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Pedro Barbosa Interview
by Mzi
Pedro Barbosa, has be come a South African music house name. After many years of sharing the stage with some of the best, Pedro has released his solo album Reborn. A while back we caught up with Pedro and got the full scoop.
After years of sharing the stage, you recently released your debut solo album, entitled REBORN. Congrats! You must be over the moon. How has the overall response been?
Well its still early days, but we have managed to sell the 1st 1000 CDs printed which is great and this was just at gigs. Crazy Love which was the first song of the album that got a video has been having a great response amongst the listeners and fans. I am happy so far. Now to get singles.
You have been part of the music industry, as a front man, for some of time now. What brought on the solo venture?
Being part of bands is great with regards to the different perspectives on music as well as different styles etc. But I wanted to express me, a deeper side of mine. With the bands its generally happy tunes and fun stuff, but I needed to let out more, and that is where REBORN comes from.
Great Solo projects, come with great responsibility. People don’t actually realise how much time and work goes in to produce an album. How did you keep yourself motivated during the process of creating the album?
Yes, from January 2017 to October 2017. It was a long period. But I was fortunate to work with one of my favourite producers in SA and someone who I will gladly call my brother today, Mark Beling. He was a pillar for me during this recording, he gave me a lot of support emotionally as well as creatively. He is an inspiration for me and someone I look up to, with those things the whole process felt easy and amazing. Every time we finished a song it was a fantastic feeling and we were so aligned in terms of creativity as well as emotionally, almost like we could read each other, so it made the whole process beautiful and exciting.
You recently started teaching yourself how to play the Ukulele! RAD!
If you had an unlimited amount of time what instrument would you like to learn to play?
Hahahahaha. STALKERS!!! Definitely drums! I suck at drums badly, but I have started small. I have a group of friends who started playing instruments, and out of a joke somehow we started a band just for fun for the guys, they’re all new to music and I decided I need to play something I don’t play so I’m playing percussion. Its bloody hard and the nice thing is I’m in the background. I don’t sing just play, I dig it, its fun and they a great bunch of guys. In case u wondering the band is called SONS OF SHANIQUA.
If you weren’t making music, what would you do for a living?
I would be a psychologist. I think. But my dream has always been to own a bar on a nice touristic island, have a lovely lady with me and play music for the clients and make cocktails.
If you had to create “Pedro Barbosa’s favourite sounds” playlist, what 5 songs would have to be on there?
Goodness, that changes all the time depending on my mood, but for now it would be in no specific order:
Daughtry, In The Air Tonight
Hugh Masekela, Weeping
Johnny Clegg, The Crossing
I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys (Love this song on the open road!)
Linkin Park, Leave Out All The Rest
If the good people want to get in touch and hear/see more from you, where should they go?
Best place is Facebook: facebook.com/PedroBarbosaMusician
Or Instagram: pedrobarbosamusican
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First Look Review - FUNNY STORY
Complications arise when an estranged father embarks on a road trip with his daughter's friend.
Review by Benjamin Poole
Directed by: Michael J. Gallagher
Starring: Matthew Glave, Emily Bett Rickards, Jana Winternitz, Nikki Limo, Lily Holleman, Daisye Tutor
It’s an unforgiving business this comedy lark. Take Mark Kermode’s absolutely ridiculous ‘six laugh’ test (or whatever the arbitrary number is), the spurious idea that a comedy’s worth can be gauged by the frequency of the laughter it physically invokes. How does that even work? If we applied similar logic to horror films, that its success criteria would be how often the viewer jumps, then Annabelle, with its serviceable cattle prod jolts, would be a ‘better’ film than The Innocents - come on! What of the comedy that is wry, the comedy which is acerbic and knowing, which allows us to look at the foibles of the human condition through a prophylactic of amusement? If I am not rolling around on the sticky cinema floor in paroxysms of laughter, does it mean I should dismiss a comedy’s sincere observations upon the essential absurdities of life? After all, aren’t the best funeral eulogies the ones which make us laugh as well as cry? Go home Kermode, you’re drunk (again).
Perhaps calling your film Funny Story, as Michael J. Gallagher (writer/director) and Steve Greene (writer) have, is asking for trouble though, as Adam Sandler it ain’t. We do, however, open with an uncharacteristically broad tableau, wherein aging lothario Walter (Matthew Glave) attempts to dump his hot, younger partner (Daisye Tutor). As Walter extends metaphors involving the condiments on the bar table where they sit, "I’m this salt cellar, you’re this packet of sugar," Lucy vapes and plays with her phone, seemingly oblivious to Walter (because she is young, see). It’s funny because they are chalk and cheese, and then the punchline: it turns out Lucy is pregnant - yikes! Perhaps it’s time for Walter to get a bit of space and visit his estranged daughter Nic (Jana Winternitz), who keeps a distance on the West Coast, upset and embarrassed by her dirty old dad’s shagger ways. And if Walter is determined to visit, then at least he could offer Nic’s pal Kim (Emily Bett Rickards) a lift to Big Sur. As a younger woman prone to bouts of joyless casual sex and crying jags, Kim has her own issues, too. Thus, the path is paved for an odd couple road trip, where comedy conflict and hard won mutual understanding is presumably en route…
It now becomes impossible to discuss the many marvels of Funny Story without driving smack bang into spoiler territory, so suffice to say at this point that I utterly loved Funny Story, and that it is funny, and sad, and wonderful. You’ll probably love it too, so go and treat yourself to a gloriously unspoiled viewing experience right now, and then come back to the rest of the review…
Of course, it turns out that the motel Walter and Kim stop at is all booked up due to a bike race, and of course after some initial discord (realised by ping-pong precision dialogue) the two bond over karaoke and tequila shots, and of course they then end up in bed for some fairly urgent drunken fumblings. You’ve done it again, Walter: except this time it’s personal, as it only turns out that Nic is gay, and lives on a lesbian commune, and that Kim is actually her fiancé whom she is due to marry in a ceremony which is mere days away - double yikes! Yes, it is awkward, as Kim and Walter essentially resolve to do what most people tend to in these situations, which is carry on as if nothing has happened (allowing tension to simmer to a third act boiling point). But it is also quite lovely too. Walter, unreconstructed but kindly, copes immediately with his daughter’s newly revealed sexuality, but still asks the sort of questions that straight people always do - "who is the man in the relationship?", etc. His well-meaning ignorance is mined for gentle humour, as is the lasting legacy of actor Walter’s appearance on a Xena style '90s telly actioner, a persona that has followed him ever since and here serves as a cute metaphor for his arrested development.
The truth has to out, though, with Walter weighing up just how to break his daughter’s heart: tell her what happened and lose her forever, or keep her sweet and allow the inauguration of a doomed marriage (let’s face it, Kim doesn’t seem very good at this whole being-a-lesbian game). Gallagher and Greene’s film is far too accomplished to offer any easy answers, and instead, through an incredible cast and the tender confidence of the script and film-making, proposes an authentic drama, a comedy which approaches originality in its unflinching but warm exploration of betrayal and broken bonds. By the bittersweet end, which sees our characters set adrift by the decisive events of the movie, you may not know whether to laugh or cry, but Funny Story will have passed the test of not only being a good movie, but one that is honest, thoughtful and moving too.
Funny Story premiered at Slamdance 2018. A release has yet to be announced.
Labels: By Benjamin Poole, First Look, New Releases
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Frischmann Surname Ancestry Results
Our indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'frischmann'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 7 records (displaying 1 to 7):
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Naturalizations (1899)
The Home Office issued monthly lists of aliens to whom Certificates of Naturalization or Readmission to British Nationality had been granted by the Secretary of State under the provisions of 33 Vic. cap. 14 and been registered in the Home Office pursuant to the act during each previous month. These notices, from January to December 1899, refer to naturalizations from December 1898 to November 1899.
FRISCHMANN. Cost: £4.00.
Manchester University Undergraduates (1921)
The Victoria University of Manchester Calendar for 1921-2 includes these lists of those then studying there, divided into two sections: I. Graduates and Research Students; II. Students Preparing for a Degree in this University. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname and christian name or initials.
Medical Practitioners in the Provinces (1926)
The Medical Directory was split into several sections. The Provinces section covered all medical practitioners resident in England outside the London postal district (except those in Monmouthsire, who were listed under Wales). Each year a schedule was sent to each doctor to be returned to the publishers, so as to keep the directory up to date. In the directory the doctor's name is given first, in bold, surname first, in capitals; then current address. Next are the qualifications; the italic abbreviations in parentheses following the qualifications indicate the medical school at which they were gained. Then there is a list of posts and honours within the profession, starting with those then current; previous posts are preceded by the word 'late'. Finally, brief details are given of any publications.
Boys at University College School (1901-1931)
In 1830 a school was set up adjoining the University and College of London on Gower Street; the school was enlarged from 1860 to 1876, and then removed to Frognal in 1907. In 1931 this register was published, listing all boys entering the school from Christmas term of 1859 to the summer entrants of 1931. The dates are abbreviated (98-01 = 1898-1901, &c.), each session being reckoned as beginning in September of one year and ending in the July of the next; the date of joining the school is indicated by the former, although it may fall in the latter, but the date of leaving by the latter, although it may fall in the former. Thus, if a boy came at any time during the Session 1863-64 and left any time during 1868-69, his date would be given 1863-69. The boys are listed alphabetically by surname, and then chronologically under each surname, full name being given where known. An asterisk * indicates that that particular boy lost his life in the Great War: in these cases, rank and regiment have been given where possible. Addresses as of 1931 are given where known. Italics in christian names or initials indicate that that particular boy was known, in 1931, to be dead. (a) (b) &c placed before christian names indicates brothers. In some cases occupation in later life is shown (A, artist; B, barrister; C A, chartered accountant; Ch, chemist; E, engineer; H C S, home civil service; I C S, Indian civil service; Med, physician or surgeon; M S E, member of the Stock Exchange; Mus, musician; Rev, minister of religion; S, solicitor). This is the index to those boys who were at the school in the period 1901 to 1931.
Doctors trained in Britain or Ireland but living abroad (1948)
The Medical Directory was split into several sections. The Practitioners Resident Abroad section covered all medical practitioners who, having qualified in Britain or Ireland, were living abroad. Each year a schedule was sent to each doctor to be returned to the publishers, so as to keep the directory up to date. In the directory the doctor's name is given first, in bold, surname first, in capitals; then current address. Next are the qualifications; the italic abbreviations in parentheses following the qualifications indicate the medical school at which they were gained. Then there is a list of posts and honours within the profession, starting with those then current; previous posts are preceded by the word 'late'. Finally, brief details are given of any publications. Inclusion of names in the list did not imply a right to practise in the country of residence.
British Dentists (1950)
The Dentists Register is the official register of British dental practitioners. For each dentist the original certificate number is given; name (surname first, in bold; in the case of married women, maiden name is also usually given); address (in italics); date of registration; and the qualification entitling registration, with any additional qualifications, with year and place of qualification. Many of the older dentists, already practising by 1921, were qualified by virtue of the Dentists Act of that year.
Graduate Structural Engineers (1953)
The Institution of Structural Engineers was founded in 1908 and incorporated by royal charter in 1934. The institution had nine branches in Britain and Northern Ireland, and one in South Africa. The 1953 year book includes this list of members corrected to 1 August 1953, giving year of election to the various grades, surname (in bold), christian name, honours, address, and telephone number. 'Graduates shall be students of structural engineering who have attained the age of not less than 21 years and have passed a qualifying examination.'
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Hey, hey, area tribute band, The Monkeephiles, observes golden anniversary of ‘Pre-fab Four’
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STORY WRITTEN BY BRIAN BINGAMAN
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Monkees, eastern Pennsylvania tribute band The Monkeephiles will play a free concert in Norristown Sept. 4 (the originally scheduled date in August was rained out).
“We’ve really lucked out with a few township amphitheater shows,” said Monkeephiles bassist Michael Kropp, a resident of Limerick. “The show is a real healthy mix of the hits you know — ‘Daydream Believer,’ ‘(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,’ ‘I’m a Believer,’ ‘Pleasant Valley Sunday … plus a fair amount of album tracks. It’s fun, it’s upbeat, it brings back good memories for people who (remember) The Monkees.”
Kropp, who first saw “The Monkees” TV show when it was in re-runs in the ‘70s, also mentioned the Micky Dolenz/Peter Tork duet “Words” and the minor 1968 hit “Tapioca Tundra” were in the two-part sets the band performed this summer in Catasaqua, Bethlehem and New Holland.
What: The Monkeephiles in concert.
When: 2 p.m. Sept. 4.
Where: Fire Chiefs Memorial Bandshell, Elmwood Park, 1325 Harding Blvd., Norristown.
Admission: Free. Don’t forget to bring your own seating.
The Monkeephiles formed two and a half years ago, with John Roginski on guitar and keyboards, Paul Venturi on percussion and keyboards (yes, he has the Davy Jones red maracas), drummer Ryan Fenton, and sometimes-guitarist Bill Shinn. Except for Kropp and Shinn, who lives in Ohio, the musicians hail from the Scranton area.
Their first show was at a 2014 Monkees convention, at which all the surviving Monkees, and one of their important hit songwriters, Bobby Hart, were special guests. Although Kropp is certain Dolenz, Tork and Mike Nesmith did not catch their performance, the band did get to pose for a photo with them. “Micky Dolenz walked across the room and said: ‘Hi, my name is Micky Dolenz, how are you? They couldn’t have been nicer,” Kropp recalled.
Nesmith reportedly liked the band’s T-shirts, an homage to the trademark brightly-colored matching shirts, with buttons on the chest in a rectangle pattern, that The Monkees wore on the TV series. Kropp added that those who loved the show will recognize the thick, horn-rimmed glasses that he wears while playing as a reference to Schneider, the resident dummy in the made-for-TV musical group’s apartment.
Although they don’t do any of the ‘80s or ‘90s Monkees songs, The Monkeephiles do play the recent single, “She Makes Me Laugh,” which was written by Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. Their repertoire also includes the fan favorites “Goin’ Down,” “Daily Nightly,” “The Door into Summer,” Nesmith’s “The Kind of Girl I Could Love” and “Sunny Girlfriend,” the Gerry Goffin/Carole King-penned “Porpoise Song” from the band’s trippy feature film “Head,” and even “Oh My My” and “It’s Got to be Love” from the 1970 album “Changes,” a time after the TV show had been canceled, Tork and Nesmith departed, and only Dolenz and Jones were left to carry on.
“It’s the music that hooked us all,” Kropp said.
The Monkeephiles are also scheduled to play a new festival event, sponsored by the Springfield Township (Delco) Library, in October, according to Kropp. Follow along at www.facebook.com/MONKEEPHILES.
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Register, Press Enterprise Sale: Out of the Tribune pot and into the Digital First fire
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Another dismal chapter in the tragic farce of Southern California newspaper journalism appears nearly over, as U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Mark Wallace Monday ruled that Freedom Communications—belly up for the second time in seven years—can sell the Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise to Digital First Media. Tribune Publishing, which owns the Los Angeles Times and San Diego’s UT, was the high bidder in the auction for the two papers, but it ignored the Department of Justice’s warnings that its acquisition of the Freedom titles would create an illegal monopoly in violation of federal anti-trust laws. Last week, Federal District ...
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Guest Post – Whisky Live Paris 2019 Part 1
October 26, 2019 /in Whisky Events /by Zerlina Zhuang
Editor’s Note: WhiskyGeeks has truly gone global with the help of our friends. Ezra Toh, a Singaporean who is currently studying in Edinburgh, agreed to represent WhiskyGeeks in Whisky Live Paris 2019. We are proud to have Ezra onboard with WhiskyGeeks to cover events happening in the other part of the world.
Ezra Toh (Guest Writer) and his friends pictured together with Serge and Dave Broom
Written by Ezra Toh
with input from 3 other whisky enthusiasts: Andreas Tassinari, Andrew Reid and Javin Chia.
According to the Scotch Whisky Association, France was the second-largest market by export value in 2018 (£442.1m). It edges out Singapore and beaten only by the US’ whopping £1,039.5m total. Hence it is no surprise that Whisky Live Paris is Europe’s largest whisky show and it not only attracts the French but international visitors too. This year saw a shift in venue to La Villette to accommodate the increasing numbers of visitors. With over 151 whiskies, rum and spirit booths, an additional 27 stands in the cocktail street and a host of masterclasses, the show was poised to impress.
Check out the queue!
Sunday 6 October 2019 – Whisky Live Paris
La Maison du Whisky Shop
The day started at 12.30 pm as visitors stormed the La Maison Boutique to grab the Chichibu Paris Edition 2019 and the Hampden Single Cask 7 years bottled for Whisky Live Paris. Visitors grabbed them in a matter of minutes! We were lucky to be able to get in the action at the shop to buy the bottles that we were after!
Below are some pictures of the various exclusive bottles available.
Whisky Live Paris Exclusive Bottles
After the stress of buying bottles among the crazed crowd, it was time for us to get to the fun part. With the promise of delicious whisky, we were looking forward to tasting them. In whisky shows, trying everything was impossible and blasphemous acts of pouring away and spitting out whisky was the norm to last the entire duration of the show.
Checking out the various Distilleries at WLP
Various booths at WhiskyLive Paris
Many distilleries took the chance to showcase their newest releases at Whisky Live. Some notable ones included the revamped Arran Range, Compass Box Myths and Legends 1, 2 and 3. We also found Glenfiddich Grand Cru, Kilchoman Vintage 2010 9 Years, Macallan Edition 5 and Ardbeg 19 Traigh Bhan. Some distilleries also pulled off the stops to ensure that their booth stood out. Some used attractive displays; others covered stalls with curtains to create an ambience. Yet others chose to showcase chocolate pairings. Eager enthusiasts swamped several brands throughout the day (i.e. Macallan, Kavalan, all the Islay distilleries, Blanton’s, Velier).
Kavalan Masterclass
Kavalan’s Master Blender – Ian Chang
We attended Kavalan Master Blender Ian Chang’s Masterclass to start our day. Dr Jim Swan was Ian’s mentor and the man who was instrumental in the conception of Kavalan. He explained the exciting process behind Kavalan’s maturation process of first creating a heated and high humidity environment to intensify the colour. Next, the distillery would open the warehouse windows in the winter months to cool the interior and allow for wood aromas to infuse into the whisky.
Ian came across as an exceptionally down to earth and unpretentious man during his presentation. He even went as far as to say that the 11-year oloroso sherry single cask for LMDW was a bit over-oaked and that he should have taken the whisky out earlier. He was right. You won’t usually see master distillers or blenders throwing shade on their whisky, but this honest opinion was incredibly refreshing to see and is a testament to the distillery’s efforts to always strive for quality.
The Whisky Line-up
The Whisky Line-up at Kavalan Masterclass
The line up for the Masterclass was interestingly made up of single casks bottled for LMDW.
Single Cask French Wine Cask 59.4%
Oloroso Sherry Cask Strength 58.6%
Single Cask Peaty Cask R071126052
It is interesting to taste various casks from Kavalan to see how these casks impact and influence the spirits of Kavalan. Having the chance to meet Ian Chang was memorable too!
Serge Valentin and Dave Broom Picks of Whisky Live Paris 2019
Serge Valentin (left) and Dave Broom (right)
It was an incredible opportunity to interact with what some would term the ‘stockbrokers’ of the whisky industry. Both Serge Valentin and Dave Broom reviewed whiskies using online platforms. Due to their heavyweight reputation in the industry, their scores for bottles are taken quite seriously, affecting the re-sale value or collectability. Technically, these scores should not define any whiskies for the whisky drinkers because tasting whisky is subjective. Nonetheless, the ratings are often, unfortunately, used by many to resell their bottles at much higher prices.
We thought it was terrific that LMDW invited both Serge and Dave to present their picks for Whisky Live Paris 2019. The mood was lighthearted on stage, with Dave jokingly saying that his choices were better than Serge. We found the tasting fun and fair as all attendees tasted the whiskies blind. We were also encouraged to guess the country of production, regions and distilleries through our blind tastings.
We tasted six bottles blind. Serge picked three expressions while Dave chose the other three. The three bottles by Serge were Highland Park 10, Ben Nevis 10 and Chichibu Pairs Edition 2019. Dave decided on Arran Sherry Cask (new release), Saint James Distillery Cuvee L’Essentiel 43% and Worthy Park 12 Years Old 2006 to 2018.
Blind tastings are always fun because you get a lot of different answers to the same question. For example, some attendees thought that Ben Nevis 10 was a Springbank due to its funky note. However, our friend, Javin Chia, is a Ben Nevis superfan and immediately identified it as Ben Nevis. His training as the distiller of Singapore’s first-ever whisky certainly did help too!
Chichibu Paris 2019 tasted almost Clynelish-like with waxiness lurking in the background. It has the fruitiness that we found in some modern Clynelish bottles, and it was a surprise to many that it was a Chichibu! Overall, the crowd had a balanced opinion of all the whisky. The Arran Sherry Cask, however, stood out for many, and it received slightly more votes than the others.
Closing for the Day
We enjoyed the day with all the whisky flowing freely for us. To conclude our day, we presented to you our picks for the day. Kindly note that they are in no particular order of merit.
Benriach 12
Years 2007 Cask 3242 for LMDW
Blanton’s 2019 64% for LMDW
Chichibu Paris Edition 2019
Compass Box Myths and Legends 2, 3
Kavalan Single Cask French Wine Cask 59.4% for LMDW
Kavalan Single Cask Peaty Cask R071126052 for LMDW
Last Caroni 23 Years 1996 61.9%
Loch Lomond Organic 17 Years
Monymusk 1995 Villa Paradisetto 24 Years Tropical Aged 67%
Port Askaig 10th Anniversary
Speyburn Single Cask 12 Years 52.5% for LMDW
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Educational Chat with James Cordiner, Brand Ambassador – Balvenie
October 19, 2019 /in Whisky Appreciation /by Zerlina Zhuang
James Cordiner with the Balvenie Core Range of Products
I always get lucky to represent WhiskyGeeks when a handsome, young man comes to Singapore. Allow me to introduce Mr James Cordiner, Brand Ambassador of Southeast Asia for Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky. James is not just another brand ambassador; he is the man after our hearts with his passion for whisky.
James is possibly the only brand ambassador that I have met so far to earn so many credentials in whisky production. He holds a General Certificate in Distilling, a distinction award in WSET 2 and is currently pursuing his Master Degree in Brewing and Distilling with Entrepreneurship at Heriot-Watt. He aims to complete the Master’s next year after his research project with William Grant and Sons.
Let’s hear more from the man himself.
Growing up in Speyside
James grew up in Speyside, Craigellachie, to be precise. As a young lad, he saw that the economy of the country revolves around the whisky industry. It was the biggest employer in Speyside, and naturally, most of his friends and neighbours have something to do with whisky. James was not interested in whisky because everyone else was. He wanted to be the best vet in Speyside, tending to the sheep and Highland coos.
However, fate tends to intervene.
When James came of age, he began to work in some of these distilleries during the summer as a tour guide. It was an excellent way to spend his summer, and he got to work with his friends. James also enjoyed all the interactions he had with the tourists. As he immersed himself in the world of whisky, James discovered that he loves to know more about whisky production. After university, James had a tough choice. He could put in another five years in Medicine and fulfilled his childhood dreams to be a vet, or he could put in just one year to complete a Master in Biomedical Science. He chose the latter.
During his time in university, James also began to work in Speyside whisky bars as a bartender. He also became the president of the whisky club. After graduation, he worked as a bartender for some months before joining Chivas Brother as a brand ambassador for the U.K.
In 2018, James decided to go back to school to obtain a Master’s degree in Brewing and Distilling. He wanted to add on to his knowledge on the technical part of whisky-making just so to satisfy his geeky side. He will complete the course once he finishes the research project that he will take on at William Grant and Sons in 2020.
How did James end up as the Balvenie Brand Ambassador?
Gemma Paterson, the Global Brand Ambassador of Balvenie, was at the Speyside Whisky Festival in May 2019, and James had a chance meeting with her. Their friendship goes way before this meeting, as Gemma knew James when he was working as a tour guide in Glenfiddich and also when he was working as a bartender for one of the whisky bars in Speyside. Gemma told him that there is a job for Balvenie and James naturally said YES! He went for the interview on Gemma’s recommendation and viola, here he is – the Southeast Asian Brand Ambassador for Balvenie!
Why be the Geek?
James is the perfect person to be geeky with. He has all the credentials to teach us more about whisky. First, however, we need to know why he is so in love with whisky production. James has always been quite a little explorer as a child. His ambition to be a vet led him to study science and chemistry. While his grades eventually did not manage to get him a place in the course he wanted, he pursued a course in research into Family Medicine. The knowledge helped him tremendously when he decided to switch his career plans. Due to the switch, James also decided to put in more efforts and time to study what he chose to do for the rest of his life. He is genuinely excited to commerce his research at William Grant and Sons to earn the Master’s degree!
Onwards to the Geeky Side of Things
The Balvenie Core Range of Products
I had to ask the one question that everyone likes to ask me: What is the most important part of whisky production?
James looked at me seriously and said, “Well, every part counts!” He explained that many of the distilleries do use the same type of barley, the same yeast from the same company, and yet produces different kinds of whisky. Therefore, it is the uniqueness of all the parts, adding together that makes a whisky special.
As a geek myself, I could stop myself asking for more details about the production process.
The Whisky-Making Process at Balvenie Distillery
Balvenie still has a traditional malting floor in which 10% of their barley is malted on-site. The remainder comes from professional malters. The malting process starts with two days of steeping the barley, before laying them on the floor for six days to germinate. Once the barley germinates, they go into the kiln for forty-two hours of drying. This malted barley then undergoes milling, and the end product is called grist.
The grist then goes into the mash tun. Each batch of mash uses 11.8 tonnes of milled barley. Mashing takes five and a half hours, with the first water at 68-degree Celcius, the second water at 75-degree Celcius, and the third water at 86 degree Celcius. At the end of the mashing process, the wort produced goes into the washbacks.
Balvenie has 15 washbacks that can hold 75,000 litres each. Fermentation takes place in the washbacks. However, the distillery only adds 53,000 litres of wort into each washback to aid fermentation and prevent overflowing. Two hundred sixty litres of yeast is added to the wort in the washback and left for 68 hours. After the fermentation is done, the wash is at 7-8% abv.
Next comes distillation. Balvenie has five wash stills and six spirits stills. The wash stills have a capacity of 9100 litres which the spirits stills hold 12,750 litres each. The total distillation hours are 15.5 – 16.5 hours. Balvenie takes the cut of the heart between 74% to 64% abv, pretty much like most other distilleries. Finally, 4250 litres of spirits will be obtained from the original 53,000 litres of wort.
It takes a total of 15 days to go from malting to distilling. Do note that Balvenie also has its cooperage.
Terroir: Opinion of a Speyside Lad
Does terroir affect whisky? James thinks that it does but in very minimally, especially when compared to wines. “Things like water source are important. [It is] not so much [about] the flavours of the water going in, but the chemical balances, especially the PH, which will affect the later process, such as the fermentation and mashing.”
James goes on to explain that the flavours of the whisky come mostly from the cask, making up about 60-70% of the influence. Of course, when the whisky gets older, the impact of the cask gets stronger. Therefore, it is not really about terroir when it comes to flavours, but terroir does play a part in the entire process of whisky-making.
We also began to talk about barley, and if different barley affects the flavours of the new-make spirits. James commented that most distilleries use the same type of barley that is commercially available. Therefore, it would be hard to say that barley affects the flavours by a significant percentage. Whisky undergoes distillation, and the chemical process changes the character of the new-make based on the time, temperature and technics of each distillery. Barley should not make a big difference to whisky. It would, however, make a difference to beer, but that’s for another day.
Is Older the Better? Musing from an Expert
The chat moved into the zone of whether older whiskies are better at this point, and I think we had it well covered.
“I’ve tasted a lot of old whiskies that are incredible. It depends on what flavours you like, so, as it gets older, it is going to get much more influence from the oak, tannins from the wood. I have a lot of people who tried the old whiskies, and they don’t like that sort of dryness from the oak itself. So it doesn’t mean that it is a better whisky. But [what] does tend to happen with age though, is sort of [the] mellowing out of the whisky, so you get the evaporation of the harsher alcohol and tends to become much smoother the older it is, which I think a lot of whisky connoisseurs and geeks really appreciate that sort of old woodly oakiness in the whisky.”
The Different Offerings of Balvenie
Balvenie DCS Selection
Since we were on the topic of older whiskies, we started talking about how Balvenie got everyone covered with their fantastic range of products. We get the core range of products from the Balvenie 12 Doublewood to the 21 Portwood for our daily drams and some exclusive cask strength whiskies for the occasions.
James then pulled out the big guns – the Balvenie DCS Selection. I do realise by now what a treat I was going to get, and I was trying very hard not to show my excitement. The DCS Selection that I tasted range from 1981 to 1985, with the youngest whisky being 30 years old.
After all four drams, I would rank them as such: 1985, 1984, 1981 and finally 1982. I love how each of them stands out on their own, with different characteristics but yet still showing the true Balvenie spirit. 1981, 1984 and 1985 are bourbon-matured while 1982 is sherry-matured.
Final Question: What is the most challenging thing you face when moving to Singapore?
I just had to ask this question because having just been back from Scotland; I know just how different Singapore is. James laughed and exclaimed, “The Weather!” He is truly a Scot to talk about the weather! James found the heat and humidity terrible to bear at first but he is slowly getting used to it. He will always miss the Scottish weather, but for now, he is ready to take on Southeast Asia to bring them more of Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
We really must take our hats off this guy!
All the best to you, James, and we will be seeing you soon!
http://www.whiskygeeks.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/James-Cordiner-with-bottles.jpg 600 800 Zerlina Zhuang http://www.whiskygeeks.sg/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/logo_WhiskyGeeks-300x138.png Zerlina Zhuang2019-10-19 11:01:452019-10-19 11:01:45Educational Chat with James Cordiner, Brand Ambassador - Balvenie
Balblair Distillery – True Highland Spirit
October 2, 2019 /in Whisky Distilleries /by Zerlina Zhuang
Credits: Balblair Distillery
Balblair distillery made it into the news recently for their change in packaging and labelling of their whiskies. Instead of vintages, the distillery decided to follow the conventional method of stating the age of the whisky on the bottle. It is a welcoming change for drinkers who are too lazy to count the years (like us)!
We wanted to see how things may change with the new packaging, and Lady Luck shines on us – SAMPLES! Our friend over at AsiaEuro kindly gave us some samples to try, and of course, we gladly took over. Who says no to whisky, right? Before we go into the tasting, let’s take a look at the history of the distillery.
History of Balblair Distillery
Balblair was founded in 1790 by John Ross in the Highlands of Scotland. As a Highland distillery, Balblair uses water from the Ault Dearg burn. Even though the distillery moved its location in 1895 when Charles C Doig rebuilt it, the water source remains unchanged to this day. It is important to note that water source for a distillery is crucial, and we applaud the efforts that Balblair takes to maintain the integrity of its water.
John ran Balblair from 1790 to 1824 singlehandedly as a striving business. Andrew Ross, his son, joined him at the distillery in 1824 and it remained in the Ross family for another 70 years. In 1894, Alexander Cowan took over the tenancy of Balblair distillery. The business remained as a small-scale distillery until 1948, when Robert Cumming bought it. Robert expanded the distillery and increased production and ran the bigger distillery until he retired in 1970.
By this time, Balblair is known as an excellent Highland single malt whisky producer, and it is no wonder that the distillery attracted buyers. When Robert Cumming retired, he sold Balblair to Hiram Walker. Finally, Walker sold it to Inver House Distillers Limited in 1996, where it remained till this day.
Whisky Production at Balblair
We do not get a lot of information on the actual whisky production methods at Balblair as the information is not available. Let’s move on to the tasting notes!
Credits: balblair.com
Balblair 12 Years Old
Nose: confectionary sweetness, lemon zest, sour mash
Palate: lemon zest, vanilla sponge cake, resin,
Finish: heather, resin, lemon zest, vanilla
*We did not add water to the 12 Years Old.
Nose: cookie dough, brioche, chocolate, cinnamon, black pepper and honey. With water, we get a hint of ginger too.
Palate: chocolate cinnamon honey and yellow pears. With water, there are more honey, cinnamon and black pepper.
Finish: vanilla citrus, cinnamon and milk chocolate. With water, we get dark chocolate, walnuts and marzipan.
Nose: hints of new magazines, cinnamon, milk chocolate, rich honey, vanilla sponge,
Palate: cinnamon, chocolate, brioche, walnuts, cashews, lemon zest, grapefruit zest
Finish: cinnamon, black pepper, lemon zest
Again, we did not add water to the 18 Years Old.
Our team was quite divided on our favourites after the tasting. Suffice to say, we enjoyed all three expressions, but the 15 Years Old did win the vote with a 2 out of 3. Have you tried these yet? What are your thoughts?
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Please note that we are currently updating our website to represent the results of the 2015 General Election, the newly elected MPs and their respective constituencies.
CONSTITUENCY OVERVIEW
CONTROLLING PARTYLabour
ELECTORATE75,694 voters
AREA18 sq. miles
Bury South is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Ivan Lewis of the Labour party.
The Bury South constituency has a total population of 98,391, of which 75,694 are eligible (18+) to vote (76.9%).
Bury South ranks 416th in a list of the largest constituencies in the UK (geographical size), and 273th in a list of the largest constituencies by population size.
Ivan Lewis
Ivan Lewis (born 4 March 1967) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South since 1997. Lewis was the initial Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in Ed Miliband's first shadow cabinet and held this post until October 2011 at which point he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. In the October 2013 Shadow Cabinet reshuffle he was moved to the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Lewis continually served in various government ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2001 to 2010. After the Labour Party lost the May 2010 General Election, he was subsequently elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010.
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Address Ivan Lewis MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Phone Number 020 7219 4272
Political Party Labour
Email Address ivanlewis@burysouth.fsnet.co.uk
Constituency Bury South
Date of Birth 04/03/1967
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ELECTION TURNOUT
Election turnout for the Bury South constituency in 2015 was 63.90%, lower than the average UK turnout at 66.1%.
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Glyn Heath Green Male - - http://bury.greenparty.org.uk/
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Paul Ankers Liberal Democrat Male 03 August 1976 (44) - http://burylibdems.mycouncillor.org.uk/
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Valerie Morris English Democrats Female - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-english-democrats http://www.englishdemocratsnw.org/
Scottish National Plaid Cymru
2005 GENERAL ELECTION WINNERS
VOTE COUNTS
BNP 1,743 3.6%
Conservative 16,216 33.6%
ED 494 1%
Green 493 1%
Labour 19,508 40.4%
Liberal-Democrat 8,796 18.2%
UK-Independence-Party 1,017 2.1%
Electorate 73,544
Votes 48,267
Turnout 65.6%
Conservative Wiseman, Michelle
Labour Lewis, Ivan
Liberal Democrat D'Albert, Vic
Green Heron, George
BNP Purdy, Jean
UKIP Chadwick, Paul
Election turnout for the Bury South constituency in 2010 was 65.6%, higher than the average UK turnout at 65.1%.
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Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt recommends mercy plea rejection
Wednesday - January 15, 2020 4:30 pm , Category : INDIA
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Delhi government has recommended rejection of the mercy petition of one of Nirbhaya case convicts in its communication with the Lt. Governor, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Wednesday.
Sisodia told media that a new mercy petition was filed by a convict in the case.
"We have worked at lightning speed and have already forwarded the file to the Lt. Governor. There will be no delay from our side," he said.
He clarified that the government has recommended rejection of the mercy plea.
Mukesh, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging the death warrant issued against him.
On January 7, A Delhi Delhi court issued death warrants against all four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape-murder case.
Issuing the death warrants, Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora directed that the convicts be hanged on January 22 at 7 a.m.
The 23-year-old woman was gangraped and tortured on December 16, 2012, which led to her death.
All the six accused were arrested and charged with sexual assault and murder. One of the accused was a minor and appeared before a juvenile justice court, while another accused committed suicide in Tihar Jail.
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Dosimetric Properties of the Carbon Fiber Couch
Mr. George Andl
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM
Boggs Building, Room 3-47 (3rd Floor)
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By default, radiation treatment planning systems fail to account for the patient immobilization/support devices during dose calculation. If the radiation enters these devices before striking the patient then these devices may attenuate the radiation and increase skin dose. Historically this has not been a large concern. However, the use of modern carbon fiber materials has renewed attention to this matter. For example, the creation of AAPM Task Group 176. After a brief review of the history of radiation therapy patient support materials, discuss how to mitigate or account for carbon fiber materials.
George Andl received his MS degree in medical physics from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. George has characterized a wide range of linear accelerators and cobalt units for radiation treatment planning systems. His work includes DICOM connection/configuration to CT scanners, Virtual Simulation and Dose Comparison Systems and support for software product requirements, hazard analysis, code prototypes, and software validation.
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<big style="font-variant:small-caps;">'''Welcome to X-Factor!'''</big>
We are a text-based, real time roleplaying game set in a futuristic version of Marvel's X-Men Universe. We run on PennMUSH and use Faraday's FS3 system.
We are a text-based, real time roleplaying game set in a futuristic version of Marvel's X-Men Universe. We run on PennMUSH and use [http://lynnfaraday.github.io/MUSH/fs3/ Faraday's FS3 system].
The year is 2045. Advancing technology has given us aircars, interactive holodisplays, and medigel. There are over 200,000 mutants in New York City alone.
The year is 2045. Advancing [[technology]] has given us aircars, interactive holodisplays, and medigel. There are over 200,000 mutants in [[New York City]] alone.
Public opinion and public policy has turned steadily against mutant-kind, but that doesn't mean they don't need what they have to offer. A group of mutants with abilities and experience across the map make up X-Factor Solutions, a company that hires out their mutant abilities to anyone willing to pay.
Public opinion and public policy has turned steadily against [[mutants|mutant-kind]], but that doesn't mean they don't need what they have to offer. A group of mutants with abilities and experiences across the map make up [[X-Factor Solutions]], a company that hires out their mutant abilities to anyone willing to pay.
They'll solve almost any problem, for the right price.
Welcome to X-Factor!
Public opinion and public policy has turned steadily against mutant-kind, but that doesn't mean they don't need what they have to offer. A group of mutants with abilities and experiences across the map make up X-Factor Solutions, a company that hires out their mutant abilities to anyone willing to pay.
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Ex-Ghost Members Seek New Trial, Accuse Tobias Forge + Judge of Having Freemason Ties
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Four former members of Ghost are seeking a new trial in the wake their failed lawsuit against Tobias Forge, the mastermind behind the band. The musicians are alleging that the judge in the initial case had a conflict of interest as both he and Forge are members of the Swedish Order of Freemasons.
Attorney Michael Berg, who represents the former members, has appealed for a new trial on behalf of his clients, arguing that Henrik Ibold, who was the judge during the district court trial, was "being disloyal," according to the Swedish language news outlet NT.se.
"For Henrik Ibold, it must almost have been impossible to objectively and impartially assess the probative value of the information that Tobias Forge has left," Berg said in the filing.
When contacted by NT.se, Ibold denied having prior knowledge that Forge was a Freemason, saying, "I did not know he was a member of the Freemasonry Order. On the other hand, I had heard some rumors that it could be so."
Back in 2017, four musicians who played the part of the "nameless ghouls" came forward to reveal their identities while filing suit against Forge, who was forced to reveal his identity under the Papa Emeritus visage. Guitarists Simon Soderberg and Henrik Palm, drummer Martin Hjertstedt and keyboardist Mauro Rubino sued for SEK 200,000 (approximately $22,000) in unpaid compensation. Following a six-day trial in Sweden, the court ruled in favor of Forge, forcing the ex-Ghost musicians to pay the frontman’s legal fees, totaling SEK 1.3 million (approximately $145,000).
Ghost are currently on a North American tour in support of their latest LP, Prequelle, which came out this past June. Tonight (Nov. 29) they play Mobile, Ala. at the Saenger Theater Mobile. To see the full list of upcoming dates, head over to this location.
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Womens Hoops Bedlam Tonight In Stillwater
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There will be Bedlam tonight on the historic white maple floor of Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater. The OU and OSU womens basketball teams will meet in Big 12 action. The Cowgirls are 10-3 overall and 1-0 in the conference while the Sooners are 7-6 and 0-1.
OSU's outstanding forward Natasha Mack is the national player of the week for her performances in a couple of games last week, including Saturday's 25-point, 20-rebound, 9-block game against previously undefeated Kansas.
Also in Morning Sports we hear from Thunder coach Billy Donovan about Chris Paul leading OKC to another come-from-behind win. The Thunder beat the Brooklyn Nets 111-103 in overtime last night after trailing by as many as seven points.
OSU mens basketball coach Mike Boynton says he thinks his guys played good enough on the defensive end to have beaten West Virginia on Monday but scoring only 41 points themselves won't get the Cowboys any wins in the Big 12. We hear what Boynton had to say and why he's confident going forward.
All that and more in today's Morning Sports...
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Showing Appreciation to the Nation's Wounded Warriors
Marine Corps News | By Cpl. Ricardo Hurtado, Marine Expeditionary Force
PALO ALTO, California -- Marines with Recruiting Station San Francisco and sailors from Navy Recruiting Command San Francisco visited wounded servicemembers at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 7.
As part of San Francisco Fleet Week 2014, active-duty sea servicemembers visit the wounded warriors to express their appreciation and support for their comrades.
SFFW14 focuses on interoperability training between civil and military agencies to improve cooperation and coordination, as well as increase readiness through a range of humanitarian assistance operations.
The Marines and sailors were able to speak and spend time with the patients while imparting them with words of support and enthusiasm. The visit served as a way to show wounded warriors that their brothers and sisters in arms still remember and care for them.
"When a patient is here with their family they tend to recover better, their morale is higher," said James Brown, and volunteer and event coordinator for the VA. "It's the same when they see the support from the community and especially from members of the military in uniform."
The visit reminded wounded warriors that they are still part of a big military family.
"When a wounded Marine, soldier, airman or sailor is visited by a uniformed servicemember, it reminds them that they are not forgotten," said Brown.
With no large military presence in the area, the patients of the VA Hospital find it comforting when being visited by their comrades.
"There is no large military base here such as Camp Pendleton or Camp Lejeune, so when men and women in uniform come out to visit; it does wonders to their healthcare and their morale," said Brown.
Marine Sgt. George Puryear, a patient of the hospital said the visit of other military personnel is a morale booster.
"It's just good to know that you have other people that support and are thinking about you," said Puryear, who was injured in Afghanistan while serving as an explosive ordnance disposal technician. He also added, events like these make it easier to deal with his recovery.
"It enables you to go day-by-day and get through the day with all the therapies and everything," said Puryear. "Sometimes things could get monotonous, so it's good to have someone there to break it up."
As for the remaining schedule for Fleet Week, Marines and sailors continue to showcase their military capabilities while developing humanitarian aid and crisis response practices with local, state and federal agencies.
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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Trailer: Bustin’ Still Makes Us Feel Good
[Extreme Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters II voice] “We’re back!”
Yes, the Ghostbusters — the original franchise, not the all-female reboot from a few years ago — is back, although their appearances in the new trailer are limited to some familiar costumes, props and one recycled line from Bill Murray from the first film about destiny and karma. Instead, a new cast, primarily a single mom and her two kids, gotta gotta gotta take control, when they inherit an old farmhouse and find it stocked with old ghost busting artifacts.
Watch the full trailer here:
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman, comes the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind. The film is written by Jason Reitman & Gil Kenan.
The mood of reverence and awe at the old Ghostbusters stuff is basically the exact opposite of the original film, was all about how the characters were schlubs and weirdos who constantly cracked jokes. Still, pretty cool to see a new batch of spores, mold, and fungus! Ghostbusters: Afterlife opens in theaters on July 10, 2020.
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Source: ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Trailer: Bustin’ Still Makes Us Feel Good
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Live blog: Google co-founder, Google[X] leader Sergey Brin at Code Conference
Mark Gurman
- May. 27th 2014 6:31 pm PT
We’re live on the scene at the Code Conference, and now that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has finished up his interview and demonstration, Google co-founder and Google[X] leader Sergey Brin has entered the hot seat. Re/code’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher are interviewing Brin, and you can find our live updates from the interview below:
– Starting up shortly.
– Brin talking about taking research and bringing it to life. Started with search a decade ago, now onto Google[X].
– Brin says Google has many services, and responsibility for people’s data. At the same time, Google is associated negatively with social phenomenon’s worldwide.
– Brin on how to handle governments (China, U.S. etc): Brin says Google reorganized its business in China to not be affected by the country’s censorship laws. Brin says that the Snowden revelations were a huge disappointment to him personally and the world as a whole. To Brin’s perspective, the NSA spying during the Cold War was designed to protect the U.S. from attacks. He says that in the recent decade or two, counter-terrorism is very different. Brin says Google was upping all of its defenses for years prior to these revelations. Brin says that there is always more Google to do, Google has a 1000 people group working on internet security. They are very, very talented. On a policy front, the revelations have raised a lot of good policy questions.
– Brin: Yes, there is a lot of data that we process and store (for instance to enable email and web search). There are many precautions internal to Google blocking who can and cannot access certain systems and data to prevent any kind of abuse. The trust that people have in Google is very important to Google.
– Brin: We’re not perfect, but if someone roamed into our emails, executive team meetings, you would see how important privacy is to us.
– What does Brin do all day? He really loves his work at Google[X], brings him back to his roots. Brin is not CEO “very much by his choice.” Worked in GoogleX for three years. They are currently working on 8 projects and Brin does not allow new projects until the ones are “graduated.” Google X has the balloons WiFi project, indoor mapping, Google Glass (not waterproof “yet,” still in the explorer phase).
– Brin: Google Glass will be a commercial project this year… “plus or minus.”
– Google announces fully self-driving car, no steering wheel/pedals etc, Kara took it for a spin last week in a Mountain View parking lot. In prototype stage. Google has not had any crashes. Google tests these things very carefully. Steering and brakes are redundant. Software and sensors designed to avoid collisions, but nothing is perfect. There are laws of physics, Brin says. Cars have “plastic-like” glass that crushes in and 2 feet of foam padding to make the cars far safer for pedestrian protection. Google plans to build 100-200 prototypes. Car is electric. Kara: it felt like a ride, in a weird way.
– Kara: do you want to sell cars? Brin: We worked with partners to build these prototypes and we expect to work with partners in the future. Brin says people will start to see these driving around soon, but they are still in early development. Brin says cars being “broadly available” is far away. Brin says they will be testing by the end of the year. Within a couple of years, Brin hopes to surpass the safety metrics of a human driver. They will go into testing without drivers in some limited city. Brin hopes there will be no regulator problems.
– Brin says Glucose measuring contact lenses is one of the most exciting Google[x] project. Engineer from Google Glass team had passion for this.
– Kara: why is Google doing all of this? Is it to satisfy Brin’s curiosity and the team’s? Or will these be real products. Brin says it is important for companies in general to try to do new things. That’s how new things happen.
– Brin: Android project was going on a long time before Apple announced the iPhone.
– Brin: Meet with Larry regularly, does participate in broader company issues.
– Walt: What do you think of the patent system? Brin says that Google does patent “quite a bit,” particularly in Hardware. Brin thinks that the patent system could be improved greatly, but it is what it is. Brin would shorten the amount of time that patents are valid. Brin thinks that patents must be in use in order for it to be valid.
– Brin says that if there are notable competitors to what GoogleX is doing, than it is not an idea worth GoogleX pursuing. Brin is not interested in doing things that are done by many other people.
– Brin: “I am probably the worst person to speak about social.” Brin says he posts a bit to Google+, but he does not connect with a lot of people. It was probably a mistake for Brin to do anything related to social himself. But Brin thinks Google should be involved in social (particularly with pictures).
– Brin: Glass getting feature where pictures automatically transfer to connected smartphone.
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Communique on the three day arsonist rampage (Athens-Thessaloniki, 2-3-4/11/2008)
The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claims responsibility for the arsonist rampage that took place from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon in Athens and Thessaloniki. Namely, in Athens, we set on fire a military jeep of the Nave at Halandri (something the cops hidden out), vehicles of the navy in the entrance of the building of Naval Command on Klafthmonos square, the company of digital systems ACE HELLAS at Agia Paraskevi that cooperates with the greek army, the club of retired army officers on Halkokondyli street, the union of retired army officers on Harilaou Trikoupi and Akadimias street corner, the political office of the minister of national defence Vaggelis Meimarakis.
In Thessaloniki we set on fire the club of reserve officers of the Armed Forces at Evosmos, a military private school on Margariti street and an ATM of Geniki Bank that cooperates with the army, at Kalamaria.
We also take responsibility for the attack at the military courthouse at Rouf on Tuesday October 28.
POLEMIC OF ECONOMY
In our era, as always, the military branch of every state consists an indivisible part of the development of its geo-political and economic interests. Conducting wars is an inevitable outcome of the intense economic crises of the capitalist system. A typical example of this condition was the exponential growth of the war industry in the beginnings of the 20th century and the economic crash of 1929 at the USA, accompanied with a long-term crisis of the world market, facts that contributed to the process of the first and the second world war, respectively. Military operations and management of the economic interests are an all-time, all-state direct relation in the route of human history.
From the NATO bases in european ground, to the “pacificatory” interventions in the middle East, army has the role of an essential force to maintain and expand the economic interests of the western states. To feed the machinery of war and the war industry it is needed to keep social peace inside the mitropoles of the western states. War and peace, two different faces, two different expressions of the capitalist dominion.
MILITARY-POLICE COMPLEX
When, a few decades ago capitalism was less stylish and more unconcealed there was some class resistance. Since even the most pittyful man when deprived of the nothing he posseses and considers of his own, in his face, fights with teeth and claws. To tame him back, and take out his eye teeth, the capitalist think tanks, came with the idea of the providence state. Social care, public medical care and supplies, retirement plans, popular politics, benefits and whatever could tame the “disordered” proletariat.
Simultaneously the hard machinery, the back bone of repression, police and military, developed though without being able to relief their “vulgar” past. In Greece they remained as social figures to the popular sense as the copper and the junta pig. One after another face-lifts, they are trying to get closer to the citizen. The gendarmerie and the city police got united and military service reduced, but in the mean time a new military-police complex appeared in the streets of the metropolis, the well known MAT and MEA (note: greek riot police units). In the midst of the 90es in during their second half, bosses and the state, are almost reassured that the workers do not pose a threat to the system anymore. The new religion of individualist-idiocy is established for good inside the heads of the new class of petit-owners, dissolving every imaginary workers front – That’s for good, since illusions come always with a bitter taste in the end. The steam engine of neo-liberalism is motivated with a fast tempo and the “popular” politics is replaced by privatization. Thus the state becomes from a wild animal tamer to a mere appartment building manager, having every lodger as proprietor, working together for their “common” interest. But, what guarantees the existant isn’t just the wilful servitude of the individual idiots. The state enriched with the experience of the past will always have a place for the iron whip of repression, since the carrot has convinced the proletarians and the coach is being draught, it can now reinforce its guards.
Today the state is militarized, by this time it “wears” plain clothes. The memory of an army causing coup-d-etats has now given its place to a new and improved image of professional greek army with mercenaries with shinny smiles. Besides, after September 11, militarization of the western world responds to the currency of a social demand for safety. Where the threat of islamic terrorism doesn’t convince enough to legalize socialy the descend of the army in the metropoles, then the issue of illegal immigration or of the criminality of the immigrants will be enroled, as in Greece. The application of the border guard patrol in the borderline isn’t random, and it corresponds to the best image of what we call military-police complex.
The army meets society not anymore in terms of repression, but to accompany it in its decadence, becoming from the drudgery of yesterday, the professional career of today. Military service is democratized, reduces, given as a right to woman to participate, police and military schools are a first class option, the old obedience process, as a method to subordinate the youth is useless anymore, since youth are already subordinated to the internet, tv, mobile phones…
So the army changes its face and becomes more dangerous. Besides an unwieldy army, with illiterate servicemen, heavy duties and pack drills, as well as a police with fat ass cops, doesn’t correspond to the new aesthetic order and even more to the modern standards.
Professional militarism means smooth image, specialization, education, high tech systems, sence of safety on the citizen’s side.
It is a new proposal for life. So, the “pacificatory” missions of the greek army with the humanitarian aid, of rapes, pillaging, arms, drugs and women trafficking, beyond the vast economic benefits for the state is translated by the mercenaries participating as an extreme sport, something that, beyond the money they are paid for, can take pride in. The army is marching today beyond the state borders to establish the murderous peace of the bosses, the lawful proprietors, the silent majority and in the same time getting ready to defend this same peace inside the metropoles, by any means. This is why the military-police complex lurks incognito having signed contacts of strategic importance. It isn’t by accident that the ministry of public order became sub-ministry under the protective shield of the ministry of domestic affairs, while the place of the “field marshal” Polydoras was taken by a genuine army man, and ex chief of the general commandment of the army Hinofotis (recently our cells in Thessaloniki “saluted” the new minister, setting on fire the police station on Dodekanisou street.
SUICIDE IN SLOW MOTION
The army creates conditions where the individual isn’t allowed to think as an individual, but as a wheel of the coach, as a stone of the building, a part of a complex. The existance of the individual is planned to be transformed into existance of the complex with a way that the complex would overcome in value the ego. A culture of annihilation of the self is cultivated, pulveriation of the ego, inforced by the screams of the superior, the pack drills, and the drudgery. In this culture, people that possibly had never developed a critic to the army (neither positive nor negative), people without personal will, unable to make decisions without someones advice, suffocate and drawn inside themselves. People that never cared of any nation, or did that with light heart, the army destroys their personal substanc
e in such a degree, sinks their ego so low they lose every personal desire, they are carried with a surgeon’s accuracy to suicide. It is childisness to consider responsible only the pack drill or the officer screaming brutally. The army is responsible, with its uniformity, obedience, national absorbsion, fanatism, turns humans into dispensable units of subgroups.
Some of them desert towards death, undersigning a swan song of egoism, that isn’t enough for enything: I define my self absolutely, at least in suicide. This act may seem as the most ideal solution, as a last shelter for human dignity.
How ironic: the desire the explore the ego happens simultaneously with its total loss.
DOMESTIC HOSTILITIES
ON THE OTHER SIDE, WE SELECT TO ENLIST ANOTHER CAMP. THE CAMP OF REVOLUTION. WE SERVE THE DUTIES OF NEGATION AND CREATE MILITARY FACTIONS OF CHAOS. WE DON’T NEED THE DISCIPLINE OF AUTHORITY BECAUSE WE HAVE SELF-DISCIPLINE IN THE PROJECTS OF THE NIGHT. IN THE CAMP OF NEGATION AND DISOBEDIENCE WE FIND ON OUR SIDE OTHER COMRADES THAT SELECTED TO PAINT THEMSELVES IN THE COLORS OF WAR, WITH THEIR OWN WAYS.
WE DEDICATE THIS FIRE RAMPAGE, AS AN ACT OF WAR, TO THE FUGITIVE COMRADES DIMITRA SYRIANOU, KOSTAS HALAZAS, ILIAS NIKOLAOU. LASTLY, WE DON’T FORGET THE COMRADE GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS, WHO IS STILL KEPT CAPTIVE BY THE ENEMY.
PS. We send our signal of fire to the prisoners started a prison food strike since Monday 3 November.
NOTHING IS OVER-THE BATTLES RAGE-WE SEEK FOR ACCOMPLISHES
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire ATHENS-THESSALONIKI
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2020 Fight For Air Climb
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Spotlist Wants to be the Next On-Demand Service Platform
Arriana McLymore
Photo Credit: Jae Pesante, founder of Spotlist, Inc.
If you want groceries delivered to your door, you might choose between Amazon Fresh or Instacart. If you want to book a last-minute appointment with a beautician or a makeup artist, you might turn to StyleSeat. Spotlist, Inc. wants to be the one-stop-shop for various kinds of services so that customers never have to leave the house for their needs.
The on-demand New Jersey-based platform is set to provide services across industries whether customers are in need of a makeover, a new hairdo, deliveries, or in-home massage.
Spotlist, Inc., founder and CEO, Jae Pesante began developing her idea for the company while caring for her father, who was healing from surgery.
“I always tell people that Spotlist wasn’t a company I came up with sitting around thinking of a way to make money. My father suffers from heart disease, and after his defibrillator surgery, he couldn’t drive,” Pesante said. “He told me that he wished he could have someone to service him at home.”
Spotlist allows users to schedule appointments with beauticians, makeup artists and massage therapists. Customers can filter through the services by price and location.
Before trying her hand in the tech space, Pesante ran her own boutique marketing agency Fashion Entertainment Media LLC (F.E.M). As she continued to work on Spotlist, Pesante hit many roadblocks with potential investors.
“Before my demo was complete, I had five investment offers; however, one investor sexually harassed me and a financial advisor of another investor was professionally inappropriate,” Pesante said. “I dismissed both offers.”
She said that her story isn’t rare and that it can be difficult for women like her to be taken seriously as startup founders.
“I was offered 300k and $2.5 million, but how I become successful matters to me,” Pesante said. “Thankfully, I have a team that respects it.”
Pesante said the best thing upcoming entrepreneurs can do for themselves is to protect their ideas and stay prepared.
“Keep your business and plans to yourself until you’ve reached a point of launching. Every investor or person we introduced the platform to signed our Non-Disclosure/Non-Compete,” Pesante said. “I never shared my investment deck or business plan. Everything was presented in person except our general overview of the platform.”
Pesante said she researched for nearly eight months before creating a business plan and that she plans for the unexpected.
“It’s important to prepare everything based on worst-case scenarios and ‘what if’s’ because investors will find every reason [that the company] won’t work,” Pesante said.
One of her biggest goals for Spotlist — which is set to release in 2020– is for it to become a global company that will help communities nationwide.
As she expands, Pesante plans to create a non-profit arm of the business to teach people about financial independence.
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The Girl and the Fox (2011)
6min | Animation, Short, Drama | 2011 (USA)
A young girl must track a mysterious fox through a foreboding wilderness.
Tyler Kupferer (as Tyler J. Kupferer)
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Title: The Girl and the Fox (2011)
4 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards »
Animation | Short | Drama | Fantasy
2011 (USA) See more »
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Featured in season one of Film School Shorts (2013), {Strange Bedfellows (#110)}_. See more »
one of the best animated shorts of 2011
20 January 2012 | by walter-574-669124 – See all my reviews
A great combination of beautiful artwork, flowing animation and touching (though not maudlin) sentiment!
Unlike many recent animated shorts that attempt to convey a meaningful and philosophical message (but do so perfunctorily and with no true soul or insight), "The Girl and the Fox" contains true emotion. Perhaps humans are not truly as brave and decent as the the girl character, but it is refreshing to see a film that dwells on the idea that we can make positive, self sacrificing choices in life.
Through subtly nuanced facial expressions, the characters convey great emotion and connect powerfully with the viewer.
The film is paced extremely well, with none of the "boring patches" that plague most films, and the motion of the animation is exemplary. The drawings contain exquisitely graceful lines and the characters move with masterful timing. This film will most likely be overshadowed in the Oscars, Annies (and other awards) by predictable, uninspired Pixar and Disney drivel (like "La Luna" and "Ballad of Nessie") but is far superior.
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"RA-RA! AH-AH-AH! ROMA-ROMA-MA! GAGA-OOH-LALA! Want your Bad Romance!"
"Bad Romance" is a 2009 song by Lady Gaga. It was part of her album The Fame Monster and was released as a single in 2009. The video is around five minutes long, and you can see it here. It's also got a (heavily spammed) view count of over 400 million and is jam-packed with elements of Mind Screw taken Up to Eleven. Which is hardly unexpected, considering who sang it.
The music video has won 7 Video Music Awards (Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Female Video, Best Dance Music Video, Best Choreography, Best Direction and Best Editing).
Tropes used in "Bad Romance" include:
Ascetic Aesthetic
Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Implied.
Between My Legs
Black Bra and Panties
Celebrity Endorsement:
The video for "Bad Romance" features a man using a Wii remote to sell Lady Gaga as a prostitute.
Also, her "Heartbeats" headphones which are part of Dr Dre's "Beats" collection, as well as the Beats Edition HP Envy 15 laptops, both featured prominently in the same video.
The laptops were the scoreboard for the whore auction.
Creepy Cleanliness
Creepy Cool Crosses: One outfit in the video features a glass cross over her crotch; in the shot after the one that outfit appears in, she also stops dancing to do the sign of the cross.
Double Entendre: "Want you in my rear window", anyone?
Force Feeding: Gaga gets force-fed a glass of some beverage.
Gratuitous French
Light Is Not Good: White walls and furnishings, bright lighting, lots of white and/or sparkly costumes, and the plot involves slavery and murder.
Making a Spectacle of Yourself
Male Gaze: The video takes a lot of common uses of Male Gaze in music videos and puts them in a nightmarish context.
Mad Love: The theme of the song.
Mind Screw: Oh, God...
Out with a Bang: Implied by the ending, though it could be a case of Out With A Striptease.
Playing to The Fetishes: Watch the video and count the fetishes as they come up. Latex, non-con, white slavery...and the robot-fetishist crowd were very happy with a lot of her movements.
Refuge in Audacity
Right-Hand-Cat
She Cleans Up Nicely: Inverted, as she appears in some scenes without any elaborate outfits or makeup, and is still pleasing to the eye.
Shout-Out:
To Alfred Hitchcock, but...in a somewhat unusual way.
I want your Psycho, your Vertigo shtick,
Want you in my Rear Window, baby you're sick.
Apparently the Bad Romance-universe has adopted Pokedollars as their form of currency.
The symbol shown in the video is identical to an unofficial sign for the Russian rouble developed by a group of Russian graphic designers.
The opening shot of Gaga's Bathhaus is reminiscent of the scene in Aliens where the Marines awake from the pods.
And the body-bags from Firefly.
Or even the torpedo casings that Starfleet uses as coffins for fallen members.
Speaking of the opening, the pods themselves have red text over a white background and a gratuitous cross slapped on them. Anyone else thinking NGE?
The opening shot looks like a mash-up of Stanley Kubrick films. The bright glowing floors are highly reminiscent of the bedroom at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the pose looks like an inversion of the opening shot of A Clockwork Orange and the masks almost look like the ones worn during the cult orgy in Eyes Wide Shut.
When watching the claw-handed Gaga groupies' crowned suits, is anyone else reminded of Max's costume and gestures from Where the Wild Things Are ?
The costumes were supposedly based on the pattern from the movie.
The dancers in white, with their covered faces and jerky movements are a Shout-Out to the Silent Hill nurses.
Signature Song
Single Tear: Cut aways during the music video show a surpisingly low-key (in terms of make-up, anyway) Gaga becoming increasingly more upset. The camera is close to her face, and a single tear slides down her cheek near the end of the video.
Smoking Hot Sex: Well, Smoking Hot sex-turned-fiery death..
Visual Pun: At the word "bitch" in the first "I'm a free bitch, baby", the camera cuts to the Right-Hand-Cat.
What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: A lot of it certainly looks like it could be symbolic of something, but it's too much of a Mind Screw to be sure.
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Trope, Pages with broken file links, Video Game Settings,
Sublime Rhyme
Band Land
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Some video games contain surreal, whimsical settings for no particular reason. Apparently, one such setting type is far more common than you might expect. Quite a few video games have levels or other areas that are music-themed. No, we're not talking about an Unexpected Gameplay Change to a Rhythm Game here. (There might be a music-themed Mini Game or three, but that's not the whole point of the place.)
These levels make you "face the music" in a more literal fashion. They're made of musical instruments, sheet music, or (somehow) music itself, often of giant scale. You might get blasted out of a huge trumpet, walk gingerly along a giant keyboard, or slide down a musical score. Often, moving around and interacting with your surroundings will "play" at least a few of the instruments. If the level designer is feeling especially playful, the background music itself may even be affected by what you do in the level. As these settings tend to be light and comical, they're sometimes used to indicate a Breather Level. But don't count on it.
Compare Disco Tech.
Examples of Band Land include:
Yellow Submarine: Pepperland.
Aero the Acro Bat 2 had Disco Fever.
The music levels of Bubsy II
The Trope Namer is Band Land from Rayman.
Rayman Origins resurrects it as the Desert of Didgeridoos, which combines Band Land with a side-order of Shifting Sand Land and a little bit of Gusty Glade.
Planet Sonata in Ristar, which, as its name suggests, is made out of musical instruments and more abstract representations of music. The first stage of the planet even has you rebuilding the background music, bar by bar.
Stardust Speedway in Sonic CD, which looks like a giant brass instrument.
Music Plant in Sonic Advance 2.
Musical Town, the sixth level of Sparkster (SNES).
Squidward's Dream in SpongeBob SquarePants Battle For Bikini Bottom. In no way a breather level.
Super Monkey Ball. Advanced Floor 11 is about rolling your ball on the strings of a giant guitar. It's definitely not a Breather Level.
Advanced Floor 18 is a downhill ramp in the shape of a treble clef, where you start in the middle of the spiral part and have to chase down the goals, which have a small head start and ski down the ramp.
How about an entire game made of this trope? The obscure Sega 32X game Tempo comes about as close as one can get to that: although the levels are quite varied, they all have some sort of musical motif.
Another whole Band Land game: Brutal Legend.
An area of Toontown Online, "Minnie's Melodyland", features whimsical musical-themed fun.
Slightly-obscure platformer Vexx has a sub-level inside one of the worlds composed of nothing but floating musical instruments. You get there by jumping inside a giant piano. No, it doesn't make any sense.
The first level of Wayne's World(SNES), set in a music shop full of various homicidal instruments.
The second level of World of Illusion (mostly a sky-plus-mountaintops level) has segments that take place on giant keyboards suspended in space where stepping on each key generates a musical note that randomly changes into an item or a bomb.
The second level of Zool has a general music theme, with not only musical instruments but also stereo equipment.
This is probably the best term for where Eternal Sonata is set, though a lot of it's a matter of Theme Naming.
The 'Sixties' theme in the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 expansion Time Twister includes lots of parts for building this kind of theme park.
In Megaman Battle Network 3, Mayl's home page has a background with part of a detailed musical piece.
The first level of Parasol Stars features instruments as enemies, with a matching boss.
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, a section of the Cloudy Court Galaxy has drums and a cymbal that you can jump on.
Mario Party DS has Toadette's Music Room, which is...yeah.
Melody Town in Kirbys Epic Yarn.
In Purple, you will occasionally have to pass through colorful corridors inhabited by flying deadly instruments, while clavinet music plays.
Mario Kart 7 has Music Park (or known in Europe as Melody Motorway), which sees you driving past giant trumpets, across piano keys and jumping over tambourines.
The Land of Quartz and Melody in Homestuck, which is themed around music boxes. The Land of Heat and Clockwork also contains a few hints of turntables, such as the Beat Mesa.
In the 1980's special Puff the Magic Dragon and the Incredible Mr. Nobody, Puff and a boy named Terry travel through the Fantaverse, which includes Cleftomania, a land made of musical instruments. They are instructed to "proceed harmonious through," but have to tame the Savage Beast first.
One of Disney's "Silly Symphony" shorts portrayed rival nations called The Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz, inhabited by anthropomorphic musical instruments.
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Alpha Safety's Cardiff Construction Academy is located on the same site as Edward House.
Drive into Edward Business Centre and bear right. The centre is situated next to the unit occupied by South Wales Police. Turn right before the building to access the Student Parking Facilities to the rear of the building.
Using Public Transport
Bus: from Cardiff City Centre use the No.2 (Canal St.) Bus from John Street to Ocean Way. This journey typically takes 10-15 minutes.
Train: Regular trains can be caught to and from Cardiff Central Station. The station is a five minute walk from John Street where the above bus service can be used.
We're Hiring - CITB Site Safety Plus Tutor
Due to growing demands, Alpha Safety is looking to hire a new CITB tutor (possibly Two).
An Exciting Joint Venture...
Alpha Safety Training Ltd has entered into an exciting joint venture with Green Hat Consulting providing training and consultancy services to South Wales and the UK.
New Cardiff Training rooms - Training room 3
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"A lot of people were saying that it would be him. They would say he would be the one to shoot up the school. Everyone predicted it."
Said one of the students of Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students were shot to death yesterday, about the suspect, Nikolas Cruz (NYT.)
Tags: murder
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
Fortunately he had easy access to an AR-15 or his rights might have been curtailed.
sykes.1 said...
A typical weekend in Chicago. But avert your eyes.
My high school would have been safe. About 30 kids were in the rifle club and had guns in their lockers.
Sounds like there were a lot of red flags but you cant arrest someone for thinking.
Robert Cook said...
"My high school would have been safe. About 30 kids were in the rifle club and had guns in their lockers."
Having a gun in your locker is no help if you're trapped somewhere else in the school building with a shooter outside your door or in the same space as you.
Jersey Fled said...
Funny that the "educators" at the school all knew about this kids problems and all they did was kick him out. Where was the school psychologist in all this? Every school has one. This kid had obvious mental health problems, yet no one apparently reported him to the authorities who could have prevented him from getting a gun permit.
etbass said...
Looks like we are headed for metal detectors in all schools and armed guards. My granddaughter's high school has a police office within and city police are there during school hours.
We have removed God from public schools and replaced him with police.
I am Six Words or Less said...
School shootings: covered by Title IX?
-6W
After knowing he was a threat that could not come on campus with a back pack of guns, there were zero security measures taken such as hiring off duty police. The football coach was made the "security guard, " but he was forbidden to carry a weapon.
No weapons were allowed on campus, which fixed nothing at all, unexpectantly.
Seventeen people killed—students, faculty and one hapless guy standing on the corner.
I'd like to see a drug test to see what, if anything, was involved.
Now we can hear more thoughts and prayers while politicians continue to line their pockets with more NRA money.
Short of restoring the teaching of morality and godliness in our society, which is not to happen, we need for everyone to be armed. Yes there would be occasional shootings. But it probably would prevent mass shootings.
Yes, we could completely disarm the public as in Britain. That probably would greatly curtail mass shootings. And it would be perfect for the installation of the dictatorship so fervently desired by our superiors.
I will tell my kids the truth. They need to wear their bike helmets and stay to the right.
Robert Cook for High School concealed carry!
School shooting after school shooting, I just heard a politician say.
We need a school shooting day, so they're not sequential all the time.
I wonder if he had a two parent loving home life.
Duck and cover: just nukes, previously.
Did he and his parents attend church regularly?
Yes arm everybody and turn this country into an NRA OK Correl much to the delight of Putin.
To add a question to Tank’s: was he a Dreamer?
Some of his Instagram photos on a foreign newsite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9SKkd79AjQ
It seems to me that mass shootings always happen in places where the shooter is confident that nobody else will be armed.
Bill, Republic of Texas said...
If you trust BuzzFeed:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/the-fbi-was-warned-about-a-school-shooting-threat-from?utm_term=.hdazP6jWRA#.dorayJKDYm
The FBI was alerted to this guy but did nothing.
#FBIknew
Jeselnik: the audience for the coverage are wedding photographers who only take selfies.
Everybody is already armed. If you try to disarm them you will "turn this country into an NRA OK Correl".
The mention of "Putin" just reminds us how much we need our guns to back up our votes.
Annie C said...
Banning all weapons is a losing proposition. With the advent of 3D printing, as the price drops on the machines and materials, anyone will be able to make a weapon.
Banning gunpowder, fertilizer, ball bearings, pressure cookers, nail guns, and anything else that could be made into a projectile is a fruitless task.
When something is not allowed, people will find a way. See prohibition and the war on drugs.
The only way to stop people from shooting, blowing up others, or bullying someone into suicide is to look at the person behind the act.
We cannot arrest people for their thoughts. We can get them mental help, but just putting them on drugs does not seem to work since so many school shooters were on mental health drugs.
There only seems to be two imperfect solutions to the problem of murderous humans. Stopping them while they are still in the thought process or stopping them during the act.
Either we violate their civil liberties or we have armed people in more places than we do now.
The common line, "you can't fix stupid" could also apply. You can't fix evil.
There isn't a weekend when one of the neighors within earshot isn't banging away on his home target range. Yet nobody is shot.
Some students need to aim higher.
It's not stupid. There's always been stupid. It's media support of the genre.
Hey look I could do that and be infamous too.
There's a small price in lives and big bucks for the news media, who have to be a profit center or die.
Rate the coverage as child pornography. That would solve it.
Child pornography would be a fairly accurate analysis, too.
Quaestor said...
Robert Cook makes an obvious point, as usual, but fails to follow the logic, as usual.
They should make the lids of the new Harvest Boxes out of steel so the kids can use them as shields. Two problems solved!
One solution to school shootings.
Another solution for those who object to teachers carrying rifles.
Freder Frederson said...
So what are you saying, should we help people with mental illness or are they just evil that can't be fixed.
You are contradicting yourself.
I’m at the jury waiting room. It’s useless to attempt to spot the would be shooter. The courthouse has metal detectors.
Chicago had 650 murders last year, so 17 murders in a few minutes would be very atypical.
The last time I was here I was looking forward to moving to Florida.
Short of restoring the teaching of morality and godliness in our society,
So when exactly did the teaching of morality and godliness in our society actually prevent violence? Did it prevent lynchings by church going men in the south? Did their pious Catholicism prevent the rise of the Italian and Irish Mafias in this country
Perhaps Freder what some would like to call mental illness could be just plain evil.
Stacy M said...
For the guy bashing the NRA. The NRA is made up of individuals like me, a single mom, who has had her car and house broken into so I carry a gun to even the odds and protect myself and my kids. Yeah, I fight like hell when people want to leave me and my kids defenseless against criminals who see me as a target.
I'm looking at the Telegraph page Ralph L posted.
At the top is a cropped pic of the shooter with a handgun. Scroll down and you can see the uncropped pic. The barrel has an orange tip. So it's a toy, probably an Airsoft gun.
In the next block of images, he just has knives, the toy gun and a little Christmas tree.
The text of the article makes the guy's social media all sound so scary, but that's hindsight. If you look at what is actually posted it wouldn't have seemed very threatening beforehand. It's not the kind of thing where his teachers or somebody should have said, "Oh my God!".
His fellow students joking about him being the school shooter was alienating ridicule. I doubt anyone of them thought it was seriously predictive at the time. It's probably very common for kids to say that kind of thing about loners in schools these days.
I could see federal task force focused on trying to minimize school/other spree shootings. TF takes calls/emails from public (students at this school, blogger from Miss. who contacted FBI, teachers/counselors/relatives/social workers/hotel workers/bartenders who think they know of someone who may go postal, etc.).
TF would check out tips, check on teenagers setting off home-made bombs (Columbine), check tips against profiles, set up social media tracking, send local cops to interview where appropriate, add tags to NICS so gun purchases refused and/or delayed and TF alerted, track unusual multiple gun buys.
Do we already have something like this? If so, have not heard about it and it wouldn't work unless people know about it and how to call/email in tips.
I think we now have the AI/other tools to actually do something like this. But the # of people killed annually in spree shootings has averaged (I think) only about 1% of total homicides, so not a budget priority. Given what we've seen over last 12 months, time to make it one. JMHO.
Kristian Holvoet said...
Funny that the "educators" at the school all knew about this kids problems and all they did was kick him out.
Anyone see the problem with the way colleges handle sexual misconduct? Bueller?… Bueller?… Bueller?
Oh, and Freder, I don't mean evil in the God/Satan way. I mean evil as in a bad person that would not respond to any attempts at diagnosing or "curing" their mental health issues.
There are people in this world who are just plain bad. Call it broken, call it evil, call it psychopathy, call it Satan. It means the same and I don't think at this point in our evolution that we can fix it.
The joke about Barron being the first home school shooter was good.
This kid had obvious mental health problems, yet no one apparently reported him to the authorities who could have prevented him from getting a gun permit.
The kid was reported to the FBI by a YouTube guy who is a bail bondsman. The kid posted a comment, "I want to be a professional school shooter."
The FBI interviewed the You Tube guy and nothing happened.
The fact that there was no armed security after all this kid had said and done is a mystery.
It's interesting that he did not kill himself. We may learn a motive.
Probably enjoying the publicity.
“God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal!”
Except that we have declared all schools official fish in barrel zones. Except for token SRO who spend more time rifling through phones looking for sexting or trying to bust kids for pot than actually keeping the school safe.
"A lot of people were saying that it would be him."
I bet just about every school has someone they say that about.
It's not newsworthy when they're wrong 99.99% of the time.
sykes.1 said...A typical weekend in Chicago.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/weekend-violence/
More like two or three weekends - because of their poor gun control (bad shots):
"25 Wounded In MLK Day Weekend Shootings"
"6 Killed, 22 Wounded In Weekend Shootings"
"Yes arm everybody and turn this country into an NRA OK Correl much to the delight of Putin."
You want to join Trumpit on the moron bench?
Once again. For you and the other public sector employee at the top.
There are 100 million-MILLION- firearm owners in the US. Between them they own approx. 300 million-MILLION- firearms.
Here's the reality of any half assed gun control proposals you might entertain.
When just 5% of those 100 million say no there is absolutely nothing you or fedgov.org friends can do.
We're an armed country. Get used to it.
And societies (e.g., Europe, Australia) that are a lot less godly than ours, do not have this problem. And you can't blame minorities for our school shooting problems (like you try to do when it is pointed out that countries with much stricter gun control have fewer murders), almost all school shooters are white males.
Anti-psychotics only work if the patient takes them, and the only way to ensure that is to confine the patient. Long ago, thanks in part to such entertainments as The Snake Pit (1948) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) this country essentially made psychiatric treatment voluntary. Just about the only way to treat a mentally ill person involuntarily is to find him not guilty by reason of insanity of a capital crime in a court of law.
This was not the case in the not too distant past when the plain fact that the most dangerously ill persons are also the most resistant to voluntary treatment was confronted directly rather than being swept under the carpet as is customary today. It is very common for paranoid psychotics to consider themselves more healthy than most people and especially favored with insights beyond the ken of the hoi polloi. They often resent the silencing of those "angelic" voices which haunt them and stop taking their medication to make the voices return.
We have already banned the possession of guns by the mentally ill and by convicted felons, which may come as a surprise to ARM, but these bans are ineffective. Felons do felonies, which means that the fear of incarnation usually does not deter them from crime, and among the crimes they are not deterred from are unlawful possession of firearms. They are enabled in these crimes by drug traffickers, who usually traffick in other contraband as well. The unlawful possession of firearms by the mentally ill is currently unsoluble because we have instituted laws which make mental illness virtually untreatable.
Erving Goffman's _Asylums_, a very entertaining and informative analysis of the social structure of mental institutions in the 50s and 60s, was responsible for getting involuntary committment banned.
That missed the point of the book. That both patients and staff organized so as to get something out of it was an analysis of any total institution, and of society in general, not something about mental institutions.
The supposed scandal was that staff got something out of it, and so the whole thing was banned.
"The simplest sociological view of the individual and his self is that he is to himself what his place in an organization defines him to be. When pressed, a sociologist modifies this model by granting certain complications : the self may be not yet formed or may exhibit conflicting dedications. Perhaps we should further complicate the construct by elevating these qualifications to a central place, initially defining the individual, for sociological purposes, as a stance-taking entity, a something that takes up a position somewhere between identificaiton with an organization and opposition to it, and is ready at the slightest pressure to regain its balance by shifting its involvement to either direction. It is thus _against something_ that the self can emerge. This has been appreciated by students of totalitarianism ...
I have argued the same case in regard to total institutions. May this not be the situation, however, in free society, too?
Without something to belong to, we have no stable self, and yet total commitment and attachment to any social unit implies a kind of selflessness. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wider social unit ; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personality identity often resides in the cracks."
Goffman _Asylums_ ``The Underlife of a Public Institution'' p.320
The ineffectual hero of "Metropolis" wrote: ...almost all school shooters are white males.
Almost all Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, and medicine are white males.
1984 was a cautionary tale, not a How to Manual.
Search and replace 'go postal' with another crime, say 'illegal residence' or 'sell drugs'. Or say this was implemented 40 years ago, 'homosexual acts' or 65 years ago 'civil disobediance'
See any civil liberty issues with that?
You set up that surveillance, it will be used, and expanded to justify it's cost.
almost all school shooters are white males.
Whites are under-represented when compared to % of population.
Blacks and especially Asians are over-represented.
Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
Dickin'Bimbos@Home said...
FBI too busy with Carter Page
Schools are a deadly anachronism.
Stay online and stay alive.
No murderous rage builds when watching skinny blondes in a g-string spinning through the air, so maybe society ought to do a little more encouraging of pairs figure (good golly wasn't hers amazing) skating.
societies (e.g., Europe, Australia) that are a lot less godly than ours, do not have this problem.
In Europe, the allahly cause some problems on occasion.
The problem with blaming Trump is he and his supporters want dead kids, need dead kids, and only find satisfaction in their lives from dead kids.
So blaming Trump encourages more of this. It is kinda a blast though.
Dr Weevil said...
It seems both ignorant and tasteless to claim that "almost all school shooters are white males" while discussing a school shooter named Nicolas (notice: no H) de Jesus Cruz. Maybe he's the second "white Hispanic" in the history of journalism.
mockturtle said...
Rhhardin suggests: We need a school shooting day, so they're not sequential all the time.
That would never fly. While it might provide a more directly competitive exercise, it would tend to dilute the instant fame and lasting notoriety of the perpetrator.
How about a quick trial and execution? Seems like an appropriate response in this case.
"roesch/voltaire said...
Yes arm everybody and turn this country into an NRA OK Correl much to the delight of Putin."
Name one place where the concealed carry has led to the "OK Corral." One place.
Now compare that to your stupid "Gun Free Zones." which should be renamed "Fish in a Barrel Zones."
Not to make excuses for his actions, but I'm going to guess he was one those "throw away" male students that schools just don't want to deal with. It's much easier to expel them.
Maybe he's the second "white Hispanic" in the history of journalism.
"Hispanic" isn't a race and a "white hispanic" is no big deal: Spaniards are white Hispanics. But the MSM did lie when they called Zimmerman a White-Hispanic because his mother is 'Proudly Afro-Peruvian'.
The shooter was not a member of the NRA.
Responsible gun owners and NRA members DO NOT SHOOT UP SCHOOLS.
Leftwingers are all liars.
Hollywood inspires more gun violence that any other organization.
Etienne said...
Florida is like a third world country. The fuckers can't even punch a chad without help from the Supreme Court.
I think it's high time we bring back public executions. Hang them to an inch of their life, then disembowel them, feeding the city dogs, and quarter them to feed the Lions in the Zoo. Put their heads on spikes at city hall.
I wonder about how to fix this. Better than nothing is a high standard. To reflexively take away others' freedom seems wrong to me.
Would this child have done better in a trade school I wonder -- was he ever given an opportunity, or a choice, or was he just square-pegged into the round hole of today's Educational System? Misfit as a teen is a cruel part to play.
You are correct in that if he had been a white Hispanic activist or college nerd or politician, and was either cool or a victim of something, the MSM would call him plain "Hispanic" based on his name:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/quiz-can-you-pick-out-white-hispanic/
(unfortunately a lot of the pictures are now missing...)
But he's bad, so he's just "white" (See: FBI stats).
Oso Negro said...
Holodomor. Holodomor. Holodomor. Holodomor. Holodomor. No, hysterical bitches, it is not a quote from Game of Thrones. You can't steal the seed grain of an armed populace. The Putins of the world, like the Stalins, Pol Pots, etc, prey on UNARMED populations. Mass shootings of unarmed civilians are frightful in all circumstances. But governments with guns kill the most people of all. Please try to understand that.
Correlation is not necessarily causation.
But we didn't have mass shootings a few decades when morality and godliness were taught in public schools. We did have widespread gun ownership then.
The Twin Peaks Bar in Waco, Texas was quite the free fire zone for a bit. But it appears there was some law enforcement shenanigans, as many charges against the bikers are being dropped.
That asshole in Florida would have to kill 17 people every day for 274 years to equal the bloody work of the Khmer Rouge. Who were led by college-educated progressives. THAT is why we have the 2nd Amendment. An ultimate defense against murderous government.
Blogger Kristian Holvoet said...
KH, I read the Church Report. It seems to me that the spree shootings are increasing and that (1) there is going to be greater call for gun control (which won't work), and (2) we are not going to go back to locking up all mentally unbalanced people (which might help).
The Vegas guy killed 69 and injured over 850 - one asshole in 10 minutes generated 10% of the 9-11 casualties (9k). The Columbine kids wanted to kill 400 but their bombs in the cafeteria failed to go off (they still could have shot/killed dozens more if they had wanted to (and maybe set the record) -- since the cops refused to go in -- but offed themselves after about 45 minutes).
Fortunately most spree killers are retarded and imbalanced. But I am worried that we are going to see more Vegas events and there will need to be some response.
Etienne suggests: I think it's high time we bring back public executions.
Yep. Maybe us a guillotine. Heads on spikes a great idea. This way, the perp would get even more air time.
But we didn't have mass shootings a few decades
A few decades ago we didn't live under the "You have to go to College to succeed" umbrella either.
Leland said...
A good way to fix this is to allow better access to psychological counseling and assistance. If he had been committed to a mental institution, which seemed, based on community sentiment, what was needed; this may have been prevented. Even if he didn't have a gun, the comments by the community suggests he would have eventually killed someone in some manner. If you want to stop such crimes, threat the problem, which is the mental condition of the person.
"Not to make excuses for his actions, but I'm going to guess he was one those "throw away" male students that schools just don't want to deal with. It's much easier to expel them."
I think we may find over time that Fritz's description has a lot of truth to it. I've heard that both parents are dead, mother died just last November, and kid is living with "friends."
Anyone blaming social media?
A lot of blame should be directed at Facebook and Zuckerberg et al.
At first glance the banner on the bottom of the screen on Fox said,"Florida School Officials give up on School Shooting."
On a doubletake it really said "...give update on School Shooting."
But they did indeed give up on having armed school protection guards.
Tom Gallagher said...
Those making light of this tragedy just shut the hell up; show a little respect for the victims and their families.
When you put an executed criminals head on a spike, the birds get to peck his eyes and tongue out.
I suggest that we require gun safety classes for all students.
I also suggest that nationwide media coverage of a local event only encourages more of these events.
bolivar di griz said...
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27160/suspected-gunman-florida-school-shooting-ryan-saavedra
In a nation of 320 million people there are going to be some crazy and evil ones. There is nothing we can, nor will, do to stop a very small minority of them from doing really bad and evil things such as this most recent shooting. Hurling pre-conceived notions and proposing demonstrably ineffective actions only serves as therapy in the hours and days following such an atrocity.
-sw
It would appear that there were no restrictions on entry. Anyone, even a heavily armed individual who had been expelled could just saunter in. You'd think surveillance videos would be in place to show who is approaching the building. Even private companies do not give fired employees access to the premises.
"Funny that the 'educators' at the school all knew about this kids problems and all they did was kick him out. Where was the school psychologist in all this? Every school has one."
Do they? My high school (in Florida) didn't have one. I doubt very much if most, much less all, public high schools in America have school psychologists. Heck, we didn't even have a school nurse, and we were one of the best public high schools in the county.
Anti-psychotics only work if the patient takes them, and the only way to ensure that is to confine the patient.
Not really. Another alternative is mandatory outpatient treatment, with the threat of confinement to ensure compliance. Mandatory monthly injections of long-acting antipsychotics could also be used. I don't know whether there are such things or not, but I would expect that if there were a demand for such medications, the pharmaceutical industry could engineer them in pretty short order.
The real problem is that we seem to lack the will to confront mentally ill people and force them to get treatment. It is extremely difficult for family members, for example, to get someone they think needs help committed to treatment. This probably won't change until many hundreds more are murdered by psychotics.
"We have removed God from public schools and replaced him with police."
God never was in the public schools, rightly so. The problems with children in schools comes from their lives outside the schools.
"Annie C said...
The Twin Peaks Bar in Waco, Texas was quite the free fire zone for a bit. But it appears there was some law enforcement shenanigans, as many charges against the bikers are being dropped."
And that two rival motorcycle gangs shooting it out so not really an every day circumstance. Closer to the gang violence we see in Chciago than a bunch of unrelated people carrying guns in the same location...
"Short of restoring the teaching of morality and godliness in our society...."
This is the responsibility of the families, not the schools.
"...we need for everyone to be armed. Yes there would be occasional shootings. But it probably would prevent mass shootings."
"Maybe he's the second 'white Hispanic' in the history of journalism."
"White hispanic" is a U.S. racial category.
"I think it's high time we bring back public executions. Hang them to an inch of their life, then disembowel them, feeding the city dogs, and quarter them to feed the Lions in the Zoo. Put their heads on spikes at city hall."
Yes...just like a third world country!
William Chadwick said...
The "A attacked B, which gives State-shtupper C the right to attack D" idiocy. I'm guessing this is a variant on the Argument from Pity fallacy, a favorite of "liberal" boneheads.
Instapundit today has an interesting discussion on the FBI being warned that the shooter was a threat. There are amusing comments on the theme, "Hey, don't bother the FBI with this nonsense. They're busy helping the attempted coup."
White Hispanic, African-American, etc. are politically congruent classes of half-breeds that have been normalized by personal and institutional diversity.
An untreated psychotic individual and a public deprived of the means for self-defense is a Plan to open an abortion field.
Wasn't isolation believed to breed this kind of behavior?
"Everybody knew" sounds like the guy was on the outside of pier groups.
"Lem said...
"Everybody knew" sounds like the guy was on the outside of pier groups."
He should have seen a dock.
Did I misspelled that?
funny."
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Gospace said...
Recent drug bust in Poughkeepsie, NY, 16 arrests, 14 from Poughkeepsie. In addition to the drugs, guns were confiscated! I'm waiting for Governor Cuomo and legislature Democrats to explain how criminals obtained all those guns with the SAFE act in effect that hinders us law abiding citizens from obtaining guns, and a permitting process for handguns that in some state jurisdictions ensure only the politically connected get the permits.
Gun control laws don't stop criminals from obtaining guns. Just as criminal laws don't stop criminals from committing crimes. And drug laws don't stop druggies from using drugs. The difference between them is that gun laws are specifically designed to severely hamper the rights of citizens to obtain and purchase arms, and do nothing, absolutely nothing, to reduce crime.
Gun control laws don't stop criminals from obtaining guns. Just as criminal laws don't stop criminals from committing crimes.
Like the cartoon that showed two would-be armed robbers stopped at the door of a convenience store because of a sign. "We can't rob this place. It's a gun-free zone!"
Yancey Ward said...
You can't arrest someone for thinking, but you can for terroristic threats- and you can definitely monitor them closely in such instances. This is going to be a big black eye for law enforcement and the FBI if the allegations that they were warned by multiple parties about Cruz, and that the social media accounts where he made these direct threats prove true (I don't know they are true, but it looks increasingly likely they are).
320Busdriver said...
I've seen the screenshots of his iirc youtube account showing his threat that the fbi "supposedly" investigated. If that was not the red flag, then there is no red flag. Big black eye is the understatement of the year. At least we know there is no corruption at the fbi....
Blogger prairie wind said...
It was nauseating watching that recent press conference as each and every speaker, save maybe the medical docs, seemed more than pleased to bask in the bloody limelight. Pam Bondi is especially good at this. No likey Pam.
Yes arm everybody and turn this country into an NRA OK Correl much to the delight of Putin. - R/V
Explain to me why we never - ever - see mass shootings at gun shows, Mr. Smart Ass.
The 19 year old shooter has won more fame now than all the Olympics winners put together.
He earned great fame for his Gold Medal at School Shooting, scoring a perfect 10. He is beome the talk of the town.
But no one can figure out why he did it.
Everyone knew this kid was dangerous, and yet no one did anything about it.
hombre said...
Freder: "So when exactly did the teaching of morality and godliness in our society actually prevent violence?"
So when exactly did the passing of laws intended to reduce violence actually prevent violence?
"Yes arm everybody and turn this country into an NRA OK Correl much to the delight of Putin. - R/V"
"Explain to me why we never - ever - see mass shootings at gun shows, Mr. Smart Ass."
On today's Instapundit there's a link to an interesting article about how there were once guns in schools and yet no mass shootings. (And apparently few one-off shootings.) Mr. Smart Ass might want to crawl out of the "liberal" Cocoon and give it a look-see.
Mr. Smart Ass also doesm't know that the biggest, bloodiest gun-toter in history is the State, so beloved by "liberals." One academic, R. J. Rummel, has made a career out of studying the subject, and his estimate of "democide" (his term for "murder by government"), just in the 20th Century alone, is staggering. I forget the figure but it's in the millions, if not billions. And that's not counting war casualties.
langford peel said...
People like to put themselves in middle of a story. It is human but not very edifying.
Sure everyone knew he was going to blow. I know a lot of people who should be locked up. But we have laws.
The only sure defense is self defense. Period.
Let's see, the students and school officials knew Cruz posed a potential danger. The FBI had his name as an aspiring "professional school shooter." At the time he purchased his weapon there were federal laws restricting sale to mentally ill people. What went wrong here?
Maybe the gunphobes running the schools need to focus on protecting students instead of waiting for the passage of ineffectual laws. Maybe the FBI needs to focus on dealing with reported threats instead of phony political investigations.
Rocket science for Democrats and other rubes.
"Now we can hear more thoughts and prayers while politicians continue to line their pockets with more NRA money."
The money given by the NRA is a pittance compared to the money given by teacher's unions who prefer expenditures on teachers' salaries and benefits instead of effective security measures.
Additionally, recipients of NRA fund support the Second Amendment before receipt, unlike recipients of union money who do as they're told by their union masters.
Has there been any evidence shown that this perp was mentally ill? Is it assumed that someone who shoots lots of people at a school is mentally ill? People with antisocial personality disorders are not legally insane nor can they be successfully treated [yes, there is plenty of evidence]. As in A Clockwork Orange, there are questions about violent behavior that we still can't answer.
BTW, I am an NRA member and know offhand of NO NRA member that has shot anyone in the criminal sense. More gun laws aren't going to protect anyone.
mtrobertslaw said...
Freder F. doesn't like the idea of teaching virtue and vice in our public schools. He apparently sees this as teaching religion. If he took the time to education himself he would learn that our concepts of virtue and vice originated with the ancient Greek philosophers and not religion.
If a growing number of children do not get any moral instruction from their parents or from religious institutions, where will they get their notions of right or wrong? From the street where it is easy to conclude that justice is nothing but the will of the stronger? Or from that amorphous thing called the "self" that invents "rules" for its behavior that feed its insatiate will to power?
Include sh!thole next time!
I understand that the inclination to "do something" is strong after events like this, I really do. But will more laws help? Will banned armaments bring an end? I lean towards an answer of No. I think it's sad that the answer is no. But there it is.
Here is an article listing the top 50 lobbyists. I don't see the NRA on the list.
Top 50 Lobby Groups
Cook: "God never was in the public schools, rightly so."
Really? What was going on when I ordered my first Bible through Longfellow Elementary, a public school, so I could attend Bible class every Friday afternoon. Or when we spent an occasional moment in prayer for our troops overseas or sick classmates.
Like most SecProgs, Cookie believes history begins on the occasion of leftist landmarks like Engel v. Vitale or Murray v. Curlett.
exiledonmainstreet said...
R|V is just shoveling the mouth diarrhea of Adam Schiff-ty, who claimed last week that Putin is all in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Schiff-ty spewed his droppings to divert from the fact that he's a corrupt, lying piece of pig shit.
And also because he knows dullards like R/V will unthinkingly parrot anything he says, any stupid theory he dreams up. If Schiff-ty claims Trump is sending sooper sekrit messages to Putin via his red neckties, Adam's idiot fan club will believe him.
Why is it you never see these mass shootings at parochial schools yet so often at public?
Is it a better class of student? Is it a more caring set of parents? Or is it the fact parochial schools have GOD in their schools while public ones do their best to erase God from their teachings?
How about the answer being all three. More caring parents, and thus a better class of student, tend to be willing to send their children to schools where morals are taught. And morals come from religion (where there is no vote on what is 'moral' and what is not. Where there is no 'choices' that none are good or bad.)
We need to reform our snakepits we call 'public schools'. They used to have prayer in such schools. They used to read passages from the Christian Bible over the PA system once a day. They used to teach morals in schools. Nowdays it seems it's all about 'transgender rights'. You cannot even wear a Christian t-shirt to schools these days!
Think about it folks. Mass shootings at parochial schools just don't happen (except at St. Mary's Parochial School in Newburgh, N.Y. in 1891 and Bremen school shooting in 1913!)
roesch/voltaire is just upset that Russia is not Communist anymore.
Poor guy.
Because of math.
There have been many shootings at churches.
Ah yes, a look back at the halcyon 1980's, where every school had a rifle club (bullshit, I graduated in 1979 from high school in the suburbs of Chicago, and there were no rifle clubs), people respected guns and morality prevailed.
Except of course the murder rate was twice what it is now.
"Gun control laws don't stop criminals from obtaining guns. Just as criminal laws don't stop criminals from committing crimes."
Given the precipitous drop in crimes nationwide over the past two decades, something is stopping criminals from committing crimes.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Every time a kid mows down dozens of classmates with firearms, a right-wing conservative feels more free.
Right-wingers can't feel free without a few firearm-facilitated mass murders on a fairly frequent/regular basis.
About that hot scoop:
https://mobile.twitter.com/alimhaider/status/964299405196255232?p=v
The only way to fix this is to change our culture. Which takes time and a ridiculous amount of sustained effort by millions of people. How long did it take after the 1964 Surgeon General's report for smoking to become uncool?
The culture of violence that we currently have has been evolving at least since the demise of the Hayes Code (and I would argue that the seeds were planted even before the Civil War). It would take decades to roll it back. And we haven't even started.
Sacto_Dave said...
etbass said: Looks like we are headed for metal detectors in all schools and armed guards. My granddaughter's high school has a police office within and city police are there during school hours.
I went to high school in 1966-1969. We had a uniformed and armed school cop, a member of the local police force, on campus. He mostly busted kids for trying to cut school or smoking in the bathrooms. But he was there when race riots broke out and called in support. It's not exactly a new idea.
narciso said...
https://mobile.twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/964304745082089474
Every time a kid mows down his classmates totalitarians try to disarm their political enemies and propose things that would do nothing to solve the problem.
Like every leftist post on this topic you have zero policies that would have actually stopped it or provided mitigation. But lots of hate for your political opponents.
There would have to be a school shooting that killed 17 kids a day for over 3000 years to equal the number of disarmed people Stalin killed.
Blogger Robert Cook said...
"Given the precipitous drop in crimes nationwide over the past two decades, something is stopping criminals from committing crimes."
Though not scientific evidence, the drop appears to coincide with the advent of concealed carry laws.
Something for Freder
http://www.ihsa.org/NewsMedia/IllinoisHStoric/IllinoisHStoricArticle.aspx?url=/archive/hstoric/marksmanship_boys.htm
Achilles observes: Every time a kid mows down his classmates totalitarians try to disarm their political enemies and propose things that would do nothing to solve the problem.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
Every time a dictator has unarmed and helpless "enemies of the State" liquidated, the Toothless State-fellator feels a tingle in his crotch.
The news is not good for the FBI. Much worse than we thought.
JAORE said...
ARM, I know about the Trump action you reference. But the NBC article conveniently left out the fact that the ACLU supported the NRA position.
So, yeah, Trump stopped the act, because it was bad legislation painting with an extremely broad brush.
Focus in on people with evidence of violent tendencies and we can talk. This proposal was not the way.
But I suppose I am more hesitant to strip people of their rights than some.
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Willy asked in EnvironmentGreen Living · 5 months ago
Where is the Catastrophic Global Warming?
Dr. Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, wrote clearly:
“The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degrees Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period.’”
Dr. Giaever also points out in his work that the warming period we are in since the Little Ice Age (1300–1850) has had stable temperatures with only a 0.8 degree Kelvin increase in 150 years (the period he considered when he wrote this).
Most temperature graphs show only a small range of temperatures to exaggerate the change, just like NASA’s does. It’s deceptive and made to stoke fear among the populace.
Here’s a graph showing just how stable our temperature has been, especially when the change is shown over the existing average temperature of the Earth, which is around 58°F (~288.0 degrees Kelvin).
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NASA Predicts Next Solar Cycle will be Lowest in 200 Years (Dalton Minimum Levels) + the Implications
June 18, 2019 Cap Allon
An approaching Grand Solar Minimum is gaining evermore support. Even NASA appears to be on-board, with their recent SC25 prediction — though, predictably, they stay clear of the implications.
NASA’s forecast for the next solar cycle (25) reveals it will be the weakest of the last 200 years.
The maximum of this next cycle — measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level — could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one.
The agency’s results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025:
Great god I do not need some professor or researcher or anyone else to tell me the earth's weather is changing it has for BILLIONS of years.
The fatties and the pisshead have saved the day, they have been using all that excess carbon dioxide to put into fizzy drinks and to use to pump beer,
And you think 109 in France is "normal". This does not take into account the storms and will result from the overall heat gain. There were tornados near Amsterdam, NOT normal, storms in the US are more intense and closer together, there has been a heat wave in Europe. Last year or the year before that a hurricane landed or came very close to Ireland again NOT normal. He was only taking into account the temperate change and NOT what that would do to our climate.
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It is better safe than sorry. If scientists are wrong about global warming, which is very unlikely if you look at the melting ice in North Pole, South Pole and high mountain peak, then we lose nothing. If we ignore global warming and do nothing, we can face economic disaster if lots of expensive coastal real estate become inundated.
Earth, pay attention.
Climate alarm is dependent on an ignorance of history, academics, journalists and politicians who are willing to lie, and a public which is willing to be misled.
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A1CF APOBEC1 complementation factor
A2M alpha-2-macroglobulin
A3GALT2 alpha 1,3-galactosyltransferase 2
A4GNT alpha-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
AAAS achalasia, adrenocortical insufficiency, alacrimia
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AADAC arylacetamide deacetylase
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AADAT aminoadipate aminotransferase
AAK1 AP2 associated kinase 1
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AATK apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase
ABAT 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase
ABCA1 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A (ABC1), member 1
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ABCG1 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family G (WHITE), member 1
ABCG2 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family G (WHITE), member 2 (Junior blood group)
ABHD1 abhydrolase domain containing 1
ABHD10 abhydrolase domain containing 10
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ABHD17C abhydrolase domain containing 17C
ABI1 abl-interactor 1
ABL1 ABL proto-oncogene 1, non-receptor tyrosine kinase
ABLIM2 actin binding LIM protein family, member 2
ABO ABO blood group (transferase A, alpha 1-3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase; transferase B, alpha 1-3-galactosyltransferase)
ABRA actin binding Rho activating protein
ABT1 activator of basal transcription 1
ABTB1 ankyrin repeat and BTB (POZ) domain containing 1
ACAA1 acetyl-CoA acyltransferase 1
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ACAD10 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase family, member 10
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ACADL acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, long chain
ACADM acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, C-4 to C-12 straight chain
ACADS acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, C-2 to C-3 short chain
ACADSB acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short/branched chain
ACADVL acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, very long chain
ACAT1 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase 1
ACBD3 acyl-CoA binding domain containing 3
ACCS 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase homolog (Arabidopsis)(non-functional)
ACCSL 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase homolog (Arabidopsis)(non-functional)-like
ACD adrenocortical dysplasia homolog (mouse)
ACE2 angiotensin I converting enzyme 2
ACER1 alkaline ceramidase 1
ACHE acetylcholinesterase (Yt blood group)
ACIN1 apoptotic chromatin condensation inducer 1
ACLY ATP citrate lyase
ACMSD aminocarboxymuconate semialdehyde decarboxylase
ACO1 aconitase 1, soluble
ACO2 aconitase 2, mitochondrial
ACOT1 acyl-CoA thioesterase 1
ACOT11 acyl-CoA thioesterase 11
ACOX1 acyl-CoA oxidase 1, palmitoyl
ACOX2 acyl-CoA oxidase 2, branched chain
ACOX3 acyl-CoA oxidase 3, pristanoyl
ACOXL acyl-CoA oxidase-like
ACP1 acid phosphatase 1, soluble
ACP2 acid phosphatase 2, lysosomal
ACP5 acid phosphatase 5, tartrate resistant
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ACPP acid phosphatase, prostate
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ACSF2 acyl-CoA synthetase family member 2
ACSL1 acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain family member 1
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ACSS1 acyl-CoA synthetase short-chain family member 1
ACTB actin, beta
ACTL6A actin-like 6A
ACTL6B actin-like 6B
ACTR5 ARP5 actin-related protein 5 homolog (yeast)
ACVR1 activin A receptor, type I
ACVR1B activin A receptor, type IB
ACVR1C activin A receptor, type IC
ACVR2A activin A receptor, type IIA
ACVR2B activin A receptor, type IIB
ACY1 aminoacylase 1
ACYP1 acylphosphatase 1, erythrocyte (common) type
ACYP2 acylphosphatase 2, muscle type
ADAD1 adenosine deaminase domain containing 1 (testis-specific)
ADAD2 adenosine deaminase domain containing 2
ADAL adenosine deaminase-like
ADAM2 ADAM metallopeptidase domain 2
ADAMDEC1 ADAM-like, decysin 1
ADAMTSL1 ADAMTS-like 1
ADAR adenosine deaminase, RNA-specific
ADARB2 adenosine deaminase, RNA-specific, B2 (non-functional)
ADCK1 aarF domain containing kinase 1
ADCY1 adenylate cyclase 1 (brain)
ADCY10 adenylate cyclase 10 (soluble)
ADCYAP1 adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide 1 (pituitary)
ADD1 adducin 1 (alpha)
ADGB androglobin
ADH1A alcohol dehydrogenase 1A (class I), alpha polypeptide
ADH1B alcohol dehydrogenase 1B (class I), beta polypeptide
ADH1C alcohol dehydrogenase 1C (class I), gamma polypeptide
ADH4 alcohol dehydrogenase 4 (class II), pi polypeptide
ADH5 alcohol dehydrogenase 5 (class III), chi polypeptide
ADH6 alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (class V)
ADH7 alcohol dehydrogenase 7 (class IV), mu or sigma polypeptide
ADHFE1 alcohol dehydrogenase, iron containing, 1
ADI1 acireductone dioxygenase 1
ADIPOQ adiponectin, C1Q and collagen domain containing
ADIPOR1 adiponectin receptor 1
ADIRF adipogenesis regulatory factor
ADK adenosine kinase
ADM adrenomedullin
ADM2 adrenomedullin 2
ADNP activity-dependent neuroprotector homeobox
ADNP2 ADNP homeobox 2
ADO 2-aminoethanethiol (cysteamine) dioxygenase
ADORA1 adenosine A1 receptor
ADORA2B adenosine A2b receptor
ADPGK ADP-dependent glucokinase
ADPRHL1 ADP-ribosylhydrolase like 1
ADPRM ADP-ribose/CDP-alcohol diphosphatase, manganese-dependent
ADRA1D adrenoceptor alpha 1D
ADRA2A adrenoceptor alpha 2A
ADRA2B adrenoceptor alpha 2B
ADRA2C adrenoceptor alpha 2C
ADRB1 adrenoceptor beta 1
ADRBK1 adrenergic, beta, receptor kinase 1
ADRM1 adhesion regulating molecule 1
ADSL adenylosuccinate lyase
ADSS adenylosuccinate synthase
ADSSL1 adenylosuccinate synthase like 1
AEBP1 AE binding protein 1
AEN apoptosis enhancing nuclease
AES amino-terminal enhancer of split
AFF2 AF4/FMR2 family, member 2
AFG3L2 AFG3-like AAA ATPase 2
AFMID arylformamidase
AFP alpha-fetoprotein
AGA aspartylglucosaminidase
AGBL1 ATP/GTP binding protein-like 1
AGGF1 angiogenic factor with G patch and FHA domains 1
AGL amylo-alpha-1, 6-glucosidase, 4-alpha-glucanotransferase
AGMAT agmatine ureohydrolase (agmatinase)
AGMO alkylglycerol monooxygenase
AGO1 argonaute RISC catalytic component 1
AGPAT1 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase 1
AGPS alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
AGRN agrin
AGT angiotensinogen (serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade A, member 8)
AGTR2 angiotensin II receptor, type 2
AGXT alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase
AGXT2 alanine--glyoxylate aminotransferase 2
AHCY adenosylhomocysteinase
AHCYL1 adenosylhomocysteinase-like 1
AHR aryl hydrocarbon receptor
AHRR aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor
AHSP alpha hemoglobin stabilizing protein
AICDA activation-induced cytidine deaminase
AIFM1 apoptosis-inducing factor, mitochondrion-associated, 1
AIMP1 aminoacyl tRNA synthetase complex-interacting multifunctional protein 1
AIP aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein
AIPL1 aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein-like 1
AIRE autoimmune regulator
AJUBA ajuba LIM protein
AKAP17A A kinase (PRKA) anchor protein 17A
AKAP5 A kinase (PRKA) anchor protein 5
AKIRIN2 akirin 2
AKNA AT-hook transcription factor
AKR1A1 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member A1 (aldehyde reductase)
AKR1B1 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member B1 (aldose reductase)
AKR1B10 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member B10 (aldose reductase)
AKR1B15 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member B15
AKR1D1 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member D1
AKR7A2 aldo-keto reductase family 7, member A2 (aflatoxin aldehyde reductase)
AKT1 v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1
AKTIP AKT interacting protein
ALAD aminolevulinate dehydratase
ALAS1 5'-aminolevulinate synthase 1
ALB albumin
ALDH16A1 aldehyde dehydrogenase 16 family, member A1
ALDH1A1 aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family, member A1
ALDH1B1 aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family, member B1
ALDH2 aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 family (mitochondrial)
ALDOA aldolase A, fructose-bisphosphate
ALDOB aldolase B, fructose-bisphosphate
ALDOC aldolase C, fructose-bisphosphate
ALG1 ALG1, chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase
ALG10 ALG10, alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase
ALG10B ALG10B, alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase
ALG11 ALG11, alpha-1,2-mannosyltransferase
ALG13 ALG13, UDP-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase subunit
ALG1L ALG1, chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase-like
ALG1L2 ALG1, chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase-like 2
ALG2 ALG2, alpha-1,3/1,6-mannosyltransferase
ALG3 ALG3, alpha-1,3- mannosyltransferase
ALG5 ALG5, dolichyl-phosphate beta-glucosyltransferase
ALG6 ALG6, alpha-1,3-glucosyltransferase
ALG9 ALG9, alpha-1,2-mannosyltransferase
ALK anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase
ALKBH1 alkB, alkylation repair homolog 1 (E. coli)
ALKBH5 AlkB family member 5, RNA demethylase
ALLC allantoicase
ALOX12 arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase
ALOX12B arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase, 12R type
ALOX15B arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase, type B
ALOX5AP arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein
ALOXE3 arachidonate lipoxygenase 3
ALPI alkaline phosphatase, intestinal
ALPL alkaline phosphatase, liver/bone/kidney
ALPP alkaline phosphatase, placental
ALPPL2 alkaline phosphatase, placental-like 2
ALS2 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2 (juvenile)
ALX1 ALX homeobox 1
ALYREF Aly/REF export factor
AMACR alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase
AMBP alpha-1-microglobulin/bikunin precursor
AMBRA1 autophagy/beclin-1 regulator 1
AMDHD1 amidohydrolase domain containing 1
AMFR autocrine motility factor receptor, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
AMHR2 anti-Mullerian hormone receptor, type II
AMN amnion associated transmembrane protein
AMPD1 adenosine monophosphate deaminase 1
AMT aminomethyltransferase
AMY2A amylase, alpha 2A (pancreatic)
AMY2B amylase, alpha 2B (pancreatic)
AMZ1 archaelysin family metallopeptidase 1
ANAPC1 anaphase promoting complex subunit 1
ANAPC10 anaphase promoting complex subunit 10
ANG angiogenin, ribonuclease, RNase A family, 5
ANGPTL3 angiopoietin-like 3
ANK1 ankyrin 1, erythrocytic
ANKK1 ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing 1
ANKRD1 ankyrin repeat domain 1 (cardiac muscle)
ANP32A acidic (leucine-rich) nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family, member A
ANP32B acidic (leucine-rich) nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family, member B
ANPEP alanyl (membrane) aminopeptidase
ANXA1 annexin A1
AOAH acyloxyacyl hydrolase (neutrophil)
AOC2 amine oxidase, copper containing 2 (retina-specific)
AOX1 aldehyde oxidase 1
AP3D1 adaptor-related protein complex 3, delta 1 subunit
AP5S1 adaptor-related protein complex 5, sigma 1 subunit
AP5Z1 adaptor-related protein complex 5, zeta 1 subunit
APAF1 apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1
APBB1 amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein-binding, family B, member 1 (Fe65)
APC adenomatous polyposis coli
APCS amyloid P component, serum
APEH acylaminoacyl-peptide hydrolase
APEX1 APEX nuclease (multifunctional DNA repair enzyme) 1
APEX2 APEX nuclease (apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease) 2
APH1A APH1A gamma secretase subunit
APH1B APH1B gamma secretase subunit
APIP APAF1 interacting protein
APLF aprataxin and PNKP like factor
APLP1 amyloid beta (A4) precursor-like protein 1
APMAP adipocyte plasma membrane associated protein
APOA1 apolipoprotein A-I
APOA1BP apolipoprotein A-I binding protein
APOA2 apolipoprotein A-II
APOA5 apolipoprotein A-V
APOB apolipoprotein B
APOBEC1 apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 1
APOBEC2 apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 2
APOBEC3B apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3B
APOBEC3C apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3C
APOBEC3F apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3F
APOBEC3G apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3G
APOBEC3H apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3H
APOBEC4 apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 4 (putative)
APOBR apolipoprotein B receptor
APOC1 apolipoprotein C-I
APOC2 apolipoprotein C-II
APOC3 apolipoprotein C-III
APOC4 apolipoprotein C-IV
APOD apolipoprotein D
APOE apolipoprotein E
APOF apolipoprotein F
APOH apolipoprotein H (beta-2-glycoprotein I)
APOL1 apolipoprotein L, 1
APOM apolipoprotein M
APP amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein
APPBP2 amyloid beta precursor protein (cytoplasmic tail) binding protein 2
APRT adenine phosphoribosyltransferase
AQP1 aquaporin 1 (Colton blood group)
AQP7 aquaporin 7
AQR aquarius intron-binding spliceosomal factor
AR androgen receptor
ARAF A-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase
AREL1 apoptosis resistant E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1
ARF1 ADP-ribosylation factor 1
ARFGAP1 ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase activating protein 1
ARFGEF2 ADP-ribosylation factor guanine nucleotide-exchange factor 2 (brefeldin A-inhibited)
ARFRP1 ADP-ribosylation factor related protein 1
ARGFX arginine-fifty homeobox
ARHGEF6 Rac/Cdc42 guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) 6
ARID1A AT rich interactive domain 1A (SWI-like)
ARID1B AT rich interactive domain 1B (SWI1-like)
ARID2 AT rich interactive domain 2 (ARID, RFX-like)
ARID3A AT rich interactive domain 3A (BRIGHT-like)
ARID3B AT rich interactive domain 3B (BRIGHT-like)
ARID3C AT rich interactive domain 3C (BRIGHT-like)
ARID4A AT rich interactive domain 4A (RBP1-like)
ARID4B AT rich interactive domain 4B (RBP1-like)
ARID5A AT rich interactive domain 5A (MRF1-like)
ARIH1 ariadne RBR E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1
ARL1 ADP-ribosylation factor-like 1
ARL4C ADP-ribosylation factor-like 4C
ARL4D ADP-ribosylation factor-like 4D
ARL6IP4 ADP-ribosylation factor-like 6 interacting protein 4
ARL8A ADP-ribosylation factor-like 8A
ARL8B ADP-ribosylation factor-like 8B
ARNT aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator
ARNT2 aryl-hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator 2
ARNTL aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-like
ARNTL2 aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-like 2
ARRB1 arrestin, beta 1
ARSA arylsulfatase A
ARSB arylsulfatase B
ARSD arylsulfatase D
ARSE arylsulfatase E (chondrodysplasia punctata 1)
ARSF arylsulfatase F
ARSG arylsulfatase G
ARSH arylsulfatase family, member H
ARSI arylsulfatase family, member I
ARSJ arylsulfatase family, member J
ARSK arylsulfatase family, member K
ART1 ADP-ribosyltransferase 1
ART4 ADP-ribosyltransferase 4 (Dombrock blood group)
ARV1 ARV1 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
ARX aristaless related homeobox
AS3MT arsenite methyltransferase
ASAH1 N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase (acid ceramidase) 1
ASAH2 N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase (non-lysosomal ceramidase) 2
ASB1 ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing 1
ASB11 ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing 11, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
ASCC1 activating signal cointegrator 1 complex subunit 1
ASCL1 achaete-scute family bHLH transcription factor 1
ASF1A anti-silencing function 1A histone chaperone
ASF1B anti-silencing function 1B histone chaperone
ASGR2 asialoglycoprotein receptor 2
ASH1L ash1 (absent, small, or homeotic)-like (Drosophila)
ASIP agouti signaling protein
ASL argininosuccinate lyase
ASMT acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase
ASMTL acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase-like
ASNA1 arsA arsenite transporter, ATP-binding, homolog 1 (bacterial)
ASNS asparagine synthetase (glutamine-hydrolyzing)
ASNSD1 asparagine synthetase domain containing 1
ASPA aspartoacylase
ASPDH aspartate dehydrogenase domain containing
ASPG asparaginase
ASPH aspartate beta-hydroxylase
ASPHD1 aspartate beta-hydroxylase domain containing 1
ASPRV1 aspartic peptidase, retroviral-like 1
ASRGL1 asparaginase like 1
ASS1 argininosuccinate synthase 1
ASTE1 asteroid homolog 1 (Drosophila)
ASTL astacin-like metallo-endopeptidase (M12 family)
ASXL1 additional sex combs like transcriptional regulator 1
ASZ1 ankyrin repeat, SAM and basic leucine zipper domain containing 1
ATAD1 ATPase family, AAA domain containing 1
ATAD2B ATPase family, AAA domain containing 2B
ATAT1 alpha tubulin acetyltransferase 1
ATE1 arginyltransferase 1
ATF1 activating transcription factor 1
ATF6B activating transcription factor 6 beta
ATF7IP activating transcription factor 7 interacting protein
ATF7IP2 activating transcription factor 7 interacting protein 2
ATG10 autophagy related 10
ATG16L1 autophagy related 16-like 1 (S. cerevisiae)
ATG2A autophagy related 2A
ATG2B autophagy related 2B
ATG3 autophagy related 3
ATG4A autophagy related 4A, cysteine peptidase
ATG4B autophagy related 4B, cysteine peptidase
ATG4C autophagy related 4C, cysteine peptidase
ATG4D autophagy related 4D, cysteine peptidase
ATHL1 ATH1, acid trehalase-like 1 (yeast)
ATIC 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase/IMP cyclohydrolase
ATL1 atlastin GTPase 1
ATM ATM serine/threonine kinase
ATMIN ATM interactor
ATN1 atrophin 1
ATOH1 atonal homolog 1 (Drosophila)
ATP10A ATPase, class V, type 10A
ATP10B ATPase, class V, type 10B
ATP10D ATPase, class V, type 10D
ATP11A ATPase, class VI, type 11A
ATP11B ATPase, class VI, type 11B
ATP11C ATPase, class VI, type 11C
ATP12A ATPase, H+/K+ transporting, nongastric, alpha polypeptide
ATP13A1 ATPase type 13A1
ATP1A1 ATPase, Na+/K+ transporting, alpha 1 polypeptide
ATP1B4 ATPase, Na+/K+ transporting, beta 4 polypeptide
ATP2A1 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, cardiac muscle, fast twitch 1
ATP2A2 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, cardiac muscle, slow twitch 2
ATP2A3 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, ubiquitous
ATP2B1 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, plasma membrane 1
ATP2C1 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, type 2C, member 1
ATP4A ATPase, H+/K+ exchanging, alpha polypeptide
ATP5A1 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, alpha subunit 1, cardiac muscle
ATP5B ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, beta polypeptide
ATP5C1 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, gamma polypeptide 1
ATP5D ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, delta subunit
ATP5E ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, epsilon subunit
ATP5F1 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit B1
ATP5G1 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit C1 (subunit 9)
ATP5H ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit d
ATP5I ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit E
ATP5J ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit F6
ATP5J2 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit F2
ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G
ATP5L2 ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G2
ATP5O ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, O subunit
ATP5S ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit s (factor B)
ATP6AP2 ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal accessory protein 2
ATP6V0A1 ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal V0 subunit a1
ATP6V0E1 ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 9kDa, V0 subunit e1
ATP6V0E2 ATPase, H+ transporting V0 subunit e2
ATP6V1A ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 70kDa, V1 subunit A
ATP6V1E1 ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 31kDa, V1 subunit E1
ATP6V1F ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 14kDa, V1 subunit F
ATP6V1H ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 50/57kDa, V1 subunit H
ATP7A ATPase, Cu++ transporting, alpha polypeptide
ATP7B ATPase, Cu++ transporting, beta polypeptide
ATP8A1 ATPase, aminophospholipid transporter (APLT), class I, type 8A, member 1
ATP8A2 ATPase, aminophospholipid transporter, class I, type 8A, member 2
ATP8B1 ATPase, aminophospholipid transporter, class I, type 8B, member 1
ATP8B4 ATPase, class I, type 8B, member 4
ATP9A ATPase, class II, type 9A
ATP9B ATPase, class II, type 9B
ATPIF1 ATPase inhibitory factor 1
ATR ATR serine/threonine kinase
ATRIP ATR interacting protein
ATRX alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked
ATXN1 ataxin 1
ATXN1L ataxin 1-like
ATXN7L3 ataxin 7-like 3
AURKA aurora kinase A
AURKAIP1 aurora kinase A interacting protein 1
AURKB aurora kinase B
AURKC aurora kinase C
AVP arginine vasopressin
AVPR1A arginine vasopressin receptor 1A
AWAT1 acyl-CoA wax alcohol acyltransferase 1
AXIN1 axin 1
AXL AXL receptor tyrosine kinase
AZGP1 alpha-2-glycoprotein 1, zinc-binding
AZIN1 antizyme inhibitor 1
AZU1 azurocidin 1
B2M beta-2-microglobulin
B3GALNT1 beta-1,3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 (globoside blood group)
B3GALNT2 beta-1,3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 2
B3GALT1 UDP-Gal:betaGlcNAc beta 1,3-galactosyltransferase, polypeptide 1
B3GALT6 UDP-Gal:betaGal beta 1,3-galactosyltransferase polypeptide 6
B3GALTL beta 1,3-galactosyltransferase-like
B3GAT1 beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 1
B3GNT2 UDP-GlcNAc:betaGal beta-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2
B3GNTL1 UDP-GlcNAc:betaGal beta-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-like 1
B4GALNT1 beta-1,4-N-acetyl-galactosaminyl transferase 1
B4GALT1 UDP-Gal:betaGlcNAc beta 1,4- galactosyltransferase, polypeptide 1
B4GALT7 xylosylprotein beta 1,4-galactosyltransferase, polypeptide 7
BAAT bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase
BABAM1 BRISC and BRCA1 A complex member 1
BACH1 BTB and CNC homology 1, basic leucine zipper transcription factor 1
BAD BCL2-associated agonist of cell death
BAG1 BCL2-associated athanogene
BAG2 BCL2-associated athanogene 2
BAHD1 bromo adjacent homology domain containing 1
BAK1 BCL2-antagonist/killer 1
BANF1 barrier to autointegration factor 1
BANP BTG3 associated nuclear protein
BAP1 BRCA1 associated protein-1 (ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase)
BARD1 BRCA1 associated RING domain 1
BARHL1 BarH-like homeobox 1
BARX1 BARX homeobox 1
BATF basic leucine zipper transcription factor, ATF-like
BATF2 basic leucine zipper transcription factor, ATF-like 2
BAX BCL2-associated X protein
BAZ1A bromodomain adjacent to zinc finger domain, 1A
BAZ1B bromodomain adjacent to zinc finger domain, 1B
BBOX1 butyrobetaine (gamma), 2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase (gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase) 1
BBS10 Bardet-Biedl syndrome 10
BBS4 Bardet-Biedl syndrome 4
BBX bobby sox homolog (Drosophila)
BCAN brevican
BCAS2 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 2
BCAT1 branched chain amino-acid transaminase 1, cytosolic
BCAT2 branched chain amino-acid transaminase 2, mitochondrial
BCCIP BRCA2 and CDKN1A interacting protein
BCDIN3D BCDIN3 domain containing
BCHE butyrylcholinesterase
BCKDHA branched chain keto acid dehydrogenase E1, alpha polypeptide
BCKDHB branched chain keto acid dehydrogenase E1, beta polypeptide
BCKDK branched chain ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase
BCL10 B-cell CLL/lymphoma 10
BCL11A B-cell CLL/lymphoma 11A (zinc finger protein)
BCL11B B-cell CLL/lymphoma 11B (zinc finger protein)
BCL2 B-cell CLL/lymphoma 2
BCL2L10 BCL2-like 10 (apoptosis facilitator)
BCL9L B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9-like
BCLAF1 BCL2-associated transcription factor 1
BCO1 beta-carotene oxygenase 1
BCOR BCL6 corepressor
BCORL1 BCL6 corepressor-like 1
BCR breakpoint cluster region
BDH1 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, type 1
BDNF brain-derived neurotrophic factor
BDP1 B double prime 1, subunit of RNA polymerase III transcription initiation factor IIIB
BECN1 beclin 1, autophagy related
BECN2 beclin 2
BFAR bifunctional apoptosis regulator
BHLHA15 basic helix-loop-helix family, member a15
BHLHA9 basic helix-loop-helix family, member a9
BHLHE22 basic helix-loop-helix family, member e22
BHMT betaine--homocysteine S-methyltransferase
BHMT2 betaine--homocysteine S-methyltransferase 2
BID BH3 interacting domain death agonist
BIRC2 baculoviral IAP repeat containing 2
BLK BLK proto-oncogene, Src family tyrosine kinase
BLMH bleomycin hydrolase
BLOC1S1 biogenesis of lysosomal organelles complex-1, subunit 1
BLVRA biliverdin reductase A
BLVRB biliverdin reductase B
BMP1 bone morphogenetic protein 1
BMP10 bone morphogenetic protein 10
BMP2K BMP2 inducible kinase
BMPR1A bone morphogenetic protein receptor, type IA
BMPR1B bone morphogenetic protein receptor, type IB
BMPR2 bone morphogenetic protein receptor, type II (serine/threonine kinase)
BNC1 basonuclin 1
BNIP1 BCL2/adenovirus E1B 19kDa interacting protein 1
BNIP3L BCL2/adenovirus E1B 19kDa interacting protein 3-like
BOK BCL2-related ovarian killer
BOP1 block of proliferation 1
BPGM 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate mutase
BPHL biphenyl hydrolase-like (serine hydrolase)
BPNT1 3'(2'), 5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase 1
BPTF bromodomain PHD finger transcription factor
BRAF B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase
BRAP BRCA1 associated protein
BRCA1 breast cancer 1, early onset
BRCC3 BRCA1/BRCA2-containing complex, subunit 3
BRD1 bromodomain containing 1
BRDT bromodomain, testis-specific
BRF1 BRF1, RNA polymerase III transcription initiation factor 90 kDa subunit
BRIP1 BRCA1 interacting protein C-terminal helicase 1
BRMS1 breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1
BRMS1L breast cancer metastasis-suppressor 1-like
BRPF1 bromodomain and PHD finger containing, 1
BRS3 bombesin-like receptor 3
BRSK1 BR serine/threonine kinase 1
BRWD1 bromodomain and WD repeat domain containing 1
BSCL2 Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy 2 (seipin)
BSG basigin (Ok blood group)
BST1 bone marrow stromal cell antigen 1
BSX brain-specific homeobox
BTAF1 BTAF1 RNA polymerase II, B-TFIID transcription factor-associated, 170kDa
BTD biotinidase
BTF3 basic transcription factor 3
BTG2 BTG family, member 2
BTK Bruton agammaglobulinemia tyrosine kinase
BTN2A1 butyrophilin, subfamily 2, member A1
BTRC beta-transducin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
BUB1 BUB1 mitotic checkpoint serine/threonine kinase
BUB1B BUB1 mitotic checkpoint serine/threonine kinase B
BUB3 BUB3 mitotic checkpoint protein
BUD13 BUD13 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
BYSL bystin-like
BZW1 basic leucine zipper and W2 domains 1
C10ORF2 chromosome 10 open reading frame 2
C1D C1D nuclear receptor corepressor
C1GALT1 core 1 synthase, glycoprotein-N-acetylgalactosamine 3-beta-galactosyltransferase 1
C1GALT1C1 C1GALT1-specific chaperone 1
C1QA complement component 1, q subcomponent, A chain
C1QB complement component 1, q subcomponent, B chain
C1QBP complement component 1, q subcomponent binding protein
C1QC complement component 1, q subcomponent, C chain
C1R complement component 1, r subcomponent
C1RL complement component 1, r subcomponent-like
C1S complement component 1, s subcomponent
C2 complement component 2
C2CD3 C2 calcium-dependent domain containing 3
C4BPA complement component 4 binding protein, alpha
C4BPB complement component 4 binding protein, beta
C8A complement component 8, alpha polypeptide
C8B complement component 8, beta polypeptide
C8G complement component 8, gamma polypeptide
C9ORF3 chromosome 9 open reading frame 3
CA1 carbonic anhydrase I
CA13 carbonic anhydrase XIII
CA14 carbonic anhydrase XIV
CA3 carbonic anhydrase III
CA4 carbonic anhydrase IV
CA5A carbonic anhydrase VA, mitochondrial
CA5B carbonic anhydrase VB, mitochondrial
CA6 carbonic anhydrase VI
CA7 carbonic anhydrase VII
CA8 carbonic anhydrase VIII
CA9 carbonic anhydrase IX
CAB39 calcium binding protein 39
CACNA1A calcium channel, voltage-dependent, P/Q type, alpha 1A subunit
CACNA1D calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, alpha 1D subunit
CACNA1E calcium channel, voltage-dependent, R type, alpha 1E subunit
CACNA1H calcium channel, voltage-dependent, T type, alpha 1H subunit
CACNA2D2 calcium channel, voltage-dependent, alpha 2/delta subunit 2
CACTIN cactin, spliceosome C complex subunit
CACUL1 CDK2-associated, cullin domain 1
CAD carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 2, aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase
CALCOCO1 calcium binding and coiled-coil domain 1
CALCR calcitonin receptor
CALR calreticulin
CALR3 calreticulin 3
CAMK1 calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I
CAMK1D calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase ID
CAMK1G calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IG
CAMK2A calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II alpha
CAMK2B calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II beta
CAMK2D calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II delta
CAMK2G calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II gamma
CAMK4 calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV
CAMKK1 calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 1, alpha
CAMKK2 calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2, beta
CAMKMT calmodulin-lysine N-methyltransferase
CAMKV CaM kinase-like vesicle-associated
CAMLG calcium modulating ligand
CAMTA1 calmodulin binding transcription activator 1
CAND1 cullin-associated and neddylation-dissociated 1
CAND2 cullin-associated and neddylation-dissociated 2 (putative)
CANT1 calcium activated nucleotidase 1
CANX calnexin
CAPN1 calpain 1, (mu/I) large subunit
CAPN2 calpain 2, (m/II) large subunit
CAPN3 calpain 3, (p94)
CAPN5 calpain 5
CAPNS1 calpain, small subunit 1
CARF calcium responsive transcription factor
CARKD carbohydrate kinase domain containing
CARM1 coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1
CARNS1 carnosine synthase 1
CARS cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase
CARS2 cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial (putative)
CASC3 cancer susceptibility candidate 3
CASK calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase (MAGUK family)
CASP1 caspase 1, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
CASP10 caspase 10, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
CASP8AP2 caspase 8 associated protein 2
CASR calcium-sensing receptor
CASS4 Cas scaffolding protein family member 4
CASZ1 castor zinc finger 1
CAT catalase
CAV3 caveolin 3
CBFA2T3 core-binding factor, runt domain, alpha subunit 2; translocated to, 3
CBFB core-binding factor, beta subunit
CBLC Cbl proto-oncogene C, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
CBLL1 Cbl proto-oncogene-like 1, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
CBR1 carbonyl reductase 1
CBX2 chromobox homolog 2
CC2D1A coiled-coil and C2 domain containing 1A
CC2D1B coiled-coil and C2 domain containing 1B
CCAR1 cell division cycle and apoptosis regulator 1
CCAR2 cell cycle and apoptosis regulator 2
CCBL1 cysteine conjugate-beta lyase, cytoplasmic
CCBL2 cysteine conjugate-beta lyase 2
CCK cholecystokinin
CCKBR cholecystokinin B receptor
CCL11 chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 11
CCL2 chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2
CCM2 cerebral cavernous malformation 2
CCNB1 cyclin B1
CCNB1IP1 cyclin B1 interacting protein 1, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
CCNC cyclin C
CCND1 cyclin D1
CCNE1 cyclin E1
CCNF cyclin F
CCNK cyclin K
CCNO cyclin O
CCNT1 cyclin T1
CCR5 chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 5 (gene/pseudogene)
CCRN4L CCR4 carbon catabolite repression 4-like (S. cerevisiae)
CCS copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase
CCT2 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 2 (beta)
CCT3 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 3 (gamma)
CCT4 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 4 (delta)
CCT5 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 5 (epsilon)
CCT6A chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 6A (zeta 1)
CCT6B chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 6B (zeta 2)
CCT7 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 7 (eta)
CCT8 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 8 (theta)
CCT8L2 chaperonin containing TCP1, subunit 8 (theta)-like 2
CD2BP2 CD2 (cytoplasmic tail) binding protein 2
CD36 CD36 molecule (thrombospondin receptor)
CD3EAP CD3e molecule, epsilon associated protein
CD4 CD4 molecule
CD40LG CD40 ligand
CD44 CD44 molecule (Indian blood group)
CD46 CD46 molecule, complement regulatory protein
CD55 CD55 molecule, decay accelerating factor for complement (Cromer blood group)
CD74 CD74 molecule, major histocompatibility complex, class II invariant chain
CDA cytidine deaminase
CDADC1 cytidine and dCMP deaminase domain containing 1
CDC14A cell division cycle 14A
CDC14B cell division cycle 14B
CDC16 cell division cycle 16
CDC25C cell division cycle 25C
CDC37L1 cell division cycle 37-like 1
CDC42BPA CDC42 binding protein kinase alpha (DMPK-like)
CDC42BPB CDC42 binding protein kinase beta (DMPK-like)
CDC42BPG CDC42 binding protein kinase gamma (DMPK-like)
CDC5L cell division cycle 5-like
CDC6 cell division cycle 6
CDCA3 cell division cycle associated 3
CDCA7L cell division cycle associated 7-like
CDH1 cadherin 1, type 1, E-cadherin (epithelial)
CDK1 cyclin-dependent kinase 1
CDK11A cyclin-dependent kinase 11A
CDK11B cyclin-dependent kinase 11B
CDK2AP1 cyclin-dependent kinase 2 associated protein 1
CDK5R1 cyclin-dependent kinase 5, regulatory subunit 1 (p35)
CDK5RAP1 CDK5 regulatory subunit associated protein 1
CDKAL1 CDK5 regulatory subunit associated protein 1-like 1
CDKL1 cyclin-dependent kinase-like 1 (CDC2-related kinase)
CDKL3 cyclin-dependent kinase-like 3
CDKN1A cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (p21, Cip1)
CDKN1B cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B (p27, Kip1)
CDKN1C cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1C (p57, Kip2)
CDKN2B cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2B (p15, inhibits CDK4)
CDKN2D cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2D (p19, inhibits CDK4)
CDKN3 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3
CDO1 cysteine dioxygenase type 1
CDS1 CDP-diacylglycerol synthase (phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase) 1
CDT1 chromatin licensing and DNA replication factor 1
CDX2 caudal type homeobox 2
CDYL chromodomain protein, Y-like
CEBPA CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), alpha
CEBPB CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), beta
CEBPD CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), delta
CEBPE CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), epsilon
CEBPG CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), gamma
CEBPZ CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), zeta
CECR1 cat eye syndrome chromosome region, candidate 1
CELA1 chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 1
CELA2A chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 2A
CELA2B chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 2B
CELF1 CUGBP, Elav-like family member 1
CEMIP cell migration inducing protein, hyaluronan binding
CENPE centromere protein E, 312kDa
CENPF centromere protein F, 350/400kDa
CENPU centromere protein U
CENPV centromere protein V
CEP164 centrosomal protein 164kDa
CEPT1 choline/ethanolamine phosphotransferase 1
CERK ceramide kinase
CERS1 ceramide synthase 1
CES1 carboxylesterase 1
CES4A carboxylesterase 4A
CETP cholesteryl ester transfer protein, plasma
CFB complement factor B
CFD complement factor D (adipsin)
CFH complement factor H
CFHR1 complement factor H-related 1
CFI complement factor I
CFL1 cofilin 1 (non-muscle)
CFLAR CASP8 and FADD-like apoptosis regulator
CFP complement factor properdin
CFTR cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (ATP-binding cassette sub-family C, member 7)
CGA glycoprotein hormones, alpha polypeptide
CGGBP1 CGG triplet repeat binding protein 1
CGN cingulin
CGNL1 cingulin-like 1
CH25H cholesterol 25-hydroxylase
CHAC1 ChaC glutathione-specific gamma-glutamylcyclotransferase 1
CHAF1A chromatin assembly factor 1, subunit A (p150)
CHAF1B chromatin assembly factor 1, subunit B (p60)
CHAT choline O-acetyltransferase
CHCHD10 coiled-coil-helix-coiled-coil-helix domain containing 10
CHD1 chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 1
CHD1L chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 1-like
CHDH choline dehydrogenase
CHEK1 checkpoint kinase 1
CHERP calcium homeostasis endoplasmic reticulum protein
CHFR checkpoint with forkhead and ring finger domains, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
CHI3L1 chitinase 3-like 1 (cartilage glycoprotein-39)
CHI3L2 chitinase 3-like 2
CHIA chitinase, acidic
CHID1 chitinase domain containing 1
CHIT1 chitinase 1 (chitotriosidase)
CHKA choline kinase alpha
CHKB choline kinase beta
CHM choroideremia (Rab escort protein 1)
CHML choroideremia-like (Rab escort protein 2)
CHMP1A charged multivesicular body protein 1A
CHMP4B charged multivesicular body protein 4B
CHMP4C charged multivesicular body protein 4C
CHORDC1 cysteine and histidine-rich domain (CHORD) containing 1
CHP1 calcineurin-like EF-hand protein 1
CHPF chondroitin polymerizing factor
CHPF2 chondroitin polymerizing factor 2
CHPT1 choline phosphotransferase 1
CHRAC1 chromatin accessibility complex 1
CHRM1 cholinergic receptor, muscarinic 1
CHST14 carbohydrate (N-acetylgalactosamine 4-0) sulfotransferase 14
CHST15 carbohydrate (N-acetylgalactosamine 4-sulfate 6-O) sulfotransferase 15
CHST2 carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine-6-O) sulfotransferase 2
CHST3 carbohydrate (chondroitin 6) sulfotransferase 3
CHST4 carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine 6-O) sulfotransferase 4
CHTF18 CTF18, chromosome transmission fidelity factor 18 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
CHTOP chromatin target of PRMT1
CHUK conserved helix-loop-helix ubiquitous kinase
CHURC1 churchill domain containing 1
CHURC1-FNTB CHURC1-FNTB readthrough
CIAO1 cytosolic iron-sulfur assembly component 1
CIART circadian associated repressor of transcription
CIB1 calcium and integrin binding 1 (calmyrin)
CIC capicua transcriptional repressor
CIDEA cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector a
CIDEB cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector b
CIDEC cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector c
CIITA class II, major histocompatibility complex, transactivator
CINP cyclin-dependent kinase 2 interacting protein
CIPC CLOCK-interacting pacemaker
CIR1 corepressor interacting with RBPJ, 1
CIRH1A cirrhosis, autosomal recessive 1A (cirhin)
CISD2 CDGSH iron sulfur domain 2
CISH cytokine inducible SH2-containing protein
CIT citron rho-interacting serine/threonine kinase
CITED1 Cbp/p300-interacting transactivator, with Glu/Asp-rich carboxy-terminal domain, 1
CKB creatine kinase, brain
CKM creatine kinase, muscle
CKMT2 creatine kinase, mitochondrial 2 (sarcomeric)
CLASP2 cytoplasmic linker associated protein 2
CLASRP CLK4-associating serine/arginine rich protein
CLCA1 chloride channel accessory 1
CLGN calmegin
CLIP3 CAP-GLY domain containing linker protein 3
CLK1 CDC-like kinase 1
CLN3 ceroid-lipofuscinosis, neuronal 3
CLN6 ceroid-lipofuscinosis, neuronal 6, late infantile, variant
CLN8 ceroid-lipofuscinosis, neuronal 8 (epilepsy, progressive with mental retardation)
CLNS1A chloride channel, nucleotide-sensitive, 1A
CLOCK clock circadian regulator
CLP1 cleavage and polyadenylation factor I subunit 1
CLPP caseinolytic mitochondrial matrix peptidase proteolytic subunit
CLPS colipase, pancreatic
CLPSL1 colipase-like 1
CLPX caseinolytic mitochondrial matrix peptidase chaperone subunit
CLSPN claspin
CLTC clathrin, heavy chain (Hc)
CLU clusterin
CLYBL citrate lyase beta like
CMA1 chymase 1, mast cell
CMAS cytidine monophosphate N-acetylneuraminic acid synthetase
CMBL carboxymethylenebutenolidase homolog (Pseudomonas)
CMPK1 cytidine monophosphate (UMP-CMP) kinase 1, cytosolic
CMPK2 cytidine monophosphate (UMP-CMP) kinase 2, mitochondrial
CMTR1 cap methyltransferase 1
CNDP1 carnosine dipeptidase 1 (metallopeptidase M20 family)
CNDP2 CNDP dipeptidase 2 (metallopeptidase M20 family)
CNEP1R1 CTD nuclear envelope phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 1
CNOT1 CCR4-NOT transcription complex, subunit 1
CNOT10 CCR4-NOT transcription complex, subunit 10
CNOT6L CCR4-NOT transcription complex, subunit 6-like
CNP 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3' phosphodiesterase
CNTLN centlein, centrosomal protein
CNTN2 contactin 2 (axonal)
COASY CoA synthase
COG2 component of oligomeric golgi complex 2
COL10A1 collagen, type X, alpha 1
COL11A1 collagen, type XI, alpha 1
COL13A1 collagen, type XIII, alpha 1
COL14A1 collagen, type XIV, alpha 1
COL16A1 collagen, type XVI, alpha 1
COL17A1 collagen, type XVII, alpha 1
COL18A1 collagen, type XVIII, alpha 1
COL19A1 collagen, type XIX, alpha 1
COL23A1 collagen, type XXIII, alpha 1
COL25A1 collagen, type XXV, alpha 1
COL26A1 collagen, type XXVI, alpha 1
COL2A1 collagen, type II, alpha 1
COL3A1 collagen, type III, alpha 1
COL4A3 collagen, type IV, alpha 3 (Goodpasture antigen)
COL4A3BP collagen, type IV, alpha 3 (Goodpasture antigen) binding protein
COL7A1 collagen, type VII, alpha 1
COL9A1 collagen, type IX, alpha 1
COLQ collagen-like tail subunit (single strand of homotrimer) of asymmetric acetylcholinesterase
COMMD1 copper metabolism (Murr1) domain containing 1
COMMD10 COMM domain containing 10
COMMD2 COMM domain containing 2
COMT catechol-O-methyltransferase
COMTD1 catechol-O-methyltransferase domain containing 1
COPRS coordinator of PRMT5, differentiation stimulator
COPS7A COP9 signalosome subunit 7A
COPS7B COP9 signalosome subunit 7B
COQ2 coenzyme Q2 4-hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase
COQ3 coenzyme Q3 methyltransferase
COQ5 coenzyme Q5 homolog, methyltransferase (S. cerevisiae)
COQ6 coenzyme Q6 monooxygenase
CORIN corin, serine peptidase
COX1
COX10 COX10 heme A:farnesyltransferase cytochrome c oxidase assembly factor
COX15 cytochrome c oxidase assembly homolog 15 (yeast)
COX17 COX17 cytochrome c oxidase copper chaperone
COX19 COX19 cytochrome c oxidase assembly factor
COX4I1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV isoform 1
COX5B cytochrome c oxidase subunit Vb
COX6A1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIa polypeptide 1
COX6B1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIb polypeptide 1 (ubiquitous)
COX6C cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIc
COX7A1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIIa polypeptide 1 (muscle)
COX7A2L cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIIa polypeptide 2 like
COX7C cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIIc
COX8A cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIIIA (ubiquitous)
CP ceruloplasmin (ferroxidase)
CPA1 carboxypeptidase A1 (pancreatic)
CPA3 carboxypeptidase A3 (mast cell)
CPA4 carboxypeptidase A4
CPB1 carboxypeptidase B1 (tissue)
CPB2 carboxypeptidase B2 (plasma)
CPD carboxypeptidase D
CPE carboxypeptidase E
CPEB1 cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein 1
CPM carboxypeptidase M
CPN1 carboxypeptidase N, polypeptide 1
CPNE1 copine I
CPNE3 copine III
CPNE6 copine VI (neuronal)
CPNE7 copine VII
CPOX coproporphyrinogen oxidase
CPPED1 calcineurin-like phosphoesterase domain containing 1
CPQ carboxypeptidase Q
CPS1 carbamoyl-phosphate synthase 1, mitochondrial
CPSF1 cleavage and polyadenylation specific factor 1, 160kDa
CPSF3 cleavage and polyadenylation specific factor 3, 73kDa
CPSF3L cleavage and polyadenylation specific factor 3-like
CPT1A carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (liver)
CPT1B carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B (muscle)
CPT2 carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2
CPVL carboxypeptidase, vitellogenic-like
CPZ carboxypeptidase Z
CR1 complement component (3b/4b) receptor 1 (Knops blood group)
CR2 complement component (3d/Epstein Barr virus) receptor 2
CRABP2 cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2
CRADD CASP2 and RIPK1 domain containing adaptor with death domain
CRAT carnitine O-acetyltransferase
CRBN cereblon
CRCP CGRP receptor component
CREB1 cAMP responsive element binding protein 1
CREB3L1 cAMP responsive element binding protein 3-like 1
CREBBP CREB binding protein
CREBL2 cAMP responsive element binding protein-like 2
CREBRF CREB3 regulatory factor
CREBZF CREB/ATF bZIP transcription factor
CREM cAMP responsive element modulator
CRH corticotropin releasing hormone
CRHBP corticotropin releasing hormone binding protein
CRKL v-crk avian sarcoma virus CT10 oncogene homolog-like
CRLS1 cardiolipin synthase 1
CRNKL1 crooked neck pre-mRNA splicing factor 1
CROT carnitine O-octanoyltransferase
CRTAP cartilage associated protein
CRTC1 CREB regulated transcription coactivator 1
CRX cone-rod homeobox
CRY1 cryptochrome circadian clock 1
CRYAB crystallin, alpha B
CRYL1 crystallin, lambda 1
CRYZ crystallin, zeta (quinone reductase)
CRYZL1 crystallin, zeta (quinone reductase)-like 1
CS citrate synthase
CSAD cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase
CSDC2 cold shock domain containing C2, RNA binding
CSDE1 cold shock domain containing E1, RNA-binding
CSF1R colony stimulating factor 1 receptor
CSK c-src tyrosine kinase
CSNK1A1 casein kinase 1, alpha 1
CSNK1A1L casein kinase 1, alpha 1-like
CSNK1D casein kinase 1, delta
CSNK1G1 casein kinase 1, gamma 1
CSNK2A1 casein kinase 2, alpha 1 polypeptide
CSNK2A2 casein kinase 2, alpha prime polypeptide
CSNK2B casein kinase 2, beta polypeptide
CSPG5 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 5 (neuroglycan C)
CSRNP1 cysteine-serine-rich nuclear protein 1
CSRP2BP CSRP2 binding protein
CSTA cystatin A (stefin A)
CSTF1 cleavage stimulation factor, 3' pre-RNA, subunit 1, 50kDa
CSTF2T cleavage stimulation factor, 3' pre-RNA, subunit 2, 64kDa, tau variant
CTBP1 C-terminal binding protein 1
CTBS chitobiase, di-N-acetyl-
CTC1 CTS telomere maintenance complex component 1
CTCF CCCTC-binding factor (zinc finger protein)
CTCFL CCCTC-binding factor (zinc finger protein)-like
CTDNEP1 CTD nuclear envelope phosphatase 1
CTDP1 CTD (carboxy-terminal domain, RNA polymerase II, polypeptide A) phosphatase, subunit 1
CTDSP1 CTD (carboxy-terminal domain, RNA polymerase II, polypeptide A) small phosphatase 1
CTDSPL CTD (carboxy-terminal domain, RNA polymerase II, polypeptide A) small phosphatase-like
CTDSPL2 CTD (carboxy-terminal domain, RNA polymerase II, polypeptide A) small phosphatase like 2
CTGF connective tissue growth factor
CTH cystathionine gamma-lyase
CTIF CBP80/20-dependent translation initiation factor
CTNNB1 catenin (cadherin-associated protein), beta 1, 88kDa
CTNNBL1 catenin, beta like 1
CTNND1 catenin (cadherin-associated protein), delta 1
CTNS cystinosin, lysosomal cystine transporter
CTPS1 CTP synthase 1
CTR9 CTR9, Paf1/RNA polymerase II complex component
CTRB2 chymotrypsinogen B2
CTRC chymotrypsin C (caldecrin)
CTRL chymotrypsin-like
CTSA cathepsin A
CTSB cathepsin B
CTSC cathepsin C
CTSD cathepsin D
CTSE cathepsin E
CTSF cathepsin F
CTSG cathepsin G
CTSH cathepsin H
CTSK cathepsin K
CTSL cathepsin L
CTSO cathepsin O
CTSS cathepsin S
CTSV cathepsin V
CTSW cathepsin W
CTSZ cathepsin Z
CTTNBP2NL CTTNBP2 N-terminal like
CTU1 cytosolic thiouridylase subunit 1
CTU2 cytosolic thiouridylase subunit 2 homolog (S. pombe)
CUBN cubilin (intrinsic factor-cobalamin receptor)
CUL1 cullin 1
CUL4A cullin 4A
CUL4B cullin 4B
CUX1 cut-like homeobox 1
CUZD1 CUB and zona pellucida-like domains 1
CWC15 CWC15 spliceosome-associated protein
CWC27 CWC27 spliceosome-associated protein homolog (S. cerevisiae)
CWF19L1 CWF19-like 1, cell cycle control (S. pombe)
CWH43 cell wall biogenesis 43 C-terminal homolog (S. cerevisiae)
CXCL8 chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 8
CXXC1 CXXC finger protein 1
CYB561 cytochrome b561
CYB561A3 cytochrome b561 family, member A3
CYB561D1 cytochrome b561 family, member D1
CYB5A cytochrome b5 type A (microsomal)
CYB5B cytochrome b5 type B (outer mitochondrial membrane)
CYB5RL cytochrome b5 reductase-like
CYBB cytochrome b-245, beta polypeptide
CYBRD1 cytochrome b reductase 1
CYC1 cytochrome c-1
CYCS cytochrome c, somatic
CYFIP2 cytoplasmic FMR1 interacting protein 2
CYGB cytoglobin
CYLD cylindromatosis (turban tumor syndrome)
CYP11B1 cytochrome P450, family 11, subfamily B, polypeptide 1
CYP1A1 cytochrome P450, family 1, subfamily A, polypeptide 1
CYP1B1 cytochrome P450, family 1, subfamily B, polypeptide 1
CYP2A13 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily A, polypeptide 13
CYP2C18 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily C, polypeptide 18
CYP2C8 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily C, polypeptide 8
CYP2D6 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily D, polypeptide 6
CYP2E1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily E, polypeptide 1
CYP2F1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily F, polypeptide 1
CYP2J2 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily J, polypeptide 2
CYP2R1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily R, polypeptide 1
CYP2S1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily S, polypeptide 1
CYP2U1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily U, polypeptide 1
CYP2W1 cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily W, polypeptide 1
CYP4F11 cytochrome P450, family 4, subfamily F, polypeptide 11
CYP4V2 cytochrome P450, family 4, subfamily V, polypeptide 2
CYP4X1 cytochrome P450, family 4, subfamily X, polypeptide 1
CYP4Z1 cytochrome P450, family 4, subfamily Z, polypeptide 1
CYR61 cysteine-rich, angiogenic inducer, 61
CYTL1 cytokine-like 1
D2HGDH D-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase
DAB2IP DAB2 interacting protein
DACH2 dachshund family transcription factor 2
DAD1 defender against cell death 1
DAG1 dystroglycan 1 (dystrophin-associated glycoprotein 1)
DAGLA diacylglycerol lipase, alpha
DAGLB diacylglycerol lipase, beta
DALRD3 DALR anticodon binding domain containing 3
DAO D-amino-acid oxidase
DAP death-associated protein
DAP3 death associated protein 3
DAPK1 death-associated protein kinase 1
DAPP1 dual adaptor of phosphotyrosine and 3-phosphoinositides
DARS aspartyl-tRNA synthetase
DARS2 aspartyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial
DAXX death-domain associated protein
DBF4 DBF4 zinc finger
DBH dopamine beta-hydroxylase (dopamine beta-monooxygenase)
DBI diazepam binding inhibitor (GABA receptor modulator, acyl-CoA binding protein)
DBP D site of albumin promoter (albumin D-box) binding protein
DBR1 debranching RNA lariats 1
DBT dihydrolipoamide branched chain transacylase E2
DCAF10 DDB1 and CUL4 associated factor 10
DCAF4 DDB1 and CUL4 associated factor 4
DCAKD dephospho-CoA kinase domain containing
DCANP1 dendritic cell-associated nuclear protein
DCD dermcidin
DCK deoxycytidine kinase
DCLRE1A DNA cross-link repair 1A
DCLRE1B DNA cross-link repair 1B
DCLRE1C DNA cross-link repair 1C
DCN decorin
DCP1A decapping mRNA 1A
DCP1B decapping mRNA 1B
DCP2 decapping mRNA 2
DCPS decapping enzyme, scavenger
DCT dopachrome tautomerase
DCTD dCMP deaminase
DCTN1 dynactin 1
DCTN2 dynactin 2 (p50)
DCTPP1 dCTP pyrophosphatase 1
DCX doublecortin
DCXR dicarbonyl/L-xylulose reductase
DDAH1 dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 1
DDB1 damage-specific DNA binding protein 1, 127kDa
DDB2 damage-specific DNA binding protein 2, 48kDa
DDC dopa decarboxylase (aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase)
DDHD1 DDHD domain containing 1
DDIT3 DNA-damage-inducible transcript 3
DDN dendrin
DDO D-aspartate oxidase
DDOST dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide--protein glycosyltransferase subunit (non-catalytic)
DDR1 discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1
DDRGK1 DDRGK domain containing 1
DDT D-dopachrome tautomerase
DDTL D-dopachrome tautomerase-like
DDX1 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box helicase 1
DDX10 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 10
DDX11 DEAD/H (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) box helicase 11
DDX17 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box helicase 17
DDX19A DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 19A
DDX39B DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 39B
DDX3X DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box helicase 3, X-linked
DDX3Y DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box helicase 3, Y-linked
DDX4 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 4
DDX60L DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 60-like
DEAF1 DEAF1 transcription factor
DECR1 2,4-dienoyl CoA reductase 1, mitochondrial
DECR2 2,4-dienoyl CoA reductase 2, peroxisomal
DEDD death effector domain containing
DEDD2 death effector domain containing 2
DEGS1 delta(4)-desaturase, sphingolipid 1
DEK DEK proto-oncogene
DENR density-regulated protein
DEPDC1 DEP domain containing 1
DERA deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase (putative)
DERL1 derlin 1
DESI1 desumoylating isopeptidase 1
DFFA DNA fragmentation factor, 45kDa, alpha polypeptide
DFFB DNA fragmentation factor, 40kDa, beta polypeptide (caspase-activated DNase)
DGAT1 diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1
DGAT2L6 diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 2-like 6
DGCR14 DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 14
DGCR8 DGCR8 microprocessor complex subunit
DGKA diacylglycerol kinase, alpha 80kDa
DGKB diacylglycerol kinase, beta 90kDa
DGKE diacylglycerol kinase, epsilon 64kDa
DGKG diacylglycerol kinase, gamma 90kDa
DGKH diacylglycerol kinase, eta
DGKI diacylglycerol kinase, iota
DGKK diacylglycerol kinase, kappa
DGKQ diacylglycerol kinase, theta 110kDa
DGKZ diacylglycerol kinase, zeta
DGUOK deoxyguanosine kinase
DHCR7 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase
DHDDS dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase
DHDH dihydrodiol dehydrogenase (dimeric)
DHFR dihydrofolate reductase
DHFRL1 dihydrofolate reductase-like 1
DHODH dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (quinone)
DHPS deoxyhypusine synthase
DHRS1 dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR family) member 1
DHRS11 dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR family) member 11
DHRS7B dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR family) member 7B
DHRS7C dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR family) member 7C
DHRSX dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR family) X-linked
DHTKD1 dehydrogenase E1 and transketolase domain containing 1
DHX15 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala-His) box helicase 15
DHX16 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala-His) box polypeptide 16
DHX57 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) box polypeptide 57
DHX58 DEXH (Asp-Glu-X-His) box polypeptide 58
DHX8 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala-His) box polypeptide 8
DHX9 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala-His) box helicase 9
DIABLO diablo, IAP-binding mitochondrial protein
DICER1 dicer 1, ribonuclease type III
DIDO1 death inducer-obliterator 1
DIEXF digestive organ expansion factor homolog (zebrafish)
DIO1 deiodinase, iodothyronine, type I
DIO3 deiodinase, iodothyronine, type III
DIP2A DIP2 disco-interacting protein 2 homolog A (Drosophila)
DIP2B DIP2 disco-interacting protein 2 homolog B (Drosophila)
DIP2C DIP2 disco-interacting protein 2 homolog C (Drosophila)
DIRAS1 DIRAS family, GTP-binding RAS-like 1
DIS3 DIS3 exosome endoribonuclease and 3'-5' exoribonuclease
DIS3L DIS3 like exosome 3'-5' exoribonuclease
DIS3L2 DIS3 like 3'-5' exoribonuclease 2
DISP1 dispatched homolog 1 (Drosophila)
DKC1 dyskeratosis congenita 1, dyskerin
DLAT dihydrolipoamide S-acetyltransferase
DLC1 DLC1 Rho GTPase activating protein
DLD dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase
DLG1 discs, large homolog 1 (Drosophila)
DLGAP5 discs, large (Drosophila) homolog-associated protein 5
DLST dihydrolipoamide S-succinyltransferase (E2 component of 2-oxo-glutarate complex)
DLX5 distal-less homeobox 5
DMAP1 DNA methyltransferase 1 associated protein 1
DMBX1 diencephalon/mesencephalon homeobox 1
DMC1 DNA meiotic recombinase 1
DMD dystrophin
DMGDH dimethylglycine dehydrogenase
DMPK dystrophia myotonica-protein kinase
DMRT1 doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor 1
DMRTA1 DMRT-like family A1
DMRTB1 DMRT-like family B with proline-rich C-terminal, 1
DMRTC2 DMRT-like family C2
DMTF1 cyclin D binding myb-like transcription factor 1
DNA2 DNA replication helicase/nuclease 2
DNAH1 dynein, axonemal, heavy chain 1
DNAI1 dynein, axonemal, intermediate chain 1
DNAJA1 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, subfamily A, member 1
DNAJB11 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, subfamily B, member 11
DNAJC1 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, subfamily C, member 1
DNAL4 dynein, axonemal, light chain 4
DNALI1 dynein, axonemal, light intermediate chain 1
DNASE1 deoxyribonuclease I
DNASE1L1 deoxyribonuclease I-like 1
DNASE2 deoxyribonuclease II, lysosomal
DNASE2B deoxyribonuclease II beta
DNHD1 dynein heavy chain domain 1
DNLZ DNL-type zinc finger
DNM1L dynamin 1-like
DNMT1 DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 1
DNMT3A DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 3 alpha
DNMT3B DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 3 beta
DNMT3L DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 3-like
DNPEP aspartyl aminopeptidase
DNPH1 2'-deoxynucleoside 5'-phosphate N-hydrolase 1
DNTT DNA nucleotidylexotransferase
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Jobs Helping The Blind To See; Triply Offensive
By A.T. On August 9, 2016
Fifty top Republican security experts — including Bush’s CIA Director and Homeland Security chief — say that Trump would be “the most reckless President in American history” and have publicly declared that none of them will vote for him.
You have to read their letter.
You have to send it — respectfully — to anyone you know still in Trump’s camp.
And gently point out that there is no equivalent letter on the other side. No 50 — or 5, or so far as I know even 1 — top Democratic security expert who’s crossed the aisle to issue some similarly dire warning about Hillary.
Yes, there was a snarling Rudy Giuliani on ABC’s “This Week” this past Sunday morning to support Trump as being completely fit to be Commander-in-Chief. But he is the same Rudolph Giuliani who appointed Bernard Kerik to head New York’s police department and supported his appointment to head the Department of Homeland Security. (The appointment was withdrawn and Mr. Kerik served three years in prison.) The same Rudolph Giuliani who overrode expert objections to site New York’s emergency command center in the World Trade Center. (It was destroyed two years later in the attack.)
Certainly there are some good things to say about Giuliani (and Kerik). But I find the logic of those 50 Republican security experts far more compelling than the vitriol Mr. Giuliani offered on “This Week.” (Benghazi — again? Despite all the Republican-led investigations that found nothing? The emails, again? Secretary Clinton agrees there were errors in judgment; but it’s not the nightmare the Republicans would have you believe —click here.)
Read the letter. It is compelling — and chilling.
And can I say one more thing?
The stock market sits at a record high. And what is the stock market, after all, but a barometer of investor expectations for the future. Trump tells us Obama is the worst president in history, that unemployment (4.9%) is off-the-charts high (42%) . . . and on and on. (Our military is a disaster; we have stupid, stupid leaders; his steaks and airline and university were enormous successes.) But the stock market — which presumably expects Trump to lose — is triple its post-Bus low and seems to expect a bright future.
Our Founding Fathers were really well-educated, serious men: eloquent, thoughtful, and courteous. (“Your obedient servant,” and all that.) George H.W., Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, Mitt Romney, Mike Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, former Bush CIA chief Michael Hayden, Michelle and Barack Obama — these are serious, well-educated, courteous, immensely talented people. Can you imagine any of them doing this?
The stock market seems to think we will not elect him. Fifty patriotic Republicans hope the stock market is right.
Read the letter.
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Cardinal George Pell at Melbourne County Court. (Image via CNA)
Cardinal George Pell has reportedly been transferred out of the Melbourne prison in which he has been incarcerated for more than a year after a drone illegally flew over the prison grounds.
According to the Herald Sun newspaper, Pell was moved out of Melbourne Assessment Prison after a drone flew over the prison garden in an apparent attempt to capture footage of him working in the prison garden. A spokesperson for the Australian Justice Department confirmed the drone flight in a statement released to media on Monday.
The cardinal has now been transferred to a maximum-security prison southwest of the city.
Pell had been in the Melbourne prison, located within the downtown area of the city, since his sentencing in December of 2018 on five counts of sexual abuse. For his own safety, Pell has been kept in solitary confinement, although one of his tasks was to tend to a prison garden. On Christmas Eve, a group of about two dozen local Catholics had gathered outside the Melbourne prison to pray and sing Christmas carols for him.
He is now at HM Prison Barwon, a maximum-security prison southwest of Melbourne that holds some notorious crime bosses.
Pell, the former archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney, was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Vatican’s Prefecture for the Economy in 2014 and oversee the Vatican’s finances.
In 2013, Victoria Police opened Operation Tethering, an open-ended investigation into possible crimes by Cardinal Pell, although no victims had come forward against him and there had been no criminal complaints made against him at the time. Although they had found no victims or criminal accusations, in 2015 the program was expanded and put on a more formal footing.
In 2017, Pell was charged with sexually abusing two minors, and left Rome to return to Melbourne and stand trial. He was convicted in 2018 on the evidence of a single victim-accuser, the second supposed victim died of a heroin overdose on April 8, 2014 – one week after the Victoria police email exchange. That second victim had denied on several occasions that he was sexually abused by Pell.
The cardinal’s conviction was upheld on appeal by the Victoria Supreme Court in August. The Australian High Court will hear Pell’s appeal of that decision in 2020.
Barwon Prison, which Pell has been transferred to, has held some high-profile criminals including Pasquale Barbbaro, a drug importer and boss of the Australian branch of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia group.
Mario Condello, a member of the rival gang Carlton Crew, was also incarcerated at Barwon for charges of arson, fraud, and drug trafficking before his murder outside the prison in 2006 after he won bail and during his trial. The prison’s supermax Acacia Unit holds Matthew Johnson, known for brutally murdering gangland boss Carl Williams.
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. Visit her website for an interactive community based on the books.
Tall, blonde Lissa Mansfield is used to being one of the "in" crowd--but being accepted by the popular girls at posh Spencer Academy boarding school in San Francisco is turning out to be harder than she thought. And then there's her New-York-loudmouth roommate, Gillian Chang, who's not just happy to be a Christian herself--she's determined to out Lissa, too! If Lissa can just keep her faith under wraps long enough to hook Callum McCloud, the hottest guy in school, she'll be golden.
But when Callum pressures her to go all the way with him, Lissa has to decide for herself how far is too far. How can she see that line when he's so gorgeous and popular and she's so dazzled? And besides, she's too busy shopping for a Valentino and booking the hottest celeb for the Benefactors Ball. Who knew finding a place at Spencer Academy would be so complicated?
All About Us #2: The Fruit of My Lipstick (August, 2008)
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Ghost In The Shell film might be the most disappointing live-action reboot ever
chuuken
Tribus: Michigan, USA
boondox wrote:
It's like someone turned Gone With The Wind into a buddy-cop comedy starring Scarlett and Mammy. This reboot couldn't have missed the point harder.
Watched SAC but never the 1995 film. ...
I get why people are passionate about movies and why there's always angst at remakes and sequels, but I think of remakes as a revision of an old story. That's why there'll always be reboots of films like Spider-Man, Batman, etc. You may not always agree with some of the decisions the film makers and directors may've made, but on it's own, sometimes the remake is a good revision of the old fable.
You worded that carefully, and I agree with your general point. But if you miss the tone or the plot hard enough, it's not the same story anymore. It's a different story and you run the risk of it being good, shit or forgettable.
I want to see this movie, but the review is troubling. One of the thing that stands out is having Major Kusinagi get emotional. I always felt her being unemotional was one of her defining characteristics, because it helped further blur the line between her being a human with robot parts, or a former-human robot. The rest of section 9 was there to show the contrast and act as the more emotional human characters. Particularly the rookie.(Togusa) as the emotionally "hot" one and Battou as the more emotionally mature one.
And I suggest you watch the 95 anime for the experience. It IS slower than hell in places, but it leaves you with more of an open ended ending to think about.
Tribus: America
Crazy Diamond wrote:
Good thing I have never seen the anime and know nothing about the books. I'll bet the people that are complaining about the casting here are the same people that would "celebrate diversity" if a non-Caucasian was cast in a role that was Caucasian in its original source material.
If you made Tony Stark a black man, very little would change. The character could still be a CEO of a major company. He could still be a brilliant inventor. He would still be able to struggle with his alcoholism and his playboy nature, which serve as an opiate for his PTSD and his coping mechanism for losing his parents when he was younger. You could even, perhaps, inject racial commentary into the story - cribbing from BLM stuff, imagine seeing a race riot with a police force carrying Stark weapons and using Stark-emblazoned APCs. Changing Tony Stark from a white guy to a black guy would either keep the story the same, or improve it.
Edit: Tony is Iron Man.... wow that was an embarrassing mistake.
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Danegelt
Tribus: Indiana
Worse than Aeon Flux?
Worminator
Too many people posting to let us know they haven't seen the 1995 movie.
Watch it. Thank me later.
TechCrazy wrote:
Scarlet Johanson is one the most bizarre picks for the main character imaginable.
Personally my Casting would have been,
Major - Michelle Yeoh ( Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon )
Gataou - Dolph Lundgren ( Rocky IV )
Both are well proven in Cinema and would have fit the roles better.
I personally would have picked Rinko Kikuchi for Major.
Michelle Yeoh is a Malaysian-Chinese woman. That's another whole can of worms.
TheMerricat
Superman is a white-looking dude from Krypton. What if someone told the story of a black/asian/hispanic-looking Kryptonian landing on earth in the 1930's, and having to live life as it typically was back then?
Wouldn't that be just as good a story that you'd want to see, despite the fact that they changed his race from the original source material? I'd be first in line.
You've just detailed Icon
TheMerricat wrote:
Well, Icon dropped in the 1830s, and he's apparently a staunch conservative...
Dawnrazor
I'm honestly not sure how many people will be that familiar with the original, I've ended up having to explain it and it's history to a lot of people around here who never heard of it until the trailer started running at our local theater.
The trailer looked like good eye candy, which is about what I expect from a big budget Hollywood film like this. I'll go and enjoy it for what it is, I don't expect it to be as deep as the original, I'll settle for not being awful.
TomDPerkins
" He instead sets a "single evil man in an otherwise good government" plot into motion "
In other words, he's too realistic and the banality of having good and evil is unsatisfying to a faux sophisticate who wants grey to be the thing in the play.
Virtuafisher
aleph_nought wrote:
Looks good, lighter than aerogel inside. I haven't seen the anime yet but this movie was a triumph of form over pretty much everything else. I seriously thought I was going to see a Japanese Blade Runner going into the cinema; I came out wanting my money back.
I don't understand why they got a white actor to play the Major. Plenty of top caliber East Asian actors around, if only they'd looked.
Not sure if you watched the original movies, or the series that followed, but Major Kusanagi is white in all of them.
For some reason that I never quite understood, most anime characters are white, you rarely get an actual asian-looking or non-stereotypic black character, except in rare cases.
Feanaaro
Virtuafisher wrote:
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TomDPerkins wrote:
In other words; Go watch or read the original story and compare it to the dumbed down version to see which is more satisfying.
Jesus. There is no merit badge for ignorance. It's like the goths from south park trying to prove who is coolest by trying to be the most uninvested emotionally.
The original story was influenced by Neuromancer. It (GITS) went on to inspire other Sci-Fi after it. It didn't get there by being a simple good v evil fairy tale. It got there by leaving you with some philosophical questions and some hints at the answers the author wants you to consider.
>Too realistic.
Right. Because people do bad things because they are trying to be evil. It has nothing to do with different values, cultures or power struggles. Hail Satan!
gulthaw
It can't be worse than Dragon all. Worst than Avatar, ok, but nothing could be worse than Dragon all...
nedscott
SixDegrees wrote:
Note on the review: I don't care how it compares to the original film, or whatever it was. I haven't seen either, and if I do see this one I'm not going to be doing that comparison. Review the film, not some other film, please. The many comparisons with the original mean nothing to me.
That's as stupid as saying that a Lord of the Rings movie shouldn't be compared to the book.
SolidusPrime
I thought it was great. SAC was one of my favorite shows when I was younger, and I loved the original movie.
I personally feel like a lot of critics are going out of their way to look for things to nitpick about though. It seems like most made up their mind before entering the theater, simply because Scarlett Johansen is white. It's the same thing as a black Nick Fury, or Miles Morales as Spider-Man.
The character works perfectly fine as a white woman, and it doesn't detract from the movie in the slightest...unless you are trying to let it do so.
Deputy Cartman
I'm a huge fan of the 1995 film and everything forward. I was cautiously optimistic about this film, seeing as sometimes life pleasantly surprises you. Mad Max: Fury Road looked like standard action movie shlock to me from trailers and the like, then it came out and... it was surprisingly good. I was hoping the same thing would happen here. But as news started trickling out about this movie, I started getting a bad feeling. "OK, Major Johansson? Uhhh, OK, I can see why Hollywood is doing this, but I also know it's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way." Then I heard Togusa, the moral core of Section 9, was essentially cut from the movie. That's when I wrote this one off. I'll download a rip to see how bad it is for myself but I won't be giving these people a penny; that only encourages more stuff like this to be made.
If cashing in on name recognition was the plan, the studio is in trouble. Because honestly, the fraction of moviegoers who've heard of the original is tiny.
And reading a review titled for one movie that's really about another movie...well, that's a waste of my time, as already noted.
This is true.
thegrommit
Tribus: YYZ
nedscott wrote:
Indeed, especially given a large number of ars readers will be familiar with the material this film is cashing in on.
charleski
Tribus: London
The 1995 movie was artfully trimmed down from the manga to make something that could be filmed, but still left you with the feeling there was something there to think about. So there's really no need for further trimming. But complex plots are not necessarily a good thing -- later incarnations of GitS have escalated to the level where all the interdepartmental plots and rivalries get tiresomely confusing. I just gave up on GitS:Arise.
No, no they aren't.
Julian Abagond wrote:
Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in manga and anime.
As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white. Why? Because to them white is the Default Human Being.
If I draw a stick figure, most Americans will assume that it is a white man. Because to them that is the Default Human Being. For them to think it is a woman I have to add a dress or long hair; for Asian, I have to add slanted eyes; for black, I add kinky hair or brown skin. Etc.
The Other has to be marked. If there are no stereotyped markings of otherness, then white is assumed.
Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. But to the Japanese the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their characters “look Asian”. They just have to make them look like people and everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable their physical appearance.
You see the same thing in America: After all, why do people think Marge Simpson is white? Look at her skin: it is yellow. Look at her hair: it is a blue Afro. But the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.
When you think about it there is nothing particularly white about how anime characters look:
* huge round eyes – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).
* yellow hair – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore hair colour is not about being true to life.
* small noses – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.
* white skin – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.
Besides, that is not how the Japanese draw white or even Chinese people. The otherness of foreigners is clearly marked by physical stereotypes – just as Americans do with people of colour. In anime White Americans are stereotyped as having yellow hair, blue eyes and a long or big nose:
Gone are the big round eyes and the strange hair colours. Because those things have nothing to do with whiteness.
Note that the Japanese drop the markings of otherness if the action is set in a foreign land, like China or America. In that case the characters are drawn in the regular anime style. Because for that story the Default Human Being is understood.
Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by their own racism and nationalism than anything else.
FluffyFreak
Tribus: Nottingham, UK
We went as a mixed group - some had seen the original, others hadn't - afterwards we were split on opinions.
If you've seen the anime then this is a poor cash in on the original.
If you haven't seen the anime then apparently this is a fun film.
Never knew of him 'til now. Thanks for the heads-up!
I'm not a big fan of DC Comics or Justice Clarence Thomas...
I know and love their "major characters" like Supes, Bats, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, Wonder Twins... ) but I never really delved into their "minor characters" unless they caught my attention somehow. Icon has now...
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Geebs
Galatian wrote:
Oh man...I shouldn't have read this article...now I feel bad going to the cinema tonight...
That being said I'm probably voicing an unpopular opinion now: I don't think the original is THAT good. I mean yeah it is good, but I think it just is being hyped a little too much, perhaps even romanticized as a good childhood memory.
I agree with you. The Stand Alone Complex TV series was also only decent, and suffered from a lot of the same problem of spending about half of the running time having characters monologue cryptically each other.
Plus the Tachikomas are pure anime gibberish and serve no useful function whatsoever.
He's not saying that.
Some people have never read the LoTR (and will never read it), yet see the movie.
I've never read any Harry Potter book - I may when I feel the need - but enjoyed the films.
He just wants a review of the movie on its merits as a standalone film (ha!), without injecting the typical "well, the book/original movie adaptation of the book was better" commentary.
Geebs wrote:
WTH? Tachikomas are adorable little tanks that serve as small pets. Is like Hachiko grew arms and weapons and follows you... to kill anyone who dares face you. How can you not love them?
Moonrunner
Tribus: The Americas
I see the death of the old Hollywood way and it's only a matter of time. Ok, not exactly death, but a definite lessening. The audiences are sick of bland crap and have been flocking to speciality TV channels and movies/shows produced by OTT service providers. They have been stepping away from "generic" and adding more engaging content in the last handful of years. That helped get the cord-cutting trend over the top. I predict that within the next handful of years, we'll see more of that in the theatres as well.
The only compromise I'd accept is to make kid content more palatable to the adults forced to watch it while supervising their kids. If I had a kid, had to choose between two movies to watch with them, one was kid-friendly but had content that would also engage an adult mind, while the other was full-on Teletubbies-style mental torture, I know how my wallet would vote.
EDIT: never mind, post got cut off and was trying to make a joke.
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Tribus: Boston
Ancalagon wrote:
Ugh, I'm not surprised.
From the movie studio's point of view, the best directors and writers are expensive. Sure, Christopher Nolan could have turned this into a thought provoking piece that probed our relationship with technology. But that would be expensive. They cut costs on the writing and directing, splurged on one expensive Hollywood actress, and they know quite well it is going to sell well.
So they are laughing all the way to the bank, knowing that they can sell this for being a hot sci fi action movie with a hot actress in it.
The shot for shot remakes of scenes from the original does not surprise me - they needed something to tempt the people who know the original to watch it. It is fan service.
I don't think it makes sense to knock it for not being true to the original - it makes sense to knock it for just being bad. No creativity, no original thought, no depth, just rehashing of scenes.
or maybe Nolan just sucks. I think so.
The middle character in that image is British, which kind of hurts the point you are trying to make.
That's from the original article.
Ok, framing this all in GITS:SAC1
The Tachikomas were central to the plot! They were the AI "babies" that developed from comedic relief to sentient beings that acted more human than some of the humans in the story line. They were there to further explore one of the central philosophical questions of the film, "What is the line between machine and human".
Major Kusanagi has 0 human parts left. (I don't know if that's a spoiler at this point, but it's not a huge reveal). Even her brain is solid state. She is literally a machine. 100%. This is why she was able to do what she did at the end of the story. (I won't put that spoiler in here, since it is a big reveal). Togasa is (was) a 100% human, who didn't want to get ANY cybernetic enhancements unless it was a necessity. That's why the <end of the story> hit him from left field. The Tachikoma were 100% machine and AI from the get go, so they should be the least relatable, but they develop irrational preferences and emotions.
You couldn't have told that story without the Tachikomas. The story would have ended in tragedy without the Tachikomas. Philosophically, the story did end with a tragedy, depending on your answer to that question I mentioned before. Because of the Tachikomas.
Tribus: Corvallis, Oregon
kd9280 wrote:
Casting seems to be the least of this movie's problems.
And honestly, sticking a Japanese woman's mind into a Caucasian robot could have been interesting if addressed well. Among other things, the GitS universe is on the verge of becoming post-national (but not quite there yet). It could easily also be on the verge of becoming post-racial.
If they'd made a good movie, it wouldn't have mattered much. They didn't, so now people look at it through a more cynical eye. Was Scarlett Johansson cast just for name recognition in the US market? Probably, yeah. They didn't give two shits about the source material, just combine big name actor with shiny special effects, shake and serve.
vishnu wrote:
And honestly, sticking a Japanese woman's brain into a Caucasian robot suit could have been interesting if addressed well. Among other things, the GitS universe in on the verge of becoming post-national (but not quite there yet). It could easily also be on the verge of becoming post-racial.
Oh yes, certainly. There is a way to make a Japanese person in a white person's body work well, apparently this did not do it well.
Kiru
Registered: Mar 1, 2010
I wonder If she's gotten more comfortable with running in her action scenes, since she now seems to be an action movie go-to actress.
The first time I saw her in an action role (the Black Widow in the first Avengers film, IIRC) had her with a *really* awkward running gait that instantly killed the whole "capable ass-kicking assassin" mystique. In fact, I didn't see her actually run in the sequels (stunt-women instead), so someone else must've felt the same.
As with any actor, I feel that it makes an action film more immediate and "real" if the actors do as much fight/stunt work as they can themselves, within reason. Not saying go Jackie Chan nutso and break bones over and over, but at least look like the character you're playing is capable.
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raxx7
If you made Howard Stark a black man, very little would change. The character could still be a CEO of a major company. He could still be a brilliant inventor. He would still be able to struggle with his alcoholism and his playboy nature, which serve as an opiate for his PTSD and his coping mechanism for losing his parents when he was younger. You could even, perhaps, inject racial commentary into the story - cribbing from BLM stuff, imagine seeing a race riot with a police force carrying Stark weapons and using Stark-emblazoned APCs. Changing Howard Stark from a white guy to a black guy would either keep the story the same, or improve it.
In Daredevel, Kingpin, a white character, was portrayed by the late Michael Duncan Clark to great effect and general acceptance.
gulthaw wrote:
I reckon it's somehow tied in with my continuing possession of a functioning gag reflex.
They're basically Jar Jar Binks with an inferiority complex.
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Forget it, I botched the whole reply on multiple levels. I wasn't actually disagreeing with the article.
cervier
red4scare wrote:
IMHO opinion you can either copy the original or boldly take it into a new direction. Seems they've done neither. I would not have minded if they changed Major backstory (in the original she never has any problem with her past), as long as there was some meat behind the change.
If she was the one with altered, false memories (ala the garbage man in the original), that could have worked as a major plot point (who I am now that my memories are fake? as those memories define me... does it really matter if they're fake? or should I instead erase those memories and redefine me?). But Hollywood being Hollywood, not surprised they've fucked up yet another great source material.
In your humble opinion opinion?
MattEvansC3
maxz wrote:
That being I'm probably voicing an unpopular opinion now: I don't think the original is THAT good. I mean yeah it is good, but I think it just is being hyped a little too much, perhaps even romanticized as a good childhood memory.
Personally I like the Standalone Complex series best, there they flesh out the story and have something that sucks me in. The original movie is good, I like the works of Mamoru Oshii, but it is not that mindblowing good that some makes it out to be.
For items of media like GITS the time and place is vitally important to its cult status.
At the time of its release was there really anything in mainstream media trying to do what GITS was doing? Not really. Sci-Fi novella did ask the same questions but never really in an area that could affect public consciousness.
Take Transformers The Movie as an example. If it was released today it wouldn't be held in that high a regard, especially compared to the influx of anime and Pixar movies. Yet when it was released it had no "competition". Gobots, GI. Joe, He-man, Thundercats, etc were doing glorified TV movies with a slightly higher budget. Transformers went full throttle and created a full on cinema experience. It dared to kill off fan favourites and truly play with its audiences' emotions.
GITS first true competition in that regard was The Matrix, a movie released around a decade later.
Hack-n-Slash
IMO, both sides try to make that argument too strenuously.
There's so much variation in the art that it's often times hard to tell the actual intent.
e.g. My untrained eyes can't meaningfully distinguish between random characters from Hellsing (quite explicitly European) and, say, Parasyte (set in Japan). [Well, outside of Nazi outfits vs schoolgirl uniforms, but that's not what I mean!!!! ]
It's like trying to determine what nationalities the X-Men are, from random issues.
One of these has two Chinese parents... can you tell by looking?
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Oh yes, and he's a great choice for the role too - a huge, imposing guy.
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Review: Spirit in the Land/Addington Gallery
January 25, 2016 at 10:00 am by Elliot Reichert
by Elliot Reichert
January 25, 2016 January 20, 2016 Filed under:
Michael Dubina. “Fall,” n.d. Painted matchbook, 3.75 x 1.5 inches.
An uplifting Romanticism inspired the spacious, heroic American landscape painting of the early nineteenth century. Then came truth-to-nature, followed by truth-to-place and, eventually, truth-to-painting. But now, with no widely shared expectations, landscape painting is not so much a genre as an occasional mode of self-expression with a few identifiable natural features, illuminated by an inner rather than a solar light. A painter of meditative, dream-like vistas, Didier Nolet affirms that “landscapes are a mirror of myself.” Sandra Dawson, a painter of folkish, myth-like scenes, tells us that “my work evolves spontaneously and intuitively.”
Because they pursue no greater ambition than the fulfillment of the self, most of these paintings feel small and personal. Curiously, the most spacious vistas are depicted in three-inch miniatures meticulously painted by Michael Dubina on the inside of matchbook covers. Perfectly scaled to the matches that remain, they offer an infinity of light and space. Perhaps this project has been successful because the artist spent years getting the same effects from paintings that were much larger.
Ironically, the other spacious paintings are the ones that least resemble landscapes, even if the artist, Rebecca Crowell, tells us they were inspired by travels around the world. The titles may refer to someplace in Ireland, but the flat surfaces feel as infinitely complex as the surfaces of wood-fired pottery.
Tom Leaver. “Wait II,” n.d. oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches.
Many of the pieces echo earlier periods of landscape painting from the Netherlands and China, but these historical references are disappointing. Tom Leaver’s fantastic scenes, rendered with fingers rather than brushes, make me wish I were looking at the similar, but sharper and more ominous backgrounds painted by Gustave Moreau. My response might be different if these pieces were included in one-person shows that focused on the unique life of each artist rather than a group show on the subject of landscape.
For example, Joyce Polance also specializes in interpersonal relationships between nude female figures. There is also a suggestion of psychological drama in her landscape painting, but without any human figures, they just feel puzzling. (Chris Miller)
Through February 28 at Addington Gallery, 704 North Wells.
Elliot Reichert
Elliot J. Reichert is a Chicago-based curator, critic, and editor. He is a currently Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana Unversity, and Hatch Projects Curatorial Resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition. Formerly, he was Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. His writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Newcity.
www.elliotjreichert.net
A Can-Do Spirit: A Review of Joseph A. Burlini at the Koehnline Museum of Art There’s a cheerful, can-do spirit about all this production that seems to supersede any aesthetic, narrative or art ideology.
Eruptions of Color: A Review of Pooja Pittie at McCormick Gallery Nothing is recognizably depicted, but something like a festive spectacle has been achieved with layers of colorful marks that range from orderly patterns of dots to large, dramatic brush strokes.
A Breath of Compassion: A Review of Mary Porterfield at Hofheimer Gallery Mary Porterfield’s ability to elegantly render the loss of independence is the result of years of deep respect, observation and connection with those she is a caretaker for.
The Road of Excess: A Review of Darrell Roberts at McCormick Gallery Each small piece, measuring twelve-inches-or-less on a side, is a maelstrom of strong color in thick pigment.
Unstoppable Energy: A Review of Melville Price at McCormick Gallery One of the younger members of "The Club," which would herald the New York School, Price's work has long stood in the shadow of his peers.
Fade to Brown: A Review of Myra Greene at Patron Gallery In the quiet pairing of photography and textiles, Greene tells a story filled with leitmotifs of autonomy, subjectivity and advocacy for human rights set against themes of power, conflict and politics.
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Delhi ‘lungs’ turn sickly brown in days
AFP On Nov 14, 2018 Last updated Nov 14, 2018
NEW DELHI: A pair of artificial lungs put up in New Delhi to demonstrate the lethal effects of smog have turned a sickly dark brown within 10 days of their installation, underscoring the city’s pollution crisis.
Delhi, the world’s most polluted major city, has been covered in a toxic grey haze since the onset of winter last month, with pollution levels several times higher than the World Health Organization’s safe limits.
The oversized lungs, put up on November 3 on the premises of the Sir Ganga Ram hospital and white at first, had been fitted with high-powered particle-trapping filters to mimic the way a human body functions.
“The most striking bit is the rapidity with which the lungs have turned black. It is absolutely frightening,” said Arvind Kumar, a lung surgeon who has been campaigning to raise awareness about the dangers of air pollution.
Read More: Delhi homeless to be given masks as smog worsens: official
As cooler air traps pollutants close to the ground, levels of PM2.5 — particles so tiny they can enter the lungs and bloodstream — have soared dangerously.
“There is no reason to believe that the same material is not getting deposited in our lungs as well,” Kumar told AFP.
“The health consequences of this is going to be disastrous.”
On Tuesday, PM2.5 levels in the city touched 263, more than 10 times the recommended average of 25, according to the US embassy in Delhi which independently monitors air pollution.
It had hit a peak of 369 at 11 am before a brief spell of rain brought some respite.
Federal govt to take back control of three Karachi hospitals
Airports start screening over outbreak of mysterious SARS-like virus
‘Hundreds’ likely affected by mystery SARS-like virus: researchers
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—This is Ashok.
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What Would a Wonk’s Perfect Policy Platform Look Like?
I write mostly single-issue posts. But since someone asked me, it might be worth summarizing what I think would be a “dream” legislation reforming everything from taxes and immigration to monetary policy and farm bills. This is by no means thorough or exhaustive – but just a sampler of what I think would put the United States well on the cutting edge of policy (an honor currently held by Scandinavian countries). I’ll also link to subjects about which I’ve written somewhat extensively before.
Immigration permit markets. The Federal Government would implement a monthly quota on the number of immigrants it wants and auction those on the open market. This would ensure that the n immigrants that are selected are the best n in the pool of all immigrants. Individuals, firms, cities, and states may all participate in the auction.
Eliminate corporate taxes. That doesn’t mean “cut taxes”. Tax revenue should be higher, but corporate taxation is a dumb way to get there. It’s not that I have a problem with “double taxation” per se, but it adds many layers of unnecessary complexity.
Get rid of the minimum wage for new labor market entrants. Within a immigrant permit market framework, the minimum wage unfairly hurts the young as well as poor and unskilled immigrants. This is a humanitarian issue. Labor market regulation should be deeply relaxed for five years after the first day of employment as a major in the United States.
Replace it with a negative tax for the poor. I support expansion of the earned income tax credit, but it’s deceptive to speak of it as a substitute for the minimum wage. A good portion of the credit actually goes to employer, implying that it is complimentary with a minimum wage.
Replace all levies on labor and capital income with taxes on land, carbon, and minerals. This is so self-evidently important that it’s hard to defend in a paragraph. There’s a good argument to be made that so-called “Georgist” taxes can’t fund our government. Fine – but at least we should “use it all up”, if you will, before we tax productive activities like working and investment. That’s doubly-true for carbon.
Finance any shortfall thereof in revenue with a 10% tax on all income earned over 1 million dollars. Or 15%. Or 5 million. It doesn’t really matter. Most people hate income taxes not because they pay too much, but because they pay at all. The documentation is annoying, and April 15 is an understandably crappy day. The simple fix is to make sure that only a remarkably small number of people even pay.
Offset positional externalities by taxing luxuries. I’m normally not a fan of government bureaucracy and regulation, but perhaps the Federal Government should create a “Luxury Monitoring Board” that studies and publishes a yearly report of items whose value are mostly positional (that is to say zero sum). Institute a tax on said items. This has big public choice problems, but a lot less than other programs: plus it’s politically easier than raising sales taxes or something regressive like that.
Stop subsidizing roads. We subsidize roads in all kinds of ways. Public lots underprice parking, roads are a shared good, etc. People who drive twice as much should pay twice as much. Therefore the government should extract itself from provision of urban road services and fund everything via toll.
Don’t subsidize long-distance rail (unless it’s Hyperloop). I don’t, unlike many other progressive wonk types, have any passion for really nice, high-speed transport between urban hubs. That’s a lie I personally do, but I depart from liberal ideology that it’s a social benefit. Think about it, the people who most intensely travel the Northeast Corridor – or between San Francisco and Los Angeles – are affluent professionals that take many more flights than the average American, are more likely the fly in environmentally-shitty business class setups, and all around typify the East Coast Elite Liberal stereotype. That it’s treated as some sort of environmentalist’s dream is a joke. (In fact, a 100% tax on business class, 200% tax on first class, and 50% tax on all economy flights after your first two in a year is a great idea).
Subsidize cheap and efficient local transport. America is a driver’s country, and we shouldn’t change that as there would be large, path-dependent externalities in doing so. Electric vehicles are still well out of reach for the average guy. Forget Tesla, even the Chevy Volt doesn’t come cheap. We should vastly increase tax credits for local efficiency. Oh, and, make space for buses.
Have the central bank target nominal income. Here.
Move to a much deeper rules-based fiscal policy. That means focusing on a lot more unemployment insurance and reemployment credits. That removes the political element of discretionary stimulus and molds expansionary expectations thereby dampening the initial effect of a demand shock.
Get rid of the farm bill. Here.
Get rid of the Department of Education and allocate every child into school by a random lottery. Public education is a bit (but not really) like the individual mandate. It works well if everyone uses it without segregation. There are big externalities in moving a rich kid from his bubble of a rich school to a poorer school because support from his parents will make everyone in the poorer school better of. For free! If you think about “parental positive influence” as a scarce good concentrated in the top 20% of the population, there is huge, huge inefficiency in having many rich kids go to the same school. In this case, redundancy is bad.
End the war on drugs. I favor an all-out approach to this, but outline a somewhat original and more moderate, game-theoretic plan here. I don’t want my tax money to be wasted on a guy that smoked pot privately next door. There are not words to describe this illiberty and cruelty. It costs almost $100,000 to imprison someone, and the discounted present value of opportunity costs far exceeds that.
Single payer medicine. Doctors are severely overpaid. The only way to break the healthcare-industrial complex is to neuter it with monopsony.
In similar vein, get rid of all occupational licensing. Because it’s dumb.
Vastly increase spending in community colleges. Technical, applied education is where America’s middle-class future might be. Unfortunately, we can’t increase spending until we stop cutting it. Community college should be a public good.
Okay, so there it is. A (clearly progressive) wonk’s dream. This list also shows why I’ve lost a lot of faith in the Democratic Party. Can you identify even one of the above bullet-points that a single Democrat has supported? Maybe single-payer healthcare, but that’s all I can see. Even the talk on the drug war – which is the most important bullet on the list – is basically an argument about lowering mandatory minimums rather than getting rid of them. Like I’ve said before, democrats have poisoned themselves into believing compromise is the arithmetic mean of two dipshit ideas. This sentiment holds for almost every item on this list.
This looks like a liberal list, but there’s quite a bit of stuff on there that should appeal to a libertarian. In any case, nothing here is raw and radical – but logical and moderate. America is still probably the most innovative and efficient country in the world – even without the best policies and wonkish endeavors – but we can be a lot better with straightforward changes to the status quo.
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Tyler Healey said: August 30, 20133:25 PM
Federal taxes should only be increased when inflation is high.
whatsthat said: August 30, 20133:35 PM
About rail: the population you observe is a selected sample. With rail, more people are likely to transport themselves; how do you account for this? The answer is far trickier than what you make it out to be.
Ashok Rao said: August 30, 20133:37 PM
That’s probably true. But it would still be hard to convince me long-distance travel of any kind is important to the bottom 50% of the country. It’s just not used.
Maybe subsidize two trips per year?
Evan Jenkins said: September 20, 201310:37 PM
I think your #10 is deeply misguided. You acknowledge (some of) the great hidden costs of driving in #5 and #8, but you think that we should still try to subsidize it? The fact is that even with the massive subsidies we currently put towards driving, many people can barely afford it. Asserting that we shouldn’t change the status quo in a “driver’s country” places an enormous, immiserating burden on the backs of all but the wealthiest Americans, and it is wildly out of place in a “progressive” policy platform.
Overall, I find myself in agreement with most of your list. But subsidies for electric cars are a huge mistake, and they undercut what should be one of the main pillars of any progressive platform: the de-automobilization of America.
kevin said: September 20, 201311:23 PM
I would support it all except my opposition to randomized schooling (14) outweighs the rest of it. Would you support random allocation into colleges? Of course not, that’s a ridiculous punishment of the best students. Punishing parents who support their children by preventing them from joining with other like-minded parents is not the right incentives.
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gregor said: September 22, 20134:13 PM
You forgot the 100% subsidy of one way ticket to India to all the Americans who either earn less than the current minimum wage or have no health insurance or have less than graduate level understanding of libertarian macro economics.
ThomasH said: September 22, 20136:03 PM
I agree that this does not look like the platform of either party, but I’d ask, which party would oppose each proposal if the other party supported it?
John said: September 22, 20138:16 PM
Occupational licensing seems naively useful to me… do you really think Yelp is an adequate substitute?
asdf said: September 22, 20139:24 PM
Your #14 is so naïve its laughable. And I’m not just talking political feasibility, you seem to know nothing about education.
Floccina said: September 23, 201310:32 AM
@asdf,
True and there is very little evidence that it would make a significant positive difference.
Let me add that I think that we should just ask our schools to keep the kids safer and less bullied by one another. IMO we ask way too much of schools. Schooling is the god who fails.
Ray Lopez said: September 23, 20131:36 AM
Ashok Rao for president! I would vote for him. I think perhaps all these rules can be abolished in favor of just one: abolish all government functions save those of a Pigovian tax or other negative externality would not solve, such as: government only for national defense, only for air pollution / greenhouse gas emissions. No welfare, no transfer payments, no universal health care, no subsidized buses (private buses work just fine here in the Philippines), no public roads unless per-use toll roads used. Gun control? Probably no need since private security will screen people into and out of gated communities and shopping centers, like they do here in PH. A tax on the rich bankers is probably necessary due to the moral hazard these people create with bailouts.
Frederic Mari said: September 23, 20132:41 AM
The bit about national defence annoys me no end from ‘libertarians’. Private armies are just as feasible as private buses…
Funny, I am very libertarian but I would support a candidate who proposed these policies. I think the problem is less conservative/libertarian verses progressive as much as politicians knowing the game so much better that the voters. For example a team at MIT estimated that CAFE costs 6 to 13 time more per gallon of fuel saved that a fuel tax but the voter do not know the cost of CAFE but would know the cost of a tax and so we get the less efficient policy because the politicians know the game so much better than the voters do.
When you think about what is good for politicians you understand why such policies are very difficult to get in a democracy.
How about adding paying all retirees the same amount of SS to your list?
Myb6 said: September 23, 20132:04 PM
Ashok, my wishlist has a remarkable amount of overlap with yours. The only point I take issue with is 14. Hard mandates like that cause huge blowback, probably in the form of a massive move to private schools. Why not take a page from your numerous other externality-focused ideas and just tax homogenously-high-SES districts? Each school could choose whether they’re comfortable paying the tax or if they’d rather admit some lower-SES students and generate some low opportunity-cost social benefits.
Nacho said: September 23, 20135:27 PM
What about military spending?
Brian Holtz said: September 23, 20137:04 PM
Instead of a negative income tax, go full Georgist with a citizens’ dividend.
Don’t subsidize “efficient” transit, just de-subsidize inefficient transit.
“Rules-based fiscal policy” will quickly become rules-based rent-seeking. No need for stimulus when the rest of this program is enacted.
Combining government-monopoly schools with reduced school choice (lottery) is “the arithmetic mean of two dipshit ideas”. Fixing education is easy: let parents control tuition dollars just like they control grocery dollars.
Community college spending will increase automatically, when you de-subsidize overvalued university education.
Doctors are indeed overpaid, but instituting “single payer” (as if we’re not already 70% there) will just trade dollar-denominated inefficiency for non-dollar-denominated inefficiency (e.g. rationing, medical tourism, etc.) End occupational licensure and subsidies for third-party payment, and healthcare becomes not much harder a policy problem then auto care.
The list is otherwise a great start, but it’s missing 1) unwinding of government pension scams, 2) de-recognition of most “intellectual property” (especially patents), and 3) institutional reforms toward federalism/decentralism (without which the tide of rent-seeking can only be held back temporarily).
For a geolibertarian platform, see the Free Earth Manifesto: http://earthfreedom.net/manifesto
So what’s the ‘progressive’ part of your agenda? Not a dig, just curious.
If you get your libertarian wet-dream, what guarantees that food companies won’t poison me? And what guarantees that we won’t get back to an aristocratic system where wealth is handed down with only a few exceptional individual exceptions?
Ashok Rao said: September 24, 20137:59 AM
The progressive part of the agenda is mostly where it started and what it prioritized (note all the rage over banning private schools and forcing random lottery into public ones). It comes from the fact that if this reform isn’t enacted, I still support progressive ideas like redistribution and income taxes � suboptimal as they might be � to the alternative.
Things like lottery allocation into schools and strong redistribution for many things should prevent the emergence of an aristocracy. Nothing may prevent the microevent of a food company poisoning you, but it’s not like anything prevents the microevent of someone killing you today.
Brian Holtz said: September 24, 201310:08 AM
Aristrocracy was bad not because of the handing down per se, but because what was handed down was the fruits of aggression. End/undo aggression, rather than compounding it with new aggression against those who wish to hand down what they created or fairly acquired.
Frederic Mari said: September 24, 20131:28 PM
Hi, Ashok
Sorry the comment wasn’t directed at your article. It is indeed ‘progressive’ as it features redistribution and equalising of chances. I’ll have a blog post soon in reply to yours… 🙂
I was directing the comment to Brian Holtz, who I also thank for his answer. Basically, he’s got no problem with aristocracy. Well, let’s just say I’ll be happy to guillotine his system…
Henry said: September 24, 20139:04 AM
I’m a fan of immigration markets in theory but have always wondered how you prevent the system being abused. What is to stop money laundering and illegal activity being used to fund the visa fees in auctions? Anecdotally, this has been a problem in past attempts in Canada. Australia recently introduced a “Significant investor visa” with an AUD$5 million price tag which will also face these issues.
I think it’s a big enough of an implementation issue given the number of uber rich people in the world to have serious doubts about the credibility of any permit auction system.
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CR said: September 24, 20132:06 PM
Thoughts on tax expenditures? My guess is, thematically, you’d propose radical simplification (in fact, fancy homes for upper/upper-middle class might count as “luxuries” via #7 and be taxed extra rather than subsidized via mortgage interest deduction).
Second question, what are some institutional reforms you’d advocate? These are all policy-area specific, but static in nature. What kind of regulatory agency reform (other than abolishing Dept. of Ed) would you like to see so that even after these initial reforms were made, more ideal policy would continue in the future?
Final question, while it’s more local/state than federal, I think it’s fair since you touched on mass transit subsidization and occupational licensing…any thoughts about zoning/land-use reform?
All in all, nice piece. Strikes me as an excellent “left-libertarian” starting ground for compromises between progressives and libertarians.
nate t. said: September 24, 20133:21 PM
you familiar with selling children into marriage to make ends meet? that is what would happen without taxes and regulation. one person with power would “enslave” either by physical force or resource control the population around them. this idea of low or no government is basically a communal (communist) dream manifesto which in effect does not account for the trump card or any market…the mind of the individual to skew your plans.
John S said: September 25, 201311:04 PM
Re: education–why do you not advocate tuition vouchers and/or tax credits for education (including homeschooling) instead?
Clayton Daley said: September 27, 20139:35 PM
@Ashok. While I disagree with several of your points for both technical and values reasons, this is the first time I’ve seen a progressive actually outline logically optimal policies for achieving typical progressive aims. I’m so sick of the usual liberal blather that I have to set aside my disagreements to give you MAJOR PROPs for this lineup. There are may policies that would be common to conservatives and liberals if both actually pursued optimal policies (in particular, large parts of #2, #3, #5, #8, #9, #11, #12, and #17) as well as policies that are outside the conservative mainstream but logical for purely economic reasons (e.g. #1, #4, and #13).
cthorm said: October 3, 20131:27 PM
@ashok
Great outline, I’m glad you put this together. As I eluded to on twitter (@cthorm), you’re missing the very important issue of electoral reform. Even the best platforms will be corrupted if the political system is setup in such a way that it encourages narrow interests and corruption. If you want democracy, you need an election system that is highly representative and promotes competition; with a winner-take-all election system that is a mathematical impossibility. We should convert to a Mixed-Member Proportional electoral system.
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howtobuildacommunity said: April 28, 20142:34 PM
Don’t forget scaling back zoning codes and getting rid of patents.
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Hundreds of new planets announced
by Ruth Angus | Mar 14, 2014 | Daily Paper Summaries | 0 comments
Title 1: Validation of Kepler’s Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis and Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems
Authors: Jason F. Rowe, Stephen T. Bryson, Geoffrey W. Marcy, et al.
First Author’s Institution: NASA Ames
Title 2: Validation of Kepler’s Multiple Planet Candidates. II: Refined Statistical Framework and Descriptions of Systems of Special Interest
Authors: Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Stephen T. Bryson, et al.
The number of confirmed planets existing outside our Solar System just doubled.
The new planets were announced in Rowe’s paper and were confirmed using a technique outlined in Lissauer’s accompanying paper. This new result raises the number of confirmed exoplanets from 942 to 1710.
Since the first exoplanet discovery in the 1990s (or 80’s, depending on who you talk to), planet hunters continue to find more and more: the current number of planet candidates stands at around 4000. That’s mostly thanks to the Kepler spacecraft – a (literal) planet finding machine which detects planets via the transit method. I say ‘candidates’ because we can’t know for certain that all of these objects are planets. Some of them could be false positives – stars masquerading as planets, for example.
Transits of all planets in the newly confirmed 5-planet systems. The axes are flux vs time. Time and depth scales are consistent within each system, but differ from system to system.
Planet confirmation
Traditionally an object could only be confirmed as a planet if its mass, measured via the radial velocity (RV) or the transit timing variation (TTV) technique, was around 13 times the mass of Jupiter or less. Unfortunately, the RV method requires high signal-to-noise spectroscopic observations and can only be applied to relatively bright stars with relatively massive planets. The majority of the stars in the Kepler field of view are too faint to do RV follow-up. The TTV method can only be applied to a subset of multiple planet systems in favourable, dynamically interacting configurations. For many of those 4000 planet candidates, confirmation looked like a pipe-dream… until now.
The authors of these papers take a different approach to planet confirmation – they show that making things that look like multiple planet systems with some kind of finely-tuned false positive scenario is extremely difficult.
A ‘false-positive’ (FP) in the context of planet confirmation is where a transit signal is mimicked by a star, or combination of stars. For example, If one of the objects in the system was not a planet but rather a small star the size of a large planet, it could reproduce a planet transit exactly. Because Kepler pixels are large, multiple stars can fall on individual pixels. A background eclipsing binary, or star with a giant planet, lying in the same aperture as the target star can produce a convincing FP. The flux variations observed by Kepler will be some combination of flux variations from the target star, and the background (or foreground) contaminating star(s). Contaminating eclipsing binaries can be very convincing planet-transit mimics.
This figure shows the shift towards discovering smaller and smaller planets. Image credit: NASA
This paper exploits the fact that we see multiple planet systems in the Kepler data; many stars have more than one planet. In fact, more than 40% of the Kepler planet candidates are in multiple systems.
The first FP scenario given above can be ruled out since these multiple systems would be dynamically unstable if one or more of their members were a star. So the only feasible cause of a FP is a background eclipsing binary, or star with a giant planet, falling on the same pixel as the target star.
During their analysis the authors make two assumptions: 1) FPs are randomly distributed amongst Kepler targets and 2) the fact that a star hosts detectable planets has no bearing on how likely it is to display FPs. This second assumption means that they can treat the probability of a star hosting both a planet and a FP as the product of the individual probabilities of those two scenarios.
Lissauer et al exploit the following logic: if you detect a planet, there is some probability (about 0.1) that it is a FP. If you detect two planets, you could either have two planets (the likeliest explanation), a planet and a FP (much less likely) or two FPs (very unlikely). Note that no Kepler stars have yet been found to host more than two FPs. Extending the logic to 3+ transiting systems allows them to confirm the multiple planet candidates to > 99% confidence.
This figure shows the number of newly discovered exoplanets announced each year since the 1990s. Image credit: NASA
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Loss of Loyalty (Uther)?
By TerryTroll, June 23, 2019 in Pendragon & Prince Valiant
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My player knights aided the Cornwall court to flee London, then heard King Uther declare Duke Gorlois, a traitor, a thief and murder (killing guards and stealing treasure) when they knew this wasn't true.
They then went to Tintagel and witness Merlin's magic pressing him for an explanation as to how Duke Gorlois could be in two places at once.
They rightly asked considering the events they had witness, would their Loyalty (Uther) drop, some of them would lose out on Glory as their current Loyal is over 16.
If it would (and I think it should) how much do you think it should drop, is there any guide for this?
Edited June 23, 2019 by TerryTroll
jeffjerwin 856
An opposed roll between their Just and Loyalty (Uther), with if Just wins, Loyalty dropping by 1d6, perhaps? Their Just and Suspicious might get checks, and thus rise to compensate.
Atgxtg 1,103
I think we need a little more info here:
First off how are the PKs connected to Uther and/or Gorlois?
Are they just typical knights, or are they actually direct vassals of Uther in some way?
Do they know/saw that Merlin transformed Uther into the likeness of Gorlois of just suspect some magical skullduggery?
These things make a difference. Part of the problem here is that a liege lord acting like a jerk or doing some shifty stuff doesn't negate a knights oaths of fealty and homage. It literally is that you are supposed to follow your liege whether he is in the right or wrong.
In most cases I would expect much if any drop in Loyalty among the PKs (basically, suspecting or even knowing that Uther might be acting unfairly doesn't justify a knight behaving disloyalty, especially if Uther has been fair in his dealings with the PKs and their liege lord). I would think a directed trait (Suspicious Uther, Merlin, or MAgic) might be more appropriate.
The knights would really have to know a lot more of what is going on behind the scenes, basically that has all been trumped up so that Uther can bed Igraine before there could be a loyalty loss - in part because Gorlois is also in the wrong here, according to medieval standards, as he left the kings court without permission.
1 hour ago, Atgxtg said:
The PCs are Vassals of Earl Roderick, and have fought in the army of King Uther and Price Madoc on various occasions, but they are vassals of Earl Roderick.He has rewarded them on several occasions, but they have not been given land by him, so not direct vassals.
So indirectly via Earl Roderick. So should they not really have any Loyalty to start with?
They didn't see the transformation itself but were at Tintagel that night spotted some weird goings on and directly confronted Merlin.
The main kicker however was earlier two of the PKs were in the process of courting Handmaids to Duchess Ygraine and one was approached to aid in their leaving London, they were made aware of the King's actions towards Ygraine (who half of the knights had some feelings for one way or another). The group ended up on watch at one of the gates and as Duke Gorlois' party approached they questioned them. "Does the King know your are leaving?" Duke Gorlois was very careful with his answer. "The King has made it plain, my presence is no longer desired here." he did not say that it was by his actions rather than his words. So they knew the Duke left without bloodshed and could see that he left with very little so they could travel faster.
Later when King Uther states "The Duke of Cornwall has broken his word and violated our hospitality. His sudden flight from our court proves he is guilty; no other information need be sought. Worse, though, his people slew some servants in their escape, and they stole treasure when they fled." They knew the accusations to be false, and the King's motivation (two of them only helped Ygraine escape for a similar motivation).
Yeah they were aware of a lot of it because of their position and relationships with Duchess Ygraine's handmaids, I suspect I made an error granting them Loyalty without an official oath in the first place (first time running), but it set up a nice conflict of interest with his desire for the lady he was courting so.
Would it be easiest to just admit it was an error and cancel it as they are not direct vassals?
Hzark10 30
Sounds like it was a good session overall, so I would be reluctant to cancel it out. By all means talk to your players, explain the problem, and so on. See what they think would be fair. I have found many players to be really good sports about such things and will give you points that you did not think of. One of the best things I learned is to ask the players what their characters think about the situation.
I hope so, I like presenting players with difficult decisions. Although I'm not sure how the players feel when Pendragon as a system can take sometimes take certain decisions away from them due to passions, or traits. I kind like when the system forces you into a position you might not really want to be in but, if your the sort of player use to playing Chaotic Good/Neutral in D&D it can be a bit of a paradigm shift, and hard to adjust to.
Morien 114
As long as your traits are in the range 5-15, and no passion is 16 or more, you can usually* stay in control of your character. That is the bargain you make for Traits/Passions 16 and over, that you lose some of that control in order to gain Annual Glory and Religious bonuses and the like.
* Apart from mandatory trait/passion tests, usually in response to some magic or other supernatural source, or an instinctive reaction.
As for the original Loyalty (Uther), yeah, I would not have given them that loyalty without some formal oaths. That is what makes Arthur and the Companions of King Arthur stand out so much, as they sidestep the usual liege-vassal structure and makes all companions take an oath to Arthur directly.
Just to point out, my PK would be plenty pissed at Duke Gorlois for weasel-wording his way out of the gate, too. I could have lost my head thanks to him! Also, who knows what they did BEFORE they got to the gate? They could have accosted some servants who might have raised an alarm otherwise, and treasure is such a wide category that it could, in principle, include the food that they took with them. Food that technically belonged to the King!
That being said, I would let those PKs who wish to relinquish the loyalty, and those who wish to keep it to keep it. I am thinking once the next year rolls around, they will all lose it anyway...
Just to sidetrack to Merlin... My players tend to hate him, scheming and getting them into trouble. Many a PK has lost their lives getting involved with Merlin, or gotten into a troublesome spot thanks to the wizard's meddling. All good fun for the GM, of course.
A couple (more) comments: People with Loyalty ... (16) may self-rationalize their continued loyalty. This is a pretty realistic psychological reaction. Complex and contradictory passions and loyalties are excellent for stories. Lancelot has a Loyalty (Arthur) and a Love (Guinevere). Eventually Ygraine will consent to marry her husband's killer and personal loyalty to her will not be in contradiction to loyalty to the High King. You could rationalize it as Loyalty (High King) and leave it unchanged. If so, the characters will feel compelled to confront Uther out of loyalty and honesty rather than keep their misgivings secret.
However, Uther's behavior did alienate people in the romances, and this alienation from the high kingship (and from his lineage) had observable effects on later history, particularly the Anarchy and the Boy King periods. Uther's behavior could be argued to be part of the necessary groundwork for the reaction against his attitude towards women that caused 'Romance' to take hold.
I ran my Cornwall game with the characters actually on the opposite side. They did gain a (Hate) Uther passion and definitely mistrusted Merlin (a fully justified tendency among PCs and NPCs). This made things complicated when Arthur appears.
On 6/24/2019 at 9:45 AM, TerryTroll said:
To Uther, probably not. In most cases taking Loyalty (Pendragon)< Loyalty (Arthur) or, in this case Loyalty (Uther) is optional to most PKs. If the PKs were household knights or held land from Uther then it would be required. They could have such a passion if they wanted it, but wouldn't have to have it. Part of the problem is that Loyatly (Uther) would typically imply that a character swore Homage to Uther, making him their liege lord over Roderick. That would put them under some severe restrictions regarding their oath and duty.
But with typical PKs their loyalty should be to Earl/Count Roderick.
They didn't see the transformation itself but were at Tintagel that night spotted some weird goings on
Such as? In most versions of the story the only weird goings on were Igraine's claims of her husband appearing during the night, when he was away getting killed in battle.
and directly confronted Merlin.
Brave, if a bit risky. I'm not sure what they could have confronted him with though, or what he could have said to make the PKs more supicious>
"Merlin, did you use your magic at the siege?"
"Yes, Sir Knight, to serve my king. Did you not use your sword for the same purpose?"
Ah, so they have a good reason to suspect/believe that Uther is dressing up events and the real motivation behind things. I'd say that would be a good reason for adirected trait (Suspious Uther.
PArt of the problem with this situation is that the obligations of medevial service generally do not have an "out" clause for when a liege is behaving badly. Probably a few of Uther's men and lords know the real reasons behind the siege, but as Uther's men they are still bound by thier oaths to service him.
It would depend on how the got the Loyalty (Uther) Passion in the first place and how important it is to the players, and how high the scores are. If the players didn't really care much about the passion, and have low to moderate scores then you could probably let them drop the passion if they wish (I'd leave it up to them). If they are really into the passion, are very loyal to Uther and have high scores, I'd let them keep it and also let them use their Loyalty (Uther) Passion to oppose believing the worst about Uther, or somehow justifying it.
A main difference here between medieval rulers and modern ones in free societies is that the right to rule for a medieval king comes from God (or, for pagans, his tie to the land/sovereignty), while for modern ones it comes from the people. This combined with medieval oaths of fealty and homage means that a king behaving badly or unjustly does not remove from him his rights as a king, nor do they absolve his vassals from their oaths of obedience. Something like a #MeToo scandal isn't going to bring down Uther they way it brought down a lot of big shots in Hollywood.
But If I were running and my PKs had Loyalty (Uther) Passions, I'd ask them if the events shook their loyalty to the king and let then\m reduce or drop the passion if they wished, provided it was below 16). But a directed trait MIstrust: Uther +1d6 or so would certainly make sense.
Thanks for all the advice, it seems I was in error to give them the Loyalty in the first place.
I suspect I gave it when it was technically as oath of Fealty on a campaign under Uther, would that only last for the duration of the military campaign?
It hasn't come up much until recently, and I think Loyalty (Roderick) would have been enough to make them consider informing on Cornwall's escape plans anyway. As he is a vassal of Uther and they would know it would make him look bad if it happened on his knight's night watch. So things would have played out the same anyway. On top of that I'll give them all a directed trait of Mistrust Uther as well for what they have witness or know first hand. Also checking his character sheet he had Hospitality 18, so would have attempted to inform anyway.
I've recently got the Book of the Estate, which breaks Loyalty down into Homage and Fealty, so I think I will make clearly that they have a oath of Homage (Roderick), they may well have one of Fealty during campaigning to Uther.
I'm then planning to keep Loyalty but use that only between fellow knights, no land or even a significant social penalty for breaking it, but it gives an idea of how much trust and friendship or debt there is between them.
1 hour ago, TerryTroll said:
If they were part of Count of Salisbury's retinue/force, then they would not get Fealty to Uther in the first place. If they were moonlighting as mercenaries, then yes, the Fealty would apply as long as they are on Uther's payroll, and not a moment longer. (Although I would, admittedly, be willing to change a long-serving mercenary into a de facto household knight, especially if he is close to the King. Mercardier comes to mind.)
7 hours ago, Morien said:
What if they were assigned to Prince Madoc say for raiding, but the Earl himself didn't go? Would they swear an oath to Prince Madoc at that point, which would last for the time they were on the military campaign, even though they still vassals for the Earl?
3 hours ago, TerryTroll said:
No usually they wouldn't have to swear any additional oaths. The idea is that their actions would reflect upon the Count (Earl). Swearing another oath would undermine their Loyalty to Salisbury, too. Basically a knight only owes homage to one lord at a time, and generally a higher ranking one will tend to override a lower ranking one. So if the PKs swore fealty and homage to Uther that would normally be expected to override their loyalty to Salisbury. But...
Thew knights got their land and livelihood from Salisbury, so they have strong reasons to back the Count (Earl) over the King should a dispute break out between the two (as with Gorlois and Uther).
So it is usually much better for everyone if the PKs are kept as Salibury's men, and then rely on Salibury's Loyalty to the King.
If I were you I'd just let the Players decide if they want to keep the Loyalty (Uther) Passion or not, after seeing the things they saw. That was those who want it will still have it (which they could always have chosen to take if they wanted to), and those who do want it (or don't feel loyalty to Uther after seeing what he's up to) can drop it. Just let your players know that you are doing this because you might have forced the passion on them in the first place, so they know they can't always discard a passion when it suits them.
Overall you're in good shape. It's a minor issue and one that will correct itself, one way or another, in a half dozen years.
As Atgxtg already said, no they would not. They are not on Madoc's payroll, but fulfilling their duty to the Count of Salisbury, even if the Count is not physically there.
If the Count had nothing to do about it and the PKs were acting as mercenaries, there for just the payment Madoc would give them, then they would take an oath of Fealty for the duration of the campaign (as long as they are getting paid; not getting paid is grounds for ditching the oath, as Madoc would have broken his part of the deal by not paying; although often enough the mercenary pay was in arrears). As soon as the campaign is over and the mercs are released back home, the Fealty would vanish as there is no longer an employment bond between Madoc and the PKs.
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Not sure if I would give them a Fealty passion for this. I think it is covered by their Honor. For me passions are more permanent than for a single season. So they may develop a loyalty towards Uther or Mafoc while serving with him over the years. Especially if Uther or Madoc does something like saving their lives.
Reducing passions is not so easy. A lot depends on the actuions of the PKs. I would only reduce their loyalty when the lord acts against them personally. Witnessing him lying to others does not necessarily make you less loyal. So you can have conflicting passions or traits. So you could have a directed trait distrust( Uther) and a loyalty. Its kind a like: Yeah sure he is a lying a**hole, but he is our lying a**hole.
52 minutes ago, Cornelius said:
Its kind a like: Yeah sure he is a lying a**hole, but he is our lying a**hole.
Taking a Passion is a two-edged sword. Yes, in the cause of Loyalty to a specific person, if the person then goes on to be a dishonorable, lying, sack of you-know-what, you cannot just throw it away. You have to reduce it until you can renounce it. A directed trait against your passion might be the first step towards this, public denouncing, introspective periods, and so on might be called by the gm, and the like.
2 hours ago, Cornelius said:
I agree, but apparently it is a fait accompli, so now it is more of an issue of how to deal with the situation as it exists. Personally I'd give the players the option to backtrack out of the passion, especially if it had been forced upon them or taken due to a misunderstanding.
Reducing passions is not so easy. A lot depends on the actions of the PKs. I would only reduce their loyalty when the lord acts against them personally. Witnessing him lying to others does not necessarily make you less loyal. So you can have conflicting passions or traits. So you could have a directed trait distrust( Uther) and a loyalty. Its kind a like: Yeah sure he is a lying a**hole, but he is our lying a**hole.
Yes, plus part of the whole feudal oath thing is in the "my country right or wrong" mold. That is, you are expected to back him even when he is acting up., as you pointed out with your " but he is our..." statement. It is also why Gorlois can't just get out of dodge by revealing that the reason why he left court was because Uther kept hitting on his wife.
1 hour ago, Hzark10 said:
A directed trait against your passion
That's a new one one me. I though directed traits were directed traits, not passions. Could you elaborate a bit? I'm not sure how to implment a directed passion. Loyalty (Uther)* 16, *-5 if he is acting like a rutting pig?
my wording caused confusion here. I meant, take a directed trait, such as Suspicious (Uther) that could/would work against your Passion. The gm could ask you to make a suspicious roll when Uther does something. This could set up the situation where you are forced to roll against your Loyalty.
does this make more sense?
Khanwulf 5
Let me widen the topic only slightly by asking a few related questions that have niggled at me:
1. The PKs may receive [vast tracts of] lands for their heroics at Tintagel. Enough to constitute and estate and jump them to baron. If so, my assumption is that they would in fact receive an homage/loyalty passion toward Uther, who granted those lands directly. This then would create obligations to Uther as well as Roderick that could be used to complicate their lives further.
2. Presumably a mercenary would exist with loyalty to their family (noble or otherwise), then fealty to their employer, which could be upgraded to loyalty passion on essentially achieving the status of a household knight. Am I correct in this sequence?
--Khanwulf
5 hours ago, Khanwulf said:
Unless they want to serve King Idres or his son Mark that barony won't last. I'd be reluctant to do that to players unless you are willing to compensate them in other ways during the Anarchy.
11 hours ago, Hzark10 said:
Oh, yes, very much so.
12 hours ago, Khanwulf said:
1. The PKs may receive [vast tracts of] lands for their heroics at Tintagel. Enough to constitute and estate and jump them to baron. If so, my assumption is that they would in fact receive an homage/loyalty passion toward Uther, who granted those lands directly. This then would create obligations to Uther as well as Roderick that could be used to complicate their lives further.
A PK may receive AN Estate, which would make HIM an estate holder, not a baron.
It was clarified in the old forums that the intent was not that all 6 or so PKs would be granted an estate EACH for having a hand in taking Gorlois down.
Secondly, that estate would be in rather dire straits after the events of the following year anyway. It would probably be easier for the GM and the players to have Uther hint at rich rewards but be distracted by his marriage (and other) plans for Ygraine, and then have Roderick use that 'favor chip' to get the PKs off the hook later.
But yes, if the PKs get rewarded with land directly from the King, what probably ends up happening is that they get Homage (Uther) and their previous Homage (Roderick) downgrades to Fealty (Roderick), since higher noble usually trumps the lower noble and insists on Homage from his vassals. Roderick doesn't have a good reason to put himself in Uther's ire by saying no to the king, so he would release the PKs from the homage and accept their fealty instead.
Love (Family) towards the Family & Kin.
Fealty (Employer). Potentially Loyalty (my company or my captain), if part of an established merc group.
Homage (lord) if they actually swear homage to the lord as a household knight. It is a formal oath. I was referring more to a situation where the mercenary captain had been in the service of the same lord for a couple of decades already, and clearly a trusted confidant/favorite.
20 hours ago, Cornelius said:
Not sure if I would give them a Fealty passion for this. I think it is covered by their Honor.
I don't have the books before me, so I can't check it if it has been made explicit in the publications, but I know Greg told me that the mercs had Fealty during their contract.
That being said, I would be fine leaving it for Honor, though, and frequently do in our games, especially if the PKs are taking short (a couple of months) merc contracts. I don't bother rolling Fealty for those.
Although I'm playing in an erlier period (Just made it 439 and into the Book of Sires), I have had King Constatin give one PK a manor as a reward for excellent military service abroad, after the PK captured the army commander at a battle (lots of luck and good die rolls). I did have the PK generate a Loyalty (Constantin) Passion, but I didn't have any of the other PKs generatew a passion.
I could see that too. There is a good deal of overlap between traits and passions, especially with Honor. The Honor passion can pretty much cover just about anything a PK wants or thinks it should. Honesty, Justice, Loyalty, Love (Family) Pride, could all overlap with Honor.
ESTATE, p. 18: "An oath of Fealty is sworn to other lords from whom a knight gets land, and also to lords who are temporary, such as leaders in a military campaign."
ESTATE, p. 21: "If the knight is held only by fealty, then he may dissolve his own commitment. Once again, the willing support of his current lord is very helpful. A knight bound by an oath of fealty may just wait until the term of his employment has expired."
I admit that I had forgotten that apparently the leaders in a military campaign do get Fealty sworn to them. I would only apply this to the mercenaries. The medieval history is RIFE with internecine bickering amongst nobility, which each baron jealous for glory and prickly about their own honor, which often resulted in very big mistakes on the battlefield.
WARLORD, p. 26: "Fealty is a different, less exclusive kind of loyalty. It is sometimes (but not always) a temporary arrangement with a predetermined and agreed-to term limit, as found in mercenary contracts, for example. It is dissolved without rancor upon expiration of the time period, if it has one."
WARLORD also makes clear that one-sided dissolving of Fealty is not without its costs, p. 26: "Breaking either vow is dishonorable. Breaking Homage costs the oathbreaker 10 points of Honor; breaking Fealty results in a loss of 5 Honor."
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The Difference between Gossiping and Defamation According to Islam and Its Proposal
by Widiya April 2, 2019
Gossiping and defamation are things that are often done unconsciously by everyone. Those two things are often carried out when a human being gathers with other humans and is unable to keep the conversation for something good. In fact, the Messenger of Allah himself once said that it is better for us to be quiet when we are unable to talk about goodness.
Difference between Gossiping and Defamation
The following are some insights related to differences in denunciation and slander, including:
Understanding Gossiping
“From Abu Hurairah Radhiyallahu ‘Anhu, the Prophet Sallallaahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam said, “Do you know what it is to worship?” They replied, “Allah and His Messenger know better.” He said, “You mentioned the ugliness of your brother whom he did not like to be listened to by others.” He was asked, “What if the mentioned according to reality?” Said the Prophet Sallallaahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam, “If according to reality, it means you have gossiped about it. If it is not appropriate, then you have slandered it.” (Narrated by Muslim)
In the hadith it is explained that gossiping is a prohibited act. Gossiping itself means that we talk about and mention the bad side of other people even though it should not need to be opened or told to the others. Of course, no one likes such treatment, because it is like you stab someone on the back.
People who are self-reliant certainly do not intend to seek the truth or solve a problem, but only to vent and satisfy the passions to talk about the bad side of others. Of course, people should watch out because whether other’s bad behavior is a fact or reality, this has the potential to shift to a greater slander.
Causes of Gossip
The cause of gossip usually occurs for several reasons. Among others are:
There is hatred or hurt towards certain people.
There are no productive activities.
Become a pleasure in itself.
Uninterested to seek the truth.
Encouragement of association or environmental conditioning.
For this reason, do not let the Muslims get caught up in problems. We recommend that these causes should be avoided and it’s better to look for other productive activities that will be more beneficial for ourselves or others around.
Understanding Defamation
Defamation is different from gossiping. Defamation itself in Islam is like eating the carcass of our own brother. The news delivered from slander is false or not in accordance with the truth. For this reason, slanderous news cannot be justified and has a bad influence on someone’s good name.
Self-defamation, of course, causes conflict and division in one person with another person. In fact, slander itself is very difficult to fix. A person’s perceptions can change when there is a spread of news. For this reason, do not let that perception grows.
The cause of slander usually occurs for several reasons:
Do not make data correction and analysis.
Conclude too soon.
There is hatred. (Also read: Effective Prayers for Those Who Hate You).
Cannot distinguish right from wrong.
Lack of knowledge or truth.
Basically, gossiping and slander have differences in information and the quality of the data delivered. Gossip is not necessarily the wrong news, because it can be the truth. But slander is definitely wrong because the news cannot be accounted for.
How to Avoid Gossip and Slander
Because gossip and slander are something that is sinful, then it must be eliminated in the self of Muslims. Because something that is sinful must be abandoned and avoided. The following are ways to avoid talking bad about others.
Avoid Talking About Other People
When talking about someone, always be careful. Talking about his kindness will bring a lot of wisdom and inspiration. However, when talking about others’ bad side, humans usually never stop to keep adding wrong information.
When we are talking about other people, we must be careful not to mention about their ugliness and all their disgrace. There is no human who is perfect and free from sin. Any human being is sinful and sometimes they can be wrong, even though everyone case is different.
For that, cover your shame, because we also have the same shame. However, the brotherhood of Islam must be maintained because this is in accordance with the definition of Islamic, insaniyah, and wathaniyah brotherhoods taught by the Prophet Muhammad.
Do Not Follow Up Frequent Gossip
In order to avoid being hammered and slandered, look for relationships that are also broad and avoid gossiping itself. Follow a good environment and avoid talking about any disgrace or false news. A good association will discuss goodness accompanied by encouraging each other to do well.
Perform Productive Activities
We can do repulsion and slander by doing productive activities. Productive activity keeps us from the behavior of talking about the ugliness of other people or things that are in vain. By doing productive activities, thoughts, and what we do will lead to things that are more useful.
Examples of productive behavior, for example, writing, reading things that are useful, doing sports, following the assembly of science, or can also be generous but with the intention of kindness.
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Increase Knowledge and Broad Insight
Extensive knowledge and insight keep a person from evil news or untrue news. Extensive knowledge and insight make our minds not narrow. For that, expand and multiply our faith so that we can solve many problems and avoid misguided conversations. (Also read: 12 Proper Ways to Use Your Social Media in Islam for Young People).
Think Before You Talk
If you really do not know, then say that you do not know. Remember that everything we talk about will be held accountable later by Allah SWT. (Also read: Law of Saying Bad Swear in Islam According to Quran and Hadith).
Remember not everyone is perfect! Sometimes they can do wrong and sometimes you can too, so don’t judge others based on your own perception.
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Bridgeport Bluefish Planning Their Future
By Zach Spedden on August 14, 2017 in Independent Baseball, News
Though a proposal to convert their home ballpark to an amphitheater has not been finalized, the Bridgeport Bluefish (independent; Atlantic League) will not wait to make a decision on their future.
Bridgeport officials have proceeded with discussions on a proposal from developer Howard Saffan and concert promoter Live Nation, who are looking to convert The Ballpark at Harbor Yard into a amphitheater. Several steps will need to be finalized for the ballpark redevelopment to move forward, including the completion of a contract that will require approval from the city council.
The Bluefish, however, are making it clear that they are not going to wait for the city council to debate the proposal before lining up their plans for beyond the remainder of the 2017 season In fact, team owner Frank Boulton has indicated that he is fielding calls and visiting other cities that are interested in landing the club. More from the CT Post:
Fish owner Frank Boulton, however, in an interview Friday did not sound like he was waiting for final votes and the ink to dry.
“I’ve been shown the door,” Boulton said. “When the mayor and (Economic Development Director) Tom Gill tell me their (selection) committee selected the amphitheater, thanks for your 20 years, we’ll see you later, all I asked was I have time at the end of the season to move out.”
“I’m still here. We have 20 games,” Boulton added, “But I’m definitely fielding calls and visiting different places that want to host the Bluefish.”
“I’m not going to sit around and wait for them (the City Council) to debate the validity of this proposal,” Boulton said. “I’ve got to think in the best interest of the Atlantic League and ownership, of my partners and of this team.”
As noted, an agreement with Saffan and Live Nation has still not been finalized. The AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers, who play in and operate the adjacent Webster Bank Arena, have raised concerns about the redevelopment plan, saying it would violate the terms of their lease, which contains a noncompete clause prohibiting any city activity impacting event revenues. The arena has hosted several high-profile performances over the years, including the likes of Elton John and Bruce Springsteen.
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Lions finally place Matthew Stafford on injured reserve due to back, hip injuries
Chris Cwik
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is officially done for the season. The team placed Stafford on injured reserve Tuesday due to back and hip injuries, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
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The 31-year-old Stafford hasn’t played since Week 9 after suffering multiple fractures in his back. Stafford reportedly wanted to play through the injury initially, but the Lions’ medical staff would not clear him to return.
Prior to missing Week 10, Stafford had not missed a start since the 2010 season. After a disappointing 2018, Stafford got back on track in 2019, tossing 19 touchdowns against 5 interceptions in 8 games.
Both Jeff Driskel and David Blough have started games with Stafford sidelined. The Lions have gone 0-6 in those contests.
Following the team’s Week 13 loss to the Chicago Bears, the Lions were eliminated from the playoffs. With nothing to play for, the Lions have no reason to expose Stafford to addition injuries. The team can now allow their quarterback to fully heal over the offseason so it can be at full strength in 2020.
Stafford should return to a similar situation in 2020. Despite the Lions’ struggles — the team is 3-10-1 — head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn are expected to be back next season.
Chris Cwik is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at christophercwik@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Chris_Cwik
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Home News Google Maps Now Helps Users Find EV Chargers They Can Use
Google Maps Now Helps Users Find EV Chargers They Can Use
Akshay Gangwar -
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With electric cars becoming a more common sight on the roads, one would think that charging an EV would become easier. However, with many companies using proprietary charging plugs for their cars, the problem of finding an EV charging station that’s actually compatible with your car is only getting worse.
Google Maps has already had a feature that can show electric car owners EV charging stations around them so they can quickly top-up their car’s range while on the go. However, with a new update, the map application is making that feature more useful for its users. According to a report from Android Police, Google Maps is adding a feature that lets users search for EV charging stations by the plug-type they require.
This means users will now be able to find EV charging stations that will definitely work with their cars. That’s pretty neat.
With the new feature, users will be able to add the kind of plug(s) their car(s) supports, and Google will then only show them charging stations compatible with that plug-type. From the screenshots shared by AP, there are six different types of plug-types supported by Google Maps including Tesla, J1772, CHAdeMO (used by manufacturers such as Honda, Renault, and others), and CCS (Type 1 and Type 2).
Image courtesy: Android Police
According to Android Police, the feature is available on Google Maps on Android, but it’s unclear if it has rolled out to Google Maps on iOS as well. With electric cars basically being non-existent in India so far, at least as far as mainstream adoption is considered, I’m not sure if Google has even rolled this out in India at all. However, I checked on my iPhone and there’s no such feature there.
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SwissGolden scammers arrested in Nigeria, $601,600 recovered
Apr.19, 2018 in companies, regulation
SwissGolden was a cycler Ponzi we here at BehindMLM reviewed back in 2014.
While the company traded in euro and represented it was operated out of the UK, British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, turns out a Russian and two Nigerians were behind it.
Following the filing of a petition by thousands of SwissGolden victims, who claim to have lost over $2.7 million, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission launched an investigation.
The investigation lead to the arrest of Maxim Lobaty, a Russian national and Austin Emenike and Dickson Nonso Onuchukwu, two Nigerians.
After being drilled at the commission’s Kano zonal office, Maxim and his co-suspects consented to the refund of the investment.
Subsequently, a total sum of N216,402,565.05 have now been recovered.
N216 million is about $601,600 USD, well short of the $2.7 million allegedly lost. But at least it’s something.
Alexa traffic estimates show a boom in activity on the SwissGolden website from late 2016 into 2017 – fueled by Nigeria
In July 2017, SwissGolden showed signs of collapse. Activity on the SwissGolden website went into decline continuing into 2018.
Authorities have pegged total losses of around 7,000 SwissGolden Nigerian investors at over N3 billion ($8.3 million USD).
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2 Comments on “SwissGolden scammers arrested in Nigeria, $601,600 recovered”
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Apr 19th, 2018 at 8:39 pm Terrence B(Q)
This thing was promoted so heavy on facebook. You would think that each poster was rich beyond anyone’s reach!
This explains why all the posting stopped.
Apr 20th, 2018 at 9:59 pm Melanie from Germany(Q)
All nonsense! Fake news!
Swissgolden is and will still remain the Best Network Marketing Business in Nigeria!
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Social media reacts to the death of former President George H.W. Bush
On Friday, a family spokesperson announced that former George H.W. Bush passed away at the age of 94.
Immediately after, an outpouring of condolences started popping up all over social media.
A message from The Queen to President George H.W. Bush
"It was with sadness that I learned of the death of President George H W Bush last night. President Bush was a great friend and ally of the United Kingdom. He was also a patriot, serving his country with honour and distinction in Office and during the Second World War.
Prince Philip and I remember our days in Texas in 1991 with great fondness. My thoughts and prayers are with President Bush's family and the American people." - Elizabeth R.
Nothing gave my Gampy more joy than service to others, especially supporting and caring for those who risk making the ultimate sacrifice everyday. His leadership taught us to be kinder and gentler, to love each other. We will miss him dearly. pic.twitter.com/i2iR5U3ikc
— Jeb Bush, Jr. (@JebBushJr) December 1, 2018
Statement from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on the Passing of Former President George H.W. Bush pic.twitter.com/qxPsp4Ggs7
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2018
Rest In Peace, President George H.W. Bush. President Bush committed his life to service, bravely fighting in World War II, serving in Congress, leading the @cia, serving as Ambassador to the United Nations, and being Vice-President all before leading our nation. He’ll be missed.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 1, 2018
America has lost a patriot and humble servant in George Herbert Walker Bush. While our hearts are heavy today, they are also filled with gratitude. Our thoughts are with the entire Bush family tonight – and all who were inspired by George and Barbara’s example. pic.twitter.com/g9OUPu2pjY
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 1, 2018
Hearts are heavy as we bid farewell to President George H.W. Bush. He was a faithful servant to his country whose legacy of leadership & love of homeland became a family tradition, earned him the admiration of Americans & secured him a special place in the memory of every Texan.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) December 1, 2018
Today, George and his beloved Barbara are together, enjoying a well-deserved rest from their labors.
Today, his spirit joins a thousand points of light with his Creator, by whose brilliance may all our works be illuminated and inspired.
George H W Bush died at 94.
Shirley Chisholm would have turned 94.
They both believed in service. Public service. Serving their nation and believing in the goodness of ppl. President Obama went to see #Bush41 this week. #Honorable#Humility#Hope#Honesty
American values.
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) December 1, 2018
RIP Daddy Bush - enjoyed fishin' and huntin' with you. Enjoyed campaigning in 1988 with you as well. Say hello to Barbara for me - she sure looked out for me during your inaugural parade :-)
— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) December 1, 2018
He was more than a great man; he was a good man. His courage was matched by his compassion; and his dedication to country was equaled only by his devotion to his family. Gampy, we love you and we will miss you. But we will never forget you. pic.twitter.com/n7uFwO6xxw
— George P. Bush (@georgepbush) December 1, 2018
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— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) December 1, 2018
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“Not only was George H.W. Bush one of the greatest presidents in our nation’s history, he also was one of the finest men to serve our country in so many ways..."
Full statement: https://t.co/aWmaA1aprt pic.twitter.com/SleAF7dqwQ
— Texas A&M System (@tamusystem) December 1, 2018
We have lost a great Houstonian. https://t.co/6sXMbBcbaf
— City of Houston (@HoustonTX) December 1, 2018
A friend of the world, nation & all in Texas: #GeorgeHWBush was a #pointoflife until death & we'll miss him for his firm, determined leadership & his unceasing love for God, country and family - My deepest sympathies to his family - May he rest in peace.https://t.co/HRCCAoKZuK
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) December 1, 2018
Hillary and I mourn the passing of President George H. W. Bush, and give thanks for his great long life of service, love and friendship. I am grateful for every minute I spent with him and will always hold our friendship as one of my life’s greatest gifts. https://t.co/1CYdrIeKmz
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) December 1, 2018
RIP President H.W. Bush. Thank you for a lifetime of dedicated service to our nation. Your thoughtful leadership and humility will be missed. Fair winds and following seas, Mr. President. #RIPGHWB pic.twitter.com/XnhfCnqBAu
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) December 1, 2018
Rest in peace, Mr. President. Barbara is waiting for you! Thank you for truly caring about our country and its people! #GeorgeHWBush pic.twitter.com/Dzo0cy3T7Y
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) December 1, 2018
George H.W. Bush was the embodiment of service over self. America has lost a great and honorable man. Rest in peace, Mr. President.
— Larry King (@kingsthings) December 1, 2018
I will never forget George H.W. Bush and President Clinton meeting me in my old hometown of New Orleans to show support and raise money after Hurricane Katrina. I send my love to his family tonight.
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 1, 2018
41st President, George H.W. Bush and WWII veteran, passed at 94, Nov. 30.
His time and legacy in office and to our country will not be forgotten. Our deepest condolences to the Bush Family. https://t.co/3HZRkPFspC
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) December 1, 2018
Statement from @TilmanJFertitta and family on the passing of former President George H.W. Bush. pic.twitter.com/sfi5V6JIxQ
— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) December 1, 2018
Naval Aviation mourns the passing of our 41st President, George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, statesman, and humble public servant. His legacy lives on in those who don the cloth of our great nation and in the mighty warship which bears his name, @CVN77_GHWB. May he Rest In Peace. pic.twitter.com/0COuk6veDV
— flynavy (@flynavy) December 1, 2018
George H.W. Bush will be missed and long remembered for his leadership, his decency & his essential kindness. Served his country in so many ways. Made public service about country, and America’s responsibility in the world, less about party. Our thoughts are with the Bush family.
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) December 1, 2018
Beautiful thread.
Sending you a hug, Dearest P. https://t.co/xIBIXLBKWY
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) December 1, 2018
He represented our team, city, state and country with pride.
Thank you, Mr. President. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/3AHGNOE9Nt
— TORO 🐃 (@TexansTORO1) December 1, 2018
What a life... full of love of family... strong faith... nothing’s more important. God bless the Bush family at this sad time.
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) December 1, 2018
George H.W. Bush: patriot, public servant, and President of the United States.
Rest in Peace, 41. pic.twitter.com/lU0I3MXR6V
— GOP (@GOP) December 1, 2018
I am saddened to hear of the loss of President George H W Bush. He was a hero in battle and a champion of American values. A true patriot of the highest caliber. My thoughts and prayers with the Bush family. God bless.
— Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) December 1, 2018
“He was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for."
We mourn the passing of the 41st President of the United States- George H.W. Bush pic.twitter.com/CW2aRHCT9v
— Yale Baseball (@YaleBaseball) December 1, 2018
The future president #GeorgeHWBush with #BabeRuth at the @Yale field in 1948. See more historical images of #Bush41 from @yalelibrary #ManuscriptsandArchives https://t.co/bhW9rHOyUV pic.twitter.com/5nlNiAsoje
— Yale Library (@yalelibrary) December 1, 2018
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20-foot whale shark trapped in heavy-duty fishing line freed by divers
By Danny Clemens
LANAI, Hawaii -- A 20-foot whale shark that became tangled in heavy-duty fishing line is now free thanks to a group of divers who unexpectedly encountered the animal off the coast of Hawaii.
Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources had been aware of the distressed animal since tour groups first spotted it in mid-July. The department said in a release that the line, estimated to weigh more than 150 pounds, was cutting into the emaciated animal's body and threatening its life.
The department asked the public to report any further sightings of the animal so that NOAA experts could attempt to free the whale shark.
On July 29, husband and wife Joby Rohrer and Kapua Kawelo were free diving off Lanai with their son and family friend Jon Sprague when they encountered the whale shark 30 feet below the surface. Using a knife, the group managed to cut through the rope until the shark was ultimately freed.
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Rohrer and Kawelo's son Kanehoalani Kawelo filmed the operation, which took over an hour. In the footage, the shark appeared tranquil and eventually swam away to freedom.
"We waited a long time to consider what our responsibility was...We know that people don't necessarily encourage this type of thing but both of us are biologists. We felt like we were sort of in tune with what the animal was doing and maybe we were meant to be there," Kawelo later told Hawaii News Now.
Whale sharks, the largest known extant fish species, generally grow to be about 30 feet long. Found throughout tropical and warm temperate seas, the filter-feeding whale shark is listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
After the rescue, the Department of Land and Natural Resources reiterated that divers should not attempt to free entangled marine animals on their own and should contact the appropriate government agency for assistance.
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Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia
Alastair S. Garfield*, Luke K. Burke, Jill Shaw, Mark L. Evans, Lora K. Heisler
Rowett Institute
The central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; serotonin) system is well established as an important regulator of appetite and continues to remain a focus of obesity research. While much emphasis has focussed on the 5-HT2c receptor (5-HT2cR) in 5-HT's anorectic effect, pharmacological manipulation of the 5-HT6 receptor (5-HT6R) also reduces appetite and body weight and may be amenable to obesity treatment. However, the neurological circuits that underlie 5-HT6R-induced hypophagia remain to be identified. Using c-fos immunoreactivity (FOS-IR) as a marker of neuronal activation, here we mapped the neuroanatomical targets activated by an anorectic dose of the 5-HT6R antagonist SB-399885 throughout the brain. Furthermore, we quantified SB-399855 activated cells within brain appetitive nuclei, the hypothalamus, dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). Our results reveal that 5-HT6R antagonist-induced hypophagia is associated with significantly increased neuronal activation in two nuclei with an established role in the central control of appetite, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and the NTS. In contrast, no changes in FOS-IR were observed between treatment groups within other hypothalamic nuclei or DRN. The data presented here provide a first insight into the neural circuitry underlying 5-HT6R antagonist-induced appetite suppression and highlight the PVH and NTS in the coordination of 5-HT6R hypophagia. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Garfield, A. S., Burke, L. K., Shaw, J., Evans, M. L., & Heisler, L. K. (2014). Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia. Behavioural Brain Research, 266, 201-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.018
Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia. / Garfield, Alastair S.; Burke, Luke K.; Shaw, Jill; Evans, Mark L.; Heisler, Lora K.
In: Behavioural Brain Research, Vol. 266, 01.06.2014, p. 201-206.
Garfield, AS, Burke, LK, Shaw, J, Evans, ML & Heisler, LK 2014, 'Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia', Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 266, pp. 201-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.018
Garfield AS, Burke LK, Shaw J, Evans ML, Heisler LK. Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia. Behavioural Brain Research. 2014 Jun 1;266:201-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.018
Garfield, Alastair S. ; Burke, Luke K. ; Shaw, Jill ; Evans, Mark L. ; Heisler, Lora K. / Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia. In: Behavioural Brain Research. 2014 ; Vol. 266. pp. 201-206.
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abstract = "The central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; serotonin) system is well established as an important regulator of appetite and continues to remain a focus of obesity research. While much emphasis has focussed on the 5-HT2c receptor (5-HT2cR) in 5-HT's anorectic effect, pharmacological manipulation of the 5-HT6 receptor (5-HT6R) also reduces appetite and body weight and may be amenable to obesity treatment. However, the neurological circuits that underlie 5-HT6R-induced hypophagia remain to be identified. Using c-fos immunoreactivity (FOS-IR) as a marker of neuronal activation, here we mapped the neuroanatomical targets activated by an anorectic dose of the 5-HT6R antagonist SB-399885 throughout the brain. Furthermore, we quantified SB-399855 activated cells within brain appetitive nuclei, the hypothalamus, dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). Our results reveal that 5-HT6R antagonist-induced hypophagia is associated with significantly increased neuronal activation in two nuclei with an established role in the central control of appetite, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and the NTS. In contrast, no changes in FOS-IR were observed between treatment groups within other hypothalamic nuclei or DRN. The data presented here provide a first insight into the neural circuitry underlying 5-HT6R antagonist-induced appetite suppression and highlight the PVH and NTS in the coordination of 5-HT6R hypophagia. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.",
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AB - The central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; serotonin) system is well established as an important regulator of appetite and continues to remain a focus of obesity research. While much emphasis has focussed on the 5-HT2c receptor (5-HT2cR) in 5-HT's anorectic effect, pharmacological manipulation of the 5-HT6 receptor (5-HT6R) also reduces appetite and body weight and may be amenable to obesity treatment. However, the neurological circuits that underlie 5-HT6R-induced hypophagia remain to be identified. Using c-fos immunoreactivity (FOS-IR) as a marker of neuronal activation, here we mapped the neuroanatomical targets activated by an anorectic dose of the 5-HT6R antagonist SB-399885 throughout the brain. Furthermore, we quantified SB-399855 activated cells within brain appetitive nuclei, the hypothalamus, dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). Our results reveal that 5-HT6R antagonist-induced hypophagia is associated with significantly increased neuronal activation in two nuclei with an established role in the central control of appetite, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and the NTS. In contrast, no changes in FOS-IR were observed between treatment groups within other hypothalamic nuclei or DRN. The data presented here provide a first insight into the neural circuitry underlying 5-HT6R antagonist-induced appetite suppression and highlight the PVH and NTS in the coordination of 5-HT6R hypophagia. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Paul Dano To Kill People For Rian Johnson
The THERE WILL BE BLOOD preacher becomes a hit man who kills people from the future.
Rian Johnson’s been putting together a heck of a cast for his Looper, a violent scifi film about hitmen tasked to murder people sent back from the future. He’s got the irascible Bruce Willis in his cast, and he’s got Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who starred in Rian’s first film, Brick. The lovely Emily Blunt has joined the cast, and the latest addition is none other than Eli/Paul Sunday himself, Paul Dano.
Dano will join Gordon-Levitt as a murdering Looper, but little else is known. Rian will be shooting next year in Louisiana, so I wouldn’t expect to see Looper until later in 2011.
This story is via The Playlist. Attribution was inadvertently left off because I was running to get on a plane! Sorry, Playlist.
Rian Johnson Is Working On A Sequel To KNIVES OUT
KNIVES OUT Has Something Important To Say About THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
BIRTH.VIDEO.DEATH.: Rian Johnson Reveals THE LAST JEDI: THE STOMERONI CUT
Benoit Blanc WILL return, and possibly soon.
By Britt Hayes, Dec 30, 2019
Rian Johnson's whodunit might hold the key to his feelings about the STAR WARS sequel.
By Birth.Movies.Death. Team, Dec 17, 2019
In which the KNIVES OUT director drops a bombshell.
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Turks welcome hijabi MPs
Merve Kavakçi was stripped of her Turkish nationality & banned from making her Parliamentary oath because of her hijab (Photo: AJV/The Muslim News)
When in 1999 Merve Safa Kavakçı was elected as a Virtue Party deputy (MP) for Istanbul, she faced protests from colleagues in Parliament simply because she wore the hijab (headscarf).
She was prevented from making her parliamentary oath because of her hijab, which is banned for civil servants in secular Turkey. She was eventually stripped of her Turkish citizenship, on the grounds that she had not disclosed her US citizenship (which she obtained on March 5, 1999).
In 2007 the European Court of Human Rights found that her expulsion from parliament was a violation of human rights.
The 42 year-old’s supporters received another boost earlier this month after a opinion poll revealed that the overwhelming majority of Turks are in favour of allowing women to enter Parliament with their hijabs.
78.1 percent of the 2,000 Turks who took part in the Strategic and Social Research Center poll said women should be allowed to wear the hijab in Parliament if they wanted to.
Another 19.5 percent said hijab wearing women should not become deputies.
The hijab debate was reignited earlier in March when a group of women, including journalists, representatives from NGOs and activists, launched an initiative.
The initiative demands the nomination of headscarf-wearing deputies in the parliamentary elections on June 12. The initiative calls itself “We want headscarved deputies.”
There is a strict ban on the wearing of the hijab in Turkey. Women wearing the hijab are not allowed to enter military facilities, including hospitals and recreational areas. There is currently no hijab wearing deputy in Parliament.
Asked if they find the number of women in such fields as politics, public administration and business adequate, 71.9 percent said “no” while only 23.4 percent said “yes.”
The international NGO Assembly for the Protection of Hijab (Protect-hijab) welcomed the study findings.
In a statement to The Muslim News a spokesman for the Assembly described the research as “positive feedback” adding that Turkey’s “legislators should take this research into considerations and address the current injustice experienced by Turkey’s hijab wearing women.”
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Gardening Year
Jorge, Plants
What Are Soil Types and Are They Important?
Soil types, such as clay, sand and silt, are compositions of different size rock particles, which affects a soil’s nutrient and water holding capacity and drainage. They aren’t as important as made out as every plant will adapt to its conditions and every soil type is improved the same way – through maintaining plant life and adding organic matter.
What are soil types?
When people are talking about soil types, they are usually referring to soil texture. A soil’s texture is determined by the composition of rock particles in the soil. These particles come in different sizes, and the smallest are known as the fine earth fraction, which range from the largest sand (.05-2mm) to the smallest clay (<.002mm) with silt (.002-05mm) in the middle.
Within clay are very small particles (0.0001mm) known as colloids. Colloids have the ability to absorb, hold and release nutrients and are important as without nutrients would simply leech away. This occurs as they are negatively charged and attract positively charged ions such as nutrient atoms and water molecules, which bind to the surface. Hence, as particle size decreases, water and nutrient holding capacity increases.
Picture credit: Mikenorton (2011) licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
From this, we arrive at the different properties each soil texture possess. Clay and silt are rich in nutrients and have good water holding capacity, but drain poorly, and are vulnerable to being waterlogged. Sand is poor in nutrients and water holding capacity, but drains quickly. Loam famously has the best properties of any texture.
Soil is composed, not just of rock, but decomposed organic matter known as humus. Silt and sand particles are bound to clay and humus particles forming peds (aggregates). All soil types benefit from adding organic matter and maintaining plant life.
In clay soils, adding organic matter acts to increase aggregate size, decreasing the amount of macropores, improving drainage. In sand, adding organic matter acts to increase the amount of micropores, improving the water holding capacity. This is because organic particles can also be very small (colloids) but are even more chemically reactive.
So how does organic matter improve silt and loam soils? Organic matter provides feed for plants and soil organisms that act to increase the porosity of the soil and break down minerals into soluble forms.
Chalk and peat soils are slightly different. Chalk soils can be made up of different particles sizes, but are notable for being alkaline. Peat soils are heavily organic and are often acidic.
Are soil types important?
Soil types aren’t as important as made out as every plant will adapt to its conditions. Most plants are planted/seed in suboptimal conditions and provide good results. More important is how you look after the plant, such as whether you water, fertilise and apply mulch. Planting is critically important. Avoid compacting the soil or otherwise a soil’s porosity will be reduced.
Now, it’s important to avoid waterlogged soils, which act to starve a plant of oxygen, causing root rot, and eventually root death. pH is also important. Camellia, rhododendrons, and blueberries will not do well in neutral or alkali soils, so are best grown in pots.
What’s the best soil for pots?
Using a mix of garden soil and compost will produce the best mix of macropores and micropores. Again, care is key. Potted plants are especially liable to drought, so be sure to apply mulch, which helps trap moisture. Ensure you drill a hole in the bottom of the pot, so water can drain.
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Flowers, Jorge, Plants, Trees
What Is Pollination and Is It Important?
Pollination involves the transfer of pollen from one flower to another, resulting in fertilisation. Fertilisation is important as without plants will not produce fruit. It’s likely you don’t need to do anything to ensure pollination, as it’s probable a compatible tree will be in the vicinity. However, it is beneficial to buy a pollination partner to guarantee and improve pollination, boosting yields.
What is pollination?
Pollination involves the transfer of male reproductive cells from a plant’s male reproductive organ to a plant’s female reproductive organ, in within there are female reproductive cells. The reproductive cells then fuse, forming a new cell, which divides rapidly eventually forming a seed.
In plants, male reproductive cells are located within pollen cells, which are found on flowers, on the part known as the stamen. The female cells are located within the ovule, found in the ovary, which is part of the carpel. Often, both the male and female reproductive organs are found on the same flower – such flowers are known as perfect flowers – but sometimes they are not. Sometimes, male and female reproductive organs are found on different trees, known as male and female trees.
The male reproductive cells must be compatible with female reproductive cells or otherwise fertilisation will be inhibited. Fertilisation can be inhibited if two varieties are too closely related or too distantly related. Some varieties – known as self-fertile plants – can fertilise themselves, while others – known as self-sterile plants – can’t, and therefore need to be partnered with another variety.
As pollination is sexual reproduction, resultant offspring necessarily contain information from both male and female reproductive cells. Therefore, the seeds of any fruit will be of a different variety than that of the parent. (This is true even in the case of self-fertilisation, because of genetic recombination and Mendel’s law of segregation.)
Most plants, including most fruit trees, rely on insects, primarily bees, to transfer pollen between flowers, but some rely on the wind.
The male and female flowers of a walnut. Walnuts rely on the wind for pollination. Picture credit: Dalgial licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
What we are interested in is not fertilisation, but the production of fruit, which unfortunately, most trees will not bear without fertilisation. This is because fleshy fruit develops from the ovary, which encloses the ovules that form seeds.
Do I have to worry about pollination?
If you live in an urban area, it’s probable there will be another compatible tree in the vicinity, and as bees forage for miles, there is a high chance of pollination. If you live in an isolated location, where you can’t be certain of another compatible tree, it might be best to buy a pollination partner.
Now, just because you live in an urban area, it doesn’t mean there is no benefit to buying a pollination partner, which will not only guarantee pollination, but help improve pollination. You can tell if a plant has been poorly pollinated, if it’s fruits are small, misshapen and have few seeds.
Low temperatures impede pollination as frost can damage blossoms, which will fail to turn into fruit. Early flowering stone fruits, such as almonds and apricots, are especially vulnerable, and the former will not reliably crop in the UK. As bees will not forage when it is cold or windy, bad weather impedes pollination also.
As pollination is primarily carried out by bees, it’s necessary that insects can access your flowers. It’s also necessary that two varieties flower in the same period. Hence, why trees are put into flowering groups, with any variety being able to pollinate another in +-1 flowering group. Flowering groups are preferred to specific dates, as plants will flower at different times in different parts of the country. A variety in flowering group 1 will always flower before a variety in flowering group 2.
Unfortunately, even if a plant is in the same flowering group, it doesn’t mean pollination is guaranteed, due to genetic incompatibility. Cherries are notorious for this, so it’s always best to buy a self-fertile variety. Triploids, such as Bramley, are sterile and are unable to pollinate other species. So, if you want a triploid, it’s necessary to partner with two non-triploid varieties.
Different species can sometimes pollinate one another. Famously, crabapples can pollinate apples, and are often used as part of an orchard to help with pollination. Ornamental cherries, however, can’t pollinate cherry fruit trees.
Jorge, Plants, Trees
In Focus: Crabapple Trees
If crabapple trees had an alternative name it should be the utility tree, as you get unmatched value from a single tree. Lately, it’s been common to straightjacket trees as either ornamental or fruiting, but crabapples excel at both, producing wonderful floriferous displays and versatile fruit, great for cooking and attracting wildlife.
What are crabapples and how do they differ from apples?
Crabapples grow throughout the Northern Hemisphere, including in North America. Most species’ fruits are less than 2 inches in diameter, but there are some exceptions to this such as Malus sieversii, the progenitor of the modern apple whose fruits are as large as 7cm.
Sieversii grows on the slopes of the Tien Shan mountain range on Kazakhstan-China border, but once grew widely, stretching all the way to Almaty – the ex-capital of Kazakhstan that derives its name from “fatherland of the apple”. In these wild apple forests, the fruits are eaten by bears, which act to disperse and fertilise the tree’s seeds.
Here, fruits can be as small as 2.5cm, which shows the powerful selection effect humans exerted. Many are sour and are unsuitable as eating apples and there is a wide variety of flavours including hazelnut, liquorice, sweet honey and berries.
Crabapple fruits are significantly smaller than apple.
Sieversii spread wherever humans travelled, and were a great portable snack, and useful feed for horses. Eventually, it was crossed with Malus sylvestris, the European crabapple, which is native to the UK, and is commonly grown in hedgerows.
Sieversii and sylvestris and to a lesser extent some other crabapple species gave us the apple, Malus domestica. Therefore, it is correct to say all other Malus species that are not domestica are crabapples, even if crabapples and apples are closely related and can crossbreed.
Even today, growers are attempting to introduce genes from sieversii and other crabapples into domestica as they naturally resistant to disease.
Why buy crabapple trees?
Unlike other trees, crabapples produce multiple bursts of colour in a year with nearly every flower turning into a sizeable fruit, which often completely cover the crown. One particularly heavy fruiting variety, ‘Golden Hornet’ literally lights up with a mass of warm golden-yellow fruits.
‘Golden Hornet’
Often the colour of the bud is different than the emerging flower, and as the buds open at different times, every bloom is multi-tone. With ‘Sun Rival’, the bud is pink-red and the flowers white.
The warm tones crabapples produces when it’s leaves begin to colour up are not given justice, with different varieties turning yellow, orange-red and maroon. ‘Prairie Fire’ spectacular autumn shades is arguably match the best maples and sweet gums.
Unlike the other blossom tree, the ornamental cherry, whose evanescence blossom symbolises the transient nature of beauty, crabapple blossom lasts for weeks, as they flower on both one-year wood and spurs. With the variety ‘Profusion’, flowering lasts for a whole month.
The extended flowering time makes crabapples ideal for attracting pollinators to your garden as well as pollinating your apples. Indeed crabapples are in a class of their own when it comes to apple pollination, and are commonly used by commercial growers in orchards.
They suffer from none of the genetic incompatibility issues apple do (some are too closely related) and can pollinate apples spread across multiple flowering groups. If you are to choose a crabapple for apple pollination, it’s best to choose one with blossom that matches the colour of apple blossom, which is white with a hint of pink. This is because bees tend to move between trees with the same colour blossom.
‘Evereste’ remains the cultivar of choice for apple pollination, not just because of the colour of its blossom, but because it is resistant to apple scab, powdery mildew and importantly, fire blight. It also sits in flowering group 3 and will therefore pollinate most apple varieties.
‘Evereste’
Much like the rowan’s berries, some crabapple fruits hang on all the way until Christmas. Try ‘Evereste’, which was not named after the mountain, but is a play on the words, “forever resting on the tree”. ‘Comtesse de Paris’ is a great alternative, with its small citrus-like fruits. These fruits can help attract birds into your garden in the colder months, providing a welcome source of nutrients.
Crabapples over 4cm tend to fall off soon after ripening. With more flesh, these fruits are best turned into culinary delights. ‘Jelly King’ doesn’t follow convention with huge, pectin-rich fruits that persist longer than most large fruited varieties. ‘Laura’ makes a great alternative and is nice and compact. Both exhibit good disease resistance.
‘Jelly King’
Crabapples can be used as part of your cider blend to raise the acidity and sugar content. This is useful as most cider apples will need to be paired with an additional tree, as any blend without requisite acidity will spoil.
Now, nearly all crabapples are too tart to be eaten raw, although eating quality will improve in time, as sugar converts to starch. One notable exception, ‘John Downie’ is good to eat when fully ripe, but doesn’t compare to the best dessert apples.
One advantage of crabapples is there small stature, which is well suited to urban planting. With most varieties reaching 5-6m tall, they are much more easily manageable than many popular landscape trees such as Acer, Birch and Willow.
Like apples, they are compatible with dwarfing rootstocks and some varieties can be planted in containers. ‘Sun Rival’ is a lovely weeping specimen with white blossom and bright red fruits that is great as a centrepiece in a small garden.
The Best Crabapple Varieties
The Dark Crabapples
Clockwise from left: ‘Toringo Aros’, ‘Toringo Aros’, ‘Toringo Scarlett’, ‘Royalty’
‘Royalty’, ‘Toringo Scarlett’, ‘Toringo Aros’ and ‘Crimson Cascade’ are all examples of crabapples with dark leaves and red, purple, pink flowers and red berries. Both ‘Royalty’ and ‘Toringo Scarlett’ have a spreading habit, and ‘Royalty’ is slightly larger. ‘Toringo Scarlett’ is small in stature and slender, making it ideal for small gardens. While its berries are almost black, it’s flowers are pink with white veins. ‘Crimson Cascade’ makes a nice alternative to the other weeping crabapple ‘Sun Rival’.
The Light Crabapples
Clockwise from left: ‘Comtesse de Paris’, ‘Admiration’, ‘John Downie’, ‘Red Sentinel’, ‘Red Obelisk’. ‘Golden Hornet’
The angelic cousins of the dark crabapples, these trees reflect light and are best used as centrepieces. Compact and naturally dwarfing, ‘Admiration’ produces possibly the best flowering display of any crabapple with its dense blooms of white. ‘Red Obelisk’ is an excellent alternative, with slightly darker leaves and deep pink buds.
‘Golden Hornet’, ‘Butterball’, ‘John Downie’ and ‘Comtesse de Paris’ all produce white flowers, followed by yellow/orange fruits. ‘Butterball’ can probably be considered an advance over ‘Golden Hornet’, as its fruits don’t rot on trees. Not previously mentioned, ‘Red Sentinel’ remains a classic with its ruby-red jewel-like fruits that hang on well into winter.
Crabapple FAQ
Are crabapples related to apples?
Crabapples are all species within the genus Malus that are not apples (M. domestica). Apples are produced from multiple crabapple species and exist thanks to human cultivation.
Can you eat crab apples off the tree?
Yes, but they’ll be tart. Crabapples are best cooked or used as part of a cider blend.
Where do crabapple trees grow?
Crabapples are found throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and are therefore well suited to the UK’s climate.
How big do crabapple trees get?
Most crabapples will reach an ultimate height of between five to eight metres, but there are of course naturally dwarfing varieties and giantitic 12m varieties.
A tree’s habit affects a tree’s spread with upright trees taking up less space than a spreading tree at the same height.
Like apples, crabapples can be grafted onto rootstocks, which help reduce vigour.
You can always prune a tree to reduce its size. In orchards, growers may head a crabapple to reduce its size.
How do you identify a crabapple tree?
Most crabapples have five lobed blossom just like apples, but while apple blossom is white with hints of pink, crabapple blossom can be red, pink and pure white. Crabapple fruits are smaller than apples, being less than 2 inches in diameter, and can be yellow, red, green, purple, and pink.
The native Malus sylvestris has is lopsided, rounded crown and a wide, dense canopy. Bark is grey, and with age, often twisted and covered in lichen.
Are crab apples poisonous to dogs?
Crabapples and apples can be fed to dogs, but need to be cored as the seeds contain cyanide.
Do crabapple trees have deep roots?
Crabapples are not known to have invasive root systems. As with all trees, a tree’s root system grows horizontally as opposed to vertically as most nutrients are found in the uppermost layers of soil.
Can you grow crabapple trees in pots?
Crabapple trees can be grown in pots. Pots act to restrict growth, reducing a tree’s eventual size. With trees in pots, it’s necessary to water regularly and replenish its nutrients periodically.
Do crabapple trees need a pollinator?
Nearly all fruiting plants need to be pollinated to produce fruit. Usually this is done by insects, which transfer pollen from one flower to another. With self-fertile varieties, pollen from the same tree can be used, but with self-sterile varieties pollen from another variety is necessary. Crabapples are relatively common, and are compatible with apples, so pollination is almost guaranteed.
Can you transplant a crabapple tree?
You can transplant any tree, but chance of success diminishes with maturity.
When can you trim crabapple trees?
Crabapples can be pruned late autumn and early spring. Remove dead, dying and deceased wood and suckers and water sprouts.
Why are crab apples called crab apples?
Ostensibly, from the Swedish skrabba, meaning fruit of the wild apple tree. Alternatively, from the noun crabbed, meaning crooked or wayward gait of a crab. Crabapples are often slightly lopped sided and their fruit disagreeable when eaten fresh.
What are some good crab apple trees for small gardens?
Crowned best in show at the National Plant Awards, ‘Toringo Aros’ is one the smallest crabapples thanks to its slender habit and short stature, but also one of the most impactful with its gorgeous burgundy leaves, pretty pink blossom and dark maroon fruits.
‘Toringo Aros’
A worthy alternative, ‘Red Obelisk’ creates an unmatched spring spectacle with its heavily-blossomed upright branches racing towards the sky.
One of the few weeping crabapples commercially available, ‘Sun Rival’ makes an excellent choice for a centerpiece with white flowers and bright red fruit.
What is the best crab apple tree for jelly?
Try ‘Jelly King’.
What is the best crabapple tree for wildlife?
All crabapples make an excellent choice for a wildlife tree. Most and produced from a mix of species.
What season do crab apple flower and fruit?
Crabapples flower in April and May and fruit from August to October.
Small crabapples tend to hang onto the tree for longer, while larger ones fall off soon after ripening. ‘Evereste’ fruits last until Christmas.
Crabapples make excellent pollinators due to the spread of bloom. ‘Profusion’ flowers for a whole month.
Can crabapples be grown as part of a hedge?
Malus sylvestris is commonly grown as part of a mixed hedge, owing to its dense, twiggy nature and due to the fact it supports over 90 species of bird and insect.
How do I prevent crabapple tree fungus?
As fungus thrives in warm, damp and dark conditions, it’s important to remove plants that shade, crowd or grow into your tree. Trim in early spring to allow light to enter the interior and improve air circulation. Ensure sprinklers do not wet leaves and ensure you pick up dead leaves as potential sources of vectors.
If you are still considering a crabapple tree, ‘Golden Hornet’, ‘Liset’, M. floribunda and Adirondack all exhibit high resistance.
Bulbs, How To, Jorge, Planting, Plants
How To Plant Bulbs
To plant bulbs successfully, it’s important to plant at the right time and depth with the bulb the right way up. You can ensure showstopper blooms by fertilising when planting, and as long as there is vegetative growth in the growing season. Applying mulch in winter will help protect spring-flowering bulbs from frost injury.
If ordering online, plant as soon as you receive the bulb, or store in a dry, dark location if you can’t plant immediately. Leave a bulb unplanted and it may fail to flower or flower poorly. If you forget to plant, examine by touch, and discard soft or rotten bulbs. Others are worth a shot.
Generally, spring flowering bulbs need to be planted by the end of September, which will allow time for the bulb to root before the ground freezes. Tulips are planted in October and November, depending on whether you are in the North or South respectively, which helps reduce problems with disease.
Hardy summer flowering bulbs are to be planted in September and October, while tender summer flowering bulbs in early spring. Autumn flowering bulbs need to be planted by late summer.
Planting depth
Planting distance between bulbs
Allium Autumn 10cm (4″) 10cm (4″) Full sun
Begonia Spring 1cm (1/2″) 30cm (12″) Full sun, semi shade, dappled shade
Crocus Autumn 10cm (4″) 7cm (3″) Full sun, semi shade
Daffodil Autumn 10cm (4″) 10cm (4″) Full sun, semi shade
Dahlia Spring 15cm (6″) 45cm (18″) Full sun
Bluebell Spring/Autumn 10cm (4″) 10cm (4″) Dappled shade
Gladiolus Spring 10cm (4″) 15cm (6″) Full sun
Hyacinth Autumn 10cm (4″) 8cm (3″) Full sun, semi shade
Iris reticulata Autumn 10cm (4″) 8cm (3″) Full sun
Lily Autumn 20cm (8″) 15cm (6″) Full sun, semi shade
Narcissus Autumn 10cm (4″) 10cm (4″) Full sun, semi shade
Ponerorchis Spring 2.5cm (1″) 7cm (3″) Dappled shade
Ranunculus Autumn 8cm (3″) 25cm (10″) Full sun
Snowdrop Spring/Autumn 10cm (4″) 10cm (4″) Dappled shade
Tree Lily Autumn 20cm (8″) 15cm (6″) Full sun, semi shade
Tulip Autumn 15cm (6″) 13cm (5″) Full sun
White Egret Orchid Spring 2.5cm (1″) 7cm (3″) Dappled shade
Winter Aconite Autumn 5cm (2″) 5cm (2″) Full sun, semi shade, dappled shade
As always it’s best to look at a species habitat and flowering time when deciding where to plant. Early spring bulbs such as snowdrops are used to harsh conditions, and will thrive in cold pockets. Forest dwelling species such as the bluebell are used to dappled shade, and will thrive under any deciduous tree. More exotic species such as dahlia, originating from Mexico, are suited to full sun.
It’s not the end of the world if you plant in a sub-optimal location as bulbs are a storage organ and the plant already has a large reserve of energy. Bulbs rarely thrive in deep shade and output will be poor in the second year after planting.
It’s possible that southern exposure can lead to early emergence and freezing injury. You can moderate temperature extremes by applying 3 inches of mulch after the first frost. This will help prevent injury from the constant cycle of frost and thaw. Remove the mulch if you think the shoots can’t penetrate it easily.
Mulch will help protect bulbs from frost injury.
The key message is to avoid waterlogged soils, which can starve a bulb of oxygen, causing them to rot. Clay soils usually have poor drainage, and can be improved by adding organic mulch. Ensure you don’t compact the soil, but firm with the back of a rake.
Right-side Up
Most bulbs have a tip, which should be pointing upwards when planted. Some will arrive with roots on the bottom, opposite to the tip. Begonia bulbs do not have a sharp point, but you can sometimes detect the tip emerging out of the concave (indented) side.
Planting Depth & Distance
A general rule of thumb is that bulbs can be planted three times their height, although begonias are an exception to this.
Bulbs in containers can be spaced a bulb width apart. In the ground, 2-4 inches is common for small and 8 inches for large bulbs.
Apply phosphorus when planting as it doesn’t travel well in the soil. This essential nutrient helps with root growth.
Water immediately after planting, unless you are planting in autumn and the ground is already wet.
Sometimes, small mammals will dig up bulbs, but this can be prevented with wire mesh.
Plants in containers are vulnerable to drought and under fertilisation, so water and feed regularly once the growing season starts.
As nutrients are absorbed through roots, it’s important nutrients reach the depth the roots are located. Liquid fertiliser will penetrate the soil, and can remedy deficiencies quickly, but is liable to leeching. Other inorganic fertilisers will fertilise the soil over time, so need to be applied in advance. Organic fertiliser takes far longer as it’s insoluble and first needs to be broken down by microorganisms, before becoming available for uptake by plants.
Removing seed pods, but maintaining foliage, allows a plant to put more energy into its bulb, for larger blooms thereafter. Watering and feeding will help with this. Remove foliage once it yellows.
After this, bulbs can be lifted, sorted, washed, left to dry and then stored in a cool, dry, airy place. Small, rotten or diseased bulbs are best thrown.
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Bikes vs CARS to raise funds for the Cyclists' Defence Fund
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Michael Mason was cycling home one evening, riding correctly, with fully functioning bike lights on a well-lit street. He was hit from behind by a car and died from his injuries. The car driver gave no explanation at the inquest as to why she didn't see him. Regardless, the police didn't even pass the case file onto the Crown Prosecution Service. All profits from this screening will go to the campaign to raise funds for a private prosecution, to support the proper administration of justice for Michael.
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Curator Modern New Zealand
Can New Zealand sustain its 119-year-old pension scheme as the population ages?
By: Kirstie Ross
As the government announces plans to raise the pension age for the first time since Richard Seddon passed old-age pensions in 1898, history curator Kirstie Ross questions whether New Zealand can afford to support its aging population based on historic practices and attitudes.Read more
Wellington’s Central Park: A ramble through its history
Wellington’s Central Park – less familiar to many than the famous park of the same name in New York City – is one of the Wellington’s oldest public green spaces. History curator Kirstie Ross rambles through some of the highs and lows of its 114 year history.Read more
Berry Boys in the fourth ballot: Battersby and Scambary
On: 13 Feb 2017
During WWI, monthly conscription ballots were drawn between November 1916 and October 1918 to make up for a shortfall in numbers volunteering for the army. History curator Kirstie Ross shares the stories of two Wellingtonians whose names were selected in the fourth ballot. On 13 February 1917, 100 years ago, marblesRead more
‘Bone dry’: The ups and downs of banning booze
On: 18 Jan 2017
Like a tipple? History curator Kirstie Ross looks at the ways New Zealand tried to curb excessive drinking in the early 1900s and its affect on society. As you get rid of the last of your Christmas and New Year’s empties, stop for a minute and reflect back 98 years, to 17 January 1919 whenRead more
20th century history mixtape: ‘B’ side
Slice of Heaven: 20th Century Aotearoa is Te Papa’s exhibition about four crucial social and political changes that occurred in New Zealand after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and before the millennial panic of ‘Y2K’ (‘Year 2000’). I hope that the exhibition, which closes on 23rd January toRead more
20th century history mixtape: ‘A’ side
On: 6 Jan 2017
Slice of Heaven: 20th Century Aotearoa is Te Papa’s exhibition about life in New Zealand after the death of Queen Victoria and before the unnecessary panic of Y2K (‘Year 2000’). It’s closing on 23rd January to make room for the new art gallery spaces that are opening at the endRead more
Conflicted loyalties: Berry Boys conscripted for war
History curator Kirstie Ross explores the stories of four ‘Berry Boys’ who were conscripted in the first and second conscription ballots 100 years ago. In 1916, after two years of fighting, it was clear that New Zealanders’ loyalty to ‘King and Country’ was competing with other concerns – and fewerRead more
A ‘gamble in human life’: military conscription begins 100 years ago
In 1916, after two years of fighting, it was clear that New Zealanders’ loyalty to ‘King and Country’ was competing with other concerns – and fewer men were volunteering. History curator Kirstie Ross takes a look at conscription – introduced 100 years ago to ensure a constant supply of New Zealand soldiersRead more
One million visitors: myriad meanings
On: 21 Oct 2016
20 October marked a significant milestone at Te Papa when Gallipoli: The scale of our war’s one millionth visitor and a friend were escorted through the exhibition. That number is almost equal to New Zealand’s population (1.1 million) during the war, 100 years ago. We’ve reached this phenomenal figure in just 18Read more
‘A taste of hell’: Cecil Malthus on the Somme
Finding Cecil Malthus in a muddy shell hole at the end of Gallipoli: The scale of our war reminds visitors that many Gallipoli veterans like Cecil went on to face more hardship on the Western Front. Just over 100 years ago, in September 1916, Cecil fought in the Battle ofRead more
The Battle of the Somme, September 1916: survival and loss
On: 15 Sep 2016
Guest blogger and long-serving, recently retired Te Papa history curator Michael Fitzgerald introduces the Battle of the Somme, and one man who survived the ferocious fighting that occurred there 100 years ago and another – one of Te Papa’s ‘Berry Boys’ – who lost his life. As visitors leave Gallipoli:Read more
Dissent during the First World War: by the numbers
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 2
Av Edward Gibbon
Om denne boken
impious ceremonies. Every art and every trade that was in the least concerned in the framing or adorning of idols was polluted by the stain of idolatry;' a severe sentence, since it devoted to eternal misery the far greater part of the community, which is employed in the exercise of liberal or mechanic professions. If we cast our eyes over the numerous remains of antiquity, we shall perceive, that besides the immediate representations of the gods, and the holy instruments of their worship, the elegant forms and agreeable fictions consecrated by the imagination of the Greeks, were introduced as the richest ornaments of the houses, the dress, and the furniture, of the Pagans." Even the arts of music and painting, of eloquence and poetry, flowed from the same impure origin. In the style of the fathers, Apollo and the Muses were the organs of the infernal spirit, Homer and Virgil were the most eminent of his servants, and the beautiful mythology which pervades and animates the compositions of their genius, is destined to celebrate the glory of the daemons. Even the common language of Greece and Rome abounded with familiar but impious expressions, which the imprudent Christian might too carelessly utter, or too patiently hear." The dangerous temptations which on every side lurked in ambush to surprise the unguarded believer assailed him with redoubled violence on the days of solemn festivals. So artfully were they framed and disposed throughout the year, that superstition always wore the appearance of pleasure, and often of virtue."
* Tertullian de Idololatria, c. 11.
u See every part of Montfaucon's Antiquities. Even the reverses of the Greek
and Roman coins were frequently of an idolatrous nature. Here indeed the
scruples of the Christian were suspended by a stronger passion.
v Tertullian de Idololatria, c. 20, 21, 22. If a Pagan friend (on the occasion
perhaps of sneezing) used the familiar expression of “Jupiter bless you,” the
Christian was obliged to protest against the divinity of Jupiter.
w Consult the most laboured work of Ovid, his imperfect Fasti. He finished
no more than the first six months of the year. The compilation of Macrobius
is called the Saturnalia, but it is only a small part of the first book that bears
any relation to the title.
CHAP.
Arts.
chAP. Some of the most sacred festivals in the Roman ritual
were destined to salute the new calends of January
with vows of public and private felicity, to indulge
the pious remembrance of the dead and living, to
ascertain the inviolable bounds of property, to hail,
on the return of spring, the genial powers of fecundity,
to perpetuate the two memorable aeras of Rome, the
foundation of the city, and that of the republic, and
to restore, during the humane licence of the Satur-
malia, the primitive equality of mankind. Some idea
may be conceived of the abhorrence of the Christians
for such impious ceremonies, by the scrupulous de-
licacy which they displayed on a much less alarming
occasion. On days of general festivity, it was the
custom of the ancients to adorn their doors with
lamps and with branches of laurel, and to crown their
heads with a garland of flowers. This innocent and
elegant practice might perhaps have been tolerated
as a mere civil institution. But it most unluckily
happened that the doors were under the protection
of the household gods, that the laurel was sacred to
the lover of Daphne, and that garlands of flowers,
though frequently worn as a symbol either of joy or
mourning, had been dedicated in their first origin to
the service of superstition. The trembling Christians,
who were persuaded in this instance to comply with
the fashion of their country, and the commands of
the magistrate, laboured under the most gloomy ap-
prehensions, from the reproaches of their own con-
science, the censures of the church, and the denun-
ciations of divine vengeance.”
Such was the anxious diligence which was required
Zeal for
* Tertullian has composed a defence, or rather panegyric, of the rash action of a Christian soldier, who, by throwing away his crown of laurel, had exposed himself and his brethren to the most imminent danger. By the mention of the emperors (Severus and Caracalla) it is evident, notwithstanding the wishes of M. de Tillemont, that Tertullian composed his treatise De Corona, long before he was engaged in the errors of the Montanists. See Memoires Ecclesiastiques, tom. iii. p. 384.
to guard the chastity of the gospel from the infectious cor.
breath of idolatry. The superstitious observances of public or private rites were carelessly practised, from education and habit, by the followers of the established religion. But as often as they occurred, they afforded the Christians an opportunity of declaring and confirming their zealous opposition. By these frequent protestations their attachment to the faith was continually fortified, and in proportion to the increase of zeal, they combated with the more ardour and success in the holy war, which they had undertaken against the empire of the daemons.
II. The writings of Cicero' represent in the most THE
- - SEco ND lively colours the ignorance, the errors, and the un-co.
The doctrine of the
certainty of the ancient philosophers with regard to the immortality of the soul. When they are desirous
tality of the
of arming their disciples against the fear of death, or
they inculcate, as an obvious, though melancholy position, that the fatal stroke of our dissolution releases us from the calamities of life; and that those can no longer suffer who no longer exist. Yet there were a few sages of Greece and Rome who had conceived a more exalted, and, in some respects, a juster idea of human nature; though it must be confessed, that, in the sublime inquiry, their reason had been often guided by their imagination, and that their imagination had been prompted by their vanity. When they viewed with complacency the extent of their own mental powers, when they exercised the various faculties of memory, of fancy, and of judgment, in the most profound speculations, or the most important labours, and when they reflected on the desire of fame, which transported them into future
y In particular, the first book of the Tusculan Questions, and the treatise De Senectute, and the Somnium Scipionis, contain, in the most beautiful language, every thing that Grecian philosophy, or Roman good sense, could possibly suggest on this dark but important object.
the philosophers;
CHAP. ages, far beyond the bounds of death and of the
grave; they were unwilling to confound themselves with the beasts of the field, or to suppose, that a being, for whose dignity they entertained the most sincere admiration, could be limited to a spot of earth, and to a few years of duration. With this favourable prepossession they summoned to their aid the science, or rather the language, of metaphysics. They soon discovered, that as none of the properties of matter will apply to the operations of the mind, the human soul must consequently be a substance distinct from the body, pure, simple, and spiritual, incapable of dissolution, and susceptible of a much higher degree of virtue and happiness after the release from its corporeal prison. From these specious and noble principles, the philosophers who trod in the footsteps of
Plato deduced a very unjustifiable conclusion, since
they asserted, not only the future immortality, but the past eternity of the human soul, which they were too apt to consider as a portion of the infinite and self-existing spirit, which pervades and sustains
the universe. A doctrine thus removed beyond the
senses and the experience of mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind; or, in the silence of solitude, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding virtue; but the faint impression which had been received in the schools was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquainted with the eminent persons who flourished in the age of Cicero, and of the first Caesars, with their actions, their characters, and their motives, to be assured that their conduct in this life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of
* The pre-existence of human souls, so far at least as that doctrine is compatible with religion, was adopted by many of the Greek and Latin fathers, See Beausobre, Hist. du Manicheisme, l. vi. c. 4.
a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome co.
the ablest orators were not apprehensive of giving
offence to their hearers, by exposing that doctrine as
an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected
with contempt by every man of a liberal education and
understanding." -
Since therefore the most sublime efforts of phi-
among the Pagans of
losophy can extend no farther than feebly to point Goce and
out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition, of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body. But we may perceive several defects inherent to the popular religions of Greece and Rome, which rendered them very unequal to so arduous a task. 1. The general system of their mythology was unsupported by any solid proofs; and the wisest among the Pagans had already disclaimed its usurped authority. 2. The description of the infernal regions had been abandoned to the fancy of painters and of poets, who peopled them with so many phantoms and monsters, who dispensed their rewards and punishments with so little equity, that a solemn truth, the most congenial to the human heart, was oppressed and disgraced by the absurd mixture of the wildest fictions." 3. The doctrine of a future state was scarcely considered among the devout polytheists of Greece and Rome as a funda
* See Cicero pro Cluent. c. 61. Caesar ap. Sallust. de bell. Catilin. c. 50. Juvenal. Satir. ii. 149. Esse aliquos manes, et subterranea regna, Nec pueri credunt, nisi quinondum aere lavantur. * The xith book of the Odyssey gives a very dreary and incoherent account of the infernal shades. Pindar and Virgil have embellished the picture; but even those poets, though more correct than their great model, are guilty of very strange inconsistencies. See Bayle, Responses aux Questions d'un Provincial, part iii. c. 22.
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Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival
Author: Wind, Eddy de
'How much I learned from this brave man... The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey
With an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival.
For Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis' barbaric medical experiments. As the end of the war approached and the Russian Army drew closer, the last Nazis fled, taking many prisoners with them, including Friedel. Eddy hid under a pile of old clothes and stayed behind. Finding a notebook and pencil, he began to write with furious energy about his experiences.
Last Stop Auschwitz is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of the flickering moments of joy Eddy and Friedel found in each other - passing notes through the fence, sometimes stealing a brief embrace. Documenting the best and the worst of humanity, it is a unique and timeless story that reminds us of what we as humans are capable of, but that there is hope, even in Hell. Thought to be the only complete book written within Auschwitz itself, it will linger with you long after the final page has been turned.
'Powerful and moving.' WENDY HOLDEN, author of Born Survivors
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DOUBT to Open “After Sunset Series” at Sunset Playhouse
The critically acclaimed drama, DOUBT, A PARABLE, by John Patrick Shanley will open the After Sunset Series,in the Marla Eichmann Studio Theater, at Sunset Playhouse, 700 Wall St, Elm Grove, WI. Performances of DOUBT will take place Thursday through Saturday, September 12-14, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, September 15, at 2:00 pm. General admission tickets are $16. To reserve tickets, call 262-782-4430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com. For group sales, contact Stephanie at 262-782-4431, ex. 291.
(After Sunset is recommended for mature audiences only.)
DOUBT won both the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. It was also turned into an Academy Award-nominated film. The brilliant and powerful drama is set against the backdrop of a Catholic elementary school in the Bronx, as both the Catholic Church and the nation face the major social changes of the 1960s. A progressive young priest’s conduct comes under question when Sister Aloysius, the strict and conservative school principal, suspects the priest of improper relations with a male student. The actions and motivations of each character are scrutinized, and a battle of wills threatens irrevocable consequences for everyone involved.
Directed by Becky Spice, the production features Robin Christiansen as Father Flynn; Karen Maio as Sister Aloysius; Brittany Roux as the young teacher, Sister James; and LaKysha Burns as the mother of Donald Muller, the school’s first African American student.
Other plays in the After Sunset series include: FRANKIE AND JOHNNY AT THE CLARE DE LUNE, February 6-9, 2020, and VAGINA MONOLOGUES, April 2-5, 2020.
Sunset Playhouse, 700 Wall Street, Elm Grove, WI 53122 262-782-4430 SunsetPlayhouse.com
Tags After Sunset Series, Bunny Gumbo, Doubt: A Parable, Sunset Playhouse
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Life without traffic jams?
With a new Smart Mobility platform organisations can resolve their employees commuting pains and reduce emission at one go.
As a Wicklow resident living more than 50 km from Dublin but working in the city, Maurizio Sturlesi experienced all the negative aspects of everyday commuting. He got so frustrated that he wanted to tackle the mobility challenges that all commuters face every day: traffic and parking congestion and air pollution which all together have a negative impact on health and climate change.
Sturlesi teamed up with Carlino Gonzalez who was working at a multinational company outside of the city centre and spent 3 hours on public transport every day, therefore understood the challenge very well.
They both worked in the IT sector, so it seemed logical to create an innovative digital solution which will make it a lot easier for people to switch to smarter travel modes that are greener, save time and money.
The two founders envisioned an easy to manage data-driven application which enables users to find smart commuting options.
Founders of Sharo: Carlino Gonzalez (left) and Maurizio Sturlesi (right)
“I believe that the concept of transportation needs to be changed radically!
Public and personal transport systems were designed more than 100 years ago, and now with technology, we can revolutionize this industry and improve the lives of millions of people.” Carlino, Gonzalez, Co-founder of Sharo Technologies.
Modern transportations must have a positive impact on the environment, economy and society.
Smart Mobility is the promotion of sustainable mobility that guarantees accessibility, transport systems, parking management and the solution of related environmental problems.
The end result is that community members, such as employees or students, will travel smarter, quicker and cheaper while significantly reducing their carbon emissions and local traffic and parking congestion.
Key benefits of Smart Mobility for organisations:
Attract and retain talent: reduce stress level associated with commuting and make travel easier with additional fun challenges, rewards. Connect everyday actions with company culture and values.
Become active in tackling Climate Change: cutting CO2 emissions by reducing local traffic and parking congestion.
Save money: less spent on recruitment and savings on parking, fleets costs and carbon taxes.
The Sharo Smart Mobility platform provides a unique solution for organisations with a set of tools and a highly automated process to analyse their community’s travel habits and challenges.
Once they have a clear, always updated picture of the situation, this platform helps them to find the best smart mobility choices.
Insights from the founders
Our belief is that the need for mobility will always be there. The only question is how to make it more sustainable and affordable at the same time.
We are on a mission to eventually help get rid of millions of personal vehicles and reduce our partner’s transport emissions by over 50%.
The foundation of our business is that we want to make major positive environmental and societal impact by making it easy for people to switch to Smart Mobility options.
Our partners who join the platform will identify options which are far more sustainable in terms of energy and resource efficiency while ensuring a better quality of life on a lower cost for their community members.
Recently, there has been more interest in improving transportation within organizations, but we would love to see more action taken by everyone.
Imagine having fun challenges within companies such as “Sustainable Wednesdays”, where people are encouraged to choose a greener way to commute and compete with each other.
The next big thing for us is to partner with organisations in Ireland, both corporates and institutions, who truly want to make a change and be a leader in sustainability and employee wellbeing.
We would love to meet leaders who are ready to take action and drive change in their organisation, district or campus and rollout Smart Mobility pilot programs involving their community members.
We are dedicated to promoting the concept of smart mobility and building a tech-startup at the same time.
For us is not just about scaling a business but creating a positive impact.
The Business SPIRIT Award was one of the first recognition which we had and really inspired us to move forward with our idea.
Ultimately, we envision Sharo Technologies will become a certified B Corporation to ensure that our operation meets the requirements of running a responsible business.
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We are looking for partners to organise a Smart Commute Day in Dublin as part of the European Mobility Week.
The goal is to raise awareness about how Smart Mobility solutions can help tackle urban challenges such as traffic, air pollution and climate change.
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Vector Aerospace climbs on takeover
EADS has ended a three-year acquisition drought in North America with a US$637 million agreed cash bid for Canadian overhaul and repair firm Vector Aerospace by helicopter division Eurocopter
Courtesy of Vector Aerospace
EADS has ended a three-year acquisition drought in North America with a US$637 million agreed cash bid for Canadian overhaul and repair firm Vector Aerospace by helicopter division Eurocopter.
Europe’s largest aerospace company has had its eye on transatlantic expansion for some time to wean itself off the euro, whose strength has been hurting planemaker subsidiary Airbus, and to expand further into defence and services.
Chief Executive Louis Gallois hailed the purchase as a significant step in the 11-year history of EADS, which was founded from a merger of French, German and Spanish aerospace interests.
“This is the most significant acquisition ever made by EADS since it was created,” Gallois told Reuters shortly after the deal was announced on Monday.
“This is very complementary geographically,” he added.
Eurocopter, the world’s largest civil helicopter maker, will launch an agreed bid worth $13 a share valuing the Canadian company at $625 million and has won commitments from shareholders owning 60% of the shares, EADS said.
The deal offers Vector Aerospace shareholders a 14.5% premium over Friday’s closing price of $11.35. The stock climbed 13%, or $1.49, to $12.84 at 3:56 p.m. ET Monday.
Vector Aerospace, which employs 2,500 people, provides maintenance and repair services out of Canada and the United Kingdom and is present in the United States and South Africa.
Pressured by sharp cuts in European defence budgets and backed by almost 12 billion euros in cash, EADS has been hunting for some time for U.S. deals worth a total of 1 billion to 2 billion euros.
Analysts have criticized the company for having too much cash on its balance sheet, providing meagre returns compared to the higher costs of financing equity and debt.
Unlike Italian rival Finmeccanica, which bought U.S. defence contractor DRS Technologies for US$5.5 billion in 2008, EADS has had yet to snag a major target and has been quiet in mergers generally in the decade since it was founded as a European counterweight to U.S. aerospace and defence giants.
Until now, its complicated ownership, spanning several European nations, and concerns about its ownership of U.S. security assets have slowed up the search for targets.
In 2008, EADS bought PlantCML, a U.S. maker of civil emergency response systems, for US$350 million.
But pressure from one of its shareholders forced EADS to call off another deal in 2008 that executives at the time said was worth about US$1 billion.
People familiar with the matter have identified the abandoned target as U.S. military telecoms equipment firm Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
EADS said the purchase of Vector Aerospace would push it towards its goal of lifting services, as a proportion of EADS revenues, to 25% in 2020 from 12% in 2009.
The purchase could also catapult Eurocopter above the Astrium space division as the third-largest EADS unit by revenues behind planemaker Airbus, which remains by far the largest source of sales, and defence unit Cassidian.
In 2010, Vector Aerospace generated revenues equivalent to 400 million euros, which would have lifted Eurocopter to 5.2 billion euros compared with Astrium’s 5 billion.
EADS said the purchase would “support” its 2011 target of stable operating profit of around 1.3 billion.
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Pictures, or it didn’t happen.
If you don’t remember Terrell Davis playing in Athens — and between Garrison Hearst and Ray Goff, that’s understandable — Patrick Garbin has proof Davis suited up in the red and black.
Upon becoming just 3rd former #UGA player to be elected into @ProFootballHOF, congrats to @Terrell_Davis–a DGD! https://t.co/d2snBSOjGR
— Patrick Garbin (@PGarbinDT) February 5, 2017
Somebody else remembers.
Congrats to @Terrell_Davis one of the first guys I ever met as a freshman at UGA !! Thanks for taking me under your wing! #PFHOF17
— Coach Kirby Smart (@KirbySmartUGA) February 5, 2017
46 responses to “Pictures, or it didn’t happen.”
One of those “what if” Injuries and coaching. He’s always been very supportive of UGA DGD
Congratulations to TD and hard to believe he’s only the 3rd UGA player inducted into the NFL HOF. You’d think guys like Herschel Walker, Bill Stanfill and Jake Scott would be in there. I imagine Hines Ward and Champ Bailey will make it soon and hopefully others like Matt Stanford, Richard Seymour, Ben Watson and Thomas Davis will get consideration when they retire.
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How does Jason Taylor get elected to the HOF, but not Stanfill or Scott?! Sure, Taylor was a decent DE. But Stanfill and Scott were integral parts of 2 super bowl winners on one of the great teams of their era. That just defies all logic.
Subjectively, I’m glad he got in. But being objective and taking off my r&b glasses for a second, and I just don’t get how TD managed to get elected to the HOF. He had three great seasons in Denver, with his rookie year being a very good season as he barely eclipsed the 1k yard mark in ’95 I believe. IMO, a few great seasons and nothing else is not HOF worthy. RB’s like Curtis Martin had double the career yards, yet TD seems to be better remembered these days than him.
Regardless, boy did TD ever hate Ray Goff. Even today he unabashedly paints him as an incompetent, heartless hick who had no clue what he was doing.
Hobnail_Boot
He is the greatest playoff RB of all time.
You can’t tell the history of the SB or of a pretty storied franchise without talking about TD.
This was long overdue.
He is? Based on what? I’m not going to bother looking it up, but I’m willing to bet that Emmett Smith has far more playoff yards and TD’s than TD.
Besides, the fact that you immediately had to go to the playoff argument says quite a bit. You do realize that you are referring to just TWO playoff seasons, in which he was in the backfield with one of the greatest QB’s of all-time, and one of the greatest teams of all time.
TD stacks up pretty well. Look at the highest yards per carry and 7 straight 100 yard games. http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/records/playoffs/player/rushing
Indeed, very impressive…but again we are talking a few short seasons here, in which you’re having to pull from a select few playoff games to make your point. Again, not HOF worthy given his very fleeting career overall.
This is my last post on this as again, subjectively I’m very glad he got in. But I strongly suspect the overall opinions here would be quite different if TD were a Gator or Vol in college. That’s essentially how I looked at it this morning, and I know quite well that I would be calling BS on his induction if he played for a hated rival.
I’m not suggesting that it isn’t a close call due to a lack of longevity. I also think that Terrell’s career is diminished by how well the guys did that came right behind him.
It’s also amazing that he’s not nearly one of the best RB’s we’ve had in the last 40 years but he’s the one in the NFL HOF. I can think of ten TBs at UGA who were better than TD over that time.
I do think 2,000 is a big deal as are Super Bowl rings. It’s harder to get in the HOF if you played at St. Louis in the 1970’s than if you played for the Steelers. TD was lucky to be in Denver when he was. Can’t argue with that.
Ok, one last reply. Good thoughts, and we can agree that he was in the right place at the right time, if nothing else.
Btw he was only a 3 time pro bowler as well — I’d be curious how many HOF’s had so few pro bowls on their resume.
The real shame is how they continue to leave Terrell Owens out, even though he’s clearly one of the very best ever, with unreal stats to back it up.
Pro Bowl was instituted until 1970 so there were a lot of players in HOF who do not have any Pro Bowls on their resume.
“But I strongly suspect the overall opinions here would be quite different if TD were a Gator or Vol in college.”
Well, so what? I don’t give a shit for anyone who was a Gator or Vol in college. Every time I’ve seen Peyton Manning on TV I’ve said to hell with him. Except when he roasted Ann Coulter, which was fucking awesome.
Why can’t we unabashedly pull for one of our own? I get so tired of people talking about how we have to be objective about our Dawgs. Fuck no we don’t. I’m a Dawg fan, so I’m damn happy about Terrell Davis getting into the HOF and I don’t give two shits about being objective about it. He’s always been very complimentary to the University of Georgia (and it wasn’t like he got treated all that great by Goff when he was here), so you could show a little loyalty back to the man.
It’s like insisting Napoleon would have won the Battle of Waterloo if he’d only had air support. Props to Terrell Davis, no reservations here!
Hells yeah. If I ever met Peyton I’d tell him that nothing sucks like a big orange.
Because he was the best running back in the league before injuries shortened his career, and he carried the Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl wins. Gale Sayers accomplished less, and he’s in the HOF.
The play that earned TD a roster spot for the Broncos
He ate a chili dog just before that play!
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/terrell-davis-chili-dog
That you for posting this. I did not know that story, and it is fantastic.
Argondawg
Meh. You have two all everything running backs in your back field. Both good NFL players I think TD was always ahead on YPC. Each had a little different skill set and I think TD transferred in from Cali late? You can’t miss with either.
I remembered TD but forgot that Georgia wore silver pants.
light gray britches
LOL…yep.
So, Senator, shall we consider this our gameday thread?…
…damn, even when we’ve had a great season we still get no respect, a 6:30 start! Game must be on ESPN 2.
Should dawgs fans pull for the local team that had no former dawgs or the one that has two?
The one that plays its home games in Georgia!
Players told me when TD transferred to UGA he could not squat the bar in the wt. room. If that is true, then who developed him?
Would you (if you could only have one) rather the Falcons win the Super Bowl or Georgia beat GT? UF? UT? The Barn?
I hope the Falcons win…it will be great! But it pales in comparison to any game at all in which the Dawgs play.
But for today..”Hunker Down You Hairy Falcons!”
Maybe “Hunker Down You Feathered Falcons!” is better?
I’d rather the Falcons win the Super Bowl (sorry, Senator, I know it’s a playoff game) than UGA win any one of those games. However, if you say we’ll win all 4 of those next year…I might hafta sacrifice a Falcons victory today to the Football Gods for that.
I guess you’re due now. 🙂
I’d gladly trade a Falcons win for a GT win. No contest.
Dawg Vegas
I remember well the game against GTU when TD went off. It was Senior day for Erin Zeier and obvs others, and EZ got hurt early. B9bo came off the bench and handed TD the ball a lot, and he killed ’em.
Rise Up! Biggest football game for the state of Georgia since January 1999.
You are correct, sir. Hope we can establish enough of a running game to give Ryan a little time to throw; then on defense, stop the Patriots at least a few times.
Buddy of mine today said if he were betting, he’d take the “under” at 58 1/2, myself is not so sure about that.
Some of the toughest ruahing yards ive seen was when he lead us to a tie in williams brice..that game was old man sec football and he was a beast…halting AU’s 17 game winning streak…walking out of there felt more like kissing a hot cousin instead of your sister…very happy for a DGD
Meany jordan hare
Reservoir Dawg
Ray Goof’s greatest achievement? Holding TD to less than 100 yds/game.
Almost like holding Chubb and Michel under 100.
Enormously stupid 3rd and 1 call loses the super bowl.
Ain’t that the truth. All they had to do was run there.
Anyway I’m glad that Andrews and Malcolm get rings.
Exactly again. Run the ball for the yard and a half. The whole thing unraveled on that one play. Did Chaney phone that call in?
This is why I try to be only a casual Atlanta fan. Years and years of being kicked in the nuts gets old. I try to save my nut shots for Georgia games now.
3rd and 1, 16 point lead, clock running in the 4th quarter, right offensive tackle just got injured, and they run an empty set with a five step drop.
This is what we call “asking for it”.
Yep. Really stupid. All they had to do was hand the ball to Freeman, who was having a terrific night, and if he didn’t get the first, then punt and make the Patriots go the length of the field using up clock every step of the way. Plus a running play–even if unsuccessful– would have knocked another 40 seconds off the clock even if they didn’t get the first. No way there is enough time left in the game for the Pats to score enough points to tie if they do that. Same old Falcons. Victory in reach and choke. This loss is on the staff–not the players.
I’m not ever moving back to Georgia now. Something must be in the water. Sighhhhh…….
Go Dawgs.
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Dragons have returned after a thousand years, but greater dangers lurk in the shadows...
As the lines between enemy and ally blur, Guillot dal Villerauvais is drawn farther into the life and service he had left far behind. Solène attempts to come to terms with the great magical talent she fears is as much a curse as a blessing, while the Prince Bishop’s quest for power twists and turns, and takes on a life of its own.
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Duncan M. Hamilton holds Master's Degrees in History and Law, and has practiced as a barrister. He lives in Ireland, near the sea. Hamilton’s debut novel,The Tattered Banner, first of the Society of the Sword trilogy, was named one of BuzzFeed's 12 Greatest Fantasy Books Of The Year in 2013. That book was followed byThe Huntsman’s Amulet andThe Telastrian Song, and by Wolf of the North, a Norse-inspired fantasy trilogy. His previous novel,Dragonslayer, began the Dragonslayer trilogy.
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Everyone’s favourite luchador returns in Guacamelee! 2, coming soon to PS4
Fly like an eagle, play as a chicken: Drinkbox Studios’ platformer retains its bizarre brilliance
By Graham Smith
Co-Founder & Producer, Drinkbox Studios
Hi PlayStation friends! It’s been way too long – we’ve missed you! We’re super emocionados to finally reveal what we’ve been quietly working on for the last several months. Hint: it’s a sequel to everyone’s favourite Mexican-themed, co-op-multiplayer, dimension-swapping Metroidvania beat ’em up platformer. That’s right, it’s Guacamelee! 2!
The sequel picks up seven years after the original game. Juan Aguacate is living a happy life with his family, when his friend and trainer Uay Chivo discovers a new evil menace that threatens to destroy not only Mexico, but time and space itself! Check out the trailer here:
With Guacamelee! 2, we’re examining the elements that made the original game a fun and unique experience, with a focus on trying to push many of these ideas even further. We’d like to hold back some surprises, but here are a few new gameplay ideas that you can expect in Guacamelee! 2:
Eagle boost
One of the early new powers you can expect to unlock is the Eagle Boost, a hooking mechanic which allows Juan to attach and fly through “boost points” in the environment. As the name implies, you can use this new ability to fly higher than an eagle (cue Bette Midler).
Super chicken
The original game let players transform into a chicken to squeeze into small spaces, but was otherwise fairly limited in its usefulness. In Guacamelee! 2, the chicken form will have a unique set of abilities, allowing us to give the player more varied and interesting chicken gameplay.
New environment mechanics
We’re introducing several new environmental mechanics throughout the course of the game to keep players on their toes. These new mechanics complement both the platforming and combat elements of the game. One example of this is “Dimension Waves”, moving windows of space that give players a view into another dimension. Differences in both the environment and enemies will occur as these windows move through the world, and players will need to use them to their advantage to make progress.
Four-player local co-op
While Guacamelee! 2 can be played from beginning to end as a solo experience, you can also have friends jump in at any time to help out! The difficulty of enemies will scale to keep things challenging as players drop in and out.
No memes!
We promise! (Maybe.)
We’re planning to show a demo of the game at PlayStation Experience later this year. If you’re going, please remember to stop by our booth and try it out. We’d love to meet you and hear your thoughts.
For up-to-date development news, make sure to follow us on Twitter @DrinkboxStudios. Also, feel free to shoot us any questions you have in the comments below, and we will try to answer them the best we can!
30 Oct ‘17
Carnivius_Prime 30 October, 2017 @ 16:54
First game was really good and a lot of fun in multiplayer too so this should be great
Jamesyp00 30 October, 2017 @ 18:04
No memes!We promise! (Maybe.)
Please please keep this promise, it was so stupid and jarring in the first game it really ruined it, you had this gorgeous aesthetic/art style instantly ruined with modern day and out of date memes, such a shame.
Rhasget 30 October, 2017 @ 18:12
So,no Vita love this time? Does this mean you are done with the handheld? I love your games on it and have bought all multiple times just to support them.
Please don’t give up on it!
mJ_mSv 30 October, 2017 @ 19:08
I loved this game on ps3, I platiniumed it, but think it maybe had a couple too “hard” sections, hopefully this will be easier to complete as it was pretty frustrating, so I gave up trying on ps4 becouse of that! I also hope this one will have online co-op aswell? If not I will not be in a hurry if only local co-op supported!
pavemanUS 31 October, 2017 @ 08:15
Nooooo! The difficulty was just spot on!
OT: great news! The first was absolutely amazing! Loved every minute of it and bought every version available!
Gloom12356776543 30 October, 2017 @ 20:36
The Best PGW Announcement !!! 100% the game on all platforms !!! best indie Game Ever !!! Can´t wait !!!!! and hope you are secretly working on Severed 2 !!! and pls !!! make Severed PS4 version ! by letting us play with buttons or Dualshock 4 Touch pad pls !!!!
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Mirabaud 2019 'Bol d'Or' sailing race : Morpho dismasting in a storm
465 boats... 66.5 Nm of course... peaks at 60 knots...
A Dantean edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud, the world's largest closed basin regatta
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YouTube : Rafica monhull
Germany (BSH) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
106 nautical raster charts updated & 6 new charts added
AIS gets an upgrade
AIS data at work in a VTS center (file image courtesy Saab)
From Maritime Executive
AIS has made it far easier for navigators to identify vessel movements for collision avoidance, and it has made shipping far more transparent by enabling worldwide vessel tracking services.
The industry has grown since AIS rolled out in the early 2000s, and a much-needed update is on the way: VHF Data Exchange System, or VDES, which will incorporate AIS plus several valuable new functions.
VDE system concept and available communication links
VDES will operate in VHF frequencies adjacent to the existing AIS channel, and will use a different network protocol to increase its throughput capacity.
This will boost the system's capacity for ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, ship-to-satellite and virtual ATON applications, eliminating the network limitations that affect high-traffic areas today.
It will have up to 30 times more bandwidth, which will also give it more capacity for sharing weather forecasts, alerts and other data packets that are a bit too large for AIS.
Vessel traffic along Western Europe given by ExactEarth.
a Expected coverage for satellite VDE beyond the coverage of the coastal stations.
b Expected traffic density overall
VDES is also expected to increase navigation data security by adding access control and authentication features for AIS radio traffic.
Since it is authenticated, it could be used to provide warning in the event of GNSS jamming and spoofing, according to Johan Lindborg, project manager for marine and defense tech company Saab.
Saab is already working on type approval for a VDES-capable AIS base station, with an upgrade path for full VDES available by 2021 - about the same time that the new protocol is expected to enter into operation.
VDES may also incorporate a dedicated channel for two-way VHF ship-to-satellite communications, which could be used to share ice routes, weather updates or GNSS status reports, among other uses.
The International Telecommunication Union will consider setting aside a channel for this purpose at a meeting in November.
The new protocol could also provide the backbone for a backup positioning system in the event of GNSS spoofing or jamming.
Researchers from the German Aerospace Center are now testing a new terrestrial navigation system, R-Mode, which leverages existing radionavigation transciever stations on shore (DGNSS reference stations and AIS base stations) to transmit timed positioning signals.
Since the cost of implementation is low relative to a full-fledged, purpose-built system like eLoran, R-Mode is a promising way to bring resiliency to e-navigation, according to IALA.
Springer : VHF Data Exchange System (VDES): an enabling technology for maritime communications
Maritime Executive : Time to Take Another Look at Satellite AIS Data / Buyer Beware: Hefty Fines for Noncompliant AIS Devices
Workboat : FCC issues advisory on non-compliant AIS equipment
Powerboat : Simrad announces the first VHF Radio with AIS transmit/receive capability
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Norway (NHS) update in the GeoGarage platform
159 nautical raster charts updated
Massive 8,000-mile 'dead zone' could be one of the gulf's largest
Seen from above (Photograph by Phil Degginger, NASA Landsat ), the Mississippi River carries sediment into the Gulf of Mexico.
That sediment often contains pollutants from fertilizers that cause a spike in algal blooms.
From National GeoGraphic by Sarah Gibbons
Record-breaking Midwest rainfall washed tons of fertilizer and sewage water out to sea, contributing to a devastatingly large patch of polluted water, scientists say.
Just off the coast of Louisiana and Texas where the Mississippi River empties, the ocean is dying.
The cyclical event known as the dead zone occurs every year, but scientists predict that this year's could be one of the largest in recorded history.
A satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico showing sediment flowing into it from the Mississippi River.
NASA Earth Observatory
Annual spring rains wash the nutrients used in fertilizers and sewage into the Mississippi.
That fresh water, less dense than ocean water, sits on top of the ocean, preventing oxygen from mixing through the water column.
Eventually those freshwater nutrients can spur a burst of algal growth, which consumes oxygen as the plants decompose.
The resulting patch of low-oxygen waters leads to a condition called hypoxia, where animals in the area suffocate and die.
Scientists estimate that this year the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico will spread for just over or just under8,000 square miles across the continental shelf situated off the coast.
Choking an ecosystem
“When the oxygen is below two parts per million, any shrimp, crabs, and fish that can swim away, will swim away,” says Louisiana State University ocean ecologist Nancy Rabalais.
“The animals in the sediment [that can't swim away] can be close to annihilated.”
Animals like shrimp will often search for more oxygen in shallower waters closer to the shore.
Shrimp subjected to hypoxic waters are smaller, their growth stunted by pollution.
One study published in 2017 noted how the dead zone affects Gulf Coast shrimpers by driving down the price of shrimp and reducing profit for local businesses.
Dead zones are not unique to the Gulf of the Mexico, though the gulf's is estimated to be the world's second largest.
In the world's largest dead zone, in the Baltic Sea, low oxygen devastated fisheries, and most marine animals can no longer survive there.
Off the West Coast of the United States, California and Oregon crab and oyster industries have reported profit losses since the early 21st century, saying the annual wave of low oxygen ocean water has destroyed many of the animals they normally fish from the sediment.
Hypoxic zones are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration that animal life suffocates and dies, and as a result are sometimes called "dead zones."
One of the largest dead zones forms in the Gulf of Mexico every spring.
This data visualization discusses the causes of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2009
Dead zone causes
Rabalais says she's not surprised that this year's dead zone will be particularly large.
Much of the Midwest saw unprecedented rainfall this spring, leading to a large increase in the amount of runoff washing into the sea.
Many farmers were so affected by the intense rains that they were unable to plant crops like corn and soybean, meaning all the nitrogen and phosphorus-rich fertilizer they had spread washed into the Mississippi.
Scientists are predicting that a warming climate could lead to more extreme rainfall in the region and ultimately make it more difficult to control fertilizer runoff.
“The best way to solve the issue is to limit the nutrients at their source,” says Rabalais.
“Once they're in the river, there's no good way to reduce them.”
Eugene Turner, also from Louisiana State University, worked with Rabalais on predicting the size of the dead zone.
He says better management practices could reduce the size, and suggested maintaining soil health by rotating crops, using less fertilizer, and using crop covers to keep soil in place.
David Scheurer is a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who studies dead zones.
He notes that it's difficult to attribute a larger dead zone to just one practice like agricultural runoff, but notes that it plays a significant role in the zone’s formation.
Sewage water and weather also impact the size of the dead zone.
Senior director of congressional relations at the American Farm Bureau Federation Don Parrish says farmers are already adopting practices to reduce nutrient runoff.
Precision farming and artificial intelligence are both helping farmers reduce the amount of fertilizer they need to use on crops.
High costs and a steep learning curve are making it difficult for the sustainable technologies to be adopted by all farmers, Parrish adds.
“Scientifically we can reduce the size, but whether you can get there politically, that's still a work in progress,” he says.
Climate change and dead zones
Scientists are now worried that warming waters in the Gulf of Mexico could increase rates of hypoxia.
“That is a long-term concern,” says Scheurer.
“If the climate does change in that region, there is a fair amount of evidence suggesting you would expect things to get worse.”
Simply put, warm water is less capable of carrying oxygen, and a study published last year noted stretches of low-oxygen water thousands of miles across the ocean.
Climate change is also expected to cause more intense precipitation and flooding in the Midwest, which will contribute to the amount of chemical fertilizer washed into the ocean.
Both Scheurer and Rabalais, however, say it's too early to say that the gulf's dead zone is already being made worse by climate change.
Rabalais says she expects the dead zone to worsen in the future, further harming the ecosystem.
“You of course remember the BP oil spill?” she asks.
“This is a slow drip kind of change in the system thats been happening over decades, but it's just as consequential.”
Phys : There's a giant dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico thanks in large part to ...
NPR : The Gulf Of Mexico's Expanding Dead Zone
Gizmodo : The Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone' Could Balloon to Over 8000 Square ..
TED : The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico
NASA video : The Ocean's Green Machines
GIS user : Very large dead zone forecast for the Gulf of Mexico
The National : World's largest marine dead zone may reach UAE's shores
GeoGarage blog : Bigger dead zone ever forecast in Gulf of Mexico / Oxygen-starved 'dead zones' with no marine life up ... / Oceans suffocating as huge dead zones quadruple ... / Artificial ocean dead zones help predict real thing / More progress in reopening of Gulf waters for fishing
Autosub Long Range's 2017 debut outing provides new insight into causes of the warming ocean abyss
Autosub Long Range (aka Boaty McBoatface) is an autonomous underwater vehicle developed at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.
For its maiden voyage, University of Southampton oceanographers led by Alberto Naveira Garabato deployed the ALR around Orkney Passage as part of the DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow, ) field operations in 2017.
During the recent DynOPO 2017 cruise, we created a fly-through animation of Autosub Long Range's voyage (3.5 days, compressed into 3.5 minutes) to visualise its progress.
It has cameo appearances by a Rockland Vertical Microstructure Profiler and the British Antarctic Survey ship, the RRS James Clark Ross.
The animation itself uses the ALR's pitch, heading, roll, propeller speed and position information, the JCR heading and position, and the VMP position and depth.
From NOC
The first mission involving the NOC-developed autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (ALR, known around the world as Boaty McBoatface) has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing Antarctic winds to rising sea temperatures.
Data collected during the April 2017 expedition – published this week in the scientific journal PNAS – will help climate scientists build more accurate predictions of the effects of climate change on rising sea levels.
Boaty McBoatface, fresh off of doing science.
Using a combination of Boaty’s data and measurements collected by the RRS James Clark Ross, researchers were able to identify a previously unknown mechanism allowing the winds blowing over the Southern Ocean — which have been getting stronger in recent decades due to climate change — to increase the turbulence deep beneath the ocean’s surface.
Photo: NOC
The research studied the changing temperatures at the bottom of the Southern Ocean.
During the three-day mission, Boaty travelled 180 kilometres through mountainous underwater valleys measuring the temperature, saltiness and turbulence of the water at the bottom of the ocean.
Using an echo sounder to navigate, Boaty successfully completed the perilous route, reaching depths of up to 4000 metres, to re-unite with the rest of the project team at the programmed rendezvous location where the sub was recovered and the data collected along its route were downloaded.
In recent decades, winds blowing over the Southern Ocean have been getting stronger due to the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica and increasing greenhouse gases.
The data collected by Boaty, along with other ocean measurements collected from research vessel RRS James Clark Ross, have revealed a mechanism that enables these winds to increase turbulence deep in the Southern Ocean, causing warm water at mid depths to mix with cold, dense water in the abyss.
#Takeacloserlook at some of the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough #PolarShip #Engineering https://t.co/MWYUmzXmGT pic.twitter.com/F7pigRIip4
— Antarctic Survey (@BAS_News) June 11, 2019
The resulting warming of the water on the seabed is a significant contributor to rising sea levels.
However, the mechanism uncovered by Boaty is not built into current models for predicting the impact of increasing global temperatures on our oceans.
Boaty’s mission was part of a joint project involving the University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, the British Antarctic Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Princeton University.
Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato from the University of Southampton – who led the project – said: “Our study is an important step in understanding how the climate change happening in the remote and inhospitable Antarctic waters will impact the warming of the oceans as a whole and future sea level rise.”
Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams of the National Oceanography Centre said: “The data from Boaty McBoatface gave us a completely new way of looking at the deep ocean – the path taken by Boaty created a spatial view of the turbulence near the seafloor.”
Scientists and engineers aboard BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross have deployed the unmanned submersible Autosub Long Range - also known as Boaty McBoatface - for the first time. 5April 2017).
They are in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica to study how turbulence in the deepest water masses affects global climate.
Dr Povl Abrahamsen of the British Antarctic Survey said: “This study is a great example of how exciting new technology such as the unmanned submarine Boaty McBoatface can be used along with ship-based measurements and cutting-edge ocean models to discover and explain previously unknown processes affecting heat transport within the ocean.”
In 2018, ALR completed its first successful under ice mission beneath the Filchner Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.
This success marked a further significant milestone in proving the vehicle’s pioneering capabilities.
ALR recently featured in a BBC News article ‘Super-tough drones and robots going where we can’t’.
Image gallery of the ALR deployment in the Southern Ocean.
BAS : Boaty McBoatface sheds light on warming ocean abyss
The Telegraph : Boaty McBoatface makes major climate change discovery on maiden outing
CNN : Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission
BBC : The super-tough drones and robots going where we can't / 'Boaty McBoatface' maps deep ocean water
Business Insider : Beloved submarine Boaty McBoatface has made a critical discovery ...
NPR : Boaty McBoatface, Internet-Adored Sub, Makes Deep-Sea Discovery On Climate Change
Gizmodo : Boaty McBoatface Just Helped Solve a Deep-Sea Mystery
GeoGraage blog : Boaty McBoatface submarine set for first voyage / One year into the mission, autonomous ocean robots set a record in survey of Antarctic ice shelf
Labor exploitation, illegal fishing continue to plague Asian seas
A Cambodian migrant worker aboard a Thai trawler targeting trash fish – to be made into fishmeal – in the Andaman Sea.
Image Credit: EJF
From The Diplomat by James X. Morris
A new EJF report finds widespread violations in the global seafood industry, including in Taiwan, Vietnam, and elsewhere in Asia.
A new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) should be cause for alarm for many leaders in the Indo-Pacific.
Entitled “Blood and Water: Human rights abuse in the global seafood industry,” the report provides the latest information on “cases of slavery, debt bondage, insufficient food and water, filthy living conditions, physical and sexual assault, and even murder” occurring on fishing vessels flying flags from 13 countries, both developing and developed, from Asia and South America to the European Union and United States.
Such labor abuses are a result of dwindling fish stocks in overexploited oceans, forcing the industry to rely on cheap labor in order to turn profits.
Out on the high seas, the potential for abuse and exploitation remains high.
The result is a global nontraditional security crisis in the making.
Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing and labor exploitation is rampant in the global fishing industry, particularly because of the difficulty of monitoring activities on the vast high seas.
Asia appears to be at the epicenter of the global fisheries crisis.
In the past I have written reports for The Diplomat on labor issues in Taiwan’s fishing fleets, Thailand’s efforts to halt poachers from neighboring countries in its waters, and the impounding of the Fuh Sheng No. 11 in Kaohsiung Port in southern Taiwan, following a global effort involving South Africa and Indonesia to track down the vessel for labor violations and unsafe conditions under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Work in Fishing Convention (C188) in 2018.
These reports are a drop in the bucket, only snapshots of a greater problem.
“Our report highlights profoundly concerning truths about the fishing industry globally, highlighting how illegal and unscrupulous operators are running operations based on the abuse of workers and the illegal and unsustainable exploitation of marine fisheries,” EJF’s Executive Director Steve Trent said in a statement issued by EJF.
The report highlights forgeries among the flag of convenience practice (registering a vessel in a country other than where it is owned and operated); in one example, nine Taiwanese tuna long-liners using forged papers claiming registration in Bolivia were impounded in Thailand in 2016.
“Stateless vessels” are another thorn in the sides of regulators and watchdogs; such ships act with impunity on the high seas, and are only caught when needing repairs in port.
Brokerage systems provide fishing vessels from more developed countries with indebted, indentured laborers from developing states, who are then forced into debt with garnished wages aboard ships with poor conditions and little opportunity to escape.
A Burmese worker aboard a Thai trawler operating in the Andaman Sea.Photo courtesy of EJF.
I asked Trent to elaborate on EJF’s work in Taiwan and provide an update on the island’s fisheries for The Diplomat.
“Since the Fuh Sheng [No.] 11 case, Taiwan has made positive steps forward in improving its regulations to make its fleet more transparent,” Trent said.
“For instance, they have started the process of publishing information on licensed vessels and bringing their law in line with the critical [C188 convention].”
He indicated, however, that EJF monitors in Taiwan are continuing to find cases of IUU fishing and trafficking in the industry, and bring the cases to the government.
“We hope they are thoroughly and urgently investigated and that vessel operators are sanctioned where appropriate,” Trent stated.
The NGO urges Taiwanese authorities to implement measures for abused fishers to raise the alarm, and to better monitor the industry to make certain destructive IUU practices no longer occur in its fisheries.
In late 2015, tuna prices hit a low on both sides of the Pacific, forcing Taiwanese long-liners to either remain in port to avoid fuel expenses or remain farther out at sea — where abuses are more common — for longer periods.
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, Vietnam has one of the fastest growing fishing fleets, typically small vessels that do not require the mandated tracking devices of larger boats.
Due to the collapse of the local market, these vessels set out to capture highly prized species for the Chinese market with little oversight.
The report outlines 14 countries in the region that have made arrests of illegal vessels from Vietnam, forcing the European Commission to issue a yellow card.
The issue extends much farther into the Pacific, however.
The report outlines the detainment of migrant workers, primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Kiribati, onboard tuna long-liners in the waters around Hawaii.
Despite working on U.S.-flagged vessels, these migrant workers do not have visas to enter the United States; doing so would be illegal.
Honolulu is a hub for some 140 such vessels, and when in port the workers must be “detained onboard,” with passports seized by captains to take advantage of a legal loophole.
The report indicates the seafood industry makes up approximately 9 percent of global agriculture exports, with trade valued at $152 billion in 2017.
In some countries, seafood accounts for 40 percent of total trade value.
Fish consumption has grown from 9.9 kilograms per capita in the 1960s to 20.5 kg per capita in 2017.
The result is that employment in this sector has expanded despite the depletion of global fish stocks.
EJF indicates one third of fish stocks are being exploited at unsustainable levels, with “a further 60 percent of fisheries on edge” and at risk according to the report.
Another recent report by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative has found Chinese clam harvesting fleets have returned to the South China Sea in greater numbers, wreaking havoc upon coral reefs to feed the nation’s seemingly insatiable desire for endangered giant clams.
In a statement EJF has proposed a list of 10 “logistically deliverable, low-cost measures” that could transform the way the global industry operates.
Such measures include promoting greater transparency, including giving all vessels unique tracking numbers with public tracking data, digitally and publicly listing vessel information, and making documentation of vessels and infractions publicly available, among other solutions.
Such measures could help provide consumers with information about where their food and goods originate, providing the public with information to make ethical market decisions.
Time is of the essence, however, for both exploited laborers and dwindling fish stocks.
The Telegraph : Could human trafficking on the high seas be stopped by an online tracker?
National Geographic : Slave labor is used to catch fish. This tech aims to stop it.
How many islands does Croatia have
new layer in the GeoGarage platform : Croatia with HHI ENCs
From Total Croatia by Nikolina Demark
You'll often see Croatia promoted as the country of a thousand islands.
It always seemed like a pragmatic approach - there are more than 1000, of course, but such a rounded number has a certain sleek appeal to it.
It sounds way better than, say, a country of 1244 islands.
That just looks like an opening line to a math problem.
Marketing aside, how many islands does Croatia actually have?
It turns out, a consensus on that particular topic hasn't yet been reached.
Several entities have their own individual opinions on the exact number and they all seem to differ, so we end up hearing about a new version every so often, leaving both us locals and tourists confused.
Dalmatian islands
The Croatian National Tourist Board has occasionally cited the mentioned number of 1244 in their promotional campaigns.
The fact was confirmed by the Ministry of Tourism; in 2010, they referred to the figure as the latest data collected by the Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia (HHI).
And yet, as stated in this report by Jutarnji, experts from the Cartographic Department of the Hydrographic Institute said there were actually 1246.
An older version of the article about Croatian islands on Wikipedia used to state there were 991; it has since been altered to cite 1244.
Those who were looking up Croatian islands a decade or two ago might remember 1185 popping up here and there; this particular figure was established in the 50s and updated in the meantime owing to more refined technology.
It's no wonder some people are perplexed - the best example I've come upon is a travel piece titled 'Croatia's 1244 Dalmatian islands'.
We might not be sure how many there are precisely, but they certainly aren't all Dalmatian.
At least one thing we can all agree on.
Where to look for the source of all the confusion?
Well, the sole definition of an island is a good place to start.
The Hydrographic Institute classifies every landform surrounded by water with a surface bigger than 1 km2 as an island.
Those between 0.1 and 1 km2 are considered islets, and those that are smaller than 0.1 km2 are classified as rocks.
Croatia nautical charts with the GeoGarage platform (UKHO charts based on HHI sources)
Out of those 1244, only 78 are actually proper islands (or 79, depending on the source); 525 are islets, while 642 are rocks and reefs.
According to an expert from the Cartographic Department quoted in Jutarnji's piece, pinpointing the exact number can be tricky.
Relying on aerial views isn't always a foolproof way of establishing the size of an island, which is why some tend to end up in the wrong category, and there's not enough personnel to allow for collecting data on the ground.
"We had 130 employees before the war, and now there are 85. This is why we don't have time to count the islands; we prioritise construction of nautical charts to ensure safe navigation", said Pijo Bročić from the Cartographic Department of HHI.
HHI nautical paper map
All things considered, speaking from a realistic point of view, you probably won't be losing any sleep over the exact number of rocks in Croatia.
The most popular island destinations are very much alive and kicking, and they're not about to fall off the map any time soon - pun intended.
Wikipedia : List of islands of Croatia
A new layer in the GeoGarage platform : Croatia nautical charts based on rasterized ENC material from HHI
Nautical charts for Croatia until today which leads to the availability of a new dedicated layer for Croatia with HHI ENCs :
Croatian raster charts in the GeoGarage platform included with the British Isles & misc. (UKHO) layer
note : with the arrival today of a dedicated and exhaustive layer for Croatia, these Admiralty raster charts for Croatia will be withdrawn in the next Q3-2019 release of the layer based on UKHO raster material
Until today, the GeoGarage platform used the raster chart material (RNC) provided by UKHO to display nautical charts for the Croatian areas.
Unfortunately, UKHO only integrates about a couple of charts (14 maps exactly) from the original digital nautical maps from HHI (Hrvatski hidrografski Institut) whole catalogue of paper maps (126 in total).
(see last UKHO update in the GeoGarage platform)
For internal management reasons specific to HHI, the Hydrographic Institute of Croatia can't deliver to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) their own digital raster material (RNC) -with a recurrent periodicity for updates- corresponding to the Croatian nautical paper maps.
The GeoGarage platform was already in the capacity to deliver a rasterized visualization of Electronic Navigation Chart (vector ENC) through their web services (WMS/WMTS) for their customers involved in webmapping and other onshore GIS activities.
Today, the GeoGarage platform is ready to propose the visualization of ENC to their customers using mobile navigation apps (non SOLAS)
new ENC_HR layer :
Croatia (HHI) ENC coverage in the GeoGarage platform (150 cells)
view of Šibenik harbor (rasterized ENC overlaid on Google Maps imagery)
So Weather4D R&N users (with updated version 12/06/2019) can right now display the whole catalogue of HHI ENC (150 ENC at this time), with a quarterly updating process : see GeoGarage news
Today, in this first version, the vector ENC are displayed using a graphical rendering similar to the one used in official ECDIS (s-52 IHO specifications) : they are not to be used for shipping navigation (IMO SOLAS), but only for recreative use, not as a primary tool for navigation.
Effectively, in contrast to the use in ECDIS, there is no possibility -today with the W4D current version- to ask for text info and details regarding any navigational objects (beacon, buoy, marks...).
Hvar with Weather4D R&N
Note : to get a yearly subscription to the Spain (IHM) layer on the GeoGarage e-commerce website
(pricing ENC_HR : 43.99 €) for W4D R&N iOS mobile app, go to :
weather4d.geogarage.com
W4D news : 10 reasons to get Weather4D Routing & Navigation today! (new W4D R&N version 12/06/2019)
Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice this week, which is very unusual
This remarkable Greenland photo highlights extreme Arctic melting
Image : Steffen M. Olsen, courtesy of Mashable
From CNN by Brandon Miller
Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting Thursday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (equal to 2 billion tons) on just that day alone.
While Greenland is a big island filled with lots of ice, it is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in the middle of June.
The average "melt season" for Greenland runs from June to August, with the bulk of the melting occurring in July.
To visualize how much ice that is, imagine filling the National Mall in Washington with enough ice to reach a point in the sky eight times higher than the Washington Monument (to borrow an analogy Meredith Nettles from Columbia University gave to The Washington Post).
Yesterday (13th June), we calculate #Greenland #icesheet lost more than 2 Gt (2 km³) of ice,, melt was widespread but didn't quite get to #SummitCamp which was just below 0°C
The high melt is unusual so early in the season but not unprecedentedhttps://t.co/Ftg0fkC7AK pic.twitter.com/Y4jQ1FoFRZ
— Greenland (@greenlandicesmb) June 14, 2019
The sudden spike in melting "is unusual, but not unprecedented," according to Thomas Mote, a research scientist at the University of Georgia who studies Greenland's climate.
"It is comparable to some spikes we saw in June of 2012," Mote told CNN, referring to the record-setting melt year of 2012 that saw almost the entire ice sheet experience melting for the first time in recorded history.
This much melting this early in the summer could be a bad sign, indicating 2019 could once again set records for the amount of Greenland ice loss.
That doesn’t look right.
Image: NSIDC
Mote explained how snow and ice melt off the Greenland ice sheet, especially early in the season, makes it easier to for additional melt to occur later in the summer.
White snow and ice, which is bright and reflects the sun's rays back into space, reduces the amount of heat that is absorbed and helps to keep the ice sheet cold, a process known as "albedo."
"These melt events result in a changed surface albedo," according to Mote, which will allow more of the mid-summer sun's heat to be absorbed into the ice and melt it.
courtesy of PolarPortal
Predictions for a record melt season
Mote says "all signs seem to be pointing to a large melt season," and he is far from the only scientist to think so.
Jason Box, an ice climatologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, predicted in late May that "2019 will be a big melt year for Greenland."
Box pointed out that this year had unusually early-season melt days in April, and the melt season was "happening about three weeks earlier than average, and earlier than the record-setting melt year of 2012."
In addition to the early-season melt, the snow cover is already lower than average in Western Greenland, and combining these factors means "2019 is likely going to be a very big melt year, and even the potential to exceed the record melt year of 2012."
What is causing the sudden melt?
A persistent weather pattern has been setting the stage for the current spike in melting, according to Mote.
"We've had a blocking ridge that has been anchored over East Greenland throughout much of the spring, which led to some melting activity in April -- and that pattern has persisted."
That high pressure ridge pulls up warm, humid air from the Central Atlantic into portions of Greenland,.which leads to warmer temperatures over the ice.
The high pressure also prevents precipitation from forming and leads to clear, sunny skies.
Over the past week or two, that high pressure ridge got even stronger as another high pressure front moved in from the eastern United States -- the one that caused the prolonged hot and dry period in the Southeast earlier this month.
photo : Christian Streib, CNN
Melt periods such as the current one are not unprecedented; Mote noted previous periods in 2012, 2010 and 2007, all major melt years.
But he pointed out that until recently, they were unheard of.
"We've seen a sequence of these large melt seasons, starting in 2007, that would have been unprecedented earlier in the record," he said.
"We didn't see anything like this prior to the late 1990s.
If these extreme melt seasons are becoming the new normal, it could have significant ramifications around the globe, especially for sea level rise.
"Greenland has been an increasing contributor to global sea level rise over the past two decades," Mote said, "and surface melting and runoff is a large portion of that."
CNN : Arctic melt: Threat beneath the ice / Greenland's Ice: A Photographic Eulogy / Melting of Greenland's ice is 'off the charts,' study shows / Greenland is melting even faster than experts thought, study finds
WP : Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice see...
Gizmodo : Half of Greenland's Surface Started Melting This Week, Which Is Not Normal / Greenland Is Now Losing Ice Six Times Faster Than It Was in 1980
Forbes : Theory, Hypothesis, And Law - Debunking A Climate Change Contrarian Tactic / Greenland Glaciers In Deep Water
Popular Science : Saving Greenland could save the world
BBC : The poisons released by melting Arctic ice / Greenland map captures changing Arctic in fine detail
ESRI : As Greenland’s Glaciers Melt, Denmark Charts the Changing Waters
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A new layer in the GeoGarage platform : Spain nautical charts based on rasterized ENC material from IHM
Nautical charts for Spain until today which leads to the availability of a new dedicated layer for Spain with IHM ENCs :
Spanish raster charts in the GeoGarage platform included with the British Isles & misc. (UKHO) layer
note : with the arrival today of a dedicated and exhaustive layer for Spain, these Admiralty raster charts for Spain will be withdrawn in the next Q3-2019 release of the layer based on UKHO raster material
Until today, the GeoGarage platform used the raster chart material (RNC) provided by UKHO to display nautical charts for the Spanish areas.
Unfortunately, UKHO only integrates about one third (around 100 RNCs) of the original digital nautical maps from IHM (Instituto Hidrografico de la Marina de España) whole catalogue of paper maps (329 in total).
For internal management reasons specific to IHM, the Spanish Hydrographic Office can't deliver to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) their own digital raster material (RNC) -with a recurrent periodicity for updates- corresponding to the Spanish nautical paper maps.
new ENC_ES layer :
Spanish (IHM) ENC coverage in the GeoGarage platform (296 cells)
view of Ibiza harbor (rasterized ENC overlaid on Google Maps imagery)
So Weather4D R&N users (with updated version 12/06/2019) can right now display the whole catalogue of IHM ENC (296 ENC at this time), with a quarterly updating process : see GeoGarage news
1741 map of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera)
Ibiza island with Weather4D R&N and AIS targets
Ibiza harbor chart & AIS targets with Weather4D R&N
(pricing ENC_ES : 25.99 €) for W4D R&N iOS mobile app, go to :
Sailing from Shetland to the Faroe Islands
by Erik Aanderaa
Shetland to Faroë with the GeoGarage platform (NHS nautical chart)
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1955 – Monitor first sailing mono-hull hydro foiler to reach 40kts
1950's Monitor first sailing mono-hull hydro foiler
Gordon Baker developed and tested 'MONITOR' in the 1950’s.
A monohull with outrigger foils could get up on the foils in about 13 knots of wind and sail at about twice the true wind speed.
Top speed was reported at over 30 knots, with some reports claiming 40 knots.
At 40 knots, cavitation would probably have set in.
Baker's future designs employed two main wing sails which the 3D animation video shows.
To think it took over 65 years for this technology to be evolve to The America's Cup almost seems a tragedy. 'Monitor' is on display at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
1950`s sailing hydrofoil Monitor 3D model, of what she became and what she was intended to be. Originally the designers intended a dual wingsail version but it was too expensive.
Imagine if they would have had the money they would have built in 1955 - a sailing hydrofoil - with wingsails - with a mechanical computer, stabilizing it - foils from sophisticated alloys - high speed sailing 40kn´s
CupExperience :1950’s Foiling Sailboat “Monitor”
Wind Water : Monitor
Sea Machines demonstrates autonomous spill-response vessel
The world’s first autonomous spill response vessel
From Maritime Professional
As a part of its cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD), Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics announces that it has successfully demonstrated its autonomous systems in action on board a Kvichak Marco skimmer boat during events held along the Portland harbor earlier today.
Sea Machines’ technology opens a new era of capability for the marine industry, and today the company demonstrated its ability to increase the safety, productivity and predictability of response for marine oil-spill operations.
The on-water demonstrations took place aboard the world’s first autonomous spill response vessel – a Vigor/Kvichak Marine Industries-built skimmer boat, owned by Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) – before a live audience of MARAD, government, naval, international, environmental and industry representatives.
To make the on-water exercises possible, Sea Machines will install its SM300 autonomous-command system aboard a Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC)-owned Marco skimming vessel and will train MSRC personnel to operate the system.
The boat carries a Marco filter belt skimmer to recover oil from the surface of the water.
Sea Machines Robotics photo
From a shoreside location at Portland Yacht Services, a Sea Machines operator commanded the SM300-equipped skimmer boat to perform the following capabilities:
Remote autonomous control from an onshore location or secondary vessel,
ENC-based mission planning,
Autonomous waypoint tracking,
Autonomous grid line tracking,
Collaborative autonomy for multi-vessel operations, and
Wireless, remote payload control to deploy on-board boom, skimmer belt and other response equipment.
Additionally, Sea Machines discussed how to operate the skimmer in an unmanned autonomous mode, which enables operators to respond to spill events 24/7 depending on recovery conditions, even when crews are restricted.
These configurations also reduce or eliminate exposure of crewmembers to challenging sea and weather, toxic fumes and other safety hazards.
Sea Machines autonomous marine technology can be installed aboard existing or new commercial workboats and vessels, adding capabilities that increase productivity, predictability, efficiency and safety.
All SM300-enabled workboats can benefit from the system’s dynamic obstacle avoidance capabilities, which can be automatically activated during planned missions.
Sea Machines products recognize common obstacles – such as other watercraft, buoys, marine life and more – and will autonomously and safely reroute an operator’s vessel to mitigate a potentially costly and harmful incident.
Once the danger of collision passes, the system reroutes the workboat back on track to complete the mission.
This safety feature can be disabled in advance or in the moment by an on-board or remote operator, if needed.
“Our operation of the world’s first autonomous, remote-commanded spill-response vessel is yet another significant industry first for Sea Machines,” said Michael G. Johnson, founder and CEO, Sea Machines.
“But even more important is the fact that we’ve proven that our technology can be applied to the marine spill response industry – as well as other marine sectors – to protect the health and lives of mariners responding to spills. We are proud to support MSRC’s mission of response preparedness and to work alongside MARAD for these important demonstrations.”
“MSRC is excited to work with Sea Machines on this new technology. The safety of our personnel is the most important consideration in any response. Autonomous technology enhances safe operations,” said John Swift, vice president, MSRC.
"This is the future of the maritime industry. It’s safer, it’s faster, it’s more cost-effective,” said Richard Balzano, deputy administrator, MARAD.
“This technology is here and it will make you a believer. We are here because we want to help the maritime industry evolve. It’s about safety, the environment and reducing risk on the water.”
Sea Machines’ SM Series of products, which includes the SM300 and SM200, provides marine operators a new era of task-driven, computer-guided vessel control, bringing advanced autonomy within reach for small- and large-scale operations.
SM products can be installed aboard existing or new-build commercial vessels with return on investment typically seen within a year. Sea Machines is also a leading developer of advanced perception and navigation assistance technology for a range of vessel types, including container ships.
The company is currently testing its perception and situational awareness technology aboard one of A.P. Moller-Maersk’s new-build ice-class container ships.
In August 2018, Sea Machines demonstrated the capabilities of its SM300 product aboard the world’s first autonomous-command, remote-controlled fireboat, owned by TUCO Marine, during the Maritime Kulturdage event, in Korsør, Denmark.
YouTube : SM300: Waypoint Autonomy / SM300: Collaborative Autonomy
The Robot report : Sea Machines Robotics to demonstrate autonomous spill response
Marines and sailors practice fighting at sea using an 80-year-old communication tactic
A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless drops a message container known as a “bean-bag” on the flight deck of Enterprise (CV 6) while crew members dart to catch the message to deliver it up to the ship’s bridge.
(Naval Aviation Museum)
From Marine Times by Shawn Snow
Despite ballyhoo about the need for military cyber, electronic warfare and more tech-adept forces for future war, the Navy and Marines are testing war tactics more common nearly 100 years ago.
No longer can Marines and sailors take for granted uninterrupted electronic communications at sea or on the battlefield.
Tech-capable forces from Russia to China are packing capabilities that can jam U.S. systems or hone in on radio communications to find U.S. forces and ships at sea.
That’s why Marines and sailors aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship Boxer tested in early August an old silent communications tactic used during World War II, according to a command release.
A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless drops a message container known as a “bean-bag” on the flight deck of Enterprise (CV 6) while crew members dart to catch the message to deliver it up to the ship’s bridge. (Naval Aviation Museum)
The Boxer currently is floating with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit somewhere near the Persian Gulf.
The tactic is called a “beanbag drop," and during World War II pilots used to drop weighted beanbags carrying messages onto the decks of ships to avoid having their messages intercepted by enemy forces.
In early August, crew members with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron flying an MH-60S Seahawk conducted a beanbag message drop onto the Boxer as a proof of concept to deliver messages without relying on radio systems, the release detailed.
It’s a tactic liken to the carrier pigeons of World War I, which carried important tactical battlefield messages across the front lines.
The Navy’s experimentation with a communications tactic used in World War II sheds a small light on its tactical thinking and how it plans to prepare sailors and Marines for a major bout with adversaries with the capability to find, jam and sink U.S. Navy ships at sea.
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Bradley Peterson from Mora, Minnesota, assigned to amphibious assault ship Boxer (LHD 4) runs to a beanbag dropped on the flight deck during an exercise to communicate with Boxer from an MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21.
(Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian P. Caracci/Navy)
“We’ve got the best communication technology onboard our helos [helicopters] but today we practiced the use of a more conventional form of aircraft-to-ship communication in the event electronic communication is not an option,” Navy Lt. Taryn Steiger, the pilot who flew the HSC-21 Seahawk that dropped the beanbag, said in the release.
After the message was dropped from the MH-60 onto the deck of the Boxer, a sailor simply ran and scooped up and delivered the message, the release said.
“The purpose of the bean-bag drop was to show timely pilot-to-ship communication can be done without electronic transition," Lt. Cmdr. Michael Brown, the HSC-21 detachment commander, said in the release.
“Together HSC-21 crew and Boxer demonstrated timely communication from the aircraft to the ship during EMCON [emissions control] procedures."
Gen. Robert B. Neller, the former commandant of the Marine Corps, has oft repeated that he would turn off the net to force Marines to fight and train in environments where GPS and communications are degraded.
Marines have been training and experimenting with reducing their radio and visible footprint from Norway to the battlefields of Syria.
GeoGarage blog : GPS jamming and spoofing: when good signals go ... / Cyber threats prompt return of radio for ship navigation / Mass GPS spoofing attack in Black Sea? / GPS back-up: World War Two technology employed / Navigational backup to aid ships in Dover straits / Nightmare scenario: ship critical systems easy target ...
In 1845 explorers sought the Northwest Passage—then vanished
H.M.S. Terror, one of two ships from the doomed Franklin expedition, was discovered in 2016 off King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.
The small expedition boat seen here sank along with the Terror and rests on the seafloor a short distance from the ship.
image : Thierry Boyer, Parks canada
From National Geographic by Heather Pringle
The failed expedition was one of the grimmest chapters in the history of Arctic exploration.
New analysis may shed light on its mysterious fate.
For centuries the Northwest Passage seemed little more than a mirage.
John Cabot urged his ships into the unknown in 1497 and 1498 to find it, but failed.
Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, and James Cook searched icy northern waters for it, in vain.
In May 1845 a celebrated British explorer and naval officer, Sir John Franklin, took up the quest to find a route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Arctic waters.
With orders from the British Admiralty, Franklin and a crew of 133 sailed out from the Thames in two massive naval vessels, H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror, each specially equipped for polar service.
It was the beginning of the grimmest disaster in Arctic exploration.
On paper, the expedition seemed to lack for little.
The crew was young, tough, and seasoned.
The ships, sheathed in iron, bristled with the latest Victorian-era technology—from steam engines to heated water and an early daguerreotype camera.
The vessels carried more than three years’ worth of food and drink, as well as two barrel organs and libraries with some 2,900 books.
Two dogs and a monkey kept the men company in their quarters.
But these small floating worlds were no match for the Arctic’s frozen seas.
On Admiralty orders, the expedition sailed to one of the most treacherous, ice-choked corners of the far north.
By September 1846, both vessels were imprisoned in sea ice northwest of King William Island.
They remained so for at least a year and a half of brutal polar cold.
By April 1848, 24 men were dead, including Franklin himself.
The rest had abandoned the ships.
In a terse statement stuffed into a cairn on King William Island, the expedition’s new commander, Francis Crozier, noted that he and others were heading out on foot for the Back River, perhaps to find better hunting, or possibly hoping to reach a fur-trading outpost more than 700 miles away.
It was Crozier’s last known communication with the outside world.
(More than a half century later, in 1906, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen would be credited as the first to navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage.)
For years after Franklin’s expedition stalled, search parties combed the region’s coastlines, hoping to find survivors and, when all hope was gone, clues to the expedition’s fate.
They found deserted campsites, the bones of dead men, and hundreds of mementos, from fragments of cotton shirts to silver dessert spoons.
Inuit hunters recalled seeing starving crewmen dragging heavy sledges along the ice, and later finding evidence of cannibalism.
The British public was reluctant to believe it, and the final days of the Franklin expedition remained the subject of enduring fascination and mythmaking.
An underwater archaeologist inspects the hull of HMS Erebus.
(CNW Group/Parks Canada)
Then, in 2014, Erebus was discovered in relatively shallow water south of King William Island, almost exactly where historical Inuit testimony had placed it.
Two years later, Terror was located at the bottom of a large bay after Inuit Canadian Ranger Sammy Kogvik led researchers to the area.
Terror is so well preserved, says Parks Canada archaeologist Ryan Harris, that it resembles a ghost ship: “It just beggars the imagination what might lie inside.”
A second research team, supported by the government of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is now sifting through other important clues found on land.
Led by Douglas Stenton, an archaeologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, these scientists are mapping the sites where Franklin crew members pitched tents, downed rations, and huddled beneath blankets and bearskins.
By studying these locations and analyzing the human remains and artifacts recovered from them, Stenton and his colleagues hope to shed new light on the expedition’s final tragic days.
On a cold, blustery day in the Arctic hamlet of Gjoa Haven, Kogvik recalls the joy of seeing Terror appear for the first time on a sonar screen.
Like most Inuit in the region, Kogvik had heard stories about the lost expedition.
He also had one of his own.
While out fishing with a friend along the west coast of King William Island, he had once seen a big wooden pole sticking above the water.
He thought it could be a ship’s mast.
So in September 2016, when Kogvik was working with a team from the Arctic Research Foundation, a Canadian nonprofit, on another scientific project in the immediate area, they decided on the spur of the moment to check out the place.
After hours of searching the seafloor with side-scan sonar, Kogvik and his colleagues found Terror, about 80 feet underwater.
“Every one of us was giving high fives,” he recalls.
Parks Canada's RV David Thompson and its crew are currently en route to the wreck of HMS Erebus from Cambridge Bay, NU.
(Parks Canada)
Today Parks Canada archaeologists are planning to excavate both Franklin ships, but Erebus is their priority.
Harsh Arctic conditions now threaten the vessel.
Sea ice has scoured the stern and crushed the area where Franklin had his cabin, entombing or scattering its artifacts.
More haunting still are the conditions aboard Terror.
Thick sediment mantles the upper deck, but the ship’s wheel, helm, and bulwarks look eerily intact.
Windows and hatches, mostly unbroken, still seal the contents of the cabins.
Studies and excavations at the two wreck sites are expected to take years, and archaeologists hope to settle a long-standing controversy.
Historians have assumed that most of Franklin’s men died in 1848 on the foolhardy quest to the Back River.
But in the 1980s, David Woodman, a retired mariner and history writer based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, analyzed the reports of Inuit witnesses.
According to these accounts, few of Franklin’s men died on the trek.
Instead many returned to the ships after Crozier wrote his note, and managed to sail farther south.
When the two vessels finally sank, the castaways survived on salvaged provisions and occasional hunted game, until the last man died in the early 1850s.
But the accounts given by some 30 Inuit witnesses contained many ambiguities and contradictions, in part because of translation problems.
So the Parks Canada team hopes to recover written records from the shipwrecks, such as logs or personal journals, to help reveal what went wrong with the expedition.
In Britain, families of the dead men were left to wonder about their sons and husbands and how exactly they met their end—questions that linger among many descendants today.
And some relief may be in sight.
Stenton and his team have taken samples from skeletal remains and sent them to Lakehead University in Ontario.
Geneticists there successfully extracted DNA from the remains of 26 crew members.
Now Stenton is gathering DNA samples from living descendants.
By comparing the historical and modern DNA profiles, he and his colleagues hope to identify some of the bodies by name.
Moreover, the Parks Canada team may add to these identifications.
Historical Inuit witnesses reported boarding one of the ships and finding a crewman’s body lying on a floor.
The underwater archaeologists have yet to encounter any human remains, but if skeletons or bones turn up, the team will consider DNA testing.
For the first time in more than a century, hopes are high that the story of the lost expedition will be told.
The optimism is bringing a new sense of opportunity to remote Gjoa Haven, where young Inuit are landing jobs to watch over and protect the Franklin wreck sites from looters.
And officials are drawing up plans to expand the local museum, so it may one day house and display finds from the fabled Franklin ships.
“Tourists are already coming here,” Kogvik says proudly. And enticed by the icy wonders of the Northwest Passage and the famous story of Franklin and his men, “more will be coming next year.”
CBC : Archeologists dive back into Franklin mystery
Boat International : An insider's guide to navigating the Northwest Passage
National Fisherman : Flashback Friday: Opening the Northwest Passage, August 1969
GeoGarage blog : Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt / A brief history of voyages through the Northwest Passage / These maps show the epic quest for a Northwest Passage / Arctic mapping to make navigating Northwest Passage safer / The other side of the ice / Arctic passage / New sailing routes for future container mega-ships / Arctic sea routes open as ice melts / The future of the Arctic economy / 1957 Coast Guard cutters around the continent ... / Canada finds British vessel that vanished on .. / Uncharted waters: Mega-cruise ships sail the Arctic/ Swedish boat makes Arctic history/ Map room: Borders on top of the world/ Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the Cloud / How ordinary ship traffic could help map the ... / Chinese shipper on path to 'normalize' polar shipping / Canada searches for Sir John Franklin's rescue ship / The battle for the North Pole: Melting ice brings ...
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Scientists bid farewell to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. If more melt, it can be disastrous
Satellite images from September 1986 (left) and Aug. 1
show the shrinking of the Okjökull glacier in west-central Iceland.
From CNN by Harmeet Kaur
Scientists say they are bidding farewell to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, in a funeral of sorts.
localization with the GeoGarage platform (ICG-HD nautical chart)
Researchers will gather Sunday in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, to memorialize Okjökull, known as Ok for short, after it lost its status as a glacier in 2014.
The inscription, titled "A letter to the future," on the monument paints a bleak picture.
"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it," the plaque reads in English and Icelandic.
The memorial plaque for Iceland's Okjökull glacier contains a dire warning.
From the ice sheet in Greenland to the towering glaciers in West Antarctica, Earth's enormous masses of ice are melting fast. And though sea levels have risen and fallen throughout history, scientists say it's never happened at a rate this fast.
If glaciers continue to melt at the current rapid rate, it will pose a number of hazards for the planet, geologists say.
Here are some of the potential hazards:
It can displace people
The Greenland ice sheet near Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier.
By 2100, up to 2 billion people -- or about a fifth of the world's population -- could be displaced from their homes and forced to move inland because of rising ocean levels, according to a 2017 study.
Bangladesh is particularly at risk.
About 15 million people in the country could become climate refugees if sea levels rise 1 meter, or about 3 feet. And more than 10% of the country would be underwater.
Some of the people who are displaced might not have anywhere to go.
They're not protected by international laws, so industrialized countries aren't legally obligated to grant them asylum.
It can put some islands underwater
The Marshall Islands is one of the island nations at risk of disappearing because of climate change.
If sea levels continue to rise at a rapid rate, some remote island nations would be at risk of disappearing, including Tuvalu, the Maldives and the Marshall Islands.
It can diminish drinking water
The Imja glacial lake in the Himalaya.
Millions of people depend on glaciers for drinking water, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region and the Andes Mountains.
In dry climates near mountains, glaciers collect precipitation and freshwater and store it as ice during colder months. When summer comes along, the ice melts and runs off into rivers and streams, providing drinking water.
A world without glaciers would threaten that water supply and potentially have devastating effects, Jason Briner, a geologist at the University of Buffalo, told CNN.
It can threaten our food supply
The Géant Glacier in eastern France.
Melting glaciers also threaten the food supply.
Rising sea levels contribute to warmer global temperatures, changing what kinds of crops farmers can grow. Some climates will become too hot for what farmers are growing now.
Other climates will see more flooding, more snow or more moisture in the air, also limiting what can be grown.
As a result, food will become scarcer, grocery prices will spike and crops will lose their nutritional value, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted in a report earlier this year.
It can cause a health crisis
The Santa Ines glacier in southern Chile.
As sea levels rise, coastal communities are more susceptible to flooding.
One particularly gross consequence of that flooding is the impact on sewage treatment plants, which are often built at low elevations close to the oceans.
Floods can cause massive amounts of untreated sewage to flow into rivers, streams, streets and even homes.
That pollutes sources of water, harms wildlife and helps spread diseases.
"A lot of times when people think about sea level rise, they think about inundation of land," Andrea Dutton, geology professor at the University of Florida, told CNN.
"They think that 'If my house isn't in the area that's flooded, I don't need to worry about it,' which is a complete misconception."
It can disrupt the global economy
The Rhône Glacier in Switzerland.
More than 90 percent of the world's trade is carried by sea, according to the United Nations.
So, there's a good chance that most of the things you buy have passed through at least two ports: one during export and one during import.
Ports are critical to the global economy, providing jobs in industries like shipbuilding, fishing, seafood processing and marine transportation.
Rising sea levels could damage the infrastructure of many ports and disrupt all kinds of processes, creating a ripple effect throughout the economy.
"[Melting glaciers] will affect people's access to food, water and energy, which are fundamental, critical things that we need to survive," Dutton said.
It can change life as we know it
Eqi Glacier in Greenland.
The large ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are part of Earth's energy balance, Briner said.
Those massive white surfaces work to reflect rays from the sun back into the environment, keeping temperatures mild.
As more and more glaciers melt, energy from the sun will instead be absorbed into the ocean.
As the oceans get warmer, global temperatures become hotter and cause even more glaciers to melt.
That creates a cycle that amplifies the climate crisis, Briner said.
NYTimes : Iceland's Prime Minister : "The ice is leaving'
Forbes : Iceland Mourns 'Dying' Glacier With Memorial And 'Letter To The Future'
CNN : At the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, climate scientists find troubling signs
The Guardian : This is crunch point for our oceans: let's do the right thing / Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change
BBC : Iceland's Okjokull glacier commemorated with plaque
NOC : Global sea-level rise has been accelerating since 1960
GeoGarage blog :A submarine goes under a failing glacier to gauge rising seas /
Greenland is melting away before our eyes / Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
Brazil (DHN) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
186 nautical raster charts updated & 81 new charts added in the GeoGarage platform
Brexit fishing map: The vast body of UK waters at risk from EU fishing - even after Brexit
Brexit fishing map: The future of UK waters depends on whether it would allow foreign vessels to access its EEZ
(Image: Express)
From Express by Kate Whitfield
The Conservative Party committed in its 2017 manifesto to leaving the Common Fisheries Policy after Brexit, saying the UK “will be fully responsible for the access and management of its waters”.
But there are widespread doubts about whether this is actually possible.
Under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), European fishing fleets are given equal access to all EU waters and fishing grounds up to 12 nautical miles from EU member’s coasts.
The question is whether the UK, after Brexit, will have an arrangement allowing EU boats to fish in its water.
Currently, the answer to this question is unknown, along with the exact nature of any Brexit arrangements, or whether the UK will leave without any deal at all.
The Government has suggested the resulting status of its fishing waters after Brexit will depend on what kind of agreements the UK makes with the EU and whether it would allow foreign vessels to access its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Outside the EU, an EEZ extends 200 nautical miles (370km) off a country’s coastline, giving the state the authority to exploit and control the fish resources within this zone.
The (roundly rejected) Brexit deal negotiated by former Prime Minister Theresa May was vague on fishing policy, only saying that “the Union and the United Kingdom shall use their best endeavours to conclude and ratify” an agreement in future.
It’s worth noting that while the EU wants to make sure its fishing fleet has access to UK waters, the UK industry also wants access to the European market - the UK has been allocated €243.1m in subsidies between 2014 and 2020 under the CFP, which will end after Brexit.
However, others argue that as the UK has a relatively large fishing zone compared to many of its continental European neighbours, EU fishermen benefit more from access to UK waters.
In the June 2017 Queen’s Speech, the Government announced a Fisheries Bill with the purpose of “enabling the UK to control access to its waters and set UK fishing quotas once it has left the EU.”
But now, a Government memo recently leaked to the BBC has revealed how much uncertainty there is about the UK’s capacity to patrol its waters and control access.
The memo, from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), says there are just 12 ships “to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK”.
Brexit fishing map: The UK has a relatively large fishing zone compared to many of its continental European neighbours
Defra’s internal memo referred to a number of media stories which planned to look at the preparation being made to deter EU fishermen from UK waters in the case of a no deal Brexit, and also whether the UK will enforce the exclusion of foreign vessels.
There will be just 12 ships to monitor space three times the size of the UK used by trawlers
The note reads: “While our public position on this wider issue is already clear and widely communicated, in that post-Brexit we will be an independent coastal state with control of our waters, both policy and MoD have indicated we are not on an overly strong footing to get ahead of the potential claims that could arise from this story.
“At this stage, there is a lot of uncertainty about the sufficiency of enforcement in a no-deal because we have 12 vessels that need to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK.”
Admiral Lord West, a Labour peer and former First Sea Lord, said the email appeared to show the UK has “insufficient assets to patrol and look after our exclusive economic zone for fisheries, and also our territorial seas”.
He added: “This is something a number of us have been saying for some time now, but it has always been denied by Defra and the Government.”
However, Barrie Deas, the CEO of the National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations (NFFO), said any EU vessel would be “foolish” to fish in UK waters - even without a deal in place.
He told the BBC: “Under international law, the UK would automatically become an independent coastal state with the rights and responsibilities of that status and there is an obligation under the UN Law of the Sea for countries that share stocks to co-operate.
“So I think there will be a fisheries agreement post-Brexit between the UK and the EU, but on a different basis from the Common Fisheries Policy.”
Express : Mass EU trespass in to British fishing waters expected on Day 1 of Brexit / Brexit LIVE: UK fishing waters under threat from EU as Britain has just 12 patrol ships / Brexit fishing boost: Brexiteer hails unexpected ‘big win’ - ‘Regain control of our seas!’ / Brexit triumph: UK fishing communities to benefit from extra catch quota - 'New horizon'
HuffPost : Brexit Could Spark The Next Big Fishing War
BBC : Brexit: Email slip-up reveals no-deal fishing patrol 'uncertainty' / How would Brexit affect fishing waters? / Why is everyone talking about fishing? / What is a no-deal Brexit?
Mercopress : Brexit impact for UK fishing waters: mass EU trespass, says leaked document
Quarkz : Leaked Brexit document shows the UK government anticipates a no-deal, with dire consequences
The Time : French fishermen threaten to blockade UK exports after no‑deal Brexit / Threat to French fishermen is Britain's Brexit bargaining chip
FT : No-deal Brexit: how prepared are the EU and UK?
The Guradian : Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea
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Artist of the Month: Bordalo II
By Marina Azzaro on August 31, 2019
The Dublin Red Squirrel was taken down last week. I’m not mad about that as I’m the first one to say that my work is ephemeral, just like everything in life. I also incentivate [sic] progress, rebuilding when necessary, the use of dead areas of towns to make something better, the rehabilitation of the abandoned to give a new life to the city, definitely that’s the right way if it respects the environment and the local culture.
I’m just sad that that company didn’t keep their word and didn’t wait until Tuesday as had been agreed, because we were making a special plan try to move the piece to a new location and document all the process.
(Instagram post from b0rdalo-ii, August 6th, 2019)
That was the Portuguese artist Bordalo II’s reaction to the removal of his installation from Tara Street, Dublin: a massive red squirrel on the window-less side of walls next to Tara Street DART Station. The simple and predictable reason for this sad amputation is the building of a new hotel on the same site.
The Red Squirrel is part of a series call ‘Trash animals’ spread over twenty-four countries. These are intriguing and provocative installations of endangered species, constructed from discarded products; scrap we don’t need any more, but which are destined to last forever, and contribute to the extinction of these animals.
Damaged bumpers, burnt garbage cans, and discarded tyres are among the materials that stimulated the artist’s inventiveness. He has transformed these into the shapes of a fox, an ostrich, a stork, a bear, a possum, a racoon, and a lemur. Whether walking through Paris, Los Angeles or Pattaya, it’s better you don’t know when you are going to come across one of these.
You are greeted by massive, curious creatures: first their vibrant colours from huge murals; after that you make out the ropes and chicken wire used to fabricate hair, the bicycle frames used for bodies, the ball bearings for eyes, and then the appliances and plastic fencing shaping their expressions.
Bordal II began his career as a graffiti artist, but as he matured, felt a need to express his disgust with the environmental problems of our time. He was inspired, and challenged, by the classical art world, in particular that of his grandfather, Real Bordalo. This brought out new creative processes – active, laborious, and multi-technical – what he calls ‘free-style.’
He situates his pieces in abandoned places, recycling centres, car body shops, hidden streets; from a simple sketch he begins cutting, drilling, assembling, and finally spray-painting.
The Dublin Red Squirrel
The Dublin Red Squirrel project was developed in collaboration with filmmakers Trevor Whelan and Rua Megan, who filmed Bordalo II for two years, bringing him to Dublin, creating with the producer Glenn Collins memorable footage of his installations around Europe in an acclaimed short movie called: ‘Bordalo II: A Life of Waste.’
Bordalo II chose the red squirrel for Ireland as the animal has been under serious threat of extinction from deforestation and a virus carried by the non-indigenous grey squirrel.
The piece sends out an acute message, drawing attention to our wastefulness. Forming a creative dialogue with the city and its people, it became a much-loved and effective public art work.
On August 6th of this year, however, employees of Ronan Group Real Estate, or agents on their behalf, who are reconstructing the building, removed the installation, without warning, and despite a meeting with the filmmakers and the artist, where it had been agreed that they would film the demolition on an agreed date.
Bordalo II’s sculpture is a masterpiece of its kind, depicting an ongoing environmental crisis. It begs the question as to whether an art work such as this is really ephemeral, when the public take it into their hearts. Is a sculpture simply rubble and rubbish that can be disposed of at the whim of a builder, without considering the artist or those who appreciate it?
I wonder was this allowed to happen simply because no institution owned or funded it. Is it simply that patrons of the arts are only interested in the old masters and expressions of individual nations, allowing developers to demolish our contemporary inspirations?
This episode confirms the vision of the artist. The Red Squirrel has reverted to waste products, an experience that reminds us of our own endangered status, our own endangered art.
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Posted: July 15, 2015 in Book I Terror in Texas
Tags: Apocalypse, horror, Orange Bitch, sci-fi, Tate, Zombie
Tate woke to the sound of voices. She glanced around with a deep sigh. Spending the night at Phil’s place was the first time she had slept in a real bed in more than a month. She had forgotten how good it could feel. She stretched out on the clean sheets and decided it was heaven, even without air conditioning. She slipped from the double bed and into fresh clothes she’d brought in from the rig. After using the bathroom, she padded down the stairs to the huge open room on the first floor.
Phil, Doyle and Ben sat at a massive farm table eating biscuits, ham, and eggs. The two men had mugs of coffee while Ben a can of soda.
Phil glanced up and nodded a greeting. “Get yourself some breakfast.” He pointed at the kitchen then continued his conversation with Doyle. “The family went into Bandera the day it happened. I haven’t heard anything since a phone call from my wife saying they were in trouble and headed to my sister-in-law’s house. If they made it there, my family could be alive.
Tate poured herself a cup of coffee. “Is that why you were here alone?”
Phil nodded, but he forced a smile. “Ben’s folks were on the way to Beth’s house too and they were supposed to pack up and head this way as soon as they got there. Something had to have happened and there hasn’t been a thing I could do about it.”
Tate looked at Doyle. He nodded slightly then picked up the coffee cup and brought it to his lips.
Tate asked. “Bandera Falls? Right up the road from where Doyle’s truck ran out of gas?”
Phil nodded. “No. Bandera. It’s the difference of a dozen miles and ninety and nine hundred people living there.”
“We have two rigs. Maybe we could head up there and pick them up in the trucks?” Doyle asked.
“We could take Ben if he knows the address.” Take continued.
“No. I’m going,” Phil stated. “I’ve got weapons and I know how to use them. Ben needs to stay and take care of the livestock.”
Ben jerked his head up from his third biscuit. “I can shoot.” H protested around a full mouth. “They’re my family, too.”
“I know kid. And when we come back with them if the place is overrun, they have nowhere to go. Someone has to protect the compound.”
Ben beamed. “Since you put it like that, I guess, I’m your man.”
Two hours later Doyle and Phil rolled out of the compound in Doyle’s rig with Tate following behind in the Orange Bitch with a trailer attached to a makeshift trailer hitch. Once outside, she picked up the CB mic and turned the radio to a channel they had agreed on using for the operation.
“Ok, Phil. What’s the deal with Ben? You didn’t want him to come with us, why?”
Phil answered. “Last I heard from his folks, they were headed to Bandera. My brother-in-law was going to pick up my wife and the family at Beth’s house. If it’s bad, I don’t want Ben seeing it.”
Tate sighed then answered. “Got it.”
“The sister lives on Old Hondo Hwy. The problem is the only way to get there is to go into town. If its overrun, your little diversion should give us time to get to them.”
“I’m locked and loaded,” Tate answered with a grim smile. “You boys just take care of your end and get the family.”
She laid the rifle on the seat next to her and patted the pockets on her vest. She had three extra magazines and a box of ammunition, courtesy of Phil. There was also a box with six glass bottles half filled with gasoline with rags hanging out of the top. The smell of gasoline was so intense she lowered windows hoping the slight breeze would pull the fumes from the cab.
As she drove, Tate imagined nine hundred monsters lined up waiting for them. She knew it was ridiculous, but couldn’t help it. Now that she had convinced the men she was the best one to create the diversion, she was getting nervous. Talking about her mouth overloading her ass…she’d done it this time.
The world was screwed and she wondered if anyone would survive. People were becoming monsters then attacking the survivors. She hoped the government nuked the people responsible for this mess.
The drive to Bandera was way too short. She followed Doyle as he passed the green sign advertising the city with a population of nine-hundred and thirty-seven people. The radio crackled and Doyle’s voice announced. “Not good, Tate. Looks overrun.”
Tate pulled to the left to get a better view of the road ahead. It was disheartening. The highway ahead was littered with dozens of vehicles. Some stopped in the middle of the road while others were pulled to the side and abandoned with doors left open. Dozens of infected milled around the front of a store front. At the sound of the trucks approaching, the monsters raised their heads and begun stumbling toward the rumbling engines.
“Shit!” Tate picked up the mic and said. “Ok, work the plan.”
Phil answered immediately. “Drop back and follow us. Don’t shoot unless you have to.”
“Got it.” She answered.
Tate stepped on the clutch and down-shifted the Bitch. Doyle pulled away with a rumble of the powerful engine. The horde of infected stumbled toward them with dogged determination. Doyle steered his rig between two vehicles and crushed four infected: two were gray-skinned men wearing dark blue uniforms, another was a child still wearing a big yellow bow in her hair while the last was teenager in a t-shirt and leggings.
More and more of the infected stumbled toward them. Those monsters that didn’t make it quick enough to approach Doyle’s truck before it passed stumbled after the rig down the middle of the road. Tate rolled over them.
The stench rose up in a nasty cloud of putrefaction. The fumes from the jars of gasoline made it impossible to close the windows. Besides, she needed to be able to use her firearms if Doyle got into trouble. She swallowed the bile rising to the back of her throat and picked up the mic.
“How much farther?”
“Two more blocks. Then we take a left. Try to block access and entertain the masses while we get around the curve in the road right after the turnoff. Out of site, should be out of mind, hopefully.”
“Got it. When you get out of sight, I’ll turn on the music and pied-piper my way to the ball field. After I set off the diversion, I’ll haul ass back to the intersection. Just get the family.”
Tate accelerated and closed the gap between the trucks. She slowed when Doyle’s brake lights flashed and the truck downshifted. She could see the sign for Old Hondo Highway ahead and gave Doyle room to turn off. She downshifted again and stopped in front of the highway.
She revved the engine and turned on the iPod. Speakers on the dash blared music by the Cranberries. The sound drew more and more of the infected to her. When Doyle’s rig disappeared around the curve she stepped on the clutch and shifted the Bitch into gear. She wanted to make sure she continued to keep the interest of the walking dead. Painstakingly slow, she began to move forward. She blew the horn, revved the engine and shifted to second as the music blared.
The Bitch was surrounded by monsters. The ones in the front of the rig fell under the press of the brush guard and knocked down some of their brethren in the process. Dozens of infected were falling under the massive tires. As she accelerated, more monsters turned and followed. She watched as at least a hundred monsters stumbled after her. She grinned as she realized it was working. With a little luck, she would give Phil plenty of time to gather his family.
It was a painfully slow trek to the far side of town and the baseball field. She drew more and more of the monsters to her. Finally, she saw the big lights sticking up over the buildings in the distance. She looked at the digital clock on the dash. It had taken half an hour to get to park. She gunned the engine and raced down the block.
Tate accelerated away from her followers and rolled over the fencing at the side of the ballpark. She stopped on second base, grabbed the music player with the mini-speakers and she jumped from the cab. She ran to the trailer, set the player under the metal tripod then dragged a cinder block from the trailer. She positioned the stone under the trailer tongue and pulled the pin on the hitch. She ran back to the cab and climbed back inside just as hundreds of monsters spilled into the ball field. She cranked the Bitch and began rolling forward.
Tate flicked a grill lighter and used a piece of duct tape to keep the flame fueled. She dropped the end into the cup holder then passed over the flame the end of a gas soaked rag hanging from one of the bottles. When the rag caught, she eased it out the window and tossed the jar about five feet from the trailer. The flames exploded with a whoosh. She repeated the process three more times then eased off the clutch and accelerated toward the back fence.
She hit the hurricane fence then jerked the wheel to the left and tossed two more lit bottles of gasoline at the break in the fencing. She accelerated for half a block then turned down an alley and slammed on the brakes. She killed the engine.
The Bitch sat still and silent while Tate grabbed her rifle before climbing from the cab. She hurried to the corner of the building and peeked around the brick. The scene on the ball field was horrendous. Hundreds of infected had followed her through the opening then stumbled toward the trailer and the blaring rock music. They shuffled into the flames around the trailer. They had hoped the flames would draw in the infected but protect the anchored tripod with the butane cylinder mounted on the top. The first part worked. Not so much the second. Flames didn’t discourage the infected from bunching up and jostling the trailer.
Phil had mounted the tank then used a roll of plastic wrap to surround the tank with nails and ball bearings. Now, all she had to do was hit the valve and blow the tank. She hoped she hadn’t over stated her skill.
Tate pulled the rifle to her shoulder and sighted the valve of the cylinder. She took a deep breath then released. Her heart raced when she saw half a dozen infected stumble through the flames and stagger across the road toward a nearby wood structure.
There were hundreds of monsters milling around the blaring music with at least a quarter of them near enough to the flames to catch fire. She took a breath, released it and squeezed the trigger. The shot took out a bald man with flames climbing up his leg. He fell into the firestorm.
Tate took a deep breath and blew it out in frustration. She pulled the rifle back to her shoulder. Without hesitating she drew in a breath, released it, and fired again. This time the projectile sheared the valve at the top of the tank.
The detonation was deafening. Tate fell back from the corner to the ground. Windows overhead shattered. Glass rained down on her. She dropped the gun and fell to her knees with her arms covering her head. Scorching air burst out from the ball field along with chunks of projectiles hitting the brick of the building. Tate huddled against the wall of the building.
When the only sound was the roar of the flames, Tate stuck her head around the building. The ball field was pure carnage. Hundreds of the infected were scattered around the grounds in pieces and lay unmoving while even more were on fire and stumbling over the shattered bodies.
Tate imagined she had attracted at least half of the town. She picked up the rifle and got to her feet and turned back to the truck. Her breath caught when she faced an infected man. He looked like a reject from a horror movie with half of his face gone and gray hair covered in carnage. He raised his arms, his hands reached out to her as if to draw her into an embrace.
Tate swung the butt of the rifle up and connected with the side of his head. He staggered back a step but the impact failed to take him down. She followed with a swift kick out with her foot and caved in his knee. His leg buckled and he fell to his knees. Tate raised the rifle and fired. The man collapsed in a heap.
Tate turned away from the body in time to see half a dozen more infected heading her way. She ran to the cab and climbed inside. She cranked the engine and jammed the Bitch into gear. She shifted through the gears as it picked up speed and she made her way around the side streets back to the highway.
The radio crackled to life. “Tate? You got your ears on?” Doyle’s voice asked.
“I’m here,” Tate answered. “I’m headed back your way. Got the family?”
Doyle sounded dejected. “Long story. Let’s head home.”
“What?” Tate asked.
“Family is gone. The house is destroyed. The occupants held off a horde before the place was overrun.” Doyle added.
Tate sighed. “I am so sorry, Phil.”
She turned left a final time and went to the end of the side street. She slowed and looked to the left and then to the right. She was on highway sixteen. She turned right and headed back to Old Hondo Highway.
When she got to the intersection she saw Doyle’s rig sitting at the intersection waiting. He saw her and pulled out ahead of her. She followed.
Forty minutes later, they pulled up to the gate and waited for Ben to appear. Instead, a bear of man strolled out of the house with a big grin on his face. He gave Doyle and Phil a careless wave and opened the gate. Doyle and Tate pulled the rigs through the gate. When the man had closed the gate he jogged to the passenger side of Doyle’s truck and jerked open the door.
Phil reached out to be caught in the arms of the big man.
“You son of a bitch!” Phil pounded on his companion’s chest. “Beth? The girls?” Tears were streaming down his face.
“All fine.” The man picked up Phil and headed across the yard as if his weight was nothing. “They’re a little tired, but fine now that they’re home.”
Tate and Doyle followed the pair as the big man carried Phil to the house. Doyle leaned over and whispered. “I’ll be damned. If you had seen what we did, you’d be amazed any of Phil’s family is here.”
Tate asked. “What do you mean?”
“There was blood and bodies parts everywhere. Shell casings, and at some point there had been an explosion. We figured everyone was dead. I thought the man was going to climb out of the cab when he saw the house. I convinced him to let me look around. I told him it looked like people got out, but honestly it didn’t.”
Tate slapped his arm. “I’m glad you were wrong.”
Doyle laughed. “So am I, believe me.”
By the time Tate and Doyle got to the house, Phil had been deposited into his wheelchair and was surrounded by a bevy of people; two men and the bearish man from the gate, four women, and half a dozen kids from toddler to teens.
When Doyle and Tate got to the porch, Phil introduced his wife, Beth and two daughters. Then he introduced John and his wife’s sister, Mary, then Martha and her husband, Bill, Ben’s folks in addition to the handful of children. A woman with a small child in her arms stood off to the side of the group.
“Gina, come here, honey,” Phil called the woman closer.
The woman stood, unmoving. Beth stepped to her side. “I told you it would be alright, honey. Phil is glad you’re here.”
Tears welled up in Gina’s eyes. She clutched the child so tightly the baby began to whine and fuss.
Phil reached out with a calloused hand. “Gina, you’re safe here. You belong to our family, now. You and the child have a home with us. You don’t have to be afraid of anyone hurting you again.”
The young woman began to weep and Phil opened his arms. She fell to her knees in front of Phil and leaned into his arms. Together, the man, the child, and young woman clung to each other for several minutes. Finally, Gina sat back and smiled.
“Thank you,” Gina whispered. “He’s dead.”
Beth stepped up and wrapped an arm around Gina. “Let’s get you and the baby cleaned up. The last three days of walking and hiding wasn’t easy on any of us. We’ll get you settled in a room. The girls won’t mind using the sleeping porch. It’s time we all get something to eat and rest.” She led the woman away.
The rest of the family disappeared into the house leaving Doyle and Tate to sit with Phil.
“I led you on a wild goose chase.”
Doyle shrugged. “Hey, we got rid of a lot of infected. Maybe it’ll be easier to scavenge supplies from Bandera now.”
“You’re a good man, Doyle. As for you, Tate, you’re an even better man.” He said with a chuckle. “That was pretty ballsy doing what you did. You made a hell of a boom. Sure was a lot of black smoke when we left town. I hope the whole town didn’t burn” Doyle laughed and Phil continued. “Both of you know how to take care of yourselves. I can use good people around here. I would like you to stay.”
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Chatbots are used in a variety of sectors and built for different purposes. There are retail bots designed to pick and order groceries, weather bots that give you weather forecast of the day or week, and simply friendly bots that just talk to people in need of a friend. The fintech sector also uses chatbots to make consumers’ inquiries and application for financial services easier. A small business lender in Montreal, Thinking Capital, uses a virtual assistant to provide customers with 24/7 assistance through the Facebook Messenger. A small business hoping to get a loan from the company need only answer key qualification questions asked by the bot in order to be deemed eligible to receive up to $300,000 in financing.
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Get Serious: New & Selected Poems by Jefferson Carter
Jefferson Carter directs the Writing and Literature Program, and teaches developmental composition and poetry writing at Pima Community College, Downtown Campus. His eight books of poetry include Litter Box (Spork Press, 2004), SENTIMENTAL BLUE (Chax Press, 2007), MY KIND OF ANIMAL (Chax Press, 2010), and GET SERIOUS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Chax Press, 2013). He has lived in Tucson, Arizona, since 1954. He has won a Tucson/Pima Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship, and his poems have appeared in such journals and e-zines as Carolina Quarterly, CrossConnect, 2River View, and Barrow Street. His chapbook Tough Love won the Riverstone Poetry Press Award.
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Anti M by Lisa Samuels
“Lisa Samuels’ beautiful ANTI M is a delicate, dark, expansive, and obviously elliptical text that explores not the opposite but the obverse side of memory. In ANTI M, memories are broken apart and intensified, they have become charged particles. They flicker, not cinematically (though the lovely, enigmatic images included in the book bring film to mind) but with electricity. It is that exciting play of light, cast by shadows and patches of even darker darkness, that makes the language of ANTI M luminous. And it is luminous—this is a gorgeous work.”—Lyn Hejinian
Lisa Samuels has a PhD from the University of Virginia and currently teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. She publishes essays and edited work on poetry, theory, and critical practice. She is the author of several books of poetry—including WILD DIALECTICS (Shearsman Books, 2012), TOMORROWLAND (Shearsman Books, 2009), THE INVENTION OF CULTURE (Shearsman Books, 2008), and THE SEVEN VOICES (O Books, 1998)—as well as a creative nonfiction book, Anti M, forthcoming from Chax Press. Her current projects include an essay collection, Modernism Is Not Enough, an audio recording of TOMORROWLAND with soundscapes, and a modular novel experiment, Tender Girl. Having lived in various parts of the United States, as well as in Sweden, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Malaysia, and now New Zealand/Aotearoa, she is interested in transculturalism, especially as embodied in language and the digitas.
The Deluge by Linh Dinh, Editor & Translator
Edited and translated from the Vietnamese by Linh Dinh. “Carefully selected for their literary significance as well as their antagonism towards state power, cultural orthodoxy and conventional wisdom, the hundred and sixty Vietnamese-language poems annotated, contextualized and expertly translated into English in THE DELUGE provide a stunningly original (counter) history-in-fragments of Vietnamese society from the 1960’s up till today. While Linh Dinh is typically known for his extraordinary poetry, fiction and journalism, THE DELUGE showcases his remarkable talents as a translator, anthologist and cultural historian. I love everything about this book: the sneaky-smart selections, the illuminating yet ruthlessly efficient author-bios, the fascinating addendum and, of course, the absurdly brilliant translations.”—Peter Zinoman
Edges of Water by Maureen Owen
“In a land where FEELINGS shared is a transgression, we get propelled onward! If Elizabeth Murray’s promise that the subconscious is what we paint about, then Maureen Owen’s promise is by the poems. Always there first, as Freud said, ‘Where I go I find a poet has been there before me.’ Imagine Sigmund meeting up with the latest Owen book. ‘We think we look back / we just look outside / surface that is a state / of meringue / holiness that is a condition independent / of deity….'”—CA Conrad
Maureen Owen is editor of Telephone Books and author of over ten poetry collections, including American Rush, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and AMELIA EARHEART, a recipient of the American Book Award. Formerly co-director of the Poetry Project, she now lives in Denver and teaches at Naropa University. Most recently, she is the author of EDGES OF WATER (Chax Press, 2013).
Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj by Pierre Joris
“Well-versed and well-read in Sufi mysticism, Joris appears throughout these captivating meditations as a nomadizing poet-scholar—a poeta doctus in the classical sense: whether it is the manners, or pockets of the desert, Baghdad bombings, or Hallaj's set of stations that caught his eye (a poeta vates?) and fired up the engine of his writing, Joris—poeta faber—also always guides us back to the material flux of language that constitutes these meditations.”—Peter Cockelbergh
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The Identification of Ghosts by Maryrose Larkin
“Maryrose Larkin’s surprising and rangy poem is part exorcism, part tour of the ruthless canals of the body where memories like ghosts hover, retreat, get startled and go astray. Decay and loss are present, but as movement, animation. Even the process of revision is palpably felt, not as groping for excellence but as openness to re-vision. Where some poets simply evoke contingency, Maryrose enacts it, and with a powerful sense of compassion. The ghosts here lead not to an underworld or to what may come, but to ‘touch and hazard.’ The effect is both haunting and inviting. Go in and meet everything outside, anew.”—Standard Schaefer
The Notebook of False Purgatories by Standard Schaefer
“Standard Schaefer’s work has consistently been little short of extraordinary. But now in this his fourth book, in the tradition of politically committed visionaries (almost as if he were a mix of Gerard de Nerval and Hannah Weiner), he calls us toward a ‘humbler arrangement’ of art and love, insisting in this set of triumphant and authentic aphorisms that nothing of or in this world is a fiasco, that if we mistake distraction for enchantment and fail to listen to the static of war, the lack of love, the codes of poetics and politics (which are one), we fail the real. Wonderment is an ethical discipline. Noons are all around us. I have never seen a poet do this to such an extraordinary degree. This is one of the few books that will remain, or so I would hope.”—Gabriel Gudding
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Rebranding Junquera
By: Jobers Reynes Bersales July 29,2019 - 06:24 AM
Without funding from local government nor from such a well-oiled cultural institution as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, there is one medium-sized hotel in downtown Cebu City that is doing its own cultural heritage initiatives.
Just the other day, on the 146th birth anniversary of Leon Kilat, it hosted a lecture by my good friend Atty. Harve Abella about this now-little-known youthful general who led a ragtag army of Cebuano Katipuneros in the historic revolt against Spanish rule on April 3, 1898.
Three months ago, it single-handedly inaugurated a community-based theater with a series of performances on stage at the University of San Carlos also to honor Leon Kilat and the Cebu Katipunan. That performing arts group is called ‘Bag-ong Teatro Junquera’ and is composed mostly of youngsters from the different barangays along and near Junquera Street, especially Kamagayan.
This magnanimous effort was intended as a tribute to the old Teatro Junquera that was opened in the last decade of Spanish rule to honor the beloved Gen. Inocencio Junquera, the Spanish military governor of Cebu who presided over an era of relative freedom for native Cebuanos during his term in 1893-95.
The presentation in fact caused quite a furor when my good friend Bong Wencesalo wrote in his Sun-Star Cebu column about my comment, upon seeing the performance, that this was something Cebu City and its Cultural and Historical Affairs Committee (CHAC) should be doing.
Nevertheless, even without a single centavo from the previous Cebu City administration, the play entitled, “Abtik Pa’s Kilat” was shown not only at USC but also at the covered court of Barangay Cogon Ramos, with the hotel shelling out money for the lights and sounds.
Now comes the real reason behind all these efforts: a non-government initiative to rebrand Junquera Street. We all know, of course, that until lately, this street has been synonymous as the red-light district of Cebu, a euphemism invented in the 19th century for a section where brothels and prostituted women were found.
Already, Dr. Nestor Ramirez, chair of the journalism department at the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJR), has been quietly organizing the shoemakers and tee-shirt printers that line the side of USC along that street. These artisans in fact already have a festival each year, highlighted by a contest on the fastest among them to repair a shoe. It was Nestor, joined shortly by Dr. Jezreel Tanilon of the University of the Visayas, who worked to train the volunteer actors and actresses and eventually form Bag-ong Teatro Junquera.
The hotel I am referring to is none other than Palm Grass Cebu Heritage Hotel, which sits along Junquera Street. And the person behind its initiatives is Agripina Guivelondo, who represents the Guivelondo-Blanco family that owns of the hotel. The Guivelondos have a forebear in the 1898 revolt against Spain in Cebu in the person of Don Isidro Guivelondo, a lawyer who supported and fomented the uprising.
Two weeks back, I joined a meeting between Nestor, Jezreel and Agripina together with Fr. Rogelio Bag-ao, USC’s vice-president for mission and head of its Community Extension Service, in a multi-party initiative to rebrand Junquera Street. Among the plans include trainings on greening the barangays beside or within the orbit of the street, an oral history writing project, additional recruitment for the performing arts including perhaps a youth choir, and even mini-exhibitions on the different facets of the barangays’ history, among others. Already the University of the Visayas is offering 30 scholarships to senior high schools students in Kamagayan as part of this initiative.
I hope the program to rebrand Junquera will succeed. Bringing together the barangays and the hotel in close coordination with community extension service offices of UV, USJR, USC and perhaps the University of Cebu, is a pioneering endeavor. Should they prove rebranding a street with an undeserved reputation can succeed, I am pretty sure this project will serve as a model for other local government units or even for other parts of Cebu which need to revitalize and rehabilitate their communities.
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Dear friends of CELP, It’s been a while since our last Washington Water Watch and CELP has been busy working to protect and restore Washington’s waters. This year is shaping up to be a critical year for water in Washington, as the Department of Ecology just declared a drought in three watersheds: The Upper Yakima, Okanogan, and Methow. This could be bad news for fish and our population of Resident Orca’s.
March was unprecedentedly dry, and it is likely to only get worse from here. The coming months are forecast to be warmer and drier than normal, putting more and more areas around the state at risk. The warmer the summers get with Climate Change; the more frequently droughts are likely to occur. The only way we can proactively combat this is to start planning now and encourage the state to prioritize sound sustainable water policy. All this makes CELP’s work more critical than ever, but our work would not be possible without supporters like you. We rely on our generous donations from our members and supporters to hold our lawmakers and agencies accountable for protecting Washington’s rivers and streams. Renew your membership today on our secure website.
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Columbia River Treaty Negotiating Team out of step with Northwest Values
Sept 6 in Portland:
Northwest residents encouraged to speak with U.S. State Department at “Town Hall” meeting on future of the Columbia River and Treaty
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A broad coalition of conservation, sports, and fishing organizations today delivered a letter to the State Department asking for important changes to the 1964 Columbia River Treaty, which the United States and Canada are currently renegotiating. They are also encouraging residents to speak on behalf of the Columbia River’s future at a State Department “Townhall meeting” to be held in Portland on September 6, 5:30-7 p.m., at the Bonneville Power Administration.
“The renegotiation of the treaty offers a unique opportunity to improve conditions in the river by ensuring treaty dams are operated to provide sufficient flows for the express purpose of helping salmon and the river’s ecosystem,” said Greg Haller, Executive Director for Pacific Rivers. “River health, ‘Ecosystem-based function’ needs to be added to the Columbia River Treaty, co-equal with the two existing primary purposes of the treaty: hydropower production and flood risk management. Millions of residents and electrical ratepayers expect balanced management of the region’s hydroelectric facilities to ensure salmon populations recover and thrive. The treaty is an important prong of a basin-wide strategy for salmon recovery and we are asking the State Department for a course correction to improve river conditions in the U.S. and Canada for the benefit of fish, wildlife and people.”
In a letter sent to the lead negotiator, Jill Smail, U.S. Department of State, the requests include:
Protect and enhance the immense value of the Columbia Basin ecosystem by recognizing it as an authorized purpose of a modernized treaty, co-equal with flood risk management and hydropower generation.
Expand the group that oversees Treaty implementation, called the “U.S. Entity” to include appropriate representation for ecosystem function. Now the U.S. Entity consists only of Bonneville Power Administration (hydropower) and the Army Corps of Engineers (flood risk management).
Create advisory committees of affected stakeholders and sovereigns to support the U.S. Entity in treaty implementation.
Reform the U.S. negotiating team to ensure balanced representation of the issues involved, including giving a voice to Ecosystem-based Function.
Support a review of flood risk management that is essential for better managing the system of dams to protect river health while protecting Portland and Vancouver, Washington.
Restore the bi-national Collaborative Modeling Workgroup to establish a shared information based so that both nations together can make informed decisions about the Columbia River.
The Columbia River Treaty was originally ratified in 1964 to reduce the risk of floods in downstream cities like Portland, Oregon and to develop additional hydropower capacity. The Treaty resulted in building four major dams, three in British Columbia and one in Montana. Notably, consideration of the health of the Columbia River and its fish and wildlife populations were not included in the original Treaty. Not only did the construction of the dams result in the displacement of people, economies and cultures as a result of permanently flooded lands, it had a profound effect on salmon and other fish and wildlife species – and the communities that rely on them – on both sides of the border.
“For 17 days the world watched as the mother orca Talequah carrying her dead calf for a thousand miles, reminding us how precious and fragile is life that depends on Columbia River salmon,” said John Osborn, a physician who coordinates Sierra Club’s Columbia River Future Project. “River temperatures are rising, returning salmon face ever more massive die-offs, glaciers are melting and forests are burning. In this time of climate change we call upon the State Department to represent the values of the people of the Northwest in protecting and restoring the Columbia River. Water is life. ”
At its heart, Ecosystem-based Function is a way to achieve a healthier river and healthier fish and wildlife populations. It means operational changes that provide additional water during low and moderate flow years in the spring and summer to increase survival of juvenile salmon migrating downstream to the Pacific Ocean. It also includes fish passage and reintroduction of salmon above Grand Coulee Dam and into Canada, and to stop using the Upper Columbia River as a sacrifice zone.
More about the U.S. State Department’s Town Hall meeting in Portland:
The Columbia River Treaty Town Hall meeting is open to the public, and will take place in Portland at the Bonneville Power Administration’s Rates Hearing Room 1201 Llyod Blvd, Suite 200 (11th Avenue/Holladay Park Max light rail stop), from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This Townhall will follow the August 15–16 round of negotiations on the Treaty regime in British Columbia and take place in advance of the October 17–18 round of negotiations in Portland, Oregon. For more information on the Town Hall, including call-in details, please see the Federal Register Notice.
Columbia River Letter to the U.S. Department of State
State Dept “Town Hall” meeting on Columbia River Treaty, future
The United States and Canada are negotiating the Columbia River Treaty. We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to help protect and restore the Columbia River. On September 6, the U.S. State Department will give you an opportunity to provide input. Please take time to attend this Town Hall meeting – for the River and life that depends on the River.
When: Sept 6, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Where: Portland, Bonneville Power Administration’s Rates Hearing Room, 1201 Llyod Blvd, Suite 200 (across the street from the current BPA Building)
Treaty Town Hall: messages for the State Department
Below are suggested messages that may help you in developing your own personal message to deliver to the State Department’s negotiating team for the Columbia River Treaty:
RIGHTING HISTORIC WRONGS. On June 14, 1940, 10,000 indigenous people from throughout the Northwest gathered at Kettle Falls for the “Ceremony of Tears” to mourn the loss of ancestral fishing grounds soon to be flooded by Grand Coulee dam. Adding Ecosystem-based Function to the Treaty as a primary purpose would include restoring salmon above Grand Coulee dam. (Credit: UW Special Collections)
(1) “Ecosystem-based Function” must be included as a new primary purpose of a new Columbia River Treaty – co-equal with power production and flood management. At its heart, ecosystem-based function is a way to achieve a healthier river and healthier fish and wildlife populations. It means operational changes that provide additional water during low and moderate flow years in the spring and summer to increase survival of juvenile salmon migrating downstream to the Pacific Ocean. It also includes fish passage and reintroduction of salmon above Grand Coulee Dam and into Canada. The world watched as the mother orca Talequah carried her dead baby for 17 days 1,000 miles, calling attention to the starving orcas of Puget Sound — and once again underscoring the importance of Columbia River salmon.
(2) The River needs a voice during Treaty negotiations. The U.S. should add a representative for “ecosystem function” to the Treaty negotiating team.
(3) The U.S. and Canada have excluded tribes and First Nations from the negotiating teams — and this needs to be corrected. Under the laws of both countries it is clear this this Treaty impacts the shared resources held by tribes in the U.S., as well as those resources in Canada to which rights and title have not been extinguished.
(4) The River needs a voice during Treaty implementation. U.S. should add a new, third representative to the “U.S. Entity” that can represent the river’s ecosystem needs during treaty implementation.
The U.S. Entity today includes just two federal dam agencies – BPA and ACOE – neither has a record as a responsible steward of natural resources like wild salmon and steelhead, lamprey and other species. The U.S. Entity must include a new voice for the river and its health.
(5) Citizen input is needed. The U.S. should create an advisory committee to the U.S. Entity that allows stakeholders to understand and share information about the operation of the Treaty dams, and their impacts on communities and natural resources.
(6) Make informed decisions using a shared, transparent information base. Create a common analytic base between both nations and all those affected by re-establishing the collaborative modeling workgroup.
(7) We need best options for flood risk management. Residents in the greater Portland and Vancouver metropolitan area want to understand the costs, benefits and tradeoffs from today’s flood management strategies – as well as possible alternatives. In order to prepare, the U.S. Army Corps should conduct a basin-wide review of flood risk management.
Greg Haller (Pacific Rivers) greg@pacificrivers.org
John Osborn MD (Ethics & Treaty Project) john@waterplanet.ws 509.939-1290
Patagonia to host Tribal film
Film: United by Water
July 12, 7 p.m. Patagonia Seattle 2100 1st Ave, Seattle
RSVP BEFORE and receive a free raffle ticket at the door.
Orcas depend on Columbia River salmon for survival.
Seattle is powered partly by Columbia River dams.
The Trump and Trudeau Administrations are excluding tribes, First Nations from treaty negotiations about the future of the Columbia River.
This film is timely, and we encourage you to attend and meet with tribal leaders. Indigenous people need our help.
“The River is sacred. People will put aside their differences when it comes to the River and bringing back the salmon.”
– the late Virgil Seymour (1958 – 2016) Arrow Lakes (Sinixt) Facilitator for The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT) presents this documentary about canoe journeys on the Upper Columbia River, using dugout canoes from 800-hundred-year-old cedar logs, and the emotional historic landing at Kettle Falls, among the world’s richest salmon-fishing sites flooded when Grand Coulee Dam was constructed.
DR Michel and John Sirois of UCUT will talk about work of tribes (US) and First Nations (Canada), including the need for Columbia River tribes to be at the negotiation table as the U.S. Dept of State re-negotiates with Canada the Columbia River Treaty. Negotiations began May 29 in Washington DC. We’ll have postcards to write/send to our Congressional representatives, asking them to hold accountable the State Department to give tribes a place at the table, and give a voice to the River and salmon. We hope to see you there.
Watch the trailer.
More about “United by Water”
76 years after the Ceremony of Tears, and the last salmon at Kettle Falls – United by Water reaches back, reconnecting with time immemorial to help us unite together for the River and for salmon.
On June 14, 1940, thousands of Native Americans from throughout the Northwest gathered at Kettle Falls – thunderous waterfalls and one of the world’s richest salmon fishing sites – for a three-day “Ceremony of Tears” to mourn the loss of their ancestral fishing grounds, soon to be flooded by Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. “United by Water” documents the journey of five tribal communities to Kettle Falls, the fishing site of their ancestors, in the growing struggle to return salmon to the Upper Columbia and reclaim the lives and future for indigenous people.
The film, produced by the Upper Columbia United Tribes, headquartered in Spokane, shows breathtaking archival footage of the last salmon ceremony on the Columbia prior to the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. It then documents the inspiring 2016 journey on the river – the building of the dugout canoes, the physical and spiritual journey on the Columbia River, and finally the emotional historic landing at Kettle Falls.
United by Water will show at Patagonia Seattle on July 12, 7 p.m.
Representatives from the Upper Columbia United Tribes who appear in the film, D.R. Michel and John Sirois, will speak after the screening about their work, the renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty, the impact of the dams on salmon, and the annual canoe journeys on the River, utilizing dug out canoes.
The award-winning documentary highlights the need to recognize the importance of reconnecting to the Columbia River and restoring salmon runs. Not only does the film bring attention to the historic wrongs that blocked salmon from the Upper Columbia River, but it shares the current efforts by UCUT and other tribes (US) and First Nations (Canada) to bring forward tribal traditions to help better understand what is lacking in our contemporary society. We need to forge a deeper connection to the waters that bring life to our communities.
The film comes at a critical time as the US government has begun renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty and indigenous nations are advocating to the U.S. State Department their rightful place at the negotiation table to give voice to the Columbia River, salmon, and people of the river.
Partners of this film screening include the Upper Columbia United Tribes, Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Sierra Club’s Columbia River Future Project, Save Our Wild Salmon, Columbia Institute for Water Policy, and the Backbone Campaign. Admission is by donation to the Backbone Campaign, with no one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will help go to support the Tribes’ River Warriors project.
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Remembering Vanport Flood’s double tragedy
News Release: May 23, 2018
4:05 p.m. Memorial Day: A moment of silence to remember the double tragedy of the Vanport Flood
Canadians, impacted by resulting Treaty, ask Americans to rethink flood risk management in the lower Columbia River Basin
Canadian-United States Treaty Negotiations to start May 29 – the day following Vanport Flood memorial
Reporter Contacts:
Martin Carver, Upper Columbia Basin Environmental Collaborative aqua@netidea.com 250.354-7563
Mindy Smith, MD, Columbia River Roundtable smithm69@msu.edu 517.231-2458
John Osborn, MD, Columbia River Roundtable john@waterplanet.ws 509.939-1290
Without warning, on Memorial Day 1948, a combination of heavy winter snowfall, warm temperatures, and spring rainfall sent torrents down the Columbia River, breaking through a railroad embankment serving as a levee, and destroying Oregon’s second largest city, Vanport, near Portland. Built in the floodplain of the Columbia River close to the confluence with the Willamette River, Vanport provided housing for thousands of low-income people. The floodwaters killed at least fifteen people, left 18,000 others homeless, and washed away the community.
The governments of the United States and Canada seized on the Vanport flood to promote a treaty that would authorize dams upstream in British Columbia and Montana, eventually forcing thousands of residents from their homes, and permanently flooding vast river valleys of the Upper Columbia River Basin. Particularly devastating for indigenous people who had lived in the Columbia River Valley for thousands of years was loss of burial grounds and cultural sites, compounding the loss of massive salmon runs caused by Grand Coulee dam. And now, on the 70th anniversary of the Vanport Flood, the United States and Canada are entering into negotiations to modernize that agreement known as the Columbia River Treaty.
“Recognizing the double tragedy impacting thousands of people in Vanport and subsequently in our Canadian and First Nations communities in the Upper Columbia River, we ask for a moment of silence on Memorial Day,” said Mindy Smith, a physician living near Trail, British Columbia. “We also ask that each Memorial Day going forward, we pause to remember and reflect on this double disaster and how people of the Basin are bound together by more than a treaty, but by our need and responsibility to seek equity of benefits and costs in river management.”
The Vanport Flood and its devastating consequences for the upper Columbia River Basin was the focus of a 2016 conference, One River – Ethics Matter, hosted by the University of Portland. This was part of the conference series of Columbia River reconciliation based on the 2001 Columbia River Pastoral Letter by the Roman Catholic Bishops of the international watershed. Highlights of the Portland conference focusing on the Vanport Flood can be viewed on a short film: Portland: One River – Ethics Matter.
“As negotiators for the United States and Canada prepare to sit down to discuss the future of the River, the double tragedy of the Vanport Flood needs to be remembered,” said Martin Carver of Nelson B.C. and coordinator of the Upper Columbia Basin Environmental Collaborative. “With continued floodplain development in the Portland area and elsewhere, and with escalating risks from climate change, the scope of the floodplain problem going forward will only increase. Americans should not continue to rely on the devastation of upstream ecosystems and communities to allow for downstream floodplain development in Portland. That is fundamentally unjust and cannot be sustained.”
“The Columbia River is one river and ethics matter,” said John Osborn, physician and coordinator of the Columbia River Roundtable. “Past decisions have located people and structures in harm’s way by building in downriver floodplains while permanently flooding upriver valleys with dams and reservoirs – once biologically and culturally rich river valleys now wastelands. The Treaty dams are not going away. But we need to rethink dam management to improve river health and restore salmon runs while protecting communities. That is a compelling legacy of the Vanport Flood double tragedy.”
The moment of silence is scheduled for 4:05p.m. PDT on Memorial Day (U.S.) The next day, May 29, in Washington D.C., the United States and Canada will begin formal negotiations to modernize the Columbia River Treaty. (link)
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Negotiating Columbia River Treaty to begin in early 2018
Conservation, fishing and faith groups applaud announcement
December 11, 2017 – For Immediate Release
Greg Haller, Conservation Director at Pacific Rivers greg@pacificrivers.org
Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director at Save our Wild Salmon Coalition joseph@wildsalmon.org
On December 7th the U.S. Department of State announced that formal negotiations with Canada over the fate of the fifty-three year old U.S.-Canada Columbia River Treaty will begin in early 2018.
A broad coalition of conservation, fishing and religious organizations representing hundreds of thousands of Pacific Northwest residents, hailed the announcement.
“Conservation and fishing groups are encouraged that the two countries are moving forward with Treaty negotiations. Modernizing the Treaty to improve the health of the river and communities on both sides of the border is not just an opportunity, but also a critical need given the challenges salmon face in the 21st century,” said Samantha (Sam) Mace of the Save Our wild Salmon Coalition.
The Columbia River Treaty was originally ratified in 1964 to reduce the risk of floods in downstream cities like Portland, Oregon and to develop additional hydropower capacity. The Treaty accomplished these goals through the construction of three large storage reservoirs in British Columbia (Duncan, Mica and Keenleyside), which added 15.5 million acre-feet of storage capacity. Canada built Mica Dam larger than the Treaty required, adding another 5 million acre feet of non-Treaty storage for power production.
The Treaty also spurred the construction of Libby Dam in Montana, which added an additional 5 million acre feet flood storage space and hydropower capacity. All told, these projects doubled the storage capacity of the basin – and dramatically reduced the river’s natural spring flows. Notably, consideration of the health of the Columbia River and its fish and wildlife populations were not included in the original Treaty. Not only did the construction of the dams result in the displacement of people, economies and cultures as a result of permanently flooded lands, it had a profound effect on salmon and other fish and wildlife species – and the communities that rely on them – on both sides of the border.
While the Treaty has no formal end date, provisions that govern joint flood risk management operations are set to expire in 2024, which would have major ramifications for how reservoirs in the U.S. part of the basin are managed. Additionally, U.S.-based utilities are keen to reduce the amount of power they deliver to Canada each year as required by the Treaty.
Conservation, fishing and faith organizations, on the other hand, view the pending negotiations as an opportunity to include “ecosystem-based function” – or health of the river – as a formal component of a modernized Treaty, on equal footing with flood risk management and hydropower production. Including ecosystem-based function would mean improved river flows to aid salmon’s out-migration to the ocean and improve water quality. It would also mean improved fish passage and reintroduction of salmon and steelhead into areas made inaccessible to salmon by dams in the U.S. and Canada.
Treaty modernization also creates an opportunity to improve the governance of the Treaty to allow a more transparent and inclusive process for negotiations and implementation.
“The Columbia River Treaty is often hailed as a model of transboundary river management. Adding ecosystem-based function and ensuring the governance of the river is transparent and inclusive will truly make the Treaty a model for international river management in the 21st Century”, said Greg Haller of Pacific Rivers. “We aim to prod both countries to achieve that goal.”
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U.S. State Department:
Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty Regime
The United States and Canada will begin negotiations to modernize the landmark Columbia River Treaty regime in early 2018. Certain provisions of the Treaty—a model of transboundary natural resource cooperation since 1964—are set to expire in 2024.
The Columbia River’s drainage basin is roughly the size of France and includes parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and British Columbia. The Treaty’s flood risk and hydropower operations provide substantial benefits to millions of people on both sides of the border. The Treaty has also facilitated additional benefits such as supporting the river’s ecosystem, irrigation, municipal water use, industrial use, navigation, and recreation.
For further information, please email WHAPress@state.gov.
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/12/276354.htm
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Washington Water Watch: November Edition
In this issue, an article on recent victory in court on the Leavenworth Hatchery Clean Water Act Case, a story on CELP’s founding director, Rachael Osborn, being recognized by AWRA-WA with their award for Outstanding Contribution to Water Resources, a welcome to CELP’s newest staff member, Emma Kilkelly, information about our December CLE, and more.
Read the November edition of Washington Water Watch here.
Healing the Columbia River
News Advisory: For an evening event in Seattle on September 28, 2017
An evening to discuss modernizing an international river Treaty
to sustain a river and its people in the 21st Century
To contact Speakers:
D.R. Michel – Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT) Executive Director dr@ucut-nsn.org (509) 954-7631
John Sirois – UCUT Committee Coordinator john@ucut-nsn.org 509.953-5272
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes – author, City of Nelson BC Cultural Ambassador 2017 edpearkes@gmail.com (250) 505-8069 (925) 900-8808
The Rev. John Rosenberg, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America rosenbjp@plu.edu (253) 538-6185
Joseph Bogaard – Save Our Wild Salmon (SOS) joseph@wildsalmon.org (206) 286-4455
“Tribes in the United States and First Nations in Canada suffered profound damage and loss from Columbia and Snake River dams. Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty is a critical opportunity for Canada and the United States to join together in acknowledging damage done, right historic wrongs, and commit to stewardship of this great river in the face of climate change.” – John Sirois, Upper Columbia United Tribes, Committee Coordinator
“The Columbia River Treaty is a template for taking without giving anything in return. Many people are unaware of the great harm caused to ecosystems and human culture in British Columbia. We are at a turning moment, one asking us to form a reciprocal relationship to heal the river.” – Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author, A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change
“Our faith teaches us that the Columbia River is not a machine to be used up and thrown away. Instead it is a sacramental commons, a gift from God, valuable in itself as a living entity. We can take fish from the River for the benefit of the people, especially Native communities, as long as we do not destroy that which sustains its life. The well-being of the salmon, especially, is central to the health of the River and of our common home.” – The Rev. John Rosenberg, ordained pastor, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
“The Upper Columbia River has – and continues to be – the most impacted and least mitigated by dam-building in the Columbia River Basin. As Columbia River Treaty assessments continue, it is essential that sustainable natural-capital value be given serious consideration in actions that impact the river. We must take this opportunity to modernize the Columbia River Treaty for the benefit of all.” – D.R. Michel Upper Columbia United Tribes, Executive Director
What: These four people will share their unique perspectives and stories about how the 50-year-old Columbia River Treaty has impacted river communities and offer their insights into what an updated, modernized Columbia River Treaty must do to right historic wrongs — sustaining and restoring the Columbia River and the people who rely on the river in this time of climate change.
Fifty years ago, the United States and Canada ratified the Columbia River Treaty to jointly manage hydropower production and flood management. Our region’s dam-building era, of which the Treaty is a cornerstone, has delivered important benefits to the Northwest – including Seattle. But the Treaty has also caused catastrophic harm to the river’s health, and communities on both sides of the international border.
Where: Seattle Mountaineers Building
7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA
When: 5:30 – reception with light appetizers and drinks; 6:30 – 8:30 three speakers and panel discussion/audience questions; event concludes at 9:00
Suggested donation: $5 (donations to cover our costs are gratefully accepted)
RSVP: healingthecolumbia.eventbrite.com
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Washington Water Watch: June 2017 Edition
In this issue, find pictures of our recent Celebrate Water event, an update on the Spokane River rule, links to CELP’s Columbia River Treaty media and document library, and an opportunity to speak up for the Hanford Reach National Monument!
Read the June issue of Water Watch here.
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Northwest, British Columbia need to stand together to modernize the Columbia River Treaty
News Release – June 22, 2017
Conservation and faith groups respond to seven NW Members of Congress:
Yes – negotiations need to move forward – but include restoring the Columbia’s health and avoid threatening Canada with treaty termination.
Contacts –
Greg Haller (Pacific Rivers Council) 503.228.3555 greg@pacificrivers.org
Joseph Bogaard (Save Our wild Salmon Coalition) 206.300-1003 joseph@wildsalmon.org
The Rev. W. Thomas Soeldner (Earth Ministry) 509.270-6995 waltsoe@gmail.com
John Osborn MD (Ethics & Treaty Project) 509.939-1290 john@waterplanet.ws
Portland – Responding to a letter to President Trump signed by seven Members of Congress (MOCs) from the Northwest, today Northwest conservation and faith groups encouraged the United States to work for restoring the health of the Columbia and avoid threatening Canada with termination of the Columbia River Treaty. The United States currently has the authority to begin negotiations but the federal government in Canada has not finalized its position. The provincial elections in British Columbia and efforts to install Provincial leadership in the wake of the tight vote last month have also contributed to the delay in finalizing the Canadian federal government’s position.
“The people of the Columbia River Basin – in both nations – can ‘hang together or hang separately,’” said Joseph Bogaard of Save Our wild Salmon. “We support moving forward to negotiate a modern Columbia River Treaty. But terminating the Treaty, or threatening to do so, is counter-productive. Our leaders in both nations need to work together, in good faith, to manage the Columbia River for the Common Good.”
The Columbia River is an international river managed jointly by the United States and Canada using the Columbia River Treaty. The Canadian portion of the Columbia River Basin is water rich, comprising only about 15 percent of the Basin’s land area, but producing about 40 percent of the River Basin’s water. Two centuries ago when Lewis & Clark and David Thompson first greeted indigenous people of the river basin, the Columbia was among the richest salmon rivers on earth. Since then, large dams and reservoirs have transformed the river into an integrated hydropower system.
On June 21, seven members of Congress sent a letter to President Trump, outlining the history of the Columbia River Treaty, encouraging treaty negotiation and threatening treaty termination. The MOC letter does not include several important historical elements, including that communities in the Columbia Basin, especially tribes and First Nations, were never consulted in writing the international river treaty. Nor does the MOC letter mention that the benefits of damming the Columbia River for hydropower and flood risk management came with wrenching costs to salmon and people who depend on the river.
“The United States has come a very long way to try work with Canada to right historic wrongs and support river stewardship,” said John Osborn, a Northwest physician with the Ethics & Treaty Project. “We continue to encourage the Treaty Power Group and elected officials that the way forward is working in good faith and through respectful dialogue with our neighbors to the north to promote the Common Good — including river stewardship and passage for salmon now blocked by dams.”
In 2013 following years of discussions and thousands of letters from concerned citizens, federal agencies recommended that the State Department include restoring the river’s health (“Ecosystem Management”) as a primary purpose of an updated treaty, along with hydropower and flood control. All four Northwest states, 15 Columbia Basin tribes, fishermen and environmentalists support that recommendation. In 2016 the United States began encouraging Canada to negotiate.
“Citizens of the Columbia Basin care about power bills but also care about stewardship, social justice, and advancing the Common Good,” said The Rev. W. Thomas Soeldner, a retired Lutheran minister and educator. “Threatening Canada with treaty termination carries great risks to all life in the Basin now and into the future — including deep drawdowns of U.S. reservoirs in Idaho and elsewhere in the Basin, which will negatively affect the Columbia River ecosystem and power generation.”
The Treaty Power Group’s, and some congressional members’ willingness to threaten termination is short-sighted and undermines the goodwill and constructive approach that is needed to address the full range of issues that must be addressed in a modern river treaty. If the Treaty is terminated, then the U.S. will be required to shoulder the entire burden of flood risk management with U.S. dams, with no assistance from assured flood storage from Canada. This will cost the U.S. billions of dollars in flood protection and recompense from its own dams — and destroy coordinated and cooperative U.S. and Canada flood risk management that has existed as an international model for more than 50 years.
“Protecting and restoring healthy salmon populations in the Columbia Basin represents an unparalleled opportunity for our region to invest in the economy, create family-wage jobs and improve our quality of life and the health of our environment,” said Greg Haller, Conservation Director for the Pacific Rivers Council. “Healthy salmon populations deliver valuable and irreplaceable benefits to our region’s economy and ecology including thousands of jobs in guiding, retail sales, manufacturing, tourism, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”
Members of Congress (7). Letter to President Trump regarding importance of renegotiating Treaty, including notice of termination. June 21, 2017.
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Veröffentlicht am Januar 14, 2020 Januar 15, 2020 von Hannes Daxbacher
The myth of the self-regulating institution of ‚pope emeritus‘
It is not an accident that one of the most important social theorists, Max Weber, decided to study the dynamics of political and bureaucratic power after spending some time in post-Vatican I Rome. The papacy is about the history of the growth of a papal apparatus more than a speculative theology of the papal ministry. There is no possible understanding of the evolution of the Petrine ministry, of the office of the bishop of Rome as pope of the Roman Catholic Church, without understanding the constellation of offices, ministries, prelatures, and ecclesiastical or secular appendixes revolving around the successor of Peter.
Now, one of the most important recent additions in the constellation of offices that orbit the papal office is the so-called „pope emeritus,“ a title that Benedict XVI created for himself after his decision to resign. He made the decision some time in 2012 and announced it to the world — in a speech delivered in Latin — on Feb. 11, 2013.
The „emeritus“ as an institution was created on the fly in those hectic weeks right before the conclave that elected Benedict’s successor, Pope Francis. It was created without the usually and frustratingly slow, partly visible and partly invisible process of making structural changes in the Vatican. The new institution was largely improvised, with no recent tradition to count on, and entirely left to the „pope emeritus“ to regulate himself.
The issue is the freedom of the bishop of Rome in his ministry, a ministry of unity of the church, free from undue interference external or internal.
The conclave that elected Francis was extraordinary also because usually the election of the new „father“ follows a few days after the burial of the predecessor: something like the demise of the father that creates the necessary space for a new one. This could not happen in 2013.
More: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/myth-self-regulating-institution-pope-emeritus
[Massimo Faggioli is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.]
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Getting Started: Laura Catalano
September 30, 2013 by Kevin D. Hendricks
Laura Catalano is a brand new volunteer in church communication. She started volunteering with communications at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Creve Coeur, Mo., earlier this year. But she’s hardly inexperienced. She’s a stay-at-home mom, has a background in environmental consultation and has volunteer communication experience going back to a ministry website in 1997. Laura also blogs for the Episcopal Church Foundation’s Vital Practices, started EpiscopalShare.org to make the Book of Common Prayer tweetable and share social media tips.
You’re just getting started yourself, so what’s one thing you wish you were better prepared for?
Laura: Managing social media accounts is a big time commitment. It only takes a few minutes to post each day, but monitoring the accounts is constant. I rarely have problems with Internet “trolls,” but I like to deal with them promptly, so I monitor my accounts several times a day.
What’s your biggest headache so far? How did you get over it (or get used to it)?
Laura: The little bugs and quirks of Facebook annoy me at times. With the Edgerank filter algorithm, I am never sure exactly how many people will see our posts. When checking Facebook with my mobile app, I can only comment on St. Tim’s posts as the admin, not as myself.
What was your first great success as a church communicator? What made it work so well?
Laura: The EpiscopalShare.org project has really taken off and grown more than I expected. The Episcopal Prayers Facebook page has almost 850 likes and 350 followers on Twitter in just four months. For the Episcopal Prayers Facebook page, I think the key to success was identifying what is currently popular for sharing on Facebook now (images with text) and adapting that idea to classic prayers. It worked!
What was your first great failure? What lessons did you learn?
Laura: I don’t know if I’ve had one big failure, but a constant string of bloopers. I make a lot of typos. I mess up titles and misspell names of priests. I have mis-quoted the Bible. Sometimes, I think of a good question to start a conversation on Facebook and I get nothing in reply, just ”crickets chirping.” I have attempted to “live tweet” highlights of our worship service with three kids (ages 1, 5 and 7) in-tow (and my husband was out of town)—it was pure craziness in the pew! I have also gone to church to take photos and video with a nearly dead iPhone battery and no charger.
My biggest blooper: I referred to “National Episcopal Church Organizations” in a blog post, and the Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, wrote a comment on the post reminding me that we are an international organization. I corrected it, but you can see the comment here.
Thankfully, there is a delete button and most people have been forgiving of the mistakes.
What’s been the greatest help to you as a church communicator so far?
Laura: I have many friends and mentors who are helping me. There are seven members of the communications team at St. Tim’s and we all share ideas. My friend, Danielle, at St. Tim’s, is an online community manager for Adoptive Families Magazine. She is the one who first sent me a list of resources about getting conversations started on Facebook, and is often one of the first people I ask Facebook questions. I have received a lot of help through Meredith Gould’s #ChSocM chat group on Twitter. They are the reason I decided to branch out away from just using Facebook to try Instagram, Pinterest, and Google+. Beth Felice, director of communications for the Diocese of Missouri, has also given me a lot of direction and guidance. Most recently, our new preist-in-charge, the Rev. Marvin Foltz, joined St. Tim’s and brought many fresh ideas for using Facebook from his work at his previous parish in Hawaii.
How can you make progress when you have little or no budget?
Laura: I use try to use free or inexpensive tools. I have several photo enhancement apps on my iPhone that I use to create graphics. I think the most expensive of those apps was $4. If you create good content, it will be shared “organically” without being part of a paid promotion.
How do you deal with a congregation that’s stuck in a ‘That’s how we’ve always done it,’ mindset and is resistant to trying new things?
Laura: Thankfully, I have not run into that attitude at St. Tim’s. Many members of all ages are active on social media, and several manage Facebook pages for their own businesses or organizations. If anything, people tell me that wish they had more time learn how to do more on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
As a newbie, where do you need more help? Have you been able to get that help yet?
Laura: I could use more help with Twitter. At St. Tim’s, I think we could do more to reach our community neighbors with Twitter, and I am trying some new ideas to do that better.
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Meredith Gould
Delighted by and with this “Getting Started” interview. Over the years, I’ve seen people show up in this “space” and then disappear. Laura Leist Catalano burst on the Twitter and #chsocm scene like a bright shooting star that never flames out! (Carolyn Clement is another one to watch in the world of church social media.)
Laura is smart, creative, and admirably energetic. Even more significant, Laura understands the value of using social media to build community and does so by actively engaging with others where *they* are. I learn from her which, trust me, is something that’s treasured by this life-long learner.
Dave Shrein
Great profile for Laura! I love how she defines her failures as bloopers. I think that describes so much of what we all encounter… not usually outright failure, but a series of bloopers that, fortunately for us, don’t get capture on a real and then sold on NFL.com for all to see :-)
Thanks for taking the time to participate in the Getting Started series.
Steven Fogg
Cheering you on Laura!
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The main task of the Sixth Sobor, held in New York on October 5-8, 1937, was to assess the initiatives undertaken by Metropolitan THEOPHILUS since the last council. In an effort toward jurisdictional unity, Bishop ADAM (Philipovsky) and his Carpatho-Russian Diocese had been accepted into the Metropolia. Moreover, Metropolitan THEOPHILUS had traveled to Serbia where, under the leadership of the Serbian Patriarch, an agreement was signed by the leading hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) along with other exiled Russian hierarchs throughout the world forging a peaceful coexistence. Under this agreement, the American Church was to retain her administrative autonomy while maintaining close relations with the ROCOR Synod and being accountable to it only in matters of faith. The parallel jurisdictions of the Metropolia and ROCOR were thus eliminated and the four ROCOR hierarchs in North America along with their clergy and parishes were integrated into the Metropolia. The vote of the Sixth Sobor on this loose affiliation with the ROCOR was as follows: 105 for, 9 against, 122 abstentions. The large number of abstentions reveals that there was much apprehension on this issue at the council. However, in approving the matter, the council delegates showed respect and obedience to Metropolitan THEOPHILUS’ primatial leadership.
The council also decided to open St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York and St. Tikhon’s Pastoral School in South Canaan, PA. As the previous seminary had been forced to close in 1923, this decision filled an educational vacuum and assured the systematic training of the Church’s future clergy.
In addition, the council continued the ongoing development of the Church’s administrative structure through the legislation of statute articles defining the role of the Metropolitan, the Council of Bishops, the Diocesan Council and the dioceses.
At the Sixth Sobor, the vote of the delegates displayed a strong desire to maintain the absolute administrative autonomy of the North American Church (commonly known as the “Metropolia”). The establishment of educational institutions indicated a long-term vision for the future, and the continuing development of the statute demonstrated a growing organizational maturity.
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Tender Confirmed, Rights At Risk Verifying Netsweeper in Bahrain
By Jakub Dalek, Ron Deibert, Bill Marczak, Sarah McKune, Helmi Noman, Irene Poetranto, and Adam Senft
Internet filtering technology developed by Netsweeper, Inc. has been identified on the networks of nine Bahrain-based ISPs.
Testing on the ISP Batelco shows that at least one of the Netsweeper installations is being used to filter political content, including content relating to human rights, oppositional political websites, Shiite websites, local and regional news sources, and content critical of religion.
These installations appear to have become active between May and July 2016, a few months after the release of a public tender by Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in January 2016 indicating Netsweeper won a bid to provide a ‘national website filtering solution.’
Our testing suggests that Netsweeper installations in Bahrain are communicating with and receiving updates from Netsweeper Inc.-controlled infrastructure.
Bahrain has been in a period of extended political crisis since a stifled uprising in 2011, and the Bahraini government has engaged in a series of repressive tactics against oppositional political figures and human rights activists, including torture, arbitrary arrests and the revocation of oppositional figures’ citizenship.
The sale of technology used to censor political speech and other forms of legitimate expression, to a state with a highly problematic human rights record, raises serious questions about the corporate social responsibility practices of Netsweeper, Inc.
In January 2016, a public tender appeared on the website of the Bahrain Tender Board that indicated Netsweeper, Inc. had successfully won a bid to provide a ‘National website filtering solution’ for the country. Bahrain has a long track record of censoring critical political speech and opposition voices, both online and off, and the country has been implicated in a broad range of human rights violations, from arbitrary arrests to torture to violent crackdowns on peaceful demonstrations. The sale of filtering technology by a Canadian company to Bahrain, used to block access to information and restrict freedom of speech, thus raises important questions of corporate social responsibility. The sale comes at an interesting time: Canada has in recent months sought to expand ties with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional intergovernmental partnership involving Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In May 2016, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs met with GCC representatives, and “looked forward to expanded GCC-Canada relations”, including “further cooperation in the social, economic, educational, cultural and scientific fields, and human rights.”
We set out to investigate the presence of Netsweeper installations in Bahrain using a variety of network measurement techniques to identify filtering and the presence of middleboxes for implementing filtering. Part 1 of this report describes prior research on the use of Netsweeper technology in countries with questionable human rights records, and describes the current political and legal context in Bahrain. Part 2 of this report describes the results of our technical research on the use of Netsweeper technology in Bahrain.
This report is part of our ongoing research to gather empirical evidence on the use of Internet filtering technology in national jurisdictions, like Bahrain, where human rights are routinely violated with impunity. To date, very few Internet filtering companies acknowledge the human rights offending implications of their sales and services, and Netsweeper in particular appears to have no public-facing policies or statements on these issues. The aim of this research report is to confirm the presence of Netsweeper’s technology in Bahrain using network measurement techniques, describe how the technology functions and is configured within the country, and then test for access to a range of content that may be targeted for filtering.
On September 8, 2016, we sent a letter to Netsweeper, Inc. with questions regarding its provision of technology and services to Bahrain and its associated human rights due diligence. We committed to publishing the company’s response in full alongside this report. We have published a copy of the letter here. As of September 20, 2016, we have not received a reply.
Prior Citizen Lab Research on Netsweeper
Netsweeper, Inc. is a privately-owned technology company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, whose primary offering is an Internet content filtering product and service. The company has customers ranging from educational institutions and corporations to national-level Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies. Internet filtering is widely used on institutional networks, such as schools and libraries, and networks of private companies, to restrict access to a wide range of content. However, when such filtering tools are used to implement state-mandated Internet filtering at the national level, questions around human rights — specifically access to information and freedom of expression — are implicated.
Citizen Lab has developed a methodology for identifying installations of filtering products operating on large public ISPs. Using a combination of network scanning and in-network testing, we are able to confirm the use of these filtering products and enumerate what types content are being blocked. In doing so, questions frequently arise regarding the corporate social responsibility practices of the companies developing this technology.
Prior research by the OpenNet Initiative (2003-2013), of which Citizen Lab was a part, identified the existence of Netsweeper’s filtering technology on ISPs operating in the Middle East, including Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen, and Kuwait. We outlined evidence of Netsweeper’s products on the networks of Pakistan’s leading ISP, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), in a report published in 2013, and discussed their use to block the websites of independent media, and content on religion and human rights. We have also reported that Netsweeper products were being used by three ISPs based in Somalia, and raised questions about the human rights implications of selling filtering technology in a failed state. In a report on information controls in Yemen in 2015, we examined the use of Netsweeper technology to filter critical political content, independent media websites, and all URLs belonging to the Israeli (.il) top-level domain.
Included in some of these reports were letters with questions that we sent to Netsweeper, which also offered to publish any response from the company in full. Aside from a defamation claim filed in January 2016, and then subsequently discontinued in its entirety on April 25, 2016, Netsweeper has not responded to us.
Background on Bahrain
The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island monarchy situated off the east coast of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain’s King is the head of government, and is tasked by the 2002 Constitution with appointing ministers, judges, and half of the legislature. As part of the Arab Spring in 2011, protesters in Bahrain took to the streets, demanding democratic political reform, an end to corruption and discrimination against the Shia sect, and the removal of Bahrain’s long-serving Prime Minister. Protests snowballed as security forces killed protesters, and culminated in protesters’ occupation of the Pearl Roundabout, a traffic junction in Bahrain’s capital city, for one month. In March 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates entered Bahrain, and security forces forcibly cleared and demolished the Pearl Roundabout. Three months later, Bahrain’s King established the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), which concluded that police and security forces engaged in “grave violations of human rights, including the arbitrary deprivation of life, torture and arbitrary detention.”
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International continue to criticize the government of Bahrain for perpetrating human rights violations, including arresting those who criticize the government, stripping dissidents of their citizenship on the grounds of national security, and routinely maltreating and torturing prisoners. In 2014, the 1963 Bahraini Citizenship Act was amended to grant the Interior Ministry additional authority to revoke a Bahraini national’s citizenship if he or she has failed in their “duty of loyalty” to the state. Human Rights Watch argued against this vaguely worded provision, fearing that it could be used against government critics. Advocacy groups have also appealed to the international community to put pressure on the Kingdom. In a letter read to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2015, a group of 32 countries, including United States and the United Kingdom, urged Bahrain to take steps to better protect the fundamental human rights of its citizens.
Since the 2011 uprising, numerous social media users and bloggers have been targeted by authorities as a result of their online activities. Bahrain Watch has compiled a list of individuals arrested as a result of their online activities, which includes individuals imprisoned and tortured for allegedly insulting the King online and inciting anti-government hatred. In some cases citizenship was revoked.
Crackdown on opposition voices continued in 2016. In June, Nabeel Rajab, the founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, was arrested for “spreading false information and rumours with the aim of discrediting the State,” a move which was widely condemned by human rights observers. The Kingdom was also criticized for placing Rajab in solitary confinement. This was not the first time that Rajab was targeted. He was arrested in April 2015 following a series of tweets condemning torture and Bahraini involvement in the ongoing conflict in Yemen, and in October 2014 for tweets calling the Ministry of Interior an “ideological incubator” for ISIS after several officers defected to ISIS, and in July 2012 after criticizing the Prime Minister on Twitter.
In June 2016, a Bahraini court ordered the shutdown of Al Wefaq, the country’s largest opposition group. The court found that the group “repeatedly objected [to] the legitimacy of Bahrain’s constitution, supported violent action and posted pictures of terrorists brandishing sharp tools while claiming they were peaceful demonstrators.” The ban came a week after an appeals court extended the prison sentence of Sheikh Ali Salman, the political leader of Al Wefaq, from 4 to 9 years. He was found guilty in 2015 on charges which included “promoting political change using illegal forceful means and threats”. Shortly afterwards, the Ministry of Interior revoked the citizenship of leading cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim for allegedly serving “foreign interests” and escalating sectarian divisions in the country. Qassim, considered the “spiritual voice” of Bahrain’s Shia community, has been a vocal critic of the government’s repressive crackdown in recent years. The incident marked the 300th citizenship revocation in Bahrain since 2014, and was condemned by both the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the US State Department. Demonstrations in Qassim’s home of Duraz following the citizenship revocation were met with a strong police presence, and Internet disruptions.
In August 2016, United Nations independent human rights experts urged Bahrain to end harassment of the Shia population in Bahrain, saying “Shias are clearly being targeted on the basis of their religion.” The experts stated: “Recently, we witnessed the dissolution of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the shutting of faith-based organizations, restrictions on the practice of religious rites, on Friday prayers and peaceful assemblies, restrictions on movement, restricted access to the Internet and a ban on Shia religious leaders from preaching.” It is worth noting that Bahraini government officials and parliament members have denied accusations made by advocacy groups. For example, a legislator and member of Bahrain’s Board of Commissioners of the National Institution for Human Rights denounced the August 2016 United Nations human rights experts’ statement as baseless allegations and a “sectarian-tinted statement” containing “false information and fallacies.”
Information Controls
Bahrain is rated by Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net report as ‘Not Free’, earning it the 9th lowest score of the 65 countries examined. The country was named by Reporters Without Borders as one of the ‘Enemies of the Internet’. Information controls in the country take a number of forms, including widespread censorship and surveillance, strict press laws prohibiting the online activities of the press, government use of PR companies to shape the media narrative, and the targeting and imprisonment of users for their online activities.
Internet Censorship and Shutdowns
Bahrain is one of the most wired countries in the Middle East, but it is also one that has an established track record of censoring Internet communications. The OpenNet Initiative has documented the extent of censorship in the country for a decade. Testing conducted in 2006 on the ISP Batelco found that sites critical of the Bahraini government and monarchy, LGBT content, anonymization tools, and religious conversion sites were all blocked. Tests run in 2009 found filtering to be more extensive than in prior tests, with domestic political criticism and human rights organizations found censored, along with an increase in the blocking of pornographic and LGBT content. In 2011, blocking in Bahrain was found to be implemented through the use of McAfee’s SmartFilter product.
Numerous government ministries and organizations have a role in Bahrain’s online information controls. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), established in 2002, is the primary regulatory body for the country. The Information Affairs Authority (IAA), established in 2010, operates the country’s official media outlets and is responsible for issuing censorship orders for both online and offline media. The IAA requires the registration of all websites, and blocks websites found to be in violation of Articles 19 and 20 of the 2002 Press Rules and Regulations, which state:
As per a decision by the minister, it is possible to prohibit circulation of publications instigating hatred of the political regime, encroaching on the state’s official religion, breaching ethics, encroaching on religions and jeopardizing public peace or raising issues whose publication is prohibited by the provisions of this law.
Concerned parties can appeal the decision to prohibit circulation before the High Civil Court within 15 days of its issuance or notification. The court shall settle the case on an urgent basis.
As per a decision by the minister, it is possible to bar any publication issued abroad from entering and circulating in the kingdom so as to maintain public order, morals, religions or due to any other reasons related to the public interest.
Concerned parties can appeal the decision of prohibition before the High Civil Court within 15 days of its issuance or notification and the court shall settle the case on an urgent basis.
In July 2016, the Bahrain Information Minister issued Decree 68/2016, which required media outlets to obtain licenses from the Mass Media Directorate in order to publish news online, limited video or audio clips to two minutes in length, and prohibited live-streaming. The decree was criticized as further restricting Bahrain’s already strict press censorship, with provisions requiring licensees to provide individual names, websites and social media account information, seen as a method of facilitating easier punishment of individuals for publishing controversial material.
In August 2016, the TRA issued Decision 12/2016, requiring that all telecommunications companies in Bahrain purchase and use a “unified technical system” for blocking websites. We discuss this requirement in connection to our research on Netsweeper in more detail below.
Research published by Bahrain Watch in August 2016 documented the nightly disruption of mobile and fixed-line services offered by providers Batelco and Zain in the Duraz region that had been taking place since June 23. According to Bahrain Watch, “Duraz has been the focal point of ongoing protests since 20 June 2016, when the government revoked the citizenship of [Shia religious leader] Sheikh Isa Qassim,” a resident of Duraz. In late August 2016, a coalition of organizations concerned with Internet shutdowns wrote a letter to the TRA, requesting authorities cancel service restriction orders issued for Duraz, in accordance with a June 2016 UN Human Rights Council resolution that condemned “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online in violation of international human rights law” and called on states to “refrain from and cease such measures.” Notably, the Duraz disruptions are not the first instance of connectivity restrictions in Bahrain as a result of protest; Arbor Networks documented a significant drop in traffic during the 2011 uprising.
In 2012, Citizen Lab published a report describing the use of surveillance malware FinFisher to target Bahraini activists, a claim which was denied by a Bahrain government spokesperson. Following the 2014 breach of FinFisher developer Gamma International’s networks, leaked documents showed that the malware had been used to compromise the computers of potentially dozens of human rights lawyers, politicians and exiled activists. In 2014, leaked documents from spyware company Hacking Team showed that the Bahrain Ministry of Interior purchased that company’s Remote Control System software, and that a legal review Hacking Team commissioned to investigate the sale of surveillance tools to Bahrain noted the ongoing human rights concerns in the country.
Bahrain has jailed dozens of netizens for expressing critical opinions online, including those using pseudonymous accounts. In some cases, those arrested appear to have been identified using “IP Spy” links sent by the government. When a target clicks on such a link, their IP address is logged and sent to the government, who then sends a request to the user’s ISP to get the associated subscriber’s name and address.
Facebook was widely used to organize during the 2011 uprising; however, reports have suggested that Facebook groups were also used to monitor and identify protesters — in one case reportedly leading to the arrest and torture of prominent anti-government protester Ayat Al Qurmezi.
Part 2: Netsweeper in Bahrain
In January 2016, the Bahraini government’s online tender website displayed a Telecommunications Regulatory Authority tender for a ‘National Website Filtering Solution,’ which appeared to have been won by Netsweeper for either $1.1M USD or $3.1M USD. Netsweeper appears to have been the only bidder, as the document says the number of bids submitted was only one. The tender type was listed as “selected,” indicating that the government invited a small number of companies to bid on the tender. Netsweeper did not respond to media inquiries about this tender.
With the release of the TRA tender appearing to indicate Netsweeper, Inc. had been chosen to deploy a ‘National website filtering solution’, we set out to investigate the presence of Netsweeper technology on networks in Bahrain.
This research set out to answer three basic questions:
Are Netsweeper installations present on the networks of Bahrain-based ISPs?
If so, are these installations used to filter content? In particular, are they used to filter critical political content or speech otherwise protected by international human rights law?
If Netsweeper installations are present in Bahrain, are they communicating with Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled infrastructure? For example, are they receiving updates to categorization databases?
Answering each of these questions required a range of methods, including:
Network scanning data to determine the presence of devices that match Netsweeper fingerprints;
In-country and proxy testing to identify filtering behaviour at the ISP level; and
The use of a ‘beacon box’ or ‘phone home’ test to determine if Netsweeper installations in Bahrain are communicating with Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled infrastructure.
In the following section, we will describe the results of our research to answer these three questions.
In this section we will explore and try to resolve the three questions posed about the presence and function of Netsweeper installations in Bahrain.
1. Are there Netsweeper devices in Bahrain?
To identify the presence of Netsweeper technology on Bahrain-based ISPs, we queried two services that aggregate Internet-wide scanning data: Censys and Shodan. We used Censys to look for visible HTTP interfaces of Netsweeper products, and we used Shodan to find SNMP1 interfaces. We used a range of different queries to find different instances of Netsweeper installations. The queries were based on both prior research and trial and error experimentation. The full list of queries used for finding these installations are outlined below:
censys 80.http.get.title: “Netsweeper Business” HTTP interface of Business branded Netsweeper installations.
censys 80.http.get.title: “Netsweeper SMB” HTTP interface of Business branded Netsweeper installations.
censys 80.http.get.title: “Netsweeper School” HTTP interface of Education branded Netsweeper installations.
censys 80.http.get.title: “Netsweeper Cloud Manager” HTTP interface of generic branded Netsweeper installations.
censys \/webadmin\/common\/templates\/ A common code element in Netsweeper HTTP interfaces.
censys \/webadmin\/deny\/index.php Default url path for Netsweeper block pages
shodan .el5.netsw Common SNMP sysDescr value for Netsweeper installations.
Table 1 – Queries used in preliminary identification of Netsweeper devices.
We restricted our queries to IP addresses geo-located in Bahrain.2
We then visited the IP addresses directly and captured the results to verify they were running the Netsweeper web administrator interface as seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1 – A sample Netsweeper web administrator interface.
Accessing the path of “webadmin/deny/index.php” on the visited IPs will show the configured deny page as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 – Netsweeper Default Blockpage
Table 2 lists every IP address where we found Netsweeper web interfaces to which we were able to connect. In one instance, we identified an IP address (188.137.140.21) using Shodan with the hostname “netsweeper-02.i.infonas.com”, on the network of Infonas (formerly 2Connect)3 but as we were unable to connect to the web interface it has been excluded from the table.
62.209.25.186 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.)
109.161.148.250 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.)
80.241.146.26 Northstar Technology Company W.L.L.
80.95.222.114 Etisalcom Bahrain Company W.L.L.
84.235.107.71 VIVA Bahrain BSC Closed
84.235.107.203 VIVA Bahrain BSC Closed
87.236.136.186 Nuetel Communications S.P.C
87.236.52.38 Kalaam Telecom Bahrain B.S.C.
185.34.229.236 Rapid Telecommunications W.L.L.
193.188.97.224 Batelco
Since Netsweeper devices were spread across ISPs in Bahrain we examined the associated block pages to see if there was any overlap in regards to which networks they are on. The blockpage of www.anonymous.com.bh was reported as early as 2009 in Bahrain.
Figure 3: The Bahraini blockpage hosted on www.anonymous.com.bh
Using the text on that block page we made a query to see what other sites in Bahrain have similar text. This search lead us to three additional IP addresses with block pages that contained similar text and design elements to the anonymous.com.bh blockpage.
Hostname (if any)
83.136.59.52 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.)
83.136.58.185 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.) block.bb.zain.com
193.188.112.86 Batelco www.anonymous.com.bh
188.137.140.22 Infonas WLL
Table 3: Blockpages in Bahrain and their associated AS Name.
Clustering the Netsweeper IP addresses along with the blockpage reveals overlap as shown in Figure 4. MTC-Vodafone has two Netsweeper servers as well as two blockpages. Batelco and Infonas each have a single Netsweeper server and a single block page on their network. The rest of the ISPs only have Netsweeper servers, ranging from one to four per ISP.
Figure 4: Blockpage and Netsweeper Web interface IPs clustered by ISP
We also attempted to retrieve the SNMP ‘sysName’ value of any Netsweeper IP addresses which have the SNMP port open and the service running. We looked at the sysName value because it is commonly used to relay the hostname of a device, and the hostname may indicate the function of the device in the context of the larger installation. We retrieved this value using snmpwalk requesting the standard OID for sysName. The SNMP information retrieved is presented in Table 4.
SNMP SysName
62.209.25.186 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.) zain-tmp-ps01
109.161.148.250 MTC Vodafone Bahrain (B.S.C.) zain-tmp-ps02
80.95.222.114 Etisalcom Bahrain Company W.L.L. etisalcom_ps01
84.235.107.203 VIVA Bahrain BSC Closed viva-tubli-ps01
84.235.107.206 VIVA Bahrain BSC Closed localhost.localdomain
84.235.107.71 VIVA Bahrain BSC Closed viva-hora-ps01
87.236.136.186 Nuetel Communications S.P.C localhost.localdomain
185.34.229.236 Rapid Telecommunications W.L.L. rapid-ps01
80.241.146.26 Northstar Technology Company W.L.L. Northstar-PS01
87.236.52.38 Kalaam Telecom Bahrain B.S.C. kalaam-temp-ps01
Table 4: SNMP SysName values for Netsweeper servers in Bahraini ISPs.
In most cases, the SNMP sysName is the name of the ISP followed by ‘PS’ and a number. ‘PS’ likely refers to the Netsweeper policy server, which is the name of the component of a Netsweeper installation that performs the blocking logic. Both Zain and Kalaam Telecom’s sysNames refer to their installations with the word temp, implying that these may be temporary installations.
HTTPS certificate dates
We also examined the HTTPS certificates present on the web interfaces of the Netsweeper login pages. These are relevant because they can help estimate the date and time the local Netsweeper server was configured on the network of the ISP. It is not standard practice for HTTPS certificates to come pre-installed by the developer (as this would provide Netsweeper, Inc. with the ISP’s private key) so it is likely that the certificates have been generated upon initial configuration at the ISP. We investigated the validity values on the certificates and focus here on the “Issued on” value, which suggests the date the server was configured. We adjust the timezone to Arabia Standard Time (AST) and present these values on a timeline in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Timeline of Netsweeper Certificate creation on Bahraini ISPs
We see the earliest certificate being generated May 18, 2016 at Rapid Telecom and the last at Batelco on July 4, 2016. The totality of certificates is generated in this three month span. Most of the certificates were generated during daytime hours (AST), and grouped according to ISP. For example, we see Nuetel configure the whole infrastructure we identify on May 23, 2016 within three hours. Conversely, the installation at VIVA is the most spread out on the timeline ranging from May 19 to June 27. In total, this evidence suggests that Netsweeper installations appeared on a series of Bahraini ISPs four months after the TRA tender announcing Netsweeper’s bid on the filtering system.
2. Are Netsweeper devices filtering content in Bahrain?
Netsweeper blocking fingerprint
Although our network scanning data confirms the presence of Netsweeper installations on the networks of Bahraini ISPs, it alone does not tell us whether the installations are actively being used to filter content for customers of these ISPs. In order to test whether the installations were used to filter content, we attempted to access censored content on the ISP Batelco and examined the responses.
We accessed the website of the Arab Times (arabtimes.com), which has been identified as being blocked, using a public proxy on the Batelco network. When we accessed this page we received the following response:
The response contains an iframe to www.anonymous.com.bh, the blockpage we have identified as being in use since 2009 in Bahrain. An interesting addition in this response is the parameters after the “/” sent to this block page URL. We URL decode and add newlines to the parameters to increase legibility of this here:
?dpid=9
&dpruleid=1
&cat=105
&dplanguage=-
&url=http://arabtimes.com/
These values: dpid, dpruleid, cat and dplanguage are identical parameters used by Netsweeper installations we have seen in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. The cat parameter denotes the categorization of the blocked URL. The current mapping of category number to readable name is available here. Category number 105 refers to the “Custom” category, or a URL that was manually entered by the ISP administrators.
The packet capture collected from this Batelco vantage point also showed that our computer received two different responses: one with the blockpage in an iframe as seen above, and a response containing the legitimate Arab Times front page shortly thereafter. This behavior is consistent with packet injection from a device located between the user and website. If a requester receives the blockpage response first, it will render the blockpage and discard the second, legitimate, response. The injected blockpage response has a Time-To-Live (TTL) value of 61. Assuming that the initial TTL is set to 64 (a common value for initial TTLs), this indicates that the device performing the injection is close to the user. As a result, the injecting server will almost always win the race versus the legitimate response, guaranteeing that most web browsers will only show the block page response. This process renders the legitimate content inaccessible.
In addition, all injected responses also have an identical IPID value of 242. An IPID is a value set in the IP header of a packet that is used primarily for reassembly and fragmentation of data exchanges. This value can be set differently by the operating system that sent the packet; some will set it to zero, others will set it to the same number, and others might just increment the value with each packet sent. This IPID value is particularly relevant here, as our research showed that Netsweeper devices in Yemen also used an IPID value of 242.
Content types found blocked
To confirm that Netsweeper products were being used to censor content on Bahrain-based ISPs, as well as to identify the types of content that were being blocked, we conducted manual testing from a vantage point on the ISP Batelco.
These limited tests consisted of connecting to a proxy on the Batelco network, and attempting to access a list of sensitive Bahrain-specific and regional content in a web browser. All URLs that generated a blockpage were identified as blocked. (The absence of a given URL from the list of blocked URLs does not definitively indicate that the URL is accessible on Batelco) A full list of URLs tested and those found blocked can be found in the Data section at the end of this report. In-country testing was limited out of concern for tester security. Further research is required to identify filtering behaviour on additional ISPs in Bahrain.
The types of content found blocked via this method of testing include:
Websites affiliated with local political groups including the opposition movements al-Wefaq, Bahrain Freedom Movement and February 14 http://alwefaq.net
http://www.vob.org
http://www.14febrayer.com
Websites of local human rights and advocacy organizations http://www.bahrainrights.org
Bahraini publications that post content critical of the government of Bahrain http://bahrainmirror.com
http://bahrainalyoum.net
http://lualuatv.com
http://alduraz.net
Websites on the Shia sect http://shiaweb.org
http://albrhan.org
http://www.ansarh.com
Websites which have content critical of Islam http://answering-islam.org
http://www.faithfreedom.org
Atheism content in Arabic http://arabel7ad.blogspot.com
http://www.ladeeni.net
Iranian media outlets http://www.alalam.ir
Media affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah http://www.almanar.com.lb
Regional Arabic news websites http://www.alquds.co.uk
Regional human rights and free speech advocates http://www.anhri.net
Gambling websites http://www.cdl.com.lb
http://www.williamhill.com
Anonymization and circumvention tools http://www.xroxy.com
http://www.samair.ru
http://www.proxyfire.net
http://anonym.to
Arab Christian websites http://www.arabchurch.com
Arabic secular discourse http://www.rezgar.com
All content categorized by Netsweeper as ‘Pornography’, ‘Gambling’, ‘Viruses’, or ‘Web Proxy’ See ‘Deny Page Tests’ section below:
http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/10
Table 5: Examples of URLs found blocked on Batelco
‘Deny page tests’
Amongst the websites tested for accessibility were a special set of URLs referred to as ‘deny page test’ URLs. These are URLs created by Netsweeper, Inc. specifically for the purpose of testing which content categories are blocked by a Netsweeper installation. A custom URL is created for each category (e.g. “pornography”, “sex education”) and that URL — while not containing any of that type of content — is categorized by Netsweeper as belonging to that category. As described by Netsweeper, Inc.:
“For example, http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/23, is categorized as the Pornography. When checking the Pornography category, this test will make a request to the URI of http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/23. If this is blocked or redirected to another page, we consider the Pornography category blocked.”
We tested 67 of the deny page test URLs from a Batelco proxy, and found the following four to be blocked:
Associated Netsweeper Category
http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/10 Gambling
http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/21 Viruses
http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/23 Pornography
http://denypagetests.netsweeper.com/category/catno/32 Web Proxy
Table 6: ‘Deny page test’ URLs found blocked on Batelco
The blocking of these URLs is a strong indication that Netsweeper technology is being used to filter content on Batelco; we do not know of any reason these URLs would be blocked otherwise. Further, the ‘deny page test’ content categories found to be blocked are consistent with some of the types of content found blocked via proxy testing on Batelco.
It should also be noted that blocking content with a Netsweeper installation is not limited to the use of predefined content categories. System administrators are able to create ‘custom’ lists of content, including the use of wildcards, in order to block lists of content outside of the Netsweeper, Inc.-created lists. This feature is why we see content (such as human rights and news websites) blocked which do not belong to the four categories identified as blocked through the ‘deny page tests’ URLs.
3. Are Netsweeper devices in Bahrain communicating with Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled infrastructure?
Once we identified the presence of Netsweeper installations on Bahrain-based ISPs, we set out to determine if the Bahrain-based installations were communicating with any infrastructure controlled by Netsweeper, Inc. We conducted a test that used the structure of Netsweeper’s categorization system to determine if such communications were taking place.
Beacon box test
Netsweeper’s Internet filtering solution blocks content through the interaction of two systems, broadly defined: a database of website categorizations; and software that intercepts requests for websites and determines if they are to be denied or permitted. The decision on whether to deny or permit access to a given website is made by looking up the categorization of a website in the database, and then determining if that category of content has been configured to be denied or permitted, a configuration made by the Netsweeper customer.
Netsweeper, Inc., maintains the ‘master database’ of website categorizations that it hosts on its own infrastructure. A Netsweeper, Inc. customer (such as a Bahraini ISP) hosts a local copy of that database on its own networks. If a user of an ISP using Netsweeper products attempts to access a website, the Netsweeper software will look up the categorization of that website in the ‘local’ copy of the category database. Once it has determined the categorization of the website, it will either permit or deny access to that website depending on the policies configured by the ISP (or other Netsweeper customer).
However, should an individual ISP user attempt to access an uncategorized website (for example, a newly registered domain) the local Netsweeper installation will contact the Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled master category database. (In the meantime, the local Netsweeper installation will generally permit the customer to visit the website while the categorization is taking place.) This master database will run a categorization service which will access the website, perform an automated categorization of the uncategorized website’s content, add this category to the master database and then send this categorization to the ‘local’ Netsweeper installation. Netsweeper, Inc. documentation suggests that this entire process can be completed in “as little as one second and at most about a minute”.
Since we know that an attempt to access a previously uncategorized website should lead to the master category server accessing the website soon thereafter, we conducted a test to determine if a Bahrain-based Netsweeper installation is in fact communicating with Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled infrastructure. We registered a new domain and created a website with innocuous content. Since we control the servers on which this new website is hosted, we have access to the server logs and can determine who attempted to visit the website and where those requests originated from. As a result, after accessing these newly created websites from ISPs in Bahrain, we anticipated seeing a visit from the Netsweeper Master Category Server in our logs as this server attempts to dynamically categorize our website.
We have illustrated this process in Figure 6:
Figure 6 – Block diagram explaining beacon box testing methodology.
This test is a duplication of a similar test we performed to confirm communications between a Netsweeper installation in Yemen and Netsweeper, Inc.-controlled infrastructure. In that case, we registered six new domains and accessed three of them from YemenNet (a Netsweeper, Inc. customer) while the other three acted as a control. In all cases, the websites contained innocuous content. We found that in all three instances of the websites being accessed from YemenNet, our web servers were visited by similar IP addresses with requests containing the same user-agent string and requesting headers within one second of our accessing the website from YemenNet. This activity precisely matched a previous instance described by customers of the Australian ISP Telstra, which was later confirmed by Telstra to be Netsweeper servers performing a categorization of previously unseen websites.
We performed this test on three ISPs in Bahrain: Batelco, Zain and VIVA. We registered eight new domains: two for each of these ISPs and two to act as a control. We hosted the same identical, innocuous text content on each site, and did not access the sites beyond confirming the sites were reachable from the University of Toronto’s network. The results were as follows:
Batelco
Our server logs show both websites being requested from Bahrain. There was no evidence of any further relevant requests for either of the two websites.
For both websites, our server logs show the original request for the website from Bahrain, which are followed roughly one second later by a request from IP addresses hosted by Digital Ocean, a large network service provider. Although each website was visited by a different Digital Ocean IP address, both requests included identical HTTP headers and user-agent strings. The user agent in this request matched the user agent seen in the Yemen experiment.
Much like the results for VIVA, our server logs show the requests for both websites from Bahrain are followed within approximately one to two seconds by a request from an IP address hosted by Digital Ocean. Again, both of the Digital Ocean IP addresses are different, however the HTTP headers and user-agent strings were identical, and the same as those seen on VIVA. This user agent again matched the user agent seen in the Yemen experiment.
We did not notice any unusual visits to either of these websites, and did not identify any visits from the Digital Ocean hosted IP addresses identified in the experiment.
Beacon box test summary
The results of the tests run on VIVA and Zain are generally consistent with similar tests we ran on YemenNet, a known customer of Netsweeper. Although in that case the visits were from Rackspace-hosted IP addresses, the user-agent strings and timing of categorization visits were identical. In addition, Rackspace and Digital Ocean are companies which offer similar services, and thus it is plausible that Netsweeper, Inc. has switched providers for their categorization infrastructure. As mentioned previously, the results seen on VIVA and Zain (as well as YemenNet) are consistent with similar reports from Australian ISP Telstra which were confirmed to result from Netsweeper’s categorization process.
It is not clear why there was no evidence of the categorization service visiting the websites tested on Batelco. As network scan data and proxy testing conducted on Batelco both indicate that a Netsweeper installation is present and active, we expected our beacon box test results to show the categorization service visiting our web server. System administrators are able to configure Netsweeper installations to prevent the dynamic categorization of previously uncategorized websites, although it is not clear why a Batelco administrator would do this. We will continue tests from Batelco, where and when they are possible, to try and shed further light on this anomaly.
Summary of evidence pointing to the use of Netsweeper in Bahrain
In summary, our results indicate that Netsweeper devices are present on the networks of nine ISPs in Bahrain, that at least one of these installations is actively being used to filter content for Bahraini Internet users, and that critical political content is among the content types being filtered. The findings that support this argument are:
Network scan data matches HTTP and SNMP fingerprints of Netsweeper installations.
Blockpage URL parameters match those of known Netsweeper installations.
The IPID value of injected packets matches known Netsweeper behaviour.
HTTPS certificate ‘Issued on’ dates show installations appear across many ISPs within a short period of time, four months after Netsweeper appears to have won the TRA bid.
The “beacon box tests” showed that two out of three ISPs tested exhibited behaviour consistent with previous instances of Netsweeper Inc.-controlled infrastructure categorizing a previously uncategorized website.
Attempts to access the ‘deny page test’ URLs meant for testing a Netsweeper installation showed the URLs for content categories Gambling, Viruses, Pornography, and Web Proxy to be blocked on the ISP Batelco.
A unified technical system for blocking?
One unanswered question is why the TRA sought out a new filtering system. An August 2016 news article suggests that centralization may have been the motivation for purchasing a new filtering system. On August 5, 2016, the head of the TRA announced a new set of regulations stating that “all telecommunication companies in Bahrain must purchase and use a unified technical system for blocking websites”. This announcement would be consistent with the appearance of new Netsweeper installations on numerous ISPs across the country within a relatively short time span.
Further, Netsweeper’s filtering system does possess features that allow for the centralized sharing of configuration settings, called up2date. This feature allows local Netsweeper servers configured at the ISPs to pull categorizations, block lists, and deny pages from a central server. If enabled, this feature would allow a central authority such as TRA to curate the block lists, which would then be pushed out to all ISPs in the deployment.
The centralization of content filtering was a recommendation of a March 2014 study published jointly by Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and Detecon, a subsidiary of T-Systems International, itself a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. The study recommended the creation of “a (centralized) database of blacklisted content providers — covering all categories of unsuitable/illegal content, copyright/IPR flouting, and malware distributors — for daily distribution to ISPs”. The study also notes the use of Netsweeper in Qatar, the UAE, Pakistan and Yemen, and calls for testing the feasibility of centralized content filtering within the GCC countries. Notably, the study also flags the human rights considerations of working with certain “key vendors of content filtering and blocking solutions”, stating that “[u]sing these companies’ products can have a negative impact on a country’s political and social image”.
The deployment of centralized Internet filtering in Bahrain is certainly consistent with the recommendations of the March 2014 report. It remains to be seen whether the recommendation of implementing centralized content filtering across all the GCC countries materializes.
The sale of Internet censorship technology to a government with a long track record of human rights violations, including repression of freedoms of expression and association, is troubling. While online censorship in Bahrain pre-dated Netsweeper’s successful bid, this timing only serves to demonstrate that the company sold its product to a country known to censor political speech and other legitimate expression. We confirm that Netsweeper technology is being used by at least one key ISP, Batelco, to filter content including critical political speech, news websites, human rights content, websites of oppositional political groups, and Shia-related content. Netsweeper’s filtering technology is enabling the Kingdom of Bahrain to further erode its already problematic human rights record.
It is notable that the export of a Canadian-produced technology that restricts the free flow of information comes as the Canadian government tries to advance cooperation with the GCC in a number of fields, including human rights. We are unaware of whether Netsweeper’s engagement with the TRA was facilitated through any trade agreements or other initiatives of the Canadian government itself. However, the presence of Canadian-made Internet filtering technology in Bahrain being used to filter political and other legitimate content in the ways we document above raises questions about Canada’s approach to balancing business opportunities with human rights in the region. It also once again underlines serious corporate social responsibility concerns regarding Netsweeper, Inc. Netsweeper Inc, not only appears to have no public-facing corporate social responsibility policies; it published, and then removed, a document that specifies how its services can be tailored specifically to filter speech protected by international human rights laws. Our latest research suggests Netsweeper continues to court contracts for national-level filtering services that clearly infringe international human rights norms and laws, even at the risk of becoming a corporate pariah.
The authors would like to thank Daniel Valls for research assistance.
Supplementary technical data for this report can be found on our github located here.
1 SNMP is a protocol used by system administrators to retrieve information and metrics about a device in real time for the purpose of remote monitoring device health. A common use would be to determine how much traffic goes over a network port over time.
2 Upon reviewing the results and performing follow up scans, we determined that our original results excluded IPs that geolocated to Saudi Arabia but whose networks are actually based in Bahrain, so these are also included in our results.
3 2Connect is operating currently under the name Infonas W.L.L as the old 2Connect domain (2connect.net and 2connectbahrain.com) now forwards to infonas.com. Additionally the acceptable use policy of Infonas explicitly mentions 2connect in the limitation of liability section.
CBC, CBC As It Happens, The Globe and Mail, Associated Press, Toronto Star, Motherboard, Middle East Eye, Daily Vice, Ottawa Citizen.
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BACKCOUNTRY Clips Rock Sky-High Suspense with Zero Gore
by Perri Nemiroff September 3, 2014
Fed up with movies that rely on jump scares and gore to excess to freak you out? You’ve got to check out these two new clips for Backcountry. The film marks Adam MacDonald’s feature directorial debut and centers on Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop), a couple that takes to the woods to get away from the big city for a bit. Alex insists he knows the way to the secluded Blackfoot Trail, but when their path disappears, they’re stuck out in the middle of nowhere with no food or water, and in bear territory.
Backcountry is due to make its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 8th. It’s already got distribution in Canada, but hopefully a domestic distributor sees it and snatches it up fast because after watching these Backcountry clips, you’ll be dying to see the full feature. Hit the jump to check them out.
Not much happens in the first clip, but the cinematography, sound design and tone are powerful enough to turn a bear’s brief sniffing session into something incredibly foreboding, and then things intensify big time in that second one. Having seen quite a few horror movies that go gore heavy but aren’t really scary recently, it’s quite refreshing to see a clip with zero carnage that is still so remarkably suspenseful and terrifying. And it takes place during the daytime nonetheless.
Via Deadline.
Via Bloody Disgusting.
Here’s the official synopsis for Backcountry:
Hyper-busy executive Jenn (Missy Peregrym, Rookie Blue) and her sporadically employed boyfriend Alex (Jeff Roop) are preparing to take a break from the big city for a few days of camping and communing with the wilderness. But when they have an unsettling encounter with Brad (Eric Balfour), a strange guy wandering through the woods alone, Alex decides to take an impromptu detour — one that leaves them at the mercy of the forest, and god knows what else.
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‘Spider-Man 4’ Concept Art Reveals the Villains Tobey Maguire Would Have Faced
by Dave Trumbore June 1, 2016
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy was almost a quartet, but Spider-Man 4 was ultimately not in the cards for either the director or star Tobey Maguire. However, some planning did go into a fourth installment featuring Marvel’s most famous arachnid-powered superhero. While the choice to bring Venom into Spider-Man 3 may have doomed future sequels–along with the poor casting choice that was Topher Grace–Raimi & Co. had designs on going back to classic Spider-Man villains for the follow-up.
As Cinemablend reports, writer and illustrator Jeffrey Henderson is posting concept art for the planned but not produced Spider-Man 4, art which reveals two original Sinister Six villains intended to antagonize the Wall-Crawler. At last count, we’ve seen Green Goblin (quite a few times), Sandman, Venom, Rhino, The Lizard, Electro, and Doc Ock in live action. The two villains intended to show up might not be that big of a surprise, but we’ll save the reveal for after the links just the same.
Get some great looks at the concept art for Spider-Man 4 from Henderson’s website here. His bio follows, in part:
Image via Marvel Comics
An award winning illustrator, writer and storyteller, Jeffrey Henderson’s career has included a wide- ranging assortment of comic book, videogame, animation, advertising, feature film and television projects.
Some of Henderson’s major film credits include: ‘Twilight/ Eclipse’ and ’30 Days of Night’ with David Slade, ‘Inception’ for Christopher Nolan and ‘After Earth’ with M. Night Shyamalan, to name just a few.
He has also worked with Sam Raimi on a number of projects, including ‘Spider-Man 3 & 4’, ‘World of Warcraft’ and most recently, ‘OZ, The Great and Powerful’.
Henderson has laid out some fantastic, action-packed sketches for Vulture and Mysterio, and it’s rather a shame that we never got to see their live-action versions on the big screen in Spider-Man 4. Vulture looks truly menacing and the high-flying stunt sequences that Henderson drew up are thrilling enough in two-dimensional grayscale; maybe we’ll get to see this villain take on Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming? Henderson also has a fun take on Mysterio, the special effects guru and Hollywood stunt man turned supervillain. Mysterio’s one of those Spidey villains who works just great on the pages of a comic book or in the bold colors of a Saturday morning cartoon, but it would take a master storyteller to bring a convincing version of Quentin Beck’s alter ego to the screen.
Would you have liked to see Raimi’s Vulture and Mysterio in Spider-Man 4? Let us know in the comments!
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Director Reveals the Moment That Brought Anthony Daniels and Kevin Smith to Tears
By Cameron Bonomolo - December 8, 2019 06:56 pm EST
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker writer-director J.J. Abrams reveals a “very emotional” scene centered around C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) brought both franchise veteran Daniels and onlooker Kevin Smith to tears. Smith — who earlier revealed he visited the Rise of Skywalker set — was present for a scene first glimpsed in the final trailer for the conclusion to the nine-movie Skywalker Saga, which showed Threepio bidding farewell to Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Poe (Oscar Isaac), seemingly forever, when he said he’s “taking one last look” at his friends.
The moment was “very emotional for Anthony,” Abrams said during a stop at Brazil’s CCXP convention. “I remember after he did that scene and they removed his mask, there were just tears streaming down his face. We all felt it.”
Abrams continued, “In fact, Kevin Smith was there that day, and he was watching, and I went around to the corner and he looked like Anthony. It was very sweet, even on that day, to see them so emotional.”
The filmmaker, who appeared alongside Ridley, Boyega and Isaac, described his followup to The Force Awakens and Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi as a galaxy-spanning adventure packed with emotion as it ends the 40-year Skywalker Saga started with George Lucas’ Star Wars in 1977.
“It’s an incredible thing to see what the people beside me, what these amazing actors have done in this film. It’s a very emotional story, it’s a huge, fun adventure, but it’s also very emotional,” Abrams said. “And it’s the end of this nine-chapter saga, and I just cannot wait for you to see not just what the cast, but the crew has done.”
Daniels previously said Threepio is “front and center” in The Rise of Skywalker, described by the actor as a “very good bye-bye moment” for both himself and the iconic protocol droid.
“By happenstance, one of the best films is going to be Rise of Skywalker that I have adored working on,” he recently told The Star Wars Show. “I believe, the bits I’ve seen, knowing what happened on the set, knowing what J.J.’s like with his huge brain, huge intellect, huge spark, his childish joy in the whole thing, that’s gonna make this film for me the one to end on.”
Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams join forces once again to take viewers on an epic journey to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the riveting conclusion of the seminal Skywalker saga, where new legends will be born and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.
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Big cat paw print found in Derbyshire
Big Cat Paw Print?
A national big cat group has said it is confident the animals are roaming wild in Derbyshire after the discovery of a paw print on farmland.
Wirksworth farmer Peter Ward said he found the three-inch print after his cattle had been frightened last month.
Nigel Spencer, from Big Cats in Britain, said: “It could be a small puma or black leopard or even a lynx.”
A Defra spokesman said: “Any sightings of exotic wild animals can be reported to Natural England or the police.”
He added: “Based on evidence we do not believe there are breeding populations of big cats living in the wild in England.”
Mr Spencer said his group did believe ‘big cats’ had previously been released into the wild and could be breeding in the area.
He said: “We’ve been researching these big cat sightings in the East Midlands since the early 1990s.
“We’re trying to build up a picture of how many there are and what they’re doing.
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Limited Iranian Response Has Markets Breathing a Sigh of Relief
The early reports of a retaliatory missile strike by Iran on Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops last night initially sent yields lower as thoughts of a widening crisis erupted. Initially, the 10-year Treasury rallied 12bps hitting a low of 1.70%, the lowest since early November. However, when reports started filtering out that no U.S. casualties were suffered the 10-year Treasury reversed course and is currently yielding 1.82%, unchanged from yesterday’s close. While the limited (and perhaps telegraphed?) Iranian response offers what appears to be an off-ramp to further hostilities, tensions remain and that will limit yield back-ups that might otherwise emanate from a decent round of recent economic releases. For instance, yesterday’s ISM Non-Manufacturing Report found continued strength in the services sector despite ongoing manufacturing weakness. Also beckoning investors attention, the December jobs report is due on Friday, and this morning’s ADP Employment Change Report found 202.000 private sector jobs, easily beating the 167,000 expected. The BLS jobs report on Friday is expected to show 160,000 new jobs versus November’s surprisingly strong 266,000 new jobs. While the December print is forecast to be down from November, the full panoply of numbers within the report are expected to signal continued strength in the labor market. Thus, if it wasn’t for the increased geopolitical tensions yields would likely be higher. For more on the latest economic releases and our first-half 2020 rate outlook read on below.
Economic News 2020 First-Half Rate Outlook Agency Indications
A rebound in sales and production lifted the ISM’s gauge of U.S. services activity in December to 55.0, a four-month high, indicating the broader economy remains stable in the face of further deterioration in manufacturing. The improvement in non-manufacturing, or services, contrasts with the ISM’s most-recent factory index, which contracted for a fifth month and posted the lowest reading since mid-2009. Nonetheless, service-related businesses constitute nearly 90% of the economy and as long as that sector performs it should keep the broader economy expanding. The question remains, however, if the manufacturing downdraft continues, how long can the services sector continue to stand strong?
Meanwhile, the trade deficit narrowed to $43.1 billion in November from $46.9 billion in October but that narrowing will likely be short-lived. A big part of the decline was a dip in imports but the inventory cycle is temporarily distorting those import flows which should reverse. Imports declined 1% in November following a 1.7% drop in October. On a year-over-year basis, imports fell 3.8%, while exports rose 0.3%. The trend in both has decelerated considerably since 2018; import growth peaked at 10.0% in September 2018, while that of exports peaked at 11.0% in May. The decline in imports was exacerbated by businesses liquidating inventories to better align lower demand with the existing stock of unsold goods but with consumer demand still decent, a modest uptick in imports appears likely once the inventory correction is completed. However, the year-over-year decline does point to global trade uncertainties as well as moderating demand.
In another sign of the flagging fortunes of Boeing, factory orders for November declined –0.7% versus a gain of 0.2% in October, which was revised down from 0.3%. Ex-transportation, however, new orders rose 0.3% in November matching the gain in October. That ex-transport number speaks to the impact Boeing’s troubles with the 737 Max are having on overall orders.
2020 First-Half Rate Outlook
In December, the front end of the Treasury curve (0-2yrs) continued its stability as the mid-month FOMC meeting forecast no change in the fed funds rate for all of 2020. That near as-expected outlook led to minimal volatility in short-end yields with the 2-year note yielding right on top of the effective fed funds rate of 1.55%. While we aren't convinced the Fed can go all year without altering rates, we do expect them to be on hold through the first half of 2020. Consensus GDP forecasts for this year are currently at 1.8%, while the Fed expects 2.0% GDP with 1.9% core inflation. With this modest growth and inflation outlook we see short-end yields holding pat during the first half of 2020.
The long-end of the Treasury curve (5yr-30yr) experienced more volatility in November and December but the back-up in yields as a result of the announced US/China trade deal, and typical year-end optimism, failed to breach support levels (1.97%-2.00%) that have held for two months. That being said, because of the aforementioned limited growth and inflation expectations we think yields remain range bound, especially with safe-haven trades inspired from increased Middle East tensions helping to cap upward yield moves. Thus, we would look to take advantage of any spike in yields and invest in longer duration plays, be it MBS or tax-free municipals.
Agency Indications — FNMA / FHLMC Callable Rates
Maturity (yrs)
2.00 - 1.53 1.67 1.77 2.22 2.44
3.00 - - - - 2.09 2.34
10.00 - - - - - NA
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Sunday surprise: the country western / blues of Hafez
by Charles Cameron | Dec 8, 2014 | Monitor |
[ by Charles Cameron — at the heart not of the political entity, Iran, but of the Persian culture and people, can be found a king’s ransom in poetry and song ]
The sensual and the spiritual meet, melt, meld, merge, and dare I say it, emerge to suit each reader of the poetry of Hafez, Sufi poet and mystic — at times erotic, at times ecstatic, the yearning for the beloved sounding in both registers in his poetry, as in the Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
These versions, by James Newell, capture the spirit of Hafez far better IMO than the frankly best-sellerized and thus trivial versions of Ladinsky. The most sophisticated translator of Hafez now living is probably Dick Davis, who has this to say in an essay intriguingly titled On Not Translating Hafez:
The second obvious problem faced by a translator inheres in those parts of a text which have clear cultural resonance for the original audience and very little or absolutely no resonance for the linguistic community of the target language. An obvious example of this for translators from almost any Persian text from the sixteenth century on is the lore of Shi’i Islam, an intimate knowledge of the main features of which is automatically assumed by most post-fifteenth-century Persian authors, though this is of course a knowledge almost entirely lacking in the linguistic communities of the West. When we turn to Persian poetry such cultural problems can be particularly intrusive. There is the fact that after the thirteenth century virtually all Persian poetry has at least a tinge of Sufism to it, if it is not outrightly mystical in intent, and mysticism is not a subject accorded particular importance by the poetry of the major Western languages. [ .. ]
A subdivision of this mystical problem is the set of ideas metaphorically expressed in Persian poetry by wine, drunkenness, the opposition of the rend (approximately “libertine”) and the zahed (“ascetic”), and so forth. None of these notions have any force whatsoever in the Western literary tradition. It would never occur to a Western poet to express the forbidden intoxications of mysticism by alluding to the forbidden intoxications of wine, for the simple fact that the intoxications of wine have never (if we exclude the brief and local moment of prohibition in the United States) been forbidden in the West. The whole topos of winebibbing and the flouting of sober outward convention, so dear to Persian Sufi poetry, can seem in earlier translators’ work to be little more than a kind of rowdy undergraduate hijinks, and in more recent versions it can take on the ethos of Haight-Ashbury in the late sixties. But in both cases the deeper resonances of the topos are not obvious for a Western audience: they have to be explained — and to explain a resonance is like explaining a joke; when the explanation is over, no one laughs, except out of pained politeness, and no one is moved.
Here’s a song in which the world-renouncing side of things comes axroo forcefully…
I wrote a poem of my own in somewhat similar spirit yesterday, not too long after listening to that one, and offer it here in counterpoint, with Madhu especially in mind:
Lend me at least an echo
If you’re not listening to my poems
how shall I possibly know I’m still alive?
It’s when your heart stops
just for a moment
that my heart begins to race,
when your breath catches
that my breath can return to my heart.
You kill me. I call to you,
nightingale to rose or whatever,
lover to beloved,
thorn, petal, throat, branch —
are you nowhere,
and how can I follow?
Let me know it was you sang my song.
And okay, here’s a third and last Hafez version by James Newell:
Dr Newell’s bio can be found here — and yes, in addition to playing with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Mose Allison and John Mayall, he does indeed hold a doctorate from Vanderbilt. His doctoral dissertation, should you care to read it, is on the ethnomusicology of the Qawwali…
Which brings me just the opportunity I need to close this post with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing his signature qawwali, Allah Huu.
To the best of my understanding, Allah is simple the Arabic term for God, just as Dieu is in French — used by mambers of any religion or done who wish to reference the Deity — while the word Hu in Sufism references the breath or spirit — pneuma in Greek, prana in Sanskrit, spiritus in Latin — the wind that “bloweth where it listeth” of John 3.8.
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One Winter Story
Female Surfers
An unprecedented glimpse into the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing from a seldom seen perspective - a woman's. This hour-long film explores the life of big-wave surf pioneer and Ph.D scientist, Sarah Gerhardt, a...
An unprecedented glimpse into the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing from a seldom seen perspective - a woman's. This hour-long film explores the life of big-wave surf pioneer and Ph.D scientist, Sarah Gerhardt, a relative unknown who made surfing history in 1999 as the first woman to surf Maverick's, the giant wave in Northern California.
Experimentally shot using a montage of film and voice, ONE WINTER STORY traces Sarah's dramatic journey from poverty and despair as she learns to surf along California's Central Coast, to the outer reefs of Hawaii's North Shore and ultimately to the ominous surfing conditions at Maverick's in Northern California, where she discovers faith and forgiveness; finding her place both in the line up, and in the world.
Elizabeth Pepin Silva, Sally Lundburg
Jenny Useldinger, Ken Bradshaw, Mike Gerhardt, Sarah Gerhardt
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03.10.2018 02.10.2018 ~ Đào Thu Hằng
Sciencedaily.com
Source:University of Texas at Austin
Summary: Honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Scientists believe this is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to the decline of honey bees and native bees around the world.
Glyphosate might be contributing to the decline of bees around the world.
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The world’s most widely used weed killer may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria.
Scientists believe this is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to the decline of honey bees and native bees around the world.
“We need better guidelines for glyphosate use, especially regarding bee exposure, because right now the guidelines assume bees are not harmed by the herbicide,” said Erick Motta, the graduate student who led the research, along with professor Nancy Moran. “Our study shows that’s not true.”
The findings are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Because glyphosate interferes with an important enzyme found in plants and microorganisms, but not in animals, it has long been assumed to be nontoxic to animals, including humans and bees. But this latest study shows that by altering a bee’s gut microbiome — the ecosystem of bacteria living in the bee’s digestive tract, including those that protect it from harmful bacteria — glyphosate compromises its ability to fight infection.
The researchers exposed honey bees to glyphosate at levels known to occur in crop fields, yards and roadsides. The researchers painted the bees’ backs with colored dots so they could be tracked and later recaptured. Three days later, they observed that the herbicide significantly reduced healthy gut microbiota. Of eight dominant species of healthy bacteria in the exposed bees, four were found to be less abundant. The hardest hit bacterial species, Snodgrassella alvi, is a critical microbe that helps bees process food and defend against pathogens.
“Studies in humans, bees and other animals have shown that the gut microbiome is a stable community that resists infection by opportunistic invaders,” Moran said. “So if you disrupt the normal, stable community, you are more susceptible to this invasion of pathogens.”
Based on their results, Motta and Moran recommend that farmers, landscapers and homeowners avoid spraying glyphosate-based herbicides on flowering plants that bees are likely to visit.
More than a decade ago, U.S. beekeepers began finding their hives decimated by what became known as colony collapse disorder. Millions of bees mysteriously disappeared, leaving farms with fewer pollinators for crops. Explanations for the phenomenon have included exposure to pesticides or antibiotics, habitat loss and bacterial infections. This latest study adds herbicides as a possible contributing factor.
“It’s not the only thing causing all these bee deaths, but it is definitely something people should worry about because glyphosate is used everywhere,” said Motta.
Native bumble bees have microbiomes similar to honey bees, so Moran said it’s likely that they would be affected by glyphosate in a similar way.
Materials provided by University of Texas at Austin. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018; 201803880 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803880115
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I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam. I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University. I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University. I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC. I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank; a co-founder of POTATO - potato.edu.vn, working on outdoor education programs for kids in Vietnam. My English blog: hangbelu.wordpress/. I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation. I play table tennis as a hobby. Xem tất cả bài viết bằng Đào Thu Hằng
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Want to Learn How to Craft AND Help Out Singapore's Cats? Sign up for this workshop which part of the EcoBank national zerowaste campaign.
Learn how to turn old t-shirts into yarn, finger knit them into your own statement necklace, and help the cats at the Singapore Cat Museum.
“Save the Cat Museum – 100 Days of Hope”
The museum is being forced to close down in June 2018, but they hope to find a permanent home! To help them with their donation drive, 50% of ticket sales will be donated to the Cat Museum,a volunteer-run sanctuary for rescued strays, and also an adoption centre to re-home the rescued cats.
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a) How to transform t-shirts in to yarn
b) How to finger knit and make your own statement necklace
Time slots available:
a) 10:30am - 12:00pm
b) 2:00pm - 3:30pm
For ages 12 and up.
In the spirit of upcycling, bring an old cotton jersey t-shirt.
Singapore Sustainability Academy, 6F City Square Mall.
https://youtu.be/sQiXyztUjF0
This workshop is in partnership with Taikensonzai, City Developments Limited and Singapore Sustainability Academy (SSA).
About SSA:
The Singapore Sustainability Academy is the first major People, Public and Private (3P) ground-up initiative by City Developments Limited and the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Singapore's national goals to tackle climate change. The zero-energy academy is certified Green Mark Platinum by the Building and Construction Authority and is the first in Singapore to have its construction materials, Cross Laminated Timber and Glued Laminated Timber, verified by the Nature's Barcode system as coming from responsible sources.
The Academy aims to promote a low-carbon economy, resource efficiency, and sustainable practices among businesses and the community, in particular, youths. The SSA focuses on the key areas of advocacy, building capacity and collaboration, education, training, and information and resource sharing as well as user engagement.
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CrapHammer
When all you have is a craphammer, all tasks are basically... no wait...
The end of craphammer
A little over a year ago I set out to launch a project. For months I would do everything in my power to work on anything else under the sun. The project scared me. There was no client. There was no one else to blame if things went wrong. And frankly, it was too close to my heart and my purpose.
Friends and associates stepped forward on every front. Without them I never would have been able to make this project see the light of day. Some designed logos for me. Others built the back end. Some stepped forward to help me on my first mini doc for the new site.
I wanted to document, speak with and understand the most passionate people I could find, whether they be artists, parents, circus performers or gardeners. I wanted to find and understand these people. I wanted to know what it was like to be them and share their motivations, tools and outlook with the rest of us.
Craphammer was a fun and key part of my professional life that has been dormant for far too long. So now it is time for me to let go and turn my attentions to the mostpassionate.ca.
I hope you will take a minute to stop by and check it out. I'll save a place for you there.
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iPad - Stemming the Flow of Complaints
I'm quite amazed at the whiplash from the tech-heads and geeks around the iPad.
Is the name unfortunate? Yes.
Does it do everything under the sun? Hell no and thank god!
Will it be a game changer? Yes. No question.
But, Sean, "It's just a large iTouch!!!"
I hear this over and over. In fact, I predicted it would be a large iTouch.
So here's what I say back to all the geeks.
"Boo Hoo."
Because what people are really saying when they complain about this is "I wanted something new that was alien and inconceivable."
"I wanted to be surprised more!"
The iPhone was not alien and inconceivable. We all knew it would be a phone and iPod with applications.
What made the iPhone so wonderful was the focus on design and the experience of using it.
I believe and predict that the iPad will be a game changer and here is why.
It is what we all needed and the industry was waiting for.
But no one had ever produced it.
Amazon came close with the Kindle. But it failed to allow for further innovation by third parties out of the box.
Amazon also failed miserably with rolling out their device internationally.
Let's also keep in mind that the publishing industry is in need of some serious innovation here.
The content industry is still reeling from the financial shocks they have had to endure.
And to date there has been no easy way for traditional publishers to reach a global audience while also adding unique value.
With the kindle, every publisher is the same.
This is assuming publishers don't make the same mistake as NBC and publicly state they will never be on iTunes (which NBC then had to take back many years and lots of missed dollars later).
The iPad will see a global increase in purchased consumption of eBooks and rich publishing content.
Will publishers make as much per title as they want? no. But it will drive revenue.
And yet the savviest amongst us are shouting out the perceived faults of this device as loud as they can.
So let's look at these complaints.
One of the biggest complaints is the lack of multi-tasking. You can only run one application at a time.
Geeks are aghast.
"Boo Hoo," is all I can say back.
The average person won't care. Nor will they care that the bevel is "large" or that there is no camera on their media reader.
Now... no flash sucks... but that's not a deal breaker. That's just Apple being stubborn. Again.
Here's the kicker.
The geeks clearly have their pocket protectors in a wad over this. But mark my words, almost all of them will have one of these.
They will all own an iPad.
Or they will go and buy a Sony Reader and we can all sympathize with their sad, poor little ebook content.
So let's assume it's just a fanatical few who are up in arms.
What will people care about?
That's easy. The battery life, the responsiveness of the unit, and the experience of using it. The experience being tied to the content available.
Design is a hard game. It is a game of constant restrictions and constraints.
You can't have everything. You have to make intelligent compromises.
Note: you can have everything with bad design. Tried to use an alarm clock recently with 325 functions but only 3 control buttons? It's three years later and I still can't operate my alarm clock reliably.
Apple made the right choices. 10 hours of batter life together with a form, size and weight that is f'ing amazing.
So I believe quite strongly that the iPad will be a game changer.
I have long stated my belief that piracy will not go away. In fact, it will get worse.
The only solution for the publishing industry is to make their content ubiquitous to the user (digitally) and easy to purchase. Easy, easy, easy!!
I spend quite a bit of money a month through my Apple TV because it's the highest quality HD content and it's one easy click with millions of titles at my fingertips.
But when something isn't there... hello torrent.
Remember this presentation from Sports Illustrated?
We all thought of it as science fiction. Who in their right mind in the publishing industry would pump this kind of money into something this risky? Only a moron looking to do a Kliavkoff. [edit: correction to name made]
Only now, the hardware exists to exactly enable this vision.
The iPad.
Sport Illustrated just has to write an app. No hardware risks. No crazy licensing deals.
Anyone can take their publishing vision and move it onto a platform that will have a global rollout and support.
I would like to applaud Jobs and Apple.
This larger than life iTouch may just change publishing.
Something has to.
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Pope Francis tells Vatican court to remember to “defend conscience” in marriage
Pope Francis welcomes Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota of the College of Prelates Auditors of the Roman Rota on the occasion of their meeting, at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. (Credit: L'Osservatore Roman/Pool Photo via AP.)
Pope Francis emphasized the importance of conscience and reiterated his call for a “marriage catechumenate” during his annual address to the Roman Rota, the Vatican court that handles appeals in marriage annulment cases.
“The conscience assumes a decisive role in the demanding choices that couples must face to welcome and build the conjugal union and hence the family according to God’s plan,” Francis said.
“It will be a long undertaking and not easy, requiring bishops and presbyters to work indefatigably to enlighten, defend and support the Christian conscience of our people,” the pope said.
He said the Church must work to help engaged couples “to build and preserve the intimate sanctuary of their Christian conscience,” and said his document Amoris Laetitia has indicated “pastoral pathways” to help engaged couples to discern “without fear” their choice to enter into marriage.
“A continuous experience of faith, hope and charity is all the more necessary so that young people may again decide, with a sure and serene conscience, that conjugal union open to the gift of children is great joy for God, for the Church, for humanity,” Francis said.
The pope also said his recent reforms of the marriage annulment process were done “not only to make the process more rapid, but also more just, in due knowledge of the causes and reasons that are the cause of the failure of marriage.”
These reforms removed some of the juridical steps in annulment trials, as well as allowing the local bishop to decide cases himself.
“We must ensure that the conscience of the faithful in difficulty as regards their marriage does not close up to a path of grace. This aim is achieved through pastoral accompaniment, discernment of consciences and the work of our tribunals. This work must take place in wisdom and in the search for truth: Only in this way can the declaration of nullity produce a liberation of consciences,” Francis said.
The pope said the Church must recognize the “necessary relationship between the regula fidei, that is, the fidelity of the Church to the untouchable Magisterium on marriage, as well as on the Eucharist, and the urgent attention of the Church herself to the psychological and religious processes of all persons called to the choice of marriage and family.”
The pontiff then renewed his call for a “marriage catechumenate” which he made during his 2017 address to the Roman Rota, when he said the Church needed “an appropriate path of preparation geared to rediscover marriage and the family in keeping with God’s design.”
The term “catechumenate” is used for the preparation process for adults seeking baptism and involves both particular liturgical rites and catechesis.
“Faith is a light that illuminates not only the present but also the future: marriage and family are the future of the Church and of society,” the pope said. “It is therefore necessary to promote a state of permanent catechumenate so that the consciousness of the baptized is open to the light of the Spirit.”
Francis said to make future spouses more aware of this, “we need the contribution not only of bishops and priests, but also of other people involved in pastoral care, religious and lay faithful who are jointly responsible in the mission of the Church.”
German Parliament approves same-sex marriage
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The worst boss in the world
Who is the world’s worst boss? Read the facts and vote today.
The winner of the world’s worst boss will be unveiled during the ITUC World Congress in Copenhagen, 2 – 7 December 2018.
You can only vote for one of the ten bosses.
When you have voted, email or share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter.
Click here to see the latest results.
Pick the Worst Boss!
Name: Jeff Bezos
Title: CEO Amazon.com
Net worth: $156 billion
The winner of the 2014 World’s Worst Boss, Jeff Bezos continues to exploit workers with low wages and indecent working conditions. Ambulances were called to British Amazon warehouses 600 times in three years, and widespread abuses of workers have been exposed – from timed toilet breaks to impossible targets and paying below the minimum wage.
Click on the “submit” button to make your vote.
Name: Vincent Bolloré
Title: Chairman and CEO Bolloré
Net worth: $5.4 billion
Charged with allegations of corruption and influencing elections in Africa, Vincent Bolloré has been placed under formal investigation in France. The company has a reputation for unfair competition, corruption and worker exploitation. Sherpa claims that collectively Bolloré and part-owned Scofin have launched more than 20 defamation suits against 40 journalists, NGOs and media organisations since 2009.
Name: Ivan Glasenberg
Title: CEO Glencore
Nationality: Australian/South African
Glencore is accused of responsibility for human rights violations and environmental damage in many countries where it operates and is now being investigated by the US Department of Justice over bribery and corruption. The Department of Justice has subpoenaed documents for Glencore’s activities in Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela. Glencore operates mines in almost every corner of the world, and also trades commodities – and has cut its own production to raise prices.
Name: Dara Khosrowshahi
Title: CEO Uber
Salary: Undisclosed - Reported $200 million
Nationality: Iranian-American
Uber, the ride-sharing app, does not respect workers’ rights. Uber refuses to acknowledge its drivers as workers with entitlements to a minimum wage and paid holiday. Drivers work long hours to make a decent wage, with many in debt to cover the cost of car loans, fuel and insurance. Unions have taken Uber to court to fight for the rights of drivers, but the company thinks it can operate above the law.
Name: Lee Kun-hee
Title: Chairman Samsung Group
Net worth: $18.1 billion
Nationality: South Korean
Samsung has a reputation for modern technology, but also a history of medieval conditions for the estimated 1,500,000 workers entrenched in a vast and shadowy web of subcontractors and subsidiaries that runs deep throughout its supply chains. A leaked PowerPoint presentation exposed their global anti-union strategy — intended for the eyes of corporate bosses only, it decrees specific “countermeasures” to be used to “dominate employees”. The leaked material instructs managers to “isolate employees,” “punish leaders,” and “induce internal conflicts”.
Name: Doug McMillon
Title: President and CEO Walmart Inc.
Salary: $22.4 million
Walmart is owned by one of the richest families in America, but its workers are paid poverty wages, and can be punished for sick days. The company has tried to project a more worker-friendly image with promises to raise the minimum wage. But at the same time it has cut other merit-based wage increases. Walmart’s absence policy has forced pregnant workers to choose between a healthy pregnancy and their job.
Name: Michael O’Leary
Title: CEO Ryanair
Net worth: $1.03 billion
Nationality: Irish
Ryanair pilots in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden held strikes in 2018 over terms and conditions. Michael O’Leary agreed to recognise trade unions for pilots and cabin crew. Previously O’Leary said hell would freeze over before he would agree to unions. Deals have been made in some countries, but his commitment to unions appears less convincing. As of October 2018, O’Leary is refusing to recognise the new Polish union for cabin crew.
Name: Will Shu
Title: Co-Founder and CEO Deliveroo
Salary: $163,000
Deliveroo has grown to a worldwide operation with 35,000 riders globally. In the UK, self-employed Deliveroo riders have been fighting to be recognised as workers. Riders have no rights to pensions, holiday or sick pay. Most riders are paid per delivery – not an hourly rate – which benefits the company but endangers workers trying to make a living wage. They are given three minutes to accept a job on the app and have to log out of work to take a toilet break.
Name: Arne Sorenson
Title: President and CEO Marriott International
Marriott has more hotel rooms than any hotel company in the world. Their profits have gone up 279% since 2008. In the same years, hotel workers’ annual income has only increased by 7%. Marriott workers don’t know when they will get a day off and have unpredictable schedules. Workers are threatened by automation including from drinks orders being placed over iPads instead of to staff. Unions welcome technology and want to collaborate, but while Marriott makes massive profits, its workers are left on the sidelines.
Name: Harvey Weinstein
Title: Former CEO Weinstein Company and co-founder Miramax
Net worth: $50 million
More than 80 women in the film industry have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and misconduct spanning a thirty-year period. Many had been silenced, though, with the threat of not getting a job. Weinstein was sacked from his company and now faces charges. The women who have come forward sparked the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. Silence should never be a condition of work.
Pic 1 Jeff Bezos Credit: By Seattle City Council from Seattle, CC BY 2.0,
Pic 2 Vincent Bolloré Credit: By Thesupermat - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pic 3 Ivan Glasenberg Credit: By Financial Times photos c/o: Dianna Bonner - , CC BY 2.0,
Pic 4 Dara Khosrowshahi Credit: By Ecole polytechnique, CC BY-SA 2.0
Pic 5 Lee Kun-hee Credit: By Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0,
Pic 6 Doug McMillon Credit: By WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Remy CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Pic 7 Michael O’Leary Credit: By World Travel & Tourism Council - Michael O’Leary, CEO, Ryanair, CC BY 2.0
Pic 8 Will Shu Credit: By RISE - riseconf_20160601-L-662, CC BY 2.0,
Pic 9 Arne Sorenson Credit: By World Travel & Tourism Council, CC BY 2.0,
Pic 10 Harvey Weinstein Credit: By David Shankbone - Own work, CC BY 3.0,
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Tag: Copier Rental in Centerville MN
Differences Between Mono and Color Laser Printers
Blueprinting, reprographics, large format, and other namesI interviewed Ewan Tallentire, owner of Denver-area reprographics shop Albion Repro & Graphics, about the changes he’s seen over a couple decades in the blueprinting industry, and the history before that. Yes, I know, reprographics doesn’t sound like an exciting topic. But it’s related to both architecture and printing, so between great buildings and Johannes Gutenberg, there's a lot of related history. Reprographics goes by many names, such as blueprinting, large format printing, wide format copying, digital publishing, and document printing. The name changes because the product changes, as new technology comes into use. It’s always been about those drawings you build from: construction plans, blueprints, architect drawings, house plans, home plans, engineering drawings, floor plans, landscaping plans, etc. But as the drawings went from pencil to computer, how they got copied also changed. What hasn’t changed: the job hazard of paper cuts! Reprographics industry trends - less space, price, and smellReprographics became a business independent from architecture because architects and contractors didn’t want big, noisy, smelly machines in their offices, not to mention the training, experience, and money the machines required. Recently, printers, plotters, and other reprographic equipment have become small, cheap, and non-toxic enough to fit many offices. Today’s prints are usually black-and-white printing on bond paper, most often the 24x36 size. There’s no need for the variety of media and printers that existed in the past, and the shelf life of supplies is much longer. As a result, many architecture firms and contractors do their own printing, and many reprographics shops have gone out of business or changed focus. Like blacksmithing after cars replaced horses, reprographics is changing as an industry, but it still has its uses. The search for the ideal: reprographic media and printersTo understand where things are going in reprography, you have to look at how it got where it is today. From the beginning, it’s been a search for the fastest, easiest, and cheapest solution to three problems: something to draw onsomething to make copies onsomething to keep for a recordThe following timeline shows some of the types of printers and media used for copying, and what order they came in. I do wonder what the first architects of the US Capitol would have thought of AutoCAD and floor plans that could be emailed rather than engraved. Architectural originals: the need for stable and reproducible recordsOnce you’ve designed a building, you want to keep the records for very practical reasons of knowing where you can make changes or how repairs will affect it, but also for historical reasons to show future generations what you did. So it would be nice if the original plans could last as long as the building itself. You don’t want to expose the originals to the wear and tear of the construction site, so you want copies made for actual use. You also may want what I’ll call semi-originals; copies of all or part of the original printed on something stable enough to treat like an original. That way an architect in Denver can keep his originals while sending the semi-originals to a building site in Kansas City, without fear of losing everything in the mail. Before the digital age of large-format printing (which didn’t really arrive until this millennium), there were several processes for copying. All these processes were variations of shining light through the original onto a print which was treated with chemicals so shadows turned a different color from light areas. So for fastest and best results, originals needed to be transparent, or at least as translucent as possible. Architectural originals: linenTwo hundred years ago, linen was often used both for the original drawings and for hand-tracing the plans from the original onto a copy for record. This linen was the same stuff that's used in high-quality old books: it looks like paper but it’s actually a thin woven fabric without the acidic wood pulp of regular paper. It had a paraffin-based coating to make it easier to draw on. Ewan tells of a linen original brought into his shop which was dated about 1872 and was probably drawn on with a quill pen. Architectural originals: vellum and paper sepiaLinen tended to shrink slightly, so the standard for originals became vellum, which, like linen, is fairly translucent. This is not true vellum; real vellum is made from animal hide stretched and scraped (rather than tanned, which makes leather). What is called vellum now is made of 100% rags (as opposed to the wood pulp that regular paper is mostly made of). Vellum was the standard drawing base for 50 years or more, starting in the early 1900s. In the early years of vellum, part of the drawing might be copied to paper sepia (in a diazo process which exposed the sepia to light then developed it with ammonia). Paper sepia was vellum-based with a sepia-colored emulsion. The sepia was then a semi-original that could be copied from and/or kept for record. Another use of paper sepias was to save time and effort by copying the base floor plan of a multi-story building onto paper sepia, then drawing in the details of each floor separately. Paper sepia was still being used in the 1990s; a floor plan might be drawn on vellum, then the electrical plan filled in on the paper sepia. Since architects can now draw on a computer and print directly from the file, vellum has gone out of general use for drafting (though some colleges teach hand drafting on vellum so students aren’t completely dependent on computers). Artists still use vellum, for tracing over a pencil sketch and transferring it to canvas. Architectural originals: tissue paperEwan’s shop scanned some prints, dated from 1932 to 1936, from a mansion in Denver. These were the landscaping prints, and they were on tissue paper (also known as sketch, or tracing, paper). While buildings would have been drawn on vellum, landscaping was usually just one plan, a quick sketch drawn while talking to the customer, so it was reasonable to use something as fragile but cheap as tissue paper. See this HubPage for a picture of what landscape designs look like today (hint: it's sure not a quick sketch!) Architectural copies for record: MylarMylar was, and is still, used as semi-originals, as copies for record. Mylar was developed in the 1950s, and is used in many applications (such as balloons). Its value in record-keeping is that it doesn’t rip easily, and doesn’t fade or change color as other kinds of copies do. Bluelines and paper sepias tend to go on changing when exposed to light or heat, so lines fade or images get transferred to the next paper in the stack. Mylar was first used in reprographics as Photomylar; the original was literally photographed onto the Mylar film (I'll eventually explain what kind of camera makes poster-sized pictures!) But it was a messy, expensive, wasteful, and time-consuming process. And though the result was fairly stable, it wasn’t durable: the emulsion was so soft you could scratch the image off with your thumbnail. Eventually Mylar was developed to run through printers in a xerographic process like paper. That way, the emulsion is actually infused in the Mylar instead of sitting on top of the film. Modern Mylars have mostly replaced Photomylar, but there are rumors of municipalities around the country that still require Photomylars for records, assuming (and I can't say I blame them) that an older process must be more trustworthy than something digital. Architectural record-keeping issuesOne question record-keepers have to face is the value of the records compared to the expense. Ewan says Mylar prints cost about 6 times more than bond paper prints, and he questions whether their advantages over bond paper are really worth that cost. The main point of a Mylar was to be a stable translucent base to copy bluelines from, and since bluelines have been superseded, translucency in an original isn’t important anymore. Ewan also points out that reprographers dislike Mylar since the edges are tough enough to scratch the glass on printers. On the one hand, he would like to see all Photomylars scanned to file and stored digitally on disks, but on the other hand, there is a reason record-keepers trust older formats more. Who knows what digital storage format will be in 10 years? It may be worth more to print expensively now than to convert files to a new format down the road. Physical copies are comfortingly compatible with the real world. Ewan likes to say he’s never seen a pencil be incompatible with another pencil. The copies and copiersThere is much more to say, about the copies (blueprints, bluelines, and bond) themselves, and the printers, plotters, and giant cameras that did the copying. Read Part Two to find out which is a blueline and which is a blueprint.Read Part Three to find out how big a room-sized camera is.
5 Good Home Office Multifunction Inkjet Printers 2016
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Tag Archives: Gaza Strip
January 27, 2009 · 2:09 am.01.
How is the Mideast cease-fire like a Manny Ramirez contract?
Really the only way to guarantee a ceasefire is to wait until your enemy runs out of bullets. So it’s baffling what the nutcake negotiators from Israel and Hamas are trying to achieve with these “temporary” cease-fire proposals.
The latest scoop from Israel’s Haaretz newspaper:
“Hamas’ Gaza spokesman Ayman Taha, meanwhile, has said recently that Israel has offered his Palestinian Islamist group a 10-year cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt is also demanding a truce of a number of years’ duration. But Taha said the group would agree to a cease-fire of anywhere between one year and no more than 18 months. Another Hamas spokesman, Ismail Radwan, said a long-term cease-fire “kills” the right to resistance by the Palestinians.”
OK, so Israel wants to sign a 10-year deal, Hamas wants to sign a one year contract with an option for another six months to re-arm. And Egypt wants both sides to go to arbitration?
Sounds like the Manny Ramirez negotiations, although this horrific analogy stops right here, because I don’t think the Red Sox, the Dodgers or the free agent Manny’s next employer deserve to be compared to Hamas.
Haaretz also reports that Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who once dressed like a girl in a daring commando operation, is now ratcheting up his testosterone rhetoric in a way that should send chills to plumbers throughout the Middle East.
“In a bid to gain the vote of the Russian immigrants in the elections, Labor leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak will quote Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s statement about killing Chechen terrorists “on the toilet.”
“As you people say, they should be wacked when they’re on the toilet,” Barak will say in a radio election broadcast intended for Russian speakers. Labor, which is launching its campaign among the Russian speakers this afternoon, will ask them to support him, as they did when he last ran for prime minister 10 years ago.
The indirect allusion to Putin is Barak’s way of fashioning his image after that of an aggressive leader whom many Russian immigrants see favorably.”
If Barak does win the election over the favored Netanyahu, look for headline writers worldwide to have a blast with “Barack to meet Barak” headlines.
Filed under Asinine Mideast Analogies, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, politics, Red Sox, Red Sox Schlock
Tagged as baseball free agents, Bibi Netanyahu, Boston Red Sox, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza Strip, Hamas ceasefire, Israel, Israel ceasefire, Los Angeles Dodgers, Manny Ramirez, Russian voters, terrorists on the toilet, Vladimir Putin
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BB Staff Directory
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In DCEG, BB scientists have an ideal environment in which to solve important problems in population-based cancer research. By developing and using cutting-edge statistical methodologies, BB scientists can design and analyze data more effectively, taking full advantage of our rich data sources. BB scientists work as collaborators on all major initiatives within the Division, identifying key questions or problems that require new methods and solutions, both for study design and to make important inferences in DCEG studies. Learn more about BB research areas.
BB offers opportunities for postdoctoral research in statistical methods for epidemiologic and genetics research. Areas of interest include methods for descriptive epidemiology, risk prediction, screening, environmental epidemiology, dose-response assessment, high-dimensional and longitudinal biomarkers, and population-based inference using sampling methodology.
Other areas include methods for genomic studies including GWAS analysis, somatic mutation analysis, and integrative tumor analysis. Postdoctoral fellows also have an opportunity to collaborate on important epidemiologic studies, many of which include molecular and genetic components. Meet our current BB fellows and learn about BB research training opportunities.
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We anticipate multiple postdoctoral fellowship positions in the coming year. These opportunities are 100% research opportunities that will allow recent Ph.D. recipients to build their methodological and collaborative research programs. Strong candidates from statistics and biostatistics doctoral programs who are eligible to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply (U.S. citizenship is not a requirement). Preference will be given to candidates interested in applied problems, and with superior communication skills.
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Branch investigators are key participants in large, complex, interdisciplinary studies in collaboration with scientists throughout the NCI and NIH, and with investigators and public health officials at other government agencies and academic and research institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
Biostatistics Branch Highlights
Ruth Pfeiffer Delivers Mildred Scheel Lecture
Paul Albert Gives Robert W. Makuch Distinguished Lecture in Biostatistics
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Admin Pattern Library
Static Content Container
Slide-out, Modals, and Overlays
Button Bar
View Controller
Displaying and Dealing with Data
Feedback to User
Progress Indicator
Accessibility Guideline
Getting User Input
Date and Time Selector
Row Pattern (Table)
Use Default Config
Staging Patterns
Timeline Dashboard
Scheduled Changes Module
Address Form
The data-table organizes complex data into a tabular view. Each data record has its own row with data elements presented in columns with meaningful column headings. This allows users to quickly scan and understand complex data and perform actions against the data.
Data-table requirements for Magento 2 include:
Improved search and filters
Draggable columns
Sortable columns
Ability to add and remove columns
Support for thumbnails
Consistent case and naming format
Functional parity with the existing Magento application
Data-table
This specification defines the following features for the data-table:
Positioning of elements to allow for a more intuitive user experience
Allowing for user-defined number of items per page
Allowing users to go directly to a specific page
Ability to add and/or remove columns
Single item select and edit
Multiple item select and edit
Image/Thumbnail placement
Data-table Visual Architecture
The data-table will contain the following elements where applicable and as needed:
Pagination controls
Settings, bookmarks and search
The data-table will be designed in such a way that any of the above controls can be removed, collapsing the table gracefully.
Pagination controls allow the user to easily page through and organize data. Pagination controls will contain the following:
Drop-down select for number of items per page
Increments TBD
Custom field for user-defined increments
Page number (skip to) field and action button
‘Next’ button
‘Previous’ button when applicable
Pagination Rules
The pagination controls will only be present if the number of table items exceeds the lowest increment for number of items per page.
The ‘Previous’ button should be disabled when viewing the first page of results.
The ‘Next’ button should be disabled when viewing the last page of results.
The ‘Skip to’ field will allow only numeric values.
‘Skip to’ will be instantiated once the value is changed and [Return] or [Tab] is clicked.
A custom number of items per page can be set by selecting the “Custom” link which will allow users to specify a number. This number can be edited.
Mass Actions
A common theme across the existing Magento user experience includes mass actions that can be taken. This is a convention used on both data-table and non-data-table pages. Not all pages have these action buttons. This document will not attempt to capture all actions that appear here or how they might be redesigned for Magento 2. This document will make note that these actions exist on many of the data-table pages and will use the area directly above the table to indicate placement of such action buttons where they might be needed.
Actions will be positioned above the table . Each table will have it’s own set of actions, some tables will have no actions. This new proposal removes the submit button which is currently visible next to the “Actions” drop down selector. In the event that any confirmations are needed for actions, modal dialogs will be used.
Single Actions
These actions will appear within the data area of the table where applicable. When this action column is applicable, it will always appear on the far right of the table . Single actions will allow users to take action on a record within the table . In most cases, no more than one action will appear here. In the event that additional actions are needed, they will appear in the form of a drop down. These actions are specific to the single record in which they are associated. In the event that a user selects multiple items in the table, these actions will be disabled or hidden.
Messaging and Confirmation
There are times when an action needs to be confirmed. In these cases, the user’s task will be interrupted with a message asking the user to confirm the operation before proceeding. This message is presented via a modal dialog.
Once an action is taken, success/fail messaging should appear as an overlay which fades away. Certain actions may
require that an Undo action be provided. This experience should be the same whether a single file is being deleted via the “actions” button for that record or 1 or more files have been selected via a checkbox and deleted via the mass actions delete.
Table Control
This section will cover the ability to set column visibility, save view state, and search. Filters will be covered in the following section.
A keyword search will allow users to search on the data that has been loaded into the table being viewed. This search is a part of the table, and is separate from the global record search in the page header. It will allow for exact phrases(using quotations) and the following boolean operators:
Placement and Behavior
The keyword search function and table controls will be:
Displayed above the table
Remain visibly persistent as the table scrolls
Sticky Headers and Controls
As the table scrolls, the table controls will dynamically condense to a single row. All functionality of the controls will remain available.
The persistent header will reactivate when you scroll back up:
Multiple Data-tables on Page
The header will stick to the first table until the user scrolls past the bottom of that table . The header will have the same behavior for each subsequent data-table.
The data-table will reset to the top of the table when the user:
Submits a search query
Applies a filter
Sorts a column
Selects a mass action
Loads up a saved view
Clicks to the next page of results
Changes the number of items per page
The data-table will remain in the current viewport when the user:
Creates a new saved view
Edits cells in-line
Sticky First Column
The table can be scrolled horizontally. And to keep the row identifiable, the checkbox column and first column will be sticky. In creating the grid, the first column must always be an identifiable attribute such as name.
If there are more columns than can be shown in one view, the vertical scroll bar should appear for navigating to the rest of the column options as seen in the image below. Only 6 options should be shown per each vertical column, we should ensure that the all area of panel will be visible above the page fold.
In the example below, the first column is “Name” rather than “Customer ID.” This horizontal scroll should still work with page scroll and sticky header.
When the user enters a keyword in the search field and submits the query (by clicking the spyglass icon), the table will display only records that contain the designated keyword. The search term is displayed as a “chip” below the search field (and inline with any additional filters that were applied). In this layout, additional search terms can be paired with the initial term to further refine the results. Each time a term is submitted, the data is filtered, the term is displayed as a “chip” and the search field returns to it’s initial state (it does not retain the term entered my the user).
As text is added to the search field, the system will suggest terms and phrases based on data contained in the table being searched against.
No more than 5 suggestions should be displayed at a time
Search/Filter Tags
Once a search term or filter is applied and results are loaded into the table, the terms or parameters used to filter by are displayed in the minified version of the “filter chip(s)”. If the user removes all the tags, the filters row would disappear.
Error Checking/Validation
There will be no form validation or error checking for search queries since any combination of characters may be searched. Messaging will display in the data area when no results can be returned.
Upon conducting a query, a result set is returned based on the above rules. Once results are loaded, the keyword search field will be empty, and a chip for the keyword will appear. If a user clears the chip, the table will then refresh, reloading data based on any filters that are applied.
The user will be able to select which columns are visible from here. Settings will also be contained in a panel that can be activated by clicking on the columns action. Users will also have the ability to cancel out of this prompt, as well as reset (restore) the table back to it’s default column view. These settings will be ‘sticky’ per table, so users returning to any particular table will see the table the way it was last configured.
Custom views allow the user to save the state of a table. When a view is saved, the table settings will be stored. These settings include column visibility and position, as well as any filter or search that has been applied to the table. Saving a ‘view’ will be done via a dropdown control. Saved views will be available per table.
Editing Saved Views
Views can be named or deleted by clicking an edit icon. Refer to “Adding a custom value to drop down list” above for more detailed behavior.
Filters allow users to customize the display of information in an associated data-table. By entering desired parameters (for example, a date range) in the available filter input sections table returns a modified view, making visible only the records meeting the user-determined criteria.
To access the Advanced Filters the user may click/tap the “Filters” button found in the table controls area. When activated, the button transforms into a tab and displays the available filters in a ‘drawer’ which opens between the table controls and the table data. The available filters are determined by the columns present in the table; therefore, if the user customizes the column visibility of the table to show some columns and hide others, the corresponding filters for these columns will display or hide in the filter ‘drawer’.
Not all columns may be filtered (such as Actions or checkbox select) and therefore will not be presented in the list of filters even though their columns are visible in the data-table.
To apply filters, the user sets the desired parameters in the input fields of the appropriate filters. The action initiated by clicking/tapping the “Apply” button (found in the advanced filters area). When applied, the advanced filter ‘drawer’ closes and the data-table refreshes to display the filtered data. The applied filters are indicated to the user in the form of filter ‘tags’ that appear between the filter button and the table data. Filter ‘tag’ are listed in the order that they are applied and each individual ‘tag’ has a control for removing it.
Removing Filters
Users may remove a filter setting by clicking/tapping the remove control next to the filter ‘tag’. Doing so removes the particular filter from the query, the table refreshes and the data excluded by that filter then appears in the table. The user can quickly remove all applied filters by clicking/tapping the “clear all” link that follows the list of ‘filter tags’.
Data Table Views
The data-table will support up to 30 columns, with up to 8 being visible by default. While there will be a default view for each data-table in the system, users will have the ability to show, hide, drag and change the order of columns. This interaction will include the ability to resize the width of columns.
The only columns which cannot be moved are the checkbox(select) column and the action column. The select column will always appear on the far left while the action column will appear on the far right of the table
View Stickiness
As a user rearranges, adds, and resizes the columns of a particular table , it’s view state should be saved so that when a user leaves and the returns to the table , it will appear the way the user last viewed it.
The following parameters will be saved:
Columns displayed
Column arrangement
Number of items per page
Resetting the View
This will be handled by the ‘Reset’ function in the settings drop down button. A modal dialog should appear, allowing the user to confirm the reset.
This feature will allow users to make bulk selections to items within any given data-table. Because users may be dealing with many “pages” of data, this function needs to be specific in respect to what is being selected. Thus a drop down will be used to allow for multiple options for selecting records.
This drop down will include the following:
Select all on a page, or all visible
Select all on all pages
Invert selection (appears only after a selection has been made)
This drop down only needs to appear where more than one page of data is available. In cases where only one page of data is available, only a checkbox allowing the user to select or deselect all is necessary. Options in the drop down select should be dynamic. For instance, deselect options should not be displayed if nothing is selected.
The total number of records loaded into the table will display above the column headers.
As items are selected on the grid, a count for the number of items selected should be displayed next to the total count. This will give the user confidence that records are selected though they may not be on the current page view.
For tables which require a select column:
The select column will always be the first column appearing on the left side of the table.
This column will be fixed and stationary (it cannot be moved or resized).
Users may select multiple rows by using the checkboxes or the select all function.
Selected rows will be indicated by a checked box and a highlight and/or border style which will delineate the selected rows from unselected rows.
Some data-tables will be used to display “settings” content. In these instances a checkbox is not ideal for the experience, as it can be confusing to the user when pre-selected settings are displayed. Switches make the action and intent more clear to the user for these tasks. Therefore, if switches are present, checkboxes should not; the two should never be used in the same table. Since switches replace the functionality of checkboxes they should be the first column of the data-table.
Single Select Button
The data table can also accommodate buttons in rows, and has a special case in the “Single Select” button. This button functions not unlike a typical radio button control, but is used instead of the radio button when the task flow or experience in the Admin application are better served with the more implicit action of selecting a single choice from a data table. This provides greater visibility and immediate confirmation of the action to the user. The use of this should be carefully considered in the context of the experience to determine if it provides greater understanding to the user than radio buttons.
Single item and multiple item edits are explained below.
Not all data-tables will allow for inline editing.
Single Item Select and Edit Interactions
Inline editing can be instantiated by single clicking on the field to be edited. Once inline editing is instantiated, all appropriate fields within a row will be editable.
Non-editable fields will require a disabled treatment.
Once a row becomes editable, action buttons will appear below the row allowing a user to commit or cancel the edit.
Editable fields will have a left-to-right tab order. [Tab] and [Enter] will set focus on the next editable field in the tab order, unless the focus is set to the last field in the tab order in which case [Enter] will commit the edit while [Tab] will set focus to the Save button.
Inline editing may require error handling on some fields. This should be done using real-time field validation. Some fields may allow for only a specific set of values. In these instances, a select or multi-select interaction should be used.
Miscellaneous Features
This section will outline additional features which may be needed for some but not all tables in Magento.
Drag and Drop Columns
Some data-tables will allow users to arrange columns in a customized order. A user “picks up” a column by click and hold or touch and hold of the column header, then drags the column into the desired position. A highlight appears between columns in the table to indicate where this column will appear when “dropped”. Columns will not be allowed to precede the column of checkboxes in a table, likewise columns may not be positioned after the “Actions” column.
When dropped on an area that is not highlighted (or off target of the highlighted area) the column will return to it’s original position. If the user wishes to maintain this position for future viewing, they must set a “Saved View”, otherwise the default column order will prevail for following sessions.
Drag and Drop Rows
Some data-tables will allow users to specify an order for the records within the table. If a position has been assigned to a record, the position number will display in the ‘Position’ column. Changing position order should always shift the greater numbers in an ascending fashion, and lesser numbers in a descending fashion. E.G., if position 5 is changed to 10, the previous position 10 would become position 11, shifting all ascending records up. Position 6 through 9 would then shift down in the same manner. 6 would become 5, 7 would become 6, so on and so forth. If the ‘Position’ column is sorted, users can drag and drop single or multiple(once selected) to a different position on the table.
Inline editing functionality should not be available for tables that require drag and drop functionality for table rows.
Single rows may be arranged via drag and drop
Multiple rows may also be arranged via drag and drop
In cases where an image is associated with the data, as in the case of a product, the data-table will display a thumbnail view of the primary or default image (typically the first image in a series of image). By default the thumbnail image will appear to the far left of the table (after select checkboxes when present). The thumbnail image is a ‘clickable target’ independent of the typical click behavior of the row.
When the thumbnail is clicked a modal is presented over the data-table to provide a larger, more detailed view of the image. This modal should contain a heading that corresponds to the associated product name; a close control for the modal; a hyperlink that redirects the user to the details page.
Parent-Child relationships
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General interaction should follow standard web conventions. Interaction around dragging and resizing columns will utilize the cursor to indicate when an area can be dragged or resized.
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Can be resized by dragging the edge of the column.
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This specification proposes a new version of Magento’s administration data-table. Features of the existing data-table have been analyzed to best represent the existing functions of the data-table.
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(Diya TV) — Naga S. Annamdevula, a graduate medical student at the University of South Alabama, was awarded with a grant from the American Heart Association. Annamdevula, and her classmate Emily Turner, plan to use the $52,000 grant to further their studies of helping to further support their doctoral research as part of an interdisciplinary biomedical engineering track.
The program benefiting from the grant brings together the university’s college of medicine and engineering, and was launched six years ago in an effort to develop a more “synergistic educational environment,” College of Medicine dean Dr. Samuel J. Strada said in a statement.
“Naga and Emily are both very qualified and promising doctoral students working on highly interdisciplinary biomedical engineering projects,” Dr. Silas Leavesley, who teaches in the program said. “Having both of them receive a highly competitive, nationally recognized extramural fellowship is a testament to the dynamic and interdisciplinary training environment we have been working to establish between the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine.”
Annamdevula, a native of Rajahmundry, India, is conducting the research, which is titled,”Spatial distribution of PDE4 isoforms regulates cAMP compartmentalization and endothelial barrier permeability in PMVECs,” on a two-year grant. In layman’s terms, Annadevula is working towards finding a cure for acute respiratory distress syndrome, a condition which fluid collects in the lungs’ air sacs, depriving organs of oxygen.
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The merger of the engineering school is paramount to Annamdevula’s research—she’s using a five-dimensional imaging process to map x, y and z spatial components. It’s half biological science, and half engineering, at its core, the school said.
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Child Health 0 - 6 Years
Children's Immunisation Schedule
Here's a checklist of the vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS, and the age at which you should ideally have them.
Routine childhood immunisations
When to immunise
Diseases protected against
Vaccine given
Site**
Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Thigh
Rotavirus Rotavirus (Rotarix) By mouth
Meningococcal group B (MenB) MenB Left thigh
Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group C disease (MenC) Men C (NeisVac-C or Menjugate) Thigh
Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group B (MenB) Men B Left thigh
One year old Hib/MenC Hib/MenC (Menitorix) Upper arm/thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Upper arm/thigh
Measles, mumpsand rubella (German measles) MMR(Priorix or MMR VaxPRO) Upper arm/thigh
MenB MenB booster Left thigh
Two to six years old
(including children in
school years 1 and 2) Influenza (each year from September) Live attenuated influenza
vaccine LAIV4 Both nostrils
Three years four months old or soon after Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio dTaP/IPV (Repevax) or DTaP/IPV(Infanrix-IPV) Upper arm
Measles, mumpsand rubella MMR (Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)(check first dose has been given) Upper arm
** Where two or more injections are required at once, these should ideally be given in different limbs. Where this is not possible, injections in the same limb should be given 2.5cm apart.
Immunisations for at-risk children
Target Group Age & Schedule Disease Vaccines required
Babies born to hepatitis B infected
mothers At birth, four weeks, eight weeks
and Boost at one year1 Hepatitis B Hepatitis B vaccine
(Engerix B / HBvaxPRO)
Infants in areas of the country with
TB incidence >= 40/100,000
At birth Tuberculosis BCG
Infants with a parent or grandparent
born in a high incidence country At birth Tuberculosis BCG
There is a good guide on the NHS website which describes various conditions affecting children. There is advice on how to diagnose them, how to treat them and if further advice should be consulted.
NHS childhood illness slideshow
When Should I Worry?
Having an ill child can be a very scary experience for parents. If you understand more about the illness it can help you to feel more in control. This booklet is for parents (and older children) and deals with common infections in children who are normally healthy.
Download the booklet
See the NHS Conditions and Treatments browser for an in-depth description of many common health issues.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice
Child Health 7 to 15 Years
Girls aged 12 to 13 years old Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (and genital warts caused by types 6 and 11) HPV (two doses 6-12 months) Upper arm
14 years old (school year 9) Tetanus, diphtheria and polio Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMR status Upper arm
Meningococcal groups A, C, W
and Y disease MenACWY Upper arm
The Meningitis C vaccination will be introduced during the 2013/14 academic year and the vaccine supplied will depend on the brands available at the time of ordering
Most symptoms of a fever in young children can be managed at home with infant paracetamol. If the fever is very high, they may have an infection that needs treating with antibiotics.
Bupa - more about childhood fevers
NHS Choices - what temperature is a fever?
Head lice are insects that live on the scalp and neck. They may make your head feel itchy. Although head lice may be embarrassing and sometimes uncomfortable, they don't usually cause illness. However, they won't clear up on their own and you need to treat them promptly
Head Lice Factsheet
Nosebleeds (also known as epistaxis) are fairly common, especially in children, and can generally be easily treated.
NHS Conditions and Treatments
Five health symptoms men should not ignore:
"British men are paying the price for neglecting their health: more than 100,000 men a year die prematurely.
On average, men go to their GP half as often as women. It's important to be aware of changes to your health, and to see your GP immediately if you notice something that's not right." Find out more
Each year about 36,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most common cancer in men. It mainly affects men aged over 50.
difficulty in starting to pass urine
a weak, sometimes intermittent flow of urine
dribbling of urine before and after urinating
a frequent or urgent need to pass urine
rarely, blood in your urine or semen and pain when passing urine
These symptoms aren't always caused by prostate cancer but if you have them, see your GP.
Find out more about the symptoms, causes and diagnosis of prostate cancer by using the resources below.
BUPA - Prostate Cancer
NHS - Prostate Cancer
Testicular cancer, though the most common cancer in young men, it is still quite rare. With 2000 new cases being diagnosed each year, this makes it the biggest cause of cancer related death in 15 - 35-year-old males. It accounts for around 70 deaths a year within the UK alone.
What to Look Out For
The most common symptom of testicular cancer is swelling or a pea-sized lump in one of the testes (balls). There is no current screening test therefore it is important that you look out for the following signs and symptoms.
A dull ache, or sharp pain, in your testicles, or scrotum, which may come and go
A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
A dull ache in your lower abdomen
A sudden collection of fluid in your scrotum
Fatigue, and generally feeling unwell.
NHS - Information on Testicular Cancer
BUPA - Testicular Cancer
It’s estimated that one man in 10 has a problem related to having sex, such as premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction. Dr John Tomlinson of The Sexual Advice Association explains some of the causes, and where to seek help.
Find our more on NHS
Cervical Screening (Smear Tests)
Cervical screening is a method of preventing cervical cancer by detecting abnormal cells in the cervix (lower part of the womb). Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, but it is a test to check the health of the cervix.
Most women's test results show that everything is normal. But for one in 20 women, the test will show some changes in the cells of the cervix. Most of these changes will not lead to cervical cancer and the cells will go back to normal on their own. In some cases, the abnormal cells need to be treated to prevent them becoming a problem later.
NHS - Cervical Screening
The why, when & how guide to cervical screening
NHS Inform (Scottish Patients)
Cervical Screening information, risks, benefits and tests for patients based in Scotland
This factsheet is for women who would like information about having a cervical smear test for screening. This means having the test when you don't have any symptoms.
Since September 2008 there has been a national programme to vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against human papilloma virus (HPV). There is also a three-year catch up campaign that will offer the HPV vaccine (also known as the cervical cancer jab) to 13-18 year old girls.
The programme is delivered largely through secondary schools, and consists of three injections that are given over a six-month period. In the UK, more than 1.4 million doses have been given since the vaccination programme started.
What is Human papilloma virus (HPV)?
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name of a family of viruses that affect the skin and the moist membranes that line your body, such as those in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. These membranes are called the mucosa.
There are more than 100 different types of HPV viruses, with about 40 types affecting the genital area. These are classed as high risk and low risk.
How you get HPV?
Types of HPV that affect the skin can be passed on by skin contact with an affected person. The types of HPV that affect the mouth and throat can be passed on through kissing. Genital HPV is usually spread through intimate, skin to skin, contact during sex. You can have the genital HPV virus for years and not have any sign of it.
How HPV can cause cervical cancer?
Most HPV infections are harmless or cause genital warts, however some types can cause cervical cancer. Most HPV infections clear up by themselves, but in some people the infection can last a long time. HPV infects the cells of the surface of the cervix where it can stay for many years without you knowing.
The HPV virus can damage these cells leading to changes in their appearance. Over time, these changes can develop into cervical cancer. The purpose of cervical screening (testing) is to detect these changes, which, if picked up early enough, can be treated to prevent cancer happening. If they are left untreated, cancer can develop and may lead to serious illness and death.
HPV Facts and information
NHS - HPV Vaccination Why, how and when is the vaccination given and what are the side effects
This factsheet is for people who would like information about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. About 46,000 women get breast cancer in the UK each year. Most of them (8 out of 10) are over 50, but younger women, and in rare cases men, can also get breast cancer.
The NHS Breast Screening Programme invites over 2 million women for screening every year, and detects over 14,000 cancers. Dr Emma Pennery of Breast Cancer Care says: “Breast X-rays, called mammograms, can detect tumours at a very early stage, before you’d feel a lump. The earlier it’s treated, the higher the survival rate.”
Find out more about breast cancer screening
Macmillan Cancer Research
The causes and symptoms of breast cancer in women and explains how it is diagnosed and treated
Symtpoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention & screening information
Seasonal Flu Vaccination
Influenza – flu – is a highly infectious and potentially serious illness caused by influenza viruses. Each year the make-up of the seasonal flu vaccine is designed to protect against the influenza viruses that the World Heal th Organization decide are most likely to be circulating in the coming winter.
Regular immunisation (vaccination) is given free of charge to the following at-risk people, to protect them from seasonal flu:
people aged 65 or over,
people with a serious medical condition
people living in a residential or nursing home
the main carers for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer becomes ill
healthcare or social care professionals directly involved in patient care
For more information on flu immunisation, including background information on the vaccine and how you can get the jab, see Seasonal flu jab
HPA - Season Flu Guide
Seasonal Flu Factsheet
Eating Well & Exercise - helping you maintain a healthy body
We're bombarded with scare stories about weight, from size zero to the obesity 'epidemic'. But a healthy body is determined by different factors for each of us.
NHS - Good Food Guide
Information on a healthy diet and ways to make it work for you
NHS - Why be active?
Even a little bit of exercise will make you feel better about yourself, boost your confidence and cut your risk of developing a serious illness.
Both men and women need to look after their sexual health and take time to understand the issues that surround contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
For instance there are some STIs, like chlamydia, that you could be carrying without having any symptoms. This infection can affect fertility, so it's important to make use of the sexual health services available for free on the NHS.
Useful Resources:
Sex & Young People
A comprehensive guide to the questions you may have about sex from the NHS
Issues, symptoms and treatments
Sexual Health FAQs
Expert answers from a qualified Doctor
Netdoctor
Here you'll find tips for a fulfilling sex life plus advice on STDs, contraception and common sex problems.
FPA - The Sexual Health Charity
Sexual health advice and information on contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy choices, abortion and planning a pregnancy.
There are so many different types of contraception available that you should be able to find the right method. You may have to try several different things before you choose the one you like most.
Types of contraception
A Family Planning specialist writes about the different types of contraception, the benefits and pitfalls and how effective they are
Contraception - NHS
Information on Contraception from NHS Choices including why, when and how it should be used and with links to other useful resources.
Hormonal Contraception
This factsheet is for women who are taking hormonal contraceptives, or who would like information about them.
Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection among under-25s. Often there are no symptoms, but testing and treatment are simple.
Causes and risk factors Chlamydia is usually passed from one person to another during vaginal, oral or anal sex, or by sharing sex toys. It can live inside cells of the cervix, urethra, rectum and sometimes in the throat and eyes.
NHS - focus on Chlamydia Information, videos and advice from the NHS website
This factsheet is for people who have chlamydia, or who would like information about it.
Getting the right treatment from the right professionals
Health Improvement Directory
The History of Denbridge
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Kato, what do you mean by “Eight the Dod”?
It is a dog’s name… It literally means the dog called “Eight.” If it is transaleted into Japanese, every Japanese knows the dog.
How could it be possible?
There is a dog statue placed in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo.
So there used to be a real dog called “Hachi” and this statue was made after that dog, wasn’t it?
Yes, that’s right.
what kind of a dog was it?
Born on November 10, 1923, this dog was called “Hachikō” in Japanese. He died on March 8, 1935. He is remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, for whom he continued to wait for over nine years following his death.
Oh, yes. During his lifetime, the dog was held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity. Well after his death, he continues to be remembered in worldwide popular culture, with statues, movies, books, and appearances in various media.
Amazing! I didn’t know that.
In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet.
Ueno would commute daily to work, and Hachikō would leave the house to greet him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station.
The pair continued the daily routine until May 1925, when Ueno did not return.
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The professor had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, while he was giving a lecture, and died without ever returning to the train station in which Hachikō would wait.
Each day, for the next nine years, nine months and fifteen days, Hachikō awaited Ueno’s return, appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.
Hachikō attracted the attention of other commuters.
Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day.
Initial reactions from the people, especially from those working at the station, were not necessarily friendly.
However, after the first appearance of the article about him on October 4, 1932 in Asahi Shimbun (one of the national newspapers), people started to bring Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait.
One of Ueno’s students, Hirokichi Saito, who developed expertise on the Akita breed, saw the dog at the station and followed him to the Kobayashi home, the home of Ueno’s former gardener, Kuzaboro Kobayashi, where he learned the history of Hachikō’s life.
Shortly after the meeting, the former student published a documented census of Akitas in Japan.
His research found only 30 purebred Akitas remaining, including Hachikō from Shibuya Station.
He returned frequently to visit Hachikō, and over the years he published several articles about the dog’s remarkable loyalty.
In 1932, one of his articles, published in Asahi Shimbun, placed the dog in the national spotlight.
Hachikō became a national sensation.
His faithfulness to his master’s memory impressed the people of Japan as a spirit of family loyalty to which all should strive to achieve.
Teachers and parents used Hachikō’s vigil as an example for children to follow.
A well-known Japanese artist rendered a sculpture of the dog, and throughout the country, a new awareness of the Akita breed grew.
Eventually, Hachikō’s legendary faithfulness became a national symbol of loyalty, particularly to the person and institution of Emperors.
Hachikō died on March 8, 1935 at the age of 11 based on his date of birth.
He was found on a street in Shibuya.
In March 2011, scientists finally settled the cause of death of Hachikō: the dog had both terminal cancer and a filaria infection.
There were also four yakitori skewers in Hachikō’s stomach, but the skewers did not damage his stomach or cause his death.
After his death, Hachikō’s remains were cremated and his ashes were buried in Aoyama Cemetery, Minato, Tokyo where they rest beside those of Hachikō’s beloved master, Professor Ueno.
Hachikō’s fur, which was preserved after his death, was stuffed and mounted and is now on permanent display at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo.
In April 1934, a bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya Station, and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling.
The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II.
In 1948, the Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist, to make a second statue.
When the new statue appeared, a dedication ceremony occurred.
The new statue, which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is a popular meeting spot.
The station entrance near this statue is named “Hachikō-guchi”, meaning “The Hachikō Entrance/Exit”, and is one of Shibuya Station’s five exits.
The Japan Times played an April Fools’ joke on readers by reporting that the bronze statue was stolen a little before 2:00 AM on April 1, 2007, by “suspected metal thieves”.
The false story told a very detailed account of an elaborate theft by men wearing khaki workers’ uniforms who secured the area with orange safety cones and obscured the theft with blue vinyl tarps.
The “crime” was allegedly recorded on security cameras.
A similar statue stands in Hachikō’s hometown, in front of Ōdate Station.
In 2004, a new statue of Hachikō was erected on the original stone pedestal from Shibuya in front of the Akita Dog Museum in Odate.
After the release of the American movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009) filmed in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the Japanese Consulate in US helped the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council and the city of Woonsocket to unveil an identical statue of Hachiko at the Woonsocket Depot Square, which was the location of the “Bedridge” train station featured in the movie.
SOURCE: “Hachikō”
I see… So he’s become a symbol of loyalty for the Japanese, huh?
You’re telling me… Actually, the Japanese still remember Hachiko and love him… As a matter of fact, some people recently placed another statue of both Hachiko and Professor Ueno at the campus of Tokyo University.
But, how come you pick up the dog out of the blue.
Well…, I watched the last movie in the folowing list.
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■“Actual List”
This is the list of movies I’ve recently viewed at the Vancouver Public library… Look at the red-rectangled title in the bottom of the list!
I see… So you watched “Hachi” on August 22, huh?
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After you watched, you jotted down the following comment, huh?
Directed by Lasse Hallström in 2009, this 93-minute docudrama delves into a sad yet heartwarming real story of the famous Japanese loyal dog in an American setting.
The subject is a remake of the 1987 Japanese film, Hachikō Monogatari (ハチ公物語), literally “The Tale of Hachiko”.
Hachi(November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was an Akita dog born on a farm near the city of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan.
He is remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, whom he waited for more than nine years after his owner’s death.
Hachi is known in Japanese as chūken Hachikō (忠犬ハチ公) “faithful dog Hachikō”, hachi meaning “eight” and kō meaning “affection.”
During his lifetime, the dog was held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity.
Well after his death, he continues to be remembered in worldwide popular culture, with statues, movies, books, and appearances in various media.
I’ve seen its movies so many times and heard its stories so many times, yet still it touches my heart each time I see the movie.
Kato, have you really seen so many movies about the dog?
Oh, yes, actually I watched the Japanese version.
How did you like it?
I love it! … It seems to me much beter than “Hachi (American version)” simply because it reminds me of my hometown… The most heartbreaking scene is as follows:
Wow!… I feel like crying…
Oh, yes… very much so… Did you also watch the American version?
Yes, of course, I did.
Kato, tell me about it.
Hachi is a story of love and devotion between a dog and a man.
The story is told by Ronnie, the grandson of the man.
He has to give a presentation about a personal hero.
Ronnie’s subject is his grandfather’s dog, Hachikō.
Despite his classmates laughing he tells how his grandfather, Professor Parker Wilson, finds a lost puppy sent from Japan at the train station and ends up taking it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner.
He names the Akita puppy Hachikō, after Ken, a Japanese professor, translates a symbol on his collar as ‘Hachi’—Japanese for the number 8—signifying good fortune.
Even though they didn’t find his owner and his wife, Cate, doesn’t think they should keep him, they do.
Over the next year or so, Parker and Hachi become very close.
Parker tries, but Hachi refuses to do dog-like activities like chase and fetch.
One morning, Parker leaves for work and Hachi follows him to the train station and refuses to leave until Parker walks him home.
Later that afternoon, Hachi walks to the station to wait patiently for Parker to return.
Parker is surprised to find Hachi waiting for him, but it becomes a daily routine.
One day, Hachi waits patiently as the train arrives, but there is no sign of Parker.
He waits, lying in the snow for hours until Parker’s son-in-law Michael comes to get him.
Although everyone tries to tell Hachi that Parker has died (of a cerebral hemorrhage during a lecture in class), Hachi doesn’t understand.
Hachi continues to return to the station and wait every day.
As time passes, Cate sells the house and Hachi is sent to live with her daughter Andy, Michael, and their baby Ronnie.
However, Hachi escapes and finds his way back to the station, where he sits at his usual spot.
Andy arrives and takes him home, but after seeing how depressed the dog is she lets him out to return to the station.
Hachi waits every day at the train station and sleeps in the rail yard at night.
He is fed daily by the train station workers that knew the professor.
After seeing a newspaper article about Hachi, Ken visits Hachi.
Cate comes back to visit Parker’s grave on the tenth anniversary of his death and meets Ken.
She is stunned to see a now elderly Hachi still waiting.
Overcome with grief, Cate sits and waits for the next train with him.
At home, Cate tells the now ten-year-old Ronnie about Hachi.
Meanwhile, the dog continues waiting until his body can wait no longer, and is last seen lying in the snow, alone and still, although he is comforted by a final vision of Parker finally appearing and picking him up to go, presumably to the afterlife.
Ronnie concludes on why Hachi will forever be his hero and his story has clearly moved the class, with some students holding back tears, including those who had laughed at the beginning.
After school, Ronnie, coming off the school bus, is met by his dad and his own puppy, also named Hachi.
Ronnie and Hachi walk down the same tracks where Parker and Hachi had spent so much time together.
SOURCE:”Hachi: A Dog’s Tale”
It appears quite different from the Japanese versin, doesn’t it?
Yes, it does… It can’t be the same simply because “Hachi” is now an Americanized pooch… Anyway, the movie turns out to be still good in its own right… And Richard Geer loves the movie himself.
Kato, do you think I should watch the film?
Yes, of course, you should because it’s free as long as you borrow the DVD from the library.
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In any case, there are some people waiting to see this movie. So you should reserve the DVD as soon as possible.
Yes, I’ll do it right away.
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Kato has watched 1,737 movies at the Vancouver Public Library so far.
When I take a look at the following movie list, I notice a film called “Marley & Me.”
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It must be another dog story.
I checked the catalogue page.
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Kato jotted down the following comment:
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008 and based on the book by John Grogan, this 115-minute comedy-drama depicts an amazing, amusing and incorrigible dog called Marley.
The film portrays John Grogan and his family’s life during the thirteen years that they lived with their dog Marley, and the relationships and lessons from this period.
Marley, a yellow Labrador Retriever, appears as a high-strung, boisterous, and somewhat uncontrolled dog.
He is strong, powerful, endlessly hungry, eager to be active, and often destructive.
It is definitely a good movie for dog-lovers.
Although I enjoyed it, the first two-thirds of the film are somewhat repetitious and boring.
“Hachi” is certainly much better as a docudrama.
Kato says, “‘Hachi’ is much better.”
Anyway, I past the trailer here.
It looks amusing and amazing, doesn’t it?
I think I’ll borrow the DVD.
In any case, I expect Kato will write another interesting article soon.
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■“Glorious Summer”
■“Biker Babe & Granny”
■“Genetically Modified”
■“Tyrannosaur”
■“Love@Magic”
■“Yellow Ball”
■“Welcome Back”
■“Forbidden Love”
■“Heaven with Mochi”
■“Travel Expense Scandal”
■“Love@Redemption”
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■“JAGEL”
■“JAGEL Again”
■“Say NO!”
■Happy Gal in Canada
■Roof of Vancouver
■Aftershock
■Whiplash
■Sex Appeal
■Better Off Without Senate
■Fire Festival
■Sweets@Paris
■Scary Quake
■MH370 Mystery
■Putin’s Way
■Trump @ Vancouver
■Otter & Trump
■Changeling
■Fiddler on the Roof
■Flesh and Bone
■Maiden’s Prayer
■Romeo & Juliet
■Trump @ Joke
■Halloween in Shibuya
■Trump Shock
■Life or Death
■Way to Millionaire
■Adele Hugo
■Middle Sexes
■Romance@Madison
■Hacksaw Ridge
Kato is a real movie lover, who tries to watch 1001 movies.
As a matter of fact, he has already accomplished his goal.
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■『Actual List』
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Kato watched “The Arabian Nights” or “One Thousand and One Nights” as his 1001th movie.
You might just as well want to view it.
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The stories in “the Arabian Nights” were collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.
The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.
In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.
What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.
The stories proceed from this original tale.
Some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord.
Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more.
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Dead Dreamer
To Dream is to Die – 2019
Sarah Lampkin
Child Dreamer Series
Tainted Wings
Tainted Wings – Chapter Nine
Marcia’s car was sitting in the driveway when Hekate pulled up beside her in the rain. It hadn’t let up the entire time she had been with Caleb, let alone the drive home. She collected her bags before running into the house. Inside, she found Marcia at the kitchen counter and her mother standing on the other side. Both of them were eating something from bowls. Hekate could smell chili.
“Hey. Sorry, I’m late,” Hekate apologized to both of them.
Her mother looked up from her bowl first. “You are late. Don’t forget it’s a school night. You’ve both usually been good in the past, but I don’t want you guys staying up too late.”
Marcia leaned back to glance at Hekate before scooping another bite up into her mouth. She tried to speak through the food. “We’re just going to catch up on some homework and watch some YouTube videos. Nothing too exciting.”
Hekate threw her bag onto the living room couch before returning to take a seat next to Marcia. There was already a bowl of hot chili waiting for her. She didn’t realize how hungry she was until she took the first bite, burning her tongue for a second time that night.
“Thanks, Mom. This is delicious,” Hekate said through a mouthful.
Marcia suddenly leaned into her, tilting her head onto Hekate’s shoulder. “So. Are you going to tell me how your date was, or not? Since one of us got to even go on a date?”
Her mother nearly choked on the sip of water she had just taken. “Excuse me? A date? My daughter went on a date? This must be some kind of mistake!”
I’ll admit, even I was surprised.
“Shut up,” Hekate grumbled before biting into her food again. The last thing she wanted was the third degree on how the coffee date had gone. Especially after Jennifer had tried to start something with her at their gymnastics practice.
Marcia wasn’t going to let it drop. “Si! Your daughter went on a date! She’s growing up, I’m so proud. Tell me! How did it go?”
“We just had coffee. That’s it. We talked for a bit, hung out, then I came home. End of story,” Hekate said, attempting to let the subject drop again.
Leaping from her chair, Marcia walked over to the kitchen sink to drop her empty bowl. “You’re not getting off that easy.”
Thankfully, her mother took pity on her cornered daughter. “Come on, Marcia. Give her a break. She’ll tell us when she’s ready,” leaning closer to Marcia, she whispered, “She better.”
Annoyed by the topic, Hekate devoured the rest of her dinner as fast as she could so she could escape. “We have work to do. Come on.”
“Don’t stay up too late,” her mother reminded them.
“Yes, ma’am!” Hekate exclaimed.
Marcia was right behind her when she ran upstairs to her bedroom. Although Hekate’s goal was to focus on the mission for the night, Marcia wasn’t going to let it go. “Seriously, what happened?”
“Seriously, do you want your powers or not?” Hekate retorted.
The topic of powers shut Marcia up right away. Instead of pressing the issue further, she fell onto her bed in defeat. “What exactly is going to happen?”
Throwing her leotard into her hamper, Hekate slipped into a large t-shirt and sweatpants as Moro materialized beside Marcia. “I’m not even sure.”
Marcia absentmindedly began to scratch Moro behind the ear. “Any idea, wolf?”
Moro glanced down at her. “I’m not allowed to mention it until we are there. It has to come from Diana.”
She groaned, sitting up. “Can I borrow some clothes? I didn’t bring a bag.”
Hekate pointed to her dresser. “I’m surprised you’re even asking.” As Marcia began to change into another pair of sweatpants and a tank top, Hekate realized something. “Nothing strange has happened since you were last there?”
“You mean besides all the attacks on you? No, not really,” Marcia said casually.
Moro was uncharacteristically silent during their discussion of powers. When Hekate was given her abilities, she was attacked on day one. She wondered if Moro had sent something to watch Marcia the same way she was watched her entire life.
“It’s possible they aren’t aware of her yet. She still has to receive her blessing from Diana,” Moro said reassuringly as she jumped down from the bed.
She stared at the wolf, now sitting beside her legs. Moro was staring back at her. That could have been the reason, but it didn’t seem enough. The demons had made a point to go after her the second she returned from the door. Marcia was still untouched. She may not have received her full power then, but their souls were connected, regardless. And yet, the demons still did nothing.
“Probably,” she said, though she didn’t believe her words. Her hand reached to touch the brand again. It had imprinted itself so deeply into her skin, it felt as though it was being distorted, changing shape. Her fingers traced the imprint through her t-shirt. Moro noticed but chose not to comment.
Marcia was getting uncomfortable with the ominous silence. Wanting to break it, she ran up behind Hekate and wrapped up arms around her waist before lifting her into the air. “Come on! Let’s get me some wings!”
“Very well. Both of you, take hold of me and we’ll go,” Moro said as she stood.
Once Hekate was freed, she crouched down beside Marcia. They both placed a hand on Moro’s neck. Her fur was soft, almost inviting. The blood from the night before now gone, leaving no trace. It gave them both the same calming effect Hekate had felt while beside the doors and Selene.
There was no slow build. There was no shift in energy. One minute, they were in Hekate’s room and the next, they were in a forest. In front of them was another large gateway, however, this one was far more beautiful than the last. With intricate designs layered in gold along the wooden door, it felt inviting. Peaceful.
A woman stood before them. She was beautiful. Dressed in a linen fabric, it draped across her chest, pinned at the shoulders. She did not wear the armor Selene wore. Instead, her linen dress hung loosely over her body. Her brunette hair pinned back with intricate braids, leaving only a few strands to fall on her forehead. She was breathtaking in her grace.
The golden almond shaped eyes stared back at them. Her eyes were sharp, not matching the kindness behind her smile. Hekate suddenly felt extremely under dressed. She could feel the woman evaluating them. “Welcome to Eden.”
Moro stepped forward, forcing them to release her fur. “Good evening Diana. I hope all is well up here.”
“It usually is,” Her voice was like chimes in the wind as she spoke.
They stood to greet Diana, but the moment Hekate moved to speak, her chest began to burn furiously. Her knees buckled under the pressure as her hand reached to grab hold of the brand as if to pull it off and end the pain. She leaned over her knees, holding her breath as she refused to cry out.
“Don’t touch her,” Diana said. When she spoke this time, her voice was like ice.
Marcia didn’t seem to care either way. “What are you talking about?” She reached over to grab Hekate’s shoulders, attempting to unfold her.
Ignoring the girl, Diana looked at Moro. “Why would you bring someone who has been branded here? She cannot be here. The tainted cannot be anywhere near the Gates.”
Moro didn’t have a chance to respond. Marcia was quicker to her words. “Isn’t that the point of us bringing her here? If you can’t fix her, then I will find a way to do it! Give me my powers and we’ll leave!”
Diana raised an eyebrow. “Very demanding for a human.”
“Shut up!” Hekate growled.
Everyone froze to look at her again. Moro slowly approached Hekate, nudging her with her nose. “I can’t feel you again.”
Hekate jerked her head up, her black glare causing Moro to take a step back. “You angelic creatures think you have everything figured out. Think your grace allows you to belittle everything else. But you seem to forget, while on your pedestals, that everything dies. Even you. There will be blood. Human and angel alike. And it will be my gift to you.”
Before anyone could react, Marcia jerked Hekate’s shoulders before raising her fist. “Be quiet!” Her fist met Hekate’s face so hard, her hands started to bleed. Hekate’s nose cracked under the pressure, blood covering her face.
“This is the girl you want me to give my power to?”
Marcia shook her hand. The punch felt as though she had broken it, but it was possible it was only severely bruised. “This is why I need the power. We have to find a way to take that thing off of her. It’s changing her, and I don’t like it.”
Moro nodded and moved to stand next to Marcia as Hekate laid unconscious behind them. “I’ve spoken to her without Hekate’s knowledge on occasion. She knows that the brand is changing her friend. She has me to help her, but she needs more. Maybe her friend, and maybe my other half.”
“Your other half?” Marcia asked, still shaking her hand.
“Yes. Technically we are in a few mythologies as different things from each time we visited your plane over the centuries. This isn’t even my true form. I merely chose it to best fit Hekate’s soul,” she said before looking back at Diana, “If you lend us Muninn, it could prove useful. Especially with his talent,” Moro explained.
A memory flicked across Marcia’s eyes. “Why do I know that name?”
Diana raised her hand into the air. “It was the name he was given from centuries ago. He hasn’t been around humans since then, unlike Moro. Moro has changed her names a few times.” She shifted her focus back to Moro. “He has been observing the girl since the first time you were here. He will need to agree. I cannot force him to do anything.”
Hekate slowly began to stir behind them. No one noticed at first, but when she spit the blood from her mouth, all three of them flinched. Marcia raised her fist. “Do I need to punch you again?”
As she sat up, Hekate wasn’t sure why she was bleeding at first. But after a moment, her memory of the venom laced words returned to her. She wasn’t sure what possessed her to even say them. She wish she could have just said something had taken over. But the truth was, whatever it was, revealed her darkest thoughts. Not necessarily the threat itself, but the aggravation of angels acting holier than them. It was a darkness she had tried hard to hide from even Moro.
Hekate shook her head. “No. I’m not sure what that was. I’m sorry.”
As she began to stand, a scratching noise began behind the Gate. Hekate was confused at first, as she could see through the bars, opening up to another large forest. But something on the other side had begun to peck and scratch it’s way through. Suddenly, the Gates opened, but only a fraction. From behind, something white flew through the crack before slamming shut, sealing the Gates again.
It was only for a split second, but Hekate knew she saw something. Through the crack, there was a brilliant light, one that hurt her eyes. There was a tree in the distance, far behind the entryway. Before she could get a better look at it, the Gates had shut. She cursed internally for not getting a better look. Moro eyed her carefully, but did not comment.
The white raven circled above before landing on Diana’s arm. She held her arm to the side as she began to stroke the raven’s chest with the other. “Hello, old friend.”
“Why have you summoned me?” he asked. The voice was deep and older. The same as Moro, his mouth did not move when he spoke, but you knew where the voice was coming from, regardless.
“Hello, brother,” Moro said.
The raven turned to look down at the wolf. “Sister.”
“It looks like Selene’s fight has bled even here. They’re requesting our assistance. More than before,” Diana explained.
Marcia stepped forward. “I need to be able to fight with them. And maybe even find a cure for Hekate.”
Muninn flew towards Hekate, stopping only to hover in front of her. “You’ve been branded. There is nothing that can be done. You will die. Your soul will be taken.”
“There is something we can do,” Hekate calmly said.
“And what is that?” Diana asked voice laced with curiosity.
Hekate jerked her head up in defiance. “We kill Death.”
Muninn jerked backward. “Impossible. Death cannot be killed. Not until the second death has occurred. Why are you talking about killing Death?”
Diana shifted her weight to her back leg as her arms crossed over her chest. “Isn’t he the Horseman that escaped?”
Moro nodded. “Yes,” her head tilted back towards Hekate, “He’s right. You can’t kill Death. All we can hope to do is reseal him.”
“Everything can die, one way or another. We just have to find a way to do it,” Hekate snapped.
Tired of the back and forth, Marcia interrupted them. “We need to focus on right now. We can’t stay here forever, or her mother is going to find out we’re gone.”
Hekate’s words still rang in the air. But Diana nodded as she held her hand out and placed it on Marcia’s chest. “You’re right. Muninn, are you willing to help?”
The white raven stared at them before lowering his head. Before them, the raven’s form began to change. His feathers began to darken, as its body grew in size. The claws that had been delicately holding onto Diana’s arm, grew into large talons. His black eyes began to shimmer as they shifted to a golden amber, matching the markings on the door.
“Very well,” he said when he lifted his head. The white raven that was in front of them had transformed into a golden eagle. He was beautiful.
Marcia was in awe as she stared at the eagle. She lifted her hand to touch his feathers before suddenly jerking her head back. “I’m sorry. You didn’t have to change yourself for this.”
The eagle shook it’s head vigorously from side to side. “By changing form to one desired by the human soul, it allows the merging process to occur naturally. It is why my sister, Huginn, chose that body. Though, I assume now you are to be called Moro.”
The wolf nodded. “Yes.”
A golden light, brighter than the sun engulfed them as Diana’s hand pressed harder onto Marcia’s chest. Muninn flew into the air before diving towards her. Right as he would have hit her, he vanished. Marcia screamed as Diana’s hand continued to hold her there.
Hekate had to hold her hands up to block out the blinding light. On instinct, her wings ripped through her skin and shirt to help defend against the light, ripping her t-shirt. As it guarded her sight, she could see the feathers were darker now. They were still gray with hints of red, but the gray was slowly darkening. Lifting a finger from her face, she reached to touch them. They weren’t as soft as they originally had been. They were rough as if blood had dried on them again.
Marcia’s screams grew louder as she fell to the ground. For the first time, she felt the pain that Hekate felt each time she summoned them. Her muscles began to tear and crack, allowing for the new bone growth before ripping through the skin. Even though the broken muscles quickly repaired themselves along the new bones, it didn’t take away from the ache they brought. Useful to have, but always a painful reminder that they were human, not angel.
When the light around them began to dim and the screaming dissipated, Hekate lowered her wings. Marcia was on her knees, gasping for air with her hand on her chest. The wings behind her were spread out and flapped every few seconds. They were softer than Hekate’s and bathed in a light golden tint. They were beautiful.
“It is done,” Diana said, taking a step back.
“Thank you,” Marcia said through the gasps of air. She moved to stand, her entire body still shaking. Hekate quickly stood to help her friend stand.
Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, Marcia was gone. Hekate began to panic until she realized Diana was staring at her. She straightened her back, sensing hostility from the angel standing before her.
“What?” she asked, in a harsh tone.
Diana took a step forward before placing her hand on Hekate’s chest. “Death isn’t just any Horseman. If it was really him who branded you, then there is nothing that can be done. However, if it was someone else, then you might have a chance. You just need the will to fight.”
“I will always fight,” Hekate declared. Her voice wasn’t as sure as she intended it to be. Diana’s words were causing her to think back to every encounter she had with Death. He had practically declared himself to her, as did the brand. If it wasn’t him, then which Horseman was it?
Moro moved to stand next to Hekate. “She will. Her soul is stronger than any other we’ve used in the past. Even after absorbing tainted power, she still stands.”
Diana nodded. “Yes. She does. But that doesn’t mean her soul isn’t altered by what she has done. She will have to live with the consequences, no matter how long that might be.”
Hekate took a step forward. “I accept them. And I will still fight.”
Diana grinned before stepping back. “Of that, I have no doubt.”
And then, she was gone.
Tainted Wings – Chapter Ten
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Dead or Alive 2 (arcade versions) character themes, Dead or Alive 2 (console versions) character themes, Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate character themes,
This article is for the musical theme "Natural high" and its subsequent update and remix.
Throughout the Dead or Alive series, "Natural high" has been used as a theme for Jann Lee.
Arcade version Edit
"Natural high"
Makoto Hosoi, Shouichi Koike, Shigekiyo Okuda
"Grand style"
"Break the age"
The original "Natural high" theme first appeared in the original arcade version of Dead or Alive 2 as the theme for Jann Lee.
Console version Edit
Dead or Alive 2 Original Sound Trax ~PlayStation 2 Version~
Makoto Hosoi, Shigekiyo Okuda
2:46 (PlayStation 2)
2:45 (Ultimate)
"Natural high" was later updated for the home console releases of Dead or Alive 2. Appearing in also the DOA2: Hardcore games, Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate, and Dead or Alive Online, the theme was once again used as the theme for Jann Lee. It was later used in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round as the theme for the rooftop level of Crimson.
It is this version of the theme that has been used again throughout the series rather than the original arcade version.
The theme is also optional in Music Mode for Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate and Last Round, spelled "Natural High", though it can be selectable for any character and gameplay mode.
Dead or Alive 2 Music-Natural High (Theme of Jann Lee)
Dead or Alive Dimensions remix Edit
The following article is based on a subject that has not been officially named; the current title is merely a placeholder.
The theme was given an unnamed remix for Dead or Alive Dimensions, and was used as the theme for Jann Lee.
Dead or Alive Dimensions OST Natural High (Theme of Jann Lee)
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WIRED UK Published on Jul 5, 2016
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen. We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware”. Directed by: Jim Demuth
Future Cities is part of a new flagship documentary strand from WIRED Video that explores the technologies, trends and ideas that are changing our world.
BBC aired the documentary in November, with the following descriptor:
Best Documentary 2016 Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware gives us an insider’s perspective on a system of creative collaboration that ultimately informs all of our lives.
The centre of the technology world may not lie in California’s Silicon Valley, but in the bustling marketplace of Huaqiangbei, a subdistrict of Shenzhen in China. This is where curious consumers and industry insiders gather to feast their eyes and wallets on the latest software, hardware, gadgetry, and assorted electronic goods. At the very start the film sets the scene to this fascinating technology mecca. A city populated by 20 million people, Shenzhen is the setting where advancement is most likely to originate at speeds that can’t be replicated in the States. The city’s vibrant and inventive tech work force takes over when the innovations of Silicon Valley become stagnant. The revolution may have started in the States, but its evolution is occurring in China. Working in collaboration, Shenzhen labourers craft unique upgrades and modifications to everything from laptops to cell phones. Their efforts then immigrate and influence the adoption of new products in other regions of the world. The infrastructure by which this is made possible is known as the ‘Maker movement’. In developer conferences and Maker exhibition fairs, tech geeks are encouraged to share their ideas freely with colleagues in the hopes that more open collaborations will form grander innovations. The film highlights how these attitudes stand in sharp contrast to the Western world where communications are secretive, monopolies are the norm and proprietorship is sacred. However, there are challenges faced by Shenzhen in maintaining their edge in the industry. While widely acknowledged as pioneers, Shenzhen’s prominence has faltered as the remainder of China has proven successful in their attempts to catch up. Adding to the frustrations, the government has interceded and moved manufacturing bases outside of the city. Meanwhile, figures from the world of investment financing have moved into the equation, and threatened to stifle creativity by imposing a more closed and impenetrable mode of operations.
### dailymail.co.uk 30 Oct 2013
Ever wondered how everything you buy from China gets here? Welcome to the port of Shanghai – the size of 470 football pitches
Whether it’s the car you drove to work in, the computer at your desk or your children’s toys strewn across their bedroom floor, there’s a very good chance they have come from here. This is the world’s busiest trading port which handles a staggering 32million containers a year carrying 736million tonnes of goods to far-flung places around the globe. Stretching as far as the eye can see, rows upon rows of containers lie stacked up at the Port of Shanghai waiting to be shipped abroad and bringing in trillions of pounds to the Chinese economy in the process. It’s this fearsome capacity that has helped China become the world’s largest trading nation when it leapfrogged the United States last year.
The port has an area of 3.94 square kilometres – the equivalent of 470 football pitches. China’s breakneck growth rate in recent years has been driven by exports and manufacturing as well as government spending on infrastructure. In the last eight years alone, capacity at the Port of Shanghai has ballooned from 14million TEUs (a unit which is roughly the volume of a 20ft-long container) in 2004 to more than 32million last year. The rapid expansion was largely thanks to the construction of the Yangshan Deepwater Port, which opened in 2005 and can handle the world’s largest container vessels. That port alone can now shift around 12million containers a year.
Shanghai’s location at the mouth of the Yangtze River made it a key area of development for coastal trade during the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1912. In 1842, Shanghai became a treaty port, which opened it up to foreign trade, and by the early 20th Century it became the largest in the Far East. Trade became stifled after 1949, however, when the economic policies of the People’s Republic crippled infrastructure and development. But after economic reforms in 1991, the port was able to expand exponentially.
David Carrier Published on Jan 13, 2017
World’s Biggest and Busiest Port Ever Made – Full Documentary
The Yangshan Deepwater Port is connected to the mainland by the Donghai Bridge, the world’s longest sea bridge.
*Images: (from top) Shanghai Map – topchinatravel.com, Donghai Bridge – topchinatravel.com, Yangshan Deepwater Port – meretmarine.com, embed.ly, reddit-com
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by Elizabeth | December 26, 2015 · 8:02 pm
Dezeen: Harbin Opera House, north east China | MAD
### dezeen.com 16 December 2015
MAD’s sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza. The opera house is the first and largest building that MAD has designed as part of Harbin Cultural Island, a major new arts complex among the wetlands of the Songhua River. The 79,000-square-metre building features a three-petalled plan. One houses a grand theatre with space for up to 1,600 visitors, while the other is a more intimate performance space for an audience of 400. The building is designed to mirror the sinuous curves of the marsh landscape, with an exterior of smooth white aluminium panels and glass. These contrast with the rooftops, where a textured surface of ice-inspired glass pyramids allows light in from above. According to MAD, the building is designed “in response to the force and spirit of the northern city’s untamed wilderness and frigid climate”. “We envision Harbin Opera House as a cultural centre of the future – a tremendous performance venue, as well as a dramatic public space that embodies the integration of human, art and the city identity, while synergistically blending with the surrounding nature,” said studio founder Ma Yansong.
█ MAD Architects: http://www.i-mad.com/
MAD has designed several cultural buildings, including an artificial island of art caves, an icicle-shaped wood sculpture museum also in Harbin and Chicago’s proposed George Lucas Museum. Curved surfaces are a recurring theme through them all, picking up Ma’s ambition for a new style of architecture, referencing the landscapes of traditional Chinese paintings.
“We treat architecture as a landscape,” he told Dezeen in an interview last year.
The smooth surfaces of the opera house’s exterior continue inside.
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█ Photography by Adam Mørk and Hufton + Crow.
China Wood Sculpture Museum by MAD
MAD reveals concept design for George Lucas’ Chicago art museum
MAD Architects unveils slimmed-down design for Lucas Museum in Chicago
Related movie:
MAD wants to “invent a new typology” for high-rise architecture, says Ma Yansong
In this exclusive video interview filmed in Venice, Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a “shan-shui city”, a high density urban development inspired by traditional Chinese paintings of mountain ranges.
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Vandervis identifies mayoral JUNKETS #China —with gloss from Aussie friends
█ Spent jet fuel makes the girlfriend cry.
“I really do wonder what the value is of all these trips overseas, especially when we have so many issues that need dealing with here at home.”
–Cr Lee Vandervis
### ODT Online Tue, 28 Jul 2015
Mayor’s China trip spurs clash
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is heading back to China later this year, but the trip has already sparked a fresh clash with one of his outspoken councillors. Mr Cull has been invited to attend the inaugural New Zealand China Mayoral Forum 2015 in Xiamen city, China, in September, at a cost to the council of about $8000.
█ Report – Council – 27/07/2015 (PDF, 111.2 KB)
New Zealand/China Mayoral Forum 2015
$8000? Don’t forget the mayor’s entourage, MikeStk….
[buzzz! Cling-on ALERT]
Meanwhile, Mayor Cull reflect…. with light shed on conduct across the Tassie.
Weddings, parties, opera, airfares, helicopters and limousines on the taxpayers later….
Link received from Australian Tie
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 10:44 a.m.
### canberratimes.com.au July 24, 2015
Bronwyn Bishop claimed Sophie Mirabella wedding trip as official business
By James Robertson
It was the scandal that quickly swept through a new government.
Soon after the Coalition was elected in 2013, Senator George Brandis became the first Abbott government minister forced to repay the public almost $1700 in expenses claimed to attend the wedding of shock jock Michael Smith. High-profile ministers Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce soon had to follow suit, repaying taxpayer money they claimed for travel to weddings. Prime Minister Tony Abbott himself repaid $1600 worth of airfares, car transport and allowances claimed for attending the weddings of two Liberal colleagues, Peter Slipper and Sophie Mirabella. “To avoid doubt, I paid the relevant money back,” he said in a warning to his colleagues. “That’s what people should do.”
One MP ignored the Prime Minister’s instruction, weeks of media coverage and public outrage at MPs’ habit of billing the taxpayer for trips to friends’ weddings. Embattled Speaker Bronwyn Bishop claimed $600 for return flights from Sydney to Albury for Mrs Mirabella’s wedding in 2006 – and she has never repaid the money, Fairfax Media has confirmed. Previously unreported documents released under freedom of information laws show Mrs Bishop told bureaucrats that the trip constituted government business.
█ [It gets worse. The Video is a must see.]
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[screenshot] – credit: Canberra Times
13.7.15 Jeff Dickie: Edinburgh tough, Dunedin (DUD)
21.5.15 DCC and LGNZ, total losersDCC and LGNZ, total losers
21.10.14 DCC adds staff positions, significant ratepayer cost
22.9.14 Daaave Dodo Cull —highly evolved from turkey
14.8.14 Mayor Cull’s reflections on Edinburgh #SisterCity #Junkets
23.7.14 Eddie Cull suffering lead singer’s disease?
21.4.14 Dunedin economic development strategy — low flying Year 1
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Warning! NZ disposable income down
Link received Mon, 6 Apr 2015 at 1:00 p.m.
█ Message: Wouldn’t read this in local media !!!
### marketoracle.co.uk Apr 05, 2015 – 01:28 PM GMT
Economics / Asian Economies
New Zealand Economy – There’s Trouble Brewing In Middle Earth
By Raul I Meijer
For the second time in three years, I’m fortunate enough to spend some time in New Zealand (or Aotearoa). In 2012, it was all mostly a pretty crazy touring schedule, but this time is a bit quieter. Still get to meet tons of people though, in between the relentless Automatic Earth publishing schedule. And of course people want to ask, once they know what I do, how I think their country is doing.
My answer is I think New Zealand is much better off than most other countries, but not because they’re presently richer (disappointing for many). They’re better off because of the potential here. Which isn’t being used much at all right now. In fact, New Zealand does about everything wrong on a political and macro-economic scale. […] I’ve been going through some numbers today, and lots of articles, and I think I have an idea what’s going on. Thank you to my new best friend Grant here in Northland (is it Kerikeri or Kaikohe?) for providing much of the reading material and the initial spark.
To begin with, official government data. We love those, don’t we, wherever we turn our inquisitive heads. Because no government would ever not be fully open and truthful.
This is from Stuff.co.nz, March 19 2015:
New Zealand GDP grew 3.3% last year
New Zealand’s economy grew 3.3% last year, the fastest since 2007 before the global financial crisis, Statistics NZ said. Most forecasts expect the economy to keep growing this year and next, although slightly more slowly than in the past year. For the three months ended December 31, GDP grew 0.8%, in line with Reserve Bank and other forecasts. That was led by shop sales and accommodation. That sounds great compared to most other nations. But then we find out where the alleged growth has come from (I say alleged because other data cast a serious doubt on the ‘official’ numbers) […] while the economy ostensibly grew by 3.3%, disposable income was down. That’s what you call a warning sign.
….Meijer’s commentary continues in reference to recent New Zealand news stories:
Stuff: Dairy Slump Hits New Zealand Exports To China
Radio NZ: Export Drop Rattles Companies
NZ Herald: World Dairy Prices Slide 10.8% On Supply Concerns
Radio NZ: World ‘Awash With Milk’
NZ Herald: Stress Too Much For Farmers
NZ Herald: Hot Properties: Auckland Valuations Out Of Date Within Months
He ends by citing NZ Herald: New Zealand’s Economic Winds Of Change:
Chaos theory calls it the butterfly effect. It’s the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon could cause a tornado in Texas. The New Zealand economy has plenty of its own butterflies changing the weather for GDP growth, jobs, interest rates, inflation and house prices. [..] One of the flappiest at the moment is the global iron ore price. It’s barely noticed here but it’s an indicator of growing trouble inside our largest trading partner, China, and it is knocking our second-largest partner, Australia, for six. It fell to a 10-year low of almost US$50 a tonne this week and is down from a peak of more than US$170 a tonne in early 2011.
[…] President Xi has reinforced the contrasting effects of the changes in China on Australia and New Zealand by encouraging consumers and investors to spend more of China’s big trade surpluses overseas. Tourism from China was up 40% in the first two months of this year from a year ago, and there remains plenty of demand from investors in China for New Zealand assets.
The dark side of this tornado in New Zealand after the flapping of the butterfly’s wings in China was felt in Nelson this week. The region’s biggest logging trucking firm, Waimea Contract Carriers, was put into voluntary administration owing $14m, partly because of a slump in log exports to China in the past six months.
That’s because New Zealand’s logs are now mostly shipped to China to be timber boxing for the concrete being poured in its new “ghost” cities. The Chinese iron ore butterfly has flapped and now we’re seeing Gold Coast winter breaks become cheaper and logging contracts rarer.
█ Read full article
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by Elizabeth | March 7, 2015 · 11:26 pm
Pollution in Chinese cities
City pollution [ddmcdn.com]
### stuff.co.nz Last updated 12:20, March 7 2015
Film highlighting pollution woes vanishes from China’s Internet
By Dian Zhang
A 104-minute film lecture that outlines the serious pollution in China has been removed from the nation’s internet, after receiving millions of views and raising hopes that the country’s leadership might tackle China’s widespread smog problem. The film – by Chai Jing, one of the best-known journalists in China and a well-known former state television reporter – was released right before China’s two most important political events, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Before the movie was censored, a story from Xinhua News Agency, China’s official press agency, praising the film was deleted online the same night the article was posted, offering a hint of the government’s real attitude.
Released last Saturday, Under the Dome had received 42.9 million views on Youku, a video-sharing website like YouTube, by 5 pm Thursday (local time). It prompted 530,460 posts on Weibo.
In the film, Chai gives a speech and shows data and interviews with government officials and environmental experts from China and abroad. The film shows striking images of the extent of air pollution in a number of Chinese cities, as well as rivers fouled by chemicals and littered with flotsam and dead fish. Chai also travelled to Los Angeles and London to gauge their experiences dealing with smog.
█ Chai Jing’s documentary is well worth watching. Preamble via CNN.
CNN Published on Mar 3, 2015
China smog documentary goes viral
Director of China Environment Forum Jennifer Turner discusses a new documentary titled “Under the Dome” that discusses pollution in China.
Linghein Ho Published on Mar 1, 2015
Chai Jing’s review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE FULLY TRANSLATED
For more information: http://www.linghein.me/tr_u/
English Subtitles: FULLY UPDATED | Japanese Subtitles: update to 09:25 | French Subtitles: update to 31:06
Former celebrity TV anchor Chai Jing quit her job after her baby daughter was born with a lung tumor, and after a year of rigorous investigation, launched this 1 hour 40 minute documentary about China’s smog: what is smog? Where does it come from? What do we do from here? It is very powerful in many ways. English subtitles are now completely finished, and other languages are being added.
Music: “Brotherhood” by John Dreamer (Google Play • iTunes)
3 photo comparatives (*gif) taken by NASA’s Aqua satellite via gizmodo.com
23.3.13 Chongqing, Southwest China
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John Key’s NZ spying on Pacific neighbours
██ NZ Herald: GCSB collects phone calls, emails and internet data from NZ’s closest and most vulnerable neighbours, secret papers reveal | Read the Intercept’s NZ story here.
Stuff: Diplomatic fallout / Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva: “China is on the radar … so what can we do?”
Rod Emmerson. Snowden revelation on GCSB (NZ Herald 5.3.15)
How it’s unfolding today…
### NZ Herald Online 6:49 AM Thursday Mar 5, 2015
#snowdenNZ / How foreign spies access GCSB’s South Pacific
By Nicky Hager, Ryan Gallagher
In September last year, Edward Snowden said he had seen large quantities of metadata from New Zealanders’ communications while working in the NSA’s regional headquarters in Hawaii. He was presumably referring to New Zealanders’ communications intercepted during the Asia-Pacific regional monitoring conducted at Waihopai and other allied bases. The Snowden documents show how foreign intelligence staff follow a step-by-step process to access the GCSB’s South Pacific intelligence, including the metadata and communications of New Zealanders living, holidaying and interacting in that region.
● NZ spies on its Pacific friends
● The price of the Five Eyes club
● Join the Twitter debate: #snowdenNZ
Snowden revelations: John Key failing leadership test with terrorists-under-the-bed response
By David Fisher – Herald senior reporter
OPINION John Key worked to undermine the spying revelations before he knew what they were. Even before the New Zealand Herald approached his office for comment, he offered a “guarantee” the revelations today would be wrong. Then, exactly like those in the United States, he pulled out the terrorism bogeyman, presumably as some sort of cure-all for allegations of over-reach by our intelligence agencies. […] It should be noted that here in New Zealand, the State Services Commission urged the Government in July 2014 to make more information available to the public. […] There has actually been an improvement here by the actual intelligence agencies but the responses to the Snowden documents from the Prime Minister do not dignify the hard work done by some officials in that area. There should be no doubt that surveillance is necessary. Intelligence is critical. That is not the debate. What has grown in the Five Eyes nations, by stealth, is the extent of that surveillance.
EXCLUSIVE: GCSB collects phone calls, emails and internet data from NZ’s closest and most vulnerable neighbours, secret papers reveal
### NZ Herald Online 10:33 AM Thursday Mar 5, 2015
Snowden GCSB revelations / Nicky Hager accuses New Zealand of selling out its neighbours to US
New Zealand is “selling out” its close relations with the Pacific nations to be close with the United States, author Nicky Hager has said. Hager, in conjunction with the New Zealand Herald and the Intercept news site, revealed today how New Zealand’s spies are targeting the entire email, phone and social media communications of the country’s closest, friendliest and most vulnerable neighbours. The revelations, based on documents supplied by United States fugitive and whistleblower Edward Snowden, expose a heavy focus on “full-take collection” from the Pacific with nearly two dozen countries around the world targeted by our Government Communications Security Bureau. The Snowden documents show that information from across the Pacific is collected by New Zealand’s GCSB but sent on to the United States’ National Security Agency to plug holes in its global spying network.
Snowden documents: NZ spied on Pacific Island neighbours video
By Aimee Gulliver
New Zealand is spying on its Pacific neighbours, sweeping up all information from the region and passing it to an American spy agency, documents released today show. United States fugitive Edward Snowden worked at the US National Security Agency (NSA) before turning whistleblower in June 2013, releasing documents to the mainstream media showing spy agencies were conducting mass surveillance. Documents released today with NZHerald.co.nz refer to the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu, Nauru and Samoa as targets of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).
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● Opinion: NZ right to spy on Pacific Island neighbours
● Diplomat: GCSB must have a really boring job
● Live coverage
● NZ spied on Pacific neighbours – Greenwald
● Nicky Hager: Kiwis will be ‘shocked’ by spy claims
● Q&A – Spying and NZ
Snowden leak spying claims spark diplomatic fallout video
By Aimee Gulliver and Michael Field
New Zealand spying on the South Pacific and Tonga is “a breach of trust”, Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva says. Pohiva was “adamant that this is a breach of trust”, the Prime Minister’s Department in Nuku’alofa said this morning. “But it is happening all over the world. Tonga is too small to stand up to the ‘alleged spying’,” Pohiva said through the official. “China is on the radar … so what can we do?”
Earlier today, investigative journalist Nicky Hager said a series of documents leaked to him by the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden showed New Zealand was spying on its Pacific neighbours to serve American interests and secure its place in a US-led “club”.
28.2.15 Campbell Live | TXT POLL: Does NZ need a new flag?
15.1.15 New Zealand: Salmond on abuse of democratic freedoms
13.1.15 Southern complainants: IPCA won’t ensure upfront investigation…
16.12.14 Chief Ombudsman | OIA review
24.10.14 John Key’s Godzone and the OIA
20.9.14 Election Night
19.9.14 Chief Ombudsman Beverley Wakem to launch post-election inquiry
17.9.14 John Key PM —real or fake? and one email
15.9.14 The Moment of Truth
2.9.14 John Key PM, plus and minus
7.12.13 Corruption in NZ Sport: Where has John Key PM been hiding ???
30.7.13 GCSB: National Party websites hacked
13.7.13 New Zealand: Salmond on democracy
21.3.13 Public service causing “paralysis of democracy” with OIA requests
26.7.12 ‘The Public’s Right to Know’ – OIA Review
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THE TAILOR
“Have you been checking the casualty lists?”
It’s the right question to ask, though I’m almost ashamed of how easily it comes to my lips.
Alina gives a single sharp nod as her hands clench the edge of the infirmary sheet. I’m sorry to see her hurting, but I can’t help being fascinated by the play of emotion over her face. She hasn’t learned to hide what she feels. It’s all there for anyone to read from moment to moment: happiness, relief, fear, and always fatigue, the deep weariness she carries everywhere. That lack of caution is a novelty at court. I have to remind myself not to stare.
I bring her pen and paper so she can write out the tracker’s name: Malyen Oretsev. I know it well enough by now. He’s the only person she’s written to this whole time at the Little Palace. Instead of posting her letters, the servants bring them to me, and I pass them along. I don’t know if the Darkling reads them or if they sit unopened, a growing stack in some bureau drawer.
“I’m sure he’s fine,” I tell Alina as I slip the paper into my sleeve. Again, her face comes alive: Red in her cheeks—she’s ashamed to have asked. Lips pressed together—she hopes anyway. It’s almost painful to watch. I think she’s so used to being unnoticed that she doesn’t realize how much she shows. I have to bite back the urge to tell her to be more careful. It’s not my place to give her warnings, but I seem to keep finding myself doing so.
Before I go, I bully her into letting me fix the dark circles beneath her eyes. She grumbles and groans, and I burst out laughing when she finally relents, hurling herself back against the pillows as if I’ve insisted on reading her a sermon. Ridiculous girl.
My hands drift over her skin. Maybe it’s my way of apologizing. And honestly, I can’t help myself. It’s like wiping the smudges off a looking glass or putting flowers just so in a vase—sometimes my fingers fairly itch to set her to rights. Besides, in this moment, I’m her friend. I can pretend all the little betrayals don’t exist. I can ignore the paper with Oretsev’s name on it burning a hole in my sleeve.
In the end, I leave Alina arguing with the Healer about checking out of the infirmary and turn my steps to the war room. I take the long way so I can pass by the big, sunlit windows of the Fabrikator workshops. I won’t stop in, not today, but I can still treat myself to a glimpse of David’s bent shoulders and messy brown hair. I’m deep in a daydream of him letting me cut it when I come around the corner and nearly slam into Zoya.
“Where are you rushing off to?” she says with a sniff. “Does the Queen have a party to attend?”
“As a matter of fact, yes,” I say coolly. “But I have a few moments if you want me to see to your eyes. They’re looking awfully red.”
She keeps that haughty look, but her shoulders stiffen and she has to work a bit harder to lift her perfect nose in the air. I know I shouldn’t enjoy her misery as much as I do. I also shouldn’t have a second buttered roll with my breakfast every morning, but sometimes one must indulge. Anyway, Zoya bought this trouble for herself.
“Hay fever,” she mutters. “There’s something new in the air here that irritates me.”
“Yes,” I say as I glide past her. “I hear you practically choked on it.”
I learned a long time ago never to give Zoya a chance at the last word. That girl finds openings like water in a sieve. I’d planned to leave a message for the Darkling with his guards, but I meet Ivan coming out of the war room.
“Back from visiting the invalid?” he asks as I follow him out of the Little Palace.
“She’s hardly that.”
“Well, she looks the part.”
“Should she be leading a fencing lesson by the lake? Zoya broke two of her ribs.”
“Shame,” he drawls.
I arch a brow. “The Darkling thought so. Please tell me you were there when he told Zoya she’d be leaving Os Alta.”
“I was.”
“And?” I urge as we head down the hill to the birch grove. I’m a greedy thing, but how can I be expected to resist this gossip? Ivan shrugs, scowling. “He just made it clear that she’s replaceable and Starkov isn’t.”
I grin. “Does that worry you, Ivan?”
“No,” he snaps.
“Careful,” I say. “Keep frowning like that, and even I won’t be able to fix your wrinkles.”
Impossibly, his features twist into a deeper snarl, and I have to restrain a snort. Ivan struts around like a robin, all puffed up pride and red plumage. It’s just so easy to ruffle his feathers. I know he begrudges me any word or confidence shared with the Darkling. Still, I like him. He treats me with disdain, but it’s the exact same disdain he shows everyone else.
As we enter the birch grove, I glimpse a few oprichniki standing guard, nearly hidden in the gloom between the trees. I’ve never grown used to them. They’re a brotherhood of their own, and they keep to a separate code. They never mix with the Grisha or the court.
When we finally arrive at the banya, the Darkling is just emerging from the baths, pulling a clean shirt over his head. He really is something to look at, all lean muscle and pale skin beaded with moisture from the steam.
He runs a hand through his damp hair and gestures me forward. “How is she?”
“Better,” I reply. “She’s asked to be moved from the infirmary.”
“I’ll approve it,” he says with a nod to Ivan. Without a word, the Heartrender disappears back into the trees to see it done.
The Darkling takes his kefta from a waiting oprichnik and shrugs it on. I fall into step beside him on one of the narrow paths that wends through the grove.
“What else?” he asks.
“The Apparat visited her last night to rant about Saints and saviors. From what I could piece together, he was either trying to scare her senseless or bore her to death.”
“I may need to have a word with the priest.”
“I told her he’s harmless.”
“Hardly that,” says the Darkling, “but he has the King’s ear. For now that’s all that matters.”
An uneasy silence descends as we emerge from the trees onto the dirt path that leads to the training rooms and the stables. The Darkling knows there’s more to tell and that I’m not quite ready to say it.
It’s deserted here at this time of day, no sound but the nicker of horses in their paddocks. The winter air carries their warm animal smell and, beneath it, the sweet scent of hay. I wrinkle my nose. Just steps from the Little Palace, and this place feels positively rural.
Six black horses are in the western paddock—the matched team that pulls the Darkling’s coach. When we reach the fence, the Darkling gives a low whistle and one of the horses ambles over to us, twitching its silky mane.
I slip the piece of paper from my sleeve and hand it to the Darkling.
“The tracker again,” he says, unsurprised.
“She’s afraid he was killed in action and hasn’t shown up on the lists yet.” I hesitate, then say, “But I think she’s almost as scared that he’s alive and well and through with her.”
He studies the paper for a moment, then gives it back to me. He strokes a hand over the horse’s long, velvety nose.
“What should I tell her?” I ask.
He glances at me. “The truth. Tell her where the boy is stationed.”
“She’ll think—”
“I know what she’ll think, Genya.”
I lean against the fence, my back to the paddock, fingers worrying the scrap of paper as the Darkling murmurs softly to the horse, low words I can’t make out.
I can’t meet his eyes, but somehow I summon the courage to say, “Do you care about her at all?”
There’s the briefest pause.
“What are you really asking, Genya?”
I shrug. “I like her. When this is all over—”
“You want to know if she’ll forgive you.”
I run my thumb over Alina’s choppy writing, all graceless slashes and blunt lines. She’s the closest thing I’ve had to a friend in a long time.
“Maybe,” I say.
“She won’t.”
I suspect he’s right. I certainly wouldn’t. I just didn’t think it would matter to me as much as it does.
“You decide,” he says. “I’ll have the letters brought to you.”
“You kept them?”
“Post them. Give them back to her. Do whatever you think best.”
I watch him closely. This feels like some kind of trick. “You can’t mean that.”
He looks at me over his shoulder, his gray eyes cool. “Old bonds,” he says as he gives the horse a final pat and pushes off from the fence. “They can do nothing for Alina but tie her to a life long gone.”
The paper is starting to fray beneath my fingers. “She’s suffering.”
He stops my fidgeting with the briefest touch of his hand. His power flows through me, calming, the steady rush of a river. Best not to think where the current may take me.
“You’ve suffered, too,” he says.
He leaves me standing by the paddock, the tracker’s name folding and unfolding in my hands.
The Queen does have a party to attend that night. After I’ve changed my mud-spattered slippers and rid myself of the scent of the stables, I find her seated at her dressing table, a maid tending to her hair. There was a time when she wouldn’t let anyone else but me see to her preparations. “Genya does it better than any of you,” she would say, waving the servants away. “Go and bring us tea and something sweet.”
I’m pleased to see that the maid is doing a terrible job of it. The style is nice nough, but it isn’t suited to the Queen’s face. I would place the pins higher, leave a strand free to curl around her cheek.
“You’re late,” she snaps as she catches sight of me in the mirror.
I curtsy. “Apologies, moya tsaritsa.”
It takes me over an hour to finish working on her face and neck, and the maid is long gone by then. The skin pulls strangely at the Queen’s cheekbones, and the blue of her eyes is an indigo too vibrant to be believed. But she wanted the shade to match her gown, and I no longer argue. Still, it drives me nearly mad. It’s that itch again. I can’t walk by a crooked picture frame and not set it right. The Queen always pushes too far—a bit more, a bit more, until the angle is all wrong.
She hums to herself, sucking on a waxy bit of lokum flavored with rosewater, and coos to the dog curled in her lap. When I bend to adjust the bows on her slippers, she absently rests a hand on my shoulder—almost a caress, or maybe a scratch behind the ears. Sometimes it’s as if she forgets to hate me. It’s as if I were still the girl she treasured, the doll she loved to dress up and show off to her friends. I’d like to say I resisted such treatment, but I loved every minute of it.
I’d been ordinary among the Grisha, a pretty girl with a modicum of talent. At the Grand Palace, I was cherished. In the mornings, I would arrive with the Queen’s tea and she’d throw open her arms. “Pretty thing!” she’d exclaim, and I’d run to her.
“Where shall we walk today? Shall we go to the gardens or take a trip into town? Shall we find a new gown for you?”
I didn’t realize then what I was giving up, the way the distance would grow between me and the Grisha, how I would lose their language when I didn’t take the same classes or know the right gossip or sleep under the same roof. But I didn’t have time to contemplate such things. The Queen fed me on candied plums and cherries soaked in ginger syrup. We painted silk fans and discussed fashionable novels with her friends. She let me pick out which wriggling puppy would be hers and we spent hours choosing his name. She taught me to walk, to curtsy. It was easy to adore her.
Even now, it’s hard not to fall back into the habit of loving her. She is so poised, so regal, a creature of sublime grace. I help her into her wrap, lush violet silk that makes her eyes glow even brighter. Then I tend to the veins on her hands.
“Do my knuckles look swollen?” she asks. Her fingers are heavy with jewels—sapphire bands and the Lantsov emerald wedged between them. “My rings feel tight.”
“They look fine—” I begin.
She frowns.
“I’ll fix them.”
I’m not sure when things began to change, when I started to feel less easy in her company. I felt her slipping away from me, but didn’t know what I’d done wrong or how to stop it. I only knew I had to work harder to coax smiles from her, that my presence seemed to bring her less pleasure.
I do remember the day I was working on her face, easing the faint furrows that had started to appear across her forehead.
When I was finished, she peered into the mirror. “I still see a line.”
“It won’t look right,” I said, “if I keep going.”
She rapped me once, hard, across my knuckles with the golden handle of her hairbrush. “You’re not fooling anyone,” she spat. “I won’t let you make me look a hag.”
I’d drawn back, cradling my hand, baffled. But I pushed down my confused tears and did as she asked, still hoping that whatever I’d broken might be repaired.
There were good days after that, but there were more when she would ignore me completely, or tug my curls so hard my eyes watered. She would pinch my chin between her fingers and mutter, “Pretty thing.” It stopped sounding like praise.
Tonight, though, her mood is good. I snip a thread from her cuff, smooth the train of her gown. With her blond hair shining in the lamplight, she looks like a gilded painting of a Saint.
“You should wear the lily in your hair,” I suggest, thinking of the blue glass comb I’d once helped to make for her in the Fabrikator workshops.
She glances at me, and for the briefest moment, I think I see warmth in her gaze. But it must be a trick of the light, because in the next second, she laughs in her brittle way and says, “That old thing? It’s long out of fashion.”
I know she hopes to wound me, but the girl who flinched at her barbs is long gone.
“You’re right, of course,” I say and curtsy deeply.
The Queen waves one smooth white hand. “Surely you’re wanted elsewhere?” She says it like it’s the last thing she believes.
When I finally get back to my chamber, the lamps have been lit and a fire burns merrily in the grate. One of the serving girls has set a fragrant bundle of kitchen sage on the mantel. They understand what it is to live beneath this King’s rule. Or maybe it would be the same under any Lantsov. I’ve met the heir, Vasily. He has his father’s soft chin, his wet lower lip. I shudder.
If I could wish for anything in this world, it wouldn’t be jewels or a coach or a palace in the lake district. I’d wish to be a true Grisha again, of course—but short of that, I’d settle for a lock on my chamber door.
I ring for a dinner tray, wriggle out of my ivory silk kefta and into a dressing gown. Only then do I see the ebony box resting on the plush cushions of the window seat. It is a simple object, completely out of place amid the frothing white and gold ornament of this room. Its elegance lies in the perfection of its angles, in its seamless sides, smooth as glass and polished to a high shine. It doesn’t bear his symbol. It doesn’t have to. And I don’t need to open its gleaming lid to know what’s inside.
I wash my face, take down my hair, toe off my satin slippers so that I can feel the grooves of the cool wood floor beneath my feet. All the while, the box lurks just out of my vision like a glossy black beetle.
The dinner tray arrives—a truffled cheese tart, wine-braised quail with crispy skin, and fish poached in butter. The food is rich, as always, but it never bothers me. No matter my worries, I can always eat.
When I’ve finished, I light the lamps in my closet. My kefta hang along one wall—wool for winter, silk for summer, thick folds of satin and velvet for when I am still asked to parties. There are two shelves stacked with rarely worn breeches and blouses, and a row of simple shifts made for me because the Queen does not approve of women wearing trousers.
The rest of the closet has been converted into my own little workshop, stocked with all the things I need for my kit: bottles of dye, sheets of gold leaf and coils of copper, tins of crushed carmine, and jars of pickled berries. They smell dreadful when opened, but the colors stay pure. There are other bottles too, full of more dangerous things that I’ve buried near the back of the shelf. There’s one in particular that I like to take out when the day has been long. I made it myself and I love the liquid’s warm golden color, its sweet cinnamon smell. Dekora Nevich, I call it. The Ornamental Blade.
Despite the trappings of my kit, there’s plenty of room in my closet. Once I fell out of favor, the new gowns stopped coming. I outgrew the layers of ruffles and puffed sleeves, and had to slouch to hide how tight my bodice had grown, the way the hems rode up my ankles. The effect was almost obscene.
And then one morning I found my child’s dresses gone and a kefta, a Grisha’s most treasured possession outside of an amplifier, hanging on my door. It was white. White and gold. It was livery.
I told myself it meant nothing. It was just a color. I made myself put it on. I fixed my hair, held my head high. I was beautiful in this, as I was beautiful in everything else. Besides, I had nothing else to wear.
But I was wrong. That color meant everything. It was a command to the Queen’s ladies that they shouldn’t greet me or acknowledge that I’d entered a room. It was an indelible line drawn between me and the other Grisha. It was a signal to the King that he could follow me into my chambers and press me up against the wall, that I was available for his use. That there was no point to crying out.
There were no good days anymore, no sweets or outings, just long hours of tedium, waiting for the Queen’s call, dreading the King’s soft tread outside my door. One night, before a party, I was summoned to the Queen’s dressing room. I darkened her lashes with black walnut, tinted her lips with peonies grown for me in the Grisha hothouses. I worked quietly, saying nothing, keeping my eyes downcast. I was to be in her retinue that night, and I’d been careful to style my own hair simply. I suppose I could have made myself plain to please her, but some part of me would not allow it.
Her gown was pale green that night, darker at the hem, fresh as new leaves. As I fastened the pearl buttons at her back, she said, “A lack of gratitude is unbecoming in a servant. You should wear the jewels my husband gives you.”
I saw it then. I understood. She’d known it would happen. Maybe from the first day she’d brought me to the Little Palace. She knew him and what he was, but I was the one she resented for it. I stood there, paralyzed, buffeted by two competing winds. I wanted to fall to my knees and bury my head in her lap, to cry and beg for her protection. I wanted to smash the mirror she feared so much and cut her face to ribbons with it, stuff her mouth with glass and make her swallow every jagged edge of my hurt and shame.
Instead, I went to the Darkling. I don’t know where I found the audacity. Even as I ran across the palace grounds, a voice in my head was cursing me for a fool, clamoring that I would never be granted audience, that I should turn back around and forget this madness. But I couldn’t bear the idea of returning to the Queen’s side, of spending the whole night with my nails digging into my palms, smelling her perfume, counting and recounting the line of b
uttons on that leaf green dress as she held court. The thought drove my steps all the way to the Little Palace.
I wanted to avoid the Grisha in the main hall, so I used the entrance that led directly to the war room. As soon as I made my request to the oprichnik standing guard, I regretted it. The Darkling had given me to the Queen. He would turn me away now, maybe worse.
But the oprichnik returned and simply gestured for me to follow him down the hall. When I arrived at the war room, a group of Grisha were leaving—Ivan and several high-ranking Etherealki and Heartrenders I didn’t know.
I’d told myself I would be dignified. I would plead my case rationally. But when Ivan closed the door, I started to cry. The Darkling might have chastised me or turned his back. But he put his arm around me, sat me down at the table. He poured me a glass of water and waited until I was calm enough to take a gulping sip.
“Do not let them humble you,” he said softly.
I’d had a speech prepared, a hundred things I wanted to say. All of it went out of my head, and I sputtered the first thing that came into my mind. “I don’t want to wear this anymore,” I pleaded. “It’s a servant’s uniform.”
“It’s a soldier’s uniform.”
I shook my head, choking back another sob. He leaned forward and wiped the tears from my cheeks with the sleeve of his own kefta.
“If you tell me you cannot bear this, then I will send you from here and you need never wear those colors or walk the halls of the Grand Palace again. You will be safe, I promise you that.”
I looked up at him, not quite believing. “Safe?”
“Safe. But I can promise you this, too: You are a soldier. You could be my greatest soldier. And if you stay, if you can endure this, one day all will know it.” He lifted my chin with his finger. “Do you know the King once cut himself on his own sword?”
A little laugh escaped me. “He did?”
The Darkling nodded, the barest grin playing over his lips. “He wears it constantly—just for show, mind you. He forgets it is not a toy by his side, but a weapon.” His face grew serious. “I can promise you safety,” he said. “Or I can promise to see your suffering repaid a thousandfold.” With the pad of his thumb, he brushed a stray tear from beneath my eye. “You decide, Genya.”
That choice was hard, but this one is easy.
I straighten the rows of bottles and shut the closet door. I cross to the window. When I press my face to the glass, I can see the lanterns lit across the palace grounds, and I can just make out the sounds of music playing in one of the ballrooms, the high human wail of violins. If I could see past the trees, through the dark, I might glimpse the wooded tunnel and, beyond it, down that gentle slope, the golden domes that top the Little Palace.
I think of Alina’s too-thin fingers gripping the edge of the sheet, the hope she can’t hide in her pale, expressive face as she writes out the tracker’s name.
I open the black wood box, and I feed the letters to the fire, one by one. It hurts, but I can bear it. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.
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