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In what country is the Knesset? And in what country is the Western Wall of the ancient Temple?
These questions arise when the State Department announces that the Deputy Secretary is visiting "Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank." As James Steinberg, the Deputy Secretary, presumably visited Israeli officials in their offices in West Jerusalem, which was part of Israel before the 1967 war, one wonders what is meant by saying he went to Israel and Jerusalem.
I discuss these issues, and the entire question of the "1967 lines," in an article in The Weekly Standard. It is a common error to believe that adjustments to the "1967 lines," which are actually the 1949 armistice lines, are needed due to Israeli settlement activity since 1967. In fact, it was assumed right after that war that Israel’s borders would change. That has been the American position for a long time: President Reagan said in September 1982 that “In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely ten miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel’s population lived within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”
President Obama’s Middle East speech last week left it uncertain whether he was "about to ask Israel to live that way again." We will know more after his speech today, Sunday, to AIPAC. |
import React from "react";
import { mount, shallow } from "enzyme";
import $ from "jquery";
import { Component, ComponentList } from "../js/src/components/component-list";
import { Metrics } from "../js/src/components/metrics";
describe('ComponentList', () => {
it('fetches the components url', () => {
var ajax = $.ajax;
$.ajax = jest.fn();
const componentList = mount(
<ComponentList url={"components.json"}/>
);
expect($.ajax.mock.calls.length).toBe(1);
expect($.ajax.mock.calls[0][0].url).toBe("components.json");
$.ajax = ajax;
});
it('has component-list as classname', () => {
const componentList = shallow(<ComponentList />);
expect(componentList.find(".component-list").length).toBe(1);
});
it('renders a component for each one that was fetched', () => {
$.getJSON= jest.fn();
var ajax = $.ajax;
$.ajax = jest.fn((obj) => {
obj.success({components: ["registry", "big-sibling"]});
});
const componentList = mount(<ComponentList />);
var components = componentList.find(Component);
expect(components.length).toBe(2);
expect(components.first().props().name).toBe("registry");
expect(components.last().props().name).toBe("big-sibling");
$.ajax = ajax;
});
});
describe('Component', () => {
it('renders Metrics for the component', () => {
var ajax = $.ajax;
$.ajax = jest.fn();
const component = mount(
<Component name={"big-sibling"}/>
);
var metrics = component.find(Metrics);
expect(metrics.length).toBe(1);
expect(metrics.props().targetName).toBe("big-sibling");
expect(metrics.props().targetType).toBe("component");
$.ajax = ajax;
});
it('has component as classname', () => {
const component = shallow(<Component />);
expect(component.find(".component").length).toBe(1);
});
});
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Kikuji KawadaTHE LAST COSMOLIOGY (SPECIAL EDITION)
24 x 33 cm (9.4 x 12.9 inches)86 pages (67 Tritone Plates)Edition of 150Signed and numberedRelease in May 2015Photobook is published by MACK
A print tipped onto the exterior sleeve. The special limited-edition box was published as a collaboration between MACK + GOLIGA.
220.00
Quantity:
PURCHASE
The limited boxed edition has an original print affixed to the slipcase exterior. Each case is signed and numbered by Kikuji Kawada. Only 150 were manufactured, of which 125 are for sale. The box was designed by Kikuji Kawada, MACK and GOLIGA, and produced in Japan under Kawada's supervision.
KIKUJI KAWADAKikuji Kawada co-founded the collective Vivo in 1959 with Akira Sato, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, and Shomei Tomatsu. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan (2011). |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thirty days have September ...April, June and November, blogspot readers. And already, we've reached the halfway point of the year! Are you having a rockin' fun time so far? Well, the summer months look to be a VERY busy one this 2012 with new as well as returning favorite fests and bands hitting the Chicago scene. SouthSide highly recommends checking out the long list of noteworthy and happening events occuring around Chicago and far during the month of June.
Jun 1
@ Martyrs': celebrate a birthday with friend Jet W. Lee and Swearwords as they kick off the month with a show at this Northcenter venue.
@ Elbo Room: All good things (and people) must come to an end ...and sadly, it's SouthSide's wild and crazy "Jack of All Trades" friend, Brian Bender as he says "Goodbye" to Elbo Room. So come out and share your BEST Brian Bender moment (and she's sure there are many he may or may not remember like that time after his birthday blow-out bash when he was in the women's restroom and...) Yes, this reviewer has PLENTY of secrets to spill about Brian. *wink*
@ Sundance Saloon (Waukegan, IL): Diamond Cuts Productions and Rockin' 4 Vets will host a 2-day event in sponsorship of "Wounded Warrior Project". Friday's lineup will feature performances by Goin' South, friend Steel Chops and Lights Out Chicago (UFO tribute band) while Saturday's lineup will feature performances by friend Thunder Drive, One Night Stand, Molo Rules (Ronnie James Dio tribute band) and many more. Admission is $15 for single day / $25 for both days / half off admission for all active military personnel (must show id)
18+ show / 21+ to drink
@ The Laughing Chameleon (Glenview, IL): Friend Steel Chops will also be rockin' this venue with extra special unplugged show both Friday and Saturday nights.
@ Empty Bottle (as of Do Division fest): The lineup at this venue will feature Black Belles, BBU and more. Hosted by Peter O'Connell.
$5
@ Old Town School of Music: It's Open House night featuring a special performance by local troubadour Matt Campbell at 10:15p in Maurer Hall.
Jun 2
@ Metro: Come out and celebrate Nocturna's 24th Annivesary! This 18 and older dark alternative dance party (held once a month or so) will be partying til dawn with good friend DJ Scary Lady Sarah spinning the best in etheral, shoegaze, new wave, post-punk and more. Glitter Cuts will be on hand to snap your fashionable look as well SouthSide has heard there will be giveaways.
$10 / 18+
@ Schuba's Tavern: School of Rock Chicago will be performing a special ALL AGES show in tribute to Neil Young. This show will benefit The Bridge School (located in California) featuring a silent auction and raffle of items donated by local businesses. 100% of all proceeds (i.e. admission, raffle and auction) will go to The Bridge School. There will be a Sunday Jun 3 performance too.
$10 / ALL AGES
@ Reggie's: Come to the Pig Roast on the rooftop! It's an "All You Can Eat" trainwreck roast on the venue's rooftop deck. 21+ / $10 / 5p
Then stay for the show too! Friends Black Actress and Control will be opening for Electric Frankenstein with Depravos de la Mour.
$12 adv / $15 dos
@ Wrigley Field (Sheffield & Addison): Join Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago with many others at Sausage Fest 2012! No matter how you say "sausage" - bangers, weiners, etc, attend this food fest and listen to rockin' music by Company of Thieves, Treaty of Paris, Lovehammers and more.
noon to 10p both Saturday and Sunday.
Jun 3
@ Empty Bottle (as part of Do Division fest): The lineup on this day will feature Teenage Girl Fantasy, Pinebender, The Antlers and more. Hosted by Peter O'Connell.
$5
@ Leavitt Stage (as part of Do Division fest): Mutts will be rockin' the stage at 5p / ALL AGES
@ Reggie's: Al and Black Cats will be performing as well as friend Modern Day Rippers, Tracer Bullet and The Brothers Gross.
$7
@ Forest Park Summerfest: friend Blue Moon Swamp (tribute to John Fogerty and CCR) will be rockin' the crowd there.
@ Double Door: friends Board of Governors and The Plastic Boots will be rockin' the stage along with Fly Over State, The Deeper and King By Friday.
$7
@ Red Line Tap: friend WhiteWolfSonicPrincess will be returning there for another rockin' show.
Jun 9 - 10: Spacestock Music and Fest! Located in the land of Funk (actually Martinton, IL) this two-day event will feature 2 stages and over 30 musical acts of super spacy sounds, interstellar and mega posi vibrations by bands such as Indigo Sun, Art of ILL Fusion, friends Fifth World, Digeometric, Old Shoe and Sexfist and many, many more. Plus live art demonstrations by Manny Cortes, Alison Greer and Yael Orellana to name a few.
Please note the following about this fest. blogspot readers:
* Parking fee is $5 but carpooling is strongly advised and encouraged due to limited parking space.
Jun 18 -20
It's Crosstown Classic part duex! Cubs will be visiting the White Sox at the Cell (aka new Comiskey) however SouthSide's team in black will be looking for another sweep this innercity rivalry.
Go White Sox!
Jun 21
@ The Dam Bar & Grill: Celebrate Paragon's 100th rock show with the band as they share the stage with Dropped Once as part of Swedish Days.
All Ages / $5
Jun 23 - 24
Randolph Street Market a monthly 2-day event featuring over 8 acres of indoor and outdoor shopping! From food and music to vintage finds and antiques ...this is the place shop for those one of things to decorate your home, blogspot readers.
For more information, visit http://www.randolphstreetmarket.com.
Jun 23
@ Double Door: Retar Crew will be violating the stage at this FREE show.
Warning: this band has been deemed unsuitable for kids and most adults ...you have been warned.
@ Elbo Room: Our Name Is Jonas along with Go Mary will be rockin' the stage.
$10
@ Beat Kitchen: friend Pasafire will be rockin' the stage at this 17+ show.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, after an unseasonably warm day, it was time to relax and enjoy a night of cool Jazz. Tonight's On The Town adventure had SouthSide taking a well deserved break from her typical rock scene ...dressing up (a little) for her debut appearance at Mayne Stage. Located in the heart of the Rogers Park neighborhood (and a short walk from CTA's Morse Red Line station), this venue offered one unique concertgoing experience for this reviewer. She noted it had, no matter where seated in the balcony or main floor, an excellent 180 degreed wrap-around view of the stage which gave a sense of being spacious as well as intimate in size. Another plus about Mayne was the sound quality. The audience again no matter where they were seated had a clear crisp audio projection of tonight's performance. And hear that? Pure silence inside the venue too. It was like being inside a recording studio, blogspot readers, with miminal distractions and/or lobby noise to ruin one moment of the incredibly intense music experience during Chris Greene Quartet's performance. If you haven't attended a show or concert at Mayne Stage, she highly recommends visiting it especially when the legendary Jazz-fusion band Spyro Gyra makes an appearance there on June 7. For more information and tickets, check out Mayne Stage's website - http://www.manynestage.com.
Now back to SouthSide's "...incredibly intense music experience during Chris Greene Quartet's performance...", blogspot readers. And what an experience it was for this reviewer. Oh she could say it was uplifting ...awe-inspiring ...soulfully expressive yet those mere descriptions would hardly capture the entire concert from start to finish. You simply had to be there to not only hear but also witness the extraordinary floetry of sound and music felt while attending Chris Greene's "A Group Effort" album release concert. Yes, it was THAT incredible, blogspot readers. No, she wasn't bribed to write such glowing remarks in this review. This Jazz artist and each member of his band had a way of affecting the audience via music whether it was a lively, upbeat rhythmic tempo or a somber yet reverently played tune within a gospel-like tempo. This Quartet took the audience (SouthSide included) on a journey filled with emotional depth and soul-reaching sound during the near two hour performance. You could say it was almost like experiencing "The Twilight Zone" of a profound Jazz performacne in which SouthSide highly suggests taking such a journey yourself. And you don't have to be a Jazz aficionado to apprecciate it either. Just relax ...and let go allowing Chris Greene and his Quartet members take you away...
Performing this concert, according to Chris, as a "...regular old gig...", this Jazz quartet featured a setlist of tunes off the new album, "A Group Effort" as wll as previous ones and a few favorites like Charles Mingus and Madonna. Yes, blogspot readers, you read correctly. SouthSide did mention Madonna ...more about her and Hank Williams Jr later in the review. The setlist alone was an interesting repertoire mix of compositions written by Chris Greene (saxophone), Damian Espinosa (piano/keyboards), and Marc Piane (double bass) with Steve Corley adding his own personal touch to each Jazz piece on drums. In SouthSide's best opinion, she felt the songs performed were a fair representation of the composer's persoanlity besides offering a tiny sliver into their thoughts and/or emotions at the time of composing. For example, the opener - Good Riddance (by Chris Greene), this reviewer got the distinct impression of being told to "hit the road, Jack" from the bit of intensity laced within the rhythmic Jazz groove and sound. She thoroughly enjoyed the energetically loud "in your face" moments heard throughout but it was only to briefly add some spice amongst the relaxing lull of calmness ...creaing an atmosphere full of bursting, ear-pleasing music to which enthused tonight's audience espeically during the piano wizardry by Damian at the bridge.
Meanwhile, STAT (by Marc Piane) from the new album took that same energy and face-paced momentum and switched it for a smoother, laidback Jazz groove featuring a high alto saxophone melody flowing throughout the band's rhythmic beat. Still retaining a certain amount of intensity, used only for spontaneous bursts of life, SouthSide liked the calming poetry writeen in the music that allowed the ears to enjoy each and every instrumental note. Beginning a few bars without Chris' saxophone, the downtempo sound had cascading waves of crescendos and falls from each band member before Chris added a touch of hot spice to truly heat as well as mellow things out. This reviewer also liked how this piece wasn't necessarily rushed even though timed perfectly to feel like an all-night Jazz jam session of beautiful music, blogspot readers, that gradually ended with a calming yet steady rhythm. Then there was Three And Six (by Damian Espinosa) which offered yet another contrasting Chris Greene Quartet moment when deeper into this concert. This gospel-like tune opened with a somber bass 3-chord stance working both melody and rhythm amazingly at the same time until the rest of the band joined in underneath a slower downtempo beat. No offense to Chris Greene but this particular piece really spoke to SouthSide because of its reverent display of emotions within a non-hurried musical atmosphere surrounding her. Though having bouts of sadness, this lovely instrumental piece also had its moment of fiery spirited momentum off Chris' saxophone ...definitely had the audience feeling a wide range of emotions here and there that were wonderfully conveyed from each instrument. Very melodic with its Jazz spunk SouthSide highly suggests listening to this song. After taking a long look at the notes taken during this concert, SouthSide can safely conclude the other songs performed had or slmost had the same profound spiritual effect on the ears, mind and soul, blogspot readers.
She recommends grooving your body and feet to Chris Greene's composition - Bride of Mr. Congeniality to which the Quartet stepped up the rhythm and music up two notches higher to have you rockin' to the swift paced floetry of a funky Jazz sound. Hot intensifying saxophone melodies floating everywhere before the band took center stage during the bridge to calm things down a bit with a featured drum solo by Steve (he totally had some in the audience fired up during the crescendoing buildup). Though a little disappointed that there was no excitable POW after Steve's percussion crescendo to sock it to the audience, SouthSide still enjoyed the livelier side to this Quartet's performance. Also check out You'll Thank Me Later (also a Chris Greene composition), blogspot readers, for its cool classic Jazz sound amidst the waves of rises and falls laced throughout the melodic rhythms. Now, back to Madonna and what this pop artist had to do with Chris Greene Quartet's performance. It's quite unique to hear how different genres of music translated into other genres during a performance like for example Led Zeppelin's Kashmir or Stairway to Heaven done symphonically. Well, Chris and band wonderfully took Madonna's classic 80s hit song Boderline that launched her into the music scene and flipped it into a rockin' jazz number, blogspot readers. Or how about a little Hank Williams Jr (You Win Again) out of the country genre and into a more a jazz tune that you can still move your feet to. Yet the highlight of the covers during this concert was the performance of a Charles Mingus classic - Nostalgia In Times Square. This 1959 Jazz classic was brought back to life with all of its smoky club atmosphere and lively upbeat tempo by Chris Greene Quartet which had this reviewer wonderfully excited note after each note. These talented musician "owned" this jazz cover by giving the music explosively bursts of energetic life and momentum that felt intense yet so cool especially taking the final bars to a quiet lull before adding one last burst of excitement to end with a swinger feel.
What a night for music ...what an experience she will never forget.
SouthSide highly recommends attending Chris Greene Quartet's next performance, blogspot readers. Be prepared to have one intense Jazz experience like never before. For more information, visit http://www.chrisgreenejazz.com.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, let's play a guessing game. This Hollywood actress has created memorable roles both on screen and television as well as on stage but also is an accomplished dancer and jazz vocalist. Need another hint? You might remember her performance in the movie Jumping the Broom as Aunt Geneva especially during the scene where she's singing a funny rendition of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing. Or you probablly have seen her on television as Big Dee Dee Thorne (on Half and Half) or Sandra Lucas, Miranda Lucas Payne's (Keisha Knight Pulliam's character) mother (from Tyler Perry's House of Payne). No googling the answer. Perhaps you attended the Pasadena Symphony's annual Pops program in which she was a featured guest soloist or saw her stage in her Tony nominated role in Fosse or in London's West End production of Chicago featuring legendary great Chita Rivera.
Give up?
The person SouthSide is speaking of is Valarie Pettiford. And this reviewer felt SO honored to interview this lovely woman recently via telephone.
Valarie Pettiford began her career at the tender age of 14 after landing her first movie role ...actually three different roles in the film adaptation of The Wiz where she was a munchkin, one of the Emerald City dancers and part of the ensemble during the Brand New Day scenes. Then, she went on to appear in other films such as The Cotton Club, Glitter (portraying Mariah Carey's mother), Stomp The Yard, Like Mike and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too. Her television credits are quite extenstive too, blogspot readers. She originated the role of Shelia Price Gannon on ABC's One Life To Live and appeared in another daytime drama Another World as Courtney Walker. She also made appearances in other drama series like X-Files (as an FBI agent), CSI and CSI Miami, The District, Criminal Minds and Bones. Ms Pettiford also has a recurring guest star role on the HBO series, Treme as the character Victorine Fornerat-Williams. And soon will be appearing in the new ABC Family's series - Bunheads portraying the artistic yet sensible Violet.
Ms. Pettiford's stage credits include her Broadway performance in Fosse that earned her nominations for a Tony, Grammy, Outer Critics Circle and Dora Mayor Moore awards. Besides Chicago, she also performed in the 1987 anniversary of West Side Story tour (as Anita), Dancin', Sophisticated Ladies (understudy to Judith Jamison) and Big Deal in which she was principal dancer, actress, singer and dance captain as well as starred in the Broadway hit, Grind and was part of the national tour of Showboat. This performance earned her recognition for a Vancouver Sun Reader’s Choice Award and an NAACP Image Award, blogspot readers. In the meanwhile, this busy actress is now promoting her new movie - Battlefield America (scheduled for release on June 1) and a follow-up album to her debut Hear My Soul titled Velvet Sky, a unique collection of original lullabies written for new parents to bond with their newborn babies, scheduled for a September release. Though her time was limited on Monday, Ms Pettiford was able spend some time with SouthSide for a friendly discussion giving her an exclusive peek into her new projects ...plus some thoughtful insight about Hollywood and more.
Describing herself as "...a person with a big heart...", SouthSide wanted to know more about her character "Ms Williams" in her upcoming movie Battlefield America, blogspot readers. Don't let the movie title alone scare you into thinking it's another Us versus Aliens bent on destorying the world coming to a multi-plex near you this summer. Nope ...no transforming aliens - this is a dance competition by the same people who did You Got Served. This movie is about a young businessman who hires a dance instructor to turn a group of misfits into a hip-hop dance crew for an underground competition. Looking at credits, Ms Pettiford is simply listed as Ms Williams to which the actress described her as a "...concerned mother..." and this reviewer asked her if she enjoyed playing those types of roles. She loves playing "mom" because it gave her a chance to work with wonderful people like Mariah Carey (in Glitter) and the cast of Half and Half. SouthSide then asked her if she chooses her roles based on her life experiences. She said as an actor, she has a choice to whether accept or decline a role but personally for her "...it's all about being challenged..." Ms. Pettiford portrays the characters as people she knows but unlike the tough, drinking Big Dee Dee Thorne (from Half and Half) or Aunt Geneva (from Jumping The Broom) - she's not like them in real life, blogspot readers. She also picks her roles because according to her they're fun to play and the other people involved in the project make it fun.
Plus she had nothing but praise for the hardworking kids involved in the movie Battlefield America. According to Ms Pettiford, the kids (and their parents) were professional, well-behaved and a reflection of their parents even while doing take after take on set. Though SouthSide was somewhat disappointed that she's not dancing in this movie or in a scene with Lynn Whitfield, Ms Pettiford said the whole experience was wonderful and felt so honored to work with her (Lynn Whitfield) on this project. Also she stated that Lynn Whitfield is one of the nicest people on earth ...never has a bad thing to say about anybody. Plus working with Marques Houston (in which you might know him as Roger from Sister, Sister), Ms Pettiford described him as a young man with a beautiful spirit ...an example of what a man should be. Also he served as a "big brother" mentor to the kids during filming, blogspot readers. Then SouthSide wanted to know if her rousing rendition of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing was scripted or ad lib for that particular part within Jumping The Broom. Alas, this reviewer was hoping it was ad lib but it wasn't. According to Ms Pettiford, that scene was thought up by the director and writers.
Speaking of Hollywood, SouthSide wondered with more African-American (as well as other minority) film production making a relevant presence in recent years do we as a race still have a long way to go before cracking through the "glass" ceiling. Ms Pettiford thought the question was a good one and did replied "...yes, we [in African-American race] have a long ways to go..." However, we are making strides and breaking ground with more African-American women taking lead roles in television series than males like Kerry Washington in ABC's Scandal and Loretta Devine in Lifetime's The Client List. Yet is it possible to win an Academy Award without being nominated for portraying the "bad" guy / anti-hero or the "help"? In her lifetime, she hopes so and believes some roles in a romantic-comedy should be recognized by the Academy to which she also stated that's across the board for all racial lines and genders. "...Thank goodness for the Golden Globes..." which does recognizes outstanding performances in a comedic roles for actor and actress. Still, she would like to see the Academy awarding someone for being a "good" guy for once. SouthSide and Ms Pettiford did discuss briefly about "blaxploitation" films, how it generated that sense of how cool it was to live in Harlem when actuality, it wasn't what the movies depicted in reality and how some of today's has that same effect on kids.
Now, don't ask Ms Pettiford who's her favorite in any subject - from jazz vocalist to actor/actress because that would be like asking SouthSide who's her favorite band/artist, blogspot readers. She loves SO many people especially those she has the pleasure to work with as an actress and dancer that she felt she might not mention someone's name in the list. Yet she did mention a few names to SouthSide like Della Reese, Betty Davis, Viola Davis (of The Help) ...believe this reviewer - the list go have gone on and on. With Jazz being her "love" when it comes to music, she does enjoy the classics like Nancy Wilson to Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day as well as the upcoming modern stuff and all other genres. When singing classics like Nancy Wilson, she hopes people feel what she's feeling when adding her own personal spin to a song (for example The Very Thought of You or Call Me)...also hoping it will inspire a "jazz dialogue" with others about how the music touches their soul. Here's where SouthSide got the extreme chance of stumping her interviewee when asking if there was one artist (living or past) she could collaborate on her next album whom would it be. One name did come to Ms Pettiford's mind - Prince. Her first love, believe it or not, blogspot readers, is Rock and says if having an opportunity, she would like to work with Prince because she feels her vocal style and tone is right for his music. Now that would be a very interesting album to review indeed - Ms Pettiford does rock with original songs written by Prince.
This led to SouthSide asking about her new album Velvet Sky and why a collection of lullabies after her debut jazz album - Hear My Soul. That, according to Ms Pettiford, was the brainchild of her ex-husband who came up with the idea of doing original lullabies. Soon, he started recruited writers Ron Abel, Chuck Steffan, Jamie Wooten and Michael Orland who came up with 13 songs and Tony Radar to produce the project. Ms Pettiford said the lullabies are designed to help new parents bond and build connections through music and play with their babies. The album features a fun song to help putting baby to sleep to some game play with their little ones. Yet there's one song near and dear to her heart titled - My Miracle and it's for parents who have been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby and then successfully having one. For her, it was emotionally heartfelt to sing this particular song. Blogspot readers should be on the lookout for this new album of lullabies in September ...a perfect gift for expecting or already parents of young toddlers.
Alas, time did fly by super fast when engaged in a lively chat with Ms Pettiford, blogspot readers, and it was time for SouthSide to wrap up another On The Town exclusive interview. In parting, this reviewer discussed about being in the "business" i.e. music and acting to which she stated "...I'm in the business because I love it..."
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
If you have kids in the age range of 2 to 5 years old, then you'll get the reference to a song that's now stuck inside SouthSide's head. On Saturday afternoon, she and her young daughter ventured deep into the heart of NATO protest "war zone" to cover a free kid's show at Record Breakers. This extra special in-store event featured the reggae/ska/soul band The Aggrolites (CA) performing their Yo Gabba Gabba hit, Banana (as well as others) before rockin' out an older crowd below.
The Aggrolites, taking time out to hang out with their much younger fanbase, rocked out Record Breakers in a mini semi-acoustic set just for the kiddies upstairs performing the Banana song (a Roy Ellis cover) within a rockin' reggae/ska/soul sound and music for everyone to enjoy. After munching on hot dogs and soda, the kids along with many of their parents sang this Yo Gabba Gabba tune while dancing to the island tempo beat. This reviewer liked this band's lively acoustic reggae sound and style featuring guitars (acoustic, banjo and bass) and a simple tom drum for that rhythmic beat even while in downtempo groove during this 30 minute performance. Though not performing from a ready-made set list for the kids, The Aggrolites did take requests to which they did other songs like Complicated Girl and Jimmy Jack for the adults in the audience as well as more kid songs - Work To Do (about climbing trees and being safe ...it's also cool counting song for the kids to learn about subtraction) and Free Time (which was featured in a film called Band Slam). The mini store performance concluded, blogspot readers, with a whimsical nursery rhymed song before having to say "goodbye" to their little fans.
SouthSide's friend Elle Quintana (who put this show as well as many others for Reggie's) is planning more shows like this one featuring other local artists/bands performing mini sets for the kids scheduled for near future.
Tonight at Reggie's Music Joint, it's a special pre-NATO rock show featuring the J-Pop/punk superheroes - Red, Yellow, Green, Pink and Silver of Peelander Z! They came to rescue Chicago fans from Mad Tiger and So Many Mike while rocking them with high engery of a fun punk/J-Pop/anime music combination. Yet with Peelander Z, it's more than just an ordinary rock show where you the audience simply watch them perform on stage. No, blogspot readers, you are part of the fun and action too. But before rockin' on planet Peelander Z, the crowd was treated to an epic performance of electronica/instrumental rock by Arc Impulse (http://www.arc-impulse.com). This local band powered their way with an exciting hour that featured renditions of video game themed songs from Zelda (2 and 3 included) Mario Cart as well as their own originals like Rainbow (a fantastical journey comprised of three songs rolled into one long epic masterpiece with some bars of Somewhere Over the Rainbow at the bridge). The electronic orchestra explosively filled the Music Joint with memorable gamer music, bursts of intense energy and momentum to the delight of the crowd especially when ending their show with a Rocky themed epic song.
They came from a distant planet in an uncharted galaxy far, far, far away called Peelander where everyone speaks Japanese, eats sushi and drinks saki, blogspot readers. And every so often, the colorful cast of anime-nated/punk musicians make perilous journey to Earth to whisk their Chicago (and elsewhere they roam) fans into the nether regions of the universe to experience a journey of music and fun. Peelander Z rocked out Reggie's Music Joint by incorporating the energy and sound of J-Pop with the intensity of punk rock and the action packed dazzle and fun of anime done live rolled into one hour of a performance. Yet, when you're having so much fun rockin' to songs So Many Mike, Mad Tiger and Lucha Libre (yes, it seems these "aliens" enjoy Mexican wrestling) like SouthSide was, it truly didn't feel such an amount of time had passed. Don't think just because the venue was a bit smaller that this band skimped on fun and excitement either. Peelander Z, though downscaling the rowdiness and action a little, still brought to their enthused fans everything that Peelander Z is known for. Whether it was participating in a group limbo line (how low can a group of adults go?) to jumping rope with Peelander band members and a Mad Squid ...or how about Mad Squid bowling and then baseball - there was something happening throughout this show. Believe SouthSide, all that and more happened inside this Southside venue, blogspot readers. There were moments of Red Z standing on the shoulders of a group of fans and then body surfing while playing his bass ...lucky fans rockin' stage on Peelander instruments and/or banging pans along with the band which truly intensified the crazy fun all around. Performing songs off their latest album, Space Vacation, Peelander Red, Yellow, Green, Pink and Silver also delighted their fanbase with favorites such as E-I-E-I-O, Learn Japanese and Ninja High Schooool (a retro rock-n-roll tune) as well as some new ones - Get Glasses, Space Vacation and Star Bowling. Still it wouldn't be a Peelander Z show without any mention of their favorite food to eat (besides sushi) like Taco Taco Tacos, Ice Cream! and S.T.E.A.K.(yes, there's a song about eating a medium-rare steak, blogspot readers!). Sadly, our journey had to come to an end but not before performing a goofy rendition of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want Have Fun to Boys Just Want Have Fun. SouthSide highly recommends rockin' to the anime-punk style while doing some human bowling with SouthSide's friend Peelander Z. Visit this J-Pop/punk band at http://www.peelander-z.com.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, it's the bewitching hour and SouthSide's night has just begun! After rockin' part of with The Future Laureates at SubT in Wicker Park, it was now time to dance til dawn in the Wrigleyville/Lakeview area at Metro with the other fashionable vampires.
In its 23rd year, this monthly event hosted by friends William Faith and DJ Scary Lady Sarah (also of The Bellwether Syndicate) spun featured requests (by the Facebook Nocturna group members) from industrial, dubstep and emo to techno, metal and more. This local club scene is nothing like the club scene along River North area - no one's dressing impress another just yourself. Whether it may be a pirate to ALex DeLarge (a Clockwork Orange reference) or post-industrial or something you create yourself. It's nice watching the reactions from those hanging out at the bars on Clark Street while walking towards Metro on Saturday/Sunday morning. Dressing "weird" in black does tend to keep a few from bothering you, blogspot readers.
SouthSide knows they don't understand that everyday is Halloween. While at Nocturna, this reviewer did her usual people watching before hitting the dance floor - she loved the array of fashions strutting or dancing around Metro. This monthly "meetin" attracts people of all ages as well as racial backgrounds and beliefs ...it's more like a "safe haven" where no judges on how you're dressing or dancing. And if you want to show off your best industrial or metal dance moves, Nocturna is the event to do it especially at this local venue. Plenty of dance floor to show your fancy footwork while rockin' to tunes like a remix of The Smiths' How Soon Is Now, New Order's Blue Monday or SouthSide's request Cyanotic's Alt_Machines.
Tonight's event had friend VVasher VVoman passing out some of her vegan chocolat s'mores - yummy and of course, Sarah's cauldron of sweets to keep dancers recharged with sugar between dance breaks. Yet besides the music, Nocturna also features local artisans from Lunasol Arts (http://www.lunasolarts.com and also on Facebook) displaying their fine handcrafted Goth jewelry, neck pieces and more for sale. Lots of pretty things to accessorize your Dark Shadows like this year, blogspot readers.
SouthSide highly suggests spending a Saturday night with the local "vampires" of Nocturna at the next monthly meeting to dance until dawn.
"If you don't stick around for The Future Laureates, I'll wrestle you..."Cobalt and The Hired Guns
There's no other like your own mother ...so treat her right
Hey, blogspot readers, this busy mom's rockin' out her Saturday night with not one but TWO shows! Tonight, SouthSide's hitting the streets going to two hot spots within Chicago's vibrant local scene where she celebrated a record release and then danced with the fashionable vampires til sunrise. And what an exciting (as well as busy) night it was during this latest On The Town adventure. First, this reviewer rocked Wicker Park's other hippest venue (that was once a Capone spot complete with hidden access tunnels), SubT (or Subterranean) while attending CAUDog's show featuring the release of The Future Laureates' Fortress Sessions CD. This amazing venue boasts a "crow's nest" view of what's happend on the main floor especially if reviewing the night's lineup performing on stage or if you want to get away from the crowd below. That's where you can usually find SouthSide, blogspot readers, up in the balcony and tonight, she was alongside with her longtime friend, Michael Teach of Chicago Acoustic Underground (http://www.chicagoacousticunderground.net).
CAU is every music fan's source for original indie music from across the United States and around the world. Michael and his hardworking staffers connects fans to the artists and vice versa through podcasts as well as music downloads, CDs and sponsored shows like tonight's. CAU's shows has showcased some of the best from singer/songwriters to full bands rockin' the local stages around Chicago like Brian Walker, Crystal Bowersox, Goodbyehome, The Future Laureates and more. Saturday's show was a record for SubT and CAU - a near soldout crowd thanks to hard work of the bands promoting this particular show. Also on the lineup in support of The Future Laureates' big occasion was Tree and friend Cobalt and The Hired Guns. SouthSide highly suggests rockin' the ears to the hip sound of "new" country/rock by the band - Tree. Lead by a dynamic female vocalist on guitar, this reviewer enjoyed the way this lively group rocked and rolled the packed main floor with upbeat tempos, rhythmic music and vibrant bursts of energetic momentum. Their style of country-folk mix brought a taste of hot summertime fun to SubT on a rainy night which also had this crowd demanding one more song when Tree's set was finished.
Then, SouthSide's friend, Cobalt and The Hired Guns continued with the night's rockin' theme of fun during their performance of alternative/pop/rock featuring an array of instruments in the band set up. The lively rhythms off the cello (at times), horn section and digital programming added those moments of boisterious music to pop the band's core alternative sound alive and kicking. However tonight, Cobalt added a female vocalist to the mix to counter as well as complement Tom on main vocals during certain songs featured off their upcoming new album. SouthSide, though couldn't physically hear her sometimes since she was overshadowed by the music, liked how her dynamic voice had the right range to be paired with Tom's heartfelt falsetto style during one particular song featuring a ballad-love song. The touching sentiments in between pockets of energy even while at the bridge where the music was intense to match the song's mood and tone could be felt besides being heard. Yet watch out, blogspot readers, when Cobalt and The Hired Guns truly get into the party mood while performing Of Summer. There's a wave of electro-energy and momentum flowing across the stage and into the crowd as they kicked up the vibrant bursts of music amidst an eclectic mix of alternative/punk rock sound. Yet what really surprised this reviewer was the band's switch out of their comfort zone into trying to be a straight rock band. And yes, Cobalt can actually be and have an ordinary rock band and sound when premiering a new new song as a test on the audience. Sans the horns and cello ...even without the digital programming, this band proved they can still rock the stage like a hardcore guitar rock band which also opens the vocals more. You can feel the emotional spite and fire especially Tom sang "...you never called at all..." - it was powerful but dynamic tone that gave SouthSide some shivers. SouthSide suggests rockin' the ears to More Than You Know and Like You Like Me Like Me as well as seeing them perform live again at Metro during their CD release show on June 16. This show will also feature friends How Far To Austin, Midwest Hype and Band Called Catch ...it's going to be hot 18+ show, blogspot readers. For more information, visit http://www.cobaltandthehiredguns.com.
After introducing Ellis Clark (producer of many CAU Dog Records artists' albums including TFL's Fortress Sessions) to the crowd packing the main floor, Michael Teach then introduced the honored guests of the night - The Future Laureates, blogspot readers. Even before hitting one note, the band first honored their own moms and other moms as well as thanking everyone for out to the show. Then, finally - they got down to the business rockin' out their headlining show with a BANG of music that featured an Irish whiskey song (Moonshine) and guests musicians like Christina on violin and Joe Redman on guitar. SouthSide thoroughly enjoyed the vibrant bursts of TFL's momentous sound (and there were plenty, blogspot readers) that kept everyone whether they were crowding around the balcony or on the main floor deep within the band's alternative/pop sound. And not only does this band excite musically but also vocally as proven in the opener Galahad's Song which ended in a round robin-like of harmonizing vocals seperately then together. Even the crowd has their favorite TFL band member to which they started chanting "James" during certain songs like Escape From the Shadows (featuring his bass solo). SouthSide doesn't know where to begin to say about the band, its music and/or the show because there were SO many fantastic moments that happened ...and she's amazed that she was able to jot notes and rock out with them at the same time. To fair, she did pick a few highlights that she feels were special in her opinion. For example, when performing Carry Me Away and Kingston Blues, TFL wonderfully demonstrated their bluesy side of their music via a ukelele inside a downtempo groove and intense falsetto vocals. Both songs not only had them dancing a tiny jig here and there but also had many in the crowd joining in the fun alongwith them, blogspot readers. TFL boasts an infectious rhythmic beat and upbeat tempos that will instantly grab you especially when adding some pseudo ska into the rhythms (Kingston Blues). And then having the crowd doing reggae moves (how low can you go under the limbo bar), this record release turned into a wild party! The next highlight came when the audience of voices joined with the band during their cover of Tom Petty's American Girl. Though this wasn't the only moment where you heard the crowd singing (Creative Differences), SouthSide picked this moment because of the heartfelt vocals on the lyrics while in a livelier upbeat tempo than its original counterpart. Still it was something to witness when hearing 99% of the entire venue in one voice singing this classic Petty song shaking the chandelier rafters of SubT. You had to be there, blogspot readers, to see and hear this moment. The other audience participation moment came during Crooked Third Wheel and the special hand clapping at the intro of the song ...plus more sexy dancing on stage. This reviewer will stop right here - she doesn't want to give too much away about TFL and their show. She does recommend rockin' their next live show and snagging a copy of Fortress Sessions. For more information, visit http://www.thefuturelaureates.com.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, it's a rockin' Friday night party for SouthSide! She's lost somewhere inside crowd of Wicker's Park hip rock venue to celebrate with her friend, Jon Drake & The Shakes during their "unofficial" official release of their new album, Dear Ulysses (coming out May 29). This show, presented by Grape Juice Records, also featured other rockin' performances within the Americana/folk/alternative rock genre by Rachele Eve and Frontier Rucus with a special appearance by Glad Fanny. Upon arriving, this reviewer was able to enjoy the final half of Froniter Rucus (http://www.frontierruckus.com) which rocked the stage with a lively Country/Western as well as a modern Americana/folk twist off their new album Eternity of Dimming featuring the song Black Holes. This band incorporated a wide range of organic sounds and rhythms (i.e. trumpet, mandolin, etc) to wonderfully blend their core music into vibrant bursts of energetic momentum amidst the heartfelt falsetto vocals by front man Matthew(who's also songwriter / guitarist on harmonica and pedal steel). Frontier's songs do tend to get lyrically intense and dramatic but the band matches that intensity with the jamboree-like music for everyone to kick up their heels and dance. Hopefully, this band returns again for a full review of their next Chicago show.
Now, blogspot readers, it was time to shake, rattle and roll the local scene's only mini organic Americana/folk orchestra. Usually, SouthSide gets to enjoy rockin' out with her friend Jon Drake & The Shakes during their annual outdoor performance at the Taste of Chicago. However, it was a treat for her to see them rockin' inside a venue in front of a packed house of family, friends and fans attending their "unofficial" official release of Dear Ulysses. What a rockin' party it was inside the Double Door tonight. Never had she seen this band shakin' and rollin' song after song that they were ready to take this party to a whole new level (if had the chance) all night long. What SouthSide enjoyed about this extra long set was how this band kept the crowd wrapped inside their vibrant energy and momentum from the moment they stepped on stage until the very last. There wasn't a moment of dead lull between songs - Jon and band had this crowd wanting more of that rockin' Shakes sound. Passionately performing songs off their previous releases and new album, this release show featured just more than lively danceable tunes like Rattles and Snakes and Gustav and dark haunting ballads (i.e. Mary and Margie) but also at times spotlighted Jon's intense vocal performance amidist the Americana/folk rock music. Yet with Jon and The Shakes, expect a little something added to the core sound - it's infused with other genres to please the ear of any music type. For exmaple, during one particular song, this band rocked the stage with a lively country jamboree-like sound continuously bursting with fun and energy while a bit later, they surrounding the crowd with a hauntingly dark yet moody Blues ballad to draw out the emotions inside the lyrics after rockin' the crowd with a melodic tone to spotlight Jon's heartfelt vocal style. Yes, even being melodramatic tends to be a good things while rockin' with The Shakes, blogspot readers, since it wonderfully allows their music to encompass you deep within the rhythmic vibe and Jon's dynamic vocals. And like an orchestra, this band places it's bursts of music energy and lulls at the right moment to generate that excitable crowd reaction each time especially when each member is within that moment of intense passion while performing. In SouthSide's honest opinion, this show had to be one of Jon Drake and The Shakes' finest moment since reviewing them nearly two years ago. She highly recommends getting to know her friend as you shake and roll along with them. For more information, visit them at http://www.jondrakeandtheshakes.bandcamp.com.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, it's all about making those important connections and creating long-lasting friendships while networking with others.
That was the central theme for those who attended tonight's Music Conference Networking Reception held at Wicker Park's hip rock venue, Double Door. Sponsored by Yellow Phone and Double Door, this free event hosted by David Silbough, Phil Kosch, Scott Zid, Nate Arling and Doug Johnson was the prelude to the Yellow Phone Music Conference happening in downtown Milwaukee, WI during the weekend of Sept 6 - 9, 2012. This four-day conference will feature a gathering of talented artists and music professionals engaging in panel discussions as well as mentor sessions with experienced leaders of the music industry. It's Yellow Phone's goal to bring together career-oriented artists and postive, forward-thinking leaders within today's music business within the best qualities of a large industry conference yet downsizing them into a concentrated experience. And that's what this event allowed many indie/local artists and bands represented to do ...mingle and network with others artists/bands, music management and even SouthSide for a few hours. Musicians like friends Damon Ranger (of Blackbox), Ryan Powers and Lisa (of Dot Dot Dot) as well as White Pine Wolverines Band and music fans like Rick were among many to meet other likeminded individuals to share their love for music and the thriving scene happening around Chicago. Perhaps, blogspot readers, we might see future collaborations between artists and/or bands that were represented tonight. For more information about the Yellow Phone Music Conference, visit http://www.ypmc.com.
And speaking of music, this event also featured rare acoustic performances by singer/songwriters Garrett Burns, Mars Argo, Aly Jados and K. Serra featuring DJ sets by the female duo - Lewis & Clark who keep attendees in a dancing party mood between acts and throughout the event. Though missing first two acts of the night, SouthSide did arrive to hear her friend Aly Jados rock the stage with a powerfully dynamic performance of intense female vocals.
Her heartfelt vocal tone truly touched the heart and soul, blogspot readers, especially during her opening song, City of Angels, where she vividly set the stage for an ear-popping sound of acoustic guitar rhythms and voice wonderfully matched together. Even while in a downtempo rhythm, Aly made the audience feel each heartfelt emotion within a fiery spirit sung off the lyrics to Secret Song but on the flipside, she kicked the soulful vocal tone up a notch or two to really hit the audience with some raw powress over the mic. With the acoustic tempo slightly matching her voice, you could still feel that fire dynamically popping the words to life especially when she said "...you make me feel...". Yes, this reviewer was definitely feeling what she was feeling. Performing other originals such as Helpless and It Is What It Is (both featuring more of Aly's raw yet soulfully dynamic voice), the true highlight of the night was her rendition of Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know ...and all this reviewer can say after hearing her sing this cover - Damn, girl. Aly must have dredged up years of past relationships gone horribly bad to really knock the audience off their feet with such venomous vocal spite and angst ever to rock the mic. Between watching her facial expression and hearing her sing, you totally felt her frustration vividly expressed throughout each single word, blogspot readers. It was that intense. Aly will be performing again at Hard Rock Cafe on Monday May 14 as part of a special singer/songwriter night. Visit her at http://www.alyjados.com for more music and information.
Before calling it night, SouthSide was able to check out a part of K. Serra's (http://www.kserramusic.com) performance to which she performed a haunting yet melodic version of Jefferson Airplane's Somebody To Love. This reviewer enjoyed the organic essence feature through her percussion drumming amidst a soothing floetry of electronica music and her powerful vocals thus creating one intense spirit and energy from this rockin' combination. Hopefully SouthSide is able to review this artist for an upcoming On The Town review.
Hey, blogspot readers, nursing a "day after Cinco de Derby" hangover during this stormy Sunday On The Town adventure. This local party gal had the strength to rock another night inside Wicker Park's hip venue, Double Door to see her new friend Wildlife Control (NY-CA) performing on stage. She highly suggests checking out this local band who went on before Wildlife known as Brownie Mountain (http://www.browniemountain.bandcamp.com) for the eclectic mesh of punk/experimental within their instrumental rock sound. This lively quartet of musicians rocked the stage with such vibrant energy and momentum to match while coupled inside intense guitar riffs and percussion rhythms. This combination popped the ears with plenty of rockin' music foung in epic-like pieces cleverly titled Tip of the Iceberg (a song about touching tits) and Country Pop Hits #1. What this reviewer enjoyed the most about Brownie Mountain was their whimsical yet catchy song titles like Well Butter My Butt And Call Me A Biscuit or Jorge Wants To Go Hardcore But His Mom Won't Let Him which had her wondering what the thought process was behind some of them. In the end, SouthSide still enjoyed the wild and crazy guitar intensity as heard in Brownie's closing song that featured a climatic finish almost sounding like an experimental version to Issac Hayes' ending to Shaft.
This brotherly duo, though living on opposite ends of the US coast, rocked the Double Door stage with a taste of summer within a contemporary/alternative pop sound to lift up everyone's soggy Sunday evening. SouthSide highly suggests checking out her friend Wildlife Control for this duo's burst of that vibrant summertime feel and sound paired with dynamically heartfelt vocals and contemporary piano rhythms. This reviewer enjoyed the refreshing vibe wafting throughout the venue as well as energetic momentum that sounded like a four-piece band rather than two musicians on stage especially during the opening song. Rockin' the stage with songs off Wildlife's current album - Spin, this band energized the Sunday night audience with a strong display of falsettos amidst an upbeat tempo as heard in Analog or Digital, Disguise and the title track, Spin. Blogspot readers will like how the piano rhythms added a certain amount of intensity to the duo's music besides a melodic flow of contemporary pop sound especially when wonderfully paired with a retro rock-n-roll guitar riff (as heard in Analog or Digital). In this particular song, SouthSide liked the energy felt and heard throughout the rhythmic tempo which had some in the audience dancing to the excitable beat. Even when taking that same energy and tempo down a bit, Wildlife continued maintaining that melodic piano rhythm before gradually upping the tempo again for another round of danceable beat. And, ladies, if lucky, you might be chosen to join them on stage for a quick spin around the floor. SouthSide also suggests checking out Wildlife's heartfelt single, People Change that rocked out their Chicago appearance with a bang, blogspot readers. For more information about Wildlife Control, visit them at http://www.wildlifectrl.com.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Feliz Cinco de Derby Day, blogspot readers! It's a calendar rarity to be sipping on delicious mint juleps while listening to the local mariachi band playing on the same day for this rockin' Saturday night adventure. Tonight, SouthSide's celebrating I'll Have Another's derby win (she bet on the wrong horse) and the Mexican holiday at Lakeview's hip locale for national and indie acts, Elbo Room with her krazy guitar rock band friend, Kazy. And believe this reviewer, this local band will rock you krazy Kazy-style!
Kazy rocked the Elbo Room stage with a hardcore mesh of fierce guitar rock, lyrical hip hop verse (at times) with some screamo and more that features an electric violin used as the fourth guitar. They will get and keep you deeply immersed inside the intense Kazy rock madness from the first vibration of the electric chord until the very last has died. Don't expect, blogspot readers, for the band's sound to miss a beat in between. This type of "new" rock music and its blend of other genres is what currently thriving within Chicago's local scene and Kazy like Earthen Grave (another local band featuring violinist Rachel Barton Pine) has certainly tapped into this music market.
After opening with a rockin' bang of a song, Hooks, SouthSide was instantly hooked onto Kazy's wild style of maddening guitar riffs, furious tempos (sometimes coupled with a "soft" or somber intro - don't be fooled by that), thunderous percussion rhythms and extreme vocals that can scream emotional anguish as well as spin fast lyrical verse (done by front man Rich). This awesome combination, blogspot readers, created one powerful intensifying rock experience for the audience tonight where they literally felt the energy and sound wafting throughout the basement lounge not just hearing it. There were moments during Kazy's set when you saw how intense their krazy maddness inside the music could get from the way each band member tore up the stage which left no inch of it untouched especially when performing songs like LFL and Blown.
SouthSide highly suggests rockin' the ears to the following (in no particular order) like Choke for its combination of a "soft" lull before being smacked with the extreme intensity of music and vocals at the same time. Front man Rich made the ears bleed from his emotional anguish and pain while the band matched his vocal style note for note. Gamers should recognize this song title since it's featured in the popular video games Scarface and Zombie Strippers. Also she suggests feeling the pulsating heat of the hardcore guitar sound as well as heartfelt angst off the lyrics during Goodbye. Though the vocals were overshadowed by the loudness of the guitars, this reviewer still felt his vocal emotions via the intense sound wafting around the stage. And if you really want to see some intense moments while Kazy performs, blogspot readers, check out their live performance of the new song Violate. WOW - that's all SouthSide can say when hearing this song. She enjoyed the extreme lyrical hip hop vibe within the vocals which were matched with Rich's intense screamo at the chorus as well as the build up towards the bridge where Kazy hits you from all sides with their guitar rock. Yes, this latest song did more than violate the ears - it brutally assualted them within the extreme rock fusion to the delight of their audience before howling at the Super Moon with closer Wolf.
SouthSide highly suggests rockin' your maddening love for krazy guitar rock with her friend Kazy at their next show. For more information, visit Kazy at http://www.kazymusic.com.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
"...I would like to dedicate this set to MCA (Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys)..."
Hey, blogspot readers, the music world was deeply saddened by the sudden passing of newly (Rock-N-Roll) Hall of Fame inductee Adam "MCA" Yauch which put a tiny damper on this year's Cinco de Mayo-Derby festivities. However, SouthSide wholeheartedly believed Adam wouldn't approve of tears and sad eyes ruining the fight for our right to party while attending a celebratory moment at The Hideout Inn. Placed in an obsecure locale within the heart of an industrial park of Chicago, this legendary music venue (once home to Wilco shows) was definitely in the party mood despite the news of the day as fans crowded inside to celebrate The Damn Choir's sophomoric release of You're My Secret Called Fire. Assisting this local band with their fun and celebration was friend Paper Thick Walls and Kingsley Flood (http://www.kingsleyflood.com) from Boston, MA.
Though missing most of Kingsley's performance, SouthSide arrived at The Hideout Inn in time to catch the final few minutes of their rockin' set, blogspot readers. Yet it was enought to get this reviewer swept into the party mood due to this band's vibrantly explosive mix of gypsy-Americana / pop alternative sound with some hot Brit rhythmic groove (off the keyboard). SouthSide liked the hip sound wafting throughout the packed venue in the back as the upbeat swing had many dancing to the beat especially during the closing song - I Don't Wanna Go Home. Currently on tour, this reviewer highly suggests checking out Kingsley Flood ...hopefully they'll return to Chicago soon for another show (or two).
The last time SouthSide had a chance to rock this band, it was last year at the same venue for their CD release show. Tonight, one year later, she once again enjoyed hearing a few selections by Paper Thick Walls off their A Thousand Novels CD in which continued with the central theme of groovy-licious vibe and music. SouthSide's friend rocked the stage with another solid outting by featuring heartfelt vocal combination from the duo Eric (also on guitar) and Kate (on piano/trumpet) as well as melodic Americana/folk sound. Besides like the somber-like opening to kick off the set, this reviewer enjoyed the gradual crescendo rise to up the tempo and sound til exploding the ears to a boisterious music and vivid emotions within the vocals. At times the music alone, blogspot readers, was amazingly intense as well as haunting amidst the imagery flowing from the lyrics. Paper Thick Walls wonderfully combined such elements of sound and vocals to create a floetry of explosively vibrant set of music paired well to dynamically expressive voices popping the words to life during each song. The intensity definitely fueled this lively group's energetic momentum at the right moments for dramatic emphasis in which the music matched note for note. SouthSide suggests listening to the following songs (in no particular order) - Desolate Place (for its dream-like imagery set inside a haunting combination of storytelling-ballad style), Overgrown (featuring a rockin' violin rhythms to give an upbeat Americana/folk sound and tempo) and White Flags (a fun tune about telling your boss to "take this job and shove it" where you can vividly feel Eric's angst and frustration besides hearing it). Plus she suggests checking out Potrait, Orange Tree, Masters of the Sea and the title track A Thousand Novels off the album. For more information about Paper Thick Walls, visit http://www.paperthickwalls.com.
Amidst a thunderous boom of sound which instantly grabbed everyone's attention, The Damn Choir made their grand entrance to kick off their celebratory occasion with an intense rockin' bang, blogspot readers. This band wasted no time impressing this reviewer with a strong showing of heartfelt vocals amidst their Americana/folk sound but that was the prelude to what she heard next. POW! This band explosively shook the venue (and the ears) with a thunderous boomer of intense music especially during their opening song before ending with a calming lull. The Damn Choir playfully teased the crowded room with such antics - thinking one minute it's merely a soft toned song or sound to the tempo yet on the other hand, the band pulled something completely different throwing you off a little. Even the instrumental bridges were filled with intense momentum in which you saw each member (including the Jack in the banana suit on percussions) passionately performed while on stage. SouthSide enjoyed the tiny surprises that occurred throughout their performance not knowing where Gordion and others were taking her. The intensity wasn't just contained to their Americana/folk side, blogspot readers. It was also demonstrated within their pop side that featured a pseudo religious theme laced inside the lyrics while switching between a reverently rhythmic tempo and excitable melody before wowing the crowd with a huge finish (as heard in Creatures of Heaven). Or feel that steady percussion march during another particular song which had SouthSide trying her best to keep up with the sudden riff/chord changes. There was vividness not only in the music but also in the vocals (by Gordon and Katy) to make the lyrical words pop to life with flowing imagery especially while singing Ghost Spit and Road Noah. However SouthSide suggests checking out The Damn Choir's new song where Gordon truly displayed the heartfelt emotions in his falsetto vocals before really wowing the crowd with their rendition of The Cure's Just Like Heaven. It was so emotionally heartfelt that SouthSide was able to forget about Rob Smith's emo-like voice for a moment to enjoy how this band flipped this classic 80s song into something less dark and more upbeat within an Americana/folk sound but keeping some emo darkness to the tone. SouthSide highly suggests blogspot readers getting to know her new friend, The Damn Choir at their next show. For more information about this band, visit http://www.thedamnchoir.com.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, it's to rock! Now that winter is finally over, bands near and far will be dusting off their traveling wheels to hit a venue (or two) near you. SouthSide has the scoop of when and where some of her friends are touring and/or rockin' a music fest.
SouthSide's good friend Papadosio is currently roaming the roam during the month of May as well as during the summer part of their Awake Inside tour part 2 (also see Rootwire info below). After rockin' Covington, KY last night, they are headed to Floyd, VA where they will be performing at Madison Theater tonight then it's off to Richmond where they will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo at The National. Other May dates include May 19 in High Bridge Hills, WI where they be performing at Trillium Connect Festival and May 31 in Ozark, AR at Wakarusa. For more tour dates and event ticket information, visit the band's Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/papadosio.
Also roaming the roam this month, SouthSide's CA friend Warner Drive! Starting off in Atascadero, CA rockin' Camozzi’s, the guys are headed to Citrus Heights, CA where they will at Shakers Pub tonight and in Portland, OR at Tiger Bar tomorrow. Other dates and places include, May 6 in Seattle, WA at The Central, May 7 in Boise, ID at Liquid and May 9 in Ogden, UT at The Basement. Chicago fans can catch Warner Drive rockin' the Elbo Room on Mother Day's night (May 13th) at Elbo Room. LA fans should attend their welcome home show scheduled for June 1 at The Roxy Theater. For more information about their schedule, visit the band's Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/warnerdriveofficial.
Local friend Voice of Addiction are hitting the road too rockin' the east coast, blogspot readers. They will be in Detriot (tonight) and Howell (tomorrow), MI performing an ALL-AGES show at both places as well as performing a few FREE shows in Ohio ...even a FREE show in New York City before returning to Chicago for their Wrecking Ball Fest NATO Smash-up show. For more tour, venue, and ticket information, visit the band's site at http://www.VoiceOfAddiction.com.
Steven Mullan is rockin' the road with FREE shows starting tomorrow night in Plymouth, MI at Plymouth Coffee Bean (all-ages show) with a full band featuring SugarSpell and Angela Puzzuoli performing too. Other dates and places include May 12 at Claddagh Irish Pub in Toledo, OH (all-ages show) and May 18 at AJ's Doolittles in Lambertville, MI (all-ages show). Visit his site, http://www.stevenmullan.com/shows for more information and tour dates.
Rockin' The Abbey Pub (located on Grace and Elston), is the Stranger Danger Music Fest 2012 on June 23 and 24. TWO solid days of music and passes ($30) are on sale until May 7! Then, on May 8th - single day tix ($25) will go on sale. The lineup will feature friend Strange Arrangement doing 2 sets on opening night along with other friends Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Old Shoe, Fresh Hops, Spare Parts, Mos Scoscious as well as DrFameus (Allen of Disco Biscuits), My Boy Elroy (of Digital Tape Machine), Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's, Sexfist and many more. Day two will feature friends Fifth World and Shapes & Colors along with Bonzo Terks, Wook, Freek Johnson, Young General and more. For more information, visit http://www.strangement.com.
Hey, check out this fest happening on the weekend of August 16 - 19, 2012 in Logan, OH - Rootwire Festival. What is Rootwire? It's simply an environment designed from the ground up designed to inspire and enlighten but created entirely by those in attendance. It is an attempt to re-instill the values of the original psychedelic movement as well as to transform society. Also, to banish the pitfalls of today's modern music festivals which are funded by corporations solely for profit. Besides featuring live music on three (3) stages, Rootwire 2k12 will also feature Visual, and Performance Art of the Nations Greatest Visionary Masters. Plus - Massive Circus Tent, Visionary Art Gallery, Art installations, Guided Meditations, Yoga, and Ceremonies, Forums and Live Speakers, Film viewings, Woodland Lighting, Wooded camping, Workshops and Lessons, and much much more. And so far, the organizers have released the lineup for round which will feature SouthSide's good friend Papadosio performing 3 hot sets, blogspot readers. The other acts in the lineup look solid too - Ott, Random Rab, Dopapod, Phutureprimitive, Rising Appalachia, Chris Dyer, Govinda, Bird of Prey, Geoglyphiks, pH Factor ...just to give you a sample who will be there. To learn more about the lineup thus far and ticket information, check out http://www.rootwirefestival.com.
And lastly, SouthSide highly recommends blogspot readers reserving the last Saturday in August - August 25 for I AM Fest. This local one-day fest (now in it's 4 year) will be held at Chicago's legendary House of Blues. More information about the lineup and more will posted here as it comes to SouthSide's desk.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, it's a rockin' Friday night to close out SouthSide's April calendar. Tonight, she's at the hip Northcenter area checking out the action and music inside Martyrs' where friend Derek Nelson and The Musicians were performing.
And what a rockin' hoedown-like performance did this Americana/folk rock band did in front of a near sell-out crowd. Derek Nelson and his band gave their fans (as well as new fans) something to get happy throughout the the set featuring hot electric violin rhtyhms and guitar riffs (including a lap steel guitar), eclectic upbeat tempos and a dynamic vocal combination that melted the mic. After opening with American, this local group of musicians began the task of keeping everyone within that groovy music feeling under such lively rhythms and beats to get your body swaying to the Americana/folk sound. There was no avoiding it either, blogspot readers. The energy felt (especially during songs This Time) kept many enjoying the uplifting vibe yet while performing Storm, SouthSide literally felt the sensation of a coming thunderstorm from the way the music and sound personified it. She could feel the static electricity heating up as the music crescendo to the point when it suddenly (and unexpectedly) meshes and clashes together like a hard summer rainstorm ...complete with tornado winds and more.
During another particular song, the crowd was rocked to the organic vibe of country/folk featuring a mandolin inside the fun tempo to which Derek Nelson and the band began a mini jamboree on stage. SouthSide highly suggests checking out the soulful yet gospel-like vibe of Darlin that truly had folks around this reviewer dancing up a storm. To her it was the highlight of their performance due to the band's ability to pop out of their "normal" mold exciting the crowd with vibrant energy musicially and vocally with a fiery spirit to bring the lyrics to life. Still there were a couple of moments within Derek's show where you could see as well as hear the heartfelt emotions pouring from the lyrics, blogspot readers. In one particular song Sayanora, the vocals within this ballad tone allowed Derek and his dynamic falsetto shine amidst a slight upbeat tempo but it was during Jesus when he really showed off his vocal style. Though a little darker than the others, one could hear the emotional heartache and angst vividly expressed in his voice while sensing the tenderest of all his feelings. SouthSide enjoyed how his female vocalist counterpart besides matching his vocal style also complimented his dynamic energy and soulful sound as heard in songs Come and Wait and closing song Ghosts (where Derek and the band rocked out Martyrs').
If you missed this hot performance, not to worry, blogspot readers. Derek Nelson and The Musicians will be rocking the stage again at The Hideout on May 11 for Machinegun Mojo's farewell show. For more information, visit http://www.dereknelsonmusic.com.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Hey, blogspot readers, May promises to be one rockin' month of fun and excitement as the summer fest and events season gradually approaches around town as well as in other places. SouthSide highly suggests checking out this month-long happenings. Please note most shows/events are 21+ unless noted.
May 2 @ The Southern - MS Walk Foundation event
Come out and support the "Lean On Me" team at this charity event as they prepare to walk at this year's MS Walk on Sunday, May 6. Enjoy 20% off drinks all night and try the complimentary appetitizers from 7 to 8p
$5 suggested donation - all proceeds goes to "Lean On Me" MS Walk fundraising goal
@ Bobby McGee's (located in Chicago Ridge, IL)
Cheer on SouthSide's friend Bambi Raptor as they chomp on the competition in the Road to Inkfest finals.
Good luck, Roger and the guys!
May 3 @ Beat Kitchen
Friend Bad Bad Meow will be clawing and rockin' the stage along with Harrow, Cousin Dud and Joe Messing & The Wisemen (headlining)
$8
May 4 @ The End (located in Nashville, TN)
Friend The Great Barrier Reefs will be rockin' the stage featuring other performances by Deep Machine and Fat Box
@ The Hideout
Friend That Damn Choir will be having their record release show featuring other friend, Paper Thick Walls opening
@ Martyrs'
Friend Bassel & The Supernaturals along with 56 Hope Road will be rockin' the stage there
@ Camp Fire Lake (located in Charleston, IL)
It's the Gathering of the Tribes - Music & Arts Fest! This two-day fest (during EIU graduation activities) will feature bands like friend Digeometric, Indigo Son and Spread (on May 4) and Smash, J Boozer and Pleasant Drive (on May 5) ...and many more acts.
May 5 @ Daley Plaza
Besides it being Cinco de Mayo, join General Patton and many others marching around noon - carrying signs, making noise and more during this peaceful march on World Marjuana Day. There will be performances by Jah Illumanti, Congo, THC (Taking Hits Constantly) as well as the General himself plus speakers.
May 6 @ River Rock House (located in St. Charles, IL)
Fundraising concert event for Autism presented by Team Awesometism. This family-friendly day-long concert will feature local bands like Lincoln Don't Lie, Spyderbone, Rock Boxx, Yourz Truly, Betty Might Band and more. All proceeds of this event will support the team in their Walk for Autism Speaks goal!
$10 suggested donation / $5 for raffle tix
May 7 @ Double Door
It's the Music Conference Networking Reception presented by Double Door and Yellow Phone Music ...hosted by David Silbough, Phil Kosch, Scott Zid, Nate Arling and Doug Johnson. Come out and network with other artists/musicians as well as those in the (music) business at this special FREE event. Music performances by Mars Argo, Aly Jados, Garrett Burns with a DJ set by Lewis & Clark
May 8 @ THE NYU SKIRBALL CENTER
It's the last Intelligence Squared Debate of the season - BAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. This should be a VERY hot topic, blogspot readers, which will feature MALCOLM GLADWELL (The New Yorker Staff Writer), TIM GREEN (Former NFL Defensive End and Football Broadcaster), BUZZ BISSINGER (Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist &
Author, Friday Night Lights) and JASON WHITLOCK (FOXSports.com National Columnist) taking sides for and against the motion while exploring the following issues - Are football programs’ millions in profits exploitation? Or are they still a celebration of amateur sport? Does football’s inherent danger and violence have any place in institutions of higher learning? Or does it provide young men with educational opportunities they would not otherwise have? Pick a side and join in the debate!
May 10 @ WZRD Chicago (88.3 FM)
Check out the one and only America's Got Talent contestant and world famous throat wabbler (and SouthSide's friend) Sid Yiddish on Thursday Night Live at 9:30p
@ Cubby Bear
Hey, funkateers, join others living in One Nation Under A Groove while rockin' to Flashlight and We Got The Funk with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. Should be ONE hot funky time!
@ The Varsity Theater (located in Baton Rouge, LA)
Rock out at Meriwether's "Save Our Souls" EP release show featuring Side A's The Flame release along with the American Tragedy, The Hitchhiker and Jason Martin
$10 adv / $12 dos
@ Tilted Kilt Elgin and The Highlands Music Lounge
Check out friends Paragon and Persistence of Memory rockin' the stage with Dropped Once
@Tiger O'Stylies (located in Berwyn)
Friends Skinwalker and Spyderbone rocks the stage along with Ormaco and Wake Up Call
@ The Hideout
It's sad to say "good bye" to a dear friend but after nearly 4 years, blogspot readers, Machinegun Mojo is temporarily suspending the mojo to take an indefinite hiatus from the music scene. Helping them with the happy send off party is friend Derek Nelson & The Musicians and Saint Anyway.
May 12 @ Replica Chicago
Attend the MEGA grand opening of Replica Chicago's actual storefront location at 4425 N. Milwaukee in Chicago and check out the shirts, hoodies, buttons and more in stock!
Support local art and artists!
@ The Observatory (located 3036 N. Lincoln on the 4th flr)
It's Spy's Speakeasy at the most secretive bar no one knows about (until now) featuring some of Chicago's finest up and coming musical acts.
@ Lily's
Friend Nate Z will be performing solo on electric guitar which will include songs off his upcoming album including Lake To The Moon (SouthSide highly recommends checking out the You Tube video which features this reviewer in it)
May 13 @ The Exit
Celebrate Mother's Day night with Mom at this legendary biker/punk/metal bar with Taran and Hugo of Skinwalker now that they have a DJ gig! Who knows what they will spin on that night.
@ Elbo Room
Patti Rain will be rockin the stage on the eve of Chicago's hosting the NATO Summit Conference
May 19 @ Record Breakers (upstairs at Reggie's)
The Aggrolites will be performing a special FREE kids show which will feature their Yo Gabba Gabba song - Banana (as well as a few others). FREE refreshments of hot dogs and soda will be served.
May 29 @ Double Door
Check out this $1 show featuring friend Chaperone, Torch Singers, Elusive Parallelograms and Rabbit Children
Also - snag a copy of Portland's (OR) Cafeteria Dance Fever's Danceology ...check out the song Swimming Pool
May 30 @ Double Door
Rock with the awesomest Hippo of the music scene - that would be Ultra Violet Hippopotamus, blogspot readers, featuring The Blackbox Revelation and Fresh Hops in the lineup
$8 adv / $10 dos
May 31 @ 2nd Cousins Bar & Grill (located in Loves Park, IL)
Rock with friend Trip Effect at this early (5:30p) show
Hey, blogspot readers and band/artists/musicians, this information was given to SouthSide if you're wondering about the booking policies at Elbo Room.
Read very carefully...and have a good show!
Booking at Elbo Room…
[COCKTAIL LOUNGE BOOKING]
If you are an ACOUSTIC SOLO ACT, ACOUSTIC DUO, ACOUSTIC BAND with no
drumset (aux percussion is fine)… please contact KAYLA as she
handles all the bookings for this genre and our cocktail lounge. You
get 100% of what you draw at the door with no production taken out:
KAYLA@elboroomLIVE.com
[LOCAL MUSIC SHOWCASE BOOKING]
NEW ACTS/BANDS are asked to come to the IN-HOUSE AUDITION NIGHT @
ELBO ROOM every Wednesday. ALL GENRES ARE WELCOMED! SOLO ACTS TO FULL
BANDS, SINGER SONGWRITER TO REGGAE TO HIP HOP TO BLUES TO ROCK and
more. We just ask that your material is ORIGINAL! We supply a full
backline, stage, lights, sound. You are asked to play 3 songs for a
FREE SHOW/NO COVER. If you are able to bring 20 people to see you, we
will give you an opening slot on a weekend. If you bring 30 or more
people, you will get your own weekend showcase. For more information
or to sign up for a DATE, please contact Matthew Alfano:
Aflano@elboroomlive.com
[I AM FEST BOOKING]
If you are interested in playing the festival that ELBO ROOM
produces: I AM FEST (www.IAMFEST.com [4]). This will be SAT AUG 25TH
AT HOUSE OF BLUES IN CHICAGO, please e-mail both Steph and Kayla for
more information: STEPH@elboroomLIVE.com [5] | ayla@elboroomlive.com
[MAIN ROOM BOOKING]
VIA BRIAN@ELBOROOMLIVE.COM | Here is the new format we are
doing for the main room:
SUNDAYS MAIN ROOM: ORIGINAL [NO HIP HOP/R&B/METAL]
MONDAYS MAIN ROOM: CLOSED | ROOM RENTAL $600
TUESDAYS MAIN ROOM: CLOSED | ROOM RENTAL $600
WEDNESDAYS MAIN ROOM: LOCAL MUSIC SHOWCASE | ALFANO@ELBOROOMLIVE.COM
THURSDAYS MAIN ROOM: [NO HIP HOP/R">VENUE (DOWNSTAIRS LIVE ROOM)
We got some open dates (some being last minute cancellations) that we
are trying to fill up. Review the dates and let me know which ones
you would be interested in. First come first served so please give a
couple dates you are interested in to avoid going back and forth (2-5
choices would be great). If you know of any other bands or artists
that would be a good fit as well, please feel free to forward them
this e-mail:
Here are the open dates, slot position and expected draw we have
available at this time....
If you do not see a date listed above or looking for JULY and beyond,
we are not booking it at this time and you can check back in 2-3 weeks
to see if something opens up. If you have a Chicago 21+ draw of 50 or
more and have references from other clubs (ie: Phil @ Double Door,
Emily @ Hard Rock, Brendon @ Reggies, Matt @ Schubas/Lincoln Hall,
Bruce @ Empty Bottle, etc) please e-mail us the date you played there,
your draw and who you booked the show with. We will follow up with
them and work with you on a weekend showcase date.
*************************************
[IMPORTANT]
UNDER AGED BAND MEMBERS: This is a 21+ show and everybody must have a
VALID ID to gain entry. If a member of your band is under 21, ELBO
ROOM needs to know via E-MAIL to BRIAN BENDER | Brian@elboroomLIVE.com
[9] These band members must be PERFORMING ON
STAGE in order to be in the club. UNDER AGED BAND MEMBERS are not
allowed in the club before or after their set with NO EXCEPTIONS. It
is important that when you book a show with an UNDER AGED BAND MEMBER
to notify BRIAN BENDER so you can play the beginning of the night. ALL
BAND MEMBERS will check in with the door guy before doors open and
UNDER AGED BAND MEMBERS will get marked and asked to leave the club
before their set. FANS, GROUPIES, MERCH CHICKS, CHILDREN, RECORDING /
VIDEO / PHOTOGRAPHY PEOPLE, ETC. cannot be in the club if they are
under the age of 21. NO EXCEPTIONS.
DRAW: Bands performing in the VENUE are asked to draw a minimum of 10
people to ensure production is covered and the band is able to make
money for their performance. It does no good for the club and no good
for the band if there is nobody in the venue. This is not a rehearsal
space; it is a live music venue. 1st time bands start on a weekday,
then move to a Thursday and then a weekend show based on their draw.
Artists performing in the COCKTAIL LOUNGE are asked to try their best
to draw. There is no production cost for this stage so the artist will
get 100% of what they pull at the door.
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About Me
Who is SouthSide?
Well, she's Chicago's only partyin' local scene queen who covers (mostly) everything that's rockin' a venue, fest, art show and more for over a decade. And was at one time photographed as one of Chicago's Very Own (WGN-TV's ad campaign).
She enjoys hanging out with bands from around town as well as nationally and internationally ...plus has interviewed many famous rock icons like Don Brewer, Rudy Sarzo, V Is For Villains, Nate Z, Valerie Pettiford, Emilio Castillo and more.
She has met and reviewed bands like The Parlotones (from South Africa), Lenhen (from Austria), Chateau Marmont (from France), 30 Seconds to Mars, Tower of Power, Lucid Ground, Grand Funk Railroad, The Polkaholics and many, many more.
She hopes you enjoy reading about her adventures in this blog as much as she has experienced them. |
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Influenced by the classic songwriting of John Martyn, Scott Walker, and Serge Gainsbourg, London-born Jonathan Jeremiah's authentic timeless sound combines gritty acoustic R&B with folk-tinged soul. Born in London to an Anglo-Indian father and Irish Catholic mother, he began performing at the age of 14 after developing a deep rich baritone voice. During a road trip across America, he started writing songs in between journey stops and landed a job playing the piano in a New York bar, influencing his... |
Gov’t to fast track central bank legislation, says Rogán
The ruling Fidesz party has proposed that parliament should discuss the government’s amendment to the Central Bank Act in an expediated procedure next week, Fidesz group leader Antal Rogan told a press conference on Monday.
The bill seeks to leave decision-making powers of the central bank’s Monetary Council in place, but the bank’s management will be responsible for their implementation, Rogan said.
Parliament’s passing the amendment into law will remove the last obstacle from Hungary’s talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union on financial assistance, the group leader said.
The new amendment will not affect the provisions of the current act related to the expansion of the Monetary Council and the appointment of a new central bank governor, chief negotiator with the IMF and the EU Mihaly Varga told MTI earlier. However, Prime Minister Viktor Orban will send a letter to the presidents of the European Commission and the European Central Bank, informing them that there will be no new appointments into either the Monetary Council or the central bank management until the mandate of the current management of the NBH expires.
On the subject of next year’s budget, Rogan said that the Fidesz group will discuss the Economy Ministry’s draft next week and make a formal decision concerning the party’s support for the document. He added, however, that the draft is seen as a “budget of recovery” among Fidesz deputies.
Next year’s budget will ensure that support for families and small enterprises is continued, and create stable conditions for the country to meet possible international challenges, Rogan said.
Fidesz supports the government in its efforts to pass a part of the public burden onto large companies and banks rather than to increase personal income taxes or reducing wages, he added. |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
National Night Out Tonight
Tonight is National Night Out. National Night Out is a way to foster community relationships and crime prevention sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch. Communities throughout the US will be having National Night Out activities tonight. According to the NNO website, National Night Out activities were also sponsored in communities in Canada as well as on military bases last year.
This evening of free activities may include block parties, games, exhibits, flashlight walks, music, balloon artists, and crime prevention demonstrations and information. You can check the NNO website to see if your town has been registered and is participating. There is a pdf file below the map of registered places that lists some of the military bases and Canadian towns participating. I would also check with your town's website as well as your park district's website for information.
This sounds like a great event that is not only full of fun but is also educational. It looks like it will be a great community event for the family! |
Utah lawmakers got some good news on Thursday as their latest revenue estimates for the current legislative session were updated to show an additional $238 million in state coffers.
The new figures bring the state’s total surplus to $921 million, but the bulk of that money comes from income tax collections and is constitutionally walled off for spending only on public and higher education.
Hurricane Republican Rep. Brad Last presented the new numbers to his colleagues on the House floor, saying that the state’s economy continues to perform but that revenue coming from sales taxes — used to fund general government operations, from Medicaid to prisons — aren’t keeping up with needs.
“We have 10 times more [surplus] money in the Education Fund than we have in the General Fund,” Last, budget committee co-chairman, said.
Despite the nearly $1 billion overall surplus, the revenue estimates show the state running a $12 million deficit in one-time general fund revenue, suggesting that some portion of the $92 million in ongoing general fund money available to lawmakers will be needed to close that hole. That, or spending cuts.
Sen. Jerry Stevenson, co-chairman of the Legislature’s main budget committee, told his colleagues that basic funding requests for general fund dollars far exceed what’s available.
“The next three weeks will be longer than three weeks,” he predicted to reporters. “There will be a lot of asks that committees have listened to that will probably go by the wayside.”
Lawmakers began the 2020 session by repealing a controversial tax reform package that was intended to partially address the “structural imbalance” between the Education and General funds.
That legislation would have cut taxes overall by reducing the income tax rate and raising sales taxes, but led to significant pushback from the public.
The tax package, passed in special session in December, was expected to be followed this year by legislation amending the state Constitution to allow income tax spending on noneducation programs, as well as new proposals for how to ensure funding for the state’s schools. But four weeks into the Legislature’s work, those efforts have so far failed to materialize.
Still, the figures released Thursday reserve $80 million in education funds for any tax relief the Legislature decides to provide for the upcoming year. Senate leaders have been hesitant to support any piecemeal tax cuts and prefer a holistic look at tax reform, even if these comprehensive changes must wait for a future session.
Until then, Stevenson, R-Layton, said the lopsided revenue streams will continue to plague lawmakers during the budgeting process.
“We’re not in a crisis. We’ll be able to work through this,” he said. “But every year, this will continue to cause problems until we get to some kind of a tax reform package.”
But House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, has suggested he’s more supportive of short-term tax relief than his Senate counterparts. He said Thursday that it’s too early to say what could pass the Legislature, but that there is room on the income tax side to return money to taxpayers.
“Those conversations next week will be [about] what kind of tax cut, when will it occur, and how much will it be,” he said.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, a broad coalition of advocates gathered on the Capitol steps to discourage lawmakers from tax cuts and ask them to invest any available money in education, air quality, affordable housing and services for individuals with disabilities. The state’s overall tax burden is already at its lowest point in about 25 years, noted Matthew Weinstein of Voices for Utah Children, referencing a recent Utah Foundation report.
The 15 advocacy groups represented at the news conference sought to share a vision of the bright future that was possible for the state “if our leaders can resist the election-year temptation to cut taxes and if we can make the critically needed investments that’ll pay off many times over in the future,” Weinstein said.
On Tuesday, the Public Education Appropriations Committee adopted its budget recommendations, calling for roughly $450 million in new money for schools, including a 4 percent increase to per-student spending. That figure does not include new spending recommendations for higher education, which would also be derived from income tax collections, or money that would be reserved in the state’s rainy day fund.
Some lawmakers have suggested that in place of a tax cut, a greater portion of the state’s surplus could be held in reserve this year to protect against a potential economic downturn. And Wilson said spending constraints could be beneficial as lawmakers prioritize government programs and look ahead to a new round of tax reform negotiations next year.
“Us taking a year like this and spending less is not necessarily a bad thing,” Wilson said. “We can take a year and try to regroup and be very, very conservative.”
Heidi Matthews, president of the Utah Education Association, said the new revenue figures show there is an opportunity for a significant boost to public education. The UEA and other education groups have called for a 6% increase in per-student spending, which Matthews said would ensure schools have funding left over for new initiatives after covering inflationary costs.
“It’s time to build futures and not give tax cuts,” Matthews said. “Our students are really counting on us to make those necessary investments, and the time is right." |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Today's post will touch a little bit on the history and origin of hairless cats. Since 1990's, there are various cases of hairless cats that were detected around the world but the first successful and recognized hairless cat breed is what we can see today, the Sphynx. Back in 1903, two hairless kittens were born in New Mexico and was called the New Mexican Hairless cats. It was told that the cats were obtained from Pueblo Indians around Albuquerque. Then in 1950, three hairless kittens were produced by a pair of Siamese cats in Paris, France but only occurs when those two mated and not for other pairing.
Today's Sphynx or hairless cats was originated from Canada in 1966. The cat's name is Prune but died without having any descendants. Soon after, in 1967, a longhaired mother cat was rescued in Toronto, along with her several hairless kittens. Two were brought to Europe where one was bred to a Devon Rex. The breeding program was successful and resulted with hairless offsprings that became the foundation of today's Sphynx. The name sphynx comes from their overall look which resemble an ancient Egyptian cat sculpture.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Hairless Cats or commonly known as Sphynx, is one of the rarest among cat breeds. Their unique appearance makes them stands out more in public and we can straight away know a hairless cat when we see one. Although they are not the favorite for many cat lovers because of their bizarre appearance, different peoples have different perspective I must say. I for myself is quite fond with my hairless cat as she is extremely playful and affectionate to other things, mostly at me. For any of you guys that intend to adopt a cat, I would highly recommend that you to try out a sphynx or hairless cat breed. Read the rest of this post to find more information on their basic appearance.
ColorsSimilar to any other cats, they can be in many colors including black, brown, white or red. Some of hairless cats also have a combination of colors like red and black, white and brown, etc.
WeightsHairless Cats are classified as a medium-sized cats with thick and muscular body. Most males weight between 8 to 10 pounds while females range from 5 to 8 pounds.
FurIn theory, they do have hair despite being called as hairless cats. But the length of the hairs are barely enough for one to see from afar since it's too short.
Face ShapeThey posses a wedge-shaped face, which resemble an upside-down triangle. They also have a long and large ears with big oval-shaped eyes.
WhiskersUnlike any other cat breeds that have a long whiskers, Hairless cats only have short curly whiskers and most of them don't have any at all.
That's it for today post and I hope you are well informed of Hairless Cats appearance.
Friday, May 1, 2009
This is a short video of hairless cats from an English TV program called TVB-E. It briefly explained on how they would usually react with other things around them. Hairless Cats or Sphynx is a rare breed of cat that are incredibly affectionate to their surroundings even without a normal coating like any other cats. Although they look might be a little bizarre, this type of breed are the best option for those who have cat allergies. Because of their lack of hair, they will consume a whole lot more than any other cats would be. It's simply because they need an extra energy to keep them warm. |
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Experience:Body Architecture, Inc. February 2009 – Present Isagenix International August 2010 – August 2012 South Bay Athletic Club December 1996 – December 2009 Western Ballet January 2007 – July 2008
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New Mexico State University 1966 – 1969Ph.D., Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods
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Louisiana State University 1995 – 1999Bachelor of Science (BS), Elementary Education and Teaching
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Candace Knoebel ~ Ten Reasons to Stay ~ Teaser Reveal
We are just 4 weeks away from the release of TEN REASONS TO STAY by Candace Knoebel–check out the first teaser below and add TEN REASONS TO STAY to your TBR today!
About TEN REASONS TO STAY
Available August 30th, 2018
One day a week—Thursdays—my husband and I could do whatever or whomever we pleased.
Protection was non-negotiable.
And no matter what, we had to be home by midnight.
Jack was the one who wanted an open marriage, but we were supposed to keep things simple. No strings. No commitments. It seemed so easy…until it wasn’t.
Devilishly handsome Cole Blackwater was only supposed to be a fling, but everything about him made me feel alive. Wanted. Seen. When I realized he was my husband’s boss, I should have broken things off right then…but I didn’t.
One day a week, I could pretend that I was his and he was mine…until Cole wanted more.
But how could I decide between the man I’d promised to love, honor, and cherish, and the man who tempted me to break every single vow I’d made?
TEN REASONS TO STAY releases August 30th–add it to your TBR today!
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About CANDACE KNOEBEL
Candace Knoebel is a hopeless romantic with an affinity for whiskey and good music. Her love of words began when she met the boy who lived in the cupboard under the stairs. She’s a self-proclaimed Lost Girl. Words are her mirror.
With two completed series, her work ranges from paranormal to contemporary, all centered heavily around romance. Currently she lives in Florida with her husband and two children, and has just completed her thirteenth novel, The Taste of Her Words. |
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Of course that is correct, but in practice the assertion that we should not only seek out Christian minorities means that Western governments, peace and human rights organisations are ignoring their appeal for help. This time too, the media are replete with stories about the Yezidis who have fled into the mountains for the advancing ISIS; it is the suffering of this particular religious minority that prompted the American president, Obama, to intervene in Iraq, not the expulsion of tens of thousands of Christians from Mosul and its surroundings one and a half month earlier.
The PAX officials explain this reticence in their article by reference to the oft-heard argument that overt support from the West, seen as Christian, would constitute an additional threat because they would then be seen as a fifth column of the West. We do see this phenomenon, but that is not a consequence of the support provided by the West to the Christian minorities in the Middle East (in fact it isn’t provided), but of the wars which the West itself wages in the Middle East, or of the assistance it provides to other warring parties in the region.
Prior to the disastrous Iraq war of 2003, Iraqi Christians and Christians in the remaining Middle East called on their (supposed) co-religionists not to launch this war, as it would have dramatic consequences for Christians and all other sections of the Iraqi population. This compelling appeal to the West was ignored and on the part of IKV there were scathing remarks about the Christian background of the Iraqi foreign secretary and later prime minister under Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz. The Iraqi Christians were put down as collaborators with the regime and their warnings were dismissed. The same reproach was made to the Syrian churches when they, in the early stages of the Arab Spring, pointed at the jihadist groups which fought alongside the armed Syrian opposition, claiming they constituted a threat to the Christians and other minorities in Syria and yet were being supported by the West, morally and indirectly, materially as well.
The PAX officials argue towards the end of their article that an ‘inclusive approach’ is necessary to link up with ‘the complex process of identity and state building in Iraq and the Arab region’. But in the cases of Iraq in 2003 and Syria in 2011, their organisation and Western policy in general did not adopt an inclusive approach at all. Instead they lent their ear to Iraqi and Syrian exiles, and in the case of Iraq, to the Kurds in the north who were busy with their own ‘process of identity and state building’. Other voices, including those of the Christians in both countries, were simply not noticed or were dismissed as irrelevant.
Yet both in Syria and Iraq Christians constituted a fully integrated section of the population within states that had been formed under secular auspices. With their secular and Islamic compatriots they resisted what they saw as Western imperialist politics in the Middle East. The West chose other groups in the population as a ‘fifth column’, just as it is currently helping the Kurds in particular to defend themselves against ISIS in Iraq. Instead of protecting the Christians who had fled Mosul to seek refuge in the Ninive plain, the Kurdish fighters retreated from this area without putting up any resistance, just as the Iraqi army had done one and a half month earlier in Mosul. Hence is it not the Christians asking for help, who are feeding the growing sectarianism in the Middle East, but the Western interventions in the region.
It is true that in large parts of Iraq the Christians today are being seen as a fifth column of the West, but that is not because the West would one-sidedly come to their aid but precisely because the West systematically ignores their warnings and calls for help, whilst persistently justifying itself by pointing to the danger of turning the Christians into a fifth column. |
<?php
/**
* @package Gantry5
* @author RocketTheme http://www.rockettheme.com
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2007 - 2017 RocketTheme, LLC
* @license Dual License: MIT or GNU/GPLv2 and later
*
* http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*
* Gantry Framework code that extends GPL code is considered GNU/GPLv2 and later
*/
namespace Gantry\Component\Layout\Version;
/**
* Read layout from simplified yaml file.
*/
class Format1
{
protected $scopes = [0 => 'grid', 1 => 'block'];
protected $data;
protected $keys = [];
public function __construct(array $data)
{
$this->data = $data;
}
public function load()
{
$data = &$this->data;
// Check if we have preset.
$preset = [];
if (isset($data['preset']) && is_array($data['preset']) && isset($data['layout']) && is_array($data['layout'])) {
$preset = $data['preset'];
$data = $data['layout'];
}
// We have user entered file; let's build the layout.
// Two last items are always offcanvas and atoms.
$offcanvas = isset($data['offcanvas']) ? $data['offcanvas'] : [];
$atoms = isset($data['atoms']) ? $data['atoms'] : [];
unset($data['offcanvas'], $data['atoms']);
$data['offcanvas'] = $offcanvas;
if ($atoms) {
$data['atoms'] = $atoms;
}
$result = [];
foreach ($data as $field => $params) {
$child = $this->parse($field, (array) $params, 0);
unset($child->size);
$result[] = $child;
}
return ['preset' => $preset] + $result;
}
public function store(array $preset, array $structure)
{
return ['preset' => $preset, 'children' => $structure];
}
protected function normalize(&$item, $container = false)
{
if ($item->type === 'pagecontent') {
// Update pagecontent to match the new standards.
$item->type = 'system';
if (!$item->subtype || $item->subtype == 'pagecontent') {
$item->subtype = 'content';
$item->title = 'Page Content';
} else {
$item->subtype ='messages';
$item->title = 'System Messages';
}
}
if ($item->type === 'section') {
// Update section to match the new standards.
$section = strtolower($item->title);
$item->id = $section;
$item->subtype = (in_array($section, ['aside', 'nav', 'article', 'header', 'footer', 'main']) ? $section : 'section');
} elseif ($item->type === 'offcanvas') {
$item->id = $item->subtype = $item->type;
unset ($item->attributes->name, $item->attributes->boxed);
return;
} else {
// Update all ids to match the new standards.
$item->id = $this->id($item->type, $item->subtype);
}
if (!empty($item->attributes->extra)) {
foreach ($item->attributes->extra as $i => $extra) {
$v = reset($extra);
$k = key($extra);
if ($k === 'id') {
$item->id = preg_replace('/^g-/', '', $v);
$item->attributes->id = $v;
unset ($item->attributes->extra[$i]);
}
}
if (empty($item->attributes->extra)) {
unset ($item->attributes->extra);
}
}
$item->subtype = $item->subtype ?: $item->type;
$item->layout = in_array($item->type, ['container', 'section', 'grid', 'block', 'offcanvas']);
if (isset($item->attributes->boxed)) {
// Boxed already set, just change boxed=0 to boxed='' to use default settings.
$item->attributes->boxed = $item->attributes->boxed ?: '';
return;
}
if (!$container) {
return;
}
// Update boxed model to match the new standards.
if (isset($item->children) && count($item->children) === 1) {
$child = reset($item->children);
if ($item->type === 'container') {
// Remove parent container only if the only child is a section.
if ($child->type === 'section') {
$child->attributes->boxed = 1;
$item = $child;
}
$item->attributes->boxed = '';
} elseif ($child->type === 'container') {
// Remove child container.
$item->attributes->boxed = '';
$item->children = $child->children;
}
}
}
/**
* @param int|string $field
* @param array $content
* @param int $scope
* @param bool|null $container
* @return array
*/
protected function parse($field, array $content, $scope, $container = true)
{
if (is_numeric($field)) {
// Row or block
$type = $this->scopes[$scope];
$result = (object) ['id' => null, 'type' => $type, 'subtype' => $type, 'layout' => true, 'attributes' => (object) []];
$scope = ($scope + 1) % 2;
} elseif (substr($field, 0, 9) == 'container') {
// Container
$type = 'container';
$result = (object) ['id' => null, 'type' => $type, 'subtype' => $type, 'layout' => true, 'attributes' => (object) []];
$id = substr($field, 10) ?: null;
if ($id !== null) {
$result->attributes->id = $id;
}
} else {
// Section
$list = explode(' ', $field, 2);
$field = array_shift($list);
$size = ((float) array_shift($list)) ?: null;
$type = in_array($field, ['atoms', 'offcanvas']) ? $field : 'section';
$subtype = in_array($field, ['aside', 'nav', 'article', 'header', 'footer', 'main']) ? $field : 'section';
$result = (object) [
'id' => null,
'type' => $type,
'subtype' => $subtype,
'layout' => true,
'title' => ucfirst($field),
'attributes' => (object) ['id' => 'g-' . $field]
];
if ($size) {
$result->size = $size;
}
}
if (!empty($content)) {
$result->children = [];
foreach ($content as $child => $params) {
if (is_array($params)) {
$child = $this->parse($child, $params, $scope, false);
} else {
$child = $this->resolve($params, $scope);
}
if (!empty($child->size)) {
$result->attributes->size = $child->size;
}
unset($child->size);
$result->children[] = $child;
}
}
$this->normalize($result, $container);
return $result;
}
/**
* @param string $field
* @param int $scope
* @return array
*/
protected function resolve($field, $scope)
{
$list = explode(' ', $field, 2);
$list2 = explode('-', array_shift($list), 2);
$size = ((float) array_shift($list)) ?: null;
$type = array_shift($list2);
$subtype = array_shift($list2) ?: false;
$title = ucfirst($subtype ?: $type);
$attributes = new \stdClass;
$attributes->enabled = 1;
if ($subtype && $type === 'position') {
$attributes->key = $subtype;
$subtype = false;
}
$result = (object) ['id' => $this->id($type, $subtype), 'title' => $title, 'type' => $type, 'subtype' => $subtype, 'attributes' => $attributes];
$this->normalize($result);
if ($scope > 1) {
if ($size) {
$result->attributes->size = $size;
}
return $result;
}
if ($scope <= 1) {
$result = (object) ['id' => $this->id('block'), 'type' => 'block', 'subtype' => 'block', 'layout' => true, 'children' => [$result], 'attributes' => new \stdClass];
if ($size) {
$result->attributes->size = $size;
}
}
if ($scope == 0) {
$result = (object) ['id' => $this->id('grid'), 'type' => 'grid', 'subtype' => 'grid', 'layout' => true, 'children' => [$result], 'attributes' => new \stdClass];
}
return $result;
}
protected function id($type, $subtype = null)
{
if ($type === 'atoms') {
return $type;
}
$result = [];
if ($type !== 'particle' && $type !== 'atom') {
$result[] = $type;
}
if ($subtype && $subtype !== $type) {
$result[] = $subtype;
}
$key = implode('-', $result);
while ($id = rand(1000, 9999)) {
if (!isset($this->keys[$key][$id])) {
break;
}
}
$this->keys[$key][$id] = true;
return $key . '-'. $id;
}
}
|
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Systematic Review Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation Research
Abstract
Recent controversy has led to calls for increased standardization and transparency in the methods used to synthesize climate change research. Though these debates have focused largely on the biophysical dimensions of climate change, human dimensions research is equally in need of improved methodological approaches for research synthesis. Systematic review approaches, and more recently realist review methods, have been used within the health sciences for decades to guide research synthesis. Despite this, penetration of these approaches into the social and environmental sciences has been limited. Here, we present an analysis of approaches for systematic review and research synthesis and examine their applicability in an adaptation context. Customized review frameworks informed by systematic approaches to research synthesis provide a conceptually appropriate and practical opportunity for increasing methodological transparency and rigor in synthesizing and tracking adaptation research. This review highlights innovative applications of systematic approaches, with a focus on the unique challenges of integrating multiple data sources and formats in reviewing climate change adaptation policy and practice. We present guidelines, key considerations, and recommendations for systematic review in the social sciences in general and adaptation research in particular. We conclude by calling for increased conceptual and methodological development of systematic review approaches to address the methodological challenges of synthesizing and tracking adaptation to climate change. |
/*
Copyright (C) 2015 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.
See LICENSE.txt for this sample’s licensing information
Abstract:
The EAGLView class is a UIView subclass that renders OpenGL scene.
*/
#import "EAGLView.h"
#import "ES2Renderer.h"
@interface EAGLView ()
{
ES2Renderer* _renderer;
EAGLContext* _context;
NSInteger _animationFrameInterval;
CADisplayLink* _displayLink;
}
@end
@implementation EAGLView
// Must return the CAEAGLLayer class so that CA allocates an EAGLLayer backing for this view
+ (Class) layerClass
{
return [CAEAGLLayer class];
}
// The GL view is stored in the storyboard file. When it's unarchived it's sent -initWithCoder:
- (instancetype) initWithCoder:(NSCoder*)coder
{
if ((self = [super initWithCoder:coder]))
{
// Get the layer
CAEAGLLayer *eaglLayer = (CAEAGLLayer *)self.layer;
eaglLayer.opaque = TRUE;
eaglLayer.drawableProperties = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[NSNumber numberWithBool:FALSE], kEAGLDrawablePropertyRetainedBacking, kEAGLColorFormatRGBA8, kEAGLDrawablePropertyColorFormat, nil];
_context = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];
if (!_context || ![EAGLContext setCurrentContext:_context])
{
return nil;
}
_renderer = [[ES2Renderer alloc] initWithContext:_context AndDrawable:(id<EAGLDrawable>)self.layer];
if (!_renderer)
{
return nil;
}
_animating = FALSE;
_animationFrameInterval = 1;
_displayLink = nil;
}
return self;
}
- (void) drawView:(id)sender
{
[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:_context];
[_renderer render];
}
- (void) layoutSubviews
{
[_renderer resizeFromLayer:(CAEAGLLayer*)self.layer];
[self drawView:nil];
}
- (NSInteger) animationFrameInterval
{
return _animationFrameInterval;
}
- (void) setAnimationFrameInterval:(NSInteger)frameInterval
{
// Frame interval defines how many display frames must pass between each time the
// display link fires. The display link will only fire 30 times a second when the
// frame internal is two on a display that refreshes 60 times a second. The default
// frame interval setting of one will fire 60 times a second when the display refreshes
// at 60 times a second. A frame interval setting of less than one results in undefined
// behavior.
if (frameInterval >= 1)
{
_animationFrameInterval = frameInterval;
if (_animating)
{
[self stopAnimation];
[self startAnimation];
}
}
}
- (void) startAnimation
{
if (!_animating)
{
// Create the display link and set the callback to our drawView method
_displayLink = [CADisplayLink displayLinkWithTarget:self selector:@selector(drawView:)];
// Set it to our _animationFrameInterval
[_displayLink setFrameInterval:_animationFrameInterval];
// Have the display link run on the default runn loop (and the main thread)
[_displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
_animating = TRUE;
}
}
- (void)stopAnimation
{
if (_animating)
{
[_displayLink invalidate];
_displayLink = nil;
_animating = FALSE;
}
}
- (void) dealloc
{
// tear down context
if ([EAGLContext currentContext] == _context)
[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:nil];
}
@end
|
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Female fans normally know more facts about what’s going on than men do anyway. I’d say they’re a more intelligent fan on top of that. They normally know more about what we’ve done than we know about what we’ve done. --- Tony Stewart
.
There are female fans who take apart engines and will take you apart if you have a problem with that; who are drawn to the danger and mystery of the sport; who watch races on TV to witness pure passion and unscripted emotion; who love the camaraderie of these family-friendly festivals; who feel the nervous anxiety of the lip-biting wives atop the pit boxes. --- Andrew Giangola “The Weekend Starts on Wednesday”
That about sums up what Jimmie Johnson and crew chief, Chad Knaus, did to seven other teams at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend.
Johnson's hunt for a seventh championship came to a screeching halt with a five dollar mechanical failure at Dover, but he didn't let that stop him in his quest to sweep both Texas races this season, much to the dismay of other drivers looking to lock their places in the season-ending finale at Homestead.For his part, Knaus was the first one to say he really had no expectations."It was really
interesting, obviously. We didn't know exactly what we were going to
have due to the lack of practice. We went into it with a lot of
unknowns. As people started to have some tire failures, we saw some of
it in the XFINITY race yesterday. It's kind of typical here until the
track rubbers up.
"We
didn't really know what to expect. Initially we took off, the car was
really, really tight for us. We made some big swings to try to free it
up. We were able to move back towards the front a little bit. We had a
huge transition and the car started to loosen up for us again, so we had
to tighten it back up.
"We kind
of played back and forth depending upon where we were running on the
racetrack, what position we were, clean air versus dirty air, green flag
versus caution flag.
Credit: Debbie Ross for Skirts and Scuffs
"Jimmie
and the team did a great job. We made huge changes on the racecar today
throughout the pit stops. Our guys did a really good job. The guys
that prepare the car were jumping over the wall, making changes. Other
guys were changing the tires. There was a lot of activity. The guys
really worked hard for it.
"For not having any race practice, I'm really proud of what these guys were able to do today," Knaus said.
A win during the Chase would be considered an accomplishment for most non-Chase teams. For the No. 48 team, however, a win feels overdue.
It had been 20 races since Johnson and Company last visited Victory Lane. The summer belonged to Joe Gibbs Racing, and the post-season has been dominated by Team Penske.
How does Knaus feel about being back where the team has now found itself 75 times?
"Look, you got to be
honest. It's been a tough last three months," he said. "The beginning of the year
was pretty damn good, to be honest with you. But we've worked hard. We tried to figure out what was going on, battling different aero
packages, different things. The summer slump that the 48 typically goes
through -- it's been a bit of a challenge. We'd be in the middle of
this championship Chase if it wasn't for a small mechanical problem.
"That
being said, I feel like we've run the last six weeks, Martinsville being
the track we ran the worst at, which is really odd. We haven't been
able to post the finishes.
"To be
able to come out of here today with the win, to be able to race for it
the way we did, I think it speaks volumes about where the 48 is, the
no-give-up attitude that we've got.
"As far as me, yeah, it feels great. I like it. I don't want it to take that long before I get back here," Knaus said.
Johnson only led six laps on his way to the checkered flag. Brad Keselowski dominated the afternoon before Johnson passed him and marred any hopes the No. 2 team had of punching their ticket to Homestead.
Many teams had trouble early in the race with tire wear, including Keselowski's teammate, Joey Logano. Did Knaus have any concerns that his driver would have any of those tire issues?
"I was kind of prepared for it. This track does that a lot. So we were pretty conservative on our
settings knowing we didn't get any race trim practice to make sure we
wouldn't have a problem. Thankfully we really didn't [have any problems]," Knaus explained.
Tires issues aside, the final 10 races are tough for crew chiefs.
"It's a challenge. It's an emotional challenge, for sure," he said. "Honestly, the driver actually has it the best because he gets in there
and he kind of gets in a little (indiscernible) and he's active for the
three, four hours that you're driving. He really doesn't have the
residual effects of, gosh, I hope we got the right shocks, hope we got
this tight, that tight, things of that nature. On a crew chief it's
grueling. It's really, really tough.
"But that being said, that's why we do it. We like that. That's the thrill. That's the challenge."
The win in Texas was Johnson's sixth at the track. Similarly, Johnson has been prolific at a few other tracks, including Dover and Charlotte. Is repeated success because of a driver's ability or because his crew chief has mastered some specific characteristic of the track?"It's all crew chief," Knaus quipped. "No, it's a
combination of both, quite honestly. Things change. The tracks change a
lot. Charlotte Motor Speedway, for instance, we won I don't know how
many races, we won a bunch of them, they repaved the racetrack. We
lost. We're starting to slowly get it back.
"Martinsville is a challenge since they've changed some of the stuff. We've had difficulty getting back on top of it the way we need to.
"Texas is
one of those racetracks that fits Jimmie's style. We've taken
horsepower away from the cars, we've added downforce, done a lot of
these things. It's been tough for us to get on top of where we actually
need to be because a lot of the tracks, honestly you don't have to
handle that good, you don't have to be able to drive that well to run up
front.
"Texas is
where you have to have a hell of a driver to make it happen. Atlanta,
Chicago, places like that, Kansas, for instance. You really have to be
on your game to be able to run well at those tracks.
"This
falls into Jimmie's wheelhouse. What helps us is Jimmie needs to be
able to drive the racecar. When you drive it, you have to be able to
communicate with your crew chief. That's what Jimmie does. He speaks
to us in a language we understand at these types of racetracks. That
makes better racing for us," Knaus explained.
Credit: Debbie Ross for Skirts and Scuffs
Johnson and Knaus have one more opportunity to spoil Chase drivers' chances to lock up positions for Homestead as teams head west to Phoenix. Of course, both of them would rather be competing for a championship rather than seeking to make things difficult for others. They know they would still be in the hunt had they not had major issues.
"Look, we did it to
ourselves. Let's be honest. We did it to ourselves. I don't want to
say we slacked, but we stunk up the summer 100%. It was horrible,
pathetic. Then we come into the Chase, we're running pretty good. We
ran well at Chicago, we ran well at New Hampshire. New Hampshire we had
a problem, came back and finished well. Chicago we had a solid run. I'm sure we had something wrong there, too. Stacking up the problems we
had throughout the course of the season, you get written off.
"Man,
this is a tough sport: 39 events, 39 weeks we race with 43 of the best
teams in racing. It's tough. It only takes one or two little things to
make you feel like you're out of it.
"I can
tell you, my guys are strong. We've got a group of guys that have never
been better. Our pit crew is the best it's been. We brought in three
new engineers this year. You would think from the onset that we should
have been behind the eight ball. Unfortunately we came out strong, so
everybody was like, 'They're great, they're awesome.' But there's still a
learning curve you have to go through.
"I think coming into 2016 it's going to be right where we need to be, especially with these new rules. I can't wait," Knaus said.
Though they didn't have the dominant car, Knaus knew with Johnson's record at TMS that he could win if had track position, so he had the crew make some small adjustments to the car near the end of the race.
"The car was pretty good the run
leading up to that, so we kind of had a basis of where the car was. We
made some small adjustments right there to be pretty aggressive, to try
to make something happen.
"Look,
let's be honest, in the position we're in, if we finish fifth or second,
does it matter? Not really. You've got to go for the win.
"We made some changes there, let Jimmie light the fuse, put on his cape and go after it," Knaus explained.
Jimmie Johnson may not actually be Superman, but he definitely looked the part as he flew past Keselowski to take the win on Sunday saying, "It's been a long, dry summer. Glad I found the cape. Wasn't too dusty or too far away."
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Stacey
Owens lives just outside Music City USA. She's always wanted to be a
NASCAR writer, so working as a columnist and support editor for Skirts
and Scuffs allows her to live that dream every single weekend.
The sole NASCAR enthusiast in her home, she's hopeful that one of her
three daughters might also harbor an appreciation for NASCAR, but it
isn't looking good so far. Her other interests include country
music, though she can't carry a tune; collegiate football, though she
needs a lot of work on her spiral; and Kentucky basketball, even though
at 6' tall, she's never played a day in her life. |
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%
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%
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% d2f = d^2 phi(u) / du^2. [n,n] Hessian matrix
%
% See also PLSALGORITHMS.M.
%
% (c) by Hannes Nickisch, Philips Research, 2013 August 30
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end
f = norm(r,2)^2/lam + 2*sum(p);
if nargout>1
df = 2*([X']*r/lam + [B']*dp);
if nargout>2 % evaluation of the Hessian is dangerous for large n
if numel(dp)==numel(d2p)
d2f = 2*(X'*X/lam + B'*diag(d2p)*B); % d2p is a vector
else
d2f = 2*(X'*X/lam + B'*d2p*B); % d2p is a scalar or a full matrix
end
end
end |
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"Oh, but you aren't one of us, are you?" he continued. "What I mean is, you aren't a scientist, are you?"
The table now in silence, she replied: "Actually, yes I am."
The man's forehead wrinkled, he smiled, and asked: "Oh, what kind of science? What I mean is, you aren't our kind of scientist, are you?"
She said something to the man, headed straight for the bar, and it was there that she noticed her environment.
At the tables behind her, filled mostly with students and postdoctoral researchers, the gender split was 50/50, while the tables surrounding hers, hosting working scientists, were largely full of men. At the front, where VIPs and members of the academy were seated, the ratio was again half and half - but only because the men had brought their wives.
Dr Nicola Gaston says we're a long way from a level playing field for scientists.
Dr Gaston's story paints a familiar picture for women in science. Figures collected by the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), as at 2011, showed a disproportionate number of men in senior positions at the country's Crown research institutes and among science heads of departments across our universities.
Despite the fact that the past three recipients of our highest science and technology honour were women, the large majority of major science prize recipients are men.
Fewer than 10 per cent of Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand were female, and the spread was uneven across the disciplines, with the larger proportion of women in the social sciences, health sciences and humanities. Computer science, engineering and physical sciences, physics and mathematics have been cited as the most under-represented areas.
The society's chief executive, Dr Di McCarthy, said women were also under-represented on research funding committees.
Yet there is no shortage of women in lower levels of the sector. Recent figures showed the proportion of women in the science workforce had increased to 50 per cent.
Dr Gaston, a senior lecturer at Victoria University and president of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, said there were a good number of women today across lower university positions, giving the impression we were just seeing the change now.
"But in reality, women made it to the junior academic ranks 30 to 40 years ago - we simply haven't seen them come through," she said. "This is true even in fields such as biology, which can be dominated by women at the lower levels of seniority."
High-profile molecular biosciences lecturer Dr Heather Hendrickson said academic science required a long, low-paid apprenticeship period taking anything up to 12 years after a bachelor's degree, and while many women started down this track with passion, many did not persist.
The Massey University scientist's personal experience of watching talented female friends choose other paths suggested there may be many women who were capable but left before they reached the faculty level. When she began graduate school 13 years ago, half her classmates were female, and many of them thought it would stay that way.
"Those friends and women like them have left science by my stage, as lecturer, because either a partner's job was given preference, family issues took priority or because science was not a good fit."
The challenges women in science faced, said AWIS national convener Dr Esther Haines, were complex and their relative importance varied from person to person. She characterised issues as structural, pragmatic and cultural, but all could interweave.
"Examples of structural issues would be the long training period for scientists - four years for a first degree, and typically four years, or longer, after that to gain a PhD - and the prevalence of short-term contract positions in the early to mid-career stages of an academic career."
Two pragmatic issues that came up frequently were difficulties in accessing high-quality childcare or with finding a job in the same geographic region as a partner, while cultural issues included unconscious bias, stereotype threat and family expectations.
But Dr Gaston said there had been a change in attitudes, or recognition of the problem.
"Sexism was sorted in the 70s, the trope goes, so any remaining difference is a matter of personal choice," she said. "It's definitely harder to get at the remaining causes of gender imbalance in science, but there is a lot of literature now on unconscious bias and stereotype threat, to name two examples, which really serve to highlight that the playing field remains unlevel, due to historical imbalances, despite a lack of concrete barriers in the present day."
Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles, one of New Zealand's best-known scientists, believed the main issue was whether men and women really had the same opportunities to reach high-level positions, and whether they had to achieve equivalent standards to reach that level.
"I have often heard it said that women feel they need to work harder than men to be seen to be as accomplished." Dr Wiles, who completed her PhD in 2000, said a squeeze on availability of research funds worldwide over recent times may have added to the issue as well.
It had become much harder for fledgling scientists to survive in the "postdocalypse" - the period between gaining a PhD and becoming a permanent academic staff member - and with the few post-doctoral positions and mid-career fellowships available in New Zealand, the picture here was particularly dire.
"The postdocalypse is where most people are lost from academia and what isn't clear to me is whether disproportionately more women will end up being lost than men, relative to their abilities," she said.
"For example, if women take time out to have children around this time, they will end up having a less competitive CV compared to their male counterparts."
The Prime Minister's chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, believed this to be a problem.
"I think there are two separate issues - one is the increase in women going into the sciences started probably a couple decades ago, and that's still coming through, but the second issue is the way academics assess CVs, and I've got a lot of criticisms of that," he said. "CVs these days are largely based on the number of publications and the impact of publications, but academia doesn't look more broadly at the person's context very well."
Dr Gaston said CVs and the performance of scientists, especially those early in their career, were repetitively assessed each time they applied for funding.
Another factor was that the career path in science was very narrow and restrictive - and time out of the workforce "hurts a lot".
"Simple changes such as changing criteria for awards or fellowships so that they take this into account - having them limited by years in the workforce, for example - can be a good start to coping with this, but the attitudes are slow to change."
Sir Peter acknowledged this. Change would be needed, and soon.
In interviews of women working in the science sector, undertaken by the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women, pursuing a family at the same time as a research career was a particular issue among retention challenges.
Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble, a University of Auckland chemist and recipient of New Zealand's highest science honour, the Rutherford Medal, said the problem became more pronounced when women engaged in laboratory work returned to work, only to find the technology had advanced.
"It would be nice to see some fellowships offered to enable women to re-enter the workforce after a career break," she said. "These could be directed at the more technical areas of science. Importantly, child rearing also coincides with the critical time when a woman is trying to establish an independent scientific career."
Many institutions were, however, trying to improve their support for women. The University of Otago, for example, offered a Women in Leadership Programme and a mentoring programme for female academic staff.
The Ministry of Women's Affairs is also working to identify ways to improve the pipeline of women in senior management and leadership roles, in science and across all sectors. Minister Jo Goodhew said organisations could improve these pipelines by supporting flexible work practices, addressing unconscious bias, and assisting career "on-and-off ramps" for women.
In the meantime, Dr Gaston believed New Zealand could look at training science funding panels around unconscious bias.
"On the other hand, I don't believe the playing field will be even until we have 50/50 representation - or until a generation has grown up in that environment - so we do still have an uphill battle."
When would the battle be finally won?
There was no simple answer, Dr Haines said.
In a heavily male-dominated area like physics, even if the percentage of women among undergraduates suddenly rose to 50 per cent, it would still take 10 to 20 years for that to start influencing the percentage of women among Performance-Based Research Fund submitted researchers, she said.
For the change to be fully reflected, it would take another 20 to 40 years.
Otago University biochemist Professor Christine Winterbourn, a ground-breaking free-radical researcher and the first female winner of the Rutherford Medal, saw much cause for optimism.
When she was a Chemistry MSc student in the mid-1960s, there were four women in a class of 25.
Today in her field of biochemistry and cell biology, there would most likely be more women than men.
Professor Winterbourn said there were still a good number of women at the student and more junior levels, and believed it was largely a matter of time and demographics for them to rise up through the ranks.
To her, there was clear evidence this was happening. The two subsequent Rutherford Medal award winners after her were both women - Distinguished Professor Brimble and Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond.
"Also, at the ceremony where I received my medal, they gave out a number of awards to more junior scientists, a majority of whom are women," she said. "These are likely to be in the pool of future leaders."
After the career-family crossroads, a helping hand for others
Judy O'Brien knows well the value of having a good mentor when you need one.
As many young professionals do, she arrived at the difficult crossroads between career and family.
She chose to become a full-time mother to four sons, yet stayed connected with her career at the University of Auckland.
But had it not been for her mentor at the time, Professor Dick Bellamy, she might not have been able to maintain that link.
"Dick always stressed how important it was to maintain contact with my field of science so I could come back to it later," she said.
"He enabled this to happen by coming up with part-time opportunities for me."
Dr O'Brien believes her sons will be her greatest legacy but she has been able to enjoy a fulfilling and distinguished career.
Today, she is development director at the university's School of Biological Sciences.
Her role focuses on recruitment and career support for staff and postgraduate students, but she still lectures in a first-year biology class and is involved in school outreach activities at the university.
She co-ordinates the Rotary National Science and Technology Forum at the school, and is a member of the Liggins Educational Network for Science Advisory board.
She strives to be the mentor she had when she was a young mother, although admits the environment today is much different.
In the 1980s, when she was considering coming back on a permanent part-time basis, people would recoil in shock and horror, asking if she realised how psychologically damaging it would be for her children not to have her home 24/7.
"I think the attitude to childcare is now radically different, and it does allow people to find a solution that works without having a guilt trip laid on them."
Balancing the needs of children and career is still a challenge, and many young researchers have approached her for advice, especially in her former role as the school's academic deputy director.
"I used to get a lot of young females, from undergraduates onwards, coming to me because they knew I had taken time out to have children. They wanted to know how I managed it."
She has watched many of the women she has helped go on to thrive in their careers.
And her support hasn't gone unrecognised: last year, she was awarded the inaugural Miriam Dell Award by the Association for Women in the Sciences.
Dr Kate Angel, who nominated Dr O'Brien for the award, described her mentor as someone "who gets things done ..."
Appeal for female applicants
One of Kiwi science's most honoured figures is calling on young female scientists to apply for new fellowships aimed at New Zealand and Australia.
Entries recently opened for the L'Oreal Australia and New Zealand for Women in Science Fellowships, a progression of the prestigious global L'Oreal Unesco For Women In Science International awards, which have been recognising women in science for 16 years.
University of Auckland chemist and Rutherford medallist Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble is part of a global network of 2000 women who have been recognised by the global award - including two who later won the Nobel Prize.
Other New Zealand recipients have included Cawthron Institute research scientist Dr Zoe Hilton, who specialises in oyster research, and Christchurch-based University of Otago kidney researcher Dr Suetonia Palmer.
Distinguished Professor Brimble said L'Oreal NZ had worked hard to enable young New Zealand female scientists to be eligible to apply for what was previously an Australian fellowship.
"These fellowships can be used by the awardees for any purpose to help their careers - including childcare." |
DUMONT, N.J. — Urstadt Biddle Properties (UBP) has purchased an equity interest in a new entity that owns Washington Commons Shopping Center, retail center that includes a residential component in Dumont. The two-building property features a freestanding 44,300-square-foot Stop & Shop and a three-story building that is occupied by retail tenants Valley Medical Group, Great Clips, Pet Valu, Blimpie and that includes 26 residential apartments. The residential unit mix consists of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts. At the time of acquisition, the property was 100 percent leased.
The transaction was structured as a DownREIT partnership whereby the seller, a regional real estate developer, received a combination of cash and operating partnership units in a new entity formed to purchase the property. UBP is the managing member of the newly formed equity and will manage and lease the property. UBP’s initial equity in the DownREIT was approximately $3.9 million, which represents an approximate 31.4 percent equity interest. |
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Alloa deservedly won this basement battle to put some breathing space between themselves and Arbroath at the foot of division two.
Alloa had the advantage of playing with the Gayfield Park wind in the first half and controlled the early proceedings. A neat one-two between Stuart Callaghan and Andy Brown opened up the Arbroath defence, and Neil Inglis did well to push Brown's shot wide for a corner.
Alloa went on to force six corners before the break, and from an in-swinging Callaghan corner Michael Daly should have scored but headed wide from two yards.
Arbroath's only chance of the first half was a Stuart MacDonald free-kick that curled just wide from 20 yards. However, despite their dominance, Alloa's first goal had more than a touch of fortune about it. A speculative effort by Callaghan struck John Cusick leaving the stranded Inglis helpless and the home side a goal down.
After the interval, Alloa continued to look the more dangerous side and doubled their lead after 52 minutes. A swift counter attack resulted in a Dougie Hill cross only being half cleared by Chris McLeod, and Callaghan side-footed home from the edge of the box.
Callaghan was unlucky not to hit his hat-trick when Kevin McMullen cleared his in-swinging corner on to his own bar. However, with seven mintues remaining, Alloa wrapped up the game. A Callaghan corner again struck the bar and appeared to bounce off Steven Rennie and into the net, although Callaghan is claiming the goal. |
Re: Start-up programs
I've got a ton of stuff in the start-up program that I would like to remove. If I remove them from the the Start menu, will I still be able to double click the desktop icon and run the program from there? It seems that all of these programs in the start menu decrease system resources. Deleting these from the start menu would increase my system resources, yes? Thanks... |
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The impasse in the peace process is sending the Middle East back "into the darkness," Jordan's King Abdullah II said in an interview with an Israeli newspaper, parts of which were published on Thursday. "We're sliding back into the darkness," Abdullah told the Tel Aviv-based Haaretz.
The king stated that establishing a Palestinian state was key to a wider peace deal to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. "Is Israel going to be fortress Israel or is it going to be part of the neighbourhood? Because if there is no two-state solution, what future do we all have together?.
"Show me the future of Israel 10 years from now. Where do you want Israel to be vis-a-vis its relationship with Jordan and other Arab countries?
"I understand that you tend to live in the here and now. You are worried about the next threat. It is difficult for an Israeli to look into the future because of the security aspect. But if there is peace and stability, then people can look into the future."
Abdullah also urged Israel to stop settlement activity in Arab east Jerusalem. Jerusalem is "a tinderbox that will have a major flashpoint throughout the Islamic world," he said. "It is important to understand the need of ending all settlement activities and other unilateral actions that threaten the identity of the Holy City." |
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The (un)desirable and (un)wanted girls…
The desire of a male child leads to brutal killing of Afreen
and Falak, clearly stating the message that you are not wanted here. A 23-year-old
woman gets gang-raped in Gurgaon and our super active government comes with a
solution in no time- NO women on streets after 8 pm.
Fortunately if you can
survive the foeticide, infanticide then unfortunately get ready to be raped. Women are assaulted
at will and raped frequently even after marriage by their husband. Many countries
have made spousal rape a criminal offence, not India. It is treated only as a
form of noncriminal domestic violence and accepted as husband’s right.
Being late out at night, drinking, talking, dressing, which
is normal for a guy, if done by a girl, surprisingly becomes a perfect
invitation for getting raped! It needs some strange extraterrestrial logic to
explain this. I guess our police have something to explain here:
“If girls don’t stay within their boundaries, if they don’t wear
appropriate clothes, then naturally there is attraction. This attraction makes men
aggressive, prompting them to just do it.”
“You cannot drive alone at 2 am on Delhi’s
roads and then claim that the Capital is unsafe. You should take your brother
or driver with you. These reasonable precautions are expected to be taken by
all citizens of the city.”
BK Gupta
Delhi Police CommissionerQuite a reasonable precautions! Add one more – only couples to
be allowed in the club must be siblings.
I mean what kind of biological phenomenon is this that a normal
guy turns into a sex-crazy animal ready to rape any possible approachable female. And
then what kind of law is this that blames women for this heinous crime. And then
what kind of humans are we, tolerating this entire nuisance in the society.
In our country a female baby is killed by drowning, force
feeding, abandoning and even burying alive. Our country’s capital is called the
rape capital; where she is not safe even with her husband; where she cannot
move freely and dress liberally. This isn't a sorry state of women, its the sorry state of men.
I feel sad when a girl passing by me and refuses to see into
my eyes avoiding the so called wrong signal of, “inviting to rape”. I feel ashamed
to be considered just another lewd lecherous guy by her. It is a distressing
feeling to live in a society which makes some stupid postulation that the girl’s
pride is above her life and then the same society rapes that pride off just to
prove the point. Why do we need these proponents of gender equality, why do we
need these women right commissions, why do we need special agencies to protect
their rights, why do we need convoluted laws to give them justice? And we call
our system liberal with equal rights to all, what kind of liberalism is this?
Yes, indeed they are undesired and unwanted at the time of
their birth and if by chance they are into this world they are desired and
wanted by these lecherous and obnoxious mentally ill men, who have lost their
morality along with sanity.
28 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Hi Chirayu,
I am not exactly your friend, but I am on your friend list on Facebook and have met you few times as well. But still I am choosing to be anonymous for some reasons. I'll let you know about this reason in last part of my comment.
I have read this argument many a times which u too have put here again that women should not be blamed for rape crimes just because they were not wearing conservative dresses or they were too late out in the night. I completely agree to your argument. I also strongly favour that women should have the liberty to dress or to roam around freely, as they want to be.
But tell me as a prospective father to your children (boy or girl) tomorrow - what would you advice them while going out at nights at some party places (where usually guys are drunk) or while they'll be coming back from office or from some other place ?
Well, if I have to answer this I will say - "Take care while you are outside ... don't roam around much late in the night - as there may be some bad people who can harm you." And this will apply to both my son and my daughter as well. Other than rape (which is normally girl specific ) - they can rob them of their money or may be some drunk guy driving a car can hit them on road Chances of such events increases more in the night time.So I will always advice them (even strictly) that yes you guys have freedom to do whatever you want, but DO Take Precautions. It is the same way when someone advises women to have some knife etc in her bag for such bad guys. And thats what I have grown up listening from my own parents.
My logic is that showing my courage by enjoying my freedom at night, doesn't going to change the attitude of bad guys out there. So shouldn't we take some precautions for ourselves. Changing the attitude of society is a subtle process which will take time. So whats wrong if someone advices a women to take some precautions for her own safety.
This applies to women more not because she is weak but because rape chances are more for them and if something like this happens to her she'll be devastated for lifetime. And I am not saying this because our society treats a raped women like she is some criminal herself, but I am saying this because rape is psychologically a very very bad experience for any individual. If tomorrow rapes of boys start increasing much, the same precautions will apply to them as well !
The administration is doing the same. It is advising the women to take precautions and at the same time they are trying to improve law and order situation. There are various cases where police has shown the positive response in such cases as well. But they can't be available at every place.
And again there are many cases where girls themselves decided to choose the wrong guys ! If a girl trusts a guy without much knowing about him and then she becomes victim of such crimes - agree that she should not be further blamed for this crime, as she has already suffered a big trauma. But can't we even advise other girls to at least know much about the guy before trusting him blindly .. to at least have some precautions ? Is it wrong ?
Now the reason why I am anonymous - because the moment I put this argument before any liberal minded people - they start accusing me that you are of backward mentality .. and comments like that. And no one even tries to listen rationally to my argument.
Go through my comment once more and think about it. I hope I have made some sense.
When a human go to a jungle with full of wild animals - it is always advisable to take precautions .. like be in a group of people, don't go in night etc. Because the wild animals they just need an opportunity to attack humans - they don't go into the logics. What humans can do is - take some precautions.
Of course it is a matter of great shame that our human society is full of such pathetic animals who just need a excuse for raping a girl - but then we can at least take some precautions, before our society grows up to a more human level !
I m in no way justifying the existence of such animals in our society but then I can't think of any solution which will turn our society immediately into a place where each women is treated with respect. Till that time, I think we all need to take some precautions.
Hi Anonymous friend,Indeed my point was to send across the message that we need a society devoid of monsters, which you have also strengthened by your arguments.
Good to see that you took time to put your perspective. And i am happy to see that I was able to convey my message. If I am a father of a boy I will make sure that everytime he goes out, I will advice him to behave humanly. and yes in current situation I will advice my daughter to behave carefully.
I feel its time for bad guys to change, we do not need them anymore.
I will not compare robbery to rape.
I appreciate your viewpoint, what you said would have made equal sense to me even if you would have written in your name.
And you are right change will take time, but hope that time comes soon... :)
And yes I agree (infact already stated it before as well) Rape is not comparable to robbery .. and that is why we tend to ask girl 'only' to have more precautions.
Also I read your Tehlka link on facebook. I had put a statement in my first comment that "administration is doing the same"I would like to clarify for further readers of my comment that my this statement and the one in the Tahlka link are two different point of views.
I don't agree with the Police as quoted in the Tehlka story -
1. They say that almost 90% rapes are consensual sex but gone bad later. Although yes ground realities are always different than what we read in newspaper, but then I can't believe that there are very rare cases of actual rape in NCR region. The incidence of actual rape would be very high than what police wants to believe.
2. Police says that they dress up to invoke others - so that they do rape them. I strongly condemn this statement. As a part of young generation I know we all (boys and girls) tend to dress up to look beautiful/smart, to get some more attention/appreciation in our "friend circle". So this in no way means that a girl is inviting anyone to rape her, not even someone in her friend circle !
A girl may want to have sex with a particular boy (which is in the same way a boy may want to have sex with a particular girl) .. and for this girl may try to attract that particular boy (like a boy tries to flirt with a girl to gain her attention) .. but that doesn't mean that this gives a license to anyone, even that particular guy to rape that girl.
But then girl on her part should consider a little about her dress/timings/taking drugs etc, if she is going to be in a place alone where there may be some drunk unknown lecherous guy. And at the same time Police should be more vigilant and strict to deal with such cases. That is what my whole point is. Freedom is never absolute. It comes always with some reasonable restrictions !
In our society we are still not that much open for sex related issues. Unlike western society, where sex is more taken as a natural need for people, we still think of it as a taboo. And that is also a reason why these things tend to be complex even in friend circle sometimes ! (though yes in western model too there are some flaws)
I would be happy if some more people come to read my comments and give their feedback regarding my views.
respected anonymous sir,let me introduce you to the counter anonymous...:)...please don't mind my grammer..as for the thoughts you will be forced to mind....we are focusing on male to keep humanity...we are blaming the system for the rapes....and not the women....just b,cause we want to kill the mentality of rape....suppose we do according to your advice and let women are ready to be carefull and defend themselves...will rape stops....no...never...offcourse it will diminishes but doesn't extinct.....here we are trying to unroot this curse....and that can will only be ensured by distillation of mentality....girls never say rape me...and what do think thats all b,cause their attire....no it is the work of devil....there are many cases of raping child girls....nuns...village girls....i think their outfit will not be the reason behind that....as of the being alert is concerned...will you like to keep gun in your house or you like to have no terrorist at all....woman can't be blamed....as of being adviced...they got lot of that through out their life....also...as a father surely we will advice both boy and girl to do the right things....and any father will be embraced to have their child drunked and gone ashtray....but this type of offence can be corrected but could you correct a rape..!!dear frnd girls are being taught over the limit...let them have the right to liberty...its true they are not so good at handelling it...but let them try..doesn't they have been guided enough...let them learn on their own....if you want to do some good to them watch them....help them before they fall...doesn't take advantage of their liberty...their liberty is still in its ADOLESCENCE...hope i m expressive....:)
Thanks for commenting and I really didn't mind your reply. However I think you didn't get my point when I asked to imagine as a prospective parent. The line by you which I am putting below were not in sync with my comment -
"also...as a father surely we will advice both boy and girl to do the right things....and any father will be embraced to have their child drunked and gone ashtray....but this type of offence can be corrected but could you correct a rape..!!"
We all agree that rape can't be corrected .. thats why as a guardian or well wisher of my daughter I will adivse her more strongly to take precautions. Also taking precautions is NOT equivalent to putting restriction on freedom. Won't you as a father or mother would adivse your daughter to be little careful during nights .. won't you ask them not to go out with drunk guys ?
I also whole heartedly agree that we need to attack the mentality of boys to uproot this cause, but it will take some 100-200 years before we'll see appreciable change. Till then shouldn't we also make efforts to keep our girls safe ? And at the same time we also trying to strengthen the administration so that such crimes go down. Also at the same time we'll have to teach boys more strong moral lessons. These all three things have to go hand in hand.
I agree that let the girls learn at their own, they are already over advised ... but then if somehow in this particular case, some girls fail to learn at their own .. its cost may be another rape. By advising them others are only helping them in their learning .. And I m saying only advise them, but don't put any restrictions on them. Let them choose what is right for them.
And at the same time, advise should not be taken as a symbol of any backward mentality. Today even if some parents say something for children's own good, they tends to ignore it in name of their freedom rights. A lot many boys defy their parents, but unlike girls in boy's cases, if something wrong happens, boys don't have to go through rape. So thats why parents tend to advise girls more and girls should at least listen to the parents if they are saying something good for them.
I too wa my daughter to enjoy as much freedom as my son, but more than that, I won't be able to see if something wrong like rape happens to her. Society will change gradually and till then all three things (explained before) will go hand in hand.
P.S. - Here is the link to the story which was put by Chirayu and I too have referred it in one of my comments - http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=Ne140412Coverstory.asp
I just read a comment on facebook - somebody describing it as fight b/w anonymous vs anonymous.
Well I would like to say its not fight first of all, since we all agree for the end goal - there is no doubt about. Its just about some apsects of our approach which is also common in two respects ie strengthen law and install strong moral values in boys. The third one that whether girls should be advised or not - there is slight difference with my opinion.
Also there is no doubt about the fact that we should not curtail the freedom of girls .. again repeating that Advising someone is NOT equivalent to curtailing his/her freedom.
I too blog sometimes but then if I had put these things on my blog then I was afraid of too much bashing and things would have turned to ego fights rather than healthy discussion. Thats why I am anonymous and as Chirayu's blog has good number of reader, so I guess I can get some neutral arguments in response to my views. So please don't see it as fight or something !
now i got that you are concerned with immediate steps and also that you are not denying our purpose also....you just want to add some more steps...like cleaning our home first....i m agreed with you...and the steps mentioned by you are also taken, its other thing that they were not preffered....and i think that other points like changing the mentality and the system....are more important and thus should be given more prefference.as for the improving the morals of girls are concerned...many article and notices...has been published in many newspapers....and beside basic advices they are provided with many equipments like...sprays...karate classes etc..it is true that they should be motivated towards these things....you are right if you are urging for their awareness....to kill that devil certainly we have to be prepared and attack from every end......but if we talk about whom to blame.....we can't blame girls.if they are unattentive,careless,or uninformed...that doesn't mean that they want us to do the wrong deed.being careless will lead you to death in an road accident...b,cause there was not enough time to think.....but what if a girl gone careless in front of us....we always have enough time and sense to judge whats right and whats wrong.....therefore....for rape cases women can't be blamed...teaching is better option than blaming....its always better to find a SOLUTION than to give the ANSWER.....
i m totally agreed with my anonymous brother about the misunderstanding of our so called fight....its not that but its other way round....actually we are learning from each other..and thats i think is what counts more in life.....:)
"That everyone who advises girls doesn't mean that they are blaming girls for rapes."
I also condemned the statement given by some police officers because they were more blaming the girls rather than advising others.
But what happens these days that even if someone tries to advise a girl in these matters - it is either taken as that they are blaming the girls itself for rape or it is seen as attack on girls freedom or seen as a symbol of backward mentality .. which is not right !
i think chirayu....that as the other anonymous has said(lets not treat him as rapist....after all he put good points which can't be ignored...at all...and dares...so that we got chance to analyse the topic from both sides...)....we should advice girls to take precautions till we are able to change the mentality....,don;t take his word as blame to girls and also dont compare him with those bloody policemen...its not about blaming....its like be carefull till the job is done....m i right mr. anonymous...?..i think now the matter really is how to tackle it....as i have said earlier..we need solution....not answer....:)
ohh i doesn't mean that it was just...i think it would have been better if i had put a ( :) ) with that sentence....:)..dear that was without any offence....yes the solution lies within ourselves...but beside...introspection...we can share the actions that can be taken....like i think it will be right to remove black film from car's windows...and pubs should have a good watch over their costmer...
Agree that a guys has no right to rape a girl even if girl is drunk or on drugs (I think u meant this only)... for that I said that we need to install strong moral in boys. And the blog posts like these does send the same message. But again change will take time ... till that time its better if girls can take few precautions and avoid such things. Girls do have liberty to have drinks/drugs etc but then they can be a little more careful about their environment/company.
For instance there is one comment in Tehlka story by a police officer -
"If a girl asks for a birthday party and is alone with 2-3 boys and sees they are drinking, she knows what is likely to happen. When she herself goes for such a party, she can’t complain of rape. How can you call it rape if she is sitting and drinking with them? You are a student and have brain of your own. Why are you going out with them?"
In this case ofcouse a guy has no right to rape the girl, but girl could have avoided this trauma easily had she chosen the right persons or decided not to join them at the first instance. If I can avoid easily going into a lion's den, why should I go then ?
Now I am not generalizing that all the rape cases could have avoided if girl had taken such precautions, but then certainly a few can be avoided. This is evident from the many cases reported in newspapers. And yes there are many more cases when girls have no fault of their but still they have to go through such inhumane experience !
Again clarifying this doesn't mean that I am blaming the girl here, I just want other girls to be more careful while exercising their freedom.
And yes as the Anonymous-3 has interperated me right. Thanks for understanding my point.
And precisely Anonymous-3, we need Solutions .. I also can vent out my frustrations about these rape crimes by saying that the mentality of boys is wrong and it needs to be changed, which is correct, but before that will happen, I also have to ensure that no more girls should go through such trauma anymore and that needs some practical steps taken by girls along with efforts of adminstartion and police.
a..i think we are two there is no one else as anonymous...beside ourselves...and chirayu is known to both of us...:).....what about putting a compulsary course in indian education system...'how to interact'....maximum....girls and boys dont know how to interact each other till they cross the age of i think aprox....20yrs....they keep guessing and fantasying...about each other...they starts doing thing secretly and thus god knows how much misconceptions they create about each other....
aint women getting raped in the day? who are these bad guys?dont good guys also turn bad when the animal inside them is uncontrollable?forget about partying and drinking in the night, is a woman safe walking in a saree during the night?is a woman safe inside her own house? aint there more cases of rape wid women who belongs to family where short clothes aint even allowed?
instead of advising our sons or daughters about why not to roam around late in the night or patying, wouldnt it be better if we upbring our kids in a manner where they learn to respect a woman whether drunk or sober?
Why would you want to connect rape with nightlife? why only partying and drinking?
The rape happens any and every hour of the day. Do you intend to say that drinks and short clothes after 8 invites rape or rapists?
Is it really a crime for a girl to wear short clothes?
Men can get drunk and do whatever and women are aske to wear sarees and hide inside their houses.
We can have men raoming topless on roads and women cant even wear short clothes. men roam on the beaches in VIP underwears disgustingly and women are asked to cover themselves so that no one oggles.
we are indeed a male oriented and dominated society and it is very sick!
Yes, we need proper sex education in our system. But we do have moral science in our curriculum, which I guess is not helping much. And as I said before and the anonymous guy above also believes, the change lies withing, we should be responsible enough to not to do these things, society will change. And yes our society is not exemplary, but if we want we can make one. I still believe in fact that society should not be such, that girls have to be concerned about rape while going out.
Phew, Chiryau, you are fighting a strong battle for us women!!! Thank you!!! Yes,we have the right to wear what we please, go out whenever and yes, it is sad state of affairs that I cannot do what I choose to--having known many many women who were raped and suffered incest and having been molested myself--not only am I scared of the dark outside and the bars, I am scared of the well-lighted home, a doctor's chamber, a sophisticated office interior, a nice-looking car--fear stalks everywhere, even when you are fully clothed and with no makeup.
This is what I feel about what you wrote. May be I'd seem swaying away from the issue of rape in my reply, but it's just an attempt to verbalize what I feel about such problems/issues from holistic viewpoint. It might sound a bit brash, impractical, and may be censuring to you, but my intention is not :P. Though I might also be faulty at places but I have written it according to my present level of awareness and understanding of life.
Having read this article, I could understand two things - 1. It's again about accusing and cursing the society for it's evils, this time rape 2. It panics and frightens me, both as a girl and boy, about the plight situation of this world without giving me an insight into the root cause of why someone rapes, and what as an individual, I can do about it.
I feel the changes you desire can not be brought at societal level by imposing a suppressive discipline on people, be it the restriction of girls not going out after 8 PM or urging men, again and again, to be controlled and contained in their sexual desires. How can you change society? It don't even exist in physical form. It's just a concept created by our mind. It's just a name give to accumulation of us with all our positive (e.g. love, compassion, trust) and negative qualities (e.g. anger, hatred, anguish) and what you want is to morph it into something better like an industrial batch process. That's not possible. You can't even hold all the negativities together, so how can you modify it.
I feel that change can happen only at individual level, by us growing in our awareness, understanding our mind's functioning, getting out of that consuming mind's momentum which enslaves us everyday, by getting aligned to our natural make up, and by being more connected to the life-force or existence. Then only a balance can be manifested and world can become a better place. (or May be world doesn't have to be a better place. It's just a mindful wish of ours, not the intention of life :P).
We as individuals need to take a decision and change our attitude towards getting more connected to natural/higher intelligence, which is unquestionably and unarguably larger than our mind's intelligence. It orchestrates the whole universe after all :). Only then we would be able to put forth decisions/solutions consciously to the society/humanity unlike our leaders/politicians/social workers who keeps pushing solutions originating totally from their conditioned, pattern-based, lack-based mind. I feel that before starting the journey of changing society, we must embark on the journey of understanding/changing ourselves.
Coming to reason of why someone rapes, I shall not delve deeper into psychology, but somewhere I know that it's another form of negativity stuffed in a person and being spewed out in form of monstrous (or May be not monstrous because it's your brain/mind which is assessing. Life doesn't assess. :P) act of rape. The same negativity could also drive someone to do other fiendish acts like robbery, murder et al. But the root cause is same, negativity, it's just manifesting itself in various forms. Size of this manifestation could be as small as getting unconsciously angry on someone or as large as raping someone.
I feel that society doesn't need a revolution. We need it as individuals!
I would also like to know, out of my curiosity, about the drive/place in you where this article came from. Is it a real situation you went through and the agony or frustration you are feeling from it? Is it the motivation coming from the fact that you are feeling sulky about the society/world around you and want to change it? Is it that you want to foray into a career of social journalism?
@anirudhI am sorry I did not get what you want to say@BhavnaI feel really sad when I hear about these things. :(@AbhishekWhat i got out of your comment is, that you too mean to say that change is needed to be brought from within. I have been emphasizing this time and again that I do not wish to compare other crimes to Rape. I also understand our society is not an ideal one. What other people have been discussing and you too will approve is that till the time our society doesn't reach the levels of higher morality or in your words higher intelligence these things wont stop. And that's what depresses me, and that's what provokes me to write. Each and every post of my blog originates from my heart and my mind supports it to write, with only one wish that if my post is able to help or change (for good) even a single person, i have done my job...
From societal, judemental, or in terms of measuring the heinousness of the act and then punishing the culprit is concerned, you won't compare various forms of crimes. But to me, holistically, they are all same, originating from the same root cause of negativity instilled in us. I feel rape comes when someone is deeply lost in the dimension of hatred in his/her mind.
Morality and intelligence are two different things to me. Morality, as I understand, is another form of imposed discipline and can not bring forth a real/authentic change.
The wish that world should reach a fancy state of ideality has been resonating since ages. But look at history, it has never been achieved. The whole past of humanity has been spent in striving/chasing that dreamt of state for world, but every time nature/life/existence infuses the bad things in world just to create a contrast, just to enjoy the play. Because only through contrast we can experience the good things in life.
For my next point, I'm skeptical, I'm still ruminating, but I'm expressing - If it depresses you, you are taking it too seriously, from the narrow viewpoint of your brain, not from the wholeness of life. If you realize the oneness of all lifeforms, you will realize that zillions of rapes/forced matings are happening everyday and life doesn't asses. And if it's provoking you, then it might again be an unconscious reaction from your brain, not a response coming from a place of wisdom.
Despite saying all this, I whole-heartedly support your INTENTION: "...with only one wish that if my post is able to help or change(for good) even a single person, I have done my job"
My last question (from anyone who reads it): Say a person has raped someone. Should he be punished severely? Should he be looked upon from the eyes of abhorrence? Should he be ousted from the society? Would you marry (if you are a girl) him even if you know he is a rapist?
P.S - By using the word wisdom/intelligence I dont' intend to question your intelligence anywhere :P- By saying all this I don't mean to support rape.
I appreciate your comment :) and its perfectly ok to challenge any of my arguments of even intelligence :)
I always believe in a positive change and will keep the hope. It's always easy to blame society etc. but to blame ourselves and work for a change. And I am not oblivion to reality, also I do understand what state we live in, what happens around.I live in a composed manner, but things like these are not acceptable to me, to my conscience. And about rape comes for hatred!!, Seems quite bizarre to me, will definitely not approve of this. I feel, Morality is not an imposed discipline, if you say self imposed I may agree, and it surely has power to bring a change.
I used hatred as an overarching term for different reasons which motivate someone to commit a rape. These reasons, as I can think of, are hatred towards opposite sex (female here), deprivation of love from closed ones and others, imbalance in expression of sexuality and bitterness and hatred towards life in general.
What I meant to say is that when the quality of hatred, as compared to other qualities - love, joy, fear, boredom, is overpowering in someone's mind he/she would be more susceptible to commit a rape.
Very well written, but I agree with anonymous, to some extent we are trying to create a utopia by imagining to alleviate all the bad things. In no way I am trying to say that those police men are right. But one have to protect herself, this can happen with you in any part of the world. There is a constant conflict between evil and good, yin and yang. The overall condition of girls in India is bad I agree, but I think the girls always invite dreadful things, by going after a wrong person. There are many views,hard to write everything here....
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) cause significant economic and ecological damage worldwide. Despite considerable efforts, a comprehensive understanding of the factors that promote these blooms has been lacking because the biochemical pathways that facilitate their dominance relative to other phytoplankton within specific environments have not been identified. Here, biogeochemical measurements demonstrated that the harmful 43 Aureococcus anophagefferens outcompeted co-occurring phytoplankton in estuaries with elevated levels of dissolved organic matter and turbidity and low levels of dissolved inorganic nitrogen. We subsequently sequenced the first HAB genome (A. anophagefferens) and compared its gene complement to those of six competing phytoplankton species identified via metaproteomics. Using an ecogenomic approach, we specifically focused on the gene sets that may facilitate dominance within the environmental conditions present during blooms. A. anophagefferens possesses a larger genome (56 mbp) and more genes involved in light harvesting, organic carbon and nitrogen utilization, and encoding selenium- and metal-requiring enzymes than competing phytoplankton. Genes for the synthesis of microbial deterrents likely permit the proliferation of this species with reduced mortality losses during blooms. Collectively, these findings suggest that anthropogenic activities resulting in elevated levels of turbidity, organic matter, and metals have opened a niche within coastal ecosystems that ideally suits the unique genetic capacity of A. anophagefferens and thus has facilitated the proliferation of this and potentially other HABs. |
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, second left, has given world leaders a video pep talk before the summit in Addis Ababa, which will decide how to finance the sustainable development goals.
Photograph: UN Photo
Financing the sustainable development goals will rely heavily on the tax factor | Jonathan Glennie
“Our goal is to end poverty and hunger, and to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions through promoting inclusive economic growth, protecting the environment, and promoting social inclusion. We commit to respect all human rights, including the right to development. We will ensure gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment. We will promote peaceful and inclusive societies and advance fully towards an equitable global economic system where no country or person is left behind, enabling decent work and productive livelihoods for all, while preserving the planet for our children and future generations.”
Campaigners say financing must reflect this ambition. This is what the outcome document says:
“Solutions can be found, including through strengthening public policies, regulatory frameworks and finance at all levels, unlocking the transformative potential of people and the private sector, and incentivizing changes in financing as well as consumption and production patterns to support sustainable development.”
There are also strong words on gender equality, but these will need to be matched, campaigners say, with firm funding commitments:
“We recommit to adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels, ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms.”
But the SDG targets will not be formally adopted until March 2016, meaning that the conference will have to decide on financing before figuring out how progress will be measured.
How much money is currently spent on development?
Domestic investment accounted for a third of all funding currently available for developing countries in 2012, while foreign aid made up just 0.4% of the total. “Domestic resources that developing countries raise themselves will be the largest single resource for funding development in most countries,” said Jesse Griffiths, director of European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad).
This funding is being “tragically undermined” by international tax evasion and avoidance, which cost developing countries hundreds of billions of dollars every year, Griffiths said.
Reducing illicit financial flows by 2030, with a view to eventually eliminating them. Campaigners have long noted that such illicit flows coupled with aggressive tax avoidance, repatriation of profits and debt repayments are depriving developing nations of much-needed resource
Setting out a new social compact to provide “fiscally sustainable and nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all”
Financing for low-carbon and climate resilient development. The draft outcome document says: “Public and private investments in innovations and clean technologies will be needed, while keeping in mind that new technologies will not substitute for efforts to reduce waste or efficiently use natural resources.”
What are the main challenges?
The world’s increasingly volatile financial outlook means that finding the money to pay for the SDGs will be difficult. The Greek debt crisis, China’s economic slowdown and a host of pressing humanitarian emergencies, including Syria’s civil war and Europe’s migration crisis, are clamouring for donors’ attention.
And the stakes? As the words used repeatedly to describe the summit – critical, key, historic – indicate, they could not be higher.
In a video pep talk for world leaders posted on YouTube in May, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said, “This year, we can make history by adapting an ambitious, sustainable development agenda and a universal climate agreement. But without the right financing and policies, we cannot achieve our ambitions… Addis Ababa can be the starting point for a new era of global partnership.”
Owning your own development policy. The draft accord says, “Each country has primary responsibility for its own economic and social development and the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasised.” International systems do have a role to play, though, through trade, monetary and financial systems, and strengthened global economic governance
Guidelines for debtor and creditor responsibilities in sovereign borrowing and lending
Improved data to monitor impact of development spending and progress toward goals
Particular measures to help least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states |
module tests.it.runtime.regressions;
import tests.it.runtime;
import reggae.reggae;
import std.path;
@("Issue 14: builddir not expanded")
@Tags(["ninja", "regressions"])
unittest {
with(immutable ReggaeSandbox()) {
writeFile("reggaefile.d", q{
import reggae;
enum ao = objectFile(SourceFile("a.c"));
enum liba = Target("$builddir/liba.a", "ar rcs $out $in", [ao]);
mixin build!(liba);
});
writeFile("a.c");
runReggae("-b", "ninja");
ninja.shouldExecuteOk;
}
}
@("Issue 12: can't set executable as a dependency")
@Tags(["ninja", "regressions"])
unittest {
with(immutable ReggaeSandbox()) {
writeFile("reggaefile.d", q{
import reggae;
alias app = scriptlike!(App(SourceFileName("main.d"),
BinaryFileName("$builddir/myapp")),
Flags("-g -debug"),
ImportPaths(["/path/to/imports"])
);
alias code_gen = target!("out.c", "./myapp $in $out", target!"in.txt", app);
mixin build!(code_gen);
});
writeFile("main.d", q{
import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;
import std.conv;
void main(string[] args) {
auto inFileName = args[1];
auto outFileName = args[2];
auto lines = File(inFileName).byLine.
map!(a => a.to!string).
map!(a => a ~ ` ` ~ a);
auto outFile = File(outFileName, `w`);
foreach(line; lines) outFile.writeln(line);
}
});
writeFile("in.txt", ["foo", "bar", "baz"]);
runReggae("-b", "ninja");
ninja.shouldExecuteOk;
["cat", "out.c"].shouldExecuteOk;
shouldEqualLines("out.c",
["foo foo",
"bar bar",
"baz baz"]);
}
}
@("Issue 10: dubConfigurationTarget doesn't work for unittest builds")
@Tags(["ninja", "regressions"])
unittest {
import std.path;
import std.file;
with(immutable ReggaeSandbox()) {
writeFile("dub.json", `
{
"name": "dubproj",
"configurations": [
{ "name": "executable", "targetName": "foo"},
{ "name": "unittest", "targetName": "ut"}
]
}`);
writeFile("reggaefile.d", q{
import reggae;
alias ut = dubConfigurationTarget!(Configuration(`unittest`),
CompilerFlags(`-g -debug -cov`));
mixin build!ut;
});
mkdir(buildPath(testPath, "source"));
writeFile(buildPath("source", "src.d"), q{
unittest { static assert(false, `oopsie`); }
int add(int i, int j) { return i + j; }
});
writeFile(buildPath("source", "main.d"), q{
import src;
void main() {}
});
runReggae("-b", "ninja");
ninja.shouldFailToExecute(testPath);
}
}
|
DOT Physicals
Beginning October 15, DOT Physicals at the Chipola Quick Care location will only be available Monday-Friday 7AM-7PM. Weekend DOT Physicals plan to resume in early December.
Chipola Quick Care – 850.526.6700 |
About Us
The board members of the Swainsboro-Emanuel County Joint Development Authority (SECJDA) have the experience to help your business succeed. We realize that where a company is located has a significant impact on its ability to control costs, generate income and maximize business productivity. SECJDA is a one-stop organization that assists in all your location or expansion needs. There is no red tape. You get immediate answers to your questions. The city and county governments and the SECJDA work together to provide incentive packages, based on job creation and private investment, that help your business become profitable in the shortest amount of time.
SECJDA realizes that your location/expansion is on a definite timeline. We help you meet that timeline with seven different industrial parks to choose from, some of which have pad ready sites with all infrastructure in place. For other sites, we are in the process of “certifying” sites by doing the preparation work in advance, such as environmental studies, geotechnical studies and others, to minimize time to ground breaking and to meet your critical timelines. One 40 acre pre-qualified site is already in place with all utilities at the site. A 51 Acre Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development (GRAD) site is located at the Airport industrial park and adjacent to the the four-lane U.S. 1 By-pass.
Our newest park, the Highway 297 Industrial Park, 376 acres with rail, has all utilities at the site with construction to begin in late Summer 2018 to put water and sewer on site.
Another significant factor is our county and labor draw area can provide qualified labor at the right wages and salaries. Plus, if you meet certain criteria, the state of Georgia, through its Quick Start Program, can provide free training for your new employees. There are many reasons to choose Emanuel County. Please contact us to set up a visit so that we can show you why you should come to Emanuel County!
Jack Bareford
President
478-237-6426
jbareford@goemanuel.org
Our Board Members
Will Donaldson
Chairman
Wade JohnsonVice Chairman
Tim GarrettMember
Butch FryeMember
Rufus YoumansMember
Greg BennettMember
Kenny GriffinMember
Richard McNeelyBoard Attorney
Our Staff
Ken WarnockChief Executive Officer, Swainsboro-Emanuel County Chamber of Commerce and Joint Development Authority |
from pyomo.environ import *
# create the concrete model
model = ConcreteModel()
# set the data (native python data)
k1 = 5.0/6.0 # min^-1
k2 = 5.0/3.0 # min^-1
k3 = 1.0/6000.0 # m^3/(gmol min)
caf = 10000.0 # gmol/m^3
# create the variables
model.sv = Var(initialize = 1.0, within=PositiveReals)
model.ca = Var(initialize = 5000.0, within=PositiveReals)
model.cb = Var(initialize = 2000.0, within=PositiveReals)
model.cc = Var(initialize = 2000.0, within=PositiveReals)
model.cd = Var(initialize = 1000.0, within=PositiveReals)
# create the objective
model.obj = Objective(expr = model.cb, sense=maximize)
# create the constraints
model.ca_bal = Constraint(expr = (0 == model.sv * caf \
- model.sv * model.ca - k1 * model.ca \
- 2.0 * k3 * model.ca ** 2.0))
model.cb_bal = Constraint(expr=(0 == -model.sv * model.cb \
+ k1 * model.ca - k2 * model.cb))
model.cc_bal = Constraint(expr=(0 == -model.sv * model.cc \
+ k2 * model.cb))
model.cd_bal = Constraint(expr=(0 == -model.sv * model.cd \
+ k3 * model.ca ** 2.0))
# run the sequence of square problems
solver = SolverFactory('ipopt')
model.sv.fixed = True
sv_values = [1.0 + v * 0.05 for v in range(1, 20)]
print(" %s %s" % (str('sv'.rjust(10)), str('cb'.rjust(10))))
for sv_value in sv_values:
model.sv = sv_value
solver.solve(model)
print(" %s %s" %(str(model.sv.value).rjust(10),\
str(model.cb.value).rjust(15)))
|
<template lang="html">
<div>
<b-modal
ref="tokenModal"
:title="$t('interface.tokens.modal.title')"
hide-footer
class="bootstrap-modal nopadding max-height-1"
centered
static
lazy
@hidden="resetCompState"
>
<form class="tokens-modal-body" @keydown.enter.prevent>
<div>
<input
v-model="tokenAddress"
v-validate="'required'"
:class="[
'custom-input-text-1',
tokenAddress !== '' && !validAddress ? 'invalid-address' : ''
]"
:placeholder="$t('interface.tokens.modal.ph-contract-addr')"
name="Address"
type="text"
/>
<span
v-show="tokenAddress !== '' && !validAddress"
class="error-message"
>
{{ $t('interface.tokens.modal.error.addr') }}
</span>
<input
v-model="tokenSymbol"
:placeholder="$t('interface.tokens.modal.ph-symbol')"
name="Symbol"
type="text"
class="custom-input-text-1"
/>
<input
v-model="tokenDecimal"
:placeholder="$t('interface.tokens.modal.ph-decimals')"
name="Decimal"
type="number"
min="0"
max="18"
class="custom-input-text-1"
/>
<span
v-show="tokenDecimal < 0 || tokenDecimal > 18"
class="error-message"
>
{{ $t('interface.tokens.modal.error.decimals') }}
</span>
</div>
<div class="button-block">
<button
:class="[
allFieldsValid ? '' : 'disabled',
'save-button large-round-button-green-filled clickable'
]"
@click.prevent="addToken(tokenAddress, tokenSymbol, tokenDecimal)"
>
{{ $t('common.save') }}
</button>
<interface-bottom-text
:link-text="$t('common.help-center')"
:question="$t('common.dont-know')"
link="https://kb.myetherwallet.com"
/>
</div>
</form>
</b-modal>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import InterfaceBottomText from '@/components/InterfaceBottomText';
import { mapState } from 'vuex';
import { isAddress } from '@/helpers/addressUtils';
export default {
components: {
'interface-bottom-text': InterfaceBottomText
},
props: {
addToken: {
type: Function,
default: function () {}
}
},
data() {
return {
tokenAddress: '',
tokenSymbol: '',
tokenDecimal: '',
validAddress: false
};
},
computed: {
...mapState('main', ['web3']),
allFieldsValid() {
if (!this.validAddress) return false;
if (this.tokenSymbol === '') return false;
if (
this.tokenDecimal < 0 ||
this.tokenDecimal > 18 ||
this.tokenDecimal === ''
)
return false;
if (
this.errors.has('address') ||
this.errors.has('symbol') ||
this.errors.has('decimal')
)
return false;
return true;
}
},
watch: {
tokenAddress(newVal) {
const strippedWhitespace = newVal.toLowerCase().trim();
const regTest = new RegExp(/[a-zA-Z0-9]/g);
this.validAddress =
regTest.test(strippedWhitespace) && isAddress(strippedWhitespace);
this.toAddress = strippedWhitespace;
this.tokenAddress = strippedWhitespace;
},
tokenSymbol(newVal) {
this.tokenSymbol = newVal.substr(0, 7);
}
},
methods: {
resetCompState() {
this.tokenAddress = '';
this.tokenSymbol = '';
this.tokenDecimal = '';
this.validAddress = false;
}
}
};
</script>
<style lang="scss" scoped>
@import 'InterfaceTokensModal.scss';
</style>
|
På skive
MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT
«In It»
ASTRAL SPIRITS
«In It» is the sophomore release of the American free jazz-underground duo of sax player Michael Foster, known from the Andrew Barker Trio, Weasel Walter Large Ensemble and New York Review of Cocksucking, and drummer Ben Bennett, following their self-produced, digital download-only 2015 debut «». «In It» still keeps the underground spirit and is published by the Texan label Astral Spirits as a limited-edition of 150 cassette tapes plus digital download.
«In It» was recorded during two days on May 2016 in Brooklyn. Foster and Bennett departure point is John Coltrane iconic sax and drums duets with drummer Rashied Ali (as captured on the «Interstellar Space», Impulse, 1974). There is a similar spiritual vein, especially on the ritualistic, folksy introduction. But later on Foster and Bennett emphasize that both sketch their own independent course and don’t subscribe only the American blues and jazz legacies, in their many incarnations, Both are willing to embraces rock and punk aesthetics and their improvisation strategies owe much to the European school of free-improvisation. Both sound as more inspired now by John Butcher and Mats Gustafsson or Han Bennink and Paul Lovens than the classic Coltrane-Ali duet.
The intimate yet stormy duet feature both Foster and Bennett all over their instruments, pushing themselves and their instruments sonic ranges into the most extreme terrains. Foster talks and shouts through the saxes mouthpieces and often uses his instruments as percussive instruments in addition to his strong rhythmic articulation while Bennett blows on his membranes as if there were reeds instruments. Both have developed such a close affinity that they can shift the level of intensity and energy within a second or instantly alternate between a muscular, roaring blow-out and an abstract, almost silent sonic searches. There is a sense of thematic development to Foster and Bennett performance as both communicate a kind of story full of hair-raising adventures and wild twists that demands a certain showmanship. No doubt, these two hard-working improvisers know how to keep their audience alert and attentive. |
IN THE
(
COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
OF TEXAS
JOSE GONZALES 111,
Petitioner/
THE STATE OF TEXSS/
Appellee.
COURT OF CRIMINALappeals
PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS
AUG 05 2015
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
Abe) Acosta, Clerk
CAUSE NO. 13-13-00011-CR.
ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE NO
TABLE OF CONTENTS I.
INDEX OF AUTHORITIES II-IV.
STATEMENT REGARDING ORAL ARGUMENT Vo
STATEMENT OF THE CASE . o - . . VI .
STATEMENT REGARDING PROCEDURAL HISTORY.. VII.
GROUNDS FOR REVIEW • - VIII-I3i>:
ARGUMENTS AND AUTHORITIES 1-16.
CONCLUSION 16.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF. «... - 16.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 16.
APPENDIX... end.
I.
IINDEX OF AUTHORITIES
TEXAS CASE: PAGE NO.
BELL Mr. STATE, 356 S.W.3d:528. ... 1.
DRAKE v.hSTATE, 686 S.W.2a 935,944 7.
ERVlM:ivu; STATE, 991 S.W.2d 804,814 3.
EX PARTE CASTILLO, 432 S,W.3d 457.... • ...4,5.
EX PARTE CAVAZOS, 203 S=W.3d 333 4,5.
EX PARTE DUFFY, 607 S.W.2d 507 16 =
EX PARTE RATHNELL, 717 S.W.2d 33,36 .-5.
GIRDY V. STATE, 213 S.W.3d 315,319 3.
GARCIA V. STATE, 919 S.W.2d 370,381... . 2.
HOLLY V.STATE/ 469 S.W.2d 136,137...... 7.
LACY V. STATE, 160 TEX.CRIM.9599261773 .W.2d 139^141 7.
MENDOZA y. STATE, 1 S.W.3d 829 . . . 1.
PHILLIPS V. STATE, 787 S.W.2a 391-95 5.
RUSSEL V. STATE, 146 S.W.Sd 705,714..,.........^. 11.
VAUGHN v.SSTATE, 239 S.W.3d 351 4.
VON BYRD V. STATE, 569 S.W.2d 883,890-91.. ... 11.
WILLIAMS V. STATE, 897 S.W.2d 351, CERT.DENIED 516 U.S. 946... 9-10.
YGLESIAS V. STSTB/: 252 S.W.3d 733S(HDfii®E^^iREP'D 1.
CRAWFORD V. STATE, 685 S.W.2d 343,349-50 ..x....,ll.
LANDERS V. STATE, 957 S.W.2d 558r560... 5.
FEDERAL CASES:
MAYOLA V. ALABAMA, 623 F.2d 992,998. (5TH CIR.1980) 11.
U.S. V. DURHAM, 287 F.3D 1297,1304 (llTH CIR.2002). 2.
SUPREME COURT CASES:
BENTON V . •iHARYLAND , 395 U.S. 784 3.
BLOCKBURGER V. U.S., 284 U.S. 294 3.
BROWN V.OOHIO, 432 U.S. 161 3.
FARETTA V. CALIFORNIA, 422 U.S. 806,821 .... 12.
GRADY V. CORBIN, 495 U.S. 299 3-
ILLINIOS V. VITALE, U.S. 410 3.
STRICKLAND, 466 U.S. 688 ...............6,7,8,12,16
TRAVINO V. THALER/ 569 U.S.^ (2013). 16.
UNITED STATES V. CRONIC, 466 AT? 656-57 . 12.
U.S. V. DIXON/ 509 U.S. 688 3.
II.
AUTHORITIES CONT:
PAGE NO^
TEXAS CONSTITUTION:
TEX.CONST. ARTICLE 1 § 14 3.
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION:
U.S.C.A. CONST, amend 5 ......... 3,
U,S.C.A. CONST. AMEND 6 1/2,6/8,12,
11/13.
U.S.C.A. (pClNST. AMEND 3j4 ......................................X,2/6,8,12,
11/13.
TEXAS STATUTES:
V.T.C.A. PENALCOODE § 19.03 (a)(2) ...4,7.
V.T.C.A. PENAL CODE § 30.02(a)(2) ..4,
V.T.e.A. PENAL CODE § 22.02 5.
V.T.C.A. PENALCOODE § 8.01 13,14,15.
V.T.C.A. PENAL CODE § 3.04 (a) 7.
FAMILY CODE § 71.003 5.
FAMILY CODE § 71.0021 (b) ....5.
EAMILY CODE § 71.005 (b) 5.
TITLE 7 PENAL CODE 7.
TITLE 5 PENALCOODE .,..7.
V.T.C.C.P. ART.l.lOd) . . 3^
V.T.C.C.P. ART.1,14 8.
V.T.C.C.P. ART.21.24. . . 5^7^
V.T.C.C.P. ART.31.01.. .....11.
V.T.C.C.P-AART.31.03(a) .9.
V.T.C.C.P. ART.42.12 (d)(8)(c)... 12.
V.T.C.C.P. ART.46.03. . . 14.
CRIMINAL LAW;
CRIMINALILaW KEYNOTE-144 4.
CRIMINAL LAW KEYNOTS!620 . ( 3 ) .
CRIMINAL LAW KEYNOTE-641.13 ( 2) 7.
CRIMINAL LAW KEYNOTE-637 . 2
CRIMINAL LAW KEYNOTE-773 13.
INDICTMENT AND INFORMATION KEYNOTE-127
INDICTMENT AND INFORMATION KEYNOTE-129(1) 6.
OTHER STATUTES:
V.T.C.A. PENAL CODE § 3.01(a) .7.
III.
AUTHORITIES CONT:
PAGE NO.
88 P.A.291 (1879) .16,
IV.
STATEMENT REGARDING ORAL ARGUMENT
EETITIONER URGES THE COURT TO ALLOW ORAL ARGUMENT FOR THE FOLLOWING
REASONS; TO WIT:
petitioner's claim of double jeopardy is based on the Gavazos casg
203 S.W-3d 333 (Tex.Grim-App.2006) and the Castillo case that the
State cited in its brief: Ex parte Castillo/ 432 S.W.3d 433 (Tex.App.
-San Antonio 2014/no pet-h-).
Furthermore/ this error is an error whether objected to or not.
Petitioner briefed said error in his Pro/se brief which the 13th
Court of Appeals failed to adjudicate oniits merits.
Because their is a misjoinder issue in multiple count indictment
Petitioner needs futher redress from the Court of Appeals to address
said grounds. Also because the, record was fully developed before the
Court Petitioner claimed ineffective assistance of counsels on both
direct appeal as well as trial attorneys. Fetitoner should be given
the full adjudication of ineffective assistance of counsel as outlined
in Trevino v. Thaler/569 U.S. (2013). Furthermore/ Petitioner urges
the Court for oral argument that Petitioner's attorney on direct appeal
filed Anders brief and motion to withdraw/ the Court assigned Stephen
W. Byrne as attorney who filed motion to withdraw based on ill-health
and no Ander's brief. Because he was the attorney of record the 13th
Court of appeals was in error and abused their discretion by ruling
on Anders brief filed by attorney Fred Jiminez whom was no longer
Petitoner's attorney of record and such Anders brief filed was moot
by operation of law. Because the remainder of the errors are based on
ineffective assistance of counsel Petitioner urges the Court to allow
oral argument.
V.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
on December 12/ 2011 Jose Gonzales III, hereinstyled Petitioner was
charged with Capital Murder in the course of. committting a Burglary
of a Habitation of one Leslie Morin/ by shooting Leslie Morin with
a firearm. In Count 11/ Petitioner was charged with Burglary of a
Habitation on or about December 12/2011 in Nueces County/ Texas-
There and then Intentionally and knowingly enter a habitation with
out the effective consent of Vida,l Rodriguez who had greater right
to said property/ and attempt to commit or committed the felony
offense of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
Petitioner was employed as a Alice police officer in the City of
Alice/ Texas on the:: day of the offense- In a high profile trial
Petitioner was convicted on both counts by a biased and highly ^
prejudiced jury-
The court sentenced Petitioner to life with out parole on count 1/
and life with parole on count II. Wherein said convictions are constu-
tionally infirm- The trial was overwhelmed by the media, and public
pressure. Change of venue was warranted.
VI-
STATEMENT REGARDING PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Petitoner was charged by indictment with one count of :Capital
murder during the course of committing a burglary of a habitation,
and one count of burglary of a habitation with the intent to commit
aggravated assault or a felony. A, jury convicted him of both offenses
as alleged in the indictment on December 6/ 2012. The Court assessed
punishment at life without the possibility of parole for the Capital
Murder charge and life in the Institutional Division of the Texas
department of Criminal Justice-CID for the Burglary of a habitation
charge- The Petitioner filed notice of appeal on December 10, 2012.
Petitioner's attorney of record Fred Jiminez filed an Anders brief
on July 18, 2013. On July 24, 2013 Attorney Fred Jiminez filed a motion
to withdraw as attorney. On August 16, 2013 the trial court appointed
Stephen W. Byrne to represent Petitoner. On September 8^ 2013 Stephen
W. Byrne filed motion to withdraw citing ill-health and requested the
court to appoint new counsel. No Anders brief was filed and no new
attorney was appointed. Petitioner filed a motion in the 13th Court of
Appeals for trial record. Petitioner filed his Pro/se brief on May 23,
2014, along with request for oral argument. Furthermore, Petitioner
filed a motion in the 13th Court of appeals for his trial attorney to
produce the psychological report generated from his court ordered
evaluation. Such report was never, made part of the record- The State
was ordered to file their brief. The case was due for submission on
August 13, 2014. The State filed their brief on August 12, 2014 with a
motion for an extension of time. Petitioner filed a motion to hold said
appeal in abeyance in order to respond to State's brief. On August 14,
2014 the Court affirmed in an unpublished unsigned boilerplate opinion
by Justice Dori Contreras Garza, which appear to be the work of a clerk
or para-legal employed by said justice refering soley to the Anders brief
that attorney Fred Jiminez submitted that should have been ruled moot.
Petitioner filed motion for rehearing on August 30, 2014. The State filed
brief agreeing with Petitioner's claim of double jeopardy wherein the
San Antonio Court rendered relief for the exact same issue- Rehearing
was denied on January 21, 2015-
VII -
GROUNDS FOR REVIEW
GROUND ONE; PAGE NO.
TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING PETITIONER TO BE TRIED IN SHACKLES
IN VIOLATION OP U-S-C-A. CONST. AMENDS 6TH AND 14TH. TRIAL COURT
INFRINGED UPON PETITIONR'S PERSUMPTION OF INNOCENCE/ AND HIS RIGHT
TO COUNSEL. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT OBJECTING TO
PETITIONER BEING SHACKLED AND PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTING PETITIONER'S
CLAIM-
GROUND TWO;
THE STATE COMMITTED DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT PROSECUTED PETITIONER
FOR multiple BURGLARIOUS ENTRIES WHERE THERE WAS ONLY ONE UNLAWFUL
ENTRY, IN VIOLATION OF TEXAS CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I/§14 AND U-S.C.A.
CONST. AMEND 5TH/ ALSO V.T.C.C.P. ART. 1.10.
GROUND THREE;
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT OBJECTING TO MISJOINDER
OF TWO DISTINCT OFFENSES IN THE SAME INDICTMENT. COUNSEL DID NOT
FILE PRETRIAL MOTIONS/ NOR OBJECT DURING TRIAL TO MISJOINDER OF
OFFENSES THEREBY EFFECTING THE OUTCOME OF TRIAL/ SUCH OBJECTIONS
WOULD HAVE RESUffiED IN DIFFERENT OUTCOME.
GROUND FOUR;
INEFFECTIVE OF COUNSEL; COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO FILE MOTION
TO QUASH AFFIDAVIT AND INFORMATION THAT WAS UNSIGNED, HENCE/ PROSE
CUTION COMMENCED UPON THESSTRENTGH OF AWUNSIGNED INFORMATION.
GROUND FIVE;
ineffective ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT FILING MOTION FOR CHANGE
OF VENUE IN HIGH PROFILE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
V.T.C.C.P. ART.31.03/ WAIVER BY ATTORNEY PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED
PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO R'aSEiSE CLAIM FOR APPELLATE REVIEW.
GROUND SIX:
TRIAL JUDGE ABUSED HER DISCRETION BY NOT ORDERING CHANGE OF VENUE
AFTER IT BECAME IMPeSSIBEE.TO SEAT A JURY THAT WAS UNBAISED IN HIGH
PROFILE CASE.
GROUND SEVEN;
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: COUNSEL ABANDONED PETITIONER/
ACTING AS NO COUNSEL AT ALL/ MERELY FRIEND OF COURT.
VIII.
GROUNDS FOR REVIEW CONT: GROUND EIGHT: PAGE NO,
PETITIONER'S COUNSEL FOR DIRECT APPEAL FRED JIMINEZ COMMITTED
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY PLACING A FRAUD BEFORE THE
COURT BY FILING FRIVOLOUS BRIEF, FOR SUCH ACTION WERE MOTIVATED BY
POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS AND NEPOTISM/ AND THE HIGHiEjeOSSltEE NATURE OF
THE CASE. THE COURT ASSIGNED STEPHEN W. BYRNESAS APPEAL ATTORNEY/
RENDERING FRED JIMINEZ'S BRIEF MDOTi BY OPERTION OF LAW. STEPHEN W.
BYRNE FORCED INDIGENT PETITIONER TO FILE PRO/SE BRIEF WHO IS NOT
EDUCATED IN THE LAW.
GROUND NINE: PETITIONER'S COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE
OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF TEMPORARY
INSANITY/ AFTER ATTORNEY MADE QUESTION REGARDING PETITIONER'S
MENTAL STATE AT THE TIME OF OFFENSE.
IX".
COMES NOW/ JOSES GONZALESIIII / HEREINSTYLED, PETITIONER/ FILES.;
THIS PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IN ACCORDANCE WI^H TEXAS
RULES-^sAPPELLATE PROCEDURE RULE«68. TO WIT:
ARGUMENT
GROUND ONE:
TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING PETITONER TO BE TRIED I=N SHACKLES IN
VIOLATION OF U.S.C-A. CONST. AMENDS 6TH & 14TH. TRIAL COURT INFRINGED
UPON PETITIONER'S PERSUMPTION OF INNOCENCE/ AND HIS RIGHT TO COUNSEL.
INEFFECTIVE aSSlSTAHGE OF COHNSBIL FOR OBJECTING TO PETITIONER BEING
SHACKLED AND THEREBY PROGEDURALLY DEFAULTING PETITtlONESFSSCCAIHa-
Petitioner contends the trial court abused its discretion in requi
ring Petitioner to wear shackles during trial/ and the wearing of
shackles was not harmless. (RR.Vol.3/ Pg.l26/Line 3-13). From this
colloquy between the court and the Petitioner ^estEaihtsr.as articulated
by the court line 8, does not justify shackling of the Petitioner. The
Court of Criminal' Appeals has repeatedly critized Nueces County Courts
for rountinely shackling defendants without articulating a need for
restraints. Criminal Law Keynote-637-2: Grounds and circumstances
affecting the use of restraints in general. Essential State interest
justifying shackling a defendant is found where there is a danger of
escape or injury to the jury/ counsel/ or other trial participants.
U.S. V- Banegas/ 600 F.3d 342. Criminal Law Keynote-637.2: Rountine
shackling oi'defendants is prohibited. Bell v. Stated 356bS.W.3d 528/
rehearing overruled. (Tex-App.Houston[14th Dist.]2008).Generally a defen
dant has right to be tried without being shackled/ whether or not the
shackles are visible - to the jury? however/the trial r<s&U-r:t has discretion
to order restriants if there is a ^showing of a manifest need or execep-
tional circumstances/ such as-when a defendant poses a threat to himself
or others, yglesias v. State/ 252 S.W.Sd 733/ PDR rev. refd (Tex.App.
Houstonv[14th Dist.] 2007). Requiring a defendant to be tried in shackles
without adequate reasons is repugnant to iire spirit of r.the law and ideas
of justice whether those restriants visiblecor unseen-Grayson v.viState/
19225.W. 3d 790/ also see/ Mendoza v. State/ 1 S.W.3d 829 (Tex.App.-Corpus
Christi 1999)(Reversed Aug.31/1999). The Court of Criminal Appeals admoni
shed Nueces County Courts for rountinely shackling defendants. Peitioner
was "required to stand every time the jury exited or entered the courtroom
as well as move to a different courtroom for furthdfvior dire. Said restri-
1.
ARGUMENTS CONT:
^ants were visible to the jurors.. See Vol ^3 .pg. 126. The Petitioner was
denied the persuiaptibn of innocence and every aspect of due process under
the U.S. Const.14th Amend/ 6th Amends/ Equal Protection Clause.
Ineffective Assistance of Gounseli To Wit: Because Petitioner's counsel
did not object to petitioner being shackled/ said counsel procedurally
defaulted said claim for purpose of appellate review and such deficient
performance prejudiced the out come and because of this act and ommission
there is a probability that the outcome would have been different.
Shackling of•Petitioner without a demonstrative need compromised the
formal dignity of the court and judicial proceedings and lead to harmful
collateral effects- Such eff'ects cheifly included curtailing Petitioner's
ability to communicate: freely v/with counsel because of the physical limi
tations imposed by shackles and simply the distraction and embarrasment
they caused the Petitioner. See/ United State/ v. Durham/ 287 F-3d 1297/
1304 <llth Gir.2002) ("Even if the [shackles] placed on the defendant are
visible to the jury/ they still - may... confuse the defendant/ impair his
. ability to confer with counsel/ and significantly affected the trial
strategy he choose to follow.") . Petitioner's attorney made the follow
ing statement to the prospective jurors that tainted the whole trial
process: I frankly/ rprobably will not be spending any'tiffie'-qiaeStioning
that type of evidence because as I told you right from the get go/ Jose
is in fact guilty of criminal homicide/ the question is what sort of
criminal hombcide is he in fact guilty of? See/ (Vol.3/pg.147/4-9).
Because Petitioner was shackled he did not approve of such trial strategy/
whie^imade the trial process unfair and confused Petitioner/ and impaired ,
his ability to communicate/ and significantly effected the trial strategy/
wherein Petitioner was not informed of such trial strategy. Petitioner
believed that temporary insanity would be the trial strategy and course
his attorney would take. It appears that attorney's error for not object
ing to shackling/ along with the attorney's anprofessional error that
believing that Petitioner was guilty and shackling implied dangerousness
in the jurries mind/ serverly infringed on Petitioners persumption of
innocence/ was defificent performance that reasonable effected the out
come ofcthe case. Petitioner was made to stand for the jury on numerous
occassions/ not only were the shackles visible/ but because of the
movement/ the chains were heard byithe jurors. In such a high profile
trial/ here the errors originated from the trial court's saa sponte order/
and trial court's reason for shackling the Petitioner are insufficient as
a matter of law. See/ Garcia v. State/ 919 S.W.2d 370,381 (Tex.Crim.App.-
1994). Because of errors appearing in the record PDR should be granted.
2.
GROUND TWO:
THE STATE COMMITTED DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT PROSECUTED PETITIONER
FORMMUETIEEE BURGLARIOUS ENTRIES WHERE THERE WASOONEY (1) UNLAWFUL
ENTRY. IN VIOLATION OF TEXAS CONST. ARTICE 1§14 AND U.S.C-A- CONST-
AMEND. 5th AND V.T.C.C.P. ARTICLE 1.10. TO WIT:
Petitioner was convicted in a single trial and given multiple punishments
for the same conduct/ thereby invoking the jeopardy clause in the P»S.
Const. & the Texas Const. Petitioner was charged by indictment in Count I
with coniitting Murder in the course of a Burglary of a Habitation, and in
Count II/ Burglary of a Habitation with Intent to Commit Aggravated
Assault or a Felony- In Art- 1.10 V.T.C.C.P. States: No person for the
same offense shall twice be put inr jeopardyief life-be it-b©rtyf snor shall
a person be again put upon for trial for the same offense; after a verdict
of not guilty in court of competent jurisdiction. The rule is a State may
notpplace a defendant in doiable jeopardy; U.S. Const. V; Tex. Const. Art.
I§14; Benton v. Maryland/ 395 U.S. 781 (1969). This means the State may
not:. :.(1) prosecute a. defendant fGrvthd same offense after an acquittal;
and (2) prosecute a defendant for the same offense after a conviction; or
(3) obtain multiple punishments in a single trial for the same offense-
Illinios v. Vitale/ 477 U.S. 410 (1980); Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S- 161 (197?
7). What we are concerned here is; "that Count I for Capital Murder is
predicated on a burglarious entry in order to be upgraded to Capital
Mureder- See, Tex. Penal Code § 19.03. Count 11, under Penal Code § 30.02
Burglary of a Habitation intent to Commit Aggravated Assault or a Felony-
The "same elements" test found in Blockburger v. U.S., 284 U.S. 299 (19-
32) questions whether the State is attempting to punish the defendant
twice for the same offense- This test asks the Court to examine each of
the statutes to determine whether each require a proof of:apdifferent
element the other does not- The Court abandoned the "Same ebsdaet" test
by overrulling Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508 (1990), in U.S. v. Dixon,
509 U.S. 688 (1993) . But in double jeopardy/mCiitiple punishment claims,
Blockburger is not the solo focus- Ervin v. State$?991 S.W.2d 804,814
(Tex.Ceim.App.1999)- .IfIthe Court has actual legislative intent of the
two statutes, that intent is the critical factor- If not then look at
Girdy V. State/ 213 S.W.3d 315/319 (Tex.Crim.App.2006)(if the prosecution,
in proving one element of one offense, also necessarily proves another
charged offense; if so, there must be clear legislative intent to punish
the offense seperately or multiple punishments are barred.)
3.
GROUND TWO CONT:
The allowable unit of prosecution is the individual entry for burglary
is • not the number of individual crimes committed once the defendant
makes the unlawful entry. Ex parte Gavazos* 203 S.W.3d 333 (Tex.Grim.-
App.2006). Vaughn v. State/ 239 S.W.3d 351 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 2007).
Here we have Petitioner sentenced to multiple punishments for one un
lawful entry. See/ Ex parte Castillo/ 432 S.W.Sd 457 (Tex-Crim.App.-San
Antonio 2014/ no petih; iDouble Jeopardy Keynote-4: Double jeopardy
clause impose few/ if any/ limitations on the legislative power to esta
blish and define the offense. U.S.C.A. Const.5th Amend. Double Jeopardy
Keynbte-144: Convictions for Capital Murder during the course of commit
ting Burglary of a Habitation/ and Burglary of a HabitatlgnrrinfefeBt to
eommxt a Felony (Aggravated Assault) violated double jeopardy clause;
even thou there were two victims/ the alloable unit of prosecution was
the unlawful entry. Not the complainant/ and the defendant was punished
multiple times' for a single entry. U.S.C.fiA 5; V.T.C.A. Pen. Code § 30.02
Ca). Double Jeopardy Kefnded-r32.1: Thie "most serious offense" which is
retained when convictions violate double jeopardy clause is the offense
of conviction which the greatest sentence was assessed; other::£getors
such as the degree of the felony, range of punishment, and rules govern
ing parole eligibility and awarding of good-conduct time/ are not consi
derations; overrulfling Landers v- State/ 957 S.W-2d 58/ U.S.C-A. Amend 5.
'h
The issue before us is convicting Petitioner of two burglarious entries
each with a different complainant but arising from a single unlawful en
try of a habitation constitute double jeopardy? The prosecutions theory
in the charging instrument that Petitioner committed Capital Murder in
the course of committing Burglary of a Habitation in Count:!. The pre
requisite of felony murder upgraded to capital ..murder is outlined in V.T.-
G-A. Penal Code § 19.03 (a)(2). Wherefore without the burglarious entry
'"I
Petitioner could only be convicted murder as defined. The integral part
of the conviction in Count I is the burglary of a habitation- It was
established at trial/ that Petitoner kicked in the front door/ shot/at::
Vidal Rodriguez/ then proceeded to the back bedroom and shot his estranged
wife-multiple times. See, (RR.Vol.4/pg.11-17. The theory of the indictment
differed from the theory at trial. Wherein the capital murder was placed
in a stratigic position of appearing first/ when in fact it was the-'
result of Count II/ Burglary of a Habitation intent to commit a Felony
(Aggravated Assault). Burglary of a Habitation is complete once the
unlawful entry is made, without regard tb whether the intended theft or
felony is also completed. V.T.C-A. Penal Code § 30.02 (a)$2)/ V.T.C.A.
i
! 4.
GROUND TWO CONT:
§ 22.02 Aggravated Assault (1) Causes serious bodily injury to another,
including the person's spouse; or (2) Uses or exhibits a deadly weapon
during the commission of the assault and causes serious bodily injury
to a person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is
described by by Sections 71.003/ 71.0021 (b)/ 71.005 (b), an offense
under this statute is a felony of the second degreeif; (to end of statute)-
The allowable unit of prosecution for assaultive offense is each complian-
ant. See, Phillips v. State, 787 S.W.2d 391^95(Tex.Crim.App.(1990)(Assault)
Ex parte Rathnell, 717 S.W.2d 33 ,36 (Tex. Grim. App .1986) (VoltiintaEy/Manslaugh
ter) . Burglary, however is not an assaultive offense; rather, its place
ment within Title 2 indicates that the legislature determined burglary
to be crime against property. Thus the complainant is not the allowable
Vinit-of prosecution in burglary, rather, the allowable unit of prosecution
is the unlawful entry. When a defendant is convicted of two or more offense-
s that are the "same" for double-jeporady purposes, our case law tells
us that the conviction for the most serious offense is retained and the
other conviction is set aside. See, Landers v. State, 957 S.W.2d 558/5S9—
60 (Tex.Grim.App.1997). Landers statesr^that the ^ni©st?sgf:ious" offense is
determined by the degree of the felony range of punishment and sentence
imposed. Landers is overruled by Ex parte Cavazos'. The third reason
applies some what differently to the double-jeopardy ebntext than the
misjionder context, we.fashioned a rule'designed to best ascertain what
offense the State would elected to proceed upon upon at the time of trial.
We did so because, in the misjionder context the State is not permitted to
prosecute both offenses at the same time. Hence our evaluation of the
seriousness of the offense coming into play only when the cahgejof punish
ment and the degree of the offense being the same- It is this very rea
son why Petitioner need competent legal counsel, for the complexity of
such issue. Petitioner's counsel acted as No Counsel at All! We shall
visit the misjionder doctrine in our next point of error. For the record
reflects that double jeopardy has appeared from the record, to the degree
that both sentences are equal in respect that Petitioner was sentenced
to life on both Counts, and the Court has ruled in Gavazos, 203 S^W-3d 333
(Tex-Crim-2006)- The most serious offense retained.-In this case both
sentences are equal, thereby jeopardy nullifying both- There being jeo
pardy appearing from the record, said convictions should be remanded and
aggHi^tal?/ or in lieu with instructions. See also. Ex parte Castillo/ 432
S.W.3d 457 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 2014, no pet. h.).
5.
GROUND THREE:
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT OBJECTING TO MISJIONDER
OF TWO DISTINCT OFFENSES IN THE SAME INDICTMENT.
COUNSEL DID NOT FILE PRETRIAL MOTION NOR OBJECT DURING TRIAL TO
MISJOINDER OF OFFENSES THEREBY EFFECTING THE OUTCOME OF TRIAL.
SUCH OBJECTION WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A DIFFERENT OUTCOME.
Criminal Law Keynote-620(3): Mandatory serverance of offenses only applies
to joinder of property offenses. V.T.C.A. Penal Code § 3.06(a).
Indictment and Information Keynote-127: State is prevented in the presence
of objection/ from alleging more than one non-property offense in a single
indictment/ regardless of the number of transactions involved. V.T.C-C-P.
Art.21.24. Indictment and Information-Reynote-127/129 (1): For State to
avoid joinder problems/ indictment for non-property offenses/ whether
arising from one transaction or seperate transactions/ should contain only
one Count in as many paragraphs as are necessary to allege various manner
and means of committing the one alleged offense. V.T.C.C.P • ;\ART. 21.24 (a).
Indictment and Information Keynote-196(7): To avail himself of pleading
limitations with respect to non-property offenses, defendant should file
pretrial motion to quash indictment orrurge/ sometime during trial/ that
State make an election; failure to object will result in waiver of plead
ing requirements. V-A.T.C.C.P- art- 21.24. Indictment and Information
Keyn©te-127: Indictment was invalid on basis of misjoinder where indictment
alleged more than r.pne:: rionproperty offense and property offense-
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
petitioner's counsel not filing Motion to Sever offenses/ nor Motion
to Elect/ nor Objecting to misjionder/ resulted in Petitioner's claims
to be procedurally defaulted for purposes of appellate reviex^. Prejudiced
the outcome of the trial/ resulted in the convictions for two offenses
for the same transaction which resulted In two life sentences- Because of
counsels deficient performance thereri-s treasonable probability that the
outca>!he would have been different- Such ommissions by the Petitioner's
counsel gave the State a-tactical advantage over Petitioner/ which resul
ted in the trial being unfair and biasd jury. U-S.C.A- Const- Amend- 6 & 14
Counsel's failure to file pretrial motion to quash/ or object was far
"below the range expected of reasonable/ professional competent assistance
of counsel." Counsel's performance thiis/ "did not measure up to the stan
dard required in the holding in StricMand/v466 U.S. 688(1984), and [if it
had/] there is a reasonable probability that the results would have been
different in the sentencing phase."
6.
GROUND THREE CONT:
Under the applicable State prcedures there would have been an election,
and Petitioner would not have to face two offenses under the same jury.
Turning to the prejudice issue: Counsel Abandoned His Client; The manda
tory severance under §3.04 (a), applies to joinder of property offenses
listed under Title 7 of the Penal Code. See/ Waythe v. State/ 533 S.W.2d
849 iiTex.Criin-App.1976) - Capital Murder is not a property offense. It is
listed as an offense against the person, under Title Eive of the Penal
Code. V.T.C.A. Penal Coddoig.03.. However , the right iso-foeeesaTi election#
which follows from implicit statutory restrictions relating to the manner
in which non-property offenses may be joined in an indictment/ is support-
edbby precedent# it holds that the legilature/ by its amendment of art.
21i24 / has implicitly prevented the State::fromiiailegiagv. in a. single
indictment two or more nonproperty offenses if those offenses arose out
of the same criminal "incident/ act or transaction'."" Generally/"transac
tion" has come to mean a criminal event and the various paetieulaf offenses
committed within that event. See, Drake/ supra/ at pp.945-49/ (Petitioner's
original Brief and Appendix pg.l6). Thereby counsel abandoning his client
in a^critical stage of the proceeding resulted in inadequacy of representa
tion. fhere being ineffective assistance of counsel appearing from the
record/ said cause should be reversed and remanded with instructions.
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO FILE MOTION
TO QUASH AFFIDAVIT AND INFORMATION THAT WAS UNSIGNED; HENCE PROSECUTION
COMMENCED UPON THE STRENGTH OF AN UNSIGNED INFORMATION. GROUND FOUR: TO V3ITi
Petitioner's attorney failed to file motion to qaush the Information that
does not have signature on it. We are left with the proposition that the
case proceeded to a conconclusion with a documentation in the file to
reflect that Mark Skurka or anyone else signed the Information charging
Petitioner with an offense a further jurisdictional defect of itself.
See, Holly v.State//i469 S.W.2d 136 ,137 (Tex .Crim.App. 1970) . See/ Exhibit
"A" Pet- Appelate Brief). T-C-C-P- art- 21.21(a)/ Lacy V-State/ 160 Tex.
Crim. 95/ 267 S'^;]W-2d 139/141(1948)- Because Petitoner is in need of aJity.
at every stage of the proceeding it is emphasized here that attorney's
knowledge and skill of the law and practices of the criminal trial and
proceedings. Criminal Law Keynote-641.13(2): Performance of defense coun
sel was not only unconstitutional unreasonable and ineffective, but coun
sel abandoned required duty, of loyalty to his client; Counsel he acted with
reckless disregard -for his client's best interest and at times, appearantl^
to weaken his client's case. Just simply poor strategic choices. U-S-C-A-
7.
GROUND FOUR CONT:
Const- Amend- 6th- It is emphasized that a "defendant need not show that
counsel's deficient conduct more than likely altered the outcome of the
case." Instead the defendant bears the burden of showing "that there is
reasonable probability that/ but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the
results of the proceeding^-/would have come /out different. A reasonable
probability sufficient to, undermine, confidence in the outcome." Id-/ 694/
104 S-Ct- at 2068/ T-C-C-P- art-1.14 Waiver of Rights: Punishing a lawyer's
intentional and unintentional errors by closing the courthouse door to his
client is both senseless and misdirected method of deterring the slight of
State rules. It is senseless because unplanned and unintentional action
action of any kind generally is not;, subject to deterrance; and to the
extent that it is hoped that a; threatend sanction addressed to the defense
induce greater care and caution on the part of trial lawyers, thereby
forestalling negligent conduct and errors The potential loss of valuable
State remedies would be sufficient to this end. And it is misdirected
sanction because even if penalization of incompetence or carelessness will
enciourage more legal trianing and trial. preparation / the Petitioner / \as
oppossed to his lawyer, hardly is the proper recipient of such a penalty.
Espicially with fundamental constitutional rights at stake, no fictional
relationship of principal-agent or the like can justify holdingthe crimi
nal defendant accountable for the naked errorscg^ his attorney. This is
espicially true when so many indigent defendants are without any realistic
choice in selecting who ultimately represents them at trial. Indeed, if
responsibilty for error must be apportioned between the parties, it is
the State through its attorney's admissions and certifications policies,
that is more fairly held to blame for the fact that practicing lawyers
too often are ill-equipped to act carefully and knowledgeably when faced
with decisions governed by State procedural requirements. Hence, Petitioner
agrees with the proper functioning of our system of criminal justice,
necessarily places a heavy reliance on the professionalism and the judgment
of trial attorneys. A system that ascribes absolute forefiture of Petition
er's constitutional claim where his lawyer manifestly excercise no pro
fessional judgment at ail-where carelessness, mistakes, or ignorance is
the explanation of the procedural defaults. It is regrettable that certain
errors/.that might have been cured earlier had trial counsel acted expediti-
ously, must be corrected collaterally and belatedly. Hence, Petitioner s
attorney was was deficient and such deficient conduct prejudiced the
outcome of the trial. Because of attorney's acts and ommissions said cause
should be reversed and remand with instructions-
8.
GROUND FIVE:
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT FILING
MOTION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE IN HIGH PROFILE CRIMINAL
PROSECUTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH V-A-T-C-C-P. ART- 31.03.
SAID WAIVER BY ATT0RNEY:EEFSUL"TED PETITIONER' S RIGHT
TO RAISE GROUND FOR APPELLATE REVIEW.
Petitioner complains that deficient perforraace by attorney defaulted
his claim for appellate review, and prejudiced the outcome of trial.
Petitioner an Alice police officer was the subject of extensive media
coverage in the County and surrounding Counties wherein the instant
offense took place. Furthermore/ the Internet and Social Media followed
said case. Petitoner was the subject of a documentary/ wherein a series
of local television stations broadcast the sventsrand circumstances
surrounding the case. See/ (App- Brief Bxh3)li>it "G"). Under art. 31.03 (a)/
a change of venue may be granted in a felony ©r5at.misdemeanor case punish
able by confinement on the written motion of the defendant. There was a
dangerous combination against him instituted by very influential persons/
by reason of which he canot expect a fair trial. Said publicity was per
vasive/ prejudicial/ and inflammatory. Here we aiee concerned with the
attorney not filing motion for change of venue/ after it became apperant
that Petitioner could not recieye a fair and impartial trial/ and if
atorney's deficient performace prejudiced Petitioner? The court asked the
panel anyone knows about the case? (RR'iVol .2/pg.30/ line:6-23) Over 70
jurors raised their hands who had:personal knowledge of the case- In
VoJ'.2# pg.30/ line: 23S25.) 27 people had already made up their minds
could not be fair and impartial. In (RR.Vol.2/ pg-58/1-25/pg.59/1-25 &
pg.60/1-25)/ juror no.2 explains in detail about the coverage in the Callei
Times. She describes the kidnapping of Petitioner's son/ wherein she has
formed an opinion as to the violence of the case. Also defense attorney
Woener Stated: "he never seen so many people who have made their minds up
in a case/ even with more publicity. fVol.2/pg.56/23-24). Defense counsel
should immeadiately filed a Motion for Change of Venues Kealizing from
the percentage of potential jurors that had already formed an opinion
about the guilt of the Petitioner/ that his elient could not recieve a
fair an impartial trial, "a defendant must show an ability to obtain a
fair an impartial trial." Coupled with counsel's disenchanment Petitioner
could not have recieved a fair and impartial trial because defense counsel
a'lready given up. See/ Williams v- State, 897 S.W-2d 351 {Tex-CriM*App.^
cert, denied/ 516 U.S. 946, 116 S.Ct.385, 133 L.Ed.2d 307 (1995). To
9.
GROUND FIVE CONT:
•gastify a change of venue based on reGen.tfarid'significant ^amounts of
media coverage and that publicity regarding similar cases had the effect
of creating greater prejudice/ bringing "some afore-thought to people'
and making it "very hard" to find a fair and impartial jury. Petitioner's
attorney could, have called upon a number of potential witnessesa that
were listed on the prosecution's witness Irist for this eventuality. The ,
prosecution was prepared to fight a'change of venue motion/ witnesses from
several television stations/ newspapers/ and other social media outlets
were prepared to testify to the number of potential jurors exposed to these
segments. See/ (Appellants Brief Exhibit "C"). Petitioner's attorney could
have produced the requisite affidavits need to bolster his Client's positior
See/ (C.R. pg-30/32/ and 43). Here you have .77 members of the array who have
followed the case in the media, who have extensive knowledge of the case,
including kidnapping of Petitioner's son/ (ah offense he was not on trial
for), which further excebarrated the coverage and the amount of times this
coverage was repeated in a course of a year was-astronomlcal- Therefore,
even after the court conducted its vlbr.dire, it was clear from the record
that the trial court tried to rehabilitate the remainder of this poisoned
panel, we must also bear in mind, that the court was in a unique position
of hearing the testimony of the .jurors and guaglng the. siacerity of ,their
responses in light of the publicity about the case. Petitioner was entitled
to a change of venue if he could show that the there;.was influences in the
commiiiity which could affect answers on the vior dire. There are two
things that distinguish this case from others in which a majority of the
venire is familiar with- the case.. First the nature of the publicity is
quite different because/ Petitioner was a police officer/ there was a
buiglary/ a murder/ kidnapping/ an Amber alert went out/ there was a school
lockdown/ there was a Swat-standoff/hostage situation. NewsrStationsrreport
ed widely and did extensive coverage on the day of the offense/ and for a
year after until the date of trial. Potential jurors had the oppertunity to
watch it unfold. Second/ a large number of potential jurors could not set-
aside their opinion. This strongly indicates that pretrial publicity result
ed in actual identifiable prejudice to Petitioner. Also media coverage was
not accurate and objective/ because it reported an actual kidnapp were
there was none. Because Petitioner's attorney not filing the motion for
change of venue, it rendered him deficient in his performance/ and because
of -the ommission/ it is a probability that the outcome of the trial would
have been different. It must be remembered that the court ordered a Gag
Order on the case. See, (CR.pg.30). Here we have the acts and ommisssions
10.
GROUNDdFIVE CONT:
of said attorney / who effectively abandoned his his Client. Said
cause should be reversed and remanded.
GROUND SIX:
TRIAL JUDGE ABUSED HER DISCRETION BY NOT ORDERING A CHANGE OF VENUE
AFTER IT BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO SBAffiCMJURYVTHIST WASiiHNBTASDCiNi'HIGH
PROFILE CASE.
In change of venue cases; T.C.C.P. art.31.01/ the trial judge should
have filed her own motion to change venue after the vior dire revealed
that Petitioner could not recieve a fair and impartial trial. Because
the jury that was actually seated was tainted by the rest of the array,
along with the fact that this case was tried in the media before the
actual jury was pooled. The Sixth Amendment gives the Petitoner the
right to, a fair and impartial trial/ it is the presiding judge who condu
cts the vior dire. It was impossible to seat a- jury in this high profile,
media driven trial, trial judge abused her discretion. The large number
of venire panelist were disqualified for cause, because they could not
not set aside their opinions of the. Petiioner's guilts See, (RR-vol.2/pg.
30/9,22/ & pg.31/13-25). See/ 14th Amend U.S. Const. Also/ V.T-C.C.P. art.
31.03 (a)/ Mayola v. Alabama/ 623 F.2d 992/ 998 (5th Cir.l980)/ Von Byrd
v. State/ 569 S.W-2d 883/ 890-91/ Russel v. State/ $46 S-W.3d 705/714
(Tex,4App.Texarkana 2004) pet. ref d) / Crawfeord V. State, 685 S.W-2d 343/
349-r350. The number of jurors that were unable to serve on the jury in this
case demonstrates the extent of the pretrial publicity had permeated the
community. Here out of 100 a large percentage more than %could be- impag/
tial and already formed their opinions. See, (RR.Vol.2/pg.31/22-25). These
panelist could not set aside their opionions is reasn enough to consider
the entire community 'infected" by the pretrial publicity and prejudice.
Thp inflammatory atmosphere and those actually seated were polsioned by
the others. For this reason said cause should be reversed and remanded,
and said former trial judge should be taken on vior dire for her acts and
ommissions. GROUND SEVEN:
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR ABANDONING PETITIONER
ACTED AS NO COUNSEL AT ALL: ACTING AS MERE FRIEND OF COURT.
Said counsel abandoned his Client at critical stage of the proceedings.
In the toality of representation by defense counsels', Mr. Mark Woerner,
Mr. Steve Schiwetz, and Mr. Mark Gonzales abandoned their client. Mr.
Woerner at the orjset of trial was not concerned about shackling of Client,
nor did any othei: attorney object- Furthermore, Mr. Woerner told the
11.
GROUND SEVEN CONT:
that his client was guilty, which nullified any defense in regard to
Count II/ and resulted in the jury bein^ biased. A strategy the Petitioner
did not approve of/ nor able to communicate his disbelief about such
remarks that infringed upon his persumption of innocence, the Supreme Court
has longed recgonized that 'the right to counsel is the right to effective
assistance of counsel'" under the Sixth Amendment/ Strickland v. Washington
466 D.S. 688 (1984); In this case, We find that the defease counsel did
not put up any meaningful defense during the punishment phase/ nor file
any,pretrial motion that Petitioner was never convicted of any felony in
this State or any other State/ See, V.T.C.C.P. art.42-12(d)(8)(c) states:
A defendant is eligible for community supervision under this section only
if before the. trial begins the defendant files a sworn ai6£i6ft"to the judge
that the defedant has not been previously convicted of a felony in this or
any other state/ and the jury enter in the verdict a finding that the infor
mation is true. See, (RR.Vol.2/pga9/l-I7). Because of the forceful argument
by State's attorney Mr. McCaig that Petitioner was not eligible for proba
tion/ Petitioner's attorney should have researched further in the same
code to ascertain that Petitioner was eligible for probation. Furthermore/
counsel did not reasonably argue on his client's behalf during punishment
phase/ espicially in regard to Count II. See/ (RR.Vol.5.pg.126/3-13). Furthe
-more/ defense counsel failed to investigate the extensive media coverage/
Television Documentary which featured Petitioner in family violence^ failed
to adequately prepare a defense/ nor subject the State's case to the advesa
rial testing process/ by having fellow police officer's who were having
illicit affairs with his wife there to testify. Nor did he interview them/
nor have them appear before the court/ Officers Noe Roel/ Emede Reyes/ Buzz
esparza/ Luis Rene Ozuna/ and Frank Estrada. Defense Counsel did produce
phone records.-See/ petitioner's appeal brief Exhibit "14-16"). That was
the extent of the preperatxon:for..the capital murder trial. Eortheraore/
although court ordered physcological testing of the Petitioner/ there was
no report by the psychologist included in the record/ nor was he called to
testify as to the Petitioner's mental state at the time of offense. Once
the attorney told the jury his client was guilty/ he was wholly unprepared
to make a platable defense of his theory/ and effectively undermined the
persumption of innocence in Count I and Count II. This was no defense at
all/ but a tactical retreat/ and pure abandoment of his client. Even grant
ing deference to counsel's choices/- we cannot conclude that he need-not
undertake further investigation/ "before proceeding with an argument he
was wholly unprepared to make. Burger/ 107 S.Ct. at 3126. The Court should
find elSarly established that Petitioner's counsels' so abandoned their
"overarching duty to advocate the Petioneir's cause/ that the State proceed-
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GROUND SEVEN CONT:
-ing were almost non-adversarial. Informing the jury that his client
was guilty/ permeated that guilt thru both counts and destroyed any
persumption of innocence f or Gccurit: II - Counsel's actions in regard
to sentencing in Count II even more clearly indicate the abandonment
of his duty of loyalty/ by switching -from the jury to sentence/ to
judge/ and failed to put on any mitigating factors/ and failed to advo
cate his client's position. The most striking indication of counsel's
performance and failure to fufill his duty of loyalty to his client is
from his behavior at the t r i a l itself. "Counsel at the summation of the
trial / counsel reffered to the difficulty his client had presented to
him. See, (RR.vol.5.pg.99 / line 20-25/ Pg.lOOllilne 1-20) . Counsel is in
fact telling the jury he could not present any mitigating eirCQmstances/
when evidence against his client is so overwhelming. In closing counsel
lamenated : (RR.Vol.5/pg.102/13-16). Petitioner's attorney did not simply
make poor choices; he acted with reckless disregard for his client's case.
Whatever the reason the record supports that counsel turned against his
client. There is no apperent reason for counseil's behavior/ although he
repeated many times that his client was guilty and how difficult this
case was. This conflict in loyalty unquestionably affected his represen
tation. A defense attorney who abandons his duty of loyalty to his client
and effctively helps the State in an effort to obtain a conviction suffers
from an obivious conflict of interest^ Sich an attorney/-like unwanted
counsel/ ''represent' the defendant only through a legal fiction." See/
Faretta v. California/ 422 D-S- 806#821 (1975). In fact an attorney is
burdened by a conflict between his client's interest and his own sympa
thies to the prosecution's position is considerably worse than an attorney
with loyalty to other defendants/ because the interests of the State and
the defedant are necessarily in opposition. As the Supreme Court has
assereted: "The right to effective assitance of counsel M thus the right
of the accused to require the prosecution's to survive the crucible of
meaniningfuii adversarial testing. . . [i]f the process losses its character
as confrontation between adversaries/ the constitutional guarantee is
violated." See# Cronic# 466 U.S. at 656-57. Petitioner urges the Court/
that reversable error has appeared from the record because of sadd coun
sel's deficient performance that prejudiced the outcome of the trial.
Said cause should be reversed and remanded.
Ground Eight:
S>fiT!DafM®^R;';S counsel for direct appeal FRED JIMINEZ COMMITTED lENEFFEC-
ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY BLACING A FRAUD BEFORE THE COURT BY FILING
1 3.
GROUND EIGHT CONT:
FRIVOLOUS BRIEF, FOR SUCH ACTIONS MOTIVATED BY POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS^
NEPOTISM/ AND THE HIGH PROFILE NATURE OF THE CASE. THE COURT ASSIGNED
STEPHEN W. BYRNE AS APPEAL ATTORNEY/ RENDERING FRED JIMINEZ'S BRIEF MOOT
BY OPERATION OF LAW. STEPHEN W. BYRNE FORCED INDIGENT PETITIONER TO FILE
PRO/SE BRIEF WHO IS NOT EDUCATED IN THE LAW-
Erejudice/ whether necessary or not/ is established under any applicable
standard. Petitioner was.charged with several crimes/ the State assi^^edf
counsel Fred Jiminez to represent him on his direct review of convictions.
Fred Jiminez's wife was the District attorney for Nueces County/ (Anna
Jiminez)/ whose office prosecuted the Petitioner. Becausg -of the conflict
of interest ,.iand the high profile nature of the case, said attorney filed
a frivolous v, brief/ knowing well that Petitioner's case was filled
with meritorious claims. Such insidious intent is demonstrated by the
fraudulent document foisted upon the Court as an Anders brief. Because
of the political aspirations of Attorney's wife and the high profile nature
of'.: the case/ who was at the time of the filing of brief embattled with
the State over corruption charges while she was in office/ said attorney
did not bring his legal-skill and knowledge to bear. Petitioner would
have succeeded . Because Stephen W.. "Brynd was the counsel chosen to repla
ce Fred Jiminez / because the court was not satisfied with Fred .jiminez's
representation. -The purpose of the SiuxaarAiriend guarantee: is to insure that
defendants are represented by counsel and not have to face lybrinth of the
criminal justice system unawares. Judicial scrutiny of cioxttk®!''^ performance
must be differential (highly)^ Petitioner urges the Court because -the
record was fully developed/ Petitioner should be allowed to proceed with
ineffective assistance of counsel claims as postulated by the opinion in
Trevino v. Thaler/569 U.S._(2013)(citation ommitted). Because of the con
flict of interest (See/ Exhibit "D" Appellate Brief)/ and attorneys abandon
ing etitioner there is a probability that the outcome would have been
different. Because revers.ible error has appeaared in the record,/ Petitione
urges the Court to allow him to take said attorneys on vior dire to further
develop the record/ as well as reverse and remand said cause. .
GROUND NINE: PETIiETIONER' S COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF
COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF TEMPORARY INSANITY,
AFTER ATTORNEY MADE QUESTION REGARDING PETITIONER'S MENTAL STATE AT THE
TIME OF OFFENSE.
Ciriminal Law Keynote-773: If evidence from any source raises the issue of
insanity, the trial court must include an instruction on insanity defense
in jury charge.V.A.A.C.P.art.46.03; V.T.C.A., Penal Code §8.01.
u
14.'
GROUND NINE CONT:
When considered with the facts and circumstances concerning an accused
and defense/ lay opinion testimony may be sufficient to raise the defense
of insanity. V-T.C.A./ Penal Code § 8.01. During the trial on the merits/
Petitioner's counsel raised the issue of Petitioner's mental state that
lead up to the commission of the offense. See/(RR.Vol.5/pg.99 line 25#pg.
100 line 1-2G).From the foregoing by Petitioner's counsel demonstrates
that he was of the opinion that his client "snapped." Which is eln off color
remark of insanity.Petitioner's attorney filed motion for psychological
testing which was granted by the court. See/ (CR-pg48). It appears from
the record that counsel was headed towards this defense/ then abandoned thi,
defense/ even thou that was the agreement between Petitioner and attorney.
Knowing that; Petitioner was a former Border patrol Agent/ got hurt on this
assignment/ suffered from Post Iraumatic Stress snydrome from this assign
ment. Also/ as an Alice Police Officer/ which greatly effected his physco-
logical well being/ coupled with the fact that Petitioner's wife was having
multiple affairs with Petitioner's co-workers who were Police Officers.
Also/ the amount of stress that police officers' experience on a day to day
level/ such amount of stress police officers' on a national level is well
documented, and the amount of domestic violence involving officers' and
members of the armed Forces in like situations. Petitioner's attorney was
derilict in his duty for not preparing for this defense, soi if by moral
insanity it be understood only a disorder or perverted state of affections
or moral powers of the mind/ it cannot soon be disgarded as -affording any
shelld from punishment for crime: if it can be truly said that one indulges
in violent emotions/ such as remorse/ anger/ shame/ grief/ and the like is
afflicted with homocidal insanity/ it would be diffucult/ yes/ impossible/
to say. where sanity ends/ and insanity begins* We say to you/ as a result of
our refelections on this branch of the subject/ that if the prisoner was
actuated by an irresistable inclination to kill/ and was unable to control
or subjugate his intellect... he is entitled to acquittal. (|te Justice
PaxsoH/ 88 PA.291/Jan.20/1879). What then is that form of diease/ Dominated
Ho'irtocidal Mania/ which will excuse one for having committed a Murder?
Cheif justice Gipson calls it that unseen ligament pressing on the mind
and drawing it to the consequences which it under coecerion which/ while
it results are clearly percieved-/ is incable of resistance-aii invisible
inclination to kill. It was error for trial counsel not ask for instructione
punishment stage of trial due to insanity/ furthermore/ Petitioner's attor
ney and State's attorney Ms. Dorsey put the charge together/ so it was
ineffective assitance of counsel that his attorney subjected his cl
to such eregrious harm both great and apperant. Ex parte Duffy/ - /
is:.
Ground Nine Cont:
S.W.2d 507 (T6x.Criin.App.1980) . This standard requires that the court
evaluate complaint of;ineffective assistance at the punishment Stage deter
mining first/ whether counsel was reasonably likely to render ineffective
assistance of counsel/ and second/ whether counsel reasonabley rendered
ineffective assistance. The record is replete with the litanies of the
grave and fatal errors committed by counsel in this case- These errors
jctp^ged by the totality of the repesentation / denied him a fair trial. Mer-
ly showing that they had some conceivable effect on the proceedings is
inadequate. Strickland/ 466 U.S. at 693. Petitioner urges the Court to
rev.- said cause and remand with instructions . ,
CONCLUSION
Petitioner would urge the Court/ that he falls under the narrow ruling in
Trevino Th4ier/ wherein the record was fully developed and the errors
of his attorney were plain and apperrant. Said trial was overwhelmed by
media and public pressure/ which resulted in the impossibility to seat a
fair and impartial jury^/Petitioner was forced to wear leg shackles during
the entire trial with no demonstrative reason by trial judge/ and counsel
did not even object/ because he was assisting the State in helping to
obtain -a conviction - Counsel rendered ineffective assistance on numerous
occasions/ destroying Petitioner's persumption of innocence when he decided
to abandon the temporary insanity defense and just throw his client to the
wovles. Petitioners appellate attorney completely missed the double jeopar
dy issue/and affadavit and information not being signed, as well as was
motivated by nepotism and other factors and filed a frivolous brief.
From the numerous litanies and acts and ommissions of counsels' in this
case.' Said cause should be reversed and remanded.
PRAYBB
Petitioner Prays that the Court grant him this PDR and any and all relief
requested herein.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
A true and correct copy was hand delievered to the Nueces County district
attorney Hark Shurka on 7/ /15. At the litieces County Courthouse/ 901
Leopard St- Corpus Christi# Texas 78401/ also Atty/General P.O.Box 12405/
Aastin/ Texas 78711.
Respectfully ^ubnj^tte^
By:
Jose (^nzales All #1832029
James v. Allred unit
201 FM 369 N.
Iowa Park/ fexas 76367
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APPENDIX
NUEOES COUNTY COURTHOUSE
CHIEF JUSTICE 901 LEOPARD. 10TH FLOOR
ROGELIOVALDEZ CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 78401
361-888-0416 (TEL)
JUSTICES 361-888-0794 (FAX)
NELDAV. RODRIGUEZ
DORI CONTRERAS GARZA HID/M.GO COUNTY
G!NAM.BENAV!DES ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
GREGORY T. PERKES
NOPAL LONGORIA Coitrt of 100 E. CANO. 5TH FLOOR
EDINBURG, TEXAS 78539
956-318-2405 (TEL)
CLERK
DORIAN E. RAMIREZ tS^irteentj) Bisttrict of tlDexasi 956-318-2403 (FAX)
August 14, 2014
Hon. Adoifo Aguilo Jr. Hon. Fred Jimenez
Assisfent District Attorney Attorney At Law
Nueces County Courthouse 509 Lawrence, Suite 301
§©TteDprard - Room 206 Corpus ChristIi TX 78401
Corpus Christi, TX 78401 * DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL
* DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL *
Mr. Jose Gonzales III
Hon. Mark Skurka TDCJ #1832029
District Attorney James V. Allred Unit
901 Leopard Street, Room 205 2101 FM 369 North
Corpus Christi, TX 78401 Iowa Park, TX 76367
* DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL *
Re: Cause No. 13-13-00.011 -CR
Tr.a.No. 11-GR^14W ,
Style: JOSE GONZALES III v. THE STATE OF rEXAS
Enclosed please find the opinion and judgment issued by the Court on this date.
Very truly yours,
Dorian E. Ramirez, Clerk
DER:dsr
Enc.
cc: State Prosecuting Attorney (DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL)
105th District Court (DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL)
Hon. Patsy Perez, District Clerk (DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL)
Hon. J. Rolando Olvera Jr., Presiding Judge, 5th Administrative Judicial Region,
(DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL)
THE THIRTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS
13-13-00011-CR
JOSE GONZALES III
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
On Appeal from the
105th District Court of Nueces County, Texas
Trial Cause No. 11-CR-4141-D
JUDGMENT
THE THIRTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS, having considered this cause on
appeal, concludes that the judgment of the trial court should be AFFIRMED. The Court
orders the judgment of the trial court AFFIRMED.
We further order this decision certified below for observance.
August 14, 2014
NUMBER 13-13-00011-CR
OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
JOSE GONZALES III, Appellant,
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
On appeal from the lOSth District Court of
Nueces County, Texas.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before Justices Rodriguez, Garza and Benavldes
Memorandum Opinion by Justice Garza
Ajury found appellant Jose Gonzales III guilty of capital murder, a capital felony
offense, see Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.03(a)(2), (b) (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d
C.S.), and burglary of a habitation to cpmn^it afelony (aggravated assault), a first-degree
felony offense. See id. §30.02(a)(3), (d)(1) (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.). The
trial court assessed appellant's punishment for the capital murder offense at life without
parole, see id. § 12.31(a)(2) (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.), and assessed
punishment for the burglary of a habitation offense at life Imprisonment, with the
sentences ordered to run concurrently. Appellant's court-appointed counsel has filed an
Anders brief. See Anders v. Califomia, 386 U.S. 738, 744 (1967). We affirm.
I. Anders Brief
Pursuant to Anders v. Califomia, appellant's court-appointed appellate counsel
has fired a brief and a motion to withdraw with this Court, stating that his review of the
record yielded no grounds of error upon which an appeal can be predicated. See id.
Counsel'sbrief meets the requirements ofAnders as itpresents a professional evaluation
demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds to advance on appeal. See In re
Schulman, 262 S.W.3d 403, 407 n.9 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008) ("In Texas, an Anders brief
need not specifically advance 'arguable' points of error if counsel finds none, but it must
provide record references to the facts and procedural history and set out pertinent legal
authorities.") (citing Hawkins v. State, 112 S.W.3d 340, 343-44 (Tex. App.—Corpus
Christi 2003, no pet.)); Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503,510 n.3 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).
In compliance with High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807, 813 (Tex. Crim. App. [Panel
Op.] 1978) and Kelly v. State, PD-0702-13, 2014 WL 2865901, at *3 (Tex. Crim. App.
June 25, 2014), appellant's counsel carefully discussed why, under controlling authority,
there is no reversible error inthe trial court's judgment. Counsel has informed this Court,
in writing, that counsel has; (1) notified appellant that counsel has filed an Anders brief
and a motion to withdraw; (2) provided the appellant with copies of both pleadings; and
(3) informed the appellant of appellant's rights to file a pro se response, and review the
1The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that "the pro se response need not comply with
the rules of appellate procedure in order to be considered. Rather, the response should identify for the
court those issues which the indigient appellant believes thecourt should consider in deciding whether the
2
record preparatory to filing that response. See Anders, 386 U.S. at 744; Kelly, 2014 WL
2865901, at *3, Stafford, 813 S.W.2d at 510 n.3: see also In re Schulman, 252 S.W.3d at
409n.23.
The record shows that appellant was provided a copy of the record on October 21,
2013. After this Court granted several motions for extension of time in which to file his
pro se response, appellant filed his pro se response on May 23,2014.
II. Independent Review
Upon receiving an Anders brief, we must conduct a full examination of all the
proceedings to determine whether the case is wholly frivolous. Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S.
75,80 (1988). When an Anders brief and a subsequent pro se response are filed, a court
of appeals reviews the entire record, and: (1) detemriines that the appeal is wholly
frivolous and issues an opinion explaining that it finds no reversible error; or (2)
determines that there are arguable grounds for appeal and remands the case to the trial
court for appointment of new appellate counsel. Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 826^
27 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005). If the court finds arguable grounds for appeal, it may not
review those grounds until after new counsel has briefed those issues on appeal. Id.
We have reviewed the entire record, counsel's brief, and appellant's pro se
response, and we have found nothing that would arguably support an appeal. See id. at
827-28 ("Due to the nature of Anders briefs, by indicating in the opinion that itconsidered
the issues raised in the briefs and reviewed the record for reversible error but found none,
the court of appeals met the requirement of Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 47.1.");
case presents any meritorious issues." Inre Schulman, 252 S.W.Sd 403,409 n.23(Tex. Crim. App. 2008)
(quoting Wilson v. State, 955 S.W.2d 693,696-97 (Tex. App.—Waco 1997, no pet.)).
3
Stafford, 813 S.W.2d at 509. There is no reversible error in the record. Accordingly, the
judgment of the trial court Is affinmed.
III. Motion Tb Withdraw
In accordance with Anders, appellant's attorney has asked this Court for
pemiission to withdraw as counsel for appellant. See Anders, 386 U.S. at 744; see also
In re Schulman, 252 S.W.3d at 408 n.17 (citing Jefferyv. State, 903 S.W.2d 776, 779-80
(Tex. App.—Dallas 1995, no jaet.) ("[I]f an attorney believes thei appeal is frivolous, he
must withdraw from representing the appellant. To withdraw from representation, the
appointed attomey must file a motion to withdraw accompanied by a brief showing the
appellate court that the appeal is frivolous.") (citations omitted)). We grant counsel's
motion to withdraw. Within five days of the date of this Court's opinion, counsel is ordered
to send a copy of this opinion and this Court's judgment to appellant and to advise him of
his right to file a petition for discretionaiy review.^ See Tex. R. App. P. 48.4; see also In
re Schulman, 252 S.W.3d at 412 n,35: Ex parte Owens, 206 S.W.3d 670,673 (Tex. Crim.
App. 2006).
DORI CONTRERAS GARZA,
Justice
Do not publish.
fEX.-R.App.P.47.2<b).
Delivered and filed the
14th day of August, 2014.
^ No substitute counsel will be appointed. Siiould appellant wish to seel<further review of this case
by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, he must either retain an attomey to file a petition for discretionary
review or file a pro se petition for discretionary review. Any petition for discretionary review must be filed
within thirty days from the date of either this opinion or the last timely motion for rehearing or timely motion
for en banc reconsideration that was overruled by this Court. See Tex. R. App. P. 68.2. Any petition for
discretionary review must be filed with the clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals, see Tex. R. App. P. 68.3,
and should comply with the requirements of Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 68.4. See Tex: R. App. P.
68.4.
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SQL HINT description and demonstration
SQL Hint is one of most important approaches to change the activity of optimizer and SQL execution, it’s also pretty important for SQL tuning. For instance, HINT is a part of the SQL Profiler advised by SQL Tuning Advisor. In each Oracle version, corresponding to the SQL features changes, new hints will be introduced, and old hints may be obsolete. Oracle introduced a new dynamic view, V$SQL_HINT, to show in which version the hint was involved in, and in which version it began work as outline data. The hints are associated with special SQL features. It will work only if the related features are enabled. Take HASH_AJ for example, it’s a CBO (QKSFM_CBO) feature hint, and it will not work if the SQL optimizer mode is set to RBO.
Some hints are only effect in the internal recursive SQLs, cannot be used in user SQL directly.
The embedded hints in SQL are a piece of comment, with the format /*+ <hint 1> [<hint 2> ...]*/. One comment may involve multiple hints, and one SQL may also involve multiple hint comments. And the hint will work only if they exist in the comment following the key words, SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, MERGE and DELETE. If the SQL is a complex query involved in sub-query, the hint could be written as global or local format.The local format hints exist in the sub-query, and it can only affect the sub-query. While the global format hits exist in the main part of the query, it can be specified to affect any object in whole query by adding <object>@<block>. The alias could be used to replace the object name.
Tip: Since the embedded SQL hint is a piece of comment, its format could also be --+<hint>. For example,
HELLODBA.COM>select --+full(u)
2 * from t_users u where user_id =1;
We will descript all of hints, and also give demonstration of their usage.
SQL Features
Below hierarchy diagram shows all SQL features and their dependencies. Be aware, some features may be based on multiple features. |
Worker ‘left accident scene’
An aerospace worker drove away from an accident scene after colliding with another car.
Neil Davies stopped to collect his number plate which had fallen off during the crash but he did not exchange details with the other driver.
Davies, 31, of Halton Gardens, South Shore, pleaded guilty to failing to stop after an accident and failing to report it.
He was fined £175 with £85 costs plus £20 victims’ surcharge and had five motoring penalty points put on his licence by Blackpool magistrates.
Alison Quanbrough, prosecuting, said the incident happened on December 20 at around 12.15pm .
The court heard how Davies’ Ford Fiesta came out of a retail park on Cornelian Way, Marton, and collided with another Fiesta driven by a woman. He got out to pick up his number plate from the debris and then drove off. When interviewed by police he said he panicked after the collision and left the scene.
Davies, who had no previous convictions, told magistrates: “The woman pulled out in front of me. I braked, but we collided. I got out and nodded to her to see if she was OK. I picked up my number plate and again indicated to ask if she was OK. She did not get out of the car. It was very busy in the area.” |
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Watch and Yearn
Julia pulled open the front of her black lace kimono style wrap and brought both of her hands up to her breasts. Pulling down her black lace push-up bra slightly, she began brushing her fingertips gently back and forth over her nipples, causing them to stiffen hastily. She then began pinching and pulling on both at the same time. An elegant, fine-boned woman in her late forties, she was clearly comfortable with her sexuality, as well as her own body. A low moan escaped her lips as she flipped her head back in elation, the soft, sinuous waves of her luscious blonde shoulder length hair swinging seductively. She could feel her pussy getting wet. While still tweaking her left nipple, she reached down and slipped her right hand inside her black, lace-trimmed hip-hugger panties. As her fingers connected with her clit, she gasped lightly, arching her back as her piercing, almost cat-like eyes stared at the scene playing out on the bed in front of her.
Lisa was facing her, turned away from Roger and straddling his hips in a reverse cowgirl position. Julia knew how much her husband enjoying having sex this way and could tell that this young woman's body was built for it. She watched in blissful awe as the slim 28-year-old's tight little pussy stretched over his cock as her perfect ass slammed up and down repeatedly. He groaned quietly as she reached down and began playing with his balls as she rode atop him, her modest sized tits dancing to the rhythm of their fucking. She lightly bit her lower lip as she reached back and slapped herself once on her right ass cheek, making sure to steal periodic glances at her lover's wife sitting only a few feet in front of her.
Roger let out a ravenous grumble as he watched the sumptuous ribbons of long, shiny brown curls bounce radiantly in front of him with each plunge onto his dick. The slender, darkly handsome 53-year-old ran one hand through his bristling, brush cut salt and pepper hair while she took hold of the other one and placed it on her firm ass. Following her lead, his hand almost immediately pulled away from her flesh and then quickly came crashing back down onto her cheek with a loud smack that echoed throughout the bedroom. He smiled in satisfaction as he heard the distinctive yelp of pleasure and pain from his young lover.
Julia was still absent-mindedly playing with her left nipple as her other hand plunged her middle finger deep into her pussy. She took a sharp breath and arched her back as she began to finger herself to the sight and sound of her husband being ridden by this beautiful creature. Her hand left her breast and joined its partner in between her legs, rhythmically massaging her clit as she marvelled at how utterly turned on she was by watching Roger fuck another woman. Pumping her middle finger in and out of her cunt, she began fucking herself as if her finger were a small penis. She tried to match the couple's lovemaking tempo, pushing her hips forward to meet her thrusting finger in time with their cadence. Her eyes made contact with her husband's lover as she fucked herself silly with her finger.
Lisa was grinding her pussy down onto him now, his cock buried deep inside her as she writhed in ecstasy. As good as the dick felt in her insatiable cunt, seeing his wife masturbating right in front of them and enjoying the show was just as fulfilling. The two women's eyes met and they both knew that they were trying hard to reach orgasm at the same time. A shiver of exhilaration rippled through her body as she once again began slowly gliding her wet snatch up and down his shaft.
Roger's eyes darted back and forth between the hot young vixen on top of him and his wife pleasuring herself a few feet away. Even in his wildest fantasies, he never imagined how incredibly arousing such a scenario truly would be. An involuntary groan of pleasure escaped his lips as he took hold of his lover's hips and started to guide her motions, attempting to synchronize her movements with those of his wife's thrusting hips.
Julia increased the pressure on her clit as she put another finger in her pussy. When she and her husband had first discussed the idea of bringing a third party into their bed, she was instantly turned on by the thought of watching him fuck another woman, but this was even better than she had hoped for. By now she was almost panting for breath, her two fingers buried deep in her cunt and her sticky juices slowly starting to run down from her engorged slit. Watching the two of them fuck was the most erotic thing she had ever seen.
Lisa's body glistened with sweat as she ran her hands through her curly mane and licked her lips, all the while keeping her eyes locked on the woman fingering herself in front of her. She had always been an adventurous girl sexually, so when the not-so-innocent flirting with her boss escalated to an offer to join him and his wife in the bedroom, it had not taken her very long to accept. With a wry smile to their audience of one, she finally laid back on top of him so she was facing the ceiling. She pinched her nipples firmly as she continued to wiggle back and forth on his cock.
Roger buried his nose into the mass of curls tickling his face and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her down harder on top of his dick. Once he and his wife became seriously committed to their new sexual venture, his thoughts on potential candidates quickly narrowed to one young lady in particular. Ever since she had started tending bar at his restaurant six months earlier he had felt a strong attraction to her and, based on her flirtatious personality and the gossip about her promiscuity, he was cautiously optimistic that she would be open to his invitation. His hands moved from her hips and joined hers on top of her tits as she turned her head to the side and touched her lips to his.
Julia's body quivered as she took in the intimate kiss between her husband and his new lover. Subconsciously, her legs spread even further apart as she thrilled at the sight. Leaning further back in her chair, her fingers teased her clit with little circular motions as her other hand returned to her bosom to caress the nipple on her left breast. She could tell how much he was enjoying fucking this young woman, and was quite certain that his gratification was easily being matched, if not surpassed by her own. A soft moan warbled from deep inside her as she watched the couple reposition themselves on the bed.
Lisa knelt on all fours, facing her lover's wife and presenting her beautiful ass to him. Her long, curly brown hair flowed over her left shoulder as she turned to smile at him, and her body trembled as he reached under her to caress her pendulous tits, gently swaying back and forth as he began to massage them. Never before had she had any interest in voyeurism or given much thought to just how exhilarating being watched could be, but this was quickly turning into one of the most sexually satisfying exploits she had ever experienced. She locked eyes with their spectator and licked her lips as she felt his hands slide up her back and steadily work their way down to her firm ass.
Roger's hands glided over her perfect ass and onto her thighs, where he guided her legs apart as he quickly got on his knees behind her. His rigid cock slid easily into her smouldering snatch and he immediately began pounding away into her deliciously tight cunt. Reaching forward, he grabbed a length of his young lover's curly locks and yanked her head back as he shoved his dick as far into her pussy as it would go. As his thighs slapped continuously against her ass cheeks, he made sure to shoot a look at his wife as she enjoyed the show. Seeing her so thoroughly engrossed in the act of pleasuring herself as she watched her husband slam into this young vixen, he was fairly certain that his prick had never been harder in his life.
Julia was desperate to come. While one hand rubbed her sensitive clit, she pumped the middle two fingers of her other hand in and out of her fiery cunt. Her hands were a blur as her ass almost lifted completely off the seat to allow her pumping fingers to penetrate deeper. Focusing her gaze on the expression on the face of her husband's lover, she could tell that he was fucking her as hard and as fast as he possibly could. Jealousy non-existent, a jolt of pure erotic bliss rocked her body as she started to come.
Lisa's eyes widened as she saw her lover's wife bring herself to orgasm right in front of her. It was an unbelievable sight and one that was arousing her in ways she had never imagined. As the hard cock pounded into her from behind, she lifted her ass up as far as she could thrust it and rested her head on her arms to watch their voyeur come down from her orgasm. Within seconds, she was lost in the intensity of her own explosion as he stroked in and out of her mercilessly.
Roger marvelled at the double satisfaction of seeing his wife get off watching him fuck another woman combined with his new lover enjoying her own release thanks to his hard working dick. Wanting to put off his own orgasm as long as possible, he hunkered down over her body and placed his hands over hers, riding her deeply as she began thrusting backwards to meet each of his strokes. He never realized anything could feel as good as this did, his cock buried deep inside one hot babe as his beautiful wife fingered herself steps away.
Julia tried to catch her breath as she spread her legs wide and gently grazed her fingers over her dripping slit. She knew that her husband had always loved to watch her masturbate and she had always thoroughly enjoyed doing it for him, but never before had she ever felt an orgasm quite as powerful as the one she had just experienced. There was no doubt that watching the young woman on the bed reach her own release at the hands (and cock) of her husband was definitely to thank for taking her to new levels of sexual gratification.
Lisa squeezed her eyes shut and tried to steady herself as she came down from her release. She had known from the moment that he slid his hard-on into her tight, hot cunt that she was likely going to enjoy her biggest and best orgasm ever, and she had not been disappointed. As sexually liberated as she had always thought she was, what she was experiencing right now was by far her most satisfying and erotic escapade. Her eyelids fluttered open and she once again locked eyes with her lover's wife. The two women smiled knowingly in each other's direction, their sexual connection, though not physical, was electric, and filled the room.
Roger could not take it much longer. Watching both of these amazing women explode, plus fucking one of them as furiously as he possibly could, had driven him to the edge. He pulled out of his young lover and flipped her onto her back as he wrapped his hand around his shaft and began to stroke. Groaning in anticipation, he watched as she squeezed her tits and bit her lower lip hungrily while his hand slid over his throbbing cock. Finally, his balls began to boil and he knew he was about the come.
Julia gasped aloud as she watched her husband, dick in hand, take aim at the young woman laid out in front of him. The first shot of come splattered across the bottom of her tits, with the second landed between them and ran up her chest all the way up to her neck. His wife stared in wonderment and lust as he seemed to spurt an endless fountain of come.
Lisa smiled widely and her eyes darted over to her lover's wife just as a shot of come splattered across her face. Her fingers moved to her breasts and she pulled on her nipples mercilessly as another string of his hot fuck juice splashed across her chest. She clutched her tits in her hands and began rubbing them, smearing his come into her skin.
Roger, completely spent, collapsed onto the bed beside his come-drenched lover and tried to catch his breath. He watched as she mindlessly continued caressing her breasts, rubbing his jizz around her nipples, and could not help but smile at the sight. As impressed as he was with that vision, when his eyes moved to take in his wife, his grin widened even further as he watched her gaze fixed on the sticky young woman massaging his come onto her tits. To his own amazement, his cock was already starting to get hard again as he saw his wife's hand slip back in between her legs and a sensual moan escape her lips. |
Image credit: Bob Brown’s confident prediction was made in 1931. Sourced from James Gleick’s blog.
Originally written for the Creative Industries Innovation Centre, 2011.
Closing the 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival was a plenary address by author James Gleick, whose book The Information has been recently described by the ABC’s Robyn Williams as the ‘best science book ever’.
Detailing the modern history of information technology, The Information tracks how it was that ‘information’ came to be conceived as an abstract quantity, giving rise to terms like ‘bit’ to describe a unit of data. It’s obvious to us now, but it took people like Bell Telephone Labs engineer Claude Shannon to imagine that everything from the morse code to thermodynamics to jungle drums might have a measurable scientific quantity, before the information age we now live in could emerge.
But while The Information offers readers insights into how the abstraction of data has created what he calls an ‘information flood’, Gleick’s SWF address, titled ‘Perish the Thought’ was far less inclined to treat books as mere ‘containers’ of ‘content’.
“The separation”, he suggests, “is not entirely satisfying – we interact with a book in a more complex way”. A book is not merely a container for content, in the way that a wine bottle holds the wine. It is, he suggests, a “peak technology – one that is ideally suited to its task”. That means, contrary to the deafening roar of technology boosters and bloggers, the book will never die.
To support his case, Gleick took us on a journey through the many moments of the book’s anticipated demise. In the 1930s, for example, a relatively obscure American author Robert Brown wrote a manifesto declaring books “antiquated word containers”. We were reminded of Marshall McLuhan’s impassioned embrace of print’s demise in the early 1960s – the potentials then offered by fuzzy black and white television were, to MacLuhan, portents of new participatory forms of literacy in the coming ‘electric age’. Nicholas Negroponte was calling for an end to the book back in 1996, just as he claimed in 2010 that “the physical book is dead” – that digital books will replace physical books as the dominant form.
So it’s not that the claims are new. It’s just that the e-book is now a reality, and what’s more it’s splendid. Jacob Weisberg wrote in Slate in 2009 how much he loves the Kindle as his “cool new literature delivery system”. Audiences agree: last week Amazon announced a new milestone, now selling more Kindle versions of book titles than print. Forget the future – the death of the book is clearly happening right now.
Not so, says Gleick. As someone who has thought a lot about the relationships between ‘containers’ and their ‘content’, Gleick is more inclined to think of the value of the book as lying in its print form. It’s the human instinct to collect objects of value that makes us love the book as an object, he suggests, and he quotes I.A Richards, who thought of the books as ‘a machine to think with’.
Like other treatments on the subject, such as John Thompson’s Merchants of Culture, Gleick tends to think the bigger problem at hand is not in fact the demise of the book – after all 2010 saw the publication of 316,000 new titles, and that’s not including the nearly one million titles borne of ‘internet-driven’ non-traditional publishing – but rather the publishing industry itself. Gleick contends here that the trouble may be less about digital formats and more to do with the short-termism of publishers and their insatiable greed, chasing after block busters and leaving the backlists for dead.
It’s these characteristics that are only letting the e-books down too, he claims. Sloppy editing, too many widows and orphans, charging readers too much, paying writers too little – they all stand in the way of creating a satisfying e-book experience. ‘Enhanced’ e-books offering readers embedded video and applets may be well and good, but don’t, he pleas, start embedding hyperlinks into text, and don’t start introducing social bookmarks! In other words don’t introduce anything that will take the reader out of the book.
This may be a fanciful desire on Gleick’s part, but it also goes to the crux of the matter. The word not mentioned in this address was ‘narrative’, and it seemed a strange omission – after all, isn’t the only thing distinguishing ‘the book’ from ‘the internet’ in an age of e-publishing the coherence of the narrative perspective? And that old authorial voice?
In the end, for Gleick, it came down to a bit more than narrative consistency, and the trusted authorial voice nourished by publishers committed to the task of connecting writers with their audiences. The book as a ‘peak technology’ was key. Technology barriers limit the time horizon of video to around 100 years. For the internet, the time horizon is around 20 years; Facebook give or take a couple of years. The genius of the book as a peak technology is its ability to break through the technological barriers of the past, with a time horizon dating to the beginning of human history. In the antiquity of the book, then, lies its future. To Gleick: “When we find ourselves living in the perpetual present, books become the furniture of eternity”.
James Gleick is an author, journalist and biographer whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. His most recent book, ‘The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood’, is being hailed as his crowning work. Gleick is also the author of the bestselling books ‘Chaos’, ‘Genius’, ‘Faster’ and a biography of Isaac Newton. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and have been translated into more than 20 languages. James divides his time between New York City and Florida.
Sarah Barns gets excited by digital publishing, but judging by the unwieldy pile of books stacked up by her bedside, remains stuck with the antiquated habits of what Ben Ehrenreich would call a ‘biblio-necrophiliac’.
I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the
arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know that this would
be the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between
the measurements of space and the events of its past.
—Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1974
In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities fluid assemblages of signs and images litter a subterranean landscape which mark the destinations to which Marco Polo has travelled. Polo recounts these destinations to his Emperor Kublai Khan without recourse to a map or a wayfaring guide; we are given little by way of their geography, or any sense of the spatial connections between each recalled location. Instead there are only fragments, the improbable exceptions of remembrance and experience. Calvino’s invisible cities are all given names, women’s names like Irene, Chloe, Raissa, Adelma: Irene, for example, “is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on” (1974: 112). There are many cities, but always the one: Venice. This is the Venice collapsed or hidden behind its contemporary, over-exposed tourist façade, whose ‘invisibility’ is cultivated as the imaginative potentiality of everyday encounters with a familiar space. Of this Venice there are no general claims made, instead, from the singularity of this one city, are teased provisional cities that capture a mood, a memory, a fleeting gesture, the tracery of a half-glimpsed pattern…
What might Calvino’s peculiar treatments of urban spatiality offer to today’s practitioners of urban computing? M. Christine Boyer (1996: 142) has noted the way Invisible Cities represents a network “much like the matrix of a hypertext, in which the reader can select multiple routes and draw a variety of conclusions”. During the 1960s Calvino was interested in what the combinatory complexities of cybernetics meant as a way of perceiving the world, one that could divide it into a series of discrete, divisible parts, rather than continuous in form, a shift he considered radical in the way it altered the theoretical image of our mental processes. Invisible Cities sees this recombinatory logic of cybernetics in action, allowing for an imaginary projection of urban space via a set of algorithmic relationships that enable places to exchange their form, order, and distances, as qualities assorted “like the letters in a name” (Calvino 1974: 164).
In Invisible Cities this recombinatory logic incorporates not only discrete spatial entities, but also “the measurements of space and the events of its past”. An imaginative projection of the city’s spatiality is thus evoked as intimately temporal – but again, this temporality is not continuous, as in the steady passage of time, but is rather experienced as discontinuous and elliptical. Just as there is no clear linear passage through the spatial environment of the city of Venice, so too there is no clear passage through its shifting temporalities, or the discrete stages of Marco Polo’s journey: “all the future Berenices”, for example, “are already present in this instant” (1974: 146). For this is a temporality that figures like the experience of memory, in which recollections emerge without warning, as discrete, embodied moments, which might flash up at any given time – such as, perhaps, when you lean out of a window in the early evening.
In this way Calvino animated invisible cities as topologies of moments, whose recombinations and recollections continue to haunt imagistic projections and abstract modes of knowledge. Released two years after the publication of Invisible Cities, Jonothan Raban’s Soft City (1974) offered a similar treatment of the urban terrain as intimately personal, and therefore malleable and indeterminate: “Decide who you are, and the city will again assume a fixed form around you” (Raban 1974: 1). The fractured identity of the modern condition was mirrored in the malleability of urban space, as Raban’s narrative itinerary teased out the many from the singular, navigating agitated spaces of illusion, myth, aspiration and nightmare. The dynamic of cities was presented as “plastic by nature”, criss-crossing both the real and the imagined, the voice of commentary mixing it up with the musings of a wondering, wandering traveler. Dense with labyrinthine alleyways of possibility and happenstance, Soft City presented urban spaces “in our images; they, in turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them” (Raban 1974: 1-2).
Both writers offered their accounts of the city not as scholars of urbanism but instead as conjurors of stories. Jeannette Winterson (2001) has written that “[r]eading Calvino reading Venice is a reminder of how often the controlled, measured world of knowledge fails us. So much of life resists the facts. Imagining Venice is imagining yourself, as Khan discovers – an unsettling exercise, but necessary, perhaps.” At one point in his account of invisible cities, Calvino describes the way Kublai Khan had focused so narrowly on a chessboard of black and white squares that the game’s meaning had eluded him, as it had simply become an abstract piece of wood (Boyer 1996: 143). But when Marco Polo reminded him that this chessboard was “inlaid with two woods, ebony and maple” Khan’s imagination took flight. As Boyer has suggested, in this way Calvino teaches us a lesson: we might reduce events to abstract patterns that facilitate the procedures of logical operations, or we can work to engender or revive imaginary projections – in this case, making words reveal the very tangible qualities of a given object – which in turn might allow for the continued presence of the unfathomable, the invisible (ibid).
This Chapter considers some of the ways in which we might continue to encounter the elliptical invisibilities of contemporary ‘real-time ‘ cities. Today, the ability to graphically enhance our imaging of cities as multi-scalar, networked environments offers profound potentials, introducing an array of new urban management and design techniques using more detailed, real-time urban data. Just as a shapeless dust cloud invaded the continents of Invisible Cities, today’s real-time cities are underpinned by an information architecture of sensors and applications, whose databases express the mutating, multi-scalar complexities of the material world. The ability to visualize these interactions in real-time radically disrupts our conception of the city, by representing urban spaces according to their everyday uses as much as by their physical, built structures. Real-time usage patterns can, for example, be applied to predict the impact of new developments, replacing of out of date census data with predictive models more closely attuned to the complex interactions and spatial flows of the city. Embedded sensor networks reveal that which might otherwise be invisible to the naked eye; like coins rubbed over waxpaper, they make visible a myriad of fluid, complex exchanges between material, social and informational universes.
For many, this computational intensification of the material world retrieves hidden, hitherto banished possibilities, and can be put to disruptive uses (Foth 2008: 19). To Foth, practitioners of urban informatics can act as ‘urban anatomists’, dissecting urban environments and infrastructure by “trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelations of city elements”, seeking to “picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments”. Peter Hall and Janet Abrams have suggested “[m]apping has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable” (2006: 12). The application of hyper-local, multi-scalar and real time mapping techniques, it is argued, present opportunities to expose ‘hidden’ or hitherto invisible relationships, including the relationships between centre and periphery, power and influence (see Sassen 2008; Boyer 2006).
For Dan Hill, there is the potential to avoid grand infrastructural interventions which become “hardwired into the urban fabric” for subsequent generations, and to instead develop a more “iterative, responsive field of ‘urban acupunctures”. Location-aware computing has in such ways been seen to greatly expand the range of possibilities for artists, architects and designers to “re-enchant the world”, offering “a way of making visible all these hidden stories of place” (Crang and Graham 2007: 815). The embedding of microprocessors via sensor web networks in physical environments also enables the informational life-worlds of millions of ‘users’, human or otherwise, to be made visible, such that needs not only of humans but also natural environments can be revealed as diffuse, complex systems of interaction.
But as practitioners of urban computing seek to actively to disrupt established views of the city, visualizing that which has hitherto remained hidden from view, a return to Invisible Cities also prompts us to reconsider the enduring presence of that which still remains out of view in today’s real-time cities. In a sense, many of the potentials associated with real-time mobile networks are predicated on making visible that which might otherwise remain unseen. But the twentieth century has already witnessed many costly lessons associated with relying too heavily on technologies of visual abstraction and representation as a means to progress urban reform. So when we today assess the potentials associated with enhanced, contextually-aware spatial representations of the real-time city, Calvino’s writing reminds us of the need to be remain mindful not only of what this capacity for spatial measurement reveals, but to consider also how we might continue to enfold the ‘the events of its past’ within these emergent, distributed networked configurations.
The title for the chapter was inspired by reading Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting, in which she takes her readers on a walk through London one winter’s eve in search of a pencil. Happily, it’s available online now, and can be read below.
Another inspiration for the piece are the Lost Laneways of Sydney – one of the images from this fine collection is below. It captures a man walking down Exeter Place in Sydney, 1906. Exeter Place was obliterated as part of the Wexworth St Resumption.
NSW SuburbLabs is a pilot project connecting historical content in government and public archives and institutions to the testbed locations of the National Broadband Network in NSW.
The project was funded by the NSW Government in 2010 as part of its Broadband Testbed Trials. Two of the test-bed locations feature here: Middleton Grange and Kiama.
The project differed from some other recent digital archives projects, in that it focused on what you could do with widely-accessible publishing platforms like WordPress and Flickr. It also benefited a great deal from Trove, launched by the National Library of Australia in 2010.
As I pieced together collection materials drawn from vastly dispersed collections relating to highly-localised sites, whose significance rested primarily on their having been chosen as broadband test-beds (rather than their particular historical significance), I was once again reminded of the the importance of storytelling, context and interpretation. The tools of the trade for curators and historians, whose work remains vital even as the data – in the form of digital archives – becomes accessible to many in ways not seen before.
And what stories!
Middleton Grange was only given its name in 2005, but explorations of the archives reveal many a fascinating tale about this perimeter suburb of Sydney. Hoxton Park, for example, has long been a place to which struggling inner-city types fled in search of easy money through property – a not unfamiliar tale to residents of the city today.
It also happens that Australia’s first published poet, Barron Field, took up humble residence on the 2000 acres known as Hinchinbrook – publishing his much-maligned ‘Kangoroo’ while employed as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court.
Much of the archives work featured on this site has contributed to a PhD I’ve been undertaking through the University of Technology Sydney. It’s been a long and winding journey – starting out in the Faculty of Computing and IT and ending up in Public History – and finally submitted in August 2010.
Titled The Death and Life of the Real-Time City: Re-imagining the City of Digital Urbanism, this is a somewhat ‘non-traditional’ PhD which traverses a number of different fields and takes in ideas relating to urban computing, utopian images of the city, urban activism during the 20th century, sound practices, and the digital distribution of media archives today.
If you’re wondering how all those ideas fit together, you best have a read. A copy of the unpublished dissertation can be downloaded here.
The Abstract begins like this:
Information and communications technologies are becoming increasingly diffused within the material spaces of the city, generating novel ways of representing complex, hitherto ‘invisible’ urban behaviours in real-time. Many digital urbanists are inspired by the capacity of these network technologies to radically transform our perceptions and experiences of urban space. But how ‘new’, really, is this emergent vision of the city?
My primary interest has been to critically interrogate how it is that digital urbanists approach the space of the city – not only in descriptive terms, in terms of the ‘what is’, whether that be current GPS-enabled bicycle trips or mobile phone usage patterns, but by projecting a kind of anticipatory urban imaginary which agitates for ‘what might be’ and in doing so, is implicitly critical of the status quo.
By digital urbanists, I basically mean those practitioners and researchers who are excited by the potential for urban computing – wireless networks, mobile devices and so forth – to alter the way we use and understand urban spaces. Just as the term ‘urbanism’ is sometimes used to denote a passionate interest in, or engagement with, the vicissitudes of urban life, I’ve used the term ‘digital urbanism’ to capture a largely optimistic engagement in the potential for urban computing technologies to reform cities.
MIT SENSEable City Lab 2010. Project: Network & Society
I’ve been fascinated with the rise of digital urbanism because it stands quite apart from the orientation of many cyberspace cheerleaders of the 1990s, who predicted the demise of the city. Where previously the anti-materiality of this post-urban fantasy had looked to the Internet as a kind of utopia of pure space â?? where a virtual world of pure information served to ‘decontaminate’ natural and urban landscapes and annihilate geographical constraints, today’s real-time communications are instead championed as potentially enhancing the behaviours of the city.
The concept of the real-time city is only one of the many ways in which ‘the city’ is being re-visioned using contemporary network technologies. It’s associated primarily with the work of practitioners of urban informatics, a discipline championed by researchers such as Marcus Foth, Anthony Townsend, and Howard Rheingold, along with industry practitioners like Carlo Ratti, head of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dan Hill, Senior Consultant at Arup and creator of cityofsound.com.
In my thesis, I approach the concept of the real-time city a bit more broadly than it is usually understood within fields like urban informatics, because I’m interested in it not as a functional term but as an aspirational term. The real-time city, I argue, serves to project a particular vision of the city, one whose performance rests on the capacity for distributed computing to ‘enhance’ representations of cities as complex urban systems, often using data visualization techniques to capture otherwise ‘hidden’ data flows between distributed computing devices, including mobile phones.
My central concern with this vision is its reliance on technologies of visualisation, which are used to offer better representations of urban complexity. Despite the emphasis on urban complexity, my contention is that this vision nevertheless progresses particular, and in fact quite restrictive, notions of the urban. I’ve found that many of the claims of digital urbanists tend to pivot around the revelatory capacity of real-time networks to ‘make the invisible visible’. In its approach to the city, this entrenches an intensely visual agenda which is evident across much of urban studies, setting certain parameters around what can be ‘seen’ and what remains ‘unseen’ in the life of the real-time city.
I treat the emphasis on visual abstraction as a concern, not only for its tendency to privilege the visual over other sensory modes of urban experience, but also for its privileging of a formalistic, design-led approach, which tends to engage with systems design at the expense of social process. Such tendencies have not gone unnoticed; the architect Peter Eisenmann recently decried practices associated with digital urbanism as a ‘new, virulent breed of formalism, more virulent because it [is] posed under the banner of a neo-avant guard technological determinism’ (cited in Anthony Vidler’s Histories of the Immediate Present, 2008).
So that’s where Jane Jacobs comes in, with her seminal text The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1965). Urban planners during the 1960s were enchanted by the potential to introduce greater order into the city – think of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City – and put forward models of ‘urban renewal’ which could be easily replicated across other cities. Death and Life was essentially a tirade against these practices of post-war American planning, mourning the way American cities were being transformed into forests of high-rise buildings, leaving their citizens ostracized and isolated, and subsequently undermining the vitality of American public culture.
Jane Jacobs on her bicycle, New York 1960s.
Aghast at the impersonalized urban landscapes transforming modern American cities, Jacobs urged that greater attention be paid to the values of locatedness and connectedness to place. In a strong but gentle polemical style, Jacobs argued that urban spaces worked best when strangers could easily encounter each other, when children played on the street, and when planning decisions could be made at a local level, rather than through centralized planning bureaucracies and the imposition of abstracted ideas about cities.
The challenge Jacobs presented to modern urban planning was therefore not just about the particular technique of urban renewal being promulgated by the American planning profession at that time. It also concerned, more fundamentally, its claim to be reviving urban spaces through new approaches to urban development, which relied heavily on techniques of urban abstraction. To Jacobs, such techniques famously represented ‘the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served’ (1965: 25). Rather than resorting to a plan, a grid, or a highway network, Jacobs reconceived cities as disorganised collections of haphazard incidents and accidental encounters between strangers.
Robert Moses’ plan for the Lower Manhattan Expressway
Across contemporary urban planning and architecture today, Jacob’s target of post-war modernist planning tends to be framed for its tragic failures, a product of the over reliance on the urban spatial form as a basis from which to alleviate social ills, seeking to reform or renew built environments while leaving social relationships intact. Jacobs’ polemic is required reading for today’s students, who are taught of the failures wrought by these modernist regimes, and the geographies of single-use enclaves and far-flung highways they spawned. Indeed, the criticisms she waged against the profession might today be considered planning orthodoxy: in particular, the need to avoid widely-replicable, abstract urban schemas, and to instead take into account the local conditions that give rise to productive diversity.
In recalling its title, my thesis is not so much interested in what Death and Life had to say about the ideal conditions of urban form, the length of city blocks, the presence of mixed industry, etcetera, as its symbolic and now historic project of re-imagining ‘the city’. In challenging the conventional wisdom about how to understand cities, part of the radicalism of Death and Life was its steady insistence that the trickiness of cities can be as evident in everyday interactions on downtown sidewalks as it is in the abstracted representations and codifications of specialised disciplines. So the title of my thesis draws from Jacobs to affirm the continuing importance of this central challenge as it applies to the emergent fields of digital urbanism today.
Somewhat working against the grain of conventional approaches (if you can use a term like ‘conventional’ in relation to a relatively nascent field of practice!), my PhD has gone on to retrieve some different practices and perspectives, drawn from the fields of critical spatial theory, cultural geography and sound studies, to re-imagine a ‘real-time’ experience of the urban terrain. Through a practice-led response, I’ve re-imagined the digital terrain as a historical topology that enfolds within it different time-spaces – what I’ve cheekily called the ‘real times of space‘.
This practice has made tactical use of the mobile device as a listening platform, capable of retrieving the substrata of today’s digital terrain through its archival audio traces. Working in Sydney, Australia, I’ve retrieved the ambient resonances of particular moments in the life of the city in the way one might navigate a memori topi, using archival sound traces to facilitate experiential audio-visual interactions with the past-presences of an urban space.
This practice has tried to figure out a way of navigating the digital-urban terrain not as a networked space of contemporary connectivity – the perpetual present of real-time interaction – but also as a way of experiencing what Doreen Massey has called a ‘simultaneity of stories so far’ (for space, 2003, p.109). Massey has been influential for me here – in an exhibition catalogue for Olaf Eliasson’s Weather Project at the Tate Museum in 2003 Massey writes of the times of space, , which is not quite totally spatial in its privileging of the present, but open to loose ends, to connections yet to be made. If we shift the concept of ‘real- time’ away from that of the networked connectivity of the present, to the ‘loose ends’ of space’s real-times, what practices might that lead to?
Here I’ve turned to sound, and specifically ambient sound archives of city spaces, as a way of listening in to the resonant traces of past moments. By doing so, I’ve hoped to enrich the spatial imaginary of the real-time city and its digital practices; to not only illuminate the contours of its networked connectivity, but to also listen, and learn, from what we might retrieve when we return to its forgotten spaces.
Ultimately, I’m totally fascinated with the rise of urban computing, and the potential for spatial technologies to re-shape not only the way we use cities, but also the way we imagine them. Nevertheless, I believe it’s time for more critical debate about the extent to which technologies of urban computing can themselves reform the deeper institutional and political practices that underpin the production of contemporary cities. From Web 2.0 to City 2.0 – how might that take shape within institutions of urban governance?
Listening in to the city’s recorded geography might help to answer that question. When we do listen, we hear that the agitations of urban crisis are not so new, we can listen to the mistakes of urban modernism, and can perhaps begin to recall the dangers of believing reform is something to be designed by only a few.
Through ABC Pool, I’ve been working to publish a number of the archival recordings featured on Sydney Sidetracks through an open access Creative Commons licence. That means they are now available for re-use and remix. The project is starting with the Sydney collection, but will be expanding to include other cities very soon.
The project has featured on the ABC’s social media website Pool. It launched on January 2011 and has since seen the release of a number of additional ABC TV & Radio Archives items into the public domain.
An example of some of the items I have cleared through this project include:
VP Day 1945
Voices
Through this project I cleared a number of voice recordings of infamous Sydney-siders, including the gunman Chow Hayes, the activist Juanita Nielsen and the colourful lady-about-town Bea Miles.
Living on the Fringe
As part of this ABC Pool project I conducted an interview with the director, Gian Carlo Manara, and undertook further research into the ABC’s document archives to uncover some of the unwanted press associated with the release of this once controversial documentary.
Q&A With GianCarlo Manara, Director of Living on the Fringe
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GianCarlo Manara, director of the ABC’s 1963 documentary Living on the Fringe, shares some of his memories about the film with Sarah Barns.
SB: What opportunities were there for documentary makers working in Australia at this time? How important was the ABC in supporting documentary production?
GM: At the time we made Living on the Fringe, there weren’t so many opportunities for the few people with sufficient professional skill to make documentaries. The ABC was one of the first institutions to offer that chance, through programs like Big Country.
SB: Was this a difficult film to make within the ABC at this time?
GM: Documentaries like this weren’t very common. It was Allan Ashbolt in the Talks Dept who wanted to use television to make more political documentaries like this one. We worked together on Four Corners – our association grew from there.
SB: What inspiration did you draw from when making this film? (for example, Italian neo-realist films etc).
GM: I graduated in Film Direction and Scriptwriting in Italy in 1955. We all in the school were the products of Italian neo-realism. I personally have been also influenced by other filmmakers such as Grierson, Rota, and Cavalanti.
SB: Did your own migrant story influence this film in any way?
GM: No, I was not influenced by my migrant experience, but by the stark reality of the life of the neglected and the poor. The the media at the time always preferred to ignore this.
SB: How did people on the streets of Sydney react to your filming of them?
GM: Filming in the streets at that time was still a novelty. I often used a “candid camera” approach to catch reality. An exception was when I asked my sexy friend Diana Roberts, now the well know writer Di Morrisey, to walk around some streets in East Sydney. At this time many Italians and Maltese migrants used to hang around on Sunday morning. Migrants at the time were very lonely â?? no social life and above all no women! The “Latin Lover” was not yet a trendy image!
SB: What did you hope audiences would learn from Living on the Fringe?
GM: My hope was for the average viewer to understand that Australia was not just the land of milk and honey – that here, just like other part of the world, there were people in need.
SB: Do you think Sydney is a better city today than it was when Living on the Film was made?
GM: Is Sydney a better place today? It is a big question. It is certainly different – there is more social awareness in the area of welfare and help. Of course lifestyles are also very different. Is it better? If I look back at the Sydney of this time I see a child, and today I see an adult. But is the adult of today better than the child of yesterday? It is a big question… I often think about it, about the old beach carnival when the Life Savers were marching like soldiers, when the girls were wearing petticoats and Saturday night was the night of dance at the Trocadero! All gone! However the girls are still beautiful, and the Life Savers are still so important and so Australian!
But one thing is for sure: the “greed” that today is often rampant was not so much at the time, even if everyone of course attempted to make some â??quidsâ??!
The back of the Theatre Royal in Sydney - near Rowe Lane, site of the demolished Rowe St.
resonant traces of the city: an archaeology of recorded action
A component of my PhD was the production of a number of sound pieces which I’ve labelled ‘sound marks’. These pieces are intended to take the listener back to historical moments and events in the life of Sydney. Todayâ??s listener might chart a course through central Sydney, â??visitingâ?? these moments in much the same way that one might visit a monument or landmark. Theyâ??re not, in the main, attached to visible landmarks.
It was 9am Sydney time on August 15 1945 when British Prime Minister Clement Atlee announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. ‘The last of our enemies is laid low’ he said. PEACE! roared The Sun. In downtown Martin Place, massive crowds spontaneously gathered, to dance and make whoopie in celebration of the end of the War.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Talbot Duckmanton was there that day to record the scenes, describing to his audience some of the finer details of the setting: a Hitler effigy being hung from the windows of one of the banks, circles of dancing women before him (‘fine looking ladies, too!’), the din of a mosquito zooming around maniacally over head.
Duckmanton’s recording captures the emerging style of documentary radio reportage adopted by the ABC’s radio correspondents after the war, as they took advantage of new, more versatile recording technologies to head out of the studio and into the streets and backwaters of Australia (Inglis 1983: 164; Thomas 2007).
Standing in Martin Place today, listening in, through headphones, to the sounds captured by the ABC’s recording of these ebullient scenes some sixty-five years ago, one feels a giddy sense of time travel, being transported to that celebrated moment as it had been experienced right here. That sense of immediacy Duckmanton had worked to establish for his radio listeners back in 1945 draws today’s listener back in, to participate with his audience of the day in imagining the scenes at Martin Place. ‘There’s no policeman directing traffic on Pitt St today’ he tells us. No, indeed there is not.
Today Martin Place is unusually quiet. It’s Saturday and the office workers who normally mill about here are nowhere to be seen. Weekend shoppers and tourists are perhaps avoiding the tunnel of wind that blows constantly up through the pedestrian promenade, making the place feel somewhat chilly even on hot summer afternoons. Duckmanton’s narration continues:
Over on my right, on one of the buildings at the back, somebody has hung out a big dummy of Adolf Hitler with a great swastiker on the front of it, and to the cheers of the crowd he was lowered down from the top of the building and – duly hung!
Today’s solitary listener might look up, wondering on which of these buildings here the spectacle occurred.
Listening to the sounds of this old radio recording through personal headphones, we join with Duckmanton’s audience of the day in imagining the scenes being described. But we’re not listening to the wireless, whether from home or work, we’re in Martin Place, separated through time, not by distance, to the sounds of this euphoria en masse of the manic joy of wives soon to be reunited with husbands, of a city jubilant with the prospect of an immanent end to war-time rations.
As we ‘return’ to this moment as it was documented here, in-situ, we are also just another person in the crowd with headphones on, enclosed, as Bull (2007) would have it, in a ‘pleasurable and privatized sound bubble’ of own own choosing.
We might consider the peculiar sound bubble of this listening experience to be hallucinatory in its effects, in eliciting ‘visions’ of that which can no longer be seen. The experience is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack, transforming what is seen into a kind of cinematic-like visual feast. While this experience is all too familiar to headphone wearers everywhere, this particular piece of audio, an old, scratchy recording of a public event that took place right here some time ago, brings back a sense of the collective memory of an invisible past.
So this audio recording facilitates a slightly different kind of audio-visual interactivity to that which might ordinarily be experienced with headphones, as the displacement affected by the auditory frame is also something of a ‘return’; an intimate commemoration with that previous, broadcast present.
Today’s listener might ‘visit’ a number of these archival recordings as one would visit a monument, or some kind of a physical artefact that describes a historical event. Further up the street at Chifley Square, our listener can hear the chants of a student demonstration. It’s 1968 and Australia’s involvement in the war in Vietnam is under fire. The protesters have gathered outside the Commonwealth Centre, a towering 1960s office block demolished in 1988 to make way for the Chifley Tower. She hears a voice projected through a loudspeaker proclaiming the rights of conscientious objectors to a trial by jury, muffled cries calling for Mr. Robert Kennedy’s resignation, boos and hisses, muffled and dispersed at first and then becoming louder. The listener hears these sounds through her headphones, while the ambient noises of Chifley Square bleed into her densely, scratchily archival audio space. Further down at Circular Quay, she can ‘visit’ the voice of Paul Robeson singing Old Man River to the construction workers of the Sydney Opera House in 1963.
If she heads over to the Rocks, she’ll also hear the sounds of Green Ban protesters fighting against the prospect of further high-rise construction, clashing with police in 1973; a bird sings in the background as a reporter details the scene. As she visits these recordings, the listener’s experience of these events yields a city of discrete, temporally-discontinous moments in time: a topography of events, as captured by recording technologies of the day.
Today’s s listener could chart a course through central Sydney visiting these ‘soundmarks’ as one might visit different places of historical interest. Her experience of these sounds in-situ amplifies a different historical geography to that of the ‘sculptured narrative’ (ref) of monuments and memorials. When she stands in Martin Place listening to the sounds of VP Day, she’s looking at the Victorian sandstone buildings wondering on which one the Hitler effigy hung, and may only take a passing interest in their architectural features. Down at Circular Quay, she’s imagining the Sydney Opera House as a mess of scaffolding. When the listener returns to these moments, she revisits the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’. In these recordings, she hears journalists detailing a contemporary (now past) scene, not recollections as described by someone from a future vantage point in time. The sense of immediacy yielded by these ambient street recordings, as it retrieves an experience of ‘being there’, is in this respect quite different to a studio-based oral history recording, which looks backwards from a contemporary vantage point.
These pieces are not intended to structure the listener’s physical navigation of an environment, but simply to ‘mark’ a space-time, or series of space-times. They don’t offer the listener a structured navigation through a given locale. When you listen, you’ll hear no instructions as to which way you should walk; which way you should look. Each piece simply seeks to triangulate, like Calvino’s invisible cities, the measurements of space with the events of its past.
Each of these sound pieces experiments with different approaches to working with sound archives for a site-specific listening experience. All are relatively short – the longest is 14 minutes. All were produced using the ABC’s archives, with the exception of one piece I produced using materials identified from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Some simply present a single archival recording; others are more complex edited compositions that integrate a number of different sound sources. Some are narrated; others are not.
Many of these pieces relate to what I have called ‘resonant spaces’ in Sydney; spaces whose amplification through the documentary record illuminates sites of conflict and contestation which otherwise remain hidden from view. Listening to these recordings in-situ intends to amplify a different historical geography to that of the sculptured narrative of official monuments and memorials.
Such resonant spaces amplify the contested nature of a site’s contemporary spatiality. But other pieces are not about urban conflict at all: they simply ‘return’ to particular moments in the life of the city, yielding a topology of events and moments, as captured by different recording technologies of the day. I find some of these recorded moments particularly compelling as they enable the listener to revisit the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’ specifically for the purpose of contemporary documentary reportage.
As compositions, these sound marks are not intended to demonstrate new methods of sound composition, or examples of context-aware media technology. They are simply intended to demonstrate what different kinds of auditory remnants might be retrieved when we listen in to the real times of space. Wherever possible, I have made these recordings available for re-use by others interested in working with street’s acoustical historical geography. I make no claims over ownership of the final compositions, but only gesture towards their possible incorporation into contemporary practice.
Sydney has long been a city well-known for poor planning decisions, reflecting a historically laissez-faire approach to urban design. Planning advocate J.D. Fitzgerald lamented in 1917 that Sydney was “a city without a plan, save whatever planning was due to the errant goat”. “Wherever this animal made a track through the bush”, he observed, “there are the streets of today”. Sydney historian Paul Ashton has subsequently called Sydney an “accidental city”, because its planning history has been shaped by, at best, opportunistic development and disjointed or abortive attempts at holistic planning. As declared by one frustrated onlooker: “There is no such thing as planning [in the city of Sydney] – [ it is] all opportunism on the part of every agency.”
That can make for some fairly unruly spaces at times, as local residents and activists have intervened to protect their homes from speculative property development, then and now. A particularly notable period for citizen activism in Sydney was the 1960s and 1970s, when a colossal development boom utterly transformed the city. When developers capitalised on relaxed building height restrictions and relatively low interest rates, much of Sydney’s Victorian-era buildings within the CBD were demolished, replaced by commercial high-rise.
Residents, activists and builders’ labourers joined forces at this time demanding the right for greater consultation in planning decisions. In their heyday the BLF Green Bans were successful in holding up more than $300m worth of development across Sydney. They saved many buildings – most notably the Rocks, a tourist mecca today – but not all. They also encouraged the development of stronger participatory planning processes in Australia. But when residents dared to speak out against the loss of their homes, they encountered the darker side of Sydney’s criminal underbelly…
There are a number of sound recordings here clustered around Victoria St, dealing with the tumultuous period between 1973-4 when resident action forced delays to the construction of the Victoria Heights towers overlooking the city.
It was 9am Sydney time on August 15 1945 when British Prime Minister Clement Atlee announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. ‘The last of our enemies is laid low’ he said. PEACE! roared The Sun. In downtown Martin Place, massive crowds spontaneously gathered, to dance and make whoopie in celebration of the end of the War.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Talbot Duckmanton was there that day to record the scenes, describing to his audience some of the finer details of the setting: a Hitler effigy being hung from the windows of one of the banks, circles of dancing women before him (‘fine looking ladies, too!’), the din of a mosquito zooming around maniacally over head.
Duckmanton’s recording captures the emerging style of documentary radio reportage adopted by the ABC’s radio correspondents after the war, as they took advantage of new, more versatile recording technologies to head out of the studio and into the streets and backwaters of Australia (Inglis 1983: 164; Thomas 2007).
Standing in Martin Place today, listening in, through headphones, to the sounds captured by the ABC’s recording of these ebullient scenes some sixty-five years ago, one feels a giddy sense of time travel, being transported to that celebrated moment as it had been experienced right here. That sense of immediacy Duckmanton had worked to establish for his radio listeners back in 1945 draws today’s listener back in, to participate with his audience of the day in imagining the scenes at Martin Place. ‘There’s no policeman directing traffic on Pitt St today’ he tells us. No, indeed there is not.
Today Martin Place is unusually quiet. It’s Saturday and the office workers who normally mill about here are nowhere to be seen. Weekend shoppers and tourists are perhaps avoiding the tunnel of wind that blows constantly up through the pedestrian promenade, making the place feel somewhat chilly even on hot summer afternoons. Duckmanton’s narration continues:
Over on my right, on one of the buildings at the back, somebody has hung out a big dummy of Adolf Hitler with a great swastiker on the front of it, and to the cheers of the crowd he was lowered down from the top of the building and – duly hung!
Today’s solitary listener might look up, wondering on which of these buildings here the spectacle occurred.
Listening to the sounds of this old radio recording through personal headphones, we join with Duckmanton’s audience of the day in imagining the scenes being described. But we’re not listening to the wireless, whether from home or work, we’re in Martin Place, separated through time, not by distance, to the sounds of this euphoria en masse of the manic joy of wives soon to be reunited with husbands, of a city jubilant with the prospect of an immanent end to war-time rations.
As we ‘return’ to this moment as it was documented here, in-situ, we are also just another person in the crowd with headphones on, enclosed, as Bull (2007) would have it, in a ‘pleasurable and privatized sound bubble’ of own own choosing.
We might consider the peculiar sound bubble of this listening experience to be hallucinatory in its effects, in eliciting ‘visions’ of that which can no longer be seen. The experience is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack, transforming what is seen into a kind of cinematic-like visual feast. While this experience is all too familiar to headphone wearers everywhere, this particular piece of audio, an old, scratchy recording of a public event that took place right here some time ago, brings back a sense of the collective memory of an invisible past.
So this audio recording facilitates a slightly different kind of audio-visual interactivity to that which might ordinarily be experienced with headphones, as the displacement affected by the auditory frame is also something of a ‘return’; an intimate commemoration with that previous, broadcast present.
Today’s listener might ‘visit’ a number of these archival recordings as one would visit a monument, or some kind of a physical artefact that describes a historical event. Further up the street at Chifley Square, our listener can hear the chants of a student demonstration. It’s 1968 and Australia’s involvement in the war in Vietnam is under fire. The protesters have gathered outside the Commonwealth Centre, a towering 1960s office block demolished in 1988 to make way for the Chifley Tower. She hears a voice projected through a loudspeaker proclaiming the rights of conscientious objectors to a trial by jury, muffled cries calling for Mr. Robert Kennedy’s resignation, boos and hisses, muffled and dispersed at first and then becoming louder. The listener hears these sounds through her headphones, while the ambient noises of Chifley Square bleed into her densely, scratchily archival audio space. Further down at Circular Quay, she can ‘visit’ the voice of Paul Robeson singing Old Man River to the construction workers of the Sydney Opera House in 1963.
If she heads over to the Rocks, she’ll also hear the sounds of Green Ban protesters fighting against the prospect of further high-rise construction, clashing with police in 1973; a bird sings in the background as a reporter details the scene. As she visits these recordings, the listener’s experience of these events yields a city of discrete, temporally-discontinous moments in time: a topography of events, as captured by recording technologies of the day.
Today’s s listener could chart a course through central Sydney visiting these ‘soundmarks’ as one might visit different places of historical interest. Her experience of these sounds in-situ amplifies a different historical geography to that of the ‘sculptured narrative’ (ref) of monuments and memorials. When she stands in Martin Place listening to the sounds of VP Day, she’s looking at the Victorian sandstone buildings wondering on which one the Hitler effigy hung, and may only take a passing interest in their architectural features. Down at Circular Quay, she’s imagining the Sydney Opera House as a mess of scaffolding. When the listener returns to these moments, she revisits the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’. In these recordings, she hears journalists detailing a contemporary (now past) scene, not recollections as described by someone from a future vantage point in time. The sense of immediacy yielded by these ambient street recordings, as it retrieves an experience of ‘being there’, is in this respect quite different to a studio-based oral history recording, which looks backwards from a contemporary vantage point.
These pieces are not intended to structure the listener’s physical navigation of an environment, but simply to ‘mark’ a space-time, or series of space-times. They don’t offer the listener a structured navigation through a given locale. When you listen, you’ll hear no instructions as to which way you should walk; which way you should look. Each piece simply seeks to triangulate, like Calvino’s invisible cities, the measurements of space with the events of its past.
Each of these sound pieces experiments with different approaches to working with sound archives for a site-specific listening experience. All are relatively short – the longest is 14 minutes. All were produced using the ABC’s archives, with the exception of one piece I produced using materials identified from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Some simply present a single archival recording; others are more complex edited compositions that integrate a number of different sound sources. Some are narrated; others are not.
Many of these pieces relate to what I have called ‘resonant spaces’ in Sydney; spaces whose amplification through the documentary record illuminates sites of conflict and contestation which otherwise remain hidden from view. Listening to these recordings in-situ intends to amplify a different historical geography to that of the sculptured narrative of official monuments and memorials.
Such resonant spaces amplify the contested nature of a site’s contemporary spatiality. But other pieces are not about urban conflict at all: they simply ‘return’ to particular moments in the life of the city, yielding a topology of events and moments, as captured by different recording technologies of the day. I find some of these recorded moments particularly compelling as they enable the listener to revisit the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’ specifically for the purpose of contemporary documentary reportage.
As compositions, these sound marks are not intended to demonstrate new methods of sound composition, or examples of context-aware media technology. They are simply intended to demonstrate what different kinds of auditory remnants might be retrieved when we listen in to the real times of space. Wherever possible, I have made these recordings available for re-use by others interested in working with street’s acoustical historical geography. I make no claims over ownership of the final compositions, but only gesture towards their possible incorporation into contemporary practice. |
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About the Song
“Rhiannon” is the second U.S. single from Fleetwood Mac’s 10th studio album, the eponymously titled Fleetwood Mac (1975). Issued as a radio remix, the single reached #11 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in June 1976 and #46 on the UK single charts in February 1978 (upon reissue).
The remix appears on The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002) and Fleetwood Mac reissue (2004).
Rhiannon is a character in the 1973 science fiction novel Triad by Mary Leader. Enamored by the name, Stevie wrote the song that became the classic “Rhiannon.” Years later, Stevie learned that Rhiannon was the Welsh horse goddess in Celtic mythology. The striking similarities between the song “Rhiannon” and Rhiannon of the Welsh stories inspired Stevie to write other songs about Rhiannon, many of which are still unreleased.
When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, many of the songs they had written for a proposed second Buckingham Nicks album (“Monday Morning,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide,” and “I’m So Afraid”) were used for Fleetwood Mac instead. |
HOMOSEXUAL (SAME-SEX) MARRIAGES IN CANADA
Province of Nova Scotia
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Overview:
The Province of Nova Scotia in Canada is located generally south
east of New Brunswick and
to the east of the state of Maine. 1Statistics Canada estimates that
the 2003 population of the province is 936,000 persons. 2 On 2004-SEP-24, it became the
sixth
political jurisdiction in Canada to expand marriage to include same-sex
couples. The province did not do this willingly; it was ordered to do so by
the courts. With that development, plus similar court orders across Canada,
over 90% of same-sex couples in Canada were then able marry without
leaving their province.
The events leading up to legalization of same-sex marriage in Nova
Scotia:
1999: Nova Scotia was one of the first provinces in Canada to
partially recognize and accommodate same-sex couples. The government
created a domestic partner registry that gave such couples the same
legal status as opposite-sex couples in areas of pension, wills, etc.
Some same-sex couples decided to not join the registry. They were
holding out for marriage and felt that a domestic partnership would make
them feel like second-class citizens.
2004-JUL-15: Sean Foreman, chairperson of the Nova Scotia
Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), issued a news release. Referring to
the Yukon decision, he stated: "We are now considering a change in
strategy, to proceed with a similar application in Nova Scotia in the
near future, rather than wait for the Reference." He said that the
court challenge is likely to go ahead unless Nova Scotia judges "do
the honorable thing," He sent a letter to the Nova Scotia and
federal Attorneys General, asking "...that the Province of Nova
Scotia immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples."
It was not successful. 3
2004-AUG-13: Three same-sex couples, with the support NSRAP,
launched a lawsuit against the province to seek the right to marry. They
were Brian Mombourquette & Ross Boutilier; Kim Vance & Samantha Meehan;
and Ron & Brian Garnett-Doucette. Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm
announced that "Nova Scotia has refused to proactively begin issuing
[marriage] licenses." But he announced that the province would not
oppose the lawsuit.
Brian stated: "Both of us have constantly and consistently stood up
and said that we are a couple and we want to have what we deserve as a
couple. Our colleagues have respected us, and our friends have come to
love and care for us as we are, and our family is just so accepting, and
our church is where we draw our strength."4 The Garnett-Douchettes
attend the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.
2004-SEP-18: Two days after the Manitoba court decision which
legalized same-sex marriage (SSM) in that province, and six days before
it was legalized in Nova Scotia, the Toronto Star newspaper
published an editorial stating that: "Gays and lesbians have had to
turn repeatedly to the courts to eke out equality rights because
politicians have not had the courage to address them ... But forcing a
same-sex couple to ask a court to strike down a law the government has
already agreed is unconstitutional shows just how unwilling many
politicians are to fight for their gay and lesbian constituents. Like
many previous cases on gay and lesbian rights, it also placed onerous
costs and unnecessary emotional strain on the couple and is an affront
to their human dignity ... legislators must take greater responsibility
for the rights and well-being of all their constituents, no matter who
they are. Just like other Canadians, gays and lesbians hold jobs, own
property, raise children, get old, love, and are loved. Their rights are
a matter of fundamental human dignity and politicians must do better."
5
2004-SEP-24: Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Heather
Robertson handed down her decision in the morning of SEP-24. She upheld
the marriage of the lesbian couple, Kim Vance and Samantha Meehan. They
had previously registered their relationship in Nova Scotia. They went
to Ontario to marry, and returned to continue living in Nova Scotia.
Justice Robertson declared that "civil marriage between two persons
of the same sex is therefore lawful and valid."
The couples were supported by many friends, including lawyer Sean
Foreman, the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, and Safe
Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. 3 Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette,
became the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in the
province. Just hours after the court decision was handed down, they went
to purchase a marriage license application in a storefront office in
Halifax, "under the glare of TV cameras and cheers of encouragement
from a gaggle of friends, gay activists and lawyers." 6 Ron said: "We feel
really, really good. It's a great day to be a Nova Scotian." Both
spouses had grown up in Nova Scotia. Ron was 21 when he first met Bryan.
He later told the court that it was "love at first sight." They
moved in together a few months later, and have been together since. A
clerk explained to the engaged couple that marriage licenses cannot be
executed on the same day, "in case you change your mind." Bryan
chuckled: "I don't think that's going to happen. Not after twenty
years." 6
Some reactions:
Halifax advocate Jay Thordarson said: "Nova Scotia has always
been known for its conservative rant amongst the rest of the
country. After all, the province still does not have Sunday
shopping and continues to battle politically about this issue.
However, this is a clear indication that human rights take priority
within this province."
Darrell Dexter, a New Democratic Party (Socialist) party
head and Leader of the Opposition in the Nova Scotia legislature
issued a statement saying, in part: "The law in Nova Scotia is
now clear on this aspect of human rights... every individual should
have equal treatment and equal access to marriage."
Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Halifax and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Yarmouth
stated in a news release that marriage is a natural institution that
precedes all social, legal and religious systems: "We must
recognize this decision as the end of state support for marriage as
we have always known it. The civil institution of marriage is now a
registered domestic partnership system for adults in a co-dependent
relationships....Today we recognize that the full burden for
the social and cultural support of marriage in Canadian society must
be accepted by religious communities." 7
The impact of this decision on same-sex marriage in Canada:
As of the end of 2004-SEP, same-sex couples are free to marry in Yukon
Territory, and half of the provinces of Canada -- British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba,
Nova Scotia, and Quebec. That
leaves two territories and five provinces where same-sex marriage was not yet
permitted. Same-sex couples in the
Northwest Territory, Nunavut Territory, and the Provinces of Alberta,
Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland/Labrador are in a legal limbo. The courts have decided that
the couples can marry, but they cannot obtain marriage licenses without initiating
a lawsuit.
Assuming that same-sex couples are evenly distributed across Canada,
82.3% of them could marry after 2004-SEP-24 without having to leave their province or territory of
residence. In fact, many gays and lesbians gravitate towards the larger
cities like Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver where
same-sex marriage is already allowed. So the actual percentage of gays,
lesbians, and bisexuals in committed same-sex relationships who were then able
to marry in their own province or territory is probably somewhat higher. 1
About ten months later, on 2005-JUL-20, federal bill C-38 was proclaimed,
making SSM available across Canada. |
Continuous integration is an automatic re-building of project code base that is triggered by new changes to ensure that new changes integrate well into the existing code base. Continuous integration gains popularity among software organizations for its ability to provide quick feedback on quality of new changes. This feedback is used to deliver timely fixes if the changes don’t integrate well and break the project code base.
While failures of continuous integration builds are generally inevitable, there are a number of causes of repeatable build failures, or patterns. It is important to understand that once recognized, software build breakage patterns can be avoided. Reduced build breakage means decreased risk of the project falling behind schedule and more enjoying software development.
"Five O'clock Check-In" PatternOur analysis shows that vast majority of the build failures falls on the end of the day, with factual build breakage time ranging from 5PM to 8PM, depending on the duration of the build.
We call this pattern "Five O'clock Check-In." As the name implies, builds get broken because of check-ins made after five o'clock. Below you can see a histogram that is provided by one of our customers that shows distribution of build failures by hour (this and other statistics is available to Parabuild users). While numbers vary from company to company, this histogram is very characteristic. You can see a clear spike in build breakage at 6PM.
"Five O'clock Check-In" pattern has even more dramatic effect on software organizations distributed in multiple time zones. The following histogram shows distribution of build failures in a software company that has two R&D facilities, at PST and at GMT+13:
There is a known tendency to check in changes in the end of the day. At that time engineer's ability to critically assert actions is at its lowest level. This, combined with readiness to go home, produces the main excuse not to run clean build and tests before checking in changes (see "It Is a Small Change" pattern below).
This pattern can be (and is) avoided by establishing a simple, easy to follow policy: No check-ins should be made after 5PM (or whatever your de-facto end of the day is). This alone may reduce build breakage, typically by 20% to 50%.
"Spoiled Fruit" PatternModern software projects increasingly use code generation. Often to simplify build scripts code is generated directly into code base directory structures. This approach may save few lines in a build script, but it causes build failures when generated code becomes orphaned and goes out of sync with the current state of the code base. That is why we call this pattern "Spoiled Fruit." After such breakage occurred, the only way to get a clean build is doing a clean check out. With code bases growing in size, a clean check out may take tens of minutes, and even hours, significantly increasing feedback time from a continuous integration server.
"Spoiled Fruit" pattern can be avoided by generating code and storing other build-time artifacts under a single temporarily build directory. The build script should automatically empty this directory at the beginning of a build cycle, usually as a part of "clean" target. Below is an example of a pseudo-code that uses this approach:
"It Is a Small Change" PatternRepeatedly the size of change serves as an excuse not to run build and tests cleanly before checkin in new changes. "It is just a comment," "It won’t break anything," "I only removed an empty line." Yet, even a small change moves code base into a new, often broken, state. We call this build breakage pattern "It Is a Small Change."
To avoid build failures caused by "It Is a Small Change" pattern, it should be made mandatory that build and tests are run cleanly before checking in any changes into a version control system, to ensure that the changes, to one’s best knowledge, don’t break the build.
Conclusion
It is possible to reduce software build failures by avoiding common build breakage patterns thus decreasing risk of the project failures and making software development more efficient and enjoying.
Slava Imeshev is president of Viewtier Systems, Inc. http://www.viewtier.com, makers of software build management server Parabuild. Slava has been developing software for 16 years. You can reach Slava at vimeshev@viewtier.com
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JP/Kadin says FTAs need `guidelines'
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has requested inclusion of guidelines for bilateral and multilateral trade agreements in the coming trade law in a bid to create a better fit between trade and industrial policies.
"Liberalization should also have rules," said Benny Soetrisno, Kadin's deputy chairman on trade and distribution.
Kadin's request was driven by the concern of local business players over potential negative impacts from FTAs, particularly with China, Australia and New Zealand.
The FTA with China, part of the ASEAN-China FTA, beginning with an early batch of tariff cuts in 2005, will see full eradication of tariffs on most goods starting next year.
Indonesia textile, nail and wire manufacturers are among those suffering the most from tariff cuts in the past four years.
The Indonesian Textile Producer Association (API) estimates that 70 percent of textile products distributed in Indonesia are imported from China. These imports have forced Indonesian producers to focus on upper scale goods, mainly for exports, as they can't compete with *underpriced' Chinese products.
The nail and wire producers suffered a more rapid deterioration with their production level plunging to 30 percent of capacity in 2007 from 80 percent just a year before. The dire condition of the industry has forced the government to impose safeguard measures on nail and wire imports from China.
The FTA with Australia and New Zealand, which was signed this year, is feared may hurt domestic meat and milk producers.
Kadin's concerns were welcomed by members of House Commission VI. Commission member Mukhamad Misbakhun said the upcoming trade law - currently being drafted by the trade ministry - must protect the interest of both the domestic market and industry players.
A trade law must serve as a guideline to regulate "how wide Indonesia, as a market to imported goods, is opened", he said.
He also said the government "must" review FTAs that were already implemented and "delay" the implementation of unfinished FTAs until a trade law was issued.
The Commission said it will summon trade ministry representatives to discuss the inclusion of extra provisions in the draft to guide FTAs. The completion of the draft is part of the ministry's 100-day program. |
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Re: The Necromancer's Pact VIII: The Rising Tide
Adalmar
He had not the words to convince them. Frustration. His hands balled into fists. So he says, softly : "I cannot abide what he's done. But do not take the life of a man lightly."
Only after he utters those words does he realize that he erred. The very solution he proposed, handing him to the Rashemen, would result in his certain death, for he now remembers that they also oppose the Night fervently. And it would slow their critical mission down.
What to do ? Taking a few steps away from the group, he leans on the stone wall, welcoming its coolness, and tilts his head back. |
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Smithwick's Brewery Tour, County Kilkenny
Over 300 years ago in 1710, John Smithwick began brewing his first Ales - although the Smithwick’s story started long before then. He chose the site of an ancient monastery - St.Francis Abbey, to position his brewery. John was inspired by a tradition of brewing on this site, the foundations of which were laid four centuries earlier. Back in the 13th Century The Franciscans established an Abbey, with its own well, on the banks of the River Nore in Kilkenny. Whilst brewing and barley cultivation are recorded in Irish Annals from the mists of time, the strong brewing tradition that exists in Kilkenny started with these monks who would have brewed their own light ale for their visitors, using water from St. Francis' Well.
To this day the Abbey stands proudly at the heart of the brewery and continues to inspire the brewers. Smithwick's is a brand with years of heritage. Starting in 1641 with John Smithwick in Kilkenny, who was left orphaned in the Irish rebellion, his is a tale of courage, determination, loyalty and triumph over adversity. He dragged himself up by the bootstraps and started a successful family of his own which began brewing Smithwick's ale in 1710 with the brewery mainly serving the local community. It gave the Smithwick family a sense of what's important in life. The experience handed down through the generations has seen Smithwick's thrive against the odds and has created a brewing dynasty that has flourished for over 300 years.
To celebrate the 300 year anniversary, the St. Francis Abbey Brewery now offers exclusive brewery tours. These unique tours will take visitors through the working brewery in Kilkenny and include a visit to the remarkable 12th Century St Francis Abbey which is on the brewery site. Tours operate from Tuesday to Saturday (closed Sunday and Monday) The tour takes approximately 1 and a half hours and includes a complimentary tasting in the brewery’s Cellar Bar.
St Francis Abbey is primarily a production facility which unfortunately cannot cater for wheelchair users or persons with impaired mobility due to the structure and layout of our 300 year old site. Over 18s only. For your safety please wear appropriate footwear (No high heels or open toe footwear).
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Sub: Submission of resolution passed by 11th
Federal Council of NFPE at
Mathura (UP) from 25.11.2019 to
27.11.2019
Sir,
The
following resolutions passed on maintaining Separate Identity of each Cadre
i.e. PA/CO/RO & PA/SBCO is sent herewith for necessary action.
RESLUTION
The 11th
Federal Council held at Mathura (UP)from 25.11.2019 to 27.11.2019 resolves
unanimously that Separate Identity of each Cadre i.e PA/CO&RO and PA/SBCO
should be maintained as it is.
This Federal
Council further resolves that the orders issued for amendment of Recruitment
Rules vide Directorate No. F No. 04-05/2015-SPB-I dated 18.09.2019 should be
withdrawn and status quo should be maintained.
MOBILE PHONE SECURITY SHOULD BE A NATIONAL PRIORITY: SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD
5G
Spectrum will be given for trial to all operators; We need to make UPI payment
interface a global beacon; Launches Central Equipment Identity Register for
tracing Stolen/Lost Mobiles in Delhi
The Union Minister for Communications, Law
& Justice and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad has said that the Mobile Security should be our National Priority
because the mobile handset became an important tool for all online activities.
He was addressing the gathering, here today, after launching a Web Portal
called ‘Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)’ for the customers of Delhi
to facilitate blocking and tracing of Stolen/Lost Mobile Phones in Delhi. The
Lt. Governor of NCT of Delhi, Shri Anil Baijal, the Secretary, Telecom and the
Chairman, Digital Communications Commission, Shri Anshu Prakash, the
Commissioner of Delhi Police, Shri Amulya Patnaik, the Member (Technology),
Digital Communications Commission, Shri S.K. Gupta were also present on the
occasion.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Government
has decided to give 5G Spectrum for trial to all operators in the country. This
may take few years to launch it fully all over the country, he added. UPI
Payments interface has become primary means for all online money transactions
in the country and we need to make it a Global beacon for making Indian rupee
much stronger.
The Minister for Communications said that this
is the age of communication and communication is power, and this is the age of
technology and the technology is power. He further said that while we exploit
use and make optimum involvement of technology for development the equally
smart criminals induce technology for their own end. Therefore, we need a
technology that safeguards our interests, he added.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Aadhar is a
digital identity to confirm our physical identity and the digital India is for
digital inclusion. Digital India is empowering ordinary Indian to the power of
technology which is leading to digital inclusion, he said. Industry should be
more innovative and Indian players should imbibe new innovations in IT, he
added.
The Lt. Governor of NCT of Delhi, Shri
Anil Baijal while addressing said that in the NCR Delhi itself the mobile theft
cases are increasing to the tune of 40,000 cases per year and there should be a
mechanism to address this problem. He requested the Minister for Communication
to consider the integration of Zonal Integrated Police Network (ZIPNET) with
the CEIR for better functioning.
The Secretary, Telecom and the Chairman,
Digital Communications Commission, Shri Anshu Prakash said that the
Tele-density in the country has increased to 242 mobiles for 100 populations
and the mobile handset became a means to fulfil all day-to-day requirements.
Therefore, securing mobile with a system is the need of the hour.
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
is supposed to be a unique identity of a mobile phone device. A phone with
one/two slots of SIM Card is programmed with one/two IMEI number as the case
may be. IMEI number being programmable, some miscreants do reprogram the IMEI
number, which results in cloning of IMEI causing multiple devices with same
IMEI number. As on date, there are many cases of clones/duplicated IMEI
handsets in the network.
If such IMEI is blocked, a large number of
mobile phones will get blocked being handsets with same IMEI causing
inconvenience to many genuine customers. Thus, there is a need to eliminate
duplicate/fake IMEI mobile phones from the network.
Accordingly, this project called Central
Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) system has been undertaken by the DoT for
addressing security, theft and other concerns including reprogramming of mobile
handsets.
The launch of Project in Delhi will facilitate
as follows:
Request
for blocking of stolen or lost mobile phone by customers.
Blocking
of such mobile phones across mobile networks.
Allowing
services to other existing customers have mobile phones with same IMEI
number.
CSCs are
the access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social
welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture services,
apart from host of B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the
country. It is a pan-India network catering to regional, geographic, linguistic
and cultural diversity of the country, thus enabling the Government’s mandate
of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society.
Government to Citizen
One
of the key mandates of CSC scheme is to deliver Government to Citizen (G2C)
services. Various G2C services of Central Government Ministries and
departments, apart from State-specific services have been integrated on the
Digital Seva portal for delivery to citizens in rural and remote areas of the
country through the network of CSCs.
Bharat BillPay :
Bharat
BillPay is a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) conceptualised system driven by
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It is a one-stop bill payment
platform for all bills – electricity, mobile, broadband and landline, DTH, Gas,
Water, etc - across India with certainty, reliability and safety of
transactions.
Two primary
participants of Bharat BillPay are:
Bharat
Bill Payment Central Unit (BBPCU) – which implements operational, technical and
business standards for the entire system and its participants. The National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) functions as the BBPCU.
Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units
(BBPOUs) - BBPOUs are authorized operational units, working as per the
standards set by BBPS. BBPOUs will on-board billers, aggregators and payment
gateways; and set up agent network and customer touch points to handle bill
payments through different delivery channels.
With CSC SPV becoming a BBPOU, CSCs can
provide Bharat BillPay service and further enable the villagers to pay their
Electricity, Water, Gas, DTH and Broadband & Landline Post Paid bills.
FASTag through CSCs
FASTag
is an Electronic Toll Collection system in India operated by NHAI. FASTag is a
simple to use, reloadable tag which enables automatic deduction of toll charges
and lets you pass through the toll plaza without stopping for cash transaction.
The tag employs Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) technology and is affixed
on the vehicle's windscreen after the tag account is active. It is currently
operational at more than 425 toll plazas across national and state highways.
CSC
SPV has partnered with NHAI to dispense FASTags through the network of CSCs.
VLEs will dispense FASTags at the toll plazas after procuring them through the
Digital Seva Portal; register customer details on portal and affix the tag on
the car.
Passport
Ministry
of External Affairs partnered with CSC SPV in 2014 to launch Passport Seva
services through CSCs across the rural hinterland. Services available through
CSCs include filling and uploading of Passport Application Form, payment of fee
and scheduling of appointment for visit to Passport Kendra. During 2016-17,
around 2.19 lakh Passport applications were submitted through the CSC network
across the country.
PAN Card
Applications
for new PAN Card are processed through CSCs in collaboration with UTI
Infrastructure Technology And Services Limited (UTIITSL) and National
Securities Depository Limited (NSDL). PAN Card service through NSDL was
introduced for CSCs in February 2016. During 2016-17, 28.94 lakh Applications
for PAN Card have been submitted through CSCs.
Swacch Bharat Abhiyan
Swacch
Bharat Abhiyan is the biggest ever cleanliness drive launched by the Government
in 2014 to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. In 2016,
Ministry of Urban Development partnered with CSC to facilitate online
applications through CSCs for construction of individual household toilets
across the country under the campaign. During 2016-17, 5.26 lakh applications
for individual household toilets were submitted through CSC network under
Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.
Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana
Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an ambitious housing scheme of the Government for
creating affordable housing units for urban poor. Although, entire urban area
of the country will be covered under the scheme, the initial focus is on 500
select cities.
In
November 2016, a MoU was signed between Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation (MHUPA) and CSC SPV for receiving PMAY applications through CSCs.
The service is being provided by 60,000 CSCs located in urban areas across
States/ UTs. During 2016-17, 27.97 lakh Applications were submitted through CSC
network under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) scheme.
FSSAI
Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) partnered with CSC SPV in July
2016 to provide Food Business Operator (FBO) registration service through CSCs.
This initiative is aimed at registering a large number of unregistered FBOs in
the country with the FSSAI through the vast network of CSCs. Under the service,
Registration Certificate is auto generated after filing of online application
through CSC. During 2016-17, 95,603 applications for FBO Registration have been
submitted through CSCs.
Soil Health Card
Soil
Health Cards are issued by the Government to farmers with crop-wise
recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for individual farms to
help them improve productivity through judicious use of inputs. Launched as a
scheme in 2015, the Government plans to issue these cards to 14 crore farmers.
Ministry
of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare signed a MoU with CSC SPV in December
2016, to engage CSCs in the Soil Health Card scheme. During 2016-17, 1.24 lakh
farmer registrations have taken place through CSCs across 23 States.
e-District
Districts
are the de facto front-end of government. The e-District project has been
conceptualized to improve the experience of G2C interactions for citizens at
the districts through seamless delivery of various services like certificates,
licences, Ration Card, disbursement of social welfare pensions, online filing
of RTI, land registration, land records, Government taxes, utility bill
payments, etc.
Election Commission
Services
The
Election Commission of India, in its endeavour to improve enrolment and correct
data errors in the electoral rolls for hassle free elections, has partnered
with CSC SPV for delivery of various electoral registration forms and EPIC
printing through CSCs. So far, the Electoral Registration Management System
(ERMS) of Tripura, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat,
Haryana, and Maharashtra have been integrated with Digital Seva Portal.
During
2016-17, CSCs have 34,780 Electoral Registration Forms in these nine States,
where as 56.18 lakh EPIC have been printed and delivered through the CSC
network in these nine States |
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February 26 in LGBTQ History
1990: Refusing to consider the cases of Ben-Shalom v. Stone and Woodward v. U.S., the U.S. Supreme Court effectively upholds the right of the American military to discharge gays and lesbians of the armed forces. |
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176 page of collection of Katsuhiro Otomo works will be released in February
Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira, and director of Steam Boy and the live-action Mushisi has a rich history of design work, promoting his own projects as well as other commercial and artistic endeavors. A new POSTERS : OTOMO KATSUHIRO × GRAPHIC DESIGN art book collection this material will be released by Pie International on February 28th. |
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Mets option Rice, activate Germen from DL
By
Anthony DiComoMLB.com
NEW YORK -- Scott Rice, the former 31-year-old rookie reliever who was one of the feel-good stories of the 2013 Mets, is no longer a big leaguer.
The Mets optioned Rice to Triple-A Las Vegas late Tuesday night, activating right-hander Gonzalez Germen from the disabled list. Even with Rice gone, the Mets still have two lefties in their bullpen in Josh Edgin and Dana Eveland.
NEW YORK -- Scott Rice, the former 31-year-old rookie reliever who was one of the feel-good stories of the 2013 Mets, is no longer a big leaguer.
The Mets optioned Rice to Triple-A Las Vegas late Tuesday night, activating right-hander Gonzalez Germen from the disabled list. Even with Rice gone, the Mets still have two lefties in their bullpen in Josh Edgin and Dana Eveland.
Rice, now 32, has struggled since the outset of this season, posting a 5.93 ERA in 32 appearances -- the vast majority of them less than an inning in length. Left-handed batters were reaching base against him at a .392 clip, largely because of the eight walks they drew off him in 52 plate appearances.
Rice had allowed at least one run in three of his last eight appearances, increasing his ERA from 5.06 to 5.93.
Germen, 26, went on the disabled list May 6 with a virus, which ultimately resulted in an abscess and an infection. He posted a 3.57 ERA in 13 outings prior to that, proving far more effective against right-handed batters (.584 OPS) than lefties (.960), and is coming off six consecutive scoreless outings in a Minor League rehab assignment.
Germen adds another jolt of youth to a bullpen that the Mets have completely revamped over the past month, calling up youngsters Edgin and Vic Black from the Minors while converting Jenrry Mejia back to relief.
The team also recently added Eveland, a 30-year-old veteran who has allowed one run in three innings. |
The Arduino Uno Rev3 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter."Uno" means one in Italian and is named to mark the upcoming release of Arduino 1.0.
The Uno and version 1.0 will be the reference versions of Arduno, moving forward. The Uno is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the reference model for the Arduino platform.
Specifications :
- Microcontroller ATmega328
- Operating voltage 5V
- nput voltage (recommended) 7-12V
- Input voltage (limits) 6-20V
- Digital I/O pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
- Analog input pins 6
- DC current per I/O Pin 40 mA
- DC current for 3.3V Pin 50 mA
- Flash memory 32 KB of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2 KB
- EEPROM 1 KB
- Clock speed 16 MHz
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For weeks now, it wasn't uncommon to come into the office to see a small group of colleagues around the map table, poring over ideas for our 2017 submarine cable map.
Markus Krisetya was always among the huddle—often flanked by Lead Cartographer and Designer Larry Lairson and Vice President of Research Tim Stronge—with a magnifying glass in hand, double checking that submarine cables were labeled, features were legible, and every little detail was just right.
As we release our 2017 map, Markus was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about the process of mapping the submarine cables that connect the world—and turning it into art. |
Assessment and 2-year follow-up of some factors associated with severity of respiratory infections in early childhood.
To assess the effect of some factors on the severity of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children. In a case control study, children with pneumonia were matched with controls who had upper respiratory infection. They were compared in respect of nutrition, household crowding and smoke pollution, and the presence of current viral respiratory infection. Both cohorts were followed up for 18-24 months to determine if there was a difference in subsequent respiratory sequelae. Primary health care-based cohorts of peri-urban township children. Forty-eight children < 3 years of age with pneumonia (index cases) were matched by age and presentation time with controls who suffered only from upper respiratory infection. All came from underprivileged communities. Index cases were selected as they presented and the study was conducted between February 1988 and June 1991. Any difference between index cases and controls in respect of the four factors listed under 'Design'. Follow-up home visits determined whether subsequent sequelae of the two grades of ARI were different. The presence of current viral infection at entry to the study was evident in 21 of those with pneumonia and 12 controls (difference between groups = 19.15%, 95% confidence intervals 0.25 - 38.05, P = 0.052). Overcrowding in the home was comparable. Index homes were occupied by a mean of 3.57 (SD 1.54) children and 5.26 (SD 4.84) adults, control homes by 3.51 (SD 1.80) children and 4.36 (SD 2.02) adults. Occupancy of the room in which the child slept was also not significantly different: index group mean 4.23 (SD 1.55) and controls 4.02 (SD 1.38) (mean difference 0.21, 95% Cl 0.378 - 0.798, P = 0.485). Correlation of bedroom crowding with young age (< 1 year) or weight-for-age centiles was not significant in either cohort (r < 0.3 in all). The prevalence of viral infection was not increased by degree of crowding in either group (P = 0.636). Domestic smoke pollution was similar: cigarette smoking occurred in 75% of index homes and 69% of control homes. Wood or coal fires were used in 19% of index and 14% of control homes. The nutritional status of both groups proved to be similar. Fifteen per cent of index children and 12% of controls had weight-for-age centiles < or = 10th centile (difference = 3.26%, 95% Cl -10.72 - 17.24, P = 0.649). Two-year home follow-up visits were completed in 75% of the index and 69% of the control group. The balance were followed up for 18 months. There was no difference between index and control children in the recurrence of respiratory symptoms (P = 0.664) or need to visit a health facility (P = 0.302). Factors shown elsewhere to contribute to the acquisition or severity of ARI could not be demonstrated as important in this study. The children with pneumonia and their matched controls with upper respiratory infections came from equally overcrowded and smoke-filled homes, had comparable nutritional status which was not markedly poor, and had an equal incidence of current viral infection. Subsequent ill-health was not found to be greater in the pneumonia group. |
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Wave of Mutilation: The Best of Pixies
it has taken six years and the reissue of the regular albums to finally release the 'best of pixies' on vinyl following the original cd sequencing the double vinyl set each side is under 20 minutes long for the best quality cut is packaged in a gatefold sleeve and the initial pressing of 750 copies is available on burnt orange coloured vinyl during their six years together the pixies released five albums to fan peer and critical acclaim this best of runs almost chronologically and expands on the previous comp 'death to the pixies' with a couple bsides the live favourite 'into the white' and a cover of neil young's 'winterlong' |
Windows Launch Center v.1.2
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Start Menu X v.6.5Start Menu X is a professional replacement of the system menu. Power users will get an efficient tool instead of the clumsy system menu. Start Menu X is a fusion of newest technologies and a 7-year research effort. Install a solution for true pro's!
Task Force Quit 2 v.2.0.10Many Windows apps crash when you least expect it. But what if you could close them immediately? Introducing Task Force Quit Pro 2! This is a free utility that ends frozen tasks on Windows PC without using Task Manger.
Windows How To: Routers and Modems v.1.0Windows Lesson - What is Router & What is Modem explained in Plain English. This lesson will not only explain broadband modems and routers, but show you how to hook them up and also how to fix a common Internet connection problem by resetting your ... |
Lawyers Accused of Leaks in Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren's Divorce
Elin's Lawyers Accused of Leaks in Tiger Divorce
5/14/2010 5:15 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Things have already gotten nasty in the Tiger Woods divorce. TMZ has learned Tiger's lawyers have accused Elin Nordegren's legal team of leaking like a sieve to the media.
Elin's lawyer,Walter H. White, Jr., who practices in London, sent an email to his staff on April 19, 2010 -- an email obtained by TMZ. White warns his people, "Recently we have been accused by the other side of leaking information to the press. While we do not believe that anyone in the firm has been responsible for the leaks, we are aware that this is the second time that we have been so accused ... "
White urges his staff to "avoid conversations relating to firm activities in public ..."
After we called White on Wednesday and told him we had information he was repping Elin, he sent a staff email saying, "TMZ the web news service has discovered that we in London represent Elin Nordegren ... "
The email notes that Elin's sister, Josefin, works at the firm and then boasts, "To some extent it is a surprise and a tribute to the office and the firm that it has taken them so long to figure this out."
As we reported yesterday, White was already repping Elin in January -- a month and a half after Tiger's car crash.
HERE'S THE RUNDOWN Meredith Viera Defends the Killer of Cecil the Lion Jennifer Beals in a Hot-Dog-in-Car Controversy A 'Bachelorette' Star Gets Bashed in the Head with a Brick Zayn Malik is Goin' Solo Thanks to Simon Cowell |
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In the final “The Vampire Diaries” episode of 2010, Michael Trevino gave us a powerful performance as Tyler endured the agony of transforming into a werewolf. When he stopped by our offices on Thursday morning, we had to ask him what he thought of the scene when all was said and done.
“I was impressed,” he tells us — and rightfully so. “Coming to L.A. I saw a rough, rough cut of it with Kevin [Williamson] and Julie [Plec]… and then I saw another draft of it when I did the voiceover ADR work for the episode, and it was getting better and better.” It wasn’t until he watched the final cut at home that he got the full impact.
“I have a nice little surround system so the sound’s really good. That’s what got me. The CGI, the visual effects were great, and I liked certain cuts that they used within mine and Candice’s performance, but it wasn’t until I was home. It was crazy to hear all the sound they’d put in in post-production — bones cracking and everything.”
The idea of watching Tyler experience that kind of excruciating pain every month makes us uneasy — but not as uneasy as it makes Trevino. He confirms that within the often ambiguous “Vampire Diaries” time line there will be one more full moon before Season 2 wraps up, but he hopes it won’t be quite as brutal.
“I’m thinking as long as I don’t piss off Kevin and Julie, then maybe they won’t write that,” he laughs.
This week, we’ll see Tyler and Caroline’s (Candice Accola) relationship deepen even further after their emotional night together in the Lockwood cellar. “From a standpoint of her being there for me and having my back, as a friend, I love [her] for doing that,” Trevino says. That “as a friend” might deepen when one of the other werewolves fills him in on some missing information.
“Through a certain somebody who comes into town he finds out that a werewolf bite can kill a vampire, so then there’s a whole other wave of emotion that comes over him when he hears this news.”
As much as we’re on board for a possible Tyler/Caroline romance, we can’t help but feel a little sad for Matt (Zach Roerig). Tyler’s already hooked up with his mom and his sister… and now he’s moving in on the ex? Poor guy.
Things will escalate between the two best friends (or former best friends). “In this episode, you’ll see, there’s more emotion coming out of Tyler and there’s more emotion coming out of Matt as well. That’s where there’s going to be this awesome awkwardness,” he says. |
Q:
Can I have Gmail overwrite a known email with my contact info when a name is not supplied?
I have to admit I was a little confused when I asked this question, as I thought that it was my Gmail where names and email addresses were connected.
But of course, it's not the local Gmail client that attaches a name to an email for display when receiving, it's whether or not the sender has a name attached to their email, as explained in the answer.
Okay... but, can I set Gmail up in a way so that it will replace a known email address with the name I have for them in my contacts in situations when someone sends me an email with no name set? Or, even better, over rides their name with the one I have set in any case (since I think of them by the name I have set, not what they have set)?
This is standard practise when it comes to phone numbers - when someone calls my Android phone, I see the name that I have set in my contact list. Hopefully this could be done with emails as well.
A:
Currently still no, and probably never. The name that is displayed when you receive an email is the name embedded into that emails from:header. BUT there are two workarounds that I can think of, hopefully one will help you!
Use Filters
One workaround solution is to filter the email address and apply a label to it. This can help if their name is causing any confusion (eg. I have 4 people called Mike)
The Pros of using this is that it will sync across all your computers and devices.
Use a Script
There is a script called DisplayName gmail that takes the contacts name (the one you have set in your contacts list) and displays that instead of their from: name.
You will need to install tampermonkey (Chrome) or greasemonkey (Firefox) and then you can install the script DisplayName gmail (tested and working with chrome).
The cons of using a script is that its not going to work across multiple computers - you would need to install the script on each computer you use. And this also work on your phone.
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After spending 10 years in the commercial print and graphic design industry working for big box retailers, James Owens made a decision to start working for himself. In late 2014, he founded Owens Print & Creative Solutions, a company that specializes in the quick turnaround of commercial printing, graphic design, web design and other marketing services for businesses of all sizes.
James is also part of JumpStart’s Core City: Cleveland Impact program, an intensive business assistance program designed to support the development and growth of businesses located within some of Cleveland’s most underserved neighborhoods.
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Mexican venture firm ALL VP has a $73 million first close on its latest fund
Buoyed by international attention from U.S. and Chinese investors and technology companies, new financing keeps flowing into the coffers of Latin American venture capital firms.
One day after the Brazilian-based pan-Latin American announced the close of its $150 million latest fund comes word from our sources that ALL VP, the Mexico City-based, early stage technology investor, has held a first close of $73 million for its latest investment vehicle.
The firm launched its first $6 million investment vehicle in 2012, according to CrunchBase, just as Mexico’s former President Enrique Peña Nieto was coming to power with a pro-business platform. One which emphasized technology development as part of its strategy for encouraging economic growth.
ALL VP founding partner Fernando Lelo de Larrea said he could not speak about ongoing fundraising plans.
And while the broader economy has stumbled somewhat since Nieto took office, high technology businesses in Mexico are surging. In the first half of 2018, 82 Mexican startup companies raised $154 million in funding, according to data from the Latin American Venture Capital Association. It makes the nation the second most active market by number of deals — with a number of those deals occurring in later stage transactions.
In this, Mexico is something of a mirror for technology businesses across Latin America. While Brazilian startup companies have captured 73% of venture investment into Latin America — raising nearly $1.4 billion in financing — Peru, Chile, Colombia and Argentina are all showing significant growth. Indeed, some $188 million was invested into 23 startups in Colombia in the first half of the year.
Overall, the region pulled in $780 million in financing in the first six months of 2018, besting the total amount of capital raised in all of 2016.
It’s against this backdrop of surging startup growth that funds like ALL VP are raising new cash.
Indeed, at $73 million the first close for the firm’s latest fund more than doubles the size of ALL VP’s capital under management.
ALL VP management team
But limited partners can also point to a burgeoning track record of success for the Mexican firm. ALL VP was one of the early investors in Cornershop — a delivery company acquired by Walmart for $225 million earlier this year. Cornershop had previously raised just $31.5 million and the bulk of that was a $21 million round from the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, Accel.
International acquirers are making serious moves in the Latin American market, with Walmart only one example of the types of companies that are shopping for technology startups in the region. The starting gun for Latin American startups stellar year was actually the DiDi acquisition of the ride-hailing company 99 for $1 billion back in January.
That, in turn, is drawing the attention of early stage investors. In fact, it’s venture capital firms from the U.S. and international investors like Naspers (from South Africa) and Chinese technology giants that are fueling the sky-high valuations of some of the region’s most successful startups.
In a market so frothy, it’s no wonder that investment firms are bulking up and raising increasingly large funds. The risk is that the market could overheat and that, with a lot of capital going to a few marquee names, should those companies fail to deliver, the rising tide of capital that’s come in to the region could just as easily come back out. |
Fourteen US and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp.’s Watson computer system to choose therapies based on a tumor’s genetic fingerprints, the company said on Tuesday, the latest step toward bringing personalized cancer treatments to more patients.
Oncology is the first specialty where matching therapy to DNA has improved outcomes for some patients, inspiring the “precision medicine initiative” President Barack Obama announced in January.
But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies.
Faced with such a data deluge, “the solution is going to be Watson or something like it,” said oncologist Norman Sharpless of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Cancer Center. “Humans alone can’t do it.”
IBM is positioning Watson for exactly this task: an area of medicine where humans can see the vast potential, but can’t begin to wrangle the data needed to achieve it. “Genomics is the secret to unlocking personalized medicine,” said Steve Gold, a Vice President of the IBM Watson Group, at a press conference on Tuesday.
Yet it is unclear how many patients will be helped by such a “big data” approach. For one thing, in many common cancers old-line chemotherapy and radiation will remain the standard of care, and genomic analysis may not make a difference.
The scientists directly involved with Watson aren’t making any promises, but they’re hopeful they can slowly begin to make a difference in the world of cancer treatment, which today leaves a great number of patients without many good options.
“Traditional cancer treatments are moderately effective, associated with moderate toxicity, and many patients still succumb to the disease,” said Lukas Wartman, assistant director of Cancer Genomics at Washington University and a leukemia survivor, at Tuesday’s press conference. “There’s been a lot of pessimism among those [fighting] cancer, and Watson offers an opportunity to fight back against that pessimism.”
Cloud-based Watson will be used at the centers – including Cleveland Clinic, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha and Yale Cancer Center – by late 2015, said Steve Harvey, vice president of IBM Watson Health. The centers pay a subscription fee, which IBM did not disclose.
Oncologists will upload the DNA fingerprint of a patient’s tumor, which indicates which genes are mutated and possibly driving the malignancy. Watson, recognized broadly for beating two champions of the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, will sift through thousands of mutations and try to identify which is driving the tumor, and therefore what a drug must target.
Distinguishing driver mutations from others is a huge challenge. IBM spent more than a year developing a scoring system so Watson can do that, since targeting non-driver mutations would not help.
“Watson will look for actionable targets,” Harvey said, matching them to approved and experimental cancer drugs and even non-cancer drugs (if Watson decides the latter interfere with a biological pathway driving a malignancy).
But Watson has trouble identifying actionable targets in cancers with many mutations. Although genetic profiling is standard in melanoma and some lung cancers, where drugs such as Zelboraf from the Genentech unit of Roche Holding AG target the driver mutation, in most common tumors traditional chemotherapy and radiation remain the standard of care.
“When institutions do genetic sequencing, only about half the cases come back with something actionable,” Harvey said, often because it is impossible to identify the driver mutation or no targeted therapy exists.
The other collaborating centers are Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; BC Cancer Agency in British Columbia; City of Hope, in Duarte, California; Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina; McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis; New York Genome Center, Sanford Health in South Dakota; University of Kansas Cancer Center; University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and University of Washington Medical Center.
A new bipartisan committee’s working group will gather on Capitol Hill throughout the coming months to find ways to improve electronic health records, according to Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
The group will work to find five or six ways to “make the failed promise of electronic health records something that physicians and providers look forward to instead of something they endure,” Murray said in an announcement.
All members of the Senate health committee are invited to be a part of the working group. Staff meetings begin this week, with participation from health IT professionals, industry experts and government agencies.
The working group’s goals include the following:
Help providers improve quality of care and patient safety.
Facilitate interoperability between EHR vendors.
Empower patients to engage in their own care through access to their health data.
Protect privacy and security of health information.
The working group isn’t the only way Alexander and Murray are pushing for change when it comes to EHRs.
Should drug makers be required to disclose their costs to justify rising prices?
This is what a growing number of state legislatures are considering. Over the past several weeks, lawmakers in a handful of states stretching from California to Massachusetts have introduced bills in a bid to force the pharmaceutical industry to conduct an economic striptease.
“We need to have some transparency,” says Tony DeLuca, a Democrat who chairs the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee and who introduced one such bill earlier this week. “Some of the sticker prices are outrageous. I’m hoping it achieves lower health care costs.”
The bills are not wholly identical. Some would require drug makers to report profits and various operational costs for any medicine that has a price tag of more than $10,000 a year, while others seek this information for all medicines, regardless of price. A bill was also introduced in North Carolina.
The effort comes as a national debate intensifies over prices for prescription medicines. Over the past year, payers – both public and private – have remonstrated over the cost of new specialty drugs for hard-to-treat ailments and for older generic drugs that were supposed to offer low-cost alternatives.
A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 76% of Americans overall – and across party lines – say their top health care priority is ensuring that high-cost drugs for chronic conditions, such as HIV, hepatitis, mental illness and cancer, are affordable.
The issue is placing drug makers on the defensive, even as they argue pricey new medicines – notably, those for combating hepatitis C and certain rare diseases – represent good value for illnesses that would, otherwise, cost more to treat in the long run.
These bills represent a new front, though, in trying to blunt escalating price tags. And the legislation is winning enthusiastic backing from business groups, consumers advocates and health insurers, which some legislators say have helped craft language.
“This is about starting a conversation,” says Charles Bacchi, chief executive at the California Association Plans, which worked with a California legislator on one bill. “We need real answers about why these drugs are priced so high. Yes, there are limits to what a state can do, but it’s a debate we need to have.”
To what extent these bills may succeed is uncertain, at best.
Drug makers, not surprisingly, are pushing back and recently helped defeat legislation in Oregon. Earlier this week, the pharmaceutical industry trade group testified against the bill in California, where a vote was postponed until next week in light of opposition, according to a legislative aide.
As far as drug makers are concerned, the bills are not only onerous, but make demands they maintain cannot be met. For instance, an industry trade group argues that providing development costs for some drugs may be impossible when research was simultaneously conducted on other medicines that failed. The bottom line, says the California Healthcare Institute, is that the bill would “stifle innovation.”
“The price charged for an individual drug is not a reflection of development costs,” says Ken Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, which receives pharmaceutical industry backing. “Pricing strategies are based on therapeutic value, market size, usage, patent life, competition and other factors.”
Even if one or more bills were to become law, there is no certain path toward lowering prices. But the effort may resonate around the country, especially with the 2016 presidential campaign under way. “This may be a model that other governments may want to build upon,” says Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology International, a non-profit group that tracks access to medicines issues.
“While it is too soon to know if this prescription transparency legislation will continue to expand this year,” says Richard Cauchi, the program director for health insurance, financing and pharmaceuticals at the National Conference of State Legislatures, “state legislators often do look at what their colleagues in other states are doing.”
Most hospitals don’t have good ways of measuring the complex costs associated with an individual patient’s stay in the hospital. The VA is one surprising exception.
The success of health reform in the US depends on finding ways to control the growth of costs. Hospital care is expensive. And when patients have to be readmitted unexpectedly after discharge, it can really crank up spending.
As we strive to keep health care costs in line, reducing hospital readmissions is drawing a lot of attention. Reducing preventable readmissions could reduce health care spending and improve quality of care at the same time.
But very little research on readmission costs has been done. An exception is a study that found that one in five elderly Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, at an estimated cost of $17.4 billion in 2004.
Most hospitals don’t have good ways of measuring the complex costs associated with an individual patient’s stay in the hospital.
But there is, however, a hospital system that does a very good of job of tracking these costs: the Veterans Health Administration.
Veterans Affairs could provide a blueprint
The Veterans Health Administration (the VA) operates 119 acute care hospitals across the US, and has created an unparalleled comprehensive patient-cost accounting system, its Decision Support System (DSS).
The DSS works from the bottom up by summing the individual resources and costs each individual patients winds up needing during their hospital stay. Unlike most other hospital accounting systems, the VADSS also can separate costs that are fixed regardless of the volume of services provided, such as administrative overhead, from costs that vary with service volume, such as lab tests or imaging. All of this means that the VA can track patients’ costs with greater precision than most hospitals, and can more easily see the cost of readmissions.
There are other reasons why VA is a good setting for studying readmission costs. VA hospitals have a simpler set of incentives around readmitting patients. Under Medicare, hospitals face a trade-off between receiving payments for readmitting Medicare patients and avoiding payment penalties for not readmitting patients under the new ACA regulations.
But in the VA system, budgets are set annually, so there is no financial incentive to readmit patients. It will not increase the amount of money VA hospitals get. And physicians who work in VA hospitals are salaried VA employees. They do not gain financially when they readmit patients, so they have no incentive to provide unnecessary care.
How much money does preventing readmission save?
In a recent study, Theodore Stefos and I used 2011 Decision Support System data to examine the component of cost that varies with a readmission, to provide hospital managers with a more realistic estimate of how much they could save by reducing readmissions.
We found that managers could expect to save $2,140 for the average 30-day readmission prevented. For heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients, expected readmission cost estimates were higher: $3,432, $2,488 and $2,278 respectively.
We also found that patients’ risk of illness was the main driver of expected readmission cost. This is an important finding for managers. Even though this is a factor they cannot control, they can expect that patients with a greater risk of illness might be at greater risk after controlling for other factors such as age. Men also were much more likely to be readmitted than women, as were lower income and unmarried vets. Understanding this information can help hospital managers better predict which patients are at risk for readmission, and to take steps to address this proactively.
While the VA has some processes of care that differ from other health care systems, its experience has important lessons for private sector hospitals, especially for those that treat a high share of chronically ill or low-income patients.
Why it is important to know what readmissions cost
Today hospitals are under increasing pressure to curb readmissions. For instance in 2013 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started to financially penalize hospitals for 30-day readmissions that exceed national averages for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. As of October 2014, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and elective knee and hip replacements are also being targeted and the penalty has increased up to 3% of the total Medicare reimbursement to the hospital.
Hospital managers would like to know what actual cost savings are when a readmission is avoided, so they can understand how readmissions affect their overall budgets.
IBM is taking its Watson artificial-intelligence technology into health care in a big way with industry partners, a pair of acquisitions and an ambitious agenda.
The initial three industry partners are Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. On Monday afternoon, after the close of stock trading, IBM also announced it would buy two start-ups: Explorys, a spin-off from the Cleveland Clinic whose data on 50 million patients is used to spot patterns in diseases, treatments and outcomes; and Phytel, a Dallas maker of software to manage patient care and reduce readmission rates to hospitals.
The IBM plan, put simply, is that its Watson technology will be a cloud-based service that taps vast stores of health data and delivers tailored insights to hospitals, physicians, insurers, researchers and potentially even individual patients.
“We’re going to enable personalized health care on a huge scale,” said John E. Kelly, a senior vice president who oversees IBM’s research labs and new initiatives.
To date, IBM has done some individual projects using Watson technology with leading medical centers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Cleveland Clinic. But the creation of the Watson Health unit, Mr. Kelly said, is an effort to apply the technology to the mainstream of health care.
The Watson Health announcement is also the latest in flurry of initiatives IBM has announced this year that include new corporate partnerships as well as moves in cloud computing, data analytics and Watson. They are evidence that IBM is intent on investing for future growth, and showing it is doing so, in a year when its financial performance is likely to lag.
IBM has reported disappointing earnings recently, and Virginia M. Rometty, IBM’s chief executive, has told industry analysts and investors that 2015 would be a transition year in which new growth businesses like Watson did not yet overcome the profit erosion in some of its traditional hardware and software products.
IBM’s broad vision of combining and analyzing health data from varied sources to improve care has been around for decades. But the company and its partners say that technology, economics and policy changes are coming together to improve the odds of making the IBM venture a workable reality. They point to improvements in artificial intelligence, low-cost cloud computing and health policy that will reward keeping patients healthy instead of the fee-for-service model in which more treatments and procedures mean more revenue.
“Forces in health care are aligning as never before,” said Sandra E. Peterson, a group worldwide chairman at Johnson & Johnson in charge of information technology and new wellness programs. “It could be a unique moment and something like this could have real legs.”
A focus of the Johnson & Johnson partnership with IBM will be improving patient care before and after knee and hip replacements. The company will apply Watson technology to data sources ranging from patient records to digital fitness devices and smartphone applications, which can monitor movement and vital signs. “It will allow us to do much more integrated, personalized care,” Ms. Peterson said.
Medtronic, a large medical equipment maker, wants to use data intelligently to treat diabetes patients beyond providing them with its glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Medtronic devices are already digital and produce a lot of data, but the company plans to use the Watson software to spot patients trending toward trouble and automatically adjust insulin doses and send alerts to care providers and the patients themselves.
“The goal is dynamic, personalized care plans so you can delay or stop the progression of diabetes,” said Hooman Hakami, executive vice president in charge of Medtronic’s diabetes group.
Apple is increasingly a major supplier of health sensors, from iPhone apps to the Apple Watch. Its recently introduced HealthKit and ResearchKit software make it easier for applications and researchers to harvest health information from millions of owners of Apple products, with their permission. That data can now be plugged into Watson. “We want to be the analytics brains behind HealthKit and ResearchKit,” Mr. Kelly said.
The IBM initiative raises questions on how data is handled and about privacy. Mr. Kelly said the data scrutinized by Watson will typically be anonymized and often be read by Watson but not removed from hospital or health company data centers. “There will be no big, centralized database in the sky,” Mr. Kelly said.
Even critics of health information technology say the IBM effort holds promise. “If that future when all this stuff works is going to become real, then having some of the key players come together is the only way it’s going to happen,” said Dr. Robert M. Wachter, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco medical school and author of “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.” “This could be a pretty important step along the way.”
Last year, the fallout from a string of breaches at major retailers like Target and Home Depot had consumers on edge. But 2015 is shaping up to be the year consumers should be taking a closer look at who is guarding their health information.
Data about more than 120 million people has been compromised in more than 1,100 separate breaches at organizations handling protected health data since 2009, according to Department of Health and Human Services data reviewed by The Washington Post.
“That’s a third of the U.S. population — this really should be a wake-up call,” said Deborah Peel, the executive director of Patient Privacy Rights.
The data may double-count some individuals if they had their information compromised in more than incident, but it still reflects a staggering number of times Americans have been affected by breaches at organizations trusted with sensitive health information. And the data does not yet reflect the hack of Premera, which announced this week that hackers may have accessed information, including medical data, on up to 11 million people.
Most breaches of data from health organizations are small and don’t involve hackers breaking into a company’s computer system. Some involve a stolen laptop or the inappropriate disposal of paper records, for example — and not all necessarily involve medical information. But hacking-related incidents disclosed this year have dramatically driven up the number of people exposed by breaches in this sector.
When Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer, announced in February that hackers broke into a database containing the personal information of nearly 80 million records related to consumers, that one incident more than doubled the number of people affected by breaches in the health industry since the agency started publicly reporting on the issue in 2009.
“We are certainly seeing a rise in the number of individuals affected by hacking/IT incidents,” Rachel Seeger, a spokesperson for HHS’s Office for Civil Rights, said in a statement. “These incidents have the potential to affect very large numbers of health care consumers, as evidenced by the recent Anthem and Premera breaches.”
And some cybersecurity experts warn this may only be the beginning. “We’re probably going to see a lot more of these happening in the coming few months,” said Dave Kennedy, the chief executive of TrustedSEC.
Health organizations are targets because they maintain troves of data with significant resale value in black markets, Kennedy said, and their security practices are often less sophisticated than other industries. Now that some major players in the market have come forward as victims of cyberattacks other organizations are likely to take a close look at their own networks — potentially uncovering other compromises, he said.
“The information that companies like Anthem and Premera had is more valuable than just payment card information held by retailers or financial institutions,” said Scott Vernick, who heads up the data security and privacy practice at law firm Fox Rothschild. Credit card information has a relatively short shelf life, with new cards issued on a regular basis, he explained. But a health organizations often have complete profiles of people including Social Security numbers and medical health information that is much more difficult if not impossible to change.
Some of the data can be used to pursue traditional financial crimes — like setting up fraudulent lines of credit, Kennedy said. But it can also be used for medical insurance fraud, like purchasing medical equipment for resale or obtaining pricey medical care for another person.
This type of scheme is often not caught as quickly as financial fraud, experts said, and could have a lasting affect if it results in a person’s medical history containing false information. “In theory you could end up in an emergency situation, and if your records are contaminated by someone else’s information that could cause serious problems — like medical professionals believing you have a different blood type,” said Peel.
If a hacker is able to obtain information about a person’s medical condition, as it appears may have happened in the Premera breach but not the Anthem breach, there are additional risks. Information about mental health or HIV treatments could be made public, and there’s no way to truly make the information private again. “There’s almost no way to remedy this; there’s no recourse,” said Peel.
Health care providers already have to comply with government rules on protecting patient privacy, including HIPAA, which are enforced by HHS.
“Health care organizations need to make data security central to how they manage their information systems and to be vigilant in assessing and addressing the risks to data on a regular basis,” said Seeger, the HHS official. “In addition, organizations need to ensure they are able to identify and respond appropriately to security incidents when they do happen to mitigate harm to affected individuals and prevent future similar incidents from occurring.”
State-level officials are also increasingly involved in enforcement in this area, said Vernick, and consumers may have additional legal avenues depending on state laws.
But privacy and cybersecurity advocates say the industry and the government still aren’t doing enough to protect consumers.
“HIPAA required security be addressed, but it wasn’t spelled it out exactly how, so there was no culture of using ironclad security,” said Peel. “We have systems that are engineered as though this data is not sensitive and valuable.”
Health organizations sometimes rely on legacy systems, and some have not invested in cybersecurity at a rate that matches the urgency of the threats they face, Kennedy said. “The medical industry is years and years behind other industries when it comes to security.”
Even before the Anthem breach, major health insurers had become aware of the rising risk of cyberattacks. Aetna and United Health Group both cited the risks of hackers and breaches in their respective 2013 financialreports.
And the industry is already taking steps to coordinate how it responds to such incidents through groups designed to share information about digital threats — like the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or NHISAC. The organization is one of several efforts related to critical infrastructure that works with the Department of Homeland Security to share data about current threats, such as what sort of tactics are used and forensic information about attackers.
Members are able to share details about security incidents in “machine time” using an automated system, according to NHISAC executive director Deborah Kobza, and the group sends out daily threat updates. When a major cyberattack is disclosed, NHISAC erupts into a flurry of activity — trying to find out as much as possible so its members have information that can make it easier to see if they’ve been the victims of a similar attack.
And 2015 has already kept NHISAC busy: “We just caught our breath from the Anthem hack, and here we go again,” said Kobza about responding to the Premera breach.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid out nearly $30 billion in meaningful use incentives for hospitals and physicians to adopt EHRs. But some members of Congress, the body that approved those funds, are about as frustrated with EHRs as doctors and nurses.
“The evidence suggests these goals haven’t been reached,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, in a long EHR hearing followed by Erin McCann, Healthcare IT News managing editor.
Robert Wergin, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said that family physicians are having a difficult time with the Stage 2 meaningful use requirements. The “time, expense and effort it takes makes it not worth while,” said Wergin. Indeed, some 55 percent of physicians surveyed plan on skipping Stage 2 all together.
“The issue of interoperability between electronic health records represents one of the most complex challenges facing the healthcare community,” said Wergin. The government “must step up efforts to require interoperability.”
A central problem, as McCann wrote, is that “Vendors have no incentive to share data and create more interoperable systems. There’s the question of data ownership here. There’s the question of competition. And there’s the question of standards, or lack thereof.”
“The vendors are siloed,” as Wergin said. “And you’re held somewhat hostage by the vendor you have.” |
Fourth Court of Appeals
San Antonio, Texas
MEMORANDUM OPINION
No. 04-18-00814-CR
IN RE Matthew Paul SURBER
Original Mandamus Proceeding 1
PER CURIAM
Sitting: Karen Angelini, Justice
Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice
Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice
Delivered and Filed: November 7, 2018
PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS DENIED
Relator filed a petition for writ of mandamus complaining the trial court has refused to rule
on his motion for nunc pro tunc requesting jail-time credit.
To establish a right to mandamus relief in a criminal case, the relator must show the trial
court violated a ministerial duty and there is no adequate remedy at law. In re State ex rel. Weeks,
391 S.W.3d 117, 122 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013) (orig. proceeding). A trial court has a ministerial
duty to rule on a properly-filed and timely-presented motion. See In re State ex rel. Young v. Sixth
Judicial Dist. Court of Appeals, 236 S.W.3d 207, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007) (orig. proceeding).
However, a relator has the burden of providing this court with a record sufficient to
establish his right to mandamus relief. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.7(a)(1) (requiring relator to file “a
1
This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 13-0772-CR-A #4, styled The State of Texas v. Matthew Paul Surber,
pending in the 2nd 25th Judicial District Court, Guadalupe County, Texas, the Honorable W.C. Kirkendall presiding.
04-18-00814-CR
certified or sworn copy of every document that is material to the relator’s claim for relief and that
was filed in any underlying proceeding”). In a case such as this one, a relator has the burden to
provide the court of appeals with a record showing the trial court was made aware of the motion
at issue and that such motion has not been ruled on by the trial court for an unreasonable period of
time. See In re Gallardo, 269 S.W.3d 643, 645 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2008, orig. proceeding).
Attached to relator’s petition is a copy of a May 4, 2018 file-stamped copy of relator’s
Motion for Nunc Pro Tunc. However, the mandamus record does not contain copies of any letters
sent to the trial court or the appropriate court coordinator asking the trial court to rule on his
pending motion. Relator must show the matter was brought to the attention of the trial court. In
re Hearn, 137 S.W.3d 681, 685 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2004, orig. proceeding); see also In re
Bonds, 57 S.W.3d 456, 457 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2001, orig. proceeding) (conditionally
granting petition for writ of mandamus where record reflected relator filed motion and called
motion to court’s attention by letter). “Merely filing the matter with the district clerk is not
sufficient to impute knowledge of the pending pleading to the trial court.” Hearn, 137 S.W.3d at
685. Because relator has not demonstrated the trial court is aware of his pending motion, we must
deny his petition.
PER CURIAM
Do not publish
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February’s Quick Look
I didn’t read as many books this month, and the books I read were a bit disappointing. I did stumble over a lot of great articles, magnificent poetry, and if you need an audio alternative, I’ve got you covered.
A glimpse of my February mental space:
Books
You Play The Girl by Carina Chocano
– This took a while longer to read than I had planned. You can read the full review here. It helped me learn to look at pop-culture more critically, and that we forget so much, so fast. This book was at its best for me when the author was teaching me history. 2/5
Frost & Fire by Roger Zelazny
– You can read my thoughts on Zelazny‘s Nine Princes in Amber and then see why I considered his writing might need a second look – a chance at redemption. My favorite part of this short story collection was his introduction and the craft bits scattered between the stories. You can read my disappointment here. 2/5
Sabriel by Garth Nix
– I put this one down at pg. 233, which is past the halfway point. I have lots of complaints about this one, but mainly I just didn’t care about the story. 2/5 |
Day 5 - 5 Days to Success with Bucket.io - 5 Advanced Features
In this short video, we cover advanced features that give you the “bells and whistles” you need to create more complex quizzes and surveys. These are the features used by some of the world’s most popular quizzes, diagnostics, and assessments. |
Nashville may be known worldwide for exporting country music, but Music City is also home to a percolating indie scene.
“If you care to see what (that part of Nashville is) about, buying a ticket to God Save the Queen City won’t hurt,” says Mike Harris. He’s a Mooresville native who plays guitar in Apache Relay, one of the bands headlining the fourth annual Charlotte indie music festival.
Saturday’s bill at Chop Shop is heavy on Nashville artists, including Apache Relay, Natural Child, Jeff the Brotherhood, Jonny Fritz, Clear Plastic Masks, the Promised Land Sound and several locals.
“It’s such a smattering of what’s going on in Nashville,” Harris continues. “All those bands are totally different, and everybody knows everybody for the most part. It’ll be the same hang that happens on a Wednesday in Nashville, but in Charlotte.”
For Harris, it’ll be a bit of a homecoming, although he never spent much time in high school in Charlotte.
“Before GPS I was scared I was going to get lost and someone was going to have to come find me in Charlotte,” he says with a laugh, on the way to Indianapolis with the band last week.
Although he’d been going to rural bluegrass festivals with his parents since childhood, his show-going in the city was limited to his youth pastor taking him to see Switchfoot at Tremont once.
Harris’ dad played bluegrass mandolin and his mom sang, but his own interest in rock led him to explore the guitar.
“My dad played around the house. I was getting into rock ’n’ roll and heard my dad play ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ ” says Harris. “I thought, ‘My dad can play some of my favorite songs. He could teach me.’ ”
A high school teacher told him about Belmont University in Nashville, and his sights were set. That’s where he met the other members of Apache Relay.
Eventually the guys chose the band over school and carved out a niche on the Americana circuit with frontman Michael Ford Jr. as an anchor and hirsute Harris’ larger-than-life persona lighting up the stage.
North Carolina served as a second home, where they could hop among college towns or hit venues like Evening Muse.
“We toured North Carolina so much, we always had an open door there,” Harris reminisces. “I especially love bringing people to Cookout for a Cheerwine and to Lake Norman. I take a lot of pride in that. Take them for barbecue in Concord or Kannapolis, or to the Diamond in Charlotte.”
Apache Relay was on the rise with its first official album, “American Nomad” (an earlier album was released under Michael Ford Jr. and the Apache Relay). It closed out Bonnaroo in 2011 (“I think only Widespread Panic was playing when we went on,” Harris recalls) and opened for Mumford & Sons in 2012. But just as folk-rock was exploding, Apache Relay took a left turn at harmony-rich ’60s pop, removing itself from the Mumfords’ tag.
The self-titled record released in April was recorded with producer Kevin Augunas at Fairfax Recordings – the old Sound City Room – in Los Angeles, and pays homage to both California country rock of the ’70s and Phil Spector’s lush production.
Harris says the departure is on purpose.
“The (most fun) part about being in a band to me is about trying to create something you can’t really compare to a lot of stuff.” |
Statistical Information
By Susan Wright The 2008 survey saw a total of 3,058 responses collected. Of those, 2,412 respondents resided in the United States (83.4%). Of the remaining 480 respondents, a total of over 42 other countries were represented. Where appropriate, the data is compared to the 1998 Violence & Discrimination Survey Against Sexual Minorities which collected over 1,000 responses to similar questions over the course of a year. The 1998 survey did not cover business or event-related experiences of harassment, nor did it ask about Internet experiences. The 2008 survey also included more questions about sexual activity and identity. Table 1. Gender 2008 1998 Women 51% 46% Men 45% 51% Transgender 5% 1% Intersexes 1% 2% Table 2. Sexual Orientation 2008 1998 Heterosexual 41% 40% Bisexual 35% 36% Gay/lesbian 22% 22% Other 7% 4% A total of 1,146 (37.5%) respondents indicated that they had either been discriminated against, had experienced some form of harassment or violence, or had some form of harassment or discrimination aimed at their BDSM-leather-fetish-related business. Of the respondents who reported some form of persecution, 476 (41.5%) identified as male 615 (53.7%) identified as female 9 (.8%) identified as intersexed 78 (6.8%) identified as transgendered (Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.) Of the 1,146 respondents who indicated that they had either been discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence, 380 (33.2%) identified as heterosexual, 440 (38.4%) identified as bisexual 292 (25.5%) identified as gay or lesbian. 97 (8.5%) indicated that they identified in some other way from heterosexual, bisexual or gay/lesbian. (Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.) The sexual orientation of respondents who were discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence is compared in Table 6.1 to the total percentage of respondents who identified their orientation. It is interesting to note that Gay/lesbian, Bisexual and Other respondents have slightly higher rates of persecution than their average percentage of total respondents, while Heterosexuals are less likely to be discriminated against. Table 3. Sexual Orientation and Discrimination Total Percent 2008 Respondents Percent Persecuted Gay/lesbian 22% 25.5% Bisexual 35% 38.4% Heterosexual 41% 33.2%…
The 2008 Survey of Violence & Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities found significant discrimination and persecution against BDSM practitioners due to the social stigma attached to their sexual behavior. With over three thousand respondents, 37.5 percent indicated that they had either been discriminated against or experienced some form of harassment or violence. This survey addresses the gap in current knowledge by reporting data on the prevalence of violence and discrimination against BDSM and polyamory practitioners. The persecution of these individuals is conceptualized as a manifestation of sexual stigma, that is, society's negative regard for any non-heterosexual behavior, identity, relationship, or community.
by Female Trouble March 1994 Within the womenâs community, over half (56%) of the 539 lesbian and bisexual women surveyed experienced discrimination, harassment, or physical assault from other women because of their participation in consensual s/m. This survey only dealt with the discrimination or violence occurring within the lesbian community against S/M women. Harassment is the most common form of attack against s/m practitioners in the lesbian community. 44% of the S/M women reported some form of violence against them, with one-third of the reported incidents of harassment had occurred in the last year (1993). 30% of the S/M women in the survey experienced discrimination in the lesbian community because of their s/m orientation. This discrimination included being refused membership or being ejected from social, recreational, political, education, spiritual groups within the lesbian community. Incidents of physical assault in the lesbian community because of S/M orientation were reported by 25% of the women. This includes being slapped, punched or kicked by other women because of their s/m orientation. Of the 367 s/m women who were victims and/or witnesses of violence at some point in their lives, only 22% felt safe enough to report the incidents to police or event organizers, group leaders, bar staff, etc. Only 25% stated that their complaints had been handled satisfactorily. This reputation within the lesbian community for not supporting victims of violence, harassment and discrimination prevents s/m women from fully participating in the community. In the forward of the Female Trouble analysis, Jad Keres writes: "The S/M women who have taken part in this survey have something important to tell us. Listening to them does not require an understanding of their sexual expression nor approval of their lifestyle. It does require a willingness to still the persistent noise of hard-held opinions and unyielding dogma. As a community, will we finally allow the voices of all women to be heard and heard consistently or will we continue to blatantly censor and dismiss the lives of women we do not understand or approve of? As a community, will we finally acknowledge and stop the political violence that has preyed upon S/M women or will we continue to ignore the real bloody consequences of the 'Sex Wars'?" Female Trouble, PO Box 30145, Philadelphia PA 19103
PURPOSE: Gather demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities. Gain an understanding of the affect of social stigma on SM and fetish practitioners. SURVEY INSTRUMENT - Paper and electronic distribution (see below) PERIOD - April 1998 to February 1999 RESULTS: Useful demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities Sense of the magnitude of the problems arising from the stigma against SM Clear justification for a more professional survey GENDER ORIENTATION Men 51% Heterosexual 40% Women 46% Homosexual 22% Transgender 1% Bisexual 36% Intersexual 2% No Response 4% EMPLOYMENT AGE INCOME Student 8% 18-22 3% Under $ 10K 7% Part time 5% 23-29 15% $10-24K 17% Full time 62% 30-44 49% $25-49K 37% Self employed 22% 45-64 31% Over $50K 39% Unemployed 1% Over 65 2% Retired 2% COMMUNITY ISSUES: 1. Have you ever experienced violence or harassment because of your alternative sexual practices? 36% YES If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed) Verbal harassment 87% Physical assault 25% Stalked 19% Property vandalized 19% Blackmail 17% Sexual harassment 13% Rape 10% Other 7% 2. Have you ever experienced discrimination due to your alternative sexual practices? 30% YES If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed) Persecution 40% Loss of job or contract 25% Loss of promotion 17% Loss of custody of child 3% Refused membership 11% Unjustified arrest 5% Other 36% 3. Did you press charges? 96% NO 4. Do you freely tell others of your interest in alternative sexual expression? 72% NO If you're not out, why not? Fear of disapproval 67% Fear of repercussions 57% Fear of persecution 34% Fear of loss of child custody 13% Other 16% RESULTS Only 28% of those surveyed were "out", while the vast majority don't tell other people about their sexual preferences. Some reported that "it's no one else's business," but many cited fear of job loss or child custody, or harming family relations. One respondent reported, "A formerly trusted confidant outed me to my family. As I am the primary care giver for my mother (Alzheimer's) my siblings feared that I would expose our mother to "dangerous characters". They considered making other arrangements for Mom's care and made me promise not to 'practice" my sexual preferences in our home." Unfortunately, staying in the closet doesn't protect people - only one-third of those who suffered violence or discrimination reported that they are "out". The other two-thirds were minding their own…
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Don’t ask us why he did it, but Ye successfully managed to tow the 7 Audis along, which weighed a hefty 12.6 tonnes, along using only his nut sack.
Footage of the event, shot in in Zibo City, China has gone viral after being revealed recently, and it’s not hard to see why.
While most blokes would shudder at the thought of attaching anything to their balls, Ye managed to tow the cars along for a total of 8 metres.
He’s seen attaching a rope to his testicles in the clip, and he claims that he’s a new world record holder. However, we can’t imagine many other people have ever pulled 7 Audis along using nothing but their bollocks, so it may be the first incident ever recorded…
Either way, it’s an impressive feat, even if it does make for uncomfortable viewing – just don’t expect loaded to get involved in any car-pulling bollocks any time soon… |
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Alright my dear friends today we must put on our company manners. We have a special treat for you. I was chatting with our Lady Tater and I discovered that she has a rather delicious secret..Lady Tater shares a weekly tea with Rob and during these little chat sessions she has found out some very juicy tidbits about him.
When I heard this I bullied her into letting us listen in. Both of the chatty darlings graciously said "HELLS YES" Really can you blame them?
Now comes the bit where I ask you to read at your own risk none of these sentiments expressed blah blah blah blah..
now lets join Lady Tater and Rob
LT: So, we're sitting down this morning with Rob Pattinson, or a reasonable facsimilie thereof, asking the questions YOU want answered and finding out what Rob would like you, his fans, to know about him. Rob?
You can see how their conversations go Lady Tater gives our Rob some treats and he provides her with the answers to our most pressing questions. Here is some of the information she found out just for us ..
Q: A lot of people are wondering why your Tweet from Peter's account was so short?
A: I spoke to our darling young man after 'the Tweet heard round the World". Allegedly, his original Tweet was censored by his 'dad' although he blushed profusely when I queried as to the original content of the sacred Tweet. After a promise of Stoli and cranberry and a look at the girls, he confided that the original message stated "Hi, this is Rob. I like to motorboat fabulous tits That is all..."
Such a giving boy....
Q: Rob long time fan and perv of your lisciousness I wanna know WHY have your interviews with the media all of sudden changed? why are you now so calm cool and collected coherent and well spoken I miss the verbal shits I miss the slip of the tongue (oh gawd I love it when Rob slips his tongue!)
So who the fuck put the gag order on you?
A: Rob was actually quite surprised that you so enjoyed his verbal diarhea! Apparently, not long after Twilight was released, he was taken outside of an interview room after uttering the descriptive term"fucking cunt-licker". His agent and a representative of Summit pulled his pants down, bent him over a dumpster and spanked him with a copy of Breaking Dawn until he could chant "I will never go off script again. I will never go off script again" without falling into the refuse. They were apparently a little disheartened to find out he actually enjoyed said spanking and had to resort to having a large, hairy security guard take over said punishment until his hard on diminished and someone lost an eye. Ever since, he's been so scarred by the incident, he will never go off the intended script again without "social lubrication" as he explained it.
And there you have it my gentile readers our first visit to Lady Taters tea room...
If you have any questions you would like Lady Tater to ask Rob feel free to send them to me and I will hand them over to her shipness and she will get us an answer! |
Hiya, used them back in August as they were offering me the most money. Placed order on the 5th August, posted phones 7th August, they confirmed they received them on the10th August and cheque was received a couple of days later. All hasle free. Dont know if anyone else has got any experience but I had no problems whatsoever. Hope this helps
I used them last week. sent my 5800 away via special del on the friday they confirmed receipt and the price on the monday and I had the cheque in my hands on the weds. can't fault the service.
There's a thread over on money saving expert which is pretty much filled with good reviews.
I used them last week. sent my 5800 away via special del on the friday they confirmed receipt and the price on the monday and I had the cheque in my hands on the weds. can't fault the service.
There's a thread over on money saving expert which is pretty much filled with good reviews.
How much did you get as I am selling mine. I'm sure last time I checked it was £85, now it's £84. I feel that I best get a ruddy move on.
I used them last week. sent my 5800 away via special del on the friday they confirmed receipt and the price on the monday and I had the cheque in my hands on the weds. can't fault the service.
There's a thread over on money saving expert which is pretty much filled with good reviews.
what condition was your phone in ants, daughters aint brill, and doesnt have a pen either
what condition was your phone in ants, daughters aint brill, and doesnt have a pen either
it was ok, there was one tiny scratch on the screen and a couple of scuffs etc on the back but nothing major. you can pick up the pens on fleabay for pennies if you want to be 100% but I wouldn't worry to much as it does say you don't have to send any accesories.
Out of interest, how does everyone post their phones, special delivery or freepost? and if the latter, do you take it in to the post office to get proof of delivery? value is £85 so think I'd need to use special delivery. |
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972 P.2d 566 (1999)
CITY OF TACOMA, a municipal corporation, Appellant,
v.
FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION, aka St. Joseph Hospital And Healthcare Center, a Washington nonprofit corporation, Respondent.
No. 23107-7-II.
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.
March 5, 1999.
*567 Jean P Homan, Assistant City Attorney, Tacoma, for Appellant.
Linda Gayle White Atkins, Davis Wright Tremaine, Bellevue, for Respondent.
HOUGHTON, J.
The City of Tacoma (City) appeals a trial court order granting summary judgment in favor of St. Joseph Medical Center (St. Joesph). The trial court ruled that the City's anti-discrimination ordinance conflicts with state law and thus is unenforceable against religious nonprofit organizations. We agree and affirm.
FACTS
The facts are undisputed. St. Joseph is a hospital owned and operated by the Franciscan Health System-West, which is in turn owned and operated by Catholic Health Initiatives. All three entities are religious nonprofit organizations. In fall 1997, two St. Joseph's employees filed separate charges with the Tacoma Human Rights Department alleging religious, disability, race, and national origin discrimination under chapter 1.29 of the Tacoma Municipal Code (TMC).[1] St. Joseph challenged the City's jurisdiction to enforce its ordinance against it because St. Joseph is exempt from the state anti-discrimination law.
On December 5, 1997, the City filed a declaratory judgment action in superior court. Both parties moved for summary judgment. The trial court granted St. Joseph's motion and entered a judgment ruling that: (1) the Tacoma Human Rights Department does not have authority under TMC 1.29 to investigate claims of discrimination, make findings, and/or enforce civil penalties against St. Joseph because St. Joseph is expressly exempted from coverage of the state anti-discrimination law; (2) the City's definition of "employer" conflicts with the state definition of "employer" as to religious nonprofit organizations; (3) RCW 49.60.330 prohibits municipalities from enforcing anti-discrimination ordinances in a manner inconsistent with RCW 49.60; and (4) it is inconsistent with RCW 49.60 for the City to enforce its anti-discrimination ordinance against exempt religious organizations such as St. Joseph. The City appeals.
ANALYSIS
Standard of Review and Burden of Proof
The parties agree that review of this case is de novo,[2] but disagree as to St. Joseph's *568 burden of proof in challenging the City's ordinance. The City argues that St. Joseph bears the heavy burden of proving the ordinance unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt. See Rabon v. City of Seattle, 135 Wash.2d 278, 287, 957 P.2d 621 (1998) (ordinance is presumed constitutional; heavy burden rests on challenger to establish unconstitutionality); City of Seattle v. Shin, 50 Wash. App. 218, 220, 748 P.2d 643 (party challenging constitutionality of ordinance must establish unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt), review denied, 110 Wash.2d 1025 (1988). St. Joseph counters it merely must show that the City's attempt to enforce its ordinance against St. Joseph exceeds its statutory grant of enforcement authority.
The Anti-discrimination Laws
Washington's Law Against Discrimination, RCW 49.60, permits injured persons to bring a civil action for employment discrimination. RCW 49.60.010, .030(2). Its definition of "employer" "includes any person acting in the interest of an employer ... who employs eight or more persons, and does not include any religious or sectarian organization not organized for private profit."[3] RCW 49.60.040(3). The law permits first-class cities to enact their own anti-discrimination ordinances and provide administrative remedies, as long as such ordinances and remedies are consistent with state law. RCW 49.60.330.
The Tacoma City Municipal Code contains an anti-discrimination ordinance that defines "employer" as "any person ... acting in the interests of an employer ... or who has any persons in his, her or its employ." TMC 1.29.030(E). Thus, it includes religious nonprofit organizations.[4]
The City's Enforcement Powers
The parties' disagreement regarding St. Joseph's burden of proof stems from their disagreement as to the source of the City's power to provide and enforce civil remedies for discrimination. St. Joseph argues that cities have no inherent authority under their police powers to enforce civil and equitable remedies.[5] Thus, the City's only power to provide such remedies arises from RCW 49.60.330.[6] St. Joseph, therefore, limits the inquiry to whether the City can provide anti-discrimination remedies that exceed the scope of authority granted it under RCW 49.60.330. Thus, St. Joseph asserts, the answer is "no" and only statutory construction is required to find in St. Joseph's favor.
The City contends that its constitutional grant of police powers includes civil and equitable enforcement measures.[7] The City claims that RCW 49.60.330 is permissive, not restrictive, and it can, therefore, provide *569 remedies greater than those permitted by the statute unless a constitutional conflict is shown.
In either case, the question is whether the City's ordinance conflicts with the state law. Because it clearly does, it must yield under both standards.[8]
Conflict Analysis
Under their constitutionally granted police powers, cities may enact ordinances prohibiting the same acts state law prohibits as long as the city ordinance does not conflict with the general laws of the state. City of Bellingham v. Schampera, 57 Wash.2d 106, 109, 356 P.2d 292 (1960). A local ordinance does not conflict with state law merely because one prohibits a wider scope of activity than the other. City of Seattle v. Eze, 111 Wash.2d 22, 33, 759 P.2d 366, 78 A.L.R.4th 1115 (1988) (citing Town of Republic v. Brown, 97 Wash.2d 915, 919, 652 P.2d 955 (1982)). In determining whether an ordinance conflicts with general laws, the test is: "whether the ordinance permits or licenses that which the statute forbids and prohibits, and vice versa." Schampera, 57 Wash.2d at 111, 356 P.2d 292 (quoting Village of Struthers v. Sokol, 108 Ohio St. 263, 140 N.E. 519 (1923)).
The City attempts to justify its ordinance under the foregoing rule by asserting that the state anti-discrimination law does not grant religious nonprofit groups a "license to discriminate." Rather, both the state and local schemes are intended to prohibit discrimination. Therefore the local ordinance does not conflict; it merely goes further in its prohibitions. See Brown v. City of Yakima, 116 Wash.2d 556, 562, 807 P.2d 353 (1991) ("Where both the ordinance and the statute are prohibitory, and the difference between them is that the ordinance goes further in its prohibition, they are not deemed inconsistent...."); State v. Rabon, 45 Wash.App. 832, 838, 727 P.2d 995 (1986) (question is whether statute authorizes conduct banned by ordinance).
The City's literal interpretation of the rule ignores that the state law expressly exempts religious nonprofit groups.[9] The cases relied upon by the City merely show that local regulations may prohibit conduct that similar state laws fail to address.[10]See, e.g., Shin, 50 Wash.App. at 226-27, 748 P.2d 643 (city may impose duty on parents to report child abuse though state statute omits parents from list of persons required to report); Rabon, 45 Wash.App. at 838, 727 P.2d 995 (state law banning chako sticks under certain circumstances does not preclude city from banning them entirely); Seattle Newspaper-Web Pressmen's Union Local No. 26 v. City of Seattle, 24 Wash.App. 462, 468-69, 604 P.2d 170 (1979) (ordinance may extend prohibition on unfair labor practices to practices not covered under state statute).
Although the state anti-discrimination law does not "authorize" religious groups to discriminate, it does "authorize" their exemption from the law's reach. The statutory *570 language indicates an affirmative policy choice rather than an omission. Because the City's ordinance contravenes this policy choice, it must give way. See Seattle Newspaper-Web, 24 Wash.App. at 469, 604 P.2d 170 (ordinance may be more restrictive than state statute only if statute does not forbid the more restrictive enactment) (emphasis added) (citing Lenci v. City of Seattle, 63 Wash.2d 664, 670-71, 388 P.2d 926 (1964)).
Affirmed.
BRIDGEWATER, C.J., and HUNT, J., concur.
NOTES
[1] Both complainants also filed charges under Title VII with the EEOC.
[2] See Reid v. Pierce County, 136 Wash.2d 195, 201, 961 P.2d 333 (1998) (in reviewing a summary judgment order, reviewing court engages in same inquiry as the trial court); City of Seattle v. Williams, 128 Wash.2d 341, 347, 908 P.2d 359 (1995) (questions of law are reviewed de novo) (citing State v. McCormack, 117 Wash.2d 141, 143, 812 P.2d 483 (1991), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1111, 112 S.Ct. 1215, 117 L.Ed.2d 453 (1992)).
[3] Persons aggrieved by the discrimination of religious nonprofit groups can seek redress under Title VII. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-1(a).
[4] Although not at issue in this case, the City ordinance also purports to cover employers with fewer than eight employees, which are also exempt from the state law.
[5] In support of this proposition, St. Joseph cites State v. Brennan, 76 Wash.App. 347, 884 P.2d 1343 (1994). The Brennan court held that the Legislature could not delegate equitable powers to the district courts because the state constitution vests exclusive equitable jurisdiction in the superior courts. Brennan, 76 Wash.App. at 349, 356, 884 P.2d 1343.
[6] RCW 49.60.330 provides:
Any [first-class city] ... may enact resolutions or ordinances consistent with this chapter to provide administrative and/or judicial remedies for any form of discrimination proscribed by this chapter .... The superior courts shall have jurisdiction to hear all matters relating to violation and enforcement of such resolutions or ordinances, including ... the award of such remedies and civil penalties as are consistent with this chapter .... Any local resolution or ordinance not inconsistent with this chapter may provide, after a finding of reasonable cause to believe that discrimination has occurred, for the filing of an action in, or the removal of the matter to, the superior court.
(emphasis added).
[7] Article XI, section 11 of the Washington Constitution grants first-class cities the power to "make and enforce within [their] limits all such local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws." This delegation of power is "as ample within its limits as that possessed by the legislature itself." Williams, 128 Wash.2d at 359, 908 P.2d 359.
[8] Little authority elucidates the issue of the derivation and extent of a city's civil enforcement powers. Cities, pursuant to their police powers, possessed authority to prohibit discrimination before the enactment of RCW 49.60.330, but the extent of their power to create and enforce remedies apart from criminal sanctions was unclear. See AGO 1981, No. 14, at 3-4. In 1981, the Legislature enacted RCW 49.60.330 to "authorize[] what ha[d] been "existing in law." AGO 1981, No. 14, at 7 (quoting Senator Talmadge); see Laws of 1981, ch. 259, § 5. The amendment's legislative history confirms that the amendment was intended to be permissive, not preemptive, see AGO 1981, No. 14, at 6-7, but otherwise sheds little light on the question of what cities' preexisting enforcement powers were.
[9] The religious exemption has been part of the anti-discrimination statute since it was enacted. It has never been amended, although the section in which it is contained has been amended many times, and the Legislature twice has considered narrowing or deleting the exemption. Farnam v. CRISTA Ministries, 116 Wash.2d 659, 673 n. 4, 807 P.2d 830 (1991) (citations omitted).
[10] None of the cases the City cites in support of its contention that no conflict exists where the local prohibitory scheme merely goes further than the state scheme analyzes a state law containing an express exemption. See Rabon v. City of Seattle, 135 Wash.2d at 288, 957 P.2d 621; Brown, 116 Wash.2d at 558, 807 P.2d 353; Eze, 111 Wash.2d at 33, 759 P.2d 366; State ex rel. Schillberg v. Everett Dist. Justice Court, 92 Wash.2d 106, 108, 594 P.2d 448 (1979); Shin, 50 Wash.App. at 221 n. 3, 748 P.2d 643; State v. Rabon, 45 Wash.App. at 833 n. 1, 727 P.2d 995.
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Q:
What is this argument of AGGREGATE function doing in my formula?
I need to understand this part ($B$1:$B$15<>"") in the following formula used to represent a column of data with blank cells removed:
=IFERROR(INDEX($B$1:$B$15,AGGREGATE(15,6,(ROW($B$1:$B$15)-ROW($B$1)+1)/($B$1:$B$15<>""),ROWS(C$1:C1))),"")
This formula was given on another site for the question Remove Blanks from a Column with Formula, but I could not find more info about it.
I especially want to know what this part does: ($B$1:$B$15<>"").
I can guess it is a range not "", but I cannot figure it out its usage in that formula.
Can someone help me on this matter?
Thank you.
A:
The part you queried is doing as you say:
$B$1:$B$15<>""
That returns an array of TRUE/FALSE values, FALSE if each cell is blank and TRUE if it's not. In the formula an array of the relative row numbers is divided by that array - when you divide by TRUE that acts as a 1 so you just get the row number, when you divide by FALSE that acts like zero so you get a #DIV/0! error.
AGGREGATE function is set to ignore errors so it finds the kth smallest row where B1:B15 is not blank
......then INDEX returns the actual value for that cell.
In cell one - C1 ideally - k = 1 so you get the first non-blank value then ROWS function increments as you copy down so you get each subsequent non-blank value
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Not as a feature to use but to play onDoes that add an interesting facet to the play game or an annoying one? And how would it be balanced without being completely annoying or negligible I had an idea for a bedroll item that would put the user to sleep for a certain amount of turns chosen by the player but would HP when the sleep status wears as
It has the potential to be interesting but if say, one of your units only has 1 HP and the next chapter starts and they still only have 1HP, that's kind of annoying.
The bedroll seems like it would make that unit into a liability since they are then useless until they wake up, especially when staves already exist, unless you have some idea for how to make it not annoying.
Well the bedroll is "unbreakable", so that helps in the decision if you're almost out of healing items and the unit will be safe for a turnI could refill it a small amount maybe? Like 20% instead of 100% ? The whole idea was to make it more realistic for chapters that literally happen after each other like FE8's chapter 7&8 for instance (7 is outside the castle, 8 is inside the castle)
If you already know about the mechanic and the previous chapter doesn't have a time limit (or a soft one, such as a rout mission where the last enemy charges towards player units), then players would assumedly get all units back to full HP (and get extra EXP from it, too). The only people that probably wouldn't would be those too lazy or LTC players not wanting to sacrifice the turns (unless extra turns was more efficient in the long run). |
Enterprise Java Beans have been one of the corner stones of the Java EE specification. As a Java EE 5 certified application server, Apache Geronimo supports EJB's extensively with the help of OpenEJB EJB Container. Although it is possible to use standard Java objects to contain your business logic and business data, using EJBs addresses many of the issues of using simple Java objects, such as scalability, lifecycle management and state management. In this article, you will see how an initial database application is extended and used for both local and remotely referred application clients for an Enterprise Java Beans back end. The application uses the built-in Apache Derby as its database. Use this article to learn how to simplify your enterprise application development process.
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Adi & Gabby's room - Planning/Inspiration
As many of you know, we're expecting our third child (first boy!) in late March. Since it wouldn't be wise to buy yet another crib set, we've decided to move our two girls into the larger extra room to share and bump them up to twins, while we recycle Gabby's crib for the new baby. With that said, I now have two rooms to plan and execute prior to March (deep breath).
So I've decided to share this process with you in hopes to keep me honest and on track. I hopefully will be posting weekly updates with my progress. So here are my thoughts on the girls' room:
The walls are currently a shade lighter than the above pic and the dresser & hutch combo we have from Adi's bedroom set has a lot of the same styling detail as this one. Her dresser is currently off-white, but this pic made me think it would be nice to add some soft pink to the detailing -- just to freshen things up a bit.
I found this monogram that Centsational Girl painted on some clear plates and instantly thought of the girls' beds. I knew I wanted to personalize them with maybe the first letter of their name, but I saw this today and it was just perfect. I'll be imitating some version of this on the beds for sure!
And then we get to book storage. We're in desperate need of some book organization and I've been ogling versions of the infamous toddler book wall for ages now. It's in the plans for this room. Not sure if we'll build one or purchase at Ikea (I've seen it done with frame shelves and spice racks), but one way or the other, it'll get done. Also, did you see the stripes on the ceiling in the above photo? Do I dare? Will it be too busy with the polka dots? I'll have to see as everything comes together.
And finally, I'll need to create some form of artwork display space. I'm digging the above inspiration pic. The symmetry and white classic frames make each piece all the more special! I may, however, just frame cork and leave the glass out so that we can interchange favorites. Adi colors on a daily basis and I know she would just love this!
So what do you think? I definitely have my work cut out for me. I'm so very excited yet overwhelmed at the same time.
Here are my to-do's:
Crown molding install
Paint polka dots
Sew drapery
Paint beds
Paint nightstand
Update dresser and small table/chairs (paint)
Find or make rug (may involve paint)
Install book wall
Create artwork display wall
Address lighting issues
*Please note: All inspiration photos have been pulled from Pinterest and link back to their original source.
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Yes I’m a NYC Photographer who loves taking pictures anything NYC related such as the Subway, Central Park, Streets and loves to do long exposure photography.Do I love taking pictures? Yes I do. Why? Because I love to capture to things in my own perspectives and it’s sorta like creating my own diary/adventures except it’s being done by taking pictures. I love to do new adventures and I’ve done few personal photography trips such as West Haven CT, Cold Spring NY and Croton-Harmon NY and just like any other photography adventure’s, it’s been considered to be in my memories which I’ll never forget.
People has kept asking me how do I get people posing in my pictures and such and assumed I payed them and tried to flirt with the girls (Even thinking I’m some kind of player). You know what that’s certainly not true at all. I have either asked people if they want to be in my photos (I have people who said no and that’s not a problem to me at all) or they will ask me if I can take a picture of them in it. And to be honest I don’t know why people thinks I’m a player but I assume it’s because of my Facebook Page which now has over 3,000 likes and because of I’m “Popular”. Many people don’t know is that I’m actually shy and nervous as hell when seeing/talking to people. Yes I have really strong shyness when being around others because I get nervous when meeting new people and being invited to join groups/meetups. I’m mostly solo when doing photography but I don’t mind being around others who loves doing it too but at the same time I feel so nervous to the point when I get stressed. I’ve been told many times “I’m not normal” and “I’m stupid for not being like other people who only focuses on getting dates/going to clubs and playing sports”. I’m not into doing any of that stuff right now and all I want to is focus on my photography and my goals. I really wish people understood that and respect that.
Right now I’m really nervous about my path and future (Mainly on photography and a few other stuff) because I’m actually afraid that I will screw up at it and it’s very scary to think that but it’s hard for me not to worry. Alot of people think I do photography just to be popular and to be famous when none of that is true. The reason I do photography is because I love doing it and being able to see things my way. When I reached 3,000 likes 3 days before my 21st Birthday in January I was personally surprised. I’ve gotten responses such as “I deserved that much likes” and “I’m just an attention whore seeking for popularity”. I would hope to find my path with my journey right now and wish things will get better. |
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EGG DONATION
EGG DONATION
It took several years for egg donation to become a widely-accepted method, but now it is a rather common solution for infertile couples to conceive a child. Egg donation, however, does pose several moral dilemmas. IVF with donor eggs is a fertility treatment that has been available since the mid 1980’s.
Success rates with egg donation are high, particularly compared to pregnancy rates in women with poor egg quality and quantity. Research has also proven that the method has no adverse effect to the relationship between mother, father and child despite the lack of genetic link between mother and child.
Donor egg IVF
In many Western countries, the children are allowed – after adulthood – access to all data, including the identity of the donor of the egg. The latter is not permitted in Greece, unless there are health reasons, so the child can access the files but still anonymously. Donor egg IVF opens up a world of possibilities for women who have struggled to conceive: women with primary ovarian failure, menopausal, either naturally or as a result of surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, women that have undergone repeated failed attempts at IVF or with a genetic disorder which could be passed on to their child. Egg donation treatment involves fertilizing the donor eggs with sperm from the recipient’s partner and transferring the resulting embryos into the recipient’s womb.
Egg donation in Greece
At Medimall IVF Clinic, we are pleased to provide the procedure of egg donation, which is permitted in our country and is lawful under Greek law. Egg donation is anonymous, voluntary and free. The primary benefit to every woman who donates eggs should be the altruistic aspect of helping another person or couple achieve pregnancy. According to Greek law, egg donors should be between 18 and 35 years old, and are selected following strict medical screening. You can find all the information on the test donors are submitted to below. The age limit for women undergoing IVF treatment is 50 years old.
Egg donation program
Our egg donation program uses both fresh and frozen ova and the recipients have the opportunity to choose between the fresh and frozen oocytes. In addition, the selection of oocytes used takes into account the characteristics of the donor, so that they come from a woman with similar features. In case of fresh egg selection, you should consider that all information concerning donor characteristics and testing will be disclosed to you after the embryo transfer. Egg donation has proved to be very successful, either using fresh or frozen eggs, with success rates up to 75% for embryo transfers per treatment cycle, and up to 65% for clinical pregnancies.
According to Greek law, up to two embryos can be transferred, whereas you will be informed about the number and quality of your embryos on the very day of embryo transfer.
Our doctors and biologists will talk in detail with you and advise you on the number of embryos they believe should be transferred, in accordance with your medical history of previous IVF attempts and the possibility of a multiple pregnancy.
You could also consult your gynecologist about the number of embryos he believes it would be best to transfer.
All IVF candidates should be aware that the law allows for any remaining, good quality embryos that are not transferred, one of the following:
To be frozen. Freezing time can be up to five years. During this period, the embryos can be used in one IVF cycle if the recipient has not yet become pregnant or the couple wants to have another child.
The embryos can be destroyed.
They can be donated to another couple.
They can be donated to the fertility clinic for research.
After 5 years, the couple not wishing to keep the embryos could select options number two, three or four.
Practical information on egg donation at Medimall IVF Clinic
Recipients participate in preliminary screening procedures, including review of gynecological records and transvaginal ultrasound. You can ask our doctors any questions you may have, and discuss with them all your queries. If you live abroad and it is not possible to visit our center, all the above-mentioned tests can be conducted by your personal gynecologist in conjunction with our center coordinator. We strongly recommend the semen analysis of your partner to be done in our clinic.
Additionally, you will be asked by the doctors or our coordinator to fill out and send us all necessary consent forms, copies of identity or your passport, and any other legally required document. You are more than welcome to send us your photos in order to get to know your features. You would also specify the desired dates you wish to undergo the procedure. Bear in mind that you will need to be available for one week (from Monday morning to Saturday afternoon). We could then integrate you in our clinic’s IVF egg donation program.
Your partner should also be available to provide semen sample at the clinic right before the IVF cycle. The frozen sperm is intended for exclusive use of his partner. In this case, you will need to be available for a period of four days, from Wednesday morning to Saturday afternoon.
You will be asked to follow a specific treatment in order to prepare your uterus and your endometrium for embryo transfer. You will need to visit for two weeks after the beginning of the endometrial preparation.
In the meantime, you will need to make all necessary preparations for your trip to Athens, your return home, as well as arrange for your stay in a hotel in Athens until the day the process is completed.
Medimall IVF Clinic staff will provide you with a full and detailed plan once your treatment is set. It is important that all communication concerning the program is conducted through our doctors and/or our coordinator at ivf@medimall.gr and we will get back to you.
Donor testing
Complete blood analysis
Cardiovascular examination
Blood type
Rhesus factor
Hemoglobin electrophoresis
Hepatitis B (HBsAg)
Hepatitis C (HCV)
HIV I-II (AIDS)
RPR (syphilis)
Karyotype test
PCR for CTRF (85% of known mutations) (Cystic Fibrosis)
PCR for 35 Delg relating to hereditary hearing loss
Chlamydia (Urine)
Psychological examination
The recipient and the partner must be submitted to the following tests: |
Notes on The Intersection: Tales of the Taj
It took Shah Jahan 17 years to build the iconic Taj Mahal, a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz, who died during childbirth in 1631. A structure known as the testament of true love for centuries has also been the cause of both pride and controversy in equal measure for India. If you walk around it, you will see that its four facades are identical, with vaulted arches and quotes from the Holy Quran inlaid onto the marble.
This is because the Mughals considered symmetry symbolic of balance and harmony in their empire. But, as Dr. Dilip Ahuja proves through his research and tells us in the podcast, it’s not as perfect as it seems. So, was the iconic monument created with a single error on purpose? Or, did the artists and craftsmen make an honest mistake because of a lack of advanced scientific equipment? Did Shah Jahan know? The answers to these questions are hidden in the legends that surround the history of the building – some that tell of Shah Jahan cutting off the hands and gouging out the eyes of artists who built it and others of how he wanted to build a black version of the Taj Mahal for himself.
A total of Rs 32 million (today’s equivalent of Rs 53 billion) was spent on constructing the Taj; it was made with makrana marble from Rajasthan, lapis lazuli from Central Asia and turquoise from Tibet, and it is said that 1,000 elephants were required to transfer these materials all the way from their homes to Agra. But, this luxury also put the Taj at risk once the Mughal Empire collapsed in the 18th century. The Jats (a Hindu community from North India), looted it in 1964 and stripped it of its two silver doors. British colonisers plundered it for the hand-woven carpets and precious gems, but Lord Curzon the viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, ordered the restoration of the historical site and its gardens. He also gifted the Taj with a grand chandelier, which unfortunately, came crashing down in August 2015 and is currently being restored.
Today, Agra has transformed from being a Mughal Capital to an economically advanced city, the industrialisation and resulting pollution leading to the yellowing of the Taj’s pristine white marble. The monument has since gotten a beauty treatment of sorts – workers applied Fuller’s Earth (yes, that pack of multani mitti in your fridge was good enough for the Taj too!) to its walls and washed it off after 24 hours, a process that helped restore its sheen. The Supreme Court of India has prohibited the construction of any building that might obscure the view of the Taj Mahal, so that we can enjoy its beauty from a distance, just like Shah Jahan did when he was imprisoned in Agra Fort, for years till he died.
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Photographs of Aakar Patel by Biswajit Dey, of Vikram Doctor by Meenakshi Doctor, of Samanth and Padma by Padmaparna Ghosh, of Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur by Azhar Khan, and of abandoned swim-shorts by Genesia Alves. All other pics by Unsplash.
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Q:
change route in scroll reactjs
I have a question, but I do not even know how to solve it, I'm looking for if I scroll down, show me the following routes and scroll up to show me the previous routes
I hope some guide
class Routes extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Router history={browserHistory}>
<Route path='/' component={HomeLayout}>
<IndexRoute component={HomeComponent} />
</Route>
<Route path='aps' component={AppServiceLayout}>
<IndexRoute />
</Route>
<Route path='portfolio' component={portfolioLayout}>
<IndexRoute />
</Route>
<Route path='about_us' component={aboutUsLayout}>
<IndexRoute />
</Route>
<Route path='*' component={HomeLayout}>
<IndexRoute component={NotFoundComponent} />
</Route>
</Router>
);
}
}
A:
There's an onScroll event that you can use as a trigger, here's a post on how to determine whether they scrolled up or down:
How can I determine the direction of a jQuery scroll event?
And here's a link on how to programatically change the React Route:
Programmatically navigate using react router
So when they scroll, check whether it's up or down, then push the next/previous route accordingly. I dunno if there's anything built in to just get the route immediately before/after a certain route, so you may just need a list of them somewhere as reference
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Faith is back in Mirror's Edge Catalyst but in an origin story as we learn how she became involved in fighting corporate tyranny, which has a stranglehold on the city. It's coming out February 23rd for PC and console.
It's a giant open world city 'with no levels to load' and it's packed for off story missions, time trials and other environmental challenges. The E3 trailer includes glimpses of gameplay.
This year's conference from EA is going to be dominated by one thing: Star Wars: Battlefront. The Press Conference will begin 1.00pm PDT / 9.00pm GMT+1 and run for about an hour. There's a bit to get through.
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No development studio has come in and wowed him yet, as Rhianna's father is a "gamer himself so he has an idea what he'd like to see," she said; unsure if she'd take over.
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The Latest: Gibraltar police detain 2 more from Iran tanker
The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on the tensions between the United States and Iran (all times local):
6:10 p.m.
Police in Gibraltar say they have arrested the two second mates of an Iranian supertanker seized last week by the British navy on suspicion of carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria.
Police in the British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain say Friday the two men are in custody and assisting police with their inquiries. A statement says the investigation is continuing and the Panama-flagged tanker remains detained.
The vessel’s captain and chief officer were arrested Thursday. All four arrested men are Indian.
The ship is suspected of breaching European Union sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. It was intercepted by British Royal Marines last week
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5 p.m.
Britain’s foreign secretary is calling for calm amid rising tensions over shipping in the Persian Gulf, saying the UK does not want a conflict with Iran.
Jeremy Hunt said Friday that “this is a time for cool heads” to make sure there is no “unintended escalation.”
Tensions have risen after Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, seized an Iranian oil tanker last week. The vessel was allegedly carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.Earlier this week, the UK Royal Navy said it stopped Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through a critical shipping lane near the Persian Gulf.
Hunt said that London has given “a measured and careful” response to the situation. “We are being clear to Iran that we are not seeking to escalate this situation,” he said.
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4:00 p.m.
British media are reporting that the UK will send a second warship to Persian Gulf.
Both Sky News and the BBC reported Friday that the HMS Duncan, a Type 45 Destroyer, will sail to the gulf after taking part in NATO exercises in the Black Sea. It is said to arrive in a few days.
The Ministry of Defense declined to comment.
The Duncan had already been scheduled to go to the region, but the deployment is being moved forward a few days amid the deepening crisis with Iran.
Duncan will operate alongside the Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose and American forces.
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3:35 p.m.
China says it opposes unilateral sanctions against Iran and criticized what it describes as the “long arm jurisdiction” of the United States.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing said that international trade with Iran “within the framework of international law is reasonable and legitimate and deserves to be respected and protected.”
China is one of the world powers that signed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which has been unraveling since President Donald Trump withdrew from it over a year ago.
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3:15 p.m.
The head of Gibraltar’s government says an Iranian supertanker seized last week by the British navy on suspicion of carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria was loaded with 2.1 million barrels of light crude oil.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the parliament of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, in a statement Friday that anyone who has a claim to the vessel and its cargo can file its claim in court.
The ship was intercepted by British Royal Marines off the southern tip of Spain on July 4. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency at the time called the incident “an illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.”
A senior Spanish official said the operation was requested by the United States, but Picardo says no other government asked Gibraltar to act.
He says the ship is suspected of breaching European Union sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.
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2:00 p.m.
Iran is demanding the British navy release an oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing a “dangerous game.”
Friday’s comments from the Iranian Foreign Ministry come a day after police in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain, said they arrested the captain and chief officer of the supertanker suspected of breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Iranian crude oil to Syria.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told Iranian state news agency IRNA that “the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid … the release of the tanker is in all countries’ interest.”
The tanker’s interception on July 4 has stoked already high tensions in the region.
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England centre Manu Tuilagi has apologised for playing a prank on Prime Minister David Cameron during the British and Irish Lions' visit to Downing Street.
Tuilagi gave Cameron 'bunny ears' while stood behind and to the left of the Conservative Party leader as a group of players and management posed for a photo at the function to honour the Lions' 2-1 series victory over Australia.
You can see the incident in our video, and enjoy the end result in the picture here:
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Using Twitter to express his remorse for the incident, the Leicester Tigers centre said: "Apologies for messing around on Lions photo. No offence intended. Great Day at Downing Street. Thanks to Prime Minister for hosting us."
And a brief apology on social media seems a small price to pay for the kudos that the player quickly earned from his fellow players, with fellow Lions star Ben Youngs saying on Twitter "The Man just couldn't stop himself" and Gloucester and England fly-half Freddie Burns tweeting: "Great bottle from Manu Tuilagi! Haha. #chief."
It's not the first time Tuilagi has courted controversy: at the 2011 Rugby World Cup he was fined £3,000 after jumping off a ferry in Auckland. |