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Budget focuses on structural issues, not populism: Bibek Debroy
PM's Economic Advisory Council chairman Bibek Debroy on Thursday welcomed the announcements made in the Union Budget 2018-19.
New Delhi: Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council chairman Bibek Debroy on Thursday welcomed the announcements made in the Union Budget 2018-19, saying it focuses on agriculture, rural economy, healthcare and employment generation instead of following economic populism.
He emphasised that the government was committed to following the path of significant structural reforms and the budget is a step in that direction.
"The budget focussed on the structural issues of the Indian economy especially the agriculture sector and rural economy instead of following economic populism," said Debroy as per a statement.
"It has emphasised upon the need to give a boost to overall growth by giving impetus to the rural, agriculture sector, health and education. The government has allocated the sum of Rs 1.38 lakh crore towards health, education and social protection."
Terming it a milestone step towards achieving the Universal Health Coverage, he lauded the proposal of launching the National Health Protection Scheme intended to cover 10 crore households with an insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh per family.
Debroy said the upward revision of fiscal deficit from 3.2 per cent to 3.5 per cent will not affect India's macroeconomic stability.
At the time when "the growth rate is suffering due to private sector unwillingness to invest, it had become a necessity for the government to start the investment cycle through public investment", he said.
"The government investment in key productive sectors like infrastructure, health and education will crowd in private investment in the years to come."
Bibek DebroyUnion Budget 2018NDA govtBJPArun JaitleyBudget 2018budget allocationBudget 2018-19Budget 2018 highlights
Budget 2018: Rs 1,207 crore for 2018-19 sanctioned for PGIMER
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Last month, Rupert Murdoch, through the offices of his faithful retainer Trevor Kavanagh, another of those whose reputation is forever tainted by the Sun’s smearing of the Hillsborough victims and their families, let it be known that he had decided Theresa May should go. Whether she did so voluntarily, or was forced out by her fellow Tories, was not specified. But the Brexit deal meant she had to go. And someone else had to resign.
Once more, it is Kavanagh who is conveying Rupe’s wisdom (no, don’t laugh) to the Tories, and one of them in particular. And the word from the boss is that if they don’t do what he wants, they may be finished as a party. “Mrs May’s defeat in next week’s crucial Withdrawal Bill vote will almost certainly mark the end of her premiership … It might also mark the beginning of the end for the Conservative Party”. They still have to sack May.
How to get the Tories to listen, though, as they didn’t do last week? Pitch a pack of lies - that’s the usual Kav game: “There is even wild talk of an emergency Christmas election and the advent of bearded Marxist Jeremy Corbyn as Red Santa”. Bullshit. The amount of time needed to get a General Election organised means the last date on which a 2018 contest could be held has already passed. Try again.
And try again he does, where the story takes a most interesting turn. After the customary Beeb bashing - “A stream of wobbling Brexiteers has been deployed in pro-Brussels newspapers and the ever co-operative BBC” - Kavanagh takes aim at one minister who would have, until now, been thought to uncritically toe the Murdoch line.
“It was startling to watch my old colleague Michael Gove brazenly sell his soul on the europhile [!] Andrew Marr Show … It sounded very much like the old Michael Gove - until he insisted that we must support Theresa’s dodgy deal, regardless … Mr Gove suggests the kindly burghers of Brussels would never humiliate Britain and have as much to lose from a backstop as we do … They would set us free as soon as possible”.
Then came the not very subtle hint of a smear. “Mr Gove’s friends believe he has suffered a crisis of self-confidence since severing his friendship with David Cameron and knifing fellow Brexit architect Boris Johnson”. Michael, Michael, you’re feeing overwrought. Have a sit down and listen to what Trevor and Rebekah have to sell, er, oops, tell you.
There was more in the same vein. “I have known Mr Gove for 25 years … He is a profoundly decent and intelligent man … But he must know from long and bitter experience that this is not how the EU works”. Michael, Michael, you’re a sensible and reasonable man, now there’s a good chap and listen to Uncle Rupe, eh?
Here we have clear evidence that Gove sticking with Theresa May’s deal has not been approved by the Murdoch mafiosi. This is Gove flying solo, pursuing his own agenda, his own ambition, frightening though the prospect must seem. He is now being instructed to change tack. What will be on offer? A weekly column for Sarah “Vain” Vine if she finds the new-look Daily Mail not to her liking? Another of those book advances?
If Gove doesn’t think it’s worth listening to his old boss, things must be bad for the Murdoch mafiosi. Hopefully this trend will continue.
Labels: Business, Europe, Politics, Press and Media
Problem for Gove?
Does he know which team have the most skeletons in the closet?
And will KRM tell him?
Gove is a Murdoch man through and through and Uncle Rupert almost had his man in No. 10 back in 2016. Murdoch has invested heavily in Gove and being a sharp business man will look after his asset.
Of course there might come a time when Murdoch sees Gove as a liability that needs to be liquidated. Politically of course.
“Pro Brussels newspapers?”, “Co-operative BBC?” Someone obviously not with his finger on the pulse, who squats in his own lofty ivory tower without ever seeing the world on which he judges. Or maybe he’s been sniffing the cat litter tray again?
Gonzoland said...
"He is a profoundly decent and intelligent man"
False praise that shatters with the flick of a finger.
Gove "...decent and intelligent..."?
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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eVOLUTION features unique creative loops, sequences and FX generated by primitive raw sound generation machines, organic synthesis techniques, and sound manipulation software.
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"Weird sonic manglings aimed at the connoisseur of experimental dance music... Ostensibly aimed at techno, ambient and industrial, these sounds would be usable wherever way-out futuristic sound design was required... I found the synth programming particularly good, as real effort had been put into creating the kind of movement and expression usually lacking in such libraries. Many of the sounds also had great bite, really tearing their way out of my speakers!.. I liked this collection a lot, especially for adding aggression to more 'vanilla' productions" - SOUND ON SOUND magazine, UK
"There is no shortage of usable material on this CD...On the whole this collection grew on me the more I listened and used the samples.... I recommend delving in deep as there are some real gems to be found" - FUTURE MUSIC magazine, UK
"The production is crisp and the sounds and breaks have a wicked twisted edge... There are basically four sections to this CD... and trust me, each section has something for you! The loops are wicked with a healthy dose of techno and breakbeat" - THE KNOWLEDGE magazine, UK
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IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT A ROMPLER or PLUGIN - with this version you will simply be downloading the Altered States SAMPLE LIBRARY in WAV format which you can use with any music software - you DON'T get the NI "Intakt Instrument" interface - but everything has been set up in KONTAKT patches which you also get, so if you have NI KONTAKT then all the instruments are already programmed, mapped out and playable.
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IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT A ROMPLER or PLUGIN - with this version you will simply be downloading the Outer Limits SAMPLE LIBRARY in WAV format which you can use with any music software - you DON'T get the NI "Kompakt Instrument" interface - but everything has been set up in KONTAKT patches which you also get, so if you have NI KONTAKT then all the instruments are already programmed, mapped out and playable.
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The library is presented in NI's KONTAKT format: THIS IS NOT A ROMPLER or PLUGIN - with this version you will simply be downloading the Morphology SAMPLE LIBRARY in WAV format which you can use with any music software - you DON'T get the NI "Kompakt Instrument" interface - but everything has been set up in KONTAKT patches which you also get, so if you have NI KONTAKT (the full version of Kontakt) then all the instruments are already programmed, mapped out and playable).
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Let me jump right to the conclusion of this review and save you the wear and tear on your mouse wheel. I have adopted the Miyajima Shilabe stereo moving coil phono cartridge as my long term reference. This decision was reached in precisely 100.3 hours. The Shilabe received 100 hours of break in using the Cardas Test and Burn In LP. Then I listened to one side of one LP. The standing of this cartridge among numerous top-ranked competitors was obvious, and it was a simple decision to leave it installed on my tonearm permanently. Now let me tell you why.
The Miyajima Shilabe came to my attention for the first time in July of this year. I was scanning the Analog-cartridges listings on AudiogoN and started reading about this reportedly new design. The Miyajima Web site (link below) has a complete description of this new design, including a Flash movie describing the patented “Cross Ring” construction. Please be patient with the translations on this site. For example, in describing the cantilever, it reads, “I use the cantilever which is bigger than a thing used generally for the cartridge of the product. The reason is ... that a cantilever bends at the time of reproduction when I use a thin cantilever. I repeated an experiment for correct reproduction. And I use the cantilever of a good result.” Clarification: “The cantilever is a larger diameter than is common because it sounds better.”
The patent regards the pivot point of the moving coil, which is in the exact center of the coil. This eliminates errors in the conversion of mechanical energy (the moving stylus-cantilever-coil) to electrical energy (the output signal of the cartridge). It took seven years to turn this concept into a product. The result is a cartridge that weighs 10.4 grams, has an output of 0.23mV with a coil resistance of “about 16 Ohms”, and a recommended tracking force of 2.5 – 3.2 grams. The stylus is a Shibata, which has a long contact area and an estimated useful life of 1000 playing hours. The cartridge is low compliance on the order of about 10, but it seems to work well on both TriPlanar VII and Origin Live Conqueror Mk. 3 tonearms. The list price is currently $2,800. Do not be concerned about the relatively high tracking force. It is just a number; your vinyl won’t know the difference. The cartridge body is not threaded, and the bolts have to point up because the nuts will not fit in the recesses in the bottom of the cartridge. I found the 200 Ohm setting on the Manley Steelhead phono preamplifier to give good results. A VTF of 2.9 grams seems ideal, with VTA set to have the rear of the arm just a hair lower than the headshell. The cartridge needs about 10 minutes of play each listening session to "warm up" before it will sound its best.
For several months, I have been describing the sound of the Shilabe as a cross between the speed, dynamics and micro-resolution of a Lyra Helikon SL and the warmth and harmonic development of a Koetsu Urushi. The Helikon gets the first 80% of every sound just about perfectly. It has startling speed on the initial attack or impulse. Its ability to retrieve very low level detail consistently reveals new information in well-known recordings. But it glosses over or omits the remaining 20% of each note, offering a sound that is uniformly thin and superficial. The sound is physical, but without much emotion. It is like the stereotypical blond: very good for a while, but lacking depth and long term interest. Shallow. (If you are that blond, I’m sure I did not offend you because you stopped reading after the first paragraph!) The Urushi, on the other hand, offers wonderful warmth and insight into the emotional context of the music. Voices have a very human character and singers are present right there in your room with you. The Koetsu draws you into the performance with an intensity such that it often feels as if time itself is suspended for the duration of the LP. However, while the Urushi communicates emotion and nuance extremely well, it is a bit light on the “boogey factor”. It is warm and rich in the bass and treble, removing some of the excitement and urgency from music that contains a wide dynamic range or extension into the low bass and upper treble. The sound is emotional, with a reduced degree of physical engagement.
The Shilabe seems to be a perfect marriage of these two extremes of character. It is warm and rich, but also fast and dynamic. It conveys the naturalness of the human voice, but also has great bass power and resolution and never sounds rolled off in the treble. It has even more of the Helikon SL’s speed and resolution AND provides the harmonic content and interest that is the Urushi’s enticing quality. I wrote about the Shelter 90x being a balanced sounding cartridge, having a character that does not favor any particular frequency range. The Shilabe offers a similar balanced performance, but takes the overall sound to a level of quality that easily out performs any cartridge I have heard to date. Here is a partial list: Benz LP and Ruby, Denon 103R, van den Hul Black Beauty and Condor XCM and Condor XGM, every non-platinum Koetsu, Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum and a brief visit with the Jade Platinum, Shelter 501 and 901 and 90x, Air Tight PC-1, Clearaudio Insider Gold, and Ortofon Kontrapunkt A/B and Jubilee. The Shilabe takes the very best qualities of each and offers that level of sound retrieval at a price that is very attractive.
The bass performance is exceptional. The bass extension goes very deep and reveals the maximum performance of the outstanding JL Audio Fathom f112 subwoofers. The leading edge impact of a bass drum, for example, will strain both your loudspeakers and amplifier if they are not up to the task of providing large amounts of instantaneous power (amplifier) and woofer cone excursion (speakers). At the same time, the quantity of information in the bass range is revelatory. You easily hear the strings vibrating on an acoustic bass, or the huge power and unique character of a tuba or tympani, or the resounding concussion of a gong. Music flows into the midrange. Percussion, strings, piano, woodwinds, brass – all orchestral instruments – are as true to life as may be possible for an electronic system to offer. Voices, both male and female, have realistic detail and texture which provides the listener a sense that the singers are real, live performers and not a shadow or copy of the original.
The upper frequencies are equally excellent. Listen to a soprano, or a trumpet, or cymbals. All demand an evenness of tone, extremely high resolution to not degenerate into white noise, and extension without roll off to enable the instrument to sound coherent and complete. This completeness is a function of quantity, retrieving all of the information present in the LP groove. But it is also dependent on quality, which is the character of sounding real. The Shilabe excels in both requirements of quantity and quality of information to provide very satisfying musical experiences, time and time again.
In the song "8th Avenue Shuffle" on the Doobie Brothers LP Takin It To The Streets, the clarity of the tambourine is obvious. This subtle instrument is completely separate and distinct from the cymbals even when the entire band is rocking to the limit. Sting's vocals on "Sister Moon" from his Nothing Like The Sun LP, is wonderfully textured and alive with a startling sense of a real person singing in a small hall setting. The guitar in the same song is forward in the mix and lit with a soft light, but never harsh or discordant. The cymbals, bass, and horns sound perfect, too.
A review that does not identify the faults or weaknesses of the component is little more than an advertisement. This review, so far, reads (to me) as over-the-top ad copy. So I’ll offer a little balance and try to maintain my cred as an objective listener and not sound so much like a devoted fan. Here goes. The high frequency performance of the Shilabe is smooth and rich and extended, never going over the edge into brightness or harshness. On its own. Older commercial recordings which are below audiophile quality can sound like exactly that: older commercial recordings which are below audiophile quality. The Shilabe will not transform weeds into roses. BUT, those same recordings may never sound better. So much for fault-finding. One other thing. The oval shape of the African blackwood wood body is wider than some high-end peers. The side of the cartridge just touches the SOTA Reflex Clamp on my SOTA Cosmos IV turntable at the very inside of the LP’s lead-out groove, causing the arm to bounce out a ¼ inch or so. I have not found the clamp to offer a sonic advantage on the vacuum Cosmos, so I do not use it these days. No big deal. The Shilabe is 1mm narrower than the popular Denon D103R phono cartridge.
In closing, I would like to leave you with this final thought. The Miyajima Shilabe phono cartridge is closer to perfection than any cartridge I have previously experienced. It may be possible to surpass its outstanding performance, perhaps with a “Shilabe mk. 2”. Until then, I am indeed a devoted fan. If you are searching for an exceptional phono cartridge, you need to hear the Miyajima Shilabe.
Overall Rating: 10 LPs
Comment from contributing reviewer, Paul Basinski:
Our esteemed editor was kind enough to loan me the Miyajima Shilabe cartridge, which I'm listening to now in my new dedicated living room deep in the quiet woods of northern Pennsylvania. It is an extraordinary device. Frankly, it may be unrivalled in the thirty five years since I mounted my first high end cartridge, a Shure V15 Type III, on my Garrard Zero 100 turntable. Hyperbole? Not really. This is easily the most refined moving coil in my acquaintance. There is now a grace and grandeur to vinyl that was obviously missing, even with some of my better cartridges. The Shilabe digs deep into the music but in a non-analytical way that I usually find distracting with MC cartridges. It's exciting to listen to (like a MM), but doesn't draw attention to itself like the latter too often do. Very quiet as far as surface noise is concerned, the Shilabe definitely manages to extract far more information than other cartridges without magnifying the grunge on older LPs.
I've got on a great, but well aged, recording of Harry James and his sweet trumpet sound, and the Shilabe brings him to life beautifully. I just finished playing Sinatra's "September of my Years" on a pristine remaster and it never sounded better. The Miyajima easily sailed through that recording, too. In fact, I was really enjoying the sound of CDs lately on my Cary SLI 80, and yet, with the new cartridge, my LPs clearly sound better. How? In one simple yet crucial way: the Shilabe connects me more with the music. More than the Denon 103R, which is a superb cartridge, but doesn't begin to have the Shilabe's top to bottom articulation of sound. My latest favorite, the Ortofon Bronze is a fun cartridge, but sounds shrill and artificial compared to the Japanese contender. As I've said here before, I am a modest man of moderate means, a college professor who loves to teach political theory and knows how to be tight with a buck. That said, I'm buying the Shilabe. I hope that doesn't mean no turkey for Christmas, Mr. Crachet, but I'll hazard that for a shot at audio bliss.
Distributor's Comment: "I must say that I have very little to add! Mr. Seigel covered all the salient points perfectly. My experience has been very similar with many high end MC's. None quite had it "all" - until the Shilabe. One famous arm manufacturer came in my room at RMAF, listened with his own LP's, and bought the Shilabe, and the Premium Mono, on the spot! I actually think the Premium Mono is the "jewel" in the Miyajima-Labs crown. Since installing the Premium Mono I play 50/50 stereo and mono LP's, which is nice as libraries and thrift shops have great mono music usually for a dollar or two! Again, thank you, Jerry."
Link to manufacturer's Web site: Miyajima Laboratory
Link to US Distributor: Robyatt Audio Products
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Why was neptune god of the sea worshipped?
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beky104
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Most Greeks lived by the sea and therefore worshiped the god of the sea. They thought that if they worshiped him they would have a pletaful fishing. That's why famers worshiped demeter. It's all about what you did for a living back then.
Cool107
Because he was the god of the sea duhh
detroitesquire
He was called the Earthshaker and not only ruled the sea but the surface in general. When he and his two brothers split responsibilities over the the world, Zeus took the sky, Poseidon took land and sea, and Hades took the Underworld beneath them.
Some Christians like myself believe that this was an aspect of God recorded in Habakkuk 3:3-15 of the Bible.
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Yes. Both Hesiod and Homer talk about the 'trinity' of Zeus-Poseidon-Hades and their different allotments. There are several theories on this: That the 3 Greek gods are all different facets of the one supreme being; and that maybe Poseidon was imported from somewhere else. But in the Mycenaean Linear B tablets at both Pylos and Knossos Poseidon is listed well ahead of Zeus and receives a greater number of votive offerings. So Maybe Poseidon was the chief god in Mycenaean times (ends about 1250 BC) and then something happened to cause the rise of Zeus by Homer and Hesiod's time (c. 7th Century BC).
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lurtz951
Replied to: Most Greeks lived by the sea and therefore worshiped the god...
He was called the Earthshaker and not only ruled the sea but the surface in general. When he and his two brothers split responsibilities over the the world, Zeus took the sky, Poseidon took land and sea, and Hades took the Underworld beneath them. This i believe
but not this. (Some Christians like myself believe that this was an aspect of God recorded in Habakkuk 3:3-15 of the Bible.)
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Besides Poseidon, an early Christian-era apostle known as Paul even quoted from the Hymn to Zeus when speaking in reference to the God of Abraham (Acts 17:28).
Whether you or other modern day people believe it or not, it's still a reality that the God of Christians and Jews was previously worshipped by pagans including the ancient Greeks.
To me, many of the Athenian poets were prophets like Balaam, a gentile whom God spoke to despite his spiritual values and practices.
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AISDV Public Outreach initiatives share information about the help and hope available in Al-Anon/Alateen with people suffering from the family disease of alcoholism, with professionals including counselors, educators and clergy, with the media, and with members of the general public.
Conference/Community Event Participation
Representatives of Al-Anon/Alateen are available to staff tables at health fairs and other events and speak to large and small groups about recovery from the family disease of alcoholism. For more information or to arrange a speaker, email the Public Outreach Coordinator.
Institutions Commitments
Al-Anon/Alateen members regularly bring information about our 12 step program of recovery to the family programs at local rehabs and treatment centers. Current institution commitments include:
Girard Medical Center
8th St and Girard Avenue
1st and 3rd Sundays 1 - 2 pm Mirmont Treatment Center
100 Yearsley Mill Road
Lima, PA 19063
4th Saturday, 1:50-3 pm
Contact D5 DR
Malvern Institute
940 W King Rd
Malvern PA 19355
Contact D7 DR Bowling Green Brandywine Institution
Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Center
1375 Newark Road
Sundays 10:30 to 11 am
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1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 7:30 pm Recovery Centers of America
235 Lancaster Ave, Devon, PA 19333
Wednesday night, 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
More info: InstitutionAl-AnonMeeting.pdf
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Al-Anon Intergroup District 3 staff
the meeting with Al-Anon volunteers
To arrange for Al-Anon/Alateen speakers at your institution's family program, or to explore starting a meeting for residents of your institution who are affected by someone else's drinking, contact the Institutions Coordinator.
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Al-Anon/Alateen press releases, public service announcements and other items are available to provide interested members of the press with background information on our fellowship. Access background information and other information here: Al-Anon Media Resources
If you would like to interview Al-Anon/Alateen members* in your community, please contact our Public Outreach Coordinator.
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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Iowa Women's Archives
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators consists of transcripts of oral histories of Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken between 1988 and 1992 and related material. The collection measures 1.7 linear feet and is arranged in two series: Introductory material and Transcripts.
Introductory material (ca.1992) consists of an introductory overview of the A Political Dialogue project with an accompanying list of contributors, biographical information on Iowa women legislators primarily taken from Iowa Official Registers published between 1929 and 1991, two tables listing the women serving in each legislative session in Iowa between 1929 and 1992, one organized alphabetically and the other by session dates served, and an essay by Schenken entitled "Entering Men's Territory," which outlines the emergence of women in politics in Iowa beginning in 1869. This material can also be found in Schenken's dissertation, which is available here at the University of Iowa Libraries.
The Transcripts series (1988-1992) is comprised of transcripts of the oral histories conducted by Schenken. Included are forty-seven interviews with Iowa women legislators. With the exception of the interview with Helen Anderson, each transcript has a subject index. The series also contains four interviews with secondary sources about deceased legislators. These interviews are unindexed.
Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) (Organization)
The collection is open for research. The transcripts are also available at Iowa State University Parks Library, Department of Special Collections.
1.70 linear feet
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Biographical / Historical
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators was an oral history project undertaken by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken at the request of State Representative Minnette Doderer in 1987. Doderer, House members Dorothy Carpenter and Johnie Hammond, and lobbyist Joe Kelly raised funds to cover the expenses of the project. Between 1988 and 1992 Schenken conducted interviews with women who had served or were then serving in the Iowa General Assembly. In the cases of deceased legislators, Schenken interviewed acquaintances or family members. The interviews served as the basis for Schenken's dissertation, Legislators and Politicians: Iowa's Women Legislators (Iowa State University, 1992).
Method of Acquisition
The transcripts (donor no. 147-2) were donated by Suzanne Schenken in 1993 and 1994.
The transcripts are also available at Iowa State University, Parks Library, Department of Special Collections.
Other Descriptive Information
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/PoliticalDialogue.htm#content
Metcalf, Janet, 1935-
Adams, Janet, 1937-
African American women -- Iowa
Baxter, Elaine, 1933-
Beatty, Linda, 1942-
Bloom, Amy
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947-
Brandt, Diane, 1938-
Buhr, Florence, 1933-
Carl, Janet, 1948-
Chapman, Kathleen Halloran, 1937-
Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005
Cohen, Gertrude, 1913-
Conklin, Charlene, 1929-
Corning, Joy, 1932-
Crabb, Helen M., 1916-
Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005
Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922-
Garman, Teresa, 1937-
Gentleman, Julia, 1931-
Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938-
Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-
Hammond, Johnie, 1932-
Hannon, Beverly A., 1932-
Harper, Mattie
Harper, Patricia, 1932-
Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921-
Iowa. General Assembly
Jewish women -- Iowa
Larsen, Sonja, 1941-
Lipsky, Joan, 1919-2015
Lloyd-Jones, Jean, 1929-
Lonergan, Joyce, 1934-
McElroy, Lillian M., 1917-
Metz, Katheryn Clancy
Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988
Mullins, Sue B., 1936-
Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934-
O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943-
Orr, Joann, 1923-2017
Rural and Farm Women
Sargisson, Hallie, 1907-
Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990
Smith, Joan H., 1926-
Svoboda, Jane, 1944-
Svoboda, Linda
Teaford, Jane, 1935-
Thompson, Patricia L., 1927-
Torrence-Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014
Van Alstine, Percie, 1905-
Wick, Kathlyn M., 1903-
Women -- Political activity
Women in public life
Women, Politics and the Law
Zastrow, Katherine Mull Falvey, 1904-1997
wa00003. African American Women
wa00003/wa00003.3. Oral Histories
wa00005. Jewish Women
wa00013. Women, Politics, and the Law
wa00013/wa00013.2. Iowa Legislators
wa00015. Rural Women
wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- (Person)
Robert J. Jett, 1994; Marie Schroer, 1995.
Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa
100 Main Library
lib-women@uiowa.edu
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/4/resources/2237 Accessed July 18, 2019.
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Dear Diary...
It's been two weeks since the relaxed affair that was Easter and #auditwidow is still going strong! Steve has tried to make up for it though and last week sent through a box of gourmet doughnuts from Short Stop to keep me company when he couldn't! Don't worry, I didn't eat them all though and my colleagues were more than happy to take on the burden and help ease the pressure!
This week, Stef and I had an early celebration for her birthday and had dinner followed by a show at Crown Rooftop.
Yep it's definitely Winter now and there's a chill in the air especially at night but night views in Melbourne are still beautiful.
The spiegeltent on the rooftop provided an intimate setting for this variety show and we were enthralled by some really enchanting and impressive circus acts that form this show, Absinthe. It was an exhilarating 90 minutes as we watched performers lift, swing, balance, tightrope, spin, climb and tumble. Oh and we laughed a lot too at some outrageous and very politically incorrect jokes made by the MC and his sidekick. Definitely an 18 plus show but very entertaining.
The rain started late Friday night as Stef and I headed home and it really hasn't stopped for long. It was wet all of Saturday and we've had showers today.
We were invited to an engagement party for one of Steve's colleagues and Steve also works with her fiance as he is employed by one of Steve's clients.
Other than that, we've stayed in really. Steve's been working and I've either been on the sofa watching Netflix (that was yesterday) or pottering around the apartment (today,) I enjoyed some time outside today in between the rain and went to a few shops close by on Brunswick Street Our trip to UK is in less than 6 weeks so we do have to think about preparing for that so I went to some present shopping mainly for Little Fox! I did think of Steve and I though and combined it with a grocery shop and came home and made a dish of no pasta lasagne (pasta is replaced by aubergine and courgette slices (zucchini and eggplant for the Australians and Americans) for lunches and dinners next week. This is a Stef dish that I tried and whilst I would have preferred pasta I thought it would be nice to have a change. Let's see if it goes down well with Steve.
Whilst we have been quiet and low on the activity front, Little Fox has been pretty active stroking animals at a local pet farm and it's good to see that at 2 and a half, her liking for shoes has already started! Here she is trying on her mummy's new high heels which she gave her seal of approval for. And also coincidentally, I sent her some sparkly slippers I'd picked up a few weekends ago from a gift shop in Yarraville. I still recall her opening the Christmas gift of a Cinderella fancy dress gown and demanding to know where the matching shoes were!
Life as an audit widow continues into this 4 day weekend. I've had this bunny since Saturday to keep me company though which Steve brought back after a day in the office. Guilt offering methinks!
Hippety, hoppity, happy Easter!
Whilst it's been quiet, it's also been fun and a chance to rest, spend time with my sofa and strike up a friendship with Netflix!
Whilst my Facebook feed tells me all about the joys of Spring captivating the UK, I'm still not used to it being an ode to Autumn here on this side of the World.
Having said that sometimes Autumn here feels like a UK Spring. There are days of blue skies, white fluffy clouds, sunshine that isn't scorchingly hot but more a warm glow and fresh air.
Even the flowers look more Spring like than Autumn. I spent Saturday with Stef and ventured to the Western suburbs where she moved to at the end of last year. It was the first time I'd been to her places so I took with me these flowers for her new home.
It was whilst I was in the florist that a Frenchman tapped me on my arm to tell me that my perfume smelt like leather and roses and was amazing. Except when he said it sounded more like "parfung, lezzurrrrrrr, rrrrrroses and ehmezzing!" That was a little random but good to know I was fragrant!
We had a yummy lunch in Footscray although we did get lost driving there but lunch was very satisfying which made up for the confusion. We then had a stroll around Yarraville, another inner West suburb which has some cute shops and has a pleasant villagey feel to it. There's also an independent cinema there which was originally built in the late 30s so has these very lovely art deco features to it and we decided to watch a film.The impromptu afternoon plans were really relaxed and pleasant and just a great way to while away the day.
In the last week, there has been the odd cloudy day and it's definitely showing signs of becoming less shorts weather and more covered legs and a cardigan temperatures. This makes it much more pleasant to walk around though and I've encountered some really pretty sights just from the comfort of the bedroom balcony.
The cathedral picture was taken on my Thursday walk home. The sky was just a beautiful colour and a lovely way to start 4 days of no work!
On Wednesday I caught up with Kirsty after work and she very very kindly took me to see Paolo Nutini at the Palais in St Kilda. We had a pre performance Japanese dinner and then were entertained by the very talented Scottish Italian musician. Sell out crowd and a wide range of sings performed from the toe tapping, bottom wiggling to the heart pulling and goosebumping!
The show finished at 11pm and it seemed that the easiest way home was by tram so it was after midnight that I got home. Yes, and on a schoolnight! But luckily Thursday was the last day before Easter break. Thank you Kirsty for the ticket.
And Easter for Amelia consisted of a lot of activity! There was soft play with mum and dad and a quick meeting with a creepy looking giant Easter Bunny.
There was also a day of baking with paw paw, goo goo and kaw kaw who are my mum, cousing Carine and cousin Wes.
She really loves her baking as we know and you can see her focused on the task not really paying attention to anything else going on!
Possible most exciting of all was a girls' trip to the cinema with her mummy, paw paw and goo goo where she enjoyed popcorn, pick and mix and Cinderella. So spoiled and at one point with one hand in the sweetie bag and the other in the popcorn she told goo goo, "no more hands!" Apparently she sat through it all which I'm impressed by given she's not even 3 but was a little restless by the end and asked to switch the channel to "Peppa Pig!"
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Belgian king skips re-opening of 'looted' Africa museum
King Philippe of Belgium (2ndR) attends a ceremony held for the 140th anniversary of the Brussels main synagogue (Grande synagogue de Bruxelles / Grote synagoge van Brussel) in Brussels on November 26, 2018. LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ / Belga / AFP.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- The king of the Belgians will not attend the re-opening of his country's notorious Africa Museum, for fear of being dragged into the debate about the continent's looted treasures.
The museum is to re-open at the weekend after a five-year refurbishment meant to better explain Belgium's brutal colonial-era exploitation of the royal territory in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Previously, the former Royal Museum for Central Africa had a reputation for outdated exhibits that minimised or even glorified the crimes of Belgian colonists against Africans under their rule.
Curators now hope that the museum will put the art and artefacts of the era in proper context, but the re-opening coincides with a new debate on whether Belgium should hold the pieces at all.
And King Philippe, whose royal ancestor Leopold II founded Belgium's African colony and exploited it as a personal private venture, wants no part in the argument over whether they should be sent back.
"The debate about restitution is still ongoing, it hasn't been decided. The climate is not quite right for a visit. The king does not get mixed up in ongoing debates," a palace spokesman told AFP.
Government-run museums in several European former colonial powers have come under pressure from anti-racism activists to return objects that were taken from Africa.
Defenders of the museums argue that, however they were acquired, the cultural treasures will be better cared for and displayed to more visitors in wealthier European collections.
The Africa Museum was refurbished at a cost of 66 million euros and groups representing Belgians of African descent have denounced it as little more than a "trophy cabinet" for looters.
Mireille-Tsheusi Robert of the Bamko association said the government should set up an expert committee to determine as best as possible the exact origin of the items.
"We are falling behind the curve, internationally," she told national broadcaster RTBF. "I will not set foot in that museum, because for me it would be like dancing and merry-making around a tomb."
The Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday, after a planned ceremony on Saturday that will now not have its royal guest of honour.
"It is going to be a magnificent museum, but for us it is a little premature to go there," the palace spokesman said.
Major George Rickey sculpture installed at Penn State
Dia acquires 155 sculptural works by Charlotte Posenenske
Statement regarding decision by Italy's Court of Cassation on the legal ownership of the Victorious Youth
Christie's sale led by very rare drawing by Lucas van Leyden
Museum-quality works steal the show at Sotheby's Swiss Art/Swiss Made Sale in Zurich
Sierra Leone's 'peace diamond' dividend slow in coming
Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of new photography by Josephine Pryde
Jeff Koons's unique Mirror-Polished Smooth Egg to be highlighted at Art Basel Miami Beach
Exhibition of paintings is a visual history of one of the most important artists to emerge from post-war Germany
White Cube opens an exhibition of new works by Indonesian artist Christine Ay Tjoe
Mitchell-Innes & Nash now represents Annette Lemieux
Exhibition presents positions of the Neoavantgarde from the mumok Collection
Myoung Ho Lee's solo photography exhibition opens at Gallery Hyundai
Painting that changed the course of modern art on view at the Columbia Museum of Art
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens an exhibition of architecture, art, and storytelling
Exhibition presents works by The Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018 winners Ting-Jung Chen and Hui Ye
Interactive light/sound installation by artist Vesna Petresin debuts at Mint Museum Uptown
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 exhibition opens at the South London Gallery
Silvia Perea new director of UCSB Architecture and Design Museum
Anna K.E. to represent Georgia at Venice Biennale 2019
A Tiffany Studios window and Roland Petersen's "Tea for Two" headline Michaan's December Auction
Exhibition at North Wall Gallery presents a bewitching world of fairy tales
PINTA Miami's 12th edition will take place at Mana Wynwood
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Sell Your Domain Appraisal Rip-Off
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Xbox Has a Brief Win Over Nintendo Wii
Microsoft recently announced sales figures for the Xbox 360 for September and for the first time this year, Xbox out sold the Nintendo Wii. If you ever wonder how much a kick-ass game can impact console sales here is the proof.
There’s no doubt the surge in Xbox sales were due to the release of Halo 3 exclusively on Microsoft Xbox. Halo 3 broke all records taking in $170 million in sales during the first 24 hours. In the first 12 days, 3.3 million copies of Halo 3 were sold. Revenue from this single game has far exceeded any profits from Xbox hardware. Oh wait, Xbox still hasn’t recorded any profit.
In the 90’s I worked at MicroProse Software in an office next door to industry guru Sid Meier but I make no claims to be a true serious gamer. I will however still put my money on the Nintendo Wii. Sales of the Wii have out performed expections and will continue to do so.
When the Wii was first announced most gamers looked at the graphics and walked away unimpressed. Game developers wrote Nintendo off and went with Microsoft and Sony. Now they’re scrambling to create games which take advantage of the Wii’s unique features. The Nintendo Wii provided something completely new and innovative in game play while the other consoles just enhanced the pretty polygon graphics you control your with fingers and thumbs.
Some folks claim people will eventually get bored with Wii, but they neglect to see how this machine has attracted a much wider mass audience than just serious gamers. I predict we’ll eventually see additional tactile feedback devices for your body and custom controllers for your feet and head as the Wii phenomenon takes off.
If you’re into selling things on eBay for double or triple their retail price, start now and get your hands on every Nintendo Wii currently available. You won’t find them on the shelves in December.
( Ancient BillP quote of the day, “If they had only called it the Cabbage Patch Computer, the Coleco Adam may have had a better chance to succeed.” )
Labels: Halo, Nintendo Wii, quotes, Xbox
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YOU ARE HERE Home Daily Departures Kenya And Tanzania Luxury safaris13 Days Tour
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Kenya And Tanzania 13 Days Luxury Safaris:13 Days Safaris Kenya and Tanzania Exclusive Luxury Tours:Best Safari Kenya & Tanzania Combined Tours
Day 1: Departure Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve: A morning departure brings us to the world-renowned Masai Mara, the northern extension of the famous Serengeti Plains. The incredible productivity of the rolling grasslands and tree studded woodlands will be witnessed firsthand. Countless wildebeest, zebra, and water buffalo are guaranteed. Elephant, giraffe, warthog, lion, cheetah, hyena, jackal are also all likely to be seen. The Mara�s numerous antelope species include hartebeest, topi, impala, eland, suni, bush duiker, steinbok, dikdik, and Grant�s and Thompson gazelle. Lion kills make for some great vulture viewing. The white-browned Robin-Chat�s lovely song at Lodge will wake you in the morning and call you to your Room in the evening. Dinner and overnight in Masai Mara Sopa Lodge.
Day 2: Masai Mara (full day): You will be overwhelmed and satiated by the abundance of wildlife viewed in this park. Over 1.5 million wildebeest should be preparing for their southward migration to the Serengeti. The safari takes you to the Mara River where you will see and photograph hippos and large crocodiles lying in wait. Masai ostrich, crowned crane, helmeted guinea-fowl, kori bustard and the secretary bird will have you wondering what�s next on the fascinating bird list.
Day 3: Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha and Hell�s Gate Gorge: Travel day to Lake Naivasha. This is an opportune time to enjoy the countryside and people of Kenya. Part of the trip is along the Great Rift Valley, with a stop to view the escarpment. Lake Naivasha is a major agricultural production area in Kenya and a welcome break in the day�s travel. Hell�s Gate National Park features geysers, spectacular cliffs, and diverse wildlife. Over 100 species of birds have been recorded here. Overnight at Naivasha Sopa Spa.
Day�4: Lake Naivasha to Lake Nakuru National Park: Lake Nakuru is a soda lake in Kenya�s Rift Valley known for it�s flamingos and pelicans. Other birds that are abundant throughout the park include the African fish eagle, sacred ibis, hamerkop, and bee eaters. Baboons, water bucks, and introduced black and white rhinos are exciting viewing additions. Overnight at Nakuru within the Park.
Day 5: Lake Nakuru - Amboseli: After a morning game drive through the park, you will travel Amboseli via Nairobi, on arrival check in the Amboseli Sopa Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Amboseli National Park (full day): Mount Kilimanjaro is the backdrop of this elephant haven, and you will not be disappointed by this first-class safari experience. You will have no trouble getting up close and personal with these African icons (and host of other wildlife species), from the safety of your pop-up canopy safari vehicle. Guests will have the opportunity to hike up Observation Hill, providing for an ideal lookout of the plains and swamps below.
Day 7: Amboseli � Arusha: Have your final game drive as you check out the park, drive to Namanga border which is between Kenya and Tanzania, at this point you will get you visa which normally takes like 30min to process just in case you dont have one, then after the migration formalities we proceed on to Arisha arriving late early afternoon with a drop off to Arusha tourist Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Arusha to Tarangire National Park to The Lodge: Morning departure to Tarangire National Park. Baobab studded Tarangire stretches southeast of Lake Manyara around the Tarangire River. It is one of the highest concentrations of wildlife of any of Tanzania�s parks. Overnight at the Lodge Site near Lake Manyara. Facilities include dining area, showers and swimming pool. Whistling bats are an added feature of the night life.
Day 9: Lake Manyara National Park: Lake Manyara is a vegetative diverse park set beneath the dramatic western escarpment of the Rift Valley. See the amazing Baobob tree, an assortment of Ficus and Acacia trees, and all the life that inhabits them. This is a birding paradise, with several species of hornbills being a highlight. The group will enjoy a safari tour to the far end of the park, noted for its hot springs, abundance of giraffe and African bush elephant. Don�t be surprised if you see mongoose, klipspringer, and the elusive rock hyrax. Lake Manyara is a soda lake, and is noted for its flamingos and other waterbirds. Overnight at the Lodge.
Day 10: Mto Wa Mbu to Olduvai Gorge and Serengeti National Park: Olduvai Gorge, the site of Louis and Mary Leakey�s pivotal discoveries that uncovered our human origins, is a stark, sere landscape. You will have lunch at the small information centre while hearing a talk about the meaning and importance of the archeological findings in the area. You will then proceed to Naabi Gate and enter the Serengeti on a game drive en route to Seronera. Overnight at the Wilderness Lodges.
Day 11: Serengeti National Park (full day):The Serengeti, from the Masai word siringet, meaning �endless plains,� is the jewel in the crown of Tanzania's protected areas. It has one of the greatest assemblages of wildlife in the world. From the official park website: �The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Overnight at the Wilderness Lodges
Day 12: Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro: Early morning game drive in Serengeti; after lunch game drive en route to Naabi Gate, after which you drive to Wilderness Lodge, at the Ngorongoro Crater rim. Overnight at the Wilderness Lodges
Day 13: Ngorongoro Crater World Heritage Site - Arusha: A must see Conservation Area within this massive collapsed volcano, one of the largest calderas in the world. Ngorongoro�s grasslands, forest, swamps, salt pans, and Lake Magadi provide for an assortment of wildlife viewing opportunities. You are likely to see black rhinos, hippos, jackals, spotted hyena, lions, and their prey of wildebeest, water buffalo, and various gazelle species. Birding is excellent as well. The uncommon serval cat may be a bonus feature. Overnight at the Sinka Court Hotel in Arusha.
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INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE:
Transport with safari Vehicle with pop-up roof
All park entrance fees
Accommodations in the Luxury tented self contained camps
Full board, three meals per day while on safari
Pick up from the airport upon arrival
EXCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE
1.Tips for the drive
2. Entrance to the Masai village in Masai Mara{optional 15usd per person
payable direct to the Masai elders in the village}
3.Tanzania Visa
Small towel, toiletries, toilet paper
Sunscreen and lip balm
First aid kit and insect repellent
Camera with zoom lenses
Spare film or memory card and batteries or battery pack
Sun glass and sun hat
Long sleeved shirt and long trousers
Warm sweater
Day pack
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Cabinet MagazineKioskBooksActivitiesShopSubscribe Issue 34 / Testing
A Little Etymological Test
Joshua T. Katz
A quip, told to me long ago by a friend who adopted a Peter Lorre-like accent and leered at me as a mad teacher might at his students: “If you like my little quizzies, wait till you see my big testies.”
Does size matter? It did for the Chinese who sat the imperial examinations, which stretched over several days. And it does today in the United States: 2400 on the SAT (no longer an acronym now that it is apparently deemed neither a Scholastic Assessment nor a Scholastic Aptitude Test) is the new 1600; scores have been “recentered” upward, as a way of compensating for lower average results; and there is in the writing section a correlation—embarrassingly independent of quality—between length and grade, as MIT professor Les Perelman pointed out a few years back. (At the time, at least, the official guide for scorers blithely stated, “Writers may make errors in facts or information that do not affect the quality of their essays. For example, a writer may state … ‘“Anna Karenina,” a play by the French author Joseph Conrad, was a very upbeat literary work.’”) Not readers of big books, aside from Harry Potter, Americans are, nonetheless, a nation of test-takers, as Elizabeth Alexander reminded the world transfixed by Barack Obama’s inauguration, describing in her poem “Praise Song for the Day” how “A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.”
The swarms of students who take out their #2 Faber-Castells—the main definition of the Latin word examen is “swarm (of insects),” though our examination comes from the other sense, related to the multivalent verb exigere, which can mean “to examine”—no longer have to deal with analogies on the SAT, so gone are the days of quiz : test :: pamphlet : X, where X = (a) tome; (b) zygote; (c) magazine; (d) exiguous; or (e) epitome. The College Board explains that “analogy questions have been removed because they are less connected to the current high school curriculum.” (Also removed is the connecting hyphen [from Greek, ὑφ’ ἕν, “in one”] in “high-school curriculum,” but since it’s not there in High School Musical either, it seems safe to assume that hyphenation, too, is “less connected.”) No students will henceforth scratch their heads over quiz : quizzes :: test : X.
The word test, which in its earliest uses in English refers to a cupel, is a borrowing from an Old French word for “pot” that itself goes back to a variant of Latin testa, “earthenware jar; potsherd; hard outer covering of (e.g.) a crustacean.” (The deeper background of testa is unknown.) A portable hearth, the cupel is used in assaying—that is to say, testing—alloys of precious metals. It is often made of bone ash and looks a bit like an upside-down skull: the semantic sidle from testa to French tête (“head”) finds English analogues in our mug (shot) and in the compounds jughead (think of Archie’s girl-disdaining, hamburger-eating friend) and jarhead (a Marine). Admittedly, the meaning of pothead is a different matter.
Illustration of alleged papal groping and the gender-confirming cry of testiculos habet, “He has testicles,” at the 1644 coronation of Pope Innocent X, from the narrative of the Swedish traveler Lawrence Banck. The practice of physically verifying the pope’s gender—supposedly begun in response to the election in the middle ages of a female pontiff, Pope Joan—is generally believed, like the story of Pope Joan herself, to be apocryphal.
Let us scratch our heads over quiz : quizzes :: test : X anyway. Broadly speaking, the etymology of testes (singular testis) and its morphologically well-hung diminutive testiculi (singular testiculus, whence our testicle) is in one respect known and in another disputed. Clear is that testis meant in the first place “witness,” as in the legal dictum unus testis, nullus testis (“one witness [is] no witness”), a view expressed in a language other than Latin in Deuteronomy: “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.” Not clear, however, is how Latin came to find itself in the position of having two apparently quite different meanings of testis, namely both “witness” and “testicle.” To quote the title of a short, sweet, but linguistically maladroit article by three urologists from Portsmouth in a 2002 issue of the British Journal of Urology International, “The testis: what did he witness?”
Unlike with testa, the deeper background of the primary meaning of testis is known and is, indeed, a testament to etymological method: testis once had an r in it (compare trstus in the closely related Oscan language) and was transparently a compound, whose Proto-Indo-European preform is reconstructed by linguists as *trito-sth2-o, literally “standing (Latin sto, ‘I stand’) as third (tertius).” But why would a bystanding witness also become a testicle, except to give Roman wags such as Plautus (the inspiration behind A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) endless opportunities to engage in what a gym teacher of mine once referred to as “low ball games”?
It turns out that it is cross-culturally common for people—let me say men—to manipulate genitalia—let me stress others’—during the swearing of oaths. In Genesis, Abraham’s servant swears with his hand “under the thigh” of his master, and some chapters later, Joseph puts his hand under his father Jacob’s “thigh.” An eighteenth-century BC Old Babylonian letter from the city of Kisurra (in present-day Iraq) includes the words, “Thus you (have said to me): ‘Let your envoy grasp my testicles and my penis, and then I will give (it) to you.’” Hindu and Arabian pledges of honor from the eighteenth century AD and beyond in which men hold each other’s private parts are described in graphic detail by the orientalist and sexologist Allen Edwardes. Somewhat differently, in Athenian homicide trials, the accuser trampled the testicles of a boar, a ram, and a bull, swearing to the veracity of his claim and invoking destruction on himself and his family if he was perjuring himself. These are serious oaths: one possible implication of holding onto (or standing on) testicles is that the bearing of false witness may call down a curse upon not only oneself but one’s house and future line.
Can you use your own testicles for testimonials? You might think so, but strangely, there does not appear to be a lot of evidence for such a practice. This has, however, not stopped some people from imagining colorful scenarios: “When a man swore something was true, giving testimony, he put his hands on his testicles. In effect, he was saying: You can cut off my balls if I’m lying. In time, law courts decided that asking a man to put his hands on the Bible might be more decorous” (Diane Ackerman, in A Natural History of Love). Still, Italian men even today do give themselves quick grabs with the words io mi tocco i … (“I touch my …”); the equivalent of our touch (or knock on) wood, this gesture was ruled a criminal offense by Italy’s highest appeals court in early 2008.
The sedes stercoraria, or “shit seat,” on which the presumptive pontiff was supposedly examined.
Can women swear testicular oaths? Consider the historian Huw Pryce’s description of the following scene from medieval Wales, where oaths were commonly sworn on holy relics: “a woman who persisted in accusing a man of having raped her after his initial denial was required to repeat the charge on oath while holding the relic in her right hand and the man’s penis in her left.” Some readers will now think of the widespread belief that the pierced chairs, such as the famous sedes stercoraria (literally “shit seat”) at the Lateran, were introduced in the aftermath of the papacy of “Joan” to allow for a functionary to grope the Pope and attest to his worthiness by crying out, testiculos habet (“He has testicles!”).
This is an urban legend. (Remember that the Eternal City is the urbs, from which the Pope addresses the “Urbi et Orbi.”) To back up the connection between witnesses and testicles in ancient Rome itself, we have only a hermeneutically difficult passage about mnemotechnics in the rhetorical handbook Ad Herennium, once upon a time attributed to Cicero, in which a lawyer is advised to keep in mind a picture of the defendant testiculos arietinos tenentem (“holding a ram’s (or rams’) testicles”) so as to remind himself that there were witnesses to the crime.
Unus testiculus, nullus testiculus? I like to think that the shift in Latin from “witness” to “testicle” is no longer as peculiar as it seems at first glance, but rests on a robust cultural institution. For details, lay your hands on my papers in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 98 (1998) and Journal of Indo-European Studies 34 (2006). And criticize them, if you wish. Plenty of other people have done so, most recently Lochlan Shelfer in volume 69 (2009) of a journal I’m happy to say I don’t (yet) regularly check out: The Prostate. I expose myself to you, dear reader, and await my test score.
But to come full circle, what about test? When you attest to and testify to and give testimony of your knowledge on a little quiz or a big test, you are using your head, not your cojones. When, however, you attest to and testify to and give testimony of your knowledge in court, it’s the other way around: your nuts are doing the talking, not your nut. Or at least that’s the case from an etymological point of view. And since the Greek-derived term etymology refers etymologically to “true (etymos) speech (logos),” shouldn’t you take my word for it?
Joshua T. Katz is professor of Classics and director of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University. He is particularly interested in etymology, which he views as part of the history of ideas. This fall, he will be teaching a freshman seminar on the history and practice of wordplay.
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Durability and Style
Since the 5th century BC, cast iron had been used in the architectural and agricultural implements, prized for its strength and highly valued for its durability. Antique cast iron cookware, fireplace tools, and fencing are still commonly found in and around homes today, and many of these decorative elements are centuries old. Because cast iron can be cleaned and refurbished to look new at any age, and because oxidation is often desirable in collectables and decorative pieces, cast iron is often incorporated in decor to lend vintage character and authenticity. Cast iron miniatures and statuary have been popular additions to interior spaces in the United States since the early 1800s and cast iron finials, animal-shaped doorstops, and garden accents are still widely available for purchase.
Prior to the 1800s, architectural decoration generally had to be carved out of stone, and these facades, though elegant, were expensive and challenging to incorporate into buildings. In the mid- to late-1800s, building designers began to use cast iron for decorative features, and this trend caught on and proliferated in areas like New Orleans’ French Quarter and the Tribeca area of New York. Because of the popularity of these elaborate building features, and because cast iron was so inexpensive to produce and cast, home owners during the Victorian era began to replicate these building trends in their homes with smaller accent pieces.
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Decorating with cast iron accents never fell out of favor, and now these pieces have gained value as historic Americana, making them even more desirable in interior design. Cast iron planters and birdfeeders continue to grant gardens an established, historic aesthetic even today, and cast iron wall decor will continue to add character to even the most modern interiors for years to come.
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The Long Draft: Do You Have One Manuscript, or Two?
By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
I recently finished a first draft of a young adult fantasy novel. This book has a bit of history for me, so it was a relief and gave me a sense of accomplishment to get it done.
It’s almost twice as long as my first drafts typically are—118,000 words instead of 60,000 words. While YA can certainly run higher than 60K words, I have a lot of trimming in my future. Probably in the 30-40K word range.
But as I was discussing the book with a writer pal, she joked about how my draft was two of her books. Which naturally led us to wonder…did I have two books?
It’s not an easy question. Just because I have the words for it, doesn’t mean I have the story for it. Stories need the right structure and flow to work well, so simply chopping the manuscript in two isn’t the solution. It could very likely create a book that just stops, but doesn’t end, and another that feels as if you picked it up mid-story.
I haven’t made a final determination yet, but I do think it has potential to be two books. If you ever face this dilemma, here are some things to consider:
Reasons You Might Be Able to Break Your Too-Long Book Into Two Books
1. The first half and second half have their own story arcs.
To be two books, each book needs a solid and complete plot arc, with all the things a stand alone book does. It needs to read as if you created two books, not just split one story into two (no matter what movies are doing these days).
In my case, the two arcs tie together, but they could also work as their own plot arcs. The second half is triggered by what happens in the first half, and the first half has an “ending” that resolves one of each of the two protagonists’ goals. I’d have to tweak and shift a few things around, but it’s possible to resolve two goals in book one and still give the story a direction for book two.
(Here’s more on writing with mini story arcs)
2. The two books would each have satisfying endings.
The core conflict of any novel has to be resolved in a satisfying way, and while some things can be left hanging for a series, it can’t just stop and leaving readers with no payoff. If someone doesn’t read book two, they should still have a good reading experience with book one.
In my case, this is the part that could send me chopping the novel down to 90K words or fewer. I can do endings for two books, but until I spend some more time brainstorming, I’m not 100% sure book one will be satisfying. It has a solid resolution to a problem, but it’s not, let’s say…a happy one. That’s not necessarily a deal breaker, as it does create the situation that would be the main drive and conflict for a book two, but if readers are annoyed at me for the ending of book one, they’ll never see it.
This is more critical than many writers realize. A lot of readers judge the entire book by its ending, and even they raved about the first 75%, if your ending doesn’t wow them, the whole book can be affected.
(Here’s more on what makes a satisfying ending)
3. The stakes and consequences escalate proportionately.
There’s a delicate balance with stakes. If the stakes don’t escalate enough, the plot can feel too easy and seem like it doesn’t really matter. If they rise too high too fast, the tension has nowhere to go and it plateaus and goes flat. It’s those constant waves of tension that get bigger as the story flows that work so well to draw readers into and through the book.
In my case, they do escalate with one protagonist, but not the other—or at least, not as much as they should for two books. This is an area I’d have to tweak, but it would also deepen that character’s character arc, so it’s a win/win.
(Here’s more on where to raise the stakes)
4. There’s a new place to go with the story.
While a trilogy typically has a common storyline (save the person, stop the bad guy, find the secret, etc.), each book should bring something new to the story. If book one and book two are about basically achieving the same goal, it can feel like you’re reading the same book all over again.
In my case, the novel has core goal and conflict that runs under everything the characters do. But it also has a prominent goal that drives it for the first half (call it Plot A), with a secondary goal as a subplot (call it Plot B). But after the midpoint, those goals reverse, and the secondary goal becomes the main focus, which ties it back into the core conflict goal.
For example, let’s says the core goal is to keep Mom and Dad from getting a divorce. That’s the point of the book—to keep these two together. Plot A is about an issue with Mom that would end with her taking a job in another state. Plot B is about proving to Dad Mom is serious and not just angry about a fight. The protagonists’ work to keep Mom from accepting the job, but she does anyway, so now they need to deal with Dad and get him to step up and keep Mom from leaving. There’s still story goals with Mom and her new job, but the true problem was with Dad all along, and that doesn’t surface until the middle of the story.
(Here’s more on 4 steps to a stronger plot)
5. Both books would be satisfying reads.
A good ending is only the beginning. To turn one book into two, both books would need to stand on their own (baring normal trilogy or duology loose ends), and be as rich and well-rounded as a stand-alone book. Having solid story arcs, escalating stakes, and good endings is key, but the rest of the book also has to engage readers. You want them to feel as though they got their money’s worth, not just had to pay twice as much for one story.
In my case, the jury is still out on this one. I think it could be two good reads, but my beta readers are also saying they really enjoyed the book as is, even though it’s long. Pacing matters more than word count, and if the novel is well paced at 100+K words, it could be fine as one book.
Bonus Reason: You could further develop things you didn’t have room for in one book.
If the book runs long, it might be because it was two books the whole time. Especially if there are areas you wish you cold have developed more, and your beta readers are saying they loved those parts and wanted more, or feedback says the areas you cut back on felt too cut back or shallow.
In my case, having another 10-15K words per half to flesh out some areas I either didn’t do, or skimmed over, would be fun and add more to the overall story. Beta reads have asked for more in those areas as well. Two 75K-word novels is a good size for the market as well. And since I have an idea for a third book, well, then I’m two thirds of the way through my trilogy already.
I’m waiting to hear back from my agent before I make a final call on this book, and I’m happy to go in either direction. It would be nice to have my next two books done and give her more to submit, but I’d always planned on one book with this story, so I won’t feel bad if that’s the case. It’ll be interesting to hear what she says.
It’s always tough when a manuscript falls outside the general range of the genre or market you’re writing for. Not every book has to fall within those ranges, and there are plenty of novels that don’t that has done well. But they’ve well in spite of it more often than because of it. But sometimes, a story grabs us and we keep writing, unaware that we’re writing the whole series at once.
Have you ever broken a long book into two? What was your result?
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Shiva 10:12 AM EDT
This is very timely for me, as my beta readers had similar feedback on my fledgling fantasy series. In my case, however, I was trying to shove a five-book series into a trilogy, which ended up a complete mess. (I’d already excised every subplot I could conceivably cut, and the draft for the first book was still well over 140,000 words. Yikes!) While for me the decision has already been made out of necessity, this post will definitely help me with deciding where to chop the books apart. So many thanks for writing this, Janice!
Janice Hardy 8:36 AM EDT
Glad I could help. I can't even imagine trying to get five into three! You must have been going nuts.
ikmar 12:39 PM EDT
Yeah, I split a book a while back. Mostly because of (1) but the rest were true too. I found I was compressing the story too much to contain the word count, when what I really needed was a fully realized story in two parts.
The more I look at mine, the more I'm leaning toward two for those very reasons.
Juliana 4:03 PM EDT
I've seen "average" book word counts that are all over the place. Some publishers give 30-50K words as average, I've seen as high as 80-100K as acceptable. (It does seem like over 100K is getting into "big book" territory). Do you have a good sense of the numbers?
My current manuscript is over 100K (and needs a lot of trimming) but isn't going to come in much under that, I think, once all the plot holes are filled and transitions smoothed.
It depends on genre and market. Middle grade typically us in the 30-50K range, but can be higher. Young adult is in the 60-80K range, but again, can run higher. Fantasy and historical fiction often runs in the 80-125K range. Cozy mysteries run shorter and are typically around 60K.
The "average book" is 80-100K, so 100K will likely work for most genres, though not all, such as cozy mysteries or kid lit.
I'd suggest looking at other books in your genre and/or market and seeing what the average is.
I wrote about word counts and the various ranges a while back, so you constant there. It links a good post agent Rachelle Gardener wrote on it as well.
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2010/11/word-count-to-wise-handling-your-word.html
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But that is just a theory...
In the world of online discussion, concepts like evolution get dismissed as "but that is just a theory". Everything that science deals with is only a theory, the physical sciences have no axioms. Consider the theories of gravity:
When I release an object, it falls to the ground
When I release an object farther from the ground it hits harder
The object that hit the ground was the same object I released
Accepted Knowledge
An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Newton's First Law of Motion - Inertia
Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. (F = m*a)
Newton's Second Law of Motion
Show your work:
The object changed from rest to falling, so there must be a force applied.
The object landed with a greater net force (more F) and so either the mass changed or there was acceleration. The mass was observed to have not changed.
"gravity" - the force applied to my object which caused acceleration.
Newton explained how gravity worked in his theory. It was generally successful for modeling how the world worked and could be used to compute future behavior. The scientific value of Newton's theory of gravity was that physical interactions of visible objects and the planet earth could be predicted.
Newton's theory of gravity provided a explanation for how Kepler's descriptions of planetary motion occurred, and in doing so showed that the physical forces which cause the planets to move are the same forces which we see pull an apple off a tree. It had corner cases though where Newton's equations failed to describe observed events, such as the precession of the perihelion of Mercury.
This does not mean Newton was *wrong*, as his equations still successfully model and predict *a lot*. It means the theory was incomplete. Einstein refined the equations with his theory of gravity, the theory of general relativity. For the situations that Newton had observed, Newtonian gravity provides a close enough approximation to the computations of general relativity, but general relativity holds up in cases where the predictions of Newton failed.
We also already know that there are corner cases where general relativity fails to predict events, such as the field of quantum physics. In time there will be a unifying theory which explains both object level motion and particle level motion, but for today we have our current level of incomplete theory.
So yes, you can throw out the "Evolution is just a theory", but to do so ignores the actual weight behind those words. All scientific proposals are theories to be replaced when a more conclusive theory is proposed.
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New Metadata Feature on Planet Four: Terrains Talk
The latest set of Planet Four: Terrains images comes with some added bonus features on Talk. Thanks to upgrades in the Zooniverse platform we can now display additional information with the metadata icon on Talk that won’t appear in the classification interface. So we can share the original parent CTX image name and a link to the image on Talk for your further investigations. We don’t show this information in the classification interface in order to keep the classifications free from any potential causes of bias.
So now when you classify, if you want to check out the full frame CTX image the subject is derived from, just click on the ‘Talk’ button after submitting your classification. This will bring you to the Talk Subject Page for this subject. Then if you click on the ‘i’ icon below the image,the metadata window will pop up (see below)
!filename is the internal filename the Planet Four: Terrains used to name the subject when we generated it. !CTX_filename is the name of the full frame CTX image the subject comes from. !Public_CTX_link will take you to the MRO Context Camera Image Explorer where you can view the image (the link was working earlier to directly show the CTX image but isn’t working for me at the moment. If you have any issues you can always copy and paste the CTX filename into the search box and that will bring up the image)
New Images Live on Planet Four: Terrains
Brand new images are now available on Planet Four: Terrains. Thanks to your help we finished all the live data on the site earlier this week. We have now uploaded new data, and we’re now expanding out to further distances away from the south pole to explore the frequency of spiders, baby spider, channel networks, swiss cheese terrain, and boulders.
These observations span latitudes of -70 to -90 N degrees as shown in the figure below. The red shows the outlines of the new CTX images loaded and ready on Planet Four: Terrains, the white is the original set on the site at launch, and the green areas are the locations/images reviewed on the site over the past several months. The new dataset is the only one so far on Planet Four: Terrains that explores the -70 to -75 N degree latitude ring about the Martian south pole.
The science team is working on the first paper from the project based on the white set of images classified (see above) on the site, and new regions of interest are scheduled to be imaged in higher resolution detail with the HiRISE camera. With more of the south pole surveyed with the classifications Planet Four: Terrains, who knows what we’ll find! Classify an image or two at http://terrains.planetfour.org
Mars Art
Inspired by the images of Swiss Cheese Terrain like these examples below shown on Planet Four: Terrains, volunteer Albert Laubi (xflyer) made some visually stunning paintings using acrylic, oil, sand on canvas)and shared them on Talk.
Swiss Cheese Terrain Examples on Planet Four: Terrains
Here’s some words from Albert:
(Great) Natures forms seen through (excited) human eyes.
Stunned by the variety of shapings that emerge on Mars’ south pole and impressed by the brilliant achievements of scientists, which enables us to make visible things like that even on a far away planet, I got the idea to combine this into a series of pieces containing kinda triple artwork: nature, science and (my) personal perception.
Technically I arranged in Photoshop some parts of similar b/w Mars terrain pictures to a composition, extracted chosen areas for colorizing and texturizing, then put this different layers through all paces, till I had a balance, where I could say: Yeah, let’s paint it! The original size of each painting is 50cm x 50cm.
Check out Albert’s pieces below:
Marsic Chromorph I-VI Image Credit: Albert Laubi
Thank you Albert for sharing your work. If you have any Planet Four or Planet Four: Terrains inspired artwork or poetry, we’d love to share it. Post a link to your work in Planet Four Talk or Planet Four: Terrains Talk
in Site News, Terrains
Happy 1st Birthday Planet Four: Terrains
Today marks the first anniversary of the launch of the Zooniverse Project Builder Platform and with that today also marks the 1st birthday of Planet Four: Terrains. You can read the blog post by Zooniverse PI Chris Lintott from that day. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to create this project due to the capabilities offered with the new Zooniverse project builder. Planet Four: Terrains is truly a project we wouldn’t have created without it; many thanks needs to go to the Zooniverse development team who created and continue to support and enhance the project builder.
When we launched Planet Four: Terrains, we really didn’t know what we were going to find. The science team thought the project would discover a few interesting areas with spiders to follow-up. An Earth year later, 10,000+ people have effectively moved a NASA spacecraft and decided where it will image! Now we have 20+ regions that were forwarded to the HiRISE team and ultimately selected to be imaged by the HiRISE camera. HiRISE aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will examine the areas in more detail and for many see how they evolve with multiple observations spread over the coming Spring and Summer on the Martian South Pole. This is incredible! HiRISE has ~20x higher resolution than CTX subimages shown on the site, so we should get exquisite detail of the spider channels and any seasonal fans and blotches that form. Next week marks the official start of Spring and the return of the Sun to the South Pole of Mars. As the lighting improves with the ever increasing sunlight, the first HiRISE images from these new targets should start coming in soon, we hope. Stay tuned to this space for updates!
Thank for your time and effort on Planet Four: Terrains. We couldn’t do this without you. As our way of saying thank you, we’ve created a collection of all the subject images selected for high spatial resolution HiRISE imaging. You can peruse it here. With any luck in a few weeks, we’ll be able to share some of the first HiRISE images of these areas from this Mars Year’s seasonal monitoring campaign.
Help celebrate Planet Four: Terrains’ first birthday today by classifying images today at http://terrains.planetfour.org
in CTX, Science, Terrains, Uncategorized
HiRISE Targets
We started Planet Four: Terrains with the main goal of finding new regions to study during the upcoming seasonal processes HiRISE campaign. The idea was to have people scour low resolution Context Camera (CTX) images for terrains indicative of sculpting during the seasonal processes produced by never-ending cycle of carbon dioxide ice being deposited on the surface in the winter and that ice sublimating in the spring and summer. We would then select a portion of those areas for further study with high-resolution imaging with HIRISE. With the varied textures of the Martian surface it would be difficult for a machine to do this task, but the human brain is well suited to this task.
We launched Planet Four: Terrains at the end of June as part of the launch of the Zooniverse’s new citizen science platform and project builder portal. Planet Four: Terrains had little less than a year to review 90 full frame CTX images divided into 20,122 subimages or subjects as their known on the website. With your help, the project was able to get through all 20,122 subjects in time, and even put in more images. Thanks to your classifications and Talk discussions, the science team was able to come up with a list of images and locations for further study. We aim to have the HiRSE camera point at these locations and snap images. Some of these locations will be monitored throughout the Southern spring and summer. Right now these locations have been entered in the HiRISE target database. This means that Planet Four: Terrains has successfully achieved one of its prime goals!
One of the new targets of interest found by Planet Four: Terrains that will monitored by HiRISE during the spring and summer on the south pole of Mars starting in the coming months. This subject was classified as part of the second set of CTX images classified on Planet Four: Terrains Discovery details
Now, Candy Hansen, PI of the project and head of the seasonal processes campaign with HiRISE, will prioritize our targets with the rest of the regions that the HiRISE team wants to study. The first of these should with any luck get images in the next few months. We’ll keep you updated here on the blog.The final list of targets from Planet Four: Terrains is a mix of locations found on Talk and through the classification interface. We’ll have more details as we get closer to the start of Southern spring (July 5th), but we wanted to share one of the new locales,spotted thanks to the volunteer contributions on Planet Four: Terrains, that will be imaged by HiRISE. This specific region shown above was highlighted on Talk. It was noticed by the science team, and we agree it is an interesting area to look at how spiders develop. We’re interested to see how the seasonal fans and blotches over the coming Martian Southern spring and summer. We’re currently planning a sequence of images at this location. CTX has a resolution of 6-8 meters per pixel. HiRISE has a resolution of 30 centimeters per pixel, so we’ll get to see a lot more detail particularly in the structure of the spider channels than what’s current visible in the CTX image above.
This isn’t the end of the project, we’re really just getting stared. Because of your classifications, we’ve found spiders in interesting and potentially unexpected regions so we’ve decided to keep the project going with new locations to review. Help today at http://terrains.planetfour.org
More Examples of Baby Spiders
I’ve been looking at the results of my pipeline to combine the many classifications we get for each Planet Four: Terrains subject (CTX subimage) and also the subjects you’ve marked with Talk hashtags in preparation for picking a list of final targets for the HiRISE seasonal campaign. I thought I would share with you some great examples of images with baby spiders that I found. If you’re having a hard time identifying spiders from baby spiders or a channel network, here’s some advice from our site guide:
Legs longer than the size of the center pit: It’s a spider
Only a pit or has tiny legs shorter than the size of the center pit: It’s a baby spider
No discernible pit and no centralized pattern but more grid or network like: It is a channel network
Gallery of Subjects With Baby Spiders – click an image below to get the slide show – Enjoy!
in General Mars, HiRISE, Science, Terrains
WeMartians Interview: Citizen Science on Mars
WeMartians is a brand new podcast aimed to engage the public in the exploration of Mars. The latest episode is about citizen science on Mars with Michael talking about Planet Four and Planet Four: Terrains. Listen to Michael (and cameos of other familiar Zooniverse voices) below or on the WeMartians website.
in CTX, HiRISE, Science, Terrains
Countdown to Picking New Proposed HiRISE Targets
One of the key goals of Planet Four: Terrains is to identify new areas of interest to observe with HiRISE during the seasonal processes campaign so that we better learn about the carbon dioxide geyser process and about how and were spiders and related channels form. You can read more about the particular goals of Planet Four: Terrains here. Over the months we’ve read the discussions and comments on Talk and been making a list of regions to consider from your observations. We’re really intrigued by many of the things you’ve all spotted. Which is fantastic news! Talk has been a huge asset for this work, but we’re also using the classifications from the classification interface as well. I’ve spent the past three weeks putting together a software pipeline to take the multiple classifications per CTX subframe (typically 20 people review each subject image) to identify spiders, baby spiders, channel networks, craters, and the Swiss Cheese Terrain.
Now that the machinery is all together combined with the interesting gems on Talk we’re ready to make our list of proposed new HiRISE monitoring targets. By April 20th I aim t provide the rest of the Planet Four: Terrains science team a compiled list of locations for them to review. Then Anya will input these into the HiRISE planning system where they will be considered with the HiRSE team’s science goals and eventually Candy who wears many hats including Deputy Director of the HiRISE camera and lead of the seasonal processes campaign will prioritize these new areas with the already existing targets in the seasonal processes observing program. We aim to be ready for HiRISE’s first attempt to image the South Pole which is coming up in about 60 days or so.
This is where you come in. We have new images of different areas on the site now. There have already been some interesting images from this set I’ve forwarded to the rest of the team after seeing discussions on Talk. Let’s make a push to classify as much of the new data set as possible before the 18th of April. The more subjects reviewed the greater chance to include those areas at the start of the monitoring campaign. Not to worry though, we’ll also have a few chances to include additional targets later in the Spring Season to the HiRISE monitoring campaign if need be or to the next one.
If you have a free moment, classify an image or two at http://terrains.planetfour.org
Brand New Images on Planet Four: Terrains
We’ve been finding interesting regions thanks to your classifications and your Planet Four: Terrains Talk comments. We’ll soon be start preparing for the upcoming HiRISE seasonal monitoring campaign and selecting our final list of new targets for HiRISE. The Sun will be fully above the horizon of the Martian South Pole and conditions will be favorable for imaging sometime around July, so we need to get started very soon. The excellent news is that thanks to your help, we’ve completed the original set of CTX images that we had planned for the project. Here’s where on the coverage of the CTX images that we selected and you’ve been classifying since June.
CTX (Context Camera) image coverage in cyan with MOLA elevation map (Red is higher elevation) (Courtesy of JMARS )
The even more exciting news is that we’re extending the project and have uploaded a new set of CTX images to the website! Looking at the preliminary analysis of your classifications, we’re seeing interesting patterns in the distributions of spiders, baby spiders, and swiss cheese terrain. We want to investigate this further by covering more of the South Pole that we hadn’t looked at already. These CTX images have never before been looked at by human eyes in such detail before. There are bound to be something interesting, and if so we will still have time to add the region to our HiRISE target list.
Here’s a comparison of the location of the new CTX images in dark blue compared to the our first set of observations on the reviewed on the site in cyan.
CTX coverage with MOLA elevation map (Courtesy of JMARS ) Blue = coverage of new images just uploaded Cyan = locations of previous images classified
Help search the new CTX images or spiders, swiss cheese terrain, and more by classifying an image or two at http://terrains.planetfour.org
in Craters, Terrains
Craters on the Martian South Polar Deposits
Today we have a guest post from Margaret Landis. Margaret is a third year PhD student at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, where she studies impacts and frost transport on Mars
CTX image B08_012814_0962_XN_83S173W of a portion of the South Polar Layered Deposits – Image Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science
Impacts, from asteroids and comets, occur on every solid surface in the solar system. When a space rock hits a planet, it leaves behind an explosion crater depending on how large the space rock was and how strong the target material is. How we study and count these tells us an incredible amount about the history and composition of the surface: this is one of the reasons why I’m excited about Planet Four: Terrains’ Mars south polar crater tagging!
First of all, craters expose the layers underneath the surface of a planet. Just look at terraced craters on Mars. Of course material can also fill in craters, which means craters are interesting laboratories for exploring the material a planet is made out of.
Second, and what I am primarily interested in for Mars, is that craters can act like a clock for the age of a surface. The number and size of craters on a surface is primarily determined by the types of impactors that are hitting the planet, and we can find this out in a couple of ways. One is looking at the number of asteroids of a particular size which we can do using telescopes, and another is looking at the number of craters that form per a particular period of time. The next step is to find the period of time a certain number of impacts happened over. For the Moon, this is relatively straightforward because there are samples of the rocks returned from the Apollo missions. Using laboratory techniques, geochemists can get an age for the rock. This is a reference point: a certain number of craters on a surface is a given age from the age of a rock returned from the lunar surface. When this is translated to Mars, this becomes much easier said than done.
In essence, if the size of craters is measured and the number of craters at each size are counted up, that can be translated to the number of space rocks that have hit the surface. If we know the rate at which that occurs, we know how old the surface is.
Why do we care about figuring out how old a surface is? For the north and south polar deposits on Mars, they are made mostly of water and carbon dioxide ices. These are powerful greenhouse gasses and could make up a large amount of a possible martian atmosphere. When and where these ices are on the surface tells us more about where and when the martian atmosphere could have gone, as well as Mars’ climate in the recent past.
For example, the polar layered deposits (PLD) are layers of different thickness and dust content, two things that are controlled by the local climate at the time that layer formed. We can measure the relative thinnesses of the layers and get some ideas about how long they took to form. These are similar to ice cores from the Earth, collecting information about what was in the air at certain times. However, unlike using ice cores on the Earth where we can measure the radioactive isotopes trapped within the dust in the ice and determine how old a certain layer is, we don’t have that capability for doing that on other planets yet. So, how can we get an age at a point in the south PLD (SPLD) stack of layers? From the crater age dating!
The residual ice cap is generally considered the layer of the SPLD forming at present day. Using craters, we can come up with an age of the surface.
Once again, this sounds simple but is much more complicated. One of the complicating factors is that the large surface area of the uppermost layer of the SPLD (the southern residual ice cap), and all of it has to be looked over for craters. Another thing that makes the south pole more complicated is that the exotic behavior of the carbon dioxide ice (like “spiders”, geysers, and pit formation) makes for sometimes circular features that are not impact craters, or can quickly hide the tell-tale signs of craters. The longer craters have been sitting out in the erosive environment of Mars, and the softer the rim appears and the flatter the floors become. These old craters can also be covered by other features, too. This is the perfect example of a task that one person could do, but it would take a long time.
This is where citizen science comes in: there are 90,000 km^2 on the surface of the south polar deposits! With lots of people looking over lots of images, the cataloging of craters becomes much faster and straightforward. This means that the crater counts go more quickly and accurately, which fits into figuring out the surface age and recent geologic history of the south polar deposits.
With all the images tagged as containing craters, I’ll build a crater database in order to enter Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) suggestions to get more detailed images of each of the craters in order to mark their location and measure their diameter. South polar summer happens later this year, and I’ll be sure to write an update on the project’s progress!
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by Kait Scalisi | May 18, 2015 | News, Sex Stories
By Kait Scalisi, MPH
Towards the end of 2014, Women, Action, Media (WAM), a nonprofit dedicated to building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media, became an authorized reporter on Twitter. This status allowed them to monitor, report, and follow-up on instances of harassment experienced on the platform. From over 800 reports of harassment, WAM discovered disturbing patterns in online behavior and Twitter’s response. They published their findings and recommendations this week.
Women experience significantly more and more severe forms of online harassment. WAM sought to quantify this data with a pilot study assessing the types and frequency of harassment. In three weeks, WAM processed over 800 reports and sent over 300 to Twitter. From there, Twitter took action on 161.
Examining the nearly 400 genuine harassment reports led to some interesting findings. These include
Bystanders play a huge role in reporting online harassment. Over 50% of reports received were submitted by someone other than the person being harassed. Most of these reports mentioned only one receiver of harassment.
Ongoing harassment is a problem. Nearly one-third of reports dealt with on-going harassment and over two-thirds mentioned having reported this problem to Twitter in the past. However, most harassing accounts were reported only once, indicating there’s a lot of jerks out there.
Hate speech and doxxing (releasing someone’s private information) were the most common forms of harassment. Together they accounted for nearly half of all reports. An additional 19% of reports did not fall neatly into any category.
Twitter took action in 55% of reported cases. In most cases, accounts were suspended. Only one account was deleted.
Twitter was more likely to take action on reports of hate speech. Twitter was much less likely to take action for other forms of harassment though they showed no favoritism towards longstanding accounts.
The reporting process is complicated. Harassment receivers must provide URLs, not screenshots. This makes it difficult to capture instances of harassment in which the perpetrator “tweets and deletes.” Reviewing reports involves in-depth communication and may be triggering to reviewers.
There are four major challenges of proving harassment. These include: context, interpretation, mode, and format of evidence.
Taken together these conclusions highlight the need for more oversight and accountability for alleged harassers as well as updated policies. As a result of the results, WAM also made six specific suggestions.
More broadly and clearly define what constitutes online harassment and abuse.
Update the abuse reporting interface, using researched and tested trauma-response design methods.
Develop new policies which recognize and address current methods that harassers use to manipulate and evade Twitter’s evidence requirements.
Expand the ability for users to filter out abusive mentions
Hold online abusers accountable for the gravity of their actions.
Diversify Twitter’s leadership.
The report itself may not be super surprising if you’ve paid attention to online harassment incidences over the last few years. REgardless, the report is vital as its the first piece of well-researched evidence quantifiying how online harassment is going down- and what to do about it.
Other Sexual Health News This Week
While the FDA recommends lifting the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood (HuffPost Politics), the CDC dedicates $185M to prevent HIV among trans individuals and MSM. (Edge Boston)
Patients More Likely to Get HPV Vaccine After Electronic Health Record Prompts
Millennials More Tolerant of Premarital Sex, But Have Fewer Partners (Time)
Survey Says Teens Skip Birth Control Because They Fear Parental Judgment (CNN)
Military Sexual Assault Claims: 1 in 20 Lead to Jail Time (Military Times)
Illinois Legislature Advances Gender Identity Protection Bill (HRC)
Campus Sexual Assault Rates Are Up, But It’s For a Good Reason: More Victims are Coming Forward (Slate)
The following conferences take place in May. Click on each name for more information and to register.
2015 Women of Color National Call to Action Summit and Conference, May 20.
American College Health Association 2015 Annual Meeting, May 26-30.
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Elizabeth Moylan
Elizabeth has a PhD and post-doc from the University of Oxford, UK. In 2004, she moved into publishing as an in-house Editor handling peer review on the BMC-series journals. In her present role as Senior Editor (Research Integrity), Elizabeth has oversight of editorial policies and peer review processes and is particularly interested in models of peer review.
Latest posts by Elizabeth Moylan (see all)
Advancing peer review at BMC - 24th November 2017
What does transparency in peer review mean to you? - 21st September 2017
Peer Review Week – it’s back! - 18th July 2016
Advancing peer review at BMC
Peer review is central to the publishing process and has a fundamental role to play in maintaining the integrity of the published literature and advancing… Read more »
What does transparency in peer review mean to you?
As part of this year’s peer review week celebrations, Alice Meadows (ORCID) chaired a panel debate with Irene Hames (Peer review and publications ethics… Read more »
Peer Review Week – it’s back!
Given all the support and interest in the first ever Peer Review Week it’s great to see that it’s back again, championing the vital role that peer review… Read more »
Taking stock of peer review
People from various countries, and diverse research backgrounds, gathered in Valencia, Spain last week for a joint PEERE and KNOWeSCAPE workshop on developments… Read more »
Faced with rejection? Sleep on it!
After all the work involved in completing a piece of research, combined with the preparation and effort in submitting a coherent manuscript for peer review, no… Read more »
Improving peer review efficiency: highlights from PEERE
People from over thirty countries, and from various research backgrounds, gathered together last week for a PEERE workshop looking at “New models of peer… Read more »
Open Research in China: thoughts from author workshops
Colleagues from China, The Netherlands, UK and USA gathered together in Beijing to celebrate international open access week. The week started with a Springer… Read more »
Who owns peer review?
Following a recent COPE forum discussing who owns peer review, Elizabeth Moylan discusses this topic further and addresses the issues of crediting reviewers for… Read more »
Life after academia
After taking part in a session on careers at Imperial College London, Elizabeth Moylan reflects on leaving science behind, and how a career change can be… Read more »
Axios Review – a different route to peer review
BioMed Central formalizes its partnership with Axios Review, an external peer review service that aims to improve the efficiency of the peer review system.
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Colorado State coach Mike Bobo on Jerry Kill’s health-forced retirement at Minnesota
By Terry Frei
Jerry Kill at his Wednesday news conference (Associated Press photo)
FORT COLLINS — When Minnesota pulled out a 23-20 overtime win over Colorado State at Hughes Stadium on Sept. 12, the two head coaches — in line with convention — met before the game for pleasantries.
“He seemed like a great guy, and I heard nothing but good things about coach Kill,” CSU coach Mike Bobo said Wednesday about the veteran who announced his retirement earlier in the day because of health issues.
Bobo recalled, “My two boys happened to run up while I was talking to him and just talked about how short life is. He was talking about make sure you enjoy your kids, and how his daughter worked with the athletic department. He seemed like a great guy. He loved football. He loved family. It’s unfortunate. I know he wanted to continue to coach, but he wants to be around for his family, too.”
Terry Frei: tfrei@denverpost.com or @TFrei
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Categories: College Sports
CU picks design/build team with local connections
By Tom Kensler
Rick George, Colorado athletic director. (Associated Press file)
In addition to Colorado presenting its Athletics Strategic Plan for 2014-17 to the CU board of regents, the school also announced Wednesday that it has selected the design/build team for the $143 million athletic complex expansion project:
The partnership of Denver-based Mortenson Construction and Kansas City-based Populous, which has 13 worldwide locations.
Mortenson/Populous has partnered for many high-profile projects including Coors Field and the Pepsi Center.
The chairman of Mortenson Construction, M.A. Mortenson Jr., is a CU graduate in engineering. Some of the projects that have involved Mortenson Construction include Kansas State’s football stadium expansion, the Minnesota Twins’ Target Field, the University of Minnesota’s new football stadium, terminals at Denver International Airport and the current project at Coors Field with part of the upper deck in right field being converted to a food/beverage/entertainment area.
To clear up any confusion or erroneous notions, CU athletic director Rick George reiterated that no tax dollars or student fees will be used for this facilities expansion. Financing will come from private and corporate donations, and through bonding.
George hopes groundbreaking will be sometime in April with completion targeted for August 2005.
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Categories: College Sports, Football, Pac-12, University of Colorado
January 9, 2014, 4:31 pm
Colorado State lands speedy Wichita running back Deron Thompson
CSU Rams coach Jim McElwain, right
Colorado State picked up perhaps one of its more important football commitments Thursday when speedster Deron Thompson of Northwest High School in Wichita announced that he will play for the Rams this fall.
NCAA rules prohibit college coaches from speaking about recruits until they are signed. But CSU coach Jim McElwain has said the roster continues to be in need of playmakers with speed.
Thompson, 5-foot-9 and 175 pounds, has been timed in 4.33 for 40 yards, according to Rivals.com. He is ranked by that recruiting website as the ninth-best senior prospect in the state of Kansas.
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Categories: College Sports, Colorado State University, Football, Mountain West Conference, Recruiting
Here’s a “what to watch” primer on men’s Division I basketball along the Front Range
Colorado’s Spencer Dinwiddie. (Daily Camera)
A few weeks ago, I wrote this “What to watch” regarding Division I men’s basketball along on the Front Range. Editors could not find room in the print edition of The Denver Post, so thought I’d run it here.
Compared to a half-dozen years ago, men’s college basketball along the Front Range appears very much on the upswing with big crowds and important victories. Here are some things to keep tabs on during 2013-2014:
FINAL SEASON FOR DINWIDDIE?
At some point this winter, Colorado fans may start chanting, ‘One more year! One more year!” in a plea for 6-foot-6 point guard Spencer Dinwiddie to return for his senior season.
Some wondered if Dinwiddie might look into leaving for the NBA last spring following his sophomore year. But the Los Angeles native made just 41.5 percent of his field-goal attempts for 2012-13, hitting only 33.8 percent from 3-point range.
If Dinwiddie improves his shooting and also his assists-to-turnover ratio (it was 99 assists to 73 turnovers last season), he may well join Alec Burks (2011) and Andre Roberson (2013) as NBA first-round picks this spring. Pro scouts are said to love his potential.
That would make three first-rounders in four years from Colorado. Amazing.
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Categories: Air Force Academy, College Basketball, College Sports, Colorado State University, Mountain West Conference, Pac-12, University of Colorado, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado
Colorado State gets commitment from Florida pass rusher
CSU Rams
In this day and age of spread offenses, college football teams need a passer and defensive players that can rush the passer.
CSU coaches must hope they have their pass rusher of the future after receiving an oral commitment this week from Nicholas Richardson, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound senior defensive end at Carol City (Fla.) High School, according to the CSU-based rivals.com website GoldAndGreenNews.com.
Richardson has not visited CSU but told GoldAndGreenNews.com that he felt comfortable with Rams coaches when speaking to them on the phone.
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DU Pioneers hockey returns to national rankings
Denver coach Jim Montgomery. (Denver Post file)
The University of Denver hockey team began the season ranked outside the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll for the first time since 2001. But after sweeping Merrimack with 1-0 and 4-0 shutouts to begin the season, the Pioneers are back inside the top 15. They came in 12th this week and are also 12th in the U.S. College Hockey Online poll.
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
2013-14 Men’s College Hockey Poll – #2
1. Miami 2-0-0
2. Wisconsin 2-0-0
3. Minnesota 2-0-0
4. Notre Dame 2-0-0
5. Michigan 2-0-0
6. Boston College 1-1-0
T6. Yale University 0-0-0
8. North Dakota 1-0-1
9. Massachusetts Lowell 1-1-0
10. Providence 2-0-0
11. St. Cloud State University 1-0-1
12. Denver 2-0-0
13. New Hampshire 1-1-0
14. Quinnipiac 1-1-0
15. Union College 1-0-1
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Ten things you may not know about CSU vs. San Jose State
Colorado State quarterback Garrett Grayson. (The Associated Press)
With a big thanks to the sports information departments of the respective schools, here are 10 things you may not know about Saturday’s game in Fort Collins between Colorado State (2-3, 0-0 MW) and San Jose State (2-3, 1-1):
1. Colorado State offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin was San Jose State’s head coach for four seasons (1997-2000).
2. Already this season, SJSU will be playing in its fourth time zone (Mountain) in Fort Collins, following games against Minnesota (Central), San Jose (Pacific) and Hawaii (Hawaii-Aleutian).
3. The Spartans rank 112th among 123 FBS teams in rushing offense but 20th in passing yards.
4. Colorado State is No. 107 in pass defense, yielding 282.6 yards per game.
5. According to Stats.com, Spartans senior linebacker Keith Smith is the only player dating back at least to 1998 to record 20 or more tackles in consecutive games. He had 21 stops at Minnesota and 20 vs. Utah State.
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Categories: College Sports, Colorado State University, Football, Mountain West Conference
10 things you may not know about Colorado State at Alabama
CSU Rams coach Jim McElwain.
With thanks in large part to the respective sports information departments of the schools, here are 10 things you may not know about Saturday’s matchup between Colorado State and Alabama:
Colton Iverson leads five Colorado State Rams players in Mountain West honors
By Christopher Dempsey
Colorado State capped its best basketball regular season ever by cleaning up in the Mountain West all-conference honors today.
Center Colton Iverson was named to the Mountain West conference first-team, while guard Dorian Green garnered second-team honors and forward Pierce Hornung nabbed a spot on the third team.
Iverson, meanwhile, was also the MW’s Newcomer of the Year. Hornung was named to the all-defensive team and sophomore Daniel Bejarano was a bit of a surprise selection as the MW’s Sixth Man of the Year. Senior guard Wes Eikmeier was an honorable mention all-conference selection.
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Categories: College Basketball, Colorado State University, Mountain West Conference
Jussi O back in net, DU goes for sweep over North Dakota
DU took a huge step in keeping its home-ice playoff streak alive with Friday’s wild 5-4 victory over North Dakota at Magness Arena. The Pios, who go for the series sweep tonight (7 p.m., Root), climbed into a favorable tie with Wisconsin for the sixth and final WCHA home-ice spot of the 12-team league, in which DU and UND are bolting after this season.
The Pios have a game in hand over UW and also have 11 wins to the Badgers’ 10, so the spot is technically theirs. Five games remain for DU, which visits Minnesota next weekend before hosting Alaska-Anchorage the following week. DU has hosted a first-round WCHA series since 2004.
Check out our game story from Friday’s wild game. The paper version didn’t include quotes; this online version does. Pretty sure that was the longest NCAA non-overtime game I have ever covered.
The Grand Forks Herald also was limited to a coach-only game story for a game that ended around midnight NoDak time.
No changes in DU’s lineup, which can only feature 21 players because the Pios only have 21 players available. Junior forward Jarrod Mermis remains on a leave of absence. Jussi Olkinuora gets another start in net.
Categories: Hockey, University of Denver
DU vs. North Dakota, Game 1 line chart
The DU Pioneers (15-9-5, 10-7-5 WCHA) haven’t started the playoffs on the road since 2003, but unless they move north in the WCHA standings, they’ll have that 10-year streak snapped. The Pios sit seventh in the 12-team WCHA, two pionts behind No. 6 Wisconsin (13-10-7, 10-7-7), which has played two more games.
DU tonight opens a two-game set against visiting North Dakota (16-8-6, 11-5-6), which is tied for fourth in the WCHA, three points ahead of DU. Looking ahead, DU plays a two-game series at Minnesota next weekend before finishing up with Alaska-Anchorage at Magness Arena on March 8 and March 10.
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Under new coach MacIntyre, Colorado’s recruiting class includes most Californians in at least four decades
Here are some notes and anecdotes left over from Colorado’s national football signing day, the first at CU for newly hired coach Mike MacIntyre:
* Colorado’s 13 signees from California (among a class of 20) is the most from that state since the 1973 season, when freshman became eligible to play. The previous high was 12 Californians signed to Bill McCartney’s 1986 class. Last year, then CU coach Jon Embree signed 10 Californians. That’s tied for third-most since 1973, along with the 10 in Rick Neuheisel’s 1995 class.
* Coaches often try to balance out a squad based on previous recruiting. In 2012, Embree signed four tight ends and six defensive tackles, so MacIntyre saw no need to add to those positions in this class. On the other hand, Embree did not sign a linebacker in 2012, so MacIntyre added five LBs on Wednesday.
* Coaches like to say they want winners. Well, according to research by CU sports-infomation director David Plati, 17 of this year’s 20 signees won a championship (league, division, district, state, etc.) at some level during their high school careers.
* Wide receiver Elijah Dunston is a distant cousin of former Chicago Cubs shortstop Shawon Dunston. Let’s see if Elijah’s hands catching a football are as soft and sure as Shawon’s were when he fielded a ground ball.
* Keen TV trivia buffs may have heard of the name Robert De Grasse. That’s the great grandfather of offensive-line signee Gunnar Graham, and the director of photography for the entire 157 episodes of the “Dick Van Dyke Show” (CBS, 1961-66) and other popular shows of that era including “I Love Lucy,” “Make Room For Daddy” and the “Jack Benny Show.”
* Running back Phillip Lindsay will be the first Denver South graduate on a CU football roster since Scott Martin and Shelby Nash were seniors in 1983.
* One of the uncles of quarterback signee Sefo Liufau is Jack Thompson, the “Throwin’ Samoan” quarterback for Washington State in the 1970s. Thompson later played in the NFL for Cincinnati and Tampa Bay.
* The name Chloe Sutton ring a bell? The U.S. Olympic swimmer for the Games of Beijing (2008) and London (2012) is an older sister to CU offensive-line signee Colin Sutton.
* The father of signee John Lisella (offensive lineman from Columbine), John Sr., was 12 years old when he won the NFL-sponsored Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Super Bowl VIII in Houston, where Miami defeated Minnesota, 24-7.
* And finally, this may make you feel old: Linebacker signee Ryan Severson was born on Jan. 2, 1995 — the day that Colorado defeated Notre Dame 41-24 in the Fiesta Bowl, with Buffs QB Kordell Stewart earning game MVP honors.
Thanks again to Plati for those tidbits.
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Categories: Football, Pac-12, Prep sports, Recruiting, University of Colorado
Chidobe Awuzie, Tedric Thompson picks Colorado over others
By John Henderson
New Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre beefed up his secondary on the morning of national letter-of-intent signing day Wednesday with a cornerback and safety committing.
Cornerback Chidobe Awuzie of Oak Grove High in San Jose, Calif., announced he had chosen Colorado over San Jose State and Washington State. Safety Tedric Thompson of Valencia (Calif.) High chose Colorado over Minnesota and Fresno State.
The 6-foot, 180-pound Awuzie, like Thompson a three-star recruit, had initially committed, “under pressure,” he said, to Washington State. He later said he had made a decision last weekend and waited until Wednesday morning to announce he’ll sign with Colorado.
Thompson (6-1, 203 pounds) visited Minnesota twice where his brother Cedric was a sophomore defensive back.
John Henderson: 303-954-1299, jhenderson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/johnhendersondp
Categories: University of Colorado
More on CSU hoops and the 20-game home winning streak
My commentary on CSU forward Pierce Hornung, the senior from Ralston Valley High in Arvada, is in the Monday paper and here. It was written in the wake of a Saturday visit to Fort Collins for the Rams’ 80-55 victory over Division II Adams State of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, a space and time filler on the CSU schedule that drew a surprisingly decent announced crowd of 3,669 at Moby Gym, with most students still gone during the Christmas break.
Additional observations: Read more…
Colorado Thunderbirds alumni in North America (updated)
Our DU hockey/Colorado Thunderbirds story is being held for Friday, Nov. 16, to help advance the Gold Pan series (Denver at Colorado College Nov. 16; Colorado College at Denver Nov. 17). We will link that story here when it runs.
Here’s what we know. The Frank Serratore-founded Thunderbirds, who primarily operate out of Big Bear Ice Arena in Aurora, are producing Division I (and major-junior) talent throughout North America. The DU Pioneers have benefited the most, but Air Force is in the loop and CC is catching on. The following unedited information was provided by the Colorado Thunderbirds.
THUNDERBIRDS ALUMNI IN PRO HOCKEY:
Air Force’s Frank Serratore, America’s most passionate hockey coach, at his finest
If you love hockey and can afford 11 minutes of your life, watch the video above and enjoy the best of Air Force coach Frank Serratore.
Hey, I’ve been doing this for 17-some years, covered the Stanley Cup Finals and three NCAA title-game runs, but nothing is more enjoyable than to talk to Frank over the phone or after a game. He has an analogy for everything, and they’re all beauties. He is so down to earth, always accommodating, always hilarious and never rude.
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Categories: Air Force Academy, Hockey
DU’s Brittain and Olkinuora to start in Gold Pan series vs. CC Tigers
DU goalies Sam Brittain and Juho Olkinuora will trade starts in this weekend’s home-and-home Gold Pan series with Colorado College. Pioneers coach George Gwozdecky declined to identify Friday’s starter in Colorado Springs, but ruled out Adam Murray, who has another groin injury and is out indefinitely. Brittain (2-1, .922), a junior, and the sophomore Olkinuora (2-0, .943) are considered one of the country’s top goaltending tandems.
Meanwhile, sophomore forward Larkin Jacobson (team suspension) remains out indefinitely and freshman defenseman Nolan Zajac (lower-body injury) is probable Friday. Zajac, a super playmaker from the back end, missed Saturday’s 3-2 series-sweeping victory at Minnesota State for precautionary reasons. He is tied for third on the team with eight points (two goals).
Look for what is shaping up to be a big story in Friday’s paper and online about the DU recruiting pipeline from the Colorado Thunderbirds, the state’s top triple-A program. All seven of the DU players from Colorado are on scholarship and played for the T-Birds, and there is more on the way. CC is expecting three former T-Birds within the next two years, and there is more than 50 T-Birds alumni playing across North American in Division I, the Canadian Hockey League, Division III and junior-A.
Keep tabs with Mike Chambers on Twitter: @MChambersDP
Read more of Mike Chambers at All Things Avs.
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Categories: Colorado College, Hockey, University of Denver
“Homeless” DU hockey team picked third in its final season in the WCHA; Air Force top pick in AHA
Because of next Tuesday’s presidential debate at Magness Arena, DU has evacuated its Murray Armstrong Hockey Complex (locker room, lounge, etc.) and is practicing at Joy Burns Arena on the Pioneers’ campus and using the Avalanche facility at Family Sports Center in Centennial.
The Secret Service owns Magness Arena right now, and will continue to do so until after the Pioneers’ Oct. 6 exhibition game against British Columbia at the Pepsi Center.
Meanwhile, the rebuilding Pioneers were picked to finish third by the media in the final year of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association as we know it.
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Categories: Air Force Academy, Colorado College, Hockey, University of Denver
September 19, 2012, 10:44 am
Colorado’s Jon Embree only second-year coach who’s 0-3
Everyone always compares first-year coaches and their progress. How about we check up on second-year coaches? For Colorado, as you can imagine, it isn’t pretty.
Jon Embree is one of 21 coaches in their second year at their school. He is the only one who’s 0-3. Think he had a tough rebuilding project? How about Minnesota’s Jerry Kill? The Gophers were picked 11th in the Big Ten, only ahead of Indiana, and are 3-0. OK, they won at UNLV and at home against New Hampshire, an FCS school, and Western Michigan.
But doesn’t that compare to Colorado State, Sacramento State and Fresno State?
Categories: Football, Pac-12, University of Colorado
Sacramento State have anybody in NFL with Broncos’ release of Lonnie Paxton?
It appeared that the Hornets’ streak of havling at least one alumnus in the NFL might end when the Denver Broncos released snapper Lonnie Paxton.
But that streak was maintained when the Minnesota Vikings released veteran Sage Rosenfels and kept Sacramento State product McLeod Bethel-Thompson as the Vikings’ third quarterback.
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Home / Music / COMPETITION TIME - Jimi Hendrix DVD and CD 'Hear My Train a Comin'
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Written by Tim McGlashan
Do you like Jimi Hendrix? Of course you do! Do you like competitions? Who the hell doesn't? Well we have something which is going to tickle your fancy more than.....well......something fancy tickling!
Ladies and Gents we have for you; TWO COPIES of Jimi Hendrix's 'Hear My Train a Comin' DVD and the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Miami Pop Festival, which is available for the first time ever on CD to give-away to two lucky UK winners (SORRY REST OF THE WORLD!)
If you are a frequent reader of our articles here on BounceSIN then first of all thank you; but secondly, you might have noticed our article written by our fabulous Heavy Metal loving softy; Mark Wiglesworth, a few weeks ago where he summed up this DVD as having 'the potential to be the most heart-breaking and poignant documentary of the year'; and the CD is pretty fucking awesome as well.
This CD is the first ever release of one of the guitar virtuoso's most sought after performances, as originally recorded on site by Hendrix's long term sound engineer, Eddie Kramer! IT'S A BIG FUCKING DEAL. It introduces the first recorded stage performances of "Hear My Train A Comin'" and "Tax Free" while showcasing definitive live takes on such classics as "Fire," "Hey Joe," "I Don't Live Today" and "Purple Haze."
The DVD documentary unveils previously unseen performance footage and home movies taken by Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell while sourcing an extensive archive of photographs, drawings, family letters and more to provide new insight into the musician's personality and genius.
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SSEP Mission 3 Falcon I Payload of Experiments Now En Route to ISS Aboard Cygnus Vehicle
Published on September 19, 2013 by Jeff Goldstein in News, Program News
At 10:58 am ET yesterday we watched the successful launch of Orb-D1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, Virginia. SSEP delegations from Russell County, Virginia; Howard County, Maryland; San Marino, California; and NCESSE were on hand.
Aboard the Cygnus spacecraft is the Falcon I payload of student experiments for SSEP Mission 3 to the International Space Station. Rendezvous with the International Space Station, followed by capture and berthing, is scheduled for early Sunday, September 22. Capture is scheduled for 7:17 am ET. NASA TV live coverage will begin 4:30 am ET. NCESSE will put up a NASA TV window via a SSEP blog post right here, and notification of the post will be sent to all subscribers of this blog (you can subscribe at the bottom of the right column).
All Falcon I student flight teams are now preparing for the start of on-orbit and ground truth operations. For student researchers to mirror on-orbit operations in their ground truth experiments – which is critical for the success of the flight experiments – details of all ISS crew interactions with the experiments need to be relayed to the student research teams in a timely manner. Details of crew interactions will be relayed from orbit to Marshall Spaceflight Center, to Johnson Space Center, to NanoRacks, and then to the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE). NCESSE will then post all activities in a formal a log for the student reach teams. Details of all activities on-orbit will be posted in the log within 24 hours.
Explore the SSEP Mission 3 to ISS: Experiment Log page, which became operational September 17.
Below is a NASA photograph of the launch taken in the infrared.
Description from NASA:
Antares Rocket With Cygnus Spacecraft Launches
The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard, is seen in this false color infrared image, as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. Cygnus is on its way to rendezvous with the space station. The spacecraft will deliver about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food and clothing, to the Expedition 37 crew.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Editor’s Note: This image is a false color infrared image made from a modified digital SLR camera.
NASA source file:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/antares-rocket-with-cygnus-spacecraft-launches/#.UjtaQ-3lP0P
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Battery-less chemical detector developed
Unlike many conventional chemical detectors that require an external power source, Lawrence Livermore researchers have developed a nanosensor that relies on semiconductor nanowires, rather than traditional batteries.
The device overcomes the power requirement of traditional sensors and is simple, highly sensitive and can detect various molecules quickly. Its development could be the first step in making an easily deployable chemical sensor for the battlefield.
The Lab's Yinmin "Morris" Wang and colleagues Daniel Aberg, Paul Erhart, Nipun Misra, Aleksandr Noy and Alex Hamza, along with collaborators from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, have fabricated the first-generation battery-less detectors that use one-dimensional semiconductor nanowires.
The nanosensors take advantage of a unique interaction between chemical species and semiconductor nanowire surfaces that stimulate an electrical charge between the two ends of nanowires or between the exposed and unexposed nanowires.
The group tested the battery-less sensors with different types of platforms -- zinc-oxide and silicon -- using ethanol solvent as a testing agent.
In the zinc-oxide sensor the team found there was a change in the electric voltage between the two ends of nanowires when a small amount of ethanol was placed on the detector.
"The rise of the electric signal is almost instantaneous and decays slowly as the ethanol evaporates," Wang said.
However, when the team placed a small amount of a hexane solvent on the device, little electric voltage was seen, "indicating that the nanosensor selectively responds to different types of solvent molecules," Wang said.
The team used more than 15 different types of organic solvents and saw different voltages for each solvent. "This trait makes it possible for our nanosensors to detect different types of chemical species and their concentration levels," Wang said.
The response to different solvents was somewhat similar when the team tested the silicon nanosensors. However, the voltage decay as the solvent evaporated was drastically different from the zinc-oxide sensors. "The results indicate that it is possible to extend the battery-less sensing platform to randomly aligned semiconductor nanowire systems," Wang said.
The team's next step is to test the sensors with more complex molecules such as those from explosives and biological systems.
The research appears on the inside front cover of the Jan. 4 issue of Advanced Materials.
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations) from materials provided by DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Xianying Wang, Yinmin Wang, Daniel Aberg, Paul Erhart, Nipun Misra, Aleksandr Noy, Alex V. Hamza, Junhe Yang. Batteryless Chemical Detection with Semiconductor Nanowires. Advanced Materials, 2011; 23 (1): 117 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201003221
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Center to revolutionize chemical manufacture is open for business
An EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Centre for revolutionising the way pharmaceuticals and other chemicals are made is being officially launched April 8.
The collaborative initiative involving leading academics and industrialists, led by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, is seeking quicker, more effective and more sustainable methods of manufacturing products such as medicines, foodstuffs, dyes, pigments and nanomaterials.
The research team plans to develop a better understanding of the way these products form and to improve ways to control this, using new processes for manufacturing. The chemical and pharmaceutical sectors are worth L113 billion to the UK economy annually in sales and the new national EPSRC centre will improve and accelerate the production of a broad range of products.
In particular, by delivering better control over the process of crystallisation, the research team will create new opportunities for innovation in solid chemical products such as pharmaceuticals.
The new Centre will allow leading research teams to work together to develop technologies that ensure medicines and other materials can be produced using continuous manufacturing approaches, rather than using traditional batch methods. A key aspect to this is developing crystallisation technologies that deliver better control than is currently possible. In addition to the more efficient use of materials and resources, these techniques offer the opportunity to reduce running costs by up to 60% and energy requirements by up to 70%.
Strathclyde is leading the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation, which also involves the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Loughborough. Substantial support is also being provided by industry partners that include GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Fujifilm, British Salt, Croda International plc, Genzyme Ltd, NiTech Solutions, Phoenix Chemicals and Solid Form Solutions Ltd.
Professor Alastair Florence, of the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, is Director of the new Centre. He said: "We are delighted to be establishing this new EPSRC Centre that brings together leading academic expertise in crystallisation, analysis, chemistry, formulation and manufacturing from across the UK.
"This unique national Centre will provide a focus for early stage engineering and physical sciences research that will ultimately feed through directly to the activities of Technology and Innovation Centres and industry, making a radical and much-needed impact on the production of many different high-value products. By working together in this way, the UK research community will contribute to the competitiveness of companies across a variety of important sectors including pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, dyes & pigments, energy, food and drink.
"We will carry out an innovative programme of research and, by close engagement with our industrial colleagues, ensure that the exciting new research programme is targeted to areas of real national need. In this way, for example, the research carried out with the support of this award will benefit patients through better medicines, produced more efficiently, at lower cost and more sustainably.
"In addition to improving the way drug substances are produced, work within the Centre will also explore alternative approaches to manufacturing the medicines in which drugs are delivered to patients. This could include alternatives to the traditional tablet that are also safe and effective but are more straightforward to make. Whilst we have a significant focus around pharmaceuticals, we have many different chemical sectors involved in the Centre, which will ensure the broad exploitation of the research outcomes across the chemical process industries."
The Centre is part of a L51 million investment by EPSRC in nine new centres officially launched April 8, through the UK-wide EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing programme. It has received a grant of L4.9 million from the programme and support worth a total of L1.8 million is also being contributed by industry, with a further L1 million coming from the universities to establish a new partnership between universities, industry and the public sector in this area.
It follows the launch of the L89 million Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at Strathclyde, a world-leading centre for transforming the way universities, business and industry collaborate to bring global competitive advantage to Scotland. The TIC and the new EPSRC centre will work in parallel, forging greater collaboration between academic researchers and industry.
The Centre for Innovative Manufacturing team of researchers, from seven leading UK universities and a range of industrial partners, harnesses skills and expertise in chemistry, chemical engineering, crystallisation, pharmaceutical sciences, manufacturing and operations management.
The group will:
Establish a World Class Research Centre to improve manufacturing performance in the UK process industriesStimulate innovation and commercialisation of new technologies, particularly through SMEs and startup companiesEngage with global companies across a range of sectorsDevelop international research and development networks
The EPSRC Centre will also play an important role in training the scientists of the future in an international centre of excellence.
The partners in the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing project plan to secure further funding from a range of sources to grow the Centre and extend its activity beyond the initial five-year funding period. This builds on other recent success in this area for the collaborating universities- a grant from the Scottish Funding Council Horizon fund (SPIRIT), made in 2010, established an initial cohort of nine PhD students, three at Strathclyde.
Strathclyde has also invested a further L500,000 in a new multidisciplinary continuous processing lab, due to open this summer, and will bring together existing teams at the University and house a suite of state-of-the-art reactor devices for continuous manufacturing and crystallisation.
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations) from materials provided by University of Strathclyde, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
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Are we only a hop, skip and jump away from controlled molecular motion?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2011) — Scientists may very well be a hop, skip and jump away from controlled molecular motion, according to a study in this month's Nature Chemistry.
Controlling how molecules move on surfaces could be the key to more potent drugs that block the attachment of viruses to cells, and will also speed development of new materials for electronics and energy applications. The study is the culmination of a EU-funded collaboration between Tyndall National Institute, UCC researcher Dr. Damien Thompson and colleagues at University of Twente in the Netherlands. Dr. Thompson performed computer simulations that enabled a greater understanding of how two-legged molecules move along patterned surfaces, in a kind of molecular hopscotch.
Widespread industrial uptake of nanotechnology requires cheap, easy and robust solutions that allow manipulation of matter at the smallest scales and so a key enabling feature will be the ability to move material around molecule by molecule. One of the major difficulties is the very different physics that operates at the scale of atoms and molecules; water, for example, feels more like treacle to a molecule, and molecules tend to huddle and stick together due to microscopic forces between their atoms. Dr. Thompson explains: "The experiments performed by the group at Twente were very elegant. They involved making two-legged molecules and using a fluorescence microscope to watch how they move along a wet surface. The molecules are hydrophobic, meaning they don't like water, and the surface was pockmarked with hydrophobic cavities so a weak glueing interaction, based on a mutual dislike of water, drives the interaction between the molecules and the surface.
While the energetics of this type of interaction was worked out over a decade ago by George Whitesides's group at Harvard, it's usefulness for materials development was limited because little was known until now on the paths that the molecules take."
Because the molecules have multiple legs, they display a surprisingly rich behaviour at the surface, beyond simply attaching/detaching, with Dr. Thompson's computer simulations complementing the experiments and showing the different mechanisms by which the molecules move. The motion switches from walking to hopping to flying, as the environment changes.
Dr. Thompson continues: "Access to high performance computing facilities enabled us to model the different pathways and aid interpretation of the microscopy results. We ran most of the simulations on our own Science Foundation Ireland-supported computing clusters at Tyndall, and also did a few larger-scale calculations at the Irish Center for High End Computing. It's an exciting time for research as experiments and simulations are finally on the same page; the experiments can finally drill down far enough to see molecule-scale features while advances in computing mean we can routinely model systems composed of hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of atoms."
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by Tyndall National Institute, via AlphaGalileo.
András Perl, Alberto Gomez-Casado, Damien Thompson, Henk H. Dam, Pascal Jonkheijm, David N. Reinhoudt, Jurriaan Huskens. Gradient-driven motion of multivalent ligand molecules along a surface functionalized with multiple receptors. Nature Chemistry, 2011; 3 (4): 317 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1005
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Tags: controlled, molecular, motion
'Green energy' advance: Tandem catalysis in nanocrystal interfaces
In a development that holds intriguing possibilities for the future of industrial catalysis, as well as for such promising clean green energy technologies as artificial photosynthesis, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created bilayered nanocrystals of a metal-metal oxide that are the first to feature multiple catalytic sites on nanocrystal interfaces. These multiple catalytic sites allow for multiple, sequential catalytic reactions to be carried out selectively and in tandem.
"The demonstration of rationally designed and assembled nanocrystal bilayers with multiple built-in metal-metal oxide interfaces for tandem catalysis represents a powerful new approach towards designing high-performance, multifunctional nanostructured catalysts for multiple-step chemical reactions," says the leader of this research Peidong Yang, a chemist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, and the University of California Berkeley's Chemistry Department and Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Yang is the corresponding author of a paper describing this research that appears in the journal Nature Chemistry. Co-authoring the paper were Yusuke Yamada, Chia-Kuang Tsung, Wenyu Huang, Ziyang Huo, Susan Habas, Tetsuro Soejima, Cesar Aliaga and leading authority on catalysis Gabor Somorjai.
Catalysts -- substances that speed up the rates of chemical reactions without themselves being chemically changed -- are used to initiate virtually every industrial manufacturing process that involves chemistry. Metal catalysts have been the traditional workhorses, but in recent years, with the advent of nano-sized catalysts, metal,oxide and their interface have surged in importance.
"High-performance metal-oxide nanocatalysts are central to the development of new-generation energy conversion and storage technologies," Yang says. "However, to significantly improve our capability of designing better catalysts, new concepts for the rational design and assembly of metal-metal oxide interfaces are needed."
Studies in recent years have shown that for nanocrystals, the size and shape -- specifically surface faceting with well-defined atomic arrangements -- can have an enormous impact on catalytic properties. This makes it easier to optimize nanocrystal catalysts for activity and selectivity than bulk-sized catalysts. Shape- and size-controlled metal oxide nanocrystal catalysts have shown particular promise.
"It is well-known that catalysis can be modulated by using different metal oxide supports, or metal oxide supports with different crystal surfaces," Yang says. "Precise selection and control of metal-metal oxide interfaces in nanocrystals should therefore yield better activity and selectivity for a desired reaction."
To determine whether the integration of two types of metal oxide interfaces on the surface of a single active metal nanocrystal could yield a novel tandem catalyst for multistep reactions, Yang and his coauthors used the Lamgnuir-Blodgett assembly technique to deposit nanocube monolayers of platinum and cerium oxide on a silica (silicon dioxide) substrate. The nanocube layers were each less than 10 nanometers thick and stacked one on top of the other to create two distinct metal-metal oxide interfaces -- platinum-silica and cerium oxide-platinum. These two interfaces were then used to catalyze two separate and sequential reactions. First, the cerium oxide-platinum interface catalyzed methanol to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. These products then underwent ethylene hydroformylation through a reaction catalyzed by the platinum-silica interface. The final result of this tandem catalysis was propanal.
"The cubic shape of the nanocrystal layers is ideal for assembling metal-metal oxide interfaces with large contact areas," Yang says. "Integrating binary nanocrystals to form highly ordered superlattices is a new and highly effective way to form multiple interfaces with new functionalities."
Yang says that the concept of tandem catalysis through multiple interface design that he and his co-authors have developed should be especially valuable for applications in which multiple sequential reactions are required to produce chemicals in a highly active and selective manner. A prime example is artificial photosynthesis, the effort to capture energy from the sun and transform it into electricity or chemical fuels. To this end, Yang leads the Berkeley component of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a new Energy Innovation Hub created by the U.S. Department of Energy that partners Berkeley Lab with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
"Artificial photosynthesis typically involves multiple chemical reactions in a sequential manner, including, for example, water reduction and oxidation, and carbon dioxide reduction," says Yang. "Our tandem catalysis approach should also be relevant to photoelectrochemical reactions, such as solar water splitting, again where sequential, multiple reaction steps are necessary. For this, however, we will need to explore new metal oxide or other semiconductor supports, such as titanium dioxide, in our catalyst design."
This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations ) from materials provided by DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Yusuke Yamada, Chia-Kuang Tsung, Wenyu Huang, Ziyang Huo, Susan E. Habas, Tetsuro Soejima, Cesar E Aliaga, Gabor A. Somorjai, Peidong Yang. Nanocrystal bilayer for tandem catalysis. Nature Chemistry, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1018
Tags: advance, catalysis, energy, Green, interfaces, Nanocrystal, Tandem
Genentech Says Experimental Cancer Combo is Safe
Genentech this week unveiled promising results from a Phase I study suggesting it is possible to safely combine two cancer drug candidates, its MEK inhibitor GDC0973 and its PI3K inhibitor GDC0941. In addition to a relatively clean safety profile, there were also early signs that the combination is combating cancer.
Genentech is one of several companies running a trial to test the safety of combining inhibitors of the lipid kinase PI3K, part of the PI3K/AKT/mTor pathway, and drugs blocking the protein kinase MEK, part of the KRas/MAP signalling pathway. As we discuss in our upcoming April 11th cover story on PI3K inhibitors, the rationale for knocking down both pathways is compelling: both are considered to be crucial in cancer cells’ survival, and blocking only one pathway has more often than not proven ineffective.
As Robert Abraham, CSO of Pfizer’s oncology research unit, explains in Monday’s story:
“KRas mutations are associated with many of the deadliest cancers,” including colorectal and pancreatic, Pfizer’s Abraham says. Yet they are incredibly resistant to conventional chemotherapy, and based on preclinical studies of the mutations, are expected to be resistant to the new batch of mTor/PI3K inhibitors as well, he adds. The working hypothesis is that knocking out two of the major drivers of cancer—the KRas and PI3K pathways—could have a significant effect on the most recalcitrant tumors.
To date, there are at least six Phase I trials planned or ongoing that combine MEK inhibitors with compounds that block some aspect of the mTor/PI3K pathway. Merck and AstraZeneca made headlines in 2009 when they said they would partner to test Merck’s AKT inhibitor with AstraZeneca’s MEK inhibitor. Sanofi-Aventis has meanwhile teamed with Merck Serono to explore the potential of combining two of its PI3K inhibitors in combination with Merck Serono’s MEK inhibitor. GlaxoSmithKline has two of its own drugs in a combination trial, and its MEK inhibitor GSK1120212 is also being tested in combination with Novartis’ PI3K inhibitor BKM120. And while Pfizer has yet to initiate such a study, Abraham said the company is “keeping two eyes on that combination.”
Tags: cancer, Combo, experimental, Genentech
Bummer SNP doesn’t mix with beer for gastric cancer risk
A study from led by investigators at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in Barcelona has revealed that high consumption of beer combined with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the alcohol dehydrogenase gene is associated with a nearly nine-fold increased risk of gastric cancer.
Thanks to the lovely folks in the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) press office who recognize science bloggers as press, I was able to sit in on a press conference this morning at the AACR annual meeting in Orlando where several studies were discussed on genetic and environmental factors in cancer risk.
Lead author of this particular study, cancer epidemiologist Eric Duell, Ph.D., presented a study of Europeans on alcohol consumption and risk of gastric cancer due to SNPs in the alcohol dehydrogenase gene, ADH1. Recall from biochemistry that ADH1 and other ADH forms catalyze the rate-limiting step in the ethyl alcohol oxidation to acetaldehyde, a known carcinogen. Acetaldehyde, in turn, is oxidized to acetate by aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs).
This is an impressive retrospective analysis. The study data was culled the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), a study of 521,000 individuals aged 35 to 50 who completed diet and alcohol use questionnaires at 23 centers across 10 European countries between 1992 and 1998. A subset, or nested-study, called EurGast examined environmental factors and genetic susceptibility to gastric cancer in 364 cases relative to 1272 controls.
When examined as a pool only one SNP was associated with a modest, 30% increased risk for gastric cancer. Combining this SNP with alcohol consumption data revealed that 60 g EtOH/day increased risk by 75%. (Sixty grams of ethanol per day is the amount present in approximately four 12 oz beers at 5% alcohol by volume, four 5 oz glasses of wine at 12% ABV, or four 1oz shots of 100 proof liquor.)
However, the subanalysis of that SNP stratified for alcohol consumption and type of alcohol revealed the big surprise. Consumption as beer, but not wine or liquor, combined with this SNP at both alleles was associated with increased gastric cancer risk of 8.72-fold in this high consumption group (just one allele increased risk by only 33%). This SNP in the ADH1 gene, rs1230025, is an intergenic T›A polymorphism, neither in the promoter or the coding region of the gene.
The influence of this SNP has only been evaluated in one study where it was shown to be associated with a lower breath alcohol concentration – and presumably higher acetaldehyde concentration, although not explicitly measured – at late timepoints when normal volunteers are given a challenge of 0.75 g/kg of ethanol.
But why is beer the only alcoholic beverage with this increased gastric cancer risk in the background of this particular SNP? Alcohol is alcohol, right? I asked Duell about this point because he said that beer has low levels of nitrosamines, the liver and stomach procarcinogens. However, nitrosamines are not activated to their proximal carcinogenic species by ADHs but rather by the cytochrome P450 CYP2E1 (incidentally, the same CYP that oxidizes ethyl alcohol at high concentrations. Duell also noted that the levels of nitrosamines are much lower in beer today than earlier in the lifetime of the participants.
Instead, Duell said he was interested in “what [were] they eating when they were drinking beer.” I find this aspect fascinating but can’t quite figure what other dietary carcinogen people would be eating that was influenced by this particular ADH genotype. I’m also interested to know the carcinogenic potential of other alcohols metabolized by ADH that may be present in beer but not wine or liquor. All sorts of lovely organics are made by yeast depending on the strain used, the specific grains, pH, oxygenation, and other metabolic substrates.
Since subjects evaluated in this work spanned 10 countries, incoming AACR president Judy Garber, MD, asked Duell if the cases could be analyzed by nationality. Unfortunately, Duell said, the study would lose the power necessary to see differences in these smaller subgroups.
So what do these data mean to alcohol consumers? Well, first, drinking ethyl alcohol at 60g or greater per day has many other health risks besides gastric cancer, regardless of which ADH SNPs one might have. (Indeed, there may have been some conference attendees who I saw last night drinking with this degree of enthusiasm.).
However, this particular SNP is really, really bad news. I’m hard-pressed to think of any environmental factor besides smoking that causes a nine-fold increase in risk of any cancer. I’d definitely suggest to the consumer genomics company 23andMe that they add this SNP to their screen. Individuals choosing to drink alcoholic beverages may wish to know if they carry one or both of these ADH1 alleles.
But which alcoholic beverage? Beer is clearly a bad mix if you have both alleles of rs1230025. I’m sure that the European brewing community is none too pleased with Dr. Duell’s group.
However, the team may indeed be the toast of the wine and liquor industries.
Tags: Bummer, cancer, doesnt, gastric
Creating better protective clothing for firefighters
A University of Alberta professor has been developing a model for protective clothing that may make firefighters’ jobs safer.
Current testing methods and standards of protective clothing systems for firefighters don’t take into account stored thermal energy, which can sometimes leads to second-degree burns, says protective clothing expert Guowen Song of the Department of Human Ecology.
His research sought to understand the phenomenon, measure it and incorporate it into a standard in order to predict as precisely as possible the performance of a clothing system and give a true textile protective performance, or TPP, value.
“Normally, people using a regular approach to testing the clothing’s performance ignore thermal stored energy,” he explains. “They assume they’re predicting clothing performance but they’re actually not.”
While conducting his research, Song noticed energy was released when protective clothes were cooling after having been in a very hot environment.
“[The energy released] was huge,” he says, “especially for the thicker layered systems, like those worn by firefighters.”
He adds that when the contribution of stored energy is considered, the performance of the clothing system is much lower than had been assumed from the TPP value.
For example, the National Firefighters Protection Association has set a fundamental requirement that protective clothing for firefighters has a minimum TPP value of 35, which means the clothes can protect a person engulfed in a fire for 17.5 seconds. However, if you add the stored thermal energy variable to the equation, that time is reduced to about 12 seconds.
“It significantly changes the results,” concludes Song. “The thermal stored energy can release to the human skin even after exposure. That’s why people feel like they got burned or injured after the accident or incident. That’s why burns sometimes occur later when they rest, take off their clothing and suddenly feel pain. That’s the contribution from the thermal stored energy.”
Song is working with the American Society for Testing and Materials to incorporate his findings into the voluntary standards established by the society and lead to better and more efficient protective clothing systems for firefighters.
Provided by University of Alberta (news : web)
Tags: better, clothing, creating, firefighters, protective
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Pick the Plot (Story Thieves #4)
by James Riley
Readers choose what happens when Owen finds himself stuck in a Pick Your Own Plot story, in this fourth book in the New York Timesbestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
Being able to jump into books used to seem like the greatest thing in the world to Owen Conners. But now Owen’s trapped in a time travel book where readers—that would be you—decide how the story goes.
As if that weren’t enough, Owen’s also stuck in a prison for time criminals in a prehistoric era. He’s surrounded by bizarre fellow prisoners, including Kara Dox. How does Kara recognize Owen if they’ve never met before? She seems to think they’re old friends, but that can’t be possible. Still, Kara might just be the only chance Owen has to escape. And he has to find a way out to save his friend Bethany, who’s still in grave danger. Because unless Owen can stop him, Nobody is going to split Bethany into two, separating the fictional and nonfictional worlds forever.
Will Owen be able to convince you, the reader, to help him find his way back to Bethany? Or will you feed him to dinosaurs just to teach him a lesson? It’s all up to you when you Pick the Plot.
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Secret Origins (Story Thieves #3)
Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. But they didn’t make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world.
Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there’s nothing left but the Dark. Even the villains are terrified of the Dark’s shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark.
But who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They’ll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark.
It all comes back to Bethany’s own secret origins. What really happened when her fictional father disappeared years ago? Who is Nobody, and why is he writing these Story Thieves books? And what kind of supervillain name is The Rotten Banana?
The Stolen Chapters (Story Thieves #2)
Owen, Kiel, and Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, and some very familiar faces in the second book in the New York Timesbestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
Owen Conners’s whole life changed the day he found out his classmate Bethany was half-fictional, and could take him into any book in the library. Which story would they jump into next? Another fantasy, like the Kiel Gnomenfoot, Magic Thief books? Maybe something with superheroes? Owen’s up for anything except mysteries—those just have too many hidden clues, twists that make no sense, and an ending you never see coming.
Then Owen wakes up in a real-life mystery with a memory that’s been erased and too many questions. How did Kiel Gnomenfoot lose all of his magic? Where is Bethany? And who’s the annoying guy wearing the question mark mask and Sherlock Holmes hat, taunting Owen and Kiel that Bethany is in grave danger?
Bethany is trapped in a hidden room that’s slowly filling with water, and she can’t escape until her friends find her. But is she imprisoned by more than just chains and a locked door? What’s she hiding from Owen and Kiel?
Maybe some mysteries just shouldn’t be solved…
Please note: The black bars in the first nine chapters are intended.
Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1)
This “clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is the first in the New York Times bestselling series from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.
But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen—his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.
Bethany can’t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen’s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he’ll never say a word. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father…
…Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany’s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot’s final (very final) adventure.
The Apprentice Witch (The Apprentice Witch #1)
by James Nicol
A special middle grade debut of magic and courage in a world of witches, written with the charm and enchantment of Circus Mirandus and The Apothecary.
Arianwyn has flunked her witch's assessment: She's doomed. Declared an apprentice and sent to the town of Lull in disgrace, she may never become a real witch-- much to the glee of her arch-rival, Gimma.
But remote Lull is not as boring as it seems. Strange things are sighted in the woods, a dangerous infestation of hex creeps throughout the town, and a mysterious magical visitor arrives with his eye on her.
With every spirit banished, creature helped, and spell cast, Arianwyn starts to get the hang of being a witch--even if she's only an apprentice. But the worst still lies ahead. For a sinister darkness has begun to haunt her spells, and there may be much more at stake than just her pride . . . for Arianwyn and the entire land.
The President Is Missing: A Novel (International Edition)
by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 Indie Bestseller
"President Duncan for a second term!" --USA Today
"This book's a big one." --New York Times
"Towers above most political thrillers." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The plotting is immaculate . . . the writing is taut." --Sunday Times (London)
"Ambitious and wildly readable." --New York Times Book Review
The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view . . .
Set over the course of three days, The President Is Missing sheds a stunning light upon the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic, terrifying novel to come along in many years.
Darth Plagueis: Star Wars Legends
by James Luceno
A tale of two Sith: At long last, the story of the mysterious Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis, and his apprentice, Darth Sidious, is revealed!
At long last, the Star Wars story of the mysterious Sith Lord Darth Plagueis and his apprentice, Darth Sidious, is revealed!
“The best Star Wars publication to date . . . [James] Luceno takes Darth Plagueis down the dark path and never looks back.”—Newsday
Darth Plagueis: Like all Sith Lords before him, he craves absolute power. But like no Sith Lord ever, he possesses the ultimate power—over life and death.
Darth Sidious: In secret he masters the power of the dark side, while publicly climbing to the highest government office.
One desires to rule supreme; the other dreams of living forever. Together, they will destroy the Jedi and rule the galaxy. Unless merciless Sith tradition becomes their undoing. . . .
“Luceno draws on his storytelling skill and prodigious knowledge of the [Star Wars] world . . . to craft a complex tale of ambition and desire.”—Library Journal
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
by Marlon James
"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman
"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.
Space Atlas, Second Edition: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
by James Trefil
Space Atlas combines updated maps, lavish photographs, and elegant illustrations to chart the solar system, the universe, and beyond. For space enthusiasts, science lovers, and star gazers, here is the newly revised edition of National Geographic's enduring guide to space, with a new introduction by American hero Buzz Aldrin.
In this guided tour of our planetary neighborhood, the Milky Way and other galaxies, and beyond, detailed maps and fascinating imagery from recent space missions partner with clear, authoritative scientific information. Starting with the sun and moving outward into space, acclaimed science writer and physicist James Trefil illuminates each planet, the most important moons, significant asteroids, and other objects in our solar system. Looking beyond, he explains what we know about the Milky Way and other galaxies--and how we know it, with clear explanations of the basics of astrophysics, including dark matter and gravitational waves. For this new edition, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his moonwalk, astronaut and American hero Buzz Aldrin offers a new special section on Earth's moon and its essential role in space exploration past and future.
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
by Lauren James
A surprising and gripping sci-fi thriller with a killer twist
The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents’ tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth.
Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she can’t help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when NASA alerts her that another ship, the Eternity, will be joining the Infinity.
Romy begins exchanging messages with J, the captain of the Eternity, and their friendship breathes new life into her world. But as the Eternity gets closer, Romy learns there’s more to J’s mission than she could have imagined. And suddenly, there are worse things than being alone….
Now nominated as a YALSA Quick Pick!
Batman - Detective Comics Vol. 6: Fall of the Batmen
by James Tynion IV
Red Robin has returned, resuming his work in Gotham City as well as his romance with Stephanie Brown, the Spoiler. These two, along with Batwoman, Clayface, Batwing, Azrael and Orphan, help Batman reduce the threat of crime to the citizenry.
But their success comes with a horrible price.
The First Victim and his Victim Syndicate want one thing: to make Batman pay. They have turned the whole city against the Batmen in protest, abducted Clayface and threatened to release all of Arkham Asylum's most dangerous villains if Batman doesn't unmask on live television.
Everything Red Robin has built to ensure a new future for the team could crumble if the Victim Syndicate triumphs...or if one member of the team makes a detrimental decision that could tear them apart.
Plus, a full-length look at Basil Karlo's tortured life, from being the son of a distant man-of-a-thousand-faces father to the accident that turned the rising celebrity into the shape-changing Clayface.
From writer James Tynion IV (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and a spectacular art team including Philippe Briones (Aquaman) and Eddy Barrows (Nightwing) comes the newest volume of Detective Comics! Collects issues #969-974 and Annual #1.
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 5: A Lonely Place of Living (Rebirth)
For months, Batman has been haunted by the death of Tim Drake, the young hero who fought beside him as Red Robin. Tim helped Batman assemble a team of heroes and misfits to help him keep Gotham safe, then fell in battle defending the city. Or so it seemed.
In reality, Tim has been held captive, snatched from the moment of death by the mysterious Mr. Oz. Now he must escape this prison that exists outside of time, but he isn't coming back alone. Tim has every reason to trust his fellow prisoner, but when his new ally proves he's not afraid to kill, Tim begins to doubt everything he thought he knew! When the duo make their way back to Gotham City, Tim's escape partner sets a plan in motion to murder one of Batman's allies. Even reunited with Red Robin, can Batman and his team of heroes protect one of their own from a killer who knows them better than they know themselves? Writer James Tynion IV (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and artists Eddy Barrows, Alvaro Martinez and Carmen Carnero continue the acclaimed run on Batman: Detective Comics. Collects Detective Comics#963-968.
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 4: Deus Ex Machina (Rebirth)
The Dark Knight teams with his fellow Gotham City vigilantes to protect their hometown in the newest volume of this hit graphic novel series -- BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 4!
Batman’s team of vigilantes has ghosts in their pasts. And now they have come to roost.
When Batman formed a team of fellow vigilantes to help him combat evil in Gotham City, he did it partially to protect his allies from the enemies targeting them. But being on a team makes for more targets, and sometimes the ghosts of your past can become everyone’s problem.
Azrael was raised to be the perfect assassin by the mysterious Order of St. Dumas...before he rebelled. But when the Order decides to create a more perfect assassin, Azrael and the entire team find themselves in the crosshairs of the deadly A.I. known as Ascalon.
This kind of magic and mysticism was part of Bruce Wayne’s training when he became Batman. And to save his friends, Bruce will seek the most powerful magical artifact that ever existed. The God Machine can give its bearer any knowledge, answer any question...but in the hands of the World’s Greatest Detective, could it be even more dangerous than Ascalon?
Continuing the critically acclaimed new direction spinning out of DC Rebirth, from writer James Tynion IV (DARK DAYS: THE FORGE) and artist Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN AND ROBIN ETERNAL), this volume collects DETECTIVE COMICS #957-962.
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 7: Batmen Eternal
They were the greatest team of crime-fighters Gotham City has ever known. Now that team has been shattered.
Clayface is dead, killed by Batwoman after his path to redemption led to disaster. The Bat-Family--Nightwing, Red Robin, Batgirl, the Red Hood, Robin and the Dark Knight himself--must decide what to do about their prodigal partner.
But Batwoman has been offered control of an army, with Batwing and Azrael following in her footsteps. Now these two rival forces are at each other's throats. As the family feud between cousins Bruce Wayne and Kate Kane threatens to tear Gotham City apart, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown are caught in the crossfire.
And behind it all, a sinister cybernetic force is at work to transform Red Robin into the ultimate weapon, and therefore lock Gotham into its worst possible future.
To reunite his team and save his city, Batman must trust all those who wear the emblem of the Bat. Because fight or fall, they'll all do so together.
Featuring the art of Javier Fernandez, Eddy Barrows, Alvaro Martinez and more, writer James Tynion IV's epic saga of Batman and his allies reaches its incredible conclusion in these final chapters from Detective Comics #975-981.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1) (Export Edition)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
by James C. Collins
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.
The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:
Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.
“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1)
by James S. A. Corey
The first book in the landmark Expanse series, now a major television series.
Leviathan Wakes is James S. A. Corey's first novel in the epic, New York Timesbestselling series the Expanse, a modern masterwork of science fiction where humanity has colonized the solar system.
Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When a reluctant ship's captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Leviathan Wakes is the breakneck science fiction adventure that launched the epic bestselling Expanse series.
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate
Nemesis Games
Babylon's Ashes
Persepolis Rising
The Expanse Short Fiction
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Caliban's War (The Expanse #2)
The second novel in James S. A. Corey's SF New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .
Caliban's War is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.
Strange Dogs
Rules of the Game (Endgame #3)
by James Frey
The explosive final novel in the Endgame trilogy. Two keys have been found. The strongest Players are left. One final key remains to win Endgame and save the world.
For Sarah, Jago, Aisling, Maccabee, Shari, An, and Hilal, Endgame has reached its final phase. The third key, Sun Key, is all that stands between one Player saving their line—or perishing along with the rest of the world. And only one can win.
West Bengal, India: Maccabee is Playing to win. He has Earth Key and Sky Key and he is determined to find Sun Key. But in Endgame, fate can turn in the blink of an eye. He must Play carefully. He must watch his back.
Kolkata, India: An Liu is Playing for death. His goal: stop Endgame, and take the world down with him.
Sikkim, India: For Aisling, Sarah, Jago, Shari, and Hilal, their mission is to stop Endgame. Sun Key must not be found.
No matter what they’re Playing for, all of the remaining Players have one thing in common: they will end the game, but on their own terms.
The Last Of The Mohicans (Knickerbocker Classics)
by James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel The Last of the Mohicans is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763.
Far and away the most popular volume of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, this is the thrilling account of a bloody ambush of 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry. The story shows the ensuing kidnapping of Colonel Munro’s two daughters, as well as their daring rescue by frontiersman Natty Bumppo, British soldier Duncan Heyward, and the last two members of the Mohican tribe.
Exhilarating and horrifying, this vivid portrayal of life and death on the American frontier is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.
Final Girls: A Novel (Export Edition)
by Riley Sager
An intense and imaginative horror story, Final Girls follows the lone survivor of a massacre, who must reclaim her locked-away memories when faced with another threat ten years later.
THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The first great thriller of 2017 is here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet.
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
That is until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit; and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 3: League of Shadows (Rebirth)
Batman's team of vigilantes continues to protect Gotham City in the next volume of the best-selling series -- BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 3: LEAGUE OF SHADOWS!
The sweeping new chapter in writer James Tynion IV’s acclaimed saga—featuring a league of talented artists including Marcio Takara (THE FLASH) and Christian Duce (BATMAN AND ROBIN ETERNAL)—is here, in BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 3: LEAGUE OF SHADOWS.
Batwoman, an accomplished crime-fighter who’s overcome the darkest of betrayals. Clayface, a reformed villain whose potential is eclipsed only by his astonishing powers. New heroes like Azrael, an avenging angel, and Batwing, whose incredible armor makes him a true dark knight. Led by the Batman himself, this team of guardians stands ready to protect Gotham City.
But the secrets of the team’s most mysterious member, Cassandra Cain, are about to come to light. And that light will cast a shadow darker than anything they’ve ever seen before.
They thought the League of Shadows was just a rumor—a secret society of nihilistic killers often whispered about but never seen. But now the League is here, in Gotham. They’re destroying Batman’s team one by one. And their sinister leader, Lady Shiva, has come to reclaim her daughter—or destroy her.
Can even Batman’s arch-enemy Ra’s al Ghul and his League of Assassins stop the onslaught? Or have the Shadows come to stay?
Find out in BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 3: LEAGUE OF SHADOWS.
Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #950-956.
Batman: Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1
DETECTIVE COMICS is now in hardcover with this Deluxe Edition of Vol. 1 & 2 by writer James Tynion IV (BATMAN/TMNT) with artist Eddy Barrows (MARTIAN MANHUNTER) and Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN ETERNAL)!
Someone is targeting Batman’s allies in Gotham—young and untested heroes who model themselves after the Dark Knight but don’t yet have his training or resources. With the help of Batwoman, the Caped Crusader recruits these young vigilantes, training them to be a team worthy of Gotham’s biggest threats.
Red Robin, Spoiler, Orphan and Clayface are the first heroes to get recruited. But can a team inspired by Batman and trained by Batwoman take on an entire anti-vigilante army? Or will Batman’s vision of a team of Bat-Heroes go down in flames?
Called “The single strongest book of DC’s Rebirth era” by Newsarama, DETECTIVE COMICS features acclaimed writer James Tynion IV (DARK DAYS: THE FORGE) and artists Eddy Barrows (JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA), Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN AND ROBIN ETERNAL) and more. Collects the first two paperback volumes of the critically acclaimed series, issues #934-949.
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 2: The Victim Syndicate (Rebirth)
DETECTIVE COMICS continues with new series writer James Tynion IV (BATMAN/TMNT) and artist Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN ETERNAL)!
A part of DC Universe: Rebirth!
Innocent victims maimed or broken by Batman's greatest enemies band together, and they blame Batman and his fellow vigilantes for what happened to them just as much as they blame the psychopaths who hurt them. Batman and his newly trained team of allies must take on these troubled souls, but one of Batman's teammates can't help but think they might have a point...
From writer James Tynion (BATMAN/TMNT) and artist Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN ETERNAL) comes the second volume of the return of DETECTIVE COMICS! Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #943-949.
Rebirth honors the richest history in comics, while continuing to look towards the future. These are the most innovative and modern stories featuring the world's greatest superheroes, told by some of the finest storytellers in the business.
Honoring the past, protecting our present and looking towards the future. This is the next chapter in the ongoing saga of the DC Universe. The legacy continues.
Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts #1)
by Vic James
A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve—for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke
NOT ALL ARE FREE.
NOT ALL ARE EQUAL.
NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
Our world belongs to the Equals—aristocrats with magical gifts—and all commoners must serve them for ten years.
But behind the gates of England’s grandest estate lies a power that could break the world.
A girl thirsts for love and knowledge.
Abi is a servant to England’s most powerful family, but her spirit is free. So when she falls for one of their noble-born sons, Abi faces a terrible choice. Uncovering the family’s secrets might win her liberty—but will her heart pay the price?
A boy dreams of revolution.
Abi’s brother, Luke, is enslaved in a brutal factory town. Far from his family and cruelly oppressed, he makes friends whose ideals could cost him everything. Now Luke has discovered there may be a power even greater than magic: revolution.
And an aristocrat will remake the world with his dark gifts.
He is a shadow in the glittering world of the Equals, with mysterious powers no one else understands. But will he liberate—or destroy?
Praise for Gilded Cage
“Beautifully characterised and compellingly plotted, Gilded Cage is an impressive debut.”—The Guardian
“An alternate modern-day England where enticing drama and social unrest mix with aristocratic scandal and glamorous magic . . . conjuring up the specters of Les Misérables and Downton Abbey . . . an absorbing first installment that presages an intriguing new fantasy series.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Gilded Cage is a heart-pounding combination of dark magic, political revolution, and forbidden romance that had me addicted from the first page!”—Danielle L. Jensen, USA Today bestselling author of The Malediction Trilogy
“Devious and deliciously dark with lashings of magic, mystery, and mayhem, this juggernaut of a book will keep you hanging on by your fingernails until the very last page.”—Taran Matharu, New York Times bestselling author of The Summoner Trilogy
“A dark and intriguing vision of an alternate, magic-drenched Britain, Gilded Cage kept me up long into the night.”—Aliette de Bodard, author of The House of Shattered Wings
“Brisk plotting, sympathetic characters, and plenty of intrigue will keep readers on the edges of their seats, eager for the next book in a very promising series.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Rise of the Batmen (Rebirth)
DETECTIVE COMICS is back with new series writer James Tynion IV (BATMAN/TMNT) and artist Eddy Barrows (MARTIAN MANHUNTER)!
Batman and series co-star, and fan-favorite hero, Batwoman join forces to train new and familiar recruits in the fight to keep Gotham safe from an army of mysterious foes!
The Lost Property Office (Section 13 #1) (Export Edition)
by James R. Hannibal
James R. Hannibal presents a thrilling adventure through history, complete with mysteries, secret items, codes, and a touch of magic in this stunning middle grade debut.
Thirteen-year-old Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing glove or the other sock, but things normal people have long given up on ever seeing again. If only he could find his father, who has disappeared in London without a trace.
But Jack’s father was not who he claimed to be. It turns out that he was a member of a secret society of detectives that has served the crown for centuries—and membership into the Lost Property Office is Jack’s inheritance.
Now the only way Jack will ever see his father again is if he finds what the nefarious Clockmaker is after: the Ember, which holds a secret that has been kept since the Great Fire of London. Will Jack be able to find the Ember and save his father, or will his talent for finding things fall short?
The Fever Code (Maze Runner, Book Five; Prequel) (Export Edition)
by James Dashner
All your questions are answered in the fifth book in James Dashner’s #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. The story that fans all over the world have been waiting for — the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze — is finally here. You do not want to miss it.
Once there was a world’s end.
The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled.
Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man.
Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy.
The boy’s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze.
Now there are secrets.
There are lies.
And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen.
This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down.
All will be revealed.
A prequel to the worldwide Maze Runner phenomenon, The Fever Codeis the book that holds all the answers. How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets will be uncovered. Loyalties will be proven. Fans will never see the truth coming. Before there was the Maze, there was The Fever Code.
Don’t miss The Maze Runner and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, now major motion pictures from Twentieth Century Fox, starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, and Aidan Gillen. And look for James Dashner’s new bestselling series the Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives.
Praise for the Maze Runner series:
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Series
A USA Today Bestseller
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year
An ALA-YASLA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
An ALA-YALSA Quick Pick
“[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies, The Hunger Games, and Lost.“—EW.com
“Wonderful action writing—fast-paced…but smart and well observed.”—Newsday
“[A] nail-biting must-read.”—Seventeen.com
“Breathless, cinematic action.”—Publishers Weekly
“Heart pounding to the very last moment.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Exclamation-worthy.”—Romantic Times
“Take a deep breath before you start any James Dashner book.”—Deseret News
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 4
Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the Flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the Flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its prestigious facade...
Suddenly One Summer
by Julie James
From the New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Wedding comes a novel about a man and a woman whose summer is about to get very, very hot…
Divorce lawyer Victoria Slade has seen enough unhappy endings to swear off marriage forever. That doesn’t mean she’s opposed to casual dating—just not with her cocky new neighbor, who is as gorgeous and tempting as he is off-limits. But once she agrees to take on his sister’s case, she’s as determined to win as ever—even if that means teaming up with Ford….
Investigative journalist Ford Dixon is bent on finding the man who got his sister pregnant and left her high and dry. He’s willing to partner with Victoria, despite the fact that the beautiful brunette gets under his skin like no other woman. He might not be looking to settle down, but there’s no denying the scorching attraction between them. Still, the more time he spends with Victoria, the more he realizes that the one woman as skeptical about love as he is might be the only woman he could really fall for…
“If you need a great read to throw in your beach bag, make sureSuddenly One Summer is one of your choices.” –USA Today
Regular Price: EGP68.00
The Rule of Thoughts (Mortality Doctrine, Book Two) (Export Edition)
Reality just became a virtual nightmare in The Rule of Thoughts from MAZE RUNNER author James Dashner, the sequel to The Eye of Minds and the second book in the edge-of-your-seat MORTALITY DOCTRINE series.
Michael thought he understood the VirtNet, but the truth he discovered is more terrifying than anyone at VirtNet Security could have anticipated.
The cyber terrorist Kaine isn’t human. It’s a Tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael just completed the first step in turning Kaine’s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality. The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring Tangent minds. The VNS would like to pretend the world is perfectly safe, but Michael and his friends know that the takeover has already begun. And if they don’t stop Kaine soon, it will be game over for humanity.
From the author who brought you the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series and two #1 movies—The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials—comes an electrifying adventure that takes you into a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyber terrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.
Praise for the Mortality Doctrine Series:
“Dashner takes full advantage of the Matrix-esque potential for asking ‘what is real.’” —io9.com
“Set in a world taken over by virtual reality gaming, the series perfectly capture[s] Dashner’s hallmarks for inventiveness, teen dialogue and an ability to add twists and turns like no other author.” —MTV.com
“A brilliant, visceral, gamified mash-up of The Matrix and Inception, guaranteed to thrill even the non-gaming crowd.” —Christian Science Monitor
The Game of Lives (The Mortality Doctrine, Book Three) (Export Edition)
From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes The Game of Lives, the final book in the Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy that includes The Eye of Minds and The Rule of Thoughts.
Michael used to live to game, but the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael’s passion. But now every time Michael sinks, he risks his life.
The games are over. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine—Kaine’s master plan—has nearly been realized, and little by little the line separating the virtual from the real is blurring. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box—if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.
And look for The Maze Runner movie and its sequel, Maze Runner:The Scorch Trials, from Twentieth Century Fox!
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk
by David A. Goodman
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233–2371), in his own words. From his birth on the U.S.S. Kelvin, his youth spent on Tarsus IV, his time in the Starfleet Academy, his meteoric raise through the ranks of Starfleet, and his illustrious career at the helm of the Enterprise, this in-world memoir uncovers Captain Kirk in a way Star Trek fans have never seen. Kirk's singular voice rings throughout the text, giving insight into his convictions, his bravery, and his commitment to the life—in all forms—throughout this Galaxy and beyond. Excerpts from his personal correspondence, captain's logs, and more give Kirk's personal narrative further depth.
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
A recipient of the 2015 American Book Award
One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Named a best book of the year by:
The Houston Chronicle
BuzzFeed Books
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins’ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James’s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts—James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an “exhilarating” (The New York Times) epic that’s been called “a tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal).
Sky Key (Endgame #2)
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller and international multimedia phenomenon, Endgame: The Calling.
Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two keys—and nine Players—remain. The keys must be found, and only one Player can win.
Queens, New York. Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped. But before she can get home to regroup, she is approached by the CIA. They know about Endgame. And they have their own ideas about how it should be Played. Ideas that could change everything.
Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia. Hilal ibn Isa al-Salt narrowly survived an attack that leaves him horribly disfigured. He now knows something the other Players do not. But the Aksumites have a secret that is unique to their line. A secret that can help redeem humanity—and maybe even be used to help defeat the beings behind Endgame.
London, England. Sarah Alopay has found the first key. She is with Jago—and they are winning.But getting Earth Key has come at a great cost to Sarah. The only thing that keeps the demons at bay is Playing. Playing to win.
Sky Key—wherever it is, whatever it is—is next. And the nine remaining Players will stop at nothing to get it.
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Eva Dahlgren receives Evert Taube prize
July 16, 2012 by Judith
Eva Dahlgren got the Evert Taube Prize yesterday in Orust, Sweden, from the Municipal Council Hans Pernevik and Orust Savings Bank director Birgitta Pettersson.
As a prize Eva got money, which she is going to use to buy a video camera which will be intensively used during her tour in autumn, and an art piece of glas in for of a speech bubble done by Helen Gibson.
Eva explained how Evert Taube’s music and text always were with her and that she is very proud and touched to have received the prize. She also explained that she had been in Orust before when she played at Ellös Folkets park.
You can find pictures of the event here.
Categories PrizesTags Eva Dahlgren, priset, Taube
Efva Attling receives a medal from the King of Sweden for her entrepreneurship.
Efva Attling has been awarded with the Näringslivsmedaljen (Industry/business medal) by the Royal Patriotic Society (Kungliga Patriotika Sällskapet). Efva received the medal today from the Prince Carl Philip in a ceremony which took place in Riddarhuset, Stockholm (Sweden).
Efva has been awarded for her entrepreneurship and for founding her jewelry company Efva Attling Stockholm AB 12 years ago.
The other awarded with the same medal this year are: Lars Ander (Nya Wermlands-Tidningen AB), Lars Göran Blank (Jula AB, Skara), Anastasia Georgiadou (AB Svensk Personlig Assistans), Karl Hedin (Karl Hedin AB, Västanfors), Torsten Jansson (New Wave Group AB, Dingle), Laurent Leksell (Elekta AB, Stockholm), Jan-Erik Nilsson (Rederi AB Gotland, Visby), Marianne Ränk (Einar Mattsson AB, Stockholm), Jens och Ulf Spendrup (Spendrups Bryggeri AB, Vårby)
You can read an interview in following newspapers: E24.se, DagensPS.se, SvD
Categories Efva Attling, PrizesTags Efva Attling, medal, näringslivsmedalj
Eva Dahlgren to attend Fundraising in Los Angeles
April 24, 2010 May 3, 2010 by Judith
Eva Dahlgren will attend the Fundraising Party organised by the Swedish School of Los Angeles (USA) on May 1, where she will receive the school’s Viking Award 2010. She is also expected to perform. Taken from the Swedish School homepage:
Mark your calendars! Our Annual Swedish School Fundraising Party is back and more magical than ever!
Saturday May 1st in Santa Monica, be prepared for an enchanting evening of mystique and Nordic Mythology.
Eva Dahlgren – often called “Sweden’s own Bob Dylan” – singer song-writer, and children’s book author, joins previous award winners, Will & Viveca Ferrell and Mats Wilander as the 2010 recipient of our prestigious Viking Award.
In previous years, guests have enjoyed a party filled with delicious food, great entertainment, drinks and Swedish hospitality, and 2010 promises to be the most spectacular yet.
So, Save the Date, May 1st 2010, an evening to remember.
Thank you for supporting our wonderful school!
You can purchase tickets for the event via PayPaypal or directly at the Swedish School. For more information follow this link.
Update May 2: Here you can see a photo of Eva yesterday in Santa Monica.
Update May 3: And here you can find a couple of photos and a short report about the evening. Thanks Minna H. 🙂 In addition, a video has also been uploaded to YouTube. Enjoy!
Categories Prizes, tour/concerts2 Comments
Efva nominated to the Ecco Walk IN Style Award 2010
February 9, 2010 February 9, 2010 by Judith
According to Efva Attling Stockholm Facebook page, Efva is nominated to the Ecco Walk In Style Award 2010. The event takes place on February 9th in Copenhagen, and Efva is expected to attend.
Other nominees are Malene Birger (DK), Dana Schweiger (DE), Ilona Felicja?ska (PL), Kari Traa (NO). According to ECCO’s website, “the award is given to a woman whose courage and love of life makes her a role model for other women, and who contributes to making a difference in the world. The winner will be able to donate the prize of EUR 33,500 to a charity project that directly or indirectly impacts the daily life of women or children.”
Categories Efva Attling, Prizes
Eva Dahlgren receives Taube grant.
June 25, 2008 June 25, 2008 by Judith
Eva Dahlgren was yesterday awarded the Taube grant valued at 25,000 SEK. According to the jury, Eva has developed Swedish pop music in the last 30 years from “jaha?” to “aha!”.
This grant is distributed yearly since Evert Taube and the newspaper Vi founded it in 1960.
Interview with Eva
Categories Prizes
Eva Dahlgren nominated to the Grammis
December 4, 2007 January 9, 2008 by Judith
Eva Dahlgren has been nominated to two categories of the Grammis:
Ã…rets kvinnliga artist (Female artist of the year)
Årets textförtfattare (The song-writter of the year)
for “Petroleum och tÃ¥ng”.
For the first time ever, audience is able to vote for some of the Prizes. You can vote for Eva on Grammis’ website until December 24.
1. Choose the two categories above.
2. Select 3 nominated.
3. Fill in name and email address.
4. You will receive an email to confirm your vote, just follow instructions
[Update January 9, 2008]
The final nominations for the Grammis have been made public. Eva is nominated to the category Årets textförtfattare (The song-writter of the year). The Grammis galan takes place tonight at 20:00! Good luck!
Another novelty this year is that the Grammi statue has been redesigned by Efva Attling. The new prize is a 2,2 heavy glass statue produced in glass by Orrefors which resembles a skyscraper, with a star at the top.
“My first thought was Empire State Building meets Hötorgsskrapan with a musical touch. Then it felt important that the star should be done with the finest platinum, which is the most expensive material – after all, the one who wins the prize has to feel like a star. “That night and for ever,” comments Efva.
Let’s hope Eva can take one of these precious prizes home.
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Geno Auriemma
Basketball: Vital, Dangerfield provide veteran presence for young surrounding casts
Jalen Adams left UConn as the tenth all-time scorer in program history. Katie Lou Samuelson and Napheesa Collier helped bring a title to Storrs and transformed into perennial All-Americans. Now, the two programs look to a pair of rising seniors to step into new roles: Christian Vital and Crystal Dangerfield.
Tagged: Geno Auriemma, basketball, Christian Vital, Crystal Dangerfield, Sports Featured
Michael Logan
Huskies add second player to the Class of 2019
It looks like Aubrey Griffin will not be the only recruit to join the UConn women’s basketball team’s Class of 2019. The program announced Wednesday that Ania Makurat decided to sign on with the Huskies.
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Geno Auriemma, Sports Featured
UConn Huskies Coaches Road Show is back for the second summer
Several UConn head coaches are set to hit the road for a six-city tour of Connecticut from May 21-23, for the second year in a row.
Tagged: UConn Huskies Coaches Road Show, Geno Auriemma, Dan Hurley, Randy Edsall, Mike Cavanaugh
By Michael Logan
Geno Auriemma: Creator of an everlasting foundation
A basketball program is like a home - it needs a sturdy foundation in order to thrive. UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma has been laying the bricks to build a program and a home for Huskies past, present and future, with a foundation that will never crumble.
Prior to Auriemma’s first year at UConn in 1985, the women’s program went 52-88 from 1980-85 under head coach Jean Balthaser. They were anything but the “Basketball Capital of the World.
Tagged: Geno Auriemma, Sports Featured
Daily Campus Sports
Coaches Week Roundtable: Our favorite coaches
I absolutely love Jim Harbaugh. This man man is crazy. He eats, sleeps, lives and breathes football and would probably cease to exist without it. Every week there’s at least one moment where he looks just about ready to yell at a ref or jump onto the field in the mid-game and start tackling guys. He’s a great coach, evident by the fact that he rebuilt Stanford, the 49ers and Michigan, but he can’t help but start drama with other coaches. He’s the absolute polar opposite of Bill Belichick and that’s why he’s my favorite coach.
Tagged: Coaches Week, Roundtable, Geno Auriemma
Geno plans to buy Manchester restaurant
University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma was heard Tuesday night telling diners at Cavey’s restaurant in Manchester that he plans on buying the restaurant, according to the Journal Inquirer.
Tagged: Geno Auriemma, Food
Women’s basketball to host season celebration next week
The event will take place in the Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. For the fifth straight year, fans, students and alumni will be able to meet the coaches and student athletes, as well as listen to Auriemma’s reflection of the team’s season and watch special video clips highlighting the team’s progress on the court.
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Geno Auriemma
Mariana Dominguez
Women’s Basketball: Huskies Fall Short in Semifinals for Third Straight Season
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Huskies seemed poised to defeat last year’s national champion Notre Dame and return to the championship game after missing it for two straight seasons. UConn was up by nine with 7:52 left in the game after senior Napheesa Collier made a two-point field goal. The Husky fans at a sold out Amalie Arena in Tampa Bay began to taste victory.
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Katie Lou Samuelson, Geno Auriemma
By Eric Wang
Gallery: UConn Women's Basketball in Albany
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, UCLA, Louisville, Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson, Sports Featured, Elite Eight, Final Four, Albany Regional, Olivia Nelson-Ododa, Christyn Williams
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“We had made a decision, we weren't going to (double team),” Geno Auriemma said. “We said we are not going to double. We are going to let Asia (Durr) get what she gets and just make her work as hard as possible to get those (shots). We just decided we cannot live with 11 made 3s like we did last time.”
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Geno Auriemma and Jeff Walz; A friendship founded in coaching
“We're going to be the underdog, and that's fine,” Jeff Walz said. “I know we're the 1 seed, but everybody has got -- we're going to be the first 1 seed to lose. The big talk about why in the world was Louisville a 1 seed and UConn not. So we're okay with that.”
Tagged: Jeff Walz, Geno Auriemma, NCAA Tournament
Women’s Basketball: Huskies escape physical UCLA
“The look on their face looked like they were in trouble because we couldn't get anything to drop, we couldn't get a call,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said. “(UCLA) started burying 3s. So it was like, well, what are we going to do, we can't guard them inside if we have to go out. So we're going to have to give something up. And it looked like we were searching.”
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier, Sports Featured
Geno Auriemma weighs in on Tennessee coaching situation
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Women's Basketball Notebook: Huskies complete with Samuelson
“I like that Christyn (Williams) and Megan (Walker) were able to play a lot of minutes, meaningful minutes under pressure last weekend,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said. “I like that now they feel that they don’t have to stop being like that just because Lou’s back.”
Tagged: Geno Auriemma, Sports Featured, Christyn Williams
Women's Basketball: Huskies rout Towson to advance to second round of tourney
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Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Sports Featured, Geno Auriemma
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“People are out there bitching that we always go to Albany,” Auriemma said. “Well, then tell somebody else to friggin bid on it. Like it’s our fault. People are bitching, ‘they go to Albany every year.’ Well guess what, we’ve been the No.1 seed in the country the last 11 years. Where the hell else are you going to put us? It’s just unbelievable …
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Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Geno Auriemma, American Conference Championship
Women’s Basketball: Huskies defense sends them to conference championship
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Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, USF, Geno Auriemma
Women’s Basketball: Collier explodes to lead Huskies past ECU in conference quarterfinals
Samuelson is out for the conference tournament after going down with an injury in the second quarter of the Huskies matchup against Houston on March 2nd. She has been suffering from back spasms since the initial injury.
Tagged: UConn Women's Basketball, Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier
Women’s Basketball: Huskies defeat Houston in a game full of the unexpected
In the 2nd quarter senior Katie Lou Samuelson went down after being caught up with some Cougars’ players going for a loose ball. Samuelson was able to walk off the court herself, but went into the locker room shortly after.
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Welcome to the home page of the Dublin Pike Angling Club, Ireland’s premier angling club.
The Dublin Pike angling club was set up in 1986. Since being established the club has become one of the leading clubs in Irish pike fishing. The club caters for anglers of all abilities and backgrounds. In recent years we have had club member reach national finals, win national finals and go on to represent Ireland in international competitions.
The Dublin Pike Angling club is welcome to all, however we do have a limited number of spaces so please do not be disappointed and get your requests in early. If you are interested in joining the club please see our membership section for details.
Today saw the first competition of the Dublin Pike Anglers 2018 season. With water levels fluctuating over the last two weeks it was hard to pick a venue. Last minute decisions saw a vote to change to a river venue with reasonable water levels, after very bad flooding had affected our original venue. Overall the …
Continue reading “A Few Fine Fish From Floods!”
On behalf of the Management Committee of Dublin Pike Anglers it is my privilege to announce the incoming Dublin Pike Anglers committee team for 2018. 2017 was a successful year for Dublin Pike Anglers and it was unreservedly due to the dedicated work of the out-going committee. On behalf of all the club we want to …
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Heaviest Fish or Heaviest Bag? In every club there is the same old argument between the “dead-baiters” and the “wobbler’s” about which is more important. Overall bag weight or single heaviest fish? Traditionally all pike competitions, IFPAC Qualifiers and others, would be focused towards heaviest bag with the possible side pool for heaviest fish. We …
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The 2017 Dublin Pike Anglers Competition Schedule
The Dublin Pike Anglers competition schedule of events will not be finalized until after the AGM on the 12th of March.
The next competition of the year is scheduled for the 23rd of April
Please check back regularly for update.
Dublin Pike Anglers Competition Yearly Calendar updated bi-monthly….
Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December Year: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Dublin Pike Anglers – Random Pic’s
A Few Random Pic’s of the Dublin Pike Anglers in action taken from Facebook. We hope to Have a detailed Album for each of the competition’s that take place during the year.
Joey Final Ste Trout Godfrey again 2 Frank Pike Ste Again Paddy Pike Joey trout Leigh Pike Ste Pike Murph Pike Godfrey Again Joey again Godfrey pike Fintan again Joey Pike Fintan Pike
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FRIENDS IN THE WEST
ASKS HELP FOR ALBANIAN CHILDREN
The international non-profit charitable organization, Friends in the West, has begun an effort
to alleviate the suffering of Albanian children who
have borne the brunt of the social and economic
disintegration in Albania. Following an April 1992
visit to Albania by a small group headed by Friends
founder Ray Barnett, a campaign was begun to
alert people of the United States, Canada and Great
Britain to the needs of Albanian children. On their
visit the group found distressing signs of an emergency requiring international help. Albania is unable to feed, clothe and provide medicine for its
youngest citizens. The group visited hospitals and
orphanages where they saw children malnourished
and wrapped in rags. The buildings themselves
were without heat and often missing glass in the
windows. Hospitals had no medicine, according
to Barnett who appeared on the CBS program
"This Morning" to tell of the Albanian children's
plight. "The average couple in America has more
in their medicine chest than there is in an entire
children's hospital (in Albania)." Albanian parents,
who earn an average of $6-$8 per month, often
surrender their children to orphanages and hospitals hoping that these institutions will be able to
provide for them better than they can.
According to Friends in the West
*35% of urban children and 50% of rural Albanian children are malnourished
*milk, meat products and baby formula
have nearly disappeared from Albania
*an estimated 25% of all Albanian children are currently hospitalized for malnutrition
"treatable pneumonia and diarrhea are
the leading causes of death among Albanian children
In order to respond to this emergency Friends
in the West is prepared to send a small operational
team with much needed supplies. The organization has twenty years of experience in this type of
relief work in such places as Lebanon, Uganda
and Romania. They are asking for help from all
people of good will. Donations of money or
supplies, especially vitamins, medical equipment,
medicine, baby food, clothes and blankets are
sought. They hope to provide aid to five homes
for handicapped children (approximately 400 beds),
nine dystrophic hospitals (for malnourished children—approx. 545 beds), and for five orphanages
(approx. 525 children). They will also be working
with Albanian day care centers as well as the
families of former political prisoners to assist them
in their needs.
Any person interested in helping Albanian children with donated materials or a financial contribution can call toll-free to ALBANIAN CHILDREN
IN CRISIS HOTLINE 1-800-441-1900. The mailing
address of Friends in the West is:
Arlington, WA 98233 (USA)
(tei) 206-435-8983
Surrey, BC V3T4W4 (Canada)
1992- Vol XIII
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Transcripts Albanian Catholic Bulletin FRIENDS IN THE WEST ASKS HELP FOR ALBANIAN CHILDREN The international non-profit charitable organization, Friends in the West, has begun an effort to alleviate the suffering of Albanian children who have borne the brunt of the social and economic disintegration in Albania. Following an April 1992 visit to Albania by a small group headed by Friends founder Ray Barnett, a campaign was begun to alert people of the United States, Canada and Great Britain to the needs of Albanian children. On their visit the group found distressing signs of an emergency requiring international help. Albania is unable to feed, clothe and provide medicine for its youngest citizens. The group visited hospitals and orphanages where they saw children malnourished and wrapped in rags. The buildings themselves were without heat and often missing glass in the windows. Hospitals had no medicine, according to Barnett who appeared on the CBS program "This Morning" to tell of the Albanian children's plight. "The average couple in America has more in their medicine chest than there is in an entire children's hospital (in Albania)." Albanian parents, who earn an average of $6-$8 per month, often surrender their children to orphanages and hospitals hoping that these institutions will be able to provide for them better than they can. According to Friends in the West *35% of urban children and 50% of rural Albanian children are malnourished *milk, meat products and baby formula have nearly disappeared from Albania *an estimated 25% of all Albanian children are currently hospitalized for malnutrition "treatable pneumonia and diarrhea are the leading causes of death among Albanian children In order to respond to this emergency Friends in the West is prepared to send a small operational team with much needed supplies. The organization has twenty years of experience in this type of relief work in such places as Lebanon, Uganda and Romania. They are asking for help from all people of good will. Donations of money or supplies, especially vitamins, medical equipment, medicine, baby food, clothes and blankets are sought. They hope to provide aid to five homes for handicapped children (approximately 400 beds), nine dystrophic hospitals (for malnourished children—approx. 545 beds), and for five orphanages (approx. 525 children). They will also be working with Albanian day care centers as well as the families of former political prisoners to assist them in their needs. Any person interested in helping Albanian children with donated materials or a financial contribution can call toll-free to ALBANIAN CHILDREN IN CRISIS HOTLINE 1-800-441-1900. The mailing address of Friends in the West is: P.O. Box 250 Arlington, WA 98233 (USA) (tei) 206-435-8983 or P.O. Box 146 Surrey, BC V3T4W4 (Canada) 66 1992- Vol XIII
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... I believe that the greatest destruction to come
is going to take place in Albanian intellectual life.
The people are going to lose confidence in the
state and its leadership and withdraw into themselves. In order to keep control of them, a need
will arise to create a brutal police state. And this
will be But the start . . . The oppression of opinions, even within the party ranks, is becoming
systematic, and in the end this will give birth to a
new monarchy. If things go that far, there will be
terrible poverty, and only the reign of unparalleled terror will enable you to stay in power. Such
a regime will be much more dangerous for itself.
A dampering and withdrawal of popular support
will shake up the ranks of the leadership too,
which will gradually transform itself into a closed
caste like a monarchy with no understanding of
the historical realities of the twentieth century. At
the end of this historical process you will be
obliged to kill one another and the people will be
drenched in blood.
It goes without saying that the Albanian dictator was not particularly amused by the letter. Following this voluntary act of self-destruction,
Trebeshina, the unpublished author of eighteen
volumes of verse, forty-two plays, and twenty-two
novels and short-story collections, vanished from
the literary scene with little trace. After seventeen
years in prison, with interruptions—a comparatively light sentence, as he later noted—and twenty
years of silence, he has now resurfaced from the
Balkan gulags with a handful of other writers and
artists to see that his predictions indeed came
The scholar and publisher Ardian Klosi (b.
1957) has now assembled and edited a number of
representative prose pieces and issued them in
book form as Stina e stinëve (The Season of Seasons), providing for the first time a glimpse into
Trebeshina's fantasy world. The tales are salted
with a good dose of the absurd, or the seemingly
absurd, and are in many ways not unlike those of
another victim of Stalinist repression, Mitrush Kuteli
(1907-57). His inspiration is drawn from folktales
and from his allergic reaction to the official liter
ary teachings of his age. What could be more
innocent and yet more politically revealing than
the universe of a child? Is the world an infant
discovers around him the same place he will be
in as an adult? Where does reality begin and
end? The surrealist touch of what the author calls
his "symbolic realism" is one of the consequences
of this conscious revolt against the predominant
current of socialist realism which stifled so much
creative writing in Albania for almost half a century.
Robert ELSIE
Xhevahir Spahiu, Kohë e krisur, Tiranë, Lidhja
e Shkrimtarëve, 1991, 122 pages. 4 Lek.
The region of Skrapari at the foot of lofty
Mount Tomorr, the legendary Father Tomorr of
Albanian mythology, is noted for its excellent raki
and its Sigurimi agents. Quite independent of this
rather dubious fame, it is also the home of
Xhevahir Spahiu (b. 1945), one of the most forceful, vociferous, and talented poets of modern Albania, a voice of survival. During the 1973 purge
of writers and intellectuals, the dictator Enver
Hoxha referred to Spahiu by name for having
composed a short poem reminiscent—though by
pure coincidence—of a line by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Although the poet had never had an opportunity
to enjoy the forbidden fruits of the late French
philosopher, he was condemned as an existentialist (tantamount to high treason) and survived
only by the skin of his teeth, by channeling his
passions into appropriate revolutionary fervor. After a couple of years he was, to his and our good
fortune, allowed to publish once again. Now that
the red tide has receded, he can go about the
poet's business and is quite content to do so.
Spahiu is not a poet of reclusion or of pensive
solitude. He is at his best with an audience. It is
then that his eyes take on an elfish sparkle
{xhevahir in Albanian means "diamond") and his
voice begins to convey all the emotion of which
true verse is capable. His audience is always enthralled. In a country in which until quite recently
every poem, every word, every thought was subject to a dense filter of ideological and personal
1994 - Vol. XV
Transcripts Book Reviews ... I believe that the greatest destruction to come is going to take place in Albanian intellectual life. The people are going to lose confidence in the state and its leadership and withdraw into themselves. In order to keep control of them, a need will arise to create a brutal police state. And this will be But the start . . . The oppression of opinions, even within the party ranks, is becoming systematic, and in the end this will give birth to a new monarchy. If things go that far, there will be terrible poverty, and only the reign of unparalleled terror will enable you to stay in power. Such a regime will be much more dangerous for itself. A dampering and withdrawal of popular support will shake up the ranks of the leadership too, which will gradually transform itself into a closed caste like a monarchy with no understanding of the historical realities of the twentieth century. At the end of this historical process you will be obliged to kill one another and the people will be drenched in blood. It goes without saying that the Albanian dictator was not particularly amused by the letter. Following this voluntary act of self-destruction, Trebeshina, the unpublished author of eighteen volumes of verse, forty-two plays, and twenty-two novels and short-story collections, vanished from the literary scene with little trace. After seventeen years in prison, with interruptions—a comparatively light sentence, as he later noted—and twenty years of silence, he has now resurfaced from the Balkan gulags with a handful of other writers and artists to see that his predictions indeed came true. The scholar and publisher Ardian Klosi (b. 1957) has now assembled and edited a number of representative prose pieces and issued them in book form as Stina e stinëve (The Season of Seasons), providing for the first time a glimpse into Trebeshina's fantasy world. The tales are salted with a good dose of the absurd, or the seemingly absurd, and are in many ways not unlike those of another victim of Stalinist repression, Mitrush Kuteli (1907-57). His inspiration is drawn from folktales and from his allergic reaction to the official liter ary teachings of his age. What could be more innocent and yet more politically revealing than the universe of a child? Is the world an infant discovers around him the same place he will be in as an adult? Where does reality begin and end? The surrealist touch of what the author calls his "symbolic realism" is one of the consequences of this conscious revolt against the predominant current of socialist realism which stifled so much creative writing in Albania for almost half a century. Robert ELSIE Xhevahir Spahiu, Kohë e krisur, Tiranë, Lidhja e Shkrimtarëve, 1991, 122 pages. 4 Lek. The region of Skrapari at the foot of lofty Mount Tomorr, the legendary Father Tomorr of Albanian mythology, is noted for its excellent raki and its Sigurimi agents. Quite independent of this rather dubious fame, it is also the home of Xhevahir Spahiu (b. 1945), one of the most forceful, vociferous, and talented poets of modern Albania, a voice of survival. During the 1973 purge of writers and intellectuals, the dictator Enver Hoxha referred to Spahiu by name for having composed a short poem reminiscent—though by pure coincidence—of a line by Jean-Paul Sartre. Although the poet had never had an opportunity to enjoy the forbidden fruits of the late French philosopher, he was condemned as an existentialist (tantamount to high treason) and survived only by the skin of his teeth, by channeling his passions into appropriate revolutionary fervor. After a couple of years he was, to his and our good fortune, allowed to publish once again. Now that the red tide has receded, he can go about the poet's business and is quite content to do so. Spahiu is not a poet of reclusion or of pensive solitude. He is at his best with an audience. It is then that his eyes take on an elfish sparkle {xhevahir in Albanian means "diamond") and his voice begins to convey all the emotion of which true verse is capable. His audience is always enthralled. In a country in which until quite recently every poem, every word, every thought was subject to a dense filter of ideological and personal 1994 - Vol. XV 203
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Page 6 Guest Editorial- A Tribute to the Albanian Catholic Bulletin, Sami Repishti
Page 9 The Worth of a Record, James V. Schall, S.J.
Page 11 Information Center on Albania, Tom Hoopes
Page 14 Against the Steam- An Account of the Albanian Catholic Institute, Stephen Schwartz & Raymond Frost
Page 21 The Current State of Religion in Albania
Page 26 Implementation of Religious Freedom in Albania, Janice Broun
Page 28 Breezes of Freedom Now Blow Through Albania, William McIntire
Page 30 Blessed are the Sighs, James Torrens, S.J.
Page 31 The Martyrdom of Papas Josif Papamihali
Page 32 An Eye-Witness Account of the Last Days of Fr. Daniel Dajani, S.J., Myfit Q. Bushati
Page 35 Jesuit Mission in Contemporary Albania
Page 39 70th Anniversary of Father Giacomo Gardin, S.J.
Page 44 The Albanian Connection of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Leo G. Neal, OFM Conv
Page 47 The Albanian Catholic Parishes in the United States
Page 50 Albanian Catholic Youth Participate in World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado
Page 51 Mother Teresa Defends Human Life Before Washington, D.C., Audience, Raymond Frost
Page 53 The Activity of the Franciscans of the Dubrovnik Province Among Albanian Catholics, Vincenc Malaj, OFM
Page 80 The 70th Anniversary of the Autocephalous Albanian Orthodox Church, Steven A. Armstrong, S.J.
Page 85 On Greek-Albanian Relations, Arthur E. Liolin
Page 86 Salem State College Symposium on Southern Albania, Shkelqim Beqari
Page 87 The Greek Minority in the Albanian Republic, Arqile Berxholli, Kristaq Prifti, Sejfi Protopapa
Page 95 Southern Albania in the Context of State Formation in the Balkans, Albert M. Tosches
Page 98 'The Albanian 'People' in the Former Yugoslavia and the Greek 'Minority' in the Southern Albania-- Human Rights Issues' , Sami Repishti
Page 103 In Memory of Milan Sufflay- Croatian Friend of the Albanian People, Ivo Banac
Page 105 Calvary in Kosova- Albanian Catholics in the Former Yugoslavia, Lush Gjergji
Page 108 Serbian Neofascism- Three Years of War and International Intrigue, Friends of Kosove, San Francisco
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Page 124 Martin Camaj-- The Man and His Poetry, Ardian Klosi
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Page 147 Reflections on President Woodrow Wilson Our Great Friend and Defender, Gezim Hadaj
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Page 153 Five Years of the Albanian American Civic League
Page 154 A Note on 17th Century Albanian Jewry, Stephen Schwartz
Page 157 Albania in the 'Anonymi Descriptio Europae Orientalis' ( 1308 A.D. ), Robert Elsie
Page 160 Edward Lear and Albania- A Chapter in Art History, Stephen Schwartz
Page 163 A Tour Through the Albanian Vocabulary, Geoffrey Hull
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Page 183 My Brother, My Enemy, Akil Derani
Page 192 The Modern Albanian Theatre, Robert Elsie
Page 254 11 Mars 1948, Fritz Radovani
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Page 264 Koliqi Familjar, Petro Vucani
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ESL Lesson 7 – Jacob gets Cheated
Jacob Gets Cheated
Genesis 30:1-28; 32 and 33
Jacob ran away from his brother Esau who was trying to kill him. He came to the place where his mother’s relatives lived. He met his Uncle Laban, and Laban’s two daughters, Leah and Rachel.
Leah was the oldest daughter. She was ugly. Rachel was the youngest. She was very beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel very much. He wanted to marry her. Jacob told Laban that he would work for him for seven years if he could marry Rachel. Laban agreed.
For seven years Jacob took care of Laban’s sheep and goats. He worked very hard. But the seven years of hard work seemed like only a few days to Jacob, because he loved Rachel so much.
After the seven years were over, Jacob asked to marry Rachel. Laban tricked Jacob. Laban dressed Leah up as the bride with a heavy veil and married her to Jacob instead of Rachel. The next morning, Jacob found out he had married Leah instead of Rachel!
Jacob was very angry. He asked Laban, “Why did you cheat me? Why did you make me marry Leah instead of Rachel?”
Laban said, “It is not our custom to let the younger daughter get married before the older one. Work for me seven more years and I will let you marry Rachel, too.”
So Jacob worked seven more years and married Rachel. Later he married two other wives. At that time it was common for a man to have more than one wife. This caused many problems, however. Leah and Rachel were very jealous of each other. Leah was jealous of Rachel because she knew Jacob loved Rachel best. Rachel was jealous of Leah because Leah was having children, and for a long time, Rachel did not get pregnant. The other two wives knew that they were only important to Jacob because they gave him children.
Jacob worked for Laban for fourteen years to get Leah and Rachel. Then he continued to work for Laban to get sheep and goats. Laban agreed to giving Jacob a certain kind of sheep and goats to pay him for his work. But ten times Laban changed Jacob’s pay. God helped Jacob, however. Jacob became a rich man even though Laban cheated him.
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1. Did Jacob like Leah or Rachel best? Why?
2. What did Jacob offer to do for Laban so that Laban would let him marry Rachel?
3. Laban tricked Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel. What did Laban say when Jacob asked him why he did this?
4. How many wives did Jacob have?
5. Why was Leah jealous of Rachel?
6. Why was Rachel jealous of Leah?
After twenty years of working for Laban, Jacob decided to go back to his own country. He wanted to know if his father and mother were still alive. So Jacob left Laban’s country and took all his wives and servants and flocks.
Jacob was glad to be going home. But he was still afraid of Esau. Would Esau still want to kill him?
When Jacob got near his home he sent messengers to Esau to tell him he was coming. The messengers came back with frightening news. “Esau is coming to meet you and four hundred men are with him,” they said.
Jacob was very afraid. He didn’t know if Esau still wanted to kill him. He didn’t know if Esau would hurt his family. He divided his group of people and animals into two groups. He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the other group may escape.”
Jacob prayed to God to save him. He thanked God for being kind to him and helping him to become a rich man. He admitted that he didn’t deserve God’s help. Then he reminded God of his promise to make Jacob successful and give him many offspring.
God spoke to Jacob that night. He gave Jacob a new name. The name “Jacob” means “someone who tricks and cheats people to get ahead.” God changed his name to “Israel.”
The next morning Jacob sent a gift ahead of him to Esau. He sent two hundred twenty goats, two hundred twenty sheep, thirty camels with their babies, forty cows, ten bulls, and thirty donkeys. Jacob hoped that all of these gifts would make Esau so happy that he would forget about hurting Jacob and his family.
When Jacob got close to Esau, he bowed low seven times. But Esau ran to meet Jacob. He hugged Jacob and kissed him and wept.
“Who are all these people with you?” Esau asked Jacob.
“They are the children God has given me,” Jacob told him.
“And what are all these animals,” Esau asked.
“They are a gift for you so that you will not be angry with me,” Jacob said.
Esau told him, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
But Jacob insisted Esau take the gifts, so Esau did.
Jacob’s father was still alive, so Jacob got to see him again. Jacob had run away from home with nothing. Now God had brought him back home, a wealthy man with many children.
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7. How long did Jacob work for Laban?
8. When Jacob was going to meet Esau, why did he divide his family and belongings into two groups?
9. God gave Jacob a new name. What was it?
10. When Jacob met Esau, did Esau still want to kill him?
1. The Bible says that a person reaps what he sows. (Galatians 6:7) If a farmer sows corn seeds, he reaps a harvest of corn. If a person sows dishonesty*, he will reap trouble. Before Jacob left his parents, he was greedy. He cheated his brother twice so he could get the best for himself. Later on, Jacob found out what it was like to be cheated. Laban cheated Jacob by agreeing to let him marry Rachel, and then giving him Leah instead. Laban agreed on Jacob’s pay, and then changed it ten times. Can you give an example* of something that you have seen happen in your lifetime that shows, “You reap what you sow?”
2. God gave His plan for marriage to Adam, the first person who lived. God’s plan was: 1 man + 1 woman for life. When a man and woman marry they should be faithful* to each other until one of them dies. Today many people think that when they have problems in their marriage they should just get divorced*. What problems does divorce cause?
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Hard-Fi
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Hard-Fi are an English indie rock band formed in Staines, Surrey in 2003. The band's members are Richard Archer (lead vocals and guitar), Kai Stephens (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Steve Kemp (drums and backing vocals). Founding member Ross Phillips (guitar and backing vocals) left the band on 6 May 2013.
They achieved chart success with their third single, "Hard to Beat" and then followed by other successful singles such as "Cash Machine" and "Living for the Weekend", which all reached top 15 in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album Stars of CCTV was released on 4 July 2005, and although receiving critical acclaim (NME called it the Album of the Year and it was nominated for the Mercury Prize and two Brit Awards; Best British Group and Best British Rock Act), it didn't reach No. 1 in the UK albums chart until six months later on 22 January 2006. It originally entered the charts at number 6. The band's second album Once Upon a Time in the West was released on 3 September 2007 and reached number 1 in its first week. Their third album Killer Sounds, which features the singles "Good for Nothing", "Fire in the House" and "Bring It On", was released on 19 August 2011 and debuted at number 9 on the UK Album Chart. via Wikipedia
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Molik and Smeets earn Aus Open spots
Robert Smeets and Alicia Molik have earned wildcards into the Australian Open main draw after winning the wildcard playoffs at Melbourne Park.
Olympic bronze medallist and former world number 8 Molik recorded a sound 6-4 6-4 win over young West Australian Jessica Moore to secure her place in the Australian Open main draw.
The South Australian said she was really pushed by her teenaged opponent, but was happy with her game.
“Jess really played well, she surprised me,” Molik said. “I probably could have polished off a few returning games a little bit sooner but overall I was a lot happier with the way I served and very pleased to win the wildcard.
“It’s always difficult going out against the youngsters,” she said.
“I would kill to be 16 again. You sort of go out there with no fear.” Molik said she was as ready as she would ever be leading into January.
“I couldn’t ask anymore of myself over the last five, six, seven weeks,” she said. “I feel like I’ve set myself up really well. It will hold me in good stead going into the Hopman Cup.”
In the men’s playoff 21-year-old Robert Smeets got away to a flying start against the more experienced Joe Sirianni (VIC) claiming the first set of the men’s final in just 20 minutes. The second set was tougher, and he dropped the third set before bouncing back to post a 6-1 7-5 3-6 6-3 win.
The Queenslander said he was thrilled to score a place in his first Australian Open main draw.
“I got a little nervous there at the very end,” he said. “It hasn’t sunk in yet really. I’m extremely relieved. I had a long week, trained hard.
“Finally I’m starting to break through a little bit now. Hopefully I can keep going.”
The Australian Open offers a total of 16 main draw wildcard spots (eight men and eight women). One men’s and one women’s wildcard is offered in reciprocal exchanges with both the French Open and the US Open and to the winners of the Asian Tennis Championships.
A wildcard was also offered to the best performed Australian players on the Kia Pro Circuit with the women’s wildcard going to Casey Dellacqua (WA) and the men’s to Alun Jones (ACT). This leaves three men’s and three women’s wildcards still to be allocated.
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SAMOA 2019: Following on from Tuesday’s 7 gold medals, Australia added another 11 golds to the tally on Day 9 of the 2019 Pacific Games, including 10 taekwondo gold and a men’s 400m gold from Steve Solomon.
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Triathlon Australia today announced the 10-strong squad that will compete at the 2019 Tokyo ITU World Olympic Qualification Event to be held on 15-18 August 2019 at Obaiba Marine Park, Tokyo, and the team that will take on the 2019 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne two weeks later.
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Priest shot dead by Islamists in Arish
1 July, 2016 - (2:06 PM)
Nader Shukry
A Coptic Orthodox priest was shot to death by Islamists this morning in the northern Sinai town of al-Arish. Father Raphail Moussa, 46, pastor of the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in Arish, had just held Holy Mass at his church and was on his way home when he was shot by three men in a taxi driving by. Four shots in the head directly put an end to his life.
The Daesh-affiliated news agency Amaq declared that IS claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Coptic priest “due to him waging a war against Islam”.
Fr Raphail was ordained in March 2012 together with Fr Mina Aboud Sharubim who was also shot to death by Islamist militants in Arish in July 2013.
Fr Raphail leaves behind a wife and two children. His funeral was held this evening in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, his birthplace. A number of bishops, among them Anba Seraphim of Ismailiya, officiated at the funeral ceremony. Anba Qozman, Bishop of North Sinai, was outside Egypt.
Pope Tawadros II offered his and the Coptic Orthodox Church’s condolences to Fr Rapahail’s family and friends, and to Anba Qozman and al-Arish congregation. He said the Church condemns all terrorist actions that target the peace of Egypt and her people.
Today, 30 June, marks three years since the Egyptian people, backed by the military, overthrew the Islamist Muslim Brother Muhammad Mursi who had become president of Egypt in June 2012, in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
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Spike TV Renews Deadliest Warrior For A Third Season
Pay attention to Deadliest Warrior as an example of the future of entertainment.
To show how entertainment is rapidly becoming multi-plaform and meeting success in the process, Spike TV, a unit of MTV Networks and at Spike.com, has announced that it's renewed Deadliest Warrior, it's first original franchise hit, for a third season, according to Sharon Levy, executive vice president for original programming for Spike TV.
Deadliest Warrior is produced by 44 Blue Productions, Inc. with Rasha Drachkovitch and Tim Warren serving as executive producers, and described as a series that...
enlists warrior-specific, world-class fighters and experts to provide insight into what makes these combatants tick, analyzing every facet of their unique skills of destruction, culminating in a head-to-head final fight between two legends of the battlefield that will produce the deadliest warrior. The recent second season featured such iconic warriors such as SWAT, Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, Aztec Jaguar, Jesse James Gang, Al Capone Gang, Roman Centurion, India’s Rajput Warrior, Somali Pirate, KGB and CIA.
But, in keeping with the multi-plaform nature of Deadliest Warrior, there's a video game called Deadliest Warrior: The Game, which is for Xbox LIVE Arcade, and has sold 140,000 copies since its June 14th release.
If you've never seen Deadliest Warrior, here's an inside look courtesy of Leah D'Emilio:
Catch Deadliest Warrior; the third season will premiere 10 episodes in Summer 2011.
Lindsay Lohan MIGHT be Out of Rehab This Week
Lindsay Lohan might get to leave rehab this week! That must be some good behavior she’s putting out! First, Lindsay serves just 13 days of her 90 jail sentence and is released to a MANDATORY 90 day rehab program. But now it looks like she'll only have two weeks of her rehab sentence as well...what's up?
A – Either Lindsay's problems weren't as serious as doctor’s first thought. That would mean – gasp – Dina Lohan may be right saying it was a setup, propaganda and wrong for Lindsay to be in jail. OK, not really, but we just wanted to give a shout out to Dina. Seriously, Lindsay might not have been doing as many or as hard of drugs as were first thought.
B – Or Lindsay is faking her way through rehab really, really well. And since this is her fourth visit in just a few years, it could be possible, though unlikely, that Lindsay is working the system.
Now, I doubt she could fool that many professionals, so maybe there was a combination of both options. Lindsay’s substance abuse problems weren’t as severe as predicted, thus leaving Lindsay with time to quickly heal and get on the right road. Rumor has it she is helping younger girls in rehab deal with issues and offering encouragement to them.
The real problem, it seems, is her family. Dina is going on TV proclaiming her daughter is innocent – even though we know she isn’t and did get in trouble in 2007. Then there is her dad Michael, who paints her as an addict who needs more serious help than what she is currently getting. Who will scream about an early release for Lindsay more - her dad or the media? Do you think Lindsay deserves to be let out early if the doctor’s say it is OK?
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Biographia Evangelica > Latest Articles > Letters > Preaching so that Sinners become Sensible to the Gospel
An actual reply to a Christian who has challenged me in several of his published writings and personal letters to me for teaching that John Gill only preached to those who were already believers and had already been made ‘sensible’ to the gospel.
Dear Brother,
As I have now finished my preparation for XX, I can deal with your query at a little length. Of course, the idea that Gill did not exhort sinners to repentance and faith cannot be defended. Indeed, he was far more industrious in doing this than most of his contemporary and modern critics. Where do you find the BOT, Reformation Today and Founder’s Journal Preparationists exhorting sinners to flee from the wrath to come into Jesus’ arms like Gill? Their sermons are like the lectures I used to hear at the Working Men’s Institute: dry, amateur but with enough content to make the discerning hearer want more of the right thing. So even they help although there is far too much of man in them. The fact is that now even Nettles says that Gill and Whitfield sang in unison on the points you raised and Timothy George even compares Gill with Spurgeon on these issues. I have been pointing this out since around 1984. On the topic of sensible souls, Gill rarely uses the term and it is Fuller, not Gill who claims that there must be a holy disposition in the sinner before he can accept the gospel. Look at Erroll Hulse’s laborious attempts to make ‘sensible souls’ out of sinners even before the gospel comes. A more interesting question would have been, “Which 17th-18th century saint did not talk of ‘sensible souls’. I once made a study of this and Gill was in the best company all round.
In my booklet on the misused and misapplied term ‘free offer’ and on the ruin of a once well meaning phrase, I quote Gill once concerning poor and heavy laden sinners whom he says are ‘sensible of their spiritual poverty’ coming to Christ. I do not use the word ‘sensible’ again. Nevertheless, you come back to this time and time again and attack the use of the word as a symbol of Hyper-Calvinism. Indeed, you give two most narrow definitions of the term ‘sensible’ which need at least three other definitions for you to explain what you are talking about. None are Biblical. Your main argument is that ‘sensible sinners’ means regenerate believers so it is no use demanding that they repent and believe as they are in that state already. From this quite arbitrary conclusion, you further conclude that such as Gill and myself do not believe in preaching to unbelievers. You are not alone here in giving me a cap of a false size and demanding that I make it fit my head. It is a common and shameful strategy of Fullerites to feel they can hide their un-Biblical preparationism by denouncing 18th century Biblical usage of preaching the gospel so that sinners become sensitive to their fallen state and need of a Saviour. Why do you not admit that one will hardly find an evangelical Christian writer between 1650 -1850 including Bunyan, Hervey, Gill, Fuller, Dr Ryland and Hawker who does not use the term? Here, we may add Spurgeon, too as a rather late user. The word and its cognates was fashionable in evangelical circles, indeed, also amongst those who frequented with evangelicals such as Jane Austin as witnessed by her Sense and Sensibility published in 1811.
The fact is that Fuller often uses the term ‘sensible’ of sinners but no one calls him a Hyper-Calvinist for doing so. At times, he uses the term as does Gill although Gill is always clearer in pointing out the source in God of becoming sensitive to the gospel invitation and of being awakened. Fuller’s debates with Dr. Jenkins as also his essays, Concluding Reflections; Passages Apparently Contradictory; Christianity a Source of Happiness; The Awakened Sinner; Conversation on particular Redemption; Perversion of the Principle Doctrines of the Gospel; Reception by Christ the Turning Point of Salvation; The Nature and Importance of Walking by Faith; Christians entreated to Promote the Cause of Christ; Abuse of Reviews; and Strictures against Sandemanism all deal with the subject of making sinners sensible of their state. The following quote from Fuller’s The Nature and Importance of Walking by Faith, one of the several passages using the term in this essay, at first glance, might have been from Gill’s pen:
‘The perplexed soul need not stay, before he ventures, to inquire whether he be fit to come to Christ. It is not required that he should prove his saintship before he applies for mercy, though it is before he claims an interest in gospel blessings. All that is necessary here is that he be sensible of his being a vile and lost sinner.’
However, Fuller here, unlike Gill, does not emphasise man’s awareness of his vileness as the work of the Spirit but sees this awareness ‘as a state of mind essential to the act itself of coming.’ We are left to imagine how the sinner receives this ‘state of mind’. Fuller (who repeatedly claims he contradicts himself) appears to think otherwise in Christians Entreated to Promote the Cause of Christ where he writes ‘The gospel itself is the warrant, and not anything in the state of the mind; though, till the mind is made sensible of the evil of sin, it will never comply with the gospel.’ Again, however, Fuller does not teach how the sinner’s mind is made sensible of sin so that he might comply with the gospel. In other articles, Fuller, like Gill, distinguishes between ‘sensible’ and ‘insensible’ sinners. He also speaks of sinners becoming ‘awakened’ when they have approached God as such ‘sensible sinners’. Indeed, we find the same pattern of coming to Christ in both Fuller and Gill. First there is insensibility, then sensibility, then an awakening or receiving faith. Fuller, like Gill, too, warns against placing false interpretations on the term. Incidentally, when Dr. John Ryland started cleaning his church of his father’s converts, he also used the word ‘sensible’ to indicate a true understanding of the Scriptures according to his new interpretation. In the document of excommunication against Calvinist and hymn-writer John Adams, Ryland Jn. writes ‘Do read these scriptures; and pray to God, that if you have acted contrary to them, you may be made sensible of it.’ Actually, as I argued in my booklet Weighed in the Balance, it was Ryland Jn. who had altered the meaning of the Scriptures he quoted. Nevertheless, this shows that the terms were often used by Fuller and those who were ‘one heart and one soul’ with him.
There is a major, evangelical difference between Gill’s use of the term ‘sensible’ and Fuller’s. Gill looks upon those who are hungering, thirsting, labouring and heavy laden as being made aware of their state by the gospel, directly through the work of the Holy Spirit, God’s Winnower. Fuller denies this, arguing in his Strictures on Sandemanianism that inviting the hungry and thirsty to Christ is no gospel appeal in any spiritual sense but merely an appeal to those who have a thirst for happiness, peace and rest etc.. There is therefore no spirituality in the state of the thirsty and hungry souls, they come for very human natural reasons. This is also Fuller’s interpretation of the call to ‘come and buy’ in Isaiah 55. This would appear to contradict Matthew 5 and other Scripture which proclaim, ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness’. Surely, the search for righteousness is a true sign of Christ’s calling the sinner. As Fuller sees true repentance as first coming through an understanding of what he calls ‘the commandment’ and not the gospel, so he teaches that the sinner must first become sensible of ‘the commandment’. Once the commandment is obeyed this leads immediately to the sinner’s embracing the gospel. Thus, says Fuller, ‘through the law we become dead to the law, that we may live unto God.’ This is typical New Divinity teaching which sees obeying the law correctly as leading to an automatic accepting of the gospel. He who obeys the law, loves Christ. Again, Fuller fails to show what part God plays in this drama and he also apparently ignores the fact that becoming sensitive to one’s vileness comes through seeing that one cannot possibly obey the ‘commandment’, whichever it is, and that repentance is acknowledging this very fact and accepting the judgement that goes with it as just. One repents because one has not obeyed. Becoming sensible to sin has nothing to do with obeying commandments but to admitting that one has broken them. I would suggest that on comparison, Gill’s doctrine of making sinners sensible to Christ’s call is far more evangelical and Biblical than Fuller’s legal, badly thought-out doctrine of obeying commandgments as a way to understanding the gospel. Fuller’s statement, ‘Such a conviction of sin cannot consist with a rejection of the gospel way of salvation, but as soon as it is understood, instantly leads the sinner to embrace it,’ displays a piece of automatic, logical thinking on the part of the sinner which makes the work of the Holy Spirit in preparing his heart superfluous. Fuller’s neglect of recognising the Holy Spirit’s work in repentance and faith has been adequately condemned in the second letter of William Button’s The Nature of Special Faith in Christ.
When defending Gill in his essay John Gill and the Evangelical Awakening, Tom Nettles spends several pages on the myth concerning Hyper-Calvinism and ‘sensible sinners’, arguing firmly that Gill did not have a special and separate approach to ‘hardened sinners’ and ‘sensible sinners’ and the latter ‘received no instructions distinct from sinners in general’. Nettles emphasises that Gill’s known and practised calling was ‘to preach the gospel to every creature’. Nettles also points out here that as Gill spoke of hardened sinners, sensible sinners and believers, he obviously did not use the term ‘sensible’ for believers only. This is your very misconception.
In October 1995 the Baptist Quarterly published in Volume XXXVI, No, 4, an essay of mine entitled John Gill and the Charge of Hyper-Calvinism. In this essay, I quoted contemporary evidence testifying to Gill’s preaching which displayed ‘the glories of Christ’s person and the freeness of his grace to sinners’. I backed this up with samples of Gill’s preaching to sinners as sinners as in his exegesis of Matt.11:28 where he exhorted unconverted sinners ‘to come to Christ aright, come as sinners, to a full, suitable, and able, and willing Saviour; venture their souls upon him, and trust in him for righteousness, life, and salvation, which they are encouraged to do my this kind invitation; which shows his willingness to save.’ Likewise, I dealt with Gill’s approach to Isaiah 24:16, James 5:20, John 5:40 and other similar passages. How did Robert Oliver ‘review’ this article? His comment was, ‘All his (my) examples of Gill’s evangelism are High Calvinist. They are exhortations to those who are conscious of their sins. . . . that is not what the debate is all about.’ Here Oliver has made two very obvious and very serious mistakes. He has altered my vindication of Gill against the charge of Hyper-Calvinism to a vindication of High-Calvinism which is not my point in the article at all and a most unfair alteration on Oliver’s part. He also claims that I only give examples of exhortations to those who are (already) conscious of their sins, which is neither what my essay was about nor my examples by any means, either. Oliver wishes to reveal a false picture of what I believe and make me wear the cap in his readers’ eyes which he has made for me. This has all nothing to do with what I say or what Gill teaches but very much to do with Oliver’s polemics, strategy and aims which I find cheap, unscholarly and therefore deplorable. Happily, other contributions to Haykin’s collection of essays give a true account of Gill’s preaching and of my understanding of Gill. Oliver must learn that Gill’s aim, as that of all evangelists worthy of the name, was to preach Christ so that sinners were convicted and converted. But the old adage of ‘give a dog a bad name and someone will hang him’ remains Oliver’s slogan and gospel strategy. I never dreamt in my zeal to preach the whole gospel to the whole man that professing Christian pastors and teachers such as Oliver would criticise Gill, me or anyone else for preaching ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,’ or ‘Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins.’ That such are ‘High Calvinists’ who provide grounds for condemnation because they quote ‘High Calvinist’ texts is a groundless anti-evangelical misrepresentation of pure gospel preaching. This is ‘criticism with a pen-knife’ indeed. Those who denounce Gill’s preaching the gospel to sinners or claim as Oliver that he preached to believers only, must have a very limited view of what the gospel really is themselves. It is a gospel void of all the texts that refute them. There are certainly no such things as ‘High-Calvinist’ texts, nor ‘Hyper-Calvinist’ texts nor ‘Fullerite’ texts in the Bible for that matter, though Oliver is obviously of a different opinion according to his different gospel.
To return to you who have misinterpreted those who used the term ‘sensible’, myself included, with a vengeance! The likes of Gill and if I may be compared with such a giant, of myself, plead with, invite, exhort and command sinners to repent and believe, trusting that they might be made sensible of their sins by the accompanying work of the Spirit. This is the discriminating work of the gospel. Gill’s definition of ‘discriminate’ should be read by you and Oliver. Gill argued that the Spirit does not call all men to repent and believe all the time and everywhere but goes about the work in His own good time and own good way. Even the elect must await the general call until it comes their way.
Your re-definition of a Hyper-Calvinist as one who does not believe in the free-offer and duty-faith is recent, coined in very modern times by Hyper-Fullerites, ill-thought out and most certainly does not find common acceptance amongst Reformed believers. This goes for your Newspeak use of ‘God’s will(s)’, ‘sensible’, ‘free-offer’ and ‘duty-faith’, too. Immediately the question arose in my mind on reading your novel definitions of Hyper-Calvinism, ‘Were then all the saints between Adam and Fuller guilty of being Hyper-Calvinists as the terms free-offer and duty-faith meant nothing to them.’ Even pro-duty-faith man Robert Oliver argues in his doctor’s thesis that the term duty-faith was first used in the late nineteenth century, forgetting that Fuller used the term a century before.
Your sensibility towards the word ‘sensible’ has no historical, theological and linguistic basis but it obviously grates your nervous system and challenges your, to me, misconceptions full on. From the sixteenth century onwards, the term has been used of sinners stopped in their tracts by the Holy Spirit and illuminated with their need for Christ. Indeed, it is a common expression used in many of the ancient writers whom modern free-offer enthusiasts claim are on their side. Yet you do the truth and myself a grave disservice by totally distorting the work of the Spirit in making a sinner sensible of his sin and again, attributing all your distortions to me, claiming that I believe ‘only repentant sinners must be commanded to believe’ I believe in preaching the gospel so that sinners will be placed in a position, aided by the Holy Spirit, to believe. This was Gill’s aim, too, as I showed in the above named Baptist Historical Society essay. I conclude here that what was good enough for our Reformers, including Calvin; the saints of the seventeenth century including Bunyan and the believers of the eighteenth century including Hervey, is good enough for me. Furthermore, unlike Gill or myself, Fuller really did believe in a Hyper-Calvinist kind of preparationism or ‘holy disposition’ before God could speak to the soul of a sinner. This is why Booth wrote against him. 17th and 18th century orthodox ministers such as Gill, Crisp, Huntington, Toplady and Romaine never believed that there was an agency in man which could open the doors to the gospel.
Nevertheless, to free you from your anti-sensible phobia and defend the cause of God and truth, I shall quote a Scripture verse on being ‘sensible’, applying it to your teaching.
‘For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For everyone that useth milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of a full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.’
The preacher’s task is to exercise sinners with God’s Word so that they are confronted with their own lost state and by the Holy Spirit made sensitive to it and turn to Christ through the preaching of the gospel and live. However, you will perhaps follow Oliver’s guidance rather than mine and claim that Hebrews Five is a Hyper-Calvinist text and not ‘what he is debating about’.
I trust that you will re-read rather than ‘skim over’ what I have already sent you on Gill and study the above carefully. I, of course, except you as a brother in Christ and now a friend, but believe you err greatly and have accepted rational, liberal thinking to such a high degree that the gospel you preach is only a fading shadow of what it ought to be. The EC review pointed out how much of the gospel you left out so that they could not recommend your book. Nor could I for the same reason. I have gone into more depth in my review. My main argument against the so-called Free Offer School is that they have reduced what is free to cheap Kitsch and their offer is based on an arbitrary god who is at logger-heads with himself. I look upon the accusations of the BOT school, who hide behind you, that I do not believe in preaching the full gospel to unrepentant sinners as the Antinomianism that it is.
I have a thick, Yorkshire skin so please do not hesitate to give me a Roland for my Oliver, providing you do not mistake me for Robert Oliver!
Other Recommended Articles:
The Difference Between John Gill’s Free Declaration of the Gospel to Sinners and the Banner of Truth’s ‘Free Offer’
John Legg Contra Gospel Standard
Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel
An Unworthy Gospel (Fullerism)
The Gospel of Deceit
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DtjiPsimfans Posts: 211Member ✭✭
November 2018 in Games
Hi everyone. If you want to see most of my games created using Idle Game Maker, go to the link below.
https://m.facebook.com/globalAppDevelopersAtJogja/
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fireflies Posts: 56Member ✭✭
you need to revisit your calculations on coder tycoon - once I got the first building, it gave me enough to buy another in seconds, and then a third in less time, and so on - the building is too efficiently self-funding and as the next buildings came out they were already self-funding too...
Long story short, in under five minutes, I ended up with over 1k of the top buildings and reached end game with infinity of each resource per second.
Same with your music maker - the initial purchase at 500 clicks is quite exorbitant to start but after that, the purchases just roll in.
infinity resources per second again, under 6 minutes as per the timer.
your water park game is missing the coins resource best I can tell - can't buy any buildings without it so the game stalls from the outset.
Oh okay. Thanks for your critique @fireflies
@fireflies in the water park game, coins can actually be gained under certain conditions. Code for the game is in the link below.
https://github.com/DtjiPsimfans/Jogja-Bay-Waterpark-Tycoon/blob/master/Jogja-Bay-Waterpark-Tycoon.txt
Billabo Posts: 1,323Moderator, Friendly, Conversationalist Mod
Sorry, but what an awful system. Do you even playtest your games? It's not only possible, but VERY LIKELY that you can't gain any coins from clicking the button. Because of the following code,
on tick:if (mCube <= 0) multiply yield of coins by 0 on tick:if (kWh <= 0) multiply yield of coins by 0 on tick:if ((visitors + workers) > emptySpace) multiply yield of coins by 0 on tick:if (visitors > workers) multiply yield of coins by 0
When any of these conditions are true you can't gain coins:
-If you have no mCube (so, if you've never clicked the button)
-If you have no kWh (so, if you've never clicked the button)
-if you have more visitors and workers combined than you have emptyspace. This is the biggest offender, because there's an equal chance of gaining visitors, workers, and emptyspace. Statistically, you're going to have about equal numbers of those three things, which means visitors + workers will be about double your emptyspace.
-if you have more visitors than workers (so, about 50% of the time)
I don't know what mechanic you were going for with that, but you need to remove that code I quoted for your game to be functional at all.
Maybe you meant for the clickable to be unaffected by those conditions? That's the only way I can see them being somewhat reasonable. If so, you need to remove that code, and instead add code to each building so that it only yields if none of those conditions are true.
Edit: FYI, I wiped my save 5 times before I was able to gain coins from clicking the button, and even then, I gained a whole 100 coins (a SINGLE click) before I met the visitors + workers > emptyspace condition, locking me out.
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Oh. I’ve play tested and I found it possible but challenging to get coins.
@Billabo for my games (including my future games), I agree that giving those conditions make the game awful.
@Billabo I really want the clickable to be unaffected by those conditions but the buildings to stop yielding coins when any of those conditions are true for that game.
I was probably a bit harsh there, but it seems like you're churning out games without putting a lot of effort into making them good.
Anyway, so to put the conditions on buildings only, I think inserting this code into each building would work:
on tick: if (mCube <= 0) yield 0 coins else if (kWh <= 0) yield 0 coins else if ((visitors + workers) > emptySpace) yield 0 coins else if (visitors > workers) yield 0 coins else [insert the building's yields here] end end
@Billabo Oh okay. Thank you.
EricBolton1993 Posts: 484Member ✭✭✭
@Billabo thats why my updates take so long to come out got to take your time and make it good!
But DtjiPsimfans it doesn't hurt to have a Beta for people to test out before you go live with the updates! With my GCR Game, I go as far as Code my Game in Alpha for just me, then release to Beta for people, then live after everything is good :)
Also This game has promise :)
YosukeHanamura Posts: 985Member, Helpful ✭✭
I see your games are becoming better. However, i feel like you must stop releasing so much games, and update them a lot. That will bring the ppl.
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as a material composed of the antiparticle (or "partners") to the corresponding particles of ordinary matter.
In theory, a particle and its anti-particle have the same mass as one another, but opposite electric charge, and other differences in quantum numbers. For example, a proton has positive charge while an antiproton has negative charge. A collision between any particle and its anti-particle partner is known to lead to their mutual annihilation, giving rise to various proportions of intense photons (gamma rays), neutrinos, and sometimes less-massive particle–antiparticle pairs.
Annihilation usually results in a release of energy that becomes available for heat or work. The amount of the released energy is usually proportional to the total mass of the collided matter and antimatter, in accord with the mass–energy equivalence equation, E = mc2.
Antimatter particles bind with one another to form antimatter, just as ordinary particles bind to form normal matter. For example, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron) and an antiproton (the antiparticle of the proton) can form an antihydrogen atom. Physical principles indicate that complex antimatter atomic nuclei are possible, as well as anti-atoms corresponding to the known chemical elements.
There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is composed almost entirely of ordinary matter, as opposed to an equal mixture of matter and antimatter. This asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the great unsolved problems in physics. The process by which this inequality between matter and antimatter particles developed is called baryogenesis.
Antimatter in the form of anti-atoms is one of the most difficult materials to produce. Individual antimatter particles, however, are commonly produced by particle accelerators and in some types of radioactive decay. The nuclei of antihelium have been artificially produced with difficulty. These are the most complex anti-nuclei so far observed.
Formally, antimatter particles can be defined by their negative baryon number or lepton number, while "normal" (non-antimatter) matter particles have a positive baryon or lepton number. These two classes of particles are the antiparticle partners of one another.
The idea of negative matter appears in past theories of matter that have now been abandoned. Using the once popular vortex theory of gravity, the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks in the 1880s. Between the 1880s and the 1890s, Karl Pearson proposed the existence of "squirts" and sinks of the flow of aether. The squirts represented normal matter and the sinks represented negative matter. Pearson's theory required a fourth dimension for the aether to flow from and into.
The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term. He hypothesized antiatoms, as well as whole antimatter solar systems, and discussed the possibility of matter and antimatter annihilating each other. Schuster's ideas were not a serious theoretical proposal, merely speculation, and like the previous ideas, differed from the modern concept of antimatter in that it possessed negative gravity.
The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac. Dirac realised that his relativistic version of the Schrödinger wave equation for electrons predicted the possibility of antielectrons. These were discovered by Carl D. Anderson in 1932 and named positrons (a portmanteau of "positive electron"). Although Dirac did not himself use the term antimatter, its use follows on naturally enough from antielectrons, antiprotons, etc. A complete periodic table of antimatter was envisaged by Charles Janet in 1929.
The Feynman–Stueckelberg interpretation states that antimatter and antiparticles are regular particles traveling backward in time.
There are compelling theoretical reasons to believe that, aside from the fact that antiparticles have different signs on all charges (such as electric charge and spin), matter and antimatter have exactly the same properties. This means a particle and its corresponding antiparticle must have identical masses and decay lifetimes (if unstable). It also implies that, for example, a star made up of antimatter (an "antistar") will shine just like an ordinary star. This idea was tested experimentally in 2016 by the ALPHA experiment, which measured the transition between the two lowest energy states of antihydrogen. The results, which are identical to that of hydrogen, confirmed the validity of quantum mechanics for antimatter.
Positrons were reported in November 2008 to have been generated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in larger numbers than by any previous synthetic process. A laser drove electrons through a gold target's nuclei, which caused the incoming electrons to emit energy quanta that decayed into both matter and antimatter. Positrons were detected at a higher rate and in greater density than ever previously detected in a laboratory. Previous experiments made smaller quantities of positrons using lasers and paper-thin targets; however, new simulations showed that short, ultra-intense lasers and millimeter-thick gold are a far more effective source.
Antimatter cannot be stored in a container made of ordinary matter because antimatter reacts with any matter it touches, annihilating itself and an equal amount of the container. Antimatter in the form of charged particles can be contained by a combination of electric and magnetic fields, in a device called a Penning trap. This device cannot, however, contain antimatter that consists of uncharged particles, for which atomic traps are used. In particular, such a trap may use the dipole moment (electric or magnetic) of the trapped particles. At high vacuum, the matter or antimatter particles can be trapped and cooled with slightly off-resonant laser radiation using a magneto-optical trap or magnetic trap. Small particles can also be suspended with optical tweezers, using a highly focused laser beam.
In 2011, CERN scientists were able to preserve antihydrogen for approximately 17 minutes.
Scientists claim that antimatter is the costliest material to make. In 2006, Gerald Smith estimated $250 million could produce 10 milligrams of positrons (equivalent to $25 billion per gram); in 1999, NASA gave a figure of $62.5 trillion per gram of antihydrogen. This is because production is difficult (only very few antiprotons are produced in reactions in particle accelerators), and because there is higher demand for other uses of particle accelerators. According to CERN, it has cost a few hundred million Swiss francs to produce about 1 billionth of a gram (the amount used so far for particle/antiparticle collisions). In comparison, to produce the first atomic weapon, the cost of the Manhattan Project was estimated at $23 billion with inflation during 2007.
Several studies funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts are exploring whether it might be possible to use magnetic scoops to collect the antimatter that occurs naturally in the Van Allen belt of the Earth, and ultimately, the belts of gas giants, like Jupiter, hopefully at a lower cost per gram.
Matter–antimatter reactions have practical applications in medical imaging, such as positron emission tomography (PET). In positive beta decay, a nuclide loses surplus positive charge by emitting a positron (in the same event, a proton becomes a neutron, and a neutrino is also emitted). Nuclides with surplus positive charge are easily made in a cyclotron and are widely generated for medical use. Antiprotons have also been shown within laboratory experiments to have the potential to treat certain cancers, in a similar method currently used for ion (proton) therapy.
Antimatter has been considered as a trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons. A major obstacle is the difficulty of producing antimatter in large enough quantities, and there is no evidence that it will ever be feasible. However, the U.S. Air Force funded studies of the physics of antimatter in the Cold War, and began considering its possible use in weapons, not just as a trigger, but as the explosive itself.
@YosukeHanamura thanks for your appreciation.
To be honest, I’m currently working on a new game with Idle Game Maker with more Buildings. This game will be more complex than the previous ones.
The current progress of the game I’m currently working on is in the link below. There are still many things to add to make the game complex. Since the game is complex, using GitHub will be more reasonable than using Pastebin since GitHub can store files with more than 512 kilobytes.
https://github.com/DtjiPsimfans/Library-Tycoon/blob/master/Library-Tycoon.txt
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The unofficial history of Java applets
Posted on August 10, 2010 by Yakov Fain
Fifteen years ago there was no iPhone and Android. Web browsers were hot. Netscape market share was over 90% – they didn’t have competition.The situation changed when Microsoft has introduces Internet Explorer (me too, me too). Back in 1998, there was an infamous law suite between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems – the former started quietly introducing their own class libraries to Java breaking the write-once-run-anywhere idea of Sun that back then seemed to be achievable. Sun won that $10B law suite. But as the saying goes, they won the battle but lost the war.
Angry Microsoft refused to include upgrades to JVM that came with Internet Explorer, which seriously hurt applets popularity – the end user couldn’t just open a Web page to see the applet that required, say 1.3 version of JVM. They’d need to first download the proper version of JVM, and only then the applets that were written with the assumption that JVM 1.3 was available would work. The process of downloading the right JVM Plug-in was a multi-step process, and a truck driver from Alabama wouldn’t be able to go through it.
Update. Two days after I published this blog, the news broke that Oracle decided to sue Google for the “wrong use” of Java on Android platform. Does Larry Ellison have short memories? Sun literally killed Java on the desktop because of that old law suit with Microsoft. In the worst case scenario, if Oracle will win this law suit, Google may do the same thing as Apple did on the iOS and ban Java from this very promising Android platform. Given the fact that five years from now large portion of the applications will consist of a mobile device communicating with the cloud, Java will be seriously damaged. Imagine how many top-notch developers can be added to Java and JavaFX engineering teams at Oracle if the money spent on lawyers would be saved? Oracle, please stop!
High penetration of the required runtime environment and the ease of its upgrade are the crucial moments for any Web-based technology. Adobe Flash Player shines in this area today (sorry, Steve). Flash Player is also a virtual machine with a small memory footprint (1.5Mb), and its installation takes under 20 seconds after one button click. For years, the size of the JVM Plug-in was about 16Mb and install was complicated for a non-programmer, and (the rumor has it) – it’s a lot smaller now.
This situation has changed after the release of Java 6 update 10, which includes so called next-generation Java Plug-in. Now applets don’t run in the JVM packaged with the Web browser, but run in a separate JVM launched by the Java Plug-in. The applet still appears in the Web browser’s window, but now it doesn’t depend on the goodwill of the browser vendor to include the latest Plug-in. You can read more about this Java Plug-in at https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2.
The other major change introduced in the next-generation Java Plug-In is ability to launch Java applets directly from JNLP (Java Network Launch Protocol) files, which in the previous releases were used only in Java Web Start technology that allowed local deployment of the applications over the network. As of Java 10.6.10 you can use the JNLP meta descriptors to launch applets too. JNLP support is described in details at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/index-142562.html.
Earlier versions of HTML standard included the tag <applet> to incorporate Java applets into HTML page. But as of HTML 4.01 this tag has been deprecated and you should use the tags <object> for users who like Internet Explorer or <embed> for other Web browsers. But Oracle, the company behind Java, recommends using <applet> for Web pages accessed through the Internet and <object> or <embed> for intranet-based Web sites. The main reason being that Web browser vendors are infamous for being inconsistent of implementing HTML standards, and it’s safer to use tried and true <applet> tag to get predictable look and feel of the Web pages that host Java applets. But intranet is a more controlled environment. You can read about the differences of embedding applets with these tags at http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html. When young and old kids (sorry Steve) tell that HTML 5 will change the world, it’s funny.
The deployment options for applets have been extended as of release of Java 6 update 10. To learn all the options of applet deployment in depth, refer to the Oracle document titled “Java Rich Internet Applications Deployment Advice” available at http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advice.html.
What’s the next step in applet’s evolution? You’ll be creating UI for the Web-based applications with a relatively new language called JavaFX. In a month, I’ll be trying to attend every JavaFX technical session at JavaOne conference to see if it’ll become a real competition to Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. By the way, anyone heard any noise about Apple not letting JVM on the iPhone? Neither did I. Do you know why?
If you’re not into Java applets, consider attending our Third Annual Enterprise Flex Symposium in New York City. It’s a small event where attendees and presenters will talk turkey about Adobe Flex.
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2 thoughts on “The unofficial history of Java applets”
Anatole Tartakovsky on August 10, 2010 at 11:35 pm said:
Yakov,
I actually had even crazy idea few days ago to build Flex component for Android (paired with native piece of code) to allow downloading Android “applet” APKs to fix limitations of the current AIR platform. So far I was limiting that technology to “services” thus not trying to mix UI of AIR and Java, but J6.10 approach can be doable after all – will try to make sample for Symposium.
Thanks for idea,
Yakov Fain on August 11, 2010 at 9:03 am said:
Anatole,
I’ve got so many good ideas from you during the last 4 years… it’s time to pay back
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Family Name: Asteraceae
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: S. B. Davis
Determination History: Helenium pinnatifidum (Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: L. Baltzell
Locality: USA. Florida. Sumter Co.: Along Ridge Road, 0.3 mi. E ofr FL 471, 6.7 mi. S of Tarrytown.
Description: Several plants; ligules greenish yellow.
Collector: L. Baltzell 11358
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: W.D. Longbottom, Feb 2013
Determination History: Helenium vernale Walter
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Along FL 94, 1.4 mi. S of US 41 at Monroe Station.
Habitat: Scattered Taxodium forest and adjacent open savannas, associated with numerous graminoid herbs, scattered shrubs, and coniferous islands.
Collector: J. L. Reveal 7210
with J. Humphries, L. Gang, W.D. Longbottom, S.L. Cronlund
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Nutt.) Rydb.
Locality: USA. Florida. Flagler Co.: C-18 and Sawgrass Road at the county fairgrounds, N of Bunnell. 29º 29’ 8” N 81º 16’ 40” W
Locality: USA. Florida. Taylor Co.: US 98 at Powell Hammock Road. 30º 8’ 36” N 83º 56’ 22” W
Habitat: Wet roadside ditch.
Locality: USA. Florida. Osceola Co.: US 441 (North Kenansville Road), just N of North Post Office Road, Kenansville. 27º 52’ 58” N 80º 59’ 27” W
Habitat: Edge of pasture.
Locality: USA. Florida. Highlands Co.: Avon Park Air Force Range. Just N of Kissimmee Road, ca. 0.15 mi. W of Van Eeghen Road, ca. 0.3 mi. W of Durden Road. T33S, R30E, Sec. 2, SE¼ of SE¼ of SE¼.
Habitat: Edge of seasonal depression in wet prairie.
Collector: C. vanHoek 887
with B. Wargo
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein.) Rydb. - Determined By: S. R. Hill, Apr 1988
Locality: USA. Mississippi. Jackson Co.: US 90, just W of Gautier.
Description: Rays and disc yellow; frequent herb.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein.) Rydb. - Determined By: S. R. Hill, Sep 93
Locality: USA. South Carolina. Charleston Co.: Santee Coastal Reserve, Washo Reserve; NW boundary; powerline crossing; ca. 1.2 mi SE of S Sandy school.
Description: Flowers yellow; scarce.
Habitat: Boggy area with Sarracenia; fire-managved longleaf pine savannah.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein.) Rydb. - Determined By: R. P. Wunderlin, 1976
Locality: USA. Alabama. Geneva Co.: Between Geneva and Samson on AL 52.
Description: Disc and rays yellow.
Habitat: Sandy peat of pineland bog.
Collector: R. Kral 34559
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein.) Rydb. - Determined By: H. E. Ahles
Locality: USA. South Carolina. Horry Co.: ESE of Goretown.
Habitat: Banks of roadside ditch.
Collector: R. C. Bell 6272
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum Schwein. ex Nutt.
Locality: USA. Florida. Hendry Co.: Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest. Off Oil Well Pad Road, 1.2 km N of C-832, 8.5 km E of FL 29. 26º 36’ 48” N 81º 21’ W
Habitat: Outer edge of slough marsh.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb.
Locality: USA. Florida. Jefferson Co.: US 98, ca. 1.3 mi. E of the Wakulla County line, Monticello. 30º 11’ 26” N 84º 3’ 35” W
Habitat: Wet roadside.
with H.L. Williams
Locality: USA. Florida. Gulf Co.: FL 22, ca. 2 mi. E of the Bay County line, Wewathichka. 30º 10’ 31” N 85º 39’ 0” W
Habitat: Edges of wet roadside ditch.
with W.D. Longbottom
Locality: USA. Florida. Orange Co.: Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area. St. Nicholas Road, ca. 25 mi. E of Orlando. 28º 30’ 10” N 80º 58’ 46” W
Habitat: Damp roadside.
Collector: S. Myers 1640
Locality: USA. Florida. Liberty Co.: Apalachicola National Forest. FL 65, 3.13 mi. N of Sumatra. 30º 3’ 54” N 84º 59’ W
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: R. P. Wunderlin, 1976
Locality: USA. Alabama. Mobile Co.: Ca. 4 mi. S of Theodore; off AL 163 detour. 30º 31’ N 88º 10’ W
Habitat: Open pine woodland and cutover marsh area.
Collector: L. Zachary 260
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: B. F. Hansen, Jul 2018
Locality: USA. Florida. Monroe Co.: University of Miami property, Pinecrest.
Habitat: Cypress [Taxodium] swamp.
Collector: M. B. Meagher 1228
Locality: USA. Florida. Liberty Co.: FL 65, 1.45 mi. N of Sumatra. 30º 2’ 27” N 84º 59’ 0” W
Habitat: Damp roadside next to flooded pinelands.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: J. R. Campbell, 2017
Locality: USA. Florida. Polk Co.: FL 33, North Lakeland.
Collector: M. Gilbert 618
Locality: USA. Florida. Polk Co.: Dranefield Road, 8 mi. W of Florida Avenue.
Collector: M. Hudson 61,98
Locality: USA. Florida. Lee Co.: Ca. 4.5 mi. E of the junction of I-75 and Corkscrew Road (C-850) on a ca. 200 acre parcel on the N side of Corkscrew Road. 26º 27’ 33” N 81º 43’ 27” W
Habitat: Open fringe of cypress [Taxodium] swamp.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: B. F. Hansen, Mar 2005
Locality: USA. Florida. Martin Co.: Jonathan Dickinson State Park. E of stables.
Date: Jan 1988
Locality: USA. Florida. Lee Co.: N. Fort Myers; near N - S powerline, N of clubhouse, Tamiami Village.
Description: Yellow-orange flowers.
Locality: USA. Florida. Levy Co.: Along S side of FL 24, 3.8 mi. NE of Otter Creek; 8 mi. SE of Bronson. T13S, R16E, Sec. 17, NW¼ of NE¼.
Reproductive State: Bud, Flower
with F. Essig
Locality: USA. Florida. Citrus Co.: Ozello Road.
Habitat: Roadside. Damp sand.
Locality: USA. Florida. Citrus Co.: Crystal River; Old Tallahassee Road.
Habitat: Wet ditch.
Locality: USA. Florida. Citrus Co.: C-494, W of US 19.
Habitat: Growing in a moist field.
Locality: USA. Florida. Miami-Dade Co.: Everglades National Park. Along FL 27 at the junction with the road to Mahogany Hammock.
Description: Yellow flowers.
Habitat: Wet prairie at the edge of pinelands.
Locality: USA. Florida. Levy Co.: 0.5 mi. S of Lebanon Station, roadside.
Description: Ray and disc flowers yellow; leaves rather fleshy, ascending.
Habitat: Roadside swale.
with C.E. Wood, Jr., K.A. Wilson
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: O. K. Lakela, s.d.
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Along Waters Avenue and Hulsey Road, 3.5 mi. W of Dale Mabry Highway.
Habitat: In a shallow ditch beside the road near scattered pines within a wet pinelands, with palmetto [Serenoa repens], Buchnera sp., Hypoxis sp., Polygala sp., and Sisyrinchium sp.
Collector: J. A. Lassiter s.n.
with R. Lassiter
Locality: USA. Florida. Sumter Co.: In Withlacoochee Development Project.
Description: Yellow ray and disc flowers.
Habitat: In shallow freshwater of longleaf pine [Pinus palustris] forest and cypress [Taxodium sp.] swamp.
with A.S. Pease, O.K. Lakela
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: H. Rock, 10-Mar-1983
Locality: USA. Florida. Levy Co.: 5 mi. W of Otter Creek.
Habitat: Dry ground near roadside.
Locality: USA. Florida. Union Co.: Roadside along C-121, 1.2 mi. N of Railford, next to the rail road tracks.
Habitat: Edge of wet pine flatwoods.
Locality: USA. Florida. Bradford Co.: 5 mi. N of Starke.
Description: 2 to 4 feet high; hollow stem.
Locality: USA. Florida. Sumter Co.:
Description: Peduncle fistulose beneath the involucre, flower-heads erect, nodding before anthesis; ray and disc flowers yellow.
Habitat: In shallow water of wet prairie.
with J. Monachino, R.J. Eaton
Locality: USA. Florida. Volusia Co.: Ca. 4 mi. E of FL 40 and FL 415 intersection, near Samsula.
Description: Rays yellow, disc darker.
Habitat: Longleaf pine [Pinus palustris] flatwoods with planted slash pine [Pinus elliottii], Serenoa repens, Ilex glabra, Myrica, Aristida, etc.
with C.E. Wood, C.E. Smith, R.J. Eaton
Locality: USA. Florida. Polk Co.: Close to the W side of Lakeland, on US 92.
Description: Infrequent.
Habitat: In partly cleared border of seasonally wet marshy area, with spp. of Erigeron and Hieracium.
Locality: USA. Florida. Seminole Co.: W of Oviedo.
Description: Ray and disk flowers yellow. Two plants are united at th root.
Habitat: In pine flats.
with R.J. Eaton, J. Ray, Jr.
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Off the road that goes to the Bird Sanctuary in Corkscrew.
Habitat: Palmetto [Serenoa repens] scrub; ditch bank.
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: E central part of the section. T25S, R18E, Sec. 4.
Habitat: In wet prairie in water ca. 40 cm deep.
with J. Monachino
Locality: USA. Florida. Taylor Co.: Roadside.
Description: Ray and disk flowers yellow.
Habitat: Wet roadside swale.
Description: Ray and disk flowers yellow; locally abundant.
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: Ca. 1 mi. N of Lutz on FL 597 [Dale Mabry Highway]; 0.3 mi S of the junction with US 41. T26S, R18E, Sec. 36, SW¼ of NW¼.
Collector: R. P. Sauleda 4642A
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: Robert Kral, 06-Apr-1957
Locality: USA. Florida. Wakulla Co.: 7 mi. E of Newport.
Habitat: On wet, sandy peat or in shallow standing water of a savanna.
Locality: USA. Florida. Pinellas Co.: 3 mi. E of Tarpon Springs.
Description: Scattered; flower heads erect; ray and disk flowers yellow.
Habitat: In wet prairie.
Locality: USA. Florida. Jefferson Co.: 8 mi. W of Wacissa.
Habitat: Moist savanna sands.
Locality: USA. Florida. Broward Co.: Holmberg Road, 10 mi. W of Deerfield.
Habitat: In pine flatwoods.
Locality: USA. Florida. Charlotte Co.: Tucker's Corner; 6 mi. S of Bermont on the W side of FL 31. T42S, R25E, Sec. 1, NE¼ of NE¼.
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.
Habitat: Shade. Dry muck.
Collector: P. Genelle 495
Locality: USA. Florida. Hernando Co.: N of Aripeka, roadside on FL 595.
Habitat: Full sun. Damp, sandy loam.
Locality: USA. Florida. Manatee Co.: FL 64 roadside, 10 mi. E of Bradenton.
Habitat: Roadside ditch. Moist sandy soil.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: A. F. Clewell, 17-Apr-1969
Locality: USA. Florida. Jefferson Co.: Along FL 59 between Wacissa and the US 98 junction.
Habitat: Roadside, in wet soil along the edge of pine flatwoods.
Collector: A. F. Clewell 2851
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: 1 mi. W of US 41 along FL 54.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: D. B. Ward, 27-Mar-1959
Locality: USA. Florida. Flagler Co.: Along FL 305, 200 yds. E of the Volusia - Flagler county line; ca. 2 mi. N of Lake Disston. T13S, R29E, Sec. 31.
Habitat: Roadside wet bank.
Collector: D. B. Ward 1214
with E.S. Ford, A.M. Laessle
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Big Cypress [Swamp and] Fakahatchee [Swamp]; S of Miles City.
Habitat: Glade and cypress [Taxodium sp.] margin.
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: Ca. 3 mi. W of the junction with US 41 on FL 54.
Description: Generally common.
Habitat: In moist soil of roadside and clearings.
Locality: USA. Florida. Marion Co.: Along C-315, 8 mi. N of FL 40.
Description: Rays yellow.
Habitat: In the ditch of an open, wet field.
Collector: D. S. Correll s.n.
Locality: USA. Florida. Bay Co.: Along FL 77, ca. 1.5 mi. N of Vicksburg.
Habitat: In flooded roadside ditch.
Locality: USA. Florida. Pinellas Co.: Brooker Creek Preserve. Ca. 3.5 mi. NNE of Oldsmar along the powerline r-o-w. T27S, R16E, Sec. 1, NE¼.
Habitat: Weeds and wet areas in the powerline r-o-w.
with R.P. Wunderlin, P. Dooris
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: S Mobley Road.
Collector: V. Ducey 233
Locality: USA. Florida. Liberty Co.: Along FL 67, 11.2 mi. S of the junction with FL 65 (at Telogia).
Description: Mostly past flowering.
Habitat: Growing in full sun in standing water along low, wet roadside.
Collector: S. B. Jones 25143
with A.K Gholson, M.O. Moore
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: N Tampa; E of FL 581, ca. 3 mi. N of Fletcher Avenue.
Locality: USA. Florida. Nassau Co.: A1A and Police Lodge Road, 3 mi. W of I-95.
Collector: N. L. Mawhinney s.n.
Locality: USA. Florida. Citrus Co.: Crystal River; 1 block S of FL 44W on Country Club Lane.
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Keystone Road.
Habitat: Sandy ditches.
Locality: USA. Florida. Levy Co.: Ca. 2 mi. SE of the junction with FL 345 on FL 24. T14S, R13E, Sec. 36.
Locality: USA. Florida. Sarasota Co.: Just S of the boundary between sections 22 and 27 and ca. 0.6 mi. E of C-773 (Beneva Road). T37S, R18E, Sec. 27.
Description: Locally common.
Habitat: Along the edge of disturbed flatwoods marsh. Moist sandy soil.
Locality: USA. Florida. Miami-Dade Co.: Everglades National Park. Old road to Flamingo. Paradise Key.
with H. Andorfer, M. Meagher, L. Brown
Locality: USA. Florida. Monroe Co.: Loop Road (FL 94).
Locality: USA. Florida. Pinellas Co.: Brooker Creek Preserve. Ca. 3.5 mi. NNE of Oldsmar along the diagonal powerline. T27S, R16E, Sec. 36, SE¼ of NW¼.
Locality: USA. Florida. Palm Beach Co.: Jupiter; E side of 105th Terrace N, between 163rd and 164th Road N, Jupiter Farms Subdivision. T41S, R41E, Sec. 12.
Locality: USA. Florida. Monroe Co.: Pinecrest Road.
Habitat: Ditch banks bordering hammock and glade areas.
Locality: USA. Florida. Monroe Co.: S side of Loop Road (old FL 94), ca. 4 mi. W of Pinecrest and ca. 12 road mi. SE of Monroe Station, ca. 2 mi. E of Sawmill Road. T53S, R33E, unsectioned. 25º 45’ 30” N 81º 0’ 6” W
Habitat: Wet slash pine [Pinus elliottii] / cabbage palm [Sabal palmetto] marly savanna; community dominated by Pinus elliottii var. densa, Sabal palmetto, Cladium jamaicense.
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: O. K. Lakela
Locality: USA. Florida. Monroe Co.: Everglades National Park. Beside main road.
Habitat: Full sun; edge of marshy area at very beginning of mangrove.
Collector: H. D. Hammond 3923a
Locality: USA. Florida. Polk Co.: Avon Park Air Force Range. S side of Roberts Road, ca. 0.25 mi. W of Hard Luck Road. T32S, R31E, Sec. 35, NE¼ of NW¼ of NE¼.
Habitat: Recently burned wet prairie.
with B. Wargo, S. Orzell
Locality: USA. Florida. Osceola Co.: E side of US 192, E of Alligator Lake.
Habitat: Moist soil in ditch.
Locality: USA. Florida. Flagler Co.: Along FL 11, 3.7 mi. N of Volusia Co. line, 2.0 mi. S of Cody Corner. 29º 18’ 44” N 81º 18’ 52” W
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: D. W. Crewz, Aug 1978
Determination History: Helenium vernale (Walter)
Locality: USA. Florida. Volusia Co.: FL 44, 6 mi. E of Deland. T17S, R31E, Sec. 15.
Collector: J. E. Poppleton 1962
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Deltona property N of Tampa and W of FL 581.
Description: Flowers yellow.
Habitat: Standing water at margin of sawgrass marsh.
with S. DuBois
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Junction of Armistead Lane and Hutchinson Road.
Habitat: Edge of sandhill community.
Locality: USA. Florida. Hendry Co.: Off FL 29, S of Labelle city limits.
Habitat: Wet sandy stretch; with Coreopsis, Gaura, Sisyrinchium.
Locality: USA. Florida. St. Johns Co.: N side of C-210, W of Sampson.
Habitat: Water-filled ditch.
Collector: J. E. Poppleton 588
with A.G. Shuey
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: US 41, 2.3 mi. S of FL 52.
Collector: I. L. Wiggins 19607
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: Starkey Wilderness Park. 2.5 mi. NNW of Odessa. T26S, R17E, Sec. 9, SE¼ of NW¼.
Habitat: Dome swamp.
with K. Fearn, J. Kunzer
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Collier-Seminole State Park. Near N boundary of park. T51S, R27E, Sec. 27, NW¼ of SW¼ of NW¼.
Habitat: Edge of strand swamp.
Locality: USA. Florida. Baker Co.: Between C-228 and pine flatwoods, 2.5 mi. SE of I-10 and Macclenny, 5.5 mi. NW of US 301 and Maxville. T3S, R22E, Sec. 14.
Habitat: Wet road ditch.
Locality: USA. Florida. Martin Co.: Ca. 2.8 air mi. NW of Gomez, ca. 4.0 air mi. NW of Hobe Sound, ca. 1.3 mi WSW of junction Hibiscus Way and US 1. T39S, R42E, Sec. 7, NE edge (irregular). 27º 5’ 53” N 80º 11’ 13” W
Habitat: Wet - mesic slash pine [Pinus elliottii] flatwoods. Soils - EauGallie (Alfic Haplaquods).
Locality: USA. Florida. Duval Co.: Julington-Durbin Creek Preserve. Ca. 0.3 air mi. ESE of Old St. Augustine Road bridge over I-95, ca. 1.4 air mi. WSW of Bayard, ca. 18 air mi. SE of Jacksonville. T4S, R28E, Sec. 30, W½ of NW¼ and Sec. 19, W½ of SW¼. 30º 7’ 56” N 81º 32’ 21” W
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Flatwoods [County] Park. 1.5 mi. NW of Morris Bridge, ca. 8 mi. E of Lutz. T27S, R20E, Sec. 20, SE¼ of SW¼.
Locality: USA. Florida. Hillsborough Co.: Balm-Boyette Tract, 2.0 mi. SSW of Boyette. T31S, R21E, Sec. 17, NW¼ of NW¼.
Locality: USA. Florida. Charlotte Co.: Charlotte Harbor Flatwoods; ca. 1.4 air mi. SSW of junction Zemel Road and US 41, ca. 1.5 air mi. NW of US 41 at Lee Co. line, ca. 11.5 air mi. SE of Punta Gorda. T42S, R24E, Sec. 31, NW¼. 26º 46’ 46” N 81º 57’ 6” W
Habitat: Sandy margin of depression pond in hydric flatwoods. Soils - Pineda (Arenic Glossaqualfs).
Locality: USA. Florida. St. Johns Co.: S side of FL 13, ca. 0.4 mi. N of Meldrim Park, ca. 2.3 air mi. SE of junction FL 208 and FL 13 in Picolata. T7S, R27E, Sec. 40, NW¼ of NW¼. 29º 53’ 23” N 81º 34’ 2” W
Habitat: Roadside through mesic flatwoods and depression marsh. Soils - Pomona (Ultic Haplaquods).
Elevation: 6 to 9 ft
Locality: USA. Florida. Brevard Co.: West Melbourne, Dow Road. 28º 6’ 24” N 80º 41’ 37” W
Description: Erect herb to 65 cm with yellow flower and reddish-brown bracts; abundant.
Habitat: Damp roadside ditch.
with K.R. Weichman, K. Zarillo
Locality: USA. Florida. Pasco Co.: Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park. Nature trail, ca. 0.75 mi. W of Scenic Drive. T25S, R16E, Sec. 16, SE¼ of NW¼.
Habitat: Open, grassy embankment; wet flatwoods.
with G. O'Connor
Currently Accepted Name: Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. - Determined By: B. F. Hansen, Sep 2006
Locality: USA. Florida. Levy Co.: Along FL 24, between Otter Creek and Rosewood. 29º 15’ 46” N 82º 53’ 2” W
Description: Scattered.
Collector: W. D. Longbottom 7029
Locality: USA. Florida. Dixie Co.: NW of Cross City along FL 358, ca. 0.3 mi. N of US 19/US 98. 29º 39’ 22” N 83º 10’ 37” W
Locality: USA. Florida. Sarasota Co.: Oscar Scherer State Park. S boundary of burn zone 16c. T38S, R18E, Sec. 13, NE¼ of NE¼ of NE¼.
Description: Erect to 1 m height; uncommon.
Habitat: Drainage ditch; mesic flatwoods, 6 months post-burn.
with W. Dunk
Locality: USA. Florida. Osceola Co.: E side of C-523 (Canoe Creek Road), 2.1 mi. S of junction US 192 in St. Cloud. T26S, R30E, Sec. 23, NW¼ of NW¼. 28º 12’ 53” N 81º 17’ 29” W
Habitat: Disturbed seepy flatwoods - savanna and cypress slough. Soils - Basinger (Spodic Psammaquents).
Locality: USA. Florida. Hernando Co.: S of Weeki-Wachee Springs.
Description: Ray and disk flowers yellow, erect at anthesis.
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: S of Tamiami Trail, E of Monroe Station.
Habitat: Pineland, outcrops of large boulders; lake terrace.
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Tim Cook: It's Unwise to Burden the Tablet With The Legacy of the PC
System Posts: 446
May 2012 via Wordpress in iPhoneHacks.com
Ever since the iPad has been launched, we've seen several accessories and even Kickstarter projects that have targeted users who miss a physical keyboard.
Some of Apple's competitors like Asus have launched products like Asus Eee Pad Slider which comes with a slide-out tablet. We have also seen laptop and tablet combos such as Toshiba's Portege M930.
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Que Posts: 48
May 2012 via Wordpress
A tablet is a touchscreen laptop without a keyboard. Period. People are brainwashed.
Reeplay Posts: 19
So, what he said in the begining is basicaly, "If you just think the tablet isn't supposed to be able to do everything we expect it to, then it is the best thing ever."Somehow that just sounds like lazy talk. "Look at at this 100 year old PC. It actually sucks, but if you think about how old it is, then it's great!" No, it's still a piece of crap by todays standards. It doesn't matter if the tablets are carrying the PC legacy or not, that's not the point. What people want is funcionality, usefullness and looks. The main selling point of an iPad (or any apple product, for that matter) is that it's extremely usefull in everydays life. Then having the apple CEO saying "Well, it is actually extremely limited, a laptop can still do more" is atleast slightly contradictory. Instead of trying to get lame excuses like this, why don't you guys innovate a little more? Let's face it, since Steve Jobs has gone under the grave, Apple hasn't seen alot of inovation, just a slight upgrade of the products he invented. And Apple is known for inovating and pushing the world forward.
Utente-a-caso Posts: 8
AND with a dedicated operating system AND with a dedicated UI. Isn't that enough to make a BIG difference?Want to add a third?A tablet is optimized for mobility and casual use (e.g. you can use it for 10 seconds while you are standing on a bus, for example, and you don't have to sit down to put it on your knees) - so it is always on, have a long lasting battery and often have a 3G/4G module builtin
wakawaka Posts: 3
Mr. Cook,You are "somewhat" wrong.With a tablet, you can either consume or produce information. To consume info, you don´t need a keyboard. But to produce info in an efficient and confortable way, you (still) need it.Eventually, we will not need them. But just right now, we do.Analogies ? With a car, you can drive it or be a passenger. As a passenger, you don´t need a steering wheel. As a driver, you (still) need it.....It has been so for the last 100 year, and still no way to get rid of it.....but, it will eventually happen.......
Frank Posts: 215
Apple has not come up with a new product because it hasn't found the right one to steal and call it's own. Que a tablet is not a laptop it's a tablet. Even the cheapest laptop is much more powerful the even the fastest tablet. It's like comparing a 4 cylinder engine to an 8 cylinder engine
bart Posts: 13
It all depends on individual's needs. In my personal opinion a tablet is ment to be as portable device as it can be and the more functionality it delivers the better, however, it is limited by desing and the idea at all. People who belive it is possible to have every thing integrated in such a small, thin and light device are being unrealistic.
iBoy Posts: 14
What Cook says isn't quite true. Last year, Microsoft tossed the early build of a tablet/PC hybrid made by Samsung that looks very cool (link below). I look forward to it because I am getting tired of keeping switching between my iPad and PC.http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Mike-Angiulo-Unboxes-the-Build-Hardware-With-Us
pakaku Posts: 31
If the iPad were a laptop replacement, Apple wouldn't be selling Macbooks anymore.
mabbent Posts: 40
And I want my Mini-Cooper to do the same work as my Ford F-350 Heavy Duty.
Never said it would replace laptops. Just said that Apple themselves created some kind of standards around the iPad that make me think it's the most usefull tool i can have. And then Tim Cooks comes around saying basicaly, that "it's very usefull, but only because you shouldn't think about it as being the most usefull tool you can buy". Where do we stand then?Just watch any of the iPad comercials.Don't get me wrong, i love my iPad 2 and New iPad, it's not the product im dissing. It's Tim Cooks statements. It just sounds bad, like they are trying to excuse themselves and their shortcomings. You would never ear Steve Jobs stating **** like this.
I'm sure your Mini-Cooper isn't advertised as doing the same work the Ford F-350 Heavy Duty does.But the iPad sure is advertised as doing what my PC does, and more. It doesn't, no matter how many Jailbreak tweaks i get it.
Mark Posts: 267
So when Apple releases their own TV, I bet many like you will say, "Apple stole that from this, that, and them."Its funny how apple releases something, many people cry with hate.
anton Posts: 12
Why couldn't the benefits of the two solutions be combined into the same system? If a pc, as a laptop, gives the opportunity to give legacy apps and still have a possibility to un-attach from the laptop to become a tablet. Actually it's not that difficult, it's still technology that exist today. Although majority of these devices, that are available of switching between laptop and tablet, are based on android and can't use essential legacy apps for the pc. But say for the upcoming win 8 for example, based on x86 systems, the possibilities extends with the mobility of tablets and the functionability of laptops, into one integrated system. The limitations of what you can do is in the end based on the OS. If the OS is user-friendly and still can be productive there is no matter whether it is a laptop or tablet. I think the argument that a keyboard makes the tablet more clumsier is a lame excuse, because there are always ways to come around this, just look at the Transformer Eee Tab.
s0ulo Posts: 34
And then right after hate'n and talking **** about apple, they turn around and buy an iPhone and an iPad lol. Go figure
matt Posts: 283
I don't understand. Why not use whats out there? Apple makes Bluetooth keyboards for iPad. There are even iPad cases with keyboards built in. If your a content creator you need to carry this additional device or get this case. I dont understand why apple has to build it in for you.
GunDoc Posts: 6
June 2012 via Wordpress
LOL! He said kick ass! Great analogy of toaster and refrigerator. A product is produced to meet a certain need and requirement. A tablet is a middle ground, an in between agent that will connect the heavy weight work of the desktop/laptop computer, and the light weight of something you put on your hip or in your pocket... The tablet provides you the function without the heft, at least until the computer OS's converge with the mobile, hand held, market OS's. IMHO, that is where we are all headed--a computer based, handheld OS. Not a matter of if, but when.
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Red flag laws aim to reduce deaths by firearms
March 10 � To the Editor:
I am writing in response to Alicia Preston�s opinion piece published in the March 10 Seacoast Sunday. She uses one example of how a red flag law was misused to argue against passage of this type of law in New Hampshire. She also criticized others who found fault regarding the legislators who wore pearls to the hearing. The pearls were supplied by the Women�s Defense League of NH. Many of these legislators also wore miniature assault rifle pins on their lapels.
On the Women�s Defense League of NH website they state: �From 7 day waiting periods to purchase a firearm to horrifying Red Flag Laws that deny law-abiding citizens multiple protected rights...the New Hampshire Legislature is out of control pushing outrageous gun legislation that egregiously and intentionally harms law-abiding Granite Staters.�
Two-thirds of gun deaths are due to suicide. Firearms used by individuals to cause self-harm are 85 percent effective in causing suicidal death. Other forms of suicide methods result in 5 percent success rates. Red Flag Laws reduce suicide rates as witnessed for example in a 14 percent reduction in Connecticut and 7.5 percent reduction in Indiana.
States that require universal background checks and mandatory wait periods showed a 0.76/100,000 reduction in suicides compared to a 1.04/100,000 increase in suicide rate in states without these laws.
In 2017, there were 39,773 Americans killed by guns or 12 fatal shootings per 100,000 people which is the highest rate since the mid 1990s. The leading increase was due to suicides.
Reg Flag Laws are also intended to help prevent the misuse of firearms by people who are unstable to harm others. In the US, women are 21 times more likely to be killed with a firearm than women in other high-income countries. Fifty women per month are shot by intimate partners in the US. Three million children in America witness gun violence annually. A 2017 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology of 45 states and using 34 years of data re: gun laws and emergency restraining orders in domestic violence cases show these laws resulted in 12 percent fewer murders of intimate partners.
It is estimated that over 1,300 children and teens in the US die annually due to firearms. On the Women�s Defense League of NH website they point out that more children die due to motor vehicle accidents than due to injuries due to firearms. They neglect to state however that deaths of American children and teens due to gun violence far exceeds deaths due to cancer, drowning, drug poisoning or overdose, heart disease, fire or burns. On their website the Women�s Defense League also states the statistics re children killed with guns also �include �children� of gang banger age.� From their statement, this is a group of children that I assume they feel is unworthy and unimportant to be included in the statistics re: deaths caused by firearms.
The statistics used in my opinion piece were obtained from everytownreasearch.org, www.thetrace.org, apa.org and Wikipedia. There has been a federal funding freeze for gun violence research since the Dickey Amendment was passed in 1996. This amendment was lobbied for by the NRA and mandates that �none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control.�
Deaths and injuries caused by gun violence is a public health crisis in America. Red Flag Laws aim to reduce deaths and injuries caused by firearms. Regarding the pearls and miniature assault rifle pins, the legislators might just as well have worn ear muffs and blinders because it signified they weren�t willing to listen with open minds to the concerns voiced by their constituents who were there to advocate for how gun violence had adversely affected their lives.
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Mass Mma Against The Ropes;community Meeting Weighs Future
Mass MMA Against The Ropes;
Community Meeting Weighs Future
By Derek Callahan
On Tuesday, July 12th, members of the New England MMA community gathered in Stoughton, Massachusetts to discuss the direction of local mixed martial arts. After MMA took some media heat, which included inflammatory articles in a variety of local and city-wide newspapers, the Massachusetts Boxing Commission, the body that sanctioned MMA in the state, has taken a step back to review MMA and put a freeze on its sanctioning. As of now, MMA has no existing connection to the Commission, and therefore no set laws or rules that come with having a supervisory body to oversee the sport.
"Right now their insurance advisors said that they cannot oversee us because the language of MMA is not written into the law," said local trainer/fighter/promoter Mike Littlefield on why the Commission has put a hold on their association with MMA.
Currently, all MMA fighters who have fought on a sanctioned local show are licensed, but they are licensed as kickboxers. In the past, MMA was deemed a moneymaker, and therefore the Commission agreed to oversee it. But, when the media began to bring MMA into the public eye with an array of articles in a short period of time, it came to light that the sport, while sanctioned by the Boxing Commission, actually has no exclusive law protecting it.
After some words from their insurance advisors, members of the Massachusetts Commission are heading to Las Vegas towards the end of this month for the annual Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC) meeting, which convenes several athletic boards and sanctioning bodies together from across the country. UFC President Dana White is penciled in to attend, and Littlefield is hopeful that once this meeting comes to pass, it will help the chances of MMA in Massachusetts.
"We’re hoping that they’re gonna come back with unified rules and just take it over again," said Littlefield. "Hopefully the commission will push this into law. The structure is already set up, they have a commissioner, referees, they have the judges–all they need is a language that accepts our rules."
For now, MMA isn’t necessarily shut down in the state. While the sport is being lobbied into law, the people that have pumped life into MMA in the past don’t intend to stop. But, as discussed at the Stoughton meeting, they have to tread carefully.
"We’re gonna continue to govern MMA, we’ll just have to do it ourselves until the law steps in and takes over," said Littlefield. So long as a promoter has permission from a town to hold an event and a venue to do it in, he’s good to go. But those perpetuating the sport, a tight-knit group already, have to be sure that all the shows being held are well-run and legitimate.
The last thing MMA needs is to prove right the type of negative press that it has been garnishing. As Littlefield pointed out, "We as the leaders of the Massachusetts MMA community need to govern ourselves until the Commission comes back. We’re not gonna let it run wild."
RITC 72 – Results
Lansing named Fighter of Night
A standing room only crowd of 3,500+ welcomed Rage in the Cage to Fort McDowell Casibo in Fountain Hills Arizona. John Lansing returned to RITC action after a 2 year lay off to fight highly regarded Robert Rose. Lansing won by arm bar submission late in round 1 to earn Fighter of the Night (FOTN) honors. Other candidates for FOTN honors were Brandon Oliver, Josh Donahue, Brandon Mullins, Richie Hightower, Jamie Schmitt, Jesse Forbes and Brian Bourgeois.
Brandon Oliver (140), Team Brausa
won by submission (arm bar), 2:29 Rd 1
Arturo Salcido (145), Freestyle
Josh Donahue (150), Team Brausa
won by submission (choke), 2:03 Rd 1
Rosco McClelland (144), Team Brausa
Brandon Mullins (182), Team Brausa
Jeremiah Miller (186), ACMMA
Richie Hightower (202), Genesis JJ/Roufus Kick-Boxing
won by submission (strikes), :32 Rd 2
Paul Schmadeke (199), AJJA
Jamie Schmitt (176), AMMAC
won by submission (choke), :26 Rd 1
David Ordaz (185), Freestyle
Jesse Forbes (204), ACS
Arturo Segovia (208), AJJA
Super Fight)
Brian Bourgeois (265), Genesis JJ/Roufus Kick-Boxing
won by ref stoppage (injury – arm), :55 Rd 1
Richie Gould (221), AJJA
John Lansing (183), Team Havok
Robert Rose (192), AMMAC
Upcoming event:
RITC 73 – Domination
Glendale Arena
Saturday, Aug 6, 2005
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*Overnight Media Digest*
* Congressional investigators looking into why General Motors Co took nearly a decade to recall vehicles with faulty ignition switches said on Sunday that federal regulators twice declined to open formal probes into complaints about the cars and that GM rejected a proposed fix for the problem in 2005 because it would have taken too long and cost too much. (http://r.reuters.com/tys97v)
* Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is close to appointing a Credit Suisse investment banker as its next chief financial officer. The appointment of Ewen Stevenson, who advised on the bailout of the 81 percent government-owned RBS, still needs to be approved by UK regulator Prudential Regulation Authority, according to a person familiar with the matter. (http://r.reuters.com/get97v)
* Caterpillar Inc, a maker of construction and mining equipment, on Tuesday will become the latest blue chip hauled before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to explain strategies designed to shrink tax bills. Caterpillar officials are preparing to defend a corporate restructuring in the late 1990s that helped the company reduce U.S. taxes, particularly on sales of parts to foreign customers. (http://r.reuters.com/xys97v)
* The Food and Drug Administration's efforts to speed approvals of drugs to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria will be front and center on Monday as the agency considers two new antibiotics with possible advantages. The FDA's methods to advance new antibiotics so far haven't generally led to great new drugs, and there has been considerable debate over attempts to speed the approval process. (http://r.reuters.com/hat97v)
* Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
said Monday it agreed to pay $692 million to take a roughly 35 percent stake in Chinese department store operator Intime Retail (Group) Co in a bid to link more closely e-commerce and shopping at bricks-and-mortar retail stores. (http://r.reuters.com/mat97v)
* Blucora Inc is preparing an all-cash bid for Brookstone Inc that would challenge Spencer Sprit Holdings Inc's offer, which includes $120 million in cash and the assumption of Brookstone debt, among other things, according to people familiar with the matter. Spencer earlier offered to serve as the lead bidder at an auction for Brookstone, which is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection in the coming days. (http://r.reuters.com/pat97v)
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UK's financial services sector is set to add up to 26,000 jobs in the year to June according to an industry survey by the CBI employers' group and PriceWaterHouseCoopers.
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Glencore Xstrata Plc has reached a preliminary deal for a $1 billion contract for access to railway and port facilities with Mauritania as part of its plans to expand into iron ore mining.
The London-listed telecom giant Vodafone has acquired an e-money licence to expand in Europe, with plans to launch M-Pesa in Romania, after the success of its mobile payment system in sub-Saharan Africa.
* Federal regulators decided not to open an inquiry on the ignitions of General Motors Co's Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars even after their own investigators reported in 2007 that they knew of four fatal crashes, 29 complaints and 14 other reports that showed the problem disabled air bags, according to a memo released by a House sub-committee on Sunday. (http://link.reuters.com/fat97v)
* China's Alibaba Group Holding Limited
, one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies, said it would invest 5.37 billion Hong Kong dollars ($692.3 million), for a stake of as much as 35 percent in Intime Retail Group, which operates 36 department stores and shopping centers across China.(http://link.reuters.com/kat97v)
* Vince McMahon and his company, World Wrestling Entertainment, have positioned themselves on the cutting edge of Internet television with the WWE Network, a new subscription-only streaming video service. Shares of the WWE, a publicly traded company based in Stamford, Connecticut, have more than tripled over the last year with the introduction of the subscription network and takeover rumors. (http://link.reuters.com/nat97v)
* Officially, it's Apple Inc versus Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in another tech patent face-off in a San Jose courtroom this week. But there is another company with a lot at stake in the case - Google Inc. In a lawsuit, Apple is seeking about $2 billion in damages from Samsung for selling phones and tablets that Apple says violate five of its mobile software patents. Samsung, meanwhile, says Apple violated two of its patents. (http://link.reuters.com/sat97v)
* Some companies housed in specific low-income areas of San Francisco receive breaks on taxes if they perform tasks that help improve their neighborhoods. (http://link.reuters.com/jet97v)
* U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart agreed on Sunday that a political solution was needed for Ukraine and said they planned to continue discussing ways to de-escalate the crisis over the country's future and Russia's annexation of Crimea. But neither side claimed a breakthrough, and Russia did not commit to pulling back the more than 40,000 troops the United States says are massed near Ukraine's border. (http://link.reuters.com/ket97v)
* Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is challenging Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak to either back up his "false" and "defamatory" allegations that she oversaw the purging of government documents or face legal action. (http://r.reuters.com/jyt97v)
* Dimitri Soudas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's choice as the Conservative Party's executive director, has been pushed out after four months on the job. The move that follows an uproar over a local nomination race involving the departed staffer's spouse. (http://r.reuters.com/qav97v)
Reports in the business section:
* Almost two-thirds of Canadian executives say the country is too dependent on resource industries such as mining, oil and gas and needs to become more diversified to inject better balance into the economy. (http://r.reuters.com/cyt97v)
* Sunshine Oilsands Ltd, largely backed by state-owned Chinese enterprises and Asian retail investors, faces 71 lawsuits seeking a total of $94-million for unpaid bills as the company struggles to raise the money it needs to restart development of its stalled northern Alberta project. (http://r.reuters.com/rav97v)
* Health Council of Canada issued a report saying the 2004 health care "fix for a generation" was nothing of the sort. On the contrary, it reported, the $41-billion deal negotiated between Paul Martin's Liberal government and the provinces raised expectations beyond reality and failed to keep pace with societal shifts - everything from aging to economics - and their impact on access to care. (http://r.reuters.com/xyt97v)
* Canada's largest medical regulator would bar doctors from accepting almost any gift from a pharmaceutical company under a proposed new ethics policy, part of a growing movement to reform the intimate and controversial relationship between industry and physicians. (http://r.reuters.com/zyt97v)
* Canadians could soon be warming up to an improving economy. Both Canada and the United States are coming out of severe winter storms that disrupted output, sales and hiring. The weather factor already accounted for weaker growth in both countries at the end of 2013, and the harsh climate limited activity in the first months of this year, as well, before the impact began to recede. Economists are already seeing that pattern emerging. (http://r.reuters.com/mav97v)
* Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh from a trip to Europe where he talked up Canada's energy export potential, is scheduled to meet Monday with a delegation from British Columbia headed by Premier Christy Clark for an update on liquefied natural gas plans on the West Coast. (http://r.reuters.com/pav97v)
CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL
-- A study of 1,731 Chinese fund firms showed they made a collective profit of 168.7 billion yuan ($27.16 billion) in 2013, up 36.5 percent from a year earlier, according to data from TX Investment Consulting. Mixed funds showed strong growth, while debt-based and capital guarantee funds slipped.
SHANGHAI SECURITIES NEWS
-- The Chinese government's real estate policy has shifted focus from curbing the rapid rise in house prices to helping the poor buy homes, according to Xu Shanda, former deputy head of China's tax bureau.
-- Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd has launched a stock incentive plan that will award 47.5 million shares to its managers and some employees, part of a wider reform of China's state-owned enterprises.
SECURITIES TIMES
-- The biggest non-life insurance joint venture in China - between French insurer Axa SA and China's Tian Ping Auto Insurance - officially opened for business on Monday.
-- China's government is seeking measures to tackle a rising divorce rate. The country sees nearly 10,000 marriages break up every day, according to the social affairs unit at the Ministry of Civil Affairs. More than 3 million people sought divorce in 2012, a 133 percent increased against 2003.
-- China's big five banks posted a combined net profit of 862.8 billion yuan ($138.89 billion) in 2013, an average yearly growth rate of 11 percent, analysts told the paper. Profit growth at the five banks is likely to slow to under 10 percent this year, they added.
INSURERS URGE OSBORNE TO REBUKE HEAD OF REGULATOR
(http://link.reuters.com/qyr97v)
The Chancellor is under pressure to carpet Martin Wheatley, the boss of the Financial Conduct Authority as it launches a review today of 30 million insurance policies and their potential "unfairness".
INVESTOR GIANT WARNS BANKS ON PAY ARRANGEMENTS AHEAD OF EU BONUS CAP
(http://link.reuters.com/ryr97v)
The Association of British Insurers is to issue an "amber top" alert ahead of the annual meetings of Britain's biggest banks warning its members to examine closely the new pay arrangements put in place by the lenders.
WONGA CHAIRMAN TO STEP DOWN AS FCA PREPARES TO REIN IN PAYDAY LENDERS
(http://link.reuters.com/kyr97v)
The multi-millionaire figurehead of the controversial payday lending industry is to stand down from his job as chairman of Wonga as a new City regulator prepares to impose tougher rules.
NETWORK RAIL FAILS TO MEET PUNCTUALITY TARGETS AND FACES A RECORD 70 MLN STG FINE
(http://link.reuters.com/myr97v)
Network Rail has admitted it has failed to meet its punctuality targets, as it braces for a record fine of up to 70 million pounds.
ROYAL MAIL FACING BACKLASH OVER "LOST £1 BLN" FROM SELL-OFF
(http://link.reuters.com/hyr97v)
The National Audit Office will publish this week its findings on last autumn's £3.3 billion sell-off by the Government. Ministers, investment bankers and senior civil servants are bracing themselves for government auditors' verdict on the flotation of Royal Mail, which appears to have lost taxpayers in excess of £1 billion.
FEARS RAISED OVER "DEAL" FOR HOUSE OF FRASER
(http://link.reuters.com/jyr97v)
A potential buyout of House of Fraser by a Chinese conglomerate has raised concerns that shareholders are not getting the best of a deal brokered by the company's chairman.
UNDER-FIRE FCA SEEKS BUDGET HIKE FROM CITY
(http://link.reuters.com/nyr97v)
The City regulator will set out plans for an inflation-busting increase in its budget this week, just days after sparking fury from insurers over the launch of a probe into some industry practices.
RBS RAIDS SWISS GIANT FOR NEW FINANCE CHIEF
(http://link.reuters.com/pyr97v)
The taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland is close to luring one of the architects of its 45.5 billion pounds taxpayer bail-out to become its new finance chief. Ewen Stevenson, who works for Credit Suisse, is in advanced negotiations about joining RBS at a critical time for the bank
*Fly On The Wall 7:00 AM Market Snapshot*
Domestic economic reports scheduled today include:
Chicago PMI business barometer index for March at 9:45--consensus 59.0
ANALYST RESEARCH
Affiliated Managers (AMG) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup
Banco Santander (SAN) upgraded to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank
Big Lots (BIG) upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc
Builders FirstSource (BLDR) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank
C.H. Robinson (CHRW) upgraded to Market Perform from Underperform at FBR Capital
DTE Energy (DTE) upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc
Delhaize (DEG) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan
Echo Global (ECHO) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at FBR Capital
Edison International (EIX) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at UBS
Heartland Express (HTLD) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Longbow
ING U.S. (VOYA) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman
Knight Transportation (KNX) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Longbow
Medley Capital (MCC) upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse
Men's Wearhouse (MW) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Mizuho
SINA (SINA) upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform at Pacific Crest
Travelers (TRV) upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Guggenheim
Vipshop (VIPS) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman
BlackBerry (BBRY) downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse
BlackBerry (BBRY) downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Evercore
CNOOC (CEO) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS
Mack-Cali Realty (CLI) downgraded to Underweight from Equalweight at Barclays
MagnaChip (MX) downgraded to Sell from Neutral at UBS
MannKind (MNKD) downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at Piper Jaffray
Medley Capital (MCC) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Wells Fargo
PGT, Inc. (PGTI) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Deutsche Bank
RenaissanceRe (RNR) downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at BofA/Merrill
American Eagle Energy (AMZG) initiated with a Buy at Canaccord
FBR & Co. (FBRC) initiated with an Outperform at Barrington
KapStone (KS) initiated with an Overweight at Barclays
MercadoLibre (MELI) initiated with a Sell at Citigroup
ONEOK Partners (OKS) initiated with a Neutral at UBS
ONEOK (OKE) initiated with a Neutral at UBS
Targa Resources Partners (NGLS) initiated with a Buy at UBS
Targa Resources (TRGP) initiated with a Neutral at UBS
TriplePoint Venture (tpvg) initiated with a Neutral at Credit Suisse
William Lyon Homes (WLH) reinstated with a Neutral at Credit Suisse
Medtronic (MDT) said it will discontinue SYMPLICITY HTN-4 trial, said further clinical investigation on SYMPLICITY HTN-3 is warranted
Medtronic's (MDT) said CoreValve shows superior results to surgical valve replacement
Trustwave disputed plaintiffs' allegations related to Target (TGT) data breach
Turkish court overturned ruling that restricts viewing of Twitter (TWTR) account
Third Point urged Sotheby's (BID) stockholders to vote for Third Point board nominees
Novartis (NVS) said its PARADIGM-HF trial of LCZ696 met efficacy, primary endpoints
Sally Beauty (SBH) said security breach may have affected more than earlier estimated
Companies that beat consensus earnings expectations last night and today include:
Cal-Maine Foods (CALM)
Companies that missed consensus earnings expectations include:
UTi Worldwide (UTIW), InterOil (IOC), Century Casinos (CNTY)
NEWSPAPERS/WEBSITES
Citigroup (C) could reach close to $60 by FY15, Barron's says
VeriFone (PAY) could rally another 15%, Barron's reports
Coca-Cola's (KO) management underperforms, Barron's says
Exact Sciences (EXAS) could rise 50%, Barron's says
Tesla's (TSLA) Gigafactory looks too ambitious, Barron's reports
Swiss regulator probing banks (UBS, CS, JPM, JBAXY, BCS, C, RBS) on possible forex manipulation, WSJ reports
Citigroup's (C) stress test hit by audit lapses, FT reports
Delphi (DLPH) says GM (GM) approved ignition switches below specifications, Reuters reports
Libya fund accuses Societe Generale (SCGLY) of paying $58M in bribes, WSJ reports
RBS (RBS) close to appointing Credit Suisse (CS) banker as its next CFO, WSJ says
General Motors (GM) adds 971,000 vehicles to global recall, Bloomberg says
Deutsche Bank (DB) considering forgoing China General Nuclear Power Group's IPO amid China probes, Bloomberg reports
Aeterna Zentaris (AEZS) files to sell $50M of common stock 'at-the-market'
GasLog (GLOG) files to sell 39.46M shares of common stock for holders
HD Supply (HDS) files to sell 30M shares of common stock for holders
Houghton Mifflin (HMHC) files to sell 114.44M shares for holders
Pzena Investment (PZN) files to sell 39.14M shares of Class A common stock for holders
Triangle Petroleum (TPLM) files to sell 40.04M shares for holders
Reported by Zero Hedge 36 minutes ago.
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Which Game Engine is for You?
June 3, 2016 June 3, 2016 Genie Todd 0
Posted in Guides3ds Max Angry Birds 2 Autodesk Batman: Arkham City BioShock Borderlands Cities Skylines Cloud Imperium CryEngine Crysis Crytek Dead Effect Epic Games Escape Dead Island Everybody's Gone To The Rapture FarCry firewatch Game Engines GameMaker Gang Beasts Gears of War Gunpoint HeroEngine Homefront Hotline Miami Hyper Light Drifter Kerbal Space Program Maya Maya LT Nidhogg Rust Spelunky Star Citizen Star Wars: The Old Republic Stingray Super Crate Box Temple Run The Showdown Effect Unity Unreal Engine Unreal Tournament Ward of the Roses Warface YoYo Games
Game engines allow developers to spend more time focusing on unique elements of game making, such as textures, character models and objects.
However with so many game engines to choose from, how do you know which one is right for you?
Well we’ve put together just a few of the game engines that are available. So whatever your style or ability, we’ve got you covered!
Free of charge for the Personal Edition and compatible with all platforms, including iOS, PS4 and Xbox One, Unity helps you create both 2D and 3D games with ease. Not only does Unity allow you to develop a game for any platform, but the engine also has a range of integrated services to help attract and monetize your players. This includes:
Cloud building
Multiplayer features.
With all these great features, it’s no surprise that Unity is a popular choice of game engine for many developers. Just some of the game titles made with Unity include Firewatch, Temple Run, Cities Skylines, Rust, Gang Beasts, Kerbal Space Program and Angry Birds 2.
Unity can be a great game engine to learn with, due to it’s easy to use features and scripting languages.
Developed in 1998 by Epic Games, Unreal Engine is a free, cross-platform game engine which gives users access to complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub. The Unreal Editor provides a full suite of tools for building every aspect of your game, from UI and level building to animation and visual effects.
Unreal is used by developers of all abilities, from students and indies to large teams from big studios. Their Marketplace provides a multitude of production-ready game content, asset packs, tutorials and demos. Their editor source code also gives users the ability to customize their games and debug and ship.
The Unreal engine has hundreds of big name titles to its credit, including its namesake Unreal series, the Borderlands series, BioShock, Batman: Arkham City, Gears of War & Ark: Survival Evolved.
Introduced just last year by Autodesk, Stingray is targeted at indie professionals who want to create 3D games, real-time design visualizations and virtual reality experiences.
The engine is available for £30 a month, and this includes full access to 3ds Max, Maya and Maya LT. A few games have already been built with the engine, including Escape Dead Island, War of the Roses and The Showdown Effect.
With Maya already incorporated into the engine, Stingray can be a great choice for developers already confident with Autodesk software.
CryEngine 3
Developed by German video game company Crytek, CryEngine is compatible with most platforms, including Android, PS4 and Xbox One. Available for £7 a month, CryEngine helps its users to create blockbuster games, movies, high-quality simulations and interactive applications.
CryEngine offer extensive support options for developers, with a training program, comprehensive documentation, tutorials and more. CryEngine is the engine behind big games titles including Far Cry & the Crysis series, Warface, Homefront: The Revolution & Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, and is currently being used by Cloud Imperium Games for their newest title Star Citizen.
As the fastest high-end renderer in the world, CryEngine is a popular choice for developers who are passionate about creating breath-taking games.
HeroEngine
Designed especially for PC multiplayer and online games, HeroEngine has been used in titles like EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. Available for £70 a year, HeroEngine is the first cloud-based, real-time collaborative platform, which allows developers to see instant results.
This yearly cost gives users access to HeroEngine in the cloud, whilst HeroEngine handle and pay for hosting and bandwidth during development. Once your game is live, you then get to keep 70% of any game revenue you make!
Not only do you get ongoing support, but HeroEngine also offer several open-world maps, an integrated tool set and easy-to-use mapping tools.
Developed by YoYo Games, GameMaker is a 2D platform specifically designed for independent users or those working as part of a team. It continues to be a popular game engine among amateurs as it helps users with little or no programming knowledge to make a game.
GameMaker is currently free for all PlayStation platforms and is also compatible with Android, Windows Phone and iOS. Many high-profile indie titles have already been created through the platform, including Hyper Light Drifter, Gunpoint, Hotline Miami, Spelunky, Nidhogg and Super Crate Box.
So if you’re not the most confident programmer, GameMaker could be a great option for building your first video game.
If you like this, you may also be interested in the following:
Article By Genie Todd
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10. Ancient Sciences Got Stopped to be Used Secretly
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12. Ancient Sciences in the Hands of a Few
13. Is Abraham a Brahman or Not a Brahman?
14. Ancient Life-Dramas
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21. Jesus Christ, as Founder of a Religion, was a Krishna
22. Ancient Hindus Linked Earth to Heaven with the Coconut Tree
24. Alexander the Great & Iskandar Zulkarnain
25. Noah, Ziusudra, Anunnaki & Earthlings During the Flood
26. Copper Aged 'Calling Out Process' Continues Until Now
27. Enki and the Abgal
28. What 'Heaven' means, in the myths
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30. Reptilians
31. Ancient People used Right Brain Hemisphere more than Left
32. ME in the Sumerian Tablets and in Ancient Times
33. History Re-written
34. My Past Births
35. Genetic Engineering Created the Monkey
36. The Battle between Horus and Set / Diwali
37. Reptilian Collective Consciousness
38. Egyptian God Ra
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40. Egyptian God Osiris
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42. Egyptian Goddess Neith
43. Draupadi
44. Parvati and Shiva
45. Ganga, Bhagirath and the Sons of Sagar
46. Inanna-Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld
47. Underworld, Graveyard and Hell
48. Nephilim
49. Mapmaker
50. Ancient Eternal Deity Religion (Adi Sanatan Dharam)
51. Krishna, Radhe, Lakshmi, Narayan, Vishnu and Vishnupuri
52. Shanker, Shankerpuri and World Transformation
53. Soul World
54. Skanda
55. The End – 1996, 2000, 2012 or 2036
56. Enki
57. Sumana Saman
58. Entropy
59. Crop Circles
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64. Sons of God and Bapsaman
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70. Exodus, Moses, Ramses, Joshua and World Rule
71. Jesus Christ, Crucifixion and Christianity
72. Nuclear Weapons used in Ancient Times
73. Sumerian Tablets - written later
74. Signs of Reptilians Using the Sciences in the Attestation
75. Endubsar and other Scribes Co-operated with Reptilians
76. Sacrifices
77. Mind, Intellect (Third Eye) & Memory (Sanskara) of the Soul
78. Samudra Manthan (Churning the Ocean of Milk)
79. Spiritual Knowledge & Spirituality
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81. Dhristi
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86. The Sun, Stars and other Astronomical Objects in Myths
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88. Rama, Sita, Sacrificial Fire (Rudra Gyan Yagya), Agni/Fire
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92. Sun Dynasty and Moon Dynasty
94. Bodies of Aryans Changed
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98. Anunnaki Building Plans; Yahweh tests Abraham
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116. Igigi
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118. God/BapDada and His 7 helpers
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122. World of the Dead & the alien belief system
123. The Anunnaki & the Alien Belief System
124. Egyptian Ba (Before Marduk’s influence)
125. Egyptian Ka (before Marduk’s influence)
126. Sahu (Before Marduk) & Deified Royal Ka
127. Copper Aged Sahu & Akh - False Prophet
128. Ramses II – Giant
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130. Journey in the Duat (Egyptian Underworld)
131. Time-Travelling & Journeying in the Duat
132. 20 + 1 Atlantian births
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143. Animals, Plants and Matter - Eternal
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145. First Great Flood until the Ice Age
146. Déjà vu, Time Slips & Reality Shifts
147. Time & Space are an Illusion
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154. Time in the Quantum Dimensions and on Earth
155. The Ancient Aryan-Anaryan Battle - Part 1
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162. Creation of the Golden-Haired Gods
163. Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, Return to India
164. Creation of the Sun Dynasty and Manu
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169. Vishnu Avatars in the Four Ages
170. Rama’s Birth - As per the Nakshatras etc
171. Brief History until Rajputs - Part 1
175. Eternal Holographic Universe
176. Pulled and Stuck in Holographic Universe
177. Nakki Lake: a Confluence Aged memorial
178. Nakki Lake was Dug by Rasiya Balam
179. The Holographic Universe : Part 1 - Basics
180. Quantum God (Singularity in Quantum Physics)
181. The Soul as the Causal Body
182. BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD (BRAHMANA 1, ADHYAYA 1)
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185. Ancient Indian History- Pt 2: Nahusha, Yayati
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Before you read this article, please note that, from 1996, I (Pari, the author of this article) had begun to see numerous visions. I was trying to understand what was happening to me. As I was trying to understand this, I began writing all the articles which can be found in this website. Each article is a continuation of the earlier one. So what I had explained in earlier articles were not explained in subsequent articles. This had also allowed me to keep developing what I have to explain. After I had written numerous articles, people were asking me as to which articles they had to read in order to understand something or the other. Thus, in 2015, I began to write books. All the knowledge which a person needs, so as to understand the contents of a book, are given in the book. Thus, a person could understand the contents of a book without having to revert to other articles or books. However, a better understanding could be had through reading the other books. I had also begun writing my first book “Holographic Universe : An Introduction” because I began to have a good understanding on the structure of the Holographic Universe through experiences, guidance from God, research, etc. It should be remembered that my articles were written while I was trying to understand what was happening to me. So, the emphasis in the articles may have been on my own roles (due to the afterlife of my past births). In my books, I concentrate on just explaining knowledge and not really on giving an explanation on my own role. It should be noted that since there are so many articles, I find it very difficult to update the articles. So there may be information in them which has not been updated. I try my best to keep my eBooks updated. Anyway, to have a better understand of what has been said in this article, read all my earlier articles. Begin by reading the first article which is numbered as No.1 at my List of Articles. Then, re-read this article to have a better understanding. It should be noted that all my articles were written based on time being cyclic. Click here to understand the basics of the Cycle of Time.
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Abgal is a name used in the Sumerian myths. The Abgal are called Apkallu in the Akkadian myths. The names of the 7 Abgal sages in the Sumerian myth are Adapa, U-an-dugga, En-me-duga, En-me-galanna, En-me-buluga, An-enlilda, and Utu-abzu. But these names and number are mere representations. Since only a small number of people were using the roles which the Abgal are portrayed to have, only a small figure was used to represent them in the myths relating to the Abgal. The Abgal represents all those who were using the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge and who had used the sciences etc at the end of the cycle and in the beginning of the Copper Age.
At the end of the cycle, those who had walked into the divine world, in the Golden Age, had left information in hidden form. These information, in hidden form, will be used at the end of the Silver Age. More on this can be found at:
As a result of these information etc that had been passed down to the Copper Age, from those at the end of the cycle, a system for carrying out the instructions and handing down of the sciences etc had been created (at the end of the Silver Age). The Sumerian myth about 'Enki and the Abgal' relates to this system, which was established for carrying out the instructions and for using the sciences (and other information) that gets handed down. This is also why, in the translations (of the Sumerian Tablets) by Zakaria Sitchin, it has been portrayed that Enki had carried out tasks based on the ME and while under the control of Anu (God) who remained in Nibiru.
God plays various roles and these various roles were represented by different names in the Sumerian and other myths. God's role for the Confluence Age, relating to the creation of the divine world, was represented by Anu in the Sumerian myths.
Nibiru represents the Soul World, the Confluence Aged subtle regions at the end of the cycle and the divine world (in Golden and Silver Ages). At the end of the Silver Age, after having lost their divine world, the deity souls had tried to re-create their divine world at that time itself and this too was represented by Nibiru. But their attempts to re-create the divine world at the beginning of the Copper Age had failed because the divine world can only get re-created at the end of the cycle.
God stays in the Soul World but, at the end of the cycle, He creates the Confluence Aged subtle regions while coming into the corporeal dimension for the purpose of getting the divine world re-created. He gave the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge for world transformation and He will also use instruments to bring the sciences etc into the divine world (when the divine world gets created in the corporeal form).
God has also been portrayed as Enki in the myths. However, Enki is a role representing 'God using instruments on earth'. So Enki has been associated to the instruments on earth; whereas Anu basically represents God in the Soul World and in the Confluence Age (for the creation of the divine world and Vishnu).
The Abgal are demigods who are said to have been created by god Enki so as to give civilization to mankind. This actually refers to 2 situations where:
1. at the end of the cycle, God creates the Confluence Aged subtle deity roles and enables the Confluence Aged souls to use these deity roles while using their corporeal body (through this the Abgal are created and then the new civilization for the new world also gets created)
2. in the Copper Age, the princes/kings had taught their scientists (and others) the spiritual knowledge, sciences etc that had been handed down to them from the end of the cycle (Through this the Copper Aged kings/princes were able to help civilization to continue in the Copper Age, after the earthquakes pull their divine world into the ground).
The Confluence Aged people, who use the subtle deity roles while also using their corporeal bodies, have been represented as demigods in the Sumerian myths. In the Confluence Age, God uses human souls who have human bodies but these people will be in the divine soul-conscious stage. Thus, they are like demi-gods (half human and half god). The corporeal bodies represent the human aspect; and the subtle deity stage (experienced through the soul-conscious stage) represents the 'god' aspect of the demigods. Since God enabled these people to enjoy being demigods in the Confluence Age (by creating the subtle deity roles and giving these people the ability to use those deity roles), God had created them. Thus, Enki (God) is said to have created the Abgal.
The Confluence Aged human beings cannot refer to themselves as gods and goddesses. They are only human beings. But they are using subtle deity roles in the Confluence Aged subtle region and so the soul is like that of a deity because of the divine state which it is in. Thus, when one is in the divine soul-conscious stage, the soul can say that he is a deity.
The Confluence Aged Raja Yogis are using the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge to remain in the high soul-conscious stage. Thus, the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge encourages these Raja Yogis to be in the stage where they are only experiencing themselves as the soul (in the soul-conscious stage). So, the people using the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge tend to see themselves as the deities (since they see themselves as souls). This attitude of seeing oneself as a deity enables one to easily attain the divine soul-conscious stage, thus enabling the soul to use a subtle deity role. But the person cannot say that he/she is a deity because one has to use the corporeal body to say that. One can't say that the person using the corporeal body is a deity because the bodies which we have now are in their ordinary state. But the word demigod can be used to represent this combined usage of the ordinary corporeal body and divine subtle stage.
Those in the Confluence Age are not told to see themselves as demigods because they, as the souls, have to see themselves as the souls (and deities) so that they can easily attain the high soul-conscious stage. Attaining this high stage is the most important thing for World Transformation. So the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge only gives emphasis to the deity stage and not to the usage of the corporeal body. This has been represented through Enki and other gods in the myths (where Enki and these gods are seen as human souls in the combined state with God).
A more accurate way of seeing it would be to see Enki as belonging to the subtle dimension and the Abgal as belonging to the corporeal dimension (though Enki is also using the corporeal body and the Abgal are also using a high soul-conscious stage). Enki can be seen as the soul doing something or the other. But where Enki is concerned, emphasis is not given to the usage of the corporeal body though the corporeal body is being used. Enki represents the Confluence Aged soul and the subtle deity role. The Abgal, on the other hand, gives emphasis to using the corporeal bodies while the stage of the soul is good. Since it is the usage of this subtle role (of Enki as an instrument of God) that enables one to play the role of the Abgal, it can be said that Enki (the usage of the subtle role) creates the Abgal (in the corporeal sense).
At the end of the cycle, God flows along with the world drama and uses human beings as instruments to get the divine world created (in the subtle and corporeal manner). Once the divine world comes into existence in the corporeal form, God gets the scientists etc to establish whatever is needed in the Golden Age. God also gets these people to leave information etc, in hidden form, in the divine world so that these information etc can be used by the deity souls when they lose their divine world and have to re-build civilizations.
The deities, in the first half cycle (in the Golden and Silver Ages), are quite innocent because they have been protected from the truth that they will one day lose their divine kingdom. They are not told this truth because they cannot be given anything that can cause unhappiness. Thus, the information that they are losing it is placed in a hidden form so that when they lose their divine world, they will know of what is happening to them. They will also be given all the information so that they can re-create civilizations when their divine world gets pulled into the earth. At the end of the Silver Age, the kings/princes will be taught all that is required and then they will pass it down to their children, subjects and other royal members. Thus, the system for passing down the sciences etc was created at the end of the Silver Age.
Enki actually represents God and the Abgal represents all the kings, princes and other subjects who are given the sciences, knowledge etc for the creation of the new ordinary civilizations and for beginning bhakti/worship (in the Copper Age). The people, in the Copper Age, will be instructed to do bhakti because that will help them to not do sin and to remain virtuous.
With time, my first Copper Aged birth was seen as playing the role of Enki. I am not sure if there were also others who were seen as playing the role of Enki. The others who got the sciences etc from him were seen as the Abgal. So Enki and the Abgal have got 2 different meanings because of this. Actually, Enki has got 4 different meanings/aspects which are:
1. God (relating to His role at the end of the cycle and at the end of the Silver Age)
2. the Confluence Aged instruments (at the end of the cycle) who are using the sciences etc for service
3. the Copper Aged instrument(s) who developed the myths and the system for handing down of the sciences (and other information) that were meant to be used in the new civilizations that gets created in the Copper Age
4. the role of my 'soul' (my role) relating to my past births who explain the myths and give whatever necessary guidance now, at the end. So, the role of Enki is an eternal/continuous role in this sense. The end of the cycle will always get connected to the end of the Silver Age. (Maybe, others also play this role. I am not sure).
Since the information etc used by the Abgal are from the Confluence Age, at the end of the cycle, the Abgal are said to be sages who are advisors to the kings or rulers of Sumeria before the Great Flood. In this respect, Sumeria refers to the whole world at the end of the cycle. In most of the ancient life-dramas, the place which is used (to represent what happens at the end) actually represents the whole world at the end of the cycle. Through this, the end of the cycle is connected to the Copper Age. More on this can be found at:
More on life-dramas can be found at:
At the end of the cycle, the deity souls would not be having their kingdom anymore. There will be the kingdom of the Christians at that time (as it is now). And most of the kings, at the end, will be new souls (non-deity souls) too. All new souls will be living their satopradhan life on earth when they come from the Soul World. So many of the royalty might be souls who have just come down from the Soul World. Their pure state will enable them to see the truth in the Confluence Aged knowledge though they will not practice being a Raja Yogi like how the Confluence Aged deity souls will be doing. In this sense, the Confluence Aged deity souls can be seen as playing a role as advisors to others. The word 'kings' can be given so many interpretations. The Raja Yogis are kings in their own way as self-sovereigns. And each human being is a king in his own property etc. So, the Abgal being advisors to kings does not just refer to being advisors to the present day royalty. In the Copper Age, the Abgal where advisors to the subsequent kings (from the second Copper Aged generation). At the end of the Silver Age, the system to have sages, as advisors for the kings, was established. These sages will be involves with the sciences and they will be giving advise, based on the sciences and religious practices, so as to help the kings rule wisely. The kings in the divine world did not have advisors because they were in their perfect state and so they cannot do any wrong. They would only act in a virtuous manner. But from the beginning of the Copper Age, the vices have begun to emerge and so the kings need advisors. The system for these advisors was established through what was passed down from the end of the cycle (before the Great Flood). Thus, the Copper Aged Abgal (in the Copper Aged life-dramas) were connected to the period before the Great Flood.
At the beginning of the Copper Age, those souls who had been playing the roles of Abgal at the end of the previous cycle, were seen as continuing to play the role of Abgal in the Copper Age. This was because the end of the cycle is connected to the end of the Silver Age. At the end of the cycle, the souls who had attained immortality, enjoyed immortality in the divine world and then lost it at the end of the Silver Age. In this way, the Copper Age is connected to the end of the cycle.
The subsequent scientists/advisors, from the second generation in the Copper Age, are portrayed as people who have inherited the knowledge of the Abgal. I take it that those who were alive during the life of my first Copper Aged birth as belonging to the first Copper Aged generation, even though they may have been born after the Copper Age had begun and were not those who had walked out of the divine world as my first Copper Aged birth had done. Enki is a role that involves those who walk out of the divine world, which is why Enki is portrayed as having come from Nibiru. Adapa on the other hand was born on earth and not in Nibiru; and Adapa is the first sage of the Abgal. The people who were given the sciences etc before they flew out of the divine world (as builders from the first kingdom, at the end of the Silver Age) are not portrayed as the Abgal. They are portrayed as gods and as 'heroes'. This will be discussed in another article, later.
The Abgal included the people who were using the sciences etc and the Confluence Aged knowledge to advise, explain and do service (at the end of the cycle and in the beginning of the Copper Age). This is why in the Sumerian myths, the ABGAL were portrayed as the sages who were sent to earth by Enki, at the beginning of time, to give human beings the ME, crafts etc that the people need (so as to live as a civilization). A discussion on the ME can be found at:
The Abgal are seen as being sent to earth because:
1. at the end of the cycle, the Confluence Aged subtle region is a different dimension from the corporeal world
2. at the end of the Silver Age, the deity souls are walking out from a different dimension (higher spiritual dimension) into the ordinary dimension (lower spiritual dimension).
The Confluence Aged subtle regions are another different world or dimension. Thus, the Confluence Aged souls, who are doing service in the corporeal world (outside the Confluence Aged gatherings), are portrayed as being sent from one dimension/place/world/planet to another.
The Abgal are portrayed as having served Enki as priests because they were Confluence Aged spiritual instruments of God involved with remaining linked to God while doing whatever is needed for the Confluence Aged service and the establishment of the civilization for the new divine world.
The myths portray the Abgal as being of human descent, but possessing extraordinary wisdom from the gods. In the Confluence Age, at the end of the cycle, this represents the Confluence Aged human beings (human decent aspect) who are using their divine intellect and their link to God, so as to have 'extraordinary wisdom' to understand the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge, the required sciences etc which can help create the required new civilization for mankind. In the Copper Age, the people who have the information that has been handed down to them are seen as being of 'human descent' but possessing extraordinary wisdom from the gods (of the end of the cycle).
Since the Abgal relates to the Confluence Aged instruments and the information which they passed down to be used in the Copper Age, the Abgal were portrayed as fish-like men who emerged from the sweet water Apsu. The Abgal were known to the Babylonians as the Apkallu Fish and are depicted with the body of a fish and the head of a man or with the torso of a fish that has human arms, legs and head.
The Apsu actually refers to:
1. God (as the Ocean of Sweet Virtues and Powers),
2. the Confluence Aged subtle regions where the sweet vibrations of God are experienced,
3. the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge through which we take our spiritual birth.
There is a Babylonian / Akkadian / Sumerian god called Absu (who is also known as Apsu and Abzu). He is the God of fresh water and the sweet waters of the world and he encircles the earth. He is portrayed as encircling the earth because, at the end of the cycle, God's vibrations are sent out into the whole corporeal world so that it transforms the whole world into the sweet divine world.
In the myths, Apsu merged his fresh waters with the salt waters of his consort (Tiamat) and from their union all the other gods were born. This is actually a representation of the 'creation and use' of the Confluence Aged roles. When God creates the Confluence Aged subtle region, He also creates the subtle deity roles which we use in the Confluence Aged subtle region. The Tiamat aspect represents the human souls who have corporeal bodies and they use these corporeal bodies while using the subtle deity roles. The corporeal bodies are needed to make spiritual effort to use the subtle deity roles. Thus, Tiamat is an important aspect in the 'creation and use' of the roles of the gods (in/through the subtle region). So, through the combination of Apsu (God) and Tiamat (God's Confluence Aged wives who have human bodies), the Confluence Aged roles (which involves both the subtle and the corporeal) are used.
God is given various names based on the various roles which He uses at the end of the cycle. It is as if God's various roles, involving the end of the cycle, are also given birth to, at the end of the cycle (through Apsu and Tiamat) because God only can play those roles when we play our roles at the end of the cycle.
Since Apsu represents God, Apsu is portrayed as being more ethereal than physical in nature. He is also portrayed in this way because Apsu's role is associated to the subtle Confluence Aged region. Tiamat has been associate to the earth because corporeal human beings participate with God for the Confluence Aged service.
The 'sweet waters of Apsu' also refers to the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge which is given by God for the re-creation of the divine world (at the end of the cycle). When one uses the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge, one can easily enjoy the sweet divine blissful stage in the Confluence Aged subtle regions where God's vibrations are experienced. Through contemplating on the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge, the souls get merged into the Sweet Virtues and Powers of God in the Confluence Aged subtle region. All Confluence Aged souls take their spiritual birth through listening to the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge. Thus, the Abgal are portrayed as emerging from the Absu. They are also shown as emerging from the Apsu because they are from the Confluence Age, using the Confluence Aged subtle region. The Abgal have been portrayed as emerging from the sweet waters, in the Sumerian myths, because their stage is good when they are used as instruments.
It is because the Abgal represents the Confluence Aged souls that they are commonly represented as having the lower torso of a fish, or they are dressed like a fish. Since the Confluence Aged souls are swimming in God's vibrations in the Confluence Aged subtle region, the Abgal got portrayed as dressed like fishes or as half fish. The half fish represents the divine stage of the soul and the human features represent the corporeal aspects of the Abgal. This is similar to how the Abgal are portrayed as demigods. So whatever I have said, in the discussion about the Abgal being demigods, also applies to this portrayal of the Abgal as being of fish and human mixture.
There is actually a reference to the myth about Enki as the fishgod in Tablet 3 of the Sumerian translations (in the 'Lost Book of Enki' by Zakaria Sitchin): “... And how the legend of the Fishgod who came from the waters was begun.”
The above relates to Enki's journey to earth. This is something that happens at the end, of the cycle, when:
1. God comes into the corporeal world (as Enki) so as to establish the new civilization for the new world
2. when people like me go into the corporeal world to do Confluence Aged service
3. when the royalty at the end of the Silver Age go into the ordinary world with the sciences etc to set up the new civilization in the ordinary world (when earthquakes pull their divine world into the earth).
The ordinary corporeal world has been represented by earth in this Sumerian myth. Sometimes, the corporeal world is represented by the underworld. It is a matter of 'from which angle' one is viewing the corporeal world. Enki's journey to earth, with Anzu and the heroes, will be discussed in another article, later.
Though the instruments of God are shown to use these roles of Enki and the Abgal, even God is associated to these roles because the human beings and human souls are being used as instruments by God. So, sometimes, that which applies to God is applied to Enki and the Abgal. For example, Ab means water. Gal means Great. Thus, AB.GAL means Great Water. This is a reference to God, the Confluence Aged subtle region and the Confluence Aged spiritual knowledge.
Sometimes, the Abgal have been portrayed with wings and an eagle's head because of the flying stage which we enjoy when we are linked to God (during the Confluence Age). The bird represents the soul enjoying the flying stage. The mixture of human and bird features represents the usage of the corporeal body while enjoying the flying stage. The human feature represent the corporeal bodies. All that which I have discussed relating to the Abgal being demigods also applies to this.
In the Babylonian myths, the Apkallu (Abgal) also appear as Griffins, and not just as humans with wings. The Griffin is a beast with the head and wings of an eagle but with a body of the lion. As mentioned earlier (and in other articles), birds and wings represent the Confluence Aged flying stage (divine soul-conscious stage). The lion represents spiritual royalty. The lion also represents the people within the royal clan on earth.
Spiritual royalty is enjoyed by all those who enjoy a very high divine stage in the Confluence Age. The behaviour of these people will be very royal. In the Confluence Age, they are Raja Yogis. Raja means king and the Raja Yogi is a self-sovereign or king over himself.
In the Copper Age, the Abgal belonged to the royal clan of various kingdoms. So the lion aspect of the Griffin also reflects this though the flying Griffin represents the Confluence Aged souls more than the Copper Aged ones because of the 'flying' aspect.
The Abgal are portrayed as carrying incense for purification purposes because of the purification process that takes place during the Confluence Age. I have discussed the purification process at:
1. Experiences During Purification Process
2. Alexander the Great & Iskandar Zulkarnain
Post 2: Posted on Oct 28, 2011
More on Enki is discussed in:
1. the 3rd post of Jesus Christ
2. Enki
Post 3: Posted on Nov 9, 2011
More on Enki can be found at:
1. Sumerian Tablets - written later
2. Nuclear Weapons used in Ancient Times
3. Signs of the Reptilians Using the Sciences in the Attestation
4. Endubsar and other Scribes Co-operated with Reptilians
Post 4: (Posted on 8-10-2013)
For more on Enki and the extermination of the scientists, read:
Vishnu Avatars in the Four Ages or
1. the divine world in the first half cycle: involving the Golden Age (Satyug) and then the Silver Age (Tetrayug),
2. the Confluence between the Silver and Copper Ages: where the world transforms back into the ordinary state (after a vice was entertained),
3. the ordinary world of the second half cycle: involving the Copper Age (Dwapuryug) and then the Iron Age (Kaliyug),
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It's unclear what Justin Williams had in mind this summer when he signed a two-year deal with the Carolina Hurricanes, who will likely not be making the playoffs during that time.
Perhaps he was chasing the money, as he'll be making an average of $4.5M on a 35-year-old (i.e. "un-buyout-able") contract when he made $3.25 in his previous deal with the Washington Capitals. Maybe the pressure of being nicknamed "Mr. Game 7" got to him, as the Caps once again fell in the second round last season; not to worry, Williams will now be appearing at World Championships under the Team Canada banner during the NHL postseason from now on.
He'll find these Canes are a far cry from the team he won the 2006 Stanley Cup with, despite Cam Ward still plying his trade in nets and the likes of Ron Francis (GM), Rod Brind'Amour (assistant-coach), Glen Wesley (defensemen development coach), Sergei Samsonov (player development coach), Jeff Daniels (scout manager), and Ray Whitney (pro scout) still around the team after retiring.
Then again, at least he's found work. I'm currently unemployed, as are the likes of NHL free agents Dennis Wideman, Milan Michalek, Thomas Vanek, David Pastrnak, Brooks Laich, Drew Stafford, Nick Schultz, Mike Ribeiro, Jakub Kindl, Nikita Zadorov, Jiri Hudler, Teddy Purcell, P.A. Parenteau, Chris Neil, Boyd Gordon, Scottie Upshall, and former captains Jaromir Jagr, Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, and Brian Gionta.
Williams should, in my opinion, be designated as the team's captain for the couple of years that the team still plays its games in Raleigh and when it's unclear which of the next generation of players will be able to take on that responsibility and lead the team back to respectability.
Which is why I chose to feature him today wearing the Canes' former red (home) uniform, hints of which will be found on their new Adidas uniforms:
That's card #UA-JW from Fleer's 2008-09 Fleer Ultra collection and Ultra Uniformity sub-set, manufactured by Upper Deck, featuring a white game-worn jersey swatch. The team's 10th Anniversary patch is on full display in the picture.
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The Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico is being urged to distribute a $33 million trust fund settlement on a per capita basis.
The issue was brought up at a general council meeting last week. Joseph Geronimo said there was support for the idea but he hasn't heard back from the tribal council.
"No one responded to me on the Council,” Geronimo told The Albuquerque Journal. “This is tyranny.”
The tribe has about 4,800 members. Geronimo said each could receive $5,000 from the settlement.
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Family-run Cardiff kebab house is named best in Wales
Anna and Zak Sarhan received their award from Cardiff Central MP, Jo Stevens (centre). (Credit: Anna Sarhan)
A CARDIFF kebab house has been named the best in Wales.
Family-run Moroccan and Lebanese restaurant Mezza Luna on City Road won the prize at the British Kebab Awards.
Mezza Luna, which was opened five years ago by Anna and Zak Sarhan, won Best Kebab House in Wales at a ceremony at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in London, on February 26.
The couple, who used to run a sandwich bar in Penylan before opening the restaurant, didn’t know they’d been shortlisted.
“It was a surprise to be nominated. My husband ignored it at first; he left the pile of letters because I was away and when I came back I found it,” said Anna, 34.
“We’re not sure who nominated us. It must have been some happy customers. It may have been one of our take away customers, because the awards were sponsored by JustEat.”
The couple were delighted to receive their award from Cardiff Central Labour MP, Jo Stevens.
“We had a really good time. It was nice to get the award from someone like Jo, who we know, instead of someone who we don’t,” says Anna.
So what makes the kebabs at Mezza Luna stand out from the crowd?
Zak, 42, says it’s all about the little things coming together. “We always make sure to use fresh ingredients. We make sure when we are buying that we check the quality of the meat. We go to the same suppliers, but you still have to make sure that it’s up to standard.
“We make sure it’s fresh. So instead of storing the meat for a long time in the freezer, we go twice a week to pick up the meat rather than just once a week.
“We have our own recipe that we are proud of. The most important thing when cooking a kebab is not to overcook it or undercook it. You have to keep everything moist and fresh.
“You also need good quality charcoal, that will give you the extra nice flavour. We go through a lot of charcoal.
“You also need the marinades and the spices, so all those small things, when you add them together, really make a winning recipe.”
Anna, who is from Poland and Zak, who is from Syria say they hope they will see an upturn in business following the award. “We hope so. The comments and the reaction from people and our customers has been amazing.
“We have noticed an increase in phone calls of people wanting to make a reservation. Social media helps get the word out. I heard from some of our friends that we were mentioned on Radio 2 by Chris Evans and we missed it!
“So yes, we are hoping it’s good for us.”
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The association between single-parent family backg...
Frequent attenders in primary health care : a cross-sectional study of frequent attenders' psychosocial and family factors, chronic diseases and reasons for encounter in a Finnish health centre by: Jyväsjärvi, Simo Published: (2001)
Mortality of young offenders : a national register‑based follow‑up study of 15‑ to 19‑year‑old Finnish delinquents referred for forensic psychiatric examination between 1980 and 2010 by: Lindberg, Nina Published: (2017)
Bullying behaviour in relation to psychiatric disorders, suicidality and criminal offences : a study of under-age adolescent inpatients in Northern Finland by: Luukkonen, Anu-Helmi Published: (2010)
Association of nurse staffing and nursing workload with ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality : a prospective, single-center cohort study by: Jansson, Miia M. Published: (2019)
Down syndrome, health and disability : a population-based case record and follow-up study by: Määttä, Tuomo Published: (2011)
The association between single-parent family background and physical morbidity, mortality, and criminal behaviour in adulthood
Sauvola, Anu1,2
1University of Oulu, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
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Academic Dissertation to be presented with the assent of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, for public discussion in the Väinö Pääkkönen Hall of the Department of Psychiatry, on April 20th, 2001, at 12 noon.
Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
Professor Hasse Karlsson
The proportion of single-parent families has increased in the last few decades world-wide, mostly due to high divorce rates. Also in Finland growing numbers of children spend part of their childhood in single-parent families. The aim of this study was to investigate in a longitudinal perspective, the possible long-term effects of the childhood family structure on psychological, physical and criminal outcomes of an offspring during adulthood.
A large, prospectively collected general population birth cohort (n= 11 017), the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort, was used as a study population. This database provided the information on childhood family structure of cohort members with additional information of sociodemographic factors of the family and of the child. Information concerning physical and psychiatric illnesses were gathered from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register (FHDR). Death certificates and the information from national crime registers were also obtained.
Females with a single-parent family background were more commonly hospital-treated (61.3 % vs. 56.7 %) for any physical condition than females with a two-parent family background. For males such difference in overall physical illness was not found. Both females and males from single-parent families had more commonly been hospital-treated for some diagnoses in the ICD-category of "injury and poisoning" than had other cohort members. Furthermore, females from single-parent families had also more commonly been treated due to pregnancy-related conditions such as induced abortions. During the follow-up time (16 to 28 years of age) 117 (90 males, 27 females) cohort members had died. Males with single-parent family background exhibited an increased mortality risk, especially due to suicides (OR=2.5, 95% CI 1.1-5.8, adjusted for psychiatric hospital diagnosis, parental social class).
Criminality was more common among both males and females from single-parent families compared with other cohort members. The results showed that the risk of violent offending and recidivism was increased up to 8-fold if the cohort male member had been born and raised in a single-mother family over most of his childhood. Parental divorce also doubled the risk for both violent and recidivistic offending. Non-violent offences among males were associated only with parental death and divorce. Furthermore, drunk driving was more common among both males and females with single-parent background. Males who were born into single-mother families were at the highest risk of drunk driving offences in adulthood (OR=2.4, 95% CI 1.4-4.2, adjusted for maternal age, psychiatric hospital diagnosis, parental social class).
In this study it was shown that young adults with single-parent families in childhood experienced a more stressful pathway from late adolescence to adulthood. However, most of the offspring of single-parent families did well during the follow-up time. Strategies to promote the well-being of children and adolescents in single-parent families are of prime importance for preventive health care.
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The Clock Flower by Barbara Casey
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Mackenzie Yarborough, one of the three FIGs—Females of Intellectual Genius—finds herself facing a terrifying death of an ancient evil dragon while in China working on a secret research project and trying to discover the truth of her birth parents.
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Dara knew that once she started researching the ancient writing systems and language of Shandong Province, there was no way she was going to waste her time attending her required undergraduate classes when she could be working on her research. Therefore, with Dr. Chu’s permission and using the syllabi she received on the first day of classes, she simply completed all of the course work in advance and turned it in. Most of the professors only wanted a report anyway. “Now with that out of the way, I can turn my full attention to the Longshan period dating 2500-1900 BC and researching the early writing, language, and human sacrifice at the Shang Dynasty capital of Anyang,” she told Mackenzie, Jennifer, and Carolina during another one of their nightly visits by phone.
“I am so impressed, Dara,” said Carolina. “Not surprised that you could do it, but still impressed.”
Jennifer and Mackenzie agreed.
Dara had something else to tell them. “I was going to wait to talk to you about this once I had all of the details worked out, but since Mackenzie might be going to China over our winter break to visit the Yellow Sea Laboratories, I’d better go ahead and let you know what I am thinking.” Then she told them about Dr. Wu inviting her to the small village of Dawenkou in the Shandong Province over the winter break in order to meet the rest of the archeology team and see the dig site and their research facilities. “I was hoping the four of us could go together—check it out. Dr. Wu said you are more than welcome.” She hesitated, and when no one said anything, “Mackenzie, Dr. Wu said that the Yellow Sea Laboratories is also in the Shandong Province and near Dawenkou where the dig site is.”
“That’s right—Ling told me it is in the town of Puli.”
Carolina interrupted, “Did you say Puli?”
“Yeah, have you heard of it?” Mackenzie asked. “I don’t think it is a very big town—Ling calls it a village. It is located on the Yellow Sea, and it is near Qufu where Confucius lived. That is where her family and ancestors are from although she was born in Hawaii. And other than what I am doing at MIT, that is also where the research on the Clock Flower Project is being conducted.”
“Talk about coincidence,” Jennifer mumbled. “Well, I’m in,” but she couldn’t say anything else. The pounding in her chest, the painful heaviness of the rock, and the brilliance of the bright yellow and red took her breath. As the pain eased, she once again heard the delicate tones of the banhu—a little more distinct this time—a few more notes—another measure to be added to the symphony.
Carolina’s heart started to race, and it felt like all of the air had been sucked out of her lungs. Taking little breaths, she managed to say, “That goes for me, too.” Putting her hand on her chest and taking a deep breath, willing her heart to stop pounding, “I’ve never been to China, and this is too good of an opportunity to miss. Maybe they will let us tour the research lab, Mackenzie. And it will be great fun to see an actual working archeology site, Dara.”
But those weren’t the reasons she wanted to go; she knew when it concerned the FIGs, there was no such thing as coincidence. Larry had told her that he believed Mackenzie’s mother was from Puli and that is where she returned after giving birth. Something was happening which she didn’t understand. She had heard her mother’s warning, and she knew she needed to go to China. She needed to be with her girls. And she needed to protect Mackenzie.
Originally from Carrollton, Illinois, author/agent/publisher Barbara Casey attended the University of North Carolina, N.C. State University, and N.C. Wesleyan College where she received a BA degree, summa cum laude, with a double major in English and history. In 1978 she left her position as Director of Public Relations and Vice President of Development at North Carolina Wesleyan College to write full time and develop her own manuscript evaluation and editorial service. In 1995 she established the Barbara Casey Agency and since that time has represented authors from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Japan. In 2014, she became a partner with Strategic Media Books where she is involved in acquisitions and day-to-day operations and oversees book production.
Ms. Casey's two middle-grade/young adult novels, Leilani Zan and Grandma Jock and Christabelle (James C. Winston Publishing Co., Trade Division) were both nominated for awards of excellence by the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, the National Association of University Women Literary Award and the Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Award. Shyla's Initiative (Crossquarter Publishing Group), a contemporary adult novel (occult romance/mystery), received a 2003 Independent Publisher Book Award and also an award of special literary recognition by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. The Coach's Wife (ArcheBooks Publishing), also a novel for adults (contemporary/mystery), was semi-finalist for the 2005 Dana Award for Outstanding Novel and listed on the Publisher’s Best Seller List. The House of Kane (ArcheBooks Publishing), released in 2007, was considered for a Pulitzer nomination. Another contemporary novel for adults, Just Like Family, was released at Christmas 2009 when it received “Special Recognition from the 7-Eleven Corporation,” and The Gospel According to Prissy, also a contemporary novel written for adults, received a 2013 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Book in Regional Fiction.
The Cadence of Gypsies, a novel written for young/new adults, was released in 2011 and was reviewed by the Smithsonian Institute for its List of Most Notable Books. In 2012, The Cadence of Gypsies was expanded into a four-book mystery series called THE FIG MYSTERIES: The Wish Rider (2016), The Clock Flower (2018), and The Nightjar’s Promise (to be released in 2019).
Ms. Casey also writes book-length nonfiction for adults. Kathryn Kelly: The Moll behind Machine Gun Kelly was released in 2016 and has been optioned for a major movie. In 2018 her book Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Slave was released and it has been signed for a major movie.
Ms. Casey's award-winning science fiction short stories for adults are featured in The Cosmic Unicorn and CrossTime science fiction anthologies. Ms. Casey's essays and other works appear in The Chrysalis Reader, the international literary journal of the Swedenborg Foundation, 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature (Smith and Kraus Publishers), and A Cup of Comfort (Adams Media Corporation). Other award-winning articles, short stories, and poetry for adults have appeared in both national and international publications including the North Carolina Christian Advocate Magazine, The New East Magazine, the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, the Rocky Mount (N.C.) Sunday Telegram, Dog Fancy, ByLine, The Christian Record, Skirt! Magazine, and True Story. A thirty-minute television special which Ms. Casey wrote and coordinated was broadcast on WRAL, Channel 5, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She also received special recognition for her editorial work on the English translations of Albanian children’s stories.
Ms. Casey is a former director of BookFest of the Palm Beaches, Florida, where she served as guest author and panelist. She has served as judge for the Pathfinder Literary Awards in Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida, and was the Florida Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators from 1991 through 2003. She is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and writers’ conferences around the country including the SCBWI Regional Conference, the Harriett Austin Writers Conference in Athens, SIBA (Southeastern Independent Book Sellers Association), Florida Writers Association, and the University of Auburn, Montgomery.
In 2018, Ms. Casey received the prestigious Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive experience and notable accomplishments in the field of publishing and other areas. She makes her home on the top of a mountain in northwest Georgia with her husband and Benton, a hound mix who adopted her.
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Natalie's Wedding by K.T. Castle
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Kassandra never thought she’d be in another committed relationship, but now she’s living with her boyfriend Josh. Things can’t get any better. But they can get worse.
Natalie has dropped a major bomb on her, confessing she believes her husband is having an affair. Kassandra is always ready to help a friend, but accepting that one of their marriages isn’t working goes against everything she believes about the people she loves. Wanting to help their friend overcome this difficult situation and provide Natalie the support she needs, Kassandra and the girls pull a lot of strings to help Natalie uncover the truth. In the process, Kassandra discovers remarkable similarities between Josh’s recent changes and those in Natalie’s allegedly cheating husband. She’s always been an independent woman who prides herself on her own success, and when she digs up one dirty secret after another, she can’t help but wonder if her man’s womanizing days are really behind him.
Sometimes, love makes us twist reality to avoid hurting those we hold closest to our hearts. Join Kassandra and Natalie as they struggle to reconcile their fears in love with the truth.
Saturday morning, Josh headed out for a photo shoot he expected to last all day. He didn’t usually work on weekends, but it happened from time to time. It still bothered me a little that his job involved being surrounded by beautiful young women so he could capture that beauty, but whenever I dropped by for a visit, everyone knew who I was and what I meant to him. That made it easier for me, and I knew it made it easier for Josh. He loved working for himself and had grown JAG Modeling Agency from the ground up.
Since I’d be on my own for the day, I decided to take advantage of the situation and invite the girls over for a chat with Natalie. She had asked me not to intervene in her situation with Andrik, and while I respected her wish of me not talking to her husband, I knew she needed support from her friends.
I’d asked them to be at my place around nine and to leave the children at home with their fathers. We needed some girl time alone. Then I tried to cover all my bases with breakfast—fresh juice and fruit in case anyone was on a diet, spinach omelets without cheese for those who avoided dairy, and pancakes just in case someone needed something a little stronger. I also bought some high-quality steak cuts, potatoes, onions, and corn, thinking that if our meeting ran too long, my friends’ husbands would show up and turn our breakfast meeting into a barbecue. Even though all my friends had the space and furniture to throw these get-togethers in their own homes, Josh and I had taken on the role of hosting them every week since we’d moved in together a month ago. I wondered how much longer we’d be able to keep up that kind of consistency.
Marisol and Laura showed up early, and I gave them a small briefing on what the gathering was about. The news shocked them, too, and they wanted to try to convince Natalie that it had to be something else. While they helped me set up, I reminded them that we needed to be delicate and careful not to overwhelm her.
Natalie arrived not much later, looking far less than her normal, glamorous self. Her bleach-blonde hair was now long enough to pull back into a messy ponytail, and I wasn’t sure the look suited her; we were used to seeing her with a little more care given to her appearance. She wore beige capris with a floral, short-sleeve shirt—something much more suited to Marisol in her mommy role. The little changes Natalie made now leaned more toward comfortable and away from posh, and I knew it was because she was unhappy. She’d never let being a wife and a mother distract her from presenting herself as if she were about to make her way down a catwalk. She still looked good, but it wasn’t her.
We sat on my terrace around the glass table Josh and I had added to the patio furniture. I was happy to see that everyone seemed to enjoy the food, and the conversation was amicable. But it didn’t flow or feel comfortable. I guess we were all waiting to see who would bring up the elephant in the room first.
“I still can’t believe you let Josh adopt a dog,” Marisol said as she crossed her legs in her chair, doing her best to avoid the beautiful American Pitbull licking her toes.
“Let?” I asked. “This is his house. How could I say no? Besides, have you looked at this guy? He’s gorgeous!” I called the goofy mutt by offering him a piece of bread. Josh was adamant about only feeding him the holistic dog food and healthy treats, but I couldn’t resist. “Come here, Jagger.”
About the Author: K.T. Castle loves reading, writing, and painting. She's on a quest to find the words, forms, and colors to materialize the worlds and people of her imagination. She loves reading Romance, especially Young Adult, New Adult, Contemporary, and Paranormal. She never saw herself as an incurable romantic, but lately, that's what she finds herself musing about. Love is found everywhere, regardless of whether it comes from a nice person or an ass—mundane or even vampire.
When she's not busy with work, in front of a computer placing many thoughts in order, she does her best to be creative or relax with a good TV series and snacks. Some of her favorite characters are Lucifer, Jace, Clary, Affton, Cable, Poppy, Zack, Maleficent, and Ariel.
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Aries Red Sky by James Young
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The Confederation of Man believes all Humanity should be under Terra’s rule.
The Spartan Republic has spent seven centuries preparing to resist Earth’s tyranny.
The stars will burn as these two mindsets come into brutal conflict in Aries’ Red Sky, the newest novel by award-winning author James Young.
The problem with making plans is sometimes the universe feels the need to remind you that it has a sense of humor, Nathan thought to himself. He glanced once again at his watch, then at the single wooden door at the end of the long, narrow room. It did not help his mood that the room was gloomy, the only light provided by the floating holograms of ancient documents. These lined the red, carpeted walkway that led through the surrounding blue carpet like a scarlet runway.
The Magna Carta. The American Declaration of Independence. The American Constitution. The Freebooter Articles. All forbidden by the Hassan Empire.
Nathan turned to look at the final hologram hovering above the legislative chamber’s entrance.
All also located here with The Acts of Inception to remind a waiting Executive that they are far from all powerful.
“Mr. President, that door’s not going to open until the Chief Parliamentarian is damn well ready to have it open,” Andrews stated dryly. Despite the security officer’s laconic comment, Nathan could tell the man was not impressed with being in the darkened room.
Three Presidents have died in this location and its predecessor, Nathan thought. Sure, one of them was a heart attack, but no one ever says to the head of security, ‘Oh you poor dear, how could you have known his heart was going to explode?’
“I still can’t believe Porter was the easier of the two of them to find,” Nathan said, giving Andrews a wry look.
“Porter has always been very good about his itinerary,” Andrews stated. “Nikephoros, not so much.”
The Chief Parliamentarian had finally been found with the help of a couple local kibbutzin. He and his two female companions had been far from the beaten path, having discovered a high mountain lake to avail themselves of.
Polyamory should be lethal at his age and that altitude, Nathan thought uncharitably. In either case, I’m sure that’s part of the reason we’re waiting—so he can remind me I’m not the boss of him.
The Spartan Republic’s Acts of Inception incurred a certain…tenseness between Executive and Legislative branches by design. First and foremost was the fact that the former served one six year term, period. Add to that no individual could serve in either branch for more than ten years combined, and it became readily apparent why the latter did not really give much of a shit what the former thought.
Walthers, Brown, and Menoit were no Washington, Marshall, and Madison, Nathan thought. But they got the job done. Longest any Republic has lasted in history.
James Young is a Missouri native who escaped small town life by attending the United States Military Academy. After being set free from the Hudson River Valley, Mr. Young spent the next six years of his life in the Army repaying his education the proverbial “nickel at a time.” Along the way he collected a loving, patient, beautiful spouse…and various animals that did not fit that description. Leaving the Republic’s employ, he returned to the Midwest to pursue his doctorate—a process which took twice the time planned but is finally concluded. Having now concluded two of the prerequisites to be a super villain, Dr. Young spends his time waiting for the inevitable origin story, winning writing awards (2016 United States Naval Institute Cyber Essay Contest Winner, among others), and writing an alternate history (Usurper’s War) and military space opera (Vergassy Chronicles) series. His latest book is Aries Red Sky, the first in a new Vergassy Universe trilogy.
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Margaritas, Mayhem, and Murder by May Cunningham
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Andi’s step-mother is a real piece of work! But is Ruby a murderer?
Andi Anna Jones, so-so travel agent/amateur sleuth, puts aside her resentment of her father’s widow and books a 60th birthday cruise to Cancun for Ruby and three friends. Never does Andi imagine the cruise will lead to the murder of a has-been lounge singer—or that Ruby will be the main suspect.
Flirting with more than danger after arriving in Mexico, Andi connects with the charming local sheriff, Manual Rodriquez. After an embarrassing night involving the sheriff, too many margaritas, and a Mariachi band, a chance to check out an eyewitness to the murder leads her to Las Vegas.
In Vegas, a mysterious meeting in the Bodies Exhibition, a body preserving in the prep-room, and an evasive owner of a dance studio, give Andi clues to help Ruby. But when Andi is mercilessly drugged and locked in a storage room, she realizes dear old step-mom isn’t the only one in jeopardy.
“Señorita Jones?”
I know that voice. I was stupidly listening to the still-ringing phone when a tall man in a uniform slid a pair of aviator sunglasses to the top of his head and stepped toward me. I locked onto smoky hazel eyes. “Ye-yesss. I’m Miss Jones. But, how did you know?”
“Oh, we have our ways.” The corners of his mouth turned up as he pointed to his badge. “I’m Sheriff Gonzales. We spoke on the phone.”
I got nothing. Total loss for words. Even my wildest dreams couldn’t have pictured this square-jawed, golden-skinned, Aztec god, straight out of GQ Magazine. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ruby.
“I was already in the area on official business, and finished in time to meet your flight. I’m parked at the curb. May I take your bag?”
I blinked a couple of times. “What? No, thank you, Sheriff, I can handle it myself. I appreciate the ride, but I could’ve taken a taxi, you know,” I lied and disconnected the phone call to Ellie.
“Considering the stressful nature of the situation, I thought it best someone pick you up. Finding transportation into the city can be confusing. I wanted to blurt out, you might be the most handsome man I’ve seen in my life, but I said, “That might be true for the average tourist, but I’m a travel agent, perfectly capable of finding my way through the city.” I adjusted the strap of my carryon bag, tossed my head, and walked into the side of a trashcan.
Author, Mary Cunningham, grew on the northern side of the Ohio River in Corydon, Indiana. Her first memories are of her dad’s original bedtime stories that no doubt inspired her imagination and love of a well-spun “yarn”.
Childhood experiences, and a recurring dream about a mysterious attic, inspired characters, Cynthia and Augusta Lee, for her award-winning middle-grade series, Cynthia's Attic. The setting is in her childhood home in Southern Indiana. Family stories and ancestors comprise the storylines. There are currently five books in the series: The Missing Locket, The Magic Medallion, Curse of the Bayou, The Magician’s Castle, and Legend of Lupin Woods.
Through a horrifying stint as a travel agent, the character, Andi Anna Jones, travel agent/amateur sleuth, inspired her latest adult mystery series. Book # 1, Margaritas, Mayhem & Murder was released Nov. 30, 2017. The author is currently writing Book # 2 of the series, along with another middle-grade series, The Adventures of Max and Maddie, a historical time-travel, and the biography of a former Army brat/University of Connecticut women’s basketball player who started a non-profit foundation to create scholarships for children of deployed veterans.
Cunningham is a member of The Georgia Reading Association, and the Carrollton Writers Guild.
When she gives her fingers a break from the keyboard, she enjoys golf, swimming and exploring the mountains of West Georgia where she makes her home with her husband and adopted, four-legged, furry daughter, Lucy.
Review Blurbs for Margaritas, Mayhem & Murder!
“If Evanovich's Stephanie Plum were a travel agent, she'd fit right in working this case alongside Andi, a wanna-be detective readers are sure to love.” —Regan Black, USA Today bestselling author of the Escape Club Heroes and Knight Traveler novels.
Margaritas, Mayhem & Murder...WOW. Snappy dialog, quirky characters, opens with a curious bang and yanked me through the pages. A fun, fantastic read. —Jean Rabe, USA Today Bestselling author, Piper Blackwell Mysteries.
“Grab a margarita and hold on tight; you're in for a wild ride.” —Karen MacInerney, Agatha Award nominee and author of the Dewberry Farms Mysteries
“Charming, lively, and unpredictable, Margaritas, Mayhem & Murder excels in a vivid story mystery fans will relish.”—Diane Donovan, Senior Editor Midwest Book Review
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Heart Stopping by L.P. Maxa
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Ten years ago Baze Carter fell irrevocably in love and knew he'd found his forever only to have her ripped from his arms, never to be seen again. Broken, and unable to find her, he made a life for himself as a baseball coach at St. Leasing School for Boys. Their secret, hidden for centuries, has been in peril for the past year, and now more than ever, Baze and his pack need to end the evil that plagues them. When Penelope Sutton is discovered bruised and battered lying in the road in front of his home, Baze is elated and murderous in equal measure. Anyone who dare harm his long lost mate will be made to pay, but not before Baze and Pen find their way back to each other.
“Hey, you okay?” She came out of the bathroom, steam escaping through the open door. Baze was bent at the waist, clutching the high-backed armchair next to the bed she’d slept in. She could see the tension in his posture. “Do I still smell like—”
“Please, Pen, please don’t say his name.” He turned to look at her, his eyes pleading. “I can’t handle it right now.”
She lifted her arm, smelling her skin. She thought she smelled like the soap she’d used in the shower. But her nose wasn’t the nose of a shifter. “Do I, uh, smell okay?”
He nodded. “You smell like me.” He took a step toward her, his hands reaching.
She wanted him to touch her, so her heart sank when his palms dropped back to his side. Penelope stood still, not sure what to do next. She’d showered like he’d asked; she was wearing his clothes. Now it was time for them to go downstairs and meet his pack. She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t nervous. Packs weren’t common, not in this day. But from what she knew, shifter packs were closer than family. They were tight-knit, protective, and they didn’t take to outsiders all that well.
She may have been Baze’s whole world when they were kids, but they were basically strangers at this point.
“When you meet them, my friends, you can’t touch them.”
Her eyes snapped to his face. “What?”
He shook his head, his gaze weary. “I feel…on edge. I feel possessive of you, and I can’t seem to shake it.” He licked his lips. “I’ll get it under control. But in the meantime, please don’t let them touch you. Especially the young guys, they’re not bonded.”
Was everything they’d gone through as kids coming back full force? Would the pain come back too? And the million-dollar question: what would they do about it if it did?
She nodded, letting him know that she’d heard him and she understood. And when he gestured for her to step in front of him, she waited in the hall to let him lead her down the stairs and into what appeared to be a massive living room.
The first thing she saw was the mounds of Chinese food on the large, long walnut coffee table. She put her hand on her stomach when it growled loudly. It’d been days since she’d had a real meal. She was starving, and now everyone knew it. “Sorry.”
A girl with long blonde hair, a shade lighter than Pen’s, stepped forward. “Don’t apologize.” Her smile was kind and she held a plate out, piled high with lo mein and orange chicken. “I’m Molly, Keller’s mate.”
“Thank you.” Pen took the food, not able to resist the smell any longer.
Molly kept standing, pointing around the room at each person in turn. “That’s Corey, Dominic, Lincoln, Madden, Jasper, Jace, Riley, and my mate Keller.” Molly laughed lightly. “Don’t worry about remembering everyone’s names. We won’t quiz you until tomorrow.”
Pen sent the group a wave. “Penelope. But you can call me Pen.” She glanced to Baze, gauging his reaction. He’d been the first person to ever call her Pen, but it’d stuck even after they’d been separated. Maybe it was her way of keeping him with her, even when there were oceans between them.
“You can call me Dom, and that skinny guy over there goes by Linc.” The man who’d addressed her stood, holding his hand out.
She looked at it but took a step away. “Sorry, I um…” She let her words trail off. She was normally a friendly person; she was a hugger. But she believed Baze when he’d said he was on edge and he didn’t want anyone to touch her. She may not be one hundred percent certain what the future held for the two of them, but she didn’t want to make the present any harder than it needed to be.
“Don’t touch her, any of you.” Baze grabbed her arm and gently hauled her behind his body and onto a vacant chair that looked like it had been pulled in from an unseen dining room. “I can’t handle it.”
Dom held his hands up in surrender. “No problem, man. I know how that feels.”
L.P. lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, daughter, three rescue dogs, four chickens, two dwarf goats, and one adopted cat. The fish died. She is a full-time writer, and part time business owner. L.P. says she loves to read as much as she loves to write, and reading a good book is her reward after writing one. In her spare time, she fosters puppies for a rescue organization based in Austin.
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Fall Beside You by Riley Parks
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Gideon Valsecchi had done the impossible when he busted out of the grueling poverty and pre-ordained existence his life had been on the South Side of Chicago. His free ride at college is the stepping stone to a career with a professional soccer team. And when his dream comes true it's not what he expects—sacrifice shouldn't taste this bitter, especially when the love of his life is what he's missing and can't seem to hold on to.
Elijah Tucker wants to give Gideon Valsecchi the world on a silver platter. And he has the means to do it. But Eli is learning the truth of the maxim that the way you hold onto the thing you want most is to let it go. And while his heart breaks into a thousand pieces, he doesn't come apart even when the worst happens. Because, even as cliché as it sounds...true love does find a way.
“Are you feeling a’right?” Gideon asked finally, unable to hold out any longer. He sighed when the only response he received was the quiet, even breaths of a sleeping Elijah. He stared up at the ceiling fan, noticing a reflection in the chrome accents of the city lights that lay just beyond the window.
Gideon knew he needed to sleep. His day had been long and he anticipated that the next one would be even longer. Regardless of how much he attempted to halt its activity, it was difficult to calm his brain down as it tried to wrap itself around Elijah’s out-of-the-ordinary demeanor.
“Are you asleep?” he whispered, though he already knew that he was. Biting his lip, Gideon decided to be brave, although he wasn’t sure how courageous it actually was to speak to a sleeping man. “Elijah,” he began, attempting to wrap his lips around words that seemed too big for his mouth. “I love you.”
It felt strange to admit, even though he knew it was true. Elijah gave him things that he’d never had before, and none of them had anything to do with money. He anchored him with stability, security, and love. “I love you,” Gideon repeated, thinking that it wasn’t that difficult after all. He’d said it and he felt better, lighter, like he passed a threshold of demons who had sought to keep him from moving forward.
The room was still, but he was floating, high above the internal struggles he’d unnecessarily doomed himself to. He repeated it a few more times, feeling better every time he said it, like he’d found a release he never knew he’d needed. “I really fucking love you,” he said with a yawn, letting his heavy eyelids fall.
“I love you too,” Elijah whispered sleepily, grinning up at Gideon, whose eyes shot open in response.
“Asshole,” Gideon muttered, feeling his cheeks flush warm. “I asked you if you were a’right and you didn’t answer.”
“I was sleeping. You woke me up when you said you love me.” He shrugged. “I don’t know if you realize, but I’m hyper tuned in to anytime you say ‘love.’ I’m obsessed with hearing it, even when you’re just talking about chicken nuggets.”
“That’s weird,” Gideon chided without malice. “You’re so weird.”
“Yeah, well, you love me.”
“Maybe you’re weird, too.”
“Or maybe I’m not weird at all,” Gideon reasoned. After all, loving Elijah made all the sense in the world.
“Okay, Captain Confession. Go to sleep or you’re going to tell me you can’t sleep over when you’re too tired tomorrow.”
Groaning at the stupid nickname, Gideon tilted his head down to kiss his boyfriend’s forehead.
“Tell me one more time though,” Elijah requested, drawing a laugh from Gideon.
And damn did it feel good.
Riley has always loved to write, believing that life has the possibility to be its most beautiful when it’s portrayed on the pages of a book. Feeling the need to create and liberate in the midst of the political landscape, Riley writes novels that focus on LGBTQ protagonists, wanting to honor a community that deserves better representation depicting lives, loves and triumphs in all facets of fiction.
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Undercurrents of Time by Pamela Schloesser Canepa
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What if time travel proved you were meant to be together? Sometimes the very things that bond two people can drive a wedge between them. Tabitha and Milt have been through a lot together, but they find themselves pulled in very different ways.
Tabitha longs for a getaway, while Milt is busy with his responsibilities. She embarks on an unplanned journey. With this attempt to pull herself out of the rut, how will she handle the unknown dangers she faces and return her life to normal?
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“Yes, that’s right. Sorry, Tabitha.” He smiled and looked at the notepad in his pocket. He decided to let her win that one and instead turned to his notes and ideas. Sitting on the couch, he turned on some relaxing jazz music. He was imagining how she’d look when she came out of that room. The very last thing on his mind was the dismantled car in his garage and the part he had taken to a friend earlier, a trusted friend who stood next to him as they watched it burn in a huge bonfire, never asking a question about the made up story of its origins and importance. He thought of Peter, sleeping in the next room. The doorbell rang, and he opened the door to welcome the babysitter. Milt sat on the couch and made small talk. Peter started moving about in his crib, probably awakened by the noise and sensing that his parents would be leaving the house. After visiting Peter in the nursery, Milt came back out, and an hour had passed.
She was ready. Milt had made the reservation for seven o’clock and now it was six. Everything seemed to be running smoothly so far.
Tabitha came out with a floral dress that hit just below the knee and strappy sandals. Since it was a last minute invitation, her best option was to put her hair up, framing her face. A smile came across Milt’s face.
“I can’t believe I’m wearing this,” she remarked. “It sure is stretched tight over my belly!”
“I didn’t even notice. I’m sitting here thinking you have the best pair of legs I’ve ever seen! Of course, the rest of you is breath-taking.” He kissed her cheek.
Tabitha blushed again. Not often did they do things like this anymore. Their new identities as parents had really changed things. This was almost like a first date. Now, hopefully the rest of the night would go this way….
Author Pamela Schloesser Canepa had a childhood full of travel and moving, fueling her writing of poems and stories as a child to provide entertainment for long trips. When her family settled in the southeast, writing provided an outlet for private thoughts and emotions for years, until she decided to self-publish fiction in 2016. Pamela's genres include science fiction, paranormal fiction, and poetry of all types. The "Made for Me" series was Pamela's first published fiction series with a futuristic flavor. Pamela plans to continue to write a spinoff with one of the characters in “Undercurrents in Time,” and her next project is another installment in the “Made for Me” series.
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Laura's Legacy by Lilli Carlisle
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A GIFT BOUND BY LOVE
While Laura was attending the annual omega celebration, a ruthless ogre attack destroyed her village and wiped out her family. Heartbroken, lonely, and adrift, she was forced to rely on the kindness of the Black Ridge wolf pack alpha for a home. And so were many others, including members of the small Newton pack, and their handsome, strong alpha, Dedric. One brief interlude was all it took for Laura to know she would choose him as her mate.
Alpha Dedric Newton couldn’t believe his good fortune. Beautiful and powerful, Laura was the omega of his dreams. Worried he had so little to offer, he insists she spend time with his small pack as they rebuild their village and homes. Laura and Dedric’s time in Newton strengthens their bond while evil works to undo all of Laura’s gifts, especially her legacy. After finding the greatest love an alpha could dream of, Dedric will do anything and everything to keep Laura safe from harm.
Dedric stormed back to his temporary house where his beta, his parents and the head of the women’s auxiliary waited in grim silence. Mary and Wilhelm, Samson and Rayanne followed him into his office. He sat behind his desk trying to calm the rage burning inside of him before speaking to the group squeezed into the room, all of them wearing the same pissed-off expression. It wouldn’t do to start ripping heads off to find out who was responsible for this insult, but Dedric was so angry he now understood what people meant when they said their blood boiled.
“Answers,” Dedric ordered. “I want answers as to why what should have been a happy and joyous occasion could have turned into chaos and insult. If we weren’t lucky enough to have Laura’s abilities this would have turned out to be a disaster.”
“Son, I can’t think of one person in our pack who would do something like this,” his mother said. “Everyone was overjoyed when they found out you had attracted the attention of an omega,” she assured him as she poured him a cup of coffee from the machine on the sideboard.
“Well somebody did,” Wilhelm groused. “It was plain to see the leg of the table had been cut. It wasn’t a failure due to the weight of the cake and it wasn’t because the table was old, because they’re new. Someone is responsible.” Wilhelm stared out the window. “I think you need to say something to the pack.”
“I will in the morning,” Dedric agreed.
“Oh, I think it’s going to have to be a bit sooner than that,” Samson said as he looked out the window and into the yard in front of the house.
Dedric got up, rounded his desk and looked through the window to find what looked like the whole pack standing in front of his house. Looks like I wasn’t the only one worried about how this affected Laura. “Right. I’ll go speak with them.”
Lilli Carlisle, lives outside Toronto, Canada. She’s a member of the Romance Writers of America and its chapter, Toronto Romance Writers. Lilli is a mother of two wonderful girls, wife to an amazing man, and servant to the pets in her life. Lilli writes both contemporary and paranormal romance and believes love should be celebrated and shared. After all, everybody needs a little romance, excitement, intrigue and passion in their lives.
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Freaking Fast by David Pereda
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The city is Asheville, North Carolina, and the year is 2066. As renowned mathematician Alexandra Martin travels in her self-driving car to assassinate the love of her life, she reminisces about how they met and fell in love fifty years earlier in middle school when she was a thirteen year old poor math whiz and he a wealthy teenager. Alex recounts her struggles to be admitted to the best private school in the county, her happy teenage years running track, and her close relationship with three handsome and charming boys: Xavier, the intellectual; Andrew, the golden boy; and Vitali, the suave foreigner. One by one, she visits the three boys of her youth, now successful professionals in their sixties, one of whom is her intended victim.
The road curves away but Andrew keeps the car on a straight line, riding on the well-manicured lawn, heading at dizzying speed toward the trees. I glance at the speedometer. We are going at 135 miles an hour already and gaining speed. We’re going to crash. My heart is beating so fast I think it’s going to break through my ribcage.
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, I’m thinking. I’m never going to carry out my plan. In a few more seconds I’m going to be dead, together with Andrew.
Fifty meters from the trees, Andrew pulls on the stick shift and, suddenly, we are flying. What? Wings have sprouted from the door panels and a tail has emerged from the rear. Andrew pulls hard on the stick, so we can clear the trees. I quickly calculate the angle of ascension as my head flattens against the back of the seat. Estimating the distance to the tree line and the height of the trees, I use the Pythagorean Theorem to gauge the hypotenuse: the angle of ascension is forty-five degrees, maybe even a tad more. That’s steep.
Are we going to make it?
We do, barely, but we do.
‘Yeah!’ Andrew yells with excitement as he steadies Kitty. ‘Was that a rush, or what?’ He glances at me and starts laughing. ‘You look pale, Alex.’
I don’t remember Andrew being this crazy. He was always a little bit on the wild side, but this is not a little; this is a lot. I gasp for air and try to recover my composure. I can’t talk just yet. We are flying at about 500 feet above the ground. The lake looks beautiful below us. I check the speed – 220 miles an hour. Kitty is slicing through the air with hardly a sound, like a gust of wind.
‘This baby has a cruising speed of 300 miles an hour,’ Andrew says, as if reading my mind. ‘And a top speed of 400. This is the latest prototype.’
My heartbeat has slowed down enough for me to speak.
‘Impressive.’
David Pereda is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Havana Blues and However Long the Night, as well as the Havana Series of thrillers featuring the dashing Doctor Raymond Peters and the beautiful but deadly Cuban assassin Marcela. He has traveled to more than thirty countries and speaks four languages. Before devoting his time solely to writing and teaching, David had a successful international consulting career with global giant Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Qatar, among others.
A member of MENSA, David earned his MBA from Pepperdine University in California. He earned bachelor degrees in English literature and mathematics at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
He lives in artistic Asheville, North Carolina, with his youngest daughter Sophia, where he teaches mathematics and English at the Asheville-Buncombe Community College. He loves sports and is an accomplished competitor in track and show-jumping equestrian events.
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Tempting Beat by Brooklyn Ann
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YOU NEVER KNOW…
Bleeding Vengeance’s drummer, Roderick Powell knows he’s a sod for feeling glum, especially after moving into a beautiful new home in a smart Denver suburb. But all his mates are partnered or married, and dreadfully happy. It’s enough to make a rockstar rethink his options. And even though his sexy neighbor has given him the brush-off, he’s decided to have another go – at this point he has nothing left to lose, apart from his heart.
Gwen Mason’s romantic past has been bumpier than most – twice divorced by thirty, she’s had enough of broken promises. An ER nurse who keeps a brutal schedule, she’s happy to become known as the neighborhood crazy cat lady. But…the most delicious man has moved next door. He’s British, he’s famous, he’s a rockstar. And, hard as she tries, Gwen can't keep Rod Powell from breaking all her rules, and suddenly she sees a future she never believed possible.
When Gwen stepped out onto her porch, it seemed her neighbor, Mrs. Kersh, had the same idea. Gwen saw her striding across the street before Gwen looked over and saw the moving truck next door.
“Our new neighbor has finally arrived,” Mrs. Kersh said in a somewhat scolding tone, as if the new homeowner was tardy in taking up residence. “I do wish I’d been home to see more of the prospective buyers touring the property.”
Gwen nodded. As an ER nurse, she worked twelve-hour shifts alternating between three and four days a week and almost always on the weekends, when most people perused houses for sale. She’d been working during the open house, and also missed the people who came after to look at the home. “I hope whoever bought the place is a nice person.”
Mrs. Kersh huffed. “I hope they’re quiet and don’t have a dog. The last people were atrocious, leaving that mutt in the yard to yap all the time.”
The last people were also major jerks, Gwen thought as she watched the movers pile out of the truck and begin unloading furniture. Their barking dog and loud children had cost her precious hours of sleep. Still, she couldn’t help but give Mrs. Kersh a sideways smile and glance down at Molly, the little terrier that was ever at Mrs. Kersh’s side.
Mrs. Kersh’s eyes widened with blatant terror. “Oh no.”
An older silver Honda CR-V pulled behind the moving truck and a man got out with a happy smile and a proprietary gleam in his eyes as he met the moving truck with a fob of jingling keys.
Holy hotness. Gwen almost breathed the words aloud as her belly tilted at the sight of the man striding up the walkway of the house next door. Shoulder-length chocolate-brown hair framed a face that was worthy of a magazine cover. Gray eyes danced with a touch of mischief. His lips were arched and full, making it impossible not to think of kissing.
Which was something Gwen could never do, because aside from that not being neighborly, he was clearly too young for her. If he was older than twenty-five, Gwen would eat her scrubs.
Formerly an auto-mechanic, Brooklyn Ann thrives on writing Romance featuring unconventional heroines and heroes who adore them. After writing historical paranormal romance in her critically acclaimed “Scandals with Bite” series and urban fantasy in her “Brides of Prophecy” novels, she now explores the chaotic realm of heavy metal music— a difficult world to find love in.
She lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho with her son, her cat, and a 1980 Datsun 210.
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In The Assassin's Arms by Katherine Hastings
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Five Things You’d Probably Never Guess About Me
1. In the summer, I’m usually found floating in a big, inflatable raft at the beach during the day. Every time I floated I got an idea for a book, but by the time I came back to shore, the idea or the inspiration was gone. So, I got a waterproof case for my iPhone and I now write while I’m out floating on the water. There’s something about being on the water that turns on my creative faucet, so I figured out a way to write while it was flowing. Almost every word of “In the Assassin’s Arms” was written on an iPhone while I floated in a raft.
2. I once moved to Arizona from Wisconsin when I was twenty-one. After spending two weeks there, I realized they didn’t have cheese curds (a Wisconsin staple!), there was nowhere to swim (I’m a water baby), and I felt like I was living in a Stepford Wives movie. I rented a U-Haul, filled it up with my recently unpacked stuff, tossed my French Bulldog in the front seat and drove back across the country to Wisconsin after only thirty days.
3. I have a terrible singing voice, yet for some reason, and much to the dismay of my husband, I sing-song sentences at him all the time. Sometimes I don’t even realize I’m doing it until I notice him staring at me with wide eyes and I can almost see his eardrums rupturing.
4. I love terrible B movies. The worse they are the better. You can be certain if there is a bad shark or zombie movie on Netflix, I’ve watched it. Last week I found “5-Headed Shark Attack” and almost bounced off the bed with excitement waiting for it to load.
5. I name everything. My car is named Moby after the whale because it’s a huge white SUV. My new lawnmower is Sir Chop-A-Lot. My hot tub is Tubbatha. Literally everything I own, including my favorite shoes, has a name.
John Douglas may be a well-trained political assassin, but he has met his match in the woman he once called a friend. When his childhood playmate reenters his life, she's not looking to rekindle their friendship... she's out for blood.
With a vendetta to settle, Charlotte Cornewalle isn't stopping until she finds the man who killed her father. All signs point to Robert Douglas, the leader of the opposing faction of assassins... and John's father. To get her revenge, no one will stand in her way... not even the boy she once adored.
Fate forces them together as they fight to prove their innocence and right the wrongs they have suffered. Sparks fly from more than just their swords, but will they be able to put the past behind them? Will they be able to find the truth before it destroys them both?
Katherine Hastings loves love. It’s why she writes romance novels. Getting lost writing a romantic adventure is one of her favorite pastimes. When she’s not on an adventure in her mind with her characters, she can be found at her home in Wisconsin snuggling her husband, two Boston Terriers, and the world’s naughtiest cat. Two things make Katherine want to leave her happy home these days... going for rides on her dressage pony or floating at the beach in her big inflatable raft. Writing her novels while floating in the lake is one of her ultimate pleasures... that and Fried Wisconsin Cheese Curds, of course.
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His Untamed Love by Anya Summers
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Visiting the Black Elkhorn Lodge and Resort is Mia Evans’s last option. She’s bordering on a nervous breakdown. Everyone in her life she thought she could count on deserted her. And, to make matters worse, she has the foulest case of writer’s block in the history of the world. She figures getting herself out of the prison her apartment in Chicago has become will help jar her life and her writing out of the rut they are in. But she isn’t prepared for the surly, sexy cowboy – who looks like her every dark fantasy come alive – riding into her life on his trusty steed.
Cole Stewart only loved one woman in all his thirty-five years, until he lost her forever and swore he would never love another. Since then he’s had a revolving door with the subs at his lifestyle club Cuffs & Spurs, all with the unwritten rule that he doesn’t get involved or do relationships of any kind, period. That is, until Mia Evans, the burned-out, anxiety ridden author, needing to get away from her real life, nearly runs him over with her car. Seeing the haunted expression in her gaze and a body he craves, the Dom in him knows he must have her, must taste her and feel her writhing beneath him. But will he be willing to risk his heart for the untamed passion he finds in her arms?
Mia shoved the gear shift into park and opened her car door. She stumbled out. Her knees trembled. Her belly performed somersaults. She sputtered, with a hand to her chest as she took in the scene, “Are you all right? I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you, I—”
The horse snorted at her and stomped a hoof. And, oh my goodness, it was a gorgeous black stallion with a small teardrop of white fur just above his eyes. The horse was absolutely huge. But the beastie didn’t show any fear or anxiety at almost being struck by a car. It was more like he was annoyed that he had been forced to stop. He vibrated with energy.
Her gaze rose. The man in the saddle had an air of calm authority about him and obviously extended that serenity to the beast. The man was large, or maybe he just seemed intimidating on top of the horse. He was wearing blue jeans and a gray flannel shirt, as well as a brown leather coat in deference to the chill. He tipped his black Stetson up as he studied her, his rich, dark sable hair grazing his impressively broad shoulders. There was a good week’s worth of dark stubble lining his firm, square jaw that was currently clenched tightly. He had high cheekbones and thick black brows that were scrunched in an irritated scowl. But it was his eyes—the intensity of his direct, forthright, charcoal gaze which blazed in fury—that made her feel like he’d peeled away every one of her pretenses and layers to reveal the scared ninny at the center.
“You need to be more careful, city girl,” he chewed out. Displeasure laced his husky voice that made her think of roaring fires and brandy.
Mia flinched like she’d been struck. She hated confrontations of any kind. She always fumbled and never held her own. Her anxiety bounded to new heights and she prayed she didn’t make more of a fool out of herself. “I’m really sorry. I’ve been driving all day and am a little tired. You came out of nowhere.”
The man shook his head and replied, “Just be more careful, city girl.”
His enigmatic eyes pierced through her. The sexy, surly cowboy could obviously tell that she didn’t have her ducks in a row. In fact, she didn’t even have ducks—more like a band of kittens doped up on catnip.
About the Author:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.
Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance under the name Maggie Mae Gallagher http://www.maggiemaegallagher.com/. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.
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A Maiden's Honor by Josanna Thompson
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Why do you write in your genre? What draws you to it?
I write historical fiction. I majored in history, and I love learning about different people and cultures around the world. Many amazing stories have come about from doing this research.
What research is required?
Building a world for a historical fiction novel requires LOTS of research. As a historian, I go through great lengths to present an accurate portrayal of the people and the parts of the world about which I am writing.
Name one thing you learned from your heroine.
Sarah Campbell is one of my favorite characters. (I like most of them, but Sarah has a soft spot in my heart.) I like her because she constantly surprises me. Even though the world beats her down, she’s always gets back up. Sarah is also the kind of character who does the right thing even if it’s a detriment to her.
Do you have any odd or interesting writing quirks, habits or superstitions?
Me? Na, I’m boring. Although, I always read through the writing I did the previous day. When writing a blog or something that I need to publish, I will write my piece and let it sit for several days to a week. This approach helps me to review the work with a fresh view. I also make use of a software called Natural Reader. It translates your work from text to speech. This software has also helped me to spot mistakes like missing words or wrong words. It's also helped me to iron out sentences that sound choppy or simply don't read well.
Are you a plotter or pantser?
Yes. I’m a little of both. I always work from an outline. My stories often take a life of their own as I start writing them. I always love when this happens.
Look to your right – what’s sitting there?
I’m going to look to my left because It’s more interesting. I sit in a winged back chair in my family room. I have a white wicker shelf to the left of me. I use it to store pencils, pens, and other supplies. I also have a few small amusements on the top shelf like a water toy, and a few small stuffed animals. They always bring a smile to my face when I look at them.
Anything new coming up from you? What?
I’m currently working on the sequel to A Maiden’s Honor. The story continues with my protagonist, Sarah Campbell’s journey through Western civilization. This time she lands in Regency England. She’s only there for a month. Her travels will take her to the United States and the West Indies. Sarah learns a lot in the process.
Do you have a question for our readers?
I would love to know what they enjoy in a book. In other words, what is it that makes a book good, and what makes a book bad?
Sarah Campbell is a rarity among women in her time. Raised by her Scottish father and the natives of a remote island in the South Pacific, Sarah and her father embark on a perilous journey to Scotland. Their crew betrays them and murders her father for the purpose of selling Sarah into slavery. She is rescued by an unlikely hero, Hassan Aziz, the most feared pirate on the Barbary Coast. She quickly discovers that she is unprepared for the complex world that is suddenly thrust upon her. Sarah must find a way to survive in a world that intrigues and terrifies her.
Cora studied Naa’il. “May I ask you a personal question?”
“That depends on the question.” Naa’il’s posture stiffened.
“Do you love your second wife?”
“Yes,” Naa’il said without hesitation.
“Don’t you owe it to her to investigate whether or not she was telling the truth?”
“I know what I saw. Our laws are clear, Cora. Samina must be punished,” Naa’il said bitterly.
“Then I suppose that I should be put to death too.”
“This is different,” Naa’il snapped.
“Why? We are not related, yet we are alone. We have even shared a bed.”
“You are my slave; you must obey me.”
“I see.” Cora grimaced. “Regarding your wife, permit me to give you something to ponder.”
“Continue.” Naa’il flicked his hand in the air.
“Why do you post a guard outside your wife’s door?”
“He is there to protect her.”
“Precisely. When a soldier hears a scream from the person that he is assigned to protect, he is not going to hesitate to ascertain why, for he fears that delaying, even for a moment, may kill her. Likewise, when a woman is frightened, she is not going to delay her scream long enough to cover herself, especially if an intruder is attacking her. My point is Your Excellency, if you love your wife, love her enough to try to confirm her story. If she is truly innocent, then perhaps she and her guard deserve mercy.”
Josanna Thompson is the author of A Maiden's Honor and The Woman from Eden series. She has lived in many different places in the United States, including the Southeast, the Midwest, California, and the Northeast. When she is not writing; she enjoys traveling, exploring, and scuba diving.
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How To Pick A Cooling Tower: Avoiding Vibration Damage
December 03, 2018 / Trish Holder
Excessive vibration in cooling towers is a problem that must be avoided at all cost. At the very least, vibration can cause excessive noise, giving rise to complaints. At the other end of the spectrum, depending on the source of the vibration, it can result in serious damage to the cooling tower itself. Early detection and inspection of the cooling tower to find the source of the vibration (shaft misalignment, broken gear teeth, imbalances etc.) are key to avoiding downtime and more serious structural damage.
Vibration cut-out switches are installed on cooling towers as a safety measure to (1) detect excessive fan drive vibration and (2) shut off the fan before the vibration causes damage to the drive system or the tower itself.
There are two types of vibration cut-out switches, mechanical and electronic.
Mechanical switches, which are more common, are simple in set-up and operation. Factory built towers typically ship with mechanical switches installed on them. However, they must be calibrated and adjusted prior to start-up of the tower, which is a simple process that includes only a few steps. Directions for this set-up process are included in the tower set-up instructions.
A mechanical switch detects excessive fan drive vibration (caused by fan icing or any mechanical fault) and promptly shuts off the fan before serious damage results and signals an alarm so the operator knows to come look at the tower.
Electronic switches do the same, but they also have options that include remote reset and/or start-up delay (presumably to ensure the source of the problem is investigated). Electronic switches are designed to communicate with building management systems so the set-up naturally involves wiring and some amount of programing.
High Tech Isn’t Always Better
At first consideration it may seem that an electronic switch is the way to go. After all, they offer more features and sophistication. But there is a practical downside to their operational convenience. They make it a little too easy to remotely restart the fan before investigating the source of the problem and this can have dire consequences.
This is one of those instances where we at JMP advocate the simple over the sophisticated.
We tend to recommend mechanical vibration cut-out switches because they force inspection and repair of the vibration source before restart of the tower, which makes them great for overall protection of the tower. Mechanical cut-out switches do their job and that minor inconvenience of a local restart may actually save your tower.
December 03, 2018 / Trish Holder/ Comment
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George Clooney puts forward best scientific argument yet, the “DumbF*****ery” thesis
George Clooney, climate smearist, is here with a slick advert to train Useful Idiots on what they should say.
George explains that because science can cure diseases, make phones work, and fly planes, therefore, the equilibrium climate sensitivity of carbon dioxide is 3.3 degrees Celcius. Ergo prompter sock post hoc, and all that. Sure.
Who’s the dumbcluck?
You might almost think Clooney is doing a parody of climate schmucks:
“Tragically, the volumes of knowledge gathered over centuries are now threatened by an epidemic of dumbf***ing idiots saying dumbf***ing things.”
Exactly, while tens of thousands of scientists protest about the death of science, Clooney is working to make it happen. Some people just fail their science tests at school, others make a global informercial.
Skip Jimmy and jump to George at 54 sec:
United to Defeat Untruthful Misinformation and Support Science, aka UDUMASS
The brand name “Science” was ripe for stealing, and if you can pronounce “subatomic particle” you can do it too.
Welcome to the drone-age where thousands of 13 year old girls are impressed by a movie star who knows how to swear.
h/t To Climate Depot
George Clooney puts forward best scientific argument yet, the "DumbF*****ery" thesis, 9.6 out of 10 based on 64 ratings
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191 comments to George Clooney puts forward best scientific argument yet, the “DumbF*****ery” thesis
I very much doubt many of these ‘celebrities’ actually believe in or truly care about anything beyond themselves really. They parrot the message du jour in the Media in order to promote their image and whatever social credentials are deemed proper by our masters. Were the powers and media supporting regimes such as 1930s Germany enjoyed they would just as happily chase ratings and approbation by extolling the wonders and virtues of fascism. To me they are nothing more than privileged and disgusting opportunists as demonstrated in how they somehow never see the need to actually ‘live’ their ‘principles’.
Catch 22 promotion. He is getting old and needs face time without paying. Its ALL about the money.
MudCrab
Catch 22 v2.0 – No one listens to Climate Change(tm) panic these days unless they are sworn at… but anyone who swears as a major part of their argument can’t have an argument worth listening to in the first place.
Hmmm… all I need now is some dragons, some cut price CGI and a ‘less is more’ wardrobe policy for all the female actresses and I sell this concept to HBO.
Who the f*ck is George Clooney
Ignorant foreign yank dude ?
I’m out of here.
Doris day just died
She was better looking
And had more brains
Than dopey George.
RIP Doris Day !
Graeme No.3
He’s about to announce himself as the 22ND (or maybe 23RD) runner for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 election.
Like all “Climate Scientists” he will be unable to quantify the amount of warming except as VERY SERIOUS & ALARMING
but then most “Climate Scientists” have only worked out how to put a white coat on for the TV.
glen Michel
Most likely what is called a “useful idiot” – a term that applies to 97% of climate alarmists.The other 3% are the engineers of this nonsense.
Roy Hogue
…need to actually ‘live’ their ‘principles’.
I have trouble discovering what their principles are. What is behind celebrity authority to speak, to dictate, to demand to be listened to. It’s a lack of principles if anything, downright usurpation of authority they don’t have and as dishonest as you can get.
George Clooney has nothing to offer the world except his mothers name and the fact that he can actually act if he wants to. Having his mother’s name is not worth anything because it meant a lifetime of useful accomplishment for his mother not for him. His acting ability means something because I have enjoyed the acting he got right and so have probably hundreds of thousands of others. Good. He shares something with his mother and all the rest of us. He’s got a job and at least if he tries he can do it quite well.
But what other than their accomplishments made George or his mother any more worth paying attention to than I am or than Joanne Nova is. All of us are just people doing a job. I don’t think having done my job well makes me eligible to tell the world its getting everything wrong and they better listen to me and do as I say. What has gone to George Clooney’s head that makes him believe he can tell the rest of us what to do?
And I think the adoring fellow screen actor’s guild members and the fawning public make that happen. We give these people the power they think they have to pontificate like they actually know something. And it is power as surely as I’m sitting here typing right now. And just like power obtained any other way, it corrupts, it puffs up their heads until they see themselves as anointed by god or some equally non existent source of authority they never earned. It boils down to just that; they never earned the authority they seek to exert over us. And we have fallen for this over and over.
We should be angry about it. We should shun these celebrity types unless they’re getting their live right, not listening to them.
Notice the “Suggested: May 6″ in the top right corner of the screen several seconds in the video. This is a carefully orchestrated campaign.
That line was actually cropped
The original read, “May 6, Farage 158″
PeterPetrum
YOU WIN THE PRIZE!
FrankH
I don’t do LOLs, but that raised a smile.
RicDre
Another “dumbcluck” says “Nevermind!”
“#AOC recants: ‘…world ending in 12 years due to climate change’ – it was “a joke””
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/13/aoc-recants-world-ending-in-12-years-due-to-climate-change-it-was-a-joke
and Ava Martinez does a new parody of AOC:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/mini-aoc-strikes-again-with-another-spot-on-video-mocking-ocasio-cortez/
I wonder if there is a way to have Ava replace AOC as Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District. Ava seems much smarter than AOC and much better at “dry humor + sarcasm”.
Greg Cavanagh
It was always a joke, it just took her this long to figure it out.
True, but I think it would be more accurate to say “It was always a joke, it just took her this long to figure out the joke was on her.”
C. Paul Barreira
But what does it say about the very highly-placed people who produced the “12-year” story? In AOC’s own words (PJMedia):
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
OriginalSteve
Speaking of “ya gotta be kiding…”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/ace-electric-vehicles-to-be-assembled-in-adelaide/11109132
“Electric vans, utes and eventually cars will be assembled in Adelaide from next year, with start-up company ACE EV to sign an agreement with an Adelaide-based business today.
* ACE EV to sign agreement with Adelaide’s Aldom Motor Body Builders to assemble electric commercial vehicles
* The companies hope to build up to 15,000 vans, utes and cars a year by 2025
* Aldom plans to start work at its Wingfield factory next year and expand to a new site later
“ACE EV will work with Adelaide’s Aldom Motor Body Builders to build up to 15,000 vehicles a year by 2025.
“ACE EV’s first electric car manufactured in Australia was built in a warehouse south of Brisbane by a team that included a German engineer, a translator and a handful of workers.
The company’s managing director, Greg McGarvie, told the ABC the company would be signing an agreement with Aldom today.
Maybe it will happen..
but I do know that
The claim that there
Will be No government
Subsidies is a fairy tale for the kids
robert rosicka
I love that kids work and so accurate , it must really hurt AOC and the usual pundits when a kid can show them just how stupid they really are .
And unlike the brainwashing of the left on kids there is no protesting here , no fear of the end of the world .
This is fighting fire with something much bigger .
Meanwhile back here in Australia,
A bunch of Greenists
And an ‘indigenous’ man
Have gone to Oslo
In Norway !
To protest against
The Equinor application
to Explore for oil
In the Southern Ocean
And ‘Mirning’ ‘elder’
Bunna Lawrie
Is lodging an indigenous
Sea claim for sea
290 Ks off the SA coast
From Ceduna.
Bugger me !
They certainly sailed
A huge long way out
In their red gum bark
Canoes !
Or maybe not !
Maybe just dopey
Greenists !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-13/aboriginal-elder-speaks-to-crowd-in-norway-1/11106972
Ohhh Dear !
The moderator does
Not like me going
And putting
Folks attention
Back here in
But you all till
Read it here :
Kinky Keith
B@gger!
I’m seeing more and more of this so maybe the Libs have a chance
And in Germany real science is being reported
At the No Tricks Zone
About what happens when sunlight
Hits the surface of the Oceans.
Fitz ! This may help with
Your understanding of climate
https://notrickszone.com/
Yonniestone
This Hollywood style of self congratulatory display has become nauseating and boring, as a children we were impressed by stars and celebrities that could portray characters and make you believe they were real, today that art appears to have taken a back seat to their hard left political opinions that are expressed with vulgarity and aggression.
Considering the amount of immoral and illegal going ons that has been exposed throughout this industry I think I’ll keep my hero’s such as the great couple behind this blog and sleep a bit better at night.
bemused
“Tragically, the volumes of knowledge gathered over centuries are now threatened by an epidemic of dumbf***ing celebrities saying dumbf***ing things.”
And here’s something to ponder:
The world has become a place where media personalities are mistaken for people of importance.
I’ve needed a doctor
I’ve needed a teacher
I’ve needed a plumber
I need farmers
I need all manner of trades etc
But I’ve never, not ever, needed a media personality for anything.
Robert Swan
That crack is ok for a laugh, but doesn’t stand up to much of that pondering.
Sure, I’ve never needed a media personality for anything, but I’m guessing that some people have appreciated media intervention (e.g. 60 Minutes, or the old Investigators) in some injustice or other.
And, on the other side of the ledger, I wouldn’t believe a doctor, teacher, farmer or tradie preaching at me about CO2 emissions any more than I’d believe Clooney.
But ponder who you could do without and who you could not do without. You being people and the well-being of society in general.
Margaret Thatcher said “there’s no such thing as society”, and I agree; society is just a collection of individuals, all with their own motivations. I know the motivations of exactly one. It might be that what get’s my plumber out of bed in the mornings is the prospect of earning enough to watch every last product of Hollywood. Surprise: no actors, no plumber.
I suppose the nearest we can come to objectively measuring a person’s value is how much they are paid. On that score, Cloony certainly beats me, and probably everyone else reading this comment.
But it doesn’t matter. How much I value the work of a teacher or farmer or actor has no bearing on how much I value their opinions. That comes down to how well they argue their case. Points off for every use of “Dumbf***” or the like.
Somehow I think you’ve missed my point.
No doubt I have. Seemed to me that in saying:
You being people and the well-being of society in general.
you were inviting me to think on behalf of society. Hence the long screed on my inability to say who society could really get by without.
Your quotation stands up fine as a joke. Perhaps I was being too literal-minded in accepting your invitations to “ponder” it.
I wasn’t talking about the opinions expressed by the various skills and trades that I noted, but what they contribute towards society. What contribution would we miss if there were no celebrities about? I’m talking about ‘celebrities’, not someone who may appear on TV or radio as a talking head. The latter can offer some value at some point in time.
All that ‘celebrities’ seem to do nowadays is ponce around with airs of self-importance and a belief that they can dictate what others should do and think. Most don’t even provide any entertainment value anymore, which was their reason for being in the first place. And most are the biggest hypocrites that you can find, the subject of this article being one of the biggest, owning numerous homes, jetting about all the time, and leaving Italy because there were too many refugees where he lived.
So when have you ever wished that there was a celebrity about to fix a problem that you have?
I don’t directly value celebrities, but I don’t discount that they might still serve a purpose. I similarly don’t value golf caddies, or personal trainers, but I don’t resent what they do. Depending on how you interpret Juvenal’s line about bread and circuses, celebrities might provide a kind of anaesthetic to keep the plebs peaceful. If a lot of people weren’t distracted by the goings on of Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, if they were to ponder instead how the riches of our country are being squandered, there might be an uprising.
Rather than an uprising (which I don’t think would go well for any of us), I’d like to see real change at the top. To that end, wasn’t Donald Trump a celebrity? And a certain level of fame hasn’t hurt Nigel Farage’s rise either.
Travis T. Jones
Nostradumbass pontificates on climate dumbf***ery.
The ironing is palpable.
Greg in NZ
Actor Bill Nye the non-science guy is getting in on the act, too, dropping F-bombs and blow-torching plastic globes, with a bucket of sand, a blanket, and a CO₂ fire extinguisher harmlessly (subliminally?) off to one side, from HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 13 May –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgBFYkBZ6E
Warning: Contains 97% bs and 3% canned laughter. Rating: 100% failed.
Kind of reminds me of someone who ignorantly thinks if they speak louder, the foreigner they are speaking to can magically understand them.
Funny how people in the ” dress up and pkay make believe” industry think they can lecture scientists on science. Arogance 101.
John Westman
Good one Steve,
Most of us grow out of playing “pretendies” in our early teens-some do not.
Those that do not, continue to live in a world of make believe and unearned pretentiousness. And they have huge “carbon footprints”.
4 legs good, 2 legs baaaaaaaadddddd….
Back at ya George .
After seeing the film clip I’m reminded of that comedy called “Team America” , if you haven’t seen it do yourself a favour and watch it .
But a warning it’s full of language such as George in the above clip .
Adaminaby Angler
[SNIP!] the blighter, and likewise the lot of them celebrity ponceys.
Here in rural Aussie, celebrities are largely unknown—and rightfully so. These urban elitist plonkers are well and truly the lowest of the lot.
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Binny Pegler
Good ole George. Typical of the ageing power brokers of the ‘old’ media, who struggle to come to grips with the internet age. 60 minutes recently spent a few $100k and weeks on a sinking Solomon Islands propaganda piece.
A 5 second google search came with this -
The volcanoes of the Solomon Islands form a NW-SW trending island chain continuing the Bougainvilla Island chain (which belongs to Papua New Guinea). The islands belong to a volcanic arc caused by the subduction of the oceanic crust of the small Solomon Plate under the Pacific Plate.
The area is a tectonically complex, marked by the interaction of several closely spaced oceanic microplates separated by subduction zones and short spreading centers, such as one extending from SE New Guinea to Kavachi volcano.
These guy just can’t get their head around the fact that they are no longer the gate keepers to peoples information. Most of the world now has the combined knowledge of humanity at their finger tips.
yarpos
Sadly Binny although most of the world now has the combined knowledge of humanity at their finger tips, they are either sadly ill equpped to access and understand it, or are too lazy, or are already so indoctrinated they dont even look.
A little while ago we went out to lunch with a couple, I knew they male partner from my old employer. At work he was perceived to be a smart if quirky guy. Smart enough to get an expat assignment up to Hong Kong and be managing IT projects around Asia Pacific. When the conversation drifted around to climate change it was clear his beliefs were very strong and he was adamantly in the alarmist camp. He only gleaned his information from and very superficial contact with the MSM, had not scratched one layer deep but was most strident in his views. It was surprising and a little dissapointing.
Bet a million his politics are on the left. You find what you look for.
Another Ian
“Delingpole: Farage Spoke the Truth on Climate Change. Why Does No Other Politician Dare?”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/13/conservative-politicians-need-to-come-clean-on-climate-change/
Readymade excuse for BS Bill if he loses (and others)
“#AOC recants: ‘…world ending in 12 years due to climate change’ – it was “a joke” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/13/aoc-recants-world-ending-in-12-years-due-to-climate-change-it-was-a-joke/
And comments!
David Maddison
Hedy Lamarr was probably the first and last Hollywood actress of any scientific worth. She invented frequency hopping, the basis of WiFi and had many other inventions. As she was Jewish, she had to escape from Nazi Germany and move to America.
Short video: https://youtu.be/_rlXHNeQD-s
Channel hopping is the basis of wifi? how does that work?
I think he meant channel hopping, which is what most cell phone comms uses to enhance privacy and make it more difficult to crack ( but it definately can be done…).
It was in fact called frequency hopping at the time.
And here is the original patent.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e0/dd/4e/0e04d56d1d7604/US2292387.pdf
Of course, it is no surprise that Clooney is a Trump hater, just like most Hollyweirdos.
Bruce of Newcastle
Climate alarmists like to be rude it seems. Bill Nye is in the news today with two stories:
Bill Nye explains global warming: ‘The planet is on f—ing fire’
Bill Nye blasts inaction on climate change due to cost: ‘Grow the f— up!’
Maybe they think using rude words will convince people. Doesn’t convince me since the data I am seeing still suggests nothing much is happening.
They get desperate as the feel fewer and fewer people are listening to their fable. If you are going to say blatantly stupid stuff like the planet is on fire, you need to dress it up with something.
David Wojick
Interesting timing. Big policy crunch coming. The IPCC was afraid of the 1.5 degree study, because the hot models say it cannot be done. Now they are reaping the whirlwind.
James in Melbourne
Can you expand on that, David?
Sceptical Sam
Yes David.
However, their response is to ignore the observations that support the Null hypothesis. They just continue to assert they are right; and adjust the data to fit their assertion.
http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CMIP5-73-models-vs-obs-20N-20S-MT-5-yr-means1.png
Slithers
Really strange how those Black and blue symbols show a sinusoidal effect with orbital variations.
Mmmmm wonder who can place a straight line trend ‘Curve’ through them with-out fudge factors?
TheEmporersNewCarbonFootprint
Unrelated to topic, but of vital and continuing interest top anyone who likes to eat –
“California jury says Bayer must pay $2 billion to couple in Roundup cancer trial”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit/california-jury-says-bayer-must-pay-2-billion-to-couple-in-roundup-cancer-trial-idUSKCN1SJ29F?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
Epidemiology is the best indicator of actual usage risk (see “tobacco Industry”), so if this vital ag chemical caused cancer it would be a simple exercise to compare cancer rates between countries late to adopt it and those using it for decades. Only in California..
The cost of the eventual loss of the use of this chemical will probably be measured in the millions of deaths, as whole production systems will have to change, and the necessary weed control through cultivation will re-introduce soil erosion in a major way.
For a long time Peter C has been my role model with his “Take Back the Green” icon. That’s all changed now. The Clooneys are winning.
The meaning of words is at the mercy of the people like George Clooney who act with gay abandon to mould our thinking.
Let’s at least try to hold on to Green, we need it for inspiration in our push to recover sanity in the world.
KK.
Celebs are just glowing examples of the Hierachy of Needs model of behaviour. The are filthy rich and have lackies running around organising their lives and doing all the menial stuff like paying bills and buying basics and maintaining or replacing stuff. Now they have time to focus on improving themselves and improving the world and being “the best they can be” so they caught up with gurus and bullsh1t like scientology and climate alarmism.
Occasionally one will do something useful but that is exceptional, and usually not the realm of on Hollywood type celebs, Diana and the mine clearing work might be an example of that.
Greenpeace activists hang themselves off a coat hanger.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/greenpeace-activists-scale-sydney-harbour-bridge/11110058
They should have shut down the bridge for a few hours to give them heaps of publicity and earn the wrath of the thousands who were inconvenienced.
And charged those ‘activists’ the cost of their removal and the revenue foregone.
And by the way, ‘activists’? What action have any of them ever undertaken to ‘fix’ the climate. It’s always others who have to do the work and others who have to pay for their fantasies.
Greenpeace is culpable and that is how the courts will see it, a very heavy fine is in store.
https://santiagotimes.cl/2017/05/20/greenpeace-activist-fined-sentenced-for-damaging-nazca-lines-in-peru/
LIMA – Wolfgang Sadik, a Greenpeace activist who seriously damaged Nazca Lines in 2014, has been given a three year and four month suspended prison sentence during a hearing in Peru’s southern Ica region.
The activist shall meet behavior expectations such as reporting to Court on his activities every six months, and paying compensation of S/650,000 (about US$198,170).
At least some of them got what they deserved. The idiocy of this one was beyond contempt.
has been given a three year and four month suspended prison sentence
Suspended?
The equivalent of being whacked over the knuckles with a wet lettuce leaf.
David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz
With 10 people involved doesn’t that constitute a conspiracy to overcome the limited number of security personnel on duty?
It’s impressive just how much damage they did.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/how-greenpeace-wrecked-one-of-the-most-sacred-places-in-the-americas/
And they could have gotten a maximum of 8 years jail. They got off very light in my humble opinion.
Let em hang there
For a couple of days !
Object lesson in
Being stupid
And it”s consequences
PeterFitzroy
Sent my donation to UDUMAS /Sarc off
pattoh
Perhaps it all come down to “Control Files”.
Look at att the high profile actor & “celebs” who realy, really hate Trump. Are they still acting & getting well paid for it?
In their world, where even marriages & scandals are “designed” by Public Relations Consultants, what have they sold for the lives they lead?
Personally, I would rather argue philosophy whith the garbo & the nurse down the pub. At least I know that they know about life & the vagaries of the culture that I live in.
Throw you iSpy away & talk to your neighbour.
MarkMcD
“He attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, majoring in broadcast journalism, and very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either.[29] He earned money selling women’s shoes, insurance door-to-door, stocking shelves, working in construction, and cutting tobacco”
This is Clooney. As you can see, he has all the hallmarks of someone who should be listened to for anything scientific.
I don’t know why ANYONE would bother doing all those years of skull-sweat when you can know science by having famous relatives.
Penguinite
Sorry! Don’t see any point in promoting the cooky Clooney Clutch ! I wonder how many dumbo’s phone the number?
No worries, we don’t get that sort of traffic through here.
it is satire, its not real
That’s what we keep telling you Fitz , CAGW is satire .
Mr Fitz, thats not quite right.
‘Satire is the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.’ wiki
TdeF
These are actors. Shallowood. These are people who spend their lives pretending to be other people with other people’s ideas, other people’s lives, other people’s attitudes and no idea how to do more than learn their lines.
At what point did they become convinced that they are world leaders? Barbra Streisand, Cher, Robert De Niro and a whole slew of not funny comedians and late night show hosts. The lowest point was the call to boycott Georgia for the heartbeat abortion law and some companies have already ceased business. This is blatant extortion to override the democratic process.
So Hollywood is now the incredibly wealthy extreme Left of American politics, a contradiction in itself.
Rich and influential, this by people who spend their lives pretending to be people they are not. The ultimate poseurs, but we knew that. These self righteous people defended Harvey Weinstein as a great guy and said there was no casting couch at all. Really? Isn’t that how Hollywood works? Hypocrisy is not difficult for actors. They never mean what they say.
How can you believe actors and entertainers? The great Peter Sellers had so many voices, at times he could not remember his real voice and
how can anyone take George Clooney seriously on science?
GeorgeHatesScience
Notice how he weaves in “ClimateChange”, “Vaccination” and “Creation Science” to block critical thinking.
Firstly, name-calling is oh so very mature.
Secondly, anyone with any real scientific knowledge (and knows the history of Polio, Measels, etc.) knows that vaccination works – that’s why we do it. Additionally, the Anti-Vaccination crowd basis their beliefs on a 1995 medical journal article written by a doctor who was later found to have fraudulantly messed with the results of that study. Additionally, recently a team of doctiors published an article of a 20-year vaccination study of 20,0000 children, taking the DNA of each child before and after each vaccination, and they showed that the Down-Syndrom genes were present in the DNA before the first vaccination and that the DNA did not change during the course of the vaccination study. This study effectively kills any anti-vaccination belief.
Thirdly, he lumps all Christians together (whether a Christian believes in “Evolution” or “Creation” or anything in between) and calls them all imbeciles and idiots. Way to go George – you are so Tolerant and Incusive (that’s sarcasm).
“Secondly, anyone with any real scientific knowledge (and knows the history of Polio, Measels, etc.) knows that vaccination works – that’s why we do it. Additionally, the Anti-Vaccination crowd basis their beliefs on a 1995 medical journal article written by a doctor who was later found to have fraudulantly messed with the results of that study.”
George, the doctor you mention above has been vindicated. The result of the case having been taken to the high court by one of the other doctors on the team that did the research that was the basis for the article you reference. It was determined that no fraud had been committed.
If you read his book, ‘Callous Disregard’, you’ll discover there’s much more to the story.
And there is more than one history of Polio, Measles, etc. too . . . .
As far as the DNA study is concerned, I don’t see how it proves the safety of vaccines?!? I mean, other damage is known to occur.
A lot of people who are called anti-vaxxers aren’t necessarily anti-vaccine, but, they don’t want to be forced to adhere to a vaccine schedule, that gets underway on day one, and that they don’t see as being in accord with what’s best for their children.
[Links to the high court case would be useful here. - Jo]
Reed Coray
Is this the same George Looney who said “There’s not going to be a President Donald Trump. That’s not going to happen.”?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=george+clooney+on+donald+trump+youtube&view=detail&mid=78A6C7C6A6FBAA8FCFB878A6C7C6A6FBAA8FCFB8&FORM=VIRE
Talk about a dumbf*&^*. If we use his political opinion track record to assess his scientific opinions, well even a blind person can connect the dots.
PS. To Peter Fitzroy. I have responded [http://joannenova.com.au/2019/04/midweek-unthreaded-67/#comment-2135864] to your comment http://joannenova.com.au/2019/04/midweek-unthreaded-67/#comment-2135581. The ball is back in your court.
Political science, climate science — six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Climate Scientology. George Clooney joins Tom Cruise in the Looney bin.
Reed I think we’ll have to continue our debate on the next midweek unthreaded, comments are now closed on our original one. but to you r last post
Seems like we are on the same page Reed. I think we agree that the equilibrium temp is more or less a value which balances the energy equations that describe the inputs to, in this case – the atmosphere. You make a valid point that the would also be one between interior sources of heat and the atmosphere as well.
Now for the axioms;
A value (which could be the equilibrium temp) can be calculated for a earth like body (that is one that represents us) to which we can compare our recorded values.
Any difference can be explained by fine tuning our calculation, by including more parameters.
This is slightly different to your point 11. The reason is that there are processes which may work in opposition to the radiative forcing changes as you have described them. An example would be a major volcanic event.
3rd axiom
we can calculate and measure values from prior history (using proxies) that can show what effect various atmospheric changes (like CO2, O2 etc) have on our value, defined in axiom 1
For the 2nd axiom, and this is in line with your point 11. We will refine the calculation in reference to a particular baseline ( which we will derive in axiom 3)
AndyG55
All that to say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING !!
Practicing your “gibberish”, are you.
Peter, I sent Joanne the following email: “Is there any chance you can reopen the thread [http://joannenova.com.au/2019/04/midweek-unthreaded-67/] for comments? I would like the entire discussion [Peter's and mine] to be located on a single thread. That will make it much easier for the thousands (ha-ha) of rapt readers to follow our discussion. If not, we’ll make do.” I’ll let you know what she says.
Peter Fitzroy,
Joanne listed several problems associated with reopening threads. I recommended that she NOT reopen our thread. We’ll carry on using this and future unthreaded posts. Having said that, I believe it’s your turn to make the case for greenhouse gas induced global warming. Based on what you have written to date, I sense that your arguments are going to follow the lines of correlation between temperature and atmospheric CO2 levels. I was hoping they would be more along the lines of a scientific argument that given our simplified model you would demonstrate that greenhouse gases must increase surface temperature. However, their your arguments, not mine. My arguments were and are going to be along the lines that, yes greenhouse gases might increase surface temperature, but situations exists where they don’t–in fact, situations can be constructed where all else being equal, the presence of CO2 not only doesn’t result in higher temperatures, it results in lower temperatures. In any event, I look forward to your arguments.
The original thread is still open for the time being if you want ot continue it there.
Peter Fitzroy
I have problems with your axioms. I agree with a part of your first axiom—specifically that we can calculate an energy-rate-equilibrium (ERE) temperature for the surface of an earth-like body. However, I don’t see how we can compare that calculation with “recorded values.” We don’t have any “recorded values.” We have recorded values for the earth/earth-atmosphere system, but as of now we lack “recorded values” for our earth-like body.
In addition, I question the position that “any difference [i.e., difference between our calculated value and our “recorded value(s)] can be explained by fine tuning our calculation, by including more parameters.” That methodology reminds me of the “fudge factor” students used to include when handing in reports describing their lab experiments. In particular, if their experimental results didn’t agree with theory, to account for the differences they would add a “fudge factor” term to the theory. Such a methodology will always produce agreement between experiment and theory; but the methodology introduces a new issue—how valid is the added theory? This line of reasoning leads down a never ending path.
Your third axiom. We decided to construct a simplified earth-like body because we both realize that a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the earth/earth-atmosphere system is outside our ability to perform. Our earth-like body has well-defined characteristics, and for that earth-like body we apply physical theory to compute the earth-like body’s surface temperature. As such, I have no problem with “calculating” the effects various parameter values of the earth-like body will have on the earth-like body’s surface temperature. However (repeating what I said previously), the only way to compare those theoretical results with measured data is to construct and perform experiments on the earth-like body. If we compare theoretical results that apply to the earth-like body against measured results of the real earth/earth-atmosphere system, we are re-introducing the very issues that led us to create a simplified earth-like model in the first place. It takes a giant leap of faith to believe that the experimental results for our earth-like body will be the same as measured data from our earth/earth-atmosphere system. To put it mildly, this is a leap of faith I am extremely reluctant to take.
Your second axiom. I have no problem with refining calculations with respect to our base-line earth-like system; but the refinements can represent a different baseline system only to the degree that they don’t violate any condition of the original baseline system.
I think we’ve reached the point where the next actions to be taken are for you to “make your case” and I will “make my case.” After posting those cases on this blog, we can critique each other’s arguments. In that regard, if at all possible I would like the posting of our cases to be on the original “midweek unthreaded” post. Joanne has reopened that post for further comments. How long she keeps the post open, I don’t know. But let’s use that post as long as we can. What say you?
Keanu Reeves is still the best “Star” He alone would acknowledge what he did…get paid a lot of money for dressing up…its all for the kids. Hope his line of motorcycles takes off
Link is u/s
Rocket Rod
Absolutely correct but he’s blaming the wrong people.
The AGW BS is being exposed and people waking up at record pace, so we now face the fake ‘crisis’ phase of this fiasco.
Real scientists engaging in real science, and untold others both professional and layperson, know the truth. If the rest weren’t afraid of losing their jobs and funding, this nonsense would have been wiped out decades ago. Salary – 1, integrity – 0.
It’s all natural cycles, not manmade.
Blame the late Margaret Thatcher as she started all this 40 years ago as a political move.
It’s grown into a religion – or maybe better described as a suicide cult- “we believe brother, we believe !.
Bow down and pray to the holy alter of AGW”
Burn the unbelievers, arrest them, destroy history.
But reality doesn’t care. Reality will do what reality always does. Wipe out the weak and stupid.
This winter should be very interesting
perhaps this will work
http://blackjay.net/?p=588
theRealUniverse
George Clooney Clowney..
What can you say..
This is the clown that owns a pretty spiffy mansion on the shore of Lake Como, Italy. Beautiful garden, nicely trimmed. Lit up at night. However, not a solar panel in sight. Not on the roof nor in the grounds. I’ve been there. I’ve seen it.
It gets cold on Lake Como in winter. I don’t know how Clowny heats his holiday house (or cools it in summer) but you can be assured it’s not by using renewables.
The man is a complete flake. Why he gets the time of day is a mystery.
RickWill
Off topic, however we are counting down to Saturday.
I sent a goodwill message to Cory Bernardi and got a nice reply:
On behalf of Senator Bernardi, thank you for your recent email.
We would like to acknowledge that your correspondence has been received.
We appreciate your support for the Conservatives.
Please know your message and well wishes will be passed on to the Senator.
Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.
Frances Mulholland
Electorate Officer I Office of Senator Cory Bernardi
Senator for South Australia
Leader of Australian Conservatives I http://www.conservatives.org.au
36 Grenfell Street, Kent Town SA 5067 I PO Box 2192, Kent Town SA 5071
Phone (08) 8362 8600 I Fax (08) 8362 8579
S1.87 Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
I hope he and a few more like minded make it. The Victorian Senate candidate has an impressive resume:
https://www.conservatives.org.au/kevin_bailey
I hop he makes it in Victoria.
mosomoso
Skip Jimmy? It’s all I’ve ever done.
But it’s good that centuries of geology, stratigraphy, speleology, oceanography, glaciology, archaeology and history have been exposed by UDUMASS as DumbF*****ery. It’s been made clear by “Broadcaster” Attenborough and climate was pretty stable till CO2 levels soared. These old school scientists just imagined the whole Holocene and Quaternary thing. Of course, they were working without the aid of BBC docos and Hollywood disaster flicks, resources we take for granted.
Those who question Clooney Science will be subjected to sniggering and patronising worse than anything from “Bedroom Eyes” deGrasse-Tyson. A quip from George is more terrible than an hour of Brian Cox smirking. Yes, more terrible even than that.
RobK
Australian physicist John Reid has just published a book called “The Fluid Catastrophy”. He has a blog for it http://fluidcatastrophe.net . The book covers many topics. The bits covering climate change are as follows.
1) There is no significant trend in global average temperature. The apparent trend is due to spurious regression (Chapters 8 and 9)
2) The apparent correlation between global average temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentration is also spurious. (Chapter 8)
3) Items 1 and 2 are both a consequence of global average temperature being a centrally biased random walk with a red-noise variance spectrum. (Chapter 7)
4) The bomb-test curve shows that about 80 percent of recent increases in atmospheric CO 2 concentration are due to ocean upwelling and only 20 percent are due to human activity. The ratio of the total contribution of anthropogenic CO 2 to the total in the ocean-atmosphere system since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution is only 1 percent. This would have no measurable effect. (Chapter 12)
5) Predictions of temperature increases based on numerical coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models (i.e. climate models) are meaningless because such deterministic models cannot account for turbulence, which is stochastic. Because of this they include unrealistically large values of parameters such as eddy viscosity in order to remain stable and so can never faithfully emulate reality. (Chapter 3, Figures 3.1 and 3.2)
6) Climate modellers ignore the effect of subaqueous volcanic activity on ocean circulation despite that fact that 85 percent of volcanic activity occurs beneath the ocean and that heating from a major oceanic eruption would dwarf all other ocean processes. This aspect of ocean circulation and climate has not simply been forgotten; it is conscientiously avoided. It is the elephant in the room. (Chapter 13)
Based on the above we can conclude that, at multidecadal time scales, unexplained variations in global temperature and in global mean sea level may be attributed to subaqueous volcanism and are unrelated to human activity.
I have read the book and thoroughly recommend it. Some of the maths gets heavy going but the rest is fasinating and thought provoking.
The intro from the blog goes;
The Fluid Catastrophe by John Reid is primarily about the failure of theoretical Fluid Dynamics to account for turbulence. It is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and is available here: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-fluid-catastrophe
Contemporary fluid dynamics is all about the mathematical description of a theoretical construct called the fluid continuum. In the real world there is no such thing as a fluid continuum. All real fluids are comprised of atoms and molecules and are are ultimately subject to the laws of quantum mechanics. All real fluids are non-Newtonian; they are granular and stochastic not discrete and deterministic.
This misconception has kept Fluid Dynamics trapped in the nineteenth century, unable to deal with planetary scale fluid phenomena such as ocean waves, ocean circulation, climate, paleoclimate and the dynamics of the Core and Mantle of the Earth. These topics are discussed in the book which also addresses the analysis of time series and discrete time spectral analysis without using Newtonian concepts of differentiability and continuity.
The code for processing time series in order to generate many of the graphs in the book are included in the Appendices. Those programs are now available online.
“4) The bomb-test curve shows that about 80 percent of recent increases in atmospheric CO 2 concentration are due to ocean upwelling and only 20 percent are due to human activity. The ratio of the total contribution of anthropogenic CO 2 to the total in the ocean-atmosphere system since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution is only 1 percent.”
The core deceit is that CO2 levels are all man made. There is absolute proof that is utterly false.
I have banged on about the bomb test curve for a decade now. It tells you everything, especially the fact that CO2 is in rapid equilibrium with the 98% of CO2 which is dissolved in the gigantic oceans.
Even if we humans wanted to do so, we could not ever change the CO2 levels. Windmills, solar panels, direct action, electric cars are all fantasies if their intention is to change CO2. It is the greatest waste of human resources and world peace in human history. There is no Climate problem. It is all made up.
Sell the ABC/SBS/BOM/CSIRO, stop the RET milking our electricity bills illegally and stop Carbon taxes of all forms. We and all living things are made from CO2 and H2O and precious little else. Green is a long chain hydrocarbon.
As head of physics for James Cook University, Peter Ridd is totally correct. Amazingly strong quietly spoken person. Real science will not be silenced by money grubbing administrators.
and opportunistic money men like Malcolm Turnbull and John Hewson, both faux conservatives.
We can only hope that Union puppet and serial political assassin Bill Shorten loses the unloseable election, as Hewson did. As the British people want BREXIT and freedom, we Australians want freedom from the Climate Fantasies and their taxes.
We want dams, coal power, proper water management and to choose what we eat, what we drive and not be dictated by opportunistic Green hypocrites like Di Natale and Bandt. We want to decide who comes to Australia and under what conditions. We want our country back from the EU/UN and Agenda 21.
Not fake scientists like Bill Nye appearing Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Bill Nye launched into an profanity-laden and hyperbolic rant about climate change, exclaiming “the planet’s on f*cking fire!”
No Bill, it isn’t.
The guys a nut case.
Try this link for Peters site.
3red time luky, lol
Alice Thermopolis
Loony Clooney clones also infest the ALP:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/05/13/labor-attack-ad-climate-change/
Labor believes it has finally found the “killer ad” to prosecute the Liberal Party’s inaction on climate change and connect with younger voters in the final days of the campaign.
With just 48 hours until an advertising blackout hits free-to-air television, the ALP has dumped a powerful negative ad into the mix designed to capture swinging voters worried about climate change.
The Liberal Party is also preparing to dump millions of dollars of negative ads into TV, radio and Facebook in a final pitch to stop the election of a Bill Shorten government.
Labor’s new “doomsday” advertisement opens with the words “climate change” before running images of natural disasters including bushfires, floods and cyclones.
Time to take evasive action
And turn off the commercial TV channels !
mind you just using the mute button
All the time
Works as well
Bill I came across a faceache post that claimed Cory Bernardi and Labor were on a unity ticket as far as franking credits go .
I choose to disbelieve.
Sorry was worded badly it’s ACP calling out the other party with a similar name
George Looney might be a good actor but is proven to be a dumbass scientist. If I wanted advice from someone about say how to fix my car the last person I would talk to is an actor. The second last one would be a politician.
Antoine D'Arche
Salvor Hardin once said (or will say?…..), that “violence is the last resort of the incompetent. I’m pretty sure he’d be happy extending that to ad hominem arguments made by global warmist ageing actors.
“Internal CSIRO correspondence reveals the science agency was pushed to formally accept the Federal Government’s approval of Adani’s water plans in a single afternoon.”
‘The devil is in the detail that we do not have’
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/adani-csiro-emails-foi-melissa-price/11107276
Wait. What?
The science is settled:
Coal miners to blame for Queensland floods, says Australian Greens leader Bob Brown
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/coal-miners-to-blame-for-queensland-floods-says-australian-greens-leader-bob-brown/news-story/cbfe12042fa9c4149ea3c10524f57344
this mob say there’s such “a huge appetite” for electric vehicles in Australia, they will export 12,000 of their projected 15,000 in 2025! 3 taxpayer-funded ABC staff swallow the whole story:
14 May: ABC: ACE EV to sign agreement to build electric vehicles in Adelaide starting in 2020
By Brittany Evins, Camron Slessor and Eugene Boisvert
ACE EV’s first electric car manufactured in Australia was built in a warehouse south of Brisbane by a team that included a German engineer, a translator and a handful of workers
The company’s managing director, Greg McGarvie, told the ABC the company would be signing an agreement with Aldom today…
Up to half of the parts will be made in South Australia, with the rest to be imported mostly from China…
Mr McGarvie said the company was taking orders already for the vehicles and full-scale assembly would begin in Adelaide in 2020.
***”We know for sure that there’s a huge appetite for electric vehicles in Australia,” he said…
“We’re hoping that we’ll get up to 15,000 [built] a year.
“Of that 15,000 we would expect ***around 80 per cent will be export…
Hope.
Pandora managed to save that and keep it sealed in her jar.
Sealed away. Blind.
On the other hand Aeschylus, in Prometheus Bound, had this to say:
Chorus: Did you perhaps go further than you have told us?
Prometheus – I stopped mortals from foreseeing their fate.
Chorus – What kind of cure did you discover for this sickness?
Prometheus – I established in them blind hopes.
Chorus – This is a great benefit you gave to men.
I suspect that Aeschylus is on the money.
toorightmate
Clooney has starred in a few good box office movies.
However, scan through the list of all the movies he has been in and you will find that the majority have been C Grade gutter tripe.
headline on ABC’s “Just In” page – lol:
***Dreaming of warmer weather? An inflatable water park is on the cards for Canberra
By Kate Midena
Posted about 3 hours ago | Updated 48 minutes ago
actual headline – nothing worth reading:
14 May: ABC: Canberra Aqua Park proposal for inflatable water playground to develop Black Mountain Peninsula
The proposed aqua park would only be operational during the warmer months, between November and April, and the structure would be packed up and stored during the off season…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/canberra-aqua-park-inflatable-water-playground-black-mountain/11110204
Kind of off-topic yet all within the same big nasty picture, via NZ Herald / Pravda / Newspeak:
“Police have been accused of targeting ‘everyday Kiwis’ during recent armed raids to seize firearms on rural South Island properties”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230601
Who would’ve thought Roger Donaldson’s 1977 film, Sleeping Dogs, would ‘go live’ in 2019 –
except today, 42 years later, it’s the Leftist Gorilla NZ Govt [sic] versus The People. It would appear the mythical Glorious World Of Next Tuesday has arrived.
13 May: CNN: Australian islanders file landmark climate change complaint against government
By Sheena McKenzie
The eight Torres Strait Islanders filed the complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, claiming that rising sea levels were having a devastating effect on their communities…
“We’re currently seeing the effects of climate change on our islands daily, with rising seas, tidal surges, coastal erosion and inundation of our communities,” said one of the complaint’s authors, Kabay Tamu, in a statement.
This was also having an impact on “the social and emotional wellbeing of our communities who practice culture and traditions,” he added…
The complaint is the first legal action worldwide brought by low-lying islands against a nation state, said lawyers from environmental campaign group, ClientEarth, which is representing the group. It is also the first climate ligation against Australia on the basis of human rights…
Australia relies heavily on coal-fired power plants, and the country’s own Climate Change Authority has recommended more ambitious emissions targets…
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/13/australia/torres-strait-islanders-australia-climate-change-intl/index.html
“We’re currently seeing the effects of climate change on our islands daily”
You would have to agree. In Melbourne the temperature can climb 10-20C in a few hours when the sun comes up. A sudden drop when it goes down. We have four seasons in one day, often. All caused by coal, cattle and cars. We need immediate compensation from the Chinese government for Melbourne’s Daily Climate Change.
So exactly how are they going to PROVE CO2 causes sea level rise in a court of law?? OR that the sea levels are actually rising?
They CANT, so they need a fake kangaroo court and fake lawyers, who present fake data, (who will make a fortune) to hear their case.
In breaking news…to demonstrate what a serious problem co2 ‘emissions’ is posing to the world, George Clooney and Leonado DiCaprio will reduce their own massive co2 footprints by moving into 100% renewable powered, modest 3 bedroom brick veneer houses and demolish all their co2 intensive mansions, yachts and vehicles (so that no one else can generate copious amounts of co2 with them). They will also be forgoing all forms of travel, until co2 ‘emissions’ drop back below acceptable levels.
The plants will weep!
Nah! Needs more than two to make an effect and how many others do you think will follow?
Spoil sport Ian !
the old FakeNewsMSM trick – call a pollie a “rock star”, but Bill?
13 May: news.com.au: Bill Shorten receives rock star welcome at school on NSW Central Coast
Students screamed his name and tried desperately to get close enough to touch the Opposition leader today. Here, they explain why.
by Charis Chang
The Labor leader seemed shocked as dozens of screeching teenage girls surrounded him during a visit to St Joseph’s Catholic College, East Gosford on the NSW Central Coast…
But the girls were only interested in one person: Bill…
The excitement started as soon as Mr Shorten entered the school property, with one girl gushing to her friend “he shook my hand”, while another said: “he smiled at me”.
It was a small sign of things to come.
As Mr Shorten made his way towards the school’s quadrangle, a group of girls formed and started screaming as he came towards them…
But there was chaos once Mr Shorten entered the quadrangle, with a huge mob of girls clambering to get close to him…
News.com.au asked a few of the girls in the crowd why they were so keen to see Mr Shorten.
***“I don’t know, I’m just following the crowd,” one girl said, as her friends agreed.
“I want to get a high-five from a famous person.”
Another student said she had never met a politician.
“I want to sort-of ask him about his climate change policy because he’s spoken about it but not about what it actually is and that’s the world we’re going to grow up with.”…
On climate change, Mr Shorten outlined some of his party’s policies including support for renewables, to get large companies to offset their pollution and support for electric cars…
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/bill-shorten-receives-rock-star-welcome-at-school-on-nsw-central-coast/news-story/a47ad4e776948c57a5a63e7860acbadf
13 May: NorthernDailyLeader: Students mob Shorten in rock star welcome
by Matt Coughlan, AAP
PIC: Bill Shorten has been mobbed by high school students while campaigning on the NSW Central Coast.
Billmania spread across the schoolyard with students mobbing the Labor leader as if he was a pop star rather than a politician.
Unfortunately for Bill Shorten most of them won’t be voting on Saturday…
Above, more students looked down as he dished out high-fives to a swarm of girls jockeying for a selfie.
“I touched his hand,” said one girl to her friend, who hit back with: “I got a video.”
The school is in the electorate of Robertson, which Liberal MP Lucy Wicks holds by a mere 1.1 per cent…
“Australia’s political adults have yet again failed the future so we’re really interested in taking action on climate change,” he (Shorten) said…
https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/6119673/students-mob-shorten-in-rock-star-welcome/
How utterly nauseating!
Ghibli Levante
It’s a bit like Scomo pretending to like a beer with “da boys”!
even if true, and not manufacture by the CAGW zealots themselves, maybe people are trying to find out if Shorten has finally revealed the cost of his climate policies!
14 May: AFR: Climate change is the most searched election issue
by Luke Housego
***Climate change was the most searched political issue and ***Bill Shorten topped searches of political leaders, according to an analysis of internet search data over the past two weeks.
An assessment of all Google searches on politics found climate change was the most searched over the period, according to analysis that ranked the top 22 categories.
“Some of them were predictable and others were surprising,” University of Queensland political analyst and historian Chris Salisbury said…
https://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/climate-change-is-the-most-searched-election-issue-20190512-p51mh4
of course, why should Shorten reveal anything when the CAGW gate-keepers, including MSM, will cover for him. neither piece below link to TAI’s review:
14 May: Guardian: Climate modelling used to attack Labor policies a ‘complete outlier’, analysis finds
Greater action to address climate change is not ‘economy wrecking’, Australia Institute concludes
by Lisa Cox
The Australia Institute has published a review comparing the work of Brian Fisher with 19 other reports and and three Treasury models that examined the potential effects of higher climate targets.
Ten of those reports examined the economy-wide effects of higher targets, while 12 looked at the impacts on the electricity sector, including five reports modelling 100% renewable energy.
The analysis found none of the reports showed greater action to address climate change was “economy wrecking” and that higher targets had, at most, “a very small impact on GDP growth compared to no action”…
Fisher’s analysis has been widely criticised for, among other things, assumptions about abatement costs that the Australian National University’s Frank Jotzo has said are implausibly high…
The Australia Institute found that the 12 reports examining the electricity sector showed higher ambition targets would reduce power costs, or result in “a modest and manageable increase”, including for 100% renewables…
“The majority of Australians want the country to mobilise in a state of emergency to combat climate change with the same cooperation and commitment as a war effort,” (TAI’s Richie) Merzian said…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/14/climate-modelling-used-to-attack-labor-policies-a-complete-outlier-analysis-finds
13 May: BrisbaneTimes: Coalition attacking Labor on climate costs with ‘complete outlier’ modelling
According to analysis by the progressive Australia Institute think tank, Dr Fisher’s findings also diverge starkly from comparable modelling.
The institute analysed 22 other reports, mostly from the past five years. They comprised work in peer-reviewed journals and reports by academics, government agencies and consultants. Authors included the Commonwealth Treasury, CSIRO, the Australian National University, the University of NSW and work commissioned by the federal Climate Change Authority…
The institute says they all showed Australia would enjoy strong economic growth under higher emissions reduction targets, with a “small to negligible” effect on GDP growth compared to no or low-level action…
The 12 other reports focused on the electricity sector. They showed that higher emission reduction targets reduced power costs or led to a “modest and manageable increase, including for 100 per cent renewables”, the institute says…
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-election-2019/lnp-climate-cost-estimates-wildly-out-of-step-with-22-other-reports-20190513-p51mtl.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed
hmmm. AFR not convinced Bill’s climate policy will not be costly?
14 May: AFR: The AFR View: Adani shows Labor climate split that never went away
During the Rudd-Gillard era it was clear a rift had opened up between Labor’s blue collar working class support and its inner city left-progressive wing.
Conventional wisdom has it that the Coalition has a big climate change problem…The moderates say the conservatives are troglodytes who are out of touch with the community (and possibly reality). The conservative rejoinder is that the moderates all represent wealthy, inner-city seats and are out of touch with hip-pocket issues of ordinary Australians in swing seats, who don’t want to pay more for energy or anything else for the sake of the climate…
Yet the Coalition is not the only party riven by climate change trouble. It is easy to forget that climate killed Kevin Rudd, then Julia Gillard partly because ordinary voters – and the unions that represented them – were worried that working people would bear the brunt of an economy with a higher cost base. During the Rudd-Gillard era, it was clear a rift had opened up between its blue collar working class support and the inner-city, left-progressive wing made up of professionals and public service workers in secure, well-paid employment. Tony Abbott, with his own form of big government, Democratic Labor Party-style conservatism ***was able to successfully capitalise on this rift to attract working class voters away from Labor in 2013…
But the climate change problem – and a structural split between the blue collar workers and the left-progressives – has not gone away. Mr Shorten has merely been able to paper over the cracks while Labor has been in opposition, most recently by refusing to admit how much Labor’s higher emissions reduction target will cost and calling the Prime MInister dishonest for raising it…
https://www.afr.com/opinion/editorials/adani-shows-labor-climate-split-that-never-went-away-20190513-p51mwc
***which was why Abbott had to be destroyed, and why the same mob in the US think Trump needs to be destroyed – because of his popularity among blue-collar workers.
Hobart Mercury includes a StopAdani video; simply calls “Josh Creaser” a man – can’t do a quick online search? (Daiy Telegraph, Adelaide Advertiser, news.com.au also carrying it):
VIDEO: 51sec: 14 May: Hobart Mercury: Tony Abbott Asked to Apologize Over Climate Change Bet
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was challenged by a voter on May 13 over a bet he made relating to his views on climate change. Abbott was campaigning in his electoral district of Warringah on the day according to his Facebook page. A man identified as ***Josh Creaser asked the former prime minister to apologize for betting one hundred dollars that climate change “is not going to happen over the next ten years”. Creaser, referring to a Guardian article about a bet made between Abbott and a woman over climate change in a Manly cafe, called the bet “insulting” and said that students in Warringah had been asking for an apology. Abbott answered by saying that he is “absolutely confident” that the government is doing the right thing regarding the environment and that “we know” that climates change over time. He continued by listing different time periods such as the “Roman warm period” and the “medieval warm period” and finished by questioning how much mankind contributes to the changes. Credit: Stop Adani via Storyful
https://www.themercury.com.au/news/national/tony-abbott-asked-to-apologize-over-climate-change-bet/video/4366d52e12cf6d3d28fb8c9fe249f2fe
***VIDEO: 1min53sec: BobBrownFoundation: 2016 Young Environmentalist of the Year
The 2016 Young Environmentalist of the Year, with $2000 prize money, is ***Josh Creaser.
A 25 year-old born and bred Canberran, Josh is 350.org Australia’s Frontline Projects Coordinator, working on national campaigns to stop the expansion of the coal and gas industry and support a rapid and fair transition to a fossil free energy system…
“Josh has helped organise some of the most inspirational direct actions of the last few years, involving thousands of people in creative, peaceful protests against the coal and gas giants responsible for dangerous climate change”, Bob Brown said.
“Young, articulate and with a vision for a clean energy future backed by science and public opinion, campaigners like Josh must be a nightmare for the coal and gas industry”, Bob Brown said…
Josh studied environmental science and human ecology at the ANU, ***where he discovered the world of campaigning and activism…
Josh (was) instrumental in organising the visit by the Pacific Climate activists to Parliament in Canberra and the flotilla to the Break Free flotilla that shut down Newcastle coal port in early 2016.
https://www.bobbrown.org.au/2016_young_environmentalist_of_the_year
still active in Canberra:
Alicia Payne and Stop Adani group lock horns over candidate forum
Canberra Times – 17 April 2019
The Climate Election Candidates Forum was organised by the inner north Stop Adani group, and the four known candidates for the Canberra electorate were invited.
Labor candidate for Canberra Alicia Payne has been criticised for her decision … At the event, Josh Creaser who was MC and one of the event’s organisers, told…
Josh is now also listed as “staff” at Tipping Point, a project of Friends of the Earth Australia.
Kimmel’s attack on Pompeo over sea ice shows a typical unaddressed falsehood used by the media. Melting sea ice.
If all the sea ice melted the water levels would not rise. In fact it happens every year. Where is the disaster? Bill Nye does not debunk such non science. No one does. So it is used to introduce this nonsense.
read all – aimed at the Unions?
13 May: AFR: Renewable energy investment surge to buoy construction work: ACIF
by Michael Bleby, Senior Reporter
An $18 billion surge in renewable energy infrastructure is part of a stronger-than-expected spend on infrastructure that is offsetting falling residential construction and will limit job losses, the latest six-monthly forecasts from peak body Australian Construction Industry Forum show.
The boost in new projects under the electricity and pipelines category over the past six months is more than the entire $14 billion worth spent in the sector in FY18 and nearly all of it – 97 per cent – is on infrastructure to support the growing demand for renewable energy, the Australian Construction Market Report shows…
ElectraNet and Transgrid are in the final stage of approval for a $1.5 billon interconnector between NSW and SA, which also connects with Victoria and will allow greater and more reliable access to renewable energy sources…
A lot of new transmission capacity is needed to move renewable power from the far-flung locations in which it is being built…
https://www.afr.com/business/construction/renewable-energy-investment-surge-to-buoy-construction-work-acif-20190513-p51mpv
The dumbf*ck moron in the intro talks about scientific fact Yep MORON its a fact that you know precisely NOTHING about scientific data. Theres no such thing as a scientific fact. So stick your climate scam where the sun dont shine.
The week in energy: the ‘deeply worrying’ slowdown in renewables
Financial Times – 12 hours ago
Renewable energy might seem like a very different proposition. It is hard to imagine any incident involving wind or solar power that could undermine public support the way Chernobyl did for nuclear…
13 US News & World Report: Oil and Gas Investments Surge, Underscoring Slowdown in Climate Efforts
Global uncertainty over government support for climate action has allowed energy demand to soar and renewables to stagnate – leaving oil, gas and coal to fill the gap.
By Alan Neuhauser
The numbers come as more countries stray further from their commitments under the 2016 Paris climate agreement. They also reflect rising uncertainty in global markets over just how far governments will go to address climate change, such as through policies supporting clean energy, energy efficiency measures and similar projects, IEA analysts said.
It’s a trend “leading operators to focus on their most profitable projects, the ones with shorter lead times which expose them less to long term uncertainties because governments haven’t clearly committed or they have clearly not committed to reaching the Paris agreement,” Tim Gould, head of World Energy Outlook & Investment at IEA, said during a call with reporters ahead of the report’s release…
The report corroborates other analyses, including by the IEA last week, which have recorded stagnating investments in energy efficiency measures and renewable energy projects…READ ON
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-05-13/oil-and-gas-investments-surge-underscoring-slowdown-in-climate-efforts
I have tried for years to explain radio carbon dating. Here’s another way for non scientists.
Carbon is the one atom which can be given a date. So we can tell modern carbon from ancient carbon. This radio carbon dating technique is used for archeology and is accurate.
So dating carbon dioxide in the air tells us that almost no carbon dioxide is from from ancient fossil fuels. So mankind is not responsible for increased CO2 and so not responsible for any warming. That should be the end of the science lesson.
Further though carbon dioxide like oxygen is very soluble. So fish breathe and almost all Carbon dioxide is dissolved in the oceans, like the CO2 in soda, beer, lemonade, champagne. Warm the ocean surface even a little and carbon dioxide comes out. It is natural and caused by varying sun strength.
So do warming oceans release more CO2? Duh.
You have to see the swearing by Bill Nye, George Clooney and others as sure signs that they have abandoned real science. No one believes it. I honestly do not believe the Greens believe it either. It is just a way to political power by scaring people. It’s how communists work, create an enemy, a global enemy. In this case utterly debunked man made Global Warming.
all your talk about isotopes omits the important bit, plants have a lower C13/C12 ratio than in the atmosphere. If rising atmospheric CO2 comes fossil fuels, the C13/C12 should be falling. Which is what is occuring
That assumes that there are no other sources of CO2.
The biggest store of CO2 is the oceans
Some arts of the oceans are warming slightly
And that leads to CO2 coming out of solution.
while the oceans do release a lot of CO2, it is the isotope ratio which is important here. The balance between the oceans and the atmosphere is well described in the carbon cycle, and changes, say to heat, can be calculated. But as I said, it is the change in the isotope ratio which proves that the CO2 increase in the atmosphere is largely down to burning fossil fuel. You would need to explain that change as a marine phenomenon otherwise
‘…it is the isotope ratio which is important here.’
Its splitting hairs, this is the strong El Nino of 2015-16 and you can see the heat escaping from the Pacific and presumably the release of CO2.
The Southern Ocean remains a steady sink, so we have equilibrium.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2016/anomnight.1.4.2016.gif
I accept that the bulk of the CO2 in the atmosphere is due to burning fossil fuels.
“I accept that the bulk of the CO2 in the atmosphere is due to burning fossil fuels”
Really? Please explain how you draw this conclusion. It is contradicted by simple measurement of C14, so what is your evidence because it is not what you
believe, but what is true.
A new milestone has just been reached, its industrial CO2.
https://interestingengineering.com/co2-levels-in-the-atmosphere-reach-another-record-high
Do you think the increase is natural?
Yes, perfectly natural. There is a huge amount of CO2 in the oceans. Warming the surface will produce a lot of CO2. CO2 itself is highly beneficial.
After all, have you wondered about the Jurassic, how there was so much plant matter as to create oceans of decomposed plants? It was Paradise for animals, dinosaurs and our ancestors. It was warm, steamy and wonderful and our ancestors were four legged scavengers but loving it. As omnivores, we survived.
It it was not for the fantasy of the Greenhouse effect, what other problem is there with increased CO2? None.
Quoted:
“A new milestone has just been reached, its industrial CO2″.
Nobody, not even the Global Warming proponents have denied that human origin CO2 is a quantitatively irrelevant proportion of atmospheric CO2.
Atmospheric CO2 in turn is a very small, almost inconsequential part of the world’s free CO2, 98% of which is in the oceans and this readily determines the balance.
On top of this there is No atmospheric greenhouse mechanism involving CO2 and especially there is No back radiation. As Will J says, the only expressed energy from CO2 is at altitude and out to deep space.
It cools.
Real science is different from Cloonified science and wrt CO2 requires no action from us to limit it.
Gentlemen we know CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere, but where is the Medieval Warm Period spike in CO2?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Law_dome_co2_levels_1000_AD_-_2000_AD.JPG
The authorities will argue that we need to maintain the precautionary principle because the planet hasn’t been here in 800,000 years.
Essentially we have to find a proxy which shows Law Dome is wrong.
sunsettommy
Where is the DROP in CO2 during the LIA time frame?
Meanwhile see this chart in the LINK showing large swings in temperature while CO2 stays flat:
“it is the isotope ratio which is important here”
No, it is not the least bit important.
So long as atmospheric CO2 continues to increase, that is all that is important.
I find it very funny that so-called “scientists on one hand blame warming of peats and permafrosts and increased biological activity as areas warm up, yet still want to blame humans for the majority of the highly beneficial atmospheric CO2 increase.
Massive cognitive non-functionality, just like you.
Please think n this Fitz
The CO in the ocean is
Used by plants to make organic bodies
A host of different marine plants
Algae, sea weeds, kelps..
And eventually they all die
And they release CO2 in dying
Which is mostly which isotope of oxygen ?
Think & ponder that one Fitz
There is an assumption in your logic
That does not take into account marine plants.
That’s fake science. Even advertised as the ‘Suess effect’ based on supposition and conjecture. C14 is an absolute measure. C13/C12 ratios are nonsense.
C12 and C13 are almost identical. Same chemistry. Same size. A difference of 12 vs 13 in weight only. 99% and 1%. So within a factor of 100 identical in population and almost identical. We are supposed to believe that this results in definable, universal, measureable, reproducible differences in uptake? Sure.
Compare with C14 which is one in a million and unstable. It vanishes. It is the perfect radioactive tracer. You can measure tiny concentrations very easily and with a half life of 5400 years you can even measure the age of teeth. It does not occur in ancient fossil fuel from 150 million years ago. That is how you can tell absolutely.
The creation of the C12/C13 story seems opportunistic and intended to confuse, to obfuscate the unequivocal message from C14. So it is marginal and debatable and dubious versus reproducible, universal and absolute.
Dr. Suess did not have anything to do with C13. However in Wikipedia and the internet generally, C13 is the ‘new’ Suess effect. Utter rubbish, sophistry and misdirection.
WHO CARES if the atmospheric CO2 levels rise.
Increased atmospheric CO2 is a massive benefit to all life on Earth.
And if humans are even partly to blame, then that is also GREAT NEWS…
.. Because with China and many other countries building coal fired power stations, human release of CO2 will continue to increase.
The whole “percentage human CO2″ is IRRELEVANT, so long as it keeps increasing.
As you are well aware, there is absolutely zero evidence of any warming by increased atmospheric CO2, or any influence on the global climate whatsoever.
Agreed, but man made Global Warming is based on two propositions. The first is that CO2 levels are man made. The second is that CO2 is a Greenhouse gas which is wrecking the ecosystem. Both are utter rubbish, faux science promoted by Hansen and Gore, for fame and fortune, 31 years ago.
The Keeling Curve
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/2018/09/19/is-the-current-rise-in-co2-definitely-caused-by-human-activities/
“the-trouble-with-c12-c13-ratios”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-trouble-with-c12-c13-ratios/
The other unmentioned problem is measurement. As C12 and C13 are both carbon, nearly identical in weight as the only distinction, getting accurate measurements of one versus the other is very difficult and requires mass spectrometry, by definition. Nothing else works.
Mass spectrometry is not a simple field measurement but requires a sophisticated accelerator. In total contrast C14 is a simple measurement. Getting the proportion of carbon is simple too as 99.999999% is not C14, so total carbon is all you need. As all plant matter is almost totally Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen a hand X ray spectrometer would give total C as a proportion of mass. Combining the two measurements would instantly give age with a relatively small margin of error on a geologic time scale.
You also have the requirement that all plants can select CO2 chemically on mass alone. Given that C12 based CO2 weighs 44amu and C13 based CO2 weighs 45amu, this is a very smart plant which can dramatically select distinguish CO2 accurately on a 2% mass difference. You could throw away the mass spectrometers and use plant spectrometry. Good luck with that smart plant theory. It also has to be true for all plants, not just one or two. Y ou would also have to have consistent selection at all stages of growth of the plant.
So you are comparing an easy absolute measurement against a theory that plants can accurately and consistently and universally can and do distinguish two otherwise identical molecules which differ by a tiny 2% in weight? The scope for error in this relative measurement is incredible and may explain the alleged phenomenon. C14 measurement against total Carbon is simple and is species independent and universal. It is not dependent on any special as yet unknown mechanism in all plants and at all stages of growth. eYou are measuring the carbon, not the plant biochemistry or filtering behaviour.
That is why I am very suspicious of the concept that all plants are accurate mass spectrometers which can consistently and accurately and substantially distinguish between the two weights of Carbon in CO2. If they could, what is to say that some plants prefer C12 and some C13, defeating the whole proposition. Unfortunately the proposition plants can and do universally distinguish these molecules is as hard to disprove as it is to prove and in the realm of experimental error like cold fusion.
To argue that it disproves C14 based radio carbon dating conclusions is a wrong conclusion. It is accurate and proven and simple C14 dating which disproves this most unlikely C12/C13 dating theory. Still, the people who argue that Carbon Dioxide is all man made have to try somehow to discredit Dr. Suess’ conclusions from 1956 as it is conclusive. The CO2 increase is not man made from fossil fuels beyond 1%.
‘How to destroy a state – Committing suicide by edict’
“Washington State: Clean power goal of zero-carbon electricity by 2045 is now law,” reads the headline. LAW! As far as I’m concerned, Washington State is committing economic suicide.
iceagenow.info
13 May: EnergyVoice: More onshore wind development ‘not right for England’, Government says
by David McPhee
A local veto on onshore wind currently stands in England, whereas in Scotland no such rules govern the industry.
A BEIS spokeswoman said: “We continue to believe that more large-scale onshore wind is not right for England…
13 May: RenewableEnergyMag: All The Right Pillars: An interview with Michael Phillips of Dulas (RE consultants)
by Robin Whitlock
A UK local authority in Warwickshire recently rejected an energy firm’s attempt to extend the operational life of a solar farm from 25 years to 40 years. This mirrors the controversy in 2017 over the proposed extension to Kirkby Moor wind farm, a debate that is still ongoing…
PHILLIPS: Life extension on projects is not something I’ve got direct experience of, as I’ve only got experience of repowering. In terms of life extensions, I have dealt with a couple of Irish solar farms where they’ve sought extensions to their planning periods of 25-30 years, but I understand the principles involved and it’s not just a straightforward process of going through your original planning permission, digging out the condition that refers to a 25-year operational period prior to decommissioning and then applying either Section 73 or Section 75 for a variation to that condition. That condition was predicated on the basis of an original conceptual design and built design for the wind farm and a lot of things have changed over the last 15-25 years since those schemes were originally built. There may be some material planning reasons why councils would have concerns, but also they don’t tend to like the Section 73 or Section 75 amendment approach for extending projects…
Shoehorning wind farms into old development boundaries, particularly with new wind turbines and technology can itself be fairly complex. With much larger turbines, you still need to maintain a standardised spacing between the turbines, which is typically 3 x 5 diameter or 6 x 4 diameter spacing between the turbines. In effect, that takes up quite a considerable portion of your available land area. That leads to greater restrictions on the number of turbines that you can actually deploy within the existing site…
In addition to that, with much larger turbines, and I am saying with regard to the design and planning aspects of getting these schemes approved by local authorities, you’ve got additional planning issues around collision risk modelling, they have much longer blades that are much higher in the air, which may present a much greater threat to bird movements or bat movements across the site and, because of the precautionary principle that’s at play, typically now you need at least one year’s worth of bird data or sometimes that’s two years worth of bird data, depending on the sensitivity of your site. That has a long lead-in time for projects, for example…
You’ve got the transport implications, with invisible loads and trying to get 65 metre blades, sometimes longer, through the highways network to a site, we know for example that where repowering and new powering forest areas in Scotland is being considered, there are quite considerable challenges to getting the new modern breed of wind turbines to a site. The cost of highway modifications and amendments sometimes can actually preclude a development going ahead…
Add then additional amenity issues, with much larger turbines and visual impact, potential noise propagation and what they used to call shadow flicker, but we can call shadowing because, to all intents and purposes, modern wind turbines don’t create a flicker effect. They do create a shadowing effect that is below 1 Hz, which is not therefore a health issue but it is still something in the planning system that you have to deal with…
In addition to those core planning issues, you also have the complexity of, to all intents and purposes, an onshore moratorium in England…
https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/interviews/iha-releases-2019-hydropower-status-report–20190513-1
13 May: CleanTechnica: “Collapse” Of German Onshore Wind Is “Jeopardizing” German & EU Renewable Targets
WindEurope spoke out last week regarding reports that there was only 134 megawatts (MW) of new onshore wind capacity installed in Germany during the first quarter of 2019 — an 87% drop as compared to the first quarter of 2018. These figures were reported by German non-profit wind association FA Wind (Fachagentur Windenergie an Land) in late April and were described as a “drastic slump” and a “temporary low point” of a larger decline which has been increasing for a year now.
According to WindEurope, Germany is likely to install between 1 GW and 2 GW in 2019 — “significantly down on the past five years” through which Germany installed an average of 4.3 GW per year, and further, well below what Germany needs in order for it to meet its 65% renewable electricity target by 2030, and to deliver on its share of the European Union’s 32% renewable energy target…
“Onshore wind energy in Germany is in deep trouble,” said WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson…
As Dickson explained, the primary obstacle to onshore wind development is the German permitting process, which used to only take 10 months but can now take over two years for a new project to proceed through the civil service infrastructure…
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/13/collapse-of-german-onshore-wind-is-jeopardizing-german-eu-renewable-targets/
Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t reduced since 2009, so why would more wind turbines reduce emissions?
By deindustrialising the region that is foolish enough to try and depend on them as the basis for their grid.
Careful what you wish for, Abbott haters by Maurice Newman
The Australian-15 hours ago
For some time now, the ABC’s Four Corners has embedded a journalist within independent environmentalist Zali Steggall’s campaign team…
Just heard that four corners have been doing a documentary on Steggle and her winning the seat off Abott .
Might have to shelve this one .
Four Corners would not have to “embed” a journalist in the Steggall team. All ABC journo’s are being welcomed by the Steggall/GetUp/Green/ALP team – DAILY.
The “beautiful” clips go on ABC Radio and TV with great haste – EVERY DAY.
14 May: SMH: Labor backs away from vocal support for world’s biggest climate fund
Labor has retreated from its unequivocal backing of the world’s biggest climate change fund, suggesting a Shorten government may ditch the foreign aid measure that Pacific leaders deem critical to tackling planetary warming…
A party spokesman said only that Labor was “committed to boosting international climate engagement”.
“A Labor government will engage our Pacific neighbours bilaterally and through regional fora such as the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific, the Pacific Islands Forum, the Pacific Community and the secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program, to provide leadership, assistance, and advice on climate change issues,” he said.
“Specific decisions about climate finance and the GCF will be made in government in line with agency and department advice.”…
The fund has been criticised for a lack of transparency, delaying important decisions and approving or considering controversial projects. However it continues to have broad international support…
Meanwhile, a group of Torres Strait Islanders on Monday lodged a complaint with the United Nations human rights committee alleging Morrison government inaction on climate change…
https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/labor-backs-away-from-vocal-backing-of-world-s-biggest-climate-fund-20190513-p51ms8.html
behind paywall:
ALP’s radical policies have barely been scrutinised by Judith Sloan
The Australian – 16h ago
Labor’s locker of radical policies has been given a very light go-over by the media…
Then there is the complete obfuscation by Labor about the cost of its climate change policies involving a 45 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030. That Labor has never been pressured to come up with a figure about the cost of this policy is extraordinary and reflects poorly on parts of the media. Shorten’s glib response that the cost of inaction is higher is gobbledygook. No one believes that Australia can achieve anything on its own when it comes to climate change — just ask the Chief Scientist…
He may have worried that some curious journalists could ask foreign leaders whether they intend to follow Labor’s 45 per cent target, although these fears surely would have been unfounded…
Not ALP but
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/05/13/har-5/
Carbon500
I can’t imagine how much lower standards on television can fall having watched the Clooney recording.
Not very articulate or informed, is he?
Good at swearing, though.
K’noath.
Bill Nye, the fake science guy explains it..
More arson around. What proof/ detail/ information to explain why the Earth will be much warmer in X number of years?
The Earth (according to climate scientists) was up to 2℃ warmer than now from 8,000 years ago until about 300 A.D. (then then again 960 -1280 A.D.) so why is an unproven claim by him believable?
I think that Twit belongs on Twitter.
The world is seeing the real Bill Nye, a n*sty arrogant dill.
As an aeronautical engineer who worked for Boeing, what would he know about chemical equilibrium or anything else? You can learn about photosynthesis from google. He joins the ABC’s former Science guy in Robyn Williams in ignorance of chemistry, biology and equilibrium and as someone who agreed the sea could rise 100 metres by 2100? A nut job. The water should already be above the Sydney Habour bridge according to Williams.
Still being obviously completely wrong for a lifetime is some sort of retirement plan. No wonder they are all swearing.
This is probably the wrong place to ask this……however the Skeptics Handbook is fantastic but now dated so critics tend to use the date to dismiss it. Would love to find out an updated edition is in the offing? Does anyone know?
Good question. The amazing thing is that there’s not a lot that needs changing. The hot spot still isn’t found, the pause got much longer, the log effect of CO2 is exactly the same, and the ice cores lag is still a lag. The date argument is what they say when they have no proper argument. I see your point. Perhaps I can update the PDF just to acknowledge the last few hot years?
Also include the numerous per decade warming rate failures from the 1990 IPCC report onwards.
Important because so many warmists are pushing the hottest year on record narrative, which is highly misleading. The RATE of warming is better material to assess what is going on.
The latest from Viv Forbes and the Saltbush Club:
by Viv Forbes
15 May 2019.
We have not changed our opinion on the best way to vote:
1. Make sure LNP controls the House of Representatives. Number all squares, put all Greens last and ALP second last. Beware of “Independents” – they may be turncoats like Windsor and Oakshott a while back.
2. Make sure neither ALP/Greens nor LNP control the Senate. Pick sensible minor parties and give them your first vote. Keep numbering until you get to the LNP so your vote does not expire.
3. Put Greens dead last on every ballot paper and ALP just above them. On the Senate keep numbering until you reach the LNP and give no votes to ALP/Greens.
The main aim of Saltbush is to change the climate of public opinion. Politicians are driven by public opinion, which drives voting behaviour. So we need to change public opinion. It only needs a couple of percent of people to switch, and politicians will notice, and trim their sails to the new wind.
We can only do that if we can communicate subversive ideas as widely as possible among opinion leaders, media and the public. In an attempt to change public opinions we have been releasing (every day) statements designed to dramatise and highlight the stupidity of the climate/energy policies or all major parties.
Most of them are here: https://saltbushclub.com/w4pl/post-list-summary/
And here are Saltbush Priorities, which have not changed:
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/saltbush-priorities.pdf
It would help our campaign if all supporters circulated these links or individual posts as far as possible to your mail lists and on social media. Pls help, time is short. DO IT NOW before the election.
If you have a web site, a mail list or can post on social media pls contact us and we will also add you to our list to get every new article and statement as it is released so you can help spread it around.
Sadly he does not give any specific advice.
Nor does he mention the Australian Conservatives.
We have candidates standing and support all of the Saltbush Club objectives. So I do not understand his reticence. Please, when you vote, consider the Australian Conservative Party for your {[1] Senate vote.
Voted early. ACP #1 on senate. Be away on Saturday.
Not much choice in the HOR, safe Labor seat. Put Labor 2nd last, Greens last.
Thanks Peter, good advice.
I did this on my own accord and it took AGES due to our senate slip having THIRTY parties on it. I did vote slightly differently in that I put the ALP above all the “climate change” and “sustainability” parties but I was determined to have my slip with The Greens dead last.
beththeserf
Yes Peter – voted. Put Labor and Greens last. In Senate, Aus Conservatives Numbers 1,2,3.
Refer to Michael Smith News for a promising development.
The lady who claimed to have been raped by Bill Shorten when she was 16YO now has a barrister representing her.
Vic Police did not investigate the matter when she reported it a few years back on the basis that “it would only be your word against Bill’s”.
Hopefully this gets big, big coverage over the next 72 hours. If so, it should be enough to cook the goose.
14 May: TotalCroatia: Beginning of May Coldest on Record, Snow and Bura in Dalmatia
By Daniela Rogulj
If you’re in Dalmatia and have said this is the “coldest May of your life”, you’re absolutely right – and thanks to official data measured at the DHMZ Split Marjan station, your claim can be confirmed.
Namely, Dalmacija Danas reports that the first 13 days of May had an average air temperature of 14.6°C, while the average from 1948 to 2018 was 19.1°C. At the moment, we are experiencing temperatures in Dalmatia 4.5°C cooler than the monthly average, which is an extreme temperature deviation…
Let’s note that until now, the official coldest May was recorded in 1991 with an average temperature of 15.6°C…
The sea temperatures are exceptionally low for this part of the year, too, with temperatures ranging from 13°C to 17°C in the Dubrovnik area…
The cold weather continues throughout the country on Tuesday, especially on the continent where the average air temperature is in the single digits. Velika Duvjakuša on Dinara and Zavižan on Velebit are the coldest in the country, measuring 3 degrees Celsius.
There was even snow in the higher areas of Dinara and Kamešnica early Tuesday morning…
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/35891-dalmatia
14 May: BostonGlobe: Another gray, rainy day is on the way
By Peter Bailey-Wells and Emily Sweeney
Welcome to mid-May. You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s March.
A lingering threat of snow is limited to the upper elevations of New England through midday Tuesday, but forecasters are warning that temperatures in the Boston area may not escape the 40s in what may be a historically chilly day. Some patchy drizzle and wind will accompany that cold air, forecasters expect.
The National Weather Service is predicting highs in the upper 40s on Tuesday, which would place it among the coldest May 14ths on record. Only five times since 1872 has the high temperature been in the 40s on May 14…
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/14/another-gray-rainy-day-way/OblBDeqrp8PJIJLYg5wLjO/story.html
Weather: Record Cold Hits the City (This Is May?)
The New York Times-2 hours ago
That temperature set a record for being the lowest high temperature of any of any May 13 since the city started keeping track. Before that, the record was 50, set in 1931…
13 May: SacramentoBeeCalifornia: Sacramento will be 15 degrees below normal. How much will it rain?
By Michael McGough
NWS says temperatures will be 10 to 20 degrees below average for mid-May, and some areas could set records for coldest daily high temperatures…
13 May: DetroitFreePress: Temperatures around 10-15 degrees below normal kick off week, but a warm-up is coming
by Aleanna Siacon
Alex Manion, a NWS White Lake Office meteorologist, told the Free Press that Monday’s temperatures are expected to be around 10 to 15 degrees below normal…
Rod McLaughlin
Christopher Monckton as Hitler:
Germany’s AfD attacks Greta Thunberg as it embraces climate denial
‘The planet is on fire’: Bill Nye driven to F-bomb rant by climate change
It’s interesting how good people who disagree with man made Global Warming are attacked as ‘right wing’, ‘populist’, ‘deniers’. The Guardian is behind the times. The current attack on people who say it is all rubbish is just outright abuse. The most important rule is to attack and never discuss anything.
After all the allegedly man made Global Warming has been stopped for 20 years and no rampant editing of historic temperatures can change that. Only abuse is left, itself a tautology. Always attack the speaker’s character, in this case Lord Monckton.
However sometimes the attack on ‘populists’ is reversed. You have to love Italy’s Salvini
“Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini reacted with anger following the latest far-left protests against him on the European election campaign trail, labelling them “fascists.”
The far-left protesters, many of whom come from the Italian left-wing social centres that are often communist or anarchist, chanted “Fascist! Fascist!” at the Lega leader following a meeting in the northern commune of Settimo Torinese in the city of Turin.
“You go around Piedmont looking for fascists, but you are the only fascists,” Salvini said to the protesters.
It’s about time somebody called the violent black shirt thugs of AntiFA Fascists too, like socialists Hitler and Mussolini and the modern Greens. Global Warming, Climate change, uncontrolled invasion level immigration, public assault on Jews and Christians and the massive ripoffs for windmills and solar panels and carbon credits. All part of the Fascist assault on fair democratic society.
He also told them to get a job.
You got it all there TdeF but that phrase:
“uncontrolled invasion level immigration” is what shows us the contempt that modern politicians have for the serfs.
What’s more worrying is that the politicians who carried out this wholesale distortion of European civilisation were elected by the public.
This suggests that the public has poor judgment or limited intelligence but more likely it reflects the evil in those putting themselves up for leadership roles.
When leadership becomes as poor as it currently is worldwide we, humanity, are in big trouble and Australia is not immune from It.
The ease with which millions of dollars was taken to the U.S. – Clinton Foundation? U.N. special fund, MalEx444, the great big barrier reef fund etc, is astounding to me.
Change in thinking needed by Voters on Saturday.
nicholas tesdorf
Despite being a successful and popular actor, George Clooney is also a ‘dumbf***ing idiot’, as he put it himself.
Yes, he leaves himself wide open for that. It is the more likely explanation when he piys his skills as an actor against real scientists.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression George Looney believes he is sophisticated? The manner in which he says things is reminiscent of someone who believes he is mentally superior to just about anyone he talks to, but he grudgingly condescends to communicate with the unwashed so that they may benefit from his wisdom. Where I come from, there’s a saying that aptly applies to people like George Looney: “If you could buy him for what he’s really worth and sell him for what he think’s he’s worth, you’d be a rich man.”
His condescension is off the charts, as is his ignorance. Science is not what he thinks, and knowledge does not advance as he thinks. Rather than being rather clever, he sounds like those doctors who endlessly dismissed the evidence, for washing their hands after helping women give birth. They shouted down their opponents too, for over a hundred years, causing tens of thousands of needless deaths.
“The science” is often wrong and always will be. That’s why we keep testing and retesting it, not shutting down challenges to it.
Just off the top of my head I can think of ten hugely important science discoveries that were dismissed by scientists as dumb****ry, often for centuries. Plate tectonics, relativity, atomic subparticles, puerperal fever, quantum mechanics, Earth around the sun, Big Bang, DNA rather than protein based genes, bacteria causing ulcers, atomic fission.
And hundreds of examples of science being wrong – indeed probably 99% of science before say 1900 was just wrong. You have to be both arrogant and stupid to think that in 100 years or so people won’t look back and say the same thing about our science.
oldbrew
Why is Greenland’s largest glacier growing? GC ought to know.
BBC: ‘Where previously this was dropping in height by 20m a year, it’s now thickening by 20m a year.’
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Portland's Lillard All-Star Snub
Posted: 2016-01-29 06:31:00 by Metro Networks, Inc.
(Portland, OR) -- After making two consecutive All-Star Games, Blazers guard Damian Lillard wasn't chosen as a reserve for this year's All-Star Team. Lillard is averaging career-highs in points and assists. The 25-year-old guard told the press that he was "expecting the worst".
Blazers Host Hornets Tonight
(Portland, OR) -- The Trail Blazers homestand continues tonight as the Charlotte Hornets visit the Moda Center. The Blazers have won six of their past eight games, and are 21-and-26 on the year. This game is the fourth of a seven-game homestand. Charlotte is 22-and-24.
Oregon Knocks Off Arizona, Ends 49-Game Home Win Streak
(Tucson, AZ) -- Dillon Brooks posted 24 points as number-24 Oregon ended 15th-ranked Arizona's 49-game home win streak with an 83-75 victory at the McKale Center. With the score tied at 64 in the second half, the Ducks used an 8-0 run to pull ahead for good. Dwayne Benjamin scored 15 points in the win. Ryan Anderson finished with 22 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, who hadn't lost at home since a February 2013 loss to Cal. Arizona committed 19 turnovers in the loss.
Arizona State Whacks Beavers
(Tempe, AZ) -- Arizona State took a 19-point halftime lead and never looked back as they knocked off Oregon State, 86-68 at Wells Fargo Arena last night. Stephen Thompson Junior led the squad with 14 points off the bench. Gary Payton the Second was 1-of-7 from the field and finished with two points and seven assists. The 12-and-7 Beavers battle 15th-ranked Arizona tomorrow.
Former Duck Loville Charged With Racketeering, Drug Trafficking
(Phoenix, AZ) -- Former Oregon running back Derek Loville is facing federal drug dealing and racketeering charges after being indicted as part of an international narcotics ring. Loville appeared before a judge in Phoenix on Wednesday and was released without bail. Loville played eight seasons in the NFL, and won Super Bowls with the 49ers in 1994, and the Broncos in 1997 and 1998. Loville is third all-time for the Ducks in rushing yards and total touchdowns.
Blazers Host Hornets Tomorrow
(Portland, OR) -- The Trail Blazers homestand continues tomorrow as the Charlotte Hornets visit the Moda Center. The Blazers have won six of their past eight games, and are 21-and-26 on the year. Tomorrow's tilt is the fourth game of a seven-game homestand.
Oregon Visits Arizona
(Tucson, AZ) -- The Ducks clash with 15th-ranked Arizona tonight in Pac-12 action at the McKale Center. Oregon is 16-and-4, with a 5-and-2 mark in conference play. Oregon will visit Arizona State on Sunday. The Wildcats are also 16-and-4, with a 4-and-3 mark in the Pac-12.
Timbers Extend Porter's Contract
(Portland, OR) -- Timbers head coach Caleb Porter won't be leaving anytime soon. The MLS Cup champions have announced that Porter has agreed to a long-term contract extension. Porter, in his three seasons as coach, has twice led the Timbers to the MLS Cup playoffs, including the league title this past season. He has an overall record of 41 wins, 25 losses, and 36 ties. The Timbers haven't released details of the extension.
Oregon State Travels To Arizona State
(Tempe, AZ) -- Oregon State squares off with Arizona State tonight at Wells Fargo Arena. The Beavers snapped a three-game skid by upsetting USC on Sunday. The Beavers are 3-and-4 in the Pac-12 and 12-and-6 overall. Arizona State is 11-and-9, with just one conference win.
Seahawks' Okung To Reportedly Have Shoulder Surgery
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks offensive tackle Russell Okung will reportedly undergo surgery on a shoulder that was dislocated during Seattle's loss to Carolina in the NFC playoffs. The report comes from CBS's Jason La Canfora via Twitter. La Canfora says Okung, who will soon become an unrestricted free agent, informed all 32 NFL teams of his impending surgery and said he expects to be ready to hit the field again in June. His contract with the Seahawks expires on March 9th.
Blazers Down Kings, 112-97
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers are in sole possession of second place in the Northwest standings after last night's 112-97 win at home over Sacramento. The Blazers' defense was able to hold DeMarcus Cousins to 17 points, after he scored 56 and 48 points in the Kings' previous two games. C.J. McCollum scored 18 points for Portland, and Damian Lillard added 15 with 13 assists. The Blazers will host Charlotte Friday night.
Oregon, Oregon State Make Arizona Trip Tomorrow
(Undated) -- Oregon and Oregon State tip respective Arizona trips tomorrow. The 24th-ranked Ducks visit 15th-ranked Arizona before heading up to Tempe and facing Arizona State. The Beavers play the Sun Devils and head down to Tucson to play the Wildcats.
Portland State Visit Eastern Washington Tomorrow
(Cheney, WA) -- Portland State hoops is on the road tomorrow visiting Eastern Washington. The Vikings are 7-and-10 after their 81-63 victory over Sacramento State. The Eagles are 9-and-10 overall.
OSU's Payton II On Watch List
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State guard Gary Payton the Second is on a prestigious watch list. Payton is one-of-20 players up for the USBWA National Player of the Year. He is averaging 17.5 points, 5.3 assists and 8.4 rebounds this season.
Timbers Jerseys Will Feature Championship Star
(Beaverton, OR) -- The Portland Timbers will have a new logo on their kits this season. Timbers owner Merritt Paulson tweeted a picture teasing the club's new second jersey. The kit featured a championship star embroidered above the Timbers' crest on the red and black jersey.
Blazers Host Kings
(Portland, OR) -- The Trail Blazers welcome the Kings to the Moda Center in a key matchup as they battle it out for the eight seed in the Western Conference. Sacramento holds a one-game lead on Portland with a 20-and-24 record. The Blazers are 20-and-26.
Oregon State At ASU On Thursday
(Tempe, AZ) -- Oregon State tries to win two consecutive conference games for the first time this season on Thursday at Arizona State. The Beavers ended a three-game losing streak with a 15-point win over USC on Sunday. Oregon State is 12-and-6 and 3-and-4.
Oregon At Arizona On Thursday
(Tucson, AZ) -- Oregon tries to stay hot taking on Arizona in Tucson on Thursday. The Ducks swept the Los Angeles-area schools at home to get to 16-and-4 and 5-and-1 in the Pac 12. They face ASU on Sunday.
Police Recommending Charges Against Seahawks' Coleman
(Bellevue, WA) -- Bellevue, Washington police are asking that Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman be charged with vehicular assault and hit-and-run in connection with an October 14th crash. Investigators say Coleman admitted to smoking synthetic marijuana before the wreck that left another driver with a head injury. SeattlePI.com reports the claims against Coleman have been forwarded to the King County Prosecutor's Office and a decision is expected in the next few weeks. Coleman's attorney, Steve Hayne says the claim against Coleman is "irresponsible" and his client wasn't impaired at the time of the crash.
Blazers Host Kings Tomorrow
(Portland, OR) -- Game three of a seven-game homestand tips off tomorrow for the Blazers, who will host the Kings at the Moda Center. The Blazers are 1-and-1 so far on the homestand following a loss to Atlanta and Saturday's win over the Lakers. DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings host the Hornets tonight.
Ducks' Adams Stars In East-West Shrine Bowl
(St. Petersburg, FL) -- Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams Junior starred on Saturday as he led the West team to a 29-9 win in the East-West Shrine Game in Florida. Adams tossed three touchdowns on just nine attempts, likely raising his draft stock for this spring's NFL Draft.
Beaver QB Transferring
(Corvallis, OR) -- Freshman quarterback Seth Collins has announced his intentions to transfer from the Oregon State program. Collins played in eight games for the Beavers this year, throwing for 935 yards, six touchdowns and four picks while rushing for 575 yards and three scores. Collins ended up being switched to wide receiver as the season came to a close.
Oregon Tops UCLA
(Eugene, OR) -- Dillon Brooks posted 25 points as Oregon topped UCLA, 86-72, on Saturday at Matthew Knight Arena. Chris Boucher had 18 points and 10 boards for the 16-and-4 Ducks, who are now 5-and-2 in Pac-12 action. Oregon visits Arizona on Thursday.
Oregon State Clubs USC, 85-70
(Corvallis, OR) -- The three-game losing streak is over for the Oregon State men's basketball team, who defeated USC in Corvallis, 85-70. Gary Payton the Second had a big night for the Beavers, scoring 22 points, grabbing 15 rebounds, and dishing out eight assists. Tres Tinkle added 18 points for Oregon State. The Beavers will visit Arizona State Thursday night.
Lynch's Mother Says She's Unsure Of "Beast Mode's" Future
(Seattle, WA) -- Delisa Lynch, the mother of Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, says she's not sure what the future holds for her son. "Momma" Lynch was quoted by TMZ that her son still has gas left in the tank and will not retire. But Ms. Lynch told KING-5 over the weekend that the report isn't true and that she doesn't know Marshawn's plans for the future. Seahawks general manager John Schneider said last week he believes the star running back is "leaning toward retirement."
Report: Kearse Won't Take Pay Cut To Stay With Seahawks
(Undated) -- An ESPN report says Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse won't take a pay cut to stay in Seattle. ESPN's Adam Schefter quotes Kearse as saying he's "put in too much hard work to give a discount." Kearse, who's a Lakewood native and a former Washington Husky, will become an unrestricted free agent on March 15th and appears to intend to test his worth on the open market. He caught eleven passes for 110 yards and two touchdowns in the Seahawks' NFC Divisional Round loss to Carolina.
Blazers Host Lakers Tomorrow
(Portland, OR) -- Game two of a seven-game homestand tips off tomorrow night for the Blazers, who host the Lakers at the Moda Center. Portland's home stretch will last through February 4th. The next opponent following the Lakers will be the Kings on Tuesday.
Oregon Knocks Off USC
(Eugene, OR) -- The Oregon Ducks knocked off 25th-ranked USC, 89-81, at Matthew Knight Arena last night. Elgin Cook led the charge with 26 points for Oregon. Dwayne Benjamin and Chris Boucher each scored 16 points as the Ducks improved to 15-and-4 overall and 4-and-2 in the Pac-12. They'll host UCLA tomorrow.
Beavers Back In Action Sunday
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon battled USC last night, and the Beavers get their chance on Sunday when the Trojans come to Corvallis. Oregon State is 11-and-6 on the year, with a 2-and-4 mark in Pac-12 play. They'll try to halt a three-game skid.
Oregon AD Joins College Football Playoff Committee
(Eugene, OR) -- Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens is one of four new members of the College Football Playoff selection committee. The committee is tasked with ranking college football teams for the CFP poll, which decides who plays in the playoff. Mullens will serve a three-year term.
Blazers Lose At Home To Atlanta, 104-98
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers will try again Saturday to win their 20th game of the year, after falling at home to Atlanta, 104-98. Portland was unable to overcome a slow start last night against the Hawks. C.J. McCollum led the Blazers with 28 points. Portland will host the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday night.
Seahawks' Thomas To Sit Out Pro Bowl
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas will be sitting out this year's Pro Bowl. Thomas, who was selected to play in the Pro Bowl for the fifth straight year, has announced he won't be able to participate in the January 31st contest in Honolulu. He says he's looking forward to getting his body fully healthy and working to bring another Super Bowl home to Seattle. Thomas was one of seven Seahawks to be selected for this year's Pro Bowl.
UCLA Downs Oregon State
(Corvallis, OR) -- Gary Payton the Second dropped 17 points and seven assists, but the Beavers fell to UCLA, 82-73, last night at Gill Coliseum. Tres Tinkle added 15 points for Oregon State, which has lost three straight games. The 11-and-6 Beavers host USC on Sunday.
49ers Introduce Head Coach Chip Kelly
(Santa Clara, CA) -- Chip Kelly is in place as the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The former Ducks head coach was formally introduced yesterday and says it's a privilege to be the coach of such a prestigious franchise. Kelly was 46-and-7 in four seasons as Oregon's head coach from 2009 to 2012.
Oregon Hosts USC
(Eugene, OR) -- The Oregon Ducks play host to the 25th-ranked USC Trojans tonight at Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks are 14-and-4 on the year and 3-and-2 in Pac-12 play. The Trojans are 15-and-3 and 4-and-1 on the year.
Trail Blazers Take On Hawks Tonight
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers are back on home court tonight hosting the Atlanta Hawks. The Blazers have won four of their last five games to improve to 19-and-25 on the season. The Hawks enter the Moda Center with a 25-and-17 record. Tip set for 7:30.
Oregon Welcomes #25 USC On Thursday
(Eugene, OR) -- Oregon plays host to 25th-ranked USC tomorrow. The Ducks will try and bounce back following their 91-87 loss at Colorado. UO is 14-and-4, while the Trojans lead the Pac-12 at 15-and-3. Tip tomorrow from Eugene at 6:00.
UO's Ridnour, OSU's Anderson To Enter Pac-12 Hall Of Honor
(San Francisco, CA) -- Former Oregon basketball player Luke Ridnour and Oregon State hoopster Jim Anderson are entering the Pac-12 Men's basketball Hall of Honor. The induction will occur on March 12th, during a ceremony prior to the championship game at the 2016 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas. Ridnour was the 2003 Pac-10 Player of the Year. Anderson played or coached at OSU for 37 years.
OSU Hosts UCLA Tonight
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State is back on the hardwood tonight hosting UCLA. The Beavers are attempting to win following back-to-back losses to Utah and Colorado. OSU is 11-and-5, while the Bruins are 11-and-7. Tip from Corvallis at 8:00.
OSU Player Suspended Four Games
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State forward Jarmal Reid is being suspended four games for tripping an official. Reid intentionally tripped the referee late in Sunday night's 59-53 loss at Utah. Whether suspension is extended, hinges on Reid's conduct and attitude the couple of weeks. The senior is averaging 4.2 points and 2.2 rebounds per game for OSU.
Trail Blazers Turn Back Wizards
(Washington, DC) -- C.J. McCollum scored 25 points, including 6-of-10 from three, as the Trail Blazers turned back the Wizards 108-98 at the Verizon Center. Meyers Leonard added 18 points off the bench for Portland, which also got 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists from Mason Plumlee. The Blazers have won four of their last five games to improve to 19-and-25. Portland host the Atlanta Hawks tomorrow night.
Irvin Says He Might Stay With Seahawks For Less Money
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin says he's open to staying in Seattle for less money, even though he'll be an unrestricted free agent during the offseason. That's a reversal of Irvin's stance during the last offseason, during which he told a reporter he'd like to play for his hometown team, the Atlanta Falcons. Yesterday, Irvin told reporters the Seahawks are his "brothers" and he couldn't imagine continuing his career elsewhere. Seattle's season ended Sunday with a 31-24 loss to the Carolina Panthers in a Divisional Playoff game.
Portland State Mourns The Loss Of Football Player
(Portland, OR) -- Portland State football is mourning the loss of linebacker A.J. Schlatter. The redshirt freshman died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday evening. The Canby native passed away from complications developed after he had minor surgery on Friday. Schlatter started 10 games for the Vikings in 2015 and ranked fourth on the team with 62 tackles.
OSU Hosts UCLA Tomorrow
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State is back on the hardwood tomorrow hosting UCLA. The Beavers are attempting to win following back-to-back losses to Utah and Colorado. OSU is 11-and-5, while the Bruins are 11-and-7. Tip from Corvallis at 8:00.
(Eugene, OR) -- Oregon plays host to 25th-ranked USC on Thursday. The Ducks will try and bounce back following their 91-87 loss at Colorado. UO is 14-and-4, while the Trojans lead the Pac-12 at 15-and-3. Tip on Thursday from Eugene at 6:00.
Seahawks couldn't make it back
(Charlotte, NC) -- The season is over for the Seattle Seahawks, despite a valiant second-half effort. The Carolina Panthers will head to the NFC Championship Game against Arizona, after holding off Seattle yesterday, 31-24, in the Divisional Round playoff game. The Panthers built a 31-0 lead at halftime, but the Seahawks came back in the second half with 24 straight points before a failed onside kick attempt with a minute-12 to go in the game. Russell Wilson finished the contest with 366 passing yards, three touchdown passes, and two interceptions.
Hoke Joins Oregon Staff
(Eugene, OR) -- Ex-Michigan head coach Brady Hoke will join Oregon's staff as the defensive coordinator. Hoke spent 2015 out of football after being fired from Michigan in 2014. The Ducks were last in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, and surrendered 47 points in the second half and overtime of a 47-41 Alamo Bowl loss to TCU. Former defensive coordinator Don Pellum was demoted to linebackers coach.
Trail Blazers at Wizards
(Washington, DC) -- The Trail Blazers are back in action today for a road matchup with the Wizards at the Verizon Center. Portland looks to rebound after a 114-89 loss to the lowly Sixers Saturday that snapped a three-game win streak. The Blazers sit at 18-and-25 overall, good for third in the Northwest division. Tipoff is slated for 11:00 a.m.
Buffs Best Ducks
(Boulder, CO) -- Colorado outlasted Oregon, 91-87, in a shootout in Boulder. Dillon Brooks netted 21 points for the Ducks, who dipped to 3-and-2 in the Pac-12 and 14-and-4 overall. Tyler Dorsey added 19 points in defeat. The Ducks host USC on Thursday.
Utes Rally Past Oregon State
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utah outscored Oregon State 36-19 in the second half to rally for a 59-53 win. OSU's Jarmal Reid was ejected with 2:56 left for tripping a referee. He was given a Flagrant 2 on the play, which allowed Utah to take a 53-52 lead on an ensuing free throw. The 11-and-5 Beavers host UCLA Wednesday.
Pilots Upsets BYU
(Portland, OR) -- Alec Wintering scored 22 points as Portland upset BYU 84-81 Saturday. Bryce Pressley and D'Marques Tyson each added 21 points of their own for the Pilots, who snapped a four-game losing streak with the win. The team returns to the court Thursday for a road matchup with Pacific.
Vikings Edged By Idaho State
(Portland, OR) -- Isaiah Pineiro and Armani Collins each put up 15 points, but Portland State could not overcome a poor shooting night as the Vikings fell to Idaho State 73-70 at the Stott Center. Cameron Forte added 10 points and pulled down seven boards off the bench for Portland State, which has lost three of its last four games. The team is off until next Saturday.
Seahawks' Second-half Surge Falls Short
Blazers Visit Nets
(Brooklyn, NY) -- The Trail Blazers begin a three-game, east coast road trip tonight as they visit the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center. The Blazers will face the 76ers on Saturday and the Wizards on Monday before returning home. Portland is 17-and-24 and has won two straight games, while Brooklyn is 11-and-28.
49ers Name Chip Kelly Head Coach
(Santa Clara, CA) -- Former Oregon head coach Chip Kelly is the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The Niners have named him the 20th head coach in franchise history, replacing the fired Jim Tomsula. Kelly was recently fired as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles after three seasons. He coached Oregon from 2009-2012, going 46-and-7.
Lynch Says He's Ready For Sunday's Game
(Renton, WA) -- Marshawn Lynch says he's ready. That's the message that Lynch tweeted yesterday to ESPN's Kenny Mayne in response to a question about "Beast Mode's" status for Sunday's divisional playoff game against Carolina. Lynch, who hasn't played since mid-November because of abdominal surgery, fully participated in practice the last two days. After practicing last week, he pulled himself out of the lineup for the Minnesota game, telling head coach Pete Carroll he wasn't ready to play.
Ducks Dump Utes
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Dillon Brooks posted 21 points and eight rebounds as Oregon pounded Utah, 77-59, in Salt Lake City. Casey Benson added 15 points as the Ducks shot 55-percent from the field and held Utah to just 34-percent. The 14-and-3 Ducks are back in action on Sunday against Colorado in Boulder.
Oregon State Visits Utah Sunday
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The Beavers continue Pac-12 play on Sunday with a road date against Utah. Oregon State sits at 11-and-4 on the year and 2-and-2 in conference games. Utah is 12-and-5 after losing to the Ducks last night. The Beavers have won five of their past seven games.
Timbers Select Two In MLS SuperDraft
(Baltimore, MD) -- The Timbers chose two forwards in the first two rounds of the MLS SuperDraft yesterday in Baltimore. Forward Ben Polk out of Syracuse went 20th overall after scoring 12 goals and dishing four assists in 22 games for the Orange. Forward Neco Brett out of Robert Morris went 40th overall. The Jamaica native is a three-time Northeast Conference Player of the Year
Blazers Top Jazz, 99-85
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers will go for their third straight win tomorrow night in Brooklyn, after earning a 99-85 win over Utah. Damian Lillard scored 21 points and got ten assists last night to lead Portland over the Jazz. C.J. McCollum added 15 points. The Blazers and the Nets are scheduled for a 4:30 tipoff Friday afternoon.
Colorado Overcomes Oregon State
(Boulder, CO) -- Gary Payton the Second racked up 26 points, 15 rebounds, three assists and three steals but it wasn't enough as the Beavers fell to Colorado, 71-54, in Boulder last night. The Beavers couldn't keep pace in the second half, getting outscored by 13 points. The 11-and-4 Beavers visit Utah on Sunday.
Ducks Visit Utah
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Oregon basketball returns to action tonight as the Ducks visit Utah in Pac-12 play at the Jon M. Huntsman Center. Oregon has won six of its past seven games and is 13-and-3 on the year and 2-and-1 in conference play.
Seahawks RB Lynch Returns To Practice
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is back at practice. Head coach Pete Carroll says "Beast Mode" was a full participant in yesterday's workouts, but is still on "day to day" status as the Hawks prepare for this Sunday's divisional playoff game against Carolina. Lynch, who's been recovering from abdominal surgery, stayed home last Sunday as the Seahawks earned a 10-9 win in the wild-card game with Minnesota. Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell told SeattlePI.com that Lynch looked better yesterday than he did last week.
Oregon Chooses New QB Coach
(Eugene, OR) -- The Oregon Ducks found a new quarterback coach and passing coordinator within the Pac-12. David Yost has been hired from Washington State to assume both roles for the Ducks. Yost served as the inside receivers coach for Wazzu.
Timbers Ink Grabavoy
(Portland, OR) -- The Timbers are inking the teams first-ever free agent. Portland has signed midfielder Ned Grabavoy to a new deal. The 12-year MLS vet registered two goals and three assists in 26 games for New York City FC last season.
Blazers Host Jazz Tonight
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers wrap up their five-game homestand tonight against the Utah Jazz. The Blazers snapped a three-game losing skid with a 115-110 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Portland is 16-and-24 overall. The two teams have split their previous two games. Tip from the Moda Center at 7:00.
Timbers Acquire Valentin
(Portland, OR) -- The MLS Cup champion Portland Timbers are adding defender Zarek Valentin to their roster. Portland acquired Valentin from the Montreal Impact in exchange for an international roster spot. The 24-year-old was the second overall pick in the 2011 expansion draft by Montreal. He started in 14 games with the Impact in 2012 before he was loaned to the Norwegian team Bodo Glimt.
Carroll: "Wait And See" On Lynch
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll says Marshawn Lynch's status remains uncertain for this Sunday's playoff game at Carolina. Lynch didn't travel with the team last Sunday for the Minnesota game, saying he wasn't ready to play. "Beast Mode" recently underwent abdominal surgery and hasn't played since November 15th. Carroll says Lynch is "day to day."
Beavers, Ducks Each Hit The Road
(Undated) -- Both Oregon State and Oregon are on the road this week in Pac-12 action. The Beavers meet Colorado tonight, while the Ducks are at Utah tomorrow. OSU is 11-and-3, and UO is 13-and-3. Tip from Boulder at 8:00.
Winterhawks Fans Could Get Piece Of Powerball Prize
(Portland, OR) -- Portland Winterhawks fans could get a piece of the 1.5-billion-dollar Powerball jackpot. The team will host what is perhaps the world's biggest Powerball pool during the game against the Regina Pats. The Winterhawks will purchase one-thousand tickets for tonight's drawing, and all fans 18 and over in attendance at the game can register to get in on the jackpot.
Mariners Trade Infielder To Dodgers For Pitcher
(Seattle, WA) -- The Seattle Mariners are acquiring pitcher Joe Wieland from the Los Angeles Dodgers in a swap for minor-league infielder Erick Mejia. To make room on their roster for Wieland, the Mariners have designated right-handed pitcher A.J. Schugel for assignment. Wieland spent most of last season with Triple-A Oklahoma City, where he was 10-and-5 with a four-point-59 ERA. He made two major-league starts for the Dodgers last season.
Seahawks Three-point Underdogs Against Panthers
(Renton, WA) -- The Seahawks are three-point underdogs heading into Sunday's Divisional Playoff game against the Carolina Panthers. The top-seeded Panthers are coming off a first-round bye, while Seattle is fresh from a one-point win in frigid Minnesota over the Vikings. The last game between the Hawks and the Panthers was on October 18th, when Carolina came from behind to win at CenturyLink Field, 27-23. Kickoff for this Sunday's game in Charlotte is set for 10:05 in the morning.
Blazers Host Jazz Tomorrow
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers wrap up their five-game homestand tomorrow night against the Utah Jazz. The Blazers snapped a three-game losing skid with a 115-110 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Portland is 16-and-24 overall. The two teams have split their previous two games.
Oregon State, Oregon Both Hit The Road
(Undated) -- Both Oregon State and Oregon are on the road this week in Pac-12 action. The Beavers meet Colorado tomorrow night, while the Ducks are at Utah on Thursday. OSU is 11-and-3, and UO is 13-and-3.
Report: Washington State Assistant Expected To Join Oregon Staff
(Eugene, OR) -- Washington State inside receivers coach Dave Yost is expected to join Mark Helfrich's Oregon staff. Fox Sports reports Yost will help the offensive coaching staff, which lost offensive coordinator Scott Frost. Yost helped produce the nation's top passing attack and the Cougars went 9-and-4.
Wallace Could Leave Timbers
(Beaverton, OR) -- Forward Rodney Wallace may be leaving the Portland Timbers. Team owner Merritt Paulson tweeted the team is looking for a replacement for the winger. Wallace helped Portland to the MLS Cup Championship, and has played all five seasons in the Timbers' MLS club history.
Seahawks Eke Out 10-9 Win Over Vikings
(Minneapolis, MN) -- The Seattle Seahawks will advance to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs, following a 10-9 win over Minnesota. A missed 27-yard field-goal try by the Vikings' Blair Walsh in the fading seconds kept Seattle alive. The Seahawks scored all their points in the fourth quarter, including a three-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to Doug Baldwin. Seattle will visit Carolina next Sunday for the divisional contest.
Ducks Pound Stanford
(Eugene, OR) -- Dillon Brooks flirted with a triple-double as Oregon dumped Stanford, 71-58, at Matthew Knight Arena. Brooks posted 15 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for the Ducks, who improved to 13-and-3. Oregon returns to action on Thursday with a road game at Utah.
Lillard, Blazers Top Thunder With Epic Rally
(Portland, OR) -- Damian Lillard scored 17 points in the final 3:07, including five three-pointers, as the Blazers rallied to beat the Thunder, 115-110, at the Moda Center. Lillard drained his final five three-point attempts plus two field goals as the Blazers stole a victory. C.J. McCollum added 22 points in the win. The Blazers snapped a three-game skid and return to action on Wednesday at home against the Jazz.
Beavers Top Cal
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State improved to 11-and-3 on Saturday with a 77-71 victory over Cal. Gary Payton the Second scored 20 points to lead the way. The 11-and-3 Beavers hit the road on Wednesday to visit Colorado.
PSU's Barnum Named FCS Coach Of The Year
(Frisco, TX) -- Portland State football coach Bruce Barnum picked up his hardware as FCS National Coach of the Year this weekend at the awards show in Frisco, Texas. Barnum coached PSU to a 9-and-3 record, including two wins over FBS schools. Senior safety Patrick Onwuasor finished second in voting for National Defensive Player of the Year after recording nine interceptions.
Clune Named New DC At Oregon State
(Corvallis, OR) -- Kevin Clune is the new defensive coordinator at Oregon State. Clune had been serving as linebackers coach and defensive coordinator at Utah State. Clune previously worked with Beavers head coach Gary Andersen at Southern Utah, Utah and Utah State.
Beavers Clash With Cal Saturday
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State will square off with Cal in Corvallis tomorrow. The Beavers' four-game winning streak came to an end with a 78-72 loss to Stanford Wednesday. Oregon State is 1-and-1 in Pac-12 play and 10-and-3 overall.
Blazers Host Warriors
(Portland, OR) -- The Trail Blazers welcome the 33-and-2 Warriors to Portland tonight. The Blazers have dropped two straight following Wednesday's 109-98 loss to the Clippers. Portland is 15-and-23 on the season overall.
Ducks Face Stanford Sunday
(Eugene, OR) -- Oregon will be back in action on Sunday against Stanford in Eugene. The Ducks dropped Cal, 68-65, their last time out on Wednesday. Oregon improved to 1-and-1 in the Pac-12 and 12-and-3 overall with the victory.
Portland Visits Gonzaga Tomorrow
(Spokane, WA) -- Portland hits the road to face 22nd-ranked Gonzaga tomorrow night. The Pilots have been off since suffering an 84-77 loss to Santa Clara last Saturday. Portland is 2-and-2 in WCC action and 8-and-9 overall.
Timbers To Get New Playing Surface
(Portland, OR) -- The MLS Champion Portland Timbers will be playing on a new field next season. The current surface will be replaced by a new Revolution 360 surface. Providence Park VP of operations Ken Puckett told KGW-TV the Timbers want the best for their players, and the surface, after two seasons of pro-level play, is ready to be replaced. Portland will begin defending its title on March 6th, when it hosts the Columbus Crew.
Willson Sits Out Seahawks Practice With Concussion
(Renton, WA) -- There's doubt over whether Seahawks tight end Luke Willson will play against Minnesota in this Sunday's wild-card playoff game. Willson sat out yesterday's practice with a concussion. He missed last Sunday's regular-season finale against Arizona after suffering the concussion in the St. Louis game the week before. Should Willson miss the Vikings game, Cooper Helfet and Chase Coffman will be the only healthy tight ends available Sunday for Seattle.
Clippers Take Out Blazers
(Portland, OR) -- Chris Paul blew up for 21 points and 19 assists as the Clippers cruised past the Trail Blazers, 109-98, at the Moda Center. Damian Lillard had 20 points and nine assists, but shot 7-of-25 from the field. The Blazers have lost three of four. Portland hosts the Warriors on Friday.
Blazers' McCollum Has To Sit Due To Paperwork
(Portland, OR) -- The Trail Blazers were down one of their best offensive player due to no one's fault but their own. Portland's public relations Twitter account tweeted out "Due to a clerical error in the NBA's active list reporting, CJ McCollum is inactive for tonight's game vs. LAC. Luis Montero is active." Head coach Terry Stotts took responsibility for the mistake, saying he signed the paper without looking at it closely.
Oregon Take Down Cal
(Eugene, OR) -- Chris Boucher put up 18 points, helping Oregon beat Cal, 68-65, in Eugene. Tyler Dorsey added 17 for the Ducks, who improved to 12-and-3 overall and 1-and-1 in the Pac 12. They host Stanford on Sunday.
Stanford Dumps Oregon State
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State's second-half rally fell short as they lost to Stanford, 78-72, at Gill Coliseum. The Beavers got 22 points, nine rebounds and six assists from Gary Payton the Second. Oregon State is 10-and-3 overall and 1-and-1 in the Pac 12. They host Cal on Saturday.
Griffey, Jr. Elected To Baseball Hall Of Fame
(Seattle, WA) -- Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. will be inducted this summer into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Griffey was elected in his first year of eligibility with 99-point-three-percent of the vote, which is a record. He and former catcher Mike Piazza will be the only players to be inducted into the Hall this year. Griffey is sixth on the career home-run list with 630, won ten Gold Glove awards, and was named the American League's MVP in 1997.
Transfer Prukop Arrives In Eugene
(Eugene, OR) -- The Oregon Ducks next starting quarterback is on campus. Graduate transfer Dakota Prukop from Montana State is beginning his two-year masters program. He is likely to take over from last season's transfer student signal-caller, Vernon Adams Junior. Prukop threw for over three-thousand-yards with 28 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also ran for 797 yards and 11 more scores.
Blazers Welcome Clippers Tonight
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Trail Blazers continue their homestand tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers from the Moda Center. The Blazers have alternated wins and losses over their last four games. Portland is 15-and-22 overall, while L.A. is 22-and-13 on the season. Tip set for 7:00.
Beavers, Ducks' Hoops In Action Tonight
(Undated) -- Both Oregon and Oregon State are back on the hardwood tonight in Pac-12 conference action. The Beavers beat the Ducks 70-57 over the weekend to improve to 1-and-0 in conference play, and 10-and-2 overall. OSU hosts Stanford, while 11-and-3 UO welcomes Cal. Tip from Eugene at 6:00, and at 8:00 from Corvallis.
Timbers Hope To Expand Providence Park
(Portland, OR) -- The MLS champion Portland Timbers are hoping to add seats to Providence Park. KOIN-TV reports the Timbers would pay for the expansion, which would add up to two-thousand seats to the south end of the stadium. More concession stands and restrooms would also be added. The Timbers hope to finalize the design of the renovation in the next few weeks.
Seahawks-Vikings Game Could Be Among Coldest In NFL History
(Minneapolis, MN) -- Seahawks fans traveling to Minneapolis for this Sunday's wild-card playoff game with the Vikings are being urged to bundle up. The current Weather Underground forecast for gameday calls for partly cloudy skies, with the temperature at kickoff predicted to be three degrees Fahrenheit. Forecasters say the temperature could fall to minus 14 as the game progresses, making for one of the coldest contests in NFL history. The coldest game on record was the "Ice Bowl" in Green Bay between the Packers and Cowboys for the 1967 NFL Championship, when gametime temperatures fell to 15 below zero.
'Hawks Off Ice Until Friday
(Portland, OR) -- The Portland Winterhawks are off the ice until Friday. The 'Hawks return to action on the road visiting the Seattle Thunderbirds. Portland is 20-17-and-1 overall.
Oregon Demotes DC Pellum
(Eugene, OR) -- After a 31-point collapse and overtime loss to TCU in the Alamo Bowl, Oregon is demoting defensive coordinator Don Pellum. The move could open up a spot for former Washington and USC DC Justin Wilcox to return to Eugene, where he played from 1996-to-1999.
Grizzlies Beat Blazers In Lillard's Return
(Portland, OR) -- The Grizzlies outscored the Blazers by 14 in the third quarter of a 91-78 win at the Moda Center. Former Blazer Zach Randolph scored 26 points to lead the Grizzlies. Al-Farouq Aminu posted 15 points and 14 rebounds to pace Portland, which has lost two of three. Damian Lillard netted 17 points in his return from a seven-game absence The Blazers continue homestand against the Los Angeles Clippers tomorrow night.
Carroll Expects Lynch To Start Against Vikings
(Renton, WA) -- Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll says running back Marshawn Lynch may start this Sunday. Seattle will play Minnesota in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs and Lynch was back at practice yesterday after rehabbing from abdominal surgery. Carroll says if Lynch gets through the week with no setbacks, there's a good chance he'll be the starter against the Vikings. Kickoff Sunday is set for 10:05 in the morning, Pacific time.
Ducks' Addison Declares For NFL Draft
(Eugene, OR) -- Oregon wide receiver Bralon Addison is taking his game to the next level. Addison is forgoing his senior season with the Ducks and declaring for the 2016 NFL Draft. He was a second-team All-Pac-12 selection after catching a team-leading 63 passes for 804 yards and 10 touchdowns this fall.
OSU, UO Hoops In Action Tomorrow
(Undated) -- Both Oregon and Oregon State are back on the hardwood tomorrow night in Pac-12 conference action. The Beavers beat the Ducks 70-57 over the weekend to improve to 1-and-0 in conference play, and 10-and-2 overall. OSU hosts Stanford, while 11-and-3 UO welcomes Cal.
Duncan To Return As Hops Manager
(Hillsboro, OR) -- Shelley Duncan is returning as manager of the Hillsboro Hops next season. He will be joined by long time pitching coach Mike Parrott and hitting coach Jose Amado, who will be making his organizational debut this season. Hillsboro native Ben Petrick will reprise his role as consultant for the fourth consecutive season. The Hops won their second of back-to-back Northwest League Championships last season.
Blazers Run By Nuggets
(Denver, CO) -- C.J. McCollum dropped 25 points and seven assists as the Trail Blazers got by the Nuggets, 112-106, at the Pepsi Center. It was tie game going into the fourth quarter when Portland outscored Denver, 32-to-26. The Blazers improved to 15-and-21 with their fourth win in five games.
Blazers Host Grizzlies
(Portland, OR) -- The Blazers return home tonight to face the Grizzlies at the Moda Center. Portland has won four of its past five game and sits at 15-and-21 on the year. Memphis is 18-and-17. Tip-off at 7 o'clock.
TCU Stuns Oregon In Alamo Bowl
(San Antonio, TX) -- Oregon blew a 31-points half-time lead as they fell to TCU, 47-41 in three overtimes in the Alamo Bowl from San Antonio. Vernon Adams Junior led Oregon to a 28-0 lead before getting knocked out of the game late in the second quarter on a helmet-to-helmet hit, ending his college career. Royce Freeman carried the ball 26 times for 130 yards and three scores, while Jeff Lockie struggled after replacing Adams. The Ducks end the year at 9-and-4.
Beavers Pound Ducks
(Corvallis, OR) -- Oregon State opened up a 15-point lead by halftime as it rolled the Ducks, 70-57 last night at Gill Coliseum. In the Pac-12 opener for both teams, the Beavers prevailed behind 19 points for Tres Tinkle. The 10-and-2 Beavers host Stanford on Wednesday. Chris Boucher led the Ducks with 16 points as they fell to 11-and-3. They'll host Cal on Wednesday.
Seahawks Smack Arizona, 36-6
(Glendale, AZ) -- The Seahawks aren't NFC West champs this year, but they're heading into the playoffs after soundly defeating the team that holds the title. Russell Wilson passed for three touchdowns and the Seattle defense held the high-powered Cardinals in check, as the Seahawks earned a 36-6 win yesterday over Arizona. Running back Christine [[ KRISS-tin ]] Michael rushed for 103 yards to help the Seahawks earn their tenth win of the year. Seattle will play at Minnesota next Sunday in the wild-card round of the playoffs.
After leading 31-0 at halftime, Oregon loses the Alamo Bowl in Triple Overtime
The only matchup of the day featuring ranked teams went from being
a laugher to a shocker. No. 11 TCU matched the biggest comeback in
bowl history, rallying from a 31-0 halftime deficit against No. 15
Oregon and defeating the Ducks 47-41 in three overtimes at the
Alamo Bowl. Bram Kohlhausen, starting at quarterback in place of
the suspended Trevone Boykin, threw for 351 yards and accounted for
four touchdowns, including an eight-yard tightrope scramble on the
sideline for the winning points in the third extra period. Oregon's
Vernon Adams Jr. threw for 197 first-half yards and a touchdown
before leaving due to a hard hit to the head in a collision with
TCU linebacker Derrick Kindred late in the first half. Royce
Freeman had 130 rushing yards and three TDs for Oregon.
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A Legislative history of the National science and technology policy, organization, and priorities act of 1976, prepared at the request of Warren G. Magnuson, chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Harrison A. Williams Jr., chairman, Committee on Human Resources, for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Committee on Human Resources
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Bolivia returns stolen mummy to Peru
By London Coin | November 29, 2012 | No Comments | Articles, Blog, locations, News
November 6, 2012 | BBC NEWS Latin America & Caribbean
Archaeologists were unable to determine the sex of the child
Bolivia has returned a 700-year-old mummy to Peru, from where it was stolen by antiquities traffickers.
The mummy of a child of about two years of age is only 30cm (12in) tall and sits wrapped in blankets.
Bolivian police seized it two years ago from a woman who was going to ship it to France.
Experts determined it was an original but found that one of its legs had been added later presumably by the smugglers who wanted to raise its value.
Experts have not been able to determine the sex of the mummy but archaeologists think it came from a pre-Inca culture of coastal Peru.
Bolivian Culture Minister Pablo Groux handed the mummy to his Peruvian counterpart Luis Peirano at a ceremony at the Peruvian Foreign Ministry in Lima.
The two ministers also signed an agreement to improve their co-operation in the fight against the smuggling of cultural artifacts.
Referring to an increase in the illegal trade in antiquities, Mr Peirano said the mummy was “just a sample of the sacking, of the violation of our patrimony and all our inheritance.”
Peru, at the center the Inca culture and other civilizations predating the Incas, has had thousands of its relics plundered and stolen over the centuries.
Peruvian officials say trafficking in mummies has been less common, though “lately, there has been an increase in the trafficking of human remains”.
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The 2017 Special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott begins on July 18, 2017.
Contact them today in support of strengthening abortion complications reporting.
It's deceptive how abortion supporters claim abortion is safer than childbirth, yet many abortion-providers operate as outpatient clinics and don't report complications arising from abortion.
NOTE: Emphasis & highlighting added by editor. No other changes. ~ Robin
Content below from Texas Right to Life's Special Session Preview: Abortion Complications Reporting , by Jackson Milton (July 7, 2017).
This is the third in a series of articles previewing the issues and debates expected for the Special Session of the 85th Texas Legislature that begins on July 18, 2017.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, an anti-Life research organization formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, 27 states require reporting to state agencies when complications arise during abortions. Only 13 states require reporting on whether pregnant minors received adequate parental or judicial authorization to undergo an abortion. An abortion is an invasive and violent surgical procedure that always results in the death of a preborn child, but can also result in life-threatening complications for the mother because abortion mills are notorious for violating basic health and safety standards. For these reasons, Texas has a vested interest in keeping accurate records of complications that arise from elective abortions in our state. These issues were debated during the regular session of the 85th Texas Legislature, but political games killed legislation that would have reformed reporting requirements.
Representative Giovanni Capriglione (R-Southlake) authored House Bill 2962 to codify rules requiring physicians and abortionists to report abortion complications. HB 2962 deals with reporting requirements for abortion complications. However, floor amendments to the bill greatly strengthened the measure, which currently exists only as a loose rule in the Texas Administrative Code.
While the bill was being debated on the House Floor, Representative Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler), Chair of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, authored a strong amendment that would have shortened the timeframe in which an abortionist must report complications. The bill provided an abortionist 30 days to report complications; Schaefer’s amendment shortened the time to 72 hours. Additionally, Schaefer’s amendment required reporting to occur electronically, modernizing and improving the system. Thankfully, Capriglione and 91 representatives supported the strong Pro-Life amendments in the House.
When HB 2962 arrived in the Senate, Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), former House Pro-Life Whip, offered his own amendment to strengthen the bill. His amendment would have required reporting to document how a minor received authorization to get an abortion, since Texas law requires parental consent, except in rare cases in which a judge allows the minor to seek an elective abortion without parental consent. Such a reporting requirement would provide data on the often secretive judicial bypass process that allows minors to avoid parental involvement. The Hughes amendment would have also revealed the name of the abortionist under whom the complication occurred, providing a way to hold individual abortionists accountable. Furthermore, the amendment would have strengthened the reporting requirements for cases in which abortionists use an exception in Texas Code that allows preborn children with disabilities to be aborted during the third trimester.
HB 2962 and its amendments passed in the House and Senate with bipartisan support. Unfortunately, the House killed the bill at the eleventh hour by not accepting the Senate amendments. Thankfully, Governor Greg Abbott placed the issue on the agenda for the special session, specifically citing the Hughes amendment as reason for the bill’s Pro-Life importance. Starting on July 18, state legislators will have the opportunity to accomplish what they failed to do during the regular session by sending these reformed reporting requirements to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. Codifying these provisions and adding abortion reporting requirements for minors would help legislators understand how abortion hurts vulnerable young Texans and hold abortionists accountable for their actions.
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In praise of seagulls
by Manx BirdLife | posted in: Birdwatching, Gulls | 2
By Neil G. Morris
Seagulls. Love 'em or hate 'em? Throughout history they have inspired folklore, poems, songs, stories, films and more. They have also invoked the ire of a few who misunderstand them; and for the unlucky fewer, they have stirred an irrational fear akin to that caused by snakes and spiders.
It’s quite a few years since I spent my winter weekends studying seagulls. And I’m afraid I’ve forgotten more about how to identify the 50 or so different species of gulls in the world than I still remember! But motivated by current conversations about gulls and their place in ‘our’ world, here are some reflections on just a few of the world's gull species we can enjoy here in the Isle of Man and challenge ourselves to pick out from the regular Herring Gulls.
Caspian Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Caspian Gull
An eastern European species that had lurked undetected amongst our gull flocks until about thirty years ago when it was finally recognised as Europe’s newest gull species. Although now frequently seen in the UK, it has not yet been proven to occur in the Isle of Man. Doubtless it is here somewhere. So it's one to watch out for!
Sabine's Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Sabine’s Gull
A diminutive but hardy gull that nests in the high Canadian Arctic and winters in the oceans of the southern hemisphere. Fierce autumnal storms have occasionally blown migrating birds to the Island’s shore, however it remains preciously rare here.
Iceland Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Iceland Gull
Despite its name, this species' nearest breeding grounds are in Greenland! But as its name also suggests, it is a harbinger of icy northerly winter winds. And as you’d expect, being an arctic gull it is one of the whitest of the gull species; though young birds like this one are recognisable as being more ivory in colour and speckled. One or two are seen most years in the Isle of Man.
Mediterranean Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Mediterranean Gull
By contrast, here's a species of warmer climes (although in this image it's looking decidedly 'Fox's Glacier Mint'). It's a species that is bucking the downward trend, spreading north and westwards throughout Europe. It has recently colonised southern Britain and can occasionally be found on the Island’s beaches. It is, perhaps, an indicator of climate change. One day, perhaps, it might even nest here.
Great Black-headed Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Great Black-headed Gull
The world’s largest - and to many - most handsome gull. A real birders' gull! Should one of these turn up on the Isle of Man, it would certainly boost our economy for a few weeks with several thousand birdwatchers being sure to travel here to see it. A real prize, with only one historic record for the British Isles and Ireland. If you find one, please tell me!
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Smaller, darker and more elegant cousin of our commonest gull, the Herring Gull. ‘Lesser blacks’, as they are known, breed in the Isle of Man in small numbers. They are a migratory gull, spending the winter in Iberia and northern Africa, returning to the island from March onwards.
Common Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Common Gull
Certainly not common here on the Island, just a few pairs attempt to nest each summer. Smaller and, dare I say it, cuter than Herring Gulls, they really are an endearing bird when you get to know them. I once spent a few days in their midst in Finland where they were so tame and oblivious to people that they even walked over my feet while performing their courtship rituals.
Kittiwake (Neil G. Morris)
Onomatopoeically named, this species is a familiar sight around the Island. In the south, the Sugarloaf and adjacent cliffs throng during the summer to the sound of more than five hundred breeding pairs of this colonial nester. Highly pelagic (ocean-going) during the winter, they are extremely sensitive to man's over-exploitation and despoliation of the oceans.
You tell me! (Neil G. Morris)
Dunno!
Gulls are notorious for their variability. Regularly, birds are seen that defy identification. Whether through variation within species, genetic fault or through hybridisation, some gulls just cannot be pigeon-holed (sic). Here’s one that is just plain peculiar!
Of all gulls I've seen on the Isle of Man, this is my favourite. A real arctic brute, the Glaucous Gull. This is the bird you'll see in wildlife documentaries standing on (and tearing at the blubber of) the seal carcass that's been put out on the ice floes to attract Polar Bears. This individual was seen in Peel Harbour. It's just made for the arctic, as was the weather that cold Peel morning it was spotted a few winters ago!
Glaucous Gull (Neil G. Morris)
Nick Gordon
15 August 2017 |
Excellent post Neil, many thanks!!
I missed the glaucous gull unfortunately, but was pleased to have managed a few half decent shots of the iceland gull at Peel whilst it was here - a nice tick for me having never seen one before 🙂
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Thank you Nick. They're not everyone's cup of tea. But once you start looking they're addictive. Plumage differences are often subtle, but sometimes (like the Iceland Gull) when you see them well in the field, the different species can be very striking. Morphology and natural selection at their best!
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January 28, 2007: Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket – this week's headlines:
SADDAM IS ALIVE
Victim in execution video
was a double, CIA reveals
[courtesy the Sun]
Cat owns 23 old ladies
[courtesy Weekly World News]
Pink elephants found in college dorm
HILLARY DRUG SCANDAL
Did SHE inhale?
[courtesy the Globe]
LETTERS to the EDITOR:
Keith Durbin kdurbin14@YAHOO.com wrote Weds 24 Jan 2007 @14:49:18 CST:
I didn't get my Tabloid Headlines Sunday!!!!!!!!!!! Tell Fred that it's not easy
being a man in KY, either.
Dumb news from Indiana:
The bodies of four homeless men were found stuffed in manholes in
South Bend.
[courtesy Harper's Weekly, Associated Press]
Dumb news from Kentucky:
Army engineers were draining Lake Cumberland – the largest artificial
lake east of the Mississippi River – because the mile-long, 240-foot-
tall dam holding it back was leaking. Cities downstream – including
Nashville, Tennessee – were advised to develop evacuation plans.
[courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]
Borf's weekly BONUS:
Test-tube baby Louise Brown gave birth. . . . Canadian wom-
en were joining professional pillow fighting leagues. . . . Euro-
peans were boogying to Bulgaria to buy Boza beer, which is
believed to boost bust size. . . . McDonald's opened a drive-
through in China. . . . Six Hondurans were crushed by huge
bags of coffee beans. . . . Scientists in Germany gave up after
three years of trying to get a sloth to move. . . . An editor of
the British tabloid News of the World was sentenced to four
months in prison for hacking into royal officials' voice mail. . . .
A 7th grade health teacher in Yonkers, New York, was sus-
pended for having students draw penises on the blackboard.
. . . Tabloid Headlines was barred from Yahoo! e-mail inbox-
es last Sunday.
[courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP]
Birthdays:
Linda Blair, 48.
Spammer of the week:
"borg.lai" sent us an e-mail titled "self-loathing hole puncher."
DISCUSSION GROUP:
Don't forget! Readers interested in intellectual dissection of
important current events are invited to attend the Weekly World
News Round Table at the offices of Borf Books outside Browns-
ville, Kentucky, just after church every Sunday. Guest speakers
lined up for meetings in the near future include Jill Moore, the high
school cheerleading coach in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, who
resigned after being accused of having sex with a student and pro-
viding cheerleaders for sex with the National Guard. We are still
negotiating for appearances by her father, Marcus Bishop, who of-
fered his resignation from the school board, and the school princi-
pal, Jane Blackwell, who was arrested for covering up the affair.
"Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment" – Karen Crockett
Archives index
Borf Books borf@borfents.com Ideas for a Better America
Box 413 The Columbus Book of Euchre
Brownsville KY 42210 War Stories: The Memoirs of a Country Lawyer
(270) 597-2187 Hank T. Hebhoe, publisher Natty Bumppo, writer/editor
Iraqis make guillotine from hemp
[courtesy Strange Times]
Zambonis deployed to dwindling polar ice cap
FGDean@aol.com wrote Sunday 14 Jan 2007 16:40:15 PST re
80-year-old great-grandmother killed her first deer "Ka-powie!":
Ha, now we have the complete spectrum, women
5 to 80. It's not easy being a deer in Kentucky.
Dumb news from Indiana (there is dumber news this week
from Michigan; see weekly BONUS below):
A 14-year-old boy stabbed another boy at a high school in Hunting-
ton in an argument over a girl.
[courtesy Associated Press]
Dumb news from Kentucky (but there is dumber news this week
from NY than from KY; see weekly BONUS below):
Two train derailments in two days – both spilling hazardous chemicals,
igniting fires and causing evacuations – made national headlines.
[courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal, National Public Radio]
Hugo Chavez hugged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. . . . Muslim
villagers in Bihar, India, were changing their sons' names to
Saddam Hussein. . . . Barack Obama appeared shirtless in
the "beach babes" issue of People magazine. . . . George W.
Bush appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes. . . . A chimpanzee was
born at an animal sanctuary in Louisiana despite the fact that
all male chimps in the facility had had vasectomies. . . . A po-
lar bear got a root canal at the Pittsburgh Zoo. . . . Endanger-
ed deer in Oklahoma and Oregon were saved by helicopter
wind and a taser (respectively), and a sharpshooter in Iowa
rescued an endangered bald eagle with a bullet. . . . A north
Florida duck survived being shot and two days in a refrigera-
tor. . . . The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld life in prison
for achieving "sexual penetration under circumstances involv-
ing the commission of another felony." . . . Thieves of GPS de-
vices from the town of Lindenhurst, New York, were traced
by GPS and arrested.
[courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP, Len
Zanger, and the Detroit Free Press]
"Ottilia D. Kirkland" sent us an e-mail titled "Radical Muslim drinking enemies' blood" (we
could not read the entire e-mail because it had been disinfected in transit by Symantec).
Margaret O'Brien, 70.
ville, Kentucky, just after church every Sunday. Guests lined up
for hugs in the near future include Hugo Chavez and Barack O-
bama.
HILLARY NAMES BIGFOOT
AS HER RUNNING MATE
Nancy Reagan ends 30-year
feud with Betty Ford
Lindsay Lohan warned of liver damage
[courtesy National Enquirer]
All-day kindergarten will be a key issue in the 2007 session of the In-
diana General Assembly, according to a prominent state senator.
An 80-year-old great-grandmother killed her first deer. "Ka-powie!"
she said. . . .
A man was arrested in Middlesboro for wearing a ski mask into his
brother's jewelry store.
Quotation of the week:
"Blame and run."
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Plutoed" – meaning demoted and/or devalued – was chosen
word of the year by the American Dialect Society. . . . The
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) basketball team
snapped a 207-game losing streak with its first win since 1996.
. . . . Senator Robert Byrd interrupted Congress' opening pray-
er with shouts of "Yes, Lord!" and "Mmmhmmm!" . . . Mazie
Hirono, Buddhist Congresswoman from Hawaii, was sworn in
on no book at all. . . . Former President George H. W. Bush
imitated Dana Carvey imitating George H. W. Bush at services
for the late President Ford. . . . Newly released FIB files reveal
that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was hospitalized for
a psychiatric problem in 1981, believed there was a CIA plot a-
gainst him, and tried to escape the hospital in his pajamas. . . .
The Army apologized for letters sent to officers killed in action
urging them to re-enlist. . . . A 10-year-old in Texas who'd seen
a video of Saddam Hussein's execution hanged himself from his
bunk bed and died. . . . Armenians were selling their votes for po-
tatoes. . . . Qatarans were barred from editing Wikipedia. . . . A
British man died of a heart attack while ambulance crews were on
an EU-mandated lunch break. . . . Britney Spears and Paris Hilton
tied for "worst dressed" on Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual list. . . . A
Vermont man was bitten by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight
home from Chicago (the flight had originated in Houston). . . . A
Virginia high school art teacher was fired for "butt-printing" on his
own time. . . . A British historian was handcuffed, thrown to the
ground and jailed in Atlanta when he refused to identify himself to
a policeman telling him not to jaywalk. . . . Jimmy Carter said he
wanted to be buried in his front yard.
Scott McKenzie, 68
"specialisten-1892" sent us an e-mail titled "rhetorical bowling ball."
lined up for meetings in the near future include Robert Byrd, Ma-
zie Hirono, and Jimmy Carter.
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January 7, 2007: Things you would never know if you did not
SADDAM GOES DOWN SWINGING
Clinton back in sex rehab
Owls fail intelligence test
Max Otis @sbcglobal.net wrote Tues 02 Jan 2007 @11:33:36 CST:
Unable to attend your group discussion, but thanks for the invite.
Larue County, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809,
is planning a two-year celebration of his bicentennial, to begin Februa-
ry 12, 2008. . . .
State Senate bill 6 would prohibit both the slaughter and the exporta-
tion of horses for human consumption. . . .
And a state senator, in response to protests that stopped the renaming
of 22nd Street in Louisville "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.," filed a
bill to rename the entire length of I-65 through Jefferson County "Mar-
tin Luther King Memorial Highway" (reminding us of our favorite street
name in the nation, the former South Park Drive in Chicago, now "The
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.").
A legislator proposed a statewide referendum to choose between the
Eastern and Central time zones.
` [courtesy Associated Press]
A 67-year-old Spanish woman gave birth to twins. . . . The
world's population reached 6.5 billion. . . . Ariel Sharon was
still alive. . . . At least 2.5 million American children were ta-
king antipsychotic drugs, and a similar number of Kenyans
were close to starvation. . . . A flying saucer nearly touched
down at Chicago's O'Hare airport. . . . Yuris Sinkevicius, a
skinny prisoner from Lithuanaia, stripped naked, oiled him-
self and slipped through the bars of a Norwegian jail to free-
dom. . . . Two suburban Atlanta women, including a former
Penthouse "pet," were arrested for $10,000-a-trick prostitu-
tion. . . . A calf was born with two faces in Rural Retreat,
Virginia. . . . Flying a kite is legal again in Pakistan's Punjab
province.
[courtesy Harper's Yearly, AP]
Spammers of the week:
"bradley" sent us an e-mail titled "ravishing squid."
"hakuei1" sent us an e-mail titled "irreconcilable pork chop."
"Massey" sent us an e-mail titled "ephemeral scuffle."
lined up for meetings in the near future include Yuris Sinkevicius.
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Marcellus Arrests and Warrants
Look up Arrests, Most Wanted, and Police Records in Marcellus, NY. Results: Inmate List, Jail Records, Jail Roster Number, Warrants, Mugshot, Charges, Dispositions, Warrant Number, Bond Amount, Race, DOB, Eyes, Height, Weight, Sex, Age, Hair
Marcellus, New York Information
Marcellus is a town located in Onondaga County, New York. The Town of Marcellus has a village also named Marcellus. The town of Marcellus had a population of approximately 6,210 in the year 2016.
The Town Supervisor of Marcellus, New York is Karen Pollard. Pollard can be contacted (315) 673-1309 or via email at kpollard@marcellusny.com
Karen Pollard, Town Supervisor
Town of Marcellus
Marcellus Town Hall
Marcellus, NY 13108
Email: kpollard@marcellusny.com
Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 9: 00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Marcellus Town Supervisor
Marcellus Town Facebook
The Mayor of Marcellus, New York is John P. Curtis. Mayor Curtis can be contacted (315) 673-3660.
John P. Curtis, Mayor
Village Mayor’s Office
Village of Marcellus
Marcellus Village Mayor
In 2016, the crime-index in Marcellus, New York was 83.3, higher than it had been since at least the year 2002, but lower than the national average of 258.3. According to research, New York and other state lists there were 2 registered sex offenders living in Marcellus, New York as of July 22, 2018. The ratio of number of residents in Marcellus to the number of sex offenders is 848 to 1.
Marcellus, New York Police Station Information
There were an estimated 730 total crimes per 100,000 people in Marcellus, New York. This rate is lower than the average in the state of New York which has 1,922 total crimes per 100,000 residents. The crime rate in Marcellus is also lower than the national average of 2,837 crimes for every 100,000 individuals.
Further breaking down the types of crimes in Marcellus, there were an estimated 143 violent crimes for every 100,000 residents (which include murder, robbery, rape, and assault). The average for violent crimes in the state of New York is 376 per 100,000 citizens and the average nationally is 386 for every 100,000 residents.
Facts about crime in Marcellus, New York:
The overall crime rate in Marcellus is 74% lower than the national average.
For every 100,000 people, there are 2 daily crimes that occur in Marcellus.
Marcellus is safer than 76% of the cities in the United States.
In Marcellus you have a 1 in 138 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
The number of total year over year crimes in Marcellus has decreased by 2%.
Marcellus Police Department
Robert A. Wicks is the Chief of Police of Marcellus, New York. Chief Wicks can be contacted at (315) 673-2079.
Robert A. Wicks, Chief of Police
6 Slocumbe Ave
Marcellus, New York 13108
Marcellus Police Dept
Open Record Request in Marcellus, New York
Contact the Town Clerk for records pertaining to the Town of Marcellus.
The Town Clerk serves as the official “Keeper of the Record” for the Town. The Town Clerk serves as the Freedom of Information Officer for the Town of Marcellus. To request access to public documents and records, submit a completed Freedom of Information Request Form to the Town Clerk’s Office.
The Town Clerk of Marcellus, New York is Sandy Taylor. Taylor can be contacted at 315-673-3269.
Sandy Taylor, Town Clerk
Marcellus Town Clerk
The Village of Marcellus is located in the Town of Marcellus.
Contact the Village Clerk for records pertaining to the Village of Marcellus.
The Village Clerk has custody of the corporate seal, books, records and papers of the Village and all the official reports and communications of the Board of Trustees.
The Village Clerk of Marcellus, New York is Dawn O’Hara. Dawn O’Hara can be contacted at (315) 673-3112 or via email at dawnm@twcny.rr.com
Dawn O’Hara, Village Clerk
6 Slocombe Avenue
Email: dawnm@twcny.rr.com
Marcellus Village Clerk
The Town and Village of Marcellus are both located in Onondaga County, New York.
Contact the County Clerk of Onondaga County, New York for records.
The County Clerk of Onondaga County, New York is Lisa Dell. Dell can be contacted at (315) 435-2227 or via email at lisadell@ongov.net
Lisa Dell, County Clerk
Onondaga County Clerk’s Office
401 Montgomery St., Room 200
Email: lisadell@ongov.net
Onondaga County Clerk
Onondaga County Record
County Sheriff, Warrant, Most Wanted Information in Onondaga County, New York
The Sheriff of the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department is Sheriff Eugene J. Conway. Sheriff Dougherty can be reached at 315-435-3044.
Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty
Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office
407 S State St,
Onondaga County Sheriff
Onondaga County Sheriff Facebook
Onondaga County, New York arrests, inmates, mugshots, warrants:
Onondaga County Active Warrants
Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office – Department of Correction
The Onondaga County Department of Correction located in Jamesville, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. It is a direct supervision facility with a capacity of 516 inmates and employing approximately 210 employees.
Jamesville Correctional Facility
6660 East Seneca Turnpike,
Jamesville NY 13078
Onondaga County Correction
Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office – Department of Correction Inmates Search:
Onondaga County Inmate Lookup
Visitation Hours of the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office – Department of Correction:
Onondaga County Visitation Info
Onondaga Inmate Visitation
Marcellus Police Station Address: 6 Slocombe Ave, Marcellus, NY 13108, United States
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Niagara College course teaches DIY kombucha making
Mary Towndrow has been brewing up homemade kombucha for five years. Doing it yourself costs a fraction of the retail price. (Jill Troyer/Niagara Now)
Jill Troyer, Special to Niagara Now
Jun 16, 2019 | Sunday
Mary Towndrow’s kitchen table in Old Town is covered in neat rows of homemade kombucha. Green and black tea kombucha with ginger, peppermint kombucha, rosehip kombucha, cherry kombucha, and beet kombucha with rosemary.
She’s been making it for five years, and now she and her fellow fermenting fan Lauren Zimbalatti are preparing to teach a Brew Your Own Booch course at Niagara College to help get others started in DIY kombucha.
Kombucha is a fermented beverage typically made with sweetened tea. The other essential ingredient is the scoby, which stands for “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.”
The scoby, which looks like a gelatinous pancake, aids in fermentation, and the resulting drink is slightly effervescent, a little sweet, and also a touch sour with a hint of vinegar flavour.
It is growing in popularity both for its flavour and health benefits, since it has both probiotics and antioxidants. For some, it’s a tasty low-calorie, low-sugar alternative to pop.
Towndrow first tasted kombucha five years ago, while travelling in the United States on business. She loved the flavour, but not the price.
A bottle of commercially produced kombucha at the grocery store can cost up to $10. Towndrow says making it herself “costs just pennies a serving, that’s what got me interested.”
So she bought her first scoby and started brewing, and she says “my cost for a two gallon batch, which makes 15 bottles, is a few tea bags and some sugar, and it only takes 15 minutes to make the brew.”
She and her family have their favourite flavours and she keeps it on hand in the fridge as their go-to drink.
Towndrow and Zimbalatti met in a class at Niagara College that Zimbalatti was teaching about beer making. When Zimbalatti mentioned she had made kombucha beer, Towndrow says “my antenna just went up ... we just became friends and we’ve been experimenting ever since.”
Zimbalatti, who completed the brewmaster and brewery operations program at Niagara College three years ago, says the kombucha course she and Towndrow will teach is “geared to introduce people to brewing their own kombucha.”
Participants will get to “sample a tasting flight of different flavours and learn all the other uses of kombucha, like making syrups and jellies,” she says.
Towndrow adds she uses scoby “to make jerky, candy, as a base for smoothies, and the liquid to make sourdough starter ... you’re only limited by your taste buds and what you have on hand.”
For anyone “interested in fermentation, kombucha is a good place to start, because it’s inexpensive and simple,” she says.
The class will provide participants with everything they need to make their own brew and they’ll leave with their own first batch started, to finish fermenting at home. According to Zimbalatti, “it’s kind of set and forget. It’s very forgiving.”
The course, which costs $80, is set for June 26 at Niagara College. More information is available at: www.niagaracollege.ca/parttimestudies/courses/HTSM/1085/
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Helen Patterson
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Obituary for Helen Patterson
April 3, 1929- June 18, 2019
Surrounded by her family, in the comfort of her own home, Helen Treadwell (MacRae) Patterson passed peacefully on June 18, 2019. Helen was born on April 3, 1929 in Black River Bridge, NB to the late James Robert MacRae and Grace Badenoch (Fraser) MacRae.
Helen graduated from Miramichi Rural School before attending Teacher’s College. She later received her Bachelor of Education Degree after attending summer school and doing numerous correspondence/evening courses. She retired in 1986 after 36 years of teaching. Most of these years were spent as a Special Education teacher, which was her calling. Even after retirement, Helen continued to educate students as a tutor.
Helen loved to travel and did so extensively. She traveled all over Canada and the United States, Scotland, England, Ireland, Mexico, Barbados, Australia, New Zealand and her favorite, Africa.
Helen was well known in the neighbourhood, as she collected for the Heart and Stroke, Cancer, Diabetes and Kidney Foundations. She belonged to MARTA (Miramichi Area Retired Teacher’s Association), Miramichi Golf and Country Club and Bridge Club, Miramichi Highland Society, Bay du Vin Book Club, Stewards for Knox United Church, and was a supporter of the Dr. Graham Homes for over 40 years.
She loved to play Bridge, do crossword puzzles, was an avid reader and loved chatting about religion and politics. Helen was one of the most intelligent, kind-hearted and generous people you could ever meet. She was never a person to judge and never said an unkind word. (Unless you were a politician who was doing a terrible job-that was another story)! These qualities made her the absolute best mother and friend anyone could ask for.
Helen was predeceased by her parents, husband Robert (Bob) in 1982, her brother Fraser and his wife Lydia MacRae, sister Mary and her husband Bud Jamieson, as well as her long-time friend and companion William “B” Rigley.
She is survived by her children Jamie, Laurie (Janice) and one daughter Lisa (Aaron), grandchildren Wendy, Bobby (Diane), Pam (Joel), MacRae (Emily) and Shay. She is also survived by great grandchildren Trevor, Emma and Kate, sisters in law, Rita Patterson, Annie Nolan and Libby Hay. She is also survived by dear friend Frances Blakely, several nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held at Adams Funeral Home Ltd., 140 King St., Miramichi on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm. Funeral service was held at St. Stephen’s United Church, Black River Bridge on Monday, June 24, 2019 at 2pm with Rev. David Allan officiating. Music for the service was provided by David Mann and the Loggieville/Black River Pastoral Charge Choir and the hymn “Here I Am Lord” sung by the choir, “Morning Has Broken” and “Hallelujah” sung by Wendy and Dawn Patterson, “The River” and “The House of the Potter” sung by Al Fraser and the recessional hymn “Amazing Grace” was played by Louis Galliah on the bag pipes The lighting of the Christ and Memorial Candle was by Bobby Patterson. Scripture reading and poems were read by Frances Blakely, Pam Patterson Ward and Diane MacRae. The eulogy was presented by MacRae Lynch. Honorary pallbearers were Aaron Butler, Bobby Patterson, Joel Ward, Ricky Patterson, John MacRae, Frances and Buddy Blakely, MacRae Lynch, Shannon Manderville, Grant Donnelly, Jim MacRae, Libby Hay, Billy Hay, Rita Patterson, Annie Nolan, Margot Williston, Margie Bremner, Lottie McLenaghan, Edie MacDonald, Carol Johnston, Dave Walsh, Debra Duplessie, Arthur Losier, Bill Rigley and Errol Jamieson. Retired teachers sat as a body and formed and honour guard. Interment was held in the Black River Community Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the following: Rev. Douglas Smith Scholarship Fund, St. Stephen Cemetery Fund/Church Fund, Miramichi Area Retired Teacher’s Association Scholarship Fund, Miramichi SPCA or a charity of the donor’s choice.
Arrangements were entrusted to Adams Funeral Home Ltd., 140 King St., Miramichi, telephone 773-3492 or messages of condolence may be sent online to www.adamsfh.ca
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April 27th Announcements
posted Apr 27, 2016, 10:19 AM by Ann Swanson
JV Baseball @ Glen Lake 4:00 p.m. (Bus leaves @ 1:30 p.m.)
V Track WMD Jamboree @ Brethren 4:00 p.m. (Bus leaves @ 2:30 p.m.)
V Baseball @ BRCCA 4:00 p.m. (Bus leaves @ 1:30 p.m.)
V Softball @ BRCCA 4:00 p.m. (Bus leaves @ 1:30 p.m.)
V Golf @ Lake City 4:30 p.m. (Bus leaves @ 2:30 p.m.)
V Track Onekama Frostbite Inv. 2:00 p.m.
V Baseball vs. Mesick 4:00 p.m.
V Softball vs. Mesick 4:00 p.m.
The Onekama, Bear Lake, KND Co-op School Drama Group this year will be performing “Seussical”. Performances are Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Cafetorium. Sunday’s performance is at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $8/adults and $5/students and will be available in the Superintendent’s Office on M/W/F and in the Student Services Office on T/Th.
Attention all girls who are going in grades 9th thru 12th There is a sign-up sheet in the office if you are interested in the Dance Team for next school year. There will be a meeting on Monday, May 9th at 8 am in the library. Please stop by the office to sign-up no by later than May 6th.
Onekama Consolidated Schools has teamed with Central Michigan University to host a middle school and high school summer volleyball camp at Onekama Schools.
Save the dates: July 21, 22 & 23
More details will be coming soon.
ANY LATE SPORTS PICTURE FORMS WILL BE PICKED UP FRIDAY MORNING.
Volunteer Opportunities! I am the local coordinator with CETUSA, and I am looking for OHS families to host international exchange students for the 2016/17 school year.
Our students speak English and come with full health insurance and their own spending money. Host families are asked to provide three meals per day, some transportation and a family atmosphere.
Students are from all over...you can choose! Italy, Venezuela, Switzerland, Thailand and many more!! They come for one semester (4 1/2 mo) or the school year (9 1/2 mo). Now is the time to choose your student for this fall!! Please contact Cathy French at garmentworks@hotmail.com or message me on Facebook!
PROM BOUTIQUE located in the Briney Building will be open April 28th. ALL DRESSES ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE & YOU MAY DONATE YOUR DRESSES FOR OTHERS TO USE!
Lunch Today: Cheeseburger, WG Bun, Ranch Seasoned Potato Wedges, Applesauce OR Southwestern Chicken Wrap, Roasted Tomato Soup
Breakfast Tomorrow: Chocolate Chip French Toast
Lunch Tomorrow: Chicken Enchiladas, Warm Refried Beans, Corn, Fruit OR Corn Dog, Baked Beans
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China: Guangdong Province reports two more H7N9 avian flu cases
The Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province (GDHFPC) in southern China has reported two additional human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Guangzhou and Zhongshan.
Influenza A (H7N9) virus/CDC
According to the GDHFPC, the male patient aged 56 in Guangzhou and the 9-month-old female patient in Zhongshan were hospitalized for management in critical and stable condition respectively.
There has been in excess of 30 human cases of H7N9 avian influenza reported from the province since the beginning of the year.
To date, 506 human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) have been reported by the Mainland health authorities, respectively in Zhejiang (146 cases), Guangdong (144 cases), Jiangsu (63 cases), Shanghai (44 cases), Fujian (28 cases), Hunan (24 cases), Anhui (17 cases), Jiangxi (nine cases), Xinjiang (nine cases), Shandong (six cases), Beijing (five cases), Henan (four cases), Guangxi (three cases), Jilin (two cases), Guizhou (one case) and Hebei (one case).
This brings the cumulative total to 520 cases since March 2013, which includes 12 imported cases seen in Hong Kong, one in Malaysia, two in Canada and four in Taiwan.
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Pádraig Rynne is a concertina player, composer and producer and one of the most influential folk musicians of his generation. With his band NOTIFY and various solo and collaborative projects, he has pioneered a new sound in Irish folk and re-contextualised tradition forms with experimental, improvised, jazz, and electronic music.
Pádraig is credited on a number of high profile albums as a performer as well as recording engineer.
With an MA in Music Technology from the University of Limerick, Pádraigs main focus of study was on sound design and mixing.
Owning his own studio and production room, Pádraig has mastered albums for many genres of music including Pop, Electronic, Folk, Jazz and Funk.
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2016 Release from NOTIFY on Ropeadope Records. It reached #1 in the iTunes Jazz Charts and #13 in the mainstream Irish iTunes charts.
Pádraigs first solo album in a decade. Featuring Tyler Duncan, Joe Dart, Mike Shimmin and Jeremy Kittel.
2013 release by Pádraig Rynne, Sylvain Barou and Dónal Lunny. Exploring World music from across Europe.
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Supplements for sports dieting
One diet doesn’t fit all athletes and active consumers. Each body, each sport or type of exercise has unique nutritional requirements. Each athlete has different goals, different body compositions and different reactions to dieting. A long-distance runner will have different needs than a weightlifter or a sprinter.
Dieting in sports runs the gamut of macronutrient ratios and food and beverage exclusions. A few popular diets include paleo, keto, vegan/vegetarian, gluten-free and intermittent fasting. Relative to body composition and performance, each diet has pros and cons, as well as several dietary ingredients that can help consumers with each diet.
Each macronutrient has a general caloric value: 4 calories per gram for each protein and carbs, and 9 calories per gram for fats. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) set the Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range (AMDR) at 10 to 35 percent protein, 45 to 65 percent carbohydrate and 20 to 35 percent fat.
Carb-Restriction
So-called “low-carb” diets tend to restrict
carbohydrate intake to below 40 to 45 percent of energy intake. People on these diets forgo sugary foods, breads and pasta in favor of carbs from vegetables and some fruits and unrefined grains.
A very low-carb diet restricts carb intake to 10 percent or less, which eventually puts the body into a state of ketosis, when the body has insufficient glucose levels. Ketone bodies—acetoacetate, acetone and beta hydroxybutyrate (BHB)—from the liver are used to fuel tissue such as the brain, sparing glucose metabolism. The body then uses fatty acids to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy molecule produced in cell mitochondria.
Low-carb and keto diets tend to be better for endurance sports, which rely more on fat fuel, and not so good for high-intensity exercise, which is mostly carb-driven.
Low-carb diets may leave out foods high in fiber, such as certain grains and fruits, so a fiber supplement may be useful to keep a healthy gastrointestinal (GI) tract and function. These carb foods also contain flavonoids and other phytochemicals, as well as key vitamins and minerals that may provide antioxidant and other functional benefits, so a multivitamin is not a bad idea for low-carb dieters. Eating a wide variety of greens and vegetables could also help fill this void.
During ketosis, insulin levels are lower, and the body secretes more sodium and water. This also taxes potassium supplies, which the body leans on in the absence of sodium. Supplemental sodium or an electrolyte drink could address these issues.
The body’s primary source of energy is glucose from carb intake. Glycolysis, the process of making ATP from glucose, fuels the early stages of anaerobic and aerobic exercise. In a low- or very low-carb diet, glycolysis doesn’t last long. Creatine may help fuel early exercise until fat oxidative ATP production kicks in. Phosphocreatine in the muscles is the first energy source, as the body draws energy from the muscles in the first 10 or so seconds of exercise.
To support the fat-burning phase of keto dieting, carnitine can help shuttle fats into the mitochondria for use in ATP production. Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) have also emerged as a good source of fatty acids readily used to both drive energy production and raise ketone levels. One study (Nutr Metab. 2018; 2018: 2630565) found MCT supplementation raised BHB levels and reduced symptoms of keto-induction, including constipation, headache, halitosis, muscle cramps, diarrhea, general weakness and rash. Supplemental BHB has also hit the market as a way to instantly boost ketone levels in the body.
Other ingredients useful for low-carb and keto dieters include beta-alanine, which boosts levels of carnosine to buffer fatigue-triggering histidine that builds up in muscle as a byproduct of ATP production; caffeine, which not only stimulates but also outcompetes fatigue-signaling adenosine in the brain; and, branched chain amino acids (BCAAs)—leucine, isoleucine and valine—not only to compensate for typically moderate protein intake associated with keto dieting, but also to potentially promote fat oxidation.
In its 2017 position stand on diets, the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) argued the benefit or advantage of keto over non-keto diets may not be due to metabolism changes, but in appetite regulation (JISSN. 201714:16).
“Under non-calorically restricted conditions, [the keto diet] has consistently resulted in body fat and/or body weight reduction,” they wrote. “This occurs via spontaneous energy intake reduction, which could be due to increased satiety through a suppression of ghrelin production … However, it remains unclear whether the appetite suppression is due to ketosis or other factors such as an increased protein or fat intake or restriction of carbohydrate.”
Some diets including low-carb (e.g., Atkins) and paleo, feature higher intakes of protein foods like eggs and meats. Protein is the most satiating macronutrient and drives the building of lean body mass (LBM).
In its position stand on diet and body composition, ISSN noted when protein intakes are comparable, there don’t tend to be significant fat loss differences between keto diets and non-keto diets. They further reported when high protein diets go as high as 4.4. kg/g there is no additional significant change in body composition compared to a regular high protein diet (about 1.8 g/kg).
High protein diets, intakes of 1.6 grams per kilogram and higher, are common in sports nutrition. Protein supplements, functional foods and beverage and snacks and other convenient forms are incredibly popular. High-protein diets feature meat and dairy, including eggs. From milk, whey protein is fast acting and the overall most popular choice before and after exercise, whereas casein is a slower acting dairy protein that is ideal for overnight supplementation. Chicken is hugely popular with athletes, and a protein isolate powder, CHiKPRO from International Dehydrated Foods (IDF), offers athletes an opportunity to get this favored protein in novel forms including soup, pasta and snacks.
For high-protein dieters, several supplements can boost the effectiveness of ingested protein. An amylopectin-chromium combination (as Velositol®, from Nutrition 21) increases insulin and protein synthesis. A combination of the amino acids alanine and glutamine (as Sustamine®, from Kyowa Hakko) is also touted for its ability to help protein increase muscle protein synthesis (MPS), the process of making new muscle, and inhibit muscle protein breakdown (MPB). BCAAs are increasingly popular as a protein complement to boost leucine levels, as leucine has been highlighted as a limiting factor or trigger for MPS. Leucine and its metabolite HMB (beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate) spark MPS via the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which is also activated by another dietary ingredient: phosphatidic acid.
One of the challenges for some high-protein dieters is reduced intake of carbs like breads and pasta; carbs are a preferred energy source for high-intensity training featuring short bursts of exertion and having enough muscle glycogen can be a challenge if certain carbs are restricted. It is important for high-protein eaters to time their carbs for maximum energy going into a workout as well as replenishment after a workout, especially if the next exercise is the next day.
However, endurance athletes like long distance runners and cyclists might fare well on a high-protein diet, as they can more easily reach the point during exercise whereby the body turns to burning fat for energy. Still, the ability to sprint or go hard at various points during an endurance workout might suffer from lack of glycogen stores.
Plant-Based Dieting
High-protein diets increasingly feature plant proteins. Hemp, pea, rice, soy and other plant protein sources are the primary supplemental choice for vegetarian and vegan diets. Nuts, seeds and meat/dairy alternatives line the fridge for these dieters and are also more commonly found in protein products, from bars to powders.
One of the most common questions vegans face is: where do you get your protein? Fortunately, vegan athletes and active consumers need not rely on soy, tofu, nuts and seeds alone. While most plant proteins are not “complete” due to insufficient or lack of certain essential amino acids, blending multiple plant proteins has brought more complete proteins to market. For instance, pea protein has a good leucine content, but is deficient in methionine and cysteine; it is often blended with rice and other plants. Water lentils or duckweed (as Lentein®, from Parabel) is a newer plant protein touted as complete, although some products still blend it with pea protein for better consistency and texture.
Aside from protein, vegans are prone to vitamin B and iron deficiencies, so supplementation with those vitamins, possibly via multivitamin, is crucial.
Low-Fat/High-Carb
At 9 calories per gram, fat is the most energy dense macronutrient. Reducing intake of fat cuts out more calories. Most low-fat diets are also higher in carbs, which is a classic diet for certain endurance athletes including cyclists and runners (before keto picked up steam in recent years). Because the high-carb low-fat (HCLF) leaves less room for protein, this doesn’t tend to be a diet adopted by those looking to gain significant LBM, including bodybuilders and football players.
The days of fats being universally vilified are over, despite the benefits of cutting fat intake on heart health. Dietary fat plays an important role in the body, including certain micronutrient absorption, energy production and inflammation management.
For low-fat and very low-fat dieters, concentrating the small allowance for fat intake on key mono- and poly-unsaturated fats, including omega-3s, may prove beneficial. Supplements or functional foods may be helpful.
The average modern diet features many processed and “fast” foods. Many sports dieters have eschewed refined and processed foods under the belief a cleaner diet is truer to the human body. The Whole30 and paleo diets are examples. Paleo proponents adopt an ancient hunter-gatherer approach, eating only foods that were available in caveman era (Paleolithic). This means yes to lean meats, vegetables and fruits, but no to dairy, juice, sugar, most grains and legumes.
Many popular sports products like bars, beverages, foods and supplements are processed, so where does that leave paleo devotees? Clean label products, with their short list of recognizable ingredients, can help, but not all will be allowable for the strictest paleo dieters. And while unrefined carbs are OK under this diet, many athletes and active consumers need sufficient carb intake for energy, especially for high-intensity exercise.
Whey and casein are out for paleo athletes, as are milk protein concentrate and other dairy versions. Food is the true protein source here, with nuts, seeds, eggs and plants being OK, but some devotees may only allow the cleanest of plant protein powders.
Without dairy, calcium might be hard to come by, as many such dieters might not eat enough dark leafy greens to get enough calcium. In addition to calcium and vitamin D supplements, paleo followers may look at probiotic supplements. Omega-3s are also warranted if paleo dieters do not eat enough fish.
Who Needs to Eat?
The intermittent fasting approach to sports dieting can take many forms, with fasting occurring on alternate days or certain hours during the day. Whatever the design, intermittent fasting involves a specified period of zero energy intake. In its position statement, ISSN noted research has not yet convincingly answered the question of whether intermittent fasting has a significantly greater impact on body composition than daily calorie restriction.
“Questions remain about whether [intermittent fasting] could outperform daily linear or evenly distributed intakes for the goal of maximizing muscle strength and hypertrophy,” they concluded. ‘[Intermittent fasting] warrants caution and careful planning in programs that require optimal athletic performance.”
For those trying some form of intermittent fasting, BCAAs and creatine do not have a caloric value and could help with MPS, energy and performance. Many also turn more to stimulants, including caffeine, to get a kick before a workout and stave off feelings of fatigue during workout. A multivitamin and mineral supplement would also help provide necessary micronutrients during periods of fasting, evening out micronutrition rather than having drastic hills and valleys.
Unsung Heroes: Enzymes
Whenever someone makes a significant change in the diet, the body can struggle to keep up, at least initially. In the case of ketogenic diets, when an athlete first starts to enter ketosis, energy and performance might drop off as the body tries to find energy. Many keto proponents have reported the body eventually gets used to using fat as a primary fuel and struggles less and less from carb and glycogen decreases; such athletes often called themselves “fat adapted.”
Drastic dietary changes also quickly challenge digestion. Adaptive enzyme secretion means the body makes only those enzymes it needs to digest the foods being eaten, rather than making all possible enzymes all the time. Dietary enzymes are non-caloric molecules that help catalyze nutrient breakdown. Proteases target proteins, lipases tackle fats, amylases handle carbs and cellulases take care of plant fibers. Depending on the specific diet undertaken, different combinations of these digestive enzymes could improve the digestive burden. For example, a keto diet may need less amylases and more lipases and proteases. A vegan diet could benefit from increased cellulases. The high protein diet, of course, would require higher amounts of proteases.
Pure Essence Labs launched a line of digestive enzyme supplements for dieters, called Real-Zymes™, with nine different supplements, each targeting specific diets. For instance, the Atkins version was developed for high-protein diets; the Paleo supplement is for paleo, South Beach and similar plans; and Omnivore is for Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, ADA, Dash and the like. There are digestive blends for vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, Ornish and Zone diets.
Burning, Blocking and Satiating
Dieters may find benefits in compounds that help manage the metabolism of and inhibit absorption of various macronutrients, such as carbs and fats. Also, some diets may be light on satiating foods, especially low-energy dieting and fasting.
While many athletes look for increased energy and muscle mass, decreased fat is a top target of dieting. This has made fat-burning supplements popular additions to many athletes’ dietary regimens. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), an essential fatty acid (EFA), as well as the thermogenics green tea and 7-keto DHEA are some popular fat-burning supplements touted for increasing metabolism.
Another approach to decreasing fat is addressing fat storage. Garcinia cambogia and its constituent (-)-hydroxycitric acid (HCA) are proposed to inhibit fat biosynthesis.
Low-fat and low-energy diets can lower body levels of leptin, a hormone made in fat cells that works with the brain to manage energy storage. Reduced leptin may trigger the brain to store more fat. An extract of the Japanese plant ashitaba (as ChalCurb™, from Japan Bio Science Laboratory, distributed by ET Horn) may help increase blood levels of leptin and adiponectin, another fat tissue hormone that helps regulate glucose and fat metabolism, including in the muscle (JJCAM. 201 March; 9(1):49-55)—adiponectin decreases in obesity and rises in weight loss.
Certain compounds are marketed for blocking absorption of carbs. A white kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) extract ingredient (as Phase2 carb Controller®, from Pharmachem) was shown to inhibit alpha-amylase enzymes from breaking down starch (carbs) for absorption in the small intestines; this inhibition increased weight loss (Alt Med Rev. 2004; 9(1):63-69).
Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) has a similar effect on alpha-amylase and reduces the glycemic response to starch ingestion (BMC Complement Altern Med. 2014 Sep 23;14:351).
Feeling full may help curtail caloric intake. Hunger hormones and peptides, including ghrelin and cholecystokinin (CCK), are involved in hunger-satiety signaling. Ingredients impacting satiety through such signaling include glycomacropeptide, a protein extract (as Slendesta®, from Kemin health) and dietary fibers such as galacto-oligosaccaride (GOS), fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) and beta-glucans from oats and barley.
Future of Sports Dieting
As long as athletes and active consumers strive to lose fat and increase muscle while maintaining adequate energy levels for exercise, there will be plenty of diet plans on offer. Specific dieting and exercise goals should determine the appropriate diet. There is no one-size-fits-all diet for athletes, and most diets can be effective under the right circumstances.
“A wide range of dietary approaches (low-fat to low-carbohydrate/ketogenic, and all points between) can be similarly effective for improving body composition, and this allows flexibility with program design,” ISSN concluded, in its position stand on body composition and diets. “The long-term success of a diet depends upon compliance and suppression or circumvention of mitigating factors such as adaptive thermogenesis.”
Whichever diet an athlete or active consumer chooses, supplements can help them achieve their diet, body composition and, ultimately, performance goals.
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In memory of Norman Corwin......OTR "We hold these truths" 12-15-1941 and "On a note of triumph" from 5-6-1945
Radio Giant Norman Corwin Dies In Calif. At 101
Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.
Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment—even light entertainment—to tackle serious social issues. In this area he was a peer of Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio/TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear, J. Michael Straczynski and Yuri Rasovsky.
He was the son of Samuel and Rose Corwin and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Corwin was a major figure during the Golden Age of Radio. During the 1930s and 1940s he was a writer and producer of many radio programs in many genres: history, biography, fantasy, fiction, poetry and drama. He was the writer and creator of series such as The Columbia Workshop, 13 By Corwin, 26 By Corwin and others. He recently was a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
Corwin has won the One World Award, two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a duPont-Columbia Award; he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Lust for Life (1956). On May 12, 1990 Corwin received an Honorary Doctorate from Lincoln College. In 1996 he received the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from California Lutheran University. Corwin was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. A documentary film on Corwin's life, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Feature) in 2006. Les Guthman's feature documentary on Mr. Corwin's career, Corwin aired on PBS in the 1990s. He was inducted into the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Diamond Circle in 1994.
Corwin was married in 1947 to actress Katherine Locke. They had two children—an adopted son, Anthony Leon, and a daughter, Diane Arlene. Locke died in 1995.
Corwin was Jewish, and his parents observed Judaism. (His father, Sam Corwin, attended holiday services until his death at 110). While not an observant Jew, Corwin has infused much of his work with the ideas of the Hebrew Prophets. One of the prayerbooks of American Reform Judaism, Shaarei Tefila: Gates of Prayer, contains a portion of the Prayer from the finale of Corwin's On a Note of Triumph
Lord God of test-tube and blueprint
Who jointed molecules of dust and shook them till their name was Adam,
Who taught worms and stars how they could live together,
Appear now among the parliaments of conquerors and give instruction to their schemes:
Measure out new liberties so none shall suffer for his father's color or the credo of his choice:
Post proofs that brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend:
Sit at the treaty table and convoy the hopes of the little peoples through expected straits,
And press into the final seal a sign that peace will come for longer than posterities can see ahead,
That man unto his fellow man shall be a friend forever.
Corwin worked as a newspaper journalist for the Greenfield Recorder and the Springfield Republican, and later read news over WBZA in Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in 1936 and created a program for independent station WQXR. In 1938, he began working for the CBS Radio Network. CBS scheduled Norman Corwin's Words Without Music, the first usage of a writer's name in a program title; the series included two of his more famous works, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, a fantasy in rhyme, and They Fly Through The Air, an impassioned reaction to the Spanish Civil War.
In 1941 Corwin was given the timeslot and resources of the Columbia Workshop program for a full six months, under the title 26 By Corwin, which required him to conceive, write, cast, direct and produce a completely new play every seven days.
We Hold These Truths was first broadcast on December 15, 1941, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights. Many radio and movie stars of the day featured, along with an epilogue by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. National Public Radio sponsored a new version of this program in 1991, for the Bill of Rights bicentennial.
Columbia Presents Corwin (1944) offered stories ranging from serious to whimsical.
His most famous work is On a Note of Triumph, a celebration of the Allied victory in Europe, first broadcast on VE Day, May 8, 1945. Corwin reports being on a train "somewhere near Albuquerque" when news of the end of the European war came to him. He had been planning to produce On a Note of Triumph as a morale booster for the men overseas. But the war with Germany had ended, and he doubted the network still wished to air it. (Just in case, broadcast historian Erik Barnouw wrote, Corwin had performers ready in both New York City and Los Angeles). Corwin called his network and expressed concern. CBS radio head William Paley sent a message to Corwin on the train .... "the President says, 'now more than ever.' "
With Harry Truman's insistence that it continue, the program went on (from the Los Angeles studios of CBS Radio Station KNX), with Martin Gabel as host/narrator and with William L. Shirer (via cable from New York) re-creating his role as reporter in the Compeigne forest covering the French surrender to Germany. With an audience of 60 million listeners it became one of the most famous ever produced on radio.
Corwin wrote a similar program for CBS, Fourteen August, which was broadcast on V-J Day on CBS.
Corwin was the first winner of the One World Award established by the Common Council for American Unity along with the (Wendle) Willkie Memorial of Freedom House. The award's winner was given an around the world trip. He won the award for his contributions in the field of mass communication to the concept of the world becoming more unified. In mid-June, 1946, he set out from New York for a 4 month journey. He interviewed both world leaders and ordinary citizens, accompanied by a CBS recording engineer with 225 pounds of magnetic wire recording equipment. His 100 hours of recorded interviews was transcribed and took up 3700 pages. The CBS network then molded his work into a 13 part documentary that was aired in the Winter and Spring of 1947. Programs featured Great Britain, Western Europe, Sweden and Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Egypt and India, Shanghai and Cities of the Far East, The Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand.
Corwin wrote and directed two plays produced on Broadway, The Rivalry (1959) and The World of Carl Sandburg (1960). According to Ray Bradbury, Corwin was responsible for the eventual publication of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.
Composer David Raksin's "reverent orchestral theme" for the 1950 MGM film The Next Voice You Hear... was later published with original lyrics by Corwin as the hymn "Hasten the Day."
Corwin wrote a number of motion picture screenplays, including The Blue Veil (1951), Scandal at Scourie (1953), Lust for Life (1956), and The Story of Ruth (1961).
In the early 1970s Corwin produced and hosted the television show Norman Corwin Presents. In 1979 he hosted Academy Leaders, a weekly showcase for short animated films, such as those produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Corwin wrote several books, which include Trivializing America; plus many essays, letters, articles and plays.
During the 1990s, Corwin returned to radio drama, producing a series of radio plays for National Public Radio. In 1993, Corwin was finally inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame after a long career. And in 2001, NPR aired six new plays by Corwin under the title More By Corwin. He also lectured at USC as a visiting professor and was also on the Advisory Board of the National Audio Theatre Festival. Corwin celebrated his 101st birthday in May 2011.
"Golden Age" works in radio drama
Corwin wrote and produced over 100 programs during the golden age of radio. Notable programs include:
The Plot to Overthrow Christmas - December 25, 1938
They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease - February 19, 1939
Spoon River Anthology - March, 1939
Descent of the Gods - August 3, 1940
Mary and the Fairy - August 31, 1940
Psalm for a Dark Year - November 9, 1940
We Hold These Truths - December 15, 1941
America at War (series) - February 14, 1942
The Lonesome Train - March 21, 1944
Untitled - May 30, 1944
Home For the 4th - July 4, 1944
El Capitan and the Corporal - July 25, 1944
On a Note of Triumph - May 8, 1945
The Undecided Molecule - July 17, 1945
14 August - August 14, 1945
God and Uranium - August 19, 1945
Hollywood Fights Back - October 26, 1947
Could Be - September 8, 1949
Document A/777 - March 26, 1950
Later works in radio drama
In recent years National Public Radio commissioned a number of new plays by Corwin; the series was called More By Corwin.
Our Lady Of The Freedoms, And Some Of Her Friends - A play about the Statue of Liberty.
No Love Lost - A lively debate about the nature of democracy in America, in the form of an imaginary dialogue between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr; the work is based on their writings. This play featured Lloyd Bridges, Jack Lemmon, Martin Landau and Corwin's friend William Shatner. Shatner appeared in a number of Corwin productions.
The Writer With The Lame Left Hand - Based on the life story of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. This production featured Ed Asner, Charles Durning, Samantha Eggar and William Shatner.
The Curse Of 589 is a comedy about a physicist (William Shatner) who comes across an honest-to-goodness real life fairy, with a working magic wand.
The Secretariat - A play on the meaning of prayer. This production featured Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Phil Proctor, and William Shatner.
50 Years after 14 August - A reflection on the end of World War II. Co-produced with Dan Gediman.
Corwin is currently a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
A selected listing of books by Corwin, excluding collections of his radio dramas:
So Say the Wise: A Community Of Modern Mind—New York: George Sully Company, 1929—A compendium of quotations, concentrating on current personalities. Compiled by Corwin and Hazel Cooley.
Holes in a Stained Glass Window—Secaucus, NJ : L. Stuart, 1978—Collection of Corwin's Essays, Articles and Poetry. Contains both Prayer for the 70s and Jerusalem Printout
Trivializing America—Secaucus, NJ : Lyle Stuart, 1983—A best-selling critique of the failings of contemporary American culture
Norman Corwin's Letters / Edited By Jack Langguth—New York : Barricade Books Inc., 1994—Compilation of letters written throughout Corwin's career.
Addendum: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Opera, Music by Walter Scharf, Libretto by Norman Corwin - written 1960, only performance 2000 Brigham Young University. The opera exists in manuscript form only. Composer and Librettest unable to agree on terms for further use. Scharf died in 2003.
RIP Norman Corwin
Here is a link to "We hold these truths" from 12-15-1941:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SE1NC4PA
and "On a Note of Triumph" from 5-6-1945
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B73KXM3P
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Bonnaroo Artist | The Wild Feathers
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Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up, paying special attention to the smaller and lesser known acts on this year’s bill. Keep reading for your Bonnaroo Band of the Day…
Okay, so they technically played at Bonnaroo last year, insomuch as they were present, on the site of Bonnaroo, and performed acoustic for a lucky crowd in the press tent, but 2014 marks the first year Nashville group The Wild Feathers have been properly included on ‘Roo’s lineup. A surprising fact, to be sure, considering how much hype surrounds them, and how much local love they’ve amassed. In the time since last year’s Bonaroo, the folk-tinged, no-bs rockers have played the nearby Forecastle Fest, wowed audiences at SXSW, joined fellow locals Moon Taxi and The Weeks for Live on the Green, debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and even made a cameo on a recent episode of ABC’s Nashville. Not bad for a band who used to play The High Watt every other month, right?
Sound-wise, The Wild Feathers combine elements of rock, country, blues, and and folk to create a style that is all at once retro in its tendencies and modern in its aesthetic. Comprised of four former frontmen and formed in 2010, with their self-titled debut arriving last year, the band play with a seasoned expertise polished well beyond their relatively short existence. There’s a reason why they’re seemingly blowing up over night, and they will, undoubtedly, be rocking a much, much bigger Bonnaroo stage before long. Catch ’em now, while they’re still one of Nashville’s best-kept secrets!
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Catch Violents + Monica Martin w/ MYZICA | TONIGHT @ The High Watt
The collaborative musical vehicle of local composer, producer, and songwriter Jeremy Larson, Violents found magic in his teamup with former PHOX vocalist Monica Martin, for the project’s first full-length, Awake and Pretty Much Sober, which arrived earlier this year. Critically beloved, the LP has earned Violence + Monica Martin plenty of buzz, along with appearances for NPR, Paste, and more, and prompted Larson and Martin to bring their teamup to life, a rarity for Violents, which has largely been a studio project to date, with a performance tonight, Oct. 12 at The High Watt, featuring full live accompaniment and an opening set from MYZICA. If you’re a fan of Larson’s or Martin’s and haven’t yet discovered Violents, we implore you to give the album a spin, and if you’re new to both artists, then doubly so, because it is, without a doubt, one of the best albums of the year. You’re not likely to have many chances to see these songs brought to life like like they will be tonight, so grab tickets now and thank us later. Read on for more about why you don’t want to miss it!
VIOLENTS + MONICA MARTIN
On its own, Violents is the singular musical force of classically trained pianist Jeremy Larson, a Nashville transplant and longtime fixture in the underground music scene, who’s produced, composed, and written for a variety of beloved artists. His latest vehicle, Violents was envisioned as a way to work with different vocalists on each release, collective style, and, since 2014, Larson has released collaborative EPs with the likes of Stacy King (Eisley, Sucre), Olga Yagolnikov (Kye Kye), and singer-songwriter Annie Williams, for which he’s served as the primary writer, composer, producer, and lyricist. When working with Monica Martin, best known for formerly fronting Wisconsin folk pop outfit PHOX, Violents discovered an especially fruitful pairing, which blossomed into the project’s first full-length, Awake and Pretty Much Sober, released earlier this year. Juxtaposing the two talented artists’ diverse and different backgrounds, the LP combines lush, orchestral flourish with synthy, electronic, and beat driven tones, culminating in a dreamy, poppy, soulful masterpiece and definitely one of the year’s best under the radar releases. While previous Violents works have seemingly functioned as more of one-off in-studio effort, Violents + Monica Martin has transitioned into a full-on live force, if only for now, bringing to life their breathtaking LP in concert with full live accompaniment. Violents + Monica Martin are not a band so much as a magical collaborative effort, so catch these incredible artists together now before them move on to other projects.
MYZICA
The brainchild of producer Micah Tawlks and singer Isaaca Byrd, indie pop duo MYZICA commanded our attention with hypnotic debut single “Ready Or Not” in 2014, before crafting their wonderfully synth-heavy, ’80s-inspired, eponymous debut EP the following year. With standout singles like “Wait Just a Minute” and “We Started a Fire,” MYZICA managed to garner national press and win over the blogosphere, helping reinforce the strength and allure of Nashville’s diverse, fast-growing pop scene, all before the release of their incredible debut LP, Love & Desire, which arrived last fall. MYZICA feel like not only one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Nashville in recent memory, but one of the most exciting pop groups period, destined to resonate with a wider audience thanks to their unparalleled pop hooks and wistful nostalgic appeal. If their unabashedly retro, wonderfully alluring debut is any indication, we have no doubt that this group are on a path to widespread fame, following in the footsteps of nostalgic, poppy, breakout stars like CHVRCHES and Carly Rae Jepsen; catch ’em now in small rooms while you still can!
Violents + Monica Martin and MYZICA will perform tonight, Oct. 12 at The High Watt. The show is 18+, begins at 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.), and tickets are available for $15.
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Police asking for help
Police South Troitsk looking for 13-year-old Anastasia Unlikeable.As reported in the press service of the MOI of Russia in the Chelyabinsk region, on October 22, a student of a local school
Department of the TFR
By order of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (TFR) in the investigation Department of the TFR in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug directed
He faces a life sentence
The first division for the investigation of particularly important cases of the investigative Committee of the Russian Sverdlovsk region previously convicted unemployed 35-year-old resident of the village
"Tyumen" in added time were able to escape defeat in Kaliningrad
Last Saturday at the stadium Baltika Kaliningrad same local football club took "Tyumen". The League Germany ended in a draw, and to recoup the guests were able only in added time, the correspondent .Account for a long time was not open. Only in the 74th minute "Baltika" thanks to the efforts of substitute Alekseeva stepped forward. When it seemed that the match is over, already added time in the gate of the hosts was appointed penalty. The ball went Evgeny Savin (pictured) and saved to "Tyumen" this game club managed to escape defeat and scored only one point. . Read more -->
The airline "UTair" in talks with Airbus and Boeing about moving delivery schedules airplanes
"UTair" in talks with Airbus and Boeing about the transfer of delivery schedules of aircraft, the company said. "This contract for 20 aircraft Airbus A321, eight of which have already been delivered in 2013 and 2014, and the contract for 40 Boeing 737-800/900 NG, six of which have been delivered in 2013 and 2014," - said the representative of the airline. Now the airline is negotiating with manufacturers and forms new delivery schedules.See also:-->The problem of "UTair" - "the first swallow" the industry crisisUTair and Airbus signed a contract for 20 Airbus A321 aircraft on the Airshow in British Farnborough 2012 Catalogue value of these aircraft is now $2.2 billion Partner "UTair" leaseback "VEB-leasing". A firm order for 40 Boeing 737-800/900 NG "UTair" signed on the air show in Le Bourget in France in 2011, the Value of the contract was estimated at $3.8 billion Partner Finance lease - AP Air Finance (a subsidiary leasing company GECAS to receive comments failed), reports Vedomosti.Previously CEO Andrey Martirosov said that the program updates the fleet, announced last year, "UTair",will be delayed."Last year we actually got four more Airbus A321 new, four Boeing 737-800s. This is serious this Park. I think in a few years our fleet is the youngest in the country. Read more -->
In the Kemerovo region buckwheat has risen by 90%
Buckwheat has risen in the Kemerovo region by 90% since the beginning of 2014. Average food prices in the region increased by 11.6%.As reported in kemerovostat, November 1 kg of buckwheat cost on average of 56.7 rubles. Compared with December 2013 the price of cereals has increased by 90,8%. None of the major consumer goods in Kuzbass do not rise at the same rate.According to local media, previously Governor Aman Tuleyev has asked the FAS with the requirement to deal with the "price fixing" by buckwheat from suppliers and retail chains. Supply of cereals in the region, by the end of November, more than 50 thousand tons.In addition, significantly increased prices for beef liver and chicken legs - at 36-37%. 1 kg of pork rose by 23.5%, frozen fish - by 20.6%, vodka - 17.9% wine - 15.2%. Read more -->
Ukrainian Nazis looted hypermarket in Kurakhovo
In Kurakhovo (occupied part DND) fighters of nazvanie of Ukraine in the eyes of the residents are completely "made" the biggest hypermarket of household appliances in the city, reported sources in the new Russia."The entire staff including the Director was taken to an unknown destination. After 1.5 hours they were found beaten in the city selydove, and the Director even received two stab wounds", - stated in the message, which leads the Agency Voenkor.info. . . . . Read more -->
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newswire article announcements global 07.Aug.2008 15:40
Navy crowds Iran with air threat
author: theresa mitchell
Four US aircraft carriers nearing Iran with Israeli boats; largest flotilla since WW2
The USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Ronald Reagan, nuclear aircraft carriers, may be moving in to the Persian Gulf area now. They will be accompanied by a flotilla of warships, and all will be joining the ships surrounding the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The "marine carrier" USS Peleliu is also in the Gulf.
US Fifth Fleet Combined Maritime Command, located in Bahrain, said it could not comment on the ship movements, due to "force-protection policy" secrecy.
US warships (a destroyer and a submarine) are also gathering to the West of Iran, passing through the Suez with Israeli capital ships. Kuwait is said to be implementing emergency war measures.
--middle east news sources
homepage: http://theresaspresswatch@blogspot.com
got the url wrong 07.Aug.2008 17:41
theresa mitchell link
it's theresaspresswatch.blogspot.com
Ah, Senior Moments...
ships taunting Iran 07.Aug.2008 20:34
gk link
Looks to me like our Navy, along with Israel, are taunting Iran. This is probably nothing new as they've probably been doing this for years. It IS scary, however. My son was on the USS Theodore Rosevelt when the first bombing of Iraq began and he was also on it when the island near Puerto Rico was harmed. That's about when RFK jr. joined the protesters at Visques (sp) Island.
I'm glad my son is out and sorry about all the other military personnel.
Yo!!!!!!! you need some education on Iran 07.Aug.2008 23:21
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All out war with Iran is impossible. Both regimes are weak and under severe pressure from their respective populations. Only 10% or so of Iran's oil and gas revenues, which exceed $100 billion annually is spent domestically. Wanna know why Dubai is blowin' up? Check out all the millionaire family members of the elitist Iranian mullahs who prance around in armani suits and rolls royces. They're flush with cash stolen from the Iranian people.
Look for an "october surprise", Bush II style. The Mullahs were the reason Reagan beat Carter in 1980. Khomeini released the US hostages the day after Reagan and Bush I were inaugurated. Destroyed one of the most popular US presidents ever by making him look like a fool for 444 days.
Pakistani embassy in the US houses a mini Iranian embassy within its building even though, our beloved host thinks US and the Mullahs don't have diplomatic relations.
Look for McCain to die of a heart attack real soon, which would leave no choice for the NeoCons except to bomb and maybe invade southern Iran, call martial law, cancel elections and call Bush in for a third term.
Look for our house speaker to go along with the whole scheme.
Look for the regime in Iran using a conflict with US NeoCons to forcefully solidify itself even more.
Interesting: Israel's PM Ohlmert is out. One of the front runners is a racist Iranian born Jew who has called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine. And, an all out war with Iran. He also hates Iran. Jews are very oppressed much like every other ethnic, political, sexual and religious minority in Iran, which may explain his hatred. Even though, our host will tell you the Iranian constitution lists Jews as a protected minority, which is true. The only problem lies in the fact that Tehran's government, much like our government is trying to destroy the national constitution and it treats minorities very severely. Anyone who tells you minorities are protected in Iran has never lived there. Last year an estimated 150,000 ethnic Afghanis were rounded up and sent back to Afghanistan.
Where were you on that one Theresa?
The NeoCon agenda has allowed conservative government around the world to go on killing sprees and Iran is no different. Since, 2000 execution rates have hit record numbers since the massacres of the early 80's. Political activists are routinely accused of collaborating with the US or Israel, are arrested on trumped up or fake charges that carry a death penalty. Iran, US and China are the leading state executioners of the world.
The US media is missing in action when it comes to covering Iran in depth. Surprised? Even Theresa who is such an anti establishment media personality has been dumbed down on Iranian issues, history and politics.
What was David Duke, the white supremacist nut job doing in Iran?
Socialist Party of Iran!!!!!!!!
Long live Mossadegh, long live Bagher Khan, long live Pishevari, long live Bakhtiar!!!!!!!!
and a US puppy in Eurasia provokes Russia 08.Aug.2008 01:30
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The President of Georgia, Michael Sakaaschwili today started war against sout ossetia, a former part of Georgia. Ossetia is protected by russia.
Russia is already involved in the conflict and bombed Georgia tonight.
May be Sakaaschwili is part of a wider US strategy..
Orwell Spins in His Grave: Plans for Iran Attack Going Ahead? 08.Aug.2008 01:36
Jamie and Reuters link
"Western capitals have said Iran now faces a new round of U.N. sanctions after it failed to respond positively to an offer made by six world powers aimed at ending the dispute."
Since when does failing to accept an "offer" (so sweet) result in punishment? Threats are being made not "offers." Such threats are in fact violations of international law themselves!
George Orwell would understand the critical importance of combating this effort at "mind subversion" and of preventing more war. Now is a great time for a reread of 1984. You history and English teachers should teach it now as well (or is such independence no longer allowed at your school)? The current context could not offer a better "teachable moment."
Orwell Spins in His Grave
The dishonesty and trickery is in the words they use to twist the minds of their "subjects." The master of decoding "Newspeak" (propaganda of the powerful) would have had no problem in seeing the "push for war" in the supposed "news item" from Reuters below:
Prevent war. Spread widely now. jamie
Israel mulls military option for Iran nukes
Israel beefs up strike capability, confident it could deal setback to Iran nuclear program
STEVEN GUTKIN
AP News
Aug 06, 2008 17:21 EST
Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program, even if it can't destroy it.
Such talk could be more threat than reality. However, Iran's refusal to accept Western conditions is worrying Israel as is the perception that Washington now prefers diplomacy over confrontation with Tehran.
The Jewish state has purchased 90 F-16I fighter planes that can carry enough fuel to reach Iran, and will receive 11 more by the end of next year. It has bought two new Dolphin submarines from Germany reportedly capable of firing nuclear-armed warheads in addition to the three it already has.
And this summer it carried out air maneuvers in the Mediterranean that touched off an international debate over whether they were a "dress rehearsal" for an imminent attack, a stern warning to Iran or a just a way to get allies to step up the pressure on Tehran to stop building nukes.
According to foreign media reports, Israeli intelligence is active inside Iranian territory. Israel's military censor, who can impose a range of legal sanctions against journalists operating in the country, does not permit publication of details of such information in news reports written from Israel.
The issue of Iran's nuclear program took on new urgency this week after U.S. officials rejected Tehran's response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to stop sensitive nuclear activity setting the stage for a fourth round of international sanctions against the country.
Israel, itself an undeclared nuclear power, sees an atomic bomb in Iranian hands as a direct threat to its existence.
Israel believes Tehran will have enriched enough uranium for a nuclear bomb by next year or 2010 at the latest. The United States has trimmed its estimate that Iran is several years or as much as a decade away from being able to field a bomb, but has not been precise about a timetable. In general U.S. officials think Iran isn't as close to a bomb as Israel claims, but are concerned that Iran is working faster than anticipated to add centrifuges, the workhorses of uranium enrichment.
"If Israeli, U.S., or European intelligence gets proof that Iran has succeeded in developing nuclear weapons technology, then Israel will respond in a manner reflecting the existential threat posed by such a weapon," said Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, speaking at a policy forum in Washington last week.
"Israel takes (Iranian President) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements regarding its destruction seriously. Israel cannot risk another Holocaust," Mofaz said.
The Iranian leader has in the past called for Israel's elimination, though his exact remarks have been disputed. Some translators say he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," while others say a better translation would be "vanish from the pages of time" implying Israel would disappear on its own rather than be destroyed.
Iran insists its uranium enrichment is meant only for electricity generation, not a bomb an assertion that most Western nations see as disingenuous.
Israeli policymakers and experts have been debating for quite some time whether it would even be possible for Israel to take out Iran's nuclear program. The mission would be far more complicated than a 1981 Israeli raid that destroyed Iraq's partially built Osirak nuclear reactor, or an Israeli raid last year on what U.S. intelligence officials said was another unfinished nuclear facility in Syria.
In Iran, multiple atomic installations are scattered throughout the country, some underground or bored into mountains unlike the Iraqi and Syrian installations, which were single aboveground complexes.
Still, the Syria action seemed to indicate that Israel would also be willing to use force preemptively against Iran.
"For Israel this is not a target that cannot be achieved," said Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, former head of Israel's army intelligence.
However, it's unlikely Israel would carry out an attack without approval from the United States.
Recent signs that Washington may be moving away from a military option including a proposal to open a low-level U.S. diplomatic office in Tehran and a recent decision to allow a senior U.S. diplomat to participate alongside Iran in international talks in Geneva are not sitting very well with Israel.
That may help explain recent visits to Jerusalem by Mike McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence, and Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, each of whom delivered a message to Israel that it does not have a green light to attack Iran at this time.
Senior Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they do not wish to appear at odds with their most important ally, said they were concerned about a possible softening of the U.S. stance toward Iran.
Apparently to allay Israeli concerns, Bush administration officials last week assured visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that the U.S. has not ruled out the possibility of a military strike on Iran. And the U.S., aware of Israel's high anxiety over Iran's nukes, is also hooking Israel up to an advanced missile detection system known as X-Band to guard against any future attack by Iran, said a senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions over the issue have not been made public.
With sanctions and diplomacy still the international community's preferred method to get Iran to stop building the bomb, an Israeli strike does not appear imminent.
If it did attack, however, Israel would have to contend with upgraded Iranian defense capabilities, including 29 new Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile systems Iran purchased from Russia last year in a $700 million deal.
Russia has so far not gone through with a proposed sale to Iran of S-300 surface-to-air missiles, an even more powerful air defense system than the Tor-M1. An Israeli defense official said the deal is still on the table, however. This is a big source of consternation for Israel because the system could significantly complicate a pre-emptive Israeli assault on Iran.
Military experts say an Israeli strike would require manned aircraft to bombard multiple targets and heavy precision bombs that can blast through underground bunkers something Israel failed to do in its 2006 war against Hezbollah. It's widely assumed that Israel is seeking to obtain bunker buster bombs, if it hasn't already done so.
Elite ground troops could also be necessary to penetrate the most difficult sites, though Israeli military planners say they see that option as perhaps too risky.
America's ability to take out Iran's nuclear facilities is far superior to Israel's.
Unlike Israel, the United States has cruise missiles that can deliver high-explosive bombs to precise locations and B-2 bombers capable of dropping 85 500-pound bombs in a single run.
Yet the cost of an attack by the U.S., Israel or both is likely to be enormous.
Iran could halt oil production and shut down tanker traffic in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which could send the price of crude skyrocketing and wreck Western economies.
It could stir up trouble for the U.S. in Iraq by revving up Shiite militias there just as Washington is showing some important gains in reining in Iraqi chaos.
It could activate its militant proxies in both Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, from where Israel could come under heavy rocket attack. And it could strike Israel with its arsenal of Shahab-3 long-range missiles something Israel is hoping to guard against through its Arrow missile defense system.
Perhaps most importantly, any strike on Iran especially if it's done without having exhausted all diplomatic channels could have the opposite of the desired effect, "actually increasing the nationalist fervor to build a nuclear weapon," said Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born Israeli and expert on Iranian affairs.
Whether an attack on Iran would be worth its cost would depend on how long the nuclear program could be delayed, said Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser and now a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
"A two, three-year delay is not worth it. For a five to 10-year delay I would say yes," he said.
Associated Press Writers Anne Gearan and Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report from Washington.
Source: AP News
Six powers haven't agreed on Iran sanctions-Russia
Louis Charbonneau
Reuters North American News Service
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia Wednesday contradicted the United States and Britain, saying there was no agreement among six major powers on whether to pursue new U.N. sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters: "There have been no firm agreements or understandings or any kind of concerted work in this regard."
Senior foreign ministry officials from Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany, which are leading efforts to persuade Tehran to freeze its nuclear enrichment, program spoke on the telephone earlier Wednesday.
The United States and Britain said the six agreed to consider possible outlines of a fourth sanctions resolution at the U.N. Security Council since Tehran has yet to clearly respond to their July 19 offer of economic incentives to suspend nuclear enrichment.
Churkin said the issue had not come up in New York and made it clear that he was in no hurry to raise it.
"The main thing to remember (is) that the negotiating track is open, it is being pursued, there are contacts between the parties," he said. "Of course, some parties do raise the issue of sanctions from time to time."
He also said Russia had set no deadline for Iran to respond to the July 19 offer.
"We haven't set any deadlines ourselves for their response and there is ongoing dialogue," he said. "Certainly there is a matter which is going to be discussed ... by the ministers in September."
He said the talks would take place at a meeting of foreign ministers from the six countries on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly next month.
Churkin said Russia would have preferred a clear response from Tehran but it's "more complicated than that as we all know. But we do believe that dialogue can continue."
Western countries believe Iran's civilian nuclear program is a front for developing weapons. Tehran denies the charge.
Churkin indicated Iran might still accept the offer, the full details of which have not been made public.
"We certainly do not believe that it is a foregone conclusion that it is not going to be successful," he said. (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; editing by Alan Elsner)
Source: Reuters North American News Service
Again, Stop the Warmongers. Spread Widely now! jamie
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Hospitals say faster pay rise may stop doctors' departures
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Prague, Jan 4 (CTK) - A roughly 10 percent annual pay rise over a few next years is the sole instrument of stopping the departures of hospital doctors and nurses abroad, the Association of Bohemian and Moravian Hospitals (ACMN) says on its web page.
The pay rise would require an annual 6 percent increase in the sums health insurance companies pay to hospitals for treatments, the ACMN says.
It says this is an opinion of all hospital associations and representatives of state, regional and private hospitals.
The trade unions also demand higher salaries and they say the 5 percent increase as from January 1, 2016 is insufficient.
Health Minister Svatopluk Nemecek says the ministry does not have money for the demanded pay rise.
The ACMN says hospitals would need some three billion crowns for a 10 percent pay rise.
The emergency committee of hospitals, trade unions and patients says the money is available in the health care system due to a higher collection of health insurance that amounts to one billion crowns monthly.
"The ACMN and other associations of hospitals have permanently alerted to the worsening personnel situation in hospitals, which restricts their work and threatens the care of patients," the ACMN writes.
It writes that some hospitals close down internal medicine wards, without which no hospital can exist in the long term.
The ACMN says the major cause of the situation are low payments by health insurance companies that have been frozen also nominally since 2008.
The real wages have been restricted by accumulated inflation that has climbed up to almost 20 percent during the period under survey. The hospitals have also been heavily hit by the repeated raising of VAT and the factual devaluation of the crown performed by the CNB central bank.
($1=24.824 crowns)
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Private Jet Flipped After Hitting Turbulence From Airbus, Reports Say
por Federico Urenda·Marcha 23, 2017 02:43
The Bombardier Challenger 604 was carrying nine passengers and two crew at the time
According to NBCNews.com, the private Bombardier Challenger 604 was flying from the Maldives to Berlin, Germany, on January 7 when it passed 1,000 feet under an Airbus A380 and into the massive plane's wake turbulence caused by the engines and wingtips.
The near-disaster, in which passengers were seriously injured and the plane was damaged beyond fix, took place in January.
An incident in which an executive jet was flipped on its back, rolled over and plunged 10,000 feet after hitting turbulence caused by an A380 is being investigated by aviation safety authorities.
There were several Airbus A380 planes in the air over the Arabian Sea on the day of the incident.
The private jet was carrying 11 passengers and crew and cruising at 34,000ft near Oman when it passed an Airbus A380, which is understood to have been an Emirates flight from Dubai to Sydney.
Several of the passengers on the private jet were injured, including one person who was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
The incident was especially unsafe at the cruising altitudes which are known as "coffin corner" because any sudden movement from normal flight carries a high risk.
"With the A380 vs Challenger 604 incident, there is now growing concern amongst aircrews about the effects of the A380's wake turbulence", the Flight Service Bureau, an information source for air operators, told Travel Weekly.
"This is a recovery that is in the same category as the "Miracle on the Hudson", referring to the feat in which a United States pilot landed his plane safely on the Hudson river in 2009".
The near-disaster, in which passengers were seriously injured and the Challenger aircraft damaged beyond fix, has accelerated moves by regulators to counter the danger caused by the wakes of big airliners.
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khanga soul to soul – the story of a black russian american family 1865–1992 cloth
Donna Conn An Old Soul
An Old Soul is a story about Anna Thomas-Lockman, who falls into a coma after a car accident. While in a coma she discovers her old soul, Daniel. Daniel was a handsome, Irish-Italian young man. He had a great career, nice apartment, drove a sporty car and had a father who loved him dearly. Unfortunately, Daniel dies suddenly and recognizes that he missed out on some important aspects of living, love and family. His soul gets a second chance to live in an African American girl, Anna Thomas, during the 1960s and beyond. As Anna recalls her life she displays wisdom beyond her years as she seeks her own truth. Anna and her family experience interesting spiritual events, face realistic challenges, and enjoy many victories. Through Anna, Daniel gets to communicate what is needed to his loved ones he avoided in the past.
Peter Lewis Taralake
The journey of a soul from the death of one physical life as Josh, back to the spirit world as the soul Rhaner where decisions are made about his next incarnation. The tale continues with the same soul but in a new body known as Jordan and the unfolding story of his discovery of a portal into a parallel world of breathtaking beauty and his meeting up with Ellen who is the soul-mate he has shared many lives with before.
Chef Kenneth Willhoite The Soul Food Museum Story. Celebrating 400 Years of Culinary Arts Hospitality and Agriculture
In the 400-Year History of Soul Food and Hospitality, Chef Dr. Willhoite has left no stone unturned as he takes us on a colorful journey from the coasts of West Africa to the hills and valleys of America.You will be educated, enlightened, enthused and empowered!This book has raised the bar and laid a foundation that will allow the African American contributions to forever be inscribed in the pages of history.
Richard Barrett What My Soul Told Me
This book provides a practical step-by-step guide to soul activation. This four step process involves:Connecting with your soul;Befriending your soul;Trusting your soul;Becoming one with your soul.You are a soul in a human body but your ego is unaware of this. To fully step into soul consciousness, you must learn how to align the beliefs of your ego with the values of your soul, and commit to leading a values and purpose-driven life.The ultimate arbiter of where you have got to on your journey into soul consciousness is the quality of the connections you have with other people-not just your family and friends, but the strangers around you.Every person you meet is a soul who is working on the same project as you-promoting the evolution of human consciousness. Rejoice in your common heritage and purpose by connecting with them wherever you are and whenever you can. When you fully realize who you are, you will understand that in caring for others, you are caring for yourself.
Mark A. Edwards Afternoon Devotion. Two Hearts One Soul
Afternoon Devotion-Two Hearts One Soul is HIS story to HER, filled with love, romance, and sensuality. Whenever SHE was at her lowest HE found the words to uplift her, he thought HIS words were the only words that counted, but, she had something to say... HER words were powerful and final. The perfect back and forth responses to soothe the soul and ignite true passion. Imagine the excitement that can be endure during a day of sensual communication brought forth by an... Afternoon Devotion between Two Hearts One Soul
Milton J Davis Eda Blessed. A Ki Khanga Adventure
Raised in the streets of Sati-Baa, Omari Ket is a man that gets by on his wits and skills . . . and the attentions of a god. Eda Blessed shares the tales of the man and the mercenary as he roams the roads of Ki Khanga bouncing from one adventure to another surviving with his skills, wits, and Eda's blessings.Eda Blessed contains seven stories that chronicles Omari's life, in addition to illustrations by some of today's best fantasy artists. It's a must read for fans of Ki Khanga and a great edition to your sword and sorcery and sword and soul library
Regina D. Jemison Soul Clothes
Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God's own trombones. The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. Imagine a John Coltrane solo, with words instead of tenor sax.Acclaim for Soul Clothes"Soul Clothes dances naked and unabashed across the page. Jemison's poetry connects spirit to spirit, stripping away masks and guiding us to divine adornments of grace, truth, faith."--Aundria Sheppard Morgan, author Cross My Heart and Hope to Die"Soul Clothes is one poet's passionate expression of what it is to be human. Her poems encompass a vast expanse of emotions, from suffering and grief to love and celebration. While being real about the human experiences we all share, many of these poems also exalt the divine within us."--Valerie Jean, author of Woman Writing a Letter"Soul Clothes reveals a collection of compelling, compassionate, daring, devoted, honest and unafraid poems with a spiritual undertone."--Sweta Srivastava Vikram, author of Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of ColorsFor more information see www.ReginaJemison.comFrom the Reflections of America Series at Modern History PressPoetry: African-American
Paul Vierkant James Brown and the Black Power Movement or Was America.s Soul Brother Number One a Black Nationalist.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: The Sixties and the U.S., 39 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "The Godfather of soul", "the hardest working man in show business" or "Soul Brother Number One", are the various different images of a persona who made a very important contribution to the Black Power Movement. James Brown reached his audience in concert halls and via radio and television. As a musician, performer, and role model, he touched the soul of nearly every black American at a time when Afro-Americans sought to re-define themselves. The time had come to create a black Aesthetic that would reshape the Western cultural sphere. Beside James Brown, Black America saw the rise of other cultural heroes like Muhammad Ali and Shaft. They all contributed in their own way to the black liberation struggle. However, the Black Power Movement did not only consist of a cultural branch but also of political and religious organizations. Figures like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King jr. were charismatic leaders whose importance can not be overstressed. Still, the basis of the Black Power Movement (hereafter BPM) was the individual, the group and the community. The black experience, together with black everyday life was the origin and source of the black struggle. Since James Brown gre...
Viola Rose Mirror of My Soul. Journey to Peace
Mirror of My Soul is a Southern woman’s journey to peace: one of faith and forgiveness. It’s a riveting story of a journey to overcome the challenges of obstacles, abuse, and deeply hidden family secrets. This book will bring you to tears at times and absolute joy at others. It is a must read for anyone but especially survivors of abuse who need a vivid reference of triumph over adversity. This book is dedicated to all who have suffered in silence. May that forever be changed as we start shouting from the rooftops to bring accountability to those who cause such pain, and more importantly, may the light of God’s precious grace shine through the hearts of each of us. May we be a beacon for him, first, foremost and always!To him, I give all the glory!
Alexia W. Cody How I Met My Soul Mate-The Love of My Life
A true story of growing up and dealing with major bullying.How I overcame many hurdles to get to where I am today. A wife and mother.How I Met My Soul Mate-The Love of My Life is written by Alexia W. Cody.
Kerry Bennett A Warm Brew for the Soul
A Warm Brew for the Soul is a collection of short stories. From the feeling of being madly in love to the torturous feeling love can bring, A Warm Brew for the Soul is filled with stories that relate to many of life's encounters.
June Moore Soul Fool to Soul Full
My life was spiralling out of control; I was spinning plates, all different ones - money, relationships, work and family. As a drama queen, I reacted to all of what was happening around me and I never stopped to figure out what was happening within me! Sometimes the universe helps us STOP; take time out to go on a new inner journey. To get out of our head and remember we have this amazing heart that is there to help us experience life in a new way! This soul FOOL began to finally get it, my head was firmly put in its place, and my heart truly guided me to see all my roller coaster of a life as a most amazing soul FULL experience.If you find yourself repeating the same old patterns and are sick of the drama and stress of your life then this book can guide you to change it. Develop a greater understanding, use your heart as your compass and follow your own soul map from birth to now. Find all the nuggets of gold, even in the darkest moments you have experienced. Let it guide you to your own inner strength and accelerate you through a journey of alchemy to reach your own soul-FULL potential.
Bob Porter Soul Jazz. Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975
Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. Previous histories reflect the perspective of an integrated America, yet the United States was a segregated country in 1945. The black audience had a very different take on the music and that is the perception explored in Soul Jazz.
Transforming Lives One Story at a Time. Powerful Stories of Success . Inspiration
Transforming Lives, One Story at a Time is a book for those looking for gripping, authentic sharing of the soul. The book offers candid life lessons from various authors to teach and transform the reader.
Gwendolyn Overland Soul of My Voice
Soul of My Voice is a companion workbook/journal to the author's previously published text, Soul of Voice: How to Fully Step into the Truth of Your Voice. Soul of My Voice addresses such topics as fear, courage, shame, compassion, and how these emotional states affect one's vocal expression.
Wendy L. Zake As the Tortilla Burns - A Journey to the Depths of Your Soul
This is a power house of a story equally packed with action and emotion. Often people's lives reflect the weather, such as hurricanes, and As The Tortilla Burns is such a story. It isn't all sweet and harmonious like invented stories, but tastes of disappointment, obstacles and bewilderment, of madness and dreams like the lives of real people who no longer lie to themselves, learning invaluable lessons about life.With blessings, angels, empathy and compassion she finds herself on a journey to the depths of her soul and with the will and courage to survive, she leaves behind everything she once held dear in a harrowing true story of discovery and transformation.
Peter D. Capen Tales of a Vagabond Soul
A collection of miscellaneous short stories from the author of "Random Reflections on American Society, Politics and the Human Condition", ranging from a mysterious murder to the vagaries of being a scuba instructor.Tales of a Vagabond Soul is a collection of insightful short stories from seasoned storyteller Peter Capen, inspired by observed behavior of ordinary people over many years. Entertaining but haunting, a book you will come back to.
Octavius Winslow Soul Heights and Soul Depths
Soul Depths & Soul Heights is a series on Psalm 130. Winslow calls Psalm 130 a "Christ-unfolding Psalm." and takes the chapter verse by verse. He consistently encourages us to put the truth of this Psalm into practice in our lives each day.Octavius Winslow stood out as one of the foremost evangelical preachers of the 19th Century. A Baptist minister and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade. His Christ centered works show devotion and practicality.
Joseph Black Apple Pie for the Soul
This book is a collection of recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation in my family. After many years, I decided it was time to put them in print before they faded away forever. I hope you enjoy some of our family favorites. A few are made up, while others are our takes on some old favorites. Enjoy!!
St. John of the Cross A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ
Claiming to be a literary interpretation, this poem of forty stanza's is loosely based on the Biblical book of Song of Songs. This story follows a bride that has been separated from her bridegroom and her search for him. If it is not obvious enough from the reading of the poem itself and St. John of the Cross's extensive explanation afterwards, the poem is a literary interpretation of Song of Songs, but also of the soul's search for Jesus Christ.
Wells H. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul
Maria Nhambu America.s Daughter
In America’s Daughter, the second book of the trilogy, the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray, an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu’s discovery that she must learn to be a Black American. She graduates from college, thus fulfilling her dream of becoming a teacher, and teaches high school in the inner city. She marries, has two children, and establishes herself in the American way of life. Then a visit to Africa, and especially to Tanzania, reawakens the drumbeats and dancing that she carries in her soul. On her return home, she teaches Swahili and African Studies, performs African dance at schools, and creates Aerobics With Soul®, a fitness workout based on African dance. She both finds and creates the family she longed for as a child and connects with her unknown background. The first book of the trilogy, Africa’s Child, was released in 2016. The final book of her memoir series—Drum Beats, Heart Beats—reveals more of Nhambu’s life as she searches for her father.
St. John of the Cross Ascent of Mount Carmel
A hauntingly powerful piece about the soul's journey to the place of God, known in this work as Mount Carmel. Although this book refers to the Dark Night that the soul must pass through, it also refers to many situations and realities that the soul must pass through in its conflict with this world and union with God.
sharon shannon Black Binder Fantasies Volume 2
Volume 1 of the Black Binder Fantasies. If you have an open mind and a free spirited soul then these fantasies are for you to read. They are entertaining to say the least. Each story has a class all its own. Short and sweet stories to entertain every adult.
sharon shannon Black Binder Fantasies
Poor Unfortunate Soul
The tale of the sea king's daughter Ariel is a beloved one of losing-and then finding-one's own voice. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the mergirl wants more than her world can offer, and her father demands that she live within the confines of his domain. Her rebelliousness costs the little mermaid her voice and nearly her soul. But the power of good prevails, and Ariel emerges proud and unchanged. And yet this is only half the story. So what of Ariel's nemesis, Ursula, the sea witch? What led to her becoming so twisted, scorned, and filled with hatred? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account of what might have shaped the sea witch into a detestable and poor unfortunate soul.
Sarah Freed Mending the Soul. A Journey Beyond Abuse
Sarah Freed has captured within her poetry the essence of a damaged soul on its journey to repair and transformation. The corrosive impact of abuse and the regeneration of the soul through the development of self-compassion and healing is depicted beautifully and simply. This is a book for anyone struggling to come to terms with their own abuse or for loved ones, friends or those working with survivors of abuse. It offers hope and a way forward for a more fulfilling, enriched life.
Leslie E. Stern IMAGES FROM MY SOUL
The book of poetry Images from my Soul is the lifetime accumulation of the author's deepest feelings and is broken down into chapters, as is life. These sections will hopefully illuminate thr readers’ heart with wisdom and beauty.From the acclaimed novelist, Leslie E. Stern, comes the book of poetry from her soul; poems that will touch the hearts of every reader. Images from my Soul covers Life, Mankind, Nature, Sailing, Love, and Family in a manner that will move you.
K. RADHAKRISHNAN REFLECTIONS OF SOUL
The Poetry of K. RADHAKRISHNAN is philosophical, romantic, comic, Nature-Involved, and Family-Oriented. Due to the variety context of Mr. Radhakrishnan's words, his book will appeal to the most distinguished of palettes, both for children as well as adults. Reflections of Soul is just that: the reflection of mankind's place in his universe as the Poet travels through a myriad of emotions ranging from love and sorrow, laughter and concern. A true expression of the human condition and respect for Mother Earth.
Garcia Marquez G. One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
Anthony Trueman-Jones Soul Weavers
Enter a world where loss is not eternal ... redemption is always achievable ... and belief makes the impossible, possible. Welcome to the Soul Weavers, a collection of short stories that explore the human soul.
Thomas Brooks Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth serious discourse concerning a well-grounded assurance of men's everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it; with the resolution of several weighty questions. To be in a state of true grace, is to be miserable no more; it is to be happy forever. A soul in this state is a soul near and dear to God. It is a soul much beloved, and very highly valued by God. It is a soul housed in God. It is a soul safe in God's everlasting arms. It is a soul fully and eminently interested in all the highest and noblest privileges. The being in a state of grace makes a man's condition happy, safe, and sure. But the seeing, the knowing of himself to be in such a state, is that which renders his life sweet and comfortable. The being in a state of grace will yield a man a heaven hereafter, but the seeing of himself in this state will yield him both a heaven here and a heaven hereafter; it will render him doubly blessed, blessed in heaven, and blessed in his own conscience.
Thomas Sherry Deep Winter
From a relatively normal American life to a survival situation in moments, this story follows the Drummond family as they learn to adapt to a now, very different community...and world. Beginning on a bitter cold January night, the story begins with a series of earthquakes tearing through the Pacific Northwest....and in the following days the family--and the nation--face challenges from unexpected sources....
INAZO NITOBÉ Bushido. The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan was written by Inazo Nitobe in 1900 and is one of finest of the Japanese classics. Nitobe explains the influence of Chinese and Christian thought on Bushido as well as some of the stranger traditions such as Hara Kiri. A great book for anyone wanting to explore the heart and soul of Japan!
Maxine Wright-Walters Ph.D. The Alphabet Circle Journey. Living Your Best Life
Have you dreamed about living your best life? The Alphabet Circle Journey: Living Your Best Life brings together for the first time a parallel between the laws of chemistry and human relationships. The author provides the reader with a plausible theory and understanding of how and why relationships form and end. Using each letter of the alphabet, with nature as its backdrop, the author skillfully uses metaphors to intertwine human behavior with the philosophy of the universe to traverse the life journey along the Alphabet Circle. The Alphabet Circle is our life journey. The author theorizes that every life encounter happens somewhere on your Alphabet Circle and comes together based on soul chemistry. Upon meeting, the souls form soul-to-soul bonds, the connections for relationships to deliver an experience. Soul bond energy with coded information for your journey is released from these interactions. You must then connect at the soul level to understand these messages, which are the key for an exciting, enjoyable, and fulfilling journey for your best life. The Alphabet Circle concept offers that human beings have a dual existence. We have a physical body and a soul with complimentary interactions at the human and soul level. The physical level interaction happens in the head, which is where our ego operates. It is logical. On the other hand, the soul level connection is what we need to understand as we move to a level of consciousness where we let go of ego to bond at the soul...
Marilyn Barry Viva
A promise made between friends is kept in this detailed account of life after death'Viva' is a story of courage and the power of friendship. After a near-fatal car-crash Vivian struggles to recover, with the help of her friend Marilyn, who has rushed to Texas to assist and be a witness in a tragic situation.When Vivian dies two years later, she keeps her promise to stay in touch with Marilyn, and describes her life beyond the grave. Those who knew Vivian King personally, and those who know her through reading her books 'Being Here When I Need Me' and 'Soul Play', will be impressed by the deep wisdom of her messages. As Vivian wrote in 'Being Here When I Need Me':"Death feels like a tragedy to those who forget that they are the soul playing a masquerade. I guess for them, it is a tragedy. But for those who remember who they are, death is the grand finale on the Earth stage, but not the finale of the Soul's Play."Vivian's soul name is Viva and this is her story.
Nikolay Tatarov 7I. The brief course. 7 roles of the team. 7 faces of the soul. 7 types of character (english edition)
In Russian, the word “family” means “seven I”. They often write the word “family” through seven: 7I. But what is this ‘I’, what are these ‘I’s, and why are they exactly 7?A Family is not just a team, linked by marriage and kinship. A Family is definitely established, brierty team. Relationships are not built immediately. Everyone needs to “put” himself in the team, to take his “position” to find his “place”, get the role. In total, the team has 7 “places”, roles. That’s why family is 7I.
Pen of Brianne Next Level with the Lover of your Soul. First comes Love
"Next Level with the Lover of our soul, First Comes Love" is a Women's Ministry Series designed to encourage women to seek after a deeper relationship with Christ our Lord.
Nicole Moore Born Between The Lines. An Autobiography
Born Between the Lines is a revealing, honest, and powerful autobiography which draws upon themes that include race, cultural heritage, identity, education, freedom, and independence. Nicole has written about those important experiences and intimate relationships that have impacted the quality of her life and have made the difference in many of the life-decisions she has made.The daughter of a black Guyanese father and white English mother, Nicole offers multilayered musings that will take you on an inspirational and adventurous soul-searching journey, from her childhood challenges with race and identity issues growing up in the Midlands in the 1960s to her search for a place to belong.Born Between the Lines is a story of adversity and courage, of fragmented family ties and tensions, of unearthing close guarded secrets, where Nicole discovers the bittersweet truth about her family's life.
Antreina E. Stone Pole-Date Or Soul-Mate. Man In Blue Esther.s Story Volume 2
Pole-Date Or Soul-Mate: Man in Blue Esther’s Story Volume 2Esther happens to bump into an old High School friend, becomes distracted, and ends up where no one wants to go, but many have. Vashti finds herself in need of support and seeks Paul, who is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Vashti meet unexpectedly, and Valerie shares a story with Esther that stops her in her tracks. Here comes the man in blue, driving a red Mustang and causing the heat to rise in Pole-Date or Soul-Mate: Man In Blue Esther’s Story Volume 2
Alyssa Malehorn How Old Is Your Soul?. The Essential Guide To The Lessons, Gifts and Archetypes of Every Soul Age
What does it mean to be an old soul? How do we become one and why? In this revolutionary work, spiritual teacher and psychic medium Alyssa Malehorn illuminates the divine framework behind healing, growth and enlightenment on a soul level. These timeless truths provide clarity and support for those who seek to develop mastery over their inner world and effectively ride the wave of soul progression.Now available for the first time in print, you can make use of these leading edge tools and techniques for connecting with your authentic soul self. Receive step-by-step guidance and divine transmissions of energy. Experience the healing effects of affirmations, mantras, and mudras and free guided meditation audios (provided exclusively for readers of this book) that are specifically designed to address the issues that arise as we travel through the entire spectrum of soul ages.How Old Is Your Soul? provides a path to your soul’s natural state of freedom, with inspired guidance that liberates you from the unhealed energies of the past and allows you to discover who you really are. ABOUT THE AUTHORAlyssa Malehorn is a spiritual teacher, soul guide, psychic medium and divine transmitter of healing energies for the purpose of illuminating and demystifying the path to enlightenment. Her mission is to empower, educate and enlighten all truth-seekers, in all aspects of life. Alyssa is a catalyst for transformational healing, wisdom, and joy for individuals and groups worldwide. She sees th...
Jill Okura Soul Heart Mind Merge. A Guidebook for Healing, Empowerment and Divine Self-Mastery
Soul Heart Mind Merge offers a path for the healing of our hearts so that we may awaken and become enlightened in a harmonious relationship with the soul, heart and mind. Their inherent synergy can lead the way with guidance and innate knowingness to live Heaven on Earth as sovereign, Divine Self-Masters. The blueprint for it is within. There is a luminous piece of absolute brilliance within each of us, known as the everlasting Soul. It contains pure love, innate knowingness and wisdom with a healing consciousness. We are this Soul, this powerful part of Creator God (by whatever name).With the Soul Heart Mind Merge, we receive our intended gifts and live powerfully. Guidance by inner wisdom bathed in unconditional love and the manifestation of abundance, health, joy and peace are miraculous gifts from the Soul. It is about the conscious life of the Soul, empowered by Love in the form of Divine Light.One heart at a time, we can heal ourselves to heal our world. Blessings be. All things are possible.
Charity Amy Murphy Soul-Time Therapy. A Time to Be Still and Connect with Soul
Charity Amy Murphy, MA BSocSc, combines the spiritual philosophy of east and west with the practical principles of positive psychology to bring you a unique guide to your own personal and spiritual development.Through this journey you will be gently guided to reconnect with heart,mind, spirit, soul and body.You will learn how to:• Identify and clear emotional blocks and negative thought patterns that may be holding you back.• Learn to work in harmony with the law of attraction in manifesting a life you truly love,• and start to bring a conscious awareness to your Soul Journey.Live now how you wish to Live, be now how you dream to be. Heal your heart, balance your mind, free your spirit and connect with the wisdom and knowing of your Soul.Awaken to your True Self
Tito Abao The Monograph of the Parallel Life of Tito Abao and Nero
'Only now in the twenty-first century of the modern era can the truth about the universe be openly described, explained, and understood by a significant part of the population of planet Earth.' The Monograph of the Parallel Life of Tito Abao and Nero is the story of a soul called Tito Abao who enters the physical plane (third dimensional reality) seven thousand years ago. Tito shares his extraordinary vision and the journey he undertakes to find the meaning. Yet this not only the story of the Tito Abao soul, it is also the story of your soul. This book is meant to be a template. It is a window into your life. Through it you will be able to see the patterns of your own personal life as it unfolds. You are the sum total of all that you ever were that will lead you to an absolute understanding about how life really works. A DUE DILIGENCE WARNING!! -For Regression work I recommend only certified Dr Brian Weiss or Dr Micheal Newton practitioners. For Astral work I recommend only The Monroe Institute in Faber, Va.
Amar J. Singh Mindless Body, Endless Soul 2
As human beings, we have the ultimate desire to understand the soul and its relationship to the physical world. The connection between soul and the physical world is important and all encompassing.In his book Mindless Body, Endless Soul 2, author Amar Singh relies on his experience as a physician and psychiatrist to explain the anatomy and physiology of consciousness and unconsciousness as it relates to the soul. While detailing why our consciousness, thoughts, and feelings have a neurological basis, he dissects all aspects of the soul, including its history, definition, motivation, and related emotions. In addition to sharing personal stories and applicable references, Singh examines personality disorders, details electrical and electromagnetic assessments of the brain and the soul, and guides others through the six primary steps to attaining wisdom and spirituality that will help all of us live a happy life. Dr. Singh has opened the door to understand on the basis of neuroscience and reality of life.Udaya K. Shetty, MD
Nancy Bronte Matheny Daniel Matheny. Maverick Tailor from Virginia, 1829 - 1876
Daniel Matheny: Maverick Tailor from Virginia, 1829 - 1876, recounts the incredible journey of a 19th-century tailor who transforms himself from indentured servant through hardship and struggle to free man on his own terms.The biography offers terrific insight into Daniel's motivations, movements, and determination accompanied by a bounty of original court and land records, every-name index, and complete genealogy of his descendants. A mystery for decades to his own people, Daniel comes to life in the compelling story of a restless soul on a mission. Against the backdrop of wild Appalachia, Daniel travels an unmoored life through six wives and twelve children. Follow Daniel and by extension follow the history of the Matheny family on a uniquely American journey.
Hope-Anne Christie The Unintended Journey of a Soul. Stay True to Yourself and All Else Follows
The challenges in author Hope-Anne Christies life brought her to where she is today. If the events hadnt happened the way they did, she believes she wouldnt be as spiritually aware or conscious of her lifes purpose. In The Unintended Journey of a Soul, she shares her healing journey, a journey that took many twists and turns throughout her lifetime. In this memoir, Christie trudges through the debris of her childhood which was marked by illness and physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. Some of her experiences felt like her life was about to change for the better, only to have her world come crashing down again. The peaks and valleys were almost more than she could bear. The Unintended Journey of a Soul exposes these experiences, raw and uncompromised.Christie also tells how from a young age, she had an inner knowing that an energy force was always with her and how at age fifty she discovered she was a healer of many, finally realizing her calling and her purpose. She reflects on her experiences intent on helping others start their own healing process. The Unintended Journey of a Soul narrates a story about the long, arduous path that brought Christie from darkness into light and from the depths of despair to heights unimaginable.
Sharon Dexter The Seasons of the Soul
Wintertime—cold, desolate, cut off from GodSpring—reawakening life withinSummer—lush, full growth, warmth and caringAutumn—contentment, a sense of waiting.Each soul has its seasons. Sometimes one slips back into a season of winter—cold, out of sequence. But when God dwells within, the soul will soon thaw and bring forth blossoms of glory.Each individual has the capacity to grow wider, deeper, taller, more colorful. Root yourself in God’s Word, open yourself to a closer relationship, and grow in personal faith in your Creator.
STEVEN CARVER REFLECTIONS OF THE SOUL
REFLECTIONS OF THE SOUL is Steven Carver's first foray into having a small sampling of his poetry published. Heartfelt, warm and genuine, his words are truly a reflection of his soul
Mark L. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet Understanding Yourself. A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul Awareness
Understanding Yourself reaches beyond the boundaries of the outer personality into the infinite world of the soul. This insightful work offers unique perspectives into how to master the components of being — the ego, karma, and the Self beyond the self. Most importantly, it helps us listen to the voice of the soul and bring its universal wisdom to play in our lives.
Nabokov Vladimir Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
M.B.W Tent A 1928 Road Trip from the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts to the National Parks of the West
The story of a family's 1928 trip from Massachusetts to the national parks of the American West based on diaries and interviews
Charles Taliaferro A Brief History of the Soul
This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the brain sciences for the soul's existence Includes coverage of theories from key figures, such as Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes Unique in combining the history of ideas and the development of a powerful case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul
Annette Rugolo Soul Whisperer. Releasing Lost Souls
In her groundbreaking book, Soul Whisperer: Releasing Lost Souls, author Annette Rugolo presents a new perspective into the world of spirits, past lives, and soul retrieval. Through the sharing of her real-life experiences, she offers a glimpse into a world that exists around us, which few are open and willing to see.She presents an introduction to spirits of the deceased that remain in this world, how we encounter them, and how to help free them from being stuck here. Through her stories, Rugolo gives a clear sense of what these encounters are like, what we can learn from them, and how to recognize and deal with them if they happen. She also demonstrates the value of soul retrievals, freeing spirits, understanding karmic history, and other related subjects.Rugolos purpose and passion in life has been to take others from a place of fear to one of understanding and compassion for the souls trapped among us. In Soul Whisperer, she guides you to embrace both yourself and others as a soul who exists beyond the physical construct of our reality.
Mary Allison Muhammad Journeys Of a Soul
Journeys of A Soul is poetry that whispers intimacy,sings a dance,wraps you spiritually and open eyes to social ills.
Rebecca Thaddeus My Mother's Daughter
My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspected inner strengths and the will to change from who they are to who they choose to be.—Nancy King, author of Opening Gates and other novels at www.nancykingstories.comFrom slavery through abolition and women’s suffrage, Thaddeus’ sweeping story of four generations of mothers and daughters carries the reader away, down the Mississippi River on a keelboat, beneath the tunneling branches of the Natchez Trace, into the shanties and mansions of the Old South, into a bygone time that both unsettles and delights. Thaddeus is a master of atmospheric settings and striking characters who reveal both the sin and the redemption of the American soul.—Elaine McCullough, Professor Emerita of English, Ferris State UniversityMy Mother’s Daughter follows Eugenia and her family through more than a century of changes in the American South. Set around the Natchez Trace in Mississippi in the 19th century, Rebecca Thaddeus makes the entwined familial relationships come alive. From Eugenia’s trip from Philadelphia to rural Natchez, to the stories of her children, the plot’s well-drawn characters and experiences of slavery and its aftermath are compelling. The story and historical setting stay with the reader long after the book is done.—Maryanne Heidemann, Co-founder (1981-present) of the No-Name Book Club...
Maryanne Pope A Widow.s Awakening
Do you believe in soul mates? What if the death of your soul mate meant the birth of your life-long dream?A WIDOW'S AWAKENING is a fictional account based on the true story of a young woman's struggle to come to terms with the death of her police officer husband who died while investigating a breaking and entering complaint.Engaging, powerful, heart-wrenching, and at times humorous, this honest look at the first year of a widow’s grief captures the immense difficulty of learning how to accept the unacceptable while transforming loss into positive change—and is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
R. A. Edwards Jetsun Punk's Unforeseen Journey to Shambhala
A book written from the heart by foolowing the soul jouney of the 4 main characters that child learn on their journey in life imaginative full of soul laughter and adventure
de la Motte Fouque Friedrich Undine
Undine is the name of the water maiden whose story you will read as you turn the leaves of this little book. Undine is beautiful as the dawn stealing across the waters, beautiful as the spray of the crystal waves. Yet when she comes to earth she comes to seek for that without which her beauty will be for ever cold, cold and chill as the surge of the salt, salt sea. Look deep into her blue eyes and you will see why her beauty is so cold, so chill. In the eyes of every mortal you may see a soul. In the gay blue eyes of Undine, look you long and never so deep, no soul will look forth to meet your gaze. Love, joy, sorrow, these are the pearls that shine in the eyes of every mortal. But in the eyes of the water maiden there is no gleam of love, no sparkle of joy, no tear of sorrow. Undine has come to earth to seek for a soul. Without one she may never know the golden gifts God has given to each mortal, gifts these of love, joy, sorrow. You will read in this little book how Undine, the water maiden, won for herself a human soul.
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First person to fly 400 MPH plus
On September 29, 1931, Flight Lieutenant George Stainforth flew a Supermarine S6.b to a new absolute world speed record of 407.5 mph (655.79 kph). Stainforth was award a trophy in the form of a miniature S6.b for his accomplishment.
In 1989 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA, the American home of the London Bridge, the Desert Hawks RC Club presented a reenactment of the famous Schneider Cup races of the early part of the 20th Century. Radio Control enthusiasts from far and wide designed and built ¼ and 1/3 scale replicas of those famous racing seaplanes to compete in this unique event.
One of those competitors was Doug MacMillan of Canada. Doug designed, built and brought his own version of the Supermarine S6.b. At the conclusion of the event, at the trophy presentation, Doug unveiled a metal replica of a Supermarine S6.b and announced that this was the trophy awarded to Stainforth in 1931. Apparently, this was the custom as we can see a picture of Flight Lieutenant D’Arcy Greig holding a trophy of the Supermarine S5 after setting a world speed record in 1928. Click here to see the photo
Twenty years have passed and this year, 2009, is the twentieth anniversary of the first Schneider Cup Reenactment, we wanted to contact and invite all of the competitors from the original series. When I contacted Doug, he asked if I would be interested in restoring the trophy. Of course, I enthusiastically said YES and arrangements were made.
The Trophy arrived on August 20, 2009. Doug had packed it well in foam and it arrived as scheduled. As you can see, it needs a lot of TLC. Click on any picture to enlarge.
Because of its’ historic importance, I will very carefully restore this trophy. After all, this wasn’t a trophy for any old commercial plane or series of cheap flights, this was an iconic moment in aviation history. Any information about this trophy and the history behind it, like who made the trophy, what metal and any pictures of Stainforth with it etc. would be greatly appreciated. I would like to post any info or photos on this site and give credit to anyone for it. I will take pictures as we go along.
Schneider Cup Home
Let us begin…August 23, 2009
SIZE OF THE TROPHY w/o Base
Wing Span. . . . . . . . 23 in. / 584.2mm
Float length. . . . . . . .18.5 in. / 469.9mm
Fuselage length. . . . .18.5 in. / 469.9mm
Weight. . . . . . . . . . . 9 lb. 9 oz. / 4.340 kg
The mystery of what the trophy is made of has been solved. The entire trophy is made of copper and brass and plated in silver. The craftsmanship and the attention to scale and detail are incredible.
The prop is solid cast brass and is designed to rotate as a scale propeller would.
Fuselage/wing with propeller removed. We are not sure yet about the roundels. In that some people attempted to restore this trophy, we are trying to research the original as presented to Stainforth. Anyone out there that may have info or be able to point us in the right direction to gain the knowledge we need will be greatly appreciated.
This shows the detail in the nacelle area. All the panel lines and exhaust ports are authentically represented.
To the left a float has the rear bottom removed. You can see the bulkhead at the step and the bulges on both sides where the float was bent.
Float top and distortions where the float struts attached.
To the left, you can see the bottom of the left wing with the wrinkles in the skin. Both the left and right wings have serious damage to the wing skins, top and bottom. Some of the damage was from the fall and much was from the unskilled attempts to fix the trophy. We believe our only choice is to separate the top and bottom wing skins in order to reshape them properly. This may be very difficult because it appears that the wing was created by bonding the top and bottom skin into one piece and slid through a slot in the fuselage and then soldered in place.
I took some Brasso and Silver Polish and removed the tarnish from the propeller. It polished up beautifully and is evident that the quality of the Silver Plate was superb as you can see above on this 78-year-old piece.
The number and depth of the dings and dents in the left float required removing the bottom rear of the step. It was about 70%separated already. The right float has fewer dings, although the location where the front float strut attaches is damaged pretty badly. We are hoping we will be able to repair this float without disassembling it. When all of the dents and as many of the dings as possible are repaired we will need to replate the floats with silver.
The amount of time and patience necessary to perform the delicate work of hammering out the dings and dents requires a person of great skill and dedication even more so than a bird watcher lying in wait with a pair of binoculars attempting to catch a glimpse of a rare bird. John Hanks has that skill and dedication and we all are lucky to have him on this project. As with the artists that designed and made this trophy originally, it is a lost art and John has 70 plus years of experience to call upon.
Restoration of Speed Record Trophy 79-year-old trophy presented to Stainforth in 1931
Alignment Jig
The floats are sitting in a cradle to hold them parallel, with stops to assure they are aligned fore and aft.
We then built a jig to hold the fuselage/wing assembly at the proper height and angle above the floats.
We removed the propeller, turned a wood dowel to fit the propeller shaft hole. We measured several drawings to determine the proper height and angle with respect to the floats and built an upright in the rear to cradle the fuselage correctly. In the front we built an upright with a spacer that holds the fuselage fore and aft with aproperly fore and aft with a hole that the dowel will slide into the propeller shaft hole at the proper height and angle to the floats.
In that we only have one float strut as a sample, I was concerned about what we were going to do to replace them. One of our fellow modelers here in Lake Havasu, Brent Daily, has a business making and selling high-performance model boat propellers. These are cast from bronze and Brent has the equipment to cast our float strut legs. This solved a big problem we were facing. The process is where a special wax is carved, finished and polished for each strut. It is then encapsulated in a special material, similar to plaster of Paris, then that is put into a kiln to cook all of the wax and moisture out and then the cavity that is left from the wax is filled with the bronze. When cooled, the mold is put into water and the cast part is removed, trimmed and polished. After the final assembly and fitting is completed, the struts will be plated with silver.
As mentioned before, first you start with a chunk of investment wax, draw an outline on it, cut the basic shape, carve and finish to the final shape as shown in Photo # 1. Next, the wax strut is attached to a sprue and mounted on the mold base, Photo # 2. A stainless tube forms the outer shell of the mold in Photo # 3.
In Photo # 5 the mold has been put into a Kiln to melt out the wax, leaving a hollow cavity in the shape of the strut and sprue. This also removes all moisture. Note the red glow of the stainless mold cylinder.
After the mold has the wax and moisture removed in the kiln, bronze is melted and shot into the void in the mold by means of centrifugal injection. In Photo # 6 you can see the molten bronze glowing bright orange.
After the bronze cools, the stainless sleeve is removed and the white mold material is dissolved leaving the raw casting with sprue and button as seen in Photo # 7
In Photo # 8 after cutting off the sprue and button, the strut is sanded and final fitting to the trophy takes place. When all four struts are fitted these struts will be polished and silver plated.
As soon as the struts are properly fitted, we will tap and add the threaded studs and they will be ready for silver plating.
As we had suspected early on, this is going to take a lot of time. It is a wonderful piece of English craftsmanship and it takes an enormous amount of time to properly restore it. We are still working on the two floats but they are nearly ready to be silver plated.
There has been a delay in working on this project. I apologize but the main person that is restoring it has had a number of health issues and has not been able to work on this project. This trophy is to valuable and historic to let just anyone work on it so I beg your indulgence and allow us to proceed when health returns.
Thank you all for your patience.
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The Chicken Thief
By Beatrice Rodriguez
The chase is on! This charming, funny wordless picture book is a road movie for toddlers.
Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books of 2010 School Library Journal Best Children's Books of 2010 A CCBC Choice, 2011 ABC Best Books for Children Nominated for the Texas 2x2 Reading List Nominated for the Rainbow Project Capitol Choices 2011 Notable Books for Children & Young Adults "Young readers ages 4-10 will delight in Ms. Rodriguez's delicate yet assured drawings." - The Wall Street Journal "For readers who love a good chase - and who doesn't? - this one is a delight from beginning to end." - Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review "The story closes with a surprise that kids will love [...] The layout is a great showcase for the wonderful paintings, which are all full of movement, drama, and a quietly goofy form of comedy. The colors and the sense of light are lovely, especially when the clear green of the forest sets off the orange fox and his little captive. A delightful wordless story." - School Library Journal, Starred Review "Delightful ink-and-wash artwork follows the winsome animals from contryesque cottages to deep-hued night forests to bright, sunny shores. Rodriguez shifts the mood from the comic, when fox and chicken enjoy a candlelit game of chess in an inner-mountain cave, to the affectionate, and the small details invite close viewing. Taken together, the scenes in this enjoyable tale send appealing messages about the pitfalls of assumptions and the pleasure of unexpected friendship." - Booklist "This book is delightful in every way." - PW Shelftalker "The Chicken Thief will enthrall young readers with its tale told in exciting pictures from start to finish." - The Midwest Book Review "A classic-to-be, this book is presented as the first in a new series of wordless concepts, a genre well worth exploring. With crisp, whimsical illustration, the author presents an amusing escapade [...] the climax will produce giggles rather than nightmares." - The Bloomsbury Review "B. Rodriguez's The Chicken Thief and Fox and Hen Together are two of the most charming wordless picture books I've ever encountered. Check 'em out." - Nancy Pearl, nancypearl.com "Delightful. Funny. Sweet, but not syrupy so. Don't miss this one." - Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast "Rodriguez has reinvented a story with a fun surprise ending." - missprint.wordpress.com "The Chicken Thief goes on my list of superior wordless books for a child to savor." - pinkme.typepad.com The Chicken Thief is named a top 10 book of 2010 by Hooray for Books, Old Town Alexandria, VA. The Mystery Bookstore top ten for 2010, The Mystery Bookstore, Los Angeles.
Beatrice Rodriguez was born in 1969. She received her degree from the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and works today as an illustrator, creating children's books as well as illustrations and cartoons for the press. She lives in France.
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Death, Money, Legacy: Three Conversations
Andrés Spokoiny
Legacy planning is never easy. In my role as the head of the Jewish Funders Network, I try to facilitate conversations about how to approach it thoughtfully as a deeply meaningful and Jewish act.
Accountants, lawyers, and philanthropists have been discussing estate tax and charitable giving quite a bit recently. The recent signing of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (signed into law on January 2, 2013) codifies federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer laws. It increases rates (from 35 percent to 40 percent) but it maintains exemptions at the $5 million level. It also contains changes to federal income tax laws that relate to charitable giving. Many welcome the passage of this act because, without it, the estate tax rate would have reverted to its previous level of 55 percent, and the exemption would have shrunk to $1 million. The law makes “generation skipping” easy and enables deductions between spouses to be portable. It also extends the “unified treatment,” which allows exemptions to become lifetime gifts or bequests at death. This provides affluent families with tremendous flexibility to transfer wealth to children and grandchildren in a tax efficient manner. Besides the technicalities, and despite the slight increase in rates, these regulations are generous toward taxpayers and — according to many — will have a positive impact on philanthropic and charitable giving.
There are, of course, ethical questions surrounding estate taxes. Many ask what sort of tax is “fair” and what will contribute more to the society as a whole. While the halakhot on the issue of inheritance are not always compatible with civil law, technical details of civil law and certain legal pirouettes have helped make the two legal systems more compatible. Biblical Judaism doesn’t dictate estate taxes as such, but it is concerned with fairness and exaggerated accumulation of wealth, and it seeks to ensure the protection of the family.
Giving is complex, and planned giving — what happens to a family’s wealth after death — is even more so. So I would like to focus on the connection between estate planning, philanthropic giving, and Jewish values. Add in the differences and challenges of each family — made up of unique and complex members, and you get the idea. Done well, it raises questions that are intertwined with values, ethics, and identity. In the end, the exercise — and especially thinking about the complexity legacy planning involves — provided unmatched opportunities for several deep and meaningful conversations in a few not-so-minor areas.
The first conversation is probably the deepest and scariest. Delving into legacy issues inevitably touches on the issue of death. When we talk about legacy, we’re talking about mortality — that of those near to us, and our own. A conversation about a family’s legacy is nothing less than a conversation about the meaning of life: our intrinsic limits and deepest needs to transcend physical existence through actions and symbols that express our values and commitments to others. Instead of confronting these important questions, we often ignore them.
But legacy planning can be the subject of a critically important family conversation. Almost any serious reflection on the meaning of life refers as well to death. Overwhelmed and distracted by the technical and mechanical aspects of estate planning, we sometimes overlook the richest aspect of the conversation. By tackling the scariest issues straightforwardly, we can convert the process into a springboard to more meaningful and deeper relations with those around us. In the context of estate planning, a conversation about philanthropy is more than a way to look for fiscal efficiencies; it is a conversation about transcendence.
The second conversation skirts an issue many of us have been conditioned to avoid. Out of “politeness,” we don’t discuss money. Talking about money, for many, raises an array of anxieties, traumas, and cultural baggage.
Our different approaches to money influence our thoughts about philanthropy. Legacy planning means having conversations that make meaningful decisions possible, and our traditions offer a wealth of ideas (pun intended) about how to approach money. Judaism has never been an ascetic culture; rather, wealth can be viewed as a sign of blessing. At the same time, Judaism teaches us about the transient nature of material possessions; we’re taught to use everything — including money — as a vehicle for sanctity and for the improvement of the world. Our sages cautioned about excessive materialism and about disconnecting wealth from ethics.
Values and Goals
Legacy planning needs to be, first and foremost, a vehicle to transmit values, which should be the essence of a third conversation. Judaism is obsessed with the transmission of values. Thoughtful philanthropy is not about fiscal efficiencies; rather, it creates an avenue for transmitting values and fulfilling value-laden goals.
For values to be translated into action effectively, they must be understood as a specific set of goals. This conversation is twofold: What are my values, and what do I want to achieve? My values may dictate that I want every child to have a free education; but what specific philanthropic goal shall I set? Shall I ensure access for all children to a Jewish education in a specific city? Shall I focus on disadvantaged children?
At JFN, we’re often asked to give advice on the best legal and financial structure for a family’s future giving: a private foundation established as a corporation, a donor-advised fund, a charitable trust, etc. Legacy planning begins before answering these questions about the financial structure; it guides the answer. The most important element to consider is what vehicle of giving — or, more commonly, what combination of vehicles — is best aligned with the values of the family and the goals they want to accomplish.
Legacy as Memory
Will my children and grandchildren share my values? Will they identify with my philanthropic goals? The ultimate goal of these conversations is alignment within the family and between the family’s values and goals. Rather than impose an agenda or structure on the next generation or restrict their freedom of movement through bylaws and “donor intent letters,” it would be much better if the next generation followed the values of their elders because they share them.
While it’s never too late to have a meaningful conversation, the deathbed is certainly not the optimal place to have a calm and thoughtful conversation about these issues. Ideally, the legacy conversation is not an isolated one, but rather one that follows a lifetime of conversations that flow through regular rituals and daily practices. It is not an event but a process.
Every family situation is unique and there are no universal recipes. Approaching decisions about legacy and estate planning offers opportunities to address meaningful questions and begin meaningful conversations. As Elie Wiesel said, questions are more important than answers, because only the questions can be shared. Indeed, it is for each of us to find our own answers.
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Andrés Spokoiny is president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, an international organization dedicated to advancing the quality and growth of Jewish philanthropy.
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The League is On!
“We feel a little bit harshly done by because we weren’t able to show just what a good team we are. Unfortunately the game was taken away from us.”
– Blackburn boss Mark Hughes
Last sunday’s firecracker of a game was enough to send the Rovers a strong message that the Reds rule. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Blackburn, English Premiership League, Football, Manchester United on November 14, 2007 by raptureray.
Man-U Wins Community Shield on Penalties
Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was the star yesterday, as he saved three penalty kicks as Man-U beat Chelsea in a shootout in the Community Shield. The Community Shield happens to be the traditional curtain-raiser to English soccer’s Premier League season.
The teams had tied 1-1 at Wembley after 90 minutes before going straight to the shootout.
Van Der Sar saved penalties from Claudio Pizarro, Frank Lampard and Shaun Wright-Phillips. Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech failed to get near any of the United shots from Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney. “I was 5-2 down in penalty shootouts in my career so this makes it 5-3,” Van Der Sar said. “We deserved it. We played the better football, we had more chances than them.”
This is the record 16th time United has either won or shared the English season opener between the league champions and FA Cup holders, which does not count in the Premier League standings. Before the introduction of shootouts in 1993, teams held the title for six months each after draws.
Ryan Giggs had put United in the lead in the 35th minute before Florent Malouda made it 1-1 in the 45th.
The regular season starts next week. The same two teams played in the FA Cup final three months ago, with Chelsea winning 1-0 at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium.
“It’s a little revenge for the cup final and it’s a good start for the league for us,” Van Der Sar said.
This entry was posted in Adrenalin, English Premiership League, Football on August 6, 2007 by raptureray.
Take loads of Adrenalin, dash it up with a Rush of Passion, grab your Studs and fire the Rain. If you feel the ground’s missing something if you aren’t running around with those sleek studs of yours, or you fantasize your racket on a family dinner out, you dont need any further proof that you are a sports freak!
And we love you for being this way!
Can’t get enough of Sharapova’s grunts, the die hard, live-harder footballers and the rest of the Gang who discover a new angle of life everytime they enter a ferrari? Well, we would be glad to satisfy that apetite for you.
The zillion dollar deals. The scintillating stars and their shine. The tantrums of the wicked. The pure passion of the wizards. Name it, and we have everything lined here for you. Watch this space and you’ll never miss a buzz about the game.
Take off that jersey, grab your studs, don the madness. Welcome.
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On Tap Tonight: A New School Board Trustee
The Lady that will be appointed – her name was dropped a couple of time in comments here, I’m sure she will make a fine trustee.
As for outgoing Trustee Joan Thomas, her goose was cooked by her own hand, almost one year ago to the day:
Siblings working for Bay school district an ethical concern, says commission – Justin Vicory
Either the superintendent or the business manager of Bay St. Louis–Waveland School District — who are brother and sister — should resign from office to avoid the appearance of nepotism, a Mississippi Ethics Commission opinion says.
Yet the majority of Bay–Waveland School Board members disagreed, and recently voted 4 to 1 to approve an additional 18-month contract for business administrator John McCraw, as well as a contract for Superintendent Vikki Landry, his sister.
And the so called Chinese firewall the high priced lawyers constructed to rationalize and prettify such nepotism? It is bullshit, or put another way if it weren’t, the exchange where the lawyers advised the school board in an official meeting would not have been purposely omitted from the record and the business manager would to this day not be presenting cash balances to his sister for the School Board to approve. It’s sad folks:
At the February meeting, board attorney Ronnie Artigues and James Keith, a longtime education attorney with the North Pike and Pearl River County school boards, told the board it was acceptable for them to appoint an employee other than Landry for McCraw to report to. In response, the board appointed Kristen Ladner and Cherie Labat as assistant superintendents.
School board meetings are open to the public, and an audio recording is normally taken and saved. But when Lana Noonan, a member of political watchdog group Hancock County Alliance for Good Government, contacted the central office secretary to get a copy of the February recording, the conversation about McCraw and Landry was not on the tape.
The flawed decision making that created a mess in the district’s elementary schools, along with multiple assistant superintendents to go with the family at the central office has to be fixed folks. Tonight’s school board appointment will flip the Board majority away from those that would disregard state ethics opinions.
Author Douglas HandshoePosted on March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 Categories SopTags Bat St Louis City Council, Bay Waveland School Board, Bay Waveland School Board Trustee Joan Thomas, Nepotism
20 thoughts on “On Tap Tonight: A New School Board Trustee”
Lana Noonan says:
As I have stated before here, I don’t expect my public officials to be perfect. But if you are lazy, lawless, and reckless with my tax dollars, you’ve got to go!
In the meantime, the children are waiting to be served!
Congratulations to Ann Latrop. Personally, I think she will make a fine Trustee. But we will expect her to remember who she represents and follow State law. Not unreasonable expectations.
All the best to her. It’s a lot of work for the headaches that come with it.
Now, on to cleaning up Waveland’s 2 seats at the podium!!
Accountable Alice says:
Thank you Lana!!! The public would like to see you run for a Waveland seat on the school board! BWSD definitely won tonight regardless of what the Thomas supporters and the disgruntled, Jerry Beaugez, spout on social media. If Jerry Beaugez wanted to be honest and forthcoming about the school board appointments, he would make it clear that the mayor’s son was appointed by the previous administration. He would also note that Mr. Singleton’s reappointment, a Minority, also fell under the previous administration…all of which he was a part of. The council refused to reappoint Mr. Singleton in the 23rd hour of the previous administration’s power. How quick are we to forget that the previous administration had the authority to fill a seat with a minority, but chose not to do so for one reason or another….if you said because of votes….ding ding ding…we have a winner. Again, I find that repeating myself is necessary. Ann Lathrop was interviewed by the previous administration. She was called back for a second interview in conjunction with Casey Favre. Casey Favre was chosen to represent the BWSD. What Mr. Reed and Mr. Seal did at tonight’s meeting was disgraceful. I can only hope that they find it in their heart to sincerely apologize to Ann Lathrop, a woman who left that meeting in tears because of the idiocracy and spite. I watched from a distance as she exited the board room silently. On another note, amI the only one that finds it odd that he was the only one with strong enough convictions to do what was best for the children and the tax payers until Arnold was appointed???? Hopefully, the district will take a much needed positive path and make decisions at the board level that are in the best interest of the children and our community. Hats off to the board memebers…Desalvo, Smith, Knoblock, Hoffman that had the balls to do what was right.
Alice,
I have to say when it comes to “balls” Mike Favre out did them all tonight. Talk about sticking to your convictions. He made the rest of them look like girl scouts. And when he was pressed to commit to nominating a black citizen next year, he said,” not unless it’s the right one. ” It looks like your going to have to have more than pigmentation to serve in this administration.
Personally, I don’t care what color the school board is. However, I am concerned about how they conduct public business, and right now, things are lacking to say the least. Waveland needs to clean out those two we have as well.
You have to wonder if Ann Latrop voted for Doug Seal, her Councilman?!
If we didn’t learn anything tonight, coming out of that meeting, it appears Doug Seal is running for Mayor in 31/2 years. His pandering to Ward 3 was embarrassing.
He seems to understand he can’t win city hall without ward 3, something Mike Favre has already done .
And, Seal’s own ward 1 has been inhabited for years with Favres and extended Favre family.
A few other tid bits– for the record, since the race card was thrown out there right at the beginning by Jeff Reed, Mike Favre voted FOR Joan Thomas 2 years ago, placed his confidence in her, and apparently has been disappointed. He, like all the previous Mayors, has the right to his opinion too.
When the race card is the only hand you have, you may as well fold ’em.
I thought the most outrageous statement by Thomas’s supporters tonight was that they won’t be “represented” on the Board now.
What does that mean? White people can’t represent the needs of blacks?
In 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was passed there were a total of 514 members of the US Congress. 410 voted the act into law. Of that 410, 6 were black. Don’t tell me white people cannot represent the needs of blacks. It’s untrue and unwarranted propaganda that needs to stop, NOW!
Let’s wish Ann Latrop well, and let her know she’ll be held accountable for the “oath of office” she’ll take next week. Knowing her I have full confidence she’ll represent every child in the system equally.
HappyHandshoeFan says:
Regardless how they voted in public, WHY did Councilmen Smith and Desalvo have a private meeting with School Board President Mike Bell and School Board member Thomas at Smith’s home prior to this vote. That is unethical and a violation of a Ms. Supreme Court ruling…. Ethics violations anyone????
Happy,
You are exactly right.
Jeff Amy reported in the Clarion Ledger on Sept. 7, 2017, the Miss. Supreme Court ruling that”public officials cannot set up meetings of less than a quorum to evade the State Open Meetings Law.”
I would advise Larry and Josh to tread lightly here.
Bell and Thomas have a documented record of snubbing their noses at state law.
Larry and Josh, you are new to public service.
Be very careful who you befriend. These two would not be good choices in my opinion.
But, Happy, you are exactly right. Report them. Sometimes a little chastisement gets a new, not so well informed official back on track.
Bell has gotten worse the longer he’s served. Not much hope there.
Rachael Ramsey says:
Waveland will make a change, hopefully. BSL is up again in October, I believe. Doug isn’t running for mayor. He did, however, instruct the city attorney to research EXACTLY what needs to happen to make these appointments elected positions. Short answer is a change to state law.
Michelle Meyer Davison says:
BSL is up in March. The search begins in October is what the Mayor said at the meeting.
Happy Hands,
Unlike you I use my real name. Unlike you I went to the source of your accusation & asked outright instead of sleazy innuendos. Two separate entities do not constitute a quorum. YOU don’t have the … to look these men in the eyes. I DO & I did today. So I challenge you “Happy” , put up or shut up
I’m in error about the quorum & I admit it. If a party shows up, uninvited, it’s not.
Savage says:
Ann is a wonderful woman who is educated and passionate about education. My wish….as is my wish for all of the board members….VOTE based on your OWN convictions! Ann is an intelligent woman who has the capability to make a true difference. I hope she is the voice of reason the board needs.
Stone Cold says:
Lost everything for Seal. Why?
Because he showboating for votes, like the previous mayor played singleton for votes , he just play reed , Thomas & the black community. Less Blamed Favre for not making the singleton appointment last year. They labeled him as a racist a year ago.
Does one forget Singleton took a trip to Colorado on school district’s money.
He was not a member of the board. And who voted to pay for that. Joan!!!!
Guess that’s ok because he’s a minority.
Created a 2nd assistant superintendent positions why??
Nepotism & Labot is Singleton ‘a god child.
Oh it’s ok because they are minorities.
That letter , is he the only one that got one??
Play it out to get minorities pissed & pansies in an uproar. Probably sent by a minority.
Lana you have some good statements of her voting record even if they are not Mayor Ice’s reasons.
Lana can they go after Bell Kidd & Thomas for Singleton’s vacation on school district dollars. How much?
That may be one of the reasons Thomas wanted back in so bad. Somebody may have to pay😭😭😭
And bell, sure did his best to get her back in. Be very interesting to see what happens. 😂
Like less like appointments. 🐭🐭🐭🐭
Miss Ann , sorry you went through this,
Total BS, you will be a great leader.
Sure do wish blowgeaz, enough said, Oliver, what a idiot , singleton, what a thief ,and other less supporters would disappear.
And Courtney, didn’t she get money as the librarian for her education and not use it for that. Another fraud. Then she quit. Need to get that back.
Oh I get it she’s a minority.
Protecting ea. Other.
Have to go.
Savage, Miss Ann will be one outstanding leader for the school board.
And Lana Mayor Ice did stand tall and alone for what is another outstanding appointment.
Did anyone discuss the appointment with him after they received his recommendation last week? Just wondering.
And Lana , have to agree he’s he has a set🏀🏀
I was at the meeting, and after the distributed memo was brought up, it seems no councilman called MF to discuss.
So it has occurred to me after Councilman Reed’s “stunt” last night, that if he received this letter and thought it was truly authentic, why has he not referred it to the proper authorities (i.e. the FBI) so that it can be investigated as a hate crime. A veiled threat was made and the U.S. postal service delivered this letter. There was also mention of an organized group of terrorists meeting every month on the second Saturday, yet it was not reported to any law enforcement agency? Instead, it was just whipped out to stir the big ole pot at the council meeting, in an attempt to inflame the crowd and stir emotions.
The more I think about it, the more it stinks. If there was true concern, you would think Councilman Reed would want answers as to who authored the letter.
I thought the same thing!
Seems to me that the local African American community did themselves a disservice when the stance became the appointee had to be Joan Thomas to the exclusion of all others.
We have been told that Mayor Favre actually approached another Ward 3 resident quite some time ago about the School Board seat and was turned down. I am told that Mayor Favre also solicited Councilman Reed’s help and was turned down.
If Maurice Singleton and Joan Thomas is as deep as the bench of community leaders gets in Ward 3, then it is likely to be a very long time before another African American serves as a BWSD Trustee from the Bay. Maybe Waveland will step up and elect a minority.
Great points, Doug!!
Joan gave WLOX an interview last night and is trying to divert attention away from her disdain for state law by saying Favre dumped her for her stance on Consolidation!!??
She has no obligation to be in favor of consolidation. That’s optional.
However, state statutes on Nepotism and the Open Meetings Law are not optional.
Yeah, the black community is in dire need of leadership. That is a clearly defined fact on tape now as of last night’s Council meeting and Facebook
conversations. Sad.
Mauricio Singleton was all over these meetings. He lost his job, and he should have. The Colorado trip was but one of his missteps.
He’ll never be on school board or any other board, I hope. We can do better. Much better.
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A conservative blog for peace
Some jottings about the news
Catholic. Traditional. Libertarian. Anti-war.
From the Ship of Fools board
Only four English Missal parishes in England?
Most of us know that four churches in England still use the English Missal. At All Saints [North Street], York [been there - great place] the Roman bits of the canon are said silently, but the Prayer Book parts are perfectly audible.
What is the practice at the other three churches?
In the unlikely event that shipmates have forgotten where they are, they consist of
St Chad, Toller Lane, Bradford
St Luke, Southport [not the friendliest place in the world, I understand, but at least they're sound in theory]
Great Torrington, Devon
O tempora.
Makes this kind of religion almost as rare in England as Russian Catholic churches in the US (more on Russian Catholics). Four parishes apiece in countries much different in size.
Posted by Young fogey emeritus at 9:16 am No comments:
Good show
I'll be a commander-in-chief who will never mislead us into war.
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
- John Kerry in his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for US president
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
- John Kerry before the US Senate in 1971 after being in combat in Vietnam
But lest we forget another Democrat who ran as a 'peace candidate':
Doomed to repeat
Forty years ago, political deceptions plunged the US into war. A Navy pilot from New Hope, Pa., whose photographs helped escalate conflict in Vietnam, wants you to know the same thing happened in Iraq.
Posted by Young fogey emeritus at 6:39 pm No comments:
From The Onion
What do you think? The 9/11 Report
From Pontifications
How to market a boutique church
ECUSA's niche as 'that gay liberal church' (and upper-class) makes it a boutique, doesn't it? But I think that may be self-limiting for the same reason it may be for the Unitarians.
From Pontifications' comments:
When my dad became Unitarian a bunch of decades ago, it was still necessary for a socially acceptable person to be a “churchgoer.”
Which is why Unitarianism started in the first place, in the 1700s - a 'church' that outwardly looked like Christian churches but was a social cover for the atheists, agnostics and other freethinkers ... like Thomas Jefferson.
When he eventually realized, some time in the 90s, that that reason had evaporated, he didn’t take long to quit.
Why exactly someone would bother with the New Unitarian Church aka ECUSA is beyond me.
A punto.
I have defined Episcopalians, in a humorous set of Definitions that offends everyone equally (including me- as I said, I offended me so bad that I will never talk to myself again), as “Unitarians with a Trinitarian liturgy.”
I find it ironic that the ECUSA is already a step behind the trendsetters of the culture you describe. They are pushing for same-sex marriages, not blessings of same-sex unions, and they know the difference. I can’t see them terribly impressed with our same-sex blessings. Once again, we are two steps behind the zeitgeist. I expect the ECUSA will still draw disaffected liberal Catholics, but not too many of the secular “yuppies” you describe. They may be amused by our present conflict, but not impressed with our relevance.
“The Church which is married to the Spirit of the Age will be a widow in the next.” (W. R. Inge)
“The Church always seems to be chasing after the train that’s just left.” (Karl Barth)
And from the Orthodox tradition, a different approach to the usual ones in these discussions but 100% Catholic. Wisdom, be attentive:
Reading the Post article it amazes me I made it as long as I did in the mainlines where religion has become the grand enabler. I was reminded first off of Fr. [Alexander] Schmemann’s short book on the sacraments, where he described the gospel not as help, but as transformation. Salvation not only being unlike a form of help, but totally opposed to it.
The brightest and best educated people I know are either churched or secularist. As someone previously mentioned, the secularists, at most, find the Episcopal church’s antics silly or amusing but largely unworthy of their attention. The church-going individuals (by which I mean ones who take it seriously and make it their business to know what is being put forth as Christian doctrine and belief) recognize when they are being deceived, manipulated and subject to contradictory leadership.
Having seriously dated somebody hard on the wrong side of a lot of these matters of faith I know that's entirely true: the churches' compromises to try to please such people don't impress them at all.
From Ecclesia Anglicana:
Selling your soul
For political success. This blog isn't recommending Messrs Kerry or Edwards for canonization but that's irrelevant to the election.
From Dave Brown. Sorry it's so long but I didn't get a link:
Ways abortions are done
The following contains quotes from a current medical journal article on
abortion techniques. Some of the descriptions are chilling to read. It is
not for the squeamish.
The July 1, 2004 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Volume 104, number 1)
contains the article "Methods for Induced Abortion," as part of the
"Clinical Gynecologic Series: An Expert's View" (pp. 174-185). The article
was prepared by Phillip G. Stubblefied, MD, Sacheen Carr-Ellis, MD, and Lynn
Borgatta, MD, MPH of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Some quotes from the article:
"The Alan Guttmacher Institute reported 1,313,000 legal abortions for the
year 2000, an abortion rate of 21.3 per 1,000 women aged 15-44 and an
abortion ratio of 24.5 per 100 live births. This paper will review methods
for abortion used in the United States, describing common techniques in
detail." (p. 174)
"Methods for Abortion in the First Trimester
Vacuum Curettage
Vacuum curettage (also called suction curettage or uterine aspiration) is
the most common method of abortion in the United States. By recent
convention, procedures performed before 13 menstrual weeks are called
suction or vacuum curettage, whereas similar procedures carried out after 13
weeks are described as dilation and evacuation (D&E)." (p. 175)
"The necessary dilation of the cervix can be accomplished by mechanical
cervical dilation with tapered cervical dilators of the Pratt or Denniston
design, by hygroscopic dilators such as laminaria, or by
prostaglandins...Vacuum curettage, performed with a 6-mm flexible cannula
and modified 60-mL syringe, has been used worldwide since the 1970s.
Initially, manual vacuum aspiration was used only at 6-7 menstrual weeks.
However, manual vacuum aspiration is effective in pregnancies as early as 3
menstrual weeks. Preoperative ultrasonography, careful inspection of the
aborted tissue, and follow-up with serial a-hCG titers ensure complete
abortion and allow early diagnosis of eptopic pregnancy. Manual vacuum
aspiration is as safe and effective as electric vacuum through 10 weeks of
pregnancy." (pp. 175-176)
"Medical Abortion in the First Trimester
Three highly effective regimens for early medical abortion are available in
the United States: 1)mifepristone (RU-486) with misoprostol, 2) methotrexate
with misoprostol, and 3) misoprostol alone." (p. 177)
"Approximately 85% of women starting medical abortion with
mifepristone/misoprostol administration, but for a few, expulsion of the
pregnancy will take several weeks. Vaginal ultrasonography is customarily
performed to ensure that the uterine cavity is empty. Presence of an intact
gestation with cardiac echoes 2 weeks after start of medication is
considered a failed abortion. If a gestational sack is present but no fetal
cardiac activity is present, the patient may elect to simply wait for
expulsion, take more misoprostol, or have surgical evacuation. If medical
abortion fails, surgical termination is advisable because there is possible
risk for fetal malformation from misoprostol and from methotrexate." (p.
"Second Trimester Abortion
...In the 1970s when abortion became legal throughout the United States,
abortion after 12 weeks was generally accomplished in hospital by labor
induced with intra-amniotic hypertonic saline. Practice changed rapidly
after a series of articles from the CDC demonstrated that second-trimester
D&E procedures provided in out-patient settings were safer than the labor
induction methods as then practiced. In 2000, D&E was used for 99% of
abortions at 13-15 weeks, 94.6% at 16-20 weeks, and 85% at 21 weeks or
later."
"Dilation and Evacuation"
[Different techniques for dilating the cervix to the necessary size are
discussed.]
"Instrument technique for uterine evacuation varies with gestational age and
with the preference of the surgeon. At 13-15 weeks, evacuation is readily
performed with vacuum cannula of 12-14 mm diameter, with ovum forceps used
as an adjunct, or the surgeon may prefer to use forceps as the primary
instrument and use the vacuum only the end of the procedure. The 16-mm
cannula system (MedGyn, Lombard, IL) allows evacuation with the vacuum
curette alone through 16 weeks, but at 17 weeks and beyond, even this
large-diameter aspiration system is not adequate by itself. Forceps
evacuation becomes the primary method and vacuum, the secondary." (p. 179)
"A further evolution of technique is the intact D&E procedure. This involves
2 or more days of laminaria treatment to obtain wide dilation of the cervix.
Then an assisted breech delivery of the trunk of the fetus is accomplished
under ultrasound guidance, and the calvarium [the upper domed portion of the
skull] is decompressed and delivered with the fetus otherwise intact.
Federal legislation passed in 2003 to ban so-called "partial birth
abortions," although nominally appearing to be aimed at "late term"
abortions by intact dilation and extraction, is worded so broadly and
vaguely that it appears also to make intact D&E illegal at any gestational
age and may threaten standard D&E as well...." (p. 179)
"Hern has developed a combination D&E technique useful for later procedures.
After multistage laminaria treatment over 2 or more days, 1.5--2.0 mg of
digoxin are injected into the fetus under ultrasound guidance, the membranes
are ruptured, and intravenous oxytocin is started (167 mU/min). An assisted
delivery is performed after a few hours." (p. 180)
"Labor Induction Methods" (p. 180)
"Use of Feticidal Agents. Transient fetal survival is a problem with all
prostaglandin methods. To prevent this and to shorten the interval to
abortion, feticidal agents are commonly used. These include 60 mL of a 23%
saline solution, intra-amniotic urea, ultrasound-guided fetal intra-cardiac
injection of potassium chloride, and 1.0-1.5 mg of digoxin given either as
an ultrasound-directed intrafetal injection or just into the amniotic
sac....It is likely that the use of feticidal agents reduces the induction
to abortion interval and improve efficacy, but this has not been subjected
to a controlled trial." (p. 181)
"Selective Fetal Reduction
In cases of multifetal pregnancies, selective reduction by means of
ultrasound-guided intra-cardiac injection of potassium chloride is used to
avoid the risks of extreme prematurity for the surviving pregnancies. In a
series of 3,513 women treated in a multinational study, fetal loss was
higher at first and fell as the operators gained experience." (p. 182) [End.]
Lord, in Thy mercy: hear our prayer.
From blog correspondent John Boyden
The real RC renewal
The one that Vatican II scuttled
I've read a good percentage of the V-II docs myself, and I haven't found a single truth in them that wasn't expressed before the Council with much more clarity and force. But even these truths are hard to find: most of the Council docs seem to consist of fluff and flattery that is already embarrassing to read a mere forty years later.
Catholics are better off simply ignoring V-II. The Council itself really imposes a choice: live as though the entire Faith must be "reinterpreted" for the modern world, and therefore ignore the older voices completely, or ignore the Council and live by the clear and unambiguous teachings of the perennial Magisterium.
- Jeff Culbreath, El camino real
Metropolitan Andrew (Sheptytsky)
From blogforlovers
Happy birthday (1865), Metropolitan Andrew (Sheptytsky)
The Polish count who became the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church for half a century, dying just before full Soviet occupation of his western Ukraine and also remembered for trying to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Recommended reading: Metropolitan Andrew by Fr Cyril Korolevsky (né Jean François Charon), translated by acquaintance Archimandrite Serge (Keleher). Not only a bio of the beloved metropolitan but a comprehensive, and fair for the time (except Fr Cyril's bias against married priests), history of the Byzantine Catholic churches.
Some Catholics are called East like him. He should be their patron saint.
Labels: Eastern Orthodoxy, history, the Catholic faith
LRC pick from yesterday
An antiwar Protestant right
From blog correspondent Dave McLaughlin (Gaelic speaker Daithí Mac Lochlann)
The Spoof: George Bush adds Ireland to axis of evil
Sure and begorrah!
'You're always window-shopping but never stopping to buy' as Judith Durham sang back in the 1960s. Many of you visit my book-pick links but few buy the books, even cheap used paperbacks.
Click here to order almost any book, CD, DVD, toy, etc. you want and you can help keep this blog going. Thanks!
From Touchstones blog via blogforlovers
Fr Pat Reardon on liturgical renewal talk creeping in among the Orthodox
The single exception ...was a disappointing lecture on “liturgical renewal” by a professor from one of the Orthodox seminaries. The material was essentially the same shortsighted nonsense that the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans were forced to endure thirty or forty years ago.
We clergy, three quarters of us adult converts to the Orthodox Church, sat in sackcloth and inwardly groaned like pelicans in the wilderness, while a life-long Orthodox liturgical expert explained to us at length that Orthodox worship “no longer speaks meaningfully to modern man” and suggested ways in which an established panel of his cronies and clones might bring their expertise to bear on this crushing problem of Orthodox irrelevance to American life. They would pull our worship up to date and make it more meaningful to the refined sensibilities of contemporary society.
•The last time anybody really believed this crap in the West was about 30-40 years ago.
•I would dare the speaker to find a church person under 45 who does now.
•Look at the results - empty churches and more unchurched people.
•The people who push this stuff really don't get it - they think people who work in grey office cubicles want church to be like that. Often they don't have to live that way themselves - they're clergy and/or tenured professors, not corporate wage-slaves. No, human nature doesn't change and it's really no different from the industrial slums of 19th-century England, those dark satanic mills where the first Anglo-Catholic priests brought material relief and, more important, a spiritual alternative with lots of colour and joy. So it should be amid these dark satanic mills.
From Ecclesia Anglicana
Father, bless!
The blessing of the Lord!
Worth a thousand words: the apostolic ministry at work, in the Orthodox tradition*
*Redesigned for your viewing pleasure
From Lee Nelson
Evelyn Underhill against the ordination of women
She was a Modernist, regrettably, but at least she got some things right
More on the 'prayer is good for you' topic:
Religion, spirituality may cut down hospital time
P.J. O'Rourke (a shill for the US Republican Party but a funny guy - met him once!) wrote that 'spirituality' is for people who are prosperous... they think they don't need God. (Like Taylor Marshall's observation on celebrity infatuation with Kabbalah: 'You can still believe in God and appear to fit into traditional Judeo-Christian mores, while at the same time engage in promiscuous sex with other Hollywooders'.) When things get tough, out goes fluffy 'spirituality'; people turn to religion.
From Mike Russell
This week George W. Bush's campaign site's front page has no pictures of Mr Bush but does have a big graphic featuring John Kerry's handsome face.
From Ecclesia et mundus (now merged with Katolik Shinja)
Former Lutheran minister Jennifer Ferrara defends the Catholic view of the sexes and the apostolic ministry
Thanks to Pope John Paul II's theology of the body
According to John Paul, men and women were not created essentially the same. Masculinity and femininity are not just attributes; rather, the function of sex is a constituent part of the person. Men and woman both express the human but do so in different and complementary ways. Believe it or not, this was a radically new idea to me.
Which is why the constant substitution in speech and writing of 'gender' (an artificial grammatical construct) for 'sex' (not just intercourse but something innate and immutable, masculinity and femininity) is pernicious. Those behind this change don't do it just because the meaning of 'sex' in English has narrowed and makes people giggle and blush.
Its a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Somehow I didn't think that was an Olympic medal event - the secular world's massive dodge of reality is even here.
You have to sign up to read these (sorry)
Iraq vet becomes soldier for Kerry
Army captain wrote term paper criticizing the war
In Boston, blogger reputation gets a boost
Teresa Heinz Kerry
So much for Camelot, Mk II
More cult follies
Bogus bishop also a currency smuggler
Christians fear persecution in new Iraq
Lord, in Thy mercy: hear our prayer
Like watching a dear friend drink or dope himself into oblivion
From this RC-related article:
Yet concern about the teaching of Catholic doctrine is wide spread. I have heard it expressed in the most diverse circumstances. During a trip to Moscow in December 2001, Metropolitan Kiril, the number two man in the Russian Orthodox hierarchy, told me he was "worried" about the orthodoxy of modern Catholic theology. Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, renowned for his study of the history of Christian doctrine, told me in the summer of 2002 that he was "alarmed" by the "superficiality" of much modern Catholic theology - and by the way Rome appeared to countenance various theological trends which contain heretical tendencies. "I am quite concerned about Rome", he said. And even in Rome, a number of Vatican officials have expressed to me privately their concern about the lack of profound orthodox Catholic doctrine in many parts of the world.
The good metropolitan, whose name in Russian and Slavonic is spelt with two l's (Кириллъ) and who is in charge of the Church of Russia's eparchies and exarchates abroad, and the good professor (a born Lutheran of Czech or Slovak heritage who quietly became Eastern Orthodox a few years ago) get the Catholic vs. 'Catholic' thing and rightly suss that much of what is passed off as RC is really mock-inverted-commas 'Catholic'.
From Katolik Shinja
Be a cypherpunk for free...
Just discovered the wonderful world of proxy sites:
@nonymouse.com
Love the intro text for this one.
Unipeak
Or 'how to read Blogger/Blogspot blogs when your workplace (or in Joshua's case, adopted country, South Korea) has blocked them'. Can't log onto Blogger to post using them (that's their nature - leave no trail, and of course logging in is the opposite of that) but they work fine for reading other blogs. Thanks, Joshua!
LRC pick
The myth of the peace-loving liberal
'Make war, not love': Thomas Woods on the real foreign policy of the Left.
'American imperialism is, at its roots, a left-wing disorder rather than a conservative impulse.'
Or why it pisses me off when today's warmongers are called - and call themselves - conservatives.
The Spanish-American War lasted a mere three months. The humanitarian aspect—namely, liberating Cuba from Spanish rule—was bound to appeal to progressives. And support it the progressives did. Feminist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton was typical: “Though I hate war per se,” she wrote, “I am glad that it has come in this instance. I would like to see Spain … swept from the face of the earth.”
Stanton had a point regarding women's rights - she was what Christina Hoff Sommers calls an 'equity feminist', for fair play and equal pay - but this remark is very telling. Liberalism meets bad old-fashioned protty American anti-Catholicism: the black legend of Spain.
From Virtuosity
Analysis: Pope courts Russian Orthodoxy
By Uwe Siemon-Netto
...news that the pontiff will give back "Our Lady of Kazan" as an unconditional gesture of reconciliation is considered highly indicative of the current state of ecumenism, Vatican sources say. It is seen as further evidence that despite Alexei's intransigence, John Paul has given greater urgency to unity with Orthodoxy than with Western Protestantism.
The latter's "tendency to succumb to secular fads has become so irritating that our relations cooled considerably," a Catholic ecumenical officer in Germany told United Press International.
The Kazan icon hangs across from the pope's desk in his Vatican apartment. It had disappeared from Russia in 1918 shortly after the Bolshevik revolution and turned up in North America, where it was bought by a Catholic organization called Blue Army of Our Lady in Fatima.
The image was to be handed back when Russia converted, a development the Virgin Mary is said to have prophesied in 1917 during an apparition in Fatima, Portugal, which is now a Marian shrine. Catholic conservatives strongly object to the icon's return at this point, saying that Russia had not converted.
But the pontiff has made clear in recent years that reconciliation with the Eastern Church had top priority.
Visiting Centralia
Where Ive been recently
Upstate/central Pennsylvania
Took a relaxing drive to the tiny town of Centralia (more below), through 'God's country' of winding roads, green wooded hills and little coal-mining villages with wonderful Victorian architecture. If you want to feel good specifically about the Byzantine Rite, and can't make a паломничество to Russia, this is the area to travel through - Frackville, for example, has as the church in its high street a towering gold onion-domed Russian Orthodox church, dedicated to the Ascension. (Complete with Vespers Saturday night as is their custom.) It also has a fine Ukrainian Catholic church dedicated to St Michael and, two blocks over, St John's Polish National Catholic Church (an 1890s immigrant schism), a low-profile 1960s building that looks like an attempt by innately conservative people to copy the Novus Ordo to be 'with it' but without the hand of liberal bureaucratic oppression over them.
The little village of St Clair, southeast of Frackville, is as dense with churches as the city of York, England! Several RC ones - probably one for each ethnic group as well as the default-Irish one (get there at the right hour and you can say the Angelus - no, they don't ring it - saying each Hail Mary in front of a different church!) - and a slew of Byzantine ones on both sides of the fence. The landmark one, the tallest and prettiest (you can see it from Highway 61 just west of town), is Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, almost as nice on the inside too - a trio of onion domes and three-bar Russian crosses which the old-time immigrants weren't afraid of using. Over the door is the very properly Byzantine and Slavonic Благословен грядый во имя Господне (Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord). (It looks a lot like SS. Peter & Paul Russian Orthodox Church, in Centralia until the 1980s.) The Ruthenian church at the other end of town, St Mary's, has what I call a 'spite cross' on its steeple, with the bottom bar straightened out to distance themselves from their religious and cultural heritage. (Part of the mistaken notion of latinization - bastardize your rite because you think it's 'less Catholic'.)
Holy Trinity and St Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church (at right — more below) in Centralia (a beautiful landmark on a hill on the north side of town) were the best churches of the trip.
It was a beautiful day, sunny and not too hot.
The only smoke I saw in Centralia was coming from behind the yellow house (one of about eight scattered houses left on a grid of mostly empty streets - a Twilight Zonish aspect) as it appeared the guy who lived here was having a cook-out on a grill! (He also flew the Polish flag - nice touch.)
Fine little houses (the brick buttresses holding some of them up are cool too - they originally were rowhouses), neat as two pins - there's definitely pride of place there.
The veterans' memorial with the bell is in great shape. A man was mowing the grass around it on a little tractor. Here is another shot of the memorial and the townsfolk as they were in 1992.
It really is like a park! (I understand that once or twice a year a bear runs through.)
The fire seems pretty well contained - just a swath of grey, dead fallen trees by St Ignatius Cemetery and the cracked part of old Highway 61, like a scar marking the south side of town. I didn't go onto the cracked road - well marked off by white 'Underground Mine Fire' warning signs with red letters - but did drive by the fire spot once. There are actually three houses practically next to it.
St Mary's cornerstone is in Ukrainian, partly obscured: ___ька гр. католицька церков в Центрели. ро. 1911 (___ Greek Catholic Church in Centralia, in the year 1911). The obscured word is probably Руська: Rusyn or Ruthenian, sometimes translated as Russian.
It looks like it's the village church but it really isn't: Centralia was historically Irish and RC (and a meeting place of the 19th-century early labour union/terrorists the Molly Maguires); its parish church, St Ignatius, was closed and torn down in the 1990s.
What struck me was the empty streets and steps leading nowhere that were on the hill on my way up to the church, as far as possible away from the fire!
What the hell was the government thinking in the 1980s, scaring those people away and tearing down their homes? Sad.
From an interview online:
According to Lamar [Mervine, aged 88, the mayor of Centralia], $1.5 billion worth of coal lies buried beneath Centralia. The families currently living in town own the mineral rights. If the land were cleared of homes, the state could sell these rights to a major coal company. Hence the government exaggerated the danger in the 1980s, declared eminent domain, relocated a thousand people, and destroyed empty houses to prevent anyone from returning. “If there’s no more people in town here, I don’t know who’s going to stop them,” Lamar concluded.
As he spoke, his wife Lana climbed down the stairs into the living room. “The government don’t give a damn,” she chimed in. “They’re no good themselves. I don’t care who hears me.” She settled into an easy chair. “The fire isn’t under the whole town, like they make it seem. Oh, they like to tell lies. They think that they can scare people out. We don’t scare easy. We’re just a bunch of dumb Dutchmen — we don’t know enough to be scared. You get so sick of it after a while, you know. Pestering and pestering for nothing. They’re nuts. They tell you those fumes are bad for you and all that junk. We don’t stand up there and breathe that stuff.”
Went as far as Aristes to the north (a town smaller than St Clair) and coming back down the hill got a good view of Centralia, including the patch where the fire is or at least used to be.
Hang tough, Mayor Mervine and co. - you've got a good thing.
Labels: Pennsylvania
St Sharbel Makhlouf
And a favourite book on him, chock full of quotations from the Desert Fathers
Regrettably the Maronite Church today is the most modernized liturgically of the Eastern Catholic churches (I know - I've been once), having lost most of its traditions in the centuries after restoring contact with Rome in Crusader times. Worse off in that regard than most Byzantine Catholics.
From blog correspondent Samer al-Batal (shown here with his mum at the Eastern Orthodox shrine and convent of Said Naya in their native Syria)
Vandals mount new attack against Rome
No way to grieve
Sorry, The Spectator makes you sign in to read their stuff
S al-B: How mourning and British society's response to death have lost their form. [End.]
Reminds me of Dianamania right after her death. (Yes, she was dazzling and is missed.) Who was best qualified to say what was appropriate re: displaying mourning, HM the Queen who had known Diana Spencer since she was a little girl or the sobbing masses who'd never met her?
That said, I like the epitaph of the late Dinah Shore - a fine singer, beautiful woman in her day and apparently a nice person all round - something like 'Those who knew her loved her - and so did millions who never met her'.
Polish excavation in Syria sheds new light on ancient cult
S al-B: Concerning the cult of the god Mithras.
LRC picks
Erasing the South
Reminds me of my visits to yankeefied Raleigh, NC, not only made so by uni students and corporate transients (what a godawful way to live) but - having seen the statehouse - rewritten/erased by Reconstruction.
Come on, America, youre choosing a president, not a date
Thank you. Reminds me of what sometime friend and RC apologist Mark Bonocore - who bogglingly accepted the Novus Ordo and much else that came down the pipe but was more revanchist ('ancient-minded') than me in other ways - said about women and the vote (opposition to which is not the official position of this blog, but anyway), that they tend to vote for the handsome candidate who seems like he'd take good care of them. Charley Reese's advice is for such (of course not all) women.
You make a mockery of self-government if you allow demagogues to influence your vote on the basis of phony issues. The real threats facing the United States are not homosexual marriages or even legal abortions. If you allow people to persuade you to cast your vote based on those two issues, you are wasting your vote, because I guarantee that the politicians, regardless of what they say now, will not do anything about either one of them. These are scarlet fish.
Finally, you are making a mockery of self-government if you allow your vote to be influenced by concerns for a foreign country. And yes, I'm directing this to the Israel-first crowd, both Jew and Christian. The election in November is for the president of the United States, not the deputy prime minister of Israel. If you love Israel more than America, then by all means emigrate, join the Israeli Defense Forces and do your part. We need a president who will make his decisions based on the best interests of the United States, not those of Israel (or France, or Japan, or any other country). [End.]
From St Stephens Musings (Karl Thienes)
The Buddhist-Byzantine Christian connection
He's not the first one to see the affinity people from Buddhism have to this particular rite and tradition of the Catholic faith.
(Or, as it is known to us who are récherché archaic in young-fogey fashion, an Oriental rite. Of course it's not as in East Asian, and not to be confused with the similar Oriental Orthodox, formerly called Monophysites - the Churches of Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia and the Syrian Rite of which the Church of India is part - but the point here is that the old name may have a point!)
A page from a couple of years ago, transcribing a conversation on Usenet among Western (white, black, etc.) former Buddhists who felt at home in Eastern Orthodoxy:
From Buddhism to Orthodoxy
I have Alan Watts' The Supreme Identity on what friend Charley Wingate calls the woo-woo shelf of my little library but haven't read it yet. He shares the honour with Paramahansa Yogananda, Joseph Campbell, Ram Dass, Richard Bach, Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I read it; big f*cking derivative deal) and a couple of obnoxious little tracts by whitebread converts to Eastern Orthodoxy basically trying to screw over their former church.
He strikes me as very credible and thus very dangerous because he knew the Catholic faith very well as he was an apostate Anglican priest.
This bit rings true though:
Since writing The Supreme Identity I have travelled over much of the world and have witnessed the religious observances of many traditions. It has struck me that if one pay no attention to the meaning of words, most forms of temple-doings are essentially the same - chanting, bowing, candles, incense, gongs and bells - from the peyote ritual of the Oglala Sioux [I think that's done by some Southwestern desert American Indians and not the Lakota, actually] to the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Paris, and from the Abbey of Sant Anselmo in Rome to the Daitoku Temple in Kyoto... This is why one must become again as a child to enter the kingdom of heaven...
At face value that's not indifferentism (though doubtless that's what Watts was getting at) but rather a recognition of the commonality of natural religion. No problem.
In Not of This World, about sometime Buddhist convert Fr Seraphim (Rose)*, Fr Damascene (Christiansen) had Watts well sussed (Eugene Rose knew Watts in the 1950s) as the prototypical New Age dilettante, disrespecting the Asian religions he exploited (swamis reminded him their religion has rules and stuff) as he became a kind of hippy guru, ending up by his own admission an unhappy drunk who didn't like himself when he was sober.
I live in two rooms in an Edwardian house not counting the bath/WC: the front, the original living room, is naturally dark and very European-looking (like in England where of course it's overcast a lot); the back room where I'm writing this is in contrast bright and lends itself well to austere Asian décor. A Japanese wood-and-paper screen hides most of my bed and a big example of original Chinese calligraphy (all I know is it's a poem every Chinese child learns in school) hangs right above this computer (hooray for 10-foot walls). To one side along one wall is a shelf with a couple of icons of Our Lady and a blue votive light (on an antique silver stand got for next to nothing secondhand)... and below that is one of those little fountains with rocks in a bowl, with the Chinese ideograph for 'serenity' on the bowl. Fitting: my baptismal certificate is right above, framed on that wall above the icons.
*The favourite page from my original site of people in Eastern Europe, interestingly enough: Greece, Russia and Romania.
The riddle of the Romanovs
Aussie researcher says the bones aren't them
Translated by Zaghid Yusoupov
A Middle Eastern name russified with the -ov. Wonder if he's related to the late Felix, the gay prince who murdered Rasputin, famously trying several means in quick succession before throwing him into a river.
Anastasia again
From Pravda
From Forum 18, those pesky Norwegians with a point about religious liberty
Government of Red China blocks religious websites
Chinese web-users are denied access to a range of religious sites based abroad, Forum 18 News Service has found after a two-month survey of how far the Chinese government's Golden Shield firewall, used to censor the Internet, affects access to religious websites. Sites blocked include those related to the persecution of Christians and other religious faiths, the Dalai Lama, the Falun Gong religious movement, the Muslim Uygurs of Xinjiang and a number of Catholic sites, including the website of the Hong Kong diocese and the Divine Word Missionaries in Taiwan.
Bulgaria: Police raid Orthodox churches
Bulgarian police have forcibly expelled members of the alternative Orthodox synod [sic] from some 250 churches they have been using for over 10 years, causing deep concern in Bulgaria, although one government official has defended the expulsions to Forum 18 News Service. The police raids follow a long-standing split in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and a controversial religion law favouring one side in the split. Baptist pastor Theodor Angelov, general secretary of the European Baptist Federation, was blunt in his support for the ousted Orthodox parishes. "We have full sympathy for our Orthodox brothers and sisters. This is a very difficult moment for all the Churches and the whole population of Bulgaria." He told Forum 18 that he condemned what he regarded as communist-style methods not seen in Bulgaria since the end of the communist period. "Using violence in a time that pretends to be democratic is unacceptable."
The Orthodox often are the bad guys in Forum 18's coverage so when they do seem to favour them it's usually some group in schism, not the actual Orthodox church of the Eastern European country in question. While repugnant to countries that - in theory at least - have religious liberty, what Bulgaria is doing is explainable. First a recap of basic Catholic ecclesiology - one bishop, one city, and schism is a sin. An 'alternative Orthodox synod' is a contradiction in terms.
I reckon Mr Angelov would like to 'divide and conquer' to get a Protestant foothold in his native land.
Moldova: Why cant Muslims or Russian Orthodox Church Abroad register?
Muslim and Orthodox communities have been repeatedly denied state registration, despite the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad winning a case against the government in the Moldovan Supreme Court. Two of the communities have told Forum 18 News Service that they have now appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The ECHR fined Moldova in 2002 for denying the Romanian Orthodox Church registration, and the government subsequently registered the church. Unregistered religious communities can be fined, and they cannot hold a bank account, publish literature in their own name, or build a prominent place of worship. State officials have refused to tell the communities or Forum 18 why the registration applications have been repeatedly refused.
Again, setting up altar against altar is wrong according to the internal discipline of the Orthodox as it is in the Catholic faith in general. Either the Church of Russia or the Church of Romania can claim Moldova (Romanians whose land, Bessarabia, is a longtime part of the Russian empire and who are now independent.) The USSR has been gone since 1991 so the presence of the Russian Church Abroad, a US-based group for exiles from the USSR, in the бывший Союз (ex-USSR) is problematic ecclesiologically.
Neocon Krauthammer: Strike before Irans nukes get hot
MR: This latest nugget of neocon lunacy comes to us from former Walter Mondale confidant turned Fox News warhawk Charles Krauthammer.
Dr. Krauthammer (a physician and psychiatrist turned self-professed political pundit and sofa Samurai), you may remember, is one of the folks who warned us ominously that showing The Passion of The Christ would cause spontaneous, anti-semitic uprisings in cities across America, in which thousands of innocent Jewish citizens would potentially be killed or injured. So, we should obviously listen closely to what this prophetic and insightful gent has to say.
Sorry Charlie, the body count from Gibson's Passion is still holding steady at zero. Of course, if people like him get their way, (Krauthammer urges the U.S. to now pre-emptively attack and invade Iran, since, well, they MAY develop nukes at some point and, besides, we're in the neighborhood)... there will be many thousands more dead Americans on foreign battlefields and in our own streets.
Let us pray that the Bush administration will finally stop listening to people like Krauthammer, who -- like almost every other ex-leftist turned neoconservative war zealot -- have never worn a uniform or experienced the horrors of combat first hand, and finally start listening to those who have. [End.]
Better still, get rid of the Bush administration.
From Ecclesia Anglicana (Taylor Marshall):
Babies are left- or right-handed aged 10 weeks in the womb
An LRC potpourri
Young men of the Old Right
Murray Rothbard explains the latter
Neither were many of these libertarians "Protestants." Meyer and Chodorov were Jewish, Mencken was an atheist, and Nock, although a lapsed Anglican minister, could hardly have belonged to any of the sects that Miles, in his obsolescent way, identifies with the Calvinist Protestants who were supposed to have ushered in the spirit and institutions of Western capitalism.
Robert Taft, the man who should have been president
The party-line version of American history: a parody
Rather like what the average Protestant-manqué American thinks is Christian history: in the beginning there was God, and then there was Jesus, who was His Son, whatever that means, and then there was the Bible, coming from somewhere, don't know where, and everything was great, but then those Catholics (cue the menacing incidental music here - duh-duh-DUMMMMM) showed up and loused it all up. (The churched go on to say 'until [name the venerable founder of one's sect here] came along and restored it'.)
Never mind the PC bollocks:
Taking sex differences seriously
Telling men not to become aroused by signs of beauty, youth and health is, as David Buss has noted, like ‘telling them not to experience sugar as sweet’. Using MRIs to examine young men’s brains as they look at beautiful women, researchers found that feminine beauty affects a man’s brain at a primal level – similar to what a hungry man gets from a meal or an addict from a fix.
Of course! That's how God made us. Which is partly behind the ubiquity of soft-sell advertising, putting a beautiful face and/or figure in an advert for no other reason (nothing directly to do with the product!).
Debate with a Christian statist
Like the Bushistas who occasionally pop into the comments boxes here
Pentagon tries to shove Abu-Ghraib into the memory hole
End the two-party monopoly
By US Congressman Ron Paul, MD (Texas)
Two prolife entries from David Holford
Babies killing babies
How the government fuels modernity's big non serviam re: sex
Nazi eugenics redux, or designer babies
Only the 'fit' deserve to give birth, Margaret Sanger said
9/11 commission blames failure of imagination and institutional failings, not government
Mistakes were made. I did not have sex with that woman. What is 'is'? Semper idem.
US Marines kill 25 Iraqis in Ramadi clashes
•Lord, in Thy mercy: hear our prayer.
•Which part of 'Yankee, go home!' isn't getting through?
Blaming the boomers
I'm not of the 'let's emulate the 1950s' school of conservatism - both romantic young fogeyhood (’50s revivalist: 'Pansy!') and romantic yet practical granola conservatism (’50s fetishist: 'Beatnik!') fall well outside this model - but this has a point
The church of Bush
Bizarro world
Population earthquake hits Germany
Gerard Bugge: Europe is oh so comfortable, oh so progressive, and oh so sterile.
It ages and wonders where the retirement benefits will come from. But no one seems to think it might be good to have more children. Except the immigrant and convert Muslims! [End.]
Allaaaaahu akbaaaaaar!
Today in Christian history (From Christianity Today)
July 22, 1822: Johann Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk and botanist who discovered the basic laws of genetic inheritance, is born.
July 22, 1844: The Rev. William Archibald Spooner, English clergyman and educator, was born. He lent his name to the verbal lapses called Spoonerisms, which involve the comic reversal of consonants. Instead of "our dear old queen," he is said to have called Queen Victoria "our queer old dean."
Gerard Bugge: [Know] Any [more] good "spoonerisms"?????
Hee hee.
Et introibo ad altare Dei: an ironing-board/card-table-, burlap- and guitar-free zone
Where I got started in the Catholic faith, part II
The actual place, St Peter's, Kansas City, may have modernized as friend and Central Churchman Charley Wingate pointed out, what with their 'mission statement' about being 'diverse' and all that (could be worse - the place where I was baptized nearly 38 years ago has since had a lady rector!) but places like what it was 25 years ago still exist. Like this one, the parish of fellow blogger Taylor Marshall. Not high - I remember having Morning Prayer as the main Sunday service twice a month like them - but not inimical to that either, and at least Christian and conservative. It was high churchmen in this setting who pointed me in the right direction.
On my coming to ripe years of reason I did not shift my opinion from one to another but carried out the principles delivered to me... Just as the seed when it grows is surst tiny and then gets bigger, but always preserves its identity, not changed in kind though gradually perfected in growth, so I reckon the same doctrine to have grown in my case through gradually advancing stages. What I hold now has not replaced what I held at the beginning.
- St Basil the Great
One reason I can say that is my Sunday-school teachers didn't press or even teach the objectionable (Protestant) stuff in the back of the Prayer Book. I memorized all the names of the books of the Bible, in order, and read a bit of the obscure minor prophets (like the book of Amos one summer), but also learnt about all seven sacraments, etc.
This could be seen as an argument in favour of Newman's on the development of doctrine too.
Incidentally and ironically I got this quotation from a beautifully made book, The Lives of the Three Hierarchs - the founding fathers of Byzantine theology, SS. Basil, Gregory Nazianzen and John Chrysostom - printed by this cult's Colorado monastery back when they were under some dodgy Greeks (not the actual Greek Orthodox Church), all of six years ago. The work of people who are quite mad, and dangerous, but in spite of themselves remaining quite Catholic except for basic ecclesiology/episcopal and monastic polity (obedience, stability).
The Onion picks
Rumsfeld humiliated as US credit card is rejected
Infographic: the Democratic convention
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Eastern Churches news
Metropolitan Laurus
First hierarch of Russian Orthodox Church Abroad celebrates jubilee as priest
Поздравляем! Господь Бог да дасть ему и многая и благая лета!
I understand he is a very nice man (borne out in this photo-gallery link that Samer al-Batal sent me). A young woman recently told me, 'He used to baby-sit me'. The abbot of a thriving monastery made the time to be a child-minder.
Historical notes/corrections:
•Bulgaria has a good claim to be 'the cradle of Slavdom' as well.
•For all the Byzantine Catholics' problems historically, most of the good metropolitan's native land, far eastern Slovakia, and ethnos, Ruthenians (western Ukrainians without the nationalist bent), became BCs starting in 1646 because of pressure from their then-Protestant ruler, not RCs.
•A few families and villages like the kurla family (the metropolitan's) remained Eastern Orthodox.
•Of course the Austrian Empire that owned Ruthenia encouraged the BCs - not different really from the religious conformity encouraged nearby in the Russian Empire. Minority faiths were treated relatively well by the Hapsburgs; religious liberty wasn't handed down in Russia until 1905.
•After the Austrian defeat in World War I, Ruthenia very briefly - less than a year? - was a nation complete with flag (dark blue horizontal stripe on top, red on the bottom) and national anthem, 'Подкарпатськи Русини' ('Subcarpathian Rusyns'), written in the 19th century by a BC priest, Fr Aleksandr Duchnovič. In 1919 Ruthenia voted to join Czechoslovakia and disappeared from the map.
•The Soviet Union annexed the eastern part of Ruthenia during World War II; this is still the Transcarpathian oblast' forming the far southwestern corner of the Ukraine. Its people are Ruthenian BCs, not Ukrainian Catholics. A former girlfriend's family came from here, immigrating to Ohio in America from Perečyn in 1905.
•The Communist puppet government of Czechoslovakia banned the BCs in 1950 (besides being anti-religious they feared a church controlled from outside the country that they thus couldn't co-opt); during the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, a break from Soviet control, almost everybody in far eastern Slovakia voluntarily became BC again.
•The metropolitan's early life resembles Pope John XXIII's, also remembered as being very joyful, who IIRC entered a junior seminary when he was 11.
US death toll in Iraq hits 900
Be careful what you wish for - you may be stuck with it
Neocons want to murder Iran
Those mad buggers want World War III
How I survived government schools
Banned on the Ship of Fools
Position statement on homosexuality
Written two years ago. Re-read it last night and didn't see what was wrong with it - why should one mortal sin become a protected class?
Designer of Baltimores Inner Harbor dead in double suicide
I know it's wrong but think I understand the temptation to 'Kevorkian' oneself if faced with painful, deadly illness or Alzheimer's. Still, he had done so much.
From Charley Wingate
This cult again. LOL.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
- Plaque left on the moon, 20th July 1969
Planned Parenthood promotes kinks and porn
My father sells all of the condoms
My sister sticks them with a pin
My mother, she does the abortions
My God, how the money rolls in...
The song of mainstream society.
Of course chaste teens aren't good business. Got to keep those passions - good and bad, natural and unnatural - inflamed 24/7.
From blog correspondent Samer al-Batal
Bishops plan his and hers Church
S al-B: Via Fr James Tucker's blog. The issue of female clergy rears its head again.
Thump, thump, thump... another one bites the dust
And if you want to know just how theologically bankrupt the church is,
read what the weekly newsletter from St. Mary the Virgin [in Manhattan], a famous
Anglo-Catholic church in the DIOCESE OF NEW YORK, which in recent years has
become a heaven [sic] for gay people. The Rector, Stephen Gerth says: "The
Episcopal Church is famously a Christian community where Scripture and
tradition alone do not define our faith. Reason along with Scripture and
tradition does too. We don't have to pretend Peter was the first pope -
or that anyone alive in his day thought he was. We don't have to pretend
that the Bible is literally true - we believe it reveals to us what we
need to know." Of course.
From being a place that celebrated Marian feasts and meant it to Unitarians with liturgical affectations, in only half a century. (Ditto St Ignatius on the West Side.)
'And another one gone and another one gone - another one bites the dust' as talented late friend-of-Dorothy Freddy Mercury sang.
Hes going to attack Iran
Just like Iraq - imply or lie about some connection to 9/11 and feed it to the Fox News-watching proles
Mr Blair faces another Commons inquiry
About the lies re: Iraq
A mixed blessing
US losing Protestant majority
Protestants are only 52% of Americans. The country could be turning into something worse. Then again it simply could mean more people from Protestant backgrounds changing from nominal Protestant church memberships to unchurched - just like a former girlfriend's parents. Born in 1960 she was a nothingarian - never baptized, nothing.
From The Onion Dome
Greek patriarch to guest-star on ‘The Simpsons’
Tee hee. Might actually happen - me-too marketing after +Cantuar's appearance - if an ethnic Greek became US president. Ho-pah!
What the Protestant neocons want you to think
MR: Here's is a sample of some of the information that well-meaning evangelical and fundamentalist protestants are currently circulating and apparently whispering... (or perhaps shouting) into the Bush administration's ear. You will probably find it instructive, if not troubling to see that this peculiar ad-mixture of faddish "rapture"-based eschatology and secular ambitions of empire building have apparently come together in an unwholesome alliance that, to all appearances, is presently shaping our current foreign policy.
While the desire for the Jewish people to have a safe and secure homeland is, of course, admirable and praiseworthy, it would appear that Palestinian Christians, our long-suffering brothers and sisters in Christ (who, like the Jewish people, are /also/ the ancient and rightful residents of the Holy Land) do not even figure in this "prophetic" spin on middle eastern geopolitics. Rather, in this peculiar worldview, the Divine Will is apparently one and the same as the policies of Ariel Sharon's hard-line Likud party and the aggressive ambitions of influential neoconservative Washington think tanks like the Project for the New American Century.
Nonetheless, "Doctor" Tim LaHaye, "Doctor" Pat Robertson, "Doctor" John Hagee, Mr. Pat Boone and a host of other distinguished foreign policy experts assure us that: "Bill Clinton/John Kerry and friends do not want [us] to read this..." thereby reducing one of the most complex, long-standing, tragic and intractable of all historical human conflicts to a simple, election year "right" vs. "left" issue.
So there you have it... Is there a (real) doctor in the house? [End.]
The extreme left will be in Boston shortly for the Democratic National Convention with former President Bill Clinton as a keynote speaker. This is the last opportunity you and I will have to send a clear message to them.
What you are about to read is just a small sample of what is inside The American Prophecies, and why it is already the national number-one selling book in its category on Amazon.
The American Prophecies: Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future
by Michael D. Evans
From The American Prophecies:
...Israel also showed Clinton raw data that proved Arafat had given the green light to the renewal of terror attacks by Hamas. Israel had monitored the talks that Arafat held with the Hamas leaders in Gaza on March 12-19, 1997. Based on that information, the then head of military intelligence, Moshe Yaalon, determined that Arafat had indeed sanctioned these terror attacks on Israel. Clinton could have been expected to respond to this very harshly.
However, he did nothing because he was unwilling to abandon Arafat, who was part of the Oslo legacy and "peace process" to which he was committed.
Also in 1999, Clinton made even more blatant use of his special position as president of the United States in the eyes of the Israeli public to undermine Netanyahu's standing and to cause him to lose the election. Psychologically, Israel's unique relationship with the United States is one of the most important underpinnings of Israel's national security. If this relationship were to be viewed by the Israeli public as being shaken due to a particular individual, even if this had no objective basis in reality, it could result in serious public stress. Right at the start of the 1999 election campaign in Israel, Clinton sent a very clear message as to what he wanted: He sent the team that had run both of his successful election campaigns to lead Ehud Barak's campaign. This team was composed of James Carville, Stanley Greenberg, and Bob Shrum, a team worth more than a million dollars, and considering the activities for which the three were responsible, much more than that. Stanley Greenberg had already been involved in the process of figuring ways to win against Netanyahu back in 1998. He kept close contact with Barak. As the most prominent figure among the three, Greenberg did public opinion surveys and analyzed focus-group data. While the general opinion in the U.S. and Israeli press during 1998 was that Netanyahu would be in power for at least four more years, Greenberg found, and told Barak, that there was a way to beat Netanyahu. The main idea was to cross the security image threshold, and stick to the economy and social affairs - the same strategy Clinton had won with in the United States behind his sleight-of-hand slogan, "It's the economy, stupid!" He kept America focused on their pocketbooks while he did whatever he wanted. That was the main input of "the Americans," said Tal Silberstein, one of Barak's top advisers for the campaign. "They structured the research, came up with the insights, and we adapted it to Israel."
Some of the top donors to the Democratic Party and to Clinton's campaigns were mobilized for Barak's campaign as though this were another election the Democrats must win.
Overall, the Labor party spent between $50 and $80 million on its anti-Netanyahu campaign, roughly ten times what Netanyahu's own Likud Party spent. In early 2000, the state comptroller of Israel produced a report that stated the Labor Party, in doing so, had grossly violated strict Israeli campaign finance laws. The government fined the campaign an unprecedented $3.2 million and is still following through on a criminal investigation of Barak's "One Israel" campaign financing.
Clinton personally contributed to Ehud Barak by continuing his warm meetings with Arafat in the White House, while freezing out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and receiving Barak and Yitzhak Mordechai, both of the candidates running against Netanyahu in the election. "Clinton helped Barak more than he had to," said one of Barak's men. The fact that Arafat had become the White House's most welcome official guest (he could have been awarded the Blair House's frequent-guest prize) was interpreted in the Israeli media to the detriment of Netanyahu rather than of the American president. The result of all those efforts was the collapse of the Israeli political center, with 6 percent of Netanyahu's voters moving over to the other side, causing a change of government in Israel.
President George W. bush observed afterward that Clinton's final plan was the work of two "desperate people" - Clinton and Barak. One wanted to leave behind a legacy of peace in the Middle East when he completed his presidency in addition to his personal need to clear his name after the Lewinsky affair; while the other needed a peace agreement in order to survive the elections. Arab sources show that Clinton's far-reaching offer involved an extraordinary new development: It gave Arafat almost everything he wanted, including 98 percent of the territory of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, all of East Jerusalem except for the Jewish and Armenian quarters, Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount, conceding only the right of the Jews to pray there, and a compensation fund of $30 billion."
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St Giles' Church, Imber
Villages destroyed by the state: Imber and Tyneham (more), England
'Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly.'
- Note pinned to the door of St Mary's, Church, Tyneham, Dorset, 1943
'Pa, what does confiscate mean?'
'Stealing.'
- the movie Shenandoah
The war, Martha Stewart and boobus americanus
Oppose the federal marriage amendment
It's your Christian duty
Revive the Angelus
In the Roman Rite. Wonderful idea! I like the parallel to 'Allaaaaahu akbaaaaar!' coming from the Muslims' minarets several times a day. It's also a good parallel to the divine office - a good substitute for those of us who aren't obligated to do the latter and can't during the day. I use it in this form just about every day, especially at midday.
Locally the only people who ring it are Anglo-Catholics, which isn't that surprising. Which, though it isn't surprising either, makes it sadder for me to hear, as I did this weekend from a curate from southern England, that the C of E's few remaining English Missal parishes are getting the squeeze put on them to drop it and comform to the newest modern substitute for the Book of Common Prayer, Common Worship ('Comic Worship', 'Vulgar Worship') - the latest Protestant mishmash destined to be dropped and forgotten in 15-20 years. (AFAIK there is no 'ASB Society' in England.)
Whats wrong with Byzantine Catholic practice in a nutshell
A good friend, an Anglican who uses the traditional Roman Rite including the English Missal, summed it up perfectly last night: except for a few high-church strongholds, often manned by converts (like this one, where our own Dave McLaughlin worships), the rank and file may use different and better words and a physical setting that's still tolerable but their approach is exactly like the Novus Ordo (which may be why byzcath.org got so defensive and hateful when I dared criticize the NO on their board) - liberal, revisionist, minimalist.
Many thanks to blog correspondent Samer al-Batal for the sound sample.
Rapper Jadakiss blames Bush for 9/11
Two from Russia
First, more importantly:
Kremlin sued for return of churches by Russian Orthodox Church
Furious that the Russian state still owns most of the country's churches 13
years after the collapse of Communism, and has had the gall to start
charging it land tax, the church has launched the first property restitution
lawsuit since the Russian Revolution in 1917.
The lawsuit, which is regarded as a test case that could open the flood
gates for thousands of other restitution claims...
Очень хорошо! (Great!)
Putin venerates newly returned icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin (icon)
From mammana.org
Sounds like a Chinese name - 'Yingling' - but it's actually America's oldest brewery, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania since 1829. IMO their products are as good as English beers.
Mormons backpedalling
On one of the world's biggest religious hoaxes
From Katolik Shinja (an American in Korea)
Why is it that a certain end of the political spectrum only tolerates public religious discourse among black folks?
Condescending revisionist crap from modern RCs
And these are so-called 'conservatives'
The Second Vatican Council was a call to full spiritual maturity. It was time to take off the training wheels — to stop living “in the shadow of the Law” — and take our vocations as Christians seriously.
What hubris. So the fathers and other saints of the Church Catholic, East and West, from St Basil the Great* whose prayers I read nearly every day to SS. Thomas Aquinas, Vincent de Paul and Alphonsus Liguori were 'immature' to you and 'didn't take their vocations as Christians seriously'? Why, because they didn't have dopey Dan Schutte** songs to listen to?
The restoration is under way but once the old liberals are gone this rubbish has to be got rid of. These people really are Protestants in their approach.
I'm not of the 'the homos are out to get you' persuasion (the people Mr Bush is out to scare votes from) but this article has a point:
Poaching off heterosexual society
If any human group ever adopted homosexuality as the chief principal [sic] around which to organize society, it died out. No such society can long exist, except in the imagination of homosexual activists, since it would fail to provide for the future in the most fundamental way: by reproducing itself. Homosexual subcultures are therefore necessarily predatory, perpetuating themselves by poaching off the larger heterosexual society.
I don't think smart homosexuals pretend they're the norm because they realize this.
There is no such thing as the gay community. Maybe they're just people.
Then there's the other aspect of dodging reality about sex - through science, trying to have babies without sex.
*This example is the prayer from the end of the hour of Sext (don't forget to type that 't'!) in the Byzantine Rite.
**The homosexuals I'm friends with want nothing to do with this music.
On the box
Ah-nolt, lurid anti-Catholic fiction with roots going back to 1840s America complete with scary priests and soft-porn stuff, religious ritual - both fake RC and even the satanic stuff - more interesting than most mainstream churches, the 'Y2K' scare (humbug), plot points pinched from The Exorcist, The Omen and that silly recent one with Al Pacino as Lucifer, special effects stolen from The Matrix (NTS, FWIW, a much better movie) and, best of all, lots of blowing shit up.
This hurts - a lot
Had it happen two mornings in a row, in bed, one leg one day, then the other. The pain is, well, exquisite. (Makes a good penance in a way, to 'offer up', and a chance to try certain prayers that calm you down - trying to get to a meditative state. The pain was too much, though - just offered it up.) Just getting back into shape - bicycled over 50 miles total over three days before it started raining. BTW it's pouring today - so much for the legend of St Swithun's Day!
May have to try some Gatorade this week to keep it from happening again or as often. Staying hydrated is no prob. It's the electrolyte loss you've got to watch out for.
Irish party leader suggests lifting ban on RCs becoming King or Queen
Sounds good to me though I don't see it practically making much difference.
The Irish Republic's Green Party leader Trevor Sargent called on the Prime Minister to lead the fight against sectarianism by changing the 1701 Act of Settlement.
One wonder what this has got to do with Mr Sargent, whose country in a burst of quixotic nationalism became a republic in 1949. Maybe it's the Republic's claim on the North.
Was the madness of King George due to arsenic?
From the blog of Fr James Tucker. The movie with Nigel Hawthorne and the ever-beautiful Helen Mirren gave a different medical reason that also explained another symptom.
From blog correspondent Lee Penn
British Medical Journal: Bush plans to screen all US students for mental illness
This is so Soviet.
LP: I wonder, though .... why would the Bush people push another expensive program when the budget deficit is already out of control? And the BMJ headline seems incorrect ... the story talks about mental health screening for all students, not (yet) the whole population.
Nevertheless, consider the possibility .... that the people who brought you the Patriot Act might want to test your mental health, or that of your child. [End.]
Manly ritual
Mark Fiore rules:
Minister of Fear
Sort-Of-ocracy
Oh, joy - another redundant Eastern Orthodox jurisdiction in America in the works
Don't get me wrong. These Arabic Orthodox are wonderful people - Samer's own ethnos from Syria - but as I explain here, the proper Orthodox MO really should be restored in America now that the Soviet Union is long gone. As a Russian-American choirmaster said to me - and he was from the independent Orthodox Church in America - the lot of them, Greeks, Slavs and Arabs (small ethnic chaplaincies really), should just go under the patriarch of Moscow again until the mess is properly sorted out. (I'm not saying that because I happen to like Russians. They were the first EOx in America so they have 'dibs'.) Of course that won't happen because the Greeks (in a tiny pond - EOx are something like 1% of Americans - the largely religiously indifferent Greeks are the most numerous) and the Arabs' patriarchs are in dying sees surrounded by hostile Muslims and so depend on American money to keep going. Understandable but the effect in America undermines sound Catholic ecclesiology: church as nationalist fiefdom and an alphabet soup of jurisdictions.
Todays saints from the Russian Orthodox tradition
Tsar Nicholas II, his family and those with them (+1918)
Святые царственные новомученики и мученицы россiйскые, молите Бога о насъ.
Lovely people, but an incompetent emperor, not particularly bright, getting the country mired in an immoral war, World War I, owing to nationalism and misplaced loyalties, causing (as Rasputin predicted) his own downfall - and death. The war destroyed so much of Catholic Europe, east (in this case) and west (the soon-to-be beatified Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary abdicated and his empire was carved up).
Besides a basic monarchist inclination - a sacramentally crowned king is profoundly Catholic - what turned me in favour of the Russian royals was reading Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra back in 1996. This American historian (writing about 40 years ago) with no bias either way (royalist or Communist) convinced me that personally they are saints. (As for politics, saints are fallible in their prudential judgement.) In a society littered with loveless dynastic marriages (like the late Diana in recent years) the tsar was a country gentleman who truly loved his wife.
•The tsar's real title - I think since the Western-emulating Peter the Great - was Iмператоръ, Imperator, Latin for 'emperor', not 'tsar'! But the slavophilic Nicholas informally brought the title tsar back.
•Rasputin? He wasn't a monk. Didn't claim he was. The emperor and empress saw what he wanted them to see, the 'holy peasant' who could save their hæmophiliac son from bleeding to death.
•Princess Alix, the empress, was a German (born Lutheran) related to Queen Victoria (as most royals were) and lived in England most of her life. She was Lord Mountbatten's aunt by blood. In the tsar's palaces, the language of the house was... English! Which the tsar spoke with a perfect upper-class English accent, not a Russian one.
•Sydney Gibbes, the children's English tutor, got out of Russia before the family were murdered and was so moved by his experience with them that when he returned to England he ended up a Russian Orthodox priest and monk.
•The house where the royals were martyred in the basement, the Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg (Communist name Sverdlovsk after the man who ordered the murders) was torn down by the Soviets to keep it from becoming a place of pilgrimage (Russian Orthodox are big on паломничество). The local Soviet boss who ordered the demolition was... Boris Yeltsin.
•Went to an exhibit of royal artefacts a few years ago. Moving. Among the items were the emperor's and empress's writings in both Russian (fun to try to read) and English, some icons and church vestments (reassuringly the same in the Russian Orthodox Church today), the coronation coach (the British one is a later imitation) and a bayonet used to kill the family and their servants, a second-class relic. Church people should have come in during the off-hours and done a молебен service.
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Hiidenkirnut: Spectacular Millennia-Old Devil’s Churns In Finland
Great power of the glacial melting water and movement of stones created some of the most spectacular potholes often called Giant’s Kettles (or Giant’s cauldrons).
Legends of ancient people in the region say that these potholes were made by a devil who use to live here.
Potholes have got various mystical meanings and have long influenced imagination of people living in the vicinity of them.
The ancient local population were aware of what they called the “devil’s churns” and they came up with stories like little devils that dwelled in their proximity. A common thought was that these devils had protected pagan locals from being converted but they had lost their fight and then had to hide. According to these little legends the potholes got their Finnish name.
Finland has approximately one hundred of these creations and they are known as “Hiidenkirnut” – the Devil’s Churns. Fourteen of them are located in the region of Rovaniemi, about 10 kilometres (6 miles) south of the Arctic Circle Lapland, Finland’s northernmost province.
Their inside is regular and very smooth and they appear to have been created by drilling machines.
However, most researchers agree they were formed by a circular motion of water from melting from glacial and mixed with stones and gravel. It was a natural process that began to take place at the end of the last ice age, 10,000-13,000 years ago.
No doubt, their formation is strongly connected to the presence of water and probably with ancient flood legends, people created on Earth through thousands of years.
The Devil’s Churn is a desolated place that can be reached only by car. One of the ancient Finnish legends tells that the Devil (in Finnish: Hiisi), haunted this area very long time ago.
When he heard about a Swedish bishop coming to convert the locals into Christianity, Hiisi collected stones, rocks, and arrows, and dug out a deep hole in the bare rock to sit there in ambush. While Hiisi sat there, he also managed to prepare a deadly potion to use against the bishop and his crew.
Unfortunately, Hiisi’s plans failed because he was defeated by bishop’s guards and eventually, he fled the Devil’s Churn, but the name of the place remains.
The biggest Giant’s s Kettle (with a diameter of 15.5 meters and a depth of about 13 meters) can be found in municipality of Salla in the southern part of Finland.
Otherwise, there are four more these kettle-shaped holes in the area, with diameters ranging from 5 to 15 meters.
The Devil’s churns of Rovaniemi have always fascinated people and scientists, who studied them for the first time in 1966-67.
Today there is no ancient debris in them, only water, to which people use to throw coins and make a wish, most probably to the devil, just in case, he is somewhere in the vicinity and can hear them.
There are other potholes or kettle-like holes – varying in size from a few inches to several feet in depth and diameter – in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and USA.
Pennsylvania’s Archbald Pothole (a remnant of the Wisconsin Glacial Period) is 38 feet (11.6 m) deep with a largest diameter of 42 feet (12.8 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m).
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Boeing 737 Max 8 woes crimp Asian airlines' growth plans
SINGAPORE — Asian airlines are cutting routes, revamping their schedules and leasing extra aircraft to fill gaps left by the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8s after deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.
So far, regional carriers have managed to avoid major disruptions, but analysts expect that idling the Max 8s, a fuel-efficient update of Boeing's popular 737, will crimp growth plans in the near future.
As investigations into the crashes continue, Boeing anticipates a $1 billion increase in costs related to the 737 Max, including fixing software implicated in the disasters, adding pilot training and compensating airlines and families of crash victims. Investigators are examining the role of flight-control software that pushed the planes' noses down based on faulty sensor readings.
Nearly 400 Max jets were grounded at airlines worldwide in mid-March after the Ethiopia crash.
In Asia, where air passenger traffic is growing the fastest, the groundings are pushing airlines' costs higher at a time of rising fuel prices, squeezing carriers' profits.
Chinese airlines had 96 Max 8 jets but have managed to avoid massive cancellations by swapping in other models of aircraft, said Kelvin Lau of Daiwa Capital Markets in Hong Kong.
"However, this may limit their capacity growth for the coming peak season," he added.
China Southern Airlines, which has 25 Max 8 jets, will likely revise its targeted growth for passenger capacity, he said.
Indonesian carrier Lion Air, whose Flight 610 disappeared into the sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, killing 189 people, said Friday in a statement that it was "operating normally by minimizing the impact" from the grounding of its 10 Max 8 jets.
"Lion Air continues to serve routes that have been operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8 by replacing them using other Lion Air fleets," spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said in a statement.
India's SpiceJet has said it would lease 22 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft, nine of which are already in service. The carrier said it also will deploy five Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
"The new inductions will not just bring down flight cancellations to nil but also help in SpiceJet's aggressive international and domestic expansion plans," chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said in a statement.
Not all carriers, even those without Max 8s, have managed as well.
Budget carrier Scoot, which is owned by Singapore Airlines, announced that it would suspend services between Singapore and four cities, with the first suspension starting from June. The routes were served by the Airbus A320.
Scoot, which does not have any Max 8 jets, said in a statement that the cuts were "due to a combination of weak demand and a shortage of aircraft resources."
"The aircraft shortage is arising as SilkAir, due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet, will no longer transfer its Boeing 737-800NG aircraft to Scoot in the financial year 2019/2020," it said.
SilkAir, the regional arm of Singapore Airlines, withdrew its six Max 8 jets from service on March 12, and its parent carrier has reassessed its capacity and fleet, opting to have Scoot grow more slowly, said Brendan Sobie of aviation consultancy CAPA.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg recently said the company was nearly finished an update to the Max that "will make the airplane even safer."
But given the concerns that deepened with the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max 8 on March 10, it's unclear when the update will be deployed and how long it will take for aviation regulators and airlines to decide it's safe for the aircraft to resume operations.
That's a hardship for carriers, especially during the peak summer travel season.
"Airlines don't know exactly when the Max will be back in service. This makes it a little difficult to plan, even though there is some flexibility within their fleets," Sobie said.
Emily Schmall in New Delhi and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.
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Home » BASKETBALL » FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2018 calendar announced with all-time high 10 dates
FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2018 calendar announced with all-time high 10 dates
Posted on February 21, 2018 by Abdul Rahim in BASKETBALL No Comments
MIES, Feb 20, 2018: FIBA on Tuesday unveiled the full schedule for the 7th edition of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2018, which will grow from 8 to 10 events, starting with the Saskatoon Masters in Canada on July 21-22 and culminating with the Bloomage Beijing Final in the Chinese capital on October 27-28.
“Adding two more events to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour is a giant step forward,” FIBA 3×3 Managing Director Alex Sanchez said. “It shows the ever-increasing interest for our Olympic sport, especially from new organizers.”
Launched in 2012, the annual World Tour is the flagship competition of 3×3 basketball. It sees teams representing cities from around the world qualify for 9 Masters and a Final through a worldwide network of qualifying tournaments and via the FIBA 3×3 Team Ranking.
The best 3×3 players in the world return to the streets of Saskatoon, Utsunomiya, Prague, Lausanne, Debrecen, Chengdu, Mexico City and Beijing in iconic downtown locations, which include Shinto shrines, shopping malls and UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The competition makes its maiden appearance in Quito, Ecuador and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
As well as the number of events reaching an all-time high, overall prize money will top 1 million USD for the first time ever.
“This is a crucial milestone for us,” Sanchez added. “We want to give our current and future stars the financial means to dedicate themselves to the game and bring it to an even more spectacular level.”
The top 12 teams in the World Tour standings after the last Masters – including the winners of each stage – qualify for the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Bloomage Beijing Final.
FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2018 calendar:
July 21-22 – Saskatoon, Canada
July 28-29 – Utsunomiya, Japan
August 4-5 – Prague, Czech Republic
August 24-25 – Lausanne, Switzerland
August 30-31 – Debrecen, Hungary
September 8-9 – Mexico City, Mexico
September 22-23 – Quito, Ecuador
September 29-30 – Chengdu, China
October 6-7 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
October 27-28 – Beijing, China – World Tour Bloomage Beijing Final
Zemun Master (SRB) won the last edition of the World Tour on an unbelievable buzzer-beater in Beijing China, on October 28-29, 2017. —- FIBA
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Home Auto Welby promoted to top Infiniti U.S. sales job
Welby promoted to top Infiniti U.S. sales job
Infiniti has elevated Bob Welby to U.S. sales chief and No. 2 executive for the critical U.S. market.
Starting June 1, Welby takes over as senior director of operations, where he will oversee sales, client experience, training, model line management, pricing and incentives, Infiniti said Wednesday.
Welby, 46, succeeds Jeff Pope, who was named Infiniti Americas group vice president in April and now runs the brand’s North America business. Welby will report to Pope.
Welby, director of chief marketing management for Infiniti in the U.S., previously held positions in sales operations and marketing. He joined Nissan North America in 1996, starting in the Northeast Region, and moved to Infiniti in 2012.
In his new role, Welby will be charged with protecting and growing Infiniti’s position in the U.S., the brand’s biggest market. The market accounts for 70 percent of its global sales.
That has become a tougher challenge, as luxury market competition ratchets up amid falling vehicle…
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Babalon and What She Means To Me: THE RED GODDESS by Peter Grey (Scarlet Imprint, 2008)
October 19, 2016 no comments 5880 Aleister Crowley, Babalon, Left Hand Path, Marjorie Cameron, OTO, Tantra, Thelema
The Red Goddess by Peter Grey (Scarlet Imprint, 2008)
The Red Goddess by Peter Grey is a very long sermon. It’s his personal take on the figure of Babalon from the Book of Revelations and the work of Renaissance adepts Dee and Kelly. She is the mother of harlots to some people, the spirit of the age to others. Many have tried to equate her with the Hindu deity Kali in all her forms, but Babalon is something different. Peter Grey, a gifted writer and practicing adept does his best to get at the source of Our Lady Babalon and he almost succeeds. I say “almost” because the True Babalon can never be defined. Ask twenty Thelema philosophers what Babalon is and you will get twenty-one answers. This is not to be confused with the city of Babylon or the song by German power metal band Edguy.
The Red Goddess is divided into three sections or books. The work begins with a look at the historic Babalon of the New Testament. Grey writes with the inspired heart of a beat poet. He tries to find all the paths which lead from Babalon, and sometimes they do intersect. This book is full of divine inspiration and repeatable quotes. For instance, from the first chapter:
“She is a Holy Whore wrapped in scarlet and gold ready to deliver her Antichrist son, the ultimate battlefield weapon, oil the side of the fallen angels. She is the archetypical bad girl, sexy as hell with her blood red lips and raking fingernails. Totally in control, Her thighs are wrapped around one muscular looking beast.”
And he’s just getting warmed up.
After a look at Revelations where she appears as a woman who rides the seven headed dragon with a cup of the blood of saints, Grey plunges into hyperspace with his interpretation of Her as and alchemical reaction. As he puts it, “Magick is sex, sex is magick.” As many of the writers of the tantras saw, her wine is the sexual fluids comingled to create something new. He sees a ban on sexual alchemy in Revelations as a means to keep beings from being created by comingling with the Divine. The author feels Babalon reclaims the essential primal power of man and woman to give birth to something new.
A long section follows where he looks at the historical precedent of Babalon in the ancient kingdoms of the East. The Jewish people were carted off to the Babylonian captivity where they were forced to endure a culture completely alien to anything they knew. Grey sees precedent for her in Ishtar and Astarte’s cults. From there he swiftly moves to the deities of Ancient Egypt.
“….They were recognition of the ultimate reality of God as a hermaphroditic fusion of the male and female, with sex as the highest sacrament. The cults of the Love Goddesses promised transcendent experience that did not require a priest to unroll a Jesus sheath as a barrier between the worshipper and gnosis….”
“Unless you can fall in Love all your works are as nothing. This prayer starts on the lips. Set up an image of the Goddess and tell her you Love Her. Bend your thoughts towards Her until you are annihilated in Love for Her. Your mind must be consumed with passion for Her, your body resonating . to Her pulse. If your devotion is pure the Holy Whore will receive you in the body of Her Priestess. If you have never been in Love then stop reading now. There is no point in reading a book on the Goddess of Love when you have not experienced it. Put your time to better use. Get out and get laid and fall in Love. Spirit without flesh is an utter waste, the two are intimately intertwined.”
Like I said, this is a sermon. The Red Goddess is one of the most quotable books I’ve ever encountered.
In a chapter entitled “All Goddesses Are Not One Goddess”, Grey makes it clear that Babalon is distinct and not to be merged with every other diety who comes down the road. He compares the late 20th century trend of using many Goddess names for one invocation to calling your lover by an old girlfriend’s name. It’s likely to get you kicked out of the bed or hit by a lightning bolt.
“If you see Babalon as Diana, or Aphrodite then call Diana or Aphrodite. Whatever turns you on. Babalon does it for me. Not Aleister’s Babalon, not Dee’s Babalon, my vision of Her as She comes to me and IT rises to Her.”
There is a long section that compares the cults of St. Mary Magdalene to Babalon. Grey views them as a way to put some humanity back into Christianity. However, he sees great damage done by ignoring or suppressing Babalon, which tried to ignore the sexual side of human nature. The Cathars and other Middle Ages gnostic cults went further by declaring this world profane. He sees Simon Magus as one who tried to preserve the ability of sexuality to bring about a change in human awareness.
The current spelling of Babalon came by way of the renaissance sorcerers Dee and Kelly who felt they’d found a way to communicate with angels through the layers or aethers. Their notes were conveniently discovered in the bottom of some furniture and served to jump-start an occult revival. Using a gazing crystal and tablets, they contacted Babalon as the Daughter of Fortitude who delivered several intense revelations to them, most of which were transcribed.
Naturally, Aleister Crowley’s encounter with Babalon appears next. His experience with Dee and Kelly’s Enochian keys produced The Vision and Voice, his encounter with the sprits in an Algerian desert where Babalon is described as the mistress of the city of the pyramids
“Aleister interjects in the record and explains that the sacramental wine which fills the Cup is ‘compassion’ , an ecstasy of suffering without pain, like delivering the self up to the beloved. Compassion is also an alternate name for Tiphareth, the heart centre of the Tree of Life. Students of The Book of the Law may wish to reread what it has to
say about compassion in the light of this. The devotees of Babalon do not just drink the wine. The Saints have sacrificed their individuality and ended the pain of separation by
pouring every drop of their life’s blood into Her chalice. You must do the same and, like Dionysus, be crushed in the winepress to attain resurrection.”
Babalon, as Grey writes, is beyond the abyss. Anyone one who works with her must be prepared to loose themselves. Babalon is a mystery because Babalon is sex. She is locked in eternal copulation with The Great Beast, according to Grey. Again, similar to the Shakti school of Hindu thought where Shiva and Shakti are locked together and create the universe. He spends much wordage on the numerical significance of Babalon’s name, which is 156.
Grey shows the difference between Thelema and Tantra as the former is about Will and the latter Letting Go. It all comes down to the big “Who am I and what am I doing here?” questions that every adept must encounter. Some call this Touching the Void; some call it The Knowledge and Conversation of Your Holy Guardian Angel.
No book on Babalon can be complete unless it takes Jack Parsons into account. The man was one of the founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and helped lead the only functioning OTO lodge in the 1940’s. He tried to invoke Babalon and came close to insanity. He married the woman he thought was Babalon in the flesh and ended up blowing himself to pieces in a home laboratory accident. Grey sees him as “the poster boy of the new aeon” who lost control of the lodge and was scammed by L Ron Hubbard. Parsons wrote his Book of the Antichrist (1949) before his tragic death. In it, he proclaimed his desire to finish the work of the Beast 666 on earth and bring about the reign of Babalon. Grey sees him as a gnostic saint and a lesson in passion.
Toward the end of the book, Grey states:
“BABALON IS LUST, sexual, primal power. Lust knows no limits. Lust violates moral sense. Lust is strength, vitality and joy. Lust is action.”
Grey feels there is only one lover and one beloved and that marriage is a biological treaty. And we should not set love and lust against each other. There is also a large section that compares Babalon to the rose. He sees Babalon as a beautiful goddess and that is what makes her terrible. Anyone can look at pictures of Babalon on the Internet and notice how sexy they are. Babalon understands the power of glamour. The book has a section that discusses the ritual uses of mirrors.
He writes extensively on the pornography industry and sex workers. Grey seems to feel there is a place for both, but he is totally opposed to the use of women in rituals as a piece of furniture. I’ve always found it amusing people are surprised at the number of single men who pursue occult organizations. To some, naked priestesses are a feature and not a bug.
The book delves into sexual chemistry, kissing and bondage. Grey looks at every aspect of sexual pleasure he can find and relates it to Babalon. However, he sees Babalon as a very different deity than Lilith, the queen of the night. There is also a section on the black mass and how it may have been once used as a tool of personal liberation before its perversion.
There is also a section that contrasts the vision of the Holy City of Jerusalem to the City of Babylon. If you can have one vision of utopia, why not another? The book concludes with Grey’s vision of The Apocalypse.
The Red Goddess is an important work in the understanding of Babalon. There are many things in it that are unique to his interpretation, but Grey is a gifted writer who makes his arguments clear and passionate. I give this book a strong recommendation.
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At one point do we reject the internet as a trusted source?
Not CNN.com. Not normal websites.
Twitter. Facebook… aka rumor mill. I am just stunned by the self-assuredness behind so many people nowadays who are dumb as fuck. It’s almost as if anonymous social media has dumbed down the water cooler conversation to a new low.
Why not used that feature ingrained in every new tab, a Google search, to just find out if you’re right? Why the hell do you think having a fast computer makes YOU smart? LOL you didn’t build that machine!
And that’s what The Wire tried to teach us in it’s final season and what we all should know by now: vet the hell out of your sources before you talk shit. Because it’s not about ego or some right vs. wrong – it’s only learning. In the case of the continuing WikiLeaks, I’m truly stunned at how willing we are to participate in the Russians’ games.
You see, it’s not about rigging our election, it’s about convincing the 50% of voters who are undecided to simply stay home and be cynical, i.e. their vote “doesn’t matter.” Rich people vote. Republicans vote. The Democrats are desperate to sign up as many snarfs as they can to register to vote because the middle class is the 99.9%. We can’t relate to the Donald’s of the world, and so they constantly try and distract you from the issues.
Don’t let them. We didn’t in 2008 or 2012 ensuring Barack Obama didn’t get beaten by another George W. Bush. So many of you young people don’t realize just how bad it was under W and how much progress is still at stake in this election. We have EVERYTHING to lose: abortion and women’s health care services like planned parenthood, black people will keep getting unjustly murdered by police; climate change will never be addressed; Drumpf will give his own family a $4 billion dollar tax break (if he’s worth what he claims lol), we’ll be setting back women’s rights hundreds of years with a rapist in charge, Bernie Sanders & Hillary Clinton’s college plans will never be enacted to make it affordable again; keeping weed legal, look at all the money we’re making; the KKK will have their candidate rise to power and this rhetoric won’t stop, infiltrating our schools with a $40 billion dollar racist unnecessary wall and a immigration deportation that could send tens of millions of moms and dads back across a border where they’ve built a real hard-working life in America; Drumpf will ban Muslims from entering the USA, an immigrant nation; destroy public funding for health care, disabilities, veterans, social security… the list is so fucking cut and dry all you people in the middle class not voting Democrat are such MORONS.
First of all how can some cyber scares even compare to the madness we witness on a daily basis from the GOP & Drumpf? We need to realize these stories are never going to end from a Kremlin country that has been hacking our country on a state and national level as well as every other democratic country they feel threatened by FOR YEARS. It’s really easy to figure out – they use the information provided by the hackers to spread temporary lies and prevent you from seeing the stark contrast between a dictator like Vladimir Putin and the free world. HE IS SO SCARED OF OBAMA, make no mistake. And once a source like Wikileaks has been proven as a front for Russia’s pro-Drumpf agenda, that’s it.
Back to the issues. The people. And our country, because if the other side’s slogan is legit, it means we truly believe in America. And if you do, it means you believe in democracy, where exercising our vote puts us on the same playing field as bullies everywhere. They already know they’re going to lose, think about what that says about us: maybe we do know what’s going on after all.
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Oxlade-Chamberlain social media slip up sparks Liverpool transfer speculation
Is the OX leaving London?
He’s just been caught out in a big way. The young gun has been caught liking this comment on Instagram. Make of it what you will, but we think there’s something fishy going on.
It feels like Oxlade-Chamberlain has been in the game for ages. Surprisingly enough he’s only 23 years old.
It’s easy for the weight of the nation to bear down on young English stars like OX. The expectation has always been high for the cut-throat supporters, which converts pressure to domestic level.
Finally the star has come into form, having recently starring in Arsenal’s FA Cup final victory over Chelsea and their Community shield win just days ago.
He also finished the Premier League season with two goals and seven assists. The kid’s got speed and he’s becoming a wanted man.
So is the BIG OX heading the Anfield?
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You are here: Home / News / Terry Fox Theatre: The Venue of Opportunity
Terry Fox Theatre: The Venue of Opportunity
November 13, 2014 by Amanda Maxwell
The new tagline for Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Theatre sums up everything General Manager Mandara Lebovitz hopes for the direction the venue is taking this season and into the future.
“We’re working to make the Terry Fox Theatre a success story in the arts,” she tells me, explaining the vision of the current management team as we take a stroll through the auditorium. The theatre’s future lies with students in the adjoining high school, the community and the city itself.
And with events including singer-songwriter T.Nile, a Nora and Delia Ephron play, a Celtic music ensemble and the triumphant return of Pecha Kucha Night to the Tri Cities all coming up in November, this is a vision that won’t be hard to fulfill.
As a joint use community/school facility, the Tri Cities’ largest proscenium theatre has a mandate for serving both school interests and the community. This means that Terry Fox Secondary School students can expect to gain useful experience treading the boards of the stage, with the possibility of learning about stagecraft, set design and other allied skills in the future. Pointing out the proximity of school classrooms for stage and allied crafts, in addition to performing art studios, Lebovitz explains how closely the future of the theatre is tied to the school and its students. As one of the few professional theatres attached to a school in BC, the Terry Fox Theatre can give students a unique opportunity. Her recent experience with hosting the film crew for Supernatural who filmed at the theatre this summer (this episode, the series’ 200th, screens around November 4), reinforced this.
“Speaking with the professionals involved in the filming”, Lebovitz says, “I realised we could give students here a head start. Most of the crew talked about where they had first started an interest in theatre, and for most it was in high school, often when they weren’t sure which direction to head in life.”
In addition to in-school opportunities, the theatre is now offering improv workshops, where Graham Myers of Second Storey Theatre guides all ages through after school program sessions held in the recently refurbished studio space tucked away above the main stage. Other out-of-school plans include Spring Break camps (so don’t forget to bookmark the website!).
In the last year, the local school district took over management for the facility form a local non-profit. Its mandate is to increase accessibility for students during the day while continuing to provide a top class performance venue for the community, welcoming back regular clients from the past in addition to attracting exciting new programming.
So, in addition to nurturing local up and coming talent, the theatre gives local groups access to a superb performance venue that will welcome back old clients. The team also aim to encourage new shows to thrill, delight and inspire new local audiences. Although prime time slots are popular, smaller groups should look into off peak performance slots for good value, hints Lebovitz.
As one of these new events, promising to be a regular occurrence, Lebovitz is bringing Pecha Kucha Night to the Terry Fox Theatre this November (Saturday, November 21st) with an exciting line up of inspiring local speakers. An old hand at PKN, Lebovitz is excited to be bringing the event to the Terry Fox stage, remembering what a thrill it is to bring together an eclectic assortment of speakers. She feels a responsibility to let the contributing artists get their messages out, noting that in the past, many of the most effective presenters come right out of the blue.
This month’s line up for PKN includes fibre artists, a pro wrestler, a paralympian and former Rock the Fox alumnus, Jaret Stodola who is going to talk about how the arts changed his life and led to a recording arts career. As Lebovitz describes it, there is a theme developing – cerebral balanced with physicality in art.
“It’s always a mixed box of chocolates,” she finishes. And just like the sweet treats, one that is best experienced at first hand. Get your tickets before they disappear!
Terry Fox Theatre
1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam
Upcoming Events for November
Pecha Kucha Night Tri Cities returns to the stage with 11 inspiring speakers
Friday, November 21 | Doors at 6:30pm | Show 7:30pm | Tickets: $12 ONLINE | $15 CASH at the Door
Fast Forward | North Shore Celtic Ensemble inspires kids to explore who they are as musicians, to push themselves artistically and to come into their own as socially-conscious members of society.
Saturday, November 22 | 7:30pm | Tickets: $25 Adults | $15 Students, Seniors, Children ONLINE
T.Nile – Tingle and Spark Tour with Special Guests Bridgeworks & The Specifics – A night of Indie original music, co-presented by Port Coquitlam Performing Arts Society & Terry Fox Theatre
Thursday, November 27 | 7:30pm | Tickets: $15 Adults; $12 Students Online sales coming soon!
Note: cash only at the door on performance night
Filed Under: News, The Arts Tagged With: Art, arts, concert, event, family, music, Port Coquitlam, theatre
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