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04:32 PM ET
4 years ago
Roberts calls partisanship at State of the Union 'very troubling'
soundoff (320 Responses)
1. Edward Veidt
Not only did the Supreme Court make a decision that essentially sold out all Americans, but the Court is also apparently populated with crybabies.
March 10, 2010 03:20 pm at 3:20 pm |
2. A True Centrist
"Someone needs to remind the people that the SC is there to rule on "laws for the land" using the constitutions and its amendments as the foundations for their decisions. "
The Justices ruled this was a freedom of speech issue. You should read the opinion before typing your unsubtantiated rants.
What most uneducated people need to realize is that the campaign reform laws did nothing to reel in the corporate dollars. Now, instead of coming from the JP Morgans of the land, the money is funneled through the MoveOn.Org and Tea Party movement type organizations. The campaign reform laws were well intentioned, but like most bills passed by Congress, did nothing to solve the problem at hand (similar to the bills passed to fine airline carriers for late flights (which resulted in the most cancelled flights on record), the reforms enacted to protect credit card holders (which resulted in increased fees and interest rates prior to implementation etc...)
3. An Independent
The State of the Union was not a political pep rally. Nice try to make an excuse not to attend. The Courts lack of presence would not draw the government or the people closer together. Not attending would have the opposite result of the Justices implied purpose i.e showing respect for the government as an institution.
Mr. Roberts knows that the State of the Union had something in there for everyone. If his remarks are correctly quoted and fully quoted he should be ashamed of himself for the shallowness of those reported remarks.
The President’s statement cut across party lines. Both parties support a change to the change the Court handed down. If the Justice is uncomfortable maybe he should stick to precedence as he said that he would during his confirmation. Now there is a thought!!!
4. Brijhy
Though the First Amendment can be a bit complicated, the line between people and corporations are the easiest to draw. But realize that the Court in its decision has just rubbed out that line.
The Supreme Court has told us that we should trust corporations more than our elected officials. Right or wrong, it is a sad comment on our democracy.
5. Nick , California
Stop the press.. someone doesn't agree with the supreme court ruling that allows corporations to influence the direction of our country! I'm proud that our president has called this issue to the attention of the citizens of this country. These large corporations don't speak for the people as they exist for one reason.. to make as much money as possible.. no matter how it effects the country or the world! They are more than happy to send jobs overseas for cheap labor (profit) and bring this great nation to its knees! Have you ever heard someone say.. sorry its just business.. not personal! Well FYI, business does have a direct impact on personal lives!!!
6. Reality bites
The supreme court is not above the law. They are just as political as the dems and republics...and its not relevant what if Bush would have done! The flood gate is open for more corruption in politics! Get over it leonardofru!
7. TheTruthForOnce, NOT BS
Chief Justice John Roberts of courses introduces politics into this by his very statements on the subject. I'm sure he didn't ever make the same assumptions when his buddy George was blasting all those who were against taking basic rights away from them and lying to congress. It is just utterly amazing the audacity of republicans and the stupidity of democrats.
8. Chaz
Only a young inexperienced president would make this type of mistake. This was no place to make such a political statement whether he felt he was right or not. There has to be a healthy respect for separation of powers. I for one am sick of this partisan BS from both parties!
9. Darth Cheney
So, selling out the election process to corporations is NOT troubling, but being called out for it IS troubling.
March 10, 2010 03:21 pm at 3:21 pm |
10. Mike In Carolina
This controversy clearly defines conservative hypocracy and their double standards. When it suits their cause, claims of activist judges are heard loudy from The Right. Obama was right to criticize the unlimited infusion of corporate and foreign financing into our electorial processes. He had the guts to do so because this discounts the power of individuals and those without deep pockets.
11. guest
If Obama had any guts he would pack the court like Roosevelt did and neutralize a partisan judge like this one
Justic Roberts call it like it is. The ball is in your court and perhaps you just stepped on the presidont Toes.
13. Joe citizen abroad
I'm sure Chief Justice Roberts has explained why the ruling was in keeping with the letter of the law. But what about the spirit? I'd love to hear him explain how that ruling is good for America and the health of our electoral process.
Have people gone mad? How is it a good thing to allow large organizations with limitless funds to dominate the campaign airwaves? Are we just dropping all pretense and declaring our government for sale to the highest bidder?
Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to rebuke the court. They are not gods. They are not much as the chief justice might like to think so.
March 10, 2010 03:22 pm at 3:22 pm |
14. Ron
First, those who criticize the Supreme Court decision don't even know the specifics of the case. I suggest researching before simply repeating what Obama said. Obama misrepresented (intentionally) because he is trying to gain political points and knows the uninformed will support him regardless of its accuracy. Second, the intention of the State of the Union (SOTU) is to tell the country the state of affairs (quick history lesson – the State of the Union used to be a written summation and not a verbal representation). the intention of the SOTU is NOT to confront a part of the three branches of government. This just shows how immature and uninformed Obama really is. I suggest the Supreme Court no longer attends the SOTU until it becomes more professional. BTW, wasn't Obama supposed to be a "Uniter" and not a "Divider"?
15. Tram
Given the fact that the Supreme Court is part of the reason we're in the mess we're in these days (and thanks to them not stopping Bush or the Patriot Act), he's got no room to talk.
16. Steve
Obama is the one that's out of touch and out of control. His Highness is still in campaign mode, and has made no attempt to learn how to govern. He came in with no experience in governance, and hopefully will be gone before he has a chance to do more damage.
17. EDDIE
What a cry baby.He voted for a stupid issue that should not have passed simple as that.I never thought that the Supreme Court could be influeneced by Corporations or bought.But then again leave it to the conseratives for a stupid decision. Everybody thank lil bush
18. gary
When an activist court led by a right-wing political Chief Justice interprets the Constitution in a way that fundamentally changes the relationship between the government and business, the President is obligated to speak up. His job is to defend and uphold the Constitution. If Roberts doesn't like this and thinks the State of the Union is a "pep rally," he ought to hide out at home.
March 10, 2010 03:23 pm at 3:23 pm |
19. Indy
Roberts might be a judge but Obama is the President !! It is his State of the Union not the judges.Sorry President always trumps a judge.
20. tyler
whether or not you agree with the SC opinion is not the point. It's fine for the President, Congress, the American people to disagree with the opinion. What is not ok is the President blasting the Supreme Court in front of a cheering Congress when the Supreme Court is required to not do or say anything while there (and Alito broke this rule). The President is free to rip on Court decisions all he wants, but it's out of line and improper to do it when the justices are there as a courtesy. The problem here is not the SC ruling, it's the way in which Obama chose to comment on it and embarrass the Supreme Court, and in the process, embarrass himself. The justices are there as a measure of good spirit and Obama guaranteed that spirit will never be extended by the SC again. Way to go, Barry O.
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Many don't trust it, but an accurate count assures federal aid is distributed fairly
March 09, 2010|By Arlene Martínez | OF THE MORNING CALL
It's 10 questions, and it takes 10 minutes. It may just be the quickest $11,000 you can make.
Yet this year, millions won't fill out the form that determines how much money -- roughly $11,000 a person -- the federal government will give to their communities.
The U.S. Census began mailing and hand-delivering a short questionnaire to households in the 50 states and Puerto Rico earlier this month.
There's been an aggressive campaign to educate community leaders on what the Census is about and why it's important that every individual be counted.
On Sunday, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund brought its ''Ya Es Hora'' (It's Time) campaign to Allentown.
''Es facil. Es importante. Es seguro,''
Jissette Leonardo, NALEO's regional
Census coordinator, told a small group gathered at St. Paul Catholic Church.
Translation: It's simple. It's important. It's safe.
Getting across the last point, that it's safe, can be challenging, the group of community leaders and clergy was told.
Immigrants may not realize that the form is filled out anonymously and won't be used, for example, to deport illegal immigrants.
''There's a lot of people that say, 'I don't want to fill it out because I don't trust it,''' Leonardo said.
But a community's total population, regardless of the legal status of its residents, determines how the federal government calculates the roughly $400 billion given annually to state and local governments.
Communities with large minority and poor populations historically have been undercounted, leaving them with far less money than they would be eligible for.
This year, NALEO expects it to be even more difficult to track immigrants because they're more scattered than they were 10 years ago, living in rural areas in addition to big cities.
The ramifications of undercounting people go beyond money.
After each decennial Census, boundaries for congressional districts are redrawn. Some states typically lose representation while others gain seats, depending on population shifts. Pennsylvania, for example, lost two seats after the 2000 Census.
''There's a lot of repercussions and that includes political power,'' Leonardo said.
Muhlenberg College professor Erika Sutherland, who is working with Grupo de Apoyo e Integración Hispanoamericano, gave some tips on getting residents to fill out the form.
She pointed out that a Census worker will visit any household that doesn't return the form.
''What's better, filling out the form or having someone come knocking?'' Sutherland said.
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Here's a little something from, Global Security .org, that I found quite interesting.
Gates To Take Comprehensive Approach To End "Stop-Loss.
It was written on 02/29/2009.
I wonder why it wasn't better publicized?
Most everything that I've been able to find on this subject gives the appearance that Secretary Gates has requested that military leaders lower the "stop-loss" ratio, and that they, (Military Leaders), chose to ignore his requests. I won't call them orders because then they (the leaders) would be in defiance of direct orders, and we all know that isn't allowed in the military.
I have a better idea Mr. Secretary.
Let's just end stop-loss all together.
Let's direct our military leaders to start doing something about morale, and retention.
Get out from behind those desks and get out and find out what it would take to make the Army a better place to be.
Lets show Secretary Gates that he has the backing of a lot of military members, their families, and friends, by signing the petition.
Online petition - End Stop Loss.
We're nearing the 100 signature mark and counting.
Not quite the progress I had hoped for in a week, but never the less a good showing.
If you are a member of Facebook, you are invited to join our group.
God bless our soldiers and bring them home safe.
1. As you said, I don't think it was an order. It's the same old publicity. He said the same thing a while ago, and your guest poster was correct--actual usage and implementation of it jumped somewhere between 40-60%, depending on your source.
Just a quick heads up, the military is not very fond of I don't know enough to say whether it is political, but they publish the sort of information that the military would prefer kept hidden. If you dig deep enough, you'll find detailed maps of bases overseas, and a general approach that is critical of the military.
I have found their information to be useful, but I also know that some will consider them invalid. Have you dug into my paper yet? Also, along the sidebar of my blog, in the links section, I have a few places for you to read up on the order and how it came into power.
BTW, i know it was in the other post, but SGT M is completely right about making the issue a collection of personal ones, rather than a huge non-personal issue. And, the questions he raised are worth thinking over. I'm interested in seeing how others may answer them.
2. I haven't read your paper yet.
I've been dealing with some health issues. Nothing serious, just a bunch of nagging things, and haven't felt like reading or writing.
I don't know why it is being perceived that I'm turning this into a non personal issue?
That's certainly not my intention.
Along with the signatures on the petition I'm cultivating a list of email addresses that I can get testimonials from.
In fact, I hope to begin posting some of them on the blog.
I was thinking about doing an interview series, but haven't thought it out well enough yet.
Any suggestions?
first off, forgive me if i sound like an idiot, but im really confused after your last post and im feeling like i may not know enough about stop loss. you did say john that you think that guys deployed in combat should stay until the deployments over. thats what i think too. i didnt understand the whole noncombat deployed stop loss thing you say. maybe its cause im running the tail end of a week thats had me asleep maybe 30 hours in last 7 days. maybe its cause ive been awake and working for the last 19 hours. i am under the impression that soldiers who are slated to get out right before a deployment or during a deployment are the only ones who get stop lossed. were you saying that those who are slated to leave right before a deployment should be allowed to leave, but those whos contracts run out while deployed should stay.
like i said before im really tired so im kinda having a hard time wraping my head around this. im feeling like im lost and that im not understanding what im reading. would you clarify it for me. im really truely sorry, i havent felt this dumb in a long time.
4. I wonder why it wasn't better publicized?
Think about it(media).
5. Mike,
Your not dumb at all.
In fact, the farther I get into this, the more confused I get.
The more I read about it the less I understand.
In my son's case, his ETS was sometime in late May, or early June.
The brigade got stop-loss orders in late February.
They returned from a fifteen month deployment in early June 08. 06/06/08, 2:00 AM to be exact. We were there. So if you go by what I have been able to determine from my reading, they are due a 1:1 dwell time. Now I'll admit that this dwell time issue is quite confusing as well. Some articles say that the ratio is 1:1 to a max of twelve months, for a unit that has been deployed for a period of 12 continuous months or more.
While others claim, 1:1 for the full deployed time.
Then a third article I read claimed that soldiers are entitled to two years home for one year deployed to a combat situation?
Keeping with the 1:1 ratio, a unit that got home from a fifteen month tour in June 08, would be non-deployable until September 09.
If I understand the policy correctly it reads that stop-loss can be issued up to 90 days prior to deployment.
So why a stop-loss order seven months prior to a unit being available for deployment?
And when there is no actual known deployment order?
While I am against the policy. I understand the logistical problems created by soldiers separating from a unit in a war zone. It didn't happen In WWI, WWII, Korea, or Vietnam. Even with the draft still in effect until, I think, 1974. (By this I mean that even with the draft in place, soldiers were held in units in country, until the unit came home). And it shouldn't happen now.
I understand that the contract states that you may be kept on active duty for up to eight years, during a time of war.
That being in effect should be sufficient to address the issue of manpower during a time of need.
And thus no need for stop loss.
It is my understanding that Iraq, while having been approved for war by Congress was never actually voted to be a war. (Probably a political ploy). I heard the other day that they are going to start using lawyers, and politicians in laboratory testing. No kidding. They found that there were certain things that rats just wouldn't stoop to.
So then isn't stop-loss being employed illegally? (Question, not opinion).
I'm still working for signatures,Online petition - End Stop Loss, to assist me in going forward with this endeavor to end stop-loss in a manner which is fare and equitable to both sides.
All thoughts, comments, and ideas are welcome.
I've gained a lot of knowledge from personal emails, which I welcome, even the spiteful and ignorant comments. Some individuals don't seem to know how to debate a subject without name calling.
I'm the general manager of a petroleum company. There aren't many insults you can throw my way that I haven't heard in the past year...
I've honestly appreciated the input from you, and 13stoploss, since we got by that first unruly exchange. I think we have all grown a bit.
I haven't heard from Jenn for a while?
Hope all is well on the home front.
I know how tough it is having a son over there. I can't begin to imagine how difficult it could be for a wife or husband at home raising the family.
Hopefully it will serve to make the bond even stronger, and you will enjoy many years of happiness when all is said and done.
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In Real Life by Lawrence Tabak
Whenever I think about a gamer kid the image of a socially awkward pimply kid comes to mind. Seth (called ActionSeth online) is a gaming and math prodigy from the Midwest. He loves the game Starfare and spends hours playing in order to achieve his goal of turning pro and living in Korea. For all his mental abilities he is awkward in school and although he has a crush on a pretty girl called Beth he never does anything to show her how he feels.
Seth's parents are divorced and his brother is a jock college basketball player. Seth lives with his dad, a travelling salesman who seems to love to berate poor Seth whenever he comes home from one of his business trips. When his dad encourages him to get a job so that he doesn't have to go live with his mom (they have an awkward relationship) he does so at a local pizza parlor. It is there that he meets Hannah, a girl he develops an instant crush on. Hannah seems intrigued by Seth's gaming prowess and academic talent. Seth for his part admires Hannah for her artsy side and free spirit.
Seth had entered a gaming contest where he was beaten soundly by the Koreans. His play attracted the attention of a top Korean gaming team and before he knows it Seth finds himself overseas. Everything does not end happily ever after however and Seth soon finds that the pace of life, his difficulty adjusting and the fact that he misses people back home interfere with his overall play. He must then make some very adult decisions despite the fact that he is only sixteen.
Tabak's book is an in depth look at the life of a teenager who achieves his life's goal early. Some people don't do so until they are many years older and some don't even know what their goal is in life For that I applaud Seth because he was offered an opportunity and he reached out and grabbed it. He did not neglect is studies though so even when things got rough he knew that he had other options. This, I think is the most important takeaway from the novel.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata
Jfic books rarely deal with sensitive topics but Kadohata's book Half a World Away deals with something that I have rarely discussed with other adults-adoption. I do not know how many couples enter into a relationship intending to adopt but I would love to see those stats. In this book, told through the eyes of young Jaden we meet a family that is just now coming to terms with Jaden's behavior. He has hard a hard time adjusting to life and has some weird behavior patterns for which he has seen several therapists.
Although his parents love him very much they don't feel complete and are determined to go Kazakhstan to adopt a baby. Jaden himself was adopted from Romania as a young child and he vaguely remembers his mother before she abandoned him. He claims not to love his parents and truth be told, his parents, or at least his adopted father may love him but seems not to like him very much.
Jaden realizes how charmed his life is when he interacts with locals. The driver, Sam is my favorite character in this book and I like his sly digs at American culture. In essence he shows Jaden that for all their wealth Americans sometimes lose sight of the simple things in life. The family traveled halfway across the world intending to adopt one child but due to the bizarre nature of the process that child ends up going to a German family. As it so happens after the family is shown some babies the parents and Jaden end up liking different babies. Both children seem to have special needs and I applaud Jaden's parents for even considering adopting them as many parents probably would not have done so.
This book is not a feel good book, it is very moody and deals with some difficult subject matter and emotions. Mature children would probably get into this book but it is so different from a lot of the standard jfic fare that is out there that I would not readily recommend this to patrons.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Death Coming Up The Hill by Chris Crowe
Those who do not learn from the events of History are doomed to repeat it. I always think of that saying whenever events transpire that give me a sense of deja vu. Those who lived long enough to see the fall out from the Vietnam War may have been saddened by the nation's involvement in two wars we could not win in Iraq and Afghanistan. I remember when the Iraq wars first started how sad it was to see the daily count on the news and see the bodies being brought home. With our twenty four hour news cycle, coverage was much more in depth than it was forty odd years ago yet still I felt a sense of detachment from the events over there.
The book Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe is a small ode to the soldiers who perished and/or went MIA in Vietnam. Told completely in haiku form the book relates one year in the life of a teenager called Ashe who lives with his parents in Arizona. Theirs is a loveless marriage although they both love Ashe dearly.
Ashe has a vibrant English teacher Mr. Reed who does not shy away from the realities of what is happening to the young men fighting in Vietnam. He gets very emotional about the subject but this is because he has a strong sense of right and wrong and knows that what is going on there could never be right.
Ashe also meets a kindred spirit with whom he can talk about the war as well as his turbulent family life. As his home life unravels Ashe has some tough decisions to make and eventually decides to do what will benefit his mom the most.
I flipped this book open when it came in and I saw the haiku and assumed it was a poetic ode to the war but only after examining it closely did I discover that it was indeed a novel. The verse form did not impede the narrative and it flowed smoothly. As I reflect on how hard it is to compose haiku, this is some feat. Despite the fact that the book deals with happenings from the 1960s it is still relevant today due to the fact that many of these same issues are still unresolved and in some cases are even worse today.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Library news November 2014
Russia has been in the news often over the past few months what with their incursions into the eastern part of Ukraine. Now the Russian Presidential Library has been tasked with creating a "Russian-focused alternative to Wikipedia". So far they have collected more than 50,000 books and archive documents from 27 regional libraries. Read more here.
It seems that budget cuts have hit libraries worldwide. I admit that I was not following the goings on closely but as I browsed through the UK's Public Libraries News I noticed the compromises and policy adjustments that were made, among them having libraries taking over by a council and cutting money from other areas to fund libraries. In Southampton there have been protests by residents to save libraries. This article describes how protesters want councillors to go and not the libraries-five city libraries are in danger of being closed.
The BBC is reporting that a court in India has ruled that it is against the country's constitution for female students to be banned from a main university library. This after several thousand female undergrads were banned from the Maulana Azad Library in a university in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
In Canada, a recent report cited urban-rural library technology divide as well as decreased accessibility to archival material. Also Canadians can now search their family's First World War history online. Library and Archives Canada has a Soldiers of the First World War database which is an index to the service files held by LAC for the servicemen and women who served during that era.
It is no secret that today's libraries are community hubs. The Twin Cities' oldest library (in existence since the 19th century) is being reborn as a job skills center for Emerge. The 13,000 square foot building's programs are expected to help make a dent in the region's high unemployment rate. Read more here.
We are smack dab in the middle of NaNoWriMo and this article talks about the efforts by two librarians to push this program at their library in Oregon. The program was so popular last year that they even published a collection of writings from many of the participants.
Finally, do you want to prove that you are Native American or have Native American ancestry? This blog by the Denver Public Library shows you just how the process goes, and believe me when I say that it is not easy.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Fall crafts
I have focused a lot on the books part of the blog of late so let me try to highlight some cool ideas that I intend to submit to my library's craft committee and/or use in my own weekly storytimes.
Paper plates are so handy, easy to manipulate and cheap and these cute crafts are simple to create with some glue, felt, paint, markers and googly eyes.
Top 10 DIY Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids - Top Inspired
This owl uses a few paper plates as well as some paint. This may be a bit too much for a story time craft but looks ideal for a day care craft for toddlers, for an after school program or even for a rainy/snowy day outside.
I found a website called Classy Clutter that has a host of crafts for the little ones using a variety of materials such as popsicle sticks, paper and leaves. I noticed that they had a few crafts on there where the kids traced their hands. That is a well worn craft but they also had a craft where the kids made a handprint turkey hat. I have not seen many of those done and it should be well worth a try for those tired of the same old. Here are the directions and this is what the finished product looks like:
For the Thanksgiving season many people like to have the little ones make things to show how thankful they are. Hand crafts are always in vogue and on this site they give directions to make a nifty hand print wreath full of precious little hands.
Another thankful craft I found on Learn Create Love's site had the kids trace and cut out their hands, write something thankful on them and stick them on a tree template. An excellent way to celebrate the thankful season.
Finally, for someone looking for a craft that could be done at home and would be big enough to decorate a wall, this craft is fantastic for that. Using construction paper, leaves, string, marshmallows and other materials, you can make a sign that says just how you feel about this time of year.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Sometimes when an incident occurs eyewitnesses have a different take on what exactly occurred. What they see is often colored by their experiences and prejudices. That is the case in Kekla Magoon's fantastic book for teens called How It Went Down which deals with the fall out from the killing of an unarmed black teenager called Tariq by a man named Jack Franklin. As (bad) luck would have it Franklin just happens to be white.
The premise appears ripped from the headlines what with the recent unrest in Florida and in Ferguson, Missouri. One of the better drawn characters is the preacher Pastor Sloan who is conflicted with his role. On one hand he is scoring political points which help bolster his campaign for office, on the other hand he has a son of his own with whom he does not have the best relationship. the Pastor also has to resist the temptations that come with his standing.
Written in small first person vignettes that slowly reveal the characters' relationship if any with the victim, Magloon paints a picture of a neighborhood trying its best to deal with the aftermath of the youth's killing. This killing is especially hurtful because while Tariq was no angel his death was completely unavoidable. The killing reverberates in several other ways too and causes the beautiful Jennica to examine her relationship with gang member Noodle. At first she is aghast at his callous reaction to the Tariq's death but gradually she begins to examine her life and what she wants out of it.
Tariq was flirting with joining a gang and the gang's leader Brick feels that he was closer to joining than he really was. Through the eyes of the youngest member of the group, Tyrell we see how he Tariq, Sammy, Junior and youth were close knit but drifted apart as the call of the streets became too strong. Junior is in jail serving a long sentence for a crime that he took the rap for. Sammy is afull-fledged member of the group and is determined to climb the ranks.
The role of fathers is underscored and by far the most fatherly figure is Steve Conners who seems to care more about his step son than Tyrell's own biological dad. To say the two enjoy a frosty relationship putting it mildly. Tyrell is academically gifted and is determined to go to college and become the first one in his circle and his family to do so. Though it is not overtly stated it seems that his father feels threatened by his son's upward mobility. Besides the father-son dynamic there is also a class divide apparent. Steve implores Will not to return to the hood and his disdain towards the denizens of that part of town is apparent.
This is a fantastic read that rings to light many societal ills and many issues within the African-American community. It is telling that the older African American males who are in a position of power and influence make no attempt to mentor or provide some sort of guidance for these at-risk youth. Also Pastor Sloan himself admits that were the shooter another young black male he most likely would not have been as visible and as vocal in the press and on tv. This is a timely read and while it does not delve deeply into issues that need to be addressed, it at least starts a discussion.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Ellray Jakes Rocks the Holidays by Sally Warner
I have not seen many books for the 2nd-4th grade set that had an African American main character and is not set in an urban setting. So when I stumbled upon this series I was pleasantly surprised. Lancelot Raymond "EllRay" Jakes lives with his genius dad, mom and younger sister in California. His dad is a professor and his mom is a writer and they live a comfortable middle class life.
In this particular book Ellray is having a normal day until he accidentally offends the other 'brown" kid in class, Kevin. He then must do a set of challenges prescribed by Kevin in order for them to be even.
Although the book is aimed at young readers it still explores themes such as race and class. EllRay's dad for example explicitly tells him that he should make nice with Kevin since in his mind people of color need to stick together especially when they live in communities that are predominantly white. A non POC reader might find this hard to believe but this is completely true. Even EllRay's teacher Ms. Sanchez shares some of her story growing up in a different time.
EllRay is a shy kid and it just so happens that one of Kevin's challenges is to go up in front the school and emcee the winter holiday program. The debate over the name of the program is pretty funny and illustrates how pc life has become. As you would expect things do work out in the end without too much fuss-this is a Christmas adventure after all.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill
From the title of this book I assumed for some reason that the main character would learn magic at the hand of a good witch to whom he was apprenticed. I wasn't too far off in my guess as he does end up learning magic but not quite in the way that I imagined. Ned, the aforementioned witch's boy was one half of a twin until one day he and his brother take to sea in a flimsy craft and end up stranded. Ned himself only survived due to his mother's heroic use of magic. Circumstances soon conspire to bring big trouble to his neck of the woods though as the bandit king and his army raid their village and try to steal the magic which Ned's mother has safeguarded.
Set in a time far off when kings and queens ruled we see the level of ignorance and distrust that exists among people in the same town and between peoples of different towns. Ned's people for example don't think that there is anything beyond the mountain. Aine's people think that Ned's people are simpletons. Even Ned's people are afraid of his mother despite the fact that she is called upon to help them when any misfortune occurs.
Another good theme that I found in this work is that of the strong woman. I read something recently about staying away from the damsel in distress trope and Barnhill does a good job of this. There are three main characters in this book and non can be classified as "weak": The Queen, Sister Witch (Ned's mom) and Aine, daughter of a red-haired bandit king whose name we never learn. The Queen, despite her advanced age is in control of her faculties and is a kind and just ruler. Ned's mom exercises her office and uses her power wisely-many times she uses herbal remedies instead of magic-and is a good bridge between Ned and his father. Aine for her part has been taught well by her father and can defend herself if need be. It is she who takes pity on Ned when they first meet because he has no experience living in the wild and is dependent on her for instruction.
Power corrupts is another theme and we see it in the machinations of the Queen's family who try to usurp the throne many times. The boy King is another character who abuses his power and Aine's own father cannot curb his baser instincts and returns to the life that he lived before he met Aine's mother. Aine for her part tries to make sense of the abrupt change her father seems to have undergone. She out of all the characters struggles with some very heavy issues. She is a brave girl indeed. Life must go on and loss is a part of life and I thought that Barnhill did an excellent job with dealing with the loss of loved ones in this book. Older readers aged 10+ would grasp what she is trying to convey. | http://trinibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/11/ | robots: classic
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A Handbook for a Conserver Society
by David R. Brower
. . . I wish I could show you two maps and stop talking for a while.
One is a computer map of the U.S. population in 1776, 1876, and 1976, prepared at M.I. T.
On the 1976 segment Los Angeles is barely perceptible. It had not even become one of the largest 25 U.S. cities by the 1900 census. The M.I.T. map is enough to assure even aHerman Kahn that we can't go on in the next century the way we carried on in the first two. It should assure the space colonizers that they couldn't dissect asteroids fast enough to build colonies for our fertility excess, or find fuel enough to ship it any farther than India, where it is hardly needed.
The other map exists only in my mind -- a demographic-drain map to show what resources were required to sustain our new population peaks, a map in which the area of countries is the product of their population multiplied by their resource drain. Newsweek published a map on October 26 that comes close, but not close enough.
Something better than gross national product is needed to measure the drain of resources. (For example, the U.S., with five percent of the worlds population, uses one third of the resources; the remaining ninety-five percent use the other two thirds -- a ratio of about ten to one. Our 225 million, multiplied by ten, equals 2.25 billion, half the earth's population. On the global map, then, the U.S. would occupy half the land area, and in the Newsweek map it doesn't begin to. Africa would be tiny.) I think that if we looked long and hard at such a map, we would realize why it has been said that a lot of nations can't afford the U.S. anymore.
When I first heard that comment, scenes from Italy flashed through my mind, abandoned castles on hills, castles once comfortably occupied by the affluent who thought that if they kept their supporting peasants ill-clothed and ill-housed and ill-fed enough, the peasants couldn't muster enough strength to cause trouble. You could simply tell them to lift themselves by their bootstraps, mind the magic of the marketplace, and buy a do-it-yourself covered wagon and go west . . .
We have better ideas, and I'm sure you do. For the full Friends of the Earth list of things to spend a trillion on, I refer you to:
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I'm trying to create the icon for my iPhone app, but don't know how to get the exact radius that the iPhone's icons use. I've searched and searched for a tutorial or a template but can't find one.
I'm sure that I'm just a moron, but how do you get the rounded corners exactly right with your icon from Illustrator or Photoshop?
What's the radius for the Retina iPad?
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Why do you believe you need to? – Nick Veys Jan 20 '10 at 22:45
Thank you so much for asking this. I've been looking everywhere :) – SeniorShizzle Dec 26 '10 at 8:36
@NickVeys No matter how old, an unanswered question bugs me. Not sure if this is the poster's intention, but it could be for a Jailbreak app, or artwork outside of iOS itself. – tkbx May 26 '12 at 2:46
And then iOS 7 came, increased the "default" icon radius, and made this question instantly out-of-date. – marzapower Jun 10 '13 at 23:42
11 Answers 11
You can make four icons (as of today) for your app and they can all have a different look - not necessarily based on the 512x512 image.
• corner radius for the 512x512 icon = 80 (iTunesArtwork)
• corner radius for the 1024x1024 icon = 160 (iTunesArtwork Retina)
• corner radius for the 57x57 icon = 9 (iPhone/iPod Touch)
• corner radius for the 114x114 icon = 18 (iPhone/iPod Touch Retina)
• corner radius for the 72x72 icon = 11 (iPad)
• corner radius for the 144x144 icon = 23 (iPad Retina)
If you do create a set of custom icons, you can set the UIPrerenderedIcon option to true in your info.plist file and it will not do any of the gloss or corner rounding for you but it will place a black background under it with these corner radii so if the corner radius on any of the icons is greater then it will show black around the edges/corners.
To add a retina-compatible file, use the same file name and add '@2x'. So if I had a file for my 72x72 icon named icon.png, I would also add a 114x114 PNG file named icon@2x.png to the project/target and Xcode would automatically use that as the icon on a retina display. You can see this in action on the Summary page of the application target if you've done it right. The same works for your launch images. Use launch.png at 320x480 and launch@2x.png at 640x960.
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Note that the icon on the iPhone 4 is not 72x72, but 114x114 with a radius of 18. ;) – Pascal Feb 13 '11 at 12:55
@Pascal @stinkbutt: Fixed and +1. – BoltClock Mar 26 '11 at 21:30
512/80 == 114/18 == 72/11 == 57/9 == 6.4 You can take your icon's square length, and divide it by 6.4 to get the same ratio as apple does. So for a 19x19 icon, 19/6.4 ~ 3px border radius – Devin G Rhode Jun 14 '11 at 15:57
The 80px radius for iTunesArtwork is definitely wrong. You can find the mask image that's used in iTunes in the iTunes bundle. It's 90 px. Could it have been changed lately? – zmippie Jun 18 '11 at 15:46
The Retina iPad radius (144x144 icon) is 23 pixels, FYI. And 1024x1024 icons should have a 160 pixel radius. Pretty easy to calculate these yourself though. – Andrew R. Apr 16 '12 at 20:52
After trying some of the answers in this post, I consulted with Louie Mantia (former Apple, Square, and Iconfactory designer) and all the answers so far on this post are wrong (or at least incomplete). Apple starts with the 57px icon and a radius of 10 then scales up or down from there. Thus you can calculate the radius for any icon size using 10/57 x new size (for example 10/57 x 114 gives 20, which is the proper radius for a 114px icon). Here is a list of the most commonly used icons, proper naming conventions, pixel dimensions, and corner radii.
1. Icon1024.png - 1024px - 179.649
2. Icon512.png - 512px - 89.825
3. Icon.png - 57px - 10
4. Icon@2x.png - 114px - 20
5. Icon-72.png - 72px - 12.632
6. Icon-72@2x.png - 144px - 25.263
7. Icon-Small.png - 29px - 5.088
8. Icon-Small@2x.png - 58px - 10.175
Also, as mentioned in other answers, you don't actually want to crop any of the images you use in the binary or submit to Apple. Those should all be square and not have any transparency. Apple will automatically mask each icon in the appropriate context.
Knowing the above is important, however, for icon usage within app UI where you have to apply the mask in code, or pre-rendered in photoshop. It's also helpful when creating artwork for websites and other promotional material.
Additional reading:
Neven Mrgan on additional icon sizes and other design considerations: ios app icon sizes
Bjango's Marc Edwards on the different options for creating roundrects in Photoshop and why it matters: roundrect
Apple's official docs on icon size and design considerations: IconsImages
I did some tests in Photoshop CS6 and it seems as though 3 digits after the decimal point is enough precision to end up with the exact same vector (at least as displayed by Photoshop at 3200% zoom). The Round Rect Tool sometimes rounds the input to the nearest whole number, but you can see a significant difference between 90 and 89.825. And several times the Round Rectangle Tool didn't round up and actually showed multiple digits after the decimal point. Not sure what's going on there, but it's definitely using and storing the more precise number that was entered.
Anyhow, I've updated the list above to include just 3 digits after the decimal point (before there were 13!). In most situations it would probably be hard to tell the difference between a transparent 512px icon masked at a 90px radius and one masked at 89.825, but the antialiasing of the rounded corner would definitely end up slightly different and would likely be visible in certain circumstances especially if a second, more precise mask is applied by Apple, in code, or otherwise.
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Great answer. I personally always used 512px with 90px radius as start point and then scale down as needed. Works perfect. – Aleksandar Vacic Apr 20 '12 at 9:20
Aleksandar, though it may look fine in most circumstances, starting with 90 won't work perfect in all circumstances. See my update above. – drbarnard Apr 20 '12 at 15:19
Great post with lots of detail. Very glad you bugged Louie for an exact answer. Mine have all been based on 57px then scaled up, but that was a fluke. Great to have confirmation that's what Apple do. – Marc Edwards Apr 21 '12 at 1:23
Is this means that if app icon is not square, then we should use Illustrator to draw the icon? because Photoshop does not support radius with a decimal point..... – flypig Nov 23 '12 at 9:43
this is what i need – Cristiana214 Oct 30 '13 at 11:08
Important: iOS 7 icon equation
With the upcoming release of iOS 7 you will notice that the "standard" icon radius has been increased. So try to do what Apple and I suggested with this answer.
It appears that for a 120px icon the formula that best represents its shape on iOS 7 is the following superellipse:
|x/120|^5 + |y/120|^5 = 1
Obviously you can change the 120 number with the desired icon size to get the corresponding function.
You should provide an image that has 90° corners (it’s important to avoid cropping the corners of your icon—iOS does that for you when it applies the corner-rounding mask) (Apple Documentation)
The best approach is not rounding the corners of your icons at all. If you set your icon as a square icon, iOS will automatically overlay the icon with a predefined mask that will set the appropriate rounded corners.
If you manually set rounded corners for your icons, they will probably look broken in this or that device, because the rounding mask happens to slightly change from an iOS version to another. Sometimes your icons will be slightly larger, sometimes (sigh) slightly smaller. Using a square icon will free you from this burden, and you will be sure to have an always up-to-date and good looking icon for your app.
This approach is valid for each icon size (iPhone/iPod/iPad/retina), and also for the iTunes artwork. I followed this approach a couple of times, and if you want I can post you a link to an app that uses native square icons.
To better understand this answer, please refer to the official Apple documentation about iOS icons. In this page it is clearly stated that a square icon will automatically get these things when displayed on an iOS device:
1. Rounded corners
2. Drop shadow
3. Reflective shine (unless you prevent the shine effect)
So, you can achieve whatever effect you want just drawing a plain square icon and filling content in it. The final corner radius will be something similar to what the other answers here are saying, but this will never be guaranteed, since those numbers are not part of the official Apple documentation on iOS. They ask you to draw square icons, so ... why not?
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Yes, right on. This is exactly the conclusion I've come to; unless one has time to pay a designer to create AND TEST each icon size individually for each device. – Dogweather Jul 24 '11 at 17:00
Your icons will look very bad when downscaled. – ryyst Sep 22 '11 at 16:51
They are not downscaled. You have to set the correct icon size for each device, but instead of drawing the corners, you just leave the icons in a plain square format. Apple will do the rest of the work for you. No scaling needed. Just try and let me know! – marzapower Sep 22 '11 at 19:50
Marzapower, you're right, as long as you're happy with Apple's lighting effect. You can't have one without the other unless you pre-render – Gordon Dove Aug 8 '12 at 17:39
Apple's lighting effect has nothing to do with rounded corners. By the way you can change the overlay effect in your icons using a square icon, and everything will work fine. – marzapower Sep 4 '12 at 15:02
The answer from dbarnard has the formula to calculate the correct radius, but since you were looking for the templates, all the masks and overlays can be found in this directory:
(path is for recent versions of XCode. For older version it will probably be inside /Developer/).
As others have noted, you should NOT mask them yourself, but you can use these to check how your icons will look once masked.
(credits for this finding goes to Neven Mrgan IIRC)
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This is very useful, thanks! – Gustav Sep 11 '12 at 13:19
I see a lot of "px" discussion but noone is talking percentages which is the fixed number you want to calculate by
15.625% is the key percentage here. Multiply any of the image sizes mentioned above in by 0.15625 and you will get the correct pixel radius for that size.
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Vote for this answer. – tszming Feb 23 '13 at 6:53
For a 1024x1024 icon (I'm creating some press kit graphics), this gives a corner radius of 160, which is too small according to my eye. – Chris Prince Oct 1 at 20:19
For my eye, again, for press kit graphics, not for any official Apple submission, 22.37% looks more pretty close to the iOS8 rounding. E.g., 229 px radius in photoshop for 1024x1024. – Chris Prince Oct 1 at 20:43
@ChrisPrince This answer definitely needs updating for iOS8, thanks for the input – bitwit Oct 1 at 23:08
The corner radius of the 57 x 57 pixel icon is 9 pixels.
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Willc2, you're correct - but if Frank is designing iPhone icons properly he'd be working with a 512x512 image and the border radius at that level is 80 pixels which rounds off to 9px when you scale it down to 57x57. – Jessedc Aug 6 '10 at 3:26
If not considering stroke, the exact radius is actually 10px for 57x57 icon.
I get this info from iconreference.
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I agree with this. Using a 9px radius doesn't quite look right if you're framing your app icon with an inside stroke to get an effect like the Settings app. 10px for a 57x57px icon and 20px for the @2x icon looks much better to me. – Alex Robinson Feb 14 '11 at 0:59
When designing my app icons with Photoshop, I have found that no integer corner radius fits the device's mask exactly.
What I do now is create an empty project with Xcode, set a completely white PNG file as the icon, and turn off the preset bevel & gloss. Then, I run the app and take a screenshot of the home screen. Now, you can easily create a mask from that image, which you can use in Photoshop. This will get you perfectly rounded corners.
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See @Agos answer, use the png-masks in the folder he mentions. – Gustav Sep 11 '12 at 13:22
There are two totally conflicting answers with large number of votes one is 160px@1024 the other is 180px@1024. So witch one?
I ran some experiments and I think that it is 180px@1024 so drbarnard is correct.
I downloaded iTunes U icon from the App Store it's 175x175px I upscaled it in photoshop to 1024px and put two shapes on it, one with 160px radius and one with 180px.
As you can see below the shape (thin gray line) with 160px (the 1st one) is a bit off whereas the one with 180px looks just fine.
shape with 160px radiusenter image description here
This is what I do now in PhotoShop:
1. I create a canvas sized 1026x1026px with a 180px mask for main design Smart Object.
2. I duplicate the main Smart Object 5 times and resize them to 1024px, 144px, 114px, 72px and 57px.
3. I put a "New layered Based Slice" on each Smart Objects and I rename slices according to their size (e.g. icon-72px).
4. When I save the artwork I select "All User Slices" and BANG! I have all icons necessary for my app.
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The iphone rounds corners for you, all you need is a square 57x57 png icon and u should be good
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This is true, but not the answer to his question... – dododedodonl Sep 28 '10 at 14:49
For official apps, this is true (well, sort of. 57x57 is certainly not the only size you need any more). But, for jailbreak apps, this rounding is NOT done for you. You need to do the rounding in the PNG graphics themselves. So, it very well might matter. – Nate May 13 '11 at 7:13
I tried 228px radius for 1024x1024 and it worked :)
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Merry Christmas! I'm glad you've stumbled upon my page today because were in for a special treat (hahaha its a pun you'll get in a minute).
I love Christmas. I am fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who love me, gifts that surprise me, and food that fills me. I could not ask for a better atmosphere on Christmas day. Everyone is there, my family, close relatives, close non-relatives, my boyfriend, his friends, their kids friends, parents friends, and of course the dog.
Speaking of the dog, (can I say that since I brought the topic up?) my dogs name is Chewy. You may recognize her from my post ONE ON ONE With Chewy. Well it's time for her to shine again.
Have you ever heard of that show "Dog With a Blog"? It is on Disney channel and that is the extent of my knowledge. It was a rhetorical question because I won't be able to relate this post in any way to that show. If I do, it is pure coincidence.
Welcome to Dog With A Blog: Christmas Edition.
Starring: Chewy the Chug (part pug part Chihuahua)
This is how Chewy Spent her Christmas day.
Oh, Time to wake up.... wait, why is it still dark. Oh, no! It's happening! I'm going blind! I knew it was coming up but I didn't know it would be this soon! I still have so much to live for!!!!
Nahhhh, nevermind, the humans were just playing tricks on me. Putting a blanket over my head. The nerve of those people.
No! Wait! I take it back! We can be friends again. I see you have ham on your plate. Aren't you watching your sodium levels. Just slap that down on the floor right here.
Oh, mama's got the good stuff too. Maybe, when no one is looking I can snag that potato, or is it stuffing? Do I even care?!?! It's food! I've been starving since before I took my nap.
SPOTTED: Jordan catching chewy mid-plot. Chewy almost had her chance to take what she wanted, but Jordan caught her red handed.
XOXO Chewy Cam
Ugh, I ate so much ham.... so much food inside my belly. I can't even get up.
What is this stupid thing on my head. Here we go with these humans again. Why is there paper everywhere? I hate the sound of paper being crinkled and they're over here just shredding away not having any concerns about what I feel or think. RUUUUDE.
I only smiled because I was told I was getting a treat. Do you think I got that treat with these humans?!?!
You bet I did.I don't do nothing for free. I run this town.
What the heck is on my head? I don't really care, just keep petting me. Don't stop for anyth.... TREAT?!?!?!
Who let the dogs out, huh? Living young, and wild, and free. Santa can't catch me now.
Welp, santa caught me. Give him the puppy eyes, works every time!
Santa put me on the naughty list, just temporarily. I'm trying to befriend him to get me back on the nice list. I need some chew sticks. My owners ran out.
Does this Santa hat make me look fat?
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Bathroom RemodelA detailed spending budget breakdown and our total free project organizing system is also accessible for cost-free if you want it. This kitchen remodel estimator is the culmination of more than three months of analysis and improvement work, and supplies the most accurate cost data for installing or refacing cabinets, new countertops, kitchen fixtures and plumbing, appliances, as effectively as new floors, and painting the walls.
The stress for the contractor is knowing, for example, that their client just committed to a $50K remodel, but after demo found water harm and mold and now has to inform the client that 1.) they cannot move forward with the remodel till the dilemma is fixed.
Whereas stone tiles, regardless of whether they be 2×4, 3×6, or 2×12, normally charges $25to $40 per square foot in labor although the material can variety from $2 a square foot, all the way up to $100 a square foot, based on the rarity of the stone.
Well-known kitchen information saved to ideabooks include massive islands that accommodate each a workspace and space for consuming, bar stools for island seating, transitional-style metal and glass pendant lighting, wide-planked wood flooring and dramatic ceiling details, from rustic exposed beams to elegant two-tone painted and coffered architecture.
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This week's questions have a continental feel
Brian O'Driscoll of Ireland
Brian O'Driscoll of Ireland. Photograph: Huw Evans Agency/REX
1. 1. Brian O'Driscoll plays his last game in the Six Nations this weekend when Ireland travel to France. How many times has O'Driscoll won the championship?
2. 2. O'Driscoll has scored more Six Nations tries than any other player, but who has scored the most points in the competition?
3. 3. Who said: "I am singing it from the heart, not from the script. I'm not an actor, I work on impulse. I'm never going to take a step back. I'm just going to shoot from the hip. That's what I'm like. I'm a manager, not a babysitter"?
4. 4. Which horse won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham?
5. 5. Which of these clubs did not make it to the FA Cup semi-finals?
6. 6. Which Italian clubs played each other twice this week: in Serie A on Sunday and then in the Europa League on Thursday?
7. 7. The Formula One season begins this weekend with a race in which city?
8. 8. Katarina Johnson-Thompson won a silver medal in the long jump at the World Indoor Championships, but in which event does she normally compete?
9. 9. Who won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Winter Paralympics?
10. 10. Which Premier League fixture has produced more red cards than Manchester United versus Liverpool?
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Gold was down again yestreday morning, steadily drifting back towards the more comfortable $1,640 range. At least the price movements are in line with moves in the currency markets as the euro keeps losing ground to the dollar.
In early trading gold was down $11.05 to $1,651.10 and silver wasoff $0.37 to $30.63, leaving the silver/gold ratio at 53.9, where it was the day before.
The pricing movements this week point out the inflation and volatility induced in commodity markets by derivatives trading, the same kind of market manipulation the equities markets have experienced for the last decade.
This week the gold market was shaken and trading briefly halted because of a single order. Gold fell $14 an ounce in one minute on April 30 and trading was halted when someone fat fingered a sell order worth $1.24 billion dollars.
Most analysts agree the order was either a mistake or deliberate market manipulation. If you know there are a lot of stop-loss orders at a particular price point and you have the means to induce a big move in the market, you can create a cascade crash in prices with a large sell order by triggering programmed trades. When the market crashes, you can then buy back in at a huge discount and pocket the difference when prices recover. That’s nice work when you can get it.
So what’s happened this week is that we had the huge panic crash, an almost immediate recovery in prices, then a gradual sell off down to almost the exact same level as the flash crash. All of those moves were taking place apart from fundamentals like currency exchange rates. That’s quite a coincidence, isn’t it?
Now you know why I constantly prod my readers to buy physical gold and silver and avoid bullion-backed instruments like ETFs. But if the precious metals market is inflated by derivatives trading, doesn’t that mean there’s the chance gold prices would collapse if the market collapsed? Absolutely, but so what?
The gold and silver you have in your safe is going to retain some relative value regardless of what happens to the market and prices will naturally correct to some equilibrium relative to currency values. And that is why you keep physical gold in your safe instead of a bullion-backed ETF in your portfolio.
Chris Poindexter, Senior Writer, National Gold Group, Inc
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Discussion in 'Pseudoscience Archive' started by scott3x, Nov 14, 2008.
How do you think the World Trade Center Collapsed?
1. Terrorist controlled aeroplanes crashing into them (like on the footage)
18 vote(s)
2. Remote controlled aeroplanes to manipulate a war on false grounds
0 vote(s)
3. Demolitions charges rigged by the government to manipulate war
9 vote(s)
4. Allah!
2 vote(s)
5. People keep flogging a dead horse!
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1. scott3x Banned Banned
Well, Stryder hasn't responded for 24 hours regarding my idea of creating a WTC thread and MacGyver said I should give it a go.. so here goes. In a previous post, I listed all the reasons that the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth listed that supported the theory of a controlled demolition for the twin towers and made it clear that the fires could not have been the cause of the collapse. The post I did this is here:
KennyJC rebutted all but one of the claims. His rebuttal is here:
Here is my rebuttal to his rebuttals, and rebuttals to shaman as well:
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3. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member
I believe a combination of damage from the planes, and the subsequent fires brought down the towers.
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5. scott3x Banned Banned
Found a good excerpt that refutes the notion that the planes and fires brought down the twin towers:
The Strength of Steel Frame Structures
For those who want us to imagine that the Towers "collapsed", the assumption that they "fell" on their own is a critical part of the story. But to anyone who is familiar with the performance of modern steel-frame structures, it should be obvious that they cannot simply collapse on their own, with or without an office fire, or even from the impact of a falling portion of the same building. If impacted from above, the Towers might bend or distort, but they wouldn't explode, disintegrate in mid-air, or collapse like a house of cards!
Anyone who's ever played with an Erector Set knows that as long as the structural members remain well-connected, a framework may become twisted and distorted if it falls to the floor, but it will never just collapse into pieces under any scenario involving self-related and self-proportional forces. Buildings that have fallen in earthquakes demonstrate this resistance to disintegration.
For a more detailed analysis of why collapses had to have been demolitions, feel free to visit my web page on the subject:
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Do you think that is a refutation?
Fell on their own? Did they not see the planes flying into them?
It appears that those who are the most familiar with the performance of steel frame buildings disagree. Hence the peer reviewed documents, which support the official story. Conspiracy theorists want to bring up people like Barnett and Asteneh and their qualifications but ignore the conclusions they reached.
They didn’t explode. Watch a video of the event.
It didn’t disintegrate in mid-air. Explosives would not explain disintegration anyway.
Yes an erector set weighing a few hundred grams is pretty much exactly the same as one of the tallest buildings in the world. :rolleyes: Exactly the same in fact!
That's even worse that Gage and his boxes.
Another irrelevant and moronic comparison.
Not a good start to the new thread Scott.
Last edited: Nov 14, 2008
8. scott3x Banned Banned
Indeed :)
The planes were of negligible effect on the towers. 9/11 Research explains:
Demartini, who had an office on the 88th floor of the North Tower, has been missing since the 9/11/01 attack, having remained in the North Tower to assist in the evacuation. 6 Demartini had first worked at World Trade Center when Leslie E. Robertson Associates hired him to assess damage from the truck bombing in 1993.
And ofcourse, WTC 7 wasn't hit by a plane at all. It did fall in the classic demolition manner, however, from the bottom up.
You must mean the people the government paid to 'investigate' the case. The same people that Bill Manning, Fire Engineering's editor in chief said were engaged in a 'half-baked farce':
Let's see the petition that 526 or so Architects and Engineers have signed:
Please Take Notice That:
The Undersigned
9. scott3x Banned Banned
I have never ignored the conclusions they have reached. Astaneh-Asl's conclusions were tentative, however: Paper 2003.pdf
What's more:
Astaneh resigned from the investigation team put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Society of Civil Engineers because he didn't agree with the group's decision to keep findings secret until the initial inquiry was complete. Without FEMA's backing, the National Science Foundation team was shut out.
In the following video, Jonathan Barnett also made it clear that his team was very surprised that WTC 7 collapsed, and also made it clear that the investigation of tower 7 was not business as usual:
10. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member
This was a quite interesting Modelling of the events, however I don't think their rendering took so much consideration into the explosion being structurally damaging.
Interesting enough:
Obviously in this particular unrelated to 9/11 story the fact is that one aerosol can was enough to blow the roof of the house off. This is due to the fact that aerosol's are of course canisters of compressed air.
While of course the Fuel in an aircraft is not compressed air, the Air-Fuel mix that is necessary to cause combustion can be a problem. You see rather than be starved oxygen is pulled in from the floors or extremities of the building during it's flash explosion, this causes a "breathing" effect where the floors themselves would have been rippling not from the impact but the displacement of the volume of air.
Obviously the building with less floor above the impact lasted longer, because the weight of the floors plus the degrading state of the structure caused by fire would eventually cause a collapse.
It doesn't take much to cause a landslide, however it takes a lot to stop one.
11. scott3x Banned Banned
I've watched several.
I disagree and so does the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth site, as well as the 9/11 Research site. The 9/11 Research site goes into more depth on the issue in their "Concrete Pulverization" page:
Again, I disagree as do many in the 9/11 truth movement.
I agree that it's a bit different. David Ray Griffin has this to say about the issue of scale:
If one could somehow create an exact scaled replica of one of the Towers, complete with multi-story miniature steel core columns with their steel beam framing and cross-bracing, high-strength interconnected steel perimeter columns, the floor system with its steel pans and trusses, and all of the other steel framing, welds and bolted connections, it would be much STRONGER than any conceivable Erector Set structure of similar height and proportions.
Not to fond of his boxes eh? Personally, I'd like to take another look at them, but I -did- manage to find this excellent 30 minute interview that Alex Jones gave to Richard Gage: gage wtc
Must you continue with terms like 'moronic'? I understand that Headspin has used such terms, but seriously, I think all it does is sour the mood of the discussion and distract from the arguments and the evidence. When you present arguments, I try to stay away from such terms and instead try to focus on why your arguments are flawed if I believe that they are.
12. scott3x Banned Banned
I'd seen that video before today, but it doesn't seem to get into what took the buildings down.
What makes you think that this is the case? If you listen to Richard Gage, who founded Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth, you will come to understand that, although fires have raged stronger and longer in other high rise buildings, the only day that not 1, but -3- high rise buildings allegedly collapsed due to fires (with or without planes) was on 9/11. Here is an excellent video interview that he gives to Alex Jones: gage wtc
Also, feel free to browse my web page which has all the information that the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth has, plus some rebuttals that have been tailored for arguments made by forum goers here such as KennyJC and shaman:
Sure. In fact, there was atleast one case where -part- of a high rise fell off (the madrid tower). So this could be like a 'land slide' if you will. There have been no cases where a high rise simply disintegrated due to fires alone however, whether or not a plane crashed into it before hand.
13. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member
I'm not sure if Richard Gage took into consideration that the Fire Departments at the time were having to deal with more than one Blaze. As you are well aware a lot of firemen lost their lives when the building eventually collapsed and this would have effected dealing with fires not just through manpower but as a moral shock to all those departments, since Living firemen had not time to grieve or succumb to shock.
14. spidergoat give up Valued Senior Member
Absense of evidence is sometimes evidence of absense. If you have seen any demolitions, the explosions are clearly visible as flashes of light and shock waves. Nothing like that was seen in the videos.
15. scott3x Banned Banned
The arguments on his Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth web site aren't based upon how many firemen were able to put out the WTC 7 fires. Here are the points made for WTC 7 (generally similar to the twin tower collapses, but they do differ a bit):
As your own eyes witness — WTC Building #7 (a 47-story high-rise not hit by an airplane) exhibits all the characteristics of a classic controlled demolition with explosives: (and some non-standard characteristics)
1. Rapid onset of “collapse”
2. Sounds of explosions at ground floor - a full second prior to collapse
5. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds
6. Tons of molten metal found by CDI (Demolition Contractor).
9. Expert corroboration from the top European Controlled Demolition professional
10. Fore-knowledge of “collapse” by media, NYPD, FDNY
1. Slow onset with large visible deformations
3. Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel
16. scott3x Banned Banned
Perhaps so. However, in this case, many people, including notable authors, architects, engineers, physicists and scholars believe there is plenty of evidence that WTC 1,2 and 7 were brought down by controlled demolition.
You may want to look more closely. There's actually a wealth of evidence that there was in the case of the twin towers, as I make clear on the following page of my web site:
I have seen no evidence that this was the case in the case of WTC 7, but because of the rest of the evidence concerning that building, I think it'd be a lot easier to find the explanation for that (perhaps because the demolition material, thermate, is not like normal explosives in this regard) than it would be to explain that it was brought down by the fires alone.
17. spidergoat give up Valued Senior Member
WTC7 was not a prominent target, there would be no advantage to destroying it on purpose. The obvious explanation is that two huge office buildings collapsed nearby, and that debris could damage a building in a spot that caused catastrophic collapse.
I fail to understand why anyone would anticipate that simply crashing two huge jetliners into NYC's largest buildings (and the Pentagon) would not create the desired effect (whatever that was). It would not be logical to prepare an extremely risky mission to secretly place explosives in ADDITION to jets, since it was certainly possible that any preparations for explosives would be damaged by the crashes and later detected. Explosives do not eliminate the evidence of their existence.
18. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member
Nicely said SG..welcome to the thread.
Ask him about min-nukes. :)
19. spidergoat give up Valued Senior Member
I am well prepared to accept that the full story has not been told, but I'm not convinced the funny business is revealed in the details of how the towers fell. It would be more likely to be found in Dick Cheney's secret e-mails.
20. leopold Valued Senior Member
still can't believe your own eyes, eh?
21. scott3x Banned Banned
You may want to read the following:
There had to be a very good reason for [WTC 7] to be rigged for demolition whilst it was still occupied. Did Silverstein, the new World Trade Center owner who wisely invested in insurance against terrorism, have prior knowledge of the attacks?
22. scott3x Banned Banned
Damage is one thing. However, other then 9/11, the only cases where high rise buildings have collapsed straight down have been in controlled demolitions.
Because planes have crashed in high rises before and yet have never had the effect that occured on 9/11. It has been argued that no plane the size of 757s even did so, but the WTC towers were specifically designed to withstand crashes of planes of this size (707s are around the same size as 757s). Frank D. Martini, who was the construction manager for the twin towers at the time of the collapse and died during the collapse, had this to say earlier in 2001 concerning the possibility of jet impacts to the buildings:
The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door. This intense grid * and the jet-plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting.
Perhaps, but perhaps the possibility was extremely low. I'm not a military demolition expert, so I wouldn't know, but I believe that the evidence that the buildings -were- taken down by controlled demolition is definitive.
Indeed they don't:
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23. spidergoat give up Valued Senior Member
The evidence is certainly far from "definitive". Unless there was residue of explosives at the site, or evidence of explosive related material, the rest of it is pure conjecture.
The towers, if you notice, did not fall straight down, The top section fell on the damaged section and tilted on an angle, then the lower floors pancaked. Demolitions require multiple blast points and usually start from the ground up. But the most obvious evidence against this is the lack of explosive shock waves in the video. Loud sounds don't count.
The buildings were NOT designed for that size of an airplane, and definitely not for the amount of fuel they carried.
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} | 713 | 'A nod from Korshak, and Vegas shuts down': Sidney Korshak had an A-list of clients, but his true power arose from organized crime
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On January 20, 1996, Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who parlayed his knowledge of the law into avoiding arrest or indictment while carrying on a profitable career in U.S. organized crime, died, at the age of 88. In the first of a series of investigative pieces about him, in 1976, The New York Times noted that, “To scores of Federal, state and local law enforcement officials, Mr. Korshak is the most important link between organized crime and legitimate business.”
With his role as lawyer to some of the nation’s biggest labor unions, his reputation among the Chicago mafia as “our man,” and his connections in the entertainment and hotel industries, Korshak became known as a “fixer,” someone who could make seemingly impossible deals materialize, and the threat of crippling strikes magically evaporate.
Writing about his close friend in his 1994 memoir, former Paramount Pictures chief Robert Evans put it like this: "Let's just say that a nod from Korshak, and the teamsters change management. A nod from Korshak, and Santa Anita [racetrack] closes. A nod from Korshak, and Vegas shuts down. A nod from Korshak, and the Dodgers can suddenly play night baseball."
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Sidney Roy Korshak was born on June 6, 1907, in Chicago. His father, Harry Korshak, was a Kiev-born Jew who had succeeded as a building contractor in Chicago. His mother was the former Rebecca Beatrice Lashkovitz, born in Odessa.
Sidney’s older brother, Theodore, became a small-time Chicago criminal and drug addict, who died in obscurity in 1971. His younger brother, Marshall, also became a lawyer, but he went on to a career in Chicago politics and in the Illinois state senate, which was at least nominally different from a career in organized crime.
Growing up in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood, Sidney attended the Theodore Herzl elementary school, Marshall High School, the University of Wisconsin (where he was a boxing champion), and DePaul University, where he obtained his law degree in 1930.
Within months, Korshak was defending members of Al Capone’s crime syndicate. When necessary, he would arrange for a judge to be paid off so as to guarantee the desired verdict. Additionally, as one former Chicago judge told the New York Times, “Sidney always had contact with high-class girls. Not your $50 girl, but girls costing $250 or more."
It was Korshak too, according to a source interviewed by The Times, who arranged for Senator Estes Kefauver, who had come to Chicago in 1952 to take testimony for his organized-crime commission, to be entrapped by a prostitute (and a hidden camera) at the Drake Hotel. Confronted with the images, Kefauver hurriedly left town without hearing a single witness.
Guess who cast Al Pacino in 'Godfather'
Korshak’s secret strength was his ability to mediate between his legitimate clients - which included Hilton and Hyatt, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Max Factor and General Dynamics - and the crime organizations and powerful labor unions with which he was involved.
It was he, for example who organized all of the pension funds of the huge Teamsters labor union under a single roof. He then used the truck drivers’ collected retirement savings as a private bank for off-the-books loans to the film industry and the burgeoning hotel scene in Las Vegas. It was not out of graciousness that Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa famously vacated the presidential suite at the Riviera Hotel in Vegas for Korshak, when the latter arrived for a conclave of Teamsters lawyers in 1961.
And, according to long piece in Vanity Fair that ran shortly after Korshak’s death, he was the man who made the phone call to MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian that convinced him that is studio should release actor Al Pacino from another film so that he could appear in Paramount’s “Godfather.” Korshak had reportedly asked Kerkorian, a hotel magnate, if he really wanted to get construction on his next hotel finished.
Sidney Korshak died of a heart attack at his Beverly Hills home, just one day after his younger brother, Marshall, died in Chicago, at age 85.
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Every time there's a stock market meltdown big enough to wreck the real economy—and we've seen quite enough of that recently, thank you—the hunt for scapegoats leads to executive compensation. We pay our top executives too much, goes the argument, and worse, we give them all the wrong incentives. We reward leaders for taking risks and fudging numbers and then are shocked when reckless leverage and shady accounting cause a crash.
Roger Martin
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto, agrees in his new book Fixing the Game that executive compensation is a key culprit. But the reason we get comp wrong, he argues, is not just that we give too much of it but that we give too much of it in stock and stock options. That alone transforms corporate chiefs from stewards into gamblers—and disaster, he says, has to follow. He explained why in an interview with BNET editor in chief Eric Schurenberg.
Giving stock to executives is supposed to align their interests with those of the shareholders. What's wrong with that?
It makes sense, in theory: Managers get rich only if shareholders get rich, too. But look at how it has worked out. Over the past couple decades shareholder returns went down, volatility went up, and we've had massive bubbles and massive accounting fraud. You'd have to conclude there's something wrong with our model
So what is wrong with it?
Paying executives on stock performance pushes them away from the real market—where customers are the focus and a leader's job is to find better ways to serve them—to the expectations market, where the leader's job is to manipulate Wall Street's expectations about the company.
People just don't realize what a company's stock price is. It's the collective expectation of what that company will do in the future. It has very little to do with how a company really performs. Look at Microsoft. The company has tripled earnings and revenues over the past decade and the stock is completely flat, earning a 1.3% compound annual return. Microsoft performed way better than it did a decade earlier and investors say, "Ho hum, we expected that."
So the CEO's job is to beat expectations.
Not just to beat them, but to change them. The only way an executive can raise the stock price is to make expectations rise from their current level.
When stock-based comp came in during the early 80s, Executives were in some sense fooled by the same thing as everyone else. They figured, "My job is to increase earnings."
In due course, they figured it out: "Oh no, not that way. I have to make expectations rise." So in the early 1990s, you saw the advent of earnings guidance. Eventually some executives decided, "We can do some sharp accounting, so it looks like we're growing faster than we are, and we'll do acquisitions that make it look like we're growing like stink." By the 1990s, in the worst cases, it evolved into "We'll manipulate earnings to commit massive fraud." Welcome to Enron and WorldCom.
The other problem is, you can´t make expectations rise forever. So phase three of CEO reaction to stock-based pay is to build expectations to a short-term peak, and then get the hell out.
In your book, you compare corporate comp and the NFL pay. Professional football players aren't exactly cheap, either.
No but the NFL, unlike corporate America, has faced up to the dangers of letting the expectations game interfere with the real game.
An expectations market in football?
It's there. It's called the spread, and it matters to gamblers. After the 1962 season, the legendary commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended Alex Karras, a star tackle, Paul Hornung, the league's MVP, for a full season on suspicion of gambling on football games. He saw that the expectations market could wreck the integrity of the real game. His successors have followed suit and maintained a strict separation between the real market and the expectations market.
Can you imagine Peyton Manning or Aaron Rogers in the press conference after a football game, apologizing for not covering the spread? "I owe all of you Colts' fans an apology. Yes, we won, but I've let you down: We didn't beat the spread. I'm sorry, I'll try harder next time."
That would be laughable. It would be preposterous. But it's what CEOs do every quarter.
So it's unseemly, but what's the real harm?
Before 1976 when stock –based compensation was proposed as a way to align CEOs' interests and shareholders' you just can't find examples of really massive accounting fraud.
You only start to see that in the mid-1990s, and inevitably, the purpose of the fraud was to boost the appearance of profitability growth. Remember it's not enough to increase profits on a straight line. You have to change the slope of the line to get expectations up and make stock prices rise.
So, the so-called SPVs at Enron, which allowed the company to re-categorize expenses as assets—they were an attempt to change the slope of the line.
Acquisitions, especially ones in which you capitalize all sorts of expenses, are another example. So was the options backdating scandal and the long-running practice of not accounting for stock options as expenses. Lehman Brothers hiding the leverage on their balance sheet. These are all ways of fixing the expectations game. We've evolved to the point that it's all we care about.
What would you have companies do differently?
I'd have them measure CEOs by some real measure of company performance—not the stock price—and pay them in cash.
Actually, I wouldn't care if you paid them in stock, but I'd stipulate that the pay has to be in shares that can't be traded or borrowed against for three years after he left the company.
Paying people in stock ex post facto is like cash. It's paying them on the basis of what they've really accomplished, not on their ability to shift expectations.
Fixing thre Game
Look, I think this is really serious. No, we are not going to have another market bubble based on overhyped internet stocks or subprime mortgages. Yet in no way have the regulations we've put in place after the crashes of 2001 and 2008 diminished the likelihood of a disaster caused by other things. That is a real danger, and we've done nothing to minimize it. Zero.
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Christ Healing the Paralytic
Commemorated on the Fourth Sunday of Pascha
--Oikos of the Feast
The word of Christ was strength for the paralytic;
And thus this word alone was his healing.
Jesus healed the Paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool, located near the Sheep’s Gate of Jerusalem, where people sacrificed their beasts and washed their insides. The pool had five sides, with a porch and arch on each. A number of people, afflicted with various diseases, passed through them, waiting at the water for an angel to come down and stir it. Once it moved, whoever stepped into the water first was instantly healed. One poor man, whose story is recounted in today’s Gospel lection in the Divine Liturgy, waited 38 years for someone to lower him into the water, because he was unable to move into the water himself. However, the Savior merely commanded the man to get up and walk, and he was healed.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The House
I live in Helena, Montana. We pronounce it hell-eh-na not he-lee-na.
Gold, discovered here in 1865 made it an overnight boom town, while
a civil war was raging in the East. It's a very small town with the city
limits boasting 25,000 people.
The town is unique and I fell in love with it
over 40 years ago. The gardens and the old
houses beckoned to me. Many miners did strike
it rich and expensive mansions popped up
throughout the city with each house vying
to be different.
I can go out my back door, walk 2 steep blocks and I'm at the base
of a mountain that provides many walking paths. There is one house
located just before the sharp incline where the mountain begins. Some
how, this old house reaches out to me and every time I actually
stop and take in all the house's magnetism. Cody dog would always
look at me as if to ask, "why are we stopping?" Even if she could
talk, I'd never have an answer, I just had to stop for a while and
afterward, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" always entered my mind. lol
Joanie, a shirt tail relative, grew up in Helena and knew of every
family who lived on the West end. One day we were walking up
to the mountain and talking about history, a favorite subject to
both of us. I was saying that I had read most of Stephen Ambrose
books because he was my favorite historian.
Joanie said, "He used to live right up here." I got so excited and
wanted to see his family house. Well, of course, it was the house
where Cody and I always stopped. I was speechless but not
surprised as things like that often happen to me.
I don't know what one would call it, a
vibration, a ghost beckoning, an apparition
conundrum, or just enthralled with an old
Anything like that ever happen to you?
1. Not in waking life, but I used to often dream of a certain house and garden where I felt so comfortable, I knew I'd lived there and would live there all my life. I've never seen this house, although i have seen a few that looked similar. Not in a past life; I'm pretty sure this is my first time round, so maybe it's a home for my next life.
1. River
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could really find the house in our dreams and live there. I would have to find mine when I'm very young because
trees and gardens are so important to me. But...... I'm still planting trees. LOL I even plan on planting a few more fruit trees this spring.
Keep that home in mind... you'll find it.
2. Such things have happened indeed. I think they do to us all but some fail to recognize them. Not sure it was any ghost beckoning though lol but hey, maybe it was a ghost farting and you smelled it and stopped hahaha
1. Pat
Ghost farts! Are they little white sparkly, misty floaters? Some ghosts just eat too much and then they won't fit into their sheets. Ha I'm not surprised that you don't believe in ghosts .... but maybe I do and maybe
I don't.
3. Love his writing, not surprising that you would love his home.
Still a nice
1. joeh
I'm happy that you appreciate his wriiting too. My oldest son was visiting me when Ambrose was here for one of his last lectures. We both enjoy his books and usually read the same books so we can discuss it. How great to have a son that shares in ones's same interests. I hope your kids share interests with you too.
4. I love this story. The world is full of connection, so much of which happens on a level we don't actually understand.
I also appreciated your comment about Alison Krauss over on my blog. She has come a Long way. Here is the link to a more recent photo:
1. Robin
I see what you mean. Quite the change from her baggy sweat shirts when I saw her. Of course, I like baggy sweat shirts toos but one has to glam up when on stage.
Thanks for directing me to her photo.
5. Those kinds of things happen to me sometimes too, AND Ambrose has always been my favorite historian. I have to be honest though, when all of the incidents of plagiarism kept surfacing, I didn't know what to think. It shouldn't have tarnished my opinion of him, without the facts, but it did. I still like his books, of course, but I always think about those accusations. Have you read Rick Atkinson? He is one of my faves.
And now about Helena... I've been prounouncing it wrong my whole life!!!! LOL
Have a wonderful, happy day. :)
6. Rosie
Yes, I'm familiar with the accusations but I haven't been excited enough about it to actually look into it but this is the way I look at historical plagiarism. If there is only one account of a historical event, isn't it all plagiarism? If there were 15 different stories to one historical event, wouldn't some of them be lies and some would be told as the truth. Rosey, I don't know, as I said, but perhaps Ambrose lifted something word for word from another historian's book.
When I've gone to his lectures, he told such an exciting story of history and to meet him in person, he seems so "midwest honest, I just loved the man and love reading his books.
I guess I plagiarize in my blog because I've never had one original idea in my head
and I don't always give credit to where it comes from. LOL
That's OK..... most people pronounce it the other way. I guess there would not exactly be a right or wrong but just the popular way of pronounciating it.
I am so bogged down in work that I'm tearing my hair out. AND I'm working with puppy to come to a whistle call. What a job. I give out a whistle code and quickly give her a very expensive treat....a little piece of juicy steak or the like. I repeat this until my breath is gone. I do this twice a day. That is where I am in this new quest, doing it for a couple weeks or more. Then we move outside with all the distractions and whistle AND she is supposed to remember that she got steak when she returned to that whistle. We'll see when we move outside. Many years ago, we raised hunting dogs and taught them to a whistle but I've forgotten exactly how we did it. We had one bird dog that didn't like to go in the water and the kids tell me, I threw him overboard from the duck boat. What a meany I must have been and I don't even remember it. It must have happened because they all tell the same story. hahaha
1. We had a little dog that didn't like to swim. My second oldest (the dog's favorite of us all) used to put her in the pool and we'd all be mortified, lol. Good luck with the pup. I hope the training goes well and is fast! I'm trying to teach Macbeth to a bunch of high schoolers who think Shakespeare is a waste of pulling one's hair out is not so foreign of a concept to me. ;) And that's awesome that you got to meet a famous author in person!
7. Hello from Idaho and since we're almost neighbors. I've never been in Helena Mt.
Found your blog though River.
If you find the time stop in for cup of coffee.
1. Dora
Hello and thank you for visiting. It is nice to meet you
A gracious invitation. I'll drop by. I like coffee.
8. that's awesome that you got to meet a famous author in person!
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Come enjoy erstwhile pleasures by participating in maple sap harvesting and observing the sap transformation steps.
Maple sap harvesting is an activity that you can do on your own, with your family, between friends or as a couple.
Snowshoeing or by foot, come do the trails of our sugar shack and collect maple sap.
Nostalgia for older individuals and a new experience for younger people.
Heated refuge at your disposal.
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When institutions do not help: making and mending sustainable energy systems at home
Alice Dal Gobbo (Cardiff University)
Paper short abstract:
In the context of decarbonisation, institutional energy systems' change lags behind the inventiveness of everyday life assemblages. Here, practices of creative rediscovery, recycling and care produce "primitive technologies" that are low-carbon but also enable affectively rich experiences of energy.
Paper long abstract:
Many debates today centre around how people's lives might be impacted by, and react to, infrastructural changes in energy provision systems towards decarbonisation. I consider the somewhat opposite case: when institutions lag behind and actors concerned with the environmental sustainability of their own energy practices come up with household-level creative solutions. With the help of ethnographic material from my study on everyday energy transitions in the North East of Italy, I reflect on how practices such as repairing old appliances, care for objects, inventive make-do with recycled materials, re-discovery of traditional energy systems, etc. are deployed to reduce environmental impact. These "primitive technologies" (partially) compensate for the unsustainability of grid energy (mainly based on non-renewables) and resist entrenched carbon-intensive energy consumption and a culture of disposability. Yet arguably, they also offer an alternative to a certain blind chase towards "greening" technological innovation (e.g. "smart technologies") - whose efficacy is nowadays still contested/-able. In the perspective of "assemblages", I investigate primitive technologies as they dynamically emerge out of a coalescing encounter between the affordances of human beings, objects, embodied cultures, systems of meaning - all of which are actualised in a present at the crossroads of past and future lines of becoming. I would also like to reflect, in a psycho-social vein, on how these micro-energy systems become doubly precious as their proximity to the singularity of each livelihood makes them not only sustainable but also affectively intense and therefore a source of enrichment for daily experiences of energy.
panel A11
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First day of Uni was today, I have to say, It could not have gone off any better, after the first lecture I made insta-friends, seriously, people wait entire lifetimes before finding a bunch of people who like the same things as much as you do to the same point (if not a little more) than you do, I have definitely found the right course to do, my tafe friends are great, but these people are honestly the most amazing people I have met in a very long time... although knowing me, I'm going to do something and fuck it up really badly, I always do... It'll most likely turn out to be something as small as someone finding this and being all like "WOAH, WHAT THE HELL?! I know I have a little bit of a messed sense of humour, but this guy is ridiculous... "
Second worst case scenario that is haha
But yeah, we were watching SHED.MOV on youtube, and that's when I knew for sure that I had met the holy grail of people I could be myself around with (for a second time)
Seriously, watch it, the whole series is fucking hilarious.
Actual learning wise, basically the whole course is a giant wank, assuming I can get my head around writing essays... Which for some reason I've never been able to do correctly... I just have to attempt at least a credit average and I'll be able to go overseas for exchange, which'll be hella fun assuming I'm able to go where I'd like to go...
I could not have hoped for a better first day!
The Last Story
Okay, first off, I don't care how popular this is with Europeans, the voice acting is absolutely horrible, I don't think I've seen/heard worse in a game series, what the hell were they thinking putting 20 year old cockney British accents on people who were obviously not British nor the age they sounded, they should have just kept the Japanese voices with the subtitles... which leads me onto part two... By changing what the characters said in the EU games meant that you had to basically rewrite the story, this is something that makes game story lines fail really badly, because the story isn't completely told correctly and things are left out, I really hate it when something is supposed to be really emotional and the European voice actor/director decides that's It's perfectly fine to lengthen what the character is saying by putting words in that aren't supposed to be there in the first place, it completely ruins the whole feeling and is just bad, stop it... Please!
The same goes with Animé, unless you're going to cast the character voices properly, I suggest you don't do it at all.
Apart from the voice acting, the games visual element is pretty awesome, It's what I would like to see in more Nintendo games, instead of all the colourful nonsense, you're going the right way if you don't want to see your company last very long in the first party sense...
Just a few words to show that I'm still alive
There's a reason why I'm so forgetful all the time.
It's because my sleeping patterns are ballistic, seriously, I don't know how people stay sane living like this, it doesn't make any sense to me... But, if I try to sleep at a good time... say something like going to bed at 8pm, I'll wake up at 1am the next day and regret it because I won't be able to go back to sleep again, it's not because I've had enough sleep either, it's just that my body won't let me... Which annoys me a lot seeing as for the rest of the day everything becomes a chore and.. just... urgh... It's not that I'm lazy, because I'm really not, it's just I have absolutely no energy to do anything ...
Also, all this shit about piracy taking money from artists and such is a bunch of bullshit, If someone likes your stuff, they're going to support you, if they don't, then they're going to delete the item anyway, technically no-one is loosing any money, everyone is just doing what they used to do, which is share something around and show people something they think is cool, the people who agree with the person that showed them will (eventually) buy the product, thus helping the person who created the product and everyone included in the price tagged... also, if you REALLY want to make money from a consumer, BANNING and CENSORING something isn't going to make them want to BUY the fucking product, it'll make them want to steal it even more, just out of spite... What happened to the days when people did things like make music and perform for the sake of making music and performing? Artists and producers should get money for actually making GOOD MUSIC or GOOD TV/MOVIES, shit music like "born this way" by "lady gaga" or god awful TV shows like "modern family" should NOT be funded based on the amount of dvd sales or advertising money they get, they should be funded by "if you (the consumer) agree they should be funded" by watching/listening to it first, and if you really liked it THEN you pay for it, otherwise you don't and that's the end of that.
I'm sick of hearing about the latest tantrum a celebrity has had because some jewel studded aeroplane has just come out and they don't have enough money to buy it, they should work in a REAL job and then understand that life isn't as fucking easy as they might like to think it is, just because you're worth a bundle of money doesn't mean you have to act like a fucking child when things don't go your way, and as for the people who actually go around and make celebrities their life by reading about them in the newspaper and then changing their lifestyle to match the ritch person's?
Stop it, you stupid fucking idiot, their life is so small it's not funny, they make MOVIES, they don't make important things like spoons, forks, trucks, houses, electricity or any of that shit, your husband/wife who works at the fucking BOX FACTORY down the road is more important than some 2-bit retard who can change their voice or personality to suit some roll for others to watch...
Sure, movies and music are a nice thing, I'm not saying that they aren't, but that's all they are, the people who make them can be impressive, but that doesn't mean they're important or should be important... unless they're a rocket scientist, or a new age genius as well... In which case, I tip my hat to you good sir/ma'am you are one of the very few people who actually matter and can do something to actually help humanity instead of make their life numb and happy for about 1.5 hours
I should be moving soon
My plan for this year is to move out of my current home and live on campus, beating the 2 hour wait between my place and Penrith and removing the constant/moderate annoyance of my brother/family, Sure, I love them and whatever, but I can't study at home, it's next to impossible with everything that goes on here...
Once I move into Penrith campus I'm going to try and set up my own TV, Radio, Data stream on my own LAN and see how that pans out, I doubt it'll take off... but one can hope/dream, plus it'd be cool making somewhat of a name of myself (apart from "that guy who was on the footy show those three times" or "that guy who used to make them videeoohs on yoohtoobe" etc.)
Life Update: University
I am now officially a uni student, now all I need to do is get this "advanced standing" crap processed... although it would appear that to do so would mean you have the IQ of the four most intelligent people in the world... plus their computers because to do anything of the sort seems almost impossible... which is quite annoying... | http://ilikeredandblack.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/ | robots: classic
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Vestimenta y Señalización en el Job Market
Un interesante artículo sobre la vestimenta de los aplicantes en el Job market... de economistas.... ¿qué piensan?
Ultimately, the economics job market is a matching game - each candidate and each employer is trying to find the candidate that's right for them. Hence a candidate's signal should be tailored to the type of employer he or she wishes to attract. Jeans and a t-shirt say "I'm not willing to put on a suit just to please students or clients or hiring committees". Since that would be a bad signal to give to a teaching oriented university, jeans and a t-shirt is a way of signalling interest in research. Matching also makes things tricky for female and minority candidates - a candidate who is demographically similar to the hiring committee can aim to fit in, to dress like one of the guys. Others can try, but they are less likely to succeed.
In other words, it's a complete total and utter minefield - everything from your hair to your shoes is a signal, and you could get it wrong. Looking on the bright side, as Amartya Sen once observed, economic man is close to being a social moron.** You might have been the least fashion-conscious and most clued out person in high school, but in a group of economists, you too can be a fashion star. And even if you aren't, the average economist is unlikely to notice. | http://wwwtinteroeconomico.blogspot.com/2011/12/vestimenta-y-senalizacion-en-el-job.html | robots: classic
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If art truly imitates life, then the struggle for happiness has been chronicled for about as long as humans have had the capacity to record their thoughts. Charles Drouet steals money from his employer in order to run away with a beautiful woman and try and find happiness with her in Sister Carrie. The titular hero of Tarzan teaches himself to read and write, and eventually finds his way to America in order to be with the woman that he loves and who makes him happy.
Outside of the realm of fiction, literature on happiness is a bankable commodity. A cursory investigation of amazon.com shows titles such as Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill; The Happiness Project; Secrets of True Happiness; The Happiness Advantage; and The Happiness Hypothesis. While it may be easy to understand why people would want to chase happiness, it is harder to understand why happiness is so difficult to maintain. Some people may have mental illnesses that prevent them from achieving happiness for long periods of time, and may need the help of a psychologist and prescription drugs. What about the rest of humanity though? What is our excuse for finding happiness to be so fleeting? How do we go about enjoying life more without buying self-help books or speaking to mental health professionals? There are many experts who suggest that part of our inability to remain happy is a product of the way our brain is wired for survival. Our chronic unhappiness may also be due to a misunderstanding of what is truly important-being happy, or having a meaningful life.
"...nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
Dr. Rick Hanson, a member of U.C. Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center's advisory board, has written a book himself titled Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, a self-help tome that uses science and research to discuss the problem of our issue with pervasive unhappiness. The human tendency to focus on the negative that happens in our lives instead of the positive happens because, as Hanson said during an interview with Julie Beck for The Atlantic, "repeated patterns of mental activity build neural structure," and "the brain is very good at building brain structure from negative experiences." This is not because we want to remain depressed, angry, or miserable. We focus on the negative because our ancestors learned more from those experiences than they did from positive ones. Learning from the negative experience of having to avoid a large animal stalking you for prey became much more important than learning from the positive experience bringing down that animal for food. If one of our ancestors missed a day of food, he/she would have the chance to hunt again. If they happened to be caught by a predator, they would not have a good chance of surviving that encounter. Negative experiences became the teachable moments our ancestors learned from and passed down to posterity.
According to Hanson, most of the techniques that self-help books espouse, such as positive thinking, do nothing to curb the negative feelings that build up in people and cause us to chase positive emotion. With positive thinking, people are encouraged to ignore or push away negative feelings, and just pretend that everything is alright in an effort to trick their minds. It does not have any real impact on changing the way our brains are wired for survival, which is what is really needed to make our feelings of happiness last. If the wiring of our brain is what needs to be changed, how do we go about that? Two researchers may have found that providing our lives with meaning is more beneficial than searching for happiness, and may also be healthier as well.
The meaning of a meaningful life
While there have been many studies that link happiness to a healthy life, this relationship may not be the full truth of the situation.The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study by Barbara Frederickson, a psychological researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Steve Cole, a genetics and psychiatric researcher at UCLA. This study differentiated between a happy life and a meaningful life and discovered that pursuing meaning led to more positive outcomes that chasing happiness. Frederickson, Cole, and other researchers who helped with the study noticed that the feeling of happiness was associated with actions and behaviors that were selfish, and people who felt they had a meaningful life exhibited more selfless qualities and behavior. This is important to note because searching for happiness in life may actually have a negative impact on us and our health.
In work he has done previously, Cole has found that continuous exposure to adversity can be linked to a certain pattern of gene expression in our bodies. This pattern forces us into threat mode, which is evident when we are in danger from outside sources such as predators, or from internal sources such as bacterial infections. Through their research Frederickson and Cole were able to study the gene expression patterns of people who felt they were happy, and those who said they had a meaningful life. People who claimed happiness but little meaning to their lives had the same gene pattern as people who were dealing with chronic adversity. Having our bodies exist in a perpetual state of stress can lead to depression, heart disease, sleep problems, weight gain, and memory problems, according to the Mayo clinic.
This is not to say that people should not search for happiness. Frederickson has written in the past about the beneficial qualities of positive emotions, but has realized that both happiness and meaning need to be in balance. It is when people focus on just being happy, Frederickson said, "[that] this [gene] pattern that's akin to adversity [emerges]."
Socializing our sadness
It is important to understand how chasing happiness alone can be detrimental to our health, especially with the pervasive quality of social networks. There are many people who deal with clinical depression, but adolescents and young adults are taking to social media and venting about being depressed without any sort of professional evaluation. According to Dr. Stan Kutcher, an adolescent psychiatry expert, some of the people who use social media to talk about their depression aren't actually depressed. They may be upset, demoralized, or distressed, but they are not actually depressed. They are self-diagnosing because they feel bad about an experience in life, but this bad experience sometimes has little to do with actual depression.
Social media communities are creating places where these "distressed" youth can go and find others who are dealing with stress in life and have kindred spirits acknowledge their pain. This can be a problem as it just reinforces the negative feelings these individuals have. Dr. Mark Reinecke, chief psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, spoke about the insular quality of these communities, and how dangerous they can be. Because young adults are finding people who feel the same, it validates the sadness they feel. Reinecke's worry is about whether these communities will "lead [people] to get better," and if they "give [people] a different perspective on the world, or different things that [people] could try and improve things."
Having people who can listen is very important for people who may feel alone in their suffering, but the listening has to be tempered with a challenge to find ways to combat the sadness, the loneliness, and the suffering. Tumblr, a popular social media site, is pepper with pictures of young adults suffering, and tagged with quotes such as "Can I just disappear," "I want to die a lovely death," and "People who die by suicide don't want to end their lives, they want to end their pain." These may not be the best images and messages for people who feel they are depressed and have no other outlet but social media to voice their pain.
Meaning over happiness
Science is beginning to point to the fact that finding meaning in life and using that to develop happiness may be a better approach than just scrambling to fill our lives with the desire to just be happy.Since our minds are hardwired to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones, and since chasing happiness may lead to disappointment and disillusionment, a balance should be struck so that having meaning in life is what brings about most of our happiness. As Frederickson pointed out "[i]t's not the amount of hedonic happiness that's a problem, it's that it's not matched by eudaimonic well-being." In other words, people are too worried about selfish desires without balancing that against selfless acts that provide meaning and lead towards a deeper connection with others. Moderation may be key to a healthy life, or at least one that is not filled with so much unhappiness and suffering.
"Chronic stress puts your health at risk," Mayo Clinic, July 11, 2013
"How to Build a Happier Brain," Julie Beck, The Atlantic, October 23, 2013
"Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness," Emily Estahani Smith, The Atlantic, August 1, 2013
"Social Media Is Redefining 'Depression,'" Anne-Sophia Bine, The Atlantic, October 28, 2013
"A functional genomic perspective on human well-being," Barbara L. Fredricksona, Karen M. Grewenb, Kimberly A. Coffeya, Sara B. Algoea, Ann M. Firestinea, Jesusa M. G. Arevaloc, Jeffrey Mac, and Steven W. Cole, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2, 2013
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} | 542 | Will you miss her? Not ready to find other ways to fill your 5pm time slot? Still want to shed tears at yet another tragic story? I am sure my male readers are agreeing with me, if they haven’t already clicked out of this post at the sight of the word, “Oprah”.
Now, I am not denying her power and the incredible impact she has made on society and pop culture. There is no one else that could take a book, movie, a movie star, a two-bit professional good at the sound-bite, industries, trinkets and trash and make it either an instant run-away hit, or a first class pariah. She had a power that gave many a public relations free-pass. Forget pitching any other media outlet, social media icon, or marquee event – just get on Oprah and you are set. And how else would we have seen Tom Cruise’s career and credibility take a massive nose-dive if it were not for Oprah and her couch?
So as someone in PR, why won’t I miss Oprah?
The Oprah Winfrey show was no longer a powerful, objective international media outlet, thanks largely to its namesake. Oprah turned from talk show host to modern day prophet. For many, Oprah became a religion. She told you right from wrong. Up from down. What to eat, wear, read, spend your money on. She also told people what not to eat, what not to wear, what not to read, and what you shouldn’t spend your money on. She schooled you on how to take care of your body, your mind and your wellbeing without ever laying eyes on you. She was like an overbearing mother or evangelist on steroids.
Now I realize that everyone had the choice to watch. You could choose to attend 5 o’clock services, or not. And I realize that not every fan of the show was a sheep in Oprah’s large flock.
While Oprah was a religion to many, sitting in my living room at home, it often felt as if Oprah considered herself to be “the chosen one”, divinely selected to uplift the people by bringing them newfound knowledge they could not otherwise obtain themselves.
And while she did a lot of good, she often crossed the line of journalistic objectivity and good, and moved into personal opinion and perspective. Media Bias 101. American beef producers know this all too well. It was about furthering the Oprah brand, which was less about empowering people to think for themselves, and more about empowering her entertainment empire. Even her over the top moments of generosity were more about sponsorship and another company’s promotional budget than about Oprah’s own philanthropy. She was a vehicle (for many vehicles!) and she got all the credit. Pretty powerful stuff.
So for me, I look forward to seeing how the void gets filled as there is no one that can or will ever fill her shoes. I look forward to seeing how companies, book publishers, near has-been celebrities, and B-movies will have to work to be a household name. How former viewers, mostly women, will spend that extra hour they have gained in their day (did someone say Food Network?). How many will get their daily doctrine on how to live their life…..or if they will just begin to critically think for themselves. | http://actuallyhappening.ca/2011/05/25/why-i-wont-miss-oprah/ | robots: classic
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If all or part of your income comes from self employment or if you work for one or more employers as an independent contractor, it's important that you understand how this can affect your application for credit if your FICO scores are low.
Here at Auto Credit Express we know how this type of income can impact the chances of auto loan approvals because we've been helping credit-challenged car buyers for over two decades.
Income reporting
Unlike regular employees that typically receive a W-2 wage statement at the end of the year, independent contractors receive a form 1099 from their employer (or "employers" since being an independent contractor doesn't necessarily tie you to just one employer).
This income is then reported on a Schedule C of an income tax return and, minus expenses, results in the income after expenses (net income) that is then reported on a Form 1040 Federal tax form.
In some cases, because it reduces what they have to pay in taxes and thus saves them money, people who receive this kind of income try to reduce their taxable income by doing some "creative bookkeeping" by increasing their expenses. This reduces what they'll have to pay in taxes but it can also lead to problems – not the least of which is an IRS audit.
But today we're not concerned with what the IRS might or might not do, but rather the problems this sometimes creates if the FICO scores of these individuals fall below 640 and they need to apply for a car loan with a high-risk lender.
Because while traditional lenders usually don't require proof of income, this isn't the case with lenders that work with people that have credit problems.
With both self-employed persons and independent contractors, the income after expenses (net income) that is reported on a tax return is the income these lenders will use to qualify that individual for an auto loan.
Income issues
Subprime auto lenders typically have minimum monthly income requirements. This means, in the case of independent contractors and self-employed persons, they use the net income reported on tax returns to determine if an applicant meets their income requirements. They also use this figure to determine a debt-to-income ratio as well as to compute a car payment budget.
Typically, things can go wrong at this point in one of two ways or even both:
1. High-risk lenders typically have minimum income requirements ranging anywhere from $1,500 to $1,800 per month. This means a tax return needs to reflect a net income of, at a minimum, anywhere from $18,000 to $21,600 a year.
2. Even if the reported net income meets this standard, total monthly expenses (rent, mortgage, utilities, etc.), when compared to this income, are often too high because the actual income is more. If this is the case, this means that the debt ratio is too high and, consequently, the loan application will be turned down.
It's also important that the correct net income is reported for not just one year, but every year. That's because many subprime lenders will ask for multiple tax returns to prove a specific historical level of income stability.
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Updated: Oct 14, 2020
List of top 5 action movies from 2020 that I recommend watching.
How many of us have imagined ourselves being a part of high-speed car chases, or shooting a bunch of bad guys, or even straight up having superpowers? Well, for normal people like us, leading normal lives, all of this is purely the stuff of daydreams and is just too far-fetched to ever match our realities.
So, then what do we do? We go to the next best thing: Action movies.
Action movies have a way of portraying things that we cannot normally imitate or replicate, letting us live out our imaginations by visualising it on a big screen.
And so, with that, here are the top 5 action movies from 2020, that I recommend watching.
5. Project Power
Jamie Foxx in 'Project Power'
Jamie Foxx in 'Project Power'. Image Credit: Netflix
IMDb Rating: 6.0
The movie is about a new type of drug pills hitting the streets of New Orleans, which gives its users unpredictable superpowers for 5 minutes. The superpower varies from individual to individual, and at times, if a person is not strong enough, the pill may just kill the person.
An ex-soldier (Jamie Foxx) on a rescue mission to save his daughter; a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) trying to raise money for her sick mother; and a local cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who cares for his city. As the three lives intersect, they discover the truth behind the drug and try to stop the masterminds behind it all.
Don’t be deceived by the rating. The movie is quite fun. A concept like this has potential to be much than what it is now and although the directors (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman) couldn’t make full use of Jamie Foxx’s and Joseph’s Gordon-Levitt’s amazing versatility, they have put together a decent, fun and enjoyable movie (with a possibility for a sequel!)
4. Bad Boys for Life
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in 'Bad Boys for Life'
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in 'Bad Boys for Life'. Image Credit: Columbia Pictures
IMDb rating: 6.6
Detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back again in the third instalment of the Bad Boys series. While Mike Lowrey has continued to live life dangerously being a cop, Marcus Burnett has retired and is a constant source of frustration to his family by being on the couch all day long doing nothing or by screwing up something for the family to clean up.
When the people Mike and Marcus worked with in the past start being targeted and killed, Mike and Marcus are forced to team up once again to root out the cause and in doing so, learn a truth that was hidden away for years.
The movie is what you expect it to be: absolutely fun, a lot of chaos and a good amount of chaotic humour. Whether you’ve had a long day of doing nothing, or gruelling online classes or work, it is a fun watch at the end of the day.
Not a lot of attention is given to physics and reality of things, but then again, we don’t really expect such things from this genre anyway, do we?
3. Enola Holmes
Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby Brown in 'Enola Holmes'
Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby Brown in 'Enola Holmes'. Image Credit: Netflix
IMDb rating: 6.7
We have all definitely heard of Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective of all times. We’ve been Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Sherlock, and we’ve been Benedict Cumberbatch’s absolutely brilliant version of Sherlock. Now, it’s time for Henry Cavill to be Sherlock. Yep, the Superman himself. Or the Witcher. Whichever you know him as.
But… it’s not Sherlock’s story. It’s his witty younger sister, Enola’s (Millie Bobby Brown).
Growing up, Enola didn’t have her brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) around. Instead, she grew up with, and was tutored by, her mother Eudoria (Helena Bohham Carter).
One day, Eudoria disappears, leaving a parting gift. While Enola wants to find her mother, appalled at the state of his home and his little sister’s lack of “breeding”, Mycroft decides to enroll her into a women’s school so that she can learn to be a lady.
Enola rebels and takes off from home in search of her mother, using the parting gift as clue and outwitting her brothers. On her journey, she stumbles upon a young Lord Tewkesbury, a meeting that triggers the unravelling of a dangerous conspiracy against the young Lord.
The movie is dynamic, witty and almost non-stop fun. Millie Bobby Brown has done a marvellous job of her portrayal and has probably set the foundation for multi-movie series. While Enola Holmes isn’t exactly an action movie, it checks enough boxes to make the list.
2. Extraction
Chris Hemsworth in 'Extraction'
Chris Hemsworth in 'Extraction'. Image Credit: Netflix
IMDb rating: 6.7
You probably expected to see this reading the list. Heck, when I first thought of making a list, Extraction was the very first movie that came to mind. Why wouldn’t it, when it became the most watched original movie in Netflix’s history?
When Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the son of an incarcerated drug lord (Pankaj Tripathi) is kidnapped by a rival drug lord, a black-market mercenary, Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is recruited by fellow mercenary Nik Khan (Golshifteh Farahani) to rescue Ovi.
Once Tyler is successful and reaches the extraction point, they find out that no money has been transferred and ground his team is wiped out by Saju (Randeep Hooda), who works for Ovi’s father. Instead of abandoning the mission, Tyler sticks with Ovi. Thus, a hunt for Ovi and Tyler ensues by Saju and the rival drug lord’s men.
The movie is nothing exceptional in terms of storyline, but the action sequences and keeping-on-edge factors are excellent, which is what makes this movie a must watch.
As a bonus: after years of seeing Chris Hemsworth being the near invincible, funny Asgardian God, it’s quite interesting seeing him portrayed as normal, yet lethal human.
1. Greyhound
Tom Hanks in 'Greyhound'
Tom Hanks in 'Greyhound'. Image Credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment
IMDb rating: 7.0
Greyhound is an American war movie based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester.
U.S. Navy Commander Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks), is assigned to command an Allied convoy during WWII. When the convoy enters the Mid-Atlantic Gap called the “Black-Pit”, they intercept German transmissions from a U-boat (submarine). They try to get within firing range, but the U-boat dives down and evades them. Meanwhile, they start getting reports of six more subs, which they suspect, were waiting for nightfall to start the attack.
The movie shows how Captain Krause leads the convoy, even though it was his first wartime command, for three days till they can make contact and seek air support.
The movie is tense throughout and fast paced despite it being a war film.
Overall, a must watch movie. Tom Hanks being in it makes all the more reason to watch it.
Bonus: The Old Guard
Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 'The Old Guard'
Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 'The Old Guard'. Image Credit: Netflix
IMDb rating: 6.7
Andromache ‘Andy’ of Scythia (Charlize Theron), Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), Joe (Marwan Kenzari) and Nicky (Luca Marinelli) are warriors with extraordinary regenerative abilities.
Throughout their lives, spanning centuries, they have secretly helped people time and again by taking up missions given by people (only after deeming it to be helpful to others).
On their most recent mission to rescue children given by Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), they’re ambushed and filled with bullets. But they heal, only to find out that their abilities have been recorded on video.
Meanwhile, a U.S. Marine, Nile Freeman (KiKi Layne) is KIA, only to recover without even a scratch. The team seeks her out and together, they start tracking down Copley and anyone else responsible for the ambush in order to keep their abilities and identities a secret.
Before I watched Project Power, this movie was up for the 5th spot on the list, but because of Project Power’s potential concept, I decided to go with it instead.
Regardless, I’m recommending this as a bonus since the movie is action-packed, fast paced, overall fun and has Charlize Theron!
So, there you have it. My picks for action movies this year. These are not critically analysed and put together though!
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Thursday was opening day for Major League Baseball, but not all is cheery for America's pastime. A group of movie investors have filed a lawsuit, claiming they were defrauded out of $565,000 on a film that was to be called Keeper of the Pinstripes, about the New York Yankees and the team's relationship with their old stadium, famously abandoned in 2009.
The film purported to star Josh Lucas as Thurman Munson and was to show Yankees legends Munson and Lou Gehrig retreating to Room 107, a mysterious room hidden in the depths of the old stadium where baseball players would go to find solace. A casting call promised that the film would be ready in time for baseball's opening day in 2010.
It obviously wasn't. And now, a new lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court raises questions about whether this film was ever real.
The plaintiffs in the case are investment groups -- KOTP I and KOTP II -- who say that in 2009, they each put up $125,000 for certain rights to the film.
They allegedly dealt with an entitity called Keeper DE, formed for the purpose of financing, producing, distributing and selling the feature film.
The plaintiffs say that defendants Joshua Newman and Alfred Zaccagnino also formed another entitity, Keeper NY, which according to the lawsuit, was formed to divert funds from Keeper DE and "to undermine any legitimate business efforts aimed at making the Film."
Later, the defendants, including producers Newman, Zaccagnino, and Alexander Burns, purportedly told the plaintiffs that they had raised more than $1.5 million in additional money, which under the agreement, meant that KOTP I and KOTP II would each put up an additional $125,000 each. Additionally, the groups say they invested an additional sum of $65,000 as a bridge loan.
Now, the Keeper of the Pinstripes film is listed on iMDb, but with little information. And the plaintiffs are suing for comingling funds into their various bank accounts, failing to refund money and pay back the loan, failing to diligently pursue further investments to actually make the film, and failing to maintain corporate books and financial records.
UPDATE: Newman responded by pointing out an article from last May where James Pappas was indicted in a fraud. In KOTP's lawsuit, an individual named James Pappas represented himself to be the president of the KOTP investment group. Newman says the guy indicted for fraud is the same one now suing him for perpetrating a fraud and the defendant adds this comment:
"I understand that James is likely now short on cash, which might motivate this lawsuit. And, having lost an even larger amount on the film personally (when production fell apart a few weeks after beginning due to MLB licensing issues), I certainly feel his pain."
UPDATE II: In October 2012, papers were filed in court that released Zaccagnino from claims. According to his reps, "The litigation was not only settled but it was settled to Samarian's favor as the allegations that were foundational to the filing were just not factually correct." The papers filed in court indicated that the litigation continued against Newman.
A few years ago, the YES Network also had a preview of the Keeper of the Pinstripes. Here it is:
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Lord Clonbrony is an absentee landlord who owns large but encumbered Irish estates. He lives in England because his wife, an extravagant, ambitious woman, will have nothing to do with Ireland or the Irish. People of wealth and position laugh at her and the silly determination with which she apes English manners and speech, and they totally ignore Lord Clonbrony. A respected peer in Dublin and a good landlord when he lived on his own estates, he is a cipher in his wife’s fashionable world. As a result, he associates with such questionable and dissipated companions as Sir Terence O’Fay. Little is known about their son and the Clonbrony heir, Lord Colambre, except that he is a student at Cambridge and a young man of considerable expectations from a distant relative. A cousin, Grace Nugent, is well thought of because of her beauty and good manners.
Lady Clonbrony is anxious to have her son marry Miss Broadhurst, a young woman of much sense and large fortune. Although Lady Clonbrony and Mrs. Broadhurst do their best to promote the match, the young people, while friendly, are not drawn to each other. Lord Colambre is attracted to Grace’s amiability and charm, and Miss Broadhurst respects his feelings for his cousin.
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Lord Colambre writes to his mother to...
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What every true gamer should know
Games are microcosms. They are small, self-contained worlds wherein you as the player are free to roam. The limits on just how much you can roam varies from game to game, but in general there are several ways to get things done. Which one you choose at any particular time might depend on your mood, intention, level of roleplaying or, indeed, skill level.
You are never free to roam as you wish. No game is ever without limits, and if you keep at it for long enough you will encounter these limits. In some games, such as tic-tac-toe, the limits are brutally visible: the 3x3 grid contains everything that will ever be. In more complex games, the limits might not be as visible, but they are still there. And you will encounter them, given time.
As your skill level grows, you will gradually become more and more hemmed in by these limits. What can reasonably be done has most likely already been done, and the temptation to go for the impossible grows with unreasonable speed.
When confronted with this unreasonable impossibility, there are two ways to keep on gaming. The one way is to impose certain limitations on what one can and cannot do during gameplay, in order to increase the difficulty level. These limitations include such things as not using healing items, not saving, never being hurt, not killing anyone, collecting every single gold star whilst doing all these other things, and so on and so forth. The more you selfimpose, the harder it gets, and the more impressive it becomes once it's done.
The other way is to go in the opposite direction. Ditch any pretense of limitations and abuse the underlying game mechanics until they break. Squeeze every single possible bit of utility out of the rules, and unleash it upon the gameworld. Find the edge conditions that give you unlimited money, then use this money to conquer the world. Find the loophole that lets you get all the super items, then get two of them. Find out where rule one and rule two combined produce strange results, then base your whole game around abusing these results.
One day, the island nation of Ryukyu shall rule the earth.
Here's the thing, though. It is very possible to frame a game in such a way that those who takes delight in pushing the limits and abusing the mechanics are every so subtly trained in the art of thinking in very particular ways. The limits are not so much limits as roadmaps, and pushing the limits leads not to freedom but to a very predetermined endpoint: to becoming a subject who thinks in certain terms, values certain things and sees certain things as both possible and necessary to do. The game games you as much as the other way around.
The game will not tell you this, of course. It will only ever give you the rewards it is programmed to give you: extra skill points, extra achievements, fancier armor, lemons, whatever. Extra trinkets to keep you playing along, happy that your progression is on the right path.
Looking for the ways in which you as a gamer is gamed requires you to think outside the sandbox. It requires you to ponder such things as whether or not the game you're playing actually makes sense - a question that is surprisingly often overlooked. What kind of character are you playing? Is the implied narrative actually relevant to anything you do? Is there some sort of meta-fictional context that would help explain why things are the way they are? Why is the graphics the way they are, and are there references to other visual arts to be found? Could the game be different?
These are not easy questions. They are also not the kind of questions that can be answered using the vocabulary of gaming. Mega Man might be able to navigate the world using the two all-encompassing actions of jumping and shooting, but if jumping and shooting are the only things you as a human being are capable of performing, then you are deficient in more ways than you know.
You could of course impose limitations upon yourself. Refuse to read about art, politics, ideology, feminism, psychology, history or anything else, and steadfastly keep trotting along the predetermined path. Or you could game the game as it tries to game you, and find that there is more than meets the eye.
Your move, player one.
1. As a roleplayer, these limits of the rules are where I draw the line between computer games and pen-and-paper roleplaying: When we sit around a table with friends and we push the limits of the rules, then we invent new ones.
1. To be sure, the point of tabletop games is the eternal negotiations about what is a rule, what it means and when it applies.
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In AggreGate, each device or system object is represented as a so-called context within a hierarchical structure of contexts. Each context includes a set of formalized data elements: variables, functions, and events. A context also contains metadata that describes the data elements available in it. This patented technology is called object normalization.
Unified data model in AggreGate
Some parallels exist with the object-oriented programming:
• Variables support read and write operations
• Functions can be executed by collecting the input values and passing the output
• It’s possible to subscribe to the events and receive their instances asynchronously
Context Tree
All contexts of an AggreGate Server dwell in a hierarchical structure called context tree. In this tree, each context has a name, that is its unique ID within its parent, and a path, that is the context's unique ID within the server.
Since all contexts implement the unified interface, they can interoperate within the server context tree, offering an unprecedented level of flexibility.
Distributed architecture expands interoperation throughout the network, allowing different servers to exchange parts of their context trees.
Context tree of an AggreGate Server
Variable reading/writing Function calling Event generation
Data Tables
For even further unification, every piece of context data within AggreGate shares a single data type called data table:
• Values of the context variables are data tables
• Each context function gets an input data table and returns an output data table
• Every instance of a context event has an associated data table with the event-specific data
Tables are flexible enough to hold any kind of data:
• Scalar values (numbers, strings, dates, etc.) are represented by single-cell tables
• Arrays are represented by single-column tables
• Structures are represented by single-row tables
• Streams are handled as special tables of the unlimited length
• And, finally, tabular data is stored "as is"
Each data table has a specific format describing the table fields and general properties.
Cells of data tables may contain the nested tables, making it possible to use a single top-level table to represent an object of whatever complexity.
Data table
UI Procedures
The server contexts also define actions that represent the human-executable operations. There is a key difference between the context actions and the context functions: unlike functions, actions may interact with a user by generating some output or requesting the data input.
Actions interact with the user using UI Procedures. Every action is a combination of UI Procedures and server-side data operations.
Device Normalization
Drivers and agents create a normalized presentation of various hardware devices and data sources. In this case, variables are internal settings of the device, functions are operations that the device can perform, and events are notifications the device can send to inform the server of changes detected in internal or external operating conditions.
Virtually any device or system object can be described as a set of variables, functions and events. For example, a smart remotely-controlled water tank can have a “water level” variable to reflect the current amount of water in the tank and “turn the valve on/off” functions to control the valve that lets water into the tank. This smart water tank can also generate a number of events, such as “nearly empty”, “nearly full”, and “overflow”.
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Diagram explaining Total return swap
Total return swap, or TRS (especially in Europe), or total rate of return swap, or TRORS, or Cash Settled Equity Swap is a financial contract that transfers both the credit risk and market risk of an underlying asset.
Contract definition[edit]
Total return swaps allow the party receiving the total return to gain exposure and benefit from a reference asset without actually having to own it. These swaps are popular with hedge funds because they get the benefit of a large exposure with a minimal cash outlay. [1]
Less common, but related, are the partial return swap and the partial return reverse swap agreements, which usually involve 50% of the return, or some other specified amount. Reverse swaps involve the sale of the asset with the seller then buying the returns, usually on equities.
Advantage of using Total Return Swaps[edit]
The TRORS allows one party (bank B) to derive the economic benefit of owning an asset without putting that asset on its balance sheet, and allows the other (bank A, which does retain that asset on its balance sheet) to buy protection against loss in its value.[2]
TRORS can be categorised as a type of credit derivative, although the product combines both market risk and credit risk, and so is not a pure credit derivative.
Hedge funds use Total Return Swaps to obtain leverage on the Reference Assets: they can receive the return of the asset, typically from a bank (which has a funding cost advantage), without having to put out the cash to buy the Asset. They usually post a smaller amount of collateral upfront, thus obtaining leverage.
Hedge funds (such as The Children's Investment Fund (TCI)) have attempted to use Total Return Swaps to side-step public disclosure requirements enacted under the Williams Act. As discussed in CSX Corp. v. The Children's Investment Fund Management, TCI argued that it was not the beneficial owner of the shares referenced by its Total Return Swaps and therefore the swaps did not require TCI to publicly disclose that it had acquired a stake of more than 5% in CSX. The United States District Court rejected this argument and enjoined TCI from further violations of Section 13(d) Securities Exchange Act and the SEC-Rule promulgated thereunder.[3]
Total Return Swaps are also very common in many structured finance transactions such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). CDO Issuers often enter TRS agreements as protection seller in order to leverage the returns for the structure's debt investors. By selling protection, the CDO gains exposure to the underlying asset(s) without having to put up capital to purchase the assets outright. The CDO gains the interest receivable on the reference asset(s) over the period while the counterparty mitigates their market risk.
1. ^ [1], Investopedia.
2. ^ Dufey, Gunter; Rehm, Florian (2000). "An Introduction to Credit Derivatives (Teaching Note)". hdl:2027.42/35581.
3. ^ 562 F.Supp.2d 511 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), see also
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} | 600 | -Welcome to NYPD the Gameshow! Where we take real life, law abiding people and ruin their week with a series of ridiculous tickets and stops! Our first contestant is a young comedian and writer for collegehumor.com, please give a warm welcome to Mr. Streeter Seidell! C'mon down here Streeter. So, how do you feel about the NYPD?
"Well, normally, I appreciate them, you know they keep me relatively safe and all."
And have you ever been pulled over by them before?
"Oh no, I try to follow all the rules of the road when I drive."
Well, that doesn't matter anymore! Ok, you are familiar with the rules of the game, so lets begin.
-It's time to play, say it with me audience, "Alternate Side of the Street Parking!!!!!" Ok, Streeter, just reach your hand down inside that bag there and pull out a piece of paper. What does it say? Tuesday!!!! Ok, now you have to tell me which side of the street you can park on Tuesday morning? NOOOO, I'm sorry, the east side is incorrect. It is the west side on Tuesday and the east on Monday and Friday. I'm sorry, that's a $45 summons.
-But let's move onto our next game, it's time for "Illegal Lane Change." Now, I am going to ask you some questions, and you must answer them as truthfully as you can. Ok, here we go. Why are you driving in a bike lane?
"Because I got stuc" ."
Too bad, $90 ticket.
"But I was blocked in by" .."
No way to talk your way out of this one. And, as an added prize, we will make you late for the comedy show you are supposed to be performing in. This puts your summons total for the week at $135. Not bad, but the game is not over yet!
-Our next event is something we like to call "Roadblock." The object of this game is to se how long you can stay stuck in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, while we search random cars at the end of it. What's that you say, you're on the way to see a girl you really like in Brooklyn and if you don't get there soon, she won't be able to see you? Too bad. What's that, why don't we search people BEFORE they get in the tunnel to see if they have explosives? Because we didn't think about that! So, while you didn't get a ticket, you missed your one chance to see this girl and had to sit in a 45 minute traffic jam underground! But, don't worry, we still have one more game to come.
-Our final event is called the "Toll Booth Lane." In it, we put you in the Easy-pass lane even though you don't have an easy pass. The bar won't go up for you, so what are you going to do? I see you have selected option number two, call the police officer over to help you. Ok, ok, ok, you have given him $5 for the $4 toll. He's keeping the change, by the way, and what's this? He's writing you another ticket" for $50!
-What a sensational ending to the show! Three tickets and an hour delay! Oh my gosh, we haven't seen this much action on this show for a while. You have accumulated $185 in tickets and have missed your chance at seeing a girl you really like! But hey, who cares about the girl, you don't have any money left to take her out anyway! Wow, well that's all for us here at NYPD the Gameshow. Join us next week when Streeter will be returning to the show for more erroneous tickets and harassment! Buckle Up! | http://www.collegehumor.com/post/67604/hey-nypd-what-the-hell | robots: classic
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Boys and girls undergo a number of physical changes during puberty, most notably the development of secondary sexual characteristics. These changes don't all happen at once. As is common knowledge, girls generally go through puberty earlier than boys. Girls usually enter puberty somewhere between 9 and 13 years old, while boys tend to enter puberty sometime between 10 and 14 years old.
The average age for girls to begin to develop breasts is 11 years old. Breast development is normally a girl's first indicator of puberty. In some cases, pubic hair may begin to grow first, but this is rare. Even with the breasts developing first, pubic hair growth often begins shortly thereafter, around a few months later. A girl's breasts will reach nearly full growth around two years after they've begun to develop and reach their final size a few years after that; meaning, the average girl will have fully developed breasts by the time she is 15 years old. Menstruation will usually begin roughly two years after the onset of puberty, which means around 13 years of age for most girls.
The earliest sign of puberty for boys is usually testicular growth, although this will normally occur so closely to the first growth of pubic hair, you'll probably notice the pubic hair first. The average age for boys to begin puberty is 12 years old. The voice will begin to crack around a year later, developing into the full, mature voice in two more years. Armpit hair will follow around two years into puberty, with facial hair coming around four years into puberty. The wet dreams should start a year or two into puberty.
If a child enters puberty early, it's called precocious puberty. If a child shows no signs of puberty by age 13 for girls or 14 for boys, it's considered delayed puberty. Regardless of when a child's puberty actually begins, the timing and sequence of the developments will likely proceed in the same manner.
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Russian company Megapolis, Ltd. has applied to trademark the phrase “Assad Tour” to sell tourist trips to Syria, which may include visits to battles in the civil war.
“Megapolis expects to launch tours from Moscow to Syria next year with the possibility of a trip to the front lines,” declared Anatoli Aronov, the president of the First Patent Company. “Trips will last four to five days and intended for groups of three to five people.”
Megapolis, Ltd. sent a letter to the Embassy of Syria about these possible vacations. They also reached out to hotels and transportation companies.
“Despite the crisis in the tourism industry, there are always people who are willing to combine the cognitive goals with the opportunity to see natural disasters or visit places located near the fighting,” he said.
Izo Arakhamiya, head of the Russian Federal Tourism Agency’s legal department, denied seeing any application for an “Assad tour.”
“There is no Assad Tour in the register and they haven’t filed an application. Therefore they are not authorized to sell these trips,” she explained.
Over the summer, the Syrian state news agency SANA encouraged its followers to show off their summer vacations on Twitter with the hashtag #SummerInSyria.
The social media move backfired, as many shared photos of the hardships of the civil war, including photos of casualties and neighborhoods leveled by airstrikes.
The civil war broke out in 2011, so far killing over 200,000 people. The country has lost 4 million people, and more than 7.6 million inside Syria are displaced.
In 2014, Megapolis Kurot offered trips to eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have fought against pro-Russian rebels and Russian soldiers for two years. That conflict has killed almost 7,000 people. The company sold four-day trips to the war zone for $3,000.
Aronov criticized the sale of tourist trips to war zones.
“You’re asking how many crazies will show up? All tourists are crazy — they pay money to see things they could watch for free on television,” he claimed.
Irina Tyurina, spokeswoman for the Russian Travel Industry Union, said it is against the law to send “tourists to conflict zones.”
Russia began airstrikes in Syria on September 30, just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama met in New York. Russian officials claim they only target the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) during missions, but evidence shows the warplanes have targeted non-ISIS Syrian rebel groups fighting against President Bashar al-Assad. | http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/16/russian-tourism-company-offers-assad-tour-syria/ | robots: classic
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Congressional interns are a valuable asset for Capitol Hill offices, performing many administrative functions. However, most offices do not have successful intern programs by any objective measurement. Interns are sometimes selected for the wrong reason (personal connections to the legislator), given very little training and are often supervised by the person who has the LEAST experience as a manager (the 22-year-old staff assistant — who was last year’s intern).
The need to have a successful intern program has only increased as a result of the budget cuts to congressional offices in the past three years.
This means having professional interns who contribute to the office’s productivity is not only desirable for congressional offices, it is now an absolute need. The Congressional Management Foundation has identified a variety of strategies and practices offices can use to ensure that offices create and sustain outstanding intern programs.
The CMF has found that the key ingredients to managing a successful intern program are: developing a clear purpose; creating a formal orientation and training program; providing clear guidance and structure; and balancing interns’ administrative duties with more substantive work.
The purpose of the program is to alleviate paid staff from performing administrative/research work that can be done by interns, while providing interns with a valuable learning experience.
The most common mistake offices and managers make is not fully integrating the interns into the meaningful work of the office.
“It takes too long to train them — I can do it faster myself.” Now, multiply that statement/task/activity a few thousand times in a year and you’ll realize it takes much less time to train a smart college student than to continuously perform the same task hundreds of times.
Building a consistent orientation and training regimen requires some upfront investment, but it pays huge dividends. Create a clear written manual that includes a welcome from the member, a confidentiality notice, office rules and policies, staff positions and responsibilities, intern duties and evaluation criteria. Give the interns a crash course in how to work in a congressional office.
If they are to interact with constituents (such as answering phones), train them on how you want this done. This is easier to do than you think and is essential for constituent interactions. I had one manager who continued to disregard my requests to train our interns on phone duty. They slurred the office name when answering the phone, sounded harried and came off as generally not interested in the caller’s concern. I finally told the manager, “Look, either the interns are trained by Thursday or on Friday you’re answering the phones.”
Effectively managing interns requires providing them clear guidance and structure, which can reduce the fear and anxiety associated with working in a new and intimidating environment. It should clearly define who the intern supervisor is and provide a regular forum for interns to ask questions, voice concerns and receive feedback. Staff may be reluctant or uncomfortable to provide feedback, but of-the-moment feedback is critical to interns’ performance.
Additionally, acknowledging good performance and letting interns know when they have met office expectations is just as important as critiquing performance. The key to effective feedback — whether positive or negative — is to provide it quickly and objectively to clearly identify the specific behavior you seek to reinforce or improve.
One way to do this is to use the “10-50 Rule.” After a staffer gives guidance on the assignment, the intern checks back in with the staffer after 10 percent of the work is done. This allows the staffer to make adjustments and ensure the intern is on the right track. Then, the intern checks back in at 50 percent of project completion. At this point, maybe the staffer sees unforeseen developments but can again make changes to ensure both the supervisor’s satisfaction with the work product and the intern knowing that the job genuinely contributed to the needs of the office.
Finally, the CMF estimates that less than 20 percent of offices conduct formal evaluations of their interns. Letting them know at the beginning of the internship that they will be evaluated, and on what criteria, contributes to a more professional internship. A management expert once opined, “That which gets measured gets done.” Let interns know up front the metrics you’ll use to assess their performance and you’ll not only give them a more valuable experience, you’ll get the work product the office needs to enhance your effectiveness.
Bradford Fitch is president and CEO of the Congressional Management Foundation and co-designed the intern orientation program currently used by the House. | http://www.rollcall.com/news/maximizing_intern_contributions_in_your_hill_office_commentary-224797-1.html?pos=adp | robots: classic
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Malia Obama turns thirteen next month, meaning our President will officially be the father of a teenager. He doesn't seem too worried: of his girls, he says, "I have men with guns that surround them often." And thus Obama joins the ranks of the Scary Dad.
According to AFP, Obama has said, "I'm not anticipating complete mayhem for the next four or five years, but I understand teenagehood is complicated." In addition to the guys with guns, he says, "a great incentive for running for re-election is that it means they never get in the car with a boy who had a beer." Also, if Malia does get a beau, "I might invite him over to the Oval Office, ask him for his GPA, find out what his intentions are in terms of career." He added, "Malia, Sasha, if you're watching this, I'm just joking."
Even if Malia wasn't paying attention to her dad's speech, I'm betting some of her classmates were. And now they're all telling each other that any dude who takes Malia to the Spring Formal is going to end up in Gitmo. I know this, because I had a Scary Dad. Let me clarify: my dad did not and does not scare me. I was actually sort of mystified as his reputation for fearsomeness grew and grew among my male peers. Ultimately, I realized it was probably due to three major factors. First, he has a big beard. Second, he does not suffer fools gladly. Many teenage boys — indeed, many teenagers in general — are fools. And finally, there was the Axe Incident.
The Incident occurred one day when I was 15 or 16; I had a number of friends over, and my dad went out back to prune some shrubbery. To do this, he used a large pair of pruning sheers. Glimpsing him through the window, one of my more imaginative buddies exclaimed, "Holy shit! Your dad's out there with an axe!" I calmly explained that my dad did not have an axe because, duh, we lived in Los Angeles, and I assumed the subject had been laid to rest. It had not. For the remainder of high school, and indeed to this day, my friends have persisted in warning any male who was interested in me that my dad would "cut him to pieces with his axe."
Luckily, my dad has never scared off a potential suitor, though my mom indirectly did once, when I brought a boy on a first date to her lab (she's a biologist), which at the time was full of giant radioactivity-warning signs. And of course, there's something annoying about the idea that it's a dad's job to guard his daughter with guns and axes — shouldn't he be teaching her to take care of herself instead? On the other hand, there's a form of scary-dadness that's less about safeguarding your daughter's virginity (ick) and more about showing her she can have high standards. Obama obviously shouldn't be grilling thirteen-year-olds about their career plans — unless he wants to talk to a whole bunch of aspiring rock stars, video game testers, and jet pilots — but it's not so bad for him to teach Malia she deserves to be with somebody great who respects her and cares about her safety. And if the Secret Service helps him get that message across, so be it.
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American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed!
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Chicago has been home to many distinguished black newspapers, however the most successful was the Chicago Defender. In 1905, Robert S. Abbott founded and published the Chicago Defender newspaper as a weekly, four-page handbill. The paper grew from a kitchen table publication into the most influential black newspaper in America. Abbott was determined for his paper to become a champion of human rights for African Americans and "right the wrongs of the many." In addition to reporting the news, the Defender served to protest inequity and discrimination, promote political and personal action, and reflect the values and ambitions of black people.
The Chicago Defender's striking influence on African Americans can be seen during what Abbott called the "Great Northern Drive." By printing stories of gross injustice and poverty in the South, while vividly depicting Northern cities as destinations for social and financial opportunity, Abbott stoked the hopes of Southern blacks and spurred them on to join in the Great Migration.
The Chicago Defender's coverage of local and national news documented pervasive race problems in the United States. The paper provided eyewitness reports on Chicago's Race Riot of 1919, editorialized against lynching and promoted integrated sports. Celebrated black writers graced the paper's pages including Langston Hughes, columnist Walter White, and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. The Chicago Defender set the standard for the black press.
In the late 1930s, Abbott retired due to failing health and turned the paper's editorial duties over to his nephew and heir, John H. Sengstacke. Under Sengstacke's leadership, 'The World's Greatest Weekly' became a daily newspaper. The Chicago Defender continues to serve as a strong voice in the black community today.
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Early black papers focused on political and religious news. As the black press became more sophisticated, reporters began covering the social scene, scandals, murders, trials, and local and national events. Sharply worded editorials, particularly by the Defender helped to shape an emerging, urban black culture. According to a survey by the Illinois Writer's Project, at least 32 black papers circulated in Bronzeville during the late '30s and early '40s. | http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=76,4,3,3 | robots: classic
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Breast pain, also called mastalgia, is caused by a wide variety of things. Most of the causes of breast pain are not serious health risks, so the pain is usually treated symptomatically. The pain usually takes the form of tenderness or soreness of the breast as opposed to a sharp, shooting pain. Causes of breast pain include hormones, breast cysts, certain medication side effects, large breast size and breast tumors, which may or may not be cancerous.
The most common cause of breast pain is hormonal fluctuation during a woman’s menstrual cycle. This is a natural occurrence, but breast tenderness does not occur in all women. If breast pain is severe or bothersome, one of the possible treatments to reduce this symptom is the use of hormonal birth control, especially combined oral contraceptives. Birth control pills help regulate hormone levels and can decrease the negative effects of the menstrual cycle in a lot of women. The catch is that taking the pill may cause breast tenderness as a side effect in some cases; most women tolerate the effects of birth control pills well, but some are sensitive to the hormones and experience unpleasant side effects. Hormonal fluctuations also cause breast tenderness and pain during pregnancy; in some women, one of the first pregnancy symptoms is breast tenderness. Breast pain during pregnancy can not be treated with hormonal therapy. In general, the occurrence of breast tenderness decreases after menopause because of the diminished effect of sex hormones. Hormones cause cyclic breast pain, or breast pain that occurs monthly. All other causes of mastalgia do not cause a cyclic pattern of breast tenderness.
In addition to birth control pills, other hormone-based medications can also cause breast pain. For example, hormone therapy in post-menopausal women can have this effect. Infertility treatments that affect hormone levels can also cause this symptom. Aside from hormonal medications, other medications can also have the potential side effect of causing breast tenderness and pain in some women; mastalgia was reported as a side effect of some antidepressant medications.
It is thought that women with extremely large breasts, those larger than a DD cup, can suffer from breast pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and upper back pain due to the size of their breasts. In some cases, breast reduction surgery can help with this problem, but all surgeries have risks. Breast reduction surgery carries a risk of causing permanent breast pain after healing, although this is a rare occurrence.
Some studies have shown a connection between levels of fatty acids and breast pain; it is thought that these chemicals play a role in how hormones affect the breasts. Deficiencies of certain fatty acids have been shown to worsen cyclic breast pain due to hormonal fluctuation. One remedy that is suggested for cyclic breast pain is consuming gamma-linoleic acid, a fatty acid that can be found in evening primrose oil. Other studies have shown a connection between reducing dietary fat intake and a long-term reduction in breast tenderness and pain, but it is not clear why this connection exists.
Just because you feel a lump in your breast does not mean that you have breast cancer. Cysts and fibroadenomas both take the form of breast lumps. They do not always cause pain, but sometimes they do. Cysts are fluid-filled, and they usually feel soft when pressed. Fibroadenomas are solid and rubbery to the touch. Both cysts and fibroadenomas are benign. Sometimes a biopsy may be necessary when a breast lump is found to see whether it is malignant or benign. This procedure requires taking a small sample from the breast tumor, or, sometimes, removing the whole tumor surgically.
Cancerous breast tumors, like other types of breast tumors, do not usually cause breast pain. Pain in the early stages of development of the cancer is rare; the breast pain does not usually occur until the cancer is advanced. If a breast tumor is found to be cancerous after a biopsy, treatment for the cancer begins. If you do feel a breast tumor or cyst, whether it is painful or not, you should see a doctor for a breast examination. It may be obvious to the doctor that the lump is a cyst and a biopsy may not be necessary, or they may want to check it out further just to be safe.
When the cause of breast pain is not breast cancer, the pain is usually treated symptomatically. Sometimes, taking birth control pills can help with cyclic breast pain. Breast cysts that are causing discomfort can be drained of fluid to reduce their size if necessary. Sometimes, occasional use of over-the-counter pain relievers is enough to keep breast pain under control. If you have severe pain, see a doctor instead of using over-the-counter medications, because these medications can cause severe side effects if used too much. Prescription medications exist that can help with severe breast pain, but it is rare that the benefits of taking these medications for breast pain relief outweighs the risks.
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Can My Business Be Formed as an LLC?
Can I Change the Form of My Business to an LLC?
Businesses in Red Bank might sometimes change form. A company is eligible for conversion to an LLC if its situation falls under circumstances that are detailed by Tennessee law.
How Can an Attorney Help?
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Harry said...
What the hell's that got to do with Ewing Oil?
Anonymous said...
Me thinks Gummo needs to read Brad's book more closely.
jundo cohen said...
My compliments to the fellow with the ill chosen name
foiuntaingrass_moisture said...
Once again what was a good, informative thread of comments about zazen and shikantaza has devolved into personality issues and anger issues between Brad and Jundo, and what's worse...psychobabble.
Please folks, whatever my motivations (or what you think my motivations are) focus on the discussion. I am sure that it is all due to Brad and I not being breast fed as babies. :-)
Is 'dropping the body and mind' a personal experience or not?
Should/can Brad drop all the 'crap' that is so against Jundo and Jundoism or not?
"Dropping body and mind" is not a personal experience. There is no "person", inside or out. And what I just wrote are just words, so now throw those away and just taste that reality in action!
Oh, and "dropping body and mind" is a personal experience cause I am gonna be a "person" every day until I die, especially off the Zafu. And if I cannot taste the "no person" in my "person" at those times, then this practice stays stuck on the Zafu.
By the way, Harry ...
a forum such as this which you have not barred me from (as you did from Treeleaf Zendo when I announced that you do not teach what your teacher or Dogen Zenji teach/taught... which you clearly don't).
You were never barred from Treeleaf, and are always welcome back. You left. You also did not like that I asked you to stop yelling (like now) at other members. I am happy to discuss with you civilly your belief that I do not teach what Dogen and Nishijima Roshi teach/taught. Sometimes I don't play my jazz piano the same way as them.
It is my sincere wish that Brad and Jundo could openly address one another on these issues . . .
That WOULD be nice. I am just writing here about a book on a blog in which the author solicits and invites comments on the book. My opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's opinion.
I'm an angry person, from an angry family, from an angry place/time in an angry world... I look at how I could have turned out (it's BAD) and I think 'Harry, you angry nearly-middle-aged-fuck, you ain't so bad...'.
Now, Jundo, should I drop that off/ can I drop that off? Speak, Priestboy.
You are not so bad Harry, and moreover, you are perfectly just Harry. But, yes, you could probably do well to allow some of the thinking that leads to being bound in --excess-- anger to drop away. If you cannot do that lots of the time (not always, for we are not machines) both on and off the Zafu, then maybe your method of Zazen needs an adjustment? Maybe?
Gassho, Jundo
Harry asked: Would you like to be frank about your feelings regarding the leadership of Dogen Sangha? Who would you appoint?
Okay, let me jump in here too, cause the innuendo squad is using this to distract from the issues. This "organization" exists primarily in the mind of an old gentleman who likes to dream a bit. I would need to be "leader" like a hole in the head, cause it would be like herding cats at a non-existent cat ranch (whatever that means). I once hoped that it would be more of a chance for Nishijima's various heirs to talk to each other and work on some projects together, but his heirs pretty much hate each other and don't talk to each other (it is really sad). I was and am happy to have Brad as the leader, although I felt/feel that their should be a few ethical "checks and balances" on conduct as adopted by almost every Western Sangha to prevent, for example, sex & money scandals. Folks, I've got enough bowling trophies in my closet, and it ain't about the "rewards" you get in life anyway. :-)
Anonymous said...
ta duh! thanks guys. think that I'll go watch south park now. peace out dudes.
Hi Jundo,
You said:
"Thank you for writing. Are you, I suppose, what you define as a "fully enlightened being?" Or maybe you have met in person your image of such a perfect creature? Or is that just something you read about in a Buddhist story?"
I am certainly not a fully enlightened being. I know I am also less realized then either you or Brad, having met Brad several times, and having chatted with you before on E-Sangha.
My belief that the cessation of suffering is possible, that there are "perfect beings" is something I read in a Buddhist story. But, what is more, I have practiced with more realized beings than myself who also believe in this. And I can see the changes in myself. Given that, I am led to believe that it is certainly possible to be completely liberated.
I'm not saying I positively _know_ that such a being exist(ed). I'm just not completely denying it.
Gassho _||_
Harry said...
Dear Cliffdo,
I won't go into the details of the blocking-of-me-going-back-to-Treeleaf (that was diplomatic for an angry guy!), or the fact that you did it without informing me by a polite, or even businesslike, or even impolite, email.
I only yelled at the people you should have yelled at, so it doesn't count... I didn't yell at anyone actually: I merely requested that a repeat offender insert his self-righteous Buddhist lectures up his anus (I think I said 'ass' and, yes, I'm afraid I'm quite proud of it)... I, of course, would have been giving the self-righteous Buddhist lecture on another day, but nobody would have had the balls, and the decency, to tell me what to do with them.
Yes, I'm in playful form.
I couldn't possibly let perfectly good anger 'drop away' from the zafu as it is exactly what makes the world roll around on the floor like a silly big Zen baby... don't be silly.
I do like it when you're honest. I don't think that all the Dharma heirs really hate each other... but some of them really are assholes (very hard to like) and so maybe its not such an unreasonable situation.
I'm sure it'll a work out for the best.
Oh, and to make it clear. I also consider my attempts at liberation to be half-assed as well. Maybe quarter-assed.
jundo cohen said...
I don't completely deny either, but I am a skeptical agnostic on such issues. I prefer my Buddhas and Zen teachers not to be "supermen", as Brad rightly puts it. I think the Buddha and old masters got built up in a process of hagiography (folks who don't know the word, please look it up) over time, stuffed onto golden pedestals.
On the other hand, I like my Zen Teachers on that lovely "middle" road somewhere between "superman" and "full time asshole". :-)
Gassho, Jundo
Mr. Assowipe said...
"I think your contributions to this blog would be more effective and credible if you weren't critical of other teachers"
Rich, do you also feel this way about Brad's criticism of other teachers? Or does this not apply to him?
Anonymous said...
oh, I get it! I get it!
Jundo is like the guest you invited for the weekend who doesn't leave, but takes up permanent residence!
Treeleaf, e-sangha and those other places he spends time aren't enough!
But now he's got it, by Jove! He is going to stay and stay and stay and stay and this is where he is going to stay
Welcome to Brad's blog and Jundo's Comments y'all!
jundo cohen said...
The host and the guest.
I am sure there is room for everyone. :-)
Gassho, Jundo
Anonymous said...
brad didn't mention in his blog that his comments section was going to be monitored by a guest host.
maybe it's not so funny after all
Justin said...
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Justin said...
Well maybe I'm blind, but I don't see this 'repressed', 'passive-aggressive' motivation that certain others claim to see in Jundo. And I'm pretty good at spotting that sort of thing.
His comments seem well-reasoned, balanced, based on experience and in accord with Zen Buddhism that I've learned about elsewhere. And if Brad wrote criticised any of you in his book I'm sure you'd be up here having your say too. (Brad upsets people sometimes, it's not unusual).
Hey, I criticise Brad plenty of the time, but not because I was ever in with a chance of being head of Dogen Sangha International Inc! I criticise Brad (as do a lot of people - he's a controversial guy) because constructive criticism is healthy and sometimes it's due. For example, Brad does tread roughshod over the precepts and the precepts are not an optional extra. If you just want to do Zen meditation that's just Zen meditation not Zen Buddhism.
I think you guys should stop being so hostile to Jundo. It's plain to see that some others have a 'beef' with Jundo and some have a knee-jerk hostility towards anyone who criticises Brad (as I have experienced on a number of occasions). Projection and ad hominem attacks wear psychobabble as a disguise.
Stop digging up the past and lets have a reasonable discussion.
Anonymous said...
comments section has been bombarded before by trolls
it is the nature of trolls
even zen trolls
to be trollish
got to roll with it
think of it as just another way
to spin the dharma wheel
and roll with the troll
At The Moment said...
Where is "host"?
Where is "guest"?
Anonymous said...
Psychoanalysis as a whole is a scam.
PA said...
LET ME REPEAT: My issue with Brad's book is --not-- that he frequently got angry, sad, depressed or a hard on for a student. My issue is that he (1) seemed in the book unable to see through, or even describe to readers, any of those states from a Buddhist perspective as the "self" created "mind games" that they often are; (2) he seemed unable to bring his Zazen practice to bear on redirecting or reducing any of those emotions when in excess (for example, Zazen will not cure anger, nor should it, but it will reduce the fires of excess anger when one is all tied up in that) (2) he just stayed there month after month and eventually even raised up being twisted up in each of those states (anger, confusion, sleeping with a student, his "I vow to stay an asshole") onto a pedestal as an expected, necessary and even positive outcome of Zen Practice. They are not, any more than driving day after day (not just accidentally once in awhile) on the wrong side of the highway is "good driving" (especially if you are supposed to be a professional driving instructor).
The book's title refers to karma. Zazen won't rid us off our karma,right? So a lot of issues we have etc. are going to come for a while. A lifetime of rubbish. And things will never be quiet and peaceful. I think it's just a question of emphasis - Brad emphasizes the rubbish to show people it's OK to feel that way, we all do. But at the same time throughout his writing he says, sit Zazen everyday - it really helps. Jundo emphasizes the peace and says, look through this rubbish and it's peaceful. Sit Zazen everyday and it really helps.
I like that there are 2 ways. And there really is no need to force people to believe one or the other.
A-P said...
It almost seems to me that Jundo is here because Brad invited him to get some action in the comments section.
I like it very much.
I agree with both Jundo & Brad with their opinions and writings and I don't think anyone of us three is more "enlightened" than the others. We are all right and also wrong at the same time.
Buddhist geek said...
Im sorry Braddy chan, but I didn't really like this book. It was fortuituous however, since I realized that zen was bullshit and I didn't need to do zazen to become a wreck.
Harry said...
Today's blog post inspired by recent events... for what it's worth:
In a particularly important and pithy chapter of Shobogenzo called Zanmai-o-Zanmai ('The Samadhi which is King of Samadhis') Master Dogen speaks of three theoretical foci: sitting with the mind which is different from sitting with the body, bodily sitting which is different from sitting with the mind, and sitting which is free of body and mind which is free of "sitting which is free of body and mind" (i.e. the concept of doing it, or anything: no thought, no thinker).
Buddhism, of course, posits that body and mind are not separate. This does not challenge that I think but is just a model used to emphasise points.
As Al points out in the last comments section, Nishijima Roshi, despite clear teachings to the contrary (such as that below), is sometimes criticised as someone who emphasises 'the body', 'posture', the physical aspect of Zazen too much.
Sitting upright is nothing other than thinking. Thinking is nothing other than sitting upright. This can either be the sort of thinking that I might like the act of sitting upright to be, or it can be the actual real thinking that sitting upright is. Its up to me.
It may be the difference between sitting as my own personal psychological redemption, and sitting realised as what it is/ sitting realising me directly as what I actually am really doing.
Rich said...
Mr. Assowipe said...
Yes, in general I do but there may be an exception if a teacher is causing direct harm. There are a lot of comments by Jundo that I like and I am happy he is filling a big void in this blog. I hope to have more time to comment on them and expand on some of things I said like 'letting go of thoughts ad feelings'. But I have a real job and this is not a game but the reality of life and death.
Anonymous said...
It might actually be rather interesting to get both Jundo and Brad writing and commenting on the same forum - here or elsewhere - but then again often when two people with adamant views and opinions clash the result is just annoying and awkward headbanging when neighter side is willing or able to see the other's points of view.
Now this so called debate between the two roshis remains a bit loose when Jundo makes specific rebuttals and comments here and Brad replies in a generalish way through his blogs posts and books.
Anonymous said...
this is what Jundo has been asking for: mano a mano with Brad
so let's book Madison Square Garden!! talk about dharma combat!
but I'd rather see them throw pies at each other
or enter and air guitar contest
to determine who is the bestest
Anonymous said...
'buddhist mind games'
are the ego's dressing up in buddhism to continue its same old same old self-preserving/defensive habits of mind.
Jundo points finger at Brad, but remember Jundo is a lawyer by profession: his ego dresses up in buddhism accordingly:
he lines up his evidence, his facts, he makes his citations
Remember he needs the audience of a jury/courtroom and I guess that's where this blog and we come in.
So he's putting Brad on trial in the comment section of Brad's own blog
There is a certain amount of skanky brilliance to this, but that's an attorney for you.
What is he like over on his own Treeleaf site? Go take a look and see for yourself. Everything is controlled, posting behaviors must fall within an 'acceptable' range. From at least two people posting here, it would seem when he was challenged, he invited the challengers to leave or pejoratively labeled them and then invited them to leave.
There is veneer to his view of the precepts which in a short term setting might look ok in that there is someone, a person, namely you, following a specific precept. but in the long run this creates an 'as if' action, following an idea of a precept, an idea of a follower of a precept and not just the effortless action of it (there being no person, there being no precept).
The effortless action is just the self being the self and just this life as it is.
As 'wrong side of the road' as it may appear to Jundo, Brad's writing reveals self finding itself exactly where it is, with nothing to push away and nothing to grasp.
Jundo appears to find in this honesty and insight vulnerability he can now capitalize on: crevices he can further chip away at to find more to expose to censorious light. But Brad wasn't writing confessions, at least, that's not what I experienced; he was writing the truth of his life as he lived it this past 1 1/2 years.
To my way of thinking there is the livingness of zen, like the germ of life in a seed. There is also the structure, like the seed pod or casing around the seed. For the practice of zen to continue it needs both structure and livingness.
Neither one is 'bad,' and neither one is 'good.' Both are essential to continuation (the great matter of lifeanddeath).These two aspects (depending on your viewpoint) compliment each other, preserve each other, or 'destroy' each other.
For a long time the structures of zen have been revered. Many students coming to zen practice, to buddhism fall in love and have love affairs with the structures, even marry the structures and become one with structure. The livingness of zen is emerging. Living always continually emerges. Right now from where you are, (not from where you think you should be or where you think you should aspire to be, or where someone else thinks you should be).
Pot-kettle-black said...
"Yes, in general I do but there may be an exception if a teacher is causing direct harm."
I think Brad truly believes certain teachers are causing great harm. Jundo also believes so happens that Brad is one Jundo thinks is causing this.
This is just standard justification and operating procedure for all dogmatic religious authorities. Every 2 bit preacher denouncing other preachers from different sects also thinks the same thing. The Baptist minister wants to save his congregation from being influenced by those poor deluded Jehovah Witnesses. The Mormons denounce the Scientologists because they believe they're causing people harm. Catholic Priests condemn Buddhist teachers because they believe they are leading people to hell. Same with Islam and the rest.
All believe they are saving people from harm by their criticism. They all believe it's different in their own case, just like Brad and Jundo do. They tend to point to Dogen's own criticism of other zen masters as justification. From my pov, this just puts Dogen in the same boat. The old chan masters would criticize what they considered mistaken views of other teachers, but rarely ever mentioned other teachers by name. This seems to be a very questionable Japanese contribution to Zen and Buddhism in general. Sectarian, ego-driven one up manship is pervasive in their writings. Nichiren is particularly harsh in his critique of zen in general.
Rather than simply justify this sort of talk by appealing to authority, I would suggest investigating the real and personal reasons that we choose to put down others. We do it in all phases of our lives, not just in religion. Only my political party or leader is correct. My country is the bestest. My dad can whip yours.
I may believe that homeopathy is a dangerous and harmful practice. If so, I could clearly point this out and why I believe it OR I could just personally attack people like Jinzang, calliing them frauds, asswipes, dickheads, etc. Which is more effective? Which is more aligned with compassion and wisdom?
Brad once said:
Here's the problem with this as I see it; "Real Buddhism" (TM) is an idea, a concept. The leaders of Aum Shinryko think they know what Real Buddhism is and so it's OK to kill people if it furthers their own idea of it. Zen master Rama believed 'his' was the Real Buddhism, so does Genpo, Brad and countless others. With ideologies, all else becomes subservient to your own ideas. It's ok to kill in the name of communism, to lie to bring sinners to jesus or to act unethically (or break precepts) when it furthers your own ideology. It's OK to disparage and personally attack others if it furthers your ideology. In Brad's case this is Real Buddhism.
What is Real Buddhism? Is Buddhism a doctrine or dogma, a set of ideas that we give assent to?... whether that is Brad's idea or mine or Genpo's? This puts it in exactly the same category as any other ideology or idealism. For all of Brad and Nishijima's talk of Buddhism not being idealism, when you think or say 'this is Real Buddhism' and 'this is not real buddhism', isn't this exactly making Buddhism into a form of idealism, even if you want to rename this idealism "realism"? It's still a product of conceptual thinking and comparison.
I could give a shit less whether I am a Real Buddhist or am practicing Real Buddhism. My commitment has always been to finding what is the true nature of reality directly, not according to some dogma or ideology. That's why I took-up zen practice and studied the teachings of the Buddha (and others).
This is a common problem with zen students, even advanced students and teachers. They have some glimpse of realization (call it what you will) and instead of deepening or extending this insight, they immediately begin spinning concepts, then teaching these concepts and strong personal opinions as if they were the Truth itself.
In my view, Buddhism is all one big upaya or skillful means. (I see Jinzang is of the same view, btw.) . It isn't the only one, nor is it even the best one for every single individual. Within Buddhism itself, some approaches or sects seem to work better for some individuals and not for others. For all Brad's railing against Tibetan buddhism, it seems to have worked well for people like Jinzang, just as Theravada works well for others. Even though I have only practiced zen, I can see that other approaches work well for different people. Of course if you think the point of zen is to hold the correct ideas, assent to the correct dogmas, sit in the sacred posture and uphold the True doctrines, no other approach, school or sect could be the Real Zen or True Buddhism. But if you think Zen is about discovering the true nature of your own self and the direct uncovering of reality itself (they are one), then it isn't about holding a particular ideology or set of beliefs "about" reality. Not just getting some brief glimpse or wonderful experience, but the full actualization of your true self moment by moment.
The ancients said; If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the buddha. Why? If you see the Buddha, he's not the real Buddha, it's a concept of buddha and you should kill it in order to see the real buddha. Similarly, if you find Real Buddhism on your road, kill it. No one can actually show you the Real buddha or teach Real buddhism because it's not an idea, ideal, dogma or doctrine that can be imparted by any practice, book, teacher, even a buddha.
All that any teacher can do is use some form of upaya. As long as the teacher understands that she is usiing upaya, this can work. (and yes, Zen is truly a "What works for you" teaching) But if the teacher believes that his upaya (method, approach, practice) is the Truth itself, all sorts of delusion and confusion will arise. The 8 fold path is a skillful means, koans are skllful means and zazen itself is skillful means, as are the sutras and writings of the old masters. 84,000 dharma gates means that there are many approaches to find what works for you. Many paths can point you to what is Real, but there is no 'one, true, real path' or one, true real zen...because all paths are really no paths at all. You can't actually 'get there' by any path whatsoever. They are only upaya. Buddhas use conceptual thought to point beyone conceptual thought.
Anonymous said...
you're only on the 'wrong side of the road' according to the person who made 'road' and who made 'wrong and right' sides of it.
there is no 'wrong' or 'right' side of your way through unmarked LIFE
from where Jundo sits, Brad's life looks wrong
From where I sit Brad's life doesn't look 'wrong', but Jundo's perception of the 'wrongness' of Brad's life looks wrong to me, not as he perceives it for himself, but as he promotes his perspective as authority on the rightness and wrongness of another's life.
Aren't perspectives fun? they can make you feel self righteous!
Jinzang said...
Psychoanalysis as a whole is a scam.
Psychotherapy works at least as well as drugs. for common disorders.
I realized that zen was bullshit
You realized no such thing. You came to a conclusion without doing the experiment.
Al said...
I've created a new aggregation blog for the Zen Community at The Zen Community blog is meant to aggregate the blogging of the Zen Community. The idea is to give a snapshot of what is going on in the Zen blogosphere.
I've blogged about this on my own blog in more detail at
What it does is read the RSS feeds of other blogs and republishes the posts from these feeds on the site. The Mozilla community uses that for its members at, for example, to pull in Mozilla posts from blogs all over the world. This is common in the software development world. I want to do the same for Zen bloggers.
What I am looking for is other Zen bloggers who are willing to let their content be republished at the site. I won't pull anyone's feed without permission and, in most instances, I can make it so the feed only pulls categorized posts if people mark Buddhist or Zen posts in a certain category for those that write on many topics.
All links on the posts themselves point back to the original blog and comments are off so people will go to the original blog if they have comments. I would like to add your blog to the site, if I can get your permission. If you have any suggestions for other blogs or wish to forward this message to others in order for them to contact me, please do so.
Thank you,
Al Billings
Anonymous said...
if it's Brad you want to talk to about this, then comments section is not the most reliable way to reach him
better would be to contact him at
at least that's my impression from his blog
Anonymous said...
Ah, now psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are two different animals, and the while the later is a total scam some aspects of the former are not without some merit in the psychoworld. What merit actually remains to be seen, and while - as mr. Jizz points out - it is sometimes as effective as drugs for common disorders it can either mean that both therapy and drugs are as effective or as ineffective as just having a friend you can talk to. No need to pay excessive amounts for that!
Now, psychotherapy as a general term is pretty controversial too and much of it is just hocus-pocus-psychobabble.
Observator said...
I must say, that looking at all the combats etc. between two of the "supposedly enlightened" dharma heirs of Nishijima, I can't help but notice that this lineage can't really be taken very seriously.
And when two of the authorized teachers of this lineage seem to be skeptical about the existence of satori alltogether, I can't help but to think that there might not be any authentic teachers at all in this lineage.
This makes me doubt that if Nishijima ever had a deep satori, he might have settled to authorize people who haven't got very deep insights as teachers. Perhaps he didn't find any, or perhaps this is just one of those lineages where enough practise time is considered as qualification to have dharma transmission.
Now I undesrstand better why Brad wasn't very fond of receiving the whole dharma transmission thing alltogether. Well, let's hope that some of you teachers will get genuine insight someday.
gniz said...
I don't know that I've ever had much genuine mystical insight myself....I tend to resonate somewhat with people like Brad and Jundo that kind of poo-poo that stuff to some extent.
At the same time, my teacher Steve, who seems to have more genuine realization than any of these clowns (including myself) has spoken often about deep understandings that he's had into the nature of thoughts, vision, his eternal self, etc.
So i cant totally discount that stuff because someone i know and sort of trust has had some experiences far beyond my own. Maybe they really do exist and 99.9 percent of people just dont have them or fake them?
PhilBob-SquareHead said...
Brad, I forget, which anonymous post are yours and which are mine?
Anonymous said...
Gniz, is this teacher of yours you are referring to a Zen teacher? Because if he is, what exactly does he mean by eternal self - I think the whole concept of no-self is pretty fundamental to Buddhism!
Rich said...
Anon said:
Brad just said that he doesn't read his own blog's comments because they are mostly trolls commenting. So I guess the comments section doesn't have anything to do with Brad, but he is really missing some good shit like the above and the complete comment that went with it.
gniz said...
Nope my teacher is not a zen teacher and i dont practice zen so i guess you can disregard everything i say as having no merit.
Stephanie said...
Great posts from "Pot-kettle-black" and Anon @ 8:45AM.
This comments section is getting to be a cocked-up mess with all the different conversations going on, but I still wanted to respond to a couple of things:
1) You must have read a different book than I did, Jundo, because it seems to me Brad did exactly what you say someone should ideally do. He spent the book describing numerous stressful or difficult situations that he was able to handle without freaking out or going off the deep end. As for Brad's vow to "be an asshole forever"--this was obviously tongue in cheek; mild-mannered Brad's definition of "being an asshole" is simply to be truthful and true to who he is. I don't see how any of the behavior documented in the book caused anyone much harm. Brad's brief foray with intoxicants seemed to have as much to do with being a gracious guest as any real burning desire he had to do those things. As for the sex stuff--I found it all pretty sympathetic, nothing shocking or outrageously out of line. I just don't see someone flailing around in an "imbalanced state" as you seem to.
2) Psychotherapy is indeed increasingly supported by empirical evidence as a method of alleviating suffering and promoting well-being. Certainly, it doesn't lead to a result as comprehensive or sweeping as does a committed spiritual practice can, but in some cases, it gets at things that can be missed even in a sincere and intense spiritual practice, and that can impede a spiritual practice.
As for psychoanalysis--any form of psychotherapy in practice today owes its existence to the seminal influence of Freud and other early psychoanalysts. Hardly anyone practices "classical psychoanalysis" any more, with the minimally responsive therapist and the couch, etc., but the theories and practices that have come since and built on these early models continue to be supported as effective models of the human mind and as promoting effective intervention strategies.
Certainly, one cannot expect to simply cure people of all psychological distress. Psychotherapy is not a magic bullet. But it does help people, and it is very different to the also very important 'intervention' of talking to friends and loved ones. Therapists interact with clients very differently than friends interact with friends, know what to look for in a person and how to address it.
Not everyone has to get into therapy but it certainly is not a "scam."
jamal said...
gniz is feeling no love. :(
I think he got a chip on his shoulder. he's got a lot invested in this steve dude who he kinds of sorta trusts, maybe. this might be why he likes to bust buddhist balls. it's his ego scratchin and clawing..
Anonymous said...
Cee-Lo Green! He so freaky!
Let your freak flag fly!
Let your freak out!
Big and chunky freakitude!
Anonymous said...
In honor of a major computer age milestone:
bugs$ date +%s
Here's some computer zen from an early pioneer:
"I realized that from now on
a large part of my life would
be spent finding and correcting
my own mistakes."
--Maurice Wilkes, 1949
Will said...
Some poeple f**k and some people don't.
However, most of us eat.
Anonymous said...
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Something happened to the world in the 1780s and 90s, and it happened in Germany. And this thing that happened, whatever it was, is actually one of the most important developments in human consciousness and thought, well, ever. But, I’m anticipating our story, let’s first go back a ways, to 1758, March 31st, 1758 to be precise.
“The Earth opened the mouth of Cain to receive the blood of Abel,” are the words with which our tale begins, and the reader of these words? A man named Georg Hamann. Hamann was a German before there was a Germany, A Prussian, a member of a nationality so defunct the spellchecker in my internet browser doesn’t even recognize it any longer. From the time of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII the Feudal model was quickly going extinct, having been replaced by the absolutist national state the Bishop of Luçon pioneered. In 1707, England followed suit, consolidating itself after a half-century of political infighting and civil war as Britain, joining itself with Scotland in law and which, along with Dryden’s Virgil, the lapse of the licensing act in 1699, which had restricted the number of master printers in London to no more than 20, and the hugely influential paper “The Spectator” written by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele ushered in the Augustan era and initiated Britain’s meteoric economic rise to dominant world superpower.
Germany though, what Germany? There was no Germany and no German people. There was only the Holy Roman Empire, the precariously constituted, fragmenting legal framework which had kept the ramshackle assemblage of minor political bodies in check for centuries. Major states, like Prussia and Austria, learning the lessons of France all too well, engaged in a historical race against time, as well as with one another, to become Germany, while meanwhile hundreds of minor duchies, city states, and even one thousand semi-autonomous feudal knights were to serve as prize for the eventual victor.
Hamann, as I said, was a Prussian, and furthermore, an Aufklärunger. An Enlightenment man, with Enlightenment friends, and Enlightenment ideas, and an Enlightenment taste for homosexual sex, but when he was sent on an Enlightenment business trip to London, he ended up doing something very, there’s no other way to say it, unenlightened…
One can only imagine London in those days, the 1750s, when it had, through the economic and political freedom it bestowed upon its people, suddenly found itself the largest metropolis in all of Europe. Over 3,000 coffee houses filled every quarter of the town, and for a schilling subscription fee, one could come in and sit down and read “The Spectator” or any of the other papers popular in those days, or the latest novels or whatever else your heart could desire. They were not only the first libraries, but the first stock exchanges too, and in some coffee shops you could walk in on black market auctions of fine art, or buy shares of the copyright to Shakespeare’s works.
At Drury Lane, one of only two officially licensed theatres in London, Dr. Johnson’s friend David Garrick was said to be the greatest interpreter of Shakespeare there had ever been, and went so far as to represent England’s pride in defending the nation’s poet against Voltaire himself. Considering that even Jones and Partridge in Fielding’s “Tom Jones” made time to see Garrick, it’s perhaps natural to imagine Hamann immersed in the debauchery of Drury Lane as well, where actresses were kidnapped off stage mid-performance and shows were often ended with a good old fashioned riot instigated by the audience.
Whatever, let’s say, liberties, Hamann indulged in during his London stay, it’s probably best not to dwell on, except to say, regardless of what they were, they ended him washed up and penniless in a boarding house. And it was there, shutting himself up and fasting before an open bible through the winter, that he had his “mystical conversion”, upon reading those aforementioned words from the Book of Deuteronomy.
When he returned to Prussia, his Aufklärunging companions found him a changed man, he had become “The Magus of the North”, the fearsome knight of the Rosy Cross, and the Enlightenment would not survive his crusade against it…
On the throne of German metaphysics, Leibniz sat and clutched the orb, while Christian Wolff beside him extended outward his sceptre and pronounced the judgements of Rationalism. The Rationalists, or as Fichte would call them, The Dogmatic Idealists, believed the mind could know its concepts, dialectically, via Reason. But no matter what Reason seemed to say, it never seemed able to finally attain scientific, mathematical certainty of its conclusions. And if Metaphysics, the study of God (THE ABSOLUTE) and the Soul (The Mind) was to be a science proper, certainty was something it ought to have don’t you agree?
Hamann’s return corresponded with the rise of Sentimentalism, the collapse of the promises of Rationalism into the unbounded subjectivism of groundless consciousness. How could two minds, entirely and forever separated interact? How could there be a world external to myself? What was the objective ground of consciousness?
Hamann kindled a fire, the fire of religious pietism, seizing upon the skepticism of David Hume to question all of metaphysics. He wrote in an obscure proto-Nietzshian style laden with hermetic invocations, and said, essentially, the universe was a riddle given to Man by God. When Man spoke, it was not Man speaking, but God, who spoke through him. When Man knew, it was not Man who had knowledge, but God who knew through him. Hamann collapsed the problem of subjectivity into a theological question, and furthermore, as all the universe was a revelation, and what man said and wrote was a part of that universe, Hamann elevated the study and philosophy of language in the process to one of fundamental importance.
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Cal at Stanford..worth going?
Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by jakewriter82, Aug 20, 2007.
1. jakewriter82
jakewriter82 Active Member
So, I just happened to look at the Stanford Cardinal football schedule and noticed that the big game is on my birthday, which I get off from work...and I'm half tempted to get 2 tickets now before they sell out and drive down south to see it.
Having never been to any Cal nor Stanford game, I don't really know what to expect.
Stanford won what, 1 game last year against Washington?
And Cal should be pretty good this year, especially if they happen to beat Tennessee in the opener. Unless Harbaugh and company can somehow turn around the Cardinal this year, the Cal game it's probably not going to be much of a contest, but I've been told it's THE rivalry game in the area.
So, SportsJournalists.comers...is Cal-Stanford worth paying $110 a ticket to see?
2. Editude
Editude Active Member
Strawberry Canyon is a great place to watch a football game. Haven't been to Stanford's new stadium yet. $110 for a probable blowout seems high, unless you have a vested interest. ;)
3. dixiehack
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Wait until Cal loses a game, and tickets should be much more affordable.
4. Hammer Pants
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Cal did hang with Tennessee for a good 30 seconds last year in Knoxville. I'll give 'em that.
Seriously, why would you not go to Cal-Stanford? Of course you should go.
5. DanOregon
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Not worth the $110 a throw, the games at Cal are usually more competitive, but the tailgating is better at Stanfurd. Everything from bloody marys and screwdrivers from the tweed set to kegs and hot dogs. Back in the day you could (legally) bring 12-packs into the stadium. Now those were the days...
6. micropolitan guy
micropolitan guy Well-Known Member
Game is at Stanford, on Dec. 1. New stadium holds about 50K, way down from the old wreck (85K). This should be a tough ticket.
Excellent tailgating areas at Stanford. Not so excellent football team.
7. Angola!
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When did college football tickets start costing so much? I just looked up prices for the Nebraska-Texas game and the cheapest I could find online were $178. Everything else was over $250.
I remember going to big-time Washington games growing up and we never paid more than $30 for tickets.
8. Claws for Concern
Claws for Concern Active Member
You should go if you can after all it is YOUR birthday. I wouldn't pay that much for a ticket though. Wait until a minute or so before kickoff and you should get tickets for cheap, especially if it sets up as a blowout game going in.
9. dargan
dargan Active Member
I know nothing of the West Coast football details (tailgating, intensity of rivalry, etc), but I do know that paying $110 for a Pac-10 game that will feature a 5-TD differential is not worth it.
Since it's your birthday, you might rather stay home and get a bunch of friends over and just act like a bunch of jackasses while watching football all day.
10. slappy4428
slappy4428 Active Member
Try this: Go down and tailgate with some friends, grill, drink, soak in the atmosphere, have a great time. If you happen to get tickets to the game, great. If not, I've heard there are bars in Palo Alto....
11. micropolitan guy
micropolitan guy Well-Known Member
Go tailgate, and you'll have no problem scrounging up a ticket. Lots of friendly people, drinking wine and eating cheese.
If you can't get a reasonably-priced ticket, head north on El Camino Real past the Stanford Shopping Center into downtown PA and go to the Oasis, on the west side of the street. Old-time, dumpy place that will have several TVs on, good bar food, great atmosphere. At least it used to.
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Koffi Olomide, was born on 13 August 1956 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the former Zaire). His parents were staying in the North East of the country at the time, in a town called Stanleyville (now Kisangani). In fact, Koffi's father was on a business trip to Stanleyville at the time of his son's birth, and the family moved back to their current home in the capital, Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), shortly afterwards.
"Antoine Bad Blood"
The 13th of August 1956 happened to be a Friday, so, according to the tradition of Sierra Leone (Antoine's father's homeland), his mother called him Koffi (Friday). Unfortunately for Koffi, his birthday not only fell on a Friday, but on a Friday 13th. And this was not the only bad omen hanging over Koffi's birth! When baby Koffi came out of his mother's womb, the midwife discovered that his hand was stuck to the side of his face - a sign, according to African legend, of suffering and melancholy.
Bad omens aside, Koffi's birth was bathed in a general aura of unhappiness. Having gone into labour hundreds of miles from home, his mother felt depressed and isolated, a sensation which was accentuated by the absence of her husband. (In fact, Koffi would find out later in life that his father was seeing another woman at the time, and thinking of abandoning his wife and child to live with her). Given her general state of depression, Koffi's mother was unable to breast-feed her child, so baby Koffi was carted off to a neighbour's. On top of all this, Koffi appeared to be such a weak, sickly baby that nobody actually believed he would live very long.
Koffi was nicknamed "Antoine Malika Mabe" ("Antoine Bad Blood"), but, in spite of his bad health and his childhood traumas, Koffi proved to be a survivor. (Indeed, the tenacity with which Koffi hung onto life in his early years would stay with him, giving him with the determination and vital energy to persevere with his music career). However, Koffi's difficult start in life continued to haunt him and his childhood traumas continued to hang over much of his work, infusing his songs with an air of sadness and melancholy. But, given the pain and suffering of his early childhood, it was hardly surprising that many of the singer's lyrics revolved around the theme of heartbreak and unrequited love.
"Soso Ameli Ngando"
However, Koffi's childhood was not all about pain and suffering. In fact, Koffi grew up in Kinshasa in relatively comfortable, well-off surroundings. Although nothing in his immediate background appeared to predestine him for a music career. "I don't know why, but somehow music must have been in my blood," says Koffi, " My aunt - my father's younger sister - likes to tell this story about how when I was very young, around 6 or 7 years old, I used to go round singing this weird little song all the time : "the cock has swallowed the crocodile!" ("soso ameli ngando"). Apparently, I used to walk around singing this all the time and it soon became my nickname - "soso ameli ngando". I've no idea where the song came from. Maybe I just made it up, maybe it was my own peculiar way of looking at the world at the time".
Later in life Koffi would go on to transform the songs he heard on the radio, adding his own words and even inventing extra melodies. To begin with, Koffi played this game with the work of Tabu Ley Rochereau (a singer whom young Koffi particularly admired). But Koffi would soon go on to look to other artists for inspiration, inventing his own adaptations of songs by Mongali and Zato de Los Nickelos. Koffi's budding songwriting talent and his fascination with the guitar impressed family and friends alike, and one of the family's neighbours soon offered to teach the talented young teenager to play the six-string guitar.
Meanwhile, Koffi proved to be an extremely bright and talented pupil at school. And, after excelling at his grammar school in Kinshasa, Koffi went on to pass his scientific 'baccalauréat' with flying colours. Impressed by his son's academic prowess, Koffi's father agreed to give his son permission to pursue his education overseas and Koffi soon left home to study for a business degree at Bordeaux university in France. (The gifted young student would graduate from the university in 1980).
Yet, in spite of his obvious talent for his studies, Koffi was increasingly attracted to the idea of pursuing a musical career. Around the age of 18 to 20, he began to envisage the possibility of becoming a professional musician. There was only one major problem, however: "My father had been brought up to think that singers and musicians were not 'respectable' people'," recalls Koffi, "Believe me, I had to overcome a lot of hurdles to get where I am today!" Luckily, Koffi's brother was a firm believer in his talent. Indeed, Koffi's brother not only helped him win their father round, he also encouraged his brother to launch a professional career.
"The Most Famous Student in Zaire"
Taking his brother's advice, Koffi did go on to launch a singing career and by the late 70's he had started to make a name for himself on the local Zairean music scene. Koffi was extremely proud of one of his first songs, "Onia", but unfortunately the song did not enjoy any great success at the time. (Koffi would set matters to right more that 15 years later, however, using the melody from the song on his hit single, "Tsiane", taken from the album "Pas de Faux Pas").
Koffi's brother continued to support and encourage him and in 1977 when Koffi returned to Zaire during his university vacation, his brother persuaded him to go into the Veve Studio in Kinshasa and record his first songs, "Asso" and "Princesse Ya Senza" (a song which exalted the virtues of womankind). "It was around this period," Koffi recalls, "that people began referring to me as 'the most famous student in Zaire'. At the time I was writing a lot of material for various African music stars. I didn't actually have my own group back then, but I by that time I'd started working with a lot of singers who had theirs."
It was around this period that Koffi began working with Zaïko Langa Langa, but the thing which would really make Koffi's name on the Zairean music scene was his collaboration with the legendary 'sapeur' Papa Wemba. Wemba invited young Koffi to play guitar with his group Viva La Musica, and the pair went on to perform a duet together on their famous joint single "Anibo". (This song would certainly help launch Koffi's career in style, earning the young singer the award for "Best Zairean Singing Star" in 1978).
Although Koffi's collaboration with Papa Wemba certainly helped Koffi get his career off the ground, it has also proved to be a major source of misunderstanding as far as the music press are concerned. All too often, critics have lumped Koffi Olomide in the same musical category as Papa Wemba, portraying the younger singer as little more than a pale copy of Papa Wemba. This has been a constant source of annoyance for Koffi, who has frequently spoken out on this subject, complaining that while he may have written a lot of material for Papa Wemba and his group, he was never, at any point, a paid-up member of Viva la Musica. While Koffi continues to express his admiration and respect for Papa Wemba, he is adamant that Wemba profited more from his songwriting than he did from Wemba's helping hand at the beginning of his career. However, it would be very wrong to portray Koffi and Papa Wemba's relationship as one of rivalry and enmity. Indeed, in 1996, the pair staged a major reunion to prove their friendship and mutual respect, going into the studio together (more than 20 years after their first collaboration in Kinshasa!) to record a joint album entitled "Wake Up".
Quartier Latin
1983 marked a major turning-point in Koffi's career, as this was the year that the singer went into the studio to record his debut solo album, "Ngounda" (The Exile). Koffi flew out to Belgium on this occasion to work with producer Roland Leclerc, who initiated the rising young star into the mysteries of modern studio technology. "That was my very first experience in a professional studio," Koffi recalls fondly. At the age of 27, Koffi was more determined than ever to make a name for himself on the African music scene. The singer faced an uphill battle, however. The only way to record or perform regularly in Kinshasa was to team up with established groups and artists and make collective albums. So this is precisely what Koffi did, going into the studio to record two joint albums, "Olomide et Yakini Kiesse" and "Olomide et Fafa de Molokoi". However, the ambitious young singer felt deeply frustrated by this situation. The only solution, it appeared, was to branch out and form his own group.
So, in 1986, Koffi set about forming Quartier Latin, a multi-talented collective of singers and dancers with whom he went on to forge an excellent reputation for their exuberant live shows. Following Papa Wemba's example, Koffi could now double his output, alternately recording a solo album under his own name and a collective album with Quartier Latin. This set-up gave Koffi three major advantages. Firstly, he could supply his group of young musicians with regular performing and recording work. Secondly, he could give the musicians of Quartier Latin the chance to try their hand at singing and songwriting. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly of all, Koffi was constantly in the media spotlight, either as a solo act or performing with Quartier Latin.
In close collaboration with Quartier Latin, Koffi began to forge a new style which he hoped would appeal to international audiences as well as Zairean music fans. (This evolution was perhaps inevitable, given that the artist regularly divided his time between his homes in Paris and Kinshasa). Koffi had been particularly impressed by the success of the Antillais zouk group Kassav. Under the leadership of their charismatic frontman, Jacob Desvarieux, the group had rocketed to international fame by fusing modern dance rhythms with traditional sources. Kassav's approach opened Koffi's eyes to a whole new range of musical possibilities. (Indeed, the African star willingly cites Kassav as one of the most important influences on his work).
Golden Star
After ten years of experimenting with different musical styles on the Zairean music scene, Koffi decided the time was ripe to launch a concerted attack on the international market. Koffi threw himself into his new project body and soul, and those who had hitherto considered Koffi Olomide to be an artist 'with potential' were able to watch the singer blossom into an extraordinarily prolific star. In 1987 Koffi returned to the studio to record two new singles ("Kiki Ewing" and "Ngobila"), which both appeared on small independent labels based in Kinshasa. (These songs would hit the international music scene five years later when Koffi re-recorded them on his famous album "Diva").
Koffi's international career really got off the ground in 1988, however, with the release of the single "Henriquet". (The song, which paid tribute to Miss Congo, was the title track from Koffi's new album released on the Kaluila/Gefraco label). Riding the wave of success generated by this album, Koffi returned to the studio the following year to record another album on Kaluila/Gefraco. The album, which was entitled "Golden Star dans Stephie", soon scored another huge success with the public, leading fans to give Koffi a new nickname - "Golden Star"! One of the most outstanding tracks on Koffi's new album was the song "Elle et Moi" (Her and Me), which was dedicated to his only daughter, Minou. Minou's birth caused a major change in Koffi's life and the singer expressed his overwhelming sense of joy in the lyrics of "Elle et Moi":
"Enfin elle est là, plus belle que toutes les femmes, que toutes mes illusions ! Minou, Minou comme un fruit mûr, sucré jusqu'au noyau, chaque nuit elle et moi c'est le carnaval. Qui donc viendra nous prendre en photo ? Minou dans mon coeur et dans mon âme comme le lait dans du café. Tu me recrées, fillette !"
("She's here at last, more beautiful than any woman I've ever known, more beautiful than the sweetest of my illusions! Minou, Minou, like a ripe fruit, sweet to the core, you and I, every evening it's carnival time together. Oh, who'll come and take a picture of the pair of us? Minou, in my heart and in my soul, inseparable as milk in coffee. Oh, little daughter, you renew me!")
Koffi's new album also revealed the singer's multi-instrumental talents on bass and guitar. Koffi was also responsible for co-writing the album's musical arrangements with Manu Lima (a keyboard wizard renowned as one of the most talented musicians on Paris's thriving world music scene). Manu Lima also co-produced "Golden Star dans Stephie" with Koffi. By this stage of his career, Koffi was working with the very best that studio technology had to offer, as he strove to create the perfect fusion of modern and traditional sounds. Ironically Koffi, who was renowned for performing on stage with a collective of at least 15 musicians and a 'torrid' dance troupe, cut back human input on his albums, preferring to surround himself with machines in the studio (row upon row of digital keyboards and the very latest computer technology).
In 1989 Koffi had experimented with releasing the single "Petit Frère Ya Jésus" on his own label Tchatcho. Released on a small independent label, the song was not exactly destined for international success (and Koffi would later re-record the song on his 1991 album "Golden Star dans Stephie"). It was this venture that made Koffi realise that if he wanted to make a name for himself on the international scene, he would have to sign to a bigger label. In 1990 the singer returned to the studio to record a new album entitled "Les Prisonniers Dorment", which was released on KS Production in January 1991. (When Koffi went on to sign a new recording contract with the legendary Sonodisc label, the song was re-named "L'Orfèvre"). Koffi's fans were disappointed by the singer's new single, however. They had been expecting a follow-up to "Elle et Moi" - and what they got was a return to 70's-style soukouss!
Meanwhile, Sonodisc became extremely interested in adding Koffi Olomide to their prestigious stable of Zairean artists. Koffi was only too willing to sign a recording contract with the legendary label, and the result was that both his career and his creativity received an extraordinary boost. (Koffi has remained loyal to Sonodisc ever since).
The artist was now in an ideal position to relaunch a concerted attack on the international music scene in the 90's - and this is exactly what Koffi did, developing a distinctive style of "soukouss-love" known as "Tcha-tcho". Koffi described his new musical style as "the school of good taste, chic and charm", adding that it allowed listeners to re-discover the pleasures of dance, sensual rhythms and a touch of romance. (In fact, Koffi's "Tcha-tcho" was not a million miles removed from Papa Wemba's famous 'S.A.P.E.' movement which was characterised by sensual dance rhythms and a totally flamboyant style of dress).
With the backing of Sonodisc, Koffi's career suddenly took off in style and between 1990 and 1994, the singer enjoyed a lightning rise to fame. Indeed, Koffi Olomide soon began to usurp even the most famous stars in the Zairean charts - earning himself a new nickname, "Rambo". Koffi was incredibly prolific during this period, rushing in and out of the studio and alternating recording sessions with Quartier Latin and his solo work. In the space of just four years, Koffi recorded no less than seven albums! "Golden Star dans Stephie" appeared in 1991. 1992 saw the release of "Diva", a Quartier Latin album entitled "Pas de Faux Pas" and Koffi's solo album "Haut de Gamme". "Noblesse Oblige" was released in 1993, and the following year saw the release of another Quartier Latin album, "Magie", and a new solo album entitled "V12".
International Tcha-tcho
There was no doubt about it, Koffi was by now at the height of his fame. Indeed, when he appeared on a famous Zairean television show at the start of 1992, the presenter Lukunku Sampu introduced him as "the greatest living star on the modern Zairean music scene". Judging by the success of Koffi's 1993 album, "Noblesse Oblige" (which rapidly went on to sell over 100,000 copies, earning the singer his first gold disc!), this description was just about right. Koffi Olomide was well on the way to mega-star status, and if anyone doubted it, they just had to take a look at the legions of "Koffiettes" and "Koffiphiles" queuing up outside the singer's concerts and clamouring for his autograph at the end of each show.
On 31 October 1994 Koffi scored his first triumph in Paris when he performed at the Parc des Expositions at La Porte de Versailles. French music fans went wild for Koffi's "Tcha-tcho" sound and, by the end of November, Koffi and his group Quartier Latin found themselves had rocketed to the N°6 spot in the French record chain FNAC's best-selling charts (beating rock idols Nirvana and French rap king MC Solaar!)
It came as no surprise to anyone when, on 10 December 1994, Koffi Olomide was honoured at the "African Music Awards". At the ceremony, held at the Palais des Congrès in l'Hôtel Ivoire in Abidjan, Koffi leapt up on stage to carry off the awards for Best Male Artist and Best Video of the Year. Koffi finished the year on an absolute high, bringing the house down in Paris when he performed at Aquaboulevard on Christmas Eve. At the end of the year, Koffi released a video featuring eleven songs from "V12".
However, as many artists have discovered to their cost, a lightning rise to fame is often followed by petty jealousies and media backlash. And this is exactly what happened to Koffi Olomide in 1995. The Zairean press had uncovered several 'dubious stories' about Koffi, accusing him of having summarily sacked Scola, one of his famous dancing girls, and abandoned Babia, one of his musicians, when the latter found himself in difficulty with the French authorities over a visa problem. Beevens, the frontman of Quartier Latin was also accused of having plagiarised the leader of Wenge Musica (one of the other most famous backing bands of the day).
On 17 February 1995 Koffi called a press conference in Kinshasa to defend himself against these accusations. Zairean journalists gave the singer a hard time at the press conference, but Koffi, ever the showman, put up a passionate defence. Koffi managed to quash much of the malicious gossip about himself, but rumours continued to fly about a supposed enmity between Koffi and his former mentor, Papa Wemba. The two artists soon quashed these rumours for once and all, however, going into the studio the following year to record a joint album entitled "Wake Up". (Needless to say, the CD album was hailed as one of the world music highlights of 96!)
Following in Brel's Hallowed Footsteps
In 1997 two new "Tcha-tcho" bombs exploded onto the international music scene: Koffi's brilliant album "Loi" and the supremely catchy "Ultimatum", which Koffi recorded with his group Quartier Latin. These albums, which featured a series of famous world music hits such as "Papito charme" and "S.O.S.", soon had critics hailing Koffi as the "African Julio Iglesias". Koffi's seductive velvet tones, which sent his (80% female!) audience into raptures, were also compared to the legendary Barry White!
The "Koffiettes" - most of them dressed up to the nines - were certainly out in force on 29 August 1998, when Koffi Olomide performed at the legendary Olympia music-hall in Paris. Koffi's concert at the Olympia was an emotional moment in the singer's career. And, just before stepping out onto the famous stage, Koffi shared his excitement in a frank and revealing interview: "Performing at the Olympia is a really incredible experience," Koffi declared, "I've dreamt of performing here for the past five or six years, and up until a few months ago, I still couldn't believe this was actually going to happen. I mean, the idea that I'm going to go out there and sing on the same stage where Jacques Brel once performed - it just blows me away! Brel is like a god for me, you know. "Ne me quitte pas" inspired at least two dozen of my own songs … I've been really nervous about tonight's performance, I can tell you. I've taken the preparations for my first Olympia very seriously indeed and I've put a lot of effort and judgement into getting the show just right tonight!"
Koffi's five children certainly didn't need to be embarrassed by their father's performance that night. Far from it, Koffi's show at the Olympia was hailed as an absolute triumph! You only have to experience the frenetic atmosphere on Koffi's live album and video recorded that night (and released just two months later under the title "Live à l'Olympia"), to confirm that this was one of the greatest moments of Koffi Olomide's career.
1,800 "Koffiettes" and "Koffiphiles" heated the Olympia to fever pitch, dancing the night away in a kaleidoscopic whirl of colourful African costumes. And hundreds of other disappointed fans queued in vain for tickets at the door (needless to say, the Olympia was packed out to bursting point!) Those who missed Koffi's exceptional performance at the Olympia will be given a second chance to see their idol in Paris when Koffi performs at Le Zénith on 7 November 1998. This promises to be another evening of wild dancing as Koffi's group Quartier Latin are due to share the stage with the Haitian ensemble Tabou Combo. Meanwhile, "Koffiettes" and "Koffiphiles" have another special treat in store for them - Koffi Olomide has announced that his new album, "Droit de Veto", should arrive in record stores by the end of this year!
Koffi Olomide's album "Droit de veto" went on to prove a huge hit with the French public. Indeed, just six months after its release on 12 April 1999, "Droit de veto" earned the singer a much-deserved gold disc, selling 100,000 copies! Shortly after this triumph, Koffi Olomide returned to the stage as a special guest star, performing at Le Zénith in Paris with Passi and his Congolese rap outfit Bisso na Bisso.
The indefatigable star returned to the forefront of the French music scene in 2000 with an explosive new album entitled "Attentat". "Attentat" received an unheard-of amount of advertising and media coverage for an African album and, in February of this year, Koffi went on to make music history when he became the first African artist to perform a solo show at Bercy stadium (the biggest music venue in Paris).
Acclaimed by his faithful fans, Koffi Olomide walked back on the Zenith stage on July 14th 2001, before taking off to the States where he was to tour with his band Quartier Latin. They performed a successful gig for the Africa Out Loud Festival at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 16th, which the New York Times echoed by a very complimentary review.
In December 2001 the Congolese star brought out a new album entitled "Effrakata" (which means "burglary" in Lingala). This double CD album featuring 16 tracks in all included a guest contribution from Antillais band Zouk Machine. Koffi embarked upon a major tour following the release of the album, bringing the house down when he played in Abidjan on 14 February 2002.
"Monde arabe"
On May 3, 2001, Koffi Olomide's concert at the stade de l’Amitié in Cotonou, Benin, ended in tragedy when 15 people were killed in a crush. Shortly afterward, he kicked off a new North American tour that took in Houston, Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles among other U.S. cities, plus several dates across the border in Canada. In 2004 he toured Africa, visiting Kenya, Burkina Faso, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville. In July, during a concert in Brussels a Congolese journalist – the son of the singer Tabu Ley Rochereau – was assaulted by the security detail. As a reprisal, the Kinshasa media decided to boycott the artist for a 45-day period. The same year, Olomide was invited by French rapper Rohff to duet on the album "La Fierté des nôtres", and by the Ivorian singer Meiway for his album "Golgotha". He also participated along with 17 other African artists to the charity single “Nous sommes les tam-tams”, recorded to raise money for the fight against AIDS and poverty in Africa.
Although originally slated for release in December 2003, his album "Monde arabe" finally came out a year later. The record company he had been signed to for almost fifteen years went out of business, so Koffi Olomide was forced to self-produce the album, recording most of the 18 tracks of this double CD in Paris. The rise of "libanga", a practice where an artist is paid to use someone's name on a song, was one method Koffi used to fund the recording of the album, although it got him into hot water when he sang the praises of Ivorian rebel leader Guillaume Soro in the song "Riziki". In March 2005, he played the Royal Festival Hall in London. Then in April he performed at the Festival Music Ebène in Dakar, as well as the fifth panAfrican Fespam festival, which was held in July on the two banks of the Congo river.
In 2005, Koffi Olomidé, true to his usual polemical self, stirred up yet more controversy by adopting the pseudonym Benoît XVI, just as the real Benoît XVI was made Pope. The National Episcopal Conference in Congo strongly condemned the singer's action, claiming it showed a lack of respect for the head of the Catholic church. Koffi - considered as a megalomaniac by his critics and slightly crazy even by fans’ standards - later changed his name, reinventing himself as "Décakoraman" (a reference to his triumph at the Kora Awards in 2005 where he was named African Artist of the Decade).
2006: "Danger de mort"
At the end of 2005, Koffi & Le Quartier Latin embarked upon a mini-tour of Europe. On 29 April 2006 Koffi and his group returned to Paris to perform at L'Elysée-Montmartre. In October of that year, Koffi went on to bring out a new album, "Danger de mort". In December 2006, Le Quartier Latin celebrated the 20th anniversary of their career, performing concerts with Koffi "the boss" in Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
In October 2007, he was back at the Zénith de Paris where his new recruits to the band, “Les Mineurs”, made their stage début. Some of them jumped ship when the time came to return to Kinshasa. Koffi’s worries continued in Germany, where one of his concerts was cancelled at the last minute even though he was in town, which created a Kafkaesque situation. The performances scheduled in the United Kingdom early in the following year stirred up yet more controversy. Some highly active opponents to the regime in Kinshasa, known as “Les Combattants”, made all kinds of attempts to create obstacles for Koffi Olomide, whom they accused of supporting the Congolese head of state.
Also in 2008, the man who had included “Sarkozy” in his list of nicknames made a come-back with a double album that his fans called “Bord Ezanga Kombo” for want of an official title. Each of the two CDs started with a duet, one with Youssou N’Dour and the other with Lokua Kanza. They also featured several songs with Cindy Le Cœur, a young Congolese artist that Olomide had taken under his wing. She was also in his team when he made another appearance at the Zénith de Paris in 2009. Their artistic relationship resulted in a show they performed in Kinshasa in February 2010 entitled "Cindy chante Koffi", that later came out on a CD.
The recipe was such a success that the boss of Quartier Latin tried it out once again with "Koffi chante Tabu Ley". The three concerts he gave in Cameroon in that period brought a reminder that he preferred staying on African territory: in France, several backing singers and dancers had accused him of rape and sequestration. In February 2012 he was indicted in the case while his new album "Abradacabra" was intensively pirated before it was even released, an action that the singer and his associates put down to the work of the Combattants.
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Urinary Concentrations of Monohydroxylated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Adults From the U.S. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Wave 1 (2013-2014)
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Yuesong Wang et al. Environ Int. .
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Background: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are environmental pollutants formed from incomplete combustion of organic matter; some PAHs are carcinogens. Smoking, diet, and other activities contribute to exposure to PAHs. Exposure data to PAHs among combustible tobacco product users (e.g. cigarette smokers) exist; however, among non-combustible tobacco products users (e.g., e-cigarette users), such data are rather limited.
Objectives: We sought to evaluate exposure to PAHs among participants in Wave 1 (2013-2014) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study based on the type of tobacco product (combustible vs non-combustible), and frequency and intensity of product use.
Methods: We quantified seven PAH urinary biomarkers in 11,519 PATH Study participants. From self-reported information, we categorized 8327 participants based on their use of tobacco products as never-tobacco user (never user, n = 1700), exclusive current established combustible products user (combustible products user, n = 5767), and exclusive current established non-combustible products user (non-combustible products user, n = 860). We further classified tobacco users as exclusive cigarette user (cigarette user, n = 3964), exclusive smokeless product user (SLT user, n = 509), and exclusive e-cigarette user (e-cigarette user, n = 280). Last, we categorized frequency of product use (everyday vs some days) and time since use (last hour, within 3 days, over 3 days). We calculated geometric mean (GM) concentrations, and evaluated associations between tobacco product user categories and PAH biomarkers concentrations.
Results: Combustible products users had significantly higher GMs of all biomarkers than non-combustible products users and never users; non-combustible products users had significantly higher GMs than never users for four of seven biomarkers. For all biomarkers examined, cigarette users had the highest GMs compared to other tobacco-product users. Interestingly, GMs of 2-hydroxyfluorene, 3-hydroxyfluorene and ∑2,3-hydroxyphenanthrene were significantly higher in SLT users than in e-cigarette users; 3-hydroxyfluorene and 1-hydroxypyrene were also significantly higher in e-cigarette and SLT users than in never users. Everyday cigarette and SLT users had significantly higher GMs for most biomarkers than some days' users; cigarette and SLT users who used the product in the last hour had significantly higher GMs of most biomarkers than other occasional cigarette or SLT users respectively. By contrast, everyday e-cigarette users' GMs of most biomarkers did not differ significantly from those in some days' e-cigarette users; we did not observe clear trends by time of last use among e-cigarette users.
Conclusions: Users of tobacco products had higher PAH urinary biomarker concentrations compared to never users, and concentrations differed by type and frequency of tobacco product use.
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Geometric mean (GM) biomarker concentrations (95% CI)a and adjusted geometric mean ratios (95% CI) from ANCOVA model (never user as reference)b,c by tobacco user groupsd and specific tobacco-product user groupse, PATH Study Wave 1 (2013–2014). aGM concentration in μg/L for 1-hydroxynaphthalene and 2-hydroxynaphthalene; in ng/L for the rest of the biomarkers; error bars display the 95% confidence intervals. bAdjusted for log10(creatinine), race/ethnicity, sex, and age. cRelative standard error (RSE) > 30% (CDC, 2002). dThree main tobacco user groups: never user (never), non-combustible products user (n-combust), and combustible products user (combust) are mutually exclusive. eFour specific tobacco-product user groups: never user (never), e-cigarette user (e-cig), SLT user (SLT), and cigarette user (cig) are mutually exclusive.
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booch007 posted:
Good morning Fmily,
I noticed a very old post (3tears ago) (I don't know how you find these..). was posted about Savella.
I need to just share again the information that was printed in the American Journal of Medicine in 2009.
Savella is not like any other SNRI as it is really a NSRI. It increases Norepinephrine 3 times that of seratonin. Now you may say what does that matter.
Seratonin is our feel good chemical and Norepinephrine is a cousin to Epinephrine. (Your fight or flight chemical) (Able to lift a car from a child when you are crazy is epinephrine that does that)
Norepinephrine has very strong powers to increase blood pressure and can also increase heart rate and give you palpatations.
In 2009 when I started the med i saw I couldn't take more than the 12.5mg (little blue tablet) My heart rate was up, anxiety and grinding my teeth and my poor B/p was also effected.
I continued because of pain free moments with it....and added anothe B/p med to cover it. (Hate when you have to take something because of something else...)
So for those with arrythmias and heart involvement the first thing the doctors should know is Savella is raising your norepinephrine levels.
If I went into Atrial fib I would stop the med right away. BUT I would look to a high level care for cardioversion BACK TO sinus rhythm.
If the heart is structurally sound (as seen on echo) you should convert without issue. Now they need to do a special echo to see there is no clot in the upper chamber first, but you should be reset to Normal sinus rhythm.
My Neurologist and I spoke that a BLACK BOX WARNING will come on this med for arrythmias. (palpataions) She doesn't use the loading pak that they make now. She starts everyone on 12.5 and brings them up slow watching the heart rate an c/o palps and B/P issues.
It is sad that with this disease we are always watching what works and what has too many side effects or wasn't really a life changer for us.
It is sad that the general MD's don't really understand our plight and some of our meds.
This is why I share this information. An MD gave it to me...knowing I was in fight mode for this disease and the information may help. It was an FM article.
OK, Good luck and I hope this helps someone.
Nancy B
mnjeepguy responded:
Great info, thanks Nancy. When I took it they gave me the titration pack. It did give me sweats while adjusting and did raise my BP some, but it was still in a safe range. My Dr did not understand why I did not get the same benefits from SNRI meds as Savella. This clears that up for me.
booch007 replied to mnjeepguy's response:
I don't think anyone read or saw the article that made this so clear to me. The detailmen that bring the starter paks to the offices should really make that so clear. SHE (my savella) is a different kind of bullet.
I think she hits our dragon right in the stomach and biting me then is out of the question!! (like my picture....) If I could make a charecature I would do this....and savella would be a bullet in deep lavender color...)
I know i am losing it!
I don't like the use of the titration pak as it bring you up so fast and some have gotten in trouble or said "I can't take it". If they hung out at the 12.5 dose for a bit longer and built up so slow I know more would get in a better place.
Well, Cory I hope you get back on it and do better......
HUgs from me, Nancy B
fibroinsd replied to booch007's response:
Nancy..I read what you wrote..and I am so glad it is working for you...but I kept thinking that you have to be a nurse like you to be aware enough of this med...I feel like some have taken it..not realized the heart problems with it..until they get into trouble with it..So glad you are here to make things more clear..
Let's put the fun back in dysfunctional !- Mary Englebright
booch007 replied to fibroinsd's response:
THAT is what is driving me crazy. I even spoke to the saleman for the drug in the Neurologists office. SHE (MD) got it right away (plus I gave her the article)
I don't know know why the literature in the pamphlet doesn't discuss the action that is unique for this med.
You are right....when given the titration pak, people can get into I did. I couldn't sleep and B/P was up and I was biting /grinding my teeth.....(on edge). So I stopped moving up in dose and asked to be brought down....I wasn't sure the little 12.5mg tablets were available but they were and that is where I stayed.
It is a dangerous med for those with palpatation risk or the elderly she has tried to use it on. People with Hypertension like me. I would not lose it though. Just had to figure how to stay on it.......
I am hoping that Cory can figure a way to get back on to help him. If it works there is aplan for everyone (just have to figure it out). The company will help pay for it. Drug assistance companies like the one I posted in the past.
You have be assertive to get through this sometimes.
Hugs Cece, Nancy B
kasie75 responded:
Nice to know about this. I am on a beta blocker for chest pain and high BP and my doctor never mind anything about this when he gave me Savella, however I did not have those symptoms. I did however stop taking this med, for one it really did not help and for two-my worse side affect was muscle spams and night sweats. I would be laying down and my whole leg would just jump or my arm or my whole jaw would jerk open and close. I would wake up soaked in sweat, which if it would have helped with my pain I could have handled the sweaty part but not the part of my limbs jerking all over the place!
When I started taking it, I did do some research and I heard how it worked wonders for so many people, however they did state you had to be on it for a while before all the side affects stopped. I was on it about four months. We are all different so some drugs works great on some and not on others. I am not going to put anything in my body unless its going to really improve my symptoms.
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1. "Oh there is plenty to hit, I am just showing restraint." Rachel rolls up off the ground to her feet brushing the dirt from her shorts. "And it isn't my Subconscious that's riled. Look, I know that I am headstrong, and blunt, and I don't always think things through. I have always needed the be the one to right the wrongs. And now that need has become I guess my purpose. I mean I know when some one feels guilty about some thing now, just from hearing them talk. I don't know what they are guilty of but I know. And All of this is making me suspicious and seeing conspiracies, second guessing everyone's motive and I do mean everyone. So That being said I will trust you guys to tell me when and who and what you want me to hit."
2. "Really Austin? You, Fisher, Nadya, and I, even Grim, have lived here our entire, or almost our entire lives. And none of us had a clue what was going on right in front of us. But they knew who we were." She shakes her head, Wolf can tell she's getting frustrated. "We're not spares, not back up for when things go wrong? Then why did they wait on visiting us, until now? Why not when they visited Donner or the other in that gang who lived here. Come on your all smarter than that, smarter than me. I guess i'm just crazy huh."
3. Rachel keeps eye contact with Grim and nods as the newest member of the band has his say and even starts to give him a little smile when Laurie speaks up. Rachel doesn't turn to face the extremely beautiful girl who is behind her but does look over her shoulder as she listens. Once Laurie, finishes Rachel contemplates her words for a few seconds then nods at Laurie's comments as well, then, giving Grim a pat and squeeze on his shoulder, moves from the center of the group to where Wolf is and sits down on the ground next to her where she starts petting the large puppy. "I trust his judgment, but not his motives." She takes a deep breath, lets it out." "I may have conveyed the wrong sentiment with my use of the word stray. I am not a good speaker," she shakes her head and then mumbles, "not really a very good leader either. I didn't mean to disparage anyone. Not Grim, Not you, Laurie, nor anyone else here, but in truth we are all strays, we may have been unwanted, we may have been mistakes, or accidents, and we are definitely all spares. That is just the way I see it. It doesn't change who I am or how I see myself. But it does change how I see them.”
4. The white mustang pulled past the limo with Laurie's driver sitting in it, Rachel's silvered lenses looking at the old man who looked back without betraying any emotion, and went to the back side to park so their cars wouldn't be visible from the road outside the property. She noted with some annoyance that everyone had beaten her here. Not their fault that she had been held up by her fathers. Again. She walked up one them her footfalls covered by the exquisite sounds coming from Laurie's violin, only Wolf noticed and she only raised her head from where she lay near Nadya an empty cup of doughnut holes on the ground between them. She noted Grim sitting off by himself his face stuck in a book while Austin and Fisher were standing close by each other talking about something while listening to the music and waiting for her. She stepped around a stack of wooden pallets and into full view and strode into their midst as Laurie drew out the last note of the piece she had been playing. "Sorry I'm late." Rachel didn't explain the reason for her tardiness but continued. "It's been just about five months now since I met my real father and had this...destiny thrust upon me. All of us have similar tales to mine. We were all just normal kids, then boom suddenly we are the divine children of gods we had only heard about in classrooms or comicbooks. We have had to do a lot of adjusting to do over those months. We have learned a lot. We have had too. Personally almost since day one I have found myself getting angrier and angrier at ...everything. All of this has me wondering if my standing up for those being bullied since i was a little kid in first grade was just my way of being a bully. None of us were friends. Yes we knew each other, except for Laurie, but friends no. We became friends because of this, Because we faced a bunch of evil assholes who murdered Wolf's mother, because we fought beside one another, would have died for one another saving those kids from that swamp witch. Because we stood against a freaking horde of zombies and saved a classmate from falling to an evil which was consuming her. Things I am proud of. Proud of myself and proud of you. Proud of things none of us should ever have had to do." Rachel looks around catching each eye, even Grims who has lain the book in his lap and is watching her with hooded brows. "We are kids, they call us heroes, not because of what we do but because of the training and level of power we posses. They are gods, who for the most part have stood by while people have died, while people have been subjected to magic and demons and worse. While we ourselves have suffered. They use us. Oh look here is a crisis lets send one of the kiddie groups. It is just like those myths we are taught in English class, we are the gods playthings." She looks directly at Grim. "And yes they stick us with strays, because as far as they are concerned that is what you are Grim, a stray. It's what we all were. But worse than that they didn't give you any choice, didn't give you any preparation just here you go you run along and live and die with these guys. Toodle off now. They knew my feelings on the matter, and right now I am beating myself up because I let them do it to me. make me angry. And i took it out on you. That was wrong. For that I am sorry." She doesn't step any closer but extends her hand toward Grim. He know she has more to say to him but that she won't say it here in front of everyone, that it is for the two of them alone, that it isn't an apology and it isn't something he will enjoy hearing. Sometimes the wisdom of Odin is a fucking burden.
5. Rachel listened as Fisher talked, she closed her eyes and leaned her head back. She felt...violent, it wasn't any sort of definable anger, not really just a desire to hurt, almost a need. Have I always been like this? "I'm in the middle of my run Fisher, I am going to finish it. I will be at the stables in about thirty minutes. Call the rest of the band have them meet us there in an hour. Band members only. You bring Grimsley. Come early if you want." She ended the call and clicked play and as the music started continued her run.
6. Rachel glances at her arm where her phone is riding in it's sleeve, see Fisher's name and slows to a stopped and looks up and down the road before thumbing the answer slid. "What?" "I know who it is Fisher I have caller ID just like everyone else. Indulge your curiosity, what are you taking English lessons from him now? I let him know that I was not happy that Mr Syracuse foisted another of their wayward children on us again without even consulting us or giving us a choice. Which is exactly what I told them not to do if you recall. And then I asked him about his grandfather, because even you should remember that the old man had had his head caved in and then Agar simply vanished. Maybe abducted maybe not. He was involved in an unsolved murder, and i needed to know if it was going to be an issue." She sounded testy like she wanted to punch something or someone.
7. Rachel sits back at the quiet rebuke. "I'll take that as a 'no' then." She slides her chair back and stands, "And did you actually just say whilst?" She waits to see if he will answer or ignore her. After about fifteen seconds of silence she pushes the chair back in. "Okay. We train at the old Carlton Stables, that and other things. When your finished here you should make your way there but don't go on the grounds unless some of us are there. I drive a Mustang Nadya drives an old Mercury. We need to see what you can do. Later." This time she doesn't bother waiting.
8. Rachel held her cup in both hands and sort of moved it around swirling the contents. "Just so you understand, I am not happy with the way Mr Syracuse and Coach Fingers and all the rest of them keep dumping their strays in our band. It's nothing personal really." She takes a drink of coffee and glances at Darci, gives her a nod hello. She lens forward and looks at Grim's mismatched eyes. "My dad investigated your grandfathers murder. And your...abduction. Are those events going to be a problem for us?"
9. The to-go cup didn't quite slam down on the table but that was still the impression Grim got as he looked up and Rachel Cooper sat down across from him, her hair pulled back into a severe short pony tail. She was wearing running shorts and matching running shoes, a tank top with of all things a unicorn with the words DEATH METAL underneath it, over a sports bra. Most of it was pink. Rachel sat back her coffee on the table she folded her arms across her breasts and looked (glared if you want to know the truth) at her newest problem. It was her weekend morning run, five miles into town from her house a coffee break at the Drip then back home. When she got to the coffee shop she saw her new band mate, Grim, sitting inside reading a book. He hadn't noticed her when she came in and picked up her coffee at the counter, usually she sat out on the terrace but she hesitated. The band had met after the dance Friday night where Fisher and Austin had explained what had happened before they were finished, Mr Syracuse had come up to them with Grimsley Algar in tow and explained that he would be joining them. Just like that. Just like Grace and Laurie before. Here deal with him see if he fits. We will be watching. Rachel remembered Grimsley from school at least a little, certainly remembered the death of his grandfather, since her dad had been one of the detectives that had worked the unsolved case. And now here he was one of them, another in a seemingly endless parade of scions, the gods little left overs, assigned to her band. Again. She took a breath and let it out. “Seventh grade English, Mrs Foster, 3rd period before lunch. I think that's the only class we ever had together. Only one I remember anyway.” She took a sip of her coffee.
10. THE STABLES SATURDAY AFTER THE DANCE Rachel was pushing herself, lifting the maximum weights she could and doing it only under the watchful eye of the huge wolf puppy chewing in the steer bone she had brought for Wolf. The ache in her straining muscles was a welcome feeling after the uncomfortable silence that had been breakfast. When she had gotten home the house had been dark but at least there hadn't been a nightmare scene of blood and body parts. She checked on her dads both had been asleep which surprised her to tell the truth. She had figured that they would all be up waiting for her too do whatever it was dads did under these circumstances. As if these circumstances had ever happened to anyone else. But they hadn't been so she went to bed too. Saturday morning had come and she had gone down stairs drawn to the smell of fresh brewed coffee, then at the bottom of the stairs she smelled the cigarette smoke and froze. She slowly advanced to the breakfast nook and peered around the wall and saw all three of her fathers, Micheal and Vidar, sitting at the table and Robert at the bar separating the nook from the rest of the kitchen. She had started to back up when Vidar spoke. "Come and eat daughter, your father, Micheal makes a wonderful... What did you call that egg concoction?" "A Southwestern Fritatta." "Yes that, exactly. Come sit and eat and tell us of your dance Taryn," the Aesir said as he lit another cigarette. "Her name is Rachel," Robert mumbled from the bar. To say that Breakfast had been uncomfortable...not even close. The opening measures of Led Zeppelins Immigrant Song broke the silence of the stables. Wolf growled and Rachel set the barbell on it's stand then grabbed her phone. It was Billy. "Hey?" she said as she took her towel and wiped the sweat from her face. "Hey back at ya. At least your alive. is everyone else?" Her boyfriend asked covering his worry with humor. Rachel couldn't help but smile. "Yeah everyone is still breathing. But weird." "I bet, want to grab something to eat?" She looked at the screen of the phone and was surprised at the time she had been working out longer than she had thought. She glanced at Wolf who was gnawing on what was left of the bone she had brought. Yeah a bit longer than she had thought. Her stomach growled. "Sure sounds good. I'm working out at the stables Let me grab a shower then I'll pick you up. Gimme a half hour."
11. Rachel was amazed by Billy, by his acceptance of things he couldn't possibly understand, by his ability to forgive, by his loyalty and his love. She let him lead her back to the dance and the thousand stares and the four or five glares and she ignored them all. She focused all of herself on Billy. This was his moment and she was going to spend it with him and woe be to the person or thing that got between them for the rest of this night. Whether by design or fate when they got to the dance floor the music had shifted to a slow romantic tempo and she sunk into his arms and they danced, his hands on her waist her head on his shoulder. It was perfect. Oh she knew they were doomed, their love couldn't possibly survive, if it could it would have been in the sagas written into the skein of things to come. But that was all the more reason to grab and hold on to what they could have now, hold it for as long as she could and give whatever horrible thing the norns had in store for them the fight of their lives. She, they, may not have been mentioned in the sagas, how could they have been they hadn't been born yet. But their legend would be in the next volume. She, Rachel Cooper, Taryn Vidarsdottir, would make godsdammed sure of that. For all of them.
12. “Yes...and no. You Billy, are proving to be more complex than I was giving you credit for. And for that I am sorry.” She stepped close and took his hand but didn't hug or kiss him. “If you hadn't of bolted, there wouldn't have been any doubt in anyone's mind who I am with and who I want to be with. I didn't kiss her because it was hot. I did it because I needed everyone but especially her band to see it. And I needed her to know that if she ever messed with me or us again like she did tonight, that I would kill her.” Rachel started walking and Billy went along her words registering. “Kill her? As in dead? Really dead” The look on his face was a cross between disbelief and horror. Rachel was slowly steering them toward the Library but she wasn't in a hurry to get there. “Yes, really dead. Look she was pushing my buttons she came into the locker room before the game and kissed me. MY mind has been so in turmoil over everything lately and one of those things was all of you thinking I was gay. So yeah I was messed up and my mind wasn't on the game, then We go home I tell my dads what I told you and unlike you they don't believe me and then my real dad shows up and sent us here then she did it again felling me up with her freaking ghost hands when we went on the dance floor. All this other stuff going on Then Nadya gets up and sings that song.” Billy is just walking along his own thoughts in turmoil part wanted to just leave but part the stronger part not wanting to let go of her hand. Rachel takes a breath then continues “She sang that song and I don't know something in me responded to it. I accepted it and I looked at everything that's happened and you know what I saw? I saw you. You have been there the entire time since school started and you have been my friend and more. I thought I hated you when we were kids but that was just the only way I knew to understand those feelings. I know what I am, I know what Fisher, and Nadya, and Austin are, what Bridgette is and Donner and those guys. And I know what you are.” “Wait me?” “Look Billy, my dad is Thor's brother.” “I thought Loki was Thor's brother...” “No.. step uncle but that doesn't matter. We're Aesir we are bound by destiny and fate. And so are you. We have been bound since we were kids. I can't explain it all I don't understand it all but There's some one who can, Mr Syracuse, I'll get him to tell you how it all works. But what you need to know Is I am my Father daughter, I am Aesir and you are part of my destiny. And I love you.”
13. The kiss did send shivers through her body but that was not its purpose. She smiled a decidedly un-Rachel like smile and leaned close so only Bridgett could hear, "That was nice and I'm glad you enjoyed it too, but I'm with Billy, and just like you are your daddy's girl I am my fathers daughter. You ever pull shit like you did at the game, or tried to do here and I will forget that I like you and I will rip your spine out through your chest. Justice, vengeance, just different sides of the same coin." Rachel spun away and started back toward where she had left Billy. And she didn't see him. Anger flared, but she tamped it down and went after him, after all he couldn't hide from her even if he wanted too.
14. Meanwhile... Rachel watched them as the three boys headed to wherever Niles was going to take them. She had purposefully stepped away before Niles had told Fisher and Austin, just encase. With a last sigh she went back around the corner and back into the Dance alone. Coach Fingers scowled at her and she shrugged in response but neither of them said anything Nadya was still on the stage now singing a duet with Dane, and the sad thing was that wasn't even going to be the strangest or most shocking thing tonight. She looked around and spotted Billy and made her way through her fellow students to come up behind him. She slipped her arms around him pressing against his back and nuzzling his neck “Miss me?” He chuckled and twisted around to face, “Yeah I did.” He smile and it lifted her heart. Gods she didn't want to hurt him. “You get everything straightened out?” “Not quite there's a couple of more things then I'm all yours.” I hope. She looked deep into his eyes she could lose herself there she hoped she had the chance to when all was said and done. “I know everything is a whirlwind right now Billy and I know it seems that things are coming at you, at us, fast. You said that you cared for me and I believe you cause I care for you a great deal. I want to make sure you know that that what I feel in my heart for you is real.” “I know it is Rachel I've always felt this way about you and I always will. Even with everything and all that other stuff.” She still searched his eyes looking for his heart. She felt no warnings of guilt so she smiled. “Good I have to go get Laurie and send her after the boys they may need backup. Whatever happens next doesn't change anything with us I need you to understand that and that I love you.” She kissed him softly a lingering kiss that had a couple of chaperones frowning but before it got into serious violation territory Rachel stepped back and smiled at her daze boyfriend. She saw Eric and his band at the other end of the auditorium not on the dance floor that's where Lauri was. She made her way there and nodded at Eric who just smirked at her. “Laurie, I hate to spoil your evening but I need you to go after Austin and Fisher they need backup.” “Its Homecoming Cooper don't mess everyone's just night up because you couldn't perform.” said Eric and some of the others snickered. “This is band Business Eric, so butt out please. Laurie you can Text Austin he'll tell you where they are and what's going on. I have to stay here for something else and to watch over Nadya” Rachel didn't wait for a reply or to see if Laurie was going to comply instead she turned and looked at Bridgette who was leaning on the back of a folding chair a few feet away. She took a breath and locked eyes with the tall dark beauty and walked right up to her right into her space. “Just so we are on the same page I want you to know that I can give as good as I get.” Rachel reached up and snaked her hand around the back of Bridgett's neck as she stepped in close while pulling her face down to hers. Their lips met, mouths moved hands touched hips. Rachel kissed Bridgette Now the chaperones had something to worry about.
15. Rachel cocks her head as Niles ramble then reaches out placing a firm hand on his shoulder at which he flinchs. "Relax Niles, non of us here are going to hurt you but you have to help us now. More than likely Todd has gone to whereever you first cast the spell. I need you to show Austin and Fisher where this is do you understand." Austin looked at Rachel, surprise showing, "Wait your not going?" Rachel shakes her head, "If he gets the spell cast before we stop him I may be under the influence of the same spell Nadya is. I doubt I would let anything happen to Todd in that case. We can't risk that. You and Fisher will have to go with Todd, I will go back in and send Laurie to join you and I 'll watch over Nadya. It's up to you to stop him brothers, I have faith. And don't hurt them bring them both back and the spell."
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The Truth About Belts, Lifting Shoes, and Straps
written by: Dr. John Rusin
by: Dr. John Rusin
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Tools or Crutches?
What's the deal with weight belts, lifting straps, and Olympic lifting shoes? Are they good tools or are they doing more harm than good? Many "functional training" coaches will tell you not to use them. But many strength coaches will tell you they're a necessity. So which is it? Unfortunately, the answer is not so cut and dried.
1 – Lifting Straps
Wrist straps (not wraps) have become associated with a weak grip among some hardcore lifters. Avoiding straps during heavy staples like deadlifts, rows, and pulldowns can be good for building forearm and hand strength, but there are also strategic uses where straps are ideal.
Straps should be mainly used where grip is the limiting factor, or in the execution of exercises to create a stronger mind-muscle connection in specific muscles. Here's when you should start strapping up and when you should just go raw.
When To Use Them
To progress in the gym, you'll need constant long-term overload. But once you're close to your physical potential, more glaring weak links will eventually come to the forefront of training. And that'll make it harder to keep pushing the load in the big lifts.
Using straps strategically during supra-maximal loaded training can be advantageous. It'll keep you from being limited by your grip strength and allow other muscles of the body to be overloaded.
The hand, wrist, and forearm musculature is slow-twitch dominant, which means it's designed to withstand extended periods of tension. Your grip is built for endurance, but there are times in advanced training where the total time under tension (TUT) can be limited by your grip.
In more advanced bodybuilding programming that involves high relative intensity, like extended drop sets, partial reps, and isometric holds, your grip shouldn't be your limiting factor if you're wanting to reap the benefits of extending a set and chasing a pump.
For pulling movements, where intensity techniques are implemented, straps are actually a preferred setup in order to maximize the challenge of each set. You can also use straps in more isolation-based movements to emphasize muscular actions at the back, shoulders, or even the lower body.
Using the lat pulldown as an example, the primary muscular mover should be the lats. But many times the forearms and biceps can take tension away from the lats, making it extremely hard to elicit strong, high-quality contractions.
By using straps, the grip can relax while the biceps are also de-emphasized, which shifts the load more directly to the lats. This same principle can apply to higher-rep deadlifts with a back emphasis, direct shoulder work such as lateral raises, and even during lower-body movements like lunges with heavy dumbbells held at the sides.
When NOT To Use Them
If you're new to the strength game, ditch the straps. You're improving motor skills and learning to tap into full body tension. Going strapless for the first one or two years will help strengthen your joints and prevent unnecessary shoulder, elbow, and spinal pain.
Lift with your bare hands to improve the irradiation effect, which transfers force from the hands up into the kinetic chain. Sure, it'll place a ceiling on the weights you're able to handle, but this is a good thing when movement patterns are first being developed.
What about the more advanced lifter? While you've earned the right to train heavy, there's a slippery slope for strap work. You still need to be judicious with it.
Sure, strapping up will allow for heavier weight to be moved, especially if your weakest link is at your fingertips. But even for the advanced, straps should be used sparingly, and only sprinkled into top-end sets. All warm-up and ramp-up sets should be done raw, and a vast majority of accessory pulling should also be taking place without straps.
Finally, if grip or bicep strength are your weak link, use heavy, raw grip work to bring these up. Then, as the grip and forearms become more emphasized in raw training, your biceps will also be recruited at a higher rate, due again to the law or irradiation. While this is a great thing to bring up these problem areas for more advanced lifters, having your grip and biceps take over during pulling-based exercises can be a challenge. Use straps wisely if that happens.
2 – Belts
This accessory is the most abused and misused. As polarizing as the topics of core strength and lower back pain are, this tool sits right at the heart of a hotly debated question:
"Will the constant use of a lifting belt weaken the core?"
The true answer is almost always somewhere in the middle of the polarizing viewpoints. And in this case, it's highly dependent on the individual lifter and his or her unique challenges.
When To Use Them
Everyone wants a specific number when it comes to using the belt on the big lifts. Should you start using it once you hit a 400 pound deadlift? Or should you use it every time you plan to lift 90% of your max?
But since every lifter has individual body types, goals, and a unique history of training experience and injury, there are no strict rules on the use of belts for the squat and deadlift. The best indicator is a combination of training age on the big lifts and the ability to create a hard and stable brace through the pillar unit (your shoulders, hips and core).
Serious strength training – consisting of periodized barbell lifts for two-plus years – is the training age at which a lifter can potentially have success implementing the belt. If that seems like a long time to you, you haven't been lifting long enough. Proper bracing technique during compound movements takes years, if not decades, to master. It's an ongoing process. But this leads to the next predictive criteria of belted training success: the brace.
Bracing is the ability to create maximal torque around the ball and socket-based hip and shoulder joints in conjunction with 360 degree active expansion through the torso, core, and thoracic cage. It needs to be a prerequisite to adding a belt into the training equation.
Force or tension leaks that occur with lifters who haven't mastered pillar bracing can actually be exacerbated by the addition of a belt. Just as we don't add weight to a faulty foundational movement pattern, we should also not be adding an external brace (a belt) to our own faulty bracing mechanism.
Once you've mastered the ability to brace, and you've decided to strategically implement the belt, the next question is when to use it for maximal benefit.
A vast majority of barbell sport athletes and seasoned recreational lifters will have success using a belt for working sets (not warm-up sets) of squat and hip hinge variations. So if you're working at a top-end load or relative intensity in these two movement patterns, use the belt to enhance your performance and maximize your brace.
When NOT To Use Them
Most lifters who use the belt have no clue what it's there for or how to use it. It's just another trend among morons who strap up their midsections right before they injure their lower backs.
If you're a novice, or have a lower back problem, make sure you know how to properly brace, stabilize, and maintain tension through the midsection. Your lack of basic stability requirements throughout the core may be the exact reason why you're always messing up your back, even with the belt on.
The lifting belt is an advanced training tool for advanced athletes who have earned the right to apply it to their training in order to enhance the feel and stability of a big lift. It's not a fashion accessory.
It should not be put on in the locker room before a workout and only taken off after hitting the showers. And it for damn sure shouldn't give you the confidence or false security that it will protect you from injuries. A 6mm piece of leather can't hold together poor movement execution, nor was it designed to.
Even for advanced lifters there are times where lifting 100% raw is still the preferred method. If an exercise is targeting core strength, like a loaded carry, skip the belt and go raw. For upper body work like presses and pulls, along with unilateral lower body work like lunges, split squats, and single-leg hinges, go beltless. And this should go without saying (but hell, I've seen it) if you're doing cardio or training arms, lose the belt.
Decreasing the dependency on a belt will enable you to create more authentic and functional full-body tension in all of your exercises, and give you a new appreciation for what it means to generate internal tension through the musculature, fascia, and soft-tissue connections of your body that you have control over.
And as we say with our geared powerlifters, the stronger you are raw, the stronger you'll be when you put the equipment back on.
3 – Olympic Lifting Shoes
These shoes were originally developed for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. By building up the heel of the shoe in conjunction with creating a stiff and flat sole, these shoes have the ability to maximize ground reaction force while helping the ankles, knees, hips, and spine to explosively move weight off the ground.
But over the years they've become a common crutch for general lifters with no goals of ever competing on the platform. Here's who should be using them and who should be avoiding them. Use them when you're on an Olympic lifting platform doing Olympic lifts. There are sport-specific advantages of lifting shoes. But it would be shortsighted to think that improved performance on the platform is directly correlated with long-term orthopedic health and function of the human body.
When To Use Them
At high levels of competitive sport, there's always a give and take for each training variable that's implemented into programming and competition. And if your goal is to step on the platform and move a maximal amount of weight off the ground into an overhead position – and an increased plantar flexion, knee flexion, and torso angle helps to achieve that goal – the cost to benefit ratio is in alignment.
But there are also anatomical outliers who have limitations in joint mobility and arthrokinematics (the slight movements in the joint space) which allow intricate joint movements to take place, such as components of dorsiflexion.
We've all heard the term "bone on bone" before, and even though it sounds like a wimpy excuse not to squat deep or go heavy, there are legitimate orthopedic presentations where joint structure doesn't allow certain movements to take place. These are the types of issues that will never be improved with soft tissue work like stretching and foam rolling. It can actually be counterproductive to hammer self-maintenance work. It's a mismatch with the true problems, which are the joints themselves.
Many lifters go down the conservative rabbit hole with soft tissue work, stretching, or maybe even a little joint mobilization work in areas like the ankles and hips. But after a few sessions of doing the theoretically "right" measures and seeing no results and maybe even flaring up the problem worse, an orthopedic evaluation to properly diagnose the problem should be next on your to-do list.
Differentiating bony block from soft tissue dysfunction will save you tons of time, and worlds of frustration. If and when body blocks at the hips, ankles, or any other joint are diagnosed, adaptive tools which alter the foot's relationship with the ground like an Olympic lifting shoe will help you continue to train while minimizing pain and complication with your movement patterns.
The key to having success with any type of lifting tool or accessory is diving on potential functional pitfalls first, bringing them up to as high of a level as possible, and THEN adding the tool to enhance training. Stay strategic with your tools and you'll reap all the benefits.
When NOT To Use Them
Many times people will diagnose themselves with mechanical movement problems, when in reality they just have neurological patterning issues which hinder their coordination and ability to move without pain. So they get lifting shoes. Then as this external crutch is used, the motor control never improves, which is the origin of the problem. The pain usually gets worse.
Unless you're planning to step on the platform and compete in a barbell sport, avoid adaptive lifting shoes and use a pair that will allow you to move as naturally as possible.
When using a more minimalist shoe, consider the motor control in your functional weak links, like ankle dorsiflexion and hip flexion and rotation. This is a common occurrence for those chronically using their shoes as a crutch for their big lifts.
Even if you're an Olympic lifter, powerlifter, or CrossFitter, use minimalist shoes for all non-power or sport-specific barbell lifts in order to reap the benefits of ground contact and the function of the ankle and foot complex.
As a general rule of thumb, use adaptive equipment like Olympic lifting shoes at a minimal effective dose in order to get the most benefit while also allowing the body to move as naturally as possible.
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Crystal Clear Deer
It was 80 degrees here, great top-down September-type weather. I had to go to work for awhile, and on the way there, Exposed's Incantations sounded better than ever, blaring into the airways. Was this due to a massive endorphin release from my workout a short time before? A fews hours later on the way home at twilight, TSODE was orgasmic - it melted and blended into the landscape - the River, the fields, the sky colors, Jupiter, Saturn, Casseopia, Ursa Major, and the crescent moon......
I was driving a little faster than I should have been on the River road, totally focused on the sky and the music (Crystal Clear at that point), wondering how far up one could be in the air and still hear the music at that volume, when I realised there was a herd of 8 deer standing in the road. "It's too good of a day to die" floated through my mind as the brakes screeched and I dimmed the lights (deer tend to get frozen in headlights). They still just STOOD there. The car was just sitting in the road by that time, and I started calmly but firmly talking to them "You guys HAVE to get out of the road. Go back the way you came. Why are you all just STANDING there?" They continued to just stand there, staring at me. I wondered if one of them would leap into the car. Then I realised that the music was still playing, so I turned it down. This released them from their trance, and they bolted up the hill on the other side of the road. I didn't know music would transfix deer. Maybe only Mike's music has this effect? At any rate, thank the Goddess that road is NOT heavily trafficked!
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Several popular etymologies for cop exist for this word now commonly used for policeman. One offers it up as an acronym standing for “Constable on Patrol” or “Chief of Police.” Another states that the first police officers in London (or perhaps another city–it varies in the telling) had copper buttons on their uniforms. Still, another source asserts copper badges, not copper buttons, gave them the name. Some of the first New York City police officers reportedly wore badges made from copper. The most common stories trace cop or copper to the copper buttons or copper police badges.
The police “sense” of the terms probably originates from the Latin word capere, meaning, “to seize,” which also gave us capture. Cop as a slang term, meaning “to catch, snatch, or grab” appeared in English in the 18th century. Ironically, it was originally used among thieves; a copper was a street thief. By the middle of the 19th century, criminals apprehended by the police were said to have themselves been copped, caught by the coppers or cops. And there you have the etymology of cop. “Case closed,” as the cops say.
Or, is it? Lexicographers and etymologists have long disputed the actual origin of the verb copper. It either derives from the Dutch kapen, meaning “to take” or from the Old Frisian capia, meaning, “to buy.” It may even derive from the French caper, meaning “to take”, which also comes from the Latin capere.
To make matters even more complicated, the acronym COP has many meanings, most of which are unrelated to law enforcement. Following are just a few: COP Copper; COP Chief Of Police; COP College of Pharmacy (Xavier University of Louisiana); COP Coefficient Of Performance; COP Code of Practice; COP Coil on Plug (automotive ignition); COP Court of Protection (UK); COP Cost of Production (agriculture); COP Citizens On Patrol; COP ConocoPhillips (stock symbol); COP Chief of Party (various locations); COP Canada Olympic Park; COP Congressional Oversight Panel (US Senate).
For me, I’m somewhat partial to Constable on Patrol. It has been said that the Constables back in jolly ol’ England went to the livery stable and checked out a horse, lantern, and night stick. In a record book, they would write “constable on patrol” and record the time they went to work. Like so many others, I was told that eventually someone got tired of writing all of this and shortened the entry to COP and then entered the time. We may never really get to close the case on the origin of this little word.
Semper Fi,
Constable Clark, your Constable on Patrol
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When the Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit decreed that the mission for May was to write about snow and ice and other frosty fiends (MOSS has a cruel sense of humor), Gaddaar (1973, not the Suneil Shetty one) came to mind instantly. In an appropriately filmi coincidence, it also beckoned to fellow MOSS agent Todd, who has posted his writeup on Die Danger Die Die Kill here.
Himalayas represent!
Gaddaar is maybe the best Hindi film of 1973, if not the first half of the 70s, that you probably haven't seen. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems that hardly anyone has watched this. Just yesterday I was bringing it to the attention of a full-time film critic who is a self-professed lover of the 70s, so it has somehow even escaped the notice of people who spend a lot time thinking about movies. But no more! I first learned of Gaddaar a few years ago when Memsaab, yet another fellow MOSS agent, wrote it up, and I thought "Where has this been all my life?" If you look at her post, you'll see several other people making that same basic comment, which adds to my sense that somehow this movie fell into a very undeserved oblivion long ago.
Though the opening action centers on a heist, the bulk of the film focuses on the story of what happens to the gang of criminals as one of their members runs off with their loot and another shadowy figure offers to help them search if they'll cut him in on the treasure. Snow (oh right, that's why I'm writing about this!) enters the picture as the traitor is eventually tracked to hotel in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, where blocked roads, difficult terrain, and the threat of storm freeze (haha) the location of second half of the film, with the isolation and limited movement both adding to and reflecting the increasingly fevered state of everyone's desperation.
That's basically the whole film. Despite the vintage and the actors, this really isn't masala: it lacks romance, family, and religion; there's no subplot or comic track of any kind; and there are only three songs over the runtime of more than two hours. More to the point, though, none of those absences are felt. Gaddaar is basically perfect just as it is.
Number one on its list of strengths is the cast. The gang leader is Pran, who spends the first few minutes of the film driving around Bombay in an absolute blue whale of an American car flashing hand signals to his crew, who all respond with an eager thumbs-up.
The gang's all here: Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Anwar Hussain, Manmohan, Ranjeet, and Ram Mohan.
Vinod Khanna is so fly in this movie that I have sent beta Rahul screenshots of his wardrobe with the hope of inspiring Rahul to do a similarly-attired photo shoot.
Vinod Khanna is the lone wolf who forces his way into the group after overhearing what they're after. He also very helpfully follows up the traitor's love of cabaret dancers (notably Padma Khanna, who also gets more lines here than usual) and selflessly goes to tawaifs all over the country (Look! The Howrah Bridge! The ghats of Varanasi! The Qtub Minar!) asking the dancers if they've seen the traitor. A girl finally points them to HP, where they spend the remainder of the film trying to recoup their money while fighting off the traitor and his staff, as well as surviving the elements and their own nerves.
Chasing is generally more interesting to watch than planning, and the decision to show the effects of treachery after the heist, as opposed to the lead-up to the heist itself, is a wise one, enabling the writers to explore ideas like loyalty, friendship, identity, professional ethics, ambition, and dreams. These kinds of topics, in turn, give this outstanding cast a chance to do way more than they they get to in most other films, and what a joy it is.
I can't step outside my fervent love of 70s Bollywood enough to state empirically that all these guys are brilliant actors in these roles; it could be that I'm just so excited to see them have more than four lines, or be more than a beleaguered cop or slimy rapist, that anything they do would please me. But either way, Gaddaar gives us more time with Iftekhar, who has a scene that brings tears to my eyes, and Ranjeet, for whom I actually feel a teensy bit sorry, than any other film I've seen.
Plus they all appear in an excellent qawwali as the criminals dance around the hotel celebrating their find and taunting the traitor's betrayal of their friendship now that they have him where they want him. I won't embed the video because it actually contains at least one spoiler and some foreshadowing, but if you want to watch it anyway, click here. I wish it didn't, because I would love for you all to see Vinod Khanna be a snake charmer with VAT 69 as his been and Ranjeet as his snake.
The actors do not get equal screen time, but the unraveling of Anwar Husain's character, who for reasons not clear to me dreams of opening his own circus, is almost hypotizing and not at all what I expected to see. The value he puts in his talents and ambition is paralleled in Pran's increasingly frantic insistence that he get his hands on this money, not as much for the sake of it being money as for its symbolism of victory. His character states several times that he does not make a habit of losing, and each time the metal briefcase full of cash slips from his grasp he gets closer to the edge. As Todd points out, the violence also escalates, which is a nice counterpoint to the psychological and emotional changes in the characters and makes perfect sense when you lock a bunch of criminals in a room with lots of booze and not much to do except think about their greed and the money that's just out of reach. The violence also adds to character development, as we find out who is actually a real creep (Surprise! It's not Ranjeet, for once!) and who has a conscience about the innocent bystanders in the hotel who might end up collateral damage. And from those differences arise clues to the true identity of a few of the characters and hints at how they will eventually align (or not).
Age is an interesting and, according to the subtitles, anyway, largely unspoken factor in how the criminals are depicted. Pran, Anwar, Madan, and Iftekhar act more as the brains and leaders than the younger men do, and Pran and Iftekhar in particular are written as long-standing friends who genuinely care for each other, expressed in scenes that make this movie a must-see for anyone who likes Bombay's gentlemen character actors of this period. The younger men serve a bit more as heavies, but they are not without dashes of personality.
Forty years after Gaddaar's release, it's still a taut depiction of risks of the criminal life. To make up for hackishly calling a heist movie "taut," I'll add that the script, pacing, visuals, and acting are as tight as Vinod Khanna's flares. Yeah baby! From the opening moments this movie is slightly different, despite its familiar faces. It begins with a wealthy maharaja (or so I assume, based on his pearl necklace) getting a tour of his high-tech safe from his diwan, which of course the gang is about to rob. The maharaja is played by none other than Ajit, who, if my research is accurate, wasn't quite known as one of the quintessential 70s villains just yet (and in fact Zanjeer released a week after Gaddaar), but certainly looking back on things, it's hilarious to see the stereotypical criminal mastermind as a socially respectable figure getting robbed blind.
Thinking of the opening scene also brings up the use of color and pattern in this film, which is really clever. The first segment—that is, the heist and the initial search around the country for the traitor—is near the level of gaudiness one expects from 70s Bombay films. From the very first frame, showing a sunny sky over the seashore in Bombay and then Ajit's mansion that is the color of Baskin Robbins's daiquiri ice cream (from back in the early 80s when we didn't care about artificial coloring, not this watered-down stuff they have now) on the outside and cotton candy on the inside, and across the gang's wardrobe full of plaid suits with paisley cravats (look at the collage below) and the costumes and sets of the dancing girls' songs, this is the lurid world of criminals and cabarets.
I've seen this wall often enough to assume it's an actual hotel. If it still exists, I hope we can have my next birthday party there.
But when the action shifts to HP, the visuals are mostly more sedate. The hotel has some mismatched curtains and carpets, of course (reminding me very much of the West Bengal Department of Tourism hotel I stayed in in Darjeeling, actually—furnishings from every conceivable fashion of the last 40 years), generally the look of the film is more sedate. People wear big brown or black coats, the walls are panelled in nondescript wood, snow covers most sufaces outside, the mountains and sky are generally gray, and even the scenes outside the hotel take place in utilitarian or rocky spots (a barn, a cave) that are no more colorful. The action is likewise toned down, not in actual scope but in accessories: in Bombay people chase in vehicles and run quickly through paved city streets, whereas in HP they stumble over snowy hills on foot.
Laxmikant-Pyarelal's music, though scant compared to some films of the same era, is used well in Gaddaar. The criminals' qawwali is my favorite from a storytelling point of view (as well as its surprise factor), because it shows the familial side of a group of people who have committed to and invested in a shared mission—and been through a lot of stress because of it. Padma Khanna has a spectacular cabaret number with Egyptian trappings ("Wayi Wayi Main Jal Gayi," or, as the DVD calls it, "Yeh Aag Hai") (and you know how I love Egyptian songs). Apparently this song isn't online, which is a grave travesty indeed. It's a fascinating portrayal of female power—maybe a conscious counterpoint to the almost entirely male cast and agents of action in the rest of the film (the only other interesting woman being a doctor and nurse married couple at the hotel who debate the ethics of giving medical treatment to criminals)—featuring Padma as a sort of...pharaoh, perhaps (though minus symbolic beard), whose mere presence sends villagers scattering as she is paraded through the streets in a sedan chair. She selects a male subject (choreographer Oscar wearing very disturbing yellow leggings and not much else) and brings him back to a sort of pleasure palace, letting him splash in a heart-shaped pool and feeding him grapes and tantalizing drinks from glittering pitchers before dancing with him all over the room (including a bed) and eventually sending a poisonous snake after him.
The second song, which features Vinod going from city to city asking various dancing girls if they recognize the photo of the traitor, is also good, and it packs in several different lead dancers and corresponding sets into one song.
I don't know if L-P also did the background score, but whoever did seems to have listened to a lot of westerns, because the music that plays while people trek through the snow evokes cowboys to me, complete with strings, trumpets, whistling, and clanging chimes that I picture hanging in the mission church in the ghost town. There's also at least one really powerful use of silence, a 30-second stretch that accompanies a dramatic event and I think is supposed to reflect a character's swirl of emotions and perhaps even his defeat.
Now that I have seen the movie a few more times, I have a different assessment of the film than I had when I first watched it with Amrita and we featured it in the inaugural episode of Amrita's and my Masala Zindabad postcast, which you can hear here (please excuse the terrible audio quality—we had just begun learning at that point). If I recall, we said it was a really good B-movie, but now I don't think there's anything less than A about it apart from the ubiquity of certain faces across its runtime. Story, acting, music, set design, action, themes: Gaddaar has it all.
Todd said...
Beth, I'm so glad we agree! Obscure or otherwise, I think calling Gaddaar one of the best films of 1973 is saying an awful lot, given all the awesome that came out that year, but I think I'd be on board. And, yes, 70s obsessive that I am, I too only just became aware of it this year. The acting is definitely its lead stength, and I also loved the spotlight that was put on Iftekhar and Ranjeet.
BTW, much of the instrumental score was needle-dropped from Ennio Morricone's S/T to For A Few Dollars More, so you were spot on in identifying a western theme.
Todd said...
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Todd said...
Also BTW, I used "taut" in my review. So... ZING!
Beth Watkins said...
But Todd, I said it was the best film of 1973 that you probably haven't seen yet! (Not you=Todd. You=reader.) As much as I love Gaddaar, I wouldn't make a claim that it was best of that year without doing a lot more watching of 1973's output.
You were very specific in your object of "taut," not just slapping it on the whole movie like I did. And you spelled it right.
I am SO glad you knew what the score was from. No wonder there's no mention of it in the titles. I actually haven't read your review yet because I wanted to write my own without being TOO under the influence of your awesomeness - but now I can without fear.
Todd said...
You're right that "taut" is kind of hacky, though. Though I think I successfully managed to avoid describing the robbery as "daring" for once.
shreya shah said...
I saw this movie some months later and had loved it .. especially for PRAN!!!!
The songs and the whole cast was awesome.
Beth Watkins said...
PRAN! :)
Filmi Geek said...
It makes me sad that I have not yet seen this.
On a more substantive note, I am intrigued by your description of it as "taut" and "not masala". When you look at the cast and the themes it looks so masala-y that it must be an interesting experience when you realize it's not. Deewaar had some of that for me. The first time I saw it, it wasn't what I expected at all - and the effect was profound.
estetik said...
Eskay said...
I fully agree with A category given to it. I had seen it some four decades ago and haven't heard of it since until landed here. All the baddies combined together to weave different characters which was a sort of experiment unlike GUMNAAM where all the bad characters were not film baddies. Great acting from the best baddies and a fast moving plot. Obviously inspired by the typical Hollywood plot which was not a popular formula in Hindi movies then. The review here is true, to my mind.
Eskay said...
Beth Watkins said...
Thank you! It's one of those films I wish I could see again for the first time. :) | http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2013/05/gaddaar.html?showComment=1372701071502 | robots: classic
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} | 1,021 | Saturday, December 19, 2009
Winter on the Homestead
We got another 4 inches of snow over night and it's loose and fluffy sitting on ICE. Bah humbug! It's snowing now too. I was hoping for a couple days without all the snow as I have things that need done outside.
Priorities for tomorrow are to get the hoses out and fill the big stock tank. My mare uses it and I also have some jugs that I can fill out of it for water for the goats. I try to take hot water from the house out first for the goats but if they need extra I grab it from the stock tank. Some day I should measure the temp in the water being it has a heating element in it. It's not warm water, but it's not cold either.
I also need to clip the wings on 2 of the hens. The orpington and orpicauna (orpington x americauna) both managed to get out over night or early this am. The orp got through the netting and was up on the top on the back side and the orpicauana was on the ground outside. They messed up the netting of course and it's suppose to be keeping the owls and hawks out. So I need to do some more stretching and attaching on it but my gloves were wet by the time I got the other chores done and as going to do it.
I've had to go ahead and let my 2 milking does dry up. They've been trying to wean me lately and I suspect they are bred. I didn't milk them yesterday or today and the day before I only got a pint between the 2 of them. Bummer, because I LIKE my BIG mug of milk or 2 for breakfast and now I'll run out soon and have none for a couple months. I guess the periods without will keep me enjoying it so much when I have it and will give me a break from milking when it's so darned cold out.
The last milking was interesting to say the least. This whole endeavor only took a few minutes as I can milk pretty fast by hand now unless my hands are cold and the does don't take to it! (Can't say as I blame them but I do try to warm my hands up before I milk them... I REALLY DO!) The one doe was a bit "ticklish" and stomped her feet a few times. I just leaned into her and grumbled at her to stand still. She eventually gave up and decided I was going to "steal" her milk regardless so she gave up. This didn't take much as she sure didn't give me much milk at all. It was definitely not worth it. She also wasn't eating on the stand. So I unsnapped her short tether and had the end to put her back in her pen and off we start. BUT, as we started to pass the grain barrels she took her frustration out on my 14-15 year old Siamese who was sitting on one. That rascally doe grabbed the cat's tail hanging off the barrel and whipped her off and flung her! What a twit. She never slowed down with my leading her back to her pen and she never looked back at the cat either! She just flung her off in one quick and slick move and acted like it never happend! Maybe you had to be there, or maybe to know goats, but it was FUNNY except to poor Miranda who probably never knew what hit her! I do think the doe is trying to tell me I'm weaned.
I am really looking forward to the Spring kids! I can't wait to see what my "new" ND buck produces but also what a couple of the does produce. It will be exciting and it's something to look forward too!
I jot down so many notes about the critters in my calendar that I decided I can't do with those little pocket calendars any more. I found a spiral book type calendar that has lines and space to do those multiple notes every day. I was hoping to find one at a dollar store but didn't so gave up and got one at Walmart. The price was pretty decent ($3.97) so I "splurged"!
So much to do and so little time.... That seems to be a common denominator amongst all of us, but especially so when there are livestock to be taken care of, regardless of the weather or holiday or what. They are a commitment but one I cherish and enjoy most of the time!
I hope you all have a good weekend! I can't believe tomorrow is the 20th of December and so close to 2010!
1. Goats will be goats and can do some pretty mean tricks, just cause they can. I'm sure your girls need the break from milking, as you said. I miss our goats, and the fresh milk as well. Did you get the netting fixed at the chicken pen yet? I bet Miranda has a few plans for your goat, now that she's been tossed. No one tosses a Siamise without regrets later.
2. My milkers aren't normally mean but she sure grabbed Miranda's tail! She is also the goat queen so just below me in the pecking order (I'm herd queen and expect to stay so!). Poor Miranda is getting so old I doubt she'll do anything but avoid the goats now. It was funny though..... Never a dull moment and I sure didn't see that coming!
3. Oh Shar I laughed so hard when I read this!! Poor kitty!
4. I couldn't help but laugh too when it happened! Poor Miranda probably wasn't laughing being whipped around by the tail! Kendra was probably lucky that she didn't land Miranda on her own back and end up with a "jockey" to ride her back to her pen! Miranda's not sat on the grain barrels waiting for a drink of milk since, the poor old girl! | http://viewtoponder.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-on-homestead.html | robots: classic
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} | 831 | Mysterious Duplicate IP problem solved
I only needed to be run over by four or five cluetrains before realizing what was causing this message on a Windows 2003 server. Follow along and see when you solve it.
Here's what was going on:
A Windows 2003 server would sometimes complain that its IP was in use on the network. This would often happen after a power failure.. yes, they had a UPS, but it died and they never got around to replacing it as power failures seem to be very rare in this particular area and the server isn't all that critical. It's a mail and file server; if the power is out the lights are out and nobody cares too much about mail or files right then. So..
It would not always complain that its IP was in use. That was actually an important clue, so if you are trying to solve this before I tell you what it was, chew on that while I blabber on.
Of course the very first thing we did was shut the server off and go looking for that IP. We found nothing. We looked on the DHCP servers to see if they were perhaps sometimes handing that IP out to someone else; they were not.
Being suspicious of switches, I swapped those out with some spares. No change.
Sometimes we could clear it by disabling the nic card, counting to twenty and reenabling. That didn't always work, though.
The clues
What did work was disconnecting it from the network, booting it up, counting to the magic twenty once more and then plugging it back in. That became the official procedure for handling this. As I said, power failures are rare, so this was a once or twice a year thing.
That's a good clue also, by the way.
The really big clue was this: if you'd patiently wait an hour or so, the problem would fix itself. That's a BIG clue.
Also, if you happened to shut down the machine midday, it would never see this problem. That's the same clue as the last, if you think about it.
After the fourth or fifth time that this happened, I did catch the clues and was able to cure it in a whopping three or four seconds. Have you guessed it yet?
Two more clues for you
Here, go read this page about arp. Do you see it now? No? OK. one more clue: read my "Editors note" at the top of this old Netgear PrintServer PS110 article. You should have it now.
Actually, it was when I happened to be editing that article for a typo that the clues all came together in my head and I knew what was freaking out that Windows server.
Spoiler alert
Stop reading now if you want to think about this more before I tell you.
I'll add a little white space so you don't just slide on into it against your will..
It was manual arp addresses hardcoded into an old SCO box on the network.
At one time, there was a network print server that used the IP address we were looking for. The printer was long gone, but the manual setting was still in the SCO startup scripts.
So.. if the SCO machine rebooted before the Windows server, it had an arp entry for that IP and when the slower Windows box did its "who has?" broadcast, the SCO would helpfully provide the IP of that non-existent printer.
If the SCO machine did not restart for whatever reason, the Windows machine saw no response to its inquiry and happily used the IP we wanted it to use.
As the arp protocol specifies, if the non-existent host stays non-existent long enough (which it obviously would in this case), the machine holding the cache should forget about it.
You can see now how all the clues made perfect sense. I logged into the SCO box, found the rc2.d script that caused this problem, deleted it and that was that. Problem solved.
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A Child's Point of View
Whether you're a genealogist, a scrapbooker or a blend of both, you may be overlooking the valuable contribution children can make to your family heritage project. You may have already made your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews the subject of scrapbooks, and recorded their names and vital information in family charts and family trees, and still you've barely begun to incorporate the child fully into the family legacy. The obvious thing that we overlook with children, perhaps because we are part of their lives, and perhaps because they are children, is their point of view. The journaled entries in scrapbooks, the photos, the home movies you've preserved are naturally from your point of view. What a treasure it would be to future generations and to the child himself in years to come if you could include his point of view.
What if you could go back and interview your grandmother when she was sixteen or ten or even five years old? What a richer view you'd get of her childhood than you would decades later when her memories are reshaped by adulthood. The opportunity exists, not with your grandmother but perhaps with someone else's, who at the moment is outside playing tag or sitting quietly in the kitchen conversing with an imaginary friend. But how does one capture a child's point of view? How does one "e;interview"e; a child for family heritage preservation and make it an enjoyable exchange for both of you?
Interviewing a child is probably the most fun of all interviews. Unless the child is a teenager, the questions needn't be written down beforehand and would probably be intimidating for the child if you did so. You're not after facts, but abstracts so it shouldn't be necessary to take down the answers at that moment either. You can write it all down afterward without worry of losing the information since children express themselves in such colorful fashion.
Prepare for the interview by reaching back into your own childhood. Try to remember smells, textures and simple things that gave you pleasure. Remember the people in your life then and allow the abstracts to take over. What images or smells or emotions are conjured when you think of them? Other memories will easily follow. In fact, this preparation could be the springboard for more family heritage information - your own. It might even spark a desire to do write your own story for the children you're preparing to interview.
If the child is old enough to understand not only the process of an interview but the significance of it to your family's history then tell them what you're doing, and prepare them for the sort of information you're going to want from them. But if they're young, it's best if the "e;interview"e; is just time together, a visit. You might sit down together with a bowl of popcorn or cuddle up together in a chair with a blanket.
You might start by talking about what fun it was when you were a child. Tell them a few things and then ask them some questions. Simple questions reveal the most in young children. Start with his/her favorite things. Ask about a favorite color, favorite smell. You might be surprised that favorite smells are not scents but people or places, just as you might recall from your own childhood. Ask about favorite games or toys. The idea isn't just to learn his favorite things but to get the child to turn his thoughts inward. Ask about his friends, imaginary or real, dreams and what he likes to pretend. Even the simplest answers will be revealing and more endearing in later years than you find them even now.
I have a friend whose child at age three used to sit very still pretending she was an apple. It was precious then to hear her describe her "e;apple self"e; but now that she is grown and a young mother, her children love the story and her grandchildren will treasure it as part of the scrapbook that will be handed down.
Don't be surprised if the child has questions of his own, about your childhood, or anything else. The interview will no doubt become a conversation, particularly with older children. In fact, you'll find, no matter what the child's age, that your interviewing time is a great bonding experience.
Later you can choose to write down whatever you wish from the interview. There is no right or wrong information here. But do write it down in a journal or scrapbook all its own or along with photos.
Make it a practice to interview the child as he/she grows, perhaps yearly, making sure the questions are growing with the child. An older child will appreciate your interest in her life, such as how she is adapting to the new school. As her or she grows, they may confide things in you that you shouldn't include in the written version of your interview. If you aren't sure, ask. If they're at that stage where they find the interview intrusive, ask them to help you write something. Surely, their favorite music, and favorite clothes are permissible material.
Remember that interviewing not only creates a bond, it allows the child to ask questions and get to know you as a person, not just a parent or grandparent, aunt or uncle. You'll be surprised and they will too at what likes, dislikes and even dreams "e;run"e; in the family. And after they're grown you'll both enjoy looking back through the interviews to see if there were clues as to who this evolving child would turn out to be.
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} | 534 | A high level panel reporting to the Group of twenty has revealed that the world’s largest banks are struggling, and often failing, to implement financial rules designed to patch up the problems which caused the financial crisis. The rules, designed by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, have not been implemented on schedule by banks in the world’s developed economies.
The Basel 2.5 rules were supposed to come into effect at the end of last year and precede the implementation of Basel III rules, implementation of which is supposed to start in 2013. The regulations are designed to stop banks from underestimating the risks associated with their assets.
The United States ranked behind China, India and Italy in implementation of the rules. Much of that has to do with the complexity of the rules and clashes with the Dodd-Frank regulatory reform Bill. That Bill prevents ratings from established agencies like Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) and Standard and Poor’s from being used to assess the riskiness of assets.
That clash leaves US regulatory agencies with no concrete way to measure the riskiness of their assets, at least until the regulators come up with a successful independent system for doing so.
The committee suggested that the rules implemented by authorities in Europe and Japan, while being drawn up more quickly than in the United States, are watered down versions of the guidelines that leave banks still vulnerable to risks.
Representatives from the three regions argued against the findings of the committee, suggesting that their practices were indeed sound. The discrepancy clearly portrays the complexity of the rules and the difficulty in understanding them from both an industry and a regulatory perspective.
Many have argued that the new rules leave far too much up for interpretation as individual authorities seek to draft regulations to implement the rules. With Basel 2.5 not stringently implemented across the world’s banks Basel III will be a much more difficult hill to climb.
The Basel III recommendations are due to come into effect in 2019 but a step by step implementation of rules is to start in 2013. They require a great deal of capital to be raised by the banking systems in order to shore up risks in their business and reduce the risk of a need for a state bailout.
Banking officials have argued that the need to raise and hold the extra capital will have a negative effect on their ability to lend. Banks in Europe that are currently facing grave issues will have huge trouble implementing the new rules.
Though designed to get rid of the more pressing risks inherent in the banking system, the Basel rules have managed to create problems owing to the complexity of the rules. Similar issues were seen in the Federal bank stress tests which, according to members of the Federal advisory council, caused uncertainty and confusion.
The need for a standardization of financial rules is great, even if such a thing seems impossible in the regulatory world. The complexity of that being controlled adds to the complexity of the rules. It is clear however that overly complex rules that are not well defined, and remain open to interpretation, cause more problems than they solve. | http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/06/banks-struggle-to-implement-financial-rules/ | robots: classic
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Starter Arms: Exercise Video
Here is the third installment of the Test Case series: Starter Arms. This video is all about toning the upper arms to get you ready for springtime tank tops.
You will need a set of 5 to 8 pound dumbbells. If you don't have weights experiment with soup cans or full water bottles. Try to do this every other day for 2 weeks and see if your arm tone changes. Consider it an experiment or a challenge.
Some of the exercises are done with just one weight, but experiment and see if you can handle using both. Feel free to repeat the series once or twice.
Why not print this chart out to take these moves to the gym.
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Twitter Star
However, we never said amassing followers and creating networking opportunities was an easy task. On the contrary, doing so requires you to craft a captivating profile, follow others and engage with followers, and constantly spew tweets that are actually worthwhile. Trust us, you are not going to gain many followers tweeting profanity and racial slurs — at least we hope not.
Being popular on Twitter can help you market your business or publicize your blog. The most well connected users on Twitter have over 100.000 followers, and some even have over 500.000. Most of those users were quite well-known before they started tweeting, but that does not mean you can not climb your way to the top too! Some well-chosen, witty blogging topics and aggressive self-promotion will get you very far.
Become Twitter Famous
1. Tweet like a famous blogger
Twitter is a micro-blogging tool. It is basically blogging in 140 characters or less in each Tweet. Generally, the same guidelines for being a good blogger apply for being a good Tweeter. You ca not expect a blog with only three posts on random topics to attract many subscribers, can you?
Choose your topic
If you want to be famous on Twitter, do not take their question ("What are you doing right now?") literally. It is more like: "What are you doing or thinking right now that will be interesting to a certain group of people?" The theme should be specific enough that people know what to expect, but not so narrow that only 50 people would be interested in it. Start with only one to two primary topics or "tags". Then expand as your Following grows. Read news feeds voraciously for a nugget you can spin into a good tweet.
Be interesting, transparent and provocative
Don't be too good for people
No matter how well known you are, or how busy you are don't be that person who thinks they are too good to reply to anyone. Take the time to answer each and every person who tweets you. Believe in building your fans and brand champions one engagement at a time. It's amazing how one quick conversation or reply can make someone feel appreciated and turn them into a brand champion or personal fan.
Bonus tip: Choosing an interesting picture and bio are crucial to gaining more followers. Choose an actual image of yourself for an avatar, preferably one that is appropriate and looks decent at small sizes (400 x 400 pixels). People want to connect with you, not a picture of your cat. As for your bio, make it brief, informative, and a little funny.
Tweet Often
2. Follow like a spammer
Once you have got your quality established, focus on quantity. Take the same approach that spammers do. In order to avoid actually looking like a spammer, though, make sure there is never more than a 200 or 300 gap between who you are following and who is following you. Try to keep your followings number lower than your followers. That is what real celebrities do.
The more people you follow, the more people see your name. If you follow too many people, you might look like a spammer, so it is best to try to keep the numbers fairly close to each other to avoid scaring others away. Follow back people who decide to follow you, that is, assuming you have read their bios and you are sure they are not spammers, crazy users, and the like. Following other users will give them greater incentive to follow you in return. Exposure is more than half the battle.
3. Keep your followers coming back for more
There are some basic dos and do not that will keep your followers list from shrinking. Use a service that notifies you whenever you are unfollowed. Examine your last few tweets - what did you write that could have turned them off?
Keep the following bits of advice in mind: Do not use services that allow you to auto DM. Auto DMs frequently cost you followers. Some people get their DMs on their cell phones, and an auto DM can be an annoying reason to have to check your phone, not to mention the cost that might be involved in receiving it. Do not radically change the content on Twitter after you have already established a twitter presence. People like consistency and followed you for a reason.
4. Ask questions
One of the bet ways to engage your followers and spark a dialogue is to ask questions. Keep the following tips and tricks in mind:
Acknowledge answers. If you can not respond to each answer individually because there are too many, at least send out a general thanks.
Stick around to listen. Do not ask a question right before leaving your computer. If people respond, you want to be able to respond to them as quickly as possible, while they are at their computers.
Ask your followers to retweet your question.
49 Percent Of Brands Tweet 1 to 5 Times Per Day
5. Tweet often, but not too often
Every time you post an update, it shows up in the public timeline, exposing your profile to people who do not know you yet. At the same time, tweeting too frequently can annoy your existing followers and make it difficult for them to respond. Stick to one topic at a time and leave some time in between updates for people to respond.
There is a fine line between tweeting enough to be relevant and simply being obnoxious. Try tweeting a couple times a day, especially in the morning and evening when the website experiences the most traffic. Be aware of what you are tweeting and continue maintain the focus you may or may not have established earlier. Doing so will likely be enough to remain in the minds of those who have so kindly chosen to make you a small part of their lives.
6. Keep it short
Posting links and content is a great thing, but Twitter users are all about brevity, so be sure to shorten your links by using a redirect service. is a good one for measuring your click-thrus and performance, but if you don’t use something like that, Twitter will automatically shorten your links using their built in T.CO shortner.
7. A picture's worth a thousand tweets
We can not stress enough how important pictures are in any social media platform, and Twitter is no exception. Twitter now displays images in timelines, and if you are not taking advantage of this you are missing out. An image attached to any tweet is sure to increase visibility and engagement.
Twitter Clients
8. Use a Twitter client
9. Be funny
10. Gather followers from other social networks
11. Participate
See what is going on between your followers and take part in their conversation. Use many hashtags and follow the trends.
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War of Loyalties started out rather precariously as historical novels go. I was sixteen at the time, with a thirst for story-writing and characters who were begging to be written about. Aside from choosing early 1900s for the time period, and England for the setting, it didn’t have much in the scholarly way going for it. With the rather tenuous idea that it had to be somewhere along the coast, but not in Dover, I pulled out a map. Folkestone? Ramsgate? It was a coin toss between the two towns. How Folkestone won out, I can’t recall anymore. But it was what I like to call an act of Providence, the first of many in the writing of this book. Folkestone is rich with WW1 history, and I can’t imagine a better setting for the adventure to take place.
Because it took place in WW1, one of the aspects I had to deal with is the history on the micro-level: the clothes characters would have worn, the vehicles, the buildings that existed at the time, whether they used pencils or pens, and all those things we tend to take for granted. I wanted to talk to you today about some cool details that I discovered along the way.
1. Enlistment Law
Doctors of the Great War, by Ian Whitehead, was an invaluable resource for checking out some of the situations in War of Loyalties. Since both of my main characters are young and of draftable age, there has to be a pretty good reason why they’re not on the battlefield.
Jaeryn Graham is born and raised Irish, an agent for six missions with the British Secret Service, and a doctor able to use his medical services for the nation. According to Wikipedia’s “Conscription in the United Kingdom”, Irishmen were not able to be conscripted.
[1] Though to be fair, many, many Irishmen voluntarily enlisted in the War, according to Whitehead. Since Jaeryn’s in Secret Service and Irish, he’s pretty much taken care of, but for an added measure of patriotism, his supervisor gives him two medical practices to maintain instead of one. Jaeryn’s supervisor makes reference to some of these facts in the first scene of the book:
“Excellent. With two medical practices, you should have ample sufficient access to the people you'll need to know. Besides, it would look strange if you only had one, with your colleagues rushing off to the front. As it is, you might get some persecution, being a fit man and not enlisting.”
Jaeryn made no effort to disguise his indifference. “There's not much anyone can do about it. No English bureaucrat can force an Irishman to enlist. It's the law.”
As for Ben, he’s actually a dual citizen, born of an American mother and a British father, and raised for twenty years of his life in America. Technically I don’t think England could have an overwhelming claim on him at this point. All the same, he comes to England because he has the claim of conscience: his father has written to him about a position in the Secret Service, and since it’s an opportunity to meet his father, he feels it’s his duty to go. Since Ben, like Jaeryn, is in secret service and helping run the two medical practices, he also has a patriotic reason to stay on the English home front.
2. Medical Details
During WW1, doctors in England who had established medical practices didn’t want to lose their practice when they enlisted. Their rights were protected, and the doctors who took over their practices only took the practice over temporarily. The substitute doctor would keep patient records and share the profits with the doctor who actually owned the practice. While Jaeryn owns one medical practice, he holds a second one for Doctor Winfield. This led to a lot of extra work for doctors on the home front. In Ian Whitehead’s Doctors of the Great War, the author referenced a story in which a constable threatened to arrest a doctor. The doctor said he wished the constable would so he could get a break!
Also, Ben’s wife, Charlotte, is a nurse. When she’s in Folkestone, she uses her nursing skills working in a maternity home. While it doesn’t play into the story much, these maternity homes actually existed in Folkestone.
3. The Town of Folkestone
Using real buildings always helps with atmosphere. While a few in this book are fictional, many of them are real as well. Tontine Congregational Church (where the characters attend church), the post office, and the greengrocer’s, are all actual places in the town. While some of the streets are fictional, the Lower Sandgate road where Ben and Jaeryn sometimes see Belgian patients actually had Belgians living there, as I recall. Earlier in the war, Belgians escaped across the English Channel and came as refugees to Folkestone.
Jaeryn’s clinic on Tontine is fictional, but Tontine itself is a real street (more on that in a moment). The Leas, a promenade overlooking the English Channel, where Ben and Charlotte walk, was a real place. They would have seen a lot of soldiers there, as well as guards standing in front of the hotels where the soldiers lodged.
Another interesting historical fact: During the war, the English citizens couldn’t drive with headlights and had to pull curtains after dark. I was glad to find that out for the third draft of the book, because I didn’t know during the second draft, and they were breaking the law due to my ignorance!
In case any readers want to research further, Google is full of vintage postcards and websites devoted specifically to Folkestone. Also, a couple of people developed websites with photos dedicated to the town of Folkestone, and they contain a couple of places mentioned in the War of Loyalties: and
Another invaluable resource was a book called Folkestone During the Great War, 1914-1919, edited by John Charles Carlile. This book gave me so much information in a scene that mentions the soldiers on the Leas, and especially describing the bomb drop and its aftermath in point 5. This details in this article are indebted at many points to that book.
4. The Royal Victoria Hospital
Another real building, Folkestone’s Royal Victoria Hospital, gets used a couple of times in this story. It became the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1910. Our statewide library system had books solely about this hospital, which I saw as another act of Providence. While I was able to skim through several books, one of the books in particular was called A grand old lady: the history of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, 1846-1996, by Martin Easdown. In all the books about the hospital, I was able to look at black and white photographs that helped me picture what it might have been like when the characters were there, especially the men’s ward where one of the characters spends some time.
5. The Easter Rising of 1916
Terry O’Sean, one of the key characters and the source of most of the smiles in this book, is a rebel on the run after the Irish Easter Rising. This was a rebellion in Dublin, which was promptly quashed by the British. A lot of the rebels were imprisoned or executed, but Terry escaped to France, and now he’s back in Folkestone undertaking a secret job that no one can figure out. This Easter Rising, while it doesn’t happen on-screen in the book, adds a layer of conflict in War of Loyalties between English, Irish, and German loyalties. Jaeryn, as an Irishman, has not been convicted of taking part in the Irish rebellion, but because of his nationality, that causes tension with other agents as they wonder where he stands politically. This event and its aftermath will play into the subsequent novels of the War of Loyalties series.
6. The Bomb Drop in Folkestone, May 1917
A Gotha IV bomber of the type that raided Folkestone
One of the early events in the story was a real bomb drop in Folkestone which adds a lot of drama. Germany dropped bombs over Folkestone early one evening, May 25, 1917. Real facts that I included in the story were the fire on Tontine Street, searching through bodies at the morgue, and the tragedy of Tontine Street looking like a battlefield, as well as the memorial service afterward. This event gave Ben, his wife Charlotte, and his sister, Pearl, a stark and dramatic introduction to their new home. Folkestone During the Great War was an invaluable resource with first-hand accounts.
There are other things, like Webley pistols, the search for information about German dog tags, the tragedy of gas burns, and the convenience of cereal boxes (yes, Jaeryn Graham could actually have purchased breakfast cereal) but I’ll leave those details to be discovered in the book.
War of Loyalties is currently on Kickstarter to raise funds for editing and cover design. The goal is to publish it this year so you can enjoy the story during the centennial of it fictionally taking place. There are only a few days left to make this funding happen, so be sure to
check us out on Kickstarter if this piques your interest!
You can follow the War of Loyalties journey at my
Twitter, Facebook, and blog. Thanks for having me on the blog today, Jordan!
Schuyler McConkey is a teacher, ministry leader, author, and book blogger. She is a passionate advocate for quality literature and reading with Christian discernment, and writes with the happy accompaniment of Celtic folk tunes. Her first book, War of Loyalties, is projected to release November/December this year.
[This was actually the case with author C. S. Lewis. As an Irish citizen, he was not obligated to join the British army, but chose to do so. See Lewis's autobiography, Surprised by Joy. ~Jordan]
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On Women’s Emancipation
By : Justice Markandey Katju, Judge, Supreme Court of India
The Indian Constitution no doubt provides for equality of men and women in Articles 14, 15 and 16. But what do we see in actual practice? In practice there is often denial of equality for women in large parts of the country, particularly in rural areas, which is due to the disgusting survival of remnants of feudalism and medievalism in our society.
Feudal, agricultural society was based predominantly on physical labour, and since men are usually physically stronger than women, men were dominant over women in feudal society, and women were largely confined to household work, which is work of drudgery giving little scope for development of the mind. Small scale and middle peasant farming shackled women, tied them to their individual households, and narrowed their outlook. They were practically slaves of their husbands, who often beat them cruelly. On marriage their property often passed to their husbands, as we note in Emile Bronte’s novel `Wuthering Heights’. The lives of women in feudal society were full of continual, unending labour, a kind of labour that was looked down upon and bore the imprint of bondage. She had to do cooking, washing clothes, cleaning the home and other household chores, apart from bearing and rearing children. She was deprived of education and cultural development. Petty household work crushed, strangled, stultified and degraded her, chained her to the kitchen and nursery, and she wasted her labour on barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking and stultifying work of crushing drudgery. The oppression of women in feudal society was clearly expressed in the novels and stories of the great Bengali writer Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyaya (see `Shrikant’, `Brahman ki beti’, `Gramin Samaj’, etc.).
On the other hand, in industrial society brains are more important than physical labour, and much of the physical work is done by machines, which can often be operated by the touch of a button. Wars in modern times are not fought with swords and spears, which require physical strength, but with sophisticated aircraft, mechanized weapons and computers, which even women can operate. Hence in industrial society mental ability is more important than physical strength.
No doubt even in industrial society it is women who have to give birth to children. However, since much of the work in industrial society is mental work and does not involve hard physical labour, women can continue working till almost the end of their pregnancy, and industrial society provides them maternity benefits e.g. leave with full pay for two or three months. Also, women can leave their small children in crèches, nurseries and kindergartens while they go off to work. Household work is often done by gadgets, e.g. washing machines, vacuum cleaners, pressure cookers, microwave ovens, etc., and this work is often shared by the men folk.
Intelligence quotient (I.Q.) tests in psychology have established that the I.Q. of an average woman is the same as that of an average man. In fact whenever women got opportunity they showed that they could perform as well as men in almost all activities e.g. science, art, political leadership, medicine, engineering, teaching, etc. Elizabeth-I of England and Catherine the Great of Russia were great leaders, and Madam Curie was the first person in the world who won two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and the other in Chemistry. Hence, it is not due to any inherent inferiority but only due to the fact that women were not given education and other opportunities that they could not come up to the level of men in the past.
While in feudal, agricultural society there was division of labour between men and women, the men doing outdoor work involving harder physical labour, and the women doing household chores, in industrial society this division of labour has almost entirely vanished, and women are often doing the same work as men and have become economically independent.
Since in industrial society brain is more important than brawn, and since the I.Q. of an average woman is the same as that of an average man, women should have complete equality with men in such a society.
However, the truth is that in practice that is often not so, despite the legal provisions for equality, many of which remain on paper only. Equality before the law is not necessarily equality in fact. Thus, in Tolstoy’s novel ‘Anna Karenina’ and Gustave Flaubert’s novel ‘Madam Bovary’ we see how women were driven to suicide for not accepting an unhappy marriage.
In India we still have a largely male dominated society, and women are often looked down up and not given equal treatment. The birth of a female child is often regarded as disaster, and female foeticide is common in many parts of the country (despite the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994). When a male child is born everyone rejoices and sweets are distributed, but when a female child is born everyone’s face is dejected and crest-fallen, as if a great tragedy has occurred.(see Sharat Chandra’s novel ‘Parineeta’)
I may also mention the disgusting practice of dowry. It is said that an I.A.S. Officer’s dowry price is Rs.1 crore, and that of an engineer or doctor is Rs. 25 to 50 lacs. Is this not disgusting, this practice of treating women as sheep or cattle and that too by giving money to the purchaser instead of paying money to him?
The law courts in India are flooded with cases of crimes against women e.g. dowry deaths, often caused by pouring kerosene on a young wife and setting her on fire, or by hanging her (and calling it suicide). Wife beating and cruelty to women is rampant in our society, and in fact seems to have increased by leaps and bounds of late (though it must be added that very often provisions in the law to protect women like S.498A I.P.C. are grossly misused).
We have no doubt made same progress in women’s education since 1947, and now many women are educated, which was not the position earlier. Women have also now entered many professions e.g. law, medicine, teaching, journalism, etc., which is due to the partial industrialization of India after 1947. However in many other respects the position of women is as bad, if not worse, than earlier, and probably this is due to the large scale commercialization of society, in which everything, including human relations, has been reduced to exchange value.
We in India are living in a transitional age, the transition being from feudal, agricultural society to modern, industrial society. We are neither totally backward, nor totally modern, but somewhere in between. Hence remnants of feudal culture e.g. casteism and communalism are persisting in our society. It is for this reason that our society is still largely male dominated, and most women do not have real freedom. For instance we often hear of `honour killings’ of young men and women of different castes or religions being killed, harassed or threatened merely because they wanted to marry with a person of a different caste or religion. This is really barbaric, and shows how backward we still are, and it has been condemned by the Supreme Court in Lata Singh vs. State of U.P. and another (2006) 5 SCC 475.
How is the situation to be remedied? In my opinion for this we have to get over the transitional period and become a modern, industrial state. We must spread scientific thinking in our country on a massive scale, and encourage people to give up superstitions and backward, feudal ideas, e.g. casteism and communalism. This is only possible by a complete revolution in our thinking and attitude towards women, a massive cultural struggle involving hundreds of millions of our people which will sweep away all remnants of the disgusting feudal and medieval practices and mentality which persist even today, particularly towards women, and replace them with scientific thinking and genuine and complete equality between men and women. When and how this will come about I cannot say. But come it will, and all patriotic people in India, including the men, must strive and contribute to this goal.
I will conclude by quoting verses from the great Tamil poet Subramania Bharati who wrote (around 1908-1910) powerful verses in favour of women’s emancipation :
“Gummiyadi Gummiyadi Nadumughudum
Kulungida thaikotti Gummiyadi
Nammai pidiththa pisasugal poyina
Nanmai kandomendru Gummiyadi
Ettaiyum pengal thoduvadhu teemaiyendru
Enniyirundhavan mainduvittar,
Veettunkulley pennai pootivaipomenra
Vindhai manidhar thalai kavinghhar”
(Dandiya-dance to celebrate women’s emancipation) that is:
“Dance oh friend dance, playing dandiya let it be with such
force that as you dance it shakes up and wakes up this entire Nation.
Let us dance to celebrate our emancipation from the ghosts
which were holding on to us for centuries. Let us celebrate our achievement.
Those who thought that if education was given to women it
would harm the society, are all dead today !
Those strange fellows who wanted women to be kept locked
inside their homes have now tasted their downfall !
So, oh friends !Let us celebrate the emancipation of women
and dance playing dandiya”.
Pudhumaip Penn” (The New Woman)
“Aanum Pennum Nigar Enakkollvathaal
Arivil O’ngi Ivvaiyagam Thazhaikkumaam”
(This world will achieve excellence in knowledge
and wisdom by holding men and women equal)
“Vilagi Veettilo’r Pondhil Valarvadhal
Veerap-Pengal Viraivil Ozshippaaram”
(Valiant women will soon eradicate the custom
of growing in seclusion in homes)
Pengal Viduthalaik Kummi” (Women Liberation Song)
“Yettaiyum Pengal Thoduvathu Theemai
Endrenni Irundhavar Maaindhu Vittaar,
Veettukkulle Pennai Pootti Vaippom Endra
Vindhai Manithar Thalai Kavizhndhaar”
(Those who thought that it was a sin for women to
touch books are dead; the incredible men who
wanted to lock the women inside their homes now
hang their heads in shame
“Kangal Irandinil ordrai kuththi
Kaatchi Kedutthidalamo
Pengal arivai valarthal, vaiyyam
Pedamai attridum kaaneer
(from a poem titled “Murasu”)
(Out of the two eyes, if you pierce and destroy
one, are you not spoiling your own vision? In fact,
if you educate the women, the backwardness
which grips this world will vanish automatically.”)
“Pattankkal Aazhvadum Sattankkal Seivathum
Paarinil Penkal Nadatha Vanthom
(Women have come up now to get degrees,
to legislate and rule in the world)
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Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to build a new underwater cable that will span more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new announcement.
The cable will help both companies transfer more data more quickly between the US and Europe, connecting hubs in northern Virginia and Bilbao, Spain.
The move is meant to make Microsoft's and Facebook's services work more quickly and reliably for overseas users.
Telecommunications companies are usually the ones building massive undersea infrastructure like this, but as the data needs of tech giants grow they want to take greater control over the networks they rely on. For example, Google teamed up with five Asian telecom companies to fund a $300 million underwater cable network connecting the US and Japan in 2014.
Facebook has a slew of other initiatives to redesign telecommunications infrastructure, including tech to make radio towers more efficient and a wireless system tailored for dense urban areas.
The duo is calling its project MAREA, and construction will begin in August and end in October 2017.
Though the two tech giants are collaborating on the cable, it will be operated and managed by the telecommunications-infrastructure company Telxius.
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Microsoft is ramping up its fight against counterfeit software, this time targeting people alleged to have sold pirated versions of its programs on online marketplaces.
The company said late yesterday that it has filed lawsuits against 52 alleged resellers of counterfeit software and referred 22 piracy cases to law enforcement agencies in more than 20 countries. Here’s an example of one of the lawsuits the company filed in the U.S.: PDF, 51 pages.
Microsoft said 15 of the lawsuits involve software traced to what was believed to be the largest-ever counterfeit software syndicate, which was broken up this year by Microsoft and law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and China.
Microsoft’s controversial Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool also played a role, according to the company. Consumers whose software was flagged by WGA filed reports that helped identify the targeted resellers.
In a related move, Microsoft and eBay said they had jointly produced a “Microsoft Buying Guide,” to advise consumers on how to safely buy real software in online marketplaces.
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For Immediate Release: January 10, 2019
Contact: Commissioner of Finance, City of Saratoga Springs Michele Madigan
Telephone: (518) 587-3550 ext 2577
Richard Lin, New Ventures Consultant, NYSTEC
Telephone: (347) 322-8341
Announcing “The AI Opportunity: Developing an AI Ecosystem in Upstate New York”
City and IgniteU to Offer Economic Development Lunch and Learn Series in 2019
Saratoga Springs, NY -- The City of Saratoga Springs, along with the Saratoga Springs Smart City Commission and IgniteU NY, has announced a Lunch and Learn that will focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The event will be held at the Saratoga City Center on Thursday, January 24, 2019, from 12 – 2 pm. Lunch will be provided.
“The AI Opportunity: Developing an AI Ecosystem in Upstate New York” will be a panel discussion about what AI is, why it matters, and what opportunities it presents locally and regionally. Panelists will share ideas, experiences, and viewpoints about AI technology, research and development, ethics, and policies. Following the discussion and Q&A session will be time to network with local leaders, industry experts, and community stakeholders.
The first in a series of Economic Development Lunch and Learns, “The AI Opportunity” will be moderated by Saratoga Springs Commissioner of Finance Michele Madigan, who is also the Chair of the Saratoga Springs Smart City Commission. The Commission, comprising a diverse community membership, was formed in 2016 with the goal of helping set Saratoga Springs on a path to becoming a smarter city.
“I am thrilled to be partnering with IgniteU to offer a series of lunch and learns sponsored by the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, and Innovate 518,” said Commissioner Madigan. “This series—on topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, innovation, and energy—works to position the region to spur economic development by leveraging applications of emerging technologies to practical business challenges.”
Panelists include Bob Bedard, the President and CEO of deFacto Global, Inc., the software company behind the creation of a regional AI Center of Excellence. “The Capital District has the intellectual, financial, and political capital to create an AI ecosystem that will drive the AI economy throughout New York,” said Bedard. “The AI Center of Excellence is designed to drive AI competency, skill development, and jobs across the State.”
Also on the panel will be Dr. Craig Skevington, CEO of managed service provider STEADfast IT, which utilizes AI in its high-tech help desk, and Colin Garvey, a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) specializing in AI risk governance.
“The role of technology is no longer limited to merely a productivity tool,” said Dr. Skevington. “Emerging technologies like AI are impacting the fundamental strategic capabilities of a business.”
“The time is ripe for New York to become a major player in the AI space, and I’m glad to see it starting in the Capital District,” said Garvey.
The Lunch and Learn is free and open to the public, but it is limited to 100 attendees. For more information, visit
About IgniteU NY
IgniteU NY is a Capital Region startup accelerator, helping to fuel New York startups while supporting the region’s innovation ecosystem. IgniteU is powered by NYSTEC, a not-for-profit technology consulting company. For more information about IgniteU, please contact Richard Lin:
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Bass singing a tenor!
My high school is doing "Fiddler on the Roof" this spring, and the boy we cast as Motel (who sings "Miracle of Miracles") is a bass. Normally, this would not have been a good decision, but due to our talent pool it is what we ended up with. He is a pretty good singer, and is in my choir, but his range doesn't seem to comfortably go very far above middle C. While I know that as a bass he is going to have some struggles with this song, he also is straining on the upper pitches and can't seem to relax his neck. When he does relax, it's easier for him to switch between a deeper 'chest' voice and a lighter 'head' voice. However, his voice breaks right around the D to Eb range and I'm struggling to help him sing this song easily. He's just tense. His vocal agility isn't the best either. For those of you familiar with 'Miracle of Miracles' you know that's pretty important for this song. I would love some tips on how to help him release tension and sing from the body instead of the throat, and on improving vocal agility. As a female, I don't know that I'm currently giving him the best instruction for his bass voice.
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} | 494 | Football Betting Sites Bonuses
If you are familiar with the world of sports betting in any form no matter if it is not football then one thing you have probably taken notice of is the bonuses that different bookmakers offer. A lot of times different betting sites are constantly in competition for players’ attention so they have come up with some pretty great incentives to get more people interested in their sites. You can find even better promotions a lot of the times offered by new bookmakers that are just making their debut onto the market and hoping to get their names out there. Here are some of the different bonuses that you can find on various different football betting sites.
The Welcome Bonus
The welcome bonus, or signup bonus, is what pretty much all of the major football betting providers will offer to their new members. It is rewarded to the bettor just for the simple fact of signing up with the operator. Some of them may be a little lower than others but that does not necessarily mean that it is not still a great deal. Some of the different signup promos that are given out by popular bookies include 50% free bet up to $250 which is offered by Bovada, 50% bonus up to $250 which is offered by TopBet, and 25% up to $250 on your 1st deposit which is offered by
Other Various Bonuses
There are several other different offers that betting sites will offer up to their members. Some bonuses are given to bettors just by reaching a certain milestone while wagering such as placing so many bets. A lot of the times players will be rewarded with a certain amount of money to place towards more bets or they might even be awarded with some free bets. Over at 10bet bookmaker players are rewarded with cash back when they make combo bets, or various different bets at a time. Ladbrokes is currently giving away a free bet to any new member that they get. 888sport is currently doing a very exciting promotional offer for their bettors. Members have a chance to enter to win a 55’’ LED Smart TV when they place a certain amount of bets in the football category.
There are so many different types of bonuses that various different football and non-football betting sites offer to their players that you will definitely not get bored with your options. You can sometimes find some really fun offers, like the TV promo for example. These websites will probably always offer some type of bonus or incentive to their members just to keep traffic flowing and to keep people coming back for more. If you are having a hard time finding bonus offers from betting sites that cover a great selection of football action don’t worry because there are several different sites out there dedicated to keeping track of all of the info to make it easier for the bettors. | http://www.tdedfootball.com/ | robots: classic
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It features various aspects of my life that have led to my awakening. From my discovery and understanding of the chakra system, discoveries of various God and Goddess figures, shamanic and psychedelic journeying, to deep, deep inner journeying, connecting with nature and animals, meditation, and finding so many teachers and guides.
My journey expands and broadens all the time as I try to be aware of everything that reveals itself to me and to have the courage and strength to keep exploring and allowing my heart to crack open a little more every day.
My life keeps filling with more and more love.
I feel so lucky. so, so rich with love and learning. | http://www.vinicelloart.com/blog/2015/3/4/7 | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-47
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} | 585 | Motherhood Misery #5: I Didn’t Focus Enough on Myself
Mothers win the prize for sacrifice. Seriously. The degree to which moms forsake, forego, and forget our own needs and desires…it’s pretty admirable, but it’s also dangerous. “Family first,” is a spiritual and appropriate thing, but only when it’s done right.
How do you know when it’s done wrong? You’re mostly miserable.
It’s not motherhood that’s the problem though. It’s our wrong ideas about it. And somewhere along the line, that serpent on this trail we’re walking convinces many moms that only the children deserve to refresh themselves in that waterfall over yonder; and only the children deserve to snap photos and enjoy the view; and only the children get to collect the pretty stones, and drink the water, and bring their friends, or rest a spell.
Why is it that when the children barely sneeze, we rush them to the doctor, but we go years without tending to our own medical care?
Why do we prioritize their education over our own; and their friendships over ours?
Why do we buy clothes for them and not for ourselves?
Why do we pour money into their birthday parties, and Disney trips, and concert tickets, and Happy Meals without doing the same for ourselves?
Hey, I am not advocating selfishness. It’s just that when my children were younger:
• I put my education on hold too long
• I shelved my hobbies and focused only on what the children wanted to do
• I didn’t socialize enough with friends my age
• I rarely had time alone aside from my time of Bible reading
• I didn’t invest in clothes, or hair care, or dental care
I denied myself all these things while encouraging my children to do and have them. And of course it led to burnout and regret. In my perfectionism, I thought what I needed was to love mothering more. What I really needed was to love Mary more.
If I had to do it over again, I would seek balance. Self care for moms is not about having everything we want whenever we want it. It’s about ensuring everyone in the house is included in the family’s allocation of time and money. Wealthy moms may have more purchasing power and child care options, enabling them to strike that balance easily. But too many of us live as though we are utterly destitute, claiming we can’t tend to our own needs when maybe we aren’t even trying. If we lack self care and feel resentful, it’s not the kids’ fault.
But hey, don’t feel guilty. We moms can revisit our desires, our goals and our gifts. Yes, God made us moms, but we were his daughters first. And just like we want our daughters to freely enjoy life, be creative, play an instrument, giggle with friends, and care for their bodies, so also our heavenly Father desires that for each of us.
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Psalm 37.4
View from the Top: I have learned that sometimes self care is relaxing alone on my own porch.
Wine on the porch
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Molecular Sieves
Molecular sieve adsorbents are crystalline aluminosilicates, known as zeolites. Their unique structure allows the water of crystallization to be removed, leaving a porous crystalline structure. These pores, or cages, have a high affinity to re-adsorb water or other polar molecules. Aided by strong ionic forces (electrostatic fields) due to the presence of cations such as sodium, calcium and potassium, and by the enormous internal surface area of up to 1,000 m2/g, molecular sieves will adsorb a considerable amount of water or other fluids. If the fluid to be adsorbed is a polar compound, it can be adsorbed with high loading, even at very low concentrations of the fluid. Molecular sieves will, therefore, remove gas or liquid impurities to very low levels (ppm or less).
Another feature of molecular sieve adsorbents is their ability to separate gases or liquids by molecular size or polarity. The pore, or cage, openings are the same size as many molecules, e.g., in the case of hydrocarbon paraffins, straight-chained molecules can fit into the pores and be adsorbed, while the branched-chain molecules cannot enter the pores and pass through the molecular sieve bed unadsorbed.
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The 3A molecular sieve is an alkali metal aluminosilicate with a pore opening of approximately 3 angstroms. Type 3A is made by ion-exchanging the sodium in the type 4A sieve with potassium. The 3A molecular sieve will exclude most molecules except water, making it very selective. This type of bead also has advantages in crush strength, durability and high rate of adsorption. The 3A molecular sieve can remove moisture in both liquid and gas applications. Type 3A is used in the production of insulated glass, refrigerant drying, general moisture removal and the drying of natural gas, hydrocarbon liquids, ethanol and reactive monomers such as olefins.
The 4A molecular sieve is an alkali metal aluminosilicate with an effective pore opening of approximately 4 angstroms. The sodium form of type A is widely used as a general-purpose drying agent and has good physical and adsorption properties. Type 4A beads can be used to adsorb water, ammonia, methanol, ethanol and carbon dioxide. This type of molecular sieve is often used to remove moisture from gas and liquid streams, where co-adsorption of sulfur compounds and carbon dioxide is not a concern.
The 5A molecular sieve is an alkali metal aluminosilicate with an effective pore opening of 5 angstroms and is the calcium-exchanged form of the type A zeolite. The strong ionic forces of the divalent calcium cation make 5A an excellent choice for removing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, alcohols and other oxygenates, hydrogen sulfide, methyl and ethyl mercaptans, and other polar molecules. This product is also effective for the bulk separation of normal and iso-paraffin hydrocarbons. This type of molecular sieve has a high rate of adsorption and desorption, a higher rate of contamination resistance and a high crush strength.
The 13X molecular sieve is the sodium form of zeolite X and has a much larger pore opening than the type A crystals, with an effective pore diameter of 10 angstroms. It also has the highest theoretical capacity of the common adsorbents and excellent mass transfer rates. Type 13X offers enhanced adsorption performance over the type A zeolite, and it can remove impurities too large to fit into the type A zeolite crystal cages. It is also often used to separate nitrogen from the air to produce a high-purity oxygen stream. Our 13X materials are physically robust and have high adsorption capacity for water, alcohols and other oxygenates, sulfur compounds and carbon dioxide.
Calcium X
Calcium X (CaX) and Calcium LSX (CaLSX) are the calcium-exchanged forms of the 13X and LSX type zeolites. These molecular sieves have various applications throughout the process industry.
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Zeochem has an extensive portfolio of CaX and CaLSX type molecular sieves, each specifically designed to provide maximum performance in its specific applications.
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Zeochem's line of lithium molecular sieves offers proven performance, as exhibited by the millions of pounds used in air separation across the globe. We use our patented technology to create a portfolio of lithium molecular sieves for both industrial gas and medical oxygen applications. Our products have exceptional nitrogen capacity, extraordinary kinetics and superior selectivity to yield high-purity oxygen streams from the air. The patented binding system provides unrivaled physical characteristics, such as outstanding mechanical strength and durability.
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Purmol Zeolite Powder
Purmol molecular sieve zeolite powder is an excellent moisture scavenger for polyurethane coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers. Purmol adsorbents are synthetic zeolites in powder form with a complex alkali aluminosilicate structure. This structure is very open and contains pores of a regular and precisely defined size. This allows Purmol powder to adsorb molecules selectively based on molecular size and polarity. In practice, Purmol powder adsorbs water, but not solvents, resins or pigments.
Purmol molecular sieve zeolite powder has a wide variety of applications. While many current applications are based on polyurethane and other plastics, it can be used in numerous formulations where selective adsorption of small polar molecules is required within a liquid or solid medium. The fine particle size of Purmol powder ensures intimate mixing and excellent dispersion.
3A Purmol Powder
Potassium (K) form of the type A zeolite with a pore size of 3 angstroms. Recommended for use where co-adsorption of molecules other than water may be of concern.
4A Purmol Powder
Sodium (Na) form of the type A zeolite with a pore size of 4 angstroms. Combines high adsorption capacity for water and is characterized by a lower pH value.
5A Purmol Powder
Calcium (Ca) form of the type A zeolite with a pore size of 5 angstroms, allowing for adsorption of larger molecules with a critical diameter of less than 5 angstroms.
3A Purmol Paste
A 50%-by-weight dispersion of 3A Purmol powder in castor oil. Recommended for polyurethane systems where a faster incorporation of the Purmol powder is desired.
Activated Alumina
Activated alumina adsorbent is used as a protective layer, at the inlet of many gas-phase molecular sieve beds. Activated alumina has an exceptionally high volumetric capacity for any liquids that may be present in the feed stream and can hold over 50% of its weight in liquids. It serves to protect the molecular sieve bed from film coating and accelerated coking as a result of hydrocarbon condensates and carryover, potential amine and glycol carryover from upstream processes, and liquid water entrainment.
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• ProfileForRWBY asked thesonofcinder a question
Lets play a question game! Would you rather: Be sang to or be hugged? This or That: Eggs or Bacon? This or That: Tuna or Salmon?
Answered: Feb 19, 2017
• we first few
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Nichole got into her costume. Wiggling her feet into the large boots and pulling on her mask, she walked to her partner and a stagehand connected the two children together. They wandered to the side of the stage where the main character was finishing his speech.
“ i dare any and all grimm to attack me.” he bragged, taking her que nicole charged onto the stage, roaring she used her hands to operate the masks mouth and snapping at the hero.
“Oh ho,” he said with a grin, “a challenger?” the ‘grimm’ roared and the audience began chanting. “Fight fight fight.” the hero nodded and pulled out his weapon, a plastic sword, coated with reflective metal to look real and sharp enough to cut through the costume. Nichole began her elaborate dance. Standing on her partners shoulders and using her hands to operate the costumes claws as her partner charged forward. The audience roared their approval as the two characters fought across the stage. At one point the hero was on his back as nicole stood over him, operating the grimms mouth, then the hero did something unscripted, he kicked the grimm in the jaw, the costume caved under the impact and the foot hit nicole's face. She stumbled backwards and fell her partner called out to her as the hero readied his sword as if nothing happened, he cut the two costume parts in half like he was supposed to do, but this time nicole was right in the middle, the sword cut through the costume, and into nicole's stomach, she screamed in pain as the plastic blade broke her skin. Suddenly she glowed green and vines crashed through the stage grabbing the hero and reaching for the audience. What was wrong with her. The audience ran screaming.
“Grimm magic”
“ burn her”
“Grimm worshiper”
Nichole wanted to scream, she wanted to say that it wasn't true, she has no idea what was happening, suddenly the vines wrapped around her, she screamed louder, eyes squeezed shut, expecting to be dragged from the ground like the others, but the vines seemed to be protecting her. Suddenly they stopped moving, nichole pushed the shredded remains of her costume out of the way and gasped, the beautiful theater, the set, the costumes, were gone, in their place was a thick jungle of vines, suddenly the door burst down. She heard voices.
“yikes , there are no survivors in here.” a voice said. Nichole tried to yell, but the vines tightened around her stomach, squeezing the air out of her. The men shut the door and moved away. The vines opened and nicole fell, she looked up and saw a sight that would stay with her the rest of her life. Her partner and the hero, hanging up about ten feet. Vines around their neck.
“Let them go,” she cried, the vines responded, unwrapping themselves from the humans bodies, they fell with a sickening thud, their eyes stared at the vine covered ceilings, unseeing. Nichole fell to her knees and wept. The vines picked her up gently and carried her to a back exit. She took the cue and ran, out of the theater, out of the town, out of mantle. She collapsed with exhaustion, but still dragged herself forward, she couldn't stop, she couldn't get caught.
She couldn't go home.
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• GOLD volume 1
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two figures walked into the village, at first glance, they looked very similar, but if you took a closer look the differences were astounding.
the first boy had blue eyes and a cheerful expression, his dirty blond hair almost glowed in the sunlight , on his back was a bow and a quiver full of arrows. his dirty jeans and tee shirt did little to darken his complexion. he strode forwards happily, as if he was overjoyed to take the next step.
the second boy radiated darkness, his green eyes took in the town as if he hated it. his red brown hair was wild and uncombed and two goat horns protruded from his head. his black leather jacket was dirty, and his jeans were ripped in one knee. a gun and a yellow object hung from his belt. he shuffled forward slowly as if each step pained him.
the two boys walked through the town in the setting sun. finding a tavern, they both walked in and sat down. the bartender walked up to them.
"what can i get you boys today?" he said the first boy looked at the second, who stared at the floor.
"water, for both of us." the first said. the bartender nodded and walked away.
a second man walked into the room, he had brown hair and a large broadsword. he took a stool next to the boys.
"good evening," he said the first boy waved, but the faunus glared at the man. who nodded and turned his head, the bartender came back with the drinks.
"are you a huntsman?" the first boy asked, the huntsman nodded.
"four years in beacon academy and four times that as a professional." he said, the second boy grunted, then stiffened. the first boy spun around.
"what is it?" he asked. suddenly screams came from outside. the first boy spun around in his chair and rushed for the door, the second boy following quickly.
Beowulf crawled through the streets, a rinedeath charging after them the first boy drew his bow.
"take the big guy, i got the little ones." he said the second boy nodded and rushed for the rinedeath, the first shooting at the Beowulf.
the faunus leapt onto the monsters head, drawing his gun and shooting at the white armor of the grimm, who kicked his head back to dislodge him. the green eyed boy landed on the floor behind the grimm, putting the gun away he pulled out the yellow object which extended into a staff. he spun the black handled weapon in the air and brought it down on the nose of the monster, swinging it again, he knocked off the grimm's horn, causing it to bellow in pain, clasping his staff the boy pulled out his gun again, shooting at the hole in the monsters armor that he had formed, the grimm roared and kicked, thrashing as the faunus shot at its face.
then it fell and lay still, black smoke rising as the body disintegrated. the boy turned from the dead grimm, and shot the remaining beowulfs. the first boy nodded his thanks and turned back to the inn, the huntsman and bartender stood, shocked.
"who are you." the bartender said, the townspeople gathered around the vanishing monsters.
"i am Gregory Curtis and he is." the first boy started, but the faunus held up his hand.
" i am Daniel Samuels."
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• why it makes perfect sense lionheart is evil
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so, this might be common knowledge by now, but lionheart, headmaster of haven academy, secretly works for Salem.
I was just like most of you in my reaction. total disbelief. but then the more I thought about it it made more and more sense, I compiled a list of them here, but I'm sure there are lots more
1. cinder, mercury, emerald, and neo were from haven academy.
2. no other haven academy member questioned the strange people who were suddenly students.
3. no workers at the vital festival questioned the above fact either.
4. they had haven academy uniforms
5. they fought in the vital festival.
there are probably a lot more, but this is all I could think of.
now, the implications of lionhearts transgression to the dark side.
1. Ozpin was wrong about the headmasters
2. haven might not be properly prepared for a attack
3. Salem will have no trouble tracking ruby as she is now in mistral.
4. Salem is now in the perfect position to surprise attack ruby
5. the relic in haven academy is now pretty much Salem's.
6. the next volume is going to be sooooooooo awesome
so after compiling this list I can see that rwby is being taken to the next level. but I'm so sad that it is over for months
so. if you are sad that rwby is out for the mid season, I write two fanfiction series with totally original characters and plot lines.
if you want to. check it out, it would make my day.
anyway, thanks for reading and I will see you around
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• Rwby conspiricy therory
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so. Recently two things have happened. One. I was really sick and filled with pain medicine. And i was rewatching volume one to help my stories stay cannon.( gold volume one. Read it) and i noticed something. Remember the big deathstalker and nevermore vs jnpr and rwby fight in the emerald forest? In that episode. The teams end up on a fortress like structure. Abandoned and falling apart. In the center of the fortress was a tower. Now it may have been the painkillers. But the tower in the fortress looked a lot like beacon tower. During said episode. The nevermore crashed through the top cage like room of the tower. Sending peices flying and destroying it. Remind you of anything?
If you said the fall of beacon. Where the grimm dragon destroyed vales cct. The dragon crashed headfirst into the tower sending peices flying. So. Was the dragons destruction of beacons tower predicted in volume 1 or am i crazy. Leave your thoughts in the comments. Until next time this has been the rwby conspirisy therory. Im sonofcinder and stay tuned for some more. Conspirisys
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• New grimm ideas
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heres a fun little idea. New grimm ideas. Include a name. A breif appearance description and list of abilities. Also rate the difficulty it would take to kill it. 1-10 one being low, ten being high.
Ex: beadrile.
A huge black and white bee with a large stinger and a curved stripe on his face.
Stabs with stinger
Shoots stinger at men.
Antenna wrap around people. Crushing them.
6 hard to get close to. But weak spots in his armor make him vurnable to close up attacks.
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• we first few trailer: heros of our time
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Small buildings dotted the icy landscape, making the new kingdom of mantle. Snow was pounding on the roof, snow was always pounding on the roof. Alec Gundam sat near the window of his father's inn looking out into the frozen land. A dust powered heater next to him, dust, the magical crystals were the key to their survival here, the mines had sprang up, the carts rolled in empty and rolled out filled with the valuable mineral. The dust was existential to the heaters that kept the kingdom from freezing, but Alec had always found that he was fine in the cold, he ran his fingers through his messy red hair. Smiling to himself as people walked by, coats gathered around them like they were moving balls of fluff, occasionally ducking inside the shops and buildings to warm up.
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• G.O.L.D volume 1
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Darkness, then light, then darkness, the baby blinked in the strong lights of the atlas hospital, he was in a glass walled crib, laying on a white cushion. He was wearing a blue onesie and hat. Above him stood three people, a man, black haired and purple eyed. Wearing a dark coat and a proud smile, a small girl, with similar hair and eyes, wearing a white shirt with grey outline, and finally a woman, green eyed and red haired, smiling down at him, wearing a hospital gown.
The baby laughed and waved his hands around, wiggling his tiny head, he knocked the blue baby cap loose, revealing small bumps on the top of his head, colored a creamy grey.
Goat horns.
The people who were standing over him changed expressions, the black haired man’s face turned from surprise to anger, the red haired woman’s face turned from surprise to fear, and the little girl's face turned to surprise and stayed that way.
“Mother of beowulfs,” the man muttered to himself, then he turned to the woman,” nicole, i don't believe you would care to explain why our son possesses horns, would you?”
Nicole glanced at her child, then at her husband.
“Richard,” she said with a sigh, “ it's not what it looks like.”
“Really, because it looks very very bad.” richard shot back. Nichole sighed, eyes welling, she turned to the little girl.
“Stacey,” she said sweetly, “ are you big enough to watch daniel for mommy, we have to talk.”
The child nodded, amanda and richard stepped into the hallway, after a few moments the voice of daniels father could be heard yelling and screaming.
Baby daniel began to cry. Stacey took his little hand and kissed his forehead.
“Don’t worry, baby, it will be fine.” she reassured him, wondering if she believed that herself.
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• gold volume 1 trailer: darkness within
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Daniel stood on the cliff, the setting sun setting in front of him, his green eyes flashed as a Beowulf howled in the distance. behind him, the smoking remains of a white fang airship cast long shadows on the darkening earth.
Daniel rubbed his head, his horns blocking his hands path through his brown red hair. with a tight lipped smile he gripped his sword and leapt off the cliff to a uncertain future
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• thesonofcinder
2 months ago
only a bit. the roar made me wet myself, but Nora and Ren's child designs were so adorable.
but im glad he dropped the accent
• ProfileForRWBY
2 months ago
I also jumped when Ren's mom died. I wasn't expecting a jump scare like that.
• thesonofcinder
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2 months ago
What did you think of the newest episode of RWBY? That Grimm's roar freaked me out a bit.
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} | 1,247 | Monday 28th September
13:30 GMT
New forecast an improvement, show east / ESE all day, if that’s right should be a good day. Held 240 degrees (perfect) drifting overnight and got a modest drift to start the day, things are looking up.
14:30 GMT
Just before I leave the cabin after making porridge and coffee for the first row, my course over ground (COG) moved up to 270° (not good). When I get outside it’s clear there has been a shift in wind direction to SE possibly lower. No matter I need to get rowing as there appears to be a big storm off to my NE. Flashing lightning and the works, could this be coming my way? Not two days luck surely! It turns out not, it tracks NW well north of me and quickly becomes apparent that is what is pulling the wind from the SE. I’m pulling away as hard as I can but struggling to average much above 1.5 knots. As the storm moves away I expected things to settle and have a bit easier time, it’s now 18:00 and it’s the same. Wind from SE/SSE creating headwind, if the boat was a clock, the back 12 and the front 6, the wind is blowing my indicator to 10pm. I make 8.6nm in 4.5 hours, pretty poor return and 50% of yesterday’s speed. It’s a shame because I do think I’ve found the WSW current which is trying to help and if the wind either drops (currently 9-12 knots) or moves east 15°, I’m sure I can still get to 40 for the day. If not it will be a low score, not sure where. So fingers crossed, I’ve got two meals prepared and just need a break.
05:30 GMT
So I left you at 1830, I had 9.5 hours to do 20.5nm. Normally at 2.5 knots I’d do it by doing 2 x 4.5 hour rows and a break in between. I decided to go to ten hours, so off I go. The wind was still SE and low (a headwind), the water choppy, it was still very frustrating. I couldn’t get two oars in the water at the same time to save my life, I just had to grind away. The Sun is full on, no clouds at all now, in fact everything had gone north and there was a long line of cloud west to east clearly identify the equator which was a pretty cool thing to see. Anyway, 5 hours later I’ve got me 10.5nm but I’m exhausted, I need at least a fifteen minute break. I fill up my water bottles, grab some boiled sweats (pure sugar is what you need to fuel the system, no sugar highs and lows as your always low on fuel) and that’s your 15 minutes. 4 hours and 45 minutes to get ten more miles. The wind has eased but it makes no difference. Like yesterday even if the wind is virtually imperceptible, if it’s from the right direction everything is easy, if it’s the wrong direction everything is tough. You hear me talking about sculling all the time because it’s the best way to get speed, get your legs involved (the biggest muscles in your body, they are 80% of the power in your stroke) and you can move along really well. To get going you have to do 4 or 5 big strokes, once you have momentum you can then find a rhythm and cruise along. With a head wind every stroke is the first stroke, no momentum and no cruising. I did everything I could to get to 40, not a riveting total but from a tough day that would do. I ended the day on 39.7nm, only .3nm short but felt like a million miles.
I’m then left pondering what to do about drifting. I fiddle about for a bit and can’t get her to head south, the drift north is slow but there. I tidy up and watch what happens, still creeping north. I decide to put the para anchor out and see if it will take us SW. Nope, creeping north, a bit slower than just drifting but not a lot of change. Again I go back to my chores and watch what happens. Then I notice the back of the boat is pointing straight at the setting sun (west) that means the wind is from the east, (the anchor holds against the wind so the boat points into the wind). Why couldn’t I get the boat to go south with an east wind, I decide to pull the anchor in, fiddle with the rudder and I’m now heading SW. After a full days rowing the wind finally comes from the direction forecasted. Hopefully it remains consistent, I get a good drift close to course and it stays for tomorrow.
Any other news:
Just two days of September left. Cairns is 2811nm away, I wanted to be under 2700 by the end of the month, it will be close but that only counts in horseshoes. It makes Cairns look like a tough call.
Passed under 2° south today and will be west of 169° in the next 10 minutes. 37° of south complete, 14° to go, 47° of west complete 37° to go.
Golden Gate Bridge is 3521nm away (in a straight line, not the one I rowed).
Patrick asked me a few questions about water, here are some facts. I drink 10/12 litres a day, on a day like today one bottle at a time, I don’t use electrolytes, they leave residue in the bottle and things grow (it’s difficult cleaning bottle out here) so just water is fine. My water maker makes 30 litres an hour, I only have 3 five litre bottles so 30 minutes a day does me. I usually make water early so the batteries have time to recharge, the water maker is the biggest power user on the boat. Lastly, with one exception I don’t use vitamins. I read a report years ago saying that tests proved very little of any vitamin is absorbed from tablets, a balanced diet is all you need. The only thing I take out here is vitamin C, just a precaution. At home if I feel a bit under the weather I would just drink more fresh orange juice but that’s not an option here.
Saw a couple of fish pass the boat today. To be more accurate a couple of fish tails, one large yellow, possibly tuna but more likely a big jack and the second a very large iridescent purple, no idea what the fish was as it had gone by the time I got out of my seat. Maybe get another look tomorrow.
That’s it for now.
Grumpy: Glad to have you back aboard, good to hear the death stare was out, may the force be with you! Thought it was just me with the French thing.
Mike: The equatorial current should help me all the way Mike, it’s weaker and patcher from here but generally in my favour. The wind angles south of the equator are tougher but that’s the game, the reason I was frustrated at slower progress north was because I new I needed miles in the bank. A 50 down here is like a 60 up north.
Brain: Dyslexia noted, probably should be puff because it’s a bit longer that a puff. I’ll steer clear of Brighton for a while.
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} | 6,630 | Sunday, November 16, 2014
The U.S. election: a sea-change for the GOP? Or swan song?
A notion has spread -- foisted not just by cable news, but all media -- that the recent U.S. mid-term elections manifested some kind of tidal surge favoring Republican Party policies. Alas, the most disturbing thing about that meme is how pathetically easy it is to refute.
1) Democrats in 2014 had to defend 13 Senate seats in red or purple states. Mostly, the GOP reclaimed a number of naturally-red seats that had swung out of their grasp in a wave of revulsion toward the Bush era, amid Barack Obama’s first landslide. Here's your GOP "wave" - Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska, Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina. (In fact, the dems held on to Virginia, boding poorly for the GOP. See below)
Nothing makes more clear the dismal state of journalism than its inability to show this on a map.
Things will be different in 2016, when Republicans will defend 24 Senate seats, of which18 are likely to be competitive based on geography and demographics. Democrats will be in peril of losing just one seat that could be competitive. And it could get worse for the GOP. There is chatter about potential Republican retirements in Arizona and Iowa. If either John McCain or Chuck Grassley decided to call it a career, each of those races would be major Democratic targets.
Further, says Chris Ladd, one of the few openly Republican commentators to lift his head and reject the connivers who’ve hijacked his party:
Almost half of the Republican Congressional delegation now comes from the former Confederacy.” Illustrating my point that this is no longer about “parties or “left-vs-right” anymore. It is a re-ignited phase of the American Civil War.
2) Moreover, this election was just about the worst in U.S. history, for voter involvement. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and no state broke 60 percent. A first to be proud of.
As Chris Ladd put it: “Republicans in 2014 were the most popular girl at a party no one attended.” Why? “Vote suppression is working remarkably well, but that won’t last. Eventually, Democrats will help people get the documentation they need."
(Elsewhere I describe how failure to provide compliance assistance is the smoking gun, proving that voter ID laws had only one intent, all along.)
Indeed, some factors that depress turnout during midterms have the opposite effect in presidential years. For example, good feelings. A sense that things are improving. Take the steadily improving US economy. U.S. consumer spending rebounded last month, but confidence among consumers is surging at a faster pace.
Deficits are declining steeply, as always happens in Democratic administrations. Throw in lower gas prices, engendered partly by U.S. shale but equally – say experts – by the 2009 CAFÉ increases in car mileage standards that sent fuel efficiency rocketing skyward, saving consumers billions… and which the GOP has sworn to repeal.
Midterms tend to say “relax” to folks who see times improving. But presidential elections bring such voters out, in force.
(Regarding budget deficits, any US citizen who sincerely cares about fiscal responsibility would have to be crazy ever to go anywhere near the GOP, ever again. The second derivative rate of rate of change of debt is always negative under democrats and always positive under republicans. Period. Always. A grownup faces facts that veer from expectation – and adapts. See: Do Outcomes Matter More than Rhetoric?)
3) Policy-wise, voter decisions were very different than this purported “landslide” would have you believe. For example:
- Every major Democratic ballot initiative was successful, including every minimum wage increase, even in the red states.
- Every “personhood amendment” failed.
- Libertarian minded voters are starting to take note that the archaic-insane Drug War is being deregulated away only in Blue States. Hence, the current libertarian cant (fostered at great expense by the Koch Brothers and Steve Forbes) that “Republicans are less anti-freedom than statist democrats” is starting to shred.
Further, word is getting out that only democrats deregulate onerous government over-reach. Who abolished the ICC? The CAB? Or broke up Ma Bell? Or unleashed an unregulated Internet? Democrats. The GOP – for all its ranting about bad bureaucracy – has only ever deregulated one industry… Finance/Wall Street. And we saw how that went.
- But the biggest reason to doubt that this election reflected preference for GOP policies is simple. What policies?
Other than the Keystone Pipeline, there are no positive things on their agenda, only negatives -- explaining why this U.S. House of Representatives has been the laziest in the history of the republic. (See below.) And sure, Fox uses negative motivation effectively. But it has driven away people who want to move ahead. (Also below, see stats on US scientists.)
5) The hypocrisy of those who now proclaim a “mandate” from the American people, based on a margin of 3% in actual votes, in the lowest-attended national election ever… after they shrugged off two landslide elections of Barack Obama as “meaningless,” is stunning proof of selective insanity.
6) All of the voting machine manufacturers are now owned by radical republican factotums, some of them with criminal records. This does not matter much in most blue states, where laws require that the process include a paper receipt that the voter can peruse and verify herself, and that can be hand-counted in random audits of precincts. This means any large scale reprogramming of the voting machine results will eventually send the machine makers to prison.
In red states, there are often no such laws. No one knows how to audit the machines’ output and that is just fine by the party running those states. In other words, many tens of thousands of votes may be electronically altered without repercussions. No single fact more clearly portrays the fundamental difference in basic citizenship, between the Olde Confederacy and its blue opponents, in our ongoing struggle over American destiny.
7) As for future GOP prospects? They are very dim in any election wherein women, minorities or the young actually vote. The map of “safe” states for a democratic presidential candidate is spectacularly good. Mr. Ladd again:
If one includes Virginia… and Ladd argues one should… then the total number of “safe” democratic presidential electors is 270, all that’s needed to win.
== So what will the GOP Congress actually do? ==
Almost certainly nothing. Or nearly so. Again, to be clear, under Speaker John Boehner the United States House of Representatives became the laziest, least productive and most corrupt in the history of theRepublic, with fewer bills passed or even introduced, fewer hearings held or subpoenas issued, and fewer days in session, than any Congress since congresses began. Oh, but the most days spent away from the Hill, raising mountains of money.
Sure, the pace of legislative deliberation may pick up, now that the GOP controls the Senate. One can hope. Take this headline. Mitch McConnell's Mission: Making The Senate Work Again.” We’ve seen a week of hype that Senator McConnell sincerely wants to get down to business! Or this from The Washington Post: Republican leaders, too, are inclined to clear the legislative decks of must-pass bills so they can start fresh in January, when they will have control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in eight years.”
Indeed we can hope! And that they negotiate with the President and their colleagues on the Hill.
But given six years of filibustering obstructionism and laziness, one can be excused some cynicism. Recall that the GOP controlled Congress for TWELVE years, from 1995 to 2007 and for the last six of those, they controlled every branch and lever of the US government, from presidency to courts to Congress and so on.
What did they do with that perfect and complete lock on power? Did they take control of our borders? Solve the "entitlements crisis?" Balance budgets? Deregulate reviled agencies? Offer a plan for health care reform? Can you recall anything they actually did, during those years? Other than deregulate banks and Wall Street?
No. If liberals are the manic side of our national bipolar disease, conservatives are the depressive side. In an era when we need agility while charging into an uncertain future, their reflex is to growl: “No! Let’s do nothing. And get off my lawn.”
== But 'NO" is a magic word ==
Take the accompanying graphic… it is obsolete. By now a vast majority of blockages – across all of US history - have targeted this administration alone, depriving the American people of a functioning government. But to the GOP's owners that is a feature!
The deliberate destruction of politics as a pragmatic system for negotiating solutions to problems has been the great achievement of the Koch-Murdoch-Saudi axis. Earlier phases of the confederacy never accomplished such a thing. But this version has an openly stated goal that “government of the people, by the people, for the people SHALL perish from the Earth.”
Is all of this about to change? On the one hand, McConnell and his colleagues know the math for 2016. They can see they need to craft a better image or else go extinct. Perhaps there will be a few White House lunch meetings and one or two mentions of compromise.
But in fact, there truly is no chance of a détente. Across the last 60 years, democratic congresses have generally deferred to or negotiated with republican presidents, allowing them (with some big exceptions) to get their nominees passed. This has never been true in reverse. Not once, ever. Especially since the GOP openly declared its Hastert (“never negotiate”) Rule.
Indeed, few issues did more to divide the Senate over the past several years than the vetting of Mr. Obama’s judicial and executive-branch nominees.
And now note: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is 81 years old. You can be certain of a firestorm, when Obama appoints her replacement. (She of course should have retired a year ago.)
No, the turtle does not change his scales.
== A Genuine paladin for reviving a sane GOP ==
I’ve mentioned before that there are glimmers, here and there, of what America must do, in order to end this deliberately re-ignited phase of our self-destructive Civil War.
What is needed is for fifty million “ostrich republicans” – basically sane, pro-science, and pro-markets, but right now burying their heads in utter denial, staring at Sean Hannity and pleading with him to keep them hypnotized – what’s needed is for fifty million of them to finally wake up. To see and admit and get angry over the fact that their movement has been hijacked by (at best) crazies and (at-worst) outright traitors.
What will it take for ostriches to take notice and rebel, to save their movement? To return it to being about competitive enterprise, community empowerment and Adam Smith?
Signs of sharp divergence from those things have been visible for years. For example, the American right, which used to admire knowledge and expertise, is now in full tilt war against science. (See The Republican War on Science, by Chris Mooney.) Thirty years ago, 40% of U.S. scientists called themselves Republican, now it is 5%. They are voting with their feet, the smartest, wisest, most logical and by far the most competitive humans our species ever produced.
And not just science! Can you name for me one profession of high knowledge and skill that is not under attack by Fox and its cohorts? Teachers, medical doctors, journalists, civil servants, law professionals, economists, skilled labor, professors… oh, yes and science. Should this brain drain matter?
Not according to Fox, which touts the notion that brains automatically correlate with stupidity and lack of wisdom. What a meme! But some of you believe it. Indeed, that noxious meme is shared in some quarters of the left.
Is anyone out there trying to ease the pain of Barry Goldwater’s ghost, or to stop the spinning in William F. Buckley’s grave?
George Will – almost by his witty self -- could have done this thing and helped to save the country, if he weren’t a rationalizing coward. There are glimmers of an uprising over on the pages of The American Conservative… but that rebellion and re-evaluation is tepid, glacial, timid.
Still, one seeks hope. Indeed, at last, we may have found a hero who has the intellect and courage to condemn the Koch-Murdoch-Ailes-Saudi hijacking of U.S. Conservatism. I quoted from Mr. Chris Ladd, above. I know very little about the fellow, but his postings show that he is no shill for the statist left. His opposition to the Murdochian madness is based on a wish for the United States to have a party dedicated to enterprise and finding competitive, non-state solutions to real problems, in a flat-open-fair marketplace of products, services and ideas…
as Adam Smith prescribed -- and as every generation of Americans has had to redefine and refresh. It is not leftism that today’s oligarch-owned GOP opposes, but the very principles and practical miracles that it is supposed to defend. Which is why conservatism today never mentions Adam Smith.
I hope Mr. Ladd gets some scrutiny and attention. It will be interesting to see if his “GOPlifer” column maintains quality and gains traction.
== Continue to Part II
Tim H. said...
There is a possibility that the Democrats will remember who they were, re-invent progressivism and leave the GOP looking like an illicit union between the KKK and the John Birch society, on the other hand, the Carter Clinton Gore GOp lite may not wish to go gently into irrelevance. If they win, the GOP gets an extension, for as long as the Democratic party remembers 1972. But be of good cheer, embalming fluid cures a lot of stupid.
daddyoyo said...
Of course, I agree with nearly every point you made, David. My only caveat is that I think the situation is much worse. Oh, if only it were true that there were 50 million Republicans who are sane and pro-science. Taking just the subject of evolution as a stand in for science and sanity (not being clouded by short term economic interests), 48% of Republicans now insist that humans have always existed in their present form. That alone knocks the 50 million down to 25. Some of this can be accounted for by the fact that many sane former Republicans now register as Independents, though continuing to vote with their former party most of the time.
grayburst said...
Dr. Brin,
I happen to be a proscience Republican who has bothered to read the Wealth of Nations. I will agree on most of your points, but the GOP just took the midterms by better public relations strategy, much as the Democratic Party did in 2006. I honestly see very little change coming out of D.C. Both parties still have a lot to answer for in the matters of poor governance, corruption, and foolishness.
String said...
David, I must take exception to your statement about the Republican lock on power from 1995-2007: "Can you recall anything they actually did, during those years? Other than deregulate banks and Wall Street?"
IIRC, there was a pointless war (or two) in there as well...
David Brin said...
String, did you notice that the topic of that paragraph was the GOP's lock on CONGRESS? The wars were chosen by the "decider" president. A flaw in our system? Perhaps. Though good reason to keep the Bushites away from power, ever again.
David Brin said...
grayburst. there are corrupt democrats! But they are in the "normal" range. The DemoParty CONTAINS some assholes. The GOP has become ENTIRELY that kind.
That is a functional difference that makes your shrug almost tantamount to treason.
Dig it. If the dems get a chance they will reverse Citizens United and get half the money out of politics. If they REALLY had a chance, they'd eliminate most of the rest with public election funding and restore the balance rules in media, requiring broadcasters to have at least a minute of rebuttal for every hour of blatant propaganda.
Blue state citizens are eliminating both drug wars and gerrymandering, while red states deepen both insanities. You know I could go on and on.
Sorry, you do not get away with your shrug.
Laurent Weppe said...
What if they're not asleep, nor in denial, but doing a very conscious, cynical calculus:
"If the dynasts are banished from the halls of power, they'll use their wealth to subsidize and arm thugs who'll use their superior firepower to beat the civilian population into submission therefore we'll keep tolerating their inept rule because the devil we know -a corrupt order- is still better than the devil we don't -complete societal collapse-"
Facing such an audience, variations of "wake up sheeple" aren't likely to work: a better approach would be to convince the cynics that either:
• There's nothing to lose anyway: the paragons of dynastic wealth's influence having already brought the current system on the brink of collapse.
• There's something to win because progressives are sufficiently resourceful to be certain to unambiguously crush any armed uprising brought by their unfettered reactionary neighbors.
Otherwise, they'll most probably remain convinced that submissiveness remains the most intelligent course of action while your glorious paleognaths revolution remains a tall tale.
Mad Fabe said...
One thing we can be sure about. The Democrats will win again, when people get tired of the GOP.
And then the GOP will rebound when people get tired of the Democrats. No one party stays in power forever and anyone who is hoping for that will be disappointed. We dealing with humans after all is said and done.
Anti-Beigeist said...
Isn't the bigger issue that the United States is long overdue to have its two party monopoly/plutocracy disrupted? Isn't it embarrassing that the supposed leader of the democratic free world doesn't offer its voters more choices? Do you think democrats aren't facing their own internal contradictions, dissent and corruption?
The entire system needs to break down so something better can emerge; acting like one party is the source of all of America's problems, and if the GOP could just go back to its Eisenhower days everything would be fine sounds rather nostalgic and delusional to me. I would rather see more extreme parties on all sides emerge and challenge the Beigeist regime than see this totally dysfunctional and uninspiring system continue.
Anonymous said...
Explain the MD Governorship doc...
Tony Fisk said...
Despite the impression our beloved Pariah Minister may have given on the World stage in the last week, Australian politics is nowhere near as ossified as the US system has become.
With Victorian State elections due in a couple of weeks, an interesting dynamic has been developing between the parties.
Specifically, the (kinda Democrat) ALP has chosen to recommend preferences to right wing parties rather than the Greens. The reason stated is to maximise chances of ousting the Liberals, but
1. the Libs are likely toast anyway (won't bore you with the details here.), and
2. this follows on from last year's Federal election, where the ALP put preferences to the *Liberals* rather than the Greens in Melbourne (didn't work, btw)
This suggests, to me, that the ALP is seeing the Greens as a bigger threat than the Liberals, or that they don't want to be seen as backing socialism (I don't know if environmental activists in the US are referred to as 'watermelons': green outside, but red inside? Probably too confusing ;-)
This raises the possibility that, sometime in the medium-term future (say, 10 years?), the entrenched parties will be forming an alliance against the upstarts.
Either that, or politicians will stop heeding the mesmerising monotone marketing mantras of their spin doctors.
LarryHart said...
I'm not sure who I'm agreeing with or disagreeing with here, but Democrats have got to stop trying to peel a few Republican voters off and start trying to get their natural constituency to vote for them again.
As long as Democrats run away from anything like defending victims from bullies, accepting the Republican meme that it's the same thing as redistribution of wealth from "makers" to "takers", they are adopting a losing strategy. The don't need to get a few of the wealthy and powerful to vote for them so much as they need to remind the 99.9% to do so. Then they'll be competitive in 50 states.
locumranch said...
The US polity elected a Republican majority to Congress because they have lost faith in grand ideologies. They have lost faith in party platforms; they are 'fed up' with federalism's one-size-fits-all approach to governance; and they are tired of being told how to talk, think & act, what to drive, eat & smoke, and who to schtupp, obey or respect.
As the old saying goes, "All politics are local", and the election of a Republican preponderance is just that: A vote for 'Increased Local Control' (also known as Anti-Federalism AND balkanization) rather than a blanket endorsement of moldy-old (and largely anti-liberal) conservative values.
And, although David chooses to call this movement (this rejection of centralized 'expert' authority) 'Anti-Science', it is not a rejection of science (and/or scientific principles) per se but, instead, it is a rejection of centralized 'let's-all-march-in-lockstep' authority. It is Populism, pure & simple, the desire to live, act, believe & behave according to personal preference, local custom and regional morality.
In the social West, where we once demanded a central (ultimate; all-knowing; unerring; infallible; unquestionable; high-hatted) authority to rally around, we have out-grown this need, and we will not allow any authority to thoroughly dominate us, including Holy Science, as the time for Popes has past.
Poor Science -- No Hat for You -- On This The People have Spoken.
Paul Shen-Brown said...
Tony Fisk, nice bit of alliteration!
"Either that, or politicians will stop heeding the mesmerising monotone marketing mantras of their spin doctors."
Locum, science is not about authority, and only those who fail to understand its most fundamental nature make that mistake. It is hardly that monolithic, except in how it is portrayed by the religious right. Left to their own devices, scientists will argue among themselves until the data bring them all to the same page. I don't think that Dr. Brin is arguing that we revisit the mistakes of the French Revolution. And the People haven't spoken so much as sat out this one. Science is not governance, it is a process of discovering truth. What the government and/or citizenry choose to do with the facts discovered by scientists is another matter.
As to the burning desire of average US citizens to be free of Orwellian big government and have more local control, I only hear this from Southerners and Limbaugh dittoheads. Most people are just as unimpressed by their local politicians (who are more likely to be corrupt due to less media spotlight) as they are by national politicians. Voter turnout this election cycle clearly demonstrates that most of the citizenry only consider it worth taking the time to vote when the President is up for grabs.
Anonymous said...
I feel as tho I have wandered into a loony bin. The sum of the original post and the comments is illustrative of the dismal state that progressives have brought this once great nation to. Those who love the progressive agenda should try spending some real time living in the repression of the European progressivism you so dearly love.
Robert said...
Locu, you seem to have ignored a vital component of the above post and the source material: The Republicans were the prettiest girl of a party where no one showed up. Voter turnout was abysmally low. Most of the Republican victories were for Senate seats in Red states, some won by freshmen senators won on the wave Obama's hope campaign washed over unexpecting and cynical states. And in two years, unless Republicans can replicate that Wave with a Republican candidate that inspires not only every single one of their voters and all of their former voters to get out and vote again but to also inspire the youth and woman vote to back them, then you will see the Senate majority swing back to Democrats.
There is only one victory to take here for Republicans: they may have prevented a Democratic Senate Supermajority in 2016. But isn't that the sort of victory where you're stuck with vanilla ice cream (and dislike vanilla) but hell at least you're not eating strawberry icecream?
It has been proven that the House is only in Republican hands because of gerrymandering - how else could a majority of voters vote Democrat, and yet the majority of Representatives are Republican - and not by a tiny margin but rather a significant one. Democrats are wising up to having to work through voter ID bills (and voter suppression so could be destroyed by Obama stating "there are valid concerns about voter fraud, and thus I am using an Executive Action to bring about standardization of voter ID systems so all states will use this system but no voter will be disenfranchised...") and getting minorities registered with valid IDs in the next two years.
At this point the only way Republicans have a chance of the Presidency is if a Republican lawmaker were to take a gun and kill both Obama and Biden at the same time (and then the new Republican President declared martial law and turned the nation into a dictatorship - except I doubt the military would stand for that).
Or Republicans could have the courage to tell their voters "the party is sick and dying, and unless we enact these reforms, you will never again see a Republican President legitimately elected." I rather doubt that will happen.
Rob H.
Robert said...
@Anon: Funny. You say that but I bet you don't believe it's right for Satanists to use Freedom of Religion to put a Satanic display up on public property next to a Manger Scene. I bet you don't think illegal immigrants should be allowed any rights that our civilians have. And I bet if Republicans enacted their policies you'd find that the loss of freedom would not end with abortions being illegal even for rape and incest and voter suppression of minorities. Not to mention you speak under the guise of anonymity. You lack the courage to speak openly and for all to see. If you lack that courage, why should we find any merit in your claims?
Rob H.
Midboss said...
Repression of European Progressivism...
What repression exactly ? I live in Europe (despite the UKIP's claims) and I can't really see it.
Anonymous said...
You score a perfect 100% wrong. I'm not surprised. And for your info I answered anonymously because I don't ever plan to return to this site.
Anonymous said...
My guess is you have never felt repressed because, according to you,you don't know what it means.
Your comment fits(or misfits) right in with the rest of the comments on this site.
Robert said...
And yet you did.
So what you're saying, Anon, is that you're a troll and you're just trying to rile up people. You find a group of people who are willing to debate and discuss a topic with people on both sides of the spectrum (or do you think Tacitus, locu, or myself are liberals? Excuse me while I laugh) and rather than trust the maturity of the group and actual discussion and debate where opinions are respected so long as respect is shown in return, you hide under the mantle of anonymity and shout out short little assertions without citation or proof.
Because that is the behavior of a troll - "hit and run" behavior and "I'll not return" while remaining behind to witness the flamestorms that he crafts - rather than a mature and reasonable person willing to discuss things with people he may not agree with. (And yes, I know women can be trolls as well, but far far fewer of them tend to be.)
Shed your anonymity. Join the community. Become a part of something greater, and in doing so find you have grown as well.
Rob H.
Anonymous said...
Dr Brin wrote:
And this is why the Republicans well keep on winning no matter how many Democrat Presidents get elected. If one side moves to meet the other, and the other doesn't move at all or moves further in its preferred direction, guess which side is going to win over time. What is the signature achievement of Democrat President "Hope and Change" Obama? The passage of the *Republican* health-care plan. Which is now
"Communism-Sharia-Atheism-OMG!" because the Party of No has moved the Overton Window so much further to the "right."
Our next President-Designate, Hillary Clinton (I do hate how media outlets can tell us who our nominee is going to be *years* before a single primary vote has been cast) is going to have to get on her knees, hold her hands out pleadingly, and offer to govern like Ayn Rand in order to get anything done at all, and she'll *still* be too "left wing" for them. The one after her will have to govern like Pinochet.
Either that, or people will tire of "weak" Democrats (another Republican meme that works really, really well, especially in combination with Republican gridlock) or the Democrat base will stay home in frustration, and we'll end up with another "Decider."
The only way the Grey States (because, let's face it, Red isn't their color) won't keep winning this phase of the Civil War is if the Union either gets wide, filibuster-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress plus an inspiring President and the resolve to do some outright curbstomping, or if the Union finds some way to change the rules of the game. I'm not sure what that would be, since the option for gridlock is built in to the Constitution.
Maybe something like "going full-Tenther" or even Blue secession: let the Grey States turn themselves into a cheap-labor cornpone Byzantine Empire/Republic of Gilead-with guns-and-big-pickups for awhile, and let their voters have the results of their desired policies rammed down their throats foie gras-style until they remember why we put FDR on the dime, and Teddy on Mt. Rushmore.
BTW, regarding William F. Buckley's ghost: The National Review is currently warning the coming GOP Congress in its best Admiral Ackbar voice: Governing! It's a TRAP!.
Anonymous said...
What Ladd doesn't seem to get is that the craziness of the modern Republican party is a feature not a bug. You see all these 'moderate' Republicans who are trying to bring the party back to it's core focus on conservative economic policy. The problem is that the whole point of the craziness was to distract from the overwhelmingly unpopular Republican economic policies. If you can't survive in the marketplace of ideas, throwing out a bunch of chaff to whip up the extremists in your base is a viable strategy - if not one that bodes well for long term success.
matthew said...
David, one big reason for the lower oil prices is Obama asked for OPEC to keep production quotas high to pummel the Russian economy. The Saudis and Gulf States are going along with the plan. Putin's policy speech in Sochi was in partial response to John Kerry travelling to several OPEC states negotiating for the production quotas to stay high. Low oil prices punish Russia and ISIS for their truculence. Beating up Iran and Argentina economically is just a bonus.
Hans said...
When any banker responsible for the 2008 meltdown does jail time, I'll believe that someone, someday, in some alternate universe will do time for voting machine fraud.
I don't suggest we stop trying though.
Robert said...
Like the bankers in Iceland?
Or were you unaware that the Icelandic government put out an Interpol request for the arrest of some of their bankers who'd fled the nation?
Rob H.
Hans said...
Yes, like in Iceland. Then we could have nice things.
David Burns said...
I was convinced the republicans are terrible long ago. Now convince me the democrats aren't just as bad.
David Brin said...
David Burns why should I bother? You clearly did not read the linked article. If you had, you would have seen TONS of such reasons. And, if you saw flaws, you would have pointed those out.
As it is, I am not responsible for your dogmatic laziness.
Jumper said...
I ally with scientists partially because they are some of the best deep cover warriors against ineffective elements in the bureaucracies.
Paul Shen-Brown said...
For our repeat anonymous commentator, I would like to quote a line by one of the Twentieth Century's most influential writers:
"Four legs good, two legs baaaaad!"
- George Orwell
locumranch said...
I agree wholeheartedly with Paul S_B when he says "Science is not about authority, and only those who fail to understand its most fundamental nature make that mistake", so it therefore follows that those who look to science (and/or scientists) to act as civil authorities (as does our host) are making a fundamental error. Rather than 'making up' policy, it is the scientist's job to come up with options and evidence that may or may not facilitate those civilly-constructed policies.
That said, I disagree with Robert on two counts:
Firstly, I disagree with his analogy about the Republicans being the 'prettiest girl at a party where nobody came' when the truth is that they were the 'easiest girl' at the same party, offering up the obstruction (and/or destruction) of federal government which is what a growing number of 'Randy' US citizens desire.
Secondly, I object to his characterization that I am 'not a liberal' when (truthfully) I am one of the few pure 'liberals' on this site. More accurately, I am NOT a 'liberal-progressive' because 'progressivism'(IMO) has become an increasingly dangerous form of idealism which has lost all contact with our political reality, and this truism applies equally to the revisionistic tendencies of both the progressive left and the progressive right.
If I had my druthers, I would do away with our so-called 'progressive' culture of incrementalism which (1) confuses negligible additive improvement with definitive change, (2) has proven itself incapable of leaving good enough alone, (3) spoils our cultural soup like too many self-important cooks and (4) insists on mischaracterizing their incessant meddling as 'scientific'.
Tacitus2 said...
Give people an election that they care about and they will turn up in substantial numbers. Here in Wisconsin we had the best mid term participation rate in a generation or two. Both sides cared a lot.
The laws of science are apolitical. Drop an anvil and it will hit your foot at a time readily calculatable with a few measurable variables.
The laws of man are all political. Science can be perverted to serve them. If you had the eugenics mindset of the early 20th century harnessed to the biology of the 21st I have no doubt that you could produce verifiable improvements in many parameters of human health. And the more brutally you apply the science the more dramatic the results.
And of course hubris, always hubris. There was some actual concern that the Trinity test might ignite earth's atmosphere. We did it anyway. Hey, that worked out ok, lets do nuke tests in the desert outside Vegas. March soldiers up close to study the effects on them. Announce the schedule so gamblers can step outside The Tropicana to stare into the heart of nuclear hell.
David Brin said...
" those who look to science (and/or scientists) to act as civil authorities (as does our host)..."
Ah... locum the strawmanning liar is baaaaaaack!
A.F. Rey said...
Here's one for the books: A cartoon based on an "epic screed" of a billionare worried about hyperinflation based on the prices of real estate in London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton, plus the price of high-end art.
As the comments section says (better than the comic, IMHO), "[W]hen 1% of the world's population holds as much wealth as the bottom half, you're going to see some pressure on those Picasso price points. It's a clash of the titans -- titans with near-infinite resources to spend impressing each other to death!"
Sound familiar, David? ;)
A.F. Rey said...
Or consider the problem of luxury items like jets and yatchs. Only the very most expensive are selling. The merely unaffordable no longer have a market.
Sales of the largest, most expensive private jets — including private jumbo jets — are soaring, with higher prices and long waiting lists. Smaller, cheaper jets, however, are piling up on the nation’s private-jet tarmacs with big discounts and few buyers.
“The real demand is at the very top,” said Mr. Rushton, the president of Aviatrade, a private-jet brokerage and advisory company. “The big guys, the billionaires, have plenty of money, and they’re buying. But the middle and lower end has been much slower to recover from the crisis.”
Anonymous said...
Re Tacitus' "There was some actual concern that the Trinity test might ignite earth's atmosphere",
I recently watched the episodes of the new TV series "Manh(a)ttan" on Hulu. I liked it enough to read some of the ancillary background stuff on the making of the series, interviews with actors, producers, people who had lived at Los Alamos during the project, etc.
One of the latter was a woman who lived there as a teenager while her father worked as a probabilist. She said that one of his assigned tasks was to compute the probability that the atmosphere would ignite and that he came up with 1/3000.
-- ToddR
Tony Fisk said...
Tacitus2 said:
The political bit lies in whether the foot will be there to be struck when the anvil arrives. From recent observations on issues like climate change, this doesn't seem to be quite as straightforward as one would think.
atomsmith said...
Heh. I wonder if his calculation looked anything like the Drake equation...
Alfred Differ said...
Removing scientists from the policy making side of what is done won't happen. They are just as human as the policy makers. Since we all have a chance of being policy makers, the trick is to recognize when one of us knows something (or doesn't) about the subject they wish to influence. No one should be taken as an absolute authority, but we should be paying attention to people who are likely to know something useful.
David Brin said...
The "ignite the atmosphere" seems odd to even calculate. There is no energy curve to "ignite"
Jim Satterfield said...
The scientists who have become in policy have done so only after years of having the implications of their research ignored.
Alfred Differ said...
Heh. That's what gets many people involved in policy. Otherwise most of us would avoid it as getting making it reminds me too much of having one's toenails pulled out forcefully with no anesthetic.
(I'm assuming one does not have a monetary interest in skewing the rules, of course.)
TheMadLibrarian said...
As someone who is temporarily impersonating a figure of authority, policy making is much like sausage making. No one likes to consider the process, even if the results are tolerable.
~~I miss the old CAPTCHA sometimes
Tony Fisk said...
btw (and, for once, sort of on-topic) anyone who doesn't feel they've voted enough recently are welcome to participate in the Victorian* election Vote Compass.
After answering about 30 questions on local political issues, your overall rating will be displayed on a fashionable 2-D graph and compared with the major parties.
*You are asked for your locality, but Non-Victorians can still give it a whirl.
'511': the electron rest mass energy, in keV
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It is often said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. The IRS takes that truism to heart by first obligating you to calculate when you are likely to die and then making you pay taxes accordingly.
The Individual Retirement Account (IRA) was created to help people save for retirement in a tax-advantageous way. With a Roth IRA, your contributions come from already taxed money. Retirement withdrawals are not taxed. With a traditional IRA, contributions reduce your current taxable income, but future withdrawals during retirement are taxable.
Roth IRAs benefit those in low tax brackets now. Traditional IRAs benefit those who will be in a lower tax bracket during retirement.
But contributing to, distributing from or even just owning an IRA can be challenging. The IRS instructions for Individual Retirement Arrangements, Publication 590, is 114 pages long. The section on withdrawing assets from traditional IRAs alone is 50 pages. The algebra required to comply with the IRA rulings is beyond many citizens. Yet failure to abide by these complex calculations results in a punitive 50% tax.
Among the most complicated and frustrating IRA rules are required minimum distributions (RMDs). The IRS tells us, “You cannot keep funds in a traditional IRA indefinitely.”
RMDs are required on all traditional IRA accounts in and after the year the owner turns 70 1/2 years old. For inherited IRA accounts, RMDs are also obligatory in the year after the previous owner’s death.
A new RMD value must be calculated every year. In its simplest form, this year’s RMD is based on the value of the IRA at the end of last year and the life expectancy of the owner.
However, figuring out the RMD of inherited IRAs is significantly more complex. Many companies will determine traditional IRA RMDs for you. But the inherited IRA calculation is so onerous that account owners or their advisors must compute it manually.
David’s mother, an incredible woman who is greatly missed, died on April 1, 2002. She generously left a portion of her IRA to each of her children. David’s share was put into an inherited IRA. The following year and every year after that it requires RMDs.
To calculate the RMD, first you must determine the end-of-year value of all of the cash and holdings in the inherited IRA. This is not as simple as looking at your custodian’s end-of-year report. An account value may differ from the final number on your December statement. For example, late dividends are often back posted after the end of the year, a trading fee for a trade in December might not be withdrawn until January and any money moving back into the account adjusts the prior year’s ending value.
Next, you report the date of the person’s death. That date is required every year, so the IRS does not let the bereaved forget it.
David uses that date to report his age the year after his mother died (43) and how many years have elapsed since the year after her death (12).
Using this information, he looks up his “Life Expectancy Factor” from one of three IRS life expectancy tables that show how many years the IRS says he can expect to live.
As the beneficiary of an inherited account, David uses the Single Life Expectancy Table. At age 43, he was only expected to live an additional 40.7 years.
He then subtracts from that number the number of years since the year after his mother’s death (40.7 – 12 = 28.7).
After calculating both the end-of-year value and this modified life expectancy number, David must divide the end-of-year value by his modified life expectancy number to calculate his RMD for the year. Then he has to ensure that at least that amount is distributed from the account. He also must report this withdrawal on his taxes and pay tax at ordinary income tax rates.
Thus David must face his mother’s loss again every year, noting how many years it has been, how likely he is to die and how much of his inheritance remains in the account. This is a cruel rule.
All of this work just so the government can grab its tax money early. It is counterproductive for everyone involved.
Most people contribute to their traditional IRAs throughout their working career while they are young and in a lower tax bracket. So the government only misses out on a very small amount of tax. Then IRAs grow for decades at market rates of return.
Some traditional IRA owners may find themselves in a higher tax bracket at retirement, but even if the IRA owner’s tax bracket is lower at the time of distributions, the government has gained from the arrangement.
By deferring the taxation of these accounts, the traditional IRA essentially forced the government to save and invest. By the time the owner is ready to distribute, the value of the IRA is significantly larger. Thus every year the government allows its citizens to delay taxation of their retirement assets, the government’s portion of the account grows at market rates of return.
This deferred taxation is one of the only forms of saving and investing in which the government has ever participated.
Obliging IRA participants to harvest taxation earlier for the government via RMDs actually hurts the government’s revenue.
Just for 2009, the government suspended the RMD rules to encourage individuals with lower end-of-year balances due to the 2008 financial meltdown to leave the money in and let their account balances recover.
Many retirees did not take withdrawals that year. When their account balances recovered in 2010, the government collected more in taxes than it would have if it had insisted on enforcing RMD regulations the year before.
What was good for the government on a large scale in 2009 is also good for the government on a smaller scale each year. Every year the government allows IRA accounts to appreciate at market rates of return, it ends up collecting more money in the long run.
Retirement assets passed $23 trillion this year with over $6.5 trillion held in IRAs. At a 10% market rate of return, that would add $650 billion to the amount the government will ultimately tax for every year it encourages account holders not to take distributions.
IRA distribution regulations are extremely shortsighted. In addition to forcing IRA owners to dwell on their deaths and the loss of their loved ones to complete the calculation, the RMD itself robs both the taxpayer and ultimately the government of wealth in the long run. All this, so the government can have money now.
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There is No Place Like Home- Marshall Islands’ Native James Bing Remembers his Homeland
I love the Marshall Islands because it is my home. There is no place like home. it’s very different than here. I love the beautiful sun and warm rain year around. I love the people there. Marshallese people are the kindest and nicest people. I know almost everyone there.
I really miss the Marshall Islands.
I miss my friends and family that are still there. I miss hanging out with my old classmates and playing basketball everyday. I miss working at my grandfather’s company. I miss having those Sunday BBQ with my mom, dad, and siblings. My dad and my younger brother would always have their fishing gear ready. While I’m the one busy cooking, they’ll be tossing their lines and stand on the sea-wall and fish. I miss that atmosphere – it is very different than here. It’s really hard to explain how different, maybe because it’s my home. Spending time with my family and friends is one thing I really miss about home.
During my 20 years of living in the Marshall Islands I have noticed climate change happening. The islands are getting smaller. The beach is almost completely gone due to coastal erosion. The land and soil is being washed away slowly and slowly. I see that the Marshall Islands are getting smaller, but I can’t do anything to change it. Every year during the king tide season, I remember it not being a big deal. This is when I was younger, probably 8 or 9 years old. Now it’s different – you can see the water flooding the streets and homes. In high school, during king tide season, I remember being late to school because of traffic and roads being shut down because of flooding. I have a feeling it’s even worse than my last visit.
People in the Marshall Islands know that climate change is happening, but they don’t worry about it. “Because we depend on God. We believe that God would never flood the Earth again because he promised Noah that. So the Marshall Islands won’t sink.” This is something almost everyone will say if you ask them about climate change on the islands. They all see climate change causing these floods, loss of land, and loss of soil. But they won’t admit to it. It doesn’t seem like a big deal because they all believe that God won’t flood the earth. Climate change is not the issue to them. But as for me, I see it differently, I believe climate change is happening. I do feel scared for my homeland. I do worry everyday about it. I’m not saying I don’t believe in what the bible said about God not flooding the earth. I believe in the bible, I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ.
I believe that God said he would never flood the earth, but he never said anything about mankind destroying the earth themselves. We are destroying the earth – not God.
They don’t blame anyone for climate change affecting home. Because they believe that it is the will of God and God will not let harm come to the Marshall Islands. I personally am not blaming anyone. I think burning fossil fuel has caused the greenhouse effect and caused the rising sea-level, but I am not blaming anyone or pointing fingers. I would like the powerful countries to address this issue and see that climate change is really affecting the Marshall Islands. Do something about it because we are helpless. If the Marshall Islands sink, where will we go?? Where will we go and will you accept us?
I would actually want to raise my son there. I want to him to know who he is and know where his homeland is. I want him to know how to fish, know how to swim, know how to work, eat marshallese food, sail a canoe, and so many other things. But due to the impacts of climate change, I really don’t know if I want to raise him there because who who knows if there will still be a Marshall Islands? But it would have been great to raise him the same way I was raised back home.
If Climate Change worsens, I believe Marshallese will move to the United States. The U.S is not bad, I also love it here, but there is no place like home. It’s different, words can’t really explain the difference and how sad we will be if we have to move from the Marshall Islands. It is our home. Our land, culture, traditions, local food, and beaches would be left there, and it is very heartbreaking. It’s even sad just to think it might happen. We shouldn’t move!!! Why should we leave our home? What did we do so bad to deserve this??
What should Americans do to help this problem? Tell everyone around the world about it. America is the strongest nation in the world. I believe they can find a way to solve this.
Island nations want climate change in world court – AP Article
UNITED NATIONS: Small island nations, whose very existence is threatened by the rising sea levels brought about by global warming, are seeking to take the issue of climate change before the International Court of Justice.
Johnson Toribiong, president of Palau, said Friday his country and other island nations had formed an expert advisory committee to bring the issue before the U.N. General Assembly. That would allow the world court in the Hague to determine the legal ramifications of climate change under international law.
”If 20 years of climate change negotiations have taught us anything, it’s that every state sees climate change differently. For some, it is mainly an economic issue … for others it’s about geopolitics and their past or future place in the global economy, but for us it’s about survival,” Toribiong said.
”Pacific countries are in the red zone, a swell of ocean where waters have risen two or three times higher than anywhere else in the world. That differential might explain why we speak about climate change so urgently and we look to everyone in every corner of the United Nations to find a solution,” he added.
Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Colombia University and a member the advisory committee, said the idea is to have a court determination compelling developed nations to control emissions of the greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming in the absence of an international treaty.
Gerrad said that the big emitter nations could then be found liable under the international law principles of transboundary harm, when physical activities in one country impact adversely upon another, and the preservation of statehood _ something that becomes exceedingly difficult if a country is submerged between the rising oceans.
Palau’s announcement comes just months before the United Nations is scheduled to hold a major international environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, ”Rio plus 20,” referring to the 20 years since the U.N. Earth Summit was held in that tropical city.
Unlike the 1992 Earth Summit that was devoted to climate change the June conference will discuss sustainable development, a change diplomats have said has to do with the difficulty of advancing emissions reductions in today’s political environment.
Dr. Dessima Williams, Grenada’s U.N. ambassador, said the idea of bringing the issue before the world court was to raise the level of international consciousness ahead of the Rio conference.
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Pastor Silk replies: As a pastor, I know that everything is under “him” [referring to God], and that the end is clearly coming closer, as evidenced by these increasing and intensifying weather events.
I want to delve deeper here, and ask: Do you think the end will come at a different time than, say, California?
To which Pastor Silk replies: Well, we don’t know, because it’s [climate] killed more people than in the Marshall Islands so far. Even though we live on very low land, we don’t see disasters like you have because of weather in California, like fire, earthquakes, or floods that you have elsewhere in your country.
I’m impressed and humbled by his insight here. Yes, of course we have climate-related disaster in our country, but you don’t hear us talking about with his candor very often.
I want to know more about what weather-related disaster looks like in the Marshall Islands. I ask about the King Tide season, from December to February when the seas intensify and the waves grow. Pastor Silk’s wife, Mary Rose Silk, perks up.
Mary Rose: Mothers get nervous, scared even, during this time. Our little children used to run around and play freely, but as the King Tide season comes now, with its storm surges and waves, we grab our kids and get inside. Sometimes they announce these storms on the radio now, and we’re told to evacuate our homes. It’s happened four times already this year. It never used to happen.
I ask if they believe that climate change is real-
Mary Rose, with conviction in her voice: Yes, I believe it’s happening because I’ve seen the changes.
She is emphatic and sincere. Pastor Silk seems more hesitant, like the question I’ve asked is more complicated and multi-faceted than the question I asked his wife.
Pastor Silk: [after a delay]… Yes, I believe it’s happening. But I mostly just depend on God. I try not to worry.
I probe a little on this, because it reminds me of a comment from James Bing III, a a young, thoughtful, smart Marshallese man in his 20s who I recently met with in Washington and who will appear on Drowning Islands soon. Pastor Silk happens to know James Bing III’s family, and so I mention that from James’ perspective, God may have promised that he would never flood the earth, but that he said nothing about what mankind would do. Many scientists believe that climate change is at least exacerbated by human activity, not God
Pastor Silk: Yes, God promises never to flood the earth again. Our island is low and small. But lots of the things going on in the world- we don’t see them here. Earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados… Why? Because he’s caring for us. But if we don’t believe in him or make him happy… that’s God’s problem and he’ll take care of it.
I ask if they think that Americans, Chinese, or Australians, for starters, should do something different about the way that we live in order to protect small islands.
Pastor Silk almost immediately responds, in a seemingly forgiving and generous way that only God can make this sort of sea-change. But Mary Rose seems troubled. She is quiet for a moment, then asks:
Mary Rose: Do you think that big places, big cities, are the ones that cause this problem?
I quickly confide that I am not a scientist, and that I am not able to crunch numbers and analyze weather patterns the way that those in meteorology and climate sciences can (and do). But, I hasten to add my parting words-
If changing the way that I live, if emitting less carbon and supporting governmental policies that encourage and enforce this sort of action MIGHT help the problem, then I will do it.
To this, they both vigorously nod.
[An important aside- Pastor Silk wants to read this blog, send and receive emails, and allow community children the use of their computer. However, their nearly archaic computer broke several months ago and they are awaiting funds to send it for repair in Honolulu. If you would like to help buy a new computer for this community, leave a comment or send me an email at]
What If?
Despite the fact that the U.S. is on track to experience one of its worst weather-related-disaster years on record, many in the U.S. do not attribute weather events like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or fire to climate change, particularly human-induced climate change. But this luxury is not one afforded to the countries that are on the front lines of climate change. While those of us in developed, high-emitting countries sit back and debate whether or not our activities intensify weather-related catastrophe (and the loss and detriment to human life that ensues), there is this lingering what-if question: if our actions and inactions carry the possibility danger and forced human sacrifice, why wait? If acting now might help, what are we waiting for?
For the Marshall Islands in particular, this is not the first time where land and people have acted as an American testing site… a what-if battleground of sorts. On March 1, 1954 alone, when the United States detonated the experimental hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll, it’s strength was 1,000 times the strength of Hiroshima. 1,000 times. The Marshallese that called Bikini their home were sadly relocated to neighboring islands prior to the period of nuclear testing, which started in 1946. They watched as ironically named Bravo’s mushroom cloud soared into the air, and only hours later were covered in a toxic, nuclear mist. In the weeks and months that followed, perfectly innocent islanders experienced a sickening variety of symptoms, including nausea, itching, and vomiting at first, which over the years has led to hair loss, tumors, disfigurement, cancers, and death. In a dizzying and erratic turn of events, over the coming decades, the Marshallese were moved by the US Military back to the nuclear waste-sites that they still think of as their homes and then relocated back to “safer” islands multiple times, on broken promises that their contaminated islands were considered live-able. All in all, the Marshall Islands was home to 66 nuclear bomb detonations.
And for those of us that were not alive during this nuclear experimentation era, and therefore feel like we escape the feelings of guilt that come with inaction… a month ago, nearly 100 chickens and ducks died mysteriously on Kwajalein atoll- an inhabited nuclear contamination site. The United States has ruled out avian flu, but has yet to inform the Marshallese what the cause of sudden death may be. To think that these idyllically beautiful outer islands have somehow been scrubbed clean is to shamefully oversimplify the matter.
Comparing 66 nuclear experiments in a faraway land to our own personal greenhouse gas emissions may seem like a stretch. Maybe it is. But spending time in the Marshall Islands means that you think about these things. Every time I eat this tuna here and (somewhat selfishly) wonder whether it is contaminated or see an individual with physical deformities, I get this sinking feeling that we are doing it again. This time, rather than experimenting with nuclear bombs for the “good of mankind” (which is what the Marshallese were told they were contributing to), we are experimenting with emissions. I am certainly in this category myself- after all, I flew on a commercial airliner to get to this what-if observation deck. From the comfort of our homes, we debate whether our actions mean anything to the rest of the world. Whether our activity or inactivity impacts the world around us. What if? If there is a possibility that our actions impact others in nuclear proportions, is this a legacy worth repeating?
“Because you are an American Lady, you can do Something for the Marshall Islands.”
Fred Beren, a Filipino man who has lived with his Marshallese wife in the Marshall Islands for about three decades, does not know what is causing his country’s landscape and climate to change. But he thinks that Americans can do something about it. This belief comes from deep springs of hope; trust; and confidence, rather than a sense of blame or resentment. He understands that something bad is happening to his island home because he lives with the changes every day.
It is hard to imagine a home more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change- Fred’s home sits precariously on a small mound above the Pacific ocean, each wave lapping close to everything he owns. I stumbled upon Fred during a morning walk while taking photographs of the foreboding cemetery near his home. Friendly and sincere, Fred came out of his already ajar front door and seemed eager to connect.
He spoke fondly of a time when the Marshall Islands were “bigger” and more robust. He reminisced of a beach he used to swim at, where coconut trees provided shade (and perhaps a mid-swim break of sustenance). Now, he says this beach is nearly unrecognizable- the coconut trees have relinquished themselves to the shore- toppling under the stress of the advancing salty sea. He knows people who have homes near that particular beach who experience frequent flooding. Since he lives on the tide-side of the island of Majuro, he has noticed the waves increasing in intensity and height, particularly during the winter King Tide season.
When asked why this may be happening, Fred is not quick to blame. He wonders if the ice melting in other parts of the world might be contributing to the rising sea in his backyard. But during our conversation, I never sensed an iota of “agenda” or that he was repeating warnings that were preached to him in any way. Rather, Fred came across as a humble, simple, concerned man who loves his home. When I asked if I could take pictures of his back yard (the Pacific), he was hesitant at first because it had not been cleaned. He was referring to the garbage that washes up on shore, present on every remote island I have ever stepped foot on- inhabited or uninhabited. He loves living in the Marshall Islands because there is “no crime… it is safe here and the people are friendly.” But since he is very close to the ocean, he worries about bigger waves or further sea level rise in the future.
We walk to Fred’s backyard and notice gleeful Marshallese children bodysurfing on a consistent break just to the south of his home. Fred is concerned that I may fall and pays careful attention to my every rocky step as if I am a toddler navigating a stairway for the first time. As I thanked him profusely for his candor, he rushes to top my gratitude, thanking me for flying to his home and taking time to learn his story. I probed a little to find out why he was so appreciative of the opportunity to share his experience. In response- his parting words: “Because you are an American lady, you can do something for the Marshall Islands.”
To Mow or Not to Mow: The Motivational Impact of Living on a Drowning Land
If my yard flooded consistently, would I still mow it?
This is a question I ask myself often (basically since my fascination and concern for drowning islands began)- and for some reason, it’s usually in the context of lawn-mowing. When thinking about or writing on the subject of drowning islands, I often linger on the psychological and motivational impacts that climate change has on the hardest/soonest hit countries. If you live on an atoll, do you care about things like mowing the lawn (despite increasing floods), repainting the kitchen (even though you’ve heard your house may eventually be underwater), re-tile the floor (why? It’ll just flood the next time a storm comes through…)?
So, imagine my surprise (and delight!) when I first stumbled upon a Marshallese man trimming his lawn. Then another. And another. It appears that the Marshallese take great pride in even the appearance of their property, despite the worsening environmental struggles they face. This characteristic (persevering motivation) actually fits a theme of the Marshallese: we are not leaving. Come hell or high water, we are not abandoning our country. The Marshallese are inexplicably, tangibly, and holistically interconnected with their physical islands. As a people they remain committed to climate-solutions as opposed to throwing in the towel. In fact, a section of the RMI Constitution reads:
“All we have and are today as a people, we have received as a sacred heritage which we pledge ourselves to safeguard and maintain, valuing nothing more dearly than our rightful home on the islands within the traditional boundaries of this archipelago.”
I have an area in my yard that struggles- it’s this prime piece of side-yard real estate for me, but yet it lies lower than everything that surrounds it, so it floods and just generally struggles. My husband and I have tried various things throughout the years to improve it’s state, to no avail. I have thought about throwing in the towel on that particular section on many occasions, but I believe I have found my motivation to keep mowing, so to speak, in the Marshallese.
Truly Vulnerable
I have a special place in my heart for vulnerable communities that sit precariously above the water- the atoll nations of the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Kiribati, in particular. But seeing my first atoll-nation grave-sites today made an emotional impression that I will not soon forget.
The graves are a part of this landscape in an integral and even informal way- wedged in between homes, steps away from the ocean (by necessity- this describes most of the land here), children bouncing from headstone to headstone giggling. The average height of the Marshall Islands is just single-digit feet above the water, but these graves are (of course) even lower- even more vulnerable. The sites are lovely and striking- but I wonder what the standing groundwater, the rising tides, the coastal erosion, and the threat of submersion means for these graves and for those that still remember and love those that are buried within. Just one part of this gorgeous, threatened landscape that is under threat- but a significant one.
There is less land and more water in Majuro than there used to be.
Today was my first day in Majuro in the Republic of the Marshall Islands- a thin strip of land nestled in between Hawaii and the northern tip of Australia. The country is certainly a contender for the “ground-zero” of climate change impacts, and is what I refer to as a “drowning island.” The land is short in stature, but what it lacks in height, it makes up for in brilliance and intensity it almost all things- color, scorching warmth, delicious tuna, drop-dead-gorgeous and giving individuals, and stunning scenery. This place feels like magic in a palpable way.
The color of the day morphed considerably- when I arrived in the morning, the landscape was muted to a bright white with shaded accents- the sun bleaching faces and storefronts, beaches and clouds. This evening, everything is tinged in varying shades of blue. It was swelteringly hot, but to get my bearings and to see and talk to the Marshallese people, I walked for several hours down the main road that connects furthest tip to furthest tip. The narrow stretch in between barely lifts out of the ocean. I’m not exactly an athlete, but I could throw a stone across the island in a surprising number of locations.
Walking may sound misleadingly easy, so let me set the record straight here. Apparently last night there was a storm that shot seawater higher and further than “normal” (a decreasingly accurate term in climate-vulnerable zones like this one). There was in incredible amount of standing water in the streets and yards, despite the pounding, intense rays of the sun. I basically ended up walking down the middle of the street, which is no easy feat in Majuro where there is a fairly constant stream of vehicle traffic down its busy, main road.
I talked to many people about the water. I even rolled up my sleeves and helped a small army of kids fill up wheelbarrows of soft, almost mustard colored sand to dump into their yards for a make-shift “sponge” effect (this was slow work and it was hard work). The general consensus was that rain and waves have always been part-and-parcel of island living, but that these forces have increased in duration, frequency, and intensity in this past generation. There are no party-lines on that one- elders and teenagers, men and women, business owners and happy-go-lucky alike agree: there is less land and more water in Majuro than there used to be. | https://brookmeakins.wordpress.com/tag/environment/ | robots: classic
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I doubt if better passwords would have helped stopp the hacker who published a list of 100 email accounts - along with the passwords - of government establishments. But the situation does seem appalling when the usernames are much more difficult to guess than the passwords. No? A few samples:
Username: commercial@indembassy.be
Password: india01
Username: mis
Password: misadmin
Username: amb@indianembassy.org.cn
Password: 1234
Username: rb1002p1
Password: consind1
Username: amb@indianembassy.org
Password: 1234
Username: jpsingh@drdo.com
Password: password+1
Unbelievably the Indian embassies in China and the US use the same password: 1234. Sad.
(Original story via The Indian Express.)
.. I can use a public toilet without being shit scared:
some women won't sit on the seat to relieve themselves. Rather, they hold themselves above it and pee all over the seat! Worse, they don't clean it up. I've always thought this to be the height of arrogance. They are too pure to sit on the sit but they see nothing wrong with sullying it for others who come after them.
This excerpt was from a comment on BPS Research Digest. Personally i feel that the women who peed on the seats were scared of sitting on a seat which might have been peed upon by somebody else. Such is human nature.
Awesome and disturbing. Created by Charlie White, it is the best ad in the adicolor series. Once you are done with this one, do check out the other colors in the series here. Guaranteed to elicit at least a Wow.
The Economic Naturalist Robert Frank at Google:
Interesting questions that were analyzed:
• If seat belts are provided for kids in cars, why not in airplanes? In-flight turbulence is at least equivalent to that experienced by people driving on a highway. Then why this apparent lack of concern for infants in flights?
• Why does a flight from Hawaii to the mainland cost more than one from the mainland to Hawaii? The distances are the same, the route is the same. The fares should be the same. No?
• Is depending only on people's self interest a good strategy to ensure a better allocation of economic resources?
But what caught my interest the most was Robert's analysis of the teaching of economics. Students not grasping concepts is understandable when even the professor's don't know much about them, it gets disturbing.
Robert proposes a method of teaching economics using narratives and repetition. Sounds intuitive and fun. I for one am not gonna forget any of the principles that i learned, any time soon.
Rather than going for any radical changes in the site structure, Orkut has decided to just tweak the appearence a little with better icons, rounded corners and the like. Nothing special, mind you; but definitely better than the previous version.
A comparision between the two versions at flickr.
Headlines like "Internet Communities: make Modi the Next PM" make it seem as if a large survey was conducted to reach to this conclusion. But what was the story actually about? A poll in an orkut community in which 365 people participated. Newsworthy... Not.
P.S. I have an idea. Why not gang up and form a poll on who should be the next president of India. We can rig it and make sure that Cthulhu emerges as the overwhelming favourite. Now that's newsworthy. Amit will be proud.
Moral policing in India incites emotions ranging from bewilderment to disgust. At times, even jealousy at the relative freedom that the citizens of the west enjoy. No more. Proof that human insanity is distributed equally all over the globe:
Atlanta considers banning baggy pants: Convinced that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" around the country, city councilman C.T. Martin has sponsored this rather absurd legislation. Apart from boxer shorts and thongs, bra straps will probably be banned too. Violation ofany of these laws will result in strict fines. Apparently they are not the first to think up something like this:
Earlier this year, the town council in Delcambre, La., passed an ordinance that carries a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months.
Feel free to sell guns, but dildos? Never.
: Blowing up people's heads may be a pretty reasonable thing to do, but a blowjob? Good God No.
And its not just evil dirty dildos that these paternalistic lawmakers have saved the state from, they have banned casinos, lotteries and betting parlours too. Utopia, no?
(Stories via digg)
Camlin permanent markers are the secret to a long life. Applicable only if you are the husband. Brilliant.
Embedded Video
On the 15th, Anwar Jahan Zuberi, VC of Calicut University, hoisted the national flag at the University Administrative Block. But something was amiss: the tri colour was the wrong way up. This error can result in two scenarios:
1. Fiction: An embarrassed VC orders the flag to be hoisted as it should be. Followed by a little apology to all present for the goof up. The end.
2. Reality: The mistake is noted, the corrections are made. The end? Not so. The members of the Kerala Students Union see an opportunity to add a political twist to the proceedings. A complaint is promptly registered and the police file a case against the authorities under the absurd Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act. Not to be outdone, the Muslim Youth league shoots of a letter to the Governor demanding action against the University Registrar.
Another opportunity to practice our very own desi brand of patriotism. As matters of real importance very rarely penetrate the formidable walls of our collective apathy, we assuage our consciences by protecting and nurturing meaningless symbols and irrelevant customs. Why? Because they conveniently allow us to pretend to do something while doing nothing.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
Scott Adams points to an article which takes a new step forward in stating the obvious:
The smarter you are the less chicks you get to lay.
The more i think about it, what troubles me is not the lack of opportunities for born geniuses like me; what gets to my nerves is the relative lack of trouble that smarter women face. True, for getting the man of their dreams they may have to work on that hour glass figure or have plans to get rid of those braces. But for pure unadulterated sex they just need lower their standards. Men will swarm to them.
Sigh. The injustice of it all. Why oh why do they get to choose? Just because we have more numbers and hence they become a scarce commodity? If the answer is yes, then Babu Bajrangi and me may have a common cause now. | http://indiaholic.blogspot.com/2007/08 | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor at Harvard Business School. He is the bestselling author of nine books and more than a 100 articles. His first book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, received the Global Business Book Award as the best business book of the year (1997); and in 2011 The Economist named it as one of the six most important books about business ever written. His most recent book is titled How Will You Measure Your Life? Christensen spoke to AMA recently for an Edgewise podcast. The following is a condensed and edited version of that interview. You can also listen to the complete podcast.
AMA: What prompted you to write this book?
Clayton M. Christensen: There were two vectors that converged in my life. The first one was from my study of the theory of disruption that emerged from my early work, where successful companies—including General Motors, RCA, and Bethlehem Steel—that did everything they thought was right, still ended up being killed. What was puzzling about this is that the senior management never pulled the team together and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, why don’t we hatch a plan to kill this company?” They all planned to be successful and they tried to pursue what seemed to be the most profitable venues. Yet doing what’s right killed them. They didn’t end up where they planned to go. That’s what we call “The Innovator’s Dilemma”—doing the right thing.
And as I just looked at what is happening to my friends and classmates as we have gotten older, I can tell you that there never was a time in their past when they said, “You know, I’m going to have kids, and then I’m going to divorce my spouse so that she can marry somebody else and raise my kids on the other coast.” Nobody ever planned to do that, and yet a shocking number of people actually executed a plan in their personal lives that they never planned to do. And that observation caused me to say, ah, the same understanding of why this happens in companies actually explains to a stunning degree why this happens in our personal lives.
AMA: How Will You Measure Your Life? includes a story about Andy Grove at Intel. He asked for your opinion about new product or service offerings. And while he was looking for specific Intel-only perspectives, you told him a story about U.S. Steel. Now, why did you have to tell Andy that story, and why did you have to tell the readers that story about you telling Andy the story?
Christensen: Well, somebody in his organization had read about the theory of disruption, and said, “I think this theory has an implication for Intel.”
So Andy called me up and said, “Look, I don’t have time to read your stuff, but come out and tell us what it means for Intel.” And when I showed up, it turned out that Andy’s life had changed. He didn’t even have time to talk to me. But he said, “Just tell me what your research implies for Intel. I got to get on with life.”
And I said, “My problem is, I actually don’t have an opinion about Intel. But there’s a piece of my research that has resulted in a theory, and the theory has an opinion about Intel. And so I just need to have the time to explain this theory.” As quickly as I could, I described what the theory of disruption was, and then Andy said, “Look, I got your stupid theory. Tell me what it means about Intel.” And I said, “I can’t quite tell you this yet, because I need to describe the process: somebody comes into the bottom of the market and kills the leader. It happened in a totally different industry, so you can abstract yourself from the detail.”
I described how this had happened in steel. And when I was done with the story, Grove said, “Oh, I got it. What you’re telling me is...,” and then he went on to describe how there were two companies that were coming in from the bottom of the market, like Toyota did it to General Motors. And then he said, “Now we got to go down to the bottom of the market, don’t we?” They did, and launched what they ultimately called the Celeron processor.
I have thought about this a million times. You know, if I had tried to tell Andy Grove what he should think, I’d have been killed. So I told him how to think about it, and then the answer was obvious. I didn’t have to convince him of anything. And that’s what I’ve tried to do ever since: help people understand how to think through a problem so that the answer is then obvious to them.
AMA: In an age of helicopter parenting and entitled childhoods, you make a strong case in the book for letting kids benefit from their mistakes and failures. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Christensen: If your child has never taken algebra, she’s not going to understand algebra. You don’t really understand a problem unless you have wrestled with that problem. And so if you, as a parent, try to protect your children so that they don’t have to wrestle with messy problems whose outcome could be uncertain, and which are onerous, they will grow up not having the courage and the high self-esteem to wrestle with these problems as adults. And so, we actually have a very large portion of the young men and young women who are chronologically in their 20s yet who emotionally are still in their teens.
AMA: Today, some parents outsource their children’s development and many companies outsource their production. Why is this dangerous?
Christensen: I’ll give my answer with a story. When my wife Christine and I were married and moved to Boston to go to graduate school, we had no money. Christine was a really talented seamstress, so she made all of our clothing. We got a large chunk of land from the town and built our own garden. We raised almost all of the vegetables that we were going to need and we canned them for the winter. We’d pick the apples and make applesauce for us and our kids. We did this because it was a cheaper way to put food on the table than to buy it.
But over time it became so much easier and so much cheaper to buy clothing rather than make it, and to buy food rather than grow it. So little by little, we outsourced those things to entities for whom it was their core competence, and who could provide higher quality at a lower cost.
It turns out that the doctrine that is taught to every company is: if there is somebody else who can make it better and at lower cost, you should outsource to them what is their core competence so you can focus on your own. But in the process of following that prescription, company after company begins to outsource literally everything they used to do, until there is nothing left inside of them. If they wanted to do something, they wouldn’t have the ability to do it. Even companies as magnificent as McDonnell Douglas; in the DC-3 they made everything. By the time they came to the DC-10, they outsourced everything and there was nothing left to do; the company was gone. So there isn’t a DC-11, because they outsourced the company.
We have done the very same thing in our personal lives. Step by step, we find people outside the family who can provide better quality at lower cost. So there really isn’t much work left to do in the home, except to clean up your own mess—and we don’t do that very well.
As a consequence, because we have outsourced work, how in the world can we create the next generation of Americans, when they don’t have an instinct for what it means to confront difficult problems and to solve them, and to take responsibility? So in so many ways, we have ended up where we did not intend to go.
AMA: Even though your intentions were good.
Christensen: Yes.
AMA: A couple of times in the book, you either say or imply that for older people, it may be too late to undertake some of your recommended steps for either improving your relationships, or staying true to a straight ethical stance. Does that mean the book is of more value to a younger adult than to a person who’s further along the path?
Christensen: Well, I do think the book is very useful for young people, but there is also value for those of us in middle age who are trying to understand, “Why have things happened to me in an unpredictable way? And is there anything I can do?” It’s really important for us to look back and say, “Did I live a really good life? Will people remember me for the good impact that I had, or not?”
Because we all are judged. Some people believe that God will judge us, but those who don’t believe that will find that the people they know and their family and friends will judge them.
You can further explore some of the topics explored in this interview in these AMA seminars:
Doing It All: How to Stay Focused and Engaged
Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
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Eli Brandt designed a language, Chronic, for programming with temporal data: computer music and scientific computing, for example. Chronic code is capable of arbitrary low-level manipulations, yet unprecedentedly brief and clear. Several examples show roughly a factor of five fewer lines of code than their equivalents in C. This is achieved through a comprehensive yet concise type system for temporal computation, based on orthogonal signal and event type constructors.
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1. gas taxes pay for only about half, and that is declining, of the federal and state highways system, while the rest comes from the general fund
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Breaking down Lori Lindsey’s (possible) WWC start
Pia Sundhage’s at it again. Just a few days after starting Lauren Cheney over Megan Rapinoe, she’s mulling another move.
On Thursday morning she announced that she is considering swapping out either Shannon Boxx or Carli Lloyd in favor of the Philadelphia Independence’s Lori Lindsey at center mid against Colombia in the USWNT’s second group stage match (Saturday at 11:30am on ESPN).
It’s an interesting move, and not one that was necessarily expected.
Here’s a breakdown of what the (potential) move means for the lineup and why it happened.
What It Means
Sidelining Boxx means that the lineup will be missing the scrappy, aggressive play and mentality that Boxx brings to the squad. It will also mean a downgrade in height, as Boxx has three inches on the 5’5” Lindsey. However, Boxx looked especially weary against North Korea, so Lindsey’s presence might provide an extra spark. If Sundhage starts Lindsey over Carli Lloyd, the central midfield will take on a more defensive shape. Lindsey is very good at distributing the ball and controlling the pace of the midfield, but she’s not as dynamic of a creator as Lloyd, and doesn’t push to the goal as much.
Why Did It Happen
The reasoning behind the swap could be any number of things, but here’s four plausible reasons why Sundhage thinks the move makes sense.
Reason 1: Resting a starter
Colombia is not the United States’ strongest opponent, and Sundhage has said that if she were going to experiment, it would be during this game. Starting Lindsey would not only give Boxx/Lloyd a break, it would allow Lindsey to get valuable playing time that could prepare her for later games. By having Boxx/Lloyd on the sideline, that also automatically strengthens the bench, in case Lindsey struggles.
Reason 2: Rewarding good training
Sundhage is known for rewarding players who show promise in training, as evidenced by the Lauren Cheney move. This could be Sundhage’s way of letting someone who has done well in practice and training get a well-earned start. Also, according to Tony DiCicco, who mentioned it while doing color for the Canada-France game yesterday, Lindsey was one of the bright spots in the United States’ closed door scrimmage to Norway, where the US lost 3-1.
Reason 3: Going with the gut
Following the success of the Lauren Cheney move, Sundhage could feel more confident about making a riskier switch. She’s is a master at managing her roster, and often makes switches based on her instincts and what feels right among the team. Starting Cheney over Megan Rapinoe didn’t make a lot of sense at first, but proved to pay off in the end. Sundhage knows her squad better than anyone, so it could be the same case here.
Reason 4: The Lindsey/Wambach connection
Starting Lindsey could also be an indirect attempt to help Abby Wambach regain her scoring prowess. Slump is too strong a word for Wambach, and it’s not that she hasn’t looked sharp, but she just hasn’t found the back of the net lately. Wambach and Lindsey played together for several years with the Washington Freedom, and did well to find each other there. That connection might shine through on a world stage as well.
It looks like for the second time in a row, Pia Sundhage’s lineup change will make her look pretty good. Starting Lindsey allows one of her starters to rest, and also gives her important game exposure. Colombia is a young, inexperienced squad, so no matter who starts, they should succeed, and in doing so, strengthen the squad’s depth and overall quality.
1. Mike Servedio says:
Reason 5: Boxx and Lloyd were terrible against N. Korea for just about the entire match.
• Reason 5. The main reason.
• Maura Gladys says:
Boxx and Lloyd have been struggling all year. It’s surprising that it’s taken Sundhage this long to make the change. It will be interesting to see if Lindsey hangs around in the starting lineup or if the switch is just to give Boxx some rest.
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Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS (1868-1946) of the Lanchester Engine Co and the Lanchester Motor Co was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research. He was also a pioneer British motor car builder, a hobby he eventually turned into a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others being Harry Ricardo and Frederick Henry Royce.
1868 October 23rd. Born at Lewisham the son of Henry Jones Lanchester, an Architect and his wife Octavia Ward. FW was the fourth to be born in a family of three girls and six boys (one of whom died after a few days)
1870 The family moved to 1 St. John's Terrace, Hove (later re-named as 48 Church Street) when HJL was involved in the laying out of the Stanford estate.
c1878 He attended Oxford House preparatory school in Eaton Place, Brighton
1881 Living at 1 St. John's Terrace, Hove: Henry J. Lanchester (age 47 born Islington), Architect and Surveyor. With his wife Octavia Lanchester (age 46 born Piccadilly) and their children Henry V. Lanchester (age 19 born St. John's Wood), Architect Pupil; Mary Lanchester (age 16 born Lewisham); Frederick W. Lanchester (age 12 born Lewisham); Edith Lanchester (age 9 born Hove); Edward N. Lanchester (age 7 born Hove); and George H. Lanchester (age 6 born Hove). Three servants. [1]
1883 Autumn. He went to the Hartley Institution (later the University Collage) in Southampton
1885. He won a national scholarship to the Normal School of Science (later the Royal College of Science and the Royal College of Mines) at South Kensington
1888 He started work in a Patent office and at this time he took out his first patent for 'hatching, shading and geometrical design'.
1889 Through an introduction by his uncle John Field Swinburn he joined the Forward Gas Engine Co of Birmingham and worked there until 1892
1889 Visited the 1889 Paris Exhibition and first saw the Benz automobile
1891 Living at 31 Lister's Avenue, Battersea: Henry J. Lanchester (age 57 born Islington), Architect and Surveyor. With his wife Octavia Lanchester (age 56 born St. James) and their children Henry F. Lanchester (age 27 born at St John's Wood), Architect; Eleanor C. Lanchester (age 24 born Lewisham), Fashion Artist; Frederick K. Lanchester (age 22 born Lewisham), Patentee; Francis Lanchester (age 20 born Brighton), Bank Clerk; Edith Lanchester (age 19 born Hove), Teacher in Training School; Edward M. Lanchester (age 17 born Hove), Auctioneer's Clerk. Three servants.[2]
1892 He resigned from Forward and visited the US to sell his patents but had little success with his engines as gas was very expensive
1893 He set up his own workshop and did contract work for Forward and G. Kynoch and Co
1893 He designed and built his first engine (a vertical single cylinder) which was fitted to a flat bottomed boat designed by his brothers. The boat was built at his home at St. Bernards Road, Oulton and launched at Salter's slipway in Oxford in 1894
1894 Set up a company backed by James and Allan Whitfield to design and build cars
1895 Summer. Moved into rooms in a farmhouse at Cobley Hill, Alvechurch and was there for two years
1895 Built one of the first petrol cars in England, a single-cylinder 5 hp internal combustion engine with chain drive.
1896 February. First test drive of the car with brother George
1895 Published a new system for colour photography
1897 They re-built the engine the next year into a two-cylinder 8 hp horizontally opposed version using his new wick carburettor design and a worm drive rather than chain
1897 Moved to 53 Hagley Road, Birmingham and stayed here for twenty years
1898 Until now they had used the workshops of the Forward company but they now bought some land at Ladywood Road and the buildings
1898 Built their second car, the 8 hp 'Gold Medal' three-seat phaeton. The first long test run was 68 miles from Edgbaston to Pershore, Evesham and back to Birmingham and had reached a speed of 28 mph
1898 Patent 10,836. Fluid pressure engines.[3]
1899 Entered the Trials at the 1899 Motor Show (Richmond)
1899 Built the 'Mail Phaeton' to the order of a local businessman but the body was not a success
1899 Built their second river launch with the hull made at Bathurst's Yard, Tewkesbury. This later became the regular transport of their backer James Whitfield
1900 Entered the 'Gold Medal' car in the 1900 One Thousand Mile Trial
Three of the Lanchester brothers (the others being Frank Lanchester and George Herbert Lanchester) started the Lanchester Engine Co in 1900 to sell his designs on the market. Many features of the original were retained in their production models, including the mid-mounted engine between the front seat that led to the lack of a "hood" area. The transmission was based on his own compound epicyclical gearing, giving three forward speeds, and drove the rear axle through his own Lanchester worm gearing. The transmission also included a system similar to modern disk brakes that clamped the clutch disk for braking, rather than using a separate system as in most cars.
Lanchester continued to make changes to the design. A water-cooled engine appeared in 1902, and a larger 18 hp model in 1904. The same year he also introduced a slightly larger 20 hp four cylinder design, for which, in order to get the smooth running he demanded, he had to invent the system of twin balancing shafts that are used today on modern designs. A 38 hp six was introduced in 1907, requiring another invention for smooth running, the crankshaft damper.
After the failure of the Lanchester Engine Co, a new company Lanchester Motor Co was formed which took over its business. Frederick remained with the company until 1909 when he became a part-time consultant, finally severing all links in 1914.
Whilst working with the Lanchester Motor Company he also experimented with fuel injection, turbochargers, added steering wheels in 1907 and invented the accelerator pedal, which previously would not turn off if the operator had problems. He invented (or was the first to use) detachable wire wheels, bearings that were pressure-fed with oil, stamped steel pistons, piston rings, hollow connecting rods, the torsional vibration damper, and the harmonic balancer.
1907/08 He published 'Aerial Flight'
In 1909 Lanchester took employment with Daimler as a consultant and technical adviser. His work for it, and later for its parent company, BSA, over the next twenty years, included the design of his world-famous ‘crankshaft vibration damper’ and his ‘harmonic balancer’, both of which are still in use in various forms.
Lanchester's retained a deep interest in mechanical flight, which he had been studying since the early 1890s. Lanchester developed a model for the vortices that occur behind wings during flight, which included the first full description of lift and drag, although the formulation was somewhat complex and would have to wait for Ludwig Prandtl's version before becoming generally useful. He then turned his attention to aircraft stability, aerodonetics, developing Lanchester's phugoid theory which contained a description of oscillations and stalls. During this work he outlined the basic layout almost all aircraft have used since then.
He published Aerial Flight in 1907-08 and was invited to join Prime Minister Asquith's advisory committee for aeronautics on its formation in 1909.
1909 Became a consulting engineer to the Daimler company
From 1909 to 1911, he was a consultant to the White and Thompson Co, where he gave their biplane many innovative features such as aluminium-clad wings and triangular bracing with tubular steel struts. An experimental aircraft co-designed by Lanchester did not survive its trial flight in 1911, and he abandoned the practical side of aviation.
He foresaw the major contribution that aircraft could play in wartime. His brother later said that ‘The rapid evolution of British aircraft during the First World War was largely due to his energy and foresight’.
1914 Resigned from the Lanchester Motor Co; his brother George Herbert Lanchester took over as chief engineer of the Lanchester company.
During World War I he was particularly interested in predicting the outcome of aerial battles.
In 1916 he published Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm, which included a description of a series of differential equations that are today known as Lanchester's Power Laws. The Laws described how two forces would erode each other in combat, and demonstrated that the ability of modern weapons to operate at long range dramatically changed the nature of combat -- a force that was twice as large had been twice as powerful in the past, but now it was four times, the square of the quotient.
1919 Married Dorothea, daughter of Thomas Cooper, vicar of St Peter's Church at Field Broughton near Windermere; they had no children.
1918 Engineer of 41 Bedford Square, London. [4]
1918 Patented a lubrication system for gudgeon pins. [5]
1931 the company was acquired by Daimler, and Lanchesters became merely re-clothed Daimlers.
1946 March 8th. Died
1946 Obituary [6]
FREDERICK WILLIAM LANCHESTER, who died on 8th March 1946, in his seventy-eighth year, was a man of a remarkable personality, of wide interests, and varied accomplishments in the fields of science and the arts, though it is probable that he is, and will in the future be, best known for his work in connection with the motor car and with flight. With the true instinct of the pioneer his acute mentality enabled him to see far ahead of his contemporaries, and so far in advance of his time were some of his views that they gained little acceptance for many years after their enunciation. It might aptly be said of him that he did bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and petty men walked under his huge legs and peeped about to find themselves dishonourable graves.
In aeronautics his was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, in days when - little to our credit - scientific achievements native to this country were at a discount; and it was not until some twenty years had lapsed and work abroad on the same subject began to attract notice, that it was at all generally realized that Lanchester had long previously developed the modern conception of lift and drag upon which aeroplane design is now based. Like Joule, his first contributions were received with the "silence of disapproval". The Physical Society rejected a paper on the subject of Lanchester's theory in 1897, but undeterred he set to work on and published in 1907 and 1908, respectively, his two classic volumes on "Aerial Flight:, one dealing with "Aerodynamics" and the other entitled Aerodonetics". Even this great effort failed to convince the experts of the day, save for a few exceptions, and it required a further ten years before Lanchester was at all widely admitted to the honourable place which was his due in this particular field. While aeroplanes were in fact still contrivances of sticks and strings, mostly the product of enthusiasm rather than "design" in any proper sense of the word, Lanchester was thinking, and trying to induce others to think, in terms of aerofoils, and of streamline forms such as those which have only recently become familiar.
In motor car development Lanchester's work more rapidly brought him the credit to which he was entitled. Here was something tangible which could be more readily appreciated than the concepts which he developed in the field of aeronautics. Even in his first attempts in this sphere Lanchester broke new ground and his sound engineering mind produced developments which have persisted to this day, while his contemporaries were chiefly concerned with adaptations. For the first ten years in this field Lanchester introduced in rapid succession numbers of features still regarded as the best practice, and probably no other single person in this country has been responsible for so many pioneer inventions of value in this particular branch of engineering.
It would be impossible in the space available to enumerate Lanchester's inventions or to enlarge at all adequately on the wide range of his engineering and scientific work; nor in fact is this necessary as much of the story is already on record in the PROCEEDINGS of the Institution, more especially in the report of the special meeting at which he was awarded the James Watt International Medal in 1945;* where, among other matter, will be found an appreciation by Professor Sir Melvin Jones, C.B.E., F.R.S., setting forth the modern view of Lanchester's aeronautical work. The James Watt Medal, the highest award in the field of mechanical engineering, was only one of many honours which came to Lanchester in his later years. He was, for instance, the third recipient of the Ewing Medal; of the highest aeronautical award in the form of the Daniel Guggenheim Medal; of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Gold Medal, etc.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Hon. LL.D. of Birmingham University, an Honorary Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and had been President of both the Institution of Automobile Engineers and of the Junior Institution of Engineers. Further, he had delivered at one time and another the James Forrest, the Wilbur Wright, and the Hawksley lectures. He was awarded the Dugald Clerk Prize and Willans Premium of the Institution, thus being linked appropriately with Clerk, with whom his work on the gas engine brought him into a long and friendly association.
From this necessarily brief summary it will be realized that Lanchester was a giant among men and of a mentality and genius of quite an exceptional order. As not infrequently happens in such cases, at times he was impatient of slower thinkers and caustic in criticism, but he was frank and warm in his friendships and much enjoyed a bit of humour. He was no mean musician, bringing his scientific mind to bear upon the art, and it may surprise many to learn that he was a gifted writer of verse, some of his work, published under the nom de plume of Paul Netherton Herries, revealing real inspiration.
P. J. Cowan M.I.Mech.E.
• See Proc. Mech. E., 1945, vol. 152, p. 100.
1946 Obituary [7]
1946 Obituary [8]
See Also
Sources of Information
• [1] Wikipedia
• [2] Biography of Frederick Lanchester, ODNB
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WALrus+goRILLA=Walrilla! What's not to love?
20 December, 2007
Well, I fooled around and forgot to submit my name to El Capitan's great Christmas Card Blowout. I was kinda sad, too, 'cause he's a good friend and an all around good guy, and I was bummed because I thought he'd be insulted, like I didn't want a card from him this year.
Well, guess what I received in the mail today?
That's right! An official Piraty Christmas-gram, wishing me, my family, and my leg well this coming year.
Oh, and more proof he's a man of his word. He said in his post that he didn't lick the envelopes, because he wasn't feeling up to snuff, and didn't want anybody to get sick, too. Well, what could be more proof than this?
Now, is that a great guy, or what? Guarantees in writing right on the envelope! Does kinda dis the cats, though.
P.S. Yes, I was a lazy asshole, and didn't send any cards out this year. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
Great News
Almost forgot to share this.
I went back to the Prosthetist Wednesday. As you all remember, I was supposed to be casted for the new leg the Wednesday after Thanksgiving. Instead, I went ahead and got sick and developed Cellulitis in the good leg, and in the stump, before Thanksgiving. That put the kibosh on that.
Well, I finally got another appointment, figuring they would just look at it, ensure that it was still doing well, and schedule the casting for later on. I got in there, she called me back, and when I got in the room, she told me to scoot a little closer to her, onto the chair mat, because she was a little messy with the plaster.
That's right! They went ahead and casted me on Wednesday! YEEEE-HAAAAW! She said that she would send the mold off to be recreated in clear plastic. This is supposed to come in as soon as next week! Then, she'll fit it to my leg, shaving some off, building some parts up, and whatever is required. Then it goes back and they cast the real socket. I go back in, get fitted in that, and WALK OUT WITH MY LEG! That's right, I said WALK out!
How cool is this? I am almost beside myself with anticipation! I am so ready to get out of this wheelchair and back on my own two feet, I can't stand it!
18 December, 2007
We Gotz LOLKittehs!
As promised, here are some pics of the furballs, and some of the Grand Matriarch Cat. She really hasn't accepted the kittens yet, but we have to keep them seperated for a week, because the kittens have worms, and our cat doesn't.
That's Isabella on the left, with the whiter patch on her nose, and Smokey on the right. Remember, our son is a firefighter. The first time I saw these cats, my wife told me of her plan to let the kids name them. I told her right away, that Dear Son would name her Smokey. Now where the name Isabella came from, that's any body's guess.
Mah lazers r charged, but Ah'm not thru sulkin' yet!
This is Priscilla, sulking under the bench at the end of our bed, because we have the kittens out of their isolation room.
We can see here how tore up the kittens are about Purr-purr sulking in the other room.
Ok, done sulkin'! You may hold me now. I said, you may hold me now!
14 December, 2007
Checking In
Hi. Once I got out of the hospital and back to work, I got stuck on a BIG project that's taking all of my time, hence, no posting. Sorry.
On a sadder note, my wife lost one of her cats right after Thanksgiving. the poor thing had crystals in her urinary tract, was miserable, and not getting better. The vet recommended suggested removing her from her pain, and my wife reluctantly agreed. This tore my wife up for a good while.
Just yesterday, my wife called me at work and said another teacher had some kittens to give away. Their mother had been killed by a dog, and he had rescued them from the same fate. He was going to make them outside cats, unless he could give them away.
Now, how am I going to say no to a story like that?
Long story short, we're now the GRANDparents(ostensibly, she gave the cats to our kids, meaning, they get to name them, we get to care for them) to two 8-week old fuzzy little furballs. They're Chocolate-Point Siamese, according to the vet.
My wife is bound and determined to turn me into a cat-person.
P.S. Pictures soon, I promise.
Clarification: I know it sounded like we put her to sleep pretty fast, but it wasn't like that. My wife gave her two or three courses of antibiotics, the cat stayed at the vet for a while, all that stuff. Believe me, putting her to sleep was the LAST thing my wife wanted to do. There was just no other option. Sorry I made it sound like that. | http://walrillasworld.blogspot.com/2007/12/ | robots: classic
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Adam has a blog!?
So I walked into the kitchen and found Adam sitting at the computer...
He greets me and says, "Hi Mom! I'm just looking at my blog."
After suppressing giggles I realize he's clicked on the "Adam" tag in our photo organizer and he's just perusing through all the pictures of himself...his blog!
Matthew K said...
It looks like a pretty cool blog. Lots of cute pictures. I never realized that Adam was so techno savvy. Amazing what the kids can do these days. At his age, we had nothing like that. Then when I got older, the best we had was Number Munchers and Oregon Trail.
Anonymous said...
What a different world we live in. A five year old that can use a computer and knows what a blog is. Truly amazing.
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MLK’s vision of love as a moral imperative still matters
(Dr. King and Coretta Scott King. Wikimedia Commons)
Joshua F.J. Inwood, Pennsylvania State University
2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United States. Many diverse communities were forced to confront a range of challenges related to anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and anti-immigrant feelings. These challenges strike at the heart of what it means to live in a multicultural, democratic society.
As outlined by Martin Luther King Jr., the role of love, in engaging individuals and communities in conflict, is crucial today. For King, love was not sentimental. It demanded that individuals tell their oppressors what they were doing was wrong.
King’s vision
King spent his public career working toward ending segregation and fighting racial discrimination. For many people the pinnacle of this work occurred in Washington, D.C., when he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Less well-known and often ignored is his later work on ending poverty and his fight on behalf of poor people. In fact, when King was assassinated in Memphis he was in the midst of building toward a national march on Washington, D.C., that would have brought together tens of thousands of economically disenfranchised people to advocate for policies that would reduce poverty. This effort – known as the “Poor People’s Campaign” – aimed to dramatically shift national priorities to the health and welfare of working peoples.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at interfaith civil rights rally, San Francisco’s Cow Palace, June 30, 1964.
George Conklin, CC BY-NC-ND
Scholars such as Derek Alderman, Paul Kingsbury and Owen Dwyer have emphasized how King’s work can be applied in today’s context. They argue that calling attention to the civil rights movement, can “change the way students understand themselves in relation to the larger project of civil rights.” And in understanding the civil rights movement, students and the broader public can see its contemporary significance.
Idea of love
Love was not a mushy or easily dismissed emotion, but was central to the kind of community he envisioned. King made distinctions between three forms of love which are key to the human experience: “eros,” “philia” and most importantly “agape.”
For King, eros is a form of love that is most closely associated with desire, while philia is often the love that is experienced between very good friends or family. These visions are different from agape.
“In speaking of love we are not referring to some sentimental emotion. It would be nonsense to urge men to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense[…] When we speak of loving those who oppose us […] we speak of a love which is expressed in the Greek word Agape. Agape means nothing sentimental or basically affectionate; it means understanding, redeeming goodwill for all [sic] men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return.”
Why this matters now
Building a community today
At a time when the nation feels so divided, there is a need to bring back King’s vision of agape-fueled community building and begin a difficult conversation about where we are as a nation and where we want to go. It would move us past simply seeing the other side as being wholly motivated by hate.
The ConversationThis is an updated version of an article originally published on Nov. 16, 2016.
Joshua F.J. Inwood, Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University
For Lisa Turtle: On Being Black, Beautiful, and Still Not Enough
I’ve suddenly come to a realization. I am Saved by the Bell’s Lisa Turtle.
I’m not her in the sense that I’m fabulously wealthy. The way I’m like Lisa Turtle is that on paper, I have what every guy is supposedly looking for (or so they say): brains, looks (if I may say so myself), talent, and likability. I’m nice, caring, goal-oriented and respectful of my elders. I’m the woman that, supposedly, every guy would like to find to take home to their mother. Even better, I think I’m a pretty good role model, something Lisa also was to many black girls who had never seen a rich black girl portrayed on television and felt represented by this new portrayal of blackness.
The only problem is that the guys haven’t been knocking down my door. Like Lisa Turtle, I am dateless. Perhaps unlike Lisa Turtle, I actually wonder why.
Urban legend has it that Lisa was actually written to be a snobby Jewish (read: white) girl, but Lark Voorhies impressed the Saved by the Bell folks so much they gave the role to her. After learning that tidbit, I have to wonder if the writing department then decided to change other aspects of Lisa’s characterization, such as who she’d wind up with in the dating department. For a show that came on in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it wouldn’t surprise me if they then decided that Lisa wasn’t the right kind of girl to end up with someone like Zack or Slater. As a black girl, she might work best with another outcast, like the terminally nerdy Screech.
“But Lisa dated Zack that one time!” Yes, that was that one time, a time so brief I don’t even remember it; I read about it online. Apparently it was only for one episode, and the reason they split up was to save the fragile emotions of Screech.
Instead, Lisa —fashion-forward, stylish, popular, cool, rich Lisa—was fated to always become Screech’s main crush. And even then, it would seem that Screech actually moved on from Lisa to a little-seen character named Violet Anne Bickerstaff, leaving Lisa officially the only character on the show who had never had a long-term relationship.
What was Lisa missing that denied her the opportunity to be a part of an It Couple like Zack and Kelly or Slater and Jessie? How come Lisa couldn’t have a relationship that showcased her femininity, vulnerability, and otherwise humanness? Why was she relegated to just being the rich snob?
I have to assume that race played a role in the writers’ inability to see Lisa as anything beyond just a joke character. I assume that because not only does it play a role in how characters are designed, but it also plays a role in how we choose our own potential partners and how we see ourselves in relation to said partners.
In an earlier article about Sleepy Hollow‘s Abbie Mills, I wrote about the trope called the Strong Black Woman. You can see many characters that fit this trope, even in a character like Lisa. So what is the Strong Black Woman? Allow me to quote myself:
the Strong Black Woman trope that became associated with positivity happened in the late ’60s and early ’70s, with a prime example being Caroline Bird’s 1969 New York Magazine essay on black womanhood. Alternet rightly calls the article “flawed” since, as the site states:
[The essay] deems black women capable and independent (read: strong) by necessity. Black women fight, Bird says, because they have no one to fight for them, unlike white women with proximity to white, patriarchal power. “Whatever the reasons, the fact is that Negro women in America have escaped some of the psyche-crippling education of white girls. They haven’t been carefully taught how not to fight. On the contrary, some of them fight hard and develop a personal style of fighting that suggests that ‘grace under pressure’ which is supposed to be the essence of courage.”
Bird’s piece spins allegedly distinctive black female strength as a powerful weapon, giving African American women an edge over white women and black men–a dubious message. It also paints black women as possessing a durability that is nearly inhuman. For instance, Bird asserts that “The absence of Negro fathers hurts growing boys more than girls, and saved Negro girls from some of the dissatisfactions with their sex that brought many white women to psychoanalysis.” Abandoning black girls does not hurt them, this suggests; instead, it makes them stronger.
This article by Bird means well, but it basically does a good job of reinforcing the original Strong Black Woman stereotype from slavery times; that black women don’t have feelings and are immune to the societal and familial pressures others are. Somehow, they are more powerful than everyone, yet they are still the mule of the world because going by this analysis, the black woman still takes in society’s ills and is still burdened by them. However, the burden, according to Bird’s essay, is the pressure that makes the diamond form. In Bird’s words, the burden is necessary, not something that should be alleviated by society coming to grips with itself and uplifting black women as women and human beings.
Lisa has shades of the Strong Black Woman because, despite having everything a character could ask for and despite the fact that she would be seen as desirable because of it if she were white, Lisa’s instead relegated to being an emotionally invulnerable character. Despite being neglected by potential suitors, broken up with by Zack to save his friendship with Screech, or denied any other position other than “that black girl,” she’s somehow never broken up about the role society has given her. She doesn’t get hurt. Instead, as Bird suggests, she becomes stronger, more Lisa Turtle-y than she was before. She becomes the invincible rich girl who doesn’t need anyone because she’s going to become a fashion superstar.
I mainlined Saved by the Bell growing up, and I believe much of that subconscious Strong Black Woman programming triggered me. I saw myself as Lisa, as the girl who had everything going for her, but for some reason, couldn’t get the boys to like her. I wasn’t like Kelly or Jessie, who were white, therefore seen as more desirable. I was as smart as Jessie, so I wondered if I, as a Lisa, would ever get a guy like Slater, who was apparently into smart girls who wore mom jeans. However, what if the one thing Jessie had over me was her race? To be fair to Jessie and Slater, their relationship meant a lot to me because I could actually see that interracial dating was possible. Maybe it wouldn’t happen for me, but it was, at the very least, possible. But I still wondered how much more work than Jessie I’d have to do to get a Slater. Once again, white privilege allows you to be seen as more attractive than you might actually be. Case in point: the many black male athletes who tote their white trophy wives around. The most egregious example of this: Tiger Woods liking no one but white, blonde women.
I definitely had no illusions about being a Kelly; I knew I would never be America’s vision of an “All-American Girl”; I’m not white. I immediately saw someone like Zack as the unattainable fruit growing high on a tree I wasn’t allowed to pick from. Even still, I wondered if Lisa would ever truly get with Zack, since they always seemed to vibrate around each other (apparently, Voorhies and Mark-Paul Gosselaar were dating in real life). But despite their off-screen romance, Lisa and Zack would never date on the show, save for that one time that hardly anyone remembers. Even in that brief dalliance, Lisa’s heart had to take a back seat to Zack’s supposed deep friendship with Screech. Even then, Lisa is thought of as the Strong Black Woman, whose emotional state is never considered because, as a Strong Black Woman, she’s thought of not having any.
Lisa and Zack’s unrealized potential as a couple also taught me something else: that racial divisions were still alive and well when it came to on-screen relationships. Seeing Lisa never getting a Zack or a Slater-type character made me worry about my own well-being in the dating department. Lisa was my avatar into the world of Saved by the Bell; if she, who had the money, style, glamour, popularity and rich-kid access to any and everything, couldn’t get the guy of her dreams regardless of his race, then what hope did I, a glasses-wearing kid who felt self-conscious about her weight have? I might have been as smart as Jessie and heck, I was just as lovable as Kelly, but if my black sister-in-arms wasn’t seen as desirable, what did the world think about me?
The first time I distinctly remember seeing a black girl with a white boy was on Boy Meets World, when Shawn dated Angela. Even though Angela annoyed me at times, I viewed their relationship as something that reaffirmed what I’d been taught about loving all people (back in the ’90s, the buzzword we were all taught in elementary school was “colorblindness”). It made me think that I was finally seeing what had been preached to me —about love knowing no color –actually being put into practice. The actress who played Angela, Trina McGee Davis, wrote about her Boy Meets World experiences to the Los Angeles Times in 1999. She wrote that most of the responses she received, particularly from the younger audience members, were positive, with many young viewers asking her when Angela and Shawn would reconcile.
“My character, Angela, has intimately kissed Shawn (Rider Strong) a number of times, and the show’s creators have never made an issue of our race,” she wrote. “…The black kids are not asking, ‘Why are you with that white boy?’ When I attended the NAACP Image Awards, a black girl lamented to me that Shawn and Angela are a perfect couple and should be back together. The next day, a white girl in a mall begged to know if Shawn and Angela are still in love…They are the new face of tolerance. These kids are not looking at race; they’re absorbing the love story.”
Shawn and Angela’s relationship was revolutionary not just in the interracial dating department; it also positioned Shawn as just a guy, not the unattainable white guy that all non-white girls would have to work hard to get. If there’s one thing that was taught early in ’90s television, it was that The Beautiful People were white, despite some of the Beautiful People also being black, like Lisa Turtle. Lisa could use her popularity to become a satellite of the group of chosen ones, but the true chosen ones were the white ones, the ones who would immediately be crowned Prom King and Prom Queen.
Kelly and Zack exuded that classic white teenager trope of being good-looking, desirable, congenial, popular, and amenable to everyone while still having an invisible, bulletproof shield of white privilege surrounding them. In fact, it was white, able-bodied privilege that made them seem desirable. Because of that intangible privilege, they had a leg up on the nerds of all races and the minority kids like Lisa and Slater. Kelly—the head cheerleader and volleyball, swim, and softball captain, and Zack—lovable class clown—were the highest recipients of of this intangible privilege, allowing them to rule the school without having to work hard for respect; it was just given to them. As Lisa Turtle, I’d have to work twice as hard just to be seen as competent.
Developing this mindset at a very young age has left me paranoid in the love department. Sometimes I do wonder if race plays any part in why I’m not with anyone. I distinctly remember a high school classmate of mine saying, as if it was the most normal and self-empowering thing to say, that she wouldn’t marry a black man because she wanted her kids to look like her. I didn’t say anything, even though I was furious, and the guy I did like—who was basically Zack Morris—did his best to try to get her to shut up for my sake. But I wondered since she could say that out in the open, for my ears to hear, if a guy, particularly the guy I liked, felt the same about black women. I wondered if too many guys felt that way about black women. In fact, I limited myself from my chance to tell the guy I liked that I actually liked him for fear of being rejected—either because of my inflated idea of my own nerdiness, my weight (which wasn’t bad in hindsight; I was a size 10), my emotional sensitivity or —the big reason—because I was black. I saw myself as Lisa Turtle, and Lisa never got with Zack Morris.
Sometimes people don’t realize how sneakily racial discrimination can worm its way into a child’s mind. They don’t get how truly menacing white privilege can be. When you see images of yourself constantly alone, you begin to think that that’s what you should expect. Nowadays, it’s even worse; not only are young girls afflicted by the white privilege happily flaunted by the Taylor Swifts and Gigi Hadids of the world, the It Girls who have magazines falling on themselves to cover every moment of their lives, but they are seeing how people treat actresses like Leslie Jones, who was actually removed herself from Twitter for a short time to escape trolls sending her demeaning comments solely because of her dark skin.
Girls growing up today not only worry about how their race affects how people view them, but how their bodies are being judged as well; everyone wants a Kim Kardashian-esque big butt, and you can read how I feel about that. The pressure on girls is immense, and the pressure they place on themselves is even bigger. Thankfully, there are more examples of black women in relationships of all kinds than there were when I was growing up. But there need to be more. There needs to be enough examples of black women being treasured to stamp out the persistent question many black girls have growing up: “Am I enough?”
So what can I say to the other Lisa Turtles out there? I actually wish I could give you the step-by-step of “Here’s what I did to get over my self-imposed stigmatization.” The truth is that I still struggle with my dating paranoia. I still imagine what it’s like to be a Lisa Turtle that actually gets the guy. But perhaps, I can say this: You are not what society deems you to be. Dating sites can make all of the studies they want to “prove” how black women and Asian men are deemed the least desirable to prospective dates, but do your best to let none of that affect you. No matter what anyone or any site says, you are a beautiful, vibrant, complex, vulnerable, emotional, and loving black woman. You have everything you need to have. Keep being you, because you are everything the man or woman of your dreams is looking for. America—and for that matter, the Western World at large—might not realize it, but you, Lisa Turtle, have earned your right to be here.
Looking for Love in Invisible Spaces: Meta & the Gap in LGBT Representation
(L-R) Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the Jan. 1, 2016 MASTERPIECE special Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. Courtesy of (C) BBC/Hartswood Films for MASTERPIECE
As featured in COLORBLOCK Magazine, February 2016
The patchiness of LGBT representation occurred due to several factors, such as cultural reticence, religious arguments, and entertainment companies worried about their bottom line domestically and internationally. The voids in representation have led to fans coming to their own rescue and creating alternate (and sometimes more accurate) readings of characters and their love lives.
The process of finding alternate interpretations of the characters not only provides fans who feel neglected by the entertainment world–such as LGBT fans and fans who are LGBT allies– the ability to participate in their favorite film or TV fandom, but also eases the anxiety created when an LGBT metatextual reading of a character, especially characters who already have a foothold in discussions surrounding LGBT media, doesn’t get the fair play it should in canonical tellings or retellings of a story. Basically, meta readings, and the subsequent fan creations that result from them, give fans the chance to tell the story from their point of view. They get to create a world that includes them in all of their complexity by allowing the canonical characters to have complexity not originally given to them by their original creators.
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series of mysteries are two great examples of when the canonical and meta worlds collide.
Canonically, Sherlock and John are friends, the most classic example of platonic love and partnership. However, the two characters have also been one of the many touchstones of LGBT media theory, especially where it concerns audience interpretation.
“Fans use these parallel worlds to explore what could have been or might be, especially as regards sexualities that have not found mainstream representation,” wrote Ashley O’Mara in her article, “Queering LGBT History: The Case of Sherlock Holmes Fanfic” for the site, Metathesis (metaistheblog.com). “There is no conclusive literary evidence that [Doyle] conceived of his Sherlock and John as ‘homosexual;’ their relationship presents as a romantic friendship although those were going out of fashion when he was writing. Likewise, despite queerbaiting, [BBC’s Sherlock co-writer Steven Moffat] insists that his Sherlock is not gay, let alone [asexual]. In [fanfiction] however, literally any interpretation goes.”
Those interpretations, which explore asexuality, aromanticism, bisexuality, and/or being gay, stem from said queerbaiting, which include suggestive moments in the BBC show, one of the biggest moments being during Irene Adler’s introduction in Series 2, Episode 1, in which Irene basically makes a case as to why John was actually falling in love with Sherlock without realizing it by comparing John to herself. Both John and Irene have considered themselves people who weren’t interested in men, yet, as Irene points out, both of them are very interested in Sherlock. There could also be a level of retroactive queerbating, as it were, happening within the original text itself; as O’Mara noted, Doyle was writing of romantic friendship when it was going out of style, with romantic same-sex friendship being replaced with a higher level of homophobia (at least among men; with women, romantic friendship and full blown same-sex romance was often overlooked by male society). The level of reticence around romantic friendships comes around the same time the term “homosexuality” was coined, which begs the question as to why Doyle would still consider writing Sherlock and John as a romantic friendships comes around the same time the term “homosexuality” was coined, which begs the question as to why Doyle would still consider writing Sherlock and John as a romantic friendship during such a societal change.
Meta readings have also occurred with many of today’s popular characters, such as characters in Marvel’s cinematic and TV universe. There are tons of fan creations centering around the close relationship between Captain America and Bucky (aka the Winter Soldier), Captain America’s other close relationship with the Falcon, Iron Man and The Hulk’s friendship (as shown in the Avengers movies), and the friendship between Peggy Carter and waitress/aspiring actress Angie Martinelli in Agent Carter, just to name a few.
MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER - "A View in the Dark" - Peggy discovers her murder investigation has huge ramifications that can destroy her career, as well as everyone near and dear to her, on "Marvel's Agent Carter," TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EST) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Kelsey McNeal) HAYLEY ATWELL
Despite canon interpretations falling short of fandom expectation, it’s beginning to be par for the course for actors who are affiliated with the fandom to speak out on behalf of their fans’ want for more inclusive entertainment. For instance, to address the Peggy/Angie fans, Peggy herself, Hayley Atwell, told fans at last year’s Fan Expo Canada what Peggy and Angie’s relationship meant to her. “The thing that stands out for me about Peggy and Angie is it’s seldom that you see on television friendship between two women that isn’t founded on the interest of a man,” she said. “There’s a genuine affection that they have for each other; whether or not you want to project the idea that it’s romantic or sexual is entirely up to you and how you want to view it. I think there’s a mutual respect that’s quite rare that I want to see more of in film and stories.”
As you’ll read in the next article (about the meta pairing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens characters Finn and Poe Dameron), Captain America co-director Joe Russo also states that he welcomes all interpretations of Bucky and Cap’s relationship. Also worth noting about the Star Wars pairing is that John Boyega recently confirmed to ShortList writer Chris Mandle that while the Poe/Finn pairing isn’t canonical, it was definitely something that existed in the mind of Oscar Isaac, who played Poe in the film.
With more and more actors co-signing fandom imagination, the day when there will be a mainstream LGBT couple in genre films and television could be coming soon. Maybe not soon enough, to be honest, but still sooner than originally thought possible.
Related articles/sources:
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In the century plus since a series of impromptu cease fires briefly quieted the First World War’s Western Front, “The Christmas Truce of 1914” has been widely celebrated for the remarkable event it was. That it still captures the imagination should come as no surprise, providing a brief point of illumination within the pitch-black recesses of early twentieth-century history and doing it by tapping deep into the aquifers of our common humanity. It is the spirit of peace and goodwill staving off darkness, however brief. Enemies who in five short months had already instituted industrial-scale death and destruction unlike anything the world had ever known could be seen commiserating instead of killing, trading and playing sport instead of dealing out ideological murder.
In their history, Christmas Truce: The Western Front, December 1914, Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton underline the deep-seated reason that continues to bring us back to this story: “It is the human dimension which means that this relatively obscure event in the fifth month of a fifty-two-month war is still remembered…” A century later, it is still an irresistible story.
Starting with the initial eyewitness accounts, illustrations and actual photographs from the front that flooded English newspapers The Illustrated London NewsThe TimesDaily Mirror, those mentions that made it through the censors and into German newspapers in Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, and the headline generating reports that made it across the Atlantic into The New York Times and Evening Sun, a steady stream of factual and cultural art renderings since those final days of 1914 has created a vast archive of remembrance. Soldier recollections were still in heavy circulation in the period between the wars. And though a stubborn popular view that the whole thing was legend persisted well into the second-half of the twentieth-century (due largely to the fact that the Truce did not touch those points of the line where the skeptics served), the emergence of serious historical works and short-form historical backgrounds in periodicals that find December publication to this day put the argument to rest long ago.
Add to it the collection of fictional portrayals which have kept the story alive: short fiction such as A Fox Under My Cloak (its main character, Phillip Maddison, a “bloke” who finds himself welcomed far behind German lines during the truce), the 1967 German children’s story My Great-Grandfather, the Heroes & I (which tells of the brave “marzipan baker” of the Christmas Truce, a story based on a real exchange between a Berlin pastry chef and the entrenched British in his front) and a well-regarded children’s story published in 1987: War Game by Michael Foreman (which centers on the celebrated and numerous “kick-about” football matches played between enemies). The Truce also made it into several mid-century plays and the more memorable on-screen portrayals, including an episode of the popular BBC serial: Blackadder (1989), a feature film based on the Truce, with a French twist: Joyeux Noël (2005), and a personal favorite: the Truce scene from the big screen adaptation of Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)—which compacts this multi-day event into a memorable six-minute clip.
But being so unique—and unlikely—an event, all these evocative fictional tributes still fall short of the actual history. The Christmas Truce of 1914 was really a series of independently arranged truces between, mainly, the British and German forces facing each other in Belgium and northern France—the infamous killing fields of Flanders. These were the stalemate trench-lines that have come to typify the First World War, having settled in as seemingly immovable once active campaigning ground to a bloody halt along the entire Western Front (a line of trenches that stretched with hardly a pause from the North Sea 475 miles south to the border of neutral Switzerland). These trenches were often only 50-75 yards apart, some so close that goodwill gifts and rock-weighted invitations would be lofted from one enemy’s trench to the other during the Truce. They were almost always within range of shouted comments which, as 1914 grew short and active fighting slowed, morphed from trash-talk to the spirit of the season and for many a longing nostalgia for the comforts of home. This instinctually led to widespread singing and holiday caroling, which opened up competitions to sing louder and with more gusto than the enemy in the opposite trench. From the start, it was local; and in as much as anyone could really tell—it all being that spontaneous—it was mutual appreciation of the enemy’s caroling in these days leading up to Christmas by which the Truce itself began.
Albert Moren of the 2nd Queen’s Regiment, positioned near Armentières, France, just south of the key town of Ypres, Belgium, would later write: “And then [the Germans] sang ‘Silent Night’—’Stille Nacht.’ I shall never forget it. It was one of the highlights of my life” … In his history of the Truce, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, Stanley Weintraub observes: “One of the few things about which the combatants agreed was the centrality of Christmas.” And it was out of this spirit that informal “live and let live” cease fires between opposing trenches increased as the holiday season approached; this regardless of command directives about maintaining a vigilant defense and forbidding all forms of fraternization. It was in blatant disregard of such orders that cease fires were being arranged by vocal volleys between “Fritz,” WWI British slang for German soldiers, and “Tommy,” WWI German slang for British soldiers. (And though there is no doubt that this was an event driven largely by common soldiers on both sides, Brown and Seaton document that truces were often overseen—if not directly coordinated—by commanding officers.) Many truces would be arranged via signs posted on the thrown-dirt tops of trenches, called “parapets,” a more popular broken-English German message to Tommy: “You No Fight, We No Fight.” Some of the British took to simply hoisting wooden boards advertising: “Merry Christmas!” If it was not riddled with bullets, that seemed a good enough sign that a cease fire was on. Soon these improvised truces became so widespread that it did seem a general truce had been called along much of this stretch of the Western Front. The constant sniping, the regular volleys and barrages that littered the sonic background of an average day vanished. An astonished British artillery captain made note of how “things [in his sector] went positively dead; there was not a sound.”
Histories point to the Germans initiating most of the initial cease fires and the ensuing invitations to meet face-to-face. And it was in the spirit of the season, and no doubt the mentioned nostalgia, that many of these units began placing small trees lit with candles clamped to branches atop their parapets. A soldier with the 133 Saxons wrote: “We placed a tiny Christmas tree in our dugout … We placed a second lighted tree on the parapet. Then we began to sing our old Christmas songs: Still Nachtheilige Nacht and O du frohliche (Oh How Joyfully).” Weintraub notes that the singing of the Germans “attracted almost as much attention across No Man’s Land as did the lighted tree … Each time the Saxons placed a lighted Christmas tree on their parapets, the English shouted approval.” The letters and recollections of soldiers show that the singing became more harmonious and respectful as Christmas Eve arrived. A Scottish unit was amazed to hear the Germans across the way singing “Home Sweet Home” and “God Save The King.” Percy Jones of the Westminster Rifles described the scene of songs leaping from trench to trench all across his unit’s front, and how in answer to the Germans in their immediate front they sang Handel’s popular Austrian Hymn and “the applause was terrific.” (The hymn would soon enough be made infamous as the anthem of the Nazi party.)
It seemed only a matter of time before these enemies—a term that honestly nags while researching the transcendent goodwill of the Truce—would begin belting out songs in unison. Letters to home penned by Lieutenant Edward Hulse would become among the more noted eyewitness accounts of the Truce (if mainly because Hulse would be killed on March 10, during the bloody inconclusive Battle of Neuve Chapelle on this very front). He describes a heart-felt chorus of “Auld Lang Syne,” and how “we all, English, Scots, Irish, Prussian, Wurttemberbergers …” joined in. At points on the line harmonicas joined in, or led the way, bagpipes adding a memorable backdrop in those sectors where Scottish soldiers were in line (such as Hulse’s own Scots Guards).
The spirit was sweeping the entire sector. And though not everyone in the ranks was for this “cessation of hostilities,” let alone face-to-face fraternization (in time, the most notorious of the detractors being Adolf Hitler, serving as a messenger in a nearby Bavarian unit), by Christmas Eve 1914 it took on the air of an unstoppable popular movement. The overwhelming majority of those soldiers stationed out along the cold clammy front of Flanders were participating enthusiastically and taking the next step in this remarkable—if fleeting—event.
Close enough to trade carols with the enemy, the more enterprising—and trusting—sensed an opportunity for a most rare moment of camaraderie. Many began to shout over invitations for the enemies to meet up between the trenches and the thick belts of barbed-wire: the infamous No Man’s Land that still defines the wasteful attrition of trench warfare. Captain Josef Sewald of the 17th Bavarians later wrote: “I shouted to our enemies that we didn’t wish to shoot and that we [should] make a Christmas truce … First there was silence, then I shouted once more, invited them, and the British shouted ‘No shooting!’ Then a man came out of the[ir] trenches and I on my side did the same and so we came together and we shook hands—a bit cautiously” … Informal truces had been occurring along the Western Front for most of the month, but were especially prevalent throughout the sector where the British Expeditionary Force was in line. That in and of itself explains a greater tendency towards camaraderie; in that the small army of Belgians that had survived the German invasion (in line near the coast) and the sprawling French armies (which aside from a detachment north of Ypres, stretched unbroken from Arras to Alsace Lorraine) rightfully attached a more virulent hatred to the German invader a trench over. There were many documented truces, meetings and even informal concerts in these sectors, some celebrated; but the core players in the Truce were British and German units in the Flemish lowlands, with perhaps less of an ideological axe to grind and even the lineage of Anglo-Saxon to go on. (It should be noted, it was widely held by both the British and German Saxons themselves that those German units of Prussian background were a harder, more ideologically-pure set, and not to be trusted.) Add to these nationalistic reasons the fact that December rains had been unrelenting and had turned all of Flanders into a sea of ankle-deep mud, thus rendering active large-scale operations impossible; this combined with the fact that all of these armies had been effectively used-up by the appalling casualties already suffered, each awaiting the first wave of volunteer reserves to restore offensive strength, and the static character of the front in December 1914 comes clear.
So, with the grey routine and boredom settling in, the waiting led—as it often will—to impromptu fraternization between enemies. By early December, it was already so noticeable along the B.E.F. front that the commander of the British II Corps issued a directive forbidding fraternization, if only that his troops remain on their toes and wary of a trap. In position around and north of Ypres, this sector would see much less truce-making, no doubt a result of heightened wariness; but also of more stringent oversight. To the immediate south, there was no such overt directive hanging over the scene and with the arrival of Christmas Day, the Truce was on. One final development was quite possibly the most important stroke of luck in setting the scene: The skies cleared and, aside from occasional flurries and morning fog, the quagmire that had typified both trench and fields-of-battle froze into temporary tundra. No longer sodden and mud-caked, if cold, many had to believe it a Christmas miracle in its own right that the steady December downpours had relented. W. R. M. Percy of the London Rifles wrote: “The singing and playing continued all night (Christmas Eve), and the next day our fellows paid a visit to the German trenches, and they did likewise.” Not just meetings in neutral No Man’s Land, but widespread visits to enemy trenches would typify the next several days.
In lieu of the slaughter and world order upheaval that a modern audience knows was yet to come, what happened Christmas Day and December 26 (the traditional English “Boxing Day,” still a significant holiday tradition in 1914) continues to stir a deep emotional response … If only to justify the odd behavior of enemies, many of the No Man’s Land meetings proceeded under arrangement to bury the dead—some of whom had been lying in-between the lines for over a month. Weintraub writes: “Up and down the line the retrieval of corpses and their burial were tacit preconditions for fraternization.” In some instances the dead were placed into the lightly frosted ground by separate parties: the British interring those in front of their lines, the Germans likewise. But numerous accounts tell of joint burial details. Near the small village of La Boutillerie in northern France, a joint burial arrangement was brought to a more hopeful close by a joint service. Arthur Pelham-Burn of the 6th Gordons described the mass burial detail as “awful, too awful to describe …” But he went on to call the service that followed (conducted in-tandem by the Gordon’s chaplain and a German divinity student) as “most wonderful.” Though burying the dead was not a precondition for No Man’s Land meetings, with this most depressing activity complete where it was undertaken the Truce turned to light-hearted fraternity. Weintraub writes: “when the soldiers on both sides were not spading fallen comrades into alien soil, they were coming together in ways so unpredictable and extraordinary that they felt compelled to write in disbelief to families and to newspapers still largely uncensored about what they had seen and done.” These eyewitness accounts say it all:
• A German officer yelled across to the 2nd Bedfordshires: “I am a lieutenant! Gentlemen, my life is in your hands, for I am out of my trench and walking towards you. Will one of your officers come out and meet me half-way?” After a few moments of silence, he said again: “Gentlemen, I am waiting!” A British officer went out to meet him and a truce was called.
• Lieutenant Frank Black of the 1st Royal Warwicks wrote: “we were strolling about outside the trenches as though there as no war going on.”
• Corporal John Ferguson of the Seaforth Scottish Highlanders wrote: “What a sight—little groups of Germans and British extending almost the length of our front! … Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours before we were trying to kill!”
• Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxons wrote of the “delightful conversations in English, French and German” that he would have with enemy officers.
The final quote points to yet one more condition that made such truces more likely: many of the German soldiers then in the trenches had before the war worked as waiters, taxi-drivers and barbers in large cities throughout the United Kingdom. (A unique instance involved a Londoner meeting his former barber, then serving in a Saxon regiment opposite his, who gave his former customer, now enemy, a trim in No Man’s Land.) In that this was the first war with global reach, economic development had already taken shape as the interconnected global world that now defines the modern world. In hindsight, it is possible to see that these Germans and their command of English prompted many to start up conversations with the enemy that in years and conflicts past would have been less probable. And though early attempts to arrange cease-fire meetings were met with an understandable skepticism, the overtures that followed were almost without exception driven by a genuine—and quite spontaneous—commitment to the peace-and-goodwill of the season. Typical of these exchanges was one documented by a British officer, in which his German counterpart asked with frank honesty: “My orders are the same as yours, but could we not have a truce from shooting today? We don’t want to shoot, do you?”
As if to prove their hope for a celebratory holiday, Germans in line just south of Armentières would arrange an appealing trade. Assuring the British in their front that they were genuine in requesting a cease-fire, they sealed the deal by rolling out barrels of beer into No Man’s Land. There they were traded for a B.E.F. staple that holiday season: English plum pudding cakes. This was only one of the hundreds of such meetings and trades going on across the entire sector. Handshakes led to conversations, Brown and Seaton noting that for many: “the shaking of an enemy hand was the most striking memory of the day.” And though some conversations were certainly hampered by language barriers, they were being prodded along by commiseration on the shared misery and disillusionment of life in the trenches, far from home. Brown and Seaton go on to underscore the sudden turn in perspective that was sweeping the ranks and empowering the Truce itself. They write of soldiers on both sides being struck with the fact that war-time propaganda (which spewed an especially bloodthirsty tone in the English and German press) had grossly distorted the reality of the enemy; for when they “met face to face they found that they were not only human but also, on the whole, likable.” Such a sudden easing of tensions revealed a most profound commonality. It was to be the very fuel of the Truce. In some spots, meetings in No Man’s Land grew to involve whole regiments. These quickly fell on good-natured ribbing urged on by liberal doses of shared whisky, German schnapps, beer and wine. (Weintraub notes that there were, amazingly, very few reports of disciplinary problems or violence despite evidence of heavy drinking.) But all of this revolved around the most widespread activity of the Truce: the brisk trading of food, cigarettes, cigars and souvenirs.
Soldiers on both sides of the front had been flooded with Christmas care-packages, an act of giving that was viewed and promoted as a patriotic necessity by those on the various home-fronts. The sheer bulk of trade-able items on hand made trade and indulgence somewhat of a sport, something every soldier could participate in, if they chose. On the British side, there were the mentioned plum puddings, a traditional Christmas-time dessert, which arrived at the front by the train-load. In addition, each soldier was provided a “Princess Mary” tin filled with cigarettes, a pipe and tobacco (or sweets for non-smokers) and a royal Christmas card that included a picture of the King’s daughter, Mary—along with her personal best wishes and blessings. (Brown and Seaton document the mass disruption in the transport of standard rations and equipment that this would cause for B.E.F. troops, as over 350,000 of these tins were given preference and shuttled up to front-line soldiers.) As well, home-front gifts of scarves, gloves, hats and other items of winter clothing were blanketing the troops.
And the British were not alone. The Germans were also provided an array of Christmas gifts that flowed into their lines from the home-front back east. The most prevalent were pipes made of meerschaum (a white stone-like mineral) imprinted with a relief of the German Crown Prince, which arrived with all the Turkish tobacco that they cared to smoke. In addition, a highly sought after trade item would be the cigar box delivered to German NCOs—in the Kaiser’s name—made notable by the Flammenschwert (“Flaming Sword”) stamped on its cover. The prevalence of small Christmas trees atop German parapets was also a result of easing homesick soldiers during that most treasured holiday. Thousands of the small trees had been shipped to both fronts, along with depot-busting quantities of sausage, sauerkraut and cakes. Perhaps at no other time during the war, would the troops eat so well; and in the spirit of the Truce and indulgent (for war-time) Christmas dinners, many of the mentioned enemy trench visits did occur. One of the more humorous is of two British soldiers with the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment, having accepted an invite to visit the German trench opposite their position. When the Germans urged them to stay for a Christmas dinner and they declined, the two were pulled back into the trench by their legs. Though there were many reports of surprise captures in the Flanders sector during the Truce, the Leicestershire men endured only a belly full of camaraderie.
And then there was the most celebrated piece of fraternity that the Truce would produce … With the sharing of food and drink, and the trade in more substantial souvenirs such as photos, signatures, buttons, insignia—and for the British: the prized German belt buckles stamped with “Gott Mit Uns,” (God with Us) and arcane spiked “Pickelhaube” helmets (still standard issue in 1914)—a relaxed atmosphere set in. In many areas, it would become so casual that British and German soldiers lined-up for group portraits, intermingled by nationality and rank in remarkable photographs (many of which would find their way onto the front page of home-front newspapers throughout January 1915, stunning audiences). Given the pervasive good-natured air about so many of these meetings, it seemed just a matter of time before someone produced a football.
Though musical events were breaking out all along the more pensive French and German lines to the south—where professional musicians and opera singers in the ranks performed to encore-demanding audiences—in Flanders it was football. Already the national sport of all developed European nations and given the relative youth of the soldiers (if already war veterans), it seems inevitable that the bloodless competition of informal “kick-abouts” and actual team matches would break out. Again, the confluence of ideal conditions were key. What with the early winter freeze having hardened the mud and the dead having been cleared from No Man’s Land, the soldiers were presented with wide open, if often cratered, fields. This being peacetime farm land, largely turnip and cabbage fields, much of it was also well-groomed. And what came together on those fields has come down as the zenith of the Truce; for as much as anything, it was enemies playing football that has come to represent all that was right about the Christmas Truce.
The accounts of improvised and staged matches are numerous. One staged match was popularized in London’s The Times on January 1, 1915, and is typical of the games played. A published letter from an eyewitness describes the scene of British and German teams playing a regulation match, with the “Saxons” winning 3-2. But it was the coincidence of another football gathering that captures the common humanity awakened by this event, however fleeting. While a match was being arranged and teams assembled from the British and Germans facing each other near the line around Ploegsteert Wood, south of Ypres, it became known that two of the soldiers to play had recently been teammates back in Liverpool. One was a “Tommy,” the other a “Fritz” … Here was the great triumph and the tragedy of the Truce. And yet, that all the death and destruction that was to follow has failed to dim this brief moment of hope is why we remember and tell the story, still. Stanley Weintraub illustrates it perfectly: “Christmas 1914 reopened imaginations to the unsettling truth that at each end of the rifle, men were indeed the same.”
• • •
In 1918, a British soldier told the story of the Christmas truce to an American journalist: “Something like this outburst was taking place all along the line … If so the war was over. There would be, he thought, no authority on earth powerful enough to set those men fighting again.” That is, of course, not how it worked out. Given this disobedient unwarlike behavior and the possibility of it undermining “fighting spirit,” those at the command level on either side would eventually come to squelch the widespread fraternization and order the troops back into daily offensive operations. This was often done by simply ordering artillery fire, exactly the scene portrayed in the previously mentioned and memorable Truce scene from Oh! What A Lovely War. Soon enough, it would come down to rifle fire between those who had so recently met their enemies for food, trade and football in No Man’s Land. In many instances, the fraternity of the Truce still fresh, opposing units warned those across the way of such orders ahead of time, advising them to keep out of sight, their heads down. Soldiers on both sides often fired purposefully high when the time came, Weintraub writing that on many fronts it was a “renewed fire that was more desultory than deliberate.” He goes on to state the obvious: that the Christmas Truce “reverberates with an incalculable sense of loss.” Given the profitless bloodbath to come—in that history can draw a straight line between the lack of clear resolutions and the upheaval that took root in wake of the First World War having led directly to the Second World War—this statement becomes simply heartbreaking.
The Christmas Truce of 1914 should not surprise us. And yet it does because of the uncomfortable fact that war and human conflict have, throughout history, so often won out over peace-and-goodwill. And if only because of that, this is a story that continues to be told. That a spontaneous “outbreak of peace” could be mustered by a large group of mostly young men who only days prior had been doing all they could to kill the other and soon enough would be back to doing just that for three more horrific years, is an example of the best of humankind winning out, however brief. This is a story that we continue to tell because we must.
A writer of short fiction and full-length novels, creative / narrative non-fiction, historical studies and verse, Dave Buckhout has published work in Baseball Ink, The Chaffey Review, Raven’s Perch, The Write Launch (a novel excerpt), The Almanack and now: Tropics of Meta. He lives on the hip east-side of Atlanta with his beautiful wife, dogs, cats, guitars and 1000s of well-worn books.
This piece was originally published by In Heritage on December 23, 2014.
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The Story of Setaketu (Bodhisat)
"The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas" (Maha Buddhavamsa), Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw, edited and translated by U Ko Lay and U Tin Lwi; further intensive editing Wisdom Quarterly
Setaketu (Santusita) in Tusita world
The deva Setaketu, the future Buddha, enjoyed the supreme deva bliss in the [space] abode of Tusita for 4,000 years according to deva-time reckoning (which is equivalent to 576,000,000 years in the human world).
Then 1,000 human years before the end of his life-span in the Tusita world, divinities (brahmas) of the Pure Abodes (suddhavasa) proclaimed:
"Friends, 1,000 years from today there will appear in the human world an omniscient buddha!"
Because of this proclamation from the vault of the deva world, the uproar (buddha kolahala) announcing the appearance of a buddha, "An omniscient buddha will be appearing! An omniscient buddha will be appearing!" reverberated across the entire human world 1,000 years ahead of the event [Note 1].
The Devas' Request
On hearing the uproar announcing the advent of a buddha, the deva kings of the 10,000 world-systems -- such as the Four Great Sky Kings (near earth orbit rulers), Sakka, Suyama, Santusita (6th Heaven, Para-nimmita-vasavatti), Sunimmita, Vasavatti, and all Great-Brahmas congregated in a certain [galaxy or world-system] to hold a discussion on the Bodhisat (Bodhisattva) whose deva life-span had only seven days remaining, by human reckoning, and whose approaching end of life had become manifest through five predictive signs.
Then they all approached the deva Setaketu with their hands joined in adoration and made this request:
"O deva Bodhisat [Buddha-to-be], you have completely fulfilled the Ten Perfections, not with the desire to gain the bliss of Sakka [Michael or Thor, Lord of Lords (of Tavatimsa) and King of Kings (in the Realm of the Four Great Kings], of Mara (in Brahma's Retinue or 7th Heaven), of Brahma (in the Maha Brahma deva loka), or of a Universal Monarch (on Earth). You have fulfilled these perfections aspiring for all-knowing buddhahood in order to acquire for yourself freedom from the three worlds (spheres) as well as to liberate the multitudes of humans, devas ["shining ones"], and brahmas ["creative divinities," supremos].
"O deva Bodhisat, this is the most propitious time for you to become an omniscient awakened teacher! This is truly the right moment to become an omniscient awakened teacher! Therefore, take conception in the womb of the human world. And after attaining the supreme enlightenment of a teacher, liberate humans, devas, and brahmas from the round of suffering/rebirth (samsara) by teaching the Dharma of deathlessness: nirvana."
The Five Great Investigations
The deva Bodhisat Setaketu did not hastily consent to the supplication of the devas and brahmas who had come together from the 10,000 world-systems. Instead, in line with the tradition of previous bodhisattas, he made five great investigations:
(1) Is it the appropriate time for the appearance of a buddha?
(2) Is there an appropriate world (dipa, island, continent, planet, light) for the appearance of a buddha?
(3) Is there an appropriate land for the appearance of a buddha?
(4) Is there an appropriate family into which to be reborn (in a final existence)?
(5) Is it the appropriate span of life of a bodhisatta's mother. More
NOTE: With reference to the name of the Buddha-to-be as a deva, it was Santusita according to the chapter on Ratanasankama, Buddhavamsa which in Pali reads: Yada'ham tusite kaye santusito nama'ham tada. Also in the commentary to the Buddhavamsa and Jinalankara Tika the same name is mentioned. But in the exposition of the Pubbenivasa-katha, Veranja-kanda of the Parajika commentary, and in the exposition of the Bhayabherava Sutra of the Mulapanasa commentary, his name is given as Setaketu ["White Banner"]. Moreover, successive authors of Burmese chronicles or Buddhavamsas such as the Tathagata-Udana Dipani, Malalankara Vatthu, Jinatthapakasani, etc., give Setaketu as the name of the deva. Therefore, it has been explained by various teachers that Santusita was a common name derived from Tusita -- the name of the celestial abode (space world) -- whereas Setaketu was the proper name that specifically refers to the deva who would become Prince Siddhartha the Buddha Gautama.
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