could be flattened by anything less than a 9.0 'quake have already been flattened, so it's not like a new wave is going to do anything more than annoy people. Expressing concern for people is nice, but the good news is I think folks in the affected region will get through it with nothing more than rattled nerves.
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A BJ Audiobook Review: Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall ~Narrated by Alexander Doddy
People come as well as go.
Twelve years ago, Edwin Tully came to Oxford and fell in love with a boy named Marius. He was brilliant. An artist. It was going to be forever.
Two years ago, it ended.
Now Edwin lives alone in the house they used to share. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to a build a future from the fragments of the past.
Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin’s quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons, but he offers Edwin the hope of something he thought he would never have again.
As the two men grow closer in their struggle against the rising waters, Edwin learns he can’t protect himself from everything—and sometimes he doesn’t need to try.
This is my third book by this author. I adored For Real, abso-freaking-lutely loved it. But the other one I’d read not so much, so I wasn’t sure what to expect with a third one. Even after listening to it, I’m wasn’t sure and had to really think about it. There were parts that I found quite slow, where my attention drifted away and I had to struggle to make myself focus on the story. But then there were other parts that I found to be deep and poignant, that jerked at my heart in the way they felt so raw and real. The writing was lyrical, slow-paced, contemplative.
The premise of two men meeting during a storm/flood appealed to me, as I usually adore such stories. But there were many times that I was confused by the words and conversation, which may have been part of why my mind often wandered. I enjoyed Adam’s character quite a lot, but Edwin not so much. He seemed so very hung up on his old relationship even though a few years had past, that he let it influence him to the point that he cut himself off from life, and he very nearly let it get in the way of something good several times.
I’ve not listened to too many audios narrated with a UK accent, so it took me a tiny bit to get used to it. Not that it wasn’t lovely, as it certainly was, just that it was a little bit harder to understand for me at first until my ears got attuned to it. I felt that he did a stellar job at handling Edwin’s speech impediment.
Beautiful cover… I adore rain and these guys walking hand in hand in it totally did it for me.
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Audible Audio, 3 pages, Listening Length: 2 hours and 51 minutes
Published May 23rd 2016 by Riptide Publishing (first published February 21st 2015)
ASINB01FXZ0FX8
SeriesSpires Universe
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A BJ Audiobook Review: Where Nerves End (Tucker Springs #1) by L.A. Witt ~ Narrated by Iggy Toma
Jason Davis can handle a breakup. And an overwhelming mortgage. And a struggling business. And the excruciating pain that keeps him up at night thanks to a shoulder injury. But all of it at once? Not so much. When his shoulder finally pushes him to a breaking point, Jason takes a friend’s advice and gives acupuncture a try.
Acupuncturist Michael Whitman is a single dad struggling to make ends meet. When a mutual friend refers Jason as a patient, and Jason suggests a roommate arrangement to alleviate their respective financial strains, Michael jumps at the opportunity.
But Jason soon finds himself regretting it—he’s too damn attracted to Michael, and living with him is harder than he thought it’d be. In fact, the temptation to act on his feelings would almost be too much if not for the fact that Michael is straight. Or at least, that’s what their mutual friend claims.
This book began well for me. I liked Jason, felt for him and what he was going through, and was very eager to see him find the help he needed to get his life on track. When he met Michael and not only was he able to help him with his pain, but with his financial problems, that was working for me. I enjoyed Michael and his son for the healthy lifestyle and his caring. I felt the chemistry of Jason’s immediate attraction and his frustration at Michael being straight. I also enjoyed all the stuff on the eastern medicine, acupuncture, cupping, etc. Very interesting.
Midway through I begin to not enjoy it quite as much. First the characters have a talk and Michael has the perfect opportunity to say something to Jason that he chooses not to reveal. The next thing we know, the whole story changed for me. I’m not a fan of misunderstandings, miscommunications, and of MC having sex with other people in my books. In this book, we get all three, I’m sad to say. And nope, I didn’t enjoy that part at all. Why did that have to happen? It left me pouting. Later, after he pursues Jason and they have an interlude, Michael does explain his reasoning, and it actually made sense a bit until the next thing he turns around and does is deny the whole thing and suddenly it makes no sense at all. Michael’s complete denial to everyone, even though he admitted he’d knew for years and years and even thought he’d grown up with a close gay friend who he never confided in bugged me as well.
So while I enjoyed how the story ultimately ended, the storyline itself lost its glow for me after that. However, Iggy Toma is a wonderful narrator and did a great job of keeping me engaged. He brought the characters to life and gave them dimension. I enjoyed the distinct voices he used, and the emotion he put into each scene. I’d give the narrator 4 stars and the story 3 stars for an average of 3.5.
The cover by L.C. Chase ties in with the rest of the series and does an adequate job of representing the guys and the town although I didn’t find it sexy or particularly appealing.
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Audible Audio, 7 pages, 6 hrs 55 mins
Published December 20th 2015 by Riptide Publishing (first published June 3rd 2012)
ASINB019NHFKC8
SeriesTucker Springs #1 settingTucker Springs, Colorado (United States
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A Barb the Zany Old Lady Audiobook Review: Blueberry Boys by Vanessa North ~ Audiobook narrated by Tobias Silversmith
When Connor Graham returns to the town where his lived with his uncle, mom, and brother, the last thing he expects is to meet a man who attracts him like a magnet. His uncle has passed away and Connor and his brother have inherited the family blueberry farm that has a tenant farmer working the land. The farmer is Jed Jones—a very shy, very sexy man with a severe stutter, making speech difficult for him.
But Jed’s stutter makes no difference to Connor as the two get to know each other. And though the brothers are selling the farm, Jed’s place is secure for at least the next two years due to his lease, so the sale isn’t an impediment to their attraction. What is an obstacle is Jed’s religious upbringing, his firm place in the closet, and the distance between the farm and Connor’s job as a well-known fashion photographer who is based in New York City but travels the globe.
With Jed’s permission, Connor decides to use the farm as the backdrop for his next fashion shoot, buying the men more time to get to know one another. It’s time well invested, but there’s an expiration date, and as they reach the end, Jed breaks it off with Connor. He’s not the type for a long distance relationship, and though Connor tries to make him see reason, he eventually returns to New York.
Circumstances combine to allow Jed to come out to his family and to reconcile his church’s teachings with his homosexuality and life goes on. Jed and Connor ultimately get together, and it’s likely not in the way many readers would expect, but it does leave the men with their HEA.
I was disappointed in this story, the first I’ve read from this author. It was a sweet tale, but I didn’t feel the spark. The romance between the two men was more of a sexual chemistry and less of a bonding of two hearts. To be fair, I don’t have the book to go back to revisit some of the scenes I felt were choppy or where there was a disconnect between the guys, so I can’t get into detail. This is an audiobook review, and that is too difficult to do.
The narrator, Tobias Silversmith, was a fast reader; so much so, that at times I had difficulty catching what he said. The story felt rushed, and I don’t know if it was the story as written, or if the speed was set by the pace of the narrator. But it wasn’t appealing. I didn’t hurry to get back to the story when I was occupied with other tasks, and I didn’t look forward to what the characters would do next. They were just waiting there for me to get back to them. I felt like there was not much happening in their lives anyway, so why not wait? Needless to say, I don’t recommend this in audiobook format.
I loved the bright, colorful cover art by LC Chase that prominently features a spilled bucket of blueberries superimposed on a background of a farm field with two young men holding hands.
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Audiobook Details:
Published May 20th 2016 by Riptide Publishing (first published November 28th 2015)
Original TitleBlueberry Boys
ASINB01FWBX0PS
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A Lila Review: Crashing Blue by Della Boynton
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Francisco Cabot is an undercover narc for the police. Having lived his entire life on the underbelly of society, he’s the perfect man to infiltrate hardcore gangs, gather bulletproof evidence against them, and make certain their bosses spend a lifetime behind bars. He hides a dark secret, though, that causes him to harbor a ravening hunger for revenge that not even his long list of successes can quench. But a man can only live with revenge and the refuse of humanity for so long, before not even his fantasies of innocents and his ideals are enough to light the growing darkness in his soul.
The last man Cabot expects to save him from that darkness is Christopher Caldwell, the son of the biggest drug king in the city and the man Cabot has been sent to destroy. Falling in love with the enemy was never the plan, but when Christopher begs Cabot to leave everything behind to be with him, Cabot finds himself longing to do just that. His life of violence, gangs, and slums can’t be left behind so easily, though; they’ll be lucky to make it out alive.
Crashing Blue works as a suspense story, but the romance between the main characters become secondary to the drama/case and Snow. The story was originally published under the title Snow, which seems more fitting taking into consideration Chris’s and Cisco’s HFN.
Francisco Cabot’s undercover work shaped his life and his need for justice. He moves from case to case without much trouble until an assignment goes wrong and he’s transferred to a new precinct. From that moment on, everything he was and knew about himself starts changing until he had trouble walking the line between good and bad. His relationship with Christopher Caldwell was unexpected, but at the same time, it was something both of them needed. The
Their relationship, the case, and the suspense were done well. The story keeps the reader engaged, wanting more with every page. Unfortunately, the answers we get along the way only served to bait the reader into an incorrect guess. I don’t mind the wait, but I don’t like to be misled just to find in the end that I was right to start with.
The characters and settings were interesting, as well as the main plot. Some of the wording, especially during the sex scenes seems out of place and takes the reader out of the story. Overall, it was a good story, just not for me.
The cover by Syneca Featherstone has two shirtless men with a window in the background. They seem distant, but it’s hard to place them in the story. The wave in the font is the only thing pertinent to the book. The cover is, perhaps, too generic.
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Published: January 26, 2016, by Loose Id
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Its Paranormal Crime & Mystery with Breathing Betrayal by Bellora Quinn and Sadie Rose Bermingham.(character interview, giveaway)
Title: Breathing Betrayal
Author: Bellora Quinn and Sadie Rose Bermingham
Series Title and Number: Elemental Evidence, Book One
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Cover Artist: Emmy Ellis
Release Date: June 7th, 2016
Heat Level: 3
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 96,902
Genre/Tags: Crime and Mystery, Erotic Romance, Paranormal
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words is happy to have a character here to interview from Breathing Betrayal to interview:
Character Interview with Doctor Ilmarinen Gale
RS: You’ve lived in a lot of different places. What would you say is your favorite place?
Mari: Well, I think I’ve lived in just about every continent now. My parents travelled a lot for work. Father worked for various Space Agencies and Mamma was with Medecins sans Frontieres. I was born in Africa, though I don’t remember anything about that, and raised in New York State, London, Paris and Kota Kinbalu, in Malaysia. I think Malaysia was probably my favourite, it’s such a beautiful country and the people are so sweet and friendly. And the food is absolutely to die for. We had a beautiful house there with huge gardens and a view of the mountains, I still dream about it sometimes.
RS: Tell us a little about how your talent works? Do you need special software?
Mari: It’s sort of hard to explain, but I’ll try. The communications networks we use are made up of different kinds of waves and they operate on all kinds of frequencies. Our brain waves work in similar ways. What Air Elementals like myself can do, if you can imagine this, is to find a place where we can switch the frequency of our brain waves to the same pattern as the technology. Once I’m on the same frequency, it’s easy to push my thoughts along those waves. Now, every time we communicate with someone, by phone or on the internet, we create a kind of node where the energy from those waves pools and swirls around. I can use those nodes to navigate from one conversation to another, or look at documents stored in the Cloud, or chase a series of calls and plot the location of the caller. A hacker can trace calls and documents but I can see, literally at a glance, who you last spoke to, and who they last spoke to before that and all the people who spoke to them in a certain time limit, ad infinitum. It’s quite draining though, I can’t do it for extended periods at a time without running the risk of burning out my ability, or becoming hooked on the feeling of being out of my body. It’s a sensation like nothing else in the world. If I get lost in the moment and don’t come back to my physical body, I suppose it could actually kill me.
RS: Oh my! That sounds dangerous. Do you take precautions?
Mari: (laughing) You make that sound quite… suggestive. I suppose I don’t really, beyond trying to ensure that when I’m going to have to surf for a longer time, or go deep into a system, I have someone with me to interrupt me, if I overrun. I’ve experimented with setting the alarm on my phone, which works for a shallow surf. If I’m very deeply immersed though, it can take a serious commotion to bring me back.
RS: What sort of Elemental are you?
Mari: My classification is Air. The medieval scientist Paracelsus who first categorised us, called my kind Sylphs, but I always think that makes us sound rather trivial and flighty. The things we can do are far more weighty than that. Family rumours said that my Great Grandmother was what scientific historians call a Remote Viewer, she could surf deep and see through the eyes of a person on the other side of the continent, if she tried hard enough. It’s a Legendary skill, no Air Elemental has been able to do that for almost a century.
RS: I bet there’s a big demand for something like that though. Have you thought about going into business for yourself? I bet you could make a lot finding…information, for people.
Mari: <frowning slightly> If I was less… ethical, perhaps. Yes, I concede, there is a market for my talent. I’ve never been out of work, since leaving University, let’s put it that way. But a lot of the things I do for my employers aren’t exactly encouraged in the mainstream, I suppose.
RS: Aren’t you even a little tempted though? I mean, you could find out who <censored reality TV star’s name> is dating before anyone else.
Mari: <looking bemused now> Why would I want to know that?
RS: Because it would be a *scoop*. You’ve missed your calling Dr. Gale. You could have been the greatest reporter ever!
Mari: <laughing> I don’t think I’m cut out to be a journalist. I’d need to be far more curious about things for a start. Now if a certain cute interviewer happened to leave his phone by my seat while he went for a coffee… I might decide to find out if he was dating or otherwise. But stalking people I don’t care for… no, I think not.
RS: <blushing> Speaking of dating. Rumor has it you’re seeing a certain Detective?
Mari: Now, you see, that’s why you’re a journalist and I’m a scientist. Let’s just say, I’m not currently unattached and I’m quite happy about that, shall we?
RS: I must say it’s been a pleasant interview Dr. Gale. Thank you for joining us today.
Mari: You’re most welcome. Thank you for having me.
Jake Chivis is the descendant of Fire Elementals with a gift for psychometry, the ability to see memories from touching objects. After a bad breakup and trouble at work, Jake gave up his career as a detective in Detroit and moved to England to join a research program studying Elemental gifts at University College London. It seemed like the perfect way to escape his past and start over, and this time he’s vowed not to fall into the trap of dating a coworker. At least that’s the plan, until he meets Doctor Ilmarinen Gale.
Mari Gale is blond, sexy, relentlessly academic and comfortable in his own skin in a way Jake envies. After a handful of embarrassing encounters, Jake is ready to resign himself to staying under the radar, but when a colleague’s brother goes missing, he and Mari must work together to find him. As they dig into the inexplicable disappearance, Jake is impressed with Mari’s competence and unique skills, and even more impressed by his ability to wrap Jake around his finger. Together the unlikely pair discover murder, betrayal, secrets and just how high Mari can fan Jake’s flames.
Rain pink-pink-pinked against the window pane and drip-drip-dripped into the pot that Jake had placed under the leak in the hallway. Murky gray morning light greeted him when he opened his eyes. Another drizzly day. He had thought that was just some persistent stereotype, a comic exaggeration—about how rainy it was in London—but so far, this month, it was turning out to be true.
Jake was steadily getting used to the weather. It really wasn’t all that different from his native Michigan. He had been told by his colleagues this was an unusually wet November and that when winter finally kicked off, it wouldn’t be as severe as he was accustomed to. That was something to be glad about, at least.
The weather was not the only thing he’d had to get used to after moving a little over three and a half thousand miles away from the only place he’d known. London was worlds away from Detroit. It was still alive for one thing, not a dying husk. It was cleaner too, even with more than ten times the population. London had its crime and its dangerous places just like any large city, but even the urban degeneration here had a certain vibrancy to it that was unlike the desperation and decay of Detroit.
Enough of that.
Thinking about home was a guaranteed way to put him in a bad mood. At least he didn’t hate his new abode.
The apartment was small and leaky but it was clean and bug free and he didn’t have a lot of stuff anyway. Four rooms—kitchen, bathroom, small living room and a closet-sized bedroom that was barely big enough to hold a double bed and the armoire. The kitchen was equally tiny. A small fridge, sink and an ancient two-burner stove. There was just enough counter space to plug in his coffeepot. He was not complaining. The small space made it easy to keep warm and clean and discouraged clutter. It was also paid for, which was another big plus.
He hadn’t liked that idea at first. He thought the university should just pay him outright and let him figure out how to deal with the rent and utilities, but he had to admit that having them take care of the bills took some of the worry off his mind. Unfortunately he still had plenty of other things to worry about.
No, he told himself firmly. He was not going to start off the day thinking about home and everything he’d deliberately left behind when he got on the plane. That was over.
Jake dragged himself out of bed and across the living room to the bathroom. After a quick slash, he washed his face, finger-combed his hair with wet hands then threw on some sweats and he was ready for his morning run. There would be time for a shower and food later. Back in Detroit, he would have started his day by driving to the track or the gym to work out before heading to the station house. Here he could walk or use public transportation to get just about anywhere he needed to go. At first the idea of not having a car, of not being able to just hop in and drive wherever he had to go, any time he wanted, had given him more of a panicky, trapped feeling than being an ocean away from everyone he knew and everything familiar. A car was the very first thing he’d asked about, after moving his meager belongings into the apartment. The research assistant who’d been assigned to ensuring he got settled in and had what he needed had told him to give it a week or two and, if he still wanted to purchase a car, the university would arrange it. At the time, Jake had thought there was no possible way he could survive for so long without a vehicle at his disposal, but by the end of his first week he had explored the Tube, the cabs and the buses, got himself an Oyster card and found he could get around remarkably well without having to fight through traffic behind the wheel. He hadn’t brought up the need for a car again.
There was a small park only one street over from where he lived, and several right around the university, but they were little more than decorative green space—compact garden squares hemmed in by the tall, dark façades of houses and office buildings—nice for a picnic maybe, but not big enough for a run. Fortunately Regent’s Park was fairly close to where he lived and the paths and trails there were perfect. The park was never truly empty but this early in the morning, especially on such a wet, gray day, only the dedicated were out. They all had little earbuds or headphones on and their eyes were fixed forward, everyone in their own private bubbles. No one stopped to say good morning. No one drew him to one side to ask if he could touch their grandmother’s wedding ring and tell them if she’d hidden cash somewhere in the attic. It was great. It was almost perfect, except for one thing.
There was one other person from the university that liked to run the same route he did and while Jake didn’t see him every morning, it happened often enough that he’d started looking for the guy while he ran. That annoyed him. Running was his time to clear his head. It was meditative. He could tune out and think of nothing. Or at least he could until he started paying more attention to the people he passed than he did the simple rhythm of putting one foot down in front of the other. Now during his morning runs, he was distracted by looking around to see if he’d catch sight of a particular slender figure whose long legs ate up the distance like the wind.
Jake told himself that he was only looking so that he could avoid him, and thereby avoid having to make polite conversation. It definitely wasn’t because of the way the ridiculously tight Lycra leggings he wore outlined every muscle in his lean thighs or the way his perfect ass looked so tasty in them. No, not at all.
Jake never had been very good at lying to himself. Even so, admiring that sexy little derrière from a distance was all he would do. He had learned his lesson about getting involved with coworkers. Anyway, it was unlikely he’d see him today, given the dismal weather. He could stop looking around and just concentrate on pushing himself.
The park was usually Mari’s first call of a morning, though he sometimes gave his running a break when the weather was this grim. Today the rain was that fine, persistent drizzle that evaded umbrellas and invaded just about all items of clothing that weren’t a wetsuit. He was used to it, having spent almost the last three of his twenty-seven years here, at UCL, but after the sunshine of his previous job in Barcelona, it was still kind of a comedown to walk out of his front door on a morning like this.
Fortunately the park was just around one corner, and the university campus just around the other, one of the perks of living in town. Papi had wanted to pay for a place out in the countryside, arguing that it would be more peaceful, but his Mama would hear none of it. The London house had been her grandmother’s then her father’s. He had been renting it out for years while the family lived abroad but now it was finally useful, even if the reason behind its new purpose was a less than happy one. Plus, Mama argued successfully—because no one, not even Papi, would dare to fight with her right now—it was also a short cab ride to the hospital, not an ungodly trek through the suburbs every time she had treatment or saw her oncologist.
He pushed those thoughts away, determined not to dwell on what might be, knowing she would not thank him for it. She had not wanted him to come to London at all, but on that point he had dared to defy her and anyway, he’d already been offered and had accepted the post at University College London. It was a decent job, even if London was not Barcelona.
There was no one quite like Tomas here, but maybe that was a good thing too.
Mari put his head down and pushed on into the clinging miasma of the chill London rain. Tomas Arregui was something else he would rather not think about right now. With the clarity of hindsight, perhaps it had been for the best that the job had come up with UCL when it did. Given longer to chew over the frustration of his on-again, off-again lover, he might well have been driven to do something he would most certainly regret.
Damn it, though! The memory of Tomas was like a persistent tic that wouldn’t let go of his hide once its nasty little fangs had sunk in.
He was glad of the distraction presented in the form of another early-morning loper and his spirits perked up even more when he was able to make out the familiar form and easy gait of the new guy who was working with the Web Security Team. Mari had spotted him striding through the park before, though they had never spoken. Lester in the print room said he was American, though Mari thought there was a slightly Hispanic look to his rough-cut, thick black hair and darkly handsome features. Maybe Romani, even? He couldn’t be sure.
He was well built without looking chunky, except when he was bundled up in several layers of damp running gear, and almost as tall as Mari’s six-foot-two-inch frame, which was a plus. It got embarrassing trying to flirt with men who were forced to look up at him all the time.
Not that he had any idea if Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome was even that way inclined. But that never stopped him testing the waters. Alicia in his department said that one day some guy was going to punch his lights out for flirting the way he did, as if every man in the world was automatically gay and, by definition, hot for him.
He’d made her laugh with his mock-horrified response. “You mean they aren’t?”
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Bellora Quinn: Originally hailing from Detroit Michigan, Bellora now resides on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida where a herd of Dachshunds keeps her entertained. She got her start in writing at the dawn of the internet when she discovered PbEMs (Play by email) and found a passion for collaborative writing and steamy hot erotica. Soap Opera like blogs soon followed and eventually full novels. The majority of her stories are in the M/M genre with urban fantasy or paranormal settings and many with a strong BDSM flavour.
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A Viral RNA Structural Element Alters Host Recognition of Nonself RNA
Jennifer L. Hyde1,
Christina L. Gardner2,
Taishi Kimura3,
James P. White1,
Gai Liu5,
Derek W. Trobaugh2,
Cheng Huang4,
Marco Tonelli6,
Slobodan Paessler4,
Kiyoshi Takeda3,
William B. Klimstra2,
Gaya K. Amarasinghe5,
Michael S. Diamond1,5,7,*
1Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
2Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
3Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
4Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
5Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
6National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
7Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: diamond{at}borcim.wustl.edu
Jennifer L. Hyde
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Christina L. Gardner
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Taishi Kimura
Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
James P. White
Gai Liu
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Derek W. Trobaugh
Cheng Huang
Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
Marco Tonelli
National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Slobodan Paessler
Kiyoshi Takeda
William B. Klimstra
Michael S. Diamond
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
For correspondence: diamond@borcim.wustl.edu
Although interferon (IFN) signaling induces genes that limit viral infection, many pathogenic viruses overcome this host response. As an example, 2'-O methylation of the 5′ cap of viral RNA subverts mammalian antiviral responses by evading restriction of Ifit1, an IFN-stimulated gene that regulates protein synthesis. However, alphaviruses replicate efficiently in cells expressing Ifit1 even though their genomic RNA has a 5′ cap lacking 2'-O methylation. We show that pathogenic alphaviruses use secondary structural motifs within the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of their RNA to alter Ifit1 binding and function. Mutations within the 5′-UTR affecting RNA structural elements enabled restriction by or antagonism of Ifit1 in vitro and in vivo. These results identify an evasion mechanism by which viruses use RNA structural motifs to avoid immune restriction.
Keeping Alphaviruses Under Wraps
Viruses mutate to avoid detection, and the host responds in kind. For example, 2′-O methylation of the 5′ cap of viral RNA allows viruses to escape detection by the interferon-stimulated host defense protein, IFIT1. Alphaviruses, however, lack this modification but are able to remain undetected in the presence of IFIT1. How? Using a combination of viral mutants and biochemical analysis, Hyde et al. (p. 783, published online 30 January) found that alphaviruses contain secondary structural motifs in the 5′ untranslated region of their genomic RNA that allow them to avoid detection by IFIT1. When these regions were rendered nonfunctional, IFIT1 was able to keep the virus under control.
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By Jennifer L. Hyde, Christina L. Gardner, Taishi Kimura, James P. White, Gai Liu, Derek W. Trobaugh, Cheng Huang, Marco Tonelli, Slobodan Paessler, Kiyoshi Takeda, William B. Klimstra, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Michael S. Diamond
Alphaviruses use secondary structural elements in their genomic RNA to avoid host detection.
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Home » News » Trail Running » Sabrina Verjee Wins Montane Spine Fusion Race Outright
Sabrina Verjee Wins Montane Spine Fusion Race Outright
After three and a half days of running along the Pennine Way, Sabrina Verjee has become the first woman to win the Montane Spine Fusion race outright, breaking the women’s record in the process.
The Spine Fusion is the summer version of the Spine Race. It follows the 268 miles of the Pennine Way, which involves 13,000m of ascent. It’s exactly the same route and rules as the winter race, which also famously saw a woman, Jasmin Paris, win outright this year, but the hope is that the weather is kinder. Except it wasn’t really!
Sabrina led the race from start to finish. Initially Cees van der Land was close to her but he was forced to withdraw. Sabrina’s finish time was 82h 19m. The male winner, Esteban Díaz Castañeda, finished in 89.57 and the second placed man, Gregory Crowley, has also now finished in 93 hours. But the rest of the runners remain out there. The second placed woman is currently Sophie Power.
The weather has been pretty grim at times on the course. There’s been clag, rain and even gale force winds over the Cheviots. The conditions have been unseasonably cold, mostly due to the wind chill. This has no doubt made things a little bit harder than many entrants expected.
Sabrina out on the course (photography by Harsham Gill)
Sabrina has a string of impressive results in very tough races to her name and she very nearly won the Lakeland 100 outright last year. She led for much of the race and was only overtaken in the last section, finishing second to Ken Sutor in the end. But what’s particularly impressive about this win is that it comes just four weeks after her second place in the Dragon’s Back Race! While most Dragon’s Back finishers are still taking it easy and regrowing their toenails, Sabrina has pulled off an outright win in one of the most testing UK races!
Sabrina’s finish time of 82h 19m is the fastest recorded time for a female athlete, beating the previous summer record (female) by nearly 48hrs. The overall course record is held by Mark Denby 78:04:14 (June 2018). The winter record for the course is held by Jasmin Paris in 83hrs 12m 23s, which was set in January 2019.
Sabrina said of her win: “Right now I feel ok, pretty good, very happy. It’s a shame Cees wasn’t there with me at the finish, but I have the win outright now” she joked. “Over the Cheviots there were gale force winds, it was terrible up there. But it was the only way I was staying awake. I would just doze off and be facing the other way at times and think where have I been for the last half hour?”
Congratulations Sabrina!
Entrants enjoy a rare bit of sunshine (photography by Harsham Gill)
Earlier in the week Benjamin Tyas came home in first place on the MONTANE® Spine® Flare in 27hrs41m21s followed by Adam Gamble and Tom Couldwell, in joint second place. Saki Nakamura was the first place female completing the course in 32hrs11m22s with fellow competitors Sue Howarth and Susan Clapham shortly behind. In a strange coincidence both sets of 2nd placed competitors crossed the line together, showing true camaraderie to the end, resulting in equal 2nd place finishes in the male and female categories.
Most of the runners are still out there and will continue to come in over the next couple of days (there is a 7 day cut-off for the race). You can track them HERE. Among those still running are Raj Mahapatra and Gerry Dance, who are both representing NASS, the official charity for the race. Raj and Gerry both live with the condition axial SpA (AS) and are representing NASS, the only UK charity entirely focused on axial spondyloarthritis (axial SpA) including ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
Raj was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis in 1993, when the consultant told him that due to the state he was in at the time, he should expect to be in a wheelchair within ten years.
Gerry was diagnosed in 1990, after almost 10 years of severe back and hip pain. He was told that AS would fuse his neck, spine and hips. Gerry cannot manage without daily medication but knew instinctively, that he must continue to try to run to combat the fusion.
Raj and Gerry were runners before diagnosis and both continue to battle to do what they love, when, all the while, AS does its best to stop them. They both count themselves lucky. So they run for everyone with AS who face their own challenges, whatever they may be. You can learn more about NASS on the charity’s website: www.nass.co.uk
Find out more about the Montane Spine Fusion Race HERE.
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Thoth
Here we have another part of the answer to Alzrius’s last question – a review of the d20 Anime SRD in comparison to Eclipse
I see a certain gap between intent and outcome here…
Sadly, the Anime SRD suffers from a number of fairly basic problems.
The authors didn’t really think about how attributes operated in d20 – and on which effects were cumulative and which were not. They also attempted to make an end run around the restrictions of the d20 license by providing a point-buy system for attributes that said “generate attributes according to the player’s handbook, then add up their costs, compare the total to this stated point allowance and then modify freely to fit” – thus providing a system where you generated a set of numbers, and then ignored them to buy what you wanted in their system.
That system was “attributes cost 1/2 their value, rounded up” (this, of course, eliminated odd scores from the system, but that’s no big deal). As a normal base, you had 40 points to buy your attributes and racial abilities. You could buy any racial stuff you wanted later just as cheaply though – and attributes had no upper limit. You could also take 24 points worth of disadvantages, and thus get 64 points to start with. We’ll do that.
This has some VERY problematic consequences. Most blatantly, low scores are less of a hindrance than a high score is an advantage – which is why d20 characteristic point-buy systems normally use sliding scales.
So… I’ll take a bookish mage-type character. He’s socially inept (Cha 2), imperceptive due to his glasses and solitary lifestyle as well as easily persuaded by anyone willing to interact with him socially (Wis 2), he’s a clumsy couch potato who never gets out at ALL (Str 2, Dex 2), but he is healthy (Con 18), and he’s VERY bright (Int 60). That leaves us with 22 points left.
Now that’s not quite as good – or bad – as it sounds; the anime SRD alters what bonuses your attributes give you; Strength no longer provides bonuses to hit, or penalties either – and high stats no longer provide bonus spells, although they still seem to affect Save DC’s and do provide skill bases. Intelligence still does provide skill points though – and so we’ve just picked up a hundred of them.
Of course, we’ve also thrown out back-compatibility, or comparability with almost anything else that was ever published for d20 despite the later pretense at “breaking down the standard classes so you can just take one of them”.
I’ll get to those later. We’re still on those skill points.
The system also provides “Combat Skills” – skills with no attribute base that add directly to your AC or Attacks in certain situations. So… Gun Combat, Melee Attack, Melee Defense, Ranged Defense, and Special Ranged Attack (Magic). Sure, that’s 20 skill points up front and 5 more each level – but it’s also +4 to attack and +4 to AC at level one and +1 to attack and +1 to AC each level – neatly making up for Dexterity penalty on AC at level one and improving matters thereafter. Given that we have more skill points than we’ll EVER need, that’s quite a bargain!
Hm… there a lot of other different skills in the system (there goes back-compatibility again) – but we can max out twenty more skills, which is quite enough to compensate for those low attributes. Heck, with one point each in knowledge skills our young mage is starting off with a +26 at level one. That’s not bad.
Are there other ways to get skills? Certainly there are! Some come with our class (there’s no true classless option), but if you take a standard human…
Standard Human: Base movement (0), +1 Feat at 1st Level (2), +4 Skill Points at 1st Level (1), +1 Skill Point each Level (2), any favoured class (when multiclassing) (1): Total Cost (6), Base Racial Allowance (6) for a net cost of zero – then you’ll be… shafting yourself; for 3 points you could get +6 Intelligence (and +12 skill points at level one) instead of +5. Of course, as far as humans go… the system specifically does not include multi-class penalties, so the humans are paying one point for… nothing.
Forget humans. Half-orcs get five points back (four if you buy off their attribute modifiers) and thus make the best of all standard races for pretty much ANYTHING. If your game master will let you get away with it, don’t buy ANY racial abilities and just keep all six points!
We’ll go with half-orc with no attribute modifiers though. That gives us 26 points to spend.
Class? We’re taking “Adventurer”. Poor saves, d4 Hit Dice, poor BAB, 4 SP/Level (who cares?), and five PRECIOUS points per level to spend on anything we want. We shall drool now. No other class need be considered.
Of course, for comparison… we have the Anime SRD breakdown for standard class builds:
Class Ability Costs:
+1 to Fort, Ref, or Will Save (1): So +1 to Fortitude costs the same as +2 to Constitution. I see a problem (and a certain lack of thought) here.
+1 to Base Attack Bonus (3): Now THAT’S obviously VITAL compared to simply buying those combat skills. If you want it, you can buy it any time as “Attack Combat Mastery”.
(2 + Int modifier) Skills gained each Level (0.5 each Level)
(4 + Int modifier) Skills gained each Level (1 each Level)
(8 + Int modifier) Skills gained each Level (2 each Level): Yeah. Forget ALL of these. Buy Intelligence.
Wizard Class Skill bonus each Level (0.5 each Level): What?
d4 Hit Dice (1 each Level)
d6 Hit Dice (1.5 each Level)
d10 Hit Dice (2.5 each Level)
d12 Hit Dice (3 each Level): So which is better? A d4 hit die and +4 Constitution each level or a d12 hit die each level? Those 40 points a Barbarian spends on going from d4’s to d12’s could be buying him +80 Constitution. I think I’ll take that. The “Armor” power is worth considering too; each point invested in it… reduces the damage from ANY attack by one point. A bit of that to start could be pretty helpful at low levels, although investing in constitution for +800 hit points is pretty nice later on. You could also buy “Damn Healthy!” at 2 points for an extra d8 hit die and Constitution Modifier – but +4 Con will rapidly outshine that. This is a useless power – one of many to come.
0th Level spell slots (further modified by spell breadth) (0.25 each)
1st-9th Level spell slots (modified by spell breadth) (0.5 times spell Level)
Cleric domain spell slots (One half times normal value)
“Spell Breadth” was an interesting notion. To quote the Anime SRD…
“Assigning Character Points proved to be an interesting exercise. The capability of casting a spell costs a base of 0.5 Points times the spell Level (0.25 Points for 0 Level spells; one-half value for all Cleric domain spells), but this is only the base cost. Since some classes have a much wider range of spells from which to choose, all casting classes needed an “accessible spells multiplication factor” to provide appropriate balance (see Table 5-20: Accessible Spells Factor for Casting Classes). This factor is equal to the number of potential of spells available to the class divided by the number available to the Wizard class – resulting in a factor between 0 and 1. To determine the total number of Character Points assigned to spellcasting ability, the base Point cost total is multiplied by the spells factor for each class.
Although Sorcerers have the same potential spell access as Wizards, and thus could have the same multiplication factor of 1, Sorcerers have two aspects that set them apart from Wizards. Sorcerers do not need to prepare their spells in advance each day – a powerful advantage – and Sorcerers know far fewer spells than Wizards at each level – a severe disadvantage. Consequently, the Sorcerer’s multiplication factor of 0.85 is derived more from these two differences than the potential spell access that is considered for all other spellcasting classes.”
The writers apparently forgot about having to FIND spells versus the entire list being available, about researching new spells, about new sourcebooks, and about theme and versatility of spells meaning more than number.
For that matter, they also failed to realize that d20 Modern Classes include the bonus skill points for being human since ALL d20 modern characters are assumed human, but that’s a rather minor issue – although it does show that they didn’t bother to actually talk to anyone who played d20 modern while writing their system.
Special class talents and abilities (Variable): What a surprise!
Those cheap characteristics make a LOT of powers rather pointless. To give some examples…
Defense Combat Mastery provides +1 AC per 2 points – or you could buy more Dexterity, for +1 AC, +1 Reflex, +1 Initiative, and +1 to dex based skills per point. Guess which is better.
Heightened Awareness provides a +2 on Ability and Skill checks relevant to noticing otherwise hidden things, such as concealed objects, ambushes, or anything else related to sensory awareness per point. That’s actually competitive with wisdom, since it offers a +2 instead of a +1 each to Will and Perception Skills / Checks.
Highly Skilled provides four extra skill points per point invested in it. Investing that point in Intelligence… provides four extra skill points at level one and nineteen more over the course of your career, plus a bonus on all intelligence-based skills. Forget Highly Skilled.
Massive Damage adds +2 damage to a specific attack for 2 points or to all attacks for five points. That’s potentially marginally useful for some things – but for 2 points you can buy +4 Strength, which adds to all melee attacks and muscle powered weapons. Given how high your strength can go… skip Massive Damage.
Superstrength… costs 4 points for +8 Strength and has no other effects. Wait, isn’t this the base cost? Why yes, yes it is! It won’t hurt to buy “superstrength” as opposed to just buying strength – but it’s a useless entry that just takes up space in the book.
So we want to buy magic and other special abilities, and we have – as an adventurer – 31 points to spend.
Dynamic Sorcery II (Calling on Spirits): As a “limited field” (well, not so “limited”; since Dynamic Sorcery lets us make up any spell we like that’s in the rough power range of a d20 spell one level lower, we can find a way to do almost anything) (8 points). OK, we’ve only got effects of levels zero and one to work with, but they can be ANYTHING. Even better, with a casting attribute of 60, pretty much nobody is going to be saving. As soon as this character goes up one level, and can get “Hold Person”, it’s going to be instant “I Win!” time.
Energy Bonus III (+60 Energy): This is important, since spells of effective level 0 cost 1, and spells of effective level 1 cost 4 – and without this bonus we won’t have much (9 points). Fortunately, a character gets back the highest of his mental attribute modifiers in Energy each hour, whether or not he rests. With that 60 Intelligence, that’s 25 points an hour. Pretty good.
Armor-I (reduces all damage by four points): Who wants to get hurt? (4).
Personal Force Field I (absorbs incoming damage, collapses for a round if hit by more than 10 in a shot, but still absorbs the 10) (3).
Reincarnation (stopped by blowing up his ritual area, takes several weeks (2).
Flight (OK, it’s only 10 MPH to start, but you can do it all you want) (4).
Sixth Sense (Senses Magic): Well, that’s sort of basic (1).
Oh wait! We can also get up to nine more points for establishing our characters background. Lets go for that…
Buy Dynamic Sorcery up to III (4).
We could buy Wealth – after all, it only takes 18 points to be a multi-billionaire (Don’t try to use this SRD with ANY setting where money provides power!) – but why bother? We’re headed down the path of “I can do ANYTHING!” at pretty high speed. Honestly… I’ve got five points left and I don’t know WHAT to buy.
His saves do suck of course. We could get some Divine Relationship (rerolls, costing 1 point per roll per session) – but lets get those crappy stats up to 4 (4 points) and one reroll (1 point).
For further advancement… Adventurer, 5 points per level. Buy up stats. Buy some more Energy. Buy up Dynamic Sorcery. You can be wielding ninth level spells by level ten easily, and have good stats, and +18 to hit (thanks to those combat skills), and +13 AC (due to those combat skills again), and…
Well, you can have lots of other stuff. You won’t need weapon proficiencies though; anime SRD characters are presumed to be proficient with all weapons and armor (which has generic skill penalties for everyone).
Ironically enough, one of the goals – at least according to the SRD – was to enhance the martial classes compared to spellcasters.
I don’t think it worked.
The Anime SRD does have it’s own “balance” of course, but it’s not one that’s going to work in any normal d20 setting. In it’s own way it was a valiant try; it’s just that it wasn’t a valiant try at making an anime-themed d20 SRD. It was a valiant try at funneling customers away from d20 towards BESM – and it ultimately wasn’t really delivering the sensible d20 game system that it was promising.
And for a stylistic complaint… A lot of things got given fractional point costs. That’s just sloppy – and a holdover (just like the list of abilities and a lot of the price structure) from Big Eyes Small Mouth which got hauled over into d20 where it really didn’t work. Go ahead; if you’ve got fractional point costs… multiply. It’s easy, it costs nothing, and it’s a lot easier for your customers to track.
BESM was fun sometimes, but the d20 version never really got much traction. It relied an awful lot on “talk with your GM” – and like most such games, never really understood that that gave massive advantages to players who knew their GM’s well and/or were persuasive talkers. Yes, some GM discussion and input will be needed in pretty much ANY point-buy system. Eclipse can be abused too – but at least it hasn’t got a bunch of utterly useless powers, and lets you use the vast majority of other d20 source material.
Complete Control versus Eclipse (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
Eclipse and Complete Races (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
Eclipse – The Mastercrafter (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
Eclipse – The Walker In Darkness (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
Eclipse d20: Noita Verduur, Psychic Shapeshifter (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
The Fey Swordsman (ruscumag.wordpress.com)
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Male Full Frontal Nudity: Ben Affleck to Chris Pine
They’re saying that male full frontal nudity is the last pop culture frontier. And they could be right about that. Frankly, I think it’s gay men having sex with straight men, but that could be debated.
This is a new piece, and it’s all about male full frontal.
The latest example? Chris Pine‘s revelatory moment in the new film Outlaw King, streaming now on Netflix. And while a historical action drama about a 14th century Scottish king who launched a war against the English army seems an unlikely source for such a moment, it’s there nonetheless.
You can read the rest here. It’s a good article, with a lot more detail than usual, no pun intended.
Drag Performer In Backface Does Minstrel Show
It’s hard to believe this sort of thing is still happening today.
The racist performance happened at Kauai Beach Resort last Friday during “A Show Fit for a Queen,” a charity event hosted by several local drag performers to raise money for a local youth suicide prevention group.
Here’s a link. The audience was stunned, and someone cut the lights after the first 45 seconds. There’s a 20 second video at the link that someone posted to Facebook.
Hot Male Models In Underwear: Central Station MSK
I think this is totally SFW.
It’s a link to a video at Daily Motion where they filmed a group of male models in their underwear. It’s all done backstage, and it’s not bad at all.
Here’s the link. There are also a few other videos there that look interesting.
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Professional Arts Building Baltimore, MD
Formerly the Medical Arts Building
Address: 101 W. Read Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201
Number of residential units: 96
Retail units: Café Filí
Affordability: Market rate rentals
Construction Costs: $13.5 million
Total Development Costs: $25 million
"2010 Historic Preservation Award" from Baltimore Heritage
Owner: Professional Arts Building Partners, LLC JV
Partner: NAGE
Lender: Union Bank of California
Federal Historic Tax Credits: National Trust Community Investment Corporation
State Historic Tax Credits: Old Mutual
Contractor: Streuver Bros, Eccles and Rouse
Architect: Kann Partners
Property Management: TPP
In 2009, Somerset completed the historic renovation of the Professional Arts Building, an eight story mid-rise building built in 1927 located in the heart of the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to its rehabilitation as an historic landmark in the neighborhood, the building had been more than 75% vacant for over a decade. The building was converted from office uses (historically medical, legal and other professionals) to 96 market rate residential rental apartments. The neighborhood is close to major transportation lines and is home to the Washington Monument (now newly restored), the Walters Art Gallery, the Peabody Conservatory of Music and City State, as well as shops, a grocery store, and restaurants.
Mayor Sheila Dixon and Congressman Elijah Cummings officiated at the ribbon cutting in June 2009, along with many other dignitaries, residents, and neighbors. Somerset and its joint venture partner NAGE Housing, Inc. acquired the building in 2006. Somerset oversaw the design and the renovations which preserved and restored the historic elements, as well as addressed the issues of a decade of deferred maintenance to make it a modern, more energy efficient apartment building. The renovations included repair of the original terra cotta balustrade, refurbishment of the main lobby and the elevator lobbies in the upper floors, and restoration of the store front on Cathedral Street. A new fitness center, a business center and community room and secure access in a walkable neighborhood with arts, culture, and green space make this a popular place to live for young adults, professionals, and empty nesters.
A new café called Café Filí —providing breakfast, lunch and dinner— opened in the summer of 2017 in the ground floor retail space to replace Milk & Honey. Café Filí features Mediterranean small plates, pastries and gourmet coffee, providing an important amenity to the residents of the apartment building and the Mount Vernon neighborhood.
Learn more at www.cafefili.com.
The project received approximately $2.7 million in Maryland state historic tax credits, as well as approximately $4.2 million Federal Historic Tax Credits to preserve the building.
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80 Funny Country Songs
FlourishAnyway
FlourishAnyway believes there is a playlist for just about any situation and is on a mission to unite and entertain the world through song.
There's Humor in Country Music
Country music has never been reluctant to have a little fun with even the most serious of situations. Find the humor in life with a playlist of funny country songs. | Source
Need a Good Chuckle?
One thing I love about country music is that it's always been able to poke fun not only at itself but also at serious life situations. Country music finds humor in the everyday experiences many of us face, often adding a down-home or redneck spin to
unfortunate looking offspring
dating, breakups, and unhappy marriages
religious overenthusiasm
and becoming comfortable with technology.
Perhaps you can identify or maybe you just need a good laugh. If so, then make yourself a playlist of funny country songs. We have a long list to start you out.
1. "Ticks" by Brad Paisley
Well, this is one helluva pickup line. A country fella takes a liking to a fine-looking woman in a local bar. He'd sure like to see the other half of her butterfly tramp stamp, so he makes his move:
... I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks.
It's a safety thing. You never know where those ticks might decide to burrow.
2. "Trashy Women" by Confederate Railroad
When it comes to women, some men like 'em classy while other men like 'em trashy. The guy in this memorable 1993 country song belongs to the latter set.
He seeks a gal who looks more like a cocktail waitress than a debutante: too much makeup, clothes too tight, and as tacky as he is:
I like 'em sweet, I like 'em with a heart of gold
Yeah, and I like 'em brassy, I like 'em brazen and bold
Well, they say that opposites attract; well I don't agree
I want a woman just as tacky as me
Yeah, I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
I listen to country music ...
as a first choice, as it's an art form.
while changing radio stations.
only when I have to.
when I'm drunk or I need a good grin or giggle.
Is there any other type of music?
3. "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
This 1978 song is a hoot. Two old lovebirds are stuck with each other and throw major shade on their partner for the miseries of life: lack of money, losing their good looks, and then there's the ugly children they must share. At least they have each other.
And you're the reason our kids are ugly, little darlin'
Ah, but looks ain't everythin' and money ain't everythin'
But I love you just the same.
4. "No Trash In My Trailer" by Colt Ford (featuring George Jones)
The guy in this 2008 ditty wants you to know that there's a country mile of difference between redneck and just plain ole trash, and he don't allow no trash in his double wide mobile home. Yessirree, he may have a motor hangin' from a tree. He may spend his time mud boggin'. But he's ain't ashamed of who he is.
'Cause there ain't no trash in my trailer.
Though you might find an empty can of beer
No there ain't been no trash in my trailer, oh no
Since the day I threw you outta here,
Whether you admit it or not, everybody has at least one of these country cousins hiding somewhere in their family. Don't you go denying it. | Source
Best Redneck Jokes on the Internet
What's a redneck's last words?
Hold my beer and ya'll watch this!
How many rednecks does it take to eat a possum?
Two. One to eat it, another to look out for traffic!
What do you have when you get 32 rednecks in a line?
A full set of teeth
Why did the redneck father walk his child to school?
They were in the same grade.
5. "I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" by David Frizzell
If you've never heard this song, you need to stop and listen to it now. In this 1982 country tune, a man's long-suffering wife is tired of having him come home drunk, so she's come up with a desperate solution. She'll hire a hardcore alcoholic as their interior decorator so there's no reason for her husband to stay out late carousing.
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home,
So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam.
We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall.
And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."
6. "I Pray for You" by Jaron and The Long Road to Love
If you like dark humor, then you'll find this 2010 country ditty a doozy. After the protagonist—that's the main character fella—gets his heart shredded, he goes to church.
However, when the preacher man encourages him to pray for those who have done him wrong, he doesn't find Jesus and warm, fuzzy forgiveness in the well-intentioned advice. Instead, he has his own interpretation of the Bible man's message:
I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill
And knocks you in the head like I'd like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you're flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
7. "She Only B*tches When She Breathes" by Freddie B
Don't feel sorry for the bitter dude in this humorous 2011 country song. He laments that after he and his wife tied the knot, she did a 180-degree change. She spends all of his money, isn't as doting as she once was, and now he doesn't get enough bedroom time. (If he's honest with himself, he'd probably confess that he's changed a little, too.)
Looks like these two won't make it through the honeymoon years:
Yea this circle of trust is like a band of thieves
She stole my heart and then my self esteem
I'll have to sum it up this way:
She could turn a straight man gay
She only b*tches when she breathes.
8. "I Think She Only Loves Me for My Willie" by Paul Overstreet
When you saw the title, I bet your mind totally went to the gutter on this one, but this 2014 song is not about that willie. It humorously refers to Willie Nelson.
A woman falls in love with a singer who does his best to imitate the classics of Willie Nelson and other country legends. She first became smitten with him for the way he sang Willie Nelson's "Whiskey River" in a honky tonk outside of Austin. Since then, he has suspected that his spot-on musical impression of the red headed stranger is the real reason she sticks with him:
But I think she only loves me for my Willie
Something about my Willie turns her on
It’s not all that extraordinary really
But it’s better than my Haggard and my Jones.
9. "When You're Screwin' Other Women (Think of Me)" by Doyle and Debbie
When your marriage has gone this far south, you're either divorced or you will be soon. The wife in this 2011 country song is well aware that her man is cheating. He picks up women in bars and doesn't even waste the cost of a hotel. She asks him one trashy, bittersweet favor, however: at least while he's messing around, can he at least pretend that they're her?
10. "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer" by Sammy Kershaw
This 1993 song is all about possessive and forgiving love, redneck style. A backwoods country boy meets the farm girl of his dreams down at the local restaurant and falls head over boots for her over as they eat their chicken fried steaks. What he doesn't know is that she's the cheating kind.
So I made her the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Now she's run off and I've gotta trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck.
If you enjoy songs about rednecks, why not make yourself a playlist of Redneck Anthems?
11. "With My Shirt On" by John Michael Montgomery
Usually it's the ladies who feel self-conscious about their bodies. But in this 2008 country song, an aging husband realizes he's developed a "dad bod" and makes a special request of his wife:
Yeah, you know forty sure has come fast
And my metabolism is gettin' slow
So tonight, can I make love with my shirt on?
What do you bring to your relationship? Other than love and affection, you probably help take care of some practical chores. Your partner would miss that if you broke up. | Source
12. "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?" by Buck Owens
No joke. This 1969 song was a number one country hit. Trying to avert a break up, a husband asks his wife both practical and whimsical questions about how she'll get by with him no longer around. Perhaps she can learn to mow her own grass.
13. "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" by Neal McCoy
Poor Billy got dumped by his girlfriend, so in this country tune from 2005, he does what any self-respecting guy does and heads to the local beer joint. There, he tries to forget his troubles by getting liquored up real good:
He's on the dance floor yelling "Freebird"
Singing off pitch but he knows every word
Grabs him another girl, he hold on tight
He don't see ugly
Through blood shot eyes.
14. "John Deere Green" by Joe Diffie
There's nothing like redneck love. It's his and hers belt buckles with each others' names on them. Or declaring your love in bright paint graffiti atop the local water tower or bridge.
That's just what Billy Bob did in this 1993 song when he spray painted "Billy Boy loves Charlene" in John Deere green in letters three feet high. Even after they were married for decades, the couple could still look out in the distance and see the bright message that no paint could properly cover up. Now that is a legacy of everlasting love.
They say that after awhile dogs and their owners begin to look alike. These country dogs would agree. | Source
15. "Like My Dog" by Billy Currington
There's nothing quite like the unconditional love of a dog. They're always glad to see you, they don't argue or complain, and they take no offense if you call their sister a b*tch. In this 2011 country song, a husband laments that he wishes his wife would give him the same stellar treatment as his dog:
He never tells me that he's sick of this house
He never says why don't you get off that couch?
He don't cost me nothin' when he wants to go out
I want you to love me like my dog.
16. "You Can't Pray the Gay Away" by Laura Bell Bundy
A hilarious jab at LGBTQ haters, this 2017 country ditty takes a swipe at those who believe in reprogramming and fighting what's in our DNA. A church lady narrator reminds us that although prayer is certainly powerful
There are some matters
Where we would be better servants of the Lord
By accepting what IS and not bothering Him.
She declares that no matter how devout you are, you can't change who you are by praying the gay away. And besides, you probably know someone who is gay, given its prevalence. Let that sink in.
17. "Online" by Brad Paisley
Every been catfished? The short, overweight, socially awkward pizza delivery guy in this 2007 song still lives with his parents, and he isn't exactly a hunk. However, the Internet has allowed him to assume an alter ego and chat with young women (or people pretending to be them).
He enjoys the irony and deception of luring the unsuspecting into online relationships he could never have in person:
I'm a sci-fi fanatic
Mild asthmatic
Never been to second base
But there's a whole 'nother me
That you need to see.
When it comes to social media and meeting people online, keep this guy in mind!
18. "Dancing with a Man" by Rodney Carrington
Two Texas cowboys hit the local watering hole and find themselves dancing with a dude dressed as a lady in this 2007 country ditty. Their dancing partner's real gender doesn't register at first, but then signs become apparent:
I think I'm dancing with a man
She's got callouses on her hands
She's got a voice deeper than mine
She gets a stiffy when we grind
I think I'm dancing with a man.
19. "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?" by Dan Hicks
Some people are hard to get rid of, like glitter or garlic breath, toenail fungus or bedbugs. The man in this country tune from 2007 desperately wants to lose his unwanted admirer. Problem is, she won't go away. He's talked to her parents, but yet she persists.
20. "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" by Ray Stevens
Although Ray Stevens is primarily a novelty singer—meaning that his songs are intended to be funny—this one climbed the country charts in 1984. It's about a preteen boy who sneaks a squirrel into the Sunday services at the First Self-Righteous Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The half-crazed squirrel escapes into the pews during the church service, climbs into people's clothes, and instigates an old-fashioned church revival where all kinds of confessions are made.
Turn to country music when you need a good laugh. It's filled with funny stories and clever double meanings. | Source
Even More Funny Country Songs
21. Things Not to Say to Your Wife
Tim Hawkins
22. I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore
The Snake Oil Willie Band
23. Girls Lie Too
24. Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
25. I'm Gonna Miss Her
26. Do You Want Fries with That
27. Did I Shave My Legs for This?
28. You Ain't Much Fun (Since I Quit Drinkin')
29. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
30. Red Solo Cup
31. Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?
Ray Stevens
32. I Don't Even Know Your Name
33. Kick My Ass
34. Bubba Shot the Jukebox
35. Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goal Posts Of Life
36. Celebrity
37. If You Can't Be Good, Son, Be Good at It
Neal McCoy
38. Ten with a Two
39. You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too
40. My Feet Stink, My Head Hurts, And I Don't Love Jesus
41. First Redneck on the Internet
Cletus Judd
42. One Piece at a Time
43. I Wouldn't Take Her to a Dog Fight
Charlie Walker
44. Don't Squeeze My Sharmon
45. Cleopatra, Queen of Denial
46. If You Don't Leave Me Alone (I'm Gonna Find Somebody That Will
47. Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone
48. It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
The Notorious Cherry Bombs
49. Guys Do It All the Time
Mindy McCready
50. Girl in a Country Song
51. Brand New Girlfriend
Steve Holy
52. Burning Sensation
Rodney Carrington
53. It's All Going to Pot
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
54. Weed with Willie
55. She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)
56. A Boy Named Sue
57. Friends in Low Places
58. One More Last Chance
59. One More Repossession and I'll Be Out of Debt
Perfect Stranger
60. Why Haven't I Heard From You
61. That's My Story (and I'm Stickin' to It)
Collin Raye
62. 800 Pound Jesus
Sawyer Brown
63. As Good as I Once Was
64. Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
65. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
Joe Nichols
66. Size Matters
67. He Drinks Tequila and She Talks Dirty in Spanish
Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw
68. When Uncle Bill Quit Dope
69. Ain't Goin' Back to Brokeback Mountain
70. (Gettin' Married to My) Pickup Truck
71. I’ve Never Gone To Bed With An Ugly Woman (But I Sure Woke Up With a Few)
72. She Got the Ring and I Got the Finger
73. If I'm the Only One
74. The King Is Gone (And So Are You)
75. If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
The Bellamy Brothers
76. Put the "O" Back in Country
77. Wolf Creek Pass
C.W. McCall
78. At the Time
Lynn Anderson
79. Dolly Parton's Hits
Bobby Braddock
80. Nobody Knows I'm Elvis
Know a funny country song that should be on this playlist? Make a suggestion in the Comments Section below.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
Do you remember a funny country song about a man saying all the things he can do, but only with his wife's permission (or some words with that general meaning)?
Even if this isn't the song you're after, I'm sure you'll enjoy it: "The Man Song" by Sean Morey (1995). Lyrics and YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Y0I91rubg&t=
I don't take no crap from anyone else but you,
I wear the pants around here when I'm finished with your laundry,
'Cause I'm a guy you don't wanna fight,
When I say jump you say, "Yeah Right!"
I'm the man of this house until you get home
(He's the man, He's the man)
What I say goes around here ... right out the window,
And I don't want to hear a lot of whining ... so I'll shut up,
The sooner you learn who's boss around here
The sooner you can give me my orders, Dear
'Cause I'm head honcho around here, but its all in my head!
And I can have sex any time that you want,
Cause I'm a man who has needs, but they're not that important,
And don't expect any flowers from me 'cause if I'm not mistaken you prefer jewelry.
I'm the king of my castle when you're not around
And I'll drink and watch sports whenever I want to get in trouble
And I'll come home when I'm good and ready ... to sleep on the couch
Cause a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
and I'm gonna do what you tell me to
Because I'm top dog around here but I've been neutered!
You da man!
Do you know a song that is about stupid questions? It includes the example of looking at a person's lathered up face and asking if he's going to shave and falling down an elevator shaft and then asking are you hurt? The chorus includes "ask a stupid question." My brother used to play it doing and an old geezer voice and I wondered where it was from. Thank you!
It took me a while to find...
I'm looking for a song with the lyrics, "I like big dumb dogs, fireplaces with crackling logs." Any help?
The closest thing I could find to it was a 1966 song by Jean Shepard and Ray Pillow called, "I'll Take the Dog." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSzSPutEkfE
What is the name of the song in the early 70s about being rescued while not wanting to?
All I could locate was “Dependin' on You” by The Doobie Brothers (1978), but that's from the late 70s. You can leave a follow-up comment in the Comments Section of the playlist article.
I am looking for an old country song that sounds like Goofy with a shaking voice. Any idea?
Although that's not striking a familiar chord with me, you take a look at Ray Stevens' discography, as he specializes in novelty songs.
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3 days ago from USA
Anonymous - Thanks for the suggestions. I've added Waylon's song at #80. Have a great weekend.
Nobody knows I'm Elvis
Coin machines
2 weeks ago from USA
Tom Cornett - Thanks for stopping by. Bobby Braddock is a real songwriting talent. Loved the Dolly Parton song. Yikes.
Tom Cornett
2 weeks ago from Ohio
Great Hub! I've heard and enjoyed most of these songs over the years. Digging back in the 80s folks can find an album called, "Hard Pore Cornography" by Bobby Braddock. Songs included, "Dolly Parton's Hits" and "I Lobster and Never Flounder. Bobby is a dear old friend. He's written and co-written many hits including, "DIVORCE" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today." He is one of the great treasures of Country Music. Again....Great Hub.
Robert Sacchi
Bob - Thanks for the suggestion.
What about "Hotter Than a Two Dollar Pistol" by George Jones? A good example of not understanding the concept.
Anonymous - It would help to have some sample lyrics in particular as well as other clues. For example, do you, know the decade, whether it was a band or male/female individual artist, do you recall what the song was generally about, etc.? That would certainly help. Perhaps a reader recalls the video based on the limited detail you provided here. Sorry.
Do know a country video with girl in mustang at gas station?
Bob - I have a number of playlists in queue so I'm never out of ideas. I appreciate the idea!
Yes, there are some good songs about gambling.
Bob - I should probably add a playlist about gambling. This would certainly be good for that list! Thank you for the idea!
Consider "When You're Hot, You're Hot" by Jerry Reed.
Joseph, That's wonderful! Now that you mention the song, "Talking to the Wrong Man," by Michael Martin Murphey (1988), of course, I remember it! Glad you found it!
Joseph Inman
You might not believe this but as I was reading your response, I remembered the next line of the song. And after two years, I’ve found it. ‘Talkin’ to the wrong man’ with Michael Martin Murphy and his son Ryan Murphy. Thank you. If I wouldn’t have written I wouldn’t have thought more of the song.
Joseph, Unfortunately, I've attempted -- with no success -- to look the song up under various versions of the hints you listed using several lyrics databases I'm hoping that another reader might see your comment and recognize the song.
He is one that is driving me crazy. It’s two guys singing, country, and I guess it sounds like it’s from the 90s...? I heard it on satellite radio. One says ‘daddy I have a question’ and he asked how his father and mother get along so great. This father says it’s not so great and he sings back, ‘son I have a question’ and proceeds to ask his son how he does his hair because the thinks it’s what his wife would like. The son says that he and his girlfriend aren’t getting along so well. I have not heard the song in two years or so so I’m sorry if I got some of the parts wrong. Anyways, I’m typing this on my phone so if spelling or punctuation is off, I’m sorry.
I would have added it to the question above but I typed too much. Any help would be appreciated.
Bob - I love that funny song! Got it at #5. A real hoot.
"Wolf Creek Pass" is a fun one. Consider "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" by Donald Brandt. A man tells about how his wife wants to make her home like a bar. This way he can spend his money at home instead of the local bar.
Dougie - I found a Lynn Anderson song that has to be what you are looking for: "At the Time" by Lynn Anderson (1970). I also listened to "Wolf Creek Pass" for the first time. omg
Dougie
I could add "Wolf Creek Pass" and a few others from long ago.
Can someone help me find a name for the following which I think is from the early '70s, and maybe add it to this list? Google has let me down.
"Well I told her that I loved her, cuz I loved her at the time,
And I told her that I didn't want any other lips on mine,
And I told her that her kisses tasted sweeter than wine,
But I hadn't tasted champagne at the time!"
I remember seeing the words written out as a joke but I never heard it put to music.
Anonymous - This doesn't ring a bell with me, but I hope it does with a reader. If so, I hope they'll leave a comment.
I'm trying to identify a spoken word country song from the 70s. In it a man enumerates all the reasons his wife used to avoid sex with him. In the end, he says that 7 times he was successful. The last line is, "And once, I thought I hurt you, because you moved". Can you name the song?
Conner DeJes - Thanks for the suggestion. I've always liked that song. I added it as #75.
Conner DeJes
Bellamy Brothers' "if i said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me"
You're welcome. Your list is growing.
Bob - Thanks for the suggestion. It's #63. I appreciate you!
What about "I ain't as good as I once was" by Toby Keith?
countryisgreat - Thanks for your suggestion. The song is actually on there at #56. I appreciate you. Have a great week.
countryisgreat
"A Boy Named Sue"
bakela5 - Thank you for your song suggestions.
bakela5
A great "Country Comic" song I did at last night's gig "Letters of Love" by "Friends Of Joy" this was recorded on the Alaska label in 1977 and was the B side of that label's only chart hit "Naughty, naughty, naughty by Joy Sarney.
I am the founder and owner of the Electric Possum Cowboy Band - circa 95' - I wrote a song , that made regional radio called
"How'm I Gonna Miss You" (If You Won't Leave) still own the CR and publishing -the band wound up opening for George Jones, Charlie Daniels, and many others- be glad to share if wanted
16 months ago from USA
Clark Ford - Thanks for the song suggestion. I've placed it on the following playlist about working, jobs, and employment: https://spinditty.com/playlists/Pop-Rock-and-Count...
Clark Ford
Here's another fun country song! "I Don't Want to Work Today" by Clark Ford
Jess - Thank you! I’ve wanted to do this one for awhile and have been collecting songs for it. Thanks for commenting!
Jenn Stevens
16 months ago from Canada
I love this! Brad Paisley is a favorite for me so I love that Ticks is number one! There is definitely a lot of humour in country music. Great post idea!
Bob - I thought I had darn near heard everything but then this. Thanks for the song suggestion.
A good mixture of old and new. It was great fun reading this article. Any reason "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" didn't make the list?
Margie - Thanks for stopping by for a listen. The dogs may be country kinfolk, not sure. They have a suspicious resemblance to one another. Have a wonderful week!
Margie's Southern Kitchen
16 months ago from the USA
I love this hub, we all need a laugh! The title is enough to get your going. I love the pic on "Love My Dog' I heard one the other day about a pig on the radio! I could not believe it!
Peg - I'm glad you enjoyed this. I had a lot of fun with putting it together. Hope your weekend is a great one!
Peg Cole
16 months ago from Northeast of Dallas, Texas
This playlist is great for a real laugh. "How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away? Like My Dog. Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?" All these crack me up. Great collection of side busters here.
Bill - Thanks for stopping by. Country music is an entertaining genre, and I like that it doesn't take itself so seriously. Have a wonderful week.
Bill De Giulio
16 months ago from Massachusetts
Hi Flourish. Another great list, don’t know how you do it? Some of these lyrics are hilarious. Many of these songs I’m not familiar with but perhaps I need to listen to more country music?
Larry - Thanks for stopping by. An Oklahoma boy who does not enjoy country music? You must feel like a fish outta water.
Larry Rankin
17 months ago from Oklahoma
Not necessarily my first choice, but I enjoy country music.
Much of it, if not overtly silly, has a light quality, and some of is so dark it has a certain humor.
Frances - I agree that it matches some folks' lives. They either have terrible luck, not a lot of life skills or resources, or a combination. But at least they can laugh about their situations.
Dunbar Green - I had never heard of that one, but Johnny Cash is good for so many creative, humorous songs. I listened to it and added it. Thanks for the song suggestion! Have a great week!
Frances Metcalfe
Don't know any of the songs but the some of the lyrics are certainly tragi-comic. Perhaps most of the people in them should consider ditching and starting over? It made me smile.
Richard Green
17 months ago from New Mexico
"When Uncle Bill Quit Dope," by Johnny Cash. Flourish, I loved this article. It cheered my whole day. Thanks
Rasma - I hadn't heard of that one before but love it! I added it to the list. Have a wonderful week.
Heidi - Thanks for the add. Hee-Haw goes way back, doesn't it? My parents used to make me watch back in the day when there was one tv set in the house and three channels. Ahh, the memories.
Dora - Thanks for stopping by and reading. Love your beautiful profile photo.
Heidi Thorne
17 months ago from Chicago Area
Okay, I'm laughing just reading the titles! :-D Dang! It's like an episode of Hee-Haw.
I see Toby Keith is well represented in this list. I'd add "As Good As I Once Was."
Thanks for the chuckles!
17 months ago from The Caribbean
Some really funny lyrics here. Sees that I'm more familiar with the names of the artists than with their songs. Thanks for increasing my "general knowledge."
17 months ago from Riga, Latvia
Great assortment of songs. I always really liked He drinks Tequila and she talks dirty in Spanish just not sure if it counts as a country song. Love your list of songs.
shanmarie - Paul Thorn is credited with the original in 1997, but I included Sawyer Brown's cover because they are the better known act.
Shannon Henry
17 months ago from Texas
I didn't know Sawyer Brown sang that. I thought it was Paul Thorn, but maybe his is a cover version. Paul has some funny ones, too, and I thought I saw him on your list somewhere.That explains why I had heard the song already before. :)
Chitrangada - Only die hard country music fans would know most of these, but I'm glad you got a chuckle out of them! Have a lovely week. Happy Valentine's Day!
Nikki - Glad you enjoyed this collection of funny songs. Have a great week.
Nikki Khan
17 months ago from London
An awesome collection of country music FlourishAnyway. Really enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks for sharing dear.
Chitrangada Sharan
17 months ago from New Delhi, India
Interesting list of country songs! I am not much familiar with all of them but I enjoyed some of your videos.
Thanks for sharing this well presented article!
Readmikenow - Thanks for the visit. Glad you enjoyed!
Readmikenow
What fun! Enjoyed reading this and watching some of the videos.
shanmarie - Thanks for the songs suggestions which I have added. Have a wonderful week!
Linda - They can be quite a hoot. There's nothing like humor to make your day a little more fun. Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!
There are quite a few from the 90s early 2000s. "One More Repossession " by Perfect Stranger, I think. "Why Haven't I Heard From You. " Collin Raye "That's My Story". LOL. My husband is listening to Rodney Carrington as I type. Wildly inappropriate, but funny. Dancing With a Man is mild comparatively. And that dude that sings "800 Pound Jesus"....you had one of his songs listed and my hubby is listening to him, too. I should show him your list! But I need to go to bed. Have a good night.
Linda Crampton
17 months ago from British Columbia, Canada
I don't listen to country music, but after reading the lyrics in this article I think I should! The lyrics are interesting and often very amusing as well.
shanmarie - Adding it now. Thank you!
Oh, just thought of Vince Gill's "One More Last Chance. " Your playlists always have my mind playing music in my head for quite some time after I read. LOL.
shanmarie - I think I grew up down the road from that church, and we sure coulda used a half-crazed squirrel to set the community straight. No matter. Glad you enjoyed this! Have a wonderful week!
I absolutely love this list, Flourish. Many of these songs bring back memories from high school and college. I remember the first time I heard Brad Paisley's "I'm Gonna Miss Her" because I was with a friend and it was her first time to hear it to. We never saw the punchline coming and then we laughed, of course.
And "Mississippi Squirrel Revival " is my favorite Ray Stevens song. Memories of my grandma and cousins tied to that song. Fun times. Made me want to visit the First Self Righteous Church.
Mary - I'm glad somebody is seeing it on social media! Thanks for reading. Glad it brought back good memories.
Frank - Sometimes you have to wonder where the record executive who says "no" was the day they decided to record some of these songs, but they are good for a laugh. Have fun!
Mary - I'm happy these sparked good memories for you. Country music can be really fun. Have a terrific week!
Kari - I'm glad you enjoyed it that much. I grew up on country music and appreciate it as an art form. It has a way of making light of people and even country music itself sometimes. Have a great week!
Keith Abt - The video was funny. Amazing how murder can be humorous, huh?
Kari Poulsen
17 months ago from Ohio
There are so many songs that I love on this list. I'm going to have to copy this playlist! Thanks :)
Mary Wickison
17 months ago from Brazil
Although I don't listen to much country and western music these days, I have in the past. The fact that they can have a laugh at themselves makes it fun music.
Ray Stevens had so many that were classics. I need to start listening to C & W stations more.
Frank Atanacio
17 months ago from Shelton
Flourish I have to be honest with you, I'm not familiar with 99% of these songs.. but I gotta hear them all love the tick lyrics... ha ha.. going to google the entire lyric sheet.. and play it with the music.. I guess thank you for the chuckles and the songs
Clive Williams
17 months ago from Jamaica
Thats a lot of songs.
17 months ago from Ontario, Canada
I found this on G+ and I enjoyed it immensely. Made me remember some of the moments when those songs were played.
Devika - Glad you liked this so much. Have a wonderful week.
Bill - He seems to aim for a comic twist and often does it well. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a Happy Valentine's Day.
Devika Primić
17 months ago from Dubrovnik, Croatia
humor in music is unique. I had no idea of such songs. You shared an interesting and useful hub. So glad to have stopped by here.
Bill Holland
17 months ago from Olympia, WA
Brad will always lead the humor parade in country music. The man is just plain funny.
Keith Abt
17 months ago from The Garden State
No "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks? Pound for pound it's still one of the funniest music videos ever made.
Linda - I wondered about that one. I'll add it! Thanks for being the first to comment. Have a wonderful week. Hope your Valentine's Day is special.
Linda Lum
17 months ago from Washington State, USA
Flourish, I'm actually kinda proud to say I don't know ANY of these songs {{grin}}. But I do have one to add to your list (believe it or not). What about Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue."
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November 30, 2013 Brad Hubbard College Football, NBA, NFL, NHL
Bloomberg.com: The Digital Example for Sports
Bloomberg is a pretty big company. It’s founder, and current New York City Mayor, is Michael Bloomberg and the company itself has multiple units from Professional Services to News & Media.Those Media assets include Bloomberg TV and bloomberg.com. Telling the difference between the two is sometimes pretty difficult which is why sports leagues should take notice.
Bloomberg.com streams live TV and has on demand original shows like C-Suite. Other networks do this too, sort of. The difference, with Bloomberg is you don’t need any kind of TV subscription. It’s just out there and free for anyone to watch.
That’s right, free for everyone.
Not an add on or free with your subscription. Just free.
To watch ESPN3 or use their WATCH ESPN App you need to sign in and prove you have a cable or satellite subscription. Even then you may not get complete access to all the live games (ask DIRECTV users about that). Bloomberg on the other hand is the complete opposite. They give total access to everyone regardless of cable or satellite subscription status.
The NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB all have their own TV networks yet not one has free, live streaming. They all have highlights from their broadcasts but none offer 24 hour live streaming of their studio shows much less their games.
In a word, money. They feel they can make money doing it the same old way they’ve been doing it. They also probably fear that if they did something similar to Bloomberg then they’ll upset the cable or satellite operators.
As a man once said, ‘fear is tissue paper disguised as a brick wall.’ Make no mistake cable and satellite providers need content and the more live content the better. Sports is pretty DVR proof which means that people need to sit through ads. Why sports leagues continue to do it the same old way is beyond modern thinking.
To be fair, Bloomberg makes most of their money through their professional services division where they sell financial software tools, analysis and an actual Bloomberg terminal. So they are diversified within the financial world. However, this should mean that they would protect certain assets vs. opening them up to everyone. According to the old game plan that the sports leagues and ESPN are following is, ‘protect the TV and continue to charge the cable and satellite providers more per customer.’ But Bloomberg goes the new route. Open up as many revenue streams as possible by going where your customers are.
Yet here we are. In a world where a financial services/news company live streams their video content 24/7 for no charge and sports leagues and networks don’t or make you verify your paying status.
A word to the sports folks, from leagues to networks, follow the Bloomberg model. You’ll be amazed by the fan support, the young demo’s you’ll attract, and the new ad revenue streams. Or continue do they road you’re going and hope for the best. As one of Rumsfeld’s Rules states, “If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” (L.W. Pierson).
November 24, 2013 Brad Hubbard College Football
A Tough Spot
By Brad Hubbard @bradhubbard
Noel Mazzone is the Offensive Coordinator at UCLA. His son Grayson Mazzone is a WR at UCLA. During UCLA’s final drive of the game, Grayson went down with an apparent knee injury. UCLA went on to lose the game 38-33 to Arizona State.
FOX announce Gus Johnson pointed out the tough situation Noel was in. ‘A father’s dilemma’ or something to that extent. Johnson was right, it is an incredibly tough situation for a father.
Mazzone showed little to no emotion on the sideline as his son was carried off the field in obvious pain by the trainers. Noel was professional and focused on coming up with a play to get a first down and keep the UCLA drive alive.
The drive failed and UCLA went down to the Sun Devils.
It’s not a situation you often see. A coach in the midst of a possible game winning drive when his son goes down with an injury. It’s safe to say that Noel is with his son now.
How the Mazzone’s Ended Up at UCLA
November 20, 2013 Brad Hubbard Basketball
The Constant
We’ve taken a brief look at the quick turnaround in football, we’ll now it’s time to look at sustainability in college basketball. While some programs are not what they use to be there is one that continues to be at the or near the top of the heap year after year, Duke.
Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) has been at Duke for 34 years. He has won over 900 college basketball games. Won four National Championships and four Olympic Gold Medals (two as a head coach and two as an assistant). He is, in a word, consistent.
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Coach Krzyzewski is a coach some love to hate. The haters dislike his ability to consistently win games during the regular season and in the NCAA tournament. They dislike his teams’ attitude and ability to draw a charge in the lane. Some just dislike him because he’s been around so long.
Why he’s hated is also why he’s adored.
So how does he do it? He has assistants who are loyal to not only him but to Duke. All of his assistants are former players. He recruits players that fit the Duke style and until Elton Brand in 1999, he had a pretty good streak where is players played all four years. His methods, from coaching to recruiting to how he runs a practice, work.
Coach K has nothing left to prove. He has won everything there is to win in collegiate basketball (he passed on the NBA years ago). So why does he keep going? Only he can answer that but from an outsiders perspective, he coaches because he loves it and he’s damn good at it. Maintaining that is the challenge.
November 8, 2013 November 8, 2013 Brad Hubbard College Football, Football
The Quick Turnaround
In this modern era, things happen fast. From business to sports. Everyone wants the reward now, the profits now, the lead now, you name it. People want it now and no one wants it faster than fans.While customers are demanding fans can be unforgiving. While coaches can sell ‘the process’ fans know that turnarounds can happen faster than ever even when you factor in ‘the process.’
Butch Jones, Gus Malzahn and Kliff Kingsbury were some of the bigger hires during this past off season in college football. All have had their ups and downs this season and all have the possibility of a bowl game within reach.
While Kingsbury and Texas Tech have had more success on the field Jones and his Tennessee Volunteers have no doubt had a tougher road. To this point the Vols have played six teams in the top 15 and their seventh will be on Saturday as they host Auburn. The current 4-5 mark was within inches of being 5-4 but there is no doubt that Coach Jones has a long road to hoe or as he refers to it as ‘the process’.
Speaking of Auburn, they are currently ranked in the top 10 a year after not winning a conference game. With new head coach and former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn at the helm, the Tigers have shown a lot of fight and even pulled off a few upsets. The are now a legitimate threat to no.1 Alabama in the Iron Bowl in a few week.
Kingsbury has revitalized a fan base still bruised from the firing of Mike Leach a few years ago and left disillusioned by the Tommy Tuberville regime. Kingsbury has done it with true freshmen QB’s (one a walk on) and a little bit of West Texas magic. While they will not win the Big 12 this season they are going to a bowl game and the expectations have been elevated for next season.
While all the coaches are different and all of the circumstances unique, all three are on a path to turning around a football program. While some have made that turn faster than others the expectations of the fans will always be for an overnight success. Right or wrong, a quick turnaround can be a coaches own worse enemy.
Auburn @ Tennessee – 9am ESPN
Kansas St @ Texas Tech – 9am ABC/ESPN3
November 3, 2013 Brad Hubbard College Football, Football, MLS, Soccer
The More Loyal Fan
It can be very easy to sit at home and watch whatever game you want to watch in this day and age. The options at this point are almost unlimited. When you travel however you are at the mercy of your location and your technology. While the technology aspect of this has been attacked by tech folks such as slingbox and content providers like ESPN one thing that they cannot rely on but hope for is the loyalty of the fan. And the most loyal fans may not be in the arena.
People travel, even if it’s to another neighborhood for a birthday party. People always seem to gather around a sporting event. Almost like they are desperately seeking some sort of normalcy. This is truer for those hard charging business travelers. Trying to find the World Series game while in London or gathering around a laptop in a ballroom of a hotel because it’s the only place to find the MLS playoff match. People can go to unusual lengths to watch the game or team of their choice.
But why? A sense of loyalty? A sense of routine? Whatever the reason, travel makes you a better sports fan. A more loyal fan. When you go to such lengths and have nothing else to do but watch the game, you become more engaged. You watch more intently. You analyze it more. You become more involved.
This can be some big money too. Think about when the time comes when advertisers can see which fans are watching where and how engaged they are. That fan that jumped through four or five hoops and slipped the IT guy at the hotel an extra $50 to kick up the bandwidth is probably more loyal & profitable than the person in the stands. Not to mention that they found a way to fit into their carry on a scarf of their favorite club or a jersey of their favorite team.
It can be pretty easy to identify great, passionate sports cities. Places like Seattle or Indianapolis support their teams to a fault. But sometimes we look for the passionate fans inside the stadium as opposed to outside of it. Some, not all but some, of the most passionate, loyal and profitable fans are far, far away from their home field.
November 1, 2013 November 1, 2013 Brad Hubbard MLS, Soccer
Why You Should Watch The Portland v Seattle Playoff Series
….And this is just one side of it.
If you look closely you can see our own Dave Trausneck
TIFO: Inside the Timbers Army
November 1, 2013 November 1, 2013 Brad Hubbard Basketball, College Football, Football, MLS, NBA, NFL, Soccer
What to Watch Friday 11/1-Sunday 11/3
Baseball is done…and back to football.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1st
Miami Heat @ Brooklyn Nets- 5pm ESPN: The two time defending champs head north to take on the revamped Nets. Could be fun.
USC @ Oregon St. – 6pm ESPN2: Corvallis, OR is always a tough place to play especially with one of the top scoring offenses in the country resides there. USC has one of the best defenses around (minus the Arizona St game of course). It’s a battle of wills on your Friday night.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2nd
Virginia Tech @ Boston College – 9am ABC: Trap game for Va Tech. They get Miami next week and the Fighting Addazio’s make life tough for everybody. Look for an upset in Chestnut Hill which would be back to back losses for the Hokies.
UNC @ NC STATE – 9:30am ESPN3: Not a sexy game on paper but this one is going to be all about pride. Both schools need a win and both have enough talent to be a lot better than their records indicate.
Minnesota @ Indiana – 12:30pm BTN: Normally a really good basketball game but this one features a high powered offense by IU and a stanch D by Minnesota. Bowl implications on the line in Bloomington.
Oklahoma St @ Texas Tech – 4pm FOX: Gus Johnson will announce this possible shootout in West Texas. You’re welcome.
Miami @ Florida St. – 5pm ABC: It’s awesome to see this game matter again and in primetime no less. Famous Jameis gets another stage to show off for the Heisman voters.
Portland Timbers @ Seattle Sounders- 7pm NBCSN: A Cascadia Playoff game? This is must see TV. Even if you don’t like soccer, you should watch this. It will change your mind.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3rd
San Diego Chargers @ Washington – 10am CBS: Could be a shootout of epic proportions in DC.
Pittsburgh Steelers @ New England Patriots – 1:25pm CBS: Tom Brady vs Ben Roethlisberger. It’s not what it use to be but it’s still a battle of Super Bowl winning QB’s. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Real Salt Lake @ LA Galaxy – 6pm ESPN: The defending champs have a tough road to another MLS Cup. It starts against the one team you don’t want it to start against, RSL.
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The Localism Act 2011 sets out how communities are able to get more involved in planning for their areas – specifically around creating plans and policies to guide new development, and in some cases granting planning permission for certain types of development.
Neighbourhood Planning is a new way for communities to develop a shared vision and decide the future of the places where people live and work. It is a way to promote development, whilst giving local communities greater ownership over plans and policies that affect their area. There are three specific options available:
A Neighbourhood Development Plan
A Neighbourhood Development Order
A Community Right to Build Order
Communities can choose to create either a Development Plan or a Development Order, or both. Neighbourhood Planning is not compulsory for local areas, in some cases it may be more appropriate for communities to use other tools to plan for their local areas.
However, a Neighbourhood Plan or Order cannot be used to stop development; it is a tool to understand what a sustainable and appropriate level of development is for the community and where this growth might be located.
Neighbourhood Planning in Tavistock would be led by the Town Council, but it would allow community groups and other stakeholders affected by the plans to have input as to whether or not the Plan is adopted. Any draft Plans or Orders would be available on this page, when and if produced, to allow for feedback and general comments.
The stages for Neighbourhood Planning are as follows:
Deciding on the Neighbourhood Plan area
Preparing the draft Plan or Order in consultation with community groups and other interested parties/stakeholders
An independent assessment of the draft Plan/Order would be undertaken, if accepted then
A community referendum/consultation period would be instigated, inviting comments and feedback
Once all amendments had been made, and all tests passed, then the Plan would be adopted
When designing the Neighbourhood Plan area a map must be produced identifying the land to be used, along with reasons why this area is considered appropriate. Confirmation that the organisation submitting the application is a qualifying body would also be required (i.e. a Parish or Town Council).
This application would be published for a six week period, with comments being invited from those who live, work and/or do business in the area. The application would be assessed by the District or Borough Council and consideration would be given to whether the existing neighbourhood areas should be modified.
The Plan or Order proposal would then be prepared in line with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations, and a period of consultation with the community would follow. A draft of the Plan or Order would be published inviting key stakeholders and residents to comment. The draft Plan would then be submitted to the Local Planning Authority.
Once a Neighbourhood Plan or Order has been prepared, an independent examiner will check that the Plan conforms to all higher level Planning Policies. A public hearing is likely to be held by the examiner. The examiner can recommend changes or refuse the Plan altogether. An examiner’s report would be available for review on this page, together with the hearing dates.
Once the Plan or Order is approved it proceeds to the referendum stage, during this stage the District or Borough Council will hold a referendum on any Plan or Order that meets legal requirements.
People living in the Neighbourhood area who are registered to vote in local elections will be entitled to vote in the referendum. If the proposals would have a significant impact on the wider area, people from other areas may be allowed to vote too. If more than 50% of people voting support the Plan or Order, then the Local Planning Authority must bring it into force.
Once in force, developers and decision-makers would be obliged by law to take what is says into account when either submitting or considering Planning Applications. The Localism Act places a legal duty on local authorities to help and support Town and Parish Councils in Neighbourhood Planning.
The type and level of support available to comunities that wish to create a Neighbourhood Plan or Order, is set out in the South Hams Neighbourhood Planning Protocol and the West Devon Community-Led Planning Protocol.
More information can be found by contacting:
South Hams Strategic Planning Team: Tel: 01803861234, Email:strategic.planning@swdevon.gov.uk
West Devon Strategic Planning Team: Tel: 01822813600, Email:strategic.planning@swdevon.gov.uk
Tavistock Town Council has appointed 4 Councillors to support the Neighbourhood Development Plan process.
They are Cllrs Mandy Ewings, Harry Smith. Paul Ward and Paul Williamson.
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Confused by Grief
If your friends grieve lost loved ones, they may show confusion. Some writers have compared the memory loss of bereavement to symptoms of dementia. (In the months after my husband’s death, I got lost within my own neighborhood more times than I counted.) Why does deep sorrow cause such confusion?
Grief tips things sideways and turns them upside down. (photo by Teresa TL Bruce, TealAshes.com)
When a loved one dies, survivors’ lives tilt, tumble, spin. Familiar routes bewilder, and expectations swirl away. Long-term plans shift, dreams evaporate, and unforeseen obstacles loom. Is it any wonder mourners might act muddled?
Don’t blame the bereaved for being baffled. Rather, summon your empathy and extend compassion toward their confusion.
Before you berate a disheveled, bereaved widow for getting her children to school late or forgetting to bring cupcakes to the XYZ fundraiser at work, stop. Instead, acknowledge what she has done right: She got herself (and children) out of bed and took the children to school before showing up at work. (That may sound simple, but in the middle of mourning, it’s not.)
Next, consider the upheaval in her life: Suddenly, she’s a single parent, and she’s exhausted not only from caring for her children’s needs but from grieving, which drains a person in every way. Her deceased partner’s income no longer contributes to the family budget (maybe the cost of cupcakes is too much now), and she may be facing massive funeral, medical, and legal expenses you can’t begin to imagine (unless you’ve had to do the same). But her loss is about far more than finances, although that alone is often significant. She’s also lost her surest source of physical and emotional support. Friends and even family may stand near her, but she’s alone while crying through the night’s insomnia. In the morning, she can’t stand the emptiness in her swollen eyes, so she avoids the mirror while running a hand over her head to smack down the worst of her toss-and-turn hair.
If, after walking a metaphorical mile in her mourning slippers, you still feel judgmental toward that widowed mom, you’re the one who’s confused.
Before you condemn a grieving colleague for collapsing in the middle of a conference call or pleading for a personal day, stop. Instead, remember that people matter more than products, and acknowledge that beneath his position, he’s a person. Whether he and his partner have lost a child or whether he’s just learned his parent’s condition is terminal, his grief will continue beyond the funeral or that phone call.
Grief triggers — dates, events, songs, situations — don’t fit into an after-hours locker to release when convenient. They can’t be scheduled for the off season. They seldom give advance notice, and they can take you down — overwhelm you fully — before you can so much as say, “Shouldn’t you be over that by now?” (Note: Never, ever, ever say that — not even to yourself if you’re mourning. It won’t help. Trust me on this.)
The Grief Monster attacks without advance notice, sending its triggers when and where and how it will.
Imagine working with efficiency, expecting the promotion and raise you’ve always dreamed of. And then, a slight twinge in your gut warns that something you ate disagreed with you. The next moment, you’re running for the bathroom. Besides gastrointestinal distress of every kind, you’re sweating from a fever, shaking with chills, and erupting in boils across exposed skin. Several bones and organs must be trading places.
Meanwhile a supervisor followed you into the restroom, not to dial 911 but to demand, “How soon will you return to your desk? What time will you be in tomorrow? And why haven’t you finished today’s work yet? I expected better of you.”
That’s (a little) like working through grief.
Grieving wreaks havoc with concentration. Given time, understanding, and compassion, mourners’ confusion will clear. They will learn to function again, and will learn — eventually — how to move forward with altered lives.
Meanwhile, ask yourself this: Will you support your friends and coworkers through the rough, confusing process of mourning? Or do you remain too confused by grief to show you care?
If you find this helpful, please share to help others learn what to say (and what not to say).
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Why Daylight Savings Time (Still) Gives Me (More) Grief
I don’t know anyone who likes the twice a year body-clock havoc wrought by Daylight Savings Time. I never did — even before my husband’s death.
I thought it would get easier with time, but here I am, not long before the “official” hour to reset my clocks, writing about how much this spring’s time change “still” hurts. This will be my eighth widowed shifting of the digits. I thought I’d be used to it “by now.”
Changing my clocks hurts for two main reasons. The first is as personal to me as my grief is (and let me be clear — all grief is personal). The second applies to bereavement in general.
My husband was a stickler for timepiece accuracy. I am not. He liked having the seconds on the clock line up with “official” time. I prefer clocks set at least three minutes early to nudge myself toward being on time. Our first Daylight Savings Time weekend as newlyweds brought confusion — and comedy — as we both set and reset our few shared timepieces. As the number of clocks in our household grew over the next 24 years, so did our semi-annual scramble to set them according to his time or mine. It became a twice-yearly game (except when we lived in sensible, non-DST Arizona), and it was a fun prelude to the discomfort of adjusting our sleep-wake cycles.
The first time I changed our clocks by myself after he died felt wrong. It felt like cheating on our game. I couldn’t bring myself to change them all. How I wanted to walk into each room and find that room’s clock set to exactly the right time!
It felt just as improper the following spring — and the fall after, and the spring and fall after that. It felt equally wrong last spring and fall. It still feels awful.
Tonight’s anticipation of Daylight Savings Time brings me to the second, more general reason why DST and Standard Time changes make “the grief monster” more fierce.
When grief is new, every event that marks the passage of time — including the semi-annual time change — lands like a portcullis between life Before and life After the loved one’s death. Each event is a mile marker documenting the ever-increasing distance separating one soul from another.
With time markers such as holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries of all sorts, there are usually emotional histories and future plans connecting them. They each carry a particular pain of their own. But the regular shift from Standard to Daylight Savings Time happens year after year after year … just because legislators decided it should.
For those less new to their grief, it’s true that time will help it become less raw, but don’t try to tell them that unless they ask. Instead, listen to them. “In time” their grief will become seasoned. “With time” their grief will soften. “Over time” their grief can heal–but only in the way a deep, lacerating cut can heal — with a big, permanent scar. “Recovering” from bereavement doesn’t mean the bereaved will ever be able to turn back time to life Before, but it does mean they’ll someday be able to “spring forward.”
“Springing” may be a bit much. Reassure your mourning friends they’ll eventually move forward when they’re ready. Meanwhile, even “inching forward” shows progress.
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04th, July 2019
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Flipkart to replace its delivery vans with EVs.
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Jaipur Based Fleeca India to incubate at NASSCOM Centre of Excellence IIT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
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Flipkart’s in-house brands get Make in India Tag
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Aquatic sentient species
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Tynnans
Tynnan
< Tynnan
Sentient[1]
Mammal[1]
1.4 meters[2]
Brown[1]
Black[1]
Tails[2]
Tolerance to cold[2]
Sociocultural characteristics
Tynna[2]
Included suuri[3]
Tynnan language[3]
Bowspritz,[4] Dawson,[5] Odumin,[2] Razelfiin,[6] Streamdrinker,[7] Cham Teleus,[8] Nog Teleus,[8] Zobyteeg[6]
"I've been to Tynna. It's one of the most beautiful worlds in the Expansion Region. And the Tynnans are probably one of the most well-informed and well-intentioned species anywhere."
―Belindi Kalenda[src]
Tynnans were a sentient species native to the Expansion Region planet Tynna. Having evolved from water mammals, they were covered in brown fur and a thick layer of insulating blubber, which allowed them to swim comfortably in the cold oceans of their homeworld. This gave the Tynnans a rounded appearance, which, combined with their short stature, made them appear cute and pudgy to many species. They had dark noses, poor eyesight, and pointed ears. Their muzzles sported two buckteeth, although these evolutionary holdovers shortened with each succeeding generation. Tynnans were an intelligent and pragmatic race, renowned for their patient planning. Their system of government was unusual in that their officials were chosen by lottery; consequently, most Tynnans kept themselves well informed on civics and other pertinent issues in case of election to office. This was particularly important as their economy was government-run.
The Tynnans were discovered by Galactic Republic scouts and integrated into galactic society. While allowing Republic economic and corporate development, the Tynnans were careful to ensure it proceeded with full environmental safeguards, leaving the natural beauty of their world largely unscathed. The Tynnan government shrewdly reinvested all profits into society, and Tynna grew to be one of the more affluent per capita worlds in the Republic. During the Clone Wars, a suspected terrorist attack on their homeworld involving stone mites prompted the Tynnans to secede from the Republic. Tynna later rejoined the Republic, but their careful management of resources upset the Imperial governor appointed to their world, following the Republic's transformation into the Galactic Empire. The Empire eventually attempted to invade Tynna, but a substantial planetary shield, presciently installed, protected Tynna from attack. They were later invaded and conquered by the Yuuzhan Vong during the Yuuzhan Vong War in 26 ABY, and their planet was terraformed. Following the Yuuzhan Vong's defeat, at least one Tynnan diplomat worked with the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.
Tynna's affluence allowed many Tynnans to travel offworld. Two such individuals were Cham and Nog Teleus, who settled in the Cularin system and sponsored various events there. Also of note was Senator Streamdrinker, arrested for treason against the Empire. A famous Tynnan in the private sector was Odumin, who rose to the influential post of Territorial Administrator for the Corporate Sector Authority. Less well known was the Tynnan Dawson, who worked as a professional thief in the galactic underworld.
Biology and appearance Edit
Tynnans spent almost as much time in the water as on land.
"My appearance, admittedly, is not one to inspire confidence or awe."
―Odumin[src]
The Tynnans were small, sentient mammals that averaged 1.4 meters in height. They had two arms and two legs. On land, they walked upright on their legs, but they were also deft swimmers. They were covered in brown fur and a thick layer of blubber that served as insulation against the cold waters of their homeworld, Tynna;[1][2] they were comfortable with temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius.[9] This insulation gave them a pudgy form that many species viewed as cute. However, their substantial strength, stamina, and intelligence belied this unassuming appearance.[2]
Each Tynnan had a short snout that ended in whiskers, a dark nose, and two large buckteeth. These incisors were an evolutionary holdover from ancestors who gnawed wood to build river dams; the species had long ceased this behavior by the time of the Galactic Civil War, so each succeeding generation grew shorter teeth. Tynnans had poor eyesight,[2] which they compensated for with ocular enhancers[5] and excellent natural hearing and smell.[3]
Tynnans were able to hold their breath for long periods, enabling them to spend nearly as much time in water as on land.[3] As such, many settlements were near water, including Water Park[3] and Lutris Lake,[6] and Tynnans played games such as water-wall.[5] Their paws—five-digit hands and three-digit feet—had both claws and webbing, and they had long, rudder-like tails.[5][2] There were two Tynnan sexes: male and female.[2]
"There's really only one way for Tynnans to deal with the misperceptions others perpetuate. Rather than take offense at their short-sightedness, we should use it to our advantages."
Tynnans were a pragmatic race. They shied away from religion and mythology, which they believed often led to conflict. They were meticulous planners who gave attention to the smallest detail; these plans were then carried out with great enthusiasm and dynamism.[2]
Two Tynnans and a H'drachi.
For thousands of years, the Tynnans selected their government representatives based on a planet-wide lottery. Their leaders then served for one year, after which they were ineligible for reselection for the next six years.[10] The government was run from the Tynna Central Government Building prior to 22 BBY,[6] and later from the Tanallay Surge complex legislative and recreational complex. Due to the random nature of selection, most Tynnans pragmatically kept abreast of political and governmental issues in case they were called upon to serve in the legislature.[3] Occasionally, however, as in the case of Dawson, Tynnans rejected this system. An impulsive and carefree youth, Dawson fled the planet after being selected in the lottery.[5]
Tynnan society operated a state-run economy, and the government fed all industrial profits back into society. This funding provided all Tynnans with complementary housing, education, food, and entertainment.[2] However, many chose to boost their living standards by devoting themselves to the arts and sciences[10] or by hunting the native suuri that formed a staple of their diet.[3] The Tynnans developed their economic structures and state infrastructure with the Republic conglomerates and carefully protected their environment such that is was largely unsoiled by development.[2] All Tynnans were equal before the law, and their society put significant effort into facilitating the ability of individuals to pursue their own interests. This was tempered with an emphasis on taking responsibility for one's own actions.[10]
Because of the thick fur that covered them, Tynnans typically did not wear clothing. They did, however, wear belts with numerous pouches in which to carry items.[11]
"This is obviously an act of terrorism. What did the Republic do to stop this? Where are our Jedi? That's it for Tynna. I'll be contacting Count Dooku once we can establish new government headquarters somewhere."
―Razelfiin[src]
The Tynnan homeworld, an arboreal world,[12] lying in a sheltered corner of the Expansion Region, was discovered by Republic scouts[3] during the Great Manifest Period between 20,000 BBY and 15,000 BBY.[13] Tynna was located on a stable hyperlane that came to be known as the Shipwrights' Trace.[14] After negotiations with the shrewd Tynnans, the Republic commenced full-scale corporate development of the world, careful to protect its natural beauty. The Tynnan share of the resulting profits was reinvested into society, and, per capita, Tynna became one of the more affluent worlds in the Republic.[3] Tynna stayed within the Republic through the Great Sith War,[15] but was part of a small region of the Trailing Sectors captured by Darth Revan's Sith Empire during the Jedi Civil War of 3959 BBY to 3956 BBY.[16] Tynna was reintegrated into the Republic, where it remained during the New Sith Wars.[17] Sometime during Tynna's membership in the Republic, a collection of Sith materials was hidden on the planet, to be later uncovered by the Jedi Order in the process of preventing the rising of a Sith cult.[18]
An Imperial agent interacts with a pair of Tynnans.
The Tynnan government became a key business partner in the Corporate Sector[19] following its establishment in 500 BBY.[20] In 22 BBY, the Clone Wars broke: a massive galactic conflict between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Tynna was targeted by the Confederacy as one of several worlds with dissatisfied alien populations—others included Ando and Sy Myrth.[21] That year, Tynna was subjected to a suspected terrorist attack: within the space of two hours, the Tynna Central Government Building had been completely destroyed by an infestation of stone mites. Disgusted by the lack of Republic and Jedi prevention of the incident, the recently selected planetary leader Razelfiin declared her intention to contact Count Dooku and quit the Republic.[6] While Tynna seceded from the Republic shortly thereafter,[22] they returned to the Republic prior to the end of the war,[23] with their governmental representative, Senator Streamdrinker, serving in the Galactic Senate until 19 BBY.[7]
Following the Republic victory over the Confederacy and the subsequent transition to the Galactic Empire, Tynna was appointed an Imperial governor. With little respect for their systems, the Governor was determined to increase the profit-producing capacity of the Tynnans and pressured the legislature into capitulating to his goals. Despite their accommodation, the governor was not satisfied.[10] The Empire eventually launched a full-scale invasion of the planet. Tynnan foresight, however, had predicted such a move: an impenetrable planetary shield allowed them to resist the invasion and protect their planet from conquest.[2] At one point, the Alliance to Restore the Republic considered establishing a base on the planet, but ultimately rejected the location in favor of Yavin 4.[24] The Hutt Borga Besadii Diori ran spice through Tynna, overseen by her agent Crev Bombaasa.[25]
Tynna later joined the New Republic, and from 7 ABY to 9 ABY, it was one of several New Republic strongholds.[26] During the New Republic's rule, Mammon Hoole included an entry on the Tynnans in his publication The Essential Guide to Alien Species.[2] During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Tynna fell to a Yuuzhan Vong force composed of several warships. While the Battle of Tynna was observed by some New Republic Intelligence officers, there was nothing they could do to prevent the planet's fall; the Tynnan defense force numbered no more than 200 starfighters and quickly fell to the invaders.[25] With the space battle lost, members of the Peace Brigade managed to trick the Tynnans into giving up the world without a shot fired.[19] A group of 200 Tynnans met the Yuuzhan Vong landing forces outside the Tanallay Surge complex to surrender the planet. The conquerors swiftly set about bioforming the planet's ocean. The blue waters turned a sickly pale yellow and were prepared to grow dovin basals[25] and communications villips[27] for use in later stages of the Yuuzhan Vong conquest. The Yuuzhan Vong also forced Tynnans in slave camps to reeducate and train them as caretakers for the growths.[25][19] Dovin basals from Tynna were later used in the conquest of Caluula Station.[28] Those Tynnans that managed to escape their planet joined the already large numbers of galactic refugees in the Republic, and their particular experiences at the hands of the invaders further heightened refugee fears. This gave the Senate Select Committee for Refugees new impetus to establish safe corridors and transit points.[19]
The Yuuzhan Vong were eventually defeated in 27 ABY by the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, a coalition of polities that replaced the New Republic.[29] The Tynnans had diplomatic representation with the Galactic Alliance;[30] however, following the Alliance's defeat, Tynna was part of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.[31]
Tynnans in the galaxy Edit
Dawson in an Ithorian spacesuit.
"Move your tail, Dawson! Noone wants us back at the ship."
―Kels Turkhorn[src]
Due to the wealth of their planet and the state-run economy, many Tynnans were free to travel the galaxy as tourists.[3] Two Tynnans who settled offworld were Cham and Nog Teleus. Around 29 BBY, they moved to the Cularin system after making fortunes working in industry. The pair hosted a large celebration to mark the 125th anniversary of the Cularin Compact, during which some of their artworks were stolen. The recovery of the items eventually led to the rescue of Jedi Knight Ji-Ad Sarain, who had been frozen in carbonite.[8] Another notable Tynnan during this period was Senator Streamdrinker. He served in the Senate as a result of his election by lottery[7] and was a signatory on the Petition of 2000—a group of senators urging the Supreme Chancellor to give up some of the emergency powers granted him for the duration of the Clone Wars. This political association later led to his arrest by Imperial Intelligence as one of sixty-three senators charged with conspiracy and treason in relation to the Jedi Insurgency. Along with peers such as Senators Grebleips and Fang Zar, Streamdrinker was held in custody and encouraged to name his accomplices.[32]
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the Tynnan Odumin attained the powerful post of Territorial Administrator in the Corporate Sector Authority. He received his promotion after an undercover mission in which he saved the life of High Inquisitor Laddinare Torbin from an attack by the religious cult known as the Church of the First Frequency. Following his promotion, he kept his identity as a Tynnan a secret, and so was able to continue on undercover missions. In this role, he cracked numerous slaving and criminal operations in the Corporate Sector, such as the Xiochi slaver gang. On one notable undercover mission, he posed as a debt collector named Spray. Working alongside Han Solo, he managed to stop a highly placed slaver ring.[1] Odumin later released his memoirs[2] and was regarded as a hero on his homeworld.[1] Many Tynnans were encouraged by his success to take more active roles in the galaxy.[33]
A less auspicious Tynnan was the professional thief and demolitions expert Dawson. Having spent eighteen years free of responsibility on Tynna, he was selected in the lottery to fill a role in the Tynnan government. Horrified at the prospect, he fled and eventually joined up with Cecil Noone and his crew of professional thieves. Dawson brought his demolitions skills to their tasks, most notably in the heist of a Hapan Gun of Command from the Ithorian Herdship Song of the Clouds.[5] The team struggled to find a buyer for their unique item and was forced to approach the dangerous Krish hunter Tyro Viveca. This contact turned the tables on Noone, hunting the thief in his compound on Kabal. It was only Dawson's demolitions skills that enabled the team of thieves to defeat Viveca and escape the planet.[34]
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, a number of Tynnans escaped the slave camps on their world and joined the numerous refugees circulating the galaxy.[19] Following the establishment of the Galactic Alliance, a Tynnan diplomat accompanied Alliance commander Gar Stazi on a peace-keeping observation tour to Kuthard in the Sepan sector.[30]
"Many sci-fi anthropomorphics are based off cats (including Daley's own Trianii), but Tynnans are a goofy cross between an otter and a beaver. You can't think of a *less* intimidating figure than a Tynnan, yet they're sharp and smart. I like that."
―Daniel Wallace[src]
The Tynnans were created by Brian Daley for his novel Han Solo's Revenge (1979). One of the novel's main supporting characters is Odumin, who works with Han Solo while undercover as "Spray." Following this debut, they appeared in a number of West End Games sourcebooks and two Essential Guides, which fleshed out their culture and homeworld. The species was a favorite of author Daniel Wallace,[35] who included a Tynnan thief in his two short stories, The Great Herdship Heist (1997) and its sequel Fair Prey (2000), and in his Star Wars Insider article Who's Who in the Delegation of 2000 (2005).
This creature from Endor may have been a Tynnan.
The New Jedi Order series novel The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse describes the fall of Tynna to the Yuuzhan Vong, with a small Tynnan space force quickly defeated in battle. The conquest of Tynna was later detailed in The New Jedi Order Sourcebook, which explains that the Tynnans were "tricked by Peace Brigade operatives into surrendering their world to the Yuuzhan Vong without firing a single shot." This later description must apply to the ground conquest only.
The Star Wars: Ewoks episode "The Season Scepter" contains two otter-like individuals as companions to the Sun King on Endor. These could be Tynnans, as the article Castaways of Endor establishes that navigational anomalies in the region had shipwrecked a significant number of offworlders on the moon.[36]
Daniel Wallace has indicted that he considers Bowspritz, a Jedi in the in-universe publication The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, to be a Tynnan; however, this has yet to be confirmed canonically.[37]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rodian
Cloak and Vibroblade
Tynna to Secede Following Building Disappearance—HoloNet News Vol. 531 #53 (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
"Republic HoloNet News Special Inaugural Edition 16:5:241"—Star Wars Insider 84
Han Solo's Revenge (First appearance)
"The Great Herdship Heist"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 15
"Fair Prey"—Star Wars Gamer 1
The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
The New Jedi Order: Balance Point
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Heroes & Rogues (Picture only)
Alien Encounters
Star Wars Encyclopedia
Star Wars: Behind the Magic
A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
The Essential Guide to Alien Species
The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
"Who's Who in the Delegation of 2000"—Star Wars Insider 85
Odumin in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
The Essential Reader's Companion
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 The Essential Guide to Alien Species
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
↑ The Jedi Path. (Now you too can actually pretend with slightly more accuracy that you're a Jedi!) on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by Dan_Wallace on 10/25/10 1:50pm) (backup link)
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rodian
↑ Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook, p. 65
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Alien Encounters
↑ This is based on consistency across all depictions of Tynnans, none with clothing.
↑ A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
↑ The Essential Atlas, p. 120
↑ The Essential Atlas, p. 19
↑ Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 The New Jedi Order Sourcebook, p. 89
↑ The New Essential Chronology, p. 51
↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Refresher Reading"—Star Wars Insider 92
↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
↑ The Essential Atlas, p. 198, 200
↑ The New Essential Chronology, p. 209
↑ The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
↑ 30.0 30.1 The Essential Guide to Warfare, p. 240
↑ Star Wars Encyclopedia, p. 319
"HoloNet News: The Annotated Edition" – Continuity, Criticisms and Captain Panaka, Daniel Wallace's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
↑ Castaways of Endor
"Endnotes for Star Wars: The Jedi Path (part 1 of 4)" – Continuity, Criticisms, and Captain Panaka, Daniel Wallace's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
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Open Mic UK Regional Final – Midlands
Open Mic UK Regional Final
In a thoroughly entertaining UK Open Mic Regional heat (Midlands) audience and judges were entertained by 27 potential young singing stars of the future who were competing in the 16-20 year olds category. The ultimate prize for the winner is £5,000 and an extensive winners publicity package. However, today was about getting through to the Midlands Regional Final on 24th November 2013.
There were mainly ballads and cover versions sung which became a tad monotonous after hearing so many.
One of the judges was even moved to remind the singers that this was a talent contest to find a star and singers needed to put some life into their performances and sing as if they had lived the lyrics.
The next performer on must have heard that. Nicci, from Redditch, who had previously lived in Jamaica for seven years, passionately belted out Myley Cyrus’s hit ‘Wrecking ball’. Sung just as if she truly felt the lyrics. Very enjoyable and a welcome break from the ballads.
Rhianna was by far the most covered artist of the night. Now that’s not something you often read! There were excellent performances from the likes of Italian Alicia Antoinetta, who delivered an excellent cover of ‘We found love.’ In her gorgeous silver dress Alicia looked every bit a star.
Surprisingly that’s something a lot of contestants let themselves down just by not dressing the part. This was show business after all.
Shannon beautifully sang a cover of Rhianna’s ‘Stay‘.
Another smash hit of the afternoon was Davina Wills (16) from Wolverhampton who sang a sensational version of Beyonce’s ‘One plus One‘. She too must have listened to the judge too as she was the first singer to really ‘own’ the stage, moving around confidently, making eye contact and singing directly to the audience.
This was an impressive, highly assured, confident and big performance for quite a vocally challenging song. Allied to the fact Davina is just 16 and singing for the first time in front of such a big audience at the prestigious NEC, this made her performance all the more impressive.
After 1.5 hours the show was almost over. It was time for the judges and audience to vote.
The winner is …
In fact, there were to be not one, not two, not merely three, but seven shortlisted to go through to the regional final.
Congratulations to them all. Watch videos of many of the performers. I look forward to seeing more from these potential young stars of the future.
You can vote on-line for a favourite who didn’t make it through to the final seven. Details via the links below.
Regional Finals
The final seven all go on to perform at the Midlands Final on Sunday 24th November at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham. The London & East Final is on the same day at The Beck Theatre, Hayes.
Information and tickets can be found here for the October and November 2013 shows and January 2014 Grand Final at the O2 arena.
Judges feedback can be read here
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Excellent competition! Impressive young talent and was much more interesting than I thought it would be.
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Thanks Pauline. Yes it was. So much so, that as a result of her superb and energy filled performance, one young singer, Nicci, has been booked to sing at The Black Comedy Awards 2013, the 10th anniversary of the awards no less. The awards take place in London on 19th December 2013. Tickets available on-line, as well as public voting too.
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The #Vintage #Vixens of Dead #Hollywood
Of all the deepest pains in this world, love can be the most painful. Love really does kill, especially if the love involves one man and 3 women, all desperately wanting to keep his love. When fighting for who you love, there are no rules, and sometimes blood is even shed. Using a vintage + thrift store costume collection, the incredible make up and hair stylings of Betty Guevara (Eye Bleed Glitter), and three beautiful model super stars, the Trash Mob depicts a story of love, obsession, betrayal and murder.
I hope you enjoy my campy (and unintentionally sexist) tale of the biggest bitch fight in history.
One man. He rules the streets, the underground crime rings, and the hearts of three beautiful, cold blooded women. He seems to have a power over them that evokes a sinister loyalty, perhaps an obsession within all of the women who fall in love with him. A man with so many enemies really needs a woman who would die for him, a woman who would kill for him. But like money and the quests to obtain it in excess, the dirty roads of greediness create darker monsters in the game of love. He had everything a man could ever want, his empire, the Hollywood Casino, gave him a life of endless sex, money, drugs and power. Sometimes when you want too much, you end up with nothing. The elaborate planning and delicate balance can blow up in your face. When he messed with the wrong women, he ended up alone, with not a single beating heart left of the three that were endlessly devoted to him.
Ginger caught his eye the moment she entered his underground Casino world. She was a fiery red head who made even this cold, composed man feel nervous. His heart could never belong to just one person, but he knew he wanted her to have it. She made a loyal and dependable right side woman, and he knew he could trust her to be loyal to the end, no matter what trouble it meant for her. She gave up her life as a lounge singer, and entered the world of violence and crime to be with the man she worshipped.
When he found her lifeless body in a pool of blood, he admired how beautiful she still was. Red had always been her color. With a world of broken promises and destruction he had created, this loss could easily be a chilling revenge from one of his enemies, however in his heart, he knew this carnage likely came from within his innermost circle, as it reeked of revenge and jealousy all over the scene. Only a broken heart could slay a woman in this way. His heart longingly ached at the thought she would know longer be beside him in his car, riding in the darkest hours of the night, her angelic voice singing softly to him as he rested his hand in her lap.
The blood on the carpet was full of poison, but her heart was filled with everlasting rage. One mistress had killed her but there was still another that Ginger wanted removed. She couldn’t bear to see her sweet smile or hear her bubbly laughter parading around the casino with him as his main girlfriend, thinking she was the only one.
She didn’t want to begin her blood bath too soon, there was quite a show unfolding that she could only see after her death. There were more secrets and scandal about to unfold, but when the moment was right, she was ready to take her golden blade, and slit that pretty little neck of the one he seemed to adore so much.
Her loyalty and love was too strong for only her earthly existence. She would kill for him until the end of time.
Babe was a college girl, pure sugar and sweetness. He fell in love with her smile and her ability to make him laugh. Nobody would ever guess the dark sides that emerged from Babe the deeper in love she fell with him. The Casino life turned her world upside down, she saw things that couldn’t be unseen, but none of it mattered as long as she had him. She felt she was born for him, and she had no doubt she would one day die for him. When her closest friend became one of his lovers, her heart broke, but when she got in the way of another one of his lovers, her neck broke too.
When Ginger had been murdered, she knew her days were numbered. The last time he spoke to Babe, she told him how much she loved him, but not in her doting usual way. She told him she loved him in a way that sounded like a goodbye forever. “I love you more than anyone or anything I will ever love in this life”, she said to him. He could feel the love he had for her, and although his heart felt his own version of love for this sweet voiced beauty, he could not speak the words in return. He never could.
She sparkled like a diamond, even upon her death. The multiple knife slashes across her swan like neck were screaming signs of rage and jealousy, tell tale wounds of her possible killer. When he found her delicate little frame crumpled on the floor near his bed, his heart sank and tears filled his eyes. Although he would never cry, he began to feel a semblance of guilt, knowing it was he who set free the monsters within his mistresses.
Despite her innocent and pure hearted demeanor, Babe was a master of his golden gun. He taught her to use it and it was her job to always keep it safe, but to only use it in defending his honor if the occasion arrived. She had been slain at the dead hands of one mistress, but there was yet another one she wanted to settle the score with.
She never would have thought that her closest friend in the world would have done this to hero, but she should have known his magnetic charm was too much for her to resist. Having a friend so seductive and beautiful was only playing with fire around him, but she could never in her blinded heart blame him for the affair that was sparked with her former friend. It was the ultimate betrayal and it spun her into sheer madness.
With blood on her hands and fury in her heart, she used the Golden Gun to defend the love that had been broken for the man who was her world.
Scarlet was the Queen of the underground world. As her name denotes, she was a walking beautiful scandal that all who laid eyes upon her could not resist. Every man who met her became infatuated with her, but she never found a man who could give her all that she desired. Sometimes the world was never enough for her. Not a single woman trusted her, yet she formed an unlikely bond with Babe and guided her through this life of scandal and sin. She didn’t mean to break Babe’s heart, but HE was the only man who had ever made her heart feel anything at all. She had to have him, it didn’t matter at what cost.
For all the hearts and homes she had broken in her young life, he couldn’t imagine his sweet Babe would be the one to pull the trigger. A once beautiful sisterhood was slaughtered because nothing in their lives could prove to be stronger or more important than their obsessive desire to belong to him.
Scarlet had rarely known or experience competition. She believed that stealing his heart would be easy. She had Babe in her back pocket, but what she didn’t know was that she also had Ginger in the game. Ginger was not a woman she could compete with, their beauty was a fair match and Ginger seemed to have him entranced. Scarlet didn’t care to outshine or outsmart Ginger, she had to remove her from the game all together.
After Scarlet discovered the secret casino quarters that he and Ginger met for their affairs, she arranged a secret meeting of her own with Ginger. Scarlet arranged a romantic spread of strawberries and champagne and hid in the room, waiting for Ginger to arrive. As Ginger primped and prepped for her meeting with him, she eagerly helped herself to the fine champagne, the liquid gold she loved so much, unknowingly swallowing cyanide. As she seized and choked, Scarlet was possessed with an evil rage and beat her face in with the bottle as she watched Ginger die a painful death.
In her twisted heart she felt she was just taking care of business. She wouldn’t let anybody in life stop her from getting what she wanted, and the only thing she desired was him. When he found his Scarlet slumped across the seats of the Casino theater, he knew he truly was alone. He knew he had caused this. He knew he drove three women to madness because they loved him so much.
His heart wanted to break, but he didn’t have it in him. Being numb and stiff inside kept him alive through his dangerous games. Perhaps it is why he needed to be surrounded with women who felt everything so deeply and intensely. He wanted too much, greed would always be his downfall, but there was no time to stop and feel. He had each body removed and disposed, tossed out like trash. He continued to pull women into his world, one after the other, as the three jealous beauties continued to watch from their after lives. He never seemed to lose his touch, but he could never get a woman to stay around long in the days after the murders.
Although their bodies and flawless faces were long gone from the Casino, they continued to live in the place they had killed and been killed, trying forever to guard his heart and terrorize the women who dared to fall in love with their man.
Thousands of secrets live behind the Hollywood Casino doors. The girls decide which ones come out and which ones are locked up forever. He didn’t believe in much, didn’t even believe in God, he thought he was going crazy for years as the voices and faces of his slaughtered lovers followed him through his days and nights. As he laid in bed at night, the soft lavender fragrance Babe used to wear would fill the room and he could hear her soft sweet whisper, “I love you more than anyone or anything I will ever love in this life”.
He had to constantly convince himself it was just his imagination seeing Scarlet’s sultry eyes burning from the darkest rooms, her beautiful curves dancing in the shadows. “Come to me”, her eyes would say, just as they had always done before. He drank more than he ever did to fight the madness overcoming him.
He couldn’t ride alone in his car for more than 5 minutes without hearing Ginger’s soulful voice singing songs of broken hearts and sorrow. “Stop singing!” he would scream in terror, and just when one voice stopped, he would hear another. The depth of their desires, and the intensity of their love for him could not be stopped as easily as their beating hearts were. Their longing for him and feelings had no place to go, forever with him as they had always promised.
It is said that Ginger, Babe and Scarlet still roam the halls and chambers of the Hollywood Casino to this day. Local legend says that anytime champagne is served in the Cigar Lounge (formerly the secret chamber for Ginger), that the people who drink the champagne become violently ill. It has been said that a lavender aroma has filled the noses of the visitors from time to time. More chilling yet, an unidentified soulful singer often interrupts the airwaves of radios and televisions within the building, crying softly and singing songs of heartbreak and sadness.
Perhaps this tale can serve as a lesson about greed, loyalty and love. But most importantly, never get in the way of a woman and what she desires most in life.
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(W) John McLaughlin (A) Jon Malin, Rob Liefeld (CA) Rob Liefeld
It's the 20th anniversary of the comic book that launched the Image Revolution in 1992! ROB LIEFELD's YOUNGBLOOD returns bigger and better than ever with an all-new look at the next generation of superheroes, courtesy of screenwriter JOHN McLAUGHLIN (Black Swan, Parker), up-and-coming artist JON MALIN and YOUNGBLOOD creator and Image founder ROB LIEFELD!
In this first issue, a young reporter is embedded in the Youngblood team. Her assignment is to gather enough information for a humiliating puff piece, but she quickly discovers Shaft, Vogue, Lady Photon, Die Hard and Cougar are a team to be reckoned with. Badrock would be part of the group too... if he wasn't in a coma with wounds that have nearly pulverized his otherwise rock-hard hide.
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Aileen Lee is the founder of the early-stage venture firm Cowboy Ventures. Before Cowboy, she spent roughly a dozen years with the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she worked with numerous companies, including Bloom Energy, Blue Nile, Rent the Runway, and TellMe. Aileen, who has degrees from MIT and HBS, has also held operating roles at Gap Inc., The North Face, and Odwalla and started her career at Morgan Stanley.
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Vivek Ramaswamy has been making waves in the biotech world since creating his company, Roivant, in 2014, to acquire drug candidates that have been forgotten or abandoned for largely strategic reasons. Investors love him for it, too; they've given him more than $1 billion in funding to date. In exchange, the Yale Law School grad and former hedge fund analyst has delivered them the biggest biotech IPOs in 2015 and 2016 through two spin-off companies that Roivant has created around separate drug candidates.
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A former fashion assistant and contributor for Teen Vogue and W magazine, Emily Weiss started her beauty blog, Into the Gloss, to focus on what she concluded was a lack of beauty product coverage elsewhere. By 2014, the NYU grad had launched a beauty line, Glossier, with four products. That small portfolio that has since turned into a beloved brand that regularly racks up waiting lists for its brow gels and serums and has attracted $35 million from investors along the way.
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Eric Liaw is a general partner at the later-stage investment firm Institutional Venture Partners, which he joined in 2011 from Technology Crossover Ventures. Earlier in his career, Eric, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford, worked in Morgan Stanley’s tech investing banking group. Eric sits on the board or is board observer of a wide variety of companies, including Glossier, The Honest Company, GitHub, and App Annie.
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Old Ballantruan ‘The Peated Malt’ ~ 50% (Angus Dundee Distillers)
By Barry Bradford on December 18, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )
Old Ballantruan ‘The Peated Malt’
Peated Speyside single malt scotch whisky
50% ABV, £36.95 for 70cl from Royal Mile Whiskies
Score: 83/100
“Old Ballantruan” owes its name to an exceptional source of the purest of waters, the Ballantruan Spring, nestling in the Cromdale Hills close to Tomintoul, the highest village in the Scottish Highlands.
After ‘sleeping’ for many years in hand-picked oak barrels, this whisky has been bottled at 50% volume and without any chill-filtration in order to retain its layered and integrated peaty flavours.
Staff Tasting Notes
Nose: Youthful, malty, chocolate, wet turf.
Palate: Soft creamy / oily mouthfeel (mostly at fore), Sweet malt and peat.
Finish: Cold haggis, bitumen, touch of thick cardboard.
Overall: With water more tar and bitterness evolves. Good value!
Official Tasting Notes
Colour: Warm gold
Nose: Heathery smoke balanced with subtle floral notes
Taste: Gentle “peat reek” flavours with hints of citrus tones malty nuttiness
Finish: Lingering smoke and peat with touch of malted barley sweetness
What I say:
And finally to Tomintoul in Speyside to try the antithesis of speyside whisky – Old Ballantruan ‘The Peated Malt’. This no-age statement, heavily-peated malt arrives at 50% ABV and hits you like a steam train straight off of Islay. This had oodles of peat smoke but was also sweet like dry roasted peanuts with hints of cereal flavours. The finish was long, sweet and peaty and I found it very enjoyable as this was fire in a glass but with no harshness to it. The overriding flavour was frazzles [salty, smoky bacon flavour corn snacks]. This week the peat-freaks had turned, opting for the Yoichi, I however really enjoyed this one, possibly having recently reviewed the Tomintoul 10 Year Old I really appreciated the elegant poise of both the peated malt and Speyside elements complexing in this.
Originally sampled at Water of Life Society Tasting Event #2 The exception to the rule
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Our August lawn party with André Alexis, André Narbonne, and Dorothy Mahoney
André Alexis, author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Fifteen Dogs, entertains with a never-before-read passage from his forthcoming novel, Days by Moonlight
On Sunday, a record crowd came out to enjoy an afternoon with Giller Prize-winning author André Alexis, along with local writers André Narbonne and Dorothy Mahoney. The weather was perfect, freshly roasted coffee was served by Red Lantern Coffee Co., and Stephen Phillips played early jazz of the 1920s from the bed of his 1945 Chevrolet. The mood of the afternoon was as bright as you'd expect, carried by laughter and conversations around the book signing table.
The readings started, as they always do, with poetry. This time it from our friend Dorothy Mahoney, who recited a few pieces from her latest collection, Off-leash. Like the title implies, the work involves dogs. But not in a superficial way. Dorothy's look into our relationship with canines was written to develop, in her words, “a larger commentary on love, loyalty, betrayal, and, at times, abuse.”
Poet Dorothy Mahoney reading from her latest collection, Off-leash
Next came André Narbonne, a writer, poet, and professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor. He read a fable that was originally published in the Windsor-based literary journal Rampike, then a poem from a forthcoming collection due out this fall from Black Moss Press. One of the things I find fascinating about Narbonne—who's quickly become a valued member of the region's cultural community—is that he arrived relatively late to academia, having first labored as a maritime engineer. He was living out of his duffel bag when he arrived in Halifax on a damaged tanker in the mid-eighties. Years later, he completed two degrees in English at Dalhousie University, before going on to earn his Ph.D. His early experiences helped add remarkable authenticity to his story collection, Twelve Miles to Midnight, which was recently named a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award—a prize that recognizes the best debut short fiction collection by a Canadian author.
Andre Narbonne reads from a fable first published in Windsor's literary journal Rampike
Finally, our guest of honor, André Alexis, took the stage. Rather than deliver a lengthy preamble, he announced the work was from his forthcoming novel, Days by Moonlight—the fourth in his five-book series—and jumped in. The passage he read was from the book's second chapter, set in small town of southwestern Ontario, where its residents establish an annual parade in honor of marginalized Canadians and Canadian history. Despite the best intentions of the townsfolk, everything goes comically awry. Alexis' deadpan delivery heightened the scene's increasingly surreal humor, drawing bigger laughs as the reading progressed. (Interesting, as we learned later at the party, it turned out that the last bit of what Alexis read had been penned early that same morning.)
Thanking our participants
After the readings, we socialized, enjoyed refreshments, and had our books signed. Then door prizes were drawn. One of the winners, Rev. Morley Pinkney, left with a copy of David William's new novel, When the English Fall, along with the latest issue of The Walrus, and a gift certificate for dinner at The Main Grill & Ale House in downtown Kingsville. Two others won similarly cool swag. Most stayed to mingle and listen to music until Stephen packed up his truck.
Stephen Phillip's 1945 Chevrolet, with antique phonographs and records
Quite a few said it was the region's most memorable literary event of the year. A great portion of its success is thanks to our excellent participants, but also to the support the community. First and foremost, we're grateful for our hardworking volunteers, especially Chris Andrechek, who handled book sales; Stephen Phillips, who shared his rare music; Sharon Hanna and Philip Munroe, who assisted with a number of matters; Kirk Munroe for serving as our parking officer; and others. Huge thanks to Craig Marentette of Red Lantern Coffee Co., who'll be slinging java at all our future parties; the excellent independent businesses who donated gift certificates for our raffle—The Butcher of Kingsville, Merli's Coffeehouse & Eatery, and The Main—and the publishers who supplied our book table: Windsor's own Black Moss Press and Palimpsest Press, as well as Coach House Books of Toronto. Thanks also to the staff of the Pelee Island Winery, who graciously offered their event space as an alternative rain location, and to the Kingsville BIA, Mayor Nelson Santos, and Councilor Tony Gaffan for their outreach and advice. Finally, we owe a debt of thanks to all our friends in the local media, including Craig Pearson of The Windsor Star; Jerome Vaughn of WDET, Detroit's NPR affiliate; Colin Côté-Paulette of CBC Windsor / Radio-Canada; Nathan Swinn of CBC's Afternoon Drive; Louann Geauvreau-Karry of The Kingsville Reporter; and Nelson Santos of the same.
But most of all—thanks to all who joined us. In just two short years, you've helped Woodbridge Farm's events and sold-out classes grow to become the highlight of Windsor-Essex's summer lit scene.
Raffling off three door prizes
In the coming weeks, I'll post a more comprehensive look back on the season as a whole, with a few words about planning that's currently underway for next summer. Until then, enjoy a restful Labor Day weekend.
André with students of his day-long class on experimental fiction
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“I am not positive that’s the quickest means for us to get there,” O’Rourke instructed newshounds outdoor a marketing campaign prevent right here.
The Texas Democrat as soon as recommended Medicare for All, which in its purest shape would exchange each American’s medical health insurance plan with one run by means of the federal government, in impact finishing non-public medical health insurance in the USA.
O’Rourke mentioned Friday he is open to a complete single-payer program within the long-run, however that he sees a extra instant answer in proposals that might permit American citizens to make a choice to shop for into Medicare or stay their present plans.
“It permits other people to stay employer-based insurance coverage, a lot of whom wish to do this,” he mentioned. “Over the years, I’m hoping Medicare has the funding, the buy-in important, turns into sexy sufficient that individuals make a selection to depart employer-based insurance coverage as a substitute of being compelled to enroll in Medicare.”
Whilst O’Rourke mentioned his presidential marketing campaign will proceed the grassroots, populist theme of his Senate run, which broke fundraising information in spite of rejecting all PAC cash, he’ll want to carve out a coverage area for himself in a crowded Democratic box. Fanatics have likened him to former President Barack Obama, and his coverage positions may duvet extra centrist flooring than a few of his Democratic opponents on a number of problems.
Right here’s what we learn about the place O’Rourke stands on different problems.
1. Impeachment
Throughout his Senate marketing campaign in opposition to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz remaining yr, O’Rourke mentioned he would vote to transport ahead with impeachment hearings in opposition to Trump.
Requested once more about the problem Friday, O’Rourke mentioned it is as much as Congress to make a decision and that the 2020 presidential election is one of the best ways to take away Trump from place of job. However he hasn’t modified his opinion at the president’s guilt.
“In case you are asking me, has the president dedicated impeachable offenses? Sure. Duration,” O’Rourke mentioned.
2. Immigration/border safety
O’Rourke, who switches fluidly between English and Spanish, represented the border town of El Paso, and has supported complete immigration reform. He additionally has mentioned he believes undocumented immigrants delivered to the U.S. as youngsters, or Dreamers, deserve a trail to citizenship. O’Rourke has sharply denounced Trump’s border wall and anti-immigration insurance policies, railing in opposition to the management’s circle of relatives separations and makes an attempt to reject asylum seekers on the border.
He mentioned the border barrier in El Paso must be taken down.
three. Taxes
O’Rourke instructed CBS This Morning on Friday that he favors elevating taxes at the rich and firms, regardless that he declined to call numbers.
“I believe companies must be requested to pay a better proportion into the good fortune of this nation,” he mentioned. “The wealthiest at a time of historical revenue inequality must be requested to pay a better proportion. I have no idea what the degrees must be at, however I do know that the tax cuts from just about two years in the past of $2 trillion at a time that we had $21 trillion in debt, at a second of ordinary want around the nation, was once some of the irresponsible issues that the rustic has ever accomplished.”
four. Local weather exchange/atmosphere
O’Rourke, who has a 95 p.c lifetime ranking from the League of Conservation Electorate, would opposite Trump’s choice to withdraw from the Paris local weather settlement. As a Senate candidate, he touted incentives for brand spanking new and renewable power assets, and in the past has known as for funding in blank power and hostile the Keystone XL pipeline.
He mentioned after saying his run for president on Thursday that he helps the speculation of a Inexperienced New Deal, however with out delving into specifics.
five. Capitalism
It is a query each 2020 Democrat has been requested, because of the presence within the race of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described democratic socialist.
O’Rourke, who owned a small internet design industry, calls himself a capitalist however makes it transparent he sees main flaws with the machine.
“Now having mentioned that, it’s obviously a less than perfect, unfair, unjust and racist capitalist financial system,” O’Rourke mentioned at a marketing campaign tournament in Mt. Delightful, Iowa, on Friday.
6. Felony justice
As a Senate candidate, O’Rourke, who has mentioned he was once arrested as a tender guy for forcible access and for inebriated riding, known as for getting rid of non-public, for-profit prisons, legalizing marijuana and expunging the information of the ones imprisoned for its ownership. He additionally subsidized finishing obligatory minimal sentencing for nonviolent drug offenses and as a substitute treating habit as a public well being worry. O’Rourke subsidized getting rid of the money bail machine, which he says punishes the deficient disproportionately and developing “significant reentry” methods to cut back recidivism.
7. Financial system
O’Rourke, who was once a member of the fiscally reasonable New Democrat Coalition, says the rustic wishes to make use of the ability of the marketplace to deal with main demanding situations. However he additionally helps some laws to give protection to shoppers and more potent antitrust regulations to get a divorce monopolies.
He has hostile Trump’s price lists, pronouncing they result in tit-for-tat remedy that makes U.S. merchandise costlier and no more aggressive and in the end impacting jobs, whilst additionally pronouncing that he helps fairer industry offers. O’Rourke has rated extremely with exertions unions, calling for beefed-up employee retraining methods and a $15 minimal salary.
eight. Gun regulate
He has known as for a ban on certain semiautomatic assault rifles, supported common background exams and hostile hid raise reciprocity, which might permit the ones authorised to hold a hid firearm in a single state to take action in others.
nine. Training
O’Rourke has opposed school vouchers and known as for expanding assist to public faculties in low-income spaces, in line with The Washington Publish. He additionally has supported focusing much less on standardized trying out and giving lecturers extra autonomy.
Alex Seitz-Wald is a political reporter for NBC Information.
Vaughn Hillyard contributed.
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Nomination Discharged and Executive Calendar
by Senator Mitch McConnell
McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Environment and Public Works Committee be discharged from consideration of PN714 and the Senate proceed to consider the following nominations en bloc: PN714, Calendar Nos. 385, 392, and 426.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the nominations en bloc.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nominations of Richard Capel Howorth, of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2020; Cherry Ann Murray, of Kansas, to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy; Eric Drake Eberhard, of Washington, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation for a term expiring October 6, 2018; and Darryl L. DePriest, of Illinois, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration.
Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the nominations en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the nominations en bloc? If not, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Howorth, Murray, Eberhard, and DePriest nominations en bloc? The nominations were confirmed en bloc.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate; that no further motions be in order to the nominations; that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the Record; that the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action and the Senate then resume legislative session.
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The struggle of Tunisian youth in a radical hotspot
Lamine Ghanmi
Chatting the day away. A Douar Hicher café.
Tunis - Ahmed Ouni is angry and seems desperate when he talks about his prospects as an unemployed young man in Douar Hicher, a working-class neighbourhood near Tunis from where dozens of radical Islamists have left to join battlefields in Iraq and Syria.
“I’m terribly afraid when I look at young people around me here and see they have no jobs and are unable to marry even when they have reached the age of 35 years and more,” said Ahmed, 26, who earned a technician’s diploma from a vocational training school after dropping out of high school.
Douar Hicher came into the spotlight as a radical Salafist stronghold when a young man from the neighbourhood, Hamza Maghraoui, was shown on an Islamic State (ISIS) video in February pushing Jordanian pilot and ISIS hostage Muath al-Kasasbeh into the cage where he was burned to death.
Tunisian gunmen trained in Libya and linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda have also hit closer to home, killing 22 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis in March and 38 tourists at the beach resort of Sousse in June.
Men seated at cafés in Douar Hicher, a few kilometres from the Bardo museum, talked about the news that Maghraoui had been killed in Syria and what drives someone to extremism.
“Finding a decent job for us here is almost impossible. It is a one-sided affair. I’m fighting to find stable work. But I failed to find it because people like us are treated by those in high positions in government like nothing, almost like rubbish,” said Ahmed.
He said while he knocked on the doors of numerous government offices for job to no avail, he worked as a cement mixer, bricklayer or a driver for construction sites.
“It is hard to work for about 15 dinars (about $7) a day. I must help ease the financial pain of my father who, as a retired military man, is providing for my four sisters who do not work,” said Ahmed.
He expressed conflicting feelings about the country and his countrymen.
“Sometimes, I loathe this place and the people living in it as I feel alone and abandoned by all those who could help,” said Ahmed before pausing.
“I love Tunisia but I hope that it would become a country which cares and pays attention to people at the bottom of the social rung,” he said.
The unemployment rate in Tunisia – about 15% — is among the highest in North Africa and university graduates are the hardest hit by joblessness.
Sabri Hamdi, a local leader of Nidaa Tounes, which dominates a four-party ruling coalition, paints a grim picture of life in Douar Hicher for young people.
“It can be described as the ground for hopelessness. There is not one inch of green land for the youth to relax or practice sports. No culture or sports facility for young people. There is only the café to sit and talk in the morning and afternoon,” said Sabri.
Sabri gave the example of a university graduate who works as a waiter to illustrate the hurdles faced by youth looking for jobs.
“After several attempts and thanks to the goodwill of several people, we found him a job as a waiter in a café at a petrol station. He has a high school diploma plus six years at university. ”
Sabri said dozens of young people joined ISIS for money or the belief their death in conflict zones might lend some meaning to their lives.
About 3,000 Tunisians are thought to be fighting in Syria and Iraq, the largest per capita contingent among all nationalities. According to the Tunisian government, in the two years prior to April 2015, it prevented more than 12,000 from leaving Tunisia to join jihadist groups.
A Libyan Justice Ministry spokesman recently estimated the number of Tunisians engaged with jihadist groups in Libya at more than 2,000.
Sabri said dire social and cultural conditions could be the breeding ground for Islamic radicalisation, drug addiction and crime.
“The youth population here are four groups: 30% are linked to drugs and crime; another 30% are attempting to sail illegally to Europe; and 30% are hovering around hard-line Salafists from where some are recruited to Daesh,” he said. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“The remaining 10% are the exception. They are lucky to have good family conditions and to live decent lives.”
Written By Lamine Ghanmi
Lamine Ghanmi is a veteran Reuters journalist. He has covered North Africa for decades and is based in Tunis.
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Posterized March 2018: ‘Gemini,’ ‘Isle of Dogs,’ ‘Foxtrot,’ and More
Written by Jared Mobarak on March 2, 2018
Bottom-heavy
The poster for Isle of Dogs (limited March 23) began as a bottom-heavy design (focal point/content underneath an expansive field of negative space). But now its Japanese characters and extensive cast list has dwarfed the scene. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some say they didn’t even know dogs were included because their sight could never escape the oppressive red of the title. For a tease (of sorts), however, that’s not a bad thing.
Even so, it is nice to see a bit of content for BLT’s next. They’ve put a different scene at bottom and brought the dogs and boy to the forefront within the title itself. It’s still text heavy, but the eccentric stop-motion figures go a long way towards making those names fade into the background. It’s therefore even better then when they’re all removed for your children’s film cliché of putting every character involved inside the frame at once. The red Japanese still pops, but it does so with a milder nudge rather than the previous scream.
InSync Plus’ Lean on Pete (limited March 30) is a more conventional depiction of the design maneuver—so much so that it almost leaves the top two-thirds bare. The text at top and the tag just below it is so thin that it disappears into the night sky as though more stars twinkling. The title is just as narrow, its size giving it the attention it deserves without hijacking our ability to see the rest.
There’s drama here in the somber silhouette of boy and horse under the yellow glow of a light bulb. The whole conjures feelings of hope and potential with “sky’s the limit” sensibilities and a love like that between Atreyu and Artax in The NeverEnding Story. We have an idea of an impending adventure together, something the previous festival sheet lacks. While we can see Charlie Plummer’s face now, it doesn’t add anything to the message. I wouldn’t even be sure that’s his horse through this scene. He could be a vagrant walking up to give it a pet.
InSync Plus is also responsible for The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (limited March 2). It would be lazy to say they’re ripping themselves off by wielding the same stylistic choice again (remember that studios probably say, “We want what you did on Film X” often), so I’ll talk about its similarities to Into the Wild instead. They both show their lead in isolated repose atop a derelict transportation vehicle. They both depict a sense of worry alongside promise—their stories as believably tragic as they might be optimistic.
There’s one thing I really don’t like about it: the title block. I love the font choice with its boldness, tight kerning, and playful serifs leaning left and right as though dancing. But what’s going on with the justification? The top line is right justified, the second and third left. Couple this oddity with the huge disparity in size between them and it would be easier to have just named the film Sidney Hall. Maybe they’re trying to embody the act of “vanishing,” but the boy is the one performing this verb. So shouldn’t his name be what’s fading away? It’s one thing if it fit nicely above the “NEY,” but it doesn’t. It just floats above the “D” as though someone forgot and had to quickly squeeze it in.
And this brings us to ARSONAL’s Thoroughbreds (limited March 9). Here’s a design taking pains to not let any single piece distract from another. It puts its ample negative space in the middle, separating the text from the imagery. The result is a balanced scale between dark title and sofa-sitting cast because the physical is grounded at bottom while the abstract levitates above without true weight to drag it down.
The pregnant silence that exists on the couch between Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy is augmented by the bare wall extending towards infinity above them. It’s sterile and pristine, their angelic façades hiding a darkness alluded to via the blood spot “O” of the title. The tension here rivals that of a second sheet depicting the same scene from a different angle. I’d argue the first is better because it has both girls giving side eye as opposed to one while the other watches TV. The large yellow tagline counteracts the uninterrupted silent judgment that existed too by filling that space. And why isn’t “BAD” touching the edge of the page like every other line above it? I cannot look anywhere else.
There’s a very good possibility that the poster for They Remain (limited March 2) perfectly describes its film to the smallest detail, but you’d never know without having seen it. With all that’s going on—the scared, wide eye at the center; the ouroboros hidden in leaves; and the different bugs littering the scene—it’s tough to get a handle on whether the story takes place in reality or some fantastical nightmare. We assume the latter thanks to an ominous tagline, but who knows? I guess you have to watch it to find out.
In that regard this sheet is a winner. I cannot stand how big and yet compressed the credit box is or the “fakeness” of the title (it looks like a free font wherein the designer took an existing free font and put a bad grunge filter over it), but the imagery is undeniably effective. It’s like a rabbit-hole to Wonderland for us to whirl around as we descend further into madness.
Ignition’s Josie (limited March 16) might not look straight at us like the previous work, but it interacts with us just the same. Whereas that disembodied eye feared what it saw (the viewer), this one gives us form thanks to the reflection of Dylan McDermott. But there’s something more at play here than mere seduction. It uses the imagery of a Lolita to imbue that notion, but it flips it upside down with the heat of a bright neon palette of reds and yellows. She isn’t waiting for us to approach. She’s looming large, showing her dominance from start to finish.
It’s a cool concept that doesn’t quite fire on all cylinders. I don’t think McDermott is necessary or that his presence in both eyes of Sophie Turner’s glasses is realistically drawn. I do like the crop, color scheme, and playfully threatening title font, though. It simply feels like a first draft to what could ultimately become a masterpiece.
I’m a big fan of Foxtrot (limited March 2)—a piece that appears to have gone through many iterations to become the minimalist illustration we now see. I’ve tried to keep myself in the dark as to what this film delivers (my love of the director’s Lebanon enough to place it high on my most anticipated list), so I can’t talk about the actual meaning behind the imagery outside of its provocativeness.
Here’s this man’s face in portraiture covered by a thick black X. Is he not allowed to see what’s coming or does he hope to stop himself from seeing it? I would lean towards the latter simply because of the black-tinted tear running down his check. This isn’t a blindfold denoting execution. He isn’t crying about his own life. No, this is a very methodical disruption of the inevitable. This is a person closing his eyes and covering his ears to pretend he can prevent himself from learning a tragic truth he already knows.
It’s impossible to look at without finding yourself enraptured by its complexities. The mystery of it is its greatest asset because the mood is familiar in a way that makes us squirm in our seats. You can’t say the same about the other advert formed by a film still. It may be interesting with its soldier hugging a gun next to a van with a painted woman underneath dirt and grime. But it’s a surface interest. It’s something that earns a wryly quizzical smile while the other begs us to discover what its subject refuses to see.
If I were to crown a winner this month, however, that victor is definitely Gravillis Inc.’s Flower (limited March 16). I remember seeing this one online when it came out only to discover I never forgot it. Here I was months later looking at the title and knowing the poster without needing to see it again. That’s power.
It’s so simple too. I assume the image of Zoey Deutch is from the film, but it’s staged perfectly for the purposes of this poster regardless. She’s staring at us with a look of comfort, confrontation, and perhaps invitation as well. We don’t need to know what the flower on her tongue is (drug, embroidered patch, sticker, etc.) because it is of less consequence than the act itself existing within a duality of harmlessness and sexuality.
Transforming that yellow circle into the “O” of the title becomes a genius move because it ensures that we see it. Her eyes are locked with ours and yet we’re drawn to her mouth instead. Place her a bit to the left so the title is centered and the effect loses its unsettling importance. The fact it’s off-center is huge insofar as it stops us from being stuck along the x- or y-axis. We are given freedom by this slight misplacement to roam where we will. So when we inevitably land on her tongue, it feels like we got there without help. With the strings of manipulation removed, we find that guilt and embarrassment replace it.
What is your favorite March release poster? What could have used a rework?
See More: A Wrinkle In Time, ARSONAL, BLT COMMUNICATIONS LLC, Claire's Camera, Death Wish, Flower, Foxtrot, Gemini, Gravillis Inc., Gringo, I Can Only Imagine, Ignition, InSync Plus, Isle of Dogs, Ismael's Ghosts, Josie, LA, Lean on Pete, Outside In, P+A, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Posterized Propaganda, Ready Player One, Sherlock Gnomes, Spin Destiny, The China Hustle, The Leisure Seeker, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, They Remain, Thoroughbreds
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CTA/Pace North Shore Coordination Plan
Pace, in partnership with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), has initiated the North Shore Transit Service Coordination Plan and Market Analysis. This study will include a review of existing Pace and CTA routes in the North Shore area, including portions of the cities of Chicago and Evanston and the villages of Lincolnwood, Skokie and Wilmette. The primary goals of the project are to improve coordination of Pace and CTA services in the North Shore on overlapping corridors, as well as investigating opportunities for new service.
Other goals of the North Shore Coordination Plan include:
Improving overall transit service in North Shore area
Improving/optimizing coordination of Pace and CTA services by:
Studying existing travel demands and markets
Reviewing changes and new developments in the study area relative to prior service changes and planning efforts
The study area is generally bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, I-94 on the west, Devon Avenue on the south, and Lake Avenue on the north (see map below for exact boundaries). The study area includes portions of the cities of Chicago and Evanston and the villages of Lincolnwood, Skokie and Wilmette.
Pulse Dempster Line Open House
Come learn about the Pulse Dempster Line and help refine initial station locations. The Pulse Dempster Line is part of Pace’s new rapid transit network which will provide enhanced express bus service using the latest technology and streamlined route design. It will operate along Dempster Street between Evanston and O’Hare Airport. Learn more about Pulse at www.PaceBus.com/Pulse.
Des Plaines Public Library
1501 Ellinwood St.
Levy Senior Center
300 Dodge Avenue
Pace/CTA North Shore Coordination Plan Open House
Come learn about proposed changes to routes in the North Shore area as a result of this study. The North Shore Coordination Plan is a joint Pace/CTA study to evaluate the existing transit in the study area and to identify ways to improve service and coordination between Pace and the CTA. For more information about the Pace/CTA North Shore Coordination Plan, please visit the project website.
Skokie Public Library
5215 Oakton Street
For more information about the study, see the Pace project website or contact CTA customer service.
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NEW MIXED-USE PROJECT ON PREMIER WEST DAVIS SITE BUCKS BISHOP ARTS CONSTRUCTION TREND
DALLAS – Transwestern today announces the sale of 2.67 acres at 2105 and 2211 W. Davis St. in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas to a partnership controlled by GroundFloor Development. The locally based developer plans construction of a mixed-use residential and retail project at the site. Transwestern Senior Vice President Steve Williamson and Associate Ben Coffee represented both the buyer and the seller in the transaction. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
“This was one of the largest contiguous tracts of vacant land remaining on West Davis Street, so the interest on this property from the Dallas development community was exceptional, with multiple offers received,” said Williamson. “It was a pleasure to work with the GroundFloor team, which includes Matt Holley, who had been involved in securing the land’s original planned development zoning ordinance back in 2007 and developed the Kessler Woods community directly to the north of the West Davis site.”
The site’s existing zoning allows for 20 townhomes and a five-story apartment project with ground-floor retail.
With frontage on three streets, West Davis Street, North Oak Cliff Boulevard and Stevens Village Drive, the property is near the Stevens Park Golf Course and a short walk from the popular Bishop Arts District with its numerous restaurants and boutique retail shops. Other neighbors include Bell Bishop Arts, St. Cecilia Catholic School, Rosemont Elementary and the affluent, gated residential community of Kessler Woods.
“We are very excited about the opportunity that this site presents for our company,” said Brandon Bolin, GroundFloor President and CEO. “The north Oak Cliff and Bishop Arts areas are considered two of the crown jewels of Dallas, and we are looking forward to delivering a mixed-use project for which the Kessler Park and Bishop Arts communities can be proud.”
In 2017, Williamson brokered the sale of the 6.2-acre tract directly north of the West Davis site to David Weekley Homes for The Reserve at Kessler Heights, which includes 12 single-family residences and 50 townhomes. It is currently under development, with delivery of the first homes expected later this year.
ABOUT GROUNDFLOOR
GroundFloor specializes and focuses on building well-conceived urban multifamily housing communities and mixed-use developments to serve and accommodate the growing demand for metropolitan living. Founded in 2009, and led by Brandon Bolin, GroundFloor directs its resources toward projects located in high population growth areas in Texas where people need and desire quality urban living as commuting costs continue to rise and single-family home buying power declines. Our mission is to create communities of happy people by developing beautiful and artfully inspired places where people can enjoy their lives. For updates on GroundFloor, go to www.gfholdings.co.
Transwestern is a privately held real estate firm of collaborative entrepreneurs who deliver a higher level of personalized service – the Transwestern Experience. Specializing in Agency Leasing, Tenant Advisory, Capital Markets, Asset Services and Research, our fully integrated global enterprise adds value for investors, owners and occupiers of all commercial property types. We leverage market insights and operational expertise from members of the Transwestern family of companies specializing in development, real estate investment management and research. Based in Houston, Transwestern has 35 U.S. offices and assists clients through more than 180 offices in 37 countries as part of a strategic alliance with BNP Paribas Real Estate. Experience Extraordinary at transwestern.com and @Transwestern. For updates from the North Texas region, follow @TranswesternDLS and @TranswesternFTW.
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Bombardier Transportation implements its first project for rail control in Ecuador on Quito Metro Line 1
Posted on October 28, 2016 by Travel PR News Editors
Bombardier’s first rail control project in Ecuador will help alleviate Quito’s congestion
First rail control project in Ecuador for Quito’s new metro line to alleviate congestion
Brazil, Chile and Peru are also part of Bombardier’s growing signalling footprint
BERLIN, Germany, 2016-Oct-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation has started the implementation of its first project for rail control in Ecuador on Quito Metro Line 1, further strengthening its presence in South America. Due to the capital’s high demand for better transport options with its existing road-only transit system at full capacity, the new underground line is forecast to carry around 400,000 passengers per day and is expected to reduce congestion considerably when it opens in 2019.
Peter Cedervall, President, Rail Control Solutions Division, Bombardier Transportation, commented, “The new Quito Metro, equipped with our advanced rail control technology, represents an important opportunity to ease the city’s transport challenges by greatly shortening travel time from the north to south to 34 minutes, compared to up to 90 by road. We are excited to be working with our partners on this ground-breaking transportation solution, offering a new layer of travel options for passengers.”
The unique geography of Ecuador’s second most populous city spans 45 km from north to south but just 5 km at its widest part. This forces all its traffic routes to be linear and with only road-based transport options available, leads to congestion during peak hours. The signalling project has been contracted by the Consortium Línea 1, comprised of civil work companies Acciona and Odebrecht, responsible for the construction of the line. It involves the delivery of a BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 350 mass transit solution for the 22 km double track including a BOMBARDIER EBI Screen central traffic control system and EBI Cab on-board automatic train protection and operation equipment for 18 trains. Designed primarily for metros, the CITYFLO 350 semi-automatic train operation system increases traffic capacity and safety and is in operation throughout the world.
Continuing to expand Bombardier‘s rail control footprint across South America, this latest project builds on the success of the first line of the Lima Metro in Peru, operating with the CITYFLO 350 solution since 2011 and planned for extension. In addition, the CITYFLO 650 communications-based train control solution is in delivery to maximise capacity on São Paulo Metro Line 15 (Tiradentes Monorail) and Line 5 in Brazil. On Line 5, the system will enable trains to safely circulate with a short 75-second headway.
For mainline, Bombardier is providing its INTERFLO 250 solution for the first two European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) projects in South America, to improve passenger services and safety on the Rancagua regional rail corridor in Chile and the SuperVia commuter service in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spanning all rail operations, the INTERFLO 150 industrial application has been delivered at Chile’s El Teniente Mine.
About Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation is a global leader in rail technology and offers the broadest portfolio in the industry. It covers the full spectrum of rail solutions, ranging from trains to sub-systems and signalling. The company also provides complete transport systems, e-mobility technology and maintenance services. As an innovation driver, Bombardier Transportation continuously breaks new ground in sustainable mobility. It provides integrated solutions that create substantial benefits for operators, passengers and the environment. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Bombardier Transportation employs around 39,400 people and its products and services operate in over 60 countries.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world’s leading manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us a global leader in transportation.<
Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, we posted revenues of $18.2 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
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by Trumpsmin | Jul 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Damn, this thread is enjoyable.
2/ “The president won this one,” said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. “What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019
4/ “…instead of the issues the president brings up deliberately. Anything that takes away from bread and butter issues is playing into his hands.”
6/ This perceived selective outrage rankled some Dems.
“Everybody was completely outraged by what the president said,” said House Dem 3, “and everybody thought it was appropriate to criticize him…
8/ A few House Dems noted that Omar and Tlaib just introduced a resolution affirming the right of Americans to boycott, perceived as an expression of support for the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement that most House Dems oppose.
10/ House Dem 4 recalls that “less than 2 weeks ago when members of our caucus were trying to support funds for children at the border,” the Squad was arguing that “we’re pro-putting kids in cages, we’re against human rights. So there’s frustration.”
12/ AOC, in particular “gives her chief of staff license to get candidates to run against her colleagues and to go after them on social media. It makes people’s skin crawl,” said House Dem 3.
House Dem 4 summed it up: “We were there for them; they should stop attacking us.”
If it’s true that picking a fight with the Squad — at least on “go back to where you came from” grounds — is a political loser for Trump, some members of the Democratic caucus are slow to see it. The grievances here about Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff allegedly organizing primary challenges to some Dem incumbents are real and longstanding too. That was a key complaint in the Dem pile-on of Saikat Chakrabarti this past weekend, which feels like ancient history now because it happened 48 hours before Trump started tweet-ranting “love it or leave it” stuff at Ilhan Omar. But it’s fuel on the fire that’s burning through comity on Pelosi’s side of the aisle.
Trump thinks he’s winning this fight and wasn’t shy about saying so to reporters this afternoon. Note the shot here about Omar possibly having married her brother:
There’s no question that something strange is going on in her marital history. Whether one of the men she was married to is actually her brother remains uncertain, as far as I know, but Trump’s not pulling that out of nowhere.
As for his point about the Dems going left on Israel, it makes me laugh that immediately after smoothing over the big Democratic brawl over AOC’s chief of staff by coming together to rebuke POTUS, Dems are about to have a new fight over the BDS movement thanks to Omar and the Squad. Here she is today making the case that BDS is sort of like the Boston Tea Party in that they’re both nonviolent means of pressuring an occupying power to leave. Which I guess makes the colonial continental army sort of like … Hamas? I don’t know. Cheers to House Democrats as they try to figure that one out.
Of Course They Did: CBS, NBC Bury SDNY Ending Trump Probe on Hush Money Payments
It was another bad day on Wednesday for The Resistance in their attempts to remove President Trump from office in handcuffs as, thanks to a court order, it was revealed that the Southern District of New York had ended their probe concerning the Trump Organization and alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
And on cue, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News saw no reason to acknowledge this with this being the second Trump legal victory ignored in a week as, when Maryland and Washington D.C. had their lawsuit alleging the President violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause thrown out, CBS similarly was silent.
So for all the commotion about how this or that lawsuit or probe will lead to the President’s ouster or more of his allies being imprisoned, the liberal media sure don’t seem as keen on highlighting when things don’t go their way.
To his credit, ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir offered a measly, 16-second news brief on the investigation coming to an end:
One more headline tonight involving president [sic]. Federal prosecutors in New York today ending their investigation into the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall. Both women claiming they were paid to stay silent about their affairs with the President more than a decade ago. He says the affairs never happened and no new charges are expected.
Meanwhile, the Fox News Channel’s flagship evening newscast Special Report had a longer, more comprehensive brief to the tune of 47 seconds from host Bret Baier (click “expand”):
President Trump’s legal team is declaring victory tonight as a federal judge said today in a court order the investigation of hush money payments arranged by Michael Cohen, which Cohen claims where at the President’s direction, has come to an end. The investigation involves payments the President’s former lawyer helped orchestrate to two women, porn actress Stormy Daniels and playboy centerfold Karen McDougal after they claimed they had affairs with then-businessman Donald Trump. The President has denied any sexual relationship with the women. The end of that investigation likely means no additional charges will be filed against anyone, including the President. Cohen is currently serving a three year prison term in upstate New York for campaign finance violations as well as other offenses, including bank and tax fraud.
Here’s a little more from Politico (click “expand”):
The judge, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, made the disclosure in a ruling on a related matter dealing with the release of sealed information contained in already-public search warrants tied to the Cohen case. Pauley rejected the government’s request to keep some of the search warrant materials in the Cohen case sealed and instead ordered it publicly released by 11 a.m. Thursday.
Last week, CNN reported that officials at the Trump Organization haven’t had any contact with SDNY officials for more than five months, and a source tied to the president’s namesake company isn’t disputing that story.
A spokesman for the SDNY U.S. attorney’s office declined comment about the status of its campaign finance probe. Alan Futerfas, an attorney for the Trump Organization, said he was reviewing the judge’s order and declined further comment.
Jay Sekulow, a personal attorney for the president, welcomed the news. “We are pleased that the investigation surrounding these ridiculous campaign finance allegations is now closed,” he said in a text message. “We have maintained from the outset that the President never engaged in any campaign finance violation…Another case is closed.”
With all this mind, it was also a bad day for CNN darling Michael Avenatti, but these days, most days are bad days for Avenatti considering the flurry of charges he’s facing and how his cable news hits have dried up.
Hours before the news broke and at the 6:26 a.m. Eastern mark, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski hyped that this hush money case was “waiting for him when he leaves office” as an example of how “this ends badly, right” for the President. Well, Mika, it turns out that you can forget about that.
Sad trombone!
To see the relevant transcript from ABC’s World News Tonight With David Muir on July 17, click “expand.”
ABC’s World News Tonight With David Muir
6:40 p.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Stormy Daniels Case; Hush Money Probe Ends]
DAVID MUIR: One more headline tonight involving president [sic]. Federal prosecutors in New York today ending their investigation into the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall. Both women claiming they were paid to stay silent about their affairs with the President more than a decade ago. He says the affairs never happened and no new charges are expected.
To see the relevant transcript from FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier on July 17, click “expand.”
FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Payment Probe; Cohen Investigation Complete; Documents May Be Released]
BRET BAIER: President Trump’s legal team is declaring victory tonight as a federal judge said today in a court order the investigation of hush money payments arranged by Michael Cohen, which Cohen claims where at the President’s direction, has come to an end. The investigation involves payments the President’s former lawyer helped orchestrate to two women, porn actress Stormy Daniels and playboy centerfold Karen McDougal after they claimed they had affairs with then-businessman Donald Trump. The President has denied any sexual relationship with the women. The end of that investigation likely means no additional charges will be filed against anyone, including the President. Cohen is currently serving a three year prison term in upstate New York for campaign finance violations as well as other offenses, including bank and tax fraud.
“Send Her Back!” Trump Supporters Jeer Somalia-Born Rep. Ilhan Omar at Pres. Trump N.C. Campaign Rally (Video)
by Kristinn Taylor July 17, 2019
Supporters of President Trump chanted, “Send her back!” as Trump read a litany of soft on Islamist terror, anti-American comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina Wednesday night.
Crowd at tonight’s Trump rally in North Carolina breaks out into chants of “Send her back!” as the president attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar pic.twitter.com/0q5L39W61h
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 17, 2019
A protester interrupted Trump as he first mentioned Omar, which fired up the crowd as he was removed by security.
Trump mentions Ilhan Omar, and the loudest boos of the night break out. Trump’s speech is then interrupted by a protester.
“He goes home now to mommy and he gets reprimanded and that’s the end. ‘Sorry mommy. Sorry mom. Didn’t mean to embarrass you, mom,'” Trump says. pic.twitter.com/ZIN826Oi59
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 17, 2019
Trump fans eventually break out in “send her back!” chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared. pic.twitter.com/LX3eAEkfci
A Prominent Hollywood Figure Makes an Astonishing Claim About Trump. Does This Whole Politics Thing Have to Be So Ridiculous?
On Monday, Rob Reiner made a stunning proclamation.
And it is indeed stunning.
It was an absolutely jawdropping announcement.
And yet, it’s one being tossed about all over. And it has been, for a few years:
It is unarguable, Donald Trump is a racist. If you support him you are supporting racism. At this crucial time in the struggle for the soul of our nation, we all must choose. Either embrace his hatred or fight to overcome original sin. Humanity hangs in the balance.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) July 15, 2019
What an incredible claim: That a man voted to lead the United States is so cripplingly idiotic and woefully petty that he sits around categorizing all human beings according to the color of their skin.
It’s so extreme that, on its face, it would seem impossible.
But here’s something much more: Donald Trump has been famous for decades. Not years. But tens of years. Recognized everywhere he went. Talked about. Written about. Interviewed. Featured.
And we’re to believe that, despite being all the things prominent Democrats have asserted — a deranged, angry, hateful, white supremacist, racist maniac — it simply slipped everyone’s mind until 2016.
Somehow, magically, that’s the case.
One would think that, if Trump were what he’s been accused of being, magazines wouldn’t have fawned over him, rap stars wouldn’t have praised him on their records, television wouldn’t have gawked and gushed, women wouldn’t have been willing to be with him, celebrities would’ve refused to party with him, and businesses would’ve refused to work with him.
One might reasonably deduce that, were he the evil leader we’ve been told he is, he would’ve never been able to become an American leader in the first place.
And he would’ve never been in the position to mentor black mogul and cultural maestro Russell Simmons — which he did.
Why must politics be so transparently daft? The guy’s New York’s most celebrated eccentric, then an “R” — formerly a “D,” by the way — is added to his name and so many across the aisle appear to lose any kind of ability to keep a level head. Suddenly, his middle name is Adolf.
And sadly, many, many young people don’t realize the ruse. They’ve never known of Trump as anything but der Fürher. Or they’ve been told he was a dopey reality star who became president.
Not a man who took a small fortune and turned it into a staggering worldwide empire. Not a man who led one of the most successful businesses in American history. Just Snooki but with cotton-candy hair.
Either way, now he’s the leader of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Reich.
And it’s just so utterly absurd.
C’mon, folks.
Democracy is being dismantled in front of us. The fact that no Democrats are invited to the DOJ briefing on the FBI informant screams politics Trumps national security and the rule of law. We’re way beyond the slippery slope. We’re heading to the abyss.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) May 22, 2018
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First Lady Face-Off: Trump Is The Devil, But Did Michelle Obama Ever Visit Border Detention Centers?
Fish Jumping Into The Boat: Donald Trump Thanks Waters And Pelosi For The Political Gains
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TRUMP Mocks Far Left Protester at Rally: “He Goes Home Now to Mommy… Sorry Mommy. Sorry Mom. Didn’t Mean to Embarrass You Mom” (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft July 17, 2019
President Trump: “He goes home now to mommy and he gets reprimanded and that’s the end. ‘Sorry mommy. Sorry mom. Didn’t mean to embarrass you, mom.’”
President Trump mocks a protester who is removed from the rally: “He goes home now to mommy and he gets reprimanded and that’s the end. ‘Sorry mommy. Sorry mom. Didn’t mean to embarrass you, mom.’” pic.twitter.com/ac2ZIiDCRj
— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) July 18, 2019
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On the weekend of May 2-3, 2015 our pastor, J.D. Greear, delivered an excellent message on marriage, divorce, and remarriage. Doubtless, this message raised many questions for members of our congregation. We wanted to make you aware of resources that are available to you as you seek live out the implications of this message in our own life.
For the various counseling options available from this material visit http://www.summitrdu.com/counseling.
We will divide the resources listed below into three categories:
Marital Enrichment: These are resources for couples whose relationship is functioning relatively well but want to enhance their marriage so that is does not casually drift into disrepair. These resources are intended marital enhancement and for mild to moderate marital struggles.
Marital Restoration: These are resources for couples who relationship is facing significant challenges due to major forms of dishonor within the marriage. These resources are intended for moderate to severe marital struggles.
Divorce or Widow Recovery: These are resources for spouse’s who are grieving the loss of their marriage to death or divorce.
The five seminars linked below are from Summit’s “Creating a Gospel-Centered Marriage” seminar series. Dates for live presentations of these events can always be found at bradhambrick.com/events.
After each listing is a series of questions is provided to let you know what is addressed in that seminar.
Why is marriage hard? Why do so many marriages that begin in sincere love end in divorce? What are the essential things a couple should focus on in order to have a marriage that flourishes? What is a covenant, and why is marriage a covenant? Why do we have a marriage ceremony? What are the roles for a Christian husband and wife? What if I don’t “fit” the masculine-feminine stereotypes or don’t have the personality to match a “traditional” husband/wife?
Listening Guide: GCM_Foundations_ListeningGuide_3.1
What does a couple talk about over a life time? What if I’m not good with words or listening? How do we maintain friendship when we’re having to keep up with so many logistics? How do we disagree and protect our marriage without losing what’s important to each of us individually? Why do words matter so much, and why can they hurt so badly? How do we make things right after they go wrong and not let negative momentum build?
Listening Guide: GCM_Communication_Listening Guide_3.1
Why are money problems the number one cause of divorce? How do we maintain reasonable expectations for money in a debt-sick culture? How do two people manage their money together when it is hard enough to manage as a single person? Who should administrate the finances, and how involved should the other person be? How do we learn self-control and contentment as a couple? How can “budget” become an exciting or, at least, pleasant word?
Listening Guide: GCM_Finances_Listening Guide_2.0
How do we manage our time? How do we navigate situations where we each want good things that cannot both happen? How do we determine God’s will for our personal and marital lives? How do we functionally express the biblical roles of headship and submission? How do we ensure that life’s tough decisions draw us closer to God and each other instead of creating distance? How do we respond when bad things happen to a good marriage?
Listening Guide: GCM_Decision Making_Listening Guide_2.0
How do you maintain the “spark” of marriage over a lifetime? How do you continue learning each other without feeling like you know all there is to know? How do we protect our expectations from highly romanticized cultural ideals? How many ways are there to express love, and why are they all necessary? How do we enjoy a balance of both intimacy and intercourse? How do we grow as lovers throughout our marriage?
Listening Guide: GCM_Intimacy_Listening Guide_3.1
Marriage Restoration
True Betrayal: Overcoming the Betrayal of Your Spouse’s Sexual Sin
“True Betrayal” contains three hours of presentation divided into a nine step model of responding to the suffering created by a spouse’s sexual sin. Practical guidance is provided for this difficult and often isolating journey. This seminar is most effective when studies with a friend, counselor, or small group.
Listening Guide: True Betrayal Listening Guide
False Love: Overcoming Sexual Sin from Pornography to Adultery
“False Love” contains three hours of presentation divided into a nine step model of overcoming sexual sin. Sexual sin is examined from private lust, pornography, emotional affairs, to adultery in marriage. This seminar is most effective when studies with a friend, counselor, or small group.
Listening Guide: False Love Listening Guide
Supplemental Blog: How to End and Extra-Marital Relationship
Supplemental Blog: How to Talk to Children When Sexual Sin Effects the Family
Self-Centered Spouse
We are all married to a self-centered spouse. That is what it means for us to be fallen people who are bound to experience life from within our bodies. But there are cases where this “general self-centeredness” becomes chronic — severe to a point that it either results in a marital environment of abuse or neglect.
Scripture speaks to both “garden variety” marriage struggles and chronic self-centered marriage struggles, but it speaks to these varying degrees of struggles in different ways. This is no different from saying that Scripture speaks to both impulse control and addiction, but speaks to them differently.
However, Christians have not always done a good job of assessing the differences in these marriage situations and defining the approaches that need to be taken. Working from Jesus’ words in Matthew 7:1-6 (utilizing his instruction in verse 6 as applying to cases of chronic relational offense) we will examine the subject of “Marriage with a Chronically Self-Centered Spouse” in 17 posts cataloged in the link above.
A refined, published form of this material in available in booklet form at amazon and Summit Next Step areas at each campus.
Divorce or Widow Recovery
Taking the Journey of Grief with Hope
This seminar contains three hours of presentation divided into a nine step model of facing the suffering of a major loss. This seminar is meant to help you process the death of a loved one, miscarriage, or losses not often associated with grief (health, job, stability, divorce, or a dream). This seminar is most effective when studies with a friend, counselor, or small group.
Listening Guide: Journey of Grief_Listening Guide_2.0
DivorceCare
Church Initiative provides many excellent curriculum to help church members care well for one another. I have had the privilege of being a part of their DivorceCare and GriefShare curriculums. The link above provides access for you to find a group near you.
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British Friends of Ballet Nacional de Cuba
This organization was formed three years ago with the worthy aim of financially supporting the Cuban dancers, who are perennially short of money. They have just launched an appeal to help fund a new program featuring excerpts from the big classics, Magia de la Danza. Please contact the Chairman of BFBNC, Norman Vaughton, at ndv@talktalk.net for more information.
Great quote from George Balanchine
"I'm a little leery of the word 'inspiration'. I like the word 'deadline' better."
I found this in Birmingham Royal Ballet's Members' Newsletter, Entrechat. Become a member of BRB's Friends (I recommend it highly) at www.brb.org.uk
Cuban National Ballet
A group of 21 of us had a fabulous time at "Stars of Cuban National Ballet" in Mississauga last night. The program included the amazing Viengsay Valdes in a Don Quixote pas de deux unlike anything I have ever seen. She has absolutely astounding balances, and fouettes that stay nailed to the same spot on the stage. You can see her on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub3yUMwbKo8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crr7H-Wqd70
The Cuban men are renowned for the ability to jump, and this was much in evidence, especially in a fun piece for five men, Accents, choreographed by Eduardo Blanco. Their jumps are remarkably high, but with very soft, quiet landings. One of the men wowed the audience with his ability to do fast pirouettes, slowing down with incredible control while lowering his pointed foot to "cou de pied" on the ankle.
The only downside was that, as I have noticed before, Cuban National Ballet's costumes tend to be quite ugly, with very old-fashioned designs often overloaded with ruffles on the upper body.
The legendary Alicia Alonso was in attendance and received a standing ovation from the audience.
Paloma Herrera
American Ballet Theatre's Paloma Herrera
appears on tonight's episode of
Fox-TV SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE,
8-9pm est.
In a special guest appearance, Paloma performs
Kitri's variation from the third act of Don Quixote.
Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux
Here's a hot tip. Two YouTube postings have just appeared of Robert Tewsley and Miyako Yoshida performing Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet balcony pas de deux. These are fabulous dancers, and though they are in practice clothes in a sterile dance studio, they convey more emotion than many people do in a full-blown production! Another bonus, the clip is in HD so the picture is much sharper than most on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jgwte9NGy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAo_0FfawK0
Labels: ballet, MacMillan, Romeo, Tewsley, Yoshida
National Ballet of Canada Sleeping Beauty in Ottawa
I just returned from the NBOC's 3-performance run of Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty in Ottawa. The company is looking in fine form, with the corps being very impressive in the second act; their level of ensemble was striking. I saw three casts: Guillaume Cote and Heather Ogden; Zdenek Konvalina and Sonia Rodriguez; and guest Jason Reilly (from Stuttgart Ballet) and Xiao Nan Yu. Rodriguez performed the Rose Adagio without a wobble and with radiant assurance. As her prince, Konvalina had the most musicality and princely quality of the three. Other highlights were Stacey Shiori Minagawa as Diamond, finishing her solo in a releve in fifth that looked as if it were nailed to the stage. Jillian Vanstone was a beautiful Princess Florine. Sleeping Beauty opens in Toronto this coming Friday, November 13th, which I hope is not inauspicious. For more information, visit the National Ballet of Canada.
Kirov and Bolshoi TOGETHER in Washington
We have a great package planned for Valentine's weekend in Washington DC, with premium tickets already reserved for the Sunday matinee performance of The Sleeping Beauty (Kirov/Maryinsky) and Tuesday opening night performance of Spartacus (Bolshoi), and rooms reserved at the Washington Fairmont. For people travelling from Toronto, we also have a great group airfare if we get a group of 10. But the package is open to anyone, so if you're interested, please email me at toursenlair@victortravel.ca. Booking deadline is December 10.
Labels: ballet, Bolshoi, Kirov
National Ballet School Assemblée Internationale
An exciting 50th anniversary gathering is being held at Canada's National Ballet School in November, with all of the world's best ballet schools represented. There will be some interesting performances:
PROGRAM A – Wednesday November 18, 7:30pm
Canada’s National Ballet School
Swan Lake, Act I Scene II
Choreographed by Erik Bruhn
Royal Danish Ballet School
Napoli, Pas de Six
Choreographed by August Bournonville
San Francisco Ballet School
Haffner Symphony
Choreographed by Helgi Tomasson
Palucca Schule Dresden
Testbild Engerlinge
Choreographed by Anke Glasgow
Royal Conservatory (The Hague)
Choreographed by Jiri Kylian
National Ballet Academy (Amsterdam)
For a Close Friend
Choreographed by Jan Linkens
Hamburg Ballet School
Vaslaw
Choreographed by John Neumeier
Rotterdam Dance Academy
Blue Dance duet
Choreographed by Ton Simons
TOTAL RUNNING TIME with intermissions – 2hrs 36min
PROGRAM B – Thursday November 19, 7:30pm
Royal Ballet School (London)
Choreographed by Liam Scarlett
Swan Lake, Pas de Deux
Royal Winnipeg Ballet School
Pas de Quatre
Choreographed by David Moroni
Paris Opera Ballet School
Suite de danses
Choreographed by Yvan Clustine
National Ballet School of Cuba
Ballet Majisimo
Choreographed by Jorge Garcia
Fractals, Parish Maynard Adagio & Male V
Choreographed by Parish Maynard
John Cranko School (Stuttgart)
In and Out
Choreographed by Hans van Manen
Once A Tango
Choreographed by Neel Verdoorn
Student CHOREOGRAPHIES – Friday November 20, 7:30pm & Saturday November 21, 2:30pm
Hamburg Ballet School – Words Unsaid, choreographed by Sasha Riva
Paris Opera Ballet School – A Corps, Essence, choreographed by Florent Melac
Royal Danish Ballet School – Elements, choreographed by Viktoria Falck-Schmidt & Ida Praetorius
Canada’s National Ballet School – a currently untitled work, choreographed by Sara Coffield
National Ballet School of Cuba – Danzon Barocco, choreographed by Denia Luisa Suárez Leyva
John Cranko School (Stuttgart) – Hidden Fears, choreographed by Alessandra Spada
Royal Ballet School – Brush Strokes, choreographed by William Bracewell
Partner schools without student choreographers – Improvisation AI09, directed by NBS' Shaun Amyot
San Francisco Ballet School – Time Piece, choreographed by Myles Thatcher
Canada’s National Ballet School – Elegy for a Round World, choreographed by Helen Clare Kinney
Royal Winnipeg Ballet School – The Sea Within Us, choreographed by Alex Lantz
Canada’s National Ballet School – Surge, choreographed by Rob Binet
For more info: http://www.nbs-enb.ca/50th/ai09.aspx#performances
Labels: ballet, national ballet school
Stars of Cuban National Ballet
I'm trying to put together a group to see Stars of Cuban National Ballet at the Living Arts Centre in MIssissauga on Tuesday, December 8. According to the website, program includes In the Shadows of a Waltz, choreography by Alicia Alonso on a waltz by Strauss, Principal Dancers and the Cuban National Ballet corps de ballet; Dolls, Cuban music on the story of a Cuban doll and a toy soldier; The Nutcracker, pas de deux; Acentos, five male dancers, very technical interpretation; Pas de trois, from Swan Lake, 1st act; Intermittencies of the Heart, romantic and dramatic duo; Don Quixote (suite), Toreadors, Majas, Espada,Mercedes, Kitri and Basilio in the Grand pas de deux. I'm not quite sure what "very technical interpretation" means!
http://www.livingartscentre.ca/event_calendar/listing.php
http://www.balletcuba.cult.cu/paginas/presentaciones.html
Labels: ballet, cuban national ballet
Kirov and Bolshoi in Washington
I'm very excited about how the trip to see the Kirov (Maryinsky) and Bolshoi in Washington DC from February 13-17 is coming together. What a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see both of these companies within the space of a few days, without having to trek to Russia. And they're both performing their signature ballets, Sleeping Beauty and Spartacus. Should be fun! Finalized details will be available next week.
Labels: ballet, Bolshoi, Kennedy Center, Kirov, Maryinsky, vacations, Washington
Tours en l'Air on Classical 96.3 FM in Toronto
Jean Stilwell will be interviewing me about the planned ballet trips for 2010 on Classical 96.3 FM on October 1 at 810 am.
Mao's Last Dancer
I saw the opening of Bruce Beresford's film Mao's Last Dancer at the Toronto International Film Festival last night. Beresford was in attendance for a Q&A, as were several of the actors including Chi Cao of Birmingham Royal Ballet who starred as Li Cunxin in the title role. The film was received enthusiastically by the sellout crowd, who became instant fans of Chi Cao's when they saw his virtuosity in a dazzling Don Quixote pas de deux. Other choreography in the film was by Australian Graeme Murphy, including an unusual Swan Lake.
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Cyrano
A hot tip for anyone visiting the UK this fall: BRB's Cyrano is a must-see ballet. David Bintley masterfully translates the play into dance, creating a ballet that makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. Lovely music by Carl Davis, sumptuous costumes, beautiful pas de deux and solos, great macho leaping about for the male corps, this is the best new story ballet I have seen in years. If you get a chance to see Robert Parker in the title role, GO FOR IT. Here are the dates; for more info visit www.brb.org.uk.
30 September - 3 October 2009
Belfast Grand Opera House
13 - 17 October 2009
Plymouth Theatre Royal
Sunderland Empire Theatre (near Newcastle)
6 - 7 November 2009
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
New Quanz ballet
On Friday September 4 I had the privilege of seeing a run-through of a new ballet by Peter Quanz set to Steve Reich's Double Sextet, created on dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for a commission by the Works & Process series at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (premiering Friday September 11 with 2 more performances on September 12). For an interesting archive of the creation of this piece, visit peterquanz.com.
The ballet is very high-energy, reflecting the driving rhythms of the music. Principal dancer Vanessa Lawson was a standout, with focus, commitment, and incredible strength and speed making clean work of the limit-pushing choreography.
Labels: Quanz, Reich
My review of the Stuttgart Ballet's 60th Birthday gala for Reid Anderson
Former dancers strapped on pointe shoes they hadn't worn for years. Audience favourites, unbeknownst to Reid Anderson, flew in from as far away as Chile and Australia to perform. Choreographers nurtured by the company (Kylián, Neumeier, Forsythe, Bigonzetti) were represented. The Stuttgart Ballet knows how to throw a party, and for this gala, billed as Anderson's "Surprise 60th birthday party", they outdid themselves. For almost a year, Stuttgart's dancers and choreographers had been creating and rehearsing in their lunch hours and evenings, if need be stopping on a dime to disguise what they were doing if Anderson walked by. And, from the moment the irrepressible Márcia Haydée broke into an impersonation of Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday, the surprises never stopped coming, for without a printed program, only surtitles announced the work and the performers before each of the 20 pieces started, a circumstance that certainly added to the audience's excitement and anticipation.
Resident Choreographer Christian Spuck's knack for creating entertaining gala pieces alongside his more serious works was once again confirmed by his goofy Ständchen ("Serenade", definitely not to be confused with George Balanchine's work of the same name) in which the bumbling trio of Stefan Stewart, Roland Havlica, and Alexander Zaitsev, outfitted in metal conical birthday hats and bedevilled by coughs, sneezes and many other bodily noises, endeavoured to get their act together so as to sing "Happy Birthday". Another favourite Spuck gala piece, the spoof classical Grand Pas de Deux, brought former principal Julia Krämer out of retirement and reunited her with Jason Reilly, a red handbag, and a stuffed cow.
Reilly, due to join the National Ballet of Canada in the fall of 2009, was much in evidence, replacing an injured Evan McKie at short notice in company principal Douglas Lee's creation Fanfare LX, which exploited Alicia Amatriain's more than 180-degree extensions and plastic fluidity to the full. In Legende, a pas de deux perfectly suited to the beautifully lyrical Sue Jin Kang, Cranko's trademark high lifts, executed one-handedly and apparently effortlessly by Reilly, brought spontaneous gasps and applause from the audience.
Kang was reunited with Robert Tewsley in the exquisite white pas de deux from John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias, danced with the tenderness, passion, elegance, and musicality that made theirs such a special partnership while Tewsley, now a freelancer, was in Stuttgart.
In contrast, a recurring theme was lust on a couch. In Itzik Galili's The Sofa, former company dancer Eric Gauthier, now director of his own Stuttgart-based company, is at first the would-be seducer of Lisa May and then has the tables (or in this case the sofa) turned on him as he is stalked by the hilariously camp William Moragas. Hans van Manen's equally funny but somewhat more bittersweet take on the theme, Sunday, saw Haydée, as an ageing housewife with curlers, down-at-heel slippers and knitting (but still proving by the mere arch of an eyebrow what a consummate dance actress she is), rejecting the advances of another Stuttgart Ballet legend, Egon Madsen, in pyjama bottoms and an undershirt. The fact that Haydée and Madsen had created the roles danced in the immediately preceding number by Kang and Tewsley only added to the poignancy.
Fun, beauty, emotion, lyricism, explosive energy, creative new choreography, a wealth of talented dancers too numerous to mention, a charming défilé by the students of the John Cranko School culminating in a cleverly choreographed representation of the letters HAPPY BIRTHDAY REID. Proof positive that Reid Anderson has been keeping the spirit as well as the repertoire of John Cranko alive. By the end of the almost 5-hour long evening, the Stuttgart audience, whose extraordinary appreciation and support for their beloved company should not be overlooked as part of the Stuttgart miracle, felt like children who had gorged themselves on a friend's birthday cake.
Ballet Films at the Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF is offering two films this September of interest to ballet fans: Mao's Last Dancer, starring Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Chi Cao in the title role, and a documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet.
Metro Movement Dance Studio
Today I took a ballet class taught by Stelio Calagias at Metro Movement Dance Studio in Toronto. It was a fun class, with a very supportive atmosphere created by both Stelio and the other students. I'll be back as a regular. If you're looking for a drop-in intermediate level ballet class for adults in Toronto, I recommend it, and it's very conveniently located about a minute's walk from Broadview subway station. Ballet classes are 1030-1200 on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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Kobayashi Ballet The Invitation
Last night I saw Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre perform their "English" mixed program.
Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre, a small but ambitious Tokyo-based company founded in 1973, specializes in performing the 20th-century repertoire of the Royal Ballet, keeping alive many masterpieces of the Ashton, MacMillan and de Valois repertoire rarely seen elsewhere. Their mixed program performed August 19 and 20 in Tokyo was no exception. "Mixed" was the word, as the combination of Ashton's frothy display of classical virtuosity from 1933, Les Rendezvous, with MacMillan's dark and tormented The Invitation, followed by his fun-filled Elite Syncopations, made for a very varied night.
Female principal Ayako Ono's lovely lightness and joyousness, with plenty of Ashtonian épaulement and beautiful arms, were the highlight of Les Rendezvous, a typically charming Ashton work in which "Walkers Out" meet in a park and dance. Unfortunately, her partner, Makoto Nakamura, performed somewhat mechanically and without much elegance or musicality. Indeed, the male dancers, many of them borrowed from Tokyo's New National Theatre, were the weakest part of the company; there was a notable lack of pointed feet in jumps. Auber's music, at times a little bombastic, was nonetheless dancy. The costumes, to the original design by William Chappell, white romantic tutus for the women edged with pink, were suitably charming, although the pink-ribbon headdresses looked unfortunately like gift bows taped to their heads.
Elite Syncopations, which usually has western audiences in fits of laughter, fell a little flat. The requisite charisma and pizzazz are perhaps qualities that do not come so easily to Japanese-trained dancers. The Calliope Rag solo performed by Kizuna Takahata, which needs a lot of sexpot glamour to come across the footlights, was simply perky. Undermined from the start by the fact that both dancers were the same height, the pas de deux for the tall girl and short boy (Ikuko Kusumoto and Atsushi Sasaki) failed to elicit even so much as a ripple of laughter from the audience on opening night. The second cast (Yuki Ohmori and Akimitsu Yahata) were much more successful at capturing the comedy of this pas de deux.
Ripples of laughter were the last thing on anyone's mind during The Invitation, a one-act story ballet depicting the loss of an Edwardian-era teenage girl's innocence when she is raped by an older man visiting her family. This ballet is a little like a Mayerling in embryo, and, watching the story inexorably unfold, the audience feels the same sensation of impending horror. The whole cast acquitted themselves well with finely delineated characters. As the girl, a part created by Lynn Seymour, Akiko Shimazoe was excellent. A particularly moving moment was when she tottered on not-fully-pointed pointe after being raped. As The Husband, guest artist Robert Tewsley displayed compelling stage presence and dramatic intensity. Convincingly remorseful after the rape, he nonetheless quickly collected himself to walk off arm in arm with his wife as if nothing had happened.
Ms. Kobayashi is to be commended for presenting such an audience-challenging program, especially a mere week after Japanese balletomanes had sated themselves on several weeks of classical warhorses and international guest stars in the World Ballet Festival.
Labels: Ashton, ballet, Kobayashi, MacMillan, Tewsley
A boon for ballet fans in Tokyo
I am in Tokyo for two performances of a mixed program by Noriko Kobayashi Ballet: MacMillan's The Invitation and Elite Syncopations, and Ashton's Les Rendezvous. A very British program and I am looking forward to opening night tonight.
Meanwhile my Japanese friend introduced me to a great resource at the Library of the New National Theatre. They have a fantastic video archive of their performances which you can search by title of the ballet, date of the performance, or other key words (in Japanese, I'm not sure if it works in English). We spent a fun afternoon watching Asami Maki's Lady of the Camellias, which has some beautiful pas de deux and solos for Armand, and lovely costumes, but doesn't have the same dramatic impact as Neumeier's take on the same theme. Partly I think this was because the music chosen wasn't as intensely romantic as the Chopin that Neumeier uses to such effect. Also on our program were Raymonda, which unfortunately just seems to be an irremediably silly ballet, and Roland Petit's Die Fledermaus.
If you visit Tokyo, be sure to visit the New National Theatre (at Hatsudai station on the Keio new train line). It is also a beautiful building making remarkable use of wood and stone in an elegant Japanese way.
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Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي Dubayy, Gulf pronunciation: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven emirates that make up the country. Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature. The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Dubai is to host World Expo 2020.
Dubai has emerged as a global city and business hub of the Middle East. It is also a major transport hub for passengers and cargo. By the 1960s Dubai's economy was based on revenues from trade and, to a smaller extent, oil exploration concessions, but oil was not discovered until 1966. Oil revenue first started to flow in 1969. Dubai's oil revenue helped accelerate the early development of the city, but its reserves are limited and production levels are low: today, less than 5% of the emirate's revenue comes from oil. The emirate's Western-style model of business drives its economy with the main revenues now coming from tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services. Dubai has recently attracted world attention through many innovative large construction projects and sports events. The city has become iconic for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. Dubai has been criticised for human rights violations concerning the city's largely South Asian workforce. Dubai's property market experienced a major deterioration in 2008–09 following the financial crisis of 2007–08, but the emirate's economy has made a return to growth, with a projected 2015 budget surplus.
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Dubai is a major city and one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai may also refer to:
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Dara Daivari (born April 30, 1984) is an American professional wrestler currently performing on the independent circuit as Shawn Daivari. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as simply Daivari and with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Sheik Abdul Bashir.
Professional wrestling career
Daivari grew up admiring Mick Foley and Bret Hart. His childhood hero was Shawn Michaels. He participated in his first professional wrestling match at age 15. He started his career in the upper midwest independent scene. He is known for representing Iran for international title matches
On October 19, 1998, Daivari appeared on Nitro as a fan being interviewed by Mike Tenay.
He appeared on the February 26, 2003 episode of Explosion and wrestled a tag team match against Mike Sanders and Glenn Gilberti with Ken Anderson. He also appeared on the October 5, 2003 episode of Sunday Night Heat as Shawn Daivari, losing his match against Tommy Dreamer. He also made four appearances for independent promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) between April and July 2004.
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Dubai probably has some of the craziest rules that I've ever experienced. Given that the UAE is an absolute monarchy, there are a surprising number of things that you can be arrested for. Here is a list of 11 things that you should NOT do, while in Dubai. Support me on Patreon if ya dig what I'm doing: https://www.patreon.com/calmckinley You can also check out my website for a FULL list of travel recommendations! https://golocaltips.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calmckinley/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/golocalCM Music: Only Knows - Broke For Free http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/Only_Knows Judas Goat - Filastine http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Filastine/Burn_It/5_Judas_Goat Additional footage by: JazzyChan, le cocktail connoisseur, Magdalena ...
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Visual Effects time-lapse film showing Dubai evolution over 58 years and 5 years of expected projects completion by 2021. Dubai’s transformation and development as a city over the last decade is certainly unmatched on a regional basis. According to Knight Frank Middle East Hub Report 2018, Dubai’s status as a global hub will continue to strengthen given its extensive connectivity, strong economic prospects, low tax system and safe haven status which are all underpinned by world-class amenities and infrastructure. The Hub Report 2018 clearly ranks UAE 1st in the region in “Ease of Doing Business” Read the full report: https://bit.ly/2IQOQJN About Knight Frank Middle East From our strategically positioned offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Knight Frank provides integrated residential and comme...
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Watch the Behind the Scenes here: http://youtu.be/iggsC5jIgb4 We shot this video in 4K, Ultra HD, with the Canon 1D-C Music in this video is called "Digital Sleigh Ride" by the amazingly talented Tony Anderson! Check out how to license his music at: http://tonyandersonmusic.com/ https://soundcloud.com/23violins https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tony-anderson/id19063662 A TeamSupertramp Film Filmed by Parker Walbeck and Carter Hogan Edited by Parker Walbeck This was shot in Dubai, United Arab Emirates This was mostly shot on a Canon 1DC in 4k, and a Glidecam HD 4000. http://www.glidecam.com/ Lenses used: Canon L Series 14mm, 16-35mm ll, 70-200mm For more info on the rad paramotoring, check out Parabatix at the following links below! http://www.youtube.com/user/parabatix... http://w...
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Open main menu  Search Dubai Read in another language Watch this page Edit This article is about the city. For other uses, see Dubai (disambiguation). Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي Dubay, Gulf Arabic: Arabic pronunciation: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).[5] On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.[6][7][8] Dubai دبي Metropolis Dubai Clockwise from top left: Skyline with Burj Khalifa; Burj Al Arab; Palm Jumeirah and The World Islands; Dubai Marina; and Sheik Zayed Road.  Flag  Coat of arms   Dubai Location within the United Arab Emirates Show map of United Arab EmiratesShow map of AsiaShow all Coordinates: 25...
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Nakheel's Presentation of Dubai Waterfront in 2006 The Dubai Waterfront (now known as Waterfront) was expected to become the largest waterfront[disambiguation needed] and largest man-made development in the world. The project is a conglomeration of canals and artificial archipelago; it would occupy the last remaining Persian Gulf coastline of Dubai, the most populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates. It was planned to consist of a series of zones with mixed use including commercial, residential, resort, and amenity areas. The vision of the project is "to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world's fastest growing city".
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Open main menu  Search Dubai Read in another language Watch this page Edit This article is about the city. For other uses, see Dubai (disambiguation). Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي Dubay, Gulf Arabic: Arabic pronunciation: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).[5] On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.[6][7][8] Dubai دبي Metropolis Dubai Clockwise from top left: Skyline with Burj Khalifa; Burj Al Arab; Palm Jumeirah and The World Islands; Dubai Marina; and Sheik Zayed Road.  Flag  Coat of arms   Dubai Location within the United Arab Emirates Show map of United Arab EmiratesShow map of AsiaShow all Coordinates: 25°15′47″N 55°17′50″ECountry United Arab EmiratesEmirate DubaiFounded byUbaid bin Saeed and Maktum bin Butti Al MaktoumSubdivisions Towns and villages Jebel Ali Al Aweer Al Lusayli Marqab Al Faqa'[1] Ud al-Bayda Urqub Juwayza Government • TypeConstitutional monarchy • EmirMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum • Crown PrinceHamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumArea [2] • Metropolis4,114 km2(1,588 sq mi)Population (8 October 2018)[3] • Metropolis3,137,463 • Metro ~5,640,000Demonym(s)DubaiteTime zoneUTC+4 (UAE Standard Time)Nominal GDP2016 estimateTotalUSD 108 billion[4]Per capitaUSD 35,000WebsiteDubai.aeThis article contains Arabic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Dubai is a global city and business hub of the Middle East.[9] It is also a major global transport hub for passengers and cargo.[10]Oil revenue helped accelerate the development of the city, which was already a major mercantile hub, but Dubai's oil reserves are limited and production levels are low: today, less than 5% of the emirate's revenue comes from oil.[11] A growing centre for regional and international trade since the early 20th century, Dubai's economy today relies on revenues from trade, tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services.[12][13][14][15] Dubai has attracted world attention through large construction projects and sports events, in particular the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. As of 2012, Dubai was the most expensive city in the Middle East.[16][17] In 2014, Dubai's hotel rooms were rated as the second most expensive in the world.[18][19] Etymology Many theories have been proposed as to the origin of the word "Dubai". One theory suggests the word was used to describe the souq, which was similar to the souq in Ba.[20]An Arabic proverb says "Daba Dubai" (Arabic: دبا دبي), meaning "They came with a lot of money."[21] According to Fedel Handhal, a scholar on the UAE's history and culture, the word Dubai may have come from the word daba (Arabic: دبا) (a past tense derivative of yadub (Arabic: يدب), which means "to creep"), referring to the slow flow of Dubai Creekinland. The poet and scholar Ahmad Mohammad Obaid traces it to the same word, but to its alternative meaning of "baby locust" (Arabic: جراد) due to the abundant nature of locusts in the area before settlement.[22] History Main articles: History of Dubai and Timeline of Dubai  Bronze and iron alloy dagger, Saruq Al Hadidarcheological site (1100 BC) The history of human settlement in the area now defined by the United Arab Emirates is rich and complex, and points to extensive trading links between the civilisations of the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia, but also as far afield as the Levant.[23] Archaeological finds in the emirate of Dubai, particularly at Al-Ashoosh, Al Sufouh and the notably rich trove from Saruq Al Hadid[24] show settlement through the Ubaid and Hafit periods, the Umm Al Nar and Wadi Suq periods and the three Iron Ages in the UAE. The area was known to the Sumerians as Magan, and was a source for metallic goods, notably copper and bronze.[25] The area was covered with sand about 5,000 years ago as the coast retreated inland, becoming part of the city's present coastline.[26][27] Pre-Islamic ceramics have been found from the 3rd and 4th centuries.[28]Prior to the introduction of Islam to the area, the people in this region worshiped Bajir (or Bajar).[28] After the spread of Islam in the region, the Umayyad Caliph of the eastern Islamic world invaded south-east Arabia and drove out the Sassanians. Excavations by the Dubai Museum in the region of Al-Jumayra(Jumeirah) found several artefacts from the Umayyad period.[29] The earliest recorded mention of Dubai is in 1095 in the Book of Geography by the Andalusian-Arab geographer Abu Abdullah al-Bakri.[citation needed] The Venetian pearl merchant Gasparo Balbi visited the area in 1580 and mentioned Dubai (Dibei) for its pearling industry.[29] Establishment of modern Dubai Dubai is thought to have been established as a fishing village in the early 18th century[30]and was, by 1822, a town of some 7–800 members of the Bani
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Desert safari program is a well-planned tour to the desert with 4x4 wheel drive jeeps to conquer the gigantic golden colored remote sand dunes of the Arabian Sahara. Our desert safari program is a combination of Adventure, thrill, fun and a journey to Arabian culture. There are various safari programs offered in this country but the most popular one is the half day desert safari with BBQ dinner and belly dance show. This is a program that start in the afternoon and come back late in the night from the desert after a lot activities followed by a live cooked BBQ Dinner. Desert safari package offer you an all-inclusive safari program that includes pickup and drop off desert safari, camel ride, henna, shisha, sand ski, a full BBQ dinner with soft drink mineral water tea coffee, live show such as belly dancer show and tannura show any many more… Since the desert safari program is an adventure; therefore the program we tried and tested 100 of times to avoid even a minute error and we assure that we has taken all safety measures such as specially configured jeeps for desert safari which has roll-over protection cage; first aid facilities, trained and licensed professional safari drivers. The most thrilling part of the safari is the roller coaster ride over the sand dune, the fun generated from the weight less feeling while cruising through huge soft Sandy Mountain, would follow you for a life time. The roller coaster ride make stop in the middle to desert to see a complete sunset, then you continue for the 1001 Arabian nights BBQ dinner program. The 1001 Arabian nights will be at our own Bedouin safari camp, on arrival at the camp you would be welcome with Arabic tea and dates, then escort you to join Arabian nights program. The desert safari program is professionally crafted in such way that it would take automatically to that fairy tales which narrates the Persian and Arabian long stretch sandy landscape the camels, kings and sheikhs etc. Desert safari camp is built so traditionally to give you a swift journey to Arabian culture, where the huts are built with leaves of the palm trees and the interior of the huts are royally furnished withe got-hair rugs and Persian carpet, you will be seated on cushion to have the feeling of the Royal Arabian night. The safari camp do have a the facilities such as neat and clean toilets, overnight camping, special events area, venue for the recreational activities etc. As the night approaches the music would go louder the belly dancer would appear dressed like a fairy to show an believable performance with her belly.. the program never stop here; as we have another live the tannura show, a solo magical performance by an young man that add more life to the night. Our Desert safari tour package includes:- Pickup and drop-off Roller coaster ride with luxury 4x4 AWD super luxury jeeps Visit to the camel farm and stop for photography during the sunset Welcome to the camp with Arabian coffee and dates Camel riding Snacks & refreshment on arrival at the camp Shisha Henna ladies service Belly dancer show Tannura show Soft drinks mineral tea coffee throughout the evening. A full BBQ Dinner for both vegetarian & non vegetarian cousins On request vegetarian and Jain foods can be arranged Toilet facilities and chance to take photography with Arabic costumes Important information about Desert Safari and safely measures: Expecting women, Infants, person suffering with Vertigo & disambiguation could take the option of avoid the dune drive. Further-more people under gone by-pass-surgery/suffering from high blood pressure, all the above mentioned category may take the light desert safari. You may inform your driver they will take care of it. Please wore well fit light cloths and one must cover feet with sport/jogging shoe. During the period between Decembers to till end of March light woolen cloths are suggested.
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പ്രവാസിയുടെ കണ്ണുനീർ United Arab Emirates "UAE" redirects here. For other uses, see UAE (disambiguation). United Arab Emirates الإمارات العربية المتحدة al-Imārāt al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah Flag Emblem Anthem: عيشي بلادي "Īšiy Bilādī" "Long Live my Nation" Location of United Arab Emirates (green) in the Arabian Peninsula (white) Capital Abu Dhabi 24°28′N 54°22′E Largest city Dubai 25°15′N 55°18′E Official languages Arabic Ethnic groups (2015[1]) 27.15% Indian 12.53% Pakistani 11.32% Emirati 49% others Religion Islam Demonym Emirati [2] Emirian Emiri Government Absolute monarchy; Federation of 7 hereditary monarchies • President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan • Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Legislature Federal National Council Establishment from the United Kingdom • Abu Dhabi 1761 • Umm al-Quwain 1775 • Ajman 1820 • Dubai 1820 • Sharjah 1900 • Ras al-Khaimah 1900 • Fujairah 1952 • Union Emirates 2 December 1971 • Ras Al Khaimah Emirates to join the Union 10 February 1972 Area • Total 83,600d km2 (116th) 32,278 sq mi • Water (%) negligible Population • 2015 estimate 5,779,760[2] to 9,581,000[3][4] (93rd) • 2005 census 4,106,427 • Density 99/km2 (110th) 256/sq mi GDP (PPP) 2015 estimate • Total $647.823 billion[3] (32nd) • Per capita $67,616[3] (7th) GDP (nominal) 2015 estimate • Total $345.483 billion[3] (28th) • Per capita $36,060[3] (19th) Gini (2008) 36 medium HDI (2014) 0.835[5] very high · 41st Currency UAE dirham (AED) Time zone GST (UTC+4) Date format dd/mm/yyyy Drives on the right[6][7] Calling code +971 ISO 3166 code AE Internet TLD .ae امارات. United Arab Emirates portal The United Arab Emirates (i/juːˌnaɪtᵻd ˌærəb ˈɛmɪrᵻts/; Arabic: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة Dawlat al-Imārāt al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah), sometimes simply called the Emirates (Arabic: الامارات al-Imārāt) or the UAE, is a country at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north. In 2013, the UAE's population was 9.2 million, of which 1.4 million are Emirati citizens and 7.8 million are expatriates.[8][9][10] Established in December 1971, the country is a federation of seven emirates. The constituent emirates are Abu Dhabi (which serves as the capital), Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. Each emirate is governed by an absolute monarch; together, they jointly form the Federal Supreme Council. One of the monarchs is selected as the President of the United Arab Emirates. Islam is the official religion of the UAE, and Arabic is the official language, although English is widely spoken and is the language of business and education, especially in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The UAE's oil reserves are the seventh-largest in the world,[11] while its natural gas reserves are the world's seventeenth-largest.[12] Sheikh Zayed, ruler of Abu Dhabi and the first President of the UAE, oversaw the development of the Emirates and steered oil revenues into healthcare, education and infrastructure.[13] The UAE's economy is the most diversified in the Gulf Cooperation Council, with its most populous city of Dubai is an important global city and an international aviation hub.[14][15] Nevertheless, the country remains principally reliant on its export of petroleum and natural gas.[2][16][17] The UAE has been criticised for its human rights record, including the specific interpretations of Shari'a used in its legal system.[18][19][20] The UAE's rising international profile has led some analysts to identify it as a regional and middle power.[21][22] History Geography Politics Law Media Economy Transport Culture Sports Education Demographics Health See also Notes References External links Last edited 6 hours ago by ClueBot NG ®
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the gear-like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). "Gears" redirects here. For other uses, see Gears (disambiguation). "Geared" redirects here. For video game, see Geared (video game). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating faster. Since the larger gear is rotating less quickly, its torque is proportionally greater. One subtlety of this particular arrangement is that the linear speed at the pitch diameter is the same on both gears. Multiple reducer gears in microwave oven (ruler for scale) A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque. Geared devices can change the speed, torque, and direction of a power source. Gears almost always produce a change in torque, creating a mechanical advantage, through their gear ratio, and thus may be considered a simple machine. The teeth on the two meshing gears all have the same shape.[1] Two or more meshing gears, working in a sequence, are called a gear train or a transmission. A gear can mesh with a linear toothed part, called a rack, thereby producing translation instead of rotation. The gears in a transmission are analogous to the wheels in a crossed, belt pulley system. An advantage of gears is that the teeth of a gear prevent slippage. When two gears mesh, if one gear is bigger than the other, a mechanical advantage is produced, with the rotational speeds, and the torques, of the two gears differing in proportion to their diameters. In transmissions with multiple gear ratios—such as bicycles, motorcycles, and cars—the term "gear" as in "first gear" refers to a gear ratio rather than an actual physical gear. The term describes similar devices, even when the gear ratio is continuous rather than discrete, or when the device does not actually contain gears, as in a continuously variable transmission.[2] History Early examples of gears date from the 4th century BC in China[3] (Zhan Guo times – Late East Zhou dynasty), which have been preserved at the Luoyang Museum of Henan Province, China. The earliest preserved gears in Europe were found in the Antikythera mechanism, an example of a very early and intricate geared device, designed to calculate astronomical positions. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100 BC.[4] Gears appear in works connected to Hero of Alexandria, in Roman Egypt circa AD 50,[5] but can be traced back to the mechanics of the Alexandrian school in 3rd-century BC Ptolemaic Egypt, and were greatly developed by the Greek polymath Archimedes (287–212 BC).[6] The differential gear first appeared in the Chinese south-pointing chariot, dated to the first millennium BC.[7] The segmental gear, which receives/communicates reciprocating motion from/to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear/ring having cogs on the periphery,[8] was invented by Arab engineer Al-Jazari in 1206.[9] The worm gear was invented in the Indian subcontinent, for use in roller cotton gins, some time during the 13th–14th centuries.[10] Single-stage gear reducer Examples of early gear applications include: Ma Jun (c. 200–265 AD) used differential gears as part of a south-pointing chariot. The first geared mechanical clocks were built in China in 725. Al-Jazari (c. 1206) invented the segmental gear as part of a water-lifting device.[9] The worm gear was invented as part of a roller cotton gin in the Indian subcontinent (c. 13th–14th centuries).[10] The 1386 Salisbury cathedral clock may be the world's oldest still working geared mechanical clock. Comparison with drive mechanisms The definite ratio that teeth give gears provides an advantage over other drives (such as traction drives and V-belts) in precision machines such as watches that depend upon an exact velocity ratio. In cases where driver and follower are proximal, gears also have an advantage over other drives in the reduced number of parts required; the downside is that gears are more expensive to manufacture and their lubrication requirements may impose a higher operating cost per hour. Types External vs internal gears Internal gear An external gear is one with the teeth formed on the outer surface of a cylinder or cone. Conversely, an internal gear is one with the teeth formed on the inner surface of a cylinder or cone. For bevel gears, an internal gear is one with the pitch angle exceeding 90 degrees. Internal gears do not cause output shaft direction reversal.[11]
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Iraq War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the war that started in 2003 and ended in 2011. For the initial invasion, see 2003 invasion of Iraq. For the current war in Iraq, see Iraqi Civil War (2014–present). For the entire conflict from 2003 to the present, see Iraq conflict (2003–present). For previous wars in Iraq, see Iraq War (disambiguation). Iraq War Part of the Iraq conflict (2003–present) and the War on Terror Iraq War montage.png Clockwise from top: U.S. troops at Uday and Qusay Hussein's hideout; insurgents in northern Iraq; an Iraqi insurgent firing a MANPADS; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square. Date 20 March 2003 – 18 December 2011 (8 years, 8 months and 28 days) Location Iraq Result Invasion and occupation of Iraq Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Sectarian Violence and another civil war[6][7] Subsequent reduction in violence and depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq[8][9] Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011 Stronger Iranian influence in Iraq[10][11][12] Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal leading to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq[7][13] Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) Return of US forces to Iraq in 2014 Belligerents Invasion phase (2003) United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga Support from: Netherlands[1] Invasion phase (2003) Ba'athist Iraq Post-invasion (2003–11) United States United Kingdom MNF–I (2003–09)[show] New Iraqi government Iraqi Armed Forces Awakening Council Supported by: Iran Iran[2][3] Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga Post-invasion (2003–11) Ba'ath loyalists Sudan[3] www.facebook.com/islamichistory49
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Oxygen Thief Xtra Mile Recordings Bundle
Grab yourself an Oxygen Thief Xtra Mile Recordings bundle!
Get all three Xtra Mile releases; 'Accidents Do Not Happen, They Are Caused', 'One Day This Will All Be Fields' and 'The Half-Life Of Facts' together for just £18!
Accidents Do Not Happen, They Are Caused
Released in 2013 on Xtra Mile Recordings, this mini-album features 7 of Oxygen Thief's songs re-worked for the first time with a full band. The mini-album includes favourites 'Modesty Is Dead', 'Disaster Plan' and the single 'Terry Nutkins Salute'.
"Face-melting - KKKK" - Kerrang
1) There Can Be Only One
6) Disaster Plan
7) Words On Walls
One Day This Will All Be Fields
Going back to his acoustic roots Oxygen Thief released a collection of 7 songs in mini-album format back in 2014 on Xtra Mile Recordings. This includes a few of the full band tracks from 'The Half-Life Of Facts' stripped back and a cover of 'Suckerpunch' by The Wildhearts.
1) Badge Of Dishonour
2) Trial & Improvement
3) Vectors
4) Self-Righting Mechanism
5) Flight Paths
6) Suckerpunch (Wildhearts Cover)
7) On Your Easy Marks, Get Set, Go
The Half-Life Of Facts
'The Half-Life Of Facts' is the first full length album featuring new songs recorded with the full band. Released in 2014 on Xtra Mile Recordings, this full length album features 12 songs including favourites 'Too Many Trees', 'Self-Righting Mechanism' and the lead single 'Co(Extra)Ordinates'.
"KKKK" - Kerrang
"Acoustic to electric never sounded so good." 9/10 - Big Cheese
" A full-throttle garage-inspired assault on the senses shot through with an unmistakably British sense of humour." - Rock Sound
1) The Incredible Sulk
3) Too Many Trees
4) Hubristolian
5) Crowbars Up!
7) Co(Extra)Ordinates
9) Con.Script.Shun
10) It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It
11) Loch Ness Monster Truck
12) Bench Press Your I.Q.
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Motty Perry
MRes/PhD
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Ph.D. Economics, Princeton University, 1983
M.A. Economics, Hebrew University, 1979
B.A. Economics, Bar Ilan University, 1975
1983-84 Assistant Professor University of Chicago
1984-87 Assistant Professor Tel-Aviv University
1987-88 Visiting Professor Harvard University
1988-89 Visiting Professor Boston University
1988-93 Senior Lecturer Hebrew University
1993-99 Associate Professor Hebrew University
1994-95 Visiting Professor University of Pennsylvania
1997-01 Visiting Professor Penn State University
1999-10 Full Professor Hebrew University
2001-06 Visiting Professor University of Chicago
2006-09 Full Professor University of Essex
2009-present Full Professor University of Warwick
1999 – Charter Member of the Game Theory Society
2000 – Fellow of the Econometric Society
2008 – Council Member of the Game Theory Society
2014 - Economic Theory Fellow (The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory)
2016 - Fellow of the Game Theory Society.
1984-1987: Alon Fellowship for excelling young Israeli scientists
1989-1992: National Science Foundation grant # 8909520
1990-1993: Ford Foundation Fellowship
1996-1998: US-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant # 95-00023
1998-2001: Israel Academy of Science grant # 716/98
1999-2002: National Science Foundation grant # LA980011
2001-2004: Israel Academy of Science grant #880/01-1
2003-2005: Israel Academy of Science, Bikora grant
2004-2007: Israel Academy of Science grant #920/04
2008-2009: UK Economic and Social Research Council grant (jointly with A. Muthoo) grant # ES/E024483/1
2008-2009: Yahoo! Faculty Research Grant gift.
2009-2010: UK Economic and Social Research Council grant # ES/G045704/1
2009-2011: Israel Academy of Science grant #241/09 (jointly woth A. Gershkov)
Editoral position
2005-2008 Associate Editor, Journal of Games and Economics Behavior.
2005-2008 Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory.
Graduate supervision
Alex Gershkov, HU Economics
Anastasios Dosis, ESSEC Business School
Julia Wirtz , University of Bristol
Giulio Trigilia, Simon Business School
Spyros Terovitis, Amsterdam Business School
Elyashiv Wiedman, HU Business School
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2. “Non-Linear Price Strategies in a Contestable Market,” 1984. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 32, No. 2, 246-264.
3. “Wage Bargaining, Labor Turnover, and the Business Cycle,” 1985 with G. Solon. Journal of Labor, Vol. 3, No. 4, 421-433.
4. “An Example of Price Formation in a Bilateral Situation,” 1986. Econometrica, Vol. 54, No. 2, 312-322.
5. “Search in a Known Pattern,” 1986 with A. Wigderson. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 94, No.1, 225-230.
6. “Sequential Bargaining under Asymmetric Information,” 1986 with S. Grossman. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 39, No.1, 97-119.
7. “Perfect Sequential Equilibrium,” 1986 with S. Grossman. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 39, No.1, 120-154.
8.a “Strategic Delay in Bargaining,” 1987 with A. Admati. Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 54, 345-363.
8.b “Strategic Delay in Bargaining,” 1992 with A. Admati. In Linhart Radner and Satterthwaite (eds.) Bargaining with Incomplete Info, Academic Press, 321-40.
9. “Joint Project without Commitment,” 1991 with A. Admati. Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 58, 259-276.
10. “Non Cooperative Bargaining Without Procedures,” 1993 with P. Reny. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 59 No. 1, 50-77.
11. “Open Vs. Closed Door Negotiation,” 1994 with L. Samuelson. The Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 25, No.2, 348-359.
12.a “A Noncooperative View of Coalition Formation and the Core,” 1994 with P. Reny. Econometrica, Vol. 62, No.4, 795-818.
12.b “A Noncooperative View of Coalition Formation and the Core,” 1997 with P. Reny. In E. Maskin (ed), Recent Developments in Game Theory.
13. “Virtual Implementation in Backward Induction,” 1996 with J. Glazer. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 15, No.1, 27-32.
14. “A General Solution to King Solomon Dilemma,” 1999 with P. Reny. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 2, 279-285.
15. “The Absent-Minded Driver,” 1997 with R. J. Aumann, and S. Hart. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1, 102-116.
16. “The Forgetful Passenger,” 1997 with R. J. Aumann, and S. Hart. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1, 117-120.
17. “On the Failure of the Linkage Principle,” 1999 with P. Reny Econometrica, Vol. 67, No.4, 895-90.
18. “A Sealed Bid Auction that Matches the English Auction," 2000 with E. wolfstetter and S. Zamir. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 2, 265-273.
19. “Dynamic Consistency and Optimal Patent Allocation,” 2002 with D. Vincent. International Economic Review.
20. “An Efficient Auction,” 2002 with Phil Reny. Econometrica, Vol. 70, No. 3 – May, 2002, 1199-1212.
21. “An Ex-Post Efficient Ascending Auction,” 2005 with P. Reny. The Review of Economic Studies, 72, 567-592.
22. "Toward a Strategic Foundation for Rational Expectations Equilibrium," 2006 with P. Reny. Econometrica, Vol. 74, 1231-1269.
23. "Tournaments with Midterm Reviews" 2009 with A. Gershkov, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol.66, 162-190 .
24. "Dynamic Contacts with Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection" 2012 with A. Gershkov, The Review of Economic Studies, Vol 79(1), 268-306.
25. "Implementing the Wisdom of the Crowds” 2014 with Ilan Kremer and Yishay Mansour, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 122(5), 988-1012.
26. "Why Sex and Why in Pairs" 2016 with P. Reny and A. Robson, The Economic Journal. forthcoming.
27. "How to Count Citations if You Must" 2016 with Phil Reny, American Economic Review, Vol 106, No. 9, 2722-2741.
28. "Evidence Games: Truth and Commitment" 2017 with Sergiu Hart and Ilan Kremer, American Economic Review 107, 3, 690-713.
29. "An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy" 2016 with Marco Francesconi and Christian Ghiglino, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 166, issue C, 605-628.
30. “Efficient Mechanism Design," with V. Krishana.
31. "Conditioning and the Sure-Thing Principle" with R. J. Aumann and S. Hart.
32. "Crowd Learning without Herding: A Mechanism Design Approach" with Jacob Glazer and Ilan Kremer.
33. "Fake Persuasion" with Jacob Glazer and Helios Herrera.
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Weyes Blood Serenades The Apocalypse On The Stunning ‘Titanic Rising’
Steven Hyden
Cultural Critic
Kathryn Vetter Miller/Uproxx Studios
The RX is Uproxx Music’s stamp of approval for the best albums, songs, and music stories throughout the year. Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most important music being released throughout the year. The RX is the music you need, right now.
The singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, who records and performs as Weyes Blood, presents herself on her album covers as a person from nowhere. On 2016’s Front Row Seat To Earth, her critical breakthrough and third album overall, she lays on what appears to be a beach set against a body of water and a mountain range that looks thoroughly alien, as if it were the planet that David Bowie escaped in The Man Who Fell To Earth. (It’s actually California’s eerie Salton Sea.) Mering’s latest effort, the stunning and career-best Titanic Rising, shows her floating ethereally in a childhood bedroom that has been completely submerged in water, sending her long, brown hair flowing upward like a character from Greek mythology, a figure perpetually stuck out of time.
But Mering is not from nowhere. She was born in Southern California, and then bounced around the country during her youth, settling for a time outside of Philadelphia, where she started writing songs as a teenager. Her parents were former musicians who found God and became born-again Christians, though Mering rebelled by watching The Kids In The Hall. This mix of religious fervor and absurdist surrealism subsequently informed her music.
As a songwriter, Mering’s specialty is writing classic ’70s AM pop melodies — the sort that Paul Williams or Burt Bacharach once composed for the Carpenters — and setting them to songs that ruminate on how technology has destroyed nearly everything essential to human life in the 21st century, from romantic love to the climate. The result is millennial-themed, new age-accented soft rock, in which the stoicism of Mering’s stirring voice plays against the conversational nature of the lyrics. In contrast with the exotic figure on her album covers, Mering is dryly funny in her songs, like the part in “Everyday,” a highlight from Titanic Rising, where she sings, “The other night I was at a party / someone sincerely looked at me / and said this is the end of monogamy / and I said not today.” It’s akin to Enya singing Tumblr posts.
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After One Month in Valencia
“After One Month…” is a series in which we normally share first impressions of our new homes. But in Valencia’s case, our rose-tinted first impressions have long since matured into gnarled old certainties. Still, after years of calling this city home, we love it more than ever. And that should speak volumes.
Most Memorable
Mike: No doubt in my mind. La Cremà, the fiery culmination of Fallas, is the most unforgettable experience Valencia has to offer.
Jürgen: Just after moving here, we were shaken out of bed at 7:30 am by explosions and smoke. We thought it was World War III! It seems funny now, but back then we hadn’t yet heard of La Despertà.
Favorite Food
Mike: It has to be paella, right? And… it is! No surprises here. Paella is Valencia’s crowning culinary achievement, and one I’ll never tire of. We’ve been making it ourselves, too, and although ours might not be perfect, it’s not bad. There’s no better way to spend a sunny Sunday than on the terrace with a bottle of wine and paella simmering in the pan.
Jürgen: Paella Valenciana, of course! This is the only version of paella I care for (not a fan of seafood). I also love the other rice specialties like Arroz al Horno and Arroz Meloso. And… did I hear someone say Bravas?! I’ll be right over!
Most Surprising
Mike: It’s possible to see all of Valencia’s main sights within a short period of time. But the lesser-known sights can be amazing, too. Even after years of living here, we’re still shocked by how many great new experiences we’re discovering in the city… to say nothing of the beaches, towns, and diverse nature in the rest of the province.
Jürgen: How fast I fell in love with this city. Even after the first month of living here, I knew this was the place I wanted to call home. I’m also surprised by the sheer number of festivals and celebrations!
Most Disappointing
Mike: The so-called “America’s Cup Port” is the most disappointing area in Valencia. Overly eager to host “elite” events like the Formula One and America’s Cup, Valencia disfigured one of its most historic sections. Today, the America’s Cup buildings stand empty, the Vels i Vents building is a rotting corpse, and the abandoned F1 track looks weird with its lines looping into nowhere. This area is a mess, and I hate it.
Jürgen: I have to say politics and the corruption. It’s so visible, but the same people get voted into power over and over again.
Funniest/Weirdest
Mike: For me, it gets no weirder than the ultra-short procession of La Virgen de los Desamparados, held in May. People will go to any extreme to touch the Virgin… these might be rational, reasonable people on other days, but today they’re passing their newborn infants to complete strangers, in the hopes that someone will clonk baby’s head against the icon. It’s outrageous.
Jürgen: The amount of swearing here is insane. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind swearing, generally. But when a 5-year-old screams “¡Coño!” in front of her parents, it still takes me off guard.
How Expensive? From 1 (cheap) to 10 (expensive)
Mike: 6. Valencia is a big Western European city, so it’s not super-cheap… but it’s about as cheap as a city in Western Europe gets! Especially compared to Madrid or Barcelona, living costs are reasonable, and it’s easy to find nice rentals for good rates.
Jürgen: 6. For its size and what it has to offer, Valencia is affordable. Museums are often free on Sundays, and otherwise rarely cost more than a couple euros. You can eat well for €9 (usually including a drink and dessert). And the sun and beaches are free!
People from Valencia Are…
Mike: … some of the most laid-back and tolerant people I’ve ever met. It’s a real “live and let live” environment, here, and as long as you’re not bugging anyone, people leave you alone.
Jürgen: … fast speakers, proud of their culture, and usually helpful and welcoming.
Valencia in Three Words
Mike: Siestas, Citrus, Sun
Jürgen: Paella, Fallas, Fun
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After One Month in Valencia "After One Month..." is a series in which we normally share first impressions of our new homes. But in Valencia's case, our rose-tinted first impressions have long since matured into gnarled old certainties. Still, after years of calling this city home, we love it more than ever. And that should speak volumes.
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Qigong with Bobbie Lu-Kopf
Varsity Natural Health Center > Posts > Wellness Classes > Qigong with Bobbie Lu-Kopf
The practice of Qigong has been rooted in Chinese culture for over 4000 years, and translates literally to ‘life force cultivation’. Bobbie’s father introduced her to the elements of Qigong practice (movements, massage, breathing, and meditation) when she was five. “My Father was trying to find a way to keep nine kids out of trouble,” says Bobbie, “so he taught us T’ai Chi to keep an eye on us. Qigong was traditionally used as both a warm up and cool down for T’ai Chi as well as other martial arts, so for my childhood it was always part of a more active practice”.
Bobbie fell away from Qigong in her teens. However when she met Heather Campbell and started working at Varsity Natural Health Center in her twenties, she became more interested in exploring her traditional roots and embracing Chinese culture. Qigong, with its pervasive reach and trans-generational practitioners, was a perfect gateway. Bobbie says, that now that she was older and practicing Qigong through choice, rather than as a family obligation (and as its own practice rather than just as a warm up for T’ai Chi), that she started noticing and appreciating its subtleties. The inherent beauty of the flow of the movements that can bring a sense of centering and calmness. It really puts you in a state of peace.
The Four Elements of Qigong
At Varsity Natural Health Center, Bobbie teaches hour-long classes that cover all four elements – movements, massage, breathing, and meditation – of Qigong, but in her private practice she’s far more genital and relaxed. “Qigong is really a set of tools I use to help myself feel better,” she says. “There’s beauty in spending a full hour working through its stages, but there are also lots of benefits to breaking it up: a few movements or breaths scattered throughout your day or week to help you re-center, recharge, or relax – whatever you need in the moment”.
Qigong is a “Moving Meditation”
The physical movements of Qigong work the muscles, joints, and ligaments of the body. They draw inspiration as well as imagery from animals and nature. This inspires a flowing gentleness and calmness in the mind, which is why Bobbie says she often describes Qigong as a “moving meditation”. The movement ‘fly like an eagle’, for example, creates an image of powerful wings flapping and soaring through the sky. While the physical act of raising the heels and arms requires both core strength and balance, the fluidity of the motion is deeply soothing and elicits the quiet strength of flight. In her private practice, Bobbie says she uses a couple Qigong movements after a workout session: “I like doing just a few poses to wrap everything up. It re-centers me, and brings a sense of completion to the workout”.
Qigong Self Massage Provides Many Benefits
The massage element of Qigong is particularly versatile, it is used to increase circulation, to stimulate the lymphatic system, and to decrease tension as well as pain by increasing Qi flow to joints and muscles. There are many areas and techniques of self-massage in Qigong. Each area and pattern of massage is a puzzle piece in the health of the whole body. One of Bobbie’s favorites is ‘tapping for health’, a rhythmic and sequential tapping of the body from head to toe that increases circulation by sending vibrations into the bone marrow. She states “this is a great way to warm the body up first thing in the morning!”. If your goal is to induce relaxation, rather than wakefulness, Bobbie says she uses belly massage to help herself fall asleep. She also uses face and head techniques if she wakes up in the middle of the night, both of which are ways of engaging the parasympathetic nervous system, our ‘rest and digest’ response.
Qigong Breathing for Calming Down
Similarly, Bobbie often uses Qigong breathing methods to help calm down. “It might not be what ancient practitioners had in mind when they developed these techniques,” she laughs, “but Qigong Breathing #3’ is excellent for reducing road rage!” When practiced outside of the car, Qigong breathing is often combined with meditation. The focus of the breathing is to send air into the belly and diaphragm. Take deep, slow breaths to allow the body to fully relax and to help let the mind go by bringing more oxygen to the bloodstream, thus engaging the parasympathetic nervous system. Done in static postures (either seated or standing), breathing and meditative positions are still inspired by nature imagery like Qigong movements. One of Bobbie’s favorites is ‘embrace the tree’ pose, a time-honored meditation posture that enhances mindfulness and body awareness. Its rooted nature builds muscular strength, while its stillness creates an inner focus, allowing for a mind-body connection by ‘letting go’ of thoughts and creating a space thought the expansion of the body.
Qigong Ideal for Senior’s Health
For Bobbie, a lot of the appeal of Qigong comes from its versatility and flexibility. It’s most popular among seniors because of its gentle movements and slow pace. However this practice can benefit anyone and be practiced in all sorts of different ways. Many practitioners love the routine and ritual of taking an hour to work through all four elements to increase strength, release tension, as well as to help calm and center the mind. For others, knowing how to integrate Qigong elements individually or in combination into their day helps them stay centered and present. As Bobbie says, “all you need to do is commit to a practice, most of Qigong movements/poses can literally be done anytime and anywhere”.
Bobbie has been a Natural Health Practitioner for 20 years and is educated in a wide variety of complementary healing modalities. She does private sessions in registered massage therapy, integrative healing work, and shiatsu. Bobbie also teaches classes in core strength, Qigong, T’ai Chi, and yin yoga to specialized populations and facilitates workshops in Qigong and T’ai Chi.
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WEMBLEY MATTERS
WEMBLEY MATTERS Campaigning for environmental and social justice in Brent and beyond
Brent restructuring steams ahead but will have to be done again in 2-3 years
The proposed structure
I went to yesterday's Brent General Purposes Committee on a high - not in anticipation of an exciting meeting but because I was buzzing with optimism from an event I had just attended at Chalkhill Primary School. The Sports Hall had been full of families, not just parents but grandparents, aunts and uncles and children ranging from babes in arms to secondary school students. The occasion was the graduation ceremony for the 8 week FAST (Families and Schools Together) course that had taken place at the school. Among those working with families alongside school staff was the chair of the Chalkhill Residents Association. A real community effort. The hall was buzzing with chatter and lively with children dressed up for the occasion playing amongst the tables or tucking into food and drink while some adults were in dazzling national costume.. Real pride was on display when each family went up on the stage to get their certificate to cheers from the audience.
FAST aims to provide a fun and relaxed space for families to experience a mixture of play and learning activities, hands on coaching and support for parents and carers. Each week families can win a resource hamper to help support children's learning in the home. The programme has high success rates in improving family relationships and links between home, school and the local community. The project is run by Save the Children and funded by Morrison's.
So it was with renewed faith in our local authority community schools that I went to speak to the General Purposes Committee about the restructuring of the senior management at the council and the children and families department.
I had three main concerns. The first was by combining adults' and children's social care with education and public health that the Council was creating a 'high risk' department. One risk was that these were areas where things could go badly wrong as we know from previous child protection cases as well as concerns over the treatment of vulnerable adults. The second risk was that these are areas under huge budgetary pressures and the eventual cost of public health is not yet known.
The second concern was that that education and children's social care were being separated. They had not worked well together when they had been separate departments and as a headteacher I had seen improvements in processes when they came under one director. I said it was essential that there were clear lines of responsibility in terms of child protection and safeguarding. The operational director would be dealing with complex cases on the ground but the strategic director would have overall responsibility.
The third concern was much broader and about the current fragmentation of the local school system with academisation and free schools. I said that Gladstone Park Primary's experience had given other heads the jitters and it was essential that there was strong leadership in education that championed the role of the local authority and demonstrated that the LA had the capacity to help schools improve. In that regard the reduction in the role of the School Improvement Service and the creation of the Brent Schools' Partnership introduced a note of uncertainty underlining the need for strong leadership.
I noted that when the post of Director of Children and Families last became vacant that it was ring-fenced to existing council staff. At the time this was criticised LINK on the grounds that schools by statute have to advertise vacant head and deputy head posts nationally so as to have the widest possible field to select the best quality candidate. I argued, recognising that there might be HR issues involved, that this should also apply to these vital posts - Brent children and adults deserve the best.
Christine Gilbert, responded to some of these points in her presentation. She recognised that this would be a 'high risk' department but said that the safeguarding aspects should carry on much as they are now. She said that the strategic directors would have to have a good grasp of the operational issues. Gilbert told councillors that there would need to be another restructuring in two or three years as further cuts were made in funding. Muhammed Butt, chairing the meeting, said that the only constant was change.
Cllr Mary Arnold challenged my suggestion that there was a risk in the Brent Schools Partnership lacking an independent critical voice and said that the partnership was with the local authority which would retain core services and offer services that schools could buy into: it was a schools partnership with the local authority.
Cllr Jim Moher expressed support for my call for strong leader for education in the face of fragmentation. Cllr Pavey spoke enthusiastically about the excitement he felt about the opportunities offered by restructuring. It's probably fair to say that his enthusiasm didn't set the rest of the room on fire.
Paul Lorber for the Lib Dems wanted more information about the role of the Assistant Chief Executive and suggested that perhaps it would be better to employ a director for one of the other service units instead. He was told that the delayed appointment of the permanent Chief Executive would go ahead in May and that the new structure, after consultation, would help the appointment. Lorber also asked if the new structure at office level with fewer departments would mean a reduction in the size of the Executive with their parallel responsibilities. That has happened in Hounslow but not elsewhere.
Christine Gilbert asked for suggestions on alternative names for the new departments which would sum up their functions concisely. Mary Arnold suggested that Economic Growth and Employment might better reflect the developing role of Regeneration and Major Projects.
The recommendations in Christine Gilbert's report were accepted subject to consultation on some aspects.
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Labels: adult, Brent Council, children, Christine Gilbert, education, regeneration, restructuring, social care
Caroline Lucas: Time to nail Coalition's biggest lie-TINA
Labels: alternative, austerity, Caroline Lucas, Coalition, cuts, green party, Peoples Assembly
The Counihan Campaign: Housing and Social Justice
Labels: benefit cuts, Brent Council, Counihan family, evictions, housing, Ireland, Kilburn Unemployed Workers, landlords, London Irish Centre
London Councils calls for London to be treated as a'special case' on benefit reform
London Councils released a report yesterday that tracks the impact of benefit reforms and suggests Londoners will be hardest hit by the changes.
The report indicates that up to half-a-million working age people could be touched in some way when the changes take effect this year. It estimates that 27,000 households in London will be affected by the benefit cap alone, due to be piloted in four boroughs from April.
An additional 456,000 Londoners will pay more council tax as a result of council tax benefit payments moving to council control, with reduced funding. And up to 80,000 homes could be adversely affected by the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ designed to deal with under occupancy in social housing.
Mayor Sir Steve Bullock, London Councils’ Executive Member for Housing, said:
While we recognise the need for reform, councils across London have concerns about the speed this is being implemented and the effect on families of so many changes taking place at once. I want to see London treated as a special case as the process moves forward.
For some ordinary families with two children looking for work their benefit could drop £183.00 per week, while an identical family unit in Manchester would be unaffected.
London Councils supports a fairer, more accountable system of welfare that encourages work. But since changes to housing benefits in April 2011 the number of households claiming housing benefit for private rented housing in London rose by over 32,000. Rents went up by nine per cent for the most basic housing in that period and this is increasingly a London issue.
The report, Tracking Welfare Reform, is available on the London Councils website LINK along with a wide range of research and background materials.
Labels: benefit, cap, council tax, housing, London Councils, reform, welfare
Michaela Free School: not needed, not wanted, not interested...
I was only the sixth (and the last) person to attend the Michaela Free School Consultation this afternoon. The first on the attendance list was another opponent of the school so Michaela didn't do very well. There were more people from Michaela itself present than there were members of the public who attended throughout the 2 hours consultation period.
Nevertheless I had an interesting chat with Suella Fernandes, vice chair of the Michael governing body. When I asked about the appointment of Katharine Birbalsingh as headteacher of the school and the process involved I was told that Katharine was the proposer of the free school so she was the headteacher - 'That's the way it goes with a free school'. When I asked, therefore, what quality control there was of the appointment, given the rigorous procedures involved in the appointment of headteachers in the maintained sector, I was told that the free school application had been 'vetted' by the DfE.
Turning to the governing body I asked how they had been appointed, Apparently they are supporters of the bid and all 'passionate' about education. She did not demur when I said, 'So you are all self-appointed', that's how it is with free schools, apparently. I was told that apart from herself, a planning barrister, other governors included Chidi Amadi, an ex-pupil of Birbalsingh's and Dr Tony Sewell, CEO of Generating Genius. LINK
When I asked whether parent governors would be elected or appointed I was told they would be 'recruited'. As many free schools and academies have only one or two parent governors I asked how many Michaela would have. That was probably unfair as the governing body is still incomplete and hoping to recruit 'professionals' locally, and the vice chair could only hazard a guess off the record.
Recruitment of teachers is clearly an issue with Michaela offering English, Maths, Science, History. Geography, Religious Education, French, Spanish, Music, Art and extended day competitive sport, help with university applications, Latin, Mandarin, business and personal financial skills and social and cultural education. It was clear from my conversation that staff recruitment had not got very far and I warned that some of these were shortage subjects where it would be hard to recruit.
With the school intending to open in September 2014 with four classes of 30 (presumably Year Sevens) I asked how the range of subjects could be covered by 'about eight teachers' and was told that this would be 'no problem at all'.
Pursuing the thought that parents were being sold a pig in a poke I pointed out that with local secondary schools parents could judge them from their examination results (except for Ark that doesn't have any yet) and Ofsted Reports, but all we had for Michaela were assertions in a glossy brochure: 'That's the way it is with free schools starting out'. But they wanted to offer parents a choice based on tradition and discipline.
With Michaela having been rejected in two areas of South London I asked how they had ended up in Brent. Initially I was told that this was because there was a need here and because of the challenges Brent faced with its multicultural population and people not having English as their first language. When I pointed out that Brent secondary schools were achieving well and amongst the top 10% of schools in the country with a proven track record, the grounds switched to the shortage of secondary places. I pointed out that the Council had published plans to deal with this but was told that Michaela was one of the ways Brent was tackling the shortage. When I pressed further the fact that there was a site available in Wembley at Arena House became the dominant factor.When I suggested that the real need was for a secondary school, open to all, in the south of the borough, Suella suggested that I find them a site.
When I asked about planning permission for a secondary school in Arena House I was confidently told by the planning barrister that it wasn't required. When I pointed out that this meant local people had no say in something that would affect them, yes, you've guessed: 'That's the way it is' but people could come along and tell them about their concerns at the next consultation. In the future there will be school students from Ark, Preston Manor, Michaela and the French School at the Town Hall concentrated in this small area of Wembley. When I said that residents were likely to raise a hue and cry the short response was 'Let them'.
I asked about play space in the new school and Michaela agreed there would be very little and they would look elsewhere in the borough for sports facilities. Apparently no agreement has been reached with the Ark about the use of their facilities. At first they did not seem to know about the Town Hall French School but them confirmed that they had been in negotiations for the building but had dropped out because it would not have been ready in time for September 2014. Instead Arena House will be refurbished - at what cost to taxpayers I do not know - but at a time when the poor state of Copland High School has made national headlines...
Suella Fernandes involvement strengthens Michaela's links with the Conservative Party. (Katharine Birbalsingh's career as a Govite was launched when she addressed a meeting at the Tory Conference). Suella is a daughter of former Brent Conservative councillor Uma Fernandes and herself stood as a Conservative candidate in Fryent ward. She attended a local Brent primary school, Uxendon Manor, but her secondary education was at Heathfield School in Pinner - a Girls Public Day School Trust establishment.
The next consultation is on April 4th, 6-8pm Powell Suite, Chalkhill Community Centre
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Labels: Brent Council, Chalkhill, Katharine Birbalsingh, Michaela Free School, Tony Sewell
Bin Veolia in Brent boosted by Labour motion calling for Veolia's exclusion
The Bin Veolia in Brent Campaign received a boost last week when a motion critical of Veolia was passed at the Brent Central General Committee of the Labour Party. The Campaign calls for Veolia to be excluded from the current multi-million Brent Public Real Contract because of its complicity in the breaking of international law in the occupied territories of Palestine.
The motion was proposed Sabina Khan of the Dudden Hill branch of the Labour Party. Those present were generally aware of the issues involved and there were several other speeches in favour.
There was a further suggestion that the issue be raised with Cllr James Powney (Kensal Green) who is the lead member for environment and neighbourhoods.
The full text of the motion and a downloadable petition can be found HERE
Labels: Bin Veolia in Brent, Brent Council, Dump Veolia, Israel, James Powney, Palestine
Risks in council's reduced role and restructuring
Long term out-sourcing reduces democratic accountability
It was rather disconcerting during yesterday's Barnet Spring march to find a rather touching faith in the ability of the Labour Party to deliver something quite different to the Tory's Easy Council option. A speech from a libraries campaigning from Newcastle and chats with those of us from Brent, introduced a touch of realism into their expectations.
Of course Labour Brent and Tory Barnet are not identical but they do share some of the basic assumptions and I am under no illusions that the Greens in Brighton have fundamentally different views as to the future. They are all in different ways 'managing' the decline in financial and political power of local councils.
One way of doing this is to reduce the 'need' for local services through lowering expectations and reducing costs via out-sourcing to the lowest bidder. Out-sourcing is privatisation and removes democratic accountability and further reduces the role of the council. What is required instead of accommodation to the Coalition agenda is out-right concerted defence of local government and local democracy.
This is how the Brent Council restructuring document puts it:
The changing role of the Council
The scale of the challenge to public services through the reductions outlined above is considerable. It cannot be managed by the traditional local government responses of streamlining staffing and restricting access or eligibility to services which may be of poorer quality than they are now. This can only lead to conflict and declining trust among local people. We must:
• find more innovative ways of preventing demand for public services arising in the first place
• do more to ensure that if a need arises, ways are found to meet it without relying on public services
• help people themselves self-manage a long term need, rather than relying on a service
• minimise duplication by integrating all services-not just those provided by the
council-around individuals, thereby facilitating a more personalised and coherent approach
• explore ways of enabling service users to improve services by commissioning services directly.
Barnet wants to do away with the local authority's day to day management role altogether with massive long-term contracts to then likes of Capita. However Brent isn't really that far behind if you consider the huge contract currently being procured for the Public Realm (street cleaning, waste collection, recycling, Parks and BHP grounds maintenance) as well as adult social care and parts of the education service.
Brent Council's restructuring of senior management is a response to the declining role of the local authority in service management but also reflects the growing role of major projects and regeneration as the Council seeks to sell the family silver (public assets) to remain afloat.
Under the proposals:
The Corporate Management Team will be reduced from 9 posts to 5
CMT Directors will be reduced from 8 posts to 4
Assistant Directors will be reduced from 19 to 14
A new post of Assistant Chief Executive will be created
A common theme is the creation of 'Strategic' and 'Operational Directors' in the new departments. As an example we can look at the newly created Education, Health and Social Care Department. As the name suggests this includes education, children and adult social care and the newly acquired public health functions. It is a huge remit and contains some of the riskiest areas of the Council's operations. BACES is transferred from education to the Major Projects and Regeneration Department.
There will be a Strategic Director of Education, Health and Social Care and s/he will manage the Operational Directors for 1) Education 2) Children's Social Care 3) Adult Social Care and a Director of Public Health (a statutory position) who will report to the Chief Executive.
This set-up may provoke some anxiety in terms of the complexity and associated risk factors in these departments, particularly regarding safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults. Both child and adult social care have huge budget pressures and as a new service it is unclear what the eventual financial position will be regarding public health. Christine Gilbert's report claims that the reorganisation takes account of the Munro Review's recommendation that the role of Director of Children's Services should not have additional functions in order that the focus on vulnerable children should not be diluted. This proposal should be given careful scrutiny by councillors mindful of Brent's unfortunate history in this area, and the difficulty of recruitment to such posts.
The Department of Environment and Neighbourhoods will have a Straetgic Director and two Operational Directors for 1) Neighbourhoods and 2) Environment and Protection. It will now be responsible for Community Safety.
The already huge Regeneration and Major Projects department now takes on Brent Customer Services, a new Employment and Enterprise function, and associated with the latter BACES is transferred from Children and Families. There will be a Strategic Director and four Operational Directors 1) Property and Projects 2) Planning and Regeneration 3) Housing and Employment and 4) Customer Services.
I have previously expressed concern that this department, currently head by Andy Donald, has a great deal of power and possible conflicts of interest, and my concern is not lessened by the reorganisation. As with Education, Health and Social Care, here are a great many eggs in one basket.
Labels: adult, Barnet Council, Brent Council, children. social care, Christine Gilbert, local government, out sourcing, privatisation
Petition launched against Birbalsingh's Michaela Free School
The petition from parents, teachers and local residents launched today is available as a PDF on the panel opposite. Please run off copies and circulate to friends, work colleagues and neighbours. The petition will be sent to the Michaela Academy as a response to their current consultation (the first consultation meetng is on Tuesday March 26th in the Powell Suite,Chalkhill Community Centre 3-5pm and the second on April 4th 6-8pm. The Community Centre is at 113 Chalkhill Rd Wembley, Greater London HA9 9FX. Directions: Cross the road from Wembley Park Station - turn left and then take first right.
The wording is self-explanatory:
We are a group of local parents, teachers and members of the local community opposed to the setting up of the Michaela ‘free’ school in Brent.
We think that the planning for school places has to be done in collaboration with the local community. Putting this school in the north of the borough of Brent will directly compete with our existing local schools and is not where the school place shortages are.
We believe that the evidence from ‘free’ schools has shown that they lead to increased social segregation, lower attainment and have been run for profit. Brent schools are in the top 10% of schools in the country so have a proven track record improving attainment for all children ensuring equal opportunities for pupils from all backgrounds.
We believe that all children need decent school buildings, investment in their schools and smaller class sizes. Free schools have been funded by cutting two desperately needed grants, including the BSF (Building Schools for the Future) money promised to our existing local schools. We know that the cuts to education and public services and the raising of tuition fees will harm our communities. The free school movement is Michael Gove's experimental pet project and is part of the plan to privatise our services and will worsen education for all.
We, the undersigned, oppose the setting up of the Michaela Community School. This could destroy other local schools. We believe that school places need to be planned and the setting up of a school to ‘compete’ with others is damaging to our communities.
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Labels: Arena House, Brent Council, Chalkhill Community Centre, free school, Katharine Birbalsingh, Michaela, Petition
Dear Mr Gove (This is War)
As teachers prepare for their Easter conferences and their fire is trained on Michael Gove and Michael Wilshaw LINK I thought I would share this wonderful video with you. It deserves many more viewings so please share.
Labels: forced academies, Gladstone Park, Michael Gove. Michael Wilshaw, Roke Primary, YouTube.
Barnet springs to the defence of local services despite rain, sleet and snow
Despite battling with wind, rain, sleet and snow,the indefatigable campaigners of Barnet marched to tell their Tory Council and the Coalition government that they must go.
Barnet Council, as Cameron's flagship borough, is attempting the out-sourcing of most of its services on long-term contracts. Campaigners see this as the death of local democracy and the handing over of local assets to private profiteers.
march, recognising that if the Tories succeed in Barnet the 'Barnet strategy' will be implemented in other towns and cities. Brent Fightback were there as were the Whittington and Lewisham hospital campaigns. A speaker from the Anti Academies Alliance drew attention to the privatisation of local authority schools.
Fittingly the march finished at the occupied Friern Barnet library where one of the library campaigners made it clear that volunteer run libraries are not the answer. She told the people crowding into the library that the demand should be no closures and no cuts and for properly resourced local services.
Labels: academies, Barnet Alliance, Barnet Council, Barnet Spring, Coalition, NHS, Whittington Hospital
Challenge privatisation - join the Barnet Spring March
Barnet is in the vanguard of privatisation of services and the destruction of democratically accountable local government. Join the protest.
Labels: Barnet Alliance, Barnet Council, cuts, local sefvices, Our Barnet, privatisation
Gilbert wields the axe as senior posts go on Brent Council
The proposed structure - click to enlarge
There was a flurry of consternation at the Health Partnerships Overview and Scrutiny Committee the other evening when members were shocked to discover the Director of Adult Social Care had seemed to suddenly disappear. A muttered explanation was not audible to the public gallery.
Christine Gilbert
An explanation seems to lie in the Brent Council Management Restructuring paper that is going to the General Purposes Committee on March 28th. The paper from Christine Gilbert, Interim Chief Executive proposes the amalgamation of a number of departments which include a new Education, Health and Social Care Department.
The proposals aim to take advantage of the move to the Civic Centre to defragment services, restructure in line with the shrinking Council and save about £900,000. A new post of Assistant Chief Executive is created.
There will be consultation on the changes before the first take effect in May 2013.
To save readers from navigating around the Brent website I have made the paper available below.
Labels: Brent Council, Children and Families, Management Restructuring. Christine Gilbert
12 year old student gets national coverage on poor state of Copland's building
In a piece recorded the day before the recent Ofsted, Copland High School 12 year old student Khadija was on the World at One today. She had raised the issue of the school's crumbling build with David Cameron a year ago in a face to face meeting and he had promised to investigate. Little has happened since.
The DfE were unable to supply a spokesman to answer her criticisms.
There are pictures on the World at One Facebook HERE You do not have to have a Facebook account to see them,
Labels: Copland High School, David Cameron, Khadija, World at One
Natalie Bennett on Question Time with Michael Gove tonight
Natalie Bennett, Green Party leader, will be taking part in Question Time tonight on BBC1 at 10.40pm. You can watch here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rgszs/Question_Time_21_03_2013/
Other panelists include:
Michael Gove MP
Emily Thornberry MP
Mark Littlewood, Director General of IEA
Anthony Horowitz, Author
Labels: BBC, Michael Gove, Natalie Bennett, Question Time
Brent students take on the challenge of climate change
The first Brent Student Climate Change Conference was held yesterday attended by around 200 people including students, campaigners, authors and local politicians. Here are some of the images from the day to give you a flavour of the event:
Children's author Caren Trafford sets the scene
Competition prize winners with Mary Arnold, the Mayor and Muhammed Butt
1st Prize Winner Suraj Velani Y8 (Dual language PowerPoint presentation)
Runner up Joshua Herskovitz-Wong Y7 (Poster)
Equal runner up Antonino Cafiero-Regueira Y7 (PowerPoint presentation)
After film, presentations and a panel discussion in the morning students used the knowledge gained in workshops in the afternoon to make their own presentations on campaigns to combat climate change. They worked in mixed groups drawn from the colleges and schools attending. Here are some of the results:
Thivya Jeyashanker and Edison Lasku of the Brent Youth Parliament ended their presentation with this slide. During the lunch interval many students volunteered an interest in joining the Youth Parliament.
Labels: Brent Campaign Against Climate Change. College of North West London, Brent Council, Brent Students Climate Change Conference, Brent Youth Parliament, Prize Winners
Lucas: Time for 'PLAN G' after failure of austerity budgets
RESPONDING TO THE BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT, GREEN MP CAROLINE LUCAS (BRIGHTON PAVILION) SAID:
Amidst the tax breaks for shale gas and boastful road building pledges, there is one huge green economy-shaped hole in this flailing Chancellor's Budget.
With the UK's green economy now worth over £120bn - 9% of GDP - providing nearly a million jobs and generating a third of our most recent economic growth according to the CBI, it is completely inexplicable that George Osborne keeps pretending it doesn't exist.
Given the huge potential of green industries and clean energy generation to provide British jobs and prosperity, as well as the obvious environmental benefits they will deliver, it's time to drop austerity and go for Plan G.
There's no doubt that the cuts have failed - now we need urgent investment in nationwide green infrastructure to stabilise the economy, tackle the environmental crisis and deliver clean and secure energy for the future.
TAX BREAKS FOR SHALE GAS “A COSTLY GAMBLE”
LUCAS CONTINUED:
This should also mean the Chancellor ditching his irrational obsession with gas. It's outrageous that the Government is willing to gift yet more tax breaks to companies drilling for hard-to-reach shale - a costly gamble that risks keeping the UK addicted to polluting fossil fuels at precisely the time we should be leaving them in the ground.
A Government which really cared about bringing energy bills under control and improving energy security would put its money on renewables - where the costs are predictable and falling - and agree to recycle carbon tax revenue into a jobs-rich energy efficiency programme, rather than deepening our dependence on gas, where prices are set to keep rising.
Going all-out for offshore wind, for example, instead would save £20bn by 2030, create 70,000 more jobs, and lead to both lower climate emissions and lower fuel bills.
And with the new nuclear facility at Hinkley announced yesterday expected to come with a £14bn price tag, this Government should urgently think again before ploughing ahead with its deeply misguided nuclear strategy. For the cost of one nuclear reactor, it's estimated that 7 million households could be lifted out of fuel poverty.
With the negotiations for a strike price for nuclear operators getting on for double the current price of electricity - to be paid by households and businesses already struggling with high bills - it's clear that the main beneficiaries of this policy will be EDF and the French state.
CORPORATIONS GET TAX CUTS AS MILLIONS STRUGGLE WITH RISING HOUSEHOLD BILLS
With the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warning that tax rises, welfare cuts, and wages freezes will push over 7 million children below the breadline in the next two years, it's scandalous that this millionaire Government is still so reluctant to make the richest in our society pay their fair share of tax.
While millions across the country struggle to pay rising household bills, the Government is cutting tax for corporations like Amazon, Starbucks and Google - when they choose to pay it at all - to 25% next month, 23% by 2014 then 20% the year after.
The General Anti Avoidance Rule announced today will not be enough to stop the tax dodgers, as the tax QCs Graham Aaronson who worked it up has admitted it will be "narrowly focused", and apply only to the "most egregious tax avoidance schemes".
If the Government was really serious about cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, including shutting down tax havens, it would have supported my Private Members Bill requiring all companies to publish what they earn.
It would also seek a strong international agreement to force all multinationals to report their tax practices transparently. HMRC has a duty to prosecute multinational companies who do not pay their taxes in the UK and it's right that offenders are publicly named and shamed.
Labels: budget, Caroline Lucas, Chancellor, George Osborne, Green, plan. shale gas
Isolated Powney lashes out at 'Loony Left' Fightback
Sujata Aurora writes:
Last Thursday I spoke on behalf of Brent Fightback at Kensal Green Labour ward meeting. There were 11 or 12 people there, including all 3 ward councillors, and the response was very positive. This was not an anti Labour rant but I presented a few issues where I thought the council was lacking and Labour members could be exerting pressure.
These were namely 1) the closure of Central Middlesex A&E where I said that Labour should take a strong stand within the Health Committee and refer the decision up to the Secretary of State, and 2) the response to housing/benefit changes where I said the council should look at reclassifying homes to avoid the bedroom tax (as Knowsley Housing Authority has) and also adopt a policy of no evictions in the way that Dundee council has. (I did also mention a needs budget but its didn't get taken up in the discussion afterwards).
People were very receptive and interested to hear that there was far more that the council could be doing to fight the cuts. Many of them had not considered or even heard about some of the possibilities such as reclassification of homes.
Throughout the meeting I emphasised that that Brent Fightback saw its role within the broad Labour movement and wanted a dialogue with Labour members and councillors about how best to resist cuts.
Despite not raising a word of disagreement at the time, Councillor James Powney is now attacking Brent Fightback on his blog as the "loony left alternative" whose "main activity consists of attacking people in the Labour Party". This strikes me as more than a little dishonest and perhaps an indication of how isolated he is from ordinary members within his own party.
Join in the discussion HERE
Labels: Brent Fightback, James Powney, Kensal Green Labour Party, Loony Left
Brent Labour shrinks from supporting Ealing on hospital reorganisation
A motion referring the Shaping a Healthier Future proposals to the Secretary of State, moved by Cllr Claudia Hector, failed to find a seconder at tonight's Brent's Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The proposals will mean the closure of Central Middlesex A&E.
At the Labour councillors' pre-meeting an alternative motion was amended so that it read that the Committee 'noted' Ealing Council's decision to refer the proposals in case it should appear that Brent Council supported their action. Instead the anodyne motion from Cllr Pat Harrison, seconded by Cllr Helga Gladbaum, said that 'it was right' that the proposals should be 'thoroughly examined' and sought assurances that services would not be reduced or closed unless changes in infrastructure had 'proved to deliver successful outcomes for residents'. This was passed with Lib Dem support from Cllr Ann Hunter.
The motion was in stark contrast to the earlier passionate call for arms from Sarah Cox of Brent Fightback and Brent SWP who told the Labour councillors that they were heirs to the creators of the National Health Service and, reflecting the commitment of the recently released Spirit of 45, it was not too late for them to stand up for the NHS, and for the people of Harlesden and Stonebridge, and refer the decision to the Secretary of State.
Her speech was loudly applauded by Lib Dem councillor Barry Cheese, who went on to make his own heart-felt intervention from first hand sources about the inadequacies of the ambulance service at Northwick Park. He had been told by ambulance workers that two stroke victims in separate ambulances had been delayed treatment because the vehicles had been behind 12 ambulances already on the hospital ramp. As presentations continued he repeatedly called out condemning privatisation. He seems to have moved to the left of the Labour group - which, let's face it, isn't hard.
There was a tedious presentation from NW London NHS on 'Improving Healthcare for people in Brent' that nearly had Cllr Gladbaum chewing the carpet in frustration. However, embedded in it was the tiniest hint that there may be slightest of chances that the Central Middlesex A&E decision may only be about 98% final.
One slide read:
CENTRAL MIDDLESEX A&E
The NWL Hospitals Trust has set up a project board to consider future options for the A&E (includes senior representatives and clinicians from the trust and stakeholders)
Commissioners expect to be fully involved in any decisions regarding the future of the A&E and would require reassurance regarding any future change in services around:
The reasons for any changes and the evidence behind this view
The likely impact on neighbouring services (eg Northwick park and Imperial)
The alternatives that had been considered
The monitoring that would be put in place
The involvement of stakeholders inc the OSC
The litmus test is whether a change of service would be safer that the current service
I read this as an opportunity for campaigners to continue to put on the pressure and make the case for the retention of the A&E. What we should also be saying though is that the 'current service' at Central Middlesex needs to be strengthened and its running down halted. This view is somewhat reinforced by news that the number of ambulances being directed to Central Middlesex had increased recently.
So let's not give up just yet - keep up the pressure.
Labels: Brent Council, Central Middlesex Accident and Emergency, closures, Ealing Council, Secretary of State, Shaping a Healthier Future
Green Party supports tomorrow's PCS strike
GREEN Party leader Natalie Bennett will tomorrow (Wednesday) morning be speaking at a PCS Union rally outside the Euston Tower in Central London in support of the union’s budget day protest, expressing support for PCS members on strike that day across the country.
Natalie said: “The union is rightly calling for decent pay for all civil servants this year, while pointing out to the government that this – and many other steps to reverse its austerity programme – could be paid for by serious action against wealthy tax dodgers.”
A union report has demonstrated that since the start of recession in 2008 the real value of wages has fallen by 7%, more than £50 billion a year. The report also found that median pay in the civil service is 4.4% lower than direct private sector comparators. In some grades, the gap was 10%. It is calling for a 5% rise in civil service pay this year to keep pace with inflation, and an end to reduction in pension rights.
The union represents, among others, customs, immigration, benefits and Jobcentre staff.
Natalie said: "Congratulations to the PCS for rightly identifying the importance of tackling tax evasion in rebalancing our economy. David Cameron has said he wants to act on the issue, but has failed to take any meaningful concrete steps.
“To save time, I’d point him to Green MP Caroline Lucas’s 2011 Tax and Financial Transparency Bill, which set out how the government could force companies to ‘publish what tax they pay’, requiring all companies filing accounts in the UK to include a statement on the turnover, pre-tax profit, tax charge and actual tax paid for each country in which they operate, without exception. He could simply move that as a government bill, and take a big stride towards collecting money the UK is owed.”
Natalie added that the PCS call for fair pay for all civil servants and for all contracts to be underpinned by the living wage, would be a small step towards rebalancing the UK economy, in which the wage share had fallen from around 60% to 55%, with a great increase in the inequality of the distribution of those wages.
“We need to make the minimum wage a living wage – that is an immediate step the government should take, but in the meantime, ensuring that government outsourcing meets this basic standard is an important step.”
Natalie added: “It is clear that we need to not only reverse George Osborne’s austerity agenda, and invest in the infrastructure we desperately need – including energy conservation, renewable energy, but also to move towards a living wage economy with jobs that workers can build a life on.”
Labels: austerity, Caroline Lucas, George Osborne, green party, Natalie Bennett, PCS, protest, recession, strike
Health and housing on the agenda tonight
Brent's Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee will be asked by local campaigners to refer the proposal to close Central Middlesex A&E to the Secretary of State at this evening's meeting. Ealing Council has already taken this step which has drawn an irritated response from NW London NHS:
Ealing Council has asked the Secretary of State for Health to consider the programme. This is a shame, as this process normally takes a few months and will d elay implementation of much needed improvements to local services which the majority of clinicians, local GP s and other local councils want to see go ahead.
Of course many residents think it is a 'shame' that we may lose out local A&E, especially when the alternative facility, Northwick Park, is already over-loaded. A local resident has written to Brent Council leader Muhammed Butt putting her views:
Dear Cllr. Butt,
I am a resident of Brent and Brent should be fighting on behalf of their residents to keep all four Hospitals A&E departments open. Urgent care centres are not acceptable they are not manned by many doctors or nurses, and are no alternative to an A&E unit. How far will Brent residents have to go to the nearest A&E dept? will they be seen? How long will they have to wait? This will put their lives at risk.
St Marys Hospital Paddington, Northwick Park Middlesex A&E depts. are already full with the present numbers they deal with, how will closing four A&E's in North West London help the people of Brent?.
I have had two operations this year in Charring Cross Hospital, this hospital is to be sold off for real estate. Charring Cross Hospital services the people of Brent, I was sent there as St Marys Paddington do not have the facilities or the beds to cope.
The NHS was founded by the labour government in 1948, I expect a labour council to look after all its residents North and South of the borough and back Ealing borough council in fighting to keep all four A&E departments open. Emergency's, Maternity and the Ageing population are all at risk
Margaret von Stoll
Apart from the important issues of the future of Accident and Emergency services in the area and the Shaping the Healthier Future proposals, the Committee will also discuss and question NHS officers on failures in local pathology services:
A serious incident was logged in December 2012 after a concern was raised by a GP about the new system. It became clear that this was not an isolated case, and another GP complained of spurious results, missing results and samples not processed. It was further identified that training for GPs had not taken place and that alleged meetings with GPs had not in reality occurred. A number of issues have now been identified with different test results and these are listed in the report.
As as health campaigners are attending the Committee, housing campaigners will be at Mencap in Willesden High Road for a meeting starting at 6.30pm to discuss strategies for dealing with the deepening housing crisis in the borough. Details were published earlier on this blog and can be found HERE
Labels: Central Middlesex Accident and Emergency, crisis, GP, housing, Mencap, Northwick Park, NW London NHS, Shaping a Healthier Future
No Willesden Town Square registration but some crumbs of comfort
The public inquiry report into the registration of the space outside Willesden Green Library took much longer than anticipated to be completed and it is far fuller than most. However the conclusion is that registration is not recommended despite the huge efforts of Martin Redston to convince the planning inspector that residents had a case:
Martin said:
By now you will have heard that the Inspector rejected my application for registration. His report of 211 pages is exceptionally long and detailed. Having read it carefully I would confirm that I think that he has been fair and reasonable in his treatment of all sides in the matter . ...He cannot recommend registration but he is sympathetic to our community in seeking to protect the open space.
..it seems to me that there is a small crumb of comfort in that if you read Mr Brown's various comments throughout his summary, conclusions and recommendations he considers that the square could be registered on the basis of a more defined local neighbourhood, and if free festivals (clarified by him to be a suitable pastime) in particular had been organised on a continuing basis for the entire 20 year period. He also implies that the council might like to consider the fact that they have actually increased the profile of the square in the last few years, it seems a shame to lose it now.
A report on the outcome can be read HERE on the Kilburn Times website
Labels: Brent Council, Galliford Try, Keep Willesden Green, Martin Redston, public inquiry., Town Square application
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Voting Fraud vs. Election Fraud And Claims Of Chicanery In Kentucky
By Brendan McCarthy
Photo: Thinkstock
Investigations Politics
In a national television appearance on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell knocked down claims of wide-scale voting fraud in the presidential election.
While tossing cold water on President Trump’s repeated (and unsubstantiated) claims of fraud impacting the election, McConnell did say that vote fraud is real, it happens, and Kentucky has a history of it.
“… the Democratic myth that voter fraud is a fiction, is not true,” McConnell said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’ve had a series of significant cases in Kentucky over the years. There is voter fraud in the country.”
Our reporting pals at WAVE-3 in Louisville asked McConnell’s office for details. His office responded with a link to our newsroom’s August 2016 article on Kentucky’s history of vote buying.
So, is McConnell right? Is fraud rampant in Kentucky?
No, not really. The answer is complicated, though, and it boils down to semantics.
Some Republicans, most notably Trump, have pushed the notion of massive voter impersonation, including fake ballots, fake identities, buses of voters crossing state lines and more.
Those actions most definitely fit the definition of voter fraud.
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes reported zero complaints of voter fraud in the most recent election. In a letter sent last week to Congress, Grimes, who oversees elections in the state, said there is no information that anyone prohibited from casting a vote did so.
Attorney General Andy Beshear said via Twitter that his office “has no evidence of voter fraud” related to the presidential election. He noted that vote buying convictions in recent years did not involve a federal election.
Nonetheless, Kentucky does have a history of vote buying, selling and coercion. Those actions are illegal. Last fall, three people were convicted in federal court of conspiring to buy votes on behalf of candidates running for local office in Magoffin County.
And we’ve documented several of these cases over the years. But that doesn’t mean fictitious people are casting fake ballots.
Thus, election fraud isn’t the same as voter fraud.
“In the commonwealth, conflating the concept of vote buying with voter impersonation or illegal individuals voting is inaccurate, inconsistent, and the facts simply do not back it up,“ Grimes said in a statement released Wednesday to KyCIR. She called McConnell’s comments disingenuous.
Another aspect of the fraud debate centers on voters registered in several states. Some Republicans have cited this as an avenue for fraud, calling it a major problem.
Several of Trump’s top deputies and his spokesman were found to be registered in multiple states. So too was our own Kate Howard, who chronicled her voting registration story last fall. She did not commit fraud. (Read “How I Became An Election Scofflaw”)
The unsubstantiated claims of vote fraud aren’t likely to go away anytime soon. Last week, Trump reignited his allegation, saying, without any evidence, that fraud cost him the popular vote in New Hampshire. He has promised a “major investigation.”
Here is McConnell’s full MSNBC commentary on vote fraud:
There’s no evidence that enough votes were stolen to change the outcome of the election. I do want to point out Joe, though, the Democratic myth that voter fraud is a fiction, is not true. We’ve had a series of significant cases in Kentucky over the years. There is voter fraud in the country.
So the notion that something – for example, like photo ID at the polls is an effort to suppress the vote – is patently absurd. But there is no evidence that there was significant enough voter fraud to affect the outcome of the presidential election.
Here is Grimes’ full statement:
Sen. McConnell’s comments with regard to voter fraud are disingenuous. They are an attempt to lay the groundwork for massive voter suppression efforts, not only in the commonwealth but across the nation.
As he rightly admitted, there was no massive voter fraud sufficient to impact the 2016 presidential election, as the president has repeatedly claimed. In the commonwealth, conflating the concept of vote buying with voter impersonation or illegal individuals voting is inaccurate, inconsistent, and the facts simply do not back it up.
KyCIR Managing Editor Brendan McCarthy can be reached at bmccarthy@kycir.org or (502) 814.6541.
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Vagabundo is a concept album by Robi Dräco Rosa. It was recorded in Surrey, England under the creative direction of Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera. The music video for "Madre Tierra" was directed by Angela Alvarado and won Best Rock Video in the 1997 Latin Music Awards. The album was also included in Spin Magazine's 1997 Top 10 list of greatest Latin Rock records of all time.
"Hablando del Amor" (Navarro, Rosa) - 1:14
"Madre Tierra" (Escolar, Rosa) - 3:35
"Llanto Subterráneo" (Rosa, Sabines) - 3:52
"Vagabundo" (Navarro, Rosa) - 3:37
"Penélope" (Navarro, Rosa) - 4:45
"Delirios" (Rosa, Tena) - 3:00
"Para No Olvidar" (Rosa, Sabines) - 4:16
"Blanca Mujer" (Escolar, Rosa) - 3:51
"Vértigo" (Navarro, Rosa) - 2:43
"Vivir" (Escolar, Rosa) - 4:21
"Brujería" (Escolar, Rosa) - 3:28
"La Flor del Frío" (Navarro, Rosa) - 3:55
"Amantes Hasta el Fin" (Navarro, Rosa) - 5:02
"Mientras Camino" (Navarro, Rosa) - 0:37
Robi Dräco Rosa - vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, harmonica, piano, sound effects
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Vagabundo
'Vagabundo' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Última sesión (2010)
Actors: Iván Andrade (actor), Atlant Barbaflorit (actor), Elias Basso (actor), Enric Boixadera (actor), Gerard Clavell (actor), Pol Ferreres (actor), Alberto Molina (actor), Paco Morán (actor), Antonio Navarro (actor), Pol (actor), Ángels Torrent (actor), Rosa Bastos (actress), Rocío Berenguer (actress), Virginia Chacón (actress), Alejandro (actor),
Plot: Starring Paco Morán, Last Session shows in a romantic tone the lives of the characters linked to a movie theater. Mauri, the usher, sees how his life vanishes with the imminent closure of the Monumental cinema. Teresa continues cleaning until the last moment and Carol, the ticket clerk, keeps secretly in love with Bruno, the projectionist. No one is unconnected to the Monumental cinema's closure, but friendship and fate will turn it's last session to an unforgettable day.
Genres: Drama,
Encrucijada y espera (2009)
Actors: Fernando Arranz (actor), David Cantós (actor), Fran Costell (actor), Javier Molero (actor), Eduard Noy (actor), Marc Velasco (actor), Escarlata Cabellos (actress), Pilar M. Aláez (producer), Pilar M. Aláez (writer), Pilar M. Aláez (director), Pilar M. Aláez (editor),
Genres: Romance, Short,
¿Tiene usted una pluma? (2009)
Actors: Jose Luis Arriaga (actor), Yeyo Kamikaze (actor), Fabio Montero (actor), Oliva Barbosa (actress), Michael Gahut (producer), Rolando Garduño (producer), Héctor Montaño (producer), Claudia Novelo (producer), Juan Sanchez (producer), Miguel Valdez-Lopez (producer), Héctor Montaño (writer), Jose Juan Zapata (writer), Jose Juan Zapata (writer), Héctor Montaño (composer), Jose Juan Zapata (composer),
Genres: Fantasy, Short,
Pecados de una profesora (2008)
Actors: Carlos Adame (actor), Luis Aguirre (actor), Adrian Carvajal (actor), Eleazar Gómez (actor), Boris Peraza (actor), Cyseil Almonte (actress), Chela Arias (actress), Ivee Colón (actress), Tiffany Díaz (actress), Alba Galindo (actress), Grace Giraldo (actress), Gabriela Roel (actress), Bárbara Romero (actress), Natalia Saenz (actress), Claudia Vega (actress),
El sueño de Ramona Montiel (2003)
Actors: Angel Angelucci (actor), Daniel Angelucci (actor), Tito Haas (actor), Rolly Serrano (actor), Vando Villamil (actor), Lorena Damonte (actress), Diana Leles (actress), Diana Leles (actress), Mauro Lázaro (producer), Liliana Romero (producer), Norman Ruiz (producer), Liliana Romero (writer), Norman Ruiz (writer), Mauro Lázaro (composer), Liliana Romero (director),
Genres: Animation, Short,
La avería (1998)
Actors: Charly Alba (actor), Juanjo Cucalón (actor), Javier Mas (actor), Joaquín Ortiz (actor), Valentín Paredes (actor), David Pinilla (actor), Vicente Vergara (actor), Concha Leza (actress), Ana Sáez (actress), Carlos Moro (producer), Carlos Moro (writer), Iñaki Arregui (composer), Ana Cuerda (costume designer), Carlos Moro (director), Fidel Collados (editor),
Genres: Drama, Short,
Mariano (1997)
Actors: Siscu Barnola (actor), Franck Ehlert (actor), Dámaso Elkoroiribe (actor), Rodrigo Lamoso (actor), Pedro Paisal (actor), Xulia Domenech (actress), Maite Sánchez (actress), Javier Alonso (writer), Javier Alonso (writer), Eloi Rocamora (writer), Bea Tomás (costume designer), Eloi Rocamora (director), Loli Acebal (editor), Ferran de Juan (editor), Geraldine Nielsen (editor),
Genres: Short,
Días contados (1994)
Actors: Joseba Apaolaza (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Chacho Carreras (actor), Pedro Casablanc (actor), Leopoldo Casares (actor), Pepe Colmenero (actor), Karra Elejalde (actor), Carmelo Gómez (actor), Álvaro Gómez (actor), José Martorell (actor), Pepón Nieto (actor), Pietro Olivera (actor), David Pinilla (actor), Francisco Videto (actor), Reyes Abades (actor),
Plot: A member of the ETA terrorist organization belongs to a commando which is preparing an outrage in Madrid. But he sets other priorities when he meets a girl who is addicted to drugs and for whom he feels a strong attraction.
Keywords: anal-sex, based-on-novel, bathtub, close-up-scene, explosion, female-nudity, full-frontal-female-nudity, leg-spreading, nude-dance, nudity
Genres: Drama, Thriller,
Vanessa: We are not whores, are we?::Charo: I don't know. Maybe we are
Las luchadoras vs el robot asesino (1969)
Actors: Carlos Agostí (actor), René Barrera (actor), Victorio Blanco (actor), Joaquín Cordero (actor), Pascual García Peña (actor), Leo Herrera (actor), Héctor Lechuga (actor), Eduardo MacGregor (actor), Genaro Moreno (actor), Gerardo Zepeda (actor), Gloria Chávez (actress), Malú Reyes (actress), Regina Torné (actress), Sally Winters (actress), Guillermo Calderón (producer),
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Los olvidados (1950)
Actors: Javier Amézcua (actor), Efraín Arauz (actor), Victorio Blanco (actor), Rubén Campos (actor), Roberto Cobo (actor), Daniel Corona (actor), Juan Domínguez (actor), José Luis Echeverría (actor), Miguel Funes hijo (actor), Jesús García (actor), Miguel Inclán (actor), Francisco Jambrina (actor), Antulio Jiménez Pons (actor), José Loza (actor), Ernesto Alonso (actor),
Plot: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others...
Keywords: alcoholic, anger, apprentice, arm-sling, attacking-a-blind-man, band, barn, beaten-to-death, beating, bed
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: A Motion Picture Masterpiece From Mexico
Don Carmelo, el ciego: I hope they'll kill every one of them before they born!
Pedro: [addressing his mother, just before she leaves him at the Farm School] Just now you remember that I'm your son.
Vagabundo, Miguel Bosé
Vagabundo, Valentin Elizalde
Vagabundo, Robi Draco Rosa
Entro en mi vida como un sueño
Donde no existía dueño ni tiempo ni lugar
Ese sueño enano fue gigante
Necesitando a cada instante tenerla cerca de mí
No hay una flor que tenga un olor tan suave
Respiro su aroma y la siento dentro de mí
Baila descalza, se desliza en el aire
Colorea mi espacio con caricias que le di
Y ahora soy
Un vagabundo en las calles de su amor
Viviendo en las aceras de su corazón
Y me arropo entre cartones
En un mar de callejones
Visto harapos de ilusiones
Y los besos que le sobran
Es la limosna que me da….
Miseria amor cambié miseria
Por aquellas cosas bellas que te di
Amor que quisiera amar a su manera
Si no deja que le quieran no puede ser
Dibujo su cuerpo con el vaho de mi aliento
Tras el cristal ella vuelve a desaparecer
Y ahora mi niñita te deshaces en silencio
La noche está fría, esperemos el amanecer….
Latest News for: vagabundo
Draco Rosa Launches New Management Company, Remasters 'Vagabundo' for Vinyl, Signs With Paradigm
Billboard 25 Jul 2018
As he prepares to reissue a newly mastered version of his landmark album Vagabundo, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Draco Rosa has launched a new management company to administer all aspects of his career ... “I’ve wanted to remaster Vagabundo on vinyl for years,” said Rosa ... Vagabundo 22 will be released Aug....
Latin Connection Podcast: Draco Rosa on 'Vagabundo' Anniversary, 'Living With Love And Gratitude' After Cancer
Billboard 01 Sep 2017
The performances celebrate Rosa's life after cancer and the 21st anniversary of his 1996 album, Vagabundo ... When Robi Draco Rosa released his landmark album, Vagabundo, 21 years ago, there was talk of dropping him from his label ... 2 will be a top-to-bottom reading of Vagabundo, in which Rosa stays as faithful as possible to the original recording....
NXT: Oney Lorcan reveals the true identity of El Vagabundo
Canoe 06 Apr 2017
Tonight on NXT, Oney Lorcan is in the main event, but he faces an unknown opponent. Who will it be? Plus, recaps of NXT TakeOver. Orlando and Peyton Royce in action against Aliyah. All that and more on the post-TakeOver edition of NXT! ... ....
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Majority of MSP’s Back Women 5050
Majority of MSPs now support Women 5050
13th November 2015 – Noon
For the first time in the history of fighting for fair representation of women in Scotland a majority of MSPs support legislated candidate quotas.
After a surge in signs ups after the Women 5050 conference yesterday, now 68 MSPs (53% of current MSPs) support quotas for women.
Speaking at the Women 5050 conference, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, called Women 5050 “one of the most significant campaigns in Scotland”
The conference also heard from Scottish Labour Leader, Kezia Dugdale MSP and Scottish Green Party, Alison Johnstone MSP who both co-launched the campaign last year.
The campaign has been lobbying for the ability to legislate for quotas to be devolved in the Scotland Bill and will now will be turning their attention to the House of Lords and lobbying for support ahead of the next stage of debate.
Talat Yaqoob, Co-Founder and Chair of Women 5050 said:
“To have the official backing of the majority of the Scottish Parliament is a huge boost to the campaign. We can now be sure, that once we have the ability to legislate for quotas, there will be real action taken. We will be lobbying hard to have this ability devolved to Scotland. In the first debate in the House of Commons, the amendment supporting us fell by 120 votes, in the second debate only by 45 votes, at this third debate we will change minds and we will work tirelessly to win.”
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ABC North and West SA
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Posted Tue 17 Jul 2018, 11:15am
Updated Tue 16 Apr 2019, 1:26pm
The Flinders Ranges and the tip of the Spencer Gulf, taken from the Matthew Flinders lookout at Port Augusta. The rail bridge is part of a busy national freight route.
ABC North and West: Khama Reid
ABC North and West SA covers one of the largest broadcast regions in Australia.
From Indigenous communities on the Northern Territory and Western Australian borders, around to the famous wine-producing region of the Barossa Valley, through the ancient heart of the Flinders Ranges and over to the northern parts of Eyre Peninsula, the word vast doesn't seem to quite cover it.
Our larger communities include the gateway to the outback Port Augusta, and the industrial ports of Whyalla and Port Pirie.
With the arrival of many immigrants into the Outback over the past 200 years, the region has a cosmopolitan population that can surprise those who consider remote Australia to be a limited culture.
In just one town (Coober Pedy), for instance, there are more than 20 distinct language groups.
Despite the huge broadcast area, the local combined population is estimated to be around 120,000 people, roughly the same as a middle-sized suburban council area in an Australian capital city.
It is perhaps inevitable that in such a wide, comparatively dry area that much of our conversation relates to the country and how we exist within it.
The perennial concern relates to water, whether in the form of rain, the use of artesian systems or the issues concerned with piping it in along a line from Morgan to Whyalla.
Local politics, council news and sport have traditionally been areas of strong interest to our broadcasters and listeners.
Of course, coverage of the lives and daily issues concerning our farmers, grape-growers and pastoralists continue to be a strong focus.
As broadcast and media technology evolves so quickly, the role and shape of what the station now broadcasts is wider than ever.
About ABC North and West SA
ABC North and West SA broadcasts over a vast area, taking in ancient deserts, mountain ranges, cropping land, coastline and islands.
The original transmission tower site, built near Crystal Brook in the mid-north, has been operating since 1932. Its broadcast licence was one of the first four granted in Australia.
The first station in Port Pirie was housed in a modest converted house in Gertrude Street, within walking distance of the lead smelters.
ABC North and West's broadcasts also feed to a variety of smaller repeater-transmitters throughout Outback SA, giving the station a geographical reach of more than 620,000 square kilometres.
Today, the broadcast "footprint" carries over an area defined by hundreds of small communities and dozens of languages.
An ABC office at Port Lincoln works in conjunction with the Port Pirie station.
Its team of journalists, rural reporters and broadcasters work closely to provide a comprehensive range of information, news, resources, sport and cultural programs.
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News in Science › Ancient Worlds
Older dads pass more gene mutations to kids
A father's age is by far the biggest factor determining the rate of new, uninherited genetic mutations in his offspring(Source: iStockphoto)
Genetic mutations clue to autism drugs, Science Online, 24 Nov 2011
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Autism link Older dads are more likely to pass on genetic mutations that may boost the risk of schizophrenia and autism, a new study has found.
A father's age is by far the biggest factor determining the rate of new, uninherited genetic mutations in his offspring, say European scientists.
"The age of the father is the most important factor to determine the number of new mutations that happen when a child is conceived," says study co-author Kari Stefansson from Iceland's DeCODE genetics company.
From a man's peak reproductive years in adolescence, the rate of new or 'de novo' gene mutations triggered at conception in his children rises by about two per year, the researchers found.
The rate doubles every 16 years, meaning that the baby of a 36-year-old father would have twice as many new mutations than that of a 20-year-old.
"Seeing an association between father's age and mutation rate is not surprising, but the estimated exponential effect of paternal mutations doubling every 16.5 years is striking," they write in this week's Nature.
Though de novo mutations are not necessarily harmful, it can take only one change in a key gene to cause some types of disease - and the more mutations the higher the risk.
Previous research has shown a link between de novo mutations and autism and schizophrenia, and also a statistical link between the diseases and paternal age.
"Our contention is that a part of the increase in the diagnosis of autism that is being made these days is accounted for by increase in the age of the father," says Stefansson.
Further research is likely to show a similar link to other genetic illnesses, especially diseases of the brain, he adds.
Age of paternity
The results from what is claimed to be the biggest-ever study of its kind suggest that disproportionate attention has been paid to the age at which women give birth.
While men aged 20 contribute around 25 de novo mutations to their children, men aged 40 contribute around 65. But women contribute roughly 15 de novo mutations regardless of their age.
"We have in a very unjust manner been pointing the finger at the old mother when we should have been careful when it comes to the old father. It is clearly dangerous to have an old father," says Stefansson.
Maternal age is linked to Down's syndrome and other chromosomal diseases that develop through a process that is different to the type of genetic mutation described in this study.
The mutations in the Nature report are caused by cell division during processes like sperm production.
Stefansson and a team in Iceland, Denmark and Britain sequenced the genomes of 78 parent-child trios, as well as hundreds of control subjects, looking for variants in the sequence of a child's genetic code that did not exist in the parents.
They found that the rate of increase in de novo mutations could be ascribed to the tune of 97.1 per cent, "maybe entirely", to the age of the father - an outcome that "surprised" the researchers.
The remaining 2.9 percent was ascribed to environmental factors and other random influences, Stefansson says, adding there was "no connection" between the mother and age-related increase in the rate of mutations.
Impact on health
The study is the most precise and definite we have so far, Alexey Kondrashov of the University of Michigan's department of ecology and evolutionary biology writes in an accompanying commentary in Nature.
In humans many as 10 per cent of point mutations are deleterious, but this study suggests that an average newborn carries 6 new deleterious mutuations, says Kondrashov.
"Although most of these mutations will, on their own, have only mild effects, collectively they could have a substantial impact on health."
Kondrashov says the study suggests it might be a "wise individual decision" for young men to cold-store their sperm for later use.
The age of new fathers in the Western world has been climbing in recent decades, and the number of first-time dads over 40 is growing. Official statistics show that in Iceland, the average age of fathers at conception rose from 27.9 in 1980 to 33 in 2011.
Contrary to de novo mutations, which occur during cell division, inherited gene mutations are transferred at an equal rate by the father and mother, are more common and thus more commonly responsible for disease.
Scientists believe that both inherited and new mutations are responsible for diseases like autism and schizophrenia, but have not worked out the ratio of blame.
On the positive side, de novo gene mutations are a necessary element of human evolution, allowing us to adapt to our changing environment.
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1003.0 - LEP Newsletter (Issue No. 56), May 2006
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A copy of the 2006 Census Household form questionnaire and a guide are included to help users understand why we ask for certain data.
You'll also find examples of how Census information is used to build a better Australia.
A very useful publication for general interest and a good reference guide for Census data users. Find out more by downloading it for free from the ABS web site.
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Los Angeles Terrorist targets
By Brandon Mecca | January 10, 2016 | No Comments | General
Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Oct 8, 2009 at 7:00 PM PDT A Lake Elsinore man who lost his hand in an improvised explosion device (IED) is being held in custody today after he went to a hospital emergency room with his hand blown off. His brother and mother have been arrested on suspicion of making explosives and child endangerment, a Riverside county sheriff’s sergeant said.
The allegations stem from explosives found at the family’s home, where the mother ran a licensed daycare facility, said sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez.
Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, walked into a hospital and told emergency personnel that he had shot his own hand, said sheriff’s Sgt. Gutierrez.
An examination of the wound determined it was not consistent with a gunshot, and Kuzelka later told deputies that he had been injured by explosives, Gutierrez said.
Sheriff’s deputies, along with agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, went to his home at 30524 Audelo Street and found bomb-making materials and marijuana plants, the sergeant said.
Kuzelka was in serious condition and will be arrested when he recuperates.
His brother, Grey Timothy Kuzelka, 21, was arrested and booked into the county jail. He had been free on bail since Sunday, following an arrest on suspicion of drug possession, sales and transport.
Their mother, Rebecca Kuzelka, 55, was also being held.
The possibility that the family is associated with hate groups or other radical home grown or international terrorist with intentions of bombing southern California targets is being investigated by local, county and federal authorities according to an investigator.
Law enforcement in surrounding counties including Orange and L.A.Counties are investigating to see if there is any connection between the Kuzelka family and any recent bomb threats.
LAX has long been believed by terrorist experts to be a high grade target for terrorist.
In a wide-ranging Rand report it considered the potential casualties from car bombs, mortars, snipers and surface-to-air missile attacks the most likely scenario and is the first public blueprint of the airport’s greatest vulnerabilities.
LAX, the world’s fifth-busiest airport, is considered the state’s top terrorist target. An Al Qaeda plot to explode several luggage bombs in terminals was foiled in December 1999. According to former president George Bush a Los Angeles skyscraper was a terrorist target.
Bush indicated that in Feb 2006 – Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to fly a plane into the tallest building on the West Coast not long after they’d launched the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington.
The terrorists’ target was a notable Los Angeles office building, he said during a speech given at the National Guard Association of the United States’ headquarters.
The 73-story Los Angeles office building, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, was called the Library Tower at the time of the terrorist plot. It was later renamed US Bank Tower.
Bush said the scheme involved terrorists using shoe bombs to hijack an aircraft that would then be flown into the skyscraper. The plot was thwarted in early 2002, Bush said, when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al Qaeda operative who was in on the plan.
“Subsequent debriefings and other intelligence operations made clear the intended target and how al Qaeda hoped to execute it,” Bush said. “This critical intelligence helped other allies capture the ringleaders and other known operatives who had been recruited for this plot.” Bush said the ringleader of the West Coast plot was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was al-Qaeda’s military chief at the time. Mohammed was later captured in Pakistan in March 2003, Bush said.
Mohammed had planned to employ members of JI, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group located in Southeast Asia, for the Los Angeles operation, Bush said. The al Qaeda chief wanted young South Asian men rather than Arabs to conduct the operation, he said, so as not to arouse as much suspicion.
Bush said the leader of JI was a terrorist called Hambali who’d recruited key operatives for the plot who’d been trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan. The recruits met with Osama bin Laden to get their marching orders, he said, and then began preparations for the ill-fated West Coast attack.
The Public Policy Institute of California take a broad look at port security and reported that California is home to three of the four busiest container ports in the nation. The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex is the largest port in the country by value and the fifth-largest container port in the world. So no state has a greater interest in issues of security at ports, which are potentially vulnerable to terrorist attack. The issue also has a far broader impact than merely port communities, since ports can be entry points for weapons of mass destruction that might be used to attack other communities. In addition there are thousands of non-Islamic churches and houses of warship including some 150 synagogues in the Greater Los Angeles area that are venerable.There are many nearby water treatment plants in Southern California that are also susceptible to terrorist attack because many use deadly chlorine gas and transports it by unprotected rail cars, according to a news report.
The study by a progressive think tank identified 37 plants that use chlorine gas transported by rail, leaving them vulnerable to attack and jeopardizing millions of residents nearby.
The report noted that at least 25 plants nationwide have converted to safer purification methods in the past six years.
“It’s an entirely preventable hazard,” study author Paul Orum said.
? Airlines
? Trains
? Cruise Ships
? Oil and Gas Pipelines
? Banks
? Other Financial Institutions
? Oil Tank Farms
? Gas Stations
? Oil Companies (UNOCAL Oil and other companies Bush owns or has stocks in)
? Car Companies (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler)
? Oil tankers
? California farms feeding much of the nation
? Important bridges
? L.A. Harbor
? Post Offices
? UPS
? FedEx
? Power grids (a Pinch or EMP bomb)
? Power Lines
? Coal Power Plants
? Nuclear Power Plants
? Chemical companies
? Propane tanks
? Entertainment Centers
? Sporting Events
? Ground transportation (Buses)
? Malls
? Theaters
? ? Ecological Targets:
? California bread basket Central Valley
? Forests
? Cattle
? National and State Parks
? Dams
? Garbage Dumps Notes: Ecological targets are extremely soft targets. There is no one guarding them and a pyroterrorist or someone with a trigger-happy finger could cause true ecological (and economic) disaster.
Terrorist setting Forest fires and grass fires that get out of control can destroy millions or billions worth of California produce, homes, even neighborhoods if they spread to nearby towns or cities. Pyroterrorism is perhaps the greatest threat America has ever faced. A pyroterrorist has the potential to burn down an entire State simply by randomly starting forest/grass fires around the State. Pyroterrorists are also extremely hard to catch. There is not much evidence left behind of who started the fire. One arsonist a start dozens of fires per day.
It took someone astute to think of the idea of using airplanes as weapons (actually no, they just needed to watch the movie Con Air in which Nicholas Cage crashes a plane on the Las Vegas Strip…). Several authorities believe that terrorist are responsible for the up tick in fires in California and the remainder think it is only a matter of time before a terrorist starts using fire as a terrorist weapon. Razing (burning down) another country was a popular past-time during Roman times. The Romans razed many countries that they sought dominance over.
And so historically, pyroterrorism is highly effective way of waging war. Educational Targets:
? Universities
? Private Schools
? Summer camps for the rich
? School buses
Notes: Schools offer the distinct possibility of attacking the rich. A private school for boys for example, the sons of wall street, bankers and oil tycoons/etc. Attacking such a place SWAT style with a team of terrorist commandos well armed, killing as many as they can, and then setting the place on fire with catch the attention of America.
That’s really what terrorism is about. Getting attention and getting headlines. That means that anything that is a potential disaster and anything that is a potential massacre is a terrorist target. A shopping mall is a terrorist target. It doesn’t even have to be a big one. A smaller shopping mall would actually be easier to have a massacre. A large shopping mall would only be a panic and a small massacre. Economic value and the number of dead rich people also makes a big difference. Sniper 12 people outside a regular school and the police will think its a teenager taking revenge on bullies. Sniper 8 people outside a private school and it will make international headlines.
A private school with ONLY rich white people would be a prime target.Military Targets:
? LAX
? NASA
? National Guard
? U.S. Military installations and navy and merchant ships. Notes: Even though Military targets are extremely hard recent terrorist have planned and targeted them. Blow up a fort or recruiting station you will get the whole world’s attention. On the terror list below There are many targets but there are many more think about how many golf courses, how many military bases, how many oil companies, how many universities, etc that California has… you begin to realize just how VULNERABLE the So Cal is. Almost everything is a potential terrorist target.
Sadly, the no longer called War on Terrorism is a war that cannot be won. For every terrorist we kill, we kill 20+ innocent civilians in “collateral damage”. Those civilians have friends and family who then have the potential to become terrorists themselves.
You can’t fight fire with fire. It doesn’t work that way. Going around trying to kill terrorists only makes more terrorists. Many military people actually oppose Bush’s style of war because they know historically it only makes the matter worse.
General Clark and others oppose the George Bush style war as a failed war on terrorism. So far it has been a war on oil producing countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Totally besides the point most of the Sept 11th terrorists came from Saudi Arabia (and Osama bin Laden is a member in the Saudi Arabian royal family our closest Middle East ally. Sources:
List and some text compiled by Suzanne MacNevin, Editor of the Lilith eZine
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Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Encounter Data Breach
Flightradar24, one of the most popular flight tracking services that shows real-time aircraft information on a map based in Sweden, suffers a huge data breach in which email addresses and password hashes of the users registered prior to March 16, 2016, may have been compromised.
This week the company started sending emails to the users asking them to change their passwords after detecting a breach on one of the company’s servers. Initially when some of the users received emails with the password reset link, they thought that these mails are some phishing attempts as the company has not reported about the issue in their website or on social media.
But later the company itself confirmed that the mails were legitimate while responding to the customer’s queries on social media, forums and in their official website. They assured that neither payment details nor personal information of the users has been compromised.
Flightradar24 confirmed that the security breach happened to only one of its servers, which has been promptly shut down immediately after the intrusion was detected. They were confident that the issue has been controlled.
They claim that they hash the user passwords, however they did not mention which hashing algorithm is being used. In order to protect the accounts of the users the company have expired the previous passwords and were reset.
The company did not disclose how many of its users were affected, they just mentioned that a small subset of Flightradar24 users were affected. Since the company has more than 40 million users per month with mobile apps on Google Play and Apple Store, even a small subset could result to a huge number.
To be on the safer side it is advised to change your passwords on other online services and platforms as well, if you are using the same credentials.
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NBI: Talkback Challenge #2 and #3
May 18, 2015 May 18, 2015 Posted in Newbie Blogger InitiativeTagged early access, gamer, kickstarter, NBI, talkback challenge
It wasn’t until Cleeyah posted her response on being a gamer that I realized that I was late for Talkback Challenge #2. Oops.
So you all get a combination post instead!
Talkback Challenge #2 – Early Access and Kickstarter – Do you support unfinished games?
Maaaaybe, but mostly leaning towards no.
I don’t have any massive issues with either scheme, and I really like the idea behind Kickstarter.
My main problem is that games tend to be very hard to scope properly and it’s also very hard to evaluate if a game team is capable of doing what it -says- it wants to do. There’s just a lot of in-betweens that can cause what is put down on paper to not resemble the final product at all.
I don’t like throwing money into the ether. I believe that Kickstarter is a great platform for crowdfunding what interests you, but if you ask me to give some money to you, personally, I need reassurance that I’m going to see a concrete product back in return, within a reasonable timeframe.
The way I evaluate this is simple. Is this an established company that is used to working together and has processes in place?
(No, a brand spanking new company just formed from a whole bunch of ‘pioneers’ does not count. I’ll give you some time to get your hierarchy hashed out and ego/political games in place to see if you can produce something functional despite the natural dysfunction of any company.)
How difficult do I feel the finished product will be for you to create, based on what you tell me in the Kickstarter?
If you give me vague promises, a design document that reads like marketing copy, and no prior track record, you’ll find it really hard to move me into giving you money up front. Even if you really can put out.
Pillars of Eternity was one of those that I just couldn’t bring myself to fund, despite liking Baldur’s Gate a ton. I needed to see a final product and reviews saying that it is good, before I consider putting down money for it.
But let’s say they ask for money again, to produce a sequel or some additional DLC content. Given this track record that they’ve produced one game in this vein before, I’ll find it much more reasonable to assume they can do something similar again.
Conversely, I found it much easier to contribute to the Defence Grid 2 Kickstarter (they already made Defence Grid 1 and they had a plan for additional funding if KS didn’t work out), and to a company like Reaper Miniatures that wanted a cash infusion to buy a machine for their special plastic/resin molding or whatever (all the creative work is either already done or the processes are in place, they have already produced Bones plastic minis via a Chinese company, the only major risk is shipping/transit issues.)
I might also find it easier to fund a solo person creating a tabletop RPG pdf (not yet though), since that is mostly desktop publishing. The scope of the work is not that colossal, one is only essentially paying to support the author for the time spent on the creative work. But again, said author must have a track record of having written prior PDFs that contain content I find worth paying for.
As for Early Access, meh, I just can’t fit my head around the concept of -paying- for the privilege to alpha or beta test your game.
(I might do it for free, there’s mutual benefit in that. I get a sneak peek, and you get me poking around attempting to break things with my presence.)
If it works for others, go nuts. I’m happy that these guys are helping to increase the chances that this game will see the light of day and become a finished product that I can pay for. But don’t ask -me- for money to test your game for you. Just… don’t.
Talkback Challenge #3 – What made you a gamer?
I can’t remember a time when I -wasn’t.-
Before I was old enough to hold a joystick, my mum was playing a vast variety of Parker Brothers board games with me.
We’d inherited her Cluedo and Monopoly set, painstakingly saved up for when her whole family was not that well to do, and I took a special delight in these two boxes of history, since they were editions that were no longer being sold in stores and reflected a different time and age. (He’ll always be Reverend Green to me, not Mr Green! And Dr Black died, not Mr Boddy!)
Now that the family was a little better off, it seemed we were doing our best to sample every board game that caught our eye on the Toys R Us shelves, from A-Z.
My dad was a big enabler when it came to computers and a tech early adopter.
There was an Amiga in the house very early on, and it naturally came with little game disks that I would happily browse and pop into the computer based on the name alone.
Most were arcade games of some kind, spaceships shooting multiple bullets or little soldiers shooting guns, since that was the type of game he liked, but occasionally, and more so once he started bringing Amiga games magazines home now and then, I would find or beg for different games – Secret of Monkey Island, Dungeon Master, Zak McKraken, the works.
When the Game Boy console launched, my dad had to have one. Naturally, it was taken over by yours truly fairly early on in the process. Turns out my dad just couldn’t really stick to games, or train up his reaction time to do as well as he liked, thus getting frustrated and losing interest quite quickly. That was ok by me. Next step, finagle a Final Fantasy RPG cartridge via a birthday present or getting good grades for that semester.
My mum passed me more of a stubborn, obsessive streak, perfect for that video games addiction. (To this day, she’s not much of a computers person, but boy, can she pwn that Solitaire game. Or any other simple casual game I put on her phone or laptop.)
By the time I graduated to my dad’s PC (ie. seemed old and tech savvy enough that I wouldn’t break anything via learning DOS), I was very much a gamer.
First step after mastering DOS commands? Locate whatever games he had on that system. Which wasn’t much, he was moving out of his game phase, alas, but I did find Alley Cat, Ninja, and a couple of others.
I’d scavenge around in his greatly messy study for any more lost and forgotten game boxes – Rocky’s Boots was one of the treasures I did find (I was learning about AND, OR, NOT gates at a mindblowingly young age and I hadn’t a clue this was happening, because to me, this was a fun game to play.)
Before long, I was spending much of my pocket money on saving up for games. My dad, the great enabler, would bring the tech into the house. e.g. a Sega Genesis console, with an odd game or two. And then I’d end up drooling over more interesting looking games in the games store and bringing those back home. He picked up the arcade games, I went for RPGs or adventure games or top reviewed classics and that seemed to cover enough (especially given how long it took to beat RPGs in those days.)
Any time he upgraded his PC system, I got his cast offs. (That was probably a strategy devised to ensure I wasn’t hogging his computer all the time.)
My friends and I were playing PC games all throughout the Age of Shareware.
At some point, 3D shooters became the in-thing. Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Heretic and Hexen (the latter two firm favorites, given our fantasy propensities.)
Somewhen during that era, we transitioned from merely talking on the phone while simultaneously playing games separately and began our first steps into multiplayer when again, our respective dads brought in modems.
Modems naturally meant visiting BBSes, and BBSes meant door games. Good ol’ Legend of the Red Dragon and Tradewars 2002.
I learned fairly quickly on that my friends weren’t any match for me. I blew one friend up in Hexen repeatedly, and that was the end of deathmatching for me, we had to play co-op after that.
Another classmate professed to love some version of Command and Conquer, and I was pretty gleeful to find another potential player. I guess it was a mistake to say that I hadn’t ever played the game before, but somehow managed to luck into unleashing a whole bunch of nukes onto said classmate. That was the end of that too. (I really hadn’t played C&C before either! I did play all the versions of Warcraft out at the time though! Who knew RTS principles held that true?)
The internet couldn’t come soon enough.
Alongside frequenting various first-person shooter game servers (Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, etc. where I actually found people better than me to blow me up and thus learn from,) I’d discovered that fascinating phenomenon: MUDs. Online chatroom, text adventure game and RPG all mixed into one.
I was hooked.
And it’s been all up and down hill from there.
NBI Writing Prompt: Prompt? There is no prompt. Go answer one of the Talkback Challenges instead!
2 thoughts on “NBI: Talkback Challenge #2 and #3”
Izlain says:
I find my story to be very similar to yours. I won’t get into particulars (though I’ve written on the topic before so it’s no secret) because I plan to answer the challenge myself very soon. Still, it’s cool to see how people a world away could end up on the same path.
bhagpuss says:
I think looking at Early Access as buying an unfinished game is misleading. You are buying a different game and the only chance you have to play it is the snapshot between when you decide to buy it and when the next major update changes it.
Buying Early Access effectively allows you to purchase a number of different games (or variations on the same game, depending on how much the direction and concepts change during development). Taking a specific example, Landmark in its first Alpha was an utterly different “game” to the one it is now. The only chance anyone had to play that game was then. In my opinion it was well worth the cost. I am still in two minds whether I’d rather have that version than the one we have now. I certainly played it a LOT more.
Of course, we did used to get this experience free when MMOs used beta differently but conversely access then was at best a lottery. Now anyone can have the experience for a fixed cost. As someone who believes, through long experience, that almost all MMOs see their best iteration some time prior to launch and almost always deteriorate thereafter, Early Access seems like a win for the player and the consumer to me.
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Information Clearing House Archive December 2003 Part 4
December 21, 2003 September 22, 2018
December 2003 — Information Clearing House
Index December 2003 Part 4
Date: 21 Dec 2003 19:19:16 -0000
233 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ.
Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops :
Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British Sunday newspaper said.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/62977/1/.html
Saddam was captured by Kurds, not US:
Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurdish forces, then drugged and handed over to the American forces as a revenge against the rape of a tribal chief’s daughter by the tyrant’s psychopathic eldest son Uday
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13341763
Saddam spit on his captor:
As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant — probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood up to him.
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/printout/0,8816,565992,00.html
Sunday Express: Kurds Seized Saddam First:
The Frond reportedly made a deal with the US forces, to gain political advantage in the region in return, the paper said, citing a former Iraqi intelligence officer.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=29224
Revealed: who really found Saddam? :
Saddam’s capture was the best present George Bush could have hoped for, and then Gaddafi handed a propaganda gift to Blair. But nothing’s ever that simple
http://www.sundayherald.com/38816
Bush declares: “We must get rid of Arafat”:
US President George W. Bush told an Israeli journalist that “we must get rid of” Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot daily has reported.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/031221/1/3gt41.html
Bush chided for Arafat rebuke:
“President Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people and the US and Israel must respect that”, chief Palestinian negotiator, Saib Uraiqat told Aljazeera.net.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F58F2967-228C-4A9D-AD09-BE02E58CD0C8.htm
Israel planning Iran attack:
Israel is considering a military strike to destroy the nuclear programme of Iran, now regarded as Tel Aviv’s number one enemy.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/76332C2C-23BA-4FEA-A707-F12FE9534CD3.htm
Israel Kills 5-year-old Palestinian Boy:
Israeli troops conducted a series of raids in the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday, arresting a Hamas leader and killing a 5-year-old Palestinian boy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3533150,00.html
Daily dehumanization :
Even in a hospital – a place where human compassion is supposed to be the sole operating norm – a Palestinian is still not on the same footing as other human beings.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=374054&sw=rape+in+the+galilee
Iraq Pipelines, Storage Tanks Set on Fire :
Insurgents attacked pipelines and an oil storage depot in three parts of Iraq, setting fires that blazed for hours and lost millions of gallons of oil, officials and media reported Sunday, as the country faced a critical fuel shortage.
Saddam is The Man Who Knew too Much :
Saddam is to face a kangaroo court in Baghdad. Such hang-’em-high injustice, propelled by Bush’s unwise call for the death penalty, is worthy of Saddam’s regime, not the United States.
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_dec21.html
Cheney faces prosecution: report:
A French official is examining whether to prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/21/1071941598014.html
Senator’s Way to Wealth Was Paved With Favors :
Armed with the power his committee posts give him over the Pentagon, Stevens helped save a $450-million military housing contract for an Anchorage businessman. The same businessman made Stevens a partner in a series of real estate investments that turned the senator’s $50,000 stake into at least $750,000 in six years
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1217-05.htm
American foreign policy: rats, rants and tyrants:
They have caught Saddam. What a relief. Now the Iraqi people can live in peace, prosperity and perpetual happiness. Except the several thousand collaterally damaged ones, but you can’t make omelettes without cracking Arabs.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/20/1071868694541.html
Clare Short: A ‘war’ fought on half-truths and deceptions:
The co-ordination of the Blair-Bush press conferences on Friday night claiming a big success in the “war on terror” has a pathetic tone that reflects the Prime Minister’s desperation and the two men’s continuing belief that they can prosecute their “war” with half-truths and deceptions.
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=475079
Analysts: Future Budget Outlook Gloomy:
Keeping the federal budget at or near balance over the next 50 years could require painful tax increases, spending cuts or both, the Congressional Budget Office says.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031220_53.html
Across US, jobless losing benefits:
More than 90,000 people who have been out of work for months will lose their federal benefits today, when a program to aid the long-term unemployed expires.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2003/12/21/across_us_jobless_losing_benefits/
Paul Krugman: “Waking Up From the American Dream.”:
Our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality, while denouncing anyone who complains–or even points out what is happening–as a practitioner of “class warfare.”
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&s=krugman
Libya spies’ secret deal to reveal terrorists :
Libya provided detailed intelligence on hundreds of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists as part of a deal to end its isolation as a pariah nation
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1111197,00.html
Saddam verdict expected to take five years:
Iraqi officials and judges involved in setting up Baghdad’s new war crimes court have revealed that Saddam Hussein’s trial will not be finished for five years, despite the clamour for speedy justice since his arrest last week.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/21/
wsad21.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/21/ixnewstop.html
Afghan deadlock weakens Karzai :
As warlords squabble, violence is on the rise
A Must Listen
Scott Ritter: “Bush Lied…What are you going to do about it?”
Scott Ritter, recently returned from the Middle East, challenged students at three high schools to hold Bush accountable for his lies that encouraged the American people to support his war on Iraq: Audio.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5408.htm
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As Americans we’ve lost much in this closing year – not least our place at the table of humanity. In the year ahead our Founders’ have bequeathed us a way to take it back:
In case you missed it: A Must Read
U.S. Army War College: Constant Conflict:
We are entering a new American century, in which we will become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and increasingly powerful. We will excite hatreds without precedent.
Michael Moore:Letters the Troops Have Sent Me… :
“You’d be surprised at how many of the guys I talked to in my company and others believed that the president’s scare about Saddam’s WMD was a bunch of bullshit and that the real motivation for this war was only about money.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
Soldiers arrest secondary school students:
“You must not attend the demonstration tomorrow that is to be held here. Please disperse and go away,” a translator working with the army said over a loudspeaker mounted on a Humvee while the police made the arrests. The students were then loaded onto a military truck and taken away from the school.
http://www.humanshields.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=
News&file=article&sid=64&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
When Will Press Stop Circulating Dubious Iraq Claims? :
http://www.mediainfo.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/
article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2056015
The secret world of corporate mercenaries:
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry : Much like the American Express credit card motto, the Defense Department finds it can’t leave home without them.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EL20Aa01.html
Eisenhower’s Warns America About The Military-Industrial Complex In His Farewell Address to the Nation:
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence ˆ economic, political, even spiritual ˆ is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
Exposed: The Carlyle Group How The The Military-Industrial Complex Has Subverted Americas Democracy:
A Must Watch Documentary
3 Counts Dropped Vs. Guantanamo Worker :
The lawyer for Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, a supply clerk detailed to the prison, said Saturday that once those charges were removed, “simply the gut of the case was gone.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3530931,00.html
Saddam capture felt made for TV:
American television loves a good ending even when there isn’t one
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=
thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1071746593200&
call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Egypt says Israel should follow Libya’s example and give up nuclear weapons:
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher called on Israel Saturd/ay to follow Libya’s example and get rid of its nuclear weapons program.
http://www.canoe.com/CNEWS/World/2003/12/20/293139-ap.html
3 Iraqi Policemen Mistakenly Killed by US Troops:
U.S. troops have mistakenly shot and killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded two others outside the northern city of Kirkuk.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=ED9D3706-046B-412C-
82EAB2EA2DE71F76&title=3%20Iraqi%20Policemen%20Mistakenly%
20Killed%20by%20US%20Troops&catOID=45C9C78D-88AD-11D4-A
57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Mideast
http://tinyurl.com/2uglr
Medical evacuations from Iraq near 11,000 :
The total number of wounded soldiers and medical evacuations from the war in Iraq is nearing 11,000, according to new Pentagon data provided in response to a request from United Press International.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031217-032344-8720r
US to add 2,000 extra Iraq troops:
The United States says it is sending about 2,000 extra troops to Iraq and asking 3,500 more to stay on longer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3333049.stm
Robert Fisk: Phantam Insurgents in Fantasyville:
Schoolboy Issam Naim Hamid is the latest of America’s famous “insurgents”. In Samarra–for which read Fantasyville–he was shot in the back as he tried to protect himself with his parents in his home in the Al-Jeheriya district of the ancient Abbasid city.
U.S. Opposes Provisions for Iraq Tribunal :
The new Iraqi war crimes tribunal includes provisions taken from the International Criminal Court, which the United States vehemently opposes – an irony that the international court’s supporters have been quick to note.
‘Sick’ Saddam drugged: visitor:
A STARTLING new photograph of a sick-looking Saddam Hussein suggests he is being drugged or given strong medication by his US captors.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8216785%255E401,00.html
Judge: I saw police commit felonies:
A judge presiding over the cases of free trade protesters said in court that he saw ”no less than 20 felonies committed by police officers” during the November demonstrations, adding to a chorus of complaints about police conduct.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7538538.htm
Operation Take Away My Freedom:
Inside Guantanamo Bay On Trial: In the camp’s acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril. “He’s refused to eat 148 consecutive meals,” says Dr. Louis Louk, a naval surgeon from Florida.
Statutes of Liberty :
“Can the United States pick up people anywhere in the world, take them to an offshore prison camp and not have any hearings at all and keep them forever and basically wipe out court review of those cases? That’s really significant. Are we going to be a state that’s ruled by law and by checks and balances and the Constitution and human rights?”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13790-2003Dec18?language=printer
“Secret” detainee tells of jail despair :
A man detained in Britain without charge or trial for two years on the basis of secret evidence he can neither know about nor challenge has told of his despair at his treatment under anti-terrorist legislation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1110866,00.html
US Army War College Quarterly:
The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012:
The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States–the year is 2012–and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm
US Army War College Quarterly: In Search of Monsters to Destroy:
American Empire in the New Millennium : If Americans become a truly insular people, suspicious of the world and of its motives, the nation is likely to head down unsavory paths, to an empire bereft of the values that give the United States a legitimate claim to leadership.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/03autumn/alsace.htm
U.S Army War College:
Building America’s Fortress on Quicksand?
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/teasers/teaser2dec03-CSL.htm
Bulgarian parliament acts to allow U.S. bases:
An overwhelming majority of legislators on Friday adopted a declaration in support of setting up permanent U.S. military bases in Bulgaria.
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2496028.php
Reports Accuse Indonesia, a U.S. Ally, of Abuses:
If the Bush administration continues to rally support for renewed U.S. military aid to Indonesia, it must studiously ignore two new reports charging the U.S. ally in the war on terror with terrorizing the populations of Aceh and West Papua.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2d89baba177b4a5b00c62cf123bc2fdf
Helen Thomas: Cheney Hypocritical In Telling Media To Check Facts:
While he’s lecturing about accuracy, Cheney should do some fact-checking of his own statements about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction weapons. The vice president’s prewar chant about such weapons helped lead the nation into war.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/2717758/detail.html
Saddam’s capture bodes ill for Bush’s re-election :
Contrary to what many are saying, Saddam Hussein’s capture is a negative omen for President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign and points toward continuing disorder and resistance in Iraq.
http://www.iht.com/articles/121875.html
Corruption claim governor says he was called by God:
The governor of the strait-laced New England state of Connecticut has rejected calls for his resignation over corruption allegations, saying he is in direct contact with God. Mr Rowland, a Republican who faces a federal inquiry into the awarding of lucrative state contracts, spoke flanked by local soldiers recently returned from Iraq.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/19/w
god19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/12/19/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=125887
http://tinyurl.com/2m7o9
John Dean: The Ominous Omnibus Appropriations Bill:
Why Senators Daschle and Byrd Were Right to Decry The Lowdown, Dirty Tactics That Led to It
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20031219.html
Afghan Delegate Under U.N. Protection:
A female delegate at a landmark constitutional council was under U.N. protection after her outburst against Afghan warlords raised fears of a violent backlash, a United Nations’ spokesman and other delegates said Thursday.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/i/1104/12-18-2003/20031218063003_19.html
Soldier’s widow demands apology from ‘lying’ Hoon:
The widow of the first British soldier killed in the Iraq war this year yesterday demanded a public apology from Geoff Hoon after an official report found that her husband was ordered to give up the body armour which would have saved his life
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=474892
Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?:
President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a joint resolution authorizing the use of U.S. military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake — acts of war against another nation.
They Impeach Murders, Don’t They?:
Administration henchmen should be quickly turned over–after impeachment proceedings for what might properly be called Slaughtergate–to an international tribunal for prosecution of war crimes.
View the Articles of Impeachment, drafted by Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark:
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General during the Johnson Administration has drafted articles of impeachment setting forth high crimes and misdemeanors by President Bush and other civil officers of his administration.
http://www.votetoimpeach.org/articles_rc.htm
Vote To Impeach Bush Now!:
I want my representative in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote to impeach President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to have the case prosecuted and tried in the U.S. Senate.
http://www.capwiz.com/votetoimpeach/mail/compose/?alertid=29
43216&mailid=2943221&target=CU&customid=2883996&type=CU
Libya to scrap weapons of mass destruction:
The text, said the decision was in line with Libya’s pledge to make the Middle East and Africa a nuclear-free area.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0A17012C-C17F-4864-ABF0-68BA60EAC7ED.htm
U.S. Modifies Appraisal of Sharon Speech :
The White House on Friday modified its appraisal of a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and reacted warmly to his latest prescription for how his country should interact with the Palestinians.
See Also: Bush Warned: Don’t Push Israel
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=8851
Military drops more charges against former Guantanamo prison camp translator:
Military prosecutors on Friday dismissed three more charges in an espionage case against an Air Force supply clerk who worked as a translator at Guantanamo.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/7533736.htm
Uri Avnery: The Americans invaded Iraq in order to remain there:
If truly democratic elections were held, the American agents would be kicked out in no time – if they were not lynched first. That is self-evident. Therefore, there will be no really democratic elections.
U.S. Negotiating Over Role of G.I.’s in a Sovereign Iraq:
The Bush administration has begun delicate negotiations with Iraq’s transitional leaders on the freedom American-led military forces will have to carry out operations against insurgents after the transfer of sovereignty to a new government in Baghdad on June 30, officials say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/international/middleeast/19DIPL.html?th
Purported al-Qaida Tape Warns of Attacks :
An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden’s deputy in al-Qaida, aired on Arab television Friday, warned that the terror group would target Americans “in their homeland” and would drive U.S. forces from bases in the region.
U.S. Concerned by Heightened Security Threats :
But counterterrorism officials dismissed a report that there was credible information pointing to a possible imminent strike against New York City.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4024142
Al-Qaida leader calls US soldiers ‘cowards’:
Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahri has called American soldiers cowards “with no faith in their leaders”.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E473FEA1-7A63-4D43-8877-28E09F41EEAC.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/emaildigest.htm
Truck Blast Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq:
A U.S. military tanker truck exploded on a road outside Baghdad on Friday, and witnesses said it killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded one
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0249.AP-Iraq.html
Iraq blast hits main Shia group:
An explosion has taken place outside a building belonging to Iraq’s main Shia Muslim political group in Baghdad.
Iraq war was unjustified, Putin says:
He also suggested that the United States may be suffering from over-confidence on the international sphere, warning that “empires” had fallen before from feeling too strong and using their military might indiscriminately.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1013128.htm
We must honour the dead :
Civilian deaths in Iraq may prove to be the true Achilles heel of the US and Britain’s intervention. The bodies pile up in morgues around the country, and reliable press and media reports put the total civilian death toll since March 19 as approaching 10,000.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1110060,00.html
Best-Laid Plans:
Anyone not blinded by partisan ideology or irrational Bush-hatred, the evidence clearly shows that Team Bush has always had a very specific plan for remaking Iraq — and is following it faithfully to this very day.
Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam:
The Telegraph story was apparently written with a political purpose: to bolster Bush administration claims of a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam’s regime.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3741646/
Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Iraqis, Documents Show :
Donald H. Rumsfeld went to Baghdad in March 1984 with instructions to deliver a private message about weapons of mass destruction: that the United States’ public criticism of Iraq for using chemical weapons would not derail Washington’s attempts to forge a better relationship, according to newly declassified documents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13558-2003Dec18.html
Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq:
A Democracy Now! interview from last year with global economics correspondent Alan Friedman about how the United States helped illegally arm Iraq in the 1980s in a scandal involving George Bush Sr., James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Mueller and others. A Must Listen
‘Bodyguard druged and betrayed Saddam’:
Saddam Hussein was betrayed by a relative who was his personal bodygyard and who led US troops to the ousted Iraqi leader’s hideout after drugging him, a Jordanian newspaper reported Thursday, quoting a source close to the US-led coalition in Iraq.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1461125,00.html
The Rat Trap: Why the resistance will increase :
The resistance will persist because Saddam was never its political, religious, spiritual or moral guide. The mukawama – resistance against foreign occupation – is now a full-blown nationalist, religious movement.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL20Ak01.html
Paul Krugman: Telling It Right:
We should be deeply disturbed by the history of this war. For its message seems to be that as long as you wave the flag convincingly enough, it doesn’t matter whether you tell the truth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/opinion/19KRUG.html?ex=1072844154&ei=1&en=2f4710f57dcec8c5
Hard evidence called tough to find:
More than 6 million pages of Iraqi government documents collected by a group of Iraqi exiles contain “smoking gun” evidence against “virtually everyone” in the Ba’ath Party leadership — except Saddam Hussein.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2003/12/18/hard_evidence_called_tough_to_find/
The Trial Of Saddam Hussein:
Selected Highlights From a Future Transcript : Good morning, Mr. Hussein. I am Ahmed Chalabi, chairman of the Iraqi National Congress, President-in-Waiting of the Islamic Republic of Occupied Mesopotamia and special prosecutor in The People of Iraq vs. Hussein. SADDAM HUSSEIN: I know who you are.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=
742&e=7&u=%2Fuclicktext%2F20031218%2Fcm_ucru%2Fthetrialofsaddamhussein
http://tinyurl.com/2dqnx
Fight to the death:
Paul McGeough reports from Baghdad on the Iraqis who hated Saddam, but who hate the Americans more.
Dangerous Religion – Bush’s Theology of Empire:
America’s foreign policy is more than pre-emptive, it is theologically presumptuous; not only unilateral, but dangerously messianic; not just arrogant, but bordering on the idolatrous and blasphemous.
World knows our foreign policy better than we do :
Sometimes, when you catch a glimpse of yourself through the eyes of friends, the perspective is sobering.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/bookman/index.html
Arresting Children :
“I told them you have to educate people about freedom, not punish them, but they brought tanks and helicopters. Yesterday they surrounded the school and came in with weapons everywhere, soldiers everywhere and used tear gas on the students.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1274.shtml
Another Home Pillaged, More Illegal Detentions :
Fahad suffers from diabetes, and from her condition must relieve herself often. She begged, through an Iraqi interpreter of the soldiers, to use the restroom, but to no avail. She even suggested they allow her to use the restroom while accompanied by a soldier. This was declined, and while weeping she was forced to urinate on herself while soldiers stood by laughing at her with the interpreter.
Tapes Show Abuse of 9/11 Detainees :
Justice Department Examines Videos Prison Officials Said Were Destroyed
9/11 resurrected U.S. neocons :
President Bush, for his part, has accommodated most of the recommendations by neocons and one of those recommendations was the war on Iraq.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_contents
.asp?id=200312200033&query=Kim%20Sung-han
Chinese mega-bucks for Bush brothers:
Many observers were surprised last week when George W. Bush came down in favor of the People’s Republic of China, against a democratic referendum in Taiwan. His weighing in on behalf of mainland China becomes more questionable at a time when well-connected Chinese companies are funneling large sums of money to Bush’s brothers.
How a Plot Convulsed Iran in ’53 (and in ’79) :
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For nearly five decades, America’s role in the military coup that ousted Iran’s elected prime minister and returned the shah to power has been lost to history, the subject of fierce debate in Iran and stony silence in the United States. One by one, participants have retired or died without revealing key details, and the Central Intelligence Agency said a number of records of the operation – its first successful overthrow of a foreign government – had been destroyed. But a copy of the agency’s secret history of the coup has surfaced, revealing the inner workings of a plot that set the stage for the Islamic revolution in 1979, and for a generation of anti-American hatred in one of the Middle East’s most powerful countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-intro.html
“School” Of Hard Knocks For Wes:
Wesley Clark is a big booster of the controversial “School of the Americas” – which critics charge has history of graduating Latin American soldiers accused of rape, murder and torture.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/13799.htm
Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front:
Many government officials are now anxious for the military to assume a more active policing role here at home.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-503es.html
Assassination ‘windfall’ for Musharraf
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EL19Df05.html
Charedi Rabbis Rush To Disavow Anti-Gentile Book :
Leaders of the country’s most prominent ultra-Orthodox yeshiva are scrambling to distance themselves from a book by one of their disciples, which argues that gentiles are “completely evil” and Jews constitute a separate, genetically superior species.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.12.19/news4a.html
Hunger and Homelessness Increase in U.S. :
Hunger and homelessness increased in many of America’s largest cities this year, with growing demand for emergency food supplies for families with children, the elderly and even people with jobs, a survey by U.S. mayors finds.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031218/ap_on_re_us/hunger_homelessness_1
Is the search for weapons over?:
After eight months with no discoveries, mission chief quits; Fewer than 40 of the 1,400 inspectors still in the field; As attacks on US military grow, WMD hunt no longer a priority
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=474598
The Lie Factory
– How the Neocons & the Office of Special Plans Pushed Disinformation and Bogus Intelligence on Iraq
Saddam Hussein’s Loyalists Infiltrated U.S. Operations in Iraq:
Agents for deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have penetrated the U.S. command in Iraq, ABCNEWS has learned. As a result, they have the potential to undermine U.S. authority.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/Iraq_infiltrators_031218.html
The Al Jazeera Hack :
Apparently, freedom of speech is only protected if it comes wrapped in red white and blue bow.
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-12/14pandya.cfm
Tanks roll into Tikrit:
“Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon,” Jaburi’s voice said, according to an army interpreter. “This is a fair warning.”
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=423620
Triumph! :
He looks like a lonely derelict: completely out of it. The idea that his capture makes any real difference, or represents an American triumph, is ludicrous
http://www.sobran.com/columns/2003/031216.shtml
Live from the new Iraq: Happy talk:
The Pentagon is currently building what I call its own – Good News Network – to do an end run around the networks and beam directly from its press centre in Iraq. Just in time for election year 2004, the satellite service will counteract all those terrible stories of bombings, shootings, killings and maiming from the, you know, war.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=
thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1071660248202&call
_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907624636
http://tinyurl.com/32fby
Iraq`s Invasion of Kuwait:
On July 25, 1990, a week before Iraq invaded Kuwait, a neighbor so tiny one American diplomat called it a gas station in the desert, Saddam Hussein summoned the American Ambassador, a career civil servant named April Glaspie, to his office. To critics of the Gulf War, what happened at that meeting has been known since as the green light.
http://wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=2742
Ugly History Hides in Plain Sight:
The Smithsonian’s display of the Enola Gay bomber sidesteps any controversy over the atomic attacks on Japan.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/latimes51.html
Israel: Lapid lambastes `barbaric’ settlers :
Justice Minister Yosef Lapid yesterday launched a verbal assault on Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, describing their behavior as “barbaric,” and accusing them of having “de facto” control in Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/373706.html
Jose Padilla: : A Constitutional Challenge for Us All:
The ruling marks a growing judicial backlash against unfettered presidential authority during a period of war. – With controversy over the status of Guantanamo detainees and the PATRIOT Act growing to a feverish pitch, it’s about time the Constitution gained a voice, and an arm strong enough to back it up.
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031218ONeil.html
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Bush Overruled on ‘Dirty Bomb’ Suspect :
President Bush does not have power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031218/ap_on_re_us/terror_suspect_10
Court Says ‘Dirty Bomb’ Suspect Can’t Be Held by Military:
“Where, as here, the president’s power as commander in chief of the armed forces and the domestic rule of law intersect, we conclude that clear Congressional authorization is required for detentions of American citizens on American soil.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/politics/18CND-DETA.html
http://tinyurl.com/create.php
The Decision:
Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, -v-DONALD RUMSFELD, PDF Format
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/padilla/padrums121803opn.pdf
9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable:
For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/printable589137.shtml
White House Web Scrubbing:
Offending Comments on Iraq Disappear From Site: It’s not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9821-2003Dec17.html
The Rat Trap: How Saddam may still nail Bush:
The Christmas blockbuster from the Pentagon studios was a dream. This was the new Roman Empire at its peak – better than Ridleys Scott’s Gladiator: a real, captive barbarian emperor, paraded on the Circus Maximus of world television. The barbarian was not a valiant warrior – but a bum.
Bush Warned: Don’t Push Israel:
Leading Christian and Jewish conservatives warned the Bush administration this week not to use the dramatic capture of Saddam Hussein as the launch pad for new U.S. initiatives on the Israeli-Palestinian front.
Gush Shalom: Sharon’s Speech: Tissue of Lies and Half-Truths His “Plan”
– Recipe for War and Annexation
Netanyahu:
Israel’s Arabs are the real demographic threat : “A leader who considers 20 percent of the population of Israel to be a demographic threat and treats them as an existential problem, is himself a racist threat to democracy, sanity, and the rule of law – and he should be disposed of immediately for the good of both peoples.”
Fertility gap fuels land debate in Israel:
Israel proper – within its 1967 borders – is an overwhelmingly Jewish state. Jews are roughly 80 percent of its 6.5 million population. But add to the map the 3.5 million people living in the primarily Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and demographically the Jewish state is doomed, population experts say, citing the Arabs’ much higher birthrate.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/7508159.htm
US soldier killed during ambush in Iraq :
An American soldier was killed and another was wounded during an ambush in Baghdad, as violence also flared up in other areas of the country.
Gunmen kill Iraqi political figure:
Suspected followers of Saddam Hussein shot to death a representative of a major Shiite political party, a party official said Thursday.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/7520704.htm
Kay Plans to Leave Search for Iraqi Arms :
The move comes as more of Kay’s staff has been diverted from the weapons hunt to help search for Iraqi insurgents, and at a time when expectations remain low that any weaponry will be discovered.
Blair: We May Not Discover WMD:
Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle said: “Blair told the nation there was an immediate threat from Iraq’s WMD. Now it seems they never existed at that time.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13732215&method=full&siteid=50143
Remember ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’?
For Bush, They Are a Nonissue
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/politics/18PREX.html
Why WMD question must not be allowed to go away :
Modern governments produce conveyor belts of arguments and justifications for their actions. They like to keep moving so that the electorate cannot quite catch up with their misjudgments and defects.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1385532003
Growing Fury and Unrest :
I stand in utter disbelief in what the military from my country is doing before my very eyes here.
Harry Browne: How Do I Liberate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways:
This is liberation in the NewSpeak language of politics. Words like freedom just don’t seem to mean what they used to, do they?
Bremer wants to double coalition authority size :
President Bush’s top envoy in Iraq has told officials that he wants as many as 1,000 additional personnel to beef up the U.S. occupation authority amid growing concern that the effort to return Iraqi sovereignty by next summer is falling far behind schedule.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001818101_bremer18.html
When Thinking About Iraq: 15 Questions We Must Ask Ourselves
Saddam’s arrest fuels insurgency :
Police are increasingly the target as 40 Iraqis die in four days of violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1109311,00.html
Bearded Lady of Tikrit is no ace in the hole:
“Iraqis might have placed most of the blame for their suffering on Saddam and his Baathist thugs, but they ranked America second on their list of tormentors. With Saddam’s demise, America just moved into first place.”
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/3101/?PHPSESSID=62c9552f8e5a710ed4dc5ff966154ad4
Fate of Saddam’s look-alikes remains unknown:
The long-awaited capture of Saddam Hussein brought euphoria to many, and for a curious few, it raised a simple question: Whatever became of the deposed leader’s team of look-alikes?
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031216-102509-5288r.htm
Feds Outline Plan on Enemy Combatants :
U.S. citizens classified as enemy combatants have to wait to get an attorney until they’ve provided intelligence to the government under a Bush administration policy that critics say treads on constitutional rights.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V4747.AP-Enemy-Combatant.html
Saddam’s silence is golden for West :
At the Milosevic trial, US General Wesley Clark, former NATO commander, is to give evidence. But he will do so in closed session. That is the condition imposed by the United States government before it will allow him to testify. Reason? It doesn’t want aired in public the dirty dealings between the US and the Milosevic regime over many years.
No ‘smoking gun’ to convict Saddam Hussein yet, say Iraqi experts:
“It is one thing to say what we all know about what Saddam did. But it’s another to prove it in a court of law,”
U.S. “Torture Lite” Led To Saddam’s Capture
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1217-01.htm
Sen. Nelson aide says Iraq information was declassified:
He cited a briefing with administration officials last year in which they told senators Iraq had the ability to strike eastern seaboard cities with chemical or biological weapons using unmanned “drones” launched from ships off the Atlantic Coast
http://www.floridatoday.com/topstories/121803nelson.htm
Albright thinks Bush hiding bin Laden:
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke yesterday she suspects President Bush knows the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and is simply waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36182
Iraqi Scientists Now on U.S. Payroll
Hundreds of Iraqi scientists and technicians who the Bush administration says worked on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs for Saddam Hussein will be paid by the United States for their role in postwar projects
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=
/ap/20031218/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_scientists_3
Speech Upsets Afghan Assembly:
A female delegate was temporarily tossed out of Afghanistan’s constitutional convention Wednesday when she stood up and declared that the country’s warlords, some of them participants in the historic meeting, are criminals.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg
-afghan18dec18,1,5558154.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Over 160 killed as Bhutan cracks down on Indian separatists:
At least 120 separatists from northeast India and 44 Bhutanese soldiers have died in an ongoing four-day operation by the Bhutanese army, reports said on Thursday.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/
2003/December/subcontinent_December422.xml§ion=subcontinent
US gets access to airline details:
It means that most personal details given at check-in will be sent to the US as soon as passengers leave Europe.
Passenger terror data deal may be derailed :
Privacy campaigners and European parliamentarians pledged this week to stop the implementation of a deal between the European Commission and the United States on the controversial issue of access to airline passengers’ personal data.
http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20031217-085415-4349r
U.S. Considers Expanding FBI Database :
The proposal — part of a broad push by the Bush administration to more closely monitor foreign nationals since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — is raising concerns among some civil liberties advocates and law enforcement groups
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6149-2003Dec16?language=printer
Gold hits highest price since 1996 as dollar sags:
The sagging dollar has been one of the main drivers behind an 18 percent rise in spot gold prices this year as investors sought alternative investments such as gold and U.S. Treasury bonds.
http://www.reuters.com/financeArticle.jhtml?storyID=
4012031&newsType=usGoldRpt&menuType=markets
Former Gov. Mario Cuomo hits writer with 15M libel suit :
The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week, seeks $15 million from Greg Palast, author of “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,” and his publisher, Plume, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/147077p-129849c.html
Call centers mushroom in India: ‘Hello, y’all’:
Few Americans calling “800” numbers — whether to seek a Citibank loan, to make reservations on Delta Air Lines or even to ask about their food stamp benefits — would know they are calling India, the country that claims the largest share of corporate America’s back office processing tasks overseas.
http://www.ajc.com/wednesday/content/epaper/editions/
wednesday/atlanta_world_f3fd5bb823da10d00055.html
Rabbis issue prohibition against evacuating settlements :
The government is forbidden by a total religious prohibition to evacuate any outpost or settlement, and has no right to give away parts of the land of Israel to strangers, and anything done toward this aim is void,”
US attorney general fined for breaking law:
John Ashcroft, the US attorney general, has been fined £21,000 for breaking election laws during his defeat by a dead rival for a seat in the Senate.
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/
2003/12/18/wash18.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/18/ixworld.html
U.S. Urges Citizens to Leave Saudi Arabia :
Nonessential American diplomats and the families of all U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia should leave, the State Department said Wednesday, stepping up its warnings about risks in the country.
U.S. lawmakers urge Iraq relations with Israel:
The Bush administration should try to ensure that the next Iraqi government has diplomatic relations with Israel, two U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday while visiting the Jewish state.
http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/1090794p-7620496c.html
Facing Our Losses: Here’s one measure of the cost of fighting terrorism and “liberating” Iraq:
The lesson here is to not accept an official number as the definition of war’s consequences. The combat death toll in Gulf War I was 148. More than 215,000 of the 696,000 deployed for that conflict–almost one-third–have sought war-related disability treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0351/031217_news_wabodycount.php
New Developments in Case of U.S. Spying on U.N. Security Council:
Former British Cabinet Minister Decries Prosecution
http://tinyurl.com/3gmtq
How to kill Saddam:
All the U.S. wants is for the former Iraqi president to be hauled into some kangaroo court and, after a brisk procedure in which Saddam will not doubt be denied opportunities to interrogate old pals from happier days like Donald Rumsfeld, be dropped through a trap door with a rope tied around his neck, maybe with an Iraqi, or at least a son of the Prophet pulling the lever.
http://www.freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=799&strYear=2003&strAuthor=2
Francis Boyle Discusses Saddam’s Capture:
“His Mistreatment is Pretty Much What The Roman Emperors Used To Do To Defeated Barbarian Kings”
CIA Report: No Comprehensive Peace Arrangement Beforel 2020:
The Middle East section of the NIC’s global assessment warns about the possibility of a war between Israel and Syria, or some other Arab state
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=54592
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Poll: Almost half of Americans see Israel as threat
About 37 percent of Americans said the United States itself was the greatest threat.
Robert Fisk: Saddam’s Cold Comfort’s:
There was a kind of satisfaction, lying inside Saddam’s last hole in the earth. Seven months ago, I sat on his red velvet presidential throne in the greatest of all his marble palaces.
Who Will Testify At Saddam’s Trial?
http://www2.observer.com/observer/pages/conason.asp
In case you missed it: US supplied anthrax to Iraq:
Biological materials were exported to Iraq under licence from the US Department of Commerce. These included botulinum toxin and anthrax, later identified as major components in the Iraqi biological warfare programme.
In case you missed it: Constant Conflict:
A look behind the philosophy and practice of Americas push for domination of the worlds economy and culture. First published From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College. “The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.”
Terror alerts manufactured?:
FBI agents say White House scripting ‘hysterics’ for political effect
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30312
Sharon, In Iraq?
Israel denies Qatari report saying Sharon secretly met Saddam in Baghdad following arrest
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=265796&lang=e&dir=news
Bomb Kills 17 in Iraq, Justice for Saddam Debated:
A fuel truck bomb killed 17 people in a huge fireball that incinerated cars on a Baghdad street on Wednesday as violence and instability gripped Iraq in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s capture.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IYVHBIS
KGW4QCCRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=4007569
Blair signals retreat on Iraq WMD:
Tony Blair yesterday signalled a retreat from his previous confident assertions that weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq – the principal rationale used by the British government for the conflict.
Bush: Iraq intelligence was sound:
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday dismissed any distinction between whether former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein actually had weapons of mass destruction or planned to acquire them.
In case you missed it: The Incredible Lying BushCo : Lies Made To Order.
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Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth:
THE INVASION was still a lie. The capture of Saddam Hussein changes nothing about that. There were too many forked tongues in the road to his lair. The way we removed the dictator, we became a global dictatorship.
Chemical, Nuclear Arms Still ‘Major Threat,’ Cheney Says:
Vice President Cheney warned this week that “the major threat” facing the nation is the possibility that terrorists could detonate a biological or nuclear weapon in a U.S. city.
Robert Fisk: Insurgents or protesters? 18 are killed in clashes with US troops:
Dramatic videotape from the city of Ramadi 75 miles west of Baghdad showed unarmed supporters of Saddam Hussein being gunned down in semi-darkness as they fled from Americans troops.
US accused of double standards after granting Saddam prisoner-of-war status:
The US administration was accused of gross hypocrisy yesterday after granting Saddam Hussein the legal rights that for more than two years it has denied the 660 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=473986
Tortured Explanations: Any Instruments We Sell May Be Used Against You:
At this point just about everyone knows that while the U.S. itself doesn’t officially sanction torture, it is more than ready to ship suspects out to other countries whose governments do engage in the practice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/mondo3.php
Is America sick? : Examining America’s self-image:
The “cradle of democracy”, the “land of plenty”, the “beacon of justice”, the “best way of life”, the “land of the free”.
To change your email address.
Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S. :
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities.
“This is not America” :
In Miami, police unleashed unprecedented fury on demonstrators — most of them seniors and union members. Is this how Bush’s war on terror will be fought at home?
Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam ‘Like a Cow’ :
A top Vatican official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticized the U.S. military for showing video footage of him being treated “like a cow.”
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&u=
/nm/20031216/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_vatican_dc_2&printer=1
http://tinyurl.com/zh6r
The Right to Life:
Is it acceptable to sacrifice thousands of innocent lives in Afghanistan and Iraq for a great and noble cause – cracking down on terrorists and eradicating terrorism? If this is the logic behind the US’s wars, isn’t this also the same logic behind „terrorist‰ attacks?
http://www.islamonline.net/English/Views/2003/12/article03.shtml
Blix sceptical on Iraqi WMD claim:
Speaking to the BBC’s World Service, Mr Blix said he was more certain than ever that there was no WMD in Iraq.
“Good Genocide”(Practiced by the US,UK) VS “Bad Genocide” :
US trained butchers of Timor :Exclusive: Washington trained death squads in secret while Britain has spent £1m helping Indonesian army
http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,2763,200716,00.html
A Saddam Chronology :
It is a matter of principle in Washington that Americans not be held to the same international standards as others.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=4685
Soldier Dies In Husband’s Arms In Iraq:
According to Fahnestock, his daughter was critically injured in Fallujah when she approached a bomb on a telephone pole and it exploded before she could diffuse it.
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/2707456/detail.html
Iraqi gunman killed in Falluja riot:
An Iraqi gunman has been killed and a U.S. soldier wounded in an exchange of fire during riots in a restive town west of Baghdad, U.S. military sources say. Witnesses said hundreds of residents protesting the arrest of Saddam Hussein rioted in the town of Falluja on Monday night, overrunning the office of the U.S.-appointed mayor.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=
worldNews&storyID=422942§ion=news&fromEmail=true
Pope Peace Message Takes Swipe at U.S. Over Iraq :
Pope John Paul took a swipe at the United States and its allies Tuesday for invading Iraq without U.N. approval, suggesting they had succumbed to the temptation to use the law of force instead of the force of law.
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=
Breaking&storyId=806759&tw=wn_wire_story&from=email
http://tinyurl.com/zj35
The war we never should have fought:
Most embarrassing for the present government of Israel, details of how Rumsfeld carried on his 1983 visit a letter from the then Israeli prime minister Itzak Shamir offering to sell arms to a man whose capture Israel now regards as great news “for the democratic world and for the fight for freedom and justice”.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8183793^7583,00.html
Bin Laden proves more elusive:
More than two years and $20 billion after U.S. forces set out to find the mastermind of the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks, bin Laden remains as elusive as ever, officials said. “If they catch him, it will be by accident,” said Gen. Hilaluddin Hilal, deputy interior minister in charge of security in Afghanistan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0312160234dec16,1,4612740.story
Sky News fined for faking Iraq war report:
The Independent Television Commission found that the report breached guidelines on accuracy and misled viewers.
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=88915052&p=88915758&n=88915812
Pro-Saddam rallies erupt, Iraqis killed:
US forces have killed 16 Iraqis during separate incidents as demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein erupted across the occupied country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C2CC8AFB-E4CB-4901-96C1-927E9E7C4A52.htm
Anti-war MPs give Blair no respite over WMD hunt:
While Saddam’s arrest appeared to swing US public opinion behind the war, Mr Blair found that MPs who opposed the war were in no mood to tone down criticisms of his actions. Peter Kilfoyle, a former defence minister, said: “I don’t think this makes a difference for us because the war was about WMD and the threat from them.
New powers, old habits in Iraq:
They must have known it in Washington but, amazingly, by getting rid of Saddam, the Americans have seamlessly given birth to Islamic fundamentalists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3313705.stm
Pyhrric victory? :
The “capture” of Saddam Hussein is being hailed as a great victory for President Bush. After all, who needs to worry about the missing weapons of mass destruction or the lack of ties between Hussein and the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks, now that we’ve caught the “Butcher of Baghdad”?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/12/16/EDG1H3NVRC1.DTL
How £1bn was lost when Thatcher propped up Saddam :
For more than a decade, yellowing paper files in a government store have hidden the story of the way £1bn of Whitehall money was thrown away in propping up Saddam Hussein’s regime and doing favours for arms firms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,904493,00.html
Crude Vision: EXPOSED: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein.
Our examination shines a new spotlight on the incredible revolving door between Bechtel and the Reagan administration that drove U.S.-Iraq interactions between 1983 and 1985. The men who courted Saddam while he gassed Iranians
An ignominious end to America’s creation :
America, which pulled no punches when condemning the Iraqi government for showing footage of American POWs, had no such hesitation at showing Saddam being inspected like a prize cow. In the same way, after it had warned Al Jazeera not to show American dead, the US filled our screens with the mutilated and bloated corpses of Saddam’s two sons.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/Opinion.asp?ArticleID=105616
Iraq’s moment of joy will soon pass:
It has suited the US to blame Saddam for the resistance to the occupation and to use him as a pretext for the continued occupation. There are no fewer than 15 organisations involved in the resistance, which enjoys widespread support.
Meanwhile, in Iraq the slaughter goes on:
Yesterday’s attacks appear to undermine the views of those who said that Saddam and his so-called “Baathist hold-outs” have been behind the wave of attacks against US targets.
Bush is still in a real hole :
The US president is facing a financial nightmare of his own making, and needs all the good news he can get. The Bush administration must take care not to spend High Value Target Number One all at once by letting a mob hang him this week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1107892,00.html
Consumer report jolts markets :
“Consumer confidence came out and took the steam out of everything,” said Peter Dunay, chief market strategist at Wall Street Access, a New York-based brokerage firm. “It all boils down to concerns about unemployment.”
http://charleston.net/stories/073003/bus_30wall.shtml
Halliburton gets more work in Iraq:
The US military has said Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton was allocated $222 million more last week for work in Iraq, at the same time as a Pentagon audit found the firm may have overbilled for some services there.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/40D54074-B324-4611-869F-8334214CFF92.htm
Paul Krugman: Patriots and Profits:
The point is that we’ve had an environment in which officials inclined to do favors for their business friends, and contractors inclined to pad their bills or do shoddy work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/opinion/16KRUG.html?ex=
1072155600&en=57d2d0b0431458f9&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
http://tinyurl.com/zh7h
Ex-Pentagon Officials Sentenced in Fraud:
Two former top Pentagon officials each were sentenced Friday to 24 1/3 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes and accepting prostitutes from government contractors.
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-pentagon-
bribery,0,5257216.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
The U.S. Power Complex: What’s New:
U.S. wardlordism doesn’t tolerate rivals, validates first-strike warfare, and spurns conflict-prevention strategies and negotiating frameworks. The new warlordism keeps counsel not with diplomats but with arms merchants.
http://fpif.org/papers/02power/index_body.html
Regime Change in Iran? One Man’s Secret Plan:
Iran’s Chalabi? Manucher Ghorbanifar says he talked secretly with Pentagon officials about plans for regime change in Iran
U.S. Seeks Bases In Morocco, Tunisia:
“The command is also looking at establishing basing arrangements in countries like Tunisia and Morocco so that U.S. forces can deploy to the continent more effectively if American troops are required,”
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/december/12_16_3.html
U.S. Hegemony: Continuing Decline, Enduring Danger :
In 1950 the United States supplied half the world’s gross product, against 21 percent at present. Sixty percent of the world’s manufacturing production in 1950 came from the United States, 25 percent in 1999.
The Incredible Shrinking Dollar :
As the dollar drops, almost everything you and I buy from the rest of the world costs us more. In recent days even the OPEC oil cartel has said it might raise oil prices to compensate for the falling dollar. You may remember that’s exactly what OPEC did in 1973, in response to a falling dollar.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9573
Israel Planned Hit on Saddam :
The Israeli military planned a daring assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein in 1992 – a plot that would have involved landing commandos in Iraq and firing sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.
Pat Buchanan: Stand Up to Sharon:
Israel is a „thunderously failed reality‰ that „rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice.‰
http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/buchanan.html
Pat Robertson: Eliminate Arafat:
US Christian leader Pat Robertson called Monday for the “elimination” of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat as a follow-up to the US capture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/
JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1071541095793&p=1008596981749
http://tinyurl.com/zffw
Perpetual War, Perpetual Terror:
We are told our nation is in imminent danger, that we are a mushroom cloud waiting to happen. And so we fear, transforming our mass uneasiness into nationalistic and patriotic fervor, wrapping ourselves up in the flag and the Military Industrial Complex. We have fallen into the mouse trap, becoming the subservient slaves of an engine run by greed.
‘Musharraf faked bid on life’:
It was their suspicion that Musharraf may have used the ‘bid on his life’ to convince the United States that he was still their best hope in Pakistan and in the South Asian region for cooperation as far as tackling the menace of global terrorism is concerned.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/359638.cms
Declassified Documents Show U.S. Support For Hussein:
The National Security Archive at George Washington University has published a series of declassified U.S. documents detailing the U.S. embrace of Saddam Hussein in the early 1980’s. The collection of documents, include briefing materials, diplomatic reports of two Rumsfeld trips to Baghdad, reports on Iraqi chemical weapons use during the Reagan administration and presidential directives that ensure U.S. access to the region’s oil and military expansion.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/sp_world_battle022703.htm
Iraqi Shi’ites hail “bright dawn” of Saddam capture :
Iraqi Shi’ite Muslims on Monday hailed the arrest of Saddam Hussein but expressed their continuing deep resentment of his captor — the United States.
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=
worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=3995418
Iraqi Missile Scientist Says He’s Been Working With British Military and Had Not Fled to Iran:
Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi said in an interview with The Associated Press that he tried several times to reach the American teams searching for weapons of mass destruction. Once, in July, he asked a friend who had already met with American missile experts to set up a meeting for him but the Americans never showed up.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANN4VW8OD.html
Saddam a POW, Red Cross says:
The international Red Cross said today it considers Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war and wants U.S. authorities to allow it to visit the ousted Iraqi leader to check the conditions in which he is being held.
http://tinyurl.com/zj5h
Ex-U.S. Attorney General Ready To Defend Saddam:
Clarke averred that neither the U.S.-installed Interim Governing Council (IGC) nor the occupation forces is eligible to try the overthrown president. “The IGC does not represent Iraq. It is Bush’s council,” said the former U.S. attorney general.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-12/15/article02.shtml
Annan Rejects Death Penalty for Saddam:
The top U.N. diplomat said Monday he could not support bringing captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before a tribunal that might sentence him to death.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SADDAM_ANNAN?SITE=
NYBUE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://tinyurl.com/zj5m
Saddam Key in Early CIA Plot :
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
Saddam’s Sister Says U.S. Forces Drugged Him :
He must have been drugged or injected with illegal chemicals. What happened is an insult to all Arabs and Muslims,” the paper quoted her as saying as she wept
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3996209
Senator Robert C. Byrd: Chellenging ‘Pre-emption’:
“As each day passes and as more American soldiers are killed and wounded in Iraq, I become ever more convinced that the war in Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reasons. ”
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031229&s=byrd
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As things fall apart… By William Bowles
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Kate Middleton’s True, Unbridled Feelings About Meghan Markle Finally Exposed - Now, It’s All The Internet Can Talk About
There’s plenty of news to go around concerning the British Royal Family and it certainly won’t be slowing down anytime soon.
https://twitter.com/PrinceH51355242/status/1138270114317570064
They keep the press on their toes with their numerous events, parties, appearances, and royal gatherings. They’re a family unlike any other, so it comes as no surprise why they’re adored and admired by fans young and old from every corner of the globe.
https://twitter.com/vogueaustralia/status/1138615666016169986
One of the biggest and longest-running stories concerning the family is the alleged feud between the Sussex family and the Cambridge family. While out in public, they all retain a great deal of poise and respect for the others, but it’s the continual signs of tension between them that seem to be setting off the most alarms.
https://twitter.com/ratemytopics/status/1138858099010416640
It has been said for some time that Kate and Meghan do not get along very well. While that may or may not be true - that’s only something they’ll know with certainty - people have been led to believe that they’re more at odds now than ever before.
https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1138915933517430785
In fact, it was recently revealed that Kate actually is a bit jealous of Meghan. Her reasons, though, will shock you more than the fact itself.
One royal insider told sources that Kate actually envies Meghan’s public persona. “While the Duchess of Cambridge comes off as the picture of poise and grace, her outer confidence belies the anxiety she feels below the surface - especially at big events.”
https://twitter.com/jose92813060/status/1139251211989921793
They continued: “This is where Kate’s admiration for her sister-in-law apparently comes in. Being in front of a crowd and mingling with the people comes so easily for Meghan. Putting herself out there is apparently something Kate struggles with.”
https://twitter.com/StatesCounty/status/1138988945750970369
“Kate still finds these huge public events overwhelming. She’s always been naturally shy. She knows she has a responsibility to be front and center, given that one day these events will be in honor of her husband. It’s something she’ll have to work on for the rest of her life. Truth be told, she envies her sister-in-law Meghan’s ease in front of crowds.”
https://twitter.com/EveningStandard/status/1139203961418854400
While this is absolutely nothing like fans expected to hear, it does make sense. Kate truly has a more quiet and reserved spirit about herself whereas Meghan seems to thrive in front of an audience. I’m sure having the support of one another will help them both in the long run in the royal ventures that lie ahead for them.
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With this investment, Zubie also announced the addition of telecommunications veterans Paget Alves and Dennis Huber to its board of directors. Alves and Huber have a combined 50-plus years experience in telecommunications, adding additional financial, operational and marketing experience along with expertise in product development and IT to an already talented executive slate.
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by anonyzious · Published August 21, 2013 · Updated August 25, 2013
Hollywood is all about making good movies and keeping people entertained but there are many sides to it. In today’s article we will give you a sneak peak into the big bucks that the actors are making while getting all the fame and keeping us entertained with their talents. One thing is for sure that their talents are by no means cheap. Here are the top 5 highest paid actors of Hollywood.
5- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson: $46 million
This WWE sensation changed his career and chose acting over wrestling which turned out to be quite profitable for this superstar. For over 10 weeks in 2013, Dwayne had a movie in the box office top 10. Fast & Furious 6 grossed more than $500 million in less than two weeks and he also starred in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.It is said that he is now moving into TV production.
4- Mark Wahlberg: $52 million
One of the most unexpected hits of 2012 was the movie “Ted” which grossed over $550 million with only a budget of $50 million. Mark has been nominated for two Oscars in his acting career and has been paid quite handsomely along the way. His new movie “Two Guns” also did well on the box office.
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Sugarcane Farming Project Report, Cost and Profit
Sugarcane Farming Project Report:
Today, we are discussing of Sugarcane Farming Project Report which will include Cost, Profit and Economics of Sugarcane Cultivation.
Sugarcane plant is considered as a tall grass, which is native to warm temperate and tropical zones of South East Asia, Polynesia, and Melanesia. The stalk of the plant is useful for its sugar content and is cultivated by 120 countries. Depending on the climatic conditions of the area and the resistance of the variety, the crop species are interbred to form a new hybrid variety suitable for commercial cultivation. The yield of sugarcane from the improved cultivars is believed to be successful only if it is managed skillfully by agronomic techniques. Research has shown that proper understanding of the physiology of the crop can contribute to better yield. Sugarcane is considered to be a simple crop for cultivation and development because there are no critical periods of growth like other cereal crops. Since it is a perennial crop, it is harvested many times before replanting. The first production of the sugarcane is called the plant crop while the subsequent production cycles are called ratoon crops. ‘Sucrose’ is the main ingredient extracted from the sugarcane which is a sweetening agent used in the food industry. The important factor which demands sugarcane cultivation is the need for sugar on a global scale and accounts to 80% being produced from sugarcane, while the rest is from other sources such as sugar beets.
SUGARCANE PLANT SPECIFICATIONS:
The plant of sugar cane is a perennial tropical grass, which produces unbranched stems of 2 to 4 m height and 5 cm in diameter. These stems are the products of the plant and are used to extract sugar.
The stem of the plant has nodes, which are spaced at 15 to 25 cm. Each variety of sugarcane has a different color and hardness of the stalks and the diameter also varies from 2.5 cm to 5 cm. The stalks have a wax coating which prevents the evaporation of water. Red and blue anthocyanins in tissues and chlorophyll are the two pigments responsible for the color of the stalk. When both are absent the stem is yellow in color.
The leaves are found on both sides of the stalk near the nodes. The sheath of the leaf is close to the stalk near the base, but less closely attached at the leaf lamina. The maximum length of the leaf is 1 m. Sugarcane leaf has a strong midrib with a white concave upper surface and pale green on the lower side. The leaf area is smallest at the base and at the top, whereas in the middle it is large. Sometimes the leaf sheath develops siliceous cells, which give the leaf a hairy texture.
Two kinds of roots are found in sugarcane plants, one is the sett roots and the other is the shoot roots. Sett roots are thin and branched while the shoot roots are thick, fleshy and less branched. Shoot roots live for a short duration and can develop their own roots. The development of new roots is an advantage to the plant as it helps in the adjustment of changing environmental conditions.
Sugarcane plants flower when the growth of the plant is slow and temperatures of the nights are low. The flowering period is from October to December in the northern hemisphere and from April to June in the southern hemisphere. The inflorescence is called the arrow and helps in wind pollination.
The seed of the plant is oval in shape and is yellowish-brown in color with a length of 1 mm.
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VARIETIES OF SUGARCANE:
The non-flowering varieties are Co 8021, Co 86032, Co 87025, Co 91010, Co 94005 and Co 94008.
Cultivars of sugarcane found in South Africa are NCo376, CP66/1043 and N 12 to N 57.
CULTIVATION REQUIREMENTS OF SUGARCANE:
Sugarcane Growing Requirements.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS:
Sugarcane is a tropical plant, so the ideal temperatures required for its growth are 27 to 33˚C with a relative humidity of 80 to 85%. The amount of rainfall should be in between 1100 to 1500 mm. The velocity of wind should not exceed 60 km/HR. The plant needs bright sunlight and is intolerant to frost conditions. Sugarcane plants need fine-textured soil with rich organic matter. The soil should be well drained and the pH of the soil should be in between 6.5 to 8. The sugarcane crop is sensitive to acidic soil. The fields for sugarcane cultivation should have a groundwater depth of more than 3 m. Shallow and coarse soil beds are not suitable for sugarcane.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – PROPAGATION MATERIAL AND TREATMENT:
Propagation in sugarcane can happen through stem cuttings or seeds, but the commercial way of sugarcane cultivation is through vegetative propagation. The cane is cut into small pieces called setts, which consist of a node with a bud. The sett is collected from a 12-month-old plant which is healthy and used as planting material. Before planting it in the nursery the sett is treated by soaking it in a slurry of azospirillum for 15 minutes. The sett should be treated with carbendazim solution and finally, it is treated with steam at 50˚C for one hour to prevent infection and shoot diseases.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – LAND PREPARATION AND PLANTING:
The land is initially ploughed 2 to 4 times to a depth of 50 to 60 cm and is made fine. Using a disc harrow the clods are crushed, doing so smoothens the soil surface. Then it is levelled for easy movement of water during irrigation. Drainage and irrigation channels are created along and across the field at an interval of 10 to 15 cm. The basal dose of manure is applied in the furrow or by digging pits. The spacing of plants in the furrow should be 30 to 45 cm. Furrows are spaced at a distance 75 to 90 cm in a flatbed planting method, but if the planting area uses ridge and furrow method, then the ‘V’ shaped furrows with a spacing of 80 to 100 cm and 20 to 25 cm of depth are created. If pits are dug then the spacing of the pits is 1.5 x 1.5 m with a depth of 0.38 to 0.45 m. The pits are filled with compost and soil up to 15 cm. Healthy sett roots are planted in a circular manner. These are again covered with soil and initial doses of fertilizer and irrigation are supplied as required.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – MANURE AND FERTILIZERS:
Farm Yard Manure @ 12.5 t/ha is applied before the last ploughing. Compost from sugarcane trash and press mud is applied in the ratio of 1:1. If the soil is deficient of iron and zinc the application of 37.5 kg of zinc sulphate per hectare and 100 kg of ferrous sulphate per hectare is necessary.
The sugarcane is a huge biomass producing crop which needs lots of nutrients and it is believed that the application of fertilizes through irrigation is an economical way of cultivating sugarcane. This process is known as ‘Fertigation’, where essential nutrients are applied exactly at the point of the root. The ratio of NPK fertilizers is 275: 15: 112.5 kg/ha. The entire fertilizer is split into different quantities and is given at four stages; up to 70 days, 71 to 120 days, 121 to 160 days and 161 to 210 days.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – IRRIGATION TECHNIQUES:
Sugarcane fields require a heavy water supply, around 1100 to 2000 mm of water per crop approximately depending on the climatic conditions of the area. Water can be supplied either by dependence on rain or by external irrigation methods. Some methods of irrigation which can help in production performance and efficiency are:
The gravity method uses the furrow irrigation system.
The pressure method uses either overhead irrigation or drip irrigation.
Proper drainage of the land is essential for sugarcane cultivation; the water table has to be maintained at 0.6 m below the soil surface so as to provide best moisture levels to the root of the plant. Two ways of drainage used are:
Surface drainage.
Subsurface drainage.
It is estimated that 1 ton of sugarcane needs 60 to 70 tonnes of water. The plant should be watered immediately when the water level falls to 50%. During summer the plants are watered every 10 to 15 days and in winter they are watered every 20 to 30 days. Moisture in the soil is essential during sowing (300 mm), tillering (550 mm), elongation (650 mm) and grand growth stages (1000 mm). The amount of water should be adequate; less water supply leads to a decrease in fiber percentage and juice, internodes, germination rate and yield of sugar. Instead, if heavy irrigation is given, then this may result in loss of buds, root damage, low sugar content and yellowing of the plant.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT:
Sugarcane plant is affected by many diseases such as
Pineapple disease.
Pokkah boeng.
Leaf scald.
Mosaic.
Ratoon stunt.
Root rot.
Brown rust.
White stripe.
Yellow leaf.
There are certain ways by which the control of diseases is suggested in sugarcane plants.
Resistant varieties: Using sugarcane varieties which are disease resistant is one technique to control diseases occurring in the plant. There should be a frequent evaluation of the varieties to ensure that it is free from diseases and also no new problems occur. It is observed that certain varieties can develop diseases due to the environmental conditions of the area.
Quality of seed cane: Some diseases remain in the cane stalk and can recur when cut and planted. Treating the stalk with hot water at around 50˚C for about two hours is essential to eliminate the diseases present in the stalk. Healthy seed cane should be used for planting such that the risk of diseases is lowered.
Field control practices: The field which is free from diseased plants should be used for planting new sugarcane saplings otherwise there is a risk of volunteer regrowth of disease from the old stock. The field must be treated well before the new plantation is begun so that the bacteria or virus from the old plants is completely removed.
Chemical controls: Rarely used for controlling diseases because of its effect on the consumers, but some farmers may use nickel sulphate @ 0.5% for rust control and agallol @ 0.25% to treat the sett roots for 5 minutes before planting.
Pests that feed on sugarcane are divided into four categories i.e.
Stalk borers.
Soil pests.
Sap-feeders.
Leaf feeders.
The best way of controlling soil pests is by a biological method using Entomopathogenic Nematode (EPN), but sometimes ethoprophos @ 25 kg is applied to control these pests. Other control measures include the use of insecticides such as esfenvalerate @ 420 to 630 g and cyfluthrin @ 148 g. It is important to note that these chemicals are used only if the infestation is more than 5% with live larvae. Rodents in the sugarcane farm are controlled by two types of rodenticides, the fast-acting compounds like zinc phosphide and sodium fluro-acetate, the slow-acting compounds like the difenacoum and bromadiolone.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – INTERCULTURAL ACTIVITIES:
The land for sugarcane farming is given 3 to 4 hoeings at an interval of one month so as to remove weeds and make the soil fine for cultivation.
At every 20-day interval hand weeding is done for about 3 months. A pre-emergence spray of a weedicide, atrazin 2, 4-D @ 5 kg/ha in 1025 liters of water can help control the broad-leaved weeds. An alternative to the chemical weed is applying trash mulch of 10 cm thickness @ 5 tonnes/ha after 45 days of planting can help control weeds and lower the cost of investment for hoeing and hand weeding.
Partial filling up of the soil at the base of 3 to 4-month-old plant is done to increase the crop growth and this is called ‘Earthing-up’. It is done two times with an interval of one month to loosen the soil and provide support to the crop. Full earthing-up is done by removing the soil from the ridge and placing it at the base of the sugarcane plant. Doing this converts ridges into furrows and vice versa.
Intercropping with soybean, daincha or black gram plants in the center of the ridges can be done to increase soil fertility. Co.1 variety of soybean intercropping can produce a yield of 800 kg/ha without affecting the sugarcane yield. Intercropping should be done with short duration crops.
Sugarcane plants are generally grown in a rotation after 2 or 3 years of cotton, rice, maize, toria, potato, wheat etc. cultivation.
Filling the gap in the fields within 30 days of planting is practiced. Sprouted sett roots are used for this purpose to retain the moisture levels.
Excessive Flowering in sugarcane is controlled by the application of Ethephon @ 500 ppm.
The unwanted dry leaves at the base of the plant are removed at regular intervals and this is known as ‘Detrashing’.
When the plants have grown for 210 days approximately their leaves are tied and it is called ‘propping’.
Side shoots that grow on the plants are called water shoots, they grow fast and are robust and are the result of excess water. Since they are low in sucrose content they are removed so that they do not affect the remaining shoots. They are generally used to feed cattle.
To reduce the rate of evaporation of water from the soil and increase the intervals between irrigation, two tonnes of fresh wild indigo plants per acre are spread over the entire field.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – HARVESTING
Sugarcane Harvesting.
The indication of sugarcane plant maturity is known by the yellow color of the crop, swelling of eye buds, the metal sound of the cane, breaking of the cane at nodes and by an instrument reading (Brix saccharometer showing 21 and 24). If the indication is not available, then sugarcane plants can be harvested after 16 months of planting ideally in the month of April till December. The cane is harvested by cutting it with a knife very close to the ground level. Before harvesting the irrigation is not provided for 10 to 15 days. The average yield of sugarcane crop is 100 tonnes per hectare.
Sugarcane Yield.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – POST HARVEST MANAGEMENT:
The harvested canes should be crushed within 24 hours and this method is called grinding. Grinding is done with rollers and during this process, hot water is sprayed to extract the entire sugar form the canes.
The raw sugar that is obtained is collected in bulk and stored in terminals and then sent to the refineries
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – PRODUCTION TRENDS:
Brazil is believed to be the largest producer of sugarcane and India ranks second in the production of sugarcane. The increase in sugarcane production is due to the establishment of sugar mills in the country. It is estimated that the sugarcane production was the highest in the year 1999-2000 and was recorded at 299.3 million tonnes. It has been observed that there has been a fluctuation in the production of sugarcane and the main reason for the decline in production is probably linked to the lack of modern agricultural inputs and exhaustion of soil. The other major problems that have contributed to low production are lack of fertilizers, uneven weather conditions, inadequate irrigation, etc. The sugarcane research institute in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) proposed the implementation of ‘Ratooning’, a process of cutting the sugarcane by leaving the roots in the soil such that there is the second yield of the crop after some time. This increases the yield and decreases the input costs, but the ratoon crops produce a lower quality of yield. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh are the two states of India, which now produce high amounts of sugarcane. Indian Sugar Mills Association estimated that the production of sugarcane in 2017-2018 was 26.1 million tonnes and now it has further increased to 29.5 million tonnes, of which Maharashtra contributes 10.13 million.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – COST AND PROFIT ANALYSIS:
The estimation of production cost for small farmland in terms of Rs/ha is shown here. These are values that are approximate and the reality may differ from the specified values. The area of the farm and the material cost in that area are contributing factors for a change in the cost of investment.
COST OF OPERATION INVESTMENT (IN Rs/ha)
Preparation of the land 6000.00
Sowing 3000.00
Application of manure and fertilizers 500.00
Irrigating the land 1000.00
Intercultural activity 10,000.00
Protection of plants 1000.00
Harvesting 15000.00
Transport facility 5000.00
Total cost 41,500.00
COST OF MATERIALS INVESTMENT (IN Rs/ha)
Seeds 10,000.00
Manure and fertilizer 7000.00
Plant protection needs 5000.00
Irrigation equipment 10,000.00
If it is assumed that,
The rent of the land: Rs 30,000.00 (may vary depending on the area of the farm)
One small farm produces sugarcane: 500 quintals.
The rate of 1 quintal of sugarcane: Rs 315.
Therefore, the total value of sugarcane produced: Rs 1, 57,500.00.
Total investment is Rs 73,500.00.
The return on investment (profit is): Rs 84,000.00.
This investment model has not included the rent of land, depreciation on implements and interest on the working capital as they would vary depending on external factors.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – LOANS AND SUBSIDIES:
The cabinet committee on Economic Affairs has recently approved a production subsidy of Rs 55 per tonne for sugarcane farmers.
The Agricultural mechanization programme in the state of Tamil Nadu provides a subsidy of 25% on machinery cost, 50% subsidy on irrigation systems to all the farmers in the state.
The government of Karnataka under the MMMA scheme provides assistance in the form of an 80 % grant and 20% loan from the central government.
The Kerala state government provides 100% insurance for the sugarcane farmers.
The central government under the scheme of Sustainable development on sugarcane base cropping system (SUBACS) provides 25% subsidy per activity to the farmers.
SUGARCANE FARMING PROJECT REPORT – PROPERTIES AND PRODUCTS:
Refined sugar is estimated to contain 99.9% sucrose and white sugar is 100% sucrose with no additives. Sugar has less quantity of riboflavin, calcium, iron, and potassium. It is a source of energy. The by-products of sugarcane industry are:
Raw sugar.
Sugarcane juice.
Jaggery.
Molasses.
Bagasse.
Ethanol.
Syrups.
Candy.
Read: TEAK WOOD FARMING PROJECT REPORT.
Read: ORGANIC AGRICULTURE.
Joseph Britto August 1, 2018 at 4:44 am
This is an interesting site to learn how to grow various crops.
rakesh kothari September 9, 2018 at 3:30 pm
I am new to the agriculture sector and planning to start a new project in this field. I found the information very helpful as a beginner. Thanks.
Mduh March 11, 2019 at 7:58 pm
The information is worthwhile, in South Africa though, the lack of land, funding, access to the markets still is a major challenge to the small scale farmers, who are in need of govt interventions for our farmers to form a significant contribution to the country’s GDP figures.
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A $36 million judgment in the Bobbi Kristina wrongful death lawsuit
Atlanta Buzz Blog
Jennifer Brett, Atlanta Buzz
Two months after Nick Gordon was found “legally responsible” in connection to the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown last year, Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford has entered a judgment following the civil suit filed by Bobbi Kristina's estate against the man she often called her "husband."
The court has entered a judgment of more than $36 million in damages; the lawsuit sought $50 million.
Nick Gordon: Bobbi Kristina’s death may have been suicide
Bobbi Kristina was scarred and missing teeth, autopsy reveals
Nick Gordon’s legal team called allegations slanderous
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Bedelia Hargrove on behalf of Bobbi Kristina's estate. The estate was represented in this action by Attorneys, lead counsel, R. David Ware of Hall Booth Smith, P.C. and, co-counsel, Glenda Hatchett of The Hatchett Firm, P.C.
Ware and Hatchett released statements reacting to the latest legal ruling:
“There was an urgent need, in my mind, to get justice for Bobbi Kristina Brown and that’s why I took the case," Ware said. "We intend to pursue, with all vigor, the full collection of the judgment. The defendant will not escape justice nor ever profit from his misdeeds. We hope that in some small way this will allow Krissy’s family to continue their quest for peace.”
Added Hatchett: “Domestic violence is a horrible reality in our society and Bobbi suffered such horrific pain and degradation at the hands of Nick Gordon, the man she loved and trusted. No one should suffer the way she did and the Judge sent a strong message in the award of punitive damages that this despicable behavior is inexcusable and will not be tolerated.”
The ruling emanates from a civil lawsuit Bobbi Kristina’s rep filed against Nick, not criminal proceedings. Here’s the lawsuit.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard’s office took over the investigation initially launched by the Roswell police department.
Howard issued a statement after the prior ruling:
“As we have stated on numerous occasions and we will repeat again today, this case remains under active investigation by our office. Our investigation will encompass all relevant facts and circumstances, including the body and content of the civil action holding Nick Gordon civilly responsible for the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown.”
Gordon didn't appear during the civil proceedings. His representatives haven't responded to requests for comment, although his legal team has previously blasted the civil suit filed against him by Brown’s estate.
Jennifer Brett
Jennifer Brett is a multiplatform journalist and digital coach. She writes The Buzz blog for accessAtlanta.com.
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Woman Claims Ancestry.com DNA Test Show’s Her Biological Father is Parents’ Fertility Doctor
Do popular DNA tests like 23andMe, Ancestry actually work?
Jason Lemon, For the AJC
At-home genetic tests like Ancestry and 23andMe are all the rage right now, with customers claiming the products have helped them discover surprising geographic roots or predict their risk of getting certain diseases.
» RELATED: 7 things you need to know before you send your spit to 23andMe
While the services are gaining popularity, some leading scientists still warn the reports too often lend "vague" and potentially misleading information.
"You cannot look at DNA and read it like a book or a map of a journey," Professors David Balding and Mark Thomas of the University College London wrote in a public statement as part of the Sense About Science campaign back in 2013.
"The results of these tests may find a connection with a well-known historical figure. They might tell you whether you are descended from groups such as Vikings or Zulus, where your ancient relatives came from or when they migrated," they wrote. "For the most part these tests cannot tell you the things they claim to – they are little more than genetic astrology."
» RELATED: Can police legally obtain your DNA from 23andMe, Ancestry?
But not everyone believes the tests are actually as vague as Balding and Thomas do.
"What most companies offer today is a measure of ancestry that maps to a geographic region. The basic data consists of genetic variants (alleles) that are at different frequencies in different geographic regions," Dr. Michael Zwick, an associate professor at Emory University's Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics and assistant dean of research at Emory's School of Medicine, told the AJC.
Zwick said that while there is always uncertainty, estimates get better over time.
"These sorts of measures are well-supported in my view, although you have to recognize that our genomes undergo recombination – mixing – every generation," he said. "So, really what these estimates are showing is the probable origins of parts of your genome related to a geographic region."
» RELATED: FDA approves first-ever at-home breast cancer risk test
Bennett Greenspan, the president of the DNA testing service Family Tree DNA, told the AJC that his company's tests "are highly repeatable and for close relative relationship testing, they are very accurate."
"DNA [testing] works very well. It's very repeatable, and if you know what you are doing it will provide as much evidence as the CODIS system, which the courts use for cases all the way to murder," Greenspan added. "It does give a general picture of one's history."
A representative of 23andMe said the company’s reports are "highly accurate," adding that 23andMe is "the only consumer genetic testing that has received FDA authorization for the health reports it offers customers."
» RELATED: A look at DNA testing that ID'd a suspected serial killer
A media representative from Ancestry.com, one of the leading online services for tracing ancestry, said that the company compares an individual's DNA with that of people from over 350 regions in the world. The service combines data from the largest DNA network of almost 10 million people with more than 10 billion historical records and 90 million family trees to create its reports.
"Ancestry is equipped with the resources to facilitate and empower positive connections between consumers. In today's climate of divisiveness and nationalism, consumers are missing a sense of connectedness and belonging," the representative added.
» RELATED: Ancestry.com search nabs ID thief, police say
Most of these genetic services provide a percentage breakdown showing where your ancestors were most likely from. But from the viewpoint of a historian, while this information is indeed interesting and could prove fulfilling for many people, cultural belonging is a bit more complicated.
"There are lots of different ways of understanding heritage. I think as historians, we're interested in why people believe what they do, which is quite different than saying that people are something," Dr. Jeffrey Lesser, chair of Emory University's Department of History and director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning, told the AJC.
» RELATED: Not ready for kids? New, affordable at-home fertility test gives women better data on eggs, fertility timeline
Lesser said that the stories parents and grandparents tell their children and grandchildren are more important to forming individual cultural identities than what genetics a person may or may not have.
He's read reports of people trying three different consumer DNA services and getting three separate results. But he’s also has had many friends who have used such services and found it fulfilling.
» RELATED: Nearly half of home genetic tests could be wrong, study says
"For me, I'm very interested in why it is that all of a sudden people have become very interested in DNA testing. That's an interesting cultural phenomenon," Lesser said. He often wonders if the results ever make an individual change something about their lives or how they identify culturally.
When it comes to how DNA testing has been used by historians and scientists to study migration and groups of people around the world, Lesser said that the reality gets somewhat complicated.
"There are particular groups of people in Europe and particular groups of people in Africa who have closer DNA matches than two groups in Europe or two groups in Africa," he said. "In that regard, some of the work by scientists, who have looked at different kinds of gene pools, have shown us these interesting results. But that's something quite different than Ancestry.com or something like that."
» RELATED: Major study identifies 72 new genetic risk factors for breast cancer
While DNA tests may reveal a general picture of a person's ancestry, cultural heritage and identity can't so easily be reduced to genetics, according to Lesser.
"The reality of the human condition is that at the genetic level, we are from many, many different places," Lesser said.
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Chef Scotley Innis, owner of Culinary Services gives a demonstration on cooking with CBD isolates. (Video by Tyson A. Horne) (Produced by Ligaya Figueras) (Easy Jam Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
CBD is everywhere but is it safe?
Only on AJC
Helena Oliviero
Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On any given morning, a steady stream of customers flows into Rev Coffee in Smyrna, mixing cups of espresso with white chocolate, frappe with coconut and drip coffee with hazelnut syrup.
But lately, there’s a new ingredient patrons can choose.
Listed on the menu between “Strawberry Fields,” a strawberry vanilla drink, and “Lawn Boy,” a honey matcha latte, is the hip coffee shop’s latest concoction: the “Legalize It.” The latte contains cannabidiol, derived from hemp, a cousin of the resurgent marijuana plant.
Jason Hoover, barista, prepares espresso drinks at Rev Coffee in Smyrna, which offers a CBD oil latte as well as the option to add it to any beverage. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. They use a syringe to measure 10 ml shots. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
As edgy as the new offering might sound to some of Rev’s customers, the coffee shop is hardly alone in its creative use of CBD, as the compound is popularly known.
CBD is suddenly everywhere in Georgia — from sparkling water and kombucha to ice cream and coffee. Signs proclaim “CBD sold here” at head shops and strip mall nutrition stores, drawing interest from health enthusiasts, would-be potheads and those looking to treat a wide variety of maladies.
As recreational marijuana use becomes more mainstream, at least according to polls, so do cannabis-infused products. But while pot remains illegal in most states, CBD, for the most part, is legal.
That’s because CBD has only trace amounts of THC, the compound that gives marijuana users their high. CBD can have no more than 0.3% THC, and medical marijuana oil may contain up to 5%.
The wide embrace of CBD, however, is not universal. Some legal questions remain on issues such as how hemp-based CBD products are advertised and whether CBD can be mixed in with food and drinks and then shipped between states. The medical community also is reticent.
Dani Hermoza, from Smyrna, tries a CBD latte at Rev Coffee in Smyrna. The coffee shop offers a CBD oil latte as well as the option to add it to any beverage. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
At Rev Coffee, Dani Hermoza scans the expansive drink menu and spots the new addition on a chalkboard festooned with pink flowers. She opts for a 20-ounce CBD decaf latte for $8.25, which includes a $4 up-charge for CBD.
The barista’s dropper precisely measures 10 milligrams of a dark green oil, in this case flavorless but sometimes described as having an earthy or grassy taste. The CBD gets vigorously mixed with a shot of espresso, which is poured into a tall paper cup with steamed milk and milk foam.
Hermoza, 27, says she sometimes wrestles with anxiety, but thinks the “Legalize It” might help with that.
“I am working without worrying,” she says about 90 minutes after sipping the drink.
Rev Coffee in Smyrna offers a CBD oil latte as well as the option to add it to any beverage. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
CBD aficionados see CBD as a natural alternative to prescription medications. Lately, it’s been touted as a magic bullet that eases not only anxiety, but pain, insomnia, seizures and struggles with addiction and eating disorders.
“We are very much self-centering creatures, and we always want to believe that there are these solutions for everything,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a federal government research organization in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Some of its medicinal claims are legitimate, she said. Some are hype.
Research indicates that CBD may help reduce seizures, anxiety and some types of pain, Volkow said. CBD appears to be safe to use, but high doses of it could be harmful to the liver, she said. The biggest danger from CBD is that patients will use it instead of other treatments that are proven to be beneficial.
Jason Hoover, barista, prepares a CBD oil latte at Rev Coffee in Smyrna, which offers a CBD oil latte as well as the option to add it to any beverage. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. They use a syringe to measure 10 ml shots. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Dr. Vinita Singh, who treats chronic pain patients at the Emory Pain Center, often fields questions about CBD from people interested in trying it. She calls CBD, “a big gray” area.
“We don’t have much data on how well it works, at what dose, how frequently to use it, and about the long-term side effects,” she said.
Singh urged caution for patients intent on trying CBD, saying she can’t recommend it until it is more regulated.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved one CBD-based drug, Epidiolex, for patients with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which both cause severe seizures.
Only drugs that have been approved by the FDA can be advertised as effective in treating or preventing medical conditions. Many CBD producers try to get around that by using vague language about promoting general health and wellness.
The bottom line: It will require a lot more research to truly understand the therapeutic potential of CBD, Volkow said.
That hasn’t thwarted the explosive popularity of CBD.
Golda Kombucha’s West End tap room serves a CBD grapefruit and rosemary fermented tea drink. Cirrus, a new sparkling water company based in Atlanta, will release a CBD-infused beverage this month.
The restaurant Bocado unveiled a CBD cocktail menu last week — including a CBD pisco sour and an aperitif with amaro, vermouth and orange-flavored CBD oil.
Higher Standards, a new high-end retailer at Ponce City Market, sells a wide variety of all things CBD: tinctures, oils, creams, bath bombs, gummies.
Other businesses are using CBD as an enhancement.
Lark & Sparrow nail salon in Grant Park, offers CBD pedicures. Instead of a glass of wine, it begins with a CBD-infused gummy candy and includes a massage with a CBD oil blend.
Lark & Sparrow in Grant Park offers CBD oil services as an option for a pedicure. It starts with a CBD edible and includes a massage with CBD oil. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Last December, Congress primed the market for rapid growth when it legalized hemp farming and sales as part of the Farm Bill. The bill removed hemp’s designation as a controlled substance and reclassified it as an agricultural product. Before that, CBD was legal under some state laws, but not federal law.
In addition, shipping CBD to Georgia was a violation of federal interstate commerce laws, said Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver. But it was already widely available in Georgia and across the nation; the feds just didn’t take action against violators.
States will still decide their own rules on hemp. To allow hemp farming, they need to pass local laws, as the Georgia General Assembly did last month. Gov. Brian Kemp has until May 12 to decide whether to sign House Bill 213, which would allow in-state production of the CBD oil that retailers currently import from other states.
Kemp already signed a separate bill that allows medical marijuana, the more potent offspring, to be grown in Georgia and sold to the state’s 9,500 registered patients. The medical marijuana measure restricts production to six companies on a total of nine acres; the hemp farming bill doesn’t limit growers and acreage.
Meanwhile, the FDA is playing catch up. The agency recently warned that is still illegal to add CBD or THC to food and transport it over state lines. The FDA will hold its first public hearing in Maryland on May 31 to figure out how to regulate the use of CBD in products, including foods and beverages.
The agency also sent warning letters to three companies that market CBD products, saying the companies are making false claims about treating diseases, such as stating the products stop cancer cells or slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s.
A 2017 study published in JAMA medical journal evaluated dozens of CBD products online and found that nearly 70 percent were not labeled correctly. They had either higher or lower concentrations of CBD than indicated on the label.
Even with the regulatory concerns, the industry is projected to keep growing. In 2019, CBD retail sales in the United States will reach an estimated $1 billion, according to Hemp Industry Daily.
Farmers are excited about the possibility of growing the hemp crop, but it’s unclear how profitable it will be, said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black. Whether hemp succeeds in Georgia will depend on agricultural conditions, regulations and prices.
“We’re receiving more calls about this issue in the first quarter of 2019 than any I’ve dealt with,” Black said. “There are a large number of people that are exploring the opportunities.”
Forty-one other states have already approved hemp farming, including Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. But, while others might have been first to the market, Georgia could easily catch up if hemp crops prosper in the state’s warm climate, he said.
“If there’s a demand for the product, Georgia farmers are going to be equipped to provide the supply,” Black said.
MORE: Medical marijuana sales made legal in Georgia but obstacles remain
Heather Novotny starts her pedicure at Lark & Sparrow in Grant Park with a CBD edible given to her by co-owner Jody Hill. The added CBD service starts with a CBD edible and includes a massage with CBD oil. Cannabidiol oil products are gaining in popularity. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Heather Novotny, who occasionally uses CBD, recently woke up at 4:15 a.m., her mind racing, thinking about work meetings and projects. By 3 p.m., the 34-year-old Atlanta resident was enjoying a CBD pedicure at Lark & Sparrow nail salon.
There, she started the treatment by eating a sweet red CBD gummy, then closed her eyes and leaned back into a gray leather recliner. A hot towel wrap, nail clipping, foot soak and CBD massage later, she stepped out of the chair with toe nails painted a pale blue color called “daydreamer.”
Novotny and others in the salon are excited about the CBD offerings, eager to try CBD-infused dining and cocktails.
“I come here to decompress and get away from it all,” said Novotny.
By the end of her pedicure, she said, her mind and body were at ease. “I feel much better now,” she said. “I really truly do.”
CBD retail sales in the United States are expected to grow exponentially in the coming years. Here’s a look at sales were in the past and what’s predicted, according to the Hemp Business Journal and the Hemp Industry Daily, online publications that track the hemp industry.
2019 — $1 billion, projected
2023 — up to $7.5 billion, projected
What’s CBD?
It’s cannabidiol, derived from hemp, a cousin of the marijuana plant. CBD has only trace amounts of THC, the compound that gives marijuana users their high.
MORE: Pot City Market? High-end smoke shop opens along Atlanta Beltline
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Comic-Con Int'l to Host Bleach's Kubo in San Diego
posted on 2008-05-21 04:50 EDT by Egan Loo
His 1st North American con to mark Bleach film run, Shonen Jump 's 5th year
Viz Media has confirmed that Tite Kubo, the manga creator of Bleach and Zombie Powder, will appear at Comic-Con International in San Diego from July 25 to 26. Viz Media first hinted at the Shonen Jump magazine artist's appearance with an online banner campaign. Kubo will first make opening remarks at a theatrical screening of Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody in downtown San Diego on July 25. He will then appear at the Shonen Jump panel and hold two autograph sessions (each limited to 100 signings) at Viz Media's exhibitor booth on July 26.
Viz Media has published 22 of Bleach's compiled manga volumes, and the Adult Swim television network has been airing Viz Media's adaptation of the anime version. Comic-Con International has previously hosted fellow manga creators Tohru Fujisawa (GTO), Matsuri Hino (Vampire Knight), Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub), Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha), Arina Tanemura (The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross), Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon), and Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin) at the Comic-Con International event in San Diego, California.
Source: ICv2
Update: Koike's credit corrrected. Thanks, Gatsu.
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Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi: Onodera Ritsu no Baai is a Japanese boys-love manga series written and illustrated by Shungiku Nakamura. In 2011, the manga was adapted into an anime television series under the title Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. Produced by Studio DEEN under the direction of Chiaki Kon, the anime series began its broadcast run on April 9, 2011. An original animation DVD was bundled with the fifth and sixth volumes of the manga series, released in March and September 2011. Sekaiichi Hatsukoi follows three couples that are interconnected within the manga industry, with each being subject to the budding of first love.
Original title 世界一初恋
TMDb Rating 5.3 3 votes
First air date Apr. 09, 2011
Last air date Dec. 24, 2011
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These guidelines apply equally for subordinates in permanent positions and for those in temporary or visiting positions.
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Six Brown Brothers
With 24 tracks, Broadway's Favorite Clowns features the selections not included in our first collection of the Six Brown Brothers' work. Brown Brothers expert Bruce Vermazen again provides the notes and research, and the set is packaged with a 24 page full-color booklet with rare photos and illustrations. List price: $16.99
Catalogue number: ARCH 6007
Original release date: April 20, 2010
Running length: 24 tracks / 66 minutes
Notes & packaging: Includes a 24-page full-color booklet
Tracks recorded: 1911-1920
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1. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Tom Brown and Five Brown Brothers 1911
2. Bull Frog and Coon Medley Five Brown Brothers 1911
3. Independentia and Billboard Medley March Five Brown Brothers 1911
4. American Patrol Five Brown Brothers 1911
5. La Paloma Six Brown Brothers 1914
6. Independentia-Medley March Six Brown Brothers 1915
7. Down Home Rag Six Brown Brothers 1915
8. Pussyfoot March Six Brown Brothers 1916
9. Rigoletto Quartet Six Brown Brothers 1916
10. Saxophone Sobs Six Brown Brothers 1916
11. The Sunshine of Your Smile Fred Brown 1916
12. Somewhere a Voice Is Calling Fred Brown 1916
13. Kiss Me Again Fred Brown 1916
14. Love, Here Is My Heart Fred Brown 1916
15. Comedy Tom Six Brown Brothers 1917
16. When Aunt Dinah’s Daughter Hannah Bangs on That Piano Six Brown Brothers 1918
17. Chasing the Chickens Six Brown Brothers 1918
18. Carolina Sunshine Six Brown Brothers 1919
19. The Concourse March Six Brown Brothers 1919
20. Peter Gink Six Brown Brothers 1919
21. Twelfth Street Rag Six Brown Brothers 1919
22. Fatima Six Brown Brothers 1920
23. Lazy Jazz Waltz Six Brown Brothers 1920
24. Alexandria Six Brown Brothers 1920
Broadway’s Favorite Clowns is Archeophone’s second collection of recordings by Six Brown Brothers, picking up where Those Moaning Saxophones (ARCH 6002) left off. That first collection emphasized the Browns’ output of rags, one-steps, and popular songs to draw a portrait of them leading the vanguard of the saxophone craze that spread from the U.S. to the rest of the affluent world in the 1910s. This second collection paints a more rounded likeness of the Browns’ stage repertoire, from marches and waltzes to oriental one-steps, an habanera, and an operatic transcription. Once again, leading us with his insightful notes and collection of precious photos and artifacts is Bruce Vermazen, author of That Moaning Saxophone: The Six Brown Brothers and the Dawning of a Musical Craze (Oxford, 2004).
Rare Cylinder Performances from 1911
All four cylinder offerings by the Five Brown Brothers for the U-S Everlasting company are included. These uncommon celluloid recordings are highly sought after today, and with good reason, as they show the Brothers’ activity while playing in the Ringling Brothers Circus. The first cylinder, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” is chiefly a solo outing by Tom Brown with support from his bandmates; it is a set of variations on the Civil War tune, demonstrating the kind of pop virtuosity demanded of every musical act of the day. “Bull Frog and Coon Medley” differs from the version on Those Moaning Saxophones by having a more humorous ending, while “Independentia and Billboard Medley March” exemplifies (briefly) the practice of circus bands having to stitch together different pieces to provide a continuous soundtrack to the big top’s spectacle. “American Patrol” is the only four-minute cylinder the Browns made.
Long Run for Chin Chin
By late 1911, the group expanded from Five to Six Brown Brothers with the addition of the oldest brother, William. Success on the Orpheum circuit and two seasons with Primrose and Dockstader’s Minstrels helped the Browns catch the attention of Broadway producer C. B. Dillingham, who signed them for Montgomery and Stone’s Chin Chin. It played for an unusually long period of some 15 months (1914-1915), during which the Browns had eight Victor sessions. Releases included the old favorite, “La Paloma,” another version of “Independentia–Medley March,” “Pussyfoot March,” and “Saxophone Sobs.” Most interesting are “Down Home Rag,” which features several touches distinguishing it from other contemporary straight versions of Sweatman’s future classic, and “Rigoletto Quartet,” transcribed for the Browns uniquely by Guy E. Holmes, himself a saxophone pioneer.
Fred Brown Tries His Wings
Mystery surrounds the four sides made by Fred Brown (solos with orchestra accompaniment) for Columbia in 1916. These were the first sax recordings by the company in four years, and it’s not clear how Fred was induced to stray from the contractual obligations of the Brothers’ fold. The first two, however, “The Sunshine of Your Smile” and “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling,” were released under the name “Fred Allen.” The final two, “Kiss Me Again” and “Love, Here Is My Heart,” were released under Brown’s real name. Fred plays expressively, with a lot of vibrato and loud-soft variation, like a singer in recital or a solo cellist.
Moving on to Clowntown
Chin Chin‘s 1916-1917 tour ended abruptly upon David Montgomery’s death in April 1917. The Browns went back to recording, putting out a prodigious amount of new material. “Comedy Tom” is from this period, while the bouncy “When Aunt Dinah’s Daughter Hannah Bangs on That Piano” and “Chasing the Chickens” date from 1918, when the Six Brown Brothers had their own episode, called “Clowntown,” in Dillingham’s new vehicle for Fred Stone, Jack o’Lantern.
Emerson and the Midnight Frolic
During the summer of 1919, the Browns starred in Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic at night, and during the days they made several records for the upstart Emerson label. Emerson tried to muscle in on the business of the big boys, whose laterally-cut records were the industry standard, and the newcomers who were competing with vertically-cut records by making a record that could be played both ways. It didn’t work, and the sound is correspondingly rougher. “Carolina Sunshine” and “The Concourse March” are good fun and generously long records nevertheless, while the great dance number “Peter Gink” appears again. “Twelfth Street Rag” is one of the band’s hottest sides, which features the seldom-heard first strain. Closing our set are ca. 1920 recordings of “Fatima,” “Lazy Jazz Waltz,” and “Alexandria,” a catchy “oriental” one-step from what seems to have been a very exotic Broadway show, Aphrodite, that ran from November 1919 through April 1920.
With that, the Brown Brothers ceased making records, and with this collection, Archeophone completes its two-CD compilation of the complete recorded output (sans alternate takes) of this one-time Broadway clown institution.
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Q & A with Rebbecca Brown, Author of MOUTH TRAP and THEY BECOME HER
Q: I’ve read a lot of your writing over the years: your novel They Become Her, essays, short stories, and, of course, poems. A recurring motifs that I find is the accusation of madness, particularly with women standing as the accused (the female speakers in Mouth Trap, Delia Bacon in They Become Her). Can you explain what draws you towards this theme and why it remains relevant, even today, a century after Bertha Mason was locked in the attic in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
I wish I could say that I am merely drawn towards madness as a theme, with the presumption of distance, a fascination informed by the power of the gaze. Madness for me, as it may be for many (particularly for women and those who have been historically disenfranchised), is more than observation, beyond investigation or a seemingly scientific attraction. There is something electric and physiological with madness made manifest internally in me. Externally, madness is always connected to containment and control of a perceived excess that must be measured, managed, and often made mute. What is the necessity of art if it isn’t mad against, and at, and from, the world that informs it? Bertha Mason remains, of course, very much alive. It is often imperative to burn our most unbearable beds and familiar confines, tear veils, scale walls, try to escape institutions that encourage a tragic demise.
Q: I often describe your writing as “dark and lyrical.” There are lovely turns of phrase and a developed musicality, but there is also so much sadness. I wonder if “despair” is the right word and if you believe there is a connection between despair and poetry. Is despair “that sickness unto death” that Kierkegaard writes about? In fact, when I read about Kierkegaarde’s description of humanity as various kinds of tension, I think of your poetry, particularly of Mouth Trap, which I always read as a collection about the tension between entrapment and bonds (Kierkegaarde’s necessities and the finite) and the freedoms of independence, even at the expense of loneliness (Kierkegaarde’s possibilities and infinite). I’d love to see an academic write this paper. Does any of this make sense to you?
I think that’s pretty perfectly put for Mouth Trap: “a collection about the tension between entrapment and bonds and the freedoms of independence, even at the expense of loneliness.” I’d love it if you, or anyone, wrote that academic paper! In terms of “despair” and its connection to poetry, this is something I’ve been thinking about for many years. A long time ago, a musician friend challenged me about creating from a space of despair or sadness, since he claimed that when he played or wrote music it came from a place of joy. At the time, I found this unfathomable, possibly because I was young and also tormentingly in love with this musician. I have often shared this story with creative writing students, particularly because I don’t think writing, or any art for that matter, comes from a singular locus, emotional or otherwise. I also don’t want to suggest that students should abide by damaging clichés about artists despairing interminably, because this can be extremely limiting. My poetry is inherently connected to despair, sure, but it is also concerned deeply with the bliss that can bear a body’s brightness.
Q: Another Rebbecca Brown attribute is density. Each word in a poem and word is thick with meaning; each word carries enormous weight. At the same time, this kind of density challenges the accessibility of the poems: a reader must work slowly when reading (or rather, I must read slowly and carefully when I read your poems). Do you consider issues of accessibility when writing? What is the poet’s obligation, if any, to a reader?
When I am writing, I don’t consciously consider the reader, who lies latent. I also don’t think about accessibility if this means providing a singularly clear, incontrovertible meaning, especially with poetry. I am often bored by narrative lucidity pointed precisely to where one must abide. One person’s ease is often another person’s torment. Instead, I guess what I am trying to do is explore unfamiliar linguistic terrains that jar and shock, surprising selves and senses into unfamiliar cognitive and emotional terrains. I’m less concerned about saying something directly than I am about the unexpected, the way a phrase you’ve never come across might evoke a visceral state, a pleasurable figuring of manifold meanings that only illusorily play at being dead.
Q: There is so much to say when talking about sound in your writing. Different kinds of sound repetitions are used, as well as image repetitions. At times, the poems sound almost like witchcraft, like a spell, and maybe we’re getting back into the realm of madness again. Can you describe what you are listening for as you write, and why?
It is sort of bewildering and bewitching—the sounds and rhythms I’m following as I write. I listen in on cadenced repetitions that often end in gerunds or rhyme, but I don’t know if it’s because I am also a musician whose head is filled with fragments of voices tuned toward a delight in the disharmonious. I do know that I like multiplicity and variety when it comes to all of those voices hallowing along the halls of my mind.
Q: I’ll end with an easy question. What are you working on now that you are most excited about?
I’ve been working on a new poetry collection entitled Too Many Fathers, which is written in response to sexist comments men have made to me specifically within an academic context. I’m especially excited about this book, since it feels like my most vulnerable, which also horrifies me, since this collection is possibly the most direct exploration of verbal and sexual abuse I’ve ever attempted. While it has been difficult to write because of what felt like re-traumatization, it also feels necessary, relevant, and possibly courageous. It definitely feels like a book that speaks beyond a mouth’s feeble trap toward our time.
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The Internet of Beings - an interview with Martine-Nicole Rojina
By Etienne Verbist - Monday, April 3, 2017
Martine-Nicole Rojina: "I believe in the tradition of mastery. I thrive for a holistic upgrade of perception, awareness and knowledge and dig deep into all elements involved to master the alchemical system. In the inside, as on the outside. As above, so below."
EVB: Who are you and WHY do you do what you do?
I will try to answer it in two sentences first: A professional music- and immersive multimedia content producer, speaker and consultant for immersive Audio/Visual innovation, VR, AR and future technology and a creative social activist. My curiosity and empathy for technology, science, engineering, economy, society, art and education are the core drivers of my transdisciplinary projects and collaborations in the MPATHY STUDIO, where I function as a "bridge" to create common ground for multiple fields of expertise.
To link different fields of research and experimentation into innovative artistic work, sensual perceptions and societal discourse, you need a transdisciplinary mind. My brain is wired in an interconnected way, I never was "only" a musician even if a big part of my career was to release records worldwide.
“Tod und Leere” is a permanent window installation in Munich since 2012. Part of an artistic experiment design in collaboration with the Human Science Institute Munich, trying to detect the center of truthfulness in an fMRI brain scanner
“Marsmobil – Minx” was released at GStone and Compost Records in 2006
But to be honest, it took me a while to acknowledge it and develop the self confidence to be an inventor, who is specialising in more fields than just one, like the old masters did, a holistic and innovative mindset. I fuse an immersive dialogue between the past, present and future into seminars, performances, installations, events and mesmerizing content creation to display innovative international excellence and debate contemporary societal topics.
“Why waves make sense to me”, Martine-Nicole Rojina, immersive and multidimensional talk at TEDxGhent, Juli 2017
I guess, if a day would have 48 hours, I would work in a laboratory and do scientific research and experiments, too. I'm very passionate about science, exploration and finding my personal "theory of everything" in quantum physics as well as in music or other fields I decide to dig deeper into.
Currently I'm transforming the sculpture Rock Strangers Oostende by Arne Quinze into a music instrument and produce, compose and mix three dimensional music together with classical musicians, who never worked in a contemporary "electronic" music studio before. Together we became “sculpture musicians” and commonly explore “sound composed for a space” in a new way. I am grateful to be supported by the creator of the sculpture, the Cultural Department of Oostende and many worldwide leading technology partners, with whom we develop an innovative immersive Audio/Visual and even Virtual and Augmented Reality experience.
“Rock Strangers Make Sense To Me” - Creation Movie
On the MPATHY STUDIO website you can watch more videos and listen to the constantly evolving demos on soundcloud.
EVB: What’s your goal?
Out of this collaboration, the international transdisciplinary art collective PERMEABLE was born, which I lead and organise. I invite open minded visionaries to collaborate under a very empathic and exchange oriented mission statement: We want to activate the inner fascination, identification and participation without the need of specific expertise or knowledge. We discover personal, European and global growth in an active and common process. We dream of worldwide collaborations with international visionaries in multiple expertise areas and of traveling in the pursuit of exchange.
But to give you a more tangible example: One of my works consisted of collaborating with the Human Science Institute Munich and neurology professor Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel. We designed an artistic experiment for a fMRI scanner, which would show my brain activity while I was trying to feel truthful.
I used this images and data to create several different pieces, even made my brain-truthfulness- activity the cover for the single "Toll" from my former German singing band WEITER, because of the double meaning of the word in German being either "great" or "crazy". Literally translated, the lyrics of the refrain were "I don't want what you want from me, I find truthfulness is really great/crazy" (Ich will nicht was ihr von mir wollt, ich find' Wahrhaftigkeit echt toll).
The brain in a scanner can't lie and art and the artist will, in my opinion, always borderline between "great" and "crazy" if he/she is truthful.
“WEITER” – TOLL was released at Island Records / Universal in 2013
When I told the medical technicians who controlled the scanner what we are doing, they seriously started to cry of happiness. They were so touched by the fact that an artist tries to use a technology, which most of the people are afraid of being there to find "unwanted" things in their head, in such a romantic way. When we scrolled through the images - actually showing the amount of oxygen in the blood, which is increasing in the active parts of the brain - all of us were mutually excited and curious.
So, in a way we all were artists, scientists, engineers and technicians at the same time and the borders and categories were gone. I love when this happens, all eyes of the participants are glowing like childrens' eyes...
EVB: What will be the impact of what you do?
In times like today, where everything is overloaded with information and speed, I hope that I can create immersive experiences which reconnect people to the here and now. Including themselves. With the help of transdisciplinary projects I try to transmute perceptions and sensitize people, to achieve a more direct and yet delicate way to communicate.
“IntraSpection”
My video performance IntraSpection deals with my controversial view on psycho pharma and its role in society, where the pressure of societal expectations get so high that one has to accept the external modification to “fit in the system”, even if means to take mood regulating or mood enhancing drugs. From about 55 pictures, which were taken in different emotional states, I cut out my eyes and mouth, which are taped on me, being inside a kind of cocoon, by an unknown male and female hand, while I try to stand still and accept what I am undergoing for about 15 minutes. The mirror neurons of the human brain are automatically trying to make emotional sense out of a face which features eyes and mouth, so I am playing with that automatism of the audience.
“PATH [ ποίησις ] featuring the brain colour language of Jasna Rok at De Grote Post in Oostende 2017
In the immersive literature performance PATH [ ποίησις ] three performers, two musicians, smart textiles, Artificial Intelligence and a quadrophonic sound art installation decode a poetry piece in form of cryptic voices, the random emotionalisation of a morse code translation interpreted by text to speech programs, brainwaves and sign language. We are debating the existence of art from the beginning of time and space, trough evolution and the different states of society.
My TEDxGhent talk “Why waves make sense to me” was the first collaboration with Jasna Rok (http://www.jasnarok.com), a Belgian tech fashion designer who created Fashion On Brainwaves, a collection where your clothes are responding to your brainwaves detected with an EEG sensor. I was wearing her dress, which translated my brainwaves into colours on my spine and this way, Jasna and anybody else who knew the interpretation of the colour code could “read” my state of mind.
We use the same dress in the literature performance, as it is all about “finding ways to communicate” in the artistic process and the process of writing a piece of poetry. We stimulate to answer the call of our inspiration in form of synaesthetic associations and interactivity, so we are able to immerse in memorable experiences. Besides this we can make innovations visible and create a network of international visionaries of multiple fields of expertise.
Considering the “social impact” I will later talk about my collaboration with Syrian refugees and my education projects.
EVB: What is your dream project?
Well, I dreamt of this one night: I was collaborating with NASA and floating in a spaceship. We were releasing a kind of future-fiber-fisher-net into space, which had little colour pumps at the knots of the net. There was a colour matrix on a screen on which I could paint or play music. The pumps released colour patterns in form of little colour drops (like analogue colour pixels) into space and the resulting artworks were eternally floating through the universe. I like to give creations their own freedom to exist and evolve.
But honestly, every project I do is my dream project while I do it and luckily the more you do and show remarkable results, the more visionaries get interested in collaborating. I trust the process of my life by being open to possibilities every second again and not narrow my horizon too much.
EVB: What role does the artist have in society?
“Destruction for Beginners – Reloaded”
Since december 2013, I am co-writing and performing the physical theatre performance “Destruction for beginners” together with the Syrian choreographer and political refugee Mey Seifan and dramaturg Ziad Adwan, which is based on the Syrian Dreams Project, an archive of dreams shared by Syrians since 2011.
The performance is very surreal, associative and dream like and mostly based on nightmares, so it takes a lot of strength to play it, but I see it as a necessity for artists to create a possibility for awareness, help and change in the world of today. We recently performed in Tunisia at the Journées théâtrales de Carthage and people were shouting “Syria, Syria” during a presentation about the piece. I started crying on stage, because I felt the strength of humanity and solidarity and the meaningful work artists can create to support it.
Mey Seifan´s current project Siesta tries to explore the collective subconsciousness of a society, which is undergoing a revolution. Our collaboration develops different outputs in form of art pieces, but also researches on Lucid Dreaming techniques, which are supposed to help humans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute.
I believe that artists are a sort of creative philosophers, even educators and that is the reason why my interest is parallel to my artistic work directed towards exchange and education.
I love the fact that age makes no difference when it comes to fascination, so my work as a Professor in “Transdisciplinary Project Management” for Bachelor students at the School of Audio Engineering has the same emotional value than being a multidisciplinary art and language teacher for children.
EVB: What memorable responses have you had to your projects?
While we were creating the first version of “Destruction for beginners” in November and December 2013, I felt the deep urge to understand the profound inner world of humans, which were in the midst of a revolution. I struggled with the lack of empathy I could have, simply because of the fact that I didn´t make the same experiences, yet was involved in a collaboration which should come as close as possible to perceiving a nightmare of a Syrian. Dreams are so personal.
It was the following moments that made me understand that I should not be afraid to feel different, but rather embrace connection. One of our characters is the “special guest”, he sits on the side of the stage with the back to the audience and watches the play. It was played by Amer Matar, a director and journalist from Syria. He was an independent journalist, but at a certain point was declared as an enemy, caught and tortured. Three times. When he entered the rehearsal space I saw a beautiful man, but his eyes seemed empty from the pain.
At a certain point in the performance his character would steer a helium balloon fish via a wireless remote control through the theatre space, so Mey showed him how to do it. He was a bit insecure first, touched the knobs on the remote very gently and then the magic happened. He had so much fun, his eyes were glowing like the ones of a child, still innocent and not knowing about the madness of the world. This experience changed me.
One of my strongest characters, when I perform in the piece, is the friendly terrorist, which was described by an artist refugee friend of our choreographer Mey. In Abd Hakawatis dream, the terrorist understood the meaniglessness of his actions and flies into the sky.
During our premiere in the iCAMP theater in Munich, the first row of seats was filled with laptops and skype sessions with refugee friends from all around the world and after the performance Abd Hakawati, who saw the “friendly terrorist” later told us, that this repeating nightmare disappeared. He never saw the friendly terrorist again.
This is when I strongly felt that art can transform the world and it is my purpose to continue.
EVB: What do you dislike about the art world?
I dislike that there exists something like an “art world”, a category. My life is all about personal exchange and sometimes, when you don´t fit into a certain category, people are not listening to your proposal. You are not “this” enough and you should rather go for “that” idea… But it has a reason why you thought of that specific person and I believe we should listen to each other.
Innovation and transdisciplinarity is all about leaving the comfort zone and making new connections. If you don´t listen, exchange ideas based on empathy and try, you are lost. I truly hope that in the future society will have made a “mindset” shift, where categories and competition are no longer appreciated.
The value of a creation goes beyond limitations of a status, bank account, nationality and territorial behaviour.
I heart failure 2011, in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, 2012), Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Dipl.-Phys. Thomas Fritz, Dipl.-Ing. Walther Schulze, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Dössel)
Already in 2011 in my video installation I HEART FAILURE in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, I reflect on the heart and society as compensating organs.
At the time, it was a worldwide premiering medical imagery of the failing parts in the heart muscle, which indicate where the next failure will most likely happen, because the heart simply beats stronger in the healthy parts. This technique gave a precise location of the weakened spot and made it possible to support this area.
I wrote fictional stereotypical dialogues of very narrow-minded humans, which try to communicate, but in the end do not reach any common understanding. The heart beating in the center of the screen seems to comment on this miscommunication and ultimately fails.
It was exhibited as a “Permanent Night Installation for Gallery and Headphones” in Munich and at the TRANSMEDIALE 2011. Bothe exhibition spaces had big windows and were visually beating to the colour mapping of the heart. So, the Gallery as a part of a city became the social debate itself.
EVB: What role does art funding have?
Well, I have to say bluntly honest that I appreciate any kind of support, which is based on mutual respect and a common goal. For two of my latest creations I am funded by the Cultural Department of Oostende (Belgium) and I have nothing to complain, because I am granted total freedom and respect. I can pay my team, which makes it possible we can spend time together and work on a new performance. So I am grateful for that.
You can follow the artistic process of working with the sounds of the Rock Strangers and the Cultural Department of Oostende here:
“The making of a TEDxGHENT talk”
More generally speaking, I think that the space of reflection, which art generates, is necessary for humanity and a healthy society will find models to support their “creative philosophers”.
EVB: What research do you do?
I believe in the tradition of mastery. I thrive for a holistic upgrade of perception, awareness and knowledge and dig deep into all elements involved to master the alchemical system. In the inside, as on the outside. As above, so below.
A master is a craftsman/woman, who knows about all influences on a material. It reaches all elements of existence, from quantum physics to technology to engineering to philosophy to art… I try to learn enough about all topics, which intrigue me, and create my own “theory of everything”, like discovering an invisible web of functions that make sense to me.
Right now I am applying for a residency at the LHC CERN particle collider. My dream is to create a realistic representation of a particle collision in three dimensional sound. To achieve this, I have to understand and combine both: Particle physics and a wave field audio synthesis. I absolutely love this project for its alchemical approach.
HOLON SPC Sound Particle Collider
So, when I have found a certain topic I want to follow, I literally dissolve in my research and take a journey in all of its fibers and connections. This can mean that I am spending days in the jungle of the internet and other sources, until I am so saturated with information, that I have to stop the research to digest and wait for the piece to fall into place. This “vision birth” can take months sometimes, but it happens by itself at a certain point.
Since my experiences in the floating tank, an egg shaped bathtub with a lid, which is filled with a highly concentrated salt water solution, I learned to communicate with my subconsciousness. A powerful tool to be in touch with your intuition.
The initial name was “sensory deprivation tank”, because your senses are excluded from light, sound, body temperature regulation and gravity. All the computing power your brain usually uses for this systems, is a free source now and at the same time your body relaxes entirely.
In a two year long artistic collaboration with the owners of a floating center in Munich, I had the change to travel inside the tank during the closing hours and in average spent 3 hours per session for 3 to four days per week in sensory deprivation.
While you float, your free brain capacity transforms into vivid imagination, similar to the moment just before you fall asleep.
I learned a lot about energy and the power of the subconsciousness over our daily life and how to reshape it. The tanks are also used for speed learning, because in this state our brain seems to be a bit more flexible in creating new neuronal connections.
Now, as I moved, I switched to self-hypnosis and meditation.
EVB: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?
When I was about nine years old, my christmas present was a Karaoke machine, which had two tape decks: One to play the instrumentals and one to record my voice on top of it. I quite soon realized that I can sing more tracks than just one, by simply switching the tapes over and over and in that way create my first "multitrack" recordings.
At the age of 13 my mother bought me a guitar and found a teacher, who was totally fascinated that, after learning my first three chords (D, G, A), I arrived in the next lesson with a fully composed pop-song "recorded" on cassette. He proposed to give me lessons in songwriting in his home studio. So, I'm still incredibly grateful, I got educated as a professional studio singer, musician and music producer, which at that time was a revelation to me, a half German, half Slovenian "puberty girl" growing up in a suburb of Munich.
Thanks to him, I had a purpose. This profound understanding lasts until now. Find someone who understands and supports you and you can achieve big goals.
EVB: What would you have done differently?
Although I had quite struggling times, I don´t regret what I did and I wouldn´t change my path. It brought me to where I am now. I can imagine that from the outside my devotion to creation looks quite extreme, as in the picture below where I decided to shave my head for an artistic series of pictures on the theme of the “contemporary shaman”.
But this is how I am, I follow my artistic intuition to reach my desired level of intensity.
"Contemporary Shaman" foto series in collaboration with Florian Seidel, Make Up & Styling Arno Humer
EVB: What is the role of the people, the crowd in your project?
As I already mentioned, I understand the artist as a creative philosopher. My work is a sort of reflector for a global community, which goes beyond categories. I am grateful for every form of exchange and I stay curious to find points of views and movements, which brings people to a common, empathic, respectful and peaceful experience.
EVB: How can they participate in your project?
The audience is an essential part of my projects as I work with their perception as the missing link between my creation and the transmission to the crowd.
EVB How are you connected with the people or the crowd?
Mostly via my web page and social media…and by giving interviews like this one. With our next performance during THEATER AAN ZEE 2017 we are transforming a public art sculpture into a music instrument and we will play the Rock Strangers Oostende live.
People can pass by or stay as long as they want to for eight evenings in a row. This approach is a re-contextualisation of public space and a debate on the meaning of shared experiences. With a special sensor we will synchronize the heartbeat of passengers with the lighting elements which will guide the rhythmical speed of our musical interpretations on the sculptures.
So, preferably a connection, which is as analogue as possible.
"ROCK STRANGERS MAKE SENSE TO ME" @ TAZ 2017
For example: I am very much in love with the mobile apps created by artists like Miranda July, Björk and Radiohead, where the user is finalizing the artistic creation or becomes the hero of the story.
Miranda July has a vivid exchange with the users of her app, because she created a platform, where you could ask someone, chosen via the app because of a local proximity to the person you want to communicate with, to deliver a message personally to a stranger for them. In other words: You want to tell your boyfriend that you are late for dinner, but you text it to the app, which will choose a person who is close to your boyfriend and asks this person to go and deliver your message to your boyfriend.
It happens many times that the extraordinary stories are shared on Miranda's facebook profile, where she answers and shares them. To me this approach is rather the “Internet of Beings” in times, where we are so busy with the “Internet of Things” and I am developing a similar concept.
EVB: The crowd economy creates meaningful experiences and shared value, how do you see it for your work?
In the near future I will dive deeper into the possibilities of crowdfunding, because I believe that this is a really interesting concept.
EVB: CO-Creation and participation are emphasized in the crowd economy and communities take an active stake in crafting positive futures.
As a transdisciplinary artist, I am already for a long time “crowd sourcing” by combining art, technology and science. These days I am really excited about the fact that transdisciplinarity now becomes a tolerated field and society begins to understand that one can be a specialist in many areas, providing a broader understanding.
The Commission of the European Union recently invited me to discuss a longer lasting collaboration and educational projects are showing more and more interest in minds like mine.
As an advisor for AR, VR and future technology I am deeply involved in the concepts of Co-Creation, which will even eliminate the need for a shared actual place. Currently I am collaborating with an AR and VR company on making common artworks online in a shared Virtual or Augmented Reality space, but that will still take a while, because the focus in this projects has to lie on making the User Interface as intuitive as possible.
Following the story of a Virtual Reality game or the structure of a design tool is a different approach than enabling a space where you can get into a creative “flow state” and express yourself as freely as possible. We might have to do another interview on this.
EVB: How do you use the crowd?
I don´t use anybody. Everything will always remain an invitation to participate.
EVB: How do you interact?
On a personal level. To me it means a lot that people reach out to me and I try to answer every question or am open for collaborations.
EVB: How do you handle feedback?
The same way I interact, on a personal level.
EVB: How do you create the interaction?
My personal Martine-Nicole Rojina Facebook profile posts always remain public, so everybody who wants to see a rather personal impression on how I am and what I am interested in can have access. We also have an Instagram account and a Facebook site for the different projects, which are hosted by different people who are in charge of the project communication. I try to share not only my actual work, but also inspirational mindsets. I figured out that people like to have an inside look inside a mind like mine, because they are fascinated and inspired by the way a transdisciplinary brain works.
EVB: What are the results?
Mesmerized people and a growing audience.
"Why waves make sense to me" – immersive music experience at TEDxGhent
For my TEDxGhent talk I used an immersive 3D sound system of Barco Audio and to make the audience really perceive the sound, I integrated a moment in my talk where 700 people were wearing sleeping masks and that way deprive their visual sense. This activated their “own superpower”, which is basically just enhancing the sensitivity of the ears. I´m quite sure that this 700 people will not forget this experience.
EVB: How do you measure results?
Again: On a personal level. Usually people reach out to me.
I don´t check the statistics on my website views, neither do I count likes or followers. I believe that a good idea and promotion will find its way to the crowd. I rather make a plan on how to promote which project in its own way, so that the right channels are activated and the audience, which might appreciate it the most, will be reached.
EVB How do you measure the effect?
Considering the phenomenon in general, I am really amazed about how many great inventions came to life thanks to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
EVB: Why participate in the MNRMNRX your project?
This question is very hard to answer, because I am someone who lets the vision speak for itself. Hopefully you will see the benefit it can have for you and for the people and realize that it’s a project and professional people worth supporting. As you probably read in this interview, all of my projects are different, they all live in different worlds. So every reason to participate has its own world, too.
EVB What Social Media do you use?
Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/martinenicolerojina
Youtube – various
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/martinenicolerojina
Instagram – ROCK STRANGERS MAKE SENSE TO ME
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Under the scheme of Financial Assistance to the Families of Life Convicts, financial assistance are required to be provided among the needful families of life convicts who are in dire need of such assistance for their subsistence and welfare, while their bread earners are serving imprisonment.
Families of life convicts of 31 Jails of Assam, who have been in Jail for less than 5 years in consideration of the fact that in the case of the life convicts, financial support is most needed by their families during the initial years of their imprisonment when their families struggle to tide over the difficulties/ sufferings caused by the absence of the bread-earners.
During selection of families of life convicts, Jails conduct a survey of the families of the life convicts who have been in Jail for less than 5 years by collecting requisite data from the concerned life convicts as per prescribed format.
After collecting the requisite data from the concerned life convicts, Jails short-list the required number of families, whose material condition appears to be comparatively most adverse as per data given by the concerned life convicts.
After short-listing the required number of poor families, Jails verify the aforesaid data by visiting the short-listed families of the concerned life convicts for verification and confirmation of the aforesaid data.
During the visit of the short-listed families of the concerned life convicts, One Jail Officer not below the rank of Assistant Jailor may be deputed to visit these short-listed families to verify data given by the concerned life convicts.
Detailed Report of verification should be recorded by the Officer on the reverse on the Proforma-I and Proforma-II which should include correct information about NOK/Bank accounts etc. and may then be forwarded by Jails to the Assam Prison Headquarters along with Descriptive Rolls of the concerned convicts.
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Mass Readings for July 2019
10 July. Wednesday of Week 14
09 July. Tuesday of Week 14
Presider’s Page for 7 July (Ordinary Time 14)
11 July. St Benedict, abbot, Patron of Europe
Presider’s Page for 28 July (Ordinary Time 17)
Presider’s Pages for July 2019 published
11May A Voice Worth Listening To
A voice worth listening to
Chris McDonnell CT 10 May 2019
Sometimes it takes a single voice to light the spark of enthusiasm and concern. It can come from the most unlikely source and in the strangest circumstance. One such voice in recent weeks has been raised by the young Swedish teenager with her Friday school strikes that have been taken up in country after country. Activist Greta Thunberg spent the Easter weekend in the UK and joined Extinction Rebellion protesters in London. She has told audiences that the world was facing an ‘existential crisis’, with climate change a major threat to the future of life on Earth.
We have tended to think that such events, with all their associated problems are at some distant point in the future; Greta has brought to our attention that they are not and that an urgency faces us if we are to avoid disaster. This sixteen year old girl has met with world leaders, including Francis, in a personal effort to raise our awareness of the critical decisions that we must now face.
Given her age, she has a significant interest in the outcome, for it is in her lifetime that we will determine whether or not we have been successful. She faces a credibility problem, for very often older people do not think that those younger have a position worth considering, not enough experience. But she appears to have broken that barrier, she is being listened to and the voice of her appeal is being taken up. We can only hope that such consideration crosses the Atlantic and lands with a thud of the doorstep of the White House. There is already talk of her nomination for a Nobel Peace prize.
Another singular voice that has highlighted the moment has been that of a Catholic priest, speaking at the Belfast funeral of the young Irish Journalist, Lyra McGee. He used the opportunity to address a packed St Anne’s Cathedral, with politicians present from North and South, together with UK mainland leaders, with these words.
“I commend our political leaders for standing together in the Creggan on Good Friday. I am however left with a question: Why in God’s name does it take the death of a 29 year old woman with her whole life in front of her to get us to this point?”
Fr. Martin Magill’s comments brought applause and a standing ovation. Not the usual response to words at a funeral, but then the circumstances were themselves extraordinary. His words called out those with differences to address the needs of the times, to sit round a table and talk. There are signs that his outspoken words have been listened to with discussions opening in recent days. These few lines were written in the time around the funeral.
Marking the peace
Guns were out again
in the Creggan that evening
aimed at their traditional target
as police instigated a search for arms
following a tip-off.
A young journalist
standing beside a vehicle
took the intended bullet
as violence on Derry Streets
marked this Good Friday
and pained the peace.
A drifting draught of wind
slipped silently
under each closed door
the passing voice of premature departure.
Not noticing the tribal badge within
each responding to its chill
before and after,
another date defined by Easter
and the lowering of the daylight blind.
Politics of power
For an instant peace gathered in the pews.
The politics of power sat side by side
in acknowledgement of loss,
shuffled in silence when admonished
Why in God’s name did it take a life
to raise reality to a recognisable presence?
-there in a city church as prayer was offered
over the closed casket in their midst.
Both Thunberg and Magill have demonstrated in unequivocal terms a renewal of prophetic imagination that has its roots deep in the Judaeo-Christian heritage. The challenge they have made in our own time has provoked a response, it has disturbed our comfort zone and there is an unease, almost guilt in consequence. The social disruption created by the preaching of the Nazarene was equally unsettling. ‘Listen, you who have ears to hear’. It was true when the Lord spoke those words and is still true now.
The immediacy of spoken language, the shock and manner of their delivery can cause huge disruption as breaking news. It is only with the longer passage of time, when the rippling waves reach distant shores and there is time for reflection, can a realistic judgement be made.
It is to be hoped that the actions and words of a Swedish teenager elicit a positive response from world leaders and that the story of the Belfast Agreement is reinforced by the passionate voice of a catholic priest speaking at a funeral.
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Grassroots Advocacy Strategies in the State of Maine (ME LEND)
LEND Trainees and Faculty pose with Senator Shenna Bellows (third from left) and Kim Humphrey (far right.
The Maine LEND Program hosted an Advocacy and Strategy Forum on April 27, 2018, in Lewiston, Maine. LEND Trainee, Kim Humphrey, a public health advocate, founder of Community Connect ME, and mother of a child with autism, led the charge with key decision makers who work with and/or have children with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) in the state. State Senator Shenna Bellows and former Maine State Legislator Peter Stuckey led one key aspect of the Strategy Forum. Speakers and presenters also included University of Maine professor and Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies Director, Alan Cobo-Lewis; LEND trainee and occupational therapist, Taylor Cahill; LEND trainee and family member, Sanaa Abduljabbar; Coordinator of Education and Autism for the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, Alan Kurtz. There were approximately 40 leaders and advocates in attendance.
Topics included personal stories, challenges and opportunities for inclusion, and discussion about advocacy for individuals with ID/DD. Employment opportunities, transition to adulthood, positive change for those with no voice, improved early identification and early intervention, and independence opportunities among those with developmental disabilities were topics of concern and interest as well. "This forum was a huge success as it connected people who have similar concerns regarding friends or loved ones with a developmental disability and enabled them to brainstorm and talk through ways to provide better supports and services for their friends, family and children who may not be able to speak for themselves," stated Maine LEND self-advocate, Matt Pascarella.
Next steps include circulating contact information and data compiled from the forum and reconvening in the fall to determine interest in pursuing longer-term statewide advocacy strategies. Data from an Advocacy Action Topic checklist indicated that participants at the forum could organize into manageable sized teams of 6-8 advocates according to issues. A disability topic questionnaire for candidates running for office in the November 2018 election received high interest. Moving forward, the ultimate goal is to reach beyond forum participants and strengthen the state network of those advocating for better policies to support people and families with I/DD. Improving early intervention and inclusion, as well as reducing waitlists associated with poor reimbursement rates, were cited as high priorities.
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The Ford Expedition is a full-size sport-utility vehicle. It seats up to eight people, hauls a mountain of gear, and can tow trailers in the 9,000-pound range. When equipped with four-wheel drive, the Expedition will get there whether the road is dry, wet, snowy, or even when there's hardly any road at all.
The cabin features rich materials and generous space in all three seating rows. The second- and third-row seats fold flat to create a useful rear cargo area.
Extended-length Expedition EL models add even more cargo-carrying capacity, especially noticeable when trying to load groceries or gear behind the third-row seats.
Thanks in part to independent rear suspension, the Expedition offers a smooth ride that is more car-like than most big, truck-based SUVs. That's nice on long drives. With its combination of utility, a smooth, stable ride and a pleasant interior, the Ford Expedition is a fine choice for families that tow or take driving vacations. Ford's 5.4-liter V8 powers all models.
There are few changes for 2011 Expedition models. Expedition was last redesigned for the 2007 model year.
The Ford Expedition comes in two lengths, the standard model with a 119-inch wheelbase, and the Expedition EL with its 131-inch wheelbase. Every Expedition is powered by a single-overhead-cam 5.4-liter V8 rated at 310 horsepower and 365 pound-feet of torque. A 6-speed automatic transmission is standard equipment.
Every Expedition model is available with either rear-wheel drive (2WD) or electronically engaged ControlTrac four-wheel drive (4WD) that can be driven on dry pavement and includes low-range gearing. Four trim levels are available: The XL, the upscale XLT, the luxurious Limited, and the top-of-the-line King Ranch.
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Your Baby's Chinese Zodiac Sign
Chinese Zodiac Chart
Character traits of babies born during the Chinese Year Of The Ox
Years of The Ox: 1901 1913 1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009
The Ox of Chinese Astrology is no bull in a china shop. Steadfast and solid, this powerful Sign is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. Oxen tend to be plodding and methodical; they approach projects in the step-by-step manner that serves them best, and they never lose sight of their goal. They are tireless workers who are detail-oriented and believe in doing things right the first time.
The world may perceive Oxen as being far too serious or incapable of loosening up. This sturdy sort is less than social by nature and tends to become introverted in a crowd. To make things worse, they can't be bothered with what other people think and prefer to do what makes them feel best. Behind that calm facade, though, lives an Ox who can feel hurt, lonely and unable to connect with others. Friends and family are a great source of comfort to this beast, even if they don't always understand what makes the Ox tick. As a lover, friend, family member or housemate, the Ox makes a wonderfully strong, tender and affectionate companion who is protective and always reliable.
Out in the world, though, Oxen tend to be stubborn, dogmatic, my-way-or-the-highway kind of people who have no concept of when to back down. Oxen don't care to be pushed, especially since they think they're the good guys of the Chinese Zodiac. There is some truth to that theory, since the Ox is smart, trustworthy, caring and honorable. If you need honest, steady and unbiased advice, call on the Ox.
A good lesson for mighty Oxen is to strive to overcome a judgmental nature that keeps them from getting close to others. If they can learn to value their own good qualities, they'll have more room in their hearts to invite others in.
Chinese Astrology Signs Compatibility
The most compatible match for an Ox is the Snake or the Rooster.
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Back Creek Books
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886), edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas]. W[entworth]. Higginson
Poems [First Series]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. Hardcover. Octavo. 152 pages. Near Fine. The first published collection of Dickinson's poems. Bound in original green cloth over bevelled boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Hinges sound, slight lean to spine.
Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime, all anonymously and likely without her knowledge. The extent of her poetic output was unknown until after her death in 1886. This first collection of her poems was selected and edited by friends and published in Boston in 1890. This is an early printing of that first series, printed the following year.
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The Ink Stain ( #4 The Monsarrat Series)
Author(s): Meg and Tom Keneally
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle,is a thorn in the side of the colonial administration. He has repeatedly agitated for greater rights for convicts, angering local landowners and the new governor. He has also been highly critical of several prominent citizens, and recently published a story accusing Socrates McAllister of rum-running. Hallward has been imprisoned several times for criminal libel, and continues to edit his newspaper while incarcerated. This time, he?s in jail awaiting trial for suggesting that there have been some criminal financial dealings involving the CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company, a consortium of British landowners, some resident in the colony, some not, to whom the British government was giving a million acres of Australian land to develop. He has told friends that he has damaging information on someone close to the new Governor, which will shortly be revealed. First, though, he has to face court. As he is being taken from Sydney jail to the courthouse, a shot is heard from a nearby building, and he falls dead to the ground. Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney, officially to assist in the investigation, unofficially to discover what they can about the story Hallward was working on. Their handler in Sydney is to be Major Duchamp, an aide Governor Darling inherited from his predecessor. Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are both unhappy to be leaving Parramatta - Mrs Mulrooney frets she will miss a letter from her son, who has gone silent after regular correspondence. Monsarrat, meanwhile, is trying to find out where Grace O?Leary has been sent. Monsarrat is also worried that his involvement in the case might draw unwanted attention from Socrates McAllister. When Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney arrive in Sydney, Major Duchamp claims he intends to help them, but at the same time tries to limit those they talk to, insisting the investigation should focus on Hallward?s own links to a group of men who are suspected that agitating for an uprising. Monsarrat makes the acquaintance of Gerald Mobbs the editor of the The Sydney Chronicle?smain competitor, the establishment newspaper, Colonial Flyer. Mobbs tells Monsarrat that thanks to Hallward?s journalism, the governor is trying to implement a licensing regime for newspapers, which would effectively bring them under government control. Meanwhile, Major Duchamp has forbidden Monsarrat to examine the building from which Hallward was shot. Monsarrat breaks in one night. Looking out from the window, he concludes the shot would have taken a significant amount of marksman?s ability. The night watch, however, catches him and arrests him. Duchamp has Monsarrat imprisoned. He says he has been in touch with Socrates McAllister, Horace Bulmer and others, all of whom say that Monsarrat should be permanently criminalised, and intend to lend their voices to such an effort.Leaving only Mrs Mulrooney on the outside to sort things out!
Publisher : Random House Australia
Imprint : Vintage
Author : Meg and Tom Keneally
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Tag: advisory opinion
OIG advisory opinion approving smartphone initiative
By Clay Brewer, Class of 2020; Caitlyn W. Page, Partner at Waller
An advisory opinion issued recently by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides some insight into the growing relationship between access to technology and access to patient care.
The OIG issued Advisory Opinion No. 19-02 permitting a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s proposal to loan limited capability smartphones to certain financially needy patients in order to assist these patients and their care providers track medication adherence data. In issuing this advisory the OIG provided valuable insight into how it interprets the “promotes access to care” exception to the Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalty Statute (the “Beneficiary Inducement CMP”).
According to the requestor, the patient population for an undisclosed drug experiences a high amount of medication nonadherence or partial adherence, which results in higher utilization of healthcare services and increased costs to the healthcare system. In response to this issue, the drug’s manufacturer created a device that detects a signal sent by the drug upon ingestion, which in turn transmits the ingestion time to an app developed by the manufacturer through Bluetooth. However, because some patients do not have a smartphone, they are unable to use the app. As a result, the manufacturer proposed issuing a limited capability smartphone along with the drug to patients who do not have a smartphone and who have a household income below a specified percentage of the federal poverty level. Aside from the preloaded app, all other features of the smartphone would be disabled except the patient would still be able to make domestic telephone calls. The smartphones would be issued by a specialty pharmacy under contract with the manufacturer and each patient would only be permitted to such use the phone for a maximum of two 12-week administrations while receiving the medication.
The OIG concluded that the Beneficiary Inducements CMP would be implicated by this proposal because patients would be receiving the ability to make domestic phone calls, which constitutes remuneration. Additionally, because the patient’s prescribing practitioner would complete the paperwork for the patient to obtain the smartphone, the patient would likely have the impression that he or she must continue receiving care from a particular provider in order to maintain use of the smartphone. The patient may also feel obligated to obtain the drug from the specialty pharmacy issuing the smartphones even if the drug is available at other pharmacies. The OIG, however, found that the proposal would fall under the “promotes access to care” exception to the Beneficiary Inducements CMP for a number of reasons, most notably because the OIG concluded that there is unlikely to be any possibility of disrupting clinical decision making since the patient only receives a smartphone if he or she falls below a certain income and does not currently have a smartphone device to download the app.
The OIG also concluded the proposal poses a low risk of imposing additional costs upon federal healthcare programs because:
there would be no incentive to issue a smartphone to an individual who already has one;
there is no advertising of the proposal which would cause individuals to seek treatment for the purposes of receiving a smartphone; and,
the smartphone’s limited capabilities and a maximum of two 12-week time periods would limit a patient’s effort to retain the smartphone.
Lastly, the OIG determined that the federal Anti-Kickback Statute could be implicated by this proposal if the requisite intent were present; however, it would not pursue administrative sanctions against the manufacturer because the proposed program contained a number of safeguards, including the fact that the loaner smartphone would be available only on a temporary basis, would only be used by individuals who otherwise would not be able to use the medication, and there would be no advertising of the smartphone so individual patients would not go to a certain provider seeking the medication for the purposes of receiving a smartphone.
While the OIG expressly stated that this opinion is narrowed to the specific facts that the Requestor presented and should not be relied upon for other possible initiatives, this advisory opinion provides useful guidance regarding the OIG’s view on the intersection of technology and the Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducements CMP.
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Online Brokers Are No Bargain
Dimitra DeFotis
Updated March 8, 2006 11:59 pm ET / Original July 17, 2019 11:03 pm ET
STOCK TRADERS, LISTEN UP. A number of online brokers are offering juicy deals to woo potential customers.
It's too bad that their stocks aren't as appetizing.
E*Trade Financial , like its peers, is near its 52-week high. But the stock is exposed to the U.S. housing-market slowdown with the mortgages it offers, and earnings could get hurt as it integrates two companies purchased late last year.
Similarly, TD Ameritrade Holding 's shares may fully reflect Ameritrade's acquisition of rival TD Waterhouse. In the months ahead, the company may need to cut commission prices or lose share.
Charles Schwab may be the most desirable in the group, since it is the least reliant on revenue from individual traders and has a growing investment adviser client base. But its shares look pricey.
And if the U.S. stock market, after three straight up years, doesn't perform well this year, all three could suffer.
"The stock prices have benefited from improving capital markets activity, but there is market risk in these businesses," says Daniel Hanson, an analyst with Merrill Lynch Asset Management.
Online brokerages blossomed in the late 1990s as a powerful bull market coincided with the advent of technology that made it cheaper and easier to trade in real time
Then the online brokerage business took a nose dive when stocks went south and trading volume dried up.
But as the markets rebounded, so have shares of online brokerages, which act like levered bets on the health of the stock market and resulting trading volume.
Just in the last 12 months, Ameritrade shares are up a whopping 94%, E*Trade shares are up 82% and Schwab, 49%.
Schwab and TD Ameritrade each have a roughly 27% share of online brokerage trades, according to Matthew Snowling, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. E*Trade controls about 15% of the market, with Fidelity Investments and Scottrade close behind, Snowling says.
These big, cut-rate brokers are attempting to attract new customers with lower prices and incentives from frequent flier miles to free trades.
Schwab built its reputation as a discount broker before online trading evolved. With its size and advisory business, which accounts for half of revenues, it trades like a more expensive asset manager, says Doug Rogers, an analyst at Eaton Vance Management.
Customers who want face time with advisers can pay adviser fees instead of per-trade fees. Those kinds of customers are less likely to dry up in a slow market. Not so for self-directed traders.
Schwab, however, has cut rates to compete, and this likely will overshadow growth initiatives and any pickup in retail trading activity this year, writes Patra Chakshuvej, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.
Glen Mathison, a Schwab spokesman, says that "we are providing people with the support and help they need, so at a certain point, per-trade price savings doesn't matter as much."
But Chakshuvej, who has a Neutral rating on Schwab, thinks its valuation reflects too much optimism at 22.5x the consensus estimate for 2006 earnings, according to Thomson Financial. (See Table.)
E*Trade shares, on the other hand, are considerably cheaper at nearly 17.6x estimated earnings for 2006, according to Thomson. But that valuation reflects its exposure to individual investors and trading fees, which account for roughly a third of revenue. (See Table.)
"I would prefer to buy a firm that is exposed to managed accounts," says Eric Barden, co-manager of the Texas Capital Value & Growth Fund. "Self-directed trading is a shrinking business."
Roughly a quarter of E*Trade's revenue through mid-2005 came from banking, including credit cards and loans -- three times as much as Schwab, according to Merrill Lynch data. Ameritrade doesn't have a banking business.
Banking risk makes some investors nervous. E*Trade executives told analysts recently that the fears are overdone, explaining that its mortgage and consumer portfolios boast high credit quality, and most of its securities portfolio is invested in triple-A rated securities, according to FBR.
But E*trade still has to fold in several purchases from last year, including a $700 million deal for Harrisdirect and a $1.6 billion acquisition of BrownCo., the online brokerage of J.P. Morgan Chase .
"We believe our model has so many revenue generating points that we have a strong hedge against various things that could happen in the marketplace," says Connie Dotson, an E*Trade spokeswoman.
Ameritrade completed its acquisition of TD Waterhouse in late January, but integrating new adviser customers could take 18 months, according to FBR research. The company borrowed roughly $1.9 billion to help fund a $6-per-share special dividend, a negative, Standard & Poor's says.
To its advantage, Ameritrade has a reputation for holding on to its mostly retail customers. Half of its revenues came from trading in fiscal 2005, which ended in September. But the company needs to cut commission and margin rates to remain competitive, according to S&P.
Its shares look expensive, trading at nearly 23.3x estimated earnings for fiscal 2006, which ends in September, according to Thomson. (See Table.)
Snowling downgraded TD Ameritrade shares to Market Perform in January.
A TD Ameritrade spokeswoman said she could not comment.
Of course, if the stock market continues to do well this year, trading volumes will be strong and the discount brokers should do well.
But the stocks still look expensive in an environment of price competition and acquisition cleanup -- even after selling off in the past several days along with the rest of the market.
And a rise in long-term interest rates, combined with the flat yield curve, has many investors nervous about the future for stocks and the economy in general.
That's why it might be best to take more time before hitting the buy button for the online brokers.
Online Brokers' Tale of the Tape
Company Ticker Market Cap, billions % Off 52-Week High Price/Book* 4Q Average Trading Fee FY 05 Rev From Trading Fees***
Charles Schwab SCHW $20.9 -4% 4.7x $13.66 17%
E*Trade Financial ET $9.1 -7% 3x $12.95 20%
TD Ameritrade AMTD $12.8 -19% 5.2x $13.29** 50%
Sources: Yahoo!Finance, company data, interviews
* Based on March 7 close.
** Includes clearing fees.
*** TD Ameritrade's fiscal year 2005 ended in September; Schwab's and E*Trade's fiscal years ended in December 2005.
Merrill Lynch Asset Management holds an undisclosed number of shares of E*Trade Financial and Charles Schwab, according to a spokeswoman.
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey has had an investment banking relationship with E*Trade in the past 12 months. In addition, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group is the parent of First NLC Financial Services, a residential mortgage originator; E*Trade and Charles Schwab are also in the residential mortgage origination business, according to a recent disclosure.
Eaton Vance Management owned 1,026,988 shares of E*Trade, having sold 321,133 shares, as of Dec. 31, 2005, and it owned 969,597 shares of Charles Schwab, having added 16,289 shares, as of that date, according to StreetSight.net.
J.P. Morgan has had an investment banking relationship with Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade Holdings in the past 12 months, according to a recent report.
The Texas Capital Value & Growth Fund does not hold shares of E*Trade, Schwab or TD Ameritrade, according to Eric Barden, co-manager of the fund.
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His books have been translated into Spanish, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese, and four have received special recognition. The commentary on Mark received a Silver Medallion from the Christian Booksellers Association in 1996. The "Gospel of Mark" received the Gold Medallion in 2003. The commentary on 1 Corinthians received a Silver Medallion from the CBA and an Award of Merit from Christianity Today in 2004. The Theology of Mark received the Silver Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in 2016.
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Biased and wrong? Facial recognition tech in the dock
By Matthew Wall Technology of Business editor
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Image caption Facial recognition tech is less accurate the darker your skin tone
Police and security forces around the world are testing out automated facial recognition systems as a way of identifying criminals and terrorists. But how accurate is the technology and how easily could it and the artificial intelligence (AI) it is powered by - become tools of oppression?
Imagine a suspected terrorist setting off on a suicide mission in a densely populated city centre. If he sets off the bomb, hundreds could die or be critically injured.
CCTV scanning faces in the crowd picks him up and automatically compares his features to photos on a database of known terrorists or "persons of interest" to the security services.
The system raises an alarm and rapid deployment anti-terrorist forces are despatched to the scene where they "neutralise" the suspect before he can trigger the explosives. Hundreds of lives are saved. Technology saves the day.
But what if the facial recognition (FR) tech was wrong? It wasn't a terrorist, just someone unlucky enough to look similar. An innocent life would have been summarily snuffed out because we put too much faith in a fallible system.
What if that innocent person had been you?
This is just one of the ethical dilemmas posed by FR and the artificial intelligence underpinning it.
Training machines to "see" - to recognise and differentiate between objects and faces - is notoriously difficult. Computer vision, as it is sometimes called - not so long ago was struggling to tell the difference between a muffin and a chihuahua - a litmus test of this technology.
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Image caption Muffin or chihuahua? Easy for us to answer; not so easy for a computer
Computer scientists, Joy Buolamwini of MIT Media Lab (and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League) and Timnit Gebru the technical co-lead of Google's Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team, have shown that facial recognition has greater difficulty differentiating between men and women the darker their skin tone. A woman with dark skin is much more likely to be mistaken for a man.
"About 130 million US adults are already in face recognition databases," Dr Gebru told the AI for Good Summit in Geneva in May. "But the original datasets are mostly white and male, so biased against darker skin types - there are huge error rates by skin type and gender."
The Californian city of San Francisco recently banned the use of FR by transport and law enforcement agencies in an acknowledgement of its imperfections and threats to civil liberties. But other cities in the US, and other countries around the world, are trialling the technology.
In the UK, for example, police forces in South Wales, London. Manchester and Leicester have been testing the tech to the consternation of civil liberties organisations such as Liberty and Big Brother Watch, both concerned by the number of false matches the systems made.
This means innocent people being wrongly identified as potential criminals.
"Bias is something everyone should be worried about," said Dr Gebru. "Predictive policing is a high stakes scenario."
With black Americans making up 37.5% of the US prison population (source: Federal Bureau of Prisons) despite the fact that they make up just 13% of the US population - badly written algorithms fed these datasets might predict that black people are more likely to commit crime.
It doesn't take a genius to work out what implications this might have for policing and social policies.
Media captionHow one man was fined £90 after objecting to being filmed
Just this week, academics at the University of Essex concluded that matches in the London Metropolitan police trials were wrong 80% of the time, potentially leading to serious miscarriages of justice and infringements of citizens' right to privacy.
One British man, Ed Bridges, has launched a legal challenge to South Wales Police's use of the technology after his photo was taken while he was out shopping, and the UK's Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has expressed concern over the lack of legal framework governing the use of FR.
But such concerns haven't stopped tech giant Amazon selling its Rekognition FR tool to police forces in the US, despite a half-hearted shareholder revolt that came to nothing.
Amazon says it has no responsibility for how customers use its technology. But compare that attitude to that of Salesforce, the customer relationship management tech company, which has developed its own image recognition tool called Einstein Vision.
Media captionAmazon executive Werner Vogels on the ethics of facial recognition
"Facial recognition tech might be appropriate in a prison to keep track of prisoners or to prevent gang violence," Kathy Baxter, Salesforce's architect of ethical AI practice, told the BBC. "But when police wanted to use it with their body cameras when arresting people, we deemed that inappropriate.
"We need to be asking whether we should be using AI at all in certain scenarios, and facial recognition is one example."
And now FR is being used by the military as well, with tech vendors claiming their software can not only identify potential enemies but also discern suspicious behaviour.
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But Yves Daccord, director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is seriously concerned about these developments.
"War is hi-tech these days - we have autonomous drones, autonomous weapons, making decisions between combatants and non-combatants. Will their decisions be correct? They could have mass destruction impact," he warns.
So there seems to be a growing global consensus that AI is far from perfect and needs regulating.
"It's not a good idea just to leave AI to the private sector, because AI can have a huge influence," concludes Dr Chaesub Lee, director of the telecommunication standardisation bureau at the International Telecommunications Union.
"Use of good data is essential, but who ensures that it is good data? Who ensures that the algorithms are not biased? We need a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary approach."
Until then, FR tech remains under suspicion and under scrutiny.
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Woodward ruled himself out of returning to the RFU earlier this year
An independent review of the entire England structure at the Rugby Football Union will take place in November.
Fran Cotton will lead a panel that will make recommendations to the RFU.
The performance of the RFU's professional rugby department will be reviewed along with Rob Andrew's report into England's World Cup campaign.
Andrew is rugby operations director and has been in charge of the England structure since the RFU failed to appoint a performance director.
It culminated in John Steele's departure as chief executive and led to another RFU management restructure.
The review could pave the way for Sir Clive Woodward to replace Andrew as head of professional rugby at the Rugby Football Union.
Martin Johnson's position as manager may also be under threat after Cotton branded England's World Cup a "failure".
Andrew recently accepted the position of professional rugby director but the new position is yet to be rubber-stamped.
Johnson's England crashed out against France in the quarter-finals
Cotton's panel will have the power to recommend their own head of professional rugby.
The former RFU vice-chairman was a leading critic of Steele's decision to change the job description of the performance director, which led to Woodward pulling out of contention.
He described the job as "probably the most important role in English rugby and world rugby".
The panel, which will make its recommendations to the RFU in December, will also have the power to recommend changes to the England team's management structure. Current boss Johnson's contract expires on 21 December.
One outcome could be the appointment of a senior England team manager who would be in charge of logistics, but also team discipline, leaving the manager to focus on rugby.
The basic skills of rugby at that level just aren't good enough
Fran Cotton Chair of a review into England's failed World Cup campaign
Cotton claimed England had not improved on Johnson's watch and lacked leadership.
"We were knocked out in the quarter-finals and we played poorly throughout the competition. It is a failure as far as we are concerned," the former England and British Lions prop forward told Sky Sports News.
"Martin has now been in charge three and a half years and it is very difficult to understand what style of play this England rugby team is all about.
"The basic skills of rugby at that level just aren't good enough and I haven't seen an improvement in the last three and a half years."
He also condemned Mike Tindall for being "absolutely hammered" in a bar during the campaign.
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NHL 2018-19 To Win Stanley Cup Outright Odds - Bruins are favourites in second round
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The Bruins are the favourites following the first-round exits of Tampa Bay and Calgary
The Blues are the second favourites in the outright odds market
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The Boston Bruins are favourites to lift the NHL’s Stanley Cup this season with eight teams left in the competition.
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The Bruins are the highest ranked team remaining following the shock first-round exits of conference top seeds Tampa Bay and Calgary.
The Bruins, who are targeting their seventh Stanley Cup triumph and first since 2011, needed seven games to eliminate Atlantic Division rivals Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round. They can be backed at +300 with bet365 to lift the oldest trophy in North American team sports. Bruce Cassidy’s boys currently lead the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 in their second-round duel in the Eastern Conference. The Blue Jackets earlier swept the league-best Lightning, who were heavy favourites entering the post-season after winning a league-record 62 games in the regular season.
The St Louis Blues are the second favourites with bet365 to emerge as NHL champions this season. Craig Berube’s boys drew first blood in their second-round showdown against the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference. They are priced at +475 with the UK bookmaker to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history.
The San Jose Sharks (+550), New York Islanders (+600) and Carolina Hurricanes (+650) are also expected to contend for the championship.
The Sharks are currently playing the Colorado Avalanche in the second round while the Islanders are battling the Hurricanes, who ousted defending champion Washington Capitals in seven games in their first-round duel.
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Dark Shadows: Deliver Us From Evil
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After the sinister events of Dark Shadows: Bloodlust, the citizens of Collinsport's lives have been changed forever. Now their stories continue in Dark Shadows: Deliver Us From Evil.
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Alfie Chapman – the British tourist with a psychopathic streak.
And Danielle Roget – the French murderess who possesses his girlfriend’s body.
Unknown to all them, they are caught in a tangled web of the Dark Lord's making, which on this night will bring them together and see the culmination of a diabolical plan stretching back since the dawn of time.
Because the Dark Lord has manipulated them all. And all hell is about to break loose.
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(Ghost)busting Succession Planning Myths: 3 Ways to Avoid being Slimed
The new Ghostbusters film has caused quite a stir. Amongst all of the spooks and scares that the feature provides, there are loads of ghosts who are floating around New York with “unfinished business” that they didn’t clear before their time had come. It wouldn’t surprise us if a lot had come back regretting their … Continue reading "(Ghost)busting Succession Planning Myths: 3 Ways to Avoid being Slimed"
Accreditation in Agricultural Law
Blackadders LLP are pleased to announce that partner and head of the Rural Land & Business division, Petra Grunenberg, has been awarded Accreditation in Agricultural Law. This award denotes official recognition by the Scottish Law Society of Petra’s skill and significant experience as an agricultural lawyer, and illustrates the part that she has played in … Continue reading "Accreditation in Agricultural Law"
My Top 5 Tips on Progressing from Student to Trainee Solicitor
The Diplomas in Professional Legal Practice are drawing to a close for yet another year. After five years of studying, the Scottish Law Student is filled with elation and relief as they realise school is out – forever! Before you know it, you are approaching the first step of the legal ladder: ‘The Traineeship’. As … Continue reading "My Top 5 Tips on Progressing from Student to Trainee Solicitor"
5 Things You Should Do After You Pay Off Your Mortgage
For home owners, paying off a mortgage is usually a long term commitment – typically lasting 25 years. Receiving that letter from your lender informing you that you have paid off your mortgage in full and your home is now completely yours can be a fantastic moment and one that can mean a celebration is … Continue reading "5 Things You Should Do After You Pay Off Your Mortgage"
How to Leave Your Kids With Your Ex And Not Spoil Your Holiday
When former Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Adlington announced her separation from her husband Harry Needs at the beginning of April this year, she claimed they were “still the best of friends”. Days later, however, according to various reports, it transpired that she left her infant daughter in her ex-husband’s care, whilst she jetted off to a … Continue reading "How to Leave Your Kids With Your Ex And Not Spoil Your Holiday"
Keep Calm and Mediate
Mudslinging, name calling and stand offs. A court room battle which ends with no discernible success for anyone. Is that how you would choose to separate and divorce? It is certainly not the way that I, as a lawyer, want to conduct my client’s cases. Gary Lineker recently accused lawyers of fuelling acrimony between divorcing … Continue reading "Keep Calm and Mediate"
6 Reasons Why Prince Should Have Left a Will
It came as no surprise to me that, following the tragic death of singer ‘Prince’ last month, his family are now embroiled in a dispute over the late singer’s $300 million estate. Unfortunately, the enigmatic music star failed to leave a Will and this is the just the most recent occasion where celebrities – often … Continue reading "6 Reasons Why Prince Should Have Left a Will"
Blackadders Donate to Arbroath’s Festival of Hereos
Blackadders are delighted to donate £1000 towards the Arbroath’s Festival of Heroes. The festival has 3 main parts to it – The Armed Forces and Emergency Services Parade, The Local Hero Awards and the Free to enter Festival of Heroes Spectacular fearing the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows. Scott Williamson, Chairman … Continue reading "Blackadders Donate to Arbroath’s Festival of Hereos"
Papa Don’t Preach – Guy Ritchie & Madonna Custody Battle
Guy Ritchie and Madonna have reportedly now settled a custody battle involving their 15 year old son Rocco Ritchie. The whole dispute has been played out quite publicly in the international press in recent months. It is reported that Madonna elected to drop her bid to have Rocco returned to her care, apparently acceding to … Continue reading "Papa Don’t Preach – Guy Ritchie & Madonna Custody Battle"
Prepare Yourself for the PSC Register
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 introduced a number of measures to increase the transparency of UK companies by making it easier to see who owns or controls them and who might be making decisions about how they are run. Key to this was the requirement to maintain a public register of people … Continue reading "Prepare Yourself for the PSC Register"
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nzinghastewart.com | @nzingbling
Nzingha Stewart is a renown music video director and filmmaker. She has collaborated with Common, Bilal, Freeway, Joss Stone, Dashboard Confessional and Erykah Badu to make iconic music videos. In addition to directing the Lifetime movies Love on the Tenth Date and With This Ring, she has also directed episodes of Scandal, Good Girls, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Love By The 10th Date (2017)
With This Ring (2015)
Nominated, Outstanding Writing, NAACP Image Awards
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Bitcoin jumps as CME unveils plan for futures contract
Bitcoin prices rose Tuesday after exchange giant CME Group announced it planned to launch a futures marketplace for the cryptocurrency in the fourth quarter.
The move is a vote of confidence in the controversial virtual currency, which has not been listed on a major exchange previously. The CME operates a range of prominent exchanges around the world and handles three billion contracts a year. "Given increasing client interest in the evolving cryptocurrency markets, we have decided to introduce a bitcoin futures contract," said Terry Duffy, chief executive of the Chicago-based CME exchange group. "As the world's largest regulated FX marketplace, CME Group is the natural home for this new vehicle that will provide investors with transparency, price discovery and risk transfer capabilities."
The start of the exchange is contingent on regulatory approvals, CME said. The contract will be for bitcoin futures, a derivative product that sets pricing for a commodity or financial instrument at a future date. Some types of futures contracts rarely result in delivery of the underlying asset. Since November 2016, CME has published each day at 1600 GMT a bitcoin reference rate (BTT) based on the trade flow of major spot exchanges.
The announcement sets up a race between CME and its Chicago-based rival CBOE Holdings, which in August announced plans to launch a cash-settled bitcoin futures contract in the fourth quarter of 2017 or early 2018 with the Gemini Trust Company. The CBOE said the launch depended on a review by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The cryptocurrency market has growth to $172 billion, with bitcoin accounting for 54 percent, CME said. Near 1445 GMT, bitcoin was worth $6,367, up 4.3 percent compared with Monday's closing price, according to Bloomberg.
The value of bitcoin has risen rapidly since its launch in February 2009 from a few cents to about $1,000 at the start of 2017 before this year's surge. The currency has encountered some roadblocks. China barred its trade on virtual currency markets, and some prominent figures in finance, such as JPMorgan Chase chief executive have also sharply criticized bitcoin.
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American chain Potbelly Sandwich has closed all their Toronto locations
Sadly, it's the end of loaded "The Wreck" subs with a side of live music for Toronto.
American sandwich chain Potbelly officially has no more stores open in the city. There were once three locations, in North York, on Yonge, and on Bloor, the latter the last to close in Toronto on April 11.
Originally based out of a Chicago antique shop in the 1970s, the chain was known for its sandwiches, along with thick milkshakes with cookies served on the straws. Toronto locations of the shop were also licensed and featured live musicians performing in the spaces, setting Potbelly apart from other sandwich chains like Subway.
When reached out to for comment, President of Halsted Hospitality Ltd (the Canadian franchisee of Potbelly in Canada) David Kozman said, "We don't have a comment at this time regarding the reasons for the closure. All I'd like to say is a big thank you to all of our wonderful employees and our customers who were part of the journey for the time that we were open."
Fortunately there are still plenty of great sandwiches here in Toronto, but for those really craving a Potbelly sub, there are still hundreds of locations worldwide includings one in Detroit and Port Huron.
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Police chase enters Blount County
By The Blount Countian Staff | on February 06, 2013
by Nicole Singleton
Phillip Nathan Pointer, 39, of Crossville, was arrested after he crashed near the intersection of Ala 278 and county road 35 trying to elude police Thursday night, according to The Sand Mountain Reporter. Officials says Pointer was armed with a handgun but immediately dropped the weapon.
Pointer is charged with reckless endangerment and attempting to elude police. Another vehicle involved in the chase stopped on Rocky Branch Road, and the driver fled on foot into a wooded area. He has not been located. The drivers are suspects involved in Marshall County crimes, according to Marshall County deputy Heath Thomas. No injuries were reported, and initial reports indicate both vehicles were stolen. Dora man dies
An accident that occurred on U.S. 231 near Blountsville on Sunday morning resulted in the death of Keith Canter, of Dora, according to reports. State troopers are investigating the accident that involved the SUV Canter was driving and an 18-wheeler. The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured.
Finally, one person was injured and transported to UAB Hospital via ambulance after a two-vehicle accident last Thursday, according to Oneonta assistant fire Chief Brandon Horton. The head-on collision occurred at the intersection of Ala 75 and county road 42. The patient had to be extricated from the vehicle, according to Horton. No other injuries were reported.
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Australia launches inquiry into treatment of overseas trained doctors
BMJ 2010; 341 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c6780 (Published 25 November 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c6780
Ray Moynihan
1Byron Bay, Australia
A parliamentary inquiry in Australia launched this week will examine whether registration processes for overseas trained doctors could be improved, after calls for a public review from the Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association.
The announcement of an inquiry follows mounting public concern in Australia that new assessment procedures may have been causing unfair deregistrations of some overseas born doctors working in areas of high need.
Those procedures were introduced in the wake of the long-running Jayant Patel case, the foreign trained surgeon recently jailed in Australia after being found guilty of manslaughter.
Under the changed procedures introduced in 2008, the failure to pass a short interview based assessment can lead to deregistration of a foreign trained doctor working in Australia.
Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association vice president, Sue Douglas says the short interview based assessment is not a valid or reliable tool in such “high stakes” circumstances, and a growing number of doctors are being unfairly deregistered.
Earlier this month the body responsible for registration—the Medical Board of Australia—announced it would conduct a limited review of whether the new system was being effectively implemented and how it could be improved. Chair of the medical board Joanna Flynn told BMJ the internal review “will make sure processes are working, and that we’ve got consistent national standards.” On the specific question of the interview based tool being used to assess overseas-trained doctors, Dr Flynn told the BMJ its use would be temporarily suspended while the review was underway.
The Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association argues the treatment of overseas born doctors has been “divisive, unfair, and discriminatory” and it welcomed this week’s announcement of a much broader parliamentary inquiry. “We don’t believe a review by the existing authorities will lead to any kind of meaningful change,” said Dr Douglas, whose Canadian qualifications have not been fully recognised by Australian authorities.
The parliamentary inquiry will look at how overseas-trained doctors could be better supported in seeking registration, and how to remove impediments to their full qualification to practise in Australia, “without lowering the necessary standards required by colleges and regulatory bodies.”
The inquiry’s announcement comes after the recent publication of a study in Medical Education (2010 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03769.x),which added some weight to concerns about Australia’s treatment of foreign born doctors.
Using an experimental design, researchers found Australians felt less favourably towards hiring doctors who were born in Pakistan compared with those born in Australia, even though the prospective candidates level of qualifications, education, work experience and personality profile were presented as similar. However, the bias on the basis of nationality was eliminated if the foreign born doctor had been trained in the United Kingdom.
Despite the small sample and effect size, the researchers, lead from the University of Queensland, concluded the results were tentative evidence of “discrimination against foreign born doctors,” a finding Dr Douglas said validated her association’s concerns and the need for a parliamentary inquiry.
Dr Flynn told the BMJ there was no evidence doctors were assessed for registration on the basis of their ethnicity.
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Eastern Quolls Move to the Red List
Yesterday we learnt that the Eastern Quoll has finally been moved from 'Near Threatened' to 'Endangered' on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This has been long overdue and the decision was made because their population is continually declining, by an estimated 50% over the past 10 years in fact. Eastern quolls can only be found in Tasmania as they became extinct on mainland Australia in the mid-1960s.
Our Sanctuary is a part of a Tasmanian breeding program along with Devils at Cradle, Trowunna Wildlife Park & East Coast Natureworld who are all working together to help secure Eastern Quoll numbers. We have also partnered with mainland conservation institutions such as the Mt Rothwell - Biodiversity Interpretation Centre to help ensure the future of this beloved carnivorous marsupial.
This breeding season we are very proud to have produced eleven quoll offspring to assist with the breeding program. Have a look at the gorgeous photo below of one of the babies getting their health checks yesterday.
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Excerpt from Lusitania by Greg King, Penny Wilson, plus links to reviews, author biography & more
Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by Greg King, Penny Wilson
Feb 2015, 400 pages
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Walking the deck with Edwin Friend, Theodate Pope noted that Lusitania was going so slow that she thought the engines had stopped. Looking out across the water, "a marvelous blue and very dazzling in the sunlight," she said, "How could the officers ever see a periscope there?" Suddenly, the impact came; she likened the sound to "an arrow, entering the canvas and straw of a target, magnified a thousand times," rapidly followed by another "dull" explosion from somewhere below. "By Jove, they've got us!" Friend cried out, slamming his fist against his hand. They ran into a small corridor just outside the Smoking Room to escape the water and debris raining down on the deck; as they entered, Lusitania lurched to starboard, hurling them against the wall. Stepping back out into the sunlit afternoon, Theodate saw that "the deck suddenly looked very strange, crowded with people," including two women who "were crying in a pitifully weak way." As they made their way through "the crush of people coming and going," Theodate saw Marie Depage. Her eyes, she recalled, "were wide and startled, but brave." When Theodate finally found her maid, she could only say, "Oh, Robinson!"
In the First Class Dining Saloon, after a program that included "The Blue Danube," Lusitania's band had just ended a vigorous encore of "Tipperary" to entertain the diners. Cellist Handel Hawkins immediately stopped; although passengers rushed to- ward the exits, he saw "no panic." Most diners seemed stunned: the shock was so severe that glass in portholesat least those that were closedshattered and showered over the carpet. "It all happened so quickly," Josephine Burnside said, "that I can hardly remember it." "I had just finished making a collection for the musicians," Josephine Brandell recalled, "and sat down to finish my lunch." The explosion convulsed the ship, and everyone "rushed for the stairs. I heard someone shouting to be calm." But Josephine was "simply horrified with fright." Francis Jenkins, sharing her table, recalled how she clung to him as they made their way to the deck. "This," he said, "took perhaps some five minutes, as the boat listed very badly."
Robert Timmis, having enjoyed his cocktails with Ralph Moodie, was paying his bill when the torpedo hit. "It was not a severe blow," he remembered. "It was more a penetrating thrust, as though the torpedo must have gone through the ship." "They have got us!" Moodie cried out. As they fled the room, a steward shouted, "Steady, gentlemen, steady!" The list made ascending the Grand Staircase difficult, and Timmis helped a lady climb to the deck, one hand on the railing and the other holding her tight against his side. On reaching A Deck, Timmis struggled to his cabin: he found a lifebeltthere had been two, but another passenger had opened the door and taken the second.
Dorothy Conner and Howard Fisher had just finished their squab when they heard "a rather dull sound, like a soft blast, a slight shock," as he recalled. "What is that?" Dorothy cried out. "That," he told her, "is what we came after, a torpedo! We must go on deck!" To Fisher, it seemed as if "everyone" was "pouring forward" in an attempt to reach the deck. "Everything was confusion," and he didn't see any officers to direct passengers. Soon, Margaret Mackworth ran up, asking if she could remain with them until she found her father.
The second sitting in Lusitania's Second Class Dining Saloon was just beginning when the explosions came. Phoebe Amory, clad in her raincoat, saw a steward put a bowl of soup before her; this didn't appeal to her. Instead, "It occurred to me that I would like a salad." She was just about to ask the steward to switch out the two dishes "when there came the most terrible crash, which seemed to tear everything to pieces, and to rend the ship asunder."
Young Barbara Anderson remembered being with her mother, Emily, on the upper level of the Second Class Dining Saloon. "I got out of my chair," she recalled, "and stood next to my mother and looked down through the railing at all those people having lunch at the long tables." Curiously she had no memory of the explosions, merely that "great chaos" erupted in the room; un- aware of the danger, she still clutched her spoon engraved Lusitania . Apparently assistant purser William Harkness spotted Emily struggling to carry her daughter through the crowd; he hoisted the girl in his arms and led them up and out onto the deck near the stern.
Excerpted from Lusitania : Triumph Tragedy and the End of the Edwardian Age by Greg Kind and Penny Wilson. Copyright © 2015 by the authors and reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press.
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Ohio (Hardcover)
By Stephen Markley
“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.”—NPR
“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.
There’s Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love, whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried desperately to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax.
Set over the course of a single evening, Ohio toggles between the perspectives of these unforgettable characters as they unearth dark secrets, revisit old regrets and uncover—and compound—bitter betrayals. Before the evening is through, these narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.
Stephen Markley is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Markley’s previous books include the novel Ohio, the memoir Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold, and Published This Very Book, and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. He lives in Los Angeles.
PRAISE FOR OHIO BY STEPHEN MARKLEY
"Markley [does] some extraordinary things with the structure of the book . . . Casual details suddenly take on new surprising significance. There's real pleasure in this hopscotching narrative: with each new point of view, a clearer sense of the hidden story emerges as the reader slowly pieces together some shocking revelations . . . The most moving parts of the book are those that step back and let the events and the actions speak for themselves, as when one character (the shy bookish one from high school) recalls his first tours in Afghanistan. The beautifully precise details are all the more vivid for their lack of accompanying commentary. The real core of this earnestly ambitious debut lies not in its sweeping statements but in its smaller moments, in its respectful and bighearted renderings of damaged and thwarted lives. It's the human scale that most descriptively reveals the truth about the world we're living in."—DAN CHAON, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“[Ohio is] a descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here…Markley’s prose [is] as lively as a bonfire, crackling with incisive details…Markley’s gift is keeping one eye on these intimate specifics and the other on the expansive landscape of modern American life.”—O MAGAZINE
“Ohio isn't just a remarkable debut novel, it's a wild, angry and devastating masterpiece of a book. Markley's debut is a sprawling, beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a powerful look at the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst. [Ohio] is intricately constructed, with gorgeous, fiery writing that pulls the reader in and never lets go.”—NPR
“Genuinely absorbing…Ohio burns with alienation, nihilism, frustration and finally love for a place that gave birth to all of them.”—WASHINGTON POST
"A book of genuine substance and style...Markley’s skill is apparent...Both a lament and a love letter, Ohio is a reminder of the wealth of stories hidden in small towns, and of how much 'history and pathos could accumulate in errant pockets on any given night.'"—WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Markley's ambitious foray into fiction reunites four high school classmates on a fateful summer night in their Ohio hometown, in what reads like a darker-themed epilog to Friday Night Lights…Markley's prose sparkles with insight and supports an intricate narrative architecture that recalls Nathan Hill's The Nix and Patrick Somerville's This Bright River…highly recommended for all literary collections.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
"Reporters have fanned out in search of answers to Middle America’s decline and Trumpist desperation, but Markley is one of the first novelists to fully reflect the social forces at work without sacrificing an iota of character work or narrative tension. Drawing on the reunion-novel tradition, he brings together four alumni of the same (fictional) Ohio high school on one momentous evening a decade after graduation, each with their own pattern of escape and return—and their own mission of repentance or retribution."—VULTURE (NYMAG.COM)
"[Ohio is] a thoughtful examination of the neglected corners of a traumatized country — and one that will pierce your loyal, loving heart."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“[A] standout debut…Markley’s novel is alternately disturbing and gorgeous, providing a broad view of the anxieties of a post-9/11 Middle America and the complexities of the humans who navigate them."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"[Ohio is] so rich in complex storytelling and literary excellence that it’s difficult to believe it’s a fiction debut."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Timely and of vital importance, Ohio delves into the spectrum of issues consuming contemporary America’s Rust Belt, exploring topics like joblessness, addiction, terrorism, sexuality, religion and sex, to name a few. Markley’s disturbing masterpiece reads like the offspring of Harlan Coben, Jonathan Franzen and Hanya Yanagihara: an illuminating snapshot of our current era masquerading as a twisted character-driven thriller, filled with mordant wit and soul-shaking pathos... an edifying and unforgettable read that leaves [readers] breathless."—BOOKPAGE
“The characters walk and talk like real, messed-up people; the author cares about them, and so does the reader. The prologue-four sections-coda structure works because Markley took the time to connect everything in a masterful set of flashbacks and flash-forwards that parcel out enough information to make the conclusion both shocking and inevitable. Ohio is a big novel about what happened after 9/11, the initial euphoria and the long depression that grips us still.”—SEATTLE TIMES
"Effectively four tart, well-turned novellas bundled in a symphonic prologue and epilogue...Markley writes each of these character studies with powerhouse command and painterly detail about socioeconomic distinctions...Markley’s novel is in line with a dark strain of Midwestern fiction that runs from Edgar Lee Masters to Gillian Flynn. Its bleakness and style are appealing."—MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"[A] knockout debut...fully engrossing from the start, save moments when you’re taken aback by how good the writing really is, how flawless the storytelling...Ohio is a ceaselessly beautiful and gut-wrenching debut."—CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Ambitious and suspenseful." —COLUMBUS DISPATCH
“The kind of book that people rarely attempt to write anymore…A Big American Novel that seeks to tell us where we live now.”—THE MILLIONS
“In his bold debut novel, Ohio, Stephen Markley visits the fictional northeastern Ohio town of New Canaan to paint in vivid colors the shattered dreams and stunted lives of young adults removed by roughly a decade from their high school graduation. It's an intensely realistic and keenly observed portrait that puts a human face on subjects often obscured by statistics and expert opinion… a dark and deeply felt examination of a generation confronting problems that can't be solved quickly or with ease…it has earned a place in any conversation about the important role fiction can play in reflecting life back to us when we look squarely in the mirror.”—SHELF AWARENESS
"Markley is a knockout storyteller, infusing each section with realistic detail, from the drudgery of Walmart work to war to the fleeting ecstasies of drugs to violence, especially self-harm."—KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Important and ambitious...this year's Hillbilly Elegy of fiction."—SALON
"Beautifully descriptive...an insightful, tragic story."—BOOKLIST
"Ambitious...one of the most human novels I've read in a long, long time...it does what a good book should, which is just sucks you in to the extent that time not spent reading it feels like wasted time...it makes you think long after you have turned the final page...highly, highly recommend it."—ROGER BENNETT, MEN IN BLAZERS
"Ohio captures the hacking cough of 2018’s poisoned America. Markley’s dialogue often sums up our national Great Depression—not economic, but the spiritual frustration of this bitter century...a biting portrayal of Midwest ennui."—THE DAILY BEAST
“Stephen Markley is an expert cartographer of the American Rust Belt and the haunted landscapes of his characters' interiors. A fast-moving and devastating debut.”—KAREN RUSSELL, New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia!
“Ohio is that rarest of unicorns, a novel that swings for the fences, and actually tries to explain just what the fuck happened to this country after the towers fell, and how we got to this awful particular moment. Stephen Markley goes for the universe with every single sentence he writes. That the universe answers him as often as it does makes for a hugely impressive first novel.”—CHARLES BOCK, New York Times bestselling author of Alice & Oliver
“If the American dream has given way to American carnage, then this is the great American novel of its time. Stephen Markley is a gifted storyteller who has written a fearless and impressive debut.”—DAVID BEZMOZGIS, author of Natasha and The Betrayers
“Ohio is heartbreaking, frightening, and occasionally, amidst the sorrow and horror, transcendent—a novel that casts the clearest possible eye on people haunted by who they used to be and might have become, and a country haunted by the same. Stephen Markley is unflinching.”—KEVIN BROCKMEIER, author of The Illumination
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: August 21st, 2018
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
Kobo eBook (August 20th, 2018): $12.99
Paperback (June 4th, 2019): $16.99
Compact Disc (August 21st, 2018): $55.99
Library Binding, Large Print (September 5th, 2018): $31.99
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