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Mexico crash kills 21 as the bus pops into the truck
May 30, 2019 World 1 Views
MEXICO CITY – According to local authorities and local news agencies, a violent traffic accident took place on Wednesday in Veracruz, Mexico, with a bus and semitrailer that killed 21 people.
The accident occurred shortly after 10:00 local time on a main highway between the cities of Puebla and Orizaba.
The bus headed east, carrying passengers from a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the southern state of Chiapas, when the brakes failed and he crashed into a semitrailer and overturned According to a spokesman for the Veracruz Civil Protection Secretariat, 1
9 people were on the bus and two People killed in the truck. At least 30 others were injured and taken to the Rio Blanco Regional Hospital in Veracruz.
A message posted on a Facebook page in conjunction with a parish in the archdiocese of Chiapas said that believers from a weekend pilgrimage to Veracruz returned to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico's most important Catholic shrine.
The accident occurred along a section of the freeway known for its hairpin bends, fog and occasional accidents.
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A highly adjective new opioid, stronger than fentanyl and morphine, is expected to be approved by the FDA
October 20, 2018 Business 0 7
In a controversial move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving ahead with the approval of a highly addictive opioid. The decision was made by the FDA Advisory Committee on October 12, where a 10: 3 vote was held in favor of the drug reaching the market. "We are pleased with the recommendation of the Advisory Committee to …
Will the Sam-Darnold of Jets only be a member of the highly esteemed rookie QBs to launch the opener?
August 15, 2018 Sports 0 5
When quarterbacks appeared so early and so often in the NFL Draft Night in April, there was hope and the countdown began: how long would it take Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen and Josh Rosen to start Field assets of their franchises? Maybe just a bit longer than some might have expected. While this highly acclaimed class of rookie …
Crypto Week in Retrospect: NYSE and Starbucks Go Full Crypto, Market Highly Optimistic
August 4, 2018 Business 0 7
While the market saw a collective decline of over 10% as speculative mania deflated around the Bitcoin ETF, the positive developments in this burgeoning industry throughout the past week were still prevalent. NYSE Parent Introduced Cryptocurrency Platform On Friday morning, investors at Cryptocurrency awoke a promising moment as corporate giants like Microsoft and Starbucks announced they were behind a pending …
South Africa celebrates the completion of the gigantic, highly sensitive telescope
July 15, 2018 Science 0 8
Scientists and politicians in South Africa celebrate the official opening of a gigantic telescope that is already revolutionizing astronomy research in the country. A ceremony televised live on national TV stations from a remote location on July 13 The Northern Cape Province completed the high-performance MeerKATT Radio Telescope, which was designed and funded in South Africa. A series of 64 …
Ford plans to make fusion longer, bigger and stronger [196590000] 2019 Ford Fusion "data-mycapture-src =" https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/07/11/PDTF/a31f237d-4b02-4e68-90d1-3fd673b9f8ea-2019_Ford_Fusion.jpg " data-mycapture-sm-src = "https: //www.gannett-cdn.comhttps: //www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/07/11/PDTF/a31f237d-4b02-4e68-90d1-3fd673b9f8ea -2019_Ford_Fusion.jpg? Width = 500 & height = 297 "/> 2019 Ford Fusion Sedan (Photo: Ford Motor Company) Ford wants to get rid of the traditional Fusion saloon in favor of a longer, larger and more powerful version [19659005] The new design, which has no scheduled release date, is intended to capture buyers driving the Subaru Outback car and possibly even the BMW 5 Series hatchback. "While current Ford Fusion production will finish in a few years, we will likely continue use the name because of its prominence, positive imagery and value with consumers, "said Mike Levine, product manager for Ford North Ame rica. "However, it's too early to speculate on what the new vehicle might look like." He went on to emphasize that consumers are moving away from cars in crossovers, SUVs and hatchbacks. "All car sales are down," Levine said. "We want to go where the consumer wants to go, they want vehicles with more ride height, more interior space, more versatility, customers love fusion, but watch vehicles evolve, we're swirling to new silhouettes, silhouettes that are better which consumers are looking for today. " No question, the Ford Fusion has a loyal following. "It was a good reliable car, a good seller for us in the last 10 years or so," said Joe Wood, new car sales manager at Northgate Ford in Port Huron. "The fact that Ford is reducing the number of cars alerts the people who are loyal brokers, and keeping the name, a solid brand, would be a smart idea." Industry analysts watch as Ford and its merger interest be redesigned. "Ford wants to ruin Subaru's impressive sales growth with a raised car," said Dave Sullivan, Product Analysis Manager at Auto Pacific, Inc. "This type of car is really the anti-SUV, and it looks like it has all the functionality and the benefit of a crossover without the stigma of transporting children or groceries.The lower SUV height helps with charging roof kayaks and has been proven to resonate with people with a certain lifestyle.These buyers tend to be in very good financial health to be and are highly coveted at the retail level. " More: 2019 Ford Fusion adds safety, driver features More: Ford's Plan Without Limos: 9 Things To Know The plan to get out of cars in trucks and SUVs is a consistent message emphasized and emphasized by Ford approx. The F-Series is a Fortune 500 company in itself. However, some industry observers are questioning the strategy to move from the Fusion sedan to a larger silhouette. "There is not much sales volume in sports cars, which does not exist," said Eric Noble, Product Development Consultant and Professor of Vehicle Technology at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. "When Ford announced it would drop the merger, three or four other medium-sized automakers danced in. Fusion is a very competitive car, and the only sports car that has done well in North America over the past 25 years is the Subaru Outback is a segment of 1. So Ford goes from a segment that sells really well, to a segment that has never really sold well. "
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More: Ford Announces $ 1.7B Quarterly Profit, Deep Cuts to Auto Line More: Ford CEO Jim Hackett's Wall Street plan: fewer models, more Electric Cars 2018 Subaru Crosstrek Limited (Photo: Subaru) He questioned whether Ford CEO Jim Hackett is exercising questionable judgment while facing pressure from investors annoyed by the disappointing stock performance. and whether the dramatic announcement to eliminate …
Microsoft Outlook to publish highly anticipated dark mode
July 5, 2018 Technology 0 8
Microsoft Outlook will release the highly anticipated Dark mode "very soon," according to an Outlook Feedback Forum post by a user with administrative privileges. "We've been working on Dark Mode for a few months and you can expect that in the product soon," the post said. "One reason for the delay is our insistence that we deliver the best dark …
Kanye West releases highly acclaimed 7-track Ye album
June 1, 2018 Entertainment 0 11
Under the Pusha T and Drake Beef, Kanye West has released his first full-length project since 2016 The Life of Pablo During an intimate album-listening party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Thursday English German: www.mjfriendship.de/de/index.php?op…39&Itemid=32 In the evening the rapper, 40, debuted the EP 's seven new tracks with the title: YE . A group of handpicked stars such as …
Bellator 198 results: Dillon Danis presents Kyle Walker in a highly anticipated professional debut
April 29, 2018 Sports 0 11
Dillon Danis, Kyle Walker at UFC Bellator 198: Best Photos See 5 Pictures ROSEMONT, Ill. – Dillon Danis said he made an impressive performance before his professional debut, but in the end it was his bread and butter, which has done his job. Danis (1: 0 MMA, 1: 0 BMMA) forced Kyle Walker (2-5 MMA, 0: 1 BMMA) to move …
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DoubleTree by Hilton Enters Heyuan, China as First Global Hotel Brand in the City
January 6, 2015 Asia Pacific
Offering more than 4,050 square meters of flexible meeting and event space, DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan can accommodate up to 3,100 guests and create the perfect setting for any occasion, from weddings to conferences and other social events. Credit: DoubleTree by Hilton.
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HEYUAN, China - Hilton Worldwide and DoubleTree by Hilton today announced the opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan in the Guangdong province. Located in the new Central Business District of the green ecology city of Heyuan, the 427-room hotel is situated just 4.5 kilometers from Heyuan Railway Station and close to transportation facilities offering transfer to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport 203 kilometers away, as well as nearby attractions such as Wanlv Lake Reservoir and Sujiawei Hakka Village Tourism Zone. The hotel is operated by Hilton Worldwide and owned by Heyuan Huijing Real Estate Company.
"Exceeding expectations is the foundation of the DoubleTree by Hilton experience. As the brand's first hotel in Heyuan, we look forward to welcoming domestic and international travelers to this unique destination and delivering DoubleTree's award-winning service experience to guests," said John Greenleaf, global head, DoubleTree by Hilton. "DoubleTree by Hilton continues its ongoing expansion throughout China by delivering the 'little things' that mean everything in a guest's travel experience - starting with the warm chocolate chip cookie welcome and continuing with the modern amenities and services available to every guest throughout their stay."
Guests at DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan can indulge in a wide assortment of delicious local cuisine as well as an authentic taste of China, including exquisite local Cantonese and Hakka cuisine, in a stylish restaurant atmosphere at Yue. For fun and friendly all-day dining, OPEN Restaurant features interactive chef stations serving a great variety of local and international delicacies. NODU, an acronym for tasty homemade noodles, recreates the famous street food commonly found across China. T-Lounge offers a relaxed environment where guests can entertain, work or relax over tea and light snacks.
Offering more than 4,050 square meters of flexible meeting and event space, DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan can accommodate up to 3,100 guests and create the perfect setting for any occasion, from weddings to conferences and other social events. With the largest grand ballroom in Heyuan and 18 versatile meeting rooms featuring the latest audio/visual technology, the hotel's highly trained and dedicated meetings and events team will work to ensure a successful and memorable event.
Each guest room features a broad range of modern furnishings and amenities, including the luxurious Sweet DreamsTM by DoubleTree sleep experience, 42-inch LCD televisions with satellite channels, and spacious bathrooms with exclusive bath amenities. There is also an indoor swimming pool and a 24-hour fitness center offering the best in Precor-branded cardiovascular and strength training equipment. A complimentary 24-hour business center is also available to accommodate guests' connectivity needs, and complimentary WiFi is available throughout the hotel's public areas.
"As a renowned city in Guangdong known for its natural sceneries, Heyuan is the premiere destination for a relaxing getaway, welcoming both domestic and international travelers looking to escape into nature," said Bruce McKenzie, senior vice president of operations, Greater China & Mongolia, Hilton Worldwide. "The opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan reinforces Hilton Worldwide's continuous commitment in this region and it underscores the growth of the DoubleTree by Hilton brand in China."
In addition to the signature chocolate chip cookie welcome, guests will enjoy other DoubleTree by Hilton brand amenities including the refreshing new Aroma Actives natural skin and body care line and an industry-recognized service culture built around the idea of CARE, which stands for Create a Rewarding Experience for guests, team members and the community.
As part of the Hilton Worldwide portfolio, DoubleTree by Hilton offers guests the opportunity to earn and redeem points for stays through the Hilton HHonors® guest loyalty program. To mark its opening, the hotel will offer Hilton HHonors® members double bonus points per night on best available rates for stays completed through April 30, 2015. DoubleTree by Hilton Heyuan is located at No. 123 Yuewang Avenue, Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China. For more information or to make a reservations, please visit www.doubletree.com or call +86 762 2298 888.
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Episode 13: 2 Nephi 27-30
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ohokyeah Says:
A cockatrice is a mythical beast, its front half is a rooster, and its back half is a dragon. I think the hole of the asp means the snake hole.
It’s been years since I read the Book of Mormon cover to cover. It’s hard to not look at it as an oddity once you stop believing in it, little details that wouldn’t have fazed you as a believer jump out in a WTF sort of way. Hearing it from the perspective of a person that’s never read it before illustrates how weird it often is to anyone who doesn’t believe in it.
For the record, a common joke among mormons (or at least in my family) is that the definition of a few means eight. No one uses that in speech, but people might use the term “few” somewhat sarcastically.
Okay, Mormon history/propaganda time. This is from the official history of the church, written by Joseph Smith. The speaker in this this excerpt is Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses, who also played a role as scribe for the book of mormon dictation and financier of the the first printing.
“I went to the city of New York, and presented the characters which had been translated, with the translation thereof, to Professor Charles Anthon, a gentleman celebrated for his literary attainments. Professor Anthon stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian. I then showed him those which were not yet translated, and he said that they were Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic; and he said they were true characters. He gave me a certificate, certifying to the people of Palmyra that they were true characters, and that the translation of such of them as had been translated was also correct. I took the certificate and put it into my pocket, and was just leaving the house, when Mr. Anthon called me back, and asked me how the young man found out that there were gold plates in the place where he found them. I answered that an angel of God had revealed it unto him.
“He then said to me, ‘Let me see that certificate.’ I accordingly took it out of my pocket and gave it to him, when he took it and tore it to pieces, saying that there was no such thing now as ministering of angels, and that if I would bring the plates to him he would translate them. I informed him that part of the plates were sealed, and that I was forbidden to bring them. He replied, ‘I cannot read a sealed book.’ I left him and went to Dr. Mitchell, who sanctioned what Professor Anthon had said respecting both the characters and the translation.”
But here’s what Anthon had to say…
“The whole story about my having pronounced the Mormonite inscription to be ‘reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics’ is perfectly false …. I soon came to the conclusion that it was all a trick, perhaps a hoax …. [Harris] requested an opinion from me in writing, which of course I declined giving.” Anthon stated in the letter that the story of Anthon’s authentication was false, that Anthon had identified the writings as a hoax, and that Anthon had told Harris that the writings were part of “a scheme to cheat the farmer [Harris] of his money….”
Alice Incognita Says:
I’m TOTALLY doing the drinking game, but I’m doing it with water. Lame, I know, but I’m not a big fan of alcohol. One reason I enjoy the drinking game is that the brief interruptions help keep me from drifting off during the boring parts. With subject matter like this, I think it’s important to occasionally interrupt the flow with some distraction. If you keep doing the drinking game, perhaps you could introduce a little bell instead of saying ‘drink’ each time. It would provide the necessary distraction / reminder, but wouldn’t be too annoying for those who don’t want to play the game.
Chuck Says:
Okay, I happen to crack a beer just before listening to this episode, so when you turned it into a drinking game I figured “Why not? It’ll probably end up only being something like one beer anyway.” I’m on my fourth now — enough to give me a “burning in my bosom.” Wait a minute… the Mormons said that would happen while reading the BOM… you win this round, Mormons!
K Klem Says:
Hysterical. However, missing the point that being wise, learned and rich isn’t bad in and of itself. It is not being humble and following God if you’re wise, learned or rich is where there is a problem. Basically, it is all about what you do with what you have that matters. For example, being a rich, smart-ass, know-it-all dick is bad, but being rich and smart to quietly help and serve others (being a good person) as God directs then that is good.
Ironically, the “there is no devil line” is funny since this podcast can falls into that category from a BofM perspective…
Keep in mind it is people who choose to be good or bad. God is allowing the various curses or blessing happen. It does sound like He comes down hard on those who do bad, but well, it’s sort of His job. Do bad. Punish the people who do bad. Do good. Reward those who do good. Fiery flourishes are great images to encourage doing good.
That part you read about the people becoming fair and delightsome is about the native americans and it used to say WHITE and delightsome! the LDS church has had an obsession with getting native americans to join the church and such efforts have been utter failures. I just thought you would really appreciate that little tid bit.
Scottie Says:
It’s worth noting here that Spencer W Kimball (a former Prophet of the LDS church) attested that once Native Americans were baptized into Mormonism, their skin actually DID turn white.
“The work is unfolding, and blinded eyes begin to see, and scattered people begin to gather. I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today as against that of only fifteen years ago. Truly the scales of darkness are falling from their eyes, and they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people”
http://scriptures.byu.edu/gettalk.php?ID=1091&era=yes
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Novartis EXTEND study of Revolade shows long-term disease control for chronic/persistent ITP
TagsRevolade, What is an open label extension study?
Novartis has announced long-term study results supporting the positive safety and efficacy of Revolade (eltrombopag) in adults with chronic/persistent (enrolling patients that were 6 or more months from diagnosis) immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenia (ITP) were published online in Blood. The EXTEND study found that a majority of patients maintained a substantial clinical response and many no longer needed concomitant ITP medications. The research evaluated patients for up to 8 years of continuous treatment (median exposure of 2.4 years).
ITP is a rare and potentially serious blood disorder where the blood doesn’t clot as it should due to a low number of platelets. As a result, patients with ITP experience bruising, bleeding and, in rare cases, serious hemorrhaging that can be fatal. The goal of treatment in chronic/persistent ITP is to maintain a safe platelet count that reduces the risk of bleeding.
EXTEND, an open-label extension study of four trials (TRA100773A, TRA100773B, TRA102537/RAISE and TRA108057/REPEAT) of Revolade, enrolled 302 adults with chronic/persistent ITP (6 or more months from diagnosis) who had received prior therapy for their ITP, and is the largest study of its kind. To qualify for the prior trials, patients must have had thrombocytopenia for at least 6 months (chronic ITP was previously defined as thrombocytopenia for 6 or more months).The objectives were to assess the safety and efficacy of long-term treatment with Revolade, including the proportion of patients achieving stable platelet counts during treatment with Revolade; maximum duration of platelet count elevation >=50×109/L or >=30×109/L during treatment with Revolade, and the effect of Revolade on reducing and/or sparing concomitant ITP therapies, while maintaining a platelet count >=50×109/L.
The study allowed each patient to achieve an individualized dose and schedule of eltrombopag based upon their platelet counts in the desired range between 50 to 200 Gi/L. Therefore, patients who were enrolled in EXTEND must have completed the treatment and follow-up periods as defined in previous protocol and must have not experienced eltrombopag-related toxicity or other drug intolerance on prior eltrombopag study even if resolved. In addition, patients who discontinued from a previous study due to toxicity were not eligible unless they received placebo.
Revolade was started at a dose of 50 mg/day and titrated to 25-75 mg/day or less often based on platelet counts. Maintenance dosing continued after minimization of concomitant ITP medication and optimization of Revolade dosing. The overall median duration of exposure was 2.37 years (range, 2 days to 8.76 years) and mean average daily dose was 50.2 (range, 1-75) mg/day. One hundred thirty five adult patients (45%) completed the study and 75 adult patients (25%) were treated for four or more years. Most patients were aged <65 years, female, and had platelet counts <30×109/L at baseline. About one-third were using concomitant medications at baseline, and 53% had received three or more prior ITP therapies. In addition, 91% (276/302) of patients achieved platelet counts >=30×109/L without rescue treatment, and 86% (259/302) achieved platelet counts >=50×109/L without rescue treatment.
Grade 3 and 4 adverse events (AEs) occurred in 26% and 6% of patients, respectively. Grade 3 cataracts occurred in four (1%) patients and Grade 3 pain in extremity in six (2%) patients. Grade 3 AEs occurring in three (<1%) patients each included diarrhea, headache, migraine, dyspnea, decreased platelet count, and menorrhagia; those occurring in five (2%) patients each included pneumonia, fatigue, back pain, increased alanine aminotransferase, increased aspartate aminotransferase, anemia, and hypertension. Grade 4 anemia and thrombocytopenia occurred in three (<1%) and four (1%) patients, respectively. All other Grade 4 events occurred in one patient each.
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By: Big R Bridge
The Stark St crossing over Beaver Creek consisted of an undersized concrete box culvert with a broken fish ladder that was prohibiting salmon and other fish species from migrating upstream through the culvert. Multnomah County and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) worked together to design a solution that would restore the natural stream habitat, allow for passage of at least 13 native fish species in Beaver Creek, and allow for expansion of Stark St above.
The design team selected at 40’9” span bottomless deep corrugated structural plate Buried Bridge, designed and fabricated by Big R Bridge, to allow ample room to restore the stream bed while allowing for increased flow. The Buried Bridge structure was constructed at a length of 150 ft to allow for future widening of Stark St to 4 lanes and to allow room for sidewalks and bike lanes – improving public safety. Salmon were observed at the new structure within weeks of completing the project – an example of the effectiveness and success seen for many environmental projects where Buried Bridges are used. The Stark St structure is part of an on-going effort to restore the health of the watershed and is helping to open up new spawning habitat upstream. Deep corrugated steel Buried Bridges are becoming the go-to solution for many similar environmental projects throughout the US.
Multnomah County produced a time lapse video of the project that includes more details of the project and their efforts to restore the watershed:
https://multco.us/roads/stark-street-culvert-time-lapse-video
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After circulating that chant, Chen Xiang's eyes shone with a golden light, the divine power in his entire body swirled, and both of his hands continuously poured out the Devil Slayer G.o.d wind that was like liquid.
Although Bai Yaowei was a big devil, he was still a part of the Devil-killing Summit and was extremely knowledgeable about the Devil slaying G.o.d wind. He could tell that Chen Xiang had not used enough Devil slaying G.o.d wind, so he guessed that someone was secretly guiding Chen Xiang, but he was actually not discovered by the G.o.d Realm Dragon Emperor.
Chen Xiang did not manage to control the condensed G.o.d wind well enough, so he turned it into liquid and gushed it into his hands. At this time, the Heavenly Slave released another two black b.a.l.l.s made from devil energy.
As the two black b.a.l.l.s flew towards Chen Xiang, Chen Xiang withdrew his overflowing G.o.d wind, but his palms still had very strong remnants of G.o.d wind left. With a wave of his hands, he aimed at the two devil fiend black b.a.l.l.s that could produce a violent explosion.
Just a moment ago, they had seen that this black ball was extremely deadly. If it had not had a good defense, even if it was damaged, it might have been destroyed by the explosion, but with just two of Chen Xiang's palms, it was turned into black smoke.
At this time, Chen Xiang had already gained some experience in controlling the Devil Slayer G.o.d wind.
At that moment, he felt that his body was extremely light and light, and with just a thought, those strange and powerful devil slaying G.o.d wind immediately followed his will, and in an instant, he arrived at the side of the Heavenly Slave.
Chen Xiang suddenly came to his side, in shock and anger, Heavenly Slave threw a punch at him.
Crack.
Chen Xiang unleashed the Devil Subduing Method with nine echoes and one attack, in addition to the devil slayer G.o.d wind, it made his punch extremely terrifying. In this extremely st.u.r.dy s.p.a.ce, a large crack suddenly appeared, and the spatial tear spread to the entire sky. The spatial tear, which extended for several kilometers, covered the sky like a spider web, causing people to feel fear in their hearts, as if the world was about to split open.
Such a terrifying fist met Heavenly Slave's black punch. Heavenly Slave's fist that was filled with the evil spirits was crushed by the force before it could even touch the G.o.d wind, and his entire arm instantly turned into dust.
Seeing that he did not touch Heavenly Slave's fist, Chen Xiang immediately destroyed Heavenly Slave's entire arm. In his heart, Chen Xiang felt even more admiration for the devil slayer G.o.d wind, so he quickly changed the direction of his fist and aimed it towards Heavenly Slave's head.
No one expected that in that extremely short period of time, Chen Xiang would actually change the trajectory of his punches, and incredibly hit Heavenly Slave's head. His fists struck Heavenly Slave's head, and it was as if an iron hammer had smashed onto a piece of charcoal.
Heavenly Slave's head turned into a pile of black particles. Chen Xiang was also shocked by the punch, but it had exhausted a large amount of his divine power.
After Heavenly Slave's head was shattered, a ma.s.s of black Qi surged out from his neck. This was Heavenly Slave's soul, it was actually black, and it turned into a huge black shadow that enveloped the entire stage.
"I want to devour your soul, Soul Absorbing Devil Spell." Heavenly Slave laughed sinisterly as a black shadow slapped towards Chen Xiang.
Heavenly Slave's soul was exceptionally strong, after leaving his body, he turned into a group of black shadows that could be seen with the naked eye.
Chen Xiang sensed the enemy's soul leaving his body and immediately activated Soul Absorbing Devil Spell, quickly consuming it and searching for the memories he needed.
The Heavenly Slave actually knew the Soul Absorbing Devil Spell! Everyone's face was filled with fear, as they hurriedly distanced themselves from the stage, worried that they would be affected by the Soul Absorbing Devil Spell.
Just when everyone was in a precarious situation, the Heavenly Slave actually started to howl for himself, "You … You also understand Soul Absorbing Devil Spell, ah … "
The black soul of the Heavenly Slave quickly became smaller following the scream, and finally disappeared. The Heavenly Slave's body also turned into a ball of black qi, and dissipated into the heaven and earth.
There was still a little more sand left in the hourgla.s.s, but the Heavenly Slave was already dead, and Chen Xiang had obtained victory in this battle.
Before anyone could regain their senses, Chen Xiang had already walked off the stage. Everyone felt that he was the real G.o.d and demon, controlling the extremely terrifying Devil-suppressing kungfu, but they did not understand the long lost devil arts that caused people to tremble in fear, moreover, he was extremely proficient in it.
was not surprised at all that using the Soul Absorbing Devil Spell to deal with souls was the best. He was just curious about who had suddenly taught Chen Xiang the chants of the Devil Slayer G.o.d wind.
Chen Xiang walked down the stage and scanned the crowd, searching for Lv Zhen. Lv Zhen's divine sense had already been withdrawn from his Divine Sense Sea, and he was no longer able to send a sound transmission to Lv Zhen. He really wanted to tell Lv Zhen that Lv Qilian had been looking for him this entire time.
However, he was sure that Lv Zhen was still nearby and had been watching the entire time.
Chen Xiang felt that Devil-suppressing Heavenly Venerable's current strength must be the same as the other Strong of Lord Stage s. Even Qi Shi was a little worried that the Dragon Emperor would discover the sound transmission, but Lv Zhen didn't.
When Devil-suppressing Heavenly Venerable went missing back then, his strength was already extremely strong. He went to a Heaven Realm, and then to Devil-killing Summit, his strength must have increased greatly, so was even more curious about Devil-killing Summit.
"Devil-suppressing Divine Palace wins." The old man announced the result.
At this time, the disciples of Divine Devil Cult all ran away. The powerful Heavenly Slave was killed in such a short period of time, and that person's strength was definitely not someone they could deal with.
Previously, everyone secretly looked down on Devil-suppressing Divine Palace because there were no Emperor level experts in Devil-suppressing Divine Palace. However, now that the Great Yan Jing had been destroyed in such a short period of time, no one dared to look down on the Devil-suppressing Divine Palace anymore.
The last time she and Chen Xiang had cultivated the G.o.ds join method, Chen Xiang's strength was still very weak. However, right now, he was comparable to those great emperors of the Sky Region who were seated around the table.
The final battle was between Devil-suppressing Divine Palace and Heavenly Dragon Race. Just now, Qi Shi sent a sound transmission to Chen Xiang, telling him to kill that Sky Dragon no matter what.
But what Qi Shi was worried about was, whether the Heavenly Dragon Race would admit defeat, the strength Chen Xiang had displayed just now was too strong, and it was not something that the middle-aged man could endure.
"In the final match, if we don't decide who will win, then we'll compete from a new beginning to a new one." The old man shouted, "Please come up on stage."
"Your rules don't seem to have said before that no one is allowed to change, right? My Heavenly Dragon Race's people just now were a little unwell, so I helped them fight. This is permitted."
Everyone immediately looked at the one who spoke, it was Dragon Emperor.
The Dragon Emperor coming out for battle, what was there to be afraid of? This was too much bullying.
Everyone scolded in their hearts. This was clearly because they saw how powerful Chen Xiang was just now. If they had let that middle-aged man fight again, he would definitely have lost.
The Dragon Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Race, his strength was more powerful than the other great emperors in the eyes of many. After all, he was a dragon.
"Changing people does not violate the rules." The old man nodded as he secretly exclaimed in his heart. If the two Emperor-level characters were fighting here, then he no longer needed this city.
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After 7 years as the Chairman of NWBB Lancs & Lakes, Paul Brooks, who was a joint founder of the charity along with Graham Jones, has stood down as the Chairman, although remains a Trustee and Rider. Paul said: “NWBB Lancs & Lakes has turned out to be a great
On 2nd May this year we will have been operational for 7 years and will have responded to 64,000 call outs.
All our 423 Members have done an amazing job, either controlling the riders, or being a rider, or fundraiser and spreading the word about who we are.
Each call out we respond to not only helps the NHS Hospitals, but also the patients waiting for Blood, analysis of their samples,
60,000 Call outs
At 22:00 hrs on Tuesday 12th February 2019, exactly 6 years 10 months and 10 days, since we started operating we have reached 60,000 call-outs from our local NHS Hospitals.
Chairman's Bit
2019 Chairman’s Bit
Well, 2019 has come along and in May we reach our seventh anniversary, which will also herald the time when our Chairman Elect, Simon Hanson, steps in to take over what I have had the privilege of doing since we started,
50,000 Completed Runs
In 2011 four keen motorcyclists got together and decided to help the NHS Hospitals in the North West of England by providing free urgent and emergency, out of hours transport for Blood, Platelets, Samples for analysis, medication, Doctors notes, donor breast milk for premature babies, in fact anything that they could carry safely on motorbikes.
Salterforth WI talk
Regardless of the hail, wind and snow the show must go on….. or at least our commitment made early last year to visit the Ladies of Salterforth WI last Thursday was still going ahead.
Hertel Sellafield annual chosen charity – North West Blood Bikes
The Hertel team based at Sellafield, with support from lot delivery partners IDS (Hertel, Atkins, North West Projects & West Lakes Engineering) & i3 Decommissioning Partners (Hertel, Wood & Shepley Engineers) together supported the Hertel Sellafield chosen annual charity NW Blood Bikes, raising a grand total of £5068.
BBC Radio Lancashire's Community Heroes Awards
BBC Radio Lancashire is proud to announce its first Community Heroes Awards. “We’re recognising those in the county that go the extra mile and make a real difference to the lives of others.” Nominations are being sought in various categories which are designed to reward everything from being a good neighbour to inspirational teachers; and their contribution to life in Lancashire.
Controllers and riders kept busy over Christmas holidays
As Santa Claus is sat recovering at the North Pole after a frantic 24 hours, our volunteers are also recovering after a relatively busy weekend.
Controllers. Who are they?
One of the many volunteer roles within North West Blood Bikes is that of controller. Also known as call takers, dispatchers or coordinators, the role of controller is essential for ensuring calls are answered quickly and the item is delivered efficiently to its destination. There is much more for the 46 members to do than just answering the phone.
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Crook’s arm ripped off after failed robbery attempt
By Tina Moore, Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Khristina Narizhnaya
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A 17-year-old robber’s arm was severed in Brooklyn after he held up a man at gunpoint for a pair of pricey sneakers, police sources said.
Through the app Wallapop, gunman Zachary Sam and seller Philippe Pierre, 39, had arranged to meet up at 1 p.m. Friday in Canarsie, sources said.
But when Pierre showed up, asking $490 for a pair of Air Jordan 8 Retro sneakers, the teen crook pulled out a gun and demanded the kicks for free inside Pierre’s gray Honda Pilot, police sources said.
Pierre stepped on the gas pedal, but Sam, who lives nearby, jumped out of his car at the intersection of East 86th Street and Avenue M, sources said.
Instead of speeding off, Pierre turned his car around and drove after Sam, crashing into him in front of a fence.
The alleged robber’s arm was ripped off when he was pinned against the fence.
“I saw a kid under a car,” said Alex Saint Fleur, a bus driver who lives across the street.
“The guy ran him over. He got out, the driver said, ‘He’s trying to rob me. He’s trying to rob me.’”
“I saw the gun on the floor,” Fleur added. “The arm was on the floor near the gun.”
Sam got out from under the car, he said, and ran inside a city bus.
“Everyone is screaming, ‘Come back, come back, your arm. You’re bleeding too much,’” Fleur said.
Sam then got out of the bus and started running down Avenue M, he said, before finally collapsing in the street.
The teen was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he remains in serious but stable condition, law enforcement sources said.
On Friday afternoon, the bus was pulled over on 80th Street, blood spattered on its front entrance.
“I was walking up the sidewalk and I heard a boom behind me,” said a postal worker who declined to give her name. “I just kept it moving. I saw somebody run on the bus with a missing arm.”
Pierre was arrested and charged with attempted murder, sources said.
Cops charged Sam with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
With reporting by Natalie Musumeci
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When Only Wonder Will Do: The Best White Breads in NYC
Good Bread
Stories about the loaves we love.
Andrew Coe
[Photographs: Andrew Coe]
If you listen to the health food alarmists, eating a slice of white bread is about as good for you as drinking a glass of West Virginia tap water. They could be right, but I don't think that science has caught up to their claims. It could be that the whole "refined wheat = death" movement is just another health fad (except for a small group who are truly allergic to it). Remember that just a few years ago the "experts" were touting wheat bran as a universal cure-all?
So until we get some reproducible results from large-scale, long-term research studies, I'm going to keep enjoying my bread, including an occasional slice of white topped with cream cheese and strawberry jam.
I grew up on Pepperidge Farm white bread, which way back when was considered the counterculture alternative to squishy supermarket loaves. Today, I look at its label and ask myself why I need high fructose corn syrup in my bread. If I want to try a good, simple white bread, I'll pick up a loaf of Orwasher's White Pullman (small, $4). This puffy loaf has a soft but faintly crackly crust and a fluffy crumb with a fine flour aroma. It's made from unbleached white wheat flour, water, yeast, and salt. It's the archetypical white bread.
Many of the city's better bakeries offer "pain de mie" as their white bread alternative. This is a Pullman-type loaf that's been enriched with butter, milk, and sugar to give the crumb a dense but soft texture and buttery aroma. My pain de mie of the moment is made by Tribeca's always-creative Takahachi Bakery. I've already extolled their baker's excellent plain and black sesame loaves; their latest invention is the Tofu Loaf ($5.50), made from tofu, unbleached flour, salt, water, milk, sugar, butter, and yeast. To make it, they simply blend blocks of firm tofu into the dough. Tofu doesn't change the flavor, which is still rich and buttery, but imparts a particularly moist and dense texture. It almost melts in your mouth.
For a more traditional loaf, I would turn to Maison Kayser's Pain de Mie ($7.95). This one comes out of the pan with its cap shaped in two large gluteal mounds. It's made from organic white and high-gluten flours, milk, liquid levain, and sugar. Without butter, it's a little lighter than most pains de mie. The top is given a glossy sugar glaze that makes a slice a bit sticky to handle. Toasted, it makes a great base for a creamy pâté.
The least white of my favorite white breads is Bien Cuit's Pain de Mie (whole $12, half $6). Its bakers add eggs to the traditional flour, yeast, milk, salt, sugar, and butter mixture, giving the loaves a golden hue. It's baked in a lidded Pullman pan so the loaf comes in clean, geometric lines. Inside the crumb is dense, slightly on the drier side, and rich with a buttery, eggy aroma. You can slice it thinly and into all kinds of shapes, making it a perfect platform for smoked salmon and caviar.
But the whitest bread I know is still Wonder Bread Classic White ($2.99), which recently returned to supermarket shelves. It's a descendant of the soft white Vienna breads of the late 19th century that were reinvented by generations of food scientists seeking to lower costs and extend shelf life. The new owners of the brand have tweaked the recipe yet again. I remember that the old version had a chemical-y bite; the new loaf has a mellow, almost buttery flavor. After enriched flour, water, high fructose corn syrup, and yeast, the list of ingredients list still contains a long line of chemicals that you need a degree to understand—but no butter! It's a miracle of science, but I'll stick with loaves made with fewer ingredients.
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CICCC executive Chairman Long Yuxiang (right) presents the renowned Xiangmuhai Black Tea to Kangasala Mayor Oskari Auvinen. Sumino Oy
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On June 12, Long Yuxiang, Executive Chairman of the China International Cultural Communication Center (CICCC), led a delegation to visit the city of Kangasala, close to the third largest Finnish city of Tampere, and held talks with Mayor Oskari Auvinen and business representatives.
During the meeting, both sides launched in-depth and detailed exchanges encompassing a variety of fields including waste disposal, circular economy, vocational education, new district planning and construction, tourism, food industry, VR technology, smart monitoring cameras, and furniture industry.
Oskari Auvinen (left) presents gifts to Long Yuxiang. Sumino Oy
Kangasala Mayor Oskari Auvinen extended a warm welcome to Long Yuxiang and his delegation, providing a detailed presentation on the development status and future plans of the Kangasala city. Noting that Kangasala’s proximity to the Finnish capital city Helsinki and its status as Finland's second fastest growing region, he underscored the close-knit cooperation between Kangasala and its nearby Tampere city in such arenas as public transportation, waste disposal, and wastewater treatment.
Auvinen also remarked that new land has been earmarked for building a new development zone at the intersection between the cities and local authorities are currently working to attract investment. In this regard, Oskari and his team highly welcome interested Chinese companies to invest and build factories in Kangasala.
The two sides also shed light on cooperation in vocational education, noting that the second largest campus of Tampere Vocational College located in the Kangasala city offers education and training in eleven disciplines.
The Finnish mayor also highlighted Kangasala has been actively facilitating tourism initiatives, drawing on its rich natural resources, including 400 natural lakes, dense natural forests, fresh air and high-quality water resources, as well as a sound security and safe environment.
Optimistic of its growing appeal to Chinese tourists, Mayor Auvinen expressed his desire for more cooperation between his city and the CICCC, and welcomed its Executive Chairman Long Yuxiang to lead Chinese enterprises to invest locally and achieve win-win development.
CICCC Executive Chairman and the Mayor of Tampere, Finland held talks in June to discuss strengthening collaboration and exchanges in a range of arenas.
Jun 17, 2019 16:54 healthcare Finland Tampere beijing Shanghai
In turn, Long Yuxiang expressed his gratitude to Oskari Auvinen for his hospitality. Noting that China and Finland have always enjoyed friendly relations, he highlighted bilateral high-level exchanges have become more frequent in recent years.
With 2019 being designated as China-Finland Year of Winter Sports, the Beijing Kunlun Redstar Ice Hockey team as headed by the CICCC have held many competitions and maintained friendly cooperative relations with the Helsinki-based ice hockey team Helsingin Jokerit.
It is expected that more cooperation and activities will take place this year. Noting Finland’s leading concepts and technologies in waste disposal, international education and vocational education, circular economy, and high -tech development, Mr. Long also underscored his hope to step up cooperation with Finland to introduce these advanced technologies and concepts to China and contribute to the well-being and happiness of its people.
During the meeting, Mr. Long also introduced the Chinese Jiaduobao herbal tea to his Finnish counterparts. Infused with a special formula of traditional Chinese medicine, the Jiaduobao herbal tea is known to be a very healthy beverage and has attained national-brand status in China, for which Mr. Long and his delegation hoped to launch further discussions with the Kangasala city and establish a viable and mutually beneficial cooperation model in this regard.
A CICCC delegation visited finland in June to meet with Kangasala mayor and local business representatives. Sumino Oy
Mr. Long also shared that the Xi'an High-tech Zone is developing at a high speed, and hoped to initiate cooperation with the new development district of Kangasala city in introducing high-quality projects, and jointly exploring a mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation model. Long Yuxiang concluded his remarks by thanking Mayor Auvinen for his support and pledging further cooperation with the Kangasala city in order to bring more benefits to the two peoples.
Representatives of five local enterprises from the Kangasala city working in the fields of food industry, VR technology, smart detection cameras, new microscopic cameras and furniture industry, subsequently presented their products and their companies’ respective business philosophy and current status to the delegation. All representatives of these companies expressed their eagerness to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts and explore cooperation models.
Director of the Economic Development Bureau of Kangasala City, Pevi Kusivala, representatives from the Jiaduobao Group, Xi'an High-tech Zone, Shanghai Diyi Technology Co., Ltd. and Sumino International Education attended the meeting. The event was supported and co-organized by Sumino Oy, a Finland-based education and cultural service organization specialized in promoting international exchanges and collaboration in the fields of education and culture.
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"The digital voice assistant market is projected to experience continued expansion in the coming years, with number of voice assistants in use increasing from 3.25 billion in 2019 to around 8 billion by 2023" - Statista
“Read out the headlines on the front page of today’s edition of The New York Times newspaper”. Say something like this to Google Home or Amazon Echo and you will get to listen to a voice reading out the news. Forget swiping, scrolling and typing, just talk to a voice assistant and hear what you want. Voice interfaces are all the rage in recent times.
Not only is it helpful for your personal use, but organisations from different industries can find it meritorious. When it comes to new publishing opportunities, voice interfaces are right up there alongside artificial intelligence, augmented reality and blockchain. This world is not a part of a fairy tale and voice interface do pose a few challenges. Before we see how publishing companies make a great use of voice assistants, let’s explore voice interfaces a bit.
What exactly are voice interfaces?
Voice user interfaces (VUIs) enable the user to communicate with a system through voice or speech commands. Amazon Alexa, Echo dot, Google Home, Google Mini, Siri, Cortana and the Google Assistant some of the great examples of VUI. The primary advantage of a VUI is that it enables you to interact with a product hands-free, eyes-free.
The primary advantage of a VUI is that it enables you to interact with a product hands-free, eyes-free.
Applying the same design guidelines to VUIs as to Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is impossible. There are no visual affordances in a VUI. That means when you are looking at a GUI, you have no apparent indications of what the interface can do or what are the options available. When designing VUI actions, it is of paramount significance that the system clearly lays down possible interaction options, lets the user know what functionality is he/she is using and limit the amount of information to an amount that the user can remember.
Now, why are they important? It’s growing at an alarming pace and Gartner, a research firm, says that it is a trend, no discussion. You can see ‘Virtual Assistant’ in the graphical representation of emerging technologies below.
VUI is getting better and better. In just an year, the betterment is apparently visible. Whether it is Google Home or Siri, advancements are impeccable as can be seen in the following graph.
Things that publishers need to know
There is a land grab to own skills and in the arena of VUI, skills can be split into two categories.
First is the branded skills that are connected to your brand and could not be owned by any other organisation. Skills like TED’s ‘play the latest TED Talk’ action and the Wall Street Journal’s ‘What’s News?’ come into this category.
Another category is the one that encompasses more generic skills like “Alexa, give me the headlines on sports” or “Okay Google, give me the stock market news”. Ownership of such generic skills would give you the sole authority over all the categories from the creation of first-mover advantage in the market as brands race to the capturing skills before they are gone.
This can make things tougher for brands who are looking to extract market-specific skills in both the generic and branded categories. And like most things, it is all about finding the right target.
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners stated in a study that Amazon Echo customer spend 66% more than average Amazon customers. This goes to say that Amazon can now afford to sell Echo devices at a lesser price than originally planned. They can even occasionally take a loss on devices for gaining a greater share of consumer spending. The inference that we get from this for the publishers is that optimising for voice search could result in a revenue boost.
Benefits of voice assistants for publishers
Emphasising on Customer Experience
Fabrice Rousseau, Amazon’s general manager of Alexa skills, emphasised on reinventing customer experience with the help of voice technology in his keynote address at the CMO Digital Insight Summit. He said, “When we moved from desktop to mobile we didn’t bring the desktop experience to mobile, we invented a very specific mobile experience”. He further stated, “When you move from mobile to voice don’t bring your mobile experience. Just invent an experience that is unique to voice.”
One of the greatest examples of the importance of customer experience through voice technology can be seen through Amazon Audible. If you are a fan of audiobooks, the odds are that Amazon is your preferred place to shop. Of all the ways Amazon has been able to prove its hegemony in the book market, its share of audiobook sales probably represents its most formidable dominance.
Branding with skills
It is of utmost importance to note that, as far as most of the publishers are concerned, although the VUIs have been storming the market, there’s still plenitude of advancements in the pipeline. In spite of early triumphs with branded skills and flash briefings, VUIs still operate at a fairly low level such as following the commands to play music or read out your appointment dates. With that being said, many publishers are already working on plans for expansion. With the land grab to own skills still underway, the ones who make the first move will taste the success in the future.
What are the major challenges?
Dearth of personality
Voice assistants’ dearth of personality is one of the foremost concerns of publishers. Chris Gathercole, the head of FTLabs at the Financial Times, and his team used Amazon Polly for converting existing text articles into audio that is then delivered by ‘Artificial Amy’. What they observed was that ‘Amy’ was quick to learn and was also cost-effective but her lack of human-like characteristics was irksome and killed the humour or nuance of a piece.
Banal and disturbing
Automated voices are often either of banal nature or straight up disturbing which can put users off. An amalgamation of artificial and human voices could temper the issue with a voice actor reading parts of the text and a computerised voice contributing further snippets.
Automated voices are often either of banal nature or straight up disturbing
There are privacy concerns hovering around the ownership of devices that are essentially perpetually eavesdropping on your home. Consumer Watchdog, a customer advocacy group, stated in a study, “These patents show that smart devices target moments in between screen time to monitor sleep habits, listen in on dinner conversations, and track when users shower. Access to this data can flesh out Google and Amazon’s profiles of their users in order to help them more accurately server targeted ads”.
Conversations will evolve into an integral element of digital experiences. Interfaces that enable people to use natural language - from chatbots based on typing and reading to voice interfaces that are based on speaking and listening - are highly popular but also very immature.
However, with more devices without screens being connected, more consumers will look to voice for controlling their efforts and to perform more intricate tasks. Enterprises including publishing companies need guidance from Customer Experience (CX) pros so that their efforts at building conversational interfaces help customers instead of driving them away.
Looking for CX pro? Look no further than OpenSense Labs as we strongly believe in offering a wonderful digital experience through a suite of services.
Contact us at [email protected] to know more about the benefits of voice interface for a publishing company.
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HomeOriginal Art by Artist Trending NewsMorning Links: ‘The Large Glass’ Edition – ARTnews
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Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915–23.
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Some artworks produced in the year 1923 have entered the public domain as of January 1. This means that anyone can freely publish images of Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), among other works. [Hyperallergic]
Here’s a look inside the collection of Harlan and Olivia Fischer, who own more than 200 glass works by contemporary artists. [The New York Times]
“The U.S. art market for stolen antiquities from Yemen must be shut down.” [The Washington Post]
Artist Lina Iris Viktor has settled her copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kendrick Lamar, who she alleged drew too liberally on the look of her work for one of his and SZA’s music videos. [The Art Newspaper]
According to a new decision by French supreme court, Christie’s branch in the country is allowed to charge buyers droit de suite—resale royalties that are ultimately given to artists or their heirs. [The Art Newspaper]
On the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bruce Hainley writes on the art of Cady Noland. [Artforum]
Peter Schjeldahl on a survey that aims to redefine the canon of abstraction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “A desire to shake up received art history is more than admirable today—it’s urgent for a future of pluralist values. But this show effectively reinforces the old status quo.” [The New Yorker]
The Stedelijk Museum has added four new board members: Carla Aalse, Henriëtte Prast, Maarten Doorman, and Homme ten Have. [Artforum]
“I certainly didn’t think I would stay on for 35 years,” Deborah Marrow, the former executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who retired in December, said in a new interview. “I thought I would be a university professor or museum curator, but when the Getty came my way, it seemed too interesting an opportunity to pass by, and it has been amazing.” [The Art Newspaper]
Sam Dolnick writes on Phyllis Kind, the late Chicago gallerist who did not shy away from showing work by artists with mental disabilities. “Kind was awed by their passion, their single-minded focus,” he notes. [The New York Times Magazine]
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Stedelijk Museum, Erstwhile Director Beatrix Ruf Agree ‘to Leave Past Behind’ – – ARTnews
Beatrix Ruf. ROBIN DE PUY In a cryptic press release issued on Monday, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam said that Beatrix Ruf, the institution’s former director who resigned amid accusations of conflicts of interest, and […]
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Hosanna! Hosanna!, 2018. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND TYBURN GALLERY The opening of the Venice Biennale is less than three months away, and the excitement about which artists will be participating in the central […]
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Home News “Misused” word not enough to withhold information: privacy commissioner
“Misused” word not enough to withhold information: privacy commissioner
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Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has determined the City of Prince Albert violated the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) while fulfilling an access to information request in January.
According to the report, the city incorrectly applied parts of sections 16 and 18 of the act, which governs what information cities are allowed to withhold while fulfilling requests, in a response filed on Jan. 12.
The original request was made on Dec. 15, 2017, when the city received a submission asking for information on a Wireless Communication Equipment Tender from 2017. Ronald Kruzeniski, Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, ruled that certain parts of an email chain between city administrators were incorrectly withheld.
Under the privacy act, cities are allowed to withhold emails about tenders for a number of reasons, such as the emails containing financial, commercial, scientific, technical or labour relations information from a third party, or if the information was made available in confidence.
Typically, emails between city employees discussing tenders fall under that second category. However there was confusion with one email after the city claimed an employee “misused” a word, which altered how the sentence was interpreted. The city argued that the sentence constituted an opinion on the tender, which meant they couldn’t to make it available to the public. The privacy commissioner disagreed.
“Subsection 16(1)(b) of LA (local authority) FOIP is not meant to cover the recitation of facts. It is also not meant to cover the misuse of words,” Kruzeniski wrote in his report, which was released on June 29. “Misusing a word does not change a fact to an opinion. It also does not change a fact to a consultation or deliberation as defined above.”
Kruzeniski added that city was correct to withhold other information, such as unit prices and entire tender bid forms. He recommended that the city release all three emails, while severing the unit prices and another sentence containing an opinion on a third party tender.
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Biota Neotrop., vol. 8, no. 4, Out./Dez. 2008
Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil Verônica Souza da Mota Gomes1,3,4, Bette A. Loiselle2 & Maria Alice S. Alves3 1
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Ilha do Fundão, CCS, Bloco A, Sala A1 008, CP 68020, CEP 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, www.ufrj.br 2 Department of Biology, 8001, Natural Bridge Road, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA, www.umsl.edu 3 Departamento de Ecologia, IBRAG, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, CEP 20550-011, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected], www.uerj.br 4 Corresponding author: Verônica Souza da Mota Gomes, e-mail: [email protected]
GOMES, V.S.M., LOISELLE, B.A. & ALVES, M.A.S. 2008. Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotrop. 8(4): http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/ abstract?article+bn00208042008. Abstract: Understanding how birds use vegetation to obtain food resources has implications for habitat conservation and management. Restinga is a poorly known and threatened tropical habitat, associated to the Atlantic forest, that could benefit from this kind of information to know which plants can be used and dispersed by birds that can help on the maintenance of this habitat. Frugivorous and insectivorous birds are important components of tropical ecosystems, such as restinga. To provide more information regarding the ecology of restinga, we studied the feeding behavior and spatial use of this vegetation by birds at Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park, southeastern Brazil. We found that feeding behavior was similar to that recorded for the same species in other vegetation types. In addition, spatial use of the restinga vegetation by the most abundant species did not overlap greatly, except for two insectivorous species that used different foraging maneuvers and two frugivorous birds that foraged in flocks. The two most abundant species were generalists in their diet and were capable of feeding at the ground level on sand substrate. Keywords: Atlantic forest, behavior, diet, Mimus gilvus, Zonotrichia capensis. GOMES, V.S.M., LOISELLE, B.A. & ALVES, M.A.S. 2008. Forrageamento de aves por frutos e insetos em restinga arbustiva, sudeste do Brasil. Biota Neotrop., 8(4): http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/pt/ abstract?article+bn00208042008. Resumo: O conhecimento das estratégias de uso da vegetação pela fauna para forrageio tem implicações para conservação e manejo de habitats. Restinga é um ambiente tropical, associado à Mata Atlântica, ameaçado e ainda pouco conhecido que poderia se beneficiar desse tipo de informação para conhecer quais espécies de plantas podem ser utilizadas e dispersas por aves que atuem na manutenção deste habitat. Aves frugívoras e insetívoras são importantes componentes de ecossistemas tropicais, como a restinga. Para fornecer mais informações sobre a ecologia da restinga, nós estudamos o comportamento de forrageio e o uso do espaço das aves no Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba, sudeste do Brasil. Nós encontramos que os comportamentos de forrageio foram similares àqueles registrados para as mesmas espécies em outros ambientes. Além disso, o uso do espaço da vegetação de restinga pelas espécies mais abundantes não apresentou grande sobreposição, exceto por duas espécies insetívoras que usaram manobras de forrageio diferentes e duas aves frugívoras que forragearam em bando. As duas espécies mais abundantes foram generalistas em suas dietas e foram capazes de forragear no chão sobre areia nua. Palavras-chave: Mata Atlântica, comportamento, dieta, Mimus gilvus, Zonotrichia capensis.
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22 Gomes, V.S.M. et al.
Introduction Foraging ecology of birds often is limited by foliage structure, plant height and life forms and, therefore, plant community composition influences the ecology and composition of bird communities (Robinson & Holmes 1982, 1984, Holmes & Recher 1986, Parker 1986, Whelan 2001, Hasui et al. 2007). Furthermore, some birds forage preferentially on certain plant species (e.g., Parker 1986, Warburton et al. 1992), such as conifer trees of economic importance (Airola & Barrett 1985). Birds also are known to forage at different heights in the same plant species as shown by the classic work of MacArthur (1958) and others (Holmes et al. 1979, Parker 1986). This pattern corroborates the idea that closely-related species that co-occur rarely use the same habitat in the same way, avoiding competition for limited resources (Wiens 1989). Past and present selection, therefore, influences the ecology of interactions within any vegetation type, as well as the strength of those interactions. Some changes in vegetation structure and composition caused by deforestation may disrupt those interactions and change bird community composition (Canterbury et al. 2000, Gabbe et al. 2002, Sekercioglu 2002). Therefore, understanding how birds specifically use vegetation and individual plant species to obtain food resources likely has implications for habitat conservation and management, pointing out important plant species or structures that could be chosen for habitat restoration, which could attract seed dispersers to the area (Meli 2003), resulting in acceleration of forest succession (McClanahan & Wolfe 1993). Frugivorous birds are important components of ecosystems, as they influence plant regeneration through seed dispersal (Stiles 1992, Gorchov et al. 1993, Pizo 1997, Howe & Miriti 2000, Bleher & Bohning-Gaese 2001). However, foraging behavior of birds may influence their effectiveness as dispersers (Sorensen 1984, Schupp 1993, Witmer & Van Soest 1998). Similarly, insectivorous birds are important components of ecosystems as they may control populations of insect herbivores on certain plant species (Van Ball et al. 2003); their preferences for some foraging microhabitats generally determine what species or type of prey are eaten (Wolda 1990). Restinga is a coastal Brazilian ecosystem that is geologically recent and relatively poor in the number of endemic species; flora and fauna of restinga are typical of the Atlantic forest (Rizzini 1979, Lacerda et al. 1993, Cerqueira 2000, Reis & Gonzaga 2000, Alves et al. 2004). However, there is little ecological information on restinga birds to confirm whether they have similar habits to other tropical ecosystems, including other vegetation types within the Atlantic forest region (but see Novaes 1950, Venturini et al. 1996, Castiglioni 1998, Argel-de-Oliveira 1999, Scherer et al. 2007). The seasonal presence of non-breeding birds (Gonzaga et al. 2000, Alves et al. 2004) and the great threat to restinga from farmers and construction of second homes along the beach (Lacerda et al. 1993) highlight the importance of ecological studies that may inform conservation measures. Furthermore, marginal habitats to the Atlantic forest as restingas are often neglected in conservation strategies (Scarano 2002). The main goal of the present study is to examine spatial use of restinga vegetation by the most common terrestrial birds when foraging on fruits and/or arthropods. In addition, we present information on general foraging ecology of 37 other bird species that also feed on fruits and arthropods in restinga. By indicating what plants birds prefer to forage on and how they partition space during foraging, we expect to contribute to support conservation of restinga vegetation.
Material and Methods Data were collected in the Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park (22° 17’ S and 41° 41’ W), created in 1998 in Macaé, on the north http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br
shore of Rio de Janeiro State. This region is a holocenic sandy plain covered by a mosaic of plant communities called restinga. The landscape is also marked by the presence of many coastal lakes with various salinity levels. Climate is characterized by a wet season between October and April and a drier season between May and September. Mean annual rainfall is 1200 mm and temperature 22.6° C. The dominant plant formation is the Open Clusia Formation, formed by patches of vegetation that cover 20 to 48% of the soil and reach 5 m high, with few small plants in between. The Park also includes forest formations, Ericaceae Shrub Formation and other formations with smaller plants, totaling ten plant communities (Henriques et al. 1986, Araujo et al. 1998, Pimentel 2002). The present study was developed in the Open Clusia Formation in two sites: next to “Lagoa Comprida” (22° 16’ 41’’ S and 41° 39’ 41’’ W) and approximately two kilometers to northeast from that site (22° 16’ 13.2’’ S and 41° 38’ 50.3’’ W). Observations were made between 6:00 and 12:00 h and between 13:00 and 18:00 h, walking along three parallel transects in each site. Each trail was approximately 200 m long and 50 m distant from any other transect. We walked at a constant speed until a foraging bird was detected; the bird was followed until lost. During 100 h of observations, we recorded the following information: bird species (following Dunning 1989, Sick 1997, and museum collections for Elaenia spp.), plant species (when possible), foraging height, foraging position (relative to plant height), food item and foraging behavior (maneuver). Foraging maneuvers were characterized as one of nine types (adapted from Remsen & Robinson 1990), and then grouped into five categories: glean, on-perch maneuvers (reach, hang), sally (sally-strike, sally-pounce, sally-hover), ground maneuver (leap, lunge), and hawk. Food items considered were fruits and arthropods, and to determine predominance of one or the other in each species’ diet, we considered the occurrence of those items in fecal samples and observations. Fecal samples were obtained from all birds captured, except for Columbina spp. (essentially seed-eaters), Trochilidae (essentially nectar-feeders) and nocturnal birds during 3640 net-hours (2.5 x 12 m; 36 mm mesh). Common names are as in Dunning (1989) and authors and years from CBRO (2007). We determined the relative availability of plant species to evaluate the foraging sites available and used by birds. Shrubs and trees (with 2.5 cm DBH or greater) with 0.5 m or taller were sampled using the point-centered quarter method (Sylvestre & Rosa 2002). In each sample area, two transects separated by 40 m, with 25 points spaced at 10 m intervals were sampled; this resulted in a total of 400 plants sampled. At each sample point, we identified and measured the distance and circumference at 0.5 m height for the four plants closest to each point. We then calculated the Importance Value Index (IVI, Brower & Zar 1984) for each species, taking into account relative frequency (in 100 points), relative abundance and relative cover (basal area at 0.5 m high). Availability of each plant species was calculated as the total IVI for that species. From the available plants, 35% were identified only to morphospecies. We estimated the preference of bird species for each plant species using Jacobs’ index: D = (u - p) / (u + p – 2 up)
where: u is proportion of that plant species used by the bird species, and p is proportion of plant species available (Jacobs 1974). Only the plant species used when foraging for arthropods were used in this analysis, as fruit consumption depends on variables other than plant availability (e.g., fruit size, fruit abundance, chemistry) and will be discussed elsewhere. From the species used by the birds, only five species were not identified. Here we include in each statistical analysis only the bird species with at least five independent observations for each variable (height, http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
23 Birds foraging in restinga
Results We recorded 1.53 individuals foraging per hour of observation. This low encounter rate reflects the difficulty in detecting foraging birds in this habitat. Although it is an open habitat, the vegetation patches often are dense and compact. From the bird species detected foraging, 71.4% were frugivorous (fruits consumed in at least one observation), while the remaining species consumed animals (mainly arthropods - insectivorous) (Table 1). We recorded foraging observations from 162 individuals of 25 species. The most common foraging maneuver observed was gleaning from a perch (20 species), while sally maneuvers were used by 10 species (Table 1). Only two species foraged from the ground and five species used hawking maneuvers. When the five most commonly observed species were grouped by their feeding maneuvers, the first axis extracted 81.09% of the variation and the second 18.42%. Mimus gilvus (Vieillot) and Zonotrichia capensis clustered together in the ordination because they occasionally fed from the ground, although they used a variety of foraging maneuvers (Figure 1). In contrast, Elaenia flavogaster, which frequently sallied, separated from the others; while Camptostoma obsoletum and Coryphospingus pileatus grouped together due to a preference for gleaning. When species were ordinated based on plant species used for foraging on arthropods, the first axis extracted 80.0% of the variation and the second axis extracted another 16.7%. Camptostoma obsoletum and E. flavogaster presented the greatest similarity in plant species used as foraging sites (Figure 2a and b). However, the ordination of birds in plant species space based on foraging for fruits (first axis with 89.25% and second with 10.72%) revealed that Z. capensis and C. pileatus were the species most similar to each other (Figure 2c and d). Concerning foraging heights, E. flavogaster clearly preferred the highest heights, significantly differing from C. pileatus, M. gilvus and Z. capensis (no confidence interval overlap) (Figure 3). On the other extreme, Z. capensis preferred the lowest heights and differed also from C. pileatus and M. gilvus. Camptostoma obsoletum did not show a clear preference, not differing from the other four species. Finally, the first axis of BCO for position extracted 87.7% and the second 11.6%. Zonotrichia capensis and E. flavogaster formed a group that preferred the upper part of the plants (from 50 to 99% of plant total height), while M. gilvus and C. pileatus used the top of plants and C. obsoletum did not show any preference (Figure 4). http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
Based on the results presented here, it was possible to establish the spatial arrangement of the five species while foraging (Figure 5). Mimus gilvus occasionally foraged on the ground, although it preferred to forage on the top of plants, both in tall and short plants. It used many different plant species during its foraging activity for arthropods and for fruits. Elaenia flavogaster used the upper part of the plants and foraged at the greatest heights, both when foraging for arthropods and for fruits. Ocotea notata was a plant frequently used by that species. Camptostoma obsoletum was not observed foraging for fruits and used all heights and vertical positions equally. Some plants used by this species as foraging sites were also used by E. flavogaster (Figure 5a). Coryphospingus pileatus did not show any preference for height, but preferred to forage in the canopy of plants. Zonotrichia capensis foraged at lower heights, but preferred the crown position. The latter two species presented some overlap while foraging for fruits in lower-level vegetation, but not for arthropods (Figure 5a and b). Four of the five bird species studied preferred to forage on Ocotea notata (Nees) Mez disproportionate to its availability (Table 2). The preference of C. obsoletum for Garcinia brasiliensis Mart. was probably numerical, rather than biological, and related to the low abundance of this plant species. Mimus gilvus’ preference for Clusia hilariana Schltdl. seems biological, as this plant was the second most available and was used considerably more than expected.
Discussion Despite that restinga is an open habitat, with highly patchy vegetation and a harsh climate, bird species studied in detail were similar in their foraging ecologies to the same or closely-related species in tropical humid forests. The five most common species differed in height and plant species preferences, with little spatial overlap. Probably those characteristics are linked to their evolutionary histories in
Elaenia flavogaster
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position, maneuver and plant species used to obtain arthropods or fruits), which we find to be the minimum to establish a pattern. This criterium resulted in five bird species studied in detail. To assure independent observations, only the first observation of sequential observations from an individual was used (Bell et al. 1990, Hejl et al. 1990). The main objective with these analyses was to draw a picture of the main foraging birds in restinga and indicate important plant species or structures. The classic discussion concerning competition between similar species is only approximated when comparing Coryphospingus pileatus (Wied) and Zonotrichia capensis (Müller) or Campstostoma obsoletum (Temminck) and Elaenia flavogaster (Thunberg), the most similar species with the minimum sample sizes. To observe differences in the foraging heights, we built up notched Box Plots (Systat, 1990). To group bird species according to their maneuvers, plant species, and position on the plant, we used BrayCurtis Ordination (BCO) (McCune & Mefford 1999), as it avoids grouping species together based on the presence of zeros in the data matrix (Beals 1984). Parameters used for these analyses followed McCune & Grace (2002).
Zonotrichia capensis On-perch Glean Mimus gilvus Ground
Camptostoma obsoletum
Coryphospingus pileatus 0 0
Figure 1. Bray-Curtis Ordination (BCO) of the studied species considering maneuvering, at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. (Scores for the birds are triangles and for the variables are stars; for number of samples, see Table 1). Figura 1. Ordenação de Bray-Curtis (BCO) das espécies estudadas considerando comportamento, na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (Posições das aves são triângulos e das variáveis são estrelas; para número de amostras, veja Tabela 1). http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br
Table 1. Feeding data on the terrestrial birds observed foraging in Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. Tabela 1. Informações de alimentação das espécies de aves terrestres observadas forrageando na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, sudeste do Brasil.
COLUMBIDAE CUCULIDAE EMBERIZIDAE
MIMIDAE MUSCICAPIDAE
PICIDAE THAMNOPHILIDAE TROGLODYTIDAE TYRANNIDAE
VIREONIDAE Total
Leptotila rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard, 1792) Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) Coccyzus melacoryphus Vieillot, 1817 Cacicus haemorrhous (Linnaeus, 1766) Coereba flaveola (Linnaeus, 1758) Coryphospingus pileatus (Wied, 1821) Cyanerpes cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766) Euphonia chlorotica (Linnaeus, 1766) Nemosia pileata (Boddaert, 1783) Ramphocelus bresilius (Linnaeus, 1766) Schistochlamys ruficapillus (Vieillot, 1817) Tachyphonus coronatus (Vieillot, 1822) Tangara peruviana (Desmarest, 1806) Thraupis sayaca (Linnaeus, 1766) Volatinia jacarina (Linnaeus, 1766) Zonotrichia capensis (Statius Muller, 1776) Mimus gilvus (Vieillot, 1807) Mimus saturninus (Lichtenstein, 1823) Platycichla flavipes (Vieillot, 1818) Turdus albicollis Vieillot, 1818 Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis, 1850 Celeus flavescens (Gmelin, 1788) Picumnus cirratus Temminck, 1825 Formicivora rufa (Wied, 1831) Troglodytes aedon Vieillot, 1809 Camptostoma obsoletum (Temminck, 1824) Elaenia albiceps (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) Elaenia chiriquensis Lawrence, 1865 Elaenia cristata Pelzeln, 1868 Elaenia flavogaster (Thunberg, 1822) Elaenia obscura (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) Myiarchus tyrannulus (Statius Muller, 1776) Myiodynastes maculates (Statius Muller, 1776) Parula pitiayumi (Vieillot, 1817) Pitangus sulphuratus (Linnaeus, 1766) Satrapa icterophrys (Vieillot, 1818) Todirostrum cinereum (Linnaeus, 1766) Tolmomyias flaviventris (Wied, 1831) Tolmomyias sulphurescens (Spix, 1825) Tyrannus melancholicus Vieillot, 1819 Hylophilus toracicus Temminck, 1822 Vireo chivi (Linnaeus, 1766) 42
Fecal or regurgitate samples
Art (%)
Fruits (%)
1 1 1 2 2 11 5 14 2 1 6 19 3 37 35 19 1 77 1 6 7 6 7 1 14 2 30 1 5 1 1 1 3 3
0 100 100 50 100 100 20 7 100 100 67 11 33 84 43 5 0 25 0 100 100 100 100 0 7 100 27 0 100 100 0 100 100 100
100 100 0 100 0 64 100 100 0 100 50 95 100 54 80 95 100 88 100 17 0 0 0 100 93 100 90 100 0 0 100 0 0 0
1 1 9 2 6 1 2 6 1 2 33 37 2 6
100 67 100 83 100 50 67 100 50 27 65 100 100 38 100 100 -
3 3 1 6 1 4 1 162
100 100 100 100 100 -
Total number of events of ground foraging (glean on the ground does not appear in the table): Mimus gilvus = 2 and Zonotrichia capensis = 10.
Sally-pounce
Sally-hover
]0-2]
]4-5
0-50]
]50-99
Sally-strike
Position (% of plant height)
1 1 6 2 4 1 2 6 2 1 27 27 2 1 7 5 2 1 1 1 -
On-perch
Behavior Sallies
1 1 2 1 1 -
3 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 -
1 1 1 1 4 1 -
1 1 6 4 1 2 1 18 16 1 1 2 6 4 2 2 1 2 2 -
2 2 2 1 1 4 2 7 14 1 3 1 1 3 8 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 -
1 1 1 1 2 4 1 3 1 1 -
4 1 2 1 3 1 14 11 1 3 1 2 3 10 2 2 2 2 1 2 -
2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 -
Coryphospingus pileatus (4)
Clusia hilariana
Elaenia flavogaster (6)
Mimus gilvus (10)
Smilax rufescens Paullinia weinmanniaefolia Miconia cinnamomifolia Eugenia umbelliflora Aechmea nudicaulis Norantea brasiliensis
d Ocotea notata Erythroxylum ovalifolium Myrsine parvifolia
Zonotrichia capensis (9)
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Myrtaceae Humiria basamifera Protium icicariba
Zonotrichia capensis (27) 40
Dead Ternstroemia brasiliensis
Coccoloba sp.
Manilkara subsericea Byrsonima sericea Garcinia brasiliensis
Ocotea notata
Camptostoma obsoletum (8) 40
Miconia cinnamomifolia Erythroxylum ovalifolium
Pilosocerus arrabidae 40
Humiria brasiliensis Tapirira guianensis Protium icicariba
Figure 2. Bray-Curtis Ordination (BCO) of the studied species considering plant species used for foraging for arthropods (a-birds scores, b-plants scores), and plant species used for foraging for fruits (c-birds scores, d-plants scores) at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. (Scores for the birds are triangles and for the variables are stars; in parenthesis, the number of independent samples for each species). Figura 2. Ordenação de Bray-Curtis (BCO) das espécies estudadas considerando espécies utilizadas para forrageamento por artrópodos (a-posições das aves, b-posições das plantas) e espécies utilizadas para forrageamento por frutos (c-posições das aves, d-posições das plantas) na Restinga de Jurubatiba, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (Posições das aves são triângulos e das variáveis são estrelas; em parênteses, o número de amostras independentes para cada espécie).
the tropical forest sensu strictu, and only those species with foraging strategies capable to allow survivorship in other habitats expanded their distributions to marginal habitats, such as restinga. This idea is corroborated by the fact that most species have their origin attributed to other habitats or biomes (Reis & Gonzaga 2000). Most birds species studied were frugivorous at some level, including the non-breeding birds at the study site Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis, Platycichla flavipes (Vieillot), Tangara peruviana (Desmarest), Cyanerpes cyaneus (Linnaeus) and Elaenia albiceps (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye), E. chiriquensis Lawrence, E. cristata Pelzeln, E. obscura (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye). Plants, therefore, are extremely important to that avifauna not only as foraging substrates, but also as direct sources of food. Frugivores have also been found http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br
to be numerically important in lowland wet forests in Costa Rica (30% of the total avifauna), especially among migrants (2/3 of the species) (Blake & Loiselle 1992). Furthermore, the probability of finding fruits and not arthropods in the diet of migrant omnivorous birds may be greater during migration than in breeding sites, as many species tend to increase their consumption of fruits before and during migration (Wheelwright 1986, Martin et al. 1931 and Berthold 1976 apud Levey & Karasov 1989, Blake & Loiselle 1992). The foraging maneuver mostly used by birds in restinga was glean, which was also found by Beissinger & Osborne (1982) and Volpato & Anjos (2001) in urban habitats and is presumably the maneuver that requires lower energy-expenditure (Remsen 1985). We found that ordination based on foraging maneuvers grouped http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
5 Coryphospingus pileatus
Zonotrichia capensis Elaenia flavogaster
Mimus gilvus
2 Axis 2
Zonotrichia capensis
Coryphospingus pileatus
40 Camptostoma obsoletum
Figure 3. Box plots of foraging heights of the studied species at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil (internal horizontal line = median; whiskers = minimum and maximum values; box horizontal limits: inferior = 25% quartile, superior = 75% quartile; asterisks = outliers. Boxes are notched at the median and return to full width at the lower and upper 95% confidence limits of the median). (for number of samples, see Table 1). Figura 3. Distribuição das alturas de forrageio das espécies estudadas na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (linha horizontal interna = mediana; traços horizontais = valores mínimos e máximos; limites horizontais das caixas: inferior = quartil de 25%, superior = quartil de 75%; asteriscos = outliers. As caixas são mais estreitas na mediana e retornam para a largura total nos limites de 95% de confiança inferior e superior da mediana). (para número de amostras, veja Tabela 1).
Figure 4. Bray-Curtis Ordination (BCO) of the studied species considering foraging positions (percent of plant height), at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. (Scores for the birds are triangles and for the variables are stars; for number of samples, see Table 1). Figura 4. Ordenação de Bray-Curtis (BCO) das espécies estudadas considerando posição de forrageio (percentagem da altura da planta), na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (Posições das aves são triângulos e das variáveis são estrelas; para número de amostras, veja Tabela 1).
Coryphospingus pileatus Mimus gilvus Coryphospingus pileatus
Camptostoma obsoletum Camptostoma obsoletum
Mimus gilvus Coryphospingus pileatus
Coryphospingus pileatus Coryphospingus pileatus
Figure 5. Spatial display of the studied birds when foraging for a) arthropods and for b) fruits, at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. (Plant species most used are based on Figure 2, foraging heights on Figure 3 and positions on Figure 4; “Groups” represent groups of plant species). Figura 5. Disposição espacial das espécies de aves estudadas durante o forrageio por a) artrópodos e por b) frutos, na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (espécies de plantas mais utilizadas estão baseadas na Figura 2, alturas de forrageio na Figura 3 e posições na Figura 4; “Groups” representam grupos de espécies de plantas). http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
Table 2. Plant species availability (IVI, see text) and preference (Jacobs’ index, see text) by the most common terrestrial birds observed feeding for arthropods at Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil (in bold, positive Jacob’s index values. –1.0 indicates that birds were never observed foraging on this plant. - means no data). Tabela 2. Disponibilidade de espécies de plantas (IVI, veja texto) e preferência (índice de Jacob, veja texto) pelas aves terrestres mais comumente observadas forrageando por artrópodos na Restinga de Jurubatiba, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, sudeste do Brasil (em negrito, valores positivos do índice de Jacob. –1.0 indica que as aves nunca foram observadas forrageando nessa planta. - significa ausência de dados).
Plant Species
Andira sp. Byrsonima sericea DC. Clusia hilariana Schltdl. Dead Erythroxylum ovalifolium Peyr. Erythroxylum subsessile (Mart.) O. E. Schulz Garcinia brasiliensis Mart. Guapira opposita (Vell.) Reitz Humiria balsamifera (Aubl.) A. St.-Hil. Manilkara subsericea (Mart.) Dubard Maytenus obtusifolia Mart. Miconia cinnamomifolia (DC.) Naudin Myrsine parvifolia A. DC Myrtaceae Ocotea notata (Nees) Mez Ouratea cuspidata (A. St.-Hil.) Engl. Paullinia weinmanniaefolia Mart. Protium icicariba (DC.) Marchand Ternstroemia brasiliensis Cambess. Tibouchina sp. Tocoyena bullata Mart. Xylopia ochrantha Mart. Sample size
Camptostoma obsoletum –1.0 0.1 –0.5 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0
Coryphospingus pileatus –1.0 –1.0 –0.5 –1.0 0.4 –1.0
Elaenia flavogaster –1.0 –1.0 –0.6 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0
Mimus gilvus –1.0 –1.0 0.5 –0.1 –1.0 –1.0
Zonotrichia capensis –1.0 –1.0 –0.1 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0
0.18 0.41 0.16 0.08 0.02 0.61 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.09 400
–1.0 –1.0 0.5 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 8
–1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 0.4 –1.0 –1.0 –1.0 10
species in accordance to the literature as Tyrannidae (E. flavogaster and C. obsoletum) generally use their wings (hawk and sallies) and Emberizinae (C. pileatus and Z. capensis) glean from perches (Moermond & Denslow 1985, Moermond et al. 1986). Mimus gilvus, however, also used winged maneuvers to forage, as well as foraged from the ground; this species was positioned with Z. capensis in the ordination. Tyrants were investigated in greater detail in other works: Camptostoma spp. used only gleaning manuevers (Fitzpatrick 1980), although C. obsoletum used glean and sally-strike in the same proportions (Gabriel & Pizo 2005), and Elaenia spp used only sallies (Fitzpatrick 1980, Cintra 1997, Gabriel & Pizo 2005). Those behaviors seem to be conservative for the species, independently of habitat, being forest edges or shrubby vegetations, as in restinga. Likely, species that frequently hawk are limited to open habitats. All of the tyrants studied here (see Table 1) are typical of open habitats (Sick 1997) and they were recorded more frequently in shrubby restinga than in restinga forest at the study site (Gomes 2006). Those species, when recorded in the forest, were perched in or foraging from the forest canopy. Cintra (1997) studied the foraging behavior of tyrants in forest and field in the Amazon, and from the species that occurred in both habitats, their behaviors were conservative. In fact, the tallest trees (2 to 4 m; mainly Ocotea notata) seemed to be important especially for E. flavogaster and other tyrants. This http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br
species, in particular, was usually observed in pairs in the canopy, from where one of the individuals left and returned to meet the other after foraging (pers. obs.). The preference of tyrants for tall trees had already been shown by Cintra (1997) and it is related to their aerial maneuvering (Fitzpatrick 1980). In contrast, Z. capensis and M. gilvus were the only species capable of frequent ground-foraging during the study, although the latter preferred greater heights. Mimus saturninus (Lichtenstein) was observed feeding on unpaved and paved grounds in a university campus of southern Brazil (Volpato & Anjos 2001); Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus) also frequently foraged on the ground in North America (Breitwisch et al. 1987). Zonotrichia capensis is also known to forage on the ground (Sick 1997). Half of the species and individuals of resident birds of a desert shrubland in North America foraged on the ground (Parker 1986), which was attributed to a dominance of foodgeneralist species in a highly unpredictable habitat. In the restinga studied in the present work, precipitation is not totally unpredictable, but may be scarce in the middle of the year. Furthermore, although arthropods and fruits fluctuate in abundance, there is no season of scarcity of those resources (Monteiro & Macedo 2000, Gomes 2006). Foraging on the ground, birds likely encounter different arthropod prey than that found on plant surfaces (data not shown). Besides being generalists in feeding maneuvers, those species have a generalist diet http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
(Sick 1997, Gomes 2006). Generalist foraging strategies may have resulted in greater population abundances; they were among the five most abundant resident birds both in mist-netting and observations during two years of sampling (Alves et al. 2004). In general, bird species did not overlap much while foraging, although some plants used by C. obsoletum to forage for arthropods coincided with those used by E. flavogaster. However, the latter species used mostly sallies and the former mostly glean, which likely resulted in each species foraging in different microhabitats of the same plant. In fact, three of the items observed to be consumed by C. obsoletum were Homoptera that formed a white layer on the lower surface of the leaves of C. hilariana and Manilkara subsericea (Mart.) Dubard; in contrast, E. flavogaster was never seen consuming Homoptera. Coryphospingus pileatus and Z. capensis also overlapped in shorter vegetation while feeding on fruits. Indeed, both species were occasionally observed foraging for fruits in mixed flocks, while on other occasions, Z. capensis captured ants on the ground. This last species is known to forage in mixed flocks (Machado 1999). The fact that fruits of a given species are ephemeral and patchy may explain flocking in birds, which facilitates encountering such resources Saracco et al. (2004). Besides that, mixed flocks also take advantage of a greater vigilance against predators (Powell 1985), which in an open habitat as the shrubby restinga may be critical. This seems to be the case for the cerrado (Tubelis et al. 2006, Alves & Cavalcanti 1996), a Brazilian biome that also has open vegetation. Birds’ preference for O. notata may, in part, be related to the architecture of this tree, which provided a better visibility of the foraging birds to the observer than other species did (pers. obs.). On the other hand, M. gilvus probably preferred to forage on C. hilariana for arthropods probably because it is a tall tree, from where this bird may defend its territory and also obtain some fruit when possible (pers. obs.). Such apparent plant preferences for O. notata and C. hilariana, may simply reflect that they were among the six species with the greatest importance values in a phytosociological study of the same plant formation (Araujo et al. 2004). Although restinga is a marginal habitat in the Atlantic forest, frugivorous and insectivorous birds foraged similarly to other Neotropical habitats. Concerning birds and their foraging ecologies, it seems that Restinga de Jurubatiba preserves its ecological patterns, as indicated formerly by Rocha et al. (2003). The present work is further evidence of the importance of birds for conservation of this restinga vegetation structure and plant composition. Our main contribution to restoration measures in restinga were having pointed out that Clusia and Ocotea are important plants to attract bird species, which in turn, could disperse their seeds and other plant species’ (Gomes et al. 2008), helping the successional process. Future studies should evaluate in more detail bird species behavior and habitat requirements, trying to unmask differences in fitness among forest and marginal habitats as restingas.
Raposo for helping at Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ). To Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) for scholarships to V. S. M. Gomes. To Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), for the research grant awarded to M. A. S. Alves (process number 302718/03-6). To Idea Wild for the mist nets and to Instituto Biomas and UERJ for the vehicles used in the field. To Núcleo de Pesquisas de Macaé (NUPEM) for the logistic facilities. This work is a sub-project of Grupo de Vertebrados/PELD - site 5/CNPq. Birds were captured under the license number P029/03 (CEMAVE/IBAMA) and collection of specimens under the licenses number 106/2003 and 116/2004 (IBAMA/DIREC - PARNA Restinga de Jurubatiba), 056/2002 and 093/2004 (IBAMA/Fauna) and 163/2005 (IBAMA/Flora).
BLEHER, B. & BOHNING-GAESE, K. 2001. Consequences of frugivore diversity for seed dispersal, seedling establishment and the spatial pattern of seedlings and trees. Oecologia 129(3):385-394.
To the members of Laboratório de Ecologia de Aves, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (especially Alline Storni, Adriano Lagos, Vanessa C. Tomaz), Charles Ozanick, Francisco Mallet-Rodrigues, Karina Amaral, Davor Vrcibradic, Carlos Humberto Oliveira, Mariana Janiszewski, Ricardo Freitas, Barbara L. Ignacio and Renata P. N. Lima for helping in the field work. To Dorothy S. D. Araujo and Alexandre Quinet (Ocotea) for the identification of the plants. To Luiz Fábio Silveira and Érica Hasui for helping with Elaenia spp. identification at Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MUZUSP) and Marcos http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v8n4/en/abstract?article+bn00208042008
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Present: Kimberley Skanes, Chair
Nancy Lamarche, Director of Regional Labour Relation Services
Gordon Bulmer, National Capital Region
Peter MacDougall, British Columbia / Yukon
Peter S. Jozsa, Ontario
Kieth L. Laing, Prairie / NWT
Carolyn Hynes, Atlantic Region
Robert Tellier, Quebec Region
Ivana Saula, Education Officer
Audrey Joyal, Education Officer
Karisa Karmali, Staff Resource
1. Call to Order
K. Skanes called the meeting to order at 9:20 a.m. (EST) on July 7th, 2017 at the Hilton
Lac-Leamy, Gatineau, Québec.
2. Approval Agenda
The agenda items were approved; however, new items were discussed.
K. Skanes explained that the main purpose of this meeting was to ensure that
everything is ready for her presentation to the Board, taking place in August. The
documents generated from today’s meeting will also need to be translated in time.
The Agenda was approved. Moved by P. Josza, Seconded by R. Tellier – Carried.
3. Approval of minutes from last meeting
The Minutes from the April 1, 2017 Training and Education Committee meeting were
approved. Moved by K. Laing , Seconded by P. Josza – Carried.
4. Business arising from the last meeting
4. a) Review Action Items
Action Items were reviewed and added to the List of Action Items.
4. b) Kim Skanes’ Overview of Survey Results
K. Skanes discussed the results and I. Saula explained that the survey stemmed from a random sample. The research firm ensured that the sample was representative of the demographics and that it was representative of PIPSC as a whole.
G. Bulmer suggested that there be a prize / draw involved in rewarding members for completion of courses, rather than incentives being reserved only for sign-ups.
R. Tellier highlighted the importance of keeping in-house training, despite the introduction of e-Learning, especially for training courses which are political in nature and require mobilisation.
I. Saula affirmed that E-Learning is meant to be combined with in house-facilitation (when appropriate) rather than replacing it. E-Learning complements Labour Schools.
Despite certain members being fond of the weekend schools, P. Josza touched upon the logistical obstacles of Saturdays as part of the Thursday to Saturday training sessions. Half-hour sessions of training could supplement in-house training in order to accommodate busy schedules. This is likely to be an ongoing topic of discussion.
In closing the discussion around survey results, I. Saula reiterated that the survey results reflect a variety of voices including the ones that are never heard in the membership. The sample selected by Viewpoints is a reflective one.
Course structure:
K. Skanes stated that the three day course structure may need to be reviewed. In the Atlantic, some do not want to do the three day courses and prefer to limit training to two days. Due to the travel component, there is a need to provide training over two and one half day.
G. Bulmer stated that, in the NCR, there are exceptions made for those requesting a two-day attendance to training. However, these are the exceptions and not the rule. Priority should be given to the (prospective) stewards who are able to attend the entirety of the training.
P. MacDougall stated that every class in the BC/Yukon Region has been filled to capacity; therefore, they haven’t encountered these issues.
The importance of mentorship as shown in the survey results:
R. Tellier stated that in October, in the Quebec region, the advanced training session will run at the same time as the Basic Steward Training. This approach should encourage and increase the mentoring of new stewards.
G. Bulmer suggested that criteria to become a mentor be set.
Social media policy:
A brief discussion on the need for a Social Media Policy took place and P. Josza cited the example of the CS Facebook page, as it is one that is not PIPSC run.
K. Skanes closed the discussion with stating that a policy would not be TEC’s responsibility.
4. c) Current Model and New Model – K. Skanes
The current model includes Regional Labour Schools, Basic and Online Training.
K. Skanes stated that once the Board approves the new model, the criteria for participant selection will be addressed. The vision is to have selection criteria for training that is applicable across the regions and appropriate for national training.
Understandably, there will be nuances regionally which will need to be factored in. The starting point is to develop encompassing criteria.
G. Bulmer suggested that leveraging the online application for the AGM would facilitate the process of selection.
K. Laing reminded the Committee of a matrix that was discussed in a previous meeting. This matrix would demonstrate which training the member (at any given level) is permitted to take while outlining the pre-requisites involved.
The New Education Model was agreed upon unanimously by the Committee and will be presented to the Board in August.
The document was edited in real-time; the final version is in Appendix A.[1]
4. d) Liberated Stewards - K. Laing
K. Laing explained that when it was presented in the Prairies, the majority thought that Regional Liberated Stewards should make themselves known to PIPSC; otherwise, it could create a trust issue and lack of transparency. He explained that it would be ideal for it to go back to the Board as feedback.
K. Skanes will work on this further and get the notes from S. Bittman
4. e) Steward: Levels / Role of a Steward
K. Skanes stated that policies need to be looked at in terms of how they can be adapted. If the Board approves, the next step would be to set aside an hour near / during Steward Councils for this Training Revamp. The hour would consist of the Role of a Steward Presentation, which will be developed in advance and standardized to ensure it is consistent when delivered across the country.
The document was edited in real-time; the final version is in Appendix B.[2]
The presentation will introduce the changes in levels and allow Stewards to self-identify.
Presentation / specifics:
K. Skanes suggested that self-identifying cards be distributed to Stewards during the presentation. The scales "1-2-3" will help the steward identify where they place themselves on the levels. Having levels would be identified in the profile as to whether they want to stay as a “1” or if they want to have progressive training. This will help determine part of the criterion (i.e. who gets to what training). This would be the next step after the Board, which should happen expeditiously.
Who will present / how it will be presented:
Although most of the Regions have full schedules for their Steward Councils, one hour is to be incorporated in their agendas for the presentation, Q&A, and Steward Self-Identification exercise. K. Skanes / I. Saula / N. Lamarche will be giving the presentations when possible. The end goal would be for the messaging to be as consistent as possible.
4. f) Status: Lunch and Learn Process - K. Laing
The discussion on Lunch and Learn Process was left at the Action Item of brainstorming a landing page for the special requests (K. Laing and P. Josza).
4. g) Status: Online Training Modules - K. Laing
There is consensus among stewards in the Prairie/NWT Region, K. Laing notes, that in-class training unifies the stewardship and promotes activism. That being said, there is also increasing interest in short online training modules as they accommodate family obligations and are more manageable as a whole.
4. h) Notification to members / event notices / attendance outside normal hours is voluntary
K. Laing suggested that there be a notice reminding members that training on Saturdays is voluntary. Further, R. Tellier notes that while members are not paid to attend, lost salary is reimbursed.
An example of a notice was sent by C. Hynes and can be found in Appendix C.[3] This can be used as a template and modified.
5. a) Separate Employers: Regional / Provincial Territorial Legislation
K. Skanes mentioned that group-specific training would be run at a National Level for AFS and CS; however, SE training would only be run regionally, as some aren’t.
Regional Differences:
Action Item: The Committee members are to identify which Provincial Legislation applies to their regions. This will aid in identifying which courses can be all inclusive and which need to be customized.
K. Skanes mentioned that as part of the consultation, the SE’s expressed the need for inclusive training while catering to their particular legislation. In order to accommodate the Separate Employers’ request, there may be changes required for existing training and new modules developed specifically to suit their needs.
K. Laing agreed that SE’s are an area of growth and that their needs must be addressed if the Institute wants to continue recruiting non-TBS members.
6. Regional Reports
Pacific:
P. MacDougall informed that the Pacific Region had their Advanced Training in April 2017; it was a full course and there was a stand-by list. There were also lunch and learns, which were all successful.
Prairies:
K. Laing stated that, similarly to the Pacific Region, the Prairies Spring Advanced Labour School and Basic Training were successful. The presentation K. Laing shared with the Committee was well received at the Regional Council. Additionally, the recruitment rate for stewards is increasing.
Ontario:
P. Josza touched upon the rate at which New Stewards are signing up. New Stewards are signing up at an unprecedented rate and every Basic Training and Labour School has a waiting list.
National Capital Region:
G. Bulmer forewarned that the NCR School structure may need to change. The Fall school is only going to be given in two streams, as opposed to the traditional three stream setup. There will only be one Basic, not two, as there are not sufficient resources. Doing three small events may be an idea, rather than doing two larger events. The idea of new stewards meeting advanced stewards remains valid. National trainings will be reviewed as it is preferable for there to be a month of OSH. The NCR is also planning their Steward Council.
Québec Region:
R. Tellier mentioned the planning of the Basic Training for the Fall. OSH training is going to be the same as last year, with the exception that the School will be one module.
Atlantic Region:
C. Hynes mentioned that the schools were successful this year. The Constituent Body training had lower attendance than expected due to a storm. The Region is in its planning phases for the Steward Council and the ARC was a success. The Resolution Workout exercise was well received. In terms of Basic Steward Training for September, the class is full and there is a waitlist.
7. Roundtable
7. a) PIPSC Mental Health Resource Guide (Complete) – Education
A. Joyal introduced the completion of the Mental Health Resource guide, the first ever official resource on Mental Health for PIPSC. For the production aspect, it would be in magazine format and a discussion on the best distribution method membership-wide took place.
It was decided that it would be marketed via all possible channels, social media, Steward Councils, and the AGM.
P. Josza suggested that D. Daviau mention it in the media and that it be taken back to his Branch Liaison to further help with a social media strategy.
G. Bulmer suggested adding “211” as a resource and K. Skanes mentioned adding the link to the “211” website, listing the regions covered by the service.
Whether it is printed or online, or both, K. Skanes suggested to have the guide in the packages for Steward Council, or to have a card with the link to the Mental Health Resource Guide on it.
G. Bulmer suggested that the link to the Mental Health Resource Guide could be on bookmarks, which could go in the Steward packages.
K. Laing mentioned that due to the Mental Health Resource Guide, the demand for mental health courses is now created.
I. Saula confirmed that mental health related training is being worked on by the Education section.
9. Frequency of TEC meetings
A discussion on frequency of TEC meetings took place and the Committee was tasked with identifying their availabilities.
10. Next Meeting
K. Skanes stated that the next TEC meeting is to take place in September or October on a Monday, Friday or Saturday.
All members are to have an alternate in the event that they are unable to attend.
The meeting adjourned at 17:00 p.m. EST.
Guiding Principles Edit no.3
The Institute’s Training and Education Program is guided by the following overarching principles;
1. Accountability: Learning must serve a goal.
The objective of member training is to support them in their role as professionals in the workplace. The goal of steward training is to support and develop them in their role as Institute Representatives.
The aim of the training program is application of knowledge through action. In order to uphold this principle, processes need to be in place to ensure consistency of training and education materials, and regular assessment of both stewards and member learning outcomes.
2. Empowerment, Inclusivity and Flexibility:
Providing a learning path to build confidence through education and experience.
In order for learners to attain their objectives, they must be stakeholders in their learning process.
Through a self-paced and self-directed E-Learning platform, and areas of specialization, learners are enabled to control their learning progress in a way that is compatible with their abilities, availability and interests.
Learning is premised on concepts of diversity, opportunities for full participation and flexibility.
The program offers flexibility by delivering training through various learning platforms, and Labour Schools, making it available to a broader and diverse population of the Institute’s membership.
3. Evergreen: The Training and Education Program is responsive to diverse and emerging needs.
Regular meetings between the National Office and the Training and Education
Committee, membership surveys, Regional Offices and various cross-sections of the
membership, help to determine and set priority training needs ensuring that the program
is responsive to and abreast of emerging needs.
Role of a Steward
The role of the steward within PIPSC is multifaceted and supports most, if not all, of the union’s activities. A steward is likely the first exposure to PIPSC that a member has in the workplace and often provides the first and lasting impression of the union.
Within PIPSC, there are various roles that a steward can perform. To identify the roles of a steward, we have categorized a steward into the following 3 types of a steward.
Steward 1: Information
Steward 2: Intermediate
Steward 3: Advanced
One or more of the following elements are part of being a steward within PIPSC:
1. Educator
2. Communicator
3. Representative
4. Leader
5. Mobilizer
6. Organizer / Planner
Be available and / or visible in the workplace. As a Communications/Information steward, you are the first face of the union to the member. It is expected that you will help to distribute materials to the members, meet with new members and assist in them in becoming a member, have a working knowledge of the webpage so that you are able to direct members to the information they require, be able to answer questions on the structure of PIPSC, have some understanding of the collective bargaining process and be able to interpret the collective agreement.
An Intermediate/Representative steward, in addition to the role of the information steward, will represent a member in an informal dispute resolution process, file a grievance for a member, sit on workplace committees as a union representative, may be part of a consultation team whether locally or regionally and take part in lobbying efforts of the union.
An advanced/Lead steward has many more expectations. At this level, a steward will represent members in a discipline, harassment or duty to accommodate issues, in addition to grievances, will mentor other stewards, assist in training either in a formal or informal setting, may be part of a national consultation team, and can volunteer for the committees of the board.
Notification to Members - example from the Atlantic Region:
74th ARC Delegates:
“At its March 2017 meeting, the Atlantic Regional Training Committee discussed the issue of participants leaving PIPSC Training, Councils and meetings prior to the scheduled ending.
When you attend a PIPSC event, there is an expectation you will participate fully for the scheduled time allotted. If you are unable to make that commitment please do not register for the event or discuss your circumstances with the administrator in advance in order to allow someone else to attend so they can receive the full benefit of the organized program.
Start and end times for PIPSC Training, Councils and meetings are communicated in advance and available for viewing on the online calendar on the PIPSC website. Return travel should be arranged taking into consideration the posted end time of the event.
We do understand that circumstances arise during an event where exceptions must be made. Should you encounter a situation requiring your early departure, please advise the meeting administrator or a member of the Regional Executive.
In situations where participants depart early without explanation, it may affect the coverage of associated expenses and participation at future PIPSC events.
Safe travels and see you next week”.
PIPSC Education Resource Group (ERG)
The ERG is composed of Officers and Regional Managers, appointed by their section to act as liaison between the Education Section and Labour Relations Services.
In an effort to formalize the feedback mechanism, these representatives serve as spokespersons for training and educational materials pertaining to labour relations. The majority of course amendment requests take place following a labour school and facilitation. By streamlining feedback, the ERG representative can review the feedback and discern what should be taken to the group. The Education Section will share pertinent information with the ERG in an effort to inform the sections of developments in the Education and Training Program. In turn, members are expected to share updates on legislation and case law, which may be used for course development.
Members of the ERG 2017:
John Ehinger – Employment Relations Officer, Vancouver (BC/Yukon Region)
Sean Kemball - Employment Relations Officer, Winnipeg (Prairies/NWT)
Sandra Guéric - Employment Relations Officer, Montreal (Quebec)
Sara Boulé-Perroni - Employment Relations Officer, Ottawa (National Capital Region)
Émilie Gagné – Classification Officer, Ottawa (National Capital Region)
Tony Jones - Employment Relations Officer, Toronto (Ontario)
Max Way - Employment Relations Officer, Halifax (Atlantic Region)
Ivana Saula - Education Officer
Audrey Joyal - Education Officer, Term
Contact: education_resource@pipsc.ca
[1] Appendix A: Guiding Principles
[2] Appendix B: Role of a Steward
[3] Appendix C: Notification to Members template
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Tag: Power Rankings
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NFL Week 17 Power Rankings
Welcome once again to the Princeton Sports Analytics NFL Power Rankings.
The rankings this week were compiled based on the votes of five of our writers: Julian HK, Jonathan Lack, Jay Hashop, Bruno Velloso, and Chad Horner. For each team, we had the voter who was highest/lowest on that team give something good/not so good about them, to explain their decision. Each team’s ranking from last week is in parentheses. You can view last week’s rankings here.
Please don’t hesitate to comment and to share your thoughts on the overall rankings, or the individual opinions given by the voters.
2012 Power Rankings: Week 17
Rank Team / Record The Good The Not So Good
1 (2) Broncos The Broncos are 2nd in rush defense and 6th in pass defense, in terms of yards allowed, and 5th in the league in points allowed. The Broncos’ offense, meanwhile, is 2nd in points scored and 4th in total yards. It doesn’t get more well rounded then that. (Velloso) If you’re looking for flaws in a team on a 10-game win streak, they’re hard to find. But it’s worth mentioning that Denver is 2-3 in games against playoff teams, including losses to AFC rivals New England and Houston. (Lack)
2 (3) Patriots Last week’s poor performance against the Jags led to a fiery postgame speech by Tom Brady. The Pats still boast the top ranked offense in terms of DVOA. Sucks to be the Dolphins this week. (HK) The close victory over the Jaguars shouldn’t have been too much of a shock – this is a team that lost to Arizona, and almost lost to both the Bills and the Jets at home. (Horner)
3 (4) Packers Aaron Rodgers, who has reclaimed his usual spot at the top of the league in passer rating, hasn’t had a multi-interception game all year. He also has yet to have a game with a passer rating below 80. (Horner) Apparently, by keeping the Packers at 4th, I am now lowest on them. The reason they stayed at 4? A 55-7 win over the Titans doesn’t really mean anything. Their offensive line struggles are still there, and until I see them beat a team with a good pass rush, that’s a huge concern. (Velloso)
4 (6) Seahawks With a 118 passer rating, Russell Wilson has been crazy good since Week 9. For perspective, over the same time period, Brady and Manning have managed 95.8 and 98.3 ratings respectively. With the number two rushing attack, number one scoring defense, and a top-3 pass defense to go along with Wilson, the Seahawks are thinking Super Bowl. (Velloso) The last three weeks were some of the strongest single-game performances ever, but the Seahawks will still likely need to win on the road in the playoffs without the “12th man”, unless the Cards knock off the Niners. (HK)
5 (1) 49ers It’s only one game, and the Niners won’t have to travel to Seattle in the playoffs unless they blow a gimme at Arizona. The return of Justin Smith would help buoy a defense that has allowed 70 points in the 1.5 games he has been off the field. (Lack) Perhaps losing Justin Smith was more significant than we anticipated. The 49ers defense simply couldn’t get off the field against Seattle on Sunday, allowing the Seahawks to convert on all 10 third downs with eight or fewer yards to go. (Hashop)
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Welcome to the first edition of the Princeton Sports Analytics NFL Power Rankings, a feature which will continue through the final few weeks of the season.
The rankings were compiled based on the votes of five of our writers: Julian HK, Jonathan Lack, Danny Lei, Bruno Velloso, and Chad Horner. For each team, we had the voter who was highest/lowest on that team give something good/not so good about them, to explain their decision.
The fact that the 49ers have a top-2 defense is not surprising. The fact that their offense is the 3rd most efficient in the league (averaging 6 yards per play) is just scary. (Velloso) The Niners are rolling on all fronts, but the Pats’ 28-0 run during Sunday night’s game should be cause for concern. If young QB Colin Kaepernick gets down big, it could be trouble for the NFC favorite. (Lack)
Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas are easily the top receiving duo in the AFC, and Knowshon has had over 100 total yards in 3 of his 4 games as a starter. The defense is top 5 in the league, and Peyton Manning is their quarterback. What’s not to love? (Horner) With upcoming games against Cleveland and Kansas City to close out the season, Denver should lock up a first-round bye. However, unlike the other top-four teams, this young Broncos defense has not played deep into the playoffs and that might prove to be the difference. (Lei)
The Patriots had 425 passing yards against the 49ers, who had yet to allow a 300-yard game. And they are on pace to score 578 points this season, which would be second all-time next to the 589 points scored by the undefeated 2007 Patriots. (Velloso) If last week’s shellacking of Houston counted as a “signature win” for the Pats this season, what does that make this week’s loss to the Niners? Interesting stat: This was the first Patriots loss in the month of December in the last 14 games.
(HK)
Aaron Rodgers has met or exceeded his career yards per attempt 4 times in his past 5 games, after doing so only twice in his previous 9 games. As the Packers get healthy, watch out. (Lei) How to describe the Packers this season… lackluster? With the second easiest strength of schedule, they’ve lost to the Niners, Seahawks*, Colts, and Giants, and their PPG and yardage (League ranks of 13 and 17, respectively) aren’t outstanding. (HK)
After exposing the Colts, the Texans need a home win against the Vikings to avoid the Broncos and Patriots until the AFC championship game. While their 5th-best rush defense may be up to the task, Adrian Peterson has a habit of impoverishing anybody who dares to bet against him. (Lack) They beat Denver way back in week 3, but since then the only elite teams they’ve played (GB and NE) have handled them easily – by a total of 46 points. (Horner)
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Conservapedia:This site is growing rapidly!
This Conservapedia-related article is of largely historical interest, and not necessarily the focus of RationalWiki today.
Conservapedia was a major focal point in the early history of RationalWiki, but long ago ceased coming up with new ways to appall and amuse.
Our energies are now spent debunking other, fresher examples of religious fundamentalism and creationist claims.
For RationalWiki's less ancient content, try the cover story articles or a random article.
Trus me
Best of Conservapedia
Blatant plagiarism
Differences with Wikipedia
Hijacked articles
"SDG"
"TZB"
"Fab Five"
CP in the media
In-depth analysis
Illustrated guide
Article Matrix
Greatest Insights
Parthian Shots
More about CP
This site is growing rapidly! is the immortal catch phrase of Andrew Schlafly, next to which he touted the number of articles Conservapedia had in its main space. It is presumed that this was a futile attempt to advertise Conservapedia (CP) and also an attempt to arouse a false sense of importance among Schlafly's herd, encouraging them to "keep up the good work", despite blatant evidence that CP is, in fact, not growing rapidly. He ceased the practice of putting up the number of pages on April 1st, 2008 when there were 24,000 educational, clean, and concise entries , and stated as his as reason:
“”We are rapidly growing in insight, and in benefiting those who have open minds. We don't buy into the nonsense that "more must be better" of the biased Wikipedia, which leaves many readers more confused afterwards.--Aschlafly 20:12, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
“”Article count beyond a certain critical mass (say 20,000 entries) doesn't have any particular significance. People who are interested can look at the statistics. But fewer than 20,000 entries, and perhaps fewer than 10,000 entries, are of any value to 99% of visitors.--Aschlafly 20:12, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
Or perhaps fewer than 1000? Or even 100? As usual, when Andrew Schlafly looks bad in a quantifiable category, he switches the criteria to something fuzzy - like rapidly growing in insight.
But why doesn't Andrew Schlafly like the statistics anymore? Have a look for yourself:
Article creation rate[edit]
For Conservapedia-related data after 2011, see An illustrated guide#Update.
new pages created at CP
new articles created at CP per month
articles at CP
At the moment, there are ~ 3,300,000 at en.wikipedia.org (not counting redirects), while there are ~34,000 content pages at CP - but, of course, wikipedia is a couple of years older. Perhaps, they'll catch up?
On average, 26.1 new content pages were created at CP per day: at this rate, CP will be there in just a little bit over 342 years. On the other hand, if they could have held their top rate (333 edits on July 10th, 2007), they would reach this goal in less than 24 years (they'd have to include the whole ship register of the U.S. for this, not only ships beginning with the letter A).
But perhaps this is an unfair calculation? Perhaps - as CP grows rapidly - the rate of the creation of new content pages increases? Exponentially? Sadly, the data doesn't support this idea, instead, the average rate is even dropping over the years:
Articles created per day
41.3 50.5 22.8 11.7 7.1
Without stretching statistics too much, this is a geometrical decrease: And though R.J. Jensen created new articles out of his old ones at Citizendium et al., at an impressive rate, his absence will make it even harder to create as many content pages as wikipedia has today within the next half of a millennium.
Why? One problem is that CP has no idea of what meritocracy is. One would think that those editors who create new content are valued. But, instead, you'll find six blocked editors in the top 25 creators of new content (BrianCo (No.10!), Bugler, Fox, Vossy, AlanE and SSchultz), and thirteen in the top 50 (including Human). The recent banning of AlanE shows that his way of editing, i.e., adding content more or less silently, isn't welcome.
Vossy seems to have slipped under everyone's radar; there is nothing substantial about this guy, either at Conservapedia or at RationalWiki. He did seem to mix-up pussy with puffy, once too often ....
Wikipedia - the 800 pound gorilla of wikis[edit]
page creation per day at en.wikipedia
the growth of namespace main at en.wikipedia
But Andrew Schlafly's little project looks really small in comparison to wikipedia. 2006 and 2007 were perhaps the most vibrant years at en.wikipedia.org: on average, over 1700 articles were created each day. Though the numbers have dropped a little bit, they are still impressive: at the moment, there are ~1500 new articles each day added to the mainspace.
At modelling Wikipedia's growth, there are detailed models to describe the growth, and to extrapolate it into the future.
1: three wikis
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Justia Patents David Shick Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications
Patents by Inventor David Shick
David Shick has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Communications network
Abstract: Data messages are transmitted between host data processors and a communications processor. Data messages from a communications processor are transformed for the host processor to which the message is assigned. Data messages from a host processor are transformed for the communications processor. Protocol is established between (a) untransformed data messages from the communications processor and transformed data messages for the communications processor, and (b) untransformed data messages from each host processor and transformed data messages for each host processor. A device interface connects a plurality of host processors to a plurality of buses, each bus being connected to one communications processor. The device interface handles the protocol, transformation and control function in parallel so that messages between a given host processor and terminal connected to a communications processor are processed through a device interface.
Assignee: Control Data Corporation
Inventors: John T. Ralph, Guy B. Beckley, Frank T. Brady, Ivan Jelenek, Darryl K. Korn, John Meyer, Daniel L. Nay, Colin M. Searle, David Shick, Richard W. Williams, Jon C. Wilson, deceased
Data communications system
Abstract: A data communications system employing sliding window protocol where the size of the window of the sending or receiving station can be made selectable by the user according to the speed, length or error rate of the communication link or the frame size used to maximize the utilization of the communication link. The negative acknowledgements sent by the receiving station specifies the upper and lower limit of a range of identification numbers of frames unsuccessfully received to increase efficiency. Before data is transmitted, the sending and receiving stations exchange the preferred sets of link parameters and generate a modified set of link parameters to resolve potential conflicts. Either the sending or the receiving station stores a table defining the frame sizes for use with different bit error rates of the communication link. The station then evaluates the current bit error rate to select the optimum frame size from the table and adjust the frame size accordingly.
Inventors: Jon C. Wilson, David A. Shick, Robert L. Haynie, Donald R. Wilder, Larry D. Zimmerman, Richard M. LeCour, D. James Guzy
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Justia Patents Hazardous Material Body CoverUS Patent for Barrier garment system Patent (Patent # 6,460,198)
Barrier garment system
Mar 28, 2000 - Gocurda, LLC
A garment system for healthcare providers including pants, a shirt, and a hood that provides a protective barrier against infectious materials in body fluids and that is adapted for use in field operating and/or uniformed organizations such as the military, United Nations healthcare organizations, and other internationally serving healthcare providers.
Latest Gocurda, LLC Patents:
Medical garment with fluid barrier
Medical garment
The present invention relates generally to apparel for healthcare providers and, more particularly, to barrier garments for healthcare provider personnel who work in a field environment and/or in uniformed organizations such as the military.
In hospitals, clinics, and the like in the United States, healthcare providers such as physicians, dentists, veterinarians, nurses, paramedics, ancillary healthcare personnel, and the like are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor to wear barrier garments such as gowns or scrubs. These barrier garments are required to prevent the healthcare provider from being exposed to potentially infectious material in body fluids from the patients they treat, and vice versa. Additionally, OSHA requirements do not permit healthcare providers to practice in the same clothes that they wear when not practicing. Clothing used as barrier garments are not allowed to come into contact with the general public outside the use area. The barrier garments must therefore generally be taken off immediately after a single use and laundered or discarded.
These requirements are necessary to prevent the exposure of other persons to potentially infectious materials such as hepatitis B, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and other bloodborne pathogens in body fluids such as blood, saliva, and other oral and respiratory fluids. These OSHA requirements are provided at least in part in Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Final Rule, 29 C.F.R. Part 1910.1030 (Dec. 6, 1991), and in Controlling Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens in Dentistry, published as OSHA 3129 by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1992.
However, healthcare providers in uniformed organizations such as the U.S. military branches, paramedics, “Flying Doctors of America,” United Nations healthcare providers, humanitarian organizations, “Doctors Without Borders,” other internationally serving healthcare providers, and the like that practice in countries other that the U.S. and/or that practice in the field or in combat situations are required by such organizations to wear apparel approved by and consistent with the uniform requirements of the organizations. For example, healthcare providers in the military are required to always wear “Battle Dress Uniforms” (BDUs) in accordance with uniform protocol, which BDUs do not provide protection from potentially infectious materials in body fluids. As a result, healthcare providers in these situations often practice in the same clothing in which they eat, socialize, and sometimes sleep. As their BDUs are often splattered with blood and other body fluids after providing field and combat treatment, there is significantly increased the exposure to themselves and others of infectious materials.
Accordingly, what is needed but not found in the prior art is a garment for healthcare providers that provides a protective barrier against infectious materials in body fluids and that is adapted for use in uniformed organizations such as the military and that is capable of being resterilized or throw away.
Accordingly, the present invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art by providing a garment system for healthcare providers that provides a protective barrier against infectious materials in body fluids, semi-fluids, and aerosols, and is adapted for use in uniformed organizations such as the military. Generally described, the present invention comprises pants or other means for substantially covering a person's lower body, a shirt or other means for substantially covering a person' upper body, and a hood or other means for substantially covering a person's head. The pants, shirt and hood form a generally contiguous barrier protecting the wearer from infectious materials in body fluids. The garments may have a pattern in compliance with uniform requirements of an organization, such as camouflage for the military or indicia printed thereon.
The pants may have leg bottoms that can be cinched by any of various means at the ankles and tucked into a wearer's boots, a variety of size and arrangement of pockets, and a waistband with a drawstring and/or or belt loops. The shirt may have short, medium, or long arm sleeves with ends that can be cinched by any of various means at the wrists, a bottom section that overlaps with the pants waist, and a variety of size and arrangement of pockets. The shirt may also have organizational insignia such as “U.S. Army” or a unit crest sewn or otherwise fixedly attached to the shirt, and personal insignia such as the wearer's name and rank removably attached to the shirt by hook and loop fasteners, pins, snaps, buttons, or the like. The personal insignia may thus be removed from the shirt which allows for bulk laundering of the garments, for example, laundering of an entire military medical unit's apparel, and redistribution of the garments by size requests from the unit members without having to sort the garments by name.
The hood may have a generally translucent face shield made of a generally flexible material, such as a clear plastic. One or more openings may be provided in the hood for ventilation and sound transmission. One or more couplings, such as hook and loop fasteners, may be provided for detachably connecting the hood to the shirt, so that the hood can be detached from the shirt and, for example, stored in one of the pants or shirt pockets.
These and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention are discussed or apparent in the following detailed description of the invention, in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and the appended claims.
The various features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the attached drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same or similar parts throughout the figures, and in which:
FIG. 1 is a front view of the pants of one embodiment of the present garment system invention;
FIG. 2 is a rear view of the pants of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a front view of the shirt of the embodiment; and
FIG. 4 is a side view of the hood of the embodiment.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ONE EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
Referring now to FIGS. 1-4, there is illustrated one of many possible embodiments of the present garment system. There is provided pants 10, a shirt 12, and a hood 14, each made of material such as a cloth, a synthetic fabric, paper or paper-like material for single use garment applications, or another known material that may act as a barrier to fluids. The material may be selected for durability and laundering to provide for reuse of the garments or for lower cost to provide for disposal after a single use. Many suitable single layer and laminate materials have been developed which act as fluid barriers and which provide for ventilation and comfort, such as those fabrics available from Kimberly Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wis.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the garments can be provided by the component parts of pants 10, the shirt 12, and the hood 14 combined, that each component 10, 12, and 14 can be provided and used individually and/or in conjunction with other garments, that the garments can be provided specifically for use by men, women, or both, and that the garments can be provided by a unitary garment such as a jumpsuit, gown, robe, dress, or the like. When used in conjunction with gloves and boots or the like, the garment system provides full body protection to the wearer from exposure to infectious material in body fluids. Also, the pants 10, shirt 12, and hood 14 may be worn over conventional uniforms, undergarments, or other garments, or may be worn alone.
The pants 10, shirt 12, and hood 14 may have a surface pattern or design confirming to the uniform requirements of an organization. Such patterns may include camouflage, United Nations blue, Desert Storm sand color, khaki, and/or the like. The garments may thus be worn as a uniform in compliance with organizational requirements while also providing the wearer protection against infectious materials in body fluids.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, there is illustrated the pants 10, which may be provided in sizes such as small, medium, large, and the like for corresponding to a wearer's lower body size. The pants 10 may have an elongated bottom section 16 for tucking into the wearer's boots or the like. The bottom section 16 may have a strap 18 or the like with a buckle, snap, hook and loop fasteners, or the like for adjustably conforming the bottom section 16 to the wearer's ankles to prevent fluids from contacting the wearer. The pants 10 have a waist 20 with belt loops 22 for receiving therethrough a conventional belt, a drawstring 24 for tightening of the waist, an elastic waistband, or other waistbands known to those skilled in the art. Additionally, the pants 10 may have at least one pocket 26 such as two rear pockets and/or a front cargo pocket, with or without cover flaps. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the pants 10 can be provided by any means for substantially covering a wearer's lower body, including a skirt, shorts, jumpsuit, gown, robe, dress, or the like.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is illustrated the shirt 14, which may be provided in sizes such as small, medium, large, extra-large, and the like for corresponding to a wearer's upper body size. The shirt 12 may have organizational insignia 30 such as the name of the organization (e.g., “U.S. Army”), a unit crest (e.g., insignia for a medical group of the organization), or other organizational insignia fixedly attached to the shirt by sewing or other attachment methods known to those skilled in the art. Also, the shirt may have personal insignia 32 such as the wearer's name and rank removably attached to the shirt 12 by hook and loop fasteners, snaps, buttons, zippers, or other removable attachment mechanisms known to those skilled in the art. The personal insignia 32 can thus be removed from the shirt 12 after use and a plurality of shirts 12, pants 10, and hoods 14 can be laundered in bulk and redistributed according to size requests from the healthcare providers without having to sort the garments by the providers' names.
Additionally, there may be provided a generally translucent sheet 33 of a material such as plastic or another known material attached to the shirt 12 by sewing or other known methods. At least one side of the translucent sheet 33 is open for removably receiving between the sheet 33 and the shirt 12 a name badge or the like therein so that the badge can be viewed through the translucent sheet 33. Furthermore, a strip 35 of a material such as a fabric, plastic, or other known material may be attached to the shirt 12 by sewing or other known methods. For example, the ends of the strip 35 can attached to the shirt 12 so that a middle portion of the strip 35 is available for easy attachment and detachment thereto by a clip of a conventional clip-on name badge or the like. The translucent sheet 33 and/or the strip 35 thus provide for easily attaching and detaching a name badge or the like to the shirt 12 for organizations where proper identification, security clearances, and the like may be required. The sheet 33 and/or strip 35 may be advantageously positioned on the front chest portion of the shirt 12, for example, above a chest pocket where name badges are commonly worn, for easy viewing thereof.
The shirt 12 may also have an elongated bottom section 34, for example, about an extra two inches of length, for overlapping with the pants waist 20 to provide sufficient slack for the wearing thereover of gear such as a military web belt supporting a canteen, sidearm or the like. The shirt 12 may have short sleeves, medium sleeves, or long sleeves with fasteners such as buttons, snaps, hook and loop fasteners, or the like for securing in place a rolled-up sleeve. The shirt 12 may also have sleeve ends with fasteners such as buttons, snaps, hook and loop fasteners, or the like for adjustably conforming to the wearer's wrists. Also, the shirt 12 may have at least one chest pocket 36, at least one sleeve pocket 38 for pencils or the like, and at least one utility pocket 40 elongated for holding a stethoscope, flashlight, or the like, with or without cover flaps. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the shirt 12 can be provided by any means for substantially covering a wearer's upper body, including a blouse, jacket, jumpsuit, gown, robe, dress, or the like.
Referring now to FIG. 4, there is illustrated the hood 14 which substantially covers the wearer's head, The hood 14 has a face shield 42 made of a generally translucent and flexible material such as clear plastic or another material known to those skilled in the art. The face shield protects the wearer's face from blood and other fluid splatter while providing healthcare treatment. A non-front portion 44 of the hood 14, such as a side, rear, or top, may be made of the same material as the pants 10 and shirt 12 or of disposable material such a paper or the like. The non-front portion 44 has at least one opening 46 defined therein to permit airflow into and out of the hood 16 for preventing fogging of the face shield 42. For example, there may be provided two openings 46 generally adjacent the wearer's ears thereby permitting the insertion therethrough of the end ear pieces of a stethoscope for use by the wearer, and/or additional ventilation openings as may be desired. By providing a plurality of openings 46, each opening 46 can be made relatively smaller while allowing the same amount of airflow therethrough, thereby maintaining the integrity of the barrier by minimizing the likelihood of a fluid passing through the small openings 46 and contacting the user. The non-front location of the opening 46 prevents fluids from penetrating therethrough into the hood 14. Additionally, the hood 14 may have a brace 48 for supporting the hood 16 away from the wearer's face. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the hood 14 can be provided by other means for substantially covering a person's head, including a cap with a roll-down face shield, a cap with a flip-down face shield, a cap with a snap-on face shield, or the like.
The hood 14 provides additional benefits by acting as a barrier as to prevent insects, flies, and other disease carrying pests from contacting and possibly infecting the user of the garment system. This is particularly beneficial in environments or situations where insects, flies, and the like proliferate. For example, on emergency relief missions after a hurricane, in hostile climates such as the tropics, or when military or other units recover decayed remains or provide healthcare in the field in the vicinity of decaying human and animal bodies which attract insects, flies, and the like.
There may also be provided at least one coupling 50 capable of detachably connecting the hood 14 to the shirt 12. The coupling 50 may be provided by hook and loop fasteners, snaps, buttons, a zipper, or other means for detachably coupling materials together as are known to those skilled in the art. The hood 14 may be thus be detached from the shirt 12 and stored in one of the pockets 26, 36, 38, or 40 when not in use.
In the use of the garment system, it may be worn as a uniform in the field and in combat situations while providing healthcare treatment and while not, in compliance with the requirements of organizations such as the military. The garments form a generally contiguous full body barrier protecting the wearer from exposure to infectious materials in body fluids, which fluids are often splattered in large quantities on healthcare providers in field and combat situations. The hood 14 may be stored in one of the pockets 26, 36, 38, or 40 when not in use, for example, when eating or socializing but when still required to be in regulation uniform, and then worn when providing healthcare. The hood 14 may then be detached from the shirt 12 at the couplings 50, removed from the wearer's head, and restored in one of the pockets 26, 36, 38, or 40. The garments may be discarded after a single use, or the personal insignia 32 may be removed from the shirt 12 after use and a plurality of shirts 12, pants 10, and hoods 14 can be laundered in bulk and redistributed according to size requests from the healthcare providers without having to sort the garments by the providers' names.
While the invention has been described in connection with certain preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the scope of the invention to the particular forms set forth, but, on the contrary, it is intended to cover such alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the true spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. All patents, applications and publications referred to herein are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
1. A barrier garment system, comprising:
a) pants having a waist end;
b) a shirt having a size correlating to a wearer's body size and a lower portion that is capable of overlapping with said pants waist when worn by said wearer, wherein said shirt has organizational insignia fixedly attached to said shirt and personal insignia removably attached to said shirt;
c) a hood having a generally translucent face shield and at least one opening defined in a side, rear, or top portion of said hood; and,
d) at least one coupling capable of detachably connecting said hood to said shirt,
wherein said pants, shirt, and hood form a generally contiguous barrier protecting said wearer from infectious fluids, and wherein said personal insignia may be removed for bulk laundering of a plurality of said garments.
2. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said hood is capable of substantially covering said wearer's head.
3. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said at least one opening comprises at least two ear openings and at least one ventilation opening.
4. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said generally translucent face shield is made of a generally flexible material.
5. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said hood further comprises a brace capable of supporting said hood away from said wearer's face.
6. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said coupling comprises hook and loop fasteners.
7. The barrier garment system of claim 1, wherein said personal insignia comprise said wearer's name and rank.
8. A garment system for healthcare providers, comprising:
a) pants having a waist;
b) a shirt having a size correlating to a wearer's body size, a lower portion that is capable of overlapping with said pants waist when worn by said wearer, organizational insignia fixedly attached to said shirt, and personal insignia removably attached to said shirt,
c) a hood capable of substantially covering said wearer's head, said hood having a generally translucent face shield and at least one opening defined in a side, rear, or top portion of said hood, and at least one coupling capable of detachably connecting said hood to said shirt,
wherein said pants and shirt form a generally contiguous barrier protecting said wearer from infectious fluids and said personal insignia may be removed for bulk laundering of a plurality of said garments.
9. A barrier garment system for healthcare providers in a uniformed organization, comprising:
b) a shirt having a size correlating to a wearer's body size, a lower portion that is capable of overlapping with said pants waist when worn by said wearer, organizational insignia fixedly attached to said shirt, and personal insignia removably attached to said shirt;
c) a hood having a generally translucent face shield made of a generally flexible material and a plurality of openings defined in a side, rear, or top portion of said hood, said openings comprising at least two openings positioned in said hood so as to be generally adjacent said wearer's ears and capable of receiving therethrough of the end ear pieces of a stethoscope; and
10. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said hood is capable of substantially covering said wearer's head.
11. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said hood further comprises a brace capable of supporting said hood away from said wearer's face.
12. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said coupling comprises hook and loop fasteners.
13. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said personal insignia comprise said wearer's name and rank.
14. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said pants and said shirt have a camouflaged pattern defined thereon.
15. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said shirt has a strip of a material attached thereto that is capable of being engaged by a clip from a badge.
16. The barrier garment system of claim 9, wherein said shirt has a generally translucent cover sheet attached thereto with at least one open side for removably receiving therein a badge.
17. A barrier garment system for healthcare providers in a uniformed organization, comprising:
a) means for substantially covering a wearer's lower body;
b) means for substantially covering said wearer's upper body;
c) organizational insignia fixedly attached to said upper body covering means;
d) personal insignia removably attached to said upper body covering means;
e) means for substantially covering said wearer's head, where in said head covering means has a generally translucent face shield made of a generally flexible material and a plurality of openings defined in a side, rear, or top portion of said head covering means, said openings comprising at least two ear openings and at least one ventilation opening; and,
f) means for detachably connecting said head covering means to said upper body covering means,
wherein said lower body covering means, said upper body covering means, and said head covering means forms a generally contiguous barrier protecting said wearer from infectious fluids and said personal insignia may be removed for bulk laundering of a plurality of said garments.
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Date of Patent: Oct 8, 2002
Assignee: Gocurda, LLC (Suwanee, GA)
Inventors: Curtis Dilworth, Jr. (Decatur, GA), Daniel Raiford (Suwanee, GA)
Primary Examiner: Amy B. Vanatta
Attorney, Agent or Law Firms: Bernstein & Associates, P.C., Jason A. Bernstein
Current U.S. Class: Hazardous Material Body Cover (2/457); Antibacterial, Antitoxin, Or Clean Room (2/901); Hooded (2/84); Insignia (2/246)
International Classification: A41D/1300;
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Justia Patents NozzleUS Patent for Pneumatic excavation system and method of use Patent (Patent # 8,991,078)
Pneumatic excavation system and method of use
An excavation system employing a high-pressure pulsed air jet that may optionally be used in combination with a low-pressure high velocity blower for excavating improvised explosive devices or other buried objects. The excavation system may also be employed to operate a pneumatic tool such as a cut-off tool or a chisel. The high velocity blower may incorporate a bifurcated fan duct having two air outlets. The system may include a pressure control module for regulating the from a high-pressure air source to an evacuation valve. The evacuation valve employs first and second valves where the second valve controls the operation of the first valve.
1.0 CLAIM OF PRIORITY
The present application claims priority as a non-provisional of Ser. No. 61/881,896 filed on Sep. 24, 2013, and as a continuation of application Ser. No. 14/162,652 which is a continuation in part of application Ser. No. 13/094,136 filed on Apr. 26, 2011, and as a continuation of application Ser. No. 14/162,641 which is a continuation in part of application Ser. No. 13/094,136 filed on Apr. 26, 2011. These applications are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.
2.0 TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an excavating system and a method for using the excavation system. More specifically, this invention relates to a pneumatic excavating device that uses a supersonic or high-pressure pulsed air jet in combination with a low-pressure high velocity blower to excavate or dig in the ground. The device can be employed to excavate or unearth buried items such as but not limited to an improvised explosive device (IED). The system of the present invention can also be employed to remove an IED from the ground and/or to detonate an IED.
Pneumatic excavation systems of the prior air have previously employed high speed pulsed air jets such as Nathenson et al (U.S. Pat. No. 6,158,152). Nathenson et al (hereinafter “Nathenson”) employs a hand held or a vehicle-attached device that employs a high-pressure pulsed air jet to uncover buried unexploded ordinance. One distinct disadvantage of the system of Nathenson is that personnel operating the device are in close proximity to the unexploded ordnance. Nathenson does not teach employing a second or an additional air source for use in conjunction with a pulsed air jet for pneumatic excavation. The need remains for improvements to pneumatic excavation systems in a safe and effective manner. The present invention addresses the deficiencies in the prior art.
One aspect of the present invention is to provide an excavation system that employs a high-pressure pulsed air jet and, optionally, a low-pressure high velocity air source. The low-pressure high velocity air source improves the digging capability of the device by assisting in the clearing or removal of the debris dislodged by the high-pressure pulsed air jet. The low-pressure air source also prevents the debris from falling back into the excavated site.
Another embodiment may be a kit that can retrofit an existing robot. This removes the need to have personnel in close proximity to the explosive device and provides existing robots with an alternative function. In another embodiment, an existing encrypted wireless communication channel is used in the operational control unit of the robot. This simplifies the integration of the excavating system to an existing robot.
Another embodiment provides a robot mounted excavation system that can be employed to perform other tasks such as operating a pneumatic tool.
In yet another embodiment, a method of excavation is disclosed. The method includes providing a robot with a nozzle for delivering a high-pressure pulsed air jet with a valve in communication with the nozzle, connecting the valve to a high pressure air source, optionally providing a low-pressure high velocity blower adjacent the valve, and using the high-pressure pulsed air jet optionally in combination with the high velocity blower during excavation. Other related method steps are also disclosed herein.
Other aspects of the invention are disclosed herein as discussed in the following Drawings and Detailed Description.
5.0 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention can be better understood with reference to the following figures. The components within the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed on clearly illustrating example aspects of the invention. In the figures, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the different views and/or embodiments. It will be understood that certain components and details may not appear in the figures to assist in more clearly describing the invention.
FIG. 1 is an elevation view of a prior art robot.
FIG. 2A is a right side view of the excavation system mounted on a robot.
FIG. 2B is a left side view of the excavation system mounted on a robot.
FIG. 2C is a side view of a variation of the system where a pneumatic tool can be operated by the system.
FIG. 3 is an elevation of the excavation system mounted a robot.
FIG. 4 is an elevation view of a controller for operating the robot and excavation system.
FIG. 5 is a right side view of the excavation system with the robot arm in the fully stowed position.
FIG. 6 is a left side view of the excavation system with the robot arm in a downward extended position.
FIG. 7 is a close up view of the robot arm with gripper and the evacuation valve of the excavation system.
FIG. 8 is an elevation view of the low-pressure high velocity blower.
FIG. 9 is a close up view of the robot arm with evacuation valve of with an attached pneumatic tool.
FIG. 10 is a partially exploded view of the excavation system with the evacuation valve and the high-pressure air tank removed.
FIG. 11 is a partially exploded view of the excavation system with the low-pressure high velocity air source removed.
FIG. 12 is a partially exploded view of the excavating system with the evacuation valve and the evacuation valve connected to a pneumatic tool.
FIG. 13 is a schematic of the pressure control module.
FIG. 14 is a close up view of the operation control unit modified for use with the excavating system.
FIG. 15A is a close up view of the operation control unit modified for use with the excavating system.
FIG. 15B is a map view of the operation control unit modified for use with the excavating system.
FIG. 15C is a map view of the operation control unit from an existing robot without pneumatic excavating components.
6.0 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS
Following is a non-limiting written description of example embodiments illustrating various aspects of the invention. These examples are provided to enable a person of ordinary skill in the art to practice the full scope of the invention without having to engage in an undue amount of experimentation. As will be apparent to persons skilled in the art, further modifications and adaptations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, which is limited only by the claims.
In certain embodiments, the present invention may be used with the prior art robot 1 seen in FIG. 1. The robot 1 includes a mobile platform 2 with tracks 3. The mobile platform 2 may include a rear mast 4 with a camera 5 mounted thereon. The mobile platform 2 includes with an upper arm 6 moveably connected to a lower arm 7. The upper arm 6 can include a gripper 8 and may include one or more cameras 5 mounted thereon. The lower arm is moveably connected to the mobile platform 2. The gripper 8 is pivotally attached to the end of the upper arm 6 by joint 9. The connection between joint 9 and upper arm 6 allows rotation of joint 9 independently of upper arm 6.
An excavation system 10 of the present invention incorporated on a prior art robot is shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B. The excavation system 10 may includes two air sources. One is a high-pressure air tank 11 and the other is a low-pressure high velocity blower 12. The air tank 11 is mounted on the mobile platform 2 and the high velocity blower 12 is mounted to the upper arm 6 of robot 1. The upper arm 6 also includes an evacuation valve 13. The system 10 includes a pressure control module 14 (PCM) mounted on the mobile platform 2 via PCM mounting bracket 15. The PCM 14 is in fluid communication with the evacuation valve 13 and the air tank 11. The PCM 14 regulates the high-pressure air (up to about 4500 PSI) in tank 11 to a pressure (about 300 PSI) that is employed by the evacuation valve 13. The PCM 14 is adjustable such that the regulated pressure may be varied. It would be understood that other pressures may be used to successfully excavate items. For example, in soft sand a lower pressure might be sufficient and preferable so as to allow more high-pressure pulses from the air tank 11 without a need for a recharge. A lower pressure may be utilized when uncovering an IED with a pressure plate. Alternatively, if the excavation needs to penetrate clay or other more densely packed materials, a higher pressure may be needed. As discussed in more detail below, the amount of pressure regulation may be controlled by a remote operation control unit (OCU).
The air tank 11 and the PCM 14 may be mounted on different sides of the mobile platform 2 as seen in FIG. 3. This provides better balance and weight distribution to the mobile platform 2. The air tank 11 is located above one track 3 and the PCM 14 is located over the second track 3. An additional air tank may be employed to provide increased operation time of the excavation system 10. The additional air tank may be stacked over the first tank (not shown).
The excavation system 10 may be employed to drive a pneumatic tool such as a cut-off tool 16 seen in FIGS. 2C and 12. The system 10 may be employed to operate any other pneumatic tool such as but not limited to a chisel (not shown). A pneumatic tool may be fluidly connected via a flexible air hose 17 to the evacuation valve 13 or another valve (not shown) in place of the evacuation valve 13. The pneumatic tool may be attached to the gripper 8 as seen in FIG. 9.
The system includes an operation control unit (OCU) 18 as seen in FIGS. 4 and 14. An existing OCU 18 for the robot 1 is modified to control the excavation system 10. The OCU 18 is modified to employ an existing encrypted wireless communication channel to control the excavation system. This eliminates the need of setting up additional or a separate encrypted communication channel to control the excavation system 10. It also simplifies and speeds up the incorporation of the excavation system 10 to an existing robot 1.
It should be noted that the prior art robot have a very high level of encryption because they are often used in an active battle zone. The encryption prevents the enemy from hi-jacking the robot, thus rendering it useless or worse turning the robot against the operator. Because of this high-level of encryption, it may not be economical or even possible to add new encrypted channels to an existing robot. In a retrofit kit, it may be preferably to re-purpose an existing channel to operate the excavation system described herein. This would maintain the operational integrity of the robot, and lowers costs.
The OCU 18 wirelessly communicates with the robot 1 and the excavation system 10 via encrypted channels to provide secure communication. The OCU 18 may employ multiple encrypted channels to control the various parts of the robot 1 and the excavation system 10. The OCU 18 may include a video monitor 19 (FIG. 4) for displaying real time video feed or images from the multiple cameras 5 mounted on robot 1. The system 10 may be configured to allow a user to display multiple camera images on the monitor 19 at the same time. The excavation system 10 may be configured to allow the video monitor 19 to display air pressure data for various locations or parts of the system. The displayed pressures may include but are not limited to tank pressure, dome pressure (pressure in the dome of the first regulator valve), and jet pressure. A video pressure overlay unit (not shown) may be employed to provide the video monitor 19 with the pressure data on a real time basis by overlaying the pressure data on the encrypted video signal. Again, piggybacking on the existing encrypted transmissions between the robot and the OCU maintains operational integrity.
The upper and lower arms 6, 7 of the robot 1 can be moved to a variety of positions as seen in FIGS. 3, 5, and 6. FIG. 5 shows the upper arm 6 and the lower arm 7 (shown in dashed lines) in a fully stowed position where the upper and lower arms 6, 7 drop in between the air tank 11 and the PCM 14. FIG. 6 shows the upper arm 6 in a downwardly extended position where upper arm 6 could be in an excavation site in the ground.
A close up of the end of upper arm 6 is shown in FIG. 7. The evacuation valve 13 includes a first valve 20 and a second valve 21, where the second valve 21 is remotely located from the first valve 20. The second valve 21 controls the operation of the first valve 20 to produce the high-pressure pulsed air jet out of the nozzle 40 (shown in an exploded view). The nozzle 40 may be a De Laval nozzle such as the one disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 522,066. A tube 22 connects the second valve 21 to the first valve 20 allowing the second valve 21 to control (i.e. the opening and closing) the first valve 20. The second valve 21 may be a solenoid valve or a pilot valve. The second valve 21 can control the first valve 20 pneumatically via the tube 22. The pneumatic control may be replaced with an electrical control or another suitable type of control. The gripper 8 may support the first valve 20. The second valve 21 is remotely located from the first valve 20 to provide a narrower profile to the end of arm 6. The second valve 21 is electrically connected to the PCM 14 by a suitable electric cable 23 or other connection mechanism (connection to PCM not shown). The high-pressure air jet has a pulse width or duration that is user selectable, i.e., it can be varied or controlled by the user. The duration may be in the order of about 30 to about 140 milliseconds. The high-pressure air jet has a delay between pulses that is also user selectable. The pulse delay may be in the order of about 0.25 seconds to about 2.3 seconds.
The second valve 21 is located within approximately 6 inches of the first valve 12, so that the first valve 20 may be opened and shut quickly because it is necessary to conserve compressed air. The remote location of the second valve 21 allows the gripper 8 to operate freely, without compromising the ability of the gripper 8 to reach buried objects.
The low-pressure high velocity blower 12 is shown in FIG. 8. The high velocity blower 12 puts out a continuous flow of air. The high-pressure air jet puts out a pulsed or intermittent flow of air. The low-pressure high velocity air from the blower 12 improves the digging capability of the system 10 by assisting in the clearing or removal of the debris dislodged by the high-pressure pulsed air jet. The air from the blower 12 also prevents debris from falling back into the excavation site. The blower 12 preferably includes a bifurcated fan duct 24 with two air outlets 25 and an air inlet or intake (not shown). The air outlets 25 may be provided with mesh or screen covers (not shown). An air filter 26 is placed over the air inlet in the end of the bifurcated fan duct 24. The air filter 26 seals and covers the air inlet and filters any air entering therein. The blower 12 includes an axial fan (not shown) located inside the inlet end of the bifurcated fan duct 24. A fan control module 27 (FCM) is employed to control operation of the fan. The FCM 27 may be mounted on the outside of the bifurcated fan duct 24 or any other suitable location. The FCM 27 is preferably located in close proximity to the fan. The blower 12 has a fan duct mounting bracket 28 for securing the blower 12 to the upper arm 6 as seen in FIGS. 10 and 11.
Looking at FIG. 10 the excavation system 10 is shown with the air tank 11 and its tank mounting bracket 29 removed from the mobile platform 2 and with the evacuation valve 13 removed from the gripper 8. The FCM 27 is electrically connected to the PCM 14 via a suitable electric cable 23. The blower 12 is positioned rearward of the gripper 8 to provide clearance between the gripper 8 and the blower 12. This enables the end of upper arm 6 to rotate without interfering with the bifurcated fan duct 24.
In FIG. 13 a schematic of the PCM is shown in more detail. The PCM 14 includes the high-pressure input 105 from the from the high-pressure air tank 11 to a lower pressure outlet 110 supplied to the evacuation valve 13. The PCM 14 may include a filter 115 two pressure regulator valves 120, 125 where the second valve 120 is employed to provide remote operation of the first pressure regulator valve 125. The first pressure regulator valve 125 may be a dome-loaded high flow regulator valve. The second pressure regulator valve 120 is used to provide pressure to the dome input of the first regulator valve. The second pressure regulator valve 120 is connected to a solenoid valve 130 which is then connected to a pressure transducer 135, and provides for remote control operation of the first pressure regulator valve 125 by varying the pressure provided to the dome input. The second pressure regulator valve 120 may also be connected to a solenoid valve 140 that vents the pressure to atmosphere, as well as a dome pressure relief valve 145 that vents to atmosphere. The first pressure regulator valve 125 may also be connected to a pressure relief valve 150 to vent to atmosphere.
The PCM 14 includes a high-pressure air inlet 105 and a lower pressure air outlet 110. The air inlet 105 is connected to the air tank 11 by a suitable conduit or flexible hose and PCM may incorporate a high-pressure hose connector at the air inlet. The hose or conduit connecting the air tank 11 to PCM must be capable of withstanding the high-pressure air in tank 11. The air outlet 110 is connected to the evacuation valve 13 and the PCM may incorporate a lower pressure hose connector such as but not limited to an AN-8 connector. The air outlet 110 is connected to the first valve 20 (of the evacuation valve 13) as seen in FIGS. 7 and 10 by a suitable conduit or a flexible hose 17 (connection to air outlet not shown). The system 10 may be configured to allow a user to control and vary the air pressure exiting the air outlet during the operation of the excavation system 10 via the OCU 18. The housing 30 of the PCM 14 may be a watertight case such as those sold under the PELICAN brand name. This is not intended to be limiting and any suitable housing 30 that will protect its internal components may enclose the PCM 14.
FIG. 14 is a close up of the control panel 31 of the OCU 18. The control panel 31 of the OCU 18 is shown including a lower arm control 32, an upper arm control 33, a mast control 34, and a mobile platform drive control 35. These controls are employed to move and operate their respective elements (i.e. the mobile platform drive control operates the mobile platform). The OCU 18 may also be provided with a control for the operation of a pneumatic tool (not shown). The OCU 18 may be provided with a selector switch 36 that would allow the air jet and high velocity blower 12 to operate at the same time or independently of each other. An on/off switch 37 incorporated in the OCU 18 as seen in FIG. 14 may operate the high-pressure pulsed air jet and the low-pressure high velocity blower. These switches 36, 37 employ an existing encrypted communication channel or channels in the OCU 18 which is described in further detail below with reference to FIGS. 15A-C. Other switches or controls to operate the excavation system 10 may be employed.
FIGS. 15A, B and B C further detail the repurposing of existing encrypted communication channels. FIG. 15A illustrates the OCU 31 of the robot that contains several switches. FIG. 15B illustrates a portion of the OCU 200 that includes the switches 36 and 37 that control the pneumatic excavation components, and a mobile platform drive control 35. The OCU portion 200 also includes button 205 to actuate the gripper. In FIG. 15C, the original OCU portion 210 of the robot is shown. The original robot does not have the pneumatic excavation components, and instead has switches 36a and 37a to control power to an LED and the intensity of the LED. The output for these switches on the robot have been connected to the pneumatic excavation components described herein. The new features include selector switch 36 (repurposed from switch 36a) which would allow the air jet and high velocity blower 12 to operate at the same time or independently of each other and on/off switch 37 (repurposed from switch 37a) to operate the high-pressure pulsed air jet and the low-pressure high velocity blower. Optionally, the OCU portion 210 may include a physical plate that lays over the existing OCU 31, relabeling the switches so as to assist the robot operator.
The invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments that illustrate examples of the invention but do not limit its scope. Various example systems have been shown and described having various aspects and elements. Unless indicated otherwise, any feature, aspect or element of any of these systems may be removed from, added to, combined with or modified by any other feature, aspect or element of any of the systems. As will be apparent to persons skilled in the art, modifications and adaptations to the above-described systems and methods can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, which is defined only by the following claims. Moreover, the applicant expressly does not intend that the following claims “and the embodiments in the specification to be strictly coextensive.” Phillips v. AHW Corp., 415 F.3d 1303, 1323 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc).
1. An excavating system comprising:
a robot comprising; an arm; a nozzle for delivering a high-pressure pulsed air jet, wherein the nozzle is mounted to the arm; a valve in fluid communication with the nozzle and in fluid communication with a high-pressure air source; and
an operation control unit (OCU) for wirelessly controlling the movement of the arm and the valve over one or more encrypted channels.
2. The system of claim 1, the robot further comprising a gripper mounted to the arm and adapted to open and close; and the OCU adapted to operate the gripper over the one or more encrypted channels.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the high-pressure air source is a tank with compressed air.
4. The system of claim 1, the robot further including a pressure control module (PCM) for regulating air pressure from the high-pressure air source to the valve.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the PCM further comprises first and second pressure regulator valves for reducing the pressure from the high-pressure air source.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the OCU comprises a display screen adapted to display status information transmitted from the robot over the wireless encrypted channel.
7. The system of claim 1, the robot further including at least one camera, wherein the camera is adapted to transmitted images from the camera to the OCU over the one or more encrypted channels.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the high-pressure pulsed air jet has a pulse width and a pulse delay that are user selectable.
9. The system of claim 1, the robot further including a pressure control module (PCM) for regulating air pressure from the high-pressure air source to the valve, wherein the PCM has an air outlet connected to the valve with an outlet pressure and the OCU is configured to allow the user to vary the outlet pressure.
10. A method of excavating, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a robot comprising; an arm; a nozzle for delivering a high-pressure pulsed air jet, wherein the nozzle is mounted to the arm; a valve in fluid communication with the nozzle and in fluid communication with a high-pressure air source; and
providing an operation control unit (OCU) for wirelessly controlling the movement of the arm and the valve over one or more encrypted channels;
manipulating the movement of the arm over the one or more encrypted channels; and
actuating the valve over the one or more encrypted channels to create a high-pressure pulsed air jet to dislodge a material from a target site.
providing a pressure control module (PCM) for regulating air pressure from the high-pressure air source to the valve; and
regulating the air pressure from the high-pressure air source to the valve.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the OCU comprises a display screen adapted to display information transmitted from the robot over the one or more encrypted channels, the method further comprising:
transmitting air pressure data regarding the high pressure air source from the robot to the OCU; and
displaying the air pressure data on the display screen.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the OCU comprises a display screen adapted to display information transmitted from the robot over the one or more encrypted channels and the robot further comprises at least one camera, the method further comprises:
transmitting images from the camera to the OCU; and
displaying the images on the display screen.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the robot comprises a gripper mounted to the arm and adapted to open and close; and the OCU is adapted to operate the gripper over the one or more encrypted channels, the method further comprising:
opening and closing the gripper over one or more encrypted channels.
15. The method of claim 10, wherein the robot comprises a pressure control module (PCM) for regulating air pressure from the high-pressure air source to the valve, wherein the PCM has an air outlet connected to the valve with an outlet pressure and the OCU is configured to allow the user to vary the outlet pressure, the method further comprising:
varying the outlet pressure over one or more encrypted channels.
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Filed: Jun 11, 2014
Date of Patent: Mar 31, 2015
Inventor: Steve Harrington (Cardiff, CA)
Primary Examiner: Jamie L McGowan
Current U.S. Class: Nozzle (37/344); Mine-destroying Devices (89/1.13)
International Classification: E02F 3/00 (20060101); E02F 3/92 (20060101); E02F 3/88 (20060101); E02F 3/90 (20060101); F41H 11/16 (20110101);
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Metallomics
Mutation in HFE gene decreases manganese accumulation and oxidative stress in the brain after olfactory manganese exposure
Qi Yea and Jonghan Kim*a
a Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue 148TF, Boston, USA
E-mail: j.kim@neu.edu
Increased accumulation of manganese (Mn) in the brain is significantly associated with neurobehavioral deficits and impaired brain function. Airborne Mn has a high systemic bioavailability and can be directly taken up into the brain, making it highly neurotoxic. While Mn transport is in part mediated by several iron transporters, the expression of these transporters is altered by the iron regulatory gene, HFE. Mutations in the HFE gene are the major cause of the iron overload disorder, hereditary hemochromatosis, one of the prevalent genetic diseases in humans. However, whether or not HFE mutation modifies Mn-induced neurotoxicity has not been evaluated. Therefore, our goal was to define the role of HFE mutation in Mn deposition in the brain and the resultant neurotoxic effects after olfactory Mn exposure. Mice carrying the H67D HFE mutation, which is homologous to the H63D mutation in humans, and their control, wild-type mice, were intranasally instilled with MnCl2 with different doses (0, 0.2, 1.0 and 5.0 mg kg−1) daily for 3 days. Mn levels in the blood, liver and brain were determined using inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). H67D mutant mice showed significantly lower Mn levels in the blood, liver, and most brain regions, especially in the striatum, while mice fed an iron-overload diet did not. Moreover, mRNA expression of ferroportin, an essential exporter of iron and Mn, was up-regulated in the striatum. In addition, the levels of isoprostane, a marker of lipid peroxidation, were increased in the striatum after Mn exposure in wild-type mice, but were unchanged in H67D mice. Together, our results suggest that the H67D mutation provides decreased susceptibility to Mn accumulation in the brain and neurotoxicity induced by inhaled Mn.
This article is part of the themed collection: Neurochemistry of lead and manganese
DOI: 10.1039/C6MT00080K
Download Citation: Metallomics, 2016,8, 618-627
Q. Ye and J. Kim, Metallomics, 2016, 8, 618
Qi Ye
Jonghan Kim
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Quiz: Lon Chaney Jr. Quiz
Lon Chaney Jr. Quiz
Image: refer to hsw
He's a horror movie legend and the only actor to play the "Big Four." Take our quiz to test your knowledge of the life and work of Lon Chaney Jr.!
What was Lon Chaney Jr.'s birth name?
Before he took the name of his famous father, Chaney went by his birth name, Creighton Tull Chaney.
What year was the future film star born?
Creighton Chaney was born two months premature on Feb. 10, 1906, in Oklahoma City.
What was Lon Chaney Sr.'s nickname?
Man with the Ocean Eyes
Man of a Thousand Faces
Creighton had a lot to live up to in the acting world as the son of the Man of a Thousand Faces.
True or false: Lon Chaney Jr. always planned to be a famous actor.
The younger Chaney avoided the spotlight, attending business school before settling into a career with a plumbing company.
What year did Lon Chaney Jr. perform in his first film?
The star performed in his first film in 1932 and finally changed his name in 1935 in an effort to win bigger roles.
What was Lon Chaney Jr.'s first film role?
carriage driver
Chaney's first role was as an uncredited gangster in the 1932 flick "Girl Crazy."
Lon Chaney Jr. had a breakout role as this character in "Of Mice and Men."
Chaney hit the spotlight as Lennie Small in a 1939 film version of the classic Steinbeck novel.
What was Lon Chaney Jr.'s first monster role?
Wolf Man
After a 1941 turn as the title character in "The Wolf Man," Chaney was forever typecast in the monster genre.
What was the name of Chaney's first wife?
Chaney married Dorothy Hinckley in 1926, and the couple had two sons.
How long did Chaney's first marriage last?
After 10 years of marriage, Chaney divorced Dorothy and married Patricia Beck, whom he remained with until his death.
What studio did Chaney sign with in 1941?
In 1941, Chaney made the switch from RKO to Universal, where he became a movie-monster legend.
What was the name of Chaney's character in "The Wolf Man"?
In the 1941 horror flick "The Wolf Man," Lon Chaney Jr. plays the tortured Lawrence Talbot, aka the Wolf Man.
Whom is Lawrence Talbot trying to save when he is bitten by a wolf in the film?
While on a date with Gwen, Larry is bitten by a werewolf while trying to save Gwen's friend, Jenny.
Who kills the Wolf Man in the 1941 film?
his mother
his father
Chaney's Wolf Man is killed by Sir John, his own father.
What monster did Chaney play after starring as the Wolf Man?
In 1942, Chaney played the monster in "The Ghost of Frankenstein."
What does Victor Frankenstein's son try to replace to make the monster more agreeable in "The Ghost of Frankenstein"?
the monster's blood
the monster's heart
the monster's brain
Frankenstein's son, Ludwig, attempts to make the famous monster less dangerous by giving him a new brain in the 1942 flick.
After his turn as Frankenstein's monster, what creepy role did Chaney tackle next?
the Creature from the Black Lagoon
After playing Frankenstein's creepy creation, Chaney played Kharis, aka the Mummy, in the 1942 film "The Mummy's Tomb."
What terrifying pair of creatures met up in a Lon Chaney Jr. film in 1943?
Frankenstein and the Wolf Man
Dracula and the Wolf Man
Dracula and Frankenstein
Chaney put his Wolf Man costume on once again for the 1943 flick "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man."
True or false: Despite his reputation for movie-monster magic, Chaney never actually played Dracula.
Chaney took his turn as the Count in the 1943 flick "Son of Dracula."
How did Chaney's Dracula fool people into trusting him?
spelled his name backwards
wore a mask
used his hypnotic powers
In the 1943 film, Dracula went by Lord Alucard to win the trust of his future victims.
True or false: Chaney co-starred with the Three Stooges in a 1948 film.
Chaney played Lawrence Talbot in the 1948 comedy "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein."
What is the name of Chaney's character in "High Noon"?
Chaney played former town marshal Martin Howe in the 1952 Fred Zinnemann flick.
What year was "Not as a Stranger" released?
Chaney had a small part as Job Marsh opposite star Robert Mitchum in the 1955 drama "Not as a Stranger."
What is the name of Chaney's character in "The Defiant Ones"?
Chaney played Big Sam in the 1958 crime drama.
What creatures did Chaney's character tussle with in a 1959 film, where he played the role of Manon?
Manon wears a hook after losing his hand to an alligator attack in the 1959 film "The Alligator People."
What series did Chaney host in 1959?
"13 Demon Street"
"13 Dead-end Drive"
"The Outer Limits"
Chaney was the spooky host of the 1959 anthology "13 Demon Street," which lasted only one season.
True or false: Lon Chaney Jr. wrote a book about his famous family.
After his time in the spotlight had faded, Chaney drafted a manuscript called "A Century of Chaneys."
True or false: Chaney was largely mute in his later years.
Thanks to throat cancer, Chaney could barely speak in his later years, but he still managed to take on film roles that required little dialogue.
What was the name of Chaney's character in the 1971 monster film "Dracula vs. Frankenstein"?
Grovel
In his final film role, Chaney played the ax-wielding Groton.
What year did Chaney die?
Chaney died due to heart failure on July 12, 1973, at age 67.
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Category: Pennie
Gauteng Finals High Schools
On August 8, 2017 By firnhydeIn Pennie, ZorroLeave a comment
This show seemed to be determined to end the SANESA season on a typically chaotic SANESA bang – six classes all in one morning all over vast KEP and I was determined not to miss a second of anything. I almost succeeded, and I’m incredibly glad that I did – because God did something mighty that day!
All the ponies and riders absolutely showed up and brought their A-game that day. Pennie was jumping out of her skin – standing off and overjumping by miles. I have never seen her feeling soooo good in her body and she was showing off. They blasted through their A2 speed with G cheering Pennie on at the top of her lungs, me cheering G on at the top of my lungs, and G’s mom and I almost having a collective heart attack. They won it and with a fat margin, too. No mean feat at Gauteng Finals.
They followed it up by bounding through the huge and technical competition round for 4th place. We’re going to Nationals!
Their equitation was not their best – G didn’t get the chance to plan her test because they were busy winning stuff and I was busy cleaning Zorro so I didn’t even see it, but they still placed 15th. By working hunter they were both absolutely flattened. They tried hard, but Pennie didn’t really have the steam to show a good jump and kept disuniting, so they ended 13th.
I am chuffed. Just a little. This pony shouldn’t even be sound according to what I was seeing eight weeks ago; it was remedially stopping and getting elimination after elimination last year and now look at her. No, look at God – and the things He does! Nothing is impossible. ❤
G also thought (as did we all) that she’d sacrificed her chance to jump at Finals at all when she had to make the choice to leave the last qualifier because Pennie wasn’t quite right. It was a decision I left up to her and she made a mature one, so for this more than anything, I’m proud.
Zorro cleaned up great and headed off to working hunter positively sparkling. I was chewing my nails when I saw the track – both technical and spooky, with some obstacles he’s only seen once or twice at xc schooling. But he and Z-kid plunged forth at the most wonderful hunter pace and proceeded to cruise around majestically, taking every fence in his stride. They had a careless pole, but even so their manners and pace marks were high enough to earn tied 9th and a place on the Gauteng team.
Their jumping track was VERY soft and unimpressive and Zorro was just kind of bored with it and took a naughty pole. Their time was solid and they would have placed but for that, so I am building gymnastic lines as we speak to get the brat to pick his lazy feets up.
shiny feets though
This horse was a camel when he arrived and I really didn’t think much of him but God is using him mightily.
It’s not the placings that awed me at this show, although those did feel good. My primary school riders tried just as hard and so did their ponies. It’s that we have really, really struggled with these two horses in the past and they were just in such a happy space this weekend – absolutely knocked it out of the park, and loved it.
God is moving. Glory to the King.
On July 28, 2017 By firnhydeIn Arwen, Ash, Blizzard, Champagne, Confidence, Destiny, Eagle, faith, Jamaica, Lancelot, Lessons, Liana, Lullaby, Magic, Nugget, Pennie, Savanna, Skye, Stardust, Thunder, Vastrap1 Comment
After the emotional and spiritual high of last week, this one has left me a little flat. Make no mistake, we had good progress this week, including a lot of good rides and lessons and wonderful preparation for Finals tomorrow (these kids are amazing!), but I think we all felt a little rough around the edges after putting everything into pony camp.
I will give absolutely everything tomorrow, too, because my kids and ponies have been doing exactly that. Vastrap and his kid were so amazing on Tuesday that yesterday I just took them on a hack. They are so more than ready for whatever Finals will throw at them.
And after a bit of an unpromising lesson on Tuesday, Liana’s indomitable kid showed up to work on Thursday and gave it everything she had. Liana is hot and not always easy to keep rhythmic throughout a test but this kid absolutely nailed it. She’s going to ride her heart out at Finals because she always does.
Purple gloves make me happy, and so does Savanna. She is such a sweet, nonviolent, willing soul. She is desperately uneducated though, and it shows, but already after two or three weeks of work she’s starting to understand that there is no need to rush fences or cut corners. We still have a long way to go in terms of developing self-carriage and any form of technique, but obedience is already improving. From next week she’s in full training and competing with me, so that’ll be fun.
Champagne has been out of work for the above reason. Ah pony. Why? Six stitches and a week later and it’s almost healed, but it’s a pity we’ve lost that training time.
Magic is better at teenage girl selfies than I am.
He’s just better at selfies generally, really.
Skye has a nicer winter coat than anyone. She is really contented at the moment. Looking after Lady Erin seems to be all the stimulation she really needs; the old girl is happy to stand in a peaceful field and come in to do the Scripture reading before shows and get stuffed full of cookies. Especially the cookies, if we’re honest. She doesn’t crave people, although that’s not to say we don’t both enjoy grooming (and cookie-feeding).
Magic, on the other hand, is by no means ready for retirement. I had been toying with the idea a little. Riding has been either anxious or boring of late; I don’t want to push him with the flatwork, I can’t cope with the jumping, and he can’t cope with hacks. We lunge but that’s just exercise. We both really need a conversation; we need to spend quality time and not just be together, but talk and interact and learn things.
So, because he really enjoys groundwork, we’re playing with liberty. I know – I rolled my eyes reading the websites, too. (Ignore bad behaviour? So what do you do if it charges/bites/kicks/rears/pushes you around?) But it’s what Magic needs. He never gets stroppy. He never gets domineering. He needs something where there’s no pressure and lots of affirmation and this seems like fun. So here goes nothing, I guess.
I’m just gonna leave this right here because it makes me so happy seeing them regain their shine here.
Pretty Ash has been doing so well with L. Sound for 15 minutes’ trotting for several weeks now, we’ve added in some canter. It’s rather more canter than L is used to but Ash takes care of her. She is such a classy, attractive pony – I kind of wish we’d had her when she was younger and sounder and ready to take on the world.
I bought the dragon a nametag. Try not to laugh.
Speaking of dragons, we have been dressaging. More to come later. I’m using the double on her most of the time now. She does go better and yes, she should be able to do it in a snaffle, but the horse didn’t get a good foundation and right now we’re just muddling along trying to find what works for where we are now. Dressage coach S might come see us next month, then we can ask her opinion.
Nugget is incredibly content living with Magic. She’s in a better condition than ever before and even runs around the field playing with him – something I’ve never seen her do before. Unfortunately, after my week off and then pony camp, we’ve taken a bunch of steps back in handling. I haven’t gotten a halter back on her again. We’re making progress back there every day (I can rub her neck and shoulder now), so we’ll regain the lost ground quickly. I’m trying to make a point not to be upset about it, because there’s just no way I would have coped without the week off. And if I don’t cope there’s no yard and if there’s no yard there’s no safe haven for Nuggets.
On the jumping front, this was our exercise of the week; canter pole, couple of bounces, one stride, vertical. I added V-poles to the vertical later on. It was very challenging, especially for the kids, because they had to really ride the ponies up into their hands and get them to use themselves instead of just point and go. But it was confidence building for the horses and helped sharpen reflexes and round jumps nicely.
I found it confidence building too – so much so that the last vertical ended up at about a metre. My first in years, and Jamaica’s first under me. He just loped right on over and didn’t take it seriously enough to give it much scope, so it’s comforting to know he can do it and with such quietness.
He is such a blessing. If I had unlimited funds I would have bought him long ago. As it is, if I do pass Module 5, it’ll in large part be due to what God is doing for me with this funny-looking little horse.
Arwen has a jumping day each month, and she charged through it as well,
as did Destiny, Savanna (a simplified version), Thunder, and Lancelot. Lancey particularly impressed me because carefulness has been something we’ve long struggled with and he didn’t knock a single pole, except for rubbing the last vertical so that the V-poles fell off. He was kind of dorkward about it but he did the thing and I’m so so proud of the little chap.
I also started playing with an automatic release. My crest release is really good when it’s good, but disappears as soon as I’m nervous. I feel like I have to keep my hands back to keep my weight back in case the horse stops. It isn’t true, but it’s how it feels. The automatic is harder so it makes me concentrate on my lower leg and hip so that I can pull it off, but psychologically it’s significantly easier to follow the mouth slightly rather than toss my hands up the neck. I kinda like the result but I’m not dead sure yet.
And I’m throwing this in here too – G wasn’t able to exercise Pennie much last week, so I got to borrow her for a day and have some fun. Love this pony. She’s epic. Pictured: reason why I must learn a better release.
Eagle is going much better. He can be tricky to train for his novice owners; he’s never naughty, but he is responsive and forward-thinking by nature, so when you’re a novice trotting along and you panic and grab with your legs he’s probably going to go faster. We spent a lot of time installing some very sharp brakes and a relaxed halt, and he’s doing great.
They harvested the maize last week. The world suddenly looks bigger; and there’s not as much to spook at. I borrowed Dusty from the kids for a hack and remembered why I trust this little pony like nobody else.
This is Troy, who is my current favourite schoolie from Winstead. He is large and round and lazy but also jumps anything if you get him to go fast enough, so he’s my type. We were jumping over 80cm in fairly tricky exercises last lesson and he gives me a lot of courage. Thank you Troy (and coach K of course).
This cheeky adorable Faithy thing has been getting ideas above her station and picking fights with herd members, so now she has one kick on each hock. One more kick and I’ll move her out, but I suspect she’s doing something to provoke getting bullied. Bratty 2yo thinks she can rule the roost down there.
We have been having more conversations about the horsebox. She doesn’t walk right in yet, but if you show her you have cookies she’ll go in. She’s still learning about the world and I’m still learning about her, but I love her so much. Also she will do anything for cookies.
This is Meatlug (after the dragon – a greatly inappropriate name) and I think she’s beautiful. Those eyes…
Destiny has his ups and downs. Our personality clash makes for a difficult relationship, but we have been making really good progress. He’s so good on hacks now, jumped the difficult gymnastic, and is learning to move laterally off my leg.
Blizzard is trotting laps in the (amazing, new) ring now. Slanted poles are amazing, by the way – I haven’t had my knees smacked even once. He was scared of me posting at first, but his reaction to being scared is to stop dead, so that’s quite OK for a novice horse. We have some confidence building to do in trot but it won’t be long before we canter.
Lullaby has been a bit flat lately. I’ve tried the usual tricks – decreased workload, time off, a fun jumping session with a big kid – to no avail. She doesn’t seem unsound or in any physical trouble beyond the usual stiffness that we’re controlling with joint supplements, but there’s just a lack of her usual sparkle. I really hope her age and many years in the riding school aren’t catching up to her. I need her – we need her. But I’m her advocate. So we’ll try hacks and different food and so on until my stalwart little colleague is herself again. She has served so well for so long at such a thankless task.
My job is easy by comparison. It’s the least I can do to be as faithful as my good little ponies.
all ready for tomorrow
On July 22, 2017 By firnhydeIn Arwen, David, Destiny, Jamaica, Lancelot, Lessons, Liana, Lisna, Lullaby, Midas, Pennie, Renè, Savanna, Skye, Stardust, Sunè, Thunder, Trooper, Vastrap5 Comments
This week was… incredible.
It was pony camp, which I always love because I get more than that single golden half-hour once a week with each child. I get a chance to listen. I get a chance to learn.
We had many kids, for us (12? 13? I’m honestly not sure) and I can confidently say they all impressed me this week. For sure some of them got told off rather sternly but they are all lights in the world. They all have their futures thrown wide before them and the knowledge that I had a whole week with them – a week that God could use to influence their lives – was a tremendous thing. Terrifying at times, but tremendous.
Bible study was something else. The first three days felt like they weren’t really going anywhere – I was preaching the Gospel, and they were listening (most of the time) like good little children. But such is Bible study, I’m finding. It takes a while to build the trust that makes it a conversation. On the last day, we ended up running 45 minutes long because the kids weren’t running out of questions. We sat together and had an open, candid, non-judgmental, honest and sincere discussion about God. Jesus was there and the Holy Spirit was working! It was a day that reminded me of what I’m here for.
Of course, much was learned about horses, too. We rode bareback (a first for most of the kids) and played that game where you give each child a coin under each lower thigh and the kid who manages to keep their coins the longest wins. This was to much hilarity, but regrettably, we lost almost all of the coins in the arena sand.
We also learned how to turn out a pony, to varied success. This was less of a hit with some of the boys, but for the most part they pulled together and did some rather stellar work. Trooper especially looked more dashing than I expected.
We also learned about the points of the horse, parts of the saddle and bridle, and colours and markings. The ponies were as usual entirely accepting of having stickers stuck all over them.
They also did an awesome job painting and decorating all our jumps,
and Kindness Rocks, which are now littered all over the yard. Some have rather imaginative spelling (and others are teetering precariously on top of poles, on the brink of falling upon somebody’s head like a bolt of divine inspiration) but they make me smile.
We jumped some jumps (pictured: head groom L winning at this) and limbo’d under others (not pictured: head groom L falling on her head trying to win at this).
There were no falls or serious injuries at all this pony camp, to my great relief. One kid did cut his finger on the fence, whereupon it bled magnificently, but it was nothing that making a big fuss, pulling on my blue gloves and sticking a Star Wars plaster couldn’t fix. I also got kicked halfway across the arena (walked behind a sleeping pony and touched its bum like an idiot) but luckily I went flying and skidded several metres so that seems to have taken the worst of the impact out of it. Young muscles do have their advantages.
The week culminated in today’s training show, our first ever. It was an outrageous success – by the grace of God. Literally. He was so with us. And I have no pictures. Sorry.
We opened with Scripture reading, a la Lipizzaners, by bringing in old Skye and reading Job 39:19-25. Not gonna lie, standing next to my brave old friend and facing the crowd (more than 80 people – it was quite the crowd) and the powerful words straight from my God’s mouth rolling over us, I got a little teary-eyed.
The POG class was enormous and consisted of basically everyone whether they could jump or not. But I only had two on the lead rein and everyone else remembered their track perfectly, even if they walked the whole thing. Lulu, Trooper (yes – the 3yo; ridden off lead by a 6yo kiddie. He was good except once he walked into an upright and it fell over), Stardust, Midas, Sunè, Renè, and Thunder all packed their kids around without putting a toe wrong. Starlight had a spook and cantered off causing a little panic, but the kid got her back and she was fine after that.
Lisna and E also trotted around the POG and 20cm effortlessly. Lisna didn’t look at a thing and E handled first-show nerves brilliantly.
Most notably, David and his person went around the POG in hand. A mighty feat considering all the fears that horse had to conquer to get there. I gave him a show name and it says everything about him: Facing the Giants. He has faced some incredible Goliaths.
The 20cm was more of the same, with the addition of Savanna and her teenager. Savanna has been SO naughty of late (used to following other ponies over jumps + now feeling rather too good = naughty) but she was super and her teenager rode her really, really well for clear rounds.
Rain and Arwen also popped around the 20cm and 30cm, to general applause. Arwen also packed another rider who she’s never seen before in her life around the 60cm and 70cm, kicking all of our bums in the process. That’s the dragonbeast for you. I love that about my dance partners – they can dance with me one day and carry random people around the next.
In the 40cm, Destiny got his first jumping win under his mom. Sunè and her kid also popped around beautifully and Starlight came second with a kid that will hopefully become her kid eventually.
In the 50cm, Liana and her kid charged around brilliantly for second place. Midas and his new little rider had their first show together and came third, and Pennie’s mom G jumped her young horse, Saartjie, for first place. When G got Saartjie about a year ago the pony had never seen a fence before in its life and I’ve never been on her so I am VERY chuffed with both. K and Renè also had a great clear round.
It was more of the same in the 60cm, with Arwen first, Saartjie second and Lancelot third – albeit having a rather gawky round because I was in the dressage saddle (the others were all taken) and mainly focused on not losing my stirrups. Lancey was amazing for the whole thing, jumping all clear rounds. We were all expecting Vastrap to win because he is awesome but he got a bit wild and threw in a stop – luckily for his child because I don’t think she could have sat the only distance available to him at that pace. He won the 70cm, with Lancey second and Arwen third.
The 80cm was only Pennie and G and Jamaica and I, and Maicy totally showed me again why I lease him. I was exhausted by this point and just sort of hung on and pointed him at the jumps. The distances were ugly, the rhythm was off, and we’d had one minute to warm up – but Jamaica just took me over each fence despite my mistakes. Good boy. He won it despite a rail down because Pennie got somewhat overexcited and crashed through a bunch of jumps.
The last class was called the 85cm but only because I didn’t want to say out loud that Jamaica and I were jumping a 90cm track. I needn’t have worried, though. Jamaica was superb. Both G and I had a pole down but Pennie was like 15 seconds faster so they won.
I am so happy with it – all of it. I feel so honoured to be among this group of horses and riders and to feel the buzz that was at this stableyard today. It’s more than just a good atmosphere brought about by mutual goodwill. It’s in me but not of me. It’s the Holy Spirit at work.
This evening I had one last job – herding the members of field A (Arwen’s group) back to their field, which was being used as a warmup. It was a short way along the corridor so I elected to just shepherd them along rather than catching each one. I whistled them up and Arwen led the charge, snorting fire. Magic caught on and started bucking in the neighbouring field and then suddenly they were all running – thirty-one shining, happy horses – each a thunder-clothed collection of graceful curves bursting with life and exuberance, the sky and earth trembling with the power of them. I was caught breathless in the whirlwind of it, and I understood what the psalmist meant when he said: Let everything that has breath praise the name of the Lord.
No eye has seen what He has prepared for us, but perhaps sometimes we catch the edge of Heaven’s melody, curling on the cusp of hearing.
Thank You Father. Glory to the King.
SANESA Q3
On May 23, 2017 By firnhydeIn Confidence, Jamaica, Lancelot, Lessons, Liana, Lullaby, Midas, Pennie, Thunder, Vastrap, Zorro3 Comments
Well, firstly, this show was amazing. I’m so proud of how hard my students all tried, and their hard work and talent is paying off. The ponies were super and God was with us, as always. Even the venue, which I was ranting about last time, really stepped up its game and I was suitably impressed. It ran really well for all concerned. We had our hiccups, but we all went home safe, sound and satisfied.
Saturday kicked off the qualifier with all the little primary school riders, who were brilliant. Liana and her child had two main goals: remember the course, and don’t fall off. Both were achieved with resounding success even though the poor child’s last practice before the show on Friday night included a nosedive in front of a fence. Kids are made of rubber, so this kid just bounced right back and they jumped great. Liana got quite hot in her first class (50cm showjumping) so the kid showed huge maturity in pulling her out and making a circle. They got penalties for that, but it definitely kept things safe and under control, for which they were rewarded with a big fat blue ribbon in their ideal time class.
They also showed a great improvement in their Prix Caprilli scores, which neither of them like very much, but it’s good for both of their training so I’m chuffed.
Meanwhile, having to cope largely by herself as I ran from calling a test to coaching Liana’s kid to dragging Lulu about on the lead rein, Vastrap and his kid carried on happily by themselves. I only managed to watch one of their classes (listening to the announcer in their other class while I was trotting around the dressage myself on Midas), but I’m glad I did because it was brilliant. VT showed no ill effects after his tying-up episode, demonstrated by a resounding second place in their competitive A2 speed class. They were fourth in the competition round and as happy as piggies in poo. This combination has the necessary qualifiers to go to Gauteng Finals, so that’s pretty awesome.
Our next little primary school rider was the littlest of all of them, a truly adorable five-year-old riding at her first show. She was doing POG equitation on the lead rein, accompanied by myself and dear old Lullaby. Dear old Lullaby absolutely LAUNCHED herself over the first ground pole, but the kid sat it out just fine and even remembered her little course for third in her 9-and-under class of 11 kids. Pretty impressive. Lulu was super well behaved apart from that, um, little moment, so hopefully there will be a whole horde of kiddos attending the next one with their equine teacher.
melting the judge’s bones with cuteness
In light of the little kids’ successes, the high school kids had a lot to live up to, but they absolutely knocked it out of the park. K and Thunder had dressage on Saturday and equitation on Sunday. Thunny was much less tense than normal and got lots of “obedient” comments in Prelim 3 and 4, but regrettably they got a little lost with their canter leads and the 6’s and 7’s of their walk/trot work got disappointed by the 4.5’s and 5’s of their canter work. It was still good enough for fourth place. Their equitation also got them a placing with some lovely comments in a very competitive class.
no touchy trotting poles
Zorro started his show by flinging Z-kid’s family’s gardener-cum-groom into the air (according to eyewitness; I’m not sure how that happened), dislocating the poor man’s thumb rather painfully in the process. I patched him up (perhaps a little over-enthusiastically) and sent him off to hospital, but at least Zorro appeared to have used up all his naughty for the day. He and Z-kid headed into their working hunter without me, while I was calling K’s tests, so I was sweating for them as I heard the announcer call them in over my shouting, but it was totally unnecessary. Zorro wiggled down to the first fence and Z-kid had had enough of his nonsense and gave him a hiding he won’t forget. He didn’t offer up a single wiggle for the rest of the show, getting first in the working hunter, third in the competition, and two poles down in the A2 speed (he took the “speed” part rather seriously). This combination just goes from strength to strength. The poor groom was very stoical about it all.
Pennie and G also started their qualifier with working hunter, and proceeded to have another show without any stops at all. When Pennie doesn’t stop, she places. This little mare is just the best showjumper I know. She had second place in the working hunter, won both her showjumping classes at 90cm by absolute streets, and came second in equitation despite an unlucky pole. They’ll also probably get to Finals, so far for both WH and EQ.
That leaves my crew, who were also impressive. Midas started my personal weekend off with a bang when, with a total of three and a half minutes’ warmup (part of which was spent spooking at a horse in a nearby field that chose that moment to completely lose its snot), he scored first 60.8% in Prelim 3 and then 68.4% in Prelim 4. It’s a personal best for the both of us, and considering the poor little chap was quite stressed out at the time, I’m rather chuffed.
He continued to be quite wonderful for his showjumping, winning both 60cm classes in fine style. Admittedly this was not very hard considering his competition consisted of one other rider and Lancey, but he still went clear and quiet in the ideal time and clear and quick in the A2 speed. I made him take some very tight turns in the speed, more as an educational exercise than anything else, and apparently tight turns ain’t no thing if you’re 13.1.
Lancey jumped both 60cm classes as well; I entered 60 as a precautionary measure since I thought the buzz that is SANESA might scramble his little Arabian brain, but I needn’t have worried. He came out totally ready to do his job and did it well over the first eight fences of the first class. Then both of us had a lapse of concentration, took the pole at number nine, climbed through 10A and ran out at 10B. I brought him back over 10B by itself like a newb so we had the technical elimination but that’s what happens when you didn’t get a competitive education.
His second class, though, was wonderful. We both focused and he put in his first totally clear round in a long time, not even breathing on a single pole and brave to every last fence, so that ended us on a high note.
this picture makes me so happy
Then came the 80cm, which looks ridiculously small in this picture for some reason, and I was more or less OK until Jamaica landed from the oxer in the warmup and then took off like a shot. He made it all the way outside the arena and through a bunch of unwitting spectators (none were harmed in the making of this episode of Morning Star Madness) before I managed to stop him. I brought him back and popped him over it again and he was OK, so I thought it was a once-off right up until we were actually in the arena and our bell had gone. I asked for canter and I got several rather melodramatic handstands instead.
The last time this thing bucked with a rider, bones were broken. I hung on for dear life, or didn’t since that never seems to work, instead choosing to try and pull his head up for dear life. Mercifully, that did work. He stopped, I stopped, I stared at the judge in panic and in that wobbly moment I don’t think I’ve ever been closer to putting my hand up and retiring. I’m still not really sure why I didn’t. Instead we cantered another circle and headed for the next jump, reciting. “The Lord is my Shepherd: I shall not want.” The first two were OK. He landed from number three and took off again down the related distance to number four; I pulled him off it and circled desperately because I was fairly convinced I was going to die. We scraped over that, and then we had something like control for a while again, although I made it all the way through Psalm 23 (rather loudly over the combination) by number ten. Then I panicked because I had run out of psalm, but luckily Jamaica had run out of steam and we made it. It may just have been the most terrifying showjumping class I’ve ever ridden, but on the plus side, the height was not the problem. Also, stopping was never in the equation. He jumped everything without any question. It was all the galloping and bucking in between that worried me.
I sort of schooled him around for a bit before the second class and again strongly considered scratching from it, but again didn’t. It took every shred of guts I had, and even then it was only by the grace of God that we walked back into the arena, but by then he’d gotten a very solid one-rein stop which had made him rethink his life choices and settled down from whatever had worried him so much, so he was himself again. Looking at the pictures later, I realised I buried that poor animal to every single fence and he patiently jumped every single fence carefully and quietly. This is why I lease this beast. He’s rather funny-looking and has the odd psychotic break, but at the end of the day he jumps the first time every time and I can cope with his drama. He’s the one thing that my beloved Magic just isn’t – resilient to rider error. I can mess up as much as I please and he’ll still jump.
He jumped clear, which dismayed me a little because it meant I had to go back in and do it all over again for the jump-off. By this point, Jamaica was completely chilled and he was holding my hand again. The other rider had a very quick mare and they were good and I was still kinda panicking so any form of being competitive wasn’t in the equation at all. Then, rather unluckily, the other mare crashed straight through the first fence and I figured I may as well try since I had hopefully used up my near-death experiences for the day. (Did I mention how nerves exaggerate a situation?) So he popped around clear and slightly faster than slug-esque, and we got a ribbon. Which was nice.
It was, in many ways, a tough qualifier for all of us and it challenged all of our patience and courage. It was our busiest yet, but our riders absolutely rose to face every giant that met them and they won.
Blessed to be where I am, and most undeservedly so. Glory to the King.
On April 25, 2017 By firnhydeIn Lessons, Liana, Midas, Pennie, Thunder, Vastrap, Zorro2 Comments
For this show I don’t have to apologise for lack of media, because Fine Photography was there and stunning photos will follow!
On Friday evening, I only got home at one in the morning. Despite being 20, this was not because I was out doing whatever it is that young people do in an attempt to forget/have fun/get themselves killed. Nope. I was playing tagalong to the real medics, my second ever volunteering shift. Isn’t it amazing how God sends us to do things we’d never ever dream of ourselves doing, and then we find a deep happiness in it? If you had told me a year ago that I’d be having the time of my life bundling people up in Emergency Rescue Blankets (looks like tinfoil) and sticking plasters on fingers, I would never have believed you.
Yet there I was. And there I was on Saturday morning, somewhat bleary-eyed and en route to a busy SANESA Q2. This was the qualifier where snot got real: you need three qualifying rounds (placings in the top eight) to go to Finals and with only four qualifiers, that turns up the heat from the second one onwards.
The ponies and riders, however, stepped up and delivered.
Vastrap and his kiddo blazed through their accumulator class with the adrenaline pumping so high that kiddo clean forgot about fence number eight and blasted right past it. At the dismayed cries from the crowd, she went back and popped over without circling, still managing to finish in the top eight.
They turned and burned in their competition class and placed third in very good company. The little rider is super, but it has to be said that VT is one in a million.
Pennie and G had a fantastic show. They kicked it off by placing fourth in the accumulator. An unlucky pole in the competition landed them just out of the placings, but they came back to win their equitation and working hunter classes. Pennie didn’t stop even once, so apparently my rude bellows of “SMACK THE PONY” from outside the warmup arena were effective (albeit badly received by the general public).
A similar approach with Zorro also started to take effect. Poor Z-kid was nervous in the first class and got lost; a goodly pep-talk and much guts from her later, she handled Zorro’s cheekiness in the second class well, getting him around with eight penalties. By working hunter time he was being a model citizen and popped over everything without looking back, placing second. I am immeasurably proud of this young lady for getting herself up off the floor the way she did.
K was nervous for this show and Thunder reciprocated by being tense and shouty, but she kept it together and he was as honest as the day, plopping around his 60cm equitation class like a good chap for first place. Their dressage unfortunately was unnecessarily tense, possibly because they only arrived at the warm up ten minutes before their ride time and I was running around after the little kids and didn’t get much time to spend with them. Such is the lot of my teenagers, I’m afraid. Still, they had a very respectable 58% and 60%, scores that are already promising and can be hugely improved on.
(Oh, and that handsome chap in the photo? That’s my dad. Hands off.)
Liana was a bit hot on the day but was good to her kid and very obedient. There was a minor miscommunication between the kid and the pony regarding which way to turn after the last fence during the first class, resulting in the kid taking an unscheduled dismount. She had the discretion to do this after the finish flags, though, so they placed seventh anyway. She stuck on during the second class but got a little lost, circling for four penalties and landing just outside the placings.
Her prix caprilli test was superb – very accurate and focused – but they were eliminated for going in with boots. I cannot pretend to blame that mistake on sleep deprivation, and I’ll be kicking myself for it for a long, long time. It’s on me and I feel properly bad about it, but it doesn’t detract from the fact that the kiddo rode awesomely.
Last but not least, little Midas was superb. We were late and missed his first jumping class, so I booted the poor boy into the indoor warmup arena with moments to spare before his second class and he just dealt with it and did his job. He popped around his course without turning a hair and finished second, 0.04 seconds behind the winner.
His dressage felt really steady and he got lots of “willing and obedient” comments, the best ones you get. He scored 62% and 64%, with which I am totally satisfied.
The weekend was a huge success, and all my kiddies learnt, rode well, worked together and have a chance of going to finals as a bonus, so it’s well worth the exhaustion looming over my head right now. Further up and further in: Jesus is taking us closer to Him with every step, tiring or not.
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, What Planet Are We On? Why Washington Can’t Stop — The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts
October 23, 2013 · by Rise Up Times · in Militarism, Military Madness, U.S. Foreign Policy · Leave a comment
Today, with the latest scientific estimate of invasion- and war-caused Iraqi deaths at a staggering 461,000, thousands more a year still dying there, and with Syria in flames, it seems something of an understatement.
By Tom Engelhardt October 22, 2013 TomDispatch.com
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Why Washington Can’t Stop
The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts
By Tom Engelhardt
In terms of pure projectable power, there’s never been anything like it. Its military has divided the world — the whole planet — into six “commands.” Its fleet, with 11 aircraft carrier battle groups, rules the seas and has done so largely unchallenged for almost seven decades. Its Air Force has ruled the global skies, and despite being almost continuously in action for years, hasn’t faced an enemy plane since 1991 or been seriously challenged anywhere since the early 1970s. Its fleet of drone aircraft has proven itself capable oftargeting and killing suspected enemies in the backlands of the planet from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia with little regard for national boundaries, and none at all for the possibility of being shot down. It funds and trains proxy armies on several continents and has complex aid and training relationships with militaries across the planet.
On hundreds of bases, some tiny and others the size of American towns, its soldiers garrison the globe from Italy to Australia, Honduras to Afghanistan, and on islands from Okinawa in the Pacific Ocean to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Its weapons makers are the most advanced on Earth and dominate the global arms market. Its nuclear weaponry in silos, on bombers, and on its fleet of submarines would be capable of destroying several planets the size of Earth. Its system of spy satellites is unsurpassed and unchallenged. Its intelligence services can listen in on the phone calls or read the emails of almost anyone in the world from top foreign leaders to obscure insurgents.
The CIA and its expanding paramilitary forces are capable of kidnapping people of interest just about anywhere from rural Macedonia to the streets of Rome and Tripoli. For its many prisoners, it has set up (and dismantled) secret jails across the planet and on its naval vessels. It spends more on its military than the next most powerful 13 states combined. Add in the spending for its full national security state and it towers over any conceivable group of other nations.
In terms of advanced and unchallenged military power, there has been nothing like the U.S. armed forces since the Mongols swept across Eurasia. No wonder American presidents now regularly use phrases like “the finest fighting force the world has ever known” to describe it. By the logic of the situation, the planet should be a pushover for it. Lesser nations with far lesser forces have, in the past, controlled vast territories. And despite much discussion of American decline and the waning of its power in a “multi-polar” world, its ability to pulverize and destroy, kill and maim, blow up and kick down has only grown in this new century.
No other nation’s military comes within a country mile of it. None has more than a handful of foreign bases. None has more than two aircraft carrier battle groups. No potential enemy has such a fleet of robotic planes. None has more than 60,000 special operations forces. Country by country, it’s a hands-down no-contest. The Russian (once “Red”) army is a shadow of its former self. The Europeans have not rearmed significantly. Japan’s “self-defense” forces are powerful and slowly growing, but under the U.S. nuclear “umbrella.” Although China, regularly identified as the next rising imperial state, is involved in a much-ballyhooed military build-up, with its one aircraft carrier (a retread from the days of the Soviet Union), it still remains only a regional power.
Despite this stunning global power equation, for more than a decade we have been given a lesson in what a military, no matter how overwhelming, can and (mostly) can’t do in the twenty-first century, in what a military, no matter how staggeringly advanced, does and (mostly) does not translate into on the current version of planet Earth.
A Destabilization Machine
Let’s start with what the U.S. can do. On this, the recent record is clear: it can destroy and destabilize. In fact, wherever U.S. military power has been applied in recent years, if there has been any lasting effect at all, it has been to destabilize whole regions.
Back in 2004, almost a year and a half after American troops had rolled into a Baghdad looted and in flames, Amr Mussa, the head of the Arab League, commented ominously, “The gates of hell are open in Iraq.” Although for the Bush administration, the situation in that country was already devolving, to the extent that anyone paid attention to Mussa’s description, it seemed over the top, even outrageous, as applied to American-occupied Iraq. Today, with the latest scientific estimate of invasion- and war-caused Iraqi deaths at a staggering 461,000, thousands more a year still dying there, and with Syria in flames, it seems something of an understatement.
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It’s now clear that George W. Bush and his top officials, fervent fundamentalists when it came to the power of U.S. military to alter, control, and dominate the Greater Middle East (and possibly the planet), did launch the radical transformation of the region. Their invasion of Iraq punched a hole through the heart of the Middle East, sparking a Sunni-Shiite civil war that has now spread catastrophically to Syria, taking more than 100,000 lives there. They helped turn the region into a churning sea of refugees, gave life and meaning to a previously nonexistent al-Qaeda in Iraq (and now a Syrian version of the same), and left the country drifting in a sea of roadside bombs and suicide bombers, and threatened, like other countries in the region, with the possibility of splitting apart.
And that’s just a thumbnail sketch. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about destabilization in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops have been on the ground for almost 12 years and counting; Pakistan, where a CIA-run drone air campaign in its tribal borderlands has gone on for years as the country grew ever shakier and more violent; Yemen (ditto), as an outfit called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula grew ever stronger; or Somalia, where Washington repeatedly backed proxy armies it had trained and financed, and supportedoutside incursions as an already destabilized country came apart at the seams and the influence of al-Shabab, an increasingly radical and violent insurgent Islamic group, began to seep across regional borders. The results have always been the same: destabilization.
Consider Libya where, no longer enamored with boots-on-the-ground interventions, President Obama sent in the Air Force and the drones in 2011 in a bloodless intervention (unless, of course, you were on the ground) that helped topple Muammar Qaddafi, the local autocrat and his secret-police-and-prisons regime, and launched a vigorous young democracy… oh, wait a moment, not quite. In fact, the result, which, unbelievably enough, came as a surprise to Washington, was an increasingly damaged country with a desperately weak central government, a territory controlled by a range of militias — some Islamic extremist in nature — an insurgency and war across the border in neighboring Mali (thanks to an influx of weaponry looted from Qaddafi’s vast arsenals), a dead American ambassador, a country almost incapable of exporting its oil, and so on.
Libya was, in fact, so thoroughly destabilized, so lacking in central authority that Washington recently felt free to dispatchU.S. Special Operations forces onto the streets of its capital in broad daylight in an operation to snatch up a long-sought terrorist suspect, an act which was as “successful” as the toppling of the Qaddafi regime and, in a similar manner, further destabilized a government that Washington still theoretically backed. (Almost immediately afterward, the prime minister found himself briefly kidnapped by a militia unit as part of what might have been a coup attempt.)
Wonders of the Modern World
If the overwhelming military power at the command of Washington can destabilize whole regions of the planet, what, then, can’t such military power do? On this, the record is no less clear and just as decisive. As every significant U.S. military action of this new century has indicated, the application of military force, no matter in what form, has proven incapable of achieving even Washington’s most minimal goals of the moment.
Consider this one of the wonders of the modern world: pile up the military technology, pour money into your armed forces, outpace the rest of the world, and none of it adds up to a pile of beans when it comes to making that world act as you wish. Yes, in Iraq, to take an example, Saddam Hussein’s regime was quickly “decapitated,” thanks to an overwhelming display of power and muscle by the invading Americans. His state bureaucracy was dismantled, his army dismissed, an occupying authority established backed by foreign troops, soon ensconced on huge multibillion-dollar military bases meant to be garrisoned for generations, and a suitably “friendly” local government installed.
And that’s where the Bush administration’s dreams ended in the rubble created by a set of poorly armed minority insurgencies, terrorism, and a brutal ethnic/religious civil war. In the end, almost nine years after the invasion and despite the fact that the Obama administration and the Pentagon were eager to keep U.S. troops stationed there in some capacity, a relatively weak central government refused, and they departed, the last representatives of the greatest power on the planet slipping away in the dead of night. Left behind among the ruins of historic ziggurats were the “ghost towns” and stripped or looted U.S. bases that were to be our monuments in Iraq.
Today, under even more extraordinary circumstances, a similar process seems to be playing itself out in Afghanistan — another spectacle of our moment that should amaze us. After almost 12 years there, finding itself incapable of suppressing a minority insurgency, Washington is slowly withdrawing its combat troops, but wants to leave behind on the giant bases we’ve built perhaps 10,000 “trainers” for the Afghan military and some Special Operations forces to continue the hunt for al-Qaeda and other terror types.
For the planet’s sole superpower, this, of all things, should be a slam dunk. At least the Iraqi government had a certain strength of its own (and the country’s oil wealth to back it up). If there is a government on Earth that qualifies for the term “puppet,” it should be the Afghan one of President Hamid Karzai. After all, at least 80% (and possibly 90%) of that government’s expenses are covered by the U.S. and its allies, and its security forces are considered incapable of carrying on the fight against the Taliban and other insurgent outfits without U.S. support and aid. If Washington were to withdraw totally (including its financial support), it’s hard to imagine that any successor to the Karzai government would last long.
How, then, to explain the fact that Karzai has refused to sign a future bilateral security pact long in the process of being hammered out? Instead, he recently denounced U.S. actions in Afghanistan, as he had repeatedly done in the past, claimed that he simply would not ink the agreement, and began bargaining with U.S. officials as if he were the leader of the planet’s other superpower.
A frustrated Washington had to dispatch Secretary of State John Kerry on a sudden mission to Kabul for some top-level face-to-face negotiations. The result, a reported 24-hour marathon of talks and meetings, was hailed as a success: problem(s) solved. Oops, all but one. As it turned out, it was the very same one on which the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq stumbled — Washington’s demand for legal immunity from local law for its troops. In the end, Kerry flew out without an assured agreement.
Making Sense of War in the Twenty-First Century
Whether the U.S. military does or doesn’t last a few more years in Afghanistan, the blunt fact is this: the president of one of the poorest and weakest countries on the planet, himself relatively powerless, is essentially dictating terms to Washington — and who’s to say that, in the end, as in Iraq, U.S. troops won’t be forced to leave there as well?
Once again, military strength has not carried the day. Yet military power, advanced weaponry, force, and destruction as tools of policy, as ways to create a world in your own image or to your own taste, have worked plenty well in the past. Ask those Mongols, or the European imperial powers from Spain in the sixteenth century to Britain in the nineteenth century, which took their empires by force and successfully maintained them over long periods.
What planet are we now on? Why is it that military power, the mightiest imaginable, can’t overcome, pacify, or simply destroy weak powers, less than impressive insurgency movements, or the ragged groups of (often tribal) peoples we label as “terrorists”? Why is such military power no longer transformative or even reasonably effective? Is it, to reach for an analogy, like antibiotics? If used for too long in too many situations, does a kind of immunity build up against it?
Let’s be clear here: such a military remains a powerful potential instrument of destruction, death, and destabilization. For all we know — it’s not something we’ve seen anything of in these years — it might also be a powerful instrument for genuine defense. But if recent history is any guide, what it clearly cannot be in the twenty-first century is a policymaking instrument, a means of altering the world to fit a scheme developed in Washington. The planet itself and people just about anywhere on it seem increasingly resistant in ways that take the military off the table as an effective superpower instrument of state.
Washington’s military plans and tactics since 9/11 have been a spectacular train wreck. When you look back, counterinsurgency doctrine, resuscitated from the ashes of America’s defeat in Vietnam, is once again on the scrap heap of history. (Who today even remembers its key organizing phrase — “clear, hold, and build” — which now looks like the punch line for some malign joke?) “Surges,” once hailed as brilliant military strategy, have alreadydisappeared into the mists. “Nation-building,” once a term of tradecraft in Washington, is in the doghouse. “Boots on the ground,” of which the U.S. had enormous numbers and still has 51,000 in Afghanistan, are now a no-no. The American public is, everyone universally agrees, “exhausted” with war. Major American armies arriving to fight anywhere on the Eurasian continent in the foreseeable future? Don’t count on it.
But lessons learned from the collapse of war policy? Don’t count on that, either. It’s clear enough that Washington still can’t fully absorb what’s happened. Its faith in war remains remarkably unbroken in a century in which military power has become the American political equivalent of a state religion. Our leaders are still high on the counterterrorism wars of the future, even as they drown in their military efforts of the present. Their urge is still to rejigger and reimagine what a deliverable military solution would be.
Now the message is: skip those boots en masse — in fact, cut down on their numbers in the age of the sequester — and go for the counterterrorism package. No more spilling of (American) blood. Get the “bad guys,” one or a few at a time, using the president’s private army, the Special Operations forces, or his private air force, the CIA’s drones. Build new barebones micro-bases globally. Move those aircraft carrier battle groups off the coast of whatever country you want to intimidate.
It’s clear we’re entering a new period in terms of American war making. Call it the era of tiny wars, or micro-conflicts, especially in the tribal backlands of the planet.
So something is indeed changing in response to military failure, but what’s not changing is Washington’s preference for war as the option of choice, often of first resort. What’s not changing is the thought that, if you can just get your strategy and tactics readjusted correctly, force will work. (Recently, Washington was only saved from plunging into another predictable military disaster in Syria by an offhand comment of Secretary of State John Kerry and the timely intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin.)
What our leaders don’t get is the most basic, practical fact of our moment: war simply doesn’t work, not big, not micro — not for Washington. A superpower at war in the distant reaches of this planet is no longer a superpower ascendant but one with problems.
The U.S. military may be a destabilization machine. It may be a blowback machine. What it’s not is a policymaking or enforcement machine.
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture (now also in a Kindle edition), runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His latest book, co-authored with Nick Turse, is Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050.
[Note: A deep bow of thanks to Nick Turse for his continuing help and, above all, inspiration.]
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Tags: Afghanistan, American presidents, American wars on foreign soil, Iraq, John Kerry, Karzai, legal immunity for U.S. troops, Libya, Military Madness, military power, Muammar Qaddafi, president hamid karzai, Syria, Tom Engelhardt
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Derek Klena & Christy Altomare Set for B’way-Aimed Anastasia
March 9th, 2016 | By Imogen Lloyd Webber
Broadway alums Derek Klena and Christy Altomare will lead the previously announced world premiere of Anastasia at Hartford Stage. The organization's artistic director, Tony winner Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder) is set to helm the production, which is scheduled to run from May 12 through June 12. Next stop the Great White Way?
It will be an onstage reunion for the pair; they previously appeared together off-Broadway in Carrie. Joining Klena (Bridges of Madison County, Wicked) as Dmitry and Altomare (Mamma Mia!) in the title role will be Mary Beth Peil as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, Manoel Felciano as Gleb, John Bolton as Vlad, Caroline O'Connor as Lily and Nicole Scimeca as Young Anya.
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Season kicks off with United Way fundraiser
The United Way of San Benito County will kick off the holiday season a little early on Saturday with its Christmas Extravaganza, at Ridgemark Golf and Country Club, 3800 Airline Hwy., in Hollister, at 5:30 p.m.
The evening event is a throwback to a fundraiser the United Way used to have in the past. The Christmas Extravaganza is a unique fundraiser where guests have the chance to bid on a fully-decorated faux tree.
“When United Way was actively involved (in San Benito) this huge fundraiser we did years ago,” said Starr Wolf, the coordinator for United Way in the county. “Some people asked if we could bring it back.”
Wolf said the fundraiser is a little different than the “wine and cheese” events held by many nonprofits in San Benito.
“We have Christmas trees we are auctioning off, plus other items,” Wolf said. “Several people are decorating wreaths and those will also be sold at the event.”
Tickets are $50 per person, with reserved tables for 10 available that include two bottles of wine. Cocktails will be served from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with the program and dinner to begin at 7 p.m., with the auction at 8 p.m.
Some of the auction items include a decorated Manzanita tree; candy by Marich Confectionery to serve with 50 bowls and decorations included; a wine tree with wine from Hahn, Galante Vineyards and other wineries; a rodeo package with tickets to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, the San Benito County Saddle Horse Show and Rodeo and the California Rodeo Salinas; and more items.
Wolf said the fundraiser will benefit the partner agencies with which United Way works, which Wolf said focus on agencies that offer safety-net services. Some of the agencies that benefit include the Community Food Bank, Emmaus House, Ag Against Hunger and the YMCA, among others.
The YMCA afterschool program students just completed a fundraiser for the United Way in September. The students at the YMCA programs throughout the county collected $88.97 in piggy banks as part of its monthly service learning project and turned the money over just recently.
The United Way will also be participating in the 12 Days of Giving, a fundraiser with the Community Foundation for San Benito County that will kick off at the Lights On Parade on Nov. 24.
Every dollar raised by the United Way goes back into services in the community because they have a grant from the Packard Foundation to cover operating costs for the agency.
“We’ve had a lot of interest and we are very excited about it because it is going to be a beautiful evening,” Wolf said. “I’m looking forward to experience my first one. A lot of man hours have gone into it, and we have a lot of wonderful ideas and items to be auctioned off.”
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Posted on Sun Mar 17th, 2019 @ 8:37pm by Captain Liarra Von & Lieutenant Commander Craig Travis
Location: Shuttle bay
Timeline: Immediately after the storm
Craig was glad his ship had made it in before the storm hit. It was such chaos in the shuttle bay with all the shuttles and ships that had been pulled in for safety reasons. Craig and his pilot had just waited out the storm inside and now that word was that it had cleared Craig finally made his way off. People will milling around and he figured it was going to be a security nightmare to process all these people. For once he was glad he had not transferred command just yet. He had his orders in hand but so far that is where they stayed. Travis made his way through the crowd that oddly enough was not making any progress. In fact as he made his way towards the front he saw that people were not being allowed onto the station proper.
People started to push and shove and the blue shirts standing in the way with their hands up trying to calm everyone was losing the battle. With this many people it would be difficult but denying them access was crazy. Craig still had his yellow Security uniform on from his last post. He slowly and with some forced worked his way to the front. "Excuse me what is going on." He asked the security NCO.
"Stand back, Sir everyone is to stay where they are. There is a situation and until it is cleared no one is to leave." The NCO replied.
Craig started to wish he had already transferred command. If there was an issue he needed to be with the Command staff. "Excuse me. I am Craig Travis I have orders here to take over as head of Security here." He let his words sink in. "Since in about five minutes I will be your new boss I suggest you let me through and find me the Captain."
The Security staffed looked at each other then one verified the PADD. "Sorry Commander follow me." He said as he let him through, which in turn pissed off the people more. There was a pep in everyone steps as he made his way to see Captain Von.
Star gazing was not necessarily Liarra Von's favorite way to pass the time. And yet so often she found herself looking to the stars for guidance, for solace. But these were not her stars. They were strange and mysterious, and the longer she stared at them, the worse she felt. A lost city in space, full of lost souls, looked to her for answers. But she had none to give.
When the door chime sounded, Liarra almost jumped out of her skin. It was not the first time she's had visitors since the storm, and she was sure that it was not the last. Nevertheless, the surprise visit pulled her briefly away from her reflection. She gave her uniform jacket a tug and attempted to compose herself before answering. "Come in."
Craig strode through the door to see his old boss that would be his new boss. "Captain, hell of storm we just had and I am afraid to say we have a bigger one brewing."
"Commander Travis," Von answered, a hint of a smile on her face. "I wondered if you had made it aboard before we had to close the dock." She extended her hand to greet him. "I agree, I expect there to be another storm." Liarra gave him a slight puzzled looked. "But what storm are you expecting?"
"Well storm I was referring to is all the angry folks in your docking bays. People seemed at first to be glad to be out of the storm but with the station on lock down they are getting quite pushy and wanting answers." He started. "Why not let them out into the Promenade is there a bigger issue?"
Liarra nodded along. It was a growing problem that was going to need to be dealt with eventually. Perhaps letting everyone onto the station would buy them some more time. "You're probably right. It's going to make it a little tougher than usual on your people, but we probably don't have much choice." Liarra took a deep breath and shook her head. "There's just one other problem."
Liarra moved back to her windows. "We're still working on the how and the where. What we do know is that the station is no longer where we used to be. Whatever happened with that storm, it's sent us far away from Archa IV. If I let those ships out of the docks now, we're releasing them to the wilderness. I'd really prefer to have some answers before I say anything. Letting ship crews disembark might give us a little more time to find out what happened. And maybe, find a way to get home."
Travis looked out the window. He had not been on 332 long before but he had looked to the stars plenty while he was here. These where not the right stars. "Well that is a problem and your immediate reaction is much more warranted now. What if we increase security patrols in the high traffic areas and allow people out of the docking bays. I agree with the idea of keeping ships grounded."
Liarra nodded. "Let's do it. I would also increase patrols to any sensitive area to keep our guests from wandering into anything dangerous."
"Yeah I plan on heading down to the Hub and having a Senior staff briefing we will beef up patrols and call in on call staff. We will make it work." Craig said confidently. "Anything else I need to be briefed in on?"
"Right now, no," Liarra replied, shaking her head. "Science teams are working on figuring out where we are and how we got here, and operations is heading up repairs. Once we know more, I'll assemble the senior staff. For now, let's just get the situation on the station under control."
"Very good, Captain." He said as he stood up. "I am glad to be back and will get to work on getting the small fires put out before its a rager." He turned and made his way out of the office.
Lt. Commander Craig Travis
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Slyde Stone has never wanted anyone or anything more than his beautiful, sultry co-captain. But he has a secret—he’s a dragon shifter, one of a legendary race who must mate for life, or not at all. Though he burns to have her, he must keep Sirena at a distance, even if it means watching her with other men and dealing with her fury at his rebuff.
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In this highly sensual tale of forbidden love and passionate surrender, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor makes her much anticipated return to classic Native American romance on the frontier–irresistible, fiery, and everlasting. . .
1756. Traveling west of the colonies with a small party, Shannon O’Shea loses her way in the wilderness, soon drenched by driving rains and forced by powerful winds into the shelter of a cave. Stripping quickly, she is drawn to the flickering warmth of a fire deep within, but she stops cold–surely she must be dreaming. Before her stands a Cherokee brave, tall and broad-shouldered, scarcely clothed. Storm Dancer whispers that she knew him once. . .long ago. He vows to keep her safe. By morning, he seems to vanish, yet Storm Dancer will remain with Shannon, in every way a flesh-and-blood man who awakens her every womanly longing. For their spirits call to each other. . .
Storm Dancer’s vow is kept. He is more honorable by far than the white man Shannon must wed, and time will prove that only he can save her from violence and treachery. That he is the only man she will truly love. . .
“A Story That Will Thrill.”
—Romantic Times on Lakota Dawn
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Name: Corellian Engineering Corporation Sphyrna-class corvette
Scale: Capital
Length: 315 meters
Skill: Capital Ship Piloting: Sphyrna-class corvette
Crew: 12; Skeleton Crew: 1/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation 4D+1, Capital Ship Piloting 5D+2, Capital Ship Shields 4D+1, Capital Ship Gunnery 5D+2, Sensors 5D
Cargo Capacity: 6,000 Tons
Consumables: 3 Months
Cost: 1,200,000 credits (used)
Hyperdrive Backup: X16
Atmosphere: 300; 900 kph
Search: 100/3D
3 dual laser cannons
Fire Arc: 2 Front, 1 Back
Space: 3-15/36/75
Atmosphere: 6-30/72/150 Km
Description: Sphyrna-class corvettes, also known simply as Hammerhead corvettes, were a model of corvette that saw wide use in the period leading up to, during the Galactic Civil War and during the cold war, where they would be fielded by a rebel cell as well as the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Resistance.
Sphyrna-class corvettes were inspired by a starship design that dated back centuries prior to the Imperial Era that was designed by Corellian Engineering Corporation. Throughout its existence, at least two different variants of the Sphyrna-class existed. The one most commonly seen utilized by early rebel cells featured a large ventral cargo bay and three dual laser cannon, as well as a vertically-elongated bridge section characteristic of the Hammerhead-class. In its early years, the Alliance to Restore the Republic continued to use this original model.
By 0 BBY, however, the Alliance had modified its previous Hammerheads, such as the Lightmaker, into a slightly different refit. Several new features were added to the original Hammerhead structure, including two extra modules mounted to the port and starboard of the craft, six escape pods in place of the cargo bay, and a fourth sublight drive mounted on top of the primary three, giving it enough power to single-handedly move a disabled Star Destroyer. This refitted model was the version used the most during the Battle of Scarif.
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Democrat Party is now officially the Socialist Party? I Think So.
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The Only Game Democrats Play
Patrick O’Hannigan Culture, Government, Politics 1
People hoping to become the Democrat nominee for president in 2020 have recently floated suggestions for dismantling both the Electoral College and the Supreme Court as we know it. These ideas are in addition to the urgency with which many of them also tell the rest of us to be both deeply suspicious of parenthood and greener than Kermit the Frog, in the vain hope that those things might help to forestall climate change.
But if progressive policies are as self-evidently worth pursuing as leftists assume they are, then why do those same people keep moving the political goalposts? Why, for example, did the Speaker of the House endorse a proposal to lower the federal voting age to 16? It’s as though the only game in town were Calvinball, minus the innocence of the original version. Calvin, you might remember, was not above cheating (hence “Calvinball,” whose only rule was that there were no rules). That wildly imaginative six-year-old refused to build snowmen in traditional ways, but neither he nor his indulgent tiger ever waged war against the dead, as leftists are now doing.
That might sound like hyperbole to anyone who hasn’t seen Democrats trying to erase their own past by toppling statues of Confederate soldiers. The activists pushing for changes like that don’t seem to realize that when Confederate statues are gone, monuments to the valor of Union soldiers will have no meaning, either.
Being “woke” is an essentially reactive stance, because it has to contrast with something asleep or unexamined. But speech cops on the left (and they’re all on the left) don’t understand or care about that. Consequently, Civil War battlefields are being leached of the formative influence proper to them. We’re losing our collective memory of American history, and (in the hotbeds of progressive iconoclasm) ultimately mocking Lincoln’s resolve that “these dead shall not have died in vain.”
Leftists treat history as a tool for the acquisition of power. Anything that can’t be ignored or subverted gets reframed, which is why I don’t think freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or failed Senate candidate Robert Francis O’Rourke are as clueless as they appear to be. “Beto” and “AOC” know what their supporters want to hear. When AOC threatens the moderates in her own party but says perkily that “democratic socialism” simply means “putting democracy and society first,” or Beto preaches doom from the “coffee shop at the end of the world,” each is appealing to mal-educated people who mistake youthful ignorance for courage. In a different world, those particular politicians would be vying for election as homecoming king and queen. Instead, they want to be commissars.
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Had the 2016 presidential election turned out differently, we would not now be hearing about problems with the Electoral College, or listening to activists pine righteously for “democracy” in what was built as a republic. Anyone who wants to lecture the rest of us on proper governance ought first to understand introductory phrases in the Pledge of Allegiance.
NBC News describes the progressive strategy for 2020 as an attempt to change the rules. That ideology’s notion of being bravely different never makes room for traditionalists, but now holds sway even in things like the dress code for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Despite the argument that outdated systems and social mores need to change, it’s hard to see progressive motivation as anything more than an alloy of hypocrisy and opportunism, because they move goalposts even when there’s no compelling reason to do so. Events in New York and Virginia reminded us that Democrats unwilling to let the evil of late-term abortion alone pushed past that into providing legal cover for infanticide, while casting themselves as merciful because letting babies die saves the cost of neonatal intensive care.
Less contentious issues show a similar pattern. Hillary Clinton, for example, has yet to be prosecuted for feigned ignorance (Q: Did you wipe your email server? A: “You mean like with a cloth?”), gross negligence, or felonious conduct. Meanwhile, Trumpian exaggeration draws swift condemnation from all quarters, the First Lady isn’t regarded as being multi-lingual or photogenic enough to avoid being snubbed by people who wet themselves over her immediate predecessor, and self-proclaimed bastions of free inquiry in North America and Europe are nothing of the kind.
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Two years into a presidency that has done more to expose progressive insecurities than any other, it’s also safe to say that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to sway America’s 2016 election started with bad motive and wide latitude. That it ended up vindicating President Trump is almost beside the point. Outcome aside, the investigation’s dominance of the news cycle was exactly what the Beltway Establishment had hoped it would be, if for no other reason than because so many politicians despise (and feel threatened by) the brash populist in the White House.
“March Madness” for progressives is no different from the crazy that they pretend to save the rest of us from in every other month. If your objections to that can be painted as logical, historical, patriarchal, privileged, racist, or cis-gendered, then you are easily marginalized. The only proper response to the way progressives have weaponized grievance and guilt is to refuse to play along.
In gentler moods, we might also remember that Calvin and Hobbes did not end its ten-year run atop the comics page with a game of Calvinball. Instead, on December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson’s beloved creations signed off from a sled in the snow with an appreciative nod to the wonders of the world around them, as Calvin, with his triangular grin, said “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, Ol’ Buddy…Let’s Go Exploring!”
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I’m a writer and editor in North Carolina. My role models include Thomas Aquinas, Jackie Robinson, and Wile E. Coyote. I often have a harmonica within arm’s reach.
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Starting to Smell Like Sulfer
Reposted this Outrage (already published 2 times by others) from Uriel … Thanks for your great and timely post.
Booker was given a pass by the Senate Ethics Committee
By Uriel | January 31, 2019, | Asshat Alert, CONSTITUTION:, MEDIA:, Tom Fitton/Judicial Watch, US Senate
The Senate Ethics Committee has been a JOKE for the last decade or more. While those in the House have been busy more often than not investigating Republicans in the last year, the Senate Ethics committee has not done even one single investigation period. The last news releases they did involve Al Franken and Robert Menendez in December 2017. Before that nothing as far back as 2012.
So what happened when Judicial Watch and others requested they look into the dirty methods Cory Booker used during the Kavanaugh hearing debacle. Zilch nothing to see here…move on is their comments!
Judicial Watch just issued a press release decrying the absolute uselessness of this committee. The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel.
The letter was signed by Deborah Sue Mayer, Chief Counsel and Staff Director. Ms. Mayer personally advises Members of the Committee and Senate, and oversees the non-partisan staff in providing ethics advice and education, administering the Senate’s financial disclosure program, and conducting investigations and enforcement of ethics rules, laws and standards of conduct.
Prior to her work in the Senate, from July 2011 through January 2015, Ms. Mayer served as the Director of Investigations for the House Ethics Committee, overseeing all of the Committee’s investigations into Members of Congress or their staff.
The Senate Ethics Committee is evenly split, with three Republicans and three Democrats. The Committee members are Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Brian Schatz (D-HI), James Risch (R-ID), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
According to their website, there are six staff counselors, five staff assistants, and two other administrative members listed. Yet not one real ethics decision has been entertained or been sent for consideration. How is that for use of taxpayer money!
Not one whisper out of the committee on how Feinstein withheld information from her own Senate party members or how Elizabeth Warren got away with her efforts set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau without a full board membership or oversight by Congress.
Not one word on Senator Flake and his political malfeasance. Not one word on the abuse Democrat senators heaped on Kavanaugh nor their efforts to solicit “any or all” who might have thirty-year-old angst against a man who had already gone through six separate FBI investigations.
The JW press release listed why they thought the Ethics committee should investigate Cory Booker.
Sen. Booker admitted breaking Senate rules when he issued a tweet on Friday, September 7 saying:
Weds—I broke committee rules by reading from “Committee confidential” docs.
Also, Sen. Booker then posted the following entry on his Facebook account on Sunday, September 9:
And the classification of many documents as “Committee confidential” is a sham… I willfully violate these sham rules. I fully accept any consequences that might arise from my actions including expulsion.
Judicial Watch noted in its complaint that Sen. Booker also uploaded “Committee confidential” records to a publicly accessible Dropbox account with the heading “Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing Documents”.
By violating the rules in releasing Committee confidential records, Sen. Booker appeared to have violated provisions 5 and/or 6 of Rule 29 of the Standing Rules of the Senate (Rev. Jan. 24, 2013), which stipulate that he should be subject to expulsion from the Senate…
“It is an absolute disgrace that the Senate Ethics Committee is giving Senator Booker a pass for willfully violating Senate rules by leaking confidential information to smear Justice Kavanaugh,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Senate continues the abuse of Kavanaugh and his family by refusing to act against a Senator who, pretending to be Spartacus, violated the rule of law and our Constitution in trying to destroy him.”
Tom Fitton is absolutely right. If the committee members and the staff cannot seem to get any real ethics investigations done, then disband the committee or go outside the Senate to be responsible a respected constitutionalist retired Federal judge.
A group made of up of senators policing their own is ridiculous. The same applies to the House Ethics committee which is heavy on investigating Republicans right now but does appear to actually be working and taking complaints seriously.
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Auer Deference Survives Supreme Court Review (as the Liberal Justices Rule the Day)
The Court's four liberal justicces joined the majority in all three of today's Supreme Court's decisions
Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.26.2019 3:50 PM
On the penultimate day of the October 2018 term, the Supreme Court issued three opinions. In all three cases, the Court's four liberal justices were part of the Court's majority and, in the most ideologically salient case — Kisor v. Wilkie—it appears Justice Kagan was able to convince Chief Justice Roberts to case a deciding vote to uphold Auer deference in Kisor v. Wilkie. We may see something quite different tomorrow when the Court hands down decisions on the Census, partisan gerrymandering, blood draws under the Fourth Amendment and the future of Oklahoma, but at least today the Court's liberal justices were in control.
In United States v. Haymond, Justice Gorsuch, joined by the Court's four liberals, concluded that a criminal defendant's sentence had been unconstitutionally increased, contrary to his constitutional jury trial right. Justice Breyer only concurred in the result, however, Justice Alito wrote a notably pointed dissent on behalf of the Court's conservatives.
In Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Assn. v. Thomas, a 7-2 Court invalidated a Tennessee law imposing residency duration requirements on those seeking retail liquor licenses. The Court found the Tennessee law was unconstitutionally protectionist under the so-called "Dormant Commerce Clause" and could not be saved by the Twenty-First Amendment. Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion. Justice Gorsuch dissented, joined by Justice Thomas.
Last (and most disappointingly to some of us), the Court decided Kisor v. Wilkie, a dispute over veterans' disability benefits in which the Court had been asked to reconsider so-called "Auer deference" (aka "Seminole Rock deference"), under which reviewing courts are to give "controlling weight" to agency interpretations of ambiguous agency regulations. While the Court was unanimous in vacating the lower court decision to reconsider James Kisor's claim, the justices split 5-4 over whether to overturn Auer.
Justice Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by the Court's other liberals and, in large part, by Chief Justice Roberts, who also wrote a short opinion concurring in part. Justice Gorsuch wrote an extensive opinion concurring in the judgment (though dissenting on the question of whether to overrule Auer), joined in full by Justice Thomas, and in part by Justices Kavanaugh and Alito. Justice Kavanaugh also wrote a separate opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Alito also joined in part.
Justice Kagan's opinion for the Court simultaneously defended the doctrine of Auer deference, while also constraining its application going forward. As she put it, "even as we uphold [Auer], we reinforce its limits." In this, her opinion echoed the recommendations of the Solicitor General, who had urged the Court to mend-but-not end the controversial administrative law doctrine. As Chris Walker explains over at "Notice & Comment," Kagan replaced a broad doctrine often used by courts as an excuse to abdicate meaningful review of agency action into a multi-part test designed to limit Auer deference to a more narrow set of cases. In Kagan's words, "[t]he deference doctrine we describe is potent in its place, but cabined in its scope."
Under Kisor, Auer deference is only appropriate in certain circumstances. First, the reviewing Court must review the relevant regulatory language for itself in order to determine whether the regulation is ambiguous. If, after utilizing all of the usual tools of statutory interpretation (including text, history, structure, and purpose), it is then appropriate for the Court to defer to a truly reasonable interpretation of the regulation offered by the promulgating agency, provided additional conditions are met. Specifically, the Court must conclude that the agency interpretation represents the agency's authoritative interpretation, resulting from careful consideration and reflecting the agency's expertise. Further, the agency must have given affected parties sufficient notice of its interpretation and be mindful of relevant reliance interests.
Rather than complicate the Auer doctrine with what looks like a new five-part test, Justice Gorsuch would have ripped the Band-Aid off all at once, tossing out Auer and instructing courts to consider the persuasiveness of agency interpretations, as is done under Skidmore, but not give agencies binding deference in any circumstances. Not only would this eliminate an erroneous precedent, it would also avoid creating a confusing doctrinal mess.
Both Roberts and Kavanaugh wrote separately to suggest that the difference, in practice, between the approaches offered by Kagan and Gorsuch may not be all that great, as in both cases, courts are instructed to consider the regulatory text before consulting the agency's opinion and because both approaches help guard against opportunistic agency interpretations of their own actions, such as may occur in the heat of litigation. If so, this may have been the result of negotiation between Kagan and the Chief Justice, insofar as Roberts may have sought to cabin Auer deference as much as possible in return for his vote not to formally overrule it.
For those of us who argued the Court should overrule Auer, and submitted amicus briefs to this effect, Kisor is a disappointment. Nonetheless, it is heartening that even Justice Kagan recognized the potential dangers of unconstrained deference to agency interpretations of their own rules and that every justice on the Court saw some value in reining in the doctrine.
Two other tidbits: First, because the Chief Justice joined Justice Kagan's Kisor opinion, the Court missed out on the opportunity to overturn a third precedent for the term, so the Roberts Court is not likely to surpass its post-War predecessors in the rate with which it overturns precedents any time soon. This is still the stare decisis Court.
Second, the Court's four liberals anchored the judgments in all three decisions today, which is somewhat surprising in that we generally expect this to be a conservative Court. While I doubt this is the outcome we will see tomorrow, it is interesting that the replacement of Justice Kennedy with Justice Kavanaugh has not produced (yet) led to a conservative revolution.
Consulting the SCOTUSBlog Interim StatPack one sees that of the Court's 5-4 decisions this term, only 6 have been decided along traditional Right-Left lines with the conservatives in the majority. More often (so far this term) we have seen the five justice majorities consisting of the four liberal justices and one conservative justice. Counting today's opinions (and including Kisor), we've seen that happen 9 times so far this term—and that's not what anyone was expecting.
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Auer Deference and the Brand X Problem – iftttwall
June.26.2019 at 5:04 pm
[…] Jonathan writes, the Supreme Court (in Kisor v. Wilkie) has reaffirmed Auer deference, though limiting it in a way […]
Auer Deference and the Brand X Problem – ALibertarian.org
[…] Jonathan writes, the Supreme Court (in Kisor v. Wilkie) has reaffirmed Auer deference, though limiting it in a […]
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“Second, the Court’s four liberals anchored the judgments in all three decisions today, which is somewhat surprising in that we generally expect this to be a conservative Court.”
Perhaps one or more of the Court’s conservatives might be attempting to build rapport with some of the Court’s liberals in anticipation of an enlarged Court, hoping to preserve some influence a few years down the docket, when ‘counting to six’ becomes a thing?
Armchair Lawyer
Ah, good ol’ Reverend, keeping up the faith.
After more than a half-century of shaping American progress against the wishes and efforts of conservatives, a bit of confidence seems warranted for our great liberal-libertarian alliance.
. . .unless movement conservatives (including the faux libertarians) figure they have turned the tide, of course, relying on the insights, charms, and integrity of Donald J. Trump.
Carry on, clingers.
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The Rights and Wrongs of Overruling Precedent – iftttwall
June.27.2019 at 12:27 am
[…] v. Township of Scott, which I analyzed in this post), and another important precedent has been significantly eroded in the Kisor case. The liberal justices fear that the conservative majority might overrule more […]
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June.27.2019 at 1:16 am
TennesseeWine could use its own post. I learned today that this was an institute for justice case. their 7th case and 6th win at the high court, and the one they lost was kelo.
https://ij.org/press-release/supreme-court-blasts-economic-protectionism-as-it-strikes-down-durational-residency-requirements-for-business-licenses/
It has the hallmarks of an ij case – plucky small business owners, a wheelchair, a shadowy cartel pulling the strings of a government agency, and a previous ij precedent, granholm, another step in their journey to restore the lost constitution from exile.
Auer Deference and the Brand X Problem – Grossly Offensive
June.27.2019 at 12:51 pm
Originalism seems incapable of withstanding the barest whiff of Tennessee whiskey.
That’s one more reason the American mainstream should disregard it.
jubulent
I think the important question is: why does Kagan hate stare decisis so much that she is willing to overturn years of Auer deference
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Rugby : a (small) tribute to the pioneers
Rugby in California - the early days...
There's something special, for both the collector and the historian, about pre-ww1 rugby played in California, culminating every year between 1906 and 1914 in the "Big Game" played between Stanford and University of California - the "other" Varisty match...
I received recently a beautiful ticket of this Big Game 1911... which led me to open my drawers where press clippings from the San Francisco Chronicles were gently sleeping, as well as to "google" again this topic!
Here're a few findings, with no particular order...
A fantastic video footage of the Big Game 1912 was buried deep into YouTube archives. Renamed "the Mud Game", it shows one of the most awful rugby ground I've ever witnessed!! No mystery final score was a disapointing 3-3...
A trophy was meant to be presented for the first time to the winning team that year... yet could not be offered because of this draw... This magnifiscient (says the press...) "Lathrop Intercollegiate Rugby Trophy", named after UC Treasurer Charles Lathrop who had financed it, was planned to be definitively held by the first university able to secure 3 victories... A project that must have been seriously jeopardized by the return of American rules after 1914. Would someone know if this trophy is still "alive" ?
Searching for who was Charles Lathrop, I was pleased to realize that "Stanford Daily" (i.e. the newspaper serving Stanford university) archives were freely available online - cf my press clip dated Nov 12, 1912 -
A search for "rugby" brings back 6247 results, starting in 1894... let's bookmark that resource for future rainy days...
By the way, the next Big Game on Nov.18, 2017 will be the 120th - 111 played under American rules + 9 played under rugby rules
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Game_(American_football)
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Delqué: the call of Rugby League, bad timing yet... Sometimes, collecting rugby memorablia makes you uncover unexpected stories! I've recently found this French Rugby League contract which was surprisingly coming with a whole bunch of uncashed bank cheques... At first, I haven't paid attention to the name of the...
Finance Ladies & Gentlemen, here's another "niche" for rugby memorabilia collecting: shares and bonds of rugby stadiums! These documents are sometimes nicely illustrated, and are interesting reminders of the business and entrepreneurial side of sports - even in amateur times... E.g....
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Post-Game Report: 2/3 vs. St. Louis
Posted on February 3, 2018 by Ian Ott | Leave a comment
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(32-19-3) 0 0 1 – – 1 33
Robin Lehner stopped 32 of 33 shots tonight (.970), improving to 120-for-123 (.976) in his last four games.
Tonight’s game was the 48th regular-season 1-0 game in Sabres history. The Sabres are 27-21 in these games.
The last was a 1-0 win vs. Detroit on Oct. 24, 2017. Robin Lehner earned the victory and Benoit Pouliot scored the lone goal.
The team’s last 1-0 loss before tonight came on Feb. 24, 2016 at Anaheim.
Tonight’s Goaltenders
Tonight’s Stats
Team Goaltender Decision SV% GAA
Blues Hutton W 1.000 0.00
Sabres Lehner L .970 1.03
Updated Season Stats
Team Goaltender Record SV% GAA
Blues Hutton 14-4-1 .947 1.61
Sabres Lehner 11-20-6 .914 2.80
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Post-Game Report: 2/18 vs. STL
Posted on February 18, 2017 by Ian Ott | Leave a comment
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Today’s game was the seventh of eight afternoon games (3 p.m. ET or earlier) for the Sabres this season. The team is 5-2-0 in the first seven and was 6-3-2 in 11 afternoon games last season.
With the win, the Sabres have improved to 8-2-1 at home in 2017.
Evander Kane recorded two points (1+1) today, giving him 14 points (8+6) in his last 13 games.
Kane’s goal tied him for sixth in the NHL with 19 even-strength goals this season.
With 20 goals in 47 games this season, Kane has already matched his total from 2015-16 (65 GP).
Nicholas Baptiste recorded his first career multi-point game (1+1), including his first NHL assist.
Ryan O’Reilly’s power-play goal gave him seven points (3+4) in his last seven games, including a point in each of his last four.
Rasmus Ristolainen recorded his 100th NHL point with an assist on O’Reilly’s goal, becoming the third-youngest Sabres defenseman ever to reach that milestone.
With his assist, Jack Eichel has 17 points (5+12) in his last 17 games. He also has 18 points (7+11) in 19 home contests this season.
Robin Lehner stopped 37 of 39 shots and now has a .935 save percentage in 2017 (15 games).
As of the end of the game, his .926 save percentage ranked fourth in the NHL on the season.
Injury Update: Sam Reinhart missed this afternoon’s game due to an illness.
Today’s Goaltenders
Allen L .893 3.08
Sabres Lehner W .949 2.00
Blues Allen 22-15-3 .902 2.69
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700 kg of rotting meat and poultry in Kafr El Sheikh
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The Five-Year Committee of the Hamul Center in Kafr El-Sheikh has prepared 700 kg of meat, poultry and food unfit for human consumption, and has released 98 different dossiers in co-operation with the Consumer Protection Agency during the joint campaign by Al Hamoul Center and the local unit of the city. Kafr El -Sheikh's governor's mandate.
The committee was formed by Maduli Aida, head of the city center, by the Hamuli Center and the local unit of the city. Among the legal issues were Director of Animal Health Administration, Director of Hamulus Care, Director of Environmental Protection at the Local Unit and Police Representative.
The committee carried 359 kilograms of meat, poultry and poultry products, 225 kg unsuitable for human consumption, 109 kg of vegetables and rotten fruits and 58 samples of food and sent it to the Kafr El Sheikh Regional Laboratory for analysis. Supply, 63 Health Record, 7 presentation environments.
The governor of Kafr El-Sheikh thanked the campaign to strengthen the market surveillance role in reviewing the quality and validity of food and consumer goods, respecting prices and reporting in shops at light locations, and announcements to monopoly traders.
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Home Categories HEBREW Books Rabbi Yechezkel Landau The Noda Biyehudah - Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (English)
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By: Rabbi R. Weingarten | Pages: 150 | Publisher: C.I.S. | Language: English | Volumes: 1 | Binding: Soft |
A beautifully written biography that tells the life story of this great protector and leader of his people. Its pages are filled with wonderful stories and anecdotes, from his early childhood through his adult years, that demonstrate his amazing brilliance in solving seemingly insoluble problems, both in the realm of Halachah and in every-day life. particular attention is devoted to his experiences as Chief Rabbi of Prague. He emerges as a devoted rosh yeshivah, a compassionate rabbi, a strong community leader and a skillful negotiator with governments during the numerous wars and threatened expulsions that plagued the Jewish community.
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Even with multiple changes, Paris Trio shines at New World Center
The Paris Piano Trio performed music of Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann Thursday night at New World Center in Miami Beach.
Friends of Chamber Music presented the Paris Piano Trio Thursday night, not at its usual venue, Gusman Concert Hall, but at the New World Center in Miami Beach in a program replete with changes of venue, personnel and programming.
Originally scheduled for the new campus’s chamber music room, the concert was moved to the main concert hall because of scaffolding and continuing construction work in the smaller venue.
The trio’s pianist Jean-Claude Pennetier suffered a fainting spell in Paris and was replaced for this tour by Claire Desert, one of his former students. Probably due to the reconfigured ensemble, scheduled rarities by Chopin and Faure were jettisoned in favor of familiar Haydn and Beethoven, leaving only Schumann’s D Minor Trio from the originally announced program. Still, the level of music-making was so consistently excellent that none of the changes greatly mattered.
Ms. Desert proved to be an artist of exceptional gifts. Not only did she blend seamlessly with violinist Regis Pasquier and cellist Roland Pidoux but she exhibited a lightness of touch, sensitivity of phrasing and nuanced artistic refinement that are the marks of a distinguished artist. Playing the New World Symphony’s house Yamaha, Desert drew the most elegant, gleaming tones and subtle range of dynamics from an instrument that usually sounds harsh and monochromatic. Along with her colleagues, she was aided by the new hall’s impressive acoustics, the strong bass response and clarity and richness of the sound a boon to chamber music performance.
The trio’s musical approach is typically Gallic, emphasizing tonal warmth and aristocratic expansiveness; yet this group can summon power and storm the heavens when musically appropriate.
Haydn’s Trio in G Major played to the ensemble’s lighter side. The pearly delicacy of Desert’s piano and mellifluous interplay of voices launched the initial Andante beguilingly. Pasquier’s sweet-toned violin sang the sentimental melody of the Poco adagio with heavenly serenity. The players took the final Presto at the most rapid clip imaginable, never sacrificing clarity of articulation or elegance of line.
Beethoven’s Ghost Trio in D Major, Op.70, No. 1 is filled with mood swings from lyrical strophes to eerie, disturbing harmonies and outbursts of blazing energy. The Paris threesome proved equal to the challenges in a performance that illuminated Beethoven’s distinctive sound world. Pasquier and Pidoux molded Beethoven’s melodic lines with eloquence, both in the lightness of the initial Allegro vivace and the dark mystery of the Largo. In the final Presto, the musicians gave proper weight to every one of Beethoven’s sudden, dramatic pauses while never impeding the glorious, flowing stream of melody.
Schumann’s Trio in D Minor is a drama of stormy musical seas, leavened by interludes of uneasy calm. This highly charged score brought out the powerhouse side of the Paris players. They charted the emotional roller coaster of the opening movement with a wide dynamic range and incendiary turbulence. Pidoux’s cello solo was striking for its unique tonal color. The sense of nervous energy continued in the whirlwind scherzo, here marked by an undercurrent of tragedy with incisive string playing delineating the movement’s ambivalence to telling effect.
The unmoored harmonies of the slow movement were subtly conveyed amidst Schumann’s lyrical piano line, Desert sounding the repeated triplets authoritatively. Like the finale of Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, the concluding movement is a joyous celebration of victory over despair. The major theme’s upward trajectory was charged with buoyancy and verve, the extended coda a final exuberant exclamation point to an impressive performance.
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Proposal to Lower Drug Costs by Targeting Backdoor Rebates and Encouraging Direct Discounts to Patients
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Inspector General Daniel Levinson proposed a rule to lower prescription drug prices and out-of-pocket costs by encouraging manufacturers to pass discounts directly on to patients and bringing new transparency to prescription drug markets.
“Every day, Americans—particularly our seniors—pay more than they need to for their prescription drugs because of a hidden system of kickbacks to middlemen. President Trump is proposing to end this era of backdoor deals in the drug industry, bring real transparency to drug markets, and deliver savings directly to patients when they walk into the pharmacy,” said Secretary Azar.
“This historic action, combined with other administrative and legislative efforts on prescription drug pricing, is a major departure from a broken status quo that serves special interests and moves toward a new system that puts American patients first. Democrats and Republicans looking to lower prescription drug costs have criticized this opaque system for years, and they could pass our proposal into law immediately.”
“This proposal has the potential to be the most significant change in how Americans’ drugs are priced at the pharmacy counter, ever, and finally ease the burden of the sticker shock that millions of Americans experience every month for the drugs they need.”
The HHS proposal would expressly exclude from safe harbor protection under the Anti-Kickback Statute rebates on prescription drugs paid by manufacturers to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Part D plans and Medicaid managed care organizations.
It would create a new safe harbor for prescription drug discounts offered directly to patients, as well as fixed fee service arrangements between drug manufacturers and PBMs. The proposal would also provide a historic new level of transparency to a system that has been shrouded in secrecy for decades.
Under the proposed rule, prescription drug rebates that today amount to, on average, 26 to 30 percent of a drug’s list price may be passed on directly to patients and reflected in what they pay at the pharmacy counter. By encouraging negotiated discounts that are reflected in cost-sharing methods like co-insurance, used for many expensive drugs in Medicare Part D, the proposal is projected to provide the greatest benefits to seniors with high drug costs.
The proposal would also address the most significant incentive drug manufacturers cite in raising their list prices every year, the pressure to provide larger and larger rebates. This rule provides a clear pathway for drug companies instead to compete to have the lower price and out-of-pocket cost to the patient.
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Smriti Mandhana, Mithali Raj Lead India Women To ODI Series Victory Over New Zealand
India Women beat New Zealand by eight wickets in the second ODI to seal the three-match series 2-0.
Edited by Santosh Rao
Smriti Mandhana hit an unbeaten 90 off 83 balls as India outclassed New Zealand in the 2nd ODI. © BCCI/Twitter
Smriti Mandhana produced yet another superlative performance with the bat to guide India Women to a series-clinching win over New Zealand in the second ODI at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui on Tuesday. The left-handed opener scored a century in the series opener and followed it up with an unbeaten 90 off just 83 balls as India thrashed the hosts by eight wickets to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series. Mandhana and skipper Mithali Raj (63 not out off 111 balls) stitched together an unbeaten 151-run partnership as India chased down the 162-run target with 14.4 overs to spare. Opting to field, India produced an excellent effort to bowl out New Zealand for a paltry 161 in 44.2 overs before player of the match Smriti Mandhana (90 not out) and skipper Mithali Raj (63 not out) guided the team to an easy win.
The duo resurrected the Indian run chase from 15 for two after the early loss of opener Jemimah Rodrigues (0) and Deepti Sharma (8).
"It feels great but I think our bowlers deserved the player of the match award more than me. I will give it away to our bowlers, they did a great job to restrict New Zealand on a good wicket," Mandhana said in the post-match presentation.
The 22-year-old Mandhana has been in excellent form in recent times and Tuesday's half-century was her eighth in the last 10 ODI innings. She hit 105 in the first match of the ongoing series.
Mithali Raj, on the other hand, faced 111 deliveries in her sedate knock of 63 and was the perfect foil to the aggressive Mandhana.
Mithali Raj completed the run chase in style with a six as India reached 166 for two in 35.2 overs.
"I am happy with the way the team is shaping up. I have always enjoyed batting in challenging conditions. It wasn't easy, it required patience here. Smriti is in good form and somebody had to give her support," Mithali Raj said.
India have now taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match contest, which is part of the ICC Women's Championship series. The visitors beat New Zealand by nine wickets in the first one-dayer at the same venue on January 24.
It was fitting revenge for the Indian team, which had lost the home leg of the ICC Women''s Championship series 1-2 to New Zealand during the last cycle that ran from 2014-2016.
(With PTI inputs)
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2015 MLB National League MVP Final Predictions; NL MVP Pick Is?
September 17th, 2015 Adam Solowiei
(Washington Nationals)
Here we are with less than 20 games left in the regular season. The Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers, St Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Chicago Cubs have all but decided who will represent each division the 2015 Major League Baseball playoffs. The only thing left to debate is which team, the Pirates or Cubs, will host the Wildcard play in game. With that it in mind it is also the stretch run for many of Major League Baseball’s top awards. What better time to see who is in the driver’s seat and what players still have an outside shot to capture performance bonuses and awards that cement their 2015 seasons for posterity. Let’s take a look at the NL MVP award race with roughly 20 games left in the 2015 baseball season.
The Man to Beat
Position – RF
Playoff Contender – NO
Maybe you think it matters or maybe you do not, the reality is that voting members weight the fact that a player is or is not on a playoff contending team. That is the only knock against Bryce Harper this year. RBI is the only category keeping him from a Triple Crown season. Harper leads the NL in home runs (40) and batting average (.338). He also tops On Base Percentage (.467), Slugging (.670), and OPS (1.137). Throw in the fact that he leads the majors in WAR at 8.7 and you have an absolutely monster season. His OPS is the best in the game over the last decade. Even though the Nationals had a poor season by any stretch of the imagination, you cannot argue that Harper has lived up to the hype and then some in 2015. He deserves the award.
(Pittsburgh Pirates)
In the Hunt
Position – CF
Playoff Contender – Yes
Here is a shock; Andrew McCutchen is in the MVP race in 2015. Okay, it is not a shock since he finished as a bridesmaid last year and won the award in 2013. He has really turned things around after a very poor start to the season. On the season he has 22 home runs, 86 runs scored, and 93 RBI. He is also fourth in On Base Percentage (.397) and fifth in OPS (.899). He is the leader on a contending team and delivers in the clutch as shown by his .385 average with runners in scoring position. It would be his award if it was not for Harper.
The Rest of the Top-5
3 – Zack Greinke, Los Angeles Dodgers
I feel bad for Arrietta because the only think keeping him from a sure fire Cy Young is Zack Greinke. He is 17-3 with a 1.61 ERA in 2015. Opposing batters are hitting .190 against him with a 0.85 WHIP. Those are incredible numbers. Nothing against Arrieta but if a pitcher is an MVP candidate in 2015 its Greinke.
4 – Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs
He is the offensive leader for the Cubs in a year that the fan base has been craving for a long time. He has 29 home runs, 90 RBI and 84 runs scored in 2015. The youngster is coming into his own and this is a sign of things to come.
5 – Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona Diamondbacks
His second half is not as impressive as his first but Paul Goldschmidt is still hitting .315 with 28 home runs and 100 RBI on the 2015 season. The Diamondbacks are not playoff contenders which hurts his stock in the eyes of the voters but my Spring Training pick for MVP is still playing very well in 2015.
Who will win the 2015 NL MVP Award?
Zack Greinke
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Swedish Opposition Leader Suggests Government Should Resign Following Election
© REUTERS / TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery
STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - On Monday Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Swedish opposition alliance of the center-right parties, suggested that the government of the ruling Red-Green bloc should resign following Sunday's general election in the country.
According to the Swedish Election Commission, after 80 percent of ballots were counted Sweden's ruling Red-Green bloc was leading in the country's general election with 40.6 percent of votes, while the opposition alliance of the center-right parties got 40.2 percent of votes. Thus, none of the parties received a majority of votes required to form a government.
Sweden Democrats Leader Says Ready for Talks on Government Formation With Opposition
"[The opposition] alliance is larger than the Red-Green bloc. The government should resign. I respect [Swedish Prime Minister] Stefan Lofven. But he should resign now," Kristersson said as quoted by the Swedish channel SVT TV.
The Red-Green bloc's leader Lovfen, for his part, called to proceed with calm negotiations since none of the political forces received the majority of votes needed to form a government.
"None of the blocs has the majority of votes. Voters have expressed their opinion, now we, the parties, should wait for the final results [of the election] and engage in negotiations on the government [formation]," Lovfen said as quoted by the SVT broadcaster.
He stressed that the election's results were uncertain and pledged, as the country's prime minister, to contribute to the dialogue on the government formation.
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Posts Tagged ‘apology’
Muslims Overrun US Embassy In Cairo, Replace US Flag With Al Qaeda Flag. Also Overrun US Consulate In Libya. Obama Apologizes As American Is Murdered
God damn America is starting to fall apart. And all this on the anniversary of 9/11 in the world that Obama “fundamentally transformed” after that evil Bush:
Egyptian Protesters Climb Walls Of U.S. Embassy, American Flags Taken Down And Replaced With Black Al-Qaeda Flags – Update: Obama Admin Condemns Individuals Who “Hurt The Religious Feelings Of Muslims”…
Keep in mind these are the same protesters Obama backed during the Arab Spring uprising against Mubarak.
Via CNN:
Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and hauled down its American flags, replacing them with black flags with Islamic emblems.
The incident prompted U.S. security guards to fire off a volley of warning shots as a large crowd gathered outside, apparently upset about the production of a Dutch film thought to insult the Prophet Mohammed, said CNN producer Mohammed Fahmy, who was on the scene.
An embassy operator told CNN that the facility had been cleared of diplomatic personnel earlier Tuesday, ahead of the apparent threat, while Egyptian riot police were called to help secure the embassy walls.
Update: More pictures.
Update: Insanity rules the day. From the State Department’s Egyptian embassy website:
Here’s one more of Old Glory going down in humiliation with the al Qaeda flag being raised:
But don’t worry, anybody. Obama raced out to immediately apologize for our embassy being an offensive symbol of a hated Great Satan State:
Let’s look at that statement again:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others
BEFORE Obama’s sincere apology to the Muslims that just stormed our embassy and burned our flag, here is what had occurred:
The statement comes after a mob of Egyptians climbed the walls of the embassy and tore down the American flag. Reuters reports:
Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and pulled down the American flag during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words “There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger”, a Reuters reporter said.
Once the U.S. flag was hauled down, protesters tore it up, with some showing off small pieces to television cameras. Then others burned remains.
“This movie must be banned immediately and an apology should be made … This is a disgrace,” said 19-year-old, Ismail Mahmoud, a member of the so-called “ultras” soccer supporters who played a big role in the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak last year
Don’t worry. Nobody apologizes for America’s sins better than Obama. Primarily because he agrees with the people who say we are so damn evil. It’s important that terrorists have more rights to attack our embassies than that American citizens in the US should have free speech.
You don’t think Obama is going to apologize to me if I’m offended by what the Egyptians did and storm their embassy and piss on their flag before burning it, do you? Oh, it only works in one direction, and Obama’s apologies are only for those who hate America.
I’m trying to remember if anything like this ever happened before: our embassy being attacked and overran, our economy in the toilet, and a pathetic failed Democrat president doing nothing. Does that bring back any memories? Hmmm:
At least Jimmy’s a happy man right now:
There are reports that an American has been killed at the US Consulate in Libya.
I sure hope Obama has a good apology for the Libyans. How dare Americans think they should have the right to breathe on what international law defines as U.S. soil? I mean, dang, we should thank them for not murdering more of us.
Wasn’t the world a dark and evil place when Bush was president? And didn’t Obama heal the planet? That was the damn rhetoric we kept hearing from Democrats.
I was mocking that lie almost immediately after Obama took office. Another guy beat me to the punch by mocking Obama’s asinine rhetoric even before the future abject disgrace took office. And the sheer idiocy of the “Obama as world transformer” has become a more and more ridiculous lie ever since.
Everything – and I mean ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING – Obama promised was a lie from the devil.
Tags:9/11, al Qaeda, apologized. US flag, apology, Arab Spring, consulate, Egyptians, film, Jimmy Carter, Libya, Muslims, U.S. Embassy, US embassy
Posted in Barack Obama, Conservative Issues, defense, Egypt, first Jeremiah Wright term, Libya, Politics, Religion and Culture, terrorism | 11 Comments »
Las Vegas Mayor Blasts Obama’s Demagoguery
The mayor of Las Vegas apparently doesn’t want to join George Bush, the Republican Party, auto manufacturers, Chrysler investors, banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, the US Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, the CIA, the US Supreme Court, etc. etc. etc. as straw men for his incessant demagoguery.
There was some excellent bipartisan Obama bashing for his demagoguery this time:
His statement Tuesday drew sharp criticism from Nevada lawmakers. “The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. “Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further,” added Republican Senator John Ensign. “Nevada has one of the most distressed economies in the country, and the President has done little to focus on job creation over the past year. Discouraging people from coming to our state to make a political point adds insult to injury,” said Republican Congressman Dean Heller.
Here’s what Mayor Goodman had to say:
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman had some harsh words for President Obama Tuesday. Here’s what he had to say hours after the President remarked that people who are trying to save money shouldn’t go to Vegas.
“I guess you’ve all seen the president’s remarks or read about the president’s remarks, well I’ve got some remarks of my own. I was back in Washington, D.C. about two weeks ago, going up and down the halls of the capitol telling people about our economy here, trying to get them to be sympathetic to what we’re trying to accomplish, then I have to read what President Obama said.
“He has a real psychological hang up about the entertainment capitol of the world. An apology won’t be acceptable this time, I don’t know where his vendetta comes from but we’re not going to let him make his bones by lambasting Las Vegas, that’s why (the press) is here today.
“He didn’t learn his lesson the first time, but when he hurt our economy by his ill conceived rhetoric, we didn’t think it would happen again, but now that it has I want to assure you, when he comes I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington and to visit his failures back there.
“I gotta tell you this, everybody says I shouldn’t say it, but I gotta tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner.”
The Mayor then took comments from reporters.
Stay with Action News and KTNV.com for more on this developing story.
I am seriously thinking about making the audio of that last part I have in bold my cell phone ring tone.
Don’t feel back about Hussein having hang ups about Vegas, Mayor; after all, the clown-in-chief has got hang ups about lots and lots of other things, too.
I actually have a suggestion for how Barry Hussein can resolve this: he can go to Las Vegas and bow down before Goodman like he just did to the mayor – yes, that’s right, the MAYOR – of Tampa, Florida:
Obama doesn’t seem to mind bowing down before his betters. That’s three (or is it four by now?) down, and about 6,692,030,27 to go.
An apology for repeatedly trying to screw Las Vegas might not be acceptable, but an act of weak, appeasing presidential grovelling might do.
No harm in trying, Barry.
Way to go for standing up for your city, Mayor Goodman. Your other response would have been to apologize for Las Vegas the way Obama has repeatedly apologized for America.
Tags:a real psychological hang up, apology, bow, Florida, give him the boot back to Washington, He didn't learn his lesson, Las Vegas, mayor, Oscar Goodman, president's remarks, Tampa, This president is a real slow learner, visit his failures back there
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Giant Hyopcrisy Of Left Revealed Through Grayson ‘Die Quickly’ Remarks
In England, Parliament often takes on the form of professional wrestling, with members loudly decrying one another with nothing sans public opinion to monitor what they say or how they say it.
But in America, we’re assured, we have a greater sense of political decorum.
That “decorum” was “shockingly” violated when Rep. Joe Wilson blurted out, “You lie!” during a speech that President Obama called Congress into session to make. It didn’t matter that Joe Wilson was actually RIGHT when he said Obama was lying. As the Washington Examiner pointed out, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office declared:
“Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.”
No, it was beside the point that Joe Wilson was right and Obama really WAS lying. What mattered was that decorum had been violated.
And then there was somthing else that Nancy Pelosi made – inspired by the “hateful remark” made by Joe Wilson – that further ratcheted up the debate:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw … I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco,” Pelosi said, choking up and with tears forming in her eyes. “This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate in which we, violence took place and … I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made.”
(Youtube here).
Nancy Pelosi, as I point out here, cried her alligator tears to demonize Wilson and by extension Republicans, all the while pointing out invented facts. Among other things, the violence that she alluded to was committed by a career DEMOCRAT, and it didn’t have anything to do with “rhetoric.” Rather, Harvey Milk and George Moscone were murdered by a San Francisco District 8 Democrat official named Dan White because Milk and Moscone had refused to reappoint him.
So Nancy Pelosi came out and lied about and then demagogued a historical event as a ploy to demonize Republicans and anything they might say in opposition to the liberal agenda. It was a vile thing for her to do.
The fact of the matter was that Joe Wilson was wrong in his outburst, and he apologized both personally and in a letter.
Didn’t matter. Nancy Pelosi’s House censured him anyway, taking a day of the people’s time to do it. “Decorum,” remember.
So with all that as backdrop, let’s proceed to the latest bit of “This kind of rhetoric” that “is just, is really frightening” and which could easily create “a climate in which … violence” could take place.
Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat-Florida, came to the same House floor that Joe Wilson had sat on, and said:
“It’s my duty and pride tonight to be able to announce exactly what the Republicans plan to do for health care in America… It’s a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican health care plan for America: ‘don’t get sick.’ If you have insurance don’t get sick, if you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick; if you’re sick, don’t get sick. Just don’t get sick. … If you do get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: ‘die quickly.'”
It was utterly outrageous. For two reasons. Number one, the Republicans – who have submitted more than three dozen health care reform bills and who actually held them over their head and waved them during the Obama speech – currently have a major bill to reform health bill available to any who would just look at it. It is just a lie that amounts to rank demagoguery to claim that Republicans don’t have a plan beyond, “don’t get sick” and “die quickly.” Number two, the polls are crystal clear: senior citizens – who presumably would not want to rely on a plan to “not get sick” and then to “die quickly” – are opposed to the Democrats’ plan by a nearly 2-1 margin. From Rasmussen:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% are opposed to the plan.
Senior citizens are less supportive of the plan than younger voters. In the latest survey, just 33% of seniors favor the plan while 59% are opposed. The intensity gap among seniors is significant. Only 16% of the over-65 crowd Strongly Favors the legislation while 46% are Strongly Opposed.
So according to Alan Grayson, not only Republicans, but nearly two out of every three seniors who basically support the Republican position on health care, want seniors to die. Grayson’s remark was both insane and immoral.
Republicans called upon Alan Grayson to do what Joe Wilson had done (RIGHT AWAY) and apologize for his statement. Here’s what they got:
Republicans got an apology of sorts from Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson Wednesday – it just wasn’t the one they wanted.
Instead of saying he was sorry about accusing Republicans of wanting people to “die quickly,” he gave an apology “to the dead.”
“I would like to apologize,” he said. “I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America.”
And thus a man representing the party that has murdered nearly 50 million human beings before they could even enjoy being born compares Republicans to Adolf Hitler and their actions to the murder of six million Jews.
That same article, for what it’s worth, also further points out what a patholigical liar Grayson is:
Grayson provided the contretemps of the day on Capitol Hill, and even one of his party’s leaders, Democratic Caucus Chairman John B. Larson of Connecticut, at one point publicly called on him to apologize for Tuesday night’s speech.
“I wouldn’t have used the words that Mr. Grayson has,” Larson said. “I would encourage Alan to apologize.”
Later, Grayson contested whether Larson really meant what he said.
“I spoke to him and he did not ask me to apologize,” Grayson offered.
He also claimed he hadn’t said “Republicans want you to die quickly” – until a reporter read his words back to him.
Not only did Grayson say “Republicans want you to die quickly”; he literally had the words written down on a giant card which he displayed on an easel as he spoke. That’s how much of a twisted lying weasel this guy is.
And do the Democrats – who as we now know so value decorum – call upon Alan Grayson to first apologize and then shut his lying mouth?
Did the Democrats – who literally shed alligator tears decrying the hateful rhetoric – demand that one of their own cease and desist from hateful rhetoric?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had this to say to defend the man who said that Republicans want seniors to die (with said Republicans supported by 59% of seniors) and that the Republicans had created a holocaust of people dying without health care:
“We have to have a debate that is not distracted from… Apparently Republicans are holding Democrats to a higher level than they are holding their own members,” she said, referring to floor comments by some Republicans who have said Democratic health care reforms would lead to higher deaths among seniors.
“There’s no more reason for Mr. Grayson to apologize… If anybody’s going to apologize everybody should apologize,” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference.
Well again, Nancy Pelosi, in defending Grayson, has to lie to do it. Republicans aren’t trying to hold Democrats to a “higher standard”:
Wilson’s conduct was denounced by Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Senator John McCain of Arizona, Obama’s Republican opponent in the 2008 presidential race, called Wilson’s outburst “totally disrespectful.”
“He should apologize,” McCain said in an interview on CNN.
Many other Republicans called for Wilson to apologize, including his Republican House leadership. And Joe Wilson DID apologize.
“I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health-care bill,” Wilson said in a statement. “While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable.”
So it’s a lie that Republicans are trying to hold Democrats to a “higher standard.” Rather, they are trying to hold Democrats to the VERY SAME standard Republicans had held for themselves, and in fact the VERY SAME STANDARD THAT DEMOCRATS HAD JUST HELD REPUBLICANS TO.
Note to Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat minions: please don’t get so damn hoity toity with your self righteous outrage when it suits you, only to show what blatant hypocrites you are the very next moment when it suits you. Your hypocrisy shines through like brilliant glittering diamonds.
As vile, hateful, and dishonest as Alan Grayson’s remarks have been, that isn’t where the real outrage is. No, the real outrage is the complete dishonesty and the rabid demagoguery of the Democrat leadership – especially as epitomized in Nancy Pelosi.
When a party demands that one party be held accountable to violations to “decorum,” and then cynically violates that very same decorum with far more loathsome and dishonest outbursts, it is past time to remove that party from power.
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Democrats Censure Joe Wilson In Spite of Own Lies And Hypocrisy
I – like most Republicans – understand that Rep. Joe Wilson exercised something less than great judgment in his outburst during the Obama speech to the Congress. But for some reason I just can’t muster up the outrage that Democrats bitterly cling to.
Barack Obama himself actually started the “You lie!” war in his speech:
Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
To which I can only blurt out, “You lie!”
When Obama appoints Ezekiel Emanuel as his health policy adviser who is on the record saying just this year:
The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”
Treating 65-year olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”
And when Obama appoints a regulatory czar like Cass Sunstein who is on record saying:
“I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”
Other things being equal, a program that protects young people seems far better than one that protects old people, because it delivers greater benefits.”
Well, I think that Republicans are more than justified in pointing out that the president who calls them liars is actually the one who is the liar.
That, and the fact that it is now a matter of fact that when Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” as Obama said that illegal immigrants would not be covered, it was Joe Wilson who was telling the truth. The Democrats have SINCE began to deal with that reality.
But in any event, the Democrats today decided they would make a public spectacle out of demagoguing a man who had twice apologized for not apologizing.
Nancy Pelosi initially said she would move on after Wilson publicly apologized for his emotional outburst. And Barack Obama – the allegedly offended party – accepted the apology.
Or did he?
Did the president decide to bury the hatchet in Joe Wilson’s head? Because somebody’s hatchet men suddenly went on the warpath on Joe Wilson. It’s kind of nice to put on the face of the One who is loftily above partisanship while your thugs go out on the attack. For example:
Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst last week drew new recriminations from his colleagues Tuesday, with a member of the Congressional Black Caucus suggesting that a failure to rebuke the South Carolina Republican would be tantamount to supporting the most blatant form of organized racism in American history.
Making an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that people will be putting on “white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside” if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked. He said Wilson must be disciplined as an example.
Given Hank Johnson’s racist statement, it is rather ironic that the Ku Klux Klan was created by Democrats to thwart the rise of the Party of Lincoln in the South. And that the Democratic National Convention of 1924 was so dominated by the Klan that it went down in infamy as “the Klanbake.”
And that just dovetailed right along with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who could have sworn she heard Joe Wilson use a polite euphamism for “nigger” in Joe Wilson’s remark:
But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
Well, sure it’s fair, Maureen. Everyone knows that liberal journalists are allowed to make up facts and assign the harshest possible motives to their stories. It’s called propaganda. And mainstream journalists embrace it like lovers for their ideology and their party.
For liberals like Hank Johnson and Maureen Dowd, facts don’t matter. Their souls swim in a sea of lies.
Democrats couldn’t help but assign racist motives to a statement that had nothing to do with race. Because that is just the kind of vile, racist, brain-diseased cockroaches that they are.
The House voted that it was a breech of decorum for Wilson to shout, “You lie!” And it was.
But this, apparently, was NOT a breech of decorum for the most partisan and most nakedly ideological Party and politicians in American history:
Some transcribed highlights from Democrat Rep. Pete Stark’s remarks on the House floor toward President George W. Bush:
The Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where you going to get that money. You gonna tell us lies like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war. You don’t have enough money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement…
…But the President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress.
Apparently, any reasonable person is supposed to be able to understand why the two words spoken by Joe Wilson were horrendous, but the ugly and hateful accusations that accompanied the charge of lying were not.
Democrat Barbara Lee is quoted from the House floor as saying:
“I have been appalled by the growing evidence that the President may have lied about the reasons for invading and conquering Iraq.”
And let us not forget Democrats by the dozens booing and shouting “NO!” at George Bush during his 2005 State of the Union address must not have been a breech of decorum either.
Democrats rudely interrupted President Bush to jeer and applaud their own obstruction of crucial legislation to try to fix Social Security:
And the Gateway Pundit shows that one of the jeering Democrats was one Barack Hussein Obama.
So you’re just going to have to pardon me for not thinking, “My gosh, these Republicans are just so awful! Good thing the Democrats are the party of wonderfulness. No Democrat would ever do anything nasty like that! They need to hold that awful Republican responsible!”
Because I have a brain – and the thing actually works.
That separates me from congressional Democrats.
President Obama himself suggested that a formal rebuke of Mr. Wilson would be a distraction from the larger debate. “I mean, it just becomes a big circus instead of focusing on health care,” Mr. Obama said.
So let’s just realize that even President Obama is pointing out that Congress has important business to attend to, but that DEMOCRATS are refusing to do their duty in favor of the demagoguery and partisanship of the “big circus.”
James Clyburn, who has been the lead rabble-rouser in the witch hunt, had this to say:
“This is not a partisan stunt,” said Clyburn, whose district in South Carolina adjoins Wilson’s. “I do not participate in partisan stunts, and I think every member here knows that. This is about the proper decorum that should take place on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.”
But every member probably knows that Clyburn was in fact such a player in “partisan stunts” that he once said that good news in Iraq amounted to a problem for Democrats. If every member of Congress doesn’t realize that hoping for your own side to lose a war for the sake of partisan political advantage is anything less than the most gross and contemptible sort of partisan stunt, then this country is surely doomed.
Not to mention the fact that James Clyburn – who is clearly so interested in “proper decorum” now – didn’t give a fig about it when it was Democrats who were repeatedly violating that decorum.
Democrats have the power to force through whatever resolution they want.
But anyone who thinks that it’s anything other than a partisan distraction and witch hunt by a nasty group of Democrat politicians is a fool.
For what it’s worth, if I were a Republican, I would be inclined to vote to censure Joe Wilson for his out-of-bounds comment. But I would only do so if every episode of the Democrats’ vile conduct over the last eight years were read into the record so we can appreciate just who these self-righteous hypocrite accusers truly are.
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Obama’s Democrats: The Party Of Van Jones
Van Jones is an acknowledged radical black nationalist. He is an admitted communist. He is on the record as an anti-white racist. He is an ANTI-bipartisan radical figure. And so is Barack Obama and the Democrat Party as long as he is allowed by them to remain in his position as “green jobs czar”
He was arrested for rioting following the Rodney King verdict.
He is a communist:
[Van] Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”
He tried to purge the evidence as his radicalism and communism began to become public knowledge, but the record survives.
Van Jones wrote in his manifesto:
“We agreed with Lenin’s analysis of the state and the party,” reads the manifesto. “And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar Cabral.” […]
“We also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.”
The night after the horrible 9/11 attack against the United States – during which time the United States suffered more casualties from a foreign enemy than at any time since the War of 1812 – Van Jones took the side of the terrorists against America. Are we the good guy? Not according to Van Jones and those who share his ideology:
Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. That group, together with Jones’ Elle Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park in Oakland, Calif.
STORM’s official manifesto, titled, “Reclaiming Revolution,” surfaced on the Internet.
A WND review of the 97-page treatise found a description of a vigil that Jones’ group held Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park in Oakland, Calif. The event drew hundreds and articulated an “anti-imperialist” line, according to STORM’s own description.
The radical group’s manual boasted the 9/11 vigil was held to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and to mourn the civilians killed in the terrorist attacks “as well as the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.”
Van Jones took part in the convicted cop murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. Go here for more on that vile relationship and it’s vile fruit.
Van Jones signed the 9/11 “Truther” document that demanded the Bush Administration prove it did not engage in a high-level conspiracy to attack the World Trade Center on 9/11 and blame Muslims for it. In the petition that Van Jones signed, he demanded an “immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.” Now he doesn’t deny signing the statement; he just says he doesn’t agree with it. As Hot Air puts it:
That’s the second apology he’s made in two days; at this rate, it’d be faster and easier to issue a statement retracting everything he ever said in his life prior to being hired by Obama.
The other apology refers to publication of statements denoting his militant brand of political partisanship that guarantees that Republicans and Democrats will continue to be at the most bitter warfare until the Obama Administration is an unpleasant memory. In a question regarding Republicans, Van Jones offered this:
Berkely, Calif., Feb. 26, 2009: Jones took audience questions in Berkeley, Calif., during a lecture on energy issues.
Van Jones: “Well, the answer to that is: they’re assholes.”
Female questioner: I was afraid that that was the answer.
Van Jones: That’s a technical, political science term. And — Barack O — Barack Obama’s not an asshole. So — now, I will say this: I can be an asshole. And some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done]. How’s that capitalism working for ya?
In addition to calling Republicans to be “a@@holes,” he essentially called for Democrats to be even more militant and radical than they already are.
That in addition to his Marxist hatred for the capitalism that made this country great.
If all that isn’t bad enough, Van Jones is a also a radical racist who will use his position to punish whites for deliberately poisoning people of color.
Van Jones: “The environmental justice community that said, ‘Hey, wait a minute, you know, you’re regulating, but you’re not regulating equally.’ And the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”
How does he plan to do that? By fundamentally transforming the system.
Uprising Radio, April 2008
Van Jones; “Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said, ‘OK now we want reparations for slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages.’ If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. ‘We just want to integrate these buses.’
“But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country. And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the crisis is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary. So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.”
We are talking about a radical communist who has been empowered for the purpose of “transforming the whole society” by Barack Obama.
Van Jones said at the Powershift Conference in MARCH 2009:
“This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don’t stop there! Don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing! […] And our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn’t want, where it was all hot and windy. Well, guess what? Renewable energy? Guess what, solar industry? Guess what wind industry? They now own and control 80 percent of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth! Give them the dignity. Give them the respect that they deserve. No justice on stolen land. We owe them a debt.
If you are white, you are blight.
Let me tell you something; if you are a white Democrat, I hope you lose your job. I hope it is “redistributed” to a person of color, and your children (who, being part of the oppressive white race deserve to starve) go hungry.
Obama talked about “hope” and “change.” You want to know what I hope? I hope that white Democrats finally get to bear the brunt of the policies that their party has been pushing. I hope the change is that they will get to experience what “redistribution” is really all about.
That’s what they call “poetic justice.” It’s time to eat the crap you shoveled for everyone else, white Democrats. And you’d better smile while you swallow it, or you’ll be labeled a “racist” along with everyone else who has opposed the radical and racist Marxist liberal agenda.
Is all that behind Van Jones like he said in his “apology” that amounts to one of those “If anything I said offended anybody, I’m sorry that you are an oppressive white devil”? I mean, some of the things he said occurred all the way back to March of 2009.
As you listen to Van Jones’ denials and the White House’s whitewashing, consider Van Jones said this:
“I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
He said that statement in the same breath in which he claimed that we have “eco-apartheid.” His intent being to use his position to redistribute wealth and punish white people and help people of color.
But his main point is this: I’ll tone down my radical rhetoric so I can better attain my radical objectives. So whatever he says to distance himself from his previous history is just a ruse to masquerade his past so he can continue pursuing his radical, anti-white, anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist, pro-Islamicist ends.
Just like one Barack Hussein Obama, who spent 23 years in a Marxist “black liberation” church that preached anti-white racist hatred and anti-Americanism. As I pointed out back in March of last year:
Liberation theology was developed in the early 1970s to pave the way for the communist Sandinistas to infiltrate – and subsequently dominate – Nicaraguan society. The Sandinistas understood full well that they had no hope of installing a Marxist regime in a country that was well over 90% Roman Catholic unless they could successfully subsume Catholicism into their cause of Marxism. And the wedding of Marxism with Christianity was brought about in a clear effort of the former to crush the latter.
And all “black liberation theology” does is repackage that same brand of Marxism for blacks.
Barack Obama’s preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, screamed:
“No, no, no! Not God bless America! God damn America!”
while Obama’s fellow congregants leaped to their feat and cheered.
Obama was forced to leave the church after it became politically untenable for him to remain. But the history of Obama’s long membership and association with Trinity Church and with Jeremiah Wright cannot just be swept under the rug with a politically motivated speech. He left that racist anti-American cesspool 23 years too late to matter.
Barack Obama pirated a speech from his friend Deval Patrick titled, “Just Words.” I had a few things to say about a few other things that were “just words”:
When Barack Obama’s pastor for some 23 years said:
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.”
Just words.
When Jeremiah Wright said:
“The government gives them [African Americans] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
When Wright said of the United States:
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he said. “Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
When the Rev. Wright said:
“America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. … We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. … We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi. … We put (Nelson) Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
Yep. Just words.
When Wright shouted out to his cheering congregation:
“We started the AIDS virus. … We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”
“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
And, of course, when Wright said:
“We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. … We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means. …”
Those were just words.
This past weekend, when Father Michael Pfleger – a longtime friend and spiritual mentor of Barack Obama, said from the pulpit of Obama’s church:
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘this is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white, and this is mine. I just gotta get up and step into the plate.’
Then out of nowhere, ‘I’m Barack Obama!’
Imitating Hillary’s response, screaming at the top of his lungs again, he continues, ‘Ah, damn! Where did you come from? I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’
(mocks crying)
She wasn’t the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying!
When Father Pfleger said in the pulpit of Obama’s church:
“Honestly now, to address the one who says, ‘Don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did … and unless you are ready to give up the benefits, throw away your 401 fund, throw away your trust fund, throw away all the monies you put away into the company you walked into because your daddy and grand daddy. …”
Shouting, Pfleger continued, “Unless you are willing to give up the benefits then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation, because you are the beneficiaries of this insurance policy.”
Just words (well, unless you mind having everything you own taken away from you and given to someone else to make up for “historic injustices”).
And when Obama’s good friend Father Pfleger said:
“Racism is still America’s greatest addiction. I also believe that America is also the greatest sin against God.”
Now, when Barack Obama opined to a wine-sipping, cheese nibbling crowd in San Franscisco:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Van Jones’ views aren’t an anomaly. They accurately reflect Barack Obama’s own views, and what Van Jones intends to do is what Barack Obama intends to do.
Van Jones is the face of the Democratic Party. Pure and simple. Otherwise, you explain to me why Barack Obama picked him. You explain to me why Barack Obama has kept him at his side as all of these facts about him came out.
John F. Kennedy is dead, and has been for more than 45 years. The Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy used to be a party that believed in a powerful military that Democrats today mock and attack; it used to be a party that staunchly and steadfastly opposed the very Marxist/communist agenda that Democrats today are now openly embracing; it used to be a party that believed in low taxes as the foundation for economic growth (and see him on video).
John F. Kennedy is rolling in his grave as his former party becomes the very sort of abomination that he fought to oppose under the leadership of Barack Hussein Obama and the vile characters that he has chosen to surround himself with to implement his incredibly radical agenda. John F. Kennedy and Barack H. Obama are anathema to one another.
Please read Thomas Sowell’s article, “Stop and Think.”
It is long past time that “Kennedy Democrats” (and I mean JOHN, NOT TED) to wake up and turn on the Obama administration before it is too late.
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St. Paul Parish Council
St. Paul Parish has a standing Council consisting of twelve (12) members of the parish community. The Parish Council consists of six (6) elected members and six (6) members of the parish community appointed by the Pastor.
The Parish Council’s charter is to assist the Pastor in the administration and development of the spiritual and material matters of the parish. In support of this overarching charter the Parish Council assesses the pastoral needs of the parish community; encourages a more prominent lay involvement in the parish community; fosters communication between the pastor and the laity by providing an open forum for dialogue. The Parish Council members’ efforts are focused in standing committees. These committees are: Prayer and Worship; Christian Formation; Human Concerns and Social Justice; and Building and Grounds. Parish Council holds regular monthly meetings and Committee meetings are held as needed to further the efforts of those committees.
The Parish Council maintains by-laws for to establish objectives and boundaries for the effective assistance to the Pastor. The by-laws also assist in the orderly transition for new Pastors. The current Parish Council By-Laws follow and were approved by the Parish Council on January 22, 2019.
Current St. Paul Parish Council Members
John Taglianetti (Chair) jntag1949@gmail.com 860-447-9439
Kevin McKinzie desnr21@snet.net 860-941-7319
Joan Dreger sugarkaye@aol.com 860-442-4902
Ethel Reed edr728@aol.com 860-442-2034
Kathy Brunelle kjbrunelle@sbcglobal.net
Andrea Kanfer afkanfer@gmail.com 860-444-7734
Derek Pirruccello derek_pirruccello@ml.com 860-447-7437
Peter Crump kcrump01@snet.net 860-326-8914
Michael Powell 0802powell@gmail.com 860-444-7560
Bob Price rgp761@gmail.com
JoHanna Polcaro (Administrative Assistant), stpaulwtfd@yahoo.com, 860-443-5587
Roseann Ward (Director of Faith Formation), drestpaulwtfd@yahoo.com, 860-443-5587
Heather-Jo Purcell (Trustee) hjpurcell33@gmail.com
Alan Roessler (Trustee) alanroessler62@gmail.com
St. Paul Parish Council Meeting Minutes
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November 28, 2018 (Joint Pastoral Council Meeting)
St. Paul Parish Council By-Laws
The name of this body shall be the St. Paul Pastoral Council of Waterford, Connecticut, hereinafter referred to as the “Council”.
Article II: Purpose and Function
To advise and assist the Pastor in the administration and development of the spiritual and material matters of the parish;
To assess the pastoral needs of the parish community;
To encourage a more prominent lay involvement in the life of the parish community;
To establish and support Council Committees consisting of Prayer and Worship, Christian Formation, Human Concerns and Social Justice, and Parish Physical Property;
To foster communication between the pastor and the laity by providing an open forum for dialogue for members of the parish.
The Council shall consist of six elected members and six appointed members from the parish community at large, defined as those, 16 years of age or older, confirmed, who are registered with, or are members of families registered with the parish and who attend Mass regularly; and also all ex officio members.
Elected Members: Who meet the above criteria for membership shall be selected from the parish at large via nomination by the Pastor or Council. Council members will seek out and nominate candidates who possess spiritual gifts, interpersonal skills, special talents, and experience which will make then valuable contributing members of the Council. Due consideration shall be given to the diversity of the parish community in the nomination process. Members of the Parish who wish to serve on the Council should notify the Pastor. Candidates receiving the most votes shall be declared elected in December. Commissioning of Council members will be held in January.
Appointed Members: Shall be appointed by the Pastor.
Ex-Officio Members: Shall consist of the Pastor, the Parish Deacon, the two lay Trustees, and the Parish Administrative Assistant and Director of Religious Education.
Terms of Office: Shall be three (3) years. It is considered best that no Council member serve more than two consecutive terms. Other parishioners should be encouraged to serve on the Council. However, if no new candidates are available at the end of a Council members second term, that current Council member may serve longer than two terms if he or she wishes and at the discretion of the Council. When a qualified candidate becomes available, changes in the Council membership will be made at the discretion of the Council. Discretion of the Council in these matters shall be confirmed by a majority vote. Terms shall be staggered to ensure continuity and will begin in January and end in December.
Attendance: Any member who is absent for two meetings during the year, without previously notifying the Chairperson, may be removed from the Council by a majority vote of the Council declaring a vacancy.
Vacancies: To fill a vacancy on the Council, the existing members shall elect a qualified parishioner or the pastor will appoint a parishioner to complete the unexpired term. Council should be mindful of the balance between elected and appointed members. If the replacement serves more than 50% of the term, eligibility will be considered as if full term was served. Resigning from the parish constitutes an automatic resignation from the Council.
Article IV: Officers
Positions: The officers of the Council shall consist of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Secretary.
Elections: Election of officers shall be held at the first regular meeting of the year and shall serve until their successors are elected. They shall take office at the next regular Council meeting. In the event of a vacancy for any reason, a new officer will be elected at the next regular meeting.
Duties: Of officers are as follows:
Chairperson: Preside at all meetings and coordinate all Council committee activities. Prepare an agenda, in conjunction with the pastor, for each meeting. Perform all other duties associated with this office.
Vice-Chairperson: Perform the duties of the Chairperson in his or her absence and assist the Chairperson in the routine functions of the Council.
Secretary: Record minutes of all regular and special meetings. Maintain Council records. Perform all other duties associated with this office. Upon approval by the Council, meeting minutes shall be posted on the St. Paul website or other social media to ensure open communications with all parishioners.
Executive Board: Shall consist of the elected Council officers and the Pastor. The Executive Board is empowered to act in lieu of the full Council on any matter when either time or circumstances, as determined by the Council Chairperson and the Pastor, dictate that the issue at hand cannot await a regularly scheduled or special meeting of the Council.
Article V: Meetings:
Meetings will be held on an as needed and agreed upon basis provided that at least five (5) meetings per year are held. Ample notification of at least five (5) days must be given for special, emergency or unscheduled meetings.
A simple majority of the Council shall constitute a quorum at any meeting.
The basic Roberts Rules of Order shall be observed with decisions by consensus to be allowed and encouraged.
All registered parishioners may attend any regular meeting provided they notify the chairperson in advance. Parishioners may participate in the meeting if added to the agenda by the Chairperson in advance of the meeting or at the discretion of the Chairperson at the meeting. Dates of upcoming meetings will be published in the bulletin and on the Parish Website.
Article VI: Committees:
The following committees may be established to aid the Council:
Prayer and Worship: Assist the Pastor in coordinating the following ministries: Altar Servers; Music; Extra-Ordinary Ministers of the Holy Eucharist including Ministers to Bayview and the homebound; Lectors; Hospitality; Wedding Coordinator; Liturgical Environment which includes setting up for Mass and laundering of altar linens; Ushers/Greeters; Bereavement and Children’s Liturgy.
Christian Formation: Assist the Pastor in Sacramental Preparation; Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and Children; Youth Ministry; and Religious Education of Children and Adults.
Human Concerns and Social Justice: Assist the Pastor in promoting parish-wide concerns for Social Justice, assisting established Shelters, Soup Kitchens, Pro-Life Groups and Special Needs.
Building and Grounds: Assist the Pastor in maintaining all of the physical parish property and grounds including the gardening.
Committee Membership: Each committee shall be led by a Chairperson who must be a member of the Council. Additional membership on any committee shall be open to all eligible parishioners as defined in Article III.
Other Committees: The above listed committees in Section A are not exclusive. Other committees may be established as necessary to better meet the needs of the parish.
Finance Committee: Pursuant to the Code of Canon Law, the finances of the parish are the responsibility of a separate Finance Committee appointed by the Pastor. The Chairperson or an assigned member of the Council shall serve as the liaison to the Parish Finance Committee and periodically report to the Council regarding the financial condition of the parish.
Article VII: Amending of By-Laws
These by-laws may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the total Council membership, provided at least ten days notice is given to all members. Council members unable to attend a meeting at which amendments are to be ratified may vote by absentee ballot, provided said ballot is received by the time of the meeting.
THESE BY-LAWS WERE AMENDED AT A PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2019 BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TOTAL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP.
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Reggae Legend Buju Banton Launches The Buju Banton Foundation To Aide at Risk Youths In Jamaica
By Singersroom|2019-01-14T23:17:57-04:00January 14th, 2019|Categories: Island, Island News|Tags: buju banton|0 Comments
With a dedicated vision and mission to give light to youth living in poverty, Grammy Award-winning Reggae legend Buju Banton has launched The Buju Banton Foundation. "Born in abject poverty I know what it is for a child to go without basic necessities. I also know what it is to be a youth with big dreams and lots of determination," [More]
Shaggy Tells His Lady to “Use Me”
By Singersroom|2018-11-26T09:05:20-04:00November 26th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Music|Tags: Shaggy|0 Comments
@DiRealShaggy
Spice Tackles Colorism By Black Women With “Black Hypocrisy”
By Singersroom|2018-11-19T10:03:00-04:00November 19th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video|Tags: Spice|0 Comments
We're a little late with the posting of this music video, but what's very on time is the message in the clip. In the clip for her single "Black Hypocrisy," Jamaican dancehall recording artist and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star Spice brings awareness to the divide when it comes to black women and skin color. Taking notes from Civil [More]
Afrobeat Artist Nedessy Drops New Music Video ‘Bazooka’
By Singersroom|2018-11-10T09:54:47-04:00November 10th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video|Tags: Nedessy|0 Comments
Female Afrobeat artist Nedessy drops of the music video for her new single, "Bazooka," a song that sees her spilling braggadocios lyrics about her body parts. "He trying to be my baby Daddy / Telling me I make him happy," Nedessy voices in the visual as she reminds suitors that she got that good good. As Afrobeats continues to gain [More]
Jah Cure & DJ Frass – Rotten Souls
By Singersroom|2018-10-11T15:39:24-04:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video|Tags: Jah Cure|0 Comments
Reggae star Jah Cure teams with DJ Frass Records for the silky and inspirational single, "Rotten Souls." The accompanying music video features an African ballet-styled dancer as Jah Cure delivers the thought-provoking lyrics, bringing more life and meaning to his words. Hopefully, his words will touch a few bad souls and show them that there's light at the end of the tunnel. [More]
Pleasure P – Bust A Whine Ft. Amara La Negra
By Singersroom|2018-09-26T14:36:53-04:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Music|Tags: Amara La Negra, pleasure p|0 Comments
Former Pretty Ricky member Pleasure P continues his solo career by enlisting fellow "Love & Hip Hop Miami" cast-member/artist Amara La Negra for the uptempo island collab, "Bust A Whine." Just as the pop-leaning, dancehall groove's title suggests, the song will make you want to bust a slow whine wherever you are. "Bust a whine, all on the speaker / gimme [More]
[PREMIERE] Che’Nelle – Love You Like Me (Remix) Ft. Konshens
By Singersroom|2018-09-12T13:09:04-04:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video|Tags: Che'Nelle, featured|0 Comments
International recording artist Che'Nelle premieres the fun lyric visual for the exciting track, "Love You Like Me (Remix)," featuring Konshens, today (Sept. 12) on Singersroom. On the genre-crossing offering, the sexy songstress delivers intoxicating and empowering vocals about love, insisting, "You traveled the world looking for looking for love / But ain't nothing out there that you deserve / Tell [More]
E-40 Tears the Club Up With Ty Dolla $ign & Konshens in ‘One Night’ Video
By Singersroom|2018-09-11T13:32:44-04:00September 11th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video, Rap Videos, Rappersroom|Tags: E-40, Konshens, Ty Dolla Sign|0 Comments
Enjoying unprecedented success in his fourth decade of rap stardom, E-40 shares the Caribbean-inflected video for "One Night," featuring Konshens and Ty Dolla $ign. Riding bouncy, square wave synths over stuttering drums, 40 delivers an addictive club jam with the new single. Setting the scene for his night out, he spits ferocious bars with dancehall singer Konshens unloading an infectious hook and Ty [More]
Estelle Releases ‘Lovers Rock’ Video and Album (Stream)
By Singersroom|2018-09-11T12:44:32-04:00September 11th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island News, News, R&B News|Tags: Estelle|0 Comments
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Estelle has released her fifth studio album, Lover's Rock. The project features 14 tracks and tells the tale of her parents’ love story through the lens of a reggae vantage point, highlighting her Jamaican roots. According to a press release, "Lover’s Rock is a timeline of her parent’s love as it begins with the exhilarating feeling of [More]
NayStar – Pull Up
By Singersroom|2018-09-19T16:22:44-04:00September 7th, 2018|Categories: Island, Island Video|Tags: NayStar|0 Comments
NayStar gives ode to her island roots on her new single and video "Pull Up," a reggae-laden song produced by Devon Powell. Born in Queens, New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, NayStar is also half Trinidadian and "Pull Up" celebrates that side of her cultural heritage. The video finds the songstress showing off her dancehall moves in the club, [More]
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Congratulations to ISRO for successful launch of PSLV-C37
PSLV-C37 / Cartosat -2 Series Satellite
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty ninth flight (PSLV-C37), launched the 714 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation and 103 co-passenger satellites together weighing about 664 kg at lift-off into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). PSLV-C37 launched from the First Launch Pad (FLP) of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. It is the sixteenth flight of PSLV in ‘XL’ configuration (with the use of solid strap-on motors).
The co-passenger satellites comprise 101 nano satellites, one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 96 from United States of America (USA), as well as two Nano satellites from India. The total weight of all the satellites carried onboard PSLV-C37 is about 1378 kg.
PSLV-C37 also carries two ISRO Nano satellites (INS-1A and INS-1B), as co-passenger satellites. These two satellites carry a total of four different payloads from Space Applications Centre (SAC) and Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems (LEOS) of ISRO for conducting various experiments.
The 101 International customer Nano satellites are launched as part of the commercial arrangements between Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), a Government of India company under Department of Space (DOS), the commercial arm of ISRO and the International customers.
Source :http://www.isro.gov.in/launcher/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite
ANVESHANA 2017 -National Level Student’s Techno Cultural Fest
SASI Institute of Technology and Engineering is organizing the National Level Student’s Techno Cultural Fest “ANVESHANA 2017” on3rd and 4th March’ 2017
Programme Objective
Human growth depends upon sharing of knowledge. It is our endeavour to rededicate ourselves to provide a
healthy platform for the students to interact and exchange their ideas on recent technical advancements and to exhibit their hidden talents.
Students pursuing B.Tech. & B.E. are eligible
Registration fee Rs.100/- per Student
Free lodging and boarding facilities will be provided on prior request to out-station participants in the college campus on production of identity proof. Free conveyance will be arranged from Railway Station and Bus Stand
Technical Events:
Technical Paper Presentation
Start up Ideas
MBA Events::
Young Manager
B-Quiz
B-Plan
Cultural & Sports:
Short film Competetion
Singing & Group Dance
Caroms
Participants may register their names by mailing a soft copy of full paper for Paper presentation or scanned copy of Registration Form to anveshana@sasi.ac.in
Last Date for Submission: 25th Feb 2017
Date of Selection : 28th Feb 2017
Chief Patrons
Convenor
Sri B. Venu Gopala Krishna, Chairman Dr. K Bhanu Prasad,
Principal Prof N. Venkatrao,
Dean Academics Prof. N V G Prasad,
HOD, ECE
Sri B. Ravi Kumar,
Vice Chairman Sri Ch. Seshu Babu,
Academic Director Prof. M. Venkateswara Rao
Dean DMS & Corporate Relations
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Tanya Tynjälä (Peru) is a science fiction and fantasy writer based in Finland, specialised in children and young adults. She has a Master Degree in French as a foreign language. Beside children books, Tanya has published the flash fiction book SUM (2012) and (Ir)Realidades (2017). Her story “El Ritual” (Rituaali) was included in the book Suomalaisia Saunanovelleja (2017, Aviador). She also writes a travel blog: Piedra que corre sí que coge moho and is editor in chief of the Spanish language for Amazing Stories Magazine. Sivuvalo is very honored to publish “Law Zero” and “Like Unicorns” translated by Marlon James Sales. “Dont switch off the light” was translated by Tommi Tynjälä
Law Zero
Receiving the Nobel Prize only made his schizophrenia worse. That same evening, he confessed to Ajeeb (the only one capable of listening to him without any prejudice) that life was causing him so much pain. He broke into sobs like a young boy. Ajeeb did not embrace him, since he thought that his metal body would only bring more chill to the already frightened Genius. The autopsy read, “Death by overdose of bio-modified benzodiazepine.” Ajeeb took care of administering it to him every night. It was the only substance that could relieve the chronic insomnia that rattled the Genius. When the authorities interrogated him, Ajeeb stared at them blankly. He then responded with a calm and monotonous voice that so characterized him: “They shoot the horses. Don’t they?”
DON’T SWITCH OFF THE LIGHT
Little Pedro simply asks for the light not to be switched off when he goes to bed, he refuses to give any explanation. His parents have tried everything, entrusting him with the guardian angel, making fun of him telling he is already a big boy, threatening, psychotherapy. Nothing works. The psychologist does not believe in a trauma. Apart from this detail, Pedro seems very calm and happy. The psychologist advises the worried parents to wait; surely it will pass when he gets older. Little Pedro only sighs and asks for the light not to be switched off without telling why. His parents would not understand. He is not afraid of anything. It is that stupid hairy monster who hides under the bed that is afraid of darkness. If they turn off the lights, it gets with one jump under the blanket of poor Pedro. And who wants to sleep with a trembling and weeping monster?
LIKE UNICORNS The girl shyly peeked through a hole in the fragile ice, just enough to see the immense creature that there stood. ¿Did she create it herself? The creature was accompanied by two smaller ones. “They must be her babies,” the girl thought. The creature was waiting patiently for something to happen, something the girl did not seem to understand. Its babies were skipping about and playing as they tried to push and bite one another. The girl smiled. All of a sudden, one of the babies lifted its head and looked directly at the place where she was hiding. She got frightened. She wanted to escape. But there was something stronger than fear that made her stand still and hold her breath. It was curiosity. The little one came near her, its curiosity about her also piqued. Would it get frightened? Once it reached the place where she was hiding, it drew its snout closer (she imagined it to be very cold) and sniffed her. The girl saw its little black eyes and its fur that was as white as the snow around them. She realized that she had never seen something as beautiful. She tried to touch it. The creature let out a roar that sent shivers down her spine. It went away and trotted towards its mother. The girl ran as fast as her short legs could take her. Upon reaching the hatch of her shelter, she hurriedly placed the palm of one of her gloved hands onto it. The hatch recognized her and let her in. She did not even bother to stay in the disinfection chamber. The computer flashed a warning. She could not afford to wait. She needed to tell it to everyone. She found her family eating the evening meal. They turned around and looked at her. She did not even remove her diving suit. “I saw a polar bear! I saw a polar bear!” She shouted enthusiastically. Her mother wanted to reprimand her for entering the house with the suit still on. It must be full of God knows what radiation from the outside, but all she could do was smile at her innocence. The girl’s older brothers were the ones who began making fun of her. “Everybody knows that polar bears don’t exist! Soon you’ll be seeing ghosts!”
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A cohort study of the risk of cancer associated
with type 2 diabetes
Running title: Type 2 diabetes and risk of cancer
Ayodele A Ogunleye MPH, Research Student, Section of Public Health, Division of
Clinical and Population Sciences and Education, University of Dundee, Mackenzie
Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee, DD2 4BF.
Simon A Ogston PhD, Statistician, Section of Public Health, Division of Clinical and
Population Sciences and Education, University of Dundee, Mackenzie Building,
Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee, DD2 4BF.
Andrew D Morris FRCP, Professor of Diabetic Medicine, Diabetes Research Centre,
University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, DD1 9SY.
Josie MM Evans PhD, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Section of Public Health,
Division of Clinical and Population Sciences and Education, University of Dundee,
Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee, DD2 4BF.
Correspondence to:
Dr Josie MM Evans
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology
Section of Public Health
Division of Clinical and Population Sciences and Education,
Mackenzie Building
Kirsty Semple Way
DD2 4BF
E-mail: j.m.m.stansfield@cpse.dundee.ac.uk
Word count (abstract): 106
Word count (main body): 1,147
No of tables: 1
Background: There is evidence to suggest that diabetes may increase the risk of
incidence and mortality from cancer. Methods: In a cohort study using record-linkage
health care datasets for Tayside, Scotland in 1993-2004, we followed up newly
diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes, and two matched non-diabetic comparators,
for cancer diagnosis on the national cancer register. Results: The risk ratio (RR) for
any cancer, adjusted for deprivation, was 0.99 (95%CI 0.90-1.09). Statistically
significant increased risks associated with diabetes were observed for pancreatic, liver
and colon cancer, but not for kidney, endometrial, breast and bladder
cancer.Conclusion: Type 2 diabetes is associated with a diagnosis of certain cancers.
Keywords: Type 2 diabetes, cancer, cohort study, survival analysis, epidemiology.
Whether there was an increased prevalence of cancer associated with insulin use was
questioned in the early twentieth century (Marble, 1934), and there is a growing body
of international evidence suggesting that diabetes increases the risk of the incidence
and mortality from certain cancers. These include pancreatic and liver cancer,
colorectal cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, cancer of the kidney and endometrial
cancer (Kuriki et al., 2007; Coughlin et al., 2004; Wideroff et al., 1997; Rousseau et
al., 2006). However, studies on the association between diabetes and cancer have
been very heterogeneous. Many studies have not distinguished between type 1 and
type 2 diabetes (Wideroff et al., 1997), or have defined groups according to treatment
(Swerdlow et al., 2005). In some studies, diabetes diagnosis is self-report (Coughlin et
al., 2004); in others it is clinical (Saydah et al., 2003). Studies have been retrospective
(Kuriki et al., 2007) or prospective, with some prospective studies following up from
diagnosis of diabetes (Ragozzino et al., 1982); others following up a cross-sectional
sample of diabetes patients (Swerdlow et al., 2005). In this study, we present the risks
of different cancers following diagnosis with type 2 diabetes in Tayside, Scotland,
using a standardized methodology.
This cohort study was carried out using the datasets of the Health Informatics Centre
(HIC), University of Dundee. HIC has developed the record-linkage of routinelycollected healthcare datasets to facilitate epidemiological and other health research in
the population of Tayside Health Board, Scotland (approx. population 400,000)
(Evans et al., 1995).
A diabetes clinical information system was used to identify all patients registered with
any Tayside GP practice who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1993-2004
(Morris et al., 1997). Their date of diagnosis was defined as their study index date.
Any patient who had a previous record of cancer diagnosis on the Scottish national
cancer registry (SMR6) was excluded (Scottish Cancer Registry, 2009).
For each eligible patient with type 2 diabetes, two non-diabetic comparators were
selected at random from computerised lists of patients registered with primary care,
matched for age (within 1 year), sex and GP practice. The index date of the
comparator was that of its matched diabetic patient; and the comparator had to be
alive and have no previous cancer diagnosis on this date.
Diabetic patients and their comparators were followed for a maximum of 11 years in a
survival analysis to the study end-date (1st January 2004). The primary outcome was
diagnosis of malignant cancer on SMR6. Deaths were also identified. The relationship
between type 2 diabetes and cancer was assessed in a Cox regression unadjusted, and
then in a multivariable model adjusted for deprivation (measured using deciles of a
postcode score for material deprivation) (Carstairs, 1990). This was repeated for
specific cancer types according to the ICD10 diagnosis code recorded on SMR6.
Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social
Scientist) 15.0 software programme. All data were anonymised for analysis. Ethical
approval was obtained from the Multi-Centre Research and Ethics Committee for
The study population comprised 9,577 people registered with any Tayside General
Practice who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes between 1993 and 2004, and
19,154 non-diabetic comparators. 53.3% were male, and the mean age at index date
was 62 years. 661 (6.9%) of patients with diabetes were diagnosed with any malignant
cancer, as recorded on SMR6, during follow-up (mean length of follow-up 1,417
days), compared to 1,364 (7.1%) of the comparators (mean follow-up 1,476 days).
12.5% of the diabetic patients and 8.3% of the comparators died.
The unadjusted risk ratio for any diagnosis of cancer was 1.01 (95% CI 0.92 to 1.11)
for diabetic patients. After adjusting for deprivation, it reduced to 0.99 (95% CI 0.90
to 1.09) (Table 1). Risk ratios were determined for specific cancers, presented in
Table 1 in decreasing order of frequency (accounting for 79% of all cancers). There
were statistically significant increased risks associated with type 2 diabetes, of colon,
pancreatic and cancer liver only. The results were largely unchanged after excluding
outcomes in the first year of follow-up.
This study finds no evidence that patients with type 2 diabetes have an overall
increased risk of cancer compared with non-diabetic people, with adjusted risk ratios
approaching unity. However, there was an increased risk of certain specific cancers
which, because uncommon, did not have a substantial effect on the overall risk ratio.
Patients with type 2 diabetes were three times more likely to develop pancreatic
cancer than non-diabetic people. This association has been widely reported (Kuriki et
al., 2007; Coughlin et al., 2004; Rousseau et al., 2006), and while type 2 diabetes
could be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer (Wideroff et al., 1997), it is more likely to
be a consequence (reverse causality) (Gullo et al., 1994). This explains why stronger
associations have been found among recently-diagnosed diabetes patients. The threefold increased risk of liver cancer is also similar to risks identified in earlier
epidemiological studies (Wideroff et al., 1997; Rousseau et al., 2006), some of which
have adjusted for potential confounding factors, notably alcohol and viral hepatitis
(Davila et al., 2005). However, the risk is higher after excluding patients diagnosed in
the year following diabetes, suggesting that reverse causality is unlikely to be the
explanation here.
Our slight increased risk of 1.46 for cancer of the colon is in line with a recent metaanalysis (Larsson et al., 2005). Other studies have observed similar risks, some of
which were not statistically significant due to small sample size (Coughlin et al.,
2004; Wideroff et al., 1997; Rousseau et al., 2006). In contrast, we observed no
increased risk for rectal cancer, consistent with the lack of statistically significant
increased risk in the Nurses’ Health Study (Hu et al., 1999).
This study provided no evidence for associations between type 2 diabetes and other
cancer types. Although a Danish study found that diabetes increased the risks of
kidney and endometrial cancer (Wideroff et al., 1997), these cancers were not
common in our cohort and larger sample sizes would be needed to detect diabetesassociated risk. We also found no evidence for associations with breast and bladder
cancer, despite a study in the US finding associations for mortality (Coughlin et al.,
2004). However, associations with mortality could be confounded by survival-related
factors.
We are confident in the validity of the data sources used for this study, which have
been widely used for epidemiological research. SMR6 is a national, validated dataset.
It also allowed us to estimate the risks of incidence of cancer, rather than mortality
from cancer (which is a function of incidence and survival), using precise dates of
diagnosis. The study’s main limitation was lack of information on lifestyle-related
confounders, although we were able to adjust for deprivation. Patients with diabetes
may have a higher prevalence of lifestyle-related risk factors for cancer, such as
obesity (Hjartaker, 2008). However, we found no increased risks of many cancers
despite these potential confounders, thereby increasing confidence in the conclusions.
Carstairs V (1990). Deprivation and health in Scotland. Health Bull (Edinb) 48:
Coughlin SS, Calle EE, Teras LR, Petrelli J, Thun MJ. Diabetes mellitus as a
predictor of cancer mortality in a large cohort of US adults. Am J Epidemiol 2004;
159:1160-1167.
Davila JA, Morgan RO, Shaib Y, McGlynn KA, El-Serag HB (2005). Diabetes
increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States: a population
based case-control study. Gut 54:553-559.
Evans JMM, McDevitt DG, MacDonald TM. The Tayside Medicines Monitoring
Unit (MEMO): A record-linkage system for pharmacovigilance (1995).
Pharmaceut Med 9:177-184.
Gullo L, Pezzilli R, Morselli-Labate AM (1994). Diabetes and the risk of
pancreatic cancer. New Engl J Med 331:81-84.
Hjartaker A, Langseth H, Weiderpass E (2008). Obesity and diabetes epidemics:
cancer repercussions. Adv Exp Med Biol 630:72-93.
Hu FB, Manson J.E, Hunter D, Colditz GA, Michels KB (1999). Prospective
study of adult onset diabetes mellitus (type 2) and risk of colorectal cancer in
women. J Natl Cancer Inst 91:542 – 7.
Kuriki K, Hirose K, Tajima K (2007). Diabetes and cancer risk for all specific
sites among Japanese men and women. Eur J Cancer Prev 7: 89-107.
Larsson SC , Orsini N, Wolk A (2005). Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Colorectal
Cancer:A Meta-Analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst 2005; 97: 1679 – 87.
Marble A. Diabetes and cancer (1934). New Engl J Med 211:339-349.
Morris AD, Boyle DIR, MacAlpine R, Emslie-Smith A, Jung RT, Newton RW,
MacDonald TM for the DARTS/MEMO Collaboration (1997). The diabetes audit
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create a diabetes register. Br Med J 315:524-528.
Ragozzino M, Melton III LJ, Chu C.P, Palumbo PJ (1982). Subsequent cancer risk
in the incidence cohort of Rochester, Minnesota, residents with diabetes mellitus.
J Chron Dis 35: 13-19.
Rousseau MC, Parent ME, Pollak MN, Siemiatycki J (2006). Diabetes mellitus
and cancer risk in a population-based case-control study among men from
Montreal, Canada. Int J Cancer 118:2105-2109.
Saydah SH, Loria CM, Eberhardt MS, Brancati FL (2003). Abnormal glucose
tolerance and risk of cancer death in the United States. Am J Epidemiol 157:10921100.
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Morris AD, Gatling W, Gale EA, Patterson CC, Keen H (2005). Cancer incidence
and mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a UK cohort study. Br J
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Table 1: Unadjusted and adjusted risk ratios for any malignant cancer and
specific cancers among patients with type 2 diabetic people and their
comparators in Tayside, Scotland, 1993-2004
Any malignant
No (%) of
Unadjusted
Adjusted RR
Adjusted RR (95%
(95% CI)*
CI) (excluding
(diabetes)
(comparators)
(95% CI)
661 (6.9%)
1,364 (7.1%)
(0.92-1.11)
cancer C00-97
C43-44
Non-Hodgkins
outcomes in 1st year)
Endometrium
Adjusted for deprivation decile. RR=risk ratio. CI=confidence intervals.
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Facebook Co-Founder Says the Power Mark Zuckerberg Wields is “Unprecedented and Un-American”
Chris Hughes: “It is time to break up Facebook”.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes warns in a New York Times op-ed that the power Mark Zuckerberg is “unprecedented” and un-American”.
Hughes is calling for Facebook to be broken up, but despite brazen censorship of conservatives actually believes that the platform’s algorithm has helped populist political movements.
“I’m disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders,” wrote Hughes.
Despite this, Hughes worries that Zuckerberg has created a monopoly and is strangling competition with his continued quest for world domination, saying The Facebook CEO has “created a leviathan that crowds out entrepreneurship and restricts consumer choice”.
Hughes notes that “collective anger is growing” over Facebook’s behavior and suggests that government intervention is the only way to address it.
“If we do not take action, Facebook’s monopoly will become even more entrenched,” he warns, arguing that a push for anti-trust action and a new regulatory agency for social media is necessary.
“We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” writes Hughes. “It is time to break up Facebook.”
As I have previously highlighted, Zuckerberg is such a power mad narcissist that Facebook is now attempting to dictate what opinions its 2.4 billion users are allowed to have.
Facebook is the most powerful, most dangerous cult on the planet and Zuckerberg, despite lacking the charisma that is a hallmark of cult leaders, most certainly is one.
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Populist Leader Stuns Elite: “Danes Are En Route to Becoming a Minority in Their Own Country”
Facebook Calls me ‘Dangerous’. Imagine My Shock. No, Really…
“Send Her Back!” Chant Causes New Outrage Amongst Leftists
Tragedy of cultural relativism strikes again.
A journalist traveled to Ilhan Omar’s homeland of Somalia to challenge stereotypes and prove the country was “beautiful,” only to end up being killed by terrorists.
Before President Trump’s tweetstorm in which he encouraged Omar to go back and fix her own country, Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh was trying to do precisely that.
Nalayeh returned to the country of her birth to tell “uplifting” stories about Somalia, according to the Washington Post.
The journalist became well known for her relentlessly positive tweets about Somalia. Just one week ago, she lauded the “beauty” of the place.
It was an incredible day to witness #Somalia’s beauty on the island of #Ilisi 🐠 #Kismayo #Somalia #MySomalia pic.twitter.com/KRr0AgGgtK
— Hodan Nalayeh (@HodanTV) July 11, 2019
One respondent praised her for “countering the doom narrative propagated by many about Somalia”.
Your are doing amazing work in countering the doom narrative propagated by many about Somalia, one tweet at a time
— Ahmed kafia (@ahmedinajadosam) July 3, 2019
Another Somali writer praised her portraying an image of the country radically different from the stereotype of “victims trapped in a vicious circle of conflicts”.
During a video tour on her YouTube channel of the town of Kismayo, Nalayeh said she was hopeful the area could be rebuilt and revived, “Because this place is beautiful!”
On Friday last week, Nalayeh was killed in that very same town when al-Shabab militants stormed the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo.
In pictures from the scene (#AsAsey hotel) in Kismayo after Al-Shabaab storm. https://t.co/V91Doak1YN pic.twitter.com/35Dom95nu0
— Somalia Terror Updates (@SomaliTU) July 12, 2019
The total death toll claimed 26 lives and it took around 14 hours for Somali security forces to regain control of the hotel.
“While Nalayeh’s death would seem to underline the harshness of Trump’s remarks, it was also a visceral argument for what many understood to be his central point: that perhaps immigrants should be especially grateful to live in the United States,” reports the Pluralist.
Well, this is awkward.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, who was once riding high on a contrived media fanfare selling him as the white Obama, is now polling at 0.0 percent in New Hampshire.
Also, some of his own potential voters have absolutely no idea who he is or what he stands for.
Many across the country still don't know who @BetoORourke is, including this gentleman at the @ManchesterDems picnic:
“Who are you? I don't know who you are.” pic.twitter.com/ZOA1tipdaY
— Where is Beto? (@whereisbeto) July 17, 2019
“Did you grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth? Who are you? I don’t know who you are,” asked one Manchester Democrat picnic attendee.
Beto’s initial response was to bend over and laugh.
As recently as April, Beto had the support of 6.4 percent of Democrats. He’s now on zero.
That’s no laughing matter for him.
Checkmate, bigots.
A new Rasmussen poll has found that one third of Democrats think it’s racist for a white person to criticize a politician of color. Period.
32 per cent of Democrats believe this no matter what the circumstance, according to the poll.
The survey also found that 80 per cent of Democrats think President Trump is racist, while 85 per cent of Republicans think charges of racism are politically motivated.
47 per cent of likely U.S. voters think Trump is racist while slightly more, 49 per cent disagree, saying this is a political smear.
“According to the left’s rules, white people can be bashed 24/7 by the media and academia and blamed for all the ills in the world and that is not “racist,” but a white person is “racist” if they so much as criticize the political views of a “politician of color,” writes Chris Menahan.
Meanwhile, AOC says calling her a “communist” is also racist.
Basically, any and all criticism is racist, just shut up and submit, bigot.
Calling people who believe in democracy, civil + economic rights, and racial justice “communist” has a long + rich history w/ white supremacy in the US.
It was one of the preferred smears against integrating schools, & one of the main attacks segregationists used against MLK Jr: https://t.co/pNdpD8sjWY pic.twitter.com/mTRNj4jjJA
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 17, 2019
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Girl Who Rejected Getting Pregnant Because She ‘Doesn’t Want to Create Any More White People’ Celebrated
Tweet receives over 136,000 ‘likes’.
The story of a girl who vowed to never have babies because “she doesn’t want to create any more white people” went viral on Twitter, with many respondents celebrating the prospect.
“Can’t stop thinking about how yesterday a white girl in my class said that she’s planning on never having kids because she doesn’t want to create any more white people,” said the tweet, which was posted by an Asian student.
can’t stop thinking about how yesterday a white girl in my class said that she’s planning on never having kids because she doesn’t want to create any more white people
— dev (@jstorbitch) 10 May 2019
The tweet was received warmly by the vast majority of respondents. It received over 23,000 retweets and 136,000 likes.
Crucially, the tweet was not ‘ratioed’ – receiving under 500 responses at time of writing, indicating that most people who retweeted or liked the tweet endorsed its message.
Respondents praised the white girl for her valiant sacrifice.
“She deserves a trophy,” remarked one.
She deserves a trophy🏆
— $DISSUMBULLSHIT (@mikedamic1) May 12, 2019
“She’s doing the Lord’s work,” added another.
She's doing the Lord's work
— King Preezy Ⓥ (@priss_nash) May 11, 2019
“Wow. WE STAN A WOKE WHITE QUEEN,” commented another.
Wow. WE STAN A WOKE WHITE QUEEN.
— Mariesa Jones (@reeseleanell) May 12, 2019
“Great activism right here,” remarked another.
Great activism right here
— Chell Da C Shell (@kowabungha) May 11, 2019
This is yet another example of how the last form of acceptable racism is racism against white people, which in schools and colleges across America has become a trendy form of virtue signalling.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper Mocks Fox News Host by Making Bizarre Facial Expressions
Wife Scolds Husband For Discouraging His 12-Year-Old Daughter From Buying Sex Toys
Creepy: Dem Candidate Marianne Williamson Leads White People in Collective ‘Apology’ to African-Americans
“On behalf of myself and on behalf of my country…I apologize”.
A video shows Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson leading a large group of white people inside a church to make a collective ‘apology’ to African-Americans.
The weird incantation sounds more like a prayer than an apology.
“I’m going to ask the white Americans in the room to please repeat after me,” said Williamson as the white participants in the room place their hands on black people.
The words in full;
“On behalf of myself and on behalf of my country, to you and all African-Americans from the beginning of our nation’s history in honor of your ancestors and on behalf of your children pleas hear this from my heart – I apologize – please forgive us.”
With this prayer I acknowledge the depths of the evils that have perpetrated against black people in America.
From slavery to lynchings, to white supremacist laws, to the denial of voting rights, to all the ways both large and small.
All of them evil – all of them wrong – for all the oppression and all of the injustices – I apologize – please forgive us.”
Respondents to the video were unimpressed.
“This is pretty pathetic. These people are apologizing for things they are not responsible for,” remarked one.
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I’m Marianne Williamson your guilt counselor,” joked another.
Marianne Williamson, who is primarily a self-help author, is polling extremely low but has reached the threshold that qualifies her to take part in the second round of Democratic debates at the end of July.
Head of Russian Parliament Claims Allowing Same-Sex Adoption Will Lead to “Extinction of Humanity”
Says foundation of family unit being eroded.
The head of Russia’s upper house of parliament claims that allowing gay couples to adopt children will lead to the “extinction of humanity”.
Russia banned the ability of gay couples to adopt children in 2013.
“What will allowing same-sex couples to adopt children lead to? It’ll simply lead to the extinction of mankind,” Valentina Matvienko, the head of the upper-house Federation Council, told a government-sponsored youth forum outside Moscow earlier today.
“There are basic ingredients for happiness, I believe they’re universal: family, children and parents. We see how these foundations are being eroded,” she added.
The comments are markedly different from the west’s approach to same sex adoption, where it is legal in most countries.
However, in Italy, which is currently ruled by a populist government, same sex adoption is still not permissible.
As we highlighted last week, the gulf between how Russia and most western countries view so-called “progressive values” appears to be widening.
Last month, Vladimir Putin commented on a similar topic, asserting that liberalism was in its death throws thanks to forced multiculturalism.
“The ruling elites have broken away from the people,” Putin told the Financial Times, adding that the “so-called liberal idea has outlived its purpose”.
Drone Footage of Epstein’s ‘Pedo Island’ Shows Weird Sun Dial, Mattresses Inside ‘Temple’ Building
See the video right here.
4k drone footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedo island’ shows mattresses inside the ‘temple’ building as well as a weird sun dial surrounded by rocks.
Epstein was arrested last weekend on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
The billionaire bought his 75-acre island, Little St. James, for $7.95 million in 1998, though locals now refer to it as ‘orgy island’ or ‘pedo island’ following revelations that girls as young as 12 were trafficked there.
Newly released 4k drone footage taken over the island shows a strange sun dial surrounded by large rocks.
A cube shaped building known as the ‘temple’, which once had a golden dome on top of it before Hurricane Irma knocked it off in 2017, appears to be under renovation and has two striped mattresses inside it.
According to James Both, the wooden door on the structure “appeared to be designed to keep people in, rather than keeping people out”.
Speculation is also raging as to whether an underground facility was built below the temple.
“It is absolutely possible to install a dwelling and elevator underneath the structure,” said Both.
“Interestingly, the temple appears to have been built between 2009 and 2013, which was after Epstein got a sweetheart deal that resulted in 13 months in a county jail in Florida,” reports Law and Crime.
Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts told her lawyers in 2011 that she saw Bill Clinton on the island and asked Epstein what he was doing there, only for Epstein to respond that Clinton owed him a favor.
Flight logs show that Clinton traveled at least 26 times on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet.
According to one report, Epstein is set to give up the names individuals who paid for underage sex in return for a maximum prison sentence that will not exceed 5 years.
Watch the drone footage below.
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Episodes, Season 1, 2016
Noobs Go Viral
Pat Pakula
Nathan Knetchel
November 1, 2017 (United States)
July 12, 2016 (Turkey)
July 28, 2016 (Philippines)
The Noobs vs. Sour Persimmons Noobs vs. Venamus 12!
Noobs Go Viral is the forty-seventh episode of Supernoobs.
The Noobs discover that Mr. Wertz has been studying the virus. Seeing a good opportunity, Tyler, Kevin, Shope and Roach get infected with the Virus to see what being infected is like. Now, it's up to Mem and Zen to purge the others of the Virus.
This is the first time the Noobs got infected by the virus, though intentionally.
This episode reveals that Mr. Wertz has been studying the virus.
Mr. Wertz pretending to be hurt and declaring a trap.
Kevin waiting for the Virus to kick in after he ingests it, but having gas as opposed to any mutation.
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Unofficial 75 Greatest Marvels Countdown: “Kraven’s Last Hunt” – PODCAST
By Dan Gvozden @dangvozden · On May 18, 2016
Several weeks ago I was honored to be invited to join Blaine Dowler, Scott McElroy, Ben Marritt and Frak T’Chur on the Unofficial 75 Greatest Marvels Countdown Podcast to discuss “Kraven’s Last Hunt” Over the past couple years, Marvel polled their fans so that they could assemble a list of the 75 greatest Marvel stories ever published. Amazingly, “Kraven’s Last Hunt” was able to place at the 3rd spot on that list.
Join us for a spirited conversation about our memories of the book, how it reads today, and the history of the comic.
If you want to subscribe to the Unofficial 75 Greatest Marvels Countdown Podcast and check out the other episodes you can follow this link on over to iTunes.
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Dan Gvozden
Do you remember that dorky kid from elementary school who loved movies and comic books? Dan's him, but an adult... well in most senses of the word. All that matters is that he's an aficionado of all things pop culture and wants to share his interests with the world.
Amazing Spider-Talk: “HUNTED” Review Roundup (Part 2)
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME – Review + Easter Eggs
BONUS: What’s Up Danger? A Tribute to “Into the Spider-Verse” at Gallery Nucleus
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New Books to Look for in 2017 (Children’s and YA)
Posted on December 27, 2016 Updated on April 25, 2017
What do we have to look forward to in 2017? Quite a lot of new Middle Grade and YA novels! While not comprehensive, this list should supply you with numerous titles to consider for your 2017 reading list. If you are looking forward to a soon-to-be released book that I’ve neglected, feel free to add it in the comments.
For highlights of upcoming adult novels, check out the Publisher’s Weekly Adult Announcements: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/72250-spring-2017-announcements-all-our-coverage.html.
Please note: The dates listed below may change, especially for titles due to be released later in the year! Also, I haven’t read any of them yet, so the plot blurbs and age ranges below are based on info from publisher’s websites and reviews.
MG CONTINUING SERIES
Robot Revolution by James Patterson (Jan 16, 2017)
Newest book in the House of Robots series. Ages 9-12.
Secret Origins by James Riley (Jan 17, 2017)
Book 3 of Story Thieves. Ages 8-12.
Fenway and Hattie and the Evil Bunny Gang by Victoria J. Coe (Jan 24, 2017)
Sequel to Fenway and Hattie. Ages 8-12.
Long Live the Queen by Gerry Swallow (Jan 24, 2017)
Sequel to Blue in the Face: Magnificent Tales of Misadventure. Ages 8–12.
The Unwanteds Quests #1: Dragon Captives by Lisa McMann
Book 1 in a continuation of The Unwanteds. Ages 8-12.
The Bodies of the Ancients by Lydia Millet (Feb 14, 2017)
Book 3 of The Dissenters series. Ages 10-12.
Tut: My Epic Battle to Save the World by P.J. Hoover (Feb 28, 2017)
Book 2 of Tut: My Immortal Life. Ages 8-12.
Point Guard by Mike Lupica (Mar 7, 2017)
Home Team Book 3. Ages 8-12.
In Over Their Heads by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Apr 11, 2017)
Sequel to Under Their Skin. Ages 8-12.
The Song of Glory and Ghost by N.D. Wilson (Apr 18, 2017)
Outlaws of Time #2. Ages 8-12.
Hello Stars! by Alena & Wynter Pitts (Apr 25, 2017)
Faithgirlz/Lena in the Spotlight. Ages 8-12.
The Fallen Star by Tracey Heche (May 2, 2017)
Book 3 of The Nocturnals. Ages 7-12.
The Emperor of Mars by Patrick Samphire (July 18, 2017)
Sequel to Secrets of the Dragon Tomb. Ages 8-12.
The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan (Oct 3, 2017)
Book 3 of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Ages 10 & up.
Frank Einstein and the Bio-Action Gizmo by Jon Scieszka (Oct 17, 2017)
Book 5 in the Frank Einstein series. Ages 8-12.
MG FAMILIAR AUTHORS
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (Jan 3, 2017)
A poetry collection weaving the words of Harlem Renaissance poets with Grimes’ own poems. Ages 10-14.
Jay Versus the Saxophone of Doom by Kara Kootstra (Jan 3, 2017)
A young hockey player finds a new challenge learning the saxophone. Ages 8-12.
The Wardens Daughter by Jerry Spinelli (Jan 3, 2017)
Through her unique experiences growing up in a prison, a girl comes to terms with the sacrifice that took her mother’s life. Ages 9-12.
The Sweetest Sound by Sherri Winston (Jan 3, 2017)
After being abandoned by her mother, a shy girl discovers her own talent and a community in a church choir. Ages 9-12.
The Silver Gate by Kristin Bailey (Jan 10, 2017)
When a father threatens to sell his daughter into servitude because of her disability, two children seek freedom in a fairy realm. Age 8-12.
The Matchstick Castle by Keira Graff (Jan 10, 2017)
Two children discover a wooden castle and eccentric family in the forest of Boring, Illinois. Ages 8-12.
Hideout by Watt Key (Jan 10, 2017)
A boy finds another kid repairing a cabin in the woods and uncovers a web of secrets. Ages 10-13.
Train I Ride by Paul Mosier (Jan 24, 2017)
On a long train trip to her new home, orphan Rydr comes to terms with her own past through her interactions with fellow passengers. Ages 8-12.
Gorilla Dawn by Gill Lewis (Jan 31, 2017)
Two children imprisoned in a rebel camp rescue a baby gorilla and escape into the jungles of the Congo. Ages 9-14.
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Jan 31, 2017)
A girl finds a sense of purpose playing a munchkin in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. Ages 8-12.
The Castle in the Mist by Amy Ephron (Feb 7, 2017)
Two children discover a mysterious castle in the English countryside. Ages 8-12.
Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson (Feb 14, 2017)
Two of the last kids left on Mars get ready to flee the planet with the rest of the humans until they make a startling discovery. Ages 8-12.
See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng (Feb 28, 2017)
To give aliens a taste of life on Earth, a boy records an epic roadtrip on his iPod and plans to launch it into space . Ages 10-13.
The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Anderson Coats (Feb 28, 2017)
A girl joins the stream of Civil War orphans and widows moving to Washington territory and finds a rough, challenging new life in the West. Ages 8-12.
Well, That Was Awkward by Rachel Vail (Feb 28, 2017)
A version of Cyrano de Bergerac with texting. Ages 10-14.
Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question by Martha Freeman (Mar 7, 2017)
A city girl uncovers secrets spending the summer on a family farm. Ages 8-12.
Baseball Genius by Tim Green and Derek Jeter (Mar 7, 2017)
A boy with a talent for predicting pitches tries to save his favorite Yankee’s career. Ages 8-12.
The Enemy: Detroit, 1954 by Sara Holbrook (Mar 7, 2017)
A teen is forced to confront her prejudices when a German girl moves to her class. Ages 10-14.
Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli (Mar 7, 2017)
A mermaid in an aquarium befriends a human girl and dreams of escaping her tank. Ages 10-12.
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold (Mar 14, 2017)
A boy with autism befriends a baby skunk and hopes to keep it as a pet. Ages 8-12.
When My Sister Started Kissing by Helen Frost (Mar 14, 2017)
With her mom expecting a new baby and her sister starting to date, a girl fears her family is growing apart. Ages 10-12.
The Metropolitans by Carol Goodman (Mar 14, 2017)
On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, four teens uncover magic in an Arthurian manuscript as they try to prevent another attack on American soil. Ages 10-13.
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (Mar 14, 2017)
The lives of four very different kids intertwine when a prank goes horribly wrong. Ages 8-12.
Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan (Mar 14, 2017)
A Pakistani-American girl struggles to retain her cultural identity despite pressure to “Americanize” herself. Ages 8-12.
Love, Ish by Karen Rivers (Mar 14, 2017)
A girl’s cancer diagnosis threatens her dream of becoming a Mars colonist. Ages 9-14.
Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd) by Julie Bowe (Mar 21, 2017)
A girl tries to keep her parents’ divorce a secret and risks losing her best friend. Ages 8-12.
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel by Kimberly Willis Holt (Mar 28, 2017)
A girl is sent to live at her grandfather’s old motel and struggles to build a relationship with him. Ages 8-14.
Girl With a Camera by Carolyn Meyer (Apr 4, 2017)
A historical novel about the first female photojournalist in WWII. Ages 8-14.
Jack and the Geniuses by Bill Nye and Gregory Mone (Apr 4, 2017)
Three children travel to Antarctica to find a missing scientist. Ages 8-12.
The Emperor’s Treasure by Kat Zhang (May 2, 2017)
On a family trip to China, two children search for a long-lost treasure. Ages 8-12.
The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby (May 16, 2017)
Three teens must solve an ancient architectural puzzle in order to save their homes. Ages 8-12.
Finding Mighty by Sheela Chari (May 30, 2017)
Two neighbors follow clues to find a boy’s missing brother. Ages 8-12.
Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (May 30, 2017)
On a mysterious island, nine children live together until the inevitable day once a year when the eldest is taken away and a new young child is brought to join them. Ages 8-12.
I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (June 20, 2017)
Inspired by a school assignment, a girl begins writing letters to Michael Collins, the astronaut who stayed on the ship during the 1969 lunar landing. Ages 8-12.
Bubbles by Abby Cooper (July 18, 2017)
A girl whose life seems to be falling apart suddenly starts seeing people’s thoughts in word bubbles above their heads. Ages 10-12.
One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn (July 18, 2017)
A girl dies of the influenza epidemic and returns as a ghost to torment her bullies. Ages 10-12.
MG DEBUTS
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson (Jan 3, 2017)
The lynching of Emmett Till prompts the granddaughter of a sharecropper to join the fight for justice. Ages 9-12.
The Someday Birds By Sally J. Pla (Jan 24, 2017)
A boy with autism goes on a wild road trip with his family so that his father, a wounded veteran, can seek medical treatment. Age 8-12.
The Ethan I Was by Ali Standish (Jan 24, 2017)
After losing his best friend in an accident, a boy finds new friendships in a new town. Ages 8-12.
Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell (Jan 31, 2017)
Two children search for magical treasures in an underground city. Ages 8-12.
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson (Feb 28, 2017)
When a toddler disappears, a boy with OCD is the last to have seen the child alive, and all of his neighbors are suspects. Ages 8-12.
The Fearless Traveler’s Guide to Wicked Places by Pete Begler (Mar 1, 2017)
A girl embarks on a quest to rescue her mother from witches. Ages 8-12.
Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge by Kristin L. Gray (Mar 7, 2017)
Believing that a pet might help her mom overcome her sadness at the death of her grandmother, a girl tries to become responsible enough to get a dog. Ages 8-12.
Who Let the Gods Out? by Maz Evans (Mar 28, 2017)
A mortal by gets mixed up with the Greek gods when an evil daemon runs amok on Earth. Ages 8-12.
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi (Mar 28, 2017)
A girl and her friends must rescue her baby brother from inside a mechanical puzzle board game. Ages 8-12.
Viva, Rose! by Susan Krawitz (Mar 30, 2017)
When a girl’s brother joins Pancho Villa’s revolutionaries, she sets out to convince him to come home, but winds up kidnapped. Ages 8-12.
Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren (Apr 4, 2017)
A girl intentionally gets sent to an icy prison in order to help her twin sister escape from the inside. Ages 8-12.
The Wingsnatchers by Sarah Jean Horowitz (Apr 25, 2017
An apprentice who creates mechanical illusions and a magical Faerie princess team up to solve a mystery and win a competition. Ages 10-14.
Dingus by Andrew Larsen (May 2, 2017)
A boy faces a boring summer vacation until he makes a terrible mistake. Ages 8-12.
Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson (May 2, 2017)
When a note passed in class is intercepted, a shy girl’s life collides with the life of a popular girl. Ages 8-12.
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya (May 16, 2017)
A boy uses poetry and protest to take on the land developer threatening his family’s restaurant. Ages 10 & up.
Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker (Jun 6, 2017)
After a science experiment gone wrong accidentally fuses him to a fourth dimensional being, a boy blogs about his life in the days leading up to the experimental procedure that will be used to separate them. Ages 10-12.
One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson (Jun 6, 2017)
Although he promised his father he’d keep the family together, a Senegalese orphan is tempted to join a gang of malicious boys to keep them from stealing his spirit. Ages 8-12.
Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls by Beth McMullen (Jul 4, 2017)
A girl enters spy training to find a missing agent: her mother. Ages 8-12.
YA CONTINUING SERIES
Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken (Jan 3, 2017)
Sequel to Passenger. Ages 14 & up.
Windwitch by Susan Dennard (Jan 10, 2017)
A Witchlands novel. Ages 14 & up.
Beheld by Alex Flinn (Jan 10, 2017)
New fairytales in the Kendra Chronicles. Age 14 & up.
The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman (Jan 31, 2017)
A Lady Helen novel. Ages 12-18.
Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer (Jan 31, 2017)
A graphic novel in the Lunar Chronicles world. Ages 14 & up.
Rise of Fire by Sophie Jordan (Feb 7, 2017)
Book 2 in Reign of Shadows series. Ages 14 & up.
The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig (Feb 28, 2017)
Sequel to The Girl From Everywhere. Ages 12-18.
The Boy She Left Behind by Gregg Olsen (Mar 14, 2017)
Book 2 of Vengeance. Ages 14 & up.
The Adjustment by Suzanne Young (Apr 18, 2017)
The Program, Book 3. Ages 12-18.
Black Tempest by Ryan Dalton (Apr 25, 2017)
Book 2 of the Time Shift Trilogy. Ages 12-17.
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han (May 2, 2017)
Book 3 of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Ages 14 & up.
Count All Her Bones by April Henry (May 2, 2017)
Sequel to Girl, Stolen. Ages 12-18.
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (May 2, 2017)
Book 3 of A Court of Thorns and Roses. Age 14 & up.
The Battlemage by Taran Matharu (May 9, 2017)
Conclusion to The Summoner trilogy. Ages 12-18.
A Million Junes by Emily Henry (May 16, 2017)
Sequel to The Love That Split the World. Ages 12-18.
Seeker by Veronica Rossi (May 16, 2017)
Book 2 of Riders. Ages 12-18.
Refuge for Masterminds by Kathleen Baldwin (May 23, 2017)
Book 3 of A stranje House. Ages 12-18.
The Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare (May 23, 2017)
Book 2 of The Dark Artifices. Ages 14 & up.
Midnight Jewel by Richelle Mead (Jun 27, 2017)
Book 2 of the Glittering Court series. Ages 14 & up.
Now I Rise by Kiersten White (Jun 27, 2017)
Sequel to And I Darken. Ages 14 & up.
YA FAMILIAR AUTHORS
Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Jan 3, 2017)
A girl travels from Florida to New Mexico to process her mother’s violent death. Ages 14 & up.
Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist (Jan 3, 2017)
A blind teen falls in love but questions his feelings when an operation restores his sight. Ages 12 & up.
Life in a Fishbowl by Len Vlahos (Jan 3, 2017)
A teen girl’s terminally ill father auctions himself on eBay. Ages 14 & up.
The Radius of Us by Marie Marquardt (Jan 17, 2017)
Two teens who have survived trauma find a connection on their first meeting. Ages 14 & up.
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (Jan 17, 2017)
A boy’s life begins to unravel when his ex-boyfriend dies. Ages 14 & up.
The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydn (Jan 31, 2017)
A group of girls believe they are cursed when the boy they love suddenly dies. Ages 14 & up.
That Burning Summer by Lydia Syson (Jan 31, 2017)
A teen girl hides an injured Polish pilot who has crashed in England and does not wish to return to war. Ages 14 & up.
Fire Color One by Jenny Valentine (Jan 31, 2017)
A young arsonist is sent to England to live with the wealthy father she has never met. Age 12-18.
Factory Girl by Josanne La Valley (Feb 1, 2017)
A girl works in appalling conditions in a factory in China to earn money to save her family’s farm. Age 14 & up.
Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza (Feb 7, 2017)
An exiled empress and the boy falsely accused of killing her must unite to overcome a galactic evil. Ages 14 & up.
At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (Feb 7, 2017)
A teen’s best friend disappears and seems to have been erased from everyone else’s memories. Ages 14 & up.
A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom (Feb 7, 2017)
A teen fears her friends will abandon her if they find out she has bipolar disorder. Age 14 & up.
The Lost Girl of Astor Street by Stephanie Morrill (Feb 7, 2017)
In Jazz-Age Chicago, a girl embarks on a mission to find her missing best friend. Ages 12-18.
Romeo and What’s Her Name by Shani Petroff (Feb 7, 2017)
An understudy wishes she were playing the lead opposite the boy of her dreams, until she has to actually step into the role and realizes she is totally unprepared. Ages 12-18.
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham (Feb 21, 2017)
A teen girl discovers a skeleton that provides a link back to the Tulsa race riots a century earlier. Age 14 & up.
Sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot (Feb 28, 2017)
A girl tries to hide her eating disorder from the boy she loves. Ages 14 & up.
10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac (Feb 28, 2017)
A girl struggling with anxiety falls in love with a girl who isn’t afraid of anything. Ages 14 & up.
The Free by Lauren McLaughlin (Feb 28, 2017)
A teen in juvie comes to terms with his past and who he wants to be in the future. Ages 12-18.
A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho (Feb 28, 2017)
When her best friend is murdered, a teen returns to her hometown to plot revenge. Ages 14 & up.
Waking in Time by Angie Stanton (Mar 1, 2017)
A young woman traveling backward in time meets a young man traveling forward in time and falls in love. Ages 14 & up.
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (Mar 7, 2017)
A young witch accidentally raises her brother from the dead and discovers her own dark powers come at a price. Ages 12-18.
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Mar 7, 2017)
As he nears the end of high school, a boy begins to question his place within his adopted family. Ages 14 & up.
Nemesis by Brendan Reichs (Mar 21, 2017)
Brought together by murder and nightmares, two teens must sift through lies and conspiracy, hoping to save their doomed planet. Ages 14 & up.
Worthy by Donna Cooner (Mar 28, 2017)
An app that asks students whether girls are worthy of their boyfriends causes high school relationship chaos. Ages 14 & up.
Just Another Girl by Elizabeth Eulberg (Mar 28, 2017)
Two best friends struggle with their crush on the same guy and the secrets they keep from each other. Ages 14 & up.
Frogkisser! by Garth Nix (Mar 28, 2017)
A princess whose kiss can break curses goes on a quest to reclaim her kingdom from her evil stepparents. Ages 12 & up.
100 Hours by Rachel Vincent (Mar 28, 2017)
A Spring Break beach trip turns into a nightmare when six teens are kidnapped. Ages 14 & up.
The Inconceivable Life of Quinn by Marianne Baer (Apr 4, 2017)
A teen becomes the center of attention when she discovers she is pregnant but has no memory of ever having sex. Ages 14 & up.
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray (Apr 4, 2017)
A soldier and a machine on opposite sides of an interstellar war find themselves on a joint mission. Ages 14& up.
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemper (Apr 4, 2017)
A grieving girl leaves letters at her mother’s grave and makes an unlikely connection with the troubled classmate who finds them and responds. Ages 14 & up.
Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean (Apr 4, 2017)
An orphaned girl is targeted by the enemies her parents left behind and embarks on a frantic mission to save the lives of those around her. Ages 14 & up.
Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr (Apr 4, 2017)
Two sisters struggling to care for each other despite their poverty find surprising challenges and opportunities when their estranged father returns. Ages 12-18.
Duels & Deception by Cindy Anstey (Apr 11, 2017)
A young heiress is kidnapped along with a poor law clerk and, to her dismay, finds herself falling in love with him. Ages 12-18.
Unearthly Things by Michelle Gagnon (Apr 11, 2017)
A modern Jane Eyre, in which an orphan moves in with a wealthy family with dark secrets. Ages 12-18.
Missing by Kelley Armstrong (Apr 18, 2017)
A girl discovers that the scores of teens who supposedly left her hometown over the years may actually have been murdered. Ages 14 & up.
The Whole Thing Together by Ann Brashares (Apr 25, 2017)
Though their parents were once married and they share half siblings, a boy and girl have never met until one summer at a shared beach house when their lives intersect. Ages 12-18.
Dreamfall by Amy Plum (May 2, 2017)
Teens must battle their worst nightmares in virtual reality when an experimental insomnia treatment goes horribly wrong. Ages 14 & up.
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (May 2, 2017)
A girl masquerades as a boy to join an all-male a capella group. Ages 12-18.
My Future Ex-girlfriend by Jake Gerhard (May 16, 2017)
Three eighth graders struggle with their first relationships, hoping to hang onto their girlfriends so they don’t start high school as losers. Ages 12-18.
The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers (May 9, 2017)
When her actress mom gets a job in LA, a girl goes from being the most envied teen in Mexico City to the kid everyone assumes is the daughter of a “domestic.” Ages 12-18.
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord ( May 16, 2017)
A girl finds her faith challenged when her mother’s cancer returns and her life begins to unravel. Ages 14 & up.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo (May 30, 2017)
A girl studies Korean romance movies to figure out how to get the attention of the boy she likes. Ages 12-18.
House of Furies by Madeleine Roux (May 30, 2017)
A maid at a Gothic boarding house hopes to save a young man from the harsh punishments inflicted by her employer on his house guests. Ages 14 & up.
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley (Jun 6, 2017)
After her brother dies, a girl returns to her hometown and exchanges letters with the boy she once loved by hiding them in the pages of books. Ages 14 & up.
Internet Famous by Danika Stone (Jun 6, 2017)
When a teen blogger begins flirting with a fan online, a troll starts harassing her. Ages 12-18.
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson (Jun 13, 2017)
A girl about to embark on a journey to Mars discovers a journal from the past and the stories of two other girls facing life-changing moments. Ages 12-18.
Roar by Cora Carmack (Jun 13, 2017)
A Stormling princess, born without her family’s signature magic power, tries to steal power for herself in order to avoid an arranged marriage. Ages 14 & up.
Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios (Jun 13, 2017)
When her relationship turns abusive, a teen struggles to escape it. Ages 14 & up.
Be True To Me by Adele Griffin (Jun 13, 2017)
Two teen tennis rivals compete for the love of the boy of their dreams. Ages 14 & up.
All the Ways the World Can End by Abby Sher (July 11, 2017)
With her dad dying and her best friend moving away, a girl feels like the world is ending. Ages 12-18.
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell (Jul 18, 2017)
A young thief is sent back in time to steal a book and save a mysterious and perhaps sinister magical order. Ages 12-18.
Lucky in Love by Kasie West (Jul 25, 2017)
A teen wins the lottery and everyone starts treating her differently–except the boy she has a crush on, who hasn’t heard the news yet. Ages 12-18.
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle (Aug 8, 2017)
Two teens begin to lose important things, until they find a mysterious spellbook that lets them bring things back from the past–even things that should have stayed lost. Ages 14 & up.
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The Book Jumper by Mechthild Glaser (Jan 3, 2017)
A girl discovers the power to jump into books and must stop a mysterious thief from altering her life. Ages 12-18.
The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti (Jan 3, 2017)
Following a wild theory, a teen tries to track down a girl who disappeared. Ages 14 & up.
Frostblood by Ella Blake (Jan 10, 2017)
A teenage Fireblood conceals her powers from the Frostblood rulers until she must use them to save her world and avenge her mother’s death. Ages 14 & up.
You Don’t Know My Name by Kristen Orlando (Jan 10, 2017)
A teenage spy’s career is jeopardized when she falls in love. Ages 12-18.
A List of Cages by Robin Roe (Jan 10, 2017)
As assistant to the school psychologist, a teen boy must help his former foster-brother open up about his troubling secrets. Ages 14 & up.
Poison’s Kiss by Breeana Shields (Jan 10, 2017)
A teen whose kiss can kill works as an assassin until she gets an assignment she can’t complete: to kill the boy she loves. Ages 14 & up.
After the Fall by Kate Hart (Jan 24, 2017)
A girl struggles to balance her relationships with her best friend and his brother–her secret boyfriend–when tragedy strikes. Age 14 & up.
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson (Jan 24, 2017)
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Caraval by Stephanie Garber (Jan 31, 2017)
Two sister run away to escape arranged marriage and get swept up in a magical and deadly game. Ages 14 & up.
The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles (Jan 31, 2017)
A teen girl and a bounty hunter from Hell get wrapped up in a romantic adventure. Ages 14 & up.
Wait for Me by Caroline Leech (Jan 31, 2017)
A Scottish Red Cross volunteer falls in love with a German POW during WWII. Age 14 & up.
The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom (Feb 7, 2017)
To save her father from the vicious men holding him prisoner, a teen girl must become as cruel as the assassins and spies she faces. Ages 14 & up.
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When a boy she thought existed only in her imagination shows up in real life, a teen learns that she has the ability to travel to alternate realities and that in every one of them, she is dying. Ages 14 & up.
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While her mom is in Mexico working on a novel, a girl chronicles her life in high school. Ages 12-18.
A Psalm for Lost Girls by Katie Bayerl (Mar 14, 2017)
When an abducted girl returns, the sister of a dead girl begins an investigation into her sister’s death and uncovers secrets about the abduction. Ages 14 & up.
Just Fly Away by Andrew McCarthy (Mar 28, 2017)
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Zenn Diagram by Wendy Brandt (Apr 4, 2017)
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The Exo Project by Andrew DeYoung (Apr 4, 2017)
Desperate money, a boy volunteers for a 100 year mission to search for a new habitable planet after Earth is tainted by solar radiation. Ages 12-18.
Keeping the Beat by Marie Powell and Jeff Norton (Apr 4, 2017)
A teen girl band wins a talent contest and embarks on an adventure that ends in tragedy. Ages 14 & up.
Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer (Apr 11, 2017)
Two sisters with different faerie gifts find their lives torn apart when they are plunged into an enchanted dream world. Ages 12-18.
The Takedown by Corrie Wang (Apr 11, 2017)
A faked video of a girl having sex with her English teacher goes viral and threatens to destroy her life. Ages 14 & up.
Sucktown, Alaska by Craig Dirkes (May 1, 2017)
After getting kicked out of college his first semester, a young man struggles to find his way in the most boring town in the world. Ages 16 & up.
Textrovert by Lindsey Summers (May 2, 2017)
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Just a Normal Tuesday by Kim Turrisi (May 2, 2017)
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The Traitor’s Kiss by Erin Beatty (May 9, 2017)
A matchmaker’s apprentice is recruited as a spy and enters the world of military espionage. Ages 12-18.
City of Angels by Kristi Belcamino (May 9, 2017)
A homeless teen investigates the disappearance of another homeless girl she met on the streets of LA. Ages 14 & up.
It Started with Goodbye by Christina June (May 9, 2017)
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It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura (May 9, 2017)
Two girls from different cultural backgrounds fall in love. Ages 14 & up.
Antisocial by Jillian Blake (May 16, 2017)
Private lives become public when students at a wealthy prep school are hacked and their secrets exposed. Age 14 & up.
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (May 30, 2017)
A teen who created a school gossip app is murdered in detention, and all four of the other students in the room with him had a motive. Ages 12-18.
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (May 30, 2017)
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On April 25, The Air Defense Artillery Association (ADAA) announced that Raytheon had donated $10,000 to their annual scholarship fund. Raytheon will sponsor two $5,000 scholarships in the name of fallen Air Defense Artillery service members.
One scholarship is named after Command Sgt. Maj. James Blankenbecler, who in 2003 was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, based in Fort Hood, Texas, and was killed while riding in a convoy that was hit by an improvised explosive device in Samarra, Iraq.
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A Long History of Gear Obsession
Back in the mid-to-late 90s, back when I was playing TorilMUD, there was a point when a couple of people had been caught cheating… multi-boxing or exploiting game mechanics or some such… and the game had to come up with punishments for such transgressions.
The people who ran the at the time came up with a few levels of action, which included deletion of characters and banning people permanently. But the for the first offense rumor had it… rumor, because while the staff had policies about this sort of thing, they were not documented for the player base, but the whole community was small enough that word got around about nearly everything if you knew who to ask… that the punishment involved a choice.
The choice was:
Removal of half your levels from your main character
Removal of all gear from your main character
And, of course, as we sat around in experience groups chatting about this and that while waiting for the zone to respawn, this topic came up and we declared which choice we would take. Universally we opted for losing levels. In fact, in exploring this topic, I think we were in favor of being busted down to level 1 if we were allowed to keep out gear.
Gear, circa 2000
Levels were replaceable, and in a game where there was experience loss on death… and level loss with enough deaths was a thing back then… working on experience and leveling up often continued for players at level cap. We had all been through the leveling process. We knew the ins and outs and could find groups. Leveling up was work, but work we knew how to do.
Gear though… gear was a different story. This was a time where gear commonly had class, race, or alignment restrictions, but level restrictions were almost unheard of. And there was not such thing as attunement. A rare item might be flagged as “no trade, and some items were “cursed,” which meant you could not drop them without somebody casting a spell on you, but most items could be traded to other players or handed off to low level alts.
Plus gear often made your character… or made you character viable. If you had knocked my level 50 warrior back down to level 1 but left him with his gear, he would have torn his way back to level 40 in very little time solo. While being able to solo was generally over by level 20 for a fresh character, and alt with good gear could easily go to 40 and possibly to the level cap at 50 with the right outfit.
Obtaining gear though… that was the hard part.
As I mentioned in a previous post, gear was available once per server boot. If you wanted an item from a particular mob and somebody else had already killed it during the current boot, you would have to wait until the server crashed and restarted again. (Or until a kindly GM decided that the server had been up long enough and we needed a reboot to keep us all busy.)
While a good proportion of items were on a given mob every single time, some were random. Of course, the better the item, the more likely it was to be random.
Then, to obtain the best items, you had to run zones, the TorilMUD version of raiding. That meant getting together a group of 16 people of the right mix of classes, getting yourself included in that group, and spending anywhere from 1-8 hours taking down a zone. (No zone, to my recollection, took beyond 2 hours if done right, but mistakes happen. I recall a City of Brass group that took 4 hours just getting to the zone because things went horribly wrong in the Plane of Fire.)
And, finally, once you had completed a given zone, you had to roll on items. People would put in bids on a given item, numbers would be assigned to people, and a random roll would be done to determine who got the prized item. So you could get in a group, go through a successful run, and still end up empty handed and waiting for a reboot so you could try again.
Of course, this doesn’t sound all that strange today. Sure, bind of pick up, gear attunement, and level restrictions on gear have axed the whole twinking of alts to a certain degree. But gear still rules, and there are still some twinking options, like heirloom gear in World of Warcraft. Rare is the MMORPG where gear is not a major focus. Sure, there is reputation, titles, mounts, pets, achievements and what have you, but gear does seem to drive people more than anything else. I went to Timeless Isle not so much because I needed something new to do but because it was an efficient way to gear up at level cap. I am past wanting to commit to raiding, but I still will seek out the best gear I can.
Have shovel, want mallet!
And what happens when an MMORPG doesn’t focus so much on gear? We seem to bring our gear orientation with us all the same. Darkfall didn’t specifically de-emphasize gear, but with full loot of PvP victims in place, people sought to protect their good gear by going out to battle in cheap drops.
Likewise, one of the main fears people have in EVE Online centers around loss. People with a gear orientation coming into New Eden can be quite discouraged by the fact that when your ship explodes it is gone and you have to buy a new one. The can often, abstractly, see the benefit of such a system. Destruction of ships drives the market, makes industry viable, and basically keeps the player economy going despite the game being full of magic sources of in-game currency like most other MMOs.
And I must admit to letting out a resigned sigh when my own ship gets blown up. I’ve gotten past attachment to individual ships. You can always buy another just like it. And the ISK thing isn’t a big deal, especially when you are eligible for reimbursement. But actually getting a ship together if you don’t have a backup can be a pain. If their aren’t some on contract, you end up having to head to a trade hub, buying what you need, and then shipping it to where you want to use it. Again, an economic opportunity for some… shipping corps are a thing in EVE… but a bit of a pain if you want to do something but, instead, have to clone jump and spend a day in high sec buying parts and arranging transport. That is just the way it works when you need a specific ship with just the right fit.
Because it all comes down to an obsession with gear in the end.
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Small number of World Cup tickets being sold on black market
By James Hingle
A 'bit of a black market' of tickets for the remaining World Cup games is operating in Russia, police said.
Supporters began to arrive in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of the national team's biggest game in decades - a World Cup semi-final against Croatia on Wednesday night.
Police estimate there could be as many as 10,000 England fans jetting into the Russian capital for the game but perhaps only half will have got hold of official tickets.
Interest in travelling to Russia has soared since the beginning of the tournament, which began with historically low numbers of England fans in the stands against Tunisia.
Mark Roberts, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for football policing, said: "I think we'll see more, I think influx is probably overstating it.
"We're estimating eight to 10,000 - it's really difficult to tell because when people take direct routes it's obviously easy to count them but people might come by diverse routes, there are quite a lot of expats here and other fans staying out."
Asked how many might be ticketless, he said: "It's difficult to judge, we know from the ticket sales we can probably reasonably expect through official channels about half that number to get tickets.
"There is a bit of a black market, but not much of one.
"Even though it's not the Russian's team, it's on their doorstep. How often do you get a World Cup semi-final in your city? So there are not a great deal of tickets going spare.
"So there may be people here without tickets, hopefully they can enjoy the atmosphere in the fan fest."
Fan ID
According to the Russian Ministry of Communications, nearly 7,000 more England fans ordered a Fan ID after England's quarter-final win against Sweden on Saturday.
In order to gain a Fan ID, punters need their ticket number to apply for one. Emma Coulthurst of TravelSupermarket told the Times: “The one thing you need to be sure of obtaining is a visa or a Fan ID, the means of getting to Russia without a visa during the World Cup,” she said.
“Many proud fans have been posting their tickets on social media and fans back at home wanting to go have been using the ticket numbers to enable them to get the ID.”
As of July 7, some 21,700 fans had ordered the obligatory identity cards - which in itself was a rise from 17,722 from the day after England beat Panama 6-1.
According to the communication ministry's spokeswoman the number of Fan IDs ordered by England fans stood at 28,048 by Tuesday.
As for tickets, those on the official Fifa website had sold out by Sunday, while the Football Association sold its official allocation of 2,180.
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Missouri Rep. Linda Black (D)
107th district
Email Address: linda.black@house.mo.gov
Room 411-2
Rep. Linda Black, a Republican, represents part of St. Francois County (District 117) in the Missouri House of Representatives.
In addition to her legislative duties, Rep. Black is a former public school teacher in the North St. Francois County School District in Bonne Terre and West County School District in Leadwood. In 2003, she was appointed as an Accelerated Schools Coach and to the Steering Committee for the Intermediate School. Rep. Black is the former city Treasurer of Bonne Terre and the former Chief Deputy Treasurer of St. Francois County.
Rep. Black is a member of the National Rifle Association and Missouri Farm Bureau. She also is on the Board of Directors for the University of Missouri Extension Council and an ex-officio member of the Backstoppers Organization. She is a member of the Desloge, Bonne Terre, Park Hills/Leadington and Farmington Chambers of Commerce. Rep. Black has been a member of East Bonne Terre First Baptist Church for the past 28 years and has served in the capacity of church treasurer, youth director and Sunday school teacher for both adults and the youth.
Rep. Black received an Associates of Arts from Mineral Area College and a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Central Methodist University. She went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Education from Southwest Baptist University.
Born in Bonne Terre, Rep. Black now resides in Park Hills. She has two children.
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MO - HB934 Prohibits a licensed insurance company from issuing any policy or certificate of long-term care insurance unless the risks and rates have been approved by the Director of the Department of Insurance
MO - HR1826 Supports the work of Missouri's pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes in providing outstanding service to women and families
MO - HJR5 Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizens the right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife using traditionally approved devices or methods
MO - HJR27 Proposes a constitutional amendment specifying that the right of every citizen to possess, purchase ammunition, and any parts or articles for the proper functioning of arms must not be infringed
MO - HJR28 Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting a person from serving more than 16 years in the General Assembly in any proportion split between the House of Representatives and the Senate
MO - HCR13 Strongly supports the selection of Kirksville, Missouri, as the site for A.T. Still University's new School of Dentistry and Oral Health
MO - HCR15 Designates November 13, 2011, as "Buck O'Neil Day" in Missouri in honor of the first African-American coach in Major League Baseball
MO - HCR17 Urges the United States Congress to support a comprehensive plan for flood control on the Upper Mississippi River Basin
MO - HCR22 Strongly urges the federal Department of Homeland Security and Congress to increase the level of enforcement of illegal immigration, especially the hiring of unauthorized workers
MO - HCR31 Calls on the United States Congress to allocate at least 40% of the Land and Water Conservation Fund moneys to the State Assistance program for state and local capital parks projects
MO - HCR48 Strongly urges the United States Congress to support the Pea Ridge Mine in the extraction of thorium and the development of refineries for thorium power plants
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Max Hill QC: Reflections on my time as Independent Reviewer
This was my final week in office as Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.
I became Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation on 1st March 2017. Just in time to witness the horror that unfolded on Westminster Bridge exactly three weeks later. My first annual report into the operation of the Terrorism Acts in 2016 was delivered to the Home Office in November 2017 and published in January 2018, see here. My second report, here, addressed the police investigation which followed the Westminster Bridge attack; the operation name of the investigation was Classific, and it encompassed the arrest of 12 people, who were detained for between 1 and 6 days, but then released without charge in every case.
The Government Response to the Annual Report on the operation of the Terrorism Acts in 2016 and The Government Response to the report on the use of terrorism legislation following the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack were both published on 13th September 2018. I reacted to both here, and in my Annual Report 2017.
My Annual Report on the operation of the Terrorism Acts in 2017 was presented to Parliament this week, see here. This is my final report as Independent Reviewer and included a review of two of the major terrorism investigations this year, the Manchester Arena and London Bridge attacks.
My Annual Report 2017 also covered other key areas of developments:
the passage of the Sanctions and Money Laundering Bill through Parliament, on which I also gave evidence to the Joint Committee of Human Rights in January 2018, here.
the re-launch of the Government Counter Terrorism strategy (known as CONTEST), presented by the Home Secretary on 4th June.
the new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018, which is making its way through Parliamentary scrutiny. Additionally, I gave evidence to the JCHR on 20th June 2018, here. I also gave evidence to the Bill Committee on 26th June 2018, here. Subsequently, together with my Senior Special Advisor Professor Clive Walker QC (Hon), written submissions were provided to the Bill Committee, here. Finally, I made additional comments on the amendments tabled by the Government in September 2018 here.
Since taking up post in March 2017, I have travelled across the country, including Northern Ireland, in order to meet with as many people as possible, with the sole purpose of hearing the views of all on the operation and impact of our legislation. The office of IRTL is an open channel for any person or group with relevant information or views. I add only this for the sake of clarity; engagement does not equate to endorsement.
I have tried to react, where possible and appropriate, to key public discussion points in my area:
the role of the media in portraying modern terrorism, here.
responding to terrorists’ use of social media, here.
returning foreign fighters and extreme material online, here.
I maintained a Twitter account, here, throughout my time as Independent Reviewer allowing me to reach an audience of almost 3,000. In March this year, I received messages concerning the trial of Mr Daniel Creagh and I resolved to look into the circumstances of this case. At around the same time, I also resolved to enquire into the circumstances in which Ms Lauren Southern was detained whilst attempting to enter the UK, also in March this year. I completed both reviews, here.
Additionally, I gave a number of public lectures, including to the Criminal Bar Association in September 2017, here, and the Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture for JUSTICE in October 2017, here. I reflected on my first year as Independent Reviewer in the Sir Christopher Staughton Memorial Lecture at the University of Hertfordshire in March 2018, here. My final public speech came at the National Security Summit in October 2018, here.
Any errors or shortcomings in my work as Independent Reviewer are mine and mine alone. However, most of the successes during my time should be credited to Professor Clive Walker, Senior Special Advisor, Alyson Kilpatrick and Hashi Mohamed, Special Advisors, and Fatima Jichi, my Legal Assistant. To them all, and to everyone who has supported me through 20 months of hard but enjoyable work, I say thank you and farewell.
I will take up office as Director of Public Prosecutions on 1 November. Any requests relating to my DPP appointment and work should be directed to the Crown Prosecution Service Press Office.
MAX HILL Q.C.
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Back from a 3-day introductory trip to Belfast. Very pleased that Alyson Kilpatrick BL has agreed to be Special Adviser (NI)., Jul 5
Citizenship deprivation and encryption: recent talk from Australian terrorwatchdog James Renwick: https://t.co/uoR7FWmflB. Draws strongly on work of my predecessor David Anderson @bricksilk., Jun 18
...speakers identified up to 6 potential identifiers of when someone is a journalist in law 2) risk to journalists reporting on terrorism ‘in theatre’ if perception that their material readily available to authorities., Jun 13
Incisive discussion journalism/ state security yesterday: @bricksilk @IndexCensorship Alex BailinQC and ITV News’ Rohit Kachroo at UCL+Bindmans event. Two standout points 1) uncertainty as to meaning of journalist - relevant to new Designated Area offence..., Jun 13
Delighted that Prof Clive Walker QC has agreed to be my Senior Special Adviser. Also highly recommend recent (2019) "Counter-Terrorism, Constitutionalism and Miscarriages of Justice", G.Lennon, C.King, C.McCartney (eds) (Hart) published in Clive's honour., Jun 5
Started work today. Lots to do to get up to speed. But I want to start by thanking predecessors for help and wisdom - Max Hill @MaxHillQC, David Anderson @bricksilk, Alex Carlile., May 23
My congratulations to Jonathan Hall QC. I wish him well in all of his work, and I intend to transfer this @terrorwatchdog account and all followers to Jonathan when he starts work later this week. Thanks to everyone for waiting. Max. https://t.co/8irFVTCdMS, May 20
Final post just added to the IRTL website, please read. https://t.co/4SEJspxAsu, Oct 14
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Day of DAYS Interview: Casey Moss & Sal Stowers
Walker Ragsdale
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The stars of NBC’S Days of our Lives returned to Universal CityWalk for its annual ‘Day of Days‘ fan event Saturday, November 11, 2017. We spoke with stars Casey Moss (JJ) and Sal Stowers (Lani) during the press event about their controversial storyline the show’s embarking in involving an unarmed police shooting.
Days of our Lives has been on fire since the summer, mostly thanks to the writing of new head writer Ron Carlivati and team Sheri Anderson Thomas and Ryan Quan, so fans were super excited for this year’s event.
Like every year, the complimentary event was set for 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and offered fans the chance to meet and greet their favorite DAYS cast members including Lucas Adams (Tripp), Kristian Alfonso (Hope), Lamon Archey (Eli), Camila Banus (Gabi), Nadia Bjorlin (Chloe), Bryan Dattilo (Lucas), Kassie DePavia (Eve), Judi Evans (Adrienne/Bonnie), Mary Beth Evans (Kayla), Billy Flynn (Chad), Galen Gering (Rafe), Deidre Hall (Marlena), Bill Hayes (Doug), Susan Hayes (Julie), Drake Hogestyn (John), Olivia Keegan (Claire), Lauren Koslow (Kate), Eric Martsolf (Brady), Chandler Massey (Will), Marci Miller (Abigail), Casey Moss (JJ), Stephen Nichols (Steve), Thaao Penghlis (Andre), James Reynolds (Abe), Suzanne Rogers (Maggie), Meredith Scott Lynn (Anne), Christopher Sean (Paul), Freddie Smith (Sonny), Sal Stowers (Lani), and Vanessa Williams (Valerie) for autograph signings and Q&A sessions.
TV Source Magazine was on-hand talking to all the stars in the hopes of bringing you some scoop. Most of these interviews are not spoiler heavy, as actors are limited in what they can reveal about upcoming plots. But it’s nice to hear their insight about current and previous stories, as well as other tidbits.
We hope you’ll enjoy our interview with Casey Moss and Sal Stowers.
Days of our Lives is about to embark on a pretty intense, topical storyline. Where you nervous about doing something so heavy?
Casey Moss: Absolutely, of course. I wanted to do it justice as much as I could. It’s heavy but it’s also relevant with what’s going on in society. Doing something like that, something so real, of course it’s going to make you real nervous.
Are you worried how fans with react?
Casey: No, I’m excited and really looking forward to how they react.
Photo Credit: NBC.com
Theo’s shooting will affect Lani on so many levels and bring a lot of emotional turmoil.
Sal Stowers: With her boyfriend shooting her brother, you can only imagine what anybody would feel, it’s heartbreaking, it’s devastating, it’s two people that she loves very much. It’s a push-pull, Theo is her little brother, that’s her life and of course there’s JJ, who she loves so much. You know it wasn’t intentional but how do you cope with that? It’s not easy.
Casey: You look at the situation, to separate emotions from logic is really hard. He was doing this and doing that and it got him in that position but then it still happened.
Sal: They both are detectives, so they have to look at it like, “Hey, we are doing our jobs” but then you bring in the personal, “This is my life, this is my life, forget about work for a second this is reality.”
Under the new writing team, Lani has been interacting more with her family. Are you enjoying those beats?
Sal: I love James [Reynolds] and Kyler [Pettis]! I love them so much, it’s been wonderful working with them. I didn’t really get to do that when I first got on the show. And I think it’s important for Lani to have a life established. To show her family, to show she’s not just a detective, she’s not just JJ’s girlfriend that there’s more to her and I like that they wrote that in.
Can we expect to see the Deveraux family come together during this tragedy?
Casey: Yeah, it impacts everyone in the town, we all are closely related. It’s very tight knit and all family scenes.
Fans know Matthew Ashford is returning for a visit, did you get to work with him?
Casey: [Laughs] Is that a trick question? I’ll just say I got to talk to him quite a bit.
Days of our Lives airs weekdays on NBC. Episodes are available online at NBC.com.
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Coalition Fever: An Overview of the picture in the Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West Provinces
Forming coalitions is an exercise in real politics ( politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises) and its therefore dangerous to predict the outcome of any coalition negotiations beforehand. Relying on what is speculated in the mainstream media is especially fraught with danger as evidenced in this article looking at what transpired in 2006 in Cape Town when parties were also faced with a hung council scenario Anatomy of a coalition coup: Are there lessons ahead of the August election?
In this series of blog posts I will nevertheless look at the possible coalitions in each of the 27 municipalities. In my first post I looked at the situation in the Metros -> Coalition Fever: An Overview of the Metro Picture and in this one I will look at the situation in the Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West Provinces, followed by a third post looking at KwaZulu-Natal and a last post looking possible coalitions in the Western and Northern Cape Provinces.
Note – Thanks to the IEC and Paul Berkowitz for the pictures used in this series of blog posts. Paul wrote an excellent summary on the coalition picture outside of the Metros which could be read here -> Coalition politics: what’s possible outside of the metros .
FREE STATE PROVINCE
The only municipality in the Free State with a hung council is that of Metsimaholo.
METSIMAHOLO
The Metsimaholo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State province. Metsimaholo means ‘big water’ in Sesotho. The municipality was established in 2000 through the amalgamation of the then Sasolburg, Deneysville and Oranjeville Transitional Local Councils.
2011 % vote
2016 % vote % Shift
EFF – 17.87% +17.87 %
Seat allocation: ANC 19, DA 12, EFF 8, MCA 2, FF+ 1
Scenario: The ANC short 3 seats for a majority and the DA 10
Possible coalitions: The ANC could partner with the DA or EFF individually or together with the two smaller parties or just with the MCA (the Metsimaholo Community Association, a local party that might hold the balance of power) and FF+ who together holds 3 seats. The DA could form a coalition with the ANC or EFF but in the latter instance they will require the support of the one or both of the smaller parties.
I agree with Paul Berkowitz that the ANC has more options in Metsimaholo than the DA. A lot however depends on the decision of the MCA, a crucial partner in two of the possible coalitions. Looking at the latest news articles it seems that the MCA is not open to discussing coalitions with the ANC -> Cold shoulder for ruling party
GAUTENG PROVINCE
Other than the three metros Mogale City is the only other municipality in Gauteng that will require a coalition. An ANC-led coalition is most likely, as the party only needs 1 more seat for a majority, while a coalition of minority parties requires the participation of every other party.
MOGALE CITY
Mogale City Local Municipality lies directly west and south of the City of Johannesburg and City of Tshwane Metropolitan areas respectively, and forms part of one of the three district municipalities that make up the peripheral areas of the Gauteng province. To the north, west and south it borders onto the Madibeng, Rustenburg and Rand West City Local Municipalities respectively. The northern part of Mogale City comprises the bulk of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Mogale City’s strongest functional urban linkage is with the City of Johannesburg. Krugersdorp and the greater Kagiso area.
EFF – 11.65% +11.65%
Seat allocation: ANC 38 seats, DA 27, EFF 9, FF+ 2, IFP 1
Scenario: The ANC short 1 seat and the DA 12.
Possible coalitions: The ANC only requires 1 seat and can therefore form a coalition with the DA or EFF or any of the two smaller parties. The DA will require the support of the EFF, FF+ and IFP to be able to form a majority.
Its likely that the ANC will be able to form a coalition as it requires the support of just one of the smaller parties.
There is only one municipality in need of a coalition in the North West province, but it’s a very important one. Rustenburg is the only contested municipality where the EFF is the ‘official opposition’. The roles of the Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD) and the Botho Community Movement (BCM) will be important.
RUSTENBERG
Rustenburg Local Municipality is a Category B municipality situated within the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality in the North West province. Rustenburg is a large town situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg Mountain Range. Rustenburg (meaning ‘town of rest’ or ‘resting place’) was proclaimed a township in 1851. This large town is situated some 112km north-west and is a 90-minute drive from both Johannesburg and Pretoria.
The 2016 election result is depicted in the picture above. The voter shift from the 2011 election for the three major parties are indicated in the table below:
DA 20.1% 16% -4.1%
Seat allocation: ANC 43 seats, EFF 24, DA 14, F4SD 4, AIC 1, FF+ 1, UDM 1, BCM 1
Scenario: The ANC short 2 seats for a majority and the EFF 21 seats.
Possible coalitions: The ANC can form a coalition with the EFF or DA or F4SD (a new party made up of disgruntled ANC councillors) or any two of the smaller parties who holds 1 seat each. The EFF will require the support of the DA & F4SD and three of the smaller parties that holds one seat each.
Although the ANC only requires 2 seats and the EFF 21, the outcome is close to call given the kingmaker role that can be played by the F4SD and BCM -> Little known party could be play kingmaker in Rustenburg & BCM will not compromise community in coalition talks .
Read also this -> EFF might lead coalition government in Rustenburg – Shivambu
There are two municipalities in the Limpopo Province in need of a coalition namely Thabazimbi and Modimolle/Mookgopong.
Thabazimbi Local Municipality is located within the Waterberg District Municipality in the south-western part of the Limpopo province, has Botswana as its international neighbour, and is a mere two-hour drive from Pretoria. Thabazimbi is known as ‘mountain of iron’, which is a Setswana name referring to the highly lucrative iron ore reef first discovered in the municipality in 1919.
ANC 62.71% 45.3% -17.4%
Seat allocation: ANC 10 seats, EFF 5, DA 5, TRA 2, FF+ 1
Scenario: The ANC short 2 seats and the EFF and DA 7.
Possible coalitions: The ANC could form a coalition with the EFF or DA or the TRA (Thabazimbi Residents Association). The EFF and DA can work together but then they will also have to get the cooperation of the TRA.
The TRA is the kingmakers in this municipality and depending on who they agree to work with (ANC or DA/EFF) is going to have the majority.
MODIMOLLE/MOOKGOPONG
Mookgopong/Modimolle Local Municipality is situated within the Waterberg District in the Limpopo province. It was established by the amalgamation of the Mookgopong and Modimolle Local Municipalities in August 2016. The municipality occupies a strategic position from the main markets of the country by being at the south entrance of the province. It enjoys easy access from the main national arteries, the N1 and R101.
ANC Newly demarcated municipality 47.71% n/a
DA Newly demarcated municipality 40.92% n/a
EFF Newly demarcated municipality 5.12% n/a
Seat allocation: ANC 13 seats, DA 7, EFF 6, FF+ 2
Scenario: The ANC short 2 seats for a majority, the DA 8 and the EFF 9.
Possible coalitions: The ANC could work with the DA or EFF or the FF+ who has the exact number of seats they require. The DA could form a coalition with the ANC or the EEF + the FF+.
The FF+ is the kingmakers in this municipality should the ANC decide not work with the DA or EFF.
THE NEXT BLOG POST
In the next post I will look at the situation in the KwaZulu-Natal Province.
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2 Indians killed among 39 victims of Istanbul Nightclub Massacre tweets Sushma Swaraj
ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Thirty-nine people, including foreigners, were shot to death on Sunday when a gunman went on a rampage at Reina Nightclub in Istanbul where revelers were celebrating the New Year.
Among 39 killed, 2 Indian nationals have been reported dead confirmed Sushma Swaraj on Twitter.
As police launched a dragnet for the assailant, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the carnage sought to sow chaos and undermine peace, but that Turkey would never bow to the threat.
The shooting spree at the waterside Reina nightclub was unleashed when 2017 in Turkey was just 75 minutes old, after a year of unprecedented bloodshed that saw hundreds of people die in strikes blamed on Kurdish terrorists and a bloody failed coup.
The assailant shot dead a policeman and a civilian at the club entrance and then went on the rampage inside where up to 700 people were ringing in the New Year.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the attacker had escaped and was now the target of a major manhunt, expressing hope the suspect “would be captured soon”.
He added that of 20 victims identified so far, 15 were foreigners and five were Turks. Another 65 people were being treated in hospital.
Many revellers threw themselves into the water in panic. Dogan news agency said the gunman was dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, although this has yet to be confirmed.
Soylu said the gunman had arrived with a gun concealed underneath an overcoat but subsequently exited the venue wearing a different garment.
Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said at the scene on the shores of the Bosphorus that the attacker “targeted innocent people who had only come here to celebrate the New Year and have fun”.
Television pictures showed party-goers — including men in suits and women in cocktail dresses — emerging from the nightclub in a state of shock.
Erdogan said in a statement that with such attacks, “they are working to destroy our country’s morale and create chaos”.
Turkey would deploy every means to fight “terror organisations” and the countries supporting them, Erdogan said, without giving details on which groups or nations he was referring to.
The attack evoked memories of the November 2015 carnage in Paris when Islamic State jihadists went on a gun and bombing rampage on nightspots in the French capital, killing 130 people including 90 at the Bataclan concert hall.
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‘More of the same rotten ethics’: Rep. Stewart, Mancini slam Gov. Lee’s decision to hold Aug. 23 special session
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June 27, 2019 (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) – Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Mary Mancini and Tennessee House Democratic Caucus Chair Mike Steewart issued separate statements in response to reports that Gov. Bill Lee has called a special session on August 23, 2019:
“After Casada embarrassed our state and disrespected our citizens, Bill Lee should’ve called for an immediate resignation like the majority of Tennesseans wanted. Instead, Lee has quietly allowed Casada to run the show and wield power freely. And now by calling a special session, he’s spending $41,000 Tennessee tax dollars just so Casada and his loyalists in the House Republican Caucus can try to undermine the Speaker Pro Tempore they elected for situations like this. This is more of the same rotten ethics that got us here in the first place,” Mancini said.
Chairman Mike Stewart today called the decision by the Governor to have a taxpayer funded legislative session on August 23rd a “joke” and a “continuation of a Republican scheme to cover their misdeeds.”
At a potential cost of around $40,000 a day, Rep. Stewart said, “It is ridiculous to waste taxpayer money because Republicans are uncertain of the person they elected to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore. Their election of Glen Casada was a disaster and now they want Tennesseans to pay as they try to figure out who gets to ride in a limousine for the next 4 months. There’s no logical reason why this election couldn’t be held in January when we come back into regular session. It’s a just a huge slap in the face to taxpayers. The fact that the Governor and other Republicans are working so hard to replace House Speaker Pro Tempore Bill Dunn raises serious concerns about whether this special session is only designed to block further investigations into Casada and his cronies.”
Additionally, now than Casada’s speakership is coming to an end, Republican leaders are now floating the idea of taking action against State Rep. David Byrd, an accused serial sexual abuser, after remaining silent on the issue for the entire legislative session. Republican House Majority Leader William Lamberth told The Tennessean that during the Aug. 23 special session, a vote to expel Byrd could “potentially be ripe to take up.”
“If sexual abuse is worthy of retribution now, why wasn’t it problematic enough to call for Casada to take action during the 2019 legislative session? This speaks volumes to the shortage of integrity and principle among Tennessee GOP leaders,” Mancini said. “This isn’t about politics. It’s only about basic decency. On the Byrd and Casada scandals, Democrats in the legislature are the only group that has consistently upheld the tradition of honorable and high-minded Tennessee statesmanship that every voter — Democrat, Republican, and Independent — expects from government.”
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Justice League (2017, Zack Snyder)
18 November 2017 Andrew Wickliffe Leave a comment
Justice League exists, whether intentionally or not, outside a certain kind of critical examination. Director Snyder didn’t finish post-production. Or, at least, when the studio demanded lots of reshoots, Snyder wasn’t involved in a creative capacity. The job went to Joss Whedon, who gets a co-writer credit. Are the terrible scenes Whedon’s fault or Snyder’s fault? The generic, impersonal Danny Elfman score? Seems like Whedon’s fault. The terrible part for top-billed Ben Affleck? Probably Snyder’s fault. The crappy CGI?
Well, crappy CGI in DC Comics adaptations is definitely Warner Bros.’s fault. And it gets bad in Justice League. The lack of detail on the giant, personality-free adversary (boringly voiced by Ciarán Hinds) is stunning. Again, it’s not clear if Snyder supervising post would’ve led to better action scenes. The ones in Justice League are all pretty awful. Fabian Wagner’s photography is bland, David Brenner, Richard Pearson, and Martin Walsh’s editing is at best bland. It’s much often much worse. The action sequences lack imagination on every level, whether scale or just the idea of the superheroes working together.
Justice League has no scale. Someone–Snyder, Whedon, the producers, the studio, the twenty-third test audience–decided there shouldn’t be any establishing shots if they don’t have exposition. Justice League cuts from expository scene to expository scene, except Whedon and Chris Terrio’s Frankenstein script doesn’t have any texture to it. Not when it’s the main cast, not when it’s the supporting cast. Especially not when it’s poor Diane Lane and Amy Adams. Jeremy Irons gets terribly mistreated, but it’s nothing compared to Lane and Adams.
Adams is literally reduced to broken woman. While the whole world is ceasing to function because of what happened with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, instead of being a strong character who perceivers in the aftermath, she just breaks down. Not on screen, she just tells everyone about it. Well, she tells Lane and Henry Cavill about it because she has nothing else going on.
But Lane. Poor Lane. It appears Lane’s scenes are entirely, with one exception, Whedon’s. Cavill had a mustache while doing reshoots and there’s some bad (though apparently exceptionally expensive–read rushed) CG to mask out the mustache. The result is his mouth not moving right and his teeth being scrunched. So you can kind of tell. You can kind of tell who to blame.
And it’s Whedon who reduces Lane and Adams to broken women. At least Terrio and Snyder–apparently–made Affleck a broken man. He just can’t get on after what he’s done. Except he’s not haunted about it. He’s just bad, actually. He’s really, really bad. He’s supposed to be the straight man to a team of misfit superheroes, only they’re not misfit superheroes.
Misfits need personality and the Justice League has none. Ezra Miller’s got the most as the Flash and all he does is tell wisecracks. Then there’s Ray Fisher; he gives the film’s best performance in a thankless part. Even though he’s got a lot to do in the script, Fisher gets the least story of anyone. More offensively, it wastes Joe Morton as his dad.
Jason Momoa’s Aquaman. He’s got no personality, doesn’t really do anything in the action sequences except save people occasionally–by people, I mean the other superheroes. Like all DC Comics movies, no regular people are in danger in Justice League. Well, except one family; but they’re actually trapped in a Russian version of Tremors. Otherwise, no one’s in danger. Ever.
Anyway. Momoa. It’s not his fault. More than anyone else, it’s not his fault. His part’s terribly written and the editing on his introduction scenes is atrocious.
Gal Gadot’s supposedly the real straight person on the team, because she can see through Affleck’s guff. Only Affleck wants Gadot to lead the team. Or something. They get some painful scenes together. Again, it’s unclear if it’s Whedon or Snyder, but their scenes are awful. There’s negative chemistry coming from Affleck, even when the script has him mooning over Gadot. Though he does attack her personally when he needs to make a point. Affleck’s writing is so bad. Just. Beyond bad.
Gadot’s fine. She gets the most to do in action scenes, which is either because she’s had the most successful solo movie or just because no one else’s superpowers are good for the fight scenes. Snyder’s direction of the Flash action is terrible, for example.
Amber Heard’s got one scene and makes more impression than practically anyone else.
Cavill’s performance is hard to gauge. Whedon doesn’t write him good scenes. And he’s got a giant unmoving mouth. He and Adams exhibit their usual wondrous chemistry when it’s not a Whedon shot or line. Even still, Elfman’s music ruins even the non-Whedon material. Elfman’s score doesn’t fit. It’s frantic and rushed and usually clashes with the editing.
The only thing saving Justice League from being a disaster is the film disqualifying itself from being serious enough proposition to be a disaster. You open a movie, any movie, with the single worst cover of Everybody Knows–and there have been some terrible Everybody Knows covers–but an offensively bad Everybody Knows cover… well, it’s just too stupid to take seriously enough for it to be a disaster.
Instead, Justice League is intriguingly terrible. Was Snyder’s intention worse? Maybe. I doubt it, because even with all that material’s problems, it doesn’t have Cavill with the silly CG face. But the things Whedon clearly contributed are godawful.
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Directed by Zack Snyder; screenplay by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, based on a story by Terrio and Zack Snyder and the comic book by Gardner Fox; director of photography, Fabian Wagner; edited by David Brenner, Richard Pearson, and Martin Walsh; music by Danny Elfman; production designer, Patrick Taopoulos; produced by Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, Jon Berg, and Geoff Johns; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Ben Affleck (Batman / Bruce Wayne), Henry Cavill (Superman / Clark Kent), Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman / Diana Prince), Ezra Miller (The Flash / Barry Allen), Jason Momoa (Aquaman / Arthur Curry), Ray Fisher (Cyborg / Victor Stone), Jeremy Irons (Alfred), Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Joe Morton (Silas Stone), J.K. Simmons (Commissioner Gordon), Diane Lane (Martha Kent), Amber Heard (Mera), Connie Nielsen (Queen Hippolyta), and Ciarán Hinds (Steppenwolf).
OTHER JUSTICE LEAGUE FILMS
OTHER FILMS DIRECTED BY ZACK SNYDER
Amber HeardAmy AdamsBen AffleckEzra MillerGal GadotHenry CavillJason MomoaJustice LeagueWarner Bros.
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The Omen (1976, Richard Donner)
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Interested participants are scheduled for an audition either at Monash University or ANAM. From the audition, twenty lucky musicians are selected to perform live on-air in the 3MBS Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio. Afterwards, musicians join presenter, Jess Carrascalao Heard and a panel of two industry mentors in the broadcast studio for an on-air interview and performance feedback.
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Get Lifted
First-generation grad beats incredible odds to become a dentist
29-year-old knew she was not meant to be another statistic
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By Kelley D. Evans @kelleysthrngrl
Meet Shonteral Redmond — better known on social media as “Dr. Shon — Motivational Dentist.”
Dr. Shon spends her time sharing her story of overcoming adversity on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and dishing out encouragment to her many followers and friends.
Life hasn’t always been easy for Redmond.
She was born to a teen mother who died when she was 8. At 12, she began working — eventually holding down three jobs to save money for her college degree. It was the application of that hard work and dedication that allowed her to keep her eyes on her hopes and dreams — to become a doctor.
On May 21, Redmond will graduate from Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry with the hope of providing free dental services for underprivileged families.
“Nobody else let me into dental school but they gave me an opportunity,” Redmond said of Meharry.
Dr. Shon is an overcomer. Check out her heart-felt story via Facebook.
Congratulations Dr. Shon!
Kelley Evans is a general editor at The Undefeated. She is a food passionista, helicopter mom and an unapologetic southerner who spends every night with the cast of The Young and the Restless by way of her couch.
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Home FOREX Forex News The stock market just cleared a key hurdle: ‘It should open the...
The stock market just cleared a key hurdle: ‘It should open the door to 2,800 now’
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Traders react after the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Technical analysts say more bullish signs for stocks are showing up in the charts.
“It should open the door to 2,800 now…It does feel like the advance/decline line is really strong. The broad-based rally is strong. We have two days of overseas markets rallying. It doesn’t seem as if it’s a fake out for now…The active bulls keep stepping up where they have to,” said Scott Redler, partner with T3Live.com who follows the market’s short-term technicals. Advancers led declining issues by three-to-one on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday.
“It was another obstacle that this wall of worry got above,” said Redler. He said traders became more confident when the S&P 500 regained the psychologically important 2,700 level on Friday, and now that the S&P has regained the 200-day, it is signaling more gains ahead.
Stocks were higher Tuesday amid optimism for the China trade talks and a tentative deal to avoid a government shutdown.
Srategas Research technical analyst Todd Sohn said the more time that passes, the less likely it is the S&P 500 will retest the December lows. “You could get a pull back to 2,550 to 2,600, and that may be all you need,” he said.
“I do like what I’m seeing. It’s important to remember the S&P is up 17 percent over 32 trading days. It’s a really good run, and I don’t want to stand in front of it but at some point, it’s going to need to pause for more than two or three days,” said Sohn.
China reversal
Robert Sluymer, technical analyst at Fundstrat said there are broader moves afoot that are signaling the U.S. stock market has put in a bottom and is likely to keep moving higher, even with choppiness along the way. One of those was the reversal by the Shanghai stock market, which led the sell off in global markets.
“All the stuff that rolled over at the beginning of 2018, one by one, are showing evidence of bottoming. Semiconductors in the fourth quarter, and we saw housing bottom in October and November. We saw the market bottom in December, and we saw a general rebound in almost everything, primarily growth and cyclical stocks,” said Sluymer. “‘We see general improvements taking hold, with China being one of the last market indexes to have reversed its 2018 downtrend.”
Sluymer said Shanghai reversed the 2018 downtrend going into the Chinese new year, and it’s continuing to follow through.
Growth is leading to the upside in the U.S. mid-cap range, also a positive. “Mid-cap growth versus value is making all-time highs,” he said, pointing to the Russell mid cap indexes.
As for the S&P, Sluymer watches the 200-week moving average and says that the S&P bottomed there in December. “We think that was a cycle low, similar to what we saw in 2016 and 2011,” he said.
Semiconductors signaling global recovery?
Strategists point to the semiconductors as one of the more important groups leading the turnaround story. “Semis were one of the first groups to top last year, now they’re one of the first groups to bottom,” Sohn. “You’re seeing all these economically sensitive sectors working — industrials, semiconductors and home builders.”
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, SOX is up 2.6 percent week-to-date and 10.2 percent over the past month. It is 15 percent higher since the start of the year, even though the group continued to issue earnings warnings during fourth quarter reporting season.
JP Morgan technical strategist Jason Hunter said he expects the S&P 500 could take some time to move past current levels but it should resume its move back to the highs.
The move in semiconductors is an important part of it, and semiconductors were among the first to respond to global growth worries.
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index .SOX 1-year chart
Hunter said the semiconductor group could act as a leading indicator for global manufacturing. “We expect those groups to maintain their leadership through the first quarter; however history suggests other markets transition to leadership positions if and when the data starts to validate the improved risk market performance,” he wrote.
Hunter said the semis ignore poor fundamentals, but other assets like bonds and financial stocks only seem to reprice aggressively once the data starts to improve. If the outperformance in the SOX Index actually is signalling a bottom in global manufacturing PMIs, financials should then take a leadership position, he noted.
“Based on the recent SOX Index performance, that index’s historic relationship with the PMI data, and the known base effect for the year-over-year performance through the first half of 2019, we suspect the PMI trajectory can start to improve into the second quarter,” Hunter wrote.
Bond market conundrum
Strategists had been looking at the fact that both bonds and stocks have been moving higher, an unusual move recently. Stocks paused for several days before moving higher, while yields have been fairly flat. Yields move opposite price.
Yields retreated after the Fed sent a dovish message that it would likely pause in its rate hiking cycle. That was bullish for stocks.
“I wouldn’t mind seeing yields higher here,” Sohn said. “I would like to see the 10-year get a little boost. Part of that has to do with what’s going on abroad. German 10-years are yielding just 13 basis points at this point.” The U.S. 10-year was slightly higher Tuesday at 2.68 percent.
Hunter notes the 10-year yield is trading in the middle of its early 2019 range, with key medium-term resistance near 2.5 percent and initial support near 2.8 percent.
“The range can hold into March, but we expect it to bearishly break into the spring and for yields to back up toward key medium-term support clustered near 3.00%. That is our base-case mid-year target,” he wrote.
Update: Corrects that Todd Sohn is affiliated with Strategas
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GUEST ARTICLE: Pacquiao v Horn – Big Fight Preview
Posted on June 27, 2017 in Latest news // 0 Comments
By Paul Mason (@KOBoxingSets)
And so, after much speculation on opponent and location, future Hall of Famer, and current WBO Welterweight Champion, Manny Pacquiao (59-6-2, KO38) travels down under, to Brisbane, Australia and the Suncorp Stadium to defend his Championship against the Australian and relative unknown quantity, Jeff Horn (16-0-1, KO11)
Pacquiao has already etched his Hall of Fame credentials in stone after a stellar career, with World Titles in an astonishing seven different weight classes. The mercurial Filipino began his professional adventure way back in 1995 in the lower weight classes. After eleven straight wins, Rustico Torrecampo knocked him out in the third round of a ten rounder in Manila. Two years later, Pacquiao captured his first World Title, the WBC Flyweight Title, travelling to Thailand to knock out Chatchai Sasakul in eight rounds. After two further wins, Pacquiao then failed to make weight for a defence against Medgoen Singsarat in Thailand and was again stopped in three rounds, this time to a body shot. Six straight wins at Super Bantamweight in his home country followed, before he took a career defining opportunity. On two weeks’ notice, Pacquiao travelled to Las Vegas to challenge for the IBF Super Bantamweight Title against Lehlo Ledwaba on the Oscar De La Hoya v Javier Castillejo undercard. Manny stole the show, stopping the South African in the sixth round, after knocking him down three times during the contest. In an attempt to unify the division, Pacquaio was held to a technical draw by Agopito Sanchez, the WBO Champion, after he suffered a bad cut. Four stoppage victories followed before Pacquiao defeated the legendary Marco Antonio Barrera in a masterclass, stopping the Mexican great in eleven rounds when well ahead. This was truly lift off for the Filipino.
Next came an assault on the Featherweight division, but he ran into a man who he would share four fights with, the Mexican warrior, and at the time WBA and IBF Featherweight Champion, Juan Manuel Marquez. In their first meeting in May 2004, Pacquiao knocked Marquez down three times in the opening round, but Marquez finished the fight like a Champion, snatching a draw. After a homecoming win against Fahsan “3K” Battery, Pacquiao was dealt another loss in the first of another rivalry, this time with Erik Morales. Morales won 115-113 on all three cards in a classic. Ten months later the two met again, this time Pacquiao turned the tables and brutally stopped Morales in ten rounds. Another ten months later the duo fought for a third time. Pacquiao drew a line emphatically under the rivalry by knocking Morales out inside three rounds in Vegas, after dropping him three times.
After knocking out Jorge Solis, Marco Antonio Barrera was then unanimously defeated on points in a rematch, setting Pacquiao up for a crack at the WBC Super Featherweight Title held by Marquez. Another tight tussle saw Pacquiao triumph via a split decision. He immediately stepped up to Lightweight, and relieved David Diaz of his WBC Title, stopping him in nine one sided rounds. Another Hall of fame test was passed in his very next fight, agreeing to fight Oscar De La Hoya in a fight many wrote Pacquiao off in as being too small. De La Hoya weighed 145lbs to Pacquiao’s career highest of 142. It was a mismatch, but to everyone’s surprise Pacquiao whipped De La Hoya for eight rounds, forcing the great to retire on his stool at the end of the round. A pound for pound star was truly born.
This was further enhanced as Pacquiao knocked Ricky Hatton out cold inside two rounds to lift the IBO Light Welterweight Title, and he then wrested the WBO Welterweight Title from Miguel Cotto in what was one of his last great performances, stopping the Puerto Rican in the last round. The WBC Title at Super Welterweight was next, Pacquiao humiliated the bully that was Antonio Margarito, punishing him for the whole twelve rounds before winning on points widely. He then moved back down to Welter to beat Shane Mosley (UD) and Juan Manuel Marquez (Split Decision) before Timothy Bradley controversially outscored him in June 2012. In his next fight he was finally beaten by his great rival when Marquez knocked him out for the full count in six rounds. Brandon Rios was unanimously outpointed in Macau, China, before he regained the WBO Welterweight Title by outscoring Bradley in a rematch. After hammering Chris Algieri back in China, the fight the world had all been waiting for was set. Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao.
The event and build up was huge, the fight however, was a letdown. Mayweather took over from the fourth onwards to comfortably win on points dealing Pacquiao his sixth career loss. He has since rebounded from that May 2015 night, and beat Tim Bradley for a second time in April 2016, before, in his last fight, he looked impressive in beating Jesse Vargas on the scorecards to pick up the WBO Welterweight Title once again.
On Saturday he looks to impress and make one final assault on the pound for pound list.
Conversely, Jeff Horn has been bought through the ranks on a diet of mainly faded former World Champions and fringe contenders, as well as fighting exclusively in his home country. He made his professional bow in March 2013, in Victoria, Australia. The only blot on his record thus far is a technical draw in his fourth contest against Rivan Cesaire. Three fights later he unanimously outpointed former World Title challenger, Naoufel Ben Rabah. He then picked up the WBO Oriental Welterweight Title in his very next fight, in a rematch against Cesaire, this time triumphing via stoppage. Six defences followed, including picking up fringe WBA and IBF Titles along the way, steadily increasing his ranking in the division. Horn the forced a retirement in the seventh round of another former World Title challenger, this time the heavy handed American, Randall Bailey. He picked up the WBO Intercontinental Title with the win, putting him at the high end of their ranking list. Rico Mueller was then stopped in nine one sided rounds, and in Horn’s last contest, he defeated another fringe Title contender in Ali Funeka.
I believe that Pacquaio will have too much speed and know-how for the Aussie, and can see him scoring his first stoppage since 2009, when he stopped Miguel Cotto in the twelfth and final round in Las Vegas. Unless Manny has dramatically declined since his last outing (which I doubt he has) I can see him comfortably outclassing Horn and will triumph late.
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The Year You Turn 13
May 14, 2015 May 14, 2015 / Tilman Lewis / Leave a comment
I have this theory about popular music. Whatever’s in the air the year you turn 13 can penetrate deep. What you let in then stays with you – even defines you – in a way that can’t easily be matched.
Me, I came of age in the mid-70s, deep into the long, slow decline of the American dream. The era of Berlin, Horses, and Desire, New Skin for Old Ceremony, and On the Corner…
Lenny, at the time, was touring Europe’s festival and madhouses, and getting only spotty respect back home. But he straightened his tie and looked right into me through that hotel mirror, speaking ancient truths and tortured yearnings.
Melodies so spare you’d almost think it was the poetry alone. But despite scanty English, my German cousin – who saw him at the Isle of Wight! – says he too listened transfixed.
Remarkably, he also spoke to my kids when they reached their teens. Particularly the darker, more elusive songs. “Picking up the jokers that he left behind you’ll find he did not leave you very much, not even laughter…”
I can still hear Lou, much eulogized of late, growling his invitation to throw your life away. Miles, haunted, taciturn, stooped, dropping glowing jagged shards into the magic swirling about him. Bob leading his jubilant circus of hard rain and rolling thunder.
Into all of that burst Patti, brashly throwing God the gauntlet. “My sins my own,” she crowed, and you have to have been raised religious to feel the full trembling spirit of that outburst.
She’s a wise one now – can you be a rock ’n’ roll elder? I was too young to ever catch her in her CBGB’s days, but she emerged from a long silence at Toronto’s Phoenix theatre just weeks after my younger daughter was born. She opened not with a barn burner but with a tearful lullaby. “Little blue dreamer, go to sleep…”
To tell the truth, though, I scarcely listen to music anymore. The robins and cicadas. A toddler’s babbling. A slow train emerging from the underpass – why compete?
But still, I internalized that marriage of music and the performer’s word. It’s not a stretch to say it informs most everything I do.
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Dear Liberals: It’s Really Absurd To Say Boring Pence Is Worse Than Dictator Trump
If you hate President Trump for his offenses against good government, have the decency to admit that Mike Pence is clearly much better.
By Rachel Lu
Everyone is interested in impeachment these days. It’s an interesting statement about our present political moment that many right-leaning acquaintances of mine seem genuinely gleeful that Donald Trump has survived five months in office without being impeached. (Granted, one might draw several different morals from this.)
On the liberal side, everyone is interested in working out the sizzling details. Will it happen? When? How? What classic photograph might we get from a Trumpian decampment?
I can sympathize with the underlying angst, but my own views on the Trump administration’s future might presently be summed up by that Mexican-tourist-town classic: Que Sera, Sera. I realize that stoicism is bad for punditry, but at this point, what else is there? I can’t defend Trump, because I genuinely don’t know what he or his people might have done.
In contrast to last spring, however, the job of attacking him seems to be more than adequately covered at the moment. I conclude this is a delightfully opportune moment for a weary NeverTrumper to stop and smell some flowers. (My garden is going to be spectacular this year.) One line gets under my skin, however. Liberals, you lose every shred of credibility when you declare that, “Pence is worse.”
Yes, Trump Makes the Right Look Bad
I understand the argument. Whatever Trump’s egregious failings (both as an executive and as a man), this much at least can be said for him: Thus far, he’s been fairly ineffective. Also, he’s far less ruthless and bloodthirsty than some detractors suspected.
Dystopian nightmares about death camps and immigrant-chasing stormtroopers seem fairly distant at this juncture, and Trump’s actual failings are far more congenial to liberal exploitation. He’s easily baited, and has a gift for throwing lighter fluid on his own scandals. It’s entirely possible that his personal drama could keep Republicans mired in dysfunction until the midterms at least.
Best of all, the fallout for this sorry scene will probably fall disproportionately on the GOP. The liberal press has not conducted itself with credit, but voters will forget that long before they forget The Mogul and his wacky shenanigans. Then, four years from now, Republicans will find themselves faced with an unhappy choice between re-nominating a manifestly incompetent president, and enraging his remaining supporters by trying to put up someone else. That’s a lot of potential pain for the GOP.
In short, Trump might be terrible, but he’s Republican terrible. If you’re a Democrat, there are some bright silver linings to this situation.
On the other hand, if Pence became president, Republicans would find themselves with firm control of the executive and legislative branches as well as competent leadership. They might enact a serious conservative agenda! Voters might even like that agenda! They might start looking back on Trump as a ludicrous but blissfully short humor piece, an “opener” of sorts to a genuinely conservative period of governance. Voters can be maddeningly forgiving that way.
You’re Making Yourselves Look Bad
Let’s start with the obvious. You look fairly ridiculous when you spend months shouting that Trump is fascist, racist, war-mongering maniac… then come back and declare that a staid and sober conservative governor would be worse.
It’s especially foolish to say such things at this juncture, when there’s no clear prospect of the comparison even being relevant. Again, I make no definite prediction about the future. But if Trump survives considerably longer than five months, and if liberals continue to slower him with unflattering superlatives, I will not forget these declarations that “Pence is worse.”
I appreciate that liberals are mad at the political right just now, so it seems outrageous to them that if the liberal press succeeds in its apparent object, the Republicans could just end up with a fresh start. Let’s put this in perspective, though. We had a liberal, democratic president for eight years. When the Trumpian backlash started, liberal media gleefully gave him $2 billion worth of free media coverage, while the Hillary Clinton campaign actively encouraged friends and allies to fuel Trump’s candidacy. Also, the Clinton campaign was the Clinton campaign.
Stop feeling so sorry for yourselves. There’s so much blame to go around these days, the confession line ought to be curling all the way around the block.
Hating Pence More Makes You Look Deranged
What’s really sad about the “Pence is worse” line is that it completely undermines any pretext that the speaker cares about good government. Although I do not believe that a president should be impeached merely for being boorish and bad at his job, I do feel real sympathy with some liberal friends who seem genuinely anguished over the behavior and general character of our present executive. That sympathy only goes to a certain point, however.
It’s bad to have a president who doesn’t seem to grasp fairly basic points about the workings of government or the significance of top-secret intelligence. It’s bad to have presidents who undercut their subordinates, bully people far weaker them, and ignite national controversies with impulsive and inflammatory tweets.
I also believe that it’s bad to have serial adulterers occupying the Oval Office. (I held that same view in Bill Clinton’s day). This is all deeply unfortunate, and when liberal friends complain about it, I don’t come back at them with a list of my own grievances and “That’s how you got Trump.” It may be, but so what? They’re still right. Nobody should behave that way, and presidents definitely shouldn’t. Where does the buck stop these days?
Once you’ve admitted that you regard Pence as a worse option, however, you lose any right to complain about those abuses. Nobody really believes that Indiana’s former governor would have any of these problems. He’s not incompetent. He’s not skeezy. All evidence suggests that he would listen to his advisors, respect his subordinates, and stay off Twitter. If you hate Trump for his offenses against good government, have the decency to admit that Pence is clearly much better.
What will be, will be. Impeachment fantasies will surely go on, but the reality is that most of us just don’t know what’s behind-the-scenes of Washington’s ongoing cloak-and-dagger drama. We should hope that the truth is uncovered, and acted on appropriately. The “Trump or Pence” question is truly the wrong question, and no one is obliged to speculate on this point.
As with your Miranda rights, however, anything you do say can still be used against you. If you’ve already broadcast your view that Trump is a catastrophic incompetent, don’t go on to declare that Pence would be worse. After all, there’s a major benefit to losing an election: You get to claim the high ground when the guy in power screws up. Enjoy responsibly, liberals. Stop wasting it.
Rachel Lu is a contributor at The Federalist. As a Robert Novak Fellow, she is currently researching criminal justice reform. Follow her on Twitter.
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About Aibileen: Viola Davis Says She Regrets Playing Maid in The Help
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Photo: Photo by Emma McIntyre (Getty Images for Women in Film)
It’s not often that an actor expresses regret about taking an Oscar-nominated role, but that’s exactly what Viola Davis did in a recent interview with the New York Times.
Fielding a question submitted by a reader on whether she had any regrets on roles she’s passed on, Davis flipped the question, and addressed roles she has taken on that she’s regretted.
Playing Aibileen in the 2011 film The Help was one of them, Davis said.
Here’s the full quote, from The Times:
Almost a better question is, have I ever done roles that I’ve regretted? I have, and “The Help” is on that list. But not in terms of the experience and the people involved because they were all great...
I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard. I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie.
At the time, black audiences criticized the movie for pandering to white audiences and for centering on the white heroine of the film, played by Emma Stone. The Association of Black Women Historians called the film a “disappointing resurrection of Mammy,” saying it “distorts, ignores, and trivializes the experiences of black domestic workers.”
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When asked about her decision to play Aibileen, a maid working for an abusive white woman, by Tavis Smiley in 2012, Davis defended the character alongside her costar, Octavia Spencer (Spencer would end up winning an Oscar for her role).
The actresses said that they had an obligation to not just play noble characters. And Davis told Smiley, “the black artist cannot live in a place— in a revisionist place. The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity and humanity is messy, people are messy. Caucasian actors know that.”
But since then, she’s become more vocal with her disappointment in the film and how it didn’t truly center black women’s voices and experiences. At a BAFTA event last year, Davis admitted that although she loved the film’s premise, she always had misgivings.
“I love the fact that [Emma Stone’s character] said ‘I am going to write a story from the maids’ perspective of what it feels like to work with these white women.’ Operative term meaning the maids’ perspective,” she said. “I don’t feel like it was from our perspective, that’s the problem I had with it. I had it from the very beginning.”
Davis is currently promoting her latest film, the Steve McQueen-directed thriller Widows, in which she and a small group of women whose hustling husbands have died (hence, widows) hatch a plan to steal $5 million.
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Wisconsin AG rules governor can't pull state from ObamaCare lawsuit
By Jessie Hellmann - 01/24/19 01:51 PM EST
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) on Thursday told newly sworn-in Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) that he does not have the authority to withdraw the state from a lawsuit filed by 20 states seeking to overturn ObamaCare.
The state signed on to the lawsuit under the previous Republican-led administration.
Kaul told Evers in a letter that only the Republican-led state legislature could withdraw Wisconsin from the suit, according to The Associated Press.
After former Gov. Scott Walker (R) lost his reelection bid last year, the legislature passed a law weakening the powers of the governor and his administration before Evers took office. This included eliminating the ability for the governor to withdraw from lawsuits.
Both Evers and Kaul ran in opposition to the Affordable Care Act lawsuit, which was filed last year by Republican-led states, including Wisconsin.
But Evers will need the approval of the GOP legislature to withdraw from the lawsuit, Kaul said in the letter.
"My view is that ... DOJ does not have statutory authority to withdraw the state from the ACA litigation absent approval from the Joint Committee on Finance," Kaul wrote.
A Texas judge ruled last month that ObamaCare is unconstitutional because Congress repealed the penalty for not having insurance.
A coalition of Democratic-led states, which are defending the law in court, is working on appealing that decision.
The law remains in place pending the appeal.
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Band inspires spirit
At the annual Homecoming Pep Rally, the band plays to energize the student body. They earned acclaim for spirit during football season.
Abby Strong
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Friday night lights. Maybe that phrase makes you think of watching football, enjoying the company of friends, and shouting cheers with the cheerleaders. But one key component to any football game experience is the band.
The WS Band performs during halftime at every home football game, and it can be found in the stands at every game encouraging the football team, and playing music to assist the crowd to cheer for the football team. The band is the backbone to getting the crowd excited for a game.
“The band hypes up the crowd to prepare them for the game,” said sophomore Chris Williams.
Prior to games and competitions, WS Band spends much of its time practicing after school or in the evening. A typical week’s practice consists of two to two and a half hours of practice three to four days a week. During practice, the band works to perfect its routines for competitions and works on practicing the music for football games. There is a focus on effective communication and working together to maximize the potential for its performances.
“There is a lot of teamwork and camaraderie involved,” said senior, baritone saxophone player Bari Jones.
Football games bring an exciting the end to a busy week of band’s practices. Some band members find the student section supportive as they play their instruments throughout the length of a game.
“We would still work hard no matter the student section’s response, but it’s encouraging to see our hard work pay off,” said senior, tuba player Abbigale Baker.
Band is also involved in other activities to get WS students into the Spartan spirit. During the Homecoming pep rally they played the students into and out of the gym to get them excited for the game the following night.
“They got the [students] ready for the game,” said Williams.
The band also works together to get each other hyped to play their instruments with certain rituals they do at the end of practice.
“At the end of practice we do dismissal, which is where the drum majors call out commands and the rest of the band responds,” said Baker.
WS band works to unite the students to get them excited about school activities, and foster school spirit.
“It’s pretty amazing watching the student section interact in the cheers which we get to be a part of,” said freshman, baritone player Hailey Gray.
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Avian Influenza Outbreak in Mexico Raises Concerns about Price Speculation
Poultry health Egg layers Government and regulatory Broilers Breeder management
by Chris Wright
1 March 2013, at 8:20pm
MEXICO - The dreaded avian influenza has returned to central Mexico again this year, this time causing significant poultry deaths in Guanajuato state, writes Carlos Navarro, Editor of SourceMex.
The outbreak of the H7N3 virus—which had forced poultry farmers in the state of Guanajuato to destroy more than 2 million birds as of the end of February — affects municipalities in northern Guanajuato as well as in Jalisco state.
SENASICA, the national food safety authority, said the outbreak originated at a broiler breeder farm, initially spreading to 17 breeder farms owned by the firm Bachoco. The virus was later discovered on 20 other farms in the area. (A Pilgrim’s Pride breeder farm was also affected).
Health authorities worked hard to prevent the influenza from spreading to neighboring Aguascalientes and Jalisco, the latter Mexico’s largest egg producing state. Jalisco suffered a major outbreak in the summer of 2012 which resulted in heavy price speculation in eggs.
Jalisco accounts for about 52 per cent of Mexico’s egg production, compared with only 3 per cent for Guanajuato, according to statistics from Mexican National Poultry Union (UNA). Puebla state ranks second in egg production with 17 per cent of the national total.
Authorities slaughter over 3 million birds
As part of its emergency measures, SAGARPA, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Rural Development, announced that health authorities had destroyed 1.2 million egg-producing chickens (breeders and layers), along with 900,000 meat chickens. (These numbers keep rising on a daily basis).
In addition, SENASICA established a quarantine zone in the affected area of Guanajuato to prevent the virus from spreading outside the more than three dozen poultry farms where infections were found. Health inspectors tested 4 million birds, of which 1.3 million were initially deemed not to be infected by H7N3. Poultry lack natural defenses against the H7N3 virus, and officials said the vaccine is the only way to protect the birds. SENASICA director Enrique Sánchez Cruz told reporters that the inoculation campaign "has functioned extraordinarily well.”
The UNA, which is working closely with SAGARPA and the Secretary of the Economy (SE) to prevent the virus from spreading outside the quarantined areas, agreed that the inoculations have been effective. "Vaccines are being used successfully in the farms in Guanajuato, creating a protective circle and limiting any potential problems," Jaime Crivelli Espinoza, president of the UNA management council, told the Mexico City daily newspaper La Jornada.
Agriculture Secretary Enrique Martínez said SAGARPA is close to controlling the outbreak, but noted that this was "a complex task since it deals with a very pathogenic virus that requires great efforts to prevent its spread."
Even with the strict measures implemented by federal authorities, agriculture officials in Guanajuato state said the number of infected farms continued to increase within the quarantined zone after the initial outbreak, with a total of 38 poultry farms within the quarantined area infected as of the end of February. But authorities are confident that the situation has been stabilized. "The outbreak is under control, and that’s what’s important," said Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, Guanajuato’s agricultural development secretary.
Egg prices rise as much as 10 per cent
The SE said the number of poultry that needed to be destroyed was just 0.3 per cent of the total inventory of egg-laying chickens in Mexico. Even though the number is miniscule compared with the national inventory, news of the outbreak caused some price speculation for eggs. And there was some concern that prices might also increase for chicken.
In the aftermath of the outbreak, egg prices in Mexico City rose by as much as 10 per cent in some areas. In self-service stores, prices rose as high as 41 pesos (US$3.21) per kg, said CANACOPE, a chamber of commerce association. A more typical price was 28 pesos (US$2.19) per kg.
But authorities moved quickly to prevent large scale price increases. "The SE will apply all the instruments at its disposal to maintain the stability of prices and protect consumers," the economy ministry said in a statement.
The SE noted that the consumer-protection agency (PROFECO) has intensified monitoring efforts throughout the country but especially in Guanajuato state. Officials said all violators would face stiff sanctions.
The retailers organization ANTAD also vowed to do its part to prevent unjustified price increases. "Our stores are making every effort to offer the best prices and at times sacrifice profit margins so they don’t hurt consumers during crucial times," ANTAD president Vicente Yáñez Solloa said in an interview.
Yáñez said egg and chicken supplies should remain ample because of the small area of the outbreak and the move by authorities to quickly create the quarantine zone.
But some market analysts said the long-term trends point to inflationary pressures on egg and chicken prices. Pablo Sherwell, an analyst at Rabobank in Mexico City, said the 2012 outbreak in Jalisco brought egg prices to a new level, rising to about 30 pesos (US$2.35) per kg, from about 22 pesos (US$1.72) previously.
"In the long run, the price of eggs will not return to the levels before that outbreak," Sherwell told the Mexico City daily newspaper Reforma. Sherwell said chicken inventories were falling, which would have repercussions for consumers during 2013. "We expect the price of chickens to continue increasing as long as inventories remain low."
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A recent national survey of geology students indicated that, In a subject so fundamental and yet so varied, every although they saw the need for a basic training in map geologist will have his own views on geological maps - the work, the three-dimensional aspects involved formed the matters needing emphasis, the best methods of interpreta single most difficult part of an introductory geology tion, good examples of maps, and so on. Instructors may course, and that it was generally taught in a way both ab therefore urge in their taught courses different priorities stract and dull. At the same time, there was no book which from those given here, and, although a wide range of maps puzzled students could turn to for explanations; no book and map exercises is included, will prefer to continue to which told them more about real geological maps. This use their own 'pet' examples. But this is meant primarily to book is an attempt to fill that need. It is based on the view be a book for the student - to turn to for clarification, for that in these days of increasing specialisation the geological further information, and simply to learn a little more about map remains the vital coordinating document, and that the geological maps.
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'An Introduction to Geological Structures & Maps' is a concise text that leads the students in easy stages from the simplest ideas on geological structures right through to the more advanced geological mapping techniques. The approach this book adopts is designed to help students with little or no supervision: each new topic is simply explained and illustrated by figures, and exercises are set on successive maps. If students are unable to complete a problem, they can read on to obtain more specific instructions on how theory may be used to solve the problem in question. This considerably enlarged seventh edition aims to make the book even more user friendly and bring it into line with present trends in map syllabuses. This edition includes photographs that will significantly add to the understanding of geological structures already illustrated by text-figures and block diagrams in the appendix. The appendix has been fully updated and now includes completed sections of all maps and solutions to the map problems, which enables the reader to check that his or her attempts have been successfully carried out.
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supercorrupter – Amps. Anecdotes. Annihilation.; Horseburner – Dead Seeds, Barren Soil (2016)
Posted by valleyofsteel on July 26, 2016
supercorrupter – Amps. Anecdotes. Annihilation. (self-released, 30 June 2016)
Horseburner – Dead Seeds, Barren Soil (self-released, 08 July 2016)
Hey all you music lovers, or people who are indifferent about music but afficionados of rambly written words! There’s more of both of those in store for you today. I’d like to share recently-released albums by a pair of local (regional) bands: supercorrupter (formerly known as The Gingerdead Men and containing members of various other area groups such as DeathCrawl and Showboy) from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (between Akron and Cleveland), and Horseburner from Parkersburg, West Virginia (about halfway down the state, going north-to-south, and right at the edge of the Ohio River). Both of these just happen to be appearing at Ohio’s Blackout Cookout next month, but why not give them a listen today?
Amps. Anecdotes. Annihilation., released at the tail end of last month, is a six-song EP that, as the band’s first official release, showcases the no-bullshit heavy rock vibe that defines supercorrupter. Full of stoner-rock riffing and plenty of fuzz, these guys don’t ever take themselves too seriously, but it’s apparent that they are dead serious when it comes to cranking out fun rock ‘n roll tunes. In fact, in a lot of places here the vocals and arrangements remind me a lot of GWAR — minus all of the costumes and every bit of gimmickry, of course. That might be primarily what GWAR are known for, but stripping away all of the pretense leaves a group of talented musicians who nimbly straddle the divide between punk rock and metal, while being well-versed in several other styles of music that tend to creep in here and there, adding distinctive color and flavor to each song.
Between the weird outer space noises that introduce opening track “Black Galaxy” and the reappearance of similar sounds at the conclusion of each of the last two tracks, “Souvenir” and “Versus the Volcano,” the band hits a variety of textures: from heavier stoner riffs in “Gutted” to the mellower guitars and semi-falsetto bluesy vocals that start off “Killing Buffalo”; from the fuzzy and just-a-touch psychedelic “Fast Times” to the slower fuzz-bass-intensive “Souvenir”; and finally “Versus the Volcano” with the introduction of Misfitsy “whoa-oaah” type background vocals. I think it’s fair to say that supercorrupter are not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but they’ve definitely succeeded in crafting well-written and solidly-performed material that sounds comfortable and familiar without ever feeling boring or rehashed, that’s surely as enjoyable to play as it is to listen to.
With 2/3 less punctuation in its title, Dead Seeds, Barren Soil has one more track than the supercorrupter release, but the album is about 70% longer overall. Through the whole thing, and within each song, the listener goes on excursions through the realms of classic metal and hard rock, all filtered through a stoner/psych/desert-rock lens. A fast-paced, driving rhythm section is combined with guitar leads that often sound searing; most of these songs include at least one lengthy instrumental section and, in true classic-hard rock fashion, whether a quick-grooving heavier track or one that sounds slightly more ballady, there’s always a killer guitar solo.
Vocally, the album varies from the desert-rock feel of opener “David” through a reverby bluesy style in “A Newfound Purity,” and in the lengthy closing track “Eleleth” it gets a bit more intense and leans more towards yelling than singing. But for the most part, the melodies and overall arrangements definitely bring to mind early Baroness more than anything else. This seems to fit together pretty nicely, as that band’s signature progressive sludge sound is not terribly far removed from the combination that Horseburner has churned together.
You can check out the digital version of Amps. Anecdotes. Annihilation. using the Bandcamp player below, and CDs are expected to be available soon. Dead Seeds, Barren Soil is out now on vinyl and CD right here.
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Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Following the trail to reach remote Forbidden Island
A golden glow on the beach as the sun sets
A Japanese remnant from World War II on the small island of Managaha
Serene moment as the day ends at the Pacific Islands Club
Dramatic views while golfing atop cliffs high above LaoLao Bay
Thriving habitats in coral reef ecosystems just offshore
Japanese monument at the Banzai Cliff Memorial with Suicide Cliff in the background
Chamorro cultural experience through music, dance and dining
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Saipan (SPN)
Summer year-round on this fun Pacific island
Sunbathers, underwater explorers and history buffs will feel like they hit the jackpot in Saipan, the largest and most developed of the Northern Mariana Islands. Golden beaches and spectacular scuba diving are the primary draws of this U.S. territory, but they are complemented by excellent restaurants, hotels, nightspots, shopping, monuments and golf courses.
Breathtaking Beaches
Visitors can take their pick of dozens of places to swim, sun and snorkel on Saipan. Bring a family picnic to Obyan Beach or Pau Pau Beach, walk on soft sandbar islands at Micro Beach or collect shells at Wing Beach. Dive and see turtles at Laolao Bay or do like the locals and take a “boonie stomp” (long walk) down the picturesque 4.8-kilometer Saipan Beach Pathway. One of the nicest beaches is on the tiny island of Managaha, just a 10-minute boat ride from the main island, where you can snorkel, dive and eat coconuts.
Small Island, Big History
Saipan is brimming with historical sites. Evidence of ancient Chamorro and Carolinian civilizations can be seen in the pictographs in the Kalabera Cave and in the remnants of a village at Agingan Beach. Agingan is also the site of the wreck of a 17th century Spanish galleon. World War II history is everywhere, including at Micro Beach, where there are numerous bunkers and memorials. The Last Command Post houses the remnants of a cliff-side bunker used by the Japanese to defend themselves against the U.S. invasion. Memorials along both Suicide Cliff and the Banzai Cliff honor Japanese soldiers who jumped to their deaths during the battle for Saipan.
Garapan, the main tourist district on the island, is the place to go if you want the widest variety of restaurants, bars, shops and street stalls. Hit the links at one of many golf courses, two of which were designed by Greg Norman and have fabulous sea views. Stop at the Saipan Katori Shrine or admire the stained-glass windows at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral. And if you’re a scuba diver, head out to one of the dozen or so world-class dive sites, which include The Grotto, Eagle Ray City and Naftan.
Saipan holds the Guinness World Record for most consistent temperature on Earth with a low of 19.6 Celcius and a high of 31.4.
Paradise in the Philippine Sea
House of Taga
Traditional Fiesta in Guam
Official Saipan Travel Site
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Fingerstyle Survival Guide
Every new generation of musicians pays homage to the great artists of past generations. The young artist studies the music of their heroes and mentors, often times learning their recorded performances note-for-note. After years of diligent practice and focus, the young artist starts to develop their own musicality and creative prowess. While still influenced by the masters they studied, the young artist brings fresh perspective, creative innovation and even advanced technical skills to the genre. Such is the evolution of art.
We first met Brooks Robertson at the Chet Atkins Convention when he was just fourteen. Even then it was clear he had the focus, drive and opportunity to become a master of fingerstyle guitar. He also had the heart and initiative to earn the respect of the great Buster B Jones who took him under his wing as a student (here’s what we witnessed in 2007).
“I was so fortunate to have Buster B Jones take me under his wing at a young age and guide my studies with fingerstyle guitar. Buster was a master of so many different styles of fingerstyle and he encouraged me to learn as many different approaches, techniques and styles as possible ….to watch, listen and study as many of the masters as possible... and then take it all and craft my own sound and style.”
What Buster and we didn't know is how skilled and passionate Brooks would become as a teacher. We’re proud to welcome Brooks to the TrueFire family with his Fingerstyle Survival Guide.
“This Fingerstyle Survival Guide is a road map of sorts to discovering your own sound and style. I’m very excited to have this opportunity to pass along all of the essential techniques and concepts that I’ve learned from my own mentors, throughout my own studies. These key learnings have been instrumental in helping me become a more creative, better fingerstyle guitarist and I’m hopeful they will help guide your studies as well.”
In the first section of the Fingerstyle Survival Guide, Brooks presents and demonstrates 16 key concepts and techniques: Movable Chords: 6th & 5th String Root, Movable Chords: Top Four Strings, String Transference, Left Hand Dynamics & Decoration, 1/2 Step Slide Embellishments, Boom Chick: Alternating Thumb, Boom Chick: Patterns, Syncopated Picking Patterns, Banjo Rolls, Waltz Patterns, Skipping Patterns, Fingernail Click Patterns, Right Hand Dynamics & Tone Concept, Cascading Harp Harmonics and Cascading Harp Harmonics.
In the second section, Brooks shows you how apply all of the key concepts and techniques across 7 performance studies:
Keep It Movin’: Traditional country boom-chick sound in the key of E
Into The Trees: Jazzy, funky feel with fingernail clicks and banjo rolls
Waltz For One: Beautiful fingerstyle waltz in the key of C
Jessica Sue: Ballad with string skipping patterns and left hand inversions
Carol: More boom-chick with a tune in the key of A minor.
Jonesin’: Buster B. techniques with a flair of Jerry Reed in E minor.
Waking Up To Dream: Fingernail clicks, rolls and cascading harp harmonics
Showing an educator’s maturity way beyond his years, Brooks composed the performance studies to be extremely accessible for the intermediate player and still ear-pleasingly sophisticated enough to holds its own in anybody repertoire. Brooks first performs the studies and then breaks them down move-by-move with impeccable clarity and patience. You will also get tab and notation for all of the key examples and performance studies.
If you’re passionate about fingerstyle guitar, you will find Brook’s Fingerstyle Survival Guide to be an indispensable companion on your learning journey.
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Tours in Iran
Visa to Iran
The Eram Garden
The Eram Garden in Shiraz is one of the most stunning and monumental gardens of Iran. The garden was established during the reign period of the Saljuq Dynasty. Since its construction and until the late 18th century, it was utilized by the local rulers and Persian monarchs. In 1963, passing through a chain of owners, the garden was handed over to Shiraz University.
Currently the garden is used as a botanical garden. The main building of the garden has three stories. A beautiful and small pond is located in the basement. On the second level, a large porch is situated with two tall standing pillars.
The tall and beautiful cypress trees around the garden catch everyone’s attention. The visitors of the garden are enchanted by the pleasant fragrance of flowers and the song of nightingales.
Both the building and the garden were built by a paramount chief of the Qashqai tribes of Pars.
The structure has been restored, modified and changed by various participants. The architect of the building is Haji Mohammad Hasan.
The structure has 32 rooms on two stories. They are decorated by tiles with poems from the poet Hafez.
Nowadays, the Eram Garden and the building are within The Eram Botanical Garden of Shiraz University. They are open to the public as a historic landscape. Both of them are considered as World Heritage Site.
Fars Province, Shiraz, District 1, Eram St, Iran
Places to See in Iran
Shrine of Imam Reza
Old City of Yazd
Soltaniyeh Dome
Shemshak Ski Resort
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
Shah Cheragh Mosque
Rudkhan Castle
The Nasir ol Molk Mosque
Naqsh-e Jahan Square
The Carpet Museum
Bekhradi House
Azadi Tower
Amir Chakhmaq Square
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by bobp
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
SKB wrote: This makes the case for a proper QE sized drydock on the south coast more urgent, I'd say
Agreed. But hopefully the QE can be repaired alongside.
Pretty serious then, potentially catastrophic bent bulkheads and stairs, good job the three sailors did not drown.
Perhaps I should have said sudden and unexpected failure of water system instead of the word Catastrophic. Whatever it was sufficient to end the QE FOST. As for my opinion of the BBC that's my personal bias, which I am sure is shared by others.
Breaking news major disaster according to the British Biased Corporation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-48933881 It says the QE returned early due to a catastrophic minor water leak and ends reminding its readers that this is not the first major water leak since our Ladyship was lau...
Sad to see his career ruined by a bit of personal greed, but as he has broken the rules he had no choice but to resign.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11492 ... xy-inquiry
Forum: British Army
Topic: Ajax Armoured Vehicle Variants (British Army)
Re: Ajax Armoured Vehicle Variants (British Army)
Yes it is in the Sunday times behind a paywall,,,,
Topic: Wave Class Tanker (RFA)
Re: Wave Class Tanker (RFA)
Saw Wave Knight up close in Portland Harbour, last Tuesday, she looked like she was taking on supplies. I hope the MOD are keeping her.
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
sunstersun wrote: 81 mil a plane next year.
The article states that as the forecast price for the F35A, the B version will be a lot more, due to its unique lift fan and additional engine parts. Poland have asked for their F35A models as soon as possible, so diverting them from Turkeys quota makes some sense.
Topic: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
Re: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
Great pictures. I assume the sea trials will be starting soon. Does anyone know if the flotation device that was developed ever got manufactured and fitted.
Its fair to say that the 3 test aircraft will never see active/operational service and will remain in the US for the foreseeable future. So we shouldn't be counting them in any fleet assignments.
According to the Daily Telegraph the Captain Nick was allowing his wife to use the ships car whilst the QE was at sea, and she used it for shopping, school runs etc. The Daily Telegraph claims it was members of the crew who shopped him, and that's why he was removed from the ship. Obviously the cars...
http://captiongenerator.com/1395902/Hit ... er-Sacking
According to the Daily Mail Captain Nick is to command the QE on her return to Pompey, even though he has been publicly humiliated. And again that voyage starts today?
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Timmymagic wrote: f its for ships 4-8 it will be for 10 motors (2 per ship).
Good point I only heard five motors, makes sense to order 10 though.
The order is for five motors. Also it would be nice if the Aussies and Canadians ordered some for their ships as well.
Yes state of the art facilities, there is also a computer centre for ALIS and mission planning I believe.
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
Re: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
Don't they also do the deep maintenance on the C130 as well for the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands
albedo wrote: NB I think there's a lot of reasons for the proposed move
How about Runway length, its quite a small airfield for handling large jets.
As CO he has to be squeaky clean there has to be more to this story that we have not yet heard.
Topic: Boeing RC-135W Airseeker (RAF)
Re: Boeing RC-135W Airseeker (RAF)
18 months is an awful long time for upgrades
Topic: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
yes just the plan was scrapped not the ships.
Well good news that they are still going to be built. And that the decision is still the end of this year.
Back in the 1980's a friend in the USAF told me about spares that had gone missing including a complete mobile radar that was shipped back to the US after a deployment, never to be seen again...…. Fast forward 35yrs... To make matters worse, the DoD has spent billions of dollars on F-35 spare parts,...
Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
Re: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
The US is talking about a reduction in JLTV orders as well. They say like the Block II Chinook it was designed for Afghan type warfare and now question if they need so many when they have lots of Humvees available. Cant find the link as to where I read that though.
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Tag Archives: Teacher’s Stationery
British Made Pens and Pencils – British Made Ink – British Made Crayons and Chalk – British Made Pencil Cases – British Made Rulers
Makers and suppliers of British Made Pens and Pencils, British Made Ink, British Made Crayons and Chalk, British Made Pencil Cases, and British Made Rulers:-
Derwent Pencils have been making pencils in Cumbria since 1832. Not everything they sell is made in the UK. Individual Derwent Pencils that say “England” on them are UK made. Multi-packs of pencils will say made in the UK on the packaging if they are made in the UK or look for the Union Flag on the packaging. Some of their Academy Sketching eraser tipped pencils and their Lakeland Jumbo pencils are made in Thailand or PRC. None of their sketch pads and accessories are made in the UK. Basically on their pencils if it does not say England or if it does not say made in the UK on the pack, then it is not UK made; best to go by what it says on the tin. The tins themselves by the way are not made in the UK. The Cumberland Pencil Company (Derwent Pencils) is a division of ACCO Brands (Rexel) and so is American owned. Lovely pencils for you to sketch, colour, illustrate and create! See the video below for some history of pencils and pencil making at Derwent Pencils today.
http://www.pencils.co.uk
https://twitter.com/derwentpencils
https://www.facebook.com/welovepencils
http://www.accobrands.com/acco/en/gb/home.aspx
Video – How pencils are made today – Derwent Pencil Factory, Cumbria, UK.
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X-Factor (3rd series) #37
Peter David (writer), Valentine De Landro (penciler), Craig Yeung (inker), Jeromy Cox (colorist), VC’s Cory Petit (letterer), Boo Cook (cover), Anthony Dial (production), Michael Horwitz (asst. editor), John Barber & Will Panzo (editor), Joe Quesada (editor in chief), Dan Buckley (publisher)
In the warehouse to which they have tracked Darwin’s last known location, Madrox, Guido, Monet and Longshot find the place empty. As they search, however, Longshot steps on a portion of the floor which collapses, causing them to fall to a tunnel below. This lucky accident actually saves their lives when Maru, who is at a different location, has the warehouse blown up. The foursome quickly decides to follow the tunnel, which eventually leads to a stone wall. This obstacle is of little problem to Guido, who easily breaks through, only to discover the Maru’s security forces waiting on the other side. Though Monet and Guido together make short work of them, a more difficult challenge arrives in the form of Mr. Maru, flanked with dozens of clones of Darwin acting at his command. Meanwhile, at X-Factor headquarters, Val Cooper tries to convince the very pregnant Siryn that she has Theresa’s and Theresa’s unborn child’s best interest at heart. In the process, she astonishes Siryn by informing her that, via Madrox, they have secretly been working for O*N*E for months. However, their conversation is cut short when Theresa’s water breaks, harkening the imminent birth of her baby.
In the two-story building which serves as the HQ for X-Factor, Val Cooper, agent of O*N*E, sits on a desk, which subtly lifts her above the height of the pregnant Theresa Cassidy, who sits melancholy in a chair below.
She’s not the bad guy here, Val states. And believe her… she knows it’s easy to think of them that way. But she’s on her side. Mutants… they’re all a valuable national resource. She wants to protect them. Incredulous, Theresa asks if that’s a fact. And cuffing Rictor fits in with that philosophy how, exactly? To this, Val replies that she’d be happy to have her men remove the cuffs if he agreed to cooperate. Depends, Rictor snarls through gritted teeth. Does the promising to beat the crap out of them count as cooperating? Not so much, Val rejoins.
Defiantly, Siryn instructs “Ms. Copper” to uncuff him. At first, Val begins to protest, but Siryn interrupts. She asks Val if she’s ever seen the effect of high-powered sonics close up? Properly aimed, they can liquefy the human brain in seconds. And her aim is pretty good. Streams of gray gook oozing out of her ears… her nose… her mouth… it’s a mess.
Grinning slightly, Val tells Theresa that she’s bluffing. “Oh, really?” Theresa asks, resting her hands around her protruding stomach. Her vocal chords are lethal. Her estrogen level is berserk. Between Braxton-Hicks and her huge belly, she hasn’t slept in weeks. And she’s gotta pee… Again. Free advice, she offers Ms. Cooper, never bet your life on what you think about a hormonal sleep-deprived WMD with a full-bladder.
Considering Siryn’s words for a moment, Val’s grin disappears. Her smile returning, Val addresses Agent Vangrowski and instructs him to remove Mr. Rictor’s restraints, if he pleases. While doing as instructed, Vangrowski tells Rictor with a smile that it’s nothing personal. Just doing the job. Rubbing his wrist, Rictor replies “no offense,” at which point he delivers a right cross to the agent’s chin, adding that that’s him doing his job. Another agent goes to pull his service weapon, but Val yells that that’s enough. The agent’s to stand down. The agent begins to protest, but Val reiterates and the agent eventually complies.
Turning back to Theresa, Val reiterates that they’re not enemies. The fact is, they’ve been working together for quite some time now. When Theresa asks what the hell she’s talking about, Val smiles more widely and suggests that she ask Jamie as soon as he gets back.
A safe distance from the empty warehouse in which Madrox’s group is searching, Mr. Maru is informed that the mutants are in. With a thin, cold smile Mr. Maru orders his people to take them. In the warehouse in question, Madrox tells Guido, Monet and Longshot that he’s not loving this. The warehouse is empty. When Guido voices that it’s like it’s been cleaned out, Madrox confirms. That’s exactly…
Madrox’s words trail when, suddenly, Longshot steps onto a part of the floor which has already begun to crack. Immediately, the crack widens and the floor collapses around the foursome. Only Monet, with the power of flight, stops from falling into the newly created hole. In her dry humor, Monet looks down into the opening below and notes the obvious that the floor appears to have collapsed beneath their feet. In more pungent sarcasm, Madrox yells up, asking if she really thinks so. And here he thought they just fell through a plot hole.
Lying next to Guido, Longshot and a newly created dupe, Madrox now turns his sarcasm toward Longshot, asking what happened to that marvelous luck power of his. To this, Longshot can only offer a sheepish admission that he’s not sure. Madrox’s dupe, however, seems to be more forgiving and offers Longshot a hand to get back to his feet and asks if he’s all right. Hearing Longshot report that he’s uninjured, the prime Madrox throws up his hands, asking his dupe what about hi. To this, the dupe coldly tells his progenitor to get himself up, “smartymouth.”
One everyone is back on their feet, they look up to Monet, who continues to hover above them, actually going so far as to lean over and rest her hands on her knees, as if she were looking through a glass floor. Calling up to her, Madrox asks if she can get them out of there. To this, Monet begins to reply that she’ll be right down… but is interrupted as the warehouse explodes around her. In the hole below, Guido, Longshot, Madrox and his dupe escape the brunt of the blast, though they are forced to dodge the fiery detritus which falls among them.
Elsewhere, it is reported to Mr. Maru that the mutants have been taken. Watching a video of the warehouse’s blazing inferno, Maru replies that he doubts the blast disposed of all of them. They have to assume they’ll find their way there… so this will be an excellent opportunity to test the fruits of their research. Turning now to Darwin, who now floats submerged in a vertical, liquid-filled tube, Maru jovially informs him that company’s coming. What does he think? Pot luck, or do they put out the fine China? With cold eyes trained at his captor, Darwin replies to Maru that he’s going to kill him. More amused than worried, Maru tells Darwin that that doesn’t sound very evolved of him.
Back in the level below what was once the warehouse, Madrox coughs and asks if everybody is okay. Great, great, Guido quips. And to think he passed on Tigers tickets for this. Chiming in, Longshot happily adds that, apparently, his luck abilities paid off after all. Angrily, Guido chides Longshot on the powers he has. No matter what happens, if his still suckin’ oxygen when it’s over, he gets t’say “I meant to do that!” He’s like Pee-Wee Herman of the super hero set. Unsure how to take that, Longshot smiles and asks, “Is that good?”
Ignoring the two, Madrox and his dupe yell for Monet, the latter greatly annoying the former in the process. The response comes in the form of coughs, coming from Monet who continues to float above, but with markedly less clothes, burned off by the blast. Speaking hoarsely due to the smoke, Monet tries to cover what skin is not by what remains of her charred clothes and warns the bearers of the four pair of eyes that watch her that, the first one who laughs dies. Ignoring her, the dupe smiles at the prime Madrox and lecherously asks “who’s the dirty girl?” Annoyed, Madrox instructs his dupe to remove his shirt, and the dupe reluctantly obeys.
Back at XF HQ, Val tells Theresa that what she has to ask herself is what kind of world does she want her child growing up in. Speaking through the door of the bathroom through which she is relieving herself, Theresa sarcastically replies that she thought the question she needed to ask is why do people like her keep harassing us? Believe it or not, Val rejoins, stationed outside the door, they’re working on the same side. To this, Theresa replies that she’ll go with the “or not,” thanks.
Undeterred, Val tells Theresa that it’s time she knew that Madrox hasn’t been entirely candid with her. The fact is they have been working with them for months now. The Tangrettu case? The Meers case? Or that mob informant case three weeks ago? Oh, and they kicked the Anselmo case their way. Nice job solving that one. All of it work that served government interests, well-paying too. What does she say to that? Val’s first response comes in the form of a flushing toilet.
A few moments later, the door opens and Theresa steps out. Immediately, she accuses Val of lying. Jamie wouldn’t keep that from her. Asked by Val if she asked him, Theresa replies that she didn’t need to. Oh, come on, Terry, Val chides. She’s not stupid. She must have known there was something he was holding back. No, she didn’t, Theresa replies. She trusted him. Does she remember “trust?” It’s on the government list of endangered concepts. To this, Val asks Theresa if she knows what else is on that list? Mutants. Which brings them back to her little passenger there.
Seeing Val point at her stomach in punctuation, Theresa narrows her eyes. She tells Val that, if she tries to hurt her child, she will end her. She swears to God she will. “Hurt him?” Val asks. They want to protect him! Told by Theresa that she can keep him safe just fine, thanks, Val sarcastically mocks that mutants are the poster boys for safety. Tell it to Layla Miller. Better still, Val presses, she should tell it to her father.
Her anger growing, Theresa grits to Val that she doesn’t get to mention him. Val tries to explain that she’s just trying to make a point, but this only incenses Theresa, who presses Val against the wall, causing her to yell again “You don’t get to mention him! Acting instinctively, Agent Vangrowski draws his weapon and trains it on Theresa. He yells to her to let Val go. “Right now!” Rictor tries to step in, but only results in Vangrowski moving his aim onto Rictor himself.
Thrown against the wall, Siryn’s forearm against her throat, Val Cooper does not panic. Hoarsely, she reminds Theresa that killing her will not bring her dad back. Spurned on by anger, Theresa rejoins that her dad’s not dead. He’ll be back. Layla too. They always come back. Fine, Val hoarsely replies. They’ll be back. Too bad… that Theresa will make sure Val won’t be alive… to see it… Her anger exhausted, Theresa releases Val and beings to walk away. Rubbing her throat, Val tells Rictor that she has some serious issues… “Issues??” Rictor replies. “She has the trade paperbacks.”
Elsewhere, along a tunnel which they found below the now-destroyed warehouse, Madrox (sans dupe), Guido, Monet and Longshot make their way with through the darkness with two flashlights. Floating along, dressed in the now-absent dupe’s shirt, Monet notices that one of the flashlights, that of Guido’s, is aimed at her legs, accompanied by Guido’s eyes. When she asks him what he’s looking at, Guido admits that, honestly, he’s admiring her legs. Annoyed, she tells him “eyes front.”
Monet’s annoyance, however, is short-lived, as Longshot chimes in, telling her that Guido’s right, though. They are quite lovely. Asked if he thinks so, Longshot smiles very toned. Thank you, she smiles broadly. Dropping back, Madrox is dumbfounded, while Guido scowls. As they hear Longshot then praise Monet’s well-developed calf muscles and ask if she does much dancing (which Money admits that she did ballet growing up and that he’s sweet to notice), Madrox laments with a whisper that he may barf. Just as quietly, Guido adds that he may join him.
As they continue, Madrox loses himself in thought. The fortunes of war, he thinks, can seesaw from one moment to the next, so much so that it’s hard to find your footing. Al Capone said in “the Untouchables,” he recalls, that at the end of the fight you see who’s left standing and that’s how you know who won. Then again, he considers, General Pyrrhus said otherwise. The truth is, you sometimes don’t know for months or even years who really won… or is there even was a winner.
“Uh-oh,” Madrox mutters as his flashlight comes upon a stone wall, blocking their path. Turning back to the rest of the group, he tells them that this could be the end of the line. Or maybe there’s some sort of hidden exit they can find… Interrupting Madrox with repeated blows against the wall, shattering it with blow after blow, Guido replies that he’s never been much for searchin’ around. He’s a make-his-own-exit kind guy.
As he watches Guido tunnel through the thick wall, Madrox silently notes that everything is so simple for Guido. Something gets in his way. He hits it. Either knocks it out of his way or pummels it until it stops moving. Nothing is simple for me, he thinks of his own life. One of my dupes nearly killed Darwin’s father. Except… it was me. He was me. And not a random aspect like that one that glorified in being the unpredictable X-Factor. He was my vengeful wrath incarnate. I mean, my God… I’m against capital punishment. At least I thought I was. How do I know what I am? At all?
“We’re though!” Guido shouts, his latest blow shatter the last section of the wall. However, to Guido’s surprise, on the other side it is a group of heavily armed men. “Yes, you are,” the leader of the group states. “Totally.”
Before anyone from either side can react, Longshot leaps into action. With a YAAAAHH!!, he throws a handful of knives, each of which luckily finds a target on a gunman. While the group leader calls on his men to fall back. By all means, fall back, Monet snarls angrily, flying into the gunfire. Fall back. Fall forward. As long as you fall… she doesn’t really give a damn which direction they go.
Though their automatic rifles do no damage to Monet, rifles are not the group’s only weapon. A rocket fired from a shoulder launcher explodes on impact with Guido’s chest, luckily shielding Longshot in the process. Seeing this, Madrox notes that they probably think they’ve hurt him. In a way, he notes, they have… because when he absorbs enough kinetic energy, he’d in agony until he releases it. And if he doesn’t do it soon enough, bad things happen to it. On the other hand, if he does it fast enough… bad things happen to other people.
In demonstration of Madrox’s thoughts, Guido proceeds to use the massive energy absorbed from the rocket to demolish what is left of the armed troops. Taking advantage of one such fallen troop, Madrox hovers over him and demands to know where their prisoner is. Where’s Darwin? When the man replies with a “go to hell,” Madrox stamps his foot, creating a dupe. Pointing this out, he then places his hand in the soldier’s mouth and notes what might happen if he does that again while his hand is inside his mouth. It won’t be pretty, he promises. So talk before…
Madrox’s statement trails when, suddenly, the newly created dupe smacks him on the back of his head. Much to Madrox’s horror, a new dupe is created, just as he threatened. The resulting spatter of blood sprays toward Guido, who is disgusted, and Longshot, who find it quite exciting. The newly-created dupe, covering in the blood of the man in whose body he was formed, holds his blood-soaked hand toward his progenitor, asking for a little help.
Spinning around, Madrox grabs his dupe by the shirt, and demands to know what did he do. Stoic, the dupe calls Madrox an idiot and replies that he saved his life. The man’d pulled out a knife from his belt. While he was trying to threaten him into spilling his guts, he was about to spill Madrox’s. Pointing out the unfolded knife in the dead man’s hands, the dupe orders the prime Madrox to keep his head in the game. When Madrox replies that this isn’t a game, the dupe rejoins that it is. Except it’s not about winning or losing, it’s about beating the game itself. Do that, and nothing else matters.
Having had enough, Madrox begins to reabsorb the dupe. In the process of merging, the dupe warns his creator that, sure he can shut him up on their… but not inside is head. Once the dupe is gone, Guido motions toward the blood-covered and asks Jamie about that one. Clearly disturbed by his predicament, the dupe tells Madrox that he really wouldn’t mind going away… For moments, Madrox considers doing so, his eyes showing his reluctance…
With a wave of his hand, he decides upon later. Monet begins to protest, but Madrox reiterates. He then instructs Monet to grab a guard and probe his mind. Find out where Darwin is. Rip is out of his cerebral cortex if you have to, but…
Suddenly, Madrox is informed by a voice that that won’t be necessary. Mr. Maru, the source of the voice motions to a host of Darwins, dozens in total. He wants Dawin? Take his pick.
Back at X-Factor HQ, Theresa asks Val what did she think was going to happen there? Did she think she was just going to voluntarily have off her baby to her? Calmly calling Theresa “Terry,” Val states that she has no desire to separate her from her child. She’s not heartless… Interrupting Val, Theresa orders Val not to call her “Terry” like they’re pals. She…
Looking downward to the floor, Val, now addressing her as Theresa (for which Theresa promptly states that that’s better), informs her that if she had to go to the bathroom again, she should have just said so. At first, Theresa does not under stand, but soon sees the puddle of fluid at her feet. “Oh... crap…” she mutters. “My water just broke…”
M, Multiple Man, Rictor, Siryn, Strong Guy (all X-Factor)
Val Cooper
Agent Vangrowski
Unnamed O*N*E agent
Mr. Maru
Mr. Maru’s security forces
Darwins clones
Braxton-Hicks contractions are a part of the birth process where in the months prior to birth the muscles of the uterus prepare for the eventual process of giving. They are usually painless and are occasionally referred to as “false labor.”
“Tigers” refers to the Detroit Tigers, a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit since 1894.
While Val Cooper’s reference of the “Tangrettu” or “Meers” cases does not seem to have any significance, her citation of the “Anselmo case” does. In the 1980s detective show Moonlighting the “Anselmo case” was a running gag during the five seasons, whereupon characters would reference it but no details of the case were ever given. After the final scene of the series, a message stated onscreen that “the Anselmo case was never solved.”
Siryn’s father, Banshee, died in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2. Though she was so informed by Cyclops in X-Factor (3rd series) #7, Theresa has to date refused to believe that he is really dead.
“General Pyrrhus” undoubtedly refers to King Pyrrhus of Epirus who fought Roman invading forces in 279 BC. Though he won the battle, Pyrrhus lost so many men that he is purported to have said “one more such victory would utterly undo him.” This story gave rise to the phrase “Pyrrhic victory.”
A dupe of Madrox’s nearly killed Darwin’s comatose father in his hospital bed in X-Factor (3rd series) #35.
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Signing on and Silent Suppers
February 1, 2012 / Hiker / Leave a comment
Just finishing up from what I thought was a very ravishing dinner with Lilsister, Papabear and Mammy, but which I fear was not appreciated by our deranged parents.
Papabear in full New Year’s resolution mode (well it is February) has decided to quit smoking, and finds himself hungry almost most of the time he is awake, currently running at a good six hours per day. This meant that as Lilsister’s shepherd’s pie was fizzling away in the oven, next to my own amazing garlic bread rolls, Papabear sat at the table, with a napkin, cutlery, cup of tea, bread roll (as he hates anything garlic-related) and a jam doughnut, naturally, until the food was eventually slopped up on a plate to him, by a strangely silent Mammy. Dinner was short and quiet with only the gnashing of teeth from Lilsister and desperate protestations from myself about how nobody was thanking anybody for handing them their dinner. It was painful, yet delicious in a piercingly horrific way.
The point of the shepherd’s pie was to eat something comforting after our awful time down at the social welfare office, where we stood in line and Lilsister got yelled at by the gargoyle at the hatch for not putting her mark in the correct corner of the greasy paper which holds so much power. Afterwards, being gluttons for punishment, we decided to go and register at the state employment agency, which costs our IMF-indebted government a billion euro a year to run. I could say function, but I never lie.
Moving away from the porn he was navigating on his computer screen, the extremely skinny bloke behind the counter (who never rose from his seat to address us) told us that to register for a course, you had to register, which we advised him we were here to do. Oh no he said, you can’t just come in and register. We only take registrations from 9.30-1.30 Monday to Thursday, and you usually have to queue two and a half hours to do even that. And every day we close the doors at 1.30 and there are people still waiting, we send them away. We are public servants after all (okay I included that bit myself but it isn’t a lie). We turn away on average twenty people a day, he said. I then asked him about courses and he said there were waiting lists for ”many, many months” for the majority of them. These courses are just fabulous – if you go on them, then your details are removed from the live register, which is the amount of people out of work in Ireland. This means that the unemployment figures reported in Ireland at any one time are completely false, as they do not include all those people on the ”Jobs Club” course (where you work at a computer on your CV and discuss interview techniques in a room with other unemployed hopefuls – for 11 weeks); the ”Receptionist Skills” course (eh – switch skills? For a whopping EIGHTEEN weeks) and other such useless, pointless entities which fudge the figures we present to our European bosses when we put our hands out for more bailout money. I then asked about internships, as I had spotted a really good one that required journalistic ability and was working (for free mind) with a government agency doing interviews, press releases etc. NO, I was told quite clearly by Starvingpornman, you must be unemployed for LONGER to even apply for an internship where you work full time hours doing the same work as everybody else, but for free, and while you’re there we take YOUR details off the live register and don’t report on the fact that you are still unemployed, just whoring your skills out for nowt. I asked was there any way around this and was given a repeated loud NO.
In essence, you must queue to register to queue to do courses with our state employment agency, which costs a billion a year to run, but which cannot see individuals after 1.30pm four days a week, lest lunchbreaks be interrupted.
Just to put the cherry on the cake, we popped along to our post office to collect our dole payment which, for anybody unemployed out there knows, is FUCKED at you through the window by the haggard and horrible post office mistresses, with a snarl and no word of a thanks for keeping post offices open, which only serve to hand people dole payments these days.
So! To summarise:
There are no jobs in Ireland.
The state employment agency has no jobs, just courses, which have many months waiting lists, and the waiting lists themselves have waiting lists.
These courses may not lead to jobs.
The bitches at the post office can get off their fat arses and thank us for paying their pensions in the first place, and get over the fact that people are not on the dole because they love it, but because they were made redundant by companies who could claim 66% of the redundancy they paid you back from the government. Why pay wages when you can get away with that?
Our parents are ungrateful, and depressing.
But cynicism and hatefulness, you will not have me!!! I will NOT let you get the better of me!!!
Having said that, it may be time to pop a few headache tablets.
When Mince is a Lie
January 1, 2012 January 9, 2012 / Hiker / 3 Comments
It might be New Year’s Day and I might be watching the nine o clock news on our ever-pointless national television station (which opened with the newsreader declaring ”happy new year to you” and then proceeded to list all the new charges and bills coming into effect from today – thanks lads, and happy new year’s back, you depressing cretins, cause that’s exactly what we in Ireland need right now, a list of MORE things we can’t afford, after a fake greeting wishing us nothing but more bad news so you PRICKS can have something to report on so we have something to CRY ABOUT and then you can be happy you ARSEHOLES) – BUT there are more pressing issues at hand that don’t include the fact it’s 2012.
By the way, whilst watching the above I sunk into a mini depression and have now flicked over to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as reality and my hangover hurt too much.
Anyway, I have discovered, after a night spent yapping to Smashers whilst staying in her apartment, that there is NO MINCE IN MINCE PIES. Never knew this – having always assumed the word ”mince” alluded to, you know, MINCE, or meat of some kind, and it’s an English dessert thing, and they have a thing about meat pies, as do the Australians, who just want to be British anyway (they don’t know it but they do, no matter how American their cities seem).
Smashers was telling me how she was forced at a Christmas family gathering to try a mince pie, after refusing to eat one all her life, because she didn’t like the idea of eating, you, know, MINCE, like, in a PIE. Anyway she was peer pressured into eating one and discovered that mince means some sort of fruit mash type thing, and it wasn’t as vomit inducing as she had thought. She asked me did I realise mince pies didn’t have meat and I said no, and we discussed this alongside our usual deep and meaningful stuff, so it’s not like we’re boring or anything.
Should also mention here that after I had gone to bed, I had a VERY sleepless night imagining Smashers was standing at the end of my bed like yer woman from Paranormal Activity, of which myself and Lilsister saw with Firstbrother and Preggers in their apartment (Part 3 this time) and which stressed us out immensly. But that is a separate issue.
Mentioned the mince pie thing to Lilsister who finds it hilarious that somebody would think mince pies contain meat and despite my perfectly valid arguments that these are an English tradition, and they eat lots of meat pies etc, she is using this as an excuse to slag off and generally belittle me, which is getting quite annoying. She also can’t believe Smashers thought the same thing, which I think only confirms what I said.
She’s nine years younger, which makes her a total twat anyways, that’s what I think.
December 24, 2011 January 9, 2012 / Hiker / Leave a comment
You know it’s Chrismtas Eve and the start of the ”festive” season when you wake to the sounds of your parents killing each other in the kitchen downstairs. Ho ho ho. To the day I die, and it could be soon by excessive gin inhallation, I will never forgive ExHimself for putting me in the position where I’ve had to move back in with the EEJITS that are my parents. May my visit be short, and quiet. Amen.
I put on the radio to drown out the evil vibes and Michael Buble was on groaning about coming home. This didn’t help.
Envisaged today’s arguement whilst contemplating Mr Buble’s stellar career on smoochy ballads. Mammy would have gotten up early, even though she doesn’t need to leave the house till 9am. This ensures maximum time to sit and bull about how difficult Christmas is. Papabear, who after 39 years of marriage should really know better, would have gotten up, rolled downstairs and asked Mammy to make him breakfast. Cue usual killings about laziness of Papabear, followed by cooking of his breakfast. I have told Papabear several times since getting off the plane that daily food arguments could be cancelled if he just poured oil and sausages into a pan and ate the results. But noooooo he and she have to have their daily dance around the madpole.
Mammy left at 9 for hairdressers, in a haze of sighs and coughs, which I pretended not to hear by turning the radio up louder. I let Mr Buble go home and rolled the dial over to Spin instead, not my favourite station in the world but it plays a lot of ”unce unce unce unce” style ”dance” music and is therefore louder than most of the ”classic” hits being provided by our more mainstream stations. Did the trick anyways, and I dozed off to the tender sounds of some twat shrieking about how his ladeee had it awl and didn’t need none of his dollaz, man. Sweet, sweet snoozing.
Party last night went grand, I had gin and beer beforehand and gin and tea after I got there, and some fine food – Panties knows how to put on an excellent spread. Some bad moments when there was an indepth discussion between the mammies of what essentials to pack for hospital trip when one is birthing, which myself and Panties did not enjoy but luckily Rocky Five came on and we concentrated on that until we could tell our story about the time we babysat for a couple on New Year’s Eve and they had sex all night on the stairs when they came home, which was terrifying for us as we were in a bedroom in a single bed with no door, just a curtain, and we were afraid they would come in and eat us, and the woman was screaming her head off and ended up wailing for Satan to put his ”evil in her”. Terrible, terrible night, but a lovely story to shut up the maternity talk with.
Bad news indeed on Thursday as when Lilsister came to collect me she was in floods of tears – her job of five years waited till she went back to work (ill, I might add, she’d been out the two days before dying with Mammy’s disgusting cough and only went in cause she had so much work to do) to tell her that she was now redundant and could she please go away. Not sure what’s going on, she is a credit controller for a company that really needs control over it’s credit but anyways it’s happened and there’s not a lot we can do about it. She said her co-worker had been made redundant about five minutes before (by the way, for the second time with that company – supposedly the co-worker was in the toilet, came out, boss waiting for her, and she said ”please don’t do this to me again” at which point they actually did). Lilsister had been upset by this news, then was called in herself, to the company owner, his wife, and her boss, who delivered the reasons and the news itself. She said she has no idea what was said, all she remembers is the owner, who seemed quite upset himself, holding her hand, and her wishing he would not do that, as she was now crying large rivers of snot, and bubbles had started to come out of her nose, and she needed her hand to wipe them away. The owner’s wife requested that somebody get tissues which just means they all saw the bubbles and were probably horrified. I told her when I was made redundant they at least had the decency to have a glass of water and a BOX of tissues on the desk in preparation. I didn’t cry, but I was annoyed as it was done in the boardroom and I knew that the managers hid the kit kats in the press at the back and hadn’t thought that chocolate might be a comfort.
Luckily myself and Papabear were at home at the time, so after the purchase of chips and the making of tea she calmed somewhat, and we discussed our lack of futures and how the hell Ireland is supposed to pull itself up out of all this.
Our immediate answer is to pile me, Lilsister, Papabear and Babybro, all of whom have now been made redundant, into Lilsister’s Toyota Yaris and hit the streets in a sort of unemployment roadshow, begging for work. We shall start at the industrial estates, knocking on doors, leaving Papabear and Babybro right at the gate, as we believe we should be the interested looking faces of our project. Papabear has given up ever working again and Babybro has been unemployed for so long we are worried for his health. Another option is to bring our niece, Babybro’s beautiful daughter, N, along for the sympathy vote ie if we don’t work she doesn’t eat etc or just general cuteness – some manager may see her and go ”ahhhh” whilst we sneak by and steal jobs, or petty cash as we can’t afford the petrol.
Until then we will muddle through Christmas, Lilsister and I shall be tucked up in bed together tonight, watching the very Christmassy Paranormal Activity 2, as we saw the first one together a few weeks ago, on the sofa, holding hands, and behind cushions, and loved it. I have to say though my hand had nail marks in it from last time, Lilsister must have been tense, so perhaps we’ll sit apart tonight. Then it’s up at 6 or 7 to open presents – a lot less this year – and begin a day of eating, drinking and avoiding Mammy’s cough.
To Ghosts at Christmas!
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Heads Up Showdown Pt.2: ’18 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 vs. ’19 Yamaha WaveRunner FX SVHO
| 25 October, 2018 at 14:26
Back in June’s first “Heads Up Showdown” where we pinned the 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 ($15,699) against the 2018 Yamaha GP1800 WaveRunner ($13,999), we were frankly floored by the results. Despite it’s horsepower advantage, we were certain that the lighter and smaller GP would’ve been the winner. So much so that Jerry teased whether we wished to place a small gentleman’s wager on the outcome. Ironically, both of us would be dumbstruck by the results. The larger, heavier and more-equipped Sea-Doo eked ahead of our Yamaha – if only by fractions of a second. This result not only surprised us, but our readers who struggled to cope with our results.
So when the opportunity to attempt a second “go” at another acceleration test arose, we couldn’t say no. Our reasons for doing so were both mainly scientific, and thereby justified in our experiment, and that we simply had both of these machines in our possession at the time and wanted to see how’d they do when squared off the other. But let’s back up a little; we wanted to revisit our shootout because frankly, many felt that the far larger and heavier ’18 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 beating out the smaller, lighter and more nimble GP1800 was a fluke. Others – most notably fans of the new Sea-Doo’s “Launch Control” mode – were upset that we chose not to use the feature when battling the Yamaha.
Our reasoning was sound, but left many feeling the comparison was incomplete. “Fair enough,” both The Watercraft Journal’s Kevin Shaw and Jerry Gaddis of Greenhulk.net agreed. So a second bout of testing including runs both with Launch Control engaged and without were planned. Because we had installed a pair of RIVA Racing Pro Series Sponsons months earlier, we swapped the new adjustable sponsons back for the one-piece, molded plastic factory sponsons. And just as we had done back in June, this month’s test would also have both machines topped off with fuel. Yes, this alone was a major point of contention and every manner of sandbagging was suggested to equalize for the weight, but we felt being filled to the top was the most fair and frankly, the least likely solution to spur cries of bias or cheating on our end.
As mentioned, we had in our hands the first 2019 Yamaha WaveRunner FX SVHO (albeit a pre-production unit). The ski itself had nearly 40 hours on the clock, which wasn’t too far off from our Sea-Doo (which also was a pre-production unit), guaranteeing near-equal engine wear and run time. And as last time, we had Jerry be our sole pilot, thereby eliminating any potential differences in rider weight, skill or throttle response. Finally, we employed both a Garmin GPS for tracking top speed as well as a Vbox Sport accelerometer – tracking acceleration times beginning at 5 miles per hour and tracking in 10mph increments. The choice to begin at 5mph was simple: PWC are always in motion, even when set in neutral. Wind, current or the reverse bucket’s redirection of thrust never has the ski at a true zero. Alas, we wanted to be as scientific as possible by eliminating as many variables as we could.
Like we had in June, we drove down to Morgan City, Louisiana to attend the Mudbug, the Fall Mudbug, that is. The second event is far less populated as the summertime event, and doesn’t feature the Speed Alley radar run session on Saturday morning, which was OK by us. We had already scheduled a series of rides with a couple of groups and were looking forward to hours of exploration through miles of shady bayou. Admittedly, most of our casual riding was aboard the Yamaha primarily because we had so little time aboard it and doubted we’d get another opportunity before the beginning of the main riding season next year. So the Sea-Doo sat on the trailer for most of the weekend, that is until it was time to face off against the new FX SVHO on a quiet stretch of canal running a few miles behind Jerry’s home where Greenhulk conducts most of its testing.
Taking the Yamaha first, Jerry sped off into the distance, wanting to get some heat into the engine. The staccato whine of the SVHO’s supercharger howled over the water as the red-and-white WaveRunner slipped across the ever-so-slightly-rippled surface. Then, pausing to set the Vbox and Garmin, he snapped off the first and a sequence of follow-up passes, alternating directions to equate for wind direction and current. He returned to the trailer with a curious look on his face. What was he seeing in the data? we wondered. Without hesitation, the Sea-Doo was next. We remounted and activated the GoPro cameras, the instruments were reset and off Jerry went to repeat the process but on the RXT-X 300. This time though, the Sea-Doo would get a double dose, as Jerry was testing both with and without Launch Control.
The newest feature for the X-series performance Sea-Doos is a little misunderstood. There’s no tapering of throttle or engine response as some have claimed. The “control” in Launch Control is merely articulating the position of the trim nozzle. Activating Launch Control requires being set in Forward motion, as a racer would be at the starting line. When armed, Launch Control trims the nozzle all-the-way down, ensuring the craft won’t leap out of the water upon acceleration. Then, as the ski reaches top speed, the trim nozzle automatically toggles back up to the last preset position, whether that’s at neutral plane or wherever. We agreed with Jerry that a seasoned rider could manually toggle the VTS better, and sought to prove it. The result was everything opposite of our thoughts.
First, the ’18 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 handily bested the ’19 Yamaha FX SVHO both in 5-30 and 5-60 acceleration speeds, and by a considerable amount. The Sea-Doo carried over a half-of-a-second lead over the WaveRunner, which in drag racing terms, is considerable. If weight was a factor, it didn’t show here. In fact, in stock trim, the RXT-X is only 10-pounds heavier than the FX SVHO (828lbs. vs. 818lbs.); albeit equipped with the BRP Premium Sound system (weighing 19-pounds), fully fueled, the Sea-Doo tipped the scales a 942-pounds, the Yamaha coming in at 930-pounds, effectively closing the gap between the two quite a bit. Yet, despite being heavier and more equipped, the sheer grunt of the Sea-Doo’s 300-horsepower was enough to compensate and earn the ski yet another win.
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Chad Shaw 15 July, 2019 at 09:47 Reply
Disagree – I outrun the stock RXT-X 300 all the time on my GP1800 and it is stock.
Kevin Shaw 15 July, 2019 at 11:45 Reply
And are you equal weight with the other rider? Have the same amount of gas? Carrying the same amount of storage? Equally stock tuned? Drag races hardly prove equality.
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Anthony Hedges
Born in Bicester in 1931, Anthony Hedges studied music at Keble College, Oxford, and left university with a first class honours degree and a post-graduate degree in composition. Following National Service as solo pianist and arranger with the Royal Signals Band, he spent the next five years as a lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of music. During that time he was a regular contributor on music to many national newspapers and journals. In 1962 he moved to Hull University where, he became, until his retirement in 1995, Reader in Composition.
In 1972 he was elected Chairman of The Composers' Guild of Great Britain, served as joint-Chairman in 1973 and was subsequently elected to the Guild's Council. He has been a member of the music panels of Yorkshire Arts and Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, the Music Board of C.N.N.A., and a Council member of the S.P.N.M. A Council member of Westminster Central Music Library for 15 years, he instituted its publishing scheme for contemporary British scores. As a pianist he has given regular solo recitals, and as an accompanist has worked with many leading performers. In the late 1970s he founded the Humberside Sinfonia with whom he gave numerous successful concerts as well as recording a highly-praised LP of his music.
Anthony Hedges is equally successful in many types of music. His serious music has received wide critical acclaim; his light music enjoys numerous broadcasts, recordings and public performances. He has also written much music for children and amateurs as well as having composed for film, stage, ballet and television. His works have been performed by many major British orchestras and heard worldwide in many hundreds of broadcast and public performances. In 1991 he was the featured composer in the Riga Festival of British Music and Film and was subsequently invited back to Latvia to conduct further performances of his works.
A prolific composer, much of his output has resulted from commissions - over 60 to date*. In 1990 Hull Central Library established an Archive collection of all his compositions and working sketches. A CD of his light orchestral music was issued in 1997 (Naxos/Marco Polo) and many CD recordings have followed on various labels. In the same year he was awarded an honorary D.Mus. by the University of Hull. He lives with his wife Joy in the picturesque town of Beverley. More details can be found in Who's Who.
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Nostalghia
Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return.
Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice).
Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura), NOSTALGHIA is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hoberman wrote, "NOSTALGHIA is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours."
Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson, Oleg Yankovsky
Italian, Russian
Wild Strawberries 93 mins Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg--masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjostrom--is forced to face his past, come to terms with his…
The Sacrifice 147 mins Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, THE SACRIFICE is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly…
The Sacrifice
Jules and Jim 107 mins Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, JULES ET JIM charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of…
Jules and Jim
The Castle 124 mins Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled…
Last Year at Marienbad - L'année dernière à Marienbad 95 mins This French New-Wave classic features stunning imagery, while deliberately avoiding conventional plot and character development. In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man attempts…
Last Year at Marienbad - L'année dernière à Marienbad
The Virgin Spring 91 mins Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in…
La Notte 123 mins This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'avventura. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist…
Los Angeles Public Library•6 months ago
This is a dream...
Baltimore County Public Library•7 months ago
Tarkovsky is very arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time, and I absolutely adore most, if not all, of his previous films; this was a much more difficult, much less pleasant film than most of those others. I won't say that it's not great, but it's great the way a dense primary ...Read more
Tarkovsky is very arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time, and I absolutely adore most, if not all, of his previous films; this was a much more difficult, much less pleasant film than most of those others. I won't say that it's not great, but it's great the way a dense primary philosophical text is great: congratulations if you are one of the handful of people alive who get it without having to read a book about it!
New York Public Library•4 months ago
What about Abbas Kiarostami?
Prince George's County Memorial Library System•7 months ago
Nostalgia is on my watchlist. I watched "Winter Light" last weekend, and I thought it was terrific. It is one of those movies that I would have to watch very closely and several times. The scene where the pastor is confronting his mistress and then you see him look outside and the light comes ...Read more
Nostalgia is on my watchlist. I watched "Winter Light" last weekend, and I thought it was terrific. It is one of those movies that I would have to watch very closely and several times. The scene where the pastor is confronting his mistress and then you see him look outside and the light comes streaming through the window let me know that God has not abandoned him. I had the same reaction to "First Reformed" when Mary shows up just as Reverend Toller is about to drink pipe cleaner. The light in the room get really bright, which I interpreted Divine intervention for the reverend. I really loved "First Reformed." I got it for my birthday and watch it all the time. I have seen "Sacrifice" and "Diary Of A Country Priest," and now am about to watch Nostalgia. My roommate and I argued about the transcendence themes in "Ida." I understood it, but my roommate got hung up on the young novitiate having, ahem, worldly experiences. I got the transcendent all right.
University of Mary Washington•7 months ago
Every shot and scene was beautiful and brilliant
Brooklyn Public Library•8 months ago
Clunky, confused allegory with superficial use of Orthodox Christian symbols & eschatology. I really wanted to like it, but the film's grasping quality eclipses whatever experience I might have had just enjoying T's photography.
I felt very similarly. I might be wrong, but I would sooner rewatch almost any of his previous films than rewatch this one! (I've yet to see SACRIFICE -- that's next/last on the list, since I'm going through his films chronologically.)
As a great fan of Paul Schrader's "First Reformed," I had to watch this very cerebral and enigmatic film. Schrader has referenced this film, along with "Ida" as his inspiration.
Cuyahoga County Public Library•3 months ago
If you liked "First Reformed" you should watch (if you haven't already) Bresson's "Diary of a Country Priest" and Bergman's "Winter Light." And if you liked "Nostalghia" you can't go wrong with any of Tarkovsky's other films, though "MIrror" is perhaps even more enigmatic than this one (and ...Read more
If you liked "First Reformed" you should watch (if you haven't already) Bresson's "Diary of a Country Priest" and Bergman's "Winter Light." And if you liked "Nostalghia" you can't go wrong with any of Tarkovsky's other films, though "MIrror" is perhaps even more enigmatic than this one (and that's saying a lot).
Jalish
Finally got to watch this after searching for many days. Thanks to NYPL and Kanopy.
Princeton University•1 year ago
an enduring masterpiece...my god.
American University•1 year ago
Pay no attention to this man. Tarkovsky was the greatest ever.
Chapman University•1 month ago
I imagined you in white gloves, a top hat, and tuxedo declaring this in the middle of an intersection at night in Paris circa 1870
YIIIY
Northeastern University•2 years ago
It would be perfect if northeaster, whom feed us resourcefully as an institution, can give access to this one.
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A People’s Movement to End All War
When people sign the declaration of peace at WorldBeyondWar.org they have the opportunity to type in a brief statement in their own words. Thousands have done so, including those pasted below. (And a few great quotes from the past have been added here in graphic form.)
“I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.” — Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
“As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues. We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.” —Ann Wright
“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” — Noam Chomsky
“It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war–everywhere. And it’s great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King’s call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into ‘life-affirming activities.’ Bravo!” —Medea Benjamin
“We must work to end all war because: 1. In war there are no winners, only losers. 2. To thrive, humans need peace, which cannot be created by war. 3. We need all our ingenuity, creativity, technology and will to find a solution to runaway climate change. We cannot afford the military-industrial complex.” — Sally Reynolds, Abingdon Peace Group
“The abolition of war is an idea whose time has come. We are at a transformative moment in history. Our Mother Earth is under siege from destructive global warming and industrialization. It is essential that we mobilize to save our planet. War is a cruel and untenable distraction, draining trillions of dollars and incalculable losses of intellectual firepower away from the essential work that needs to be done to create a livable future for humanity.” — Alice Slater, Global Council of Abolition 2000
“War is a crime against humanity. When 90% of the casualties of war are civilians including children, its time to End ALL WARS! The world badly needs the resources to meet human and environmental needs. Wars are not making us more secure, but creating more enemies. There are more effective means of achieving security than war and killing other people’s children. As former President Eisenhower said, ‘I like to believe that the people of the world will want peace so much that governments will have to get out of the way and let them have it.’ When the people of the world decide to end war, we can end it. At least 99% of the world’s people do not benefit at all from all the wars our governments are waging. The time is NOW. Please join us.” —David Hartsough
“If anything can halt climate change it’s redirecting the unfathomable pile of money and energy now wasted on a war machine that kills for fossil fuels and consumes a good share of them in the process. The symptoms of militarism addressed by human rights and civil liberties groups would end if the disease were treated. Our culture of violence, our government of secrecy, our provocation of animosity around the world: these would end if we stopped slaughtering people under the banner of war. If a fraction of those damaged by war work to end war, it will quickly become a thing of the past — seen then as the unmitigated barbarism that many find it hard to recognize as long as war is accepted by those in positions of power.” — David Swanson, author of War No More: The Case for Abolition
“History has shown us that the institution of war created by humans is not only morally reprehensible, but utterly ineffective in resolving any kind of disputes. The human, social, environmental and economic costs of war are too high. We now know more about the reality of a global peace system built upon global collaboration, social change and constructive conflict transformation. It is time for a re-energized effort to build a world beyond war by challenging the war system and supporting the infrastructure of peace.” — Patrick Hiller, Peace Scientist and Director of War Prevention Initiative by the Jubitz Family Foundation
“War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I’m a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It’s time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I’m in. Join us!” — Judith Hand, Founder: A Future Without War.org
“Change will not come from a President Gandhi. Rather, the initiate for change will come from the bottom up as citizens force politicians to act. We just need to put our voices together and get sufficiently organized. Ultimately change will come from the ingenuity, compassion and ability of the American people to self-correct and chart a more secure and sustainable course for the future.” — Russell Faure-Brac, author of Transition to Peace
“Our greatest enemy today is not a particular group of people in a far-off country. Our greatest enemy is war itself.” — Paul Chappell, author of The Art of Waging Peace
“We must work to end all war because the health, welfare, and safety of the children is the most important element of a society. The children can be the focus for mobilizing, conflict resolution, and uniting for the future of humanity. The children allow the people of the world to show kindness, generosity, and compassion.” — Andre Sheldon, Director of Global Strategy of Nonviolence
“We must end war because war is an abrogation of the inviolable bonds of connection between all people, all living things and the planet. To participate in it is a denial of the trust in continuity deeded to us by our forebears and expected of us by future generations. Every act of war and aggression diminishes the humanity of the individuals involved, destabilizes communities and nations; and scars the entire human family. We are committed not to ending wars but to ending war itself, and to addressing the fear, greed, misunderstanding and drive for power that lead to violent conflict and war.” — Rena Guay, Executive Director, Center for Conscience in Action
“Richard Wendell Fogg, Center for the Study of Conflict, years ago said rather than saying we need to abolish war, we should talk of REPLACING war. In the field of conflict analysis and transformation, there are creative strategies we can apply to solutions that can solve problems and make war unnecessary. With increasing lethality of weapons, evolving technology and communications, war is obsolete. It is a solution worse than any problem it presumes to solve. We can address conflicts constructively. Beyond diplomacy, we can use mediation, negotiation and problem-solving strategies to transcend war.” —Diane Perlman
“Humanity can no longer afford war for two reasons. 1) We need all our resources to deal with the consequences of climate change and peak oil, and 2) War is too wasteful of both human and physical resources to be further utilized or tolerated by the human species. Indeed, nuclear war, which remains a major threat to the world as we know it, would likely make our planet uninhabitable for our own species and many others.” —Peter Bergel
“War is at the heart of all global problems, impeding humanity from a full realization of just, equitable and sustainable communities.” —Kent D. Shifferd
“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn’t stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we’ve got to stop war.” —Vernon Huffman
“Life on earth is not sustainable continuing down this path. War destroys people, the air, the ground, the water. It destroys history. It inhales money/resources literally taking food out of the mouths of the people. It takes generations to recover if that is even possible. Enough.” —Barbara Cummings
“War is the worst act of terrorism and among the greatest causes of human suffering and death and ecological degradation. Wars are declared by the rich and fought by the poor. There will be no real justice and protection of human rights and the rights of nature until a sustainable global peace has been achieved.” —Brian J. Trautman
“I know from my lengthy experience as a journalist, researcher, and human being working in various war-torn or recently war-battered countries that all wars inflict terrible, long-lasting damage on all the residents of the war-zone– with the weakest members of society always suffering the most. There is no such thing as a ‘humanitarian’ war. In cases of conflict or bitter oppression, the very best way to mend broken relationships while building a solid basis for a better situation going forward is to use all nonviolent means possible to de-escalate tensions and work for a better life going forward on the basis of the equality and equal worth of all human persons.” —Helena Cobban
“War murders our children and sickens the survivors. ‘Peace or Perish: Abolish War on Planet and Poor’ (Theme of the 2014 Veterans For Peace National Convention, Asheville, NC, July 2–27).” —John Heuer
“The main obstacle to disarmament is the general/common belief that it is impossible. And it is — just as impossible as ending slavery, apartheid, the Cold War, and tearing the Iron Curtain. Humanity suffers under poverty, unhealth, pollution, depletion of resources, climate change. Instead of being an extremely expensive and deadly risk on top of all those threats militarism is clearly the best option/chance/opportunity to do something substantial — if all countries would join in abolition of military force and forces (the idea that Nobel in his will for ‘the champions of peace’ called ‘creating the brotherhood of nations’).” —Fredrik S. Heffermehl
“Militarism is the world’s biggest problem…morally, socially, economically, and environmentally.” —Ward Reilly
“Creating a world beyond war may be the noblest endeavor we can work on. Can you imagine what future generations will think if we succeed? We will leave them a world where trillions of dollars are not wasted annually on weapons and war, where tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands are no longer slaughtered in unnecessary wars. Surely we can imagine solving conflicts between nations in a more mature way; we can imagine the human race evolving to a higher consciousness that no longer requires war. We can imagine a world without war, now we have to work toward such a world. It will be a global challenge, uniting the world to accomplish this great new reality.” —Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.org
“War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.” —Coleen Rowley
“War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?” —Lisa Simeone
“War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.” —Cindy Sheehan
“War causes pain, suffering, and gross violations to human needs and rights. War causes a violent domino effect for years to come. Humans have no business being involved in war. We are an evolved species that needs to focus on peace and justice in our world. We must honor and show respect for our planet and all living and nonliving entities. We need to shift away from violence and focus on the beauty of nonviolence. War and destructive violence are not solutions to any problem. War must be ended. When that happens we will lift the pain and suffering of our world and allow humanity to begin to heal. It is time we wake up and raise our thoughts to a higher consciousness. If we do not end war now, it will end us. Call on me. I am ready to help end all war!” —Joy Henry
“We need a movement if we are going to stop wars and this may be it. So many of us are working in small groups and we need to come together as one.” —JoAnne Lingle
“The future existence of our planet depends upon ending war. War and violence are not a solution to conflict. They contribute to more violence, more death, more poverty, more suffering physically and psychologically, more patriotism, more borders, more ignorance, and more stupidity. How tragic is all of that. The ecology of our planet is in jeopardy and the pollution of the war machine world wide is a huge contributor to climate change.” —Ann Tiffany
“As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war — with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.” —Johan Galtung, Founder of TRANSCEND International
“I applaud the establishment of a global movement to end all war, but note that citizens of the United States have a special responsibility to make this happen. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has bombed more than 25 countries. In those 68 years, no other nation has killed and injured more people living outside of its borders. Most Americans remain silent while we spend more on war, and have more soldiers in other countries, than all other nations combined. War and soldiers are glorified in the U.S. Please recognize and honor those who have had the courage to take a public stand against one or more U.S. warswww.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm. We celebrate these role models in hopes of inspiring other Americans to speak out against war and for peace.” —Michael D. Knox, US Peace Memorial Foundation
“War is about nothing but violence. War is terrible! I have a first-hand war experience and I know what war is all about! I dream of peace!” —Fidaa Abuassi
“War, and preparation for war is draining resources that are life giving from countries, statesnd cities. The world we help create is the world we leave for those who come after us. I am committed to living non-violently in response to the violence in my neighborhood, my city, my state, my country, my hemisphere and my world because non-violent love in action is the most powerful force for change that exists.” —Joyce Ellwanger
“As Ernest Hemingway wrote, ‘Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead…'” —Christopher Flynn
“The biosphere can no longer tolerate the toxic affects of modern warfare, which threaten the continued existence of all humanity and many animals and plants on which we are dependent.” —Richard Ochs
“War benefits no one, with the exception of military contractors and their shareholders. It makes our communities poor, our nation less safe, and ourselves less fully human. We must commit to diplomacy, peacemaking and development!” —Diane Farsetta
“This atavistic practice has always been horrible, but technology makes it even more destructive and savage. it is time for humanity to become civilized.” —Sally-Alice Thompson
“We need to solve some of the world’s problems like climate change, world hunger, homelessness, income disparity, the influence of money ine lections, destruction of the environment, etc. and stop wasting our resources on killing people and destroying the environment.” —Jean Gordon
“The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!” —Dave Lindorff
“It’s obvious: war is a waste of human and earth resources that results only in suffering. There are other ways to disagree.” —Karen Malpede
“As John F. Kennedy said, it will end us instead. ‘If mankind does not put an end to war, then war will put an end to mankind.’ Modern war is ecocide, genocide and ethnocide and is not sustainable. The costs of war are enormous, not just financial but social, ecological and global. War must become obsolete if the world is to survive.” —John Judge
“We’re destroying life on earth in all its forms. By supporting war we are creating poverty that includes fear and anxiety about the future which leads to depression, poor health, food insecurity, and homelessnes. People all over the world are experiencing the destructive effects of investing most of our country’s resources in war resulting in the failure to create a healthy, well-educated and secure environment for humanity around the world.” —Nancy Schoerke
“We must shift from ‘war is a necessary evil’ to ‘peace is a necessary good.'” —Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman
“The myth that war creates justice, solves problems, improves security and enables peace is absurd. If we weren’t so bombarded with propaganda to the contrary, everyone would know that. We need to insist on a new story, the true story. We must forbid the few to profit from war so that we may all begin to profit from peace.” —Robert Shetterly
“We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn’t work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life–not death.” —Peter Kuznick
“To the extent that today’s world is civilized at all, it’s largely thanks to yesterday’s opponents of war and misery: the soldiers who refused to fight, the civilians who refused to accept war and occupation, and all those who worked for a global order based on peace and equity. Yet the institutions and forces that produce war have not been eradicated. Today we must build an international movement that will not only prevent future wars but transform the very structures on which war, militarism, and imperial domination are based. This struggle will not be won quickly, but in the process even small acts and partial victories can help save numerous lives.” —Kevin Young
“It is clear to me that war creates violence and does not solve problems. I have lived and worked in Iran. Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and have seen first hard the broken bodies of children and the anger at our impact as a nation on people’s lives. Thank you for putting this opportunity together. Peace” —Ann Huntwork
“I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘just war’. Murder is murder, whether sanctioned by a government or not. All people should have the right to life and liberty, so long as they do no harm to others, and war extinguishes both.” —Ethan Bell
“War promotes rascism all around the globe.” —Muhammad Ali Khan
“The greatest threat to humanity today is climate change. Militarism exacerbates that threat, and is in no way useful for addressing that threat. The resources invested in militarism must be redirected to combat climate change and global warming.” —Larry A. Unruh
“As a very young man I signed a declaration – ‘I renounce war and will never support another’. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything – it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.” —Donald Saunders
“Having survived WWII as a child I am TOTALLY against ALL wars, there is not excuse for killing and injuring humans, all innocent, for life. I am still traumatized from the war and the bombing and starvation.” —Ingrid Kepler-May
“We still carry ancient beliefs from thousands and thousands of years ago when war was the only thing known. We have options now. This organization will help shift the collective consciousness toward greater humanity and peace. War has indoctrinated the U.S. government as well as other countries. There is no integral intention that exists behind war. It is a contradiction and therefor useless. Its time to evolve greatly. ‘Love precious humanity'” —Leslie Naugle
“I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.” —Ana Martins
“I am working with the higher education system in Afghanistan. My work in this world is teaching and serving as a role model for peace, particularly in this environment that has been devastated by the ravages of 30+ years of horrific conflict. I have a number of close Afghan friends and they, probably more than any people I have ever met, want peace for themselves, their families and their country. I am privileged to know them and am inspired by their endurance and resilience. Endless war serves only to enrich those who champion it and it is long past time that it be stopped.” —James Stapp
“We know, deep down inside, it’s wrong! There’s nothing you can say to ever make it right! Killing is killing, no matter how you slice it! And the ones doing all the killing should be locked up, and be forced to watch the world transform from, This evil place they’ve created, To the wonderful place we should be creating!” —Ronald Richter
“Why must we work to end all war? War keeps us from progressing as a race. We can’t reach a point of sustainability with war taking up so much of our time. It attributes to the division of wealth providing greater conflict between classes and it hands over authority to the wealthy class. It makes them richer while the working class is left to die. War need to end because it’s a tool used to control the masses with fear. It distracts us from the problems within the social hierarchical systems that have been established. We must end all war because we’ll never have peace without it. War is expensive and destroys makes the economy unstable. War is a tool of capital gain, it’s marketable and from youth we are encouraged to take and defend our ruling authority without question. There are other ways to solve conflicts. Civilians are the ones who suffer the most damage. War and violence is terrible for you Psyche due to the traumatizing events. And Finally the main reason we should end all war is because it will kill us if we don’t.” —Jessica Gartner
“While I was always aware that there was a sickness that pervades every social institution I just could not make the connection to myself and this ‘sickness’ until my beautiful child was murdered in the ‘theater’ of ‘War’. This experience was eviscerating. I was disgorged of this ‘sickness’. I could see that ‘war’ is just goddamn MEAN. It bears no resemblance to what lives in my heart and mind so why was I able to accept it as a way of life? Why was I able to accept my son being part of a force for death…for entropy? I see it all clearly now, though. There is a deep sickness that pervades all social institutions and these sicknesses have made us mentally ‘disturbed’ – working out of balance with the gift of life. My granddaughter, Eva, is now four and has no father. She has no protector in this mean world where men prey upon life with a sense of entitlement that desires are to be quenched at all costs. Who will protect my granddaughter now? Through the physical death of my beloved son I have learned that misogyny is the root of warring behavior – and this thought process, this behavior is just goddamn mean.” —Jamie Santos
“Every person who dies is someone’s son, dad, mom, brother or sister.” —Gaston Locklear
“Nelson Mandela said: ‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’ Peace is possible.” —John Bonifaz
“Every modern war has had its root in exploitation. The Civil War was fought to decide whether the slaveholders of the South or the capitalists of the North should exploit the West. The Spanish-American War decided that the United States should exploit Cuba.” —Larry Egly, Veterans For Peace Chapter 961 Codirector
“Another war will likely lead to the end of the human race.” —Lewis Patrie, WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility
“LAW opposes the illegal use of force supports the use of national and international law to settle disputes, prosecute offenders and protect rights.” —Gail Davidson, Lawyers against the War
“As a 70 year old woman, I have seen just what the destruction of war has done to my home country and also those we have invaded in the name of democracy! None of this has been done with my consent, so for the rest of my life I want to promote peace.” —Katherine Schock
“War takes people’s lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world’s problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant the seeds for the next violent conflict as the vanquished and their children will usually not accept the outcome.” —Bruce Van Voorhis
“War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.” —Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History emeritus, SUNY/Albany
“Because we are being used as pawns in an endless game of bloodletting. One generation has to stop this. Please let it be ours.” —Lynne Thomas
“War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can’t resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.” —Madeline Taylor, Topanga Peace Alliance
“Those who exploit our susceptibility to the us-them fallacy to enlarge themselves are today no worse than those who have done the same down through the ages. But the world is different.” —Roger Arnold
“I know war. I was in one in 1991 in Bosnia. It is something that has to stop now. Noone should experience something like that ever again.” —Hatidza Isic
“War is the worst thing that human beings can do to each other, and the worst form of exploitation by the rich and the powerful.” —Nicolas J Sandy Davies
“As a geologist I have travelled the world and lived and worked amongst wonderful but disadvantaged peoples. I am emotionally moved to welcome this campaign.” —Kenneth Buckland
“It is time for the thinking man to realise that what we do to other living things and our environment we do to ourselves. As previous civilisations have learnt, the only way is to create harmony in our world and move beyond hypocrisy.” —Nozar Mossadeghi
“War must become obsolete in the 21st Century. Modern War is genocide, ecocide and ethnocide. Wars profit the few and destroy the many. ‘The hour is getting late,’ sang Bob Dylan. War is destroying the future of humanity.” —John Judge
“We owe it to our children and their children. The end of war is an end to poverty. War is a crime against humanity.” —Jean Andrew
“It’s time, at this 100-year anniversary of the start of World War I, for us all to join together to fight only war itself.” —Marie Reinsdorf
“War ain’t good for shit!” —Bryant White
“What I appreciate most about World Beyond War is that it does not ruminate on the pluses and minuses of each military intervention but takes a clear, principled, courageous and unequivocal stand that war is bad, period, and that our job as global citizens is stop all ongoing wars and prevent new ones. This breaks through the fog of ‘humanitarian interventions’ and ‘just wars’ to paint a vision of how we must evolve as a civilization if we are to survive, and that is, precisely, a world beyond war. Bravo!” —Medea Benjamin
Here’s what people are saying about our recent #NoWar2016 conference:
“With a country that seems to be engaged in perpetual war, this conference was an important step towards reorienting a peace & justice movement.” — Bill Fletcher Jr, author, columnist, organizer.
“This year’s World Beyond War Conference was an extraordinary gathering of activists, writers, and community organizers — a critical step in building power and the step by step development of an ever more powerful and effective peace movement.” — Gar Alperovitz, author, historian, political economist.
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Charles Winder says:
Everyone, including you, must act to end war as you would act to protect yourself, your children and those you love in any other situation. Not directly participating in war is not enough. You must make yourself heard and make yourself seen. Only then will it become clear to those directly involved that they have our support to stop.
Laurence Masterson says:
The though of wars already fought fills us with overwhelming grief, sadness and loss.
The thought of any future wars fills us with fear, terror and horror.
The thought of everlasting peace fills us with hope, joy, happiness, contentment and love.
We can chose our thinking on the matter.
With our choice made it then becomes our reality.
Make everlasting peace our thought of choice and allow it to become our reality.
sajal says:
WAR, for all practical purposes, stands for World Against Rationality. Can we rather say – World Accepts Reason. Time to give reason and sensibility a chance. Time to end the idea of wars. Is now.
waloso says:
Let me first state that I do see war as something hideous, and to be avoided. That being said- I believe that ending war may be possible, but violent behavior would seem to be part of the human essence.
Jacob Griesmer says:
Chapter 1: COLUMBUS, THE INDIANS, AND HUMAN PROGRESS
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:
They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… . They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
These Arawaks of the Bahama Islands were much like Indians on the mainland, who were remarkable (European observers were to say again and again) for their hospitality, their belief in sharing. These traits did not stand out in the Europe of the Renaissance, dominated as it was by the religion of popes, the government of kings, the frenzy for money that marked Western civilization and its first messenger to the Americas, Christopher Columbus.
Columbus wrote:
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.
The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? He had persuaded the king and queen of Spain to finance an expedition to the lands, the wealth, he expected would be on the other side of the Atlantic-the Indies and Asia, gold and spices. For, like other informed people of his time, he knew the world was round and he could sail west in order to get to the Far East.
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Dan Saint says:
These eloquent, passionate calls to end war are brilliant. It seems strange that we need arguments against war. Choosing peace is like choosing sunshine, blue skies, fresh air and healthy life. Why would anyone choose otherwise and more so, how could they convince an entire nation to go to war? To live in peace, we just have to live in peace.
Charlotte henegan says:
We must develop a kind and peaceful world
I have stood on a street corner every Friday with that sign for 16 years get a lot of people commenting positively
Greg Kleven says:
Thank you Charlotte and keep up the good work.
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They’re here! New Amtrak Cascades locomotives now riding the rails
By Barbara LaBoe
All aboard! Starting this week our new state-of-the-art Amtrak Cascades locomotives are rolling on the tracks from Vancouver, British Columbia to Eugene, Oregon.
The eight Siemens Charger locomotives are significant upgrades from our existing machines. They meet the strictest Environmental Protection Agency emission standards and are lighter and quieter. They also provide greater rates of acceleration and top speeds even though they’ll only be travelling up to 79 mph on our route. In addition, the locomotives include computerized on-board positive train control safety equipment, which will automatically stop the train when there are dangerous situations on the rails, once the system is activated corridor-wide next year. The locomotives, which boast 16-cylinder, 4,400 horsepower Cummins engines, also will be more reliable than the existing aging fleet and will be used on all routes.
Our new locomotives, seen here at King Street Station earlier this year, started running this week.
The Charger locomotives feature the traditional Amtrak Cascades colors along with WSDOT
and ODOT logos, for the two states that support the service.
The public got a peek at the new locomotives during a May unveiling at Seattle’s King Street Station. Since then they’ve been undergoing field modifications and acceptance testing to ensure everything operates safely on our corridor. They’re now ready for their official debut in revenue service and will be phased in to all Amtrak Cascade routes during the next few weeks.
The American-made locomotives feature the traditional evergreen, cappuccino and cream Amtrak Cascades colors, along with logos from Washington and Oregon -- the two states that jointly own and manage the Amtrak Cascades service. The paint colors, inspired by the Pacific Northwest, coordinate with the exterior paint on the existing Amtrak Cascades trainsets (passenger and baggage cars) used throughout the Amtrak Cascades system.
This interior shot of one of our eight new locomotives shows the locomotive control panel during initial testing.
All the Amtrak Cascades trains operate in a push-pull configuration that allows them to make a roundtrip without turning the train around. Initially, the trains will run with a new locomotive at one end and an older locomotive on the other end. This is part of the final process to break in the locomotives. Therefore, sometimes you’ll see the new locomotives pulling the train from the front and, at other times, they’ll be pushing the train from the back. The existing Amtrak F-59 locomotives will be phased out of service on this corridor over the next year.
The locomotives are just one part of a nearly $800 million investment in passenger train service in Washington state. We oversaw 20 federally funded projects throughout Washington, ranging from new tracks in Blaine, near the international border, that let passenger trains move more quickly around freight customs inspections to a new train trench at the Port of Vancouver that separates passenger trains from freight trains. In between are numerous projects and improvements to tracks, signals and even catchment walls to help prevent landslides from reaching the tracks and stopping train service. The work also includes the new Point Defiance Bypass route and station in Tacoma opening on Dec. 18. Together these projects will allow Amtrak Cascades to:
Add two daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland
Reduce travel time between Seattle and Portland
Improve on-time reliability
The new locomotives were unveiled to the public in May at Seattle’s King Street Station
and are now moving into service along the Amtrak Cascades corridor.
The additional trips – one in the morning and another in evening each direction – mean heading to Portland for a quick business meeting or Seattle for a fun day trip will be easier and all travelers will now have more options.
So, the next time you catch a train, or just see one passing by, take an extra moment to check out the new face of Amtrak Cascades.
Posted by Ryan Lanier at Monday, November 20, 2017
Labels: Amtrak Cascades, British Columbia, Cummins engines, Eugene, King Street Station, new locomotives, ODOT, Seattle, Vancouver
TBMK TwentiethBeef Maker said...
I can't wait until they completely transfer to these!
We need speeds higher than 79mph on this corridor. We are way behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to passenger trains.
Steve, the speed limit on the tracks is set by the railroad owner – BNSF and Union Pacific – and not WSDOT.
In July 2010, the state of Illinois and the Union Pacific Railroad reached an agreement under which track speeds between Dwight and Alton, Illinois were to be raised to as high as 110 miles per hour.
These locomotives are a great step forward, and all of the track improvements between Portland and Seattle are really making a difference - Thanks!
Chris Shotwell said...
Hi WSDOT - are there any negotiations happening with the railroads to increase speeds on lower-traffic sections of the corridor? Thanks!
It's great to see all these improvements coming to fruition, and I'm looking forward to quicker and more frequent trips!
I think a 3-hour SEA to PDX trip would be a big milestone and would probably be the tipping point where a lot of drivers would seriously consider switching to the train. Up the top speed to 90 or 100 mph on a couple segments (especially next to I-5 where there's high visibility) and find some small time savings in the Columbia River area, and you're easily below that.
Hey Chris Shotwell, thanks, we’re excited about the changes!
Speed on the tracks is set by the railroads that own the tracks, not WSDOT. However, if the speed were to ever be lifted, our new locomotives are ready to travel at higher speeds and other track improvements we made would also lay the groundwork for faster travel.
You might also be interested in an Ultra High-Speed Travel study we’re completing for the Legislature and Governor about even faster travel between Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle and Portland.
As to your second comment, right now we’re focused on the start of our expanded service between Seattle and Portland on Dec. 18. However, the new route in and out of Tacoma and some other track improvements will let the trains travel at faster speeds than they currently can on the route, though still with a 79 mph top speed.
Actually, rail speed limits in the United States are regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Other states have worked to get higher speeds above 79mph for their passenger trains. Is it possible WSDOT will pursue this in the near future?
While the FRA sets the maximum allowable speed based on design standards (track, signal, geometry), the owner of the track has full discretion to set the operating speed within that federal limit. (Sometimes that’s based on other track traffic, or in urban areas track owners often reduce track speed).
Our recent work on tracks and signals – part of the overall $800 million in improvements – brought previously slower sections of the tracks up to 79 mph capability, which will decrease travel time between Seattle and Portland once the expanded service starts on Dec. 18.
Are these model locos. used on the new Marin SMART?
According to the Marin SMART website, their trains are a fleet of state-of-the-art diesel trains assembled in Rochelle, Illinois by Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, which would be different from our Siemens Chargers manufactured in California. They do appear to have the same EPA Tier 4 rating as our locomotives though.
Six Siemens Chargers were purchased by CalTrans as part of our multi-state purchase agreement and are running on the Capital Corridor in California. Those trains are exactly like those at Amtrak Cascades, though with different exterior paint.
Bloomfield246 said...
Quote: Amtrak Cascades rolled out eight new state-of-the-art Siemens Charger locomotives, which will be running between Vancouver, British Columbia to Eugene, OR, with stops in Washington state as well.
This sentence makes it seem like our Washington is just an afterthought when, in reality, of course, we comprise the vast majority of this corridor, both in mileage and in patronage. Vancouver (BC) and Eugene are the afterthoughts. I wish any mention of this corridor would highlight the prominence of Washington and decrease that of these endpoints. Something like ....locomotives, which will be running on the Cascade (or I-5) corridor through the length of Washington and into Portland, Oregon, with continuing service to Eugene and British Columbia.
Yes, I am sensitive to this issue!
Marc Driftmeyer said...
No, the speed isn't set by BNSF. It is set by the track capabilities designed by the Federal Transporation agency. Instead of forcing BNSF to deploy 300Km/hr capacity lines they've allowed low speed 1950s speed capacity lines to be retrofitted, thus saving BNSF [and the rest of the Rail Industry] hundreds of millions to billions in track renovations that are long past due.
Until that infrastructure gets current 79MPH is the cap.
With extensive electrification of UK western region, they are phasing out the most successful diesel powered trains ever produced. The push/pull HST locomotives would have gone great with the Talgo sets and could have been a bargain. Probably too fast for the service 125mph+ and not in compliance with union requirements.
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CHICAGO—Desperate Pleasures will be appearing at the Exxxotica Expo in Chicago July 8–10. The fauxcest and taboo fetish studio’s most popular performers will be signing autographs and DVDs for sale, posing for photos, and meeting fans at the its booth all weekend. Desperate Pleasures performers signing at the booth include Hope Harper, Skyler Nicole, Akira Shell, Zoey Carter, and Jenna Foxx, with the following tentative signing times: • Zoey Carter: Friday 5-11 p.m., Saturday 1-4 p.m./6-9 p.m., Sunday 1-3 p.m./5 p.m.-close. • Hope Harper: Friday 5-11 p.m., Saturday 1-4 p.m./6-9 p.m., Sunday 1-3 p.m./5 p.m.-close • Skyler Nicole: Friday 6-9 p.m., Saturday 3-6 p.m., Sunday 3-5 p.m. • Akira Shell: Friday 5:30-7:30 p.m./10-10:45 p.m., Saturday: 3:30-5:30 p.m./8-9:45 p.m., Sunday 2:30-4:30 p.m./ 6 p.m.-close “I am extremely excited to meet all my fans and other models,” said Zoey Carter. “It's my very first convention ever, and I couldn't be happier that it’s in my home state—I hope I am ready for it all! But I know it will be great, with my twisted family with me.” “I can't wait to be back around all my amazing fans and show off all my new work, and maybe even play with some toys again,” said Hope Harper. “I can't wait to walk around Exxxotica and explore other kinksters like myself. It's going to be so much fun—everyone come on out and see me!” In addition to meeting and posing with fans, the booth will also feature a “Wheel of Porn” free merchandise contest, a raffle, live hula-hoop, dance, and balloon fetish shows, and more throughout the weekend. Exxxotica, the “nation’s largest event dedicated to love and sex,” returns to Chicago metropolitan area for its sixth year in a row, with its largest expo ever, featuring hundreds of adult performers, exhibitors, a full schedule of seminars and world-class entertainment acts. Visitors to the sexy adult expo will be treated to three days, and over 30 hours, of shows and seminars, demonstrating that Exxxotica is one of the nation’s largest events dedicated to love and sex. As always, Friday, July 8, is Ladies Free Friday, in line with increased female attendance for the popular convention. Exxxotica Chicago returns to the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, 9291 Bryn Mawr Ave., Rosemont, IL 60018. The largest and longest running consumer adult event in the country will feature over 100 adult stars, vendors, seminars, stage shows, and more. For ticket information, visit the Exxxotica website. Desperate Pleasures focuses primarily on taboo family relationship and amateur fetish adult entertainment. JW Ties’ films include Daddy and I 2, Daddy’s Dungeon, and Daddy’s Favorites 3, showing that the director/performer is well versed in the fauxcest, taboo, and fetish genres. Pure Play Media is the exclusive distributor for Desperate Pleasures. Retailers interested in stocking Desperate Pleasures releases may contact Michael at Mike@pureplaymedia.com or call 954-903-3347 (x2224), or their IVD sales representative. For more information on Pure Play Media, click here and here. For more information on Desperate Pleasures, click here and here. To book JW Ties, email jwties@gmail.com.
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Thinking about Retirement
Policies for late-career and retired faculty.
By Karie Frasch, Marc Goulden, Angelica Stacy, and Janet Broughton
Our research at the University of California points to policy changes that can benefit academic institutions, late-career faculty, and faculty emeriti. All too often, the differing attitudes of three key constituencies can be summarized with these caricatures:
Academic administrator: I hate it when faculty refuse to retire, especially when they are just doing the same old-fashioned research and teaching they’ve done for decades. If they would leave, we’d be able to hire new faculty, people who would add to our demographic and intellectual diversity (and cost us less in salary). Next year I’m going to offer bigger retirement incentives, but this is getting awfully expensive.
Late-career faculty member: I really wish people wouldn’t hint around that I should retire. Yes, I’m getting tired of teaching the same old courses, but my long-time research continues to be satisfying, and I can’t imagine not being a faculty member—these days it’s my whole life! I’m not really sure what the financial picture would be if I retired, but even if it’d be fine, I wouldn’t want to leave. Of course, if my health declined I’d have to think about it, but with luck that’s years away.
Professor emerita: I wish I’d known long ago how enjoyable a time this would turn out to be. I’m glad to be involved with department life, but on my own terms—no more irksome committees or contentious department meetings. I like having plenty of time for my scholarship, and I love teaching the occasional seminar. But I’m sad that people don’t seem to know how much I continue to contribute, and I often feel left out, almost invisible.
Paradoxically, academic administrators will probably maximize the benefits they care about if they stop aiming their policies directly at incentives to retire and instead do more to meet the needs of their current late-career faculty members and to recognize the value of their emeriti.
A recent study we conducted suggests why this approach is the best one available. We analyzed multiple rich sources of information, including survey responses from more than three hundred mid- to late-career tenured faculty members at the University of California, Berkeley (with a response rate of over 50 percent), and more than three hundred Berkeley emeriti (with a response rate of 40 percent); in-depth interviews with academic administrators at the ten-campus University of California system; and UC systemwide administrative data from one of the largest early-retirement incentive programs in the country, along with Berkeley-specific data for those same programs.
Our study was limited to tenured faculty members. The separation from employment of individuals in this group is appropriately and uniquely constrained by the institution of tenure; indeed, the federal government singled out tenured professors for special handling when age-discrimination laws were implemented. Of course, faculty members on contingent appointments may face different issues from those in our study group, not least because the timing of their separation may not be under their control. And for many faculty members in all types of positions, the finances of retirement may weigh more heavily in decisions about when to retire, depending on their levels of compensation and benefits.
Financial Incentives for Retirement
Until 1982, colleges and universities could mandate the retirement of faculty at age sixty-five, and, until 1994, they could mandate retirement at age seventy. Since 1994, however, federal legislation has prevented academic institutions from setting any mandatory retirement age. Unsurprisingly, the average age of faculty at most institutions of higher education has subsequently increased, with many faculty members now working actively into their seventies and even eighties. Academic administrators around the country, worried about demographic and intellectual diversity as well as their budgets, have responded largely by creating financial incentives to encourage older faculty members to retire, with some attendant programs to “ease” their transition away from the institution.
But can financial incentives help institutions of higher education change the overall age structure of their faculty? Our data offer two reasons for skepticism.
The first comes from the University of California Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Programs (VERIPs) of the early 1990s, which provided UC employees with one of the nation’s most massive financial incentives to retire. As a result, almost 20 percent of all tenure-line UC faculty members retired over a four-year period—nearly two thousand individuals. In 1990, 125 tenure-line faculty members at Berkeley were over sixty-five; by 1994, that number had dropped to thirty-one.
Of course, incentives this large cannot be provided indefinitely, and we have found that once the VERIPs were halted, their effects on faculty age-structures evaporated in just eight years. Between 1994 and 2002, the number of tenured faculty members over sixty-five at Berkeley grew from thirty-one to 143, even higher than the pre-VERIP total of 125. (This change also reflects the abolition of mandatory retirement.) During the same period, the average age of tenured and tenure-track faculty at Berkeley grew from 47.5 to 50.2, and today it is 52.
A second reason for skepticism about financial incentives is that some faculty members are willing, in effect, to pay to work. While all UC employees receive pension benefits that offer monthly income calculated on the basis of age, years of service, and the highest three years of salary, tenured faculty members approaching retirement age are often in a better position than other faculty members given their full-time employment and higher salaries. Indeed, our analyses show that approximately two hundred current faculty members on the Berkeley campus would receive a higher monthly net income if they were to retire than they receive by continuing to work. (This takes into account the reduction in withholding at retirement plus the receipt of Social Security income in addition to the pension income.) For these two hundred faculty members, the financial incentive to increase their monthly net income has not moved them to retire.
Why do financial incentives have limited impact on faculty retirement? When asked to what extent they agree with the statement “My main satisfaction in life comes from my work,” fully 80 percent of mid- to late-career faculty—defined in our study as tenured faculty ages fifty-five and older—agree or strongly agree, compared with just 28 percent of the general US workforce. These survey data, along with data for related questions, make it easy to understand why so many faculty members choose not to retire, even when they have financial incentives to do so. They are in the fortunate position of finding that their work is deeply meaningful to them.
Not surprisingly, when mid- and late-career faculty respondents were asked about their desired age of retirement, more than 60 percent stated that they plan to retire at age seventy or later. But could a realistic vision of a satisfying and meaningful scholarly life after retirement make a difference, either to these faculty members or to their institutions?
Reenvisioning Retirement
When colleges and universities operationalize retirement as a dramatic change from full engagement to complete disengagement, they miss out on what may be the beginning of a valuable new career phase for their faculty. Even phased retirement programs generally end with a form of retirement that entails the loss of the individual to the institution following a going-away celebration.
From an institutional perspective, is “goodbye and good luck” the best way to structure faculty retirement? Data from our surveys of active mid- to late-career faculty and faculty emeriti suggest that it is not.
For many emeriti, retirement proves to be the beginning of a new phase of scholarly life, one in which they have the freedom to focus only on the activities they find rewarding. Most Berkeley emeriti continue to live locally, and many are active scholars. Our emeriti survey respondents indicate that they work an average of twenty hours a week on research. This is compared with the average of twenty-six hours a week active mid- and late-career faculty report spending on the research portion of their duties. Surprisingly, more than two-thirds of emeriti respondents are employed, many of them by Berkeley, where they can be “recalled” to teach or perform service for the university for a modest payment. A survey conducted by the Council of University of California Emeriti Associations showed that over a three-year period ending in 2015, more than 70 percent of the emeriti respondents at Berkeley published one or more journal articles, more than 60 percent presented research at one or more conferences, and more than 60 percent mentored students or colleagues. For that same three-year period, the office of Berkeley’s vice chancellor for research reported that Berkeley emeriti generated more than $70 million in grant funds, and the campus development office reported that emeriti donated more than $26 million in gifts.
Institutions of higher learning may treat faculty members who retire as though they are suddenly invisible, but clearly emeriti are a precious resource for the intellectual life of the academic community.
Supporting Emeriti Engagement
Once faculty members retire, institutions tend not to focus on them because the goal of making room for new faculty has been achieved. While emeriti are typically allowed to participate in many departmental and campus activities, institutions rarely make a concerted effort to encourage or track their involvement. As one retired survey respondent remarked, “The death of place in the faculty continues to surprise and sadden me.” Another reported a “general sense among retired colleagues . . . that attempts to draw retirees into departmental affairs are random if they are made at all.”
In addition to recall, the University of California allows the use of special titles designed to support emeriti in applying for grants, and some campuses have active retirement centers. Still, none of the UC vice provosts thought their campuses were getting the most institutional benefit from retired faculty, especially given the extent to which emeriti identify with academic work and engagement.
In thinking about faculty retirement, both institutions and current mid- to late-career faculty may benefit from knowing that, in addition to staying engaged and productive, emeriti are on average very satisfied and happy. In fact, on many key factors, more emeriti than current mid- to late-career faculty report positive feelings.
Fully two-thirds of emeriti faculty are very satisfied with their overall professional situation, compared with 52 percent of mid- and late-career respondents. Emeriti also report greater satisfaction with their ability to control things that affect them, and their survey responses show higher average rates of overall happiness, enjoyment of life, and feelings of being respected and valued. For one retired survey respondent, the pleasure of retirement came from “continuing my teaching, but only of courses I wanted to teach, while avoiding faculty meetings and administrative responsibilities.”
Supporting Mid- and Late-Career Faculty
Like emeriti, mid- and late-career faculty may need support for success. The academic review system at the University of California provides transparent incentives for excellence in teaching, research, and service throughout the faculty career, with frequent evaluation and increases in pay and status proportioned to accomplishment. Under this system most faculty are successful: satisfied, productive, and engaged. And perhaps in part because this system is so effective, administrators give little focused attention to the mid-to late-career period as one in which faculty members may continue to experience needs and concerns. There is a similar lack of attention to this career period in the academic literature, with most articles focusing on helping assistant professors to be successful on one end of the career continuum and on retirement decision-making on the other.
In our interviews with academic administrators at the ten UC campuses, we found a lack of systematic consideration of the later stages of academic careers. When asked what their campuses do to help mid-and late-career faculty members excel in all areas of endeavor, or to encourage retooling when needed, no UC administrator reported helpful policies or programs designed especially for this group of faculty. And yet, we also heard that some senior faculty members do not keep up when academic fields or technologies change rapidly, that grants may be more difficult to secure, and that teaching may become more difficult without the integration of new material, technology, or pedagogy. Despite their accrued experience and wisdom, faculty members who work into later years may need supportive attention from their institutions if they are to continue to succeed as researchers and teachers.
Mid- and late-career faculty also expressed a clear desire for initiatives to support renewal. When asked how useful they do, or would, find various policy initiatives, more than 75 percent said they would find it somewhat or very useful to have access to small-scale research grants for new areas of research inquiry; about 60 percent said that small-scale teaching grants to design new courses would be helpful; and more than 75 percent supported sabbatical leaves focused on intellectual renewal.
While some of these ideas may also be popular with faculty members at earlier career stages, institutions that are considering eligibility for such initiatives should also keep in mind the likelihood that faculty members aged, say, sixty may well be working full-time for another fifteen or twenty years—years during which the institution would benefit from their overall success and productivity.
Continuing to focus institutional efforts mainly on making room for new faculty members is unlikely to be effective. This would certainly be true for institutions that are replacing some tenure-track faculty lines with non-tenure-track lines, but it is also true for institutions like Berkeley that are maintaining or expanding the size of their tenure-track and tenured faculty. Faculty members will continue working into their seventies and eighties in the years ahead. Instead of providing financial incentives for retirement, institutions should support win-win relationships with mid-to late-career faculty, faculty at the point of retirement, and faculty emeriti.
Mid- to Late-Career Faculty
Faculty members in the mid- to late-career phase often have unmet needs. Acknowledging that supportive attention could help these professors maximize contributions in teaching, research, and service will benefit institutions. This does not mean that institutions need to create new and costly programs designed just for mid- to late-career faculty. Instead, institutions should make sure existing programs are designed to be open to mid- to late-career professors and should communicate clearly that participation by these faculty members is normal and welcome.
In addition, our survey results suggest that faculty members in this career phase may be worrying about the wrong retirement issues. The majority of current mid- to late-career faculty respondents cite a long list of concerns they feel are “very important,” from the obvious financial considerations to health, family life, professional productivity, and interactions with graduate students. But when emeriti reflected on what factors were actually “very important” in retrospect, none of the earlier ones were considered as significant by the majority of respondents. This suggests that many fears of the unknown could be reduced by regular interactions between active late-career and retired faculty. (One retired survey respondent cheerfully summarized advice for late-career colleagues: “Don’t delay retirement!”)
Our findings suggest the value of measures such as these:
• Encourage all faculty members to participate in programs that help them keep their teaching current.
• Create opportunities that will allow all tenured professors to retool or move in new research directions—for example, through appropriate uses of sabbatical leave.
• Provide mentoring for all faculty members on specific topics from colleagues who are successful.
• Provide one semester of teaching release to allow all faculty members to serve as a caregiver for an ill spouse or other close family member. (Such a policy would probably be of greater use to mid- and late-career faculty than to their more junior colleagues, just as similar policies for new parents are probably of greater use to more junior colleagues.)
• Support “vertical” intellectual collaborations and social connections among all faculty, including emeriti, so that older and younger faculty members can learn from one another.
• Develop a campus administrative role for confidential discussion about concerns related to the research, teaching, or service contributed by any underperforming faculty member. Discussions could be initiated by faculty members or by department chairs and deans.
• Create departmental emeriti liaisons who can share their perspective on retirement with mid-and late-career faculty members.
Offering financial incentives may induce some to retire earlier than they otherwise would, but there is no guarantee that the individuals the institution seeks to have retire earlier are the ones who will take advantage of these types of offers. And an unintended consequence may be that some faculty members who feel unfairly targeted will dig in their heels about retirement. A better approach is to provide attractive options for both the last years as active professors and the first years as emeriti.
Our study has also underscored the importance of finding the right channels of communication with faculty members who may be thinking about retirement. While 60 to 80 percent of tenured faculty over age sixty are very comfortable discussing retirement with their spouse or partner, fewer than 30 percent would be very comfortable discussing it with their faculty colleagues, and only 20 to 30 percent would be very comfortable discussing it with their deans or department chairs. The majority of faculty regard retirement as a private matter, and the reluctance to discuss retirement with colleagues, chairs, and deans may arise from concerns about being a lame duck and losing power, influence, or prestige.
We recommend consideration of the following steps:
• Provide chairs and deans with coaching that will help them have comfortable (and legal!) conversations with senior faculty members about retirement.
• Create a campus-level position held by a respected retired professor to act as a confidential adviser about late-career and retirement opportunities and concerns.
• Develop binding agreements to support customized pre- and postretirement provisions. Such agreements can focus on the specific and often unique issues that are important to the individual faculty member both before and after retirement, such as teaching an especially meaningful class, teaching a capstone course in the field, having guaranteed office space for a period of time after retirement, or archiving important materials. Some late-career faculty members may feel comfortable retiring earlier with such agreements in place.
• At all administrative levels, communicate the value of retired professors to the institution and create a welcoming environment for emeriti to continue their academic pursuits. Emphasize that retirement is a transition to a different kind of participation in the life of the institution, and provide the intellectual and social space to support it.
• Be sure that late-career faculty members are aware of existing opportunities for faculty emeriti and that they know they will be able to use a designated title to help obtain grant funds.
• Make late-career faculty members aware of policies concerning office space that will be available to them. To the extent possible, guarantee personal or shared office space for a period of time for emeriti who continue to contribute to the university in retirement through research, teaching, or service.
• Work on creative mechanisms that will allow late-career faculty members in the sciences to be confident they will have access to lab space meeting their postretirement research needs.
Making the university a place where retired faculty members want to be is good for both emeriti and institutions. As one survey respondent wrote, “It is wonderful that I have been able to continue my involvement post-retirement . . . and knowing this would be the case stimulated me to retire earlier, which I believe on net is [also] a benefit to my Department, given the enhanced opportunity for renewal in a field like mine, which evolves very rapidly.”
These steps can help:
• Develop a faculty emeriti liaison network, with one representative per department. These individuals can share ideas for staying involved, communicate with other emeriti and late-career faculty members in their department, and advocate for recognition of emeriti contributions.
• Create a vibrant retirement center where emeriti can socialize, give lectures, and share resources and ideas.
• Give a central administrator responsibility for faculty emeriti, including tracking their activities and contributions, connecting them with opportunities within and beyond their department, and sending them regular communications about both paid and volunteer opportunities.
• Provide information to departments about meaningful ways to include emeriti in the life of the department and the benefits of doing so.
• Regularly acknowledge emeriti and their contributions through awards, newsletters, profiles on department websites, and other communication vehicles.
In thinking about faculty retirement, here are three new portraits for the future:
Academic administrator: Sometimes I can hardly tell the difference between our active and retired faculty since they are all so involved! Faculty see retirement as a new phase of membership in our academic community, and they can’t wait to be able to pick and choose among their favorite activities. Some faculty are actually retiring a little earlier now, and our age demographics are stabilizing. We greatly appreciate all that our mid- and late-career faculty and our emeriti contribute to our academic mission.
Late-career faculty member: Retirement isn’t a bad word around here! I used to dread the day when my colleagues would start hinting about when I was going to retire so they could replace me with someone younger. But instead, the university keeps supporting my success, and it’s clear that when I do retire, I’ll be valued here as an emerita as long as I wish. I know so many people who have retired and can’t stop talking about how great it is to continue their careers here on their own terms.
Professor emerita: Finally! The university is not only noticing all the great work that my retired colleagues and I continue to do; it is also bragging about our new discoveries in its glossy publications. My department makes me feel like a valued colleague, and sometimes I actually get asked to do more than I would even want to do. It’s a “problem” I feel grateful to have, and this makes me feel even more loyal to this great university where I have spent so many years of my life doing what I love.
Karie Frasch is director of the Office for Faculty Equity and Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley; Marc Goulden is director of data initiatives in Berkeley’s Office for the Faculty; Angelica Stacy is associate vice provost for the faculty and professor of chemistry at Berkeley; and Janet Broughton is professor of philosophy emerita and vice provost for the faculty emerita at Berkeley. The authors can be reached by email at ofew@berkeley.edu.
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Interesting. Should share with other retirees
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Okay next up, we're going to talk about something not many of us talk about enough - our mental health. Keeping your mind in good shape is just as important as keeping your body that way but we put far less time and effort into it. We here at BTN want to help change that but to do that we need to know a little bit more about you that's why we're launching the BtN Kids' Happiness Survey. We'll tell you more about what that is and how you can get involved soon but first let's take a look at some of the mental health challenges we all face each and every day.
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Sometimes I feel:
Disgusted. Ugh!
Frightened? Boo! Ahhh! Hahaha
Life is full of feelings, whether they're good ones or not so good ones. None of us can help having them, it's just how our brains are wired.
In fact experts say there's a good reason we have different feelings. They can help us get along with others, protect us from danger or tell us when something's not right and needs to change.
But sometimes our feelings can be more intense or harder to handle than usual.
Like when we get worried.
BOY 1: I worry about practically everything, every slightest thing.
GIRL 3: Even the smaller things at school also get me really worried and a bit nervous about even coming to school.
Or angry.
GIRL 4: Sometimes I feel really annoyed at my brothers and sisters because I'm the middle child. I feel like I'm always the peacekeeper and it makes me really annoyed and angry because it just never stops.
Or sad.
GIRL 3: My mum got diagnosed with breast cancer. At that time I just remember feeling really sad and worried that she wasn't going to survive and I didn't have my mum with me anymore.
BOY 3: I used to be constantly bullied over and over again. I never really told anyone about it. I just bottled the feelings up inside me.
Experts say if you ignore these feelings or let them take over they can end up having a bad impact on your mental health.
Mental health is the way you think or feel about yourself and what's going on around you.
Just like your physical health.
If you don't take good care of it, it can make everyday things harder and eventually could turn into a bigger problem.
So how do you keep your mental health, healthy?
KIRRILIE, CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST: Hi everyone!
Kirrilie is a child psychologist and part of her job is talking to kids about just that.
REPORTER: These guys were telling me before about times when they felt really sad or worried or angry. So what's the best way to deal with something like that?
KIRRILIE: Ok let's talk about worry. So there are some different things we want to do when we feel worried and one of them is to try and think about exactly what it is that's making us worried.
Something else you can do is to write down some calm thoughts, some 'this is not the end of the world' thoughts.
You also want to try and act in brave ways. When you act in a way that's brave and you're not avoiding something that tells your brain, maybe we can cope with this after all.
KIRRILIE: A good thing to do when you're mad is to try and take a really deep breath and make your muscles as floppy as you can.
KIRRILIE: Breathe in, breathe out. Slower and floppy.
Another thing you can do when you're mad is to try and get yourself away from the thing that makes you mad.
But sometimes you can't right. Like you're in the car or at the tea table or you're in the classroom and you can't walk away. So you're going to take 30 seconds to think about what you would spend a thousand dollars on. If you take a little holiday in your brain, that can help you think a bit more carefully.
KIRRILIE: Talk a little bit about your sadness. You might like to paint, or draw a picture or play music or write a letter. Something else that's really important to do when you're sad is exercise; that actually helps your brain work better and helps you feel better.
So it's really important when you're sad is to make yourself do stuff that's important to you.
GIRL 2: Well, what really makes me happy is playing the guitar and just reading.
GIRL 2: When I'm worried I like watching movies.
BOY 3: A good way that I use to make myself calm down is I draw so instead of leaving the sadness and anger inside, I put it onto a piece of paper.
Overall, Kirrilie says that communication is the most important part of dealing with worry, sadness or anger.
KIRRILIE: It's really important to try and tell somebody. Particularly an adult can be useful, but even if it's another friend.
And remember you're never the only one, feeling the way you do.
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