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Column: Anthony Davis was smart not to make any long-term promises to the Lakers and their fans
The Lakers introduce Anthony Davis at the UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo on Saturday.
By Dylan HernandezColumnist
With only a season separating him from free agency, he wanted to dispel any misconceptions about his intentions.
When the subject of his future came up, he stepped down from his stool with a microphone in hand and pledged his allegiance to his new hometown.
“If you guys will have me back,” he said, “I plan on re-signing here.”
So much for that.
The player was Kyrie Irving.
His declaration was made last October at TD Garden in Boston.
Irving departed from the Celtics this month to sign with the Brooklyn Nets.
The episode was instructive to Anthony Davis in that it showed him there was no upside to making any such promises at the introductory news conference the Lakers staged for him Saturday at their practice facility in El Segundo.
By predictably sidestepping a question about his future beyond the upcoming season — “When that time comes around next year, then you can ask me that question and we’ll revisit it,” he said — he acknowledged realities that have to make the Lakers uncomfortable.
Lakers GM Rob Pelinka, left, addresses questions from reporters at Anthony Davis' introductory news conference. With them is coach Frank Vogel.
Plenty can change over a season. Dreams can morph into nightmares. Projected super teams can reveal themselves to be less than the sum of their parts. Ask Dwight Howard.
The common-sense warning seems necessary now that Los Angeles has lost its collective mind in the wake of the offseason frenzy that reshaped the NBA.
This applies to the Clippers as well.
Paul George is recovering from operations on both shoulders and isn’t expected to be ready for the start of the season. Kawhi Leonard could once again be under load management program that limited him to 60 regular-season games with the Toronto Raptors.
If either of their bodies breaks down, the Clippers will be saddled with the big-money contract of a limited player through the 2021-22 season, with the other star likely to open his escape hatch and go elsewhere the summer before.
The doomsday scenario for the Lakers involves Davis walking after this season, which would ensure they are a bad team for a long, long time.
As the Irving’s case demonstrated, a promise now means nothing, whatever the player’s intentions.
For what it’s worth, the smart money points to Davis being a Laker for the foreseeable future.
The agent he shares with LeBron James, Klutch Sports founder Rich Paul, practically forced the New Orleans Pelicans to trade him to the Lakers. He waived a trade kicker worth $4 million to help a team, which is probably something he wouldn’t do if he thought they were renting him for a season. He also makes his offseason home in Los Angeles.
However, none of that replaces a signed long-term contract and Davis can opt out of his deal at the end of the upcoming season. He might as well keep open his options and not make any promises he might break.
Envisioning this becoming a situation Davis wants to escape doesn’t require a particularly robust imagination. James turns 35 in December and it’s possible the groin injury that sidelined him for 17 games last season was a precursor of what’s to come. Remove James from the equation and the Lakers become the Pelicans of last season.
What was evident Saturday was how Davis believes he and James can mask the obvious problems in the Lakers organization, which start at the top with credibility-challenged owner Jeanie Buss and general manager Rob Pelinka. Remember, Davis isn’t here because of Buss or Pelinka; he is here because he and his agent believe in the power of the Lakers brand.
Davis said of the perceived dysfunction: “That’s not my concern. I wasn’t here last year when they said this and that. It wasn’t my problem. I’m here now. I haven’t seen any of it, so I’m happy to get started and take the season head on with the goal of winning a championship.”
But if winning can conceal problems, losing can certainly expose them. Who knows how Davis would react to that.
The consequences could be catastrophic.
Of the group of promising young players the Lakers collected over their six-year playoff drought, only Kyle Kuzma remains. As part of the trade for Davis, the Lakers also had to part with three future first-round draft picks.
Which is why Pelinka reminded Davis multiple times Saturday about the unusually large part Davis played in assembling the roster.
“I mean, how many calls did we have between me, you and LeBron?” Pelinka asked Davis.
“It was like every day,” Davis said. “On the hour.”
“On the hour,” Pelinka repeated.
The implication was clear: If Davis stays, not only will the team be built around him, he will have a say in how the team is built.
This is more than a Plan A for the Lakers. This is their only plan.
The potential disaster shouldn’t discourage anyone from looking forward to the upcoming season. Go ahead, celebrate the acquisition of Davis, the Lakers’ return to the relevancy, the escalation of the rivalry with the Clippers. Just know the hangover could be severe.
dylan.hernandez@latimes.com
Twitter@dylanohernandez
Dylan Hernandez
Dylan Hernandez is a sports columnist with the Los Angeles Times.
‘Did they just do thaaat?’ Lakers parodied in ‘Family Matters’ intro
A sportsbook online site parodied the revamped Lakers lineup by placing the players into the intro of the popular ‘90s sitcom “Family Matters”.
Anthony Davis and LeBron James present one new concern for Lakers
Load management.
Plaschke: With Anthony Davis’ official arrival, Lakers are a portrait of peace
Two months ago, could you have even imagined?
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Brussels terrorist attacks put a heavily Muslim district and Belgium’s police under scrutiny
Police detain a man in Brussels’ Molenbeek district on March 19 who is believed to be connected to a suspect in the Paris attacks. Residents say the district shouldn’t be demonized for the actions of a few.
(Zouheir Ambar / Associated Press)
By Matt Pearce, Sheldon Chad
Reporting from BRUSSELS —
For months, Salah Abdeslam was Europe’s most-wanted man. He was accused of helping plot the horrific November terrorist attacks carried out by a team of well-organized militants beneath officials’ noses in Paris.
But when Abdeslam was finally captured last week, he wasn’t caught with his alleged Islamic State associates in Syria. He was captured where he grew up, practically in plain sight of his hunters — in Brussels’ working-class, largely Moroccan neighborhood of Molenbeek St. Jean.
Abdeslam’s capture and Tuesday’s bombings of Brussels’ airport and a rail station are already raising questions about the quality of Belgium’s national security, which is seen as weaker than some of its European counterparts.
Live updates: Terrorist attacks in Brussels >>
The latest events are also reinforcing outsiders’ suspicions of Molenbeek as “the jihadi capital of Europe,” or something similar to how Los Angeles viewed Little Tokyo in 1941: a den of dangerous outsiders nestled in the heart of a great and imperiled city.
Molenbeek isn’t a suburb, unlike the teeming banlieues that are home to many Paris immigrant communities. It sits in the heart of Brussels, across a canal from a trendy neighborhood of bars and cafes. A large number of its residents are not newcomers, but native Belgians, many of Moroccan descent, often wearing veils or other traditional clothing.
The Brussels attacks were precipitated by the arrest of a man who was believed to be a mastermind of the Paris attacks in November.
Over the weekend, a customer in a cosmetic store described Molenbeek as “toujours bien, c’est le calm, Zen” — always fine, calm — as others in the shop emphasized that the neighborhood was a place of hard workers who led good lives and stayed out of trouble.
Its image from the outside is more fraught. A French writer recently joked that officials should consider bombing Molenbeek instead of Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqah. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz raised the specter of a Molenbeek in the U.S., saying Tuesday that “we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”
Belgium leads European countries with the largest number of fighters per capita leaving to join Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq, according to a January report from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, a London think tank.
Many would-be jihadists have hailed from Molenbeek, including a few of the attackers who killed 129 people in Paris in November.
Molenbeek’s residents have also included Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan national who was subdued by two off-duty U.S. servicemen and other passengers after launching an attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris last year; Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed three people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014; and several members of a jihadist cell broken up during a police raid in Verviers in eastern Belgium in early 2015.
Molenbeek residents and advocates have complained about being demonized for the actions of a few.
“The trouble is the root causes and not the trees,” said Jamal Ikazban, a deputy in the Brussels Parliament and the leader of the opposition on the Molenbeek Council. He said he worries about Molenbeek becoming “the black sheep of the world.”
“We’re in the same boat,” Ikazban said. “I meet people in Brussels and Molenbeek in tears for what has happened. They are afraid.”
After World War II, Belgium needed workers to help rebuild the country and work in its coal mines, and in the 1960s, Belgium formalized immigration agreements with Morocco and Turkey; many Moroccans settled in Molenbeek.
But several generations later, their descendants have not assimilated — nor have they been welcomed — the way some third- and fourth-generation immigrants often have in other countries. As one third-generation Belgian city bus driver put it, “When I go to Morocco, I am not Moroccan there, and I am not Belgian here.”
A woman lights a candle in the area of the explosion at the Maelbeek subway station in Brussels, Belgium.
(JULIEN WARNAND / EPA)
Belgian soldiers gesture for vehicles to keep clear as they patrol near a Brussels court building where Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam was expected to appear.
(Peter Dejong / Associated Press)
A Belgian police officer and soldier guard a Brussels court building where Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam was expected to appear.
A police officer stands guard outside the Council Chamber of Brussels during investigations into the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks.
(Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP/Getty Images)
A woman and children sit and mourn for the victims of the bombings at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels.
(Martin Meissner / Associated Press)
Hundreds gather at Place de la Bourse in Brussels to mourn on Wednesday evening.
Brussels Airport workers and relatives pay tribute to the victims of Tuesday’s attacks.
(Philippe Huguen / AFP/Getty Images)
Police leave after investigating a house Wednesday in the Anderlecht neighborhood in Brussels, one day after Tuesday’s deadly suicide attacks.
Soldiers and police carry out checks at the Central Station in Brussels on Wednesday, a day after blasts hit the Belgian capital.
(Patrik Stollarz / AFP/Getty Images)
Police carry out checks at the Central Station in Brussels on Wednesday.
A woman writes messages in a tribute to the people killed and injured in terrorist attacks at Place de la Bourse in Brussels.
(Yoan Valat / European Pressphoto Agency)
A man reacts as people gather to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Brussels airport and metro bombings, on the Place de la Bourse in central Brussels.
People gather in Brussels to pay tribute to the victims a day after deadly terrorist attacks struck the city.
(Aurore Belot / AFP/Getty Images)
People gather around floral tributes, drawings, candles and notes in front of the Bourse of Brussels on Tuesday
A woman writes a message on the ground as people leave tributes at the Place de la Bourse following today’s attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
(Carl Court / Getty Images)
Police officers conduct searches inside the North station (Gare du Nord - Noordstation) on Tuesday in Brussels. (NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / AFP/Getty Images)
A security camera photo released on March 22 by Belgian authorities shows three suspects in the attack at Brussels Airport.
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An unidentified traveler lies on the ground in a smoke-filled terminal after an explosion at Brussels Airport on Tuesday.
(Ralph Usbeck / Associated Press)
Two women injured in the explosions at Brussels Airport sit amid shattered glass on Tuesday.
(Ketevan Kardava / Georgian Public Broadcaster )
An injured man lies on the floor waiting for aid at Brussels Airport.
(Ketevan Kardava / Associated Press)
Smoke fills the terminal at Brussels Airport, where a pair of explosions killed at least 11 people.
Brussels commuters climb out of a Metro subway car after an explosion at the Maalbeek station. A series of coordinated explosions ripped through Brussels Airport and the Metro station with dozens killed.
Police and rescue teams set up outside the Maelbeek Metro station in Brussels.
Special police secure the Brussels city center as Belgium raised its terror alert to its highest level on Tuesday.
A victim receives first aid from rescuers near Maelbeek metro station in Brussels after an explosion.
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A man with bloodstains on his sweater leaves Brussels Airport following explosions.
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People stand near Brussels Airport after being evacuated.
(Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press)
Passengers are evacuated from Brussels Airport after explosions.
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Emergency rescue workers tend to an unidentified person at the site of an explosion at a metro station in Brussels, Belgium.
Soldiers block the access to roads close to a metro station in Brussels after a series of apparently coordinated explosions in the city.
A victim is evacuated after a explosion in a main metro station in Brussels.
(Virginia Mayo / Associated Press)
Passengers leave Brussels Airport after explosions prompted an evacuation.
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A woman is evacuated in an ambulance after a explosion in a Brussels metro station Tuesday.
People are evacuated from Brussels Airport on Tuesday following explosions.
A man is wounded after explosions in Brussels Airport on Tuesday.
(Ketevan Kardava / Georgian Public Broadcaster)
A Belgian police vehicle drives past passengers who are evacuating the Brussels Airport.
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People walk away from Brussels Airport on Tuesday after it was rocked by explosions.
All flights were canceled at Brussels Airport after two explosions rocked the main hall.
High unemployment and disenchantment have helped incubate a generation of restless young men who are drawn to Islamic State’s calls for fighters, experts say. Belgium’s involvement in the U.S.-led military coalition against Islamic State has also made it a target, and experts have wondered whether Belgium’s security forces are up to the task.
Belgium sits at the heart of Europe and hosts the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but a linguistic and cultural divide has cleaved the country in half since its birth in 1830, often making national governance difficult. Dutch speakers live in the region of Flanders to the north. French speakers live in Wallonia to the south.
“You’ve obviously got a patchwork and balkanized police structure to begin with, which reflects the broader political picture of the country,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. “You’ve got a question of political will, a question of capability, a question of capacity.”
Purported Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who hailed from Molenbeek, traveled back and forth between Syria and Belgium, where he claimed God had chosen him “to terrorize the crusaders waging war against the Muslims.” Abaaoud also boasted of buying weapons and setting up a safe house in Belgium.
“All this proves that a Muslim should not fear the bloated image of the crusader intelligence,” Abaaoud said in an interview published in Islamic State’s in-house magazine, Dabiq, in February 2015, about eight months before the attacks on Paris.
“My name and picture were all over the news, yet I was able to stay in their homeland, plan operations against them and leave safely when doing so became necessary,” said Abaaoud, who died in a police raid after the Paris attacks.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon has complained about the fragmentation of Brussels’ police departments and said agencies have a tendency to hoard information for themselves.
“Brussels is a relatively small city, 1.2 million,” Jambon said at a Politico conference on extremism in November. “And yet we have six police departments. Nineteen different municipalities. New York is a city of [8 million]. How many police departments do they have? One.”
Times staff writer Pearce reported from Los Angeles and special correspondent Chad from Brussels.
Twitter: @MattDPearce
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What we know about the Americans injured in the Brussels attacks
Matt Pearce
Matt Pearce is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the 2020 presidential election.
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San José, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC), USA
Airport map and general info
Find rental car
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport is located 3.5km (2 miles) northwest of downtown San Jose.
1701 Airport Boulevard
From San Jose, head north on CA-87/Guadalupe Parkway and turn left onto Airport Parkway.
From San Francisco, take US Route 101 southbound; turn off at the ‘CA-87/Guadalupe Parkway’ exit, then turn onto Airport Parkway.
From Santa Cruz, start on CA-17 North (which becomes Interstate 880) and take the ‘US Route 101 North’ exit towards San Francisco. Then merge onto US Route 101 North and take the ‘Brokaw Road’ exit on the right towards First Street, which leads onto Airport Parkway.
The free VTA Airport Flyer no.10 shuttle bus (tel: +1 408 321 2300; www.vta.org) runs a continuous loop between Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, Santa Clara Caltrain station and the San Jose Metro/Airport LRT station. From here, there are excellent BART (tel: +1 510 441 2278; www.bart.gov), Caltrain (tel: +1 800 660 4287; www.caltrain.com) and Amtrak (tel: +1 408 287 7462; www.amtrak.com) light rail and metro train routes to destinations across the Bay Area.
Scheduled bus services include Valley Transportation Authority (tel: +1 408 321 2300; www.vta.org) buses to Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz and Monterey. The single fare is US$4.
Shuttles depart from the Ground Transportation Centre (opposite the Terminal B baggage claim area) and the lower level of the car park at Terminal A. A number of operators offer door-to-door services. Contact details for each of these companies are available on the airport’s website.
A number of companies provide taxis on demand or pre-arranged – the airport’s website has a comprehensive list of companies serving the airport. Fares to central San Jose average at US$15-18.
Short-term parking is available directly opposite both terminals and adjacent to Terminal B. There is one economy long-term car park near Terminal A, with shuttle services to both terminals. Free courtesy shuttles operate a continuous loop of the two terminals and long-term car parks. For current parking availability, call: +1 408 441 5570.
There are bicycle racks next to the Terminal A short-term car park. A ‘cell phone lot’ is free for drivers awaiting arriving passengers.
City Guide San José
Surrounding area San José, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC), USA
Facilities for disabled travellers include lifts, disabled toilets and TTY telephones. Wheelchair assistance can be provided by Sky Caps – passengers requiring wheelchairs and special assistance should inform their airline prior to travel. Disabled parking is available in Hourly Lot 2 (Terminal A) and Hourly Lot 3 (Terminal B) car parks.
ATMs are available close to gates 6, 10, 13 and 15 and in baggage claim. Bureaux de change are located in the Terminal A baggage claim area and in the International Arrivals building, post-security across from Gate 15.
Postal facilities can be found in Terminal A (south check-in area) and Terminal B (check-in area). Free Wi-Fi access is available throughout the terminals. Courtesy telephones for airport enquiries and public telephones can be found throughout.
There are numerous cafés, bars, snack bars and restaurants at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport. These can be found in both terminals and include a German microbrewery bar, Japanese restaurant and a Mexican diner, as well as those offering local cuisine.
There are a number of shops at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, including gift shops, news stands and bookshops.
A lost property office (tel: +1 408 392 3559) is situated between Terminals A and B and is open Monday to Friday from 0800 to 1700. Luggage trolleys are available for a US$5 fee.
Other facilities at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport include baby-change and nursing rooms, a meditation room, pet relief areas outside north of the ticketing area, public art displays, DVD player and DVD rental and AED units (defibrillators).
The Club at SJC is a VIP lounge located in Terminal A. It offers complimentary snacks, free beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), shower facilities and a business centre equipped with PCs, colour printers and high speed Wi-Fi. The lounge is open to all passengers for a fee of US$35 per day. Private meeting space is also available for an additional fee.
The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel San Jose (tel: +1 408 453 4000; doubletree3.hilton.com) adjacent to the airport has extensive conference facilities, including ballrooms, conference venues and meeting rooms accommodating up to 1,200 delegates. Audiovisual equipment hire and a business centre are also available here.
Airport code: SJC
Information desks are located in the baggage claim areas of Terminals A and B. Courtesy telephones for assistance are situated throughout the terminals. A hotel information desk is located in the baggage claim area.
Transfer between Terminals
A free shuttle bus service runs between Terminals A and B and all car parks.
Hotels in San José
Most hotels in San José tailor their services to business people. Almost all of them offer fast Wi-Fi Internet access, conference rooms, and other conveniences such as dry cleaning of suits and a shoeshine service.
But of course the prices are to match. However, they frequently offer special rates at the weekend.
Fairmont Hotel
95113 San José
Category: Expensive
This hotel in the Fairmont luxury hotel chain is ideally located on the Plaza César Chávez. With over 800 rooms and suites, it offers every comfort you can imagine, and the hotel restaurant Fountain fulfils discerning wishes. They also host conferences and receptions.
Hotel de Anza
This boutique hotel marries classical art déco elegance with modern comfort. Completely renovated in 2015, the rooms and hotel furnishings present themselves in fresh splendour. From the hotel, it is only a few minutes’ walk to the SAP Center and the San José Convention Center, as well as many restaurants and shopping facilities.
The Westin San José
This charming traditional hotel is located in an elegantly renovated building in the style of 1920s Spanish Revival Renaissance. The luxurious rooms of varying sizes have all been lovingly fitted out. A nice extra is that guests can borrow sporting gear to go jogging or to work out in the hotel’s fitness room.
This 195-room hotel is conveniently located close to the airport and highways 101 and 880. The two-storey buildings are arranged around a large courtyard on park-like grounds. There is an outdoor pool and a putting green available for guests.
Motel 6 San José Airport
2081 North 1st Street
Category: Cheap
This simple motel lies in direct proximity to the airport and Karina light-rail station. You can get to downtown San José, the Convention Center and Santa Clara from here. Free parking is available for guests.
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We deserved a clean sheet, says Olejnik
Goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik believes his side deserved a clean sheet following a fiercely-contested 1-1 draw with Cambridge United.
The shot-stopper looked to be on the way to his second clean sheet in the Stags’ Sky Bet League Two campaign before George Maris’ 88th minute equaliser dashed his hopes.
He made a string of fine saves throughout the match to keep the U’s at bay, but they proved to be made in vain when a deflection carried the ball home two minutes from time.
Olejnik aired mixed feelings following the draw at Abbey Road, firstly stating that he felt the defensive performance warranted a clean sheet.
“I think we all did [deserve a clean sheet] because as frustrating as conceding is I think we’ve defended well as a back five,” he began.
“Every corner, every cross I thought we were going to deal with it and we did – it’s just one of those things where we haven’t been able to see the game out.
"I think we all did [deserve a clean sheet] because as frustrating as conceding is I think we’ve defended well as a back five."
Bobby Olejnik, goalkeeper
“As a goalkeeper you pride yourself on clean sheets and it’s a bit frustrating not to keep that clean sheet. It’s really frustrating at the minute to not see that game out and get the win.”
The 31-year-old also spoke regarding his own form, citing his equal number, Conrad Logan, as one of the main factors behind his run in the Stags side.
“As a ‘keeper you try and be a seven or an eight week in week out, and that’s the objective you go in with.
“You have to give your backline a confidence to rely on their jobs rather than worrying: ‘Oh what’s he going to do behind me’.
“It is frustrating [to not be starting games] and a lot of it is down to Conrad; he’s been outstanding whenever he’s played and it’s been difficult being on the bench but at the same time there’s nothing else I can do apart from watch and learn,” he continued.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to do and he [Logan] has taught me a lot in terms of game management because he’s a very experienced goalkeeper.”
Finally, he showed his disappointment in not being able to take all three points following another late goal.
“A win, especially here, would just lift us but at the moment it’s just not quite happening,” he stated.
“Yeah it does [feel like a loss]. It’s always the case when you concede late on I know we’ve got a point but for our objectives this year a point’s not good enough. I think we need to do better next week.
“I just try and take it game by game, do my best and help the lads as much as possible.
"As I said I thought the defenders were outstanding [today] so a lot of credit has to go to them for helping me with my performances in keeping the ball away as much as possible.”
iFollow Stags subscribers can watch Bobby's interview in full by logging into mansfieldtown.net/ifollow later today.
Skipper sets clean sheet target
Mansfield Town skipper Krystian Pearce marked 25 clean sheets as his target for the upcoming 2019-20 campaign following impressive defensive displays last season.
We gained ‘a lot’ from friendly - manager
Stags’ boss John Dempster says his players gained ‘a lot’ from this evening’s friendly against Blackburn Rovers, a match he described as a ‘good exercise against strong opposition.’
Glover hails ‘fantastic’ facilities
Assistant manager Lee Glover says that Stags’ ‘top drawer’ facilities emphasise that the club is on an ‘upward trajectory.’
Alfreton win a ‘really good exercise’ - Dempster
Stags’ manager John Dempster says that alongside being pleased with Mansfield’s ‘combination play’ in today’s 1-0 win over Alfreton, he confirmed his men came through the game ‘unscathed.’
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in MLB, NBA, NCAA, NCAAF, NFL, NHL, Rugby, Soccer
The Texas Rangers will play the Oakland Athletics on Monday night to round off a hugely exciting and dramatic MLB 2015 Opening Day. With 14 MLB games taking place today, the season is well and truly underway, and both the Rangers and Athletics will be hoping to gain a first win of the season here tonight. The game takes place from the O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California, and starts at 10.05 p.m. ET. The game can be watched on TV on the FSSW network, or online through live stream (details below).
The A’s have a hugely different roster from Opening Day 2014, and will be hoping new faces will result in better fortunes this term. The Rangers will simply be hoping that their roster stays healthier than they were able to last year. Already there is good news for Texas; Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo will both take to the field for tonight’s opening day game after missing large portions of last season.
The MLB 2015 opening season features numerous highlights this year. Many will be looking to Masahiro Tanaka following months of rumors and doubts surrounding his right elbow. The injury landed him on the disabled list last season, and many will want to see how his partially torn ulnar collateral ligament holds up as the season gets going today.
Another big highlight for opening day will be this contest between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The pair will meet each other 19 times this season, including a potential vital three game set, which will close out the season. Matt Kemp in particular will be looking at this game with relish, and even though he has a lot of memories at Chavez Ravine, his time there ended on a bad note, and he will be looking to gain revenge in the only way he knows how – by winning and being successful where he is now.
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Globe Education’s Sackler Studios to open in Park Street
Shakespeare's Globe has announced that its new education and rehearsal space on Park Street - due to open later this year - will be known as The Sackler Studios.
Under wraps: the Sackler Studios will open later this year
Globe Education had previous said that the centre would open this summer, but the completion date is now described as 'late 2010'.
The Sackler Studios, made possible by charitable donations and a generous primary grant from The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, will provide Globe Education with four workshop studios and a rehearsal space for students and actors.
The new facilities are on the corner of Bear Gardens and Park Street on the site of Sam Wanamaker's first office in Bankside and where he developed his ideas for Shakespeare's Globe.
Sam Wanamaker's vision was driven by education and he recruited Patrick Spottiswoode, director of Globe Education, in 1984 long before the theatre opened. Patrick has built Globe Education into one of the largest Arts Education departments in the country.
He is passionate about working with local communities around Southwark, as well as students of all ages throughout the UK and overseas. Over 100,000 young people a year attend bespoke workshops and projects on site at the Globe.
"We are delighted to support the work at Globe Education," says Mrs Theresa Sackler. "The Sackler charities are committed to supporting culture. Shakespeare, and his work, is the best of British culture, renowned throughout the world.
"Like Sam Wanamaker, we feel that broadening awareness and appreciation of this unique art is achieved through active and creative education programmes.
"We hope the Sackler Studios will provide the environment and space for Globe Education to expand their imaginative programmes to inspire as wide an audience as possible."
Dr Mortimer Sackler, who died in March aged 93, was one of three Anglophile American brothers who made their fortune in pharmaceuticals in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Little did I know when Sam recruited me at Park Street in 1984 that 27 years later it would become a valuable and much needed additional space to accommodate the many varied activities at Shakespeare's Globe," says Patrick Spottiswoode.
"Sam would be delighted to see the vibrancy of the projects designed by Globe Education to engage and enthuse students about Shakespeare from pre-school three year-olds to silver-haired students of the third age, the training programmes for undergraduates and conservatory students, and the range of public events.
"The Sackler Foundation's generous grant keeps Sam's dream a living reality. It allows even greater engagement with the local community and offers more opportunity for young and old around the globe to capture Sam's dream."
The new Sackler Studios have been designed by Globe architect Jon Greenfield with input and internal designs by award-winning architects Eldridge Smerin.
Following consultation with young students from Southwark, Eldridge Smerin responded to the wish that the centre reflect the Globe Theatre by bringing in the use of oak and the shape of the theatre into their designs.
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Danny Kenny and Chris Walker to lead the Scots for 2017/18 Campaign
25th August 2017 9:48 am by London Scottish FC
London Scottish can today reveal that Danny Kenny has been appointed as First Team Captain for the 2017/18 season, with Chris Walker as Club Captain.
The pair will lead the Scots through the upcoming Greene King IPA Championship season, starting in just eight days when they host Yorkshire Carnegie at the Athletic Ground.
Kenny was one of the standout performers of the 16/17 campaign, and his leadership qualities have been demonstrated throughout his time at the club.
The 28-year-old featured 19 times last season, scoring four tries and also earning three man of the match awards for his hard-working displays at the base of the scrum.
Kenny’s season was cut short after dislocating his shoulder against Doncaster in March, but following successful surgery, he has completed intensive rehabilitation in order to be fully fit for the new season.
The Irishman has plenty of experience, having previously captained Ealing Trailfinders, as well as also playing for Doncaster Knights, London Irish, Munster ‘A’ and Leinster ‘A’.
Kenny is thrilled to be selected as captain: “It’s a huge honour to be captain of the side. I’m really looking forward to it, we have a lot of leaders around the squad so hopefully I can lead by example.”
Walker is back with the Scots for his second spell with the club, after originally joining during the 14/15 campaign which saw the Scots qualify for the semi-finals of the Greene King IPA Championship for the first time.
The flanker has played for the Scots on 35 occasions in the back-row, and the former New Zealand Under-21s representative has also had a spell at Doncaster Knights as well as featuring for Taranaki in the ITM Cup.
Walker will train with the squad on a part time basis whilst he continues to work in property services, after featuring for Blackheath in National One last year.
The New Zealander is delighted to take up the reigns as Club Captain upon his return to the club.
“I’m thrilled to be appointed as club captain for the squad. It’s great to be back and I’ll ensure that I put everything in to helping Danny, the coaches and players as much as I can in this role.”
Director of Rugby Dave Morris has no doubt that he has two committed London Scots who will skipper the side in 17/18:
“Being new this season I felt it was important when choosing leadership positions to spend time observing and also to understand the full-time and part-time dynamic.
In Danny, I feel very confident that we have a very influential player both on and off the pitch. He is tactically very astute and has a quiet presence and authority about him that people buy in to.
Chris is one of our part-time players. What I admire about Chris is that he never compromises on the standards he expects of himself and others. You can tell the club and the people of the club mean a great deal to him.
Importantly, I also know that both players will tell me what I need to know rather than what they think I want to hear. I very much look forward to working with both DK and Chris in making everyone involved with the club very proud.”
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Sensitively MADE
January 29, 2016 M. Haynes
My organization has a saying about heralding and defending the fraternity even against the world. Pretty straightforward, right? Proclaim the greatness of the organization and don’t let people slander it. Most D9 orgs probably ask for their members to do the same; why would you pay all that money and go through all the hassle to become a member of an organization and then let people talk about it like it's trash. Over the years we've had to defend our organizations from so much that nowadays many D9 Greeks are ready to fight if another Greek does a stroll that looks too much like theirs. We have entered a time where Greeks are no longer heralding and defending their orgs; now they want them to be untouchable and perfect and lash out when people try to remind them they are not. It's almost like Greeks now are being "made" to be oversensitive.
Look at the above picture. Deltas, frats, and AKAs does that offend you? Do you feel that you should be defending your org from the artist Ashleigh Sharmaine because of them? Most people would say no. Most people would enjoy the fact that someone took enough time (and had enough talent) to imagine some of our favorite cartoon characters as Black Greeks. I have to say most people, because sadly some people in my organization and others saw this as a threat to the integrity of the org(s) and wanted her to stop. They chose to ignore the fact that in a world where you're only as good as the last time you went viral (which these drawings did) that this was probably the most positive promotion that Black Greeks have had in a while. The general public knows this fact too, and just checked the situation off as another case of Greek organizations messing up the fun. I, however, am gonna call it what it is: super sensitive Greeks taking something too far because they have no life. Whether Greeks want to admit it or not it matters what the general population thinks of you. Where do you think potential members come from? If the general public thinks you're annoying, stuck up, or a waste of time you have a PROBLEM, and if you have a problem for too long you will no longer have an organization.
Most of our organizations were founded in January, so naturally there's a lot of commentary by Greeks and non-greeks during this month. The Kappas, Sigmas, Deltas, AKAs, and Zetas all celebrate their founding dates in their own way, and like any (dis)functional family, the other members of the D9 throw some good natured jokes at them. The jokes may be shady or they may be based off stereotypes, but considering that each organization has stereotypes that are sometimes true, no one really takes it to heart. But apparently some oversensitive Greeks felt particularly sensitive when comedian Dukk posted some of his annual Founders' Day videos. I'm sad to say that some of the most sensitive ones were my own sorors upset about the persistent "Zeta Bear" stereotype. The stereotype plays off the big(ger) women in the sorority and pokes fun at the idea that "Zetas love to eat". I don't know what it was about this video but people were PISSED. So much that they actually doxed Dukk and left it open for other people to get his info and do whatever they wanted. For his own safety, I believe he has decided to never write about Zetas again. That my sorors, frats and friends. Is a problem.
This reminds me of the controversy surrounding the reality show "Sorority Sisters". It also reminds me of when a number of D9 orgs refused to do their duty as servants of the community and protest. We as D9 orgs (and a black community, but that's another story) spend so much time trying to make sure that we don’t look bad that we forget about making ourselves look good. I personally believe that the sensitivity comes from fear. We are so afraid of not being the greatest organization on the planet that we spend our lives saying “No that makes us look bad!” and “Don’t show that!” or “Don’t do that!” instead of facing the fact that we are flawed but that doesn't make us bad. Instead we place ourselves on this untouchable pedestal of perfection and privilege that effectively kills our organizations. Believe it or not, when you make yourself out to be perfect people tend not to like you. Not because they "can't handle your excellence", but because perfect people tend to look down on others. Who wants to be part of an organization that looks down on them? Didn't we make the D9 to get away from that in the first place? Isn't that idea of looking down on others what led to Sigma, Zeta, SGRho, and Iota (and arguably Delta and Omega as well) being founded? (Argue with your history not me.) We are slowly getting back to that point in ALL of our organizations because we have become so removed from the communities we are supposed to serve. It's funny: our desire to make our orgs stronger is actually making them weaker.
It's also sad; we're sensitive to the wrong issues. Greek life is in decline on both sides of the racial divide thanks to rape and racism in the white orgs and hazing and respectability politics in ours. Greeks are going to HAVE to stop wasting so much time trying to destroy the bad and continue to create the good to do real work in the world. As much as we want to defend our orgs from slander, us rabidly attacking anything that even remotely looks negative (though honestly I don’t think either of these are) is doing more harm. Why worry about someone throwing rocks at your burning house when you’re not doing anything to put out the flames? If we don’t stop with our elitist attitudes and really do something to reestablish our orgs as vital to the black community, we will burn out.
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Parasite Capitalism: The Economic Model of the 21st Century
By Prashanth Kamalakanthan
The economic diagnosis for middle-class America has long been ominous. Signs of decay, it would seem, are unique in their abundance. In a country that by some measures enjoys the fourth-highest incomes on average, decades of sharply unequal growth have mired median-income adults in stagnation. Economically speaking, the so-called “developing world” has become a much fairer place to live than the U.S. Middle-income Americans now receive a smaller portion of their nation’s wealth than in all other populous countries besides India and China, while among those countries only Russia, Ukraine, and Lebanon have more unequal income distributions. And it’s only getting worse. Since the global financial meltdown of 2008-9, the top 1% in the U.S. have captured all income gains and then some (121% exactly), enriching themselves in the aftermath of a crisis where 99% saw their incomes drop.
Still, these figures are all only symptoms. Underlying the deterioration is a social arrangement in which financial-sector actors profit handsomely from economic outcomes we intuitively recognize as destructive: the shuttering of hospitals and factories; the hoarding of food, oil, and other basic commodities; expropriation of small farmers’ land to create gigantic, monocropped plantations. It is a disease we might call “parasite capitalism,” and it’s slowly bleeding the rest of us to death.
Last week the New York Times published an investigation into the cutting edge of financial parasitism. Building on reports from as early as 2011, the Times piece outlines Goldman Sachs’s immensely lucrative “warehouse play” in the aluminum market, a strategy JP Morgan was just last December approved to replicate with copper. In it, Goldman purchased Metro International, a leading aluminum warehousing firm, deliberately slowed down shipping times more than 20-fold, and gamed regulations requiring at least 3,000 tons be shipped out daily (originally instituted to prevent hoarding) by simply shuffling metal between warehouses. This apparent strategy of releasing as little aluminum as possible benefits the financial giant in a number of ways. As a warehouse operator, Goldman extracts $165 million a year as rent from other actors who store metal. As a commodities trader, the drop in global supply allows the company to profit off rising prices. And as a speculator, Goldman makes money betting on the direction of the aluminum spot price it’s manipulating. Kevin Drum has aptly called it “a money spinning machine.”
Creating a global headache for manufacturers that need the raw material, some 70% of the world’s aluminum inventory is caught up in these types of “bank deals.” Metro’s inventories alone have exploded from 50,000 tons in 2008 to 1.5 million tons today. Financial institutions have made a mockery of market logic, forcing end-users to keep paying more despite rising global aluminum supplies. As the Times points out, each time you “open a can of soda, beer or juice,” Goldman gets a cut.
By inserting itself into a healthy industry producing widely needed commodities, severely degrading functionality, and widely distributing costs while itself benefiting, Goldman here couldn’t fit a more archetypal description of a parasite. Hoarding in aluminum, however, is just one in a bevy of ever-multiplying non-innovations, demonstrating how the leeching of productive society has emerged as finance’s guiding light.
Speculation in agricultural commodities, which rose more than 2,300% in volume between 2003 and 2008 alone, provides another pernicious example. Boosted by the SEC’s recent loosening of commodities regulations, financial institutions have spent immense sums investing in crucial markets like grain and oil, pushing the UN to warn that speculation has artificially inflated and destabilized food prices to the detriment of the world’s more than one billion starving people. Oxfam’s extensive research on grain hoarding (over 70% of the world’s grain market is controlled by four companies) highlights how that practice has created outcomes similar to the market in aluminum — but to literally deadly effect.
Meanwhile, innovations like the interest-rate swaps built into municipal bond deals continue to bleed American cities and states of billions needed to rebuild crumbling public infrastructure. Thomas Ferguson, a political scientist at UMass-Boston, has written extensively on how these instruments have allowed banks to capitalize handsomely on falling interest rates while government bond issuers are left paying preposterous rates to escape the deals. The stories of the fallout are predictably brutal: Hospitals, transit systems, and school boards in bankruptcies engineered by Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, Chase, Goldman Sachs, et al.
In aggregate terms, financial sector gains have contributed more to the increase in income inequality than all other sources combined:
This bloodletting-by-finance has had staggering human consequences in the world’s financial capital. Global rankings now place the U.S. 49th in life expectancy and 31st out of 34 OECD countries in child poverty, while for the first time since the Great Depression kids can expect to be poorer than their parents, on average by 12%. More Americans toil through low-wage jobs than in any other industrialized society.
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Trial: At each Iraq bomb blast site, a trail of evidence leads to Iran
By: Todd South December 5, 2018
Army veteran Chris Levi describes the grievous injuries he received in 2008 in Iraq from a sophisticated IED called and an "explosively formed penetrator," recounting his self-assessment after the deadly bomb ripped through his Humvee. (Jillian Angeline / Military Times)
WASHINGTON — The blast of specially designed bombs used to kill or maim more than 1,000 U.S. troops during the war in Iraq can seem to the victims to come from nowhere.
In a flash, liquefying metal shredded even armored vehicles and bulletproof glass. The aftermath of those bombings can seem a chaotic scene.
But to the trained eye, small details left at what becomes, essentially, a crime scene, reveal telltale patterns and physical evidence. That evidence marks a trail not only to the local attack but the source of the training and devices.
During the second day of a federal trial in which civilian law firms and hundreds of victims of terrorist bombings and attacks during the Iraq War are taking on the Islamic Republic of Iran, experts on explosives, trauma and brain injuries connected dots between the origin of attacks and the lingering pain and suffering that resulted.
The improvised explosive devices used against U.S. and coalition forces in the early days of the war were often exactly that — improvised.
Often, insurgents and terrorists would simply grab from the stockpiles of old munitions, of which plenty dotted the landscape, and apply simple triggering devices. A common device was an artillery shell wired to explode after a vehicle ran over a homemade pressure plate.
Those devices did kill and maim. But fairly quickly, coalition forces found ways to counter them.
'We were gonna die together’: Trial testimony lays out years of work by Iran that led to deadly attacks on US troops in Iraq
The trial could make victims and their families eligible for compensation from a fund for terrorist victims.
Army Capt. Wade Barker, who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan both as a soldier and later as a civilian contractor focusing on countering explosive devices, testified on Tuesday that soon after the invasion of Iraq, more sophisticated bombs and methods of deploying them took shape.
The ongoing trial is an effort by attorneys with the Osen law firm out of New Jersey and Tab Turner, an Arkansas-based attorney, to connect to Iran weapons, training and tactics used by terrorist groups in Iraq against coalition forces. If successful, the $10 billion lawsuit could mean the plaintiffs in the case would become eligible for financial compensation from a specially designated fund for victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
And its not a practice in legal theory. More than $1 billion has already been paid out to victims from fines and seized or forfeited funds, mostly through cases against banks that laundered money for Iran, which prosecutors allege was then used to fund these terrorist attacks. There are multiple other cases, including one by MM-Law out of Chicago, that are attempting to make similar connections involving Iran and al-Qaida.
The key type of weapon used was the “explosively formed penetrator.” The EFP was used in most, but not all, of the 90 attacks being submitted in this current court case to help establish links between Iran and the attacks.
Barker explained in great detail the methods by which IEDs and then EFPs were deployed. Most IEDs, even those that used artillery shells as opposed to homemade explosives, could be defeated by armor plating applied to Humvees.
Such attacks typically had little effect on more heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicles or tanks.
The EFPs were a much different story.
Machined from steel casings that hold the explosive and the 140-degree copper discs that formed into perfect penetrators, capable of punching 4-inch holes through multiple layers of armor and pulverizing ceramic plating into dust, the EFPs revealed engineering and designs that far exceeded what a typical insurgent could build.
More than 150 copper discs were found in a weapons cache near Baquba in 2007. The copper discs are a vital component to the explosively formed penetrators that have been used to attack coalition forces due to their capability to penetrate uparmored vehicles. While other munitions found in the cache were made in Iran, there are no tell-tale markings to the origins of the lethal discs. (Department of Defense)
The EFP device allows for the blast to push the copper plate out, reforming into a “tear drop” shape under the extreme heat and traveling at 26,000 feet per second.
Not much can stop it.
Earlier in the trial, attorneys laid out the trail of support from Iran to attack through testimony from civilian experts on terrorist groups backed by Iran, such as Hezbollah, and military leaders who commanded vast swaths of Iraq that saw major attacks by Iranian-trained militants.
Barker walked the attorneys and judge through a scene-by-scene playing of video that captured such blasts in controlled Army laboratories.
The projectile’s speed helps it defeat armor, and the armor doesn’t have a chance to absorb the focused impact, as it might with more conventional projectiles.
It is those characteristics — how the EFP punches through armor, the traces of copper and different explosives and the shape of the hole — that tell experts such as Barker what kind of bomb wreaked havoc in a particular attack.
Charred auto parts, copper tailings, explosive traces and measured holes build hard physical evidence that point to the guilty party, much like in a murder case.
And in this case, attorneys say, the evidence points to Iran.
Former Army Capt. Wade Barker, EOD expert, testifies in a federal trial against Iran for their role in attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq. (Elizabeth Williams/courtesy Osen law firm)
Barker served as an expert witness, analyzing a handful of the 90 attacks listed in the lawsuit. Not only did the attacks he analyzed include the physical traces, they also included more sophisticated techniques that militants employed likely taught to them by Iranian or Hezbollah trainers.
For example, nearly all of the EFP devices used a method that included a cell phone call and a PIN to turn on the device. Within seconds, the motion sensor, common to civilian home alarms, would come on.
The sensor detects both heat and motion through a Passive Infrared device, or PIR. The combination of the EFP and the PIR system made for a very deadly and also very accurate weapon that could be put in place and used at will, from a distance.
But, an enterprising soldier figured out a way to minimize the effect, first by strapping an ammo can with warm liquid to a pole that was fitted to the front of the Humvee. That way, the can would trigger the blast.
The method was later adopted and called a RHINO anti-PIR device. While the bomb would still explode and take out the front of the vehicle, it often avoided injuring those inside.
Then, bomb planters evolved.
They shifted the aim of the EFP while leaving the triggering mechanism in place, effectively defeating the RHINO.
The ignition systems and machined parts, together with the methods used, point to “hallmark” signs of attacks then used by Hezbollah, an Iranian backed terrorist group based out of Lebanon but with global reach.
The items used and their configuration required a “classically trained engineer,” Barker testified.
Beyond the blasts remain wounds that troops suffered, both mental and physical, for which the more than 200 plaintiffs in this case, both victims, their families and survivors of those killed, are seeking.
For hours on Tuesday, both Charles Marmar, a high-level expert on post traumatic stress disorder, and Dr. Russell Gore, a former Air Force flight surgeon and brain injury specialist, detailed the effects that not only combat but bomb attacks and EFPs can create.
More than simply the standard, life-altering trauma of combat, bomb attacks can combine to create a combination of both physical and emotional wounds that a survivor can find impossible to shake.
For example, if the face and hands are burned or disfigured, Marmar said, “the trauma is imprinted on the body.”
“They literally can’t escape the trigger,” he said.
About Todd South
Todd South is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War. He has written about crime, courts, government and military issues for multiple publications since 2004. In 2014, he was named a Pulitzer finalist for local reporting on a project he co-wrote about witness problems in gang criminal cases. Todd covers ground combat for Military Times.
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A great, yet cryptic, philosopher king once said: "To know PDF is to know the universe." Is this true, you expectantly ask? Is this really true? Well no, sadly it is not. But don’t be disheartened, for the truth about PDF is of far more practical value (albeit far less philosophical value). In truth, to know PDF is to know a dynamic and versatile file format that can dramatically simplify and expedite document viewing, integration, and printing. So while it might not bring epiphany, PDF can most certainly bring efficiency.
And now we get to the "knowing" part. First off, the letters P, D, and F compose a file extension—one of those three-letter codes that appear at the end of file names (like know_pdf_story.pdf). This extension is like a little file recipe; it describes the file ingredients and tells your operating system how to prepare it for (electronic) consumption. Like most file extensions, PDF is also an acronym: short for Adobe Portable Document Format. Adobe PDF is widely used by publishers, web writers, graphic designers, and everyday laypersons; and is generally accepted as the preeminent format for universal document exchange. But why is PDF so popular? PDF’s popularity and power originate from its five key attributes:
Compatible: PDF is a cross-platform file format. This means that PDF can be used to recreate documents irrespective of where they were originally created. Also, PDF will preserve the document’s original style and formatting (including color, font, and imagery) exactly as they were intended to be seen. With Adobe Acrobat Reader, virtually anyone, on any computer, with any platform, running any application version, can recognize, read, and print identical PDF files. Anyone. You included.
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Enough already, you say, I accept that PDF is divinely inspired. Clearly, the multiple benefits of PDF have now been sufficiently revealed. But we’ve been talking about PDF files in the prime of their lives—where, you might ask, do new PDF files come from? Well, Timmy, it’s complicated. When two computer applications love each other very much….oops, different question. Actually, there are five primary methods for creating PDF files.
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The No. 90 Set can be used to cut metric size keyways in pulleys, gears, collars, and similar pieces encountered in experimental, maintenance, machine assembly or limited production work. The company says their broaches are pushtype and can be used with any hand operated arbor press or hydraulic press having adequate throat opening.
Other metric sets for cutting keyways in the range of 2 to 18 mm in bores from 6 to 65 mm are also available from the company. One such set is the Minute Man No. 10 which is a standard set of high speed steel broaches, bushings, and necessary shims designed for cutting 1/8", 3/16", ¼", or 3/8" keyways in nine bore sizes from ½" to 1 ½". The company says all sets are complete with high speed steel broaches, bushings and shims. Individual broaches and bushings for standard I.S.O. millimeter keyways and metric broaches for cutting square holes are also available from the distributor's stock.
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Karl Lagerfeld on Fendi, iPads and Digital Fashion
On July 7th, 2016 Fendi will celebrate its 90th anniversary with a “haute fourrure” Couture show in Rome. Karl Lagerfeld has been Fendi’s Creative Director for over 50 years and in our exclusive interview at his Fall 2012 Fendi fashion show, Karl Lagerfeld talks about his love of the iPad and fashion in the digital age.
The beauty look of Fendi’s Fall 2012 collection has a dark, northern Victorian feel about it. Sam McKnight gave the models small tight braids and makeup artist Peter Philips kept the focus on the eyes with a feathered out white chalky eyeshadow that he feathered out on the eye. Watch our exclusive backstage video at Fendi Fall 2012 with designer Karl Lagerfeld, Silvia Fendi and top models Natasha Poly, Magdelena Frackowiak.
Juicy Couture Spring 2013 ft Natasha, Candice, Isabeli
By: Team MODTV on Feb 15, 2013, 21:22
Check out the new Juicy Couture Spring 2013 campaign fashion video with top models Natasha Poly, Candice Swanepoel, and Isabeli Fontana directed by Inez van Lamsweerde and & Vinoodh Matadin. Styled by Carolyn Cerf De Dudzeele, Hair by Christian and Makeup by Jeanine Lobell. Shop the collection at JuicyCouture.Com
Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2012 Backstage
By: Team MODTV on May 07, 2012, 23:25
PHOTOS: Go backstage at Stella McCartney’s Spring Summer 2012 Collection in Paris with top models Natasha Poly, Anja Rubik, Bette Franke, Aymeline Valade, Joan Smalls, Karmen Pedaru and Arizona Muse. Check out our behind the scenes fashion video on Stella McCartney’s Spring Summer 2012 Collection – one of the hottest shows of the season. Photographs by Robert Fairer and Giovanni Sicignano.
Watch our exclusive behind the scenes video at Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2012.
Prada Spring | Summer 2012 Ad Campaign Fashion Video
By: Team MODTV on Apr 24, 2012, 20:39
Prada Spring | Summer 2012 fashion video Ad campaign, features top fashion models Natasha Poly, Guinevere van Seenus, Elise Crombez, Meghan Collison, Katryn Kruger, and Ymre Stiekema. The 50’s inspired retro themed campaign photographed by Steven Meisel captures the models in full sun with vintage cars at a 50’s style gas station.
We’re obsessed with Prada’s spring summer 2012 collection with it’s multitude of floral motifs, graphic flame designs, and sweet pastels. Bright pops of primary hues excite the looks and give a modern, yet edgy feel. The real stars of campaign are the clusters of gemstones in the form of bracelets, necklaces, belts, brooches, and those to die for tear drop flower earrings.
Natasha Poly Behind the Scenes Video L’Oreal Paris
Watch the behind the scenes video with top model Natasha Poly as she shoots first campaign for L’Oreal Paris. Natasha says she’s thrilled to join team L’Oréal which already includes fellow supermodels Doutzen Kroes, Bianca Balti, Claudia Schiffer, Liya Kebede, and Barbara Palvin. “It’s beauty that’s approachable to everyone,” she says of the beauty brand “and it’s giving power to women of the world to be iconic and powerful and confident.”
We’ve followed this 26 year old Russian-born beauty since the start of her career and captured Natasha backstage at every top fashion show from Prada to Gucci. She’s appeared in several global ad campaigns for some of the biggest names in fashion, but in this video interview Natasha confesses she’s finally made it big.
“I’ve been doing modeling for almost ten years and I’ve been working so hard to reach this moment,” she says of being named L’Oréal Paris’ newest spokesperson. “My dream came true. I’ve reached a point where I can actually send a message to people, saying to them, ‘You’re worth it—we’re worth it.”
Watch the behind-the-scenes video for Natasha Poly’s first campaign here now and check out her secret to getting that fierce runway walk.
Prada Fall 2012 Backstage
Allure Backstage – Prada Fall 2012 Backstage Beauty Video. Go backstage at Prada Fall 2012 with top model Natasha Poly to see the look makeup artist Pat McGrath and hairstylist Guido Palau created for the show that was simply out of this world. As Pat explained to me backstage, “Mrs Prada was talking about the girls looking like virtual princesses. So we’ve done makeup from another world. We used black cream purple eyeshadow, black eyeliner, white eyeliner, orange cream shadows“. Pat also bleached all the models brows and painted them orange. “The look is alot like Rooney Mara which is quite a huge trend for Fall“.
Miuccia Prada is always pushing fashion forward, but the extreme beauty look Pat McGrath created inspired us to dream, think about the future and to consider how technology is affecting us all.
Allure Backstage is Executive Prodced, Directed and Reported by Karen Morrison, A production of MODTV Fashion Video Network. For all the latest beauty news visit ALLURE.COM.
Designer Frida Giannini opens Milan Fashion Week with a shimmering art deco inspired Gucci Spring 2012 Collection that was full of 20’s silhouettes and masculine tailoring. The beauty look that Pat McGrath and hairstylist Luigi Murenu created was tough and strong and gave the models a sexy hard edge. The collection had fashion buyers like Holt Renfrew’s Barbara Atkin buzzing. Go backstage with top model Natasha Poly, watch our fashion video and get your first look.
The Versace Fall 2011 collection was one of the season’s standout collections at Milan Fashion Week.
Designer Donatella Versace went back to the roots of the house, using the baroque tulip which was one of her brother Gianni Versace’s favorite flowers. It was a strong show from every point from the medusa buttons to peep toe boots to the military styling that is sure to be a huge trend for fall. The show had a sense of nostalgia about it as the show was held at Via Gesu – the location where her brother Gianni Versace did all his fashion shows.
Featuring interviews with Hilary Alexander, Mario Testino, Oribe, Susie Bubble, and top models Arizona Muse, Lindsey Wixson and Natasha Poly.
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Netanyahu Seeks to Shore up Israeli Government with Far-Right Alliance
Par Jean Shaoul
Mondialisation.ca, 25 mai 2016
Région : Middle East & North Africa
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Analyses: PALESTINE
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has offered the post of minister of defence to Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is our Home), in order to bolster his fragile Likud-led coalition of ultra-orthodox and nationalist parties.
The coalition has had a majority of one in the 120-seat Knesset since last year’s elections. According to opinion polls, in the event of an election, Netanyahu would see his share of the vote fall in favour of another far-right party and coalition member, Jewish Home.
The appointment of this ultra-nationalist demagogue, who is holding out for better pension rights for impoverished Russian immigrants that form his support base, would bring the entire right wing into the coalition. It would send a clear message to the Israeli military and political establishment, Israeli and Palestinian workers, and Netanyahu’s political backers overseas.
Lieberman is a fascistic warmonger, a settler and provocateur whose career is mired in shady financial dealings. He has repeatedly branded the current government as defeatist. He once called for the blowing up of the Aswan Dam in a war with Egypt, saying that Egypt’s then-President Hosni Mubarak could “go to hell.”
He is a vicious opponent of liberal Israelis who seek to expose the crimes of Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF), calling members of Breaking the Silence “mercenaries who sold their soul to Satan,” and Yesh Gvul activists “kapos.” He hailed the IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who shot dead a wounded Palestinian, as a hero.
He has accused the Palestinians of being part of a global jihad, and called for the death penalty for the perpetrators of attacks on Jewish Israelis. He has repeatedly denounced Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and called for him to be removed from office.
A few weeks ago, he threatened war on Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, saying that should he become defence minister he would give Hamas two days to hand over two detained Israeli civilians who crossed into Gaza of their own accord, as well as the bodies of soldiers killed in the 2014 war—“or you’re dead.”
He has branded Israel’s Palestinian citizens as “the enemy within” and called Israeli-Palestinian legislators to be tried as in Nuremberg.
As minister of defence, Lieberman, who was foreign minister in Netanyahu’s government from 2009 to 2012, and again from 2013 to 2015, would be second only to Netanyahu in rank. He would be in charge not just of the IDF, whose upper echelons are increasingly controlled by people affiliated with the settler movement, its war plans and Israel’s security. He would also become the de facto head of the Occupied Territories, which are under military rule. Israel’s land seizures, settlement expansion, road blocks, house demolitions, stop-and-searches, and detention without trial make life a misery for the 2.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while its blockade of Gaza has turned the coastal enclave into an open air prison.
The shift to the right by what is already the most right-wing government in Israel’s history has caused consternation among Israel’s political and military establishment, as well as internationally.
Former Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ehud Barak told Channel 10, “What has happened is a hostile takeover of the Israeli government by dangerous elements.” Israel has been “infected by the seeds of fascism, which should be “a red light for all of us regarding what’s going on in the government.”
On Friday, Moshe Ya’alon, the current defence minister and Likud party member, who had been expected to take up the Foreign Affairs portfolio, resigned from Netanyahu’s cabinet and the Knesset. He refused to take another government post in a cabinet with Lieberman, saying, “[E]xtremist and dangerous forces have taken over Israel and the Likud movement.”
In what is seen as a possible move to found his own political party, he said, “I have no intention of leaving the public and political life, and in the future will return to compete for the national leadership of Israel.” He took a swipe at Netanyahu saying, “I saw before me the safety of Israel and its citizens in all of my acts and decisions, and the good of the country above all other considerations. This was so in security and professional matters and in matters of values and rule of the law.”
While Ya’alon is a right-winger on most Palestinian issues, he has opposed some of the most egregious attacks on democratic norms—albeit from the perspective of not alienating Israel’s international support. He is part of that faction of the military-intelligence establishment that opposed the plans to attack Iran in 2010, criticised some aspects of Israel’s brutal suppression of the Palestinians and blocked the expansion of some settlements as counterproductive, thereby incurring the wrath of the right wing.
The resignation of his Knesset seat means that the gun-toting Yehuda Glick, as the next person on the Likud list, will take his place. Glick rejects Palestinian statehood, calling for a “one-state solution” and the “transfer” of Israel’s Palestinian population. An ardent proponent of moves to allow Jews to pray in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known as Temple Mount to the Jews, it was his activities—and those of his supporters—that provoked Palestinian fears about Israel’s plans to change the status of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and sparked widespread protests last autumn. Since then, Israel’s security forces have killed more than 200 Palestinians and injured thousands.
Netanyahu announced his decision to bring Lieberman on board after months of talks with the Labour-led Zionist Unity leader Isaac Herzog. Herzog, who had previously opposed joining a Netanyahu-led government, was eager to take over the Foreign Ministry and push for talks with the Palestinians. When it became clear, however, that Herzog could not deliver his full 24 Knesset votes, facing bitter opposition from the former leader of the Labour faction Shelly Yachimovich, and Tzipi Livni of the Ha-Tnua faction, who had been minister of justice in an earlier Netanyahu government, Netanyahu ditched him in favour of Lieberman’s smaller Yisrael Beiteinu. Now Herzog is utterly discredited and faces the disintegration of his electoral coalition.
Netanyahu has rejected the French government’s proposal for an international conference, planned later this month in Paris, to relaunch peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis aimed at providing a fig leaf for Paris’ and Washington’s plans for a ramped up military intervention to unseat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Had Zionist Unity joined the government, it would have left the Joint Arab List as the largest—and thus the official—opposition party in the Knesset. Under Israeli law, the prime minister must give regular monthly briefings, including on security matters, to the leading opposition party, while the Knesset must allow it more speaking time.
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Judge Moves Forward With Murder Charges Against Georgia Woman Who Ignored 911 Dispatcher and Shot, Killed Black Man After Hit-and-Run
May 30, 2019 H. Anderson 1 Comment Hannah Payne, Kenneth Herring
A Georgia judge ruled Tuesday there was probable cause to move forward in the case against a 21–year–old woman accused of murdering a 62-year-old Black man involved in a hit-and-run accident earlier this month.
In court, prosecutors said defendant Hannah Payne acted like a police officer when she ignored a 911 operator’s instructions to remain at the scene and instead followed Kenneth Herring in her Jeep, according to WSB-TV. Herring hit a semi truck in the May 7 incident and fled the scene.
Authorities said Payne tailed the vehicle while on the phone with 911 dispatchers for nearly a mile before blocking Herring’s pickup truck with her car. Despite the dispatcher’s objections, Herring exited her Jeep to confront the man.
“In the background, you can hear [Payne say], ‘Get out of the car. Get out of the car,’” Clayton CountyDetective Keon Hayward testified.
A delivery driver who spoke on the condition of anonymity claimed he saw Payne attack Herring, who witnesses said appeared to be in the middle of a medical emergency described as “probably like diabetic shock,” 11Alive reported.
“He was disoriented, he was asking what happened, who hit me, what’s going on,” Hayward told the court.
The witness told police an armed Payne was in the window “punching” the man and attempted to grab him and drag him out of his car. Then a gunshot rang out.
Police said Payne shot Herring in the abdomen. He was rushed to a hospital and later died.
A woman who witnessed the shooting said she heard Payne tell 911 that the man had accidentally shot himself with her gun. Another witness also shot video of Payne changing her clothes before authorities arrived at the scene, according to WSB-TV.
The young woman’s lawyer, Matt Tucker, painted Herring as the aggressor and argued his client shot in self-defense after Herring bruised Payne and tore her shirt during their scuffle.
However, prosecutors thought otherwise and said it was clear Payne was the aggressor.
“She’s using deadly force; she wasn’t faced with deadly force,” District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said. “You cannot claim self-defense and use deadly force unless you’re not the initial aggressor — she is.”
Payne, 21, shed tears Tuesday after the judge said he’d heard enough evidence to move the case to superior court.
“She probably don’t want to go to prison. I wouldn’t want to go to prison for murder either,” Herring’s wife, Christine Herring, told WSB-TV. “I probably would be crying also.”
The widow, who likened the incident to the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman, said she was more than satisfied with the judge’s decision. Still, she said she’s trying to make sense of it all.
“I believe she’s going to be found guilty because everything points to her,” she added. “[But] why she was trying to actually follow him all the way, block him in and kill him. I’m still trying to figure that out, what was the point?”
Payne remains in the suburban Atlanta Clayton County Jail without bond. Her bond hearing is scheduled for Friday, May 31.
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Ebonitia
This is yet another example of TPPS Tiny Pink Penis Syndrome run amok and gone pussy pink wild.
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“So what was he thinking?”
May 12, 2017 5:39 PM Subscribe
Editor quits amid outrage after call for ‘Appropriation Prize’ in writers’ magazine by Deborah Dundas [The Toronto Star] “Hal Niedzviecki has resigned as editor of the Writers’ Union of Canada magazine after sparking outrage with an opinion piece titled “Winning the Appropriation Prize” in an issue devoted to indigenous writing. In it, he states that he doesn’t believe in “cultural appropriation.” “In my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities.” Niedzviecki, who has been the editor of Write for about five years, later wrote: “Set your sights on the big goal: Win the Appropriation Prize.” In the same editorial, Niedzviecki goes on to note that most Canadian literature is written by people who are “white and middle-class,” and exhorts those same white, middle-class writers to look outside of their own community and write about “what you don’t know” in an effort to “explore the lives of people who aren’t like you.””
• On Glibness And Diversity In Canadian Media by Scaachi Koul [Buzzfeed]
“In response, at around midnight on Twitter, a group of white editors, executives, and longtime columnists for some of Canada’s largest mainstream publications started collecting money for an “Appropriation Prize” similar to what Niedzviecki suggested in his piece. Ken Whyte, formerly the president of Rogers Publishing, started it off with $500. Anne Marie Owens (editor in chief of the National Post), Alison Uncles (editor in chief of Maclean’s magazine), Steve Ladurantaye (managing editor of CBC News), Steve Maich (head of digital content and publishing for Rogers Media), Scott Feschuk (Maclean’s columnist), and Christie Blatchford (National Post columnist), amongst others, all volunteered to fork over hundreds of dollars for a prize that would reward people for culturally appropriating in their work. Walrus editor Jon Kay didn't offer money but retweeted Whyte's call and objected to Niedzviecki's resignation. See? Free speech!”
• A Bunch of White Canadian Editors Really Love Cultural Appropriation by Sara Hagi [Vice]
“Speaking to The Globe and Mail Niedzviecki expressed how he, "had no intention of offending anyone with the article," while also telling the paper he stepped down from his position voluntarily. He admitted he understood why people were upset and said he failed "to recognize how charged the term cultural appropriation is and how deeply painful acts of cultural appropriation have been to Indigenous people." Like all media controversies, this could have ended pretty quickly. While TWUC released the only type of statement they could have after messing up that badly, Niedzviecki could've offered a lengthy and selfless public apology alongside his resignation. But it didn't take long for white Canadian writers to jump to Niedzviecki's defense. The Globe and Mail's Elizabeth Renzetti offered the lukewarm argument of the piece being insightful—in that it created a debate. The National Post's Christie Blatchford went full Blatch and argued that Niedzviecki was being "silenced" and that he joined the ranks of white people who've been bullied into apologizing (something he actually never did publicly).”
posted by Fizz (64 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
If you want unfiltered reaction on this issue from Canadian Indigenous perspectives then follow Tanya Tagaq, Kim TallBear, or Jarrett Martineau.
posted by Rumple at 5:46 PM on May 12, 2017 [20 favorites]
One is not a very good reader if one thinks that "write about people who are not white and middle class" is the same as "cultural appropriation". Ugh, seriously, would it kill a grown adult with some cultural power to, like, google a little bit before writing something? An hour of reading is worth a pound of cure.
posted by Frowner at 5:49 PM on May 12, 2017 [53 favorites]
Tanya Tagq: "I'm going to start a boy band and call it Small White Man Penis and then pen a book about being a white man in Can Lit and win the sunrise"
Don't know what to make of this, it sounds like a not-half-bad idea to me?
posted by Coventry at 5:50 PM on May 12, 2017 [15 favorites]
And I mean, talk about assuming your audience. What does it take to write such an essay for an indigenous writers' issue?
posted by Frowner at 5:51 PM on May 12, 2017 [4 favorites]
Half of these issues could be solved by applying the Wil Wheaton rule of: "Don't be a dick." I mean, appropriate title is appropriate- what was he thinking?
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 6:01 PM on May 12, 2017 [2 favorites]
Wow, the people who contributed to that prize are like a whose who of Canadian terribleness.
There might be a valid point buried in there somewhere about white writers expanding their horizons to include characters that are neither white nor caricatures of other races, but you'd think a professional writer would manage to make it in a way that doesn't come across as offensive and awful.
Appropriation of traditional First Nations stories is not just an abstract concept. There is a history of First Nations stories literally ending up outside the legal control of the people whose history they are because of the way they were studied and recorded by white scholars.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:05 PM on May 12, 2017 [24 favorites]
That is like some industrial-strength stupid going on there. I can see that guy thinking "I would like to say something glib and clueless. What is the most offensive venue in which I can state this super dumb opinion?"
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 6:11 PM on May 12, 2017 [12 favorites]
“In my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities.”
Unfortunately, imagining is the furthest a lot of people go.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 6:17 PM on May 12, 2017 [3 favorites]
Thanks for sharing those twitter handles Rumple. Much appreciated.
posted by Fizz at 6:18 PM on May 12, 2017 [1 favorite]
White people remain fucking clueless why why why. I want other white folks to be the pallbearers at my funeral so they can let me down one last time.
posted by supercrayon at 6:38 PM on May 12, 2017 [25 favorites]
Emily Keeler, VP of PEN Canada (I'm quoting the entire Twitter thread for those who can't/won't handle Twitter):
"The reason I think freedom of expression is an urgent cause is because I believe that words and language have real power. Power to change minds, to affect lives and to create new ways of thinking about and perceiving the world. To make space when there was none. Because of this power, because freedom of speech isn't just making senseless noise, what we say when we use this right also matters.
Hal Niedzviecki's decision to leave his part time post as editor of the Writers Union's magazine was his decision to make. For the record, as a writer and editor, I agree with the premise of the column he wrote—writers can and should work with all the doors open, should feel free to intimately examine consciousness and experiences through art that are further afield, beyond the limits of one's own. I also think Hal has done a lot of great work building places, like Broken Pencil, where a truly diverse range of authors can come together.
But I also think he failed, with this column, to think through the power of the language was using in writing this contentious piece. The phrase 'cultural appropriation' is not neutral. And it does not precisely describe the freedom that writers must have to imagine vistas they've never personally seen. This imprecision in his choice of language here demonstrates some of the power that words have. His glibness here perpetuates a system of Colonial thinking that I believe he was hoping to more constructively address by devising and commissioning an issue of the magazine devoted to the specific conditions of Aboriginal writing and writers in this country.
And to see his mistake celebrated by some of this country's most powerful journalists is incredibly disappointing. I'll say it again: words have power. And using the phrase "cultural appropriation" is exercising that power to send a particular message. This piece of data from David Topping's ongoing survey of Canadian journalists also sends a message. [What's missing most in Canadian journalism right now]. As a writer, reader, editor, freedom of expression advocate, it's challenging to see so many people I respect pretend words are meaningless. Especially as a cover for what strikes me as an unwillingness to calmly listen and to think through a situation. Freedom of expression can never be expression without literally any consequence. That wouldn't be freedom—it would be screaming in a vacuum. This is a given, but I'll say it: the people who were hurt, disappointed, aggravated, by Hal's piece have every right to express their views.
posted by maudlin at 6:44 PM on May 12, 2017 [46 favorites]
Niedzviecki expressed how he, "had no intention of offending anyone with the article,"
What a fucking idiot.
posted by rtha at 6:53 PM on May 12, 2017 [9 favorites]
I do think that things sometimes get overeagerly labelled as cultural appropriation that are not only not harmful, but actively beneficial. There is a lot of good to be had in cultures borrowing and learning from one another, and it can and should go both ways, even when one of them is a heavily privileged culture.
So, I mean, I'm able to stretch my empathy just about far enough to see what I imagine to be Niedsviecki's intended point on the horizon: artists from every culture should be free and even encouraged to explore other cultures respectfully in their work.
Of course, even if things that fall under that umbrella sometimes unfairly get shit for being appropriative, that shouldn't distract at all from the far larger bulk of actually shitty and harmful appropriation.
The most shocking thing really is the sheer arrogance for a white dude to come upon this issue that is fundamentally about minority voices, encounter a version of the argument that sounds dumb to him, and then, rather than considering that maybe he's not got the full story, decide that it's his place to tell everyone else how it is.
On preview, I'm repeating much of what Emily Keeler said in maudlin's quote.
posted by 256 at 6:57 PM on May 12, 2017 [12 favorites]
Semantics is such a huge deal. He shouldn't have used the phrase "cultural appropriation" without really understanding it.
posted by amtho at 7:04 PM on May 12, 2017 [3 favorites]
"“Speaking to The Globe and Mail Niedzviecki expressed how he, "had no intention of offending anyone with the article," "
Lies; he wouldn't have done it if he didn't think it would offend people and create a stir.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 7:28 PM on May 12, 2017 [8 favorites]
Semantics is such a huge deal.
Well, words do have power, but if you want to control that power you should have some idea what they mean before you say them.
posted by Bringer Tom at 7:29 PM on May 12, 2017 [1 favorite]
Yes, this. Agree 100%.
posted by tunewell at 7:47 PM on May 12, 2017 [3 favorites]
Yeah, when you use language, the meaning is often important.
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 7:49 PM on May 12, 2017 [10 favorites]
I have only lived in Canada for around 9 years, but even so I feel comfortable in saying that writers who blithely stay ignorant about the reality of cultural appropriation ln relation to indigenous cultures, and, who write rubbish like Niedzviecki did, have really worked hard to feel that way and to stay ignorant of the horrors wrought (and still being wreaked) on the Native nations of Canada, especially in terms of their culture.
posted by lesbiassparrow at 7:56 PM on May 12, 2017 [27 favorites]
I had second thoughts about Tony Hillerman 25 years ago, though I read the books anyway.
But now I wouldn't, and I doubt he would write them.
posted by jamjam at 7:59 PM on May 12, 2017 [1 favorite]
If only there were some way to get stories about other peoples, other cultures, and other identities besides white people trying to imagine what these mythical people might be like.
posted by straight at 8:24 PM on May 12, 2017 [26 favorites]
I had higher hopes for Andrew Coyne and Scott Feschuk.
So ungenerous. I think there is a discussion to be had in Canada about what is cultural appropriation and what is not, but these writers are just trying to shut down the conversation, period.
It should be said that Amanda PL did not *appropriate* anything; she is a plagiarist. She ripped off artwork.
Joseph Boyden did not *appropriate* anything; he's a plagiarist, too. With a weird bit of Grey Owl fantasy thrown in there.
Anybody defending this sort of behavior is an idiot.
posted by My Dad at 9:05 PM on May 12, 2017 [12 favorites]
Thanks for posting this. I was seething about it this morning on Twitter and had at least 2 different angry versions of a post typed out before I took a deep breath and just decided to listen, retweet, follow, support. I'm so fucking grossed out by the whole thing.
posted by chococat at 9:28 PM on May 12, 2017 [3 favorites]
I refuse to link to it, for fear of giving the guy one single click's worth of traffic, and therefore delaying the man's firing or retirement by one more day, but George Will has a column up on the Washington Post right this moment (weird coincidence, I know, right?) entitled "The Left's Musguided Obsession with 'Cultural Appropriation'."
posted by newdaddy at 9:33 PM on May 12, 2017
He failed to understand the difference between culture appropriation and cultural exchange. White and middle class writers learning about other cultures and including them as real dynamic people with respect for their cultural background is a good thing. Black men with strange powers that heal white prison guards or help white guys with golf, maybe not so much.
posted by gryftir at 10:45 PM on May 12, 2017 [8 favorites]
Really? I have not encountered any Native Americans complaining about his work, and thought they generally approved of it. Can you show me otherwise? I know a lot more about Navajo and Hopi culture than I ever would have, without reading his novels.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:59 AM on May 13, 2017 [5 favorites]
I have less patience for humoring these "isn't political correctness the real enemy here?!" conversations ever since actual cartoon villain white supremacists took over the US government.
posted by Emily's Fist at 5:11 AM on May 13, 2017 [20 favorites]
Sounds like the whole Navajo Nation would be mightily pissed off if that were the case.
posted by tully_monster at 5:29 AM on May 13, 2017 [7 favorites]
Could someone point me to a good working definition of cultural appropriation? Ideally one that suggests where to draw the line between acceptable inspiration and unacceptable appropriation?
Does cultural appropriation only apply to novelists, and if so, why?
Should white storytellers only tell stories about Europeans? For example, should Disney stop making princess movies about non-Europeans?
If I write a non-European character, am I culturally appropriating? How about if I tell a story about a European in a non-European country? Or does it become cultural appropriation only when the main character is non-European? (And if so, doesn't that mean we wind up with more movies in which a white dude saves all the brown people?)
For clarity, I don't doubt that we need more non-European voices; I'm asking what creators of European heritage are supposed to do.
Please don't assume I'm making an argument here; it's practically impossible not to sound tendentious asking these question. I honestly would like to know where you guys draw the line.
posted by musofire at 6:26 AM on May 13, 2017 [4 favorites]
The real hazard is that he _thought_ he knew what it meant. He's educated, knows how to be culturally sensitive in certain contexts, probably has made a stand or two against racism or classism or both. It's natural for him to feel confidence in his understanding of cultural issues.
Just like a doctor will feel confident in his or her knowledge of science, but will miss some obvious points that could mean life or death or a life of suffering for someone.
We _need_ them to feel enough confidence to go out and fight those little battles every day, but we also need them to be unconfident enough to question their own knowledge...when? That boundary, the edge of where they can assume they're right and just go out and do what they know is right, is not well defined.
posted by amtho at 6:39 AM on May 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
He failed to understand the difference between culture appropriation and cultural exchange. White and middle class writers learning about other cultures and including them as real dynamic people with respect for their cultural background is a good thing.
My (white and middle class) daughter is a high school freshman in a racially mixed, public, urban high school. In her humanities class they're talking a lot about cultural appropriation and it's causing her to question a lot of things. I keep poking at it, trying to get her to really think about this distinction- "Hey, when your choir sang 'Ain't No Grave', was that cultural appropriation?"
I think the fact that (some of?) the majority culture has an awareness of this is a really big step in the right direction. I also think this next step, figuring out how to "not be a dick" without shutting yourself off, is important too.
posted by TheShadowKnows at 6:44 AM on May 13, 2017 [7 favorites]
He failed to understand the difference between culture appropriation and cultural exchange.
There's another thread on this very internet website where a musician co-writing with, crediting, paying, forming lifelong partnerships with and recording with musicians from outside his cultural background is described as "appropriation" so I don't think it's safe to assume that the term is used with the same meaning by everyone who levies it as a criticism. In my experience there isn't a clear definition of the term - I've seen it used to mean "taking credit for and profiting from the creative work of people who cannot do so because they are prevented from doing so by oppressive mechanisms" and I've seen it used to mean "paying tribute to and collaborating with people one admires from another cultural background than one's own." So the confusion seen here is not that surprising.
posted by eustacescrubb at 8:13 AM on May 13, 2017 [6 favorites]
I think white artists just need to be okay with the fact that as long as white people totally dominate popular culture, some people are going to resent your work just because you're yet another white person. And especially if you're making work based on the experiences of people of other backgrounds that gets more recognition than work of people from those backgrounds.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't make art that tries to incorporate those other experiences. You just have to have the grace to acknowledge that people will vent about you frustrations they have with the white supremacy in our culture, and not get all defensive and insist that they express those frustrations in a precisely fair and accurate way.
And maybe with the lack of defensiveness that comes from thinking maybe it's not all about you and your work in particular, you can really listen and see if maybe they don't have some valid criticisms of things you did screw up or could have done better.
posted by straight at 10:16 AM on May 13, 2017 [18 favorites]
Diversity, Appropriation, Canada (and Me) by MeFi's own jscalzi.
posted by eustacescrubb at 11:04 AM on May 13, 2017 [5 favorites]
While affirming that this guy acted stupidly, I do think there's some widespread mutual misunderstanding that facilitated his stupidity.
Cultural appropriation isn't always bad (or, if it's not bad it's "cultural exchange," different people use those two differently.) Disrespect, racism, and sacrilege are all bad, and cultural appropriation often includes those things, but there are examples of cultural appropriation that are completely harmless. Westerners wearing wearing or collecting kimonos is an example of that; while there has been controversy at a couple American universities about that issue, very few if any actual Japanese people seem to find it at all problematic or even understand why it might be. So when people identify something as cultural appropriation and use that as their central argument for why it's objectionable, it confuses the main issues.
posted by bracems at 11:15 AM on May 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
Would it be reasonable to define cultural appropriation as when a European or white creator is claiming to authentically represent the experience of being from a non-European or nonwhite culture?
Though we'd still lose some (I think) pretty neat stories like, say, Anansi Boys and the Hillerman novels.
posted by musofire at 12:07 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
Depends on what you mean by claiming. Artists of any type that make claims about their own work are usually not making very interesting work. The most interesting and powerful art is usually made by people who are too busy making things to spend time doing theory about their own work.
But if you mean that by including a character that isn't obviously a stock stereotype a writer is "claiming" to "represent" a culture, that's a big assumption to make about the writer who hasn't explicitly said that's what they're trying to do. For example, Gaiman, whose work you mention above, has always liked and explored mythology and is a lifelong student and lover of mythology. I am not sure his goal has ever been "authentic representation" - he seems to have other goals around making fiction that explores and celebrates mythology and how humans make and react to it as it moves across time and culture. From my POV he seems to respect his subject matter and approaches it with humility, love and joy.
Also "authenticity" is a problematic concept as well - is there any such thing at all? And if so, by whose standards do we judge authenticity? What if two representatives of the same culture disagree?
There's no way to avoid awkward, messy and sometimes disappointing conversations around art, and especially not when people of different cultures or traditions are conversing. Better to do as advised a few times here already and accept that one might screw up and acknowledge it and learn from it.
posted by eustacescrubb at 12:36 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
It certainly makes me feel better about all the pleasure I got from reading Hillerman to know that some Dine like him, but here's what concerns me:
I had an email earlier today, asking if I recommend Tony Hillerman's books. I've skimmed some of them and didn't like what I read. Though I've not analyzed them, I do not recommend them.
Larry Emerson, Dine (Navajo) said this about Hillerman:
"Tony Hillerman privileged & authorized himself to write about Navajos & in doing so appropriated, re-imagined, and recreated "Hillerman Navajos" at the expense of Diné realities. Hillerman created a new domain [read dominion] of knowledge while cashing in at the same time."
I met Larry a few years ago when he was a post doctoral fellow here with us (American Indian Studies, University of Illinois). Consider his words "...at the expense of Dine realities." Hillerman wrote mysteries that sold well, but what do his books do for the people he wrote about? Glancing at the titles, it is clear he liked writing about sacred aspects of the Dine people, but what are the Dine realities Emerson refers to? You might read Navajo news media to get a sense of their realities, the things they contend with. Here's some sites to read: ...
And here's what Sherman Alexie had to say about him:
Alexie: They have room for about seven of us (laughs). There is not a whole lot of room, but I guess there’s not a whole lot of room for anyone. But someone like Tony Hillerman, who writes good mysteries but works with expected images, has sold many books. Any one of his books has probably sold more copies than all of us other Indian writers put together.
Rail: So there’s usually one commercially chosen writer that is also marketed heavily?
Alexie: Yes, also because he’s easy to market. Tony Hillerman’s books don’t really question any assumptions about Indians, they work within those assumptions. And so, are they enjoyable? Sure. But they sell well because they don’t question anything. And the more questions a piece of art contains, the less likely it is to sell well. And that’s going to happen, that’s natural. But the sad part is that this process excludes people from the very communities that are underrepresented. So it always ends up that Tony Hillerman ends up representing all of us. It’s not his fault. It’s that the media is not interested in the alternatives.
posted by jamjam at 1:51 PM on May 13, 2017 [9 favorites]
Tony Hillerman’s books don’t really question any assumptions about Indians, they work within those assumptions. And so, are they enjoyable? Sure. But they sell well because they don’t question anything. And the more questions a piece of art contains, the less likely it is to sell well. And that’s going to happen, that’s natural.
Whatever you think about appropriation or not, this is a pretty facile explanation for the success of Hillerman's books. It may be convenient to Alexie's argument and assuage his sense of justice, but there are many reasons why any work of art is popular. Some works of art that question things do very well, and some that don't, don't.
posted by anothermug at 3:12 PM on May 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
Christie Blatchford took the gross side of an issue involving indigenous peoples? No way!
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:50 PM on May 13, 2017 [9 favorites]
The question of how to interact respectfully with a culture that yours has historically had power over, especially when the market continues to reproduce that privilege, is so difficult and complicated. I don't always fully agree about the subject with people with whom I otherwise tend to align in cultural politics. Yet it seems that the white folks who do get worked up on the subject always manage to do so in ways that shriek racism and arrogance, to the point that I feel uneasy expressing a point of view that shares even a few values with theirs.
posted by praemunire at 7:15 PM on May 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
I wonder if the writers who signed up are even aware of what the current WUC discussion about "cultural appropriation" is all about.
When Ken Whyte made his tweet offering money for the prize, a number of writers immediately replied.
My sense is they're thinking this is more of the "SJW on campus" controversy or something. They may not even be aware of the issues of indigenous cultural appropriation.
Which is pretty damning in and of itself.
posted by My Dad at 9:35 PM on May 13, 2017
But that's not even the issue. The issue seems to be: are indigenous writers allowed to even be highlighted.
Remember, the thing that set this all off was NOT that indigenous writers are somehow trying to prevent others from "appropriating" their voice. Instead, it's all based on Hal Niedzviecki's insensitive and ungenerous opinion piece in a magazine devoted to indigenous writing:
“Hal Niedzviecki has resigned as editor of the Writers’ Union of Canada magazine after sparking outrage with an opinion piece titled “Winning the Appropriation Prize” in an issue devoted to indigenous writing. In it, he states that he doesn’t believe in “cultural appropriation.”
This is a completely manufactured controversy by white writers, nothing more.
posted by My Dad at 9:39 PM on May 13, 2017 [3 favorites]
I'm still hunting for a solid link/confirmation, but it's all over twitter that Jonathan Kay has stepped down as editor for The Walrus magazine.
Jonathan Kay resigned as editor-in-chief of The Walrus last night, sources confirm.— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) May 14, 2017
posted by Fizz at 8:55 AM on May 14, 2017
I respectfully disagree; having helped put code of conduct guidelines in place for a professional conference, the problem with "Don't Be A Dick" rules is that well meaning but ignorant people don't realize that certain actions or behaviors constitute "being a dick," and real problem people are happy to argue from first principles about the definition of "dick" while the rest of your community bleeds out.
"Don't be a dick" sounds good, but at its heart it is usually driven by a longing for homogeneity — a wish that everyone just agreed and we didn't have to hash through all these things and uncomfortable, disruptive perspectives no accepted ideas or behaviors didn't intrude.
It's almost always offered in good faith, but is (IME at least) never sufficient when real issues arise.
posted by verb at 11:10 AM on May 14, 2017 [8 favorites]
And Jonathan Kay's highly bigoted mother, Barbara Kay, has being coming at Jesse Wente with racist diatribes all day. Apparently poor little Jonny Kay can't handle actual debate without needing to call mommy in.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:26 PM on May 14, 2017 [3 favorites]
Confirmed: Walrus editor Jonathan Kay quits amid free speech uproar: ‘I have been censoring myself more and more’ [The National Post]
““What takes priority,” Kay wrote for the National Post, “the right of artists to extend their imagination to the entire human experience, or the right of historically marginalized communities to protect themselves from possible misrepresentation? Personally, I land on the free speech side.”
Professionally, Kay was jobless Sunday, and paused in the produce section to provide an explanation.
“From the beginning, it was obvious that it was going to be difficult for me to balance my instincts as a National Post-bred opinion writer with the more staid responsibilities associated with the leadership of a respected media brand,” Kay wrote in an email. “In recent months especially, I have been censoring myself more and more, and my colleagues have sometimes been rightly upset by disruptions caused by my media appearances.
“Something had to give, and I decided to make the first move. I took no severance.””
posted by Fizz at 5:29 PM on May 14, 2017
And Jonathan Kay's highly bigoted mother, Barbara Kay, has being coming at Jesse Wente with racist diatribes all day.
What a fucking horrible person.
Also, I can't believe I actually had some respect for Andrew Coyne at one point.
Barbara Kay has some connections with Ezra Levant does she not? In anycase, what a shit show.
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:51 PM on May 14, 2017
In a statement e-mailed to The Globe and Mail on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Kay said of his Walrus job: “It was a great opportunity. But I was getting tired of being taken to task on Monday morning for stuff that I said on the CBC or tweeted. I noticed that I was starting to censor myself. And that’s the sign when any writer has to move on. Amazing people at that place, and I wish them every success.”
Poor kitten. "Taken to task!"
FWIW, here's the CBC debate with Jesse Wente and Kay.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:22 PM on May 14, 2017
In a not at all surprising turn of events, Jonathan Kay does not appear to know what the word censorship actually means. Or freedom of speech.
The cultural appropriation debate is not about freedom of speech -- nobody(*) is suggesting that cultural appropriation be literally illegal. They're simply suggesting that if you're such a self-involved jackass that you can't or won't stand aside and let indigenous voices tell indigenous stories then the world is going to mock you for your lack of insight. It is just, as Randall Munroe put it, that people listening think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door.
(*) There are some caveats on this re: things like trademark and other intellectual property protection for specific indigenous symbols that would make it a legal problem for non-indigenous people to use them, but they don't really apply to the world of fictional stories featuring indigenous characters.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:34 PM on May 14, 2017 [4 favorites]
1st Amendment reference which obviously doesn't apply here, but same principle and this still works as a tl;dr: obligatory xkcd.
Jinx, jacquilynne.
Rick Harp:
My take on cultural appropriation: writing about shit you don't understand for an audience that doesn't know any better.
Here's a quote from a Sociologist I follow on Twitter:
@ztsamudzi
Cultural syncretism =\= cultural appropriation. Syncretism lends itself to cohesive multiculturalisms, appropriation is about power.
Adding that distinction to the conversation doesn't make it any easier to see which is which, but it does at least clear up what CA isn't.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:58 AM on May 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Jesse Wente was just on Metro Morning and it is an absolute must-listen. Arguments about what appropriation is and the ridiculous notion that this is about "free speech" crumble when you hear the real pain that this is causing.
posted by chococat at 5:40 AM on May 15, 2017 [5 favorites]
Why is it so hard to always, always keep King's line in mind, "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"?
When I first heard of this yesterday, it was with an explicit quote of Niedzviecki's plea for cultural appropriation as a form of license to go outside of one's personal culture, ethnicity, and gender, My first reaction to his list was "that seems reasonable" (Guess my a/s/l! Guess what artistic form I engage in professionally, if at a D-list level! Go on!), but right on its heels was "but if it was, people wouldn't be upset with him".
When I'm trying to avoid one half of King's formulation, it's been useful to me to believe that, when someone is upset, they've reason to be. Turns out I'm right in that belief at an amazingly high percentage.
(Which to be Canadian as possible about it under the circumstances, unlike a lot of those acting badly here: Sorry).
posted by Quindar Beep at 11:14 AM on May 15, 2017 [4 favorites]
Statement from the National Council of The Writers’ Union of Canada
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 4:07 PM on May 15, 2017
'I invited these Indigenous writers ... and then I insulted them:' Hal Niedzviecki on appropriation uproar
Yeah, the headline sounded promising, but it turned out to be an "I'm sorry you were offended" kind of thing. It really doesn't sound like he understands why people were so upset. He's just apologizing for upsetting them.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 5:44 PM on May 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Whitney French: Examining the root of cultural appropriation
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 1:47 AM on May 16, 2017
Niedzvieckian’ Prize Goes to Writer Most Burned by His Own Hot Take
Here’s my take. From this day forward there should be a prize called the Niedzvieckian.
To win, the year’s most Niedzvieckian take must:
1. Insult a large group of people for their concerns.
2. Not show any interest in understanding their concerns.
3. In making the insult, betray one’s implied good faith relationship with the group insulted.
4. Pretend to start a dialogue when it really polarizes and shuts one down.
5. Be embraced readily by the most privileged people related to the take.
posted by Rumple at 12:04 PM on May 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
More fallout at CBC. Also, someone's crowdfunding a literary award to support emerging indigenous writers.
posted by oulipian at 2:35 PM on May 17, 2017 [2 favorites]
The crowdfunding target was $10,000 and they've raised over $50,000 already.
posted by Rumple at 11:49 AM on May 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
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Michelle Obama: Hillary’s the Most 'Qualified Candidate In Our Lifetime’
Monica Sanchez , @moniii328
(Image via Twitter)
First Lady Michelle Obama attempted to make the closing argument for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday at a rally in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Michelle began by touting Clinton’s history as a lawyer, senator, First Lady, and secretary of state.
“We have never had a more qualified candidate for president – never before in our lifetime,” said Michelle Obama.
“Hillary doesn’t play,” she went on. “She has more experience and more exposure to the presidency than any other candidate in our lifetime.”
“And yes, she happens to be a woman,” Michelle added.
She went on to contrast Clinton’s “powerful and vibrant and strong” vision for America and Trump’s vision “grounded in hopelessness and despair.”
“This election is also unprecedented because I don’t think we’ve ever had two candidates with such dramatically different visions of who we are and how we move forward,” Michelle said.
“That is the choice we face, between those who divide this country … and those who tell us to embrace our better angels and choose hope over fear.
The First Lady went so far as to say that she has "never been so hopeful for the future" of the country.
Check out a clip from the rally below.
Michelle Obama: We need a president "who we can trust with the nuclear codes" https://t.co/UYpqI3w42L https://t.co/z7RkEMxv7E
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My Gay Kid is Lucky… But He Shouldn’t Have to Be
by Amelia
This post was originally published on Huffington Post
On a cold winter day when my oldest son was in the first grade, he came home from school with a question.
“Mom, did you know that the word gay means more than just gay?”
Just a few weeks before, my son announced that he was gay. He knew what being gay meant (boys who wanted to be boyfriends with other boys) and was quite certain it described himself. As the days went by, he used the word gay more and more often.
“What else does it mean, baby?” I asked.
“Where’d you learn that?”
“At school. In music we sang a Christmas song that said gay. The teacher said it meant happy.”
“She’s right. It can mean that too.”
Now, nothing in this conversation was particularly earth shattering or memorable. What makes it stick with me is this was the first time gay had come up in a conversation about school. While our son identified as gay, he had never used that term to describe himself at school. Everyone knew Blaine from Glee was his boyfriend (because it was impossible at the time to be around him for more than five minutes without him reminding you), but the actual word “gay” hadn’t been used. My husband and I had a quick discussion and decided we’d rather talk to the school now, than wait and pray a problem never occurred.
I made an appointment with the principal, and I admit that I was more than a little nervous. We knew the school was gay friendly. They had gay staff and administration, but the existence of our gay-identified seven year old could throw off even the most ardent ally. The principal and I chatted for a few minutes, and then I laid it all on the table.
“My son identifies as gay. It will come up at school eventually, so I think we need to talk about it.”
I shouldn’t have worried. The principal was wonderful. He agreed that school should always be a safe place for all kids. When I told him I expected “that’s so gay” to be treated like any other form of hate speech, he agreed as well.
“Normally, when ‘gay’ is used in that way, we get out the dictionary and talk about the definition of the word,” he said.
“As ‘happy’,” I said remembering the conversation about the carol.
“But that’s problematic. If people use ‘gay’ to slam my kid, they aren’t talking about how happy he is. It also creates a problem, because it doesn’t acknowledge the other definition. I don’t want him to think that ‘gay’ as ‘homosexual’ is some kind of secret thing. Nothing about who he is should be shameful or secret.”
The principal acknowledged that this wasn’t an issue that had ever come up in his elementary school before, and I laughed knowing that had to be true. We agreed that we were both in brand new territory, and we would need to stay in close communication about my son’s experience at school. In the meantime, I planned to have discussions with his teachers (they would be the ones on ground zero if/when something happened.) All of those talks went equally great. His teachers had the same questions everyone has (Really? Does he understand what it means? etc.) but they were all firmly in this corner. And I sighed with relief.
We are lucky. I know we are lucky. But until a few weeks ago, two years after these discussions, I don’t think I realized how much.
As with most kids, our son is better at some areas of school and struggles at others. The question came up if there might be another program that would suit our son better. And when the mere idea of this was brought up, I froze. Our kid wasn’t just any kid. Our kid was a gay elementary school student. And we live in the Midwest. Was there another program where our son’s orientation would be so lovingly embraced? The staff had a suggestion of one school they thought would work.
I went to the suggested school and one of the administrators gave me a tour. Eventually, I asked her about the school’s hate speech and bullying policies. She told me all about their policies as they applied to race.
“My son identifies as gay, so I am also interested in policies about anti-gay hate speech.”
The administrator was surprised, which I had expected. Then she said, “Well, children might say those words, but at this level they don’t understand what they mean, so we don’t see them as a problem.”
And if anyone is looking for the wrong thing to say to the parent of a gay child, that’s it, right there. Because the kids don’t know what they are saying, it’s OK? That makes no sense. She had just told me the policies on racial hate speech. It wasn’t ignored if the students didn’t understand the implications of their words. Why should anti-gay hate speech be any different? The administrator didn’t have any good answers for me.
I went back and talked to our principal about my visit. He was dismayed by the reaction of the other school. Was the other program a better fit for my son academically? Maybe. But my kid’s current school was definitely a better fit for who he is. The principal and I worked together to get my son extra tutoring, as well as in-class help where he was struggling, so he can stay where he is — somewhere that is committed to protecting him, helping him grow, and celebrating him. And I think that is the better choice.
So, we are lucky. While I appreciate that, I can’t help but think we shouldn’t have to be. My son is just a kid. He should be able to go to any school in our area and know that his school will protect him from hate. But that’s not where we live. I want my son to grow up knowing being gay isn’t something shameful or insulting. It’s just part of who he is. I expect the kids in his school to start using “gay” as pejorative term at some point. I hate it, but again that’s the world we live in and kids can be awful to each other. That’s why it’s so important that the adults my son is surrounded by, especially those in positions of authority, are ready, willing and able to intervene. After all, that’s their job. At least it should be.
Amelia is a mother and breadwinner. When not working she’s spending as much time as possible with her three young sons, friends, and family. In her copious free time she knits, obsesses about science fiction and cult television, and reads way too many books. She considers her most superhero worthy act finding a couple free hours now and then to read trashy novels.
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New rail route could link Hounslow with central London and the north
Hounslow Council to petition for a rail link between Hounslow and the proposed Crossrail and HS2 hub at Old Oak Common, providing speedy connections to central London and north England
Robert Cumber
A map showing the proposed rail link between Hounslow and Old Oak Common
The fight for a new rail route linking Hounslow with central London and north England has been taken up by Hounslow Council.
Civic Centre chiefs are petitioning for a link between Hounslow and the proposed Crossrail and HS2 hub at Old Oak Common, in Shepherd's Bush.
They claim the route would lead to a 'step change' in public transport provision and promote regeneration in the borough, particularly along the Golden Mile business district in Brentford.
In his report on the proposed link, Councillor Ed Mayne, cabinet member for community safety and regulatory services, writes: "The provision of a new rail service from Hounslow to Old Oak Common via Isleworth, Brentford and Syon Lane would allow for a step change in the provision of public transport options for borough residents, particularly in regards to ‘orbital’ journeys; those taken within outer London, rather than into central London. Currently public transport journey times for orbital trips are slower than trips taken by car."
An estimated four trains an hour could run between Hounslow and Old Oak Common, via Acton Central, using existing tracks, according to council proposals, with only relatively inexpensive signalling work required to make them a reality.
Work is already well underway on Crossrail, linking central London with Maidenhead to the west and Shenfield to the north-east.
Plans for the HS2 train line between London Euston and Birmingham, and eventually on to Leeds and Manchester, are currently being debated in parliament.
Those proposals include a new HS2 and Crossrail station at Old Oak Common, which it is claimed would reduce queues at Euston and help revive one of the capital's most deprived neighbourhoods.
However, they do not include London Overground connections to Richmond and Clapham Junction, as supported by Transport for London, or the rail link with Hounslow.
Hounslow councillors voted unanimously at Tuesday's borough council meeting to petition for these extensions to be included in the bill, on which a final decision by MPs is due in March next year.
Conservative councillor Sheila O'Reilly said: "This link would be very good for business, employment and leisure in the borough. If Brentford get into the Premiership, it would mean we could welcome all our northern and Midlands visitors to the station."
A Hammersmith & Fulham Council spokesman it was concerned about TfL’s plans for a west London connection encroaching on Wormwood Scrubs but would ‘wholeheartedly’ support an overground link to Hounslow which did not encroach on that open land.
Should HS2 be approved the scheduled opening date for phase one, from London to Birmingham, is 2026. The link to Hounslow could begin running at the same time, according to Hounslow Council.
Hounslow London Borough Council
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From Harrow to Hollywood: How a west London girl ended up writing songs for pop stars
Carla Marie Williams has written songs for the likes of Beyoncé, Girls Aloud and The Saturdays
Nathan Spendelow
Carla Marie Williams is now a successful songwriter for popstars
Pop songwriter Carla Marie Williams, from Harlesden , has always had a passion for all things musical.
Today she is songwriter to a roll call of stars including Beyoncé , Girls Aloud , The Saturdays and Alesha Dixon to name a few.
So how did Carla get where she is today?
From an early age growing up in Harlesden, naturally competitive Carla excelled at everything from gymnastics, kung fu, athletics, academic studies and of course singing.
Her position today, is as one of the UK’s most acclaimed songwriters.
Most recently, Carla wrote Beyoncé’s Brit nominated smash ‘Runnin', as well as a plethora of top 10 hits for Girls Aloud, Alesha Dixon’s ‘The Boy Does Nothing’, The Saturdays and Kylie Minogue .
Raised by a loving mother, Mrs Williams recognised Carla’s talent early, but was unable to fund music classes or stage school which meant Carla was heavily dependent on free local community services, and her own steely will.
Carla, then aged 10, put together a girl group who she titled ‘The Likkle Mentions’ of which she was the lead singer.
The girls made their own costumes and took to the stage to perform at local talent shows and radio stations which built up her performing confidence.
'It was incredible'
Carla wrote popular Beyoncé song, ‘Runnin’ (Image: Getty)
However, it was aged 15 that Carla experienced her first real brush with stardom, when an advert in newspaper The Voice , called for ‘Talented singers to join Hal Jackson’s team’ and implored a teenaged Carla to apply.
She made it successfully to the finals, won and was promptly flown to New York to perform at the Apollo where she represented England as one of 50 girls from across the globe.
“It was incredible," said Carla. "One minute I was at school in Harrow, the next I was taking boat trips on the Hudson River, visiting Madison Square Gardens and performing at the Apollo.
"It ignited a fierce desire to make music my life.”
Returning to England, Carla completed her GCSEs and began A-Levels at Bentley Wood High School in Harrow .
After school, Carla found herself going from job to job, answering phones in call centres, selling alarms door to door and and eventually working for Brent Council as a youth worker.
It was a time of uncertainty for the songwriter, who would never have known that just a few years later she would be working on the latest hit of one of our decade’s most significant musical icons, Beyoncé Knowles.
'The last 12 months have been so surreal'
The Harlesden-born songrwriter also wrote Alesha Dixon's, ‘The Boy Does Nothing’
It was a cold day in November, when she received a message out of the blue from Brian Higgins who she’d been introduced to years earlier when he spotted her performing an acoustic set at a live event.
The music mogul ran the biggest pop production outfit in the UK, producing every Girls Aloud album.
Carla was signed to join the team after Higgins heard the infectious melodies and lyrics she had written.
Today, the business-savvy songwriter manages her own writing collective which birthed Beyoncé’s 'Runnin' and writes smashes from London to LA.
In the past 12 months, Carla and her team have worked with UK and US acts such as Beyoncé, DJ Mustard, Pia Mia, Rudimental, Wilkinson, Becky G and Shae Taylor.
Carla said: “The last 12 months have been so surreal yet so real, working with Beyoncé has been one of the most inspirational experiences I have ever had.
“I want to be known and respected as a visionary, that inspires and empowers others to follow their dreams.”
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Matic set for Chelsea medical
Benfica star set to jet in for medical and re-join former club in £22million deal
Nemanja Matic
Nemanja Matic is due to undergo a medical at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground this afternoon ahead of a £22million return to the club from Benfica.
The Serbian midfielder swapped London for Lisbon three years ago as part of the deal to bring David Luiz to Stamford Bridge but is now set to rejoin his old club.
Chelsea are also expected to conclude the £18million sale of Kevin De Bruyne to Wolfsburg today and will use the funds to offset the considerable outlay on Matic.
Matic waved goodbye to the Benfica fans following their weekend win over FC Porto and should have no problems passing his medical examination in Surrey.
It is believed that Matic, who first joined Chelsea from the Slovakian side Kosice for £1.5m in 2009, will sign a contract until the summer of 2017 with the Premier League club.
Should the deal go through without any hitches, the energetic midfield ace could line-up against Manchester United on Sunday.
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BMC Evol Biol. 2004 Nov 9;4:44.
A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land.
Battistuzzi FU1, Feijao A, Hedges SB.
NASA Astrobiology Institute and Department of Biology, 208 Mueller Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. fxb142@psu.edu <fxb142@psu.edu>
The timescale of prokaryote evolution has been difficult to reconstruct because of a limited fossil record and complexities associated with molecular clocks and deep divergences. However, the relatively large number of genome sequences currently available has provided a better opportunity to control for potential biases such as horizontal gene transfer and rate differences among lineages. We assembled a data set of sequences from 32 proteins (approximately 7600 amino acids) common to 72 species and estimated phylogenetic relationships and divergence times with a local clock method.
Our phylogenetic results support most of the currently recognized higher-level groupings of prokaryotes. Of particular interest is a well-supported group of three major lineages of eubacteria (Actinobacteria, Deinococcus, and Cyanobacteria) that we call Terrabacteria and associate with an early colonization of land. Divergence time estimates for the major groups of eubacteria are between 2.5-3.2 billion years ago (Ga) while those for archaebacteria are mostly between 3.1-4.1 Ga. The time estimates suggest a Hadean origin of life (prior to 4.1 Ga), an early origin of methanogenesis (3.8-4.1 Ga), an origin of anaerobic methanotrophy after 3.1 Ga, an origin of phototrophy prior to 3.2 Ga, an early colonization of land 2.8-3.1 Ga, and an origin of aerobic methanotrophy 2.5-2.8 Ga.
Our early time estimates for methanogenesis support the consideration of methane, in addition to carbon dioxide, as a greenhouse gas responsible for the early warming of the Earths' surface. Our divergence times for the origin of anaerobic methanotrophy are compatible with highly depleted carbon isotopic values found in rocks dated 2.8-2.6 Ga. An early origin of phototrophy is consistent with the earliest bacterial mats and structures identified as stromatolites, but a 2.6 Ga origin of cyanobacteria suggests that those Archean structures, if biologically produced, were made by anoxygenic photosynthesizers. The resistance to desiccation of Terrabacteria and their elaboration of photoprotective compounds suggests that the common ancestor of this group inhabited land. If true, then oxygenic photosynthesis may owe its origin to terrestrial adaptations.
Phylogenetic tree (ME; α = 0.94) of eubacteria rooted with archaebacteria, using sequences of 32 proteins (7,597 amino acids). Bootstrap values are shown on nodes; asterisks indicate support values > 95%. For major groups, support values from three phylogenetic methods (ME/ML/Bayesian) are indicated in italics (dash indicates a group was not present).
A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land
BMC Evol Biol. 2004;4:44-44.
Phylogenetic tree (ME; α = 1.20) of archaebacteria rooted with eubacteria, using sequences of 32 proteins (7,338 amino acids). Bootstrap values are shown on nodes; asterisks indicate support values > 95%. For major groups, support values from three phylogenetic methods (ME/ML/Bayesian) are indicated in italics.
A timescale of prokaryote evolution. Letters indicate nodes discussed in the text. The last common ancestor was arbitrarily placed at 4.25 Ga in the tree, although this placement was not part of the analyses. The grey rectangle shows the time prior to the initial rise in oxygen (presumably anaerobic conditions). Mtb: Methanothermobacter, Tab: Thermoanaerobacter, Tsc: Thermosynechococcus.
A time line of metabolic innovations and events on Earth. The minimum time for oxygenic photosynthesis is constrained by the Great Oxidation Event (2.3 Ga) whereas the maximum time for the origin of life is constrained by the origin of Earth (4.5 Ga). Horizontal lines indicate credibility intervals, white boxes indicate minimum and maximum time constraints on the origin of a metabolism or event, and colored boxes indicate the presence of the metabolism or event.
Publication type, MeSH terms, Substance
Bacteria/genetics*
Evolution, Molecular
Genomics*
Methane/metabolism*
Photosynthesis/genetics
METHANE - Hazardous Substances Data Bank
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CEO Bruised But Delighted After Demolition Derby Performance
By Jack Thurston
//www.necn.com/on-air/as-seen-on/NECN_090315_jackdemolitionderby_630pm_NECN-324244061.html
Utility CEO Partakes in Demolition Derby
Mary Powell, the president and CEO of Green Mountain Power, participated in the demo derby at the Champlain Valley Fair Wednesday night. (Published Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015)
Mary Powell, the president and CEO of Green Mountain Power, Vermont's largest utility, suffered a minor bruise, but was overjoyed at having participated in the popular demolition derby Wednesday night at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction.
"People probably found it surprising," Powell said of her participation, noting most of the competitors in the field were men about half her age.
The goal of the demo derby is pretty simple: you want to be behind the wheel of the last car that is still drivable after smashing, crashing and bashing your way through the field.
"I love new experiences," Powell said.
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For many years, Powell attended the event and thought it would be fun to participate one day. She praised Nate's Automotive of Essex, Vermont, for providing critical help in outfitting her with a car that was ready for the rough-and-tumble competition.
Powell told necn she was a bit worried about her "54-year-old's neck," but did not feel much soreness a day after the competition. She said she felt safe because of her helmet, goggles, flame-retardant suit, and extra-sturdy seat belt for protection.
Powell said she believes the silver dollar-sized bruise on her arm may have been from a flying rock that got kicked up on the field. Participating vehicles have their windows and windshields removed before entering the derby.
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"I was a little worried," admitted Powell's friend, Bill Wetherbee, who was cheering for her Wednesday night. "Just because I like her a lot and I didn't want to see her hurt!"
Powell, in her Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed car number 17, took some really big hits, and got in a few of her own. She attempted a strategy of risk avoidance, by dodging other cars while making just enough contact with other vehicles to stay in the competition.
After a few minutes, Powell's vehicle got tangled up in a mess of other beat-up clunkers. She told necn Thursday that her pit crew told her a problem with a fuse prevented her car from moving. The vehicle would be repaired and used again in a later heat, Powell said, with its designer from Nate's Automotive performing well.
"It was even more fun than I expected it to be, but the hits were a lot harder than I expected them to be," Powell said after the race.
The CEO said her wild ride enabled her to raise more than $1,700 for the United Way of Chittenden County. Much of that came from donations made by her employees.
"The carnage that's going on out there is unreal," Green Mountain Power employee Ken Couture said after watching video of Powell's demo derby run. "We're used to seeing Mary working on all the other initiatives the company's doing, and this is certainly mixing it up a bit!"
If there is a lesson for business people in this, Powell said it's that a lot of times, leaders just have to jump right into big challenges that at first may seem a little scary.
"With work, and with life, and anything, it's being adventurous, being a little courageous, trying new things, but making sure you're safe," Powell told necn.
Powell said she was frustrated with her middle-of-the-pack finish, so she is already considering another attempt next year.
This year’s Champlain Valley Fair runs through Sept. 6. For more information on the events, visit this website.
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Now Reading: Rosneft becomes direct owner of 76.79% of Yuganskneftegaz
Rosneft becomes direct owner of 76.79% of Yuganskneftegaz
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Russian oil company Rosneft has become the direct owner of 76.79 percent of charter capital (100 percent of common shares) in Yuganskneftegaz, Rosneft said in a statement. Previously Rosneft owned 50 percent of charter capital (65.12 percent of common shares) in Yuganskneftegaz, and 26.79 percent of shares were on the balance sheet of Rosneft subsidiary Baikal Finance Group....
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Things you never knew you could claim on your tax return
MOST Aussies don’t realise these four surprising things can be claimed as deductions — and they could cost you a nice big tax refund.
Alexis Carey
news.com.auJune 8, 20182:11pm
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According to tax expert Melissa Browne, there are many ways of turning everyday expenses into tax deductions. Picture: iStockSource:istock
MOST of us dread tax time — but according to one finance expert, a few simple hacks can help you maximise your refund this year.
Entrepreneur, accountant, financial adviser and best-selling author of Unf*ck Your Finances Melissa Browne said many Aussies are missing out on a fat tax refund because they simply don’t realise everything they are entitled to claim.
She told news.com.au there were four little-known deductions that could make a big difference, including handbags, makeup and cosmetics, stationery and mobile phone data.
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She said it was all about “turning everyday expenses into tax deductions”.
“For any of us working outside, and for people who go outside regularly to meet clients or get to meetings, we can claim sunglasses but also potentially if there’s SPF in your makeup or moisturiser or lip balm, you might be able to claim that,” she explained.
“People also get excited to hear that handbags can potentially be claimed if they’re bought to fit a laptop or tablet — guys can claim briefcases, and handbags are a briefcase of sorts.
“I always have things like pencil cases in my handbag because I’m a nerd about that sort of thing, so if you have a kikki. K addiction and you’re using those things for work, you can claim them too.”
Another thing people often forget to claim is a percentage of their mobile phone data.
“Many people say they don’t use their own phone for work, but you’re probably using the calendar and apps like Gmail,” Ms Browne said.
“A phone isn’t a phone anymore, and often you can claim a percentage of the data and the cost of owning a phone, as well as other incidentals like covers, chargers and all that jazz we often don’t think about.”
In fact, Ms Browne said many workers may be able to claim deductions if they ever do any work from home.
Entrepreneur, accountant, financial adviser and author Melissa Browne has shared her best tax hacks. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
“People aren’t just working from nine to five anymore, and the ATO has said if you’re working from home you can claim light and heat on an hourly basis — you just have to keep a log book for a month, so you still have time,” she said.
“Keep track of your hours, because people often spend so much longer than expected working from home.
“You can also claim a percentage of your internet as well as other things you automatically pay for each month like your phone.
“Another easy one is your car if you travel between workplaces … or go to see clients. Tolls are another insidious thing that people also often forget about.”
Ms Browne said it also paid to be smart about how you spend your money.
“Understand what you’ll be doing next year — if you’re pregnant and will be on maternity leave next year and you know your income will drop substantially, make sure you are prepaying expenses before June 30 to get the best deduction possible,” she said.
“And in the reverse, if you’ve just started work this year and next year you’ll have been working full-time, don’t be sucked in by ads telling you to spend your money now.
“Hold off for a full year until you’re in the next tax bracket — be smart about when you are spending your money to maximise your tax deductions.”
Ms Browne said if you were lucky enough to get a refund this year, don’t be tempted to blow the lot on frivolous things.
“If you do get a tax refund, spend half on something fun — but take the other half and invest it in something smart,” she said.
“It is unexpected money, so enjoy half but use the rest on something that will serve you long-term.”
It seems many of us are already planning on using our refunds wisely though, with a recent survey conducted by comparison site finder.com.au revealing 46 per cent of us will save our refunds this year, while 17 per cent will use it to pay bills.
A further 11 per cent will put it towards a holiday, while seven per cent will put it on their mortgage and five per cent will invest it.
Finder.com.au has revealed how Aussies plan to spend their tax refunds. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Finder.com.au money expert Bessie Hassan said getting cash back means you may have overpaid in taxes during the year, so it can be bittersweet.
“Your tax return is money you’ve worked hard for throughout the financial year for so it can be tempting to want to spend it the minute you receive it,” she said.
“However, depositing your refund into a high-interest savings account like so many Australians are planning to do this year, can really help improve your overall financial health.”
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Facebook, Google Face up to $9.3 Billion in Fines on First Day of GDPR
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Technology giants Google and Facebook have been hit with privacy complaints that could carry fines of up to $9.3 billion in total.
Updated:May 26, 2018, 1:25 PM IST
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Within hours of the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on Friday, technology giants Google and Facebook have been hit with privacy complaints that could carry fines of up to $9.3 billion in total, a media report said. With regard to privacy, Google, Facebook and Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram are forcing people to adopt a "take it or leave it" approach which essentially amounts to demanding that users submit to intrusive terms of service, according to the Austrian privacy-advocacy group Noyb.EU, CNET reported on Friday.
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"Tonnes of 'consent boxes' popped up online or in applications, often combined with a threat, that the service can no longer be used if the user (s) do not consent," the group was quoted as saying in a statement. The group is asking regulators in France, Belgium, Germany and Austria to fine the companies up to the maximum four percent of their annual revenue that the GDPR legislation allows.
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This could potentially add up to a $4.88 billion fine for Google parent company Alphabet and $1.63 billion for each of Facebook, and its Instagram and WhatsApp services, if European regulators agree with Noyb.eu and decide to find the companies the full amount, the CNET report said. GDPR, designed to designed to give individuals in the European Union (EU) more rights to control their personal information, came into effect on Friday.
Seen as a measure to by European leaders to control the powers of technology companies, GDPR violations can cost companies either 20 million Euros or four percent of annual turnover. As a result of the regulation, several US news outlets blocked Europeans on Friday, the report said.
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Rebels kill at least seven civilians in eastern DRC: army
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Rebels killed at least seven civilians and abducted 15 others, including children, in fresh overnight raids in the far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civilian and military sources said on Sunday.
Fighters of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) staged two raids on Saturday night in the North Kivu region bordering Uganda, Teddy Kataliko, leader of the civilian administration in Beni district, told AFP.
According to his account, rebels at Mangboko burnt a lorry driver in his vehicle and killed six other civilians, while in Oicha, they killed one person and abducted 15 others - for a total death toll of eight.
Beni district administrator Donat Kibwana said seven people were killed and 15 people were abducted, including 10 children.
Army spokesperson Captain Mak Hazukay also put the death toll at seven.
Kataliko denounced the army as ineffective, saying: "It is not normal that the army cannot manage to keep the population safe," but Hazukay insisted that soldiers had reacted quickly to stop the rebel incursions.
The ADF, which US authorities designated a terror group in 2001, is a militia created by Muslim rebels to oppose Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni but which also operates in the DRC.
It is blamed for a string of attacks in the region since 2014 that have killed at least 700 civilians, and 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers in a December assault last year.
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TECHdotMN Recognizes Maverick for Continued Sponsorship
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Thank You Sponsor: Maverick Software Consulting for Reinvesting!
It is important to recognize those who financially sponsor TECHdotMN because their contribution helps to advance Minnesota’s technology industry. Martin Hebig, President of Maverick Software Consulting and continued sponsor, shares his insight on the company and the MN tech industry.
Thank you Maverick Software Consulting for reinvesting!
What does Maverick Software Consulting do?
Maverick Software Consulting enables companies of any size to easily build their IT workforce by making it easy to work with IT Students (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, etc.) while they are still in college. We started Maverick Software Consulting because we saw local companies struggling to find enough IT Talent and wanted to prove that there is an incredible pool of untapped IT talent right here in the United States.
In 2006, as more and more companies were looking offshore for help, we figured if companies were able to send work half way around the world to India or China — why wouldn’t they be able to send that same work to IT students here in the United States?
We could price it about the same and the companies could hire the students on as full-time employees when they graduated.
When did it start and how?
I started Maverick Software Consulting in 1999. I was an independent contractor that would help local companies setup automated testing frameworks. In 2006 the focus of Maverick changed that’s when we started working with IT students. Maverick Software Consulting now has students and offices all over the Midwest and are in the process of expanding to the West Coast.
What is something unique about Maverick?
Maverick Software Consulting is really a technology company at heart. We’ve spent years building a secure, integrated, end to end platform to make it easy for companies to work with IT students (computer science, computer engineering, MIS, etc.) while they are still in college. At first we did this to help keep costs low. Now it’s one of our biggest competitive advantages and is allowing us to scale the business.
Why do you sponsor TECHdotMN?
Maverick Software Consulting is a local start-up and we want to help grow the start-up community here in the Twin Cities. We sponsor TECHdotMN as a way to help give back to the start-up community and they are simply the best at covering the local technology news. There’s no other resource that is as connected as TECHdotMN.
How could Minnesota’s tech industry improve from your perspective?
Companies shouldn’t just focus on recruiting at the big Computer Science Schools. There are brilliant IT students all over the Midwest that may not have the financial means or desire to go to one of the big Computer Science Schools. There is an incredible pool of untapped IT Talent right here in the Midwest that is just looking for a way to break into the IT Industry. Minnesota’s tech industry can help build the future IT workforce by offering more internships and part-time jobs for these students.
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Former McKinney High School softball star Ashley Thomas was named as the Player of the Year in the Atlantic Coast Conference for 2013.
Thomas is a junior shortstop at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta.
Thomas currently leads the conference in batting average (.420), on-base percentage (.521), runs scored (56) and stolen bases (37). Her number improve during league play as she is hitting .471 with an on-base percentage of .550.
Thomas’ honor continues a streak of dominance for the Yellow Jackets – four straight seasons a school player has been named ACC Player of the Year, following Jen Yee in 2010 and Kelsi Weseman in 2011 and 2012.
She started all 54 games at shortstop and was the leadoff batter in all but two contests. Her 37 stolen bases this season are the fourth-most in a single season at Tech and her 95 career stolen bases are tied for the third most all-time at Tech. She also earned All-ACC first team honors
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Best New Mystery Books For January 2012
After a quick look at the new mystery and crime releases in January 2012, we picked titles as the best new mystery books of the month: A Police Procedural, a fast-paced thriller and a new spy novel.
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley: In the latest in the bestselling Leonid McGill series, $6.8 million has been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella, one of the main characters, works. Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. Zella doesn’t remember shooting Harry, but she doesn’t deny it either. The district attorney is inclined to call it temporary insanity-until the police finds $80,000 from the Rutgers heist hidden in her storage space. For reasons of his own, Leonid McGill is convinced of Zella’s innocence. But as he begins his investigation, his life begins to unravel.
Taken by Robert Crais: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don’t yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers.
Carte Blanche (007 James Bond) by Jeffery Deaver: James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission.
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Experience the Labour Movement’s story, intertwined with Singapore’s history, as it makes its way into the future. From the struggles during the pre and post-independence days of Singapore to the triumphant moments of our common history, witness how the Labour Movement evolved into the modern movement it’s become today.
See iconic photos that chronicled its course, inspiring voices that guided its past and memorable stories that steered it into the present. Immerse yourself in a multi-sensory experience through videos, speeches, artefacts and digital installations that bring history to life.
It’s a celebration of 50 years of the Labour Movement’s modernisation journey. Of collaboration and co-ownership. Of the people who made a difference. Of a better life for every worker in Singapore.
Banner Image: NTUC Contingent at the National Day Parade, 1990
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Visit our permanent galleries with your little ones and play spot-the-artefact! Our colourful Early Learning Resources introduce pre-schoolers to our artefacts according to the themes of Numbers, Colours, and ABCs. Available at $8 per set from the Museum Label shop. For more children's activity booklets, click here.
Download our museum guide (English, Chinese, Bahasa Melayu, Tamil) to find out about the many treasures in our various galleries. In this guide, you will also find the floor plan for easier navigation. Enjoy your visit!
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GosTan Back - A Time-travelling Adventure on Wheels by MySuperFuture Theatrical Productions
GosTan Back is a story about a young boy who gets the chance to save the future by going back in time. Young audiences will experience our local history and artefacts in this interactive theatrical journey through the National Museum’s Singapore History Gallery, which features storytelling and a whole lot of hands-on fun!
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Enjoy artworks presented by primary-school artists, as part of the Singapore Youth Festival art exhibition, Artist and Citizenship. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from some of the artists, in one of the Saturday workshops.
The Salon, Level 1 | The Canyon & Gallery Theatre Foyer, Basement Level, 10am - 7pm
Exhibition04 JUL 2019 - 10 NOV 2019
Experience the Labour Movement’s story, intertwined with Singapore’s history, as it makes its way into the future. From the struggles during the pre and post-independence days of Singapore to the triumphant moments of our common history, witness how the Labour Movement evolved into the modern movement it has become today.
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Bernie Sanders supporters rally outside his childhood apartment in Brooklyn
By Jennifer Fermino and Rich Schapiro
He’s just Bernie from the block.
He's just Bernie from the block.
Bernie Sanders returned to his old stomping grounds Friday, holding a rally in front of the Brooklyn apartment building where he grew up.
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"I'm back in my old neighborhood," Sanders said in the shadow of his old six-story, brick building at 1525 E. 26th St. in Midwood. "I spent the first 18 years of my life in apartment 2C right here."
Bernie Sanders is riding a wave of momentum having won seven of the last eight Democratic nominating contests. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
"Right on this street, I spent thousands of hours playing punch ball," he added. "Do they still play punch ball?"
The son of a paint salesman and a homemaker, Sanders rarely delves into his personal biography on the campaign trail.
But there's no denying his Brooklyn cred.
Bernie in Brooklyn: A look back at Sanders' childhood
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Sanders attended elementary school at P.S. 197 and went on to become a track star at James Madison High School on Bedford Ave.
He later spent a year at Brooklyn College before transferring to the University of Chicago.
Sanders spoke to his supporters in the shadow of his old six-story, brick building at 1525 E. 26th St. in Midwood. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)
"This guy used to live in Brooklyn," actor Mark Ruffalo told the crowd of a few hundred. "He learned how to be a politician here."
"Now what do we do in New York? We come here with dreams and we see those dreams are realized here," Ruffalo added. "Bernie's our man."
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Sanders' wife Jane and actor Mark Ruffalo react to the Democratic candidate’s speech in Brooklyn on Friday. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)
Sanders is riding a wave of momentum having won seven of the last eight Democratic nominating contests.
But the Vermont senator still trails far behind Hillary Clinton in the delegate count ahead of the April 19 primary in New York.
Before Sanders arrived outside his childhood home, residents leaned out of their windows gawking at the growing crowd below.
A lone Bernie sign hung from a window on the fourth floor.
"I like that he has made this campaign about contributions from ordinary people like myself," said Sanders supporter Andy Schwartz, 64, a writer from Brooklyn Heights.
"He is the only candidate in the race who is challenging corporate power and the power of the oligarchy in American life."
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Music|This Is the Music of the Blogs
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This Is the Music of the Blogs
By JON PARELES OCT. 22, 2008
Molly Siegel, lead singer of Ponytail, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn as part of the CMJ Music Marathon. Credit Michael Falco for The New York Times
Sometime in the mid-2000s, the words indie-rock and blog became inseparable. The two were made for each other. Both are the province of self-starters, innovators, collectors, early adopters, volunteers and cranks. Blogs are marvelously efficient at making music known, if not necessarily profitable to musicians; they’re likely to provide free MP3s promoting the bands they tout. Both blogs and indie-rock are part of the “long tail,” the countless choices beyond blockbusters that are now infinitely more visible thanks to the Internet. And both are proud to be clever and self-conscious.
Tuesday was the start of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon: a five-day audition including showcase concerts for more than 1,100 acts, most of them indie-rock (although the marathon also encompasses hip-hop, bluegrass, funk and world music). For the first day of my annual peregrination through CMJ, I let blogs pick my music. That offered the not necessarily commercial perspective that blogs share with college radio: whiter (by far), more handmade, more intimate or more untamed, and often more old-fashioned than the pop Top 10.
I spent the afternoon at two blog parties on Ludlow Street, presented by The Music Slut (musicslut.blogspot.com) and Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com). Then it was over to the Music Hall of Williamsburg for Brooklyn Vegan’s showcase and to Webster Hall in the East Village for Stereogum’s party.
As bookers, the blogs did pretty well. Priding themselves on variety, they supplied tunes and noise, storytelling and dance beats, pop elegance and structural experiments, pretensions and rumpuses. Some bands offered the kind of cleverly allusive music that bloggers convince themselves they enjoy, like the would-be pop contenders Passion Pit, an openly cheesy shotgun wedding of the 1970s and 1980s with love-struck lyrics, disco beats, U2 guitars and shrill falsetto vocals. (Wardrobe hint: A disco revival needs something snazzier than T-shirts.)
And some were an out-and-out blast, like the Baltimore band Ponytail, with whooping high vocals, galloping drums and frenetically consonant guitar crescendos in songs that veered between simple punk thrills and meter-shifting, guitar-meshing complexities. Molly Siegel, its lead singer, spent a lot of time wailing “Whoo-ooh!” with a giant grin.
Indie-rock, with full blog support, is now the refuge for the musicianly impulses of progressive rock. Pattern Is Movement, a two-man band (drums and keyboards) from Philadelphia, records mercurial songs that juggle Minimalist repetition, musical-theater melodicism and progressive-rock asymmetries. But onstage, like duos from Lightning Bolt to the Dresden Dolls, they happily pummeled the music, vigorously knocking down any hint of effeteness. Women, a four-man band from Canada, moved inexorably between the pointillistic guitar patterns of King Crimson and the enveloping squall of Sonic Youth, when they weren’t singing about “the place where nobody has been keeping track.”
But CMJ and bloggers also prize more standard pop songwriting. Emmy the Great, led by the English songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, played gentle, straightforward folk-pop tunes, glimmering with glockenspiel or mandolin, that often held bitterly disillusioned lyrics. Shearwater tried something grander: high-flown anthems that used the instruments of Americana, including banjo and bass fiddle, but all too obviously emulated English bands like Radiohead and Coldplay. The electrolounge band Chairlift played its bid for mainstream pop success: the song “Bruises,” lately heard in iPod commercials.
At these CMJ shows there sometimes was as much documentation going on as partying, with audience members taking notes and constantly shooting digital images, probably destined for blogs on blogs. Even Gang Gang Dance, playing pulsating electronic dance beats topped with echoey vocals and glints of African and Caribbean music, had a hard time putting bodies into motion. On Tuesday afternoon Oxford Collapse, a Brooklyn band whose burly songs try to bridge post-punk and arena-rock, looked into its audience between songs and asked, “Anybody need time out to blog?”
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Fashion & Style|Irony and the Old Lady
Irony and the Old Lady
By CATHY HORYN JUNE 24, 2009
LETTING GO When do coy socks, Heidi braids and vintage hats stop working? Credit From Left, Francois Guillot/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Barry King/Wireimage; Richard Termine for The New York Times
FIRST go the knees, then goes irony. Sometime around age 50, women start to let go of certain ideas about themselves and fashion. Up till then you can wear lots of silly or brash things, and if you are reasonably fit and attractive or consistently daring, it doesn’t really matter. You’re still with the tide. You are home free with your esoteric Pradas, your porkpie hats and coy Lolita socks, and no little voice is going, “Heh-heh-heh, you’re too old for that.”
Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that you are not Helen Gurley Brown, the miniskirted octogenarian. You love your youthful ideals but draw the line at being a slave to them 50 years on. Saying goodbye to short skirts and flimsy tops is actually liberating.
Irony is harder to part with — for the simple reason that many of us who are now in our 50s grew up with that kind of cerebral fashion and were happy to have clothes that made reference to ideas, worlds, that only those in our orbit could understand. Our mothers (mine, anyway) did not see the point in adopting flannel shirts or rummaging through Goodwill bins for just the right filthy cardigan.
And why would they? Grunge and deconstruction, which provided a counterpoint to the slick, aggressive fashion of the late 1980s, were our peculiar trip. My mother always preferred her own rose-colored glasses. “Can’t you be a lady?” she would say with a sigh. She thought women should look beautiful, while I pondered the meaning of Miuccia Prada’s “ugly beauty.”
So it goes. I still think I will buy myself a pair of knee socks and wear them with high heels — didn’t Prada show a fabulous pair this season? But the truth is I won’t be buying them. While I’m still in love with the ironical gesture and its mild but wholly satisfying orneriness and freedom in the face of so much conformity and New Jersey housewife opulence, I can’t pull it off anymore. I mentioned this to a friend, Luca Stoppini, the art director of Italian Vogue. I asked him why it is that fashionable women can’t wear certain things after 50. Luca had the answer right away. “It’s like fighting with the wind,” he said.
Nothing conveys that struggle better than Madonna’s attire last month at the Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum. In addition to wearing a taffeta hair bow that poked up like rabbit ears, she had on a bright blue minidress with a romper hem and a pair of swashbuckler boots that noticeably left a crack of skin showing at the top of her thighs.
ITS SO HER The Italian Vogue editor Anna Piaggis virtuouso look is a full-time job. Credit Jonathan Player for The New York Times
Although the outfit was plainly a riff on exuberant Paris fashion — it was designed by a host of the event, Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton — many people took the excessiveness seriously. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that some members of the low-brow media on the steps of the Met didn’t get the joke. But, in any case, they thought that Madonna, who is 50, looked like a nut.
One person who didn’t was Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, who said last week, “To me, that’s the Madge I fell in love with.” He let out a laugh. “Scandal!”
Tama Janowitz, whose fiction chronicles a mixed bag of urban obsessions, often with fashion at the flaky core (her next novel, “They Is Us,” projects a future in which women wear codpieces and men high heels), sent her thoughts in an e-mail message. It began: “90 percent of the time designers create a look that is basically unflattering to the female physique unless you are a 20-year-old, six-foot-tall model, in which case it does not make any difference what you have on. Madonna looked stupid in her rabbit ears.” Then she added, “Is that because of the times or her age?”
Yet a feeling of betrayal soon nipped at Ms. Janowitz’s e-mail message, and I understood it. She mentioned the names of a half-dozen eccentric women, birdlike creatures and deities less admired for their beauty than their captivating presence. She might have also mentioned Marchesa Luisa Casati, who was pre-goth. Or Anna Piaggi of Italian Vogue, whose highly theatrical style places her above mundane questions of appropriateness. It must be said that Ms. Piaggi’s look, highlighted by bright color and a miniature hat tipped over her whitened brow, demands a commitment few women possess.
As Luca said: “Even in the middle of summer, in the countryside, she doesn’t go out unless she’s dressed like that. It’s her sense of life.”
By the end of her note, Ms. Janowitz had come to the defense of women everywhere who resent being bullied and sniggered at and wish to express themselves at the risk of looking ridiculous. “If Madonna was wearing a bustle and a hoop skirt,” she wrote, “why would it irritate?”
Still, I wonder: Madonna certainly looks in terrific shape for 50. Yet precisely for that reason did the queen of self-presentation slide toward self-persuasion with her rabbit ears? Was there a wind blowing through the Met?
HMMM Madonna arriving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credit Evan Agostini/Associated Press
Irony has been an essential ingredient in fashion for at least the last 40 years — in the kinky clothes of Jean Paul Gaultier, in the recontextualizing of drag and vintage styles by Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano, in a spree of men’s wear that deconstruct the I.B.M. suit, most recently by Thom Browne. In women’s fashion, Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Prada use irony liberally, with Mr. Jacobs roaming across a range of ideas, from Margaret Thatcher’s unlikely sexiness to small-town formality during the Depression.
Some older women who love fashion still prefer a look with an edge rather than a polish. And with the economy forcing many to shop in their closets, they’re finding wonderful things. Last week, on a visit to New York, Sandy Schreier, a well-known collector of couture from Detroit, had on a black Jil Sander jacket with a 10-year-old Sander pink tulle skirt and black leggings, finished off with Prada ballet flats.
“People stopped me on the street and said, ‘Where did you get that?’ ” Ms. Schreier, a grandmother, reported. “I think that for a while I stopped being Sandy Schreier who would mix up things from different decades. I was getting complacent.” She added, “The reason I dress this way isn’t just to have fun with fashion, but it’s attention-getting — let’s face it.”
Yet just as many women dislike attention — or, anyway, that kind of attention. “The fashion message we’re so used to in New York doesn’t translate elsewhere in the country,” said Charla Krupp, a stylist and the author of “How Not to Look Old.” “People don’t get the joke.”
For that reason, Ms. Krupp tells older women to err on the side of classic and elegant. “No irony,” she said. “You can’t wear that porkpie hat. People will think you’ve lost it.”
It may just be that we’ve had a bellyful of abstractions like irony and now hanker for something direct and concrete. This desire for clarity isn’t limited to an age group — young people seem to crave it, too — and it’s not a defense against the standard complaint that you’re not cool enough to get the joke. Who cares if the joke is available to everyone through the Internet?
Madonna’s bunny ears are just the last gasp. Fashion needs a new antidote for modernity.
“It’s impossible to think of something you can drag out from the land of naffness and make cool,” Mr. Doonan said, referring to the process by which banal or out-of-date styles are brought back and, after much analysis and decoding and finally brand approval, become fashionable. He offered up the drop-waist denim dress, a wholesome style from the ’80s, saying it was rife with ironic potential.
I laughed. That was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
He thought for a moment. “To be overweight and not care, like Beth Ditto, is the most transgressive you can be right now.” But he only said that, I think, because plus-size stories were in a couple of newspapers that day. And you know what they say about newspapers.
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Movies|Looking for Themselves in Fading Dreams From the Past and Present
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Looking for Themselves in Fading Dreams From the Past and Present
‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ a Comedy With a Time Machine
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Comedy, Drama, Romance
By STEPHEN HOLDEN JUNE 7, 2012
Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass as outsiders preparing for a special trip in “Safety Not Guaranteed,” directed by Colin Trevorrow. Credit FilmDistrict
An indie comedy as endearing as “Safety Not Guaranteed” can seem as deceptively easy to toss off as a foolproof recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Measure, stir, bake and presto, you have instant melt-in-your-mouth goodies.
That describes the impression left not only by “Safety Not Guaranteed” but also by the better films associated with Jay and Mark Duplass, two of its four executive producers. The Duplass brothers’ looming juggernaut of hip, smart, modestly budgeted films evolved out of the mumblecore movement. Talky but unpretentious, the genre is a style unto itself. Casually realistic, with semi-improvised dialogue and low-tech production values, it is truthful without seeming portentous.
Mark, who in this film portrays a slightly mad scientist in the Pacific Northwest, has already turned in outstanding performances of unglamorous Everyguys with schlumpy tendencies in “The Puffy Chair,” “Humpday” and the forthcoming “Your Sister’s Sister.” In “Safety Not Guaranteed” his reclusive and somewhat paranoid character, Kenneth, claims to have invented a time machine that transported him on a jaunt to the recent past.
Kenneth comes to the attention of the editors of Seattle magazine after placing an anonymous ad for a time-traveling companion. The address he gives is a post-office box in Ocean View, Wash. “Must bring your own weapons,” the ad says. “Safety not guaranteed.”
This fictional ad was based on a real one that appeared in the mid-1990s in Backwoods Home, a survivalist magazine. It later created an Internet stir and inspired the screenplay by Derek Connolly. The first feature written by Mr. Connolly and directed by Colin Trevorrow, “Safety Not Guaranteed” won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival, and it is a small-scale winner.
The movie could be a career catapult for Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”), a compelling screen presence who suggests the next generation’s Janeane Garofalo, but much softer edged. Ms. Plaza plays Darius, a cynical sourpuss intern at the magazine, where one of her humiliating tasks is changing toilet paper rolls.
When her obnoxiously cocky boss, Jeff (Jake Johnson), decides that tracking down the time traveler might yield a funny magazine article, he enlists Darius and another intern, Arnau (Karan Soni), to accompany him to Ocean View. A shy, soft-spoken biology student, Arnau admits he is at the magazine only to pad his résumé.
While Jeff looks up his old high school flame, Liz (Jenica Bergere), who has settled there, Darius and Arnau stake out the post office where Kenneth picks up his mail. When he finally shows up, they follow him to a grocery store where he stocks canned goods. Jeff eventually visits Kenneth at his modest home, but Jeff, who preens like a rancid Joel McHale, sets off Kenneth’s alarm bells.
Darius volunteers to clinch the story and wins Kenneth over with a shrewd mixture of sarcasm and kooky audacity. Kenneth, she learns, is convinced that he is being tracked by government agents. Once he chooses Darius as his traveling companion, training exercises begin. Even after the cautious friendship of these two outsiders blossoms into something more, she doesn’t reveal her editorial agenda.
These shenanigans would drift off into the ether if they weren’t harnessed to a plaintive underlying theme about the fading dreams of those aspiring professionals in their 20s and 30s not swept up in the high-tech and financial gold rush. These not-quite-lost souls, the spiritual children of the “Star Wars” movies, look back to better times as they stumble into a cynical, tightfisted culture of diminished opportunities. Kenneth wants to return to 2001 to rescue a girlfriend who died. If this were a Hollywood movie, of course, his goal might be to forestall the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which thankfully are never mentioned.
Jeff half expects Liz to be the same beautiful blonde he remembers from high school. Once he adjusts to the fact that she is not at all like that, their edgy reunion is very touching. Jeff’s kinder side comes out when he puts sexy sunglasses on the timid, shrinking Arnau, giving him the confidence to score with women.
That time machine — a wonderful-looking gizmo with some lasers stolen from a medical laboratory — really exists. Whether it works or not, you’ll have to see for yourself. It’s worth the wait.
“Safety Not Guaranteed” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has strong language.
Director Colin Trevorrow
Writer Derek Connolly
Stars Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere
Genres Comedy, Drama, Romance
A version of this review appears in print on June 8, 2012, on Page C13 of the New York edition with the headline: Looking for Themselves in Fading Dreams From the Past and Present. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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North Norfolk school launch building project in memory of former pupil's 'tragic suicide'
Emma Whalley, a science teacher at North Walsham High School, is planning to build a cob round house at the school in memory of Jess Fairweather. Photo: Submitted by Emma Whalley
Emma Whalley
A north Norfolk teacher has said she is overwhelmed by the offers of help she received with plans for a building project in tribute to a former student who took his own life.
Jess Fairweather, left, with his brother Sam, on Cromer Pier. Picture: COURTESY OF SAM FAIRWEATHER
Emma Whalley, a science teacher at North Walsham High School (NWHS), is planning to create a quiet space for students after the “tragic suicide” of young ex-pupil Jess Fairweather.
Mr Fairweather was found dead in his room at the University of East Anglia (UEA) last year.
An inquest found the 21-year-old law student had suffered with depression and taken his own life.
And Ms Whalley said she hoped the building would be a testament to his memory, as well as helping students who are struggling.
The building method uses waste materials, mud and straw to create the structures. Photo: Submitted by Emma Whalley
“The school and I were recently affected by the tragic suicide of a young ex-student,” she said.
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“I would like to build a cob round house, as a quiet space for students, in his memory.
“It's something I always wanted to do and when Jess took his life I thought 'it can't keep happening'.
The roundhouse at the high school will be used as a quiet place for students to reflect and to keep their memories in a wall of jars. Photo: Submitted by Emma Whalley
“I have a passionate and personal interest in mental health issues, particularly those facing our young people today.”
Ms Whalley, who is trained in the cob building method, said it “uses mud and straw to create strong and sculptural structures”.
She added: “Cob is an incredibly therapeutic form of construction.
“The material is very tactile, forgiving and safe to use, so the students will help with the build.
“I hope parents, carers and the community also try their hand.
“There is an enormous sense of satisfaction knowing you have constructed something beautiful from waste with your bare hands.
“You're absorbed in what you're doing, and you're talking, but it's non-confrontational.”
READ MORE: Former law student stopped seeking help for depression a year before suicide
She also hopes to construct a wall of jars for students to use to privately express their thoughts.
The 45-year-old, from Trunch, shared an appeal for people to help supply building materials online, prompting hundreds of messages.
She said: “I was so moved by the responses. I've even been offered a digger and a man for the day.”
The project, which should be completed by September, needs donations of sub soil, lime mortar, concrete, timber, windows, straw, water bowser, rubble, glass or perspex sheets and paving slabs.
Sponsors and volunteers are also welcome to contact Emma Whalley on whalleye@nwhs.uk.
The free Samaritans helpline can be accessed by calling 116 123 from anywhere in the UK.
READ MORE 'Don't bottle it up' - mother of student who took own life urges others to talk
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R Gandhi appointed as Additional Director on Yes Bank board
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): Former Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Rama Subramaniam Gandhi has been appointed as Additional Director on the board of Yes Bank.
The appointment from May 14 is for a period of two years, the private lender said in a filing to stock exchanges late on Tuesday.
"This will significantly strengthen Yes Bank's board composition and the bank will immensely benefit from R Gandhi's experience and wisdom at the Yes Bank," it said.
Gandhi was RBI Deputy Governor from April 2014 to April 2017. He was in charge of portfolios like banking operations and development, non-banking supervision and risk monitoring.
Yes Bank had posted its first-ever quarterly loss of Rs 1,507 crore in the March quarter of fiscal 2018-19. Rating agencies ICRA and India Ratings have both downgraded the long-term ratings of the bank. (ANI)
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Mexico vs Costa Rica Preview and Prediction: Mexico to Win 1-0 at 5/1
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Tags: Costa Rica, Florida Citrus Bowl, Mexico
Mexico and Costa Rica will play an international friendly match at the Florida Citrus Bowl on Saturday, 27th June.
The teams last played in October 2013 and Costa Rica won the game 2 – 1. Prior to that they played in June 2013 and the game ended in a goalless draw.
At present Mexico is twenty-third in the FIFA World Rankings with 926 points. They are three points below Wales.
Costa Rica is fourteenth in the FIFA World Rankings with 1056 points. They are 45 points below Italy.
A 1 – 0 win for Mexico is the most likely outcome with William Hill and Bet365 offering odds of 11/2 and 5/1 respectively.
William Hill Odds: 8/11 Mexico to Win, 12/5 for a Draw and 18/5 Costa Rica to Win
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Dao De Jing
A Philosophical Translation
By Roger Ames and David Hall
Category: Philosophy | Religion
About Dao De Jing
In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the world’s most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation.
Dec 30, 2003 | 256 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780345444196
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This is a valuable find for anyone who wants to reengage a foundational work.”
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It’s Superman!
By Tom De Haven
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Literary Fiction
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About It’s Superman!
Coming of age in rural 1930s America with X-ray vision, the power to stop bullets, and the ability to fly isn’t exactly every boy’s story. So just how did Clark Kent, a shy farmer’s son, grow up to be the Man of Steel? Follow young Clark’s whirlwind journey from Kansas to New York City’s Daily Planet. This ace reporter is not the only person leading a double life in a teeming metropolis, just the only one able to leap tall buildings in a single bound—a skill that comes in handy when battling powerful criminal masterminds like scheming Lex Luthor and fascist robots. But can Clark’s midwestern charm save the day and win the heart of stunning, seen-it-all newspaperwoman Lois Lane? Or is that a job for Superman?
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About Tom De Haven
Tom De Haven is the author of eight novels, including the Derby Dugan trilogy and the nonfiction book Our Hero: Superman on Earth. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, he lives in Virginia and teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Published by Del Rey
Jan 25, 2011 | 464 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345496751
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“A smashing read [with] sustained narrative momentum.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“One of the finest interpretations of Superman in any medium.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
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I'm probably not the only one here that likes indie-rock. Having just been released, what do you think of Death Cab for Cutie's new album "Plans"? I think is a great follow up to "Transatlantiscism" which I enjoyed tremendously. As always this band has great lyrics, but their albums always feel short. "Plans" clocks in at 45 minutes with 11 tracks. The tracks are as follows:
1. Marching Bands of Manhattan
2. Soul Meets Body
3. Summer Skin
4. Different Names for the Same Thing
5. I Will Follow You into the Dark
6. Your Heart Is an Empty Room
7. Someday You Will Be Loved
8. Crooked Teeth
9. What Sarah Said
10. Brothers on a Hotel Bus
11. Stable Song
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I've never heard anything by this band, but in regards to short albums, one of my all-time favorite albums is Nick Drakes's Pink Moon, which clocks in at just over 28 minutes.
[Note here how I managed to begin the hijack of a thread very early in the thread's development. It probably won't work, but we'll see.]
I've listened to some of Plans, and found it kind of bland, quite frankly. I may give it a few listens though. I haven't really listened to Transatlanticism either. (I usually get an album through file sharing, and see if I like it first).
CD's I've picked up recently:
(1) Gorillaz - Demon Days. Love this album and can listen to it from beginning to end continuously. So effing good. It's the music of now and the near future. I'm a bit shocked it's doing well on the charts given that it's not very conventional. It has much more in common with underground electronic dance music than anything you'd hear on radio these days.
(2) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm. Really like this album, especially Banquet. Excellent alternative rock. (The Bravery album is another album I'd like to get soon).
(3) Arcade Fire - Funeral. Also alternative rock. Terrific album. Gorgeous at points.
(4) Common - Be. Very good, chill, classy hip-hop.
(5) Kanye West - Late Registration. Listened to this only once because Demon Days is mostly crowding out my CD player. Based on this listen, and the many tracks I've heard on the radio, I don't like it nearly as much as his first album.
(6) Tony Yayo - Thoughts of a Predicate Felon. Guilty pleasure, gangsta-rap. Probably not the highest quality stuff out there, but there are some nice beats.
(7) Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business. Impulse buy based on the catchy two radio singles. Unfortunately, the rest of the album sucks, and I totally regret this purchase.
hypatia
Burn The Black Eyed Peas as soon as possible! eh gads..what were you thinking? ohhh I see, a impulse buy, yep we all have done that, your forgiven.
I will give Death Cab for Cutie a listen to
rocketboy
juvenal said:
That's an awesome album.
Other good ones that some may not have heard of, similiar style:
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Thirteen Senses - The Invitation
Oh, I don't want to hijack the thread, so in reply to dduardo, I haven't heard their stuff but I'll certainly check it out thx!
I find Death Cab for Cutie' music unique because it has the rock base-line plus meaningful lyrics plus repeatability. This combination is hard to come by nowadays.
The type of rock they play isn't Green Day or Metallica. The base-line is strong throughout making for foot tapping music. There is a nice combination of mellow/fun music. There are songs like "Crooked Teeth" that can be cranked up.
To really appreciate the lyrics I suggest listening through the album with headphones. It also makes the music a more personal experience.
I can play the cd from start to finish over and over and for some reason I don't get bored. It seems fresh everytime. Also, when you listen to the album your listening to an album, not a couple good songs and the rest is junk.
dduardo said:
I'm probably not the only one here that likes indie-rock. Having just been released, what do you think of Death Cab for Cutie's new album "Plans"? I think is a great follow up to "Transatlantiscism" which I enjoyed tremendously.
What are some of your favorite songs from Transatlantiscism? I downloaded some from their new album and it's great music. Thanks!
Can I say all the songs? I guess the most get on your feet and jump around song has to be "The Sound Of Settling"
gurkhawarhorse
no one loves pantera?
i'm sure there is someone who likes metallica- ride the lightening- fade to black :uhh: . thats the only soft song i love by metallica.
I like heavy-metal and have tons of Metallica CDs, but look at the title of this thread. Why do people hijack this thread.
gurkhawarhorse said:
Revolution is my name is a great song.
Why do people hijack this thread.
I'm gonna bring it back by saying that both these albums by Death Cab for Cutie are fantastic.
Hehe, the lyrics in "We Looked Like Giants" are so sexual. Great song.
"Every Thursday,
I'd brave those mountain passes,
and you'd skip your early classes,
and we'd learn how our bodies work."
The song is amazing, great instrumentals and lyrics that you can relate to from teenage years.
dduardo is my hero!
rocketboy said:
so u r the johny boy huh?
dont see its vedio its rubbish, the music is great.
Yup that's me. (jonny boy not 'johny'....jeez man *shakes head in disgust* lol jk)
Smurf
indie sux, hardline sux, emo sux
smurf sux. O how easy it is to get childish.
not an AF fan then?
hey dduardo, you have good taste what other indie rock do you listen to?
I've listened to Transatlanticism a bit. It's not bad - but the lead vocalist's voice and style of vocalization/enunciation bug me, kind of like the way Michael Stipe's (R.E.M) voice bugs me - so I can't imagine myself buying their stuff.
I picked up the The Bravery's album ($8 at Target). Good stuff. A musically more mature version of The Killer's Hot Fuss (which I enjoy nonetheless).
hypatia said:
It's good to have a few fun, crowd-pleasing CD's in your collection. I actually like "Don't Lie" and "Don't Phunk With My Heart". The problem is the rest sucks - neither fun nor crowd-pleasing.
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Pediatricians Seek Better Regulation of Toxins
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The U.S. needs to do a better job protecting children and pregnant women from toxic chemicals, says a policy statement out today from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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November 14, 2011 Steven Greenhut reason.com
We all know that California’s Democratic Party is running the state into the fiscal ground, given how beholden its members are to public sector unions and how devoted they are to expanding government and raising taxes. The state needs some political competition, but a major court case reminds us why the state Republican Party is a useless vessel that’s incapable of broadening its base and changing the state’s political trajectory.
Last Thursday, the California Supreme Court began oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by defenders of the state’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs) who are seeking to overturn recent laws that essentially shut down those agencies. Gov. Jerry Brown isn’t often right, but he was on target when he proposed shutting down these central planning agencies that primarily dispense corporate welfare to big businesses and drive small property owners off their land so that big-box stores can prosper.
Brown’s plan wasn’t perfect. It allowed the agencies to buy their way back into existence as many of them have since done. The law wasn’t passed entirely for the right reasons. Brown and legislative Democrats had typically supported RDAs, but were looking for quick ways to close the state’s gaping budget hole. As Bloomberg reported, “The governor and supporters of the law said the redevelopment agencies have become little more than slush funds for private developers, and they want the tax money generated by new developments to be diverted from the agencies to local schools, law enforcement agencies and other services.”
When your political enemies give you a gift, you ought to take it. Instead of taking it, California Republicans actively opposed the governor’s plan and shamelessly sided with the people who run roughshod over everything the GOP is supposed to stand for. Forget all the talk about property rights, limited government, free markets, and family values.
“Almost like in Alice in Wonderland where up is down, and down is up, this past year Democratic Legislators voted to abolish redevelopment and most Republicans fought tooth and nail to protect 425 redevelopment agencies from being abolished!” explained Jon Fleischman, California GOP vice chairman and publisher of the GOP-oriented Flashreport. Fleischman noted that over two crucial votes, only six Assembly Republicans voted to abolish RDAs and only one Senate Republican voted to do so. This indeed is shameful.
In fact, one of the GOP’s leaders, Sen. Bob Huff of Diamond Bar, received the League of California Cities’ Legislator of the Year award for his efforts to save redevelopment agencies. His wife, by the way, works for a developer who is one of the state’s biggest redevelopment beneficiaries. This is the type of thing that makes me want to join the unbathed wretches occupying city parks. In the thick of the debate, I recall talking to multiple Republican legislators and most of them were defiant defenders of redevelopment. They said that it worked in their city. They championed the economic benefits of redevelopment. It became clear that with the exception of Chris Norby of Fullerton, Beth and Ted Gaines of Roseville, and a couple others, Republicans don’t even understand the nature of free markets.
Started in the 1950s to combat urban blight, redevelopment has become a tool by which localities maximize tax revenue within their boundaries. In the redevelopment process, local bureaucrats identify areas that they want to see improved. The agency declares these areas blighted based on a wide-ranging set of criteria. Basically, if officials want to redevelop an area, the well-paid consultants will always find blight.
Then within that area, property rights magically disappear. City officials call the shots. They can and often use eminent domain to clear away properties and hand them over to politically well-connected developers who promise to build tax-generating projects. Even when cities don’t use eminent domain, the threat of its use is enough to cause small business owners and even homeowners to flee. Then the agencies run up debt to fund the projects. In Sacramento recently, a restaurant developer received millions of dollars in subsidies to build a mermaid bar—mermaid-costumed women swim around in a giant fish tank—that caters to lobbyists. How’s that for a core government service?
Of course, most of the claims by redevelopment’s advocates and beneficiaries of new jobs are bogus. The nonpartisan and highly respected state Legislative Analyst’s Office found, “While redevelopment leads to economic development within project areas, there is no reliable evidence that it attracts businesses to the state or increases overall regional economic development.” LAO debunked the absurd job-creation claims made by the California Redevelopment Association.
Mostly, redevelopment shifts jobs around a region as localities fight with one another to lure the businesses in a mad rush for tax revenue. They have to find some way to fund those lush city manager salaries and police pensions. This may be pro-business in a way, but it’s the sort of anti-market, bailout, subsidy-driven philosophy that is angering Tea Partiers and Occupiers alike.
The state Supreme Court case centers on Prop. 22, the November 2010 statewide ballot initiative that banned fiscal raids on redevelopment funds. That’s why the governor’s approach was to shut down the agencies in their entirety and then allow some of them to come back into existence. As the state argued, “RDAs are creatures of statutes—and their existence is not guaranteed in the state Constitution—so the Legislature was free to dissolve them.”
Republicans should be standing with the small property owners and business people—often working-class people and minorities—who want to pursue their dreams and not be bullied by these urban-renewal agencies. They should be standing up for fiscal responsibility and against debt and subsidies. Instead, they have stood up for the Armani-suit-wearing developers and bean-counting bureaucrats who treat private property like pieces on a monopoly board. It’s shameful and a reminder of why the GOP is dying in California.
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African American Market in the U.S.
Published Feb 1, 2008 | 262 Pages | Pub ID: LA1475194
This new Packaged Facts report provides an in-depth analysis of the attitudes and behavior of African-American consumers. With a population exceeding 38 million and with buying power projected to exceed $1.1 trillion in 2012, African Americans remain a crucial part of the American consumer economy.
The report highlights the shopping, spending and leisure-time habits of an African-American market segment of particular interest to marketers—the 2.4 million affluent African-American households with a household income of $75,000 or more. With an average annual income of $122,000, affluent African-American households account for only 17% of all African-American households but control 45% of total buying power in the African-American market. The report shows that affluent African Americans can be even more likely than other affluent consumers to spend money on luxury items such as cruise-ship vacations, new cars and designer clothes.
The first section of the report begins with an overview of key trends shaping the African-American market and highlights the opportunities available to companies active in the market. The report continues with an assessment of the buying power of African Americans, an analysis of the demographic profile of the African-American population and an assessment of social and economic trends affecting African Americans today and in the future.
The next section of the report provides a comprehensive analysis of the African-American consumer. There are separate chapters on how African Americans spend their leisure time and how they spend money. Another chapter analyzes key aspects of African-American consumer behavior across a variety of areas, including fashion, automotive, food at home, health and pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. The report also includes a chapter on the media usage habits of African Americans.
The last section of the report focuses on affluent African Americans. It includes a chapter that profiles their demographic characteristics and core values and analyzes key aspects of their consumer behavior, including personal financial management, shopping behavior, spending patterns and leisure-time activities. The final chapter identifies the metro markets offering the most lucrative prospects for marketers targeting African-American consumers.
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1.1.1 Scope and Methodology $93.00included
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1.1.3 Overview of the African-American Market $93.00included
1.1.4 The African-American Population Today $139.00included
1.1.5 Economic and Social Trends $157.00included
1.1.6 How African Americans Spend Their Leisure Time $171.00included
1.1.7 How African Americans Spend Money $156.00included
1.1.8 Highlights of Consumer Behavior $236.00included
1.1.9 African Americans and the Media $161.00included
1.1.10 Affluent African Americans $219.00included
1.1.11 The Most Lucrative African-American Metro Markets $93.00included
2.1 Trends and Opportunities $1,446.00included
2.1.1 Strategic Trends $223.00included
2.1.2 Marketing Trends $582.00included
2.1.3 Market Opportunities $576.00included
Income per Household Member, African Americans vs. Hispanics
Selected Opportunities Related to Shopping Habits of African Americans
Selected Opportunities Related to Travel, Leisure and Entertainment Activities of African Americans
Selected Opportunities Related to Apparel and Watch Purchases by African Americans
Selected Opportunities Related to Use of Personal-Care Products by African-American Women
Selected Opportunities Related to Use of Personal-Care Products by African-American Men
Selected Opportunities Related to Ownership and Purchase of Automotive Vehicles by African Americans
Selected Opportunities Related to Use of Pharmaceuticals by African-American Consumers
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2.2.1 African-American Buying Power $106.00included
Projected Growth in African-American Buying Power, 2007-2012
African-American Buying Power by Key Consumer Segment, 2007
2.2.2 Aggregate Spending by African-American Consumers $281.00included
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumer Units for Food and Beverages, 2006
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumer Units for Apparel, 2006
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumer Units for Vehicle Purchases and Related Expenses, 2006
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumer Units for Entertainment, 2006
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumer Units for Household Furnishings and Equipment, 2006
Aggregate Annual Expenditures by African-American Consumers for Miscellaneous Products and Services,, 2006
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2.3.1 Population Growth Trends $142.00included
Population of the United States by Race Alone and Hispanic Origin, 2006
U.S. Population by Race and Hispanic Origin, 2006
Population Growth, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2000-2006
Projected Population Growth, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2007 vs. 2012 (in thousands)
2.3.2 Demographic Highlights $178.00included
Foreign-Born U.S. Population by Race and Hispanic Origin, 2006
Number of Americans Reporting Place of Birth in West Indies and Sub-Saharan Africa, 2006
Population by Selected Age Group, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
African Americans as Percent of Total Population by Selected Age Group, July 2006
Population of Males and Females, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2004
2.3.3 Where African Americans Live $286.00included
Percent of Residents in Urban and Rural Areas Who Are African Americans, 2006
Distribution of Population by Region, African Americans vs. Others, 2006
States with Largest African-American Populations, 2006
States with Highest Percentage of African Americans, 2006
States Ranked by Growth in African-American Population, 2000-2006
2.4 Economic and Social Trends $1,385.00included
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Females as Percent of 18- to 24-Year-Old College Students, African Americans vs. Others, 2006
Educational Attainment for Those Age 25 and Over, African-American vs. Other Men, 2007
Educational Attainment for Those Age 25 and Over, African-American vs. Other Women, 2007
Educational Attainment for Those Age 25 and Over by Gender, African Americans vs. Others, 2007
Educational Attainment for Those Age 25 and Over, African Americans vs. Hispanics, 2007
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Level of Happiness, African-American vs. Other Adults by Gender
Attitudes toward Work and Money, African-American vs. Other Adults by Gender
Employment Status of the Population Age 16 and Over by Race and Hispanic Origin, 2006
Occupations of Those Age 16 and Over by Gender, 2006
Aggregate Personal Income, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 1986 vs. 2006
Mean Income of People Age 15 and Over, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
2.4.3 Household and Family Structure $461.00included
Attitudes toward Family, African-American vs. Other Adults by Gender
Marital Status of People Age 18 and Over, African Americans vs. Others, 2007
Median Age at First Marriage, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
Household Types, African-American vs. Other, 2007
Percent of Married-Couple Families with Working Wife by Presence of Children under 18, African Americans vs. Others, 2007
Size of Households, African-American vs. Other, 2007
Size of Family Households, African-American vs. Other, 2007
Marital Status of Parents and Living Arrangements of Children, African-American vs. Other Children, 2006
Grandparents Living with Own Grandchildren by Responsibility for Grandchildren, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006 (in thousands)
2.4.4 Economic Profile of African-American Households and Families $224.00included
Family Households by Number of Earners in Each Household, African-American vs. Other, 2007
Mean Household and Family Income, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
Mean Income of Families by Type, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
Distribution of Income of Families, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
Distribution of Income of Households, African Americans vs. Other Population Groups, 2006
3 Understanding the African-American Consumer
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3.1.1 Overview $293.00included
Annual Expenditures for Entertainment by Amount and Percent of Total Expenditures, African Americans vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
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Participation in Leisure Activity/Hobby in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Women
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Participation in Sports in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Women
3.1.2 Home Entertainment $372.00included
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Online Activities in Last 30 Days, African-American vs. Other Men
Online Activities in Last 30 Days, African-American vs. Other Women
Websites Visited in Last 30 Days, African American vs. Other Men
Websites Visited in Last 30 Days, African American vs. Other Women
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Profile of Movie Attendance, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Movie Genres Seen in Theaters in Last 90 Days, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Going Out to Family and Fast-Food Restaurants, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
3.1.4 Going on Vacation $122.00included
Travel Patterns, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
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Percent Visiting a Theme Park in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Consumers
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3.2.1 Overview of African-American Consumer Expenditure Patterns $258.00included
Expenditures of Consumer Units as Percent of Before-Tax Income, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Characteristics of Consumer Units, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Consumer Expenditure Categories for Which African Americans Spend a Higher Percentage of Their Total Budget than Other Consumer Units
Consumer Expenditures Categories for Which African Americans Spend a Lower Percentage of Their Total Budget than All Consumer Units
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Influencers and Trendsetters, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Shopping, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Shopping as a Social Event, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Visiting a Mall Four or More Times in Last Four Weeks, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Shopping Behavior, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Sales and Bargains, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Using Cents-Off Coupons, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Impulse Buying, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Who "Always Refer" to Various Categories of In-Store Promotions and Advertising, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Brand Awareness, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Impact of Children on Shopping Behavior, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Impact of the Internet on Shopping Behavior, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Placing an Internet Order in the Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Percent Placing a Catalog Order in the Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Attitudes towards Environmental Issues, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
3.2.3 Receptivity to Advertising $390.00included
Attitudes toward Advertising, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Print and Television Advertising, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Impact of Product Placement, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Taking Public Transportation to Work, African Americans vs. Others
Effectiveness of Out-of-Home Advertising, African-American vs. Other Adults by Gender
3.3 Highlights of Consumer Behavior $2,133.00included
3.3.1 Fashion $688.00included
Annual Expenditures for Apparel and Services by Amount and Percent of Total Expenditures, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Attitudes toward Buying Clothes, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Style and Fashion, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Buying Watches for Self in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Clothing Items and Accessories Bought in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Men
Clothing Items and Accessories Bought in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Women
Sneakers/Athletic Shoes Bought in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Men
Sneakers/Athletic Shoes Bought in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Women
Department/Discount Stores Shopped in Last 3 Months, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Use of Personal-Care Products, African-American vs. Other Men
Use of Personal-Care Products, African-American vs. Other Women
3.3.2 Automotive $402.00included
Attitudes toward Driving, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Annual Expenditures for Vehicle Purchases and Related Expenses by Amount and Percent of Total Expenditures, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Attitudes toward Buying New Cars, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Next Vehicle Purchase, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Reasons for Buying a Car, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Foreign vs. Domestic Cars, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Vehicle Ownership Patterns, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Number of Vehicles Owned, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
3.3.3 Eating at Home $426.00included
Annual Expenditures for Food at Home by Amount and Percent of Total Expenditures, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units
Attitudes toward Cooking at Home, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Percent Agreeing "Shopping for Groceries is a Bore," African-American vs. Other Consumers
Attitudes toward Dieting and Fattening Foods, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Use of Organic Foods, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
3.3.4 Health and Pharmaceuticals $437.00included
Annual Expenditures for Health Care by Amount and Percent of Total Expenditures, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Managing Personal Health, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Taking Medications, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Non-Prescription Medications, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Factors Affecting Choice of Medications, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Alternative Medicine, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Vitamins, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
3.3.5 Telecommunications $118.00included
Expenditures on Telephone Services, African-American vs. Other Consumer Units, 2006
Ownership of Cellphones, African American vs. Other Consumers
Ownership and Use of Cellular/Wireless Services, African American vs. Other Consumers
3.4 African Americans and the Media $1,926.00included
3.4.1 Print Media $540.00included
Attitudes toward Newspapers, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Newspaper Readership, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Attitudes toward Magazines, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Most Popular Publication Types, African-American vs. Other Men
Most Popular Publication Types, African-American vs. Other Women
Most Popular Magazines, African-American vs. Other Men
Most Popular Magazines, African-American Women vs. Other Women
Similarities and Differences in Magazines Popular with African-American Men and Other Men
Similarities and Differences in Magazines Popular with African-American Women and Other Women
3.4.2 Television $946.00included
Attitudes toward Television, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Access to Television, African-American vs. Other Households
Primetime Network TV Viewing Habits, African-American vs. Other Men
Primetime Network TV Viewing Habits, African-American vs. Other Women
Most Popular Cable TV Services, African-American vs. Other Men
Most Popular Cable TV Services, African-American vs. Other Women
Similarities and Differences in Cable TV Services Popular with African-American and Other Men
Similarities and Differences in Cable TV Services Popular with African-American Women and Other Women
Most Popular Once-a-Week Network TV Programs, African-American vs. Other Men
Similarities and Differences in Once-a-Week TV Shows Popular with African-American and Other Men
Most Popular Once-a-Week TV Programs, African-American vs. Other Women
Similarities and Differences in Once-a-Week TV Shows Popular with African-American and Other Women
TV Sports Watched Frequently, African-American vs. Other Men
3.4.3 Radio $222.00included
Attitudes toward Radio, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Radio Listening by Daypart, African-American vs. Other Men
Radio Listening by Daypart, African-American vs. Other Women
Most Popular Radio Formats, African-American vs. Other Men
Most Popular Radio Formats, African-American vs. Other Women
3.4.4 Impact of the Internet on Traditional Media Usage $176.00included
Impact of the Internet on Media Usage, African-American vs. Other Consumers by Gender
Online Media Activities in Last 30 Days, African-American vs. Other Men
Online Media Activities in Last 30 Days, African-American vs. Other Women
4 Consumer Focus: Affluent African Americans
4.1 Affluent African Americans $2,157.00included
African-American Households with Incomes of $75,000 or More by Income Level, 2006
Aggregate Income of African-American Households, Affluent vs. Other Households, 2006
Aggregate Income of Non-African-American Households, Affluent vs. Other Households, 2006
Percent of Aggregate Household Income by Quintile and Top 5% of Households,Selected Years 1976 vs. 2006, African-American vs. All Households
Percent of Aggregate Household Income Received by Top 5% of Households, African-American vs. Households in Other Population Groups, 2006
Mean Household Income Received by Highest Fifth and Top 5% of Households, African-American vs. Households in Other Population Groups, 2006
Demographic Profile, Affluent African-American vs. Other Affluent Households, 2007
4.1.2 Core Values $238.00included
Selected Values, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Attitudes toward Work, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Self-Image, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Influencing Others, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Risk-Taking, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
4.1.3 How Affluent African Americans Manage Their Personal Finances $537.00included
Attitudes toward Money and Financial Security, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Financial Self-Confidence, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Using Financial Services, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent of Affluent Consumers Saying "Investing in Stock Market Is Too Risky," African-American vs. Other Consumers
Importance of Insurance, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent with Life and Health Insurance, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent with Loans, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Ownership and Use of ATM/Debit Cards, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Ownership of Credit Cards, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Ownership of Bank Accounts, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent Owning Investments, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
4.1.4 Shopping and Spending $429.00included
Attitudes toward Spending, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent of Affluent Consumers Saying They Really Enjoy Any Kind of Shopping, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Impact of the Internet on Shopping Behavior, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Attitudes toward Fashion, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Attitudes toward Buying Clothes, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Profile of Car Ownership, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Next Vehicle Purchase, Affluent African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Home Improvement Expenditures and Furniture Purchases, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent of Affluent Consumers Spending $1,000 or More in last 12 Months on Household Furnishings and Bed/Bath and Linens, African-American vs. Other Consumers
4.1.5 Leisure-Time Activities $521.00included
Participation in Physical Fitness Programs in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Participation in Sports in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Participation in Leisure Activity/Hobby in Last 12 Months, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Going Out to Restaurants, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Travel Profile, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Ownership of Consumer Electronics, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Percent of Affluent Consumers with Computer at Home, African-American vs. Other Consumers
Number of Times Using the Internet at Home in Last Seven Days, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
Online Activities in Last 30 Days, African-American vs. Other Affluent Consumers
4.2 The Most Lucrative African-American Metro Markets $696.00included
Metropolitan Areas Ranked by Aggregate Personal Income and Per Capita Income of
Metropolitan Areas Ranked by Number of Affluent African-American Households, 2006
Urban Areas Ranked by Aggregate African-American Personal Income as Percent of Total Aggregate Income, 2006
5 Addresses of Selected African-American Market Resources
The African-American and Hispanic Markets: Wealth, Banking, and Payment Trends
Dec 17, 2018 - LA15840387 - $7,750
The Financial Services Market: African Americans
Hispanic Foods and Beverages in the U.S., 6th Edition
Oct 4, 2016 - LA15042981 - $3,995
African-Americans: Demographic and Consumer Spending Trends, 10th Edition
Sep 9, 2016 - LA15103856 - $3,195
Millennial Parents in the U.S.
Nov 11, 2015 - LA5734004 - $2,800
The African-American Consumer Market, 9th Edition
Dec 27, 2013 - LA5062152 - $3,595
Ethnic Hair, Skin, and Cosmetics Products in the U.S., 8th Edition
Jun 8, 2012 - LA6690874 - $3,195
The New Recession Consumer in the U.S.
May 1, 2010 - LA2604926 - $3,080
Ethnic Health and Beauty Care Products in the U.S., 7th Edition
Mar 1, 2010 - LA2467564 - $3,195
The African-American Market in the U.S., 8th Edition
Feb 1, 2010 - LA2514909 - $3,195
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Johnson Graduate School of Management Prof Examines FiveThirtyEight Election Predictions using @RISK
The midterm Senate race is fast approaching—and so are the speculations on its outcome. The stats-centered news site, FiveThirtyEight, builds interactive forecasts that are updated almost daily. As of this writing, the model predicts that Democrats have a 42.4% chance of retaining the Senate next year.
"They’ve also included a correlation, of a type in their model," says Dr. Lawrence Robinson, Professor of Operations Management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. "But they do not explicitly use a correlation coefficient—instead, they change the distribution of the candidate’s lead." Robinson explains that FiveThirtyEight introduces correlation through an additional random variable representing what they’ve labelled "national error," which they generate and add to the mean margin of victory of every candidate. "Unfortunately, nowhere in their post do they specify the probability distribution for his new ‘national error’ random variable," Robinson says. "Thus it is not possible to know how correlated the individual races are with one another."
Robinson wanted to devise a way to arrive at these forecasts using his own statistical methods, and to use a correlation that is explicitly defined. Instead of just using FiveThirtyEights’s "Leader’s chance of winning," which was only given to the nearest percent, Robinson started with the mean and (estimated) standard deviation of the margin of victory, and calculated the probability of winning by assuming that the margin of victory on Election Night was normally distributed. "Although Silver says he assumes that the victory margin is leptokurtic [has fat tails] for finding the probability of winning, he never specifies its probability distribution," says Robinson. "I found that the standard assumption that the margin was normally distributed better matched his reported analysis."
Robinson built a Monte Carlo simulation model in Excel using @RISK, treating the outcome of each race as a Bernoulli (0/1, win/lose) random variable. He then introduced a correlation matrix that captured the correlation between every pair of races, and ran 27 different simulations (each one simulating 400,000 elections) for correlations ranging between 0% and 100%. His results closely match that of FiveThirtyEight’s, showing the probability that Democrats will retain control of the Senate as a function of the correlation among races. Robinson points out the benefit:
The advantage of this approach is that
we specify the correlation precisely, and
that we conduct robustness analysis to
see how the results change with the
correlation.
Dr. Lawrence Robinson - Cornell University
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Professor of Operations Management
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A jobshop is characterized by individual jobs taking different amounts of time for each operation. Suppose that a jobshop consists of four operations: sanding, varnishing, etching, and finishing. Each job is unique with regard to the amount of time required for each operation. This example has 6 jobs. Once a job is sanded, the sanding operation can proceed immediately to the next without delay. Once the first job is sanded, it can immediately be varnished, etched and finished without intervening delays. However, there are two conditions that have to be met for the remaining scheduling. For the second job to be varnished, it must first have been sanded and the first job must have completed being varnished. What is the length of time to do all the jobs in sequential order? What is the sequence of jobs to optimize performance; that is, minimize the length of time to complete all six jobs? Find out by using Evolver and this downloadable example.
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This seems strange at first, but there's an explanation. This is nothing special about the Poisson distribution; it applies to RiskBinomial, RiskDiscrete, and all the other discrete distributions.
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Quantitative Risk Assessment on the Public Health Impact of Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Raw Oyster
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services analyzed scientific data that was used to model and predict the public health impact of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in raw oysters. The assessment focused on comparing the relative risk among different geographic regions, seasons, and harvest practices. The scientific data and the mathematical models developed during the risk assessment, in conjunction with @RISK and Monte Carlo simulation, facilitate a systematic evaluation of strategies to reduce the public health impact of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with the consumption of raw oysters. Questions that were addressed include:
What is known about the dose-response relationship between consumption of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and illnesses?
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Jaden Smith Claims to be Dating Tyler, the Creator
On stage at Camp Flog Naw, Smith called Tyler his boyfriend.
Brooke Ivey Johnson
is a Brooklyn based pop culture writer, editor, playwright, and human woman. Her work has also appeared in Huffington Post.
During his set at Camp Flog Naw music festival, Jaden Smith claimed Tyler, the Creator is his boyfriend.
"I just wanna say Tyler, the Creator is the best friend in the world and I love him so fucking much, and I wanna tell you guys something, Tyler doesn't wanna say, but Tyler is my motherfucking boyfriend, and he's been my motherfucking boyfriend my whole motherfucking life. It's true! Tyler is my boyfriend." Smith says in a video filmed by a fan in the crowd.
Rumors then swirled about the 20-year-old's onstage claim, and he soon confirmed it, tweeting, "Yup @tylerthecreator I told everyone you can't deny it now." Tyler was seen in the video laughing and shaking his head. He later replied to Smith's tweet: "Hahaha you a crazy n***a man."
But now fans speculate there was never any truth to the claim, as Jaden Smith has since deleted the tweet. Given the ambiguity surrounding Tyler's sexuality, it's possible that Jaden's declaration was intended as a joke poking fun at Tyler — albeit an insensitive prank with homophobic implications.
Regardless of the veracity of the tweet, it only complicates the strange history of Tyler's relationship with sexuality. On his 2015 album Goblin, the rapper came under fire for using f***** and other anti-gay slurs 213 times. He later shot down accusations of homophobia, saying, 'I'm not homophobic. I just think "f*****" hits and hurts people. It hits. And "gay" just means you're stupid. I don't know, we don't think about it, we're just kids. We don't think about that shit. But I don't hate gay people. I don't want anyone to think I'm homophobic.'
But later in 2015, it began to seem as though Tyler himself might be queer, tweeting, 'I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA.'
Then on his album, Flower Boy, he rapped: 'Next line I'll have em' like woah/ I've been kissing white boys since 2004.'
When questioned about the implications of these lyrics in a recent interview with Fantastic Man, Tyler responded, "It's still such a grey area with people, which is cool with me. Even though I'm considered loud and out there, I'm private, which is a weird dichotomy. The juxtaposition of loud and quiet is weird."
Brooke Ivey Johnson is a Brooklyn based writer, playwright, and human woman. To read more of her work visit her blog or follow her twitter @BrookeIJohnson.
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Fatal crash victim identified as 17-year-old Mackenzie Leeman of Neenah
Police were called to State 96 west of French Road just before 10:30 p.m.
Fatal crash victim identified as 17-year-old Mackenzie Leeman of Neenah Police were called to State 96 west of French Road just before 10:30 p.m. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2019/02/28/fatal-crash-victim-identified-17-year-old-mackenzie-leeman-neenah/3021700002/
Alison Dirr, Appleton Post-Crescent Published 5:43 p.m. CT Feb. 28, 2019
News brief (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
LITTLE CHUTE - The 17-year-old girl who died in a one-vehicle crash on Tuesday has been identified as Mackenzie Leeman of Neenah.
Police responded just before 10:30 p.m. to State 96 west of French Road for a report of a crash, Fox Valley Metro police said previously. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Leeman, the sole occupant of the vehicle, appeared to be heading south on State 441 when her vehicle left the road, police said previously. It came to rest under the State 441 overpass on State 96.
RELATED: 17-year-old girl dead after vehicle crashes off of State 441 overpass near Appleton
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Federal Restitution Law Failing Crime Victims
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2011 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News January, 2011, page 38
Filed under: Money/Property, Restitution, Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. Location: United States of America.
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by Mike Rigby
A federal law meant to ensure that victims of violence, fraud and other property crimes are compensated for financial loss does not work as intended.
According to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) passed by Congress in 1996, crime victims who suffer identifiable monetary losses are entitled to “full and timely restitution.” However, that is rarely the case.
Since the MVRA was enacted, the amount of outstanding federal restitution debt owed to victims nationwide has ballooned from $3.7 billion to more than $44.4 billion in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available. In fact, according to the U.S.
Department of Justice, the average collection rate for all 94 federal judicial districts in 2008 was a mere 1.4 percent.
During that same year the rates in some individual districts were particularly abysmal. New Jersey and the Southern District of New York had collection rates of .025 and .021 percent, respectively. The Eastern District of Pennsylvania collected a paltry .002 percent of outstanding third-party restitution debt in 2008.
One problem, critics say, is that the MVRA requires judges to order restitution for the full amount of a victim’s losses regardless of the defendant’s ability to pay. Thus, the restitution orders don’t accurately reflect how much will actually be collected. Offenders who are sentenced to prison for financial fraud are typically ordered to pay $100 a month in restitution when they are released. At that rate it would take over 833 years for an offender to repay $1 million.
A case in point is a January 2005 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that followed five white collar criminals who owed a combined $568 million in restitution. Eight years after sentencing, the report found only 7 percent of the total had been repaid. Adding to the problem, according to GAO statistics, is the fact that more than 85 percent of federal criminal defendants are indigent with little or no ability to repay their victims.
Prosecutors have argued, however, that even if defendants are financially well off and have the means to pay restitution, there is little chance of recovering money for their victims unless their assets are seized before charges are filed.
In October 2007, the U.S. Senate followed this line of reasoning and passed legislation introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota democrat, that would have made it easier for federal prosecutors to seize a defendant’s assets before he or she had even been charged with a crime. Fortunately for those who still believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty, the bill died in a House subcommittee in May 2008.
Critics – mainly House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and the criminal defense bar – had argued that the legislation would unfairly harm potential defendants and would not significantly increase the collection of restitution. David B. Smith, a criminal defense attorney, said the bill would have given federal prosecutors “a nuclear weapon with which to pauperize every single defendant” and thus prevent them from retaining private defense counsel by preemptively seizing their assets.
Even had the bill passed, it would have done little to alleviate the overriding problem. The bottom line is that government officials fritter away whatever restitution money is collected rather than using it to repay crime victims.
According to one GAO report, federal prosecutors use most forfeited assets – which are intended for restitution payments – for other purposes such as providing funds to local and state law enforcement agencies that aid them in prosecutions.
In fiscal year 2008, the 94 U.S. Attorneys offices had a collective total of $1.1 billion in asset forfeiture deposits, of which less than 40 percent – $429.4 million – went to crime victims for restitution. Moreover, 88 percent of the restitution money paid out in 2008 came from a single U.S. Attorneys office in upstate New York, while 55 U.S. Attorneys offices did not apply any of their forfeited asset funds to restitution.
An article in the December 2009 issue of the California Law Review, titled “Should Crime Pay?: A Critical Assessment of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996,” noted that while “the MVRA may have led to marginally more compensation for victims of crime, it has decreased victim satisfaction with restitution.” Further, the article found that “mandatory restitution impedes offenders’ reintegration into society,” and concluded “the MVRA is often an inefficient and impractical method of recompensing victims” that is “detrimental to both victims and offenders.”
Sources: www.philly.com, California Law Review
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Sound Image Joins U.S. Live Console Partner Network
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By Keith Clark • January 10, 2014
Left to right: Jay Easley of SSL with Rob Mailman of Sound Image and engineer Brian Montgomery
Solid State Logic is continuing to add to its U.S. reseller network for SSL Live consoles with the appointment of professional touring and contracting company Sound Image.
Headquartered in Escondido, CaA, Sound Image also has offices in Arizona and Tennessee, and has been providing sound reinforcement services to many of the industry’s biggest rock, country and pop acts for more than 40 years.
“It’s about time Solid State Logic got out of the house,’’ says Dave Shadoan, president of Sound Image. “Everyone here at Sound Image is looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with SSL through the sales, service and use of the new SSL Live.”
“Sound Image is a well-established leader in the live market and its extensive customer base offers an unparalleled opportunity for the SSL Live to gain exposure in North America,” states Jay Easley, SSL vice president of Live Consoles in the Americas. “The company’s legacy, staff and commitment to excellence closely align with SSL’s core values. We are truly excited about the partnership between Sound Image and SSL.
“With this growing network of highly reputable partners in place, we are able to present the Live console to a greater scope of audio professionals and affirm its abilities with artists who are already devout SSL console loyalists.”
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With recent growth "it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine."
— Harry Reid on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 in a Senate floor speech
Harry Reid says it's 'very clear that private sector jobs have been doing fine'
By Louis Jacobson on Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 3:39 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., offered a rosy view of private-sector job creation during a Senate floor speech. How justified is that view?
During an Oct. 19, 2011, floor speech, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made the case for passing elements of President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda. He talked about recent patterns in job gains and losses.
"The massive layoffs we have had in America today of course are rooted in the last administration," Reid said. "It is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine. It is the public-sector jobs where we have lost huge numbers. That is what this legislation is all about."
We wondered whether Reid is right that "it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine."
We first turned to data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal government’s official source for employment numbers.
We’ll start our analysis in June 2009, which represented the official end of the most recent recession -- the point at which job numbers typically begin to recover.
Here are the net increases between June 2009 and September 2011 for three categories of jobs:
Total jobs: increase of 841,000
Private-sector jobs: increase of 1,413,000
Government jobs: decrease of 572,000
And here are the monthly averages for each category:
Total jobs: increase of 30,035 per month
Private-sector jobs: increase of 50,464 per month
Government jobs: decrease of 20,428 per month
Here are the same statistics for just the past year:
Total jobs: increase of 1,319,000
And here are the monthly averages for each category over the past year:
Total jobs: increase of 109,917 per month
Private-sector jobs: increase of 136,333 per month
So Reid is correct that the job growth in the private-sector has been much healthier than it’s been for government jobs. In fact, government jobs have actually decreased, becoming a consistent drag on the economy as a whole.
But is the growth in the private-sector enough to bolster the economy? Many economists say no. -- that for the private-sector jobs to be "doing fine," there would need to be more of them.
Dean Baker, a liberal economist, estimates that the economy needs a net increase of 90,000 to 100,000 jobs a month simply to keep pace with population growth, based on extrapolations from Congressional Budget Office and BLS data. Factoring in the ongoing drag from government job losses, the economy is barely meeting that number over the past year, and is well below that number since the official beginning of the recovery in June 2009.
Others put the monthly job gains needed to keep pace with population at 140,000 to 150,000.
Still, even achieving that benchmark would essentially mean treading water, and "doing fine" would require more net jobs than that to be created every month.
Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, checked the private-sector job creation numbers for the first 26 months after each of the last four recessions ended. He found that 1981-1982 recession was strongest, with an average increase of 289,000 per month. The recovery from the 1990-1991 recession was second strongest, at 76,300. The current recovery ranked third, with the post-2001 recovery actually losing jobs on average every month.
In Burtless’ view, "private-sector job growth falls far short of ‘doing fine,’" especially given the size of private-sector job losses during the preceding recession -- nearly 8 million in 2008-2009.
A Reid spokesman, Adam Jentleson, acknowledged that Reid’s statement "could have been put more artfully." He said Reid was trying contrast consistent job gains in the private-sector with consistent job losses in the public-sector.
The comment, Jentleson said, was intended to rebut Republican claims that Democrats aren’t doing much to help private-sector job growth, when in fact the Obama jobs agenda includes multiple tax cuts for small businesses that are intended to spur growth.
Our ruling
We realize that Reid was taking some linguistic liberties, and we agree that he has a point that the biggest culprit in the anemic job market is the situation with government jobs, not private-sector jobs.
Still, at PolitiFact, we often say that words matter, and the notion that "private-sector jobs have been doing fine" is not at all "very clear," to use Reid’s characterization. Current levels of job growth are, at best, treading water, and perhaps not even that. For the economy to gain steam, it has to create, by some estimates, two to three times as many jobs per month as are currently being created. We rate Reid’s statement Mostly False.
About this statement:
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 3:39 p.m.
Researched by: Louis Jacobson
Edited by: Martha M. Hamilton
Subjects: Economy, Jobs
Harry Reid, Senate floor speech, Oct. 19, 2011
National Bureau of Economic Research, "U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions," accessed Oct. 20, 2011
Bureau of Labor Statistics, main state search page for Current Employment Statistics, Sept. 8, 2011
Associated Press, "Economy Adds 103K Jobs, Rate Stays 9.1 Percent," Oct. 7, 2011
New York Times, "Job Growth Falters Badly, Clouding Hope for Recovery," July 8, 2011
Dean Baker, "We Need 90,000 Jobs Per Month to Keep Pace With the Growth of the Population" (blog post), July 9, 2011
E-mail interview with Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Oct. 20, 2011
E-mail interview with Gary Burtless, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, Oct. 20, 2011
E-mail interview with Heidi Shierholz, economist with the Economic Policy Institute, Oct. 20, 2011
Interview with Adam Jentleson, spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid, Oct. 20, 2011
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Utah's Great Salt Lake, where ConcenTrace comes from, is the largest body of concentrated sea water in the world and is particularly rich in certain minerals and trace minerals like magnesium, selenium, lithium, and boron which are vitally important to human health. The part of the Lake that ConcenTrace is harvested has been dammed off from the rest of the lake for over 80 years, and remains very pure. The purity of ConcenTrace is confirmed by independent testing.
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Magnesium 250 mg 313% 60%
Chloride 650 mg 43% 28%
Sodium 5 mg <1% <1%
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Reauthorizing ESEA: Four Recommendations to Improve Teaching Effectiveness
Laura S. Hamilton @HamiltonLauraS, Brian M. Stecher, Grace Evans
Policies aimed at boosting teaching effectiveness are a key component of a strong ESEA reauthorization. Addressing discrepancies in teacher quality helps teachers improve, retains effective teachers, and makes the teaching profession an attractive option for those contemplating careers.
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U.S.-India Relations: Will the Obama-Modi Personal Chemistry Suffice?
Gulrez Shah Azhar
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India has generated generally positive reactions from analysts. These judgments will be reinforced if the leaders' current chemistry changes Indo-U.S. policy for the better.
Military Information Technology Systems
Decoding the Breach: The Truth About the CENTCOM Hack
David C. Gompert, Martin C. Libicki
The Mark News
When ISIS hackers hijacked the Twitter account of U.S. Central Command on Jan. 12, they falsely claimed that they had hacked into U.S. military computers. While the incident was embarrassing, it was not concerning in operational military terms. It was, however, damaging to the counterinsurgency against ISIS.
North Korean Charm Offensive: Peace for Our Time?
Bruce W. Bennett @bwbennett
The Korea Herald
Is North Korea really sincere about wanting to negotiate improved relations with South Korea and the United States? Or is it seeking to undermine the strength and sovereignty of its neighbor, just as Germany did before World War II?
The Afterparade: No Breakthroughs — and That's Just Fine
Jonah Blank
President Obama's visit to India last week was hailed in many quarters as a landmark event, perhaps signaling a new era of cooperation. In reality, the concrete takeaways were quite modest: there was no breakthrough on climate change, trade, or civil nuclear liability. But the trip should nonetheless be judged a success.
Syrian Refugees: A Blessing in Disguise?
Dalia Dassa Kaye
To avoid further resentment and restrictions on Syrians desperate to escape their war-torn country, as well as the instability such attitudes generate, the international community must work with host governments to increase and highlight the benefits refugee populations can bring to neighboring states.
Snuffing Out China's Deadly Habit
Min Gong, William G. Shadel @william_shadel
To help address China's smoking problem, China's parliament is considering a ban on all tobacco ads except those at point-of-sale retail locations. How does this compare to the current state of play regarding Chinese tobacco ads? And could the new law shift the tobacco-control landscape?
Terrorism Threat Assessment
Improving Domestic Security to Combat Today's Terrorist Threats
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins
Today, the U.S. confronts a multilayered terrorist threat and the recent spate of attacks in Europe underscores the necessity for ensuring that intelligence keeps up with it. Intelligence services must continue to prevent terrorist assaults dispatched from abroad, head off new shoe and underwear bombers, intercept individuals returning from jihadist fronts with terrorist intentions, while at the same time uncovering and thwarting homegrown plots.
Growth Versus Equality: Striking the Right Balance
Charles Wolf, Jr.
The Weekly Standard
There's a difficult trade-off between income equality and the growth that comes from successful innovation. But one doesn't have to overwhelm the other.
To Hit the Road, Driverless Cars Must Be Safe, Not Perfect
Nidhi Kalra
Once driverless cars are safer than the average human driver, they should be allowed to hit the road. Indeed, waiting for autonomous vehicles to be perfect would be its own safety concern because it would mean the needless perpetuation of the risks posed by human drivers.
Health Information Technology Interoperability
The Little Exchange That Could...Transform the U.S. Health Care System
Robert S. Rudin @rsrudin, Jayme Fuglesten @JaymeFuglesten
As Congress continues to think about whether and how to support the development of Health Information Exchanges, it should consider the commitment required to bring a mature statewide or national network of HIEs into practice. It should prioritize the evaluation of government-funded HIEs, so that research can help inform and foster return on investment for scarce taxpayer dollars.
Nurses and Nursing
Does Expanding Nurse Practitioner Autonomy Affect the Value of Care Delivered?
Grant R. Martsolf
Given the high cost of health care in America, policymakers should be very concerned about the effect of expanded nurse practitioner autonomy on the value of care. However, to have a sensible policy debate, we need to admit that we hardly know anything about it.
Homeland Security Legislation
Go Back to Basics to Reform Homeland Security
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
The Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986 made the broadest and most sweeping changes to the Pentagon since its establishment in 1947. With the Department of Homeland Security in a similar state just over a decade after its hurried creation, it's time for DHS to have a Goldwater-Nichols of its own.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Making Room for New Approaches: Recommendations for ESEA Reauthorization That Support Innovation
John F. Pane @JohnFPane
As lawmakers consider the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it is critical that in meeting their objectives they do not create unnecessary obstacles to the productive innovations being explored at schools, such as personalized learning.
In Sri Lanka, Elections Could Signal New Opportunities
Rafiq Dossani, Jonah Blank
The Epoch Times
With the inauguration of President Maithripala Sirisena in Sri Lanka, both the United States and India have an opportunity to influence reconciliation between the country's Tamils and Sinhalese. But if that influence is used unwisely, the result may be the same sort of aggressive Sinhalese nationalism that propelled Mahinda Rajapaksa to power a decade ago.
It's no secret that the U.S. generic industry has its warts. But most of them are the result of loopholes and market forces that could be addressed with policy changes if policymakers choose to do so.
Andrew W. Mulcahy
Policy Researcher
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11MATCH URL: https://assets.rappler.com/612F469A6EA84F6BAE882D2B94A4B421/img/44C1CDA27A754FFFA0D361024091A376/xiaomi-mi-3-unboxing-20140611-1.jpg
Mi 3 unboxing: High-end Android phone for less
The sub-$270 smartphone looks, feels and performs like the top smartphones available today
Michael Josh Villanueva
Published 12:51 AM, June 12, 2014
Updated 4:23 PM, June 12, 2014
MANILA, Philippines — Launched in China last October 2013, Xiaomi’s flagship smartphone the Mi 3 has specs that rival the top Android smartphones in the market today and performance to match but at a much more affordable price tag.
Normally Mi smartphones are sold almost exclusively via the company’s website Mi.com, often with social-media hyped flash-sales. In the Philippines however, Xiaomi which opened up offices in Manila this June, will sell the Mi 3 via online retailer Lazada.
While official pricing has yet to be disclosed, the phone is expected to retail at about under P12,000 ($270) when it goes on sale in the “next few weeks.”
Xiaomi is often compared to Apple because of its unique design aesthetic seen when one visits their website (their new domain mi.com was recently acquired for a whopping $3.6-million). The Mi 3’s box is also quite special – a sturdy Japanses-styled rectangular cardboard box.
Lifting up the top cover reveals just the phone. The phone usually comes in black, silver and a range of other colors. Only the silver version will go on sale in the Philippines.
Underneath the smartphone are a pamphlet containing a SIM card removal tool – very much identical to the one that comes with the Apple iPhone – and a colored quick-start guide.
Tucked away on both sides of the inner box are a standard USB cable and a 5V wall charger. While Xiaomi makes pretty good in-ear headphones, it does not include them in the package.
PROCESSOR: 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800
MEMORY: 2GB DDR3 RAM
CAMERA: 13MP f/2.2 main camera; 2MP front facing camera
DISPLAY: 5-inch Full HD IPS display
CONNECTIVITY: WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC
Overall, the Mi 3 looks and feels like a premium device.
The phone is made of an aluminum magnesium alloy and is coated with thermal graphite to give it a matte metallic finish reminiscent of a MacBook Pro. It’s rounded sides make it comfortable to grip, but its corners are a little too sharp and boxy for my liking.
The phone is also unnecessarily tall, taking up plenty of extra space (over half an inch) above the display. The only physical buttons on the device are its volume rocker and the power button on the right hand side of the device; home, back and menu buttons are on-screen (in this order: menu, home, back).
The headphone jack and tray for a full-sized SIM card are located on top of the device, while the microUSB port and speaker grilles are on its bottom. There is no way to remove the phone’s 3050mAh battery. Painfully missing are provisions for expandable memory.
The Full HD IPS display is pretty impressive with great viewing angles, just the right amount of contrast and saturation, and deep blacks. The phone packs a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch (ppi).
While the Mi 3 feels heavier than an iPhone 5S or the Nexus 5, it is thinner and lighter than the 5-inch HTC One M8. The device is 8.1mm thin and weighs 145g.
The crowning glory of the Mi 3 is the MiUi v5 user interface – one of the most interesting implementations of Android we’ve seen to date. Unique to MiUi is the absence of an app drawer. Installed apps appear immediately on the home screen just like on iOS.
MiUi also features a host of interesting tools built into frequently used apps (which we’ll detail when we review the phone) without the feel of unnecessary bloatware.
The UI is also highly customizable via downloadable skins.
Look out for our full review this Sunday on TechRap.
WATCH OUR UNBOXING HERE:
– Rappler.com
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BMW 3 Series achieves 5 stars
The new BMW 3 Series Sedan achieved the top rating and was awarded five stars in the latest Euro NCAP series of crash tests
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The new BMW 3 Series Sedan achieved the top rating and was awarded five stars in the latest Euro NCAP series of crash tests. The passenger safety cell of the new BMW 3 Series Sedan proved to be extremely resistant in both head-on and side impacts as well as in the side pole crash test.
The excellent results achieved by the new BMW 3 Series in the Euro NCAP crash tests is rounded out by the exemplary, comprehensive safety equipment. This sedan is equipped with Dynamic Stability Control DSC and a tyre pressure indicator as standard equipment, optionally including the Active Protection System and the Enhanced Emergency Call with automatic location detection and determination of accident severity.
BMW models undergoing the Euro NCAP crash tests have all, without exception, achieved the highest rating. Following the example set by the BMW X 1, the BMW 5 Series, the BMW X 3 and the new BMW 1 Series, the new BMW 3 Series Sedan has now also passed these tests with flying colours and been awarded 5 stars.
Mercedes-Benz Release Their New A-Class Saloon The baby-Benz has been gifted a proper boot
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Vancouver adopts 100 per cent EV-ready policy
Vancouver is now one of the first cities in North America to adopt a 100 per cent Electric Vehicle (EV)-ready policy for all new multi-unit residential buildings.
Vancouver City Council approved the recommendations made in the EV Ecosystem Program Update last week. The previous requirement of 20 per cent EV parking spots meant a limited number of residents had access to an outlet. The actions will help reduce carbon pollution and improve air quality by increasing opportunities for residents to move away from fossil fuel vehicles.
Vancouver is also expanding charging station infrastructure across the city, and developing a preferential parking policy for zero emissions vehicles. Plans are to add more DC fast charging points, which can provide up to 200 kilometres of range in an hour. The goal is to put all Vancouver residents within a 10 minute drive of a DC fast-charging station by 2021.
A DC fast charger will be installed at Science World, and the number of DC fast chargers available at Empire Fields in east Vancouver will be expanded. BC Hydro will also add DC fast chargers at their head office and in Kerrisdale.
The cost of adding charging infrastructure in the construction phase of a building is much lower than retrofitting a building later on, which will save residents up to $3,300 and avoid the more complex process of increasing electrical capacity in the future. Since 2014, the existing requirements have resulted in approximately 20,000 EV-ready stalls in buildings.
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Donald Balanecki on April 28, 2018 at 3:26 pm said:
This good news for Vancouver. Would be nice if the other cities and municipalities in BC would do the same.
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Virtually every flood-prone municipality owns physical assets -- streets, sidewalks, parks, walking trails -- that can become infrastructure to reduce flood damage.
Example: As a condition of zoning approval, the developer of a new office building may be required to reconstruct the public sidewalk adjacent to the former construction site.
Instead pouring a typical eight inches of concrete, the developer is required by the municipality to use “new” technology: dome-shaped plastic forms that the construction crew covers with concrete to create the new sidewalk.
Underneath the resulting sidewalk, the domed chambers become voids that capture water from heavy rain. The voids store the excess water until the combined storm-sanitary sewer is able to accept it.
Some of the voids house new trees; the earth in the tree wells filters flood water before it enters the combined sewer.
In short, the municipality — at the developer's cost — has gained a capacious cistern that reduces street flooding at the site and helps relieve the overall burden on the community’s sewer system. (And — win-win — the developer has reduced its outlay for construction material.)
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B.C. reporter calls out immigration photo on social media as fake news
A Vancouver reporter is calling out a British politician for spreading fake news
A Vancouver radio reporter says people on social media, including a vocal British politician, should be more careful about spreading fake news.
Lasia Kretzel was working for CKOM in Saskatoon in 2015 when she attended a rally supporting Syrian refugees.
She wrote a story about the rally and snapped a photo of a woman with a sign around her neck that read: ”My door is open for refugees.”
.@Nigel_Farage
1) I am the original photographer of this image which was edited, subsequently retweeted by you, and has since removed from your feed. Here are the real facts of this photograph. pic.twitter.com/Tu59dMtkNt
— Lasia Kretzel (@lkretzel1130) July 16, 2018
The same photo is circulating again on social media, but with the sign changed to: “My legs are open for refugees.”
Kretzel says the altered photo was tweeted on the weekend by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a member of the European Parliament.
Kretzel called out Farage on Twitter, saying she had taken the original photo, and he acknowledged the sexualized picture as phoney.
“The photo turns out to be Fake News, but the refugees welcome brigade need to think harder about what is happening,” Farage later said in a tweet that Kretzel saved in a screen grab.
The photo was no longer on Farage’s page on Monday.
Kretzel said she had seen the altered photo on the internet before, but didn’t speak out about it until she noticed someone prominent touting it as real. Farage has 1.2 million followers and his post was retweeted several thousand times.
8) If you're going to criticize something, please make sure what you're distributing is authentic. As a fellow broadcaster, I think you owe it to the public to publish correct information, to apologize, and set the record straight when an error is made.
American actor James Woods also retweeted the altered picture with the caption: “Finally, a real solution to stop immigration.”
Kretzel, now a reporter with Vancouver station CKNX, said it’s frustrating.
“It sucks when you see your own image used in a false way,” said the 29-year-old. “With the amount of time and work that we put into gathering real information and, in an era of fake news … this doesn’t help the discussion.”
She said she doesn’t know the woman in the photo but feels for her.
“I don’t know if she’s aware that her image is being shared, and that honestly makes me feel bad.”
Hundreds of Arctic glaciers shrinking, disappearing
Critics claim Trump “defended a tyrant”
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New media arts, the NxT wave
Mary Jane Overall
Camilla Lawson, Cash Crop
1999, Darwin. The rampage of the pro-Indonesian militia in East Timor shocked us all as we witnessed the building of a makeshift refugee camp which was to house thousands of refugees lucky to get out with their lives. The streets were peppered with United Nations troops dressed in full military gear. It was scary.
At the same time NxT, Northern Territory Xposure, the Territory’s first multimedia symposium, was set to take place. Another invasion—a welcome one, of new media artists who would gather in Darwin to share their skills with the artists living in the NT.
Regional events encouraged rich exchanges at the symposium and offered NT artists real opportunities to explore and experiment with new technologies. The hackers’ tent at the ski club became both an experimental lab and a sanctuary, a place where artists could explore some of the ideas presented by the speakers while Timorese refugees searched for information about their loved ones. At the close of NxT, many NT artists had begun to visualise how they could incorporate these new ideas into their own work.
To encourage such work, the Australia Council offered funds managed by a group of NT artists known as the MMREF Group and dispersed as 8 New Media Arts grants. Over the last year, the works, some live, some web-based, have been realised.
Camilla Lawson’s Cash Crop, in the artist’s words, “…aims to manipulate the audience’s behaviour in the context of public perception of environmental issues. In doing so, the work involves self-examination and critical debate about social complacency regarding a culture of ‘progress no matter what the social and environmental cost.’”
In Darwin’s Wood Street Gallery, 2 off-beat television scenarios are filled with images of red balloons. Red balloons dotting the landscape stand like soldiers at attention, then break away to flee across the barren earth. The vision then switches to a balloon growing. The sound is of the breath that fills it: air/gas/wind. The impression is lush, comical, majestic. Then it bursts—like popped dreams reflecting so many failures to ‘settle’ our environment at any cost.
In the centre of the gallery is Lawson’s skinned “crop” which she has used to cover a long seat for the audience. The skins belong to her balloons…a magnificent quilt that offers a place to rest and ponder the video works. Most cannot resist the opportunity to sit and feel. Are they just pawns chosen to represent the “frontier dominated idea of staking their claims to the land”?
Jichicha is a Shockwave movie produced by Stella Simmering and Wes Wagonwheel. Having spent years hanging out with the Aboriginal fisherpeople of the Darwin fish camp, Stella and Wes set about to create a “multimedia-language” toy. Their script comes from Aboriginal names for fish in the Darwin waters, their sound—Aboriginal voices and tricky noise compositions by Wes—and their images, sea creatures. The result is an original introduction to an Aboriginal language and culture.
The Massacre of the Gija people, a video produced by Jason Davidson and Rohan Fisher in collaboration with the Gija people, reveals a story of shame. Jason, who has close family ties with the Gija people from the Juwurliny Community, describes how “Elder Paddy Bedford tells a story of a poisoning massacre at Bedford Creek by white pastoralists around World War I. The story tells how some of Paddy’s relatives were incarcerated because they killed a bullock. When they were released, they were given ‘tickets’ to wear around their necks. Little known to the Aborigines that wore them, these tickets marked the people that were to be killed. The station manager took the Aborigines wearing the tickets out bush to cut wood. After cutting a lot of wood, the people were given poisoned food. The wood that they had cut was used as fuel to burn their dead bodies.”
The Ticket Necklace story is one of great sadness but one that the Gija people wanted to share. Jason Davidson feels that reconciliation can only be achieved when the history of these people is recognised, digested and the proper amends made.
Elka Kerkhofs’ fascination with the English language began when she migrated to Australia from Belgium. Many words, she discovered, had more than one meaning—virus, cut, paste and contamination. Armed with these words, Elka went to a number of people from different professions and explored their interpretations, which were then used as the script for a collaboration with Tracks Inc. Dance Company. The result is Blood vs Wine, a breathtaking production incorporating projections of intimate images, sounds and movement.
Beyond the Square was an event coordinated by Cath McKay and Georgia Glen and executed by a number of participating artists. This project explored “the relationship between art and life within the context of a shopping mall and its interaction with the culture of the community.” Using Casuarina Shopping Square, the only mall in Darwin, as their stage, these women set out to create an art exhibit for the general public. Shoppers were offered an array of artforms, including live mannequin displays, digital video projections, performances by a troop of well-rehearsed ‘shoppers’, junk sculptures created from shoppers’ trash, and a shopping trolley piece with a monitor ‘head’ that reveals what life is like from a trolley’s point of view.
Catriona Stanton’s Passage is about nostalgia. Collaborating with Sydney poet Tim Doon and Alice Springs filmmaker Declan O’Gallagher, Stanton seeks to explore the “disparity yet intrinsic connection of 2 Australian environments: the inter-tidal zone of the Pacific Ocean, Sydney, and the ancient bed of the Larapintine Sea, Alice Springs.” Images of granular Larapintine fossils are married to contemporary haikus and meditative sounds, then projected across a screen with the McDonnell Ranges as a backdrop. Set in the now abandoned Alice Springs drive-in, this work offers the viewer a true sense of the “remembrance of things past.”
Frances Bunji Elcoate had been working with youths at risk in Darwin through the Big hART project when she applied for a grant. Equipped with a strong multimedia background, Bunji provided these young people with the skills and the support to tell their stories using clay animations. These works were then presented as part of a huge multimedia production. Staged at the Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Wrong Way Go Back is a gritty, thought provoking piece that reveals, in snippets, the lifestyles that ultimately lead young people into criminal behaviour.
bryce anbis and tashidawa eyles’ box project explores the “analogical world of images and emotions—those places that we don’t really have words for.” anbis and eyles created a portable stage that was set in various locations to perform, record and recover the happenings around them.
There is no doubt that that the presenters at NxT helped to inspire NT artists, as have local artists like Trevor Van Weeren who was instrumental in bringing these works to fruition. Van Weeren was recently invited to be a part of Cyber Pow Wow 2K in Banff, Canada. True to their reputation as intrepid explorers, NT artists are undaunted by the challenges of new media technologies.
RealTime issue #44 Aug-Sept 2001 pg. 23
© Mary Jane Overall; for permission to reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net
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The riches of rusting
Malcolm Smith: Tracks Dance Company, RUST
Gary Lang, David McMicken, RUST
photo Rodney Loredo
Earlier this year Expressions Dance Company’s Virtually Richard3 was performed for one night at the Darwin Entertainment Centre to a threadbare crowd. Most likely the poor turnout had less to do with the quality of the production than the fact that Darwin audiences are not adventurous. For artists in Darwin (and throughout regional Australia) this presents a real dilemma: how do you simultaneously build houses and maintain a critical edge in your work?
Tim Newth and David McMicken have been Tracks’ artistic co-directors for over 10 years which has given them the opportunity to develop a practice that tackles this issue. They have established a reputation for intelligent, innovative productions addressing ideas relevant to their audiences with historical narratives, youth-devised works and large scale cross-cultural productions (see Spunner: Keeping our distance). They collaborate with Indigenous communities, youth and seniors. Recently Sri Lanka’s Sama Ballet collaborated with the company to national acclaim.
In their latest production, RUST, Tracks have taken an interesting new direction. Rather than work with a community, David McMicken has chosen to collaborate with electronic artist Elka Kerkhofs and Indigenous dancer Gary Lang. In this intimate production, the threesome explore middle age through a series of vignettes, some of which are serious and insightful, others playful high camp.
The focus of RUST is McMicken’s exploration through dance of his own ageing, looking at the effect of entropy on the physical body and simultaneously the wisdom that comes with age. He looks at the implications of ageing on his career as a dancer. He also manages to laugh at himself, at the prospect of becoming a doddering old thing or a slightly tragic, elderly disco bunny. At times he is joined onstage by Gary Lang who variously plays the part of straight man, partner in crime and spiritual advisor.
Elka Kerkhofs is a Belgian-born artist now based in Darwin where she has developed a practice that integrates performance, music and video. In RUST she has created a series of elegant video sequences on moveable screens, some using archival footage of McMicken’s performances over the past 10 years, some providing evocative backdrops for the dancers. She also devised the creaky, metallic soundscape largely from her own recordings. In this production, Kerkhoffs has achieved a seamlessness unencumbered by the demands of technology.
Tracks often stage their productions several times, sometimes in different towns across the Northern Territory, each staging an opportunity to further develop the work. RUST is slated for a larger production for the Darwin Festival next year allowing time for better articulation of the work’s themes in some scenes. Being able to convey complex ideas through dance is a difficult task and RUST largely achieves this. The directors’ long-term strategy is now paying off, allowing the company to present challenging work to large and appreciative audiences.
Tracks Dance Company, RUST, creators/directors David McMicken, Elka Kerkhofs; choreography/performance David McMicken, Gary Lang; Brown’s Mart Theatre, Darwin, Oct 27-31
RealTime issue #64 Dec-Jan 2004 pg. 34
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Milstead updates DKG on Rose Ave. Community Center
By Alice Craig - For the Record-Herald
Pictured are (from left) Rose Avenue Community Center co-founder and MTHS teacher Rebekah Milstead, receiving a monetary donation to the hygiene closet from DKG President and retired MTHS business teacher Carol Waddle.
Rebekah Milstead, an experienced intervention specialist at Miami Trace High School, ended a dynamic presentation about the Rose Avenue Community Center to nearly 60 active and retired fellow teachers during the February meeting of the local chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International with a concise phrase that touched the heart of everyone present: “We’re making a difference, just like teachers.”
With its 120 key female educator-members, Fayette County’s Alpha Delta chapter remains the largest in the Ohio State organization.
Milstead, as a co-founder of the Rose Avenue Community Center 10 years ago and currently one of its directors, knows whereof she speaks. Her talk flowed smoothly from the groceries and paper products distribution to 100 families each Monday, aided by donations from Walmart’s “Feed America” program and from the Walmart Distribution Center; to the clothing center, where an especially prized event is the school-age shopping night and an especially helpful feature at prom and homecoming seasons is “Cinderella’s Closet.”
She mentioned the center’s furniture distribution, now benefiting from a new partnership with La-Z-Boy Recliners; the after-school tutoring that is available each afternoon during the academic year; and the ever-popular Friday-night hot meals with gospel music. Milstead also announced that from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, Rose Avenue Community Center will host a community pancake supper; the goal is to help stock a “hygiene closet,” although no one will be turned away even if they are unable to leave a donation.
https://www.recordherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/02/web1_20190219_154146.jpgPictured are (from left) Rose Avenue Community Center co-founder and MTHS teacher Rebekah Milstead, receiving a monetary donation to the hygiene closet from DKG President and retired MTHS business teacher Carol Waddle.
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Written by Alex Green
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Published at 07:00 on 7 February 2019
Last updated at 18:00 on 20 February 2019
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2018 ended up being a pretty great year for film. After the industry took a huge public bashing following the #MeToo movement in 2017, Hollywood and the world’s film industry had to face facts and turn itself around, both on and off screen, with questions of diversity and basic workplace etiquette that needed answering. And whilst not perfect, with films such as Bohemian Rhapsody, that still have the poison of Bryan Singer’s allegations hanging over it, the industry made strides in the right direction on screen in 2018. Films like BlackkKlansman, The Hate U Give, and Black Panther furthered the representation of black actors to critical and commercial success. Love, Simon and The Miseducation of Cameron Post gave the LGBT community a needed spotlight on the big screen. 2018 may have changed the film industry in many ways.
The industry has made strides in the right direction on screen in 2018
One of the biggest game-changers may not be getting all the recognition it deserves. Netflix’s 2018 felt remarkably different from their previous years, with regards to their usually casual approach to film. Last year, film took up more of the spotlight in Netflix’s marketing alongside their original TV content. This makes sense as they announced to investors that their marketing budget would increase to $2 billion at the start of 2018, and midway through the year it was revealed the content budget would dramatically increase to a whopping $13 billion. With all this investment, Netflix has reaped success this year with a diverse and intriguing selection. It’s a pick-and-mix of film, full of all sorts of stuff that has elements of anything and everything.
Netflix had a brilliant varied palette in their film section this year
Looking back on the bigger releases for Netflix shows this in action. The biggest commercial success appears to be the Sandra Bullock-led post-apocalyptic Bird Box, with Netflix boasting over 45 million views over the first week of release – if you’re willing to believe their PR department. Besides this, Netflix’s film menu had Duncan Jones’ latest sci-fi appetiser in Mute, the disturbing horror main course Apostle, a splash of teenage drama like To All the Boys I Loved Before and Sierra Burgess is a Loser, and some hints of a western in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Add to that Alfonso Cuaron’s critically-acclaimed Roma as a dessert, and Netflix had a brilliantly varied palate in their film section this year.
The key thing to note here is that these weren’t all critical successes, more a microcosm of cinema itself. Films like Mute and Bird Box received extremely mixed reception, some were straight-to-DVD-esque fodder and some weren’t even meant for Netflix; like Annihilation, which only got its non-US distribution via Netflix. But some did receive praise: Apostle was praised for its brutal horror, Annihilation was a good dose of smart, creepy sci-fi, and To All the Boys I Loved Before was charming enough to be getting a sequel. Of course, the biggest critical success belongs to Roma. Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical piece is, at the moment, in the running for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Imagine that: a Netflix film nominated for the biggest Oscar. Add to that three nominations for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Netflix are clearly starting to be more accepted by the Academy selection committee than ever before. This nomination success is so important for a company who are always trying to impress an industry that is still so conflicted on streaming services and their impact on the world of film. In 2017, Netflix’s submission of Okja for the Palme d’Or (the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival) proved controversial, with the film receiving boos when the Netflix logo appeared. Whether you think that this was justifiable or that those who attend the Palme d’Or are far too snobbish on streaming services, it is a fact that Netflix has never been a true part of the awards conversation. Last year changed that wholesale, and Netflix has proven they can make some truly great films on the platform.
Netflix's productions at awards has always proven controversial, with Okja receiving boos when the Netflix logo appeared
What’s more important for their staying power as a film distributor is the talent they have attracted in the last year. On the directorial side Cuarón, the Coen brothers, Gareth Evans, Paul Greengrass, David Mackenzie, and so on, show the ability Netflix has in attracting directors with unique visions and pedigree in the industry. It is crucial for any distributor to attract exciting names for your projects and to be able to demonstrate that you are looking for creative minds. Netflix understands this down to a tee, obviously drawing on the experience of developing their many acclaimed original series.
Similarly, it wasn’t just the directorial talent who made splashes on Netflix. Sandra Bullock, Kurt Russell, Michael Sheen, Paul Rudd, Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, and Chris Pine are just some of the stars that hopped onto the smaller screens this year. These are Hollywood stars and acclaimed actors whose work is known worldwide, choosing to spend their time on these Netflix projects. For the service to break into the Hollywood elite club, they’ve needed to get some insiders to join them. Shrewd move, Netflix.
Whilst these successes were big for Netflix, it’s important to take stock of the landscape. They are in an incredibly competitive industry with Amazon Prime, Hulu, and so many other streaming services, so they need to keep this momentum up this year to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke. It also should be said that they are not the biggest distributor in the world immediately, despite their accessibility. They still need to iron out the kinks in their weaker projects and look at being more diligent in what they promote and support in order to be a great studio. As harsh as it sounds, the great studios are not defined by being decent. That said, they need to allow more debutantes onto the surface as well, and look to give chances to new filmmakers, who need them to get their big break. It’s a delicate balancing act that must be struck precisely to achieve greatness.
So, with all this said, where can Netflix go in 2019 and beyond? Their awards season fate will be determined by the Oscars later this month. Looking further, hopefully, they continue to deliver a varied filmography, complete with a combination of big names, new names, genre-challenging projects and a large collection of great films. It is also hoped that they will be working alongside cinemas and challenging the film industry to produce an amazing line up of big screen entertainment as well as small screen delight. With such strong competition but undoubtable creative power, Netflix should be able to balance all this to prove that 2018 wasn’t just a one-off.
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Martha Sorren
Photo: Courtesy of ABC.
What had been a pretty smooth journey thus far for Cassie and Colton on The Bachelor hit a snag last week. Cassie's name came up as someone who was possibly not there for the right reasons (which she denied). It looked as though Colton may send her home, but he ultimately chose to go to hometowns with her, allowing the frontrunner to breathe a sigh of relief. But their future isn't sealed yet. Cassie's family could change her mind about Bachelor Colton, because they're the people she trusts above all else — and as we saw on Monday's episode, Cassie's dad has an issue with Colton and this whole reality show set-up. And while nothing seems to be able to get in Cassie's way this season, her family's disapproval just might have the power to slow the Cassie and Colton train down.
Cassie's dad had a rare (for The Bachelor), serious chat with her about the issues with the set-up of the show and its ability to create lasting, real marriages in a matter of months. "He's still dating three other girls. I just want a little reality check," he said to Cassie about Colton. "I know what you're saying, I know what you're saying," a flummoxed Cassie responded. Her dad clarified in a talking head that he didn't like to judge people too quickly, but he also didn't have a rave review for Colton. "He seemed like a, you know, guy — dating my daughter," her dad eventually said.
If Cassie takes her father's concerns to heart (and she seemed to a little, stating she won't accept a proposal if she's not sure), it could be enough to sway Cassie's mind about Colton. She's made it clear that her family is her number one priority. Her Bachelor bio even says, "The one thing she wouldn't do for love is turn her back on her family."
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Her Instagram further shows just how close the Randolphs really are. "These are my people forever," she wrote on a group photo of her family.
These are my people forever❤️ I love you fam
A post shared by Cassie Randolph (@cassierandolph) on Nov 23, 2017 at 7:49pm PST
Her sister Michelle is younger by two years, but Cassie still refers to her sister as "my little twin" and "forever and ever my partner in crime." And when Michelle turned 21, Cassie uploaded a loving post about her. "Happy 21st to my baby sister & my better half," she wrote in the caption. "So lucky to be stuck with you our entire lives. Wouldn’t want to be old in a rocking chair with anyone else. LOVE U more than life bb girl."
So proud of you my little twin @michellerandolph ♥️ Most adorable Snow White I’ve ever seen #asnowwhitechristmas 🎬🎄I want to fold you up and keep you in my pocket forever 🤟ily
A post shared by Cassie Randolph (@cassierandolph) on Dec 6, 2018 at 5:29pm PST
Cassie also has a brother, whom she's close to as well. "Craving some sibling time," she captioned a photo of her with Michelle and their brother Landon playing in the pool. And she's posted about how much she loves and respects her parents too, so if her father has a problem with Colton and the process of the show, she could end up agreeing with her dad.
"Happy Father's Day to the very best Dada in the entire world!!" she once wrote on Instagram. "Words can't describe how blessed I am to have you as a huge part of my life. I'm more than lucky to have a dad who supports me and cares for me as much as you do. Love you more than anything."
Colton is feeling really good about his relationship with Cassie. He even said in a talking head at the end of the most recent episode, "I can picture our future together, and I'm feeling very excited about meeting Cassie's family 'cause I'm falling in love with her."
But those feelings of Colton's may not matter if Cassie's family doesn't see their future together. She's obviously capable of making her own choices, but she's also been clear that family comes first. So expect their opinions to matter a lot to her — and Colton better hope they come around.
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Scene from “The Soldier” season two, Outer Limits. Written by Harlan Ellison.
They were going over the top at 0300 hours. Corporal Tennyson had exactly twenty minutes to check out his squad before the push.
As usual, some idiot higher up the food chain had decided that the middle of the night would somehow be more efficient for killing than the middle of the day. Well, it was not his job to question orders, “Ours is not to reason why…” and all that crap.
He moved down the line of the trench checking on his squad. They were a good group, fourteen men in all, counting himself, and seven of them had been in the trenches almost as long as he had. To the man they stood silent and ready. Only one, Howard, was new. This would be his first assault.
Tennyson found him at his assigned spot in the line. He had his helmet off, going over the visor with a soft charged cloth.
“One last buff, Private Howard?”
“Yes, Corporal, the lads told me my visor was dirty, I thought it would do with another polish…” His voice was shaky, but clear. Tennyson knew that the visor was as clean as it would get under field conditions, and that someone had given Howard “make work” to keep him occupied and calm. Good, he would have to find out whom, and issue a drug bonus.
“Well put it on, and don’t forget to latch it,” Tennyson soothed. He scanned the chronometer inside his own helmet. “We go over in fifteen.”
“Yes Corporal, will do.”
Tennyson started to move away when Howard called out.
“Corporal Tennyson?”
“Yes Howard?”
“I heard they have gas….” a silent whisper, a question and a statement at once. A mirrored helmet turned to look at Tennyson and he noted from the ID scan on the visor that it was Private “Lancer” Blackwell. Tennyson stepped up to Howard and spoke softly.
“Of course they have gas Howard, we have gas don’t we?”
“But… we won’t use it, we wouldn’t use it sir, I mean, it’s against the conventions, no one has used it yet… have they?”
“Of course not Howard, no one is going to use gas, but that doesn’t stop anyone from deploying it. I wouldn’t worry about it; try to keep your mind on the assault, one step at a time.”
Blackwell slapped the side of his helm and the visor flew open. He spoke across the trench to Howard. “Bullets, gas, beams, knife, axe, mace, it doesn’t really matter Howard. You are just as dead… the important thing is surviving… Kill or be killed. Nothing’s really changed.” He slapped the helm and his visor clicked down again. He spoke once more over the com-link. “Just stick with me and you’ll be alright.” He reached down and picked up his shield.
Lancer was Howard’s shield mate. Tennyson had seen to that. With any luck, Howard would survive the push and gain enough experience to actually be of use in the next one.
Howard nodded gamely and lowered his own visor. Lancer checked the latch and gave thumbs up to Tennyson. Blackwell was the only North American in Tennyson’s squad and had refused promotion to corporal several times. Unlike Tennyson, who would gain the benefit of Imperial citizenship when his tour was over, Blackwell had his own reasons for enlisting in the guard. Whatever they were, he kept them to himself.
Tennyson checked his chronometer and moved back down the line to his flanking position to await the order.
Armored soldiers from the video game “HALO 3”
Ten minutes to push. The com-link hissed silently. Tennyson looked right to inspect his squad. They were all leaning back against the trench, their armor softly reflecting the stars overhead. On his left crouched Kilgore’s squad; the end of their division’s flank. A hard corps of veteran men-at-arms, Tango squad was led by the friendly Irish Sergeant. Tennyson believed his own left flank to be safe in Kilgore’s hands, as Kilgore knew his right was safe in Tennyson’s.
Seven minutes, and Tennyson checked his pulse… seventy, not bad. Kilgore’s would be about sixty-five. He stepped to the forward edge of the trench to have a look.
A turtle team had dug the trench they were in just six hours earlier. The Teflon walls were only now showing signs of dirt. The regiment formed in place, armor bright, guns charged, hand weapons sharp. With a tentative step up, Tennyson peered over the edge. In front of him lay three hundred yards of starlit field, flat and deadly. The grass had been mowed short by the beam weapons, but was still about four inches high. It hadn’t rained in days, so they wouldn’t have to worry about mud clinging to the armor. No moon either, a perfect night.
“Makes you wonder,” Kilgore’s voice came over the com-link in Tennyson’s left ear, the private channel, “How many times this piece o’ land’s been run over by soldiers.” Kilgore was an avid historian. He and Tennyson sat up the night before; talking about all the battles fought in this part of what was once Old France. Hell, they had even had trench warfare in the First World War, not much different from this. In fact, a turtle team set off an un-exploded piece of ordinance from that war last week, scaring the hell out of everybody, though no one was hurt.
“Yeah, French and German soldiers… English and French Knights…”
“Hell boyo, Romans and Gauls are buried out there… nothing’s changed.”
Except for the weapons, thought Tennyson. And even then, things had gone full cycle. After the thermonuclear bans, duralinium was developed, replacing Kevlar. Then particle beams made most projectile weapons obsolete by cooking the ammo in the guns, and heat beams cut through the dull armor, so the harness acquired a mirror finish to reflect the beams. The arms race evolved right back to the swords and axes hanging by their sides, to use in the terrifying hand-to-hand combat that often resulted from a push.
“Stare a man in the face, and watch him die, before you call yourself a soldier,” his Master of Arms had told him. That was a lifetime ago, Tennyson thought. Too many life times.
“So, I guess I’ll be calling you `Citizen’ soon…” Kilgore needled him.
Tennyson flinched at the mention of his short term. It was generally bad form to speak of the end of a tour when it was down to days.
“Yeah… not long now.” Four days and sixteen hours in fact.
“Sure you won’t re-up for non-com? The twenty-four acres would make a nice start…” Kilgore was pushing him again. “Boy like you could use another tour. Polish you up, make you an officer even. Sure, two years in Gold Plate, and you retire with a franchise.”
“Not interested, I have other plans.”
“Sure you do, but an officer’s pay makes a nice wedding gift.”
“She will be happy enough to get me back with all my original parts.”
“You could get `selected’,” Kilgore teased. Tennyson snorted at the sergeant’s term for conscription.
“I’m no hero,” he replied.
“Sixty seconds, all units stand by.” The order came over the general com-link, loud and clear in both ears. If his visor had been up, Tennyson would have heard the slight clicking sound of three thousand armored men moving forward in the trench. He checked his Mark VII and felt for his sword. Everything was where it was supposed to be.
“Sierra squad, stand by.” He gave the command in the right channel with one more glance down the line. Shield mates stood with their hand weapons ready, guarding their riflemen.
“General command… All units forward.”
“Sierra squad, forward,” Tennyson echoed, and they took the first steps over the top.
Tennyson was counting again. It always happened and he could not explain why. Maybe counting the number of steps forward helped to maintain the momentum, or stave off the enemy fire. Maybe it was a reaction to the metronome in his ears, keeping cadence. It never lasted once the shooting started.
“Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven…” Once, he had gotten to thirteen, they were almost all killed in that one. That should have cured him.
“Thirteen, fourteen…” and still no fire. A quick glance to his right showed his squad in perfect formation. Could the goonies be right this time? Are they actually going to catch the bastards asleep?
“Twenty three, twenty four…” The cadence cue sounded quick time and they all began to jog. The line was a little ragged but straightening out. “Sierra squad, dress left…” A gleaming row of mirrored heads snapped to the left, lined up off Tennyson, then forward again as one. “Good lads, watch your pace, close it up.”
They lacked only horses to complete the picture of a medieval charge. Since the magnetic pulse generators kept any vehicles from flying or driving over the battlefield, horses had been considered as an option early on in the wars. Their biggest drawback, aside from their armor, was the difficulty in training them.
“Thirty five, thirty six…” They were making good progress; Tennyson suppressed thoughts of Picket’s charge. A strobe light exploded in his helm, and Tennyson knew a beam had hit him. His visor darkened in defense. He was running blind; it would take a few seconds for his eyes to adjust. “Sierra squad, return fire, half bursts.” The half-second bursts from their guns would not do much but encourage the bastards to duck, though it might save a few lives.
He stumbled on some rough ground… recovered, and glanced right, but nothing was visible. He cleared his visor and got a quick line, and then a star shell burst high overhead.
The magnesium flare gave a washed out light to the field, turning night into a black and white version of day. Tennyson lowered his visor, his vision adjusted, and he scanned the lines. Men were falling now. The beams from the Eastern Alliance trenches were firing in full, one-second bursts, picking out targets and frying through the dull spots in the amour. Those shield mates with experience redirected the beams, those without experience, merely deflected them. Some beams ricochet between the soldiers, diminishing in strength but finding chinks in their armor. These would generate second-degree burns. A man could endure them and continue to fight. That’s what the drugs were for.
“Sierra squad, full bursts…” Their rifles would be good for about a dozen full bursts at this point, Tennyson’s own handgun good for five. He would save those for the trenches. The big guns in the trenches continued to sweep the field, and occasional screams came through the com-link from undisciplined soldiers. There was no supporting fire from their own trenches of course; their only hope now was forward. The only way out was through.
Twenty yards to go, Tennyson felt for his sword. It was in his hand in a flash. Stray beams danced off the polished edge. “SIERRA!” He cried, leaping over the brink and into the enemy trench. His squad followed as a wave.
Image from Outer Limits episode “Soldier” – 1964
The Eastern Alliance wore a mixture of body armors. Some wore complete mirror, some were in old rough duralinium. A few had only simple Kevlar. All had mirrored helms for peering over the edge though. The first one on Tennyson fired with a hand-beam. The bolt hit Tennyson in the breastplate, bounced back and caught the bastard under his own chin. He went down gurgling and spewing blood from his neck. Tennyson saved his shots for the next one.
This one was in full mirror, an officer no doubt. He had a hand-beam in his left hand and a battle-axe in his right. He and Tennyson stood facing each other for a heartbeat. They both fired at once and the beams went wild, their second shots were more accurate, but ineffective. Tennyson could see Kilgore’s squad still on the brink, fighting to get over. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Tennyson slapped his gun back to his side and stepped forward with his blade.
The E.A. officer took another shot at Tennyson, catching the blade. It bounced off and hit the wall of the trench, searing a groove in the Teflon. The enemy officer took a pace back and slapped his gun against its lock to put both hands on the battle-axe. It was a light weapon, with an eight-inch blade on one side and a six-inch armor-piercing spike on the other. The officer chose the spike.
Without a lot of room in the trench, it was really going to come down to a few moves. Tennyson feinted a straight thrust to the gorget at the neck, then shifted for a shot to the visor. The officer picked it up with the axe handle, and went for an overhead shot to the Corporal.
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Tennyson closed the distance, parrying the axe and locking his right heel behind the officer. A hard crash and they were down in the trench. Tennyson was on top for the moment, but their armor plates locked together. He struggled to get his arm free for a killing thrust, when a stray beam caught him under the back pauldron, searing his shoulder. With a scream, he rolled free, and tried to scramble up.
The trench was full of men, stray beams bounced around, searing friend and foe alike. Most of the combat was hand-to-hand, as they clashed in a brutal assault of muscle and steel. The Eastern officer was on his feet, his axe held high ready to bring the spike down on Tennyson’s breastplate. Tennyson held his breath, the figure jerked, dropped to its knees, and slumped forward. The butt of an estoc protruded from his back and Lancer Blackwell kicked the officer over. He held out his hand and helped Tennyson to his feet.
“Howard?” Tennyson asked in the left ear.
“Lost him…” was the solemn reply. Tennyson retrieved his sword and looked about. There were almost no beams flashing and the combat had dropped to a few isolated pockets of hand-to-hand. All and all, not as much resistance as they had expected. He called out.
“Sierra Report.” The numbers cascaded in Tennyson’s ear as he checked roll. Blackwell knelt to cut the throat of a struggling E.A. soldier. “Maybe it’s just as well he’s not promoted,” thought Tennyson. He found a side branch to the main trench and followed it back. The roll call finished off with two missing and two wounded, not counting Tennyson’s shoulder. The drugs could wait.
“Right behind you …” Lancer’s voice was in his left ear.
“And I’m behind him…” Kilgore’s Irish lilt comforted Tennyson while he followed the zig zagging trench. It ended in a cul-de-sac, and a sight that stopped the veterans in their tracks.
Private Howard faced an Eastern officer dressed in full mirror plate. The officer had sword and shield, Howard wielded a two handed axe he must have retrieved in the trench. For some odd reason, both had their helms off, and Tennyson raised his own visor for a better look.
“Sweet mother O’ Jesus…” Kilgore breathed aloud.
“The kid’s got rhythm,” Blackwell appraised, and they watched the intricate dance.
There was something familiar about the scene. The sound of the steel, the labored breathing, even the distant sounds of dying men. “Nothing’s changed,” Tennyson thought, and focused his attention back on Howard.
There was no reason to allow the fight to continue. Howard had proven his courage and strength to himself and his shield mate. Tennyson reached for his gun to finish off the officer.
“Wait,” Kilgore’s hand stopped him. “Give the lad a chance at his kill.” The officer had dropped his shield, and was swinging his sword with both hands. The men slowed, fighting their armor as well as each other. Finally, the officer parried a sweeping blow to his shoulder, and body slammed Howard. They went down grunting, rolling toward a blockhouse.
Tennyson, Blackwell and Kilgore followed them down a series of steps, the two men locked in a hand-to-hand embrace. At the base of the steps, Howard was on top, throttling the officer in a chokehold. He had the reach on his enemy, and the eastern soldier clawed and struck at Howard’s face.
“That’s it, you got him, finish him!” urged Blackwell, and Tennyson was once again struck by the feeling of deja-vu. The officer’s face turned red, then blue as Howard strained to tighten his grip. Finally, the flailing arms went limp and Howard tumbled forward in exhaustion.
“Easy boy, well done, well done,” Kilgore assisted Howard to his feet, and Tennyson scanned the bunker for other troops. The bunker was a shielded control house, its communications gear smashed, computer terminals busted or fried, paperwork shredded. Nothing of any importance could be salvaged. “Squad reports…” sounded in both ears, and Tennyson called in “Sierra squad, one missing… re group!”
Lancer retrieved Howard’s helm and offered it to the soldier. “You alright?”
The boy nodded.
“You done good, let’s go.” Lancer and the boy made their way towards the alley, with Kilgore behind them and Tennyson bringing up the rear.
Tennyson was about to close his own visor when a noise from behind caught his attention. He turned to see the eastern officer lying just inside the bunker door, his hand still on a lever there. A fine cloud of yellow gas was pouring from a recessed nozzle.
“GAS!” yelled Tennyson, and slapped his visor shut.
“Gas Alert!” He shouted over both channels, but the call was already coming back from other sources. They ran through the trenches now, and Tennyson noticed the gas escaping from hidden nozzles in different parts of the Teflon walls. It was heavy, and moved slowly, forming pockets that whirled and eddied. The running troops only served to stir up the air and disperse the toxin. He had no idea what its effects might be.
“Sierra Squad, Hold Position!” He called out on the squad link. Then he switched to main-com. “Every one freeze, we’re stirring it up, watch for clear pockets!” It was an impossible order to expect to be obeyed, but these were men trained to climb over a wall into the face of certain death. After a moment, there was calm in the trenches, as everyone slowed their movements and started backing away from the gas clouds.
Everywhere you looked, men were backing into tight pockets avoiding the cloud. Injured men unable to move were overcome by the cloud, and their bodies jerked grotesquely before lying still.
Still from Outer Limits episode “Soldier” – 1964
“Nerve gas…” Kilgore spoke in his ear. “We can’t stay.”
Tennyson knew biological armor existed. Armored space suits really, they had proved in the past to be too bulky and impossible to wear under combat conditions. Just as in the past, no one really expected to use biological weapons, because you could never tell which way the wind would blow.
“Nothing’s changed…,” thought Tennyson.
“Corporal Tennyson, we’re closing in here…” The voices began over the com link.
Kilgore spoke over all, “Stand by to evacuate, Lieutenant Neil…?” No answer.
“He’s dead…were all going to die!” a panicked voice rang in both ears. Tennyson waited only a heartbeat for general orders, and then with a look at Kilgore, who nodded his head, he shouted into the Squad Link.
“Sierra, over the top… fall back!”
“Tango over the top, FALL BACK!” Kilgore’s squad followed.
Squad orders surged through the lines until the general order was repeated in the link. Men scrambled up out of the trenches, trying to drag the injured with them. The gas acted on contact with any part of the skin, as those who were overcome at the ankles began to fall.
Tennyson was out and facing the trench, counting heads and helping to pull men out, when the beams hit them from the Eastern Alliance’s second line of trenches. Trapped between the gas below and the beams above, the Western squads started dropping as whole units. The armor on their backs was weaker and afforded less protection to heavier particle beams. Those beams cut through tarnished duralinium, covered now in blood and dirt from the previous assault.
“Sierra, return fire, RETREAT!” What was left of his squad formed up next to Tennyson as they began backpedaling toward their trenches. The screams of men filled the channels, panic pierced the night. Arms and legs began falling off men like doll parts. Some men were cut down at the knees, but continued to crawl backward. Some men turned and fled, they died within yards of their decision.
It was a nightmare, the kind where you never stop falling, or you can’t quite reach the door knob… and it would go on forever. Shield mates died protecting each other.
Tennyson never saw the trench, and barely remembered falling backwards. Stunned by the landing, he had to catch his breath before calling out.
“Sierra,report!” he croaked.
Just when he thought his com -link was broken, Howard’s voice came over the right ear.
“Private Howard, here.”
“Blackwell here, and that’s it, Corporal.”
Kilgore? He called out, “Tango company, Sergeant Kilgore?”
“On the field lad, me legs are gone, don’t waste your time.”
Blackwell appeared over Tennyson, extended his hand and hauled him up. Together they peered over the edge.
In the distance, a lone figure raised a hand feebly, “I expect a glorious wake, no one sober. Make it grand…”
Blue and white beams played across the field, in both directions, a clear indication that whatever was left on the field would be dead within seconds.
An armored mannequin appeared at Tennyson’s elbow. It had the gold sheen of a staff officer, and the visor slid up to reveal Major Stafford.
“Well done… Tennyson, isn’t it? Well done lad! You and your boys did a fine job! Remarkable really. Commendations all around I should think. You’re a sergeant now boy, four squads to handle, I’m sure you’ll commit yourself well. Proper `Selection Ceremony’ later of course. Promote from within, at your discretion, full report at O600. We want to know the exact details on the gas. It is contained in their own trenches of course. Still, I would give anything to know how they are going to neutralize it. Our medicos hoped we would find some documentation. Oh well, Carry on,” he turned and marched smartly off down the trench.
Tennyson pulled his sword from its scabbard. Blackwell laid a hand on his shoulder.
“It’s not worth it… Sergeant.”
“You’re right of course; I’d just have to clean the blade. Thank’s,… Corporal.” Blackwell groaned in response to his promotion.
“Sergeant… we’re all that’s left of Sierra squad…” Howard seemed dazed, but somehow older, as Tennyson looked into the eyes of the fifteen-year old warrior.
“Well then, Private Howard, that would make you a Veteran, wouldn’t it?”
The armored figure stood a little straighter before answering, “I guess so … Sergeant.”
“C’mon boy, lets get this armor cleaned.” Blackwell led the trooper off, leaving Tennyson to contemplate his unwanted advancement.
“I’ll be damned, some things do change”, he thought, and closed his eyes for a quick nap.
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Redwell Primary School, Alloa
Sector: Education Completion date: August 2014
In partnership with Clackmannanshire Council, through the hub East Central Scotland framework, we provided a new primary school and nursery to meet the client's needs for a positive, modern school building with a strong identity.
"The school has become something that the community is really proud of and felt that they were part of all the way through. So it has been much more than just a building project - and that's fantastic."
David Leng, Head of Education, Stirling & Clackmannanshire Councils
26,000 tonnes of subsoil were re-used on site and incorporated into the landscaping
91% of construction waste was diverted from landfill and sent for recycling
66% of recycled waste was segregated on site
Approximately 2,000m3 of concrete poured
Over 90,680 manhours worked
Internal floor area: around 3749m2
In partnership with Clackmannanshire Council, through the hub East Central Scotland framework, we have provided a new primary school and nursery to replace the existing St John's and Claremont primary schools. Combining St John's and Claremont into one purpose-built facility has successfully addressed ongoing issues with the existing schools, including the fabric of the buildings, disability access, running costs, and suitability for future educational needs.
Architect: Keppie Design
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Designed to support 444 pupils and 80 nursery children, the new school is situated on Stirling Road in West Alloa, in close vicinity to the old schools. The main body of the building houses the games hall, nursery and dining hall, while three classroom wings extend outwards to create learning spaces with 18 classrooms. The primary structural frame is timber, with the exception of the two-storey steel-framed games hall. The external finishes are a mixture of facing brick, render, curtain walling and cladding.
Requirements and challenges
The client's specific needs were to create a high-quality, positive, modern school building with a strong identity. It had to integrate well with its environment and community, while providing a balanced and stimulating learning environment.
As David Leng (Head of Education, Stirling & Clackmannanshire Councils) explains: "We had an issue in Clackmannanshire: we had two primary schools that were aging. The population situation was such that we needed to do something. The quality of the buildings wasn't great, and we had capacity problems. So we looked at various options, we went to public consultation, and I'm delighted to say that ultimately we agreed to go to a new build - and Redwell is the product of that new build."
The school's playing fields and changing rooms will be available to the local community outside of school hours after the first year, as soon as the new planting has been allowed to develop. Redwell Primary School is also home to an out-of-school care club.
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Use of factory-insulated, pre-fabricated roof cassettes saved considerable time on site. Traditionally trussed areas were constructed on the ground and then lifted into place, which meant operatives were not working at height and in turn sped up the process. Both of the above solutions reduced the need for expensive fall-arrest systems and provided a safer working environment for site operatives.
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Delivering the project through the hub East Central Scotland framework allowed the design to be developed with the client and supply chain prior to the contract award. This partnering approach was critical in mitigating challenges and risks before the start of construction.
We also worked with the project stakeholders in terms of developing the curriculum support we could provide. David Leng says: "This was a great example of partnership working. There are schools being built all over Scotland at the moment; what was done well here was that there was planning done with the schools and Robertson, which meant that they could develop the learning together. There was a real sense of ownership between both ourselves and Robertson."
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Our project and Community Benefits teams have worked in partnership with all the stakeholders to provide an extensive programme of curriculum support, exceeding our KPIs by carrying out 41 separate activities. These ranged from site visits to build demonstrations and college workshops. While introducing school and nursery children to construction processes and materials, careers in the built environment industry, landscaping and renewable energy, this process has also succeeded in giving the children a sense of ownership and familiarity with the school they are now occupying.
We also held ‘Meet the Buyer' and ‘Community Day' events, which lead to orders being placed with local suppliers. Four new and 14 existing apprentices were employed on the project. Eight work placements were provided in partnership with the Action for Children charity, the Local Authority work experience programme and Forth Valley College. One-week work placements were also provided for a group of 14 to 16-year-old pupils.
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"Robertson's input has been way beyond what we would have expected - it's been outstanding. The children have spoken very positively about their experience from day one. They felt that they had a say in what their school looked like. It was fantastic that they could come and look at the site at every opportunity and see the building grow.
"One of our big curricular aims is to deliver an opportunity for the children to consider future career choices. Through this project with Robertson and the education plan, we had so many opportunities to think about the skills in the construction industry, the equipment, and the places where you could work. We learnt how a team can come together, encompassing lots of different roles, to create a brand new building. I think we'll have some budding builders at the end of this project!"
Gillian Ward, Deputy Head Teacher, Redwell Primary School
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Wot I Think: Donut County
28th August 2018 / 3:00PM
Developer: Ben Esposito
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Release: Out now
On: Windows, Mac OS
From: Steam, GOG
For: TBC
After more than five years in development, gorgeous-looking hole-based puzzler Donut County is out today. It’s definitely not everything I had hoped for. Here’s wot I think:
Donut County feels like a great idea in search of a game. In fact, I’d bet a good amount of money that this is exactly the way in which it was formed.
A few years ago, at the 2013 celebration of novel ideas that is GDC’s Experimental Gameplay Workshop, Ben Esposito first showed his idea for a game mechanic in which the player controlled a hole in the ground. Then called Kachina, the hole could be moved around to cause anything above it to fall in, growing in size with the more it consumed. Esposito quickly demonstrated a few little ideas of how this could be developed into puzzles, with holes that consume fire being used to cook items above, or water filling the hole and then used to float objects. People cheered in delight. It was indeed utterly delightful.
In 2015 Esposito returned to GDC, to deliver a wonderful and humble talk about how Kachina became Donut County, and the lessons he’d learned on that journey. Aside from a couple of trailers, things have been pretty quiet since then. And now we have the finished game.
Donut County looks absolutely adorable. The art is great, and the physics modelling works perfectly with it as you topple larger and larger objects into your hole to clear the screen. Which is, pretty much, all you do. It varies this slightly as you progress through its two to three hours, little twists or changes for a level, but in the main it’s about watching objects plop through a hole. And the truth is, that’s very satisfying a lot of the time. But it’s really not enough.
There are so many lovely ideas, but weirdly they each in turn go unrealised. Take rabbits. The primary logic of the game is, the more that falls in the hole, the bigger it gets, so it’s a moment of lovely surprise that when two rabbits fall in, the camera zooms in to show hearts popping above, and the hole grows a lot larger. Naughty rabbits! Except, this isn’t the ingenious solution to a tricky puzzle – it’s just a thing that happens. Three times in the level, increasingly pointlessly. You don’t work it out – you just do it because at a certain point, the first two rabbits are the only things left on screen small enough to fit in the hole you’ve currently got.
Better is the frog, which is fired out to catch other objects, but then as soon as it’s appeared it’s gone. Later comes the catapult, which lets you fire certain things back out of your hole, and again seems like it should offer all sorts of interesting situations. But once again you just do the one available action, and it works, and then that’s that. This is endemic to the whole of Donut County, where your actions are inevitabilities, where progress is about doing what there is to do, and then the level ending. Gosh it all looks and sounds completely splendid as you do it, but it is, oh so appropriately, a very hollow experience.
The levels are interspersed with story scenes, which tell the tale of what the hole is all about, with what I’d argue is some degree of helpless reaching. A raccoon, you see, owns a donut shop. But everyone who ordered a donut from him instead had their local area fall down a hole he controlled by, um, an app on his phone. Each individual’s incident is then played out by you, before returning to the location a thousand feet underground where a group of anthropomorphised creatures and one human berate the raccoon, who acts as if he’s done nothing wrong.
I don’t want to dwell too much on the style of writing, because I really can’t tell if it’s just that I’m done with the Night In The Woods-style aloof faux-millennial chatter, or if there’s something particularly over-arch and dismissive here. I adored it when Oxenfree did it, I liked a lot of how Night In The Woods used it to alienate and endear, yet here it just grates for me. But on the larger scale, I don’t get it, I don’t understand why this group of unintroduced creatures are sneering at each other in this game at all, and I’m absolutely certain none of it was necessary. I don’t think any narrative justification for the hole was needed, and while it eventually reaches a ludicrous finale that makes its own sort of sense, I found myself wishing they’d all be quiet so I could get on with playing the game.
Oh bottoms. I really wanted to love this. Since 2013 I’ve been quietly enamoured with the concept. And when it looks and sounds this good, when the systems all work, it’s such an anticlimax. Every now and then it seems as if it’s about to blossom out into a proper treat, where you might need to use your brain a little here and there – there are machines to operate, popcorn to pop, trees to set on fire – and then it goes nowhere. I think there could have been a Donut County that, perhaps with a less meandering development, might have been a really quiet, gently ingenious puzzler. This feels like a game instead more focused on trying out tiny ideas before getting distracted by the next. The penultimate level hints, I think, at what could have been. But what is, sadly, is a very middling execution of an extremely lovely idea.
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Categories of the manifestation according to Trika system
Gabriel Pradīpaka, again. I have published this document in order to show concisely the thirty-six tattva-s or levels of Creation according to Trika.
Despite this is a kind of summary, I will describe each of the tattva-s to a certain extent. You should use this document as an essential one. Each time you need it, here it is to be used. As you go deeper and deeper into your studies of Trika, Sanskrit, Meditation and other philosophies, you will have to return to it over and over again.
Note that the 25 tattva-s stated by Sāṅkhya (a philosophical system) are the same as the last 25 tattva-s of Trika. Trika reworked the tattvic scheme of Sāṅkhya and added 11 more categories to it. So, if you are a follower of Sāṅkhya, this chart will prove very useful for you too.
Please, go to Trika section on this website for more information on tattva-s or categories.
Let us get down to work.
PARAMAŚIVA
-परमशिव-
(The Supreme Śiva or Source of all)
1. Śiva -शिव- Even though He is beyond description, it might be said that He is the real "I". Śiva is full of Cicchakti (Cit + śakti) or the Power of Consciousness. Both Śiva and Śakti emerge from Paramaśiva or the Supreme Śiva. In Paramaśiva there is not even the subtle "duality" of Śiva-Śakti. All tattva-s emerge from that Reality.
2. Śakti -शक्ति- She is beyond description too. However, it might be said that She is the real "am" . Śiva and Śakti constitute the real "I am". Śakti makes Śiva conscious of Himself, but no separation between them both may be stated anyway. Śakti is, as it were, a very subtle "stress" on the infinite and static body of Śiva. From Her the rest of the tattva-s arises and, in fact, they are a form of Her. There is absolute unity between Her and the rest of the tattva-s. She is full of Ānandaśakti or the Power of Bliss.
ANĀŚRITAŚIVA
-अनाश्रितशिव-
(Śiva without any categories)
3. Sadāśiva or Sādākhya
-सदाशिव or सादाख्य- Sadāśiva is the abode of Icchāśakti or Power of Will. Here a foggy universe appears. The consciousness is "I am This" (I am this foggy universe). The universe is a "newborn" yet, hence it is indistinct. Since the universe is not fully formed, the side "I" is predominant. The side "This" (universe) is still foggy, not full-grown.
4. Īśvara -ईश्वर- Īśvara is the abode of Jñānaśakti or Power of Knowledge. Here a distinct and clear universe appears. The consciousness is "This is Me" (This distinct universe is Me). The universe is now full-fledged, hence it is distinct. Since the universe is fully formed, the side "This" is predominant. The side "I" is still there but overwhelmed by the divine wonder unfolding itself before Him.
5. Sadvidyā or Śuddhavidyā
-सद्विद्या or शुद्धविद्या- Sadvidyā is the abode of Kriyāśakti or Power of Action. Here the consciousness is fully balanced between "I" and "This". "This" is the universe, of course. The consciousness is "I am I and This is This". The side "I" is now balanced with the side "This", that is to say, both of them are likewise predominant. This is the unity in the difference, because there is a universe which is different from Śiva ("I") but at the same time there is a underlying unity among them both.
ĀṆAVAMALA -आणवमल- (Āṇavamala or the Primordial Impurity bringing about the rest of the tattva-s in which the difference and dualism is predominant). After Āṇavamala, two more Mala-s or Impurities are produced: Māyīyamala -मायीयमल- and Kārmamala -कार्ममल-, which bring about more difference and attachment to actions respectively.
6. Māyā -माया- Māyā is Ignorance. Trika's Māyā is not like that of Vedānta. In Trika, Māyā is a tattva or a "real" level of Creation. Māyā is in charge of drawing a veil over the essential nature of Śiva (apparently, of course). Māyā turns the Infinite Self into someone full of limitations. Amazing! Māyīyamala and Kārmamala arise on account of the operation of the Māyātattva. These two impurities bring more diffences and attachment to actions with them. Sometimes, Māyā is considered to be "a sixth" Kañcuka or Sheath wraping the consciousness with a subtle but strong veil of ignorance.
7. Kalā -कला- Kalā is the first Kañcuka or Sheath of Ignorance. It gives the notion of "limited activity" to the consciousness which was veiled by Māyā. It is Kriyāśakti (Omnipotence) having undergone contraction. It infuses the erroneous notion: "I have limits regarding action, I cannot do this, I cannot do that, etc." This tattva is the root for the future Karmic Law, that is, Karma can work on a limited individual because of the operation of Kalā which restrains his inherent "Omnipotence". KAÑCUKA(S)
-कञ्चुक-
8. Vidyā -विद्या- Vidyā is the second Kañcuka or Sheath of Ignorance. It gives the notion of "limited knowledge" to the consciousness which was veiled by Māyā. It is Jñānaśakti (Omniscience) having undergone contraction. It infuses the erroneous notion: "I have limits regarding knowledge, I do not know this, I do not know that, etc.".
9. Rāga -राग- Rāga is the third Kañcuka or Sheath of Ignorance. It gives the notion of "limited will" --leading to attachment-- to the consciousness which was veiled by Māyā. It is Icchāśakti (Absolute Will) having undergone contraction. It infuses the erroneous notion: "I lack something, I need something", and consequently the final result of that need in the form of "I am attached to something" arises.
10. Kāla -काल- Kāla is the fourth Kañcuka or Sheath of Ignorance. It gives the notion of "parts" --leading to the notion of time-- to the consciousness which was veiled by Māyā. It is Ānandaśakti (Supreme Bliss) having undergone contraction. It infuses the erroneous notion: "I am not everlasting, eternal, I just live a few years, I am old, I am young, etc.".
11. Niyati -नियति- Niyati is the last Kañcuka or Sheath of Ignorance. It gives the notion of "space" to the consciousness which was veiled by Māyā. It is Cicchakti (the Power of Consciousness) having undergone contraction. It infuses the erroneous notion: "I am here and that is over there, I am not all-pervading, etc.".
12. Puruṣa -पुरुष- It is Śiva Himself having undergone all previous limitations (Kañcuka-s). Despite the self-imposed limitation, Śiva remains the same though. This Puruṣa is the inner Self in all beings. Although it is the goal to be attained in Sāṅkhya, Trika considers it to be just a step in the involution/evolution of Śakti.
13. Prakṛti -प्रकृति- Prakṛti is merely that state in which the three qualities (Guṇa-s) remain completely balanced. These Guṇa-s are Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. They are the well-known Jñānaśakti, Icchāśakti and Kriyāśakti, respectively, having undergone one more contraction. When the Supreme Witness (Śiva) is covered by the veil of Māyā and her Kañcuka-s, He is "apparently" transformed into Puruṣa. This Puruṣa beholds His Śakti and She appears now to be formed from three forces known as Guṇa-s or qualities. Neither Śiva nor Śakti were "essentially" modified, but Śiva, through a self-imposed limitation, changed His viewpoint and began to consider Himself to be an individual soul. Interesting!
14. Buddhi or Mahat
-बुद्धि or महत्- It is the first evolute of Prakṛti. Buddhi constitutes the determinative faculty by which you decide a course of action in your life. In short, Buddhi is "the intellect". It is a predominantly sattvic tattva, that is, Jñāna (knowledge) is predominant in it. Buddhi is also that principle which allows you to abstractly catalog a particular object, animal or person under a definite category. For example, "That is a dog", "This is a hat". ANTAḤKARAṆA
-अन्तःकरण-
Inner (psychic) organ
15. Ahaṅkāra or Asmitā
-अहङ्कार or अस्मिता- It is the second evolute of Prakṛti. Ahaṅkāra constitutes the limited "I-ness". In short, Ahaṅkāra is "the ego". Not only from it, Manas, Indriya-s and Tanmātra-s emerge, but all these principles are also sustained by Asmitā. Its main characteristic is "self-appropriation". It makes "pure I-ness" a doer, hence one of its names is "Ahaṅkāra or I-doer". It associates pure "I", who is a mere witness, with a particular action or concept. For example, "I do my job", "I construct buildings", "I love you", "I am poor", etc. Let us remove the Ahaṅkāra and the sentences would be like this: "Job is being done", "Buildings are being constructed", "There is love for you", "There is poverty", etc. It sounds somewhat strange, doesn't it? Well, a world without ego would be wonderful, but what the heck, it is impossible for now. Ahaṅkāra also gives "volume" to all. It is the cause for this 3D universe. The ego is predominantly rajasic.
16. Manas -मनस्- It is the third evolute of Prakṛti. Manas constitutes a net of thoughts. In short, Manas is the ordinary mind which is the source and the controller of the future Jñānendriya-s (Powers of perception) and Karmendriya-s (Powers of action). Other of its functions is to straighten and color the primitive image formed in the retina. Manas works only in 2D, not 3D. To assign the third dimension is the work of Ahaṅkāra. Manas is predominantly tamasic.
17. Śrotra -श्रोत्र- or Śravaṇa -श्रवण- The power of hearing. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organs of hearing (ears). JÑĀNENDRIYA-S
-ज्ञानेन्द्रिय-
Powers of Perception (predominantly sattvic)
18. Tvak -त्वक्- The power of feeling by touch. It is that energy that predominantly circulates through the skin.
19. Cakṣus -चक्षुस्- The power of seeing. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organs of seeing (eyes).
20. Jihvā -जिह्वा- or Rasanā -रसना- The power of tasting. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organ of tasting (tongue).
21. Ghrāṇa -घ्राण- The power of smelling. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organ of smelling (nose).
22. Vāk -वाक्- The power of speaking. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organ of speaking (mouth). KARMENDRIYA-S
-कर्मेन्द्रिय-
Powers of Action (predominantly rajasic)
23. Pāṇi -पाणि- The power of handling. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organs of handling (hands).
24. Pāda -पाद- The power of locomotion. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organs of locomotion (legs and feet).
25. Pāyu -पायु- The power of excreting. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organ of excreting (anus).
26. Upastha -उपस्थ- The power of sexual activity and restfulness. It is that energy that ordinarily circulates through the organs of sexual activity and restfulness (genitals).
27. Śabda -शब्द- Sound-as-such. You can recognize different sounds because of this sound pattern. TANMĀTRA-S
-तन्मात्र-
Subtle elements (predominantly tamasic)
28. Sparśa -स्पर्श- Touch-as-such. You can recognize different kinds of touch because of this touch pattern.
29. Rūpa -रूप- Color-as-such. You can recognize different colors because of this color pattern.
30. Rasa -रस- Flavor-as-such. You can recognize different flavors because of this flavor pattern.
31. Gandha -गन्ध- Odor-as-such. You can recognize different odors because of this odor pattern.
32. Ākāśa -आकाश- The space or 3D framework within which the entire physical world exists. MAHĀBHŪTA-S
-महाभूत-
Gross elements (predominantly tamasic)
33. Vāyu -वायु- All that is gaseous. So, it is not only the ordinary "air".
34. Agni -अग्नि- or Tejas -तेजस्- All that contains heat and color. So, it is not only the ordinary "fire".
35. Āpas -आपस्- All that is liquid. So, it is not only the ordinary "water".
36. Pṛthivī -पृथिवी- All that is solid. So, it is not only the ordinary "earth".
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Translating Florida Georgia Line’s Sexual Innuendo
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WARNING: Language (sexual)
Professed Christians Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, known collectively as the pop country mega duo Florida Georgia Line have more euphemistic language on their new album Anything Goes than a salty-mouthed locker room. If you’ve been wondering what the hell they actually mean when they sing lines like, “Stick the pink umbrella in your drink,” then here are some useful translations of Florida Georgia Line’s most sexually-charged lines.
As Saving Country Music explained while declaring Anything Goes the worst album ever, “Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have their own language, partial to the most grammatically-challenged and stupefying vocabulary lurking in the dankest sewers of the English dialect, but not residing firmly in any specific one of them so no truly proper translation can be obtained. It’s like Pig Latin for douchewads understood by them and them only.” So please understand if certain translations could be interpreted a different way.
To save virgin eyes, medical terms have been used where possible. But of course, some language can only be properly translated by using other slang words.
And to be fair, sexual innuendo has been used in country music from very early on to circumvent the genre’s rigid moral codes, and sometimes to instill smart wit in the lyricism. However Florida Georgia Line’s poor use of innuendo should not be compared to these proud traditions.
FGL: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick the pink umbrella in your drink.”
Translation: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick my penis in your vagina.”
This line from Florida Georgia Line’s song “Sun Daze” has to be the most egregious innuendo of the entire project, not particularly well-veiled, and diseased in so many ways. The key to its sexual pervertedness is the use of “the” in the second line instead of “a.” If the line had been, “Stick a pink umbrella in your drink,” then it could have been passed off as more literal, and in turn would have made the innuendo more effective. But using “the” makes no mistake about what is being implied (keep it simple for FGL fans, I guess).
Even if you’re a fan of perverted innuendo, there still seems to be something universally unhealthy about alluding to male genitalia as “pink” anything, though admittedly the hue is somewhat accurate. Even more troubling is that a female was in on the “Sun Daze” songwriting session in the person of Sarah Buxton. One would have thought she would have put the stop sign up on this one, but no dice.
FGL: “Good Good” (title of third song on Anything Goes)
Translation: “Favorable Pussy” (slang for female genitals)
Florida Georgia Line uses the word “good” on Anything Goes 25 times, including multiple times as “good good.” The only word they use more is “girl”—used a whopping 42 times.
According to the Urban Dictionary, using the word “good” twice in succession means, “High quality kegel muscles that keep your significant other coming back and not looking for other people to satisfy their needs.” The example the Urban Dictionary uses is “So I’ve been dating this guy for three weeks, and yesterday he told me he loved me. I got that Good Good.”
Using “good good” as a euphemism for “pussy” is illustrated in the song by Ashanti also called “Good Good.”
When my man leave the house, I know he’s comin’ right back
I got that good good, I got that good good
No matter how much he might try to act, he know just where it’s at
I put it on him right, I do it every night
I leave him sittin’ mouth open like wheww
So I don’t worry bout nobody takin’ mine
Cause I know just the right thing to do (I got that good good)
When Tyler Hubbard was asked what “good good” meant by The National Post, he said, “It’s just all over the album, it’s fun, it’s words that nobody’s ever said before.”
FGL: “And let me stay inside your drink.”
Translation: “And let me keep my penis in your vagina.”
From the song “Bumpin’ The Night” (which is innuendo itself), this line is yet another illustration of the adolescent mindset Florida Georgia Line has towards the human sexual anatomy.
FGL: “There it is, yeah, that’s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I’m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
Translation: “You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Continue to perform oral sex on me.“
From the song with the divine title “Angel.” It’s the song built from the unforgivable cliché, “Did it hurt when you fell from the sky?” Incidentally, Florida Georgia Line says the word “angel” 21 times on Anything Goes.
Other Potential/Untranslatable Innuendos
“Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”
“If you want you can pet on my Harley.”
“Flow you the trouble like a champagne bubble, sayin'”
A Proper Use of Sexual Innuendo in Country Music:
Brian Kelley, Florida Georgia Line, Merle Haggard, Sarah Buxton, Tyler Hubbard
November 4, 2014 @ 10:54 am
Chances that “Good Good” will be a single? Probably very high.
Let me preface this by making it clear ..I DETEST EVERYTHING THIS BAND STANDS FOR -EVERYTHING !!
But this issue is pervasive , Trigger . I believe Hollywood can be credited with ‘pushing the envelope ” initially but hell …musicians have been singing these sexual metaphors since Jesus was a cowboy ( Zep sang…’Squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg’ ). The internet has certainly made them more and more accessible and ‘acceptable’ ( read “unstoppable” ) because there is really no way to censor the net . I think that it has really always been incumbent upon parents and guardians to be vigilant in making children aware of what’s really going on in a commercial /capitalist /consumer -driven society and now more-so than ever as nutrition , art , entertainment , politics and cultures in general are at risk of having their values undermined in the name of the dollar . With regards to the Kruise Kids being Christians . …c’mon . How many companies, artists , sects and religious off-shoots hide behind their supposed religious beliefs while bending or interpreting them to justify their OWN set of values and actions for commercial or political reasons ?
BJones
to further prove your point, Zep stole the lemon line from Robert Johnson.
Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music. You can make the case that this is worse than even David Allan Coe’s X-rated albums, because those were purposely marked to not be for mass consumption. Florida Georgia Line is the biggest act in country music right now. Mainstream country used to be the refuge from this type of stuff. Now it’s a magnet for it.
And I pointed out myself that there is a storied history of this type of innuendo being used in music, and country music specifically. FGL and “Anything Goes” just take it to another level, but please don’t let me represent it like it is unprecedented or even unusual in society overall. This was more just an illustration based off of this specific album.
emfrank
I agree with Albert to a point and don’t really find this disgusting. Innuendo is everywhere, probably more common in traditional blues than anywhere, but this is poorly crafted innuendo. That, to me, is what makes it terrible, not the sexual content. Ledbelly’s “squeeze my lemon” or Hopkin’s “my starter won’t start” (one of my favorite innuendos) are used to get at the rawness of sex. “Pink Umbrella” is just silly and makes sex trivial.
Or, more recently, compare the above to the following from Jason Isbell’s Cover Me Up. (Percy Priest is a dam in Tennessee… but that is not what he is talking about. Wish I were Amanda Shires when I hear it, but I digress.)
“Girl leave your boots by the door, we ain’t leaving this room,
Til’ Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through.”
Oops – making up my own lyrics. That is leave your boots by the bed.
Need an edit feature here Trig.
Oops again?
Not only on your misquote, but on the context too as the line following shows?
I read it differently than you, as in “nothing short of an emergency is getting us out of bed”.
So girl hang your dress up to dry/we ain’t leavin’ this room
Til Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through
Carries this house on the stones like a piece of drift wood
Yeah – realized I also mixed up the verses. I read the first verse as “we are in for the winter and nothing but an emergency is getting us up”… but I definitely think the Percy Priest line is an innuendo for orgasm, hers not his. Maybe just my dirty mind, but Isbell is too good a writer not to see it.
To clarify, though, I don’t think your reading is wrong, but that it functions on both levels. I read Isbell’s twitter, and someone asked him if the line “use me for good” meant use me up or use me for good purposes. His answer was simply “yes.” He is quite happy with layers of meaning in his songs.
‘Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music…… ”’
I whole-heartedly agree with your posit , Trigger …and I’m whole-heartedly opposed to what this band in particular is all about in terms of its talentless and exploitative modus operandi . Country (mainstream commercial country , at least ) did seem to be the last bastion of respect for its own and the culture’s values , morals and traditions. I applaud your efforst to preserve this by pointing out this band’s attempts to undermine it . They are musical ebola …..a serious but arrestable virus ,thanks to the passionate and concerted efforts of sites like this and observations like the review above .
Scotty J
One of my favorite examples of this is ‘I Got The Hoss’ by Mel Tillis. His phrasing is so perfect and knowing.
Conway’s “Don’t Call Him a Cowboy” is another good example of intelligent, understated innuendo.
Houston Erwin
Actually the line says, “If you want you can pet on my harley”, not “If you want you can get on harley.” Definitely a sexual innuendo though.
I’ve seen that line represented both ways, and since I would never let a physical copy of that unholy album across my threshold, I can’t verify the actual lyric myself, if such a thing is even included in the liner notes.
I would never buy the CD either to check. They made a lyrical video for the song though.
Actually it is ” If you want you can pet on my Harley”. I sadly have the cd, which was a major impulse buy. I’m still a teen, but even I can’t believe I was this stupid.
Waylon Van Smack
admitting it is the first step to recovery Hoss. Remember, bad cd’s make good clay pigeons.
You can run a loop of fishing line through the center and hang them as Christmas ornaments, too.
Mercy,
That’s very and highly doubtful. They are as transparent as as glass.
And dumber than rocks.
Although it still seems like a really stupid line, like why the heck would you pet a Harley. Even if it does mean something else, it’s completely indecipherable.
LOL!! You know their music is bad when teenagers comment that FGL is dumber than rocks. Mercy, I couldn’t agree with you more!
That is what I said it was.
I was just confirming it, no one said they had the Cd. Isn’t Tyler Hubbard’s dog named Harley? Sooo maybe he’s not talking about a bike?
Don’t look for something where there is nothing. Harley is the name of Tyler Hubbard’s golden retriever. A dog he got around 6 months before the album released, presumably when the song was being written.
mystery stu
DISGUSTING -_-
How am I supposed to get to sleep tonight while my brain feverishly tries to figure out what the hell a “bottle seat” is and why someone would want to “put a little shine” on it?
The only thing worse than songwriting-by-committee is songwriting-by-committee-using-refrigerator-magnetic-poetry. Just throw some words out there because they rhyme, sense be damned.
It’s actually vinyl seat, which is just as bad. Sometimes you have to wonder if they don’t roll dice or spin a wheel or something to come up with these lyrics
Mercy, I believe that they were drunk and stoned (along with their songwriters) during the “creation” of their album. What disappoints me is that they’re nominated for an award on tonight’s CMAs. Even if the lyrics sound like someone from the projects wrote it, people buy it.
The worst part is that these guys are major role models to teens, and it makes teens think it’s fine to get stoned and that maybe they will end up living the high life like these morons. It makes me wonder how many people will end up hurt or dead because of following what songs like sun daze say.
As someone who once lived that sort of lifestyle: its a dead end road and you’re on the money when you said someone will end up hurt or dead. Or in my case: living with regrets.
Either way: see if you can get a refund for the money you plunked down for their album and may I suggest checking out this site for album reviews. There are quite a few artists that have released great music recently. Stoney LaRue and Wade Bowen are two great examples of what country music should be in this day and age.
I was one of the people that thought it would be a good idea to pre-order the cd, so no chance on a refund. And I completely agree,there is so much better country music out there, but all the radios play the stuff about getting buzzed and demeaning women, there’s already to much of it out there, but numb skulls like FGL have to take it to the next step. There probably wont ever be an end to it, even with every body saying that FGL will gone in a few years I doubt they will. It seems best just to keep the radio off anymore.
Lil Dale
I had a closs personel frend of mine whos a big wig n nashvile tell me brian kely is reely dale ernhart jr in disgize an tylar hubbard is a 2nd cuzin of ray wylie hubbard. the dale jr conection wood explane a lot as to why they r such a big band cos dale jr has a lot of fanz all redy. an the ray wylie conection wood expplane why there a good band. U can here the inflewanse. I no they like to push,the limets sum times but there good boys just havin fun n all. im not imbareassed to say theyve groen on me an im a fan. God bless yall! And role tide!
WTF …..??
Learn how to spell.
I’m not sure that would explane it, but that is an interesting theory.
As much as Lil Wayne’s horrendous spelling grates, I could put up with it if he could just express a cogent thought.
(I realized I used a couple of big words in there that Lil Wayne probably won’t understand. “Horrendous” means “unpleasant, terrible,” while “cogent” means “clear, logical and convincing.”)
evan tho u like to thro around that belmont deploma of yers with all those cogent clear logical and convincing coments Im still a fan of yers heydey. Wut u dont get tho is yer like the willie Nelson of savin country music comenters. not evrywun can be as good as u. Im.at best the edie rabbet of savin country music comentars. I gess wut I meen is we dont allno as much about music as u but weer all tryin hard an given it a hundrud n tin persent. god bless yall!
What if they’re lyrics for a subliminal message that only a secret Government organization can decipher? And what if that organization wants real country music to be destroyed, so that more of this shit can be played on the radio? So they hire these douches to play songs that would make people more likely to have sex and party, thus making them ignore the extermination of other good musicians?
Or you could say, that it just fucking sucks.
I recently watched the Josie and the Pussycats movie for the first time (not by choice, I have a 10-year-old daughter). The plot revolves around an evil record company executive who records subliminal messages under the tracks of popular music telling the listener what trends to follow, including what music to listen to.
When I contemplate how many millions of people seem to love this drivel I can’t help but wonder if the writers of that movie were onto something.
Truthiness
“There it is, yeah, that”™s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
“You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Pass some gas, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
It is called a queef. See also, vart.
Like the American visiting the Japanese golf course yelled when his tee shot went in the cup . . .’Wrong hole!’
(There is a great joke behind that punch line–google it.)
I remember when Sarah Buxton was a bit of a critical darling early in her career when she was trying to launch her solo career. Guess she needed to pay the bills or something, cause talk about not even trying anymore…
I’ve seen it said a few times about her involvement in these songs that she is better than this. Maybe she’s not. Women can be hacks just as much as men.
Tyler Hubbard on “good good”: “It”™s just all over the album, it”™s fun, it”™s words that nobody”™s ever said before.”
Right, sure. And you and Brian are the greatest poets since Yeats.
Great piece, Trig. 😀 Innuendo is nothing new in popular music, but for some reason, this stuff seems way more incoherent and juvenile than ever. Or maybe the words are all the more glaring when the music itself has so little to offer…
Its also “Backseat, Jeep Jeep..”, “Let me step inside your dream.”, “Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”, and “Float your trouble like a champagne bubble.”
According to every single lyrics site on the internet, you are correct about “vinyl seat” vs. “bottle seat”, and incorrect about the other three lines.
Kevin Davis
As a Christian (and Presbyterian seminary student!), I appreciate that you are calling them out as “professing Christians.” Of course, who isn’t in the South? This is sad and shameful, but FGL scarcely knows the meaning of shame.
We are a long way from the genuine faith of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and George Jones — and in Marty Stuart’s latest album. They were not perfect, but that’s not what faith is about…otherwise, we wouldn’t need faith.
It’s turtles all the way down the line, baby!
So the famous ‘Trigger’ isn’t even going to acknowledge my lyric corrections now lol
Actually dude, I’m actively working to try to confirm these lyrics because there are multiple “translations” of them and finding the official lyrics has proven to be difficult. So it took me a bit to moderate your comments. Even with an act like Florida Georgia Line, I don’t want to misrepresent their work, that does me no good. Multiple places have the lyric as “G G,” but I will take your word and just in case I have removed that specific line.
Its hard to find the original lyrics when 3 year old toddlers high on smack wrote this entire album. Not surprising, considering that it IS Florida Georgia Line. And how these inbred fucktards are nominated for awards is beyond me. If people like them, then more power to them. I will be listening to Reckless Kelly instead.
Three of your four “corrections” are incorrect according to every single lyrics site on the internet.
I have obtained an official copy of the lyrics, checked all references, made any necessary changes.
I hope you didn’t have to pay for that. Expense aside, the fact that someone purchased the lyrics might encourage the writers to churn out more songs like these………
Trigger, don’t waste your time. The lyrics (at best) are nothing more than mindless incoherent drivel. Hell, I am black and its offensive that these two idiots are attempting to use Ebonics & effectively mangling, butchering and helping to destroy the English language. You will be giving yourself a splitting headache attempting to decipher their kindergarten gibberish, brother.
I respect that. As you may have presumed, I am a die hard Florida Georgia Line fan lol. I read your articles because I respect your opinion and how you have formulated them. This is my first time writing on here and I just wanna say briefly, I know you people on this feed wouldn’t understand this, but my FGL CD’s sit right next to my George Strait CD’s. I have the upmost respect for pure country music and there are people like myself who can reconcile the two worlds very easily. I make no attempt to compare the two and I want you all to know that there are people who enjoy the fruits of both.
Since correcting folks seems to be your bag, you will probably be interested to know that the word you want to use is actually UTMOST, not upmost.
The use of “myself” instead of “me” rubbed me the wrong way, but I took the high ground…
😉
Dana M
It doesn’t even sound like good innuendo. Miranda Lambert’s “Fine Tune” I thought was pretty clever when it comes to innuendo.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the one band that makes Nickelback sound good.
JadeAlixandra
I had some hope for them after Dirt came out. Had meaning to it, and didn’t sound that bad. Then they do this -_-
Honestly, I think FGL should do a cover of willie and Waylon’s I can get off on you. That song was pretty dirty and ahead of its time depending on how you interpret it.
Adam Lawson (Singer/Songwriter)
FGL makes me want to lobotomize myself with a rusty, hot soldering iron!
I work in a record store and I do my best to try to inform people of all of the great music in the world. Tragically, Shit sells!
To quote one of my favorite songwriters in modern music and a huge influence of mine:
“There are plenty of good burger joints in Nashville. No one is making you go to McDonalds.”
Final thought, FGL is the pink slime equivalent of modern radio “country” and that shit is bad for you.
That quote was from Jason Isbell.
I forgot to put that.
‘Warm My Weiner’, by Bo Carter.
(Since we are all posting naughty songs, right?)
Ballgame
Any chance this website changes names from “Saving Country Music” to “Hating Florida Georgia Line”?
We don’t hate them as individuals or as human beings. We hate their music. I’m in agreement with Trigger when he said they’re an embarrassment to country music. When you are writing overtly sexual songs for yourself and Jason Aldean, not to mention dumbing down people in the process…people tend to have an issue with that. Especially the folks who appreciate well written, quality country music. Thank God Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen & others have released great country music this year.
No. It would just have to be changed again in a couple of years when trends change and people are embarrassed to admit that they were fans.
My standing theory this whole time has been that these guys are actually pretty clever and were just on a mission to hop on the ensuing trainwreck that we know as pop country. I thought they did this knowing full and well that their lyrics are absurd, the music is in no way the “evolution” of country, and that they would simply just pretend “Hey this is us, we are doing our own thing!” I
I still stand by my theory, but sometimes I am just not so sure.. some lyrical quips are so bad that they could only come from someone who has genuinely poor taste.
The entire album, with the exception of the song “Dirt”, is in poor taste. It makes me wonder if they ever graduated high school, let alone attend college.
They’re trying to ruin innuendo, aren’t they?
Discovering sexy, secret talk in old blues (hello, “Ambulance Man”!) is a revelation, especially if you’re young, and you have picked up the weirdly permiating notion that sexy was invented in 1970. At least in media it was.
Obvious, too clever by half innuendo in gross, shiny country pop songs is pointless. Say it, or don’t.
I’m thinking they should have teamed up with Steven Tyler on Bull Moose Jackson’s “Big Ten Inch Record” last night.
I think all the innuendo is something they come up with naturally when they sit around with guys like Brantley Gilbert and jerk off together.
Schooley
I’m a fan of profanity, and sometimes puerile obscenity can be amusing. I own Blowfly albums, for chrissakes. But there is something about when it is forced on you from above by corporate interests that makes it insulting.
It’s like when they have to cram fart jokes into a new animated kids movie, or when a corporate fast food outlet has some advertising campaign were they skirt around almost dropping an f-bomb to be “edgy”.
When it comes from below it can be subversive, but when it is coming from a multi-million dollar corporate entity, it just feels like it is intentionally insulting your intelligence even if it is well-done. And these are not well-done.
RodRod
I just assumed that the innuendos were about them having sex with each other.
The “pink umbrella” lyric is just a filler lyric. Actually the sink part is probably the filler to make the drink line work in the song. It’s obviously not some sexual innuendo. And he clearly says “a” and not “the” pink umbrella. Also Harley is his dog. You guys are thinking too much into this simple song. P.S. Yes this is dude bro and about as country as Taylor Swift.
edjohns
Okay, so it’s “wrong” for FGL to sing about this stuff, but Kacey Musgraves can talk about homosexuality and smoking a joint? I bet if this was a Gates song NO one would have a problem with it. And obviously the people who wrote this have as dirty of a mind as FGL and everyone else who uderstood this. Harley is Tylers dog, not his penis. They have fun with their music just like everyone else does.
March 24, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
Y’all are idiots if you believe a word that this damn website says about FGL! You have no idea how much their music has and is helping me through the hard time that I’m having. And for any of you so called fans are giving this good comments. Shame on you, because you sure as hell aren’t an FGL fan! And if you don’t like their music then turn it off! Don’t go and freaking criticize it!
I agree to a point. The McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle got me through my second divorce.
Though I do not currently agree with some of the judgement about the music produced by the band Flirida Georgia Line being bad music, I do agree that the music does include many sexual innuendos (much to my disliking) and does not uphold their professed Christian morality/morals. Though they have gone to far on many accounts of sexual inuendo laiden lyrics, I still believe them to be good musicians and generally enjoyable people with generally good morals and Christian values
Bylle Breaux
This is hilarious! ?
Shella Fronzaglio
Pearl Necklace was a crossover. “She can put her shoes under my bed anytime” wasn’t about storage. “Crackers in my bed” etc, etc, etc. But I guess Elvis & Jerry Lee Lewis liking 12 & 14 year old girls was ok as they also did more wholesome music…. It was why Tom Parker got away with taking money for so long as he was hushing up some of Elvis’ skirt chasing with the younger ones. He had made him wait until Priscilla was of age. R Kelly didn’t start that people. I’d much rather the music push the envelop than the musician!!
What someone did 60 years ago doesn’t change the fact that FGL stink.
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Queer YA authors on the importance of writing queer characters authentically
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The Digital Writers Festival runs from Oct 24 – Nov 3.
Stephen A. Russell
23 Oct 2017 - 2:57 PM UPDATED 23 Oct 2017 - 3:01 PM
“Find your voice.” It’s the advice oft dealt out to aspiring writers, but for Stacey Malacari, founder of queer young adult (YA) literature resource website Get YA Words Out, it took on an even greater meaning.
Having recently won both first and second prize in this year’s Outstanding Short Story Competition for her entries He/Him and Regular Boring Sex, it was while working on her first full length manuscript that Malacari spotted the need for a queer-focused YA writers’ site.
“The resources were very scattered, so I thought as the ultimate procrastination I’d build a site to house it all,” she says. “There’s a lot of disconnect between the people who are writing, reading and publishing [queer YA] and it’s so vital that we can talk when issues come up or share each other’s successes and help each other out.”
The tyranny of distance also played a part in Malacari setting up the Get YA Words Out website, based as she is in Perth, WA, and with much of the industry centred in Sydney or Melbourne. This way, it doesn’t matter where a queer writer is located, they can stay connected. That makes it the ideal subject for a session at this year’s Digital Writers’ Festival (DWF) – a live-streamed online festival celebrating the work of Australian and international writers.
Malacari will take part in an event also going by the name Get YA Words Out that focuses on how online forums can help queer writers get their voices heard in the wider YA literary community. Malacari will be joined by colleagues including fellow aspiring writer and children’s book buyer/seller Michael Earp, Ida author Alison Evans, non-binary poet Rae White and LGBTIQ youth support worker and editor/writer Jordi Kerr.
This new festival will celebrate Australia’s literary diversity
“Australian publishing is at the forefront of diverse storytelling,” says Lebanese Australian YA author Sarah Ayoub, one of the writers set to appear at the inaugural Boundless festival.
They’ll also discuss the importance of getting the voices of LGBTIQ characters right, particularly if authors don’t identify as queer themselves. “I’m super for non-queer writers writing queer characters,” Malacari says. “I’d love to see a queer character in every single YA book. You ask anybody, they have a queer friend, aunt or neighbour, whoever - we are everywhere. But what I want to see is them being written authentically.”
And that comes down to doing the research, Malacari says. “The same way you wouldn’t write about a person of colour, or a different religion or even profession without doing your research. You can’t write a detective novel if you know nothing about police work. I want people to take writing queer characters seriously because a lot of things that come out are problematic.”
That includes queer authors writing across the LGBTIQ spectrum. “I identify as queer and female, so when writing a transgender character, or a gay male character, I would expect that same standard from myself,” Malacari adds.
Queer authors can encounter obstacles getting their work out there, Malacari suggests, which isn’t hard to imagine given the furore surrounding the Safe Schools program. “When you are writing young adult fiction, a lot of your income and your marketing is in school talks and having your books in school libraries, and there can be a problem that comes up if you are an out writer. Your personal sexuality becomes controversial, in a way.”
Malacari’s looking forward to tackling some of these big issues during the DWF panel discussion. “We’ve got a few different parts of the industry coming together to talk about how we are connecting with the stories, which is exciting. DWF and the internet in general have allowed me to push this kind of thing and make stuff happen.”
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“It’s by no means a biological outcome that queer people are more prone to mental health challenges. It’s a result of living in a culture that is pushing back against your identity." The Emerging Writers’ Festival runs from June 14 - 23, with 'Eyes Too Dry' creators Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli appearing on Thursday, June 22.
Michael Earp - a manager of The Younger Sun bookshop in Melbourne’s western suburb of Yarraville, a committee member of industry-wide resource LoveOzYA and founder of the AusQueerYA blog - agrees.
“Any opportunity you get to support other people in telling their own stories or stories that are important to other queer people is a good thing to be a part of,” he says. “I’ve always felt when I read a book that even if there is a minor, fleeting part for a queer character, I have this moment where I’m like, ‘I exist in this universe,’ and that’s a really important thing to grab onto.”
He argues digital resources have a much wider reach than a school library and that they are easier to access for LGBTIQ readers who may not be out as yet or are but don’t have queer friends to share information with. That’s reality for many teenagers is close to Earp’s heart, growing up as he did in a very religious family on NSW’s Central Coast.
With several short stories published, Earp’s currently working on a YA novel manuscript loosely based on his teenaged experiences and the intersection of religion and sexuality. “I didn’t feel like I had anyone to talk to about it and so a lot of that I kept hidden. I had to rely on TV shows and movies with their tiny glimpses of gay people to work out how I fitted into that world. I feel like it’s a crusade at times, but that’s why I’m so passionate about this.”
The Digital Writers Festival runs from Oct 24 – Nov 3. Get YA Words Out streams on Saturday, Oct 28. For more info or to catch sessions online, click here.
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Trade War Cease-Fire Helps Stocks Start December Strong
Both oil and gold prices rallied today amid the global optimism
by Patrick Martin
IXIC
Published on Dec 3, 2018 at 4:24 PM
Larry Kudlow and Steven Mnuchin waxed optimistic on the U.S.-China truce
The Dow kicked off December with a bang, finishing nearly 300 points higher thanks to optimism generated from the U.S.-China trade truce. The blue-chip index did, however, pare some of its initial gains, after being up 441 points at its early intraday peak. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also weighed in, expressing optimism about reaching a "real agreement" between the two global powers, while National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said he expects results from the 90-day pact to be felt "very quickly."
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also finished confidently in the black, as sectors with heavy exposure to China rallied. Amidst global optimism, Wall Street's "fear gauge," the Cboe Volatility Index, fell to its lowest point in nearly four weeks.
These 2 pot stocks made massive moves today.
It could be time to short this blockchain stock.
Options volume ran hot on these 2 Chinese stocks.
Plus, options volume hot on a surging drug stock; 2 stocks to target now; and a Dow stock upgraded on the China trade truce.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI - 25.826.43) added 287.9 points, or 1.1%. Twenty-two of the 30 stocks ended higher, with Boeing (BA) leading the charge with its 3.8% gain. Verizon (VZ) led the eight losers with its 3.5% drop.
The S&P 500 Index (SPX - 2,790.37) rallied 30.2 points, or 1.1%. The Nasdaq Composite (IXIC - 7,441.51) made gains, too, with its 110.9-point, or 1.5%, advance.
The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX - 16.44) dropped 1.6 points, or 9%.
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Tencent Music Entertainment, a spin-off of Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, launched its initial public offering (IPO) earlier today, looking to raise up to $1.2 billion. This could be the second-largest IPO from a Chinese company in the U.S. in 2018, behind the $2.4 billion raised by streaming name iQIYI (IQ). (Reuters)
Mercurial cryptocurrency bitcoin is continuing its freefall into December, falling as much as 8% today. The price of Bitcoin was valued at $20,000 around this time last year, and has shed roughly 70% since January. (CNBC)
Options traders blasted this drug stock on FDA buzz.
2 stocks to buy after the U.S.-China pact.
Analysts upgraded this Dow stock after the China trade truce.
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Oil, Gold Join Global Rally
Oil also started December off strong, taking its cues from reports of expected production cuts at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting on Dec. 6. Russia also agreed to extend production cuts, and Canada's Alberta surprised traders by announcing curbed output. For the day, oil for January delivery added $2.02, or 4%, ending at $52.95 per barrel.
Gold prices climbed today to a one-month high, thanks to a softening dollar. Amid easing tariff-related trade tensions with China, the dollar fell amid a basket of other currencies. February-dated gold futures gained $13.60, or 1.1%, settling at $1,239.60 per ounce.
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The 2014 VMAs were a serious snooze until Bey showed up and embarrassed everyone in the room
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Beyonce performs onstage during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 24th, 2014 in Inglewood, California.
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Beyoncé did a lot more than steal the MTV Video Music Awards last night — that wasn’t hard to do, on a night when she had basically no competition. The Sovereign of Surfbort looked like a grown woman competing in a kiddie talent show — she made you feel embarrassed for the other performers, even if this was hardly Ms. Carter at her Sasha-est or Fiercest. When Blue Ivy uttered the words, “Good job, mommy,” she spoke for us all. But Blue Ivy is obviously a well-brought-up child, so she was way too polite to say what the rest of us were thinking: “Mommy, why are Maroon 5 playing? Why is Miley keeping her clothes on? Can you tell Jim Carrey to knock it the fuck off?”
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The VMAs really needed Bey last night, because MTV’s annual “Hey, there’s this thing called music and it’s not so bad really, P.S. please watch Teen Wolf” bash was short on sparks until she showed up. Here’s a brief list of things that were badly missed at this year’s VMAs: 1. Players playing. 2. Haters hating. 3. Breakers breaking. And can’t forget: 4. Fakers faking. It was one of those nights the stars play it safe, trotting out there to promote their product and act sincere and make sure nobody’s feelings get hurt. So Queen B was a welcome blast of worship-me glam in a bejeweled unitard, with a 16-minute performance weirdly reminiscent of My Chemical Romance doing “Welcome to the Black Parade” at the 2006 VMAs — proof that emo never dies.
After her instant-classic fiasco-tabulous version of “We Can’t Stop” last year, Miley didn’t step up to do another psychedelic teddy-bear hump party, unfortunately. But she still managed to score the night’s funniest moment of mega-star hubris. When she won for “Wrecking Ball,” she sent up a foxy young stud to read a speech about how much Miley cares about the homeless youth, while Miley sat on the side of the stage in her black-leather tube top and wiped away great big she’s-just-being Miley tears. It was solid gold. Oh Miley — as always, you wreh-eh-eck me.
Taylor Swift, just six months after her soulful “All Too Well” at the Grammy Awards, went to the opposite extreme this time. Instead of sitting at the piano to feel feelings and do those Temple of the Dog hair-tossing windmills, Taylor performed “Shake It Off” as a big-budget “Material Girl”-style dance number, in front of a giant “1989” sign. The brilliance of “Shake It Off” is Taylor pretending to be a Swedish pop star pretending to be an American pop star — a very 1989 thing to do. It’s like she’s imagining the great Roxette/Fine Young Cannibals duet that never happened. Gwen Stefani applauded Tay by tapping a fingernail against her champagne flute, the same way Katy Perry clapped for 5 Seconds of Summer. I hereby recommend all celebs at award shows adopt this passive-aggressive applause technique.
Katy had the night’s fashion coup, showing up with Riff Raff in Britney-and-Justin drag. As she explained to the long-suffering Sway on the red carpet, the double-denim ensemble was a tribute to the Britney/Justin costume from the 2001 VMAs, the night of Brit’s “I’m a Slave 4 U” python dance, back in the TRL glory days. It was the only time all night anyone mentioned my girl Britney — or Justin, for that matter, just a year after the VMAs gave him that lavish Video Vanguard tribute. (Cry me a river, MTV.)
Nicki Minaj wore a green Astroturf bikini to feed the anaconda in all our souls, in a stage-humping medley with Ariana Grande and Jessie J. She re-appeared later in a white suit to do the bump with Usher, who rocked out on bass. Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg presented together, giving us all the chance to see Snoop tell Gwen, “You are the queen of L.A. punk rock.” There were no cuddling celeb BFFs in the crowd, not like Taylor snuggling Selena Gomez last year or Katy and Rihanna in 2012. (Neither Rihanna nor Selena were mentioned all night.) But Ariana gave Miley a great big hug on the way to the podium, so we can get our hopes up for next year.
Maroon 5 was there to remind everyone what a fine job Sting used to do. (It also brought back fond memories of Adam Levine’s Twitter rant three years ago, condemning the VMAs as the “one day a year when MTV pretends to still care about music. I’m drawing a line in the sand. Fuck you VMA’s.”) Common gave a garbled speech about Ferguson and led the most inept moment-of-silence at an awards show since James Cameron dedicated his Oscar to the people who died on the Titanic; there’s a reason moment-of-silence bits don’t work on award shows. Especially when there’s a Kardashian in the room.
The unofficial host Jay Pharoah wore out his non-welcome with endless celebrity impressions, while Chelsea Handler made a bizarrely dumb stand-up appearance, with stale jokes that sounded like outtakes from her abysmal 2011 hosting gig. Trey Songz and Nina Dobrev gave out a hilariously out-of-place trophy for Best Rock Video — according to La Nina, “This is an amazing year for rock,” because of Imagine Dragons and Lorde. But what really rocked was Trey dazeem-ing the Black Keys as “the Black Eyes.”
The delightful Australian brat-punk foursome 5 Seconds of Summer got the token rock-band slot, and the winning move would have been for the lads to blast through “She Looks So Perfect” or “Don’t Stop,” two of the year’s kickiest hits. (Or their bang-up live cover of Katy’s “Teenage Dream,” which would have killed.) Alas, instead 5SoS did the slow jam “Amnesia,” the wrong song for the night — this show needed another anonymous pop piety like it needed a Jim Carrey cameo.
But the whole night was just a warm-up for the Beyoncé finale. A few years ago, she hijacked the VMAs and turned it into her own personal baby shower, so everyone wondered what she’d do this year: Announce the custody settlement? But no — she just got up and promoted the hell out of her latest album, with a baby-kissing interlude at the end, plus a very humbled-looking Jay-Z. She aimed straight down the middle — it was restrained compared to her “Drunk In Love” at the 2014 Grammy Awards, or her historic 2013 Super Bowl blowout. Yet she still blasted everyone else out of the room. Is she the first feminist to stand tall on the VMAs in front of gigantic letters spelling out “FEMINIST”? Yes, she is. (A very Nineties thing to do — kinda like Eddie Vedder writing “PRO-CHOICE” on his arm with a Sharpie on MTV Unplugged.)
And oh yeah — she also picked up the Video Vanguard trophy, a lifetime-achievement award given out every year to a legacy MTV star. Bey began her solo career around the time MTV was bailing out of the music business; she’s the first artist to win this award who could honestly claim she doesn’t owe MTV a damn thing, though the tactful way she put it was, “MTV, welcome to my world.” The Video Vanguard interlude is almost always a bore — the VMAs are all about perfect right-now cheese-explosion moments, not long-running careers. I can’t think of any other VMA show where the Video Vanguard moment was the bona fide highlight of the night. But then, Beyoncé is the exception to every pop rule.
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RAF barracks turned into home for cancer patients
Posted by: 2018-06-05 03:20:31 , By Admin
Navi Mumbai: The barracks once housing the paramilitary troops of 102Bn Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Taloja has now become a centre for cancer patients. Around 50 houses have been built in the 10 unused barracks.
The rooms are equipped with beds, a cooking platform with cylinder and air conditioners so that the patient’s family does not feel ‘homeless’ in the city while they are getting their families treated. There is a garden with playing equipment for children too.
RAF 102 Bn Commandant RW Dawa said, “The CRPF has signed an agreement with Tata Cancer Hospital in 2014 to provide medical aid to CRPF men and their families. The bills will be footed by CRPF but the challenge is to house patients and their families coming here for treatment. Hence, the unused barracks have been transformed using CSR funds from banks.”
Two of the houses will be fitted with air-conditioner for those undergoing chemotherapy. There is enough space for recreation besides garden and playing equipments with children.
A patient from Madhya Pradesh, Ram Swarup, said, “I have been staying here for the last four months and have been travelling to Tata Cancer Hospital in Parel. The personnel here help us in providing all facilities. My son is with the CRPF.”
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The FBI shuts down a millionaire online fraud campaign
Cybercriminals behind this operation earned about $30M USD
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Google and multiple cybersecurity and digital forensics firms worked together to collapse one of the most complex digital advertising fraud schemes ever seen, which managed to infect more than 1.7 million computer equipment with the aim of generating fake clicks and deceiving online advertisers for years, so that the fraud operators achieved gains by tens of million dollars.
The fraudulent campaign, known as 3ve, has been active since 2014, at least, according to experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security. However, the malicious activities of its operators peaked last year, turning it into a large-scale business and generating about $30M USD in profits for the cybercriminals.
Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) reported that it has initiated an indictment of 13 criminal charges against 8 people in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine, who allegedly worked as campaign operators.
The 3ve operation employed various tactics during its activity time, such as creating its own botnets, spoofing websites, hijacking IP addresses, using proxies to hide real IP and infecting victims’ computers with malware, all with the purpose of generating fake clicks in online advertising.
According to specialists in digital forensics, 3ve involved 1.7 million computers infected with malware, more than 80 servers and over a thousand fake websites through more than one million compromised IP addresses to generate from 3 to 12 billion ad bids requests daily.
According to the reports of Google and the participating cybersecurity firms, this fraudulent scheme was named 3ve because it is based on a set of three different sub operations, with each taking its own measures to avoid detection, in addition, each one is based on different architectures that use several components.
“Operators constantly changed their methods to hide 3ve bots, allowing this operation to keep growing even after its traffic was detected. When they were blocked in any site, they would reappear in a new one,” Google mentions. The three operations used in 3ve are:
Boaxxe Malware Scheme (3ve. 1)
The first of the three 3ve sub operations were powered by botnets operating in data centers across Europe and the US. This operation used the Boaxxe botnet, also known as Miuref and Methbot, to obtain the IP addresses used to send the traffic proxy of the infected devices in the data centers and to visit fake and real web pages.
As the time run, the operation transcended false requests on desktops, also reaching traffic on mobile devices with Android.
Kovter malware Scheme (3ve. 2)
Here they used fake domains to sell fake inventories to advertisers. However, instead of using proxies to hide, campaign operators used a custom navigation agent on more than 700k computers infected with Kovter malware.
This operation used redirect servers, ordering infected computers to visit spoofed web pages.
IP data Centers (3ve. 3)
The third sub operation associated with 3ve was similar to 3ve.1. Bots were set up in some data centers, but to cover their tracks, operators used the IP addresses of other data centers, as proxies, rather than residential computers.
End of Operation 3ve
After 3ve’s activity grew in 2017, Google, along with other digital forensics firms that had detected the operation, began its shot down operation.
Thanks to this joint work, the FBI managed to seize 31 domains and 89 servers that were part of the structure of 3ve. Private organizations also helped blacklisting the 3ve infrastructure involved in the advertising fraud scheme and traffic to malicious domains.
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BBC7: Last Days of Shandakor by Leigh Brackett
Thursday, October 9, 2008 Rich Online Audio
BBC7’s The 7th Dimension program is re-broadcasting an action-packed reading of a Leigh Brackett novelette: The Last Days of Shandakor was originally published in the April 1952 issue of Startling Stories magazine. It was first broadcast on BBC7 back in March 2007.
NOTE: The story will be aired in 2 parts on Wednesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 16 evenings at 6:30pm and 12:30am GMT.
The Last Days Of Shandakor
By Leigh Brackett; Read by Nathan Osgood
Broadcast in 2 parts – Approx. 50 minutes
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / 7th Dimension time slot
Broadcast: Wednesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 16, 2008
An epic science fiction adventure written in Brackett’s classic style in which Mars is portrayed as a dying planet where desperate Earthmen compete with the last Martians races for lost knowledge and hidden power. Follow Jon Ros on his solitary trek as he learns more about Mars’ history and visits a remote Martian city lost in its own memories of the past.
And remember, if you miss it, BBC7 provides a “listen again” feature that keeps programs available for 6 days following the broadcast –like this and this.
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4 thoughts to “BBC7: Last Days of Shandakor by Leigh Brackett”
Fredösphere says:
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:07 am
Tell us more about audio downloads of Leigh Brackett’s writings. Especially the free stuff. I’ve read just one story by her (The Enchantress of Venus, included in the anthology The Space Opera Renaissance) and was blown away. She’s the mother of Science Fantasy, incorporating all the best of both the science-fictional and fantastic.
Jesse Willis says:
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 12:53 pm
By your command…
http://www.sffaudio.com/?page_id=3434
Wish there was more, but that’s it for now.
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Thanks, Jesse!
(I guess I came off a bit imperious there. Sorry.)
Not at all, it was about time we got a Brackett page. :D
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tv Bloomberg Markets Balance of Power Bloomberg March 16, 2018 1:00pm-2:00pm EDT
of the hour. watching the white house, national security adviser h.r. mcmaster be next? we have latest on staff turmoil and the mueller probe. and a permanent extension of the tax cuts, we ask whether democrats in congress will get on board. and the continuing isolation of russia, the country facing international pressure over the poisoning of a former spy as president putin comes to a new term in this week's election. ♪ david: news continues to pour out of the trump white house with reports that national security adviser h.r. mcmaster will be the next to go, perhaps as soon as today. but the president spokesperson
says there is no changes in for the benefit of yet another developing story of the trump white house we welcome chief content officer, marty shanker. let's talk about the overall question, there is a lot of news coming out every single day and often several times a day. is it just for show or is it making a difference in the real world? it makes aink difference in the real world in the sense that people around the president are reacting as if there is essentially chaos in the white house and that policy cannot get done. but i do think that when you say there is a lot of news, there is lots of reports that are in the press, like the mcmaster departure. on the face it may not actually be news. there was a report on the wall street journal just a few hours trump havemaster and decided that he is going to
continue until he has figured out a graceful way to actually exit him. it may both be true that he has made the decision that mcmaster will eventually go, but they are looking for an opportunity to do it in a constructive way. david: from your substantial experience in washington, does it matter to the function of the white house? i am not sure this white house works to wait any other white house works and it looks like the president decides everything anyway, so it doesn't matter whether or not the staff is distracted. they: we did a story of administration of a president and how donald trump wants to run his presidency as he is running a business and he is actually doing that. his business was done with him chair, and if
people didn't execute their orders that he would execute them. and accept that is the type of white house he wants and is comfortable with. he is running himself with people he knows will execute what he wants, to the extent that is the presidency he wants to assume, that is what is going to happen. shery: to your point given the way president trump wants to the, which ones would be the partners that will shake the country? marty: i think jim mattis is the key here. in some ways there is indication he has distanced himself from donald trump. he works at the pentagon and not at the white house. all reports are he has helped moderate or at least helped shape donald trump's opinion on some critical issues like north korea. i think that would rattle markets if people like mattis
were to leave. there is no indication whatsoever that he is thinking about doing that. he was also a key ally of rex tillerson. they did get along but the relationship between mattis and tillerson is not nearly as important as mattis and the president. shery: of course, and we have the news that robert miller has subpoenaed the trump organization. marty: it is interesting to me since the report came out because there has been nothing out of donald trump on twitter or public comments. the white house as it continues to cooperate. it is logical that the special prosecutor would go for a blanket subpoena for all records. they have turned over hundreds of thousands of documents to the special prosecutor. this may be a mopping up
operation and is making sure he is not missing anything. would be embarrassing if the special prosecutor were to issue any kind of report and then subsequently find out he missed something. it may not be as sinister as it sounds. and it is awfully tricky to infer what investigators are doing. at the same time one thing we do know is the treasury department is taking action to impose sanctions that appear on the last indictment of russian individuals. is that an endorsement of what the special prosecutor is doing? marty: it is interesting. secretary mnuchin said that ed, would impose sanctions and weeks passed and they did not impose. i think they used the mueller indictment as a guide to who they should sanction, and why
not take advantage of it? and so they did. i don't think they thought let's make this an endorsement of what mueller is doing rather than make it a convenient way to backup sanctions. shery: we got a statement from the white house. what they are saying is they are on track to meet with kim jong-un by may. president trump reaffirming will meet with the north korean leader by the and of may. given this crucial summit coming will all theacting changes in the white house and the miller probe continue to be for such an important point in time? as we all know he is comfortable with mike pompeo in the cia. that is another reason why mcmaster is hanging around down such time as they go
to brass tacks with north korea. for is a critical meeting this country and presidency and donald trump realizes this. the people who influence him will influence him on how that goes. shery: marty, thank you so much. tosee u.s. stocks continuing gain ground on this trading session and let's get abigail doolittle with the latest. abigail: here are the gains you are talking about, the dow and s&p 500 on pace for their best days and weeks. the s&p 500 tried to get back to session highs and the nasdaq coming off of session lows so divergence on the week. where at declines for all major averages of 1%, but one bullish hell went, crude oil. we are going to see a spike higher late in the morning.
is not entirely clear what is behind that but we see crude oil up 1.7% and some are saying it may be position covering into the weekend. we will take into that more but a bullish tell went for stocks from a sector standpoint and energy is the top sector for the s&p 500. these are the top names in the energy sector. williams baker exploration trading higher at this point. this is a recovery for williams. they are killing a key income tax and that stock had been down in a big way, but they are up sharply. where we see weakness is wells fargo comment an inverse move in oil. take a look at wells fargo dropping late in the morning. the wall street journal is saying the u.s. is widening its probe into the company's wealth business. is thi
and finally let's look at volatility over the last two days with the nasdaq because something we have today for both the s&p 500 and the dow, we haven't had any trading to the downside. -- lotsa two day chart of volatility and today the nasdaq did briefly go negative but now it is higher. it will be interesting to see if the tech heavy nasdaq can hold onto small gains. just a couple of hours we will know. david: coming up, the former ceo of a publicly traded company serving in the house of representatives and now running for president. carter smith john delaney of maryland was us next. shery: and speaking right now in paris, the french president reiterating russian was behind
the gas attack on the u.k. when a former spy and his daughter were poisoned. also saying allies have full solidarity with the u.k. after the attacks, and also addressing issues in europe saying that france and germany must outline the eurozone vision, according to president macron. and also the roadmap will be clear and ambitious. this is bloomberg. ♪
shery: this is balance of power. david: for first world news we
turn to mark crumpton. tens of thousands of people including women and children continue to flee g houta in syria. president assad has redeployed eastern forces to the southern suburb where they hope to eliminate the last rebel stronghold on the edge of the capital with the eighth of russian airpower. have killed more than 1200 people in recent weeks despite a cease-fire adopted by the un security council. the council met to hear about conditions in syria as the country enters that eight euro conflict. the told reporters it could escalate further the council fails to act. >> there are reports of a lot of people fleeing from eastern ghouta. any resolution we have
adopted unanimously is about access. it is not about forcing people to run away. mark: france's ambassador called eastern ghouta an open air cemetary. the swedish minister says his country will act as a mediator in relations between north korea and the international community following speculation about a possible meeting in sweden between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un. they get press conference in berlin, swedish prime minister said it is important for sweden and the rest of the world that pensions don't escalate between the two countries. the global chemical weapons watchdog says the class of nerve agent that britain alleges are used the boys and a russian former spy and his daughter has
never been declared to the organization any member state. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons also says it expects some action will be taken soon in response and offers to help the british investigation. represented organization says british authorities and police opcw toing to allow the independently verify the type of nerve agent used. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. shery: the passage of past reform is a significant edges late of achievement in the first year of the trump administration and other gop may be ready for phase two of tax reform which will make the tax cuts permanent. and coming white house economic adviser larry kudlow called for such a move.
>> i would like to see us bring that for to make those tax cuts permanent. in some cases senate rules permit us from doing that but let's have a vote on that. every democrat voted against cutting taxes so i am not sure where it would be on this if they voted to make tax cuts permanent. to be interesting because they really against us for cutting taxes. shery: joining us as progress -- congressmany, john delaney. democrat from maryland. great to have you again. you heard congressman sculley's. if the vote comes to you this year -- would you make tax cuts permanent? i have no idea because i do not support the first bill back up has been congress because i thought was bad policy.
you are certain aspects i supported but in general we could have done a much better job with the tax reform basel and could have been more responsive to the problems of the economy and could have been done in a way goes more fiscally responsible for the long-term. it sounds like what steve scalise is talking about this for political purposes, which is not how i think about tax policy. i cannot comment because i don't know what they are talking about. that being the key criticism from democrats of not supporting this package. rep. delaney: the corporate rates were permanent and the individual rates weren't, which many of us didn't see why that was fair. in general the corporate reform wasn't done right in the spill and i was in favor of lowering the tax or for our country to make it more competitive and was focused on taking the international taxes which is the most double some part of the tax code. i think they overshot it and the business have lobbied for
corporate tax rates to make coats more competitive. and i would much rather see that money go towards making the individual rates permanent or doing it for sector plan -- infrastructure plan. i do not know what version 2.0 is going to be. david: the corporate park is -- the corporate part is done. anyway tax cuts is not going to be a popular position. rep. delaney: nothing is permanent and that is why we have a congress and legislation to do the right thing for the people. if they want to open the tax discussion we should do that and do some things mark because i do support making a bunch of these individual tax cuts permanent. also support the notion we shouldn't be leaving a moral depth to the next generation of the country.
the future generation in 20 years is going to look around and realize that work has changed because of automation and artificial intelligence and see people are living longer, which is a blessing, but is going to put a huge straight to our deficit. and weaponize artificial intelligence -- cap and make investments to deal with those things. what we are doing now is putting them in a position where they have no financial flexibility. i do think anything is not probably be i would in favor of making taxed as permanent but we should look at other things to paper this and do something that is more responsive to the problems we have in the economy. david: that is a great point because we are spending a lot of our grandchildren's and children's money and a lot of people on wall street are concerned about that. but does that line up with democrats? are amongwks republicans but democrats are never known to be frugal with
money, let's be honest. rep. delaney: for a generation we have been prudent with the resources we have in this amazing nation of ours. that old campsite rule was supposed to leave the place better than you found it, which is how i try to live my life with every organization. we are not doing that in washington. we are fundamentally leaving two major debts. we're not doing anything about climate change each the future generation is going to deal with an cost a lot of money. we are shortsighted and the problem i have with the administration is it is backward looking. if you talk to people in this is elected dania and people outside of government -- if you look at people outside of government, they are having a profound effect on our society and economy and where going to need to make investments in this in institutions that
support people so they are prepared for this new economy. that is frustrating for someone like me actually as a businessperson is an entrepreneur. i am focused on the future and help things are changing and how you prepare for it. shery: as a businessperson how you feel about regulations? senate pushing out legislation to ease the burden on community banks. rep. delaney: i am supportive of alleviating relations on small banks. my first company i was the and the ceo in the stock exchange. i think the democratic party hasn't rained in enough to the notion that relations that exist in our economy and how we need to clean those up if we want to have a entrepreneurial startup oriented economy. regulations hurt smaller businesses relative to bigger businesses. smaller businesses often find themselves in a noncompetitive
place because of relations. i am in favor of ingrid of we haves and miggy sure relations that do what they intend to do, well to make sure we don't go overboard and don't take away protections from consumers warren fact important. i think the right balance is important. congressmanthanks, john delaney of maryland. coming up the former chief of staff talks about what is needed in the world. this is bloomberg. ♪
david: this is "balance of power". arey: shows of wells fargo sliding after reports that the sec is widening its probe into wells fargo's wealth management
business. joining us is taylor riggs. we know right now that fbi agents are talking to the wealth management unit and some employees in phoenix as soon as this week, both wells fargo and sec and u.s. officials have declined to comment. this is separate from the banks inquiry. will make that clear. if you look at overall wells fargo in your terminal. shery's terminal we can see since the wells fargo scandal began, there has been some underperformance by wells fargo. begin in august of 2016 and the bank tried to move forward from this but it has been a struggle. i don't want to complicate the viewers but if you come into my terminal a little bit we can look at the fundamentals behind the headlines. on a fundamental level something slick ok regardless of share price. revenue has trailed peers that
is expected to increase and it looks like it is in the high end of its peers and are expected to r.o.e.e 2018 target david: buy or sell? >> i am not making that call. saying?ith our analyst >> mostly so. ell. shery: we talked to general dempsey. this is bloomberg. ♪ retail.
under pressure like never before. and it's connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing rooms. that's why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent network speed across multiple locations. every corporate office, warehouse and store near or far covered. leaving every competitor, threat and challenge outmaneuvered. comcast business outmaneuver. david: this is balance of power and i am david westin. shery: let's get a quick check of major averages. the s&p 500 rebounding after
four sessions of losses, up to dance of 1%. tech the only sector falling but do keep an eye on volumes. the s&p 500 rebounding and the last time we saw this was back in december which was the busiest day of the year. david: bloomberg headlines come to us from mark crumpton. secretary steven mnuchin says he is not supportive of proposals to the organization for economic cooperation and development to single out they tech companies -- big tech companies. that are essential for job ration on economic growth and imposing taxes on the sector will harm workers and consumers. his remarks come after governments look to modernize tax laws and how digital companies make profits from users based on jurisdictions. mistake union must a
unequivocal solidarity with the u.k. in the face of the nerve agent attack. the attack was and why by moscow and is rated at the agenda in next week's eu summit. a jury has convicted and iraqi teenager of attempted murder. prosecutors said labonte expulsion could have been worse and the 18-year-old will be sentenced later. prosecutors plan to charge jacob zuma with corruption. laid years agoen for political interference and underscores zoo must dramatic fall from power. was forced to step down as president two months ago. the top democrat on the house rules committee like today following an injury see suffered.
she is widely known as one of congress is most influence show champions of women's rights and was first elected to congress in 1986. congresswoman louise slaughter was 83 years old. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. crumpton. this is bloomberg. leadership is something everyone talks about but far too people practice it. martin dempsey is the exception as he rose to through the ranks of the most challenging times in the war in iraq and became the most senior military officer in the country. the chairman of the joint chief of staff. general dempsey has written a book on leadership called "radical inclusion".
we welcome general dempsey the bloomberg. great to have you here. general.art with you, one of the things you say in your book is that leadership changed in the digital world. what is the biggest change in what state the same -- what stayed the same? all the time and on the move means all leaders actions are highly scrutinized in real-time. that is part of it and can affect the weight leader determines the decisions he or she has to make. it is a interesting dynamic where we used to debate issues whether it was right or wrong. now that tends to be more about narratives because a narrative can be introduced to social media and then echo as people
passed from individual to individual in real-time. we think that makes a leader's job harder and more important. david: the title of the book is "radical inclusion". apply your lessons to the present day world and take it to washington. doesn't feel like a lot of inclusion going on in washington right now. with the leaders learn from your buck about how to lead in washington? >> it sure doesn't feel that way. i teach at a business school and i would say we don't have cases of military leadership. what surprised me as a berkeley guy is how much the military ofends about crating a sense longing and how important that is. whether that is a corporation or national level we have to create a sense of belonging. inclusion is a way for us to more effectively get for
mission and to effectively disseminate information through an organization. shery: how important is it for everyone to participate? how do you apply the book onto students? >> we need to realize we need an instinct to listen, amplify, and include. one of the most inspiring things i have seen as the students in florida and their demand for a voice. is up to us to be able to amplify that, especially in this age of the digital echo. this restriction has been criticized as the presidency of one, on the context of your buck, can one person or country take a leadership here especially when you have to deal iran,ussia, north korea, and so many other fronts? you quickly point
out the complexity of security challenges we face. 2014 were thisto all began to coalesce. the lingering threat of terrorism -- no one country can andibly have the resources the knowledge that they would need to deal with every one of those by themselves, which is why we had this exquisite system of allies and partners that has been a existence since the 50's. if you align those partners to understand the challenges we face, and secondly to share the burden so that the solutions we find our affordable and will endure over time. david: one of the great challenges when one writes about challenges is it becomes abstract and book addresses that by having concrete examples it or through your experience or other leaders experience in the real world. let's take a real-world example right now.
i was talking to an ambassador about the situation with respect to russia and the poisoning of a former russian spy on british soil. with that regard of where you are leading to, everyone agrees we need u.s. leadership in this area. how it you apply your leadership to what the u.s. should be doing right now? how do they lead? his dempsey: first of all, security challenges like russia should just be, about the united states and russia, our nato allies have huge stakes in the behavior of russia on their eastern borders. and now you see inside of their borders, at the middle with elections that becomes even a threat to the very basis of democracy, which is about trust in the process. i think the answer is self evident. this is about nato and the european union, we are part of
the north atlantic treaty organization. coming to an agreement on the behavior and collaboratively finding a way to have all of our thaties, met each other so we provide a unified front on that threat. david: one of the things you talk about in your book is when you define a community you define a team and also the fine who is not on the team and not participating in it. one is the basic theme of president trump is america first. how should he go about in determining who should be on the team at heart of the committee and who should be outside of it? ora: i don't think america first is an effective winning strategy. one of the stories we look at in the book is this company called impossible burger. whoever would want to try a veggie burger? what they realized is in order
to best market their burger, they offered high and steakhouses. a couple of days ago in new york i got martin dempsey to try one, and he never thought he would. [laughter] able to gety are the former head of the military to try it is an effective winning strategy. we to ask ourselves where there is national security and if it has inclusion. if we do not we are not going to be ultimately effective. shery: i am going to try it now. [laughter] dempsey. general coming up, cumbersome in denny ny heck congressman den on the russia probe. this is bloomberg. ♪
david: this is work "markets: balance of power". shery: western governments are taking a harder line on russia and the chemical attack on a former spy in the u.k. and influencing the campaign during the press presidential election and the sport of the assad regime in syria has brought combinations of sanctions and exp sions, at any -- xpulsions. joining us is denny heck who introduced a bipartisan bill last week that calls on harsher treatment for russia before the 2018 midterm elections. he is now in capitol hill.
what exactly do you think should be done against russia? rep. heck: we should up limit sanctions that congress passed that hasn't been done. with the administration announced is not only is the section lighter, it is the equivalent of someone having committed a capital crime and being given operation for it. all they did is sanction one military one intelligence officer what already been sanctioned and a bunch of 23-year-old hackers who sat in windowless rooms that this damage during the presidential election. what want the administration to do is what we voted for last year. shery: what about the sentience that were implemented on these intelligence agencies, on the business, and people? you don't think it will harm or scare moscow? --. heck: was a decent start
but what is at issue is what is it going to take to take vladimir putin to stop and step down and step back from interfering in the elections of western democracies? here is what we believe. yet the squeeze on him and yet the sanction is circle of oligarchs friends, and that is not what has happened in the sections we adopted. we will know if the sanctions are working when he stops interfering. he isspeak here today, continuing to interfere not only in america but also in the mexican national elections that are upcoming. david: we have reasons to believe sanctions will work? that have been sections on russia for a long while, not just in the u.s. but also europe. doesn't seem like we have deterred his behavior one lick. white you think doubling down is going to change? rep. heck: what we haven't done
is levy sanctions against the oligarchs. that is his inner circle and people who are millionaires. if want to change behavior, that is where we must hit. david: why aren't we doing that? administration resisting this? -- why is the administration resisting this? rep. heck: demonstration in the form of the president is not speaking harshly of the attempted murder of two people in london last week. why is he resisting to criticize vladimir putin? that is a good question. asked the president that. shery: the continued committee investigation on the trump campaign in russia, what
measures are you taking right now and what are you pursuing? rep. heck: a like to respectfully disagree with your phrasing. there was collusion. define theuld you evidence? house can you explain some of the secret meetings that occurred and communications between donald trump, jr. and others involved? there is collusion, no doubt. shery: are you afraid that the president will fire robert miller given that he is asking for documents from the trump organization? rep. heck: i would be afraid if robert mueller did not ris equest those documents. i do notirst of all, have eyes on the mueller investigation. there is a firewall against us
and them, i am a person following these events and looks to meet that where this is heading towards is a forensic accounting of possible money-laundering. david: i understand you do not know what is going on with the -- the investigation, robert mueller investigation. does that seem likely that robert mueller will make progress? to borrow a phrase from a famous beer commercial, it is mueller time. if they can come together on proposing some protective measures going into the 2018 election and beyond -- we are getting late for that at this point. i think there is a possibility we can come together on that and i hope we will and i certainly
will advocate for that. david: cumbersome and denny heck, you for joining us. coming up, russia's meddling in elections and the poisoning of a former spy. york, this is bloomberg. ♪
shery: this is "balance of power". david: russia is at the top of the headlines with the reason the reason may imposing sanctions on russia. brideau, the
director of the eurasia group. as we go into this week, there is not much question of the results. the question is what is russia about and what is vladimir putin about nyc poisoning former spies in the u.k.? what is in it for him? alex: for him going into this election this is about talking to the russian public which is not necessarily focused on these issues with the west. with some exceptions. was int campaign rally crimea and the russian occupation is still popular throughout the country. for a lot of russian voters there's a focus on the domestic issues. that economy for example they have not heard a lot about that, but by the mirror putin is popular with the public and he is going to get very high percentage of the vote this weekend.
but the borders are not that enthusiastic. david: let me ask the blood -- let me ask the blunt question, why should we care? election is about continuity for vladimir putin going into the next six your term and it suggests there is not to be a lot of changes there when it comes to the foreign policy with the west. if anything there is some risk to the downside in terms of the potential for the relationship with the u.s. and the u.k. to worsen given what has happened in the last week. i think for a lot of western governments, what they're going to be focused on in the next few years with the longer-term view is what happens in terms of transition from vladimir putin
to a new generation of leadership. there's certainly a lot of question if this is the last an office sod there be more attention paid to that over the long term. this election is and give all the answer to that but it will provide some indicators. shery: why are we seeing mr. putin is not reacting to sanctions? alex: the russian foreign-policy goals have not necessarily been deterred fully by the sanctions we have seen so far. it is case of crimea, quite popular with the russian public and something that mr. putin considers to be a close subject and is not something that comes up in discussions between russian and western officials about the future of the ukraine. i think the sanctions announced this week were probably expected
to a certain extent by the russian government. the reaction from their point of view, they will respond to a certain degree, but i think they feel a lot of foreign policy objectives are being met despite reactions from the west. shery: what sort of long-term impact will the sanctions have? the problem for the russian government going forward is they need to focus on how to boost long-term economic growth. we are not seeing signs that there will be a lot of domestic policy changes that might lead to fewer investments in the country. was that might help diversifying the economy in a way for oil and natural gas. the oil sector has been hit by sanctions, such a combined -- the lack of structural concerns, the growth rates that the russian public
has been accustomed to in the early years of vladimir putin's time in power are not going to return. the estimates going for the next two years are 2% or less, so that is a problem for the russian state, for putin, and the kremlin. as they try to keep the public engaged with them and supportive of them -- as time goes on there's going to be more concerned that the economy is -- reducing for the public not producing for the public. with protestsies happening to our small but more widespread happening over a broader section of the country and that is going to be something it will be worried about over the long-term. david: data in multiple sanctions on russia for a long time and it was expected it will bring them to their knees economically but it doesn't seem to happen. is the west sending a message
that you can basically get away with murder? you can go to the ukraine, and you did not directly should down a plane come in yet the material to do it, you can poison spies in the u.k. and get away with it. alex: i think the intent of the sanctions and the more recent ones have been intended to punish and that is what we saw of the law passed in 2017. think a lot of sanctions put in place to hurt the economy over the long-term, particularly when it comes to oil. david: thank you alex brideau. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪
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scarlet: we are live in bloomberg world headquarters in new york over the next hour. here are the top stories we are covering on the bloomberg and from around the world. a decadefference makes. we will look at how jpmorgan's decision to buy bearish in a fire sale has paid off big time. and we will discuss the watershed call to sell stocks and hold cash. what this means for investors in this high volatility landscape. and as bright as it hangs in the balance, we speak with the prime minister of ireland about the crucial role he plays in the eu discussions. we have u.s. markets closing in about two hours time. abigail doolittle, we had some strong factory data this morning? had strong also gains, and now we are starting to look at intraday mixed activity. the dow and s&p 500 are still higher, but the tech heavy nasdaq and the nasdaq
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S&P marks new record high as USD remains strong – oil inventories watched
EUR/USD – weak data out of the Eurozone and better than expected data out of the US drove the EUR lower once again, although it managed to come off its lows as the day. Nevertheless, it is trading near the lowest level in a week, as also the uncertainty regarding Spain and Catalonia remains and also the Brexit negotiations are not making any significant progress and appear to be deadlocked. Today ECB President Draghi will speak as well as other ECB members and we will be looking if they make any comments on tapering of QE. Today several FOMC members will also speak and from them we will be looking at comments with regards to inflation and a possible rate hike.
USD/JPY – rose further as the USD continued to strengthen. We reached the resistance around the 112.5 level, but as long as the USD continues to strengthen and the demand for safe havens remains low, as the situation with North Korea is not deterioration further, we can expect a break of this level, especially if the data out of the US remains solid. On Sunday, we also have the election in Japan, which was called a few weeks ago by Prime Minister Abe.
GBP/USD – dropped even though inflation was as expected at 3%, but it was still the highest level in 5 years, which reinforced the expectation that the BOE will raise the interest rate at its next meeting next month. while this is likely to slow down inflation, it is expected that it will do the same for economic growth, so the BOE is in a bit of a catch-22. However, not all BOE officials are in favor of such a move as was made clear yesterday, which resulted in an immediate weakening of the GBP. In addition, concerns regarding the stalling Brexit talks remain as the chances of a hard Brexit are increasing, even though none of the parties prefer this option.
Bitcoin – dropped yesterday around $200, although that is not considered a major drop anymore. When looking at the weekly chart we can clearly identify a trend of a sharp upwards move, a correction that last around 2-3 weeks and then a renewed upwards move to new highs. The question obviously is if we are now in the period that Bitcoin corrects a bit before surging again or that this is just a temporary blip.
Dollar Index – continued to move up and has nearly recovered the losses from last week as the data out of the US remains solid and on track for another rate hike in December. The expectation that FED Chair Yellen will be replaced by a more hawkish FED Chair is also strengthening the USD. It is anticipated that President Trump will make his decision known before his Asia trip which is at the start of November.
S&P 500 – reached a new record high, not the first this year, and was led by the healthcare sector as earnings continued to dominate the markets. We are seeing less of a surge than we have seen in the past and are seeing only minor gains as a lot of people are getting worried that the market is ripe for a correction due to having reached high valuations.
VIX – as could be expected the VIX jumped up as fear crept into the markets after the terror attack in Spain and the lingering troubles in Washington. The VIX nearly reached the level that was reached last week when the tensions between the US and North Korea were at its high.
Copper – continues to trade near its 3-year high even though it lost some ground yesterday. Demand for copper is expected to remain high due to the growing global economy, and due to the expected rebuilding efforts in the US and the Caribbean due to the damage of the recent hurricanes. Also, important will be the data out of China tomorrow, which includes GDP and industrial production.
Gold – remains under pressure from the rising USD and the lack of geopolitical tensions which would result in an increase in demand for the safe haven. The USD rises as the data out of the US remains strong and the expectation is for a new hawkish FED Chair. On the geopolitical front, there have been no negative developments with either North Korea or Iran, so the tensions are fading away, although especially the situation with North Korea requires careful monitoring.
Oil – the tensions in Iraq between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish leadership appear to have eased, as the Iraqi government took control of Kirkuk and the surrounding oil fields without a fight and the disruption in production were limited. Nevertheless, the Kurds are unhappy about this and the situation could change, especially after the recent Kurdish referendum. The API data showed a much larger draw than expected of over 7 million barrels. We will be looking this afternoon at the EIA inventories as well as the production data out of the US. It appears more and more likely that OPEC will be extending its production cut freeze.
Goldman Sachs – dropped 2.5% after its earnings even though revenue was better than expected at $8.3 billion while $7.5 billion was expected. however, profits were down compared to last year and there was also a decline in profits from commodity trading, which already under-performed last quarter and was cited the worst in its history.
Johnson & Johnson – rose 3.5% on strong earnings to reach a record high with a revenue that was better than expected at $19.7 billion. What was also important is that the company has raised its forecast for the year based on the good results so far.
Morgan Stanley – reported a revenue $9.2 billion versus expected revenue of $9.04 billion and a profit of $1.78 billion. Nevertheless, it was able to only close a bit higher likely as a decline in trading revenue prevented it to close as strong as it opened.
Verizon – will be reporting its earnings tomorrow before the market opens.
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Graham Shorthill
Saanich celebrates 20 years as stewards of Mount Doug
On Thursday, the district unveiled a version of the constitution engraved on a towering rock at the park’s main entrance
Nov. 23, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Twenty years ago Saanich took over ownership of Mount Douglas park and held a ceremony at the summit, revealing the park charter.
On Thursday, the district unveiled a second version of the constitution engraved on a towering rock at the park’s main entrance – part of a two-pronged approach to celebrate the park’s past and enhance its future.
Members of the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society and representatives from Saanich gathered at the base of Churchill Road to recognize the success of closing the road for pedestrians until noon daily – by installing distance and elevation markers – and improving the road entrance by adding more park-like features.
The oversized charter and elevation markers now being installed are a part of the first of three thresholds intended to calm traffic on Churchill Road and add to the park atmosphere.
A new gate and a large cedar framed kiosk, including a boardwalk over Douglas Creek are planned in the next phase of enhancements for installation in the spring of 2013. Traffic calming “rumble strips” to address traffic exiting Shelbourne are also a part of the plan.
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said the district is proud of the relationship they have with the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society.
“We’re really fortunate to have those kind of community advocates working with us and to mark the occasion,” Leonard said. “The word improvement is almost inappropriate because it’s actually about preservation. The biggest thing we’ve done is acquire the land down the slopes so that it’s not a crew cut park. That it’s a park that goes right down the slope of Mount Doug and now little Mount Doug. For the taxpayers, that’s been their contribution.”
Graham Shorthill, founding member of roughly 180-person society, measures the success of the morning Churchill Road closure by the number of walkers he meets from across the Capital Region, as well as international travellers who made a point of visiting the 188-hectare park.
“We’re always in preservation mode and any opportunity to expand the park, we take,” Shorthill said. “That’s our fundamental job: to make sure it’s in the public eye and that people value it. TThe best defence of the park is citizens getting in and using it and really showing them the value.”
Improving salmon habitat, and the trail system in an effort to get walkers off the road and into the park are the two other prime priorities, he added.
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Venezuela Faces a New Electoral Challenge
by Israel Centeno / September 25, 2012 / 1 Comment
Will an election be enough to change the government?
Photo: JoséMa Orsini. March in Support of Henrique Capriles. June 10, 2012.
In the 1990s, via the theories of the anti-Semitic and fascist Argentinean Norberto Ceresole, Hugo Chávez found the keys to what would become the dialectics of his “revolution.” There would be two central themes:
From his lonely watch post Albert Camus asked who among us has not experienced exile yet still managed to preserve a spark of fire in their soul. “We’re all alone,” Natalia Sedova cried in exile on hearing of her husband Leon Trotsky’s affair with Frida Kahlo. In his novel Night Watch, Stephen Koch follows the incestuous love affair of David and Harriet, wealthy siblings watching the world from their solitary exile. Koch’s writing, Camus’s theories, and Trotsky’s affair all come back to exile and lead me to reflect on the human condition. From my own vantage point, my Night Watch, I will reflect on my questions of exile, writing, and the human condition.
Israel Centeno was born in 1958 in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently lives in Pittsburgh as a Writer-in-Residence with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. He writes both novels and short stories, and also works as an editor and professor of literature. He has published nine books in Venezuela and three in Spain.
1) The destruction of democratic institutionalism in Venezuela, replaced by a new power relation upheld by a caudillo embodying the fusion of the army and the people.
2) The promotion of a third political force on the international scene, supporting multipolarity and born from an alliance between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the Ayatollahs’ Iran, al-Assad’s Syria, and Gaddafi’s Libya.
On this basis, Chávez was elected into power, following two attempted coups d’état. Why the middle class and the convergence of seemingly contradictory factors supported him—thus guaranteeing his success—is explained in greater detail by the author and poet Guillermo Sucre in his article “Democratura.”
The only significant promise kept by Chávez in his 14 years of “revolution” was to call a constitutional assembly, which served not just to change the Constitution, but also to begin dismantling democratic institutionalism. Later on, by means of paradigmatic crises spurred on by his political operatives, and in violation of the newly-formed Constitution, the caudillo-president transferred the Judicial Branch, parliament, electoral arbiter, and the army under his direct control.
It’s difficult to give a name to this unprecedented pantomime. One could think up a short list of neologisms. As I understand it, it is not in the style of Fidel, Perón, nor Gaddafi, nor inspired by Noriega, nor in support of Nasser, Fujimori, nor Mugabe. It is a contradiction; the sum total of all authoritarian models with added cynicism, nihilism, and impunity.
Chávez’s anti-USA speech has been enough to win the sympathy of the left-wing paparazzi, who have forgotten that Franco, Salazar, and even Somoza and Pinochet (the latter two at the time of Jimmy Carter) intensely disliked the United States. For a selection of the left-wing intelligentsia, it’s enough to bring back, as in Chávez’s speech, the anti-capitalist clichés of the 1960s, or subscribe to the conspiracy theories circulating the Internet, almost all of them connected to neo-Nazi groups.
Now Venezuelans are once again faced with the powerful muscle of a State controlled by Chávez. In spite of the bias shown by the electoral arbiter and the army, and the incumbent’s threats of civil war (as if we weren’t still immersed in a war that has claimed a shocking number of victims over the last 14 years), on the streets there is a united force. Challenged day after day by an agenda of violence imposed by pro-Chávez groups, the united factors insist upon finding a way to change—an alternative. But this change will only be significant if, in addition to defeating and displacing the multiform Hugo Chávez, Henrique Capriles and his accompanying forces rebuild independent, democratic institutionalism that, by means of a nationally-agreed government, promotes a modern State to resolve the issues of poverty, profitable employment, health, and education.
Translation: Kelly V. Harrison
Tags: democracy, Henrique Capriles, Hugo Chávez, Israel Centeno, Latin America, politics, Venezuela
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Luke Weyland September 26, 2012 at 1:18 am ·
Venezuela won’t become a democracy – because it already is a democracy. Every state city and district has representatives both for and against Chavez. People are free to vote or stand if they wish, free to protest both for and against Chavez and the PSUV in newspapers, streets, parks and pulpits. Hugo Chavez will probably win – because he is Latin America’s second most popular leader. Why? free education from pre-school to university. free health care including dental, subsidised food fuel and transport & unemployment lowest it has been for decades.
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Silicon Valley Season 3: Finale Recap “The Uptick”
Raviga is now out of the picture. So is C.J. Cantwell, who was never more than a pawn in other characters’ schemes. Main characters have lost millions of dollars, just to keep things in stasis. The reset button has officially been pressed.
Louis Weinstein June 27, 2016 • 3 min read
This week’s episode of Silicon Valley was a fitting, yet jarring, end to a season full of decent ideas never properly realized. Months-long story arcs resolved themselves so quickly, I couldn’t help but feel that the writing staff was just relieved to be done for the year. The show (which made its mark using its initial 10-episode run to build the world’s most intricate dick joke) has become a series of cheap punchlines delivered by unsatisfying characters.
The episode starts with Gavin Belson-who has recently made a habit of buying exotic animals to make dramatic points at Hooli board meetings-discovering that the elephant he was parading around campus last week had suddenly died. Worried that this might mar his triumphant reinstatement as CEO, he fires an assistant who expresses sympathy for the elephant, and orders that the elephant’s 9,000-pound carcass be dumped into the San Francisco Bay. Ultimately, the fired employee attempts to expose Gavin by leaking the story to tech blogger C.J. Cantwell. Gavin manages to keeps the story secret by purchasing C.J.’s blog.
Meanwhile, Richard Hendricks makes the discovery that Jared has been padding Pied Piper’s daily active user stats by contracting a Bangladeshi clickfarm. Instead of becoming enraged, Richard is resigned to the notion that his company is still doomed. He agrees to keep the secret with Jared, since they’ll be out of money in a few weeks anyway. Richard and Jared soon learn that the “slight uptick” in users has inspired Erlich Bachman to go courting new high-profile investors. The flurry of rumors that Pied Piper is on the upswing culminates in an offer of $6 million in series B funding. When it comes time to sign the contract, Richard backs out, since the data Bachman used to fuel interest was fraudulent. Once again we are forced to watch Richard struggle with his morals under pressure from Bachman’s avarice. This cycle has gotten trite.
Prompted by the sudden interest from investors outside Raviga, and by Richard’s surprise confession that they were faking their daily active user metrics, Laurie Bream immediately moves to sell Pied Piper off to the highest bidder. Gavin Belson makes a snide offer for a million dollars. Just like last year’s finale, it seems that all of Pied Piper’s technology is about to fall under the control of Hooli. But fortunately for Richard, Bachman and Nelson Bighetti had become the owners of C.J. Cantwell’s blog during their short-lived business partnership. Having received a million dollars after Gavin purchased the blog, the two combine their income and buy Pied Piper back from Raviga. The season ends, predictably enough, with all the main characters sitting around Bachman’s table, laughing and celebrating their new-old partnership.
So many promising ideas are left behind in this episode and so many characters are jettisoned. If the point of this season was simply to manufacture a way for Pied Piper to become a self-funded company, then mission accomplished. Unfortunately, it wasn’t terribly entertaining to watch. Raviga is now out of the picture. So is C.J. Cantwell, who was never more than a pawn in other characters’ schemes. Main characters have lost millions of dollars, just to keep things in stasis. The reset button has officially been pressed.
Despite the funny moments generated from watching Erlich Bachman orgasmically weave his individual brand of bullshit all over the Bay Area investment circle, this episode served only itself. Pied Piper is a blank slate again, neither bankrupt nor successful. With Dinesh’s video chat implementation of Richard’s “middle-out” compression showing early signs of popularity, there’s hope for a slightly different plot to drive season four. Let’s hope it isn’t so haplessly recursive.
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A lesson shooting overhead clays from behind
Geoff “Silver Fox” Kelly has been shooting clays for 40 years and prior to that used to do some game and pigeon shooting. Having started with an airgun at the age of seven, his route into the shooting world went down a familiar path that many have taken, beginning with beating on a local shoot.
In 2006, Geoff became a member of the Association of Professional Shooting Instructors (APSI).
We asked him to give clayshooters a masterclass.
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The target
The target that Geoff had chosen to look at was an overhead clay from behind – the reversal of an incomer. This target is not only a challenge for the clay shooter, but can also offer a simulation of a woodpigeon hurting over a tall hedge or trees from behind a hide. Geoff said: “Good shooters never look like they are rushing, stance and gun mount are vital but using your vision correctly and finding your visual pick-up point is crucial with a target like this. One of the biggest mistakes that shooters make with this target is to look too far out and to look at the gun too much instead of looking back for the target. By the time the clay flies into view it is already a long way out. The further away you shoot the wider, and less dense, your shot pattern gets. So try and get onto the clay as quickly as possible.
Geoff looks up at the 11 o’clock position to allow for early sight of the clay
Pull away
“For a clay like this I shoot gun down and would normally look up at about the 11 o’clock position. This allows early sight of the clay and gives me valuable time to mount and shoot smoothly. Tilt your head back slightly and as the target appears, looking up, move and mount with it. Don’t let the clay overtake the gun or else you will lose sight of it. As the muzzles touch the leading edge of the clay, squeeze the trigger and follow through to complete the shot – don’t stop when you fire. This is pretty much an instinctive shot so don’t dwell on it. I would shoot this particular target using the CPSA method known as ‘pull away’. My gun would be held further out from my visual pick-up point. We call this the hold point, approximately midway between where I first see the clay clearly and where I intend to take the shot.
As the target appears, looking up, move and mount with it – don’t let it overtake the gun
“As an instructor I have to take into account that everybody is different and that some will be quicker or slower than others and sometimes what may seem like sloppy technique works for some individuals. There are several known methods for shooting clays, they all work and if you are going to be a successful Sporting shooter you need to have a full box of tools to be successful. Changing style and posture can sometimes be the key to success.”
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Atelier Firis Will Be For PS4 And PS Vita, With A Theme Of “Journey” That Starts From A Mining Town
By Sato . May 24, 2016 . 3:30am
Gust announced Atelier Firis: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Journey in Japanese video game magazines this week, and we got ourselves the first details on its main characters, system, and more. [Thanks, Game Jouhou.]
Firis Mistrut (CV: Kaede Hondo)
Character Design: Yugen
The protagonist of this title. She’s a 15-year-old girl who lives in a mining town that is closed behind an underground gate, and longs for the outside world. She has the special ability to find the location of ores, which she uses for mining work.
Leanne Mistrut (CV: Azusa Sato)
Firis’ older sister and traveling partner. She’s an excellent hunter and one of the few that are allowed to leave the town. She likes to spoil her younger sister Firis.
Game Elements
The theme behind Atelier Firis is “journey” (or trip, travel). Firis doesn’t have an Atelier in particular, but will use alchemy throughout her journey.
There will be mountainous areas, severely cold areas buried in snow, and all kinds of different areas, with the most extensive fields we’ve yet to see from the series.
There are some fields that are basically the distance between a town to a mountain.
Firis’ outfits will change as she continues on her journey. Time concept is also part of the game.
Choices affect the world and story of the game.
Depending on how you overcome obstacles throughout the journey, it’ll have an effect on the fields and story.
Example: in a situation where a bridge to cross a river is broken
A.) You can get a carpenter to fix the bridge. After thanking the carpenter, you may get some information about a strong monster nearby.
B.) Find another way to cross. Discover a cave near the river. There are dangerous monsters in there, but you might be able to find some new ores.
Traveler Bonfires
You’ll find various “Bonfires” in each field, and these can be used to put up tents which will be used for your Atelier for synthesis. You might also get effects from the land while using alchemy.
Similar to the previous title, it’ll a synthesis system that is done in puzzle-game style with the ingredients used as pieces. A new “Superdreadnaught Synthesis” will also be possible, allowing you to make things regardless of the size of the alchemy pot. That said, you’ll be able to make things like boats.
First-Print Bonus
A special costume for Firis.
Premium Box
Visual Book and rare tracks CD, an illustrated poster, clear art cards, and more.
Special Collection Box
In addition to what’s in the Premium Box, the Special Collection Box includes nine crystal paper weight cubes and a special theme. Each cube will show different character expressions.
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Journey will release for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. A NicoNIco Live program will broadcast on June 13, 2016.
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They say that art imitates life, and that’s never been truer than when you book Top Marker! This talented scribbler can profile all of your guests, so they have a gallery of memories to look back on.
Bear in mind, though, that this guy is a mischievous cartoonist – like all the greatest in his discipline, he’s prepared to draw out the biggest, most notable features from everyone in attendance. That’s made for some cracking celebrity drawings so far: his sketches of celebrities need to be seen to be believed. If you’re willing to poke a little fun at what makes us unique, Top Marker is your man for cool portraits during a celebratory day.
He’ll draw on his feet, sitting down, lying on his belly if necessary – there are no lengths that he won’t go to for a striking caricature. That’s why he’s been featured in magazines and on TV. Have him roam the rooms of your event venue, whipping out that marker pen on request, or seat him in a corner where people can flock for a quick drawing with their bestie. Top Marker never fails to live up to his name…
“My wife and I thought we had all the makings of a memorable wedding. But then Top Marker was recommended to us, and he really changed the way we’ll look back on it. Top marks from me!”
— Wedding Groom, Suffolk
“The cartoons are hilarious – our kids wanted to bring their mums and dads along before the party ended, so they could see what features he picked out in their faces. It’s silly fun that any crowd can enjoy: especially 12-year-olds, who aren’t the easiest to please!”
— Deputy Head Teacher, Manchester
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NRL comes down hard on off-field issues
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NRL CEO Todd Greenberg and the NRL have come down hard on a number of clubs and players after a string of off-field issues which have rocked the NRL this off-season.
It’s been a summer to forget for the game which yielded 17 incidents and Greenberg didn’t hold back in handing down several punishments on a number of matters.
In a landmark day for rugby league on Thursday, the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) met to form a historic “no fault” policy in a bid to “rebuild and protect the game”.
Greenberg also has discretion on matters which involve players charged with criminal offences that carry a maximum sentence of 11 years imprisonment – particularly when they involve violence against women and children.
The game’s boss executed the power for the first time on Friday on Manly’s Dylan Walker – who became the second player stood down under the NRL’s new “no fault” policy – with Walker out of the game until the conclusion of his court case.
Walker’s next hearing date is May 10.
However, Manly, the Dragons, Walker and de Belin could all consider taking legal action over the change in policy.
Meanwhile, the NRL has also come down hard on the Cronulla Sharks – who were fined a total of $1.25 million with $500,000 suspended. Of that, $250,000 is still payable is for breaching the salary cap over a number of years dating back to 2013, while a $500,000 fine applies for the club being contact with Shane Flanagan while he was suspended.
The Sharks will also have $707,000 cut from their salary cap allowance over the next two seasons.
Former coach Shane Flanagan has also been deregistered for an indefinite period of time.
Fairfax Chief Rugby League writer Adrian Proszenko also told Halftime with James Willis there could be a possibility of more penalties to Cronulla players.
“What Nick Weeks (chief operating officer) said was based on the evidence we have at this point we don’t have enough information to proceed with any action against players,” Proszenko said.
“But he didn’t rule out that potentially down the track that there will be more information, there will more evidence that they did knowingly take that money or knew of promises of money made to them, that this was off the books so to speak.
“They’ve left the door slightly ajar but as it stands, out of all the salary cap sandals, we still haven’t had a player or for that matter a manager put away and obviously that would be complicit.
“I suspect under the new accreditation scheme that has been done for managers – it’ll much easier for the NRL to sanction them.
“They were obviously a separate body, they’ve put a bit of rigour around compliance and the fact that like every other registered participant they have to comply by the rules.
“But retrospectively they weren’t able to do anything to the managers in this case.”
Wests Tigers will also have their $750,000 fine slashed in half and CEO Justin Pascoe will be allowed to return to the club mid-year – once he completes a six-month suspension after failing to disclose an ambassadorial agreement involving Robbie Farah.
Tigers’ forward Zane Musgrove also has had his request to be registered by the NRL refused until his own court case has concluded.
The NRL has also fined Canterbury enforcer Dylan Napa 10 percent of his 2019 salary following the publication of several lewd videos of him.
While North Queensland forward Scott Bolton has been suspended for 10 weeks and fined 5 percent of his salary after pleading guilty to common assault last year.
He can have his suspension halved if he agrees to address the captains and senior players of the other 15 teams during this year’s Magic Round.
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49ers Rumors: Torrey Smith Defends Colin Kaepernick After Trade Talk, Anquan Boldin, Reggie Bush Confident as Carlos Hyde, Quinton Patton, Bruce Ellington Starters?
By Lauren Moranor
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick runs for yards during a 2014 home game."
Despite all of the rumors regarding trades, no one has lost any confidence in Colin Kaepernick heading into the 2015 season. The upcoming year is viewed as a crucial one for the San Francisco 49ers quarterback after an 8-8 finish last year. Many have begun to wonder if Kaepernick is really the player that will get it done for the franchise, but according to his top playmakers, the quarterback is looking better than ever.
After ESPN's John Clayton reported that the trade talk around Kaepernick will begin to heat up if he starts to struggle this upcoming season, several 49ers are speaking out in support of the quarterback. According to offensive coordinator Geep Chryst, Kaepernick is playing with full confidence and the improvement is starting to show on the field. The team is looking for the quarterback to be more comfortable throwing and not just running which appears to be happening.
"H e's playing with a lot of confidence," Chryst said, via CBSSports.com. "I think he's having fun playing football. I think it's awful important to him, so how do you catch the right balance between, I'm serious here and it's still great to be with my teammates? There's a serious side to Colin about working hard. There's a side where he'll get on people if we're not operating, and then there's that side where you feel confidence and you see within his demeanor - that's a positive."
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His teammates certainly feel the same way. Newly signed Torrey Smith spoke highly of Kaepernick saying that he might be a better quarterback than Joe Flacco. That is certainly high praise since the 49ers need both Kaepernick and Smith on the same page in 2015.
"Joe (Flacco) has a great arm, probably the strongest arm in the league, but Kap's is something different with that velocity," Smith said, via the team website. "I don't know how to explain it, but it's something different. He's doing a great job. Ya'll aren't out there, but some of the throws he made yesterday were ridiculous."
Several veterans are certainly hoping Kaepernick can take them to the promise land this season. Reggie Bush signed with San Francisco in hopes that a Super Bowl trophy would follow. Anquan Boldin is thinking the same thing as he enters his 13th season. The receiver is entering the final year of his contract and is not worried about the future.
"I'm not into that," Boldin said, via the Mercury News. "I'm not one of those guys that, 'I need ...' I'm going to play this year, and we'll see where we're at. It's not a big deal to me. They know where my heart is, and I know the same for the organization."
Kaepernick is on thin ice whether people will admit it or not. The quarterback must improve and show he can be a pocket passer as well as a rusher. If that does not happen, the trade talk will continue and likely become true.
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Michigan recruiting: 5-star safety from Oklahoma headlines list of junior day prospects
Kevin Goheen, Land of 10
If you don’t know about Daxton Hill‘s abilities on the football field, you’re not likely to hear about them from him. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound safety from Tulsa, Okla., is loaded with abilities, though. The 5-star rating from the 247Sports composite and No. 27 ranking among all players in the 2019 class are testament to those skills.
Michigan will get a chance to better acquaint itself with Hill and other top prospects this weekend when it holds its annual junior day. Land of 10 has confirmed that Hill and 2020 tackle Paris Johnson Jr. of Cincinnati are expecting to make the visit to Ann Arbor to meet with coach Jim Harbaugh and his staff.
Heading To Michigan in March for Junior Day #GoBlue 〽️ pic.twitter.com/pADIDU5ju1
— #DaxHill (@daxhill5) February 23, 2018
247Sports is reporting that 4-star 2019 quarterback Paul Tyson of Trussville, Ala., is expected at junior day, as well as Chicago 4-star 2019 tight end Jahleel Billingsley and 2021 defensive end JC Latham of Waukesha, Wis.
Rivals.com reports that a 2019 commit, 5-star defensive end Christopher Hinton, and two top 2019 targets — 4-star offensive lineman Will Harrod of Fort Washington, Md., and 5-star defensive end Zach Harrison of Lewis Center, Ohio — also are on the list of players expected to attend.
Hill is an intriguing prospect who has offers from the likes of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, LSU, Ohio State and Alabama. His older brother is Oklahoma State junior running back Justice Hill, who set a school freshman record with 1,142 rushing yards in 2016 and backed it up with 1,467 yards as a sophomore. That earned him first-team All-Big 12 honors, and he also was named a first-team Academic All-American by CoSIDA.
Daxton Hill has genuine interest in Michigan, said Dwight Dobbins Jr., who along with Marcus Pugh trains Hill at Game Changers Oklahoma. Hill’s recruitment is very much open at this point.
“With him it’s different. A lot of kids will be like, ‘I got this offer from so-and-so school,’ but you wouldn’t know he’s got anything because he doesn’t talk about it. He’s really even-keeled all the way around,” Dobbins told Land of 10. “Even though he’s got the spotlight on him — people know who he is and he’s the talk of the town — he doesn’t carry himself that way. He’s a real cool kid to be around, very coachable. He’s just a regular kid.”
Dobbins played cornerback at Tulsa from 2011-14. He and Pugh have been working with Hill for the last year. Hill helped Booker T. Washington win its ninth Oklahoma state title last December.
Tight ends coach Sherrone Moore has been the lead recruiter for Hill. Moore, who was hired in January, played offensive line at Oklahoma, graduating from the school in 2008. His knowledge of the area has helped Michigan branch out its recruitment and gives the Wolverines a shot with players such as Hill.
Michigan has five players committed to the 2019 class so far: Hinton, 4-star defensive end Stephen Herron Jr., 4-star guard Nolan Rumler, 4-star tackle Trente Jones and 3-star linebacker Charles Thomas.
There could be more commitments announced following junior day.
The post Michigan recruiting: 5-star safety from Oklahoma headlines list of junior day prospects appeared first on Land of 10.
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FARIBAULT, MINN. - Members of Shattuck-St. Mary’s Girls Soccer Center of Excellence received quite a surprise on Tuesday morning, as Chicago Red Stars standout and member of the U.S. Women’s National Team Julie Ertz stopped by to visit the program.
The girls reported to the Dane Family Fieldhouse at 10:30 a.m for what they believed to be a practice session before Ertz entered shortly thereafter and the teams quickly gathered around her.
Following a few group photographs with SSM players, Ertz engaged in a lengthy Q&A session before sending the players off with an emphatic Shattuck-St. Mary’s team huddle break.
Ertz, who starred as a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team that won the 2015 Women’s World Cup, is in the area for Super Bowl week. Her husband, Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz will take the field on Sunday in pursuit of Philadelphia’s first Super Bowl victory.
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L.A. County Animal Care & Control: Baldwin Park + Post + Image album
City: Baldwin Park (91706)
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Website: http://animalcare.lacounty.gov/become-a-volunteer/
You would not believe how many adoption offers this chihuahua had across the country - just because he was photographed with his paws in a praying position!!
1 01/30/2016 at 8:31AM Laura Jones
LA County: Repeal the laws you changed which will KILL MORE HOMELESS DOGS AND CATS
**In September 2016, the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control recommended changes to the law, which were passed by the LA County Board of Supervisors, which REMOVE PROTECTIONS FROM EUTHANASIA WHICH PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR PETS FOR 6 DAYS FOLLOWING IMPOUND AT THEIR 7 SHELTERS (according to the Code), and ERASE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN RECORDS COMPLETELY (according to the Code), these changes and others are hugely detrimental to the animals and will likely result in more death. With a euthanasia rate of approximately 50%, we are dumbfounded by these measures which were passed under the misleading assertion from Marcia Mayeda, Director of LAC Animal Care and Control, that they would "reunite owners with their lost pets", when the reality is the polar opposite. We must come together and stand up for the voiceless animals who are not able to do so themselves, in protest of these absurd changes to the LA County Code on animals** Dear Board of Supervisors, Concerning changes to the County Code on Animals effective September 6, 2016 We are writing to express dire concern for the changes enacted to Title 10 – Animals of the Los Angeles County Code, effective September 6, 2016. The changes, as recommended by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (the Department) Director Marcia Mayeda, appear to: · Lessen the protection from euthanasia afforded to animals in the custody of the Department · Lessen the chance of the reunification of owners with lost pets · Promote a ubiquitous lack of transparency within the Department · Be driven by increased efficiency and revenue for the Department, but with no regard to providing adequate care for pets in its custody · Directly contradict the stated mission of the Department of Animal Care and Control (Appendix C) · Contain concerning and even unconstitutional ambiguities · Conflict with State law (in places) · Be a product of a misleading representation of the changes to the Board of Supervisors (the Board). The Board was presented with the Code changes (Appendix B) as per the following directly quoted from the minutes dated September 6, 2016: Ordinance for adoption amending County Code, Title 10 - Animals, to update and streamline Title 10, provide a better process for regulating excessive animal noise, provide a reduced pet license fee for disabled military veterans, eliminate conflicts with State and Federal laws, eliminate unnecessary language, enhance due process procedures during administrative hearings, expand procedures to reunite lost pets with their owners, and amend most sections using the County’s Plain Language Initiative to make Title 10 more clear and practical for County residents. The above assertions are a gross misrepresentation of many of the changes that actually were effected. Herewith (Appendix A), Attorney Marla Tauscher has set forth in detail the changes which provide overwhelming cause for concern not only to the animal welfare organizations expressing such concern, but to the public at large. In addition, Ms Tauscher has analyzed existing questionable provisions within the Code, such as a lack of a robust procedure for searching the microchip databases; the “extortion” of often unaffordable Board and Care fees (which can amount to hundreds of dollars per animal) from taxpayers whose animals have the misfortune of being impounded at an LA County animal shelter; and the surprisingly lenient provisions on commercial breeding given the pet overpopulation crisis we are facing whereby approximately 50% of pets impounded during 2015 were killed by the Department. Such provisions are in direct contrast to the stated aims of the Code amendments in “reuniting lost pets with their owners”. We would like to highlight the following amendments as key examples of our grave concerns: 10.36.080 – The Record Keeping Requirements, which historically applied to the Department, have been deleted in their entirety. How can there possibly be any valid justification to this; both from the perspective of transparency and accountability of a Government Department, but also pertaining to a core function of the Department in reuniting owners with lost pets; we find this unacceptable and would like to know the rationale behind the decision to eliminate the requirement to keep records at all. 10.36.120 - “An animal that is irremediably suffering or is ordered to be destroyed by the public health officer will not be held for six business days.” The amendment as highlighted in red completely removes any protection from euthanasia within 6 days of impound which historically was contained in the Code. It gives the Department unfettered discretion to euthanize an animal under any circumstances, regardless of status as a stray or an owned, micro chipped pet. We find this abominable and unacceptable. Furthermore, it does nothing to help reunite owners and pets. In conclusion, we hope that we have demonstrated satisfactory evidence to warrant the Board instructing a thorough re-review of the County Code, Title 10 – Animals amendments approved on 6 September 2016 as well as other provisions that should have been amended but were not. Yours truly, Laura Jones, CEO, All About the Animals Gretchen Lieff, President, Davey’s Voice Marc Ching, Founder, Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation Alison Eastwood, Founder, Eastwood Ranch Foundation
Historic stats on outcomes (including euthanasia) for LA County shelters to 2015/16
All About the Animals CEO Laura Jones is interviewed by Spectrum News about concerns with the operations of the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control
Thank you to Davey's Voice, Eastwood Ranch Foundation, and Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation for joining us in raising concerns to the Board of Supervisors. The euthanasia statistics are now back on the DACC website! http://www.twcnews.com/ca/antelope-valley/news/2017/02/15/palmdale--lancaster-euthanasia-rate-above-county-average.html
Volunteer photographs dog's last walk on the way to the euth room at Baldwin Park animal shelter
https://www.thedodo.com/fate-of-unwanted-shelter-dogs-photo-1415452152.html
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Submit data for the fourth UK National CT Dose Survey
Public Health England (PHE) has announced its next review of doses from CT examinations in the UK, which will be the fourth UK national CT dose survey.
It is collecting protocol and patient dose index data for adult CT examinations. A separate survey looking at paediatric doses, undertaken by IPEM in collaboration with PHE, will be launched at a later date.
The College of Radiographers has endorsed participation in the survey as CPD and members are being encouraged to submit data for any of the 13 examinations or other adult examinations that are routinely performed and/or have the highest doses.
The survey forms used for both surveys will be very similar in appearance; you may wish to collect data for both surveys at the same time but submit the data to the separate surveys.
The data collection form and scanner help sheets are available on the CT users group website at http://www.ctug.org.uk/.
Advice offered to those submitting data includes, “If you intend to use a dose management system (DMS) to collect data for the survey, you may wish to speak to your supplier first to see whether they have, or are working on, automatic tools to extract the data and export the required fields to the spreadsheet format. PHE have been in contact with a number of suppliers to implement this feature, but his approach is still in progress.”
PHE has requested that data is contemporary and representative with current practice; where retrospective data is submitted, this should be no older than January 2017 and only for scanners still in use.
In the final report, it is likely that participating centres will be acknowledged. If you’d prefer to remain anonymous, please include this information when submitting your data.
Data submission is open until the end of July 2019, but if it is considered that insufficient data has been received for any examination at this time, this will be extended.
If sufficient data is received, National DRLs for additional examinations will be set.
For any queries and to submit data please email medicalradiationdoses@phe.gov.uk.
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