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Mechanisms of Extracellular Vesicle Uptake - Part 2
Basics of Extracellular Vesicles
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This course aims to provide the basic knowledge about extracellular vesicles (EV) a generic term including exosomes, microvesicles, microparticles, ectosomes, oncosomes, prostasomes, and many others. It covers areas such as EV history, nomenclature, biogenesis, EV cargo as well as the release and uptake mechanisms, collection and processing prior to isolation, different isolation methods, characterization and quantification techniques. This course is divided into five modules. Module 1 is an introduction to the field and will cover the nomenclature and the history of EVs. Module 2 will focus on the biogenesis, release and uptake mechanisms of EVs as well as the different EV cargos (RNA, protein, lipids). In Module 3, we will focus on the collection and processing of cell culture media and body fluids such as blood, breast milk, cerebrospinal fluid and urine prior to isolation of EVs. Module 4 and 5 will present different isolation methods and characterization/quantification techniques, respectively. Here differential ultracentrifugation, size exclusion chromatography, density gradient, kit based precipitation, electron microscopy (EM), cryo-TEM, flow cytometry, atomic-force microscopy and nanoparticle tracking analysis will be presented. The recommended prerequisites are college-freshman-level biology and biochemistry. After a completed course you should be able to: + Discuss the nomenclature and subgroups of extracellular vesicles. + Describe the RNA, protein and lipid content of extracellular vesicles. + Describe the basic concepts about the most common isolation and characterization techniques and how these techniques are used in the EV field. + State the benefits and limitations of the most common isolation and characterization techniques for extracellular vesicles. + Explain the considerations that are important during the collection and isolation of EVs from different body fluid. + Describe the release and uptake mechanisms of extracellular vesicles All lectures are given in English. Each of the five modules will be followed by an exam. All exams will be in the format of multiple choice questions. The course is organized in collaboration between the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), University of California Irvine (USA), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea).
Biology, Sample Preparation, Sample Collection, Cell Biology
I enjoyed how the course touched on all important aspects of EVs in depth providing relevant and supportive literature
Excellent course. A great overview plus a lot of detailed information that can't be found by reading the literature.
Biogenesis, Cargo and Uptake of Extracellular Vesicles
In this module, we will focus on the biogenesis and release of extracellular vesicles as well as the uptake mechanisms of extracellular vesicles when they are encountered by a recipient cell. This module also covers the different RNA, protein and lipid types present in extracellular vesicles as well as a brief overview what the functions of these molecules are. Furthermore, the techniques that are commonly used to detect these molecules as well as databases that can be useful to use when analyzing the cargo of extracellular vesicles will be highlighted.
Biogenesis and Release of Extracellular Vesicles18:27
Mechanisms of Extracellular Vesicle Uptake - Part 122:09
Cecilia Lasser
Okay welcome back to this ISEV Basics of Extracellular Vesicles.
So I'm going to carry on talking about mechanisms of extracellular
vesicle uptake.
So, there I am, that's me again.
If you missed part one I'm Dave Carter,
I'm from Oxford Brookes University in the UK.
Right then so in part one we talked about, we had a little introduction and
we talked about measuring EV uptake, and we talked about mechanisms of EV uptake.
Now, I'm going to talk about the roles of proteins and lipids in EV uptake.
So we're going to talk a bit about protein-protein interactions.
We'll talk a bit about lipids.
We'll talk a bit about target specificity and we'll talk about EV uptake
heterogeneity and some of the other issues and considerations surrounding this topic.
Cool okay so the role of proteins in EV uptake.
So we know that if we strip proteins from EVs, this reduces their uptake.
So here's a nice picture of an EV with proteins and
RNA content and various other things and we know that there are membrane proteins
that can be displayed on the surface of the EVs.
And if we treat those EVs with enzymes like proteinase K,
which strip away proteins on the surface.
It reduces uptake.
So clearly this suggests that proteins are required in some way, in EV uptake.
So that's how those various proteins are involved.
So we are beginning to understand this idea that if we have proteins on the EV
surface, they can presumably interact with some kind of proteins on the cell surface.
And that this specific interaction is part of what mediates.
The uptake of the EV and presumably, possibly also some
of the specificity in the uptake in terms of cell to cell specificity.
So there's that interaction going on right there.
No we we start in to find this out by using a variety of methods and
one of the main methods that can be used is the use of antibodies.
So if we use antibodies which can interact with the specific proteins we think
are involved, this then can prevent the interaction between proteins on the EV and
proteins on the cell surface and reduces uptake.
We can also combine this with the use of other techniques like RNAi and
inhibitors and so on to start to build a picture of how EVs are taken up by cells.
So let's talk about some of the different classes of proteins that are involved.
So the first one I'm going to talk about is the Tetraspanins.
Now presumably most people watching this video will already know what
tetraspanins are.
They are a class of membrane proteins,
they're involved in a variety of processes including salatician,
motility, regulation of proliferation, amongst others and
here I've put examples of what are the most commonly used or
known ones in the EV field, CD63, CD81 and CD9 and
we think of them as enriched in EVs they're often cited as EV markers.
Now they may well be involved in uptake and certainly one thing that we often
see is that they are enriched in these tetraspanin enriched microdomains which
may act potentially as landing platforms for EVs coming in.
So they certainly seem to be involved in the uptake of EVs.
[COUGH] For example CD9, CD81 antibodies prevent EV uptake and
there is a good body of work that's growing, that they are involved and
that they may also be involved in tissue specificity.
So for example, magozolos group have done a good work looking at how the different
tetraspanins may be involved in cell type specific interactions and uptake.
Integrins and immunoglobulins are also involved.
So these have important roles in cell to cell interactions and cell signaling.
And there's evidence that they may well also be involved in EV uptake.
So they immunoglobulin-integrin interactions also may affect EV uptake.
So for example the integrin CD11a may interact with the membrane bound
ICAM-1 and mediate uptake of vesicles
under certain conditions similarly some of the other integrins, CD51 and
CD61 may also be involved and blocking these integrins.
Using antibodies for example can reduce EV uptake.
So, we're going to come back to integrins a little bit later in terms of
cell types specific uptake.
But they do certainly seem to be involved.
Proteoglycans are a type of protein carbohydrate combination,
so here we have a protein core.
So we have our protein core with these carbohydrate decorations with these
modifications on the side of the protein.
So these are important in cell signaling and also seem to be involved in EV uptake.
Now one example that I'm going to focus on is heparin sulphate proteoglycans,
the HSPGs, as these do seem to also be quite important in EV uptake.
So EVs colocalized with glypican which is one of the key heparin sulphate
proteoglycans.
And this actually work that I showed in part one from Belton's group where they
showed that exosomes labeled with PKH26 overlap with vesicals marked glypican one,
so that suggest that this overlap when you merge these images suggest that there
is quite the degree of overlap and so there may be some interaction.
There's also other evidence that these HSPGs are involved.
So, heparin sulphate for example can block uptake but
acting essentially as a deco by interacting without the proteins.
Blocking HSPG synthesis also block uptake of EVs, so
again evidence that HSPG are involved or HSPGs are involved in uptake.
Also heparinase, which constrict this carbohydrate modifications,
heparinase treatment can block uptake of EVs.
So again this suggests that the interaction is involved in EV uptake.
Although interestingly.
They suddenly seem to work.
And again, this is working in.
They suddenly seem to work if you use the heparinase on the recipient cells and
not the EVs themselves suggesting that at least in this instance
that it's the presence of the proteoglycans on the cell
which is important in this particular interaction.
But they certainly do seem to be involved although we need to do more
work to find out exactly how they're involved.
Another class of protein that seems to be involved is the Lectins.
So, lectins are proteins that bind to glycoproteins.
And again the attraction between these glycoproteins and
this specific lectin proteins seems to be important.
I'm going to give a couple of examples.
The first example is the attraction between the C type lectin,
DC-SIGN and the glycoprotein, MUC1.
We're going to come back to this in a minute, but antibodies against DC-SIGN
reduce EV uptake suggesting that, that interaction is important.
Another C type lectin DEC-205 also seems to be involved in EV uptake.
Antibodies against it, that bind to it can block EV uptake, as can mannose.
And treatment of the cells with mannose which may bind to the lectin,
reduce uptake and thus, when the mannose is binding to the lectin,
it might act as a decoy and prevent interaction with the EVs.
So again suggesting that lectins are involved.
Lipids do also have a role in the EV uptake.
So lipid composition of EVs is quite different to normal plasma membrane.
There's an enrichment in a variety of different lipids like cholesterol and
ceramide and other single lipids.
Which suggests that they are potentially different.
It's hard to tell whether that difference in lipid content is important for its
uptake or simply reflects their particular biogenesis pathways that EVs are made by.
But interestingly, the treatment of cells with Filipin,
which is a cholesterol sequestering agent, does reduce EV uptake,
suggesting that it is potentially important.
Certainly, cholesterol is important somewhere in EV uptake.
So more work needs to be done in this particular area, I would suggest.
Okay, so, some important questions in EV research.
So targeting and tissues specificity, is the uptake of EVs,
cell type specific, or is it not?
And I'd say for now, the answer is possibly, it's hard to tell.
Some experiments seem to suggest that all cell types
can take up all EVs by a variety of different routes.
Whereas other publications seem to suggest that EV uptake is very cell type specific,
and may be context-specific, and also perhaps uptake mechanism specific.
So I quite like, I think the idea of context and
tissue specific uptake is quite cool, and it's quite interesting, so
I'm going to give a couple of examples of this.
But we have to bear in mind that some of these differences
in what different labs observe may come down to the differences in isolation,
technique, or the different kind of EVs that are being looked at.
So we need to do more work on this, but
I'm going to give you a couple of cool examples.
Okay, so cool example number one is the interaction between MUC1,
as we talked about earlier, and DC-SIGN.
The C type lect in DC-SIGN.
So there's a nice example in the literature of milk EVs.
So EVs extracted from milk seem to contain a high proportion, or
high degree of this like protein, MUC1.
And this specific kind of dendritic cell in this publication that's isolated,
interacts very strongly and
very specifically with milk EVs containing MUC1.
So this interaction here mediates the up of these EVs.
EVs from other sources may lack MUC1.
They don't seem to have MUC1 and so they're not taken up as efficiently,
suggesting that a nice sort of example, potentially, of specific uptake.
If we inhibit integrin-mediated uptake using RGD, peptides for
example, then we see differences in what different cell types
are blocked in terms of their EV uptake capacity.
So we see that, when we use these kind of blockers we reduce EV uptake
in dendritic cells and macrophages, but not so much in microglia.
So that suggests that these different cell types may take up via different routes,
or may use different protein-protein interactions in their uptake.
One example which I also, one last example which I also want to mention,
which I haven't actually written down in the slide.
But I think it's a really, really cool example,
was recently published in Nature by David Liden's group.
And they really beautifully showed that EV's have
an important role to play in metastasis in cancer cells.
So cancer cells, different cancers seem to have a different tropism,
if you like, for what different kinds of organ they like to metastasize to.
And this may come down to the protein content of the EVs.
So their group showed in this really nice publication.
They showed that the different cancer cell lines have different kinds of integrins,
so the different integrins in the EVs that they release.
So it seems that the different integrins act almost as like an address book,
deciding where these EVs can go to, what cells will take up these EVs.
And once they get taken up by those specific cells at the specific location,
for example, it might be the liver, it might be the brain, or the bone.
So, depending on what intergrins the EV has determines which cells,
which of these cells take up the EVs and once the EVs go in,
they seem to create a pre-metastatic niche.
So, they're kind of seeding the soil,
if you like, preparing the ground for the later uptake of cells, and
thus colonization of this secondary site by that cancer cell.
So it's really, really quite cool work, and
it shows that there may well be a degree of tissue specificity.
But for now, I'll leave that and say, it's uncertain,
there's evidence for both cell type specific and more generic uptake.
And actually, I think this is a really cool area of research.
Okay, another really important question is to do with the heterogeneity of
EV uptake, so an important question, which is the prevalent pathway?
So, I put a load of different paths, I haven't put them all on here,
there are various different pathways.
I talked to you in part one, about the different uptake mechanisms.
I talked about endocytosis, which I've included in here,
I've talked about lipid raft uptake, mediated uptake.
I've talked about macropinocytosis, and I talked about phagocytosis.
So I'm just going to put these here for now.
But the point I want to make in this particular side is
can all types of EVs be taken up by all of these different pathways?
I think it's fair to say that most methods of preparing EVs
produce a degree of heterogeneity in the kinds of EVs that are present.
As nice and specific as we'd like to think these preparation techniques are,
there is a degree of heterogeneity.
And so these different EVs may contain different proteins,
may be of different sources.
I think it's quite hard to tell at the moment,
it's one of the areas we really need to work on as a community.
So a question then is if we have these different kinds of EVs in a heterogeneous
mix, so we have all these different EV's everywhere with different proteins,
maybe different sources.
Can they all go in by all the different methods?
So can they all, for example, go in by endocytosis?
Can all of these different EVs go in by endocytosis?
Can all of these different types of EV go in by lipid rafts.
Can they all go in by phagocytosis?
Can they all enter the cell by macropinocytosis?
And again, this links to the heterogeneity of EVs.
We just, at the moment, I would say we don't know whether this is the case,
whether all uptake mechanisms can take up all the different kinds of EVs.
So it could be like this, or on the other hand, it might be slightly different.
So, it might be that the heterogeneity in uptake of EVs, is
reflected, I suppose, in the different specificities of the different pathways.
So, it might be that, for example,
let's say we have a class of EVs within this heterogeneous mix, which is blue.
Obviously it is not really actually blue, but it might contain a certain protein.
So it might be that within the heterogeneous mix,
the ones which have this specific protein go in by endocytosis.
And another group, the yellow ones here, might go in by lipid rafts.
And the green ones might go in by phagocytosis.
And the red ones might all skirt around the cell until they can find a way [SOUND]
where they can go in by macropinocytosis.
And actually, it's hard to distinguish between these two methods.
Whenever you use an inhibitor against any of these given pathways,
you never completely lose uptake of EVs, which can suggest then,
it's harder to tell if that's because if you block a single pathway.
You are preventing the uptake of all of these vesicles by that particular pathway,
but all of the other pathways can still take up EVs.
Or whether you're blocking the uptake of a specific subportion of the EVs.
And the problem is that we don't have enough EV markers.
We need, desperately, more EV markers.
I think this has to be an important push for the EV field to start to look for
these different kinds of markers so we can start to get a handle on what
the different mechanisms of uptake are with regards to the heterogeneity of EVs.
So more work.
Another consideration is the use of pharmacological inhibitors.
Now, these are great.
These are brilliant for starting to unravel the mechanisms of EV uptake.
But some are not as specific as we would like them to be, and
well this makes life quite difficult.
So we here have our picture of the different kinds of pathway.
So if we use for example cytochalasin D which inhibits actin polymerization,
this is often used as a mark or as a tool to block endocytosis.
But it doesn't tell us what kind of endocytosis it is, and to be honest,
if you're inhibiting actin polymerization, you potentially are going to have really
quite pleiotropic effects across the cell, and we may affect other uptake mechanisms.
Dynasore, I still love that name dynasore.
Dynasore is also used to block endocytosis.
It's a dynamin-2 inhibitor, but dynamin-2 is involved involved in
caveolae independent endocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
So we can't necessarily tell the difference in terms of what
dynasore is affecting.
So if we see a reduction in uptake of EVs,
we don't necessarily know which is the prevalent pathway here.
Wortmannin two, sorry excuse me, wortmannin is a drug
which is used to inhibit PI3-kinase.
And we think that PI3-kinase signaling is involved in phagocytosis.
But the thing is, PI3-kinase is also involved in macropinocytosis.
So, again, if we use Wortmannin to block PI3-kinase,
we don't necessarily know whether it's because it's blocking phagocytosis or
because it's blocking macropinocytosis or because of some other pleiotropic effect.
Methyl beta-cyclodextrin again, is thought to inhibit lipid raft mediated uptake, but
there's also evidence that it may inhibit caveolin-independent endocytosis.
So again, this basically means that whatever inhibitor we're using
we can't be 100% sure about its degree of specificity on how specific
it's blocking that pathway that we're interested in.
So we have to interpret some of these results with a little bit of caution.
And I suppose for maximum power, if you'd like, it's best to use these inhibitors,
but then also combine them with other techniques like RNAi.
One final slide of consideration, that I just want to put on there is,
could uptake actually be due to natural recycling of the plasma membrane?
Could it be this sort of passive endocytosis, if you like?
So if we have EVs which are attaching, they're flying around and
then they attach to the cell, could it be that the uptake of these EVs?
It's not because of some active mechanism which is reeling them in, but
could it actually be that they are passively
taken up when the plasma membrane is naturally recycled.
So the plasma membrane is recycled on a constant basis.
The membrane is brought in and is replaced with fresh membrane.
So it could be that as the membrane is naturally recycled in,
that the EVs that happen to be sitting on that bit of
membrane are passively brought into the cell.
But this actually seems quite unlikely because of the rapid speed of EV uptake
suggest a much more directed and active process.
And also the number of different examples of antibodies blocking specific
uptakes suggesting that it's a directed active process.
So it seems unlikely, I'd argue.
Is uptake actually needed?
Well, this is kind of full circle now because in one of the first slides in part
one, we gave an example of how sometimes you don't need uptake.
Sometimes EVs can have their effects by interacting at the cell surface and
then activating certain cell signaling pathways.
Different vesicles, different mechanisms, microvesicles, exosomes.
Could they be going in via the same route, or by a different route?
And again, the answer is we don't really know.
Most of the studies being done are being done with exosomes.
But it'll be really interesting to find out whether microvesicles and
exosomes take different routes in.
It'll be pretty cool to find out.
Okay, so summary for part two, then.
I hope I've convinced you that understanding EV uptake is really,
really important and also really cool.
It's important for a number of different reasons that we've talked about earlier.
It's important because EVs are involved in health.
They're involved in homeostasis and
regulating all these different biological processes.
That's what we're discovering and why it's so interesting and cool.
They're also involved in disease.
If they're involved in health and when they go wrong, they're bound to be
involved in disease and that is, indeed, what people are finding.
They're also important therapeutically, therapeutic targets and
therapeutic delivery vehicles.
So really, really important to understand uptake.
Protein interactions are involved and lipids may also be involved.
There is some evidence for tissue specificity and I gave some examples.
EV heterogeneity gives us a big headache and complicates things but
also give us a really interesting opportunity because there is
load of experiments and cool stuff we can find out.
We need to do more experiments and we also need more tools.
One of the great difficulties with working with EV's is the low
amounts of IMP arterial that we have, but
again these are all issues which are fun to work on.
There's so many different questions that we can ask.
It's such a nascent fields is what makes it so exciting.
Okay, it will all be worth it though, because EVs are really cool and fun.
And that's why we're all here and doing this stuff, because it's cool.
I hope I said the word cool enough.
Okay so acknowledgments in case you missed my slide from part one.
So I'd like to thank ISEV for asking me to give this nice talk and also for
all the cool work that they're going.
I'd like to thank everyone in my lab, all the people who are in the lab now and
all the people who've left the lab, have worked in the lab in the past.
Laura Mulcahy who has just submitted her thesis, well done,
Laura, and helped to write the review on exosome uptake.
I'd like to thank my funders over the last few years.
And also my lovely collaborators whom,
sorry I can't fit everyone in because of the font size.
But I couldn't fit everyone in.
But it's a pleasure working with everyone.
And also if you like that Twitter sphere thing, then there's my Twitter thing.
So thank you all very much for listening and have fun doing exosome and
EV work because it's cool.
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"Ottawa Tractor Protests" Dairy farmers are aware that Harper, Barry and the other fuckers are trying to secretly TPP them (TPing happens on Halloween, but TPPing happens all year). Tragically - and why am I not surprised? - all three big Canadian parties are gay for 'free' trade. Canadians are going to have to develop a taste for hormones.
"General Electric to shift engine plant to Canada, creating 350 jobs" A contribution to Harper's reelection campaign, for which future favors in return will be expected and given.
Candidate dumping in Canada is getting weird: "B.C. Liberal candidate quits race over 9-11 Facebook post":
"A media report says Maria Manna said in a Sept. 11, 2013 post that she knows the truth about who’s responsible for the attacks on the United States and that love is the answer."
"Geert Wilders’ Dutch anti-Muslim party forced to reveal US donor" Supremacism summit (blue-brown): "Frank Gaffney Interviews Jared Taylor" (frankly, I couldn't be bothered to listen).
"Notes on Syria - 29 September 2015" "Under Russian Pressure U.S. Accepts "Unified", "Secular" Syrian State" "Trump Sides With Putin On Syria: "You Should Let Russia Destroy ISIS As Opposed To Saying 'We're Jealous'"" Despite the fact he's all Jewed up, Trump often sounds like the candidate for the mythological Paleocon Party.
Erdoğan and other losers: "War On Syria; Not Quite According To Plan Part 4: The Undoing Of The Plotters"
Btw, Assad's army has turned things around so quickly, before Russian assistance could possibly have helped, that I have to wonder if Putin isn't just covering for Iran/Hezbollah help. Of course, Russian involvement provides space: "What Does Russia’s Power Move in Syria Mean for Turkey?":
"Now, the following question arises: Will Ankara stick to its rules of engagement if airplanes approaching the border have the Russian star on their wings? My guess is that the rules of engagement will not be enforced against Russian aircraft, thus ending the de facto air cover for the rebels."
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"Toronto Sun: We Value Criticism And The Voice Of The Reader So Much, We're Killing Both" We're going to be seeing a lot more of this as the superiority of the comments over the lying drivel of the 'journalists' becomes too obvious, though removing the crayoned comments of the knuckle draggers who read the Toronto Sun isn't a huge loss.
"Apple Censors App That Tracks Drone Strikes, Calling It 'Objectionable Content'"
The CIA weighs in: "Why Obama and Putin are Both Wrong on Syria"
"Obama, Putin, Rouhani UN Speeches, September 28th, 2015"
I thought it was impressive that Barry was able to give his UN speech carrying Haim Saban on one shoulder and George Soros on the other. "The Power of False Narrative" by Robert Parry. Barry's a dead-ender, and shows he knows it in his delivery. All of his criticisms - and they are very pointed towards what everybody blames on the US - apply directly, and obviously, to what the United States does. Barry's defensiveness was particularly striking when he talked about the Nudelman ruination of Ukraine, smirking and acting like he was talking to a kindergarten class.
"Kunstler Rages "Perhaps America Has Gotten What It Deserves""
"America’s Proxy War in Syria: Are Washington War Hawks Losing their Grip over Middle East Politics?" The beauty is that Putin and the rest of the world can behave morally and decently without asking permission of the monster Jewish billionaires who tell Barry what to do.
"Reading betweeen the lines of Putin's UN speech: US is cornered in Syria"
Here's a first, assassination by stampede: "The mystery of Iran’s missing ambassador – Arash Karami/Al-Monitor"
"Jeremy Corbyn: 9/11 was 'manipulated'"
"The Western Media Is Dying and Here's Why"
"Petraeus reborn!" Memorize a few Jewish supremacist talking points and you can return from any scandal or a lifetime of demonstrated incompetence.
"a CD they produced which describes how Arabs can be burned alive"
"A Nuclear Power Confronting Slingshots, Israeli Hypocrisy Finds an Ally in The NY Times"
"Pope Francis Set to Canonize Islamic Missionary Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of ISIS" Bravo!
No-cry zone
"Civil society and human rights organizations call on Canada to lead Syrian no-fly zone" Neocons! Wake up! That barn door is shut, and Putin is riding the horse, bare-chested! Having said that, I would enjoy watching MiGs shoot Canadian planes out of the Syrian skies.
"To Stem the Flow of Refugees, Stop the Syrian Regime’s Barrel Bombs" From the reliably hilarious ultra-Zionist, Kenneth Roth.
"Bashar al-Assad is still the problem" Written, ironically, by Research Fellows at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College London.
"UPDATED: "We know everything" - Putin's interview on American CBS PLUS what was cut from the interview" "What CBS edited out of Putin's interview: "US is preparing opposition forces to fight Assad, who then flee to ISIS with American weapons" (UPDATED)"
"In "Sweeping" Interview, Putin Calls US Syria Strategy "Illegal", Details Russia's Support For Assad"
"Russia seizes initiative in Syria" Note how carefully Putin picks his spots, exploiting the real contradictions between American national interest and what the Jewish billionaires force corrupt politicians to do for World Jewry. He is working on the same contradictions in Europe to eventually break the Nudelman sanctions. Note that the Nudelman ruination of Ukraine, and the anti-Russian sanctions, were put in place as World Jewry feared exactly what Putin is doing in Syria.
"What will Obama and Putin talk about?"
Bizarro CENTCOM Twitter feed! Petulant children on the playground, upset at the time-out!
"The Terrible Flight from the Killing" I'm enjoying how the crisis has backfired on Zionism, motivating Merkel to back Putin's sanity, backing which puts the fear in the Americans of a long overdue European pivot to Russia/China.
"What ‘Axis of Evil’? Iran’s President Makes Nice in New York – Newsweek" Iran is suddenly the lynch pin in solving Middle Eastern problems, and Israel is, at best, a nuisance.
"EU labeling of West Bank goods is a ‘red line,’ Israel’s top diplomat warns"
"Shell says it will abandon oil exploration in Alaska Arctic" Shell has concluded the world-wide depression, the real reason for the plunge in oil prices, isn't ending.
"Protests at Ann Coulter Book Signing – And It’s Not Immigrants!"
"“She’s going down”: Star GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on why Hillary Clinton won’t be the Democratic nominee":
"I’m very fond of the 1968 analogy for the Democratic primary. I’m writing this piece for HBO, and it’s set in the early ’60s, so I’m reading a lot about this, so I may be under the influence; but I think that Bernie Sanders is very likely to play the role of Eugene McCarthy, knocking off a de facto incumbent.
I doubt he will be the nominee, but I also doubt that Hillary Clinton will be. I think Hillary Clinton has a superb campaign so far. Technically, her campaign staff — it’s as good as it gets. But we’ve really never seen a campaign like this; it just continues to go down. Most campaigns always stop — like, they’ll go down, they’ll go up, they’ll plateau. She’s just going down.
Some folks within her campaign — and some of her supporters who aren’t involved, officially — chalk that up in part to media bias. As someone who’s been in the situation of running a campaign and having to grapple with the media and its biases, what’s your gut response when you hear those kinds of complaints?
Give me a break. They say the New York Times [is against her]; a paper that’s endorsed every Democrat since Truman, if not before. It’s an absurdity. What they’re really saying, I think, is that they’re not being treated the same way as Barack Obama was in 2008 — which I think is true. But I don’t think we’ll ever see that again, and I think [the complaint] is sort of like showing up at the Super Bowl and saying, “Someone’s trying to tackle me!” I think it’s a joke."
I smell toast
"Fed Refuses To Comment On Yellen's Health" "How Long Will Janet Yellen Last as Fed Chair? Fed Declines to Comment on Her Health, I Will" The American television networks all need to have a neurologist on staff to analyze if and when American public officials are having a stroke. With the obvious and speedy American decline, we shouldn't be surprised that both Yellen and Clinton are suffering from obvious problems, and the emperor has new clothes (i.e., we mustn't talk about it, as it would breach their 'privacy', which is much more important than having brain-damaged leaders). The United States is a country having a stroke.
"The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and her Military-Contractor Husband" (Greenwald). It is difficult not to notice - but we somehow manage! - that our 'Jewish Problem' is much, much greater than their hobby of killing people and stealing land in the Middle East.
"Soros / CIA Plan To Destabilize Europe – Wayne Madsen" It is also difficult not to notice that the peculiar Jewish obsession with wrecking Europe - a place that 'paid' for the Holocaust by becoming the most prosperous place on earth - is connected with revenge. See also Nudelman's ruination of Ukraine.
America is getting well polled these days: "Poll: One-Third of Americans Would Refuse to Hide a Jew During the Holocaust – Hollywood Reporter" Would you hide a Kagan or a Kristol?
"A new encyclopedia of Jew-hatred – Zvi Mazel /The Times of Israel"
Note that the new honesty reflects a perception of a diminution in Jewish power. A tiny area has opened up for Jew-skepticism, based on the idea that you just might have a small chance of getting away with truth without immediate and terminal retribution.
"Response to US Campaign’s accusations against If Americans Knew – Alison Weir" The lite attack on Weir is good, as it provides publicity to Weir, hidden from Americans by the Jew-controlled media, and provides the ultimate proof of the vile trickery of lite Zionism.
"With Iran deal, & Russia in Syria, is Israel being Boxed In?"
"Russia Checks Western Lies on Syria" The entire Zio-American edifice of power is based on obvious lies, and none more obvious than Barry's incoherent/self-contradictory relationship with ISIS, caused by his trying to do a Yinon on Syria, and the whole thing immediately collapses with just the slightest push from moral and decent people.
"Three universities and NDP candidate still missed ‘Auschwitz’: Mallick" Mallick is usually smarter than this. Young people, hip to the realities of the massive and violent abuse of power by World Jewry, but having to sit through days of mawkish drivel about Jewish suffering, fight back by pretending never to have heard of the Holocaust. Holocaust memory dysfunction is a meme.
"The case for deconstructing Syria" Dead-ender neocons working for Saban and promoted by Bezos still on the horse after Putin slammed the barn door. See also: "This is what this non-expert of the Middle East wants to do with Syria"
"It’s Time to Rethink Syria" ("Philip Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2013-15 he was White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region.")
"Is America now destined to become the World’s Pariah along with its master, Israel?":
"Ponder the important events that have or will be occurring in the month of September 2015. The Pope makes a visit to America to meet with President Obama, to speak to the US Congress and to speak to the United Nations after visiting Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro. And the Pope has suggested that America stop being the World’s biggest arms exporter as part of his message promoting World Peace. President Putin is coming to New York to participate in the UN General Assembly session September 24 and to meet privately with President Obama. It certainly seems that a major shift in World power in now taking place with America’s and Israel’s power being transferred to the United Nations, Russia and China.
It is believed that President Putin will be attempting to assemble a coalition to defeat ISIL/ISIS/Daish/El Nusra/Al Qaeda which is actually a plan to defeat the private CIA and Israeli mercenaries that have been sheep-dipped as Islamic radical terrorists. Instead most of these individuals are deeply mind-kontrolled fanatics run by Zionist team leaders. For Putin to propose this is truly a major turning point and suggests that he is close to breaking the back of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM) and its associate the Bush Crime Cabal aka the Directorate of the CIA.
Stay tuned because it is likely things are going to get very interesting fast as the the rest of the World continues to turn against America and Israel, and the US Petro Dollar ceases to be the World’s Reserve Currency."
Assad is a winner
"Russia Returns to the Middle East" by Israel Shamir. Solid. Note the sympathetic treatment of Turkey. Once the dust settles, Russia still wants to do the gas deal with Turkey. The Turks thought they has a better bargaining position due to thinking Russia's need to circumvent the stealing Ukrainians left them with no options: "European energy firms agree to expand Nord Stream pipeline with Gazprom". Nord Stream 2 was the quiet death of the Zio-American plan to cut off Europe from Russian energy, but while the Europeans will do anything to wreck Europe for Zionism, no energy was a demand too far.
"The Syrian Rift: 10 Major Developments"
"Assad Is a Winner as Russia Is Seen Making New Offer at UN – Kambiz Foroohar/Bloomberg Business"
"U.S.-trained fighters in Syria gave equipment to al-Qaeda affiliate" We're hearing about all these ridiculous cock-ups because some people in the Pentagon are tired of the US military being abused for Zionist treason.
"Why Does Everybody Sound So Anti-Semitic All of a Sudden? – J J Goldberg/Forward.com" Jewish billionaire in-fighting has caused a very slight lifting of the usual protections for Jewish supremacism.
Vela Incident
NDP candidate unfamiliar with all the fine details of ancient history. Phallic?!
NDP candidate forced to resign after insulting the Taliban.
"Conservative candidate claims Muslim ‘agenda’ in refugee crisis: Tim Harper"
The NDP's e-x-t-r-e-m-e right-wing policies are starting to cost them in the polls. Is it too late to replace Mulcair? The Canadian election could well turn into another example of a terrible political choice against self-interest based solely on how much people enjoy being haters.
"Paul-Éric Blanrue and the Jews: From Celebration to Censorship":
"The book ended up having to be released by an obscure publisher outside of France – Belgium’s Oser Dire – and then faced difficulties even to find a distributor to enter French bookstores, requiring four months to do so. In June 2009, Blanrue hosted a press conference in Paris to promote the book. The event attracted a room-full of attendees, but only two journalists: an independent Englishwoman and Marc de Miramon of the Communist L’Humanité. Shortly after the Parisian bookstore Résistances, which had placed Sarkozy in the window display, was ransacked by thugs from the Jewish Defense League – an extremist ethnic militia banned in Israel and the United States, but which enjoys free rein in France – its computers and books destroyed, the latter by drenching them in oil. Again, there was virtually no media coverage of this equivalent of book-burning."
"Reykjavík wasn’t ready for “brutal” Zionist backlash, says Israel boycott author" Moral and decent people have to be prepared for the usual thuggery.
"Reports: Chinese ships head to Syria" We need to return to the spirit of the Spanish Revolution, with moral and decent people from all over the world fighting the forces of Evil.
"Iran's Parchin nuclear myth begins to unravel" The warmongering lies spread by one unnamed country - take a wild guess! - are falling apart.
"Why Israelis can burn Palestinians alive and get away with it"
"Exclusive: Serial Podcast Eyes Bowe Bergdahl for Upcoming Season"
"Remembering the Mysterious "Vela Incident" 36 Years Later":
"Over the years, the prime suspect for the Vela Incident has been a joint South African-Israeli nuclear test."
"Jimmy Savile: BBC fears inquiry indictment over abuse failure" "Russell Brand exposes UK’s pedophile politicians" Another example of everybody knowing something against the government's increasingly bizarre and desperate attempts at cover-up. Of course, the deep reason for the desperation is to protect those covering up, including the BBC, and to maintain the blackmail system (never forgetting that a large reason for the blackmail is to encourage Zionism).
"Book Proposal Says Bill Cosby Had His Son Killed By Hitman"
Racism makes people happy
"The Scott Walker Syndrome" It is interesting how attractive racism is. Racism makes people happy, and covert racism makes people happiest. Voters living in a first world kind of state will jump into electing a politician who clearly wants to turn the state into a southern hellhole on behalf of the 0.1%, merely if he has a way to tap into the joys of hidden racism. The Trump phenomenon is similar, with the code word of the populist right being 'immigration'. Racism is why hillbillies can never have nice things.
Harper's campaign in Canada, which was faltering, has turned around as he brought in an expert dog-whistler from Australia to lead his campaign.
"French far-right leader to face trial for inciting racial hatred"
"Russian Army starts destroying Islamic State in Syria" From the introduction by Dr. Patrick Slattery:
"By the way, today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. So let’s send our very special greetings to our Jewish friends on what must be the busiest day of the Jewish calendar!"
I'd like to see an international anti-Zionist force, akin to the anti-fascists of the Spanish Civil War, be involved in this, particularly the BRICS, and particularly China. This makes sense, as China is intended to be a major target of the neocon ISIS state.
"AIPAC’s Democrat Problems Go Beyond Obama" Flawed, as it doesn't take into account there were two groups of Jewish billionaires fighting here. AIPAC lost solely because it was fighting a more powerful group of Jewish billionaires. Part of the larger plan was to create this 'loss' so parasite Israel could extract more loot from its host.
"Murder on Shuhada Street"
"Is America ready for a Jewish president? The anti-Semitism facing Bernie Sanders – Matthew Rozsa/Salon.com" (note the typical conflating of Jewishness with skepticism at a blood-pouring-from-the-fangs ultra-militant Zionist):
"Back in 1937, only 46 percent of Americans said they’d be willing to vote for a Jewish presidential candidate; 30 years later, that number had only increased to 82 percent."
If you look at the link, you'll see that Jewishness, unlike being a Mormon or old or gay, isn't an issue, though these other groups aren't actively involved in building an empire on the land of other people.
Logical political argument
"All Republican Presidential Candidates Stand For War" by Paul Craig Roberts. How about "All Presidential Candidates Stand For War"?
"A Confused Situation as to Syria and ISIS" The neocon plan was to set up an ISIS state which could then be used as a base for attacks against Russia and China. Sounds daft, but it is just an extension of the original plan to use bin Laden and his fighters against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. That turned out well!
"Turkish-Uyghur Terror Inc. - America's Other Al Qaeda"
Allen's departure to spend more time with his shekels may be the most important positive development of the year. Note there is some push-back against the vile schemers:
"Gen. Allen is fourth US commander in Afghanistan to be fired or embroiled in controversy" (it is hilarious that the excuse to get Allen out of Afghanistan was ""inappropriate communications" with the second woman involved in the Petraeus case, a Florida socialite", while the excuse to get him out of the ISIS promotion business is his sick wife!!!);
"Gen. John Allen Resigns, Forfeiting Potential NATO Nomination" "The Real Reason Gen. Allen Resigned Cites Genuine Health Concerns For Wife But Investigation Of His Thousands Of E-Mails To And From General's Groupie Jill Kelley Sealed His Fate - Despite Being "Totally Cleared" By Pentagon Inspector General's Office, Allen Lost Out On Top NATO Job - Obama Gave Him Gentle "Push""
"Obama administration's envoy to anti-Islamic State coalition to resign".
"Heil Rubio: Can This Be For Real?" Rubio, whose main backer is a Jewish billionaire, is now 'unclean' in the degrees of Kevin Bacon kinda way that passes for logical political argument these days.
"Could Daesh/ ISIS bring Russia and the west together?" In a sane world it should - common existential threat - but World Jewry will move mountains to ensure that it does not happen.
The only czars are Russian
"Obama's Islamic State War Czar Stepping Down" Even by the craptastic standards of Washington, this is pretty amazing. The guy whose stated sole job it was to get rid of ISIS, who actually spent all his time trying to assist ISIS as much as covertly possible, leaves the second Putin steps up to actually get rid of ISIS. I guess the general left to spend more time with his shekels.
"RUSI Announces New Director General"
"As Russia supports Iran in Syria, Netanyahu Loses Again"
Putin had to wait for the Iran deal. World Jewry's terror at the prospect of peace is starting to appear to be well founded. Note how The Empire folds up like a cheap suitcase if anybody is brave enough to do the right thing.
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"What the British are really laughing about":
"In each case, Thatcher is now thought to have been warned by security services about the deviancy of these men, but is alleged to have studiously ignored it. When it comes to secret-keeping and elite power, it is not out of the question that in knowing they were child abusers, Thatcher would have had political leverage over these allies of hers, and so promoting them would have helped her strengthen her own power while in office."
"Smith-Schock ties attract scrutiny"
"Army plots against British PMs are not new" by Jonathan Cook
"After Al Qaeda Declares War on ISIS, US Unsure Which Terrorists To Back" I think this is satire, but given Barry's incoherent foreign policy, it is hard to tell.
"Why Syria is Russia's Stalingrad" If American foreign policy is in fact coherent, it is insane.
"Joshua Goldberg Plot Thickens: FBI Won’t Indict Him “Because Maybe He’s Mentally Ill”" "Anti-Muslim Activists Still Think Ahmed Mohamed May Have Built 'Half A Bomb'"
"The Diary of Ann Coulter" by Jim Goad
"What is Bibi's leverage in Moscow?"
"How The NY Times Hides the Scandal of US-Israeli War Crimes" Bibi's coming to Washington to pick up his check. It would be good if Barry forced him to pose with one of those giant checks with all the zeros in plain view and handed it to him as if World Jewry had just won a game show.
"Ukraine & Europe: What Should Be Done?" "Mr. Putin’s Mixed Messages on Syria" It is true what they say, Jews are the best comedy writers.
Tweet (J. Ali) (also):
"This is the best thing to come out of the Internet today."
Dead pig
"German mayor blames Israel for Syrian refugee crisis" Duh! A lot of big problems can be fixed only after you identify the real culprit.
"Jewish Mag May Dump Coulter Column Over Tweets":
"“She could have been drunk, she could have been high, I don't know, I have to give her the benefit of the doubt…but I don't have to delude myself,” Binyamin Jolkovsky, who has served as the publication’s editor-in-chief for nearly 18 years, told The Daily Beast. “Pandering to Jewish money is about as anti-Semitic a stereotype as you could put forth. Her ‘eff-ing Jews’ comment is not identifying Israel—it’s identifying Jews, plural, and all Jews. There is no excuse for that. You can't just wiggle out of something that vile and hateful.”"
"Ann Coulter’s Faux Pas: Calling Attention to Jewish Influence" by Kevin MacDonald. A curious phenomenon is that white nationalists, fearful that the Jews will declare her unclean and ban her permanently from the media, are redefining her tweets to make them seem less dangerous. The problem is not so much what she said, but that she 'went there', opened a door that is meant to be permanently closed, saying something obvious to everybody but impossible to say due to fear.
"Hirsh vs. Corbyn" by Gilad Atzmon. These are educational times on multiple fronts. After a long dark time when people made choices based on being fooled about the nature of their true enemies, leading to horrible wars, loss of all personal freedoms, austerity directly caused by the cost of the horrible and unnecessary wars, and the complete destruction of the protections of international law (note that there is one country in the world that doesn't have to take refugees, and it is a hate crime to even suggest it!), there is actually room for optimism as we see the start of a 180 degree shift.
"Crown Prince Hamdan’s Disgraced Older Brother" "DUBAI DESIGNATES CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY RULER". (Note, I think I had the dead prince as poet wrong yesterday). Assassination to remove a problem has to be in the possible conspiracy mix.
These princes with too much money and time are a constant problem: "Owner of speeding Ferrari in Beverly Hills is drag-racing Qatar prince" "Qatari sheik sought in L.A. streetrace may be in Vancouver"
"The push for “humanitarian invasion” continues" The 'humanitarians' are going too far. Fixing the problem by doing more of what caused the problem is obvious nonsense to everybody, and hiding the real Zionist motives behind this evil is impossible.
"Flashback to 2011: Libya’s “Liberators” Sarkozy, Cameron and Erdogan congratulate NATO" How many massively horrible mistakes do these pig fuckers get to make?
From 2015: "Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS"
"How To End The Refugee Flood" by Eric Margolis:
"How to stop today’s flood of political refugees? Halt the western-led war against Syria. Today. Cease arming and funding the anti-Assad jihadis. The United States, France, Britain and the Saudis can quickly end the Syrian bloodbath by cutting off arms and money.
Europe – particularly Germany – could use the mainly middle-class Syrian refugees now pouring in. But Europe does not need – and should not accept – economic refugees from black Africa looking for a better life. They must be turned away and sent home, as difficult as that will be to do.
As we listen to all the hypocritical moralizing in the West over refugees, just remember the warnings of Chirac and DeVillepin. There are now 3.1 million displaced people in Iraq as a result of the US invasion. Add two million refugees in Afghanistan caused by the Soviet, then US invasions. Add Somalia and Libya. All the result of western military misadventures."
"RECIPE FOR DISASTER: How supporting Syrian rebels put US foreign policy into disarray: Part 2: Regional proxies and a covert CIA programme" by Patrick Bahzad. Americans have been Zionist stooges for some time now, but have always managed to come up with some explanation to attempt to base American actions and policy on American national interest. The explanations were bogus, but at least they existed. With Syria and ISIS, it is impossible to miss the 100% contradiction between the ideology of the Global War On Terror and the American position.
"Clock Ticks On US Syria Strategy As Assad Pounds ISIS Targets, Russia Sends Fighter Jets"
"The US and Russia will be allied against the jihadis"
"Putin: Friend or Foe in Syria?" "Russia is not the enemy – Stephen Kinzer/The Boston Globe" "Obama’s Fateful Syrian Choice"
Death of a poet
Typical reporting: "Dubai ruler's son Sheikh Rashid dies at 33". Heart attack, no details.
There was an early attempt to describe the death as occurring in the middle of special ops in Yemen! Dubai is involved in the illegal American-Saudi attack on the people of Yemen, and the dead prince's father is the defense minister of Dubai. Wayne Madsen puts the father in the circle of Neil Bush (Valeri Belokon is, yes, a Jewish billionaire, and yes, it was the 'good' part of the bin Laden family running that collapsed crane that was working on the huge Saudi project to completely de-Islamicise Mecca).
Comment by Sarah to a mainstream report in Dawn (other comments here and elsewhere are skeptical of a 33-year-old heart attack victim):
"@hyat For heaven's sake don't throw up another conspiracy declaring his death 'a battle of crown', and his death is not mysterious by any chance. He was living in London after he was stripped off from his official duties in the Dubai. Yes, he was undergoing rehabilitation in the UK in 2007 but he had recovered in a years' time. It was just unfortunate for him to have died from a heart attack so people like you could create hype and news further. Whatever problems he has had with his family and himself are his PRIVATE MATTERS, NOT YOURS PLEASE. The man is dead, spare him your controversy."
Part of the 'existential threat' being fought by Putin in Syria is the drug trade run by Islamist terrorists, particularly heroin, which, perhaps ironically, is partly (largely?) run by Kurdish gangsters in Europe.
Fathomless loxism
Coulter was merely pointing out what is obvious to everyone, that these 'debates' consist of a man dressed in full Ultra-Orthodox clothing, with a face out of a Nazi caricature, walking onto the stage and throwing a shekel on the floor, with the debaters then spending the next hours in a bare-knuckle brawl over who gets it. It is embarrassing. The Coultercaust:
"Jews Simply Outraged Evil Anti-Semites Celebrate Ann Coulter’s Statements Against Them"
"Jew Seth Rogen has a Message for You Stupid Goyim Trolling Him on Twitter"
"What’s Flipping Yid Lids Today: The Coultercaust"
"Ann Coulter: #IStandWithAnn Trends On Twitter — Anti-Semites Rally To Defend Trump-Backing Pundit"
"Anti-Semites Flock to Ann Coulter’s Side"
"Dark undercurrents"
A palate cleanser from all that hatred skepticism: "What If Washington Were Jerusalem? – Stanley Weiss/HuffPo" Ha!
It's the Germans, whose threat to pivot to Russia-China hangs over everything, who have forced Barry to Syrian sanity: "US, Russia Hold Military Talks Over Syria; What Changed Obama's Tune?"
"Russia Increases Pressure To Stop The War On Syria" I like how Hillary tried to muscle in on credit for the Iran deal, so Barry, rightfully, throws her under the bus on Syria. By the way as Secretary of State, Hillary has Honduras, Syria and Libya on her plate, making her easily one of the worst and most evil holders of that office in American history. Kerry, for all his faults, will go down in the history books for Cuba and Iran, will probably pick up a Nobel Peace Prize, and will go down as one of the best.
"ISIS Leader Admits to Being Funded by the US"
"Meet The Obscure Company Behind America’s Syria Fiasco"
"VIP paedo cover-up" "More Child Abuse Files Disappear"
Ministry of Parasites
"Why Jeremy Corbyn Scares British Jews So Much" "Jeremy Corbyn and the 'Minister for Jews'" "The Sun’s Jewish Hypocrisy" He needs a Ministry of Jew-Skepticism, which will turn down all the Wars For The Jews which various Jews helpfully and patriotically suggest/demand that Britain fight, while apologizing that the British government, unlike, say, the American government, would prefer to have some money left to spend on social programs for its people (also, everybody's just a little tired of all the refugees caused directly by Wars For The Jews). Every progressive government needs such a ministry.
"Israel Up in Arms over the “Corbyn Threat”" "Jeremy Corbyn’s Dangerous Fantasies" This reads like a parody, but it is by Anne Applebaum, who is herself a parody.
"‘New Yorker’ says anti-Zionism is ‘firmly rooted’ in British left, and it’s anti-Semitic" Progressive politics is impossible without Jew-skepticism, which Jews choose to call anti-Semitism or Jew-hatred for propaganda purposes.
"The threat of Jeremy Corbyn’s radically anti-American agenda" (note how they treasonously slip in another country - perhaps Americans are starting to notice this constant treason from the Jew-controlled media):
"Mr. Corbyn espouses a foreign policy whose guiding principle is to oppose the United States and Israel by all means."
"Has Canada’s love affair with Israel reached its climax?" If you read the article, sadly, the answer is no. Shekels abound.
"Anti-Semites Flock to Ann Coulter’s Side – Emily Shire/The Daily Beast" "Coulter’s point is that Republicans pander on Israel to win donors, not voters" "Ann Coulter: “How Many F—ing Jews do These People Think There are in the United States?”"
"NYT Caves in to Jewish Pressure to Geld Table of Useful Information on Iran Deal"
Jewish violent racist group supremacism is suddenly a meme.
"Putin’s Line in the Sand: No Regime Change in Syria"
"Listening to Bashar al-Assad" "President Bashar al-Assad Interview: “We are at War with Terrorism, and this Terrorism is supported by Foreign Powers”"
""Congress rethinks anti-Assad stance" Al Monitor" Just priming the shekel tap.
"ISIS commander was trained by U.S. military"
"California city commissioner fired for proposing Israel divestment"
"Long Island synagogue marks High Holidays with thanks to Israeli soldiers in Gaza war"
My first link to Elle: "Yes, Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump Are Actually Friends"
Oyfn Veg, Shteyt a Boym
Thomas Friedman, like the concentration camp guard, has always maintained the whopper that he isn't simply a disguised Jewish group supremacist, but is actually a loyal and patriotic American, writing solely for American national interests. The stress of the Iran deal has made him throw off the cloak: "Iran Deal Players’ Report Cards – Thomas Friedman/The New York Times" You have to read these screeds in the contest of the fact that there is no Iranian nuclear program, and everybody in high-level Washington knows it. That's the tragedy of the Iran deal for Zionists: the shabbos goyim, in the face of direct Jewish orders, made a deal with a country that was reintroduced into the world of international commerce and influence without giving up anything. Note that Friedman's 'Middle East expert friend' came up with a curse in, naturally, Yiddish.
"Hidden History of Syria Regime Collapse Strategy Begins to Emerge" and the first comment and its links, particularly this one: "WATCH: Palestinian migrants on their way to Vienna sing along to Yiddish tune". Note how the Yinon goals cause mass destruction which causes the refugees, which are then funneled to Europe to cause Islamophobia, thus causing political support in Europe for more Wars For The Jews, leading inevitably to more destruction and more refugees! The brilliant Jews have discovered perpetual motion. This will continue until the stupid goyim break the Jewish cycle of hatred.
"Are Neocons an Existential Threat?" (Parry). Straightforward. It is now barely possible to write about such matters, but only using the euphemism 'neocons'.
"VIP Child Abuse Probe To Close?"
"EU Taxpayers to Pay 1 Bln Euros for Ukraine’s Gas" They should, but won't, send the bill to Nudelman.
"Destruction of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque is Israeli groups’ ultimate goal" Naturally not reported in the Jew-controlled media.
"WINEP discovers Russian intervention in Syria" "Habakkuk on the import of WINEP analysis" (and interesting comments). Note how rare it is to read such clarity (except, of course, here!). It is amazing how so many inexplicable conundrums can be easily solved by taking the approach you are not allowed to take.
"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm":
"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions. Jordan has challenged Syria's regional ambitions recently by suggesting the restoration of the Hashemites in Iraq. This has triggered a Jordanian-Syrian rivalry to which Asad has responded by stepping up efforts to destabilize the Hashemite Kingdom, including using infiltrations. Syria recently signaled that it and Iran might prefer a weak, but barely surviving Saddam, if only to undermine and humiliate Jordan in its efforts to remove Saddam.
But Syria enters this conflict with potential weaknesses: Damascus is too preoccupied with dealing with the threatened new regional equation to permit distractions of the Lebanese flank. And Damascus fears that the 'natural axis' with Israel on one side, central Iraq and Turkey on the other, and Jordan, in the center would squeeze and detach Syria from the Saudi Peninsula. For Syria, this could be the prelude to a redrawing of the map of the Middle East which would threaten Syria's territorial integrity.
Since Iraq's future could affect the strategic balance in the Middle East profoundly, it would be understandable that Israel has an interest in supporting the Hashemites in their efforts to redefine Iraq, including such measures as: visiting Jordan as the first official state visit, even before a visit to the United States, of the new Netanyahu government; supporting King Hussein by providing him with some tangible security measures to protect his regime against Syrian subversion; encouraging — through influence in the U.S. business community — investment in Jordan to structurally shift Jordan’s economy away from dependence on Iraq; and diverting Syria’s attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.
Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite."
"The Zionist Plan for the Middle East":
"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently. Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and
in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today."
"It's Not Obama's Fault: Six Rules to Live By"
"Israel may have one of biggest nuclear stockpiles in the world’ – whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg"
"Waposervativism" (I suppose it is obvious that this confusion is Zionist distortion, and any conventional analysis of Rubin will fail if Zionism is left out of the picture):
". . . what now distinguishes Right and Left is increasingly arbitrary. Theoretical distinctions have been invented to make the accommodation of interest group fit the need of our two institutionalized, government-financed “democratic” parties. Although there are differences between these sides, the ones that exist do not distinguish Right and Left. They are mostly about who pays off parties in return for favors. But once these interests become attached to different sides, the policies become litmus tests for who is on the Right and who is on the Left. Thus we have the case of Jennifer Rubin, in whom it is impossible to discern the slightest “conservative” substance but who in this wacky political world gets to tell us who is a “serious conservative.”"
"Russia exposes US’ hidden agenda in Syria" Jews going too far. Jewish control in Washington is so complete that they are actually finalizing, as part of their Yinon plan, the establishment of an Islamist terrorist state in the Middle East. This is a clear existential threat to Russia. Note this ULTRA IMPORTANT glimpse into the murk (my emphasis in red):
"Equally, Lavrov lifted the veil a little bit to let the Americans know that the Russian military intelligence has not only been monitoring the operations of the American military aircraft in Iraq but have scientifically analyzed the US aircraft’s flight plans and so on. In sum, Russians seem to have intelligence dope to substantiate something that the Iranians have been all along maintaining, namely, that the American aircraft are regularly airdropping supplies for the IS."
"Our Refugee Future":
"The West violates borders, then cringes when its own are ignored. Of course, no one wants to see his society turned upside down. This upheaval could be arrested if only the West would stop wrecking other peoples’ homelands, but this won’t happen. On a planet of exploding populations, dwindling resources and contracting economies, war will only become more pervasive. Many players, Western or otherwise, will instigate it in all corners of this exhausted earth. Massive refugee flows will be the wave of our near future. The mess in Europe is only a preview, so you better get used to it, and you should also consider the likelihood that you yourself will become a desperate escapee who must risk death to start all over in a strange land. Border walls will go up, but there are always ways around walls. Guards can be bribed."
It is simple - if you don't like mass migration, stop fighting and supporting the root cause, wars, and in particular for Europe, Wars For The Jews.
Instagram blackmail
"Author of infamous Stormfront article targeting /r/conspiracy arrested: FBI says 'Australian IS jihadist' is actually a Jewish American troll named Joshua Ryne Goldberg (self.conspiracy)" You really have to wonder what percentage of the white nationalists and racists on the internet are trolling Jews. Note the connection to Rita Katz.
"Today’s Blind Items – Instagram Blackmail":
"Well, this particular model hit pay dirt a couple of years ago. She met a Presidential candidate. At the time he was not running for office but he is now."
"'If you are worried about refugees, stop supporting terrorists' - Assad interview" Duh, but a few IQ points too high for the whining Europeans.
"What if Americans Had Known in 2013 that U.S. rejected Syria Deal in 2012?"
"Bernie Sanders Again Insists That Saudi Arabia Should Kill More People"
"Is Uber's ultimate goal the privatisation of city governance?" The in-your-face illegality of how they entered most markets may be part of the plan.
"The (Mostly) Ignored War on Yemen" "Not in the US press; not in the Arabic press"
Regime change: Australia, Corbyn, upcoming in Canada, and even Trump is pseudo-regime-changey.
If the Trump trick was cooked up by Bill and The Donald on a golf course to wreck the Republican Party and give Hillary a free pass to the White House, what happens if Trump does too well, starts to like it, and ends up running against Hillary, whose political judgment seems to be clouded by brain damage and the drugs she is on?
"The BBC's Credibility Crisis is Terminal" These days, you have to be able to muster at least pseudo-authenticity.
"Israel's Agent of Influence" Cardin is indubitably a traitor, but this analysis is flawed, as his deal was cooked up with Barry to make Barry's victory on Iran inevitable. Note the spin from a Zionist house organ (I knew it was all a big trick when Reid came out at the last moment in favor of the deal). Political theater to increase the pay-off: "Away From Spotlight, Israel and U.S. Begin post-Iran Deal Security Talks" AIPAC would have preferred a win, but those millions weren't wasted (particularly when you know that media buys are just movements from one Jewish billionaire pocket to another), and will be multiplied many times in the loot that World Jewry receives from Americans. The usual traitors will, of course, take the shekels and continue their efforts to annoy Iran.
"Al Aqsa Under Attack: The NY Times Blames Its Youthful Defenders" The Israelis are in the middle of a big military operation against a place of worship.
"After the Iran Deal: Obama, Netanyahu, and the Future of Israel – Jeffrey Goldberg/The Atlantic" The hilarity continues - Zionism is just like the American civil rights movement. "Israel’s Deep Role in Syrian Refugee Crisis: Saga of Yarmouk"
"Mike Hayden & Dennis Ross want Israel to have the MOP"
"Lavrov: US knows ISIS positions, refuses to bomb"
"Why you shouldn't trust zionist/mainstream media"
"Britain’s Labour Party ditches the Israel Lobby" If you look closely you'll see that much of the wailing over Corbyn is Jewish. They know that a true progressive leader is not 'good for the Jews'.
"Egyptian security forces accidentally shoot dead 12 Mexican tourists and guides"
Hilarious stupidity
"Israeli defense minister says government knows who was behind Duma attack, but won’t prosecute" The stated reason being that it would reveal their informants, who they are saving so they can fail to prosecute the perpetrators of future fatal arson attacks.
"Israel Rejects Compensation For Burnt Historic Christian Church"
"So What Are the Russians Really Doing in Syria?" So far, it is a public assertion of support for Assad, important, as the Jew-controlled media is obsessed with telling us that Putin has given up on Assad, and an increase of unknown degree in material support and military advisers.
"The Roots of the Migration Crisis" by Walter Russell Mead. Hilarious stupidity from a reliable source of hilarious stupidity. TL;DR?: the cause isn't the Jews and their American stooges, but some intellectual bullshit!
"Calling Bullshit On the Anti-Refugee Memes Flooding the Internet" The usual collection of photos from other conflicts, other places, other times.
"Cizre Under Siege: Week Long Curfew Leaves Over 30 Dead"
"Groups push university to adopt creed against anti-Semitism – Julie Watson/CNSNews" The usual supremacist crap - our particular suffering is uniquely important.
"Sorry For What, Hillary?" She's running the big risk, belatedly understood, that if she gets far enough behind Bernie in the early going that the Democrat big-wigs decide to run with anther horse, possibly Biden.
"Jean Chrétien says Stephen Harper 'has shamed Canada'"
"Blairite tears are not enough; we need heads on spikes." The Corbyn win is one of the few recent political events which is unequivocally good.
"Prison Writing" (Barrett Brown).
"Man Charged in Plot to Bomb Sept. 11 Memorial in Missouri" False flag. Also typical: "Wacko Jew Terrorist Joshua Goldberg Attempted to Infiltrate the Daily Stormer"
"part of the plan was to “foster tensions between Shiites and Sunnis. In particular, to take rumors that are known to be false...or exaggerations and promote them – that Iran is trying to convert poor Sunnis"
"US Propaganda War In Syria: Report Ties White Helmets To Foreign Intervention – MintPress (Investigative report Included)"
"PhD student forced to remove all WikiLeaks references from her dissertation" Cynthia McKinney!
"Netanyahu’s Victory Over Iran – Jeffrey Goldberg /The Atlantic" Very close to satire.
"Donald Trump’s Rise Sparks Widespread Angst Among Jewish Republicans" by Kevin MacDonald. I would have thought the smarter white nationalists would have seen through this stunt by now.
"Syria civil war: The Russians are coming to President Assad's aid... or are they?"
"Iraqi couple allege Alan Kurdi’s father was captain of boat that capsized"
"Erawan Shrine Bombing"
"4 reasons why Jeremy Corbyn could still lose the Labour leadership election" This looks like a way to cover up the vote fraud if the obvious winner doesn't win.
"Jonathan King; Murdered Kids"
"New York Times Jew-tracking graphic: A terrible way to cover a legitimate Iran deal topic. – Joshua Keating/Slate" "Influential Pro-Israel Group Suffers Stinging Political Defeat" Note that the AIPAC reaction may be to become more radical and more obviously partisan.
"CIA Kept U.S. Agencies in Dark about Investigation into Possible Diversion of Uranium from U.S. to Israel"
"Visas for Al-Qaeda, Part 2: Treachery" "Visas for Al-Qaeda, Part 3: Backstabbing"
"Angry Mobs Torch Kurdish Offices, Shops As Turkey Descends Into Chaos" Centrally directed sectarian violence, Kristallnacht-ish.
"Turkey and the misfortune of the Kurds":
"For decades, “progressive” forces, especially in North America and Europe, have taken up the cause of the Palestinians but remained silent about the far more numerous Kurds – silence all the more ironic given Israel’s serious but rejected offers for Palestinian statehood. Meanwhile Muslim and Arab states with large Kurdish populations remain hostile to the very idea of Kurdish statehood.
Reflecting on this disparity, the New Republic once said that the Kurds would have received the international attention they deserved if the Jews had been their enemies. The misfortune of the Kurds, it added, was that the Jews were not."
For decades, “progressive” forces, especially in North America and Europe, have taken up the cause of the Palestinians but remained silent about the far more numerous Kurds – silence all the more ironic given Israel’s serious but rejected offers for Palestinian statehood. Meanwhile Muslim and Arab states with large Kurdish populations remain hostile to the very idea of Kurdish statehood.
Reflecting on this disparity, the New Republic once said that the Kurds would have received the international attention they deserved if the Jews had been their enemies. The misfortune of the Kurds, it added, was that the Jews were not.
- See more at: http://www.cjnews.com/?q=node/143172#sthash.wdF1p7BT.dpuf"
"Report: Majority of Israeli oil imported from Kurdistan"
"9/11 Analysis: The Claim that ‘Able Danger’ Failed to Identify Mohamed Atta’s Probable Presence in the US in January 2000" 'Able Danger' is still the strongest attack to the Official Story of 9/11.
"Refugee flow linked to Turkish policy shift" (neither of these explanations is great, but there may be something to the second one):
"The analyses of several officials indicate that the influx from neighboring Turkey is taking place as Turkish officials look the other way or actively promote the exodus. According to one Greek official, security fears are a key reason for Turkey’s encouragement of migrant flows.
“Turkey is facilitating or at least is not hampering the movement of illegal immigrants toward Greece, thinking that in this way it will limit the risk of a possible new terrorist attack on its territory as a reprisal for the military operations it has carried out on Syrian soil,” the official said.
Another diplomat said Turkey wants to create a “dead zone” on its border with Syria that would allow the Turkish military to freely move against jihadists and Syrian Kurds. “This is why it is encouraging, or at least not obstructing, the movement of refugees from camps near the Syrian border to the Aegean and Greece,” he said."
"Did A Top Iran Hawk Think Tanker Go Berserk At The Cheney Speech?" "Is This How It Ends?" Clawson is the guy who suggested an Israeli false flag to trigger an American war against Iran: "WINEP discusses strategems for starting war with Iran."
"Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked"
"The Latest: Israel blames migrant crisis on militant Islam" Tweet (#ICC4Israel):
"#ISIS Real boss"
"Veteran British musician arrested in child sex abuse probe"
"Hillary Clinton Goes to Militaristic, Hawkish Think Tank, Gives Militaristic, Hawkish Speech" "Tracking "Emailgate" and "Apologygate"; Clinton's Half-Baked Apology; Lightning Strikes Twice"
"Why a Passenger Jet DID NOT Crash into the Pentagon on 9/11" Geese.
Sordid tales
"US Seeks Occupation as US Fighters Flood Syria" Brookings is Saban and Saban admits "I'm a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel." Future historians will note how curious it is that Jews set out their demands in step by step instructions, demands which are in the interests of the Zionist Empire but diametrically opposed to the interests of the West (as most of Europe could tell you right now), but the shabbos goyim follow the instructions like (bribed and blackmailed) robots.
"Visas for Al-Qaeda, Part 1: A Sordid Tale" Part 1 of 3.
"Tempers Flare on the Bullshit Express" "'Wrong Then, Wrong Now': White House Video Rips Cheney For Iran Deal Criticism" Barry's Cheney video is quite good, like shooting fish in a barrel, but notable as those easy to shoot fish are never shot in Washington.
"Amid Defeat, Fighting Iran Deal Was Righteous Jewish Resistance at Its Best – Rabbi Shmuley Boteac/Observer"
"Islam’s Conquest of Europe — Patrick Buchanan" It doesn't take much for 'anti-Semites', baited by the simple joys of racism, to be revealed as ultra-Zionists. The ability of Zionists to drag 'conservatives' around by the nose partly explains the great success of Zionism.
"Why Murdoch Pushes for War" There is a consistent pattern of Zionists combining personal financial interests with Zionist ideology.
"Haaretz’s Or Kashti on the rightwing religious takeover of the Ministry of Education" Another example of how seemingly random or inexplicable changes in general attitudes (e.g., the general shift in Israeli opinion to the ultra-ultra racist right) are meticulously planned over the course of generations.
"As Third Victim Dies, Arsonists Get a Pass in Israel (and in The NY Times)" Sadly, you can't embarrass the NYT into doing its job.
"Dark Waters: Hurricane Katrina, the Politics of Disposability and the Racism of Malcolm Gladwell" Glibertarianism, which is supposed to be rational, dispassionate, and scientific, is actually quite racist. Gladwell is another example of a writer celebrated, not because he is any good, but because he reinforces the prejudices of the 1%.
Super predator
For those who thought he wasn't all Jewed-up like the rest of the crooked scoundrels: "Trump Rallies Muslim Haters Against the Iran Deal"
"In Bed With Prison Lobby, Hillary Clinton Unlikely to End War on Drugs" Tweet (Adam Johnson):
"That one time in 1996 Hillary Clinton evoked racist "super predator" panic to push harsher drug laws."
Tweet (JeremyCorbyn4Leader):
"Chris Williams, former MP for Derby North, hits the proverbial nail on the head."
"Greece confirms US asked to close airspace to Syria-bound Russian aid flights"
"Engineered Refugee Crisis to Justify "Safe Havens" in Syria" Variations of this are the current popular conspiracy theory. The idea proposed to Europeans and Americans is that you can only solve the refugee problem by creating more refugees and removing the only sane functioning government in Syria. Do they think people are that stupid?
"Migrant crisis: More troubles in Hungary as Austria, Germany near tipping point" Germany is actually in fairly desperate need of mass immigration, a fact reflected in German government conduct (most European countries are not in Germany's position as the alpha domineer/exploiter of the EU). Of course, professional Islamophobes are having a field day.
CIA cloak and dagger: "290 foreign agents exposed in Russia in 2014 - television"
"Palestinians in Duma are angry that no one has been charged for murders, after 38 days" It is simply hilarious what the Jews can get away with.
"State Department Funds BDS Movement – Susan L.M. Goldberg/PJ Tatler" Just watch them get this reversed while maintaining the system whereby the illegal settlements are funded by the American tax system!
"Tories drop two candidates after videos show one peeing in cup, the other making prank calls" #peegate
Superior people
"Police 'betray' CSA survivor by referring his son to social services" An excellent way to staunch the flow of victim testimony before somebody really important and alive gets named.
"Europe Invaded Mostly by “Regime Change” Refugees" You have to laugh - or perhaps revolt? - when governments simultaneously whine about the refugee disaster and claim that the solution for it is more 'regime change' (a polite term for Wars For The Jews).
Lots of important Jewish holidays this time of year, September 11, Yom Kippur, Aluminum Tubes Day and: "happy anniversary, Jeff Goldberg".
"Russia will Never Abandon Syria: 10 Points"
"Harper's Canada has more than one refugee death on its hands" They've set the entire system up so that it is practically impossible to make a refugee claim.
"Slaughtering the Truth and the False Choice of War on Iran" I love when people's names reflect their occupation.
"Exodus of Syrians Highlights Political Failure of the West – Ann Barnard/The New York Times" Ann Barnard?! I'm waiting for Hitler's op-ed decrying the evils of anti-Semitism. I like how she somehow managed to find a selected group of rich refugees (of course, the rich ones are the ones who have the wherewithal to get out, and tend to assimilate extremely well in the country they end up in).
People claim to be honestly wondering why any refugee would leave these luxurious refugee camps: "In Pictures: Syrian Refugees Are Freezing to Death as Snow Blankets the Region"
"Massive Protest Held in Moldova Over $1 Billion That Mysteriously Vanished" Cleverly written without a single mention of who stole the money.
Supremacism: "The Doctrine of ‘Superior People’: The Bond between Israel and World Zionism" by James Petras
'Dual' loyalty
"Exclusive: Debbie Wasserman Schultz backs Iran nuclear deal" The Jewish billionaires who support Barry must have told her she is out as head of the Democratic Party, and thus would be unable to continue to destroy the party for Sheldon, if she didn't toe the line.
Ha!: "Polls of Jews have shown mixed results, and experts have criticized the methodology of some of those polls, making it difficult to reach a definitive conclusion about Jewish opinion on the Iran deal." Can't you savor the question: (1) Are you a loyal and patriotic citizen of the country in which you were born and have lived all your life, and thus support the peace-affirming actions of your President, actions in the obvious national interest of your country?, or (2) are you only interested in taking the bug-out bag by your door and fleeing the ubiquitous anti-Semitism to the only country you really care about to support your one and only true leader, Bibi, by promoting the traditional warmongering of your people, the Traditional Enemies Of Peace?
Bogeyman to ally
"Gaddafi's Revenge" Was it a War For The Serbians? A War For The Peruvians? A War For The Japanese? Atzmon: "Refugees Should Seek Refuge In Synagogues" I wonder if the average European has put the pieces together yet. As a famous person once said 'Fuck the EU'. Part of this is to build up Islamophobia (to encourage more Global War On Terror, and more War For The Jews), and part of it is revenge for 20th century European history.
"The Guardian: “bomb Assad and save the refugees”" The cure for the predictable and predicted consequences of a War For The Jews is, of course, more Wars For The Jews. You have to be smart enough to break the cycle.
"'How to sponsor a Syrian?' is Canada's top Google query on refugees" Note that the comments are mostly hillbilly. The Conservatives don't even know how to pretend to show empathy, they can't even twist themselves to master fake empathy, a fact on clear display to Canadian voters. Of course, the symptoms of psychopathy are what core Conservative voters like.
Why do people find it so surprising that families would want to be anywhere other than a refugee camp, by definition a permanently temporary address?
"Canada's response to refugee crises today a stark contrast to past efforts" (of course, it is easier to do it this way than to wait until they have already arrived):
"Mike Molloy was the Canadian government official who oversaw the airlifting of the Vietnamese boat people and removed bureaucratic obstacles. “The motto out there was not ‘do the thing right,’ it was ‘do the right thing,’” the 71-year-old, who lives in Ottawa, said in an interview.
The approach was spearheaded at first by Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservative government in 1979.
“The goal was initially to move 50,000 people in 18 months,” Mr. Molloy said. That became 60,000 in two years under Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1980. The government offered to match all private sponsorships, galvanizing the public. It was the formal launch of a system that involved communities in guaranteeing the care, shelter and early costs of refugees. That system has since brought in more than 200,000 refugees.
In the peak month, February, 1980, Canada resettled 6,200 Vietnamese, Mr. Molloy said. Canada flew 181 charter flights during a two-year period, each carrying anywhere from 200 people to more than 400.
“When the government said, ‘Go,’ the civil servants knew we had clear instructions.” Many of the refugees were on remote islands in southeast Asia. Mr. Molloy sent over teams totalling between 20 to 25 people to process the applications. They worked fast and in rough conditions – no bathroom facilities, rats crawling over them as they slept.
“Typically, you had about 12 minutes per case. You had to figure out who they were, and make a guess about whether they were capable of landing on their feet.” A written explanation of why an applicant was expected to succeed in Canada and a description of the family composition constituted the entire visa, he said. “That’s it. There was no intermediary paperwork.” Only medical papers and a security clearance were needed before final acceptance – usually no more than eight weeks after the interview.
“When the sun went down, they would light oil lamps and they would continue until they couldn’t keep their eyes open,” Mr. Molloy said. A small team at the Anambas Islands off the coast of Malaysia interviewed families amounting to 1,200 people in four and a half days, and when they began to pack their bags, they realized thousands of people had gathered. “The refugees stood up and gave them a standing ovation.”
He said another difference from today is that the Canadians tried to keep extended families together. “If there was an old granny, she’s an asset. Brothers and sisters, bring them along. We know from experience that when refugees arrive, if their family is intact, they have a better chance of establishing more efficiently.”
Mr. Molloy said he had “fantastic” assignments in a career that included being ambassador to Jordan, but the highlight was the Vietnamese-refugee project. “We never lose with refugees. Refugees arrive with no place to go but up.”"
"Analysis: why police continue to investigate claims by 'Nick'" It is funny that the victim-loving conservatives make an exception for the child victims of important politicians.
"Today on Twitter: The US Ambassador and the fascists" Considering the sheer volume of anti-Nazi propaganda that has been created over the years, the instant turn-around to official American government support for neo-Nazis - under the usual malign influence of the Jews no less - is simply staggering. Of course, the more recent example is the sudden change in American government attitudes to al Qaeda. Once some group outlives its usefulness as a bogeyman, it immediately becomes an ally.
Jaws of defeat
Nobody did anything wrong
The hole to prove it
Louche, alcoholic, lazy
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Classical Studies (CLHU)
Major Courses
CLHU A480 Capstone: Special Topics 1 cr.
RAC: Premodern
The capstone presents the tools and techniques for analysis, interpretation and research of literautre and material culture necessary to pursuign a successful career in Classical Studies at all levels.
CLHU A498 Thesis Research 3 crs.
This course offers students pursuing a thesis the opportunity to do research under the guidance of their thesis adviser.
CLHU A499 Thesis 3 crs.
Students who have satisfactorily completed their research register for this course while they write their honors thesis.
Prerequisite: CLHU A498
Advanced Common Curriculum
CLHU U202 WAL: Classical Greece
Advanced Common Curriculum: Writing About Literature
This course is a survey of the Greek world in the late Archaic and Classical periods, with particular emphasis on the polis Athens and its extraordinary and transformational role in the reals of politics and wardare, as well as intellectual, scientific and artisitc endeavor. Through the examination of primary authors, chief among them Herodotus and Thucydides, we explore the origins, trajectories and outcomes of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars as well as details of daily life.
CLHU U204 WAL: Greece - The Age of Heroes 3 crs.
This course is a political, social and cultural survey of the Greek world from its semi-legendary beginnings in the Mycenean age to the end of the Archaic period. A particular focus is on the development of material culture and Greek letters during this perios as the ultimate fruit of a greater exchange with and openness to cross-cultural synthesis. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to think critically about a variety of textual sources from the ancient world.
CLHU U206 WAL: The Later Roman Empire 3 crs.
This course explores all the major aspects of late Roman civilization, roughly from 300 — 700 A.D. Study covers political, economic, military, social, and religious developments with focus on the effects of the Germanic and Islamic invasions. Students examines a wide variety of textual and physical evidence.
CLHU U208 WAL: The Rise of Rome 3 crs.
This course is a political, social and cultural survey of the Roman Empire and its immediate predecessor, the Late Republic, beginning with the Dictatorship of Sulla and ending with the death of Asrcus Aurelius. We consider the creation and development of the imperial regime, exploring the various types of challenges (military, cultural and religious) to the hegemony of Rome, as well as the transformation of the ROman political system, society and culture down to the end of the second c AD.
CLHU U238 Justice in Greek Literature 3 crs.
Justice is the foundation of civilized society. It is at once the condition and means of concord and harmony among men. Greek poets and philosophers were among the first to investigate the nature of justice. Examination of their writings on this subject can alert latter-day students to its importance and to its nature.
CLHU U242 The Development of Greek Tragedy 3 crs.
This course involves the reading in English of a selection of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and their relationship to the development of Greek theater and performance.
CLHU U244 The Greek and Roman Epic 3 crs.
This course is a survey in English of Greek and Latin epics, such as the works of Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Lucan, and Statius.
CLHU U246 Greek Mythology 3 crs.
This course is a study of the origins, themes, and significance of Greek mythology, with emphasis on myth as a vestige of primitive thought and on the corpus of Greek myths as a source of Greek and Roman literature.
CLHU U247 Egyptian Art and Archaeology 3 crs.
This course is a survey of artistic works and monuments of ancient Egypt from the Pre-dynastic Period through the Ptolemies of the Hellenistic Period with an emphasis on stylistic developments in the three main areas of painting, sculpture and architecture.
CLHU U248 Greek Art and Archaeology 3 crs.
A survey of artistic works and monuments of ancient Greece from the Geometric through the Hellenistic periods (c. 1000 — 50 B.C.) with an emphasis on stylistic developments in the main areas of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
CLHU U250 Roman Art and Archaeology 3 crs.
This course offers students a survey of the most important works of art and monuments of ancient Rome from the beginnings of the city through the period of Constantine, emphasizing stylistic developments in the areas of sculpture, architecture, and painting, with some consideration of materials and techniques. Works of the Etruscans, Greeks, and Italic peoples are considered for their influence.
CLHU U256 Greek Elegies and Lyrics 3 crs.
This course is an introduction to lyric and elegiac forms of individual poetic expression. Consideration will be given to the technical terms referring to the poems studied, their themes, and performance. Authors include Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus, and Sappho among others.
CLHU U257 Greek Culture 3 crs.
Advanced Common Curriculum: Creative Arts and Cultures
This course is a multi-disciplinary survey of the interdependence of the arts and culture in the Greek world from its semi-legendary beginnings in the Mycenaean age through the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine period. We will explore the contribution of the arts on Greek culture, from architecture to sculpture to drama to cuisine, with particular emphasis on its extraordinary continuity throughout the centuries as well as its massive influence – by way of its reception from the Renaissance onwards - on the development of the art, thought and morality of the Western world.
CLHU U258 Roman Culture 3 crs.
This course examines the literature, culture, history, politics, and daily life of the ancient Romans from the legendary beginning of the city in 753 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. Readings include Latin literature in translation and secondary texts that provide archaeological evidence and the historical context.
CLHU U263 Greek and Roman Comedy 3 crs.
This course is a survey of Greek and Roman comedy including works by Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, and Plautus. The course considers the significant social and political issues as well as the plays’ appeal, significance, and legacy for us today.
CLHU U265 Pagans and Christians 3 crs.
Advanced Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Premodern
RAC: Catholic Traditions
This course examines the triumph of Christianity over paganism in the Roman Empire. Focusing on the debate and culture clash between the two in the fourth century, students discuss and write on important controversies of the age and their relation to our own times.
This course satisfies a Common Curriculum Humanities/Arts requirement for students who began their program of study before fall semester 2013.
CLHU U268 Roman Republic 3 crs.
This course examines the rise and decline of the Roman Republic from the founding of the city (c. 800 B.C.) to the assassination of Julius Caesar (44 B.C.). The course explores political, economic, military, religious, and societal topics.
CLHU U274 The Byzantine Empire 3 crs.
The Byzantine Empire is a survey of the interdependence of the arts, spirituality and intellectual life within the historical context of the Byzantine world from the reign of Constantine until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. We will explore the interplay of Byzantine art and culture in all its many manifestations, with particular emphasis on the extraordinary continuity and transformations of Byzantine culture as well as its massive influence on the development of the Western world.
CLHU U275 The Ancient Novel 3 crs.
This course traces the development of the novel in the earliest examples from Greek and Roman antiquity. These works detail the adventures of young men and women determined to preserve their integrity while searching for their true identities. Readings include Longus’ Daphne and Chloe, Petronius’ Satyricon, and Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story.
CLHU U280 Ancient Mystery Cults 3 crs.
By their very nature, ancient mystery cults were secretive and their rituals known only to the initiates. This course examines, in translation, a wide variety of ancient sources to see what can be learned about cults ranging from Demeter to Isis to early Christianity.
CLHU U340 Roman Ethical Thought
Advanced Common Curriculum: Ethics
This course introduces students to ancient Roman virtue ethics. It examines how ancient Roman thikners conceptualize the best human state and the ethical frameworks they derive from this for living their lives. Besides analyzing the arguments that support these frameworks, the course focuses on how they transform ancient thinker's views on such issues as virtue, pleasure, love, friendship, happiness, or death, and the role they have to play in a good human life.
CLHU U362: WAL: Alexander the Great
This class explores the world of Greece in the post-Classical age into which Alexander was born, and the complex and often contradictory personality and astonishing deeds of the man himself in light of the historigraphical difficulties in separating "Alexander the man" from "Alexander the legend." It also examines the nature of his military success, the lasting effects of his image upon ancient art, and finally, his long-term impact on the varied people and lands of his empire.
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Half of GOP insiders think Donald Trump has already lost the election
Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images
Republican insiders are much more pessimistic about Donald Trump's chances than plugged-in Democrats, at least according to the coterie of political activists, strategists, and operatives in 11 swing states that Politico calls The Politico Caucus. Almost half — 49 percent — of GOP insiders tell Politico that Trump's path to the White House is already a dead end, a sentiment shared by only 28 percent of the Democratic insiders. Politico also asked the insiders about Trump's trying to negotiate the terms of the three presidential debates; 47 percent of GOP insiders said Trump is right to threaten a boycott, while 53 percent said he should commit without preconditions right now.
As interesting as the numbers are, the quotes from the insiders, who responded anonymously, are the highlight of Politico's writeup. "While Trump's chances are incredibly slim, it's not over yet," one Colorado Democrat said. "Hillary's negatives are still high, and we have several more WikiLeaks data dumps coming up, and the potential for turbulence around the debates. It's possible the bar for Trump is so low that he can be declared the winner in the debates by simply not saying anything batshit crazy."
An Iowa Republican said that while candidates in the past have come back from greater poll deficits, "it won't happen in 2016.... Trump is underperforming so comprehensively across states and demographics it would take video evidence of a smiling Hillary drowning a litter of puppies while terrorists surrounded her with chants of 'Death to America!' But in 2016, stranger things have happened." You can read more colorful quotes, and the roster of the Politico Caucus participants, at Politico. Peter Weber
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People's Bank of China blamed a business newspaper
It is rare for a Chinese government agency to blame a Chinese newspaper. But today I saw it(the link to the central bank's statement in Chinese) The annoucement said the central bank strongly blame the July 27 report on China Business News saying China could acommodate the yuan to increase by 5 percent in a year. The paper quoted an expert saying that China may first step increase 2 percent or 3 percent, and finally make a 5 percent rise. The central bank spokeman said the paper didn't check the accurancy of the sources properly.
The last sentence is the central bank strongly condemn this non-responsible operation of the paper.
Say first, currency is always the most important or sensitive topic for the central government. I still remember some foreign reporters were jailed due to reports on currencies. This time, it is about a Shanghai-based paper belonging to Shanghai Media Group, the second-largest media corp after CCTV. Unfortunately, the paper itself didn't live well these days as the group wants to sell it, though it reported a lot of interesting stories. As the first daily business newspaper in the mainland, it lacks a strong group to back up.
Behind the currency topis, I see the different situation for official media and non-official media to live in the current time. Foreign media always call all the mainland media official ones; in fact, it isn't true. For some of them such as China Business News and 21st century Herald, they are living on themselves, depending on good stories instead of government ties to survive. It is hard in terms of both revenue and reputation. Say how Central bank blames China Business News, you will know the difference. But it is those papers or media trying to bring fair business environment in China. Free media will help setting up a fair, transparent and stable securities market. Have a look at Hong Kong where media is free to say everything. It is hard to try in the current Chinese market, but someone trying now will become the hero.
bad Mozilla Firefox
When I first started to use Mozilla Firefox two year ago, I thought it is really cool. Sunny brand, plus convenient function of opening multiple pages in one window.
Now I really hate it especialy when I open the task manager and see how much space it took from my laptop's RAM.
The space Firefox takes seems bigger and bigger, or biggest of all. Basically, it loses the advantage as a thin tool. Of course, it adds much more function, but more complicated. To persons such as me who like simple things, Firefox becomes boring. Even today when I opened Asiaexpat.com, a website said it preferred Firefox, the software could only open half of the pages, and then stopped, saying "done".... what a stupid software la.
So I opened the IE to work on everything, though it is troublesome to open so many windows. hoho, back to something familiar, the feeling is not that bad.
I like simplie stuffs, finally found...
Posted by Amy Gu at 7/25/2006 01:22:00 AM 4 comments:
Last week in BJ
Outside a bar in Shi Cha Hai, the most popular bar site in Beijing these days.
I really like BJ. People are nice, peaceful and open. The atmosphere just feels like home. Maybe I should seriously consider go back there.
Beautiful Hangzhou
Beautiful Hangzhou and West Lake, though I really had no time to enjoy. Run, run, run!!! flight, airport,hotel, airport, flight. Life is just a circle!!
Crazy Amy in a crazy Hong Kong
It' s always interesting to begin a new job, except that it always makes me crazy. New environment, new colleagues, new style and more important, new pressure. Am I a gongzuokuang, meaning crazy working type? I guess so. I could work for non-stop eight hours, and then water, and then another four hours. Even in the dream, I am still working.
Life is just like a box of chocalate and you never know what you will get from there. That's exactly true. Now what I get is a hard Swiss black chocolate. It is not easy to bite but really chanllenging. Also, you feel more and more sweet flavor for the process.
I've been thinking about the role of newspaper in the era nowadays. Peter Lynch, the famous fund manager, once said that newspaper is such a good and profitable business. Right then, but now so many competitors around the newspaper. For example, websites, companies don't need to release information to newspaper; instead put infos on the website. Another example, newswires who could operate for 24 hours and update every seconds.
So what will make a newspaper special? The content, the specific content, and the breaking content. That will make people curious to know the "new" thing from the newspaper, not the thing already given in the press release, not the repeating of the stock market annoucement. It is hard to maintain the principle as reporters are so easily attempted to do the easiest job. But newspapers have to maintain the principle, just as they have to maintain the balance way.
Something new, something I must get.
SCMP.com will provide free content
I've been hearing complaint from several friends on the website of South China Morning Post, the largest English newspaper in Hong Kong on its restriction of the free content. Now, according to reliable source, it will soon, only in a few days, allow readers to access to part of its content without subscribing the newspaper. (www.scmp.com)
Good news for those expats only reading English but caring about China. Congratulation, the paper has its first step to attract the online readers.
With more and more media covering China, the country has become a hottie among reporters and editors. Someone who has the vision to report the China in a balanced and neutral way will finally beat others. Hope the Post would be the one.
People's Bank of China blamed a business newspaper...
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Creating Film Critic Circle?
By M. Leary, July 21, 2014 in Film Awards, Festivals, & Lists
New Film Critic Circle
On 6/3/2016 at 1:32 PM, kenmorefield said:
Just bumping this thread to see if people's interest level has changed in the intervening 18 months or so...
Since you're bumping it, do you see this as something different than the ecumenical jury from the last couple years?
kenmorefield
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I had no specific agenda in mind. Just seeing which way the wind was blowing.
Doing my bi-annual (or so) bump of this thread to see if interest has changed.
I had lunch with publicist at SXSW and we discussed how more and more sites are decreasing or doing away with movie "reviews" altogether. CT, for example, has pretty much eliminated movie reviews, though they still run occasional "trend pieces." I've been told that Crosswalk has done the same. Seems like the only ones doing movie reviews in that space are the content monitors (Plugged In, MovieGuide, Christian Spotlight) or individually run blogs. But it's not really possible for blogs to be anything approaching comprehensive.
Anyway, now that CT has shelved the weekly e-mail newsletter as well, it occurs to me that an FFCC type affiliation could have a weekly newsletter through MailChimp or whatever that ran short blurbs/recommendations of new releases or provided links/excerpts to member reviews at various blogs, Letterbox'd etc. That is, of course, assuming people are still writing movie reviews in various places all scattered to the wind...or is the review dead and we all just live in the age of the trend piece?
Joel Mayward
pastor | theologian | film critic
Twitter:@joelmayward
Location:St Andrews, UK
18 hours ago, kenmorefield said:
is the review dead and we all just live in the age of the trend piece?
This is a question which deserves a much more detailed and thorough response, but I haven't the mental space for it now. There seems to be a polarizing evolution of the review format between the lengthy analytical "hot take" and "long take," and the star-rating with super-short blurb review/plot summary for Rotten Tomatoes purposes.
Regarding the creation of a film critic circle, I think it's something worth pursuing, especially as it may add legitimacy to the reviews that are being written by/for a religious audience, as well as continue the connections we've fostered within the A&F Ecumenical Jury each year. I'd certainly want to be a member of it. I think there's also something to be said for podcasting, although I don't have the knowledge or equipment to start one.
Evan C
Being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac.
I'm definitely interested and think it would be great to get something like that going. A mailing list that provided links to members' reviews written for their various platforms could work well. I think we'd probably want to tag team to make sure the majority of new releases got covered, but if we got enough people, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I'm interested. I did very little writing in 2017 because that was a bad year for me all-around, but this year I've forced myself to write occasional capsule reviews, just to keep my foot in the door (anything longer than a capsule would take too much time and effort, given that I'm basically not getting paid for these reviews) -- and I've written a few newspaper reviews as well (which still tend to have relatively small word-counts, in the 600-word range, so when I post the reviews to my blog they might seem briefer than a blog post could be, but oh well). I'm still a member of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, so I wouldn't mind being a member of this proposed circle as well.
So, I'm torn.
On the one hand, a loose affiliation producing an e-mail newsletter shouldn't (theoretically) add too much work.
On the other hand, it is work, and it looks like even corporately we are not producing content regularly. I average about two posts to 1More FIlm Blog a month, and they aren't typically new release reviews. Joel and Evan both have most recent content listed as 2017 lists. Peter updates pretty frequently but concentrates on niche market a bit more.
Of course, it could be argued that having a project that wants reviews or ratings for new releases would prompt some people to write them, especially if it was the 100-200 blurbs that a newsletter invites.
There is also the matter of building subscription lists, which takes time and effort. and the question of who owns the products of such a circle -- and if they are corporately owned, that probably means by-laws, elections, etc.
I was looking for mechanisms that would allow quick and easy reporting rather than making one person go to everyone's site to look for new content. Has anyone used Slido?
I put up a poll question at Slido.com . Simply go to that site and type in the reference number 9432. If you are interested, please try it. You can put in a couple sentences about a movie or a link to a piece you've written elsewhere.
Joel and Evan both have most recent content listed as 2017 lists
I aim for one new release film review per week, if possible, the goal being 40-50 reviews published per year on Cinemayward.com. This doesn't include pop culture reviews I write for other places, such as Think Christian.
With CT's newsletter seemingly dead--Ted never responded to any of my questions about the newsletter--I'd definitely be up for writing 100-200 word reviews of any pop culture medium (film, TV, music, books). Still, one big question I'm wondering is how this type of email newsletter would differentiate itself and gain an audience without a large magazine/publication distribution. For better or worse, it seems to me that online content and reviews are distributed now more via social media (i.e. Twitter links/RTs and FB) rather than email newsletters or RSS feeds. At least this has been my own evolution in my online presence. Yet I think some sort of film critic circle or organization which connects Christian film critics would be beneficial, as I keep discovering and connecting with new Christian critics and writers all the time via Twitter, and it'd be great to have a way to either collaborate or share content with a wider audience.
Also, I sent a blurb from my review of A Wrinkle in Time via Slido, just to test how it works.
So here is a sample template of a newsletter made using MailChimp from links given at Slido (I looked up Peter's using URL).
It took me about 20 minutes, which isn't much but is still an investment of time when something is monthly, weekly, bi-weekly or whatever. (Add to the writing, the time to set up Slido, downloading images, etc.)There are parts that could be changed/updated, such as the copyright and social media links at the bottom.
https://mailchi.mp/3d0c9f6dbda6/faith-and-film-critics-circle-newsletter-prototype
I have a feeling like a mailing list/newsletter would be flexible to suit our needs. Slido also does ratings/polls, so we could just take a poll of how everyone feels about one movie, assuming people have all seen it.
Obviously, if more people joined a circle this would be more work...more links or blurbs to sort through, though even the CT newsletter rarely had more than four or five in a week even if there were a greater number of people who contributed content occasionally.
There is also the matter of how to build a newsletter subscription list. MailChimp allows you to create forms to add to web pages, but that would mean everyone putting it on their webpage...or making a Facebook or Twitter page, etc. And there is always the matter of who owns the subscription list, who decides which blurbs get run, etc.
Thoughts? Does seeing the prototype make it seem more doable or not very?
I think template looks good, although make sure to include the link to 1More Film Blog.
If we want to start a newsletter like that, I'm happy to help in anyway that I can.
I think we'd need a few more people to make rating/polls worthwhile, and to be honest, I prefer short blurbs to simply a number score from a group of people, but I wouldn't be opposed to doing that either.
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Nigerian Army Commanders Review Boko Haram Operations
by AIT / 1 year ago / Nation Security
The northeastern part of Nigeria is still grapping with the challenge of Boko haram terrorism, the nation’s biggest security threat.
To boost the military response against the group, Nigerian army commanders who have been involved in the operations in the last six years have converged in Abuja for a strategic retreat.
Since 2009, the Boko Haram group has unleashed a violent campaign of terror against parts of northern Nigeria
On the other side of the divide are Nigerian military forces, fighting to help restore peace in the region.
Gathering in Abuja are army field commanders who were in the frontline of the war front in year 2013.
Their objective is to share experiences from their different deployments, and chart a new course for future operations.
Also participating are officers who served in the lake chad basin’s multinational joint task force the chief of army staff says emphasis should be placed on securing the volatile lake chad basin region in the long run.
It is expected that recommendations from meetings like this will help address seeming resurgence of Boko haram attacks in the northeast
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CBSE Class 12th Chemistry Exam 2019 Question Paper Analysis
Delhi,13,March,2019
CBSE 12 Chemistry Paper was organized on March 12 by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). This paper was organized simultaneously on various centers across the country. According to CBSE's Exam Timing, 12th Chemistry Paper started at 10.30 in the morning, at 1.30 a.m. Let us tell you that last year chemistry paper was organized on 13th March.
Previously, the science stream of the previous paper was of the topic Physics. According to the students who were held on March 5, 2019, this paper was not too difficult.
Earlier, English paper was quite easy, whereas physics paper was not too difficult. There was also a mixed response from the students about chemistry papers. Although most students have told it easy. Our Associate newspaper, Times of India, spoke with the students coming out with the CBSE 12th Chemistry Paper.
In the initial reaction, the students said that chemistry paper was neither easy nor too difficult.
-Kaushish of Joseph and Mary School told that "Numerical questions were quite easy, which were taken directly from the NCERT books."
-Amjeet Singh of Joseph and Mary School told that the paper was quite easy and I am expecting good marks in it. I have found that most students can get points in it. Only one or two questions were difficult. "
- One more Akhilesh Singh Khatri told that most of the questions were asked by P & D block. Last year, the Organic Chemistry Chapter was questioned very difficult, but the questions were quite easy this time.
-Ayush Thakur said that the entire paper was taken from NCERT. According to me no question was difficult. Many students had finished the paper prematurely. '
-The student Shubham Raval told that the paper was easy. There was a lot of help in reading from the NCERT books. Two questions of three points were difficult, but they were also taken from the NCERT books.
Where did Ritu Pandey say that 'it was a very easy paper compared to physics'. Organic questions were asked directly from the NCERT books. '
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TRUMP: The sedimentary record of environmental changes in the Oder estuary
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Sedimentary sequences from the Holocene can be used to reconstruct the environmental conditions during their deposition in the recent coastal area. The value distribution of lithological, geochemical and paleobotanical parameters in space and time provides evidences how the coastline has changed from the past to today, how salinity, bioproductivity of the coastal waters have altered, how the sea-level has moved up and down and much more. Identification of causes and effects in the past may lead in some cases to possibilities to predict effects in the future caused by recent environmental alterations. Reconstructing the past is therefore a valuable tool to understand the natural evolution.
In this case study the main focus is on the changing environmental conditions in the Oder Estuary, as has become evident from sediment cores from the Oder Lagoon and from often flooded salt meadows in the surrounding low lying areas. The detailed analysis of the sedimentary sequences shows that the evolution of the lagoons has started around 8.000 years before present. In that time former freshwater bodies were flooded by the fast rising Littorina Sea. Initially, the salinity was much higher than today; even in the inner Oder Estuary the salt content reached around 6 PSU.
The benthic productivity was immense due to high nutrient availability from river load and the eroded soils but dropped down later. During the Subboreal the sedimentation rate decreased markedly, therefore a lower sea-level and dominant sediment transport to and deposition in the Baltic has to be assumed. Some 2.000 years ago the sea-level rose slowly again leading to an increasing water depth and sedimentation, but it decreased again around 750 years ago.
The often assumed enhancement of the sedimentation rate in the past 150 years caused by anthropogenic eutrophication is not clearly visible in the sedimentary record due to sediment distortion. The youngest evolution can be reconstructed in more detail from sequences from the surrounding salt marshes. Two degraded peat types intercalated between silt layers point to two lower sea-level phases which are connected to the Bronce Age dry phase (3200 to 2600 years BP) and the Little Ice Age between 1450 and 1690 AD. A slowly rising sea-level leads to silt layer deposition that is poor in organic carbon, whereas a fast rising level causes growth of peat, which in turn may be degraded during a subsequent sea-level fall.
These investigations were related to today's coastal zone problems and their results may highlight that the natural evolution is characterized and forced by ever changing circumstances. Considering that climate change and sea-level change are closely connected and sea-level changes in turn cause alterations in salinity, sedimentation, coastal retreat and biotope distribution should influence long-term decisions in coastal zone management
Climate change, Coastal processes, Sediment transport
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Saudi-Iranian fallout and the manipulation of the sectarian card
A New Year, same old Middle East. Any hope that 2016 would foster more peace and stability in the already fractured and volatile Middle East were quickly dashed as Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on terrorism charges.
This inevitably led to outrage in Iran, Iraq and other countries with significant Shia populations. As protestors attacked the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran and its allies in the region quickly followed suit.
The escalating tensions raise the sectarian stakes and whilst all-out war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is unlikely, the already palpable proxy war between both sides will simply intensify.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been simmering since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and relations have been fraught with suspicion and mistrust ever since.
The jockeying for regional influence between Iran and Saudi Arabia has resulted in the powers taking opposing sides in the conflict in Syria and Yemen.
But does the race for regional supremacy really just comes down to the age-old sectarian card? In reality, the Sunni-Shia divide has been in force for over 1400 years. Whilst sectarian friction and animosity has existed throughout this time, sectarianism is more openly fueled in this day and age to serve political and strategic goals.
On the same day as the execution of al-Nimr, Saudi Arabia ended the cease-fire in Yemen. Al-Nimr was a symbolic dissident in Saudi Arabia’s approx. 15% Shia population. The Saudis have always been weary of Shia dissidence stoking instability and ironically the execution of al-Nimr serves to intensify the sectarian divide, perhaps as a way for rallying Sunni support in Saudi Arabia as well as the war in Yemen.
At the same time, Saudi’s wanted to send a strong message to Iran. The Saudi government was willing to take any action it deemed appropriate to safeguard the Kingdoms stability and regional interests.
Iran has also successfully played the sectarian card in Iraq and Syria. Stoking of sectarian tensions helped Iran reap significant influence in Iraq. Communities living together for centuries in Baghdad were increasingly divided into Sunni and Shia districts. The respective Sunni and Shia circles in Iraq reached out for regional leverage and even today Iran plays a key role in Iraq, especially within its Shia militias and in the fight against the Islamic State.
If sectarianism was historically a dominant factor, then the Iran-Iraq war belied this ideal. Two Shia majority powers fought a brutal war for 8 years. Whilst many anti-Saddam Shia rebel groups existed in Iraq at the time, Saddam Hussein successfully used the Arab nationalism card against the “Persian” enemy.
In Syria, anti-government protests that were largely about Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship and not strictly sectarianism were quickly reshaped by Iran, Saudi and other regional powers around sectarian grounds. This allowed Assad to rally Alawite support and afforded Iran a key hand in the Shia circles in Syria and the regimes struggle against the uprising.
The recent tensions make peace efforts in Syria and Yemen all the more difficult, whilst also having economic ramifications. Trade sanctions have already been announced between both sides, but the tensions will be felt greater in the oil arena.
Saudi is by far the biggest power and exporter in OPEC and any deal to cut output to bolster faltering oil prices is more difficult, especially with Iran re-entering the oil stage after lifting of sanctions.
With further protests in Iran in recent days, Iranian accusations of Saudi Arabia “intentionally” bombing its embassy in Yemen and regional countries compelled to take sides, the regional division and state of tensions is at risk of rapidly increasing.
First Published: Kurdish Globe
Other Publication Sources: Various Misc
This entry was posted in Kurdish Globe, Middle East and tagged al-Nimr, Iran, Shia-Sunni Divide on January 13, 2016 by admin.
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Michael Crabtree Stares Down Kyle Williams
Michael Crabtree was not happy after Kyle Williams fumbled the ball in overtime of the NFC CHampionship last weekend. You can tell by looking at the picture above and seeing where his eyes are glaring. You can also tell that his nose is snarling a little at Williams, and he's probably wondering what would have happened if Ted Ginn Jr., the regular punt returner, was able to play. I can imagine it now, something like "Gosh darn it Kyle. You didn't play so well but I still love you." Yeah, that's probably the words he was using in his head.
Anyway, apparently there are some rumors that the NY Giants were trying to knock Kyle Williams out of the game. Williams has a history of concussions, and after the game Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams, the guy who caused the overtime fumble, said this: “We knew he had four concussions, so our biggest thing was to take him out of the game.” Not completely convicting, but here's what Justin Tuck said: “I don’t think we’ve ever talked about knocking anybody out with concussions or anything like that, but it’s not like we weren’t trying to hit him. We were definitely trying to get a lot of hats on him because he might not have been as comfortable back there as say a Ted Ginn who had been there all year. But as far as trying to knock him out of the football game? No.”
You "don't think" you had any of those conversations Justin? Just say yes or no, "don't think" usually means yes. Oh well, at least the 49ers were at home and their opponent couldn't rig the scoreboard like in some other games. Well, better luck next year Harbaugh Brothers.
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Broken Redneck Pride
In a cute town, on a cute street, is a cute tea shop with cute benches outside. My girlfriend owns it. Once a month, she thought it would be fun to have a metal-themed Monday night, "Brewtalitea." Last night was "Brewtalitea."
For some reason, the state of Virginia makes you babysit people who are drinking on patios. That duty fell on me. I went out and watched them drink. Some people talked to me, some people argued with me about California, and some people just looked at me.
Metal Monday was really fun. The bands who played were Rebirthing Candace and Iodic. They were good, and everyone was happy. There was one fat guy in an orange shirt, who seemed to be a little too into the music, but other than that, "Brewtalitea" seemed to be a success.
When the second band stopped, people started leaving, and some gathered outside to finish their beers. I went back out into the cold Autumn air of Virginia to babysit them as the drank.
The fat guy in the orange shirt, Matt, yelled a lot. Neighbors peeked out their windows. He screamed "fuck you" at them" Fat Matt had a very offensive mouth. But I'm not a bouncer, so I didn't say anything. I just waited for everyone to leave the patio.
More people left, but fat redneck Matt stayed with his big, hideous mouth. Then, for no apparent reason, he reached down, picked up one of the benches, and threw it over.
Incredulous, I approached, "What the fuck are you doing?"
"Hey I don't mean no disrespect."
"You've been raising your voice, and now you're breaking things; you're disrespecting the establishment; you're disrespecting our neighbors."
One of his friends stepped close to me while White Trash Matt picked up the bench. He said,
"We don't mean no disrespect!"
I asked him not to raise his voice at me.
Fat Matt must have misheard me and turned around, yelling "You BETTER not raise your voice at me. Fuck YOU!"
Softly, I said, "You need to get out of here."
Unctuous Matt said something about respect and put his hand out to shake mine. I told him he should take his respect and his hand and please leave. Then he said if he ever saw me, he would kill me. I started laughing because I laugh when idiots say idiotic things. That freaked him the hell out. He started screaming and yelling, calling me a fagot and saying he would stick his dick in my ass.
Pungent Matt went to the parking area behind the shop. His friends stayed out front in their car. There were no more people on the patio, so I went inside. Moments later, a woman came in and said that a fat, disgusting-looking slob wearing an orange shirt was in back screaming offensive things. One minute later, one of the band members came in and said that a greasy man wearing an orange shirt broke two windows.
I felt like it was my fault. But what should I have done? I didn't curse, and I didn't raise my voice at the pathetic man. I didn't mean to break his pride, and I didn't mean to mess up his night. But you can't just come to the Darjeeling Cafe and and start breaking shit and expect me to just stand there and not say anything.
I've been feeling guilty about it, like it was my fault, but I think someone like redneck Matt would have broken something eventually anyway. People like him need to be loud and destructive in order to get noticed and feel good about themselves. I kind of feel sorry for him. Kinda. But he was bent on breaking something. If not the bench or the windows, something; if not last night, some night.
Last night was the last Metal Monday Brewtalitea at the Darjeeling Cafe. That's too bad, but necessary. It only takes one redneck to ruin a night.
Labels: Adventure, drinking, Dusty Roads Veteto, Jack Morgan
Welcome to the South...
Jack Morgan said...
This is what I was afraid would happen in the south. It's good to experience these kinds of things, though.
Candice P.J. said...
Curagea said...
Try South Carolina or Georgia. Now that's really "South".
On the other hand, a metal night sounds awesome.
Though to be fair, the "you're a faggot, I'm going to put my dick in your ass" taunt is still popular in California
Justin Botros said...
Brewtalitea sounds like a hit. I'm sad to hear a late night lunatic ruined the fun. However, I'm glad you didn't have to further destroy his "self respect" and his fat face.
I am sorry to see something cool end, especially like this.
He did give us some money to repair the windows. I don't know if it's enough, but it's something.
It's all just unfortunate.
Alphonse said...
you should give him Dusty's phone number, maybe they can go test drive some chevrolets for their first date.
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Mr. Horton said...
I lived almost a decade in the Deep South (Georgia, not my native land), and Fat Redneck Matt is the irritating physical manifestation of a sexist, homophobic (and possibly racist) trope.
It sounds like Matt is living up to his sterotype. I'm glad he paid the place some cash for damages. Take it for what it is, and move along.
Matt is hardly representative the entire South; although, he seems an ignorant fuck.
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More in the continuing story of a massive security failure...
More Heartland Details Leak Out (And Some May Be Trying To Leak Back In)
Posted February 6th, 2009 by admin
Evan Schuman reports:
Details surrounding the Heartland data breach continue to dribble out, with one respected payment systems newsletter reporting that the forensic investigators Heartland brought in were Cybertrust and Neohapsis.
Heartland had tried keeping those names confidential, an effort that was succeeding prior to the Wednesday, Feb. 4 issue of The Nilson Report. That newsletter also quoted from a MasterCard alert, which provided new details about what was taken and when.
“According to a MasterCard alert, this sniffer program stole card numbers and expiration dates from credit and debit cards processed by Heartland from May 14, 2008, through Aug. 19, 2008, as the information entered Heartland’s payment switch,” the Nilson story said. “Only an estimated 5 percent of the stolen card numbers also included names. [100 million per month times 3 months times .05 = 15 million. That makes me feel so much better! Bob] The malware was likely deactivated when Heartland conducted regular system upgrades as part of its PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance program, although it’s possible that the hackers shut it down to try and avoid being traced.”
Read more on StorefrontBacktalk
Related There is a risk in being too quick to respond when you are not positive you know the source of the breach has been identified and closed! NOTE: At the time of the first letter, HPS had no idea its data was being stolen in wholesale quantities.
Add Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh to list….
Kid #1 came in last night and threw the letter down on my desk in disgust. For the second time since June, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh had notified him that his debit card was being replaced due to a breach and that he would have to personally come in to the bank to activate the new card.
The bank’s notification letter was even less helpful than the uninformative one he had received in June. At least that one had a phone number on the letterhead if anyone actually wanted to call. This letter was the June letter verbatim with only the dates replaced, and had no phone number on it all.
Looking back at that June letter, I see that I had wondered at the time what breach it might be connected to, but never heard anything more. Now that we know that the Heartland breach seems to have occurred as early as May, is it possible that the June letter was actually a result of Heartland, too? Do we actually know how early misuse of debit cards or credit cards started in the Heartland breach?
Somebody probably knows, but we’re not being told much.
Huge bank card scam hits Bermuda
How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet?
Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of the world’s biggest security breaches.
Bank of Bermuda and Butterfield Bank are warning customers to be on guard after cyber-crooks hacked into the computer system of an overseas payment company.
Individuals and businesses with Visa and MasterCard cards are said to be at risk from the data breach at Heartland Payment Services.
The widespread security breach has affected fewer than two per cent of Bank of Bermuda’s card users and “a small number” of Butterfield Bank customers.
Read more on BDA Sun
Quick Poll: Many Smaller Banks Hit By Heartland Breach
Brian Krebs reports:
In another sign that the recently disclosed data breach at credit card processing giant Heartland Payment Systems may indeed be one for the record books, a quick survey of community banks indicates that a majority of institutions have been notified that at least some of their debit or credit cards were compromised in the breach.
Read more in The Washington Post
The Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that includes some 5,000 banks representing 18,000 locations nationwide, took an informal poll of its members recently to find out how many were contacted by Heartland. According to the ICBA, 83 percent of the 512 member banks that responded said they had credit and/or debit cards affected by the Heartland breach. Thirteen percent said they didn't know yet.
… So far, most of the information we have about the size of the breach has come from the Open Security Foundation. OSF maintains datalossdb.org, which has collected a list of news stories about specific banks that have acknowledged receiving notice from Heartland about compromised accounts. According to OSF, as of this writing, 79 banks have reported being affected by the Heartland breach, with a known total of 276,066 cards affected.
Small, but another amazed group of managers...
CA: Personal Info On 1,000s Of Kaiser Employees Stolen
CBS reports:
Thousands of northern California Kaiser employees are being notified that their personal information including social security numbers was stolen from the company.
Kaiser has set-up a Employee Security Support Line for the 29,500 employees whose information was stolen to handle the situation. A recorded message on the line says that the stolen information was found in the possession of a criminal [So, 1) their security didn't detect it and 2) they have no idea how he got the data Bob] who has since been arrested. The information included employee names, social security numbers and birthdates. And that so far, only a ‘few employees had been impacted’.
Kaiser says it is working with law enforcement to discover how their computer system was breached. But it does not say when the information was actually stolen or recovered.
This is Kaiser’s second known breach in the past six months. In August, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Mid-Atlantic States notified (pdf) the Virginia Attorney General’s Office that an employee had stolen and misused patient information from patients at the Kaiser Permanente Falls Church Medical Center. Kaiser notified 5,200 members in that breach, which was never reported in the media. [like this Blog, 5200 is too trivial to bother reporting... Bob] In the most recent incident, no patient data was reportedly involved.
Related An editorial sparked by the HPS breach. If even the media is noticing the “breach situation” is it possible we'll start seeing stronger laws?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-ed.scam06feb06,0,1229378.story
Once the information is exposed on the Internet, are all future efforts at confidentiality now worthless? It will certainly be difficult to say, “I don't have that information,” when everyone in the audience does.
Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet
Joel Rubin reports:
The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct.
The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks an embarrassing misstep for a police department that has staunchly rebuffed efforts by the public to learn the identities of accused officers and gain greater access to the discipline process.
Read more in The Los Angeles Times
The commission and department staff had reviewed a paper copy of the report that did not contain the confidential information and assumed the electronic version would be the same, Tefank said. [“We reviewed a picture of the Titanic and thought it was only six inches long.” “The map is not the territory,” Alfred Korzybski Bob]
ATTABOY! A school that did not automatically assume their students were terrorists! Bravo. (However, they seems to assume that parents are somehow not worthy...)
WA: Student finds ‘back door’ in YCS program
Megan Hansen reports:
Yelm Community Schools shut down its computer account system Skyward after a student discovered a potential security breach.
“A student showed us a back door,” said Director of Technology Dennis Wallace. “We immediately shut down access to Skyward.”
Skyward is a computer account system that the school, students and parents can access which contains the students’ personal information, schedule, grades and lunch balance.
Wallace said the student found a way to gain access into the account system and immediately informed his teacher.
The district’s technology department called the student in to question the breach. [How are you feeling today, Mr Breach? Bob]
They then fixed it and had the student try and gain access again. He did and the school had to go back in and fix it again. [Perhaps they don't understand the definition of “fixed it” Bob]
Read more in Nisqually Valley News
He also said he did not feel the situation required notification to parents.
“We went in and fixed the problem,” Wallace said. “We weren’t even sure there had been a breach.”
[There's a lot they don't seem to know. Bob]
Sometimes I ponder what the world would be like if Darwin's observations applied to the Internet. Survival of the fittest can also be stated as “Death to dummies!” If this was a “real” danger, it would quickly kill off all of its customers and be abandoned as an evolutionary dead end. (Perhaps I should write an e-Darwin manifesto!)
Privacy Group Calls Google Latitude a Real 'Danger'
Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 06, @07:58PM from the no-latitude-for-latitude dept. Google Privacy
CWmike writes
"Privacy International is calling Google's new mapping application an 'unnecessary danger' to users' security and privacy. The criticism follows the unveiling this week of Google Latitude, an upgrade to Google Maps that allows people to track the exact location of friends or family through their mobile devices. Google Latitude not only shows the location of friends, but it can also be used to contact them via SMS, Google Talk or Gmail. 'Many people will see Latitude as a cool product, but the reality is that Google has yet again failed to deliver strong privacy and security,' said Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy International, in a statement. The group's chief concern is that Google Latitude lacks sufficient safeguards to keep someone from surreptitiously opting into the tracking feature on someone else's device."
Political advantage (this includes appearing cool) outweighs security every time. (On the other hand, it might be a clever play on the part of the Secret Service to see if anyone has developed a Blackberry targeting missile – before they let the President use his.)
Congressman Twitters secret trip to Iraq
Posted by Rafe Needleman February 6, 2009 8:11 PM PST
For security reasons, the congressional delegation led by House Minority Leader John Boehner to Iraq today was supposed to be secret. Everything had been going fine in that regard. Even media outlets which knew of the trip, like the Congressional Quarterly, kept a lid on the news.
That was, until Representative Peter Hoekstra Twittered his arrival into Baghdad. "Just landed in Baghdad. I believe it may be first time I've had bb service in Iraq. 11 th trip here," he sent from his Blackberry.
Strategy: Isn't this crazy? I already have a problem with cable “monopolies” and this suggests the same thought(less) process is coming to the Internet.
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/espn-stands-fir.html
ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video
By Eliot Van Buskirk February 05, 2009 8:18:06 PM
Not much detail here, but I suspect some of my website students might like to add a chat room to their sites. Behind a “sign in” wall, this could be useful.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/99chats-com-create-your-own-chat-room
99Chats.Com - Create Your Own Chat Room
http://www.99chats.com/
Are chat rooms still relevant? Well, apparently, yes, according to 99chats.com. With the site, you’ll be able to create your own chat room, to which you’ll be able to invite your friends
… You can add chat rooms to your MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Hi5, Tagged, WordPress, and Blogger profiles.
What’s that good for? Well, that’s up to you. You can use it to have your blog readers interact, to have your friends write on your profile (like they do through Facebook’s wall), or any other thing you can think of.
Tools & Techniques: This is interesting and a little spooky. Note that if you click on their link, the URL changes to indicate they are ready to track you!
http://www.killerstartups.com/Marketing/meteorsolutions-com-measuring-digital-word-of-mouth
MeteorSolutions.com - Measuring Digital Word Of Mouth
http://www.meteorsolutions.com/
Born out of the merging of Reach Machines and Fyreball, Meteor Solutions is a company that provides a concise service, specially suited to the digital times we live in. In essence, it enables any publisher, marketer or agency to track digital content as it traverses the web. Think of it as a solution for tracking word of mouth in the online channels we all are familiar with.
This system is implemented through tracking scripts that are added to the site itself, like identifying tags for monitoring the path it trails through the web. Some of the events that are monitored include links on web pages, e-mails, bookmarks and instant messaging
Furthermore, a graph is generated for identifying each unique visitor and visualizing each single source and the role it plays in the process as a whole. Meteor Tracker is also capable of tracking individual actions, and this is very useful for webmasters that aim to drive visitors to click on specific portions of their sites.
By way of conclusion, the provided service stands as a thorough option when it comes to gauging the impact that digital content is having on the Net at large. If you want to ensure that you are reaching the right public, this solution might be just what you need.
Update, with some interesting comments from the analysts. Heartland closed at $9.17, down from a 52 week high of $33 – obviously not all of the drop was due to the breach as it was trading in the high teens at the start of the year.
Susquehanna Upgrades Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) to Neutral
Susquehanna analyst says, “We are upgrading HPY to Neutral from Negative, as it has achieved our price objective. Although considerable risk persists related to the credit/debit card data breach disclosed last month, we believe such penalties are contemplated in the current valuation. We consulted a range of experts, including reformed hackers, data security auditors (PCI DSS), and competing ISOs. Although we think we understand the mechanics of a prospective penalty, these sources suggest a range of outcomes that is frankly too broad to reasonably base (from tens of millions to billions of dollars). It seems no one (outside the FBI and organized crime, perhaps) knows the extent of the breach (Did they get the coveted magnetic stripes? Was the data encrypted?) These details will likely dictate the penalties, the difference between going concern and back to business. We are reducing our estimates sharply on a “best guess” assumption regarding merchant flight, increased capex, and association penalties toward $25 mln.”
Source - StreetInsider.com
Trivial in comparison, but so were the changes that would have prevented it.
phpBB hacked, 400,000+ account details intercepted
The online bulletin board phpBB (php Bulletin Board) was taken offline on Sunday, following a security breach that allowed access to user account details. phpBB is an open-source software package used to run discussion forums on web sites. The breach was caused when the attacker gained access through an unpatched security bug in PHPlist, a third-party open source email application, used for managing newsletters. The attacker had access for more than two weeks before the breach was discovered.
Read more on Heise Online. The Register also has coverage.
Thanks to Brian Honan for the links.
[From the Heise article:
The writer also claims to have created a script that was able to break more than 28,000 passwords which were hashed using an unsalted MD5 algorithm. According to The Register, the blogger then posted the password details to the internet. [Many users use the same password on several account... Bob]
[From the Register article:
Sadly, the attack could have been prevented by adding a single line to an administrator's index file.
There are several interesting points, including what the CISO isn't responsible for...
Financial institutions brace for rise in security breaches
Thursday, February 05 2009 @ 08:25 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Financial institutions are facing an increased risk of security breaches this year owing to budgetary constraints and an increased threat of insider misconduct, according to the latest annual Global Security Survey from Deloitte.
The research found that internal and external security breaches at financial institutions worldwide actually fell over the past year, but that employee misconduct is a growing concern.
Source - IT News
[The survey is here:
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_fsi_GlobalSecuritySurvey_0901.pdf
The Information Systems Audit and Control Association has a new exposure draft out. Might be useful for your Security Manager... If nothing else, can we agree on their definition of IT Risk? (page 11)
http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=47643
Enterprise Risk: Identify, Govern and Manage Risk The Risk IT Framework Exposure Draft
This IT enterprise risk management framework was designed to allow business managers to identify and assess IT-related business risks and manage them effectively.
Download (1.2M PDF)
Once again the evil troll in Marketing out-technos the Security elf. Perhaps I could charge rent for using my screen real-estate – double if you don't have a contract?
Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 05, @09:59AM from the hate-them-so-much dept. Spam
"If you've noticed that pop-up ad windows seem to have made an unwelcome return into your life, it's because they're not using the same easily blockable technology as before. The Adimpact system uses DHTML to annoy you, and there's no immediate prospect of a solution."
The new trend. Force anyone who still thinks 15MB is “good enough” to move to a faster (more expensive) service. NOTE: It has nothing to do with volume. By the time a 15MB subscriber has downloaded their 100Gigabytes, the faster user will have downloaded 4 times as much.
Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month
Posted by timothy on Thursday February 05, @02:23PM from the coming-soon-to-you-from-them dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from DSL Reports, with possible bad news for Charter customers who live outside the test areas for the bandwidth caps the company's been playing with:
"Yesterday we cited an anonymous insider at Charter who informed us that the company would very soon be implementing new caps. Today, Charter's Eric Ketzer confirmed the plans, and informed us that Charter's new, $140 60Mbps tier will not have any limitations. Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. 'In order to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers, later this month we will be updating our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to establish monthly residential bandwidth consumption thresholds,' Ketzer confirms. 'More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows,' he says."
But if they're lucky, customers will be able to hit that cap quickly.
Related An alternative, but the site has already been overwhelmed (slashdotted), but of course Google had already archived it at: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Ngzp1j7HI10J:bennett.com/blog/+bennet.com+blog+WISPs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices
Posted by timothy on Friday February 06, @07:33AM from the ephemeral-connection dept. Wireless Networking The Internet Technology
Brett Glass writes
"Feel like you're stuck with a no-win choice between expensive cable modem service and slow DSL for Internet? Currently using satellite, with long latencies that make it impossible to do VoIP or interactive gaming? One of America's best kept secrets, so it seems, is the wide coverage of WISPs — terrestrial (not satellite or cellular) wireless broadband Internet providers. The linked article gives an overview of WISPs and provides a handy map showing their nationwide coverage (more than 750,000 square miles of the continental US — and only about one third of the WISPs in the US are on the map so far). Most WISPs are small, independent, consumer-friendly, and tech savvy, making them a better choice than big, corporate ISPs who can't even tell a penny from a dollar."
“Now you can use technology to increase revenue!” Red Light Camera salesmen...
Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light
Posted by timothy on Thursday February 05, @09:42PM from the decent-pellet-gun-might-help dept.
suraj.sun writes with an excerpt from Ars Technica which brings to mind the importance of auditable code for hardware used in law enforcement:
"It's no secret that red light cameras are often used to generate more ticket revenue for the cities that implement them, but a scam has been uncovered in Italy that has led to one arrest and 108 investigations over traffic systems being rigged to stop sooner for the sole purpose of ticketing more motorists."
… some speculating that up to a million Italian drivers have been unfairly slapped with fines.
No bias here! Try getting a grade lower than “A” without cutting taxes...
Rescuing the American Economy A Guide to How the Stimulus Works
Center for American Progress. Rescuing the American Economy - A Guide to How the Stimulus Works, by Michael Ettlinger | February 5, 2009.
"The economy was already performing badly by many measures before the recession started in December 2007, but the poor economic performance was partially camouflaged by rising asset values—especially home values. Those rising asset values made many people and businesses feel well off and comfortable going into debt. Rising asset values, consumer overconfidence, and borrowing fueled economic activity and gave the economy a veneer of well-being, even though real family income remained lower than it had been before the recession of 2001."
Brief: Recovery and Reinvestment 101
Interactive Map: Beyond the Beltway: Helping Those Most in Need
Column: How to Help 12 Million Low-Income Children
Interactive: Build Your Own Stimulus Package
Related postings on financial system
Related Pick your cause(s) from the list!
Recent CRS Reports: Causes of the Financial Crisis, Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles
February 02, 2009 - Medicaid: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
February 02, 2009 - Proposed Funding for Workforce Development in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
January 29, 2009 - Causes of the Financial Crisis
January 29, 2009 - The Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008: An Overview
January 27, 2009 - Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
I don't know... Perhaps rewarding students for taking/posting notes will work, but are the students who don't take notes likely to want these?
http://www.killerstartups.com/User-Gen-Content/isleptthroughclass-com-college-class-notes
ISleptThroughClass.com - College Class Notes
http://www.isleptthroughclass.com/
Keeping college life balanced is not really easy. In actuality, that is the fun of it – provided you don’t go too far in any direction. Relaxation is a vital part of hard work, so that if you missed a class because you couldn’t make it since you were too knackered to get there in time, or if you made it there only to sleep through it then this site will come to the rescue.
In a nutshell, it stands as a portal where notes can be both downloaded and uploaded. The ones who use the site – the ones who do the hard work, IE the uploaders of contents – earn points for their contributions, and these can later be redeemed for prizes at stores such as Victoria’s Secret and Nike. A rewards catalog is likewise featured, so you can see what’s in store before signing up.
Sounds startling, until you remember that sending a copy of my medical records to you is counted a one breach and TJX is counted as one breach.
Most Data Breaches Involve Paper
Wednesday, February 04 2009 @ 09:07 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
If current headlines are to be believed, data breaches involving electronic devices occur with mind-numbing frequency. Stories about missing laptops and stolen passwords appear daily, yet a recent study debunks the conventional wisdom that the majority of data breaches occur electronically.
"The Security of Paper Documents in the Workplace" study, commissioned by the Alliance for Secure Business Information (ASBI), reveals that most breaches involve paper. In fact, 49 percent of respondents whose companies have been affected by a data breach said that one or more of the breaches involved the loss or theft of paper, not electronic, documents. Even more surprising, 80 percent of respondents polled indicated their company had experienced one or more data breaches in the past 12 months alone.
Source - Top Tech News
[The study:
http://www.fellowes.com/asbi/content/ASBI_SecurityofDocuments_Report.pdf
Related? This one “involves paper” in a way I haven't seen before...
Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers?
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 04, @01:12PM from the right-at-home-with-the-bug-guts dept. Security IT
wiedzmin writes
"Another interesting article published by the SANS ISC Handler's Diary is describing a very unusual vector for malware distribution — windshield fliers and fake parking tickets. A website URL provided for "disputing a ticket" actually leads to a malicious website, and a "toolbar" required to find the photo of your violation is, you guessed it, a trojan posing as a fake antivirus. The best part is — according to the VirusTotal report, it doesn't look like most antiviruses have signatures for this one yet."
I haven't seen many of these cases...
Woman Sentenced For Unlawful Access To Stored Communications.
This was a January 12th press release that never got picked up in my usual searches…
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that today Tina Kafka pled guilty and was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Judge M. James Lorenz to serve two years of probation, and a special assessment of $25. Judge Lorenz accepted Ms. Kafka’s plea of guilty to a charge of unlawful access to stored communications, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2701.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Acton Jones, who prosecuted the case, in connection with her guilty plea Ms. Kafka admitted that between December 2006 and November 7, 2007, she intentionally accessed Explorer Elementary Charter School’s email server without authorization. Specifically, Ms. Kafka admitted that she accessed the email server by logging into email accounts assigned to at least 16 other employees, without their permission. Ms. Kafka further admitted that after she gained unauthorized access to the email server, she obtained access to both opened and unopened email messages that were stored on the server.
Source - U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California
For my Security students: Who needs this access? When do they use it? Do you match use of the Admin logon to specific problems being worked? (or do they always use that logon?) Simple concept.
Users' Admin Logins Make Most Windows Malware Worse
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 05, @01:09AM from the protect-yourself-at-all-times dept. Microsoft Security Windows
nandemoari writes
"A new analysis claims that over 90% of the Windows security vulnerabilities reported last year were made worse by users logged in with administrative privileges — an issue Microsoft has been hotly debating recently. According to BeyondTrust Corp., the result of the analysis of the 154 critical Microsoft vulnerabilities indicated that a full 92% could have been prevented if users were not logged into their systems with administrator status. BTC believes that restricting the number of users who can log in with these privileges will 'close the window of opportunity' for attackers. This is particularly true for users of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office."
[A cute comment:
"Polite [clem-digital.net]", a virus for Microsoft Word, already did this back in the mid 90's! When you try to save a file the virus macro asks "Shall I infect the file?", and kindly refrains from doing so if you click say no.
Obviously, the larger the database you match against the better your odds of finding a match. This is related to the face recognition software used (with little or no success) at the SuperBowl.
CA: DMV proposal for face-detection technology irks privacy groups
Even as cost-conscious Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks to trim state spending every way he can, officials at the Department of Motor Vehicles are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars on new driver's license technology.
And privacy advocates say finances are the least of the plan's problems.
Source - Mercury News
Related - EFF: California Action Alert - Say No to Biometrics in CA Driver's Licenses Related - Consumer Federation of California: Dmv End Run Threatens Our Privacy
Similar software is used in Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Georgia. California DMV officials say that by flagging applicants who already have a license under a different name, the software has led to a reduction in fraudulent licenses and identification cards by as much as 10 percent in those states. [Is that the same as saying: It doesn't work 90% of the time? Bob]
ATTABOY! It's rare that I have anything good to say about Microsoft, but this looks like a great idea! (Rather than the phrase “We can, therefor we must!” that I use to deride managers who don't think of implications, here I would suggest the phrase “We can, so why don't we?” as an innovation model.
Microsoft offers to just 'Fix it'
Posted by Ina Fried February 5, 2009 4:00 AM PST
When people encounter a problem with their PC, they often go to the Web and do a search to see if others have had the problem. If they are lucky, someone has found a fix and listed the steps on either a support document or within a user forum.
Now, they may have an even better option.
Over the past six weeks, Microsoft has quietly added a "Fix it" button to a few of the thousands of help documents on its Web site. When clicked, the computer then takes all the recommended steps automatically.
… The "Fix it" option is still fairly rare, showing up in around 100 different help documents. The effort is growing rapidly, though, up from just four such fixes when the program quietly began in December.
Why do I get the distinct impression that failure to be on the White List (and assuming I'm not on the Black List) leaves me in a gray area? Must the government always work at the extreme ends of the bell curve?
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/house-approves.html
House Approves Whitelist of People Who Aren't Terrorists
By David Kravets February 04, 2009 4:02:24 PM
… Under the new plan, approved late Tuesday 413-3, innocent victims of the terrorist watchlist must prove to the Department of Homeland Security, through an undetermined appeals process, that they are not terrorists. They would then get their names put on what the legislation calls the "Comprehensive Cleared List."
Perhaps they could ask for help from the public?
UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 05, @04:11AM from the forest-for-the-trees dept. Security IT
"Despite the introduction of ID cards last November, it has emerged that Britain has no readers that are able to read the cards' microchips, which contain the person's fingerprints and other biometric information. With cops and border guards unable to use the cards to check a person's identity, critics are calling the £4.7bn scheme 'farcical' and a 'waste of time.'"
Related. For terrorist who want to find the weak link in the EU's border security? (Will this lead to standards? Probably not.)
Disparate privacy features devalue ID cards, warns EU security agency
The failure of European Union nations to co-ordinate the privacy features of identity cards will be a major barrier to their usefulness, an EU agency has said. The EU's network security agency hopes countries will co-ordinate cards' privacy features.
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), which is funded by the EU, has studied all 10 ID card systems in the EU and the 13 in development and has found that they each adopt different standards of privacy and methods of protecting it.
Source - Out-Law.com
Do we risk losing a whole generation of gamers who believe they can defy the laws of physics because their game avatars can?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/1136228&from=rss
First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 05, @06:52AM from the crap-where's-a-medkit dept. First Person Shooters (Games) The Military United States Games
Hugh Pickens writes
"Researchers at Durham University have modified a video game and turned it into a fire drill simulator using the Source engine (the 3D game engine used to drive Half-Life 2), and created a virtual model of one of the university's departments. Dr. Shamus Smith said that although 3D modeling software was available, modifying a video game was faster, more cost effective, and had better special effects. 'We were interested in using game technology over a customized application and the Source Engine, from Half-Life, is very versatile,' said Smith. 'We used the simulation to see how people behaved in an actual fire situation and to train people in "good practice" in a fire.' The team says the virtual environment helped familiarize people with evacuation routines and could also help identify problems with a building's layout. One problem, however, was that while the simulation worked for most people, those who played a lot of video games did some unusual things when using the simulation. 'If a door was on fire, [the gamers] would try and run through it, rather than look for a different exit,' said Smith."
This makes me wonder to what extent entertainment software will fill the role of non-entertainment software as the tools and engines become more and more powerful. Ars mentions related news that the US Dept. of Naval Research is dumping millions of dollars into "virtual reality-like simulations of small-scale urban conflicts." It's unclear whether this is related to the US Army's similar program.
Keeping up with technology
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/peter-singers-w.html
Inside the Rise of the Warbots
By Noah Shachtman February 04, 2009 2:16:58 PM
Peter Singer's Wired for War has been praised by everyone from former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake to Jon Stewart as a definitive look at the growing use of robots on the battlefield. Just before his talk at TED 2009, we chatted with Singer, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and Danger Room contributor, about the rise of the machines. [Why does that phrase ring a bell? Bob]
Gates demonstrates new way to spread computer virus!
Gates spreads malaria message with mosquitoes
Posted by Steven Musil February 4, 2009 10:20 PM PST
Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes on stage at an elite tech conference Wednesday to draw attention to the plight of malaria victims.
For my website students. Very interesting.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/doculicious-com-fillable-documents-made-easy
Doculicious.com - Fillable Documents Made Easy
http://www.doculicious.com/do/home?
This is a new service enabling any person who has a website to add forms that can be filled out online by his visitors by providing embeddable PDF documents. Whenever anyone completes any of these forms, they will receive a PDF download that can be printed easily, whereas the information is stored securely on the webmaster’s account.
In addition to that, whenever a form is completed a notification is sent to the webmaster, so that he can be ready to process it straightaway. This makes for easily tracking, managing and processing form entries, and the implementation of such a system doesn’t entail any significant structural change to the way a business is run.
Moreover, these forms are entirely customizable, so that the webmaster can make them match the style and design of his site in a more or less immediate way, and reflect his brand as much as possible.
Lastly, it must be mentioned that a quote for a custom built template can be requested through the site in order to have the team handle the process. Check the site out if you wish to see some template examples for yourself, and how they could complement your website.
Cute, but not as useful
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/yourfonts-com-turn-your-handwriting-into-fonts
YourFonts.com - Turn Your Handwriting Into Fonts
http://www.yourfonts.com/
Is your handwriting something to be proud of? Well done, I wish I could tell a similar story – if only because I am a writer myself, and it is a bit embarrassing to create manuscripts that only I can understand. In a certain sense, it makes me feel like someone who can speak without talking. It is a bit hard to explain – I am afraid only those who are in a similar position will understand it.
Coming back to this site, the ones who have been bestowed with a fine calligraphy can turn it into a TrueType font using the provided service. The one use of such a solution is giving any blog or website a more affable (or at least personalized) touch, and establishing a different connection with visitors.
Other than that, the service is somehow limited in its appeal, yet the ones who can put it to good use are going to be truly satisfied. If you wish to see where it stands for you, you can start by directing your web browser to www.yourfonts.com and start drawing away.
Sounds to me like they agreed to follow the law and pay for the Connecticut AG's cell phone. i.e. This is not a huge settlement, but after all the fuss Connecticut has to make it look big.
State Reaches Settlement With BNY Mellon
Posted February 3rd, 2009 by admin
BNY Mellon was directed to immediately notify each affected bank customer by mail and provide 24 months of credit protection for the financial accounts that might be affected by the data breach.
In addition, BNY Mellon was presented and complied with numerous subpoenas from the Department of Consumer Protection concerning its actions before and after the data loss occurred.
Officials said BNY Mellon will also reimburse customers for any funds stolen from their accounts as a direct result of the data breach.
Finally, the bank will pay $150,000 to the State of Connecticut General Fund.
Read more on WFSB
Interesting! Perhaps a new field for Psychiatrists? Identity Theft anxiety?
Watch out! Privacy litigation damages becoming more viable
Tuesday, February 03 2009 @ 08:47 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Until now, lawsuits seeking to recover significant damages based on the loss of, or unauthorized access to, sensitive personal information have not been especially successful for plaintiffs. Most companies suffering data breaches have escaped by offering affected consumers inexpensive credit monitoring services.
But two recent cases show plaintiffs a way to expose many previously safe companies to substantial claims for damages.
Source - WTN News
Two recent cases may make such circumstances much more dangerous. In Pinero v. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Inc., No. 08-3535 (E.D. La. Jan. 7, 2009), a U.S. federal court refused to dismiss a claim for damages by a consumer whose tax returns were found by a third party in an unsecured dumpster outside a tax preparer's office.
… But the Court left standing Pinero's allegations that using false promises of data protection to lure customers to enter into a consumer services contract was an unfair trade practice under the Louisiana “Little Federal Trade Commission” law. The court also recognized that a claim based on a common law “fraudulent inducement” theory could stand, if properly pled.
… The second case, In Department of Veterans Affairs Data Theft Litigation, No. 06-0506, (D. D.C. Jan. 27, 2009), involves the settlement of multiple consolidated class action lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
… The suit settled in late January with an agreement that the Veterans Administration would create a $20 million fund to pay the expenses of anyone directly affected by the breach, including credit-monitoring expenses and mental health costs for those who found themselves in extreme emotional distress as a result of the breach.
There's gold in them there tills... (I blogged on this back on Dec 24th so I'm glad the FBI “discovered” it.)
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/090202_FBI_Investigates_9_Million_ATM_Scam
FBI Investigates $9 Million ATM Scam
Last Edited: Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009, 12:08 PM EST Created On: Monday, 02 Feb 2009, 9:15 PM EST
Reported by John Deutzman
… According to the FBI , ATMs from 49 cities were hit -- including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong.
… The computer system for a company called RBS WorldPay was hacked. One service of the company is the ability for employers to pay employees with the money going directly to a card, called payroll cards, a lot like a debit card that can be used in any ATM. The hacker was able to infiltrate the supposedly secure system and steal the information necessary to duplicate or clone people's ATM cards.
… "Over 130 different ATM machines in 49 cities worldwide were accessed in a 30-minute period on November 8," Agents Rice said. "So you can get an idea of the number of people involved in this and the scope of the operation."
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
The RBS Web site says that card holders will not be responsible for any unauthorized transactions. But there is fear that the hackers might have had access to sensitive information used in identity theft for a potential 1.5 million customers -- including their including Social Security numbers.
… RBS WorldPay told Fox 5 the company has hired a security firm to try to figure out what happened and to prevent it from happening again.
Yet another demonstration that passwords alone do not provide adequate security.
Hackers break into AT&T e-mail accounts
Hackers broke into AT&T Inc.’s Worldnet e-mail accounts that “use easy-to-guess user passwords,” a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
The hackers took over a few hundred accounts [Not an isolated incident Bob] and began sending out large amounts of spam during the past three weeks, said Mike Barger, AT&T spokesman. AT&T disabled those accounts.
AT&T also sent notices to all of its 600,000 e-mail customers notifying them to strengthen their passwords to a “complex password” by Feb. 15 to better protect their account. A complex password is a combination of letters and numbers that does not contain a person’s first or last name or any sequential numbers like 1-2-3.
Source - San Antonio Express
Most parents probably purchased the pictures without thinking of privacy.
European court expands image privacy rights
The European Court of Human Rights has expanded the reach of privacy rights by ruling that a photographer breached someone's privacy just by taking a photograph, even though that photograph was never published.
Privacy law expert Rosemary Jay of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said that the ruling increased the reach of privacy law, but would not create a US-style image right, which is a commercial right rather than a privacy-related one.
The case concerned a newborn baby, Anastasios Reklos, who was put into a sterile unit when born. As a commercial service operated by the hospital his photograph was taken.
His parents objected and asked for the negatives to be given to them. The hospital refused, and the Greek courts would not hear the case.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has now ruled that the taking of the photograph without the baby's parents' permission was a violation of his rights to privacy. The ruling is available only in French.
For my Security students. When I discuss Controls, this document explains the absolute minimum. After all, who is less innovative and further behind the times than the government?
New from GAO: Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual
Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM), GAO-09-232G, February 02, 2009.
"FISCAM presents a methodology for performing information system (IS) control audits of federal and other governmental entities in accordance with professional standards. This version supersedes the prior version, Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual: Volume I Financial Statement Audits, AIMD-12.19.6, January 1, 2001. The FISCAM is designed to be used primarily on financial and performance audits and attestation engagements performed in accordance with GAGAS, as presented in Government Auditing Standards (also know as the "Yellow Book")."
Have we reached saturation? Possibly...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/03/technology/cell.4-422335.php
Future looks gloomy for cellphone market
By Matt Richtel Published: February 3, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO: Cellphone sales are falling, manufacturers have announced thousands of layoffs and wireless carriers are finding it harder to acquire and keep customers.
It sounds like another tale of "recession bites industry," but there are signs that this downturn is masking something more fundamental, that the cellphone industry's best days are behind it.
Lest we forget that the law business is a business.
Hildebrandt and Citi Private Bank 2009 Client Advisory on Trends in Legal Market
"Hildebrandt and Citi Private Bank...present this 2009 Client Advisory highlighting the trends that we perceived in the legal market in 2008, as well as the trends that we believe will impact the market in 2009."
"...firms have turned to fairly aggressive measures to reduce their costs, improve their cash positions, and shore up their capital base. In recent months, firms have imposed strict controls on discretionary spending, cut bonuses, frozen associate salaries, postponed new initiatives, and engaged in a number of layoffs of both professional and administrative staff. Some firms have revamped their partner compensation schedules to slow distributions and improve their cash positions. And many firms have embarked on serious efforts to winnow out underperforming lawyers andunprofitable practices."
There are differences...
Characteristics of New Firms: A Comparison by Gender
News release: "While the country's 6.5 million privately held, women-owned firms generated an estimated $940 billion in sales and employed 7.1 million people in 2002, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a Kauffman Foundation research report released today indicates that women-owned firms have relatively underperformed men-owned firms in a number of measures. The Kauffman Foundation research tracked new businesses' performance measures from 2004 to 2006 and correlated the data to gender based on primary owner characteristics, firm characteristics, industry and outcomes."
Characteristics of New Firms: A Comparison by Gender, January 2009
Nobody gets my piggy bank unless they are on this list!
The 2008 Bank Performance Scorecard: America's Top 150 Banks
Bank Direct Magazine: "There is not much flash and glitz among this year’s crop of top-performing U.S. banks and thrifts. But given all that’s occurred in the last six months, maybe slow and steady really is the name of the game. In fact, over a recent 12-month period, as the credit and financial markets came unhinged and some of the country’s best-known depository financial institutions teetered on the brink of collapse, “steady at the helm” was the governing mantra for the highest-ranked banks. That is just one salient feature of this year’s class of top performers among banks and thrifts, according to our annual Bank Performance Scorecard. Based on measurement criteria and analysis compiled by Sandler O’Neill & Partners L.P., a New York-based investment banking firm that specializes in the financial services industry, the scorecard features the institutions that maintain top standing in good times and bad—often with recurring high scorers."
2008 Bank Performance Scorecard Highlighting America’s Best Banks
“Once you have firmly established your brand name, you can begin to exploit it!”
NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University"
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 03, @06:45PM from the can-that-be-taught dept.
Slatterz and Keith Kleiner were among several readers to send in word of Singularity University, announced at TED today by Ray Kurzweil. He and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis began talking about creating the school last year, after Diamandis read Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity is Near. NASA and Google are both supporting the project, NASA with space and Google with cash. The school aims to foster "disruptive innovation." As envisioned, Singularity U. will sponsor 3-day and 10-day courses for executives year-round, and its main offering will be a single 9-week course of study over the summer for 120 students, each of which will pay $25,000 for the privilege. Announced faculty so far includes Nobel Prize winning physicist George Smoot, NASA Ames chief scientist Stephanie Langhoff, Vint Cerf, and Will Wright, creator of the video games Spore and The Sims.
Don't let your kids see this!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090203/od_nm/us_tv_judge
Judge rules TV essential, awards damages
Tue Feb 3, 3:04 pm ET
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge awarded $2,600 in damages to a man who sued a store for not replacing his faulty television set, ruling that it was an "essential good" needed to watch soccer and a popular reality TV show.
No disclosure for this type of breach.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/03/194238&from=rss
Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 03, @02:59PM from the pay-per-view-malfunction dept. Television Entertainment
DrinkDr.Pepper writes
"Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, with 3 minutes to go in the game, approximately 30 seconds of pornographic material was shown, seen by an unknown number of Comcast customers in Tucson, Arizona who were watching the game in standard definition. Comcast has apologized (they used the word 'mortified') and is issuing a $10 credit to any customer who claims to have been impacted. Various news accounts suggest that the incident was a malicious act, but no one knows how it was done or by whom."
Worth a mention to my Database students...
Open-source database market shows muscles
Posted by Matt Asay February 3, 2009 5:07 PM PST
While Sun Microsystems' MySQL gets the limelight, with its 55 percent quarterly billings increase, other open-source database competitors like Ingres and Enterprise are also doing well.
Ingres on Tuesday reported a significant uptick in its 2008 revenue, climbing 32 percent to $68 million over $52 million in 2007. EnterpriseDB didn't provide revenue numbers, but it also recently reported a banner year, with greater than 50 percent growth in new customer accounts and "comparable bookings growth."
Tools & Techniques We could hack this by adding sensors so that any car getting too close would be hit by the full force of the lasers... Think of it as a big bug zapper!
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/02/lightlanes-lase.html
LightLane's Lasers Make an Instant Bike Lane
By Keith Barry February 03, 2009 5:37:18 PM
… Their bike-mounted gadget, called LightLane, beams two bright red lines and the universal symbol for cyclist on the pavement, neatly delineating a bike lane to remind motorists to yield a little space.
Our friend in Anchorage sent the link to this website. She is purchasing dust masks, eye protection, and other Volcanic Ash defensive tools. Redoubt is about 100 miles from Anchorage. (About as far as Vail) Might be useful in my Business Continuity class.
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php
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Industry Digest
EARLIER ISSUES
Light Car, Heavy Research
Angie McPherson
The rise of composite-to-metal research in automotive applications
The main focus of modern automotive lightweighting research is to develop hybrid material automobiles – where different material components are selected on a functional basis to exploit the best characteristics of each material. In order to develop the next generation of multimaterial automobiles, research laboratories like the Laboratory for Materials and Joining Technology (LWF) at the University of Paderborn in Germany are working with the auto industry to solve the technical barriers in joining dissimilar lightweight materials in high-volume, cost-effective ways for future automotive production.
“This is the first time composites are being used as structural automotive structures, previously only seen in motorsport or mainly for use in the outer skin or nonstructural components,” says Dr. Gerson Meschut, PhD, director of the LWF. “Now with composites moving into serial production cars, automotive suppliers need to think about suitable joining technologies. Our main challenge is there are no technologies available to join these materials as easily as sheet metal.” Composites will be a key material moving forward and advance hybridjoining techniques just might be the key to address the technical challenge of joining large composite structures to other lightweight metals. Dr. Meschut has been researching joining methods in automotive applications for more than 15 years and has worked for and with various automotive companies around the world to develop efficient joining methods. Meschut predicts hybrid joining – a combination of adhesive bonding, mechanical joining and welding – and similar technologies will lead the way for faster and cheaper methods. Several laboratories around the world, including his lab in Germany, have recently started the practice of investigating new hybrid techniques for faster production times.
Addressing technical barriers
Kim Hamner, engineering director at Continental Structural Plastics, has been involved with the automotive composites industry since exterior sheetmolded compound (SMC) body components were becoming viable options on cars other than the Corvette over 40 years ago. She has been developing applicationsfor composites to reduce vehicle weight ever since. “Basic joining methods have not changed significantly since the architecture of vehicles has not changed over the last 20 years,” says the composite manufacturer. “To connect to the structural parts of the vehicle, we will need to develop structural adhesives and as well as assembly techniques to take advantage of the lighter weight composites.”
Example of adhesive joining technology by Dow Automotive Systems.
Hamner is referring to the techniques most automotive manufacturers are using today – typically mechanical joining, adhesive bonding or a combination of the two – to join composites to other materials. Each method is selected depending on the application of the part and has a unique set of benefits and limitations. For example, mechanical joining is historically used to join steel parts, which requires drilling or cutting holes into the composite piece effectively limiting stress redistribution in composite components.
Adhesive bonding is the most common method of composite-to-composite joining, but the technology takes time to cure. “Slow processing time is the main reason automotive companies prefer mechanical joining,” says Dr. Meschut. “Additionally, some manufacturers trust adhesive joining, while others feel more comfortable with mechanical joining.” To be absolutely safe, automotive companies have been adding additional mechanical bonds to the adhesive joint – which is why a new method, known as hybrid or fusion joining, is a popular research topic. The theory is that even if the adhesive fails, the joint will work.
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Postcard From Jordan Valley
Pollution and overuse have turned a sacred waterway into an open sewage pit, but there's hope for redemption. Resurrecting the Jordan River's holy waters
By Andrew Lee Butters Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Revered in the Bible, the Jordan today is more brown and shallow than "deep and wide."
For centuries, the children of Abraham--Jews, Christians and Muslims alike--have venerated the Jordan River. So much so that "crossing over Jordan" has become a mystical metaphor for liberation and resurrection. These days, it's the river itself that could use some resurrecting. Instead of a mighty torrent "deep and wide," as the gospel songs proclaim, much of the river is a thin rivulet of brown slime largely obscured by reeds. Most of what now flows in between the Jordan's banks is human sewage, almost all of it untreated. The river where John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Messiah, a river...
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Paris Hilton arrives at the Los Angeles Municipal Court Metropolitan branch.
#2. Parisian Outburst
What could be worse for a celebutante than going to jail? Being granted an early release and then getting tossed right back in the slammer. After Paris Hilton had served three days of her 45-day sentence for driving with a suspended license, the Los Angeles sheriff reassigned her to home confinement, in part because Hilton was suffering from an undisclosed medical condition. But a judge quickly ordered her to go back to the big house, prompting Hilton to cry out in court, "It's not right! Mom!" She ended up serving a total of 23 days in detention, including her day of home confinement.
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Modi and CPEC Put Gilgit-Baltistan On the Table
A while back I wrote a piece, The Most Dangerous Letters in the World Aren’t SCS…They’re CPEC.
I made the case that the South China Sea was a case of high-functioning, cautious states not interested in blowing each other up…while in South Asia the core Chinese gambit, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, was at the mercy of Pakistan and India, two borderline dysfunctional states that were interested in blowing each other up.
Indian PM Modi added some tinder to the bonfire with his August 15 Independence Day speech and another internal speech, in which he made an issue of Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (POK), Balochistan, and (drumroll) Gilgit-Baltistan.
In my opinion, the ongoing unrest in India’s slice of Kashmir is an embarrassment and reproach to Modi, who has to live up to the rep of World’s Largest Democracy, Upholder of the Rules-Based Liberal International Order, and Worthy US Ally.
Awkward fact is that while the PRC has done an OK job of coloring inside the lines post-Deng, India suffers by comparison as a historically Anschluss-happy (Sikkim) terrorist exporting (Sri Lanka), nation-shattering (Bangladesh), bullying (Nepal), brutal occupier (Kashmir) and recklessly malicious regional actor (Afghanistan) with appalling social problems, and run by an unapologetic, pogrom-executing fascist.
Sorry, Indian friends!
Anyway, in lockstep with Modi’s speech, nationalist-friendly Indian media started cranking out videos on how terrible things are in Pakistan, which was presented as a brilliant riposte to Pakistan pointing fingers at India over Kashmir.
Commentators swarmed all over the Balochistan issue, which is a hot button thanks to what is apparently an unbelievably brutal Pakistan security operation intended to destroy Baloch’s capacity for political action and nationhood by death-squad operations against Baloch activists and intellectuals.
In Balochistan, the Pakistan army seems to be recapitulating the horrors of Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan in 1971, which started with systemic slaughter at the universities and, when the project was lurching to defeat, wholesale exit massacres of Bengali intellectuals and professionals.
I’m guessing the Pakistan army is reassuring itself that it’s different this time.
Balochistan, unlike East Pakistan, is contiguous to the Punjab heartland, sparsely populated, and lacking an Indian border to provide havens and bases for subversion and intervention. The army’s probably right, especially since Iran has a Baloch problem of its own (exacerbated, of course, by the Pakistan army with its traditional brilliance, since it enables Saudi-backed Baloch militants making mischief in Iran’s Sistan and Baloch Province), and is unlikely to view Baloch self-determination with great enthusiasm.
Gilgit-Baltistan is, hopefully, another kettle of fish. Sometimes referred to as “GB”, it’s a mountain district of around 2 million people in northern Pakistan, abutting China, and hosting the northern stretch of the CPEC road network to Kashgar.
I take the road less-traveled and write about GB in my most recent piece for Asia Times, India Plays its cards in Gilgit Baltistan.
And here’s probably the best map you’ll find of the area, courtesy of the Gilgit Baltistan Scouts.
GB has suffered the usual sectarian and demographic divide and rule abuses at the hands of the federal government, spawning a nascent localist movement that veers into calls for some kind of independence or self-determination, and which has been met with the usual ham-fisted central government suppression justified on security/counterinsurgency/counter-terrorism campaign.
The temptation for India to meddle in GB to wrongfoot the CPEC must be irresistible, and indeed a two-city general strike was called in Gilgit Baltistan on the same day Modi namechecked the region in his Independence Day speech.
Indian media pitched in with reports on the unrest whose obvious objective was to send the message: Not like India in Jammu/Kashmir; Worse!
However, I’m hopeful that things are actually Better! up in GB and some combination of civilian common sense in Pakistan’s federal government and PRC pressure will turn GB into a “win-win showcase” instead of another demonstration of Pakistan’s suicidally counter-productive security-through-death squad military strategy.
Some encouragement can perhaps be derived from the fact that GB’s most noteworthy activist-dissident, Baba Jan, apparently got detained, kicked around, had his fingers broken and got sentenced to forty years in prison by the central government, instead of being abducted, tortured, shot, and dumped in a ditch by security forces as is apparently the norm in Balochistan.
It’s also inspiring that the Awami Action Committee, which organized this week’s strike, has been able to stick with Baba Jan’s determinedly non-sectarian political strategy (though I wonder how many of the resented Sunni Punjabi interlopers jointed the strike enthusiastically) and the movement seems to have broad backing from professional as well as religious groups.
And the PRC can take the fact that the local activists have not, like the Baloch independence activists, categorically repudiated the CPEC as exclusively an instrument of central government oppression and exploitation.
The local expectation in GB appears to be that the CPEC is a potential positive, especially if the government can be strongarmed into putting some economic development zones into the district.
The CPEC already has a sizable footprint in GB thanks to a crash $275 million/three year project to improve the Karakoram Highway to convert it into an all-weather road capable of handling semis pulling 40 foot containers year round back and forth to (eventually) Gwadar.
The project was desperately needed since a landslide in the Hunza district in 2010 had not only cut the road; it had blocked a river and created an enormous new lake, dubbed Lake Attabad, that had to be crossed by boat before the PRC realigned the road, building five tunnels with an aggregate length of 7.2 kilometers in the process.
The federal government’s initial dilatory and parsimonious response to the disaster—which killed 19 or 20 people and displaced 25,000 villagers—became a key issue for local activists, including Baba Jan (he was arrested after security forces fired into a Hunza-related protest, killing two, and tried to evade culpability by accusing Baba Jan of terrorism).
From what I can tell, the project was funded primarily by the China Exim Bank and contracted by Pakistan to China Road and Bridge Corporation. Local employment, if any, during the construction was pretty minimal. So, something of corporate welfare to China’s beleaguered infrastructure section.
I have to admit, I can’t get too worked up about it. I was struck by the fact that the U.S. under President Obama alone has sold $110 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia, providing a similar service in keeping domestic industry fat and happy. And for its $46 billion from China, Pakistan is getting some roads and power plants out of it, and not just tanks and cluster munitions.
The new Karakoram Highway in GB, by the way, looks pretty impressive, at least until the next landslide comes along.
I’m guessing that local activists hope to use the heightened attention to GB thanks to Modi’s remarks to demand more from the CPEC than the road link and the promise that the beauties of Lake Attabad will bring more tourists to the region. GB has also risen on the domestic political agenda since the opposition PPP sees it as a stick to beat Nawaz Sharif with. And, as I wrote over at AT, I’m guardedly optimistic that the PRC will prevail on the Pakistan army not to turn GB into the usual hell-hole.
But it’s still an open question how badly Pakistan can mismanage the GB issue, and how far India can and will go to exploit it.
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How Fidel Castro Almost Made Cuba the World's 5th Nuclear Power
[I went in and cleaned up this post for clarity--and to add Walter Sweeney's name--in September 2017. China Hand]
Fidel Castro's 90th birthday celebrations might have been a bit more extravagant if Cuba had emerged from the 1962 missile crisis as the world's fifth nuclear power.
Everybody loves to talk about the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, when America’s Best and Brightest under Jack Kennedy stared down Nikita Khrushchev and his attempt to position strategic nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Revisionist history a.k.a. facts have as usual removed some of the good v. evil gloss slathered on the US by Kennedy hagiographers to reveal the political calculations underlying the confrontation.
It has emerged that Khrushchev was waaaaaaaay on the wrong end of the notorious missile gap, contrary to Kennedy's claims during the 1960 election, with major shortfalls in operational ICBMs and no strategic submarine capabilities and, indeed, with only 300 strategic nuclear devices overall compared to 1500 for the US. Soviet strategists were appalled by the introduction of US Jupiter nuclear-tipped missiles into Turkey and Italy and justifiably anxious about the prospect of a pre-emptive US strike.
Kennedy understood that standing up to the Soviets over Cuba was more a matter of US (and his) credibility and a reflection of US determination over Berlin than an issue of US national security. From the beginning of the crisis, his advisors are unambiguous in their analysis that the missiles in Cuba, when operational, would not effect the strategic balance.
Furthermore, the CIA informed Kennedy that the missiles apparently had not yet been armed with their nuclear warheads (correct) and the missile sites were not strongly defended and could be seized in a military operation with a minimum of fuss and muss (wrong wrong wrong).
In other words, the US saw Khrushchev as way out on a limb that was ripe for sawing off, thanks to the premature exposure of the Soviet missile gambit on Cuba thanks to US intelligence operations.
Missiles in Cuba were intended by Khrushchev as a) a stabilizing strategic riposte to the US missiles in Italy and Turkey and b) a neat way to succor Cuba and bind it into a Soviet alliance by deterring a widely expected US “regime change” style invasion.
Recently, the tape recordings of the Oval Office discussions during the crisis were declassified and, according to Benjamin Schwartz in The Atlantic, yielded this priceless nugget:
On the first day of the crisis, October 16, when pondering Khrushchev’s motives for sending the missiles to Cuba, Kennedy made what must be one of the most staggeringly absentminded (or sarcastic) observations in the annals of American national-security policy: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs [medium-range ballistic missiles] in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser, immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
As for regime change, Soviet expectations were spot on; after the Bay of Pigs debacle the Pentagon was busy with Operation Mongoose planning for Castro’s overthrow. Declassified documents reveal that the US would, as usual, take the high ground by invading only in response to a Cuban outrage, albeit one manufactured by the CIA. One scenario, thanks to an anonymous writer with a strong historical understanding of what had worked in US-Cuban relations:
A “Remember the Maine” incident could be arranged in several forms:
a. We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
The key assumption underlying the US strategy for facing down the Russians in Cuba was that the United States didn’t think that the Soviet Union had any operational nuclear weapons capability in Cuba when it decided to go public and issue the ultimatum to Khrushchev.
In a piece I wrote about dead horses in Soviet Ukraine (one of my favorite pieces about a pivotal event in Ukrainian history—must read!) I remarked in passing on the assertion by Victor Marchetti, a CIA whistleblower perhaps little remembered today, but a big deal in the last century:
Marchetti, by the way, claims to have been intimately involved in the intelligence aspects of the Cuban crisis. He alleges that President Kennedy was well aware that the missiles in Cuba were still lacking their warheads and therefore posed no threat to the United States. Nevertheless, Kennedy and his hagiographers, perhaps in order to provide America’s youth with sufficient pretext for a frantic pre-apocalypse f*ckfest, have skated over this aspect of the crisis.
According to Marchetti:
[We didn’t] come as close to war as many think, because Khruschev knew he was caught. His missiles weren't armed, and he hadn't the troops to protect them. Kennedy knew this, so he was able to say: "take them out." And Khruschev had to say yes.
Ah, history. Or, as we say, “Whaddya know?”
Well, at the time Marchetti wrote that in 2001, the USSR had met its demise, rehashing the Cuban Missile Crisis had become a cottage industry and occasion for mutual backpatting by Russian and US national security types who had saved the world, at least certain paleskinned bits of the Northern Hemisphere, from destruction…
…and it was pretty categorically stated that Cuba was loaded to the gunwales with usable nuclear weapons in October 1962, when the crisis started...
...and Marchetti was defending his initial, less alarmist assessments and dismissing the subsequent revelations as nefarious tag-team U.S.-Russian Federation disinfo...
...so post-1989 revelations do have to be parsed carefully since the Cuban missile crisis is apparently still a useful text for geopolitical jockeying between Russia and the United States...
...but emerging documents and memoirs pretty convincingly support the latter assessments.
162 gadgets is the number bandied about, a mixture of strategic warheads for the medium and intermediate range missiles targeting the US, and 92 tactical nuclear devices for defensive purposes, especially cruise and short range missiles but also including a pair of nuclear mines.
As we shall see, Marchetti was right about the strategic warheads that could target the U.S. not being ready for prime time, but the tactical nukes were apparently good to go...
And as for Khrushchev “not having the troops”, that was apparently a pretty major flub by the CIA. There were allegedly forty thousand Soviet troops in Cuba, not the few thousand estimated by Marchetti and the CIA, infiltrated together with shiploads of military equipment under the noses of the CIA and including infantry, anti-aircraft, and other defensive units to protect the core strategic nuclear force.
Soviet forces were commanded by officers whose concept of operational routine was the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany, had control over those tactical nuclear weapons, and had authority to use them if the U.S. invaded and communications with Moscow were severed. Plenty of material, in other words, to turn Cuba into a major battlefield, starting with the U.S. base at Guantanamo as a focus of Soviet attentions.
Here’s a photo of the general in charge of Soviet forces in Cuba, Issa Pliyev, wearing the “volunteer” civilian garb he detested, standing with Castro, who is wearing the rarely-seen clunky glasses that, apparently, he detested)…
…and here's General Pliyev in his full military fig as veteran of Stalingrad, two time Hero of the Soviet Union, seven time Order of Lenin, Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic, Member, French Legion of Honor, etc. etc.
However, Marchetti is correct in terms of describing US perceptions at the time of the crisis.
The part about the strategic missiles not being operational was something of a lucky guess.
According to the record, even after a U2 flight yielded unambiguous photographic evidence that, indeed, the Soviets had established intermediate and medium-range missile launch facilities in Cuba (built under a crash program involving the labor of hundreds of thousands of Cubans), the CIA didn’t know for sure that the warheads had arrived in Cuba.
Indeed, the photos reveal something that looks more like construction sites than comfy bases of mass destruction (the Soviets apparently cloned their homeland missile facilities in Cuba, making photo analysis of the nature and progress of the projects a bit easier), supporting the inference that the warheads were not yet on site and integrated with the missiles. The CIA conclusion appears to have been that the warheads weren’t in Cuba and if they were, they were off in some warehouse somewhere and the missiles were unarmed.
It turns out the the warheads for the strategic missiles were in Cuba but had not been deployed to the launch sites yet.
Another indication that the strategic missiles were not operational in October 1962 is that Khrushchev was not yet prepared to formally announce their existence.
Apparently, Khrushchev planned to announce the existence of the missiles during a visit to the United States in November 1962, bringing to mind this exchange from Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove:
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
---Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
As for the tactical nuclear weapons, McNamara states that his knees wobbled when he was told about them at a thirtieth anniversary get-together in 1992 between the US, Russia, and Cuba. However, it's more accurate to state that he had been informed of the possible presence of tactical nukes on Cuba at the time of the crisis, but had simply refused to believe it.
According to the Kennedy tapes, by October 29, 1962 it was known thanks to low altitude surveillance that there were nuclear capable Soviet tactical missiles on Cuba, and US military commanders were asking for permission to use tactical nuclear weapons in the planned invasion: McNamara himself refused. I'm guessing McNamara chose to assume (erroneously) the missiles were not nuclear tipped and this was the version presented to Kennedy.
Therefore, President Kennedy had the certain luxury of gaming his Cuba scenarios on the assumption that Cuba didn't have any usable nukes yet (which was true of the strategic missiles the US knew about, but absolutely wrong concerning the tactical nukes the CIA had missed).
US planners therefore set aside the worry that a nuke would get lit off in Cuba, and gamed the nuclear element as if it would play out only within the parameters of a potential direct nuclear exchange between the US and Russian homelands.
The assumption was, in other words, that any nukes would have to come out of Russia, and Khrushchev probably wouldn't escalate to global nuclear war if the U.S. dropped the hammer on Cuba.
The consensus opinion in Washington in October 1962—buttressed by the reports cited by Marchetti that the warheads had probably not arrived and there weren’t a lot of Soviet troops on the island--was to launch massive airstrikes followed by invasion to take out the missiles (and also, though it’s not much discussed in the official hagiography, provide a useful pretext for going into Cuba big and dealing with that pesky Castro problem once and for all).
However, according to McNamara, Kennedy was swayed to go for the quarantine* --> ultimatum --> airstrikes + invasion to follow option instead by the general in charge of U.S. Tactical Air Command, Walter Sweeney, who cautioned that maybe a nuclear-armed missile might survive the massive U.S. strike to hit the United States.
In other words, the group opinion was 99% sure everything would go great, but Kennedy wanted 100%.
If the group opinion had prevailed and the US had invaded Cuba and been surprised by 40,000 nuclear-armed Soviet troops, things would have gone south in a hurry (together with McNamara's knees and career). Which is why expert opinion has started to tilt away from “masterful statesmanship” toward the “lucky accident” interpretation of the crisis.
As it transpired, the most immediate nuclear risk during the crisis didn’t even involve the weapons on Cuba. It was created by the US Navy enthusiastically depth charging a Soviet sub nearing Cuba that was armed with a nuclear torpedo. Unaware that the USN was dropping undercharged “we want you to surface and identify yourself” ashcans and not “we want to sink you” depth bombs and worried that his vessel was about to be destroyed, the Soviet captain decided to dish out his 10-kiloton nuclear torpedo and go down in a blaze of glory. Fortunately, the launch was vetoed by his flotilla commander, who happened to be on the boat. The sub, happily, survived, as did significant swaths of the Soviet Union and US.
Khrushchev eventually obliged Kennedy, climbing down in a nice superpower-to-superpower way, receiving in return a pledge that the United States would not invade Cuba (a pledge honored somewhat in the breach) and a sub voce US undertaking to remove soon-to-be-obsolete Jupiter missiles from Turkey and maybe Italy (which were subsequently replaced by invulnerable sub-based Polaris missiles).
And that, of course, did not oblige Fidel Castro, who regards Khrushchev as an ass and a wimp.
An ass, because instead of declaring to Kennedy that the missiles were a deterrent and an sovereign Soviet security interest covered by the USSR’s nuclear force when a U2 flight detected initial signs of missile facility construction in August 1962, Khrushchev fudged and called them defensive (with the apparent mental reservation that “defensive” meant “offensive weapons that defend Cuba by virtue of their deterrent function”). This put the Soviet foreign policy establishment on the wrong foot in vigorously and credibly defending the initiative when it turned out in October that there were four dozen strategic missiles in the package capable of reaching most of the continental United States.
And wimp, because Khrushchev backed down in October 1962 and threw Cuba under the bus. Cuba under Castro had irrevocably burned its bridges to the United States by hosting the missiles, and was ready to do that socialist shoulder-to-shoulder thing and risk US annihilation in an attack if the USSR was ready to take out the United States in retaliation. But not to be. Khrushchev caved to the US and removed all the nukes, not just the strategic weapons he had promised Kennedy to remove, but also the tactical nuclear weapons he had promised Castro in the initial agreement would eventually be delivered to Cuban control—and Washington didn’t even know about.**
So instead of getting a powerful, nuke-based alliance with the USSR that would give Castro bargaining leverage against US security and economic coercion—and maybe diplomatic recognition, who knows? The US had extended the courtesy to a number of Soviet proxies with considerably less national legitimacy than Cuba-- Cuba was left as a lonely piñata twisting in the wind while the US took whacks at it for over 50 years. President Obama marked the continuation, rather than conclusion, of the effort by going to Cuba for a triumphal visit that was interpreted, especially in the United States, as receiving the Castros’ surrender to the forces of US democracy and capitalism, notwithstanding Raul Castro’s effort to literally spin Obama’s flaccid wrist into a display of equality and popular solidarity.
Here's how those socialist photops are supposed to look, by the way.
For the Soviet Union, a dismal botch that helped cost Khrushchev his job and, coming on the heels of the China debacle, pretty much put paid to Soviet overseas nuclear junketeering.
What about Cuba? What would have happened if the USSR, instead of putting its own nukes on Cuba, had just given Cuba some nukes? Or, in a strikingly plausible scenario, let Castro keep the tactical nukes after the Soviets withdrew? How would US relations with Cuba and the rest of Latin America evolved?
Looking at the cavalcade of instability in places like Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala engendered by the successful US rollback of socialism after Khrushchev bugged out, Latin America would certainly have been different if Cuba had nukes…and maybe not worse off.
But that’s a possibility the US, for obvious reasons, has no interest in exploring.
*There was no basis under international law for the unilateral US blockade of Cuba in 1962. The legal recourse for the US would have been to obtain a 2/3 vote from the Organization of American States authorizing a blockade against a member state, something that the US wasn't willing to wait for. The legal end-around was to call it a "quarantine".
**The report that Khrushchev had decided to let Castro keep the nukes post-crisis, but his envoy, Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan, evaluated that Castro (admittedly at that time 32 years old, emotionally vigorous, and under tremendous stress) was too headstrong & irrational, & decided on his own initiative to negotiate their withdrawal is, by the way, false. Mikoyan determined that Khrushchev's serial mismanagement of the crisis had alienated Castro to the degree that effective co-management of the weapons was impossible. Castro, in desperation, was prepared to inform the world through the UN that, despite the Soviet withdrawal, Cuba still had the nukes and an effective deterrent against US invasion. The decision to notify Castro the tactical weapons were being pulled from Cuba was made in consultation with the Soviet Party Presidium.
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Nuclear Blackmail and America’s Fantasy War with China
Another day, another piece of US think-tankery poo-pooing the prospects for a nuclear confrontation with the PRC.
RAND came up with a new report on the economic costs of war with China, Thinking the Unthinkable. In RAND's view the war won’t escalate beyond a limited conventional war fought in the West Pacific and over Chinese territory, China gets devastated beyond its ability to resist and keep military forces in the field, we win, the world economy staggers but carries on, The End.
I beg to differ, for reasons given in my current piece for Asia Times, RAND’s ‘Unthinkable’ War with China.
It’s always possible that I’m out of line here, but I think RAND’s public confidence is borderline delusional.
The PRC is narrowing the conventional military disparity with the US and it seems most likely sooner or later, maybe around 2025, the US is going to have to bring nukes into the equation to make sure it can win a war with China.
That’s what we had to do with the Soviet Union—that’s why we’ve still got those nukes at Incirlik in Turkey—and I don’t see any reason why this wouldn’t happen in Asia.
My personal theory is that Thinktankistan has been put on notice not to provide any oxygen to the nuclear narrative right now because, if a nuclear exchange is seen as feasible, then Japan, South Korea, and even Taiwan are going to want to have their own nuclear deterrent.
Faith in the technical capabilities of Raytheon missile defense ain’t gonna cut it, in my opinion, if we’re talking about a clutch of Chinese missiles making it through the shield to take out US bases in Japan and that nice THAAD installation in South Korea…and they might be nuclear-tipped.
If everybody’s got nukes, they not only don’t need the US nuclear umbrella; they’ve got their own defense and security policies and the US, instead of acting as the maestro of the China-containment orchestra, is just the fat guy with the tuba in the back row who provides some extra oompah to support the front line players.
The PRC therefore has two incentives to abandon its old fashioned No First Use/MAD deterrent based on a few ICBMs.
First, naturally, is that the threat of a nuclear deterrent based on first use or launch on warning becomes more useful, maybe necessary, as the US packs offensive capabilities, including dual use (nuke as well as conventional) enabled fighter-bombers and cruise missiles into the East Asian theater.
Second, triggering a nuclear arms race in Asia shreds the US nuclear umbrella that underpins US leadership of the pivot, fragments the alliance, and allows the PRC to target—and intimidate—US allies bilaterally and bring its local superiority to bear.
Interesting element of PRC leverage, isn’t it? Evaluations of PRC current and future nuclear policy (and the US dance of provocation and accommodation with China) should probably weight this factor pretty highly.
China isn’t the only country with the ability to upset the US nuclear applecart.
If the genuine history of US strategy for East Asia is written, it will of course cover the multi-decade effort to d*ck with China. But it will also include the secret history of the US effort to direct and control Japanese rearmament as an asset for US hegemony, while keeping a rein on Japanese geo-strategic ambitions…and keeping Japan from turning the nuclear assets covertly gifted by the Pentagon into a declared nuclear weapons capability (Joseph Trento can write that section).
This is not a theoretical issue. Shinzo Abe is a dyed-in-the-wool anti-American revisionist Japanese nationalist who is determined to exploit the US eagerness to remain the official East Asian hegemon to extend Japan’s geopolitical sway into East Asia and restore its dignity as a full-fledged regional power.
For Team America, keeping a leash on Japan and the US in the driver’s seat for Asian security policy is Job One. That means the pot has to keep boiling enough to keep the US in control of the pivot polarization narrative and development of security alliances with the Philippines, Vietnam, et al. while keeping things calm enough that Japan stays on rez as a nominal junior partner of the coalition, whose military adventurism is still officially circumscribed by the principal of “collective self defense” in support of US operations.
As it pays lip service to US leadership, Japan has used the US pivot to develop its own bilateral security ties down ASEAN way and with India—and is reaching out to the Tsai Ying-wen government on Taiwan, which probably gives US planners a distinct case of the collywobbles.
Japan is, in other words, edging toward the full formal resumption of a “normal” role in overseas military affairs, one in which it officially pursues its own interests and doesn’t just follow US policy.
If Japan goes nuclear, it’s pretty much game over. The US becomes just another passenger on the pivot bus. So Japan can also use its nuclear weapons potential as leverage over the US to shape policy and extract concessions.
Which means, in my opinion, RAND has to pretend, at least publicly, that nuclear weapons are not a factor in Asian strategy in order to defend the status quo of US leadership and nuclear monopoly.
Privately, I suspect, it’s another matter entirely, and US strategy is shaped both by Chinese and Japanese nuclear blackmail.
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‘Gabi’ hails the arrival of Mashego and Zuke
Midfielder, Tshwarelo Bereng has hailed the arrival of experienced duo in Katlego Mashego and Sandile Zuke to the Club.
Hit by injuries, Chippa United acquired the services of the experienced campaigners to bolster the squad during the month of November and Bereng felt that their arrival has benefited the Club.
“They have not only added experience but quality to the side. There is always conversation between the younger players and the senior players on and off the field here.
“I am lucky to have known Katlego (Mashego) during our time at Moroka Swallows in 2013/2014 season. He is always open to advise the younger players and together with other senior players are always there to assist,’ said Bereng who joined the team from first division outfit, Cape Town All Stars before the start of the season.
Bereng (26) has had a slow start to his career at Port Elizabeth based side making his debut on the opening day of the season against Free State Stars. He has also been unlucky with one or two injuries.
“I sustained an injury in October during a friendly game against Cape Town All Stars in George. I felt during that I was picking up form and was forced to wait on the sidelines again,” laments Bereng.
On Saturday in front of thousands spectators at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium he was given another opportunity by the Technical Team to prove himself when he replaced David Zulu late in the first half.
“I was ready mentally,” reflected Bereng. “I had not warm up properly though hence I started slow giving the ball away. I did feel confident though after forcing a save late with a long range shot in the first half.
The move paid dividends as Bereng scored the Club’s second goal as ChilliBoys came from behind to beat Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday, 03 December 2016.
“It was a great feeling to score my first goal in the PSL. I had waited for a long time for this goal having made my debut in the PSL during 2013/2014 season.
“People at home said; It was time’ and I know that now I have to work even harder to improve all aspects of my game. I have already moved on from Saturday and focusing on our next game (against Polokwane City).
“My feet are firmly on the ground. We are back in training this afternoon and I need to work even harder. We want to do better than we did last season and we believe that is not impossible.
“My first ambition is for the team to do well and secondly be nominated for an individual award in May,” adds Bereng with a smile.
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From one of the most underrated directors of Hollywood's golden era, Mitchell Leisen (Remember the Night), comes the heart-rending romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn... Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard, Modern Times) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy. A moving and thoughtful film with a wonderful script (co-written by Billy Wilder), Hold back the Dawn benefits from evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland, and an over-arching sense of romantic melancholy. An enduring classic of its era, Leisen's film was nominated for no-less than six Academy Awards and is presented here in High Definition for the first time.
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Sagada youth learn ‘responsible journalism’
With the theme “Responsible Campus Journalists at all Times”, Fr. Marcial Marcs Castañeda, Mission Rector of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at Sagada, instructs young students of Bangaan National High School in Sagada to know, understand, and practice “wise journalism.” MT. CARMEL CHURCH SAGADA
By Fr. Mickey Cardenas
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Pope Francis, in his message for World Communications Day, praised educators who teach young people how to read and question what they see on social media. Along this lines, the pastor of a Catholic community in Sagada, Mountain Province, is helping train young people to be responsible journalists.
“We need responsible journalists to spread the truth,” said Fr. Marcial Marcs Castañeda, Mission Rector of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at Sagada, in an interview with CBCP News, on Indigenous People’s Sunday, Oct. 14.
‘Wise journalism’
“’Fake News’ is not a language in the field of responsible journalism,” the priest stressed as he lamented the fact that the term has recently come to prominence.
Under the theme “Responsible Campus Journalists at all Times,” young students of Bangaan National High School in Sagada have been attending consecutive meetings to know, understand, and practice wise journalism. In one of the exercises, the students were divided into two groups, each given the task to pass on a message until the last person who receives it comes forward to announce it.
“Unfortunately, neither group made it,” Castañeda said, underlining the lesson: Listen carefully so that you can relay correctly!”
“Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are essential virtues for a mature and responsible journalist. The opposite is the strategy of the Evil One. Those who practice lies and those who spread fake news are the instruments of the devil,” the priest said, evoking the Pope’s reflection that the first to use “fake-news” was the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
‘You cannot give what you do not have!’
Reminding the students of an old Latin dictum, Castañeda emphasized the importance of overcoming ignorance.
“We must know in order to have something to share. Journalists must undergo continuous formation,” he stressed.
According to him, information must be validated to bring out credible truth from credible sources. “…From this, we can deter corrupt practices, warn corrupt officials, and rectify social injustices in our society. Eventually, we help promote peace,” the priest pointed out.
Help train responsible journalists
The priest also called on the faithful to help support young journalists, some of whom have qualified for regional and national campus journalism meets, by donating DSLR cameras and computers for campus journalism training.
Those interested to help may contact Fr. Marc Castañeda via email marcsongs123@gmail.com or mobile number 0905-1653 669.
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Eisley Serenades Crowd at the Troubador
May 19, 2011 at 2:10 am by Carly Bonilla-Flores
Texas-based indie rock band Eisley performed a sold-out show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Sunday. The show was a part of Eisley’s current Turning Tides Tour, promoting their recent release, The Valley.
The historic little venue was brimming with plaid trendy L.A. hipsters jerking their side-swept bangs out of their faces and adjusting their snug cardigans.
The first act was Christie DuPree, the youngest sister of the DuPree/Eisley family. Her brother, Collin DuPree, joined her on stage with an electric guitar that complemented her acoustic. They started off the night with tuning problems and Christie apologized for the out-of-tune guitar throughout the set. Nevertheless, she was cheery and bantered with the crowd while her brother helped her tune her guitar.
Christie’s velvety voice in tandem with the folk songs made the set seem like an intimate campfire jam session, minus the campfire.
Near the end of the set Christie asked the audience if anyone had heard of them before. A significant amount of affirmations awoke the still swarm of people, and Christie expressed genuine surprise.
“I was assuming we were a ‘nobody’ band!” Christie said.
New York-based duo The Narrative played next. The duo, which consists of Suzie Zeldin on keyboard and vocals, and Jesse Gabriel on guitar and vocals, acted like a cute comedy pair, igniting bellowing laughter in between songs.
Their set was mainly made up of songs off their first self-titled, full-length album. However, they squeezed in one song from their EP, “Just Say Yes.” Before doing so, Jesse asked if anyone had even heard of their EP and only two people raised their hands, mine included. Suddenly I felt like one of those “I knew them before they were famous” hipsters, sans oxford lace-ups and grandfather glasses.
A fan of covers, the band played a beautifully arranged cover of Radiohead’s “Karma Police.” Suzie and Jesse’s harmonies saturated the space, their arrangement adding subtle but notable differences to the well-known song.
Ending their set, the band’s final song, “Fade,” integrated the refrain from Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” and the crowd relished while the band let the concert-goers have their own solo.
Then came the final and main act. Eisley, a five-piece band comprised of four siblings (Stacy, Sherri, Chauntelle and Weston DuPree) and one cousin (Garron DuPree), is known for their intricately arranged harmonies and dreamy lyrics. The only word to describe them really is “adorable.” Throughout the show, the band was all smiles, looking entirely wholesome. The three girls looked effortlessly cute in their vintage-inspired dresses and constantly showered the audience with remarks of gratitude, especially Chauntelle, who looked like she was going to burst into tears at one point from how happy she was.
The band jumped right into their 90-minute set, mostly with songs from The Valley, drizzled with tracks from previous albums. The set started off with “Watch It Die,” from their new album, and before the end of the first verse, limbs shot up attached to camera phones, digital and film cameras, while the girls worked up the crowed with their three-part harmonies.
Although they started off solidly, the following song, “Sad,” had rougher vocals. Stacy’s mic was too quiet and she was overpowered by a wild drum-kit. Luckily, Chauntelle’s sweet guitar skills saved the situation. As the night progressed, Stacy proved to have the strongest vocals of the bunch.
They ended their main set with The Valley’s saddest song, “Mr. Moon,” but made amends when Sherri and Stacy quickly came back for an encore.
The girls played “Just Like We Do,” ending the night quietly.
Throughout the night, juxtapositions of sad and jaunty songs made for a lively performance. What was even more exciting was that Chauntelle, who never sings, actually sang. Her vocals added richness to the songs. After an evening of Eisley, it became very obvious that the DuPree family has some serious all-around talent.
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Why Those Opinions Don't Add Up
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Ever wonder how biased Supreme Court justices are? The answer, says Mount Sinai School of Medicine mathematician Lawrence Sirovich, is less than you might believe. "If you just read the paper you'd think that the Court was nearly one-dimensional," says Sirovich. In lay terms, this means that you would expect justices always to toe the party line, with Republicans and Democrats falling into two distinct factions. The opposite would be a court of unique opinions, a nine-dimensional group in which each of the nine justices voted independently of one another. To determine how the real Supreme Court works, Sirovich used information theory to analyze all the nearly 500 decisions made by the current lineup of justices since 1994.
He found that the Court behaves as if it were formed of 4.68 completely independent justicesmuch better than a simple left-right polarized group. And he does not worry that the result shows that the justices are not completely free spirits. "The analysis looks only at the net result without accounting for the possible variables of independent reasoning that may lie behind a decision," he says. "Nine monkeys flipping coins would be completely independent, but you wouldn't want to leave society's most difficult decisions up to them, would you?"
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Falling chimney at Old Ham. Brewery, 1928.
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Action shot of a brick chimney falling to the ground after explosives being detonated at the base of the building. Trains are visible in the distance.
Jupiter, front view.
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"Here the god is shown standing, naked, a coat thrown over his left shoulder. His left arm is raised and perhaps at one time leaned on a long scepter. The thunderbolt in his right hand and the eagle at his feet are other attributes of this lord of...
Hand Catching Lead, film still.
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"This 3-minute 30-second film, like others produced by Serra in the same year, related to a famous 'verb list' which he compiled in 1967-8. The verb involved in this instance is 'to grasp' but the list also included 'to roll, to crease, to fold, to...
Masonic Home for Widows and Orphans damaged by 1875 tornado, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Wrecked car, Louisville, Kentucky, 1928.
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Spring Grove springhouse, Louisville, Kentucky, 1922.
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Two deteriorated stone structures, probably springhouses near Spring Grove, home built for Abigail and Samuel Churchill. An inscription on the badly cracked lintel over the arched entrance to the smaller structure reads "Built by...
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Gunboat Carondelet, 1862.
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Full-length character portrait of English actor and producer John E. Kellerd, wearing tattered military costume, portraying intense pain. His head is tilted back and his arms outstretched, and he appears to be falling forward as if shot in the...
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John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Reprint sheet 19.
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Tesla Story Gets Even Weirder as $TSLA Completely Changes Its Business Strategy (Full Article, Previous Partial Article Published Accidently)
May 6, 2019, 10:51 am
A prior version of this article was published accidentally before it was complete.
I know I swore not to write about Tesla here and to confine myself to talking about Tesla on Twitter, but I can't help myself. This is the company that is going to spawn a thousand business school case studies. It is Enron but in the Internet Age with more transparency (or at least less sophistication in hiding their problems).
Over the weekend I re-read "The Smartest Guys in the Room" about the collapse of Enron. I will admit I was an Enron fanboy at the time -- I drank the Kool-Aid and totally overlooked the problems. I knew Jeff Skilling a little and worked for him on Enron when we were at McKinsey. I believed he was brilliant and was doing what he said he was doing. The crash of Enron took me years to accept, and only on my recent second reading of that book did I have the distance and objectivity to really understand it. And I realized something else -- I was the same guy back then that I criticize today. Skeptics of Tesla (including me) make fun of Tesla fanboys and their cult of Elon Musk and their belief of everything he says and their certainty he is the smartest guy in the room. I understand them because I was that guy with Enron and Skilling. Maybe Tesla is my chance to correct my past gullibility.
Anyway, just when I thought the story couldn't get any more dramatic (or weird), Elon Musk raises the bar. Apparently Tesla is now only tangentially and largely irrelevantly an automobile manufacturer. Instead, it is an autonomous ride-sharing company:
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, who are underwriting Tesla’s latest effort to raise $2 billion in new funds, held a “broad investor call” on Thursday, where CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn answered brokers’ questions about their plans for the electric vehicle maker.
According to two invitees who attended the call, CEO Elon Musk talked up Tesla’s self-driving strategy right off the bat, expanding what he and other execs said at a recent event for investors that the company dubbed “Autonomy Day. ”
Musk confidently told investors on the call that autonomous driving will transform Tesla into a company with a $500 billion market cap, these people said. Its current market cap stands around $42 billion. He also said that existing Teslas will increase in value as self-driving capabilities are added via software, and will be worth up to $250,000 within three years.
This call was in the context of Tesla's offering this week of about $2 billion in new stock and convertible bonds. The really interesting thing about the call: Virtually 100% of the discussion on the call was about ride-sharing and autonomy, while neither word was even mentioned in the official written prospectus for the offering.
Before we can understand what the hell is going on here, and why Tesla is going all-in on a business it was barely talking about 60 days ago, we need to do some review. I want to review where Tesla was last time I wrote about them, and also discuss new Tesla news and actions over the last 3-4 months. From there, we will try to dissect what Elon Musk is doing. TL;DR: I believe Musk is doing exactly what Jeff Skilling did at Enron, chasing new business strategies based on what stories he thinks will most likely goose the stock in the short term, rather than which strategies make the most sense in the long-term for his investors.
Where I was on Tesla at year end 2018
I had a lot of criticisms about Tesla's strategy towards the end of last year (here and here, for example). But let me summarize some of the key points
Tesla has taken what was already a risky entry into a capital-intensive industry and has made it even more expensive and risky by choosing to own both the dealer network and fueling networks for its cars -- this means it has to invest not only in auto manufacturing capacity but also in a world-wide network of sales and service centers and in a global network of charging stations
Inexplicably, just as its production volume began ramping up in mid-2018 with the introduction of the mid-priced model 3, Tesla ramped down on its capital spending, R&D, and SG&A spending. By the first quarter of this year, capital spending was no longer even keeping up with maintenance needs. This was absolutely inexplicable for a growth company that has promised many new products in the near future (new coupe, semi truck, model Y crossover), all of which will need a plant and equipment to produce. Further, Tesla slowed investment in its sales, service, and charging networks at the exact time its fleet size exploded, leading to a lot of customer dissatisfaction
The decrease in these expenditures was likely tied to Tesla's hard to fathom (I seem to be searching for a lot of synonyms for "inexplicable") decision not to raise capital last year. Its stock was over $350 a share and it had huge momentum from its first two profitable and cash flow positive quarters. By almost everyone's analysis, they should have raised $5 billion or more, which might have only created 10% dilution. (Instead they waited until this week after a terrible quarter and after the stock had fallen to about $235 to raise just $2 billion, barely enough even to fill their accounts payable hole).
Tesla and Musk claimed that the growth and performance of the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2018 were harbingers of the future and he extrapolated hockey sticks from these data points. Skeptics like myself believe that this was merely a one-time bulge, that Tesla had sold through 2-3 years of demand in their order book in just 2 quarters, and that the first quarter would be a disaster now that the tank was dry. In addition, Tesla has culled its order book of all the highest margin variants where it could actually make money, leaving what remained of the unfilled orders as low-margin variants it was barely worth selling. [By the way, I figured none of this out on my own, and owe a lot to the great folks at $TSLAQ on Twitter, who bring a lot of free research to bear that made it easy to see these patterns].
My admiration for Musk as having really shown the automobile world that electric cars can sell at high price points (and not as little sh*tboxes) and for his space entrepreneurship really ended with the SolarCity deal. In that deal, Tesla shareholders overpaid for a failing business simply to bail out Musk and his family from a sinking ship. The acquisition made absolutely no strategic sense and Tesla has done zero to try to develop it, and in fact has been slowly shutting it down from the moment it was purchased.
Elon Musk has steadily lost any credibility he might have had by initiating product launches of products he claims are nearly ready for sale but never get introduced. Tesla got a higher level of subsidy from California based on a single suspicious battery swap demo that has never been repeated or even discussed since. Musk sold SolarCity to Tesla in part based on a flashy reveal of a solar shingle product that still has not seen the light of day. Musk had a big reveal of the Tesla semi and started taking customer deposits but there are still no clear plans for its production.
What has happened at Tesla this year
The first quarter of 2019 was a disaster, with deliveries down despite initiation of Model 3 sales in Europe. Worse, since the Model 3 seems to be cannibalizing Model S and X sales, Tesla was not only selling fewer cars but its mix shifted to lower priced less profitable cars. It lost an enormous amount of money, and only after the conference call with analysts about first quarter results did Tesla reveal that this loss would have been far worse without a huge sale of government EV credits
Tesla burned a staggering amount of cash in the first quarter, and was forced to pay off nearly a billion dollars in debt when the stock price did not remain high enough for the debt to convert. While Tesla's cash balance at the end of the quarter looked OK, there were two huge red flags. First, the cash barely covered a huge hole Tesla had in its net working capital. Second, given the large number of vehicles Tesla sold in its end of quarter push in the last 2 weeks of the quarter, it appears that Tesla was nearly out of cash in Mid-March and perhaps days away from a default (analysis below).
The Tesla financial statements still include a number of unexplained oddities, including a billion dollars of accounts receivable, or about 20% of quarterly revenues. How does a company that demands payment in advance before delivery have 20% of its quarterly revenues tied up in receivables?
Tesla announced, out of the blue, that it was closing all its retail stores and going online only. Given the drop in demand for the quarter, it was a head-scratcher as to why eliminating the sales force was going to help. The decision seemed to be almost off the cuff, as Tesla seemed surprised that they would still have to continue paying their expensive long-term mall leases. After this was revealed, Tesla partially reversed the closure decision, but no one -- including their own retail folks -- seems to know what the plan is now.
Tesla constantly fiddled with its prices and model lineup. It cut prices several times, but also announced a small raise as well. It eliminated certain options for cars, added new ones, and then reintroduced eliminated ones. Even long-time Tesla watchers are confused about the model lineup today.
Tesla continued to see an outflow of executive talent, including the exit of their very well-respected new General Counsel after just over one month on the job (Mr. Buttswinkas returned to his old law firm and purged Tesla from his resume). This seemed to parallel the rapid exit of an outside chief accounting officer last year who gave up millions of dollars to exit in just 60 days.
April car deliveries stayed on the same pace as the first quarter -- ie, way worse than Tesla's guidance
Elon Musk continued to get in trouble with the SEC, firing off production and sales guidance on Twitter that was different from Tesla's official published guidance. Mr. Musk and Tesla are still guiding to a total delivery number for the next year that is well in excess of what most anyone else looking at the first four months believes is possible
Tesla announced a reveal of their Model Y crossover that will not go on sale until at least the end of 2020. Unlike past Tesla reveals, this one seemed hastily set up and the prototypes shown were weird. They looked more like the existing Model 3 with a few modifications than a promised crossover that could incorporate a third row of seats. Tesla asked customers to start making deposits (skeptics will argue that the whole point of the reveal was just to get some free financing from Tesla fanboys) but unlike past reveals, this one fell flat. There was apparently little interest in making deposits, though Tesla (unlike with past products) has not revealed the deposit numbers.
Lyft went public for over $20 billion and Uber is planning a $70+ billion IPO, despite having a history of negative earnings and promising investors they may not make money for 10 years (more on this in a minute)
After the Model Y went nowhere, Tesla set up what they called "investor autonomy day." Tesla outlined their strategy for creating a fleet of self-driving cars, and promised fully autonomous cars by the end of 2020. With these fully autonomous cars, Musk promised that Teslas would become an appreciating asset in that they earned income for their owners as autonomous taxis when the owners were sleeping. He also said Tesla would own a fleet of taxis itself, using off-lease model 3's for this purpose.
As described at the top of the article, Tesla raised over $2 billion on verbal promises by Tesla (not echoed in the deal prospectus) that Tesla was soon to be a $500 billion autonomous taxi company
So what is Tesla doing?
Having written all of the above, I realize I have left so much out -- the product quality problems, the worker lawsuits, the autonomous driving deaths, the spontaneous car fires -- but I only have so much time. If you are interested, @teslacharts on Twitter is a good place to follow Tesla from the skeptic side. But given all this, what the hell is going on? The following is my theory.
I think in the 3rd quarter last year, Elon Musk honestly believed that the huge ramp in sales and profits at Tesla represented Tesla permanently turning the corner. He extrapolated from that growth and believed it would continue for years -- he did not see it as simply the one time working through of years of pent-up orders and demand. As a result, he put off the capital raise he should have been doing, and instead had dreams of taking the company private and getting away from all the scrutiny by analysts and shorts that seem to irritate him. Thus was launched the ill-considered "420" tweet when he claimed he had funding secured for a go-private transaction at $420 a share, when in fact this was an outright lie. Once the SEC stepped in to investigate, a new funding round was almost impossible.
Then, in the first quarter, reality hit Tesla in the face. For all their public optimism, Musk had to see that the demand he expected was not there and Tesla was likely running low on cash. I think Musk had convinced himself the convertible bonds due in the first quarter would surely convert (and would have at the third quarter stock price) but now Tesla was doing the opposite of raising capital, it had to pay off debt. Cash was going out the door and demand was weak. What to do?
Musk has a demonstrated pattern that whenever he needs the stock price to be higher, or he needs to sell stock, or he needs some other kind of favorable financial outcome, he will do a new product demo. It worked for battery swap and the solar shingle and the model 3 and the semi, so it would work again. The model 3 reveal had collected hundreds of millions of dollars of cash in the form of deposits. That's what he needed now. The problem is, they didn't have a prototype to show. I believe Musk had the company hastily create a Model Y prototype built on top of a model 3. It did not really have to work, it just had to be something he could talk about. Interestingly, his VP of engineering quit at exactly this time, for reasons unknown -- was their some internal dissention about this Y prototype?
Anyway, the Model Y reveal was essentially a flop, and likely garnered few deposits. Certainly not enough to fill in Tesla's growing cash hole. And by Mid-March, Tesla may have been almost out of cash. Tesla says it delivered half its vehicles for the quarter in the last 10 days of March, so about 31,500 were delivered in those hectic days. At an average price of $50,000 each that would mean Tesla brought in nearly $1.6 billion in cash those last 10 days (this is conservative, may have been more if the average price was higher). But they only had $2.2 billion at the end of the quarter, meaning Tesla was scraping bottom in mid-March, particularly since hundreds of millions of that cash is restricted and not supposed to be spent.
Somewhere in this period of March-April, after his usual product reveal trick with the Y did not work, I think Musk came to the conclusion that the Tesla car business as currently defined was not going to work. Or, more accurately, it was never going to make enough money to support its sky-high stock valuation. I have always said that Tesla would make a fine $10 billion niche car company, but nothing about it justifies a $50 or $60 billion valuation. But at this point Musk can't accept a $10 billion company, even though that would ostensibly still leave him a very rich man. But like Ken Lay at Enron, Musk has borrowed against at least half his Tesla stock and a falling stock price could lead to financial death by margin call (Musk, for some reason, also mortgaged all his multi-million dollar homes last December). His other investments are also struggling -- SpaceX has been unable to attract the capital it needs of late and Musk has poured a lot of money into the Boring company, an absolute embarrassment of a company that helps refute, in my mind, his "smartest guy in the world" rep.
As Musk looked around for a way to save the stock valuation, the Lyft and Uber IPO's must have had an influence. Uber is losing as much money as Tesla and folks are talking about it IPO-ing at a market cap of $70 billion. What if Tesla could call itself a ride-sharing company, only better. Wouldn't that garner Tesla an even higher valuation?
So I see investor autonomy day and Musk's autonomy soliloquy on the capital raise call the other day as evidence that Musk has, in his mind, capitulated on auto manufacturing and has decided the way to keep Tesla's stock price up is to promise it will -- in just 20 months -- sell fully autonomous vehicles and be making tons of money selling taxi rides. In other words, it is a robotaxi company that happens to be backward integrated into manufacturing the taxis.
I am skeptical for a number of reasons.
This reeks of desperation and capitulation. If Dell says they are going to reinvent themselves as a search engine, it's time to sell the company
There is no evidence that Tesla can achieve full autonomy by end of next year and a lot of reasons to think they can't. Most experts think full autonomy is decades away, and when they rank companies on their progress on autonomy, Tesla is usually near the bottom (e.g here). Waymo and GM, the leaders, often go thousands of miles between driver interventions. Tesla is hundreds of times worse. Even over the short course at Investor Autonomy Day (where Tesla likely trained and practiced in advance) investors reported a driver intervention was needed. Now imagine the same car with no driver. In snow with the road markings obscured. Driving through construction where new routes are confusingly marked off with cones.
The basic business numbers Musk throws around are absurd. Just as one example, he extrapolates from current ride-share prices and assumes Tesla will make a ton of money because they will get the same price but not pay the driver. But this is crazy. If Tesla suddenly throws a million taxis into the rideshare supply equation, rates are going to fall. Already, since 2012, Uber reports its average fare per mile has been reduced by over half. If everyday folks are having their cars drive autonomously at night to earn extra money, the fee per mile is going to be competed down close to the cost per mile of operating the vehicle (or even lower, since most folks underestimate their all-in cost per mile on their vehicle). Musk is basically proposing to commoditize the market but still reap premium margins. Not going to happen.
Note that this article is simply my analysis and in some cases my guesses. I think the story holds together but I can be wrong. I am short TSLA via put options but note that this is a modest investment that is a small percentage of my portfolio. Tesla is a dangerous stock to short. Right through the bad news, individual investors at RobinHood have been loading up on the theory they are buying the dip. 20,000 people added TSLA to their portfolio at RobinHood just AFTER the horrible first quarter report. Be very careful
Bonus -- Tesla's Largest Mistakes
No matter what happens, Tesla will always be remembered as the company that brought EV's mainstream. But like any tragedy, they have made some fatal mistakes. This is my attempt to get out ahead of future business school cases and rank their largest mistakes:
The Model 3. Tesla could have been a profitable luxury car maker but with the Model 3 tried to go for the low to mid end of the market. But it does not have the manufacturing expertise or cost position (it assembles in California, for God sakes) to pull it off. The quality problems it encountered have reduced its brand luster, and the volumes of cars have overwhelmed its service and charging networks. Investments in the Model 3 have distracted it from real refreshes of its S and X and in fact the Model 3 has cannibalized those more profitable cars. A higher end crossover would have been a better choice
No third party dealers. Tesla chose to bring the sales and service function in house. This was a mistake. Not only did it eat up capital, but it robbed it of valuable marketing partners such as Penske that could have really helped its sales ramp.
No 2018 capital raise. Rather than tweeting 420, Musk should have been raising capital based on its third quarter results. The money was there to be had and Tesla needed it. $5billion at least could have been raised with little dilution effect
SolarCity Purchase. This was a complete sham to bail out the Musk family and friends. Did absolutely nothing for Tesla except drain billions of valuable capital
In-house Manufacturing. Musk often says he wants to be like Apple, but Apple is a design company. It does not manufacture and for quite a while did not do its own retail. Tesla would have been better off finding a manufacturing partner rather than manufacturing itself in the highest cost location in the country
No Charging Partner. I think Tesla had to build out its charging network at first to eliminate one of the greatest consumer barriers to purchasing an EV. But they should be partnering to share the costs. Instead, Tesla still thinks of its charging stations as a competitive moat. But as other car makers form consortia for charging networks based on faster charging technologies, Tesla is stuck with an expensive network that needs upgrading. Its more of an anchor now than a moat
2nd Bonus -- Another Musk parallel if you are tired of Enron comparisons
Even more than Skilling and Enron, the person Musk most reminds me of is Ferdinand de Lesseps, whose attempt at building a French canal in Panama ended in spectacular failure. I highly recommend the book "Path Between the Seas" for folks who want the whole story. When I have time, I may post on the parallels. I presume Tesla critic @ElonBachman would agree since he uses de Lesseps' picture as his twitter icon but I have never seen him discuss it.
Tags: Apparently Tesla, Autonomy Day, electric cars, Elon Musk, hockey, Jeff Skilling, patterns, review, transparency, TSLAQ
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Recent commentators on Russia's economic reforms have almost uniformly declared them a disappointing and avoidable—failure. In this book, two American scholars take a new and more balanced look at the country's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. They show how and why the Russian reforms achieved remarkable breakthroughs in some areas but came undone in others. Unlike Eastern European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic, to which it is often compared, Russia is a federal, ethnically diverse, industrial giant with an economy heavily oriented toward raw materials extraction. The political obstacles it faced in designing reforms were incomparably greater. Shleifer and Treisman tell how Russia's leaders, navigating in uncharted economic terrain, managed to find a path around some of these obstacles. In successful episodes, central reformers devised a strategy to win over some key opponents, while dividing and marginalizing others. Such political tactics made possible the rapid privatization of 14,000 state enterprises in 1992-1994 and the defeat of inflation in 1995. But failure to outmaneuver the new oligarchs and regional governors after 1996 undermined reformers' attempts to collect taxes and clean up the bureaucracy that has stifled business growth. Renewing a strain of analysis that runs from Machiavelli to Hirschman, the authors reach conclusions about political strategies that have important implications for other reformers. They draw on their extensive knowledge of the country and recent experience as advisors to Russian policymakers. Written in an accessible style, the book should appeal to economists, political scientists, policymakers, businesspeople, and all those interested in Russian politics or economics.
1 The Politics of Economic Reform in Russia
2 Creating Private Property
3 The Struggle to Beat Inflation
4 Political Tactics and Stable Money
5 The Stagnation Syndrome
6 Pathologies of Federal Finance
7 The Search for a Cure
8 Tax Reform: A Tentative Proposal
9 Reforming without a Map
http://books.google.com/books?id=tUcAa5TRMfUC&dq=Without+a+Map&lr=&hl=ru&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
post-communist change post-communist transition post-soviet Russia post-soviet transformation
Andrei Shleifer
A Normal Country. Russia after Communism
Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny
The Grabbing Hand. Government Pathologies and Their Cures
Sarah Ashwin, Simon Clarke
Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition
Elisabeth Anstett
Serguei Alex. Oushakine. The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009
Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований. 2011. № 2. С. 104-106.
The Erotic Biopower of Putinism: From Glamour to Pornography
The Transformation of State Socialism: System Change, Capitalism, or Something Else?
Gastón Joaquín Beltrán, Jeffrey K. Hass
Illusions of Market Paradise: State, Business, and Economic Reform in Postsocialist Russia and Post-1980s Crisis Argentina
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2019 to Question 272302 on Huawei: 5G, whether he has met with the operators that are known not to follow Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre advice and guidance.
<p>Regular meetings take place between telecommunications operators and HM Government officials from the National Cyber Security Centre, Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p><br>The National Cyber Security Centre engage with every operator who uses the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre to manage cyber security risks within their networks. Other operators may use the guidance that is publicly available on the NCSC website, which we cannot track, or advice from other relevant bodies such as Ofcom, the regulator.</p>
GovTech Fund
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2019 to Question 274634, what cost/benefit analyses have been conducted for each of the catalyst challenges; and if he will publish those analyses.
<p>I refer the Honourable Member to my answer given to Question 271623 on 2 July 2019.</p>
Oliver Dowden
Biography information for Oliver Dowden
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 249954, if the Government will publish the recommendations of the Joint Funds Unit audit of Overseas Security and Justice Assistance; what steps have been taken in response to the recommendations of that audit; who was responsible for conducting that audit; and what the cost was to the public purse of that audit.
<p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office lead HMG policy on the Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Guidance. The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) takes its responsibility to do no harm seriously. At the direction of the Joint Funds Unit (JFU), the Stabilisation Unit (SU) commissioned Palladium, a SU provider, to undertake an audit of OSJAs across CSSF programmes, at a cost of £31,801.64. <br> <br>The audit showed that the majority of programme teams have a good understanding of the human rights risks their programmes are operating in, and a realistic view of the extent to which risks can be mitigated. The audit’s findings also highlighted areas where the process could be improved.</p><p>In response to the audit’s recommendations, the JFU is updating CSSF programmatic guidance and the Stabilisation Unit is also updating its core security and justice training for HMG staff to align with the revised guidance.</p><p>As the Government stated in its response to Question 249954, there are no plans to publish the OSJA audit.</p>
Absent Voting: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to tackle postal vote fraud.
Brigg and Goole
Andrew Percy
<p>Electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. There are already measures in place designed to enhance the security of postal voting.</p><p>In response to (the then) Sir Eric Pickles report on electoral fraud, the Government accepted recommendations to strengthen the postal vote system and, in line with our manifesto commitment, we are working to reform postal voting to ensure our elections are secure.</p><p>The Government will look for opportunities to introduce measures that will restrict the handling of postal votes by people who may seek to abuse or subvert them. We will also look to introduce controls on the return of postal votes via polling stations, which has been a cause for concern in past elections.</p>
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Elections: Corruption
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to tackle bribery during elections.
<p>Under section 113 of the Representation of the People Act (RPA) 1983 it is an offence for a person to give money or a gift to any other person in order to induce them to vote or to refrain from voting at an election. There is a similar offence at section 114 of the RPA 1983 in relation to the treating of voters.</p><p>Furthermore, the Bribery Act 2010 (the Act) replaced an old and outmoded mix of common and statutory law and was designed to provide the courts, prosecutors and investigators the tools they needed to tackle bribery in the UK and overseas in the 21st century. The Act reflects the UK's continued commitment to combat bribery and provides a modern, comprehensive scheme of bribery offences.</p><p>If anyone has evidence of abuse of the electoral system, this should be reported to the Returning Officer or the Police who have powers to investigate.</p><p>We will continue to keep electoral law under review to ensure the electoral system is safe and secure.</p>
Cybercrime: Departmental Coordination
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister or official is responsible for ensuring cross-governmental compliance with the Minimum Cyber Security Standard.
<p>I am accountable to Parliament for the National Cyber Security Strategy and the accompanying investment programme. I am also the lead Minister for the cyber resilience of the government sector.</p><p>The Government Chief Security Officer (GCSO) leads the Government Security Function, which seeks to build the capacity and capabilities of security professionals across UK government departments, covering physical, human and information security.</p><p>The GCSO is also Director General of the Government Security Group within the Cabinet Office, which is responsible for the oversight, coordination and delivery of protective security capabilities within all central government departments, their agencies and arms-length bodies.</p><p>The responsibility for security, including risk management and policy implementation, sits with the Accounting Officer and the executive board of each department.</p>
Referendums: Brexit
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what preparations his Department has made for holding a second referendum on UK membership of the European Union.
<p>The Government has not made preparations to hold a second referendum.</p>
Biography information for Ruth Jones
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants working for central Government departments in each pay band were based in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each of the last three years.
<p>This information has been placed in the Library.</p>
Whitehall History Publishing
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Whitehall History Publishing still exists; if so, (1) what is its role, and (2) how is it managed and by whom; and if not, who is responsible for the publication of material it previously produced.
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank
<p>The Whitehall History Publishing, comprised of several historical branches of government departments and led by the Cabinet Office, produces material on historical matters and themes to meet individual departmental requirements. The next publication is due out in autumn 2019.</p>
Lord Young of Cookham
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History: Publications
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they last reviewed the possible resumption of producing official histories.
<p>The Government’s official history series is intended to provide authoritative histories in their own right.</p><p>Two volumes of Criminal Justice history were published earlier this year. The next publication is due out in autumn 2019.</p>
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Housing, Communities and Local Government
Anti-muslim Hatred Working Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which (a) persons and (b) organisations the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group has met with in the last 12 months.
Ilford North
Wes Streeting
<p>The Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group was established to consider and take forward proposals to tackle anti-Muslim hatred. Members are expected to interact regularly with a broad range stakeholders at an individual and organisational level. This includes Muslim communities, key partners, government departments, local service providers, police and interfaith groups.</p>
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Biography information for Wes Streeting
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the terms of reference of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group (a) were last and (b) are next due to be reviewed.
<p>The terms of reference of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group were last reviewed during the process to refresh the membership this year. The terms of reference are reviewed regularly.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Justlife's report or April 2018, Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness: A New Analysis and its estimate that over 51,500 homeless households are living in bed and breakfast accommodation in England, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of that estimate; and if he will make a statement.
<p>The ‘Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness’ report asked local authorities for the number of tenants claiming housing benefit for bed and breakfast in a financial year. The MHCLG experimental statistics on statutory homelessness record the stock of households in temporary accommodation (including bed and breakfast) at the end of each quarter who are owed a homelessness duty. The 51,500 figure in the Justlife report includes anyone who has spend any time in bed and breakfast accommodation over the financial year, however short. MHCLG figures for the 2015/16 financial year are shown below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of households in bed and breakfast hotels 2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Q3</p></td><td><p>5,910</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q4</p></td><td><p>5,120</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Q1</p></td><td><p>5,960</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q2</p></td><td><p>6,490</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we have made a manifesto commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it altogether by 2027, placing a priority on preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>Last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to collect data on households living in unsupported temporary accommodation who are homeless and not currently included in official homelessness statistics.
<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we have made a manifesto commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it altogether by 2027, placing a priority on preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>Last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p><br> The Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) brings more people such as single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until the end of March 2018. The HRA has placed additional duties on local authorities to work to prevent and relieve homelessness for all eligible homeless applicants and to secure interim/permanent accommodation for those in priority need. The Department’s new case level data collection system, H-CLIC, since April 2018 includes information on households whose homelessness has been prevented and relieved, as well as those currently in different types of temporary accommodation, including bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&data=02%7C01%7CCatherine.Barham%40communities.gov.uk%7Ce6d2de6e6066400e9b7208d70560a8f4%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636983785025299486&sdata=4o4VNejDER%2B7hW4HXY68ZzNpg28qf%2F1%2FnnNwU4ym%2F9g%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 1.6 on page 14 of the National Audit Office's report of Session 2017-18, Homelessness, published on 13 September 2017, what steps his Department is taking to tackle concerns raised in that report that his Department’s measures of homelessness do not capture its full extent; and if he will make a statement.
<p>Measuring “hidden homelessness” is a complex issue. It will always be difficult by its nature – people are often not in contact with services, and it is challenging to establish everything that is going on in people’s lives. <br> <br> The Department does collect information on overcrowding and on concealed households (usually defined as single adults or groups of adults, with or without children, who occupy the accommodation with, but do not belong to, the household reference person’s family unit) through the English Housing Survey. Additional information is being collected through this survey to identify people who have experienced homelessness. <br> <br> The Homelessness Reduction Act brings more people such as single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until the end of March 2018. Details on these non-priority need, single households often living with friends and family have been captured through the Department’s new case level data collection system, Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC), since April 2018. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a><br> <br> The new data collection system, H-CLIC, captures information on households approaching for and receiving homelessness assistance, household demographics and the circumstances surrounding their homelessness. This includes any support needs of the homeless household. In time it will enable MHCLG to monitor repeat homelessness where people come back to services. It will help identify more detail on the circumstances of households vulnerable to homelessness and the interventions that are successful in preventing homelessness in the first place.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to collate statistics on the number of families who are not owed a statutory duty by a local authority but are living temporarily in bed and breakfast accommodation, private hostels, short-stay houses of multiple occupancy or guesthouses.
<p>The Homelessness Reduction Act brings more people into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. A household who has become homeless unintentionally and contains dependent children is considered to be priority need and a local authority has a duty to secure accommodation for these households. A household may have to spend time in temporary accommodation before a final offer of accommodation is made. Details on these priority need, households with children have been captured through the Department’s new case level data collection system, H-CLIC, since April 2018. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Cf33bb7fde4d64dbf9d4908d7090dc500%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636987827045950319&sdata=Y4MFkZodKHSJdNri9IPkv0lKh8RaQ4zyOptLtL5M88o%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p>
Tenants: Forfeiture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the use of forfeiture against tenants.
Hampstead and Kilburn
Tulip Siddiq
<p>The Government believes forfeiture is a draconian measure and should only be used as a last resort. We are reviewing the use of forfeiture and as a first step, have asked the Law Commission to update their 2006 report, <em>Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default, </em> given the passage of time, and to take into account the implications of leasehold reforms currently underway.</p>
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Homelessness: LGBT People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in funding for local government on housing provision for homeless LGBTQ+ young people.
<p>We recognise that LGBT homelessness is an important issue, particularly among young people and that LGBT people who find themselves homeless may have a different experience of homelessness due to their protected characteristics. However, data on this issue is limited. This why we are currently undertaking research with the Government Equalities Office into the nature of LGBT homelessness that we also committed to in the LGBT Action Plan.</p><p>The research will be carried out in two stages. The first will include a review of existing evidence on LGBT homelessness and interviews with LGBT people with lived experience of homelessness. We are working with Sheffield Hallam University to deliver Phase 1. The second will include a review of services working with LGBT homeless people. We expect Phase 2 to begin later this year.</p><p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>In its first year, our Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff. This year we have expanded the RSI with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff.</p>
Homelessness: Immigrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps his Department has taken to support homeless migrants living in the UK.
<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>In its first year, our Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff. This year we have expanded the RSI with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff.</p><p>As part of our investment, in the Rough Sleeping Strategy we committed to £5 million of funding to help local areas take action to help non-UK nationals who sleep rough off the streets. This funding will complement the projects which we have already funded through the £100 million Controlling Migration Fund (CMF) for local authorities to work with non-UK nationals who sleep rough. Further CMF funding allocations will be announced shortly.”</p><p> </p><p> </p>
National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 16 June 2017 and 19 June 2019 to Questions 106178 and 263702 on the National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service, who raised the possibility of Victoria Tower Gardens as a location for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in early autumn 2015 on behalf of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation; and for what reason that possibility was not discussed first by that Foundation’s board.
Sir Edward Leigh
<p>In November 2015 the property sub-committee of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation was asked to undertake a search of Government sites. The property sub-committee raised Victoria Tower Gardens as a possible site at the Foundation meeting on 13 January 2016.</p>
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Home/AMERICAS/Controversy in Argentina over Malvinas invasion date: Macri will not attend any of the April 2 anniversary events
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Controversy in Argentina over Malvinas invasion date: Macri will not attend any of the April 2 anniversary events
MercoPress April 2, 2016
President of Argentina Mauricio Macri (Photo by Elza Fiuza/Agência Brasil: Courtesy of WikiCommons)
Malvinas veterans expressed great displeasure with the official announcement that Argentine president Mauricio Macri will not be attending any of the programmed events in different cities and provinces on the 34th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 invasion of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, according to Buenos Aires media.
For years the main event took place at the Patricios Regimen in Buenos Aires City and during the Kirchner’s twelve years most commemorations moved to the south of Argentina since the powerful couple was originally from the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. At the time that decision also caused displeasure among Malvinas veterans’ organizations since most of the troops sent to combat during the war came from central and northern Argentina.
However this year Tierra del Fuego was discarded as a possibility by Macri’s “Let’s Change” coalition given the Kirchners ‘legacy’ and the fact that the province is facing a very serious labor and social conflict.
One of the alternatives analyzed was the central-north province of Santa Fe since Malvinas veterans different groupings are under an umbrella organization with a leader considered ‘moderate’ and anticipated a quiet event with no surprises. However with the excuse that president Macri as travelling to a security summit in Washington, the Interior ministry announced to the different federations that the head of state would not be attending any of the programmed acts. This despite the fact that it is believed that Macri should be back in Buenos Aires in early dawn 2 April.
“Without meaning offense to anybody, but the main event is when the president heads the event. It is the president of the nation who, with his words must honor the 649 Argentines fallen in combat, their relatives and all of us who returned from the battle fields” a leader of Malvinas veterans was quoted.
Since some of the government’s ministries had qualms about the decision, on 2 April Macri will receive at the official Olivos residence a small group of high ranking officers from the services plus a Malvinas veteran woman.
The announcement triggered an immediate strong reaction from most Malvinas veterans’ organizations, since traditionally it has been ex conscripts who have been honored on such a sensitive anniversary. Besides this apparently means leaving aside other federal security forces that were actively involved in the military actions during the 74/day conflict.
The armed strife ended 14 June 1982 with the surrender of Argentine forces to the British Task Force sent to recover the occupied Islands. Besides the 649 Argentines, 255 British servicemen lost their lives and three Falkland Islanders, civilians.
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Realmslore
Chamber of Sages
Questions for Ed Greenwood (2016) New Topic Topic Locked
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KanzenAU
Senior Scribe
Posted - 25 Jul 2016 : 07:18:46
A question for Ed about a character from an early Dragon article, "Rogue Stones and Gemjumping", that could be relevant to anyone running Tyranny of Dragons...
Would Gulthas, the Black Mage, be likely to have survived to see the 5th edition era Realms? And if so, would he still live near Baldur's Gate, and would he still dream of raiding Tiamat's hoard?
Regional maps for Waterdeep, Triboar, Ardeep Forest, and Cormyr on DM's Guild, plus a campaign sized map for the North
Marco Volo
Thanks Ed and THO !
Arivia
Great Reader
Here's an easy one you can probably answer, THO. I was struck looking at a road map one day - was Kossuth named after the town in Central Ontario? (Or I guess the Hungarian leader the town is presumably named after?)
The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
Hello again, all!
I bring some short Realmslore replies:
Arivia, the short answer re. Kossuth is: Ed and I both don't know. Kossuth comes from the core game rules, and was named by someone at TSR, rather than being "from the Realms, and named by Ed."
In the Realms, the being is pronounced "Koss-OOTH," BTW.
KanzenAU, Gulthas has survived, has devised a means of moving his sentience intact from monster body to monster body (so, non-good necromantic means of some sort) in order to do so, and now lives in hiding at several undisclosed locations in the Sword Coast lands. He has other dreams these days (so, no treasure hoards, but now, only ancient and powerful magic concerned with longevity and renewal and body transformations).
And there you have it. Lore by Ed, typing by me. ;}
Thank you, that's fantastic! Instant ideas generated. Oh, the money I'd pay for a book of that sort of lore from Ed... great stuff.
Awww, I was hoping I'd found a hidden easter egg! Oh well, thank you THO.
Sorry. ;}
On the plus side, Ed plants so many Easter eggs that we're bound to stumble over more of them eventually...
I know he's working on 3 related DM's Guild November releases set in the Realms: linked fiction, an adventure, and a Volo's Guide-like thingie...
And much sooner than that:
Stormtalons launches! (With, I'm told, a collectors' hardcover edition of Ed's novel WORDS OF UNBINDING...which I for one MUST have!!!)
Gary Dallison
Well that is awesome news, it does prompt a serious question though.
How does Ed manage to write an adventure, a novella, a volo's guide, and an opening novel to a brilliant new setting all in one year and hold down a regular day job.
I spent over a year writing a 42 page sourcebook and i still dont consider it finished.
The man must be a super genius with severe insomnia.
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Originally posted by dazzlerdal
He also takes care of his wife, and he worked on much more than just that this year (AFAIK). And, I've read somewhere (here, perhaps) that he does even more stuff, like ''ghost-writing'' part of some books for other authors. I'm starting to think that he borrowed a trick or two from Manshoon :P
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Well id still like to know how he manages it. Is it down to sheer hard work. Is his memory so well developed that he can build and correct an entire work in his head so that it only takes one draft, and can he do that for multiple works simultaneously.
Is it a practice thing and he has done it so often its second nature. Is it because he gets others to do the long and tedious bits such as error and continuity checking. Does he need much less sleep than normal people.
Id love to know in case there is any tips or tricks i can use.
I can tell you. It is sheer hard work. And brilliance. And knowing "his" Realms. I ask Ed about stuff all the time more recently - prior to this year and last I was rather reticent knowing how busy he is, but I was open to him about bugging him more often and he hasn't complained yet! - and invariably in a day or so he can provide me with elven words for x, y and z, or give me a name for an ancient forest or just tell me "yep, that sounds great". The man is a creative force that knows no equal, he enjoys what he does, and spends hours upon hours doing it.
Ed will no doubt provide you with some tips in due course (I suspect they will include: write and keep writing!) but he is simply amazing, and I for one have come to appreciate more and more just what a creative wellspring he is. Aspirational and inspirational.
Oh, and he never once in my experience has he asked me to lore or continuity check his work. He may ask others, but I highly doubt it. He thinks Realms better than all of us put together.
Edited by - George Krashos on 31 Jul 2016 11:57:35
I've also resisted the impulse to pester Ed for info. The poor guy must be exhausted all the time
Posted - 03 Aug 2016 : 21:14:38
Hi again, all.
dazzlerdal, he is. But it's a happy exhausted. ;} He truly lives to serve others; it's what delights him. He's the sort of gamer who plays to spend time with his friends, and explore an unfolding story, NOT to win or be "the life of the PC party."
Let me tell you a tale, of a long-ago GenCon.
Ed was playing a new, being demo'd 3-4-player boardgame against me and a young, excited teenager (no fourth).
And Ed was winning. Cruising to an easy win. And lo and behold, to the teenager's surprise, his MOTHER and some of her (female, same age) friends from work (in the Federal Building, in downtown Milwaukee) show up to watch, having dropped in to this craziness called Gen Con (something cheap and easy to do, back then) to see what it was all about.
They all (much to his embarrassment) express an interest in the game, so the teenager explains what it's about, something of how to play, and what's going on. He admits he's losing, and the game is almost over. So they say they'll stay to watch it through to the end.
And I sit at the table and play, and watch Ed throw the game so the kid wins.
Subtly. Oh, I could tell what he was doing, and I think his mother (who had a sharp, quick mind) figured it out, too, but the kid didn't, and exploded in triumphant excitement at the end. His prize was a copy of the demo game (you got GOOD prizes at GenCon, back then!), and he went off to the next thing he wanted to see or play in, just laughing and talking a mile a minute; on top of the world.
And after he was gone, and we were helping the game company guy running the demo restore the game to a ready starting state so the demo could be run again, the game company guy and I both looked at Ed and said, "You threw that game."
And Ed smiled back at us and said, "And you see how happy it made him? He'll have that moment to look back at for years. I LOVE seeing people over the moon."
"I think his mom knew what you were doing," the game company guy said, shaking Ed's hand. Ed nodded and told him, "There weren't enough rounds left to be subtle enough. But HE was fooled, so it wasn't spoiled for him. That's what matters."
There. THAT'S the Ed I know, and love. It's never about him, it's always about others. He'll fight you fiercely over the right thing to do in something being written or designed, because he looks ahead to future consequences and possibilities, but he never fights to "get his own way" or to "win."
Which makes him a TRUE winner, in my book. And is why he shared the Realms, and has stuck with it through all the hard times and management craziness all these years, and why he's starting this TEGG thing, a writers' collective. He did it to give his friends, and new writers, a chance at telling stories. (It would have been far easier, faster, and more profitable for him to have just "gone it alone.") Ed isn't about Ed, he's about making the little bit of the world around him that he can reach better for all of us.
Which is why I'm sure it's burning him to miss Gen Con again this year...
love to all,
The Masked Mage
Now I'm wondering if I ever met you at GenCon back then THO - I was one of those kids from Milwaukee :)
It's quite possible, though I seldom had the time to spend all four days at the convention, even back then, and usually "dropped by" for brief flying visits.
(Sidle up, embrace and kiss Ed, then wave goodbye and hit the dealers' area for some loot, then back to the waiting car and driver, and awayyyy!)
Back then, I looked a little like a taller, more slender Katie Nolan (TV sports host). A little. ;}
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Is there any signed copy of the novel Death Masks, available??
BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2)
Cards77
Originally posted by The Hooded One
Thank you for sharing that. That's a great glimpse into the kind of man he is. Rare is the genius who can turn their unique perception and intellectual might outwardly to make the world around him better.
A true, humble loving person strives for DOING right, not BEING right.
Duneth Despana
Can you tell us more about Othorian the 'Last Elf'?
��There is no overriding ��epic�� in the Realms, but rather a large number of stories, adventures, and encounters going on all the time. [...]. Each creative mind adds to the base, creating, defining, and making their contribution to the rich diversity of the Realms. [...]. But Ed built the stage upon which all the plays are presented. Thanks Ed.�� -FR Comic no.1
createvmind
Ed I'm curious if you could share your realms lore to help me figure this concept out btw it's related to my witch/hag question.
So I'm wanting this hags or witches to dupe their followers into allowing a ritual that basically allows the witches to draw blood and hair from the "victimsz' which they use as components to basically make these victims similar to a vampire spawn implanting articifial "worship" in them but also a cognitive dissonance that won't allow the victims to see the manner in which they are manipulated on top of the victims basically being "fonts" for which thw witches can draw vitality and discharge many forms of damages and curses the witches would be subject to..AGAIN with the victims unaware of this and unaccepting of it even if told. The exchange of damage is spread out amogst the victims accept for certain forms and outright destruction of the witche/witches and when someone does die within this "cult" a ritual is done that prevents the soul from going to its proper afterlife but instead becomes "coin" for the hags to hags/witches to barter with. These hags/witches predominately engage in curses and causes sickness for most part, bassically small power players basically trying to avoid drawing the attention of the big players but unknowingly are fueling something beyond their control. Now my question is would it likely require an artifact of considerable or great power to fuel these passive siphoning and damage transfer abilities and soul-storage abilities along with granting the witches some of their powers or perhaps a archdevil or deity like Talona in disguise?
These rituals were intially more positive until they were corrupted by this particular conclave for their own personal gain, basically imagine a heal spell for instance that gives the witches all the benefits of it even if not present while the victim recieves a meager portion of the benefits and obfuscated damages yet feels and believes he/she is fine. Unbeknowst to the conclave (if it this is powered by an artifact or several component artifacts instruments) is the fact that it is powering or releasing something far beyond the power level they believe they will obtain with this continued ritual.
Appreciate any help you could share on topic.
My other question is are you a fan of Ralph Baskhi and have you two met before?
sleyvas
First and Foremost. Thank you for Death Masks. This is a Waterdeep I can get behind again. I love Laeral as the Open Lord, and I'm glad to see Mirt back where he belongs. I was also touched by the scene where she mind linked to the old lord Neverember. The idea that "its all how you view it" is something I've often tried to get across in my games (i.e. not all Red Wizards, Zhents, or Mulmasterites are evil, and not all Impilturites are holy knights, and not all Witches of Rashemen are good).
Second. Mordenkainen in the realms.... and damned if he doesn't look like Khelben.... well, you know where I'm going...
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas
Originally posted by sleyvas
First and Foremost. Thank you for Death Masks. This is a Waterdeep I can get behind again. I love Laeral as the Open Lord, and I'm glad to see Mirt back where he belongs.
I second this. I enjoyed that book in a way that I really didn't expect (because I've been almost unable to get myself to read novels for some time).
Jadedgod
Question for Ed. As someone who likes to adventure in shadowdale, what does shadowdale look like currently? How has it changed in the intervening years? Particularly with recent events? Wanting to run a campaign there and information is scant for 5e shadowdale. Dalelands in general really.
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Bruce Donohue
Spoiler Alert, for those that didn't or haven't yet read Death Masks...
On p.12 ... "These days, we Chosen touch the minds of others with magic only when the need is dire. Doing so ruins most minds, so Mystra has absolutely forbidden us from invading the mind of anyone who can wield the Art." for other that are not, "So Mystra made it hurt so dearly that a mage using spells without Weave-aid will collapse before they learn much of anything. WE Chosen can keep going--so she forbade us to probe wizards, and strongly cautioned us against mindreading anyone else. Adding the pain to keep us to that."
Now having mentioned quote that, when did that come into effect in terms of the exact date of Mystra's Commandement?
Mirt than mentions..."So as wizards are now rarer and more precious than ever, you are not to driving any of them insane."
So when did the decline in Wizards start, why are there fewer wizards taking up the Art?
p.21 "If Laeral now admitted to him (elminster)that she was forgetting many spells, the details of casting them simply falling out of her head time after time so they were effectively lost to her..well, she wouldn't be the first of the sisters to reaval as much to him."
Why is that happening? Did something not go right after the Sundering when Mystra came back and magic came back into the world?
P.39 can Ed elaborate on this next passage that Laeral talks about?
"All of Mystra's born Chosen---the Seven--- wear out their distinctive silver-haired bodies over time. Centuries, but eventually the crumbling began in earnest. Then they must take new ones from other as Elminster did, an ethical choice none of them preferred, or return to the Weave and await Mystra "mothering" a new body for them, or put more and more of their energies into maintaining either their magic or their bodies. She'd chosen the latter herself, so her Art now slowly fading."
Having mentioned the above quote, now that Laeral has taken a new body, is she fully restored powerwise to her archmage levels?
Edited by - Bruce Donohue on 15 Aug 2016 18:33:29
Silent Warrior
Hello all! So this question might be a bit outdated, but I'd like to know something about the transition from 3e in the realms to 4e. Why, when Mystra was killed by Cyric, did one of the 'other' gods of magic not subsume her portfolio? When Mystryl died it was because Karsus had stolen her divinity and then with his death a new goddess of magic, Mystra, was immediately appointed. When Mystra died it was during the Time of Troubles, so there were no gods who could take over, and at the conclusion of these events the mortal whom Mystra had chosen was ascended to the position of goddess of magic. But when the last incarnation of the goddess of magic died the portfolio was just sort of left hanging for a hundred years. So why didn't one of the other gods of magic take over and work to fix the weave, or institute a new dominion over magic? Corellon could have increased his worshipers and his power by becoming not just chief god among elves and elven god of magic and battle, but the god of magic for all of Faerun plus the chief elven deity. Did the collapse of the weave make her portfolio inaccessible in some way? Or did Lord Ao prevent in some way prevent this? Or are there some racial godly strictures? This last thought seems unlikely since some of the elven gods are aspects of other Faerunian deities. Sorry to bother with this question, but it's something I've been wondering about for awhile. I'm also not quite as current with all the reading as I'd like to be; busy life raising children and such, so if there is something obvious that I'm missing I apologize.
One often meets his destiny on the path one takes to avoid it. -Master Oogway
Hello again Ed and THO!
Can we expect a Chosen Heirs 2? Will it also be set in Waterdeep? Loved Death Masks, can't wait for more!
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A good wheelwright viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2013
Do you consider yourself a "literary journalist"?
No. I'm a smith. I occupy the position in our society that a good wheelwright would have occupied in his. Making wheels is a highly specialized skill. I don't consider myself to be an artist, I consider myself to be a skilled workman.
Richard Ben Cramer, citado en Robert S. Boynton (ed.), The New New Journalism, New York, Vintage, 2005, p. 36
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Storytelling mode lunes, 25 de noviembre de 2013
Do you discuss your work-in-progress with people?
I find that it helps a lot to talk to friends or editors immediately after I return from a reporting trip. It puts me in storytelling mode. Even though I'm less preoccupied with producing a seamless narrative than I used to be, I do feel that narrative energy is crucial to distinguish a story from a research report. When you are telling a story to a live human being you get a sense, immediately, of what people respond to. It gets you outside your own head. And often people ask questions that I haven't thought of –questions that force me to look at the reporting in a new way.
Ron Rosenbaum, citado en Robert S. Boynton (ed.), The New New Journalism, New York, Vintage, 2005, p. 336
Shit, he's talked to everybody miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2013
Once you've got access, how do you get people to open up to you?
One way I get them to talk is show them the lengthy list of the other people I've talked to. Even hardened FBI agents get wide-eyed when they see how many names are there. They think, "Shit, he's talked to everybody!" It softens them up a little. First, because they respect me for the effort I've made. And, second, they feel it's pointless to hide anything from me, because somebody else is going to tell me anyway. It's a visual aid that lets people know I'm on the case, and that I'm not likely to be shaken off it.
Lawrence Wright, citado en Robert S. Boynton (ed.), The New New Journalism, New York, Vintage, 2005, p. 443
None of that ever deters anyone lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2013
You become so deeply involved with your subjects. How do you manage to maintain enough distance to write about them?
The writer-subject relationship is always fraught with thorny complications. Janet Malcolm's book, The Journalist and the Murderer, should be a required text in all schools of journalism. Her first line –"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible"– is intentionally harsh and provocative, but contains more truth than most journalists admit. The writer is a confidence man. The journalist never has any intention of telling the story your subject wants told. Your job is to tell the story as you see it. Once a subject has talked to you, he has surrendered all control. For my own conscience's sake, I try to begin almost every interview by quoting Malcolm's infamous first line. I tell the person I'm interviewing that he'll have no control over the process, that I won't show the article to him before publication, that he will tell me things he'll regret... and none of that ever deters anyone!
Jon Krakauer, citado en Robert S. Boynton (ed.), The New New Journalism, New York, Vintage, 2005, p. 167
Writing is always torture viernes, 15 de noviembre de 2013
Do you think yourself as practicing immersion journalism?
For some types of stories. Perhaps inundated or drowning journalism would be more accurate.
How do you conceive of your role as a reporter?
I guess I don't think of myself as a reporter. I think myself as a writer who needs to gather information in order to write. Having said that, I'm a pretty diligent reporter. I feel I like I was put on this world to be an observer, not an actor. I like to watch what other people do. My form of "action" is writing: creating something on the page. The paradox of my life, of course, is that although I think myself as a writer than a reporter, I enjoy the reporting much more than the writing.
It sounds as if your problems come during the writing more than during the reporting.
True. Writing is always torture. If I can avoid it by doing more reporting, I will.
Jonathan Harr, citado en Robert S. Boynton (ed.), The New New Journalism, New York, Vintage, 2005, p. 114
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Jennings stops Szpilka whilst Price bounces back
Although last weekend had the first major North American bout of the year in the Jean Pascal/Lucian Bute bout, it's fair to say that this weekend was further step up with rivaling cards on HBO and Showtime. On paper we had gone from one good fight to two great cards.
The one Heavyweight bout of note on those two cards saw the unbeaten Bryant Jennings (18-0, 10) face off against Poland's Artur Szpilka (16-1, 12). With both men entering the bout unbeaten this was a great bout on paper and a bout that pitted not unbeaten Heavyweights against each other but highly regarded world ranked fighters against each other. Unfortunately for all the excitement ahead of the bout it proved to be less than interesting after the first bell went.
The contest started slowly and by the time it heated up it was obvious that Szpilka had nothing to harm Jennings with. The power of Szpilka had no effect, his accuracy was off, his shots were wide and he lack the imagination to set things up. This allowed Jennings to slowly but carefully break down the Pole who was stopped in the 10th and final round after being thoroughly out boxed for a large swathe of the bout.
Whilst the Jennings/Szpilka bout was the highest profile Heavyweight bout of the weekend, and will ultimately lead Jennings one step closer to a world title fight, it was far from the only bout in the division this weekend.
Another high profile bout took place in Germany as Englishman David Price (16-2, 14) made his return to the ring. Price, who had suffered back to back losses to Tony Thompson, returned to face late replacement opponent Istvan Ruzsinszky (12-10-1, 8) who looked over-weight, short and incredibly poor against "Pricey". The affable Englishman needed just 2 minutes to see off his over-matched foe in what was little more than a confidence building victory.
On the same card in Germany we also got a chance to see the promising Otto Wallin (5-0, 3) who extended his unbeaten record.
Wallin, fighting against Ferenc Zsalek (12-40-3, 1), may have felt like he wanted a stoppage but the Hungarian veteran refused to let the youngster from Sweden have it as he ran and spoiled in an all out attempt to survive. We'd understand Wallin's frustrations here though actually believe that the fight will help Wallin's development.
Back over in the US we actually had a lower tier title fight as Travis Kauffman (28-1, 20) claimed the WBA Fedelatin Heavyweight title. Kauffman managed to score one of his most notable victories as he clearly out pointed Vincent Thompson (13-2, 2). For Thompson this was a second successive loss and his once promising career is certainly on the rocks.
There was two other US bouts as New Jersey hosted a Heavyweight double header. These saw Dorsett Barnwell (12-0, 5) out pointing Jon Bolden (6-8-1, 5) and Joey Dawejko (9-3-2, 3) taking a decision over Derric Rossy (28-8, 14).
Outside the US we had a second title fight as Brazilian Irineu Beato Costa Junior (15-0, 13) claimed a rare decision and successfully retained his WBO Latino title with a victory over Daniel Alejandro Sanabria (17-4, 11). Considering Junior's record as a puncher we are a little bit surprirised that Sanabria managed to go the scheduled 12 rounds.
Staying with Brazil we had yet another title fight as Mateus Roberto Osorio (6-0, 6) defended his Brazilian title against the very weak Adilson Nolli (1-11, 1), who has now been stopped 11 times. The same show also saw Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (17-5, 15) scoring an easy stoppage victory over Francisco Gomes Paraiso Lopes (2-4, 2).
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Conservative Study Finding
Intelligence Institute Study shows Fox News viewers have an IQ that is 20 points lower than the U.S. National average.
Study shows that the Americans who watch Fox News have an average IQ of 80, whereas the national average is 100. Researchers were not "shocked" by findings.
The results of a 4 year study show that Americans who obtain their news from Fox News channel have an average IQ of 80, which represents a 20 point deficit when compared to the U.S. national average of 100. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is the international standard of assessing intelligence.
Researchers at The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group, tested 5,000 people using a series of tests that measure everything from cognitive aptitude to common sense and found that people who identified themselves as Fox News viewers and 'conservative' had, on average, significantly lower intelligent quotients. Fox Viewers represented 2,650 members of the test group.
One test involved showing subjects a series of images and measuring their vitals, namely pulse rate and blood pressure. The self-identified conservatives' vitals increased over 35% when shown complex or shocking images. The image that caused the most stress was a poorly edited picture of President Obama standing next to a "ghostly" image of a child holding a tarantula.
Test subjects who received their news from other outlets or reported they do not watch the news scored an average IQ of 104, compared to 80 for Fox News viewers.
Lead researcher, P. Nichols, explains, "Less intelligent animals rely on instinct when confronted by something which they do not understand. This is an ancient survival reaction all animals, including humans, exhibit. It's a very simple phenomenon, really; think about a dog being afraid of a vacuum cleaner. He doesn't know what a vacuum is or if it may harm him, so he becomes agitated and barks at it. Less intelligent humans do the same thing. Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them."
He continues, "Fox News' content is presented at an elementary school level and plays directly into the fears of the less educated and less intelligent."
The researchers said that an IQ of 80 is well above the score of 70, which is where psychiatrists diagnose mental retardation. P. Nichols says an IQ of 80 will not limit anyone's ability to lead happy, fulfilling lives.
The study did not conclude if Fox News contributed to lowering IQ or if it attracts less intelligent humans.
P. Nichols concludes that he wasn't shocked by the studies' results, rather how dramatic their range. "Several previous studies show that self-identified conservatives are less intelligent than self-identified moderates. We have never seen such a homogeneous group teetering so close to special needs levels."
BigAl said...
You may be interested in the following link
http://watch.foxnews.com/
gundulf said...
The 'lead researcher' needs to be more accurate with his sweeping generalisations. Whilst a vacuum cleaner might present no real threat to a dog, said pooch would rightly need to be wary of a vacuum - as one of those would have a terminally negative effect on his health and vitality.
Perhaps Mr Nichols is, himself, a Fox viewer?
Only time I ever watch Fox is when I come across a Youtube vid of Bill O'Reilly getting put in his place by someone infinitely smarter, usually a kid.
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I Corinthians 2:9 (NRSV)
Ted Davis, professor of the history of science, has just published his one and only poem, in the latest issue of “Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.” The poem, “On First, Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” uses a famous poem by John Keats to remember Mickey Mantle.
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“Surviving the Intergenerational Workplace” topic of next business alumni breakfast Sept. 24
As many Americans postpone retirement, the age gap been the oldest and youngest in the workplace continues to expand. Of course, generational differences have always existed, but age-related disparities seem to be increasingly acute, perhaps because of factors such as changing values and asymmetrical adoption of new technology.
What are the challenges of working with others who are significantly older or younger than you?
How can you respond positively to these challenges in order to ensure your own productivity as well as that of your co-workers?
These are two of the key questions that will be addressed at the upcoming Messiah Business Alumni networking breakfast Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 a.m. at the Camp Hill Radisson, 1150 Camp Hill Bypass, Camp Hill PA 17011. Registration is $15; call the office of alumni and parent relations at ext. 5252. The format of the event will be highly interactive with opportunities for table discussion as well as dialogue among all participants. Leading the conversion will be a pair of human resource experts:
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David Brooks presents the first of the High Center’s inaugural season lectures on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Parmer Hall. As a major political and social analyst, New York Times OpEd columnist, and regular analyst with “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and “All Things Considered,” David Brooks has a gift for bringing audiences face to face with the spirit of our times with humor, insight and quiet passion. He is a keen observer of the American way of life and a savvy analyst of present-day politics and foreign affairs. Brooks is author of two books of what he calls “comic sociology” — descriptions of how we live and “the water we swim in” that are as witty and entertaining as they are revealing and insightful: “Bobos in Paradise” and “On Paradise Drive.” “Bobos in Paradise” was a New York Times best-seller. His current book titled, “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement,” focuses on why neuroscience and sociology are so important to thinking about politics, culture and the future of America in world society. Brooks has worked at The Weekly Standard, joining the magazine at its inception and serving as senior editor. He has been a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly. He worked at The Wall Street Journal for nine years in a range of positions, including op-ed editor. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, The Washington Post and many other periodicals. All tickets are $25. To purchase, please contact the ticket office at ext. 6036 or visit messiah.edu/tickets.
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The Library and Library Committee are pleased to announce a request for proposals for the Library Special Projects Fund. This fund allows departments, faculty or programs to improve the library collection by applying for and using additional funds from outside their usual library allocation.
The distribution of funds will be determined through a proposal process coordinated by the library committee. Faculty, departments or programs are invited to submit proposals for the Special Projects Fund. The deadline for proposals is Friday, Nov. 1.
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Please review the document about this fund on the library website for complete information. You are then invited to complete the application form online. Please direct any questions about this fund or the proposal process to your liaison librarian. Submit completed applications to Beth Transue, librarian/collection development coordinator, suite 3002 or btransue@messiah.edu. The Library Committee looks forward to reviewing your proposals.
What’s New in the Library fall newsletter
Please see attachment for newsletter.
Messiah Wellness programs announced
The attached brochure titled “Messiah Goes to the World Cup” will explain this year’s wellness programs. Once again employees who accumulate 100 wellness points will experience health care premium savings. Be sure to read about the Messiah Goes to The World Cup exercise program. Registration can begin anytime (details are in the booklet) and the recording of activity begins on Sept. 22.
When you go to the Café-Well site to register for your specific program, look for the following titles: “Messiah-Walk,” “Messiah-Exercise,” “Messiah-Cycle,” “Messiah-Run” and “Messiah-Swim.” Contact Doug Miller at dmiller@messiah.edu with questions.
Wellness workshop announced
Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 2 in Parmer Cinema from 12-12:45 p.m. for the first wellness workshop of the year, “Cycling to Better Health.”
Weight Watchers offered on campus in fall
The Messiah Wellness Program would like to announce the opportunity to participate in a Weight Watchers program this fall on campus. At least 20 employees must sign up in order to offer the 17-week class, which will begin no later than Oct. 18. The cost of the program will be $186, which will be completely reimbursable by Health America at the completion of the program. This is a fantastic opportunity for Messiah employees looking for a holistic, proven approach to weight loss. See attachments for further details. Contact Judy Groop at jgroop@messiah.edu) today if interested. Registration deadline is Sept. 30.
Self-service UPS station at Campus Store
Did you know that there is a self-service UPS shipping station set up outside the Campus Store? Within minutes, you can ship a UPS package with extraordinarily low rates that are less than area competitors! Along with the low cost, UPS offers free tracking and insurance up to $100.
Using this service is easy and convenient! Simply take your package to the self-service station, weigh it, fill in the information on the computer and hit “print.” Your label will print out behind The Campus Store mail counter. Then just take your package to the register in the store, show your ID and pay. The label will be applied inside the store and The Campus Store will ship it out for you!
For training on how to ship UPS for your department, please contact Bill Althoff at 3904.
Reminders about school bus safety
Schools are in session across the state and that means school buses are on the roads and children are walking along the streets. Keep these safety tips in mind as you are driving:
Always follow the speed limits and slow down in school zones and near bus stops.
Stay alert for children getting on and off buses and walking to and from bus stops and schools.
Be familiar with Pennsylvania’s school bus stopping law and comply with it.
Motorists must stop at least 10 feet away from school buses that have their red lights flashing and stop arm extended.
Motorists must stop when they are behind a bus, meeting the bus or approaching an intersection where a bus is stopped.
Motorists following or traveling alongside a school bus must also stop until the red lights have stopped flashing, the stop arm is withdrawn and all children have reached safety.
If physical barriers such as grassy medians, guide rails or concrete median barriers separate oncoming traffic from the bus, motorists in the opposing lanes may proceed without stopping. This is the only time a motorist does not have to stop for a stopped school bus.
Do not proceed until all the children have reached a place of safety.
The penalties if convicted of violating Pennsylvania’s school bus stopping law include: $250 fine, five points on your driving record and 60-day license suspension.
Drivers — The president’s office is in need of two to three drivers for a conference we are hosting on Oct. 20-22. If you are an approved driver and will have completed the new required insurance paperwork, kindly contact Laurie Owens at ext. 2820.
Housing —1984 graduates have been serving as missionaries with the Latin America Mission for 21 years in San Jose, Costa Rica. We will be taking our next home ministry assignment from April to October 2014 in order to help our son who is graduating from Messiah in May, make the transition to setting up his own apartment. We are in need of housing during this time and are wondering if anyone will be on sabbatical or leaving a home that they would be willing to lend or rent to us for any or all of our time in the U.S. We especially enjoy being near Messiah College. We are willing to talk about “house swapping” if you would like to spend the time in Costa Rica. For more information, contact groff@messiah.edu, pmauger@gmail.com or call 717-458-7001.
Scooter 2009 — 150cc, automatic transmission, garage-kept, just inspected (good through Sept. 2014), less than 300 miles. Asking $800 obo. Contact Brad Markley at bmarkley@messiah.edu or ext. 3500 for information or pictures.
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How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco
On the windy afternoon of March 17, 2017, I opened my mailbox and saw a white envelope from the San Francisco Unified School District. The envelope contained a letter assigning my younger daughter to a middle school. This letter was Continue reading →
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Trump Didn’t Break America but Can’t Fix It Either
Journalist Steven Brills new book about how the country got into some of its biggest and most vexing problems in the last half-century and how were on the verge of fixing many of them is surprisingly optimistic in a very Continue reading →
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, modern Turkey’s longest-serving ruler, won a mandate to govern with sweeping new powers after a double victory in presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Silicon Valleys Singularity University Has Some Serious Reality Problems
The pitch was simple: Forget accredited graduate schools and think big at Singularity University. Google co-founder Larry Page and futurist Ray Kurzweil could be among your lecturers in the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity, named for the notion that humans Continue reading →
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Singapore Plans to Boost Goods and Services Tax to 9%
Singapore Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced a range of tax increases in his budget, including a surprise hike in property levies, as he seeks to shore up savings to cope with a rapidly aging population.
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Connie Britton reveals how \
YouTube is bringing its community of creators to an important campaign advocating for girls' education.
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It’s enough to make Continue reading →
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Globe Asiatique Know the Truth PAGIBIG Controversy, watch the video now!
Dark politics behind illegal arrest and jailing of Delfin Lee ? Globe Asiatique
Delfin Lee of Globe Asiatique is illegaly arrested based on CA Decision No. 127553
Ang Tagumpay ko ay Tagumpay ng Sambayanang Pilipino
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Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corporation was primarily conceived to support the vision of the government to provide housing for the low income Filipino family. With this in mind, owners of the company decided to start its first venture on residential housing project by developing one of its properties located in San Mateo, Rizal. Named STA. BARBARA VILLAS I, a 100% socialized housing project, the subdivision has been a showcase for the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) for other developers because of its extensive development and having passed all the required geotechnical, landslide and erosion tests conducted by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau.
Today STA. BARBARA VILLAS I with a land area of 80 hectares stands proud and tranquil a top the hills of Barangay Silangan, San Mateo, Rizal, unaffected by natural calamities, its residents composing of employees and their families from the government and private sector, enlisted personnel from the AFP and overseas contract workers as well, each of them enjoying the fruit of their toils and fulfillment of a dream --- a house they can call their own.
As the demand for housing increases, the company continued to support the thrust of the government by developing another 14 hectare property also located at Barangay Silangan, San Mateo, Rizal, 3 kilometers away from the STA BARBARA VILLAS I with the same name. Type of development is a mixed low cost and socialized development aimed to cater the need for housing of the employees of the Office of the Ombudsman and Sandigan bayan. Funding of this project was also approved by PAG-IBIG subject of a MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT between the company, PAG-IBIG and the Office of the Ombudsman.
On August 4, 1995, a sister company which operates with the same line of business category was established. Mr. Delfin S. Lee, President of Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corporation together with his Malaysian business associates ventured again in the real estate industry, thus FILMAL REALTY CORPORATION was established.
Today, ST. MONIQUE VALAIS located at Barangay Pantok, Binangonan, Rizal is a byword among individuals in the metropolis who dream of owning a house and lot in the said subdivision because of the finesse and cultured type of development applied to the subdivision.
Middle of 2002 was a deciding period for the president of the company whether to venture into high-rise development or not. DL as he is called by his associates made the boldest decision for the company to go high-rise. Heads of the engineering department together with his consultants rolled and worked round the clock for the preparation of the plans for his brainchild ---- the GLOBE ASIATIQUE TOWER (G.A. TOWER) which will proudly rise at #83 EDSA, Mandaluyong City.
Launched last January 31, 2003, this 30-storey G. A. Tower was opened to the market and the 600- regular units plus its 29th & 30th floor penthouse units were SOLD OUT IN JUST 3 MONTHS.
Globe Asiatique Realty has once again come together to give life to the idea of “luxurious living within our reach”. This is the “CHATEAU VALENZUELA”, the 5-star condo-ville development right in the city of Valenzuela.
Ideal for the Filipino people searching for SAFE, AFFORDABLE and HIGH-QUALITY homes to call their own, Chateau Valenzuela is the perfect choice.
Chateau Valenzuela has 18 buildings, with each building having 6 floors with a total of 84 units per building. Each unit will be delivered FULLY FINISHED.
Launched this January 22, 2005, the G.A. TOWER 2, an identical twin of G. A. Tower 1, and as of to date, 60% of the total units are already pre-sold, a testament to the growing market for luxurious high-rise condo for the middle class.
Launched this January 19, 2008, the Xevera project of Globe Asiatique Realty envisioned to dramatically improving the landscape of the Pampanga province. Only a short distance from the Diosdado Macapagal Airport and the Clark Field Special Economic Zone, Xevera offers the nearby workers and middle-income earners a chance to purchase their very own homes at a price and financing package well-suited for their needs. Xevera is positioned to be a high-quality and prestigious residential community offered at a very low cost. With its housing units priced at only P750, 000, and combined with Pag-ibig’s low interest financing program, home owners will only have to pay a minimum of P5,000 a month for them to acquire their very own units. With this package, even minimum-income earning families can afford to buy their own houses instead of having to rent their units at almost the same cost.
The development of the Xevera project will not only improve the aesthetic aspects of the community, but will also uplift the lives of the ordinary workers as the prestige of owning their homes will encourage them to further expand and improve their lives. The safety and convenience of living in such a community will also have its social impacts on the Pampanga region as this could lead the way for further developments within the area.
Launched this January 25, 2009, the Xevera Mabalacat a first of its kind in the Philippines which promise to provide quality homes at affordable prices to suit a lifestyle of elegance and convenience.
Name : GLOBE ASIATIQUE REALTY HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Business : 2ND Flr. GA Tower 2 Condominium, EDSA, Boni Ave.,
Address Mandaluyong City
Tel. No. 576-6618
No. of Years in : 18 years
Established and registered with Securities and Exchange Commission on November 22, 1994 with a 100% Filipino shareholders.
Published in Globe Asiatique Profile
Delfin Lee's Prayer…through the RTC and the Court of Appeals his prayers were answered favorably…
Delfin Lee's Prayer is for the release of the TCT's of all fully paid buyer/borrowers of PAGIBIG. To protect their interest we have filed a case for breach of contract against HDMF to compel it to release the titles to our buyers. Globe Asiatique won before the RTC and Court of Appeals against HDMF through a Summary Judgement Dated January 30, 2012 court decision:
To futher help Globe Asiatique clients we have now created an ONLINE TCT MANAGER named DELFIN LEE CARES, for you to check the status of your title (TCT), you will be required to register using your email or facebook account to be given access to the said database.
The exact declaration of the court is as follows "Defendants (PAGIBIG) are ordered to release the corresponding Transfer Certificate of Titles [s] (TCT’s) of those accounts which are fully paid or subjected to automatic off-setting starting from the list in Annex “E” of the Motion for Summary Judgment and thereafter from those listed in Annex “F” thereof and cause the corresponding cancellation of the annotations in the titles thereof."
Below is an excerpt of the Decision:
GLOBE ASIATIQUE REALTY HOLDINGS CORPORATION
And DELFIN LEE and his capacity as President
Of the corporation
HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (HDMF)
OR PAG-IBIG FUND, its board trustees and
EMMA LINDA FARIA, officer-in-charge,
Motion for Execution
(Against Defendant Home Development Mutual Fund)
Civil Case no. 10-1120
FOR: SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE AND DAMAGES
4. Defendants PAGIBIG are ordered to automatically off-set the balance of those listed in Annex “B” of the Motion for Summary Judgment against the retention money, escrow money, funding commitment fees, loan take-out which are still in the control and possession of defendant HDMF.
5. Defendants are ordered to accept the replacement-buyers listed in Annex “F” of the Motion for Summary Judgment, which list is unopposed by defendants, without interest or penalty from the time of defendant HDMF’s cancellation of the Collection Servicing Agreement (CSA) resulting to the refusal to accept the same up to the time that these replacement buyers are actually accepted by defendant HDMF.
Please download the full details here:
http://globeasiatique.ph/downloads/viewdownload/3-get-a-copy-and-know-the-truth/18-globe-asiatique-is-awarded-damages-against-hdmf
Published in Our Blog
Delfin Lee is a free man
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CHAPTER 15.
IN PRISON FOR NOT SWEARING. 1662-1665.
After I had made some stay in London, and had cleared myself of those services that at that time lay upon me there, I went into the country, having with me Alexander Parker and John Stubbs. We traveled through the Country, visiting Friends� meetings, till we came to Bristol.
There we understood the officers were likely to come and break up the meeting; yet on First-day we went to the meeting at Broadmead, and Alexander Parker standing up first, while he was speaking the officers came and took him away. After he was gone, I stood up and declared the everlasting Truth of the Lord God in His eternal power, which came over all; the meeting was quiet the rest of the time, and broke up peaceably. I tarried till the First-day following, visiting Friends, and being visited by them.
On First-day morning several Friends came to Edward Pyot�s house (where I lay the night before), and used great endeavors to persuade me not to go to the meeting that day, for the magistrates, they said, had threatened to take me, and had raised the trained bands. I wished them to go to the meeting, not telling them what I intended to do; but I told Edward Pyot I intended to go, and he sent his son to show me the way from his house by the fields.
As I went I met diverse Friends who were coming to me to prevent my going, and who did what they could to stop me. �What!� said one, �wilt thou go into the mouth of the beast?� �Wilt thou go into the mouth of the dragon?� said another. I put them by and went on.
When I came to the meeting Margaret Thomas was speaking; and when she had done I stood up. I saw a concern and fear upon Friends for me; but the power of the Lord, in which I declared, soon struck the fear out of them; life sprang, and a glorious heavenly meeting we had.
After I had cleared myself of what was upon me from the Lord to the meeting, I was moved to pray; and after that to stand up again, and tell Friends how they might see there was a God in Israel that could deliver.
A very large meeting this was, and very hot; but Truth was over all, the life was exalted, which carried through all, and the meeting broke up in peace. The officers and soldiers had been breaking up another meeting, which had taken up their time, so that our meeting was ended before they came. But I understood afterwards they were in great rage because they had missed me; for they were heard to say one to another before, �I�ll warrant we shall have him;� but the Lord prevented them.
I went from the meeting to Joan Hily�s, where many Friends came to see me, rejoicing and blessing God for our deliverance. In the evening I had a fine fresh meeting among Friends at a Friend�s house over the water, where we were much refreshed in the Lord.
From Barnet Hills we came to Swannington, in Leicestershire, where William Smith and some other Friends visited me; but they went away towards nights leaving me at a Friend�s house in Swannington.
At night, as I was sitting in the hall speaking to a widow woman and her daughter, Lord Beaumont came with a company of soldiers, who, slapping their swords on the door, rushed into the house with swords and pistols in their hands, crying, �Put out the candles and make fast the doors.� Then they seized upon the Friends in the house, and asked if there were no more about the house. The Friends told them there was one man more in the hall.
There being some Friends out of Derbyshire, one of whom was named Thomas Fauks, Lord Beaumont, after he had asked all their names, bid his man set down that man�s name as Thomas Fox. The Friend said, Nay; that his name was not Fox, but Fauks. In the mean time some of the soldiers came, and fetched me out of the hall to him. He asked my name. I told him my name was George Fox, and that I was well known by that name. �Aye,� said he, �you are known all the world over.� I said, I was known for no hurt, but for good.
Then he put his hands into my pockets to search them, and plucked out my comb-case, and afterwards commanded one of his officers to search further for letters. I told him I was no letter-carrier, and asked him why he came amongst a peaceable people with swords and pistols without a constable, contrary to the king�s proclamation and to the late act. For he could not say there was a meeting, I being only talking with a poor widowwoman and her daughter.
By reasoning thus with him, he came somewhat down; yet, sending for the constables, he gave them charge of us that night, and told them to bring us before him next morning. Accordingly the constables set a watch of the townspeople upon us that night, and had us next morning to his house, about a mile from Swannington.
When we came before him, he told us that we had met �contrary to the Act.� 174 I desired him to show us the Act. �Why,� says he, �you have it in your pocket.� I told him he did not find us in a meeting. Then he asked whether we would take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. I told him I never took any oath in my life, nor engagement, nor the covenant. Yet still he would force the oath upon us. I desired him to show us the oath, that we might see whether we were the persons it was to be tendered to, and whether it was not for the discovery of popish recusants. At length he brought a little book, but we called for the statute- book. He would not show us that, but caused a mittimus to be made, which mentioned that we �were to have had a meeting.� With this mittimus he delivered us to the constables to convey us to Leicester jail.
But when the constables had brought us back to Swannington, it being harvest-time, it was hard to get anybody to go with us. The people were loth to take their neighbors to prison, especially in such a busy time. They would have given us our mittimus to carry ourselves to the jail; for it had been usual for constables to give Friends their own mittimuses, and they have gone themselves with them to the jailer. But we told them that, though our Friends had sometimes done so, we would not take this mittimus; but some of them should go with us to the jail.
At last they hired a poor laboring man, who was loth to go, though hired.
So we rode to Leicester, being five in number; some carried their Bibles open in their hands, declaring Truth to the people as we rode in the fields and through the towns, and telling them we were prisoners of the Lord Jesus Christ, going to suffer bonds for His name and Truth. One woman Friend carried her wheel on her lap to spin on in prison; and the people were mightily affected.
At Leicester we went to an inn. The master of the house seemed troubled that we should go to the prison; and being himself in commission, he sent for lawyers in the town to advise with, and would have taken up the mittimus, kept us in his own house, and not have let us go into the jail.
But I told Friends it would be a great charge to lie at an inn; and many Friends and people would be coming to visit us, and it might be hard for him to bear our having meetings in his house. Besides, we had many Friends in the prison already, and we had rather be with them. So we let the man know that we were sensible of his kindness, and to prison we went; the poor man that brought us thither delivering both the mittimus and us to the jailer.
This jailer had been a very wicked, cruel man. Six or seven Friends being in prison before we came, he had taken some occasion to quarrel with them, and had thrust them into the dungeon amongst the felons, where there was hardly room for them to lie down. We stayed all that day in the prisonyard, and desired the jailer to let us have some straw. He surlily answered, �You do not look like men that would lie on straw.�
After a while William Smith, a Friend, came to me, and he being acquainted in the house, I asked him what rooms there were in it, and what rooms Friends had usually been put into before they were put into the dungeon. I asked him also whether the jailer or his wife was the master. He said that the wife was master; and that, though she was lame, and sat mostly in her chair, being only able to go on crutches, yet she would beat her husband when he came within her reach if he did not do as she would have him.
I considered that probably many Friends might come to visit us, and that if we had a room to ourselves, it would be better for them to speak to me, and me to them, as there should be occasion. Wherefore I desired William Smith to go speak with the woman, and acquaint her that if she would let us have a room, suffer our Friends to come out of the dungeon, and leave it to us to give her what we would, it might be better for her.
He went, and after some reasoning with her, she consented; and we were put into a room. Then we were told that the jailer would not suffer us to have any drink out of the town brought into the prison, but that what beer we drank we must take of him. I told them I would remedy that, for we would get a pail of water and a little wormwood once a day, and that might serve us; so we should have none of his beer, and the water he could not deny us.
Before we came, when the few Friends that were prisoners there met together on First-days, if any of them was moved to pray to the Lord, the jailer would come up with his quarter-staff in his hand, and his mastiff dog at his heels, and pluck them down by the hair of the head, and strike them with his staff; but when he struck Friends, the mastiff dog, instead of falling upon them, would take the staff out of his hand.
When the First-day came, I spoke to one of my fellow- prisoners, to carry a stool and set it in the yard, and give notice to the debtors and felons that there would be a meeting in the yard, and they that would hear the Word of the Lord declared might come thither. So the debtors and prisoners gathered in the yard, and we went down, and had a very precious meeting, the jailer not meddling.
Thus every First-day we had a meeting as long as we stayed in prison; and several came in out of the town and country. Many were convinced, and some there received the Lord�s Truth who have stood faithful witnesses for it ever since.
When the sessions came we were brought before the justices, with many more Friends, sent to prison whilst we were there, to the number of about twenty. The jailer put us into the place where the thieves were put, and then some of the justices began to tender the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to us. I told them I never took any oath in my life; and they knew we could not swear, because Christ and His Apostle forbade it; therefore they but put it as a snare to us. We told them that if they could prove that, after Christ and the Apostle had forbidden swearing, they did ever command Christians to swear, then we would take these oaths; otherwise we were resolved to obey Christ�s command and the Apostle�s exhortation.
They said we must take the oath that we might manifest our allegiance to the king. I told them I had been formerly sent up a prisoner by Colonel Hacker, from that town to London, under pretense that I had held meetings to plot to bring in King Charles. I also desired them to read our mittimus, which set forth the cause of our commitment to be that we �were to have a meeting�; and I said Lord Beaumont could not by that act send us to jail unless we had been taken at a meeting, and found to be such persons as the act speaks of; therefore we desired that they would read the mittimus and see how wrongfully we were imprisoned.
They would not take notice of the mittimus, but called a jury and indicted us for refusing to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. When the jury was sworn and instructed, as they were going out, one that had been an alderman of the city spoke to them, and bade them �have a good conscience�; and one of the jury, being a peevish man, told the justices there was one affronted the jury; whereupon they called him up, and tendered him the oath also, and he took it.
While we were standing where the thieves used to stand, a cut-purse had his hand in several Friends� pockets. Friends declared it to the justices, and showed them the man. They called him up before them, and upon examination he could not deny it; yet they set him at liberty.
It was not long before the jury returned, and brought us in guilty; and after some words, the justices whispered together, and bid the jailer take us to prison again; but the Lord�s power was over them, and His everlasting Truth, which we declared boldly amongst them. There being a great concourse of people, most of them followed us; so that the crier and bailiffs were fain to call the people back again to the court.
We declared the Truth as we went along the streets, till we came to the jail, the streets being full of people.
When we were in our chamber again, after some time the jailer came to us and desired all to go forth that were not prisoners. When they were gone he said, �Gentlemen, it is the court�s pleasure that ye should be set at liberty, except those that are in for tithes; and you know there are fees due to me; but I shall leave it to you to give me what you will.�
Thus we were all set at liberty on a sudden, and passed every one into our services. Leonard Fell went with me again to Swannington.
I had a letter from Lord Hastings, who, hearing of my imprisonment, had written from London to the justices of the sessions to set me at liberty. I had not delivered this letter to the justices; whether any knowledge of his mind received through another hand made them discharge us so suddenly, I know not. This letter I carried to Lord Beaumont, who had sent us to prison. When he had broken it open and read it, he seemed much troubled; but at last he came a little lower, yet threatened us that if we had any more meetings at Swannington, he would break them up and send us to prison again.
But, notwithstanding his threats, we went to Swannington, and had a meeting with Friends there, and he neither came nor sent to break it up. [After travelling through Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Warwickshire, he came again to London.] I stayed not long in London, but went into Essex, and so to Norfolk, having great meetings. At Norwich, when I came to Captain Lawrence�s, there was a great threatening of disturbance; but the meeting was quiet.
Passing thence to Sutton, and into Cambridgeshire, I heard of Edward Burrough�s decease. Being sensible how great a grief and exercise it would be to Friends to part with him, I wrote the following lines for the staying and settling of their minds: �Friends: �Be still and quiet in your own conditions, and settled in the Seed of God, that doth not change; that in that ye may feel dear Edward Burrough among you in the Seed, in which and by which he begat you to God, with whom he is; and that in the Seed ye may all see and feel him, in which is the unity with him in the life; and so enjoy him in the life that doth not change, which is invisible. George Fox.� [Hereupon extensive travels follow, throughout the eastern counties, then through the southern as far as Land�s End, and again through Wales and the English Lake district. He finally reaches Swarthmore some time in 1663, and finds that an offer of twenty-five pounds has been made to any man who would take him. Out of the experiences of this long, though somewhat uneventful trip we give only the following discussion, which throws good light on Fox�s �principle of truth�: �Next morning, some of the chief of the town 176 desired to speak with me, amongst whom was Colonel Rouse. I went, and had a great deal of discourse with them concerning the things of God. In their reasoning they said, �The gospel was the four books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John�; and they called it natural. I told them, the gospel was the power of God, which was preached before Matthew, Mark, Luke or John were written; and it was preached to every creature, of which a great part might never see nor hear of those four books, so that every creature was to obey the power of God; for Christ, the Spiritual Man, would judge the world according to the gospel, that is, according to his invisible power. When they heard this, they could not gainsay; for the Truth came over them. I directed them to their Teacher, the grace of God, and showed them the sufficiency of it, which would teach them how to live, and what to deny; and being obeyed would bring them salvation. So to that grace I recommended them, and left them.�] I came over the sands to Swarthmore. There they told me that Colonel Kirby had sent his lieutenant, who had searched trunks and chests for me.
That night, as I was in bed, I was moved of the Lord to go next day to Kirby Hall, which was Colonel Kirby�s house, about five miles off, to speak with him. When I came thither I found the Flemings, and several others of the gentry (so called) of the country, who were come to take their leave of Colonel Kirby, he being then about to go up to London to the Parliament. I was taken into the parlour amongst them; but Colonel Kirby was not then within, being gone out a little way. They said little to me, nor I much to them.
After a little while Colonel Kirby came in, and I told him I came to visit him (understanding he was desirous to see me) to know what he had to say to me, and whether he had anything against me.
He said, before all the company, �As I am a gentleman, I have nothing against you.� �But,� said he, �Mistress Fell must not keep great meetings at her house, for they meet contrary to the Act.�
I told him that that Act did not take hold on us, but on such as �met to plot and contrive, and to raise insurrections against the King�; whereas we were no such people: for he knew that they that met at Margaret Fell�s were his neighbors, and a peaceable people.
After many words had passed, he shook me by the hand, and said again that he had nothing against me; and others of them said I was a deserving man. So we parted, and I returned to Swarthmore.
Shortly after, when Colonel Kirby was gone to London, there was a private meeting of the justices and deputy-lieutenants at Houlker Hall, where Justice Preston lived, where they granted a warrant to apprehend me. I heard over night both of their meeting and of the warrant, and could have gone out of their reach if I would, for I had not appointed any meeting at that time, and I had cleared myself of the north, and the Lord�s power was over all. But I considered that there being a noise of a plot in the north, if I should go away they might fall upon Friends; but if I gave myself up to be taken, it might prevent them, and Friends should escape the better. So I gave myself up to be taken, and prepared for their coming.
Next day an officer came with his sword and pistols to take me. I told him I knew his errand before, and had given myself to be taken; for if I would have escaped their imprisonment I could have been forty miles off before he came; but I was an innocent man, and so it mattered not what they could do to me. He asked me how I heard of it, seeing the order was made privately in a parlour. I said it was no matter for that; it was sufficient that I heard it.
I asked him to let me see his order, whereupon he laid his hand on his sword, and said I must go with him before the lieutenant to answer such questions as they should propound to me. I told him it was but civil and reasonable for him to let me see his order; but he would not. Then said I, �I am ready.�
So I went along with him, and Margaret Fell accompanied us to Houlker Stall. When we came thither there was one Rawlinson, a justice, and one called Sir George Middleton, and many more that I did not know, besides old Justice Preston, who lived there.
They brought Thomas Atkinson, a Friend, of Cartmel, as a witness against me for some words which he had told to one Knipe, who had informed them, which words were that I said I had written against the plotters and had knocked them down. These words they could not make much of, for I told them I had heard of a plot, and had written against it.
Old Preston asked me whether I had an hand in that script. I asked him what he meant. He said, �in the Battledore?� I answered, �Yes.�
Then he asked me whether I understood languages. I said, �Sufficient for myself,� and that I knew no law that was transgressed by it. I told them also that to understand outward languages was no matter of salvation, for the many tongues began but at the confusion of Babel; and if I did understand anything of them, I judged and knocked them down again for any matter of salvation that was in them.
Thereupon he turned away, and said, �George Fox knocks down all the languages; come,� said he, �we will examine you of higher matters.�
Then said George Middleton, �You deny God, and the Church, and the faith.�
I replied, �Nay, I own God and the true Church, and the true faith. But what Church dost thou own?� said I (for I understood he was a Papist).
Then he turned again and said, �You are a rebel and a traitor.�
I asked him to whom he spoke, or whom did he call rebel. He was so full of envy that for a while he could not speak, but at last he said, �I spoke it to you.�
With that I struck my hand on the table, and told him, �I have suffered more than twenty such as thou; more than any that is here; for I have been cast into Derby dungeon for six months together, and have suffered much because I would not take up arms against this King before Worcester fight.
I was sent up a prisoner out of my own country by Colonel Hacker to Oliver Cromwell, as a plotter to bring in King Charles in the year 1654. I have nothing but love and good-will to the King, and desire the eternal good and welfare of him and all his subjects.� �Did you ever hear the like?� said Middleton. �Nay,� said I. �Ye may hear it again if ye will. For ye talk of the King, a company of you, but where were ye in Oliver�s days, and what did ye do then for him? But I have more love to the King for his eternal good and welfare than any of you have.�
Then they asked me whether I had heard of the plot. I said, �Yes, I have heard of it.�
They asked me how I had heard of it, and whom I knew in it. I told them I had heard of it through the high-sheriff of Yorkshire, who had told Dr.
Hodgson that there was a plot in the north. That was the way I had heard of it; but I had never heard of any such thing in the south, nor till I came into the north. As for knowing any in the plot, I was as a child in that, for I knew none of them.
Then said they, �Why would you write against it if you did not know some that were in it?�
I said, �My reason was, because you are so forward to crush the innocent and guilty together; therefore I wrote against it to clear the Truth 177 and to stop all forward, foolish spirits from running into such things. I sent copies of it into Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, and to you here. I sent another copy of it to the King and his council, and it is likely it may be in print by this time.�
One of them said, �This man hath great power!�
I said, �Yes, I have power to write against plotters.�
Then said one of them, �You are against the laws of the land.�
I answered, �Nay, for I and my Friends direct all people to the Spirit of God in them, to mortify the deeds of the flesh. This brings them into welldoing, and away from that which the magistrate�s sword is against, which eases the magistrates, who are for the punishment of evil-doers. So people being turned to the Spirit of God, which brings them to mortify the deeds of the flesh; this brings them from under the occasion of the magistrate�s sword; and this must needs be one with magistracy, and one with the law, which was added because of transgression, and is for the praise of them that do well. In this we establish the law, are an ease to the magistrates, and are not against, but stand for all good government.�
Then George Middleton cried, �Bring the book, and put the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to him.�
Now he himself being a Papist, I asked him whether he, who was a swearer, had taken the oath of supremacy. As for us, we could not swear at all, because Christ and the Apostle had forbidden it.
Some of them would not have had the oath put to me, but would have set me at liberty. The rest would not agree to it, for this was their last snare, and they had no other way to get me into prison, as all other things had been cleared to them. This was like the Papists� sacrament of the altar, by which they ensnared the martyrs. So they tendered me the oath, which I could not take; whereupon they were about to make my mittimus to send me to Lancaster jail; but considering of it, they only engaged me to appear at the sessions, and for that time dismissed me.
I went back with Margaret Fell to Swarthmore, and soon after Colonel West, who was at that time a justice of the peace, came to see me. He told us that he had acquainted some of the rest of the justices that he would come and see Margaret Fell and me; �but it may be,� said he, �some of you will take offense at it.� I asked him, what he thought they would do with me at the sessions? He said they would tender the oath to me again.
Whilst I was at Swarthmore, William Kirby came into Swarthmore meeting, and brought the constables with him. I was sitting with Friends in the meeting, and he said to me, �How now, Mr. Fox! you have a fine company here.� �Yes,� said I, �we meet to wait upon the Lord.�
So he began to take the names of Friends, and those that did not readily tell him their names he committed to the constables� hands, and sent some to prison. The constables were unwilling to take them without a warrant, whereupon he threatened to set them by the heels; but the constable told him that he could keep them in his presence, but after he was gone he could not keep them without a warrant.
The sessions coming on, I went to Lancaster, and appeared according to my engagement. There was upon the bench Justice Fleming, who had bid five pounds in Westmoreland to any man that would apprehend me, for he was a justice both in Westmoreland and Lancashire. There were also Justice Spencer, Colonel West and old Justice Rawlinson, the lawyer, who gave the charge, and was very sharp against Truth and Friends; but the Lord�s power stopped them.
The session was large, the concourse of people great, and way being made for me, I came up to the bar, and stood with my hat on, they looking earnestly upon me and I upon them for a pretty space.
Proclamation being made for all to keep silence upon pain of imprisonment, and all being quiet, I said twice, �Peace be among you.�
The chairman asked if I knew where I was. I said, �Yes, I do; but it may be,� said I, �my hat offends you. That�s a low thing; that�s not the honor that I give to magistrates, for the true honor is from above; which,� said I. �I have received, and I hope it is not the hat which ye look upon to be the honor.�
The chairman said they looked for the hat, too, and asked wherein I showed my respect to magistrates if I did not put off my hat. I replied, �In coming when they called me.� Then they bade one take off my hat.
After this it was some time before they spoke to me, and I felt the power of the Lord to arise. After some pause old Justice Rawlinson, the chairman, asked me if I knew of the plot. I told him I had heard of it in Yorkshire by a Friend, who had it from the high-sheriff. They asked me whether I had declared it to the magistrates. I said, �I sent papers abroad against plots and plotters, and also to you, as soon as I came into the country, to take all jealousies out of your minds concerning me and my friends; for it is our principle to declare against such things.�
They asked me if I knew not of an Act against meeting. I said I knew there was an Act that took hold of such as met to the terrifying of the King�s subjects, were enemies to the King, and held dangerous principles; but I hoped they did not look upon us to be such men, for our meetings were not to terrify the King�s subjects, neither are we enemies to him or any man.
Then they tendered me the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. I told them I could not take any oath at all, because Christ and His Apostle had forbidden it; and they had sufficient experience of swearers, first one way, then another; but I had never taken any oath in my life.
Then Rawlinson asked me whether I held it was unlawful to swear. This question he put on purpose to ensnare me; for by an Act that was made those were liable to banishment or a great fine that should say it was unlawful to swear. But I, seeing the snare, avoided it, and told him that �in the time of the law amongst the Jews, before Christ came, the law commanded them to swear; but Christ, who doth fulfill the law in His gospel-time, commands not to swear at all; and the apostle James forbids swearing, even to them that were Jews, and had the law of God.�
After much discourse, they called for the jailer, and committed me to prison.
I had about me the paper which I had written as a testimony against plots, which I desired they would read, or suffer to be read, in open court; but they would not. So, being committed for refusing to swear, I bade them and all the people take notice that I suffered for the doctrine of Christ, and for my obedience to His command.
Afterwards I understood that the justices said they had private instructions from Colonel Kirby to prosecute me, notwithstanding his fair carriage and seeming kindness to me before, when he declared before many of them that he had nothing against me.
Several other Friends were committed to prison, some for meeting to worship God, and some for not swearing; so that the prison was very full.
Many of them being poor men, that had nothing to maintain their families by but their labor, which now they were taken from, the wives of several went to the justices who had committed their husbands, and told them that if they kept their husbands in jail for nothing but the truth of Christ, and for good conscience� sake, they would bring their children to them to be maintained.
A mighty power of the Lord rose in Friends, and gave them great boldness, so that they spoke much to the justices. Friends also that were prisoners wrote to the justices, laying the weight of their sufferings upon them, and showing them both their injustice and want of compassion towards their poor neighbors, whom they knew to be honest, conscientious, peaceable people, that in tenderness of conscience could not take any oath; yet they sent them to prison for refusing to take the oath of allegiance.
Several who were imprisoned on that account were known to be men that had served the King in his wars, and had hazarded their lives in the field in his cause, and had suffered great hardships, with the loss of much blood, for him, and had always stood faithful to him from first to last, and had never received any pay for their service. To be thus requited for all their faithful services and sufferings, and that by them that pretended to be the King�s friends, was hard, unkind, and ungrateful dealing.
At length the justices, being continually attended with complaints of grievances, released some of the Friends, but kept diverse of them still in prison.
I was kept till the assize, and Judge Turner and Judge Twisden coming that circuit, I was brought before Judge Twisden, the 14th of the month called March, the latter end of the year 1663.
When I was brought to the bar, I said, �Peace be amongst you all.� The Judge looked upon me, and said, �What! do you come into the court with your hat on!� Upon which words, the jailer taking it off, I said, �The hat is not the honor that comes from God.�
Then said the Judge to me, �Will you take the oath of allegiance, George Fox?� I said, �I never took any oath in my life, nor any covenant or engagement.� �Well,� said he, �will you swear or no?� I answered, �I am a Christian, and Christ commands me not to swear; so does the apostle James; and whether I should obey God or man, do thou judge.� �I ask you again,� said he, �whether you will swear or no.� I answered again, �I am neither Turk, Jew, nor heathen, but a Christian, and should show forth Christianity.�
I asked him if he did not know that Christians in the primitive times, under the ten persecutions, and some also of the martyrs in Queen Mary�s days, refused swearing, because Christ and the apostle had forbidden it. I told him also that they had had experience enough, how many had first sworn for the King and then against him. �But as for me,� I said, �I have never taken an oath in my life. My allegiance doth not lie in swearing, but in truth and faithfulness, for I honor all men, much more the King. But Christ, who is the Great Prophet, the King of kings, the Savior and Judge of the whole world, saith I must not swear. Now, must I obey Christ or thee? For it is because of tenderness of conscience, and in obedience to the command of Christ, that I do not swear and we have the word of a King for tender consciences.�
Then I asked the Judge if he did own the King. �Yes,� said he, �I do own the King.� �Why, then,� said I, �dost thou not observe his declaration from Breda, and his promises made since he came into England, that no man should be called in question for matters of religion so long as he lived peaceably? If thou ownest the King,� said I, �why dost thou call me in question, and put me upon taking an oath, which is a matter of religion; seeing that neither thou nor any one else can charge me with unpeaceable living?�
Upon this he was moved, and, looking angrily at me, said, �Sirrah, will you swear?�
I told him I was none of his Sirrahs; I was a Christian; and for him, an old man and a judge, to sit there and give nicknames to prisoners did not become either his grey hairs or his office. �Well,� said he, �I am a Christian, too.� �Then do Christian works,� said I. �Sirrah!� said he, �thou thinkest to frighten me with thy words.� Then, catching himself, and looking aside, he said, �Hark! I am using the word sirrah again;� and so checked himself.
I said, �I spoke to thee in love; for that language did not become thee, a judge. Thou oughtest to instruct a prisoner in the law, if he were ignorant and out of the way.� �And I speak in love to thee, too,� said he. �But,� said I, �love gives no nicknames.�
Then he roused himself up, and said, �I will not be afraid of thee, George Fox; thou speakest so loud thy voice drowns mine and the court�s; I must call for three or four criers to drown thy voice; thou hast good lungs.� �I am a prisoner here,� said I, �for the Lord Jesus Christ�s sake; for His sake do I suffer; for Him do I stand this day. If my voice were five times louder, I should lift it up and sound it for Christ�s sake. I stand this day before your judgment-seat in obedience to Christ, who commands not to swear; before whose judgment-seat you must all be brought and must give an account.� �Well,� said the Judge, �George Fox, say whether thou wilt take the oath, yea or nay?�
I replied, �I say, as I said before, judge thou whether I ought to obey God or man. If I could take any oath at all I should take this. I do not deny some oaths only, or on some occasions, but all oaths, according to Christ�s doctrine, who hath commanded His followers not to swear at all. Now if thou, or any of you, or your ministers or priests here, will prove that ever Christ or His apostles, after they had forbidden all swearing, commanded Christians to swear, then I will swear.�
I saw several priests there, but not one of them offered to speak. �Then,� said the Judge, �I am a servant to the King, and the King sent me not to dispute with you, but to put the laws in execution; therefore tender him the oath of allegiance.� �If thou love the King,� said I, �why dost thou break his word, and not keep his declarations and speeches, wherein he promised liberty to tender consciences? I am a man of a tender conscience, and, in obedience to Christ�s command, I cannot swear.� �Then you will not swear,� said the Judge; �take him away, jailer.�
I said, �It is for Christ�s sake that I cannot swear, and for obedience to His command I suffer; and so the Lord forgive you all.�
So the jailer took me away; but I felt that the mighty power of the Lord was over them all.
The sixteenth day of the same month I was again brought before Judge Twisden. He was somewhat offended at my hat; but it being the last morning of the assize before he was to leave town, and not many people there, he made the less of it.
He asked me whether I would �traverse, stand mute, or submit.� But he spoke so fast that it was hard to know what he said. However, I told him I desired I might have liberty to traverse the indictment, and try it.
Then said he, �Take him away; I will have nothing to do with him; take him away.�
I said, �Well, live in the fear of God, and do justice.� �Why,� said he, �have I not done you justice?�
I replied, �That which thou hast done has been against the command of Christ.�
So I was taken to the jail again, and kept prisoner till the next assizes.
Some time before this assize Margaret Fell was sent prisoner to Lancaster jail by Fleming, Kirby, and Preston, justices; and at the assize the oath was tendered to her also, and she was again committed to prison.
In the Sixth month, 179 the assizes were again held at Lancaster, and the same judges, Twisden and Turner, again came that circuit. But Judge Turner then sat on the crown bench, and so I was brought before him.
Before I was called to the bar I was put among the murderers and felons for about two hours, the people, the justices and also the Judge gazing upon me.
After they had tried several others, they called me to the bar, and empanelled a jury. Then the Judge asked the justices whether they had tendered me the oath at the sessions. They said that they had. Then he said, �Give them the book, that they may swear they tendered him the oath at the sessions.� They said they had. Then he said, �Give them the book, that they may swear they tendered him the oath according to the indictment.�
Some of the justices refused to be sworn; but the Judge said he would have it done, to take away all occasion of exception. When the jury were sworn, and the justices had scorn that they had tendered me the oath according to the indictment, the Judge asked me whether I had not refused the oath at the last assizes. I said, �I never took an oath in my life, and Christ the Savior and Judge of the world, said, �Swear not at all.�� The Judge seemed not to take notice of my answer, but asked me whether or not I had refused to take the oath at the last assizes.
I said, �The words that I then spoke to them were, that if they could prove, either judge, justices, priest, or teacher, that after Christ and the Apostle had forbidden swearing, they commanded that Christians should swear, I would swear.�
The Judge said he was not at that time to dispute whether it was lawful to swear, but to inquire whether I had refused to take the oath.
I told him, �Those things mentioned in the oath, as plotting against the King, and owning the Pope�s, or any other foreign power, I utterly deny.� �Well?� said he, �you say well in that, but did you refuse to take the oath?
What say you?� �What wouldst thou have me to say?� said I; �I have told thee before what I did say.�
Then he asked me if I would have these men to swear that I had taken the oath. I asked him if he would have those men to swear that I had refused the oath, at which the court burst into laughter.
I was grieved to see so much lightness in a court, where such solemn matters are handled, and thereupon asked them, �Is this court a playhouse?
Where is gravity and sobriety,� said I; �this behavior doth not become you.�
Then the clerk read the indictment, and I told the Judge I had something to speak to it; for I had informed myself of the errors that were in it. He told me he would hear afterwards any reasons that I could allege why he should not give judgment.
Then I spoke to the jury, and told them that they could not bring me in guilty according to that indictment, for the indictment was wrong laid, and had many gross errors in it.
The Judge said that I must not speak to the jury, but he would speak to them; and he told them I had refused to take the oath at the last assizes; �and,� said he, �I can tender the oath to any man now, and praemunire him for not taking it;� and he said they must bring me in guilty, seeing I refused to take the oath.
Then said I, �What do ye do with a form? Ye may throw away your form then.� And I told the jury it lay upon their consciences, as they would answer it to the Lord God before His judgment-seat.
Then the judge spoke again to the jury, and I called to him to �do me justice.�
The jury brought me in guilty. Thereupon I told them that both the justices and they had forsworn themselves, and therefore they had small cause to laugh, as they did a little before.
Oh, the envy, rage, and malice that appeared against me, and the lightness!
But the Lord confounded them, and they were wonderfully stopped. So they set me aside, and called up Margaret Dell, who had much good service among them; and then the court broke up near the second hour.
In the afternoon we were brought in again to have sentence passed upon us. Margaret Fell desired that sentence might be deferred until the next morning. I desired nothing but law and justice at his hands, for the thieves had mercy; only I requested the Judge to send some to see my prison, which was so bad they would put no creature they had in it; and I told him that Colonel Kirby, who was then on the bench, had said I should be locked up, and no flesh alive should come to me. The Judge shook his head and said that when the sentence was given he would leave me to the favor of the jailer.
Most of the gentry of the country were gathered together, expecting to hear the sentence; and the noise amongst the people was that I should be transported. But they were all crossed at that time, for the sentence was deferred until the next morning, and I was taken to prison again.
Upon my complaining of the badness of my prison, some of the justices, with Colonel Kirby, went up to see it. When they came they hardly durst go in, the floor was so bad and dangerous, and the place so open to wind and rain. Some that came up said, �Surely it is a Jakes-house.� When Colonel Kirby saw it, and heard what others said of it, he excused the matter as well as he could, saying that I should be removed ere long to some more convenient place.
Next day, towards the eleventh hour, we were called again to hear the sentence; and Margaret Fell, being called first to the bar, she had counsel to plead, who found many errors in her indictment. Thereupon, after the Judge had acknowledged them, she was set by.
Then the Judge asked what they could say to mine. I was not willing to let any man plead for me, but desired to speak to it myself; and indeed, though Margaret had some that pleaded for her, yet she spoke as much herself as she would. But before I came to the bar I was moved in my spirit to pray that God would confound their wickedness and envy, set His truth over all, and exalt His seed. The Lord heard, and answered, and did confound them in their proceedings against me. And, though they had most envy against me, yet the most gross errors were found in my indictment.
I having put by others from pleading for me, the Judge asked me what I had to say why he should not pass sentence upon me. I told him I was no lawyer; but I had much to say, if he would but have patience to hear. At that he laughed, and others laughed also, and said, �Come, what have you to say? He can say nothing.� �Yes,� said I, �I have much to say; have but the patience to hear me.�
I asked him whether the oath was to be tendered to the King�s subjects, or to the subjects of foreign princes. He said, �To the subjects of this realm.� �Then,� said I, �look into the indictment; ye may see that ye have left out the word �subject�; so not having named me in the indictment as a subject, ye cannot praemunire me for not taking an oath.�
Then they looked over the statute and the indictment, and saw it was as I said; and the Judge confessed it was an error.
I told him I had something else to stop his judgment, and desired him to look what day the indictment said the oath was tendered to me at the sessions there. They looked, and said it was the eleventh day of January. �What day of the week was the sessions held on?� said I. �On a Tuesday,� said they. �Then,� said I, �look in your almanacs, and see whether there was any sessions held at Lancaster on the eleventh day of January, so called.�
So they looked, and found that the eleventh day was the day called Monday, and that the sessions was on the day called Tuesday, which was the twelfth day of that month. �Look now,� said I, �ye have indicted me for refusing the oath in the quarter-sessions held at Lancaster on the eleventh day of January last, and the justices have sworn that they tendered me the oath in open sessions here that day, and the jury upon their oaths have found me guilty thereupon; and yet ye see there was no session held in Lancaster that day.�
Then the Judge, to cover the matter, asked whether the sessions did not begin on the eleventh day. But some in the court answered, �No; the session held but one day, and that was the twelfth.� Then the Judge said this was a great mistake and an error.
Some of the justices were in a great rage at this, stamped, and said, �Who hath done this? Somebody hath done this on purpose;� and a great heat was amongst them.
Then said I, �Are not the justices here, that have sworn to this indictment, forsworn men in the face of the country? But this is not all,� said I. �I have more yet to offer why sentence should not be given against me.� I asked, �In what year of the King was the last assize here holden, which was in the month called March last?� The Judge said it was in the sixteenth year of the King. �But,� said I, �the indictment says it was in the fifteenth year.� They looked, and found it so. This also was acknowledged to be another error.
Then they were all in a fret again, and could not tell what to say; for the Judge had sworn the officers of the court that the oath was tendered to me at the assize mentioned in the indictment. �Now,� said I, �is not the court here forsworn also, who have sworn that the oath was tendered to me at the assize holden here in the fifteenth year of the King, when it was in his sixteenth year, and so they have sworn a year false?�
The Judge bade them look whether Margaret Fell�s indictment was so or no. They looked, and found it was not so.
I told the Judge I had more yet to offer to stop sentence; and asked him whether all the oath ought to be put into the indictment or no. �Yes,� said he, �it ought to be all put in.� �Then,� said I, �compare the indictment with the oath, and there thou mayest see these words: viz., �or by any authority derived, or pretended to be derived from him or his see,� which is a principal part of the oath, left out of the indictment; and in another place the words, �heirs and successors,� are left out.�
The Judge acknowledged these also to be great errors. �But,� said I, �I have something further to allege.� �Nay,� said the Judge, �I have enough; you need say no more.� �If,� said I, �thou hast enough, I desire nothing but law and justice at thy hands; for I don�t look for mercy.� �You must have justice,� said he, �and you shall have law.�
Then I asked, �Am I at liberty, and free from all that ever hath been done against me in this matter?� �Yes,� said the Judge, �you are free from all that hath been done against you. But then,� starting up in a rage, he said, �I can put the oath to any man here, and I will tender you the oath again.�
I told him he had had examples enough yesterday of swearing and false swearing, both in the justices and in the jury; for I saw before mine eyes that both justices and jury had forsworn themselves.
The Judge asked me if I would take the oath. I bade him do me justice for my false imprisonment all this while; for what had I been imprisoned so long for? and I told him I ought to be set at liberty. �You are at liberty,� said he, �but I will put the oath to you again.�
Then I turned me about and said, �All people, take notice; this is a snare; for I ought to be set free from the jailer and from this court.�
But the Judge cried, �Give him the book;� and the sheriff and the justices cried, �Give him the book.�
Then the power of darkness rose up in them like a mountain, and a clerk lifted up a book to me. I stood still and said, �If it be a Bible, give it me into my hand.� �Yes, yes,� said the Judge and justices, �give it him into his hand.� So I took it and looked into it, and said, �I see it is a Bible; I am glad of it.�
Now he had caused the jury to be called, and they stood by; for, after they had brought in their former verdict, he would not dismiss them, though they desired it; but told them he could not dismiss them yet, for he should have business for them, and therefore they must attend and be ready when they were called.
When he said so I felt his intent, that if I were freed, he would come on again. So I looked him in the face, and the witness of God started up in him, and made him blush when he looked at me again, for he saw that I saw him.
Nevertheless, hardening himself, he caused the oath to be read to me, the jury standing by; and when it was read, he asked me whether I would take the oath or not.
Then said I, �Ye have given me a book here to kiss and to swear on, and this book which ye have given me to kiss says, �Kiss the Son�; and the Son says in this book, �Swear not at all�; and so says also the apostle James.
Now, I say as the book says, and yet ye imprison me; why do ye not imprison the book for saying so? How comes it that the book (which bids me not swear) is at liberty amongst you, and yet ye imprison me for doing as the book bids me?�
As I was speaking this to them, and held up the Bible open in my hand, to show them the place in the book where Christ forbids swearing, they plucked the book out of my hand again; and the Judge said, �Nay, but we will imprison George Fox.� Yet this got abroad over all the country as a by-word, that �they gave me a book to swear on that commanded me �not to swear at all�; and that the Bible was at liberty, and I in prison for doing as the Bible said.�
Now, when the Judge still urged me to swear, I told him I had never taken oath, covenant, or engagement in my life, but my yea or nay was more binding to me than an oath was to many others; for had they not had experience how little men regarded an oath; and how they had sworn one way and then another; and how the justices and court had forsworn themselves now? I told him I was a man of a tender conscience, and if they had any sense of a tender conscience they would consider that it was in obedience to Christ�s command that I could not swear. �But,� said I, �if any of you can convince me that after Christ and the apostle had commanded not to swear, they altered that command and commanded Christians to swear, then ye shall see I will swear.�
There being many priests by, I said, �If ye cannot do it, let your priests stand up and do it.� But not one of the priests made any answer. �Oh,� said the Judge, �all the world cannot convince you.� �No,� said I, �how is it likely the world should convince me; for �the whole world lies in wickedness�; but bring out your spiritual men, as ye call them, to convince me.�
Then both the sheriff and the Judge said, �The angel swore in the Revelations.� I replied, �When God bringeth His first-begotten Son into the world, He saith, �Let all the angels of God worship Him�; and He saith, �Swear not at all.�� �Nay,� said the Judge, �I will not dispute.�
Then I spoke to the jury, telling them it was for Christ�s sake that I could not swear, and therefore I warned them not to act contrary to the witness of God in their consciences, for before His judgment-seat they must all be brought. And I told them that as for plots and persecution for religion and Popery, I do deny them in my heart; for I am a Christian, and shall show forth Christianity amongst you this day. It is for Christ�s doctrine I stand.� More words I had both with the Judge and jury before the jailer took me away.
In the afternoon I was brought up again, and put among the thieves some time, where I stood with my hat on till the jailer took it off. Then the jury having found this new indictment against me for not taking the oath, I was called to the bar; and the Judge asked me what I would say for myself. I bade them read the indictment, for I would not answer to that which I did not hear. The clerk read it, and as he read the Judge said �Take heed it be not false again�; but he read it in such a manner that I could hardly understand what he read.
When he had done the Judge asked me what I said to the indictment. I told him that hearing but once so large a writing read, and at such a distance that I could not distinctly hear all the parts of it, I could not well tell what to say to it; but if he would let me have a copy, and give me time to consider it, I would answer it.
This put them to; a little stand; but after a while the Judge asked me, �What time would you have?�
I said, �Until the next assize.� �But,� said he, �what plea will You now make? Are you guilty or not guilty?�
I said, �I am not guilty at all of obstinately and wilfully refusing to swear; and as for those things mentioned in the oath, as jesuitical plots and foreign powers, I utterly deny them in my heart; and if I could take any oath, I should take that; but I never took any oath in my life.�
The Judge said, �You speak well; but the King is sworn, the Parliament is sworn, I am sworn, the justices are sworn, and the law is preserved by oaths.�
I told him that they had had sufficient experience of men�s swearing, and he had seen how the justices and jury had sworn falsely the other day; and if he had read in the �Book of Martyrs� how many of the martyrs had refused to swear, both within the time of the ten persecutions and in Bishop Bonner�s days, he might see that to deny swearing in obedience to Christ�s command was no new thing.
He said he wished the laws were otherwise.
I said, �Our Yea is yea, and our Nay is nay; and if we transgress our yea and our nay, let us suffer as they do, or should do, that swear falsely.�
This, I told him, we had offered to the King; and the King said it was reasonable.
After some further discourse they committed me to prison again, there to lie until the next assize; and colonel Kirby gave order to the jailer to keep me close, �and suffer no flesh alive to come at me,� for I was not fit, he said, �to be discoursed with by men.� I was put into a tower where the smoke of the other prisoners came up so thick it stood as dew upon the walls, and sometimes it was so thick that I could hardly see the candle when it burned; and I being locked under three locks, the under-jailer, when the smoke was great, would hardly be persuaded to come up to unlock one of the uppermost doors for fear of the smoke, so that I was almost smothered.
Besides, it rained in upon my bed, and many times, when I went to stop out the rain in the cold winter-season, my shirt was as wet as muck with the rain that came in upon me while I was laboring to stop it out. And the place being high and open to the wind, sometimes as fast as I stopped it the wind blew it out again.
In this manner I lay all that long, cold winter till the next assize, in which time I was so starved, and so frozen with cold and wet with the rain that my body was greatly swelled and my limbs much benumbed.
The assize began the sixteenth of the month called March, 1664-5. The same Judges, Twisden and Turner, coming that circuit again, Judge Twisden sat this time on the crown-bench, and before him I was brought.
I had informed myself of the errors in this indictment also; for, though at the assize before Judge Turner said to the officers in court, �Pray, see that all the oath be in the indictment, and that the word �subject� be in, and that the day of the month and year of the King be put in right; for it is a shame that so many errors should be seen and found in the face of the country;� yet many errors, and those great ones, were in this indictment, as well as in the former. Surely the hand of the Lord was in it, to confound their mischievous work against me, and to blind them therein; insomuch that, although, after the indictment was drawn at the former assize, the Judge examined it himself, and tried it with the clerks, yet the word �subject� was left out of this indictment also, the day of the month was put in wrong, and several material words of the oath were left out; yet they went on confidently against me, thinking all was safe and well.
When I was brought to the bar, and the jury called over to be sworn, the clerk asked me, first, whether I had any objection to make to any of the jury. I told him I knew none of them. Then, having sworn the jury, they swore three of the officers of the court to prove that the oath was tendered to me at the last assizes, according to the indictment. �Come, come,� said the Judge, �it was not done in a corner.� Then he asked me what I had to say to it; or whether I had taken the oath at the last assize.
I told him what I had formerly said to them, as it now came to my remembrance.
Thereupon the Judge said, �I will not dispute with you but in point of law.� �Then,� said I, �I have something to speak to the jury concerning the indictment.�
He told me I must not speak to the jury; but if I had anything to say, I must speak to him.
I asked him whether the oath was to be tendered to the King�s subjects only, or to the subjects of foreign princes.
He replied, �To the subjects of this realm.� �Then,� said I, �look in the indictment, and thou mayest see the word �subject� is left out of this indictment also. Therefore, seeing the oath is not to be tendered to any but the subjects of this realm, and ye have not put me in as a subject, the court is to take no notice of this indictment.�
I had no sooner spoken thus than the Judge cried, �Take him away, jailer, take him away.� So I was presently hurried away.
The jailer and people expected that I should be called for again; but I was never brought to the court any more, though I had many other great errors to assign in the indictment.
After I was gone, the Judge asked the jury if they were agreed. They said, �Yes,� and found for the King against me, as I was told. But I was never called to hear sentence given, nor was any given against me that I could hear of.
I understood that when they had looked more narrowly into the indictment they saw it was not good; and the Judge having sworn the officers of the court that the oath was tendered me at the assize before, such a day, as was set forth in the indictment, and that being the wrong day, I should have proved the officers of the court forsworn men again, had the Judge suffered me to plead to the indictment, which was thought to be the reason he hurried me away so soon.
The Judge had passed sentence of praemunire upon Margaret Fell before I was brought in; and it seems that when I was hurried away they recorded me as a praemunired person, 180 though I was never brought to hear the sentence, or knew of it, which was very illegal. For they should not only have had me present to hear the sentence given, but should also have asked me first what I could say why sentence should not be given against me.
But they knew I had so much to say that they could not give sentence if they heard it.
While I was prisoner in Lancaster Castle there was a great noise and talk of the Turk�s overspreading Christendom, and great fears entered many. But one day, as I was walking in my prison chamber, I saw the Lord�s power turn against him, and that he was turning back again. And I declared to some what the Lord had let me see, when there were such fears of his overrunning Christendom; and within a month after, the news came that they had given him a defeat.
Another time, as I was walking in my chamber, with my eye to the Lord, I saw the angel of the Lord with a glittering drawn sword stretched southward, as though the court had been all on fire. Not long after the wars broke out with Holland, the sickness broke forth, and afterwards the fire of London; so the Lord�s sword was drawn indeed.
By reason of my long and close imprisonment in so bad a place I was become very weak in body; but the Lord�s power was over all, supported me through all, and enabled me to do service for Him, and for His truth and people, as the place would admit. For, while I was in Lancaster prison, I answered several books, as the Mass, the Common-Prayer, the Directory and the Church-Faith, 181 which are the four chief religions that are got up since the apostles� days.
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Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben / IVGI&GREBEN
Already during their individual dance careers with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and the Dutch National Ballet, the Israeli Uri Ivgi and the Dutch Johan Greben each started a successful career as choreographer. After his first piece ‘Isch-Ischa’ Ivgi was repeatedly invited to create for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Israel. In 1998 he received the Award for Upcoming Choreographic Talent from the Ministry of Culture in Israel. In 2001/02 Ivgi won the Public Award with his duet ‘Longing’ during the International Competition for Choreographers in Groningen, The Netherlands and the second prize during the Choreographers Competition in Hannover in Germany. Greben received both the Encouragement Prize Choreography from the Amsterdam Foundation for Arts as well as the Wim Barry Perspective Award for his first piece ‘Straks’ for the Dutch National Ballet. In 1996 he won the third prize with his duet ‘610’ during the Choreographers Competition in Gelsenkirchen, DE.
The first collaboration of Ivgi & Greben took place in 2003 with a new version of ‘Carmen’ for the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company in Hungary. ‘Carmen’ was received with great success on several international festivals. Since 2003 they created for Ballett am Rhein, DE; Dansgroep Amsterdam, Introdans, Scapino Ballet NL; It dansa, ES; Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, SKR; Modern Dance Turkey, TR; National Theatre Ballet, Prague Chamber Ballet, CZ; Provincial Dances Theatre, RU; Phoenix Dance Theatre, Scottish Dance Theatre, Scottish Ballet, GB; Skânes Dansteater, Norrdans SE; Ballet Junior de Geneva, Tanzkompanie Theater St. Gallen, Tanzcomagnie Konzert Theater Bern, CH.
In 2011, Ivgi & Greben won The Golden Mask Award in Moscow in the category Best Choreographer-Ballet/Contemporary Dance. They received this most prestigious Russian Theatre Prize for ‘This Is Not A Love Song’, which they created for the Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg.
In 2014 and 2015 Ivgi & Greben worked as artistic leaders of the Rozbark Dance and Movement Theatre in Poland. The recreation of their successful production ‘This Is Not A Love Song’ was nominated as best production of the year. To develop audiences for contemporary dance in Poland, they created ‘I Give You My Heart’, a production presented in public spaces, in -and outdoors. They also initiated the festival, Rozbark in Motion combined with a training program for dancers and choreographers. Ivgi & Greben presented the company in Germany, France and The Netherlands.
In 2018 Ivgi & Greben produced the full-evening production We Are In Trouble in The Netherlands with a very successful premiere in the European Capital of Europe Leeuwarden 2018. In 2019 they will be producing their second independent work ‘The Dreamers’ with a planned premier in September 2019.
Ivgi & Greben present their ideas and thoughts through an imaginative body vocabulary combined with poetic images that build and break, and touch and confront. They consider their work to be a mirror for their audience as well as themselves and so invite the audience to search for a personal reflection of reality. Using themes such as oppression, tension between individuals and groups, longing for freedom and love, and sexuality and acceptance, Ivgi & Greben create a visual world blending movement, music, light and costumes into an aesthetic of their own. By breaking boundaries and using intense physicality, their choreography achieves a tapestry representing control, power, strength and endurance interwoven with moments of softness, intimacy and tenderness.
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Ka`u Calendar News Briefs Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Lava flows that broke out from the flanks of Pu`u O`o on Monday had not extended beyond the existing flow field
as of yesterday morning. Photo from Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
TWO LAVA FLOWS BROKE OUT from the flanks of Pu`u `O`o yesterday at around 6:50 a.m., in concert with sharp deflationary tilt, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported. One is on the northeast flank, approximately 0.15 mile from the rim of the cone, heading toward the northwest. The other flow is on the east flank of the cone, approximately 0.3 mile from the rim of the cone, heading toward the southeast. At around 8:30 a.m., during an HVO overflight, the vigorous, channelized flow on the northeast flank was roughly 0.6 mile long, and the flow on the east flank was around 0.4 mile long. This second breakout was smaller than the one on the northeast flank, but was still feeding an impressive lava channel. Neither had extended beyond the existing flow field.
Two lava flows at Pu`u O`o are heading in opposite directions.
Map from HVO
Typical of new breakouts, initial flow activity has been vigorous, but neither flow is currently threatening any nearby communities, according to HVO. The floor of Pu`u `O`o crater has subsided slightly with the new flow activity. Persistent glow from spatter cones within the crater continues. No change in seismic activity has been noted and remains low and steady.
The current activity does not pose an immediate threat to nearby communities. However, a glow may be seen at night.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Hawai‘i County Civil Defense are monitoring the lava flow breakout closely. Residents and businesses downslope will be kept informed of its progress and any changes. Smoke conditions are currently very light with light variable winds.
Additional updates will be broadcast as conditions change.
Find more information at hvo.wr.usgs.gov.
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THE LAVA LAKE WITHIN HALEMA`UMA`U Overlook crater remains active, with the lake level measured at around 75 feet below Halema`uma`u crater floor yesterday, high enough to view intermittent spattering from the Jaggar Museum overlook. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported that tremor fluctuations associated with lava lake spattering continue. Data from GPS networks and interferometric satellite radar show continued long-term inflation of the summit and upper Southwest Rift Zone magma reservoirs.
Moi season is closed from June through August.
NPS photo by Bryan Harry
A FISH WITH A LOT OF “FINGERS” will be hands-off starting June 1. The season for moi, or Pacific threadfin, will be closed from June through August in Hawai`i waters.
Moi is the only fish in Hawai`i belonging to the genus Polydactylus, which is Greek for “many fingers.” The “fingers” are actually six filaments extending from the base of each pectoral fin. It is also one of the relatively few Hawaiian fishes to undergo sex reversal, changing from male to female by the time it reaches about 10 inches in length.
“Moi is one of Hawai`i’s most significant fish species from a cultural perspective,” said Suzanne Case, chair of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. “In ancient times, it was reserved only for chiefs; commoners were forbidden to eat it. But if moi suddenly appeared in large numbers, chiefs considered it an omen of disaster.
“Today, we still value it as one of our most sought-after reef fishes. The closed season helps sustain moi populations by protecting them during their critical summer spawning period. We ask for the fishing public’s kokua in complying with the closed season and protecting our ocean resources.”
Early Hawaiians also placed a kapu or prohibition on certain fish during their spawning season as a conservation measure.
During the open season – September through May – the minimum size for moi is 11 inches, and the bag limit for possession and/or sale is 15. However, a commercial marine dealer may possess and sell more than 15 moi during the open season with receipts issued for the purchase.
Copies of Hawai`i’s fishing regulations are available at DLNR’s Aquatic Resources offices, most fishing supply stores, and online at http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dar/fishing/fishing-regulations/.
To report fishing violations, call 643-DLNR (3567).
Capt. Samuel Jelsma
HAWAI`I ISLAND POLICE REMIND motorists that right turns are to be made from the roadway and not from the right shoulder.
Puna District Captain Samuel Jelsma said some motorists wrongly believe it is safer to travel onto the right shoulder before turning, to allow traffic to pass on the left. That practice, Jelsma said, presents several hazards: reduced visibility of what is around the corner, reduced visibility for other vehicles attempting to enter the highway from an intersection, the potential for a vehicle properly traveling in the traffic lane to execute a right turn and collide with the vehicle traveling on the shoulder, and increased risk of collisions with pedestrians and bicyclists.
Jelsma noted that Hawai`i Revised Statues 291C-81, which applies to turning, says, “Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.” Jelsma clarified that the “edge of the roadway” means the solid white line.
THE PAUAHI FOUNDATION has extended the deadline from May 15 to June 15 for Hawai`i Island students of Hawaiian ancestry between the ages of 13 and 17 to apply for full scholarships to Science Camps of America. Science Camps are ten-day overnight experiences that start June 29.
In support of its mission to support the educational needs of people of Hawaiian descent, and through funds provided by the TMT International Observatory, the Pauahi Foundation will sponsor twelve students to attend Science Camp in 2016 – six for Land & Sea camp and six for Air & Space camp.
Scholarships for Science Camps of America are available
through the Pauahi Foundation.
“We at the Foundation are so proud to be able to offer this funding in support of STEM programs on Hawai`i Island,” said Mavis Shiraishi-Nagao, Scholarship Services Manager for Pauahi Foundation.
At Science Camp, students go outside to learn about the volcanoes, mountains, ocean, forests, plants and animals of Hawai`i. “Science Camp is a unique experience for teens to learn and do science while having fun. Each day, we head out on field trips from our base camp in Ka`u to science destinations across Hawai`i Island, where we explore new environments, help collect scientific data for research, meet working scientists, and experience and study Hawai`i’s unique natural environment.” said founder and Executive Director Michael Richards. “We are very excited by this opportunity that Pauahi Foundation is providing to Native Hawaiian students interested in science. We are proud to be part of the greater effort to encourage young people in Hawai`i to embark on science careers that will help them have a long-term positive impact on our local environment.”
Interested students can learn more at http://ScienceCampsAmerica.com. Additional information and application forms for the scholarships offered by Pauahi Foundation may be found at http://www.pauahi.org/science-camps-of-america/.
Ocean View Community Center is raising funds for a new roof.
DONATIONS FOR DOLLARAMA can be dropped off at Ocean View Community Center through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. At the event on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., everything is $1 or less, including food and beverages. Funds raised go toward a new roof for the facility.
LEGAL AID IS AVAILABLE tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ocean View Community Center.
KEIKI LEARN TO SWIM at Pahala Pool this summer. Sessions begin on June 6 and continue through July 29. Fee is $15 for each two-week session.
Registration takes place on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and 3. For more information, call Rina Martineau at 928-8177.
See kaucalendar.com/TheDirectory2016.html
and kaucalendar.com/TheDirectory2016.pdf.
See kaucalendar.com/KauCalendar_May2016.pdf.
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Edge of Extinction Finale LF
We have reached the completion of our journey once again. Today, we gather one last time to share our final impressions and thoughts on season 38, Survivor Edge of Extinction. The Finale Feedback is clear, the theme for this season actively undermined the final result for many of us. In spite of that, we once again had...
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One castaway, surviving against all odds. Some like it, others, not so much. The thing that stands out in the responses this week is that the editors have given us a story for one castaway. The rest are unclear, but in spite of all that, we are all excited to see how it ends!
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"I'm a train, choo choo!" There's a train leaving this episode and headed to the Survivor finale, and the engineer just padded out their resume quite nicely. We love when a castaway throws their game into high gear to beat the odds. Every now and again we get that rare player that seems to draw energy from the...
It is an iconic Survivor moment, but the consensus here is clear. You don't win the family visit. It's just not worth it, especially if you have a decent social game. The stakes are simply too high. This next week appears to be packed with action with a Reward Challenge, a Return from Edge of Extinction Challenge,...
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JORDAN KING ALL SET FOR F1 TEST WITH MANOR RACING IN BARCELONA
British GP2 driver Jordan King will get his first taste of this season’s Manor Racing F1 car tomorrow at Spain’s Circuit de Catalunya.
Jordan drove last year’s Manor MR03B at the Pirelli test in Abu Dhabi in December but tomorrow marks the young driver’s first chance to get to grips with this year’s MRT05.
Hot on the heels of finishing third in Sunday’s GP2 sprint race in Barcelona, with Racing Engineering, the 22-year-old is excited to feel first-hand what improvements Manor Racing has made with the new car and gain further F1 development experience.
“It’s always thrilling and rewarding to step into a Formula One car,” said Jordan. “I’m very grateful to Manor Racing for affording me the opportunity to drive their car and assist in its development as it’s vital experience at this stage of my career. My duties with Manor run parallel with my GP2 campaign and this is an important and busy season, one which kicked off in earnest last weekend with my first race of the year.
“Every lap you drive in any racing car, but particularly a Formula One car, you are learning more and the learning curve in an F1 car is steep, so tomorrow is a terrific opportunity to show my speed and garner as much information as I can. Last year’s Abu Dhabi test was very positive and I’ll be fascinated to feel the improvement between that car and this year’s. It’ll be another important milestone in my career and I hope to get as much mileage as possible and deliver helpful data to the team.”
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Year 2004 - Volume 30 - Number 1 (January/February)
1 - Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Carlos Alberto de Castro Pereira
J Bras Pneumol.2004;30(1):1
PDF PT
2 - O JP de cara nova
Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho
3 - Long-term survival in lung cancer after surgical treatment: is gender a prognostic factor?
Sobrevida de longo prazo em carcinoma brônquico após tratamento cirúrgico: sexo é fator prognóstico?
Carolina Mariante de Abreu, José Miguel Chatkin, Carlos Cezar Fritscher, Mário Bernardes Wagner, José A. L. Figueiredo Pinto
J Bras Pneumol.2004;30(1):2-8
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BACKGROUND: In agreement with other reported studies, wehad previously found a possible association between gender and prognosis in stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), showing a higher survival rate among females. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to further clarify the role of gender as a possible prognostic factor in NSCLC. METHOD: In a retrospective cohort study, we examined the survival of 163 NSCLC patients who underwent curative surgical treatment at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Hospital between 1990 and 1997. Data was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier plots. Additionally, we used the Mann-Whitney test for comparing group survival rates and the Cox regression model to adjust for potential confounding factors. RESULTS: Were included 124 (76.07%) males and 39 (23.93%) females, whose median survival was of 32.3 and 60.6 months, respectively. The 5-year survival was 38.0% for men and 55.4% for women (P=0.030). Considering only stage I patients, survival rates were 44.4% and 81.8% for men and women, respectively (P=0.009). Effect of gender continued after adjustment for several factors (age, hemoglobin, histology, tumor size, type of surgery and postoperative complications). CONCLUSION: This study confirms our previous findings that women live longer after NSCLC surgery when compared to men. This result is only observed at an early stage and persists after adjustment of several factorsP
Keywords: Carcinoma, bronchogenic [surgery]; Carcinoma, bronchogenic [epidemiolgy]; Prognosis; Sex distribution; Disease - free survival.
4 - Cystic fibrosis in adults clinical and spirometric aspects
Fibrose cística em adultos: aspectos clínicos e espirométricos
Antônio Carlos M. Lemos; Eliana Matos; Rosana Franco; Pablo Santana; Maria Angélica Santana
J Bras Pneumol.2004;30(1):9-13
INTRODUCTION: Cystic Fibrosis is usually diagnosed in childhood. In Brazil, few studies have approached CF diagnosed in adulthood. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to describe demographic and clinical characteristics and spirometric data of patients with CF diagnosed in adulthood (over 16 years of age) in Bahia, Brazil. METHODS: Twenty-eight patients with cystic fibrosis diagnosed in adulthood were evaluated at the Reference Center of Cystic Fibrosis of the state of Bahia. Variables of interest were age, gender, race, body mass index (BMI), sputum culture, presence of sinusitis and bronchiectasis, spirometric tests with the best values performed for forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC) and response to bronchodilators. RESULTS: Mean age of diagnosis was 31.1 ± 12.4 years. Of the patients, 53.4% were black and mulatto and the mean BMI was 18.7 ± 3.0 kg/m2. P aeruginosa was present in 12 (43%) of the total patients. The mean percentages ± SD of FVC and FEV1 were 58.9 ± 21.6% and 44.1 ± 23%, respectively. In the group of patients with presence of P. aeruginosa in sputum cultures, mean of the spirometry parameters were lower than those of the P. aeruginosa-free group. However, this difference achieved a statistically significant difference (p = 0.0007) only in FVC . CONCLUSIONS: In agreement with many authors, this study strengthen the point of view that CF must be investigated in patients with recurrent infections, sinusitis and bronchiectasis even in adulthood. Values of the percentages of FVC and FEV1 in relation to those foreseen were lower in patients bearers of P. aeruginosa thereby showing a higher deterioration of the pulmonary function.
Keywords: Cystic fibrosis/diagnosis. Adult. Spirometry/methods.
5 - Influence of ascites in the pulmonary function of patients with portal hypertension
Influência da ascite na avaliação da função pulmonar em portadores de hipertensão portal
Angela Maria Stiefano Nitrini; Roberto Stirbulov; Ernani Geraldo Rolim
J Bras Pneumol.2004;30(1):14-19
BACKGROUND: Oxygen deficiency in patients with portal hypertension may be secondary to changes in respiratory mechanics due to ascites. OBJECTIVES: Evaluate pulmonary function in patients with portal hypertension before and after reduction of the ascites. METHOD: Fifteen patients with portal hypertension and ascites were submitted to pulmonary function tests, comprising spirometry and arterial blood gas determination, before and after reduction of ascites. The analyzed parameters were: forced vital capacity (FVC); forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1); forced expiratory flow between 25% - 75% of forced vital capacity (FEF 25-75%); expiratory reserve volume (ERV); FEV1/FVC; arterial oxygen pressure (PaO2); arterial carbon-dioxide pressure (PaCO2) and arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2). RESULTS: There was remarkable improvement in pulmonary volumes after decrease of ascites by treatment with diuretics associated or not to paracentesis. CONCLUSION: We concluded, that in patients with portal hypertension and ascites, there is a decrease of pulmonary volumes compared to predicted values, with significant improvement decrease of ascites. Similarly, an increase of the arterial oxygen pressure and of the arterial oxygen saturation was perceived.
Keywords: Ascites/therapy. Hypertension, portal. Respiratory function tests.
6 - Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans: clinical aspects and complementary tests of 48 children
Bronquiolite obliterante pós-infecciosa: aspectos clínicos e exames complementares de 48 crianças
Rosaly Vieira dos Santos; Nelson A. Rosário; Carlos Antônio Ried
BACKGROUND: The clinical evaluation of patients with post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is variable. OBJECTIVE: Substantiate the clinical characteristics, the evolution and the complementary tests of 48 patients with post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO). METHOD: Observational and retrospective study. Diagnosis of BO was based upon clinical criteria, CT scan findings and exclusion of other diseases. History prior to diagnosis and complementary tests were evaluated as well as initial and final values of oxygen saturation. RESULTS: Mean age of patients at the acute stage of the infectious disease was of 9.6. Thirty two of the patients were male. All were hospitalized during the acute stage, 14 of them (29%) in the ICU. Four patients died two years after onset of acute bronchiolitis. During evolution, all required emergency care due to exacerbation of the pulmonary condition and 24 (50%) were hospitalized, 2 of them in the ICU. The majority continued presenting cough, wheezing, crackles and hyperinflation, however to a lesser degree. Mean of initial arterial saturation was of 89% and final of 92%. The most common infectious agents in sputum samples were H. influenzae, S. pneumoniae and M. catarrhalis. Increased serum IgM and IgC were found in 9 and 7 patients, respectively. The most frequent findings at thorax CT scan were mosaic perfusion, bronchiectasis, atelectasis and bronchial wall thickening. CONCLUSION: Post infectious BO is a chronic and severe disease with persistent symptoms that in general affect infants. Positive serum cultures and increased serum immunoglobulins are suggestive of chronic infectious inflammatory condition.
Keywords: Bronchiolitis obliterans. Obstructive lung diseases.
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2015 LET Access Series Season Kicks Off
The launch of the Ladies European Tour Access Series 2015 season will begin next week with the Open Generali de Dinard at Dinard Golf in northern France from the April 16-18. This year’s international schedule will feature a minimum of 15 tournaments in 10 European countries.
The first event will be followed by the OCA Augas Santas Ladies International Open, at Augas Santas Balneario and Golf Resort in Spain, on April 29-May 1.
A week later, LETAS moves to Switzerland for the second ASGI Ladies Open at Gams-Werdenberg Golf Club, on May 7-9. A fortnight in the Nordic region follows with the PGA Halmstad Ladies Open at Haverdal Golf Club in Sweden on May 22-24 and the Drobak Ladies Open at Drobak Golf Club in Norway on May 29-31, which are both making their LETAS debuts.
The second tournament in France, the Open Generali de Strasbourg, takes place at Golf de Strasbourg in the earlier summer date of June 11-13. The Borås Ladies Open, played at Borås Golf Club in Sweden, from July 3-5, will be followed by the CitizenGuard LETAS Trophy, which will take place for the second year at Rinkven Golf and Country Club in Belgium on July 16-18.
A new tournament in Germany, scheduled from July 30-August 1, will provide an incredible opportunity for local golf fans to experience the excitement of women’s golf ahead of The Solheim Cup seven weeks later.
With a purse of €50,000, the CreditGate24 GolfSeries Hamburg Open at Treudelberg Golf Club, promises to be one of the biggest events of the season. The CreditGate24 GolfSeries will also feature a charity pro-am scheduled for the June 24 at Golf Park Waldkirch in Switzerland, which will become a full tournament in 2016, along with a further new event in Austria, to form the CreditGate24 GolfSeries, similar to the French-based Generali Ladies Tour and Nordic-based Nordea Tour.
The German event ending on August 1 immediately precedes a four week swing in the Nordic region, with the Norrporten Ladies Open at Sundsvall Golf Club in Sweden on August 6-8, the Larvik Ladies Open at Larvik Golf Club in Norway on August 11-13, the Sölvesborg Ladies Open hosted by Fanny Sunesson at Sölvesborg Golf Club in Sweden on August 20-22 and the HLR Golf Academy Open at Hillside Golf Club in Finland on August 28-30.
After a one month break in September, LETAS continues with the popular Azores Ladies Open at Terceira Golf Club, Terceira Island, Portugal, on October 2-4. Then, for the second successive year, the season will come to a gripping climax in southern England with the WPGA International Challenge at Stoke by Nayland Hotel Golf and Spa on October 8-10, where the top five players on the LETAS Order of Merit will receive membership of the 2016 Ladies European Tour.
LETAS Tour Director Di Barnard commented: “Now in its sixth year, the LET Access Series is going from strength to strength and we are delighted to offer a full schedule of playing opportunities for competitive female golfers looking to develop their game and move up through the LET’S development pathway. I would like to thank all the federations, sponsors and promoters for their continued support of LETAS, which is helping to grow and progress the women’s game.”
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Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Prep Classic Recap – Classes 1A-5A
The Logansport Tigers won their second ever state title 34-28 over Haynesville. QB Dalton Shaw threw a 14-yard TD pass to Joe Caraway with only 24 seconds left to stun the Golden Tornado after a furious 4th quarter rally. The Tigers outscored the defending state champs 28-0 in the final frame after trailing 28-6. Head Coach Kevin Magee completed a stunning turnaround at his alma mater after taking over a 2-9 team just three years ago. Magee led Logansport to their only other state championship as the starting QB in 1995. Not to be outdone in dramatics, Sterlington took down the undefeated Chargers of Madison Prep with a late goal line stand. Down 28-21, Madison Prep’s Tyrese Walker scampered in…
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Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Prep Classic Recap - Divisions I - IV
The Select weekend of the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Prep Classic kicked off on Friday, December 2nd at 10:00am with four games on the docket. 15 hours later, four teams could forever call themselves “state champions.” Ascension Episcopal and Southern Lab began the day in the Division IV title game. Despite committing a Class 1A/Division IV team record 19 penalties, the Kittens won 36-9 behind Most Outstanding Player Tyrion Davis who, in turn, set a Class 1A/Division IV individual record with 244 rushing yards on only eight carries. Head Coach Marcus Randall is now 2-for-2, winning state titles in both seasons at the helm. St. John the Baptist Parish and District 9-2A rivals clashed in the Division III state championship. The…
LHSAA State Championship Season Off To A Rousing Start
The end of November is always a time set asides to give thanks. However, mid-November is a time set aside for several LHSAA member-schools to give thanks on the court, track and in the pool. State championship season in Louisiana begins every year with a ten-day marathon in three cities spanning across the state. The Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Volleyball State Tournament, which took place at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, is consistently one of the most exciting events on the LHSAA calendar. Forty teams took over the lakefront from November 10-12 to play quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Ultimately, dynasties reigned supreme as Pope John Paul II (Division IV), Teurlings Catholic (Division III), St. Thomas More (Division II) and Mount Carmel…
2016 Prep Classic Poster Contest Winner
The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) and Raising Cane’s congratulate Anna Wright, a sophomore of Breaux Bridge Senior High School, for winning the 2016 LHSAA Prep Classic Poster Contest! Anna’s artwork will serve as the official poster and program cover for the 2016 Allstate Sugar Bowl Prep Classic and she will be featured in the souvenir program for the event. She will be recognized during halftime of the Class 4A championship game with her Art teacher, Ron S. Burdick, principal Louis Blanchard, Allstate Sugar Bowl and Superdome representatives. Anna will receive overnight accommodations in New Orleans and VIP passes to enjoy the Prep Classic in a LHSAA suite. She will also enjoy a $100 prize compliments of the LHSAA…
Digging Into the Volleyball Power Rankings (10/25)
As the power rankings have solidified at the top, intrigue picks up a little ways down the seeding lines. Traditional powers mixed with new blood provide the potential for seriously captivating drama. It's time to see who is ready for the spotlight. Ranking School From Last Week Record #1 Mt. Carmel Up 1 28-9 #2 St. Joseph’s Academy Down 1 29-6 #3 Mandeville Up 1 23-7 #4 St. Amant Down 1 26-8 #5 Slidell --- 28-10 #6 Fontainebleau --- 31-9 #7 Northshore --- 21-11 #8 Archbishop Chapelle Up 1 19-12 #9 Hahnville Down 1 23-10 #10 Comeaux --- 23-12 Hahnville High School is only 18 miles from the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, but its felt light years away…
Last week four of the five divisions had the same flag flying at the top of the mountain as the previous week. This week, only four teams across all five divisions catapulted over the wall dividing the top four from each division from the rest. The later we move into the LHSAA Volleyball season, the harder it becomes to gain ground on teams with spectacular résumés of their own. The chances to impress at this are few and far between. At some point, teams are who they are. Ranking School From Last Week Record #1 St. Joseph’s Academy --- 26-6 #2 Mt. Carmel --- 25-9 #3 St. Amant Up 4 25-8 #4 Mandeville --- 21-7 #5 Slidell Down 2…
It’s difficult to climb to the top of the mountain. It took Sir Edmund Hillary and his crew approximately two months to scale Mt. Everest in 1953. Upon reaching the summit on May 29, 1953 Hillary spent only 15 minutes at the top of the world. At least a state championship buys you 365 days at the top of your Division. The evolution of this year’s playoff seedings are starting to take shape from the top down. Four of the five Divisions look exactly as they did last week at the top. Division V was the lone exception, but the top 4 squads have all been trading places for weeks now. Ranking School From Last Week Record #1 St.…
Digging Into the Volleyball Power Rankings (10/4)
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr I don’t think the 19th-century French novelist was talking about high school volleyball, but I could be wrong. The statement sure sounds appropriate considering this week’s power rankings. Last week we saw serious movement all around the top 10 in each division. 14 different teams rose or fell in the power rankings by at least 3 spots. This week, that number is only four and no more than one in a division. As the calendar moves to October we haven't been introduced to many new faces among the LHSAA volleyball elite, but we have seen shuffling from within. Ranking School From Last Week Record #1…
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It's late-September and we are approximately one month from the end of the 2016 volleyball regular season. Wait. What?! Sitting at the halfway point in the season, and this is where the LHSAA Volleyball power rankings now approach the forefront of the conversation. Let’s take a look at the top of each division this week. Ranking School From Last Week Record #1 Slidell --- 16-4 #2 St. Joseph’s Academy --- 17-2 #3 Northshore --- 12-3 #4 Fontainebleau Up 3 18-4 #5 Mt. Carmel Up 8 11-4 #6 Archbishop Chapelle Up 6 10-4 #7 Mandeville Down 2 12-6 #8 Hahnville Down 2 15-7 #9 Baton Rouge Up 5 11-8 #10 HL Bourgeois Down 6 13-6 The top 3 in Division…
LHSAA State Championship Schedule Changes
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Wallingford’s John Street bridge keeps getting damaged by trucks
A tractor-trailer travels over the John Street bridge in Wallingford on Friday.
Motorists wait at a traffic light as a CT Rail train travels under the John Street bridge in Wallingford, Fri., Apr. 12, 2019. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
The John Street bridge in disrepair in Wallingford, Fri., Apr. 12, 2019. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
A motorist travels over the John Street bridge in disrepair in Wallingford, Fri., Apr. 12, 2019. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
By Lauren Takores , Record-Journal staff
WALLINGFORD — A local “orphan” bridge has taken many hard knocks in its life from large vehicles that can’t handle the tight turn.
The town has spent around $12,000 this fiscal year repairing the John Street bridge, which spans the railroad tracks between South Colony Road and Dudley Avenue.
Town Engineer Rob Baltramaitis said the town is responsible for repairing fencing and guardrails, which are repeatedly hit by large commercial trucks and tractor-trailers.
The bridge is 54 feet long and about 27 feet curb to curb, with a 3.5-foot wide sidewalk on the north side of John Street.
“The resulting damage isn’t to the foundation,” he said during a Town Council budget hearing on his department Thursday. “It isn’t to the deck. It’s the surface features we have to maintain.”
The bridge, built in 1964, is an orphan bridge, meaning the ownership of the structure is unknown. The town, state and Amtrak are each responsible for different components.
The town is responsible for non-structural portions, including the road, curbs, sidewalks, guardrails and fencing.
The state Department of Transportation rated the bridge’s condition as fair in a bridge inspection report from 2014, the most recent report Baltramaitis has in his files.
Kevin Nursick, DOT spokesman, said Friday that although the bridge has a low rating, it’s not dangerous to motorists.
“It does not mean it’s unsafe or anybody’s at risk,” he said. “We don’t take chances with bridges.”
Baltramaitis said the narrow geometry of bridge and intersection contributes to the incidents of motor vehicle damage.
He said that industrial use in the area intensified after the bridge was built.
John Street itself ends at the town’s public utility offices and wastewater treatment plant, but also can be used to access South Cherry Street, which leads to driveways for BYK, Allnex, U-Haul and other warehouses.
Baltramaitis said the immediate issue the town faces is that “damage to the guardrails and fences occurs so frequently, yet very rarely do we have any accident report that identifies who did the damage.”
Repair costs are up to the town if no driver is identified.
Another issue is the bridge’s condition, which is “fair at best,” he said, “given that it is the primary access to a heavily utilized industrial area.”
He said the town wants to be proactive in the eventual reconstruction of the bridge.
LTakores@record-journal.com
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Namibia, Travel
by Martha Mukaiwa
Some people’s lives begin with departure.
With a reluctant relinquishing of their homes to survive somewhere foreign but free as wars wage, regimes topple and peace is restored.
Perhaps this is why Fenny Ndapewa Nakanyete has always felt welcome.
She was born in exile in 1988 and though Zambia is not her home, she lived there with her mother playing happily under a neighbouring sky above the refugee camp that was her whole world.
Returned and raised in the Ohangwena region, the memory of her dearly departed mother would speak Spanish.
The Spanish she had learned while in exile in Cuba and which she sang while Fenny slept, whispered while Fenny listened and which led Fenny to university where she studied the language herself in remembrance.
A bittersweet commemoration that would so inspire Fenny’s life that she worked hard to earn a scholarship to do her Master’s degree in Spain where she attended a colourful and cosmopolitan university that allowed her to meet people from all over the world.
People, who like many people, find themselves bidding farewell to foreign friends they assume they will never see again and so say: “It was nice to meet you. Come and visit me in America/Argentina/ India/Japan.”
It’s just what people say.
They don’t mean it.
They don’t expect you to call. They don’t expect you to come. And they certainly don’t expect Fenny.
A tiny but tall Namibian woman with a playful dreadlocked fringe over sweet smiling eyes whose life began with departure.
Fenny who has always felt welcome, has ever been curious and who feels the world is for the seeing and so takes these generous, inviting, unsuspecting people at their word and says: “Thank you. I will”.
And then does.
This is how she became one of the many dwarves below Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, marvelled at the elegant sky-grazing architecture in Tokyo and ate glorious eye-watering curries in India before gulping down cups of mate cocido in Argentina.
Even if it’s entirely irregular, Fenny is one of those trusting and adventuring souls who pick up the phone, send an email, asks you to write an invitation letter or be a contact on her visa form simply because you said she could visit you somewhere in the wide world.
So at just 27 years old, the young Namibian has visited Angola, Argentina, Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mozambique, Netherlands, Paraguay, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, the United States of America, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Though her job as a geography lecturer doesn’t equate to any semblance of rolling in cash, it is steady enough for her to anticipate her income and put some money away each month while foregoing things that may be priorities to others.
“I don’t owe anyone anything, I’m not rich and I do have many financial responsibilities but there is a point where I start saving for travel. I don’t drink. I don’t need to have the latest clothes or drive a brand new car and travel is what makes me happy so that is what I do with what I save. Everyone has different priorities,” says Fenny.
Foregoing fun though fleeting nights out in favour of some steady saving for a ticket after accepting those random invitations from around the world, Fenny believes the best thing about traveling in this way, beyond the free accommodation, is getting to experience life like the average person somewhere else.
“When I travel, I go and live with normal families. Some who I’ve met. Some who are relatives of people I’ve befriended somewhere else. I eat what they eat. I go where they go and, just like that , I know what it’s like to live in Tokyo or Argentina,” says Fenny.
Largely unglamorous and sometimes living on biscuits and cheap buffets amidst feasting on different cultures, sights and sounds, Fenny sees the world on a budget buoyed by the hospitality of some the world’s most welcoming people.
“It’s not as bad as it sounds,” laughs Fenny. “Some people travel and want to stay in hotels. I travel and I live with good people and talk to locals who are often very good at directing you to affordable things to do.”
From trusting locals to trusting yourself, Fenny’s advice to the hesitant solo traveler is to just do it.
“Buy your ticket without being so certain about it. That way you either lose your money or have to work hard towards saving and generating funds so you can have spending money. Buying your ticket early when you have the funds makes you commit, it motivates you and it gives you something to be excited about,” says Fenny.
Though she’s been accused of being odd, indulgent and little off her rocker, what with her love for living with strangers all the way across the world, Fenny maintains that, despite her seeming eccentricity, travel is truly something special.
“”I think everyone should travel, if they can. You know nothing until you travel. You’re likely to be ungrateful or think you have the best until you see the world and get out of your comfort zone. Travel opens your mind and, if you’re doing it on a budget, you learn to survive, to change your plans and to take every opportunity like hopping on a bus to Brazil from Argentina because you realise you don’t actually need a visa,” she says with a laugh and spontaneous memories shining in her welcoming eyes.
“We spend so much money on the same old forms of entertainment. Try traveling.
Accept those invitations or just start with any country that borders yours. The hardest part is getting a visa, if you need one. Once you have that, everything else is easy.
And there really are so many good people out there.”
Tags: africa, African Travel, Black Travel, Fenny Nakanyete, Martha Mukaiwa, namibia, solo travel, travel, Traveler, Traveling, Visa
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Haufiku Jacobus says:
This is really amazing.Travelling creates memories that’ll last forever.It’s also beneficial to one’s mental health.
Teddy. says:
I was so lucky to share a room with her on my travels last year …she is good lecturer and inspire me to travel when my other colleagues think it will be too expensive
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Equifax’s Colossal Error: Not Patching Apache Struts Flaw
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Equifax made an error that led to one of the largest and most sensitive data breaches of all time, and the mistake was elementary: The credit bureau failed to patch a vulnerability in Apache Struts – a web application development framework – in a timely manner.See Also: How to Scale Your Vendor Risk Management ProgramThe company updated its breach notification on Wednesday, confirming security watchers’ speculations that Struts was involved in the breach, which had been based both on Equifax’s infrastructure
as well as the timing of vulnerabilities in – and patches for – Struts that have come to light this year (see Is Unpatched Apache Struts Flaw to Blame for Equifax Hack?).
To understand the full scope of the attack and breach, Equifax retained a digital forensics investigation firm – reported by ZDNet to be FireEye’s Mandiant unit – and the investigation remains ongoing.
“We continue to work with law enforcement as part of our criminal investigation and have shared indicators of compromise,” the company says in a statement on its website.
Update from Equifax issued September 13.
While the attack vector is known, Equifax has yet to discuss who may have hacked it. Of course, it may never know.
But Equifax says the unidentified hackers had access to the personal details of 143 million U.S. consumers, as well as an unspecified number of British and Canadian consumers. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers and in some cases, driver’s license numbers, are at risk. The breach also exposed credit card numbers for 209,000 U.S. consumers and credit dispute documentation for 182,000 people (see Equifax: Breach Exposed Data of 143 Million US Consumers).
Patch Was Available
Equifax’s disclosure is likely to increase the pressure now facing the company, which faces Congressional hearings, probes by at least 40 states and dozens of class-action lawsuits (see Equifax Faces Mounting Anger, $70 Billion Lawsuit).
The Federal Trade Commission, which previously refused to comment on whether or not it has launched an investigation of any particular organization, now tells Information Security Media Group that it has made an exception in Equifax’s case. “The FTC typically does not comment on ongoing investigations,” says Peter Kaplan, the FTC’s acting director of public affairs. “However, in light of the intense public interest and the potential impact of this matter, I can confirm that FTC staff is investigating the Equifax data breach.”
Security experts say that prompt patching of enterprise applications is a must-do practice, given the ease with which attackers can find and automatically exploit known flaws. Equifax has yet to explain why it delayed patching such critical software.
The exploited vulnerability, CVE-2017-5638, became public on March 6, when Apache released an updated version of Struts that fixed the flaw. Within a day, security analysts saw attacks against websites that were designed to exploit the flaw.
Equifax, meanwhile, says its breach began in mid-May but wasn’t discovered until July 29.
Apache Struts 2, which uses Java Enterprise Edition, is widely used by many organizations, including airlines, car rental companies, e-commerce sites, social networks and government agencies.
Remote Exploitation
The now-patched Struts flaw is among the most dangerous types of vulnerabilities because it allows hackers to remotely exploit the application and access the information that it stores. Given the severity of the flaw, the information security community had warned all users of the open source Apache Struts project software about the danger and severity posed by CVE-2017-5638 and urged them to upgrade to a patched version immediately.
Kevin Beaumont, a U.K.-based security researcher, writes on Wednesday that he repeatedly tweeted about the flaw when it was disclosed, warning of its severity.
“It doesn’t get more serious – with a single web request, people can remotely run code on the web server and access files, potentially (and probably) bypassing all security controls,” Beaumont writes in a blog post.
Source: Equifax’s Colossal Error: Not Patching Apache Struts Flaw
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Back in January, I was hired as a Physician Assistant at Montgomery County Memorial Hospital to work in Red Oak Internal Medicine with Dr. Mahoney. I have found that many of the MCMH patients and people in the community do not know what a Physician Assistant (PA) is or does. In this article, I would like to provide more information about the history of the profession, the education and role of a PA in the health care system.
The Physician Assistant profession was started in the 1960s. At that time, there was beginning to be a shortage of primary care doctors. One reason for this was that physicians were beginning to specialize . In the same time frame, Medicare and Medicaid were created which allowed many more patients to have health insurance and the ability to see a doctor. There were not enough primary care doctors to handle the new patient load. The health care system needed more providers in a short time frame, thus, the development of the Physician Assistant. The American Medical Association (AMA) proposed a "fast track" medical school curriculum to train PAs in a little over 2 years..
This fast track medical school is still how physician assistants are trained today. PA training is modeled directly after that of the doctors… just in a shorter time frame. Physician assistants first have to obtain a bachelor's degree and then complete a 2+ year Master's degree in physician assistant studies. During school, PA students repeat core knowledge classes such as anatomy, physiology, and disease pathology, and then learn about all the disease processes and medications to treat patients just like doctors do. They are in the classroom daily for about 14 months before going out to learn in clinic and develop critical thinking skills. Physician assistants are all trained in primary care. Before graduating, PA students have been trained in family medicine, internal medicine, ER, OB/GYN, and pediatrics. By the end of the training, PA students have completed about 2700+ hours of patient care.
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 30, Number 4 - December 2006 /
National Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2005–06
This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 30, No 4, December 2006 contains the 2005-06 annual report of the National Rotavirus Surveillance Program, which conducts rotavirus surveillance in collaboration with laboratories Australia-wide.
Introduction | Methods | Results | Discussion | Acknowledgements | References
Carl D Kirkwood,1 David Cannan,2 Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran,3 Ruth F Bishop,4 Graeme L Barnes5 and the National Rotavirus Surveillance Group
The National Rotavirus Reference Centre together with collaborating laboratories Australia-wide has conducted rotavirus surveillance since June 1999. This report describes the serotypes of rotavirus strains responsible for the hospitalisation of children with acute gastroenteritis during the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. Eight hundred and forty-eight faecal samples from across Australia were examined using monoclonal antibody immunoassays, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and polyacrylamide gel analysis. Serotype G1 was the dominant serotype nationally, representing 40.2 per cent of all strains, followed by serotype G4 (22.6%), serotype G9 (15.1%) and serotype G3 (14.7%). Genotype G12 strains were identified for the first time in Australia. As in previous years, there was substantial geographic variation in the prevalence of rotavirus serotypes. Commun Dis Intell 2006;30:434–438.
Group A rotaviruses are the single most important cause of severe gastroenteritis in young children worldwide. An estimated 500,000 children die annually of severe diarrhoea, however few of these deaths occur in developed countries.1 Rotavirus induced disease accounts for up to 50 per cent of childhood hospitalisations for diarrhoea, with 10,000 Australian children hospitalised each year,2 costing an estimated $26 million in direct costs. Clinical trials of two live oral rotavirus vaccines, Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKline) and RotaTeq (Merck) conducted in over 60,000 children worldwide have shown that both vaccines are highly efficacious in prevention of severe diarrhoea and hospitalisation due to rotavirus infections.3,4 As a result, these vaccines have been licensed in Australia and many other countries throughout the world during 2006.
National epidemiological surveillance of rotavirus strains remains an important component in rotavirus vaccine evaluation and implementation programs. During the past five years, the national surveillance program has reported the emergence of serotype G9 strains as the dominant serotype nationally, and reported the re-emergence by serotype G1 as the dominant type since the 2003–2004 rotavirus season.5,6 The changing pattern of dominant serotypes, together with the multiple types identified in the Australian population each year, highlights the diversity of rotavirus strains capable of causing disease in children.
The surveillance and characterisation of rotavirus strains causing annual epidemics of severe diarrhoea in young children in Australia continues to be undertaken by the National Rotavirus Reference Centre in Melbourne, together with nine collaborating laboratories. In this report we describe the results for the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, and identify the geographic distribution of the predominant rotavirus serotypes.
Rotavirus positive specimens detected by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or latex agglutination in collaborating laboratories were collected, stored frozen and forwarded to Melbourne, together with relevant age and sex details. Specimens were then serotyped using an in-house monoclonal antibody (MAb) based serotyping EIA. The EIA employed a panel of MAbs specific for the major glycoprotein VP7 of the outer capsid of the five major group A human rotavirus serotypes (G1, G2, G3, G4 and G9).7 Strains which could not be assigned a G serotype were genotyped by reverse transcription/polymerase chain reaction, using serotype specific oligonucleotide primers.8 Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) was used to classify rotavirus strains genetically into electropherotypes, and to examine the extent of sharing of the same electropherotype between collaborating centres.
Number of isolates
A total of 1,011 specimens were received for analysis from Melbourne and the collaborating centres in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia. Eight hundred and forty-eight specimens were confirmed as rotavirus positive using our in-house EIA assay. Specimens containing insufficient specimen for testing, or specimens that were not confirmed to be positive for rotavirus (n=163) were not analysed further.
The overall age distribution of children with acute rotavirus gastroenteritis is depicted in the Figure. In the reporting period, 43.7 per cent of cases were from infants 12 months of age or less, 30.6 per cent were from patients 13–24 months of age, and 10.7 per cent were from patients 25–36 months of age. Overall, 85 per cent of samples were from children aged three years or less, and 92.9 per cent were from children aged five years or less. The male to female ratio was 1:1.
Figure. Cases of rotavirus, Australia, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, by age group
Serotype distribution
The rotavirus serotypes identified in Australia from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 are shown in the Table. Serotype G1 was the most common, representing 40.2 per cent of all specimens. It was the dominant strain in the 3 southern state capital cities of Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, and was the second most common type in Western Australia. Serotype G4 was the second most common serotype nationally, and represented 22.6 per cent of specimens. It was identified in eight of the nine collaborating centres but was the dominant type only in Western Australia. Nationally, serotype G9 and G3 represented 15.1 per cent and 14.7 per cent of all specimens, respectively. Serotype G9 strains were found in all centres, and were the dominant type in Darwin. Similarly, serotype G3 strains were found in seven of the nine centres, and were dominant in Alice Springs. Only nine serotype G2 strains were each identified in three centres during the study, and represented less 1.3 per cent of the total strains identified. Interestingly, 11 samples from The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney were found to be genotype G12.
Table. Rotavirus G serotypes, Australia, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006
Serotype
Sydney (POW)
Sydney (Westmead)
PathWest WA
Darwin (Western Pathology)
An additional 163 specimens were omitted from analysis due to insufficient sample, or specimen was not confirmed to be rotavirus positive.
* Eleven samples were identified as genotype G12.
Less than one per cent of the rotavirus samples contained multiple serotypes, and in 4.0 per cent of the samples a serotype was not identified. The latter could be samples with virus numbers below the detection limits of our assays, or could have contained inhibitors present in extracted RNA which prevent the function of the enzymes used in RT and/or PCR steps. It is unlikely that these represent unusual serotypes not identified using standard methods, since none of the non- typeable isolates exhibited unusual PAGE patterns. Future studies will include further characterisation of the genes encoding the outer capsid proteins of these strains.
National rotavirus surveillance from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 found that serotype G1 was the dominant serotype nationally, comprising 40.2 per cent of all strains. It was identified in all centres, and continues to be the dominant type along the Eastern seaboard, in Melbourne and Sydney and Adelaide. Serotype G1 has been the dominant type nationally for all except two years since 1999.9–10 It was only the emergence of serotype G9 during 2001–03, which replaced G1 as the dominant serotype in Australia. Serotype G1 continues to be reported as the dominant type in epidemiological studies conducted throughout the world.11,12
The survey highlights the diversity of serotypes that cause disease in Australian children. Serotype G4, G9 and G3 strains were each the dominant serotype in one location (Western Australia, Darwin and Alice Springs), and comprised 22.6 per cent, 15.1 per cent and 14.7 per cent of all strains nationally.
Of significance was the emergence of serotype G4 strains as the dominant type in Western Australia, and second most predominant serotype in two centres (Adelaide and Alice Springs). The emergence of serotype G4 strains follows three previous annual reports which showed that G4 strains represented only a minor type nationally (<2% overall). The last time serotype G4 strains represented an important serotype in Australia was 2001, when it was identified in 9.7 per cent of strains nationally.13
While serotype G3 remained a significant cause of acute gastroenteritis in Alice Springs in this survey, its prevalence throughout Australia has declined rapidly, from a prevalence of 36.6 per cent in 2004–05 to 14.7 per cent nationally this year. The predicted eastward spread of G3 strains to Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne did not occur during the 2005–06 reporting period and this may explain the decline in G3 predominance.
The prevalence of serotype G9 has slightly increased during the current survey, being present in all collaborating centres for the first time since the 2003–04 report, and represented 15.1 per cent of all strains nationally. This is an increase from the previous survey, however, whether serotype G9 will become the dominant type nationally as it was in 2001–03 remains to be determined.
The identification of genotype G12 strains represents the first report of strains belonging to this type in Australia. Genotype G12 strains were first identified in the Philippines in 1990, and have subsequently been identified in a variety of countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Italy, the United States of America and India as a single isolate or minor proportion.14–16 Whether this genotype continues to emerge is unclear. In Australia, it is likely that genotype G12 will be similar to genotype G6 and G8 which represent rare strains, identified as single infections or small outbreaks. However, continued surveillance for these rare genotypes is important to understand whether they emerge as important types.
The rotavirus serotyping results from this survey, together with those of previous years, highlights the changes in the prevalence of rotavirus strains across Australia. In addition, the identification of genotype G12 further highlights the diversity of strains capable of causing severe disease in Australian children. Therefore, given the recent licensure of two rotavirus vaccines in Australia, understanding the fluctuations in rotavirus serotypes using multi-centre national surveillance will provide valuable insight into vaccine efficacy.
The National Rotavirus Surveillance group includes: K Lindsay, Princess Margaret Hospital, Subiaco; D Smith & G Harnett, Pathwest, Nedlands; P Southwell, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin; B Truscott, Western Diagnostic Pathology, Tiwi; J McLeod, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs; W Rawlinson & C McIver, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick; A Kesson, The Children's Hospital, Westmead; A Lawrence, Women's & Children's Hospital, North Adelaide; R Alexander, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville.
The Rotavirus Surveillance program is supported by grants from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, GlaxoSmithKline and CSL.
Dr Kirkwood is supported by an RD Wright Fellowship, National Health and Medical Research Centre.
Rotavirus positive specimens were collected from numerous centres throughout Australia. The significant time and effort involved in the collection, storage, packaging, compiling data and forwarding of specimens was much appreciated. Without the contribution of the following people the study would not have been possible.
Prof W Rawlinson, Dr C McIver and members of the Virology Division, Prince of Wales Hospital
Dr A Kesson and members of the Microbiology Department, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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2. Carlin JB, Chondros P, Masendycz P, Bugg H, Bishop RF, Barnes GL. Rotavirus infection and rates of hospitalisation for acute gastroenteritis in young children in Australia, 1993–1996. Med J Aust 1998;169:252–256.
3. Vesikari T, Matson DO, Dennehy P, Van Damme P, Santosham M, Rodriguez Z, et al. Safety and efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine (WC3) reassortant rotavirus vaccine. N Engl J Med 2006;354:23–33.
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7. Coulson BS, Unicomb LE, Pitson GA, Bishop RE. Simple and specific enzyme immunoassay using monoclonal antibodies for serotyping human rotaviruses. J Clin Microbiol 1987;25:509–515.
8. Gouvea V, Glass RI, Woods P, Taniguchi K, Clark HF, Forrester B, et al. Polymerase chain reaction amplification and typing of rotavirus nucleic acid from stool specimens. J Clin Microbiol 1990;28:276–282.
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11. Santos N, Hoshino Y. Global distribution of rotavirus serotypes/genotypes and its implication for the development and implementation of an effective rotavirus vaccine. Rev Med Virol 2005;15:29–56.
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15. Shinozaki K, Okada M, Nagashima S, Kaiho I, Taniguchi K. Characterization of human rotavirus strains with G12 and P[9] detected in Japan. J Med Virol 2004;73:612–616.
16. Griffin DD, Nakagomi T, Hoshino Y, Nakagomi O, Kirkwood CD, Parashar UD, et al. Characterization of nontypeable rotavirus strains from the United States: identification of a new rotavirus reassortant (P2A[6],G12) and rare P3[9] strains related to bovine rotaviruses. Virology 2002;294:256–269.
1. Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria
2. Research Assistant, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria
4. Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria
5. Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Parkville, Victoria
Corresponding author: Dr Carl Kirkwood, Enteric Virus Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052. Telephone: +61 3 9341 6439. Facsimile: +61 3 9345 6240. Email: carl.kirkwood@mcri.edu.au
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Reforestation Critical To Saving Life As We Know It
by Gary Chandler · Published April 3, 2013 · Updated January 6, 2015
Reforestation Can Help Battle Climate Change
Deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of the rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The rise in greenhouse gases, both human caused and natural, are contributing to unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which is contributing to climate change and extreme weather.
Sacred Seedlings is an international forest conservation and economic development program. Its intent is to help combat climate change, make communities more sustainable and resilient, protect wildlife habitat, and generate plenty of clean and green jobs. We are developing our first pilot project in Tanzania now.
“Our goal is to plant as many trees as possible in as many settings as possible–as soon as possible,” said company founder Gary Chandler. “We are accepting applications for reforestation and forest conservation projects including urban forestry projects in cities and communities.”
The company promotes forest conservation, reforestation, and urban forestry projects around the globe. When feasible, it incorporates agro-forestry and biochar into projects to maximize their impact and productivity.
When possible, it coordinates carbon offset certification and funding for stakeholders. In some cases, projects may qualify for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) funding. Other projects will be ideal for sponsorship, research, grants and voluntary carbon-offset funding.
Sacred Seedlings, a division of Denver-based Earth Tones, Inc. has formed a partnership with the Mellowswan Foundation Africa-Tanzania to plant 10 million trees over the next four years in the Kilimanjaro District. Two plots of land have been donated for the nurseries by the local forest district.
“The Foundation approached us and asked if we could help save the country’s vanishing wildlife,” said Gary Chandler, co-founder of Sacred Seedlings. “We asked if they could support a reforestation program to generate jobs, save wildlife habitat and help combat climate change?”
The Foundation seized upon the idea and started developing the scope of work. Once funded, locals will build two nurseries and greenhouses to maximize the production time for the seedlings. After about four months, the seedlings will be planted permanently in a variety of settings, including deforested areas around national parks and forest districts. Crop-bearing trees will be planted in urban areas to serve as weather barriers and to generate food for the locals. These trees will be too valuable for anyone to cut down.
Tanzania is ground zero in the war on wildlife. More than 10,000 elephants were slaughtered there for ivory just last year. Only about 70,000 elephants remain today. Without a variety of interventions, extinction of the African elephant, rhinoceros, lions and other endangered species is probable within just a few years. Economic development with clean and green jobs is one way to help take the pressure off of these animals, while helping the local people earn a living.
“We’re tracking down sponsors, grants and donors to help make this program possible,” Chandler said. “This will be the first of several reforestation programs around the world. Hopefully, we can launch several across Colorado and the America’s very soon.”
“The project will incorporate several species of trees that are indigenous to the area,” said Tumaini Mosha, project director for Mellowswan Foundation Africa-Tanzania. “Crop-bearing trees such as coffee, cocoa and palm also will be grown and planted in urban areas to block buildings from the weather and to grow food. That way people won’t cut them down for firewood.”
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Well, since we purchased the Sprint in August?! 1999 as it's 4th owner with 58,000 original and genuine km on the clock, we've done the following.
The first thing we had to do was sell the Alfasud Super to pay for the wish-list. We also don't have the space for 3 car parks or the bank balance for the insurance premiums, but before she went I "borrowed" the rear ash-tray from the Super that was missing from the Sprint.
Then we needed to sort out security so for $300 we had a new Mongoose alarm installed.
Next, we checked her in for the her 60,000km service and a clean bill of health. There was the typical tuning, carb adjustment, timing, oil change, etc. Additional "tweaks" included a new rear brake hose, new cam belts, adjustment of the drivers window, and fixed a few minor oil leaks by replacing gaskets.
Then we replaced the only non-Italian tyre (Firestone) with a Perelli P2000, and had the wheel alignment done. Moved the two newish P2000's to the front and two older P4's to the rear.
The newish JVC CD/Tuner stereo needed to be paired up with some '90's speakers to replace the original '80's Sanyo speakers. A pair of new JVC 2-way speakers were only $98! Spent some time tidying up all of the stereo wiring and now it can't be seen!
We then needed to sort out the twin Weber 36 IDF's. Off to the Weber specialist she to have both Weber's overhauled. Almost 100% - additional follow-up work pending.
Sourced a couple of good SIEM headlights (outer) to replace the original pair that where the silvering had corroded. Looks much better!
Then we needed to check a few things. Cam belt tensioners and tappet clearances. New tensioners were fitted and tappet clearances adjusted, which had been too tight. Also fitted Golden Lodge 25HL's to replace the champion N9Y's (too hot!) that had been fitted when the carb's were done. Re-tuned but there also seems to be a problem with the mechanical advance on the distributor - specifically old and weak springs for the counterweights.
Carb's will be fine-tuned soon, including repair of the distributor and repair of bolt broken-off in the top of the r/h carb. Watch this space!
Some minor TLC was required. Rattle from rear-left, and sometimes rear-right. Difficult to trace but it was suggested that it's the exhaust hitting the floor, which it does, but that's another noise! Small oil leak from oil pressure switch (replaced) and engine steam cleaned.
The "Yellow Peril" was due for it's six monthly WOF. All OK but two CV boots are split and need to be replaced - inner on l/h side and outer on r/h side, otherwise all OK. A very small hydraulic fluid leak from around the front discs wasn't noticed, which is probably the slave cylinder but it's intermittant and almost insignificant.
Found a pair of Weber 36 IDF's. Yay or Nay?
1996 (Nov)
Alfa Romeo 145 1.6 Lusso
Purchased with only 16,000km on the clock in January 1998.
First thing was to do was the 15,000km service that had been missed. This was payed for by the dealer who we purchased the car off. Also discovered that two tyres has excessive wear down to the fabric so the P2000's were replaced at no cost, including wheel alignment.
There have been regular 15,000km services since then. Just about due for the 60,000km service.
In between services we've...
Installed a factory alarm. Usually $1,600 for the ECU or "Black Box" but the friendly and helpful team at Azzurra found one in their warehouse to sell to me for only $600! The car was sold with all the sensors and switches but without the ECU so it should have just been "plug-and-play", but oh no! The short story is that the ECU needed to be replaced with a new one from Italy which took 6 months to arrive after many faxes and phone calls to the dealer, importer, and Fiat/Alfa in Italy. When it arrived it was installed only to discover that the sensors (volumeteric) needed to be replaced also, very strange. We were lucky that this part was ex-stock in N.Z. Horray! Success at last! Thanks to Azzurra it was supplied at no cost, and the car was now out of it's 2 year warranty period.
Next on the list was a CD Changer for the Panasonic Radio Cassette which supported an external CD Changer. I wasn't going to pay $700 for a new one so I patiently waited. Then one day a stocktake/clearance sale revealed a spanking new $250 Panasonic 6 disk CD changer. Yay! Had it fitted for approx $150.
Then there were the hickups! A very small (and unnecessary) door ding in the drivers door from an incredibly inconsiderate contractor. Car was carefully parked away from others in a huge carpark at Hunua Falls, but 3 stupid and careless mowing contractors decided to park their ute's/trucks either side of my lone car, unnecessarily close, too close. Anyway, the subsequent repair by an authorised Alfa dealer/service centre upset the delicate balance of the central locking mechanism and electric window adjustment on the driver's door. After a few months it was all sorted, but only after assistance from the ever helpful importers, Azzurra. Thanks guys!
The only other glitch was a cracked plastic 3-way connector for the coolant hoses. Had to wait a few months for a $10-$20 part from Italty. All OK now.
Back to my list. Last on my list was factory 14" alloys and air conditioning. Air-con would be at least $2,000 so I've resigned myself to forfiet this luxury, but I "need" the alloys! Once again I patiently waited, with ads in the club magazine until the local dealer sent a seller to the prospective buyer. It was only this week that I fitted the "as-new" pre-loved $500 14" alloys which would have cost me $2,300 new from Italy. Look beautiful! Wait for a photo.
March - 60,000km service! Typical stuff plus...
- new cam belts
- new waterpump (bearings gone!)
- new front discs and brake pad set
Still have a problem with a "bearing noise" from the vicinity of the cam-belts, and a horrible oily smell that won't go away. Also noticed that the top of the front bumper/spoiler appears to have dropped 1" from below the front of the bonnet grille. I suspect it wasn't re-attached properly. The good news is that the service department has kindly offered to look into this further.
Well... They'd over-tightened the cam belts hoping they'd stretch. The oily smell was apparently oil leaking on to the exhaust from a plate at the end of the cam shaft. I'm not so sure this is/was the problem as the smell is still strong and there was never any noticable oil leak. What have they done?!
1.5 Twin Carb Photo
1.5 Twin Carb Schematic
Don didn't have any maintenance to do on the Alfa's and updated this page on Monday, 20. March 2000 11:39 PM
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Home Rankings2011 Rankings Metalholic’s Top Hard Rock and Metal Christmas Albums
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written by Rustyn Rose November 6, 2011
So Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver) left rehab long enough to record a Christmas album. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year finds the much maligned vocalist doing his best Michael Bublé /Harry Connick shtick. And no, it doesn’t work for him. He looks and sounds like a drug-addled wino singing for spare change. But it got us here at Metalholic thinking about some heavy holiday wares worthy of a listen if not a giggle and a Jägernog.
Face it, country stars can’t help but record Christmas albums (or at least singles) but few self-respecting metalheads have the balls to rock the halls. That’s why we put Rob Halford at the top of our Christmas card list. Stuff that in your stocking and smoke it!
Halford III ~ Winter Songs (2009)
The Metal God lays it down like nobody’s business on his third solo effort, the first in years. There is no tongue-in-cheek parody here. It’s all headbanging and atmospheric glory. We’d expect nothing less from the leather clad Priest of metal. The album is a mix of re-imagined Christmas classics and unique originals, including the lead off track “Get Into The Spirit”.
We Wish You A Metal Xmas & A Headbanging New Year (2008)
Some of rock and metal’s heaviest hitters gathered for this holiday bangfest. Motörhead founder Lemmy Kilmister gives us a jamming version of “Run Run Rudolph” with ZZ Top axeter Billy Gibbons and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl. While the late Ronnie James Dio teams up with Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi for a grand and epic version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. For fun, Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy covers “Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer” with Mr. Big‘s Billy Sheehan. The heaviest among them all is the less than quiet rendering of “Silent Night” by Testament‘s Chuck Billy and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian. Other vocalists to appear include Alice Cooper, Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche), Joe Lynn Turner, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens and Doug Pinnick (King’s X).
Twisted Sister ~ A Twisted Christmas (2006)
The flipside to Halford‘s Christmas offering, is Dee Snider and Company’s campy tongue-in-cheek (which cheeks we won’t say) romp through all our holiday favorites. Hell, you can’t take these guys seriously even when they are deliberately deadpan. Grandma got run over by a reindeer my ass. That was Dee Snider in full Twisted regalia.
We Wish You A Hairy Christmas (2003)
This one is for all those hair metal fans. Glamsters Warrant take a stab at covering The Kinks‘ “Father Christmas” while Danger Danger turns in an inspired twist on its signature song, with “Naughty Naughty Xmas”. Sunset Strip bands like Bulletboys (“Everyday Should Be Like Christmas”), Faster Pussycat (“Silent Night”), Tuff (“Jingle Bell Rock”), Pretty Boy Floyd (“Happy Family”), and L.A. Guns (“Run Run Rudolph”) all make melodically fun appearances. Enuffs Z’nuff (“Happy Holiday”) chips in, as well as former Guns N’ Roses member Gilby Clarke (“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”). Fans of 80’s hard rock and hair metal should have this in their collection.
While it’s no longer available, Stryper‘s Reason For The Season EP had an incredibly fun cover of “Winter Wonderland”. The song “Reason For The Season” can be found on on the 1986 re-issue of the band’s debut EP Yellow and Black Attack. “Winter Wonderland” eventually surfaced on a re-issue of To Hell With The Devil. Good luck finding it, but it’s arguably the best rendition of the song ever. Listen below…
So we’ve told you some of our favorites. Who would you add to the list? Sound off below! \m/
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Posts Tagged ‘Monaco’
Championship Formula Racing demo races, July 1, 2017
Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
On Saturday, July 1, 2017, I ran four more demo races of Championship Formula Racing, trying to attract more regular racers for our upcoming season of races (that should begin in September). I ran two races at the monthly first Saturday boardgame Meetup group at the Canton Public Library in Canton, Michigan, then later in the day I ran two more races at the Warriors 3 game store in Wayne, Michigan.
I got to the Canton library just before they opened the meeting room for us boardgamers at noon. Meeting me there were Greg Lim and Jim Robinson. We quickly set up four folding tables together so we could place one of our large scale race tracks on that group of tables. I had just borrowed four more large tracks from Richard White on Thursday, two nights previous.
For our first race, we had eight racers, and we raced on the Monza, Italy track. This large track is based on the mid-1980s Monza track from Avalon Hill’s Accessory Pack tracks from that era. It has not been modified for the newer Monza changes. But we all race on the same track, n’est-ce pas?
Racing on the Monza, Italy track at the Canton Public Library. (Greg Lim photo)
After we completed the first race at Monza, I asked folks if they wanted to race the 2nd race on a different track, but they wanted to race the Monza track again. One of the drivers from the first race dropped out, as he wanted to play some other board games at the library, but we added two other drivers, so the 2nd race had nine drivers. That was the most drivers we have had (so far) for our demo races.
The last lap of the 2nd Monza race at the Canton library. Brian Robinson (center, in the gray t-shirt) comtemplates how he can win the race from his then 2nd place on the track.
Brian Robinson won that 2nd Monza race. Brian is relatively new to the Speed Circuit/Championship Formula Racing type games, but he is driving like an old pro. I told him at the end of the evening after the last race at Warriors 3 that I no longer considered him a rookie, but an “old pro” driver.
After that 2nd race at the Canton library, Greg and Jim and I went to a local fast food place for some dinner. (If you’re going to drive “fast” in racing games, you should eat “fast” food, eh?) Then we got to the Warriors 3 game store in Wayne, Michigan, in plenty of time to arrange four folding tables together to make room to set up another large track. I set up the Silverstone, England track.
The Silverstone, England track.
While we were setting up the 1:64 scale race cars on the track while we were waiting for some other racers to arrive, a three-year old boy, Thomas, came over to our table. He was determined to play with our 1:64 scale cars! We first moved the cars from one side of the table to the other, but then Thomas tried to climb on top of the table to get to the cars. I was afraid of Thomas falling off the table and injuring himself. Finally, though, Thomas’ father called him away from us. The father was playing in a different game in a different area of the same large gaming room. Anyway, we were relieved, as our 1:64 scale cars are definitely not toys, and would not survive without damage from being handled by a three-year-old!
Racing on the Silverstone track. Garry Kaluzny in the red shirt at left. (Greg Lim photo)
It should be noted that our race on the Silverstone track was also based on the mid-1980s configuration of that real-life track. In CFR game terms, I built my car to have 60 mph Acceleration and Deceleration, and a 180 mph Top Speed. You can pretty much drive either 120 mph or 180 mph every turn on this track configuration. Centered in the picture above is Ian, a young guy visiting the Detroit area from his home in Kentucky. Although he had never played CFR (nor Speed Circuit), he pretty quickly grasped the strategy to use. His downfall was taking too many early chances on cornering, and a spinout dropped him back in the race. If he wouldn’t have spun, though, he would have been a tough competitor.
After the Silverstone race was complete, we had time to race once more. We switched to the Monaco track for that last race of the evening. We had the same six drivers from the Silverstone race competing.
Half a lap left to race on the Monte Carlo track at Monaco.
Ian took the early lead from the pole position, although I was hot on his heels from my front row position. The first time at the Casino/Station/Loews hairpin turn, I got the inside position from Ian, meaning I got to move first the next turn, so I took over the lead.
Jack stands to move the cars, while Garry tries to stay ahead of Brian’s car on the last lap at Monaco. (Greg Lim photo)
On the last lap, I had to hold back Brian’s car. With about a half-lap left to race, I had only 3 Wear remaining, while Brian had 7 Wear. At the finish line, Brian pulled alongside my car, but I nipped him by a nose at the end. Whew! I had to make two cornering Chance dice rolls late in the race, using my two -3 Skill chits.
Although the day was long, I believe everyone had fun racing in the different races. We added another six names to our CFR email list. We now have about 30 names on the list, but not all of them will race in our upcoming season. Some folks, such as Brian, have been using the frequent demo races to gain a lot of experience in racing CFR. When the season starts in September, I expect some close competition!
We will have another demo race on July 7, 2017, at Imperium Games in Wixom. Imperium Games used to be Flat Land Games, but they had a recent change of ownership. That demo race will start at 7:00 pm, and will be a 3-lap race. All of the demo races on July 1 were only 2-lap races, as they were intended to be used for teaching the game mechanics. Shorter races mean you can run more races in a day, plus if someone were to crash out of a race, they wouldn’t have to wait as long to get back into the next race. Surprisingly, though, every racer (including me!) finished every race, in spite of multiple chances being taken by rolling dice!
Check our CFR-Detroit web page for more info about upcoming Championship Formula Racing races in the Detroit, Michigan, metro area.
Posted by Garry
Tags:Avalon Hill, Brian Robinson, Canton Public Library, Championship Formula Racing, Flat Land Games, Greg Lim, Ian, Imperium Games, Jim Robinson, Meetup, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monza, Richard White, Silverstone, Speed Circuit, Warriors 3
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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Palabra Final > Immigration > A disturbing national trend getting worse: Hating on Hispanics
A disturbing national trend getting worse: Hating on Hispanics
Marisa Treviño
inImmigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice
LatinaLista — Attacks on Latinos and/or Latino immigrants are nothing new. The nation has witnessed countless examples over the past few years of irrational hatred and brute force directed at Latino immigrants.
Sometimes Latino immigrants lived to tell the tale but too often they died leaving behind grieving families and local communities wondering how civility and tolerance have spiraled so out of control.
So far, the intolerance and demeaning rhetoric directed towards Latino immigrants have been grudgingly tolerated because popular perception has been that it was being done by skinhead punks or ignorant dumbasses who were considered to be too stupid to even pick out on a map the home countries of their victims.
As long as the attacks, both verbal and physical, happened under the dimly lit street lights of Main Street USA at the hands of self-proclaimed punk vigilantes, they could be rationalized by media and community leaders — and they could also be put on the backburner of national concerns.
After all, punk vigilantes don’t represent this nation.
Yet, local, state and national legislators do represent a portion of the nation and when these elected officials commit the same grievous acts of intolerance against Latino immigrants then it’s damn well time for the country to refocus on a disturbing trend that is finding increasing acceptance within the hallowed halls of state capitols and Congress.
The latest example is Republican Kansas legislator Virgil Peck of Tyro, Kansas who guffawed as he told his colleagues that the best way to control illegal immigration was the same way as the feral hog population is controlled — shooting them from a helicopter.
It was only after some pressure from the state governor and another colleague that he issued a two-sentence apology. Yet, his comments warrant a much deeper disciplinary action than just forcing him to apologize and go on about his business.
Thinking that his forced apology is sufficient shows a lack of recognition by the Kansas legislative body that they have a problem on their hands — a deep disrespect and unconcern for the Latino population, immigrant or otherwise.
Unfortunately, it’s a scenario replaying in various states because no one is willing to take a stand and lift this blanket of acceptance and expose it for what it is.
It took several days, and countless blog posts, for the Texas Dept. of Agriculture to finally remove comments supportive of placing land mines or booby trapping the border to maim and kill undocumented immigrants for crossing the border to look for work.
Why didn’t the federal administrators of the site instantly recognize that these were unacceptable comments and remove them? Why did it take a browbeating from media to get them to do the right thing?
Is it because something so wrong as plotting death against Latino immigrants has become the accepted norm?
One woman in South Carolina was so disturbed by the hateful things she was hearing local leaders and residents say about Latino immigrants that she felt compelled to speak up and wrote a Letter to the Editor to her local newspaper. Of course, when she did she was immediately attacked by the same incivility and intolerance that is all too common these days.
Yet, she did speak up and it’s time more people did:
Hispanics are human beings. They have families for whom they desire a better life. Do you know the circumstances they leave behind, and the risks they take to come to America? I dare say I’d be one to take the same risks.
I have learned that I should never judge anyone until I have walked in their shoes. All I’m asking is that we show compassion toward these human beings.
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Nine Lies About Work
Featuring Marcus Buckingham
1:00 - 3:00 p.m
Too many leaders have bought into false notions and stereotypes about what motivates and inspires team members. As a result, the processes and structures of their organizations reinforce those faulty assumptions, cause dysfunction and frustration—and ultimately result in disengaged employees.
In Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, Marcus Buckingham reveals a few core truths about the real world of work. He makes a compelling case that strength and cohesiveness of teams, not an organization’s culture, matter most; that a sense of purpose and meaning, not goal-setting from the top down, creates organizational alignment; and that individual performance improves through helpful coaching, not constant feedback.
How can leaders across our field free themselves from current assumptions, recognize core truths about the workplace, and embrace the uniqueness of every person in their organizations to make a greater difference in the lives of older adults?
The Power of Moments
Featuring Dan Heath
Moments are not created equal. There are moments we remember for decades and others that expire almost as quickly as they arrive. In our lives, and the lives of older adults, we know that moments and experiences matter—they have the power to change lives.
In their latest book, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, Chip and Dan Heath argue that while many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck, we also have the power to create them. By identifying the reasons behind what can make or break an memorable moment and developing a keener sense of why certain experiences can be so impactful, aging services providers can design extraordinary moments and be the authors of richer experiences in the lives of the older adults they serve.
Knowing this, why would we leave our most meaningful moments to chance?
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Lean In RUC Campus Kick Off
November 3, 2013, Lean In RUC held our Kickoff Event at Circle Café at the Renmin University of China.
Over 40 young ladies joined us in this wonderful event, aiming to share the Lean In attitude with more female students, create that firm support from closely connected Circles, encourage other female students to think positively, and empower them to take action by getting them out of their comfort zones.
Before the kickoff started, we asked our attendees to answer the question, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” similar to what the Lean In community had launched online before. We received a lot of inspiring answers, like “I would try sky diving,” “I would travel around the world alone,” and “I would conduct a venture project.”
We randomly assigned attendees into circles of 6-8 people. Just like speed dating, we designed an ice breaker to let the participants get to know each other quickly and create a comfortable sharing atmosphere. Lean In RUC organizing team members moderated each circle’s discussion. We also invited some team members from Lean In Beijing to join the circle sharing about personal goals, long-term career choices, and relationship problems. During the circle meeting, the students now not only were able to experience empathy from hearing and sharing with their peers, but also gained new insight from Lean In Beijing members with professional working experience.
The last part of the kickoff event was public sharing. Some rejoiced that they made new like-minded friends; some gained courage to be open-minded, receiving positive feedback and support. Some found a new way of thinking about the world through communicating with different people, and some found themselves more confident and ambitious through this kickoff event.
As a Lean In RUC organizing team member, I found a lot of power and energy from these students. Something Virginia, a Lean In Beijing member from Singapore, said stuck with me, “You don’t ask, you don’t get.” We do need to empower ourselves to achieve our goals and ambitions.
After the event, there were still many students looking to share and exchange their inspiring thoughts with each other. After the event, I found lots of support from comments on the participants’ social networks, including “Lean In! Girls do need such group support from a circle,” and “Lean In gives me lots of inspiration, and it feels really awesome. Looking forward to the next gathering with amazing ladies!”
By bringing the circle culture to Renmin University of China, we made our first step as a Lean In team reaching out to other female students. It amazed us that by sharing, discussing, and questioning honestly, we found that we all had a connected experience and common questions with which to encourage and support each other.
This is what “leaning in” is about–with peer support and mentorship, together we are better! We hope through our efforts, it will be more than just a slogan.
By Carrie Hwang
posted by Lean In Beijing on Friday, March 18th, 2016 at 12:34 pm in Events, Uncategorized
tags: beijing, Carrie Hwang, China, Circles, Lean In Beijing, university circles
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…The paintings by Mark Burrell convey rare command of a very peculiar and very English painter, for Mark is essentially a story teller who employs pigment rather than words to construct allegories, fables and fictions. His fantastic narratives are as much concerned with plot, setting and character as they are with line space and colour. Tony Collins, Head of School of Art and Design, Lowestoft College, Suffolk
…The paintings are colourful and often very personal, and at times very mysterious indeed, these paintings can be looked at again and again, there are touches of humour as well as the darker side of life, from strange green beings growing out of bushes, communing with ghosts, to sheep in fields flying. Eastern Daily Press, Arts Review
…New imagery is used by Mark Burrell to create a reverentially humorous depiction of Christ’s voyage, complete with teapot, across the Sea of Galilee. Angela Summerfield, Director of Art Royal Over-seas League
…Mark Burrell’s paintings are developments of real life experiences or emotions, and in his oils he uses rich glowing colours. Images, Arts Review Magazine
…I was drawn to the compelling work of Mark Burrell. His detailed paintings predominantly of purples greens and blues enable you to enjoy and enter in to his own natural conjuring of mental invention.
…The self portrait which is enhanced by a glorious multi-coloured background where ghost like figures loom. Sarah Garwood,Art Critic, Lowestoft Journal
…Mark paints symbolist figurative oils with psychic, religious or political themes, often dealing with intense states of mind or emotion, a highly patterned world in beautiful states of decay. Wilde Contemporary Art, The Mall Galleries, London
…Mark Burrell gives us Technicolor dreams of impending disaster… Tony Warner, Art Critic, Eastern Daily Press
…The works of Mark Burrell have the quality of allegory about them… Alan Tabelin, Lowestoft Journal
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Competitive college admissions gets yet more competitive, as students apply to more schools
The NY Times has the story: Led by Stanford’s 5%, Top Colleges’ Acceptance Rates Hit New Low
"Enrollment at American colleges is sliding, but competition for spots at top universities is more cutthroat and anxiety-inducing than ever. In the just-completed admissions season, Stanford University accepted only 5 percent of applicants, a new low among the most prestigious schools, with the odds nearly as bad at its elite rivals.
"Deluged by more applications than ever, the most selective colleges are, inevitably, rejecting a vast majority, including legions of students they once would have accepted. Admissions directors at these institutions say that most of the students they turn down are such strong candidates that many are indistinguishable from those who get in.
"Bruce Poch, a former admissions dean at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., said he saw “the opposite of a virtuous cycle at work” in admissions. “Kids see that the admit rates are brutal and dropping, and it looks more like a crapshoot,” he said. “So they send more apps, which forces the colleges to lower their admit rates, which spurs the kids next year to send even more apps.”
"For most of the past six decades, overall enrollment boomed, while the number of seats at elite colleges and universities grew much more slowly, making them steadily more selective. Enrollment peaked in 2011, and it has dropped a bit each year since then, prompting speculation that entry to competitive colleges would become marginally easier. Instead, counselors and admissions officers say, the pool of high-achieving applicants continues to grow, fed partly by a rising number from overseas.
"At the same time, students send more applications than they once did, abetted by the electronic forms that have become nearly universal, and uniform applications that can make adding one more college to the list just a matter of a mouse click. Seven years ago, 315 colleges and universities accepted the most widely used form, the Common Application; this year, 517 did.
"Students applying to seven or more colleges made up just 9 percent of the applicant pool in 1990, but accounted for 29 percent in 2011, according to surveys by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, and counselors and admissions officers say they think the figure has gone higher still.
"A generation ago, it was rare for even highly competitive colleges to offer places to fewer than 20 percent of their applicants. In 2003, Harvard and Princeton drew exclamations of dismay (from prospective applicants), envy (from other colleges) and satisfaction (from those they accepted) when they became the first top universities to have their admission rates dip below 10 percent. Since then, at least a dozen have gone below that threshold.
"This was the second year in a row that Stanford had the worst odds of admission among top colleges, a title that in previous years was usually claimed by Harvard. This year, by the April 1 deadline for most colleges to send admission notices, Harvard and Yale had accepted about 6 percent of applicants, Columbia and Princeton about 7 percent, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago about 8 percent. (Some rates will increase by a few tenths of a percentage point as colleges accept small numbers of applicants from waiting lists.)
"Several universities, including Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, had admission rates this year that were less than half of those from a decade ago. The University of Chicago’s rate plummeted to a little over 8 percent, from more than 40 percent."
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Mimi Joung
Artist | Ceramist | Maker
In Watermelon Sugar
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Mi Studio Ceramics
26-34 Southwell Road
London, SE5 9PG
Mimi Joung with iDeath, casting slip, 2018/19 (photo credit Micheal Harvey)
Mimi Joung, originally from Korea, gained her Masters in CERAMICS and Art from the Royal College of Art and is currently based in London, UK. MIMI has also been awarded membership of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
SHE has made site specific and project-based exhibitions inspired by her interest in exploring ideas surrounding her materials (clay) and their history.
SHE completed AN Artist in Residence program at the Banff Arts Centre, Canada, which celebrates conceptual art in Canada and allows international artists to explore the future of their ideas And also received various arts grants and commission from Korea, England, Wales, and other countries.
Joung is an award winning artist and exhibits her works internationally.
I trained as a ceramist and artist at the Fine Art department in Wonkwang University, South Korea and the Royal College Of Art, United Kingdom. Since then, I have developed a range of work through installations, artist residencies and private commissions in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia.
Much of my works are installation and situation/relational projects. They are suggestive of landscapes and stories, combining clay or glass sometimes bundled together with mundane, found materials such as elastic bands, knitting wool, silk thread, a needle box, objects found in charity shops, the natural environment or through people and conversations.
I focus on issues of "Displacement", with objects addressing a wider discourse, beyond origin and usage, to reference human situations and experience. I am a long way from home and the important influences there. I have become a commentator, observer and historian reflecting the important cycle of roots and change.
Process is all important to me. My hands instinctively seek to resolve ideas through the act of making and follow a playful approach, reflecting my own life, what I read and what I learn from other people and situations. I feel that my comfort with materials and techniques allows me to seek a deeper meaning in the historical context of ceramic materials, forms and colour.
A major body of my work developed from my response to a simple birth mug (Sarah 1775) that has been on display at the V&A since my time at the RCA. I imagined the life of Sarah, born in the midst of Britain’s industrialisation, and created my own story, ‘A letter to my mother’ (2003) in response. Since then I have created a wide range of site specific, often unfired and unglazed pieces, that build on story-telling and sense-making.
Recently, my work has evolved as I begin to create more sculptural pieces based on a slim novel called ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ by the American writer, Richard Brautigan. I Create these sculptures by tracing and taping each chapter of Brautigan’s surreal landscape which are reflections of displacement within imagined utopias and dystopias.
Oriel y Parc Resident artist selected by Cardiff Museum and Safle, Arts Council Wales, 2010
Banff Arts Centre, Scholarship, Future Idea of art residency, Arts council Canada, Sept 2006
Grant for Arts, Art council North East, individual development grant, March 2006
Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, Project Grant, 2006
NCSP Grant, Symposium support, July 2006
Grant for Arts, Art council North East, Travel grant, March 2006
Designed and Made Industry Bursaries, European union, Northern rock foundation, 2006
British Craft in Japan Travel Grant, Crafts council, UK investment & trade, 2006
Next move, Craft council UK, Sunderland university, Arts council England, 2005 - 2007
Faenza international Ceramic Art Competition, 2004/5
Oversea student Bursaries, Royal college of Art, UK, 2004/5
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My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic OC RP :: Creations :: Submitted Creations :: Earth Ponies Share
Country Song
PrometheusEngi
Subject: Country Song Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:22 am
Just hope this place isn't dead.
Species: Earth Pony
Mane: Light Green
Tail: Straight, same color as mane.
Eyes: Oval shaped and hazelish colored
Body: Wears a vest (resembling Braeburn's), a hat on his head, average build.
Cutie Mark: A banjo
Age (Baby,adult): Adult
Personality: Can be very kind, tad overprotective of friends. Is a bit stubborn and arrogant at times he tries to be the most honest stallion he can be but he occasionally lies to get out of situations where lying is needed. He also tends to get cocky.
Likes: Country Music, the banjo, guitar, anything made with apples, honesty
Dislikes: Winter, rock music, heights, the rich and/or rich looking, being lied to, bullying/bullies
History: Hailing from Appleoosa, Country Song is a Country Singer., He used to travel Equestria putting on shows. However he has since stopped traveling and decided to take residence in Ponyville within the town's local inn. His family is called the "Country Singers", since almost every member of the family has something to do with Country Music. Out of all the members of the Singers he and his parents are the only ones with a Southern Accent.
Before his first concert as a colt (about a year or so), his parents trained him with a banjo and as soon as he mastered it and worked up the courage to play his Cutie Mark appeared. Years later he left Appleoosa to explore Equestria as to share his musical talent with the rest of Equestria.
His first concert as a stallion was scheduled to be in Canterlot but he declined the offer. His reason being that he doesn't like the upper class and that they wouldn't appreciate his music. For six months he traveled to different parts of Equestria, performing in different cities to not just ponies, but other species as well. His final show was planned in Ponyville, but due to unfortunate events that show was canceled and his show in Manehattan ended up being the last in his banjo-playing career.
While on his way to Ponyville, he ended up taking a way through the Everfree Forest as a shortcut, as he was expected in Ponyville to perform and was short on time. Country ended up getting attacked by Timberwolves. He has enough combat experience but the Wolves caught him off guard and he was injured by them and it was enough to make him fall unconscious. Afterwards he awoke outside the edge of the forest and with a local mare from the town nearby the Forest in front of him. She took him to and a few days later his banjo was found and brought to him in a destroyed state and thus he couldn't perform like he was told he could by somepony in Manehattan He remembered what his parents told him: "A good Country Singer always has experience with a guitar".
Naturally this meant that he would search for the closest music shop so he did but to no avail. He is most experienced with a banjo but prefers a guitar.
Example RP segment: Segment 5.
When Country Song finished his performance in Manehattan he was told that he was to go to Ponyville and perform there. On his way to the exit of the city he took notice of colt bullying a filly. The colt turns and snaps, "What're you looking at?" Country Song walks up to the colt and replies with, "Ah'm lookin' at ya hurtin' that 'ere filly." The colt replies with, "Yeah, and?" "Scram away from this filly or else." Country says. "Or else what?" The colt said. "Let meh give ya some triv' on me. I've got enough bucking power in mah back legs to knock out a stallion twice mah size! So unless ya want to go home injured leave." Country said to the colt as the colt ran away. "Thank you mister." Said the filly that was being bullied as she went home.
I hope this gets accepted
Fireseeker
Location : United Kingdom
Subject: Re: Country Song Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:50 am
Welcome to the site. I can assure you, we are very much alive :)
Your app is very good, with plenty of detail. My only criticism would be to try and use paragraphing in your roleplaying to avoid walls of text, especially to separate speech.
For example, instead of;
Quote :
"Ah'm lookin' at ya hurtin' that 'ere filly." The colt replies with, "Yeah, and?" "Scram away from this filly or else." Country says. "Or else what?" The colt said.
Try breaking it like the following:
"Ah'm lookin' at ya hurtin' that 'ere filly."
The colt replies with, "Yeah, and?"
"Scram away from this filly or else." Country says.
"Or else what?" The colt said.
Just remember to do this in future.
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Spartan Newsroom (http://news.jrn.msu.edu/2016/08/sleeping-bear-trail-system-expands/)
Sleeping Bear trail system expands
By Capital News Service | August 17, 2016
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By HANNAH BRENNER
LANSING — A ribbon-cutting ceremony has marked the opening of a new segment of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on the Leelanau Peninsula.
But a delay in delivering parts for a boardwalk over Narada Lake means that it is not yet fully in use, said Lee Jameson, the facility manager at the lakeshore park.
Work on the segment is expected to continue through the fall and possibly into next spring.
When finished, the latest addition to the bicycle and ski trail at Sleeping Bear Dunes on Lake Michigan will run 3.6 miles from Port Oneida to Bohemian Road. That will bring the current length to 17 miles of asphalt, boardwalk and gravel.
The trail will eventually run 27 miles from Empire northeast about halfway up the Leelanau Peninsula.
Projects like this by the National Park Service require special environmental consideration, Jameson said. An environmental assessment was done before the first segment was completed.
To limit adverse environmental effects, the trail follows existing utility corridors, abandoned roads and a narrow gauge railroad. That minimizes its impact on forested areas and wetlands. Boardwalks are built with helical piles, a more environmentally friendly alternative to cement foundations.
Instead of digging up landscape and pouring permanent cement, the piles screw directly into the ground and can be unscrewed if needed. This results in minimal surface damage and the option to remove most traces of the structure, leaving only a small hole.
Some of the most popular locations, such as the Dune Climb and the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, can be accessed from the new trail and by car.
Hannah Brenner writes for Great Lakes Echo.
Conservation in the Bat Zone
By EAMON DEVLIN
LANSING — Michigan – Bat-ter up! You can step up to the plate at the newly renovated Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills.
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Coming to Netflix in July 2019
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"Stranger Things 3" arrives on Netflix on July 4. Other July releases include new seasons of Orange is the New Black, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, The Worst Witch, Queer Eye, The Last Czars, SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac and films Cities of Last Things, Point Blank and The Red Sea Diving Resort. (Photo: Netflix){ } { }
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) —
Welcome to the month when we finally get "Stranger Things 3." Nothing else really matters, right? Actually, I am also excited to see other Netflix Originals like "3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2," "Cities of Last Things" and "The Red Sea Diving Resort." Still, "Stranger Things 3" and more "Stranger Things 3" please.
Here are a few catalog titles also coming to Netflix in July that caught my eye:
"The Book of Eli"
In 2010 the Hughes brothers ("Menace II Society") teamed with Denzel Washington to bring this post-apocalyptic western to the big screen. The story sees Washington star as Eli, a man traveling across the wastelands of America to deliver a book to those who know how to keep and protect it. Screenwriter Gary Whitta has suggested he'll be doing a watch party on Twitter to celebrate the film's arrival on Netflix.
"Frozen River"
Melissa Leo stars in the Oscar-nominated "Frozen River," a film about a woman desperate for money who agrees to help traffic illegal immigrants from Canada across the frozen St. Lawrence River
"Megamind"
Featuring the vocal talents of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross and Brad Pitt, "Megamind" tells the story of a legendary supervillain who looses his purpose in life when he defeats his nemesis Metro Man.
"Taxi Driver"
Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller "Taxi Driver" stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle , a mentally unhinged Vietnam vet, who works nights as a taxi driver in New York City. Disgusted by the world that surrounds him, Travis becomes infatuated with a presidential campaign volunteer and looks to free a young runaway who has been forced in to prostitution.
"The Iron Lady"
Meryl Streep stars as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" a film that explores the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's formative and early political years. It's not entirely accurate, but Streep's performance is fantastic. (Arriving 7/6/19)
"Disney's Mary Poppins Returns"
"Mary Poppins Returns" is a strange film in that it offers a better narrative than the original film, but doesn't come close to matching the songwriting of Richard and Robert Sherman. Emily Blunt is quite good as the title character and Lin-Manuel Miranda is amiable as a cockney lamplighter. Maybe Miranda should have had more input when it come to the songs themselves. (Arriving 7/9/19)
"Disney's The Princess and the Frog"
Released in 2009, "The Princess and the Frog" never quite received the reception it deserved. From the New Orleans setting, Randy Newman's jazz-infused songs, a bit of voodoo and inspiration culled from E. D. Baker's "The Frog Princess" (a spin on the Brother's Grimm tale "The Frog Prince") the film oozes the wonder and magic of turn-of-the-century Louisiana. Were it not for Pixar's "Up," which arguably was the best film of 2009, "The Princess and the Frog" would have likely won the Oscar for Best Animated Film. (Arriving 7/16/19)
A complete list of titles coming to Netflix in July.
Descriptions provided by Netflix.
"Prism: Tales of Your City" - "Tales of Your City" explores LGBTQ+ stories of place and community around America. Last week we explored never-before-heard archival tape of Sylvia Rivera's Stonewall Inn experience in New York City, this week we travel to New Orleans.
"I Hate Talking About Myself" - I Hate Talking About This features Netflix's biggest stars interviewing themselves. Check out this interview by Russian Doll's Natasha Lyonne.
"I'm Obsessed with This" - This week's I'm Obsessed With This features host Bobby Finger and guests discussing new releases like the new episode of Black Mirror and the film Murder Mystery.
"What to Watch on Netflix" - Host Keiko Agena shares what’s new and helps listeners pick what to watch next.
Avail. 7/1/19
"Designated Survivor: 60 days"
Designated Survivor: 60 Days follows the main storyline of the original format, but has been adapted to feature more of the Korean reality. It is a story of a politician, who suddenly ascends from the position of Minister of Environment to President, as an explosion at the National Assembly kills everyone in the Cabinet who is ahead of him in terms of the presidential succession. Park Mu-jin is a scientist-turned-politician who struggles to fit in politics. Park is the acting president for 60 days, and during this period, albeit inexperienced and unwilling, he tries to uncover the truth behind the attack.
"Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room"
Everyone's favorite single mom is back with her second Netflix original stand-up special Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room, launching globally on July 1. A follow-up to her 2017 special In Trouble, Katherine toured Glitter Room across the UK with an unprecedented four-week run at London’s Garrick Theatre in the West End. After dividing The Belasco Theater audience on their love or dislike of the Kardashians, Katherine showcases her skillful and hilarious storytelling style with tales about following a man to Japan and meeting her daughter's first celebrity crush, Anna Kendrick.
"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
"Astro Boy"
"Caddyshack"
"Caddyshack 2"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005)
"Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke"
"Cloverfield"
"Disney's Race to Witch Mountain"
"Inkheart"
"Kill the Irishman"
"Lady in the Water"
"Little Monsters"
"Mean Dreams"
"Mean Streets"
"Nights in Rodanthe"
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop"
"Philadelphia"
"Rain Man"
"Room on the Broom"
"Scream 3"
"Starsky & Hutch"
"Swiped"
"Swordfish"
"Taxi Driver'"
"The Accountant of Auschwitz"
"The American"
"The Brothers Grimm"
"The Hangover"
"The Pink Panther"
"The Pink Panther 2"
"War Against Women"
"Who's That Knocking at My Door?"
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"The Last Czars"
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"Kakegurui:" Season 2
"Stranger Things 3"
It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer's heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group’s dynamic, and they’ll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town’s threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. Now they’ll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear.
"In The Dark:" Season 1
"Free Rein:" Season 3
"Sicilian Ghost Story"
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Avail. 7/10/19
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When the McKellan family moves from Seattle to Georgia, life down South -- and traditional grandparents -- challenge their new-age ways.
"Grand Designs:" Season 10
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"Cities of Last Things"
"3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2 "
"4 latas" -- NETFLIX FILM
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"Point Blank"
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"True Tunes: Songs" -- NETFLIX FAMILY
"Sorry Angel"
"The Break-Up"
"Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein"-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
In this new mockumentary, join "Stranger Things" actor David Harbour as he uncovers lost footage from his father's televised stage play, Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein. Expect the unexpected in this over-the-top and often dramatic(ish) reimagined tale of mystery and suspense . With appearances by Alfred Molina, Kate Berlant, and more special guests, Harbour explores the depths of his family's acting lineage to gain insight into his father's legacy - all in 28-minutes. Directed by Daniel Gray Longino ("Kroll Show" and "PEN15") and written by John Levenstein ("Arrested Development" and "Kroll Show"), Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein launches globally on Netflix on July 16, 2019.
"Wynonna Earp:" Season 3
"Pinky Malinky: Part 3" -- NETFLIX FAMILY
"Secret Obsession" -- NETFLIX FILM
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"The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants:" Season 3 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
Fourth-grade friends George and Harold have a shared love of pranks and comic books -- and turning their principal into an undies-wearing superhero.
"La casa de papel: "Part 3 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
"Last Chance U: INDY: Part 2"-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Netflix’s critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series Last Chance U returns to give viewers an intense, unfiltered look at the junior college football program at Independence Community College (ICC). Entering his third season with ICC and second season on Last Chance U, Coach Brown has assembled a team that looks sure to compete for a national championship, but a disastrous season on the field puts a spotlight on all of the ugliness of college football that winning tends to polish over. With some new and returning faces, this season captures the Pirates fall from grace that leaves the coaches and the town looking for change.
"Queer Eye: Season 4"-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
"SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac" -- NETFLIX ANIME
"Typewriter "-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
"Typewriter" is about a haunted house and a haunted book that stir the imagination of a group of young, wannabe ghost hunters, and a dog, determined to capture the ghost that plagues the notorious home in their neighborhood in Goa. When a new family and their captivating daughter move into the haunted home, the crew finds it difficult to balance the demands of school and chores with the renewed urgency to capture the neighborhood ghost before it is too late. (MC)
"Inglourious Basterds"
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Multi-hyphenate comedian, Whitney Cummings, makes her Netflix debut with her 4th stand-up special, Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? Filmed at the Sidney Harmon Hall in her hometown, Washington, DC. Cummings’ signature incisive commentary on gender dynamics is more relevant than ever. Do women need to wear service vests instead of “Rosé All Day” t-shirts? Are their nicknames for each other hurting the cause? Now that people are actually listening what should women change? How are men holding up with all the “new” rules they have to follow now? Tune in for Whitney’s take on everything including why we should give sex robots a chance. The special will launch globally on Netflix on July 30, 2019.
"Kengan Ashura: Part l"-- NETFLIX ANIME
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"The Red Sea Diving Resort" -- NETFLIX FILM
Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The undercover team carrying out this mission is led by the charismatic Ari Kidron (Chris Evans) and courageous local Kabede Bimro (Michael Kenneth Williams). The prestigious cast also includes Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley.
"Wentworth:" Season 7
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Home \ News \ Stalled Gazprom Antitrust Case May Suggest Unease for Energy Sanctions
Stalled Gazprom Antitrust Case May Suggest Unease for Energy Sanctions
10.08.2014 The New York Times
Even as Russia and the West keep raising the stakes in their economic sanctions battle, the one commodity that could matter most — Russian natural gas — seems still to be off limits.
And that is all the more notable because long before Ukraine erupted as a geopolitical crisis, the European Union was aggressively pressing an antitrust case against the Russian state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom. If Europe has grounds to punish Moscow economically, the Gazprom antitrust case might seem to be a prime opportunity.
Gazprom is suspected of inflating prices and imposing unfair restrictions on gas distribution within Europe, which is heavily reliant on Russian natural gas.
As recently as last winter, Russia and the European Union’s competition commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, seemed on the verge of settling. But now the case appears to be languishing. And people close to the inquiry are uncertain whether it will be revived before the autumn, when Mr. Almunia is scheduled to leave office.
While that prospect is disappointing to small European Union countries like Lithuania that are particularly dependent on Gazprom for their energy needs, the lost momentum of the antitrust case seems to underscore a reality: So far the sanctions war may be more about symbolic actions than imposing far-reaching economic pain on either side.
A failure to press the Gazprom case “would mean that the commission is weak and not in a position to defend our own rules,” Jaroslav Neverovi, the energy minister of Lithuania, said in a telephone interview last week. He was referring to the European Commission, the E.U.’s administrative arm. Gazprom, Mr. Neverovi warned, could make “an attempt to get back to old practices” in future negotiations.
Lithuania is among six European Union member states dependent on Russia for all their gas. And, like Latvia and Slovakia, it relies on that source for more than a quarter of total energy needs. The other European Union countries wholly dependent on Russia for their natural gas are Bulgaria, Estonia and Finland, according to the European Commission.
Three years ago, Lithuania helped advance the Gazprom case by sending Mr. Almunia a formal complaint. Lithuania is also seeking compensation from Gazprom for what it contends were past pricing abuses at a separate arbitration proceeding in Stockholm.
As recently as last December, two months before Ukraine erupted, Mr. Almunia seemed eager to bring Gazprom to heel. At a meeting at the top of the glass-and-steel headquarters of the European Commission here, Gazprom’s representative was proposing concessions aimed at ending the antitrust investigation, which had badly irked the Kremlin.
The Gazprom executive, Alexander Medvedev, who was head of the company’s export division at the time, said then that it might even be possible to reach a settlement before the Winter Olympics got underway in February in the Russian city of Sochi. A person with direct knowledge of the meeting described the conversation, on condition of anonymity.
But Mr. Medvedev, accompanied by a Russian deputy energy minister, Anatoly Yanovsky, did not manage to settle the case before the Winter Games began. Subsequent talks on a deal between officials on both sides showed that they were still far apart on the allegations of overpricing.
And now, even as the Ukraine crisis has divided Russia and the West like nothing else since the Cold War, it is far from certain that Gazprom will face formal antitrust charges that could force the company to revise long-term contracts with countries like Lithuania.
Formal charges would also make it more likely that Gazprom would eventually be told to pay a fine — one that could theoretically run as high as 10 billion euros, or about $13.4 billion, although European Union antitrust penalties have never gone that high.
Antoine Colombani, a spokesman for Mr. Almunia, declined to comment on the December meeting or subsequent settlement talks. The antitrust “investigation is ongoing,” said Mr. Colombani. “We cannot anticipate the timing of decisions.”
The antitrust investigation began in September 2011 with surprise raids by European officials on Gazprom offices and those of several of its customers in Germany and across Central and Eastern Europe.
A year later Mr. Almunia opened a formal antitrust case asking three main questions: Was Gazprom blocking gas flows in some parts of Europe? Was the company thwarting its European customers’ efforts to diversify sources of supply? And was it imposing unfairly high charges by linking gas prices to those of oil, rather than basing prices on global natural gas market rates?
The case concentrated on Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Analysts say one reason Mr. Almunia may have still not issued formal charges is that natural gas was conspicuously exempted in the sanctions that the European Union imposed on Russia last month.
The concern, they say, is that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could accuse the Europeans of ramping up an antitrust case as a rationale for extending the sanctions to natural gas. That could give the Russian leader, who has already told his government to follow the case with “very close attention,” another pretext to retaliate, perhaps by cutting supplies this winter.
Russian gas made up 39 percent of total European Union imports last year, up from 30 percent in 2010. About half those supplies are delivered through Ukraine, and previous flare-ups between Moscow and Kiev left some European cities shivering during midwinter in 2006 and 2009.
“Of course the Ukrainian crisis could have slowed down” the case, said Mario Mariniello, an expert in antitrust law at Bruegel, a research organization in Brussels.
But Mr. Mariniello said there were also legal reasons for Mr. Almunia’s hesitancy. “Proving the need to remove the link to the oil price is possibly the most challenging part of the case to resolve,” he said.
Gazprom was willing to resolve antitrust disputes with Europe a decade ago when it agreed to end restrictions in Western Europe that had prevented its customers in Italy, Austria and Germany from reselling Russian gas to other countries.
But the current case is a challenge to the way Gazprom links its gas prices to oil. That is a hugely sensitive issue for Mr. Putin and Russia, where a significant chunk of the national budget depends on the company’s energy export earnings.
Oil-linked pricing in Europe goes back decades to the development of gas fields in countries like the Netherlands. Gas was pegged to the price of oil, which gas was replacing for uses like heating.
But linked pricing began breaking down in Western Europe with deregulation of energy markets and with the availability of new supplies like liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G. But pricing still can be opaque, even in Western Europe, where a complete break of the oil-gas price link has proved difficult for big buyers in countries including Italy.
Energy experts said Mr. Almunia would be on firm legal ground in demanding that Gazprom rid contracts of clauses that limit Eastern and Central European countries from shipping Russian gas to other destinations within the European Union. But many say that Mr. Almunia may have less standing to challenge Gazprom’s pricing practices.
“For the Baltic States and Poland I think the commission is on difficult ground,” said Jonathan Stern, the chairman of a natural gas research program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He said the only viable alternative source of supply for those countries was L.N.G., which usually comes by ship from countries like Qatar and Norway and still is generally more costly than Russian gas carried by pipeline.
“It’s very unlikely that either the Poles or the Lithuanians or anyone in the Baltics currently and historically could have obtained gas at a cheaper price than the Russians are selling it to them,” Mr. Stern said. “Politicians and people high up in the commission say the fact that prices charged to the Baltic States are higher than the prices charged to Germany proves those prices are anticompetitive. But that is not proof.”
The countries involved in the antitrust inquiry still lack cheaper energy alternatives, Mr. Stern said. “There’s no backup at the moment,” he said, and “who knows what will happen to L.N.G. prices in the next couple of years?”
But proponents of bringing formal charges against Gazprom say that energy alternatives should be available soon, as countries including Lithuania and Poland begin operating planned seaport terminals that could give them leverage to negotiate lower prices on Russian supplies.
They also say geopolitics — not just lower gas prices — should be a consideration, in encouraging Ukraine to more closely embrace Europe as it turns away from Russia.
“If we send a message that all parties that are participating in the European gas sector are treated equally, and they are subject to the same set of requirements and rules,” said Mr. Neverovi, the Lithuanian minister, “then Ukraine might implement European law, realizing it is seriously treated and protected by the E.U.”
Without that message, Russian and Ukrainian energy companies would probably continue to “divide the market and manipulate the price and use all the tricks” that Europe is trying to eradicate, he said.
Stanley Reed
Ukraine imports record volume of reverse-flow gas from EU
30.01.2015 UNIAN
Ukraine on Thursday imported 44.65 million cubic meters of gas from EU countries, hitting a new daily record after increasing gas supplies from Slovakia on January 25, according to data from gas suppliers in Hungary and Slovakia.
Ukraine and Russia reach gas 'consensus'
24.10.2014 BBC
Ukraine and Russia have "found consensus" on a deal to end their gas dispute
It will chiefly depend on Ukraine whether in a complicated EU-Ukraine-Russia triangle it can become a small coin
23.05.2014 Dzerkalo Tyzhnya
Lulling tales stating that Putin, being allegedly threatened with international sanctions, withdrew his troops from the Ukrainian borders, and that the violent two-headed eagle eventually decided to retracted his claws, do not actually correspond to real facts. He is only sharpening them [the claws]. Therefore, Europe and the United States are currently only trying to find out who Putin has decided to aim his 'gas weapon' against: first of all, in Ukraine and in Europe. These and many other questions are discussed in the talk between a correspondent of the ZN.UA and board chairperson of the Naftogaz of Ukraine national joint-stock company (Naftogaz of Ukraine) Andrii Kobolev.
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Education PolicyCharter Schools
February 2, 2015 • 4:53PM
‘We Were Doing Kids a Disservice’: Former Charter School Teacher Recalls Lack of Oversight and Accountability
By Kinjo Kiema
“Nothing short of insane”- that’s how special education teacher Britt Mickley describes her experience at a Columbus, Ohio, charter school. During a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) on January 30th, Mickley chronicled the poor learning conditions that became entrenched at the elementary school where she taught.
“This school needed to close, since we were doing all these kids a disservice,” Mickley said.
Although Ohio is notorious for its failing charter schools – a majority received an F on the state school report card – negative experiences like Mickley’s are shared by educators across the country. They stem from the biggest flaw in the current charter school system – a systemic lack of accountability and effective oversight.
According to Mickley, many of her co-workers at the elementary school – run by a husband and wife team that had no background in educational leadership – were not professionally-trained educators. The school advertised positions on Craigslist and accepted people “desperate for any sort of work,” Mickley said.
Adequate resources were scarce. Mickley often paid for classroom supplies and lunch for students out of her own paycheck. In a class filled with students with special needs, including a student who was fully blind and couldn’t walk to classes without assistance, Mickley’s students would have greatly benefited from specialists, such as speech pathologists and psychologists. However, after pleading for the resources her class needed, administrators denied her requests, leaving her completely alone to work with the students.
During the panel discussion, Mickley also recounted one notorious meeting during which administrators notified the entire teaching staff that the school lacked the funding to pay them. Each teacher was asked to write down how much money they could give back to the school, so that administrators could pool the money and pay the teachers at least a small portion of their earned salary. When they expressed discomfort with giving back a portion of their meager earnings, the administrators asked every individual to write down a name of a teacher who could be fired.
Teacher Britt Mickley discusses charter school oversight at a panel sponsored by the Center for Popular Democracy on Jan. 30 2015.
Understandably disgusted, many of the educators quit soon afterwards.
Mickley documented all the problems she witnessed, but after she presented the records before school and district administrators, she was fired. Mickley now works at a public school, where she says there is a noticeable difference in the level of accountability.
“If you can’t get away with much in a public school, why can you get away with so much in a charter school?” Mickley wonders.
These schools were originally created to support innovative educational models through public funding, but few regulations and systems of oversight have been implemented to ensure that they are truly serving their students and communities. According to the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and Integrity in Education, the charter school industry is riddled with over $100 million of taxpayer money in waste and fraud. Mismanagement has been identified in 15 out of the 42 states that have charter schools, with school administrators using public funding ineffectively or even illegally.
In a new follow-up report, CPD alleges that the level of waste and corruption in the Illinois charter industry may be as high as an estimated $27.7 million in in 2014 alone, and finds that the state has no system in place to properly monitor and supervise charter school projects.
“Operators continue to line their pockets unchecked while public schools are forced to slash programs due to lack of funding,” said National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García. “Lawmakers need to stop treating education budgets like a slush fund for corporate charter school operators and hold them accountable to the students and communities they are supposed to be serving.”
At the CPD panel, Leigh Dingerson, a consultant at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, noted how federal finding has contributed to the rapid growth of charter schools. National funding for charter schools began in 1994, and has steadily increased to support the 2.1 million students who attend these schools across the country.
“The federal funding stream has played an incredibly important role in the growth of charter schools, but the capacity and oversight has not increased at the same rate,” Dingerson said.
By merely throwing money at these new schools without requiring the necessary accountability measures, “you’re allowing bad apples to be brought in,” she added.
Dingerson also pointed to the obstacles many charter schools impose that make it difficult for already disadvantaged students to enroll. Acceptance is often based on standardized test scores, and mandatory in-person enrollment procedures can be unduly burdensome for many low-income working parents.
These boundaries to enrollment are some of the “largest examples of failing accountability,” Dingerson said.
Read more about NEA’s position on charter school accountability and transparency.
Education Policy: Charter Schools
POST TAGS: Britt Mickley, Center for Popular Democracy, Charter School Accountability, Charter School Oversight
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How Bad Are Waste and Fraud at Charter Schools? This Bad.
NEA Steps Up Organizing Efforts in Non-Union Charter Schools
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3.0 miles from West Lancashire College Stadium
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The Suites Hotel & Spa located in Knowsley just 8 miles from Liverpool city centre with good transportation links, the hotel offers exclusive suite-only accommodation with free WiFi & onsite Parking as well as a Bar, Bistro & Restaurant with full complimentary access to our Leisure Club. Each suite at The Suites Hotel comes with a spacious living and dining area. They are all equipped with a writing desk, a TV, a refrigerator and tea and coffee making facilities, and they all include en-suite bathroom facilities fitted with a bathtub and a shower. All of our double bedded suites have zip and link mattresses. Our new and exclusive Spa, The Spa @ Suites Hotel is an oasis or tranquillity where you can relax and pamper yourself with an array of treatments from the word renowned Decleor. We are also proud to announce we have been selected to offer the exclusive range of treatments and products from the Haute Courture of beauty Carita, Paris. As the only Carita Spa within a 20 mile radius validates that our Spa offers you luxury together with the best treatments on Merseyside.
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What now for road projects?
What do we do with road projects that were going to use ReBuild Houston funds now that the Supreme Court has ruled the 2010 referendum to have been illegal?
A necklace of neighborhood streets encircling Hudnell’s home is among the ReBuild projects, deemed beyond “economical repair” and originally scheduled for work late next fiscal year, which starts July 1, but recently pushed back several months.
Now, that delay could last much longer, and residents who have waited for their crumbling roads or poor drainage to be improved could simply be out of luck; a Supreme Court ruling two weeks ago found the ReBuild ballot measure voters narrowly approved in 2010 obscured the nature and cost of the drainage fee. The case is headed back to trial court where legal experts say a judge is likely to honor the unanimous Supreme Court decision.
If the city no longer can collect the drainage fee, ReBuild projects slated for mid- to late next year, like the one near South Acres, could be shelved. Next year alone, the city has budgeted more than $100 million in drainage fee spending, and the fee is projected to bring in $500 million over five years.
At a budget meeting last week, Mayor Annise Parker acknowledged the city’s Capital Improvement Plan could take a hit. Council members have pushed the administration for more clarity on the impact of the lawsuit as they consider the five-year plan, up for a vote Wednesday.
“The Supreme Court ruling, first of all, it’s ongoing litigation, it has no operational impact today,” Parker said. “But it would be the CIP. Probably a third to a half of the CIP would go away if we didn’t use the drainage fee. But there’s still other money in there.”
City Attorney Donna Edmundson disputed the notion that the city could not collect the drainage fee if the trial court finds the ballot language was misleading, pointing out that the lawsuit targets the charter amendment, not the ordinance City Council later passed to begin collecting the fee.
“The ruling by the Texas Supreme Court regarding the language for the Proposition 1 charter amendment has no bearing on whether the drainage ordinance continues,” Edmundson said. “The enabling ordinance adopted by City Council created the drainage utility and accompanying monthly fee that finances the streets and drainage program. For this reason, the ongoing legal dispute has no impact on the city budget for the coming fiscal year or the five-year Capital Improvement Program City Council will consider on Wednesday.”
South Texas College of Law professor Matthew Festa said that the charter amendment is struck down and the city continues to collect the drainage fee, it begs the question why they sent it to voters in the first place.
“It might be a technically correct legal argument,” Festa said. “But it might not be prudent to continue implementing a law where the basis on which the law is enacted is in grave doubt.”
See here and here for the background. As I said with the calls for doing over the election, I’d like to hear what the district court has to say before we do anything rash. Proceeding as if nothing has changed strikes me as unwise. I hate the idea of putting off needed maintenance, and I still think the Supreme Court ruling was politically motivated, but we are in uncharted waters here, and any further activity involving ReBuild funds risks putting the city in legal jeopardy. If there are projects that can be done without tapping into that funding source for now, then go ahead with it. Anything else, let’s get some clarity about what the Supreme Court ruling means in practical terms.
Back to square one for ReBuild Houston
New litigation against ReBuild Houston
ReBuild re-vote?
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SANS EVERYTHING (FringeArts): Artificial Intelligence with Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor
February 11, 2017 - Lev Feigin
This weekend, Philly’s FringeArts presents SANS EVERYTHING, a must-see collaboration between Lightning Rod Special and Strange Attractor that pairs Artificial Intelligence with Shakespeare’s As You Like It to deliver a brilliant, breath-taking and thought-provoking performance.
The plot? In a distant future, disembodied AI decides to play human – we don’t know if humanity still exists – and inhabits the bodies of eight adults who will discover the pain and joys of corporeal existence for the very first time.
On the flawlessly designed and illuminated minimalist set (Brooklyn-based Masha Tsimring) – six doors with horizontal white blinds framed by windows through which we glimpse lights – two naked people tumble onto the stage, puking, mewling and lost – manifestations of AI hardwired into inchoate, unexperienced bodies and minds.
The woman (Alice Yorke) and the man (Jed Hancock-Brainerd) are jostled and shocked by the world at the tips of their fledgling senses. “You have a penis,” says the woman to the man with wonder. “I suppose, I do,” he replies, not fully sure what she means. “I have a vagina. Labia minora. Labia majora. Mons pubis. Whole package.” But there is no knowledge forbidden to these cloud-connected beings. The woman knows the exact chromosome location of her red hair gene. She is just not really sure how to walk.
When all the eight actors assemble on the stage, they set out on surreal, riveting journey through Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man – recall the “world’s a stage” soliloquy – guided by the distorted voice of their Alphaville-like computer overlord (Aram Aghazarian).
They taste and chew bread, adopt names and play out identities, experience the awkwardness of sensual pleasure and dreams, discover seduction, fear and cruelty, the overwhelming and lyrical raptures of human emotions, and the pleasures of performance.
After the new humans are indoctrinated into the surges of their wetware, the commandeering voice leaves them to their own devices, and the play gently morphs into a looped, absurdist take of the wrestling scene from As You Like It. The costumes are stunning – pipe fittings as hats, donut-shaped air ducting as Elizabethan ruff collars, bizarre headgear, The meta-play by post-humans lacking selfhood is rife with reflections on the nature of performance itself.
Jorge Lois Borges has a very short story in which Shakespeare meets God after death. The Bard confesses to his Maker that he never had a self and has been “many men in vain” God replies: “I, too, am not I; I dreamed the world as you, Shakespeare, dreamed your own work and among the forms of my dream are you…”
SANS EVERYTHING ups the ante on Borges’ story. Humanity creates its own godhead – AI – that longs to experience its creators through Shakespeare.
[FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Boulevard] .February 9-11, 2017; FringeArts.com.
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Lev Feigin
Lev Feigin is a Philadelphia writer, flâneur, biker and kayaker. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center and is an alumnus of The Writers Institute at the Graduate Center.
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Curtis Opera Theatre/Opera Philadelphia): Clowns and opera collide ARIADNE AUF NAXOS predates Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George” and David Hirson’s “La Bête” by decades, but the situation it... by Neal Zoren for NealsPaper
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April 24, 2015 June 17, 2015 <a href="http://pioneer.occc.edu/byline/jorge-krzyzaniak-senior-writer/" rel="tag">Jorge Krzyzaniak / Senior Writer</a>
Photo Courtesy of Cathy Bowman
Lyn McDonald,
Retired OCCC professor Lyn McDonald died Friday, April 3, of COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The former graphic communications professor and program adviser was remembered by some on campus who knew her well.
McDonald is said to have pioneered OCCC’s graphic communications program.
English Professor Susan VanSchuyver served as her division dean while McDonald taught on campus.
“She really brought graphic communication into this decade,” VanSchuyver said. “She brought it from when airbrushing was one of the big deals in graphic communication to the most advanced Mac and the most advanced software and most advanced computers.
“She brought it from a very different place. It even had a different name and then she changed it to graphic communications when she made a big program change and changed the curriculum.
OCCC’s Macintosh Computer Technician Cathy Bowman was McDonald’s friend and saw her toward the end.
“She was a force,” she said. “She really was. She’ll be missed.”
VanSchuyver said, as a profesor, McDonald had a love for graphic communications.
“That was her baby. She was really passionate about that and protected it like a mother bear.”
Randy Anderson, who inherited his role as graphic communications professor from McDonald, said she should be remembered for her dedication to teaching the subject.
“She worked hard to put together a good program,” he said.
“She really had a strong program when she retired so it made my job so much easier.”
Bowman said McDonald developed a program for the sake of empowering her students.
“I think that the GCOM program is certainly something she should be remembered for,” Bowman said.
“In her classes she made it abundantly clear that after [she earned a] four-year university degree, she was in no way qualified to step out into the job market.
“She had this opportunity to see that other people didn’t have to suffer that (same fate.)
“She was passionate about the program and she wanted people to be ready to step into job entry once they graduated … ,” Bowman said.
VanSchuyver agrees.
“She could help students get jobs because she knew everybody in the industry,” she said.
VanSchuyver said it was a venture off campus that gave McDonald the insight she put to use in teaching.
“She had her own Graphic Communications business that she ran with a partner.
“She kept in touch with what the industry was doing and could make changes and suggestions.”
VanSchuyver said when students completed McDonald’s program, they were ready to enter the job market.
Bowman said she is living proof.
“She hired me, and she was my professor when I started going to school here — and she created this job that I’m in,” she said.
VanSchuyver spoke of McDonald’s character as well.
“She was an interesting person to work with,” she said. “She had some quirks like we all do but we never had a disagreement that we couldn’t work out.
“She had kind of a gruff exterior but she was very warm-hearted and cared about people.”
Anderson said McDonald should be remembered for that.
“I think a lot of Lyn,” he said. “She’s great.”
VanSchuyver, Anderson and Bowman remained friends with McDonald after she left OCCC.
“We used to throw pots together,” Bowman said, referring to her pottery skills.
VanSchuyver said she and McDonald stayed in touch up through the day she died.
“We stayed in touch once she retired and I talked to her the day that she passed away.
“We really just said goodbye. She knew she was dying. She was ready by that time.
“She’d fought it. Maybe three weeks before, I talked to her and she was saying, ‘I’m going to get out of the hospital. I’m going to stop smoking. I’ve still got two or three months. I’m going to do these things,’” VanSchuyver said.
“But after she was in the hospital for a while and they just couldn’t get everything on the level and she started deteriorating, she just said ‘Ok. I’m ready and I just want to say goodbye to everybody’ and that’s what we did,.
“We just told each other that we appreciated each other and I appreciated all the things that she had done for me and we said goodbye.”
Bowman said McDonald maintained a lust for life and found ways to enjoy herself and make people smile, even in her final days.
“Her last week in the hospital, she was pressing the doctor, ‘Do you think I’ll be out to make that poker tournament?’”
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Achieving High Reliability in NHS Wales
Achieving High Reliability in NHS Wales is a latest white paper from 1000 Lives Plus. It draws on technical theory and practical work from the NHS and other industries to explore how 'high reliability' could make NHS Wales a better and safer place for both staff and patients.
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How to Use Trigger Tools
This guide has been produced to enable healthcare organisations and their teams to successfully implement a series of interventions to improve the safety and quality of care that their patients receive focused around the usage of trigger tools.
Adverse drug event trigger tool: a practical methodology for measuring medication related harm
This paper describes the use of the “trigger tool”, a relatively low cost and “low tech” technique for capturing medication related harm. The adapted technique appears to increase the rate of adverse drug event detection approximately 50-fold over traditional reporting methodologies.
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A Framework for measuring medication related harm
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Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
This paper summarises the findings of a more extensive report and proposes a framework which can guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in the measurement and monitoring of safety and in reviewing progress against safety objectives. The framework has been used so far to promote self-reflection at both board and clinical team level, to stimulate an organisational check or analysis in the gaps of information and to promote discussion of ‘what could we do differently’.
Chris Ham in conversation with Sir David Dalton
In this video, Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, interviews Sir David Dalton, Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust about the lessons learnt on the journey to making Salford Royal one of the safest trusts in the NHS.
Annual quality statements - NHS Wales
This resource from 1000 Lives Plus provides access to all the Annual Quality Statements published by NHS organisations in Wales, along with a range of supporting resources to guide organisations in how to compile these reports. Patient safety is a core component of these reports, and the annual statements provide a mechanism to both reflect on past performance and plan future aspirations.
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Safer Staffing: A Guide to Care Contact Time
Safe staffing levels have been identified as a key element of delivering high quality, safe care. Commissioners and providers need to work together to regularly review staffing levels to ensure that staff are able to provide adequate contact time with patients to ensure safe care.
Using the hospital standardised mortality ratio to help improve patient care
This report examines how the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) can be used as a potentially valuable tool to reduce avoidable mortality in acute hospitals. The report acknowledges and contributes to the ongoing debate over the use of HSMR as a measurement approach.
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Measuring what matters
In this presentation, Prof Mary Dixon-Woods provides a detailed and engaging review of the key issues and future opportunities for measurement. The presentation frames these issues in terms of the challenges which are involved in understanding the safety performance of healthcare organisations.
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Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months ...
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Gunn, Michael Kelly, Jan Devereaux, Erica Grant, Antonia Bennett, Kerri Randles, Frank Wood, Morgan Eastwood, Madison Hodges, John Malkovich, Colm Feore, Devon Conti, Ric Sarabia
Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory ...
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actor: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Joe Morton, Michael C. Hall, Peter Friedman, Kathryn Morris, Ivana Milicevic, Christopher Kennedy, Fulvio Cecere, John Cassini, Callum Keith Rennie, Michelle Harrison
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has ...
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Actor: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz, Colm Feore, Robin Bartlett, Joanna Merlin, Sarah Dampf, Rhonda Dotson, Nigel Gibbs, John Putch, Lauri Johnson, Christian Aubert, Jay Patterson, Shishir Kurup
Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is still grieving for his dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his ...
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime
Actor: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, CCH Pounder, Robert Wisdom, Margaret Cho, James Denton, Matt Ross
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her ...
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Taye Diggs, Cliff Saunders, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Dominic West, Jayne Eastwood, Bruce Beaton, Roman Podhora, John C. Reilly, Colm Feore, Robert Smith, Sean Wayne Doyle, Steve Behal, Robbie Rox, Chita Rivera
This new version of the saga of CIA analyst Jack Ryan begins as Jack attends the London School of Economics. 9/11 happens. He subsequently enlists ...
Actor: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Alec Utgoff, Peter Andersson, Elena Velikanova, Nonso Anozie, Seth Ayott, Colm Feore, Gemma Chan, Aleksandar Aleksiev, Andrew Byron, Derek Lea
Gina Gershon and Raquel Welch stars in this Lifetime Original Movie chronicling Donatella Versace's (Gershon) inspiring triumph over tragedy. Based on Wall Street Journal reporter ...
Actor: Gina Gershon, Enrico Colantoni, Colm Feore, Donna Murphy, Alex Carter, Samantha Hodhod, Stefano DiMatteo, Yan England, Raquel Welch, Claudia Besso, Leonardo Boudreau, Anne-Sophie Bozon, Shawn Bracke, Myriam Côté, Julia Dawi
Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When ...
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse, Debi Mazar, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Feore, Bruce McGill, Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon, Rip Torn, Lynne Thigpen, Hallie Kate Eisenberg
We've always known that Spider-Man's most important conflict has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities ...
Actor: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore, Felicity Jones, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Embeth Davidtz, Campbell Scott, Marton Csokas, Louis Cancelmi, Max Charles, B.J. Novak, Sarah Gadon
The warrior Thor (Hemsworth) is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard by his father Odin (Hopkins) for his arrogance and sent to Earth ...
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Actor: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg, Colm Feore, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Josh Dallas, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, Adriana Barraza
Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After ...
Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Matt McCoy, Brett Cullen, Cleo King, Gerry Del Sol, Ken Lerner, Mari Morrow, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joe Flaherty
Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. Colm Feore plays Lord Marshal, a warrior ...
Actor: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageningen, Nick Chinlund, Keith David, Mark Gibbon, Roger Cross, Terry Chen, Christina Cox, Nigel Vonas
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her ...
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore, Joshua Close, Kenneth Welsh, Duncan Fraser, JR Bourne, Mary Beth Hurt, Henry Czerny, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Steve Archer, Arlene Belcastro, David Berner
Bon Cop Bad Cop
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of ...
Actor: Michel Beaudry, Patrice Bélanger, Pierre Boudreau, Sarain Boylan, Manon Brunelle, Nicolas Canuel, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque, Fayolle Jean, Colm Feore, Ron Fournier, Alain Goulem, Amélie Grenier, Louis-José Houde, Pierre Houde, Rick Howland
Four years after Abu Fayed's reign of terror CTU has been disbanded by forces inside the government. Jack Bauer is facing questions in a US ...
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, Cherry Jones, Annie Wersching, Colm Feore, Bob Gunton, Jeffrey Nordling, Rhys Coiro, Janeane Garofalo, Carlos Bernard, Kurtwood Smith, John Billingsley, Tommy Flanagan, Mark Derwin, Frank John Hughes, Nick Chinlund
Mean Dreams is a thriller about a fifteen-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while ...
Actor: Sophie Nélisse, Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton, Colm Feore, Ryan Blakely, Joe Cobden, Tara Nicodemo, Vickie Papavs
Lies My Mother Told Me
Free-spirited Laren Sims runs away with her daughter Haylei, after skipping out on her probation for stealing and spending money using stolen credit cards. Using ...
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actor: Joely Richardson, Colm Feore, Hayden Panettiere, Jasmine Berg, Tim Henry, Judith Buchan, Kailin See, Joe Norman Shaw, Kira Bradley, Stirling Karlsen, Barbara Gates Wilson, Marty Antonini, Rita Bozi, Carrie Schiffler, Tom Carey
Iron Eagle 2
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site ...
Country: Canada, Israel
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Actor: Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe, Sharon Brandon, Maury Chaykin, Colm Feore, Clark Johnson, Jason Blicker, Jesse Collins, Mark Ivanir, Uri Gavriel, Neil Munro, Douglas Sheldon, Azaria Rapaport
Highwaymen
Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down ྀ Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. ...
Actor: Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore, Gordon Currie, Andrea Roth, Noam Jenkins, Toby Proctor, James Kee, Guylaine St-Onge, Joe Pingue, Martin Roach, Ron Bell, Paul Rutledge, Kelly Jones
Led by Major John Cafferty, a squad of US soldiers are sent on a mission,deep into the mountainous regions of Afghanistan with orders to extract ...
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actor: Tahmoh Penikett, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Colm Feore, Erica Durance, Julia Voth, Rick Bognar, Tom Carey, Skerivet Daramola, Travis Friesen, Joel Jackshaw, Roger LeBlanc, Caroline Lindy, Rahim Manji, Scott Morasch, Catia Ojeda
21 Thunder Season 1
In the cutthroat world of pro soccer, a club lives and dies by the stars on its under-21 team. They are the future and lifeblood ...
Actor: Stephanie Bennett, Emmanuel Kabongo, Andres Joseph, Kevin Claydon, Jonathan Kim, Clark Backo, Ryan Pierce, Eileen Li, Kyle Mac, Colm Feore, RJ Fetherstonhaugh, Baba Kourouma, Kimberly Laferriere, Conrad Pla, Cristina Rosato, Rj Copan, Gabrielle Graham, Jocelyn Hudon, Eoin O'Callaghan, Jacob Reardon, Lucas Chartier-Dessert, Judith Baribeau, Bruce Ramsay, Anthony Shim, Ferelith Young, Sarah Booth, Dusan Dukic, Randy Thomas, Paula Rivera, Ryan Allen, Kara Raposo, Melissa Toussaint, Rodney Alexandre, Sean Colby, Rebecca Croll, Lindsay Owen Pierre
Bon Cop Bad Cop 2
Eight years have past since Martin Ward and David Bouchard met in a spectacular way on the Quebec/Ontario border. The two men have remained friends, ...
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Erik Knudsen, Colm Feore, Noam Jenkins, Andreas Apergis, Neil Crone, Elizabeth Neale, Lucie Laurier, Karl Graboshas, Patrick Huard, Hamza Haq, Catherine St-Laurent, Moe Jeudy-Lamour, Jameson Kraemer, Melissa Plante
In a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying ...
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actor: Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried, Colm Feore, Sonya Walger, Mark O'Brien, Joe Pingue, Iddo Goldberg, Sebastian Pigott, Rachel Roberts, Ethan Tavares, Marco Grazzini, Conrad Coates, Mayko Nguyen, Sara Mitich, Damon Runyan
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject ...
Actor: Jordan Hinson, Ron Eldard, Colm Feore, Austin Stowell, Jade Tailor, Tom Wright, Winston James Francis, Richard Portnow, Mei Melançon, Marielle Jaffe, Laura Margolis, Omar Doom, Linc Hand, Richard Dorton, Fitz Houston
The Prodigy is a movie starring Jackson Robert Scott, Taylor Schilling, and Peter Mooney. A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something ...
Actor: Jackson Robert Scott, Taylor Schilling, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore
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Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: A Cyclist's View
I bike commute in rush hour city traffic. As I've written elsewhere, I pass messengers between lights, they pass me at lights. The video mentioned on Josh Rubin's site is a helmet-cam view of a race, messenger-style, through Manhattan.
Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: A Cyclist's View: "Ever see a bicycle messenger hurling down a Manhattan street, dodging pedestrians and threading the needle between a bus and a stupid stretch Hummer? If you think it looks crazy from the safety of your cab, just imagine what it's like from the messenger's perspective. Lucas Brunelle mounted a camera to his helmet and made an incredible little video that gives you just that."
Can I have one for Christmas?
If you get me a freebord (vid clip), could you also toss in some really, really good health insurance?
First vote error found in Ohio
Hours after the polls closed, visitors to Ohio's vote tally web page noticed a problem - an 800-voter district cast 4000 votes for Bush.
The district was using an older electronic voting machine, and the particular error is believed to be an anomaly. Ohio officials say that the error would have been noticed before they released their official tally.
The New York Times has more details: Election 2004 > Voting Machines: Glitch Found in Ohio Counting: "An electronic voting machine in hotly contested Ohio added 3,893 votes to President Bush's tally in a suburban Columbus precinct, even though there are just 800 voters there."
Terrorism, not values
Paul Freedman at Slate has a great analysis of the election results, The Gay Marriage Myth: Terrorism, not values, drove Bush's re-election. Comparing the 2004 election to 2000, and also 2004 states with anti-gay rights initiatives to similar states without such initiatives, Freedman concludes that gay rights and other moral value issues were not significant to Bush's win. Instead, terrorism was the deciding factor.
This may seem obvious - what with Osama bin Laden popping up just days before the election - but it is contrary to current conventional wisdom that gay rights brought evangelical and Hispanic voters out in record numbers. In fact, conventional wisdom is often whatever story is catchiest, regardless of data.
Freedman concludes:
These differences hold up at the state level even when each state's past Bush vote is taken into account. When you control for that variable, a 10-point increase in the percentage of voters citing terrorism as the most important problem translates into a 3-point Bush gain. A 10-point increase in morality voters, on the other hand, has no effect. Nor does putting an anti-gay-marriage measure on the ballot. So, if you want to understand why Bush was re-elected, stop obsessing about the morality gap and start looking at the terrorism gap.
Once Again, Targeting Base Pays Off for Bush (washingtonpost.com)
The Washington Post has an interesting analysis of Bush's election strategy and how it has influenced his decisions in office:
Once Again, Targeting Base Pays Off for Bush: Although the final judgment is still to come, yesterday's balloting did in several instances validate important elements of the Bush political model. This strategy has been based from the outset of Bush's term on carefully tending the Republican Party's conservative base, and a governing strategy based more often on trying to vanquish political adversaries rather than split the difference with them.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Iraq war, Bush strategists have also calculated that there is not so much difference between base voters and centrist 'swing' voters -- both, they maintained, are concerned above all with national security and lower taxes. strategy defied the wisdom of many Democrats since Bill Clinton, which held that swing voters were a distinct political entity and would not respond to a president as partisan as Bush.
As it happened, though, Bush's strategy last night worked much like it was supposed to...
Late-night election update
For those of you obsessing about the election, here are some good sites with up-to-the-minute information:
CNN's great election page, updated frequently
Official Ohio Election Results, updated every minute as the votes come in.
John Kerry Campaign Weblog
I'm personally interested in how Ohio will turn out. Currently, 95% of precincts have reported, and Bush is ahead by approximately 150,000 votes. There are around 250,000 votes still to be counted.
Here's the BBC's take on Ohio
Election-day info
Here are the sites I'll be watching on election day:
Electoral-vote.com
CNN Election Results
For SF Bay Area voters, here are the endorsements from the San Francisco Chronicle and the SF Bay Guardian.
Reuters: Fahrenheit 9/11 to air on eve of election
Reuters: Fahrenheit 9/11 to air on eve of presidential election: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmaker Michael Moore and distributors behind 'Fahrenheit 9/11' have clinched last-minute deals to bring his anti-Bush documentary to pay-per-view television and the Internet on the eve of the U.S. presidential election.
Moore's scathing critique of President Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq will be offered on Monday night to the 10 million-plus subscribers of the satellite-based Dish Network.
The film also will be available for online streaming Monday night to more than 30 million households with broadband Internet access through video-on-demand service CinemaNow.
The Dish and CinemaNow deals add to an agreement reached last week for two Monday night pay-per-view showings of the film by Los Angeles-based TVN Entertainment, which reaches about 1 million homes through various cable systems.
"The potential audience out there is quite large for this," said Mark Benoit, a spokesman for Moore told Reuters.
The two-hour film will be priced on all three platforms at $9.95 per showing. Moore and the Fellowship Adventure Group, which holds rights to the movie, will donate their portion of the profits to a veterans charity, Benoit said.
Fellowship Adventure was formed by Miramax cho-chairs Bob and Harvey Weinstein to buy back rights to "Fahrenheit 9/11" and distribute it after corporate parent the Walt Disney Co. declined to release the documentary.
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Colombia War and negotiation
Written by Alvaro Michaels
Since November 2012, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the government have grappled fiercely with each other in negotiations taking place in Cuba. Colombian President Santos, backed by US imperialism, is attempting to force FARC to comply with a well-prepared scenario aimed at breaking its political influence and dispersing its members. FARC, however, is holding firm and making demands as socialists, in the interests of the masses, through its ‘Bolivarian Programme for a New Colombia’. Alvaro Michaels reports.
FARC began negotiations by offering to suspend military hostilities on the ground. Santos bluntly refused, cynically continuing his military campaign, attempting to weaken the FARC armed forces and their bargaining position. Meanwhile, as FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño said on 25 August 2013, every negotiating manoeuvre that is possible is being made by the Santos team to ‘trap us into a corner.’
Discussions are now focused on item two of the agenda: the revolutionaries’ and their allies’ political integration in a ‘post-conflict Colombia’. In the mid-1980s the government and FARC negotiated peaceful and open electoral campaigns to include the Patriotic Union, founded by the FARC and the Colombian Communist Party. The bourgeoisie then systematically assassinated some 5,000 members and supporters of the Patriotic Union, without the slightest protest from the imperialist powers. This horrific memory underlines the seriousness with which FARC now approaches the renewed question of political participation. FARC wants a constituent assembly to enshrine the final agreements in the nation’s current constitution. The government has responded demanding a vague referendum on ‘peace’.
The battle over land
The first agreement from the talks, announced in April 2013, on land restitution – a rural development bill – fits a framework approved by the Colombian Congress of millionaires before talks started. The rich are anxious to see the interior of the country, much of it out of state control, brought back into commercial use. Despite the new legal process of ‘restitution’, if the government has its way, virtually all the land stolen through the violent expulsion of peasants over the last 40 years would remain with the corporate and large farming thieves who seized it. The government formally recognises four million displaced peasants, involving 6.5m hectares. The National Movement of Victims against State Crime put the figure at around 10m hectares. Five million Colombians have been forcibly cleared from the countryside to the towns or into exile since 1996 alone – the worst figures of any country in the world – and the imperialist powers have never criticised any Colombian government for this appalling crime, since their corporations benefit from it. Under President Uribe (2002-2010) 7,204,000 hectares were handed out as mining concessions, mostly to international corporations.
At least 45 leaders of land restitution organisations have been killed since 2008 fighting for the return of stolen land. So far, under the rural development law of 2012, nearly 27,000 displaced Colombian peasants have filed claims for the return of their stolen land. However, since the new law dozens have been forced to retreat from their plots again despite legally regaining their land. Landowners terrorise these peasants under the banner of a so called ‘Anti-Restitution Army’. In addition, the agricultural minister says the government will introduce a measure to ‘regulate’ but not restrict foreign investment in farmland. Some $6bn of such foreign investment is currently on offer if the law is changed to allow peasants who receive land to sell up. The aim remains the same, clear the land for large scale capitalist agriculture. To complete its cynical aims, the government is now obliged to also talk to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a second longstanding armed revolutionary force. It spelt out conditions for this in August. Santos also said he will ‘consider’ meeting FARC’s Rodrigo Londoño (known as Timochenko) who is leading the struggle from within Colombia, to accelerate talks. The June 2012 law for amnesty and pardons (‘The Legal Framework for Peace’) was prepared to remove the label of ‘criminal’ from the FARC and ELN members if the government considers negotiations to be successful.
The economic struggle is a political struggle
The ruling class’s strategy is threatened by its own economic and political actions. On 15 May 2012, the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) came into force. To protect themselves, small farmers now demand that the negotiations on Colombia’s future include their own representatives opposed to the destructive effect of free trade on their livelihoods. Only 13.8% of national income is consumed by the poorest 50% of the population, while the wealthiest 10% benefits from 46.5%. The CFTA will worsen this injustice.
On 23 August 5,000 workers at Drummond, Colombia’s second largest coal mining company, struck for better pay, health provisions and other guarantees. Such coal mining companies usually receive more in tax deductions than they pay. Article 37 of Colombia’s Mining Code prevents municipal authorities from prohibiting mining. Article 34 allows the removal of environmental protection from forestry reserves in order to promote mining. BP is the biggest foreign investor in Colombia followed by other British companies Anglo American and BHP Billiton.
Current strikes – from agricultural workers and small-scale miners to transport workers – have affected capitalist production. The pressure from the working class in the towns for basic political freedoms is met with repression because such freedom only hinders the ruthless exploitation of the country by domestic and international capital. The workers’ moral sentiments reinforce the FARC’s demands at the negotiating table, including calls for citizen involvement in economic decision-making. For example, FARC wants one of the seven members of the Central Bank Board to be elected by popular vote.
In this context of struggle 37 human rights defenders have been killed in the first six months of 2013, the highest figure for ten years. There are over 7,500 political prisoners in Colombia. Trade union leader Huber Ballesteros was made an example of by being arrested by Colombian police on charges of ‘rebellion’ – for leading strikes – days before he was due to address the 2013 British TUC conference in Bournemouth. Police violence against these strikes left 12 dead and more than 800 injured in 20 days during August and September.
The truth is revolutionary
In July, a 400-page ‘General Report from the Historical Memory Group’, said that some 220,000 people have lost their lives since 1958 in Latin America’s oldest armed class struggle. Over 80% were civilians. Other estimates put the number of victims at 600,000. It notes that between 1980 and 2012 the landowners’ terror organisation AUC was responsible for the bulk of the massacres.
On 18 September, FARC delegate Laura Villa reiterated a call to the government to establish an international truth commission, asking it to speed up its response. It would review and complete the Historical Memory Group report, and expose the reality of Colombia’s violent class war that dates back to before the 1960s. To complete this, files from intelligence agencies, the police and the army and other secret entities must be opened, including documents from the Council of Ministers, a collection of arrest orders issued without warrants by the government. FARC has already said it is fully prepared to speak the truth from its side. This sort of detailed exposure would further crystallise opposition to the ruling class.
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 235 October/November 2013
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Why formula 1 team orders are ok
Over the recent years there has been a lot of talk about team orders and how they're detrimental to Formula 1, especially in the Schumacher years.
Over the recent years there has been a lot of talk about team orders and how they're detrimental to Formula 1, especially in the Schumacher years. Throughout the Schumacher years we saw many occasions where a Schumacher team mate had to cede their position to the mighty German, the most sensational being Austria 2002. Schumacher wasn't the only one though, there has been team orders within McLaren, with Hakkinen and Coulthard too. Team orders have been around either overtly or covertly for at least as I long as I've been following formula 1 (1987).
Austria was the most contentious because the move was blatant, with Rubens Barrichello slowing down at the chequered flag and letting Michael Schumacher by. Fans and commentators were outraged and I admit a lot of disappointment at both that move and Ferrari's obvious favouritism. As a result of that race, team orders were banned.
The big problem with banning team orders is policing. Pretty much saying "Driver 2 please move over and let Driver 1 through. This is a team order" is an obvious team order, but saying "Driver 2, you are slower than Driver 1" is not obvious and it most cases it's just a fact. A fact it may be but it's more than likely an explicit team order to move over and let the other driver through. I'm certain team drivers would be instructed of "code" phrases that relate team orders.
In the German grand prix just run, Massa was told "Alonso is faster than you", and he promptly moved over and let Alonso pass him coming out of turn 6. From that point on Alonso drove away from him, clearly faster. There's the problem. Alonso was faster than Massa, that was clear. It's the pass that might tick fans off. Alonso didn't have to work for it, Massa relived his Schumacher years and moved aside.
The way I see it, Formula 1 is a team sport. Not only is a result in the sport determined by more than just one person per car, there are two cars per team. The biggest tell for me is that there's a constructors championship, a teams championship, where at the end of each season, a team is declared the winner. Seriously, how can you have a team championship and not have team orders? It'd be like soccer and not being able to instruct all your team members about the plays to use during the game.
You could argue that what difference does the order the drivers finish make to the team points, and the answer is none. However, if the lead driver is going slower than the trailing driver and the result is both end up getting overtaken, when at least one could finish further up, then that's sub optimal for the team and it's legitimate championship.
I say bring team orders back, they're a vital part of a team championship. Unfortunately that's not the case right now. The reality is Ferrari broke the rules of the sport by implementing team orders. Alonso overtook Massa, but it's not like he gained a massive boost to pass, he just maintained his usual speed, while Massa slowed. Massa slowed. That's the key here, Massa obeyed a team order and did something that possibly changed the outcome of the race. Alonso did nothing wrong by the letter of the law, regardless of if his words to the team initiated the team order to Massa. Ferrari could have said "no team orders here, sorry Fred" and left it at that. They didn't, so they're guilty. Massa could have ignored the team order, but that would have created much tension within the team. In most situations disobeying a directive is ground for dismissal, unless found to breech of laws (not racing or sporting laws, but actual civil law). I think it's asking a bit much to punish Massa, and therfore only the team should be punished.
What Ferrari did wrong, probably something that other teams take more care in executing was the manner in which the team order was carried out. Massa should have slowed less dramatically, or "accidently" oversteered out of a corner, once Alonso was close enough to discreetly take advantage. I'm sure other teams knowingly execute team orders, they just exercise discretion. Team orders won't ever go away and I'm sure Alonso and other drivers chase (succesfully) number #1 clauses in their contracts that in effect ensure team orders are carried out.
2010 Belgian Grand Prix
It's clear Red Bull favours Vettel
2010 Formula 1 Review
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Bulgaria Population: 7,144,653
The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1908. Having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, Bulgaria fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a People's Republic in 1946. Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime. The country joined NATO in 2004 and the EU in 2007.
Strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia
Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey
Geographic coordinates: 43 00 N, 25 00 E
Size comparison: slightly larger than Tennessee
Land Boundaries: total: 1,806 km border countries (5): Greece 472 km, Macedonia 162 km, Romania 605 km, Serbia 344 km, Turkey 223 km
Coastline: 354 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
Climate: temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers
Terrain: mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
Natural resources: bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land
Land use: agricultural land: 46.9% arable land 29.9%; permanent crops 1.5%; permanent pasture 15.5% forest: 36.7%
Irrigated land: 1,020 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: earthquakes; landslides
Current Environment Issues: air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Bulgarian(s)
adjective: Bulgarian
Ethnic groups: Bulgarian 76.9%, Turkish 8%, Roma 4.4%, other 0.7% (including Russian, Armenian, and Vlach), other (unknown) 10% (2011 est.)
Languages: Bulgarian (official) 76.8%, Turkish 8.2%, Roma 3.8%, other 0.7%, unspecified 10.5% (2011 est.)
Religions: Eastern Orthodox 59.4%, Muslim 7.8%, other (including Catholic, Protestant, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox, and Jewish) 1.7%, none 3.7%, unspecified 27.4% (2011 est.)
15-24 years: 9.73% (male 362,805/female 332,358)
potential support ratio: 3.3% (2015 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.6% (2016 est.)
Birth rate: 8.8 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
rate of urbanization: -0.31% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: SOFIA (capital) 1.226 million (2015)
Maternal mortality rate: 11 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
female: 78 years (2016 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 69.2% note: percent of women age 20-49 (2007)
rural: 99% of population
rural: 1% of population
total: 86% of population
total: 14% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria
conventional short form: Bulgaria
local long form: Republika Bulgaria
local short form: Bulgaria
etymology: named after the Bulgar tribes who settled the lower Balkan region in the 7th century A.D.
Capital: name: Sofia
Administrative divisions: 28 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast); Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Dobrich, Gabrovo, Haskovo, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofia, Sofia-Grad (Sofia City), Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, Yambol
Independence: 3 March 1878 (as an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire); 22 September 1908 (complete independence from the Ottoman Empire)
National holiday: Liberation Day, 3 March (1878)
Constitution: history: several previous; latest drafted between late 1990 and early 1991, adopted 13 July 1991 amendments: proposed by the National Assembly or by the president of the republic; passage requires three-fourths majority vote of National Assembly members in three ballots; signed by the National Assembly chairperson; note - under special circumstances, a "Grand National Assembly" is elected with the authority to write a new constitution and amend certain articles of the constitution, including those affecting basic civil rights and national sovereignty; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote in each of several readings; amended several times, last in 2015 (2016)
Legal system: civil law
Executive branch: chief of state: President Rosen PLEVNELIEV (since 22 January 2012); Vice President Margarita POPOVA (since 22 January 2012)
head of government: Prime Minister Boyko BORISOV (since 7 November 2014); Deputy Prime Ministers Tomislav DONCHEV (since 7 November 2014), Rumyana BACHVAROVA (since 7 November 2014), Meglena KUNEVA (since 7 November 2014); note - this is BORISOV's second term as prime minister, he first served between 27 July 2009 and 13 March 2013
cabinet: Council of Ministers nominated by the prime minister, elected by the National Assembly elections/appointments: president and vice president elected on the same ballot by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 6 and 13 November 2016 (next to be held fall 2021); chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) elected by the National Assembly; deputy prime ministers nominated by the prime minister, elected by the National Assembly
election results: Rumen RADEV elected president in runoff election; percent of vote - Rumen RADEV (independent) 59.4%, Tsetska TSACHEVA (GERB) 36.2%, 4.5% neither; note - Rumen RADEV will assume office on 22 January 2017
Legislative branch: description: unicameral National Assembly or Narodno Sabranie (240 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 5 October 2014 (next to be held in 2018)
election results: percent of vote by party - GERB 32.7%, CfB 15.4%, DPS 14.8%, RB 8.9%, PF 7.3%, BBTs 5.7%, Ataka 4.5%, ABV 4.2%, other 6.5%; seats by party - GERB 84, CfB 39, DPS 38, RB 23, PF 19, BBTs 15, Ataka 11, ABV 11
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court of Cassation (consists of a chairman and approximately 72 judges organized into penal, civil, and commercial colleges); Supreme Administrative Court (organized in 2 colleges with various panels of 5 judges each); Constitutional Court (consists of 12 justices); note - Constitutional Court resides outside the judiciary judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court of Cassation and Supreme Administrative judges elected by the Supreme Judicial Council or SJC (consists of 25 members with extensive legal experience) and appointed by the president; judges can serve until mandatory retirement at age 65; Constitutional Court justices elected by the National Assembly and appointed by the president and the SJC; justices appointed for 9-year terms with renewal of 4 justices every 3 years
subordinate courts: appeals courts; regional and district courts; administrative courts; courts martial
Political parties and leaders: Alternative for Bulgarian Revival or ABV [Georgi PARVANOV] Attack (Ataka) [Volen Nikolov SIDEROV] Bulgarian Socialist Party or BSP [Mihail MIKOV] Bulgaria of the Citizens or DBG [Meglena KUNEVA] Bulgaria Without Censorship or BBTs [Nikolay BAREKOV] Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria or GERB [Boyko BORISOV] Coalition for Bulgaria or CfB [Mikhail MIKOV] (coalition dominated by BSP) Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB [Radan KANEV] IMRO - Bulgarian National Movement or IMRO-BNM [Krasimir KARAKACHANOV] Movement for Rights and Freedoms or DPS [Lyutvi MESTAN] National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria or NFSB [Valeri SIMEONOV] National Movement for Stability and Progress or NDSV [Hristina HRISTOVA] (formerly National Movement Simeon II or NMS2) United Patriots Front (alliance of IMRO-BNM, NFSB, and Attack) Union of Democratic Forces or SDS [Bozhidar LUKARSKI] Reformist Bloc or RB (a five-party alliance including the DSB, DBG, and SDS)
Political pressure groups and leaders: Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria or CITUB Podkrepa Labor Confederation other: numerous regional, ethnic, and national interest groups with various agendas
International organization participation: Australia Group, BIS, BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EU, FAO, G- 9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (pending member), ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
National symbol(s): lion; national colors: white, green, red
National anthem: name: "Mila Rodino" (Dear Homeland)
lyrics/music: Tsvetan Tsvetkov RADOSLAVOV
note: adopted 1964; composed in 1885 by a student en route to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian War
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Tihomir Anguelov STOYTCHEV (since 27 June 2016)
chancery: 1621 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Eric RUBIN (since February 2016)
embassy: 16 Kozyak Street, Sofia 1407
mailing address: American Embassy Sofia, US Department of State, 5740 Sofia Place, Washington, DC 20521-5740
Bulgaria, a former communist country that entered the EU on 1 January 2007, averaged more than 6% annual growth from 2004 to 2008, driven by significant amounts of bank lending, consumption, and foreign direct investment. Successive governments have demonstrated a commitment to economic reforms and responsible fiscal planning, but the global downturn sharply reduced domestic demand, exports, capital inflows, and industrial production. GDP contracted by 5.5% in 2009, and has been slow to recover in the years since. Despite a favorable investment regime, including low, flat corporate income taxes, significant challenges remain. Corruption in public administration, a weak judiciary, and the presence of organized crime continue to hamper the country's investment climate and economic prospects.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $143.1 billion (2016 est.) $138.9 billion (2015 est.) $134.9 billion (2014 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3% (2016 est.) 3% (2015 est.) 1.5% (2014 est.)
Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruits, tobacco, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets; livestock
Industries: electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel
Labor force: 2.525 million note: number of employed persons (2016 est.)
services: 62.9% (2014)
Unemployment rate: 8.9% (2016 est.) 10.1% (2015 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2%
note:: defined by the EU's Maastricht Treaty as consolidated general government gross debt at nominal value, outstanding at the end of the year in the following categories of government liabilities: currency and deposits, securities other than shares excluding f
Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.7% (2016 est.) -0.1% (2015 est.)
Current account balance: $400 million (2016 est.) $676 million (2015 est.)
Exports: $26.1 billion (2016 est.) $24.62 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels
Exports - partners: Germany 12.5%, Italy 9.2%, Turkey 8.5%, Romania 8.2%, Greece 6.5%, France 4.2% (2015)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; fuels, minerals, and raw materials
Imports - partners: Germany 12.9%, Russia 12%, Italy 7.6%, Romania 6.8%, Turkey 5.7%, Greece 4.8%, Spain 4.8% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $25.12 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $22.09 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $42.42 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $42.5 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $46.39 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $44.29 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $4.79 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $4.49 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $4.797 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $5.45 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $6.666 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
Exchange rates: leva (BGN) per US dollar - 1.802 (2016 est.) 1.7644 (2015 est.) 1.7644 (2014 est.) 1.4742 (2013 est.) 1.52 (2012 est.)
Electricity - exports: 14.7 billion kWh (2015 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 11.84 million kW (2014 est.)
Electricity - from nuclear fuels: 16.9% of total installed capacity (2014 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 32.9% of total installed capacity (2014 est.)
Crude oil - production: 1,000 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 15 million bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Natural gas - consumption: 2.86 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 43.61 million Mt (2014 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: inherited an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network from the Soviet era; quality has improved with a modern digital trunk line now connecting switching centers in most of the regions; remaining areas are connected by digital microwave radio r
domestic: the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 in an effort to upgrade fixed-line services; mobile-cellular teledensity, fostered by multiple service providers, is over 125 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 359; submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine and Russia; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia; satellite earth stations - 3 (1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic (2015)
Broadcast media: 4 national terrestrial TV stations with 1 state-owned and 3 privately owned; a vast array of TV stations are available from cable and satellite TV providers; state-owned national radio broadcasts over 3 networks; large number of private radio stations bro (2010)
Internet country code: .bg
Internet users: total: 4.072 million percent of population: 56.7% (July 2015 est.)
Heliports: 1 (2013)
Pipelines: gas 2,887 km; oil 346 km; refined products 378 km (2013)
standard gauge: 4,989 km 1.435-m gauge (2,880 km electrified)
paved: 19,235 km (includes 458 km of expressways)
unpaved: 277 km
note: does not include Category IV local roads (2011)
Waterways: 470 km (2009)
by type: bulk carrier 9, cargo 8, liquefied gas 2, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 2
foreign-owned: 14 (Germany 12, Russia 2)
registered in other countries: 30 (Belize 1, Comoros 4, Georgia 1, Malta 8, Moldova 1, Panama 6, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 9) (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Burgas, Varna (Black Sea)
Military branches: Bulgarian Armed Forces: Ground Forces, Naval Forces, Bulgarian Air Forces (Bulgarski Voennovazdyshni Sily, BVVS) (2011)
Military service age and obligation: 18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription ended in January 2008; service obligation 6-9 months (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2015) 1.6% of GDP (2013) 1.46% of GDP (2012) 1.55% of GDP (2011) 1.46% of GDP (2010)
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 13,819 (Syria) (2015)
stateless persons: 67 (2015) note: 46,457 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (2015 - November 2016)
Illicit drugs: major European transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and, to a lesser degree, South American cocaine for the European market; limited producer of precursor chemicals; vulnerable to money laundering because of corruption, organized crime; some money laundering of drug-related proceeds through financial institutions (2008)
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The Mars Phoenix money shot
NASA just finished a briefing on the Phoenix Mars Lander, and released what I consider the money shot of the mission so far - the bright blue lander against a Martian reddish landscape, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. Apparently other folks thought the same thing - applause broke out in the briefing room when that photo was displayed.
NASA / JPL
At the briefing, Fuk Li of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Phoenix is healthy, but that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is having a bit of a communication problem. But he says the problem will not endanger the goals of the mission.
NASA also released photos taken by Phoenix of its robotic arm, and the neighborhood it landed in. That photo shows a white dot on the horizon, believed to be the lander's parachute. You can see those photos, and more, here.
Diane Hawkins-Cox, senior producer, CNN Sci-Tech Unit
Filed under: Mars NASA Space
Steve May 27th, 2008 5:42 pm ET
The stuff of dreams.
Great work, guys!
Hannah Hale May 27th, 2008 5:47 pm ET
This seems like a good article, but were is the whole thing!?!?!?!?
Joe - Chicago May 27th, 2008 6:42 pm ET
This is some cool stuff. I cannot wait until samples are analyzed for organics. cool cool cool.
s callahan May 27th, 2008 6:48 pm ET
Beautiful pic!
I think Peter Smith has a great style in breaking down complex info for the 'average' curious mind to comprehend what NASA/Phoneix is doing. Wonderful communication. Thank You Peter.
celtn2 May 27th, 2008 9:17 pm ET
Why did we spend all this $$ to send a spaceship to Mars when we are barely funding our schools and healthcare?
pdykstra May 27th, 2008 9:23 pm ET
From the Vice Principal:
No more comments on the scientist's name, please? We won’t publish them here — if Beavis + Butt-Head have a blog, maybe they will.
Otherwise, we really appreciate the overwhelmingly smart observations from all of you — hundreds of comments and over a quarter-million page visits since we started Mars-Blogging on Saturday.
Peter Dykstra
From The Mars Phoenix
LL May 27th, 2008 10:23 pm ET
There is always someone who says "Why spend all this $$ to send a spaceship to Mars when we are barely funding our schools and healthcare?"
I think we all need to remember that this money isn't sent into space. It all stays here on earth.
The money pays for the salaries of hard working Americans who raise families, pay taxes and pay for healthcare insurance. To launch these probes requires Machinists, Engineers, Scientists, Professors, Support People, Janitors, etc.
What a tremendously cool way to pump money into our economy, promote technology and learn about our universe at the same time.
Travis Anderson May 28th, 2008 1:48 am ET
wow, did you really just use the phrase "money shot?" lawl.
Holly Jarek May 28th, 2008 8:07 am ET
Is there any footage of the NASA team members as they await those last 5 minutes. THose are so much fun to watch (although I thought a few of the gentlemen were going to have a heart attack). Watching their joy was very uplifting and it is good to have something "happy" to watch now days. Great job to everyone. Thanks
Christopher Lusardi May 28th, 2008 8:50 am ET
I have a question. There are 8 tiny ovens. How is the soil suppose to get into these small ovens? I mean, scoop up and pour will most likely not work. There has to be something else involved. The permafrost grains is not going to be of uniform size. So, the first large grain being dropped will block any subsequent grains. The result is that nothing gets into the oven and the oven damages other ovens. The heat is about 1800 degrees farenheit. The maximum amount of soil that that can go into the oven is 30 micro something. I guess what I'm getting at is can you please describe the pre-testing. Also, why wasn't these oven temperatures used with Viking?
Antoinette C. Harvey May 28th, 2008 9:36 am ET
When I was a child, I believed that there was at one time life on Mars. I really didn't think I would ever get to see actual photos of Mars close up. I will be 66.
I think it is wonderful that the knowledge we have accomplished to be able to do this is stupendus.
Chuck May 28th, 2008 9:40 am ET
The money for the space program DOES NOT ALL STAY ON EARTH.
The hardware itself is sent AWAY from our planet.
Some day a space salvage company may return the money to us.
These spacecraft are worth something.
This was a low budget space mission and it looks like the return in knowledge already has made it cost effective.
The money shot?
That fuzzy colored blur?
It is an interesting picture but I like the parachute landing with the crater in the background. Hard to choose.
John Umana May 28th, 2008 9:44 am ET
Yeah, that was an incredible 'money shot' from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Phoenix parachute and lander during its May 25 descent. Be sure to check out another cool shot from the same Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Phoenix parachute and lander with Heimdall crater in the background. When Phoenix gets up and running hopefully in the next few days, its arm will be scooping up soil and testing for organic compounds. Don't expect too much of these tests, folks. Mars is abiotic, in my view, and always has been, though liquid water once covered portions of the Red Planet's surface billions of years ago, at least in the areas where Spirit and Opportunity are hot-rodding. It takes more than water for life to emerge. Yet the Universe is teeming with life and with intelligent life. NASA, JPL & the University of Phoenix - this magnificent pinpoint landing on the north pole is a stunning accomplishment!
John Bean May 28th, 2008 9:55 am ET
"Mars Phoenix Money Shot"? Really, "money shot"? Are we so limited in our word skills that we're relying on porn lingo to describe science photos? Stay classy, CNN. That headline will look GREAT on a T-shirt.
Christopher Lusardi May 28th, 2008 10:29 am ET
Chuck, eventually to me, there has to be ways to improve human-kinds longevity in such things as technology advancement, and military applications. The human race has not been here too long. If we want to continue to exist we have to reach to space and the stars. Otherwise, we'll go the way of the dinosaur and other extinct species.
With human's continued use of the other planets resources, what will the solar system look like in a few 100s or 1000s of years. Will the moon start to crumble like in the recent HG Wells movie, and will the polar ice caps of Mars disappear! How about tapping into Jupitor's resources.
Hank May 28th, 2008 12:00 pm ET
since when did our government care about funding education for families who cant afford it....they ( all them special secrete elite people in our society) just want to get off this planet and leave all us (poor bastards) to fend for ourselves after its not worth staying here.
Tom May 28th, 2008 12:50 pm ET
every 11 seconds a child in the world will die of hunger. But yet we spend billions on space rsearch. Although I think it's fascinating stuff, and I really do mean that, I think we would be better off to tidy up our planet, before we go searching for life elsewhere. When we have our house in order, then we can go out and play.
Michael J. Hutchinson May 28th, 2008 1:06 pm ET
I watched the news about the landing of Phoenix Mars Lander landing and pictures of the surface. It was good ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christopher Lusardi May 28th, 2008 1:16 pm ET
Overpopulation is a human term. Evolution involves the spread of mass populations and then mass extinctions. If the human race cannot socially evolve we are doomed. Science is the only solution. By all means go to the stars.
John Umana May 28th, 2008 1:28 pm ET
According to Wikipedia, the term originates from mainstream feature filmmakers, who used the term 'money shot' as slang for the image that costs the most money to produce and pulls in the audience. Wikipedia gives the example: in an action thriller, an expensive special effects sequence of a dam bursting might be called the "money shot" of the film. I am not familiar with any derogatory usage of the term, and am confident that the author of the article intended the phrase in its normal good-natured intendment, as is clear from the context.
Finally Home, plus News Potpourri « Thoughts En Route May 28th, 2008 1:45 pm ET
[...] the two NASA/JPL pictures below are from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (found by reading this article and following to this NASA/JPL collection). The first is actually a picture of Phoenix [...]
DH May 28th, 2008 1:58 pm ET
Tom, the space program it is just peanuts. And the returns, invaluable.
The biggest money pit in US, it is corporate marketing. For every dollar spent on engineering in US (both public and private) about 3 dollars are spent in marketing, business relations and PR.
The amount of aspirin (for example) consumed in US is driven by the population needs. When an aspirin producer use marketing to increase it market share, they just grab market share from other producers. Then the other guys are fighting back with more PR to recover the lost market share.
In the end, at macro-economic level nothing change. The population consume the same amount of aspirin as before and the public health is no better, only the viewer brains are flooded with more trash. Yet, billions of man hours of work and billion of dollars has been wasted for nothing. All those money and manpower can be used for better purpose, like feeding poor starving kids.
Poor kids, whose kids may go to colonize the terraformed Mars when the Earth population become to big for our planet to handle. But to do that, they need the pioneering efforts by NASA.
So, while the space research is going to pay back for next generations and possible save the human kind, the unregulated business environment burn thousands times more money for nothing.
Ken May 28th, 2008 2:46 pm ET
Your title is misleading; the story is not about why tornadoes are happening more; this question is addressed only in the last sentence with the statement: we don't know why . . .
CopperEdge May 28th, 2008 2:49 pm ET
Yes it is sad to see all the suffering in the world, while this is happening, but events like these spur on others to benefit mankind in so many ways in the future. Gee, "Star Trek" itself never did anything directly for humans, but the innovation and advancements that it generated has changed the world. Just think about the computer you are using right now to read this article!
The technology developed and used in so many of these applications is now being used for humanitarian purposes. This is how we develop solar ovens for starving tribespeople in several parts of the world. NGO's are supplying starving tribes and refugees with very effective solar ovens, the women of these tribes no longer have to forage for fuel outside of their villages, and face the daily risk of attack or abduction by rival tribes etc.
BTW, next time you head anything up in the Microwave, you can thank the space program and R&D initiatives like that.
I guess, I'll just thank Star Trek next time I get a headache from my cell phone. Anyway, I'm looking into buying a headset per Larry King's enlightening show last night.
Warren Heath May 29th, 2008 9:42 am ET
"every 11 seconds a child in the world will die of hunger"
Yeah, that's why we spend 10's of billions on energy negative corn ethanol, that has caused an explosion in food prices, when all it does is converts oil & natural gas into ethanol (and makes ADM & Cargill super rich).
."When we have our house in order, then we can go out and play"
That's like saying, first you have to pay all your debts, fix your house, raise your children and put them through college, then you can have a holiday, buy a TV, get a pet, dine out.
Wondering May 29th, 2008 10:44 pm ET
I don't understand the people who worry about the human race going extinct.You will be extinct one day and so will I.Even if man can live hundreds of years,they will become extinct. Unless we can change basic scientific laws,and there is no evidence that we can,then we will one day become extinct. I guess my point is, after you expire and your short little dance here on Earth is through,are you going to be laying in billions of tiny organic pieces lamenting human extinction? Question: If humankind becomes extinct and noone is around to give a crap,does anyone give a crap?
Jeramel Mingueto May 30th, 2008 6:00 am ET
The days and hours comparing our planet to planet Mars is not the same. We have 24 hours, 7 days, 12 months (Earth) but the Planet Mars is different from us. Many people will die when living there. The natural air in Mars sometimes is hot not same as planet Earth. Do you think we must provide each of us a Rain Coat for protecting our skin wherever we are (planet Earth)
Bret May 30th, 2008 2:20 pm ET
Sometimes I wish there was an IQ test required before someone was allowed to post to the internet.
Why must people make comments about things of which they have no knowledge? It is ok to question, but I find it annoying when people state things as if they where fact when it is obvious they don't know the first things about the subject they are discussing.
It is ok to be ignorant on various subjects. No one can know everything about everything.
My two cents...
P.Donovan May 30th, 2008 9:14 pm ET
Let the tree huggers ramble....What an image! Who would have imagined the accomplishments our Space program have achieved! How fascinating and refreshing an image[call it what you will] What a blessed country we are to achieve this endeavor,Is it great to be an American or what!!
cheritycall October 27th, 2008 4:44 am ET
Hi, Do something to help the hungry people in Africa and India,
I created this blog about that subject:
at http://tinyurl.com/6kv7fu
Owen Murphy May 19th, 2010 11:22 pm ET
my uncle got stomach ulcers because he took a lot of Aspirin to take care of his high blood pressure.;.~
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160+ tornadoes in less than a week: Why?
MRO shoots Phoenix under the silk
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SEGA Five: A Salute to the SEGA All-Stars Part 4
November 9, 2012 by Barry
I can’t believe that four weeks have passed since we began this salute to the SEGA All-Stars appearing in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed! Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 can be viewed at those handy links. If you’re all caught up with us, let me introduce you to our five All-Stars for this week: Ulala of Space Channel 5, Shadow of Shadow the Hedgehog (oh, and some franchise called Sonic the Hedgehog), Sonic’s not-quite girlfriend Amy Rose, Aiai’s wife MeeMee and our flagman of the game Ristar.
First Appearance: Space Channel 5, Dreamcast, 1999
Latest Appearance: Project X Zone, Nintendo 3DS, 2012
Despite Ulala being an important character in the Superstars/All-Stars series of games, I’ll admit that I had my doubts about her returning in All-Stars Racing Transformed. Both Superstars Tennis and All-Stars Racing featured the pink haired reporter. Yet when Transformed was announced, it took months for Ulala to be revealed. When she finally was announced, I was both relieved and ecstatic. At her peak, Ulala was SEGA’s most iconic and popular female character. Although years have passed since we’ve seen a new Space Channel 5 game, Ulala has lived on in a number of cameos including the Sonic Riders series and Japanese exclusive games like Sega Splash Golf and Project X Zone. So really, an All-Stars title without Ulala would have robbed SEGA fans of one of SEGA’s greatest female characters. Welcome back, Ulala!
Shadow the Hedgehog
First Appearance: Sonic Adventure 2, Dreamcast, 2001
Latest Appearance: Sonic Adventure 2, XBLA/PSN, 2012
Shadow’s appearances have come full circle with his debut game Sonic Adventure 2. Many SEGA fans agree that Shadow’s best appearance was in that game, but there are also those who believe that Shadow’s time in the franchise should have ended with his first appearance. Why is this? Well, I can’t attest to being one of the Shadow haters, but I can definitely see the appeal of Shadow (spoiler alert) dying for good at the end of Sonic Adventure 2. The character was given an important role in that game, he played it well, and he went out on a high note. In the years that followed, Shadow returned and brought with him nothing but trouble. Mediocre to terrible games, convoluted story elements and the character himself was left without any real purpose. Was he a secret weapon? A villain? A secret agent? Who knows. Still, when I look at Shadow in his GUN inspired vehicle I can’t help but remember the good times I had with the character back in 2001. I also can’t deny that the character made an impact on the Sonic franchise, for better or worse, and that Shadow deserves his place in All-Stars Racing Transformed. Just leave Silver the Hedgehog far, far away from the racer roster!
First Appearance: Sonic CD, SEGA CD/Mega CD, 1993
Latest Appearance: Sonic Jump, iOS, 2012 (soon to be released character)
Amy Rose has had quite an interesting history in the Sonic franchise. Starting out as the Princess Peach of Sonic CD, sporting a truly ’90’s design including sneakers and a tutu, Amy grew into a very different character come the release of Sonic Adventure in 1998. Amy received a complete redesign, giving her a new hairdo (spikedo?) and a revamped outfit, and she made the transition from NPC to playable character. Amy wasn’t the best playable character in Sonic Adventure, but she had quite a fun story that oddly enough was reminiscent of Sarah Connor being chased by the Terminator. Since then, Amy has reverted back to NPC in the main series titles, but still remains a staple in the spin-off games. As the oldest, and most iconic, female character in the Sonic franchise Amy is a welcome returning racer in All-Stars Racing Transformed.
MeeMee
First Appearance: Monkey Ball, Arcade, 2001
Latest Appearance: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz, Vita, 2012
MeeMee is far from the most liked SEGA character to join the racer roster in All-Stars Racing Transformed. In fact, MeeMee’s announcement led to many SEGA fans giving up all hope of the game offering up any more cool characters. Not only was MeeMee basically Aiai in a dress with a butt mouth, but her vehicle was simply a repaint. Sumo Digital, hearing fan’s complaints, gave their two cents on the situation. MeeMee, as it turned out, was a bonus character added AFTER the main roster was finalized with SEGA. Seeing that more characters were needed, Sumo took their own time to offer up more racers like Gum and MeeMee by reusing assets (the male counterpart vehicles) and developing brand new character models and animations. So with that in mind, MeeMee isn’t all that bad an addition. Sure she isn’t a Ryo Hazuki or a Alex Kidd, but she didn’t eat into he possibility of another racer and, to be fair, the game needed more female characters. As such, I withdraw all complaints I may have made in the past about MeeMee and give her a personal salute. You may just be a butt-faced Mrs. Pac-Man version of Aiai, but dammit you’re OUR butt-faced Mrs. Pac-Man version of Aiai.
First Appearance: Ristar, Genesis/Mega Drive, 1995
Latest Appearance: Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, multi-platform, 2010
Calm down SEGA nerds, Ristar has not made the leap from flagman to racer. Due to SEGA not announcing any more than nineteen SEGA racers at this time, I was left with including the game’s flagman to make this a “Friday Five”. Developed by Sonic Team in 1995, Ristar was one of the team’s earliest non-Sonic titles. Personally, the game flew under my radar back in 1995, and it wasn’t until the Sonic Mega Collection that I became acquainted with the game. I’d assume that many other SEGA fans discovered Ristar at this time, as when Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing was announced, many fans of the game who couldn’t have been old enough to remember the Genesis original pleaded Sumo Digital and SEGA to feature the character Ristar as a racer. An anthropomorphic star in a game with “All-Stars” in the title? Sadly, it never happened, but Sumo Digital did throw fans a bone by including the character as a spectator in the Death Egg DLC track for 360 and PS3. When it came time to announce the All-Stars Racing sequel, Ristar was nowhere to be seen. That is, until Sumo Digital revealed that Ristar would be replacing NiGHTS as the game’s flagman. Still not a racer, but fans will be happy to see Ristar’s smiling face at the start of each and every race.
Does this conclude our salute to the SEGA All-Stars? Of course not! While we may not have enough for a part 5 next Friday, Sumo Digital has a few racers that have yet to be revealed, and the game promises a number of cameos. So, until then, enjoy the weekend SEGA fans and commence the countdown to Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed!
SEGA Five: A Salute to the SEGA All-Stars Part 2 The Weekly Five: Overthinking Sonic The Weekly Five: The Best Unseen SEGA Characters SEGA Five: A Salute to the SEGA All-Stars Part 1 The SEGA Five: How SEGA redesigned Sonic the Hedgehog
Features Ristar Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Sonic the Hedgehog Space Channel 5 Super Monkey Ball The Weekly Five
4 responses to “SEGA Five: A Salute to the SEGA All-Stars Part 4”
Perhaps you should do the final Friday Five in 2 weeks and possibly give a new salute to the Friday Five for the tracks after that?
I liked your articles to say that you should talk about the tracks after all of the racers have been done. 🙂
Barry the Nomad says:
That’s what I was thinking, wait two weeks and post a spoiler alert final friday five salute part five.
As for the tracks, we’ll see. Perhaps I’ll do them all in one one-off opinion piece.
Thanks for following the series, btw!
Indeed, it’ll be interesting to say the least!
Opinion piece, eh? It’d be a HUGE essay if you included them all at once, no? lol
I think it’d work for the tracks better since you can be more thorough with them (state what inspirations they’re from if they have more then one game from that franchise in, what turns excite you, etc),
Always a pleasure!
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How about those of us who aren’t famous
Posted on August 15, 2009 by Ennis Singh Mutinywale
Fame just isn’t what it used to be. On Friday, New Jersey Police stopped Bob Dhillon Dylan for suspicious activities, i.e. walking around in a minority neighborhood in the rain and looking at a house for sale, and refused to let him go until he produced identification.
Then today, as Phillygrrl reported, SRK was detained at Newark. But at least he got privileged treatment, they let him make a phone call after an hour, and the Indian government was able to step in. (This isn’t going to help suppress rumors that it was all a publicity stunt for his film)
But what happens to people who aren’t famous? Let’s say they’re Muslim, Brown, Pakistani and working for the US government? Then it seems you can be detained and not even the government agency you’re working for can get you out:
Rahman Bunairee is a Pakistani journalist who works as a contract reporter for VOA’s Deewa Radio and for a privately-owned Pakistani television station. The 33-year-old planned to join VOA [Voice of America] in Washington for one year, and arrived at Dulles Airport on Sunday with a visa issued by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. It is not clear why he was detained and why he is still being held in U.S. custody… The journalist, whose home was destroyed by the Taliban last month, was taken into custody on Sunday. [link]
This is a guy who the US government wants to come and live in DC for a year and be part of the public face of America to the outside world. He has no love for the Taliban and the feeling is mutual. And what happens? He tries to enter the country, he’s detained for a week and counting, and nobody will even tell the “Voice of America” why.
The moral of the story? If you’re detained by immigration, you better hope you have friends at the Indian Government and Fox rather than the US government, because the latter can’t do what the former can.
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43 thoughts on “How about those of us who aren’t famous”
Kush Tandon on August 15, 2009 at 3:28 pm said:
Khan Sahib will be in Houston tomorrow, hopefully, we will discuss about this.
pingpong on August 15, 2009 at 4:12 pm said:
This is pure tactical gaming from the TSA and Customs. This way, by carefully choosing and deliberately harassing an actor named Khan, they can rely on all the expected protests to be labeled a publicity stunt, and they can go on harassing browns as usual. As a tactic to distract attention from their usual confusion of security with security theater, it has worked exceedingly well, and serves as a warning to those civil libertarians who might underestimate them.
Ana Kirola on August 15, 2009 at 5:27 pm said:
America has a long way to go in terms of equal rights to all people irregardless of gender, religion, race, etc. It is to bad that so many have suffered ill treatment at the airports not to mention in prisons or shipped off to another country that enforces torture. Hopefully enough of us will keep our voices raised and things will get better.
Wanderer on August 15, 2009 at 5:33 pm said:
It took this long just to get a black president…asians..particularily muslims are the new enemy..expect equality in 2 centuries time unless Islam and Arab Wahabbism separates before that…
razib on August 15, 2009 at 6:34 pm said:
asians..particularily muslims are the new enemy
in the US “asians” means east asians more than south asians. so no, not really. additionally everyone from iran to morocco is classified as “white.”
cc on August 15, 2009 at 9:41 pm said:
But really, what WAS Bob Dylan doing in an unfamiliar residential neighborhood? Couldn’t he have found something better to do like strum his guitar or something? Strange guy.
(Sorry for the tangent.)
Suki Dillon on August 15, 2009 at 10:20 pm said:
Which country can America learn from, I would really like for you tell us.
boston_mahesh on August 16, 2009 at 12:52 am said:
7 · Suki Dillon on August 15, 2009 10:20 PM · Direct link Which country can America learn from, I would really like for you tell us.
Great point. USA is far better than all countries in the world as far as race relations go.
New Yorker on August 16, 2009 at 1:29 am said:
SRK was detained for 66 minutes and asked questions….oooohhhhhh how scary!!! This is ridiculous and most likely a publicity stunt. And Priyanka Chopra’s twitter message “Shocking,disturbing n downright disgraceful.Its such behavior that fuels hatred n racism.SRK’s a world figure for Gods sake.GET REAL!!” Um okay….His name matches a wanted persons name, he’s asked questions for an hour and let go. How does the fuel hatred? The airport ppl are just doing their job. You can expect all of them to watch Hindi movies even if Ms. Chopra declares him to be a “world figure.”
Inthis on August 16, 2009 at 1:35 am said:
I am writing to take back the allegation that SRK might have exaggerated the questioning thing for publicity.
shaida on August 16, 2009 at 1:41 am said:
to New Yorker
At Sp, one often encounters those who endorse any action ag browns. Possibly so much hatred is really directed against yr parents who arrived, on shaky visas, with unrecognized degrees, often not speaking English too well, faced racism, and made successes of themselves. Sorry to see the children are simply suburban whiners, not good at too much, whose main grouse is they are brown. Few Ind origin desis seem intelligent enough to understand that with every endorsement of anti brown actions, you are really working ag yrselves. So unlike the smart jewish and Chinese offspring who support their own.
najeeb on August 16, 2009 at 1:50 am said:
America can learn from its own history. It has come a long way from the days of slavery and segregation. It has come a long way from the days of internment of japanese americans. It will also get beyond the days of racial profiling, only if rationality persists and when enough voices are heard. The debate on this issue is simple in my view – do you think there was racial profiling here? if there was, do you think whether it is a legitimate strategy? On the first count, i don’t know the details. on the second one, racial profiling as a strategy will never work and it is humiliating to the people who go through it. how hard is it for al-qaeda to get mainstream looking Americans to do the dirty work for them? It is not the skin color, but the real patterns of suspicious activity that the authorities have to look for. that is the true fight against terrorism.
The debate on this issue is simple in my view – do you think there was racial profiling here?
If his name came up to match a name on the system, as he claims, then no, its not racial profiling.
clearly a publicity stunt – he was questioned for under an hour because his baggage was missing….
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khan-not-singled-out-because-of-his-name-us/502596/1
Irked on August 16, 2009 at 4:12 am said:
What, you are letting down (white) Canadians? How about not forgetting their greatness in your haste to stick up for (white) Americans?
Read your country’s history during the time you spend putting down your parents’ country.
USA is far better than all countries in the world as far as race relations go.
Highly debatable. Especially the ‘far better’ part. Although not perfect, your neighbor to the north is one of the countries that can easily make a case for recognition in the same area.
Desi_Boilermaker on August 16, 2009 at 6:31 am said:
Not really, you should take a look at Denmark. Their race relationships is incredible. The general consensus is that as long as you adapt to the Danish way (meaning you don’t disrepect Danish culture), you are considered a Dane; no matter what your religion, age, sex or ethnicity is. And unlike America, they genuinely do live by that rule.
PS on August 16, 2009 at 7:31 am said:
Sorry, but Priyanka Chopra talking about what fuels hatred. Her and SRK’s (and oh I’d think he’s awesome on the screen and would love him if he didn’t do those nasty fair and lovely commercials) peddling fairness creams fuels a lot of hatred and self-hatred. What an airhead!
Deepti on August 16, 2009 at 10:58 am said:
Priyanka Chopra and SRK, as well as everyone else in Bollywood who promotes fairness creams and racism, are the last people in the world who have the right to whine about racial prejudice.
Pagal_Aadmi_for_debauchery on August 16, 2009 at 11:17 am said:
Ok, the reaction of the Indian Government is over the top. Maybe August 15th will now also be marked as a day of mourning.
Ashima on August 16, 2009 at 11:18 am said:
I think SRK needs to chill out if he truly outraged and humiliated. If it is a publicity stunt, how brilliant and fortuitious for him! In the report, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says he was detained because his bags didn’t arrive and they won’t admit anyone without inspection of bags. Who knows what happened here? As an immigration attorney, my clients get detained or put into routine secondary inspection because of normal procedural matters frequently. I am not defending CBP’s actions, but perhaps there is a bit more to the story then racial profiling. Now, whether CBP should have allowed him to make a call to Indian embassy earlier, I think they definitely should have! But his identificiation as an international artist was not the issue, according to CBP. Had he been treated un-normally, then we would probably be complaining that he was treated like the mega celebrity he is andso he got to cut in line.
Clare on August 16, 2009 at 12:36 pm said:
Perhaps it’s time for another beverage-of-your-choice summit at the White House?
times they are a changin' on August 16, 2009 at 8:06 pm said:
According to some Americans of my acquaintance the most shocking thing about the Dylan case was that the cops didn’t know who he was–had never heard of him. This was an icon of the 60s–he MADE the 60s according to some of them. Apparently he does have a habit of roaming around at night. He knows pop culture inside and out and scouts out places where pop music history happened.
I hate to point this out, but the immigrants coming to Denmark submit to Danification because they are few and the Danes are currently wealthy and feel generous and invulnerable. When they are many, attitudes change and defensiveness sets in. Old story, repeating in other countries. Especially certain religious persuasions take that tolerance for weakness, the most tolerant countries being the most affected, as we see the Netherlands. The fact is, the people make the country. The country doesn’t make the people. America can’t really be compared to Europe. There are too many different kinds of people here and the original people were (big Oops for Columbus) called “indians” after all.
Anyway, if there were an all-points bulletin out for, say, an irish terrorits passing through india, well, our efficient airport personnel would have no choice but to stop every red-head they see, unaware perhaps that most Irish are dark haired. Such is the nature of intelligence work.
Nanda Kishore on August 17, 2009 at 2:43 am said:
America can learn from its own history.
Bravo. I was going to say the same thing (even if Suki’s baiting is usually not worth responding to).
Ok, the media in India is making a big deal of this, as they do on so many other things. So? Yeah, let’s just bash the pompous sob for his publicity stunt. No ‘flying while brown’ sympathy for him. He should just get over it.
As for Dylan, well, he really brought it on himself. Walking in the rain, hood and all, and peering through windows… I’m assuming he didn’t have his hat on, that may have merited a station visit.
PS, #17
Dumb comments for sure. Fairness creams fuel self-hatred… well, sure, may be. Prejudice even. But hatred? Care to explain? Real racism leads to horrific things, which I wouldn’t remotely associate with fairness creams.
Talk about being judgmental, wow…
because his baggage was missing….
Highly unusual and suspicious.
Indian on August 17, 2009 at 3:58 am said:
fair and lovely is hardly related to racism. western equivalent of that is urge for tanning. hardly unusual or racist.
vikas on August 17, 2009 at 6:27 am said:
Has SRK returned to ‘his country’ after this humiliation or is he still going to dance at a few more parties that he is booked for. So much for the trauma he suffered. Even in older times ‘nautanki’ parties traveling from city to city were stopped by dacoits or the police and harassed. SRK is just a modern version of the age old traveling theater.
Next time he is going to charge double, mark my words. All of you making fun of him will pay twice the amount to see his shows.
I agree with Pagal Guy.. 15th August should be a day of mourning. First we had the mournful speech in the mournin.. sorry, morning and then ‘The Great Humiliation’.
lizzie on August 17, 2009 at 7:06 am said:
Anyone in Bollywood who complains about stereotyping and prejudice is a hypocritical, two faced moron. Why? Well, Bollywood is a racist industry that stereotypes and demonises lots and lots of minorities — and I’m not just talking about Indian minorities, I am talking about white and black people too.
So, why the hell aren’t Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar, Priyanka Chopra and all the rest of them doing something about that? Pathetic hypocrites.
DesiDude on August 17, 2009 at 1:39 pm said:
Aww Lizzi, Its the same relativism again here, eh? “Bollywood” might stereotype minorities, but “Bollywood” was not stopped at EWR, but SRK was. So unless you have proof that SRK is racist, I suggest you get off your high horse.
And secondly Hollywood is equally if not more racist. Maybe you should read how Salma Hayek was treated by Hollywood before you start posting cr@p.
PS on August 17, 2009 at 1:55 pm said:
Sure I’ll explain – prejudice and hatred are often synonymous and I do think that fairness creams, that depict there is something wrong with dark skin, whether it be in the Indian population, or the other populations around the world that are dark-skinned and it fuels hatred/prejudice for those populations. And yes, I am judgemental of these actors that peddle this garbage. And it’s not limited to India, and I don’t even think it’s as widely used in India as in East Asia…there are many stars, many models from Eastern Europe, East Asia, etc. that have signed contracts to peddle this garbage that promotes hatred, not only of oneself but against populations that are dark.
Upbhransh on August 17, 2009 at 2:35 pm said:
Hmm..this guy has been travelling to US for a couple of decades. The only time he is detained for “his name being Khan” is at the time of his new release called “My Name is Khan”.
Mr Khan is good actor and is a well loved man in US (some might claim he makes more money overseas than in India). To show the whole country in bad light, just for a little publicity stunt makes Mr Khan look like a 2 bit whore!
Bajuwali aunty on August 17, 2009 at 2:54 pm said:
Presumably publicity can be arranged with all these US govt agencies participating? But then we don’t have corruption in the US, do we?
2 bit whore? Jealousy that someone is rich, loved and successful? Ah, the hatred of one’s brown self comes thru in more than using fairness creams.
BTW, white folks fairness is not appreciated, the admired color is sort of pale gold brown: gehuvarna. No white person in india is considerd beautiful simply bec s/he is fair. As for light eyes, they used to be considered cat-like and untrustworthy….
Imagine if SRK had been African and the same had happened to him in India. Can imagine the SP support.
I am not sure where my post gives the hint of jealousy or self hatred or whatever fair and lovely thing.. my point being that this is too much of a co incidence. He was asked to wait because his baggage didn’t arrive and he was questioned. I am sure it must have been an inconvenience but from whatever I have read so far, it doesn’t seem like that he was harassed or anything.
I don’t think its a matter of corruption on behalf of customs but just a case of getting a chance to feel discriminated and just cashing it to one’s benefit.
My frustration comes from the fact that SRK is too big of a star to resort to such things to drum publicity for his movie.
“As for light eyes, they used to be considered cat-like and untrustworthy….” While I know you are just quoting folklore and not necessarily you’re own beliefs, I think it best to leave cats (and latterly, macaques) out of the aesthetic phenotypical debate. Dogs have soulful brown eyes, but they haven’t fared well in India either. The poor creatures have been subjected to much oppression and prejudice over the centuries. Cats are not “untrustworthy.” They are cats, and as such are quite predictable. As Shyamalan might say, “they can’t help it if they SEE things.” Only humans have the prerogative to be untrustworthy and anyone who thinks green eyes indicate untrustworthiness is in imminent danger of being a Racist AND an Aish hater. I hate it when people drag animals into human squabbles. They don’t care which one has yellow or black fur. At least I don’t think they do.
ke on August 17, 2009 at 10:22 pm said:
Priyanka Chopra saying that SRK is a world star is hilarious. 99% of Americans have probably never heard of the guy. Maybe a third world star, but that’s it. And let’s face it..there is a difference in terms of the status given to hollywood stars vs. those given to bollywood stars. Outside of India and Pakistan, are these guys really that famous? Yes, in England with the large diasporan community maybe, but SRK is nowhere near as famous as MJ or even P.Diddy or Brad Pitt. Does he think he is well known to Americans?
On Fairness cream: Indians have such beautiful olive skin. Why, why, why ruin it with those fairness creams?
wunderbar on August 17, 2009 at 11:16 pm said:
Priyanka Chopra saying that SRK is a world star is hilarious. 99% of Americans have probably never heard of the guy.
Well yes. But I heard on CNN that much of the world lives outside America. Could this be true ?
Brahmastr on August 18, 2009 at 7:29 am said:
America funds the Pakistani military and enables them to conduct terror against India : Minimal outrage in India
America adds India to a “religion watchlist” while excluding more blatant violators : Minimal outrage in India
Filmstar gets questioned for an hour : Suddenly everyone’s red in their face and outraged
Fellow Indians, get your priorities straight – There is a lot to be outraged about and this should be last in the list
times they are a changin' on August 18, 2009 at 10:04 am said:
“Indians have such beautiful olive skin. Why, why, why ruin it with those fairness creams?” I agree–it’s a dumb product, but “Indians” may have any color of skin, just about, from white to black to all shades in between. Your idea of “olive” may be different from that of, say, a Spaniard or a Lebanese. and to my British colleague, Catherine Zeta Jones is “olive” skinned (!?). A certain nice shade of medium brown (strong wheatish?), made for intense sunny climes, is most common among desis, in most areas. Might be an interesting study to determine just who really is using it. I never knew of anyone of my acquaintance employing such artifice. If they are worried about color at all, they don’t carry it beyond sunscreen.
Ikram on August 18, 2009 at 1:37 pm said:
Vancouver’s own Suki Dillon wrote: USA is far better than all countries in the world as far as race relations go.
Why the hate for our home onand native land? Here in Canada, brownz are welcomed with open arms. Angry Polish immigrants – not so much.
Carol on August 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm said:
Priyanka Chopra needs to STFU or maybe go get more plastic surgery, fairness cream, hair extensions and acrylic nails.
She has the nerve to talk about racism after the blatantly racist scene in her movie fashion where sleeping with a black guy was portrayed as lowest an Indian woman could go.
As for SRK, he is a loudmouthed attention seeker who has an inflated sense of his importance in the world. The big baby is crying over being detained for 66 minutes while they checked his credentials. Note to SRK there are more important issues currently than you being delayed for an hour.
gem on August 25, 2009 at 7:49 pm said:
This may or may not be a case of racial profiling. It could be both. I’m glad that as a celebrity he didn’t get special treatment.
Lizzie and PS you both are spot on. The hypocrisy of Bollywood actors complaining about racism in the West is beyond nervy.
Aww Lizzi, It’s the same relativism again here, eh? “Bollywood” might stereotype minorities, but “Bollywood” was not stopped at EWR, but SRK was. So unless you have proof that SRK is racist, I suggest you get off your high horse. And secondly Hollywood is equally if not more racist. Maybe you should read how Salma Hayek was treated by Hollywood before you start posting cr@p.
Desi Dude I don’t see how Bollywood not being stopped at EWR proves it’s not racist. Plus Bollywood is way more racist than Hollywood. I’m surprised that someone would have the gumption to say the opposite. At least people of different races and complexiones are represented in Hollywood and have a chance of success whereas in Bollywood you have absolutely no chance of making it if you’re darker than “wheatish.” Bollywood is also clanish with more restricted access than Hollywood.
Furthermore, Hollywood isn’t trying to be something it’s not while Bollywood simply as its name implies and the physical looks it favors (i.e. European features with light eyes) is imitating the former (regarding the actors’ looks that is). I don’t see how the self hatred in that can be any more obvious. As for SRK, one doesn’t need much proof to see the integrity of someone who promotes bleaching cream as the key to sucess for a dark-skinned nation. If you still can’t see the connection between bleaching cream and racism than look up the history of colonialism, how it has affected global beauty standards and why dark-skinned nations see their complexion as inferior in the first place. What was inapproprate was comparing tanning salons to bleaching cream which does not have the same historial baggage.
PS: Don’t claim that most Indians are “wheatish” to justify Bollywood’s racist exclusivity because 1. there is no average Indian complexion. I’m tired of Indians saying that. Indians come in all colors and 2. basing looks on skin color is just plain prejudice and has nothing to do with acting skills or attractiveness.
Muslim But Not "KHAN" on September 28, 2009 at 4:43 pm said:
“Brown”??
For all you USA haters there is not credibilty to you! This is by far hands down or up the BEST COUNTRY in the world – PERIOD! You obey law and pull no stunt and answer the authority when asked flat truth you will be free as one can be in USA! Sad to say but India don’t stay a showdow of a chance to be upright vs USA! My name is Khan will be a Big Flop in USA! We will see to it! How do desis act when your local (Indian) police takes you in for whatever reason? Saab, Bribe, Kiss, act nice but when it comes to the US authorities you all B+tch! Khan or Johar the real stnt pullers! Stop that nonsense! No more Bovine Slump!
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That’s the Raghead-in-Chief to you (updated)
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Ennis Singh Mutinywale
[Update: See below the fold for much more extensive coverage of what Knotts actually said. It's far more offensive and inflamatory than the first reports revealed]
On a political talk show Thursday night, State Senator Jake Knotts said (about Nikki Haley):
“We already got one rag-head in the White House, we don’t need a rag-head in the governor’s mansion,” [link]
I’d love to show you the video of this clip, but it was either pulled from the archive or “Republican political operative and show co-host Wesley Donehue …forgot to hit record” [link].
After being soundly reamed by Haley for his remarks and more mildly criticized by the SC GOP, Senator Knotts “apologized” saying
my “raghead” comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest. Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of Saturday Night Live, which is actually where the joke came from,” Knotts said. “Since my intended humorous context was lost in translation, I apologize. I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not, much as Obama did, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur [link]
Get that?
It was a joke, and not even his joke really, a joke made by those liberals at SNL. Huh? When did they call the President a raghead?
Furthermore, it was an unintended slur Right, I said raghead when I meant to say sand nigger. That was the intended slur.
And lastly Haley is pretending to be someone she is not … i.e. White, Christian, and like us.
And here we come to the crux of the matter. Both Obama and Haley, US Citizens and Christian by their own accounting, are frauds. They’re not “one of us” because they’re not white.
The Senator hasn’t tied himself up in Knotts trying to explain himself, he has revealed exactly what he means. Sadly for him, the race card wont work this time, not because there are no bigoted primary voters, but because Haley looks white and has Sarah Palin’s endorsement. At the same time, this isn’t going to hurt him one bit. It’s not a macaca moment (another ‘unintended slur’), it’s just politics as usual in South Carolina.
UPDATE: Some audio has surfaced, this is some of what he said, although I have rearranged and selected material from the original source
“She’s a f#!king raghead… ” Knotts said… “She’s a raghead that’s ashamed of her religion trying to hid it behind being Methodist for political reasons.”
“We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.”
Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it.
Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.
“We’re at war over there,” Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.” [link]
p>I challenge you to read this and say that the GOP dismissal was not mild.
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billy on June 14, 2010 at 1:34 pm said:
I think it is rather “presumptuous” (its definitely a prejudice/stereotype) to think that Muslim families bless sons marrying out but daughters marrying in.
As someone who grew up with Pakistanis, I can testify this is not presumptuous, nor is it a prejudice or a stereotype, it is fact.
Zachary Latif on June 14, 2010 at 6:05 pm said:
@ Billy did you grow up in Pakistan?
Please drop the Islamophobia, very tiresome. Why is there such a chip on the shoulder when it comes to Islam; I will never know.
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Circle to Dovetail: Koki Tanaka at Asian Art Museum
Maia Nichols — December 8, 2016
Koki Tanaka (Japanese, b. 1975), A Pottery Produced by 5 Potters at Once (Silent Attempt), 2013. Collaboration, Video Documentation. Courtesy of the artist. © Koki Tanaka.
Koki Tanaka: Potters and Poets
200 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA 94102
November 4, 2016 – February 14, 2017
Koki Tanaka: Potters and Poets, seems to be stuck in the corner on the second floor of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Or maybe it’s The Sculptural Turn: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Kempner and Stein Collection in the adjacent rooms that makes Tanaka’s work feel simultaneously awkward and welcoming. Most of the floor is devoted to 14 Japanese clay artists, masters and also up and coming artists, expanding on a generation of artists born after World War II who moved away from century-long traditions of vases and tea ware, drawing inspiration from literature, anthropology, archeology, for their beautiful stoneware and porcelain.
Koki Tanaka: Potters and Poets, Asian Art Museum, November 4, 2016 – February 14, 2017. Photo © Asian Art Museum
Curated by by Karin Oen, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Tanaka’s exhibition consists of two works whose videos are projected in wall size in front of grey couches. Two silver push-pins hold up the wall text for A Pottery Produced by 5 Potters at Once (Silent Attempt) (2013) that drops and curls towards the wall on brown paper. Pots on plinths are encased in plexi and clustered together at varying heights. A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt) (2013), screens too but slightly louder. Big square poems lean against the wall. The wooden scaffolding doubles as a room divider and receptacle for another wall text. Like one of the couches, it’s at a diagonal. This setup is intentionally chaotic, but warmhearted. I can’t figure out why the ceramics are encased—a change since I saw them in 2013 on plinths of tree trunks—which seems to simulate the neighboring exhibit too much. I find myself wanting to walk around them, but re-situating the work depending on the installation location is important to Tanaka’s practice. Here he has purposely left one of the pedestals unfinished.
Born in Tochigi, Japan, Tanaka showed these videos amongst other works in abstract speaking—sharing uncertainty and collective acts at the Japan Pavilion in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. I couldn’t help interpreting the chipped wooden scaffold as a continuity of the questioning of the practical efficacy of art and architecture faced with disaster. The Pavilion centered on the aftermath of the Tohoku tsunami and earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 11, 2011. Tanaka was in LA, not directly affected by the earthquake. Without experiencing it in person, how could he express the impact it had? The exhibition was built up on dealing with this distance felt—over timber, and wall-text leftovers from the Venice Architectural Biennale of 2012, curated by Toyo Ito. Tanaka included it because Ito’s show was based on a communal house he built with 3 architects in a town wiped out by a tsunami, where the locals helped build the house. Furthering this, Tanaka showed, among other works, Precarious Tasks (2012-present)—documentation of events Tanaka organized in Japan, with up to 60 participants enacting routine and emergency situations: ‘going up to a city building taller than 16.7 m’, ’24 hours gathering’, ’talking about your name while eating emergency food.’ These gave a lively sense of hope to establish necessary conversations and recognize the difficulty of re-building post-disaster. These attempts to explore how to share an experience through collective activities continue—Precarious Tasks #15: Exchange of Our Clothes and Books as Exchanging our Bodies and Thoughts (Reconfiguration) was part of his 2016 exhibit at the Showroom in London. Each composition is bound to be unique. These scenarios seem to provide freedom, and flexibility—a sincere entry point.
In the two works at the Asian Art Museum we observe what happens in the process of mutual cooperation. Tanaka has made several works along these lines. He selects collaborators, sometimes with the same vocations but different backgrounds, and assigns them a particular task to accomplish. We watch the result of their negotiations as he leaves it up to them to work together. Six years ago at Koki Tanaka’s first US solo exhibition held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, one saw not only A Haircut by 9 Hairdressers at Once (second attempt) (2010) but also drawings, maze-like plywood, and video works involving haphazard actions.
Koki Tanaka (Japanese, b. 1975), A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt), 2013. Collaboration, Video Documentation. Courtesy of the artist. © Koki Tanaka.
At the Japan Foundation headquarters in Tokyo, where the 5 poets… video was shot, the poets—focused, almost excessively polite—reserve confrontational feelings, listen to each other, and carefully discuss a series of options before progressing in their poems. They talk about the difficulty of sharing, of losing something that’s difficult to share, and the meaning of sharing. They take on the task with a certain gravity and appear kind-hearted, almost too well-intentioned. A certain curiosity towards their collaborators and care develops. Any attempts to dominate others within the group operates demurely, if at all. They seem sincere in their enjoyment of what they are doing rather than question it.. They focus on selecting methods, feeling passages that are “more honest,” creating rules—whether to erase or not—whether to use what is crossed out as the chosen passages. “It’s up to you,” someone says. When it is dark, they write the final poem in a radial pattern, walk slowly around the circular table, recite. Then, again, in the opposite direction. They show us all is possible with patience.
Despite formal similarities, A Pottery Produced by 5 Potters at Once (Silent Attempt) is markedly different. The tension of working with others is made explicit. “Harmony is painful”—“there is no group”—“there are no selves”— “If we were five kids in kindergarten would we make anything different?” They ask questions, talk about effort, criterion for success, the pleasure of choosing together versus following ones own desires. One of the potter’s ambivalence presents a subversive foray into the conditions of making. He is glad when they agree they will destroy one of the works they made and restart. As they complete another he says “…even if it’s perfect it can still be depressing…” or “…For some people it’s just making stuff, quality doesn’t matter…” Finishing the works brings difficulty. Antagonized, the work seems unrecognizable as his own, or as anyone’s in the group—others reassure him the pots are a memory of the experience. The tensions raised open necessary and poignant questions. These are embedded across Tanaka’s larger oeuvre, implicit in the ensuing politics of art and of collaboration writ large.
Tanaka entrusts much of the process to his film crew and the participants. The frame and the premise of these projects is simple; the structure attempts to parcel out what it means to work together. It is the length of these films and their rhythm that asks the viewer to wait to return to life, as life too waits for art. But something of Tanaka’s work is communicated even if viewers do not stay for the entirety.
Within the tasks is the aspiration to recreate various aspects of nature, whereby a creation must emerge from a kind of chaos—the collaborators are enlisted for this task—using reality itself as the material for construction. Each decision of the participant unfolds as a commentary on the decision making of the artist, loaded with the idea that each choice is a political one, to be interpreted according to its aesthetic consequences. Tanaka acknowledges this type of discourse as he subsequently discards it—instead deploying a plan for conquering the material of what it means to live and work together, by embracing subtle aspects of discovering and living. The humanizing of the subjects and the staging of group dynamics constitutes the video’s strength.
Tanaka’s ability to understand human behavior, ethics, and interaction is secondary to his ability to organize it according to the task at hand—the task he assigns the collaborators, the responsibility given to a collective. If the films themselves become long, too uncomfortable to watch, perhaps it is because he offers a confrontational lexicon—leaving questions such as, ‘have they seen each other since this encounter?’ Is a random group meeting for one day a community? Why did he choose them? How well does he know them? While he has worked with some of his film crew for many years, these projects and the relations to his participants—however symbolic or influential—are ephemeral.
The moments Tanaka creates are profoundly meaningful, when we meet in them the infinity in kindness, in listening. Tanaka’s legacy would not be possible without his own genuine eagerness to meet the world with empathy, wherever he is, fully performed best in earlier works. In Showing objects to a dog (2010), he spends time in a park, showing random objects to a dog (Sheday) that he is taking care of for his friends who are out of town. We have a lasting sense of his character and hope—not only endearing but also comically charged by an unmet optimism, a desire to be fully in the world.
Tanaka’s work asks, in the present context, what are our methods for dire times? Despite this earnest struggle, art has been assimilated by capital—is that why these videos seem alive in a space dedicated to collecting and maintaining historical objects? Still, we should not resign ourselves to this conception of liberation—an ongoing lust for justice keeps asking how we can be valued for something beyond work.
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About the Author Maia Nichols
Maia Nichols (b. Berkeley, CA) is an artist and writer currently based in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Droste Effect Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Full Stop Magazine, Bartleby Review, The Art Book Review, Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture, and The DIAGRAM, among others. Recent international exhibitions include Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fundación Botín, Agora Collective, and Dynamo Arts Association. Forthcoming exhibitions include a group show at Waag Society in Amsterdam, NL. She holds degrees in both Psychology and Visual Art from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. from the California Institute of the Arts.
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Belfast: Coming Back From The Brink
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The Troubles.
That’s what the conflict in Northern Ireland has been called for generations. We’ve been told that everything is fine now. The violence has ceased and both sides, Irish Catholics and English Protestants, are getting along fine.
Our taxi driver painted a slightly different picture.
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Trying Pop Rocks For The First Time
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While visiting my daughter during her term abroad in Ireland, we got to meet some of her new friends. These people, from Germany and Finland (and a couple from Australia), are helping her out so much, we decided to pay them back with silly American gifts.
Yet Again, These Are My People
Every 18 months I have the ultimate pleasure of volunteering at a blood and marrow transplant conference. I’ve written about these conferences in the past, saying “These are my people.” This year, in particular, I felt that way even more acutely.
First, there were all those people checking out my book, which was just a thrill.
A Minor Achievement
There was golfing on our “mancation,” our vacation designed specifically to do guy things. There was also batting practice in random fields we found along the way. Sure, there was a little gambling and an impossibly large basket of bacon that we left half-finished on the table. But the whole stated reason for our trip was to visit Minor League baseball fields around the state and in Ohio.
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Driving 12 hours from Detroit, we crossed a drawbridge onto the island. Then we took a car ferry to the next island. Finally, we rode a small passenger ferry to this remote rock. If we want to go any further, it’ll be by kayak or backstroke.
The Mysteries
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Mary Magdalene tweeted the disciple’s secret location, tipping off the Romans. It’s okay, Jesus made her do it.
Pontius Pilate was a John Wayne impersonator.
The shepherds in their field at night were gang members.
But the most shocking thing maybe — apart from all the male and female body parts — was the Angel Gabriel being a lesbian who explained to Mary about virgin birth, “Honey, sometimes you just don’t need a man.”
London: The Big Picture(s)
There’s nothing better than strolling around town, any town, and taking pictures. It’s called Street Photography and those of us whose hearts pump developer, stop bath and fixer love wandering with a camera. Pros like Scott Strazzante take it well past documentary photography and well into high art with blogs like Shooting from the Hip.
You’ve heard of Humans of New York? Well today I offer up a few humans of London.
London’s Colorful Past
Homes on Roupell Street in London are going for about a million pounds these days. That’s about 1.6 million dollars. It shouldn’t be shocking that London homes are very expensive, but considering where they started out, it’s a surprising tale.
Florida, a State of Mind
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I think it was right about the time the cat jumped through the flaming fire hoop that I realized this place wasn’t quite like any other. We were closer to Cuba than we were to the mainland US of A, but it didn’t feel any more like Cuba than it did our own country. Welcome to Key West.
The Mountain Workshop For Dummies
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Grant Swertfeger, Carrie Pratt, Tim Broekema and Justin Winter discuss photo options under the watchful eye of Kentucky Governor Wendell Ford and his family.
My photojournalism career has taken me through a passel of papers, but never in all my time have I had to share work space with so many dummies.
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Dutch Elections: "Far Right" Gains; Geert Wilders has done better than expected!
June 9, 2010 sheikyermami 4 Comments
Here’s the far left CNN take: “Fears dominate Dutch elections“
Election triumph puts anti-Islam Wilders in line for Dutch Cabinet role
The Freedom Party of the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders emerged as the third force in Dutch politics last night, more than doubling its number of seats in Parliament in the country’s general elections. Times Online
Wilders casts his vote
Earlier this week, Wilders released calculations he says show that nonwestern immigrants are a euro7 billion ($8.6 billion) annual drag on the Dutch budget because of higher criminality and unemployment rates. Dutch elections/Islam in Europe
Anti-Islamists gain ground in Dutch elections
ABC’s Rachael Brown chews the cud:
The anti-Islamist far right looks set to be a strong force in the Dutch national election this June, after Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party made strong gains in local elections.
The party has gained control of one city and is running second in The Hague.
Mr Wilders is a controversial figure in Dutch politics due to his anti-Islamist views.
He likens the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, wants Muslim women who wear headscarves taxed, and wants Muslim immigrants deported. Â More?
Radio Netherlands:
Dutch election too close to call
The Dutch parliamentary election is too close to call. Initial exit polls announced after voting bureaus closed at 9:00 pm indicate the Labour Party and the free-market liberal VVD Party in a neck-and-neck race – 31 seats each. Official results are not expected before midnight.
Turnout was the lowest in years as heavy rain showers may have kept some voters at home. Seventy-four percent of eligible voters cast a ballot.
Far-right populist Geert Wilders has done better than expected. The initial exit polls give his Freedom Party 22 seats in parliament. That is significantly more than the opinion polls indicated in the last days of campaigning. And it more than doubles the nine seats they won in the last election.
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Wilders hails Israel 'fighting jihad'
June 9, 2010 sheikyermami 1 Comment
Dutch “values” party head set to gain seats in current election.
Al BeBeeCeera is hot & bothered over “Wilders strident attacks on Islam which could allow him to make or break a new right-wing coalition government…” The  Guardian (of Muslims) sings along in unison…..
By DAVID HOROVITZ/J’Post
Geert Wilders, who is demanding a halt to immigration from Muslim countries as the centerpiece of his campaign for the Dutch prime ministership, has hailed Israel for “fighting the jihad” and warned that “the West is next” if Israel is unsuccessful.
The VDD’s Mark Rutte, left, the CDA leader, Jan-Peter Balkenende, centre, and the Freedom party’s Geert Wilders, before a tTV debate
“Israel is the canary in the coal mine,” Wilders said in a recent telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post, ahead of Wednesday’s elections in the Netherlands. “The jihadagainst Israel isn’t against Israel only. It’s against the whole West.”
A year ago, Wilders’s PVV (Party for Freedom) was scoring 28 percent in opinion polls and appeared to have a realistic prospect of winning the elections. It has declined since then, however, he said, as economic issues have become increasingly dominant.
“There’s not a big chance that I’ll become prime minister,” he said.
Nonetheless, the PVV is expected to double its current nine seats in the 150-member parliament, and front-runner Mark Rutte, of the People’s Party for Freedom of Democracy (VVD), said this week that he was not ruling out Wilders’s party as a coalition partner.
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Netherlands Elections: Anti-Islam parties expected to gain in Dutch vote
June 9, 2010 sheikyermami 12 Comments
Google Dutch election monitor [Gadget] (Link to Islamization Watch)
Dutch anti-Islam party set to double in election
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—”The sluice gates are wide open,” Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders says in a campaign video that shows planes landing in Holland as women in headscarves outnumber natives in shopping street scenes.
“Every day we are confronted with mass immigration: headscarves, burqas, minarets, social security dependence, crime … it never ends,” Wilders laments as dramatic music plays in the background of the clip released ahead of June 9 parliamentary elections.
“Whole neighborhoods are being Islamized.”
Pollsters expect Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), to double its strength from nine to 18 MPs in the 150 seat parliament on a ticket of halting the “Islamic invasion”—enough to make it a potential ruling coalition candidate.
“Wilders exerts a big influence on these elections,” political analyst Martin Rosema of Twente University told AFP.
Wilders’ bold move onto the shaky ground of multi-cultural tolerance, for long a matter of Dutch pride, “has prompted other parties to adopt a stricter approach to security and the integration of Muslims,” said Rosema.
Many parties’ manifestos now propose an immigration cut, mainly for the low skilled, and harsher treatment of foreign criminals.
Wilders’ PVV came first in Almere and second in The Hague in local elections in March—the only cities it contested in its first-ever municipal campaign.
But the PVV finds itself in opposition in both cities as other parties formed coalitions to exclude it, a situation observers expect to be repeated on the national stage.
Wilders, who calls his political enemies “multi-cultural cuddlers,” claims that 40 percent of social security payments go to non-Western immigrants and that people of Moroccan origin were crime suspects five times as often as indigenous Dutch.
“What the Netherlands needs is a stop to immigration for people from Muslim countries,” says the politicianwho has called for a “head rag tax” on headscarves.
Twenty percent of the Netherlands’ 16.5 million-strong population is of immigrant origin.
“There is a significant group of voters for whom immigration is the most important issue,” said political science professor Philip van Praag of the University of Amsterdam.
“They believe that people of Turkish and Moroccan background and Islamic belief are damaging Dutch society. They regard them as a threat, especially in the form of criminality perceived to be committed by immigrant youths.”
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The Dutch Dilemma
May 15, 2010 sheikyermami 3 Comments
Dutch Conservative VVD aims to get tough Islamic ‘marriage migration’, rules out coalition with Labour PvdA
More Security, Less Immigration
Four weeks from today the people of the Netherlands will vote in a general election. Geert Wilders and the PVV are poised to make significant gains in Parliament, despite the firewall erected against them by the Dutch state media and the political elite. Â Read further…
“In the biggest cities, 60 percent of the Moroccan men are jobless. In Rotterdam, one in two Moroccan men have already been arrested twice.” “Increasingly large numbers of partners are arriving from the hinterland of Turkey and the Rif mountains (in Morocco) Â Once again new generations of illiterates who do not speak the language. They divorce after three years, and then the next partner is again brought in from abroad.”
Wilders’ PVV party, unfortunately are not leading the polls, but it is clear people are listening, and more are willing to act to change this heading-for-the-cliff’s-edge policies.
NIS News/Islamization Watch/ THE HAGUE, 11/05/10 – Conservative (VVD) leader Mark Rutte believes a coalition between his party and Labour (PvdA) is not possible. The differences between the two parties appear to be too great, he says in an interview with De Dagelijkse Standaard website.
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Fiery Riots in Teheran When Thug in Chief Hijacks Elections
June 14, 2009 sheikyermami 3 Comments
Riots in Tehran as Thug-In-Chief declares victory
Pictures and Latest News From Today’s Iranian Protests
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I cannot make this crap up:Obama “excited” by Iran’s robust election debate
The ongoing lack of American support for the forces opposing the mullahcracy in Iran is unconscionable. Instead of making nice with the regime, the President should be reaching out to these people. Instead of defending the right of Muslim women to wear the hijab in the United States, which no one is disputing, he should be defending the right of Muslim women not to wear the hijab in Iran. “Riots erupt in Tehran as Iranian President Ahmadinejad declares victory,” by Borzou Daragahi in the Los Angeles Times, June 13 (thanks to JW):
Reporting from Tehran — Huge swaths of the capital erupted in fiery riots that stretched into the early morning Sunday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory in his quest for a second four-year term amid allegations of widespread fraud and a strident challenge of the vote results by his main challenger, who was reportedly placed under house arrest.
As Ahmadinejad promised a “bright and glorious future” for Iran in a televised address, supporters of his reformist rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi clashed with police and militiamen in riot gear and throughout Tehran in the most serious clashes in the capital since a student uprising 10 years ago.
Searing smoke and the smell of burning trash bins and tear gas filled the night sky. Protesters poured into key squares around the capital, burning tires, erecting banners and hurling stones at riot police on motorcycles, who responded with truncheons.
A slightly different view:Â
Why it’s best that Ahmadinejad won
In an article written on Friday during the elections, Daniel Pipes explains why it was best that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be the winner:
The rahbar controls key institutions (foreign policy, the military, law enforcement, the justice system) of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In contrast, the president primarily concerns himself with the softer domains such as economics and education. (A contrast I discussed in 2003 at “The Iranian President’s Power.”) More from Carl in J’lem>>
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du brings #PostWisely campaign to American University of Sharjah
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UAE telecom brand du, part of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has continued the #PostWisely movement by kicking off recently an educational road show at one of the leading UAE academic centres, the American University of Sharjah.
This university workshop is the first stop in the educational road show that du carried out in its efforts to engage with the UAE community at grassroots levels and communicate the campaign's message of #PostWisely, which is centred around mindfulness of social media users when sharing negative content.
In an engaging session, Abdulwahed Juma, Executive Vice President of Brand and Corporate Communications at du, spoke to the university's students and faculty of the department of Mass Communication and shed light on the findings of the Ipsos research that du commissioned for this campaign in addition to discussing insights about trending social media behaviors.
"We are pleased to have been welcomed into such a prestigious center of learning by the American University of Sharjah and be able to share the specifics and discuss the granular details with people passionate to make a difference," said Abdulwahed Juma.
"I was struck by the integrity and humanity on display amongst the students and faculty staff and hope together we can make a positive difference across social media," Juma added. "We can collectively reduce negative content online by remembering the impact of such content before pressing ‘Share'."
du recently launched the second instalment of its Public Service Announcement, themed "If it were your pain, would you share it?" to raise awareness and inspire conversations around conscientious and ethical social media usage.
Psychologists, media experts, government authorities and academics as well as real-life heroes who saved or helped people in negative situations, all discussed the release of four compelling videos - conceptualised by du, highlighting harmful and unethical sharing of negative pictures and videos such as accidents, bullying and pranks. This week, the telco reached out directly to students and academics to join the campaign for a safer Internet.
du's #PostWisely campaign is providing a platform for dialogue to take place in order to encourage ethical online behavior through its social media channels.
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Building a Future
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Santa Claus, as we know him today, is based on a fourth century Christian bishop, now known as Saint Nicholas, who was legendary for his generosity. The most famous legend is that Nicholas heard about a family who was so poor, they considered selling their three daughters. To save the girls from a life of prostitution, Nicholas tossed three bags of gold onto the family doorstep, thus providing dowries that would enable the girls to marry.
Saint Nicholas is thus considered a protector of children. To celebrate this, a tradition emerged where children received special gifts on his feast day. When this custom was brought to America, it became associated with Christmas and the name of the giver changed to Santa Claus.
Branding Santa
According to Wikipedia, the first appearances of Santa Claus wearing what we recognise today as the Santa suit, were drawn by Thomas Nast and appeared in Harper’s Weekly in the mid to late 1800s. Fast forward to 1931, Haddon Sundblom portrayed Santa in the red suit as part of an advertising campaign for Coca-Cola. It was this work that standardised the way in which Santa was portrayed from this point forward.
This year, Graphic Springs, a logo design company, invited suggestions on modernising Santa from 400 respondents from the UK and US. A selection of these suggestions were then voted upon by over 4000 people from the UK and US. The most popular suggestions were included in a graphic re-branding of the holiday hero.
Controversy erupts
Interestingly, media didn’t mind the thought of Santa going on a diet, using Amazon Prime, wearing skinny jeans and trainers, riding a hoverboard or in a flying car, or having tattoos and an iPhone. Google “Rebranding Santa” and the one point most articles picked up on was that some 27% voted in favour of making Santa female or gender neutral. See this post and this post as examples.
As the comments on this brief statement suggest there are plenty of people who are offended by the possibility that Santa could be portrayed as anything other than male. Some defend this with reminders of the ancient connection to Saint Nicholas.
It’s already been done…
In Santa Baby (2006) and Santa Baby 2 (2009), the Claus’ daughter, Mary, is called upon to save Christmas after her father takes ill and, in the sequel, wants to retire. I suspect there may be other movies among the plethora of Christmas tales in which Mrs. Claus or another female plays the leading role.
Should consideration be given to re-branding Santa for the new millennia? If so, what would you change? Are there aspects of our understanding of Santa that must remain consistent (like gender)? Why or why not? We would love to hear from you.
Want to see more Holiday Posts?
Check these out: Elf on the Shelf; Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and Baby it’s Cold Outside.
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Useless Palace denials
Malacañang accuses critics of Gloria Arroyo of “speculating” too much with regard to the imposition of martial law (ML) as a means for attain her quest in the matter of political perpetuity.
That may be so, but at the same
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Exchange deal
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In 1972, when then President Ferdinand Marcos decreed martial law (ML) in the entire Philippines, Congress was ordered padlocked, opposition personalities were arrested, along with known media critics of the Marcos regime. Media establishments were also ordered closed, and press censorship was imposed, with the press having to clear its reports with the military officer assigned as censor in media offices before any news report could be published. Also, military officers took over the management and control of private establishments.
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Now is time for Ampatuans to sing ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/09/2009
Rudy Romero
The family of Andal Ampatuan Sr., the governor of Maguindanao, must be extremely unhappy with the treatment that the family is receiving at the hands of the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I can imagine the Ampatuan family patriarch cursing and spouting epithets, from his military-hospital bed, at the Lakas-Kampi-CMD candidate for representative of the second district of Pampanga.
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Converting an Essential Data Model to a Real Database Design, Part 2
Posted on August 1, 2016 by David Hay
This is the second part of a three-part article intended to clarify the translation required between the essential view and a relational database designer’s view. To visit the first part of the series please click here.
Previously, after an introduction explaining the relative roles of the Essential Data Modeler and the System/Database Designer in the development of a system that can be meaningful for a system/data consumer to use, that article described the first two steps in converting a relatively abstract Essential Data Model into a practical Logical Database Design.
The first two steps are:
Step 1 – Perform default database design
Step 2 – Resolve sub-types
This part continues the description of that process with the next step:
Step 3 – Deal with Parameters / Characteristics
Part Three will then address the final two steps:
Step 4 – Deal With Derived Attributes
Step 5 – De-normalize, if necessary
Step 3: Deal with Those Parameters
Some entity classes (Party or Person, for example), on the first pass, have a lot of attributes. The values of them change over time. Moreover, the attributes themselves come in and out of existence over time. Their definitions also change.
Managing the database design (and of course the data models) in this environment is a major maintenance expense that continues for a very long time after the system is complete.
We need an alternative approach. The Essential Model provides one. First it limits attributes in most entity types to:
For reference entity types:
“Identifier” or “Abbreviation”,
“Name”, and
“Description”.
For intersect (transaction) entity types:
“Sequence number”,
“Effective Date”,
“Expiration Date”,
And one or more “Values”.
With few exceptions, other “attributes” should be instances of Characteristics ( or Parameter, Attribute, or some such).
The value of each Characteristic is then contained in an intersect entity type that links the definition of it with one instance of the thing it is a Characteristic of.
Party Characteristic
In Figure 1, Party Characteristic is “a distinguishing trait, quality, or property that can be given a value for a Party.”[1] Each Party Characteristic must be, in turn, part of exactly one Party Characteristic Schema. This is a category used for organizing Party Characteristics. For example, a Party Characteristic Schema could be “IRS Business Activity”, with component Party Characteristics being entries on a list published by the US Internal Revenue Service. In another case, the Party Characteristic Schema could be “Personal Physical Characteristics”, with components “Height”, “Weight”, “Eye color”, etc.
Note that each Party Characteristic itself must also be the responsibility of one and only one Party. Thus the Person characteristic “US Social Security Number” is the responsibility of the US Social Security Administration. Data reperesnting Person (personal) characteristics, such as “height” and “weight”, would be the responsibility of the company’s Human Resources Department.
Party Characteristic Value
Party Characteristic Value is “the fact that a particular Party is described by a particular Party Characteristic.”
That is, each Party Characteristic Value must be for one and only one Party Characteristic and to describe one and only one Party. Each instance of a Party Characteristic Value must be uniquely identified by a combination of both the relationship to Party, and the relationship to Party Characteristic.
In its simplest form, the Party Characteristic entity type is simply an instance of a set of values that make up a particular Party Characteristic Schema. For example, for the Legal Entity, “Essential Strategies International”, one Party Characteristic Value is simply selection of the of the Party Characteristic with the name “Management Consulting Services” and a Code of “541600”. This instance is part of the Party Characteristic Schema, “IRS Business Area”.
In this case, Part Characteristic Value links one Party to one Party Characteristic.
Moreover, the fact that Party (Organization) “Essential Strategies International” is described by the Party Characteristic Value that is for “Management Consulting Services” must also be issued by one and only one identifiable Party. In this case, the Party involved would have been President David C. Hay.
A more sophisticated version of Party Characteristic Value defines it as “the fact that a particular Party Characteristic has a specific “Value” for a particular Party. In this case, one of the “Value…” attributes (see below) will be filled in. For Example, Party Characteristic could be “Height”. A Party Characteristic Value “Value – Number”, then, could be “67” (inches)[2] for Party Characteristic “Height”, to describe the Person (Party) “George Miller”.
The Characteristic “Height” could be the responsibility of The Data Governance Committee, and the “Value – Number” for George Miller could have been issued by George Miller himself.
Figure 1: Party Characteristics
There is one complexity that comes up. If this is to be a generic model, it must deal with different data types. The data type is a function of the particular Party Characteristic involved. Thus:
Party Characteristic Value {Data Type} may be inferred from the “Data Type” column in the associated Party Characteristic
Then you have the attributes:
Value – Text
Value – Number
Value – Boolean
Value – Date
Depending on the Party Characteristic Value {Data Type} involved, only one of these attributes would have a value.
Again, note that this is only relevant for those Party Characteristics that receive a value specific to the Party. If the Party Characteristic is simply one of a list of values, there is no “Value…” value at all.
Clearly, where columns are multi-valued or of limited life, stashing them in a …Characteristics table is the best way to go. There are cases, however, where it is appropriate to simply define attributes (for example, Person or Organization). For example, suppose the attributes shown in Figure 1, Department “Number Department” and Legal Entity “US Employee Identifier Number”, had, in fact, been converted to Party Characteristic “Name Characteristic”; then the entity Party Characteristic might look like this:
Name Description Party Type
Birthdate The day the person appeared on Earth Person
Height Vertical Distance to measure something Person
Surname The name of the Person’s family (also, “Last Name”) Person
Given Name The name of the individual person. Person
Annual Sales Average sales in a year Legal Entity
US Employee Identifier Number IRS Tax identifier Legal Entity
Number Department An integer that uniquely identifies a Department Department
It could then be implemented as the following tables:
It is reasonable to expect that Person “Birthdate” is an attribute that will not be discontinued or significantly reformed. Moreover, an instance of Person is very unlikely (!) to ever have more than one “Birthdate”.
Similarly—in most cases—it is reasonable that a Person’s name won’t change once it’s entered. Different organizations, however, have different requirements for dealing with the possibilities that either “Surname” or “Given Name” may in fact change. For example, it could be assumed that the “Surname” and “Given Name” columns in a particular system always contain just the “latest value”, with an audit function being maintained outside this database.
On first pass, it would also appear that the same could be said about a Legal Entity’s “US Employee Identifier Number”. In this case, however, some caution may be required.
As long as the company only operates within the United States, this is fine. If the company will operate internationally, however, the attribute approach will make things very difficult. It is possible that you could get away with “National Tax ID” as a generic text field, although the underlying formats will actually be different. Alternatively, if you had Party Characteristics defined as “US Employee Identifier Number”, “UK Tax ID”, “Canada Tax ID”, etc., you would be safer. Among other things, this means you can now have more than one of these for a particular Legal Entity.
(Thus, “US Employee Identifier Number” shown in Figure 1, should in fact not have been an attribute of Legal Entity—even in the Essential Data Model.)
Since it can be used as an alternative identifier for Department implemented as a table, Department “Number Department” should remain as a column in that table.
Clearly, a Person’s “Height” will change over time. Now, if the only interest is in having available the latest value of h’[3] “Height”, it can be a column in the table Person. Even then, it may be necessary to at least add a column “Height Value Date”, or some such.
That is, Person’s “Height” would be better maintained as a dynamic Party Characteristic.
The “Annual Sales” for a Legal Entity is clearly a number that will change over time. At the very least, the value will be pegged to a calendar (or fiscal) year. It cannot readily be stored as an attribute of Legal Entity.
Generation – Version One
Note that to implement this structure we again have the issues of what to do about the sub-types, as discussed in Part One of this essay. For no particular reason, this model is rendered in IDEF1x.
The sub-types of the Essential Model Party not only inherit the super-type’s attributes, they also inherit the relationships associated with the super-type as well. If the generation of the logical model collapses all the sub-types into a single table, this is not a problem. You can see the result in the Logical Model shown in Figure 2:
Each Party may be described by one or more Party Characteristic Values.
Each Party may be the issuer of one or more Party Characteristic Values.
Each Party may be responsible for one or more Party Characteristics.
Each row of Party Characteristic Value is now identified by a primary key that consists of 1) the foreign key “Par_Identifier_Party”, pointing to Party along the to describe relationship, plus 2) the foreign key “Global_Characteristic_Identifer”, pointing to Party Characteristic along the for relationship.
That is, the IDEF1x notation shows that the relationships:
Each Party Characteristic Value must be to describe one and only one Party, and
Each Party Characteristic Value must be for one and only one Party Characteristic…
… Are shown as identifying relationships (with solid lines).
In addition, in Party Characteristic Value, you have foreign key, “Identifier Party”, pointing to Party along the issued by relationship, and in Party Characteristic, you have a foreign key ‘Identifier_Party”, pointing to Party along the responsibility for (This is not an identifying relationship.)
What this means is that Party Characteristic is a collection of the characteristics for any and all kinds of Parties, organized in terms of Party Characteristic Schemas.
Recalling the discussion above about the unique identifier, note that here, it is possible to specify the “Par_Identifier_Party” as part of the primary key.
Note that the foreign key columns were all generated by the CASE tool. Names are not entirely clear. It is worth a moment to make them a bit more understandable. Table 1 shows candidates for these column names.
Table 1: Improved Column Names – V1
Table Name Old Column Name New Column Name
Party Characteristic Value Par_Identifier_Pary Describe_Identifer_Party
Party Characteristic Value Identifier_Party Issued_Identifier_Party
Party Characteristic Identifier_Party Defined_Identifier_Party
Party Characteristic Abbreviation Party_Characteristic_Abbreviation
Figure 2: One Version of the Logical Model
Generation – Version Two
What if we don’t want to have a single table for all Parties? It gets very complicated if we try to generate a separate table for all sub-types—but to give you an idea of what we’re up against, check out Figure 3. Here, all we’ve done is to split the Party entity type into a Person table and an Organization table, both connected to Party Characteristic Value and Party Characteristic. The to describe/described by and issued by / issuer of relationships are replicated for the two cases.
Remember that in the Essential Model, the unique identifier of Party Characteristic Value included the relationship, “each Party Characteristic Value must be to describe one and only one Party”. Here, however, that relationship is implemented by two foreign key relationships. To be sure, there is still a single foreign key column (here renamed from “Par_Identifier_Party” to “Described_Party”) that implements both foreign keys “fk2” and “fk3”. Even though it is a single column that implements both foreign keys, this column cannot be a primary key.
What will be required is a second instance of each column, so that the “arc” between them can be implemented.
That is, the columns would then be:
Described Person <fk2>
Described Organization <fk4>
Neither of these are part of the primary key. Some sort of programming logic is required to implement the “arcs”:
Either “Described Person” or “Described Organization” is mandatory—‘if there is no value for the other one.’
‘If there is a value for the other one, no value is permitted for this one.’
The same “arc” logic applies to the newly defined columns:
Issued Person <fk3>
Issued Organization <fk5>
… as well as the new pair of columns in Party Characteristic:
Responsible Person <fk2>
Responsible Organization <fk3>
A new column is required that, in combination with the relationship to Party Characteristic, will establish uniqueness. One candidate could be “Effective Date”, but there is no guarantee that there won’t be more than one evaluation of a Party Characteristic on the same day.
So, a surrogate key is required. In Figure 3, it is “Sequence Number”, which is defined in the context of the Party Characteristic involved. That is, “Sequence number” is “an integer that uniquely identifies each Party Characteristic Value in the context of the Party Characteristic that it is for.” (For example, the 3rd value for the Party Characteristic “Height”.)
Figure 3: Version Two of the Logical Model
Note that the Person and Organization tables each default to having “Identifier Party” as its primary key. Since this was inherited from Party in the Essential Model, but it has not passed to this implementation, it will be necessary to specify keys specific to these tables. “Identifier Organization” and “Identifier Party” naturally spring to mind. These are shown in Figure 4. Also in Figure 4 is the clarification of the foreign key columns in Party Characteristic Value. Each of the columns now specifies a single “<fk>”.
Again, not shown in the physical schema, a rule must be implemented to represent “arcs” to assert that each Product Characteristic Value must have a value either for “Described Organization”, or for “Described Party”, but not both. Similarly, each Product Characteristic Value must have a value either for “Issued Organization”, or for “Issued Person”, but not both.
Similarly, in Party Characteristic, “Responsible Organization” points to an Organization, while “Responsible Person” points to a Person. Note that again, an “arc” must be implemented to control that each Party Characteristic must have a value either for a “Responsible Organization”, or for a “Responsible Person”, but not both.
Figure 4: Version Two – Enhanced
In this chapter, we have used characteristics of Party to describe the processes and issues of determinng which should be implemented as columns and which should be implemented as …Characteristic tables. Note that both the logic and the issues involved apply equivalently to Project Characteristic, Asset Characteristic, Activity Characteristic, or any other entity described in this way.
If …Characteristics (or …Parameters or some such) are to be implemented as columns residing in a particular table, they must have the following so-called characteristics:
They must be single-valued, even over time.
They must be defined permanently for the owning table.
Otherwise, implementing the …Characteristic Structure described here is preferable.
On to Part Three . . .
Part Three of this series, in two months, will address steps 4 and 5.
Step 4: Deal with computed columns.
Step 5: De-normalize, as necessary
[1] This is based on the definition of “attribute”, found in Barker, R. 1990. CASE*Method: Entity Relationship Modeling. Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley.
[2] Unit of Measure is another modeling topic, not covered in this article.
[3] As an amateur logician, your author is averse to using the plural pronoun “their” to mean “his or her.” Same with “they.” So, he has initiated a campaign to use the contraction h’ to mean either “his or her.” Similarly ‘e means “he or she.”
Remember, you read it here first.
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About David Hay
In the Information Industry since it was called “data processing”, Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic and requirements planning for thirty years. As President of Essential Strategies International for nearly twenty-five of those years, Dave has worked in a variety of industries and government agencies. These include banking, clinical pharmaceutical research, intelligence, highways, and all aspects of oil production and processing. Projects entailed defining corporate information architecture, identifing requirements, and planning strategies for the implementation of new systems. Dave’s recently-published book, “Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World”, is an “upper ontology” consisting of a comprehensive model of any enterprise—from several levels of abstraction. It is the successor to his ground-breaking 1995 book, “Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought”–the original book describing standard data model configurations for standard business situations. In addition, he has written other books on metadata, requirements analysis, and UML. He has spoken at numerous international and local data architecture, semantics, user group, and other conferences.
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Modeling Data and Designing Databases
Posted on January 1, 2007 by Michael Gorman
Published in TDAN.com January 2007
1. Objective
The objective of this paper is to present an approach to the comprehensive, efficient and effective process of creating data models through mission, database domain, and localized
entity-relationship modeling. The paper then proceeds with an overall process and check list for designing databases.
At first, it might seem strange to separate the process of modeling data from the process of designing databases. Not only are these topics really different, but if the first is not done before the
second then not only will you will not only have a bad database design but you will also have a high probability of databases that are not-integrated, that are redundant, and that definitely
possess conflicting semantics. These are all the inverse set of desired characteristics.
A school system needs to build a database application (an application where the database is the core component). The problem domain is to track individuals who are being trained to be Certified
Medical Technicians (CMT). The school system has about 140,000 students.
There are about 210 health rooms across the system, and whenever a “nurse” is absent from a school, then a “certified medical technician” has to handle the dispensing of medicine, medical
record keeping, and the like. “Nurse” in quotes because a nurse can be a CNA (certified nursing assistant), an LPN (License Practical Nurse), or an RN (Registered Nurse). A CMT can only be
supervised by an RN.
Schools are responsible for nominating CMT candidates. They must pass a reading, writing, and arithmetic test. If the test is failed the CMT candidate cannot come back to the class for 90 days. The
CMT nominee must “sit” for a 40 hour class. There are three tests during the class, and a practical demonstration-based exam at the end. If any test is failed the CMT candidate is “expelled”
and they have to retake the entire course starting with the entrance test.
There is also a follow-up review and direct observation of every CMT every 45 school days. After the first 45 day period, the CMT candidate can then apply to the State to then become a Certified
Medical Technician. If thereafter, the CMT fails the follow-up review and/or any direct observation, the supervising RN must report that failure to the State. The State may then de-certified the
CMT. If de-certified, the process begins again from the entrance test. Giving the wrong drugs or dosage to a student, or failing to properly document medical treatments is a serious matter, and our
State takes it seriously.
The task is to build the database application against these requirements. A Nurse Manager of the school health organization chose MS/Access to build the application. Since the Nurse Manager was
told that MS/Access is really simple, and since she is a subject matter expert, she just fired up Access on her computer and started to type in the database’s design. One table, of course. As she
discovered something she forgot, she just modified the database’s one table design, one column at a time.
After about nine months, the one-table database in MS/Access was complete. The Nurse Manager was very proud of her accomplishment. She then started to type in data for about 300 records of CMTs in
various stages and states. Of course “she” herself is required to be present to understand and explain each and every row of data. There are status codes everywhere, some of the status codes are
related one to the other. There is no history. All the obvious questions were then asked. That is, those related to the underlying process, test re-takes, test failures, observations,
re-certifications, CMT moves from one school to the next, changes in RN supervisors, refresh of names, addresses, schools, from the school system’s databases, and the like. When the Nurse Manger
was unable to deal with these questions she started to feel “inadequate.”
A question was then asked, “Where’s your model of the data?” She stated, “Oh, right here.” She showed the MS/Access database table. It had never occurred to her that a model of the data is
different than a database’s design. The next two hours were then spent going over how to figure out the model of the data. At the end of that time, about 15-20 entities were identified and
related. “Yikes,” she exclaimed, “How am I going to be able to do that in Access?” She went away sad because she then knew that her requirements were becoming what she clearly did not know how
to do. Stating that a database’s design is not a data model would have been like pouring salt on a open wound. What should she have done? That’s the subject of this short paper. This paper is
written as if she had all the necessary tools to accomplish all the steps. Will she have these tools? Will the school system will expend the resources to make “simple, little applications” like
these practically possible. Good, sophisticated tool sets like Clarion for Windows make both client/server and Internet based applications like these very practical and cost effective to
accomplish.
2. Topics Covered
The topics is this paper include:
How to discover the data model
Where to put your data model
How to build a database design
3. How to Discover the Data Model
The overall process of modeling data is provided in Figure 1. Instantly you may be asking, “Why are functions and organizations involved in modeling data?” Well, if you don’t know, in a general
way, what your going to do with the data, nor who’s going to be using it, then how can you know if you’ve got the right model? Some suggest that you are just supposed to cover a whole wall in a
50x 30 room with butcher block paper and then, put a rectangle in the upper left corner, write “Customer,” and then wait for divine intercession. Some have grown old and retired waiting for the
revelations.
A careful review of the process model in Figure 1 shows that neither “schema” nor “database” (other than database domains) is specified. That’s because it’s a process to model data.
Thereafter, the data model can be employed to help create database schemas that are, of course, an essential requirement for database-centric applications. Provided here are summary descriptions of
these data modeling processes, and reasons why they are performed.
3.1 Missions
Missions are the idealized descriptions of what the enterprise is all about, not just what is done on a day to day basis with respect to a specific narrow function. Identification and specification
of the relevant missions is critical. In the case study, the focus was on the database’s design to accomplish known processes. There was no overall understanding of how these collections of
processes fit into the overall mission of the school system.
Because she was focused only on the database’s design, she missed the opportunity to identify all the different objects (in the broadest sense of the word) that should have been involved. Her
focus was on the CMT only. Mission isn’t the sole answer, however. Rather, missions are the context within which the data model answer is derived.
3.2 Organizations
Organizations accomplish aspects of missions with databases, information systems and functions. In the case study, the enumeration of the various organizations serve to identify the groups that
have to be involved in getting, maintaining, and using the information. For example, CMTs are transferred from one school to the next. Knowing that, and knowing that probably the last thing on the
mind of the transferred CMT is to notify someone in the school system’s Health Services of the transfer, how to know the current CMT’s school is a real problem. The school system’s HR
organization should have the most current assignment for a person. Consequently, a feature of the resulting CMT system would be to access, on a weekly basis, the HR system’s database, and
validate, CMT by CMT whether the current CMT assigned location is the correct one. If it is then OK. Otherwise that school’s Assigned CMT records would have to be flagged as no longer having an
available CMT.
Again, organization, like mission, is not the answer to knowing the full set of requirements. Rather, it too is a contextual element and provide the identification of groups that have to be
involved in the full set of requirements for a complete solution.
Functions are the procedures that are performed by groups as they accomplish the various missions of the enterprise from within different enterprise organizations. This is where the actual
activities are specified that need to be performed. Setting out and defining these functions cause the identification of areas of data, data elements, states, exceptions and the like involved in
the CMT effort. Functions are, of course, all identified within the scope of the mission-organizations that result from the previous step. These functions directly lead to the set of processes,
automated and manual, that are needed in some way for a complete CMT solution.
3.4 Prior Data and Reports
Prior data and reports generally refer to the set of all data that must be involved in the application area, and by inference in the data model’s design. In the case study, there were State
requirements for CMT applications, transactions, and reporting. There were also data requirements to support the individual CMT person such as biographic data, assignments, tests, scores, CMT
progress states, and the like. All these data need to be identified and analyzed within the context of the missions, organizations, and functions as they directly lead to subjects, entities,
attributes, and of course, relationships.
3.5 Scope Model
The above four: missions, organizations, functions and prior data are all brought together to convey one overall understanding of just what the mission is, which organizations are involved, what
activities are performed, and just what data is involved in accomplishing the effort.
Once the scope model is complete, then from a non-IT point of view, the specification is not only complete, it should also be able to be reviewed for missing items and functionality. If any are
found then they should be corrected before proceeding. Correcting these errors here is very inexpensive as no databases are yet designed nor has any software been built. Once the scope model is as
complete as it can be, then, the next step, database domains, can proceed quickly.
3.6 Database Domains
Database domains are text or list based noun-intensive statements. Database domain paragraphs are the precursor step to entity-relationship models. Well done, each sentence in a Database Domain
text becomes a multi-entity and relationship statement. Here, there’s no intended granularity to an entity. Some may end up being complex (i.e., database objects), other simpler, and some even
just data elements.
Once database domains are complete, the various entity relationship diagrams are created, subject by subject. If there’s enough information, then a full set of attributes are created for each
entity. It’s best that the entities are in third normal form so that there is a crispness to the specificity of the set of entities within each subject. Relationships can be made between entities
in different subjects to provide a more uniform model of the data.
From the point of view of the case study, here are examples of database domain statements:
School system has health rooms.
Heath rooms have assigned supervising RNs
Schools have certified medical technicians
School system delivers CMT classes
CMT classes have certified teachers
School system employees are enrolled in CMT classes
School system CMT enrollees have passed (or failed) CMT tests
Candidate CMTs apply for State Certifications
State Certified CMTs must re-certify every two years from date of original certification
From these examples, entities, attributes, and relationships are very obvious. Entity-relationship models are easily drawn and validated by reviewing the subject-verb-object relationship and
cardinality with subject matter experts. If any statement is missing, now is the time to add it.
3.7 Database Objects
Database objects are collections of entities (actually collections of tables within a database’s schema). Full database object specification includes its data structure (i.e., a table collection);
table-based add, delete, and update processes; states; and state transform specifications. But for the purposes of this effort, the database object models are employed to provide a coherent
understanding of the processes that are required to operate against multiple entities so as to ensure an overall integrity.
In the case study, school system is clearly a database objects as it has multiply contained entities. The CMT class is probably a simple database object, and the Certification Date is certainly a
data element. Because the entity-relationship diagrams exist that were created from the database domains, identifying the database objects, simple entities and data elements is fast, and most often
correct on their first recognition.
3.8 Data Elements
During the process of creating attributes within entities, each attribute should be mapped to enterprise-wide data elements as a way to maximize semantic uniformity across differently named
attributes that represent the same data element, and also to ensure a uniformity of value domains. Once data elements are created and mapped to attributes, “where-used” reports can document
maximum semantic integrity.
In the case study, Certification Date would be a data element. Whether it is the First Certification Date, or a Renewal Certification Date is immaterial. They are columns or attributes that map to
the data element, Certification Date.
3.9 Data Models
If the steps above are accomplished, then the data model for the CMTs will largely be complete. If the effort is part of an overall larger modeling effort, then many of the subjects, entities,
attributes, and relationships will already have been created. Having these available from a metadata repository will greatly speed these steps. The remaining step is to actually create a database
schema of just the relevant data specifications and then proceed through prototyping to then validate the data model.
In the case study, a very quick set of entities were discovered, and included for example:
CMT Instructor
School System Employee
CMT Class
CMT Test
CMT Test Score
In-school Observation
Health Room
CMT Assignment
State Certification Record
Supervising Registered Nurse
3.10 Validation through Prototyping
This step, validation through prototyping, is critical because up to this point the solution has been almost entirely paper-based. Even if data models are in a metadata repository, they are still
untested designs. Data model design testing requires a process model through which the data model can be exercised to know that it represents the necessary data in an easy-to-use way.
The first step is to make a database schema. This is accomplished by importing collections, or subsets of collections of entities into a database’s schema. Once represented as a database schema, a
code generator that ingests the schema can materialize an actual database-centric application.
Once the application is generated, it can be electronically “shaped” to match a desired behavior model, and then demonstrated to users. User feedback is essential because that’s when you hear,
“Where’s the XYZ data?” Reviewing something on paper is just not sufficient. Once a review is done, and the comments are all logged, just throw the generated application away. If there are
changes to the data models, then make the changes and re-generate the prototype application. Once a series of cycles are performed, eventually the application and the data model will become stable.
If there are six such cycles, all within a two-month period, then that’s like implementing at version 6 versus implementing at version 1 and then spending two or three years achieving the same
design. For sure, this strategy is faster, cheaper, and far more effective.
In the case study, the database’s schema was able to be quickly created because all the entities, attributes and relationships existed in the metadata repository. A schema with all the tables was
created in one afternoon. It was reviewed. The application was generated about two hours later. Another day was spend pruning the application prior to demonstration. Then there were six sessions
with relevant subject matter experts set up. One every two weeks. That was more than enough time to cycle back in the changes to the data model, the database’s design, and the generated
4. Where to Put Your Data Model
The data models should be placed into a metadata repository that is integrated and non-redundant. The model of such a metadata repository is similar to the one in Figure 2. Each box represents a
category of metadata and is sometimes called a meta-entity. This is a very high level subset representation of the metadata repository data model. The diagram shows that the obvious places where
the results from steps 3.1 through 3.8 are stored. Step 3.9 produces the metadata for the subject, entity, and attribute meta-entities. Relationships among entities are not shown. Step 3.10 causes
the creation of the metadata for the business information system, module, database table, and column meta-entities. Relationships among tables are not shown.
It is sometimes stated that metadata repositories are too expensive and take too long to implement. Thus, they are an impractical solution. Not true. If you are an IT data management professional,
then a metadata repository capable of storing all the metadata identified in this
paper and performing all the functions this paper describes can be purchases for less than one-day’s consulting fee. A fully sophisticated code generator can be purchases for less than three-days
consulting fees. The products are there, the way and the strategy is there. Is the will there?
5. How to Build a Database Design
The database’s design starts after Step 3.10 is complete. Existing at that point, is a functionally acceptable database design that conforms to business policy requirements. It however is most
likely not complete from a Information Technology point of view. The complete iterations of database design include:
Ensuring that the database schema meets business policy requirements.
Incorporating database structures to properly reflect historical data.
Adding database columns to support comprehensive audits.
Installing security devices to protect against misuse and theft.
Inclusion of database administrator special columns and processes.
Creating generalized versus specialized data structures to support multiple use data.
Once a database schema has been created and the database application completed, there maybe other iterations such as:
Tuning database structures to ensure adequate performance.
Accommodating different flavors of SQL syntax for different database management systems (DBMS).
Installing special key structures instead of business-fact-based keys.
Accommodating the special physical database requirements of different DBMS.
Modifying database structures to support special or intensive analyses and reporting.
Finally special iterations of a database’s design may be needed for:
Ensuring that the database is “non-stop” and always optimized.
Accommodating the needs of client/server, the Internet, or Service Oriented Architectures, or combinations of all three.
These iterations are all addressed in a Whitemarsh paper, Iterations of Database Design that is available from the Whitemarsh website, www.wiscorp.com.
In terms of the case study, software systems like Clarion for Windows can interact with MS/Access databases through ODBC and JDBC. So, the original objective, to have a simple, efficient, and
effective database-centered application to manage the CMT area is very practical. For sure, with the right tool-set the CMT application could have been accomplished within two months of the need
being cited. But because the correct process was not known nor were the proper tools used, about 12 months of a professional’s time was wasted. That wasted time, worth about $125,000 is many times
more that the actual cost of doing the CMT application.
The practical application of the points made in this paper include:
A data model is not the same as a database design.
The activities for modeling data are an integral part of traditional requirements analysis and design.
Metadata resulting from the activities in all the steps of Section 3 should be stored in a metadata repository.
Database design begins in earnest after the database has been functionally validated through prototyping.
From an architecture and engineering point of view it is both invalid and counter productive in terms of semantic integration, non-redundancy, and enterprise interoperability to begin real
business system design and implementation until after a data model has been thoroughly validated.
About Michael Gorman
Michael, the President of Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation, has been involved in database and DBMS for more than 40 years. Michael has been the Secretary of the ANSI Database Languages Committee for more than 30 years. This committee standardizes SQL. A full list of Whitemarsh's clients and products can be found on the website. Whitemarsh has developed a very comprehensive Metadata CASE/Repository tool, Metabase, that supports enterprise architectures, information systems planning, comprehensive data model creation and management, and interfaces with the finest code generator on the market, Clarion ( www.SoftVelocity.com). The Whitemarsh website makes available data management books, courses, workshops, methodologies, software, and metrics. Whitemarsh prices are very reasonable and are designed for the individual, the information technology organization and professional training organizations. Whitemarsh provides free use of its materials for universities/colleges. Please contact Whitemarsh for assistance in data modeling, data architecture, enterprise architecture, metadata management, and for on-site delivery of data management workshops, courses, and seminars. Our phone number is (301) 249-1142. Our email address is: mmgorman@wiscorp.com.
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6 Tips for Photographers Who Want to Try Shooting Video
By NY - NewsRoom on March 1, 2017
Photographers join photo-sharing sites for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s as simple as a need for recognition and the occasional pat-on-the-back. In fact, I suspect that’s the reason most people join these sites in the first place; a little bit of recognition is worth big dollars in the feel-good bank.
The art of photography lost one of its most influential and controversial voices today. Ren Hang, a renowned and oft-censored Chinese photographer whose work has been displayed around the world, died this week. He was 29 years old.
Remember Sony’s crazy smartphone image sensor we told you about earlier this month? Well that sensor, which can shoot up to an insane 1,000fps in HD, is already making an appearance in Sony’s latest flagship smartphones.
In case you missed the slightly over-the-top announcement video, Nikon is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And part of the celebrations involves putting out some seriously limited edition DSLRs and lenses that will have all the Nikon fanboys drooling.
Nikon has been conspicuously silent since the Japanese camera giant suddenly cancelled their long-awaited Nikon DL line released a “recognition of extraordinary loss.” But Nikon executives broke their silence yesterday in the Japanese press, revealing, among other things, what’s next for Nikon’s camera business.
For as long as I’ve been photographing, I’ve always had a soft spot for gear and the technical side of photography. In the beginning, I was obsessed with getting the best camera I could afford, which, ironically, was a refurbished entry-level Nikon DSLR—not exactly the pinnacle of camera technology at the time.
I will probably get a bunch of hate for this article, but whatever. Hopefully, my message will help someone. I realize this site is frequented by enthusiasts, professionals, camera geeks, etc. but this post is pointed more at people that want to make it as a portrait or fashion photographer.
I am often asked how I manage to photograph a celebrity in a few minutes or what is the best way to shoot a good portrait. Here is my list of hints for shooting better portraits.
Godox is quickly making a name for itself as a go-to lighting brand for photographers looking to save a buck without sacrificing quality or functionality. But the new AD200 is less about saving money than saving space: it’s a “pocket flash” with two different heads that is literally the size of a decent candy bar.
Same setting, same model, three different lighting scenarios. In this demo, Toronto wedding photographer Derrel Ho-Shing shows you the difference between shooting with natural light, regular strobe, and high speed sync.
Earlier today, photographer Danny North was at a paid Fujifilm UK event to try out the much-anticipated medium format GFX 50s when something shocking happened. After the technical talk, Fuji UK brought out a topless model for the predominantly male audience to test the camera on.
After one full year using the Sony mirrorless system for my professional work, I believe I can give a very honest and helpful review of the system that can help others decide if it’s right for them.
There’s a useful new tool on the Interwebz, and it promises to help you decide what lens you should purchase next. Just select a category and pick 20 favorite photos as you scroll through, and What The Lens will reveal your lens preference.
In this article, we won’t be talking about cameras and film only. Today I also want to share with you a beautiful region of Ireland that I discovered recently. It’s called the Ring of Kerry. But before we start our exploration of the Emerald Island, let me introduce our travel buddy: Kodak Ektar 100.
Episode 154 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS!
Featured: Photographer and educator, Mark Wallace
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But I wonder, what else do “they” say? In order to find out I’ve culled together the best quotes on the subject of photography. I hope they inspire you.
Hot on the heels of Sony’s “world’s fastest SD card” announcement, the SD Card Association has announced a new, much faster standard for SD and microSD memory cards: UHS-III.
Instagram has become one of the most powerful tools for modern photographers.
The platform empowers photographers across the world to have their work viewed thousands, if not millions, of times over.
DJI’s newest Matrice 200 drones were designed for industrial use, but adventure photographers and photojournalists are going to love this ultra-rugged, extremely versatile drone.
When it comes to taking photos of stars, the best camera/lens combos are the ones that capture the most light.
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Researchers strike gold - saffron found to help vision loss in elderly
The golden herb saffron may hold the key to preventing the loss of sight in the elderly, a world first trial by researchers at the University of Sydney and in Italy has found.
Professor Silvia Bisti, a visiting scholar based at The VisionCentre at the University of Sydney, described the results as a breakthrough, with trial participants showing significant vision improvements after taking a saffron pill for three months.
"Measurements using objective eye sight tests showed patient's vision improved after taking the saffron pill. When they were tested with traditional eye charts, a number of patients could read one or two lines smaller than before, while others reported they could read newspapers and books again."
The trial, conducted at Italy's Policlinico Gemelli by Professor Benedetto Falsini, was double blind and randomly controlled, involving 25 subjects over six months. Half the group were given a saffron pill for the first three months followed by a placebo, while the other half were given the pills in the reverse order.
"All patients experienced improvements in their vision while taking the saffron pill," Professor Bisti said. "But when they stopped taking the pill the effect quickly disappeared."
Professor Bisti began studying the effects of saffron at L'Aquila, in Italy's mountainous Abruzzi country, because it was a widely‐grown local crop which has been used in traditional medicine as a treatment for conditions such as cancerous tumours and depression.
"The chemistry of saffron is quite complex", she says. "It is well‐known as an anti‐oxidant, but no‐one had explored its effects on eyesight before."
Professor Bisti says "saffron appears to affect genes which regulate the fatty acid content of the cell membrane, and this makes the vision cells tougher and more resilient".
Professor Bisti singled out "saffron's 'anti-apoptotic' properties - its ability to increase the availability of oxygen to the body and prevent cell death," as a key factor in its beneficial effects.
In collaboration with the Catholic University of Rome and the University of L'Aquila Professor Bisti is now conducting a twelve month trial, with the aim of finding out more information about optimal doses, and at what point patients might experience a peak effect.
Another potentially fruitful line of research will be investigating saffron's ability to treat genetic diseases of the eye, such as retinitis pigmentosa, which can cause life‐long blindness in young people.
Professor Bisti's work builds on many years of collaboration with Professor Jonathan Stone at the University of Sydney's The Vision Lab. The lab's extensive trials using animal models, which found that a saffron diet will protect the eye from the damaging effects of bright light, formed much of the basis for Professor Bisti's research with humans.
"After decades of lab research it is wonderful to now be able to help people," Professor Stone said.
Professor Bisti's laboratory at L'Aquila University was severely damaged in last year's earthquake in Italy and her experiments disrupted. The Vision Centre has supported two of her research staff to continue their work at the University of Sydney.
To interview Professor Bisti or Professor Stone contact Kath Kenny, University of Sydney Media Office (02) 9351 2261 or 0434 606 100, k.kenny@sydney.edu.au
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Bharti Singh Is Happy About Kapil’s Return; Doesn’t Want To Talk About Kapil & Sunil Twitter War
Published by newsposter at March 22, 2018
After Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover’s appalling mid-air spat, their current Twitter war has been snatching features. Everything began when Sunil Grover was shelled with inquiries by his fans, regardless of whether he will be a piece of Kapil’s new show, The Family Time With Kapil Sharma. Sunil ended his hush and uncovered that he wasn’t drawn closer, which chafed Kapil, who answered the previous on Twitter. This prompted war of words between the two! Bharti Singh When Bharti Singh, who was a piece of The Kapil Sharma Show (she was viewed as Babli Mausi/Lalli), was gotten some information about Kapil’s new show, she said that she was content with Kapil’s arrival to TV. Likewise, when she was asked with respect to Kapil and Sunil’s Twitter battle, she picked not to remark on it as she didn’t know within story. Bharti On Kapil’s Return About Kapil’s arrival to TV, Bharti Singh disclosed to India Today, “I am exceptionally upbeat about Kapil bhai’s rebound to TV. We were all exceptionally dismal when the show went off air. One ought not avoid the gatherings of people for a really long time.” Will She Join Kapil’s New Show? “Individuals have been inquiring as to whether I am joining his show, and I will reveal to them that I will, if required. Something else, it’s a diversion show, and Kapil bhai feels that he would not have the capacity to use me in the show legitimately.” Bharti On Kapil and Sunil’s Twitter War Regarding Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover’s Twitter war, Bharti stated, “I got a call this occurred between them on Twitter. I for the most part take after Youtube and Instagram and don’t take a gander at Twitter much. I don’t have anything to say in regards to what occurred between the two on Twitter. I don’t have the foggiest idea about within story.” Kapil’s New Show Press Conference Postponed! Then, it is being said that Kapil Sharma’s new show’s public interview had been crossed out because of a specialized glitch. In any case, a significant number of them felt that the channel and Kapil would have put off the public interview because of Kapil and Sunil’s battle (to stay away from unsavory inquiries).
Smita Singh Roped in For SAB TV’s New Show!
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Making Every Contact Count
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:30 AM 09:30
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:30 AM 10:30
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is about encouraging and helping people to make healthier choices to achieve positive long-term behaviour change. To do this, organisations need to build a culture and operating environment that supports continuous health improvement through the contact it has with individuals; doing this will improve health and wellbeing amongst service users, staff and the general public and reduce health inequalities.
Frontline staff have valuable opportunities to initiate conversations to help service users make decisions that bring positive changes to their lives - this is true irrespective of the sector staff work in; it is not just health care staff that can make a difference. It is about developing the relationships that staff already have.
Public Health are aspiring to embed MECC within front line roles in all the different types of organisations and institutions throughout Tower Hamlets.
What is being offered?
Public health has developed a bespoke training programme to support staff to develop the relevant knowledge, skills and attitude to be able to deliver behaviour change interventions through affective conversations.
Frontline staff are not expected to be experts in behaviour change, but we wish to support them to feel comfortable and be confident in engaging with service users; encouraging them to take make decision that would lead to improved health and wellbeing. The training primarily addresses equipping staff with the appropriate skills and confidence to be able to have these conversations resulting in signposting to relevant services. It is about connecting with the public and using the appropriate language to do this affectively.
MECC is a half day course which focuses on six key areas:
Maintaining a healthy weight
Drinking within sensible limits
Looking after sexual health
Improving mental health
MECC teaches a simple structure using the 4’s ‘Ask, Advise, Assess and Arrange’ and MECC intervention should be longer than a 2-3 minutes conversation.
Click on dates to register your place - please note there are both AM and PM sessions available for each date
Tuesday 7th February 2017- Spot Light Youth Centre
Monday 20th February 2017- Education Centre, Mile End Hospital
Monday 27th February 2017- Spot Light Youth Centre
Wednesday 1st March 2017- Education Centre, Mile End Hospital
Tuesday 14th March 2017- Spot Light Youth Centre
Wednesday 15th March 2017- Education Centre, Mile End Hospital
Monday 20th March 2017- Education Centre, Mile End Hospital
Wednesday 22nd March 2017-Education Centre, Mile End Hospital
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