NEW YORK – Tribune Co. — owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other dailies — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, the first major newspaper publisher to take such a step since the Internet plunged the industry into a desperate struggle for survival.
The media conglomerate was smothered by a drop-off in advertising and a crushing $13 billion in debt from the company's takeover a year ago by Chicago real estate mogul Sam Zell.
Chapter 11 would buy the Tribune Co. time to put its finances in order. Analysts said the company will almost certainly have to sell off some of its major holdings — and that could prove extremely difficult because of the bad economy and the poor outlook for newspapers.
"When you look at the near term, prospects for the company and the industry are certainly not very bright," said Dave Novosel, an analyst with the Gimme Credit research firm.
Tribune Co. employees, who received an ownership stake in the company when Zell came in, could also see the value of their holdings wiped out.
Tribune Co., which has 20,000 employees, owns baseball's Chicago Cubs as well as 10 daily newspapers, including The Hartford (Conn.) Courant and the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, cable channels and 23 TV stations. Its papers' total circulation of more than 2 million puts the Tribune Co. among the top three most-read newspaper groups nationwide.
Other newspaper companies have also struggled with heavy debt, a downturn in advertising and the loss of readers to the Internet, but the Tribune Co. was something of a special case.
"Tribune's debt was so outsized and so disproportional to its cash flow compared to these other companies that it can be the sore thumb sticking out rather than an example of the industry," said Ken Doctor, media analyst with Outsell Inc.
Most of the company's debt comes from the complex deal engineered by Zell. The company's lending agreements require it to keep its debt at a certain point relative to its cash flow. Those deals became harder to meet as revenue declined because of the poor economy and competition from the Internet.
Although the Tribune Co.'s next major debt payment is not due until June, the company was in danger of missing the financial targets set by its lenders. The bankruptcy filing could give the Chicago-based company some time to press its lenders to ease their targets.
To make a debt payment this year, the Tribune Co. sold the Long Island daily Newsday to Cablevision Systems Corp. for $650 million. The Tribune Co. already has made hundreds of layoffs at its papers and reduced the number of pages it puts out.
"So, how did we get here? It has been, to say the least, the perfect storm," Zell, chairman and chief executive, wrote in a memo to employees. "A precipitous decline in revenue and a tough economy have coupled with a credit crisis, making it extremely difficult to support our debt. All of our major advertising categories have been dramatically impacted."
To generate cash — and meet the next principal payment of $593 million, due in June — Tribune has been looking to sell the Cubs, Chicago's Wrigley Field and the company's 25 percent stake in a regional sports cable channel. But a tight credit market has made it tougher for potential buyers to obtain loans. (Zell said the Cubs are not part of the bankruptcy filing.)
Longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Maurice Possley, who resigned after winning this year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism, said many talented people have left the paper in recent months, and he worries about the ones who remain.
"I really mourn what is happening," he said in an e-mail. "I hope this great paper can emerge and survive. It would be a tremendous loss to the public if it cannot be saved. I sincerely hope Sam Zell does not dance on this grave."
Brent Jones, a Sun reporter and union leader, said the bankruptcy filing unnerved the newsroom and prompted questions about whether the company might cut more jobs or sell the paper.
The company said severance payments to recently laid-off employees, deferred compensation and other payments to former workers have been discontinued. Essentially, those former employees become creditors who will have to get in line in bankruptcy court.
In filing for bankruptcy, the company reported $13 billion in debt and $7.6 billion in assets.
John Penn, a bankruptcy lawyer at Haynes & Boone, said decisions about whether to sell papers or other assets would boil down to this: "If it makes cash, keep it. If it loses cash, get rid of it. And that's either by selling it, closing it or whatever it takes to stop the bleeding."
Stephen Lubben, a bankruptcy professional at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, N.J., said Tribune employees are particularly vulnerable because they participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Stockholders are last to be paid in bankruptcy, and often end up with nothing, with the stock getting wiped out.
Employees will not see all of their retirement savings wiped out, though. The company has continued making contributions into traditional retirement plans that are not affected, and many employees have separate 401(k) programs, said Corey Rosen, executive director for the nonprofit research group National Center for Employee Ownership.


This CheersBye Homestays will excite those considering a Kerala backwaters trip.
Homestay at the edge of backwaters and rubber plantations is an elegant and characterful six bedroom homestay set on a rubber plantation in sleepy Kumarakom. Its owners, the Crispins, also have a delightful Kumarakom boat house available for hire – saving guests the hassles and uncertainties of arranging a houseboat trip through agents or touts.
The 150-year-old home is designed according to Vaastu Shastra, the Hindu system of architecture, and in the style of many Keralite heritage homes. A sun-drenched courtyard, relaxing gazebo and lofty communal area are particular attractions in this homestay. The family are eco-aware and make the most of their location, using solar power to warm the water and canoes to travel the watery roads.
Fishing in the Kerala backwaters, open-air meals in the sun or moonlight, swimming, bird watching, cooking lessons and Ayurvedic massage are all options for the type of traveller that likes to get the most from their trip. And of course the Kumarakom boat house, which provides the chance to have a ‘holiday within a holiday’ – a backwater trip on your own boat, with a beautiful home base back awaiting back at Kodianthara.


Philips Arobaya (29, Indonesia) student of MBA Sports Management gives us his impression about the time during the intership and the course MBA Sports Management as well.
Can you tell me what "the third half" is about?
I took an internship (& currently still interning) at “the third half” or t3h for short in the Madrid office. The company works in the social football tourism industry, t3h’s possession of a social initiative function is different to it´s sister company eSoccer’s focus in the football tourism for group travel and player development through coaching clinics sector.
In which department do you work and what is your position?
In t3h my official title is as a Global Operations Manager, in the Madrid office we cover the regions; Asia, Africa, parts of Europe and Oceania. We have a counterpart Atlanta office that handles the regions North America, South America, and parts of Europe.
How long have you been working at "the third half")?
I’ve been interning at the company for 6 months now.
What is your daily work at "the third half"?
My job description requires me to build a database for potential networking (local host and travel partner agencies identification) and developing of the product (travel itinerary). I would tap into our partner street football world’s (sfw) network member database to identify potential local hosts for the products destinations. The database may also include organizations/NGOs from outside the sfw networking. The job description also extends to being the frontline in acquisition and answering of queries addressed to the t3h Madrid office. After product design, I am also involved with marketing the product to institutions and potential clientele as part of the sales process.
How is the experience of working at "the third half"?
The experience was great, gave me a lot of opportunities and a new learning platform. Especially in my understanding of the football tourism industry, coaching clinic and player development and the importance of networking in the football industry.
What have you offered to "the third half" to help them improve on their various projects?
I believe I brought to t3h a few qualities, in particular; An understanding of corporate level execution of tasks. The structured manner of execution coming from past work experiences was useful because of the startup nature of t3h (I think it will pick up very quickly though!). Having also been a part of a social football organization in my home country, I was able to share my experience and bring my understanding of local hosts/organizations/NGO when it came to adjusting our approach for initial contact. In this sense, we were able to understand more about our clientele and how to cater to their needs as well establish a mechanism to brainstorm with the clientele when designing our final products.
How is your relationship with your supervisor and colleagues at work? Are they being helpful with your day-to-day work?
The workplace and environment of my workplace is young and enthusiastic; which is a great pick up for myself and keeps me upbeat at work. I have a great relationship with my colleagues and supervisor, they are welcoming and open to answering my questions. They assist me in my work by consulting their opinions and sharing their best practices methodology for tasks I am in charge of at the workplace.
Do you think that this master's degree, including the internship, will help you get a job?
I think the master’s degree compliments the work I am doing; I think most important is understanding the culture of football as an institution, especially here in Spain which taking the course have assisted me in. Of interest to myself was the organization of the ultras, an impressive feat to an extent for me. Another lesson that I’ve retrieved from the course and internship is the football management and talent development aspect, the seriousness that goes into it backs up Spain as a country’s success in global football. t3h as a company focuses more on the social development side promoting the ideals of football as a tool for change and spread of the social football concepts. The internship also allowed me to look over at the generation adidas international/eSoccer’s side of the operations when organizing soccer clinics with institutions (Real Madrid Fundacion, Ajax, etc) all around Europe, the amount of professionality that goes into organizing these trips and the special addition of “know how” about the industry are second to none. Seeing this first hand was great and helped my understanding of concepts application processes. It’s given me a good base to identify how to relate job descriptions to my interests.
Do you think that your internship serves a springboard in helping you get jobs in the sports sector?
Most definitely, I’ve been able to gain not just networking in my internship. For myself it’s the retrieving of a “know how” about how the industry works that will benefit me to make my future job search decisions specifically in the sports sector.
Would you recommend this program to those passionate about sports to enroll in this masters and fulfill their dreams?
I would recommend the program for anyone looking to gain insight to the sports industry and sports business world. After the program and after my internship, I’m definitely more excited to have chosen to jump over to this industry.
Do you think that after this MBA Sports Management, you are more closer to achieving your dream?
I think the MBA Sports Management program was a good choice for me at the time I chose to do it. The course re-energized my passion for sports and finally it gives me a detailed overview of how I could have a presence in the sports industry. Aditionally, the amount of networking I was able to make with the amazing classmates I had were priceless. I enjoyed this program more because of the company I had with me doing the masters as well.


How Do I Calculate My Royalty Interest within a Pooled Unit?
Posted July 29, 2019
If you are a landowner who has leased your mineral rights to an energy company in Ohio, you may be placed in a “pooled unit” or a “pooled production unit”. You may be wondering exactly what this means and how (if at all) it will affect your mineral royalties. Here is a quick primer on “pooling” and how to estimate your royalties if your land is part of a pooled unit.
What Does It Mean to Be Part of a “Pooled Unit”?
Most leases that energy companies sign with landowners today include a pooling clause. This clause enables the companies to combine (or “pool”) the minerals from your property with the minerals from surrounding properties as they are extracted from the ground.
For example, if an energy company has leased your mineral rights as well as the rights of five of your neighbors, they might pool them all together in one production unit. The company would then drill and complete wells in specific locations within the pooled production unit.
Sometimes the reason for creating a pooled production unit is that a certain amount of acreage is needed for a drilling permit. If a single property does not meet the acreage requirement, energy companies will often combine multiple properties until they have enough acreage to get a permit. In other cases, cost and efficiency factors might also come into play.
In natural gas shale basins like the Utica Shale play in Ohio, the drilling of unconventional, horizontal gas wells is another reason why “pooled units” are created today. Unlike vertical wells, which can only access reservoirs of gas directly below where drilling is taking place, horizontal wells are drilled laterally underground across multiple parcels of land. This type of drilling is becoming increasingly common, leading to more pooled units.
How Does Being Part of a Pooled Unit Impact Your Royalties?
Being part of a pooled unit essentially puts you on a team with the energy company and other landowners, whereby the oil and/or natural gas production are realized for the pooled unit as a whole.
You may be wondering about the role of your property in the pooled unit as it relates to the distribution of royalties. Essentially, it’s based on how big a role you play on the team (as determined by your acreage in comparison to the total acreage in the unit). If you have 100 acres and the total unit has 400 acres, you get credit for 25% of all the minerals the pooled unit produces.
If not for pooling, there is a high probability a single landowner’s acreage wouldn’t get drilled or developed, which could dramatically diminish its value.
How to Estimate Your Royalty Interest in a Pooled Unit
We talked about how pooled production units impact your royalties and for what share of the production you get credit. Now let’s look at how to calculate royalty interest when you are part of a pooled unit (fair warning: there is some math involved).
Using this simple formula, you can calculate your net royalty interest within a pooled unit:
Your net acres ÷ Total unit acres × Your royalty rate
= Your net royalty interest percentage
Here’s an example…
Let’s say you have 100 acres of minerals, which you lease for 12.5% royalty rate (which is standard throughout Eastern Ohio). Your acreage then gets pooled in a unit that has 400 acres total. The formula would look like this:
100 ÷ 400 × 12.5%
In this example, you have a net royalty interest of 3.125%. This means that you would receive 3.125% of all the proceeds from production in your pooled unit. A monetary example would look like this:
If your unit is producing at $50,000 a month,
you’d receive $1,562.50 a month in royalties.
$50,000 x 3.125%
As you can see, this can be both a little bit confusing and difficult to manage. That’s why an added benefit of selling a portion of your royalties to a trusted partner like Gateway Royalty is beneficial. Not only do you get cash up-front and immediately, but you also get insight from people who understand the oil and gas industry and will help you make sense of it all.
Receiving Up-front Payment for Your Royalty Interest
When it comes to your mineral rights, it’s always helpful to know what to expect. Many landowners don’t initially expect to be placed in a pooled unit, but it’s not uncommon. It’s just another aspect of the slow and often-confusing process that is oil and gas development and production.
For landowners awaiting royalties, it’s important to remember that there are other options available. At Gateway Royalty, we offer up-front payment for your royalty interest. Connect with us today to find out if selling your mineral rights is the right choice for you.


Monday, September 26, 2016
Book Review: The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown
Out of the two testaments, the New Testament has been studied more than the Old Testament. There are various reasons why the New Testament is studied more often and many books have been written to help Christians understand it more. L. Scott Kellum, Andreas J. Kostenberger and Charles L. Quarles have written a book that can used in a classroom, seminary or Bible college, or for your own personal study that helps the reader grasp the message of the New Testament. The book is titled, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown.
The subtitle of the book, "An Introduction to the New Testament," gives the reader a basic idea of what this book is about, which is correct. This book introduces the reader to the theology of the New Testament as well as the historical background. The book begins with a simple overview of Scripture followed by the political and religious history during the New Testament period.
The book addresses Jesus's relationships to the four gospels followed by a comprehensive look at each gospel. After that, the book looks at the rest of the New Testament including a chapter on the Apostle Paul. The book concludes with how the New Testament is unified, telling the same story with the last chapter being on the entirety of Scripture.
This book is very lengthy and well worth having in your library including your pastor's library. This will be a great tool to use when studying the New Testament. I think this is will be worth the investment for seminaries and Bible colleges to get this in the hands of each student studying the New Testament.
Thanks B&H Publishing for letting me review this book.


Todmorden is set to become the first part of the UK to be upgraded to broadband thanks to public demand and a new pre-registration scheme.
As ZDNet UK reported last month, the Todmorden exchange was the first to hit its "trigger level" on BT's broadband pre-registration scheme when 200 local residents said they would pay for a broadband connection if it were available.
Once the trigger level was reached, 75 percent -- 150 -- of these 200 residents had to sign up with a broadband ISP before BT would actually upgrade the exchange, and this target has now been achieved. Work at the exchange is now underway and the first customers will get broadband service in November, said BT.
"Todmorden has done the business," a BT spokeswoman told ZDNet UK. BT's broadband pre-registration scheme allows people who can't currently get ADSL in their area to register their interest in high-speed Internet service. Trigger levels of interest have been set for hundreds of exchanges, depending on BT's estimate for how much it will cost to upgrade the exchange.
Internet service providers (ISPs) only had some six weeks to sign up the necessary number of customers once Todmorden hit its trigger level, and it is understood that some of the UK's largest ISPs initially failed to start converting expressions of interest into firm orders.
"It's fair to say that the sign-up process got going later than hoped. Some ISPs took a while to get into the swing of things," the BT spokeswoman explained.
However slowly, the sign-up process does appear to be progressing. Six further exchanges -- Irby on the Wirrall, Paddock Wood and Pembury in Kent, Penn in Buckinghamshire, Ponteland in Northumberland and Twyford in Berkshire -- will also now be upgraded after demand was confirmed by service providers. They are expected to go live in December.
In addition to the seven exchanges where demand levels have been confirmed, a further three exchanges Leek in Staffordshire, Bishops Waltham in Hampshire and Kesgrave in Suffolk, are just a handful of confirmations short, said BT, and are expected to be confirmed in the broadband upgrade programme later this week.
A further 10 exchanges have hit their trigger levels and service providers are now validating demand so work can begin on upgrading further exchanges.
BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen was characteristically upbeat about the programme. "People in these areas put themselves in the vanguard of the movement to be the next to get ADSL broadband. BT is now pulling out all the stops to match their enthusiasm and deliver the broadband connections they've asked for," he said in a statement.
"For the next exchanges service providers have confirmed demand levels faster, so broadband conversion work can begin immediately. This speed gives us increasing confidence in our new registration scheme and our ability to predict accurately the level of interest we need to make broadband upgrades economically sound."
Since the demand registration scheme was launched in July more than 160,000 customer registrations have been logged.
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VIENNA — Two-time Olympic champion Benjamin Raich retired Thursday after 19 years on the Alpine skiing World Cup.
“I don’t have the motivation anymore to go the limit and you need that in ski racing,” the 37-year-old Austrian said in an emotional statement to reporters.
“I have been training hard and with pleasure all summer. I am top fit, I am healthy,” he said. “But when I think about racing, about (the World Cup opener in) Soelden, I am lacking that motivation … I take a step forward, and I am stepping down as a ski racer.”
Personal reasons also played a role in his decision. He married former slalom great Marlies Schild in April and they announced two months later they are expecting their first child.
Raich won 14 medals at major championships, including gold in GS and slalom at the 2006 Turin Games, and 36 World Cup races — more than any other active male skier.
He took the overall World Cup in 2006 and finished runner-up five times. He also won eight small crystal globes for the season’s best skier in a discipline.
In 441 World Cup starts, Raich had 227 top-10 finishes, four short of Norwegian standout Kjetil Andre Aamodt’s record of 231.
“I am very content and I am grateful for what I’ve achieved,” said Raich, adding he took the decision to retire two weeks ago.
Raich is the fifth prominent skier from Austria to retire in the
Austria ski federation president Peter Schroecksnadel called Raich “the biggest ski racer we’ve ever had in our federation.”
“Not just as a skier but also as a human being,” Schroecksnadel said. “We are proud of him, as a person and as an athlete.”
Raich was a multiple junior world champion when he made his World Cup debut at the age of 18 in 1996. His first win came three years later at the annual night slalom in Schladming, a race he would win three more times.
Specialized in the technical disciplines in his early years, Raich gradually developed into an all-round competitor.
He was beaten by Bode Miller for the overall title in 2005, but won the big crystal globe with a lower points total the following year ahead of the American and Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal.
One of the most consistent performers of his generation, Raich ended runner-up the following four seasons. Twice he was edged by Svindal — in 2007 by 13 points and two years later by two points.
Miller again in 2008 and Carlo Janka of Switzerland in 2010 also denied the Austrian a second overall title.
Struggling with persistent back problems, Raich added just one more win in the past five years — a super-G in Crans Montana, Switzerland, in 2012. The injury also forced him out of the Olympic super-combined race of the 2014 Sochi Games.
Many expected him to retire last year, when Schild ended her career after setting a record for most slalom wins on the women’s World Cup.
Despite becoming Austria’s most successful skier since Hermann Maier, Raich kept a low profile off the slopes.
His relationship with Schild, which started in 2004, has been widely documented over the years but the pair usually preferred to stay away from the limelight, though they have been appearing together in advertising for an Austrian insurance company for many years.
Eric Willemsen, The Associated Press


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When a lonely Dwarf boy and his father, with an injured reindeer named Rudolph, set out to find the North Pole in order to save Christmas, they will have to ignore any confrontation and obstacle and move faster if they want to find the happy land before Christmas Eve.
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This is a children’s Christmas book about a lonely dwarven boy who is rushing to save Christmas. Will he be successful, will he be in time to save Christmas.
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This book would be a great read for the family, parents could read their children it coming up to Christmas to help build the excitement and also teach lessons about working together to achieve a goal!
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Why are affluent, college-educated people leftists? Many people have realized that one prominent aspect of the leftist agenda is the intentional destruction of the family. The foot soldiers for this agenda are college students. The traits that characterize young people are perfectly suited for these purposes: media savvy, sociable, and outspoken. The reason college students are leftists is because they want to ensure the working class never breaks free from their chains. In short, college students hate poor people and want them to stay poor.
There are three ingredients in the strategy of the affluent to keep their boot on the necks of the poor: social liberalism, social signaling, and maintaining the structure of the system.
Social Leftism And Class Warfare
In one of my classes at Yale, the professor took an anonymous informal survey of the class. He asked the students in my class three questions:
- How many of you grew up in a traditional nuclear family?
- How many of you have parents who have remained married, with no divorce?
- How many had at least one parent stay home to care for you before you started school?
The total percentage for each question ranged from 90-95%. Yet if you asked these same students about their thoughts on single motherhood, women in the workplace, or divorce, they would be firmly in support of all of these issues. None of them questioned whether the reason they had stable childhoods, attend a top tier college, and come from families making more than double the average annual income ($120,000 per year compared to the average of $52,000) is because their families followed traditional social norms.
Why is it that affluent students are pushing ideas like avoiding marriage or promoting single-parenthood, which are obviously bad for individuals and families? The reason is because they hate poor people, at least subconsciously. These individuals have enjoyed all of the benefits of the traditional family and conservative values, while promoting an ideology that is destructive and promotes the destabilization of families in lower social classes.
Social liberalism is a method to hoard wealth and maintain the upper-hand. Liberal college students bask in the upsides of stability, while pushing instability for others so they will never climb the socioeconomic ladder. It is a subtle and ingenious method, because they get to feel good about themselves for being “open” and “accepting” all while enjoying the fruits of a value system they claim is oppressive.
The Average Liberal College Student
In a recent article in Harvard’s student newspaper, the author describes a common zoo animal seen at many elite colleges—The Privileged Liberal:
You’ll oftentimes find Harvard’s Privileged Liberal studying in a coffee shop (Starbucks, no less) sipping on a pricey macchiato. As they flip through the pages of their assigned readings, a notification pops up on their iPhone: Social Justice Club meets in 10 minutes. They get up and walk towards the door, their designer boots clicking loudly on the floor. As they exit the coffee shop they pass by a homeless man, slumped over on his side as he shivers in the New England cold; they pay no attention, wearing their brand new Canada Goose jacket (retailing at about $600 a pop)—it provides only enough warmth for one. They arrive to their meeting just on time, and as they sit down and pop open their shiny Macbook Pro, they share Bernie Sanders’s latest speech on Facebook as he attacks the ‘billionaire class.’
This is as accurate a description of the average college liberal as I have ever seen. If you ask one of these students how to best help the poor, they will undoubtedly give you answers ranging from “free education,” “access to healthcare,” and “increase the minimum wage.” All of these answers generally have one theme in common: more government.
This is entirely by design. The more power individuals hand to the government, the more the poor rely on those in power for their livelihood, the less likely they will be able to climb out of poverty and reach the same positions that the Privileged Liberal is on track to attain.
These students have been conditioned to never under any circumstances reflect on their own privileged upbringing and wonder whether a traditional family structure is beneficial for people other than themselves. These students did not come from a background of government handouts, out-of-wedlock marriages, and divorced households. But if you asked them how to address the problems of poverty, they will say that the government isn’t doing enough to help them. Students will never question whether more government might actually perpetuate the problem.
College Students Care More About Social Signaling Than Solving Problems
As you read the description of the Privileged Liberal, you may have smiled at the hypocrisy of a student who rails against the “billionaire class” while wearing a $700 jacket and typing on a $2000 luxury device built by slave labor.
This is another aspect of college leftism that indicates their disgust for the poor. They wear overpriced clothing and purchase electronics made by child labor without a second thought. Yet they jump at the chance to put a Bernie sticker on their MacBook or post a 400-word screed on the evils of capitalism on Facebook. Why wear a Bernie pin on their jacket rather than forego the jacket and donate the money to charity?
The reason is social status. Individually, wearing a Bernie pin or sporting a Canada Goose jacket will provide some measure of status, but combined they send a powerful signal: “I am a member of two tribes: The well-off group that can afford an expensive jacket, and the compassionate liberal group who wants to help the poor.”
Another method they have recently been using to signal their social class is to ensure that everyone around them knows they hate Donald Trump. Even among conservatives the only candidate they have openly supported is Marco Rubio. This is because he is non-threatening, young, and Hispanic.
Trump has been an icon for the working class, and so all elitist college students, whether liberal or conservative must show their dislike for him. Tucker Carlson wrote a piece in Politico on this very subject: “If Trump is leading a populist movement, many of his Republican critics have joined an elitist one. Deriding Trump is an act of class solidarity, visible evidence of refinement and proof that you live nowhere near a Wal-Mart.”
Even for conservative college students, insulting Trump is a form of cheap and easy social signaling that says, “Though I am a conservative, I’m still a member of the upper-class. I’m not one of them.”
Educated Classes Suppress The Poor For Their Own Benefit
College students are conscious of their hatred of the poor and desire to suppress the lower classes. However, one question that is raised is where their disdain for marginalized groups originated. The answer is the system. Power wants to perpetuate itself. But in the last 10 years our society has swerved into egalitarianism.
It is no longer cool to blame people for their own problems and so the powers-that-be have constructed a plan to allow affluent college students to do their bidding. They enjoy the perks of their social class while promoting values that appear to be compassionate and tolerant, yet are destructive. This method aims to prevent any sort of change within the system by perpetuating the social ills that have sustained it thus far.
Two heroes of American college students are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. These two politicians have gained enormous influence among leftists for their opinions on class divides. Quotes from Warren which students love to parrot are, “The deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,” and “The system is rigged.” And from Sanders, “The reality is that for the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class has rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country.”
This philosophy can be boiled down to, “You’re never going to win, so don’t bother playing.” Yet if you look at the outcomes of students at elite colleges, they tend to do quite well. Essentially they are telling the poor to stay out of the job market so the poor never climb high enough to become social class competitors.
In sum, college-educated leftists promote socially liberal values to destabilize families, wear badges of capitalism in the form of clothing and gadgets to signal their social class, and repeatedly pursue new strategies to suppress the working class in order to maintain the rigid social structure that benefits them. The central goal of affluent liberals is to deprive the working class of their desires, and ultimately erase their opinions altogether.


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If you think that your opinion doesn't matter, think again! The people in office now are making decisions that will affect your life now AND later! This is why it's important to get involved and be heard now, get out and vote!
Did you know that a series of national vendors are giving stuff to voters? They are. Who knew that the "I Voted" sticker was worth more than the pride of knowing you cast your ballot?Starbucks is giving away a tall cup of brewed coffee on the house.
Between 5 and 8pm, Ben and Jerry's is celebrating democracy by giving away a free scoop of ice cream.
Krispy Kreme is giving away a star-shaped doughnut with "patriotic sprinkles" to anyone wearing an "I Voted" sticker.
God bless democracy, huh?


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Though the helmet has a few of the many stones missing, it still stunning to look at. The helmet is expected to net between $18,000 to $22,000. [Gotta Have Rock and Roll]


It just so happens that I have a lot of things I need/want to knit. Things for my kids, gifts, stuff I fancy, stuff I imagine, a couple unfinished objects, etc. I'm longing to knit up my Sweet Sheep yarn and the Lark yarn; it's just sitting by my bed tormenting me, all of it. So I don't have a good explanation why I started on these Rushing Rivulet socks. They are pictured in the New Pathways for Sock Knitters, with a chart, but knitters have to utilize the Riverbed Architecture and figure it out for themselves. The Riverbed Architecture is supposed to be nice because you can fill the socks with a pattern, right to the sides of the heels. I have never before in my sock-knitting days longed to fill the sides of the heels with pattern. So naturally I tried it. Ever since seeing the pic of the Rivulet socks, the pattern has been telling me it would be perfect with my Rio del Plata yarn. And admittedly, this sock yarn has been waiting a lot longer than the Sweet Sheep yarn.
In this pic above, you can hopefully see the V-shape that creates the increases on the sole. It also shows my markers. The book recommends letter markers. On these socks I'm using embroidery floss tied into loops. I don't need letters on my markers to keep track, and most of my markers were too chunky to work nicely with such thin yarn. But my skull markers were just perfect for keeping track of the 3 row repeats.
This second picture above shows the rivulet pattern, a basic pattern of k2tog followed by a yo.
I turned one heel today. I had high expectations of turning two, but I did a lot of Homework Mom duties, which involved many interruptions. One of the tricks I had with this sock was deciding how to carry the rivulet pattern down the sides of the socks as the increases in the sole moved stitches from the sole to the sides. I wound up tracking the increase rows in groups of four. On the third of four increase rows, I would add the rivulet pattern on only one side, on the side where the k2tog occurred within 2 stitches of the existing pattern. On the fourth increase row, I finished adding the four-stitch rivulet pattern on both sides of the sock. This is because every four increase rows meant eight stitches added to the centre of the sole, which meant I could add two four-stitch repeats on the sides. Clear as mud?
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It’s official, residents of the UK have chosen the PlayStation 4 as the winner of this generation of consoles. Having just reached one million systems sold in the United Kingdom, the console has become the 2nd fastest selling video game console in history for the nation. It took only 42 weeks to hit this landmark. The only console that has beaten these sales was the Nintendo Wii, which took only 38 weeks to sell one million units.
When the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006 it was Nintendo’s goal to appeal to audiences other than hardcore gamers. This was through the system’s motion controls, approchable games, and of course the cheaper price compared to Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
However, Sony isn’t going in this direction; they have proven that they want be a games-first console as opposed to the entertainment platform that Microsoft is highlighting with the Xbox One. One example of this is through the partnership with Activision to advertise Destiny. Whether the PS4 will continue to dominate in UK is anyone’s guess, but the future does look bright for Sony.


Stan Wawrinka at the Saint Petersburg tournament
Stan Wawrinka took advantage of the Saint Petersburg tournament to look back on the Spaniard’s 13 victories in Paris. “It’s probably one of the greatest performances of any sport,” he said.
Stan Wawrinka (ATP 18) is currently playing in the ATP 500 tournament in Saint Petersburg. He will play his quarter-final this Friday around 1:30 pm against the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (ATP 12), easy winner in the round of 16, Thursday, the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka (ATP 141) 6-1 6-4. Check this new on Kenleaks Magazine.
On the sidelines of this competition, the Vaudois spoke of Rafael Nadal’s 13th victory at Roland Garros, as well as his considerations on the three best players in the world. And Stan the Man is rather laudatory towards the Mallorcan:
“ What Rafael Nadal has achieved so far at Roland Garros is probably one of the greatest performances of all sports. The way he does it is something incredible, ” said the Swiss in comments relayed by We Love Tennis.
And Stan Wawrinka knows what he is talking about since he has faced the Spaniard twice on Parisian clay, for two defeats in three seconds .
“ I had the chance to face him at Roland Garros and I have always been killed. So I know how hard it is to play it there. “
“Savor the fact that they are still playing”
After winning Nadal’s 20th Grand Slam title, Stan Wawrinka was also asked the question of who is the best player of all time. “Regarding the Big Three, it’s always difficult to compare. Today we don’t know who the GOAT is. I think we’ll have to wait and see. ”
For the Vaudois, the main thing is not to know who is the strongest, “but the most important is elsewhere, it is above all necessary to savor the fact that they are still playing, I like to watch them, it is undeniable and that ‘is precious’.


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I’ve always loved this Henry Rollins quote,
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
As a long-time straight edger, it’s been easy to keep my blood “clean”. I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. (Except for Temodar, I was HOOKED on that stuff.) <– inside joke for those with brain cancer
I keep my mind sharp. I think critically, I question, I learn. Good deal.
Now it is time for me to focus on keeping my body lean.
That’s right. I said it.
If life is short, and if my tumor grows back, it is worth having made myself as strong as possible before the fight. It is worth feeling good in my own skin, especially if I only have a short time in this skin.
And if I have a long time left in my body, well fuckin’ a, I will be stoked knowing I put in the effort for a reason: to feel good for the rest of my life.


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Start with a wedding design
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BOSTON, November 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
A new information technology system to enhance MSU's culture of service
Planon announced today that Michigan State University (MSU) selected Planon's integrated workplace management system (IWMS) for campus management in their continuing efforts to offer the highest performing, innovative, and leading-edge facilities within higher education with a focus on quality, customer satisfaction, and value.
"Michigan State University is a large and diverse enterprise featuring one of the largest, single-campus residence hall systems in the country and a growing research footprint. We service 558 buildings at more than 24 million square feet on our East Lansing campus," said Dan Bollman, AVP for Infrastructure Planning and Facilities (IPF) at MSU. "Our goal and our vision is to provide best-in-class services in support of the University's mission of teaching, research and outreach. It is vital that we provide a comprehensive and integrated facilities management system in order to be successful."
MSU purchased Planon's entire IWMS suite of applications and plans to begin their implementation with space and maintenance management. The scope of the entire long term project also includes implementation of asset management with sustainability, fleet management, key control, mobile solutions, billing and job costing, and more.
"We will use Planon as the foundation of MSU's facilities, real estate, and infrastructure systems and data. This lays the groundwork for our facilities organization as we strive to provide MSU's students, faculty, staff, and visitors with the best possible campus experience," said Barbara Wilber, IPF Support Services Manager.
"Michigan State University's Infrastructure, Planning and Facilities team has a bold, impressive mission," said Fred Guelen, President of Planon North America. "With Planon, MSU will implement what we believe is the most effective and, comprehensive campus management solution and bring our shared vision of a truly 'Smart Campus' to fruition."
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Hawaiian Telcom Completes Acquisition of Wavecom Solutions Corporation
HONOLULU, Dec 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. (Nasdaq:HCOM), Hawaii's leader in integrated communications solutions, today announced that its Hawaiian Telcom, Inc. subsidiary has completed the acquisition of all of the capital stock of Wavecom Solutions Corporation (Wavecom Solutions), an information and communications technology company and facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier headquartered in Honolulu. Wavecom Solutions provides voice, data and converged services to small and medium-sized business and carrier customers through a six-island subsea and terrestrial fiber network.
"We are pleased that the acquisition has closed and we can welcome Wavecom Solutions' employees and loyal customers into our Hawaiian Telcom family," stated Eric K. Yeaman, President and CEO of Hawaiian Telcom. "By adding Wavecom Solutions' fiber network and business capabilities to our technology and operations, we'll enhance our ability to serve growing customer demand for high speed Internet bandwidth and advanced communications."
With the acquisition complete and as integration of Wavecom Solutions' fiber network occurs, Hawaiian Telcom's network capabilities will be enhanced through augmentation of fiber capacity and diversity statewide. The company will be better positioned to deliver next generation, end-to-end solutions to customers throughout Hawaii and drive long-term value for shareholders.
Hawaiian Telcom first announced the definitive purchase agreement to acquire Wavecom Solutions on July 12, 2012. Approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and Hawaii Public Utilities Commission were obtained on December 28, 2012. The stock purchase transaction closed today (Dec. 31, 2012) at a purchase price of approximately $9.6 million (subject to adjustment based on final working capital calculations), paid with existing liquidity using cash on hand. It is estimated that the transaction will generate approximately $4.5 million of annual unlevered free cash flow upon completion of integration activities as a result of net incremental revenues and EBITDA of approximately $7 million and $3.5 million, respectively, as well as network related capital expenditure synergies.
In addition to historical information, this release includes certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In particular, any statement, projection or estimate that includes or references the words "believes", "anticipates", "intends", "expects", or any similar expression falls within the safe harbor of forward-looking statements contained in the Reform Act. Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those indicated or suggested by any such forward-looking statement for a variety of reasons. More information on potential risks and uncertainties is available in recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Hawaiian Telcom's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K. The information contained in this release is as of December 31, 2012. It is anticipated that subsequent events and developments may cause forward-looking statements to change.
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Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc., headquartered in Honolulu, is Hawaii's leading provider of integrated communications solutions for business and residential customers. With roots in Hawaii beginning in 1883, the Company offers a full range of services including voice, video, Internet, data, wireless, and advanced communication and network services supported by the reach and reliability of its network and Hawaii's only 24/7 state-of-the-art network operations center. With employees statewide sharing a commitment to innovation and a passion for delivering superior service, Hawaiian Telcom provides an Always On customer experience. For more information, visit www.hawaiiantel.com.
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A family service was held on June 27 at Our Lady of Limerick Catholic Church in Glenns Ferry. A memorial service was held on Thursday, June 28, at the VFW Hall in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.
Helen was born on Dec. 10, 1926, in Sidney, Mont., to Edward Clifford and Katherine Irene Smith. She was raised and educated in Montana before moving to Idaho.
Helen was married to her longtime love, Junior Larson, on Dec. 24, 1952, in Jerome. They built a life together in Jerome and later settled in Glenns Ferry.
She worked many years in the agricultural business as a member of Ore-Ida, Magic West, United States Department of Agriculture and Simplot.
She spent time as a Sunday School teacher.
Some of Helen's hobbies included stamp collecting, gardening, crocheting, hunting, fishing, camping and passing time watching the Snake River from her home. She was a lover of all animals. She enjoyed watching baseball especially the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves. Baseball was not her only sport of choice; she also enjoyed watching football, rooting for the Boise State Broncos, Green Bay Packers, and the Denver Broncos. And you could find her watching the summer and winter Olympics every time they came around.
She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign War.
Helen is survived by: her husband, Junior Larson of Glenns Ferry; her daughter, Barbara, and her husband, Steve May, of King Hill; two granddaughters and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two infant sons, one grandson and two great-great-grandsons.


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• dreadnought •
dred-nawt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A thick-plated battleship introduced in the early 20th century armed with all large-caliber guns. 2. A fearless person. 3. (Rarely used) A coat of thick woolen cloth for stormy weather.
Notes: The word nought is seldom used in the US today, so dreadnought is no longer recognized as a compound of two valid words. Nought (or naught) "nothing" is common in the UK, so the two components of today's Good Word are more recognizable, keeping it alive in the English-speaking world.
In Play: The dreadnought ships were built from 1906 through WWI. The Battle of Jutland, known as 'The Clash of the Dreadnoughts', in 1916 between German and British navies was the greatest naval battle in history. It ended in a stand-off. However, the word keeps popping up, used as a synonym for unstoppable, even referring to humans: "Hillary Clinton, a dreadnought of a politician, was expected to mount a juggernaut to the Democratic nomination."
Word History: Today's word is dreadnought "a fear-nothing", a compound comprising dread + nought. It was the name of the first dreadnought which was commonized as similar ships were built later on. Dread is an aphetic shortening of Old English adreadan "advised against, fear", itself a reduction of on- "against" + rædan "to advise". Rædan is a distant cousin of German raten "to advise". Rædan went on to become read in English. Nought in Old English was na "no" + wiht "person, thing". When it didn't combine with na-, wiht went on to become whit, as 'I don't care a whit about that.' (William Hupy has become a dreadnought contributor of suggestions for Good Words as exceptional as today's.)
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Loss in millions as City hall demolishes business complex located on former Simmers club land
By Josphat Thiong'o | May 28th 2019
Property worth millions of shillings was yesterday destroyed as officers from City Hall demolished a business complex located on the former Simmers club land.
The complex is located at the junction of Kenyatta Avenue and Muindi Mbingu Street in Nairobi’s Central Business District.
The owners of six businesses located opposite 680 Hotel woke up to the dreaded site of a bulldozer in front of their business before they were unceremoniously thrown out.
Businesses located on the land included “pimp my ride” car wash, “Chapa copy” a photocopying business, an Mpesa shop, an electronics shop as well as a stall selling urban wear.
Daniel Muraya, an Mpesa shop owner and seller of electronics, said the traders were accosted by inspectorate officers who introduced themselves and proceeded to arrest the workers for no clear reason.
Another business owner who only chose to be identified as Anthony said the owner of the property had already moved to court challenging the demolitions and seeking compensation from the county government.
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play – in the Nuclear Waste
Comanche Peak glows,from flickr, Zack Hollandsworth
Sometimes it is a pain being right.
Last week I was expressing a big worry about the fact that the Texas breed of anti-environment regulation was involved in operations of nuclear facilities. Now I find out that there’s worse than that, we have a growing nuclear dump in the Loan Star State. It’s run by the usual suspects.
The Texas billionaire and corporate raider (ed: Harold Simmons) is opening a nuclear waste dump in West Texas, despite objections from environmentalists and the state’s own experts. One of the Lone Star State’s largest donors to Republican causes, Simmons expects his that privately-owned site will become the nation’s most sought after radioactive waste repository.
Only Vermont had a deal to dispose of its nuclear waste in Texas, so Simmons began lobbying to amend the nearly 20-year-old compact with the Green Mountain State to allow other states to also send their radioactive waste to the WCS site.
The decision to alter the compact rested with the seven members of the obscure Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission, six of whom had been appointed by Gov. Perry, one of the largest recipients of Simmons’ campaign cash…. Any state can now petition the commission to have its radioactive waste buried in Texas.
The ground water is often in the form of aquifers here, vast lakes that are located underground. The ground water mingles in with the runoff, of course, but in applying for permits to load up on nuclear waste, Simmons insisted there was no danger of contamination. No environmental studies showed that to be so. The studies cited are geologic and years of oil exploration. No examples have been provided.
Members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality resigned rather than issue this permit.
There is no end of justification for depradations that endanger the people of Texas, as long as it results in profit for a small number of ‘entrepreneurs’. The main chances involved in seeking to make a killing in this state are whether you can get enough monetary impetus behind an influential enough office holder.
Savagely, that ‘making a killing’ here doesn’t necessarily mean a cash bottom line. The public is just another impediment to the business interests in the state.
As Tom Lehrer told us some decades back;
Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
We’ll be french fried potatoes by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.


Family-friendly policies in the Jewish community
I read Gabrielle Birkner's article in the Forward on the shameful lack of family-friendly policies in most Jewish organizations with disappointment, but not surprise. It's one of the well-known but rarely articulated -- except by whispering mothers, trying to figure out how to manage their jobs and pregnancies -- secrets of the Jewish community.
Part of the problem is that we who live in the US have come to expect very little in the way of benefits. When I heard from my in-laws in Canada about the year-long parental leave benefits there, I nearly fell out of my chair. And don't even talk to me about Europe. The standard here is absurdly low. In this (as in many other social policies), the US is behind much of the developed world.
But the Jewish community should be a different story, right? First of all, we are a tradition that honors the family above almost all else. We also have a long history of laws protecting workers and ensuring justice in employment relationships. Ultimately, it seems obvious to me, the bottom line for a Jewish organization should be values, not money.
This problem is particularly dire because women comprise the majority of employees at most Jewish institutions. But despite this fact that women are vital contributors to the Jewish communal infrastructure, there still remains a) a lack of investment in creating sustainable positions for female employees, and b) a classist, sexist, and economically outdated assumption that women's work is not essential to family finances, that women are supported by someone else who earns a big enough income that she can afford to take off unpaid time after giving birth.
I am lucky to work for an organization that tries to live its values and that has developed a relatively generous parental leave policy -- 8 weeks paid with the possibility of up to 4 additional paid weeks based on accrued vacation and sick time, for both women and men. That puts us among the best mentioned in the (New York-centric) Forward article. But it took a difficult process of staff, managers, and board working together to figure out what felt comfortable and viable, ethically and financially.
About five years ago, when our staff was expanding rapidly and for the first time included several women of childbearing age, a revision of the personnel policy was undertaken. The first draft presented to the staff included a pretty major reduction of the maternity leave. But staff protested, empowered by the experience of working in a collegial atmosphere in which our voices are respected and heard. We pointed out that as a feminist organization, we have the responsibility to be leaders in promoting an ethical, family-friendly policy, rather than accommodating ourselves to the very low bar set by the rest of the Jewish organizational world. We formed a benefits committee made up of staff, management, and board, and we researched the policies of similarly-sized organizations with similar values in both the Jewish and non-Jewish not-for-profit world. We considered the needs of single people and couples, women and men, families growing through birth and through adoption. We considered how to balance the cost of parental leave and other benefits in our package (such as health insurance). Together we came up with a proposal to resubmit to the board, who approved it.
I'm not arguing that our policy is perfect, or that it ensures that being a working mother is tension free. The process of balancing my responsibilities as a parent and as a worker is a challenging one, and I think it's just as challenging (minus sleep deprivation, of course) for an organization and its leaders to figure out how to be family friendly in theory and in practice, how to relate to its employees as workers and as people with lives and demands outside of the office. Conflicts and tensions are bound to keep coming up as new circumstances arise.
But, as with many things, it's all about the process: allowing open communication about these issues, including a wide spectrum of voices in the decision making, and checking in with policies on a regular basis to make sure that they continue to meet the needs of, and the values of, the organization and the people who make it run. The current economic climate does not make this situation any easier for organizations or for individuals, both of whom are often struggling to make ends meet. But the financial crisis reminds us of the real legacy that we carry forward as Jews -- not our wealth, but our ethics.
How to cite this page
Rosenbaum, Judith. "Family-friendly policies in the Jewish community." 12 September 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on March 2, 2015) <http://jwa.org/blog/family-friendly>.


We then went to Lynford. We got 3 Two-barred Crossbills, 2 males and 1 female. Also, 2 Hawfinch flew over, and a cracking Grey Wagtail was on the puddle, but no pics were taken of him/her.
Bird Quiz - Week 10
I tried to trick some of you guys with last weeks mystery bird by repeating it. It was indeed another Scaup, which I saw at Barton Broad a couple of years ago. Well done to Rob Stokes and Jim Bradley for getting the correct answers. Unlucky to those who got it wrong. Here's this weeks mystery bird.....
Just leave your answers in the comments, and I will reveal the correct entries next week.
Happy Birding and Good Luck!


The intruders wore masks and carried guns. They went door to door, through the narrow and dusty alleyways, asking if there were any Christians inside. When the terrified faces inside replied yes, they poured chemicals on the small, redbrick homes of Episcopalians and Evangelicals, setting them ablaze. In some cases, they didn't bother with the question. Instead, they opened fire and hurled rocks, forcing families to flee in a panic moments before fresh flames consumed their homes as well. When the attackers were done, nine people had been killed and 45 homes lay smoldering and destroyed in the clustered Christian colony in Gojra, a town in central Punjab, marking the worst anti-Christian violence Pakistan has seen in recent years.
A tearful woman crouches over rubble outside the attackers' first target. "Look what they have done to our church," says Shahida William, the wife of the pastor, pointing at the deeply blackened one-room Faith Bible Church. Inside, bricks are strewn across the floor. The stinging smell of the chemicals used still hangs in the air. A few houses down, Ethel Gill points to nine bullet holes that have been punched into the top story of her home: "They threw rocks and bricks at us. Then they opened fire. We cowered for safety and ran away, jumping over roofs of other houses. We eventually found sanctuary in a church." She shows the remains of her Urdu-language Bible: "Look at our holy book. The pages are all burnt. Is this not desecration?"
The roots of the attack lie in Korian, a village 5 miles from Gojra. There, a Christian family was celebrating a wedding on July 28 when, somehow, a rumor spread alleging that the revelers had torn the pages of the Koran and thrown them in the air. No evidence has emerged that this actually happened. But the mere suggestion appeared to set off days of rioting. Christian homes in Korian were torched before the violence spread to Gojra. Last Friday, Christian residents say, the preacher at a nearby mosque issued a fiery sermon inciting violence against them. The police visited the Christian community later that night, warning them of possible violence the next day. Some left that very night. But it appears others didn't receive the warning and were present when thousands of Muslim protesters charged through the town.
Clashes ensued between the advancing Muslim crowd and the much smaller group of Christians trying to push them back. The police were caught in the middle for some time before they, for reasons that remain unclear, melted away. Some members of the Christian community allege that the police stood by as a group of armed men mounted an attack. Paramilitary forces were dispatched on Sunday, but their arrival came too late, residents say.
Authorities and human-rights groups now suspect that the attackers belonged to the Sipah-e-Sahaba, a sectarian militant group from the nearby town of Jhang. A senior member, Qari Saifullah, served as Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud's right-hand man and trained scores of suicide bombers. The group's even more vicious offshoot, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, is considered al-Qaeda's front in Pakistan. The enduring and undisturbed presence of Sipah-e-Sahaba and other militant groups in central and southern Punjab has led many analysts to predict that the militants will open up their next front here. Already, the Pakistan army has said "splinter groups" from Jaish-e-Mohammad have been fighting alongside the Taliban in Swat. And Punjab is also home to front groups of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the outlawed militant group that was blamed for last November's Mumbai massacre.
The Gojra tragedy has sparked outrage across Pakistan. The government has ordered a judicial commission to investigate what happened and Parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence. Islamabad's gestures, however, have done little to assure Pakistan's estimated 3 million Christians, who are 60% Catholic and 40% Protestant (the second largest religious minority, after Hindus). Many now question whether they can remain safe in a country that has long neglected them and continues to have blasphemy laws that have been repeatedly exploited by violent extremists.
"This isn't the first time that this has happened," says Pastor William, who heads the burned one-room church. Similar episodes of broke out in the towns of Shantinagar in 1997 and Shangla Hill in 2005. Just last month, accusations of blasphemy triggered violence in four different towns in Punjab. On Tuesday, two people were killed in the town of Muridke after a similar accusation was raised. In each case, says William, blasphemy laws are used as a pretext for attacks on religious minorities. Anger is now spreading in Pakistan's Christian community. On Wednesday, riots broke out in Lahore's Youhanabad neighborhood, where stick-wielding Christian protesters smashed buses and property.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws date back to the colonial era. The late military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq introduced a further, harsher clause as part of his sweeping "Islamization" program. Human-rights groups have long appealed to successive governments to repeal or amend the laws. The current ruling party, the Pakistan People's Party, vowed to do so in its election manifesto. As yet, nothing has been done. But presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar says the Gojra tragedy "has increased the urgency of revisiting these laws."


Some of us linguistic geeks
some of us geeks make up languages for fictitious linguistic communities we happen to be writing about - mostly to add a touch of authenticity. There's a certain pleasure in having a character insulting another character in words like this:
"Ya tshanyhusun ya hepetraisun ya kurrunia ya ayhe yhe E'avaturu!" It's cowardice it's drunkenness it's foolishness of course it's E'avaturu!"
(Substitute "Dubbya Bush" or "Tony Blare" for E'avaturu at your pleasure ... :)
Or singing some mournful song like:
"aie, shailyain ili, shailyain ili, shailyain ili ri ne rau!
"aie, waya wehi ri ne, waya wehi ri ne, ne wa shailyain!"
Alas, broken the walls, broken the walls, broken the walls of my heart!
Alas, gone my love from me, gone my love from me, I am broken!
(You just have to remember the back-beat, and the ornamentation on the "aie", the "ili" and the "ne" - and that the accompaniement is a small drum between the tasha and the nakkara in size ... ) Yes, linguistic geekishness creeps into all sorts of fiction ...


Take the Product Deconstruction Challenge this Fall
Join us in our next ThingLink Creative Challenge to investigate, create and share interactive images that explore the hidden side of the things we use everyday by deconstructing products and analysing them.
We are pleased to announce the Product Deconstruction Challenge, a creative challenge designed by Ed Charlwood. Ed is the Head of Design and Director of Digital Learning at an Independent school in West London.
About Product Deconstruction
This challenge is designed for individual students or small groups of students, but we encourage teachers to sign up to receive communication. The goal of Product Deconstruction is to learn about the hidden world of products by taking them apart to understand how they are designed, made and used. We will be deconstructing products by taking them apart and finding out what they are made of and why they are the way they are. We encourage teachers to sign up and submit entries on behalf of their students.
About the Deconstruction Challenge
We will run three separate challenges for students throughout the course of the school year. We hope to inspire learners across the globe to analyse products, create media rich interactive images, and share them with our community.
- Round 1: September 5 – December 4th, 2015
- Round 2: January 5 – March 17, 2016
- Round 3: March 28 – June 24, 2016
Your challenge is to take a product apart and to use your investigative skills to find out all about the design details, decisions and compromises that went into it. You will photograph your disassembly and use the power of ThingLink EDU to analyse, annotate and explain it.
You will need to think carefully about the very nature of the things you take for granted; Why isn’t your cell phone thinner? Why is your mouse that shape and size? Why does your headphone cable always split?
Explore an Amazing Example
Ed Charlwood, the designer of this Product Deconstruction Challenge, has created an excellent example of how to deconstruct a watch and learn about it. The beautifully displayed base image you see is the work of photographer Todd McLellan from his collection, Things Come Apart. Explore the powerful possibilities for deep learning and get inspired to challenge your students to Take the Product Deconstruction Challenge.
Steps at a Glance
- Select a product that you don’t mind breaking apart – double check with the owner if you are not sure.
- Carefully (and safely) take it apart. Keep all the parts and lay them out.
- Take a photo.
- Use ThingLink rich media tags to make your image come alive!
Each annotation should include
- A tag to identify to identify the participating teacher and student designers.
- A tag to identify each part of the product.
- Information about what material the product is made of.
- A justification for use of the material. This should use the word “because”.
The screen on the iPhone is made from special glass called Gorilla Glass because it is hard (it won’t scratch easily) and tough (it won’t shatter).
Enter to Win a Prize
We would like to thank iFixIt for generously donating 3 Pro Tech Toolkits for use as prizes throughout the Product Deconstruction Challenge. Participants will use our Creative Challenge Tool to collect the images and instantly display them for others to explore. At the end of each round of this creative challenge we will award one prize to a winner. All participants will receive a badge. Interactive images can be submitted here.
We encourage participating teachers to sign up to receive updates and news throughout the challenge.
Try to put the product back together. If that’s not possible, please be responsible and recycle it.
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The Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority, burdened with budget problems and dealing with serious safety issues on its Metrorail system, is drawing upon the talents of three transit veterans in an effort to get the troubled agency back on more-secure footing.
Former New Jersey Transit Executive Director Richard Sarles, who departed NJT last month, has been identified by WMATA as a candidate for Metro’s interim general manager for at least six months, and possibly for a year.
Metro’s Board of Directors, scheduled to make a decision Wednesday, seeks Sarles’ experience as it tries to address safety and fiscal concerns plaguing the sytem. Any interim general manager would have to address funding issues, including adequate funds for capital needs and to fill an estimated $190 million budget gap for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Metro Chairman Peter Benjamin identified Sarles as “somebody who knows transit well and can step right in and do the job, and somebody who will not be a caretaker, who will be an assertive and aggressive leader of the organization because we have a lot of issues we have to tackle, starting with safety."
Sarles (top), if chosen, would succeed General Manager John B. Catoe, Jr., whose resignation takes effect April 2. Sarles also worked in executive positions at Amtrak and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Benjamin said a search for a permanent general manager will take place during the remainder of the year.
In a related development, former WMATA General Manager David Gunn (second from top)—well known and highly respected in the rail industry for his ability to turn troubled transit systems around—has been hired as a consultant to make recommendations on safety and operational issues. A straight shooter who has never been one to tolerate political shenanigans, Gunn served as WMATA GM from 1991 to 1994.
Gunn was asked to consult by yet another rail industry icon: new WMATA board member Mortimer L. Downey (bottom), the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 2001 and former Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Downey is now a senior executive at Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Both Gunn and Downey are recipients of Railway Age’s W. Graham Claytor Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to Passenger Transportation.


13.30 – 14.15 Paul Ziche “Fictions and Foundations. Tolerance and rigorousness in the philosophico-scientific landscape around 1900: the example of Hans Vaihinger and Moritz Pasch”
14.15 – 15.00 Mireille Kirkels “Gerrit Mannoury: concept-criticism as a means of better understanding”
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.15 Irene van de Beld “Neokantianism’s ongoing relevance for today’s philosophy of science”
16.15 – 17.00 Carlo Ierna “Brentano’s Science of Consciousness and the Mechanization of the Mind in the 19th century”
My talk builds on my current research, but also extends it into a new direction, which might form the basis for a new project. In the last two years I have been working on Brentano’s idea of philosophy as science and on his project to establish (descriptive) psychology as a science. I consider Brentano to be developing an ontological and epistemological framework for doing research in what we nowadays would consider cognitive science: his approach is non-reductive, interdisciplinary, and combines both first- and third-person methodologies. In other words, in Brentano’s framework we can give an autonomous, full-blooded account of the mind and consciousness: quite literally a Geisteswissenschaft, but open to the Naturwissenschaften.
This stands in sharp contrast to two other approaches that progressively develop in the 19th century, that I both consider as forms of mechanization, broadly understood. On the one had, biologistic/naturalistic reductionism, i.e. the mind is subsumed by the machinery of the brain and body, on the other the literal mechanization of reason, i.e. the implementation of the laws of thought in machines, such as mathematical and logical calculators. The idea of a mechanization of the world-view is already familiar, as is the mechanistic approach to the human body and the faculties of perception ever since the scientific revolution and early modern philosophy. However, in the 19th century it becomes feasible to theorize a mechanization of the mind, which had previously always been excluded. For instance, Descartes explicitly excludes the possibility of mechanizing the mind (and speech) due to the lack of universality and flexibility in an automaton. However, in the 19th century machines such as Babbage’s Analytical Engine and Jevons’ Logic Piano supplied a mechanical model for at least some classes of mental acts, at least as preliminary proof-of-concept. If logical and mathematical calculation could be thusly mechanized, what else? On the other hand, progress in psycho-physics and the theory of evolution increasingly claimed to be able to explain consciousness and cognition through the natural sciences: not only by a natural-scientific method, but within the ontological province of a mechanical universe.
Brentano’s project of a scientific philosophy and a philosophical psychology, however, shows the inherent limitations of such approaches and the need for an autonomous science of consciousness, at least as an indispensable complement to the mechanization of the mind.