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Spurs 2014 champion team is a blueprint for governance
Posted by The Society of Honor on June 19, 2014 · 13 Comments
On a mission . . . [Photo source bleacherreport.com]
By Andrew Lim
I begged for Joe’s indulgence to allow me this short piece on the San Antonio Spurs’ recent championship in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
This is not a sports blog, but the team had distinct characteristics that made for good analogies in geo-politics, economics and life in general. As disclaimer, I confess to having rooted for this team since 2003.
The team that won this year’s crown (2014) had the greatest number of foreign-born players on its roster. Only seven were born in America, and strictly speaking, Duncan was born in the US Virgin Islands. Eight were from the following: Australia (2), Canada (1), Italy (1), Argentina (1), Brazil (1), France (2) .
Imagine how the team bus or plane must have sounded like. Many players come to the US speaking very little English. Imagine the difficulties of integrating them to the team and explaining everything to them. But the universality of sport transcended that, and ultimately, everyone bought in to the team’s philosophies:
Keep the ball moving.
Don’t settle for good shots, look for great shots.
Keep pounding the rock.
Of course, sports teams are built for the glory, the money, and the joy of competition. They don’t really care if they represent or symbolize anything at all. But observers like us like to read into these things, derive value from it, and apply it to other things.
The international character of the team reflects how America leads in these times: authoritative, but not overbearing. Inclusive, not racist. Collaborative, not dictating.
The decision to retain its aging core reflects the value of continuity, and of understanding the past.
The continuous ball movement virtually guarantees opportunities will be made along the way. By not caring who gets the credit, Spurs players are able to move the ball to the optimum position of scoring a goal.
The team has an aversion to hero-ball, or the celebrity aspect of the athlete. Even its newest key player (Leonard, who won the Finals MVP) seems so painfully shy. Down to a man, they resist too much glamour and exposure. They even dress so ordinarily- flannel and checkered polos as opposed to avant-garde fashion for others. San Antonio culture is not Miami or Los Angeles!
I fully expect the Spurs to look for a Philippine-born player in the mold of their back-up point guard Patty Mills (Australia) in the future. I am most confident that we have players of the same size and skills as Mills.
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“What Goot is a Goot President if 99.99% of Filipinos are not Goot” – MRMP
Lakers … Bulls … Nicks … Heat …. Over reliance of singular star power !
Spurs, they played as a team. Everybody is a Star. An example of team play.
Philippines, there is only one star player: Benign0 Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III.
The rest are not goot. Investigations STILL TURNS INTO CONFESSIONS and ADMISSIONS. Prosecution is still Star Whistleblowers and Star Witnesses bribed by State Witnessship Program.
Filipino Audiences by the millions, judges by a handful, televised yet they still believe Miami Heat won not Antonio Spurs. Filipinos knew Miami Heat won. Filipinos knew Miami Heat was cheated. Because Miami Heat coach is a Filipino, that is according to Filipinos. In my book, Miami Heat coach is not a Filipino, he is an American.
The Filipinos has already made up their mind that Miami Heat won because of the “Filipino” component. The Filipinos also are so sure that Tanda Pogi and Sexy are guilty by mere promotion from Philippine Press. Thereby, perpetuating the Hustisya Matuwid (na baluktot).
So, forever will be, Philippines will be the same, unfortunately. Standard ang Poor, pa rin.
Good players of Lakers were bought and traded to the highest bidder … rending their demise.
Spurs are close to receiving AARP letters despite THEY played good. When people think of Lakers they think of Kobe. Shaq. Miami: James. When they think of Spurs, they think EVERYBODY.
In the Philippines when they think of corruption, they think of MARCOS and ARROYO. When they think of Standard ang Poor, they think of Aquino.
LeBron cannot carry Miami by himself, like, Kobe was not able to carry Lakers. Aquino cannot carry Philippines by himself. It takes 99.9999% of Filipinos to carry the Philippines.
Hmm, sports as a prescriptive guide to life. Way to go, Andrew!
The one quality of INDIVIDUAL decision-making that stands out to me is how much each person is willing to sacrifice for the team. Some have taken cuts in pay to stay with the Spurs rather than market themselves to the highest bidder (ala Kobe, a sure way to bankrupt an owners ability to acquire players to help the team; thus, the Lakers, a couple of stars and an abysmal supporting cast and all around dysfunction), the Spurs strive to make the extra pass even though it costs them individual statistics (and strangely enough, they get their statistics anyway because the extra pass comes their way, too), they never criticize their teammates, taking responsibility themselves, and they concede authority to the coach as leader and support him (e.g., Ginobli taking a bench role willingly). Cast this against the Filipino leaders’ penchant for self-dealing, for crablike taking of praise rather than giving, for blames and scapegoating, and for enduring criticisms of a President who has opened up the Philippines to so much opportunity. If the Philippines played as a team, there would be no stopping the nation’s rise to leadership in Asia.
Here’s a moving video tribute to the beauty of the playing style of this team:
I could swear, looking at their plays was comparable to looking at the brushstrokes of medieval Italy’s frescoes.
Watching games 3 & 4, I lay the blame on Eric Spoelstra. He did not make the adjustments to the defensive game of the Heat: identify that they were being clobbered by a rain of three-pointers then assign appropriate defensive players to Ginobili, Leonard, Diaw/Parker; this should have been done consistently from transition to defensive assignments; instead the Heat wanted to match the Spurs shot for shot. Three-pointers have large paybacks but consistent distraction by defensive players really make the shots low-percentage shots. These defensive patterns must be practiced as part of the team’s arsenal where the role-players are already identified.
(In my opinion, basketball is less a metaphor for life than American football. Basketball is more a commando or special ops raid.)
junfallar says:
I think Diaw is also French. That makes two reps fro France ( Parker)
NBA players are like Filipino politicians. They are traded and sold to the highest bidders. No loyalty. Their loyalty is money. Loyalty is fame. Phil Jackson has had goot times in Lakers. He got goot squabbling backstabbing players. He put his foot down. Won another championship. When the backroom office start trading off their goot players like POEA trading Filipino slaves to highest bidder, they lost it. Lakers will never ever become champions again.
Phil Jackson moved to Knicks. Well, like what I said, What goot is Phil Jackson if the rest are not goot. Knicks did not make it prime time, just like Philippines. All the crime fighting and corruption busting moves has to be done by the President not by people below him. The decision makingh is still centralized and cleared in Malacanang. Well, the bureaurats and cabinets have to clear it in Malacanang so that they’d not be to blame if they step on someone that has speed dial to Malacanang.
If I were the Philippine Investigator and stumbled upon powerful than I, I make sure I clear it with Malacanang.
What if the politician I am investigating has direct-connect, speed-dial, Moneygram connection to Malacnanag. I’d lose my job. Definitely. I cannot even trust Rappler, they are screwey, too!
PDAF investigation was obviously and definitely got a stamp of approval from Malacanang. Else, those people investigating PDAF would fall from the sky like cornflakes.
macspeed says:
@MRP
Well, I am not surprise to see you here he he he as well as your opposite attract he he he.
Anyways, you are not supposed to be where you are, nor I am not supposed to be where I am. Dig that, If the corruptions ever since the very first Philippine government are logically blocked, we should be very rich, maybe you and I are spending time with our children on a beach with blue berry wine, wow….
But the LOGICAL LAW to block corruption was not there ever since, now we are stucked in each of our own space which we cannot abandon nor we can scape, at least we have Joe Am and other blogs, were we can exchange view and goes for LIFE and ALIVE he he he.
PNOY is the starting point, your children and my children and other future children who wanted to live in Philippine will be very lucky to continue what has PNOY started, SWITCH ON THE LOGICAL BLOCKAGE TO STOP CORRUPTION and COUPLED WITH UN-CORRUPTIBLE POLITICIANS…HE HE HE
Well, how are you then, I got GARMIN and taking care of myself to keep moving, I join the club with other GARMIN user and its fun he he he you may buy one so we can see at GARMIN EXPRESS he he he
Perhaps before I die, a new technology will be invented, so I can leave my trace he he he
June 21, 1957 was my birth, 2 days from now, I am 57years younger he he he
Ha ha ha, MRP and I actually get along quite well. I respect him for the artistry of his words and his keen insights, and he respects me for my ability to be wrong from time to time. Gives him material to work with . . .
@Andrew, the Society’s Prognosticator in Chief: http://sports.inquirer.net/156952/former-uaap-mvp-ray-parks-gets-called-back-to-train-with-lakers
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The Philippines’ myth of sovereignty
Posted by josephivo on March 1, 2015 · 272 Comments
by josephivo
I was so fortunate to have had a very motivating history teacher in the last years of high school. Sovereignty was one of his favorite subjects. Luckily there is Wikipedia and Peter Watson’s book “Ideas” to refresh some events and concepts.
Sovereignty might have a precise definition in international legislation, but the meaning changed over time and the emotional meaning, the taste and color of the word, can differ a lot between individuals.
1. A Little history and definitions
1.1 – Magellan’s time. In Europe the Church had a booming business in selling tickets for the best seats in heaven. 70% of the wealth in France belonged to the Church, 50% in Germany. The Pope and cardinals lived a heavenly life on earth. Luther attacked these abnormalities and wanted to get back to the essence of Christianity and he became very successful. Most classical feudal ruler didn’t like this as they were anointed by the representative of Christ, the Pope, their powers inherited and God-given. Luther’s movement was very successful in the more developed cities of the German speaking part of Europe (Dutch was still considered as German). Charles V, the Holy Roman (= Germany and +/- Italy) Emperor and King of Spain, and especially his son Philips, didn’t like this. The Church reacted with its contra-reformation and inquisition. The Roman Empire fighting mainly internal religious wars ended with the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and its principle:
“CUIUS REGIO, EIUS RELIGIO” or “Whose realm, his religion”, meaning that the religion (Catholic or Lutheran) of the ruler was to dictate the religion of those ruled. This became the general rule in Europe. People who did not agree could leave the realm peacefully with or without their belongings. (And those that couldn’t find any suitable place, the fanatic Anabaptists and Puritans went to America.)
For the first time, the ruler more important than the Pope. For the first time people could decide for themselves where to live. Lutherans could listen and talk directly to God without an intermediary. Before people had very deterministic views (as in the Philippines today?), a fatalistic acceptance of control from above.
1.2 – But the sword was used to support the faith – or was it in the fight for the possessions of the opponent? (As ISIS is attacking non-believers and aiming for oil wealth with the immense oil reserves of the Saudi keepers of Mecca and Medina at the horizon); 30 years of the bloodiest wars ever were ended in the PEACE OF WESTPHALIA, signed in 1648.
The Westphalian sovereignty, or each nation-state having full control over its territory and domestic affairs, was initiated. Borders were defined in detail, no dotted lines of subjection. It has 3 principles:
a. The principle of the sovereignty of states and the fundamental right of political self-determination.
b. The principle of legal equality between states.
c. The principle of non-intervention of one state in the internal affairs of another state.
Previously, many people had overlapping, sometimes conflicting political and religious allegiances. Now the inhabitants of a given state were understood to be subject first to the laws of their respective state authority, not to the claims of any other entity. (As in the Philippines we have to listen to Rome via our Bishops and priest, to our local warlord, as OFW to the laws or our guest country and the remaining loyalty – if any – is for our nation.)
Notice that:
– States come in different definitions as city states, nation states, unions . . . in different sizes from a few thousand citizens up to 1.2 billion citizens . . . in different regimes, democratic, autocratic, theocratic, inherited kingdoms . . .
– Intervention is a continuum, from unsolicited aid, past dialogue, advising, meddling, and dictating, up to imposing things by force. Individual definitions and color of all these words might differ.
– Non-intervention means borders are needed to control people, capital, goods, services, ideas, beliefs, religions, new ideas, information . . .
– Internal affairs covers all aspects of life, political, financial, economic, cultural (arts, sports, media, entertainment . . . ), religious, scientific, environmental, prosperity and freedom.
1.3 Fast forward up to the 19th century and the ROMANTIC NATION STATE.
After Waterloo, the main concern of the victorious nations was to prevent a new popular revolution. the old ways were restored all over and Kingdoms were reestablished, except for Germany and Italy that remained fragmented in many small states. But the German youth and middle class did feel as one people and didn’t want to be split by capricious princes. The unity of the German people governed as one nation became a very romantic theme. Other countries, too, wanted to strengthen their unity. Education systems were put in place to service the national cause. Histories was rewritten to emphasis the historical uniqueness of the nation. This cultural nationalism had a downside, too; it strengthened racism, “We are the best” (= “The others are inferior”). With Darwin all prerogatives that had been “God given” became a need to prove the “survival of the fittest”.
These were the romantic national feelings that Rizal discovered in Europe and “We as developed Filipinos should be an equal part of the proud nation of Spain”. Later it evolved in “We can be a proud nation on our own”. But this was the opposite to the old deterministic views the Spanish friars taught for centuries: “God decides, only the church has direct access to God, and so we tell you what to do”.
This also implied that we as a proud nation can do better than the others, therefore we need full sovereignty. We are the best, we will take all decisions, and so nobody else should meddle with our affairs. Ouch Americans, ouch Japanese, ouch the church still doesn’t understand, ouch our own dynasties . . .
2. UPWARDS, Limitations of Sovereignty
Globalization and supranational institutions resulted in a lot of delegated sovereignty in many fields, some explicit, specified in contracts, some implicit. In many instances decisions affecting us are taken outside the Philippines. Examples:
1. Civil society in all its diversity, including internet, informal groups such as grassroots organizations, informal private sector associations such as sports associations or Greenpeace, human rights associations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), religious organizations, trade unions, chambers of commerce, universities and research institutes, the media. . .
The Philippines cannot decide on Basketball rules, Facebook content, NGO agenda’s, sacraments or CNN news items.
2. Economic and financial, including World Bank and IMF, rating agencies, multinationals, trade union organizations, consumer groups. . .
The Philippines cannot dictate Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s credit ratings, Toyota’s investment policies or Coca Cola’s marketing strategy.
3. Political, including Defense Coalitions, ASEAN, UN. . .
The Philippines cannot dictate what troops the US sends for training, custom tariffs with Asean countries or UN ISO norms and environmental conventions.
All the above have an impact on the Filipino culture, economy and political agenda, directly and indirectly. Not aligning with international practices can come at a very high cost. The Islands are no islands for thoughts or fashion. The question is “Does more upwards delegation make the Filipinos happier?”
3. DOWNWARDS LIMITATIONS TO Sovereignty
In other instances decisions affecting us are not taken on the national level, sovereignty has been (is being) delegated to lower levels.
3.1. According a management principle, decisions should be taken at the lowest possible level. Many things only affecting a Barangay should be decided only by the Barangay . Same for the municipality, the province, the region, the federated (Bansamoro) state.
3.2. Sovereignty and federalism
The US Constitution, reinforced by the Tenth Amendment, states that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states or the people, but also admitted powers by implication.
The more we move in the direction of federalism, the more can be delegate downwards and the less relevant becomes “national sovereignty”.
3.3 “Less State” movements argue for a minimal state and to leave maximal freedom to the citizens. They believe that the “invisible hand” will solve problems better than any state bureaucracy.
[Photo source: GMA News]
I would very much appreciate it if the “No meddling in our affairs” people such as Miriam, leftist groups, and some bloggers . . . would be a little more specific and more consistent. Identity politics are important in all spheres of life, also political. But people have to understand that they are the bosses, that as such they have common rights and responsibilities. To identify with “We” it is important to identify “They” too, but this does not mean that “They” always have to be the enemy.
Sovereignty is about making your own decisions and national sovereignty is about national decisions. Politics is the main factory of national decisions. But we tend to vote for actors, the opposite of decision makers, experts in following a script with the guidance of a stage manager, or we vote for news anchors, experts in a plastic smile and reading autocues, or military men just following their line of command, or dynastic people by definition biased for their own sovereign family estate.
Sovereignty presumes a nation with a strong independent decision making factory.
The romantic nation state with its absolute sovereignty was a fashionable concept of Rizal’s era. Today we should envision and prepare for the coming century with different global networks, for the conception of ideas, for the execution and for control, ideas in many different spheres of life. Cyber-attacks, very mobile borderless terrorist attacks, direct democracy, Google (and NSA) knowing it all, global mobility . . .
Nation states and sovereignty will become fossil words.
Some additional thoughts regarding sovereignty as bullet points:
4.1 Pleading for more sovereignty can be a healthy sign of nationalism. But too much of a good thing, chauvinism, is bad.
4.2 We did accept that Human Rights are above our sovereignty. Can outsiders also interfere when there are obvious and severe violations of universal accepted Human Rights? Failed States need external interference to safeguard the population.
4.3 Foreign aid meddles with our internal affairs but is generally accepted. It is very awkward to criticize a gift. But in some cases gifts can be harmful, creating mendicancy, not aligned with our culture, conditional gifts. . .
4.4 Stability is the exception, chronic conflicts and change are the natural state of affairs.
4.5 Ebola and sovereignty, ISIS and sovereignty, 2008 financial collapse and sovereignty, climate change and sovereignty, designer babies and sovereignty . . . the list of issues is endless.
4.6 Of course the US interferes in Filipino affairs as they do in Germany, France, Canada and the rest of the world.
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272 Responses to “The Philippines’ myth of sovereignty”
I must say, Joseph, this was a most enlightening wake-up as to the idea that sovereignty is not fixed, and never has been. Yet we debate it as if it were set in stone and we all know what it is. I personally think Senator Santiago has a grade-school, emotional understanding of the matter, rather like standing in front of a flag pole and singing the national anthem without any idea what sacrifice means.
It strikes me that we are circling back to where your narrative begins, people of the land without even a sense of ownership, much less attaching one’s principles, or laws, or life to a chunk of land. We’ve been through the “defined land” part of the circle and are now heading to a kind of landless global community where allegiances to groups or ideas or an idea of homeland as one of a grand amalgam of history and cultures and commonalities take the place of lines on a map.
ISIS is a perfect and horrid example. They are nowhere and everywhere and claiming land not to have a boundary, but to have a place from which to push out and dominate, rather as the Roman Empire did. The US is situated in the western hemisphere, northern side, but has tentacles around the world, commercial, economic, military, and listening posts in every embassy. Is the US really defined by its borders these days?
The Philippines has 12% of its people, a much greater percentage if the base were working adults, spread around the globe. The Philippines to them is both the homeland, their heritage and history, and the local markets selling Filipinos foods and, if the market is big enough, Jollibee chicken and rice.
It seems that sovereignty today has less and less to do with land and more to do with community, whether the community be nation or faith or charity (Bill Gates) or commerce or family (OFW’s citizens of a new land but sending money back “home”.
What is sovereignty in that context? It is different than landed borders to be defended. It is allegiance.
So how in this context is the United States a threat to sovereignty? The US can’t steal a person’s allegiance. A person can, on the other hand, give it away.
Thank you for this thought-generating article.
josephivo says:
Tnx to let me rave so now and then.
People tend to be sloppy in the use of words. Luckily the Society of Honor has Edgar to keep us alert
PinoyInEurope says:
“So how in this context is the United States a threat to sovereignty? The US can’t steal a person’s allegiance. A person can, on the other hand, give it away.” Very correct.
In fact the thing that many who criticize the USA do not realize is the fundamental FAIRNESS that the American Global Empire shows, even if it could do otherwise. Looking at what is going on in the Ukraine, we have a reminder of how another Empire works.
Of course great powers will always look after their own interests, anytime in history. But then it is up to the smaller powers to define what they want and what deals they make.
Looking at Romania where I was for a while and know a lot of people – they decided to join the EU and NATO of their own will, knowing how it was to be under Russian domination. Strategically, the NATO may have wanted to secure its borders against a possible re-emergent Soviet Union. Economically, the EU may have thought of Black Sea Oil. One of Romanias most important international disputes that was settled by an international court recently was the sea border with Ukraine including a major oil area. There are two major Romanian oil companies, one controlled by the Austrian OMV, the other controlled by a local oligarch allegedly backed by US investors, meaning the EU and US have their piece of the action. But I have never heard any Romanian, citizen or politician, protest about how unfair the US and the EU are because they are making money. In fact they are pragmatic because they know that this was the best way to get the country out of extreme poverty.
Santiago is definitely old school, behind the times just like the leftists. Pragmatic nationalism means accepting reality, but making the best of it. In fact a Romanian friend joked with me just recently that “since we are able to enter Western Europe freely from 2014 onwards, all the thieves have left”. While they have built a sizable BPO industry also, since Romanians usually speak several languages, their own language being the closest living language close to Latin that there is, plus an intact technical education system from Communist times. Not to forget the money sent home by Romanians all over Europe. The standard of living has risen continously in the past 30 years. But one thing was really different there: after Ceaucescu said goodbye to his people with Elena on the balcony, not in 1986 but three years later, the Russians did not send a helicopter to save them…
“All the thieves have left.” Careful it could be a very racist remark. Romania has a large Gypsy population and they had a slave-like past. They are still extremely poor and have a reputation as thieves, as the Bajau.
Of course it is very racist, many Eastern Europeans definitely are. But it is definitely true: entire gypsy clans HAVE left for Western Europe and are stealing and begging there. Mostly just the clan bosses profit, driving Mercedes while the rest of the clan is poor.
One example of the difficulties in modernizing a country: horse-drawn carts were prohibited in Bucharest. The problem is, many gypsies are in the recycling business, meaning they used to go around town looking for scrap metal and other stuff, also stealing some of course, and selling it to make money. It would be easy to say, let them buy pick-up trucks, but many of them are illiterate, so how can they get a driver’s license.
Years ago I was in a hotel in Bucharest which was heavily secured because it was in the middle of a gypsy area, the staff advised me to take a taxi to and from the customer, never take the metro and walk like in other parts of town. In the morning I saw a horse-drawn cart passing by with a lot of scrap metal and other stuff on it. My business associate told me that these poor guys have to bribe the police if they are caught.
Heavy corruption – spaga – is a part of life in Romania. Doctors in state clinics have to be bribed if you want better treatment, teachers accept bribes to improve student grades. How you are treated depends on your perceived status as well and how arrogant you are.
Having said that, I remember that I had to deal with racism as well in the beginning. Chinese workers are very common there and they treat them like Saudis treat OFWs. Real fight until I found out how to avoid being mistaken and treated like a Chinese worker.
But let me add that not all of the thieves coming from Romania are gypsies, and not all gypsies from Romania are thieves. Most of the akyat-bahay operating in Western Europe are Latin Romanians (whereas the mandurukot and pulubi are mostly Romanian gypsies), to differentiate them from Hungarian Romanians, Serbian Romanians, German Romanians and tigani (pronounced tsigani) or gypsies. Gypsy musicians playing “manele” – gypsy ghetto music – can be very rich and brag like American hip-hoppers with gold chains and fancy cars, most Latin Romanians claim not to listen to their music but many do, just like white middle class kids who listen and dance to hip-hop.
e mas… memories of Romania flood my head: arriving in Henri Coanda airport (patriotic Romanians insist he invented the airplane before the Wright brothers) and being assailed by the drivers of the expensive cabs licensed to service the airport, until I learned from locals that the best way to circumvent this was to jump into cabs arriving in front of the departure area, often run-down cheaper city cabs but OK dahil mas mura, but really jumping in and being careful that the airport cops don’t see us because they would try to stop them for picking up passengers at the airport without license, expecting spaga = lagay. Taking a Romanian airline the first few months because it was cheaper, until one of their 737s purchased just ten years ago nearly broke down in mid-air because it was poorly maintained but they still started though I could hear the hydraulics creaking, coming back to Bucharest after flying low altitude for an hour and being treated like garbage by the airline employees who did not give a damn. In addition to that, the crazy take-off and landing style of the older pilots, who had learned the Russian way which was about taking off and landing very steeply because they often had very short runways.
Taking exactly the same plane that almost crashed two weeks later because I already had bought the ticket, only to have the same hydraulic problems when we were about to land in Western Europe. Angrily told the steward hey your plane was not fixed, are you not afraid to die also, getting denials first and a nervous laugh afterwards, after which I never took that airline again. Working with Romanian staff who tried to sweep dirt under the rug or immediately trying to cover themselves up if confronted, telling them I don’t care whose fault this is, this is about fixing things and making them work – surprised looks everywhere.
Major crisis with employees having totally messed up the data on the system because they were finding all sorts of interim solutions instead of reporting problems, I pulled an Excel sheet of all broken data, the employees and unit heads still denied it. Smoking outside with the division chief, an old communist manager who had politically found her place in the new order of things, I told her about the situation and she immediately ordered overtime for all employees to fix the data based on my Excel. One of the nicest employees, a former janitor who had worked his way up to clerk and was laughed at by the other clerks because of his heavily accented English and rustical ways, complained to me “much work that you give us…” – I helped him find ways to do it more quickly because the other colleagues did not help him, the former janitor whom they treated like an illiterate. He became an important ally in the office politics that I had to deal with.
New, shiny buildings and very modern businesses on one hand, gypsy slums on the other. Newly affluent people, old wealth, a struggling new middle class, honest simple folks, thieves and beggars. Shady American businessmen with strange agendas, some of them praising Bucharest as the new Havana of the East with beautiful Latin girls and mobsters. Watching rich American businessmen dine with well-dressed ladies in a major international hotel, while I continued working on my laptop after the business center had closed and I decided to have a tuna sandwich and Jack Daniels with Coke after a long day. Watching the same ladies come back hours later after disappearing with the American guys, more relaxed and joking with muscular young guys in leather jackets later in the evening. Muscular roughneck guys with gold chains driving SUVs, well-dressed businessmen driving Audi and Mercedes. A Ferrari parked in front of a major international hotel that actually belonged to four young guys who drove it alternately, each acting as if it was his.
The department head who sent me pictures of an old stock of sewing machines from an old Communist factory, asking me if I could find buyers in Western Europe. Young hotshot who knew the price of every BMW model in Germany better than I did. Idealistic woman who was part of the revolution against Ceaucescu working in an international firm, telling me how it was during the days and lamenting that many young people yearned for him, not knowing how it had been before. The monumental architecture of Ceaucescu which reminded me of some Marcos-era buildings, the intimidating architecture of dictators. Populist president Traian Baiescu, who had been Mayor of Bucharest before and had as a mayor started a program to kill all the stray dogs that roam the streets until today until stopped by animal rights activists coming from all over Europe. A friend telling me when I saw the lack of foresight: “forget it, only the present matters here”. New motorways, funded by EU money, with exits ending in dirt roads. Many things familiar, but also some striking things like a young female judge who was thrown out because some criminals she had sentenced saw her in commercial pornographic videos in Western Europe…
Young graduate of one of the best schools, very modern and deeply frustrated by how things were going, became an ally of the foreign consultant team I was part of. Modern yet traditional, talking about how his grandfather was a World War 2 partisan and seriously saying that some people were born to rule and some were born to be led. He is now a manager in a major BPO outfit run by a Western European country and goes on expensive vacations with his wife, while we were doing the project he was still telling the team about his latest chick at lunchtime. Jokes from the Transylvanian guys on the team who live with Hungarian and German minorities like “when Attila and his men first came to Europe and bathed in lake …, their clothes were all stolen, so what that prove about which people came to Transylvania first?” Jokes about my frequenting the only karaoke bar…
You do write an interesting read. Who makes your keyboards? I figure you burn through them about three or four a year. 🙂 I’m glad you agree on the framework of sovereignty not being a gift but a commitment, and Santiago’s illogical point of view. The only way to be sovereign in her eyes is to give up one’s sovereignty, by bowing to the external forces in a negative (rejecting) way, rather than charting the best path for the Philippines. Russia and China are, unfortunately, reinforcing one another to see who can be most outrageously deceitful.
The Swiss Logitech keyboard in my home office has lasted me four years now. 🙂 Solid Swiss worksmanship from Lake Geneva, just like Rolex and Tissot. My 27 inch Samsung flatscreen monitor is just as old, keeps my eyes from getting hurt.
Santiago is stupid in that respect, being intelligent and batshit crazy in many others. Especially since you can’t fight the forces of history, they are like a crazy torrent. Latin Americans can have a similar anti-US-reflex though, I find it amazing how they insist on using estadounidense to refer to you guys, rejecting the word Americano because it implies to them that there are no other Americans on the continent except the US. Chavez and Castro come to mind, although I admire that unlike Filipinos, they put there money where their mouth is and see their stuff through, without exemption, planning each chartered course and every step along the byway. The nationalist Filipino anti-US-reflex is a legacy of the Philippine 1896 revolutionary tradition in every way, except that the Latin Americans have more sense of history – I remember well a former Cuban officer I met once who told me “somos compañeros” with gravitas because Cuba and the Philippines rose up against the Spanish around the same time and were sold at the same time to the USA…
karl garcia says:
Dont use chinese key boards. Or risk the spelling bug.private joke of joe to bert and yours truly. I would share it to Mary, but she might take it the wrong way.
Mary Grace P. Gonzales says:
@ karl
hahaha… of course not… I know my limitations… I was about to compose something in reply, something about requesting PiE to share a tip on how to post without typos..and such long contributions… oh man… wish I have all the time in the world to read all these and comment. my worst enemy is lack of time, also I’m the worst typist in the world specially in my android phone and ipad; and my ideas always get ahead of my trigger happy fingers…you may have noticed I always request help from the grammar police here who usually gets me covered, thanks, Joe… I think, am more at home with figures; how to prepare viability studies, create comparative financial statements from my own linked excel programs.
btw, great article, josephivo.. I ignore Mirriam 99 % of the time, and the leftist, nah.. I don’t bother. I don’t have time.
… typing in my desk top pc
I learned typing at age 11 on my parent’s mechanical typewriter in Quezon City, using the typing course that my Ilocana yaya was taking at the vocational evening school my parents financed for her. My father taught me journalism basics when I wrote for the high school paper, basically 1930s old-school American journalism, Chicago-style which is why words like “solon” and “mull” still are used in Filipino newspapers. A no-nonsense, strict man who forced me to retype every school article and every assignment paper I wrote if there were typos, tearing them up. Often tried to force me to write in the old style that sonny uses here, which I refused, being modern. Deep-seated discipline quite fitting for a family clan that produced three good generals, rabidly good lawyers and some abogagos.
with a chinese keyboard..hahaha
Swiss keyboard po.. 🙂
ah, sorry, that’s a postscript to my comment, gone astray……. I hit the post comment button not seeing that there was already one after mine… a joke that went flat… it should have read “…. typing in my desk top pc with a chinese keyboard hahaha”
lucky you, with your Swiss keyboard…
I remember, on many a Manila typhoon day, typing “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” on my dad’s Underwood, the pinky keys, many times the lightest on paper. Remember stencils? No? I thought so. Or the word mimeograph?
Some odors are intoxicating, with just a brief whiff. I think of tar on the road or mimeograph ink. Alas, too much of the stuff is a retched experience.
Did you hear or learn about Richard Wurmbrand while you were in Romania?
What a coincidence that just before I came across your mentioning of Romania, I had listened to two highschoolers tell of their experience in spending some days with young orphans near Bucharest.
Salamat.
No I didn’t. But there are a lot of orphans and street children in Romania, definitely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wurmbrand
Richard Wurmbrand (March 24, 1909 – February 17, 2001) was a Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent. He was a youth during a time of anti-Semitic activity in Romania, but it was later, after becoming a believer in Jesus Christ as Messiah, and daring to publicly say that Communism and Christianity were not compatible, that he experienced imprisonment and torture for his beliefs. After serving five years of a second prison sentence, he was ransomed for $7,000. His colleagues in Romania urged him to leave the country and work for religious freedom from a location less personally dangerous. After spending time in Norway and England, he and his wife Sabina, who had also been imprisoned, emigrated to America and dedicated the rest of their lives to publicizing and helping Christians who are persecuted for their beliefs. He wrote more than 18 books, the most widely known being Tortured for Christ. Variations of his works have been translated into more than 60 languages. He founded the international organization Voice of the Martyrs, which continues to aid Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.
I was blessed to know him, his wife. and his son personally – even intimately. IIMSSM (if I may so myself).
IMHO, Santiago, the senator, is NOT behind the times nor is old school. She knows very well and clear enough what sovereignty is all about, as this article has defined. However, she is a GRANDSTANDING Senator and she knows the majority of Filipino voters belong to the lower level of the intelligence spectrum and so she just have to sock it to them. Give them what is easily understood by these group who almost lack intelligence to analyse and discuss…. So she just have to spell things in phrases that can be understood by the crowd she speaks to then spice it up with her high-fallutin english words when infront of the academe – university students, i mean.
Indeed, sovereignty is the right of the state to govern itself, the supreme power and independent power of a country to gevern another state or country. That’s why, even if the BBL is passed, the regions defined in its coverage are still part of our country’s sovereignty – they still belong to and will be ultimately governed and subject to the sovereignty of the Philippine government, NOT a separate state or region and definitely NOT giving away or giving up that piece of land for our brothers/sisters Muslims.
She is trying to reach both groups – patrician and plebeian. There is a huge gap between elite and commoners in the Philippines which UP professors called “Great Cultural Divide”. Mutual distrust between the two runs deep. Commoners will rarely trust anyone too elite. Elite will make sure no one too close to commoners gets into power or stays there – witness what happened to Erap and Fernando Poe. Santiago tries to reach both groups.
However, Santiago fails. She manages to alienate both – the elite by her comedy show, commoners by using Latin and highfalutin English words. The cultures of elite and commoners are growing closer. A haciendero son like Noynoy would not be caught speaking Filipino in the 1970s. Thanks to Internet, many OFWs and BPO operations, more commoners understand international culture and are not intimidated by English. Santiago being of her generation has not yet fully partaken of this convergence.
Cayetano symbolizes the convergence more, being of a younger generation. Definitely good enough for the elite with his Dr. of Laws from Ateneo and his perfect but unpretentious English, trustworthy enough for the commoners because he speaks perfect but dignified Tagalog (talking too trashy is something commoners may interpret as patronizing, like a white guy trying to talk like a soul man) and has a patriotic background. And Cayetano also believes in the nation and sovereignty, which is the other topic.
Yes, sovereignty is the right of the state to govern itself. Even decide what it allows and what it does not allow. Uber and Google had to experience that in Europe and had to bow to the law which in Europe is defined at many levels. Many European countries have US troops, but they decide and agree with US upon the terms by which they are stationed. Germany and the US work together on intelligence, but there are clearly defined channels. A German spy who directly helped the CIA recently was terminated.
Sovereignty does NOT mean not accepting global realities. Of course one can decide to restrict Internet access like North Korea, whether it makes sense is another matter. Or one can decide not to use the metric system, like the United States for example. But one can definitely decide on how to deal with what comes from outside in one’s own way. American towns can make all sorts of municipal rules forbidding different things – I have heard that in parts of the South, you may not drink alcohol when you are not under a roof, which has as a consequence that many people have roofs that go way into the garden and during garden parties they make sure they drink their beer under the roof, being law-abiding.
Rules within a country must fit the culture of that country. American definitions of sexual harrasment would never work in European culture, especially not in France, and I am happy that it is not that way, because here in Europe they have a more natural and relaxed attitude to sexuality than in the US, most Europeans will not want that imported here, just as most Europeans would not want to limit women like in Saudi Arabia. OK in Sweden they are imitating US rules, see Assange, but that is their business of course.
Santiago can have her opinion on America, just like anybody else, but if she thinks something is unconstitutional the professional way is to refer it to the Supreme Court. Grandstanding and not doing anything is not very credible to me, it is just a political maneuver without substance, she should put her money where her mouth is. Chavez and Castro are also anti-American, many Latin Americans are, but at least the act on their convictions which I respect. With Santiago it is IMHO just a reflex without any thinking.
Castro and Chavez did what they did because they consider it good for their country. Santiago just barks at the US to gain popularity with certain people who dislike the US. Leaders of countries should be mature, know what they want for the country, look at the options, then decide and sell the decision to the public. Partnering with a more powerful country will have good and bad sides. How much of the good you can get and how much of the bad you can avoid depends on 1) how much you need the good things and 2) how much you have to offer in return to the other side. It is like a business negotiation.
Germany for example can bargain with the US from a position of strength. Obama needs Merkel to deal with Putin because Merkel speaks Russian and Putin speaks German, plus Merkel was raised in Communism. Germany needs the US to back it up in case the Russians really come, the US needs Germany because they have very strong tank divisions that can hold back the Russians for a few days until US aircraft carriers come to finish them off. Germany provides the US with the guns for their M1 Abrams tanks because only they can manufacture tank guns with the needed precision and quality. Ramstein Air force base provides Germany with added security in case of attack. Of course the USA is more in shape to resist Russian attack, having more constant practice. But German troops were in Afghanistan till recently, meaning they also are in shape.
Philippines needs the US to provide security against China. Philippines has hardly anything to offer in return. Perhaps that is the reason why the dollar exchange rate to peso is kept the way it is, preferential to the United States, could be part of the exchange. The Philippines threw out US bases in 1992 without any clear plan on modernizing its own air force and its navy, having relied on the US Navy in Subic and the US Air Force in Clark for its external security. Now it is acting like a 25 year old who left home at 18, couldn’t handle it, is always bringing home the laundry to Mama and asking Papa to come and help fix the plumbing – and then still acting like a teen by continuing to blame both.
Indonesia and Malaysia have highly modern armies, navies and air forces so there is no excuse for the Philippines to have done nothing. The danger posed by the Chinese has been clear for years, US forces have been helping the Philippines for years, but AFP modernization has been half-hearted at best. Not only that, the MILF has obviously rearmed and probably has fighters who were in Afghanistan and Syria, meaning seasoned warriors. The last time the Philippine army had that was the PHILCAG mission in Vietnam. The Philippines is like a young man in a bad neighborhood who sent his Uncle Sam away, but did not buy a gun, not even Mace, and possibly goes to the martial arts dojo but does not have any practical street fighting experience. The Chinese are stopping and taunting the young man on the way to the bus stop. Guys in strange black hats are holding him up, especially when he happens to pass them going to the supermarket, asking for money. Uncle Sam comes back to help, even after he sent him away with insults, and yet he keeps whining when Uncle Sam sits on his sofa or occupies the bathroom for too long.
Sovereignty is a good concept. Just like you have a fence around your house and expect people not to trespass. But if you are in a bad neighbourhood and don’t have at least a shotgun and the heart to go out and use it – and have a tone of voice and look in the eye that shows you mean business, just like Clint Eastwood telling gangbangers to “get off my lawn” in his movie Gran Torino – people will walk all over you and your fence is useless. Relying on international laws and on senior partners is like thinking that courts and police will help you in a bad neighbourhood – they will not always be there on time. Knowing a tough guy nearby can help, but if he helps you, you owe him at least a beer if not more. Know what I am talking about as a former burgis guy who migrated and got to know bad neighborhoods because we lost our status, I was not prepared for it but I adjusted.
Sovereignty is just a piece of paper if you do not have power and/or money to defend it. Even then you may need allies in case a whole gang comes for you or tries to get you, so you try to get strong reliable allies and in a bad neighborhood you have to make do with allies that are somewhat better than the other assholes in the hood. Better still strong guys who have character and better still if you get along. US has character compared to Russia and China, they may be assholes sometimes but they do not deceive that much. US and the Philippines share a common history and have a lot of common values. Of course, and again I speak from experience with my bad neighborhood analogy, even if you have something to offer in return it is better if you are as strong as you can be, just enough to stand your ground, also the one protecting you will respect you more if you are not just a pushover or acting like one. So in the situation the Philippines is in, hardly able to defend itself, working with the US is imperative. But in the long run, the Philippines will have to continue to modernize the AFP to have at least basic defense capabilities. This is the kind of realistic analysis that I am missing with Santiago. I am disappointed because she is intelligent and should actually know better. Pity play is something that only works among Filipinos, it is part of the miseducation by Spanish friars who taught them that being pitiful or a martyr is good because they wanted meek subjects they could handle.
The real world out there can be pitiless. It is no small wonder that Pacquiao is from Mindanao, because that part of the Philippines can be merciless. What shocked Filipinos so much about the SAF 44 was how they were killed, but a lot of MILF fighters may have been abroad like in Afghanistan, dealing with people who do not go for Filipino pity play or protest drama. Making people respect your sovereignty as a nation is like getting respect in a bad neighborhood – you have to be prepared to back up your words with actions or at least believable readiness to act if that sovereignty or respect is challenged. Otherwise it is just theory. Just like the law a country lays down for the land is just a piece of paper if the police rarely manage to catch criminals and courts barely manage to punish them. Putting theory and practice together is something Filipinos rarely manage to achieve.
Finally BBL. Even if the agreement is perfect in theory, it is useless if you do not have the power to enforce it in any way. Withholding subsidies is not enough, it is just as useless as the sanctions the EU is imposing on Russia, a determined opponent will not really care. Just in case the MILF decides to buy more arms, invade neighboring parts of Mindanao or simply not obey the agreement, what does one do to them? Ask them to comply, like they are being asked now to surrender the men who killed the SAF 44? That my not work. Practical implementation means, in case any agreement is reached, making sure that they disarm and not taking their word for it but checking it. Regularly checking if they continue to comply with disarmament. Being ready to fight them if necessary, who knows if they will hide arms somewhere and challenge the AFP? Telling someone who doesn’t care that BBL is under the Constitution bla bla bla is like telling a bully in a bad neighborhood hey that isn’t fair what you are doing now and BTW it’s illegal. And bam he punches you. Never happened to me though because I never was fool enough to act like that. Or foolish enough to give any bully my money to keep him off, though no one actually dared ask. Unfortunately Noynoy, Deles and Ferrer are acting like pushovers toward the bully MILF. Which means it is very likely they will NOT respect the most perfect agreement in practice.
“Unfortunately Noynoy, Deles and Ferrer are acting like pushovers toward the bully MILF.” I don’t think so. They have adopted a vision that you have not, and are working to fit the document to the vision. The vision is to stop the fighting by having the MILF take accountability for solving the problem. An imposed solution has proven, again and again around the world, an unquestioned failure. If the fighting can be stopped, as it largely has been for three years, then investment in infrastructure and jobs can occur, as is now happening. To start ascribing easy labels (“pushover to a bully”) is like name-calling in a discussion thread. If the BBL path is wrong, lay out the better path and justify it.
I would add, that these lengthy comments, for me, are self-defeating because I don’t read them. Exhaustion sets in and I lose the main point. Plus they are impossible to respond to. There are 436 points made in your argument.
Yap, I started skimming them too.
As a wise tutor once told me ” You will double your impact if you only tell half.”
OK, but I have given a constructive proposal to your question. I will write shorter next time, sometimes passion gets the better of me and I just whip out what I am thinking, sorry.
I am aware that you have indirectly called me out already, didn’t quite react to that…
I’m just giving you feedback, the other part of which would be, “man you think good.”
@josephivo: that first post was for Joe. May I add: “it takes longer to write shorter”. Usually my better postings take three times as long to write than my long ones. Duly noted!
Thanks Joe for both sides of the feedback. You must have been a good manager before.
My tone sounds a bit harsh at times, that is the downside of Germanic influence. I actually was thanking you and giving you my first real apology, not an Arroyo one. 🙂
OK, constructive criticism. I get it, so here is my answer: What these guys are proposing makes a lot of sense to me: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/03/02/1429130/alternative-bbl-eyed .
“MANILA, Philippines – A group composed of Muslims and non-Muslims in Mindanao has proposed an alternative solution to the Mindanao conflict through peaceful means amidst the expected delay in the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).
Eid Kabalu, former spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said their group is seeking revision of the proposed BBL, which aims to create a new autonomous region in Mindanao.
Kabalu, currently vice-chairman of the newly formed Bangsamoro Transition Council (BTC), said President Aquino would be committing a big blunder if he fast-tracks the passage of the BBL without amending some questionable provisions.”
My old man – who knew both Marcos and Ninoy personally and unlike me is totally pro-Noynoy but like me is anti-BBL – posted the link to that page on Facebook just today. For me the reasons this looks better are the following:
1) it involves not just one group but is more representative of all stakeholders.
2) It involves a former MILF spokesman who may have influence on some MILF clans.
3) They are constructive while I am convinced that MILF totally untrustworthy. Why?
a) they have apparently used the ceasefire to increase their firepower.
b) they have barely cooperated with the government in investigating Mamasapano.
c) they shot 27 policemen in the head when they could have just captured them.
d) they shot up the blocking force in a cornfield when they could have let them exit.
e) they called the uploader of an incriminating video criminal and called the “crime” “spreading darkness” and “causing intrigues”. Obviously these guys are afraid of the truth, maybe rightly so, PNP findings compared the gun in the video with one of the guns returned by MILF and they were the same – if you want the source I will find it, it is on the Facebook page of one my best friends from high school. Iqbal did not look at Cayetano in the eye when asked the question and was very evasive, looking up and sideways, my life experience and common sense gives me the feeling he had something to hide.
And if Iqbal says he has no control over the various MILF groups, then he has no real mandate to represent. Kabalu might be able to win over almost as many, just as many or even more of his people than Iqbal. Besides, BBL is nearly dead in Manila. Passing it is a recipe for trouble and an agreement that does not consider the stakeholders on the national side adequately, that does not win their trust, is going to cause bad blood. And THAT is a recipe for disaster, sooner or later. Grudges are nurtured among Filipinos, old scores are remembered and settled, trust and hard to win and easy to lose, that is where we are all the same, whether indigenous, Christian or Muslim, just different flavors.
Just to add to e), Iqbal said that he found the shooting in the video “worse than terrorism”. But if the PNP is right and it really was one of the guns MILF returned, and they did not return any of the guns BIFF got, then that statement by Iqbal to me looks like hypocrisy.
OK, OK, maybe he did not know that it was one of the guys from an MILF command IF the PNP is right about that, but if then he was very unprepared going to the Senate. OK, unprepared, chaotic, possibly hypocritical – he is a Filipino after all, not a Moro.
Anyway I think the BTC is making sense. If one is really willing to find peace, one should look at all possibilities, not just get fixated on one. Also: I see Deles and Ferrer as having been two weak, the BBL gives the MILF too many loopholes, but that to me is now moot.
OK, this comment is still long, but it is more structured. And Joe I read your comment after I wrote both, so the next time I will take more time to cool down my passions before posting.
A good answer. My response to the “include more groups” argument is that doing so would create a nightmarish bureaucracy and bitter struggles and would never get anywhere, whereas starting with step one is easier to get done in our lifetimes. I agree the existing document needs to be amended to assure greater Central government control. Apparently some of the changes being contemplated are to remove audit, civil service, police management, and ombudsman from Bangsamoro control. Trust must also be built in small steps, and any course will not be smooth. The financial sections are proving rather interesting as I go through them. They were a sticking block to discussions for quite a while.
One wonders which provisions are “deal killers” from the standpoint of the MILF.
“My response to the “include more groups” argument is that doing so would create a nightmarish bureaucracy and bitter struggles and would never get anywhere, whereas starting with step one is easier to get done in our lifetimes.” Don’t agree with that. If these groups have already created a council on their own and want to talk peace, why not? They have created their own body and that body might be able to sort things out…
Read conflicting reports. Some say that they will accept no changes. Nonsense IMHO. Other reports say they will stay in their area and not continue to fight even if the BBL is not yet passed. But I think that should be the default, they are selling it as kindness but it is IHMO normal. But maybe you should be the one to ask them, that would be an idea…
You or my business lawyer, wonder how high his fee would be for that. We Filipinos are often too emotional, it isn’t surprising some of the best UN negotiators are Scandinavians. Cool Nordic blood. Anyway thanks for the call-out. I have realized why I like Cayetano. I am like him – passionate, merciless, highly intellectual and with a lot of vanity. Become more aware of the disadvantages you see in him. I know because I often have started fires…
Now I can write what I did not dare write at first, having found the right balance:
“Trust must also be built in small steps, and any course will not be smooth.”. Trust in Manila is now very low, suspicion for Aquino has grown the extent that certain circles are asking if he has a vested interest in passing BBL before 2016. Very malicious really.
Questions like “is rushing the BBL deal possibly part of his post-2016 retirement plan” – if you catch my drift, very paranoid but understandable given the “norm” in Filipino politics. Noynoy appearing that he does not want to listen as usual makes the whole thing worse.
Any group could ignite fires anywhere using malice as a catalyst, and the Mindanao groups not involved in the peace process could be among those that catch fire. If not now maybe later, witness ARMM which was a deal with MNLF and what came out of it – MILF.
That is one additional reason why I think that the BTC should at least be heard and spoken to by Noynoy and not dismissed in a way the might be seen as arrogant and insensitive, because it could lead to widespread dissatisfaction and more conflict.
My personal synthesis and proposal therefore now is:
1) use the BBL as basis.
2) involved both MILF and BTC – why?
a) throw out MILF – ceasefire ends
b) without BTC – possible renewed conflict
c) less likelihood of future conflict with left-out groups
3) keep Deles and Ferrer in their position + Orense – why?
a) to save face
b) experience
c) known faces
3) Get a Dutchman to advise, in reality as main mediator – why?
a) cool Nordic blood
b) neutral party
c) honest reputation
d) understands Muslim Malays and Christians due to Indonesian experience
e) no possible vested interest, no possible suspicion unlike with Malaysia or USA
4) Seek points that can be agreed upon, set aside points that are controversial.
5) Go through the controversial points, patiently, one by one.
There are enough Dutch people in the UN and elsewhere who might do, maybe even one with East Timor mediation background, even better. The guy might cost but it is worth it.
Agree upon basic ground rule that no one involved in negotiation speaks to the press, except the Dutch mediator who regularly gives out cool dry summaries in experienced diplomatic language, so that there is no stirring up. No Twitter, no Facebook postings.
Clearly defined delegates to the peace talks, all bound to the shut up rule. Lock them up somewhere for months, ideally on some Pacific attol, until they come to an agreement. The rest are details but this is my outline proposal, criticisms/enhancements are welcome.
Good ideas.
Thanks. I know you take time to consider, would definitely welcome feedback though.
Let me give you more arguments against dealing only with MILF: they might even with BBL quietly build up arms by channeling funds away secretly. In 5 or so years time, another “new” group appears that wants the whole of Mindanao, after all they claim it is theirs.
They are fully armed and ready and the AFP is still not good enough to stop them. What BBL is presently doing is giving all power to the MILF, trusting them completely. There should be safeguards against this happening, the best safeguards being rivalries.
1) there is a fiscal board with a representative from EACH group plus central government. 2) Make sure there is a similar arms control board.
3) Make sure there is a central governing board also similar. Ref. Bosnia, Dayton plan.
i) have shut-up rules toward press and internet for ALL in these bodies.
ii) have a Dutch spokesman for each of these bodies. Regular presscons with only him.
Cumbersome and expensive, but cheaper than renewed conflict. After all the economic potential of that area is huge, considering this could fund all of the EASILY if done well:
https://bignewscentral.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/milf-lauds-p-noy-on-gas-and-oil-exploration-in-mindanao-issue/
AND/OR this:
https://dalusongjomar.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/malaysian-palm-oil-firm-eyes-phl-after-milf-peace-deal/
AND could fund not only the Moro region’s progress but also that of the Philippines! 🙂
I remember Cory led a group of people in a rally specifically for the purpose of urging the Senate at that time to reconsider their impending decision to boot out the US bases knowing fully well that we have not yet attain full defense capability , alas! to no avail, Was it 11 senators who voted for removal, (why is 11 votes a number detrimental to our interest, I don’t know, 11 senators voted not to open the bank envelope that so enraged the populace during the Estrada trial, 11 justices voted to uphold Estrada’s right to remain Manila Mayor or even be a presidential candidate again) but I digress….your anecdote on the youth who left home is apt…
filipinos who are spread all over should understand what borderless means.
maybe next to go are immigration rules. I give it 90 years. no more embassies.
then shortly no more United nations and we will all be under one despot, then the let the hunger games begin.
Many directions are possible. But the current trend seems to me to indicate that more of the decisions that really matter in ones live are moving towards financial institutions. More and more is commercialized, playing and free time, interpersonal relations through the new social media, enjoying nature, love on Valentine’s day… . Air is still free if you don’t count the cost of managing pollution, don’t want to control its temperature or smell. Dreams are free, unless you need a Lotto ticket to dream, or some hallucinogens.
Everything we do will require money, money supplies controlled by those who make money by its circulation. And monopolistic powers are replacing the invisible hand that controlled markets. Google already knows better what you like than you can tell yourself. Look at the influence of money in US (or Philippine) elections. So for sovereign people, individually or as the “bosses” of a nation.
yeah google, had a hard time disabling the type one letter and a sort of drop downmenu of suggestions will appear.
man they even have a profile of what you type in search engines.
currency: if we move away from the dollar, what would happen?
what would replace it? crypto currency?
that nutmeg revelation of yours gave me a clear picture of controlled markets.
man, you are amazing(based on what edgar calls lateral thinking). did you know that in dc comics, the professor who created Amazo was called Professor Ivo.
The professor is no family. And for me immortality sounds as a nightmare 😉
You were born in Belgium, my great grandfather from my mother’s side was from Belgium. Last name cauwenberg.never been there though,the only place in europe i have visited was the Vatican.
About the nutmeg.
http://www.spiceskerala.com/nutmeghistory.html
See my long comment and what I wrote about the Euro and its heavy influence on European politics. Or Ecuador which has dollarized its economy recently. One group of states decides to control its own money supply, another state gives up this control.
Or the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten recently implemented in the EU, including court proceedings against Google enforcing implementation in member states.
Actually I do believe that state power is still necessary to enforce a level playing field. Monopolistic powers pervert what Adam Smith style capitalism was originally about, in fact the threat is that they may create a form of global totalitarianism which will be unpleasant.
I read it …done with round one,and will reread it thanks for the education.
Thanks @Karl. The Euro experience has given me wealth of knowledge and insights, which I am happy to share with those from my original community, the Philippines, via this online intellectual tambayan. Also learned a lot of things here, many new perspectives.
Read about ecuador per your advise. So they dumped bitcoin in favor of altcoin. I aso read about their dollarization.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6211858/HSBC-bids-farewell-to-dollar-supremacy.html
Interesting article, the demise of the dollar. I don’t understand his statement about the US and “their crisis”. What crisis? The US is humming economically. Unemployment is down even though automation is up. Political bickering keeps the nation centered. It is all the lunatics in China, Russia and the Middle East he ought to be worrying about.
http://www.coindesk.com/ecuador-bans-bitcoin-legislative-vote/
karl, a procedural request. When you drop off a link, please put it in some context so we understand the point you wish to make, and can decide if we want to click over or not. Thanks.
Will do Joe.
Too late but the link about the si called farewell to dollar supremacy can be found above, a uk telegraph link.
I was advised by pie to read about the dollarization of Ecuador and in addition to that, I also read that they are into electronic currency.the link Ecuadior bans Bitcoin…..
The story behind my interest can be found in one of rHiro,s comments below,where I am sorry to say I heard about a minimum of ten times already,only rephrased and in several blogs.
Borderless is reality in the Schengen zone. And as for hunger games, Romania is somewhat like the EUs “District 12” even if life has massively improved over 10 years. Hunger games for them meant massive trafficking in women, labor and donor organs. Enough real stories exist for example of poor people selling a kidney so a rich Western European can survive, with truly ruthless organized crime in the background. Very harsh.
The reality of borderless in Europe also means centralized police with heavy coordination. Iyong mga akyat-bahay sa Western Europe, usually sa Romania nanggagaling, nakaw sila tapos tumatakas through open borders. Iyong mga mandurukot nila, laging palipat-lipat.
Therefore the need for a centralized police database in Strasbourg, mirrored in Austria, plus heavy coordination that does not always work because of Eastern European cops are often corrupt, even if that is improving since they are under heavy audit all the time.
Everyone in Europe except the British for what I know have national IDs, and on the continent you have to carry it with you at all times. The British have their strict border controls, even though the officer may be a Sikh in turban or a Muslima in hijab.
The EU commision is perceived as despotic by many, but people also see the usefulness of having common rules and regulations everywhere, not having to go through border checks and not having to change money – I definitely do. I fear NAIA coming home…
National id.. naku dto invasion daw of privacy at profiling tool daw…dyoss ko sometimes i share your frustration. Leftists will be a continuing story like the moros for ever.it will aways be about victims. Opression even when long gone is ingrained through generations.
The thing with this victim (and martyr) cult in the Philippines is that it comes from the wrong kind of Catholic faith. Spanish friars instilled in the Filipino that it is good to be kawawa and make makaawa – para hindi tayo lumaban sa kanila. Kaya ako, tiniwalag ko na iyong sarili ko sa pagiging Katoliko, may Diyos pa siguro ako pero hindi ka tutulungan nito kung hindi ka marunong tumulong sa sarili mo.
Hindi ako bilib sa mga leftist sa Pinas dahil puro bibig lang. Tulad ng isinulat ko na kay Joe, mas bilib ako kay Chavez at kay Castro dahil meron silang isinasagawa. Kahit ano man ang paninindigan ng isang tao, basta huwag siyang puro salita lang. Kaya bilib ako kay Duterte kahit pasista siya o kaya rightist, hindi puro showbiz lang ang pulitika niya, iyong sinimulan niya tinatapos niya kahit hindi ito nagugustuhan ng lahat ng tao.
First of all, josephivo, many thanks. You are right, Rizals ideas were definitely Germanic. Considering that he was close to Blumentritt, a 19th century Joe Austria in a way.
But let me add some food for thought, some context – the Germanic, romantic idea of the nation-state was a reaction to the French idea. Nation in French means the place of your birth, your homeland. In France all who were subjects of absolutist French kings were French.
The Germanic idea of a nation is based on the idea of a Volk – a group of related ethnolinguistic groups. Because Germany was a late nation in Europe, the implementation of the German nation marginalized those who were ethnically not steeped in the legacy of the Grimm brothers.
The French revolution was a revolution that was based on the fervor of modernisation and continued by trying to export the revolution elsewhere, leading to Napoleon. The French strategy of supporting Catholic German states like Bavaria and Austria was about weakening Germany. Napoleons major legacy was the metric system which he imposed all over Europe, but also the Napoleonic Code, the civil code upon which the legal systems of most Latin countries are based. Spain has it, Italy too, France of course, many Latin American countries – and the Philippines. The highly centralistic Philippine government is a Latin legacy left by Spain as well, but the 19th century Spanish government copied the French model – and that is what Filipino ilustrados saw.
After centuries of ruinous wars, Europeans decided to form the European Union, effectively a Franco-German alliance from the beginning, an alliance of two former enemies, countries that decided that fighting it out was too ruinous for everyone’s good. In a way a post-national institution, in a way similar to the old Holy Roman Empire in its federalist setup. There are still enormous differences between the Germans and the French, but they fight them out in boardrooms, trying to find a common consensus but sometimes failing. In the new Balkan wars of the 1990s, Germans were closer to Croatia and Slovenia and the French were closer to Serbia, not to mention the Greeks with their old Orthodox ties. Now Merkel and Hollande manage to work together when it comes to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. The fact that Merkel, as an East German, speaks Russian and grew up under Communism helps. She is the main mediator toward Putin.
I can assure you that the nations of Europe, while working together on a common future, have their own decision making factories in place. Universities, political parties, national capitals. Every country discusses its own future within Europe and how to represent its interests within the EU:
The Greeks have recently elected a highly nationalistic, leftist government that is a lot of trouble. The discussion about whether to keep helping Greece or to throw them out of the common currency – their Moodys credit rating is, to my surprise, far below that of the Philippines.
The Romanians are a proud Latin people, caught in the East by an accident of history, descendants of soldiers given land by the Roman Empire to secure the Slavic border, and allegedly also criminals and slaves deported there to mine for gold. A Roman Australia.
Knowing many people from there and having been there for a while, I get to hear a lot about their discussions. The national leadership has an old French tradition – the French sponsored their poorer Latin cousins in many ways including Portugal – plus a legacy of communist dictatorship.
The public discussion there is often very heated between those have are frustrated by the difficult post-communist years plus the extreme changes caused by joining EU and NATO recently, and those who see slow progress taking route. There is an enormous migration of Romanians to many parts of Europe, Spain, Italy and France being the first choices, then affluent Germany. Computer experts, high-powered managers, day laborers, prostitutes, pimps and thieves. Enormously corrupt, Latin-style politics with hugh class divisions that survived communism. Heated discussions in the press and in parliament. Only in 2014, the populist Traian Baiescu was replaced by the Transylvanian German Klaus Iohannis, prompting a Romanian friend of mine to say “many in Europe think we are garbage, but with Klaus they will see, we will show them”.
“Of course the US interferes in Filipino affairs as they do in Germany, France, Canada and the rest of the world.”
Yes it does. In fact the US has been playing its game of divide and conquer in Europe – trying to pit the “Old Europe” (Donald Rumsfelds words) that refused to join Dubyas Iraq war against the New Europe (the post-communist countries thankful to Reagan for telling Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall) but now you have a different spirit: the EU, represented by the Merkel-Hollande tandem, has its own voice in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even if there are internal quarrels, like the Lithuanians and the Poles, understandly worried about Russia, asking the US and NATO for more local presence. You have Germany protesting about the NSA and firing one of its own intelligence people for helping the CIA outside official channels, which of course exist.
Of course the US is an international empire, let there be no doubt about that. They are today’s Roman Empire in terms of military power and cultural influence, but even in the Roman empire there were various Greek and Oriental states. Those parts of the Empire that managed to find their own unified voice were able to represent these interests, being organized, those that were less organized when the Romans came – notably the Gauls of what is now France and Spain as well as Northern Italy – became fully integrated into the empire. What am I saying with this?
In the EU there are regions, nation-states and the EU, overlaying that in various degrees you have the Schengen visa agreement (which means a lot more than visas, it includes comprehensive police cooperation including a central police database in Strasbourg with a mirror server in the Austrian mountains for safety), the Euro (which means that countries are under fiscal supervision, something the unruly, proud and temperamental Greeks hate) and the NATO. But each of these regions, nation-states and the EU itself have strong decision-making bodies which may not be able to control everything, but do take part in collective decision-making. The European Commission and its powerful bureaucracy shaped in the French tradition do take care of a lot of details, but there are checks and balances in place and powerful national governments. The Commission tried to deliberate about the TTIP agreement between the US and the EU and was halted by strong public protest because many perceived it as giving an unfair advantage to American companies backed by venture capital. “Uber” for example is very much discussed.
The 19th century nation state is a fossil word, definitely. That is what I wanted to prove with my European example. BUT even within international cooperation there are different local interests. You need strong decision-making bodies to represent these local interests within this framework.
The definition of a nation I like most is that of a group of people united by a common destiny. People with a common past that shaped them are usually going to have a similar way of seeing and dealing with things called culture. Inspite of the EU, Greeks remain Greeks, Romanians are Romanians (with all their regional differences, Transylvania being very different from Bucharest), Germans remain Germans – so it is legitimate for each country to define its own interests as a common denominator of the interests of the people who are citizens of that country. Those who do not manage to define their own interests get the bad end of the deal, human beings being what they are. One only has to look at the Ukraine which is defending itself against Russia with its powerful military and propaganda machine – both have modernized quietly and are back again.
@Joe, I liked your definition of a nation as a community. Of course there may be the difference between the community where one has roots (in your case, America, in my case Philippines) and the community where one lives (Philippines and Europe respectively) which complicates matters. Somehow one does care about both communities, the acquired one and the original one. But in the end, a community that does not manage to consolidate its common interests and is not able to represent its interests in the world out there gets represented by other, stronger communities. Saying that the nation will become completely obsolete is in my view as untrue as the end of history that Fukuyama predicted when the Cold War ended. The concept of nation has to be redefined to suit the global world and the fact that there is in fact a global American Empire – not always pleasant to deal with but definitely a better deal than the growing Chinese empire. There are many variants of being junior partners of an empire – you can be a satellite like the Eastern Europeans were of the Russian Empire which is now in my opinion making a last stand, you can be relatively independent junior partners like Western European states during the Cold War, you can be partners on an ALMOST equal footing like the present EU towards the US – almost equal because the EU is economically strong but has no chance against Russia without US backing.
So it is not as simple as Santiago sees it, who is still caught in a pre-1991 mindset when the Philippines were definitely almost a US satellite state. US bases were thrown out without a concept of how to deal independently with the world out there, witness Scarbourough shoal. Since it is not up to me to give an opinion on how my original community should decide, all I can give is input. In my article, I gave a two possible scenarios on how the Philippines could become in 10-20 years. Now how it really plays depends a lot on what those who are in charge back home make of things.
What is correct is that nations have less influence than before, that there are forces more powerful than them, and that leading a nation nowadays is becoming like wild water rafting. Switzerland for all its isolation has joined the Schengen visa scheme but not EU free trade. Nonetheless they could not control the effect of the Euro on their currency just very recently. Alright enough already, just wrote down my unsorted thoughts, may the be food for more thought.
Thank you, PinoyIE. What I missed from my History classes, Geography, and current events I learned from you. More power to you.
You’re welcome Bert. And I hope you are not being sarcastic. Just sharing what I know with the community here, and giving additional perspective to the topic, plus own opinions. Actually I think there are a lot of VERY knowledgeable people in this online community. What I think I can contribute is my mixture of Filipino background and Euro experience. Connect the dots in a different way to help in our common learning process right here. Ongoing project ito, I know I am a smart-ass and a pain in the ass, but hope I can help.
Actually I am aware that I have been very contributive in many ways here in the past two weeks – sometimes constructive, sometimes helpfully provocative, sometimes annoying. Two weeks working part-time in my home office while recovering from really bad winter flu.
Josephs European stuff gave me the inspiration to share my personal. Euro perspective. Because the Philippines has been too US-centric in thinking for much of postwar history.
Also I found it interesting to share what I have observed from the Romanian side – an old barkada of mine who is also a migrant to EU once said “katulad natin sila” my answer was “tama ka, pero may tatlong pagkakaiba: mas gago sila, mas alam nila ang gusto nila at mas isinasagawa nila, hindi katulad natin madalas tayong padalos-dalos, urong-sulong”. The rest is to be found in my other postings, I know there are some who take care to read, there are many who think about it, throw away the mud and process the gold nuggets.
Anyway I don’t care if some curse my frequent postings or find some nuggets in them. Tomorrow it’s back to work, pasalamat akong hindi ako jobless. “See” you around.
I am a very direct person, PinoyIE, If I come across to you as some sort of a plastic person I’m sorry. I am not. I can indeed dish out sarcasm at times but never on anything that I deemed very valuable to my interests.
Anticipating more posts from you, and that’s no sarcasm, I swear. Though I have to admit I hate serious talk like this one we are having right now, the reason perhaps why I love bantering nonsense with the likes of Edgar, and Joe, and Sonny, and karl, and some others who care for the funny stuffs, :).
No you don’t, actually I don’t really know, which is why I am openly adressing the issue. Internet is without facial expressions and tones of voice. Thanks for clarifying. Wanted to make sure that I am not annoying people already. After all I am quite new here. 🙂
Hehe, just two weeks online with my pipol and my “hiya” is coming back. 🙂 Ayoko lang na may makaisip na pasikat ako o kaya mayabang, siguro medyo pasikat at pilosopo, inaamin ko iyon pero ayokong maging katulad o maituring na katulad ng iilang nagtatapon ng bato sa Pinas palibhasa nasa dayuhan sila pero wala naman yatang trabaho doon. Naninibago ako rito, dahil hindi pa ako lubos na naniwalang may nagbago – buti at meron.
This is dedicated to your Siberian ex
https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/would-russia-still-be-russia-without-siberia/
Micha says:
Hmmm…interesting
The surrender of sovereignty by European countries by agreeing to form the European Union has, for most, yielded very little good results when the Troika imposed the disastrous austerity project. If it’s any consolation, the ECB had most recently lost the game of chicken when it agreed to extend Greece’s lifeline for new loans, giving the new Syriza gov’t more leverage to pushback against the wishes of Brussels and IMF. Merkel and Draghi may have seen the danger to EU if they allowed Greece to default.
Still, peripheral countries are agonizing with depression level youth unemployment and it’s unclear if the bargain for continent-wide peace and collective prosperity will hold up. Already, extremist parties hostile to the Union have gained followers in France, Hungary, and Spain.
Will nation states and sovereignty become fossil words? Not so sure about that.
Make no mistake, Europe is in a major crisis. It is hardly reported in the press, but I have been told by Greeks I know that every 4 hours somebody kills himself because of personal bankruptcy – the wave of support for left-wing populist Syriza is not surprising. Spaniards have told me that you have people begging for food in poorer parts of Madrid. The economic boom of about a decade ago totally collapsed with the real estate bubble and many normal people having made bad deals in housing loans where they only paid interest, hoping that they would be able to sell their real estate a a profit. Latin Americans on the other hand are rejoicing that the Spanish who treated them like dirt in Spain are now taking on the same menial jobs in Northern Europe that they looked down on them for.
On the political front trouble is also brewing. Russia is angered by expat Ukrainians in EU supporting their brothers back home financially and otherwise. At the same time, Russia is negotiating with Cyprus, which is EU but not NATO and a known safe haven for Russian mafia investment, for visiting forces and even military bases. Bulgaria is NATO and EU but under strong Russian influence due to centuries-old cultural and linguistic ties.
Sure, the internet is everywhere, but Russia has turned it into a tool for its own advantage. A map of worldwide Facebook use shows hardly any Russian presence – vkontakte.ru and mail.ru being the social networks of choice there. Russia today and RIA Novosti broadcast Russian propanda – not in the old, crude Soviet way but highly modernized, having learned the methods of Western spin doctors. In European internet forums, trolls broadcasting the Putin point of view appear in discussions about Ukraine, writing in perfect English, French, Spanish and French. Peaceniks had Europes nations disarm too much, Europes armies are out of practice while Russia’s army is in constant practice, they have modernized their own old equipment, retrofitting it with computer technology, stealth and reactive armor. Russian bombers and jet fighters regularly challenge NATO borders, forcing jet fighters to mobilize. Without US bases like Ramstein still left in Europe, we would be sitting ducks for Russia. That is why I do not believe in relying solely on treaties, seeing Putin violate ceasefire agreements regularly but denying it was Russian troops. Cossack militia in East Ukraine are basically Russian-supported forces with plausible deniability. Europe is hastily building up renewable energy to decrease its heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas, while courting Azerbaidjan, turning the place into a Caucasian version of the Persian gulf. Haha Gerhard Schröder got into an important job with Gazprom after his government help see through a sweetheart deal to supply German Ruhrgas with Russian natural gas just before Schröder had a snap election he himself engineered in 2005 and lost to Merkel, and he probably regularly goes fishing with his best friend Putin. So guys back home relax, they are not much better here, just human beings. The Greeks juked their economic and fiscal statistics to get into the Euro zone, but nobody punished them for it. The Papandreou and Karamanlis families alternated in ruling Greece over much of the postwar period. Scotland almost separated from England, Catalonian aspirations were stopped by Madrid. In the end yes, people will not change, will always defend their turf and stick to their own. So the neoliberal version of John Lennon’s Imagine will go to where Fukuyama’s End of History went, with Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson there to entertain.
The problem with the Euro project is that it is mostly undemocratic, a Franco-German engineering fearful of repeating the horrors of the Great Wars, where most policy decisions affecting millions across the continent are cooked up by un-elected bankers and technocrats in Brussels. Given the current state of economic pain and suffering, a referendum to join or opt out of the Union will most probably yield a victory for the latter.
The common thread animating most regions of the world today – Europe, China, US, Russia, and yes, even small dwarf Philippines – is the rise of global plutocracy.
The demon of economic greed is making global alliances, coordinating their hold on power and plot to suck the energies of the poor. Witness the Trans Pacific Partnership wheeling and dealing behind closed doors.
Old habits die hard and it is far from the end of history.
1. Illuminating.
2. The evolution of the concept of sovereignty appears to be:
o The sovereignty of Heaven
o The sovereignty of Kings
o The sovereignty of the People
3. Curiously, that third concept is not expressed in the US Constitution. It is explicitly expressed in Section1, Article II of our 1987 Constitution.
4. It took Lincoln to persuasively express this greatest of all political idea in the Gettysburg Address of 1863. In the 150 years since then, the great task that Lincoln bequeathed to us from the honoured dead of the American Civil War — that of the rebirth of freedom and the persistence of “government of the people, by the people, for the people” — is far from being fulfilled.
4.1. The idea is under threat everywhere. No less in its country of birth, where a hostile congress controls the purse strings and holds the country to ransom. In our country, the political elite exercises a sovereignty not freely granted by the people but more cheaply purchased from them or more arrogantly exerted over them.
5. From the post, there appears to be two principal attributes associated with the notion of sovereignty. These are:
o The source of sovereignty
o The jurisdiction of sovereignty
5.1. From item 2, in the current political paradigm of the nation-state, the source of sovereignty is the people. And the jurisdictions are the boundaries of the state.
5.2. Both attributes, while clearly defined, are not absolute. As we have observed in 4.1, the source has been perverted by representational democracy. And as Joseph has expounded, there are upward and downward limitations on state jurisdiction.
5.3. Joseph has also supplied his personal assessment of the future of sovereignty in his response to Karl’s (Garcia) comment. I have no opinion on the matter except to say that the Lincolnesque democratic ideal should be pursued to fulfilment. I would add three more:
5.3.1. All theocracies, partial or full, and all autocracies should fail. Both of these subscribe to the obsolete concepts of the sovereignty of heaven or of kings.
5.3.2. Technology is in the process of making possible the dream of direct democracy.
5.3.3. The role of the UN and international courts and agencies should be expanded in intra- and inter-national conflicts, such as the West Philippine Sea dispute.
6. From a personal viewpoint, if I were to extend the concept of sovereignty, the important question to answer would be: “Who has sovereignty over me?” In other words “Who has the power of life or death over me?”
6.1. Religion continues to lay the absolute claim that God retains that privilege.
6.2. The State continues to lay the peripheral claim that it has that power in at least three areas:
o Military conscription
o Death penalty
o Legislation on euthanasia
6.3. I concede to the rights of the nation-state in the matter of conscription (in times of war) and the death penalty. I do not concede to the claims of religion. Religions that recognize the concept of Free Will have fully negated their claim.
6.4. To me, suicide and euthanasia are personal matters of dignity and integrity. No power in heaven or on earth should have the right to limit or abrogate the right to the former. And the State should pass legislation to allow the latter.
6.5. We as individuals have the right to our lives and to exercise full control, or as much as full control, over it. Whether one decides to devote one’s life to someone either as a slave or a partner, to a vocation, to a task or even just to pleasures – that is for each of us to decide. All roads lead to enlightenment. And in terms of personal sovereignty, the pursuit of happiness is the ultimate right to, and gift of, life.
Next time I should send my drafts to you to create some logic, love #2
Yes, sovereignty should be something more than a certificate you can hang above your bed. For me the key words are “decision making”. Who decides over what, and not only over my dead, more important over my life. Can we people decide what lives we want to live?
Once I read two very interesting books by a Filipino free mason over this subject, on how the church and the powerful influenced the live of the hero in directions opposite to his own dreams. The books are almost 140 years old (one was printed first in Gent, Belgium, close to my birth place) and considered so dangerous that he was shot. But they are still very relevant in describing what oppresses personal sovereignty and by extension the national sovereignty.
Strong sovereignty with lousy decision makers who don’t do anything to materialize some of my dreams is useless. Miriam how will you improve my happiness? Is it by improving sovereignty? What sovereignty? Or is sovereignty just one little step? What are then the other, major steps you will pursue? (and yes thanks for promoting fun you bring in politics) …Miriam, and by extension all the other loud voices claiming more independence.
I am occasioned to reflect that national sovereignty exists only to the extent that the collective sovereignty is aligned to the same purpose. The Constitution is the aligning document. Thus, when Senator Santiago argues the VFA as a threat to sovereignty, she argues that it violates the Constitution. Yet the Constitution itself is not set in stone because there are indeed higher values, called learning, in which case we modify the Constitution, and life itself, which the Constitution exists to protect. Sovereignty is attached to those higher values, as you point out, not the paper document. So what she ought really be arguing is not the Constitution, but whether alliance with America is life threatening or life protecting. She never gets to that point. If she did, she would not be arguing at all, or, if she did, she would appear quite absurd.
Not that absurdity is a rare commodity hereabouts . . .
I think Senator Pimentel seeks to define Manny Pacquiao as a sovereign state, rather like the Bangsamoro region.
“I am occasioned to reflect that national sovereignty exists only to the extent that the collective sovereignty is aligned to the same purpose.” A very recent example was how the Swiss decided to give up some parts of their sovereignty to EU and Schengen.
It was done by the typically Swiss mechanism of holding a referendum and debating the issue nationwide – of course the Swiss have a strong sense that it is THEIR country and THEIR interests they are deliberating and are very responsible, i.e. mature about this.
Santiago not only acts immature, she argues in a very formalistic way which is very typical for Filipino debate, also for the way the government, courts and businesses work. Because Filipino education is often about memoriziing and parroting, not understanding.
Yes, that seems to be the case. And press conferences are really snoozers for the superficiality of the questions, asked over and over again.
The joke at UP is that the bird in its logo is actually a parrot.
I remember a school essays where I extended the topic, thinking way out of the box like so often and the teacher gave me a 5, writing in red “please write what you are told to write”.
RHiro says:
Kindly listen and read the lyrics of the German and French National Anthems….
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
The Eurozone was a good intention that may lead to hell…..The basic problem is national sovereignty…
The problems in the M.E. are issues of the sovereignty of kingdoms intertwined with their use of religious fundamentalism as the unifying factor…
Economics, politics and culture are the superstructure that binds societies.
The issues surrounding the major political parties in the U.S. today is the struggle of State sovereignty vs the Central government…
Right and left wing nationalism is on the rise in Europe precisely due to the massive policies employed to manage the ongoing depression…
When money earns negative nominal interest rates in major parts of the world people will clamor for their national governments to act.
The end of the Cold War saw the rise of American exceptionalism and triumphalism in the name of free markets and democracy…
That no longer holds true… American power has reached its zenith and failed state and failing states are creating havoc all over the world… Tribal, ethnic and sectarian struggles are exploding all over the world similar to the centuries of conflict in Europe over the ages that exploded in the First and second world war. conditions are ripe for the repeat and the slow movement for the Third World War.
I was wating for you, I know this is your cup of tea.
That dollar question above was from my recollection of the golden nuggets you shared.
Wow, so many things to think about, just a few:
Yes, Rothshild understood the golden rule: “The one who has the gold rules”
We don’t live anymore in nation states that control everything, religion, economics, culture… Different spheres of life are organized in different ways. Censorship and the index and control of thoughts gone, national financial autonomy gone (IMF, Worldbank), national currency gone (in Eurozone), national borders gone (in Shengen), national food gone (hamburgers, pizza and Coke instead), national religion gone (in many countries), national culture gone (facebook and twitter instead), national languages dying (except for Mandarin and English)…
The US over the top? They still have by far the largest defense budget and didn’t Mao say that real power comes out of the barrel of a gun?
Failed states? The Rational Optimist has data to proof that never in history there was so little violence, so few wars and so few people living in warzones.
… and thanks for the national anthems, the German lyrics from 1842 before Germany existed – the rivers mentioned all outside Germany today, the French from 1792 during the French revolution. No better illustration of the romantic nation state.
“national food gone (hamburgers, pizza and Coke instead)”
not really true in Europe, OK fastfood is here but people do love their traditional food. One major point of contention in the negotiations for the TTIP transatlantic trade agreement between US and EU is in fact quality of food. Sorry I have been in New York but the pizza there was usually lousy compared to that in Italy, I am not anti-American but these guys have inherited one thing from their English forefathers – bad cuisine.
“national religion gone (in many countries)”
also not true. Tell that to Bulgarians, Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians, Greeks, Cypriots and Serbs who are fervently Orthodox in faith. Catholicism remains strong in Latin America. Scandinavia is deeply Protestant in faith and in deed.
“national culture gone (facebook and twitter instead)”
Facebook is just a medium. In Russia and neighbouring countries people use vkontakte.ru and mail.ru as social networks. Facebook is used by a minority, ingrained anti-Americanism is very strong there.
“national languages dying (except for Mandarin and English)”
Tell that to Latin America, they will never speak English freely. Spanish and Italians hardly speak any English. Germans and French will never give up their language, even if the globalized elites there speak English well. Don’t expect the crazy Greeks to do either. Romanians and Portuguese cultivate their own languages proudly, Romanian being a modern variant of late antique vulgar Latin and Portuguese coming from medieval Latin, but at the same time most of them speak English perfectly to adapt to modernity.
Like biodiversity is important in nature, it is important to have many languages and cultures. What I agree with is that with globalisation, a few cultures/languages will disappear, just like species are disappearing in nature.
That is true – I did write that most of us are living in an American Empire – that is a fact. It is a present-day Roman empire in terms of military power plus cultural/linguistic influence. In ancient times, the pole with an eagle and SPQR on it was a sign of Imperial dominion, today it is a pole with golden arches. The main competitors are Russia and China, the latter getting stronger, the former trying to come back but I hope it will not.
Stanley Karnow wrote that the US formed the Philippines “In Our Image”, a good book. That is true but do not assume that the rest of the world is as pliant as the Philippines. Just because some people from the Philippines assume that speaking English and blindly imitating every trend from the US is a sign of superiority does not mean that it is like that elsewhere. Cultures with strong roots are not that easy to change.
The parts of the Roman empire which only had tribal cultures when Rome came became totally Romanized, meaning the formerly Celtic areas like Northern Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. The eastern part of the Roman empire remained Greek in culture, the Eastern Roman empire totally reverted to the Greek language later on. So your vision of a world that looks like a sterile commercial mall is not going to happen, fortunately.
Who in the next generation will still know how to cook slow food? Precooked and microwave ovens are the rule. Large food conglomerates marked shares still increases, they play it save, more sugar sweeter uniform tastes, no cumin, no sage, no strange tastes. Coffee will be all according Starbucks, only pilsner beer and overcooled, soda from breakfast to dinner. Things are changing, also in Spain, France, Italy or Belgium.
Except for the little increase of religiosity in Eastern Europe, look at the statistics elsewhere. Spain, Italy, France the traditional core of the Catholics 5% to 15% left. National religions are under pressure from more extreme Evangelical churches, more extreme forms of Islam. The one nation one religion is under pressure even in Saudi Arabia, Shiites are getting more vocal, ISIS getting a lot of support.
Social media are more than a medium, look how and where young people spent their time, the constant availability is also a way of thinking. A Facebook addict in South America, Sweden or Morocco understand each other better than their neighbor boy scout on a survival trip in the woods.
First languages are moving into the space of local dialects, local dialects are disappearing due to the influence to increased mobility and TV. Business language is English, the lingua franca is English, Mandarin might follow. Languages are dying out faster than ever before. More people than ever before speak English as second language, trend increasing. English vocabulary invading many native languages. Read the statistics.
The organization of the economic space is more and more done in the American way. All business education and literature is American. The organization of the entertainment is American. Internet freedom is American. Transport by individual cars is American and the consequent mall concept is American. The cultural “bio diversity” is shrinking fast.
I’m talking about trends and averages. Yes for each sphere of live there are courageous battles fought by idealists, fighting for the local traditional solution of universal problems. But the mega marketing power of the 1% is unlimited, it will be their way or no way.
“Coffee will be all according Starbucks” – tell that to the Italians or the Viennese. Just drank three cups of Espresso from my Lavazza pad machine.
“only pilsner beer” – which is why Americans and Australians love the Oktoberfest.
“English vocabulary invading many native languages.” Correct – this is what I meant, among other things, with my analogy American empire is like the Roman empire.
“First languages are moving into the space of local dialects, local dialects are disappearing due to the influence to increased mobility and TV.” This is true, meaning that these first languages continue to have a critical mass.
“ore people than ever before speak English as second language, trend increasing.” Correct, in the modern Roman empire you have to adapt. But they are not losing their own language, and even the highly modern young people DO NOT speak English among themselves here in Europe as a pretentious status symbol. Only as a lingua franca.
“Social media are more than a medium”. Facebook is available in many languages, even they recognized the need to localize.
“Business language is English”. Not if you want to do business with Spain or Latin America, that is a huge area with a critical mass in terms of population.
“All business education and literature is American.” Most but not all. Ever heard of Fredmund Malik? He is an internationally recognized business professor.
“Transport by individual cars is American”. Europe uses trains and public transport a lot. France and Germany make some of the most modern high-speed trains in the world. Too much dependence on fossil fuels is dangerous and in that Europe is more modern.
“Yes for each sphere of live there are courageous battles fought by idealists, fighting for the local traditional solution of universal problems.” Not necessarily idealists, maybe just traditionalists who want to be modern yet preserve their own way of life.
“But the mega marketing power of the 1% is unlimited, it will be their way or no way.” – don’t think so, depends on how strong the influence of living cultures is, parents, friends, the local environment against the virtual world and international marketing. Besides, the tools of international marketing can be used by others too. Like I wrote, the Russians have modernized their propaganda machine – not a thing that I like but I do respect how they adapted the old Soviet style to the modern internet age. Try reading “Russia Today”.
How many expresso bars where opened in Asia and Africa lately, how many Starbuck like cafés? And indeed Nestlé is a multinational too.
Indeed the main beer at the October fest is pilsner, that’s why Americans like it (when it is served with ice cubes). And yes home breweries are at the rise too but still represent less than 1% of all beer consumption.
When I was young, I didn’t say “like” or “un-friend” somebody from a distance, I didn’t feel the need to share selfies, I didn’t spent time behind a screen, my multi-tasking was different. The way people interact is changing into a uniform way, whatever the language.
Fredmund Malik and the most other international renowned business thinkers published also in English to avoid irrelevance. To what business schools go the Chinese elite?
Percentage wise public transport is still decreasing, with some local exceptions. Supermarkets, IKEA’s, malls are relative new phenomena in Europe, all out of the city center, the American way. Many city centers are struggling, especially in the smaller towns. See also what happens outside Europe.
Russia under Putin might fall flat again, just as the Communist Empire did. The recruiting force of the Russia in the rest of the world is still not comparable at all with the US. (except in Belarus, East Moldavia, Eastern Ukraine… and some influence bought in mini countries like Cyprus) How many Filipinos want to immigrate to Russia, how many to the US (same for Italians, Mexicans, Indians, Chinese…) that gives you an idea of the imbalance.
All my statement are not to be understood as absolute and in the final implementation state, but just as world averages and trends, knowing there is a lot of variation – especially in Europe -, knowing that history moves as a pendulum. Each item needs years of academic research to be validated. It’s all from the top of my head based on what I saw in 5 continents or picked up from friends, books, articles, internet or TV bulletins.
“And indeed Nestlé is a multinational too.” A Swiss multinational. Carrefour which is present in many parts of Asia is French.
“Indeed the main beer at the October fest is pilsner, that’s why Americans like it” in fact they drink only the worst stuff, Löwenbräu or HB, and the other people are happy that the fratboys and the girls acting like on spring break stay in those two tents.
But I won’t buy that the whole world will start drinking Budweiser, that is not beer. German-Americans unfortunately lost the art of brewing proper beer during Prohibition.
“Supermarkets, IKEA’s, malls are relative new phenomena in Europe, all out of the city center, the American way. ” Correct, IKEA of course is Swedish and very proud of it. IKEA is not that new, it always has been outside the city center because it is sells furniture. Vikings have always known how to adapt to a changing world. Malls were originally invented by an American-Hungarian architect to simulate the pedestrian zones of European city centers which the US did not have.
“Russia under Putin might fall flat again” I hope so, I really do.
“The way people interact is changing into a uniform way, whatever the language.” I think the way people use the technology differs based on culture.
“All my statement are not to be understood as absolute and in the final implementation state” Thanks, I think that there are global trends, just like you.
What I do not agree with is the somewhat ignorant point of view some Filipinos have due to colonial brainwashing, thinking that the whole world will be a mirror image of the USA. It will not. At least in European countries there are companies which are adapting to the global world and are leaders in global business. Europeans are part of the American Empire but they are not content to be mere lackeys like some Filipinos are, their companies are global leaders and not just BPO outfits which can move within two months.
The strength of American culture is that it is distilled from the influences of many people that migrated there. This is why they manage to create stuff that has appeal worldwide. But I do not think the world will become a barren commercial wilderness without tradition. Most Asian countries also have strong cultures that will not change for all the international stuff they adapt – in the Japanese way, keeping their own culture and adapting as needed. Wait – there is a Filipino multinational – isn’t Jolibee also present in Hawaii?
Jollibee also has a few outlets on the US mainland, and is expanding in China, Viet Nam, and a number of other countries. Del Monte is effectively a Philippine company now, too, the Philippine company (Del Monte Pacific) having purchased the American based Del Monte Foods Company in 2014. Philippine mall developers are also starting to build malls overseas.
Thanks Joe. The whole thing is about realism – globalization is the big game nowadays, and it is good if Philippine companies are among the players.
Oh yes, mall developers – building malls is one thing Filipinos are REALLY good at…
Not to mention walking through them looking at stuff . . . I shall refrain from making a comment about my wife’s hearty endurance at same . . .
Guess that is typical for nearly all women. But then again most guys like to stop for electronics, at least I do… Swiss keyboards, Taiwanese laptops, Korean flatscreens…
“Except for the little increase of religiosity in Eastern Europe” – it is at the core of their culture and their being, having survived communism it will survive this era as well. Greeks will always define themselves as Orthodox. Thinking that everybody who keeps his own culture is “like a Mangyan” which what my ex-girlfriend from Mindoro liked to say is foolish thinking coming from the brainwashing elite Filipinos had – it is not like that in many parts of the world. The 1% may succeed in brainwashing a lot of people, but not all. If they do manage to make the world in their image it will be like Panem. If that comes true I will be the first to move to the District 13, while you will surely be one of those in the Capitol. 🙂
Nice rebuttal to an extensive rebuttal. I’m just following along, and appreciating the style.
Just look at Angela Merkel. She is treated as an equal by Obama, she is the main mediator towards Russia because she speaks the language and understands them. Yes Germany has American bases and American business but they have their own industries and good military. Probably some do not know that after the US left Afghanistan, it was German troops that helped secure the peace there. Actually the US proved in Iraq that it is good at winning wars but lousy at winning peace.
Yes Germany depends on the US for many things, but inspite of decades of American bases they have not lost their own language. They use it everywhere AND speak good English. And because they are strong, the US respect them on nearly equal footing.
Like I wrote, Germany cooperates with US in many ways including intelligence, but fired one of its own intelligence people for unofficially cooperating with the CIA. They trade with the US, it goes both ways, but they protest certain things when it comes to TTIP. They have American bases, but they did not join Dubyas Iraq war. They have enough resources of their own to be able to say no from time to time. Now that is a mature nation, able to deal with the US and Russia on its own terms like an adult among adults.
Santiago is like a teenager protesting against a parent while some Filipinos are US lapdogs and think the whole world is destined to be, which is wishful thinking inspired by the miseducation of the Filipino that Renato Constantino once wrote about. I am hoping that the Philippines matures and sees the US as an ally because it makes sense and is the best option considering all others, plus their basic principles are good – I believe that – even if they do not always stick to them in practice but those are the facts of life, politics and business is never black and white but more than 50 shades of grey.
But for the Philippines to become another Hawaii or Guam – too late for that I think, so why try hard to become Americans. Then again there are some in the Filipino elite that I see as mercenary – the same kind that sold out to the US after being revolutionaries, then to Japan then to the US again – and will make sipsip to the US as long as it is good for them and then sell out to China or Malaysia (a growing regional power, make no mistake, but Indonesia also is, hindi nila kaya ang mga iyan) kung mas masarap ang hangin doon. Actually I prefer those who have a stand, whatever it is, and walk the talk, even mercenaries are OK, as long as they do not pretend to have principles and live by a certain code of honor, like fighting ONLY for the side that is paying them at the moment.
I remember my only european visit, i entered a Mcdonald’s in Rome and ordered McSpaghetti and the lady was shocked,but politely told me they don’t serve spaghetti.and pointed me accross the street and told me to look for pasta there instead.
That’s okay, whenever I order a hamburger in the Philippines, it is shoe leather in a bread bun . . . so I look for restaurants that serve adobo or sisig or crispy pata. Love those pigs . . .
love them too, I had crispy pata last night at the regular get together of GW angels against my cardiologists’ strict admonition not too…. haisst life… less pleasures and too much restrictions…
I spend lot for meds too,but who can resist good food.?
Agree on the burgers,jollibee had a commercial making fun of that some thirty years ago.a blindfold taste test Brand x was bland the other brand was tasty.
I love them pigs too.
🙂 Are you saying I’m 30 years behind the times???!!
🙂 Of course not. They never changed the recipe, when i was 3 or four i had a lot of mcdonalds burgers somewhere in california and their burgers do not taste like leather.
They tried with burgermcdo, but as s separate product.
Me and my words,sorry Joe.
Hey, I’ve been eating McDonalds from the days they were still working on their first million burgers. Ours was south of town near where the drive-in theater used to be. I remember the new years eve when 3 other high school guys and I sat in Roger M’s 1949 Ford watching Elvis Presley movies all night long. Suffice it to say that my hometown was a decently boring place . . . but the burgers were cool . . .
The one at the bottom of the Spanish stairs by any chance? The oldest in Rome.
Was there in 1985. 🙂
1992 🙂 maybe that’s the one.
“I am not anti-American but these guys have inherited one thing from their English forefathers – bad cuisine.”
Them are fighting words. I agree that the Brits have bland food but you could not judge American cuisine based on a lousy NY pizza. Come back to the US and I will personally give you a foodie tour you will never regret and forget.
America is a melting pot in the real sense of the word. American cuisine is not hamburger, pizza and soda. Fast food fare is like what one can buy from the sidewalk vendor in the Philippines. Real American cuisine is as varied and exotic as its diverse citizenry.
The American food in Los Angeles is fantastic, from Sushi in Little Tokyo to Mexican or Cuban or Thai or Chinese or, in Cerritos, Filipino . . . filafel in Westwood, Greek (is Papadakis still in San Pedro???), and one place that sells only garlic dishes. And of course hamburgers at In and Out or Tommys. Chili in Texas. And if you ever pass through Elko, Nevada, let me know and I’ll direct you to an unforgettable feast at a local Mom and Pop restaurant.
Which is good – proves that globalization will not make everything uniform and bland.
The only cities I have been to in the States are NYC, Washington (Georgetown), Philly. Now that our bete noir here in Europe, Dubya, is gone, I am thinking of visiting again.
Ahahahaha, just stay away from Texas.
I have an uncle and an aunt there, can’t do that. 🙂
One has to realize that the “variation” in the US is much larger than in Europe. The best school versus the worst one, the highest income versus the lowest…. So The US has the best of everything. But what we should compare is the “average”. On average the food is unhealthier, more monotone, sweeter… , see the % of obese as example.
“The best school versus the worst one, the highest income versus the lowest….” True…
hehe reminds me of a movie about Americans in Spain in the late 70s, it was the time NATO came to Spain I think. There is this Spanish guy, very proud, handsome ladies man who does not like the Americans or that Spanish girls get to like them. He tells the two Americans while surrounded by several beautiful Spanish girls: “you come from a country were fat people go to malls in huge cars to eat your disgusting fastfood”… 🙂 Anyway, the final scene is also nice… both guys married to Spanish women, barbecuing and talking: “You know what’s the nice thing about being married to foreigners”.. “what?”.. “you can be assholish and just act as if it is a cultural trait”… “yeaaah”… quoted from memory. 🙂
One should never undermine good eating by looking at health metrics . . . Anybody who makes it north of 60 should be entitled to go out any way he or she chooses . .
Look at the variety in supermarkets. Look at the availability of herbs and spices. Look at the dead cheese, the very small chocolate content and the very high soya content in chocolate, look at amounts of cheap corn and rice at the minimal expensive hop in Butweiser, Miller, Coors… Look at the almighty power of food chains. In the whole of Detroit I only knew two bakeries with decent bread, an Italian and a German.
Thanks for enlightening me on that. Lived in a Queens basement at that time and didn’t have much money and was more in the lower middle-class areas. It was in the 90’s just before Giuliani so it definitely was a different NYC, I heard it has changed dramatically.
After some bad experiences, I only went to Chinatown on weekends to eat, I also had my hair cut there from time to time. Anyway the place was overwhelming enough..
The context of my remark is that josephivo wrote that food will become more uniform (burger and coke) all over the world, and I admit that I answered with a typical Euro chauvinist provocation. Good to know that food variety will never die, not even in the US.
In fact I am quite happy to read from Joe that there are still home cooking restaurants in the USA. Anyway my favorite place in Queens was an old-school diner near Woodside station – I mean where the Nr. 7 Line, the Orient Express to Flushing, and the Railway Line that goes to Long Island intersect. The kind where you have Heinz ketchup on the table and the waitress asks you want you want to have as garnish. That too is US tradition.
At that time the area was very Irish, a lot of people had just arrived from Northern Ireland. Catholic church just close by, my Filipino neighbors scolded me because I rarely went. The only subway station I saw that always had a cop guarding it – Irish lobby I guess.
At the end of the 19th century the planets population was approximately 1.6 billion human beings. Today it is close to 7 billion….
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” J. Robert Oppenheimer…
It is calculated that over 300 million human being have been killed in the wars of the 20th century….
The G-7 countries still meet and are the default states that run and control the IMF-WB.
The U.S. A. has sole veto power in the IMF….They are refusing to give up that power in spite of the fact that economic power is moving East…
The IMF-WB has already lost its monopoly power over their member states… China has become a major competitor…Both institutions are presently toothless and should be
given a mercy killing. The IMF was previously about capital account controls which they later reversed on instructions of the U.S. government.
The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are still the same… The winners of the Second World War…
The U.S., Russia and China have the delivery systems of nuclear annihilation but even with the Big hammer, a second land war has broken out in Europe in the the Ukraine after the Bosnian war.
The break up of Yugoslavia resulted in the war in the Balkans and the genocide against the Muslims in Bosnia… What were they fighting for??? Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo cam out of that war…
Russian officials have warned the West that isolating Russia from the Swift code of money transfers would be tantamount to a declaration of war…
NATO has requested both France and Germany to increase military spending and Germany may start producing panzers….
Modern warfare is simply the effects of a desperate, moribund capitalist system…
Imperialism it is said is the highest level that capitalism can achieve…
The U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and France are the members of G-7.
They are also the most highly industrialized states on the planet. These seven states
at the turn of the 19th century had colonial control over most of the planet…
At sometime in the past all of these countries have fought wars against each other….
The wars of national liberation was fought primarily against these colonizers…
These struggles in the 20th century gave rise to the ideas of national democracy…
There are over 180 member states of the U.N. The entire planet is not homogenized to the Big Mac and Coca Cola… That is more a pinoy american illustrado thing…
In the U.K. chicken tikka and tandoori chicken are mainstays of British menus. The same goes for Naan and grilled kebabs….
What about the Vietnam state…They lost every major battle but won the war… After the Tet Offensive the U.S. realized that they were the invading force and the domino theory was junked…The Vietnamese were fighting a war of national liberation against the American colonial invader…
Most of the 190 member states did not exist at the turn of the 19th century…
To simply state that all them are redundant and no longer in existence is totally a figment of ones imagination…
Germany is Europe’s present hegemon…Both the English and French indirectly created Hitler and today Marine Le Pen is gaining ground in France under the National Front….
The far right nationalists are gaining ground in Europe….Similarly in the U.S. the far right are gaining ground and have already taken over the Republican party… Individual state power and gutting the power of the Federal government is their policy platform. Mostly funded by the plutocrats who want to destroy the strong arm of the central government…
The left in the Philippines are not all communists… socialism is their long term goal…
National democracy is necessary and the colonial influence of the U.S. is dominant and has to be their main enemy… Imperialism is alive and well in the Philippine state.. The BSP is the main policy maker in protecting the value of the dollar in the country at the expense of job creation…Long term an undervalued currency is more beneficial to the long term development of the Philippine economy…
But pinoy american illustrados in the country prefer an overvalued currency for our Big Macs and coke…
Sovereignty in the Philippines means keeping Uncle Sam happy… Hence the weak state…
“NATO has requested both France and Germany to increase military spending and Germany may start producing panzers….” Germany produces the Leopard 2, one of the best tanks on the planet. The US M1-Abrams 120 mm gun is produced by Rheinmetall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_120_mm_gun
“Germany is Europe’s present hegemon…” The present US-German partnership, evidenced in Afghanistan and in dealing with Putin, already was Germany’s foreign policy goal in the late 19th century. The USA are the global sheriff, Germany and Japan were made deputy sherifs in their respective regions after the USA hit them with a big stick during World War II to show who’s boss. Politics is always a Macchiavellian thing.
“In the U.K. chicken tikka and tandoori chicken are mainstays of British menus. The same goes for Naan and grilled kebabs….” The UK is truly multicultural and vibrant in its tolerance. That makes it more attractive to migrants than the US nowadays, which since Dubya has unfortunately become more provincial and intolerant.
“The entire planet is not homogenized to the Big Mac and Coca Cola… That is more a pinoy american illustrado thing…” Correct.
“Hence the weak state…” True. But it is not Uncle Sam’s fault. The Filipino ilustrados are just as contented with being lackeys as a lot of Filipinos. It would be up to them to seize the opportunity presented, be an ally of Uncle Sam but also pursue the national interest.
“Right and left wing nationalism is on the rise in Europe precisely due to the massive policies employed to manage the ongoing depression…” – very correct.
“The end of the Cold War saw the rise of American exceptionalism and triumphalism” – The End of History by Francis Fukuyama comes to mind.
“American power has reached its zenith” – that remains to be seen. It is always good for great powers to have competitors, any monopoly is bad in business or in power. Western Europe was forced to keep its welfare system good to counter Communist propaganda during the Cold War, as soon as the competition crumbled the welfare state was diminished. Eastern Europe wanted to be as capitalist as possible, they have almost no social welfare left, leading to catastrophic, almost barbaric things happening there.
Some of out weakness is self inflicted.The marcos debt ,remember that powerplant made us paying our creditors by allocating 30 percent of our national budget for such purposes,another 30 prrcent for personnel services.we play around the remaining percent. How much is left for education,defense spending and the rest like social services and operational expenses,etc.
The personnel services spending is affecting our education ,nothing to pay teachers,plantilla ocupied so hire temporary permanents.
Our police military were pension is in the gaa. The pension is the same as their last salary. There are 200,000 police and military ,there are more pensioners.tell me why this is not a problem.no more for defense spending.
Di bale pwede naman utangin lahat eh.
We have not even factored in corruption here.
We are a weak state.
Dang the typos. Am glad that the futurists are wrong. The pc is not dead. The futurists also said facebook would be dead within five years.
We comeup with solutions like streamlining of the bureaucracy which only added to hiring of contractuals,privatization which lead to poor services.and now the salary standardization law yoohoo which adds to the personnel services spending.great! Instead of 30 percent of gaa why not make it 40,swell then the remaining 60 dnt worry our crefitors can wait,the old soldiers and police can wait. Our education can stay that way,nobody will notice as long as we do the 4ps.
“We are a weak state.” Oo nga – pero kung maraming BPO sa Pinas, bakit hindi sila itax, huwag sobra at baka umalis sila, pero sapat para unti-unting mabayaran ang mga dapat bayaran? Ano ba iyan, kung baga sa tao, alam mo ng kulang ang pera mo, inom ka pa rin ng inom, sugal dito sugal doon, utang ka pa sa Bombay, laro ka ng hueteng akala mo mananalo ka kaya lang niluluto ng mga cabo ang laro, sa bandang huli sino ang masisisi?
Baka naman halos hindi nagbabayad ng buwis ang mga BPO dahil kuntento ang Pilipinas sa konting abuloy, kung baga? Katangahan kung ganoon. Tungkol naman sa pension, dapat nag-ipon na ang gobyerno habang nagtatrabaho pa ang mga iyan, bakit hindi?
Parang jologs na hindi iniisip ang kinabukasan! Diyan ako nagtaka kay Makoy noon, maraming umasa sa kanyang pagka-Ilocano kaya lang sa palagay ko mas mahal niya noon ang kuwan ni Imelda kaysa bansa, kaya lahat ng capricio nito sinusunod, diktador yata sa labas pero macho-nurin sa loob ng Malakanyang. Sa bagay, iyon talaga ang problema ng Pilipinas – marami sa mga may tungkulin, imbes na maglingkod-bayan, parang manager na kulang pa ang sahod, ninakawan pa ang kanilang amo – ang bayan. Sayang talaga, sayang. Sana naman mas mag-isip-isip ang mga taong bayan ngayon.
Hindi ba nakikita pati ng mga pulitiko na parang isang barko ang Pilipinas, kung matangay iyan lubog lahat? Parang isang barangay, dahil iyon ang tawag sa mga dati nating barko. Marami nang butas ang barko, pumapasok na ang tubig, nasaan ang mga karpintero?
Nasaan ang matatag at masigasig na pinuno na mag-uutos sa mga nasa barko para gawin nila ang dapat gawin? Lalo na’t matigas ang ulo ng mga nasa barko, imbes na gawan ng paraan para matakpan ang mga butas, nag-aaway-away pa? Ewan ko na talaga…
Galing mo talagang mag type, kahit tagalog, walang mali…
tama ka, laging nag a away away… kasi grandstanding… ano bang tagalog dun, pasikat? pero tingnan mo ganun din sa ‘Merika, di ba di nila mabayaran ang federal expenses minsan kasi di na ipasa sa oras ang budget dahil sa away ng Republicans at Democrats…
yung kuwan ni Imelda … lol!
Iyong beauty niya siyempre, hay ang dumi ng iiiisip mhhhooo!!!!
Eh pasalamat kay Tatay, galit na galit ako sa kanya noong high school, kapag may mali sa itinype kong high school paper article o kaya assignment, pinupunit niya -“ulitin mo iyan!”. Mechanical pa ang mga typewriter noon, gusto kong umiyak, minsan gusto ko siyang buntalin pero matindi si Tatay, may pinag-aralan pero may halong berdugo a la Duterte, kaklase niya si Fernando Poe noong bata – kaya takot ako. Sa bandang huli nakatulong.
Tama ka, ganyan din dito sa maraming bansa sa Europa. Dinadaya nila ang budget, ninanakaw nila sa pension fund para kunyari walang utang pero kawawa iyong mga henerasyon na susunod. Kaya lang, wala silang pakialam dahil wala na sa term nila. Tapos karamihan pa ng mga botante nila matatanda, iyong henerasyon namin walang gaanong boses, iyong mga may pensiyon na, takot na sila ang bawasan kaya no dice.
“tama ka, laging nag a away away…kasi grandstanding…ano bang tagalog dun, pasikat?” Tama, puwede rin pumapapel sa publiko o kaya nagpapaimportante, o halo ng tatlong ito. Kasama na rin ako doon, minsan kapag dinadamdam ko masyado ang isang tema, umiinit ang ulo ko at hindi ako makapigil sa pagsulat, minsan hindi ko rin gaanong ibinabasa at pinag-iisipan ang sinusulat ng iba kaya iba ang lumalabas. Eh ganyan talaga ang dugo natin sabi kay Jose – wala akong takot magtagalog dito dahil alam kong naiintindihan niya – mabilis uminit ang ulo, maramdamin pero passionate – nakakatulong din ito sabi ko, aba Joe huwag kang magtaka kung bakit ipinagbawal sa mga de-kulay mag-asawa ng puti noong California bandang 1930s – naagaw kasi ng Pinoy at Mexicano ang mga babae. 🙂 Sabi ko naman kayong mga puti, lalo na iyong mga may lahing Nordic tulad ni Joe, minsan mas malamig, minsan hindi nakakaintindi sa ating pagkamaramdamin, pero mas lohiko, hindi kaagad nakikipag-away. Kaya biro ko kay Joe, ikaw na lang kaya ang mag-mediate sa mga Kristiyano at Moro, paano magkakasundo iyan e talagang Pipino lahat… Pero meron akong proposal sa itaas kung paano maaring malutas ang problema. Ikasisiya ko kung mabasa mo rin ito at makapagbigay ng mungkahi. Bilib ako kay Joe, kahit halatang medyo asar na siya si isang sinulat ko hinggil kay Deles at Ferrer, hindi nagwala… WOW!!!
Pumapapel is epal.
Nga pala, salamat.
Umeepal pala
@ karl garcia
…Di bale pwede naman utangin lahat eh…. yeahh we can borrow, and borrow… but think of Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain… all had or having problems in debt payments, the World Bank and IMF “intruding” on their sovereignty by imposing controls that so enraged their citizens… like what happened during and after Marcos was thrown out, we could not pay so we had to devalue our peso, allocate a certain percentage of the budget for debt servicing as you mentioned, and other controls we know nothing about all dictated by WB and IMF. If we can balance our budget, eliminate corruption and issue TBills and bonds to Filipino citizens only if we have to borrow so we can improve education, enhance defense capabilities, take care of our policemen and soldiers, reform the judiciary etc, etc..
Is it true that the US is indebted to the Chinese to the tune of trillions of dollars? scary if it is…anyway they are almost self sufficient in oil and fuel needs thanks to fracking technology so I guess they are ok…hope the fuel prices continue to go down unless the OPEC decide to stop the pressure on the US oil producers… hey, do I know what I’m talking about here, need the real experts to fully understand, help!
The megatrendesque predictions can happen when we no longer need agriculture in life and every farm will be on rooftops.rapid urbanization,fuel for food dilemma will be solved by planting palm and coconut on every roof. The goats ,chicken and cows will also be on rooftops for mcdonalds,kfc and whatever mnc that serves goats.
“Aso, pusa, kambing kalabaw tupa!” – sigaw ng mga taga College of Veterinary Medicine sa UP lantern parade noong araw…
The cat poop can solve the coffee bean shortage once Sri Lanka and Brazil run out of coffee beans and cat meat will be good siopao which will be a hit in mcdonalds soon after the cat poop mccafe will rock. Dog tapa will be next, then lamb burgers
And after that – hopefully not Soilent Green… 😦
mercedes santos says:
If you saw SOYLENT GREEN in ’78 you must be as old as I am.
One of the stupidest movies I ever saw in my life. Charlton Heston was never the same after they dragged him off and put him in the machine.
“Soylent green is PEOPLEEEEEEEE!”
Gadzooks, who wrote that script.
That’s what we call Los Banos . .
Los Banos, California is the almond capital of the world. It’s a rather drab farming town at the western edge of the Central Valley where the restaurants put almonds on everything, from the mashed potatoes to the ice cream. That gets old in about two mouthsful.
It’s also the bathroom, I believe . . . can’t imagine why they’d name a town that . . .
CR, California . . .
But of course they were… if you believe in evolution we are all cannibals, vegans and whatever; we are evolving from the simple to more complex cellular structures. SO-O- what
else is NEW !!!
Now, don’t get too crabby, I was referring to Los Banos, Laguna; PHILIPPINES !!!.
Maybe I’ll visit Los Banos, CA someday. Wiki says it has 3.2% Asian peeps, my kind
of SOVEREIGNS ☺
P.S. How much would it cost to flag my hubby’s books; they are also on Amazon ?
We allow family members free plugs, in the best of the Philippine tradition. Just drop your casual references and little asides, with links, rather like bread crumbs through the forest, and see how many gremlins gobble them up . . .
This how my theory of cannibalism works: humans devour fish, fowl and beast to survive, when humans die we feed worms to feed the soil, to feed plants, to feed beasts. It’s the circle of life, GET IT ? La MEMBUATNYA ☺
I’ve just lost my appetite . . .
Just kidding Captain; hubby does not need plugging. NYT book review had him twice on its radar. As for my “little asides” I think I am neurologically challenged, I can only think in short
sentences, alas !!! Incapable of lengthy cerebral pronouncements.
🙂 As I wish to be thorough in coordinating, and given that you are Chief of Typos, I wanted to inform you that I found one in a comment from PiE. I was so stunned that I had to read the sentence three times to make sure. I corrected it to save him from great humiliation and to honor his typing teacher, the mad whip-bearing mentor who’d rip up his papers if they had a typo.
Didn’t see it. Our elementary school teacher told us about it, some classmates too.
Or the world of the Elois and Morlocks in the TIME MACHINE. (The young Yvette Mimieux was not hard to look at at all.)
Wen Manong! You are back!
A, PiE. Never far away. The latest entries from Joseph and you have been awesome! 🙂
Thank sonny. Just understood apay reading it now. 🙂
Ilocano definition of philosophy I once heard: “iti apay iti apay”.
PiE, now you really HIT me in the apay!!! 🙂 I have to meet the guy who made that Ilocano definition of philosophy. ROTFLMAO!
One of the local heads of the Federation of Free Farmers, but I don’t know who he is, just remember how my Ilocana ex-girlfriend from Pangasinan talked about him. FFF din siya.
But that was a long time ago, 1989, no more contact, guy might already be dead.
Memories of Jeremias Montemayor. What a guy. An icon from the Ateneo probably better model than the late Manglapus.
Diliman or LOS AGGIES ???
Diliman. Ano ang Los Aggies? Los Baños lang ang alam ko.
If cars can run on water, why can’t our best scientist not search for ways so we can live on air?
That scientist sold the idea to Hana Barbera so the idea turned into the jetsons. He also recommended some good pinoy cartoonists.
The reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to form water has always been known in the textbooks. the comparative thermochemistry of gasoline and water is well known. Water formation is accompanied by the release of 104 kcals/mole of heat while that of gasoline is 320 kcals/mole. (Joseph, cut me some slack. 🙂 in this one. It’s been 40 some years) The choice of gasoline simply put affects the big three in Detroit of old.
That deal with the french gov and green peace killed my dreams on waste to fuel or energy. As a chemist @sonny are there incineration tech that cant harm the environment?
The higher the temperatures, the less harmful the exhaust products – in general -, but the more energy you need to do it, so the less environmental friendly. The other solutions are filters and scrubbers on the exhaust.
The better approach is prevention, if that’s impossible recuperation, requiring full lifespan design of products, from mining the minerals up to the recuperation and deposit of leftovers at the end of their life.
Thanks so much Joseph. 🙂
I agree with Joseph on the philosophy of waste management. As a non-first-world country our waste recycling needs are probably more manageable than the first and second worlds’.
The variety of residential, commercial and industrial waste in these countries are mind-boggling. The Filipino backyard incineration inputs are mostly organic materials. The more industrial waste inputs there are the more varied your waste disposal methods become. My general guess.
Or mutate us so we can live on methane or carbon dioxide or whatever is going to dominate the future atmosphere. Like, maybe we can eat rocks or suck seawater for the nutrients, like whales do.
Or mutate us so we have long tongues like frogs and can eat flies and mosquitoes. Something once thought of drinking outside with a friend in Quezon city.
My only point was that sovereignty is limited.
We have to find out what we can resolved in the Philippines and what is decided outside the Philippines. Some areas we have delegated to levels below the national decision making factories, some areas we pooled together with other nations and so we only have one vote in the decision processes, some areas were raided by interest groups outside the Philippines
It is my belief that for the “important” things in life a lot is decided outside the Philippines. Survival of the planet, distribution of wealth, values or “what to do with our money” and commercializing of basic things, financial capitalism excesses… .
It would be nice to be open about it so we can address both, the internal and the international, in the proper way.
We are open about it, but the hurdles cant just be bulldozed away.
I’m thinking it would be interesting to draw a picture Philippine sovereignty, allocated to various parties. Maybe a pie graph. Take the oligarchs. We could see what share of the total piece they control. It is substantial, I would imagine. It is impossible to draw precisely because the data are not available. But it would help with understanding just how much is left within the elected government, or, through them, the people. I think we have a very small slice of sovereignty myself. Maybe I’ll noodle on that . . .
There are think tanks that map power and money by country and charge a lot for it. Including charts that show how different networks connect, who has influence where. Large corporations pay for that information to find out how to push their agenda.
Next time I talk to my brother I will ask him about. The last time I met him we talked about companies that help manage security risks for large corporations internationally.
This is deja vu all over again: FUTURE SHOCK, LIMITS TO GROWTH, SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, The Club Of Rome, etc. etc… Oy!
Isn’t it completely different? The Cub of Rome was about scarcity of resources, but they forget to realize that in 1900s you needed a few tons of copper for a telephone call to the USA, now a few gram of silicon in a satellite and few gram in your cell phone.
Genrich Altshuller in TRIZ explains how everything evolves towards perfect, an infinity of functionality with infinitesimal resources.
Matt Ridley in “The Rational Optimist” explains how interdependency and complexity drives productivity and progress. Never the world was so prosperous and safe on average as today, trend increasing.
But what is going on now is commercialization, everything we do is transformed into a marketable product with a price. Just living and being happy isn’t good enough if it hasn’t a price, if nobody could make a profit of it. Extreme financial capitalism, tyranny of the marketers, Monsanto and its mono-cultures, these are new treats.
“But what is going on now is commercialization”. Unfortunately true, like a Greek friend told me, “malaka, all the world in now one big whorehouse”!
“Monsanto and its mono-cultures”. One of the main issues in the TTIP agreement and why it is so controversial in Europe. And the anger that Brussels tried to secretly negotiate it.
“these are new treats.” I misunderstood you, I thought you were an advocate of this brave but terrible new world – but it did fire the discussion well. My brother often is, very scary.
Sorry to misimpress, Joseph. I was stating my deja vu to my ignorance. When I got interested in those books as part of my readings, I was (and still am) a babe-in-the-woods. I realized then like now, there are so many things happening around me and the world that I don’t even know were going on. Even just to be on an understanding and educating level, I was in awe and shock. So many years have already gone by and it seems like the time I first opened my first volumes of the Book of Knowledge and my uncle’s collection of National Geographic, Life Magazine and Collier’s. I guess the song Windmills of Your Mind (1968) captures much of these feelings. 🙂
Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turnin’
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweepin’
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hangin’ in a hallway
And the fragment of a song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of his hair
Like a circle in a spiral
As the images unwind
“Les moulins de mon cœur”, the music by French composer Michel Legrand it was the music on my first wedding long ago, the organist used the theme during his improvisations and the song was played when we left the church. It was in translation the theme song of “The Thomas Crown Affair” with Steve McQueen, an all-time favorite. I liked the Stings version in the 90’s too.
Still today I get goose bumps from the text alone.
How did you know? Where did you find it?
Fell in love with the imagery immediately, Joseph. Was a big fan of Michel Legrand. Even the Muppets floored me with their interpretation! 🙂 And who can forget Faye Dunaway in her lilac (i think) dress.
Googled “windmills of your mind”
I’m still looking for Noel Harrison’s version. I found this in the meantime.
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=230946
Noel Harrison:
Just had Neil Diamond version… indeed the Faye Duanaway’s dress seems lilac.
seen Thomas Crowne affair?was that the theme song.?
Oops havent read the original comment
Dnt know if you heard of this version
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41qiQSGDnoI
Karl, scavenge for a DVD of The Thomas Crown Affair with McQueen and Dunaway in the leads. (It can come across dated (costumes) but worth the watch (plot and dialogue).
Colourfield, maganda Karl. It seems no one can go wrong with this music and words.
Seen it laser disc version better look for dvd, laserdisk player busted and obsolete.heard colourfied version during the late eighties.
Most interesting. Well, I’ll order P100 worth. 🙂
Might get you the management summary if you’re lucky. 🙂 My point being, the data is there but it is usually not for free or in the drawers of embassies and diverse NGOs.
But my brother did his PhD in economic history on parts of the 19th to early 20th century Philippine business elite. He has a wealth of contacts to people from major firms and a number of top dogs. Will see if he has any ideas that might help – will let you know…
My father might know the most be he probably will not tell. My mother knows a lot too, having worked for a European NGO that has contacts to the old country, but she told me not to get involved which I understand so I can’t ask her. She remembers well how we left.
Not to brag but to give background: my father knew not only Marcos and Ninoy, he went to school with Fernando Poe Jr. – no wonder he is partial to either Grace Poe or Cayetano, whose father he may have known as well, they have similar ideas. My parents knew Ramos, his father and sister, one of my military uncles was with Ramos in Vietnam, my father tried to get me hitched to a Ramos niece, is compadre of two big Muslim politicians, a niece of one of them was the one that was not meant to be… toured Ilocos once with Governor Crisologo, Chavit Singson’s aunt, I remember the fortifications of Sarrat, the old town of Vigan and heavily armed bodyguards. Met Magsaysay Jr. (son of the president) and Cielo Macapagal-Salgado (Gloria’s nicer and humbler sister) – and Cory – in Europe. My father knows Randy David among other guys, I remember him. That is just the tip of the iceberg, more would give too many clues about who I am. Why am I writing this: because I know how the game down there works from having seen it firsthand, left while still young but even from a distance I can see a lot, in fact I am no longer directly involved which is both and advantage and a disadvantage. My Facebook friends add to my picture, from disenchanted Marcos loyalists who then did take part in EDSA and regret it now to fervent Cory supports up to one Muslim who lives near Mamasapano and posts little. A lot of the information I get is very delicate, I cannot post it here, but it contributes to my views.
The Philippines is abuzz with rumors and suspicions, Mamasapano has opened up a hornet’s nest, the (Muslim?) genie cannot be put back in the bottle that easily. The press and internet comments are but the tip of the iceberg. At the same time I do not want to report the rumours that I hear in the medium, it is not my intention to stir anything up, what I want to be is constructive. What I can do is express my concerns in an abstract way. Knowing way too much on one hand and way too little on the other is often scary.
Then it’s true we (Filipinos) are at a tipping point, not one but many. From my POV, I mentioned previously that I see our trajectory going to some possibilities, part Italian, part Israel, definitely very little America (spacewise) …
Actually NOW the Philippines is a a nexus point where many possible futures converge. The smallest thing can have huge influence and change the future totally.
In fact I believe the next two weeks might be crucial but this is just a gut feeling.
“It would be nice to be open about it so we can address both, the internal and the international, in the proper way.” With this I fully agree. We just differ in nuances.
Concern for sovereignty must not be only in our mind. Others are also threatened.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/commentary-critical-deeper-questions-day
Or maybe not.
Two quotes I found on the Internet which I found interesting.
1. In the words of first Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, “Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
As a country you take it, democratically agreed so it always leaves you with minority opposition in your country that don’t agree to, for example the VFA.
2. “Sovereignty, in layman’s terms, means a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies”
As a country or human you are not alone in this world and are depended on others.
Decisions, or the lack off, from neighboring countries has an impact on your sovereignty. Whether it is supply of energy (Russia to Europe) or air pollution from one country to the other influences this sovereignty. You take back your sovereignty when you make decisions, balancing both inside and the outside sources, dependencies and bodies, and accept both the profits and losses.
Nice statement of how to “own” sovereignty, PP. I’d suggest the Philippines take it back, and not give it away like Santiago would . . . always blaming others for stealing what can’t be stolen, if one is strong enough and smart enough.
It’s like I wanted to express in my too long example, now summarized neatly:
1) Nations can be compared to people in this regard.
2) People are as much free as nations are sovereign.
a) if you are not strong and smart enough others will walk all over you
b) but you are not alone, you have to deal with neighbours of every kind
c) there will be those higher than you or vastly more powerful than you:
i) for people: police, government offices, Russian mobsters etc.
ii) for nations: international conventions, environmental change, Russia/China etc.
iii) you either submit to them, try to negotiate with them – or ignore them at your own risk
3) don’t blame others about the situation, love it or change it since you can’t leave it.
Now if this were a paysite, this insight would be worth 5 dollars. Just like some guys who tease you on their website and the next thing that comes is “buy my book for more!” 🙂
🙂 If readership keeps going up, I’ve got to plug in some ads. Eye poppers and show stoppers . . .
Distill kindle books out of ideas from the best articles here, sell them on amazon and use the profit to finance some think tank information, e-library access or enhanced website features. Joe you know by now, I am a maniac and could finish a book in 1-2 weeks if I feel like it and can find the time. But I think it the results would better if tempered by your highly experienced editorship and Nordic coolness. I do go Cayetano from time to time. 🙂
Ahahaha, yeah, but I go Santiago, and where does that leave us?
We’d better turn to Edgar . . .
Just brainstorming as the ideas come out. If you look at the time zone, I have been awake the whole night until morning. This is truly a great discussion, high fermentation. 🙂
Been there myself, actually, writing blogs in the middle of the night. There indeed is an energy to ideas unrestrained by politics or bigotry, just seeking knowledge, taken or shared. Invigorating . . .
Luckily being a freelancer gives me some leeway to adjust my time which is good. Gotta get some smokes though now, finished an entire package… 🙂
Going downstairs to my grocery run by a former Tamil Tiger.
@PIE
It sounded so very sure my comment to PinoyInEurope in the blog “moving forward after Mamasapano, “the Dutch never went on slave raids they only bought them from the moro’s”. As if I knew all the facts. Yet the simple mentioning of the marker at “Church of Cagsaua (Cagsawa)” in Albay made me doubt. Before I got my sleep I was thinking, if I don’t know about this, what more is it that I don’t know.
So I dived into my books, pdf’s and internet to find as much info as possible on this Dutch attack in 1636 on Cagsaua. No easy task. Besides my mind and research drifted off to the question, did the Dutch in fact organized or cooperated in slave raids, other than trading. Below I will register most the books I consulted, but let me tell you, I did not find the answer yet on the ransacking of Cagsaua. The information is not readily available and the sources are contradicting. I of course wrote to the one department responsible for the placing of these markers, the Philippine Historical Commission (former: Philippine Historical Committee). As usual when you email to Philippine government agencies, I received no reply (yet). In the book “Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Philippines” by Linda A. Newson I found reference to an attack by Camucones, Mindenaos allied with Dutch that attacked Capalongan, Paracale, Bacón and Tabaco in Camarines, but the year was 1648 with as source Retana, Archivo bibliofilo Filipino. Wenceslao Retana was a Spanish servant and administrator.
In “Muslim raids in Bicol 1580-1792 by Francisco Mallari the only attack mentioned to Cagsaua was in September 1754. On a history site of Catbalogan I found mentioning of the 4th Camacunes raid in 1636 in Samar but again no mentioning of Dutch. On a facebook page of Joey Sarte Salceda (Dotor of Philosphy, Bicol Universaty) I found mentioning an attack by Dutch, Camucones and Mindanao raiders, but again in 1649 and cited 1636 as the year of destruction. Source: Anaonymous, 1649:12 Retana 1895. Other sources did not clear up the event in 1636. Whether the marker in Cagsaua gives the true story remains to be seen. I am waiting for the PHC with additional information on the sources.
I suppose this attack was possible. The Dutch, not one nation yet, was at war with Spain from 1568 to 1648. A war that ended with the “Treaty of Munster” part of the Peace of Westphalia. During the period of 1600 to 1648 the VOC (Dutch East India Company) a private Dutch company had large fleets in the area to conquer the spice trade. Portugal and Spain were important enemies that had to be fought. The Dutch would sometimes work together with the Sultanates of Maguindanao, Sulu, Buayan and Ternate. And as sources show with the Camucones from Sabah and East Borneo. I found reference in a source about letters from Batavia to Ternate, that Governor-General Coen suggested raids in Sangir, Mindanao (Butuan Bay) and other islands for slaves and for boys and girls to populate the colonies. They were to be sent to Amboina (Ambon) where the native population left after the Dutch started monopolistic polices. The Dutch had several encounters with Spain in the Philippines, the most important during 1600, 1609, 1617, 1641 and 1646. Other than that, the records show uncountable scrimmages through the 40 years of presence in South East Asia. So it seams the Dutch did co-organized, joined (some) of the slave raids.
Giving comments to blogs for me depends very much on direct retrievable knowledge combined with my view on ethics. Here I went wrong on the facts but was corrected by my ethics. So, PinoyIn Europe, you were right, I was wrong. It is what it is, we can’t be right every time, all the time.
A local church Living for Dialogue: Muslim-Christian relations in Mindanao by W.Larousse, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Philippines” by Linda A. Newson, Muslim raids in Bicol 1580-1792 by Francisco Mallari, Muslims in the Philippines by Majul, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 by Blair & Robertson, several Internet sites like facebook Joey Satre Salceda, History Catbalogan, and wikipedia.
Small correction: Tabaco is in Albay, not Camarines. It’s now a city. Cagsawa is the name of the church that was buried by a Mayon Volcano eruption in the year 1814 and located in the municipality of Daraga, Albay Province.
I know. I used the text in the book Conquest and Pestilence for the mentioned places. And ruins. And yes, i know it was the name of the church. I did not mention it was a town.
The “Dutch attack on Cagsaua” could not have happened, the church was built by the Franciscans in 1724 (source: Cagsawa Ruins-Wikipedia).
Once Cagsawa was a settlement. http://daragaparish.tripod.com/id6.html
You are right, PP. It was the church in my mind that was attacked by the Dutch in 1636. I was wrong. So it was Cagsaua the settlement that was attacked in 1636, not the church since the church was not yet in existence then. Sorry.
I mean, the “Dutch attack on Cagsawa in 1636 on Cagsaua” could not have happened….
Damn Chinese keyboard.
Sabi ko nga ke Mary kadamay nya tayo.
Thanx mucho pinoyputi. One more thing that makes clear to me how exceptional this blog is, and I am very sparing with praise, even more sparing than with apologies.. 🙂
I am Bikolano and that was part of our clan folklore, a very faint childhood memory. Also an island, near Catanduanes, which Dutch unofficially occupied and mined for gold. Didn’t dare to post it though, because I am not a history professional, grew up with it but my destiny went differently. Feared the aggressive debate culture I knew growing up in Pinas and not expecting this blog to be THAT different. I am very pleasantly surprised. 🙂
Opposite of comedian Gary Lisings answer after being slapped: “I was deeply touched”. 🙂
Walang anuman 🙂 😊 Gladly done.
Thanks for doing more research, I will await the result.
Please do keep in mind the alleged Dutch island.. 🙂
I read the story on wikipedia about Caramoan island. The place was called Guta de Leche. Lahuy island. Have to dig a little deeper than this. Lately the Islands are known for the Survival reality shows.
Kabayan mo si Bert.
Hilaw akong Bikolano, Metro Manila lumaki…
Nagulat naman ako sa’yo, karl. Natatandaan mo pa iyon, ang tagal na panahon na ang nagdaan. Bilib na talaga ako sa’yo.
May pornographic memory siguro si Karl. 🙂
Yes I think its because of too much porn. Biro lang chamba lang bigla na lang may naaalala.
Ako may photographic mind din, kaya lang ilang araw lang exposed na.
Oragon ka, Noy, doman ka nagdakola? Kaso-arin ka pa naghale doman? Taga ibong ine, nagdakola ako doman sa balyo kan Cagraray Island, one tiny islet inhabited by more or less 150 families called Isla Namanday, facing the Pacific, a very pristine and wild place hardly touched by civilization, :). Not to brag about it but I’m an original sea creature and man of the mountain, taga bulod, hehehe.
Mas o menos naiintindihan ko ang Bikol pero mahina, kaya lang sa Maynila ako lumaki, bakasyon lang kaming nagpupunta doon. Legaspi City kami.
Di kaya Cagraray iyong islang itinutukoy ko na nahawakan ng Dutch? 🙂
Palagay ko iyon nga, PinoyIE. Kasi noong mga bata pa kami natatandaan ko Dutch Condensed Milk ang iniinom ko, ngayon Alaska na, :).
I can imagine Joe scratching his head trying to figure out what going on here with us. Good that his dear wife is around to translate for him.
Yes, when she is not shopping or watching teledramas or posting on facebook. A thoroughly modern Filipina she is . . .
I actually had the impression he understands Filipino…
Permission to speak, SIR : Maybe you should encourage your wife to join your blog. You might be surprised to find that she can do more investing than spending your moola. . . NO, this is not a snark.
🙂 I have . . . we are working on the investments . . .
Economic sovereignty according to r hiro
Another, I promise this is my last for this topic.
Philippines in an Asian century r hiro one of the guests
Every Filipino and foreign resident here should read The Philippines: A Past Revisited by Renato Constantino….
A national treasure this man was…….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Philippine_sovereignty
His books should be required reading in all public and private schools here…
did you just call everyone here, illiterate? Then how can we read that?
How did recommending a book about history insinuate everyone here is illiterate??????
Kindly elucidate…
Just a stupid comment, I cannot justify any of it. Dirty joke. My apologies.
Zaide and Agoncilio was indeed the norm before. I just read Constatino only as additional reading.i dont know if Constatino is required,it should be.
Were you still in high school when it was banned by Marcos? what was the required text in San Beda?
I read Agoncillo way later. My high school text was Gregorio Z. I read some Sonia Z.
I am a fan of Horacio de la Costa, Achutegui, Bernad and Schumacher. Add to the list Ed de Jesus and Alfred McCoy.
Not to worry, Karl. I get the joke (I think). It is one of misdirection. 🙂
🙂 I didn’t know quite when to step in and laugh at this exchange. Keep up the good work, all of you . . .
A must read to understand the split between sovereignty of a nation and the future global world:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/spiegel-cover-story-how-silicon-valley-shapes-our-future-a-1021557.html
A very important exclamation point to your article. We develop allegiances to non-state players like UBER or Facebook. Large corporations are global players and lose all nationality whatsoever, except at tax time. Last year, some 3,500 Americans gave up their US citizenship to simply escape the IRS. What kind of nationality is this??? What kind of sovereignty does it breed?
We are drifting toward a global state where allegiance is to values or community, not land.
Here’s another example of erosion of “landed sovereignty”, as USA students vote to ban all flags from University government offices, including the US flag. The student council over-turned the decision, but it illustrates that old concepts of sovereignty are breaking down.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/03/07/uc-irvines-student-government-vetoes-controversial-u-s-flag-ban/
There will always be a ruling group even in a global state. And what if that global state goes totalitarian? Would be good if there were places left to run to…
Joseph, I can’t help but recall:
“Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel … ” 🙂
OR constructs of the universe around us:
singularities, supernovae, asymptotes, gravity, decay …
OR the world beyond:
death, judgment, heaven, hell.
Circles? Maybe, but when does the diameter of the circle becomes so large that nobody can see the difference anymore between the circle and a straight line?
The distance between science and fiction getting smaller fast. They implanted human genes in a mouse brain and mouse developed human cortex features in its brain, unfortunately the brain gets crushed in a too small scull, also the energy supply would lack. But what if they do the same in a whale or an elephant? Or in vitro in a laboratory? A farm with the brightest human brains? Or the other way around, super-intelligent chips implanted in a human skull?
Computers do so many routine jobs better than we today. But yesterday’s creative jobs are routine jobs today. And today crative jobs? Will all economic activities be delegated to robots? And philosophy? Some parts as logic or thinking by association are already in the computers domain. And ethical decisions, calculating the largest common good? Religion or the super-natural the last barrier? And what if Dawkins and Hawkins in their new definition on God are right?
“They implanted human genes in a mouse brain and mouse developed human cortex features in its brain, unfortunately the brain gets crushed in a too small scull . . .” I’m sorry, my associative mind went immediately to leftists from the other blog . . .
As far as the Silicon valley dons are concerned, I can only say since things animate or inanimate carry their own opposites the moment they come into being, limits are part of the same package. Else we will have to construct our own versions of sphinxes, griffins, chimeras and harpies among other things or simply be kind to our neighbors and nurture the young who are already with us to fix our genomes if and when they need fixing.
My only comments on the Spiegel article is that AirBnb was called a digital company, even in the future I can’t imagine how an air bed can be digitized, maybe the digitization would be on the breakfast part. you just sit there and the robots would feed you, but why bother with the airbeds if your customers are going to spend that much? Uber, driven by robots, like me the founder of Uber must have loved the jetsons.
There have always been empires (Alexander the Great, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Spanish Empire, British Empire, today’s American Empire) and major technological changes (invention of the wheel – did not reach South America originally, book printing, steam engine, car engine, radio, television, Internet etc.) that changed regions of the world or the whole world, for better or for worse, so that today’s changes are nothing really new.
Actually the first globalization was the Spanish Empire, there is a book “1493” by Charles C. Mann where he details that most plants mentioned in “Bahay Kubo” are not originally from the Philippines at all. But did all of these globalizations and changes make the world a totally uniform place? Luckily no. Some things became more uniform, some things recombined. Thanks indirectly to the slave trade, we now have jazz and salsa, which both are indirectly descended from African music. Latin American countries all speak Spanish, the original Indian languages are marginalized, but each speak VERY differently.
Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia would not exist if not for different colonial regimes – but what colonialism left as a result was very different in each of the three big Malay countries. Even the British Commonwealth countries all have very different variations on one theme.
So – globalization is definitely there, but how it will leave its marks is going to vary locally. So accept the reality of what is happening globally, but see to it locally that your own community benefits from it and is not harmed – that is something one CAN control. A community that is good at defining its own interests can defend and negotiate them better. For example, can everyone migrate to Silicon Valley? Don’t think so. So much for global. Still a State defining things there, the United States. Same thing with the European Union.
Or the ASEAN free trade zone since 2015 which spells trouble for Philippine-made sugar. Industrially produced Thai sugar costs half of what sakada-made Philippine sugar costs…
All correct, but you missed the two main points.
One. Change is no more happening in a linear way, 2+2+2+2… but in an exponential way, 2x2x2x2…. It took the Spanish months to reach the Philippines, weeks for Rizal, days for my parents, 16 hours for my first visit, milliseconds today on Skype. Current Intel chips are billions times bigger than the first in the 70ies.
Two. In the old days people in power had some influence. Opting for rent and slowing down progress or opting for growth and favoring innovation. National regulations could control products or services and more importantly, the underlying processes. Today some “nerds” in Silicon Valley decide what is good for us, and more importantly how things have to be organized. Our official leaders have difficulty to follow.
Correct, the pace of change,speed of communications and ease of travel make a major difference. These factors became stronger with every single “globalization”: Roman empire, Spanish empire, British empire and now the de facto American Empire.
People in power do have influence – those in more powerful regions more than in less powerful ones. Thus the US and the EU can decide to shut out certain immigrants. Countries dependent on tourism or retirement money like the Philippines not as easily. North Korea keeps the Internet mostly for elite use, but the cost will be to high even there. Like you said: leaders have to be knowledgeable about the modern world to succeed. Otherwise those who are more knowledgeable in using the global infrastructure will win.
But still: countries that have their own power and money base are in the long run better off. Europe can say no to the US in many things because they have that, even if they cannot say no to everything. Like Greek city-states had a bit of a say even within Rome.
The Philippines can decide whether they are a service nation relying only on BPO and OFWs, or whether they want to use the BPO boom which I believe is temporary, 6-8 years at most, to develop a strong manufacturing and technological base like Taiwan or Korea.
To use Panem as an analogy, you can decide what kind of District you want to be. There is however not just one Capitol: there is Silicon Valley for technology, New York and Zurich for banking, New York and London for fashion. And I don’t think the world will go totally Panem anyway. For example SAP is globally very powerful, but it’s HQ is NOT in Silicon Valley. BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler-Benz, Mitsubishi, Sony, Samsung are all important global players definitely NOT run from America.
got a text message from my Telco for promos for both airbnb and uber, I underestimated this sharing economy stuff, they can even read my mind, the text was before I typed my comment.
based on the time of message.
So let this be a warning and be more careful in your thinking, the virtual world is watching your brain.
Yes Joseph, I should always be careful.
To summarize the point of view I have reached from these discussions: romantic nationalism is definitely outdated. Pragmatic stewardship of community interests, be they local, regional, national, supranational (ASEAN, EU, NATO) or international is what counts nowadays.
Because in today’s globalized world, one of the worst things that can happen is to be marginalized, but being totally dependent without one’s own voice is even worse. Therefore communities that manage to organize themselves to negotiate and further their own interests in a by now very complex world are going to be the winners of this further stage of globalization. Childish protests are just as useless as total sell-outs, communities have to be united and smart.
Legislation on new investment algorithms, legislation on designer babies, legislation on internet commercialization…. all will come too late. Globalization influences the way we organize our day, how we spent our money, what we read and think about.
The old cohesive society with one culture, one religion, one ruling body affecting our whole life is disappearing. New control rooms are set up that launch new ideas, implement them and control them. Expecting that the old rulers will “protect” us becomes unrealistic.
Then you need new rulers to protect things. At least control the pace of change and what one makes of it. Go the way of Venezuela, that manages to earn money from its oil and not be like Ecuador whose leaders sold out and is hardly profiting from its own oil.
On your concerns with AFTA, rather than say we will be thrown to the lions den to get mangled. Why not thrown to the lions den and be able to have lion taming skills in an instant. Sure cheaper everything,but we have been dealing with smuggling before, how is this worse tha able to adapt with low prices due to smuggling. Those farmers with rotten produce must find a way to survive eventually…..What happens next is up to them.
Karl, what is AFTA?
Sonny in the last paragraph of Pie;s comment:
change zone to area…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN_Free_Trade_Area
In today’s world you have to be antifragile – expect anything and be ready for it, like the Nicholas Nassim Talebs book writes about very clearly. I am Chief of Wildlife because I chose to be so, seeing coming.
Actually free trade can be very good because it forces former monopolies to become more competitive. Too much can be bad if you do not have a minimum standard of quality – this is for example the focus of present free trade discussions between EU and USA.
Economy of most states on this planet is mainly people exchanging goods and services amongst themselves. The EU, USA, China, Japan and even the Philippines total international trade as a % of nominal GDP denominated in US dollars is between 20-30%…..
Using this number as the basis of the openness of an economy, the Philippines is a more open economy than the USA….
Globalization translated into simple terms is the more open trade in goods and services, free flow of finance capital and labor mobility….
Goods and services is only one side of the coin. Jollibee and McDonalds hamburgers, Filipino made smartphones, Filipino social media sites…. The way we eat, communicate, play… is changing too. And what is good for us is decided outside our “political” sphere.
Ah, the tree and the forest issue…Jollibee and McDonald’s are retail services…. Filipino made cell phones are part of the Asian supply chain of off shoring of manufacturing…We assemble not manufacture from scratch…They fall under the import and export sector…
Granted the globe is going through a digital,communication revolution but that falls under communications and warehousing in the economics accounting table…
By the way franchising of McDonalds is done under Philippine laws that do not allow 100% ownership by foreigners of retail trade…Hence a Chinese Filipino owns the rights…
Today only 14 % of Filipino adults access formal financial services….
Only through quantitative change can qualitative change happen…. The vast majority of Filipinos work in the underground economy. their choices of what they eat, communicate and play is severely limited….
“The vast majority of Filipinos work in the underground economy. Their choices of what they eat, communicate and play is severely limited….”
Yap, but did their parents have cellphones? Did their parents play games on cellphones? Did their parent dream of eating at Jollibee?… It is not only about economy, it is also about our goals in live, our way of interacting, our beliefs… changes in our heads, not only in our hands. Where do these changes come from? Who initiates them?
Yap, but change in society is always initiated at the “top”, people tend to try to imitate the better off. And A class citizens are more typical world citizens than typical Filipino citizens. Manila A class citizens are less interested in Cebu or Davao than in LA, San Francisco or Hong Kong .
The group of “influencers” is changed and we have less control. We can’t jail people anymore preaching heresies, we can’t defend our favorite recipes anymore, migration to cities changed family dependencies, our prayers for good weather weakened due to climate change.
R.Hiro says:
Change in society is initiated by the “one percenters?” That is a clever premise….Slightly delusional but clever….
The present crisis in the highly industrialized countries is one of secular stagnation……..Why is money paying out negative interest rates??????
Japan, the U.S.A. and the EU are facing weak economic growth and the quality of employment and the quality of employment is suffering…Technology based deflation and globalization have gutted Western economies…
Think about it… Is the present revolution in communication more significant than refrigeration?
The standard of living in the West in the last century was achieved by a revolution from below….A guy named Marx and Keynes are partly responsible….The West saw the move from an agrarian based economy to an industrial one with a lot of struggles and war.
Colonial powers gave way to struggles of independent states…
However we are witnessing today the move from industry to services and the concomitant waves they are creating in the highly industrialized economies.
The countervailing forces in the past, the labor unions, regulations have all been weakened by the shift in demographics…
The “one percenters” are dominant…
But this stagnation in the West is creating cracks within regional groupings and even in the U.S.
All this because of growing ferment from below who see their incomes and living standards stagnate. Society still stands on its stomach….It’s material base…When that is at risk people get restless….
Inequality has become the main global issue hounding the planet. The “one percenters” have made Marx relevant once again..
Onward and upward will be the struggle…
I fully agree with your analysis, only I believe that it is even worse than what you describe. It is also about what is between our ears, what we value, that is influenced by a small and unchallenged group of people. On top societies are more fragile, more fragmented. The move to cities makes us more independent but less connected.
That is the main problem: all leaders in the Philippines, be they compradores, patriots or datus, are rent-seekers. Definitions here:
https://joeam.com/2015/03/08/why-grace-poe-should-not-run-for-president-in-2016/#comment-112522
Now the main political problems of the Philippines are because the patriots and datus are seeing the compradores getting a larger piece of the action than before… nothing more.
Now who said that national institutions don’t mean anything anymore?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-uber-germany-ban-idUSKBN0ME1L820150318
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Forget Mechanical Doping: The Tech Story of the 2016 Cyclocross Worlds Is Hiding in Plain Sight
February 5, 2016 February 8, 2018 JP Partland
Yes, the motorized bike found in the pits at the 2016 Cyclocross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium is a big deal. However, it was caught during the race and it didn’t, so far as anyone has opined, affect the outcome.
But a much bigger tech story was seen everywhere. And totally ignored.
Bike racing exists, at least in part, to sell bicycles. Bike companies got involved with racing to make the public aware of the finest technology that was for sale. Their technology. Bike companies sponsored racers so that their bikes can be seen in races, and best of all, winning those races. The publicity that comes with, the word of mouth benefit, the public’s desire to ride the stuff the pro’s ride is what all bike sponsors are still looking for.
Cyclocross is an equipment-heavy discipline. Pro riders have several identical bikes, or nearly identical bikes, and a garage full of wheels. Racers agonize over tread choice, tire pressure, spike choice and so on. They worry about what gears are necessary for certain courses, whether or not their derailleurs will shift under load and covered in mud.
For years, checking out a pro bike means an insight into a world where savvy racers and mechanics have tweaked this component and that, in ways that the racer believes confers a real-world benefit. It can be small like adding grip tape to a lever or pedal, sealing cable runs, or big stuff like taking a component from another discipline and using it in ‘cross.
So it’s funny that the big tech story has gone unmentioned. Both the men and women’s elite champion raced and won at Zolder on bikes that their respective bike sponsors discontinued. And not as recently as 2015. Wout Van Aert was on Colnago’s Prestige frameset, which hasn’t had cantilevers since the 2012 model year. On the plus side, it did win the 2013 CX worlds under Sven Nys. Thalita de Jong was on Giant’s TCX AdvancedSL, which last appeared in the Giant lineup in 2013.
At least Van Aert was on a bike finished like the current disc-brake model. De Jong’s was still labeled Giant, when her team has been riding Liv-branded Giants since 2014.
Old-tech won the worlds. Think about the last time you could make that statement about a bike that won a Classic or a Grand Tour, that a long-discontinued model was raced to victory. Think about what kinds of discussion it would provoke.
Thing is, that probably won’t happen anytime soon. For all the talk about pro roadies going off-script, and all the pro bike photo shoots, there are very few cases where it happens without team, and sponsor, approval. The days of a road racer having his favorite builder build a frame and then having it painted up like the sponsor’s frame is long gone.
De Jong and Van Aert must have gotten the approval from the sponsors. Both Giant and Colnago are running images of the riders on the “wrong” bikes on their website without mentioning they don’t sell the winning bikes anymore.
What’s more surprising is that the cycling press is largely avoiding mention of it. Van Aert’s bike has been featured on a number of sites in the past, though no comment about it not being in Colnago’s lineup appears. De Jong’s hasn’t received the same treatment, possibly because she’s not the same kind of dominating rider that Van Aert is. Still, almost a week hence and no photo gallery profiling her bike has appeared.
It’s disappointing not to know why these riders chose their rides. Van Aert has been on the same bike for at least the past two seasons, with about the only variation switching from the single-ring SRAM setup last year to a double-ring SRAM setup this year. De Jong, based on the photo evidence, appears to have ridden the same bike for the past three seasons.
The big question is why aren’t they interested in riding disc-brake bikes? Both are under 23 years of age, so it’s hard to imagine they’re anti-tech fogies. All the same, it appears that they’re hardly alone in their preference. Two-thirds of the medalists at the 2016 worlds were using cantilevers. A perusal of race images seems to turn up about half the bikes cantilever- (and carbon-rim) equipped. And this is after conventional wisdom, and the bike industry, has judged discs to be the better choice. Even Sven Nys, possibly the greatest ‘crosser of all time, raced his cantilever-equipped Trek rather than his disc-brake Trek.
There could be any number of reasons, though equipment and sponsor limitation it almost certainly isn’t—just about everyone on a cantilever-equipped bike was riding a brand that also offers discs.
Some folks will claim that racers aren’t the smartest knives in the block. That may be, however the criticism cuts both ways.
Some folks point to weight as the culprit, and that a lighter bike on a climbing-heavy course with lots of speed changes is advantageous. Could be.
But the course was also wet and slippery. And for all the uphill running and steep rises, there were also several slippery steep descents with sharp turns at the bottom, the kind of places where speed control is important. Observing the riders flying down these drops didn’t reveal the disc-brake bikes to be any better.
If the lighter weight is an advantage that is valued higher than the alleged improvement in the slowing of the bike for the fastest pro’s in the world for their most important single race in the year, does that tell us something?
Why the silence on the tech story of the worlds?
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sanjuro says:
One problem with discussing road and CX bikes is the ignorance of the massive tech improvements of mountain bikes, specifically enduro bikes.
As I watched the WC's I was thinking how a dropper post could help with the muddy descents and even dismounts. Now I know for such short descents along with the luddite attitudes, there is no chance dropper posts will ever be utilized.
That's the problem with CX racing: the courses do not require improved technology.
Enduro racing combines elements of cross-country and downhill. When it comes to finest technology in frame design, suspension, brakes, gearing, and seatposts, I see it in Enduro bikes. Even wheel sizes have changed.
And racers need it. Lung-busting climbs followed by rocky descents and jumps require bikes that didn't exist 10 years ago. I remember when Mark Weir used a VP-Free, a freeride bike that was heavily modded, for races like the Downieville Classic. Today we have the 150mm travel carbon Bronson.
You made the point yourself, the best racers used older frames and brakes. They didn't need it this year to win, and my guess as long as the racing stays the same, they won't need it ever.
But then it wouldn't be cyclocross racing. Cycloss is just this… An alternative to the road season, that's why it's done on essentially road bikes with minor changes. It's pretty flat so it allows you to be riding anaerobically for the duration, perfect to prepare for a solid road season.
But a dropper seat would come in handyman many times with a short awkward downhill where you need to get weight behind the rear wheel so you don't endo. I might look into that.
Some of the courses definitely have descents where a dropper would be great….especially the course on the sand dunes with the crazy sand drop that has even the best riders in the world going ass over tea kettle. But they do also seem to be weight weenies. Even World Cup XC riders rarely use a dropper.
But the biggest performance advantage would be to drink. After an hour flat out, even in the bitter cold, you are going to be dehydrated. Most (not all) of the research would suggest that you are suffering a power loss as a result. The UCI only recently changed the rules to allow for drinking when it is below 20ºC. Note that the rule applied to racers only……spectators were encouraged to decimate the beer tents regardless of conditions. But you still can't get a bottle handup, as you do in mountain biking….you have to have the bottle in a cage on the bike, and so no pro bothers.
I always carry my bottle in CX
Purenoiz says:
Professsionals athletes are notoriously superstitious. And cycling maintains the 'this is how we've done it' mentality that inhibits adopting novel technologies, particularly in old Western Europe.
Nothing throughs a competitor off like the uneasy feeling that something is different today.
Maybe if some young up and comer thrashes everybody, and does so on disc brakes, will you see them adopted.
Brakes make you slow!
http://stevetilford.com/2016/01/11/best-descender-of-nationals/
kevin_chicago9 says:
Some interesting points. And input from a few pros.
http://www.bikeradar.com/us/gear/article/trail-tech-dropper-seatposts-for-cyclocross-45399/
CX was the last discipline to switch over from toe clips to clip in pedals too. Nothing new here, in ten years I would guess 0% canti brakes at the WC and only the old futs like me will have them as I have thousands of dollars of wheel with rim brake tracks.
Chris Grieve says:
Having raced cx for 5 years on cantis and switched to disc for last season they are definitely an advantage for your typical amateur rider. The main reason some pros continue to use cantis(which don't work most of the time in a wet muddy race) is that they don't really brake that often and will try to carry as much speed as possible at every opportunity.
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President Donald Trump, is pictured here making a campaign stop at Lancaster Airport on Monday Oct. 26, 2020.
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Every four years, the presidential race is billed by the candidates, polls and pundits as the most important in our lifetimes. Not surprisingly, this year’s race between Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent, and Democrat Joe Biden is again being touted as such.
“Every four years we hear the ‘most important election,’ but in 2020 it might be true,” said Charlie Gerow, a Harrisburg-based GOP consultant and a self-described “enthusiastic Trumper.”
But there were elections in the 20th and 19th centuries that may continue to eclipse Biden versus Trump in historical importance, analysts say. They include the explosive politics of 1968, the first Great Depression election in 1932, and the years leading to Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860.
This year’s race, coming in the midst of a global pandemic, certainly feels unprecedented, marked by a raucous first debate, TV airwaves saturated with attack ads, and sharp differences over handling and responding to COVID-19.
And Pennsylvania has been ground zero for months, with both candidates making repeated campaign stops in hopes of winning the state’s 20 electoral votes.
The top issues of the campaign vary by state and region, said Jack Treadway, former chairman of the political science department at Kutztown State University. While natural gas “fracking” in the Marcellus shale deposits is a big issue in Pennsylvania, Treadway said, it’s not in Wisconsin, another battleground state.
But overriding regional issues are ones that cut across the nation: how quickly the economy reopens, access to affordable health care, combating climate change, reforming law enforcement and battling institutional racism, as well as reassessing how government responds to violence in the streets.
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To demonstrate that perspective to his students, Borick brings up Franklin D. Roosevelt’s win in 1932 over Herbert Hoover. With the country hammered by the Great Depression, Roosevelt, promising an activist agenda, won in a landslide, going on to launch the New Deal economic recovery program in 1933.
That was an election with “generational impacts on American politics,” Borick said.
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Another generational event was the 1968 election of Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat Hubert Humphrey, Borick said.
“Our cities were literally burning in 1968,” said Berwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.
Preceding that election were race riots in Los Angeles in 1965 and Newark and Detroit in 1967. But perhaps the biggest tone-setting factor was the Vietnam War. Long before voters headed to the polls, the nation was stunned by the Tet Offensive in January 1968. North Vietnam launched surprise attacks against more than 100 cities and military bases, including the South Vietnamese Capital of Saigon.
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April of that year, riots engulfed more than 100 cities. The assassination in June of Robert Kennedy, a leading anti-war senator and presidential candidate, rocked the nation. Massive anti-war protests in Chicago disrupted the Democratic National Convention, where thousands of baton-wielding Chicago cops clashed with protesters.
In that sense, 2020 has something in common with 1968. Protests and riots have flared this year after the recorded death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, as he was pinned to the street by three white Minneapolis police officers — one with a knee on his neck — for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Still, the protests over the past five months have not matched the level and intensity of the clashes that spanned the 1960s.
“I would say that the urban conflagration now is probably 1/20th what it was in the 1960s,” said former Pennsylvania House Speaker Bill DeWeese, 70, who served as a Marine Corps officer stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
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DeWeese, a history buff, pointed to the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61), a Lancaster County politician who was the only Pennsylvania-born president. Buchanan served as the nation was hurtling toward open rebellion by southern states. It was the era of “Bleeding Kansas” — open violence ignited by the debate over whether Kansas would become a slave or free state. The 1857 Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court held that Black people who escaped slavery by fleeing to northern states did not enjoy rights as citizens and could be sent back to their enslavers.
Buchanan has been criticized by historians for not taking a stronger stand against the Southern states. The result of the political chaos over slavery and Buchanan’s inaction led to the 1860 election of Lincoln, which is widely viewed as a catalyst for the war that followed.
This election
Whether or not Biden versus Trump is the most important election of our lifetime, “everything about it,” Borick said, “suggests it will be big.”
Emotions run high among supporters on both sides, and every twist and turn has been magnified by cable TV, social media and an endless supply of partisan internet sites. Imagine if 24-hour news coverage existed when radical abolitionist John Brown carried out his raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to ignite a great slave rebellion.
“It is the most concerning election in my lifetime as I’ve watched the rise in divisiveness, anger and vilification of those who disagree — even to the point of violence and threats of violence — if the election goes ‘the wrong way,’ ” said the Rev. Sandra Strauss, director of advocacy and ecumenical outreach for the Pennsylvania Council of Churches.
Still, as intense as this 2020 national election feels, it is worth looking at how it compares to other volatile periods in history, said Treadway, author of a book on state elections.
“We really don’t do enough to put these races into historical context,” he said.
That’s an important thing to keep in mind as the election reaches its climax this week: Without perspective and context, today’s events may be inflated beyond their importance. Or just as likely, the import of 2020’s results may become clear only to historians of the future.
Charlie Gerow, GOP consultant
“Every four years we hear the ‘most important election,’ but in 2020 it might be true."
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Peek Inside This Super Secret Music Camp in Bali
words by Nadja Sumter
Within the lush rainforest of Bali, Indonesia, a town called Ubud is a respite for those who seek a place to open their third eye, a spiritual portal. The air is infused with smoke from incense burning in nearby temples. The streets are littered with flower petals from daily offerings left on every corner.
But what has been immortalized as a place to Eat, Pray, Love, has become something more. At sunrise, the low hum of collective prayer chants find their way through a chaotic jungle symphony, gently coaxing you awake like the beginning of a new thought. There is music here, natural and dynamic, and it has inspired a pilgrimage in search of the divination to make it.
This is the Bali Songwriting Invitational, a camp for musical creatives whose disciples include household names like Kesha, Nick Jonas and Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley.
Once a year, hidden away in a secluded recording studio, 17 music makers from the U.S., Australia, UK and Sweden are invited to experience the songwriting process in an entirely intimate way. They arrive complete strangers, known to each other only by their musical accolades, shed their industry skin and plunge into intense collaborations. Egos are broken, lost voices scream even louder to be found, and what results is a transformation: the rediscovery of songwriting as an art form.
“Bali is a magical place at the best of times,” says camp alum Steve Lillywhite, legendary producer of the Rolling Stones and U2. “But, add the extra ingredients of amazing artists, writers and producers and you have a magic that is hard to imagine.”
At this year’s camp, that magic helped Kesha play with a new sound, a bluesy grit reminiscent of Joplin after a heartbreak and a shot of whiskey.
Blake Sennett arrived in Bali as the guitar and lyric mastermind behind Rilo Kiley- an indie rock god among shag-haired men, whose street cred in the music industry is more than solidified, it is a cornerstone. And yet there he sat on the morning of his last session, at a breakfast table half a world away from anything counter-culturally familiar, feeling perhaps for the first time he had found a sense of community.
“My experience in Bali really gave me a feeling of belonging,” he said. “Looking around and realizing there are all these other nuts, that have these melodies and lyrics stuck in their heads!”
The gathering of these likeminded individuals is certain to breed music worthy of Billboard hits, but the true success lies in the creation of a creative moment far from the industry incubators artists have been confined to. This is not LA. This is not Nashville, but this is the only place to be. There is no definitive answer for where inspiration comes from. But chances are, once a year, it comes from Bali.
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Words by Kim Nieva and Nadja Sumter
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IU Libraries Moving Image Archive Collection Policy
Last revised October 3, 2018
The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive plays an active role in the conservation, use, and promotion of the Libraries' motion picture, and archival video collections.
The Archive supports, collaborates with, and helps lead the teaching, research, and creative activities of faculty and students at Indiana University and other educational organizations, private individuals, and community archiving groups.
The Archive manages the Libraries Screening Room as a welcoming and inclusive place to expand and promote film-going culture throughout Bloomington through partnerships with IU Cinema and the Media School.
As a leader in national and international efforts toward media preservation, the Archive establishes and coordinates national and international archival training programs and is taking great strides in becoming the preeminent national archive for nontheatrical, documentary, and home media.
The Archive, in full support of the IU Libraries Diversity Strategic Plan, is “developing collections that reflect the world’s complexity and diversity…providing open, accessible, and collegial help that connects researchers with the full range of Indiana University’s library and archival collections” and is ”maintaining comfortable and collaborative spaces that respect individuals’ social, cultural, mental, and physical differences."
Collecting Focus
The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive is actively working to expand the Libraries motion picture film and videotape collections provided new acquisitions fall into the following collecting areas:
• Nontheatrical film and video with an emphasis on educational, training, nonfiction, and documentary programs. This is the core of the archive’s holdings with current collections including the Audio-Visual Center, Agency for Instructional Technology, Lane Educational Service District from Oregon, films from the Mid-Hudson Libraries, Naomi Feil’s films and video on Validation training, the media used by the two different midwives, Thomas G. Smith, and Teaching Film Custodians.
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and regional moving image history. Related collections already at the Moving Image Archive include Indiana specific films made by the Audio-Visual Center, Philip Holland and Nancy Hanin home movies, Robert Petranoff, WSJV news library, and Senator Vance Hartke films.
• Early educational and local Indiana television programs building off of collections such as National Educational Television, the WSJV news video library, films and video from the RTVS, and TV programs in the Petranoff collection.
• Advertising, sponsored films, and corporate video. The major collection in this area is the Clio Awards television ads, but also includes sponsored films by the Feil’s, Indiana-based TV ads in the Frink Film Studios Collection, sponsored films in the Robert Young collection, and videos made by Robert Goodman.
• Home movies, amateur films, home video, and personal media. This is a relatively new and growing collecting area, though home movies by Bernadine Bailey, Eileen Brennan, the personal films and videos in the Ed and Naomi Feil collection, and of the Philip Holland and Nancy Hanin families are excellent examples of the value of personal media.
• History of home media including both film and video and technology such as small gauge cameras and projectors, and home video cameras and decks. Examples of collections by private film collectors include David Bradley and Chester Gleim; the Classic Cinema Video Collectors Club covers early home video, and the Alan Lewis collection of small gauge film cameras and projectors.
• Collections that support the research, teaching, learning, and creative activities of Indiana University faculty and students.
• Collections that support the film and arts programming on campus including events at the IU Cinema and Libraries Screening Room.
Criteria for Acquiring Collections
The Moving Image Archive collects moving image works in all types of film gauges and analog video formats. Collections of vintage motion picture and video cameras, small gauge projectors, monitors, and video decks are also accepted. Audio recordings, papers, photos, book, objects, and ephemera will be accepted if they provide context to moving image productions.
The archive has the capacity at this time to accept large collections, but the decision to acquire a collection is partially dependent on the amount of available storage space within the climate controlled conservation facility.
At least fifty percent of a new collection acquisition must be unique when compared to the current holdings. Duplicate titles may be deaccessioned depending on uniqueness, condition, and storage availability.
The Moving Image Archive cannot accept nitrate films. If offered a collection entirely comprised of nitrate films then the archive will recommend archival institutions that can legally store nitrate films. If a collection has a small number of nitrate films, the collection might be accepted with nitrate films being separated out and donated to another archive.
The condition of a collection must be of the level to be stored in the conservation facility without concern of acetic acid off gassing and deterioration contamination to the other holdings. If only a segment of the collection is of poor condition, we might only accept those items in acceptable shape.
The archive does not have a budget for purchasing collections.
Collections are not accepted on deposit.
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Coronavirus forces High Sheriff of Staffordshire to break with 1,000 years of tradition by making online declaration
by Ross 14th April, 2020 14th April, 2020
Charles Bagot Jewitt
Coronavirus has forced the new High Sheriff of Staffordshire to break with 1,000 years of tradition by making his official declaration via the internet.
Charles Bagot Jewitt, from Blithfield, has become the Queen’s official representative for the county.
But the coronavirus outbreak meant his declaration had to be done virtually for the first time.
The 54-year-old spent 22 years serving in the Royal Navy before taking on posts as chief executive of the National Memorial Arboretum and area officer for youth charity the Marine Society and Sea Cadets.
“I now have the oldest job in the UK, but COVID-19 won’t stop a 1,000-year-old position.
“The position of High Sheriff has evolved and survived and in early 2020 it starts in the virtual world.
“The current lockdown means much of my work will have to be carried out remotely over the internet.
“I will support the amazing emergency services, armed forces, local authorities and voluntary groups but to start off in just in a slightly different way.
“We must try to take positives out of all challenges and I hope the work I do this year will connect with new people and groups – especially the youth and voluntary sector which I am keen to support during my appointment.”
Charles Bagot Jewitt, High Sheriff of Staffordshire
Charles said he would spend his year in post focusing on crime prevention among the young.
If lockdown is lifted, he intends to take on a cycle ride around Staffordshire in August. People can donate via his JustGiving page.
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15 Jan 2021 We are excited to support HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room as Season One launches
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New digital campaign to get families chatting, playing and reading together launches in Peterborough
Today, Peterborough Reads launched our brand new Hungry Little Minds digital campaign on the Peterborough Reads Facebook Page to help parents in the local area turn the everyday activities they are already doing with their child into new opportunities to build their child’s language skills.
The digital campaign launches following our research which found that 1 in 2 (50.1%) parents would like more digital resources to help their child’s literacy at home [1].
Hungry Little Minds, which is funded by the Department for Education and supported by the National Literacy Trust, is currently being rolled out locally across 12 areas of the country, including Peterborough. It will provide families of children under five with lots of simple and fun activities to build their child’s speech and language skills at home, which families can easily slot into their daily routines and that children love!
We launched with a Facebook Live event for local families where Lisa read We’re Going on a Lion Hunt by David Axtell and published by Macmillan Children’s Books. We also taught little ones how to make their own binoculars for their own lion hunt out of bits and bobs you can find around the house.
Over the next six months, the campaign will continue to share activities, events, news and videos around the themes of chat, play and read on the Peterborough Reads Facebook Page.
Hungry Little Minds and Peterborough Reads will also partner with early years’ settings, food banks, women’s refuges and more local organisations to provide physical home learning packs, containing books, chat, play and read resources and craft materials to families with children under five who have been most seriously affected by COVID-19.
Lisa Clissett, Events and Volunteering Officer at the National Literacy Trust, said:
“I am thrilled to be launching the campaign through our Facebook Live on Thursday. This will be a very fun, engaging and interactive session for families, where they can come along, enjoy a reading of ‘We’re Going on a Lion Hunt’ and get involved in some great activities. Children soak up every little bit of stimulation we give them, and all of these little activities make a big difference to their language and speaking development.”
Sally Atkinson, Peterborough Reads Manager said:
“The development of young children’s speaking and listening skills is crucial to support lifelong learning. Supporting parents and carers at home to talk, play and read alongside their child through accessible play-based activities will provide firm foundations for children to ensure they achieve their full potential when they start school.”
"We're Going on a Lion Hunt" by David Axtell, published by Macmillan Children's Books.
We are delighted to be launching the #HungryLittleMinds campaign digitally in Peterborough today with Peterborough Reads! The Hungry Little Minds campaign aims to help parents in the local area the everyday activities they are already doing with their child into new opportunities to build their child’s language skills. Over the next six months, the campaign will continue to share activities, events, news and videos around the themes of chat, play and read on the Peterborough Reads Facebook Page. For more simple tips and activities that parents can do to support their children’s literacy at home, visit the national Hungry Little Minds website www.hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk or the National Literacy Trust’s Words for Life website www.wordsforlife.org.uk Thank you to Macmillan Children's Books for letting us read this book!
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News » Business news
Hillebrand buys Satellite
Published: 04 December, 2013
JF Hillebrand Group has announced that it has bought the Satellite Logistics Group, a leading US-based supply chain provider for the beverage industry.
Based in Houston, Texas, Satellite specialises in reverse logistics solutions and related services for the beer and beverage industry. Their customer base includes many brewers throughout North America, Latin America and Europe.
Hillebrand says the acquisition complements its existing business portfolio.
JF Hillebrand CEO Christophe Bernard said: “This promises to be a valuable partnership for both JF Hillebrand and Satellite Logistics Group. Not only do we have complementary service offerings, but we find both organisations are culturally aligned, with a joint focus on service quality.”
Satellite’s president and CEO Kevin Brady said: “JF Hillebrand is an industry leader that shares our dedication to providing innovative and efficient beverage supply chain solutions. While our day-to-day operations will continue as usual, JF Hillebrand’s beverage logistics expertise and global footprint will be valuable resources as we expand our business domestically and internationally.”
Hillebrand says Satellite’s know-how and expertise within the beer industry is unique, and as such the acquisition forms a key part of Hillebrand’s strategic positioning as a global logistics provider to all sectors of the beverage trade. It says the combined client base includes many of the world’s leading multinational and craft brewers.
Satellite’s management team retains equity and will remain in place, along with current employees. The company will continue to operate as Satellite Logistics Group.
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VIDEO: Hotel fined for pub baron's son birthday lunch breach
by Linda Silmalis
22nd Aug 2020 7:33 AM
A birthday lunch for pub baron Craig Laundy's 22-year-old son at one of the family's hotels has resulted in fines totalling $10,000 for COVID breaches.
Liquor and Gaming NSW issued The Red Lion Hotel in Rozelle with two $5000 fines on Friday following an investigation into the August 2 celebrations for Charlie Laundy, held on the upstairs balcony.
Inspectors began their investigation after receiving an anonymous complaint. It is understood the booking had been for four groups of 10 people, but the complaint alleged the 40 guests were mingling and drinking in breach of Public Health Orders.
When police attended, all patrons were seated as required under the latest COVID rules. However, after later obtaining CCTV footage, Liquor & Gaming inspectors observed the guests had been moving between tables, mingling, standing while drinking and "greeting each other warmly with hugs and handshakes".
CCTV footage shows the guests at the birthday lunch mingling together.
Department compliance director Dimitri Argeres said the venue was skirting the rules by splitting the booking, which was clearly for 40 people who knew each other and were not adhering to physical distancing.
"It's these sorts of social get-togethers that can spark a cluster," he said.
"When it comes to events like birthday parties and weddings, we've seen how quickly people are tempted to forget the rules and throw caution to the wind.
"We expect hoteliers to set exemplary standards, particularly when it comes to managing the heightened risk presented by groups mingling."
Charlie Laundy’s birthday lunch led to COVID safety breaches. Picture: Flavio Brancaleone
Craig Laundy said the fines show how difficult it is to enforce the rules. Picture: AAP/Mick Tsikas
When inspectors attended on August 15, Liquor & Gaming claims other problems were uncovered, including an "out of date safety plan" and "inadequately spaced chairs and tables".
Mr Laundy, whose sister Danielle owns the pub, said the fact his son's lunch triggered a fine showed how difficult it was for publicans to enforce the rules. But he said he would cop it "on the chin".
"I don't care what the surname of anyone at any one of my venues is; everyone is treated the same if they break the rules and we get fined as a result. We cop it on the chin," Mr Laundy (inset, left) said.
"This demonstrates how hard it is to get people to sit down and stay at their table."
The Red Lion Hotel in Rozelle was fined for COVID safety breaches.
He said police had walked through the venue twice on that afternoon and had given it the all clear.
There have now been 68 fines totalling $304,000 issued to NSW hospitality premises. The Lewisham Hotel was also fined $5000 on Friday for breaches.
Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello said: "If businesses decide to fall asleep during the pandemic we will prod them awake with a $5000 fine. If they continue to breach, then we will shut them down."
Originally published as Hotel fined for Laundy son birthday lunch breach
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A Rare Toy Heist, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Original Star Wars action figures at the Monroe County Local History Room in Sparta, Wis. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune via AP)
In the world of Star Wars memorabilia and toy collecting, one of the rarest collectibles is said to be a 1979 prototype action figure: a Boba “Rockett” Fett that came with a spring-loaded backpack that fired a plastic missile. But it was never released. After a child choked on another toy with a similar missile, toy company Kenner scrapped the design — but not before several of these original figures had already been made.
Today, an enthusiastic Star Wars fan community buys, sells, and collects “Lucasian memorabilia,” often going to great lengths to track down rare items. When Zach Tann got a text in 2017 from a fellow collector, Carl Cunningham, about purchasing this coveted Rocket Fett, things began to get fishy.
At Popular Mechanics, Alexander Huls recounts one of the biggest scandals in Star Wars collecting history.
Tann was one purchase away from a unicorn. The offer was too good to pass up, and Tann paid Cunningham the asking price. “I’d been working my butt off for four years, and I felt like, finally, I found my guy that’s going to hook me up with a lot of great stuff,” Tann says. “This is what every collector dreams of.”
Cunningham was away in California at the time but promised he’d get Tann his collectible once he returned home. But a little over a week later, Tann’s phone vibrated with another notification, this time a Facebook message from a friend.
The message contained a screenshot of a post on the forum Rebelscum.com, a popular Star Wars collector website. Titled “My Proto Rocket Fett was Stolen,” the post received over 26,000 views and shocked the community. “Man this is horrible. I could just imagine the gut wrenching feeling, the pitfall in your stomach. Wow. That is messed up,” said one typical reply.
The Rebelscum post was written by prominent Star Wars collector Philip Wise, whose 20,000-item collection is a place of pilgrimage for many Star Wars collectors. Wise detailed how his Rocket Fett prototype had been taken sometime in the last two weeks from his private Star Wars museum, where it was prominently on display. He made a plea: “If anybody should hear anything about a Fett like this floating around, please contact me.”
Wise’s words punched Tann in the stomach. Cunningham couldn’t be the thief, right? It wasn’t his Rocket Fett, was it?
Categories: Editor's Pick, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tags: Alexander Huls, Boba Fett, collecting, collectors, Crime, fans, heist, memorabilia, Popular Mechanics, Star Wars, toy
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Top 5 Horror…
Top 5 Horror Movie Heroines
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Women are regularly typecast in horror. Often they are chosen for their looks and their character is purely eye candy, attracting the gaze of the male audience and squealing on command.
Also, more often than not the woman is the victim, being endlessly pursued by a predator of some sort.
But every once in a while there’s a woman in horror who stands up, refuses to run and ultimately kicks ass.
So here’s our top 5 horror movie heroines. The women who’d rather stand and fight than scream and die.
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver): The Alien films
Lost in space with only her cat to rely upon, Ripley is unfortunate to become entangled in the whole ‘alien’ fiasco.
Initially part of the crew of the Nostromo, a mining vessel, she bears witness to the unstoppable alien killing machine as one of them bursts out of a crewman’s chest and gradually works its way through everyone else. Apart from Ripley and her cat Jonesey of course.
But it doesn’t end there. Successive trips into space lead her to again face her alien foe and also to face the ridicule of her fellow humans (a majority of which are men) before she is proved right, they are proved wrong – they die and she kicks-ass.
All is not even lost when she is finally overcome by the extra-terrestrials. After throwing herself into a furnace in Alien 3, she returns in Alien Resurrection as an human/alien/hybrid/clone. This means she’s super strong, super agile and is even more kick-ass, tearing through aliens with her bare hands.
“I’m gonna get on my robot suit and kick your ass!”
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis): The Halloween films
Laurie doesn’t deserve to end up involved in a neighbourhood massacre, but for the women of horror, that’s just how it is sometimes.
While the teenager babysits some young children one Halloween, an escaped psychopath (Michael Myers) stalks her and her friends, feeding his bloodlust whilst his doctor tries to capture him.
But it appears that this bookish girl isn’t going to lie down and die as she continually finds ways to avoid the slashing blade and come out victorious.
As the sequels are spawned, we discover that Laurie is in fact Michael’s sister and that Michael is pretty much invincible. This means that Laurie has to find more creative ways of stopping her persistent aggressor and gets a serious work-out in the process.
Alice (Milla Jovovic): The Resident Evil films
The Umbrella Corporation and their zombie virus is the worst thing possible to hit Racoon city (and later, the world).
Scientists meddling with genes in an attempt to make super beings and other abominations eventually drop a test-tube somewhere, creating an infection which turns the inhabitants of the city into the walking dead.
Alice wakes up amidst the chaos with little recollection of who she is or where she came from. But as she teams up with some big gun-toting good guys, it soon becomes apparent that she has been involved in and experiment that has made her superhuman and deadly.
As her character makes her way through the series of films, she kicks endless amounts of zombie and Umbrella Corp butt. Even losing her super powers doesn’t prevent her from being lethal. In fact, it just makes her even more angry.
“When I’m out of bullets, I’ll just head-butt my way out.”
Sarah (Shauna Macdonald): The Descent films
A bunch of girls bonding over some pot-holing. It’s hard to see how this could ever go wrong as long as health and safety principles and common sense prevail.
Unfortunately though the cave chosen for this expedition contains some dark, savage creatures that like nothing more than some fresh meat, and human meat will do quite nicely, thank you.
Crawling for their lives through the labyrinth of tunnels and caves, the women are picked off one by one. But when faced with her end, Sarah grabs a large bone and cracks some heads, teaching the creatures a thing or two about how to be a savage killing machine.
Returning in the sequel, Sarah tries to block out her past, but after being forced back into the same cave in search of survivors it’s not long before it all comes flooding back. Soon Sarah is circumventing the opposition once more.
Sidney (Neve Campbell): The Scream films
Sidney is a regular teenage girl with a sad past. At a young age, she loses her mother at the hands of a murderer and struggles to put the tragedy behind her. This makes it difficult for her to enjoy the things that her peers do, like partying and hanging out with members of the opposite sex.
Things are made more difficult when a serial killer starts to slash his way through her school friends. To make matters worse, it soon becomes obvious that she is the end goal of this maniac’s campaign of murder.
Sydney doesn’t turn kick-ass as such, as she doesn’t have martial arts of super powers to beat her enemy. But what she does have is the ability to survive – no matter what. In fact, she proves to be just about impossible to kill.
Film after film, a killer comes after her, usually just when she’s finally getting her head straight. And while her doubting, patronising friends shake their heads, blaming Sydney’s imagination when her spider senses tingle, those same heads are usually left rolling as Sydney runs off somewhere to live, and fight another day.
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How Long Have The Internet Sensation Arin Hanson And His Wife Suzy Berhow Been Married? How It All Started? Know Their Story Here
Updated On 18 Jul, 2018 Published On 18 Jul, 2018
Age 31, American internet personality Arin Manson is married to his long-time wife Suzy Berhow. The couple shares no children so far. Arin's Love Life.
Well-known by his pseudonym Egorapter, the famous internet sensation Arin Hanson is an animator, rapper, gamer, and cartoonist.
Arin is married to Suzy Berhow and the couple is together for more than two decades. How it all started? Know about their married life here.
Arin Hanson And Wife Suzy Berhow Are Together For A Long Time-How It All Started?
Arin Hanson is living a blissful married life with Suzy Berhow for many years.
The famous internet personality met Suzy at a convention and hit it right off in 2002. The animator proposed Suzy in 2011 and tied the knot on October 24, 2012, after eleven years of dating.
Aring with his long-time wife Suzy on their video
Suzy is also an internet personality and a model who is known for being a part of the internet sensation Game Grumps.
The couple has not been apart since then. There is no sign of children in the family of two as for now but who knows what's up to their sleeves these days. The two are very much focused on their career which might be the reason for holding them behind to start a family.
Ren faire was superb today!! Threw some ninja stars, threw a javelin (nailed both!!!!) and ate a fucking monstrosity called the Kraken.
A post shared by Arin Hanson (@egofaptor) on Apr 14, 2018 at 6:34pm PDT
The internet sensation is active on Instagram and gives regular updates on his life. Arin has 430K+ followers on his Instagram as of July 2018.
Their channel tweeted about their 5 years anniversary on July 18, 2017. The channel has gained 4.6+ million subscribers.
Five years ago today, the first ever Game Grumps video came out. Thank you, everyone, for five amazing years!!!
— Game Grumps (@GameGrumps) July 18, 2017
The family of two currently resides in Glendale, California.
Multi-Talented Arin Has Been A Part Of Several Fields!!
Arin is a great animator as well. His first animation, Metal Gear Awesome was given to Newgrounds in 2006. MTV was a huge fan of his animation and he was approached to produce MTV's online video gaming show, The G-Hole.
He also does voice acting. He has voiced several characters in shows including Target Acquired, Hex Heroes and is regular on Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords.
Arin promoting for his live show
Source: Dallas Observer
Arin is the co-founder of channel Game Grumps where they play video games and talk about the game with a comedic effect. Their popularity led them to live performances at the Hollywood Improv in 2016 and later toured across the United States for the show.
Arin Hanson: Quick Facts
Source: Fandom
Born on January 6, 1987, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He was obsessed with animations during his childhood.
Parents are Maurette Hanson and Lloyd Hanson.
Nickname is Egoraptor.
He has a sibling named Nate Hanson.
His birth sign is Capricorn.
Net worth is estimated to be around a million dollars.
Stands at the height of 6 feet 2 inches.
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Snapchat tells users it's not storing their private snaps after privacy update
Image: Mashable composite. Snapchat
By Ariel Bogle 2015-11-02 04:30:54 UTC
Snapchat, the social media service beloved by teens and media outlets, recently updated its terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy. Not long after, the company, with its fairly lackluster legacy on privacy issues, had to reassure users that it wasn't trying to hoard all those selfies and sexts.
The TOS and privacy policy were both updated by Snapchat on Oct. 28, but on Sunday, the platform released a blog post explaining the changes after media reports suggested that Snapchat had given itself a carte blanche to use everything uploaded onto its servers.
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Concerns about the update centered on Snapchat's broad rights to user's content. By uploading pictures onto the service, "you grant Snapchat a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)," the TOS states.
In other words, they can do whatever with everything. Still, this is nothing new. A similar paragraph appears in the previous version of the TOS stored in July on WayBackMachine.
We are not stockpiling your private Snaps! Our updated Privacy Policy & Terms of Service explained https://t.co/rQhFzmB2rj
— Snapchat (@Snapchat) November 2, 2015
In its blogpost, the platform particularly wants to clarify that messages are not stored in perpetuity after they have been viewed or expired. "Snapchat is not—and never has been—stockpiling your private Snaps or Chats," it reads. "And because we continue to delete them from our servers as soon as they’re read, we could not—and do not—share them with advertisers or business partners."
Note, however, that the privacy policy also says the company can't "guarantee" that messages and metadata will be deleted within a specific timeframe.
The post claims the TOS and privacy policy were rewritten to make them simpler to read, to clarify rules around in-app purchases and to explain what identifying information will be available to other users.
In 2014, Snapchat agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over misleading claims that snaps "disappear forever," despite users being able to use third party apps to save them. Also in 2014, the personal details of more than four-and-a-half million Snapchat users were leaked online after the company was hacked.
For now, although it's something of a copout from a company whose whole premise is "disappearing" messages, it might be best to take the advice contained in the company's own privacy policy: "The same common sense that applies to the Internet at large applies to Snapchat as well: Don’t send messages that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share."
Topics: Apps, Apps and Software, Mobile, privacy, Snapchat, software, Tech, terms of service
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Sukhmani Padda
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) at the Stanford University Medical Center
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Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology (2014)
Medical Education: Northeastern Ohio Medical University Registrar (2007) OH
Residency: Stanford University Hospital -Clinical Excellence Research Center (2011) CA
Fellowship: Stanford Hospitals and Clinics (2014) CA
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Pruritus as a Paraneoplastic Symptom of Thymoma JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY Padda, S. K., Shrager, J. B., Riess, J. W., Pagtama, J. Y., Tisch, A. J., Kwong, B. Y., Liang, Y., Schwartz, E. J., Loo, B. W., Neal, J. W., Hardy, R., Wakelee, H. A. 2015; 10 (11): E110-E112
View details for DOI 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000623
Dovitinib and erlotinib in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: A drug-drug interaction LUNG CANCER Das, M., Padda, S. K., Frymoyer, A., Zhou, L., Riess, J. W., Neal, J. W., Wakelee, H. A. 2015; 89 (3): 280-286
Erlotinib is a FDA approved small molecule inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor and dovitinib is a novel small molecule inhibitor of fibroblast growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor. This phase 1 trial was conducted to characterize the safety and determine the maximum tolerated dose of erlotinib plus dovitinib in patients with previously treated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.Escalating dose cohorts of daily erlotinib and dovitinib dosed 5 days on/2 days off, starting after a 2-week lead-in of erlotinib alone, were planned. A potential pharmacokinetic interaction was hypothesized as dovitinib induces CYP1A1/1A2. Only cohort 1 (150mg erlotinib+300mg dovitinib) and cohort -1 (150mg erlotinib+200mg dovitinib) enrolled. Plasma concentrations of erlotinib were measured pre- and post-dovitinib exposure.Two of three patients in cohort 1 had a DLT (grade 3 transaminitis and grade 3 syncope). Two of 6 patients in cohort -1 had a DLT (grade 3 pulmonary embolism and grade 3 fatigue); thus, the study was terminated. Erlotinib exposure (average Cmax 2308±698ng/ml and AUC 0-24 41,030±15,577 ng×h/ml) approximated previous reports in the six patients with pharmacokinetic analysis. However, erlotinib Cmax and AUC0-24 decreased significantly by 93% (p=0.02) and 97% (p<0.01), respectively, during dovitinib co-administration.This small study demonstrated considerable toxicity and a significant pharmacokinetic interaction with a marked decrease in erlotinib exposure in the presence of dovitinib, likely mediated through CYP1A1/1A2 induction. Given the toxicity and the pharmacokinetic interaction, further investigation with this drug combination will not be pursued.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.06.011
View details for Web of Science ID 000360513200010
Diffuse High Intensity PD-L1 Staining in Thymic Epithelial Tumors. Journal of thoracic oncology Padda, S. K., Riess, J. W., Schwartz, E. J., Tian, L., Kohrt, H. E., Neal, J. W., West, R. B., Wakelee, H. A. 2015; 10 (3): 500-508
Blockade of the immune checkpoint programmed death receptor ligand-1 (PD-L1)/PD-1 pathway has well-established clinical activity across many tumor types. PD-L1 protein expression by immunohistochemistry is emerging as a predictive biomarker of response to these therapies. Here, we examine PD-L1 expression in a thymic epithelial tumor (TET) tissue microarray (TMA).The TMA contained 69 TETs and 17 thymic controls, with each case represented by triplicate cores. The TMA was stained with rabbit monoclonal antibody (clone 15; Sino Biological, Beijing, China) to human PD-L1. PD-L1 staining was scored based on intensity as follows: 0 = none, 1 = equivocal/uninterpretable, 2 = weak, and 3 = intermediate-strong. Those cases with all cores scoring three in the epithelial component were categorized as PD-L1 and the remaining as PD-L1.PD-L1 scores were more frequent in TETs than in controls (68.1% versus 17.6%; p = 0.0036). PD-L1 scores and histology were significantly correlated, with higher intensity staining in World Health Organization (WHO). B2/B3/C TETs. Only 14.8% of TETs had PD-L1 staining of associated lymphocytes. In an adjusted analysis (age/sex), PD-L1 TETs had a significantly worse overall survival (hazard ratio: 5.40, 95% confidence interval: 1.13-25.89; p = 0.035) and a trend for worse event-free survival (hazard ratio: 2.94, 95% confidence interval: 0.94-9.24; p = 0.064).PD-L1 expression was present in all cases of TETs within the epithelial component but only in a minority in the lymphocytic component. TETs stained more intensely for PD-L1 than in controls, and PD-L1 TETs were associated with more aggressive histology and worse prognosis. This study lends rationale to a clinical trial with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy in this rare tumor type.
Pemetrexed in patients with thymic malignancies previously treated with chemotherapy. Lung cancer Liang, Y., Padda, S. K., Riess, J. W., West, R. B., Neal, J. W., Wakelee, H. A. 2015; 87 (1): 34-38
Thymic malignancies are rare, with limited published trials of chemotherapy activity. We performed a retrospective analysis of pemetrexed activity in patients with thymic malignancies.Patients with unresectable histologically confirmed invasive, recurrent, or metastatic thymoma or thymic carcinoma seen at the Stanford Cancer Center between January 2005 and November 2013 were identified, and those who were treated with pemetrexed in the second-line setting and beyond were included in this analysis.A total of 81 thymic malignancy patients were identified, of whom 16 received pemetrexed alone (N=14) or in combination (N=2). There were 10 patients (62.5%) with thymic carcinoma and 6 patients (37.5%) with thymoma. Among the 6 patients with thymoma, best response was 1 (17%) with a partial response (PR) and 5 (83%) with stable disease (SD). At a median follow-up of 21.2 months, the median PFS in the thymoma patients was 13.8 months (95% CI, 4.9-22.6 months) and the median OS was 20.1 months (95% CI, 16.4-23.9 months). Among the 10 patients with thymic carcinoma, best response to treatment was 1 (10%) PR, 5 (50%) SD, and 4 (40%) progressive disease (PD). At a median follow-up of 13.5 months, the median PFS in patients with thymic carcinoma was 6.5 months (95% CI, 0.2-12.8 months) and the median OS was 12.7 months (95% CI, 2.9-22.5 months).This small retrospective study demonstrates modest pemetrexed activity and disease stabilization in thymic malignancies with a clinically meaningful duration, and supports previous reports of pemetrexed efficacy in these rare diseases.
Early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and individualized adjuvant therapy. Seminars in oncology Padda, S. K., Burt, B. M., Trakul, N., Wakelee, H. A. 2014; 41 (1): 40-56
Despite cures in early stage (IA-IIB) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the 5-year survival rate is only 36%-73%. Surgical resection via lobectomy is the treatment of choice in early-stage NSCLC, with the goal being complete anatomic resection of the tumor and mediastinal lymph node evaluation. Newer technologies, including the minimally invasive thoracoscopic approach and the many techniques available to stage the mediastinum, have introduced advantages over traditional approaches in achieving this goal. The advent of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) has changed how we treat those patients who cannot undergo surgery secondary to comorbidities or patient preference. SABR allows for precise radiation delivery in a short course and at high doses. Adjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy is the standard of care for completely resected high-risk stage IB and stage II NSCLC based on a ~5% improvement in 5-year overall survival. The concept of customized adjuvant chemotherapy is emerging, and we will explore the potential value of targeting tumor mutations with available drugs (ie, epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR] mutations with erlotinib), a strategy that for the moment should be restricted to clinical trials.
View details for DOI 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2013.12.011
A Case Series of Lengthy Progression-Free Survival With Pemetrexed-Containing Therapy in Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Harboring ROS1 Gene Rearrangements. Clinical lung cancer Riess, J. W., Padda, S. K., Bangs, C. D., Das, M., Neal, J. W., Adrouny, A. R., Cherry, A., Wakelee, H. A. 2013; 14 (5): 592-595
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cllc.2013.04.008
Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of bexarotene in combination with gefitinib in the third-line treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer: brief report. Anti-cancer drugs Padda, S. K., Chhatwani, L., Zhou, L., Jacobs, C. D., Lopez-Anaya, A., Wakelee, H. A. 2013; 24 (7): 731-735
Gefitinib (an epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor) and bexarotene (a rexinoid) affect similar oncogenic pathways and are both metabolized through cytochrome P450 CYP3A4. We studied the combination of bexarotene and gefitinib in the third-line treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer to examine pharmacokinetic interactions and establish the maximum tolerated dose. This was a single-institution, nonrandomized, open-label, phase I clinical trial with a standard 3+3 dose escalation. Three patients were enrolled at each dose level on the basis of pharmacokinetic analysis with dose level 1 including gefitinib (Iressa) 250 mg oral daily and bexarotene (Targretin) 400 mg/m oral daily and dose level +1 including gefitinib 500 mg oral daily and bexarotene 400 mg/m oral daily. Patients received gefitinib alone for 2 weeks to allow for steady state and thereafter, bexarotene was added. In dose level 1, two of three patients had undetectable gefitinib levels at day 15 for unknown reasons. However, the peak levels on day 29 for all three patients receiving 250 mg of gefitinib with bexarotene are lower than published peak levels. Among the three patients in dose level +1, ?40% lower gefitinib plasma concentrations were noted on day 29 compared with day 15 along with a mean 44% reduction in area under the plasma concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h (AUC0-24). Bexarotene appears to lower the Cmax and AUC0-24 of gefitinib through cytochrome P450 CYP3A4. Our results have pharmacokinetic implications for ongoing trials that combine bexarotene with other small molecules in the era of personalized cancer therapy.
View details for DOI 10.1097/CAD.0b013e32836100d7
MET inhibitors in combination with other therapies in non-small cell lung cancer. Translational lung cancer research Padda, S., Neal, J. W., Wakelee, H. A. 2012; 1 (4): 238-253
MET and its ligand hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF) influence cell motility and lead to tumor growth, invasion, and angiogenesis. Alterations in MET have been observed in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors, with increased expression associated with more aggressive cancer, as well as acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). MET inhibitors act via two basic mechanisms. Small molecule inhibitors antagonize ATP in the intracellular tyrosine kinase domain of MET, with studies on the following agents reviewed here: tivantinib (ARQ-197), cabozantinib (XL-184), crizotinib (PF-02341066), amuvatinib (MP470), MGCD265, foretinib (EXEL-2880), MK2461, SGX523, PHA665752, JNJ-38877605, SU11274, and K252A. The monoclonal monovalent antibody fragment onartuzumab (MetMAb) is also discussed here, which binds to and prevents the extracellular activation of the receptor by ligand. MET inhibition may both overcome the negative prognostic effect of MET tumor expression as well as antagonize MET-dependent acquired resistance to EGFR inhibitors. Here we discuss MET inhibitors in combination with other therapies in lung cancer.
View details for DOI 10.3978/j.issn.2218-6751.2012.10.08
A phase I dose-escalation and pharmacokinetic study of enzastaurin and erlotinib in patients with advanced solid tumors CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY AND PHARMACOLOGY Padda, S. K., Krupitskaya, Y., Chhatwani, L., Fisher, G. A., Colevas, A. D., Pedro-Salcedo, M. S., Decker, R., Latz, J. E., Wakelee, H. A. 2012; 69 (4): 1013-1020
Enzastaurin, an oral serine/threonine kinase inhibitor, targets the protein kinase C and AKT pathways with anti-tumor and anti-angiogenic effects. Erlotinib, an oral epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, has activity in solid tumors. Based on the promising combination of EGFR inhibitors and anti-angiogenic agents, this phase I trial was initiated.This single-institution, open-label, non-randomized trial used a standard 3 + 3 dose-escalation model in patients with advanced solid malignancies including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Two dose levels of enzastaurin (with loading doses) were explored: 250 mg daily and 500 mg daily. Erlotinib was given at 150 mg daily.Sixteen patients were enrolled in this study (median age, 64 years). Most patients were heavily pre-treated, female, and Caucasian and had NSCLC. The highest dose of enzastaurin, 500 mg daily, was tolerated with no unexpected adverse events and no alteration in the pharmacokinetics of either drug at this dose level. The mean clearance was 5.75 L/h for erlotinib and 53.8 L/h for enzastaurin. The most common possibly drug-related grade 3-4 adverse events included diarrhea (25.0%), neurologic symptoms (18.8%), and vomiting (18.8%). Activity was noted, with a partial response in one patient and prolonged disease stability for >12 cycles in three patients.The combination of enzastaurin 500 mg daily and erlotinib 150 mg daily is well tolerated and does not alter the pharmacokinetics of the individual drugs, with clinical activity seen. A phase II trial of this combination has been initiated in patients with advanced-stage NSCLC.
Maintenance Bevacizumab is Associated With Increased Hemoglobin in Patients With Advanced, Nonsquamous, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer CANCER INVESTIGATION Riess, J. W., Logan, A. C., Krupitskaya, Y., Padda, S., Clement-Duchene, C., Ganjoo, K., Colevas, A. D., San Pedro-Salcedo, M., Kuo, C. J., Wakelee, H. A. 2012; 30 (3): 231-235
We retrospectively analyzed hematologic parameters in 22 patients with advanced, nonsquamous, NSCLC undergoing VEGF inhibition on a phase II clinical trial of bevacizumab, carboplatin, and gemcitabine. We also examined TTP in relation to hemoglobin changes. Median hemoglobin increased significantly from a 12.9 g/dL pretreatment to 13.8 g/dL (p =.01) after the second cycle of maintenance bevacizumab until the first off cycle measurement. There was no difference in TTP in patients who achieved a rise in hemoglobin compared with patients who did not (median 238 days vs. 268 days, p =.38.) Maintenance bevacizumab is associated with increased hemoglobin in advanced, nonsquamous, NSCLC patients.
View details for DOI 10.3109/07357907.2012.656862
A Phase II First-Line Study of Gemcitabine, Carboplatin, and Bevacizumab in Advanced Stage Nonsquamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY Clement-Duchene, C., Krupitskaya, Y., Ganjoo, K., Lavori, P., McMillan, A., Kumar, A., Zhao, G., Padda, S., Zhou, L., San Pedro-Salcedo, M., Colevas, A. D., Wakelee, H. A. 2010; 5 (11): 1821-1825
Bevacizumab improves responses and progression-free survival when added to first-line paclitaxel/carboplatin or cisplatin/gemcitabine for patients with advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer. This study was designed to evaluate toxicities and efficacy of gemcitabine/carboplatin/bevacizumab.Patients with untreated advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer, with no evidence of brain metastases and not on anticoagulation were eligible. Patients received gemcitabine 1000 mg/m on days 1 and 8; carboplatin area under the curve 5 day 1; and bevacizumab 15 mg/kg day 1 every 3 weeks for up to six cycles. Bevacizumab was then continued every 3 weeks until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.From July 2006 to December 2008, 48 patients were enrolled: 23 (48%) men, 25 (52%) women, and 19 (40%) never smokers. One patient never received therapy and is not included in the analysis. Median cycle number was 8 (1-42) with 37 patients (78.7%) completing ?4 cycles of three drugs. Dose reductions occurred in 34 (72.3%) patients. Grade 3/4 toxicities included neutropenia (47%/15%), thrombocytopenia (11%/15%), anemia (6%/0%), dyspnea (6%/2%), bacterial pneumonia (4%/0%), and hypertension (4%/2%). No neutropenic fevers occurred. One patient died of hemoptysis. Grade 3 bleeding occurred in three other patients. There were seven (14.9%) partial responses. Median time to first event (progression/death/toxicity requiring discontinuation) was 6.4 months (95% confidence interval: 4.8-7.9 months). The median overall survival (OS) was 12.8 months (95% confidence interval: 10.0-16.5). The OS is 57% at 1 year and 10% at 2 years.Although perhaps skewed by a high proportion of nonsmokers and women, treatment with gemcitabine/carboplatin/bevacizumab has an acceptable toxicity profile with promising median OS despite a low response rate.
View details for DOI 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181f1d23c
Complications of ablative therapies in lung cancer CLINICAL LUNG CANCER Padda, S., Kothary, N., Donington, J., Cannon, W., Loo, B. W., Kee, S., Wakelee, H. 2008; 9 (2): 122-126
Two cases of complications secondary to the use of microwave ablation (MWA) in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are discussed herein. The first case involves a 62-year-old man with stage IB NSCLC who declined surgery and pursued MWA. Within 7 months, he had residual disease at the MWA treatment site, and surgery was performed. The patient was found to have pleural and chest wall involvement, making complete resection impossible. The second case involves an 86-year-old woman with a second local recurrence of NSCLC and previous treatment including surgery and chemoradiation therapy. She was initially a surgical candidate but declined surgery and pursued MWA. Within 6 months, she had residual disease at the MWA treatment site. A second MWA was performed, and she developed a large cavitary abscess at the MWA site and had subsequent clinical decline. Less invasive ablation therapies and stereotactic radiosurgery are being developed for patients with inoperable lung cancer. Because these modalities have recently been developed, trials that clearly show efficacy and survival benefit are yet to be completed. Ablation procedures can result in complications, including residual disease and cavitary lesions susceptible to infection. These cases highlight the caution that should still be observed when recommending lung ablation strategies and the importance of selecting appropriate patients.
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Where can i get a vape
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Many local and state jurisdictions have recently begun enacting laws that prohibit e-cigarette usage everywhere that smoking is banned, although some state laws with comprehensive smoke-free laws will still allow for vaping to be permitted in bars and restaurants while prohibiting e-cigarettes in other indoor places.
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The legal age to buy e-cigarettes is 18, but online stores don’t always ask for proof of age. E-cigarette juices are sold in flavors like fruit, candy, coffee and chocolate. Most have the addictive ingredient nicotine. The more kids vape, the more hooked they become.
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AdsorptionJari Väätäinen2018-08-21T15:36:45+03:00
In an adsorption process substances from a fluid are attached onto a solid surface. Adsorption processes can be divided into physical adsorption, chemisorption and biosorption on biological materials which exhibits features of both physical and chemical interactions as well as metabolic uptake. Adsorption can be utilized in the treatment of mining influenced waters to remove pollutants such as metals, metalloids and nitrogen (ammonium). Adsorption as an active treatment technique is not yet established in full-scale for mine water treatment (Haanpää 2013) but possesses future potential.
Description of the technology
The central removal mechanisms in adsorption processes include ion exchange, chelation as well as precipitation of metals on the sorbent. The regeneration (desorption) of the sorbent is possible for some sorbent materials to allow metal recovery and repeated usage of sorbent. However, less attention in the R&D has been paid on this aspect. (Acheampong et al. 2009)
Removal of metals in AMD can be readily achieved by activated carbon adsorption. However, the price of activated carbon is high and there is a need to find low cost materials for AMD treatment. There are several studies suggesting alternative sorbents such as natural or synthetic zeolites, clay, natural clinker, fly ash, zero valent iron, agricultural wastes, microbial biomass, activated sludge, collophane and lignite. (Mohan & Chander 2006, Rios et al. 2008, Motsi et al. 2009)
Adsorption can also be applied to removal of nitrogen and arsenic from mine water. For arsenic removal sorption materials such as activated alumina (AA), granular activated carbon, granular ferric hydroxide, iron oxide coated sand and iron filings have been applied. In a process called ferrihydrite adsorption (or iron co-precipitation) a ferric salt is added to water with low iron concentration to form ferric hydroxide and ferrihydrite precipitates capable of adsorbing arsenic, selenium and metals from water. Sedimentation may be needed to separate the precipitates. (Acheampong et al. 2009, EPA 2014).
Zero valent iron (ZVI) can be applied to neutralize acid and to capture pollutants such as arsenic, selenium and radionuclides from mine water. Iron may be present in the treatment system in several different forms, e.g. filings, steel wool or micro-nano-scale particle. (EPA 2014)
Appropriate applications
Adsorption is technically well suited for the treatment of metal containing mine water.
General advantages of adsorption (e.g. García et al. 2013) include:
Possibility for metal recovery
Suitable for dilute solutions
Some sorbent materials remove acidity from/produce alkalinity to the treated water
Design, scale-up and operation are relatively simple
Disadvantages of adsorption:
Adsorbent loses its efficiency over time
Material need for mining water treatment may be large
Requires disposal of spent sorbent and/or regeneration solutions
Desorption of pollutants may not be successful
The novel nanomaterials are still at development stage
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My day driving a Formula Ford
To drive an open-wheel racing car for the first time is an amazing experience. To be among the last people ever to drive around Sydney’s historic Oran Park Raceway at pace in an open-wheeler is, for me, thrilling.
I arrive, at 8am, and it is hot. Weather forecasts were talking about a 40°C-plus day, and it must be close to that already. Dressed in a full fireproof race suit, helmet, racing boots and gloves is going to be a sweaty affair. But one I’m looking forward to regardless. I wouldn’t change where I am for anything.
I meet Peter and his team, and am quickly ushered to one of the outer buildings to get changed. My red suit is donned. Racing boots fitted (remembering to tuck the laces under the velcro straps), I waddle back to meet the other drivers. While I may not be the part, perhaps I look it!
Driver’s briefing goes for about an hour. Peter explains the rules and sets the expectations for us all. As much as the day is about having fun and about learning how to drive these cars, it’s principally about ensuring our safety, and his team does a brilliant job throughout the day in looking after us all.
We meet our respective cars, and are assigned in groups of four to one of the four Formula Fords at our disposal. Based on height (and I’m on the short side!), I’m assigned to a bright orange car with the shortest wheelbase and pedal configuration. The cockpit is snug, but I can comfortably reach the pedals without stretching. Visibility from the cockpit is no problem; I sit nice and low, but high enough to see the front wheels.
While you think you’d probably need a bit of clutch-slip to pull away from a standstill in a Formula Ford, this is not the case (luckily) when being push-started along a gently downhill-sloping pitlane. Nonetheless, my first proper run in a Formula Ford Van Diemen Zetec still sees me fumbling to engage first gear and coordinate dropping the visor as I trundle along. Stalling had been my utter and total dread, and so I give myself a big mental pat on the back for a clean getaway.
First movement over. Now for the meat of the piece. I exit the pit lane and lock hard left around the tyre barrier and orange traffic cones marking the path to take to join the main straight, for we are to complete ten loops of the main straight to master the art of up-shifting, braking, "heel-and-toe" downshifting, turning. Repeat.
The steering is surprisingly light at walking pace, about a turn from lock to lock. I squeeze, no, breathe, on the throttle and build pace to attempt a low-rev, ill-timed shift to second gear. Clunk. Jerk. Another clunk. Another jerk. Third. Fourth. Briefly. And then the braking mark at the marshal post. And brake hard for the hairpin that loops me back around to the other side of the main straight. Remember the advice: harder than you would brake in your road car, but don’t stamp! Caress, then squeeze. Unlike a road car, the gearing does not slow the car down, only the brakes do. But in order not to stall mid-corner, you still have to downshift and this is done with the "heel-and-toe" technique: with your toes and the ball of your foot on the brakes, you must roll your right foot and blip the throttle to match the engine revs required to cleanly change down through the gears. It’s a bit of coordination required, but mastered much quicker than I thought possible.
I lurch into first gear, run wide at the apex, straighten the car around and continue on my way, again gently squeezing on the throttle to build speed as I upchange to top gear once again.
Approaching the end of my ten-circuit run, I’m starting to feel more at home in this cramped cockpit with my bum just inches above the tarmac. But before I know it, the chequered flag is waved and I’m directed into pit lane for someone else to have a crack.
With no significant disasters from any of the other drivers, we move to the next stage, 10 laps of the Oran Park Raceway south circuit limited to 4000RPM.
Before venturing out on the south circuit, one of the crew shows us the ideal racing line (marked out by the orange traffic cone "gates") and provides us with tips and hints of how to tackle each corner safely. Briefing done, we’re sent on our way, one by one.
Hey, Mr Logie Baird, television was a fantastic invention. But TV still doesn’t do gradients. I’m amazed at how steep the final section of the circuit is, plunging downhill and then back uphill to the final corner. This is heightened further when you’re so close to the tarmac. We’re told in our training to aim for a gap between two trees on the horizon leading into the Dog Leg and we’d be about right. I heed to this advice on my first laps and daren’t venture away from it. Also, stay off the kerbs.
I turn onto the thought-gathering main straight, mindful of the concrete wall on the outside or the corner. Clutch and fourth gear. Throttle on hard. Concentration time. What do the dials say? Very pro, I’m hitting the rev limiter alongside the pitlane. Time to brake from full speed; line it up with the change in the colour of the pit wall. Brake, downshift and blip the throttle, turn in. Another lap.
End of the run and I’m on cloud nine. Not necessarily quick (I was passed by all of the other cars), but that’s not the point. The car is back in one piece and Peter Finlay is happy, handing me a cup of refreshingly cold water.
We break for a great lunch provided by Debbie and her daughter which is enjoyed by all, sitting around the table as we regale each other with our tales of battle.
After lunch, I head into the next run without the butterflies in my stomach. We’re running at a 4500RPM limit this time. With a baking hot track, the grip is plentiful and the handling of the car incredibly true. No lost motion, delightful weight, instant response. The car starts to tramline and fidget as the speed increases with the RPM being lifted. The palms of my gloves wrinkle up as the wheel tries to shimmy. Knuckles tighten and whiten. Bum clenches. Brake sensibly but firmly, the ‘heel-and-toe’ downchanges get smoother with each attempt.
Into the final run at 5000RPM and just short of 160km/h top speed on the main straight. With each of my previous runs, the Esses after the main straight had been troubling me, and I found myself lacking rhythm through this sequence. I resolve to conquer these corners on the final run.
Blast! Red flag as I approach the main straight. Traffic cone knocked down by another driver. Peter is on his way to retrieve and right it on the circuit. I sit in the car on the furnace-like main straight, itching to get going before the tyres cool down.
Green flag. I restart the car – embarrassingly I attempt to get rolling in reverse! – and approach the dreaded Esses once again. This time override the desire to turn in early, and throw the wheel a little harder and a little later on the turn-in. The Esses finally flow perfectly and I can carry more speed through them. It was one of the most profound ‘A-ha!’ moments I had experienced, like I had unlocked an ancient tomb.
I return to the pits at the end of the run, almost singing to myself. My final lap had been my best. I hadn’t put a wheel off-line all day. Peter and his crew were smiling. For a brief moment, I felt like a racing driver, but then remembered:
You. Are. Not. Schumacher. Don’t get any ideas!
I reluctantly undress from my racing suit and return to my normal civvies. What an incredible day!
Feature: Experience a Formula Ford racer
‘Ayrton Senna’s Principles of Race Driving’
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Single DRS zone at Interlagos
Schumacher criticised for dangerous driving
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Big Brown Bat at Mount Auburn
By Regina Harrison
Urban Bat Diversity and Activity Study, Mount Auburn Cemetery, June 5, 2019. Lesley University researcher Chris Richardson retrieves and bands a Big Brown Bat caught in a mist net at Auburn Lake. He then performs a physical examination of the bat, including checking its face for signs of White Nose Syndrome (look closely at its mouth and you’ll see a fragment of a beetle that the bat had captured just before being caught itself in the net), measuring its wing length and checking its wings for signs of previous infection by the fungus that causes White Nose Syndrome.
The tiny holes visible in the bat’s wing are a sign that it had the disease but survived. Big Brown Bats have a higher recovery rate from White Nose Syndrome than other species of bats, so Chris also collects a blood sample from this bat to add to efforts to figure out how Big Browns are able to fight off the infection. He also swabs the bat’s face to collect any evidence it might still carry of the fungus. The band placed on the bat’s wing has a number that will be added to a Mass Fish & Wildlife database, so that if this bat is caught again in the future, researchers will know some of its history. The band rests securely on the wing’s bony edge like a cuff bracelet and does not pierce the wing itself.
Although gloves are worn for safety by the person handling the bat, as you can see, the research assistants are thrilled to find out how soft and silky a bat’s fur and wings are. The bat keeps up a steady and vocal commentary of its opinion about what is happening, but is unharmed by the experience and has contributed to efforts to better understand White Nose Syndrome and how it might be contained or stopped.
About the Author: Regina Harrison
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Endeavour takes antimatter hunter to the space station
16 May, 2011 by mrmackenzie
image by NASA
A few weeks ago we were all ready to look up for an evening sighting of the space shuttle Endeavour as it separated from its external fuel tank while passing over the UK. That launch was delayed but NASA is set to try again today.
Endeavour is the newest vehicle in the shuttle fleet. It was built as a replacement for Challenger. This will be Endeavour’s last mission and its task is to carry the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) up to the International Space Station.
Launch is scheduled for 1.56pm UK time and you can watch it live on NASA TV. Alternatively, you can watch the launch as a webcast from CERN, starting at 1.45pm.
AMS is designed to search for antimatter, a substance first proposed by British Physicist Paul Dirac.
Physicists believe that there should be a balance between matter and antimatter . The problem is that we live in a universe that seems to be made from matter, not matter and antimatter, so the question is…
where did all of the antimatter go?
Particle physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have an experiment that is looking for an answer to this question. The particle physics research teams at CERN were given the job of building the AMS, which was transferred to the Kennedy Space Centre earlier this year.
The videos below are from CERN’s multimedia library for the AMS project and will give you an idea of the role of AMS. The first film is less than one minute long and designed to act as a trailer for the project. The second is longer (15 minutes) and has several interviews with key project staff.
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The Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh Makes Fans Excited With His New Announcement
The Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh shared a photo of himself playing guitar on his official Instagram account and made an exciting announcement about an upcoming radio show that he is going to be hosting.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic bands have been canceling and postponing their shows. They all come up with new ways to connect with their fans such as online tours and live video sessions.
Joe Walsh also joined in and announced his new radio show that will start on May 23:
“While we are all homebound I am going to be hosting an old-fashioned rock n’ roll radio show on Saturdays at 6pm starting this week on May 23.”
He shared the details about the radio show:
“You can find me on my local community public, member-supported 88.5-FM here in Southern California. I’m going to play some records and tell you some stories.”
Expecting his fans to tune in and listen, Joe Walsh added:
“Tune in 6 p.m. this Saturday, May 23 on the KCSN and KSBR 88.5 HD1 channels, or via the 88.5 app, and online at www.885FM.org”
His fans were very excited about his new radio show and couldn’t wait to listen to his stories and good old rock’n’roll.
Jan Brock was thankful for the show:
“Thank You So Very Much, Please Stay Healthy and Be Safe.😃❤️😎”
Ruby said she loves Walsh’s stories:
“Hangin in there day 52 in shelter here. I will listen this weekend, love Joe stories.”
1rickycat was excited for the good music:
“Yay! I can’t wait. I’ve been needing some good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. Look forward to it.”
You can check his announcement on Instagram below.
How ya doin? While we are all homebound I am going to be hosting an old-fashioned rock n’ roll radio show on Saturdays at 6pm starting this week on May 23. You can find me on my local community public, member-supported 88.5-FM here in Southern California. I'm going to play some records and tell you some stories. Tune in 6 p.m. this Saturday, May 23 on the KCSN and KSBR 88.5 HD1 channels, or via the 88.5 app, and online at www.885FM.org
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Middle of Everywhere
Architectures of
the Kansas Flint Hills
Curated by Timothy A. Schuler & Derek Hamm
May 4–25, 2019
The Volland Store, Volland, Kansas
Read the accompanying article published in Places Journal →
Middle of Everywhere explores the relationship between people and landscape through the prism of architecture—the hidden, the everyday, and the aspirational. By widening the aperture beyond traditional parameters, these images challenge the dominant narrative of architectural history in the Kansas Flint Hills and draw attention to histories in danger of being forgotten. Even as more contemporary work demonstrates architecture’s ability to make a rare and endangered landscape legible, its juxtaposition with the built infrastructure of colonial-capitalism is a reminder that architecture is a revealing art, a mirror that reflects humanity back to itself.
Historical Context Contemporary Projects Common Building Materials Vernacular Forms Reception & Panel Acknowledgements
Elise Kirk, Controlled Burn, Manhattan, Kansas, 2019
The Flint Hills boasts one of the strongest burn cultures in the United States. Before Euro-American settlement, the Kanza people and other indigenous groups set fire to the tallgrass prairie in order to spur new grass growth and attract wildlife, such as bison and deer. Prairie fires also occurred as a result of lightning strikes, and early settlers built limestone structures not only because of the material’s abundance but because it could withstand a conflagration. Ecologists and rangeland managers are increasingly aware of the role that fire plays in the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, and the built environment has begun to reflect fire’s omnipresence, with materials that provide fire resistance, such as steel or concrete stucco. This burn took place within Manhattan city limits.
Elise Kirk, Flint Hills, Manhattan, Kansas, 2019
Fire reveals the underlying architecture of the Flint Hills. The region’s limestone shelves, laced with chert, were first deposited in the Permian period, when Kansas was a shallow sea. Besides producing more nutritious growth in the region’s grass species, prairie burns prevent the encroachment of eastern red cedar and other woody species, among the most significant threats facing the Flint Hills.
Elise Kirk, U.S. Stone Industries, 2019
A slab of limestone is processed at U.S. Stone Industries’ facility in Herington, Kansas. The Flint Hills contains some of the highest quality building stone in North America. At one time, the region exported more limestone than it did cattle. Locally, limestone was used for everything from houses to bridges to storm cellars. Although it remains in high demand for building projects across the country, limestone today is mostly used decoratively, even as its production has become increasingly mechanized.
Elise Kirk, Ke La Lah Heo’s Hut, 2019
In 1859, after much coercion, the Kanza tribe were consolidated onto 80,620 acres southeast of Council Grove. In the years following, the U.S. government constructed 138 small, limestone houses for tribe members and their families. The single-room structures measured 16 by 20 feet and sat on 40 acres that were to be used for crops or livestock. Many of the Kanzas refused to live in the houses, however, and instead used the huts as stables for their horses and dogs. Euro-American settlers later occupied some of the houses. Today, the ruins of three houses, including this one, stand within the boundary of Allegawaho Heritage Memorial Park south of Council Grove.
Elise Kirk, Shaft House, 2019
Far less grand than the mansions of men like Stephen Jones, the Shaft House is more typical of early homesteaders. Constructed in 1857, four years before Kansas became a state, it is the oldest existing limestone structure in Chase County. The house was built by William and Jane Shaft, who moved to Kansas territory from Michigan. A large, two-story addition was added in 1868. The house was built from stone quarried nearby in a vernacular Greek Revival style. Many early limestone structures also featured locally made mortar, made from limestone cooked in large kilns located throughout the Flint Hills.
Elise Kirk, McNee Barns, 2019
Built in 1920 by the McNee family, this gabled-roofed horse barn was part of a large tenant farming operation south of Elmdale in the Cottonwood River Valley. The barn features a structure of limestone and timber, with a coursed limestone foundation and rubble walls finished with a parged coating. Nearby is a less common typology: a boxcar barn, constructed by placing two boxcars parallel to one another to form a bay and topping the structure with a timber-framed roof. Boxcar barns were common during economic downturns, and in the period after World War II, a wooden boxcar could be purchased for $65.
Elise Kirk, Matfield Station, 2019
Built near the top of a rise directly adjacent to the Burlington North Santa Fe railroad, this structure is one of few remaining section houses in Kansas. Constructed every roughly eight miles miles along the line, the section hands who maintained the track lived in these company-constructed bunkhouses. Many of the laborers were Mexican immigrants, and they referred to the bunkhouses as “las casitas,” or “the little houses.” Before the section houses were built, laborers were forced to live in ad hoc structures constructed from scrap metal and railroad ties, with boxcar doors occasionally used for roofs. Although from a distance the walls of the section house appear to be limestone, the material is rock-faced concrete block, an economic alternative to quarried stone that became popular in the early 20th century and was eventually mass produced. The building was restored and converted into vacation rentals in 2006.
Contemporary Projects
Hodgdon Powder Co.
El Dorado Inc., 8,500 square feet of new office and support space, Herington, KS, 2007
East elevation
Employee breakroom
Changing room and showers
Photos by Mike Sinclair
Wabaunsee County Homestead
El Dorado Inc., rehabilitation of 350-square-foot, circa 1893 limestone structure, 1,150-square-foot addition, Wabaunsee County, KS, 2016
South elevation
Interior, new addition
Patio, looking southeast
Master bedroom, historic structure
Section diagram
Preston Outdoor Education Station
KSU Design+Make Studio (David Dowell, instructor), 1,300-foot trail system with interpretative signage, viewing platforms, Camp Wood, Elmdale, KS, 2016
Gathering Station
Sky Station
Charred wood detail
Pioneer Bluffs Barn
Ben Moore Studio, adaptive reuse of 4,900-square-foot barn (circa 1915), Matfield Green, KS, 2015
Second floor event space
West elevation
First floor event space
Wall and roof details
Historic context
Photos by Harold Gaston
Wash-O-Rama
Ben Moore Studio, Davis Preservation, adaptive reuse of circa 1900 building for commercial laundromat and rental housing, Cottonwood Falls, KS, 2016
Restored facade
Interior, laundromat
Interior, residential unit
Existing condition
Ridge Residence
Rod Harms and Stephanie Rolley, 4,500-square-foot straw-bale construction for private residence, vacation rental, and event space, Manhattan, KS, 1996
North elevation
Application of stucco
Concrete footing
Photos by Ali Carr
The Volland Store
El Dorado Inc., adaptive reuse of 4,500-square-foot, two-story brick structure, Volland, KS, 2015
The Volland Store, circa 2000
Axon diagram
Detail sketch, structural frame
Existing condition, circa 2012
Floors removed
Volland House #1 Model, KSU Design+Make Studio (David Dowell, instructor), planned renovation of kit house for artist residency, Volland, KS, 2018
Common Building Materials
Common building materials of the Flint Hills
Brick, limestone (various types), corrugated metal, wood (charred and uncharred), hedge post, baled prairie hay, heavy timber
Limestone, steel pipe, circa 1903, courtesy of Brian Overmeyer
This unique style of fence post is believed to have been devised by the African American ranch hands who settled in Dunlap, one of several Exoduster communities in Kansas, in the years after the Civil War. In its composite limestone-and-steel-pipe construction, the Chapman post is believed to be one of few material objects endemic to the Flint Hills. To ensure that the steel pipe didn’t rust from the bottom, fence builders stuffed corn shucks into the pipe and then topped them with concrete. In some counties, fences that employ the post are referred to as “Fulghem fences,” a reference to Harrison Fulghem, a young black ranch hand who lived in the area around this time. Today, the posts are most often referred to as Chapman posts, for Philip Chapman, the Kansas rancher who patented the design in 1903.
Vernacular Forms
Public Works series by Derek Hamm
Growing up in a rural setting develops an eye for subtle forms — moments when the vast ocean of the prairie is broken by the surface patterns and structures of human development. Driving, riding, and walking on just about every road in the area over the past few years, these vernacular structures have begun to take on a sculptural quality — “skyscrapers” rising up in an isolated horizontal landscape, monuments to the shared priorities and everyday human activity in this place.
Reception & Panel
Photos by Brian Yates
Panel: Jim Hoy, Luke Koch, Hesse McGraw, Christy Davis
This show was made possible with the generous support of Humanities Kansas, the Center for Living Education (now Matfield Green Works), The Volland Store, El Dorado Inc., and Places Journal. Special thanks to Elise Kirk, David Dowell, Hesse McGraw, Luke Koch, Brian Obermeyer, Christy Davis, Jim Hoy, Ben Moore, Rod Harms, Stephanie Rolley, Katie Kingery-Page, Jane Koger, Jesse Solis, Pauline Sharp, Bill McBride, the staff at Camp Wood, Patty Reece, Katherine Hamm, Gary and Mary Schuler, Allison Schuler, and Nancy Levinson.
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Project name: Conservation of biodiversity in mountain grazing areas of Shara Program: Improving the management of protected areas Name of the protected area: Proposed Shara Mountain National Park Total Project Budget: 4.480,258,00 MKD This project is funded by: UNDP CO – the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Target audience: local communities living in the mountainous regions of Shara, Local businesses, Agency for promotion and support of Tourism and tour operators, CSOs, General public Name of the leader organization of the project: Milieukontakt Macedonia Association for Sustainable Development-Milieukontakt Macedonia Skopje is a non-for-profit, civil society organization, supporting initiatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) on climate change, environment and sustainable development. It was established in 2012 following 12 years of successful implementation of Milieukontakt International programs in Macedonia. Its vision is to help create a strong, visible, professional, self-sustainable environmental CSO movement, based on the principles of democracy and openness. This means a movement that is highly visible in society, able to raise public awareness and capable of playing an important role in policy and decision-making processes, on local, national and international level. Partner organization: Public Enterprise on Pastures The Public Enterprise on Pastures has been established by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in order to manage the state-owned pastures. According to Law on pasture, PE on Pastures creates a pasture management program every year. This program determine the natural conditions of the pasture, its restoration, development, measures for breeding, protection, promotion and extension of pastures. Partner organization: Agricultural Economists of Republic of Macedonia The Association of Agricultural Economists of Republic of Macedonia (AAEM) is non-governmental organization of experts in the area of agricultural economics. Since its foundation in 1997, its goal is development of sustainable agriculture in Republic of Macedonia. One of the most important features of the organization and its members is the cooperation with different representatives of private and public sectors as well as governmental and non-governmental institutions in the country such as Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, as well as the National Extension Agency, while from the nongovernmental sector the collaborations with the Federation of Farmers of Republic of Macedonia, This project is implemented by Milieukontakt Macedonia, Public Enterprise on Pastures and Association of Agricultural Economists of Republic of Macedonia, Association for Consumer Protection, Environmental Associations and others. The Association has developed many strategic documents for agricultural sector but also many specific documents as Laws and secondary legislative for milk, wine, grain, fruit and vegetables, etc. Specific objective(s): Strengthen capacity on sustainable pasture management Demonstrate sustainable pasture practices Improve local livelihoods Communication, education and public awareness raising Capacity building programme for pasture management
local communities living in the mountainous regions of Shara, Local businesses, Agency for promotion and support of Tourism and tour operators, CSOs, General public Name of the leader organization of the project: Milieukontakt Macedonia
Project name:Conservation of biodiversity in mountain grazing areas of Shara
Project is financed by:UNDP CO – the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Total Project Budget:4.480,258,00 MKD
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Number of Kids in Foster Care Cut 44 Percent Amid City Policy Change by Murray Weiss
MANHATTAN - The number of children placed in foster care in New York City has been cut nearly in half in recent years, statistics show.
Data from the city's Administration for Children Services show a steady decline in the number of children who were sent to foster homes as the city strives to deploy an array of social services to troubled families to keep them whole.
CPS apologizes to Dallas mom about child by Jason Whitely
Last October, Gibson was caught with drugs. The state's Child Protective Services agency took custody of her nine-year-old daughter.
Gibson cleaned up, and for months has tried to get her child out of foster care. "I was stunned, actually, to get this letter," she said holding two sheets of paper with an apology from CPS.
Caged Child Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Tracy Lehr
CAMARILLO, Calif. - A child kept in a cage by the foster mother who adopted her more than a decade ago is now in a unique position to help other children like her.
Cynthia Vasquez,19, works at Casa Pacifica in Camarillo, the same center that helped her when she was an abused and neglected 9-year-old. Casa Pacific CEO Steve Elson said she was one of the worst cases they've seen. " It was horrendous what she and her sister went through," Elson said. Cynthia still remembers what it was like when she first arrived at the shelter. She remembers being asked if she was hungry and getting something sweet to eat.
#SAFE on phone makes reporting child abuse, neglect easy by Rick Nathanson
Reportings of suspected child abuse and neglect have ticked up nearly 20 percent in the wake of last month's brutal killing of 10-year-old Victoria Martens and a campaign by the state.
If the calls about abuse or neglect involve a parent, guardian or someone in the household, it is screened in for investigation by CYFD; if the call involves someone outside the household, such as a coach, teacher or neighbor, then CYFD cross-reports the call to local law enforcement for investigation, Jacobson said.
Panel's child welfare role debated by Brian Fanney
The co-chairman of the legislative panel dedicated to uncovering wrongdoing by state government said Thursday that lawmakers should have oversight over individual child welfare cases.
Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, didn't explain what he meant by oversight at the meeting, in which a lawyer said Clark was on the cusp of breaking state law and a fellow Republican said Clark was badgering state employees.
Critics say Arizona is cheaping out on child-welfare services
Social-service providers are warning that children could linger longer in foster care if the state of Arizona follows through with a new round of contracts they say will cut rates, lower standards and deter qualified applicants.
The complaints arise as the state is on the verge of awarding new contracts for services the Department of Child Safety insists will get kids out of foster care and into permanent homes more quickly, without increasing costs to the state. The complaints are also bringing to the forefront criticisms usually made in quieter tones about Gov. Doug Ducey's intent to shrink state government and run it "at the speed of business."
Nebraska is failing children depending on it for survival
An in-depth analysis of Nebraska's child welfare system released Wednesday shows that despite increased funding and regulatory changes during the past few years, there was an increase between January 2013 and June 2015 in cases of children in the system.
Children are not being served adequately because of large caseloads for state employees. Again and again, we are hearing of state facilities and departments that aren't measuring up because of a lack of adequate staffing.
Why we're afraid to leave our children alone by Virginia Postrel
Parents don't not leave their kids alone because they fear something might happen to them. They fear the moral disapproval. Only in the past decade or so has "no child left alone" become the social and legal norm in the U.S.
News reports and crime shows feed exaggerated fears. But Thomas and her co-authors note that legal norms needn't follow inaccurate beliefs about risks. "The fact that many people irrationally fear air travel does not result in air travel being criminalized," they write. "Parents are not arrested for bringing their children with them on airplanes. In contrast, parents are arrested and prosecuted for allowing their children to wait in cars, play in parks, or walk through their neighborhoods without an adult."
Rep. Tammie Wilson accuses state of 'legal kidnapping' by Matt Buxton
A North Pole legislator is accusing the state of "legal kidnapping" for the rise in the number of children in state protective custody.
Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, this week called for a grand jury investigation into the Office of Children's Services, alleging the agency has ignored state and federal law in order to put more children into state custody and keep them there.
Alabama Child Protective Services Steals New-born Breast-feeding Baby from Rape Victim While Still at the Hospital by Terri Lapoint
Baby Braelon has a high fever and was throwing up and his mother had to BEG the workers at her group home to take the baby to the local hospital first and then he was transferred around midnight last night to Children's Hospital because of the severity.
The negligence on the part of a group that is supposed to protect children is outrageous! Even though the baby had a dr's appt the day after he was discharged from the hospital it wasn't til TEN DAYS LATER that they took the baby to be checked!!
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Orte Power heaters can successfully be used for heating of tennis halls.
The choice of the appropriate device is dependent on the size of the building and the type of isolation applied in the building.
Orte Power 130 kW heats a standard size tennis court inflatable tent. In an event of really cold winters the unit it is capable of maintaining a temperature of approximately plus 12-to-15 degrees centigrade.
A standard pellet hopper holds enough pellets to sustain operation of the ORTE power heater for 2-4 days. The device can be located in a mobile boiler room alongside with a pellet hopper.
The device during maximum power operation uses approximately 26 kg of pellets per hour. The estimated usage / consumption of pellets per one winter season should be around 10 tons of pellets. The cost may fluctuate, of course, and it is dependent not only on the outside temperature but also on the utilization of the sports facility.
For an effective utilisation of the device it is recommended to install ceiling fans directing the airstream downward.
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The Moons of Jupiter
Author(s): Alice Munro
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.
'Witty, subtle, passionate, The Moons of Jupiter is exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement - the entanglements and entailments - of individual human feeling. And the knowledge it offers can't be looked up elsewhere' New York Times
"She has a touch of genius" Mail on Sunday "Only a few writers continue to create those full-bodied miniature universes of the old school. Some of her short stories are so ample and fulfilling that they feel like novels. They present whole landscapes and cultures, who families of characters" Anne Tyler "The writer's questioning memory gives us sharp flashes of reality that are so vividly recalled they permit us to live another life for a moment." Publishers Weekly "Munro is in a class of her own... No other writer working today is able to invest the humble story with more power, grace or breadth... Munro has been compared to Chekhov... She has the haunting lyricism and the indulgent wisdom to qualify." Los Angeles Times Book Review "How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major talent? One feels it in the assurance, the sensibility behind every line of a work; one knows its presence as much from what is withheld as from what is given or explained. It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories." Wall Street Journal
Acclaimed author of one novel and several collections of stories, winner of the WH Smith Award, the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award in her native Canada, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Publisher : Vintage
Publication date : April 2004
Availability date : October 2013
Author : Alice Munro
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Detroit, Philanthropy
Some Detroit Institute of Art Execs Get Big Rewards
Rick Cohen
Detroit Institute of Art / Mala C
August 25, 2015; Detroit Free Press (Associated Press)
Taking note of the controversy over the proposed bonuses and other emoluments for some executives of the Detroit Institute of Art won’t make some people happy, for sure. There are those in the nonprofit sector who believe that nonprofit executives should be paid handsomely, a sentiment for which one can make good arguments. There are those in the arts and culture world who might suggest that bonuses and benefits for the DIA executives are necessary to keep pace with compensation packages at other top museums. And there are some who probably think that the turmoil over saving the DIA from being auctioned off as part of the Detroit bankruptcy deal might have been one of the toughest challenges to confront any museum executives anyplace, and boy do the DIA brass merit extra consideration for that.
Others might think a little differently about the two sets of compensation proposals that the DIA is considering—or may have already approved, at least in part. The DIA has proposed pay raises of $49,000 for former DIA executive director Graham Beal and high-level staffers Annmarie Erickson, the DIA’s chief operating officer, and Robert Bowen, the chief financial officer. The raises cover fiscal years 2014 and 2015, meaning that they are somewhat retroactive, especially considering Beal’s resignation. That small sum would be paid for by tax revenues from Macomb, Wayne, and Oakland counties.
The other part of the compensation proposal, more controversial than the raises, are the bonuses and other compensation. In the deal, Beal gets a $30,000 bonus—again, retroactive, since he has resigned—plus a retirement severance payment of $285,000 and the DIA will forgive a $155,832 housing loan he used to buy a 6,000 sq. ft. historic home in the Palmer Woods neighborhood. Erickson would get a $25,000 bonus for 2014 and a $40,000 bonus for 2015; Bowen would get a $15,000 bonus for 2014 and a $25,000 bonus for 2015. Unlike the pay raises, these increases would be paid from a privately funded compensation fund at the museum. Under an agreement reached with Michigan’s counties for the use of tax revenues for the DIA, the counties get to vote on and approve pay raises made from tax revenues, but the counties, according to DIA chairman Gene Gargaro, do not have authority to approve or disapprove payments from the private donor funds. According to the Detroit News, “Gargaro declines to disclose the amount of the donor fund.”
The agreement giving the counties the right to know about and review pay increases emerged after widespread outcry in 2012 when the counties learned that the DIA had paid the three executives a combined bonus of $100,000—at the same time that Beal and Erickson were apparently making the case for the museum’s need of a fiscal infusion.
Given that the DIA is in the midst of recruiting a replacement for Beal, one might guess the importance of putting a positive face on how the board and its public sector funders treat the museum’s executive staff. There’s no doubt that the three worked hard during the Grand Bargain negotiations, engaging in interactions that museum staff probably never could have anticipated.
Nonetheless, there has been some blowback to this announcement. Gargaro explained that he was discussing the bonus, severance, and housing payments for the purpose of “education and information.” The only approval that the DIA needs from the counties is for the raises, which are within the bounds of compensation paid at major museums around the country. It may have been the reporting, but the statement made Gargaro appear more than a little dismissive of the public sector entities whose $23 million annual infusion of tax revenues into the museum is nothing to sniff at.
Moreover, money is fungible. The counties, if they were so motivated, could ask about what they are paying for that the private dollars in Gargaro’s donor fund might cover. The fact that Gargaro declined to reveal the size of the fund doesn’t help in a situation where, in the wake of the Detroit bankruptcy deal, disclosure is important.
And finally, there is the public relations impact. Many Detroiters, not living in 6,000-foot mansions designed by the architect who designed the Henry Ford Museum, might have an adverse reaction to bonuses, a concept beyond the experience of most of them and probably something they thought nonprofits didn’t do, and the forgiving of the housing loan. Even if these compensation proposals are legitimate and appropriate, the DIA ought to know from the experience of many other major nonprofits that being tone-deaf to the public can undermine even the best of plans.
The DIA has had its share of communications and public relations miscues over the years, sometimes not quite endearing itself to many Detroiters. This past spring, word leaked out that the DIA was quietly considering the voluntary sale of some of its artwork, including a Van Gogh still life (of dubious provenance). It caught many by surprise, since one of the elements of the Grand Bargain was to prevent the DIA’s collection from being sold. Beal himself added to the public’s consternation with the statement, “We couldn’t sell any works (until now) because it would have caused such confusion.” He later walked that back a bit, announcing that the museum wouldn’t sell the Van Gogh, and then adding that he would leave the issue of selling parts of the collection (“deaccessioning”) to his successor.
NPQ would be interested in hearing from people in the museum world about their reactions to Gargaro’s proposed compensation changes for the DIA’s past (Beal) and current executives—and from Detroiters who have been witnesses to and are intended to be beneficiaries of the bankruptcy deal.—Rick Cohen
Rick joined NPQ in 2006, after almost eight years as the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). Before that he played various roles as a community worker and advisor to others doing community work. He also worked in government. Cohen pursued investigative and analytical articles, advocated for increased philanthropic giving and access for disenfranchised constituencies, and promoted increased philanthropic and nonprofit accountability.
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Cheatahs Announce Release of Debut Album ‘Extended Plays’ on February 5; Band Releases Music Video for “The Swan” and Announces Tour Dates w/Veronica Falls
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UK-based rock band Cheatahs are excited to announce the release of their Extended Plays, out February 5th on Wichita Recordings. The release will include 8 tracks compiled from the band’s two EPs released in the UK earlier this year, Coared and SANS. Praising the SANS EP,. Fans can pre-order Extended Plays at the link below:
Cheatahs are also excited to announce the details of their March 2013 tour dates with Veronica Falls and Cold Showers. The tour begins on March 6th in Washington DC and includes a show at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on March 8th. For a full itinerary, please see below.
Extended Plays
1. The Swan
2. SANS
3. Fountain Park
4. Flake
5. Coared
6. Ripper
7. Jacobi
8. Froshed
Upcoming Tour Dates (All dates w/Cold Showers and Veronica Falls)
Mar 6th – Washington DC @ Black Cat
Mar 7th – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Mar 8th – New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Mar 9th – Boston, MA Great Scott
Mar 10th – Montreal @ la divan orange
Mar 12th – Toronto @ The Garrison
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http://www.wichita-recordings.com/
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Woman Discovers 65 Million Year Old Dinosaur Bone After Tripping Over It
By JJ Foster - August 12, 2017
A woman tripped over a large object in a remote area in Wyoming before discovering that it was a rare prehistoric bone. Paleontologists believe that it is over 65 million years old.
Hawaiian conservationist Alison Teal claimed to have lost her balance when her foot caught the rock-like object. But after close analysis, paleontologists are convinced that it is actually the 65 million-year-old jaw bone of a Triceratops.
Teal, along with Jack Tenney and 5 Gyres Institute co-founder Dr. Marcus Eriksen were on a group expedition, exploring the Lance Formation, Wyoming. 5 Gyres is a non-profit organization with the aim of raising awareness about plastic pollution.
After her abrupt fall, Teal and the team were determined to work out what the strange object was and built up an excavation site that day.
Upon close inspection, Teal and Dr. Eriksen purified the bone and eventually discovered that it was once part of a Triceratops’ jaw. The Triceratops lived about 68 to 66 million years ago near the end of the Cretaceous period.
The herbivorous Triceratops is one of the most iconic dinosaurs in paleontology due to its three horns, two on its head and one on its nose. The dinosaur was generally a large creature, measuring up to 29ft in length and 10ft in height. The largest Triceratops could weigh up to 26,000lbs, which is the equivalent of 12 tonnes.
Conservationist Teal never expected to make such a significant discovery during her expedition. Her goal is to empower people to tackle ocean pollution. But after finding such an old bone, she hopes that it will help researchers develop a more detailed understanding of the Cretaceous period.
One of the core focuses of Teal’s initiative is the Holocene extinction, which is considered an ongoing extinction period as a result of human activity.
“Digging up dinosaurs was a shocking reality check that extinction is real,” Teal said. “And if we don’t make changes in our daily lives, we too can become just another rock layer in history.”
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Home Bills to prevent utility shutoffs, evictions and foreclosures introduced in Ohio House
Bills to prevent utility shutoffs, evictions and foreclosures introduced in Ohio House
David C. DeWitt
State Rep. David Leland, D-Columbus. Photo from Ohio House website.
Two separate bills have been introduced in the Ohio House to address economic hardships stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, including one to prevent evictions and foreclosures and the other to prevent utility shutoffs.
On Sunday, state Reps. David Leland, D-Columbus, and Jeffrey Crossman, D-Parma, introduced a bipartisan bill to put a stop to evictions and foreclosures for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. The bill was written in consultation with the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, a release said.
“What we learned from the Great Recession is that failing to do enough to keep people in their homes will devastate communities across the state, and we need to do as much as possible to ensure that doesn’t happen again,” Crossman said.
Leland introduced separate legislation Monday looking to prevent utility shutoffs to residences during the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to utilities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), the bill would require unregulated utilities and submetering companies to continue to provide service through the emergency, a release said.
“A lot of people are taking a big hit to their income,” Leland said. “As we all stay at home to fight this common enemy, we need to make sure Ohioans don’t have their lights turned off because they can’t make a payment.”
PUCO has instructed its utility companies to review and change policies that might risk service continuity hardships for their ratepayers, and most regulated utilities have said publicly they plan to continue providing service through the next several months, the release said.
Both bills include emergency clauses, meaning they would take effect immediately upon being signed.
David C. DeWitt is an award-winning journalist with over 15 years experience covering Ohio politics and policy. He has worked for the National Journal, The New York Observer, The Athens NEWS and Plunderbund.com covering topics such as education, health care, crime and courts, poverty, government, business, labor, energy, environment and social issues. His work has also appeared in Government Executive, the Columbus Dispatch, Girlfriends magazine, Bleacher Report and the Ashtabula Star Beacon, among others.
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is digested at the manner in which the foreign press handled coverage of the recently concluded #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria.
The President in a tweet via his official Twitter Handle on Wednesday said the foreign media houses did not balance their reportage on the protest.
According to him, the reports from some major foreign media firms did not attempt to lend a voice to the plight of policemen that were killed following the violence that erupted after the protest.
He further noted that the stations which were burnt and prisons that were opened did not make it into the reports of the foreign press. (Channels TV)
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Next Round of COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Begins Oct. 20
Friday, October 16, 2020, By News Staff
Dear Students:
Beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 20, the Syracuse University Public Health Team will begin a third round of COVID-19 surveillance testing for all residential students. This next round of testing is part of the enhanced virus surveillance strategy that the University announced last month. All students—including those who live off campus—are required to participate in this important surveillance testing program. The round three testing schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 20; Wednesday, Oct. 21; Thursday, Oct. 22:
Juniors, Seniors, Graduate and Law Students
Friday, Oct. 23, and Monday, Oct. 26:
First-year Students and Sophomores
Tuesday, Oct. 27:
Alternate testing day for all students (if you were unable to appear for testing on the dates assigned to you, please report on this day)
Important Testing Reminders
As you prepare to participate in testing, here are some important reminders about location, logistics and must-dos:
Location: Access the testing site through Gate N, stay to the right upon entering the stadium and follow the signs to the testing center.
Time: Testing will be available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Appointments: No appointments are necessary; simply bring your SU I.D. and show up at a time that is convenient for you during your assigned day (as seen above).
Preparing for a COVID-19 Test: Please do not eat, drink or brush your teeth for 30 minutes prior to arrival at the stadium.
Safety Reminder: You must wear a face mask or covering when you arrive at the testing site.
Type of Test: The test itself is a saliva swab and the entire process only takes a few minutes.
Delivery of Results: You will receive confirmation of a negative result via email. Individuals who return a positive test result will be notified by phone.
Your participation in our ongoing testing has made a positive impact, and we appreciate your continued cooperation. Please continue to do your part in ensuring the health and safety of our campus and the Syracuse community.
If you have any questions, please contact the COVID-19 Project Management Office at SUCOVID@syr.edu.
J. Michael Haynie
Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation
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Intels severs ties with Atiku Abubakar
January 4, 2021 Favour Lashem News, Project 0
Intels Nigeria Ltd., an oil and gas logistics company, on Monday said it had severed ties with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who was one of its major shareholders.
The company said it severed ties with Abubakar and his family after the former Vice President sold off his shares and exited the company last year.
Intels spokesman, Tommaso Ruffinoni, said in a statement that Abubakar, through his trust named Guernsey Trust International, sold shares of Orlean-Invest Group, Intels parent company, between December 2018 and January 2019, for a sum of approximately 60 million dollars.
“In the period between April and May 2020, Abubakar converted his remaining shares into a convertible bond that he subsequently monetised up to a residual sum of approximately 29 million dollars.
“When he requested to cash in the above mentioned sum, our Group contested to Abubakar a debt, towards our Group, of 24.1million dollars.
“Without having received any answer regarding the matter, on Nov. 30, 2020 Abubakar was informed about the set off of such sum while we made available the remaining sum of 5.4 million dollars.
“With the completion of the above mentioned transactions, the era of Abubakar family’s involvement with the Group Orlean-Intels is over,” he said.
He noted that on Dec. 1, 2020 the Group terminated also its working relationship with Abubakar’s sons, Mr Adamu Atiku Abubakar and Mr Aminu Atiku Abubakar.
“Since that date our Group does not have any contacts, neither direct nor indirect, with members of Abubakar’s family,” Ruffinoni said. (NAN)
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Safe Environment Documents and Forms
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On Site Safe Environment Training Schedule
**All Diocesan Sites must have the Code of Conduct for ministry to minors available for review for its constituents. The policy and procedure for reporting sexual misconduct should be published at least quarterly in parish bulletins or through any other communication channels used.**
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As a community of faith, we believe that the prevention of child sexual abuse begins with each person. Increased awareness and a willingness to take action are steps for every person to take to eradicate abuse in our society, in the community, in the neighborhood, and in the family.
All those who minister (volunteers, employees and clergy )in the Diocese of Oakland are to be educated about the nature of child sexual abuse, how it is perpetrated, how to report it, and strategies for prevention. Training is mandatory for all who minister - first before starting work or volunteering and then every three years thereafter. If you are due to retrain, you will receive an email from Virtus to do so. If you do not, you can find access instructions to your Virtus account on the left under DOCUMENTS AND FORMS.
Employees, clergy and any volunteers with direct, ongoing contact with minors must be live scan fingerprinted and cleared prior to ministry in the Diocese of Oakland.
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Our Victims Assistance Ministry offers a variety of avenues for victims and family members to report their experiences to our Office of Victims Assistance and to be welcomed, to receive pastoral care, and to learn about and access much-needed services. Diocesan staff serving in the Office of Victims Assistance believe that individuals and communities are best served through a prompt response to requests for help, respectful listening, attention to their needs, and services to help them in the healing process.
Procedures for Reporting Sexual Misconduct
The Diocese of Oakland uses the following procedures as part of its pastoral response to these allegations:
The Diocese of Oakland will respond promptly (within 24 hours) to all allegations of clerical sexual misconduct.If the report has not been made to the local authority the Diocese will assist the victim in making such a report.
The first concern of the Diocese is to offer immediate and appropriate care to victims and their families.
The Diocese of Oakland recognizes the severe harm to the spiritual and emotional well being of victims and their families and commits itself to reconciliation and healing.
In all cases, past and present, alleging sexual misconduct involving minors, the priest will be placed immediately on administrative leave and the Diocese of Oakland will comply with the obligations of civil law as regards reporting of the incident to legal authorities and cooperating with the investigation.
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Thrown into a sobering reality, in his own words Dustin Smith tells what it was like when he learned he tested positive.
It was a day I won’t forget.
I have always been a healthy child; very few illnesses to speak of and very few of the “unwanted visitors” that come along with being a sexually active gay man. I’m referring to HIV/AIDS, the worst of the unwanted visitors, the one that can kill your social life, your mental well-being and throw you into the fire without a moment’s warning.
I spent several years as an advocate, spending time with those who have HIV and were in need of an ear to listen or educating those who knew little to nothing about it. I have been a safe player, using protection when necessary.
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I looked as white as a ghost and was thinking, “Oh my god, what am I supposed to do now?” Everything I knew from years of prevention and advocating caused my mind to go blank. I was then told that a city nurse had to draw blood for the second test to make sure that the first was correct.
While waiting, my mind flashed to a picture of my partner, family and friends and past conversations we had about this, and some of the worst comments I got from them. I was so upset, but I couldn’t cry. It was a dead silent scream in my head.
When I realized about five minutes had passed, I told the testing person I needed to step out and go to my partner who was next door to let him know. He asked me if I was ok going by myself. I said, “Yep, I’ll be back in a few. Come get me when the nurse gets here.” I stepped outside and for a moment, and I stopped breathing. When I caught my breath, I walked over to my partner. He instinctively asked if something was wrong. I responded by saying, “I need to talk to you outside.”
I was still stone-faced and pale when we got outside. I said exactly what had transpired moments before. As soon as I told him it came back positive, I let out the tears that wouldn’t come out in the office. I told him that I had to run back to the Network for the nurse. I got in there and they had four people telling me not to jump to conclusions, that we wouldn’t know for sure for a week.
That week passed so slowly. I returned, and the test had come back positive. I completely blanked again as the director of life services came in and asked me if I had questions. She told me the services they offered for positive clients. She talked for a few minutes, which seemed like hours in my mind and then said, “A lot of people don’t remember this information, so we have it in print.” I still have it in my night stand.
I have many times since that day had quite a few interesting conversations with my partner and about his supportive efforts in this struggle. Which makes the days easier, but then ugliness rears its head and people who I thought were friends shut me out, make me cry and disown me because of something inside me that has nothing to do with who I am as a person.
I got online and was bombarded with questions asking how I got it. Most assumed I barebacked. A few even suggested I was a bug chaser—one of those people who go after the disease. It made me furious. I wanted to reach through the computer and choke the idiot saying it. I logged off feeling a bit angered and annoyed. Just because I am 22 and HIV-positive they think it was something I did to provoke heartache and pain into my life. My infection was not from barebacking or cheating. To my knowledge it was from some date I had; even with protection the infection occurred.
My message to anyone out there who thinks like that is this: Put yourself in my shoes, and even if you try, you will have no understanding of how I feel.
It’s like standing on top of a cliff… some days you feel like you’re falling… others, you’re on top of the world. I still don’t know a lot about what’s going on inside me with this disease, but soon enough I will find out more and know where this will lead me.
My parting thought is this: Be nice to someone you don’t know, as you don’t know their story.You don’t know how close to the edge of falling off they are.
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There are so many stories of people losing it over being asked to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask. You've got the lady who peed in a Verizon store, the dude who wiped his nose on a store clerk, and now, apparently, people are making teenagers cry at an ice cream shop in Spring Lake.
Kelly Larson, owner of The Front Porch ice cream in Spring Lake, took to Facebook to speak up about the unruly customers and defend her staff.
She says in one day recently four sets of people yelled at her Front Porch employees, who are mostly teenagers, over the mask mandate. Someone even got so out of control, the police had to be called.
Larson points out that she, nor her young staff, created the mask mandate, but that they are required by the health department to wear them and so are customers.
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I want to see the other side of this pandemic. I'd like to stay healthy, see my team stay healthy and see my community stay healthy. I want to see all of our businesses survive. Wearing a mask is not a political statement in our store. It's what we have to do to survive today.
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“I am not political. I’m an ice cream store. We serve everyone and we’re happy to do so... I have to protect my employees, I have to protect my customers and I have to stay in business. And if I don’t follow the law, I don’t get to stay in business.”
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said,
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‘Whiteness History Month’ Is About Discomfort, Not Celebration
by Cara Lombardo
This past January when Portland Community College first announced plans for a Whiteness History Month, the reaction was swift: Online commenters on news articles about the event called for organizers to be fired from their jobs at the college. Others ordered they be round up and killed, and specifically targeted people of color.
“The virulence and ugliness of that pushback took me by surprise,” says Abe Proctor, PCC community relations manager and a member of the event’s steering committee.
But that didn’t stop the college from going ahead with its plans.
“The Whiteness History Month project, unlike heritage months, is not a celebratory endeavor,” the narrator of a video explaining it says. “It is an effort to change our campus climate.”
While calls to devote time to consider racism’s origins have been made before and at least fifteen other colleges and universities have hosted similar events, PCC’s Whiteness History Month is unique in its scale. Throughout the month of April, PCC campuses will host lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, art installations, and performances considering what whiteness means and how it works.
Session topics include Peggy McIntosh’s well-known essay about unpacking the invisible knapsack of white privilege, racial constructs in mainstream children’s literature, and research that considers whether whiteness is embedded into the interface of personal computer systems (short answer: the evidence suggests it is).
“This whole month is an examination of the systemic nature of whiteness and how it contributes to privileges and advantages,” explains Dr. Clifford Meeks, assistant coordinator of the multicultural center on PCC’s Sylvania campus and a member of the Whiteness History Month planning committee.
The project stemmed from discussions on campus following the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City almost two years ago. Both were black men killed by police officers. Members of the PCC planning committee sought to expand the conversation to include the injustices people were seeing in their own lives, and to get institutional buy-in from the college.
While the project’s purpose is to examine systemic oppression and not blame a particular group of people or any individuals, Meeks anticipated some people would have concerns.
“When you’re doing this type of work and examining complex concepts and topics around equity and inclusion it can definitely stimulate different reactions from different people,” Meeks says.
One student in particular who wasn’t sure what to make of it was directed to Meeks’ office. The student asked questions, and Meeks clarified the project’s intentions. Over the course of several visits, the student started to see how the project was meant to help students “use their academic prowess to look at systemic oppression,” Meeks says. Though the student still had some trepidations, he told Meeks he appreciated their open discussions.
It hasn’t always worked.
At a session in early April, a female audience member interrupted the discussion to animatedly defend Donald Trump after a presenter suggested he had made racist remarks. “She pivoted from her defense of Trump to a critique of the event,” says Proctor. “Her critique being that this was an attempt to shame white people and blame white people for the ills of society.” After she continued to disrupt the discussion, the organizers asked the woman to leave.
Writers presenting from the forthcoming 2Leaf Press White in America anthology. It was a staged reading where the authors read jointly, interspersing excerpts from their writings theatrically. James Hill / Portland Community College.
But organizers knew disparate reactions would be part of the process. “It is difficult to have a conversation about race in the United States without experiencing some discomfort,” Proctor says. “The idea was that we were going to steer right into that discomfort and hopefully help people push past it.”
As the narrator says in one of the project’s videos: Talking about racism will never be more harmful than actual racism.
Cara Lombardo is an editorial intern at The Progressive.
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WHM is not educational it is
WHM is not educational it is political and it is is hate speech directed towards people who are white.
Insanity more than 4 years ago
No other country in the world
No other country in the world would you see people walking around in Black Pride t-shirts going into venues with signs saying 'no whites allowed' other than the United States. From the outside looking in your country appears to be beyond pathological, and it is quite clear that the culture war against the cultural marxist lobby of social justice loons needs to be fought harder by taking away their funding. Like all middle management parasite job holders these white collar revolutionaries dry up the moment the free money stops. I feel bad for you all that you're literally funding the erosion of all social cohesion of your nation and breeding an entire new generation of racists and racial hatred by these divisive narrow scoped myopic endeavors.
Dindu more than 4 years ago
"...the project’s purpose is
"...the project’s purpose is to examine systemic oppression and not blame a particular group of people or any individuals..."
"...an examination of the systemic nature of whiteness and how it contributes to privileges and advantages..."
It is difficult to reconcile these two comments. How is this not a racist program?
a long-time white reader more than 4 years ago
As a female person of color,
I find Whiteness History Month to be an atrocity. There's nothing good about it, and it only seeks to further divide people by their race. It amazes me how much people are falling for this.
Jo more than 4 years ago
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So where were we before we had to shoehorn that review of the superb David J concert in there? Oh yes, It was 2002, I made a CD-R of 13 Rezillos rarities from 7″ vinyl. The reason for this was that against all odds, The Rezillos had reformed for their first tour of America and I had to be there! Not just me, either. chasinvictoria would accompany me and we needed to listen to these cuts in the trip up and back. A curious thing happened following that 2002 US tour; the band have essentially stayed together to this very day, losing original guitarist Jo Callis in 2010, but eventually recording and releasing that very stately sophomore album a mere 26 years later in 2015. But in the years between 2002 and 2009 they were not idle. This proposed compilation grew by 200% once I took a hard look at what was out there.
DL | 2009
The Rezillos: No. 1 Boy DL [2009]
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In 2009 the seven year drought of new Rezillos music between seeing them live finally ended! They had played several new songs that slotted in very well with their classic material, and “No. 1 Boy” was the first to [finally] reach our ears. It remained until after the 2015 release of “Zero” that I was able to find out that the DL of “No. 1 Boy” was a vastly different version [2:56 vs. 2:12, for a start] and the only new Rezillos recording made with Jo Callis. It was the one time The Rezillos succumbed to the deadly pull of downloads. They were so embarrassed by this, that for a time on their website, they hosted a cover design for anyone who needed it to be physical and burned their own CD single of it. That alone warms the cockles of my monastic heart!
Rezillos Records | UK | CD5 | 2011 | REZILL01CD
The Rezillos: Out of This World UK CD5 [2011]
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“Out of This World” actually figured on this 2011 single in two version. An early longer take than would appear four years later on “Zero” and the band’s only ever… gasp! Remix!!! Though it bears mentioning that Eugene Reynolds was behind the alternate mix, which really downplayed the theremin and has a very different character to the A-side version. The B-side was a cover of the Pretty Things hit also covered by Mr. Bowie on “Pin Ups.”
I had found out about this single [also available on 7″ vinyl] from a semi-annual visit to The Rezillos website, and had discovered too late that their web store had sold out of the disc. I emailed Rezillos HQ and promptly got a response from someone named Alan [Forbes, presumably] to the effect of “chin up; there’s a new EP coming out soon so you’re ahead of the curve on that one.” Apparently I did not receive an email when this was released even though I was on their mailing list due to a computer malfunction in which the list was kaput. So for years I thought I would never have this until recent visits to The Rezillos website revealed that this single was once available on 7″ and CD5, so being of sound mind an body, I bought both! I ordered then in December of last year and discovering the different mixes/versions of the A-side stood apart from the “Zero” album version is what really jump-started the whole idea of making this Rezillos compilation anew.
Rezillos Records | UK | CD | 2012 | REZILL02 CD
The Rezillos: Top Of The Pops Live EP UK CD5 [2012]
Top Of The pops [live]
Bad Guy Reaction [live]
Yesterday’s Tormentor [live]
That new EP appeared in 2012, but I waited four years to finally buy it. Again, The Rezillos webstore in the years between the album, was not the most sturdy place to obtain their new releases. Once the store was refreshed after the launch of “Zero” in 2015, the Live Ep was once again available on CD5 as well as red and clear 7″ vinyl. These were selling for what I think singles should cost [i.e. <$6 each!] so at those prices, you buy every variant! The postage from the UK was a pittance as well!! The live tracks here were two classics and one new tracks that only appeared here. These singles made for seven more tracks for the compilation, but there was more hiding in the margins.
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The Rezillos: Sessions From The Box | KXRY-FM Live Sessions DL [2015]
Sorry About Tomorrow [KXRY-FM session]
Groovy Room [KXRY-FM session]
Destination Venus [KXRY-FM session]
Tiny Boy From Outer Space [KXRY-FM session]
[My Baby Does] Good Sculptures [KXRY-FM session]
I can’t recall where I first heard about the sessions that The Rezillos recorded for Portland’s KXRY-FM. There were five live-in-the-studio takes of three new ones and two vintage numbers, sounding very “up” as only The Rezillos could deliver. But something was still missing from this ultimate Rezillos rarity package.
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The Rezillos: Mission Accomplished… But The Beat Goes On! UK LP [1979]
Introduction: Thunderbirds Theme
Mystery Action
Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight
Thunderbirds Theme
Cold Wars
Teenbeat
Land Of A 1,000 Dances
Getting Me Down
[My Baby Does] Good Sculptures
Destination Venus
One final thing that had stuck in my craw was the incomplete version of this 1979 live album appended to the 1993 “The [Almost] Complete Rezillos” CD. Two tracks were cut from this original LP running order. First, the dramatic Barry Gray “Thunderbirds” countdown and theme was excised, probably due to licensing cost. Hearing the album start with “TOTP” cold was a buzzkill. Secondly, having the final track cut due to space reasons wasn’t cool either. Sure, sure. The studio version of “Destination venus” was added in between the two albums on CD, but maybe I could correct two wrongs with one right.
I then considered the notion of recording the two songs to digital and re-editing them so that the “Thunderbirds” countdown became the intro for “Destination Venus” instead of “Top Of The Pops!” Sacrilege? Well, most bold ideas seem like that the first time you think them through. The fact was that I considered years ago making a CD of the uncut “Mission Accomplished” but it just seemed like a big drain on resources to make an inflexible point. This idea obviated that concern while maximizing the disparate missing digital parts into a zesty whole. And it worked, so i went with it. This CD would now have 26 tracks!
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IF-logic
Independence Friendly logic (IF-logic) is an interesting conservative extension of classical first-order logic based on very natural ideas from game theoretical semantics developed by Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu among others. Although IF-logic is a conservative extension of first order logic, it has a number of interesting properties, such as allowing truth-definitions and admitting a translation of all Σ11 sentences (second-order sentences with an initial second-order existential quantifier followed by a first-order sentence).
IF-logic can be characterised as the natural extension of first-order logic when one allows informational independence to occur in the game-theoretical truth definition. To understand this idea we need first to introduce the game theoretical definition of truth for classical first-order logic.
To each first-order sentence ϕ we assign a game G(ϕ) with two players played on models of the appropriate language . The two players are called verifier and falsifier (or nature). The idea is that the verifier attempts to show that the sentence is true in the model, while the falsifier attempts to show that it is false in the model. The game G(ϕ) is defined as follows. We will use the convention that if p is a symbol that names a function, a predicate or an object of the model M, then pM is that named entity.
if P is an n-ary predicate and ti are names of elements of the model, then G(P(t1,…,tn)) is a game in which the verifier immediately wins if (t1M,…,tnM)∈PM, otherwise the falsifier immediately wins.
the game G(ϕ1∨ϕ2) begins with the choice ϕi from ϕ1 and ϕ2 (i=1 or i=2) by the verifier, and then proceeds as the game G(ϕi)
the game G(ϕ1∧ϕ2) is the same as G(ϕ1∨ϕ2), except that the choice is made by the falsifier
the game G(∃xϕ(x)) begins with the choice by verifier of a member of M which is given a name 𝐚, and then proceeds as G(ϕ(𝐚))
the game G(∀xϕ(x)) is the same as G(∃xϕ(x)), except that the choice of 𝐚 is made by the falsifier
the game G(¬ϕ) is the same as G(ϕ) with the roles of the falsifier and verifier exchanged
Truth of a sentence ϕ is defined as the existence of a winning strategy for verifier for the game G(ϕ). Similarly, falsity of ϕ is defined as the existence of a winning strategy for the falsifier for the game G(ϕ). (A strategy is a specification that determines for each move of the opponent what the player should do. A winning strategy is a strategy which guarantees victory no matter what strategy the opponent follows.)
For classical first-order logic, this definition is equivalent to the usual Tarskian definition of truth (i.e. the one based on satisfaction found in most treatments of semantics of first-order logic). This means also that since the law of excluded middle holds for first-order logic that the games G(ϕ) have a very strong property: either the falsifier or the verifier has a winning strategy.
Notice that all rules except those for negation and atomic sentences concern choosing a sentence or finding an element. These can be codified into functions, which tell us which sentence to pick or which element of the model to choose, based on our previous choices and those of our opponent. For example, consider the sentence ∀x(P(x)∨Q(x)). The corresponding game begins with the falsifier picking an element 𝐚 from the model, so a strategy for the verifier must specify for each element 𝐚 which of Q(𝐚) and P(𝐚) to pick. The truth of the sentence is equivalent to the existence of a winning strategy for the verifier, i.e. just such a function. But this means that ∀x(P(x)∨Q(x)) is equivalent to ∃f∀xP(x)∧f(x)=0∨Q(x)∧f(x)=1. Let’s consider a more complicated example: ∀x∃y∀z∃s¬P(x,y,z,s). The truth of this is equivalent to the existence of a functions f and g, s.t. ∀x∀zP(x,f(x),z,g(z)).
These sort of functions are known as Skolem functions , and they are in essence just winning strategies for the verifier. We won’t prove it here, but all first-order sentences can be expressed in form ∃f1…∃fn∀x1…∀xkϕ, where ϕ is a truth-functional combination of atomic sentences in which all terms are either constants or variables xi or formed by application of the functions fi to such terms. Such sentences are said to be in Σ11 form.
Let’s consider a Σ11 sentence ∃f∃g∀x∀zϕ(x,f(x),y,g(z)). Up front, it seems to assert the existence of a winning strategy in a simple semantical game like those described above. However, the game can’t correspond to any (classical) first-order formula ! Let’s see what such a strategy would look like. First, the falsifier chooses elements 𝐚 and 𝐛 to serve as x and y. Then the verifier chooses an element 𝐜 knowing only 𝐚 and an element 𝐝 knowing only 𝐛. The verifier’s goal is that ϕ(𝐚,𝐜,𝐛,𝐝) comes out as a true atomic sentence. The game could actually be arranged so that the verifier is a team of two players (who aren’t allowed to communicate with each other), one of which picks 𝐜, the other one picking 𝐝.
From a game-theoretical point of view, games in which some moves must be made without depending on some of the earlier moves are called “informationally incomplete” games, and they occur very commonly. Bridge is such a game, for example, and usually real examples of such games have “players” being actually teams made up of several people.
IF-logic comes out of the game-theoretical definition in a natural way if we allow informational independence in our semantical games. In IF-logic, every connective can be augmented with an independence marker //, so that *//*′ means that the game for the occurrence of *′ within the scope of * must be played without knowledge of the choices made for *. For example (∀x//∃y)∃yϕ(x,y) asserts that for any choice of value for x by the falsifier, the verifier can find a value for y that does not depend on the value of x, s.t. ϕ(x,y) comes out true. This is not a very characteristic example, as it can be written as an ordinary first-order formula ∃y∀xϕ(x,y). The curious game we described above corresponding to the second-order Skolem-function formulation Σ11 sentence ∃f∃g∀x∀zϕ(x,f(x),y,g(z)) corresponds to an IF-sentence (∀x//∃y)(∀z//∃u)(∃y)(∃u)ϕ(x,y,z,u). IF-logic allows informational independence also for the usual logical connectives, for example (∀x//∨)(ϕ(x)∨ψ(x)) is true if and only if for all x, either ϕ(x) or ψ(x) is true, but which of these is picked by the verifier must be decided independently of the choice for x by the falsifier.
One of the striking characteristics of IF-logic is that every Σ11 formula ϕ has an IF-translation ϕIF which is true if and only if ϕ is true (the equivalence does not in general hold if we replace ’true’ with ’false’). Since for example first-order truth (in a model) is Σ11 definable (it’s just quantification over all possible valuations, which are second-order objects), there are IF-theories which correctly represent the truth predicate for their first-order part. What is even more striking is that sufficiently strong IF-theories can do this for the whole of the language they are expressed in.
This seems to contradict Tarski’s famous result on the undefinability of truth, but this is illusory. Tarski’s result depends on the assumption that the logic is closed under contradictory negation. This is not the case for IF-logic. In general for a given sentence ϕ there is no sentence ϕ* that is true just in case ϕ is not true. Thus the law of excluded middle does not hold in general in IF-logic (although it does for the classical first-order portion). This is quite unsurprising since games of imperfect information are very seldom determined in the sense that either the verifier or the falsifier has a winning strategy. For example, a game in which I choose a 10-letter word and you have one go at guessing it is not determined in this sense, since there is no 10-letter word you couldn’t guess, and on the other hand you have no way of forcing me to choose any particular 10-letter word (which would guarantee your victory).
IF-logic is stronger than first-order logic in the usual sense that there are classes of structures which are IF-definable but not first-order definable. Some of these are even finite. Many interesting concepts are expressible in IF-logic, such as equicardinality, infinity (which can be expressed by a logical formula in contradistinction to ordinary first-order logic in which non-logical symbols are needed), and well-ordering.
By Lindström’s theorem we thus know that either IF-logic is not complete (i.e. its set of validities is not r.e.) or the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem does not hold. In fact, the (downward) Löwenheim-Skolem theorem does hold for IF-logic, so it’s not complete. There is a complete disproof procedure for IF-logic, but because IF-logic is not closed under contradictory negation this does not yield a complete proof procedure.
IF-logic can be extended by allowing contradictory negations of closed sentences and truth functional combinations thereof. This extended IF-logic is extremely strong. For example, the second-order induction axiom for PA is ∀X((X(0)∧∀y(X(y)→X(y+1)))→∀yX(y)). The negation of this is a Σ11 sentence asserting the existence of a set that invalidates the induction axiom. Since Σ11 sentences are expressible in IF-logic, we can translate the negation of the induction axiom into IF-sentence ϕ. But now ¬ϕ is a formula of extended IF-logic, and is clearly equivalent to the usual induction axiom! As all the rest of PA axioms are first order, this shows that extended IF-logic PA can correctly define the natural number system.
There exists also an interesting “translation” of nth-order logic into extended IF-logic. Consider an n-sorted first-order language and an nth-order theory T translated into this language. Now, extend the language to second order and add the axiom stating that the sort k+1 actually comprises the whole of the powerset of the sort k. This is a Π11 sentence (i.e. of the form “for all predicates P there is a first order element of sort k+1 that comprises exactly the k extension of P”). It is easy to see that a formula is valid in this new system if and only if it was valid in the original nth-order logic. The negation of this axiom is again Σ11 and translatable into IF-logic, and thus the axiom itself is expressible in extended IF-logic. Moreover, since most interesting second-order theories are finitely axiomatisable, we can consider sentences of form T*→ϕ (where T* is the multisorted translation of T), which express logical implication of ϕ by T (correctly). This is equivalent to ¬(T*)∨ϕ (where ¬ is contradictory), but since T* is a conjunction of a Π11-sentence-asserting comprehension translated into extended IF-logic and first-order translation of the axioms of T, this is a Σ11 formula translatable to non-extended IF-logic and so is ϕ. Thus sentences of form T→ϕ of nth-order logic are translatable into IF-sentences which are true just in case the originals were.
IFlogic
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Patient education - evaluation of a complex intervention
Diabetologia. 2002 Dec;45(12):1723-33. doi: 10.1007/s00125-002-0987-2. Epub 2002 Oct 30.
I Mühlhauser 1 , M Berger
1 Unit of Health Sciences and Education, University of Hamburg, Germany. Ingrid_Muehlhauser@uni-hamburg.de
Diabetes education or self-management programmes are complex interventions. Their evaluation is difficult because of problems in identifying and separately assessing the effect of the various components of the intervention. A phased approach defining sequential stages of a continuum of increasing evidence has been proposed as a framework for the design and evaluation of such complex interventions. As an example we present the available evidence for diabetes treatment and teaching programmes implemented in Germany. Evidence is compiled for structured group treatment and teaching programmes for Type I diabetes, non-insulin dependent Type II diabetes, and hypertension according to the following sequential stages of increasing evidence: (i) preclinical or theoretical phase; (ii) modelling the components of the intervention; (iii) exploratory trials; (iv) randomized controlled trials; (v) phase of implementation including replication and transfer to different settings. Evidence for most of these phases has been generated for the three programmes, although individual studies do not fulfill all important quality criteria by today's standards. The time span for gathering the evidence from the theoretical phase to surveillance after implementation was about 20 years. It can only be speculated which parts of the programmes are the most active ones. The presentation of a continuum of increasing evidence for diabetes education or self-management programmes could provide useful information for the appraisal of such complex interventions. Since this evidence cannot be readily extracted from databases we suggest that other research groups present their data in a similar way.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / therapy*
Hypertension / therapy*
Patient Education as Topic* / methods
Patient Education as Topic* / standards*
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Compound Kushen Injection suppresses human breast cancer stem-like cells by down-regulating the canonical Wnt/β-catenin pathway
J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Oct 28;30(1):103. doi: 10.1186/1756-9966-30-103.
Weiru Xu 1 , Hongsheng Lin, Ying Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Baojin Hua, Wei Hou, Xin Qi, Yingxia Pei, Xiaoyun Zhu, Zhizheng Zhao, Liangliang Yang
1 Oncology Department, Guang An Men Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Xicheng District, Beijing, China.
DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-30-103
Background: Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role in cancer initiation, relapse and metastasis. To date, no specific medicine has been found to target CSCs as they are resistant to most conventional therapies and proliferate indefinitely. Compound Kushen Injection (CKI) has been widely used for cancer patients with remarkable therapeutic effects in Chinese clinical settings for many years. This study focused on whether CKI could inhibit MCF-7 SP cells in vitro and in vivo.
Methods: The analysis of CKI on SP population and the main genes of Wnt signaling pathway were studied first. Then we studied the tumorigenicity of SP cells and the effects of CKI on SP cells in vivo. The mice inoculated with 10,000 SP cells were randomly divided into three groups (6 in each group) and treated with CKI, cisplatin and saline (as a control) respectively for 7 weeks. The tumor formation rates of each group were compared. The main genes and proteins of the Wnt signaling pathway were analyzed by RT-PCR and western blot.
Results: CKI suppressed the size of SP population (approximately 90%), and down-regulated the main genes of Wnt signaling pathway. We also determined that MCF-7 SP cells were more tumorigenic than non-SP and unsorted cells. The Wnt signaling pathway was up-regulated in tumors derived from SP cells compared with that in tumors from non-SP cells. The tumor formation rate of the CKI Group was 33% (2/6, P < 0.05), and that of Cisplatin Group was 50%(3/6, P < 0.05), whereas that of the Control Group was 100% (6/6).The RT-PCR and western blot results indicated that CKI suppressed tumor growth by down-regulating the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, while cisplatin activated the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and might spare SP cells.
Conclusions: It suggested that CKI may serve as a novel drug targeting cancer stem-like cells, though further studies are recommended.
Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage
Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology*
Down-Regulation / drug effects
Drugs, Chinese Herbal / administration & dosage
Drugs, Chinese Herbal / chemistry
Drugs, Chinese Herbal / pharmacology*
Mice, Inbred NOD
Mice, SCID
Neoplastic Stem Cells / drug effects*
Neoplastic Stem Cells / metabolism*
RNA, Messenger / metabolism
Wnt Proteins / metabolism*
Wnt Signaling Pathway / drug effects*
Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
beta Catenin / genetics
beta Catenin / metabolism*
Drugs, Chinese Herbal
Wnt Proteins
beta Catenin
kushen
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After asthma: redefining airways diseases
Lancet. 2018 Jan 27;391(10118):350-400. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30879-6. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
Ian D Pavord 1 , Richard Beasley 2 , Alvar Agusti 3 , Gary P Anderson 4 , Elisabeth Bel 5 , Guy Brusselle 6 , Paul Cullinan 7 , Adnan Custovic 8 , Francine M Ducharme 9 , John V Fahy 10 , Urs Frey 11 , Peter Gibson 12 , Liam G Heaney 13 , Patrick G Holt 14 , Marc Humbert 15 , Clare M Lloyd 7 , Guy Marks 16 , Fernando D Martinez 17 , Peter D Sly 18 , Erika von Mutius 19 , Sally Wenzel 20 , Heather J Zar 21 , Andy Bush 22
1 Respiratory Medicine Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine and NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: ian.pavord@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
2 Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
3 Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
4 Lung Health Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
6 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Departments of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
7 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
8 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK.
9 Departments of Paediatrics and Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
10 Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
11 University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
12 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; Priority Research Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
13 Centre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
14 Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
15 L'Université Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France; Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris, France; INSERM UMR-S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Paris, France.
16 Department of Respiratory Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
17 Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA.
18 Department of Children's Health and Environment, Children's Health Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Centre for Children's Health Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
19 Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
20 University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
21 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross Children's Hospital and Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
22 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK; Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK.
Asthma / physiopathology*
Respiration Disorders / diagnosis
Respiration Disorders / physiopathology*
MR/K002449/2/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
U10 HL109146/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States
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Where life & faith meet
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Posted on October 30, 2017 October 30, 2017 by cecily.daroux
All Saints and All Souls
What is a Saint?
If we look at Google we find a Saint is defined as being a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and regarded in Christian faith as being in heaven after death or in more informal terms as a very virtuous, kind, or patient person. We began October celebrating St Francis and we end it with celebrating All Saints’ Day and at the end of November we have our patronal festival, St Andrew’s Day. There are a few people who have been canonised for the extraordinary works during their lives through their faith and belief that Christ was truly the model we should
endeavour to follow in our lives. This is the life and works to which we all should aspire and I believe so many people do.
It is being willing to put ourselves out there, to challenge unjust structures, discrimination and judgmental attitudes. It is about showing care, compassion and love, bringing peace, comfort and hope to others.
This is what we are called to be and do. To do so it takes courage, bravery, strength, conviction, selflessness, vision and compassion. Yes, there are people amongst us who seek to do this and for this we give thanks.
I so often walk around St Andrew’s grounds and recognize the vision and planning that has gone into the development of our church buildings and beautiful grounds. I give thanks for each and every one of the people responsible. Yes, many of them had stood up for what they believed was the best way forward not just for themselves but for generations to come.
We all have special people in our lives who are no longer with us in body but they are in our memories and we give thanks for all they have meant to us and continue to mean to us. Each year we farewell a number of our much-loved and older parish members who have loved and served among us so well. We will have the opportunity to join together in their memory and light candles in their honour as we celebrate all Souls’ Day on November 2.
On St Andrew’s Day we recall Jesus summoning the first disciples to come and join with him as he showed the people God’s love.
Let us also reflect on our personal journeys and remember to give thanks for those who have encouraged us on our faith journey to this point of our lives and for those who support and encourage us in work and witness in Christ’s name today.
Blessings to you all and may you all bring blessings to others.
From the Parish Registers
October 14: Michael James Crimmins
August 24: Jeffery Arthur Ball
August 29: William James Eggleton
October 23: Peter Taylor and Phakkharasorn Kngkadee (Nga)
Rest Home Services ~ November
Palms Rest Home: 10.30am Tuesday November 7
Lakeside Rest Home: 10.30am Wednesday November 8
Palms Hospital: 11am Tuesday November 14
Pukekohe Hospital: 10.30am Wednesday November 15
Possum Bourne Village: 11am Tuesday November 28
Anyone who wishes is welcome to join us at these services
All Souls’ Day Services
Thursday November 2, Noon and 7pm. The church will be open throughout the day for prayer and the
lighting of candles in memory of a loved one.
Who was St Andrew?
St Andrew, also known as Andrew the Apostle, was a Christian Apostle and the older brother to S. Peter. According to the New Testament, Andrew was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee during the early first century. Much like his younger brother, Simon Peter, Andrew was a fisherman. Andrew’s very name means strong and he was known for having good social skills.
In the Gospel of Matthew, it is said Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee and saw Andrew and Simon Peter fishing. It is then he asked the two to become disciples and “fishers of men.”
In the Gospel of Luke, Andrew is not initially named. It describes Jesus using a boat, believed to be solely Simon’s, to preach to the multitudes and catch a large amount of fish on a night that originally was dry. Later, in Luke 5:7, it mentions Simon was not the only fisherman on the boat, but it is not until Luke 6:14 that there is talk of Andrew being Simon Peter’s brother.
However, the Gospel of John tells a separate story, stating Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist. When Jesus walked by one day, John the Baptist stated, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” It is then that Andrew and another made the decision to follow Jesus.
Bible Readings in November
First: Joshua 3: 7-17 – Graham (8am), Viv (9.30am)
Gospel: Matthew 23: 1-12 – Ian (8am), Renton (9.30am)
Theme: What Should I Do?
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
First: Joshua 24: 1-3a, 14-25 – Bruce (8am), Bob (9.30am)
Gospel: Matthew 25: 1-13 – Jan (8am), Pauline (9.30am)
Theme: Get Ready
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
First: Judges 4: 1-7 – John (8am), Ros (9.30am)
Gospel: Matthew 25: 14-30 – Heather (8am), Sandra (9.30am)
Theme: Investing What Is Offered
24th Sunday after Pentecost
First: Ezekiel 34: 11-16 – Graeme (8am)
Gospel: Matthew 5: 18-22 – Sue (8am)
Theme: St Andrew’s Day
For Your October Diaries
1pm — Setting up for the parish fair
8am — Parish Fair
8am — Eucharist
8.45am — Parish Breakfast
9.45am — Sunday School and All Saints’ Day Service
For Your November Diaries
5pm-7pm — Pukekohe Community Action Event showing what PCA is about. All Welcome
Church open all day for All Souls’ Day candle-lighting, time for prayer and reflection
noon, 7pm — All Souls’ Day Services
9.30am — Family Service
11am — St Andrew’s Day bring your own picnic lunch, we will provide strawberries and cream to follow
For Your December Diaries
Franklin Community Choir
Hams to be collected
Seniors and Op Shop volunteers lunch
Family Christmas Pageant
Handel’s Choir Christmas ConcertParish Breakfast
Parish Breakfast
Sunday October 29, 8.45am. This is the last Breakfast for the year.
AGM and end-of-year Christmas function will be held on 15 November. There will be a service at 10am followed by the AGM meeting in lounge, after which lunch will be at the Hollywood Cafe. Please bring a gift for St Mary’s and stationery for Go Forth Kiwi.
This is an open group with the purpose of getting to know each other better and offering support and encouragement to each other. We meet at the church at 10am. Our next meeting is Thursday November 16.
Anglican Churches in Bombay-Pokeno
Summer Series November-December
“LIVING THE LIFE (IN CHRIST)”
Each session will be held at St Peter’s Church, 150 Bombay Rd, Bombay and will begin with a light meal at 6pm
followed by the session until 8pm.
Wednesday November 8
“LIVING A PASTORAL PRESENCE”
Guest presenter | The Revd Louise Anderson, Priest Assistant, Papakura
Wednesday November 15
“CARE FOR OUR PRECIOUS PLANET”
Guest presenter | Rod Oram, Economic and Business Analyst and Commentator
“ACTION IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY”
Guest presenter | The Revd Dr George Armstrong, Priest and Theologian
“PRAYER IN LIFE”
Guest presenter | The Revd Sarah Park, Diocesan Ministry Educator
Wednesday December 6
Our reflections, learnings, and future actions from the series
Contact | Andrew Beyer ~ Priest in Charge. Mob | 0274- 508 389. Email | apbeyer49@gmail.com
Edith Little and Thelma Cox in your prayers as they are both very ill.
Melanie Bullock as she has celebrated her graduation as a Nanny and seeks her first position.
Peter Taylor and Phakkharasorn Kngkadee (Nga) as they begin their married life. Peter is Pauline and Wally Taylor’s son.
Michael James Crimmins who was Baptised on 14 October. Michael is the son of Paul and Nicola Crimmins and grandson of Viv and Gael.
Pukekohe Community Action ~ Open Event
Wednesday November 1, here at St Andrews ~ 5 — 7.30pm
Come and hear what we are doing in the community.
Seasons for Growth — An after-school group held on Thursday for children who have experienced a significant loss or grief in their lives. If you are interested in finding out more about this group please talk to Jan or Marisa.
Space for you and baby — A group for first time mums and their babies.
Oasis — This is the natural progression from Space. As the babies “graduate” at the age of 1 year they transfer through to the playgroups which have music, morning tea, free play and a story with a related craft. There is the time for mums to chat amongst themselves and to build relationships as many are new to Pukekohe. In this group the parents are encouraging and supportive. Do feel free to drop in and see the children having fun.
Selwyn Group — For the older members of the community. Join in the exercises, chat over a cup of tea or coffee and then enjoy cards, Scrabble, Rummikub or other activities. It is good to see people getting out mixing with
others and on Tuesdays enjoying lunch together. This group runs every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9.30am.
For further information on any of these groups please speak to Jan.
From the price of butter reaching $5.79 per 500g to headlines declaring that “Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal” (Guardian, October 4) and “Food a basic human right” (NZ Herald October 15), food sustainability has been eating up news channels this month.
“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Mahatma Gandhi
And Monday October 16 was World Food Day? Named in honour of the founding, in 1945, of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, this year’s theme was “Change the future of migration.
Invest in food security and rural development.”
Food security? It may seem to many that this cannot be an issue for us in New Zealand. Not so.
Food insecurity is about people not having consistent access to sufficient, nutritious food.
Anecdotally, we know from our parish food bank clients, that access to sufficient food is a growing problem. Eight-year old data from the Ministry of Health found that 7.3% of New Zealand households were experiencing low food security and frequently have insufficient food with more recent research indicating it is an increasing problem.
The cause, household poverty, was highlighted in the Ministry of Social Development 2017 Household Incomes Report: almost one quarter of our children survive on less than 60% of the average household income (after housing costs).
An Otago University Master thesis asked “How does Food Insecurity come to be in Aotearoa New Zealand?”
The answer: it started with when our neo-liberal economics system started.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Cicero
Our contributions to the solution include the communal food garden at the back of the vicarage, our second Grow Your Own Food course just concluded, and the upcoming Gardening Tools Library.
The Friends of the Food Garden meet every Wednesday evening (7-8pm) to share the effort and have a chin wag. Our goal is to create a quiet garden that supplies food to the parish kitchen and food bank and enables people to learn basic gardening skills.
Many thanks to those who donated seed pots and trays – these are now planted up with seedlings to sell at the church fair on October 28.
More would be appreciated along with gardening tools for the Library.
Able to help with these endeavours? Call John on 09-238 1357.
Parish Fair
Saturday October 28
This was one of our major fundraising events for the year. We had a great turnout of helpers and buyers — in spite of miserable weather — and made more than $5000. Thanks to all for your great help!
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Justia Patents Control Of Another ApparatusUS Patent for Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Patent (Patent # 10,855,780)
Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Jun 24, 2015 - Canon
In response to a request from an external device, information related to a server that provides a service related to an apparatus is set. The set information related to the server is transmitted.
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The present invention relates to a technique to allow a plurality of apparatuses to execute processing in coordination.
Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, a client apparatus acquires information related to consumables of a print apparatus and transmits the acquired information to a transfer server, which generates a URL related to the consumables in response. According to one proposed method (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-59303), the client apparatus requests a service providing server for a service based on the generated URL. In this method, as the URL generated by the transfer server is transferred to the client apparatus, a user can be directed to a desired seller without searching for the seller.
However, with the foregoing method, a server to provide a consumable purchase service is restricted by access information (URL) generated by a print apparatus or a transfer server, and access information desired by an administrator cannot be reflected. In a case where a print apparatus is used in a company and the like, there is a demand to purchase consumables from an arbitrary service provider desired by the company for the convenience of an administrator of the print apparatus.
The present invention has been made in view of the above problem, and provides a technique to set information related to a server in response to a request from an external apparatus and transmit the set information to the external apparatus.
According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus connectable to an external device, the apparatus comprising: a setting unit that sets information related to a server in response to a request from the external device, the server providing a service related to the apparatus; and a transmission unit that transmits the information related to the server, the information being set by the setting unit.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for setting information to an apparatus connectable to an external device, the method comprising: a setting step of setting information related to a server in response to a request from the external device, the server providing a service related to the apparatus; and a transmission step of transmitting the information related to the server, the information being set in the setting step.
Further features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments (with reference to the attached drawings).
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system.
FIG. 2 shows a configuration of a non-volatile memory.
FIG. 3 shows a functional configuration and connection of a client apparatus.
FIG. 4 shows a communication sequence of a client apparatus and a print apparatus.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing for giving notice of seller information.
FIG. 6 shows a configuration and connection of a browser apparatus.
FIG. 7 shows examples of HTML documents.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing processing for changing seller information.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing processing executed by a client apparatus.
FIG. 10 shows a communication sequence of a browser apparatus, a print apparatus, and a server.
FIG. 11 shows a configuration and connection of a server.
FIG. 12 shows a communication sequence of a print apparatus and a server.
FIG. 13 shows a communication sequence of a browser apparatus and a server.
The following describes embodiments of the present invention in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system. This system includes a print apparatus 1, a client apparatus 2, and a server 3 that are connected via a network.
The print apparatus 1 operates with power supplied from a power supply unit (not shown), and includes a CPU 11, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a non-volatile memory (NVM) 14, an operation panel 15, a print mechanism 16, and a communication interface 17.
The CPU 11 performs various types of control over the print apparatus 1 by reading programs stored in the ROM 12 into the RAM 13 and executing the read programs using the RAM 13 as a working area for the read programs. The non-volatile memory (NVM) 14 is a readable and writable memory that retains contents stored therein even when power is not supplied. It should be noted that the ROM 12 is equipped with a web browser for accessing a web server and displaying a web page.
The operation panel 15 is composed of a display unit, such as an LCD, and an operation unit including various types of switches and a touchscreen, and can display and input information. The print mechanism 16 performs printing under control by the CPU 11. The print mechanism 16 can use various types of print methods such as an inkjet method, a laser beam method, and a thermal transfer method. The communication interface 17 is an interface for communicating with external apparatuses (e.g., external devices such as the client apparatus 2 and a later-described browser apparatus 4). For example, this communication interface may be realized by a serial interface, such as USB, or may be realized by a wire/wireless network interface.
These various types of constituent elements of the print apparatus 1 are connected to one another via a system bus 18 in a manner controllable by the CPU 11.
The client apparatus 2 is any of various types of apparatuses including PCs and smartphones, and includes a CPU 201, a ROM 202, a RAM 203, a display unit 204, an operation unit 205, a disc apparatus 206, and a communication interface 207. Various types of processing of the client apparatus 2 can be realized by, for example, installing predetermined software in an information processing apparatus such as a general-purpose PC.
The CPU 201 controls various types of constituent elements of the client apparatus 2 that are connected to one another via a system bus 208. The disc apparatus 206 installs programs, such as application programs and an operating system (OS), that are read by the CPU 201, and also stores data of various types of files, etc. This disc apparatus 206 may be an external disc reading apparatus for reading contents of an external storage medium such as a CD-ROM. The ROM 202 stores, for example, data of program codes read by the CPU 201. The RAM 203 is a memory used when the CPU 201 executes processing related to temporary data storage, buffering, and the like whenever necessary. The CPU 201 can realize various types of processing by executing, on the RAM 203, various types of programs stored in the ROM 202 or the disc apparatus 206.
Various types of programs stored in the disc apparatus 206 include various types of device drivers such as a printer driver for using the print apparatus 1. These various types of programs include various types of applications such as a polling application for inquiring a condition of the print apparatus 1 (whether there is an event), and management software for managing a condition (status) of the print apparatus 1 (status monitor).
The display unit 204 is constituted by a display apparatus including an LCD and the like, and displays various types of information. The operation unit 205 is composed of input apparatuses, such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a touchscreen, and accepts a user operation. The communication interface 207 connects the client apparatus 2 to a network to perform various types of communications. The communication interface 207 is an interface that is compatible with at least one of serial communication (e.g., USB communication), wire communication, and wireless communication). Specifically, it exerts necessary functions and modes in accordance with a network with which the communication interface 17 built in the print apparatus 1 is compatible.
The client apparatus 2 uses the server 3 that provides various types of services. A web browser operates in the client apparatus 2, a web server operates in the server 3 due to a web server function, and communication between the client apparatus 2 and the server 3 can be performed using, for example, the HTTP. One example of the client apparatus 2 is an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer (PC); however, it is not limited to being a PC as long as it is an electronic device equipped with a web browser. For example, it may be a smartphone, a tablet, a digital television, or a similar device equipped with a web browser.
A configuration of the server 3 is similar to a configuration of the client apparatus 2, except for a program for realizing different functions in accordance with processing to be realized, and a hardware performance for realizing more advanced processing.
In the above-described manner, a processing system can be configured in which the print apparatus 1, the client apparatus 2, and the server 3 are connected via a network. One example of this network is a local area network (LAN). Although the following description involves a network constructed by wire network cables, no limitation is intended in this regard. Similar effects are achieved by any network mode, whether it be a wireless network or be a network in which wire and wireless networks coexist.
The present embodiment introduces a system in which the print apparatus 1, the client apparatus 2, and the server 3 efficiently arrange a purchase of consumables of the print apparatus 1 in coordination with one another.
Here, consumables denote various types of components and members that are consumed when the functions of the print apparatus 1 are used in accordance with such use. For example, in a case where the print apparatus 1 uses an inkjet method, consumables include ink that serves as a recording agent used in printing, a recording head for ejecting ink, and sheets of recording paper that serve as recording mediums used in printing an image. On the other hand, in a case where the print apparatus 1 uses a laser beam method, consumables include toner that serves as a recording agent, a toner cartridge that serves as a container filled with toner, and sheets of recording paper. Consumables are not limited to the foregoing items, and there may be any consumables that are consumed in accordance with a print method of the print apparatus 1 as appropriate.
In the print apparatus 1, information related to consumables is stored in the non-volatile memory 14. FIG. 2 shows information related to consumables stored in the non-volatile memory 14.
In the figure, reference numeral 141 denotes a seller information flag indicating whether to use seller information 143 stored in the non-volatile memory 14. The seller information 143 indicates a seller of consumables. The seller information flag 141 takes two values, “0” and “1”; “0” indicates that the client apparatus 2 is not to use the stored seller information 143, whereas “1” indicates that the client apparatus 2 is to use the seller information 143. The print apparatus 1 provides the seller information 143 to the client apparatus 2 on the condition that the seller information flag 141 is “1”. The details will be described later.
It should be noted that a user can update the seller information 143 as appropriate in the present embodiment. Reference numeral 142 denotes a seller information counter storing the number of times the seller information 143 has been updated. A value of this seller information counter 142 is updated, e.g., incremented by one, each time the seller information 143 is changed. Upon reaching an upper limit value corresponding to a memory capacity for the seller information counter 142, this counter is reset to one, followed by repetition of one-by-one increment again. It is assumed that the foregoing upper limit value is at least 197 or larger. In a case where the seller information 143 has never been set, the seller information 143 does not include a URL. Therefore, when the seller information counter 142 is “0”, the seller information flag 141 is set to “0”.
As stated earlier, reference numeral 143 denotes seller information indicating a seller of consumables. Specifically, this seller information 143 indicates the location of the server 3 that provides a consumable purchase service, and is represented by a URL and the like. It should be noted that it may be represented by other access information, such as an IP address and a URI, as long as it is information that enables access to the seller. In addition to the seller information 143, multiple types of seller information (default seller information) are separately prestored in the non-volatile memory 14 in accordance with intended uses and purposes. In particular, in a case where the content of the seller information 143 has been cleared and in a case where the seller information flag 141 is “0”, such default seller information is used.
As indicated above, the seller information 143 of consumables stored in the non-volatile memory 14 is used to store access information (e.g., URL) indicating the location of the server 3 that provides a desired consumable purchase service, the access information being set by an administrator (user) of the print apparatus 1. With the use of the non-volatile memory 14, the stored access information is retained even after the power of the print apparatus 1 is turned off.
It should be noted that the print apparatus 1 provides the seller information 143 and the default seller information to an external device, and the external device accesses the corresponding seller. In addition, with the use of the web browser in the ROM 12, the print apparatus 1 itself can also access the seller of consumables in accordance with the seller information 143 and the default seller information. Specifically, in response to a user instruction issued on the operation panel 15 of the print apparatus 1, the print apparatus 1 accesses an external web server in accordance with the seller information 143 or the default seller information. The seller information 143 is changed in response to a request from the external device through later-described processing. Therefore, the changed seller information 143 is shared between the external device and the print apparatus 1.
FIG. 3 shows a functional configuration and connection of the client apparatus 2. In particular, FIG. 3 shows a group of functions that are realized by the CPU 201 of the client apparatus 2 reading programs stored in the ROM 202 or the disc apparatus 206 and executing the read programs on the RAM 203. As such, the client apparatus 2 is an information processing apparatus that performs control based on programs operating on the operating system (OS).
A printer driver 21, which is a program operating on the OS, communicates with the print apparatus 1 via the communication interface 207 of the client apparatus 2, and transmits print data from the client apparatus 2 to the print apparatus 1 to cause the print apparatus 1 to perform printing.
A status monitor 22, which is a program operating on the OS, communicates with the print apparatus 1 and displays a condition of the print apparatus 1 on the display unit 204 of the client apparatus 2. Seller information 23 is stored in the disc apparatus 206 of the client apparatus 2, and corresponds to seller information stored in the non-volatile memory 14 of the print apparatus 1. When the status monitor 22 receives, from the print apparatus 1, seller information as one type of condition information of the print apparatus 1, the seller information 23 in the client apparatus 2 is updated. It should be noted that the status monitor 22 also retains seller information similar to default seller information stored in the print apparatus 1. Alternatively, it may acquire the default seller information from the print apparatus 1 similarly to the seller information 143.
A browser 24 is a program operating on the OS. It communicates with the server 3 based on the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), and displays a document described in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) returned from the server 3. The server 3 functions as a consumable purchase service providing apparatus that provides a consumable purchase service for purchasing consumables of the print apparatus 1. For example, the server 3 receives a request based on the HTTP from the client apparatus 2, and returns an HTML document related to a purchase of consumables to the client apparatus 2 in response to the request.
FIG. 4 shows a communication sequence of the client apparatus 2 and the print apparatus 1. In the figure, step S401 involves a read request, step S402 involves a read response, step S403 involves a command request, and step S404 involves a command response. It is assumed that these communications are performed between the printer driver 21 and the status monitor 22 of the client apparatus 2 and the print apparatus 1.
In step S401, the status monitor 22 of the client apparatus 2 transmits, to the print apparatus 1, a read request for reading a basic status of the print apparatus 1.
In step S402, the print apparatus 1 returns, to the client apparatus 2, a read response including basic information related to seller information in response to the read request of step S401. Here, the basic information related to seller information allows the client apparatus 2 to acknowledge a condition of seller information stored in the print apparatus 1. For example, the basic information includes an integer selected from among 0 to 99 based on the seller information counter 142. A value “0” indicates that the seller information 143 has never been updated and the seller information flag 141 is 0. When the seller information flag 141 has a value “1”, the foregoing integer is 1 to 99, and the value thereof is changed each time the seller information 143 is changed. That is to say, the client apparatus 2 acknowledges a change in the seller information 143 in the print apparatus 1 due to a change in the value of the basic information.
In step S403, a command request is used to make a request other than the request for reading the basic status of the print apparatus 1, and it is assumed that various commands corresponding to intended uses have been prepared thereas. Therefore, the client apparatus 2 can transmit the command request to the print apparatus 1 whenever necessary in step S403. A command response of step S404 is a response to the command request of step S403; the print apparatus 1 executes processing corresponding to the command request of step S403, and returns, to the client apparatus 2, a response including the result of the processing as the command response in step S404. In particular, it is assumed here that a seller information read command for reading the seller information 143 stored in the non-volatile memory 14 of the print apparatus 1 is used as the command request of step S403. That is to say, with the use of the seller information read command, the client apparatus 2 can read and acquire the content of the seller information 143 stored in the print apparatus 1.
Transmission and reception of such commands are commonly performed as inter-apparatus communications, and no particular limitation is intended in this regard. Therefore, a detailed description of a communication method therefor is omitted.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of processing in which the print apparatus 1 notifies the client apparatus 2 of basic information related to seller information. It should be noted that the flowchart shown in FIG. 5 is realized by the CPU 11 of the print apparatus 1 reading a program stored in the ROM 12 of the print apparatus 1 into the RAM 13 and executing the read program. This processing is started when the print apparatus 1 receives the read request of step S401 shown in FIG. 4 from the client apparatus 2.
When the print apparatus 1 receives the read request of step S401, the CPU 11 determines whether the value of the seller information flag 141 in the non-volatile memory 14 is “1” in step S501. If the value is “1” (YES in step S501), the CPU 11 sets a sum of 1 and a remainder obtained by dividing the value of the seller information counter 142 by 99 in step S502. On the other hand, if the value of the flag is “0” (NO in step S501), the CPU 11 sets “0” as a value to be included in basic information. Thereafter, the print apparatus 1 includes the value set in step S502 or S503 into the read response of step S402 as basic information related to seller information, and returns the read response to the client apparatus 2.
The client apparatus 2 determines whether to acquire the seller information from the print apparatus 1 based on the basic information of the seller information included in the read response of step S402. That is to say, it compares the value of basic information that was previously read with the value of basic information that has just been read; if these values are different, it acknowledges a change in the seller information, and if the value of the basic information is not 0, it acquires the seller information 143. On the other hand, if the value of the basic information is 0, the client apparatus 2 requests a default value as the seller information in step S403. In response to this request, the print apparatus 1 returns the default seller information. With the use of the read seller information, the client apparatus 2 can issue a purchase order for consumables to a server indicated by the seller information.
As stated earlier, the printer driver 21 and the status monitor 22 are programs that operate on the OS of the client apparatus 2, and they become operable when installed. When performing communication with the print apparatus 1 for the first time after the installation, the seller information 143 is read. Provided that a unit of instruction for printing a single document from the client apparatus 2 to the print apparatus 1 is called a job, the seller information is read each time a job is completed. In any other situations, the client apparatus 2 can read the seller information as appropriate whenever necessary.
FIG. 6 shows a configuration and connection of the browser apparatus 4. In the figure, reference numeral 41 denotes a browser. The browser apparatus 4 is a host apparatus similarly to the client apparatus 2, and the browser 41 is a program that operates on an OS of the browser apparatus 4. It should be noted that the browser apparatus 4 is any of various types of apparatuses including PCs and smartphones. The browser apparatus 4 is connected to the print apparatus 1 and the server 3 via a network in such a manner that it can communicate with them. The browser 41 transmits an HTTP request to an HTTP server, receives an HTTP response from the print apparatus 1, and displays a rendered version of a received HTML document. It should be noted that the browser apparatus 4 and the client apparatus 2 may be realized by the same apparatus. A hardware configuration of the browser apparatus 4 is similar to that of the client apparatus 2 shown in FIG. 1.
The print apparatus 1 operates as an HTTP server based on a program stored in the ROM 12. It receives an HTTP request via the communication interface 17, executes processing corresponding to the HTTP request, and transmits an HTTP response. Similarly to the case of an ordinary HTTP server, an HTML document is mainly returned as the HTTP response. That is to say, provided that an external apparatus to which an HTML document is transmitted uses a browser, the print apparatus 1 transmits dialog information of various types of operation dialogs that can be displayed by the external apparatus.
FIG. 7 shows structures of pages that are displayed based on HTML documents returned from the HTTP server represented by the print apparatus 1. In FIG. 7, reference numeral 101 denotes a main page represented by an HTML document (e.g., index.html); the figure depicts an example case in which the main page 101 is displayed by the browser 41 of the browser apparatus 4. The browser apparatus 4 transmits an HTTP request for reading the basic status of the print apparatus 1 to the print apparatus 1, and receives, in return, an HTTP response that enables reception and display of the main page 101.
The main page 101 contains display of information related to consumables, in particular, display 104 of remaining amounts of color ink and black ink as consumables. The main page 101 also contains a “change seller” button 102 for issuing an instruction for changing the seller of consumables, as well as a “purchase” button 103 for accessing the server 3 indicated by designated seller information so as to purchase consumables.
In the figure, reference numeral 104 denotes an example of a seller setting page (e.g., page1.html) that is returned from the print apparatus 1 to the browser apparatus 4 and is displayed by the browser 41 when the “change seller” button 102 has been pressed. Also, in the figure, reference numeral 105 denotes an edit box for inputting/editing a URL serving as seller information, and allows the user to input/edit desired seller information. Reference numeral 106 denotes a “transmit” button for issuing an instruction for transmitting the input URL to the print apparatus 1. Reference numeral 107 denotes a “cancel” button for cancelling the input of the URL.
With the use of this seller setting page on the browser apparatus 4, the seller information 143 registered with the print apparatus 1 can be changed or newly added. In particular, when the “transmit” button 106 has been pressed, an HTTP request including the URL, i.e., seller information input to the edit box 105 is transmitted to the print apparatus 1 as a request for changing the seller information 143. It should be noted that when the “transmit” button 106 is pressed without inputting anything to the edit box 105, for example, an HTTP request including a NULL character string, which is distinguished from a URL, is transmitted to the print apparatus 1. In this case, upon receiving this HTTP request including the NULL character string, the print apparatus 1 clears the seller information registered therewith.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of processing in which the print apparatus 1 changes seller information. It should be noted that the flowchart shown in FIG. 8 is realized by the CPU 11 of the print apparatus 1 reading a program stored in the ROM 12 of the print apparatus 1 into the RAM 13 and executing the read program.
When the print apparatus 1 receives an HTTP request for changing seller information, the CPU 11 first determines whether the HTTP request includes a URL as a process of an HTTP server in step S801. This determination is realized by determining whether the HTTP request includes a character string indicating a URL. If a URL is included (YES in step S801), the CPU 11 sets the value of the seller information flag 141 to “1”, and increments the seller information counter 142 by one. Then, it updates the seller information 143 by storing the URL included in the HTTP request thereas.
On the other hand, if no URL is included (NO in step S801), the CPU 11 changes the value of the seller information flag 141 to “0” and clears the seller information 143 in step S803.
Upon completion of processing, the print apparatus 1 returns an HTML document corresponding to the result to the browser apparatus 4 as an HTTP response.
It should be noted that buttons indicating “default seller”, “clear seller information set by user”, and the like may be displayed on the dialog 104 shown in FIG. 7. When these buttons are pressed as user instructions, an HTTP request without a URL may be transmitted to the print apparatus 1. In this case also, the seller information 143 is cleared in the process of step S803, and the default seller information is used in later-described processing of FIG. 9.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the client apparatus 2. It should be noted that the flowchart shown in FIG. 9 is realized by the CPU 201 of the client apparatus 2 reading a program stored in the ROM 202 of the client apparatus 2 into the RAM 203 and executing the read program. Here, the processing of FIG. 9 is called up by pressing a consumable purchase button on a display dialog provided by the status monitor 22 (e.g., the “purchase” button 103 shown in FIG. 7). The consumable purchase button may be on a main dialog provided by the status monitor 22. The consumable purchase button may also be on a printer setting dialog. Alternatively, the consumable purchase button may be on an error dialog that is displayed when an ink exhaustion error occurs, or on a dialog provided by the status monitor 22 to show remaining amounts of ink.
It should be noted that the program corresponding to the processing shown in FIG. 9 is called up when the print apparatus 1 transmits the seller information 143 to the client apparatus 2 in step S404. When the present processing is called up, the CPU 201 first determines whether a URL has been set to the seller information 143 in step S901. If a URL has been set (YES in step S901), the CPU 201 acquires the seller information 143 to which the URL has been set in step S902. On the other hand, if no URL has been set (NO in step S901), the CPU 201 acquires default seller information that is retained as a default by the status monitor 22 in step S903.
In step S904, the CPU 201 activates the browser 41 by passing the acquired seller information thereto. The browser 41 transmits an HTTP request to the server 3 based on the passed seller information so as to receive a consumable purchase service. Here, whether the acquired seller information actually exists may be determined, and if it does not actually exist, the seller information stored in the print apparatus 1 may be read again. A timing for reading the seller information is not limited to the above-described timing. For example, in a case where a purchase operation is performed via the server 3, on the occurrence of an error (e.g., ink exhaustion) in the print apparatus 1, the seller information may be read at an arbitrary timing, e.g., when the status (e.g., remaining amounts of ink) of the print apparatus 1 is confirmed. Confirmation of statuses and confirmation of operational conditions can be made among apparatuses using known techniques such as ordinary polling and push/pull notification.
FIG. 10 shows a communication sequence of the browser apparatus 4.
First, a description is given of a communication sequence for a case in which the administrator changes seller information of consumables. It should be noted that this communication sequence is executed when the processing shown in FIG. 8 is executed. The following describes an example case in which the communication sequence is executed between the browser apparatus 4 and the print apparatus 1; however, in a case where the client apparatus 2 also functions as the browser apparatus 4, the communication sequence is executed between the client apparatus 2 and the print apparatus 1.
The browser apparatus 4 transmits a main page request to the HTTP server represented by the print apparatus 1 in step S1001. This main page is, for example, the page related to the purchase of consumables shown in FIG. 7. In response to reception of the main page request in step S1001, the print apparatus 1 transmits a main page response including an HTML document of a main page (index.html) to the browser apparatus 4 in step S1002.
In response to pressing of the “change seller” button 102 on the main page 101, the browser apparatus 4 transmits a change button request corresponding thereto to the print apparatus 1 in step S1003. In response to reception of the change button request in step S1003, the print apparatus 1 transmits a change button response including an HTML document (page1.html) for changing a seller to the browser apparatus 4 in step S1004.
The browser apparatus 4 transmits a seller information change request corresponding to pressing of the “transmit” button 106 to the print apparatus 1 in step S1005. In response to reception of the seller information change request in step S1005, the print apparatus 1 transmits, to the browser apparatus 4, a seller information change response including an HTML document of a main page on which a link destination of the “purchase” button 103 has been updated to post-change seller information (URL) in step S1006.
Next, a description is given of a communication sequence for a case in which the user purchases consumables. It should be noted that this communication sequence is executed when the processing shown in FIG. 9 is executed. The following describes an example case in which the communication sequence is executed between the client apparatus 2 and the print apparatus 1; however, in a case where the client apparatus 2 also functions as the browser apparatus 4, the communication sequence is executed between the browser apparatus 4 and the print apparatus 1.
The client apparatus 2 transmits an HTTP request to the server 3 indicated by the seller information, i.e., the link destination of the “purchase” button 103 in step S1007. In response to reception of the HTTP request in step S1007, the server 3 transmits an HTTP response including an HTML document to the client apparatus 2 in step S1008. The client apparatus 2 displays the received HTML document so as to allow the user to use the consumable purchase service provided by the server 3.
Although the above has described operations initiated by the client apparatus 2 or the browser apparatus 4, which is an external apparatus from a viewpoint of the print apparatus 1, no limitation is intended in this regard. For example, in a case where the print apparatus 1 itself has a browser function, a purchase instruction may be issued by operating the operation panel 15, and the browser function of the print apparatus 1 may transmit a request to the server 3 indicated by seller information.
As described above, in the first embodiment, a client apparatus that uses the print apparatus 1 can be notified of seller information indicating the location of a server that provides a consumable purchase service, the seller information being set by the administrator of the print apparatus 1. In this way, the user can receive a service provided by a seller desired by the administrator without performing a special operation. Furthermore, for example, seller information indicating the location of a purchase service providing server of an in-house purchase department can be set as a seller desired by the administrator.
Moreover, in the first embodiment, the print apparatus 1 can connect to a plurality of external devices (client apparatus 2, browser apparatus 4), and transmit the same seller information to any of these apparatus. For example, in a company, there may be a demand to cause a plurality of external devices, such as PCs and smartphones, to access one particular seller. In this case, the present embodiment can cause the plurality of external devices to access the same seller by having them store seller information corresponding to that seller.
Although the above has described a case in which the administrator configures desired settings with regard to seller information of consumables, the same goes for display of an operational guide or help concerning the print apparatus 1. For example, when the status monitor 22 of the client apparatus 2 displays an error of the print apparatus 1, there may be information of a link destination of an online operational guide or help about the displayed error. The mechanism of seller information can be applied to replace such information of the link destination of the online operational guide or help with information of a link destination designated by the administrator. The same goes for a case in which the HTTP server represented by the print apparatus 1 is accessed using the browser apparatus 4.
The above has described an example in which the print apparatus 1 itself stores the seller information 143. Below is a description of an example in which the print apparatus 1 causes an external server to store seller information.
FIG. 11 shows a configuration and connection of a server 5 that provides a cloud service. In the figure, the server 5 provides a cloud service, reference numeral 51 denotes a database that stores seller information, and reference numeral 52 denotes a WWW server. The database 51 manages stored data as a back end of the server 5. The WWW server 52 processes an HTTP request received from a browser apparatus 4 (or a client apparatus 2) and returns a response. A hardware configuration of the server 5 is similar to the hardware configurations of the client apparatus 2 and the server 3 shown in FIG. 1. The server 5 connects to a print apparatus 1 and to the browser apparatus 4. The browser apparatus 4 connects to a server 3 that provides a consumable purchase service.
It should be noted that a cloud is a system that enables interactions among service providers through on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computer resources such as a network, a server, a storage apparatus, an application, and a service.
FIG. 12 shows a communication sequence of the print apparatus 1 and the server 5.
First, the print apparatus 1 transmits a registration request for registering itself to the server 5 in step S1201. In response to reception of the registration request in step S1201, the server 5 transmits a registration response to the print apparatus 1 in step S1202. Upon receiving the registration response, the print apparatus 1 completes the registration. Consequently, authentication information for identifying the print apparatus 1 is generated in the server 5 and managed in the database 51. From then on, the print apparatus 1 accesses the server 5 using this authentication information. These methods are practiced in ordinary web services, and no particular limitation is intended regarding a registration method and a management method. Therefore, a detailed description thereof is omitted.
In order to change/confirm seller information, the print apparatus 1 transmits a seller information notification request to the server 5 in step S1203. Here, when there is seller information serving as a target of change, this seller information serving as the target of change is included in the seller information notification request of step S1203.
In response to reception of the seller information notification request in step S1203, the server 5 updates the database 51 using the seller information serving as the target of change if the seller information notification request includes such seller information. At the same time as the update, the server 5 transmits a seller information notification response including updated, current seller information to the print apparatus 1 in step S1204. If the seller information notification request of step S1203 does not include the seller information serving as the target of change, the server 5 acquires current seller information by confirming the content of the database 51.
In order to change/confirm seller information again after changing seller information, the print apparatus 1 transmits a seller information notification request to the server 5 in step S1205. In response to reception of the seller information notification request in step S1205, the server 5 transmits a seller information notification response to the print apparatus 1 in step S1206.
As described above, the print apparatus 1 can update seller information stored in the database 51 of the server 5. As a response from the server 5 includes updated seller information, the print apparatus 1 can achieve synchronization between seller information stored in itself and seller information stored in the database 51 of the server 5.
It should be noted that the print apparatus 1 can transmit a seller information notification request as appropriate whenever necessary, e.g., when the power is turned on or off. Seller information may be set or changed via a client apparatus 2 connected to the print apparatus 1 as in the first embodiment, or via an operation panel 15 of the print apparatus 1.
FIG. 13 shows a communication sequence of the browser apparatus 4 and the server 5.
The browser apparatus 4 requests an HTML document of a management dialog of the print apparatus 1 by transmitting an HTTP request to the server 5 in step S1301. In response to reception of the HTTP request in step S1301, the server 5 transmits an HTTP response including the HTML document of the management dialog of the print apparatus 1 to the browser apparatus 4 in step S1302.
Based on a user instruction, the browser apparatus 4 refers to the server 3, which is a link destination indicated by seller information included in this HTML document, and accesses the server 3 by transmitting an HTTP request thereto in step S1303. In response to reception of the HTTP request in step S1303, the server 3 transmits an HTTP response including an HTML document related to a consumable purchase service to the browser apparatus 4 in step S1304. The browser apparatus 4 displays the received HTML document, thereby allowing a user to use the consumable purchase service.
Although FIG. 13 shows a case in which the server 3 providing a consumable purchase service and the server 5 providing a cloud service are configured separately, they may instead be configured integrally.
As described above, in the second embodiment, a cloud service providing apparatus with which the print apparatus 1 is registered can be notified of access information indicating the location of a consumable purchase service providing apparatus, the access information being set by an administrator of the print apparatus 1. In this way, the user can receive a service provided by a seller desired by the administrator without performing a special operation.
As indicated above, information related to a consumable purchase service providing apparatus can be set arbitrarily for each print apparatus. Furthermore, all client apparatuses that use a print apparatus can share information related to a consumable purchase service providing apparatus. Therefore, for example, there may be a demand to cause client PCs, client smartphones, and the like provided by a company to connect to and access a consumable purchase site of a server provided by an in-house purchase department. Furthermore, in a case where a plurality of client apparatuses use the same print apparatus, there may be a demand to cause every one of the client apparatuses to connect to a server of a consumable service provider whenever it issues a consumable purchase order. In these cases also, the present embodiment allows the client apparatuses to access a seller desired by an administrator.
Furthermore, there is a case in which a print apparatus is equipped with a web server and a client apparatus equipped with a web browser requests a purchase of consumables via the web server. In this case also, the purchase of consumables can be ordered by the web browser of the client apparatus connecting to a server of a service provider desired by a user via the web server of the print apparatus.
Furthermore, in a case where a print apparatus is registered with a cloud service providing apparatus, information related to a server providing a consumable purchase service can be shared also by a remote apparatus that uses the print apparatus via the cloud service providing apparatus. Furthermore, in a case where a purchase of consumables is requested via a web server of a print apparatus, a client apparatus equipped with a web browser can share information related to a consumable purchase service providing apparatus.
Therefore, for example, once the administrator has set information related to a particular consumable purchase service providing apparatus to a single print apparatus, all of client apparatuses, remote apparatuses, and the like that use the print apparatus can share a seller. At this time, a user can use shared information without paying attention to the information related to the consumable purchase service providing apparatus. This facilitates management of the seller.
The foregoing embodiments have introduced a configuration in which information is shared for the purpose of coordination among a print apparatus, a client apparatus or a browser apparatus that uses the print apparatus, and a server that provides a service related to consumables of the print apparatus; however, the embodiments are not limited in this way. Access information of a server can be updated, changed, and set so as to share information for the purpose of coordination among the plurality of apparatuses in accordance with a service provided by the server. In this case, information related to the server, including the access information, is stored in the non-volatile memory 14 as appropriate in the foregoing embodiments.
Furthermore, although a print apparatus has been described as an example of an apparatus that connects to a server in the foregoing embodiments, no limitation is intended in this regard. For example, the embodiments are applicable also to the following apparatuses that use access information of a server for the purpose of coordination with the server: a multi-functional peripheral that has multiple functions including a scanner function, a FAX function, and the like, and a scanner apparatus or a FAX apparatus that individually has such functions.
In the foregoing embodiments, information for accessing a seller from which consumables are to be purchased (e.g., URL) has been described as an example. However, no limitation is intended in this regard; for example, information for accessing a page containing a product manual of a product may be used instead. For example, assume a case in which a URL of a web page containing a product manual provided by a product manufacturer is registered with an apparatus as default setting. In this case also, for example, there may be a demand to cause access to another page of a site of the manufacturer, or to a manual page provided by a company that uses the apparatus. In this case, the present embodiments make it possible to set an arbitrary access destination such as the apparatus and a server with which the apparatus is registered. This enables a client apparatus to access a web page desired by the administrator.
It should be noted that the functions of the foregoing embodiments can be realized also by the following configuration. Program codes for executing processing of the present embodiments are supplied to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or the apparatus executes the program codes. In this case, the program codes read from a recording medium realize the functions of the foregoing embodiments by themselves, and the storage medium storing the program codes also realizes the functions of the present embodiments.
Furthermore, the program codes for realizing the functions of the present embodiments may be executed by one computer (CPU, MPU), or may be executed by a plurality of computers operating in coordination. Moreover, the program codes may be executed by a computer, or hardware, e.g., a circuit for realizing the functions of the program codes may be provided. Alternatively, a part of the program codes may be realized by hardware, and the remaining part of the program codes may be executed by a computer.
Embodiment(s) of the present invention can also be realized by a computer of a system or apparatus that reads out and executes computer executable instructions (e.g., one or more programs) recorded on a storage medium (which may also be referred to more fully as a ‘non-transitory computer-readable storage medium’) to perform the functions of one or more of the above-described embodiment(s) and/or that includes one or more circuits (e.g., application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)) for performing the functions of one or more of the above-described embodiment(s), and by a method performed by the computer of the system or apparatus by, for example, reading out and executing the computer executable instructions from the storage medium to perform the functions of one or more of the above-described embodiment(s) and/or controlling the one or more circuits to perform the functions of one or more of the above-described embodiment(s). The computer may comprise one or more processors (e.g., central processing unit (CPU), micro processing unit (MPU)) and may include a network of separate computers or separate processors to read out and execute the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions may be provided to the computer, for example, from a network or the storage medium. The storage medium may include, for example, one or more of a hard disk, a random-access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), a storage of distributed computing systems, an optical disk (such as a compact disc (CD), digital versatile disc (DVD), or Blu-ray Disc (BD)™), a flash memory device, a memory card, and the like.
This application claims the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-150132, filed Jul. 23, 2014, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
1. A print apparatus connectable to a plurality of external devices, the print apparatus comprising:
at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one processor serving as units comprising: a first transmission unit that transmits, to a predetermined external device transmitting a predetermined request among the plurality of external devices, data of a screen in which a first URL indicating a location of a server of a desired seller can be inputted, wherein the server is different from the plurality of external devices and the print apparatus and provides a purchase service of consumables of the print apparatus, and the first URL is different from a second URL, indicating a location of a server of a default seller, which has been retained as a default in each of the plurality of external devices; a reception unit that receives the first URL which has been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device, and receives a request to use the second UR; a storage unit that stores the first URL in a case where the reception unit receives the first URL; an updating unit that updates contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the first URL in a case where the reception unit receives the first URL, and updates the contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the second URL in a case where the reception unit receives the request to use the second URL; and a second transmission unit, wherein the second transmission unit transmits to another external device among the plurality of external devices, the first URL which is received by the reception unit and is stored in the storage unit, and causes the another external device to access the server of the desired seller using the first URL which is transmitted from the print apparatus by the second transmission unit, in a case where the contents stored in the storage unit indicate to use the first URL, and wherein in a case where the second URL has not been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device, the second transmission unit causes the another external device to access the server of the default seller using the second URL which has been retained as the default in the another external device in a case where the contents stored in the storage unit indicate to use the second URL.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor transmits, to the predetermined external device, information indicating whether the first URL stored in the storage unit has been changed.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein
the storage unit stores the first URL and a flag indicating whether to use the first URL or the second URL, and
the update unit updates the flag.
in a case where the reception unit receives the first URL, the updating unit updates the flag to use the first URL and updates the stored first URL to the newly received UR, and
in a case where the updating unit updates the flag to use the second URL, the updating unit clears the stored first URL.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising
a registration unit that registers the print apparatus with a second server that manages URLs each indicating a location of a first server used by the predetermined external device,
wherein the storage unit stores the first URL indicating the location of the first server to the second server.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the print apparatus has a function of a web server, and
the predetermined external device is equipped with a web browser for accessing the web server.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the consumable is ink.
8. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an access unit that accesses the server of the desired seller in accordance with the first URL stored in the storage unit.
9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein new URL can be inputted on the screen, and
in a case where the new URL is input via the screen on the predetermined external device, the storage unit stores the input new URL.
10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second transmission unit transmits, to the another external device, the first URL and data of a second screen in which an instruction can be inputted, the instruction being for accessing the server of the desired seller for receiving the purchase service using the first URL, and
wherein the another external device accesses the server of the desired seller, in accordance with the instruction input via the second screen displayed based on the data of the second screen transmitted by the second transmission unit.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second screen includes display of remaining amounts of the consumables.
12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second transmission unit transmits the data of the second screen including a display item on which a link destination of the first URL has been set, and
wherein the another external device accesses the server of the desired seller, in accordance with the instruction to the display item.
13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the data of the first screen and the data of the second screen are HTML document.
14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the second transmission unit transmits the data of the second screen to the another external device, in response to the reception of the first URL from the predetermined external device.
15. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second transmission unit transmits the data of the second screen in which an instruction for accessing the server of the desired seller for receiving the purchase service using the first URL can be inputted, in a case where the contents are updated by the updating unit, and
16. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the another external device accesses the server of the desired seller using the first URL without displaying the screen.
17. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second transmission unit transmits, to the predetermined external device, the first URL which has been transmitted to the another external device, and the predetermined external device accesses the server of the desired seller using the first URL transmitted by the second transmission unit.
18. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the update by the updating unit is to clear the first URL stored in the storage unit.
19. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the another external device accesses the server of the default seller using the second URL which has been retained in the another external device, in a case where the second URL has not been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device.
20. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second transmission unit transmits the first URL of the desired seller to another server different from the server which provides the purchase service of consumables of the print apparatus.
21. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein an external device among the plurality of external devices accesses the server of the desired seller which provides the purchase service, using the first URL stored in the another server.
22. A method for setting information to a print apparatus connectable to a plurality of external devices, the method comprising:
a first transmission step of transmitting, to a predetermined external device transmitting a predetermined request among a plurality of external devices, data of a screen in which a first URL indicating a location of a server of a desired seller can be inputted,
wherein the server is different from the plurality of external devices and the print apparatus and provides a purchase service of consumables of the print apparatus, and the first URL is different from a second URL, indicating a location of a server of a default seller, which has been retained as a default in each of the plurality of external devices;
a receiving step of receiving, from the predetermined external device transmitting the predetermined request, the first URL which has been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device transmitting the predetermined request and which is transmitted from the predetermined external device, and receiving a request to use the second URL;
a storage step of storing in a storage unit the first URL, in a case where the first URL is received;
an updating step of updating contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the first URL in a case where the first URL is received, and updates the contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the second URL in a case where the request to use the second URL is received; and
a second transmission step,
wherein the second transmission step transmits to another external device among the plurality of external devices, the first URL which is received in the receiving and is stored in the storage unit, and
causes the another external device to access the server of the desired seller using the first URL which is transmitted from the print apparatus in the second transmission step, in a case where the contents stored in the storage unit indicate to use the first URL, and
wherein in a case where the second URL has not been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device, the second transmission unit causes the another external device to access the server of the default seller using the second URL which has been retained as the default in the another external device in a case where the contents stored in the storage unit indicate to use the second URL.
23. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as:
a first transmission unit that transmits, to a predetermined external device transmitting a predetermined request among the plurality of external devices, data of a screen in which a first URL indicating a location of a server of a desired seller can be inputted,
a reception unit that receives the first URL which has been inputted via the screen displayed on the predetermined external device, and receives a request to use the second UR;
a storage unit that stores the first URL in a case where the reception unit receives the first URL;
an updating unit that updates contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the first URL in a case where the reception unit receives the first URL, and updates the contents stored in the storage unit so that the contents indicate to use the second URL in a case where the reception unit receives the request to use the second URL; and
a second transmission unit,
wherein the second transmission unit transmits to another external device among the plurality of external devices, the first URL which is received by the reception unit and is stored in the storage unit, and
causes the another external device to access the server of the desired seller using the first URL which is transmitted from the print apparatus by the second transmission unit, in a case where the contents stored in the storage unit indicate to use the first URL, and
24. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:
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Filed: Jun 24, 2015
Date of Patent: Dec 1, 2020
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo)
Inventors: Kiyoshi Katano (Chiba), Takeshi Suzuki (Inagi)
Primary Examiner: Thuong Nguyen
Current U.S. Class: Control Of Another Apparatus (455/420)
International Classification: G06F 15/16 (20060101); H04L 29/08 (20060101); G06Q 50/10 (20120101);
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And at the Setting of the Sun
Tributes & Biographies by Vince R Ditrich January 20, 2017 January 20, 2017
A Tribute to John Mann
In the last century of Canadian literature I can think of few more expressive, more effective, or more beloved poets than John Mann. In fact, I believe this will be his ultimate legacy. He sings beautifully, recognizably, remarkably, poignantly, but nearly always he sings the songs and words he has penned, and which have always been his focus. He never claimed to be a great guitar player. He uses it instead as a tool upon which to write simple, beautiful folk songs (enriched into something more by us) and to wear as an effective stage prop as he whirls around the stage frenetically, sexually, athletically, spastically, dramatically and dynamically, second only in his sheer power and charisma, perhaps, to Freddy Mercury. Bismillah, NO! Johnny, we will not let you go!!!
Of the Spirits Johnny is by far the most recognized, but actually far less intense than his stage persona would have one believe. Certainly he could give and take with all the biggest big boys in his salad days, but truthfully he felt pain as deeply as he portrayed power, which has likely been the key to turning emotion into words and music.
Off-stage, John has carried with him a powerful suite of emotional skills. The fiery, electric eyed demon we all love to watch dance and sing could just as easily cocoon with you in a conversation so sensitive and delicate that someone as direct and precise as I am needs to change gears to fall into the right rhythm. But he has said things to me disarmingly apropos, on target, under the radar; no one else in my experience has ever similarly cut to the heart without drawing blood, has ever quelled my concerns in one gentle, elegant phrase. When you reveal your soul and your troubles to a truly great poet, you should not be surprised by an insightful response.
Johnny & Ollie Ditrich – Dec 2016
Like any important artist he has brilliance and he has perplexing quirks, some of them edging amusingly toward Sheldon Cooper territory. No bathroom door handle has ever felt the touch of his skin; but every toilet seat has been crashingly manipulated into proper position through use of his booted foot. Like a caffeine augur he can miraculously divine the location of any coffee shop (especially the ones where customers expound preciously on the temperature of their foam) through the exercise of a heretofore unknown super-power we dubbed ‘Joe-dar’. He has been known, especially on long trips, to drift off into creative, mumbling songwriting tangents to which no one else is privy, which hold his attention raptly in a separate world. While whispering rhyming words like a supplicating monk, he tastes their flavour, seeing how they feel on his tongue. He experimentally murmurs proto-melodies under his breath, just loud enough to annoy the whole damn van. He can immerse himself utterly in this pastime, and inadvertently zone-out like Fred MacMurray looking around absently for his missing Meerschaum. After a couple hours of this, it’s like having a singing fly buzzing around your head. He and I have gone around the bend over any number of things. Sometimes he was a shit, sometimes I was a shit. Often me. But we are the same age, we are both geared to excellence – although we don’t always agree upon what form it takes, and we both have been absolutely determined to leave a legacy that we can be proud of. I believe he has achieved his goal.
Spring 2012 – Arras, France – Photo: T. Frank
It is an especially cruel twist of fate that Johnny has been attacked by Early Onset Alzheimer’s disease. It hits at the heart of his very strength, that fine, emotional mind that gave us so many deeply arresting and worthy lyrics, so many generationally representative thoughts gathered and condensed into song. I can’t ring poetic or wax philosophical about this disease, nor its path. It is stealing my brother. It is robbing him of the capacity to apprehend and interpret his world. It is robbing us of the pleasure of listening to his take on life, of the rhythmic and lyrical music he could impose upon happiness, grief, mundanity, tradition, death, birth, boredom, drunkenness, wonder, spirituality, disgust, despair, the sacred, the profane, the reverent, the reckless — or even rueful, fraught wanking in the middle of a German concert tour.
He still gets up raring to take the stage, even though he can no longer faithfully remember the lyrics. That creative brain of his still gives us the melody, at least for a while longer, and his heart is still a loving and sweet vessel for his gentle soul. We adore the time we have with him, we adore him as a man, we treasure the memories we have made with him, and hold precious all that we still share together: friends & family, music & humour, small victories and quiet defeats, kids & dogs, food & drink ….Even $14 sandwiches at the airport. We know we must take care to enjoy every one.
It has been an honour to walk this path with Johnny. But it an honour I would gladly sacrifice if he could be well again.
(c) Text & Photographs copyright — Vince R Ditrich – 2017
Common Sense Renaissance
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David Cassidy Web Exclusive: “If I take another drink, I'm going to die"
Note: After this interview taped, Monday, David Cassidy was ordered to spend five years on probation after pleading no contest to a drunken driving charge in Los Angeles.
Singer and songwriter David Cassidy may be best known for his role in the famed 1970's sitcom "The Partridge Family", but during his most recent adult years, the former teen pop-star has become equally infamous for his struggles with alcohol.
Despite immense professional success, during a "Piers Morgan Live" web exclusive Cassidy revealed that drinking may have ultimately destroyed his personal life:
“The greatest regret I have is that my son does not trust me any longer and he's obviously - he's been living with his mother and being around her and is influenced to some degree, I'm sure”, the 63-year-old told Piers Morgan, speaking specifically about 23-year-old son Beau Devin Cassidy. “He'll come back and I will come back with him once he knows that this time it's life or death.”
Following a separation from Beau’s mother, ex-wife Sue Shifrin-Cassidy, the man famous for the 1970's hit "I think I Love You" found himself in rehab for substance abuse.
“If I take another drink, I'm going to die, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I'm dead. You know, they say it's a slippery slope,” said Cassidy. “It's not a slippery slope. It's from 12 to six on the clock and the whole face is ice.”
Arrested for driving under the influence on three separate occasions during a four year span, Cassidy is transparent and realistic regarding the magnitude of his situation:
“One sip, one drink, because there is no such a thing, not to an alcoholic,” he told Morgan. “You have one and you're - you're done. I'd be done.”
For more on Cassidy's interview with Morgan, visit cnn.com.
Post by: Renee Wunderlich
Filed under: In the Chair • Web Extra
David should stop blaming his wife for things. First of all, his son is old enough to make up his own mind. Secondly, David had a girlfriend long before Sue filed for divorce, and Third – A tiger doesn't change his strips and he probably had multiole women throughout his marriage. I became a fan at 10 years old – now 52 – no longer. I don't think he ever was really a nice person. If you read his book – in his hey day, he made women bark like dogs.
I'm with you Ann....I've been very devoted to David my entire life and in return he has disappointed us all and repaid us with horrible performances and disregard for human life.
I wish David the best always and I sincerely hope he means what he says.
I feel bad that he has a disease of alcohol, as I would for anyone, but he has the money to have hired a driver or pay to go to the best of rehabs. Was he speaking on behalf of Altzheimer's Disease as part of his community service from his first DUI? I was at his concert last year, which was a free concert (Was this also part of his community service for his DUI). I don't know if he was drinking or not but he definitely didn't want to be there and wasn't very nice to some of the people up front. I would have rather had him cancel if he was drinking or sick – but maybe he had to do it as part of his community service – and if that is the case then you should do the best you can – but maybe that was the best he could? If the stress was too much to deal with regarding the money from the Partridge Family days then is it really worth it? I don't know if he really knows how to deal with real life or how be kind to others and not narsisstic – maybe some of that is because he got too much fame and adoration at a young age but there comes a time that you have to get that the world does not revolve around you. I know that he feels bad and hurt that his father was never around and was jealous of him but we all have families issues that we have to deal with. And as much as you would like to not get old it happens to all of us. But he has been blessed with so much – he should be grateful for those blessings. It's hard as a fan to really look at who the person is but he is just a person with flaws like everyone else. But you have to base things on facts. And driving while drunk – it was a blessing that he didn't kill anyone else or himself.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. ( taken from the 12 steps)
His list must be endless, so much harm caused.
Loveen Beck
Not only bark like dogs but there was emotional abuse with these women, more than people realize.
I was left emotionally battered and wanted to die
Thank you for this post. I like your post, but have to disagree about his book. His book is a fantasy into what he believed, not what actually had happened-There were not 100's of girls at the studio-I know I lived, right around the corner from that place, saw him everyday for 3 and a half years and no, it wasn't a part of what was going on in the 70's. He smoked cigs and another thing (roach clip dangling from his ashtray) and drank back then but claimed he did not. His staff was also calling the cops at every chance when fans would find his home either up in the laurel canyon or in Encino so none of that other stuff was going on either. Sorry, but this David Cassidy is a 40 year, self throwing pity party in action, has been for a long time and now the hounds have come to his door in retaliation for all the non-truths spread over the years. Check out and find out how his father, who was so concerned about his welfare and his truancy from school that Jack made sure David was under contract at Universal Studios pre Partridge Family to give his son some stability and a reason to not drop out and be a druggie-(Do not call his dad an alcoholic either, he was a social drinker and the fire was caused by the fireplace and rug that caught fire). Goodness sake. Glad he has got into Rehab-A Little too late. Dude needs to come to terms with his stories and with his self-Not a Rock Star-More Like a plain, TV generated former teen idol.
You have some proof where the fire started? All of hollywood reported Jack as being a drunk. Check it out and those are what has been reported, no reports of Jack being a "social drinker". And you know different because? And what it have to do with David trying to overcome alcohol?
David signed with US in 1969 after they saw him in a play...4 performances but it was enough to sign him. There were newspaper reports/tv reports of the girls outside the studio, there is even some footage....all lies?
there were indeed hundreds of girls, a close friend of mine lived across from the ranch studio and she was one of them that used to go there every day to catch a glimpse of david. and the fire dept said the fire started from jack dropping a cigarette!
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jessiojai
As I read a great many of the comments pisted hère, and since DC passing, I have overindulged in his recordings, interviews, live concert performances posted to you tube, magnificently articulate as DC is about the various highlighted moments in his personal and professional life - assuredly, there is a profoundly crafted narrative where I truly believe that very early on, he blurred reality and fantasy, and that unique perspective guided his actions, beautifully in stage performances, albeit very poorly and harmfully, when his story was challenged by others very close in relationship, and under the influence of alcohol, with other drug taking at times. Sadly, his unerring narrative as victimized keep many fans and admirers devoted to DC, and his career, but seemed to destroy as many relationship with harmful anger, which destroyed his psyche, that is his psychological balance, contributing to a lot of negligant behavior against adoring fans, loved ones, and toward self destructive behaviors personaly, and related to his career. His vocal beauty is unmatched interpretatively and lyrically to which I will continue to appreciate and enjoy forever in my ears, heart and mind. Thanks DC for all the best you mustered in your life♡
I too have been a fan for many years, I will stick by David because he has brought so much joy to my life. Not just with his career but through all the fantastic friends I have made around the world through being a fan. Its sad to see my idol like this, but he will bounce back, I am sure of it
STAY TOUGH DAVID , THERE ARE LOTS OF US WHO WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER THROUGH THE GOOD AND BAD TIMES ,ALWAYS
David we love you and know you can get sober again i am 52 and have been a fan since i was 8 i had the pleasure of meeting you in aug 2012
It's apparent he is not sincere, an addict has to stop placing blame on others and accept personal responsibility. So very sad, was a lifetime fan. Just sad.
charlie potato head
Replacing Piers with Artie Lange would be an upgrade.
An irrelevant iconoclast replaced by an unrepentant degenerate addict would be a perfect programming choice.
Alcoholics like to blame others for their misery, so they don't have to face their truth. Fan for years but I experienced him being cynical, bullying and down right disrespectul to people at concerts. He looks very sad but at some point how we have behaved or treated people comes back to haunt us. Alcohol is only a symptom of the disease, the disease centers in our mind. David look at page 52 of the Big Book. It precisely describes the way we live in our disease!
s an mouthpiece who also likes to blame everything on some imagined illness or allergy. Man, if this guy is so allergic, what took him so darn long to figure it out-44 years amigo!
He is full of it! Where ARE all these girls/women he made to bark like a dog? The ones he said he took advantage of in back of the alleyways of Burbank during his heyday? He gives himself way too much credit. Most of his adoring fans were girls, not women-it was the 70's, girls did not know these things. I think he complains too much and all for attention. He screams and yells at a celebrity show, he continually has hurt his fans, he lies to them for profit on his book of fabrication, he yells profanities at his concerts and his go to person ready at the helm with every dumb excuse of ' he took meds and was allergic' ' he just came from rehab and backslid after a deposition'-Really? How long did he swig and at what bar? I agree, how many times ya gotta play that old scratchy record? Fans will always be fans, but this guy is a loser plain and simple. He took advantage of each and every young persons love and support and uses this drunk as a skunk excuse AGAIN. PFFFT.
ConcertGoer
In answer to a question: Yes David had to do a lot of public service when he was on 2 + year probation for the Florida dui that would explain the many little country or county fairs he gave a concert at, in addition to the teen idol tour where he presented it therefore he was paid a bit more of the profits not to mention he needed the bookings. His concert schedule is on shaky ground now-he is labeled in essence a huge liability and a has been. Pretty sad seems he has lost his beautiful voice, he has lost his looks. I was a huge fan back when but outgrew the peter pan complex in order to grow up. Sad to see this.
When on earth was this filmed? In between his so-called in house rehab and then outdoor rehab to fool the courts? I only ask as it sure does seem he is lit to the gills here, don't call it medication, he's addit/no ... he is allergic to that as well. Adios, Piers couldn't have done a swan song any better than booking this actor
David, I was a fan of THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY when I was a kid. Not really a huge fan of yours individually, that was my little sister. But you are a part of my childhood, someone I've always looked upon fondly. I'm now a middle-aged woman & just want you to know that, even tho it appears that some of your fans have given up on you, there are still a lot of folks like me who just wish you well & are pulling & praying for you. Danny turned his life around, so can you. Look at Robert Downey Jr. – he could have been dead many times over & he remade his entire life. You can do this as well, David. I truly believe that what happens to all of us is mostly of our own making. We attract the blessings or hardships we all go through. You need to focus with all your strength & love & power on getting well. NOTHING is more important. Then you can be the father your children need. And the partner any woman in your life deserves. And the brother & son to your loved ones. YOU are the answer. PEACE & LOVE to you, David. XO
Thanks Concertgoer for your reply regarding Concerts done as Community Service for Florida DUI. Was David's speaking engagement on Alzheimer's Disease also Community Service or did he do it on his own time for his Mom.
And I agree with Friend – It does seem like he is on something...
I would bet his son has not turned on him because of "his mother's influence". I would think it has more to do with the disrespect he demonstrated when he was parading his girlfriend around all summer. I attended a concert in Chicago and he had her perched up on the state like a little trophy. In fact when he was arrested in August, she was referred to as his fiancé. I think a lot of sons would turn on their dad's if they had a fiancé on the side. .
I think he used it, the ALZ/mother passing away excuse to garner more sympathy when he was on a toot except he was using the dying mom story in concert for years before she actually passed away and he was behaving badly back then. Then he behaved badly in Las Vegas and again another excuse and this celebrity show and he behaved badly then too and again yet another excuse. All one has to do is look back in time as to who and how this divorce came to pass. They were both emotionally and physically away from each other for years-He had his condo, she had hers and they rented out their former home. He lost his condo, she moved to CA. His new gal pal was already listed in the internet as far back as June 2013. She probably might have done the interior decorating for that condo he lost, would make sense, same area. So shocked to hear that whisky soaked voice. So beloved and so lost.
Sue was there to help him and get him out of one of his previous deep despairs and he also knew her way back when...what a great way to say thanks – bring on the other woman and women... He didn't like what his father did to his mother but he did the same thing to his son.
The history of Sue and David does go way back to around 1972 in UK and he then ensconced her when his 2nd wife had to come back for an emergency to the US in the 80's when she then found out about a bun in the oven that he denied until paternity suit. He had his man ways while in Vegas, that's not news. I am surprised his wife kept face for so long. He shouldn't involve them in his problem. They stuck it out. his son went off to college and decided to go home to mom. Mom is helping with her son's music, what is so wrong with this? I think it is good influence. fini
Loveen
I believe Sue loved him very much. I remember David saying, she was with him at his lowest point and that had a lot of weight. Now he says the same thing about this gal. Really? David is like the roaring tornado in everyone's life. He makes messes everywhere and expects everyone to clean it up for him. He abused fans and family for so long. It doesn't mean they don't love him but they are not going to love him to death. Shame on him placing Sue and Beau in a position to be the bad guys in the scenario. David is narcissistic. I was told by my sponsor, I didn't know the difference between a bottle of booze, relationship or money. David is in that same place.
David–You were once the most beautiful man on earth. I will always be a fan forever but please, please, please get the help you need and be strong!! Forget about the past and GO FORWARD!!! God has given you another chance at life–TAKE IT and accept it!! Your fans only wish the best for you but if you continue to spiral down we will all be sad once you pass. You will be dead forever and that's a very long time. LIVE LIFE NOW!!! GET HELP!!! Love you always! xo
Poor David Cassidy. So let me get this right, there he is, looking tipsy in studio with Piers Morgan on a Monday morning in New York when he probably should have been in Los Angeles fighting harder for his life in his DUI hearing. No wonder he got 5 years probation. So was this a public service announcement or what for his pending DWI in New York? Got to get real, David. Blamed booze for his 1st marriage break-up, blamed it for the 2nd break-up and now the 3rd? Tell us, David, when you are going to stop lying about everything? Tell us, did you do this to curry favor with the Judges? Your Get Out of Jail for free card? Stop blaming the world and everybody in it for your problems. You are the keeper of your life and you threw it away basically. You used and you abused and now you want sympathy? Forty years too late, David. This was a terrible acting job by the way.
Alcoholics can't tell the truth from their lies. They web so many lies at some point they can't distinguish what, where and whom they told the lies to! Note this, he should be in jail and it should be a felony. Also note this: he isn't lucky because he really didn't get a way with anything. there is such a thing as KARMA and his road is a disaster. He is the actor described in the big book. "he sets up the stage, he is the director", when people don't do as he says, he becomes the Jekyll and Hyde. He will retaliate or use charm to get his way. that is David. It all catches up at some point.
Chrissy Inconnecticut
I was at mohegan sun one night and I heard the music coming from the Wol's Den. It was David Cassidy. What a site to behold and it wasnt good. You looked like a lounge lizard literally and if that's entertainment then I guess my standards are just too high. I have no sympathy for you. I have seen the aftermath of a drunk driver in the ICU's where I've worked. You are a very lucky man that you did not hurt or kill someone. Scoop up some brains off a road sometime and then you will understand what its like. When you see a mother turn off life support on their child that was hit by you. Then tell me about you gonna die if you drink another drink. You should be worried who you might kill besides you. You are pathetic.
Thanks you Crissy for sharing Your experience in working with the affects of drunk driving. I said this once on his fan page and oh my did I get it from the faithful DC club. It is a serious disease. I have been sober for 29 years and I have seen the affects that drinking takes on the people. Sad states of affair. This disease affects everyone!
As a former fan I despair at this man's inability to accept responsibility for his own actions, to try to divert some blame onto his son is reprehensible. He should have made a go of it with his wife Sue, she had stuck by him for years but has obviously had enough of his self pitying nonsense.
As for David singing the praises of his latest girlfriend and how much she is supporting and helping him, well, as I recall on one of his earlier DUI's she was apparently in the car with him when he was arrested, cited as his 'fiance' although he is still actually married, what was she doing allowing him to drive under the influence, whilst sitting next to him, very supportive – not!! Shouldn't she have been driving and not drinking herself if David 'had to have a drink' for whatever reason.
The report was that he was going to take his fiancée to her family for dinner, but he was in town for a horse meet. Takes money to keep those ponies. Put 2 and 2 together. Fran is right he seems to use whatever is convenient as his excuse. His son probably stopped caring years ago. He went off to college. Cassidy has been doing this ever since he realized he could crap on people and lie to get his way, 1971. Stop drinking-ok, what about everything else? Reports in the past alluded he was doing prescriptions, hence the so called radiator arm burn. He cries for his son, what about his daughter? Forgot, he dismissed her AND the mother by his lies=Didn't happen, crazy fan, not my kid, lied to his wives-Did he ever really apologize to anyone for his behavior? Or just blaming the drink? Poor Excuse.
'...If I Take Another Drink, I Will Die...' . Anyone hear from him since this was aired? He is obviously so thick tongued and seems three sheets in the NY morning already in this sad interview spot. Blaming his wife in order to get sympathy from his fans and turn them against her like so many other times with so many other ex wives. This is a sad attempt for yet another what someone else said another self pity party. He got that sliding off the clock from the Mayo Clinic...I'm sorry I ever supported anything of his. Still into himself, no thought given to anyone else.
shakeandbake
WAIT JUST A MINUTE HERE. He says he has never had a drug problem. Anybody read his stupid book? So who is lying? I too am done with the idol worship of 1 David Bruce Cassidy. Yea he looks drunk in this show, slurring his speech schlippin on the schlopes. I'm glad his lady has now moved closer to Madhatten so she can care for him, will take a lot of money. Good luck.
LasVegasRoller
This guy is full of chit. He is once again using his slowly sinking lounge lizard status to use his wiles on his son through the media who he was NOT much of a hands on father. He did not parent his daughter and was not much of a parent to his son so he shouldn't use innocent people to garner the sympathy his so craves from his small fan base. What is it down to now? 125? He angered Nancy Sinatra, he has angered a lot of yous who paid great amounts of money to see him just to get the bums rush from him. Lot of dim bulbs out in Cassidyland-Enablers each one of yous
If the concerts were for Community Service from one of his DUI , he should of instead been giving a trash bag to collect trash from the park or cleaned up in a hospital on a ward with cancer patients or people that have been hit by a drunk driver-maybe this would have humbled him some. But to be given Community Service of doing what you love – that's not going to teach him anything.
It's the game some play, Ann. You know how they maneuvered his DUI and then the DWI is still being "worked out". Since he can book himself right into any small concert venue, this is how he got such a light community service gig, he got himself booked just by saying he had contract obligations, he used the Alzheimers approach because his mother passed from it, he even used the Davy Jones death and Dave Madden death. He didn't know any of them that well, Davy Jones only through the horse set and they filmed at the same studio but not at the same time ever, was not close to Dave Madden at all and I'm sure Dave is looking down not too pleased as he HATED to dress in that Tutu Fairy Godmother get up for PF, David site put that photo up like a slap. He isn't dumb, he also knew the best way to fight or at least show cause was to in fact get himself into Rehab before any court date to deflect any extreme penalties and jail time. Except it didn't work in Los Angeles. Ask yourself this. If he is in such a locked down Rehab, what was he doing out and filming Piers Morgan? There is no lockdown, he has been obviously outpatient all this time if at all, had concerts, had TV shows. I think he should have served his community time in the Morgue. Maybe Sue had it when he DUI'd in her free car. Look how long he has got the courts tied up, first DUI he claimed he was not drunk and strung it out, 2nd one he is still fighting and will not serve or pay fines because of the area he lives in NY and he has links in the community and so does his lady. One day I'd like to see the printed story of how he got fired from Little Johnny Jones-The REAL Story and how he had a knock down drag out with one of his Ex's at The Firestone Mansion one Christmas season.
So when he says he has only been drinking it since 2002 that isn't truth. What is truth is he has been doing this since being declared a teen idol, way before that according to others bio books and the people who had known him in teenhood. Thanks Loveen for supporting the true
Firestone story, I know of what I speak relating to him. Maybe one day all concerned will start clamoring for a spot at an interview and clear up some of his loose ends. Ever notice how he picks women who can get him to where he wants to go? He ditches them when he has lost the use of them.
he is always abusing everyone around him. He doesn't value anyone. I heard first hand from the ex wife he cause harm to and not only once!
His ex is not the mean crazed woman he made her out to be in his book. she is actually a very dignified lady who works very hard. This is how he uses people. He gets his fans against his ex's, he tells wild stories and these fans just eat all this stuff up. He is a fabrication onto himself. He knows his fans will believe whatever he tells them, keep that old dog and pony show going. This is the saddest part of all because when he was younger, he was a good and decent young man, but fame took over and he made himself out to be something he never was. For years he hated the stigma of his TV show, the same show that kicked him into the universe of idol worship. Now the same hands that fed him, he wants to sue now for more money. That ship sailed years ago. I think this is why he drinks now. He knows he has made his bed and maybe that past is coming back to haunt him.
Bethanny
I read on Davids' page from time to time. I remember back in February 'he' stated 'he' was happy in his 'sober life', come March he looked wasted at The Mohegan Sun Casino-I had to leave, it was a shame, he could no longer sing. This interview, he looks disheveled and drunk. There are too many reports of this that and everything in between. I just don't believe him or in him anymore. He is worried for him, what about that person he could have killed or maimed for life? I don't think he stopped drinking, just another excuse to get off easy on dui court hearings.
What happened with the ex-wife – Was that wife number two – and is that why is doesn't talk about her – I have only seen a comment once from him about her saying she was crazy. Wow – I didn't know about the physical abuse. They really kept that hush hush – Had I know that I would have not been a fan way earlier. I bet if there was social media back in the day he would never have any fans left long ago.
I'm so surprised someone is speaking of the ex wives! I think I can answer that. She dumped him for lying and being very abusive. He laid up with one of his brothers when she booted him out. There was baby 1 during their tenure and then baby girl 2 in Italy, now a supposed third down in san diego. She bankrolled a lot of things for him including that romance album and a few of the horses. He in turn buddied up to her ex husband. Also paid so the first ex would not lose her home. This #2 is the 'crazy one' he spoke about in print and in a few interviews. I have met her, she is so nice and so regal. Nothing crazy about her at all. I guess all are crazy when you do not support/defend/cover/beard for him.
that is David...make all look bad, I am the saint. don't buy his crap at all!
I have never really heard any of his wife say anything really bad about him? Did he pay them all off or did they take the high road.
took the high road for a very long time....
After hearing about the abuse I really have no respect for him. I feel bad for his wives and his son and daughter and whatever other children he may have. What ever happened to his relatonship with the daughter of Wife #2?
He pay a woman? Surely, you jest! They ALWAYS paid for him-their homes, their cars, their money for children support, their property for his playtoys. He'll probably go for his soon to be exes money. She has it, he does not. He buried assets on his albums the wives paid to produce. He re-released them and kept the monies They had to put up front money in past to secure his work performances in the theaters he was and is such a liability. So his turntable keeps going with another bank account to front money for his concerts. He is nothing more than washed up.
I wanted to see if there were any updates as to when the interview in its entirety would be shown. I wanted to see if Mr. Morgan got irate and called David on the carpet or if David walked off? I think it is noble he wants to get straight, but do not know how he plans on doing this if he is under some influence right on camera? Is it just the drink or is he using up on something too? He was so cute back in his day but looks sadly like an overworked and overstressed old man, He could have just gone off to rehab no announcement needed on national television and look so badly. Now we have commentaries that are just as entertaining, Well his actions caused all these reactions so good for him to invite everyone and get happy.
I don't think any of his ex's ever have spoken out in an interview against him, they moved on and rose above it, lesson learned but certainly enough eyewitnesses to bear fact of his hostility and ire against the very women AND the fans he said he loved. Some of us know as we have either witnessed this or spoken to the ex's and they confided. He burned his bridges. He used people, he used women, my god he could get into financial ruin and drag his wife along with him, this is not right, then he adds insult and brings in yet another woman, no wonder she bailed and no wonder his son lost respect for him. His son is finding his own way. e should bolster him, nurture him and not be so darn bitter.
chump
Here is a quote made from his current girlfriend made back in February in response to a woman that posted on his facebook that he had taken her virginity at 15 years of age and then threw her out of the room. Maura made this comment and then quickly deleted it. There you have a look into this woman's mind about what she thinks of young girls that get taken advantage of in their attempts to meet their idol
Maura Rossi: Sandy why would you blame any man for taking what you didn't want to keep for yourself. You said he didn't know you were fifteen. Shame on you..you went to his room thinking whatever..it didn't end the way you wanted to. And now you blame him because you grew up. You new what you were doing take responsiblilty...then you will find peace for what you created.
It is possible to be naïve, innocent and abused at any age when in awe of an idol.
First of all – a 15 year old's brain has not even fully developed especially the ability to make wise choices. I am sure there were alot of young girls he slept with back in the day...and women he slept with during his marriages. Again...it's never David's fault – sad!
No excuse for the lack of responsibility on Maura's part.
Since this revelation has now come full tilt, don't you think he'd be just a little afraid? No time limit on stuff like that, ask a priest
Not much can be done now but certainly exposes some truths.
The accusation from the woman and her experience when she was fifteen is just that ,an accusation. I found of interest his girlfriends totally sick comment that somehow it was the girls fault.
Red Flag...Go to his publicists photos on facebook and pull up her kitchen pic then go over to the Facebook page and find this raiders page thing on his auction. His house is his publicists house? Same kitchen. She lives in the valley and he is supposed in new York. Crock of week old beans.
Why is it so hard for CNN to post the whole interview online?
Amazing how many bitter experts are on this page. Too many comments to read. But if you don't like David anymore why are you all investing so much time bashing him? Pretending to know his financial records..pretending to know all about his marriages. None of you were in the same rooms with David or his wives to know what went down in their marriages. David was open about his alcohol intake yrs ago, especially while making the album-home is where the heart is back in 1975. I don't see him asking for a pitty party in a 50 sec clip. Alcoholics often lead destructive lives...so don't support him, don't support any of them, it won't mean they are not alcoholics because you say so. Hopefully David will stop using alcohol before it destroys his body, if it's not already to late.
Bitter? Relieved the truth is coming out? Yes. Sure there are discrepancies but in truth David has much of the info out there. My gosh he had some article and interview about his money problems. People finally have a voice for what he did to them.
SueB
Truths based on what? People went to concerts and did not get to meet him and become angry about it, now get to post anything about him if it's true or false. I've been to a few of his concerts in the past yrs, East Coast mainly. I have seen David act very nicely to people who act nice towards him. I have seen him yell at people who grab him, pull him, interrupt him while he's singing and talking, most by the way cannot hold their liquor at all and behave extremely horrible. i wonder if these are most of the impolite people here. I don't wear the rose colored glasses. He yelled at some to not take pics one time and I felt it was not right, but once asked not to do it you should respect the theater's rules and enjoy the concert. But some kept doing it until he yelled at everyone instead of the actual guilty party. For all of those who've experienced bad times, do try and understand some of us have met him and had good times at his concerts. It helps when the patrons drink Coke instead of Vodka...and most of his concerts have drunks in the crowd, they ruin it plenty. David has not been drunk when I've seen him so hopefully he can stay that way for himself and for his fans.
No interview. He crashed and burned on set, left to go home with his friend, J. Beam
Joe... He walked off or did they interrupt it because of the ghost plain story
Joe... He walked off or did they interrupt it because of the ghost plane story
Is this for real? 50 seconds of a public service announcement, happy fans that got to see their fave guy and all of this diatribe for his problem? I admit the point taken about his recent fiancee is choice. I would never speak for anything relating to such a thing, would be best left ignored, if the young lady thought it was good enough to put into print she should then back it up if she is disgruntled about what happened years ago. I could also admit he hasn't been much of the greatest or kindest person on the face of the earth but cut him a break. He is trying to help himself so the court system will go easy on him. I do not understand it though. Too many different excuses abound where it relates to his in house rehab vs. transitional rehab and back once again to lockdown rehab. Hope he gets well and stays on the straight and narrow. He's not a young buck any longer-Relax, retire for a little while, take time to reflect on things that bother you and shove them out the window. Thousand mile journey begins with one step, David. Step out into the sunshine and smile. Life is life and it begins with you and what you want and need, not what is required.
One would wish he was sincere but .... He has set this up. Maybe in treatment he will find the truth, time will tell. He has abused people and they finally have a voice and we should let them have it.
Oh yea his site does appreciate nor do they like controversial items placed on their page. They are still in 1970 with rose colored glasses. Fact is, he is just what his soon to be ex says he is and he has been one for over 40 years. to the women he has used, I am sorry but like poster above said one is blind, naïve and innocent when one is young encouraged and sees someone like him in their young life. They think they are the only ones. This is why there is a group for women like this, sort of like a 1st wives club but it is for groupies and for the innocents that got taken advantage of. Of course he set this this up. This was not for his fans, this was for him to show the courts since he cant be in 3 places at once or refuses to jet around to all the courthouses and I just bet he got paid for it too, maybe he paid, cheaper than going to jail, doesn't matter. This gig was only for him and his ego and he couldn't even finish it. I checked those sites about his auction for alzhiemers too. What a joke! That was all staged for profit! Going around saying how Shaun was his baby brother but he will sell that picture for at least $1,500. Why is it on his publicists wall? Why did he say that house was his? People are fed up with him. and since there isn't a place to voice it, we can voice it here since he gave us the open door.
PTBarnum
Step right up folks and watch former bubble gum star who's light fizzled out 40 years ago. I want to see a snap of him with John Lennon, such a bs artist. I agree ladies, he gave a lot of people nothing but heartache for over 40 years. He 'writes' a book, he sold it and the story is fabrication. He reinvented the same book and fabricated some more. He bullies and taunts. He could take a good lesson from Peter Noone, but he burned that bridge as well. Ticked them all off now nobody wants to work with him again. He has nothing to be drinking about except he never became a wealthy horse owner, and there are bad stories about what he does with that too. He never became much more than an aging bubblegum singer that turned ugly a long time ago. He lied about his father, the very man who tried to rescue him by getting him signed into Universal studios back in 1969. Ironside was filmed there, Medical Center was filmed there, Adam 12 was filmed there and then Columbo which Jack was very much a part of and had money in the production, was filmed there. Don't nobody need to be here, telling any of us who know exactly what is going on with what ex and in what bedroom, with who's money he has used. Pretty pathetic when one ex wife pays off the other ex wife so she doesn't lose her home. Bet he had a fake meltdown on Piers. Be just like him.
Just Wondering Sue
Why is his personal problem anyone's business? Why was it so important for him to go on national television and speak of his problem? Joe Blow doesn't get that chance! If I remember he swore up and down he was not drunk and blamed his weird driving habits on his wandering eyeball as he tried to pitch his empty bottle into the drink off the highway. He stalled the court process for a year and at the last minute threw up his hands and confessed. He was on a highway, he could have caused a major pile up. All he cares about is blaming his wandering eye. I wonder if he blamed the same eye when he knocked up all those other girls.
It's true and it is sad. You know he is God's kid and I need to clear that up. I am not saying anything to be mean but what I am saying, is the potential for him to get better but he has to face the demons in his soul and clean up the house. Other wise he will never get sober. He has placed himself in these positions and some of fans have never been able to voice what terrible experiences they encountered with him. I am sure it is freeing for some to let go of the pain.
Pam Smith
A 50 second meme interview and at least 7 days worth of counter talk. Estimation is on both parts a huge waste of resources and time. David will not change, he just wants pity, he wants to make sure the women still love him and will support his ego. The one he hurt learned a good lesson-never love something more than you love yourself. I remember a gal who saved up to go over to UK to see him back in 2009. She needed a better car but she spent that hard earned money and went to find him, went to his secret birthday celebration and he snubbed her royally. She came back very hurt and nobody heard from her ever again. this is his fans. This is what he does to them. I used to support him. I support Arboonne now.
Well that sounds familiar. I didn't go to UK but saved for a year. At the concert, I gave him a gift and proceeded to make fun of the gift and my state. He could of just said thank you and thrown the gift away. He somehow believes belittling people gives him power. That was the last time I ever went to a concert.
to put you out of your misery
His comments and jokes had nothing to do with you, your state, or your t-shirt that evening. It was an inside joke meant for someone else.. It is his sense of humor. BTW I have your t-shirt and have put it to good use
really? I was there and he mentioned my state and a city for that fact and stated, who would want to live there? don't excuse his behavior. No misery-baffled with the behavior of a person who has no boundaries.
Yes he did say those things. This is not an excuse for his behavior. I said it was an inside joke not directed to you.
okay-fair enough
Pam he wasn't in the UK in 2009 do you mean the M&G day in the Isle of White in Nov 2008 or London April 2011.x
I wish I had all the money back I spent on his concerts, etc, too. I guess you are never too old to learn another lesson of life. But like I said before, if there was social media back in the day alot of the bad would have come out sooner.
Oh wow! I think I went to 1 of his concerts when he was hot stuff. In answer to somebodys dumb questions, how did he become so hot when nobody even knew him in 1969 in California at the studios? common sense, his agent placed the girls – it is called pr. He was only barely 18 years old – do you think he could find his own manager then? I spend my money on good things great dinners fine clothing. Too bad for this man – he looks very sick.
Some very enlightening comments. Glad that so many have taken the time to contradict David's version of history, especially relating to his father. It sounds very plausible that Jack Cassidy tried to help David at the beginning of his career, I expect, like most actors, he would have been worried about David wanting to enter such a precarious profession with all the pitfalls and rejections and well as dealing with fame and press intrusion.
David should have counted his blessings, stuck by and honoured his third wife and grown old together, and be proud and supportive to his children in their careers. As we get older we find joy in our kids and grandkids. As it is, I think he will ultimately be alone and lonely because he focusses inward on himself too much, no room for anyone else.
I think his father was the only one who would be instrumental in the Los Angeles studios and with agents as he was pretty busy during the 60's and the 70's and given his background in theater more so than his mother is how he got his foot in the doors. His mother as well as his father was out here in the early 60's for their parts, hers in Perry Mason were filmed in the Los Angeles area the same for He and She. Words fail me to know he; David, was all over the country; San Francisco, New York, when he admits and his friends who have written their own books admits he was here in Los Angeles hanging out drugging and being truant from school. I must say someone should go check out Nanette Fabray's interview on his father. She was with him the night he died, she explains a lot of things about that night and bottom line he was not drunk, he had a nice Italian dinner at Villa Nova. He tried to get out of the apartment, what was left of him was found by his front door so he was trying to escape and smoke inhalation got to him. Sue is a saint for staying with him. He had so many indescretions but that is a part of idolhood, being a star means never having to sleep alone. He best be thankful the only thing he has is an allergy to alcohol and medications according to his publicist and he didn't catch something he could not get rid of.
You are right, Fran. He is the Cassidy by birth, but just the other day his soon to be ex was with his step mother and the Cassidy family for Shirleys birthday. She also was with the family for the holiday season, but where is the Cassidy by birth? Sure seems like she is more on friendly terms with the family than the real family member is. How strange is this. Lots of great reads here and a lot of true stories. Keep up the good work fans friends or whatever you are
BigHonk
Guess his little stunt worked he is off the hook in new York. They adjourned his case. Only in America. So he boffed it, being in this lockdown and now announcement of a new concert with Peter Noone. Bet he's his life coach.
New Concert !! don't think so that has been on his website for months.x
It was a first time offense in new york. He was treated how anyone else would be treated that hired a lawyer
Cassidy has not gotten off the hook in NYC. His case was not dismissed, it was adjourned. If your case has been adjourned, it means that it has been put on hold, he case has been "paused" for some reason. In this case because Cassidy is serving his L.A. sentencing of 90 day re-hab and 9 month program. Once he is out of re-hab the NY case should resume, as the misdemeanor plea his lawyers got it down to.
May Dixon
As a long time fan of Davids I would like to say that all these comments on past events are not helpful. I am a firm believer in the maxim, if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all. The man has had problems, ok, we get that, haven't we all, the difference is our 'dirty linen' is not paraded in the media for anyone and everyone to make comments over. He is a typical man with a huge ego, he is a product of his fame. I guess I compare it to Elvis Presley, no one would ever disagree with him, and we all know how that ended! David hopefully is sincere and I think should be given the benefit of the doubt. Any talk of abuse of wives or anyone else is speculation, as no one who actually knows is talking. He is a talented human being who despite his faults has made hundreds of thousands of girls and for that matter 'women' too extremely happy. He need support for a long hard road ahead...and he certainly has my unreserved support as would anyone who is sick (Alchoholism is an illness) and facing the uphill battle that he has in front of him. I love you David...
I was subjected to disrespectful and inappropriate behaviour May, be grateful you were not.
SPECULATION!!!! Max, speculation abounds by all you fans that SPECULATE AND TWIST AND TURN ALL INTO POSITIVE TO MEET YOUR DESIRES OF WHAT YOU WANT THIS PERSON TO BE!
Tainted. Have you read his books? Nothing is sacred. His alcoholism is serious and he is right, it is deadly. There are facts in the blogg and some comments are not true. It is sad
If anyone read these comments correctly it could be noted that DC's 2nd wife is on Facebook and she does talk about David and such subject are not speculative. David has lied and unsavory aspects of his life has coverups. The fans don't help. He is a very sick man.
Some needs to STOP being the saint in trying to save the former teen idol. This is a scene for his boozing. He started it. I believe he always starts his mess. There are plenty of pro sites out there for you to enjoy and to read with your rose colored glasses. He is no saint, he not a nice person, he has always had a chip on his shoulder In my opinion he used Piers Morgan as a stepping stone for pity and got pulled off. Hell, how can he stay in rehab when he is all over the place rehab in Florida, rehab in New York and now rehab in California and no, it aint no Betty Ford. FYI he has in fact been in rehab in southern California, it was started way back in 2013 as a way to deflect a harsher sentence. All the stars do it. Maybe he will come to the tip of his truths and face his demons head on and start to apologize; to his fans, to his ex's, to himself and to his contemporaries. He has turned off a lot of influential people in the industry, a lot of fans have turned their backs and his very being, his son has lost his trust......and for what? a drink? For a guy who had a not too bad life, he sure has messed it up big time. you know there are long time friends of his that he will not call back-these are concerned true friends who he rejected years ago, they came to try and help him but he rejected them. So he does not want help, he is just acting the part to once again get his way and not have to pay any consequence.
How can a person be a fan and support somebody who has done the very same thing that their fan is accusing others of doing? David Cassidy is a long time alcoholic. I'm glad he still has a handful of fans but it isn't ever going to be what it once was because he burned his bridge. This man has an obvious problem. He will die if he doesn't stop, but did he really have to raise the flag on this? People already know. 1 DUI 2 DUI and then 3 DUI all with a lame excuse attached. The 1st one took almost a year to go through the courts, the 2nd one probably the same as it is still in a holding pattern, the 3rd he got a slap but a stiff probation that will go away once his stint in rehab is complete-or whoever signs the papers. I am not buying his sincerity. It is put on like so many other things he has done in the past. He loves to start things and claim pity me. He had to rag on his son because it is his soon to be ex who helped that son in music-he has a band, leave him alone, do not jump on his coat tails like you did your daughter that you denied to the 2nd ex, which caused her to be crazy and kick your butt out into the street. I cannot wait,,,,,,,,,Who will be the one to spill the beans on his dirty horse trade? He knew zip about them until wifey 2 came on the scene and he seduced her
ASK DAVID ABOUT HIS POPULAR OAK STREET ALLEY. NOT EVEN MAN ENOUGH TO GO TO A MOTEL
lovepeace
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ALLEY?
I know Wife #2 had a daughter Caroline before she married David. Did Wife #2 have any more children?
She was trying to go through expensive fertility treatment with David only to have someone else having the baby. When papers arrived to the farm David said it was a groupie. Sherry says that David claimed to be separated at the time. Sue is no saint either. Sue was in the relationship along with Sherry and Meryl. Sue and David's marriage has been a business relationship from the start. Sue started a charity that took a large amount of overhead and no one would work with her. This later got switched to Arbonne. I have a feeling Sue burned bridges in the songwriting business. Sue used the Cassidy name to get ahead. Some even speculate if Beau is really David's. He only married Sue a month before Beau was born. There was later a public ceremony with Beau as best man.
Pitys' sake. Cant you behave yourselves? How come you are involving innocent people in his problem? The topic of convo is his alcoholism. How he got that way is unimportant A L T H O U G H I would speculate fans would be the #1 problem. He is not the new poster boy for this, he is not the latest DUI spokes person although he should do a few of those as a good community service. Put his ass up on TV and say Look At Me and then show what he once was. Reality is not kind, but neither is killing someone. Do him a favor, grow yourselves up, do yourselves a favor and look to your own selves for what he has become. I've seen you in concerts, big 50 + year old women acting the fool over a drunk with no talent. Ive seen you jumping over and breaking theater seats, chairs, paying off a security guard to get close to David. He has no respect for you because in truth you have never had any respect for him. No wonder his life is screwed up now! (Rolling my eyes!)
You say behave and yet your own post is good behavior? Not! You've seen 50+ women jumping over theater seats, breaking them, going nuts over a no talent drunk...so how many concerts did you attend to see such things? Why were you at those concerts if you did not like him? Very odd.
She has a son
Holy Cow! I think I will grab 2 fresh Chocolate Eclairs, sit myself back down while the kettle is getting hotter for some nice Oolong tea and re read some of this dishy stuff! WOW! Beau might not be his? Sue was in the sidelines causing trouble while a wife is clueless and a girlfriend is pregnant? Fans hopping over chairs and paying off security guards to get close to David Cassidy in his old age? Holy Cow! The Inquirer has come right to life-WOW! No wonder the poor sot drinks!
Lonesome Dove
I'm going to take a drive down to the Santa Barbara area and I am going to go and speak with his ex wife. She has some beautiful, just beautiful items made with her own hands from her own Lavender farm, the farm I might add David tried like crazy and continues to try to get his mitts on. Not ever in this lifetime. That farm was NEVER his, belongs to his ex, if he had it, he would have lost it. He used #1 and he used #2 then somewhere along the line #3 used him and the persective #4 is fulfilling her dream of being a Mrs Cassidy too via her fat wallet
How do you know #4 has a fat wallet?
Someone knows already where the riche Ft. Laudie interior decorator lady comes from? Guess they know all about her parents who own horses as well, the ones who live close to Shodack
Thought her parents lived in miami?
And her father was deceased?
Schodack not Shodack. Are we speaking about David or everybody else, but him? Chirstsake! I can see why he does drink. I too believe it is his fans who did this to him. Poor Baby
Poor Baby my ass! Are you kidding me! I too believe he has huge issues with his fans but believe me he created this mess.
He's a poor baby. I'd like to nurse him back to health but I just don't have the money he requires a woman to have. He got used by all the women, he is a victim.
Jazz girl
I feel sad for him. He truly is a sad soul
You mean to tell me somebody here absolutely said they were molested by David when they were 15? David has better standards than that! He never hit upon a girl, they hit upon him. He was always the one they poked on so he took it-why not? He was into older women. That's why ALL his wives were older than him. They supported him, they loved it and why not? Cougars Rule!
Kay Lenz was a few years younger. Sue was only a year older, and the second wife was maybe 3 or 4 years older. Hardly "cougars". *eyeroll*
I wouldn't go bragging until you checked out his scorecard. He isn't a sainted former idol. A little man with little man syndrome, any lady worth her salt in thin mints will tell ya he is also lying about that. Have you ever listened to him brag away his HUGE manhood? There is nothing really there, he brags but he needs glasses. Things must be terrible when he brags he needs to take Cialis AND Viagra and then he boozes it up. That's messed. If someone got messed with, the legal law will take care of it. Can't just blame him for being who he is, right from wrong is not very difficult to distinguish from and he was older like mentioned many times before. His Big B Day is coming up, I'll send him his favorite coupon for Tommy Burgers and he can go at his leisure
Shakeandbake: You must need glasses REALLY REALLY BAD!!!!
BusyBee
He sold his florida house took a hit. Happy birthday, you are no Davy Jones
David and his wife purchased the Florida home for 1.1 million. Sold for 3.9 million...not sure how much they spend rebuilding it...so how did they take a loss?
GOODNIGHT, MRS CALASBASH, WHEREVER YOU ARE!
Shakeandbake: You must need glasses really REALLY bad!!!
Oh My...I don't know what goes here, but according to an ex, he does not have anything special in his junk trunk, size is based on his small stature so if he weighed 25 pounds more it really wouldn't be so big. Besides ever hear of those extra parts one can pick up in a specialty store? That's all he is showing. Probably in the "What Cannot Get Up Cannot Get Out" Club now.
You are misinformed
cougar II
very very very misinformed! That lolly is quite jolly!
sassygirl
That's not what I heard from the horses mouth
Momma Doo
Hot Daum Now I know why they are advertising Testosterone products next to his picture here and showing an under developed sweet potato compared to a jacked up sweet potato. Theres the answer. Son of a gun 🙂
Lot of fans from his UK site I see. What does his thingamabob have to do with his serious problem of drinking? You do now realize that he lost his gallbladder back in 1971 and that acts as a filter of sorts so since he has not had that in his body for 42 some odd years, his liver is quite open to infections, more over than a person with their gallbladder intact. I can see his liver being compromised and then good god what would happen if he needed an operation and his body is reeking of alcohol? They wouldn't be able to operate very well. He is wide open for anything if he needs any kind of an operation. Don't be so funny and say the alcohol will numb the pain and cleanse his body. Quite the opposite. He has depleted his oxygen blood levels. I hope he is being honest with himself and with you, his fans. As crazy as you guys are, he needs true pure prayers and a spiritual hand up. You blame him for things, but you put your own self into his situation. Look how disrespectful you are talking about him and his weenie. You do not know anything. You disrespect his ex wives. What have they done to you fans except go where you cannot. Would you want to go there? They have had such heart break. He is an entertainer, show him respect, pray for him or leave him alone.
I wonder if sometimes his drinking is associated with a medical condition he his having, and if people sometime mistake his medicine intake with being drunk all the time. And I'm not referring to the wandering eye claim. These posts are mainly hideous attacks and you have to wonder why so many would want to spend time bashing him. Go on with your lives. David's real fans wish him luck with his future.
He probably has a seasonal condition. Noticed most of his bad outbursts on stage happen in October and happen in the . Maybe he is allergic to something ie stage dust, equipment dust and that in turn causes a change in his veins, dilation in the sinus area and in the carotid artery area. Perfume and anything else in the ozone layer could trigger this symptom of complete dilation. Some people think they are having strokes when this condition happens.
IDK, but willing to guess a man of his age probably is starting to have issues with prostrate, his pancreas could be very well jeopardized since he has no gall bladder so that exposes his liver as much as other internal organs. DVM
The Concert I saw him at where he was rude and not wanting to be there was in July... and I think that was probably one he had to do for Community Service for his first DUI...
CuriousYellow
Is it true he stayed in to make whoopie and refused a lunch call from Queen Elizabeth? Is it true he got a personal invite from her to tour her horse stables? Is it true he thought he was big stuff Gina Lollabrigida took him into the bed with a bunch of fruit? Is it true he did all this to a bunch of young girls(and why wasn't I called>?) Is it true he is not really a vegetarian? Is it true he also had a thing with Sally? Is it true he passed out when this interview got started? Is it true Peter no one is his sponsor? Is it true he is taking donatins for his rehabilitation? Is it true he is living in L.A. and not in rehab?
There is no excuse for him. He has been rude and obnoxious for a very long time. One doesn't have to go in order to hear the reports of his animosity and rudeness. I think he did have a great number of community service concerts after his 1st DUI, he got them out together and hated each one-again, hearing about the deplorable rudeness. One of the last community service concerts was up by one of his ex wife as matter of fact. He hates the county fair concerts, but who else is going to hire him? He will try anything to stay out of jail. He will try anything after being a bad ego boy. Bad ego boys never have to pay. He boohooed on his mom's sickness. Did any of you know his mother was in a facility in the Los Angeles area while he lived in Florida? Does that sound like closeness to you? He got her dressed for one of her last photo shoots, but prior and the photo is gone from his site, but prior, there was a photo of where she looked pretty bad off, hygiene-wise. hair wasn't fixed and the clothes looked picked from a garbage bin. He is burned out in Vegas, he burned out his bulbs on stage in NY, pretty sad when the wife has to sign to promise he isn't taking any substance.
I think it would be appropriate to say he got to a point in his life he just doesn't care anymore. Got to ask yourself, all the money he has made post Partridge. Where is it? Where'd it go? He spends so much in attorneys alone, he glided on that first DUI and lied until he could no longer lie, then the second one, he held out on a lie regarding his condo in Florida, he is being a big baby about this Partridge royalty stuff, he won't get anything and just ruined his career more by going up against the big shots. then the third DUI, point is he is paying out money he really does not have. What a pity to be in old age and nothing to show for it except a couple of booking photos.
Rehab my ass!
His girlfriends facebook post...her own words he is in New York City... what happened to 90 days rehab out west according to his attorneys... So did his attorneys lie to the judge for him?
Maura Rossi We flew in town to see friends at the aqueduct yesterday. Heading home in a couple of hours. It was just a 24 hour in and out. I love my life.....always exciting . Happy Sunday peeps! Ha!
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Maura Rossi And Craig DO NOT ask we're DC found his phone this time!!! Ha!
Maura Rossi Brian yes if your flying Delta in the next couple of hours see you there. LOL
Maura Rossi Kirsten I didn't know u lived in Manhattan...
Kirsten Franklin Yes but I will be in miami from april 11 to 22 so I am sure I will see u at some point o. Teds boat hahaha. Have a safe flight home
Maura Rossi DC's Bday is the 12th and mine on the 22nd..May go Miami bound.
Oh wow – this girlfriend really does not know how to be discreet, does she? Has she ever been with a celeb before? It appears not. She keeps hanging herself with her own rope with all the bragging -acting like a starstruck fan instead of decent, mature partner. She does her "love" no favors by outing him as not being where he's supposed to be. To the ones claiming the people here are jealous? There's nothing to be jealous about..My God...who would want a man that is as sick as this? I wish him health and hope he conquers his demons. I'm a long time fan, but this woman is trouble for him and she won't last, especially if her money runs out. I feel a bit of pity for her but yeah -she needs to STFU.
Yup....I think somebody else pointed out that lie before the truth once again reared its ugly flugy head! He used it to garner sympathy and to get his head out of a noose. He used the oh my wife is divorcing my sorry ass after 20 years of cheats. Oh I think perhaps that information would be best placed into the lap of each Judge. Now they will say "we said he was in transisitonal therapy" – It is ALL hogwash! This time he has his baby to thank for this one – What a smart woman-LOL
PantsOnFire
He was never in any locked down Rehab! $,5000 in the right direction and he gets a letterhead. Ever see those beach photos of him with his new fiancée? Didn't look like any rehab to me! He pays for others to lie for him and then claims he don't know. nobody in his circle knows a dam thing. He is a loser, he is a liar, he is not worth anyone's time. I wouldn't be too surprised if he did pay to go on Piers and look like a pitiful mess. Only for the courts to get out of his drunken stupor. He was drunk on the darn show for gods sake! Give him the Sarah Bernhardt award for lousy acting. Couldn't even get past the bar without having a bloody maria
See my comments earlier of what his fiancé thinks about young girls meeting their idol in his hotel room. What gutter did he find her in? What a liability! She brags all over the internet about her relationship with him. Put something else in that pie hole instead of your foot!
doo dah
aqueduct thing was for the wood memorial. that's a pre cursor to the kentucky derby. still thinkin he is big hoo ha. riding the womans bank account loser loser loser
Do you know where her money comes from? You indicate she is the one funding the fun these days. Does she really have a fat wallet?
It is called being an enabler. She has been a long time fan and now got her hoof and mouth in the door to his realm. Shell be singing a different tune when he dumps her. she has been all over the websites lauding it over on everyone who will listen about her relationship. She knew he was married way back when, she did work for them. She wants to be his savior. HA! What does he have to offer her now? nothing! All the monies from songs goes to the son and the EX wives and there are enough of them for a battle if he ever dies. None of them ever remarried. No surprise about her response to a young girl in his hotel room. he STILL was the older one in the group. He knew better, he always knows better but he too waves it like a red badge of honor; having his apple polished through the slats of a gate – he is not well in the head
A HA! some BODY committed PERJURY! Watch them all scramble and say nobody knew what the others were doing. HA! What a flippin Farce! I somehow knew this was a farce when reports start coming in from him and then his publicist. She isn't the best but she knows how to deflect. He is in rehab, he is in transitional rehab, he just got done doing a stint in rehab, he's going back into lockdown rehab AND NOW he is out and has been out galavanting around the sand surf and turf with his new main sqeegie and she in turn is outing him left and right! What a great movie we all get to watch! I do believe someone here pegged it, his own doing. BRAVO David!
myhandisraised
I know what happen he was asked to go on the show at last minute and he did and then his attorney called producers and said hell no he under the influence on camera pull him off after attorney got call from him. end of the story. entertainer who does own pr work as bad as man who tries to be his own attorney in courtroom
Can you be more specific about this? How do you know? But I have to admit it does seem odd that the interview is not complete.
I see...This was wrong because his attorneys were in the courtroom the same day this show was aired and while they were in the court that same day, trying to save him by saying he was in a gated Southern California rehab treatment facility, he was actually in New York , being drunk in public. Nex thing you know, they'll be saying he filmed that 1 month ago. Oh Well...Going swimming now
Isn't there a lot of drinking and gambling going on at the races. Great place for the newly sober! NOT!
AndTheyreOff
YeaH Mint Juleps Abound at Kentucky Derby (insert trumpet flag up sound here) and all that cool Kentucky bourbon in the cakes and pralines oh yummy
The Kentucky Derby is The Fastest two minute race, Kinda like him in the sack except he is over after 30 seconds. Look in Google for information on interior designers. Lauderdale is not a cheapo gutter place neither is Mihammy :0
Firsthand knowledge?
wondering ???
just wondering , how do you come up with all your inside information about David ??? are you a friend of his stabbing him in the back or a jealous friend of Mauria's ...OR BOTH ??, how does one know so much info who is not even a fan ?
Who's Sober? Who's Mauria? Got some wires crossed somewhere in here. Who's a friend of his in here? Who's backstabbing him? Who's the jealous friend? Who'd be jealous anyways? Nothing to be jealous about.
Just like an a hole, everyone has one; an opinion of what he did. BUT someone here is a Jealous Jeannie. Why are you picking on his girlfriend? What did she do to you? Why are you quoting from her personal facebook? She is another innocent soul in all this. I always have known his fans were the absolute meanest and craziest, but never thought it'd carry over to the 21st century.
Not about jealousy. Just stating facts m'am. His mistrrss has been bragging all over for more than a year publicly how she hooked a famous person – the prize. She feels very importsnt at last attaining her trophy. Shes been telling everyone even though he is married and made no move to divorce. Although his wife finally filed after having girlfriend rubbed in her face for years
rehab my ass
The girlfriend's post was purposefully made public. She likes to brag. Not sure why. Not much to be jealous about.
Oh.....ok. He is keeping her or just using her? Seems to me he is not the kind who likes a gal who kisses and tells. A bit immature for her old age. Bet she is still a child at heart has no kids of her own so doesn't know what grown up is. Guess he will be up for grabs once he is done with her . Ladies....Start your engines 🙂
I do apologize for the outburst. So she is then fair game since she is putting her own self out there? Bet he has NO IDEA. Hope she isn't a friend of Widow Jones.
What I find interesting about this whole debacle is that very few women in his life have ever come out after allllll these years and spilled the beans. And you know there had to be thousands. A few groupie stories here and there from the 70s but not much else (that I've seen anyway). And now his DUIs plus this idiot of a "fiancee" have people so riled up it's all starting to come out. I for one will be very interested to watch this unfold.
Catscratch
Can't shut the world up forever. Girls are now women and women have the power to tell their stories of being manhandled and used by a good looking sweet talking idol. I don't think women should be afraid or feel repressed because of shame. He should be shameful. He was a grown man taking advantage of his self. I'm sure his daddy told him again and again, but he thought it was a game, still does. did anyone even know the teen girls had to pass his studio on the way to their high school every morning? they knew and he knew. Yes there were teachers watching after them during regular school hours but after dark, when school was closed and they were still filming the girls would stand out like innocent little fans and they would get taken down the road if liked, for a drive then the tears and fights would start then banishment from the studio lot. Funny as it is but in the start of 1970 he couldn't get a date if he tried, the shag wasn't grown out enough and he did look like a malnourished little truant just out of juvie.
Until now I've not heard of him seducing underage girls although there probably were many who lied about their age to get close to him back in the day and I'm not doubting the ones who say they were taken advantage of, especially if they did tell him their real age... I'm talking about the grown women who have been there over the years as the decades passed. Even in recent years he's been known to pick up fans at his shows but nobody brags about it. People who claim to know Ms Rossi have said she was an obsessed fan who managed to get herself in front of him. She's the only one though who brags publicly about it. Isn't that ironic? He finally finds a groupie who he likes enough to attach to (ka-ching!) and she ends up helping him fall even further down because she can't stop her childish engaging with other fans. Is she really in love with him or does she just want to one-up her friends? SMH.
Maybe the bark was worse than the bite? Meaning not all it was cracked up to be in groupieland and maybe nothing happened. He said he had all these one night stands and no other children? Pipe dreamer? Always seemed to surround himself with men, lived with men exclusively until his best friend moved away when his career went south the first time. Maybe he don't know about her rushing motormouth. Good way to shut him right off and out of her world unless she is supporting him, can't imagine it though. To be with him you have to book yourself into the witness protection program in other words piehole shut and no friends, but if she is rich then it is alright so he can then seduce others, keep them in arms reach, the ones who have much more.
He saw a bank account and she sees a man who needs fixing and she is going to fix him, yea, ok. He don't do braggarts. Does she understand what she is doing? He still has a divorce to go through and she really can get him into more trouble and probably hand him a bill of sale at the same time for services rendered. I just bet you he has absolutely nothing to brag about and if he has been in the bottle for years then there's your answer, he is in his cups. She should be more the lady . Sounds like times are really rough for ol Keith
Thanks all for the delicious juice! If he and his lawyers told the courts in California he is in rehab and has been in rehab, is his rehab the horse racing stables or the lobby of a 3rd rate hotel in New York? I like that kind of rehab. I am very confused why then he went on this show? Did he get kicked off for being too schmaltzy or ? What happened? I hope he doesn't get behind a wheel of anything else. This story of his is whacked! I now hear he is thinking of re recording Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle and Operator..................
Jean Rone
I remember him. He wrote a couple of books that were mirro copies of each other. Remember reading something about his co star Dave Madden saying he knows as fact David never took that bus off the studio lot. Property Department would have the key on them at all times. So if he lies about something as trivial as that, what else is up his sleeves?
Rest In Peace, Mickey Rooney. Now there was the ultimate entertainer!
JustBarbara
Look out...David was very 'good friends' with Mickey Rooney back in the 70's and during PF...Another one lost and another excuse the bottle will tip up.
To interested
Ka-Ching Ha Ha. You have that right. That is all she is to him. The way she is dreamin she won't wake up till her bank account shows a big fat 0 and she finds out he has lovers everywhere !
Ka-Ching Ha Ha Riiiiight! That IS all she is to him, a piece of a bank account. How could he be serious anyways? She don't have red hair! He is V E R Y partial to redheads, no lie. Look at his track record. Watch the hair color change now -HA HA
Just want to thank all who have given very accurate and truthful details of some of the life of 1 former teen idol. and what they went through. Some hairy experiences!! I'd like to know one thing. Why is it that he claimed to have a residence in New York and also in Florida, but in both instances he is always in either a hotel or his woman's residence? I know he sold a home, but this is a man who owns tons of property or so says he. I did check out the detailed tv episode of his phony auction and whoever found it has a keen eye. He did say the residence was his own, he does not really live there, in fact his publicist lives there and more-so do believe the house is owned by Sue prior to marriage. I do believe Sue and his publicist are very close and I'd be willing to bet he is still close to his wife. I feel a bit sorry for the new girlfriend. She has no clue what it means to be his girl. Not easy. He will use, he will cheat and if she don't like his way, tough, she knew what she got into being a fan to begin with. So she writes a book in 5 years, get ready. No matter what gal gets tangled with him, they will reap heavy bad juju hand from his fans. It is true, he has very mean and caustic fans.
Ifeel like i've been reading a lot of comments from a bunch of 15 yr old girls...whatever is going on, it is HIS business ONLY....I am 62 yrs old and have been a fan since I was 17....just wish the man well and hope he gets the real help he needs to get better........
If it is HIS business ONLY, then explain why did he go on an INTERNATIONAL TV show to say what he did?
I agree with Ellie, DC has chosen to make himself look like the victim and share the personal stories of others. He set this up himself
This story is so dead, like his career.
Can anyone answer this question, please? Why did he say that he had tried for the last three months to connect back with his wife who would eventually file divorce? I mean, is he for real? He has been with his latest little lady since way back in April of last year. Was he going to take her too or this another way of letting her down as well? Or is he just full of it once again? His words make absolutely no sense 99% of the time, ok?
HOW COME THERE ARE REPORTS THAT SAY HE HAS NOW CHALKED UP 2 MORE DUI'S IN FLORIDA?
Agree with Elle. Hey, is Danny going to take the bus away the next time???
Sam Pueblo
I would be willing to place a bet to win that his segment did get pulled the moment the producer and director saw he was drunk and on something, that cannot be denied and please no excuse of cold and medicine allergies. Did he care? no because he got what he wanted, exposure for self pity from the NY judge and he thought from L.A. judge. What a pity. Right, if he wanted to get together with his wife why is he still with his girlfriend the same one he was with when he got popped in NY? If his mouth moves any more, he is lyin
Lie vs Truth: He said he gave up and retired at 24. Truth in fact is the concerts dried up and were pulled when his contract at Columbia did, in 1973. All concerts were as one with his studio contract. His Bell label was also a part of ColGems/Columbia. Since he had less than a year left on his original contract, they put him into his 'own' television show, Man Under Cover. It lasted as about as long as the contract did. This was to pay him what was owed on the original contract and any monies for what could have been taken as lost concerts for as long as that contract was viable. Everyone parted company in 1974, he was paid up and off and Columbia upheld their end of the contract. End of story.
Really !! I saw him in concert in 74' plus Man Under Cover didn't air till November 78' after he had done Police Story May 78'
Yea menopausal women trying to be 15 again with their tantrums; don't get their way, tell sorrid details of whatever. He has a problem and yes, I can see why....Crazy assed fans. Did get to meet him, mad he didn't come out and play after a concert. I do not blame him for running away.
Big fan
QUIT BLAMING THE FANS.
Not understanding about this contract biz I see, Jane. He had left over time on his original contract, in order to satisfy the masses, they gave him Man Under Cover to complete the contract and maybe MAYBE one more concert in conjunction with Columbia. I know the show ran in 1978 – it took less than 10 weeks to do those shows.
Maybe one more concert !! he did a world tour between Feb/May 1974 doing around 35 shows. You are saying he recorded Police Story & Man Undercover in 74 after the recording of the PF ended but they didn't air for 4yrs until 1978 ??
ScaredofYou
How DARE a person who is jealous of his girlfriend come out of left field and hurt her with words! She is David's business and I hope he is happy to move on with his life with her, no matter what. I hope she is happy to be in his company. She must be thrilled, warts and all and maybe she is the positive influence he needs at this time. If you are his fan, good, continue to support him, if you are just a disgruntled fan who had popcorn dreams of him, get over it. He knows what he likes, he knows how a lot of you are-very detrimental to his very being. Read these posts. God almighty! Bunch of nanny no knocker bitter old battleaxes. Poor man has had a long term problem, and I think he has some physical health issues. He gave his life to entertain you all and look how you repay him. What matters is now. He is in good hands, he will conquer his demons and he will live out the remaining days as a very talented, born into infamy, one of a kind idol that nobody can ever hurt again.
Drinking, drugging, cheating, lying, manipulating, conniving, whining, sure does know what he wants. OMG!
Oh Scaredofyou – this isn't about being jealous of a girlfriend!! Seriously, what are you..12? Take off the reality shield and go back and read what people are saying. Both David and the lady in question have exhibited behavior, publicly, that brought all this out. People who have loved David since the 70s are sad and upset about the way things have gone and they have a right to say so. Been to a concert lately? I would guess not. Also, some who know him, actually know him, are confused and angry at his behavior and sickened by his so called "partner's" public comments and behavior. A celebrity, sadly, has no privacy. Especially not when 3 DUIs are splashed all over the media. Get over your self-righteous name calling and "how DARE yous" and grow up.
He gave his life to do something he loved and to feed his ego – Not for anyone but himself. Jealous – I hardly think so. He has nothing to offer anyone at this point or maybe he never did. To be in a relationship you have to care about the other person and their needs – not just yours. He grew up in a world where he never had to care, share, or think of anyone but himself.
DingDongSchool
Concerts in 1974?..............................................................................................and this is 2014 now?
CRIPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg!
You can appreciate the talent he had as an actor/singer back in the day. But, as a person, and how he treats others leaves a lot to be desired. You can be understanding and compassionate to people who sincerely take responsibility for mistakes or tries their best to help others. But to be rude to people who attended your concerts, think you are above people, and the lies. David made this everyone's business when he put it out there in statements he made or interviews he did. And the fact – he drove drunk and was arrested not once but three times with seemingly no remorse or concern for anyone but himself. You basically beat jail time – Count your blessings! Grow old gracefully! If you are sick of your fans or even people in general – Retire, lay by your pool, read a book, watch TV, volunteer in an Alzheimer's Home-not by doing a concert – maybe just stopping in and visiting and not as THEE David Cassidy that you think you are..
AND...there is no excuse for the physical and mental abuse!
One day he will be made to answer to his didoes and what he done to young girls and women as well. He has been in this state for 50 years, read his book. He is sick now. He is being sued because he broke his contracts, on the other hand, he has been banished from big venues. Vegas don't want him, Laughlin don't want him. I am a promoter and wouldn't touch him with a 100 ft pole. He is done here, done in the UK. He can't even take a crap unless the tissue is 24 kt lined
any foundation he opend or a part of, he reaped huge money, like this alzhiemers. his ex wives ex husband is a dr. who has done research on this very thing so who do you think whos nose is up whos butt on this and making a profit. I know for fact his items he auctioned off were seconds originals in his exs hands and that old brown huge trenchcoat people been making fun of? belonged to his daddy. I want people to ask around what he has been doing in the horse world and lying to buyers
SOMEbody has a problem with being manhandled by him years ago . Here is an idea....Take your butt off of here and contact your nearest district attorney office and file to have it against him. Even if it happened 40 years ago they will bring a charge against him – Otherwise, shut the heck up and move on, please! I had him, I was young and I do not regret one moment of it..this news and $5.oo will now buy me a Starbucks. Thank you.
hadhimtoo
Finally someone speaks the truth and says what we all want to know. Who else had him? Raise your hand please!
No, they will not bring a charge against him "even if it happened 40 years ago." The statutes of limitations have passed.
Dora Dora
So Light Bulb, Please clarify for us: You were also an underage girl when he had you?
Franella
DID YOU KNOW HE WAS AND IS THE LAUGHING STOCKS OF THE ROCK WORLD BACK IN THE 70'S? HE WAS THE BIGGEST PARTY ANIMAL THERE WAS, BUT HE DID NOT BELONG IN THE BIG BOYS LEAGUE HE WAS TALKED ABOUT BEHIND THE TRUE ROCKER'S BACKS. HE CRASHED EVERY PARTY THERE WAS ON SUNSET BOULEVARD INCLUDING THE DAISY KICKED OUT OF PANDORA'S BOX TOO
nomoresecret
His Schlang has been siliconed and rodded up since 1989? TRUE 🙂
Quizzical
W T H ???????????
Vicky Speers
Oh Geeze! Just like Liberace
CrossedEyed
Hollllllllllllllllllllllllllly Chyt!
You mean he is SUPER WEENIE?????? A Weenie that wont ever die or go slack? Sign Me Up!
Who are yous to tell him what to do and when to do it? He owes you NOTHING! You go to his concert, you pay for the ticket, he delivers a show. That is all he owes you, it is not an extra way to enter his private life and to complain or suggest what he does in that private life. You do not own him because you supported him for 40 years. You got some nerve to get in here and keep complaining about him using you so what! You knew when you went into his inner sanctum what was going to happen-100's of girls did it and they are not speaking because they got over it 30 years ago. You are just jealous he picked a female that wasn't you guys. big deal. Get over yourselves and leave him alone. Your behavior will not beckon him into your bed again. He is old and he is sick. Let the man heal for goodness sake.
Soulgirl
No one is telling him what to do. However, if you pay to see a concert, I expect you to give a good performance and be nice to your fans. I have been concerts where people were not rude and he was rude to them. "inner sanctum" ? wow you have must of been there. People get enthralled with stars and lose their head over them. There are victims I wouldn't be to proud to say I was in the "inner sanctum" with a guy, who abuses everyone, emotionally, physically and pocketbook wise. He needs real help from his drinking....It has effected family, friends and fan. Good for those past fans speaking out. I am sure DC believed no fan were ever expose his tyranny. But they are.
Appreciate that. Thank you for your continued support and love of David. You posted the very best post in answer to the dweebs. Thank you.
wow DBC Dweebs? really, that sounds like something DBC would say.
Carol from Washington
I swear to bet this is David in the flesh! O I LOVE YOU DAVID! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART!
And I appreciate all the support my fans give to me. Hey DBC bet these silly fans will actually think it's really you and that it's really me posting. Hysterically silly!
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what is silly, is that you would think it is all about you. get over yourself
What about his drinking problem? What happened to that story? Sure not his fault if women are so stupid to believe he will take them if they buy him things and go to his concerts 25 times a year. He never asked any woman to get emotionally latched on to him. He is just another guy. He is not that talented. He does not possess super powers in the sack, he has nothing except he is the eldest son? of Jack Cassidy. Now Jack was A Man! All 6'2" of him. Class all the way.
BurbankBabe
In 2 days I will still love you when you turn 64. I have very fond memories of you when you were barely 20 years old, just a babe in the woods, but for 4 years you were my babe in the woods. We shared a lot of good times together back in the day! Remember hiking past the Crestview sign and getting stuck on the rock up there? Then the time over at Mulholland Dam. We weren't supposed to be there, but we went and cut up making out on the dirt road. I wish we could share one more time of life together, the last time was in fact 2009. How times do fly . I love you, David and always will......................
begtodiffer
The problem is that he did ask some to get emotionally involved. that is why some of the folks here are mad as hell and speaking out
Show us the trade papers and the ads where he sent out explicit instructions to get emotionally involved with him. Show us some kind of a recording we can listen to where he begs all the women to get emotionally involved with him. Please show us where he said go and hop on planes trains and automobiles, get rooms in the same hotels and bother the hell out of him until he opens up and lays you down so he can take advantage of you as that was his main goal by being a celebrity, right? Getting laid 1000 times a day for free whilst working on a sound stage, while hooking up for a concert. So you are telling us that this man had it all wrong! He should have charged for that stuff? Would have beat the hell out of working his ass off for the last 45 years and then he should have kept all of you on a leash so you could still be there for him? Even a dog in dog years doesn't last that long, my dear.
I don't know. He was and is a cute guy. I'd give him whatever he wanted and then some. It'd be a pleasure to get taken advantaged of by the likes of him and his lolly 😉
RuththeTruth
I'd try him out, but no strange stuff and no drinking! He'd have to lay out more than an old used up wild baloney poney cuz I am a lady I am!!
Serious here now. What is he going to do once he is outted as not being sincere about his bad drinking habits? He hasn't been to no rehab except the one between his sheets. I got a strange feeling he is actually very sick and won't be with us for too much longer. Hope you bioches that say bad swears about him are happy. He didn't hurt you. Bet you were having a great time when it happened. you just mad he never called you back. That is life. Be so thankful you were chosen in the first place. He doesn't pick just anybody
Well, you're half right.
no one night stand
I don't think we are talking about those one night stands. Those ones got what they needed and he got what he wanted.
We shouldn't speak of our treasures with the great idol. I have had a good relationship with him from 1970 since I was 14. The friendship has seen a lot but has endured into a comfortable shoe-like life. No demands, no restrictions, just a lovely and fulfilled life with a wonderful man. Perhaps he needs to come back here and be real once again.
I understand what you mean. Very grateful for what he has meant to my life these past years and for that I will be wishing him well
I was 17 and met him at Madame Wu's Garden in West Los Angeles. Dreamy man for sure, great kisser. I am sorry to see he has hit a brick wall so late in life. Maybe it is true, maybe karma has come for him and he don't know what to do except announce he is a drunk. I know he has never lived alone ever in his life, he is the type that needs to be surrounded by a someone. I wish him good luck and cheer without the bottle. I hope to god he is not spotted at the Kentucky Derby coming up pretty soon. Lot of drinks going on there. What a shame.
HA HA HA HA! Of all people guess who we ran into at The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA.??? Yea HIM and his girlfriend! I guess that must be the new rehab joint. Actually I think he is really up at Dr. Drew's up the road from there. Oh Happy Birthday to go to a cheap place!
Huntington Gardens....right by Santa Anita Racetrack....just in time for race season!
Laine, show us proof he didn't do these things? Really now-
Lounge Singer
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I think I love you
Unbelievable – Not in Rehab – No surprise ... and how dumb to go out in Public – which shows he thinks he above the law and everyone else.
Not when you think you are super Teflon teen idol! Now all somebody has to do is seek him out over at the racetrack or at the hotel and snap a picture-Done deal, no pass Go, Go directly to jail for violation of probation. It can happen! People pay big money for a picture like that.
Why don't all you haters give the man a break? Today is his birthday I think he has a right to do something he enjoys.
Granny K
Just saw a picture of David and Maura on her facebook page. The picture is recent, yesterday. How is he getting away with this. Makes me sick.
Nobody hates anyone. It is just that he keeps making up stuff and not telling the truth FOR YEARS. He is in lock up rehabilitation, a sad attempt was made for television until he got kicked off after 50 seconds because he was under the influence, but as well has been all over the place; Florida, New York, Los Angeles, bla bla bla...He is sitting right in the box at Santa Anita right this minute and will be there tomorrow. My Snooze Alarm has more truth to it
Total Agree Ellen! Has nothing to do with hating – just wanting the truth and not acting like he is above everyone. How do you not abide by having to be in Rehab?
If he has a suspended rehab sentence, how is it that reports state he was in rehab for only one month when the 90 day sentence was handed down. So how can they take it away and say he already did his in house rehab? He did not! It also might be true he was going to the airport when busted in L.A., but that day there was a horse race event also at Santa anita. Too many photos are coming out now all over. Why did he lie?
Beg to differ. The photo was put up to try and change the course of history. The photo was taken last summer as they were in Cali since Wednesday, staying until middle of the week, court hearings again 🙂 ...The Flag IS Up!
Doesn't matter where they are – he's not in Rehab!
5 star Huntington Hotel-Nice Bar and Lounge
Agreed. Anyplace but rehab. He is supposed to be in rehab, he said he was staying in rehab, going to be in rehab, his attorneys argued he would be overstaying himself in rehab. I don't think going off to new york and back to florida and then off on a lark to California . Far as I know, he ruined his career. and maybe that is what he wants. to be totally left alone and be the man of his own doing or undoing. Seems he did con the courts. Maybe someone should call his po
Robert J.
I'd be all for grabbing a pic of him drinking or doing something other than being in Rehabilitation as he keeps saying he is in. He makes a sick dirty joke out of being DUI 3 different times and blaming everybody from former co stars deaths to former co concert performers deaths to his own mother and fathers deaths, now blaming his son and his wife? when he could have killed people or hurt people or himself. Let us not give him too much credit because he is who he was. He invited everyone to comment because he put himself out in the public for a sympathy gain through the courts. the moment these producers saw what they had, they shut him off-period! Now what he has done has basically shoved his middle fingers towards the judicial system and people in general because he thinks he got them beat, but he does not! He is on a dangerous schlope and it is schippery! Especially when one deceives. Who does he think he is? He is a has-been drunk who lies.
I heard his rehab has already been completed as ordered by the courts (given credit for time served); now he must complete a 9-month alcohol program that is probably out-patient. He is not doing anything wrong by traveling and living his life. There are many definitions and many types of "rehab".
I work with rehab people for drug and alcohol. Two things concern me: If has done time, then they should be directing him to AA meetings. Sad stats here. We get 25 people a month from rehab in AA meetings. Once their time sheets have been completed for their Drug court, they never show up. Sad to say, we had this wonderful woman, sober for her PO time, decided to drink one bottle of wine. Within three weeks she was dead. Suicide. Alcoholism is a serious disease I can't say that enough. No one here wishes anything bad for David but he can mouth all the words that come out from treatment (which he has) but you need to walk the walk. I just keep thinking about his children, family and friends. I believe at one point David did enjoyed his fans earlier in his career, no doubt but he seriously changed. I had a friend her worked in Vegas at the time DC was there. It is a not a nice story or experience she had with him. Frankly he doesn't understand not every woman wants him. "he said to her< "don't you know who I am? I am David Cassidy and women desire me" He was a bit drunk when this happened. "said, oh come on sweetheart, no one will need to know, it will be our little secret"....She said no and he kept bothering her. She finally said to him, if you don't leave me alone I will call your wife and the police.
I bet alot less women will find him desirable now that they know his true self. He respects noone. What else has he done that we don't know about?
Maybe he cannot grasp that he is not commanding the huge venues he once did and now has to be regulated into smaller concert halls or county fairs along with other named singers of his day. The biggest problem I see him having besides the drink is he has not had new material to keep his voice out in the public like say, Engelbert Humperdinck. There is a man who is pushing 80 and still commands the high fee and does not have to share his stage with others. The women still adore him and they do venture to see him in concert. The post above really hits home because I have in fact seen that happen so many times, not just with him, with 98% of the other men. They just do not want to become old and undesirable and with Him, well huge blow to an already over stimulated ego. I know about the Vegas incidents, there were many and there were extra things going on there. I am sorry he has become what he never wanted to become-dried up, washed up, used up and thrown up. I just do not like what he had done here. Looked to me like he used this show to get his head out of a noose and it got pulled off the air before it ever began. He wont change he has to really want it and I do not think that is the case. He is out for his good times-saw the photos taken in Jamaica when he was supposed to be in rehab, his words. That is what it is, His Words. they do not mean anything if there is no truth or substance to them.
I find it highly suspect that he could possibly think out a plan to go off to a rehab and time the stay just so perfectly -way before the actual court hearing in Los Angeles? He was anticipating a long stay in jail so he jumped the gun and got himself into a posh rehab to show everybody he was doing this BUT BUT BUT How could he possibly know what kind of sentence he would get, from New York or from Los Angeles? He could not possibly pull this exact same time allotment when he did not know what kind of sentence he would get. His mouth and everybody associated with him pretty much said he was still going to more in stay rehab, but that is obviously not the truth. He did the old CYA. Stayed a weekend, made it a point to tell all he was doing this because he was going to die when he has been living it up thumbing his nose.
I think some of the ladies here have a real hard on for him. One night stands never cure anything except horiness. Get over yourselves and live it up. You got him on a good day. Think of the ones who got him now and got a limp noodle to work with...Chow Mein for all 😀 😀 😀
lucee
Thank you going to Loveen for information for us who have never crossed the AA threshold. He did quote from AA so he knew what he was doing, using the system, the rehab gets $$ and so does he! Whoppee Dooey! Now he is going to rehab AGAIN this month. Sure. Maybe he is going to do a tour of AA clubs around the country, do a little song and dance and then do a little song and dance again to fool you all. He made a mockery of his condition. Nobody gives a flip because he as a performer treated many many of his fans very rudely and horribly, right down to taking advantage of their youth or their dreams of doing him. He used this to gain his sons trust again, how many times does his son have to be disappointed? and then to harbor a grudge against his wife? She stood by him when he kept cheating, she allowed his book of fabrications because any written book is only written to sell the thing-she made a tidy sum as well...Nobody cares and all you bleeding hearts who believe these books are the gospel truth best go back to school and learn real life 101. I feel sorry for the women who got taken by him, money wise, heart wise and body wise. He doesn't care, mr invincible his partridge days have been over 40 years ago.
Can he answer why he was stopped and the cop smelled the booze in his car before he saw he was dUI? He probably will take to snarking the Scope mouthwash next. Not a very sincere person at all and it seems his fans enable him to the max because they believe him. I have ocean front property in Arizona that's for sale. I also believe he does drink because of his fans. Ever meet his fans? they are mean and behave like delinquints on weekend passes when at his concerts. What happened to his burned up arm? no signs of any scarring! An attempt for meds too?
True, fans can be obnoxious, no doubt. However, from doing my research on fan craze, I will keep her name anonymous, stated that he has a "group of fans" that follow him where ever he performs. Nothing wrong with that...they sit in the first 2 rows, primarily the first rows of any concert. Anonymous began going to concerts in 2000, her family came along with her. DC called her room and wanted to meet with her for an "encounter", she told him she was with her family which included her husband. DC told her no one needs to know sweetheart- Kept bothering her when she had went to a few concerts. Then when she firmly said "no"- he told his little group who follow him every where. Well she became the brunt of his jokes at that concert with the help of those "fans"- I commented about DC making fun of the shirt I gave him and my state at a concert, it was in poor taste. Either son fan or band member, (who knows) said it to me in reply: stating, "that the comments weren't directed at me but to something else." This confirms what the anonymous fan had spoken about. Indirect and underneath rudeness. Not uncommon for him to bully. After that, Anonymous was no longer a fan.
I don't believe David drinks because of his fans. It's something he does because he's an addict just like any other. Alcoholism is an inherited trait & something he was born with. Even so, it's been his choice to follow that path. Nobody made him do anything – not the drinking, the DUIs, the arrests. That's on him and him alone.
AMEN TO THAT-RIGHT ON POINT
Gee.....I wonder how that worked out for the Peter Noone fans when they all did Teen Idol tour. Peters' fans Always get primo seats as they have a special fan club section thing always going on, plus their nice meet and greets-His fans are such nice ladies-they get along and treat each other with respect. Now this former teen idol; his fans have always been different, very rude behavior and very obstinate. Not been to very many concerts, but have had my share in 40 years time only because he was the only entertainment in an indian casino or in a main studio. One day we will discuss why he moved to UK so hastily the first time around. Yes it did in fact have something to do with US fans. And it is the truth, he was F I R E D from Partridge-he did not quit. Everybody got pinked at the same time. People should learn to read others' material on this subject matter and then the story will become much clearer and truer.
Going for the old argument that he copied his dad in the alcohol dept.? They all drank in front of him. He had been privy to many opening nights and closing nights in stage with his parents, Hollywood parties so booze prevailed. I do not care what people write about in books, what one sees with their eyes is more believable. His father was not the crazed alcoholic he has been portrayed. Social drinker, yes. This teen idol on the other hand had been drinking since pre teen years because there it sat in the house when nobody was minding him-a throw away kid basically. Read his book, he was so into drugging and drinking back in the day he got truant from his school in Hollywood, not in no New York. He was a run away. Rather be down on Westwood Bl. than in school. Stop harping on his dad. His dad saved his life, by getting him jobs, by trying to keep him off the streets and off the drugs. And this is the thanks his dad gets, to get kicked all over again.
I don't see anybody blaming his father for anything-get off the phone already! Poor man died terribly in a fire. I think it is in poor taste to keep reviving him in print no matter who is doing it. David was a great man in his time, but his time is now in the sunset of his life. He shouldn't have a problem unless he just wants sympathy???? There really have been way too many issues on him to keep feeling sorry for him. He is financially bankrupt, he is obviously morally bankrupt by what some in here are talking about and he is spiritually bankrupt. Yes, I thought the part about falling to his knees was choice words as according to someone else who had been in his life for a number of years, he never had spiritual belief. Just wonder what he was doing on his knees when he had that divine moment when he screamed out. Sounds pretty questionable to me, but then a lot of things in his life are questionable. I think he is just one very reclusive lonely man who has to make up stories to shock his fans, right down to his so called big wompa. He has no respect for himself or for you, his fans. Obvious from another poster, he loves to think with his little head, so be it
in 10 days this story will be 1 month old. there is more talk about his life than his problem. some of you should write a book or is that what you are doing in here? writing a book? there is a plane that disappeared, things are going on in the world, but here everyone is, worrying about this has-been. why call him a teen idol even? he only had concerts for 3 short years to start with and that was to make his studio money. he had to stop them, he was not allowed to use the music that belonged to his studio. I be glad I never wanted to be a faker idol. his 'gold' is tarnished.
I couldn't agree with you more, Nancy. You've got it. David has no respect for himself. He doesn't love or even like himself. How can he possibly care for or about anyone else? Whatever soul he may once have had seems lost, abandoned, forgotten. .
That is it! No respect for himself, but then how was he supposed to know what that is? Has it ever occurred to anybody here that this is a man who has never had a chance to live alone? There is a reason for this. It started when he was small. It is like the warning label on a box of matches-He is the box of matches. His life had to be pretty bad to have another male live with him from 1966 and on. He never had to answer to anybody, he does not know respect. He doesn't know too much of anything. He lives in a world that he thinks is geared to him, it is not! To say truth, he wanted so bad to fit in to the Hollywood scene that he took up residence in one of the Sunset Strip hotels and watched for people to show up at the hot venues around the block on the strip. I am still mad at him for leaving me and my friend hang up in Oxnard. I trip with him or used to, until he spurned me as well
youdontknowjack
Left in Oxnard? What is an Oxnard? Sounds like a cattle drop off! And speaking of cattle, you all sound like a bunch of constalated cows going off about him and using you gals. Isnt that just like a man? doesn't have to be a singer to do that! Getting left in Oxnard! I am going to have to go and check THAT out! Oxnard just does not sound like Mohegan sun or Wolf Den-Oxnard
Geography llesson
FYI Oxnard is a city in Southern California.
IknowJackandDavid
What in the world is a constolated cow anyways? Oxnard is a seaside area in Venturan county califorina.
ILOVE YOU, DAVID CASSIDY 🙂 🙂 :0
Merci Angel
Aww, why don't you all leave this alone now? He has given a lot of good music when he was going hot back in the heyday now he has a problem. Leave him alone. He knows what he was doing was wrong and it seems much more than just drink. Crying about his wife, blaming his wife, but wasn;t it him who cheated on her AGAIN? 23 years is a long time to be the dutiful wife and look the other way. Then he used his son-Why? Is history repeating itself and is he now jealous of his childrens rising stars? No more needs to be said about him, he just closed the door, the book and the life on his
Does he know what he was doing was wrong? Unlikely. He hasn't just closed the door, the book and the life. If anything, he's opened it wide and let the light shine in. A sad existence, but again by his own doing. David's only blame should be upon David.
Please Loveen, Thanks to you we get a much better understanding of who this guy is. I can understand the hurt and bitterness. I actually thank all his fans gave me a better picture into his sorrid life. I used to think he had the world by a string, but not so. I can see the hurt and pain, I can also see the enablers who jump and say Not True when others are trying to speak. How could anyone possible know unless they were right there and I think Loveen was right there many times. I almost got the feeling the infraction he pulled happened to her so she should speak up ansd shame him. Let him go and ride his horse off into the sunset. He aint even a good cowboy.
If he wanted me to bark like a dog, I would do it and then bite him into his buttocks and tell him I had a mean rasher of Rabies 😀
Why do you disrespect yourself like this? why would you do this for this entertainer? Don't you have any self worth? If a man told me to do that, he'd be nursing one very vital organ part! I don't think he was being serious, another thing to stir everyone up.
I have been to at least 350 of his concerts and sometimes it is very true, his fans get this thing that comes over them and they start trouble for others. It is this thing about feeling they are the only one that counts in the concert. You know seriously the only thing he sees is all this money that we dole out to him. He doesn't really care for any one of use-whether or not we slept with him is unimportant. I have seen the cliques that gather together to rush security or management to try and get inside that stage door to get to him and they start pulling things off the stages like his towel, drumsticks, tambourines, even a couple of guitar straps hook-ups, knobs on the systems and his mic. That kind of behavior sends a message that the venue wont bring him back. I have seen older women hop rows of seats to get to the stage on last song because the aisles are blocked with more women trying to get to the stage some of the chairs did get broken, customers got slapped, hit, punched, kicked because the women had to get to him, their life depended on it and once again the venue will not allow him back, no matter what kind of up front insurance he lays down. I love him for what he gave me when I was 14, his music is real nice and he has always been dreamy, but he is now an old man and has troubles. I don't want to see him lost or really so sick he shrivels up and dies and I think this is happening-Unless he has another ace up his sleeves and trying to get a reality show going. Somehow I just don't think having drinking problems would be good on any tv broadcast. Poor man.
BUT...What happens if he bites back and has worse than rabies-then what?
D Shoemaker
After reading all of these comments, I am still trying ti figure out what was meant by so many of you calling David's fans "Mean" and obnoxious....during one point in his touring days, many of us went on several "road trips" to see many of his shows that were in close range......mostlt Fri, Sat and Sundays...we travelled with our husbands and boyfriends,,,alwys had great time at his shows...we were in his fan club "Just David" here in the US....don't recall any meaness or disrespect to anyone.....we have always been known to be extremely LOYAL fans (n matter what--still am), but I wish someone would explain why they feel we are "Mean".....NOT TRUE.........
I don't believe it is the US fans but abroad.
OhReally?
It is both sides of the pond. He does have mean fans! They are calculated and just mean! They put up a barrier between them and their charge which is HIM and they will lie and cajole, cheat and tell stories to make a goodlooking woman feel like a nothing. They hate when the pretty adies go to the concerts because theones who have seen their days and are now breaking into their manppausal mansions canot stand there is someone who is a looker who will catch his eyes and it happened boy howdy if it didn't! Finally! a fan caught him! I have visions of the claw hook coming down to capture him in the toy machine as we speak
menapause anyone?
Hey, the current girlfriend/fan is in her 50's like most of his fans. She isn't some spring chicken however she is quite pretty and she is probably in menopause too since that hits most women usually in their 50's . So stop with the menopause card. I would sure love to fill you all in on the truth but I am having a great time reading all this fan bashing nonsense. Plus you wouldn't believe the truth if it was staring you in the face!!
baffling cunning and powerful
LOL-I have no quirks about the girl friend but I will tell you this, people do the know the truth from their own experiences with this sad person. I think it is DC who doesn't know his truths from his lies. Give me a break!
Awesome so true , you guys can't see the woody from the trees !
why don't you give the truth a try and fill us in? no fair just hinting
Givemeabreak!
His EX girlfriend who he finally dumped over a year before he died was not that pretty! She was a damn enabler and contributed to his drinking which killed him. And THAT is the truth! Shame on her!!!
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Would love to hear the truth. Please share. Thx
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As long as it’s true — there’s no recourse, so why not spill.
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I've been to concerts, too, where the fans were so rude, mean, nasty, awful. The ones who always take the front row seats have their own little clique going. Reminds me of middle school girls. When others ask them how they managed the front row, they respond by saying "he knows us," "he expects us to be here," "we came a long way." They make sure that others have a hard time in getting the seats and have even been mean to handicapped fans who have been placed nearby. Their 50 is the new 13 ruins the experience for everyone else.
Aricellia
Whats all this that his 2nd daughter has now surfaced? Anyone keeping count? 1 son, 2 daughters and a possible 3rd if he does the dna. No wonder he drinks. His past is coming forward on that karma train-ChooChoo. I feel bad for him. no brain to ever figure anything out, he goes thinking he his style and him are the only rock icon in the history of the world
Mary Frank
I know all about his mean fans. they are not nice at all. They do flood the concert halls with pre emails and phone calls to capture the front row seats at every concert they can and get mad when they cannot do this. It has a negative effect on the other local concert goers when they cannot get in to make a reservation of tickets for their own concert halls. This is another reason why he does those fairs nobody buys a ticket and it is open seats. Now he has other children he has been hiding? Not surprised at all. So terrible for him. He was a hot cutie in the 70's. My brothers always thought he was a girl in disguise.
Big Don Almos
THIS IS NOT A PLACE TO DISCUSS ANYTHING MORE THAN HIS DRINKING PROBLEM. REALLY LADIES, IT HAS GONE ON FOR TOO LONG. ALTHOUGH YOU ALL ARE TRYING TO BE ENTERTAINING AND SOME OF YOUR POSTS ARE DOWNRIGHT FUNNY, WHY IS IT YOUR BUSINESS WHO HE DATES OR WHAT HIS GIRLFRIENDS SHOWS OR TALKS ABOUT? JEALOUS MUCH? JUST BECAUSE YOU PAY TO SEE HIM IN CONCERT IN NO WAY GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO DICTATE WHAT HE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO. HE IS A GROWN MAN. IF HE WANTS TO GO OUT ON BROADWAY IN HIS NAKEDNESS AT 5AM IN THE MORNING ON CHRISTMAS DAY THAT IS HES RIGHT. THIS WAS REALLY A BIG NOTHING STORY, INTENDED TO HELP HIS NIBS AND NOBODY ELSE
I am a clown
BDA-His drinking has effected everything. Then DC should be quiet and not discuss his personal life on TV or magazines. He set this up himself.
HE DID FOR ONLY HIMSELF, NOBODY ELSE. THE MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS, THE RAG MAGS STORIES, ALL THESE ARE PUTTING MONEY INTOHIS POCKET. THAT IS ALL IT IS. NO, HE SHOULDNT USE THE PUBLIC FOR HIS PRIVATE ISSUE, BUT THEN, HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO JAILS AND HE HAD TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS DRINKING. BET YO WILL FIND HIM DOWNING THOSE $1,000 MINT JULEPS THIS WEEKEND. HE SET IT ALL UP. I GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU GALS,,,,WHY IS HIS PRIVATE PART OF SUCH INTEREST TO ALL OF YOU? DON;T YOUR HUSBANDS HAVE ONE? IS HIS SO SPECIAL? WHAT HE OWNS IS OF NO COCNERN HERE. BAD TATSE TO BRING IT OUT INTO THE OPEN LIKE A ROLLED UP JIMM DEAN SAUSAGE. IM GLAD I DON;T ENCOUNTER YOU LASSES. NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE RUNS FROM YOU WOMEN
I agree with you, I am a clown. David's drinking has effected every bit of his personal and professional lives. He held himself out in the hopes of gathering sympathy. It didn't work this time. If he wanted to everything to be his business alone, he shouldn't have agreed to do a filmed television interview. And certainly not one in which he appeared drunken & glassy eyed. (BDA – KINDLY PLEASE STOP SHOUTING! SO NOT NECESSARY TO MAKE YOUR POINT.)
SoAshamedofHim
You know, if some of you bleeding hearts would go out and find the information, you might find the oyster of why he is doing what he did. Been in therapy since he was 12-that tells a lot about him-never paid ANYTHING for his mother's care except for $250 to $200 a month for extra food, his baby mommy oversaw the care of his mother by way of contract because of the granddaughter and could have had him in contempt for a LOT of things. So he is not the perfect idol he makes himself out to be-All the times he cried in concert speaking about his poor mother dying-she was only dying for 4 years until she actually did-BUT to learn he NEVER paid for her to have better care ????? Now I know why his eyes are BROWN. His father was dying of lung cancer and he knew it, but he didn't die from his own hand-His apartment was already smoldering the day before it caught complete fire. nothing was ever pointing to drunkenness. He tried to escape only to be overcome by the smoke. Now I understand why he is the way he is – the 1950's were not kind to anyone mother, the drugs they took affected some children – He even walked away from on an on the table percentage package from PF, but he turned it down back in the day with his manager so he is stuck with this latest ploy to try and be sue happy again.
BrownEyes
Who are you to tell us what? We who have supported him or have had encounters with him over the years do have a right to voice our dissatisfaction on the behavior he has shown to us who have put money in his pocket. If it wasn't for us, he wouldn't have gone as far as he has and that is why he had to leave for the UK. the fans were dissatisfied and angry. Come on, someone start spilling the other beans because I have a few thousand I'd like to spill myself. He is like the energizer bunny, just keeps on going. but he runs over people too and uses people to his advantage then he dumps and then wonders why his friends don't call him back. Ask Don – I know the real reason of that friendship and it is a jim dandy to boot!
* I meant ask Don Johnson, not this quack Big Don Blowhard
Why don't you stop hinting and spill the beans?
He likes the woman to do ALL the work for one thing. He just lays there on the bottom. He used to be prone to liking to dunk a lady's head into the toilet bowl if she complained. What do you think about Don Johnson? One can gather a heck of a lot of information by reading select and certain biographies about Mineo and then start linking names. Most of the guys who were with Sally also were friends with each other, worked at Columbia, shared an agent, also had a good gig in televisionland and became pretty big names. Now why do you think that is? The Lavender Club has the answers!
Ahhhh...read that book didn't want to believe it
Rachelle Gowan
What do you mean that Don Johnson was dunking David's head into the toilet? I thought they didn't like each other anymore because they knew secrets about each other. I don't think David was gay, but what do I know? Common knowledge says people will do all kinds of things in Hollywood-for drugs, for stardom, for $500 dollars. So do women. I don't think David had to do things unless he was high or experimenting, that was the 70's, free love and drugs. I know a funny thing in Hollywood's lore is that if Sal gave guy a drum set, something special had happened. There are at least 7 drum sets out there, all accounted for by pretty famous men
CokeBottleGlasses
I'd pay to see David in his divine nakedness on Broadway at 5am in the morning-All in favor????? I think old Almos is stuck in the quicksand of life-The ladies rule here-Each and every one of us old battleaxe codger menopausal women who some keep referring to. I attest I have never jumped a seat or chair to get to him 😉
Having a hose and knowing how to use it are two different things. You Big Don, will never have the chance to use yours enough to become an expert with it. And believe me his Jim Dean NEVER ran away
Yea, his hose is super duper power charged industrial strength and it lays straight as a grizzly's -oh ha ha- made a funny :D. See, Tom Jones is over abundantly blessed, Humperdincky is super duper blessed, Elvis knew how to use his hose to put out fires-Whats the big deal? I like to think they did a wonder public service to all the flames burning up all over the country .... and that's why I Smile 😀 YES!
to Smiley Face
Ah Yes 😉 That is an always
Maybe BDA has his all kinked up in knots -BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Maybe he has to yell since he is talking out of his ass
David is the only man I know who has ever owned his own damn telephone pole 😀
I'm calling him collect then! Who's with me? 😀 😀 😀
Does he still have a mutil line party connection?
justsayyes
Some are failing to grasp why some "fans" are upset. It's not the one night it seems that many have gotten with him. They were able to put their fantasy to bed so to speak . It's the lies he told to keep you on a string. Don't tell, you're the only one, I trust you, come see me. I understand now that it was a game and that he really has a sadistic side toward his fans but when you're in it it's really hard to see the forest through the trees. I wish him well but after all these years it's very hard to believe that he is "sincere" how many of us has he pulled that line on us? Oh yea he means it from the bottom of his heart this time! He really wasn't joking when he said, I bet you all have a support group for all of you. Well here it is folks. On the Piers Morgan blog!!
Eyesarecrossed
He doesn't have a heart, he has a water pump that pumps ice cold cubes into his veins! I wouldn't believe him on a bet! Ask his ex what he had been up to in his other business and then think and ask yourself how on earth did his other ex go up the ladder of success? They used all his fans in the UK. He has not had any feelings for anyone. How can he lie about his own father? About his own mother? About his real children? He doesn't tell the truth about his fans who actually are more than one night stands, some of them. What man would allow a woman to keep paying her own way to go be with him in whatever city? A man always pays! He has used women with money and he doesn't care. That's what he thinks it is a free ride on a womans dollar except it is in the thousands of dollars. Ask around.
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT WHATEVER HE HAS TO OFFER WORKS AT ALL. IT IS AS DEAD AS HIS CAREER IS AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER 40 YEARS. ALL HE CAN DO IS COMPLAIN LIKE A DIVA, CAUSE A SCENE AND THEN LET THE HOUNDS GO TO TOWN ON THEIR GOSSIP. HE HAS LOST HIS FOOTING HINDSIGHT SHOWS THAT HE WAS TOLD BY HIS CO WORKERS TO GET INTO REHAB OR ELSE BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO MISS DATES. HE WENT TO REHAB FOR A WEEKEND AT AA. THAT IS NOT REHAB. HIS REHAB IS HIS GIRLFRIENDS. LEAST MY WINKY WORKS
FreeandEasy
I never have had that problem. He ALWAYS drove to my house, He always came to MY hotel room that he paid for. He always treated for dinner or lunch-ALWAYS. Guess some are luckier than others!
Marzipan Millie
I wanna know whatcha all drinkin in here? My heartthrob is a perfect man! He doesn't do anything wrong! Wasted time and resources piling up in here! I am wearing my Wellies as the pies are so thick here it is not funny! What is wrong with you? Go play on the freeway of life. Man has a drinking problem his business if he wants to quit or if it kills him. End of the story,
You have GOT to be kidding me, right? 1 man spills that he has a problem with the bottle and now we learn everything and then some from a 52 sec. interview that never had been aired? I want to thank his fans who say they are fans, who say have been his lover, who have been turned away by him after he used them up. Trust me, he would rather make love to each woman 1 time than keep asking 1 lone dumb head to keep coming back for more abuse according to her! He doesn't seem like a mean man at all, he actually looks very meek and very non threatening! He only weighs 120 pounds and only 5 foot 6 inches. Except for bad women who love to gossip, I never heard a bad word about him at all except this drinking problem. Now we have kids, girlfriends, bedcapades, inside this alcohol story. What next? This is the worst comedy show I have ever witnessed! And why bother and quote his girlfriend? Trying to break that up too? Why not just leave him alone? I happen to love him very much, but it is a past feeling from when I was 17. I am now 63 and love my partner of 37 years. He is what is important to me. This is the most insane blog I have ever seen and by women who claim to be his good close friend and fans? I hate to see his enemies!
David's physical stature may be one thing, but his narcissistic temperament another. He is, as Loveen so aptly described, the actor described in the AA big book. "he sets up the stage, he is the director", when people don't do as he says, he becomes the Jekyll & Hyde. He will retaliate or use charm to get his way. He doesn't take "No" well, and that will never change. "Bad women who love to gossip"? Not so, Jayne. Keep dreaming!
For one thing, he is NOT 120 pounds! More like 157. He is NOT a meek and a mild man-no way! You never have had seen him have his meltdowns-familiarize yourself and go on youtube and watch him go off at a celebrity event, in Las Vegas, in a few of his concerts, even recently he couldn't sing Cherish very well at all and that was pit of my stomach sickening sad to see as he used to gather his faithful by the boatload into huge arenas. I don't care of he slept with fans-that is par for the course of an entertainer, unless they are faithful to their wives-and it seems in this day and age, there are a lot of faithful former hard rockers who stay truthful to their spouses. You know what is so sad? People like Ozzy, Alice, Mick, David Bowie....None of them EVER gor up on a show like this and "cried" like this. They just went off to the rehabs if they needed rehab and be done with it. This guy, I don't know...He acts like he still needs to be welped or weaned or something! Big cry baby, did mean one word of what he said, not one word! Worried about his wife and hoaking around with a girlfriend almost a year before divorce and he blames his wife? Sorry, it does not work that way, Bub!
It's one thing to have good memories of the past and enjoying his music,etc. but it's another to not recognize the man he is. He put it out there – trying to get out of trouble – but it backfired. Many fans are no longer. And what does someone's physical appearance have to do with their soul and their respect of other, etc. It's the inside that matters and his seems to have not developed or developed poorly. I think it's interesting to hear the encounters of others as I have experienced rudeness by him at his concerts. And, as far as people speaking out – once you learn something you didn't know about someone or had bad experiences yourself it changes your opition of someone. It's good to know – why spend money or time on someone who shows no respect for anyone and cares only about themselves. It's sad to learn of alot of these things and I think that's why people are upset and continue to speak out.
Ann is correct what bothers me the most for those harmed by David, is the ABUSE-and I will not elaborate on the abuse but it is purely sick behavior. No excuse for any type of abuse-none whatsoever!
Charlene Mattson
Way to say it, Ann! Exactly right on! He in fact shot himself in the foot by trying to romance his way on Piers show and it backfired tremendously! There was no segment, he got shut off after 50 count them! 50 quick seconds because they knew as we know the guy was drunk or on something-probably that same medication his publicist always talks about him being allergic to, riiight. Those shows were live but only tape delayed so there is no other extra footage. He was blitzed! he was slurring his words for goodness sake! How can he have such respect for anyone when he faked this whole thing for to get out of criminal trouble? Then he is off walking off into the sunset, photo op of him in the Bahamas recently, photo op of him in Florida, photo op of him in New York and photo op of him in the L.A. area. What kind of a lockdown rehab is this? I think Ann and the rest are right, he has only gone to a few AA meetings and as he sat there and spoke the very words that he would die, he is looking pretty drunk. Sympathy ploy for the courts to get out of jail, that's all it is. Of course there are hard feeling of some of his fans. When he keeps saying bad mean things about ex wives and lying about the whole life story, there is cause for someone to step out and speak out! He lied when he said some gal was in his hospital room, trying to put something into his IV line-Crock of Beans! For one thing he was only in the hospital for 2 days, both his mom and Shirley were there like 2 hawks. One day for the op, 24 hours later he was home at his mom's house before going home to Encino. If anyone knows anything about Sinai hospital, it is a very movie starfish hospital and there is no way anybody from the outside can just waltz in there, especially a fan of a tv show. Like going into Levenworth there, so he makes up a lot of stories. It is alright that his faithful flock doesn't want to believe, they believe books, well, books are written for one purpose and that does not mean what is in there is the truth. Stories to make money. Is there anybody out there that knows his plastic surgeon? Not a trace of a burn mark on that right arm of his. The old dirty cut off sock trick must have worked 😀
Wow and Wow! I can sure see that some of yous are really upset with this man and probably rightly so! I had a few encounters with him when he was doing a show last year. It was at a casino and he was drinking scotch and being cutesy. At our job, we cannot get tied up and connected to any one of our patrons, either customer, singer or run of the mill gambler. He was insistent and I almost lost my job of 18 years. He does not take No for an answer and he does in fact pull the old 'nobody will have to know;, our little secret', well, it does not work like that for me. I do not find drunk men attractive and my husband would sure have something to say about his way of trying to pick up a lady. He treats women like they are nothing more than something for his bedroom antics. Then he drops them. I have seen and had to have listened to many many women cry over their drinks when he has left them and dumped them and reality sets in. It is not pretty at all. He is not 20 years old anymore, he is an embarrassment to himself, to his craft and to his fans. He should just go and retire already. Thank you, Loveen and Ann, we need more women like you to herald the call and answer the the unasked questions of not only him, but os so many entertainers just like him...I've seen my share in my work field, some are classier than others, but if they can get away with it, they will take any woman or man and say the right things and do the right things and then once they got what they wanted, they dump on these women and men and it is heartbreaking!
thanks believer. The women who I interviewed were saying the same identical things about their contact with him. At some point you know that thousands of women are not lying. Thanks for verifying for us what he has done. I know of one encounter in Ft. Lauderdale where a couple outside by the beach bar drinking, David was super drunk and began flirting with this husbands wife, he said to her, "do you know who I am? I am David Cassidy and women love me"-the lady turned to David and said, No what you are sir is a sloppy drunk!" She had no idea that he was "David Cassidy the actor/musician-I guess he just shook his head and went on to flirt with the next lady! that was in the summer of 2010
I can appreciate that! He never seems to miss an opportunity and after reading things here and remembering things of the past, it seems that he is really worried about his self worth as a Romeo man. If he is over in Ft. Lauderdale picking up married women again he is making a name for himself in his own neighborhood! He has such a name up here no woman will look at him-Maybe the reason he has to pick on fans again? No, that I am talk went out with the dirty water back in the day. I wouldn't take him on on a good day because I have self worth going for me. As I read, I get a bad feeling for his new flame. Seems she is a lady of worth, hope she watches her pocketbook and doesn't buy into his crying. I've seen fans buy him things and he has actually thrown away all gifts. There used to be a somewhat auction in back of the stage after he and others packed up, once a week, an auction for us to buy things-some things were pretty nice, some were handmade-that is sad that people spend and take time to bring these singers nice items for saying thank you and they get dumped into the trash can. Most are stuffed animals and we sent those over to the local hospital for the children., If you need to see someone in concert, go have fun, but do not spend your hard earned money! They have tons more than you will ever know and they do not appreciate it. You know he was up in his room hiding when the rest of these teen idols were signing and posing for photos? When Davy Jones did it a couple of years ago, he signed every last autograph and what happens, his lady goes off and this guy has a meltdown like a stupid head.
Laughing at the continued lies
David Cassidy has an Easter Greeting on his website davidcassidy.com that says he is doing very well with his sobriety. I guess no one showed him this CNN interview clip where its evidenced he is NOT sober. Sounds more like his publicity team concocted the message as it's overly cheery. However, this real video clip don't lie.
I agree with "Jayne".......this is the most insane blog I have ever read....just leave the man alone and hope he recovers......
Than dont read it
I think all those things put on his site are generated by his people. I'm sure he has better things to do with his time than answer anybody. He's in Rehab, remember. No talkie, No visitors. It's all hype! Yea well I just bought a nice bottle of wine, not a drinker, but thought it'd be nice for a change for those who want it. I do think he was under some influence and I do think the producers stopped filming once they saw what they were dealing with. I think all you posters are correct about a lot of things. It is a shame. I know a lot of the 60 and 70 idols are so cool and nice after their concerts; they come out and will sign ANYTHING and nobody ever has a breakdown or meltdown, not like this man. He always has made himself out to be something he never was. Should ask one of his ex's about his so called faith
Sharon Delbacco
If this man did not have a reason to drink, just reading some of the carp here would make him! Where are his protectors here? Just letting the children run rampant? I don't care if it is true or made up, it doesn't belong here. Maybe his fansite should allow you protesters to go over there and air your dirty laundry. Not everything should be positive and rosy. I do believe he was drunk in the video, sorry. He needs help let him go and get it, but he needs to stop flaunting his vacations with his fiancée all over the enternet. Sick is sick, but he looks to be sick and having a jolly ol great time. How can anybody take any of this seriously? Bad April Fool's Joke?
wine and cake
So I am not the only one noticing the fiancée bragging like a twelve year old fan all over the internet! Ah and she is certainly lacking in the brain department. In her latest pic of her and him with a birthday cake, there is actually a wine glass in the picture!!! I spose she will say it is a mocktail. That is what she called the contents of the wine glass on her table at his last concert.... Never knew wine glasses were used for mocktails
Duh agian!
because whenever anything in a negative light is brought up on his website or fan page it is promptly taken down. You are only allowed to view him through rose colored glasses. Its a shame, he is human and deeply flawed at that but not allowed to be seen that way.
They are tweeked because they all know there is truth in what people are saying in here! Carry On 😀
NashvilleGal
Teen Idol sighting at Berry Field Airport last night with a blonde woman! They must be going up to the Derby, but going through town to see the sights here first Opryland lineup is great tomorrow night before going up to KY.
Not too many Mocktails served at cocnerts at all! They want their money! I'm sad to say we might just hear he did something very wrong and probably dying from chirorriss
MySharonna
Probably carries a flask in his front pocket and then calls it spring water 😀
wine and cake pic from Huntington hotel
Jan Ruiz
Complete idiots-every one of you.
David Cassidy is one of the sweetest men that ever walked the face of the earth! So he has his "mean" moments, so what? Maybe it was the booze that did it? Crazy fans who do not listen or behave could push him over the top too. Please leave this sweet man alone and leave him to his peace, please! Do not even think twice, yes I know him, and have known him since March 14, 1970. He is a very shy man, he does not go around and act like some drunk pick up artist. If he wants a woman, he knows the right numbers to call to get a woman for the night. I don't know about the lot of you, but I am glad none of your words would change my mind. Glad I met him, Glad to know him and call him friend for over 40 years.
He sure can be a good guy when he wants to cant he? Ive seen both sides. When he's good he's really good but watch out for that bad side! It's a doozy! Just curious, do you know the man from 40 years ago or do you speak of the "new and improved" David?
Soindenial
Great that your experience was different but you certainly live in lala land.
Happy you had a good experience. Many haven't. Just because you did doesn't make everyone else a "complete idiot".
Take Blinders Off
Physical abuse is more than "mean moments", and obviously you do not know him as well as you say. Stay in your dream world. None of your words will change the minds of those who have witnessed his public meltdowns, and felt his abuse.
Jan, your own statement describes "the sweetest man on earth" as one who "knows which numbers to call to get a woman for the night".....even though he's married. Obviously, we have different definitions of sweetness...and probably of lies, drunkenness, obnoxiousness, irresponsibility, etc.
Merlene
Go pound sand! He is a mean guy! If I didn't know he was an Aries, I would swear he was a Gemini. Nice and sweet until things don't go his way, then watch out! He acts like a spoiled brat basically. He has never stopped drinking in over 40 years-Do you think this little stunt changed anything? Next thing you know, he will be DWI in the water the way he manuvers his little boat.
I met him at his studio in 1970, we became friends as I am 2 years younger than him. I eventually start working for Columbia/Burbank Studios because of David and worked myself up to make-up artist and hair stylist for Paramount studios after being at Columbia for 9 years-Paramount 29 years and then as freelance to have more free time. I never slept with him, just his friend. He is a good man, but I understand his frustrations. For a long time nobody takes him very seriously in his music or in his acting. Yes, he has had rough goes, but nobody talks about that because nobody wants to see him lose his contracts/jobs. You just can't help but love him, at least like him-he has his moments, we all do, but mercy, please you have to stop with this talk of him being so mean to you. Why don't you contact him in private? I'm sure his agent is listed. He has lost a great deal recently and to be mean here isn't very nice. He has a good close friend who had been quite ill for a long time and seems everybody in his life is going away, mostly by death. Maybe you are in more dire need of a man than he is of a real woman. ????????? Gosh I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend 😀
Who do you think you are talking to, Dora Dora? I am a man and I call it the way I see it. So what if he has girlfriends? I think your problem with him is that you were never his one and only. You go on that he abused you, but you keep on with him and his girlfriend-Why? Of what importance is it to you? You cannot be judge, jury and executioner. Live and let live! You cannot call his shots and if he stumbles and falls he needs a friend to help him up; not to run a play by play of what he is doing wrong and with whom. You sound like such a miss priss perfect, but this is not a perfect world. Let him call women if he so wishes, let him be drunk in public and picking up women, let him go along and allow him to do what he wants to do. You cannot dictate to him. You sound like an old dried up prune. Have a nice day 😀
??? Did you confuse me with someone else?
Iris O'Day
DO YOU LITTLE CHILDREN EVER BEHAVE? IT IS GOOD FRIDAY-A TIME FOR REFLECTION AND PRAYERS. LET US PRAY FOR DAVID, TO BETTER HIMSELF, TO BE A BETTER MAN TO HIMSELF, TO OTHERS AND TO SHOW HIM FORGIVNESS IN PAST TRANSGRESSIONS. HELP HIM TO HEAL DEAR LORD AND SHOW HIM THE WAY TRUTH AND LIGHT. THIS TOO SHALL PASS FROM HIS LIFE AND HE WILL LIVE RENEWED AND WILL REJOICE IN HIS NEW FOUND FREEDOM IN LIFE.......(and I pray for all you mean spirited little girls in here too-fingers in ears and thumbin my nose at you all :D)
freakin serious!!!!
Are you freaking serious!!!! How dare you pray for me while thumbing your nose at the same time!!!! How contradictory is that statement you condensing ass!!!
Iris, there is only one martyr and it isn't you. You screaming doesn't make you any better than others. I don't believe good spirit condones abuse.
With fingers in ears and thumb in your nose to us all you STILL came on here to read and post, on Good Friday.
ChurchLadyToo
You can't be serious, right? Who are you to tell anybody what? Actually a lot of you are telling people to do this and to do that-Who are you? Unless you are paying these peoples bills and feeding them, clothing them and sheltering them, I think you all should really leave it alone. You got a gripe on for him, but this is a place to discuss his alcoholism. I don't drink so I know nothing of addiction, but I can see how a lot of you see him as being drunk in this video, I think he is so it was stupid of him to try and go on tv to pound on his chest that he has a problem and he will die when he was already drinking or drunk when he said those very words. I sense at least uno very jealous woman in here. You need to move on, sister. Put it on your facebook and invite people to read the whole story. Stop dropping hints and getting all the others to spill their tales. You started, you bring it on. For the REAL fans GET A LIFE!
churchlady
Miss churchlady get on your knees for him... yeah do that.... yeah just like that!
CantBelieveThis
LOL! Must be fallout from the Blood Moon the other night LOL! Now we have a Minister in here praying for one soul and condemming the rest-Gee Whiz! I don't know what you all do or smoke or drink, but this has been the most seriously funny and sad at the same time blog I have ever read! I do believe the ones who encountered him-There are stories all about his prowess all over our planet, all of it not very good! Ladies, no idea who you are, but I thank you, for speaking out and I bet the ones who are afraid might just decide to join you in here and let everyone know how rude this guy really is. No amount of shock will change the fact he is in some real deep trouble and it goes far beyond these DUI's. There is talk around he is in trouble with people who want money back and then he is playing with Sony and a lawsuit. That is just dumb.
Well...Isn't that Special! Don't say that! Then he will be down on his knees again too and having another revelation!
BigMomma
Barking like a dog yet? Got you at the toilet bowl yet?
I just had my own revelation about this barking dog STUFF. These freakish churchy women that keep praying and believing in their fantasy that this man is some PAPER DOLL CUT OUT IMAGE THAT CAN'T DO NO WRONG are actually the ones BARKING LIKE A DOG, YAP YAP YAP WOOF WOOF WOOF doing what he wants, keeping the image alive... woooooffff.
turnacheek
HOPE THEY DON'T ALL HAVE FLEAS! CHOKE COLLARS OPTIONAL. WOOF WOOF! CATS LOOSE 😀
wringingmyhands
If you don't like what he had done to you, why don't you just take him into a court of law and sue him? There is no statute of limitations on abuse or molestation. I know he can get rough-he will pull out your earrings, he will pull your hair and he will suffocate you while you are down there, he will try and keep you there, then he will call you swear names, that's the way he was. He has matured, but he likes to be rough, that's him. So either be quiet about him being abusive or call up TMZ or RadarOnLine and sell the story to them. .
It appears you have a heathy relationship with others. Not have been abused, love or admiring someone is not manipulating , bribing, lying. And charming women to bed. His drinking is only a symptom of his problems. You are wringing your hands? Imagine those who have had no voice, believing it is their fault, believing they are not worthy, and reliving the rejection. Point is, he did not treat this women as humans but as some pet project. They have been wringing their hands. This is not a joke about his behavior it is serious.
Give the guy a break we are all consenting adults here . I for one have had a blast the last 15 years long may it continue .
Maybe some of you need to go to therapy? That is the one thing all over the world a man will do to a woman he doesn't want-HE USES HER AND DUMPS HER! This rock and roller isn't the first and certainly isn't the last when it comes to getting what he wants at the time. Stand tall, arch your shoulders back and say out loud "I bedded David Cassidy, The BIG Teen Singer and I survived and I am HAPPY!" Some women only wish and some women take pity and decline. The game os chance is cruel, but can be good if only you allow it to be so.
Are you kidding
Oh penny something is not right with you sis.
You know...I am really beginning to think about what I have been reading-You know he called both his parents narcissists? I thought he loved his mum? I noticed that true reports he did not pay for her care at all, and then came a tidbit about his little life when he was 15 and budding around with Mineo-Mineo was supplying him and a few of his friends with drugs and women and would watch the "festivities". Now there is another person who also wrote about Mineo and David, it isn't sunshine and lace at all. I was shamed to read he chalked up his 1st bankruptcy in 1976-sad to know I had more money than him at that time-What happened to ALL his money! It was not all lost on bad investments. Oh and for the faint of heart, he does use women for their money-Anyone who knows him well knows this. I feel badly for these women here who got taken by air promises and mistruths. That gave themselves and got rooked and abused and made to feel like dirt on the bottom of shoes. Ladies, you are not alone! One day, one day he will answer and of course he will deny
There really are a lot of information pages on his wild way of doing things. I just took whatever was being reported on for granted, neither here nor there, but as an also long-time former fan and concert-goer, I am thinking he wasn't the nicest person at all, he isn't the perfect guy who everybody kicks. Maybe in his old age he is getting the hauntings, from things he has done in the past and maybe his physical being is compromised and he is running scared, but gosh...He should have been a better person and not be such a stenod all these years. There are things in cyberland that although at first could be passed up as gossip, but on closer inspection looks to be true especially if you were around at the time and know exactly of what the poster speaks of and can remember exactly how these things happened. Isn't nice at all, but bottom line, seems he has been a real party animal for many years and all of a sudden crying Uncle. I always thought he was a bit better than that, but obviously not-so sad.
Statutes of limitations vary from state to state, but they do apply. If the time hasn't lapsed, he can still be sued. If it's over, he can't. Plain & simple.
BOM BOM BOM BOM
I Think I Lush You
NoShirtShylock
There is a hink in here that there is only 1, possible 2, but no more than 2 of you blaming him for hurting you girls. GET OVER IT OR SEND HIM TO JAIL! Sue the pants off him if you feel you have been made to feel like a dog. Any and I do mean any woman who lowers herself to sleep and keep sleeping with this supposed machochist deserves just what they get! You just don't like the old use and lose routine of an entertainer. That's life baby! Get over yourselves or sue him, take him to court, make a claim, call the rag magazines and open that can of worms all the way up! Waste of time trying to talk about the bad effects of alcohol. If he was drinking when he did this to you, then I would have to believe him right off. A man who drinks for as long as he has, well his equipment just does not work so good. Case closed.
BREAKING NEWS! DAVID CASSIDY, ONLY MAN IN HISTORY TO LURE WOMEN TO HIS BED FOR FUN AND THEN DUMPS THEM-DETAILED COVERAGE AT 6:p.m.
This has got to be the most excellent, funniest post ! I am laughing my you know what off * VERY FUNNY * Thank you for the laughs 🙂
Just adding to this drama. 0.11 to 0.20 a person will exibit signs of many things one of which is Slurred Speech. Ok, that has been deemed in this video. I want to hear his explaination about when he started to drink? 2009 he says? Then why was he at a function for some recovery in 2008 where he said he just got out of Betty Ford????? Why does he keep saying his dad was jealous of his career? He was not, already paid his dues on Broadway. Now, There was also an incident at a New York Playboy mansion where he behaved badly, trying to go after a young playmate of 21, groping her and being a chit on the thing. He has had a long time drink problem, why does he keep trying to reinvent and why does he always seem to have to send out an SOS to his half brothers who are more successful than he is? Give us a break here.
Some Old Woman
Just how much truth is attached to all these allegations we will perhaps never know – did all this really happen – is it just a dream or pure fantasy? If true, this is dynamite and why are so many women not talking openly with honesty and without fear. What price have they paid for keeping "our little secret"?
I would estimate 99.9 percent is true. Not just saying it to be funny. Take for an example when his lady friend got preggers and he flat out denied to his wife it was some crazed stalker of a fan making up a story, now if he could go to the lengths to bury that and to not tell the truth; to lie to at least 3 people, how do you think he would react with all these truths? The real information is out there. I think the main reason why so many women may not be talking is nobody would believe them because the fans have been in the vortex, he is the saint, all others are lying. Actually, all the real truths are in fact out in the e-net, just have to find them. For those who care to seek it out, it is a goldmine of information, for others who don't care, that is it. but it is out there and it is all very interesting. Even enough of a real story to make one shake their heads where it does concern truth vs. lie. Can't make it up, just like the story about an Ex who got beat up and had years of physical therapy. People know who he is and what he is. Just in the recent years alone where he did bad, he didn't tell the truth; about his drinking and driving when caught in Florida, his allergic reaction to all these cold medicines, in Vegas, in Burbank, in the other various places he was singing at when he went off-I mean, come on, obvious problems and with it come the lies. Always will love him blaming his slow eye on the Florida DUI-the bottle in his hand was just an afterthought????
You are spot on Veronica. Every one of the girlfriends, groupies, whatever... are "crazy stalkers" and he is always the victim. Hey...maybe some of them ARE psycho, with as many as he's had the odds are good a few are not right in the head. To the ones who have had good experiences I say – good for you! To the ones that didn't, I believe that you were led on and played with and that sucks. I'd have more respect for him if he'd just played the game right. Have the groupies, have his fun- yeah..he's a famous musician, they do that, it's a given, whatever..BUT...he didn't need to lie and puff up the "relationship" and get these women to believe there was something more just to get his cruel, sadistic fun out of it. I hope they all have been able to move on and lead happy lives – and I'll say it again, if they want to come out and vent about it now? Good! I'm sure it helps them to know they aren't alone.
I too read his autobiography. I cam away thinking he was just the most lonely man on earth for he had to lie to make a name for himself with the ladies. How many guys would actually tell the world he stuck his privates out of a gate and allowed whoever to do their business on him? That is a dreamer who wants to be just like a rock star. I got on good advice there are some pretty seasoned ladies in Hollywood, that back in the heyday, they would never touch him because he was not worthy, he was not of rock status-he basically went home alone, not with any of the ladies of the day that made a name out of going with rock stars. Then you got to wonder if these girls who are going up to his private home, where is his head at along with all his friends? Still under age-Does he think this is ok? Chances are it is a make believe story. What teenager drove a car up in the hills back in the day to find him? NO ONE! There are photos, I swear, there are no throngs of girls at his studio, make believe again, one or two lone strays, not old enough to even be there- 12 – what he doing with a 12 yr old? All nonsense.
Go back into his history and see how he was as a small boy. He was mean to cats, burning them, hanging them on clotheslines by their tails, balling them up and throwing them. Does anybody ever think as to why he has no long term childhood friends? Doesn't play well with others and the two he did have, He cut them off because....they know . FYI, it was between his dad and his step dad that got him into show business, sink or swim. He was misbehaving, truant at school, he only got through 1 semester at high school. He rather be off getting high with others down on Santa Monica Bl..
Wow – Wish I would have know about the cruelty to animals – That would have been it for me. How could any one care about him after hearing that. There is so much I didn't know. For someone to do that to animals they have no soul. I wish there had been laws back then that would have put him in jail.
how did you hear of the cat abuse? never heard of that before
Jessica Janowitz
Animal abuse? Well, if he abuses women, what did he abuse before he learned how to do that? I do know he didn't tell the truth when he'd pose with a horse down at the horse stables located down the road on Riverside. He didn't get into horses until he met his #2 wife. He persued her with a vengeance 1981 & he knew what he was getting into there-money and prestige. She helped him so much while they were in the UK, it was her who showed him what the grand life was-Ask her! She was so mistreated and used and then called crazy-She is far from crazy! So when we going to hear the dirty laundry. Keep hearing about lack of trust and yata yata yata, get to the facts!
Amen!!! Happy Easter everybody!
Yea...Someone else said it too well....He has made up a life time of lies and now wonder how he is going to get out of his web as he struggles. He won't. The thing that gets me is how he thinks he is this great huge idol of the world when all he ever was was a character on a tv show and he hated that until that was all he could fall back on. Now, if you want to get into the how he did it-how he got on tv, it ALL relates back to who the people were connected to ABC and Columbia and who he was attached to at the time. This wasn't some Cinderella moment for his career. FYI, start looking around the internet for information, don't just use his name, his former friends, his dad-there is a real excellent site devoted to his dad and the moderator has worth, meaning he isn't fly by night, and he does not tolerate lies or gossip, lot of information and so shocking. – It is a shame the ones who know are and have been stymied for years-Can't or not allowed to speak out of the abuse he inflicted. He is so small he abuses in his concerts-when he uses bad words and swears to his fans. this is NOT a seasoned performer-this is a tantrum throwing, diva baby.
Happy Easter to Everybody!
Didn't he write that he got Barbara, The Butter Queen? Then he too ran her down? I remember seeing her on a talk show about this subject and she was not an ugly woman at all, not like he described her. The way he wrote that book-disgusting. Shows what type of person he is- to say such mean things and allow himself to look like- What? That is bull. He lowered himself. So he is ok with women as long as they don't come back to haunt him? is that it? They can all be crazy and stalkers and and and, but he is all perfect? he lies about his baby girl? lied about the woman? lied about the wives? He isn't worth the gasbag I just cut.
Get Real Already! He is no great shakes. He was tapped to be a teenybopper idol and then it went away-45 years ago! Whatever is going on with him now, who cares? I agree, I think he did use this arena to do the old look at me, I'm a mess and need help, then he went off, flipping his bird, walking off from responsibility as usual. He could have killed somebody! Does he care? No. Like he didn't care when he hurt women, many women. Some personal, some just fans, but he has hurt a lot of people and he does not care! But he chose to go out and be negligent on the highways and then when caught, he LIES! Unbelievable! How much more can anybody really support him now. Start making a list on these things he does-no good.
The Butter Queen was not Hollywood Groupie royalty. She was from Fort Worth. Nobody else will speak up because they think they hold the Ace that will get them their dream of being the next Mrs. Cassidy- HA!
I think he needs to be left like sand in the garden. Here comes the star, the idol of all the world-NOT!
Hoot Owl
Better watch....he will sue the world! He's the victim and you all are beating up on him. Quit It 😀
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
Sister Mary Oliphant
LOL! Then scorn away, good women!
I think I know what is that bothers him. Not the women he used, he thought I bet that at his age right now, he'd be like a southern gentleman, raising horses, doing stud service and not working too hard for it. So in his old age, he is still signing those songs that made the TV show he hated somewhat famous. If he wasn't such a prima donna, he could have worked with the very best in the business, but burned bridges, same reason he pulled on you girls-user. He has lost at least 24 homes, lost cars, bankruptcies, divorces-the only thing nobody ever saw in print was all this abuse of power and abuse against women. Hey, how come nobody else is spilling their beans after they called the pot black? Details, we want details! Nothing to hide if it is the truth
OhBoy!
Shameful what goes on here.
Was watching a nice movie today and in it was an actress who admitted she too was an alcoholic and her life was in the gutter. She lost everything and was living on the kindness of strangers-her children were estranged from her. She passed away about 3 years after she told her tale and watching this movie, it shows what too can happen to our David. He might be on his last foot, we don't know. I would hate to wake up and found out he died from his sickness and have you all going at it here to beat the band about what he has done to the average woman. You too must take charge of your own actions! Nobody twisted your arm and you got a brain to know right from wrong. I think some of you are just mad he didn't choose you, he chose another fan to share his life with. She might too have a bad go of it, and then she might be just what he might need right now-Stop being mean to her-she has done nothing to hurt anybody. Allow her to be excited she nabbed him and is enjoying her life with him. Don't be so cruel towards him, forgive him and move on and you will start to heal. You will never move on in life while still bogged down in the past with festering feelings of rejection. People do not like to be at anyone's party pooper escapades-lot of that going on here, sounds like 1 lone person doing it too. He might not be with us too much longer. If he did this to get ahead of his serving some jail time, oh well, that is on to him. I want to keep a good positive flow going for him, he might have been a chit in life, but at least he was never a chit to me, always a nice guy.
Just found this thread and I find it quite disgusting – talk about kick a man when he is down and sick. What a next of vipers – airing your dirty linen in public and acting like spoilt babies because he has found a girlfriend and doesnt want you any more. This is cyberbullying at its worse. Oh and most of you haven't the courage to put your proper names. Pity perhaps if you had Mr Cassidy could have sued you for defamation of character. Whatever he is or isn't or has done in the past is not for a public forum. You all ourght to get a life and feel really ashamed of yourselves!
Sorry to disappoint you, rock me baby, but this is freedom of speech in the public domain. As it stands, “Mr. Cassidy” would be hard pressed to sue anyone for “defamation of (his) character,” especially given his specific “character” traits & defects. It would be up to him disprove anyone to the contrary. Since “Mr. Cassidy” continually brings himself into the public forum, whatever “he is or isn’t or has done in the past” is up for public discussion. Doubtful that the vast majority of anyone here needs “get a life” and/or “feel really ashamed” of themselves.
and your proper name is....... Rock Me Baby?
Thank you. "Rock Me Baby".....couldn't have said it better myself.....
Bill W friend
If David began to sue for defamation of character, he would have to begin with himself. He is his own worst enemy. He wouldn't do it anyway, because whatever is left of his career would be finished. He has abused family and friends. I think about his children, what a sad state affairs.
A public figure who has made himself a threat to the public safety appears on a public TV program where the public is then invited to comment. Good! The public's comments have provided far more insight into who this person is than anything this person himself will ever say. ....this person who has somehow managed to avoid both jail and rehab.
Keep the comments coming!
Hi Guess those hard core fans advocate abuse on any level is okay by DC-amazing-
The person to be sued for defamation of character would be Mr Cassidy! He has lied about the character of MANY!! Rock Me Baby and Oh Boy certainly did not read this blog in it's entirety and haven't a clue and clearly DO NOT know him. There is no jealousy, only pity, for the fool of a fan currently his girlfriend who is technically committing adultery with a married man.
Excuse me but I have read every single post on this blog and furthermore can assure you that I do know him personally
knowing me and knowing you
Miss rock me, how are you feeling right now being that you have read every post and know him personally ? It must certainly be confusing and hard to swallow the huge divergence in opinion. That is understandable. This is the epitome of what narcissists/alcoholics do. I am so sad for him and what has come to pass.
PartyGal
For goodness sake! Why don't you leave him alone? Leave his innocent girlfriend alone? Leave his life alone? Unless you support him, pay his bills, feed and clothe him, nobody has anything else to say. He has a problem. Why are you people so hell bent on pointing out he is a married man and his girlfriend is committing adultery? No, she is not. You have no idea what is going on behind his closed door. Do you know as fact he is doing something, and if he is, why is it any of your business? He is free and over 21. A lot of us have read this blog and there is one person in here who is overly pushy, feeling of how he dropped her. Unless you were 15 2 weeks ago, you need to move on. Nobody is sending anyone to jail and by the way, why is it you feel all this adultery is going on when you were under age and going to his room? Pot meet Kettle?
partygal in denial
love when people justify and act like then they are better. Business, well David made it everyone's business. Give me a break party girl!
100% Agree! His private life is of nobody else's business. How dare someone pluck a facebook insert and bring it over here for all to read. Why are you so interested in his girlfriend? Why do you say these things about her? You do not know her. Why do you need to feel like you are trying to control him? He always did have a problem with certain fans. Please stop this. Please stop. This is not right. You really need to let him go. Please.
Grateful Lass
OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!
I TOO AM CONSORTING WITH A MARRIED MAN- HOW'S ABOUTS DEMS ROTTEN APPLES? I THINK AM CONSORTING WITH A MARRIED MAN – WAIT....LET ME CHECK.....................................................................
YES, I AM IN FACT CONSORTING ALL OVER WITH A MARRIED MAN AND HIS NAME IS DAVID TOO
I'M SO LUCKY! YIPEE 😀
RubyBegonia
He has never been free as far as I know. His concerts are expensive and well worth it
The girlfriend isn't the innocent party you say. She's knowingly, willingly consorting with a married man. Theirs is indeed an adulteress affair. That she continues to flaunt, especially in the faces of David's wife & children doesn't say much about her sense of character. Fans who've supported David through his recording sales, concert appearances, book sales, etc. are paying his bills, feeding & clothing him. So, yes, we do have a right to comment. While the girlfriend may not be committing adultery herself (she's not married), she sure is in collusion with it. By all accounts, she makes no apologies & appears quite proud of herself for landing the "catch" that is David Cassidy, a 64 year old adolescent who refuses to grow up. David's not free & he won't be free until the divorce is final.
What Abuse?
If there was abuse on you, why did you not bring charges against him? Love him or hate him, he has a right to do whatever he wants to do, including messing up his own life! Why are you so mean and nasty to him? Either sue him, sell your story to the highest bidder or leave it alone and move on! You know, even Jesus will forgive you if you allow him to do so, he died for our sins, get it? So why can't you forgive him and move on? Or don't forgive him and still move on.
I hope whatever he is doing, he is being honest and getting his life in order. I hope he isn't hiding something worse. He is a good guy, but look how his button are pressed here, just imagine what happens in real life with him. I saw him do a great gesture at his own concert. He stepped outside before the show started and 2 girls were disappointed they did not have tickets-he told management to let them in and give them seats. He did not try and pick them up, did not ask for any numbers-he had his entire family with him, it was a great night
RollingEyesHere
KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!!! The only business he had was allowing you people into his life to show he has a problem, why he did it is of no concern to any of us. We got his whole life story, habits and everything else in here including harming animals which I do NOT believe at all! Boy, some people in here, give them an inch and they take over yammering about how he harmed them. Did you ever move on? I feel so sorry for you to waste time and tell the world what a tool he is-So what? We all can agree to disagree, but my goodness, what else can we possibly know about? Does he use Charmin or Northern? Dial or Zest? Suave or Biolage?
BEST OF LUCK, TEEN IDOL! YOU CAN OVERCOME ANYTHING! WE LOVE YOU, WELL, THE ONES WHO REALLY DO LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU GAVE US EYE CANDY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE 😀
Dr, Feelgood
Sybil.....Party of 25, Your Table is Ready 😀
he has done many kind and generous things behind the scenes in recent years that the public knows nothing about, expecting nothing In return. I for one was the recipient of such kindness. please get therapy if you are unable to recover from the wrongs you feel were done to you and go on and attempt to live a positive life with what is left of your life.
Generous things, I have know doubt but I do remember on a video with he got his DUI in Florida, he said the the patrol officer. "You know who I am, don't you? I did fundraising for the State Patrol so many times, what I have done for you and you are treating me this way/" So it would be one thing to do nice things and keep your mouth quiet about it. It is another to use your generosity to keep out of trouble. Positive? So I guess the victims can overlook his abuse.
Doris Jensen
Interesting is correct on that statement. He did in fact say words like that, like he is saying I washed your back now you wash mine. So then it makes it ok to break the law? There is a word for those kinds of actions. Like greasing somebody's palm in higher office. If that is all he does these generous things for then, maybe he should keep doing them, but aware that people know what he is now up to. Sounds just like a get out of jail free card. Do you think this is why he went on this show?
Just because he gave fundraisers to the State Police or whoever, does not give him the right to break the law. That is childish. The cop should have turned right around and said Thank you for all the funds you have raised for us, it makes our job much easier, but because you do this for us, we have to do this for you as we have rules to keep the public safe from people like you. Then the officer could also have said when asked Don't you know who I am? The officer should have right then said back to him Yes, I do, you are DUI.
You misunderstand. I am not speaking of things done for the police or public figures, I am speaking of things done for private citizens with no reward.
I like your thoughts rock me baby! You know him personally then – how much of this here is pure fantasy? He always seemed to me certainly n the 70s/80s a lonely man with very few close friends and in need of real love.
MyTwoCents
Let's not start rehashing his past again. If anyone paid attention, he lived with his roommate for a long time until he married his 1st wife. Think this stems from the fact nobody was really ever at home for him growing up so then he got into trouble, got into the lifestyle of the day. I think he is very fearful of winding up by himself. He never had been too much all alone, not even on tour. I know him as well. He is a nice guy actually, but he and he knows this so no threat of lawsuit, but he isn't that smart in real life, he is very generous, not like Elvis though. I have such a cache of things he had given to me in my youth from his television show days and his heavy tour days, going to San Diego, going to San Bernardino, going up North to see him, getting postcards from New York and Boston, Philly. I'm getting too old to hang on to them anymore, might as well put them up to this EBay, there are also plenty of private collection pictures of us. Ladies, be good to him, ok? He never came with a self help manual, none of us did 😉
David's mom gave up her own television & stage career to be there for him during his teen-aged years. He was never abandoned or left alone to fend for himself. There was always somebody there. Attempting to blame his sole, responsible parent is misplaced. At some point, whether at 18 or 21, David should have grown up. He hasn't.
Anybody Here?
Boy HOW DEE! What you smoking in here? Somebody's rubber soul or SOS ??? Same person, all these different names, typing like it many people here fighting for him, yea sure. Somebody getting paid one dollar for each post or ???
David is a good guy, as far as entertainers go he does alright. He has to play to his fans, but boy, I just bet he would do sooo very well in Da Blues! Transparent what causes him to drink. Get a load of some of these posts. Do you act like this in front of him as well? I need an aspirin now!
You aren't serious? This goes here? Shame on you who are jealous of his girlfriend. Nobody's business. You must live a lonely life to sit here and think of what they might be doing to cause adultery. Why do you care? you gonna do a citizen's arrest on him? on her? on both? Do you have a picture of this? I want to see some solid proof. It IS the 21st Century, right? They answer to their maker like I answer to mine, ok?
I shake my head and can't believe it, I just cannot believe his so called fans. I chime in and also say NO WONDER THE POOR MAN DRINKS!
Alcohol is a chemical addiction, not caused by fans or any other person.
Mae, he doesn't need you more than he ever did before! Adultery is defined in the dictionaries. David's still married. The girlfriend is not. GF's posted many a photo of their holidays together on her FB page. Maura Rossi. They were certainly not in the Caribbean last year as platonic friends, sleeping in separate rooms, remaining celibate. One can only wonder how his wife must have felt during that time, knowing he was off with another woman.
ATotalWonderment!
You ARE joking, right? Why do you have it in for his girlfriend? Who died and made you the boss of him? You jealous she got him, I know. I swear, I hope he marries her on 4th of July. Why you being mean to his outgoing? spouse? How do you know what SHE is doing?
WHY DO YOU GIVE A CARE WHAT HE IS DOING IN HIS LIFE? YOU DONOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING. AND THEY MIGHT JUST BE HAVING SEPERATE ROOMS IN THE CARRIBEAN. YOU TELL US ALL WHEN YOU ARE REAL SURE, K? SHOW US THE PROOF! OR BETTER YET, SHUT UP ON HIS LADY AND SHUT UP ON HIM. SO NOT YOUR BUSINESS. SO NOT ANYBODYS BUSINESS WHO HE GOES WITH. IT IS NOT A CRIME ANY MORE.
Facts are facts. There are no jealousies involved. You hope he marries her on the 4th of July? Do you know something we don't? Will David's divorce be final then? Or are you suggesting he commit bigamy in order to be with his prize? We know what they've been doing & with whom. Girlfriend tells us all about it. Just can't keep her teen-aged boasts to herself. If you believe David & Maura slept in separate rooms while in the Caribbean, you're naive to the ways of washed-up teen idol's ways. It is our business. They've made it our business. But for the DUIs, Girlfriend's incessant bragging, etc., we would largely have been none the wiser. And yes, while prosecutions are rare, Adultery is still a recognized crime in many states.
David's wife is hardly "outgoing." She's still there & will continue to be until they're finally divorced. What do you mean by your comment "How do you know what SHE is doing?" What are you trying to say? That she's committing adultery, too? If anything, David's wife will be relieved to let him go after all of the harms, humiliations & embarrassments he's caused.
ReliableInfo
Seems as though Somebody should keep their mouth AND legs crossed.....! Draw'n flies, m'Lady!
Professor Squid
Toxic people IS also a chemical reaction so if he has a few Toxic people in his life-Action, chances are, he going to go for a drink-Action causes reaction-
Da Deet Da Deet Da Deet ....That's All, Folks !
Please leave him and his woman alone now, please.
I think there are people posting here who are close to David and, quite right, trying to put others in their place and telling us something. Someone said he might not be with us much longer, I pray to God that is not the case. although I accept he is very ill. He has given so much to this world in terms of his music and songwriting, my heart would break if that happened.
David has made poor choices in his past-and those deep secrets have haunted him. He knows what the truth is. He drinks to forget. I feel for his family and children. It affects them. I have been sober 29 years, active in AA twelve step work. He has abused people-typical of this disease. As drunks we cause harm to many people for the sake of the drink. He has no choice to drink-to drink is to die for him.
GrannyK
I just watched the whole video. I thought someone said they didn't let him finish because he was drunk. It is over 27 minutes long.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/04/22/pml-piers-morgan-interview-david-cassidy.cnn.html
It was just loaded on today-that is very interesting?
oh my word, His poor family and children-Wow! blame, blame, blame...thats what drunks do-turn the tables-BS. BS. BS....so sad, this man has a voice from the heavens. He can't make eye contact with the host-not good and very telling. When I had to make amends to those I caused harm to, my sponsor said, you look them in the eye when you speak about the wrong you have done and tell the truth. He has a long way to go!
David’s mom gave birth to him in NYC & brought him home to her parents’ house in W. Orange, New Jersey, where he lived & was raised until moving with her to Los Angeles in 1962. David didn’t live in NYC until his later, teen-aged years. While speaking so warmly & devotedly of his grandfather, he makes no mention of his grandmother. He’s never made any mentions of her at all. One has to wonder why, especially since he was her only grandchild. Interesting that he counts the birth of his son, Beau & his concert performances at Madison Square Garden as “lifetime highlights,” but makes no mention of his daughter. One has to wonder, again, why. Had it been anyone other than he, David’s admittance of both an estranged wife & a girlfriend would have been shocking. Disgraceful!
Nancy Gert
I think he lived with his dad when in NYC as they too had a play which ran from Oct '68 until Jan 5th, 1969. They leased a very fancy castle from a director friend of Jack's. His stage play opened on Jan 2 and closed on Jan 6th. Both theaters are with in a block of each other. His time in New York was pretty limited if you remember what he said in his books, by his 18th birthday, it was his dad who helped him to buy his Mustang. A bit shocking not bringing up his daughter, but the man who raised her is known to her as Dad as she has said. This was very rattling to watch as many things were said that were not exactly true, but then again, he probably cannot remember things. His take on the jail he went to and the air of confidence when he said he knew he wasn't going to jail, that did it. He did sort of take a jab at his soon to be Ex, by adding the girlfriend wasn't the nicest thing he could have done. He laid it out and brought it up like being a little mean. Well, it is television and like a book, the person can do his own storyline pretty much. This was a very sad show. This benefitted no one at all.
Native New Yorker
So all these people here who believe he had a meltdown, was taken off the set, lawyers pulled the plug on this interview – you should be ashamed. Bet you have all sat and watched this, an honest and revealing interview with a man who was once the most handsome man on the planet. Hard to believe it is the same person, but he is still a fine actor.
if you'll recall, in reading these posts, only a small segment of the interview was originally posted. The interview itself was never aired by CNN. It gives pause to asking yourself why. Was it because of his drunken, bloated, disheveled appearance? His failed narcissistic attempts at sympathy & self-pity? His inconsistencies in storytelling? His backstage antics, especially when he's had more than one too many? Sorry to say he's no longer the "fine actor" he used to be.
Even David could tell that his charms weren't working & Piers wasn't exactly buying. Not a truly honest interview in the least bit. Rehabs should have taught him something, if not coming clean with his past & making amends with his present.
only a few discussed the cut off of the CNN segment. If you look at the date of the complete upload it was yesterday. It would of certainly been better if it hadn't aired the full. He just made a fool out of himself. very sad. ashamed? really? umm;–he should be ashamed of making a mockery of his alcoholism and the people who love him. So not so fast in throwing mud-
I could almost swear this segment was a do over, Why you ask? Only because Piers said something about this being his 2nd DUI ? (It was his 3rd) and the way it panned back to him he added he was only out a certain amount of days, his explanation went on before getting the 3rd? Also seemed like it was edited. It did seem to take a long time to post this part when all the others were already taped. I could almost swear too that perhaps he was told not to include speaking about his daughter. True or ? there was something in the sites that mentioned there is some kind of a something on him from her mother, something matter of fact about holding him in contempt in the courts over something. Don't know, but guessing this was some type of attempt to only help himself. A crying shame though. He was such a talented handsome little man in the 70's.
in amazement
I watched the segment. My mouth dropped, so typical and validates everything about Mr. Cassidy-"Sue and I were amicable about our settlement, I was hurt when she filed" and didn't tell me- She saw pictures of my girlfriend and I then she changed her mind." Hurt? really-this man is narccissisitic. I am hurt my son, my wife, fans, blah blah blah. David's motto–"enough about me, what do you think about me"
I got the same feeling – re-edited, re-done, addition/deletions?
He seems to have no touch with reality. And blaming Sue for not wanting to keep everything between the lawyer and not go public – of course he doesn't want to go public – he had the girlfriend years before and it would make him look bad. Not mentioning the grandmother, daughter – maybe he has a problem with women and thinks they are inferior and just a toy for his pleasure. And is it not true, along with the concerts he did for Community Service for the first DUI – wasn't the Alzheimer's speaking Community Service as well? And speaking of humbleness – I don't really think that's one of his traits.
Nanacy Gert
I'm no expert, but yes, now that you mention it, he did seem to jump the gun and go on for Alzheimer's research when he got the 1st DUI, but before he was inside the court. Seems he "bought time" on that one too until he could do what he had to do to show the court he was doing something about his problem, he recognized he has a problem every time he gets stopped.
Yes, Ann. My opinion, it was in poor taste when he went on about their amicable agreement and then she went off and filed for divorce after she knew about the girlfriend ? I don't know, but I do think he had this lady in his life way before she filed for divorce, it shows in the timeline in websites. Got the feeling he was like saying " we will formally separate, but I will have my cake and eat it too" . This wasn't his 1st cheat. I just think Sue had enough between the drinking and wanton life-He is getting old and he does not want to deal with it, like most men his age, except he took it to the extreme and got caught every which way.
He has been having his cake and eating it for the last 12 years in plenty . I guess his current squeeze is blissfully unaware
A Nobody
Ha, well...All I know is that he is living with his gal now-his items are gracing her condo and she too has had horse, this is proof and in direct contrast as to what somebody yelled about earlier-somebody mentioned she had a horse connection, funny, his ex confirmed that and then somebody called it out and now-Proven he did pick on somebody who has a dollar to help in his quest. How much can he possibly have left with all the head doctors he mentioned he sees on a daily basis and all this rehabilitation he is going through?????????? He always has other girls hidden away like Howard Hughes, except he does not treat them nice and buy them things that they can hock. Give up on him since he gave up on himself long ago. He reminds me of my ex husband-lovely man, drank like a fish, wound up dying-end of it all.
Blinded By Fame
The girlfriend doesn't know the closets, the attic and the storage rooms are overflowing with skeletons! Oh what fun and fairytales abound in such ignorance!
I will look this over again, but could it be possible that he did go back and get the original re-edited and added on to? I am not trying to be mean, it just appears as if Piers was speaking of 2 only DUI's and there is a bit of a gap when he announces 3 DUI's. I can wonder if part of this was taped at another time for only the New York infraction. It was going pretty good, but in the middle and on, it seems it was beat everybody up time, including the cop shop ( no way possible they took him to a certain part of South Los Angeles to stick him with Crips and Bloods for the fun of it ). I had the video paused as we sat and ate breakfast and my husband glanced at it and said 'that guy is drunk' , this was when his was in the somewhat down position. Agreed, people maybe jumped the gun in here, but the insane way some of you have been treating him and his condition, I don't know. I can see the argument and the reasoning, somewhat-Somewhat. I would have never believed he was such a two part character. Maybe it is time he does retire and enjoy his time, what is left, quietly.
I agree with most of what you've said, but I don't agree that the people in here may have jumped the gun or have otherwise been insane in treating David and his alcoholic condition. Those of us who have been disrespected and mistreated by him have spoken their truths. They've been with us some of us for a very long time. There are a lot of people who feel as you do that they never would have believed him to be a two part character. He was Keith Partridge, beloved lead singer of The Partridge Family. But, as David has always said, he wasn't really Keith. The real David was someone foreign to him. Sad to see such a downward spiral but I can't say I'm surprised. .
Don't want to devote too much time here, but it is interesting to say the least ! I took somewhat offense when he said he did not do drugs. So did he lie in his book? Did his friends lie in their books? Also he said he did not drink, all this was recent since 2002? Guess again. Some people in here tagged it as far back as 1978 or earlier ( I have seen the photos of glass of something on table, in hand, etc., ) He should not keep glamorizing himself and cleaning up an already tarnished image from years ago. I never thought of him as a Keith, but I also never thought he could be continually so disrespectful and annoying on some aspects to the very people, mostly women, the same ones who keep him well fed and in awe of his idol stature. I just can't help but wonder why some of the people here got him pegged perfectly. some do not want to hear it and then he sits there and says he is foreign to himself? I think he has been exposed for a long time, he is just now catching up to this revelation. Sorry for him. Back to work. Thank you, interesting place here.
Sorry for so many postings and typo "up there". Reading Ann's post here, Do you think, could it be possible ? that he actually hates Women? This could be very well possible! I never did think of that! You know, going back to the old rumor, he really never did defend his mother in articles when they made mistakes and to this day of saying Shirley was his mom. a lot of us knew the difference, but some did not and to this day there are questions. He did not have nice things to say about a certain actress he was dating around the partridge days, Nothing good about ex wife #2 and she gave him the knowledge in horses to race, he didn't have nice things to say about his daughter's mother, no nice things now to say about soon to be ex #3, he sort of got upset about his step mother's book and screams of lawsuit supposedly, he seemingly has treated women rudely. Come to think of it, except for this short list, there has not been much in the way of a "woman figure" in his life, sounds like lack of respect and then the reason why he treats women the way he does. I really liked him for the longest time, still hold a little bit of feeling, but the bad outweighs all that Hollywood cracked him up to be. ps: I want to thank whoever for saying he was like our Elvis in our time-Yes, he was in a way. Happy Posting.
What needs to happen and what some of us that know him have continually tried to do is not play the yes man. He has so many fans in his life that continue to do this. Take a look at his website and his fan sites. Nice comments only all others are either called liars and haters or taken down. Call bs when you hear it and hold him accountable.
After watching this full interview, I have to agree with New Yorker that definitely David is still a good "actor".
I think Narcissists like David seems to be either believe the world they created for themselves or they think people are not smart enough to put two and two together. Add, too, another woman he hurt – Susan Dey. Also, he was going to take down his Facebook because of the bile people were sprewing. He cannot take the truth or someone saying "Look I've had enough, I'm not a fan anymore." Or even someone not being cruel but just stating a fact. And, I think it hard for some fans to realize that he is not who they thought he was – and some people you will never change their opinion because we are all different with different experiences that make us form certain opinions. And I also think when you witness things for yourself – such as being rude at a concert – or then 3 DUI's – those are facts which you cannot deny. And, let's face it, he could in his day, have almost anyone he wanted and that's how he learned to live – so you can speculate that there were many women throughout his lifetime. And like others have said, he stated in his book he did drugs when he was younger, drank, etc. – So was the book a lie – or what he is saying now a lie.
Jessamyn
Thank you for including Susan Dey in David's ever-growing list of victims. She was so terribly hurt by his "C'Mon Get Happy" betrayals. And he professes, now, not to know why she hasn't spoken to him in more than 20 years?
Si, Interesting
Is it not very ironic that this show is affiliated with ABC, Disney and SONY! The very people he is now suing or trying to sue because they are using his likeness as Keith Partridge? Is that stupid? His straw man defense does not hold water. I think he did pay to have this redone. Watched it 3 times now and it is so spliced up and heavily edited. If he cannot be consistent with his 'true life stories', how is anybody going to believe him now? He made a lot of money off you and me too from his books nothing new, just re fabbed it and sent it out for the americans. Ack, he floated my boat when I was 12, the boat sank years ago. He just cant be trusted. How sad when all his fans put such love and trust into him.
Then there was Meredith, must not forget Meredith= she made him mad too and he ran her down relating to her hygiene habits-a vegan . did he take his facebook down ? nooo. and now we have his words he does not even do internet, he said so! so what are they talking about over there on his sites. they are putting words in his mouth to keep the club afloat. Why can't he be on his own site and chatting up his fans? BECAUSE HE DOES NOT CARE! Who is he anyway anymore? I maybe agree he maybe did demand either a do over and put this into his own hands. Got to remember, this show is now off the air, so whay show this video no so far past the due date? I think it was made way back when he got the DWI and wanted to air before that hearing, but he got another DUI between the time. DO OVER DO OVER DO OVER. Who needs this!
Meredith Baxter just before she became Baxter-Birney. His criticisms of her were the words of a scorned lover who also professed to once having had caring feelings for her. I remember her saying he was a "sweet boy," but couldn't imagine a future with him, especially since she had two small children at the time. David's never done anything in regards to his web sites. Fans who lavishly post in the hopes of his reading and responding to their messages are misled. He knows nothing of what goes on. You're right. He doesn't care. David's only abiding care, concern, consideration is for himself. Narcissists are like that. They only see one side of a two-way glass.
He really did never know what he wanted in a woman or a girl when it applied. He either has a nice girl like Merideth or he has the young girls at his gate 'checking things out' in the middle of the night. He made bad cracks just about everybody he was ever one night stood, strung along, dated or married. Runs down his children, runs down studios. Beats up the world one way or another. When is David going to stop blaming everybody for the tiniest little thing and start blaming himself? I caught his wrath many moons ago. I was 13 and just wanted to meet him-he was embroiled in a fight with one of his female fans, cursing her out, cursing out everyone, most terrible language I ever heard, didn't know what all it was about. What it was, was she thought she was his girl-she could have been 19 or 20 no idea, but see the pattern? Bad thing was, she brought her parents. It was something to witness 1970 in all it's glory.
Explain to us how, in your book YOU kept up with the story that girls were camping out at your house in Encino and you would go out there with your roommates and allow the girls to do things to all you. Now you are saying you had photographers out by those same gates. So did they by chance takes pics of what the girls were doing? It makes no sense the camera guys would be out at your house laying in wait. They sure weren't at the studios either, nor at the in' spots of your Hollywood. And this thing about going in through different gates at the studio. Come on now, there was only 1 gate and the service gate on Sherman Way, but that got locked up at 4 every day. Facts vs. stupidness.
Keen Senses
Does the statement his-this segment was cancelled to air the missing aircraft ring a bell? And so we are led to believe that Mr. Morgan came back in order to film this after he said Goodbye? Because I see full interviews after this date. I think this was filmed much earlier than we were led to think for the sole purpose of showing the world he was off to Rehab and all that, but then sure does seem to be an addition here, there and everywhere. I bet this was filmed in the winter, before his transitional rehab but after his trip to the Jamaica islands
EasyAnswers
I know. Why doesn't somebody in here go and find another photograph and match it up to what a certain person put up on their page where it relates to the weather and how Central Park looked like on March 26? Then you will know for sure when this was filmed because the theater is in close area of the park and the park will be as barren or green. Check it out 😀
HereWeGoAgain!
Fact, it was still cold and barren in CP last month in Manhattan. You guys – – – – Really now?
Saw the video, David is full of hot air. You do have an allergy to alcohol and plugging the jug doesn't help. AA-12 step work- 4th step your resentment, how it affected you and what harm you caused: lying cheating, manipulating, stealing, greed-taking others dignity-4th column, how you set it up-how you retaliated. Just saw 27 minutes of you lying-Your son is a good guy and is smart-don't take his integrity away because you are mad at him! Get to your truth DC
Oh yes and he also has an allergic reaction to his fans or whatever the flavor of the argument is for that day. He was allergic to ezema medication when he said he used his wife's product in Vegas just before a concert-he claimed it was the best thing for him, then it was an allergic reaction to Dristan cold medicine again, do they still make that n in Vegas and again cold medicine at The Hollywood Celebrity Show. Send this man a case of Benadryl or Allerest, Lidocaine, something so he doesn't have to be allergic to the world no more. He said one time he was highly allergic to shellfish, but there is a youtube interview where he is eating crustaceans. He has never been allergic to anything but himself and his pipe stories
You are wrong. He said he got Cortizone shots in his vocal chords in Vegas and that in turn made him look like he was under the influence when he behaved like an ass at Southpoint. Sorry but no Dr. in his right mind would do that to a person who has a bad infection in his vocal chords. He had Glutch Throat, dryness form the weather and probably from more drinky.
Fuggitabouit
This should be forgotten about. It is nothing more than glorified self promotion from an angry and lonely old soul. He's so mad at his ex but she is having one grand time with His family on Her birthday, her son is with them all, she doesn't look to be the bad guy in all this, quite the opposite. She has got a life and is full of life, but do not understand why they support her and not their own closer family member. Pictures don't lie, but then too, she is pretty chummy with his publicist too. Either they all lie or he is really hitting the skids, made all mad-his own brothers are supporting his ex more than they support him, that's how the pics shows. He was so cute 45 years ago, now he is old and tired.
Selena Marquez
Can a person who has gone through this AA or this Rehab for the alcohol explain to us who do not know what AA is; the steps, please? I certainly do not know a drinking persons characteristics when they go out of bounds and become alcoholics. My sisters and I have supported David for a very long time here in Chicago area and we all feel like we have been used and lied to. I thought people like him had higher standards for their fans and the public in general?
Just as Ann Soulgirl or someone in here nailed it – He is going to go ahead and do Community Service all over the country! IOW. Lots of Concerts ! He has it down pat I tell ya! Just like the Alzheimers thing, he is going to promise x amount of funds into his recovery treatment foundation, talk about the subject and then-tax break and take that 80% off the top, free trip all over and who pays? You All Do! Wonderful!
Quiet Girl
Very sad interview. Sounded like he was very regretful, but the thing I don't get between all this is he tells his wife he loves her, while blaming her for pulling the rug and filing for a divorce all the while he's going heavily with another woman? I wonder how that made the girlfriend feel when he mentioned he still loved Sue? Confusing.
I hope he gets through his problem and comes back stronger than ever. I have fond memories of him, all of them very good and kind. I do not like seeing my childhood crush like this. He's what made every girl's life go round the world when we were 12 thru 21. He is so sad here, very sad, given up.
Becky D
Charlotte, Was that the same article when the writer smelled marijuana in his house? I remember the pot smoking article from the 70's, his room mate was running around nakked out at the pool then came the nakked photos in Rolling Stone Magazine.
David’s saying he’s only been drinking since 2002, isn’t the truth. In his Rolling Stone interview of May 11, 1972 (“Naked Lunch Box”), which he described at the time as being an “honest portrayal,” the writer (Robin Green) describes him as being “. . . exhausted, stoned and drunk . . .”
I'm going to go out on a limb here and defend his comment of drinking since 2002. Did he say he never drank a drop at all? I may have to watch it again but I took it to mean that was when it got out of control and let it take him where he didn't want it to go And becoming a full fledged alcoholic That being said he needs to come clean on all if it He has more addictions than just alcohol
David states in his book (1st one)-he was drinking and doing drugs and that Sue said, "i love you no matter what"-He said that had alot of weight for him. Contradictions.-So David, on the interview stating: "I love you Sue I just want you to be fair"-to who? David of course. He has a new song called: Alcoholism: I, I, I, what about me, me me and be nice to me, me, me," Sad, this guy had such talent, a magical voice but it is all a waste & he is only to blame.
He's lived his whole life in denial so why stop now? He's always been a wasted talent he could have been so much more and it's so much easier to blame the drink the drugs the groupies the fans his raising his exes than for him to realize the common denominator is him. He has heard so many times that people want to hear other songs than I think I love you but he refuses he's lazy, doesn't practice, go to rehearsals and do all the things talent requires
He's hot...he can sing me the same songs over and over anytime he wants to!!!!
Does anyone know any more about the abuse of the cats?
where did she get that information about the cats?
He may have done some crazy things and poor choices but I don't believe the animal thing. That is way too out there even for him.
Highly doubt the animal abuse. He was so small when he lived with his grandparents. How could he possibly reach a clothesline? By13 he was living in Beverly & Westwood area. The many things I caught, he downplayed the fiancee thing. That might have been the thing right there that might have sent his soon to be ex to the lawyers office. What did everyone hear on the DWI report? Fiancee and not girlfriend. In this interview he said girlfriend, downplaying it. Boy, he sure knows how to make people in his life angry, doesn't he? I'd be livid if he said I was just a girlfriend in public when already established I am a fiancée.
Also cannot blame the fans or whomever for his drinking and drugs. As he stated, he took them and this was way before any TV show. Remember, he was up in Frisco and helping himself to a stash of drugs in a bottle. He was also up in some canyon off Malibu, drugging up there with his friends, then there are other biographies which name him as a friend and what he was doing with booze and drugs way before any tv show or theater. It would make sense if you know the area in which he grew up.......pretty much smack dab around the corner from where he was living, whether his mom and step dad or dad and stepmom. It was the 60's, days of free love, rock and roll, doping and drinking. I could understand why he would go truant from school with his friends. He might be drinking more now as it seems he has lost his voice, not commanding the big places anymore, but then who is? and unfortunately, he is getting older.
Drinking and poss. cheating and drugs were also the undoing of his 1st marriage as his movie portrayed .
It was also the undoing of his 2nd marriage and now his third. This new one must be desperate and delusional.
Soon-to-be ex-wife seems to be a fairly savvy business lady. David may have bitten off more than he can chew & certainly more than he can ever swallow this time around. He's asking her to be "fair." So, she's supposed to feel sorry for him & support him in some way. Not going to happen.
I do not know what he would mean by fair. Between the 2 of them, they didn't have much of anything to begin with, it was his second ex's friends who let them borrow the flat in the UK when he was doing the Romance album. Now he did hide the receipts from her, brings it back out via the US. I think he needs to be fair to that Ex and give her her fair share back since he is talking fair shares. Think we all know he lied to his wife and got somebody else pregnant, not only once, but known to some then getting on dreaded page 6 of The Post. He needs to give some fair shares back on that whole account. I wouldn't be so surprised to hear he would sue his ex now for shares on her product, since she signed up a ton of his fans and achieved what she achieved, but then of course, he got DUI in her free car she won from her products' corp. He needs to stay calm and break away. He can't go sue happy on everyone when he himself is so underhanded. Ask Nancy!
Maybe he is mad because his soon to be ex might sue the feeance as a co conspirator. the gal has moola, was the one who did the facelift on their home interior after they kicked out the renters but before they sold it.
Which Nancy?
Does it matter what he did 50 years ago? What matters is now, yesterday is gone and no promise of tomorrow. This has nothing to do with anyone else but him. Allow him to do what he feels he needs to do. We are not a bunch of Manchurian Candidates here, my good god! If this is what he says, take it as such or ignore it altogether. I think he should be redeemed. I like him just fine and have for many years. Sorry he had to skirt his life and the public persona got shoveled all over, but that is him. His business, his life. As long as he does not hurt or harm me in any way which he has not I'm fine with him as an entertainer who gave me a lot of good music. Peace be with you all.
Choosing to "ignore it" only enables him to continue on. It's the sad, washed up, wasted story of his life. Everyone's supposed to feel sorry for him & to excuse him because of who he used to be or who they once believed him to be. Three DUIs in less than 3 years have made him a known societal danger. How can you be so sure you won't be his next victim? That you won't encounter him on a highway/freeway and that he won't seriously injure, harm, maim or even kill you due to his chronic alcoholism (and who knows what else). You're willing to offer him redemption and to give him that chance? Oh, please!
OhKay
If he ran me down I would hope my family would be wise enough to sue his estate and whoever else responsible.
Why do you question what he said about his son being very important to him? HE HELPED IN THE DELIVERY OF BEAU! He was NOT afforded that chance with his daughter since he did not know if she was really his or not. TRUTH compared to your Gossip and Rumors win out every time 😀
Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes
David was afforded the very same chance with Katie that he had with Beau. It was HIS CHOICE not to participate, just as it was his choice not to have a relationship with her and to forbid his immediate family members from doing the same. Do you seriously believe he didn't know Katie was his daughter? Yes, he was sued for paternity. Yes, it was to confirm paternity. Yes, it was also to establish child support and visitation if David so desired. Those of us who've expressed our opinions and our truths stand by them. David has made this our business and continues to do so. Girlfriend has also made this our business. Had he wanted to remain private, David shouldn't have gotten himself into the DUIs, kept the girlfriend under wraps, declined to be interviewed, etc. Girlfriend's not his wife. If she wants him, she's more than welcome to have him – after the divorce. Girlfriend didn't get him into rehab. His DUI lawyers made plea deals with the Florida and California courts. Saying girlfriend may be his sponsor, Gia, is ridiculous. She's an interior designer based in Ft. Lauderdale. She is not a certified alcohol treatment counselor. Commenting as you did makes you sound childish. The kind of fan David wants, needs, deserves. Someone who will blindly follow him into the abyss that has become his sad life. BeemerGal, your comment is juvenile as well.
Going by what's been said here, it sounds to me like your TRUTHS are based on GOSSIPS and RUMORS as you've come to know them. Not that you know of them firsthand.
Ahhhhhhhhhh....another one!! you just cannot see the forest for the trees!!! open your eyes and look around
IfIDidntCare
He was in the UK when Katie was born. When he was told, he was still married to wife 2. He told her it was some crazy fan, a stalker of a fan, then came the papers for lawsuit after the little girl was born and that's when it became news in the papers. He knew because he always ran back to that woman when things got too rough like he ran to Sue. Somebody else here is right, all of them were all going at it at the same time, he knew that girlfriend about 2 years before he met Sue.
This spot has turned more into of a place for airing what he did to certain women here and it keeps going towards being very mean to his girlfriend of the moment, not his obvious drinking problem – – – – – it started out and being vile and mean. Nobody cares. The ones who love him and who will stick to him will defend him. He is a human being. If he hurt you or did unjust towards you, you do need to forget about it if you are not willing to accept a shared responsibility. His trust is earned. When he comes back full force, I will be at his concert no matter where it is. I have traveled as far as Florida, seen him at Steel Pier, Las Vegas, California. I spend on him because he brings me joy and reminds me of my happiness as a child, my entire family love him.
Nikki Lane
It's not going to be "when he comes back full force" but "if." He's burned his bridges in so many places. None of the big venues will touch him. Too much of a risk. If he's able to get back it will probably be limited to small clubs, state fairs, things like that. Not going to see the likes of Broadway, MSG, Wembley, Hammersmith again.
I'm sorry, but I don't think any of this is about being vile and mean to his girlfriend of the moment. Nobody cares? There are people who do seem to care about what's been going on. If he hurt you or did unjust things to you, would you be so willing to forget about it. If he's hurt others who were teen-agers, there is no shared responsibility. SVU can tell you that. David would have been an adult taking advantage of a child.
Geezus K Rist! You do not have the right to keep commenting on what David can or cannot do, Who do you think you are, DANMTW? His private life is none of concern. Would you like for him to dictate what you could or could not do it if you had an active life with a man? None of his true fans will even set foot in here, not from his sites because they know who you are. You the one who wants to keep sending him off to the Rehab in your mind? Maybe he is under his girlfriends care. Maybe she had to sign something to keep him straight and narrow and put up good faith money. You don't know. Yea I happen to know him and his family. I know some of his family live in Ballard. I know a lot of things. I think it is for the best you stop pontificating on your pulpit here before we break out the hymmnals and sing Shall we gather at the River. Get Real and leave him, just leave him.
DANMTW>???? What world are you living in? you don't know jack about what you are speaking of
WHY YOU GOT IT IN FOR HIM? HE IS A PUBLIC PERSON WHEN HE ENTERTIANS; PRIVATE PERSON OTHERWISE WHAT HE DOES IS OF NO IMPORTANCE TO YOU AT ALL!!! ALL I READ IS HE HAS HIS GIRLFRIEND HIS GIRLFRIEND HIS LADY NOT YOUR BUSINESS AT ALL!!!!! SHE PROBABLY HAS PAID HER DUES SO SHE HAS A RIGHT TO HAVE HIM NOW, MAYBE SHE GOT HIM TO REHAB, MAYBE SHE IS HIS SPONSOR. HOW DO YOU, YOU DON'T.. SO MEAN YOU ARE!!!!!
If you want to be taken seriously, I'd suggest you stop yelling and learn correct grammar. Otherwise people just consider your comments nonsense.
BeemerGal
S T H U!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cassidy Fan
I find it extremely funny that the one lone non Cassidy fan is sitting here all alone talking to herself. 50 different names; 1 woman with nothing else to do than run Cassidy down and get righteous on his girlfriend all day long while at work. You will not have him ever again, guaranteed. Now she is going to give grammar lessons, what next? bad conduct lessons too?
LONG LIVE DAVID BRUCE CASSIDY! 5, 550,0000 FANS CANNOT BE WRONG!!!!!!!
You got it wrong Cassidy fan, if you look back at my earlier posts you'll see I only made comments about the gf in response to what was said here. I'm just a long time fan who is really saddened but also very interested in all this. So..since you seem to be focused on one person using different names, I could say the same about a few posts here defending him too! Seriously though, Gia's post sounds ignorant. No grammar lesson, just pointing out my perception.
Honey, you are sooo out of touch and in the dark!! you got no idea how many have been there In the past and how many are continuing on into the future!!! LAWD A MERCY!! Girl!! you are so in the dark you need a SEARCHLIGHT!
How do you know it is one person with different names? did you hack into the site? Hope not because it is certainly illegal.
Missinboom
Placing bets it's all marty 😀
oneofmany
Sorry but your wrong. I know which posts are mine and which ones aren't. Why must you think there is only one? And while im not concerned about his gf nor have I posted about her I have every right to be upset, but that is a conversation for another day.
"Debbie"
There is not just "One" lone Cassidy fan here......that would also be "me".....since I was 17....forty-some years now-through boyfriends and a husband (who travelled with me through the years to see concerts from coast to coast, broadway plays, Vegas-through it all , and, even though there are some things I certainly don't agree with and wish he had made better choices (and, have been disappointed with some things) ....I will always still support him unconditionally....he was such a huge part of my life and meant so much to me....he was my one and only Teenage Idol and ave me such happiness all my life--how can I not, despite everything that has been said here, forget everything he has meant to me practically my whole life. I, too, hope he recovers from this and comes back-just as he always has....I wish him health, happiness and love for a long time....because I know how much David and Sue loved each other and how good they were together for so long--I still hope somehow they can find their way back to each other...doens't seem right that they are not together any more. I realize that I am not the only one with an opinion on this--this blog speaks for itself--I am not saying I am right and everyone else is wrong as everyone has the right to have their own opinion. I guess I just want to keep my wonderful memories of him just a little longer. Sometimes you wonder if you ever get the chance to meet your idol, would you be disappointed--would they be mean, cruel and uncaring...fortuneately for me, my first meeting with him came when I was "39".. (I had waited for that since I was "17")....he certain;y DID NOT disappoint. My husband and I spoke with him for a good while at a signing (he couldn't have been sweeter...didn't mind how many pictures my husband took of us-he was very kind and caring to everyone.....that is the "David" I always want to remember. We also met him several other times at different concert and aftr his Broadway shows--still the same....he just seemed so happy and grateful that his fans were there for "him". I also met his wife Sue at one of his shows in Redondo Beach, CA--she, too, is a sweetheart-very obvious that these two once had a very special love together...I think this is what hurts me the most-how his illness has affected his "personal" life.....he was so happy during those years. I really and truly hopes he gets better; as I; for one. would never be the same without this very special, talented man who was a part of my life for so very long......
Thank you Debbie
nottheonlyone
Wise One
I have come to the ultimate conclusion that you are 100% FOS!. You just want to disrupt anything you can to get his attention. Well, you have succeeded! The profile in here fits only 1 woman who want to take up all the time in here to spew the hatred for who supposedly used them. Trust me, he would never look at you twice, racing from a blazing inferno! Stifle yourself already! This board is actually closed off and only the janitors at the site are answering. Piers has left the building. Go Home.
Who is this "you " person you are yelling at and what the heck are you talking about?????
OH WISE ONE- how deluded and ignorant you are. If only you knew the truth. There are so many women he don't know which way to jump!!!
Roberta Black
There is now another interview with another television celebrity from San Diego, Bree Walker was a news reporter who was also unfortunately arrested for DUI not long ago. Listen to her interview compared to this man's. As different as night and day. She too had a revelation, but you can tell she REALLY feels remorse and very badly for what she did, and it was only the 1 DUI. She wants to help others as she said after seeing the only 1 DUI arrest picture of her, it was humiliation for her and never again will it happen, she also felt great remorse how she could have killed somebody and she does not want anybody else to feel like she had done. She will not go to one of those spa type rehabs, she is facing her demons straight on and very brutally honest. You can sure see the difference between her and him. Those that know David and have known him for years, know he will never change. He only cries Uncle when he is in danger of being arrested or caught doing something he shouldn't have done. He was mortified of going to jail-So he thinks by his doing this, jumping the gun to show he is going to the rehab to better himself and then when no one is looking, he bails off for The Bahamas??? and with another woman??? So he can stay one step of the gavel and the cubicle. He is not crying for her, for his son or anyone else but only for him. How can he be so two-faced? Second verse, Same as the first as Nancy Grace says.
CopperTop
He was more worried and more afraid of going to jail than.........Killing somebody? Killing himself, Hurting innocent families, Hurting his entire family? He is some tool! Very into only himself, for himself and himself is all that matters. Now he will show he did 1 free concert for every 4 he is paid for to show the courts he is a good guy and is paying for his little infractions, how excellent for him! He should be helping out at a Morgue or better yet, go to each and every funeral for a person who died because of a drunk driver. Go and watch how a cosmetician has to clean up a body prior to viewing so as not to shock their poor families. How do you apologize to a family for killing a small child who was playing, a young family who is just began their life together, an old man who just wanted to get across the street to shop for his dinner that night? David Cassidy is a joke. He did this to get out serving jail time.
Sue knew DC for years. She burned her bridges as well and needs the Cassidy name. Plain old Sue Shifrin couldn't make it. I don't even know if Beau is really a blood Cassidy. Why did David so readily accept Beau when he tried to deny Katie.
No, Sue doesn't need the name at all. She is very secure in her profession and is traveling all over the world to sponsor others for the sales and growth. She is actually very world wide, he music comes a close second as she still has things she is doing in the recording studios as evidenced if you knew her. On sound true words from somebody who was right there on the action, she did go back to the UK when wife 2 came home for an emergency, it all was around the same time of the paternity accusation, but not the birth nor lawsuit, for a long time and in some cases, she was tagged as his wife in a lot of publications as they had the same hair color. Somebody even mucked up date stamp of when wife 2 and him were together- actually 1981 until 1988. I have no idea if his son is his or not, nor do I care. It is bad enough to fathom he might not have been Jack's! He looks more like his mom, always did and his size, it is the size that gives it away, plus, the family doesn't really accept him. Don't dare say his teeth looked like Jacks either. Jack had caps all over the front and he does now too-all capped. He didn't deny Katie-Well actually he did, didn't he! and when he needed her, he tried to bask in her glory, right down to making a show based on her. There is something not right there. I say bravo to her mom for taking care of her and for a dad who was there for her. All the money this one made back in the day and he only paid 2 or 3 hundred a month? Yea, looks like he really cared, didn't he? jmo.
I think he had beautiful teeth. no caps needed. a person can take after a grandparent or even a great grand parent looking more like them than their parents.
Beth Rodgers
Disagree. She did use the Cassidy name otherwise she would still be climbing the ladder of success with her product. I think she did use a lot of his fans and will continue to do so, but that is just good business.
I wish him well, but I don't think he was very sincere at all. He was only doing this for himself, agreed, to get out of jail and out of trouble. How would it look to see him in jail for even 7 hours? He was afraid of the Blood and the Cripes? He wasn't in their hood and nobody singled him out and said 'look, we have Cassidy here'! Chances are nobody knew who he was except drunk
NoBrainer
Anyone and I do mean Anyone who heads up a chartable foundation is in fact getting a huge cut of the proceeds. Up to 80% administration fees to each of the names listed and tax breaks you wouldn't believe, so he was in this business too-it is how the rich stay rich. This product she pushes is not a miracle cure all, just another cosmetic that is made someplace other that the good old US of A. so if you get into trouble with it, I donot think they really stand behind their products and you cannot sue them as it would cost way too much across the countries.
I know he did physically abuse wife number two a great deal. I'd leave her alone though. Met her once, very quiet and nice woman, very hard worker. The thing is here his drinking and he gets on this show, trying to be cutesy and oh so sweet and very regretful for his actions-yep, a good actor, give him an Oscar, the toss his head away from retribution. I do not believe he does care about anybody other than himself. All for him, forget everyone else. His fans are blind as bats!
He got his caps because he had to keep up with the times and with his plastic surgeries. He did have great teeth until he got them shaved down and then capped when he was in his late 30's. He also has at least 2 crowns on the left side. I know a childhood friend of his and he too has a mouthful of fake teeth. Hard to be an actor I guess.
You girls need to leave his family alone. This is a page for him and his drinking problem. So far, so good and spot on with a lot of entries, but leave the kids out of it, hu? It really isn't anybody's business who is who's father or mother or anything else. I see why he doesn't get around his fans. This happened back in the 70's as well. I wonder how many of you are throwbacks to that era and are still a thorn in his side because you cannot get to him? Give it a rest already about the extra activities and abuse. Those days are gone, move on to the future!
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
David's got a wife & a fiancee/girlfriend. It looks as if those days are far from being gone for him. Why blame the fans or anyone else for his reluctance to step into the future?
I'm confused by what you mean in saying that David wasn't accepted by his family. I can remember reading his mom's 16 magazine columns – "My Son, David" – in which she shared stories and photos about him, beginning from babyhood. She said that her family helped care for him and that they visited regularly with his dad's on Long Island. David knew and was loved by both sides.
another little thing that bugs the heck out of me, in his book, he had information on how much he paid on his Encino home each month. He is in la la land when he says it was $600. Back in the 70's, house payments were not that expensive in Beverly Hills let alone Encino, a poor town! He told how his room mate paid 300. a month, that was probably more like the entire house lease payment at that time. Was he ripping off his friend? I have read a lot of these posts and there are slight errors. He did get kicked out of wife 2 and his brother came for him, he did not walk down the road with suitcase in hand. He used to drink like a fish with her too and never told the truth. Baby 1, then baby 2 and he ran and hid in their bedroom, didn't want to face the music, then she helped out wife 1. No no no...these women he runs down are all good women, they have hearts, but he stomped on each and every one of them and used them all to his advantage. Can ask wife 1 about how he drank then too.....oh almost forgot, that is in his movie too, but even she admits there was drugs involved.
From what I heard Sue used to run a charity that was taking a high administration fee and this got replaced with Arbonne with is a pyramid scheme. Those products don't get good reviews. David and Sue had a fake marriage. Sue didn't care what David did for years because until the age if social media a lot of fans didn't know.
DC was in a drunken stupor when he physically hit wife #2. There are record reports of this incident. Sue seems to be nice, kind and determined to be a better person about this than David. Secondly no doubt Beau is David's son. I don't by that is isn't. Too far fetch for me to think any other way. Mr. Cassidy has some great children whom appear to have great heads on their shoulder. Good for them! I just keep thinking about DC's family and children.
This information site for a former teen idol who is a drunk got 500 hits? SMH! That is C R A Z Y!
This needs to be closed down now.
THEN GO AWAY AND DO NOT READ IT!!! who are you to dictate to a public website?
It is a dicussion on the human nature of an individual who people had an interest in at one time and are surprised by alot of things that were not know before. It's like reading a biography and with each page you learn something new.
Not human nature to run down every blessed thing associated with him, especially his beloved children. How DARE you ! Call yourselves his friend, fan, piece of A...Damned Crazy!
I don't understand what you mean. Nobody here is running down his children. If anything, everyone seems genuinely concerned. They're adults now, 27 and 23, but will always be his kids.
It is a dicussion of an individual who people had an interest in at one time and are surprised by alot of things that were not known before. It's like reading a biography and with each page you learn something new.
I don't care if it's one individual or not. I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who was told they were a valued part of his life and a trusted friend only to be stomped on and crushed like a gnat on his life!
'...A discussion of an individual who people HAD an interest in at one time...' Yes, at one time, but not now. You only want to be here to tear him down and apart and to tell the world of things that is of no worldly business to anyone else!
Why don't you all go away if you cannot wish him well and keep moving on? You stay stuck in here believing every thing somebody else's makes mention of and you have no clue if it is true or not. Don't you know by now most celebrities have many lives? What is out there isn't what it truly is.
This poor gentleman has a terrible problem and a heavy road ahead. He is old age now, ready to collect his pension and get ready to choose a health plan through Medicare. Maybe it would be better off if he did hang it up and retire. You never deserved his talent, you never deserved him at all.
Least I can Honestly say I did if fact have him first. I had him very first crack he became Thee Teen Idol. Don't believe me? Too bad, I have picture proof. I was 14 years old for you nosy ones out there and it was the best thing that happened in my young life! Good for me and my side, you can only wish you were in MY shoes. Now what you gonna go and do about it? Steam your iron now? Blow it out your nose? I stand tall and proud. I had him at Hello 😀
Years ago
That was a lifetime ago and I have no interest in what happened in his younger days. Ten years is a long time to be his friend not a one night stand! It's the people he's trampled on along the way that hurts!
Who said I ever stopped seeing him? I just saw him last week matter of fact. So, I guess my 44 years with him means nothing? Dream On 😉
Not dreaming at all. Quite happy for you if that's the case! No need to be defensive I think we are on the same side here so please cut this one some slack!
happynow
all I can say he's one of the sweetest nicest guys I've ever known. and good for you library card
I don't mind sharing
forsure
So you still have punches on your card for DC-well that proves the point he is not loyal to anyone but himself.
And you think that makes you special? Ha ha, dream on. And welcome to the club!
Next time you better decide on your story from the beginning. First he is a poor gentleman, then a one night stand and then your lover of 44 years? Your in fantasy land. Post the photo or stfu.
Kittycat
So you say you have picture proof? Well stand proud and post it then.
Photo !
Photo ! Photo! Photo! Photo!!
It's still a man's world and we do what we want with busy body women who we have no more use for.
NOW GET ME MY NEXT CAN OF BUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugs Buzzard
Bandala
Maybe for you but you don't speak for the rest of us.
Fan For Life
Kora"....I can personally assure you that David and Sue "DID NOT" have a "fake" marriage....it was very much "real"....he has loved her since 1973 when she was touring with "Cliff Richard:" in England....out of all the "women" everyone describes, it was ON:Y Sue who honestly won his heart....they have loved each other "Unconditionally"......mo matter what happens, "She" will be known as the "Love of his Life".....trust me.......
Sue claimed to be infertile and somehow had a m
Sue said she was infertile and Beau was a miracle birth. I don't know why David was accepted Beau was his when he denied Katie. David married Sue a month before Beau was born. The public wedding was later. Sue is all about the money. Sue also never liked David's mother and was behind Evelyn being committed when she didn't have Alzheimer's. It is one scheme after another with Sue. Friends , family and fans have witnessed Sue's wrath.
Mary Beth
While it's true that Sue never liked David's mother & was disrespectful towards her from the very beginning, I can also personally assure you that she was emphatically not behind Evelyn's being committed when she didn't have Alzheimer's. That was somebody else unrelated to the family. Sue may be many things, but it's not right to blame her for something she wasn't directly involved with then.
He didn't deny his daughter! He just did not admit to anything to anybody, until he absolutely had to. Pretty much like that so-called 1st dui, 2nd dui, 3rd dui and so forth. Deny, Deny, Lie, Lie, Lie.......Teflon David.
Wow about Sue! She is friendly with the C. and J. family! No idea if she had his mom committed, that is cruel, but mom was in California while they were living everyplace else but there!
Mary Alice
I'd like to know what was so wrong with his real mother? He pretty much buried her as being his mother and left the media to keep up with the Step mother routine. She didn't exactly raise him as her own, probably treated him alright though. Why was his mom always left out to pasture? His mom lived in the same area as he did after he moved in with his friend. Why not ever mention her? He always said he loved his mum later on, but then did say in 3 concerts I went to that she was dying and he was overly upset, except those concerts were 2008. I sure cannot see his wife taking charge and just signing her away, she has no rights to do that just being a wife. I thought his mum's granddaughter had the power over her? Yea I think something is up, what step mum writes a book about her step son's private parts anyways? Sick things.
There was nothing wrong with David's mom. She loved him unconditionally & continued to do so all of the days of her life. She was someone who continually placed his welfare over that of her own. Sacrificing only to be cast aside so callously and so cruelly. Anyone would have been blessed to have had her as their own. He once placed her in the difficult position of choosing between her child (him) & his child (Katie). When she made a choice he didn't agree with for his own then selfish purposes, he retaliated by disowning her and referring to her as "dead." She wasn't really at the time, just to him. David broke his mom's heart. Her already fragile health diminished because of that, no doubt. Katie wasn't responsible for overseeing her commitment, care, placement, etc., he was. He was her child and next of kin. That responsibility belonged to him, and him alone. Not something he could easily run from, especially since the court system was involved.
PartGuests
Did you all go to the festivities in Sherman Oaks? In the patio area? Where all the Champagne was flowing? Great All Day and Night Partay..........Hay! 😀
Partay!!
No,but I've been to some other doozies!!
Please, do tell and fill us in
What do you mean Cliff Richards? I will have to consult my old date book and my pictures of the past as not one woman travelled with Richards except maybe Ronnie S. and her sister! Not blaming but people who talk shop about music and concerts even in the UK, someone in here will know if it is true or not. The reason why you cannot take anyone's word for anything, not even a sainted former teen idol-ha ha ha.
You got your Richard and Richards mixed up . There is Keith Richards who could never be mistaken for Cliff Richard. Now Cliff Richard put up both David and Meryl over in England. It was the most amazing thing to be going to sleep and listening to them harmonize way past midnight. This was when he was married to Jackie and as hard as it may seem, things taken from his Time Machine were used for the stepping stones for EFX.
Hope all is well and on the road to complete recovery.
Sue Shifrin singing on Cliff's show. She was a songwriter for Cliff.
http://youtu.be/I0vc0PECaLo
Wrong Info
There is confusion in here about who is who. It was Alan Tarney and his wife that he and his 2nd Mrs. stayed with in England, not Cliff Richard. Lot of goof balls in here. A bad comedy here.
Shelley W.
Only he could pick out a place named after a Disney character to use for a wedding party, a character with a long appendage I might add! I understand he even used the owner to throw the party with free everything. Didn't pay his bill. his wife's friend really. She being The Valley Girl. She's a good lady. Wonder if she will write a book? No. 2 is going to do it.
Are you sure about that? HELLO! magazine interviewed & photographed David, Sue, baby Beau and family for a '91 edition. They may have even paid the expenses in exchange.
Sue was born and raised in miami
I AM not thinking this is so true at all. I AM thinking this place holding wedding party was for many of these family members and the other family relatives and friends for long times sake like one big family event party day. Not to be opened up to the public for somebody else to be snoops into it. Maybe he be paying for to have publicity into these magazines. This is new way of movie stars, no gossip, now they make magazines pay for good story lines.
Many womens here you need to behaving like the ladies to be sure of yourselfs, ok? No make yourselfs to be lower like he make onto you in these past olden days when he using you for his toy games like little boy. Not right for him to do this to these women here not good at all. He is not knowing his real mind what to expect he drinking all these times anyway. Not worth to be blow on his horn in these public places, he is not to be worth that to pump himself with his pride. You making to keep yourselfs strong and be always ladys. It be making me very angry to be in here to be speak like this because I am knowing he is not right for himself and nobody else now either. I support onto him for many years for his music for his concerts paying lot of these big monies to get this choice seating on these charts and one times he make like big deal stuck up person acting like huge big boss all over his stage and say many bad vulgar wordings to his good fans, make his fans cry and walking out. Now he is to be paying for it now I am seeing that for sure.
Meryl Tanz said she read about Katie in the paper. When the papers came to the house David said it was a groupie. David is a sociopathic liar. David's brothers also know the truth about Evelyn. Sue and Shirley and her family have bad mouthed each other for years and now they are buddy buddy. Something smells.
You give yourself away with this post. You have a vendetta against his third wife and say similar false things on every and any message board you can. And you dislike Shirley because you're in love with her deceased ex. You do not know the family or any inside truths. You have a psych problem, C.O'C. Seek help.
True, that is what it was pretty much so. He lied about a lot of things to many people all over the place, but he had kept it up with the baby momma since around 1971. I don't think he really knows or has ever known what the truths really is and this is what he has such a hard time with now. He made such a fortress of stories over the years, even his own words are escaping him and he blames others for writing lies about drug usage or over drinking when he himself validated that fact in not one book, but at least 2 books, and others have mentioned him in their books or in interviews as much. No need to has who is sleeping with whom in the family. this is about him and his story telling. He got caught, he now has to face his own musical victories or disasters as his own doing. I'd hate to be his age and keep making up the many stories to get out of a DUI, but he managed to do it 3 different times in 3 different states? That's too much! He might have had even more but buried at the time because back in the olden day, nobody really cared and the cops would drive a drunk person home.
I do not know who you are who is writing these different things here, but very interesting and most I say have to be these truths for sure. People cannot be making up these things and others come in and say it is true. Good. Maybe these things will open his eyes and his mind to make him repent for what he doing to people, to hurting women all these years. He is not Rock and Roll God for women. Honor belonging to Mick Jagger in my mind.
Koa has it right about Meryl, how she know and finding out about babies when her husband is lying to her all over this place. That is a nice woman she is. She would have nothing to lie about at all, I do not think so at all. She never said bad things about him, but she told the truth, big difference there. She had bad life with his fans too, make her life nervous at times, not good for her at all.
All I want to know is why was this particular interview claimed as an Exclusive? What does that exactly mean? Is it not exclusive to have on a former President? To me, it seems this 'Exclusive' means it was done in fact for the sole purpose of getting him out of trouble or easing his court problems, it was planned just for his troubles, not just because he happens to be a somewhat legend. Now he is going to give community service in the form of concerts, that is exactly what he had done the other times, jump started all these community service things like announcement for Alzhiemers Research when he already knows one of the main Dr.'s on this very subject who happens to be his ex's ex.
an "Exclusive" usually means that you are not giving any other interviews on that subject to other news agencies.
How do you know that concerts are going to be the community service?
Giving an interview does not impress or change the mind of a Judge or lawyer and it does not "ease his court problems".and does not change the minds of the participants in a court case. Talking about alcoholism in interviews and speeches could be part of community service, as well as fines and attending classes and programs.
lf any of you or your mother, father, daughter, son brother got 3 DUI or DWI you would do everything in your power to stay out of jail and use every means within your power - especially if you thought that that person or yourself might get killed or injured in prison or might not make it out. Please try not be so judgmental knowing at his age he may not survive prison if he was sent there.
What about the person who is in their own prison, from a drunk driver who ran them down while they were going about their life? They might not make it out either. Bad enough people die every day from a no brain drunk driver or one who is under some influence, but the ones who manage to stay alive, what life could it possibly be to be hooked up to life support or have to go through therapy to learn how to walk and talk again, that is if they did not lose a limb or become immobile? People who drink and drive then take matters into their own hands need to take more responsibility and not run and hide, make up defense stories just for their ego.
When people drink they are not thinking clearly. They don't "make up stories for their ego". They are trying to explain why and what led up to the situation they are in.
The facts are he didn't kill or maiim anyone and maybe he has learned from his mistakes? Maybe this has been a wake-up call for him? when people drink they don't say "lets drive drunk" they have lost their reasoning capabilities and therefore step behind the wheel of the car. Please try to show a little compassion, the same compassion you would wish to be shown to yourself. Have you ever walked a mile in his shoes? have you ever been famous and had your entire life judged and talked about and in the newspaper from BIRTH??? NO, I didnt think so.
Mercy, I hope you have the same compassion if a drunk driver critically injured a family member of yours and you have to make a decision to switch off a life support. I hope it never happens that you are in that situation. It is the same as a lethal weapon drunk and behind a wheel of a car.
luckydavid
Mercy: Right he didn't kill anyone on the hi-way-but he has killed the relationships with his family and children and possibly his career. He now has people in his band saying he is doing good. Just finding pawns. Everyone he has lied to, manipulated and abused in one way or another had their soul abused. To give him a break, really-the guy opened his life as a open book to get pity-
Problem is is that his wake up call has been ringing off the hook for the last 40 years. He has finally decided to pick up and answer it? Oh Plueeze!
Gee....I see things differently I guess. This goes more than just a few DWI's. Drinking ruined his life. Listen to his words. Although I do see a lot of personal innuendoes in the tape, I think he is sorry, I think he was holding back tears because of showing his underbelly to the world. One can only hope and pray he comes through his darkness with a renewed sense of being with that no physical damage.
For those of you who have been so critical, you really do need to stop with being so childish and so mean towards him. His life is his own, he does not belong to you personally, no matter what he perhaps told you in confidence. He is an entertainer and a darn good one. He belongs to all who love him and enjoy him. Stop being so critical and exposing what you think is the truth, it makes for very bad fodder and just wastes everyone's time.
I have read each and every post. I am not a doctor of any type but just on the outside looking in. Many years ago just seeing him on tv made me happy. It was all a fantasy. But it helped me get through some really rough times. 40 + years later he has all these DUI or DWI, and people are dissecting him. I don't blame them. Drinking and driving are bad. I could deal with the drinking and driving and him getting help. Hopefully. I can't deal with the way he abused people, drunk or not. Domestic abuse is bad. NO ONE HAS ANY RIGHT TO TOUCH ANYBODY. I don't want him to drink and drive and kill or mangle someone, but I don't want him to kill someone by beating the hell out of them either. I wish I could be more supportive but supporting him means I support Domestic Abuse. He has lost a fan because of the final straw finding out how he abused people.
I am a fan no longer. Watching the Partridge Family and seeing David helped me years ago too – I grew up in a dysfunctional home and later married a man who was emotionally, verbally, and finally physically abusive – no longer. When you are married to someone that is an alcoholic and abusive then it becomes something you cannot tolerate to have anyone else experience either. So it took a few concerts where he was either drunk or rude that made me realize he was not a very nice person. And then learning things about him that I didn't know – thanks to social media that wasn't there back in the day. And if you remember "Celebrity Apprentice" he came across as weak when placed up again others more famous or were able to hold their own and then had to have Jose Consecos stick up for him and used his daughter to his advantage and it was almost pitiful to watch. Even if you base it on talent – let's face it he can no longer sing well – due to drinking-I don't really know. At a few of the concerts he forgot words to songs – and not just one. As for his diehard fans – you will never change their minds – maybe they need that in their life for whatever reason and that is not for me to judge. This is not meant to be mean or critize – just another opinion.
Did he say on the interview that he would like to beat up someone but he physically couldn't do it, only in his head? Thank You for pointing out the physical abuse Karen. Correct! He does in his own way abuse, doesn't matter at what level, he does inflict pain and suffering on his victims no matter if in concert attendance, in private, married, dating, whatever and it also goes for driving. Wasn't there and incidence also in NYC where he ran into another car and they let him go and ignored the woman because she said she wasn't hurt then saw who it was and became more injured? Fact was he ran into her and left the scene of the accident and nobody went to question him.
What I was getting at was he is a big man beating up women, until he himself gets into a situation that he cannot handle, someone meaner bigger and badder than him then he gets scaredy cat . Did he stop and wonder if the women he beat up were afraid of him? Did they hurt when the blows were delivered? Did he think then who was bigger and badder?
Amanda King
David's past physical & verbals threats have also included men, including one of the owners of the celebrity autograph show some years back. A friend of mine who witnessed the public spectacle firsthand was stunned by it. David's 5' 8" & the other guy an easy 6' 1" but that didn't stop him. So determined to bully & to get his way, which he didn't. That was the same show where David refused to take off his sunglasses, to speak to fans, to sign PF memorabilia, to stay for the contracted period of time (tried to leave twice in the first 50 minutes), claimed to be sick in the bathroom (deputy who accompanied him said didn't happen), etc. That David's been physically abusive to the women in his past isn't at all hard to believe. What kind of "man" does that to a woman, any woman?
I remember the incident about signing Patridge items. I was heading to seeing him in concert in La Mirada and was worried about his mood. There was someone who worked behind the scenes and was his escort and assistant for autographs and greeting fans. I guess he said, "I don't have to do this f>>>>> S****** and I am not going to and stormed off. They had trouble getting him to do this to begin with. The fact remains in this interview, he admits to being a big mouth jerk. Admitting and doing something about behavior are two different things.
He was such a jerk at that celebrity show, but for some reason his way of thinking does make a little sense. He was misinformed about how to set up his space. He brought his own photos and decided he was only going to sell those photos, when the promoters pretty much gave him a nice set of his own photos to help him along. For a person in the business so many years and nobody around him knows how to set up a meet and greet? He did want a high fee and he was behaving very strangely. In contrast, Richard Chamberlain was beyond the sweetest guy there. He does not do very many meet and greets because as said up above, his fans are beyond fanatic. They are a very mean bunch when they get into a group and they do not listen to any reason, to any rules when wanting to meet him. Then here not too long ago, there was a meet and greet and he put out the most bizarre rules-no talking no picture taking, no nothing. What was the point then? He really needs to get off his Diva Train, come back down to earth and be a real person again-he probably has forgotten how.
I’m confused by what you’re trying to say. If David’s sorry about anything, it’s that he’s been caught and exposed. The postings haven’t been “so childish” and “so mean” towards him. People have spoken of and shared their experiences, whether good or bad. David’s an entertainer as you say, but no longer a good one. Not even passable. Let’s face it. He doesn’t enjoy it anymore and it shows. He doesn’t bother rehearsing, remembering the lyrics, just goes through the motions. He doesn’t want the adoration. He makes no apologies for his rudeness, his cursing, his bullying, his drunkenness on stage. David’s life “does not belong to you personally” but does “belong to all who love him and enjoy him”? Read all of the postings before calling them "very bad fodder." Not a waste of anyone's time!
Say Again?
Miami, then what was that he said about his sloe eye over his DWI in florida? he did use a laim excuse and made up a storey and then he made more excuse.
True... now I remember watching that. Guess he was hoping to get off with a warning.
Disagree. His bad throat is because of the years of singing and stage dust. He also took his share of throat injections-steroids to help his voice. The drink does not help this matter granted. I would not be very surprised if he is in fact battling a terrible malady. You do know that the number of musicians contract mesothelioma-cancer of the lungs and throat. Yeats of working around asbestos buildings and studios.
I have not heard David, talk about accountability. Alcoholics think about relieving their pain, to avoid and they don't realize the consequences and how it effects other people. In working my steps, I realized how much pain I caused others by my drinking. It was painful to get to the truth but I needed to be accountable for my actions. I still go back to his family, children and close friends. No excuses for his behavior. It is serious and his dark soul can't recover until he focuses on the truth.
He is a man who always needs to be noticed, no matter what. He had to put out his little book twice, actually 3 times, He does do things to make people talk, all for attention. He is a whiner, he needs to be noticed, he needs to be the one who people talk about. He thinks he is the greatest living rock and roll idol and he is no such thing, he never was anymore than a made believe character that came to life for 3 1/4 years via television. His name came up at a banquet dinner last night and 6 of the people sitting at the table hoisted their glass and took one for him as they laughed. Hear tell the concert the other night wasn't so great, lot of complaints again
Honest? Yeah?
To honest: what are you smoking? i was there at the concert with some of my friends. the show was good and entertaining. were you there?
"The concert the other night". Doubt it. The concert was LAST NIGHT at a college and was not filled to capacity at all and it was just another concert; nothing more, nothing less but not up to par at all. People were critical of his performance and he did ask people to be quiet, band was a little off as well, but he could not reach the notes. It was like he gave up, just going through the motions of being there so he doesn't get labeled a "No Show" and probably sued.
'A Web Exclusive' . This never had any intention of being broadcast. I don't know if this was a plead out for his fans to forgive him for his drinking and strange concert behaviors, or used to get through to his soon to be ex wife, which is what it sounds like. He is dreaming! How in the world can anyone take him seriously when he says he has tried reaching out to his wife, then tells her he loves her while in the same breath speaks of his girlfriend. He found out he cannot have his cake and eat it too so he is in panic-Good. Wife and girlfriend-Who does he think he is?
Going by what my friend said, the person assisting David for autographs & greeting fans was his publicist/manager, Jo-Ann Geffen. She stood silently behind him at the table, watching the spectacle unfold, never saying a word. Two of the other celebs, who personally knew him, offered to help, only to be treated just as badly. One of them came back to his table shaking his head. Just couldn't believe it. The other was shocked. They were embarrassed themselves. Nice guys, too, who treated the fans with kindness, generosity, appreciation, respect. My friend had been a fan since he was a kid. No more.
I remember the incident about signing Patridge items. I was heading to see him in concert in La Mirada and was worried about his mood. There was someone who worked behind the scenes and was his escort and assistant for autographs and greeting fans. I guess he said, "I don't have to do this f>>>>> S****** and I am not going to and stormed off. They had trouble getting him to do this to begin with. The fact remains in this interview, he admits to being a big mouth jerk. Admitting and doing something about behavior are two different things.
Speaking of the celebrity show in 2009? Disaster with a capital D. He was the talk of the whole show, bad enough the new owners of the show were still making their transition. People; fans came as far away as the UK and were treated so bad. The real sad part was just down the road by a few miles was where he used to work and come out of the studio gate, stop and talk with the small group of fans FOR FREE . He behaved very badly back in October 09. They will NEVER ask him back, one of the worst-they say even Robert Blake wasn't that bad at all, he actually gave what his fans wanted and then some-for free which also made the new owners angry. All he is now is a very distant memory --because he just doesn't tell the truth, he cheats, he abuses and I cannot appreciate anybody like that.
One & the same. October 2009. With Robert Blake, his explosive temperament was a given, so no surprise there. Same friend also met him & said he wasn't that bad considering he was "the Robert Blake." Spoke to the fans, signed whatever they had, made an effort to be pleasant. Listened to fans' stories & their memories. He wasn't disrespectful towards anyone & seemed genuinely pleased that so many wanted to meet him. Nobody walked away hurt, disappointed, angry.
We drove all the way from Phoenix, AZ. to go to that celebrity meet and greet. We did not go only for David. It was fun to see so many of his fans waiting and being so patient during the wait period which was long for them too stay in one place, but when the fog horn went off and everybody ran for cover, that was very shocking! He was loud, he acted like someone who needed their medication to calm down. At first we thought it was somebody going off and turning into a hostile situation. The Robert Blake incident was actually much funnier because Mr. Blake could care less about making any money, he was out having a great time for himself. We heard David also stayed at the hotel next door for both nights because he was comped and hit the bar downstairs, to his chagrin, they closed early, then there were complaints about $15.00 hamburgers. We enjoyed those shows for years, but no more. Nothing to do with this guy, but it was a sight to see . Very hard to believe such a little man could stir up so much trouble and be such a loud mouth.
Pampered Diva
What could be in poorer taste than him trying to convince his estranged wife he still loves her while his girlfriend is sitting right there thinking she captured the former teen idol. What could be in poorer taste than him not telling the truth for years and rooking people into buying his book of make believe, poor taste to beat up his ex and physically injure her for life, poor taste to curse the very fans he says he loves, poor taste to tell lies about his deceased father who was his driving force, otherwise he COULD have been going off to war or found dead from drugs. Poor taste to always not tell the truth about his illness when he goes off on an on stage bender.
May 1, 2014 at 12:00 am | Report abuse |
FanForLife
These comments are still all the same--we have the true fans who tell the good side of him and then it is obvious the people who hate him and for some reason are tryiing to belittle him..(probably still jealous of all the success he had early in his life)...these people should try to understand that he has an illness–instead they are just saying everything they can to make him look bad.....very poor taste. Whether you want to believe it or not, this man has been a very successful talented singer and actor in his lifetime--very few people in this world will ever be able to say that about their life-something I fee he should be very proud of-I know I am very proud to have known this man and all of his deserved successes....I will forever wish him only good things in Life....ALWAYS.......
Pampered Pup
He has been pampered all his adult by bodyguards, mgrs and other people who speak for, make excuses for and blur the truth for him. He has never been made to take responsibility for his actions, and thus his so-called Fans For Life also begin to think the wrong he has done is nothing. Even in court his lawyers made sure that he did not have to really pay for his DUI's, his THREE DUI's. He must have some dense fans for them not to be able to comprehend how arrogant he has behaved with regards to his arrests. "I will not go to jail", why because in your mind you think it's still 1971 and you are still a big star who doesn't have to pay consequences for his actions? No wonder his son lost trust in him. Should any of these fans ever come in contact with his wrath and mocking of them at a concert, then they will see the truth of this man's character.
Pampered Baby
The Higher They Climb
True fans are those willing to accept David for what he once was and what he’s since become. Nobody’s saying anything about hating him, nobody’s jealous of his early rise to fame, nobody yearns to live his life. DUIs and rehabs, anyone? It’s up to David to change his path of self-destruction. He shouldn’t expect others to pick up the pieces and to then sweep them away. By all rights, he should be proud of himself. He WAS a very successful, talented singer, songwriter, actor, entertainer. Another lifetime ago. That was then, this is now. “The Higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall.”
Friend of Bill W.
real alcoholic, "He does absurd, tragic things while drinking. He is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Serious alcoholic passes a stage: two alternatives: one go to the bitter end or accept spiritual help" pg 23 adn 25 AA book David is the jaywalker they speak about in the AA book. There was nothing of courage in the interview-it was to gain confidence from others for his disease. Hope he doesn't have to die from this disease-again-his poor family and friends.
May 1, 2014 at 11:03 am | Report abuse | Reply
lifeboard
I am surprised no one has mentioned the lifeboard scam when they were together just a couple of years ago on t_v promoting the fact that they found their dream home their dream life, dream partner, all of the above total lies by him as well as his wife
Are you lifeboarding me?
Ah the Lifeboard... I had one in grade school, and it was free! I had all my dreams and wishes taped to my peechee. David was on it and that wish came true so it must work! Cannot believe grown woman bought into their hype! People are truly lemmings I swear!
May 1, 2014 at 12:42 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Refuse to run down anyone, but I questioned that lifeboard as being just another pyramid type structure to encourage others to join up. How could they have found their own dream partner when they were together since the 70's? .
This is not an illness, you get the illness from the disease. Surely he could not have been drunk while on stage, that's cause for cancellation and then he gets the blackball from all the promoters. Maybe this was why he had to partner up with the other teen idols, so he could work at the same time use it as a good will gesture towards community service. All he had to do was mention that or Alzhiemers. I always thought he was a great guy, but I didn't know him personally. All these things I read, you know, that could pretty much describe a lot of our neighbors, co-workers, people we associate at church and in daily life and I wouldn't speak of any of them so badly as you people spoke of David in such a way. Amazing how so many know EVERYTHING of his private life and more so. I think you people just want to use this place to gossip because you have a imagined problem with him. Get over the fact you cannot have him for yourselves so stop running him down.. We already heard this news no need for the rehash
Nikki, the disease centers in the mind. We drink to feel better than the compulsion kicks in. Alcoholism sends most of us off to gambling, spending, relationships, you name it. I like how you "refuse to run down anyone" but you just did run down those people who have been , emotionally and physically abused by David. My sponsor said to me, don't be in a relationship or make major changes your first year in sobriety. Also that we don't know the difference between a bottle of booze, relationships and a 5 dollar bill. I have been sober for 29 years and that is very true!
May 1, 2014 at 1:12 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Doris the Dog
I think you are wrong Nikki. I think his problem is because he can't have 1 cigarette an hour, he has to smoke the entire pack in 20 minutes to show off. Just like the drink. He has to drink more than his fair share to show off, he's been doing it for years. Then there was the drug usage. He cannot deny it as others have in fact wrote about his habits and they way he had acted while on it, getting tossed out of the most important places of the time. I think he probably did make such a fool out of himself the rest of his concert schedule took a major hit, he can't be insured either by the promoters or by himself, so that would mean he does have a medical problem. He used to stand on his own and now has to go in with other singers for a show and then he takes over the show? Happened in 2011, happened last year. His big ego got in the way, that along with the fact he was promoting the shows, he put up the money and his name as the draw so he could get work and a cut of the profits. He also had to show the courts he was working a full schedule so he didn't have time to go to jail for DUI this then turned into community service so he gave probably a portion of his proceeds to some organization to look like the boy scout.
I believe each and every one of the women in here and I think they do have every right to proclaim what he has done to them-how he made them feel and what the long term effects were. He only has to worry about taking another drink, he on the other hand ruined women's lives and cheated them out of a full and enjoyable life. Big shame on him!
Jackie D.
David HAS BEEN DRUNK on stage many times. Go back & read past concert reviews. Audience members walking out midway, asking for refunds doesn't happen unless there's something terribly wrong. David's sodden tantrums & tirades were reason enough for anyone to leave & never return. If you've never experienced the "real David," you've been lucky. For those of us who have, our stories are much more telling. No speaking badly, no gossiping, no imagined problems. No rose-colored glasses.
We can speak freely, 1st amendment rights and all that. I never used witchcraft and I too got him as well and I can profess that he was not the greatest either, have had better.. It is called being very determined! Some of us got it, some of us just keep dreaming :D.
Someone else here pegged it point on, he used this show for his own script. Maybe it was to look real bad, for the pity angle, maybe it was to win back Sue's heart, but can't see that, maybe he wants to go out with a tail tucked between his legs-Who Knows and Who Really Cares? He has done so much wrong to so many people, least of all the messing with women's emotions. There are many reasons why his tenants did not pay the full lease on the house, many things wrong with it, they kept their rental money into an account until the problems were fixed which they were not, so it was a wash in favor of 'HIM' because they did it dirty. Then he messed on his own lease agreement, he figured he did not have to pay and then blamed it on his accountants-He IS his own accountant. Let us see what happens on Saturday, there will be look outs so he cannot run and hide his drink under his top hat. He really is not worth anymore time or ink. He is a bad person.
Not at all surprising to learn that David's been a "landlord from hell." Self-loathing's gotten him this far. No respect for himself or anyone else, let alone his tenants. Good for them in not paying the rent & keeping the monies set aside. Why pay for something you're not getting?
The payments stopped because they did not know they also had to pay his HOA dues and then extra for the private dock, the fees there. Then when they did stop payments until certain things were fixed; plumbing in pool area, gutter repair, cracks in the walls due to shifting, this in turn caused him to default on his condo payments-iow, he was trying to use the house money as condo payment and he kicked a fuss over paying the HOA dues there as he said he was never there and didn't want certain services. This was in the realtor section in Broward.
He really wasn't all that great was he? Wonder if the tenants will write a tell all too?
What does any of this have to do with his drinking problem? He has an obvious disease that has been brewing for many years. I think because of the publicity he really cant secure any more concerts. Between all the bad reviews in the past and now this, he really is bad news in the entertainment realm. This is too bad. I used to get a bang out of him, but that was when everyone one of us was so young. I do not care what he does, but he should know better and not be out causing potential harm or death to innocent people. Don't care about his problem, he should just go do whatever he needs to do without having to use national fanfare and call more attention to himself yet again. Must be a hard pill to swallow to have to pay to get on a web interview. Joke of jokes
Brenda from Taos
FGS! OMG! TMI! LMAO! What happened to my secret crush? I understand what makes him drink. Look at some of these entries here! I thought I was in the wrong place. For all who come in; there is something for everybody and that is downright wicked! This went from a 1 hr. spot for telly and turns into his whole life story and just the right amount of rebuttals to make it sound like a nighttime soap opera! So sorry to see he is not looking very well, hopefully he can get his rest and stop drinking. He needs to start with himself 1st and forget about everything else! He rocked my boat and turned it over in 1971-The Best shag haircut to beat all! He is a happy memory, wish him nothing but good luck and better health.
May 2, 2014 at 5:34 am | Report abuse | Reply
David's an alcoholic, that's why he drinks. Not because of anything said here.
Thank You, Brenda (fromTaos)........"Fan For Life"....
It is a sad turn of events when he loses pretty much everything and now has to live on the kindness of strangers. He does not even own a home anymore, you realize this, right?. How darn upsetting is this? For a man who worked more or less steadily for over 40 years has been losing his homes and goodness knows what else; friends deaths. I cannot see him going on a bender on these things because he said himself he's been at it since 2002-More like 1972, but who's really counting. What did he do to himself to get into this sorry predicament? He should be resting on his successes and not going on nation wide TV allowing people to know what he has done, what he looks like and how sorry he is, but he will proclaim he will go and get better – I sure hope so because he has really been singing that old song for so long now nobody is paying attention.
He used to be our neighbor back in the 80's and to hear the arguments between he and his wife and his family was always reason for calling the local pd. He'd be in town, at the winery, trying or testing each wine until he was feeling no pain, driving down the road like he owned it. He also did let everyone in town know who he was like some big land baron, but again all in his mind because he owned nothing except maybe his car. Don't get me wrong, I thought he was one hot babe back in the 70's, but now, there is no excuse for him to be on TV like some national cry for not even help, more like a cry for 'Look at me' . If he has been messing up for these last so many years, he needs to just leave everything at the door, walk away and start over doing something else, maybe even retire. He can live nice on his checks.
Does it make "you" feel better, "C. Martin" to tell all David's private business since you were once his "neighbor".....this blog was SUPPOSED to be about David's alcolalism-period....instead it has become all about telling tales, not even related to his main problem--trying to get sober. The majority of these entries have been absolutely disgusting......so glad to know that most of you are SO PERFECT......
Bill w
He sets this up. What old fans are commenting here is nothing compared to the behavior he has had with fans behind the doors. That have their own voice.
what do you mean bill w
About your stmt behavior he has had with fans behind closed doors ? I thought he was scared of his fans ?
May 4, 2014 at 2:30 pm | Report abuse |
Where does it say that his alcoholism is the only subject to be discussed? All the stories told above are intertwined with his drinking At least I sure hope so if he behaves this way when he's sober he is one sick puppy ! Like I stated before I'm very happy with this blog. Puts a lot into perspective for me
So glad "you are very happy with this blog"........it just shows it puts you in the majority with all the other people who seem to take such joy in running down a human being-someone who needs help and support--sure hope he doesn't come to "you" for any...........
David brings this on himself. This blog is only one small fraction of people who are fed up with the denial. Go ahead love this guy to death . I think about his family and the suffering they are exposed to.
Keep standing
Thank you Bill! Where is the like button. And bystander you keep standing by. I do not take any joy of running him down and yes he does come to me for support when he needs to get the truth When, not if, he calls me (yes we still keep in touch) I will share with him what I wrote and why.
I am praying that there are really good people who are willing to "stand by" him through all of this......not to enable him, but to really help him without being "cruel"...he has meant so much to me throughout my lifetime and he is still much too young to leave us now........
sick of the kiss *** fans
Who cant see the man. Yeah I am standing by BUT I know the man . I am not some fan that cant take the truth about their pretty boy. I have known him for many years now. Behind the closed door where the mask comes off. It is an itimate thing and you fans cant even fathom to undrrstand what it is like for him amd having to always have it on. It is too bad it has come to this. But he knows his few true friends and I know he has to do what he needs to do at this time and I will be supporting him in truth as I always have.
Re: above post.....I am far from being a "Kiss__-Fan", believe me..(I would rather keep my circunstances personal)....I too, will continue to support him in truth and any way else I can so this man can get the help that he deserves....
Truth vs. BS. No self proclaimed true friend of his would dare to come into this place and spout off about their close intimate friendship with him. They do not have the time. Ever. The only one he is confiding anything to is his panel of Doctors and only one other true friend. I know exactly who that friend is-he is male and no, not his childhood friend either.
Very sad state of affairs here when 1 entertainer decides for whatever reason to allow his fans to know what he is going through, whether it be real or made up-that is not for anyone to decide. It would be however nice to read and see his true fans come together here and support him instead of tearing him down. People who profess to sleep with or have intimate relationship with him is a teardown when one is printing this stuff in a public forum. do we believe any of it? Of course not! I stand to gather nobody would honestly care of he did proclaim he was sleeping with half of his town. For some of you, the fave past-time is to ream him a new one for having a girlfriend-his business, not yours. I think you are trying to upset his girl, fact is, she is not here reading anything, she is probably hugging on him as we speak and Bully For Her!
Raindrops, So Many Raindrops
"nobody would honestly care of he did proclaim he was sleeping with half of his town"? David's wife would beg to differ. Somebody does care! Telling Piers Morgan on the one hand about your wife & on the other about your girlfriend? If it wasn't everybody's business before, it is now. Who does this? What does this say about him? Addled thinking from an addled mind.
Too many fans who have very low self esteem to change their minds. They will always think of him as their #1 and that is fine. Just don't get too tangled up personally as it is true, many women have tried to self medicate to make the pain go away from what he pulled. It isn't just about who slept with who either. He has done a lot of bad things to a lot of good people, so karma knocks on his door now and he has to use this show in its last week as his sound board? Didn't change my thoughts of him. He isn't a very nice human being at all.
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Eleni Petraki
A computational linguistic approach for the identification of translator stylometry using Arabic-English text
El-Fiqi, H., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H. A., 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Chen, S. M. (ed.). Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE, Vol. 1. p. 2039-2045 7 p.
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution › peer-review
A Critical Analysis of Punishment in Public Goods Games
Greenwood, G. W., Abbass, H. & Petraki, E., 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2018. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-5 5 p. (IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG; vol. 2018-August).
Affiliating Through Agreements: The Context of Antenatal Consultations
PETRAKI, E. & CLARK, S., 2016, In: Australian Journal of Linguistics. 36, 2, p. 273-289 17 p.
Arabizi in Saudi Arabia: A deviant form of language or simply a form of expression?
Alghamdi, H. & Petraki, E., 1 Jan 2018, In: Social Sciences. 7, 9, p. 1-19 19 p., 155.
A tale of two cities: Investigating teachers' and students' beliefs on grammar pedagogy in English language teaching
PETRAKI, E. & Gunawardena, M., 2014, Proceedings of the 7th International Free Linguistics Conference. Espindola, E. & Kashyap, A. K. (eds.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, p. 116-122 7 p.
Challenges and constraints in the design of an ESP course in Cambodia: implications for higher education institutions
Petraki, E. & Khat, K., Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education. p. 1-16 16 p.
Critical Thinking Skills in the EAP Classroom: Negotiating tensions in the Sri Lankan context
Gunawardena, M. & PETRAKI, E., 2014, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Asia: Negotiating Appropriate Practices in a Global Context. Liyanage, I. & Walker, T. (eds.). 1 ed. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, p. 65-77 13 p.
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter
Do Asian EFL teachers use humor in the classroom? A case study of Vietnamese EFL university teachers
PETRAKI, E. & Pham Nguyen, H. H., 2016, In: System. 61, p. 98-109 12 p.
Effective grammar teaching: Lessons from confident grammar teachers
Petraki, E. & Hill, D., 2011, In: Tesol in Context. 21, 2, p. 34-51 18 p.
Evolving narrations of strategic defence and security scenarios for computational scenario planning
Wang, K., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H., 2016, Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence in Defense and Security. Abielmona, R., Falcon, R., Zincir-Heywood, N. & Abbass, H. A. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., p. 635-661 27 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence; vol. 621).
Evolving Narrations of Strategic Defense and Security Scenarios for Computational Scenario Planning
Wang, K., PETRAKI, E. & Abbass, H., 2016, Recent advances in computational intelligence in defense and security. Abielmona, R., Falcon, R., Zincir-Heywood, N. & Abbass, H. (eds.). USA: Springer, p. 635-661 27 p.
Evolving Story Narrative using Surrogate Models of Human Judgement
Wang, K., Bui, V., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H. A., 2013, Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012. Kim, J., Matson, E. T., Myung, H. & Xu, P. (eds.). Berlin, Germany: Springer, Vol. 208. p. 1-9 9 p.
Finite population trust game replicators
Greenwood, G., Abbass, H. & Petraki, E., 2016, Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence: Second Australasian Conference, ACALCI 2016 Canberra, ACT, Australia, February 2–5, 2016 Proceedings. Ray, T., Sarker, R. & Li, X. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Vol. 9592. p. 324-335 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9592).
Finite Population
Replicator Dynamics
From Subjective to Objective Metrics for Evolutionary Story Narration using Event Permutations
Wang, K., Bui, V., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H. A., 2012, Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2012: Simulated Evolution and Learning. Bui, LT., Ong, YS., Hoai, NX., Ishibuchi, H. & Suganthan, PN. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, Vol. 7673. p. 400-409 10 p.
Human-Guided Evolutionary Story Narration
Wang, K., Bui, V., Abbass, H. A. & Petraki, E., 24 Jan 2018, In: IEEE Access. 6, p. 13783-13802 20 p.
Evolutionary algorithms
Introduction: Language Use in Institutional Settings
CLARK, S. & PETRAKI, E., 2016, In: Australian Journal of Linguistics. 36, 2, p. 167-171 5 p.
Learner Diversity in the Adult ESL Classroom: Teachers’ Principles and Practices’
Greenup, C., Stracke, E. & Petraki, E., 2020, In: English Australia Journal. 36, 1, p. 4-25 22 p.
Machine Education: Designing semantically ordered and ontologically guided modular neural networks
Abbass, H., El-Sawah, S., Petraki, E. & Hunjet, R., 7 Feb 2020, Machine Education: Designing semantically ordered and ontologically guided modular neural networks . Hou, Z., Hussain, A., Yang, C., Zeng, Z. & Zhang, Y. (eds.). United States: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 948-955 8 p.
Computer aided instruction
Navigating the Indonesian workplace hierarchy: Managers’ use of humour as a rapport building strategy
Petraki, E. & Ramayanti, I., 1 Sep 2018, In: Journal of Pragmatics. 134, p. 199-209 11 p.
On Trust and Influence: A Computational Red Teaming Game Theoretic Perspective
PETRAKI, E. & Abbass, H. A., 2015, Proceedings of the 2014 7th IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications. Bui, L., Abbas, H., Abielmona, R. & Namatame, A. (eds.). USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-7 7 p.
Pairwise comparative classification for translator stylometric analysis
El-Fiqi, H., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H. A., 2016, In: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. 16, 1, p. 1-26 26 p., 2.
Shaping influence and influencing shaping: A computational red teaming trust-based swarm intelligence model
Tang, J., Petraki, E. & Abbass, H., 1 Jan 2016, Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9712. Springer, Cham. United Kingdom: Springer, Vol. 9712. p. 14-23 10 p.
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review
Socio-technical Systems
Teaching oral requests: An evaluation of five English as a second language coursebooks
PETRAKI, E., 2013, In: Pragmatics. 23, 3, p. 499-517 19 p.
The causes for no causation: A computational perspective
Abbass, H. A. & Petraki, E., 2012, In: Information - Knowledge - Systems Management. 10, 1 - 4, p. 51-74 24 p.
System of systems
The key ingredients of an effective grammar lesson: Perceptions from high school ESL students
PETRAKI, E. & Gunawardena, M., 2015, In: Asian EFL Journal. 17, 3, p. 59-84 26 p.
ESL Students
Grammar Teaching
The N-Player Trust Game and its Replicator Dynamics
Abbass, H. A., Greenwood, G. & PETRAKI, E., 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 20, 3, p. 470-474 5 p., 7284709.
Evolutionary Game
Social Dilemma
Trusted Autonomy and Cognitive Cyber Symbiosis: Open Challenges
Abbass, H., PETRAKI, E., Merrick, K., Harvey, J. & Barlow, M., 2016, In: Cognitive Computation. 8, 3, p. 385-408 24 p.
Interfaces (computer)
When is altruistic punishment useful in social dilemmas?
Greenwood, G. W., Abbass, H. A. & Petraki, E., 2018, In: Biosystems. 174, p. 60-62 3 p.
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Framework set for a Lebanese agri-food innovation cluster
|By Reina Dib
The Agri-Food Innovation Cluster, the first in Lebanon and the region, is being setup by professionals in the sector through the Agrytech Program.
Launched in 2017 and funded jointly by Berytech and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Agrytech Program aims to source the top startups with disruptive innovations in the Agri-Food sector and provide them with the adequate technical and business resources as well as community support to scale their ideas into successful businesses with global impact.
A platform for startups and companies
One of the main pillars of the Agrytech Program – Lebanon’s Agri-Food Innovation Hub, is to create a platform where both startups and existing companies in the Lebanese agri-food sector can come together and work on increasing the competitiveness of the sector and placing Lebanon back on the innovation map, both at regional and international levels. “This kind of interaction and collaboration are referred to as a cluster, with the main objective of building synergies and promoting for a smarter agri-food sector, both nationally and internationally,” explains Ramy Boujawdeh, Berytech Deputy GM.
The main advantages that companies gain from being part of a cluster are ease of access to expertise, skilled workers, input suppliers, information channels, and linkages to new markets. “Ultimately, this results in improved competitiveness, as seen with different clusters around the world”, continues Boujawdeh.
The Agri-Food Innovation Cluster, championed by Berytech, is being setup up with founding members representing leading enterprises in the sector, including Nabil Shuman – Agriplus, Hassan Beydoun – Balkis, Rami Boujawdeh – Berytech, Rima Memari – Biolicious, Jan-Willem Roossink – Brasserie Almaza S.A.L., Rani Azzi and Edouard Kosremelli – Chateau Kefraya, Anis AbuJaoudeh – Crown Flour Mills, Andre Hajjar – Go Baladi, Jihad Daher – Gout Blanc, Hadi Kehaleh – Ixsir Winery, and Nadine Khoury – Robinson Agri.
Berytech has also solicited the expertise of Roger Van Hoesel, head of Food Valley NL – one of the first professional food clusters in the world, and a member of the Agrytech Program Advisory Board, to help in developing the cluster. “This cluster is the first of its kind in the region and will help Lebanon to be leader in that aspect. It can also gradually help the agri-food sector to be competitive and enable enterprises to innovate,” comments Van Hoesel.
Establishing a need
“We knew that what worked abroad may not work in Lebanon,” comments Boujawdeh, “so there was a need to first test the ground, to see whether such a cluster would be beneficial and demanded by the different stakeholders, namely the agri-food enterprises.” An assessment was carried out to analyze the local ecosystem, and test the idea of setting up a cluster, identifying its potential benefits and modus operandi, as well as the synergies it would create with other existing associations representing the sector.
The assessment revealed interesting insights into the industry. Different syndicates and associations have worked for several years to represent the interest of their members and help create a better business-enabling environment for the sectors they represent, including the agri-food sector. However, the limited financial and human resources negatively influenced their performance, limiting their role to advocacy and participation in international trade shows.
The challenges and gaps enlarged with the years, as the country witnessed different economic slowdowns, and thus the needs of the enterprises grew beyond the services provided.
“The agri-food sector in Lebanon has enormous potential, and in order to regain our rightful place as major players on the world map, we need to push innovation,” explains Boujawdeh. “Be it through process or product innovation, enterprises need to innovate, and this process requires long-term support for integration, and hence the need for an Agri-Food Innovation Cluster.”
Having established the need and will for setting-up the cluster, the next step was to find enterprises who were willing to join and work closely with Berytech through the Agrytech Program to setup the groundwork including setting the vision and mission, the operational model, strategy, as well as attracting new members.
“Our quest for members started, and we contacted those who had expressed interest in the cluster and asked them to join,” says Boujawdeh. A first meeting was setup in November 2017 with 11 enterprises, both startups and established ones, who have now become the founding members.
According to Boujawdeh, the next steps are crucial. “We need to build trust among the members and help them think beyond their personal interests, think for the interest of the sub-sectors they represent.”
Regular meetings are now scheduled every 3 weeks at different locations, rotating between the headquarters of each founding member’s company. The members also participated in a workshop given by Food Valley NL in January 2018, where tasks were divided, and committees were formed.
The next meeting is set for mid-February 2018 and the agenda will include defining the vision and mission as well as setting the governance and business model of the Cluster.
“The Agri-Food Innovation Cluster is envisioned to become the driving force of the Agri-Food innovators, industry leaders and expert community by stimulating innovation, reinforcing mutual exchanges, and setting international legitimacy. We are very excited!” concludes Boujawdeh.
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The Dharma-Door of Nonduality
Then, the Licchavi Vimalakirti asked those bodhisattvas, "Good sirs, please explain how the bodhisattvas enter the Dharma-door of nonduality!"
The bodhisattva Dharmavikurvana declared, "Noble sir, production and destruction are two, but what is not produced and does not occur cannot be destroyed. Thus the attainment of the tolerance of the birthlessness of things is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Srigandha declared, " 'I' and 'mine' are two. If there is no presumption of a self, there will be no possessiveness. Thus, the absence of presumption is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Srikuta declared, " 'Defilement' and 'purification' are two. When there is thorough knowledge of defilement, there will be no conceit about purification. The path leading to the complete conquest of all conceit is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Bhadrajyotis declared, " 'Distraction' and 'attention' are two. When there is no distraction, there will be no attention, no mentation, and no mental intensity. Thus, the absence of mental intensity is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Subahu declared, " 'Bodhisattva-spirit' and 'disciple-spirit' are two. When both are seen to resemble an illusory spirit, there is no bodhisattva-spirit, nor any disciple-spirit. Thus, the sameness of natures of spirits is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Animisa declared, " 'Grasping' and 'nongrasping' are two. What is not grasped is not perceived, and what is not perceived is neither presumed nor repudiated. Thus, the inaction and noninvolvement of all things is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Sunetra declared, " 'Uniqueness' and 'characterlessness' are two. Not to presume or construct something is neither to establish its uniqueness nor to establish its characterlessness. To penetrate the equality of these two is to enter nonduality."
The bodhisattva Tisya declared, " 'Good' and 'evil' are two. Seeking neither good nor evil, the understanding of the nonduality of the significant and the meaningless is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Simha declared, " 'Sinfulness' and 'sinlessness' are two. By means of the diamond-like wisdom that pierces to the quick, not to be bound or liberated is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Simhamati declared, "To say, 'This is impure' and 'This is immaculate' makes for duality. One who, attaining equanimity, forms no conception of impurity or immaculateness, yet is not utterly without conception, has equanimity without any attainment of equanimity - he enters the absence of conceptual knots.
Thus, he enters into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Suddhadhimukti declared, "To say, 'This is happiness' and 'That is misery' is dualism. One who is free of all calculations, through the extreme purity of gnosis - his mind is aloof, like empty space; and thus he enters into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Narayana declared, "To say, 'This is mundane' and 'That is transcendental' is dualism. This world has the nature of voidness, so there is neither transcendence nor involvement, neither progress nor standstill. Thus, neither to transcend nor to be involved, neither to go nor to stop - this is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Dantamati declared, "'Life' and 'liberation' are dualistic. Having seen the nature of life, one neither belongs to it nor is one utterly liberated from it. Such understanding is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Pratyaksadarsana declared, "'Destructible' and 'indestructible' are dualistic. What is destroyed is ultimately destroyed. What is ultimately destroyed does not become destroyed; hence, it is called 'indestructible.' What is indestructible is instantaneous, and what is instantaneous is indestructible. The experience of such is called 'the entrance into the principle of nonduality.'"
The bodhisattva Parigudha declared, "'Self' and 'selflessness' are dualistic. Since the existence of self cannot be perceived, what is there to be made 'selfless'? Thus, the nondualism of the vision of their nature is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Vidyuddeva declared, "'Knowledge' and 'ignorance' are dualistic. The natures of ignorance and knowledge are the same, for ignorance is undefined, incalculable, and beyond the sphere of thought. The realization of this is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Priyadarsana declared, "Matter itself is void. Voidness does not result from the destruction of matter, but the nature of matter is itself voidness. Therefore, to speak of voidness on the one hand, and of matter, or of sensation, or of intellect, or of motivation, or of consciousness on the other - is entirely dualistic.
Consciousness itself is voidness. Voidness does not result from the destruction of consciousness, but the nature of consciousness is itself voidness. Such understanding of the five compulsive aggregates and the knowledge of them as such by means of gnosis is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Prabhaketu declared, "To say that the four main elements are one thing and the etheric space-element another is dualistic. The four main elements are themselves the nature of space. The past itself is also the nature of space. The future itself is also the nature of space. Likewise, the present itself is also the nature of space. The gnosis that penetrates the elements in such a way is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Pramati declared, "'Eye' and 'form' are dualistic. To understand the eye correctly, and not to have attachment, aversion, or confusion with regard to form - that is called 'peace.' Similarly, 'ear' and 'sound,' 'nose' and 'smell,' 'tongue' and taste,' 'body' and touch,' and 'mind' and 'phenomena' - all are dualistic. But to know the mind, and to be neither attached, averse, nor confused with regard to phenomena - that is called 'peace.' To live in such peace is to enter into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Aksayamati declared, "The dedication of generosity for the sake of attaining omniscience is dualistic. The nature of generosity is itself omniscience, and the nature of omniscience itself is total dedication.
Likewise, it is dualistic to dedicate morality, tolerance, effort, meditation, and wisdom for the sake of omniscience. Omniscience is the nature of wisdom, and total dedication is the nature of omniscience. Thus, the entrance into this principle of uniqueness is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Gambhiramati declared, "It is dualistic to say that voidness is one thing, signlessness another, and wishlessness still another. What is void has no sign. What has no sign has no wish. Where there is no wish there is no process of thought, mind, or consciousness. To see the doors of all liberations in the door of one liberation is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Santendriya declared, "It is dualistic to say 'Buddha,' 'Dharma,' and 'Sangha.' The Dharma is itself the nature of the Buddha, the Sangha is itself the nature of the Dharma, and all of them are uncompounded. The uncompounded is infinite space, and the processes of all things are equivalent to infinite space. Adjustment to this is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Apratihatanetra declared, "It is dualistic to refer to 'aggregates' and to the 'cessation of aggregates.' Aggregates themselves are cessation. Why? The egoistic views of aggregates, being unproduced themselves, do not exist ultimately. Hence such views do not really conceptualize 'These are aggregates' or 'These aggregates cease.' Ultimately, they have no such discriminative constructions and no such conceptualizations. Therefore, such views have themselves the nature of cessation. Nonoccurrence and nondestruction are the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Suvinita declared, "Physical, verbal, and mental vows do not exist dualistically. Why? These things have the nature of inactivity. The nature of inactivity of the body is the same as the nature of inactivity of speech, whose nature of inactivity is the same as the nature of inactivity of the mind. It is necessary to know and to understand this fact of the ultimate inactivity of all things, for this knowledge is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Punyaksetra declared, "It is dualistic to consider actions meritorious, sinful, or neutral. The non-undertaking of meritorious, sinful, and neutral actions is not dualistic. The intrinsic nature of all such actions is voidness, wherein ultimately there is neither merit, nor sin, nor neutrality, nor action itself. The nonaccomplishment of such actions is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Padmavyuha declared, "Dualism is produced from obsession with self, but true understanding of self does not result in dualism. Who thus abides in nonduality is without ideation, and that absence of ideation is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Srigarbha declared, "Duality is constituted by perceptual manifestation. Nonduality is objectlessness. Therefore, nongrasping and nonrejection is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Candrottara declared, "'Darkness' and 'light' are dualistic, but the absence of both darkness and light is nonduality. Why? At the time of absorption in cessation, there is neither darkness nor light, and likewise with the natures of all things. The entrance into this equanimity is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Ratnamudrahasta declared, "It is dualistic to detest the world and to rejoice in liberation, and neither detesting the world nor rejoicing in liberation is nonduality. Why? Liberation can be found where there is bondage, but where there is ultimately no bondage where is there need for liberation? The mendicant who is neither bound nor liberated does not experience any like or any dislike and thus he enters nonduality."
The bodhisattva Manikutaraja declared, "It is dualistic to speak of good paths and bad paths. One who is on the path is not concerned with good or bad paths. Living in such unconcern, he entertains no concepts of 'path' or 'nonpath.' Understanding the nature of concepts, his mind does not engage in duality. Such is the entrance into nonduality."
The bodhisattva Satyarata declared, "It is dualistic to speak of 'true' and 'false.' When one sees truly, one does not ever see any truth, so how could one see falsehood? Why? One does not see with the physical eye, one sees with the eye of wisdom. And with the wisdom-eye one sees only insofar as there is neither sight nor nonsight.
There, where there is neither sight nor nonsight, is the entrance into nonduality."
When the bodhisattvas had given their explanations, they all addressed the crown prince Manjusri: "Manjusri, what is the bodhisattva's entrance into nonduality?"
Manjusri replied, "Good sirs, you have all spoken well. Nevertheless, all your explanations are themselves dualistic. To know no one teaching, to express nothing, to say nothing, to explain nothing, to announce nothing, to indicate nothing, and to designate nothing - that is the entrance into nonduality."
Then the crown prince Manjusri said to the Licchavi Vimalakirti, "We have all given our own teachings, noble sir. Now, may you elucidate the teaching of the entrance into the principle of nonduality!"
Thereupon, the Licchavi Vimalakirti kept his silence, saying nothing at all.
The crown prince Manjusri applauded the Licchavi Vimalakirti: "Excellent! Excellent, noble sir! This is indeed the entrance into the nonduality of the bodhisattvas. Here there is no use for syllables, sounds, and ideas."
When these teachings had been declared, five thousand bodhisattvas entered the door of the Dharma of nonduality and attained tolerance of the birthlessness of things.
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, from the deep course of Prajna wisdom, saw clearly that all five skandhas were empty, thus sundered all bonds of suffering. Sariputra, know then: form does not differ from emptiness, nor does emptiness differ from form. Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness.
The Heart Sutra
Thus have I heard. Once the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajagriha at Vulture Peak mountain, together with a great gathering of the sangha of monks and a great gathering of the sangha of bodhisattvas. At that time the Blessed One entered the samadhi that expresses the dharma called "profound illumination," and at the same time noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, while practicing the profound prajnaparamita, saw in this way: he saw the five skandhas to be empty of nature.
The Lankavatara Sutra
Suzuki and Goddard
Thus I have heard. The Blessed One once appeared in the Castle of Lanka which is on the summit of Mt. Malaya in the midst of the great Ocean. A great many Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas had miraculously assembled from all the Buddha-lands, and a large number of bhikshus were gathered there.
Goddar
The Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra
Om. Adoration to the Three Treasures! Om. Adoration to all the glorious Buddhas and Bodhisattvas! Adoration to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Aryas, Sravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas, past, present, and to come, who dwell in the unlimited and endless world systems of the ten quarters! Adoration to Amitabha!
Om. Adoration to the Three Treasures! Om. Adoration to all the glorious Buddhas and Bodhisattvas! Adoration to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Aryas, Sravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas, past, present, and to come, who dwell in the unlimited and endless world systems of the ten quarters!
The Lotus Sutra
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The Platform Sutra of the Six Patriarch of Zen Buddhism
Philip Boas Yampolsky
The 6th Patriarch of Zen, Hui-neng (early 8th c. China) made some very profound comments on the Lotus Sutra in the "Platform Sutra" - the only Chinese-origin sutra in the entire Mahayana canon. The Platform Sutra is a medium length work in 57 Chapters. It is regarded as the principal, and indeed the only, sutra of the Zen path, which path generally eschews any reliance upon the printed or written word.
The Seeker's Glossary of Buddhism
Sutra Translation Committee of USA
The Seeker's Glossary of Buddhism By Sutra Translation Committee of USA/Canada This is a revised and expanded edition of The Seeker's Glossary of Buddhism. The text is a compendium of excerpts and quotations from some 350 works by monks, nuns, professors, scholars and other laypersons from nine different countries, in their own words or in translation. The editors have merely organized the material, adding a few connecting thoughts of their own for ease in reading.
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This is what I once heard. The Lord was dwelling in the Jetavana of Anathapindika's park in Sravasti. King Prasenajit of Kosala and his Queen Mallika had believed in the Buddha's Doctrine for only a short time. Now they engaged in conversation. "O great king, our daughter Queen Srimala is profound and clever. If she were just to see the Buddha, she would understand the doctrine with little difficulty and she would have no doubts about the Buddha's teaching."
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4 Drivers Kohl’s Refined to Build an Award-Winning Workers’ Comp Program
Kohl’s Department Stores knew a reactive approach in claims management wouldn’t help them achieve their goals. So they got proactive.
By: Autumn Heisler | November 1, 2019
Topics: November 2019 Issue | Retail | Teddy Award | WC Cost Containment | Workers' Comp | Workers' Comp Forum
Voted as one of 2019’s World’s Most Ethical Companies, it’s no wonder the workers’ compensation team at Kohl’s Department Stores wanted their corporate responsibility to extend to their workers.
“Kohl’s associates live out our values each and every day,” said Laurie Frey, senior manager, workers’ compensation, Kohl’s. “We put customers first and take a ‘yes we can’ approach to everything we do … we act with integrity.”
So when Frey and her team reviewed their workers’ comp program back in 2016, they realized there was work to be done in order to meet that same level of “yes we can.”
“We realized our claim duration and off-work time was not correlating with our values, and we owed it to our associates to fix this,” she said.
To do just that, the workers’ comp team focused on what was really holding them back: a reactive approach to claims management. They realized they needed a proactive approach that would not only help associates through their injuries from the start, but also assist in return-to-work and making certain each associate had a fully engaged role within Kohl’s upon their return.
Four areas were identified as potential drivers for this active approach: nurse triage and telepresence; wellness centers; a refresh to the RTW program; and aligning with the best claims practices available.
The results speak for themselves: In just three years, Kohl’s reduced losses by a significant amount. Pending claim counts, new claims and the total cost of risk for the workers’ compensation team decreased significantly year over year. Kohl’s has also engaged new partners, invested in new practices and strives to support its associates on every level.
“We saw an opportunity to bring in other internal partners across the organization and work together to create a better workers’ compensation program,” said Frey.
“Doing what was right for the company was top of mind. That meant determining solutions for our associates that were both helpful and cost effective.”
All together, the team’s efforts earned Kohl’s a 2019 Teddy Award.
1) Adding in Wellness Centers
Kohl’s has more than 1,100 locations across the U.S. and employs approximately 140,000 associates. For this retailer, advocating for its workers was paramount.
Laurie Frey, senior manager, workers’ compensation, Kohl’s Department Stores
The workers’ comp team knew it had to invest in programs that would keep the associates’ needs front-and-center throughout their employment with the company and any injuries that might arise. One way to do that was through the addition of wellness centers.
“Having wellness centers on site means our associates can be treated in a convenient manner before ever having a workers’ comp claim,” said Frey.
The workers’ comp team partnered with the HR department, establishing wellness centers within distribution buildings and credit and corporate locations. Associates, their spouses and their children all have free access to these centers and the opportunity to meet with a primary care physician. Frey added that one of the goals in having this kind of access to care is to prevent injury or illness.
“Things that can complicate a workers’ comp claim can be eliminated through routine visits to a primary care physician. Giving the associates the option of seeing someone right on site helps to keep our associates healthy and minimize injuries,” she said.
2) Getting Workers Immediately into a Nurse’s Care
The benefits don’t stop pre-injury, either. On the other end, “any associate injured at work has the ability to be seen immediately, on site, and without waiting in line at an urgent care center,” said Frey.
As a next step in the process, nurse triage, said Frey, became the biggest driver for the team.
“We wanted associates to have access to immediate medical resources within minutes of their injury,” she explained.
Injured associates are put in touch with a registered nurse from the Kohl’s nurse triage program within minutes of injury.
Frey said this mandatory incident reporting took the onus of making medical decisions off of team leadership and instead placed it in the hands of medical professionals. Additionally, associates have the ability to connect with the Kohl’s nursing partner throughout the claim, whether that be over the phone or through video chat with a provider.
“Not only has this improved our results, this is the piece that most impacts our associates and provides them with the best possible resources at the outset of a claim,” Frey said.
“Moreover, the nurses in the program play a large role in our return-to-work process.”
3) Revamping Return-to-Work
The return-to-work program at Kohl’s was proving successful, but the team wanted more.
“We have always had a successful transitional work program,” Frey said. “My team wanted to enhance the program to not just get associates back into their locations, but to get them closer to a full-duty position sooner.”
What makes the changes stand out is Kohl’s perseverance to accommodate every injured associate regardless of possible restrictions. For the workers’ comp team, building a sense of goodwill with the associate drove change.
They aligned RTW with the process used on the non-occupational health side, which reduced the need for temporary and transitional tasks, and instead, gets associates back to their roles faster. In fact, the team has seen a decrease in temporary total disability days because of their efforts.
“The associate returns to work, returns to his or her team and is able to continue to feel like a part of the Kohl’s family, which encourages individuals to want to return,” said Frey.
4) Finding the Best Practices in Claims Handling
Working with the associates pre- and post-claim was a successful start for the workers’ comp team. But they also agreed something had to be done on the back end of the claims process in order to make lasting change.
Kohl’s workers’ compensation team, from left to right: Matt Fredrick, Laurie Frey, Melissa Marks, Helen Collins, Lee Zubek and Nick Chorak
Frey said the team wanted to find new solutions to resolve claims more efficiently to help associates put the injury behind them. Kohl’s partnered with its TPA and brokerage to complete semi-annual claims reviews.
“The initiative has enabled us to put the right adjuster on a case at the right time, which makes sure the associates [of Kohl’s] get the right care and claims are handled in a timely manner,” explained Kohl’s broker.
Over the last three years, Kohl’s broker said she has seen the program evolve from a reactive take on handling claims to a more proactive role, where the team at Kohl’s is helping their associates get the care and treatments they need. “They’re engaged with the process from the start. It’s really amazing the drive that they have for their associates and for each claim.”
Part of the claims process now involves what Frey described as a quarterly claim “blitz.”
“These ‘blitzes’ are a fun way for the team to work with their examiners to focus on particular claims, whether it’s based on the date of injury, location or other feature,” she explained.
“The team works with their individual examiners over the course of the quarter to see how many claims can be resolved in the best way for the associate and company. It is also a good way for the team to make sure the claims are on track to return associates to work and a fun way for the team to be more engaged.”
Acting with Integrity
According to Kohl’s broker, Frey has created an environment that not only supports the needs of the associates, but also enables her team to continue to innovate.
“It’s not about the results with Kohl’s; it’s about continuing to challenge themselves on ways to make the process better,” the broker said. “They have already had these amazing results, but they want to do more. You don’t see that level of integrity and dedication in every organization.”
“Knowing that your program is never perfect and being open to learning more about how you can help your company through your program can give you the opportunity to change and improve,” added Frey. &
Autumn Heisler is the content strategist at Risk & Insurance®. She can be reached at [email protected]
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By: AIG | December 21, 2020
The renewable energy sector looks poised to continue its years-long growth trajectory. Falling technology costs, availability of tax credits, rising consumer demand and an urgent need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to combat the effects of climate change have all driven interest and investment dollars to wind, solar and battery storage projects.
This growth has continued despite uncertainties introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. A market outlook report by Deloitte states that as energy demands dropped in the spring amid state shutdowns, the share of energy produced from wind and solar plants actually increased by 2%.
“Renewable energy sources beat coal in the generation mix for 116 days” as of June, compared to just 39 days over the same period last year, according to the report. This demonstrates grid resiliency and reliability — two primary concerns with the scalability of renewable energy projects.
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Here are three key risks the industry is grappling with and how the right insurer-partner can help renewable energy companies keep moving forward.
1) Increased natural hazard exposure in remote building sites
Ian Kirejczyk, Property Underwriter – Energy and Construction at AIG Contact: 770-671-2214 / [email protected]
The demand for more renewable energy has resulted in bigger projects, which require more space.
For that reason, wind, solar and battery storage projects are increasingly sited in remote areas in states that have more available land — mostly Midwest and Southwestern states that are also more vulnerable to natural hazards like wildfire, hail and tornado.
“As new projects are being built, they’re being built in remote areas, and we’re definitely starting to see some of those more catastrophic losses from hail, wind, flooding and wildfire events that impact the ability to access project sites, which can impact maintenance schedules or delay repairs and in turn can result in increased claim costs,” Kirejczyk said.
Advancements in drone technology have alleviated this slightly by allowing for remote loss assessments when physical inspections aren’t feasible, but increased exposure to natural hazards and roadblocks to a quick recovery will remain challenging as renewable energy projects expand into new territory.
2) Increased repair and replacement costs on large projects
Bigger projects also mean increased exposure to equipment failure.
“These units are growing in size and scale. When wind turbines were first commissioned, they were 225 kilowatts and now are pushing five megawatts, from an onshore wind perspective. Offshore, they’re even larger. As the technology has matured, we are seeing a decline in the cost of manufacturing, but an increase in the cost of the repairs. This can be attributed to more complex designs and engineering making repairs more costly,” Kirejczyk said.
According to 2019 research by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, a research and consulting firm, the global onshore wind industry spent roughly $8.5 billion on unplanned repairs for component failures, representing 57% of all operations and maintenance costs.
“Unplanned failures can cost the asset owner as much as $30,000 per turbine per year in terms of repairs and spare parts and up to 7 days’ worth of lost production per year. … Capital components alone — gearboxes, generators and blade — can cost up to $10,000 per turbine per year in replacements,” according to the firm’s report.
“Proactive and preventative maintenance programs are key for owners, and they can do a lot of this through remote monitoring and maintenance forecasting powered by artificial intelligence,” Kirejczyk said. Though these tools are becoming more prevalent, adoption remains slow among smaller players.
3) Shortage of skilled contractors to meet demand.
The rapid rise in project demand can only be met with skilled contractors experienced in renewable energy projects. According to the 2017 Global Energy Talent Index Report, 80% of hiring managers in the industry believe there is a skills shortage due to lack of planning for knowledge transfer.
“As the pipeline of these projects under development has risen exponentially, we have seen a rise of claims on the construction and installation of these projects. This points to the limited pool of contractors who are able to install and commission a project successfully,” Kirejczyk said.
“The pool of available, reputable and experienced contractors is small, and everybody wants to partner with those contractors. When there is a lot of competition for skilled labor, the larger owners tend to win out, and startups are more likely to find themselves working with less experienced contractors.
“That’s where we start seeing issues like, for example, micro-cracking in solar panels that aren’t stored, transported or installed correctly. That then leads to performance issues.”
Renewable energy companies — large or small — can protect themselves by not only selecting contractors carefully, but also establishing clear expectations for quality and minimum limits of contractors’ liability coverage.
How One Insurer Supports Sustainable Clean Energy Growth
Though the future of renewable energy looks bright, these factors have nonetheless made the sector difficult to insure.
“From an insurance perspective, we still see attritional claims that are eroding profitability in this industry,” Kirejczyk said.
But loss history can’t shoulder all the blame. Undisciplined risk selection has also driven poor outcomes.
“The lack of profitability may have been due to markets focusing on production goals as opposed to taking a disciplined underwriting approach — not taking the time to get to know their customers yet continuing to support terms and conditions that were set in a soft market,” Kirejczyk said, “which is why we’re coming at this from a little bit of a different angle.”
After several years of watching this market’s growing pains, AIG decided to throw its hat in the ring, mitigating the challenges to profitability through a thoughtful and targeted approach. Amid the proliferation of new projects, the company is focused on asset owners with a track record of success in the business and dedication to the long-term viability of a project.
“We have a specific appetite, and we’re looking for people who are truly invested in this space for the long haul,” Kirejczyk said. “For us, sustainability is not just about supporting the technology, but supporting the major players in the space that care about being here for the long term and are not just looking for a quick return on their investment.”
The support comes in the form of risk management expertise as well as disciplined underwriting. In-house risk engineers with product development and plant management experience have extensive knowledge on how to operate, maintain and protect both renewable energy plants and battery storage projects.
Captive funding abilities can also support larger owners who want to insure more of their risk themselves, but need assistance unlocking their captives’ capabilities. “That’s where AIG can partner with them and take a different approach instead of the traditional risk transfer property contract. The renewable energy space is poised for change and some clients who have captives may look at utilizing them as a means for risk transfer, which is an area in which we specialize and can offer our expertise,” Kirejczyk said.
As the world moves toward a future powered by renewable energy, companies need both reliable insurance coverage and risk management solutions to address their exposures and continue growing sustainably.
“Both consumers and corporations increasingly care about where their power comes from. They want to be good actors toward the environment, but they require a reliable, continuous supply of energy. We know we have a role to play in the transition to cleaner energy and are excited at the opportunity in front of us,” Kirejczyk said.
To learn more, visit https://www.aig.com/business/industry/energy.
This article was produced by the R&I Brand Studio, a unit of the advertising department of Risk & Insurance, in collaboration with AIG. The editorial staff of Risk & Insurance had no role in its preparation.
AIG is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions.
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YEAR AWARDED
Jamieson Leeson has been a successful recipient of a Tier 3 Scholarship within the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship & Mentoring Program.
Jamieson is a 17-year-old female boccia athlete who lives in the small country town of Dunedoo in central west NSW.
Jamieson began playing in 2018 where she was scouted in a school’s knock out competition. She began training in Sydney with the Australian Coach ever since and is also a member of the Boccia Australia high-performance team.
In March 2019, Jamieson competed in her first ever boccia competition, winning gold in pairs. She then travelled to Hong Kong in May, where her pairs team won the bronze medal at the Hong Kong World Open.
In July 2019, she competed in both the pairs and individual events at the Seoul Asia-Oceania Regional Championships, winning her first ever international individual game against a Paralympic gold medalist. Ever since then, she has been on track to compete at her first ever Paralympic Games in Tokyo where she will play in the pair’s events.
Jamieson also competed in her first National Titles in 2019 where she came home with silver medals in both the pairs and individual events.
Jamieson’s boccia career has been extremely successful in her short 2 years, and her best is yet to come.
Jamieson speaks of her selection within the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship & Mentoring Program: “I am incredibly grateful for this Scholarship as it will enable me to continue to be the best I can at my sport of boccia. This Scholarship allows me to focus on my goals as it takes off the financial stresses of having to pay for accommodation for training as well as equipment. It is an honour to win this Scholarship as there are so many talented young athletes in Australia and SAHOF chose me to be awarded one of their incredible Scholarship.”
Birthplace: Mudgee, NSW
Nationality: Australian
Sport: Boccia – Para
Para Classification: BC3
Disciplines: Individual & Pairs
First & Current Club: Boccia NSW
School: Year 12
Snr International: 88
Snr National: 3
Awards, Honours & Achievements
2019: Seoul Asia-Oceania Regional Championships – Gold in individuals (v Paralympic gold medalist)
2019: Boccia Australia National Titles – taking the world number 4 to a tie-break
2019: World Open, Hong Kong – Bronze in the pairs (first ever international competition)
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Your guide to US election night blowout: How to watch, what to track
By News Last updated Oct 31, 2020
Record early voting numbers, Florida, Florida, Florida, and a ton of Pennsylvania. Those ingredients are par for the course on November 3. But if you want to mix it up a bit, watch the toss-up states that have gone from solid Republican to purplish, putting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris within striking distance of states that Donald Trump won in 2016, get comfortable with the idea that we may not have a winner on election night, follow the parallel fight in the courts, stay on alert for signs of 2016 style polling errors and the resurgence of the shy Trump voter.
The US Supreme Court has issued a string of last-minute election orders about extended timeline for receiving and counting ballots in some really key states. The nation’s top court has not resolved all the issues, leaving open a path for post election challenges.
If the election result is delayed,it won’t be the first time. The 2000 election was finally called only on December 12, when the US Supreme Court declared George W. Bush the winner and ruled that Florida must stop counting votes.
Among toss-up states, Georgia (16), Iowa (6), Maine 2nd congressional district (1), North Carolina (15) Ohio (18) and Texas (38) are in play. The numbers in parentheses indicate each state or that area’s electoral votes in the race to 270. Maine and Nebraska award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide race and one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district.
In must-win Florida, Clinton led on the early vote here by 6 points in 2016, Trump won the election day vote by 12 points and carried the state.
Trump is banking on election day turnout. Election Day vote traditionally favours Republicans but the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 227,000 people in the US and sickened 9 million, has thrown all pre-cast calculations into a tizzy.
For Trump, there’s no escaping the gale-force headwinds of his government’s coronavirus response. His poll numbers are slipping where cases are roaring back. In Trumpworld, this is what they’re betting on: A giant polling error and the resurgence of the shy Trump voter, who doesn’t answer pollster calls, doesn’t talk to reporters and doesn’t put billboards out on the yard.
Texas, a Republican stronghold, is the new darling of polling punditry in the final stretch; it’s sending chills down both sides. Texans have already set a record, casting more votes in the 2020 presidential election than they did in 2016, an unprecedented surge. As of Friday morning EST, more than 9 million votes are already locked in, crossing the 2016 total of more than 8.9 million votes. Asian Americans are favoured to be the ‘make or break’ factor.
Ohio, once seen as Trump territory, has emerged as a battleground. Trump won this State by a 8-percentage-point margin in 2016, the state was almost untouched by the midterm blue wave in 2018, Trump’s message of bringing back jobs resonated with workers but the ground seems to have shifted after General Motors shuttered its plant here.
Next up, Iowa. In 2016, Trump won big here, carrying the white working class vote. Four years later, the state is a presidential toss-up. Republican strategists think that even if Trump wins Iowa in the low single digits in 2020, it means he might have lost the plot on Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania – three crucial battlegrounds he won in 2016.
Trump won a total of 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232 in 2016. Both Florida and Pennsylvania are emerging as must-win states for Trump in his re-election bid. You could think about this another way too: Trump must carry at least one of the three rustbelt states he won in 2016: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or Michigan.
Going purely by the way the polls look, Trump’s chances of winning a second term now mean winning states where he trails Biden.
“You hold the power. If Florida goes blue, it’s over,” Biden told supporters in the state this week.
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The Restatement's Supersized Duty of Loyalty Provision
Michael Selmi, George Washington University Law SchoolFollow
This essay analyzes and critiques the Restatement of Employment Law’s provision on the duty of loyalty. Cases invoking the duty of loyalty have generally been successful only in the limited circumstance when an employee leaves her current employment to start a competing business. The Restatement, however, reconceptualizes the duty of loyalty claim into a catch all provision that could be used to restrain employees from moving to competitors, even in the absence of a noncompete agreement, and to protect trade secrets or confidential information. The expansion of the duty of loyalty cause of action is unsupported by either the existing case law or the support cited with the Restatement itself; indeed the cases the Reporters provide do not generally involve the duty of loyalty claim at all. Even more troubling, the expansion of the duty of loyalty claim is neither explained nor justified within the document but instead seems to be based on a desire to offer employers greater means to protect their assets.
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-64; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-64
Michael Selmi, The Restatement's Supersized Duty of Loyalty Provision, 16 Employee Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 395 (2012).
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Prince George County and the City of Hopewell, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report Methods and Guidelines
Marcia Berman, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow
Karinna Nunez, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow
Sharon Killeen, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Tamia Rudnicky, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Julie Bradshaw, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow
David Stanhope, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Karen Duhring, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Jessica Hendricks, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
David Weiss, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Carl Hershner, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow
Special report in Applied Marine Science and Ocean Engineering No. 449
The 2016 Inventory for Prince George County and the City of Hopewell was generated using on-screen, digitizing techniques in ArcGIS® - ArcMap v10.2.2 while viewing conditions observed in Bing high resolution oblique imagery, Google Earth, and 2013 imagery from the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP). Four GIS shapefiles are developed. The first describes land use and bank conditions (PrinceGeorge_Hopewell _lubc_2016). The second portrays the presence of beaches (PrinceGeorge_Hopewell_beaches_2016). The third reports shoreline structures that are described as arcs or lines (e.g riprap) (PrinceGeorge_Hopewell _sstru_2016). The final shapefile includes all structures that are represented as points (e.g. piers) (PrinceGeorge_Hopewell_astru_2016). The metadata file accompanies the shapefiles and defines attribute accuracy, data development, and any use restrictions that pertain to data.
https://doi.org/10.21220/V54Q7H
Shoreline Inventories, Virginia, GIS, Management, Data
Summary Tables: Prince George County and the City of Hopewell, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report
GIS Data: Prince George County and the City of Hopewell, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report
Prince George County and the City of Hopewell 2016 Shoreline Inventory Viewer
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Disclaimer: The Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) provides these data with the understanding that they are not guaranteed to be correct or complete, and conclusions drawn from the data set are the sole responsibility of the user. Every attempt has been made to ensure that these data and the documentation are reliable and accurate. CCRM, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), and the Commonwealth of Virginia assume no liability for any damages caused by inaccuracies in the data or documentation; and make no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, or utility of this information, nor does the fact of distribution constitute a warranty.
This project was funded in part by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA15NOS4190164 of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.
Berman, M.R., Nunez, K., Killeen, S., Rudnicky, T., Bradshaw, J., Stanhope, D., Duhring, K., Hendricks, J., Weiss, D. and Hershner, C.H. 2016. Prince George County, Virginia - Shoreline Inventory Report: Methods and Guidelines, SRAMSOE no.449, Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Program, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 23062
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Posts from ‘May, 2014’
Fracking Irony
Extract from a Dallas Observer article by Amy Silverstein published 21 Feb 2014 under the headline: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is Suing to Stop a Fracking Development Outside Dallas
Just a few days after the Weather Channel published a damning, in-depth report documenting how natural gas drilling is wreaking havoc on Texas’ air quality, a group of wealthy property owners outside Dallas are dealing with another dark side of the energy boom: a really ugly water tower. And, as the Wall Street Journal just uncovered, one of those angry homeowners trying to stop the tower and its fracking-related business is none other than Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. The lawsuit already has a winner, and that winner is irony. read more
Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron illicit payments
Extracts from a Thomson Reuters Foundation article by Alia Dharssi published Thu, 29 May 2014
US oil firm prosecutions show need for transparency – activists
TORONTO – Oil and gas companies with major US operations have been the subject of at least 30 prosecutions related to bribes paid to foreign governments under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) since 2007, underscoring the urgent need for transparency regulations to tackle corruption in developing countries, activists and researchers say.
Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron Corp. are among the companies that have faced allegations of making illicit payments to foreign officials, according to research by Paasha Madhavi, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). read more
Bears move in on Woodside
Extracts from a Sydney Morning Herald article by Angela Macdonald-Smith published 29 May 2014 read more
China gets into bed with Putin
Extract from an Investors Chronicle article published 29 May 2014
In the week in which Prince Charles demonstrated that he had inherited his father’s gift for diplomacy, Russia and China finally signed a $400bn (£238bn) gas supply deal that had been a decade in the making. The timing couldn’t have been better, at least from a Russian perspective. With all the talk centred on the political impasse in Ukraine, and the necessity for Europe to diversify its gas supplies away from Russia, Gazprom promptly turned around and secured a huge new export market at a single stroke. What does the Gazprom deal mean for the likes of BG Group (BG.) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB), both of which have expanded their LNG capacity to tap into Chinese industrial growth? read more
Shell, Iran and 9/11
Basically Shell is holding on to over $2 billion of funds belonging to an ‘adjudicated terrorist’ – Iran – and is denying those funds to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
I have already reported how Shell management attempted to exploit the 9/11 attacks for their own benefit.
I have also reported on how Shell disguised oil shipping movements in an attempt to evade US sanctions on Iran and how Shell panicked when I contacted Bill O’Reilly of Fox News calling for a related boycott of Shell in the USA.
SHELL/IRAN – MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
In December 2011, a US judge signed a judgement finding Iran one of the parties liable for the September 11, 2001 attacks. read more
Shell issued with improvement notice after Nelson platform incident
BBC News report published 29 May 2014
Oil firm Shell has been issued with an improvement notice after an incident on a North Sea platform led to a partial downmanning of workers.
It happened on the Nelson installation in March.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said Shell failed to ensure that a flexible hose assembly, related to a gas turbine, was maintained in good repair.
The company was given until the end of June to make changes.
A Shell spokesman said: “We are working towards the action requirements of the improvement notice.” read more
Shell BP Mega-Merger?
Copy of a self-explanatory email sent this morning to Michiel Brandjes, Company Secretary & General Counsel Corporate, Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
EMAIL TO BRANDJES
From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: Royal Dutch Shell BP Merger
Date: 29 May 2014 09:16:48 BST
Dear Mr Brandjes
I have received from multiple sources reports of negotiations/discussions involving Shell and BP.
I intend to publish the draft article below authored by one extremely well informed source. That fact is self-evident. read more
Insiders Perspective on Shell VP Arjen Dorland
Royal Dutch Shell VP Arjen Dorland
One of few respected IT-illuminati, shortly before he retired, suggested that Dorland was a bit of an animal if not held on a tight leash…
From a Shell Source
Amusing to see Arjen Dorland extolling the virtues of technological enablement of exploration within Shell especially given his limited engagement with and knowledge of this part of the business. One suggests that there is an ulterior motive here and one worth going through in detail. It’s been noted on here previously how Arjen Dorland first rose without trace at the start of the millennium in the battered Shell IT organisation, having originally been identified as a JG 1-2 maximum level employee (the Shell system, as we all know, sets CEP levels for all its staff and this system is rigorously enforced by the myriad HR managers that Shell homes and encourages). He remains to this day intensely bitter about that initial positioning and it explains his character and motivation to a ‘T’. read more
Ogonis charge Nigerian Federal Government and Shell on UNEP report
Extract from a Daily Post article by Victor Azubuike published 28 May 2014
The people of Ogoni are calling on the Federal Government to set up a structure to help facilitate the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, report following a new revelation by Shell. “Following last week’s surprise announcement by Shell’s new CEO, Ben Van Beurden that the $1billion dollar take off fund for Ogoni clean up was waiting in a dedicated account, Social Action and other British and Nigeria NGOs have demanded that Shell stop playing games with the pains and misery of Ogoni people who are dying in their thousands because of non implementation of UNEP Report. read more
Oil giant says profits are assured
Extracts from an article published by Eco-Business 28 May 2014
Shell, the world’s largest oil company, believes that governments will not damage its business by taking rapid action on climate change, and says all its oil reserves will be needed and sold at a profit.
In a robust reply to a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, Shell explains the company reasoning for investing in tar sands and other high cost and difficult-to-extract oil reserves. It says that an ever-expanding global economy, fuelled by population growth and great prosperity, will need more and more oil and gas at least until 2050. This will support high prices. read more
Traci Alford of Shell confesses ‘not everyone likes us…’
Interesting Marketing magazine interview published today with Traci Alford, the global head of Shell’s fuels branding located at Shell’s new regional HQ in Singapore.
Traci confesses that “not everyone likes us…” How perceptive.
Talks about Shell’s painful experience online.
Claims that Shell wants a online dialogue with consumers.
Perhaps she is unaware that Shell once launched an online platform for free and open discussion with consumers called “Tell Shell”. Initially Shell attached great importance to the innovation, which had the enthusiastic support of John Hofmeister. Shell even tried to seize a related domain name for a competing online forum we had set up – “TellShell.org” – but lost the case. read more
Interior takes step toward resuming Arctic exploration
Extract from an article by Laura Barron-Lopez published 27 May 2014 by THE HILL
Royal Dutch Shell may be able to resume Arctic oil and gas exploration if the Interior Department sticks to the timeline it filed to the U.S. District Court of Alaska. In a fling made Friday, Interior set a timeline for conducting a new environmental analysis for the exploration leases in the Arctic waters off Alaska. The timeline calls for the publication of a draft report by October and a final decision in spring of 2015, putting Interior on track to allow companies, like Shell, to resume exploration. read more
US BOEM aims for revised Chukchi Sea analysis in spring
Extracts from a Platts article published 27 May 2014
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management told a US District Court in Alaska on Friday it will have a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the 2008 Chukchi Sea lease sale prepared by August and publication of a Final EIS by February. Under the schedule the final action, publication of the record of decision, would occur in March. Whether Shell would have time to mobilize for a 2015 summer drilling season in the Arctic is uncertain, however. read more
Shell proposes project at its Martinez refinery to help decrease global warming while enhancing efficiency
Extract from an article by Tom Lochner published by the Contra Costa Times on 27 May 2014
MARTINEZ — The Shell Martinez petroleum refinery, saying it wants to strike a blow against global warming while improving efficiency, seeks approval to process a lighter mix of crude oils and permanently shut down one of two coker units. Starting in 2015, and continuing in phases over several years, Shell would construct a variety of processing equipment, including new heat exchangers to reduce energy use, and thus emit less pollution and greenhouse gases, according to a land use permit application on file with Contra Costa County. read more
Shell in talks to buy stake in southern India LNG project
Extract from a Reuters article published 26 May 2014
May 26 (Reuters) – Global energy major Royal Dutch Shell is in talks with the Andhra Pradesh state government for buying up to 24 percent stake in the planned Kakinada liquefied natural gas project on the east coast, GAIL chairman B.C Tripathi said on Monday.
Shell hires drill ship for 2015 exploration off Nova Scotia
Extract from a Herald Business article by Joann Alberstat published 26 May 2014
Shell Canada has a deepwater drill ship lined up to use off the coast of Nova Scotia next year as part of its $1-billion exploratory program. The 228-metre vessel, owned by Stena Drilling of Aberdeen, Scotland, is now drilling for Shell in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell plans to drill up to seven exploratory wells in an area 250 kilometres off southwestern Nova Scotia, starting next spring.
‘Cleaned’ Nigerian sites still blighted by oil as Shell’s efforts to contain spills makes slow progress, says report
Swathes of land and waterways in the Niger Delta are once again blighted with oil only months on from Shell’s clean-up efforts…
Extracts from a This is Money article by Rob Davies published 26 May 2014
Shell’s efforts to contain spills in Nigeria are making stuttering progress, with supposedly restored sites still mired in oil, a new report warns. Difficulty with stopping spills, often caused by oil theft from pipelines, further illustrates why Shell has opted to sell four major onshore blocks in Nigeria. Swathes of land and waterways in the Niger Delta are once again blighted with oil only months on from Shell’s clean-up efforts, claims campaign group Platform. The firm faced protests from several campaign groups over its Nigerian operations at its recent annual meeting. read more
A deadly Shell disaster 20 years ago
Shell later agrees to pay OSHA a $3 million dollar fine for federal safety violations and also settles wrongful death lawsuits with the families of the dead workers, making payments in the range of $2.1 to $2.4 million per family.
On 27 May 1994, almost exactly 20 years ago, a fire at the Shell Chemical plant in Belpre, Ohio triggered an explosion that cost the lives of four workers and polluted the Ohio River with toxic chemicals.
Extract from a pdf document citing multiple sources
…a fire at Shell Chemical’s Belpre, Ohio plant spreads to a nearby chemical storage tank area, touching off an explosion and ferocious chemical fire, causing four of the big tanks to burn and lose millions of gallons of chemicals. Four workers are killed in the incident and 1,700 people evacuated. The fire burns for about nine hours, and chemical leakage from the site pollutes the Ohio River with a 22-mile plume of ethylene dibromide, killing fish and forcing downstream municipalities to seek alternative water supplies. Shell later agrees to pay OSHA a $3 million dollar fine for federal safety violations and also settles wrongful death lawsuits with the families of the dead workers, making payments in the range of $2.1 to $2.4 million per family. read more
Shell’s Exploitation of Gas Station Operators
I confirm that in my experience Shell UK operates oppressively against small business people. Its staff has acted unscrupulously and possibly illegally. The tactics of Shell UK management is completely opposite to the honesty and integrity promised by Shell in its code of ethics. Shell seems to think that it is so all-powerful that it can steamroller over any small business people who complain about its scandalous business practices.
Sheila Gee
Yesterday I published an article revealing that Shell has been found guilty of fuel price fixing in Italy.
I have now found out more about the background.
It seems that Shell has been up to its old tricks of ruthlessly exploiting and manipulating Shell fuel station managers operating on a semi-franchise type system.
We have seen the same tactics in the UK, the USA, Germany, India and now Italy.
We have already published a letter received from a throughly disillusioned German businessman Peter Wittig, who for several years, operated a Shell petrol station in Germany. read more
Shell found guilty of fuel price fixing in Italy
An article published yesterday in Italy reports that Shell Italy SpA been convicted of abuse of a dominant position by using discriminatory practices in the fuel distribution market, affecting retail fuel prices. This was before Royal Dutch Shell sold its Italian retail network to Q8 (Kuwait Petroleum).
Such manipulation cannot possibly be in accordance with Shell’s claimed business principles.
Printed below is a Google translation of the article into English. Happy to substitute a more accurate translation if anyone cares to supply it. read more
Shell to expand investment in Russia
Russian energy minister Alexander Novak boasted earlier today that Shell (and ExxonMobil) are expanding operations in Russia and the Russian Foreign Ministry has said energy cooperation should not be damaged by political tensions. See extracts below from a RIA Novosti article.
What the Putin regime is claiming is in absolute accordance with what the Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden was saying on Tuesday at the Shell AGM. He bluntly made it clear that Shell’s priority is what is in the economic interests of Shell shareholders, not geopolitical concerns i.e. the invasion of Crimea. That explains why he happily bowed to Putin on Good Friday after the annexation. Ethics and moral issues are put to one side. read more
‘Shell can celebrate all they want, but the fight is by no means over’
Extracts from an article published 23 May 2014 by the journal.ie
THE COMPLETION OF the longest tunnel in Ireland is being celebrated by Shell Ireland – but the works have not been without disruption or tragedy. The construction of the 4.9 kilometre-long tunnel has been mired in controversy over the years with many residents and activists protesting to stop the building of the pipeline and the tunnel that runs under Sruwaddacon Bay, a special area of conservation. …speaking to TheJournal.ie, Shell to Sea activist Maura Harrington said: “Shell can celebrate all they want, but the fight is by no means over.” read more
Russian Energy Minister says ExxonMobil, Shell committed to Russia
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday that oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil have confirmed their commitment to Russia and are eager to continue their work there.”(They’re) eager to continue work on projects in Russia,” Novak told the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Lidia Kelly, editing by William Hardy)
Shell cancels costly scrip dividend programme
Extracts from an article published by ShareCast 22 May 2014
Royal Dutch Shell will cancel its popular scrip dividend programme from the current quarter, which had become a high-profile source of embarrassment. The FTSE 100 company said the cancellation meant the second quarter interim dividend and future dividends, forecast at $11.8bn for the full year, will be settled entirely in cash, rather than offering a share-based alternative…
GAS from the controversial Corrib field should begin flowing next year
Shell’s Irish and German tunnelling team celebrate the completion of 4.9km long Corrib Gas Pipeline Tunnel yesterday.
Extracts from an independent.ie article by Paul Melia published 23 May 2014 under the headline: Gas will flow next year after Fionnuala finds light at end of tunnel
GAS from the controversial Corrib field should begin flowing from next year following completion of the country’s largest tunnel. It was originally expected gas would flow from the Mayo field back in 2003. The project attracted strong levels of local opposition, which has delayed the scheme. “The completion of the Corrib tunnel brings us a step closer to producing first gas in 2015 and to improving security of supply for the Irish energy market,” said Shell E&P managing director Michael Crothers. read more
BP claimants do not have to prove losses were related to 2010 disaster
Extracts from articles published by The Daily Mail newspaper on 21st & 22nd of May 2014
BP’s bill for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill could rise by billions, after it lost an appeal to halt compensation claims it believes are unjustified. A US court refused to overturn a decision that claimants do not have to prove their losses were related to the 2010 disaster. The defeat means BP’s total estimate of Gulf of Mexico costs, some £25.4bn, could rise even further, depending on the final scale of environmental penalties.
BP PLC said Wednesday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether businesses must prove they were directly harmed by the 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect payments from a 2012 settlement. “No company would agree to pay for losses that it did not cause, and BP certainly did not when it entered into this settlement,” the company said in a news release. read more
Shell meets target of 25% women directors
Extract from a business times.com article by Ronnie Lim published 22 May 2014
FORMER StanChart Singapore CEO Euleen Goh and chairman, CEO and president of US-based Archer Daniels Midland Company, Patricia Woertz, were unanimously voted in as new Royal Dutch Shell directors earlier this week, bringing the total number of women on its 12-member board to the group’s targeted 25 per cent.
Shell announces sale of Eagle Ford acreage, South Texas
Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) announced today it has agreed to sell its 100 percent working interest in approximately 106,000 net acres in Dimmit, LaSalle, and Webb Counties, Texas to Sanchez Energy Corporation for approximately $0.639 billion, subject to closing.
The sale includes approximately 176 operated producing wells and associated field facilities and infrastructure. Net production in Q1 2014 was approximately 24,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with approximately 60 percent crude and natural gas liquids. read more
Royal Dutch Shell Saudi relationship in serious danger?
The Washington Post has reported today that the Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans is considering flying to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to defuse the situation, which includes threats of looming sanctions against Dutch interests, including Royal Dutch Shell.
Royal Dutch Shell Group has had a long relationship with the Saudi regime.
In the USA, Motiva Enterprises is a joint project of Shell and Saudi Aramco. The company owns three refineries and 35 refined product terminals.
Extract from the Motiva website
Motiva markets Shell gasoline in 49 states and the District of Columbia together with Shell Oil Products US. Together we lead the industry in national retail volume and market share in one of the world’s best known gasoline brands. We also refine and market gasoline and other petroleum products under the Shell brand across the eastern and southern parts of the US, providing product to over 8,200 Shell-branded retail outlets. read more
Kashagan ‘Cash All Gone’ Pipeline Debacle
Shell has been a key participant in the Kashagan project consortium which includes Eni and ExxonMobil. Given its notorious track record of over-promise and under delivery, having Shell involved is a bad omen for any elephant project.
The latest news from the “Cash All Gone” project (as it is widely known) is that due to the need to replace fatally flawed leaking pipelines, the oilfield may not restart until 2016.
The project is already years behind schedule and countless billions over budget.
I have received some related comment and questions from a retired Royal Dutch Shell EP expert that deserve to be put into the public domain.
Shell has been a key participant in the Kashagan project consortium which includes Eni and ExxonMobil. Given its notorious track record of over-promise and under delivery, having Shell involved is a bad omen for any elephant project. read more
Kashagan oilfield may not restart until 2016
Extracts from a Reuters article by Mariya Gordeyeva published 21 May 2014 under the headline: Kashagan oilfield may not restart until 2016, Kazakh minister says
May 21 (Reuters) – Oil output at Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan field may not resume until early 2016, Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Uzakbai Karabalin said on Wednesday, urging foreign partners to start replacing leaky pipelines at the deposit. Production at Kashagan, the world’s biggest oil find in 35 years, started last September but halted in early October after the discovery of gas leaks in the $50 billion project’s pipeline network. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), which develops the offshore field in the Caspian Sea, said last month that it did not expect to produce oil this year due to the leaks. “It (production) may restart by the end of 2015 if all goes well,” Karabalin told Reuters on the sidelines of the Astana Economic Forum. “Otherwise, it may turn out to be early 2016. NCOC includes Eni, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, China’s CNPC, Japan’s Inpex and Kazakh state-run company KazMunaiGas. read more
Woodside Scraps $2.6 Billion Israeli Gas Deal as Talks Fail
Extract from a BloombergBusinessweek article by James Paton published 20 May 2014
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), Australia’s second-biggest oil and gas producer, scrapped an agreement to buy a quarter of Israel’s largest natural gas field for as much as $2.6 billion after talks to complete the deal collapsed.
Total oil debts to Iran exceeds $ 4 bln
Extracts from a Trend article by Umid Niayesh published 20 May 2014
Royal Dutch Shell also has not settled its debts without unveiling further details. Previously Iranian media outlets reported that the country’s oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has tasked a working group with collecting $2.3 billion debt from Royal Dutch Shell. Shell lost money trading Iranian crude in 2012 shortly before a European Union embargo and still owes $2.3 billion to Tehran for oil purchases.
Shell Says It’s Considering Climate Change Risks And Trying To Reduce Flaring In Nigeria
Extracts from a International Business Times article by Meagan Clark published 20 May 2014
Netherlands-based oil giant Royal Dutch Shell told investors in the Hague on Tuesday that the company considers climate change in its decisions and that its efforts to reduce natural gas flaring in Nigeria, a main cause of pollution in West Africa, are being hindered by a lack of government funding. “We’ve sold assets for $1.8 billion in the last few years, and we have further licenses for sale,” van Beurden said. “This is not an exit from Nigeria. We are still making selected growth investment onshore, and the pace of these projects will be largely determined by continued government funding.” read more
Shell’s new pay structure criticised
Extract from a Financial Times article by Michael Kavanagh published 20 May 1014
A sharp fall in the pay of outgoing chief executive Peter Voser last year failed to quell discontent among some investors at Royal Dutch Shell over rewards offered to its top staff.
Shell’s Nigeria Investments At Risk From Corruption Scandal, Investors Warned
Extracts from an article by Global Witness published on 19 May 2014 by allAfrica.com
Royal Dutch Shell’s involvement in a deal which saw $1.1bn diverted into the hands of a former Nigerian oil minister could see the company lose a valuable oil block, says Global Witness. The deal for oil block OPL 245 off the coast of West Africa is being investigated by authorities in the UK, Italy and Nigeria. Shell and Eni have denied paying money to Malabu. Indeed they paid the money to the Nigerian government. However court evidence has revealed that Shell knew that the payment was going to Malabu and had negotiated directly with Etete over “iced champagne”. Etete had awarded the oil block to his own company when he was oil minister under corrupt Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha. In effect, he gave himself one of the most valuable oil blocks in Nigeria and, with this deal was now cashing in. read more
Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything
Extract from a ComputerWeekly.com article by Caroline Baldwin published 20 May 2014 read more
Shell boss says refining assets still key despite weak profits
Extracts from a Reuters article published 20 May 2014
LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell will hold on to its refining business despite shedding many underperforming downstream assets, its chief executive said on Tuesday. The global refining sector has suffered over the past year from weak profit margins due to rising capacity and increasing competition and Shell’s downstream business has been a drag on its 2013 and first quarter 2014 results.
Royal Dutch Shell a possible takeover target: Citigroup
Extracts from a Financial Posted article by David Pett published 20 May 2014 under the headline: HP, Shell and Rio Tinto head up possible takeover targets: Citigroup
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Rio Tinto PLC are all potential takeover targets as M&A activity worldwide continues to heat up, says Citigroup Global Markets. Expecting more deals to come, they came up with a list of potential targets by analyzing company metrics such as shareholder concentration, leverage and free cash flow yield and pre-tax earnings. read more
Ben van Beurden and Jorma Ollila agree OSSL meeting to achieve ‘a happy conclusion’
Printed below is a transcript of a self-explanatory exchange at the Shell AGM this morning involving Desmond Kane representing whistleblower company OSSL and Jorma Ollila (Chairman) and Ben van Beurden (CEO) representing Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
Note that Ben van Beurden repeatedly stresses that there is no evidence to support the allegations OSSL is “fond of making.”
What he does not say is that the alleged events never happened.
And what about the evidence of the OSSL invoice to Shell? Is Shell saying that the OSSL invoice is a fake? If so, Shell should call in the police. It would be their duty to do so. read more
Liquefied Natural Gas Could Come to the Rescue for Royal Dutch Shell
Extract from a Motley Fool article by Bob Ciura published 19 May 2014 under the headline: How Liquefied Natural Gas Could Come to the Rescue for Royal Dutch Shell and BP
Royal Dutch Shell’s core net profits fell by 23% last year, prompting the company to undergo what management delicately termed “hard choices” in its portfolio. Basically, the company is resorting to cutting capital expenditures in light of disappointing upstream projects and sharply narrower refining margins. To that end, Shell plans to reduce capital expenditures by $9 billion in 2014 from $46 billion in 2013 to an estimated $37 billion this year. That represents a severe 20% drop. This is a concern since Shell’s production is already going in the wrong direction. Oil majors across the board are suspending new projects or cancelling them altogether, which could put them in dire straits later on. Fortunately, LNG represents one major area that both Shell and BP continue to invest in, and the potential is clearly compelling. read more
Shell’s exposure to Russia is a meaningful risk
Extracts from a Motley Fool article by Arjun Sreekumar published 19 May 2014 under the headline: Which Oil Majors Have the Greatest Exposure to Russia?
BP, Exxon, and Shell all have significant exposure to Russia. If the U.S. and its allies were to impose a ban on the export of Western oil and gas technology to new projects being undertaken by Kremlin-controlled companies, it would probably dash Exxon and Shell’s ambitions to explore areas like western Siberia and the Arctic seas. All told, BP, Exxon, and Shell’s exposure to Russia is a meaningful risk — albeit one that may already be priced in — and one that investors should carefully consider before investing in these companies. read more
Will Pension Funds continue to risk Investment in Shell?
Extracts from a Reuters article published 19 May 2014 under the headline: Shell says fossil fuel reserves won’t be ‘stranded’ by climate regulation
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell has dismissed the possibility that its proven oil or gas reserves will become unusable as a result of climate change regulation, saying fossil fuels will play a key role in global energy to 2050 and beyond.
Environmental campaigners, activist investor groups and some lawmakers have warned that financial markets could be overvaluing companies with large fossil fuel assets, such as Shell, thereby creating a “carbon bubble” and putting at risk trillions of dollars in pension funds. read more
Shell Considers Martinez Refinery Cutback Amid Shale-Oil Boom
Extracts from a BloombergBusinessweek article by Lynn Doan published 19 May 2014 under the headline: “Shell Considers Permanent Coker Shutdown Amid Shale-Oil Boom”
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s biggest oil company, is considering retiring one of two coking units at its only refinery in California as the company seeks to run lighter crude at the plant. Shell is considering the shutdown as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling unleash record volumes of light oil from shale formations… “The reality is that we are looking at each individual refinery and making economic decisions as to what is the most optimal feedstock,” John Abbott, downstream director for The Hague-based Shell, said in an interview… read more
Royal Dutch Shell shameful record of appeasement
For nearly a hundred years the Royal Dutch Shell Group has appeased and collaborated with evil regimes including Nazi Germany, Nigeria, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Apartheid South Africa and with Putin of Russia, despite his annexation of Sakhalin2 and Crimea. Anything to earn a buck irrespective of ethics, human rights abuses and massive corruption. Astonishingly, Shell claims to operate with a set of business principles. Shell’s latest CEO, Ben van Beurden, is shown bowing to Putin on 18 April 2014, soon after Russia had used force to annexe Crimea. No shame. No morals. Its just business. It is what Ben van Beurden describes as Shell’s “economic interests.” Following in the foot steps of the founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, the ardent Nazi, Sir Henri Deterding. read more
Oil Giants Set Their Sights on Arctic Waters
Extracts from a Wall Street Journal article by Chester Dawson published 18 May 2014
The U.S. Department of the Interior issued a withering report in March of 2013 that said Shell’s 2012 drilling program “raised serious questions regarding its ability to operate safely and responsibly in the challenging and unpredictable conditions offshore Alaska.” Shell suspended its drilling program in 2013—just before the Interior report was released—and in February this year new CEO Ben van Beurden ruled out resuming the program this year. But representatives say the company remains committed to exploring what it has called the “most promising undeveloped hydrocarbon basins” in the U.S. read more
Corrib Corruption Scandal on the Agenda at Royal Dutch Shell AGM
The Corrib corruption scandal and cover-up will be raised at the Shell AGM on Tuesday. I can state on good authority that Shell lawyers have already prepared a script for Ben van Beurden to use for evasion purposes when confronted by OSSL directors. It mentions waiting for the outcome of the investigation by the Irish Police Ombudsman. Van Beurden can either continue with the cover-up tactics, or pick up the phone and ask Michael Crothers or Brian Foley to tell him the truth. Although unpalatable, it will emerge sooner or later.
REPLY TO POSTING ON SHELL BLOG BY LONDONLAD
LondonLad, no doubt by accident, you have misconstrued what OSSL stated. They never said that the allegation was first made 5 years ago. Please read it again. It is not an important point, but if something inaccurate is stated in print, then it is best to correct any such mistake immediately.
The first I heard about any of the relevant allegations was on 10 Sept 2012 when a long detailed email from OSSL to Brian Foley, the Contracts Manager for the highly controversail Corrib Gas Project, was forwarded to me without explanation. read more
In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves
Extracts from a New York Times article by William J. Broad published in print on 18 May 2014
When Russia seized Crimea in March, it acquired not just the Crimean landmass but also a maritime zone more than three times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars.
Russia portrayed the takeover as reclamation of its rightful territory, drawing no attention to the oil and gas rush that had recently been heating up in the Black Sea. But the move also extended Russia’s maritime boundaries, quietly giving Russia dominion over vast oil and gas reserves while dealing a crippling blow to Ukraine’s hopes for energy independence. read more
Is Russia’s Hostility Exposing Royal Dutch Shell?
Extracts from a Motley Fool article by Arjun Sreekumar published 17 May 2014
Shell clearly has significant exposure to Russia. The worst-case scenario for the company, as well as for BP and other companies operating in the nation, would be if the U.S. and European Union sanctioned Russia’s energy sector. Such economic penalties would make it problematic for Shell to maintain relations with Gazprom… As I understand it, such a sanction, if imposed, would not impact Shell’s existing projects. However, it would affect new projects and expansion plans, including perhaps the proposed expansion of Sakhalin-2. It could also hamper Shell’s 50/50 joint venture with Gazprom in western Siberia’s Salym fields… I remain cautious about Shell’s exposure to Russia. read more
Seething review of Mark Moody-Stuart book: Responsible Leadership
Extracts from a review by Danny Chivers of the recently published book by retired Royal Dutch Shell Group Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: “RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics”
Article originally published under the headline:
“If this is responsible leadership, then I’m an Ogoni”
Reading this book was a strange experience. It was like stepping into a parallel Universe where extractive industries bring overwhelming benefits to communities around the world, with the only negative consequences being caused by corrupt local governments. Again and again throughout the book, Moody-Stuart seems to wilfully ignore the unequal power relations between multinational corporations and the people in whose lands they operate. Perhaps the element of the book that made me angriest was Moody-Stuart’s insistence, in relation to Nigeria and elsewhere, that Shell “did not get involved in local politics”. This ignores the wealth of evidence showing collusion between the company and Nigeria’s military regime that led to a landmark payout of $15.5 million by Shell to the families of nine executed Nigerian activists. read more
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India Rivers Week 2020: Key Highlights
November 29, 2020 December 3, 2020 SANDRP
Chaired by Justice (Retd) Madan Lokur of Supreme Court of India, the India Rivers Week (IRW) 2020[i] ended at a well attended National Dialogue on River Sand Mining, and giving away of Bhagirath Prayas Samman (BPS) and Anupam Mishra Memorial (AMM) Medal on Nov 28, 2020. This was culmination of the process that started with the North India River Sand Mining Dialogue on Oct 31, 2020[ii] and dialogues in South Zone[iii], West Zone[iv] and East Zone[v] in the following weeks. Several hundred people participated in the regional dialogues and the recordings continue to be watched by many more on Facebook live and youtube.
Here is the playlist with recordings of the four zonal dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8rxzbM8khdzookwgKZPs58wa9Q-mvTo
This year, ATREE team lead by Prof Jagdish Krishnawamy, SOPPECOM team lead by K Joy and Veditum (Siddharth Agarwal) joined as partners of the organizing committee that includes WWF-India, INTACH, People’s Science Institute (Dehradun), Toxics Link, Peace Institute Charitable Trust and SANDRP (a YUVA project). The full over three hour function of IRW 2020 can be watched here[vi]: https://www.facebook.com/IndiaRiversForum/videos/417986445902773/
The 2020 BPS and AMM awards Moderated by Prof Amita Baviskar of Institute of Economic Growth and Manu Bhatnagar of INTACH, the virtual meeting was attended by over 100 people from all over India and beyond. The BPS award this year went to Sarang Yadwadkar, an architect and urban planner from Pune in individual capacity and to Jeevitnadi Living River Foundation also of Pune in organisation capacity. The AMM award this year went to Makrand Purohit for his exemplary media work on River related issues.
The BPS Award citation for Sarang Yadwadkar said: “Sarang Yadwadkar has devoted himself to protecting the Mula-Mutha riverbed and floodplain from encroachment… Sarang Yarwadkar’s sustained work has attracted the attention and support of fellow-citizens. His continuing crusade has educated the public about the need to respect the integrity of rivers. He has shaped our collective imagination about how to protect and cherish the natural heritage of our cities. It is our honour to recognise and celebrate Shri Sarang Yadwadkar’s unsung yet inspiring efforts to protect the Mula-Mutha River in Pune.”
Sarang Yadwadkar giving his acceptance speech at IRW 2020
The BPS Award citation for Jeevitnadi Living River Foundation said: “Jeevitnadi has successfully taken on the challenge of reviving the Mula-Mutha in Pune by rebuilding the relationship between the river and residents of the city… It is our honour to recognise the exemplary efforts by the Jeevitnadi – Living River Foundation to protect the Mula-Mutha in Pune by revitalising the relationship between the river and the city.”
Shailaja Deshpande speaking on acceptance of BPS award for Jeevitnadi
The AMM Medal citation for Makrand Purohit said: “Makarand Purohit has reported in depth and with verve on the state of rivers and the subject of water conservation across India, with special focus on the rivers of Chhattisgarh and Odisha… It is an honour to celebrate Makarand Purohit’s unflagging efforts in documenting and making public the cause of river and water conservation by presenting him the Anupam Mishra Memorial Medal 2020.”
Makrand Purohit speaking on receiving the AMM 2020 Medal
Letter of appreciation from BPS Jury to Rohit Prajapati The Jury this year also decided to send a letter to appreciation to recognise the contribution of Shri Rohit Prajapati of Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, Vadodara, for his amazing work on conservation of rivers, including Supreme Court and NGT orders, stopping of Vishwamitri River Front Development and many other successes. He was nominated for the BPS award, but conveyed to IRW Organising committee that he and PSS does not accept awards in principle.
The Jury The BPS and AMM awards are decided based on nominations that are invited about two months earlier, and decided by a jury based on predetermined criteria. The Jury this year included Shri Shashi Shekhar (TN cadre of IAS officer and former Secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources), Shri Abhilash Khandekar (Senior Journalist), Prof Amita Baviskar (Institute of Economic Growth), Dr S Janakrajan (former director, MIDS), S Vishwanath (BPS award winner 2018) and Himanshu Thakkar (representing the organizing committee at the Jury).
The BPS award, started in 2014 “To recognize the unsung heroes for their outstanding and sustained efforts towards protection and conservation of rivers”, includes cash prize of Rs 60 000/-, citation and award. So far till 2019 has been awarded to individuals/ organisations. The AMM instituted in 2017 “To celebrate journalists and media professionals who have established an exceptional body of credible work on various aspects of rivers leading to changes in behaviour, public discourse, law and policy” includes a medal and certificate. It has been so far given to two persons.
The Key Note Address IRW has been lucky to get the support of Justice Madan Lokur for many of its annual events. In this key note address, Justice Lokur narrated his own experience in dealing with river sand mining case while in Andhra Pradesh High Court in April 2012. He observed that some of the sand mining was stopped as they needed environment clearance following the Feb 2012 Supreme Court order in Deepak Kumar Vs State of Haryana case. He said, “I was taken a back when I read the newspapers that two people were killed by the sand miners. When I made some enquiries to find out what is happening, that’s when I was told that there is some kind of mafia where everyone is involved in illegal sand mining. The police and other officials are trying to stop it, but these people are so desperate that they do not mind even killing people. That kind of shook me up and I realized the magnitude of the problem and the stakes that are involved.” He went on to congratulate India Rivers Forum for focusing on this important issue this year. He also congratulated the BPS and AMM winners.
National Dialogue on River Sand Mining Following the BPS-AMM ceremony, the discussions on IRW 2020’s theme “Is Sand Mining Killing our Rivers?” started with a 10-minute audio visual put together by Siddharth Agarwal and Dr Jagdish Krishnaswamy of ATREE. The AV will be finalized after inclusion of parts from the National Dialogue and uploaded on you tube channel of India Rivers Forum. A presentation then was made on the national scene of River Sand Mining, titled “The Sand Economy of India” by Himanshu Thakkar of SANDRP. This tried to give a national picture, also taking key lessons from the four zonal dialogues. This was followed by a Panel Discussion.The Panel of experts at the National Dialogue included Shri Shashi Shekhar (former secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources), well known activist Sumaira Abdulali of Awaz Foundation, famous environment lawyer and 2016 BPS winner Ritwick Dutta and senior investigative journalist M Rajsekhar. The lively presentations were followed by Question and answer, in which Justice Lokur also participated.
The lively meeting ended with Vote of Thanks by Ravi Agarwal of Toxics Link, with a promise to continue the work on River Conservation in India that IRW started in 2014.
SANDRP (ht.sandrp@gmail.com)
[i] For details, see: https://indiariversforum.org/indiariversweek2020/
[ii] https://sandrp.in/2020/11/06/north-india-sand-mining-dialogue-under-irw-2020-local-communities-need-to-have-key-role-in-governance/
[iii] https://sandrp.in/2020/11/08/south-zone-sand-mining-dialogue-the-grain-of-sand-is-habitat-for-many-lives/
[iv] https://sandrp.in/2020/11/17/west-zone-river-sand-mining-dialogue-mining-riparian-health/
[v] https://sandrp.in/2020/11/23/east-zone-river-sand-mining-dialogue-why-does-the-moef-lack-faith-in-people/
[vi] https://www.facebook.com/IndiaRiversForum/videos/417986445902773/
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Diary of a Theatre Addict: Summer 2018 in Provincetown
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When I first launched this personal website, I began by filing a weekly feature Diary of a Theatre Addict that chronicled my weekly theatrical travels (and sometimes travails). This regularly involved seeing at least six shows, and sometimes up to 12, a week. I partly excused myself that this was, after all, my job — something that I earn a living from.
But I also have long known that there’s no reason on earth for me to have to go to the theatre this much to fulfil my professional obligations. Most of my professional colleagues will see between two and five shows a week, tops. This allows them to live lives that are not entirely filled with theatre. And to have nights off.
Me, I feel at a loose end if I’m not at the theatre. So it was more than just a job, but a whole way of life for me: a yearning to fill an empty hole in my life, combined with a fear of missing out on one show or another.
And even though I’ve also realised that its simply impossible to see EVERYTHING, I still chase my tail — not just in London but also up and down the country, and across the Atlantic to New York, to try to see as much as I possibly can.
The only way to (try to) stop is to leave the country. My husband and I now make sure we take at least two separate weeks a year to go to a place like Barbados or Gran Canaria where there simply is no theatre, so I couldn’t go even if I wanted to.
But this summer we’ve taken, for the first time, an even bigger break: we’re relocated to Provincetown (sunset pictured right) on Cape Cod for a nine-week stay (up to the middle of September). I binged on theatre by prefacing it with a stay’s stay in New York first at the beginning of July.
Provincetown, of course, is not an entirely theatre-free zone — there’s plenty live entertainment, from a lot of drag cabarets to male strip shows and piano bars, to enjoy. Plus Boston is just a 90 minute ferry ride away, and New York another 3 hours on a train from Boston.
So my addict has still been served while I’ve been here with two weekend return trips to New York, and three visits to Boston (once passing though en route back from New York, and two more day return trips) to see Moulin Rouge premiering there (I said I was addicted!). Some of these theatre trips actually HAVE been work: I’ve reviewed Moulin Rouge, Head over Heels, This Ain’t No Disco, Gettin’ the Band Back Together and Pretty Woman for The Stage. (But my two return trips to Moulin Rouge were for sheer pleasure!).
And I’ve also been dipping into P-town theatrical offerings, too, from time to time, and found a lot of variety — from the weekly drag variety night Showgirls (held the night I went in the auditorium of the local high school — there’s diversity in action for you!) to the extraordinarily intimate and revealing cabaret season, produced by Mark Cortale and led by Seth Rudetsky as interviewer and pianist, now in its 8th year at the Arthouse. In an auditorium that seats little more a hundred spectators, they bring top-line Broadway talent to town in intimate song and revealing conversation.
In the last few weeks, I’ve been enchanted by such thrillingly original and diverse Broadway voices as Liz Callaway, Judy Kuhn, Christine Ebersole and Sierra Boggess (pictured right with me)– four singers at the very top of their game — as well as charming evenings with male singers Adam Pascal (the original Roger in Rent) and Will Swenson. Still to come this season are Stephanie J Block, Marilyn Maye and Alice Ripley.
Rudetsky and his producer Cortale also brought Jeremy Jordan to the larger stage and auditorium of Town Hall, but creating the same degree of intimacy and rapport with one of Broadway’s most delightful leading men, ahead of a return to Broadway in a new play in October (and a two-night London run at Cadogan Hall, without Rudetsky, in early September).
And best of all, I travelled further down the Cape to Cotuit last weekend, for a stunning afternoon at Cotuit Center for the Arts with Broadway’s most lauded of all performers — the six-times Tony winner Audra McDonald (pictured below with Seth Rudetsky). I’ve long followed McDonald — in fact virtually stalked her — at venues large and small, seeing every single one of her Broadway starring roles since the transfer of the National’s Carousel to Lincoln Center in 1994 (in which she won her first Tony for playing Carrie Pipperidge) to Shuffle Along in 2016, with plays like Master Class, A Rainin the Sun and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill in between as well as musicals like Ragtime, Marie Christine, 110 in the Shade and Porgy and Bess.
She is, without doubt, the greatest Broadway singing talent to have been born and come to prominence in my lifetime (I’m seven years older than she is!) and I’ve long championed her talents in the classes I teach at ArtsEd London to first year musical theatre students, as the best contemporary soprano in musical theatre since the late, great Barbara Cook.
Another local promoter Rick Murray also brings Broadway talent to the Crown and Anchor, a combined hotel, restaurant and bar resort he runs in the centre of town, and here I’ve so far seen Lucie Arnaz in a delightful cabaret retrospective of her life and career.
I’ve also bought tickets here to see drag fixture Dina Martina, in the 13th consecutive season here, as well as a live appearance by the the wonderful online musical satirist Randy Rainbown (pictured right), whose adaptations of popular musical theatre songs have provided simultaneously the best affront and respite I know to the appalling comedy of the Trump regime.
I’m also looking forward to appearances there by Anthony Rapp (Rent’s original Mark Cohen) and Linda Eder.
As on Broadway, plays are in short supply in P-town — but valiantly flying the flag for them is the venerable Provincetown Theater, now newly under the artistic directorship of David Drake, who this summer have presented a spellbinding revival of Terrence McNally’s 1995 Tony winning play Love! Valour! Compassion!, whose first night McNally himself attended. 23 years since its original Broadway run, this Chekhovian-flavoured drama of gay friendships and relationships unfolding in a house beside a lake is still piercingly relevant and moving — a modern classic. And David Drake leads a terrific local cast in his own fine production. P-town is lucky to have him here!
Tags: Adam Pascal, Audra McDonald, Christine Ebersole, David Drake, Jeremy Jordan, Judy Kuhn, Lucie Arnaz, Mark Cortale, Moulin Rouge, Provincetown, Randy Rainbow, Seth Rudetsky, Sierra Boggess, Will Swenson
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January 14: Theatrical friends, rivals and colleagues, from Sheen and Tennant in Staged to a cluster of theatrical dames in Sussex
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Shift king, George Hurst, offered to provide a pace car for the Indianapolis 500 in 1972, and the next generation of the Hurst/Olds muscle car was on the road again. After a serious accident in ’71 with a Dodge Challenger, there was no automobile manufacturer willing to offer a pace car for the event so Hurst High Performance offered its services.
Oldsmobile Division of GM came up with two Cutlass Supreme units for Hurst; one convertible and one coupe style. This marked the first time in history that any company other than an automobile manufacturer supplied an Indy pace car and the prestigious event used a major supplier’s name. Hurst/Olds went on to produce a total of 629 units for ’72 as convertibles, hardtop coupes, and hardtops c/w sunroof with all of them sporting a cameo white paint job with gold stripes courtesy of the 3M Corporation.
All the models produced came with the W-25 ram air hood, gold SSII Rally wheels with chrome center cap with a beauty ring and Goodyear Polysteel radial tires. The base engine was the 455-cubic-inch Rocket V8 rated at 270 net horsepower, or if you’d liked, it could upgrade to the L77 455 balanced and blueprinted version providing 300 net horsepower. Either engine choice bolted to the Turbo Hydra-matic transmission featuring the Hurst dual-gate shifter.
The interiors all had black Strato bucket seats, console-mounted transmission shifter, plus special Hurst/Olds Pace Car badging on the glove box door. All units produced in ’72 carried the W-45 code on the cowl tag.
The 1973 Hurst/Olds was in a Colonnade body style based on the Cutlass S coupe and would stay with the same body until ’77. There were two color choices, either gold on black or gold on white with only the 455 engine, but there were two variations available. The basic L75 U code engine had a four-barrel and dual exhaust, which delivered 250 actual hp (190 kW). The L77 V code engine put out 270 hp (200 kW), but this version was only available with a four-speed standard transmission, This was the last year for this high-performance option.
Hurst/Olds for 1974 was the Indy 500 pace car for the second time, and if you liked the pace car graphics pack, it was available as a trim option. The pace car could be a Colonnade coupe, but the cars for dignitaries had to be convertibles, so this is one year when the Oldsmobile Division supplied Delta 88 convertibles and split the duties with Hurst. There were 1800 of the Hurst/Olds built in ’74, but only 380 units were the W-30 version of the Rocket 455-cubic-inch V8 producing 230 net hp as the power option. Most of the units produced have the 350 V8 1420 code, which gave up 180 actual hp (130 kW) and was the most available choice for most of the U.S. If you lived in California, the only choice was the 350 if you wanted to drive a new Hurst/Olds in ’74.
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Senior Finishes Fourth at Florida Debate Tournament
Senior and team captain Sydney Glickson finished fourth in the Congressional Debate category at The Sunvitational debate tournament at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., last weekend. She was one of 16 finalists who emerged from a field of approximately 200 Congressional Debaters from around the country. This was Sydney’s first appearance in the final round; she was a semifinalist in 2017.
Thirteen other students from SHS were selected to participate in the prestigious invitational: seniors Thivya Sivarajah, Megan Bi, Shreya Viswanathan, Aarim Khan and Victor Sardenberg; juniors Megana Adigal and Neel Dutta; sophomores Sailaja Nallacheruvu, Pooja Jain and Kevin Fei; and freshmen Wyn Thomas, Ryan Harper and Frank Gao.
Free SAT Practice Test Deadline Today
Today is the last day for juniors to register for the free SAT practice test that will be given at Stevenson on Saturday, Feb. 2. Click here for details and to sign up.
Consortium Choral Concert Livestream Tonight
For those unable to attend tonight’s Consortium Choral Concert, the event will be streamed live on the Fine Arts Division’s Vimeo page. Use this link to watch. The concert starts at 7 o’clock.
PATRIOT SPORTS
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Sunday’s Varsity Results
Stevenson at Niles West Invitational: The Patriots capped a perfect invitational season by capturing top honors in the 13-school Large Division. SHS, which won all five of its invitationals, defeated Joliet West for first place, 90.47-89.80. Next up for Stevenson is the North Suburban Conference Championships at home on Friday. The Patriots will be seeking their sixth consecutive conference crown.
Saturday’s Varsity Results
Stevenson at IHSA Warren Regional: Sophomore Joey Gluck finished seventh in the individual standings, qualifying for Saturday’s Rockford Jefferson Sectional at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford. He’ll be joined by classmates Benjamin Ries and Nicholas Sternes, who also qualified and placed in the top 20. Joey rolled a six-game series score of 1,243, with a high game of 221, at Bertrand Lanes in Waukegan. Benjamin shot a 1,190 series (high game 233) to finish 15th, and Nicholas was close behind in 17th at 1,178 (214). All three reached the sectional last year, when SHS qualified as a team. Sophomore Ryan Lerman added a 1,095 series (225). Senior Kerry Mueller bowled four games and had a 670 score (195), while sophomore Ryan Grabiner participated in two games (313, 175). SHS finished fifth in the team standings with a 5,689 pin total, behind Lake Zurich (5,973), Warren (5,927), Libertyville (5,925) and Vernon Hills (5,923). The top four squads advanced to the sectional. – Official Results | Daily Herald
Stevenson at Maine West Duals: The Patriot girls and boys each swept five teams to complete their Great Lakes Conference dual-meet season with 13-0 records. The SHS girls beat Deerfield-Highland Park (19-8), Evanston (25-2), New Trier (16-11), Maine West (24-3) and Glenbrook South (25-2). They went undefeated in two weapons during the regular season, foil (13-0) and saber (13-0), and finished 11-2 in epee. The boys, meanwhile, beat Deerfield-Highland Park (22-5), Evanston (26-1), New Trier (17-10), Maine West (21-6) and Glenbrook South (21-6). They were unbeaten in saber (13-0) during the regular season, and went 12-1 in foil and epee. Next up for the varsity is the Illinois State Championships Jan. 26 at Marian Catholic in Woodstock.
Stevenson at Lake County Invitational: The Patriots placed third at Mundelein, their best county showing since finished third in 2014. SHS reached the 140-point mark for the first time since its season-opening meet, earning a final score of 141.050, behind Carmel (146.500) and Barrington (141.550). Emily Weinstein returned from an injury that sidelined her for three meets and finished second in the all-around (36.80). The junior was third on uneven bars (9.25), fourth on vault (9.45), tied for sixth in floor exercise (9.15) and placed ninth on balance beam (8.95). Senior Sarina Johnson was 11th in the all-around (35.10), and tied for seventh on vault (9.35). Sophomore Ainslee Cutler finished sixth on uneven bars (9.05) for SHS, which had finished fifth the past four seasons. – Official Results | Daily Herald
Stevenson at 64th annual Trevian Relays: The second-ranked Patriots broke three meet records en route to winning their third consecutive title at New Trier. SHS topped No. 5 Neuqua Valley for top honors, 214-198, in a field that featured 14 schools. Team scores were determined by adding points for relay results, along with points determined by the combined times of each school’s top two swimmers in individual events. Topher Stensby broke his own meet record in the 50-yard freestyle, tying senior Will Myhre of St. Charles North for first place with a time of 20.74 seconds. The Notre Dame-bound senior eclipsed the old mark of 20.80 he set last January. Topher also anchored two winning relays, the 200 free (1:25.89) and 400 free (3:14.19), and finished third in the 100 free (47.05). He was joined in the 200 free relay by seniors Richard Lee, Joseph Song and Max Ryaguzov. Richard and Max were also part of the 400 free relay with senior Nathan Gates. The other meet records set by Stevenson were for combined times of varsity and junior varsity (non-senior) squads in two relays. The 200 free relay listed above and the second-place JV 200 free relay with juniors AJ Carollo, Jake Kim and Nic Comini plus sophomore Foster Swanson (1:28.89) set a record for their combined times. Also recording a meet-record combo time were the varsity and JV 200 medley relays. The varsity finished fifth with AJ, Joseph, Richard and senior Beno Maya (1:38.50), and the JV was third behind Jake, fellow juniors Jack Zhang and Ari Zartisky, and freshman Joshua Song (1:40.26). Stevenson won the JV 400 free relay behind Foster, Nic, Jake and Jack (3:15.09).
Boys Diving
Stevenson at Red Devils Diving Invitational: Freshman Jack White won the 32-diver freshman-sophomore level at Hinsdale Central with a score of 387.25 points, and sophomore Jaden Pazol finished 12th with a personal-best 258.80. This was Stevenson’s best performance in this meet at the freshman-sophomore level since 2013.
Stevenson at Grayslake North Invitational: The Patriots rolled to their fourth consecutive invitational championship, posting a winning score nearly five points higher than the runner-up. The judges gave SHS a final score of 92.67, with Huntley taking second at 87.90. In all, 22 teams competed in the Large Division.
Stevenson hosted SHS Quadrangular: The Patriots finished second, defeating Yorkville (57-16) and Deerfield (37-31) before falling to Huntley (44-28), which went unbeaten on the day. Details were only available for the Huntley match. Senior 195-pounder Max Gomez (22-6), fifth in the latest Illinois Matmen rankings, pinned his opponent in 1:06, senior Michael Phelps (10-10) earned a 8-0 major decision at 182, and freshman Cole Rhemrev posted an 11-5 win at 106. – @SHSPatRiot, @HHS_Athletics1, TrackWrestling
Stevenson 53, Palatine 31: Junior Avery King scored a game-high 18 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the host Patriots (14-7) past the Pirates in a nonconference contest in the Sports Center. Freshman Simone Sawyer tallied 11 points, including three of the team’s eight 3-pointers, and pulled down four rebounds. Sophomore Nikki Ware added nine points and freshman Ava Bardic had eight for SHS, which held Palatine (4-15) to single-digit scoring in three of the four quarters. Stevenson, winners of four straight, travel to Lake Forest on Tuesday for a critical North Suburban Conference game. – NFHS Network Replay
Stevenson at Jacobs Invitational: The Patriots placed 15th out of 20 teams at Liberty Lanes in Carpentersville. Junior Reilly Sullivan was the leading bowler for SHS, finishing No. 55 out of 122 players. She rolled a six-game series of 832, with a high game of 156. Also competing for Stevenson were sophomores Yumin Kim (754) and Kelly Radelet (733), freshman Diana Kwizera (650) and junior Noa Givati (647).
Glenbrook North 1, Stevenson 0: The Patriots appeared to have tied the game in the final 30 seconds of regulation, but the goal was waved off by the officials, who determined the puck had been kicked. The only goal of the “Pucks for PTSD” game came in the opening minutes. Junior goalie Jeremy Riback turned away 28 shots. Head coach Tom Wood (Class of 1998) was honored at the game for earning his 100th career win last month. – Boxscore
Friday’s Varsity Results
Stevenson 63, Waukegan 56: Junior Matt Kaznikov nailed two 3-pointers in the final 1:12, including the go-ahead trey with 50 seconds remaining, to lift the host Patriots (13-3, 4-1) in the Sports Center. Matt led SHS with a career-high 19 points, and scored eight of the team’s last 13 points. He also secured six rebounds as Stevenson moved into a first-place tie with the Bulldogs (13-4, 4-1) in the North Suburban Conference. Junior Matt Ambrose, sidelined since late November with a broken finger on his non-shooting hand, scored 18 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had two assists in his return. Senior Luke Chieng added 10 points, five assists and two steals for Stevenson, which built a 21-point lead midway through the second quarter and had to rally after Waukegan took the lead with 1:40 remaining. – NFHS Network Replay | News-Sun, Daily Herald
York 3, Stevenson 2: The Dukes scored two goals in the final 4:17 to rally past the Patriots in a penalty-filled game at Addison Ice Rink. Senior Sam Frishman tied the game at 1-1 early in the second period, with assists from classmates Max Slavin and Jake DeMaio. Seven minutes later, senior Seth Cohen gave SHS a 2-1 lead. Sam and fellow senior Justin Roseman were credited with assists. The two teams combined for 22 infractions. Junior goalie Ben Newmark made 37 saves. – Boxscore
Friday’s Digest incorrectly reported that Stevenson’s varsity cheerleaders finished second in its division and the junior varsity took first place in its group at the North Suburban Conference Winter Championships on Thursday. They did not. The varsity Patriettes were second and the JV Patriettes first at the conference championships. The NSC cheerleading championships take place at 7 p.m. Friday at SHS.
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All students who registered for AP Art: Drawing, 2-D and 3-D Design, or AP Photography and Digital Design for next school year, please submit your digital portfolio by joining the AP Art 2019/2020 Portfolio Review Google Classroom. The class code is: voykd6u. Directions for how to submit your portfolio are posted on the Classroom stream. The portfolio review process is a required part of your registration for these courses. If you have any questions, please see your art art teacher, or contact Mrs. Hyken (khyken@d125.org) or Ms. Connolly (mbconnolly@d125.org). You will be submitting your portfolio digitally through Google Classroom and it needs to be done no later than Friday, Feb. 8.
Write Club is hosting an open mic event from 3:30-5 p.m. Friday in the Recital Hall. There will be a spoken word workshop before the stage is opened for walk-in performances. Performances could include slam poetry, stand-up or songs; anything that requires only a stage and a mic. All students are welcome to watch or perform!
Anime Club meets today at 3:30. Grab a snack and join the fun in Room 1414! Everyone is welcome.
Do you know if the food you eat is cruelty free? What can you do if it isn’t? Tuesday after school, Animal Welfare Club will host a speaker from the Humane League, a non-profit organization that works to end abuse of farm animals. Come learn how ordinary people can make a difference in how animals are treated. The club meets in Room 7064, and all are welcome.
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Space & Planetary Science
UBC researchers establish new timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars
Credit: UBC Media Relations
Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier–and much later–in the planet’s history than scientists have previously known.
A planet’s global magnetic field arises from what scientists call a dynamo: a flow of molten metal within the planet’s core that produces an electrical current. On Earth, the dynamo is what makes compass needles point north. But Mars’ dynamo has been extinct for billions of years.
New findings from UBC researchers working with colleagues in the U.S. and France, published today in Science Advances, bring us closer to knowing the precise timing and duration of Mars’ dynamo.
“We find that the Martian dynamo operated at 4.5 billion and 3.7 billion years ago. Dynamo timing is a big part of a planet’s evolution, and what we find is very different from what we have thought so far,” said Anna Mittelholz, postdoctoral fellow in UBC’s department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences, and first author of the study. “The dynamo tells us something about the planet’s thermal history, its evolution, and how it got to where it is today, and it is unique for each of the terrestrial planets–Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury.”
Clues about a planet’s magnetic history lie in magnetized rocks on and beneath its surface. Rock is like a tape recorder, especially volcanic rocks. They begin as lava, but as they cool and solidify in the presence of a magnetic field, minerals within the rocks align themselves with the global magnetic field. By dating these rocks, scientists can estimate if a dynamo was active at the time the rock was emplaced.
Magnetism in certain rocks on Mars’ surface indicate that the Martian dynamo was active between 4.3 and 4.2 billion years ago, but the absence of magnetism over three large basins that formed 3.9 billion years ago has led most scientists to believe the dynamo was inactive by that time.
The UBC researchers analyzed new satellite data and found clear evidence of a magnetic field coming from the Lucus Planum lava flow that formed less than 3.7 billion years ago–much later than the aforementioned basins.
The researchers also detected low-intensity magnetic fields over the Borealis Basin in the planet’s northern hemisphere, which formed 4.5 billion years ago and is believed to be one of the oldest features on Mars.
“We have these two observations that point to a dynamo at the earliest known time in Mars’ history, and a dynamo that was present half a billion years after many people thought it had already switched off,” said Catherine Johnson, a professor in the department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences and senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who also contributed to the study.
The researchers offer two possible explanations for the absence of magnetic fields over the basins: the dynamo may have stopped before the basins formed and then re-started before Lucus Planum formed, or the impacts that created the basins simply displaced the portion of crust containing minerals that can carry strong magnetism.
The new data for this study come from MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution satellite. Earlier data about magnetism on Mars had been gathered by the Mars Global Surveyor satellite which orbited the planet between 1999 and 2006, mostly at 400 kilometres above the surface. MAVEN, launched in 2013, operates as close as ~135 kilometres from the surface and picks up weaker signals that MGS could not detect.
MAVEN’s ability to pick up signals from smaller features on and near the surface helps researchers distinguish whether the magnetism is coming from those, or from older rocks buried more deeply in the planet’s crust.
These new insights have researchers wondering what could be revealed if they get even closer. Mittelholz noted that this study focused on two particular features, but craters remain all over Mars with stories to tell. In the future, exploration could progress from satellites to drones or balloons, providing even more detailed data.
Erik Rolfsen
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DICKIE DIVER (ultima)
Dickie diver is priced up as fav at 10/1 for the ultima handicap chase, he has had 1 so far, so would require 2 more and a handicap mark of over 145 to go there, (under 145 he would surely go for the Kim muir) there are other options such as the national hunt chase, If he was to jump unsatisfactory on his next start, then that would bring a pertemps qualifier into the equation over hurdles. His first run over fences was very promising, the way he stayed on there, I see the step up to 3m and maybe even beyond that, sure to seek further improvement, the reason dickie diver for the ultima at 10/1 fav is to be avoided, is why not take 20/1 to win any race with william hill?
ZANAHIYR Is currently best price 4/1 for the triumph hurdle, and imo although he was visually impressive last time, he has done very little to make him as short as he is.
His towering reputation seems to be built upon “experts” comparing the final race times of other races on the same card, something that if you have read the guides to racing on my site, that I dont agree with or do myself.
His time was 4.02
Where as Ballyadam’s win in the grade 1 was 4.12
Ballyadam race was ran at a slow pace, such as the proximity of the bunched field towards the last, you achieve very little by comparing overall race times.
In 2013 analifet won in a time of 3.52
Beating the time of the tullow tank and artic fire in the grade 1, she hasn’t won a race in 9 tries since. And was clearly an inferior horse to the 2 above.
In 2010 Toner D’oudaries beat the time of zaidpour, Toner D’oudaries took another 15 races before he got off the mark again, in a novice chase, where as zaidpour won a whole host of graded races and was rated into the 160’s
Therefore final time ratings are influenced by what goes on early in the race (the pace). Rather than the true ability being revealed.
What has zanahiyr actually achieved?
Well on debut, he beat dark voyager by 2.5L who ran a very poor race on his next start, beaten in excess of 20L
The race which he has been lauded for, he beat saint sam,
Saint sam won a poor race narrowly at clairefontaine, his irish debut was his 3rd race which qualifies him for the fred winter,
On saint sam’s form itself, The 2nd piriac hasnt won since and has been beaten on his latest start by over 30L
the 3rd,
horse maha was held up way too far back off the pace, to be given a clear view at his hurdles after falling the time before, he was learning on the job here, and was made much more use of next time. He is a consistent yet limited horse, who imo certainly didn’t run to his best here.
In summary,
Zanahiyr hasnt achieved the level required to be home and hosed, priced as short as he is, and lauded in the way he is.
There is other opposition that have ran in the market, However there are a whole host of horses that haven’t come out yet that are a long way clear of saint sam, having won at the premier french tracks rather than clairefontaine. Some of which have commanded large fees having won recently in france and therefore wont retain there novice status for next season, having paid the premium, they are very much expected to be seen this season and end up in opposition to zanahiyr.
Last years winner wasnt sighted until february, and I would be absolutely shocked and confused, if saint sam was anywhere close to no1 at closutton, nevermind the triumph. such as the talent the closutton team have bought themselves, and that’s without the countless juveniles in other yards.
There are far bigger tests ahead for zanahiyr and he is currently priced like we have seen all of his opposition.
As members will see in the members horses to follow section, He hasnt faced any of them.
Both his current price, due to the hype surrounding him for achieving little, using a method which imo reveals a very small part of the whole picture, (yet is made out to be the best way to analyse a race) all leads me to add ZANAHIYR as a horse to AVOID at anywhere near current prices.
BALLYADAM is now a firm favourite for the supreme novice hurdle at 6/1.
I believe it’s the right race for him and it’s all confirmed.
However do I think he is the likely winner?
He was a facile winner on hurdles debut, travelled very well and won with ease against minor opposition,
He stepped up to the top plate in the grade 1 royal bond, he travelled very well throughout, he diddnt jump perfectly, he was big at the 2nd and 4th. With mistakes at the 3rd and last however on the whole hes still learning and it wasnt a poor round of jumping
Breaking the race down itself, you had cask mate in a very close 2nd.
Cask mate had reappeared this season after 3years out through injury, patience has been rewarded with running up a sequence in minor races
Cask mate has beaten frontal assault and double Jemmy, the latter was beaten 8L by a 120 horse and 38L before that, the former has also been soundly beaten by an average bunch then narrowly beaten at a more suitable longer trip by a horse in the very low 120s.
Cask mate then stepped up in trip to 2 and a half miles and beat dewcup who was also in n here
He has won his races well but there has been nothing there at all of considerable ability in his races,
In a very close 3rd was Ngolo, won a couple of very minor races before winning the for auction grade 3. , imo this was a very poor renewal, in that race itself, annexation was 2nd who imo is of a poor standard in relation to graded races. The 3rd wide receiver isnt a 2 miler at all and has been fishing for a handicap mark to likely go up in trip at the Dublin racing festival and potentially the martin pipe later on.
4th and 5th places were the afore mention dew cup and annexation. The 6th placed the very man, was still there going to the last befor making a horrendous mistake, he has being on the go all through the year, pot hunting winning minor races narrowly and has subsequently been awarded what imo is a very inflated handicap mark of 138. He came into this in poor form after being beaten 46L by she wearsitwell and falling last time out in a handicap hurdle.
I dont think the horses behind ballyadam here would be finishing anywhere near winning the supreme novice hurdle.
Ngolo and cask mate imo do not bring solid grade 1 form to the table, that will hold up in the spring.
Ballyadam has more natural pace, he travelled the best of all, got 1st run when quickening up in what turned out to be a sprint finish, such was the proximity of the horses behind going to the last,
Ballyadam wasn’t going away at the line, and imo diddnt have masses left in the tank. The distance he put between himself and the placed horses was lost after the last, and as mentioned before, I dont see them featuring over 2 miles come the spring.
I strongly feel that N’golo certainly isn’t at the top of the pecking order at clossuton for 2 mile races, ballyadam is the fav that makes the market for me.
The supreme winner may not have even appeared on a uk race course yet this season.
I personally feel the standard set by ballyadam is very achievable to be bettered come march and I certainly wouldnt advise taking the current odds of 6/1 for the Supreme Novice hurdle
ELDERADO ALLEN is short enough at around 16/1 for the arkle, he beat stormy ireland on his novice chase debut, where stolen silver who was back in 3rd, has done very little for the form. Last time out imo he would have been beaten by gumball, but for a fall at the 2nd last. Elderado allen was hard ridden a long way from home, and despite staying well at the 2 mile trip, imo he was hard at work, and doesn’t have the change of gear which is needed to come off the pace and quicken to the lead in a grade 1, I believe they would have to go off at a ridiculous pace, and the leaders fall in a hole for him to have a chance to get there.
In his last race itself, the only other opposition to him, quel destin, was on his chase debut and was badly hampered by the faller gumball, therefore the winning margin over him is greatly exaggerated imo and not to be taken literally for future form assessment.
Put the kettle on is currently 8/1 for the QMCC, it won’t be a popular view, however being a realist, imo she is one of the worst priced horses of the Cheltenham festival, I think last years renewal of the arkle was poor, and nothing I have seen this season has changed that for me, she narrowly beat duc des genievres in the schloer chase which has seen her cut to 8/1 across the board for the big one, and I just don’t see it.
Her form for me, is not that of a win contender. I see her being well dispatched by the likes of altior, chacun pour soi, and maybe even politologue, on the big day itself. I wish connections the best of luck, she’s a good story, however she certainly isnt a bet for me.
in the Arkle
Envoi allen (10/1) no chance he runs here. ANNAMIX not sure why he is in the market with unibet, he is ineligible. It’s the same for sizing pottsie. Sharjah at 14/1 he wont be running. Neither will concertista, saldier, chantry house, protektorat, Phoenix way, column of fire…….
Gypsy island is as short as 7/1 for the mares novice hurdle, she was a notable absentee from peter Fahey’s stable tour, she missed almost all of last season through injury, and despite being clearly talented, i feel on all honesty it would be foolish for anyone to now, or to previously already have backed her antepost for chelt. I would be making it odds on, that she will not be making it to the mares novice hurdle in march. Not the sort of price you want to be taking chances on.
champion bumper (ineligible). you can scratch the following horses straight away. Fiston des issards
Smurphy enki
Captain kangaroo
Bumpy Johnson
El barra
L’autonomie she is currently priced up for the mares hurdle as 3rd in the betting at around 8/1. I don’t see her travelling over from france, she has had a busy and productive season as it is, and lately on her last 2 starts she has been jumping out to the right, much more markedly than usual, which previous horses apples jade, getabird and asterion forlonge, have showed that the left handed track at cheltenham certainly wouldn’t be up her street.
Champ. Gold Cup I’m a big fan of champ and was all over him antepost for the RSA chase this year, so was delighted when he powered up the hill to victory, He seems popular in the market at 12/1, however I wouldn’t advise taking that myself. He went into the RSA as a mature horse, an 8 year old novice chaser with 12 prior runs under his belt, that was the angle I was going in with, and i believe this was the difference in him winning, he was battle hardened and knew his job. Therefore I dont see a huge chunk of improvement now moved up to the top table. I dont think the RSA was a great renewal, it wasn’t imo a performance which would have beaten al boum photo, so therefore that leaves me to wonder where the improvement is coming from, and also question whether he would be able to lie right up with the pace and choose when to move into contention like ABP because the latter wouldnt be stopping up the hill. All things considered, Champ at odds of 12/1 antepost, is a NO Bet for me.
Goshen did very well in juvenile hurdles however the champion hurdle is a whole different ball game, current prices of around 4/1 is just way too short, firstly you have to take into account that he has to make it to the festival, secondly the horses which he has currently taken on (although he’s beating them very readily) just wouldnt be sited in a Champion Hurdle. Aramax won the fred winter handily in juvenile company with a rating in the 140s, he wasn’t sighted taking on the more seasoned campaigners, beaten 75L in the galway hurdle. That’s the sort of jump up in class of which we are talking about, when goshen will be taking on the very best. Goshens jumping out to the right, although it diddnt seem to be an issue in the triumph, wasn’t put under any pressure. Going a champion hurdle gallop fine margins are the difference between winning and losing, he certainly isn’t going to be making up ground in the hurdling department. Your solely relying on his engine, we have no idea how big that is, so a complete guess in hope that he is good enough at odds of 4/1 and 9/2 imo is a poor bet.
Hero’s d’ainay is current fav for the triumph hurdle, quite simply, he won’t be coming over here, so save your money. The same applies to Mogul. He won’t be running here.
I have seen a few people putting up sir gerhard for the supreme / ballymore. Imo I think he will stick to bumpers, at the bare minimum you’d want to see him declared for a hurdle race before even considering him for either of the 2 above races, as to put it frankly, its likely money down the drain. Please note that I’m definitely not saying to avoid him in bumpers.
Asterion forlonge didn’t enjoy going left handed in the supreme, he jumped markedly out to his right causing carnage. I can’t see anyway that he’s suddenly going to take to the track no matter what he does in races beforehand, just like getabird previously for Willie mullins, I’d expect asterion forlonge to avoid Cheltenham all together.
Salsaretta is 6/1 fav for the mares chase at the festival. It seems to me that she is fav because of her colours and connections alone rather than anything that she has done on the track. In November she beat galvin who was fishing for a handicap mark of <145 to get into the Nov handicap chase. She then rattled off 3 more victories in mares chases beating August gold, caravation and ask Mary. The best of which has a peak rating of 132. I think her form amounts to very little, the opposition was weak and she was well placed. I don’t believe that she has ran up to the level of the exposed current 20/1 shot happy diva. Without taking into account what potentially will be going chasing in the Coming season, Imo I don’t believe she is at the very top of the pecking order in her own yard let alone the race. Imo i Do Not see her winning the race and at current prices of 6/1 (general price) fav, she certainly isn’t for me. There are other horses from the same yard with different connections which do interest me…. But If the owner of salsaretta happened to have his heart set on winning the race, he’d want to be avoiding honeysuckle in the mares hurdle and pitching benie des dieux up here for a penalty kick, he has prior form of a last minute switch to a weaker race so it wouldn’t be a big surprise, all be it she’s currently priced like she won’t run.
Flinteur sacre.
The brother of sprinter sacre, Too green to do himself complete justice on his debut at Newbury, the €125.000 arqana purchase had to settle for second, as The winner Your Darling, (who was three lengths clear at the line) ran out a comfortable winner.
The five-year-old seemingly turned out to be a totally different proposition at Kempton next time, At Kempton the brother of Sprinter Sacre took to the Sunbury turf to demolish his field by five lengths,
he tanked through the race under Barry Geraghty before quickening smartly on the bridle to brush aside his rivals with the minimum of fuss.
However all is not what it seems,
In his opening race, his oppositions record under rules for races before and after, are 0-24. There was a real lack of quality in behind, which still didn’t stop him hitting the headlines for a run which achieved very little.
“Because of who he is (Flinteur Sacre) people expect to see some kind of rocket that’s going to fly past the world,” nicky Henderson
If you forgive him for his first run, he was lauded for his next, with calls for him to be supplemented for the champion bumper, with prices of a general 16/1.
But what did he achieve?
firstly he opened up at a price of 4/11 which indicated that it was a straight for ward task. There were only 2 other horses in the race of which didn’t touch 50/1.
Force ten who once again, didn’t finish out his race in the closing stages. And was beaten easily last time out, and le bateau, who was previously unsold at the sales shortly before this race at £95,000 and had been beaten in excess of 15L by grand roi, but with duc de bourbon just behind who was since 9th of 9, once again finishing tamely In a class 5 bumper.
Both starts he has achieved little of note in context to graded races. And therefore I see him massively under priced due to his name alone.
he isn’t sprinter sacre, just as faugheen’s half brother osmotic, isn’t faugheen. So the expectation level is way too high, and what he has done to date, has been blown out of all proportion.
you can fully expect him to be a popular choice to win the opening race of the 2021 Cheltenham Festival (currently priced at around 16/1)
However flinteur sacre is certainly one that’s not for me.
Published by scooby91tips
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2 thoughts on “FREE Horses To Avoid”
DannyCraig says:
1st December 2020 at 5:00 am
Good write up about ballyadam’s chances – I certainly wouldn’t want to be backing at 6/1 but I think many have a ticket with a much larger price on it! Out of who’s raced this season so far, who do you have ahead of ballyadam over 2m then – ferny / dusart?
scooby91tips says:
1st December 2020 at 10:32 am
I have nothing AHEAD right now. But i do have a very good idea of what is yet to run. And The likes of the 2 you mentioned are open to further improvement
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Harry Schumacher
Harry Schumacher denounces the way humanity treats nature. We place ourselves above, although we are part of it. We see nature as a laboratory for our benefit. Harry creates an alternative world to increase our engagement with nature. In the works a representation of human characteristics gets us involved. Separate works zoom into an aspect of our attitude towards nature, but the collection of works forms the whole picture, like an alternative world. Harry Schumacher exhibits in museums, galleries and theme exhibitions all over the world.
Exhibitions, last 3 years:
17 mar - 14 apr, The Evolution of Evolution, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
15 mar - ?, Der Blick von Oben, Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg, AUT.
8 mar - 1 aprl, Freedom, Geuzenmaand, Kade 40, Vlaardingen, NL.
8 mar - 1 apr, Freedom, Geuzenmaand, Museum Vlaardingen, NL.
7 dec - 23 dec, Cells, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
10 nov - 11 nov, South Explorer, Rotterdam, NL.
6 sep - 9 sep, Fertile Soil, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL.
19 aug - 16 sep, Connections, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
26 jul- 5 aug, Kunst Im Dialog, Landshut, DE.
24 jun - 30 jun, Lična hiša Gallery, Ajdovščina, SVN.
24 jun - 30 jun, Artist in Residence, Sinji Vrh, SVN.
16 jun - 24 jun, Kunstschouw, Sil van Mil, Ellemeet, NL.
22 apr - 20 may, Break the Mould, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
8 feb - 11 feb, Object Rotterdam Fair, Tutti Cortex Gallery, Rotterdam, NL.
1 mar - 31 mar, Human Rights, Geuzenmaand, Museum Vlaardingen, NL.
8 feb - 12 feb, Contemporary Art Fair, pARTners Galerie, Rotterdam, NL.
8 feb - 12 feb, Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Tutti Cortex, Rotterdam, NL.
19 feb - 12 mar, Alive, Solo Expo, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
29 apr - 13 may, Now & Then, Neck of the Woods, Rotterdam, NL.
12 nov - 10 dec, Rooting Inbetween, Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, NL.
18 en 19 oct , South Explorer, Rotterdam, NL.
Legacy, as humans we are part of nature, which feeds us literally. In spite of that we often place ourselves above and we think we have the right to use nature as it pleases us. Nature develops through time, people who try to hold on to their acquired values are standing still.
Defence 02, the work "Defence" exists of vertebras forming a circle. It's the cloning of one existing vertebra as a basic link of a chain. The S-Form of the spinal column doesn't suite our lifestyle anymore. It’s a futuristic vision of the introvert, non flexible human caused by evolution.
Strings, this piece is a contemporary version of the classic fairground attraction "Pulling Strings". Instead of worthless prices, you can win new life. The embryos represent the circle of life by eating their own tail (Uroboros). The prices are no surprise; following the thread you can influence the outcome. Natural selection in the hands of people follow other criteria, than when it's left to run its course. How does it feel to have the power in the selection of new life?
Composure, do you sleep well at night, dreaming about nature?
Quixote, a universal thought. For the outside world a crazy man that fights with windmills. In his heart an idealist who holds on to his own believes and makes the outside world look crazy.
Exhibition at “Korenbeurs”, Schiedam, The Netherlands with the works “Seeds”, “Manipulation” and “Legacy”.
Riverdelta, Harry Schumacher was invited for a symposium in Trstenice in the Czech Republic. The village stretches along a small, partly dry river in an oblong valley. The East/West trade route through the village is visualized as the connection in two directions between two points. The work consists of two V-shaped riverdelta's, which only touch in one place. In a riverdelta water searches its way from high to low. The liquid in the artwork flows against the current. The area is the center of water flowing in two opposite directions, to the North Sea and to the Black Sea. The map forms the Czech Republic, still struggling between East and West. I choose to make the work on location and made every day the trip through the village with a trolley to get into contact with the people as a part of the artwork.
Hierarchy, the mountain of sand starts at the top in the box and find its way down through eight groups of circular orientated holes. The holes have their influence on the trail of the sand. The sand carries the box. The work is a metaphor for a hierarchy based society. A performance comments on the hierarchic system by taking sand from the lowest part and pour it into the box on top endlessly. The performance of over 20 hours took place at the "No Walls Expo" during the Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair of 2016.
Fallen, the work "Fallen" tries to involve the viewer into the destiny of nature. Originally the installation stands right up, but is presented as if it's fallen over. The endings of the branch that seem to escape the cage are covered in bandages, so are the joints of the cage. The blood washes away over time, but the wounds remain. Who's (playing) the victim?
Caged, this work deals with the division of mankind and the rest of nature. People think they stand above nature, but eventually nature will overcome. From the point of view of "the other" a new insight of ones place could emerge. The work changes by the position of the beholder towards the trees. The birches stand closer and closer together and will appear to form a row of bars. With the viewer close to the bars watching nature, nature seems to be caged. From the point of view of nature (telescope) the humans behind the bars seem to be physically confined. The ocular in the telescope is placed reversed, to emphasize the created distance and gives the telescope a gunsight.
Against All Odds, for the sculpture garden Ravesteijn a site specific work has been made. In memory of all the perished refugees at see a work about the dangerous journey. For almost all it is not a choice, but a way of survival. The work exists of a small boat with a proportional huge figurehead to enforce a save journey. No woodcarving but an original tree to hold on to life itself. The boat is connected with the tree by bandages, with fists as a variation on the Hamsa (protection) with Nazar (evil eye). The Hamsa are not suited for the weather influences and will drown.
Autumn Leaves, this work for the entrance of a crematorium forms a bond with the tree reaching through the roof. The tree as a metaphor for life, the reaching is the life fully lived. The memory forms the bond we keep with the deceased The circle of leaves around the tree are the nearest loved ones on whom the deceased made his/hers mark, the blown off leaves represent the wider ambit that has been moved.
The work "Defence" exists of vertebras forming a closed circle. It is the evolution of the human spine into a non-flexible backbone. It should be inevitable if the human race continues in the direction it is going. What kind of creature could live with this kind of spine is left to the imagination. It could be the last configuration before extinction.
Harry Schumacher, Mixed Media, Wood
Three times the same muscle structure, two up and one upside down. Tough becomes vulnerable. The triptych is connected by wires. For the Kunstschouw the prices are reduced.
Harry Schumacher, Mixed Media, Synthetic resin
Mixed Media on Felt in Lead
Harry Schumacher, Mixed Media, Textile
Seeds are shown in two different ways. On the scale they are shown as a value in weight. On the branch they're shown (as they are) as a gift from nature. Over time there representation can change. Balance in a physical way and in nature's way.
Harry Schumacher, Wood, Natural materials
Why don’t we find shelter in nature? The egg is a little fresco.
Harry Schumacher, Wood, Ceramics
A pillow is stuck in a branch, the features of a face appear like the pillow is suffocating someone. Maybe the extinction of mankind would mean the survival of the planet.
Harry Schumacher, Wood, Textile
An organism, just existing of two legs and wearing a diaper is tied to the wall to limit it’s space. The part of the wall it can reach in width is covered in drawings of bodyparts the organism lacks, as a wishful dream in growth. Apart from the limitation in movement the rope also keeps the creature in balance, almost learning it to walk. Worldwide a lot of people have to deal with just the “right” amount of oppression to keep them barely alive, but silent. The row of drawings on the wall will change over time because of the acid-rich paper.
Harry Schumacher, Wood, Installation
We use nature as a laboratory which gives us the right to do with it what we want. For an old butcher shop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I made a site-specific artwork installation dealing with a specific event. The event is the economical fight for the arctic in the search for oil. A struggle for the preservation of the arctic itself should be a lot more meaningful. The event got in the news when people of Greenpeace were held as hostages by the Russian Federation. The news was no longer about the damage done to the arctic, and so to nature worldwide. Attention needed to go back to the original problem, so I made this installation to pick up the initial debate. There were lectures and debates with Greenpeace and it got quite a lot of publicity.
Harry Schumacher, Ice, Metal
This work exists of a blackboard taken out of context. The void in the frame of the blackboard is fixed in an amateuristic way, providing some stability for now. The sentence “Have we not learned anything yet” stands for making the same mistakes, over and over. Short term solutions and the lack of a long term vision. The branch needs blood by transfusion to survive.
Harry Schumacher, Wood, Mixed Media
The mountain of sand starts at the top in the box and find its way down through eight groups of circular orientated holes. The holes have their influence on the trail of the sand. The sand carries the box. The work is a metaphor for a hierarchy based society. A performance comments on the hierarchic system by taking sand from the lowest part and pour it into the box on top endlessly. The performance of over 20 hours took place at the "No Walls Expo" during the Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair of 2016.
Harry Schumacher, Performance, Installation
For the sculpture garden Ravesteyn a site specific work has been made. In memory of all the perished refugees at see a work about the dangerous journey. For a lot of people it is not a choice, but a way of survival. The work exists of a small boat with a proportional huge figurehead to enforce a save journey. No woodcarving but an original tree to hold on to life itself. The boat is connected with the tree by bandages, with fists as a variation on the Hamsa (protection) with Nazar (evil eye). The Hamsa are not suited for the weather influences and will drown.
As humans we are part of nature, which feeds us literally. In spite of that we often place ourselves above and we think we have the right to use nature as it pleases us. Nature develops through time, people who try to hold on to their acquired values are standing still.
Bones are created with a pendular movement. As an installation it could be the result of an excavation. The transparent facing catches the light like a winding-sheet, a glimpse of what has been…
Harry Schumacher, Mixed Media, Paper
The branch is just a hollow shell. On the back a structure wraps around it. Something can be added to acquire content.
Riverdelta
Harry Schumacher was invited for a symposium in Trstenice in the Czech Republic. The village stretches along a small, partly dry river in an oblong valley. The East/West trade route that should have gone through the village is the starting point of the artwork. In a graphic sense a trade route is the connection in two directions between two points. The work consists of two V-shaped riverdelta's like two turned away arrows, which only touch in one place. In a riverdelta the water searches its way from high to low. The liquid in the artwork flows against the current. The area is the center of water flowing in two opposite directions, to the Baltic Sea and to the Black Sea. The map forms the Czech Republic, still struggling between East and West. I choose to make the work of art on location and made every day the trip through the village with a trolley to get into contact with the people as a part of the artwork.
Harry Schumacher, Installation, Natural materials
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Topic Network management
What Ping doesn't tell you
Ping distinguishes certain states of network functionality that are the cornerstones of everyday network troubleshooting. Learn how to gain greater insight into your network.
Loki Jorgenson
Ping is the classic tool based on network behaviorism. It distinguishes certain states of network functionality that are the cornerstones of everyday network troubleshooting -- in particular, it resolves the binary states of connectivity (i.e. connected or not). But that's only the simplest example of a wide range of behavioral analyses that can tell you what your network is doing.
Network behaviorism assumes that the network is a black box about which you have no a priori knowledge. By stimulating the network appropriately and analyzing the responses, the interior states of the black box can be determined through judicious application of analytical models of network behavior. This allows a network engineer, or a user, to generate a view of a particular network path without special access to the component devices (i.e. interfaces, switches and routers).
Packets provide the means to stimulating the network. Conventions of network behavior and knowledge of network standards provide the analytical model. Subsequently, specific stimuli can distinguish internal states, such as connectivity, by associating the possible network response with known states.
In the case of Ping, this only makes a simple thing sound complicated. Send an ICMP Echo packet to an IP address, get an ICMP Echo Reply packet back, and you have determined that there is connectivity on the network path. Simple, and yet, powerful because it points toward even more interesting possibilities.
Of course, the network is never ideal and its responses to stimuli can vary over time. Typically Ping repeats this process more than once and then evaluates the statistical limits of the responses. In this way, it roughly estimates the statistical variance of the Round Trip Time (RTT) of the responses, including loss (when RTT is infinite). From this additional information, slightly more insight can be gained into the network path -- but not much.
Traceroute is another tool that follows this approach. Using known behavior with respect to mid-path Layer 3 devices and the Time To Live field in the IP header, Traceroute eponymously determines the sequence of devices at Layer 3 between its host and some target host. To do this, it transmits not one but a series of packets with specific TTL settings, incrementing from 1 to 255, until it reaches the intended target. It can then identify the IP address for each Layer 3 interface that responds with the ICMP TTL Expiry message.
Traceroute thus offers a functionality that resolves the states of the IP route between two hosts. Clearly those states are much more numerous and complex than the simple binary states of connectivity. And it requires a commensurate increase in the sampling of the network path to construct this view.
Of course there are many more tools available of various sorts showing different aspects of the network path -- even Ping and Traceroute have been augmented with other functionalities. Some of them rely on very sophisticated mathematical network models involving queuing theory, non-random loss analysis, and defect correlation.
So what's the point? It's a bit like the old fable of the blind men and the elephant -- each described the elephant uniquely ("it's like a snake!" "no, it's like a wall!" "no, it's like a tree trunk!") because each was accessing it in a different way. And none of them had a clear, actionable picture of what they were dealing with.
And so the network is all those things and more, changing constantly, affecting application performance and resisting diagnosis. However, network behaviorism can be applied in a more comprehensive fashion -- instead of offering piecemeal analyses of simple states of the network, a sophisticated sampling and analysis process can reveal all the structure of the end-to-end path consistently and in detail.
Many of the latest network technologies described in the "New network science" column take full advantage of this approach. In fact, the detailed views provided by these systems seem more akin to the full realization of modern sonar -- in metaphor, precisely generated sound waves are deformed and reflected by all the subtle variations of temperature, surface, and salinity to accurately map the shape of the ocean floor, the flow of currents and the presence of marine life. Not the simple ping of World War II submarine detection.
Even better, these systems can selectively analyze the response of the network to specific applications such as backup and recovery, voice-over-IP, video, transactional systems like collaborative environments and others. Packet size, load, protocol, and variability of the transfer rate can cause the network to change its characteristics.
So if you find Ping and Traceroute the least bit useful (and you certainly do – thanks Mike Muuss and Van Jacobson), consider that you are using only a small fraction of the potential available to you. Ping doesn't tell the whole story any more than a single-pixel image shows you the whole picture.
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Visfatin and Resistin Serum Levels in Normal-Weight and Obese Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Fatemeh Farshchian 1 , Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani 2 , Houshang Amirrasouli 1 , * , Hooman Rahimi Pour 3 , Mehdi Hedayati 4 , Faranak Kazerouni 1 , Adeleh Soltani 1
1 Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
2 Reproductive Endocrinology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
3 Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
4 Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
* Corresponding author: Houshang Amirrasouli, Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel:+98-2126850560, Fax: +98-2126850560, E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite: Farshchian F, Ramezani Tehrani F, Amirrasouli H, Rahimi Pour H, Hedayati M, et al. Visfatin and Resistin Serum Levels in Normal-Weight and Obese Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2014 ; 12(3):e15503. doi: 10.5812/ijem.15503.
International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism: 12 (3); e15503
Published Online: July 1, 2014
Received: November 17, 2013
Revised: May 3, 2014
Accepted: May 19, 2014
DOI : 10.5812/ijem.15503
Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy among women of reproductive age that is linked to insulin resistance and obesity. While studies have shown that plasma levels of resistin and visfatin increase with obesity, the association between PCOS and these markers has not been described well.
Objectives: This case-control study aimed to compare the serum levels of visfatin and resistin in women with PCOS in comparison with the healthy controls matched for age and body mass index (BMI).
Patients and Methods: A total of 80 women consisted of 40 women with PCOS and 40 matched eumenorrheic women without hyperandrogenism enrolled in the study. They were subcategorized into obese and normal-weight women according to their BMI. Serum visfatin and resistin levels were assessed using sandwich enzyme-linked Immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Results: Serum levels of resistin were higher among both obese and normal-weight women with PCOS in comparison with the controls (2.36 and 1.58 ng/mL in normal-weight women with PCOS and controls, respectively; and 2.10 and 1.91 ng/mL in obese women with PCOS and controls, respectively). Serum visfatin levels was higher in both obese women with PCOS and controls (3.46 and 3.49 ng/mL PCOS and control groups, respectively) in comparison with normal-weight women in both groups (3.16 and 3.15 in PCOS and control groups, respectively); however; there were no statistically significant differences in serum resistin and visfatin levels between PCOS and control groups (P > 0.05).
Conclusions: While the expression of visfatin and resistin may be upregulated in women with PCOS, it is not translated at serum level.
Obesity Body Mass Index Resistin Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Visfatin
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous syndrome with a broad spectrum of reproductive, cosmetic, and metabolic manifestation including anovulation, hyperandrogenemia, polycystic ovaries, infertility, hirsutism, acne, insulin resistance (IR), dyslipidemia, and obesity (1-3). Thus, PCOS can lead to an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (4). The etiology and pathogenesis of PCOS have remained unknown and it has various phenotypes including obese and insulin-resistant, obese and insulin-sensitive, normal-weight and insulin-resistant, and non-insulin-resistant types (5). The adverse effect of obesity with or without PCOS on reproduction and metabolic parameters has been studied thoroughly (6). Since obesity and IR are associated with PCOS in majority of patients, the molecules and hormones secreted by adipose tissue have been assumed to play a role in the pathogenesis of PCOS and therefore, were frequently investigated. It has been shown that adipose tissue plays an important role in the regulation of many physiological processes such as reproduction, immune response, and glucose and lipid metabolism through secretion of a variety of bioactive cytokines such as adipokines (7). Resistin is a small cysteine-rich protein secreted as a 94-amino acid polypeptide that was first named by Steppan et al. due to its IR property in mice (8). It is primarily secreted by mature white adipocytes and its circulating levels is increased in diet-induced or genetic forms of obesity and decreased by using the antidiabetic drug, eg, rosiglitazone. Human resistin, however, is mainly secreted by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (9) and its expression is predominantly localized in macrophages and stromal cells of adipose tissue rather than adipocytes (10, 11). Visfatin, previously known as pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF) (12), is a highly-conserved 52-kDa protein expressed in a variety of cell types and tissues including adipocytes, lymphocytes, bone marrow, liver, muscle, trophoblast, and fetal membranes. Visfatin was initially discovered and named by Fukuhara et al. who found that the mRNA level of a secreted protein was much more abundant in visceral fat than in subcutaneous fat (13). Visfatin binds to insulin receptor and exhibits insulin-mimetic actions, therefore, it stimulates glucose uptake in adipocytes and muscle cells and suppresses glucose release from hepatocytes (13, 14). Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that visfatin displays proinflammatory characteristics and modulated immune functions (15); however, there are contradictory data on the association between visfatin and obesity in women (16-21). Data regarding the levels of resistin and visfatin in patients with PCOS are still controversial; while some studies reported that visfatin levels is higher in women with PCOS (22-28), the other ones have not reported it (29-31), and although higher level of resistin in PCOS has been shown in one study (32), most studies reported no significant difference in resistin level between the PCOS the control groups (33-38).
The aim of this study was to assess the association between serum levels of visfatin and resistin in obese and normal-weight women with PCOS and their age-BMI-matched healthy counterparts.
A group of 40 women diagnosed with PCOS based on National Institute of Health (NIH) diagnostic criteria for PCOS were recruited from the Reproductive Endocrinology Center data pool; forty age-BMI-matched healthy normo-ovulatory nonhirsute women referred to a gynecologic clinic for annual cervical cancer screening program were enrolled as controls. Participants had no history of oophorectomy or any other kind of ovarian surgery, hormonal treatment, and weight changes for at least three months before entering the study. The study protocol was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences and all participants signed an informed consent. A standard questionnaire including information about their age, age at menarche, reproductive history, and family history of hirsutism, oligomenorrhea, and infertility was completed for each subject. All participants underwent clinical examinations where body weight, height, and hirsutism score were assessed by trained staff. Height and weight were measured using standard apparatus with subjects in light clothes and without shoes. Weight was measured to the nearest 0.1 kg on a calibrated Beam scale. Height was measured to the nearest 0.5 cm with a measuring tape. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2). The blood samples were collected between the third and sixth day of their spontaneous or progesterone-induced menstrual cycles. Normal weight and obesity were defined as BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2 and BMI ≥ 25.0 kg/m2, respectively. The control group was subcategorized into normal and obese according to their BMI: group A, normal-weight (n = 16); and group B, obese (n = 24) women. Subsequently, the case group was subcategorized: group C, normal-weight (n = 16); and group D, obese women (n = 24). PCOS was defined using the NIH criteria as the presence of anovulation and hyperandrogenism after exclusion of other known related disorders such as hyperprolactinemia, thyroid disorders, and nonclassical adrenal hyperplasia. Anovulation was considered as a history of eight or fewer menstrual cycles per year or a menstrual cycle length shorter than 21 or longer than 40 days. Hyperandrogenism was considered as the presence of hirsutism scores ≥ 8 using modified Ferriman-Gallwey (mFG) and/or free androgen index (FAI), androstenedione (A4), and/or dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) level above the upper 95th percentile of the 40 healthy, nonhirsute, eumenorrheic controls. The FAI was calculated using the following formula: total testosterone (TT; nmol/L) × 100/sex hormone-binding globin (SHBG; nmol/L). Blood samples were obtained from the participants between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM while sitting, after a 12-hour overnight fast. Samples were centrifuged within 30 to 45 minutes of collection and stored at -80℃.
3.1. Laboratory Procedures
Visfatin and resistin were measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method (Human visfatin ELISA and Human Resistin, Cusabio Biotech Co Ltd, China). The lower detectable concentrations of visfatin and resistin were 0.156 ng/mL and 0.078 ng/mL, respectively. The intra-assay coefficients of variation were 6.8 and 7.3 for visfatin and resistin, respectively. DHEA-S, SHBG, and A4 were measured by ELISA (Human DHEA-s, Human SHBG, and Human A4 ELISA kit, Diagnostics Biochem Canada Inc., Ontario, Canada). All ELISA tests were performed using Sunrise ELISA reader (Tecan Co., Salzburg, Austria). The intra-assay and inter-assay coefficients of variation were respectively 5.6% and 6.6% for TT, 2.0% and 5.1% for DHEA-S, 1.2% and 5.7% for SHBG, and 2.2% and 3.5% for A4.
3.2. Statistical Analysis
Continuous variables were tested for normality using the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; resistin, A4, DHEA-S, and FAI did not have normal distribution. The variables were expressed as mean and standard deviation or median and interquartile range. Distributions between groups were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed with Mann-Whitney U test with Bonferroni correction for pairwise comparison for resistin, A4, DHEA-S, and FAI and ANOVA test for visfatin. The categorical variables were compared using the Pearson’s test. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS 15.0 PC package (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05.
Basic characteristics and the mean serum concentration of adipokines among women with PCOS and the controls are shown in Table 1 and 2, respectively. Serum resistin level was higher in women with PCOS (group C, D) in comparison with the controls (group A, B), whereas no significant difference was seen between all groups. Serum visfatin levels was higher in obese women (group B, D) than normal-weight women (group A, C), whereas no significant difference existed between all groups. According to the Pearson test, there were no correlation between resistin and visfatin in the all study groups (Group A, r = - 0.08, p = 0.75; Group B, r = 0.21, p = 0.31; Group C, r = - 0.28, p = 0.28; and Group D, r = - 0.05, p = 0.78). (
Table 1. Characteristics of Study Participants According to Their Body Mass Index and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Statusa,b,c
Age, y 28.3 ± 4.8 34.0 ± 6.5 28.3 ± 5.1 34.2 ± 6.8
BMI, kg/m2 22.4 ± 1.8 29.4 ± 3.5 22.5 ± 1.7 29.3 ± 3.4
Hirsutism scored,e 0.2 ± 0.8 0.3 ± 0.8 9 ± 1.0 9.6 ± 2.1
FAId,e 1.3 (1.4-1.8) 1.4 (1.1-1.5) 3.0 (1.9-4.1) 3.3 (1.9-4.5)
A4d,e, ng/mL 1.5 (1.1-0.8) 1.6 (1.2-2.5) 2.6 (1.6-4.6) 3.4 (2.3-4.7)
DHEA-Sd,e, μg/dL 126.4 (109.7-156.8) 175.1 (154.7-195.5) 182.3 (165.9-201.6) 204.3 (161.3-231.2)
aAbbreviations: BMI, body mass index; DHEA-S, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; A4, androstenedione; and FAI, free androgen index.
bGroup A, non-PCOS with BMI < 25 kg/m2; Group B, non-PCOS with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2; Group C, PCOS with BMI < 25 kg/m2; and Group D, PCOS with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2.
cValues are presented as mean ± SD or median (interquartile range).
dGroup A versus group C, p < 0.05.
eGroup B versus Group D, P < 0.05.
Table 2. The Serum Concentration of Visfatin and Resistin in Study Participants According to Their Body Mass Index and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Statusa,b
Visfatin, ng/mL 3.15 ± 1.06 (0.73-4.95) 3.49 ± 1.49 (0.63-6.16) 3.16 ± 0.93 (1.53-4.67) 3.46 ± 1.24 (1.73-6.66) 0.74c
Resistin, ng/mL 1.58 ± 2.57 (0.08-9.98) 1.91 ± 2.35 (0.21-10.03) 2.36 ± 3.29 (0.34-12.36) 2.10 ± 2.88 (0.08-11.65) 0.48d
aGroup A, non-PCOS with BMI < 25 kg/m2; Group B, non-PCOS with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2; Group C, PCOS with BMI < 25 kg/m2; and Group D, PCOS with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 (abbreviations: PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome; and BMI, body mass index).
bValues are presented as mean ± SD (interquartile range).
cInsignificant between all groups; comparison was made using ANOVA analysis.
dInsignificant between all groups; comparison was made using Kruskal-Wallis test.
The results of our study showed that although resistin and visfatin serum levels were higher in women with PCOS in comparison to controls, the differences were insignificant. This finding was consistent with several other studies (33-38). Seow et al. did not find any significant difference in either serum or follicular fluid resistin level between the PCOS and the control groups (37). In contrary to our study, Escobar-Morreale et al. showed that serum resistin levels were increased in overweight and obese women in comparison with normal-weight subjects, irrespective of having PCOS (33). Although it was reported that resistin mRNA levels were two-fold higher in adipocytes from patients with PCOS than in those from normal controls (37), adipocyte-produced resistin does not seem to play a key role in the body as adipocytes are not the major source of circulating resistin. Adipocyte resistin mRNA expression was reported to be significantly decreased after laparoscopic ovarian electrocautery in both obese and normal-weight women with PCOS (36). Moreover, no significant difference was observed in plasma resistin levels of patients with PCOS with regard to presence or absence of IR (38). On the other hand, Munir et al. found a 40% increase in mean serum resistin level in patients with PCOS and a positive correlation with BMI and testosterone level (32). In addition, resistin was observed to synergize with insulin to augment ovarian androgen production through enhancing 17-∝-hydroxylase mRNA expression and activity in ovarian theca cells. In a study on resistin promoter, no strong evidence was found for association of variation in resistin gene promoter with the phenotypes of PCOS (39). In contrary, the association of resistin gene polymorphism with BMI in women with PCOS suggests that resistin might be related to adiposity in PCOS (40). In addition, in a randomized placebo-controlled study, treatment with the insulin sensitizer, rosiglitazone, significantly reduced serum resistin levels in overweight women with PCOS, which implies that resistin contributes to insulin sensitivity improvement during treatment (41). It had been previously reported that the gene expression and circulating levels of visfatin were increased in women with PCOS in comparison with age-matched and BMI-matched controls (21-28); however, similar to our findings, several recently published studies did not find any difference in serum levels of visfatin between patients with PCOS and the control group (29-31). Guducu et al. reported that Serum visfatin levels were similar in patients with PCOS and controls. Visfatin levels were higher in normal-weight women with PCOS when compared with obese ones, but it did not reach statistical significance (29). Although the results of present study with age-BMI-matched case and control groups showed the higher serum visfatin level in obese than the normal-weight women irrespective of the presence of PCOS, no significant difference was observed in Visfatin levels between four subgroups.
It is interesting to know that visfatin levels in women with PCOS were significantly reduced after a three-month treatment with metformin and visfatin could differentiate between women with or without increased diabetogenic risk at a cutoff value of 19.24 ng/mL (25). In addition, such a treatment resulted in a significant decrease in BMI, homeostasis model assessment of IR, fasting insulin, and free testosterone, which suggests the possible involvement of visfatin in the pathophysiology of PCOS and its related complications. The results of our study showed that although resistin and visfatin serum levels were higher in patients with PCOS in comparison with controls, the difference was not statistically significant. It seems that while the expression of visfatin and resistin may be upregulated in women with PCOS, it is not translated at serum level. Thus Circulating serum visfatin and resistin levels may not reflect the events occurring at the adipocyte tissue levels. Further works are necessary to improve our understanding about the role of these two adipokines in reproductive functions that may act as a link between obesity and PCOS as well as their probable role in inflammatory process.
The authors thank Endocrinology and Metabolism Department of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: The polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as the most common endocrinopathy among women of reproductive age that is linked to obesity. Studies have shown the increased plasma levels of with obesity. This article investigated the association between PCOS with resistin and visfatin.
Authors Contributions: Study concept and design, acquisition of data, statistical analysis, and interpretation of data: Fatemeh Farshchian and Fahimeh Ramezani Tahrani. Drafting of the manuscript: Fatemeh Farshchian. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: HoomanRahimi Pour, Fahimeh Ramezani Tahrani, Mehdi Hedayati, and Faranak Kazerouni. Administrative, technical, and material support: Fatemeh Farshchian, Mehdi Hedayati, Adeleh Soltani, and Fahimeh Ramezani Tahrani.
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Estimating the Population of Female Sex Workers in Hamadan, Western Iran, 2014
Manoochehr Karami 1 , Mohammad Mirzaei 2 , Salman Khazaei 3 , * , Seyyed Jalal Bathaei 2
1 Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC), Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran
2 Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Deputy of Health Services, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
* Corresponding author: Salman Khazaei, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite: Karami M, Mirzaei M, Khazaei S, Bathaei S J. Estimating the Population of Female Sex Workers in Hamadan, Western Iran, 2014, Int J High Risk Behav Addict. 2017 ; 6(4):e63195. doi: 10.5812/ijhrba.63195.
International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction: 6 (4); e63195
Published Online: November 11, 2017
Article Type: Brief Report
Revised: June 2, 2016
Accepted: January 8, 2017
DOI : 10.5812/ijhrba.63195
Background: Estimating the population of female sex workers (FSWs) is necessary to monitor HIV epidemic, behavioral risk factors and implement preventive.
Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the population of FSWs in Hamadan, west of Iran.
Patients and Methods: Minimum required data was extracted from 3 registry centers of (a) woman volunteer counseling and Testing Centers (WVCTCs); (b) welfare office drop in Centers (DICw); and (c) health deputy drop in centers (DICh) in Hamadan. The current study estimated the number of FSWs not identified by any of the 3 centers by log-linear model, and hence, the total FSWs population (N). The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) were used as model selection and goodness of fit criteria.
Results: There might be 493 (95% confidence interval (CI): 351 - 693) FSWs not identified by any of the centers. Therefore, the real number of FSWs is expected to be 842 (95%CI: 700 - 1042). These results showed that only 41.4% of FSWs were registered by the 3 sources.
Conclusions: According to the underestimation of FSWs population by registry data sources in Hamadan, it was concluded that the policy makers should provide health care services and preventive activities according to actual size of FSWs population.
Iran Sex Workers Female
Based on the case registry system until 21 September, 2013, the number of identified HIV+ cases in Iran was 27041 people comprised of 89.3% male and 10.7% female (1). Notwithstanding, injecting drug use is the most important cause of HIV infection in Iran (2). There is evidence in the recent years supporting the growing role of sexual route in transmission of HIV infection in Iran. Studies showed that the prevalence of HIV was about 4.5% among female sex workers (FSWs) in Iran (3, 4). It was estimated that there were 80,000 active FSWs in Iran (5) out of which approximately 1100 could be infected with HIV by 2014 (2).
Estimating the size of FSWs and surveillance of HIV infection among FSWs is necessary to monitor HIV epidemic and to provide data needed to plan, evaluate, and implement preventative and care programs targeted at sex workers (6). However, FSWs are a highly marginalized subgroup and their social stigma is a barrier for the use of health care and treatment (7). Accordingly, knowing the population of this group is remained the main challenge.
Census and enumeration are usually considered as gold standard direct methods to estimate the levels of any behavior in a population. However, these methods are inefficient under some conditions such as measuring the prevalence of rare, more covert and stigmatized circumstances, and there are multiple opportunities for bias in such situations (8). Therefore, numbers of indirect methods such as multiplier and capture-recapture methods were developed to estimate the size of hidden populations. The indirect estimation methods were employed to estimate the prevalence of FSWs by analyzing the observed data set, or combining it with other information to estimate the total target population sampled within the observed data set (8, 9).
Due to the lack of accurate estimation of FSWs population in Hamadan, Iran, and feasibility of the capture-recapture technique.
The current study aimed to evaluate the number of FSWs in Hamadan, Western Iran.
The current study was approved by the human subject review board of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and in this study used the capture-recapture indirect method to statistically estimate the number of FSWs not identified by these registries and finally estimating the overall size of this population.
3.1. Study Area
Hamadan is the center of Hamadan province in the West of Iran; it has a population of approximately 473149 people (census data 2006) (10).
Sex work is defined as “provision of sexual services in exchange for money, goods, or other benefits in the last 12 months” (6). Minimum required data was extracted from 3 registry centers of (a) Woman Volunteer Counseling and Testing Centers (WVCTCs); (b) welfare office Drop In Centers (DICw); and (c) health deputy Drop In Centers (DICh) in Hamadan. In this study, 169 FSWs were registered in WVCTCs, 76 in DICw and 164 FSWs were registered in DICh. After removing duplicates finally 349 FSWs entered to the study. WVCTCs provide midwifery services and evaluation of sexually transmitted diseases based on syndrome approach, educational programs and psychological counseling, HIV counseling and testing, male and female condoms, needle and syringe distribution, social services and vocational training for FSWs and injecting drug users (IDUs). DICs provide primary support for these groups such as serving food, underclothes, temporary accommodation, and educational programs. Each FSW may be registered in 1, 2, or all the 3 lists.
3.3. Statistical Methods
Besides, the list of FSWs was extracted and transferred into Microsoft Excel 2010 to find the first name, last name, age, and father’s name listed in more than one database using the sort techniques. To compare and find repeated persons, the existing information of individuals including first name, last name, age, marital status, and location was used. Unfortunately their national code was not available as the best identifying method.
Capture-recapture technique involves collection of 3 or more data sources to identify matches between the data sources. The current study used the 3 sources based on the capture-recapture method to estimate FSWs population using incomplete data sources of FSWs. According to these sources, following persons were registered in 8 subgroups (n = number of sources). It identified 7 groups and 1 group was uncertain (see models 1 to 8 below). According to the three sources, separate estimation was made for each of the eight possible capture-recapture log-linear models (11). Log-linear model incorporates the 3 sources of data and can explore dependence (technically, interactions) between sources and adjust for it by including interaction terms in the models as follows (12):
Model 1: A B C
Model 2: A B C AB
Model 3: A B C AC
Model 4: A B C BC
Model 5: A B C AB AC
Model 6: A B C AB BC
Model 7: A B C AC BC
Model 8: A B C AB AC BC
Dependency among sources was addressed using interaction terms. The basic assumption was that there was no interaction term for the saturated model (Model 8) (12). By accommodating the 3 sources of data, log-linear model can estimate the number of FSWs not identified by any of the 3 centers (X), hence, calculating the total FSWs population (N). The current study used the “Akaike information criterion” (AIC) and “Bayesian information criterion” (BIC) to select the model. The model with the smallest value of AIC or BIC was considered the best model.
3.4. Capture-Recapture Assumptions
Following assumptions should be held in capture-recapture technique: identification of all and only the true common cases, having stable population, that appear on a data source is independent of appearing on others and capture homogeneity (11). To reach these assumptions the study period and the geographic area were the same for all of the sources. To detect the link between the sources, a combination of identifiers was used for enrolled populations. The independence assumption was not crucial and the dependency between the sources can be assessed with interaction term between sources in the analysis stage. For homogeneity assumption, in fact the current study used a homogenous sample in a defined geographic location and also from 1 year.
Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05. All analyses were performed using statistical software Stata version 11 (Stata Corp, USA).
FSWs population was estimated 842 individuals in the study population. Figure 1 shows the status of FSWs in the 3 sources under study using the Venn diagram. Generally, 376 FSWs were registered by the 3 sources. In total, 42.8% were identified by WVCTCs, 41.2% by DICh, and 15.9% by DICw. In addition, only 1.06% of them were identified by all the 3 sources. However, 7.2% of FSWs were shared between WVTCs and DICh. Sharing between WVCTCs and DICw was 3.2%, and between DICw and DICh was 3.5%.
Figure 1. Distribution of FSWs Registered by the Three Centers, and their Overlap
Demographic characteristics of subjects based on the registry source are shown in Table 1. Most FSWs were divorced and aged 30 to 44 years. After exclusion of duplicates between the sources, 349 FSWs remained.
Table 1. Demographic Characteristics of FSWs Registered by the Three Centers
WVCTCs
DICw
DICh
Percentage (%)
Age group (year)
Under 30 72 44.7 23 38.33 56 36.12
30 - 44 74 46 26 43.33 83 53.54
Above 45 15 9.3 11 18.33 16 10.32
Married 56 34.78 15 25 49 31.61
Single 27 16.77 17 28.33 27 17.4
Divorced 67 41.61 20 33.33 63 40.64
Widow 11 6.83 8 13.33 16 10.32
Total 161 100 60 100 155 100
Abbreviations: DICh, health deputy drop in centers; DICw, welfare office drop in centers; WVCTCs, women volunteer counseling and testing centers.
The results of log-linear analysis are shown in Table 2. Based on the smallest value of both AIC and BIC, the first model (ABC) was considered the best-fit model. According to this model, there might be 493 (95% confidence interval (CI): 351 - 693) FSWs not identified by any of the centers. Therefore, the real number of FSWs was expected to be 842 (95%CI: 700 - 1042). These results showed that only 41.4% of FSWs were registered by the 3 sources. Therefore, the estimated prevalence of FSWs was 0.45% among female adult population in Hamadan. In fact completeness rate of WVCTCs, DICh, and DICw were 20%, 18.4% and 7.1%, respectively and total completeness rate was 41.4%.
Table 2. Log-Linear Models Fitted to the Three Lists of FSWs Registered by the Three Centers and Estimated Number of FSWs not Registered by the Centers
X (95% CI)
N (95% CI)
A B C 3 3 0.86 -5.14 -4.98 0.84 493 (351 - 693) 842 (700 - 1042)
A B C AB 4 2 0.80 -1.92 -1.87 0.78 560 (357 - 899) 909 (706 - 1248)
A B C AC 4 2 0.80 -3.20 -3.10 0.67 505 (344 - 744) 854 (693 - 1093)
A B C BC 4 2 0.31 -3.69 -3.58 0.86 527 (360 - 780) 876 (709 - 1129)
A B C AB AC 5 1 0.49 -1.51 -1.46 0.49 434 (232 - 857) 783 (581 - 1206)
A B C AB BC 5 1 0.25 -1.75 -1.69 0.62 494 (261 - 996) 843 (610 - 1345)
A B C AC BC 5 1 0.49 -3.51 -3.40 0.78 442 (272 - 724) 791 (621 - 1073)
A B C AB AC BC 6 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 675 (156-2531) 1024 (505 - 2880)
Abbreviations: A, WVCTCs; AIC, the Akaike information criterion; B, DICw; BIC, the bayesian information criterion; C, DICh; df, degree of freedom; G2, deviance; N, estimates of all FSWs; K, number of parameters; X, unregistered.
The current study provided an estimation of the total number of FSWs in Hamadan in 2014. Results of the current study showed that the completeness rate in each source was very low and only 41.4% of FSWs were registered in 3 data sources.
To make policies on disease control, public health decision-makers need to know the size of target populations. Incidence and prevalence of estimates provide the foundation to design and evaluate health programs (13). Capture-recapture methods are extensively used in the epidemiology to adjust surveys, surveillance systems, and disease registers for under-ascertainment, and therefore, to estimate the precise prevalence (14). FSWs are a major vulnerable population at high risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS and other STDs in Iran. A reliable estimate of their population size is very important to estimate the population with HIV/AIDS infection and implementing appropriate health policies. However, results should be interpreted with caution due to limitations of the model (15).
Due to political restrictions and sociocultural sensitivities, there is a lack of knowledge about the population of HIV-related high risk groups such as FSWs and males who have sex with males (MSMs) in Iran. The registry sources do not give a reliable population of these groups; therefore, indirect methods should be used to estimate the approximate population. FSWs are an epidemiologic “core group” in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially HIV/AIDS. This is partly attributable to low referring of FSWs to get prevention services (16).
National studies indicated that about 20% of Iranian non-injecting FSWs reported having sex with at least one IDU during the past month (17). Results of studies showed that the considerable prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) (estimated as 14% and 80%, respectively) among Iranian IDUs at the end of 2009 can transmit these diseases to FSWs (18).
In a study conducted in China to estimate the size of FSWs by the capture-recapture technique, approximately 0.7% to 1.2% of all females in Kaiyuan were FSWs. Prevalence rates of HIV among them were 10% to 12% and the adjusted herpes simplex virus (HSV)-2 prevalence ranged from 67% to 72% (14). Another study in China estimated the percentage of FSWs in urban adult female population as 3.4% to 3.6% in 2003 (19). FSW prevalence ranged from 0.2% in Vietnam to 2.5% in the Philippines (20, 21).
Odek WO et al., estimated the prevalence of sex workers as 4% in female population of Kenya aged more than 15 years in urban areas (22). The corresponding value in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 2000 to 2003 was estimated 4.3% among adult female population. Some studies reported the prevalence of sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Niamey, Niger, as 2.9% (in 2002) and 2.1% (in 2004), respectively (6). Similar study by using direct capture-recapture method in Iran estimated that the size of FSWs in south of Tehran is 690 (23).
This difference compared to the current study was probably because sex in East of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa is a commercial task. Furthermore, statistics reported by different sources and different methods may be very misleading. In Kenya, the proportion of FSWs visiting clinics ranged from 15% to 34% (19). The results showed that clinic registration is not a reliable source to estimate the population of FSWs. Completeness of the used data sources in the current work i e, 41.4% implied underestimation of the FSWs population by registry centers in the current study setting.
The major limitation of the study was that more data sources were required to hold the assumption of normal distribution within log-linear models; otherwise, estimates may not be reliable, although the current study used all possible data sources in Hamadan to perform the current study. It is suggested to conduct other studies to directly investigate FSWs and factors such as the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HCV infection among them, and also examining risky behaviors such as unprotected sexual behavior and the quality of using harm reduction tools in this group.
5.1. Conclusions
Underestimation of the population of FSWs by registry data sources in Hamadan is evident. Therefore, policy makers should provide health care services and preventive actions according to the actual FSWs population.
Authors would like to thank the vice-chancellor of health services for technical support of the current study and the vice-chancellor of research and technology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, who approved the study.
Conflict of Interest: The authors declared no conflict of interest.
Funding/Support: This study was funded by the vice-chancellor of research and technology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
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Oglethorpe’s tree-fronted home is shown at the right on the northeast edge of Old Palace Yard.
He lived halfway between Heaven and Hell, Georgia founder James Edward Oglethorpe. His front steps on London’s St. Margaret Lane were downwind of the King’s fish yard that occupied a courtyard that opened a few houses to his right. The subsequent air often fogged his parlor and bedrooms with acrid, pungent punctuated smells that mixed with the sounds of morning-barking fishmongers, street merchants, and neighborhood workers. Around them, the clatter of knocking, squeaking wagons and carts rolled along the lane, bouncing over sparsely patched islands of free-stone pavers that dotted the long-furrowed thoroughfare.
At the far end of the market behind the rows of salmon, trout, and eel-laden stalls was the location of Hell, an eatery and watering hole once frequented by poet Ben Johnson and ridiculed by diarist Sir William Pepys. The main entrance lured its customers down a stairway from the interior of Westminster Hall the way hookers call salesmen from an Amsterdam window — liquor lubricates opposition tongues. It was known for being a “petty-tavern,” a gathering spot frequented by parliament’s lowly law clerks who boozed in a basement hollow that once housed the Kings’ torture chamber, thus warranting the Hadean label.
The Old and New Palace yards with Oglethorpe’s home marked with the red dot.
According to Pepys, the tavern was a “resort of disreputable characters and the most raffish of lawyers’ clerks.” South, across the street to left of Oglethorpe’s house was Heaven, a more, but little more, up-scale tavern in a line of ramshackle brick and Tudor buildings running from west to east. They blocked his view of the greater part of the Old Palace Yard like listing and leaning hung-over sailors lined across a deck of an outbound schooner.
From there a few feet to the left and diagonally across the lane was another tavern, the Naked Boy and Star, which held the ground beside Westminster Abbey. It served a slightly-more upscale clientele, Members of Parliament, poets, businessmen, lobbyists, and the occasional well-known Londoner. Other Taverns in the area carried the trend with the names, Purgatory and Paradise. A few doors away from the Star, at the corner of the Abbey, Geoffrey Chaucer had once lived in an upstairs flat near “The Poet’s Corner” where he was later interred.
Stepping from his portico, Oglethorpe’s route was “incommodious” as writer Henry Miles penned, noting that the lane in front of his home had “a paling of four feet high… placed between its single footpath and the carriageway, to protect the passenger from the carriages and the mud which they splashed on all sides in abundance.” The wealthy in London, like everyone else, existed in a world of noise, foul smells, dust, mud, filth, and strewn garbage. James held that rank in society — wealthy.
– Excerpt from an upcoming book by JD Byous
William Maitland et al, The History and Survey of London From Its Foundation to the Present Time: in Two Volumes, Book II, 1756, p 793: Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, M.A., Memorials of Westminster the City, Royal Palaces, Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, St. Peters’s College, the Parish Churches, Worthies, Streets, Modern Buildings, and Ancient Institutions, 1851, p 221.
Henry Downes Miles, The Life of Richard Palmer: Better Known as Dick Turpin…, London, p 79, 1839.
John Thomas Smith, Antiquities of the City of Westminster, London, 1807 p 68; Henry Downes Miles, The Life of Richard Palmer Better Known as Dick Turpin the Notorious Highwayman and Robber, 1839 p 79.
Henry Miles, The Life of Richard Palmer, London, p 78, 1839.
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It came in the form of testimony against Sessions by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), a man who sacrificed much (and never stops reminding us of it) during his years as a civil-rights crusader, and the nauseatingly ambitious Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), whose performance must be seen to be truly appreciated for its overacting and cynicism.
Lewis’s concluding paragraph makes the only thing close to a point that he had:
It doesn’t matter whether Sen. Sessions may smile or how friendly he may be, whether he may speak to you. We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn’t matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian or Jews We all live in the same house, the American house. We need someone as attorney general who is going to look out for all of us, not just some of us.
Notice that Lewis doesn’t say that Jeff Sessions wouldn’t stand up for any American’s individual rights regardless of color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. He simply implies it, offering no evidence while leaving us to conclude that a pleasant smile and a friendly demeanor are the signs of a man who desperately wants to curb-stomp a gay Negro.
OK, let me be absolutely fair to Lewis. The reason he opposes Sessions is that when it comes to civil rights, particularly recent celebrations of the tremendous progress made by blacks in this country over the past two generations culminating in the election of our first black president, Lewis actually has some personal experience with the AG nominee.
I mean, what self-respecting civil rights “leader” like John Lewis wouldn’t go to a Senate hearing room to trash the man who… hey, wait a second!… the man who less than two years ago stood side by side with you and held your hand in commemoration of your and others’ courage at the Edmund Pettis bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965? That’s a serious demonstration of character, Mr. Lewis. Just what kind of character, I’m sure others will judge.
And then there’s Cory Booker, whose cynical decision to be the first-ever senator to testify against a colleague seeking confirmation to a Cabinet position was transparently aimed at boosting his name recognition as he measures the drapes for the White House. As my Spectator colleague Scott McKay put it, Booker is the Democrats’ “preener-in-chief” whose performance (which you truly must watch to believe) should disqualify him from holding any office, much less higher office. As a consolation, it might qualify him to join this auspicious collection of cultural icons.
Booker was more aggressive than Lewis in accusing Jeff Sessions of being unwilling to protect the rights of Americans, at least Americans of every group other than straight white men, before closing his condemnation of Sessions with this:
If one is to be Attorney General they must be willing to continue the hallowed tradition in our country of fighting for justice for all, for equal justice, and for civil rights. America needs an Attorney General who is resolute and determined to bend the arc. Senator Sessions’ record does not speak to that desire, intention, or will.
This is a bunch of bovine digestive refuse.
We understand the controversy surrounding Sessions’s failed nomination for a federal judgeship in the 1990s. We also understand what it is to be “Borked” and (whatever you want to call the travesty visited upon Clarence Thomas during his confirmation) thanks to Ted Kennedy’s and Joe Biden’s willingness to destroy reputations on the basis of rumor.
Sessions’s record is not one of lack of desire or intention to fight for equal justice; rather it is one of refusing to let liberals’ claims of good intentions cause him to support unequal justice, which is not truly justice at all.
So while Booker’s arguments appear to be fairly specifically aimed at Sessions, have no doubt that he would have been in that same chair, saying the same things about any conservative, white man nominated to the nation’s highest law enforcement position. Not as much because he believes what he’s saying as because he hopes you’ll believe he does, as punctuated by the pathetic head-tilting, eyes-clenching, fist-making, worse-than-eighth-grade acting.
(A quick note to Cory Booker: The country just suffered for eight years under a slightly cool but woefully inexperienced senator-turned-president who was noticed because of his rhetoric and elected only because of his skin color. You may think Barack Obama paved your way to the White House; in fact he littered it with road spikes.)
I’m not a Republican, and I’m not a conservative, but on my radio show lately I find myself having to remind listeners daily that approximately 100 percent of Republicans are not Nazis, not Klansmen, not haters, and not racists. Not Trump, not Sessions, not Conway, not Bannon, not any of them. At least there’s no evidence of it. And if you’re going to state or imply such a harmful charge, you damn well better have evidence.
So if Barack Obama or John Lewis or Cory Booker or Hillary “Who?” Clinton are going to imply that any of those people, or any other Republicans, or you, or I are racists — the only card they have left to play in a country that has witnessed so many years of the failure of “progressive” policies — we, and especially you Republicans, must push back.
Obama, I dare you to call Trump a racist to his face. Lewis, I dare you to look Jeff Sessions in the eye and say he thinks black people are less anything than he is. Republican voters everywhere, don’t be passive in pushing back against this race libel, because it represents a vicious assault on your character and on the character of our nation. And Democrats, if you have a decent bone in your body, you’ll stand up for the good people — your friends and neighbors — whose characters are attacked daily by politicians for no reason other than to get your vote by training you to hate your fellow man.
It all reminds me of July 1, 1987 when President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for an opening on the Supreme Court. He had it made in the shade, said my complacent conservative friends. The result was brutal. But we do not have to look back 32 years to see how unruly the leftwing mob can be. Recall the recent fate of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Only his courage and unscotchable determinate saved him. The simple fact is that the conservatives are often slow on the draw against the American left. Only the Wall Street Journal and the intrepid New York Sun have come out swinging for Moore. It is time for the conservatives to rally around him. He can probably win with the President on his side. He apparently has the votes. Yet the coming battle would be a lot less bloody if the conservative movement were to take the field on Moore’s behalf — and make it clear that from now on they are going to wage war for the President’s nominees. Print
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SNL Transcripts: Saturday Night Live in the ’80s: Lost and Found: 11/13/05
Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Special: Saturday Night Live in the ’80s: Lost and Found
Saturday Night Live in the ’80s: Lost and Found
…..Dick Ebersol
…..Bob Tischler
…..Julia Louis-Dreyfus
…..Tim Kazurinsky
…..Gary Kroeger
…..Robin Duke
…..Andrew Smith
…..Margaret Oberman
…..Andy Breckman
…..Joe Piscopo
…..Jim Belushi
[ cut to Dick Ebersol ]
Dick Ebersol: Bob Tischler and I went to Chicago later that year.
[ cut to Bob Tischler ]
Bob Tischler: “Second City” was tired of having their cast taken away. So they suggested that we go around the corner to another theater.
Tim Kazurinsky V/O: The Practical Theater Company.
Bob Tischler V/O: Dick just hired the whole group.
[ cut to Julia Louis-Dreyfus ]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: It was mind-blowing. Because I was a Junior in college.
[ cut to Tim Kazurinsky ]
Tim Kazurinsky: You know, they came in all shiny and clean and spanking new, and thinking that it’s going to be like Communism. And it’s not. It’s not even Socialism. It’s — it’s Capitalism.
[ cut to Gary Kroeger ]
Gary Kroeger: I don’t think I had hair under my arms, honestly. I was so immature.
[ cut to cast and Louis Gossett, Jr. in “Louis Gossett, Jr.’s Monologue”, 10/02/82 ]
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Dreyfus!
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Sir!
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Duke!
Robin Duke: Sir!
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Kroeger!
Gary Kroeger: Sir!
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Pratfall!
[ Kroeger drops flat to the floor, then jumps back on his feet ]
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Hall!
Brad Hall: Sir!
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Set up!
Brad Hall: Doctor, doctor! My wife just swallowed a whole bottle of aspirin! What’ll I do, Sir?
Gary Kroeger: [ nervous, sweating ] Uh — she threw up, Sir?
Louis Gossett, Jr.: No! Gross!
Mary Gross: Sir!
Louis Gossett, Jr.: Punchline!
Mary Gross: Wake her up and give her a headache, Sir!
Gary Kroeger: [ chuckles audibly, to Gossett, Jr.’s chagrin ] That’s very funny, Sir.
Julia Louis Dreyfus: I’ll tell you how we got introduced. Badly.
[ cut to Robin Duke ]
Robin Duke: Oh, those poor kids.
[ cut to Andrew Smith ]
Andrew Smith: Dick says, “I found the answer to our troubles and here they are, these college kids.” And he made them perform for all the staff their first day in town.
Robin Duke: It was kinda like — I always referred to it as “The Monkey Hour.”
Julia Louis Dreyfus: There was a lot of this, you know.
Gary Kroeger: It was us against everybody.
[ cut to Gary Kroeger and Brad Hall in “Larry’s Corner”, 11/19/83 ]
Larry Rowlands: Good evening, I’m Larry Rowlands. And welcome to “Larry’s Corner.” Tonight, I’m very pleased to have as my guest, Mr. Dale Butterworth, the luckiest man on Earth. Now, tell me Mr. Butterworth —
Offscreen Voice: Look out!
Larry Rowlands: [ looking around ] What?
Dale Butterworth: [ looks up to the ceiling, panics ] Oh, my God!!
[ suddenly, a safe lands on Dale Butterworth’s head and knocks him to the floor, as Larry surveys the scene with a confused look on his face ]
Margaret Oberman V/O: It’s kind of like at school when the new kids come in. You’re not sure if you like ’em, or you don’t like ’em.
Julia Louis Dreyfus V/O: And by the way, people had been fired, I believe, from the show prior to our coming.
[ cut to Secretary (Christine Ebersole) and aide (Brian Doyle-Murray) leaning toward an unseen President Reagan’s (Joe Piscopo) desk sometime during the 1981 season ]
Secretary: Oh, not again!
President Ronald Reagan: I’m sorry.
Sercretary: Forget it.
Julia Louis Dreyfus: So, we were met with some, I should say, animosity.
[ cut to Julia Louis-Dreyfus approaching Mary Gross in the dressing room in “Cat Fight”, 05/05/84 ]
Julia Louis Dreyfus: So, Mary — I see you’ve been sucking up to the host again, huh?
Mary Gross: [ looking away from Julia ] What’s that terrible smell? It’s like rotting meat. Somebody must have left an old baloney sandwich in a locker. [ looks up, pretends to notice Julia for the first time since she’s walked in ] Oh, hello, Julia. [ Julia makes a face ] [ cut to Julia Louis-Dreyfus ]
Julia Louis Dreyfus: The work that we were doing with practical theater, it was very ensemble. And it was “all for one,” kind of thing. And that really doesn’t apply. That idea didn’t apply at “SNL.”
Gary Kroeger: You know, for me to get in the show, I’d have to write my own stuff. Or I’d have to sit on a writer’s couch until I was so annoying that the only way to get me out was to write something for me.
[ cut to Gary Kroeger entering dressing room and sitting by Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “How To Prove It’s Live”, 02/05/83 ]
Gary Kroeger: You mean, they cut the “Frontier Gynecologist” sketch? Great.
Julia Louis Dreyfus: I didn’t know how to get writers to write for me. I didn’t know you had to get writers to write for you. That took me some time to figure out.
[ cut to opening of “The Julia Show”, 02/18/84 ]
Announcer: And now, it’s time for “The Julia Show,” with your host, Julia!
Julia Louis Dreyfus: Hi! Thank you! I’m Julia, and welcome to my show, “The Julia Show.” Okay, so, let’s talk about me. Eddie? Why don’t you start?
[ cut to Julia Louis Dreyfus ]
Julia Louis Dreyfus: The way to get ahead on that show was to just really think about yourself only, and to only look out for number one. Like “Survivor.”
[ cut back to “The Julia Show”, 02/18/84 ]
Julia Louis Dreyfus: [ stands ] Do you think my hips are getting wide? I don’t. Nobody does! They’re not.
Tim Kazurinsky: There’s no telling, there’s no rhyme or reason why it works with some people. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people go “Elaine was on the show?”
[ cut to “Saturday Night News with Brad Hall”, 11/19/83 ]
Brad Hall: And now, here with an editorial comment, is correspondent Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Julia?
Julia Louis Dreyfus: Thanks, Brad. Boy, am I mad at the way things are run around here. In dress rehearsal, this speech was four and a half minutes long. Back to you, Brad.
Brad Hall: Thank you, Julia.
[ cut to Margaret Oberman ]
Margaret Oberman: It’s the same for writers. There were writers on that show who were failures and then went on to be phenomenal successes in other areas.
[ cut to Andy Breckman ]
Andy Breckman: It’s so funny, the guy that only got one piece on, that year, at “Saturday Night Live” had became the gold standard for comedy writing.
Julia Louis Dreyfus: I just love to think of Larry there. Larry was so unhappy. And that’s why I liked him, because we were kind of both unbelievably pissed-off together. You know, little did I know.
[ cut to Johnny Cash’s performance of “Folsom Prison Blues”, 04/17/82 ]
Johnny Cash: [ singing ]“I hear the train a-comin’, it’s rollin’ around the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on
But that train keeps a-rollin’ on down to San Antone.”
Margaret Oberman: He doesn’t get enough credit. He hired some really good people. And he sort of allowed you to be whoever you were. There were a lot of eccentrics there. How many staffs have somebody like Joe Piscopo working with Terry Southern? You know what I mean? What a combination.
Tim Kazurinsky: Terry Southern ran the most wonderful wet bar out of his office, usually had incredible cocaine. But the sketches that he wrote were [ rolls his fingers next to his head ] “Woo-woo!”
Margaret Oberman: Over and over again, he’d pitched some sort of a commercial thing that he wanted to do: Lillian Hellman’s mayonnaise. That was his idea of, like, “That’s going to work.”
[ cut to Joe Piscopo ]
Joe Piscopo: I don’t know, but it was important to have those guys around. It was smart to have those guys around. Because, for a rookie like myself, coming up, it was great to have a guy like Terry Southern around. To have Herb Sargent around. Not to mention — you see Danny Aykroyd. Then John Belushi started hanging around. Then it was like, “Ooh. Maybe we’re doing something here.”
[ cut to Jim Belushi ]
Jim Belushi: I mean, we all wanted to be like John and Danny and Gilda and Billy. All of us. It just so happened, one of them was my brother.
Tim Kazurinsky: For any of us to go into “Saturday Night Live,” following those first five years — but to go into “Saturday Night Live,” with the name “Belushi,” and having to follow John? Excuse me.
[ cut to Jim Belushi as Donald Ramp in “Profiles in Sports” film, 11/10/84 ]
Announcer: For over half a century, dozens of world grand masters have come out of America’s high school chess clubs. Most of the credit for that belongs to the unsung hero of chess – the high school chess coach.
[ show Chess Coach Donald Ramp yelling at his players during a match ]
Donald Ramp: Pawn to Rook 4! Pawn to Rook 4! Nooooooo!!
Jim Belushi: Some people resent that I wasn’t as good as John. You know? Seriously. And, my answer to that is, who is?
[ cut to James Taylor’s performance of “Lonesome Road”, 01/23/88 ]
James Taylor: [ singing ]“If I had stopped to listen once or twice
If I had closed my mouth and opened my eyes
If I had cooled my head and warmed my heart
I’d not be on this road tonight.”
Joe Piscopo: When Eddie left, I really didn’t wanna be around anymore.
Tim Kazurinsky: With Eddie going, that was it. I mean, I think they just had to put the show up on blocks, and re-invent it. So, some heads had to roll.
Dick Ebersol: So I said to Brandon Tartikoff, as the season wound down in May of ’84, that I would really like to blow up the show.
[ cut to Billy Crystal assuming hosting duties for the monologue of the tenth season premiere, 10/06/84 ]
Billy Crystal: I want to welcome you to the tenth season of “Saturday Night Live.”
Jim Belushi: Ebersol basically pulled a Steinbrenner. He went out and bought the best comic talent out there.
[ commercial break ]
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Exception vs empty result set when the inputs are technically valid, but unsatisfiable
I'm developing a library intended for public release. It contains various methods for operating on sets of objects - generating, inspecting, partitioning and projecting the sets into new forms. In case it's relevant, it's a C# class library containing LINQ-style extensions on IEnumerable, to be released as a NuGet package.
Some of the methods in this library can be given unsatisfiable input parameters. For example, in the combinatoric methods, there is a method to generate all sets of n items that can be constructed from a source set of m items. For example, given the set:
and asking for combinations of 2 would produce:
Now, it's obviously possible to ask for something that can't be done, like giving it a set of 3 items and then asking for combinations of 4 items while setting the option that says it can only use each item once.
In this scenario, each parameter is individually valid:
The source collection is not null, and does contain items
The requested size of combinations is a positive nonzero integer
The requested mode (use each item only once) is a valid choice
However, the state of the parameters when taken together causes problems.
In this scenario, would you expect the method to throw an exception (eg. InvalidOperationException), or return an empty collection? Either seems valid to me:
You can't produce combinations of n items from a set of m items where n > m if you're only allowed to use each item once, so this operation can be deemed impossible, hence InvalidOperationException.
The set of combinations of size n that can be produced from m items when n > m is an empty set; no combinations can be produced.
The argument for an empty set
My first concern is that an exception prevents idiomatic LINQ-style chaining of methods when you're dealing with datasets that may have unknown size. In other words, you might want to do something like this:
var result = someInputSet
.CombinationsOf(4, CombinationsGenerationMode.Distinct)
.Select(combo => /* do some operation to a combination */)
.ToList();
If your input set is of variable size, this code's behaviour is unpredictable. If .CombinationsOf() throws an exception when someInputSet has fewer than 4 elements, then this code will sometimes fail at runtime without some pre-checking. In the above example this checking is trivial, but if you're calling it halfway down a longer chain of LINQ then this might get tedious. If it returns an empty set, then result will be empty, which you may be perfectly happy with.
The argument for an exception
My second concern is that returning an empty set might hide problems - if you're calling this method halfway down a chain of LINQ and it quietly returns an empty set, then you may run into issues some steps later, or find yourself with an empty result set, and it may not be obvious how that happened given that you definitely had something in the input set.
What would you expect, and what's your argument for it?
exceptions libraries patterns-and-practices
ErikE
anaximanderanaximander
Since the empty set is mathematically correct, chances are that when you get it it actually is what you want. Mathematical definitions and conventions are generally chosen for consistency and convenience so that things just work out with them. – asmeurer Nov 30 '16 at 17:00
@asmeurer They're chosen so that theorems are consistent and convenient. They're not chosen to make programming easier. (That is sometimes a side benefit, but sometimes they make programming harder, too.) – jpmc26 Nov 30 '16 at 17:16
@jpmc26 "They're chosen so that theorems are consistent and convenient" - making sure that your program always works as expected is essentially equivalent to proving a theorem. – artem Nov 30 '16 at 20:58
@jpmc26 I don't get why you mentioned functional programming. Proving correctness for imperative programs is quite possible, always advantageous, and can be done informally as well - just think a little bit and use common mathematical sense when you write your program, and you will spend less time testing. Statistically proven on sample of one ;-) – artem Nov 30 '16 at 22:22
@DmitryGrigoryev 1/0 as undefined is much more mathematically correct than 1/0 as infinity. – asmeurer Dec 1 '16 at 17:16
Return an Empty Set
I would expect an empty set because:
There are 0 combinations of 4 numbers from the set of 3 when i can only use each number once
EwanEwan
Mathematically, yes, but it's also very likely a source of error. If this type of input is expected, it might be better to require that the user catch the exception in a general purpose library. – Casey Kuball Nov 30 '16 at 16:24
I disagree that it's a "very likely" cause of error. Suppose, for example, you were implementing a naive "matchmaknig" algorithm from a largish input set. You might ask for all combinations of two items, find the single "best" match among them, and then remove both elements and start over with the new, smaller set. Eventually your set will be empty, and there will be no pairs left to consider: an exception at this point is obstructive. I think there are a lot of ways to end up in a similar situation. – amalloy Nov 30 '16 at 17:09
Actually you do not know if this is an error in the eyes of the user. The empty set is something the user should check for, if necessary. if(result.Any()) DoSomething(result.First()); else DoSomethingElse(); is much better than try{result.first().dosomething();}catch{DoSomethingElse();} – Guran Dec 1 '16 at 9:25
@TripeHound That's what tipped the decision in the end: requiring the developer using this method to check, and then throw, has a much smaller impact than throwing an exception that they don't want, in terms of development effort, program performance, and simplicity of program flow. – anaximander Dec 1 '16 at 14:12
@Darthfett Try comparing this to an existing LINQ extension method: Where(). If I have a clause: Where(x => 1 == 2) I don't get an exception, I get an empty set. – Necoras Dec 1 '16 at 18:25
When in doubt, ask someone else.
Your example function has a very similar one in Python: itertools.combinations. Let's see how it works:
>>> import itertools
>>> input = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> list(itertools.combinations(input, 2))
[(1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (1, 5), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (3, 4), (3, 5), (4, 5)]
[(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)]
And it feels perfectly fine to me. I was expecting a result that I could iterate over and I got one.
But, obviously, if you were to ask something stupid:
>>> list(itertools.combinations(input, -1))
ValueError: r must be non-negative
So I'd say, if all your parameters validate but the result is an empty set return an empty set, you’re not the only one doing it.
As said by @Bakuriu in the comments, this is also the same for an SQL query like SELECT <columns> FROM <table> WHERE <conditions>. As long as <columns>, <table>, <conditions> are well formed formed and refer to existing names, you can build a set of conditions that exclude each other. The resulting query would just yield no rows instead of throwing an InvalidConditionsError.
301_Moved_Permanently301_Moved_Permanently
Downvoted because it's not idiomatic in the C#/Linq language space (see sbecker's answer for how similar out of bounds problems are handled in the language). If this were a Python question it'd be a +1 from me though. – James Snell Nov 30 '16 at 14:15
@JamesSnell I barely see how it relates to the out-of-bounds problem. We’re not picking elements by indexes to reorder them, we’re picking n elements in a collection to count the number of way we can pick them. If at some point there is no elements left while picking them, then there is no (0) way of picking n elements from said collection. – 301_Moved_Permanently Nov 30 '16 at 14:27
Still, Python is not a good oracle for C# questions: for example C# would allow 1.0 / 0, Python wouldn't. – Dmitry Grigoryev Dec 1 '16 at 11:02
@MathiasEttinger Python's guidelines for how and when to use exceptions are very different to C#'s, so using behaviour from Python modules as a guideline is not a good metric for C#. – Ant P Dec 1 '16 at 13:26
Instead of picking Python we could just pick SQL. Does a well-formed SELECT query over a table produce an exception when the result set is empty? (spoiler: no!). The "well-formedness" of a query depends only on the query itself and some metadata (e.g. does the table exists and have this field (with this type)?) Once the query is well-formed and you execute it you expect either a (possibly empty) valid result or an exception because the "server" had a problem (e.g. db server went down or something). – Bakuriu Dec 5 '16 at 8:56
In layman's terms:
If there is an error, you should raise an exception. That may involve doing things in steps instead of in a single chained call in order to know exactly where the error happened.
If there is no error but the resulting set is empty, don't raise an exception, return the empty set. An empty set is a valid set.
Tulains CórdovaTulains Córdova
+1, 0 is a perfectly valid, and indeed extremely important number. There are so many cases where a query might legitimately return zero hits that raising an exception would be highly annoying. – Kilian Foth Nov 30 '16 at 13:07
good advice, but is your answer clear? – Ewan Nov 30 '16 at 13:51
I'm still none the wiser as to if this answer suggests the OP should throw or return an empty set... – James Snell Nov 30 '16 at 14:19
Your answer says I could do either, depending on whether there is an error, but you don't mention whether you would consider the example scenario to be an error. In the comment above you say I should return an empty set "if there are no problems", but again, unsatisfiable conditions could be considered a problem, and you go on to say that I am not raising exceptions when I should. So which should I do? – anaximander Nov 30 '16 at 14:21
Ah, I see - you may have misunderstood; I'm not chaining anything, I'm writing a method that I expect to be used in a chain. I'm wondering whether the hypothetical future developer who uses this method would want it to throw in the above scenario. – anaximander Nov 30 '16 at 16:03
I agree with Ewan's answer but want to add a specific reasoning.
You are dealing with mathematical operations, so it might be a good advice to stick with the same mathematical definitions. From a mathematical standpoint the number of r-sets of an n-set (i.e. nCr) is well defined for all r > n >= 0. It is zero. Therefore returning an empty set would be the expected case from a mathematical standpoint.
sigysigy
This is a good point. If the library were higher level, like picking combinations of colors to make a palette -- then it makes sense to throw an error. Because you know a palette with no colors isn't a palette. But a set with no entries is still a set and the math does define it as equaling an empty set. – Captain Man Dec 1 '16 at 16:23
Much better than Ewans answer cause it cites mathematical practice. +1 – user949300 Dec 3 '16 at 4:35
I find a good way of determining whether to use an exception, is to imagine people being involved in the transaction.
Taking fetching the contents of a file as an example:
Please fetch me the contents of file, "doesn't exist.txt"
a. "Here's the contents: an empty collection of characters"
b. "Erm, there's a problem, that file doesn't exist. I don't know what to do!"
Please fetch me the contents of file, "exists but is empty.txt"
b. "Erm, there's a problem, there's nothing in this file. I don't know what to do!"
No doubt some will disagree, but to most folk, "Erm, there's a problem" makes sense when the file doesn't exist and returning "an empty collection of characters" when the file is empty.
So applying the same approach to your example:
Please give me all all combinations of 4 items for {1, 2, 3}
a. There aren't any, here's an empty set.
b. There's a problem, I don't know what to do.
Again, "There's a problem" would make sense if eg null were offered as the set of items, but "here's an empty set" seems a sensible response to the above request.
If returning an empty value masks a problem (eg a missing file, a null), then an exception generally should be used instead (unless your chosen language supports option/maybe types, then they sometimes make more sense). Otherwise, returning an empty value will likely simplify the cost and complies better with the principle of least astonishment.
David ArnoDavid Arno
This advice is good, but does not apply to this case. A better example: How many days after the 30:th of january?: 1 How many days after the 30:th of february?: 0 How many days after the 30:th of madeupuary?: Exception How many working hours on the 30:th of february: Exception – Guran Dec 1 '16 at 9:35
As it's for a general purpose library my instinct would be Let the end user choose.
Much like we have Parse() and TryParse() available to us we can have the option of which we use depending on what output we need from the function. You'd spend less time writing and maintaining a function wrapper to throw the exception than arguing over choosing a single version of the function.
James SnellJames Snell
+1 because I always like the idea of choice and because this pattern has a tendency to encourage programmers to validate their own input. The mere existence of a TryFoo function makes it obvious that certain input combinations can cause problems and if the documentation explains what those potential problems are, the coder can check for them and handle invalid inputs in a cleaner fashion than they could by just catching an exception or responding to an empty set. Or they can be lazy. Either way, the decision is theirs. – aleppke Nov 30 '16 at 15:45
No, an empty set is the mathematically correct answer. Doing something else is redefining firmly agreed-upon mathematics, which shouldn't be done on a whim. While we're at it, shall we redefine the exponentiation function to throw an error if the exponent is equal to zero, because we decide we don't like the convention that any number raised to the "zeroth" power is equal to 1? – Wildcard Nov 30 '16 at 17:51
I was about to answer something similar. The Linq extension methods Single() and SingleOrDefault() immediately sprung to mind. Single throws an exception if there is zero or > 1 result, while SingleOrDefault won't throw, and instead returns default(T). Perhaps OP could use CombinationsOf() and CombinationsOfOrThrow(). – RubberDuck Dec 1 '16 at 10:59
@Wildcard - you're talking about two different results to the same input which is not the same thing. The OP is only interested in choosing a) the result or b) throwing an exception which is not a result. – James Snell Dec 1 '16 at 23:08
Single and SingleOrDefault (or Firstand FirstOrDefault) are a completely different story, @RubberDuck. Picking up my example from my previous comment. It's perfectly fine to anser none to the query "What even primes greater than two exist?", since this is a mathematically sound and sensible answer. Anyway, if you are asking "What is the first even prime greater than two?" there is no natural answer. You just cannot answer the question, because you are asking for a single number. It's not none (it's not a single number, but a set), not 0. Hence we throw an exception. – Paul Kertscher Dec 2 '16 at 11:58
You need to validate the arguments provided when your function is called. And as a matter of fact, you want to know how to handle invalid arguments. The fact that multiple arguments depend on each other, doesn't make up for the fact that you validate the arguments.
Thus I would vote for the ArgumentException providing the necessary information for the user to understand what went wrong.
As an example, check the public static TSource ElementAt<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource>, Int32) function in Linq. Which throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException if the index is less than 0 or greater than or equal to the number of elements in source. Thus the index is validated in regards to the enumerable provided by the caller.
sbeckersbecker
+1 for citing an example of a similar situation in the language. – James Snell Nov 30 '16 at 14:21
Oddly, your example got me thinking, and led me to something that I think makes a strong counter-example. As I noted, this method is designed to be LINQ-like, so that users can chain it together with other LINQ methods. If you do new[] { 1, 2, 3 }.Skip(4).ToList(); you get an empty set, which makes me think that returning an empty set is perhaps the better option here. – anaximander Nov 30 '16 at 14:30
This is not a language semantics issue, the semantics of the problem domain already provides the correct answer, that is to return the empty set. Doing anything else violates the principle of least astonishment for someone working in the combinatoric problem domain. – Ukko Nov 30 '16 at 15:48
I'm starting to understand the arguments for returning an empty set. Why it would make sense. At least for this particular example. – sbecker Dec 1 '16 at 6:36
@sbecker, to bring the point home: If the question were "How many combinations are there of ..." then "zero" would be a completely valid answer. By the same token, "What are the combinations such that ..." has the empty set as a completely valid answer. If the question were, "What is the first combination such that ...", then and only then would an exception be appropriate, since the question is not answerable. See also Paul K's comment. – Wildcard Dec 2 '16 at 18:34
You should do one of the following (though continuing to consistently throw on basic problems such as a negative number of combinations):
Provide two implementations, one that returns an empty set when the inputs together are nonsensical, and one that throws. Try calling them CombinationsOf and CombinationsOfWithInputCheck. Or whatever you like. You can reverse this so the input-checking one is the shorter name and the list one is CombinationsOfAllowInconsistentParameters.
For Linq methods, return the empty IEnumerable on the exact premise you've outlined. Then, add these Linq methods to your library:
public static class EnumerableExtensions {
public static IEnumerable<T> ThrowIfEmpty<T>(this IEnumerable<T> input) {
return input.IfEmpty<T>(() => {
throw new InvalidOperationException("An enumerable was unexpectedly empty");
public static IEnumerable<T> IfEmpty<T>(
this IEnumerable<T> input,
Action callbackIfEmpty
var enumerator = input.GetEnumerator();
if (!enumerator.MoveNext()) {
// Safe because if this throws, we'll never run the return statement below
callbackIfEmpty();
return EnumeratePrimedEnumerator(enumerator);
private static IEnumerable<T> EnumeratePrimedEnumerator<T>(
IEnumerator<T> primedEnumerator
yield return primedEnumerator.Current;
while (primedEnumerator.MoveNext()) {
Finally, use that like so:
.ThrowIfEmpty()
.IfEmpty(() => _log.Warning(
$@"Unexpectedly received no results when creating combinations for {
nameof(someInputSet)}"
Please note that the private method being different from the public ones is required for the throwing or action behavior to occur when the linq chain is created instead of some time later when it is enumerated. You want it to throw right away.
Note, however, that of course it has to enumerate at least the first item in order to determine if there are any items. This is a potential drawback that I think is mostly mitigated by the fact that any future viewers can quite easily reason that a ThrowIfEmpty method has to enumerate at least one item, so should not be surprised by it doing so. But you never know. You could make this more explicit ThrowIfEmptyByEnumeratingAndReEmittingFirstItem. But that seems like gigantic overkill.
I think #2 is quite, well, awesome! Now the power is in the calling code, and the next reader of the code will understand exactly what it's doing, and won't have to deal with unexpected exceptions.
edited Dec 3 '16 at 3:26
ErikEErikE
Please explain what you mean. How is something in my post "not behaving like a set" and why is that a bad thing? – ErikE Dec 3 '16 at 2:34
You are basically doin the same of my answer, instead of wrapping the query you happend to query a If Condition, the result does not change u.u – CoffeDeveloper Dec 3 '16 at 2:35
I can't see how my answer is "basically doin the same of" your answer. They seem completely different, to me. – ErikE Dec 3 '16 at 2:36
Basically you are just enforcing the same condition of "my bad class". But you are not telling that ^^. Do you agree, tht you are enforcing the existence of 1 element in the query result? – CoffeDeveloper Dec 3 '16 at 2:38
You're going to have to speak more clearly for the evidently stupid programmers who still don't get what you're talking about. What class is bad? Why is it bad? I'm not enforcing anything. I'm allowing the USER of the class to decide the final behavior instead of the CREATOR of the class. This allows one to use a consistent coding paradigm where Linq methods don't randomly throw because of a computational aspect that isn't really a violation of normal rules such as if you asked for -1 items at a time. – ErikE Dec 3 '16 at 2:39
I can see arguments for both use cases - an exception is great if downstream code expects sets which contain data. On the other hand, simply an empty set is great if if this is expected.
I think it depends on the expectations of the caller if this is an error, or an acceptable result - so I would transfer the choice to the caller. Maybe introduce an option?
.CombinationsOf(4, CombinationsGenerationMode.Distinct, Options.AllowEmptySets)
Christian SauerChristian Sauer
While I get where you're going with this, I do try to avoid methods having lots of options passed in that modify their behaviour. I'm still not 100% happy with the mode enum that's there already; I really don't like the idea of an option parameter that changes a method's exception behaviour. I feel like if a method needs to throw an exception, it needs to throw; if you want to hide that exception that's your decision as calling code, and not something you can make my code do with the right input option. – anaximander Nov 30 '16 at 14:25
If the caller expects a set that isn't empty, then it's up to the caller to either handle an empty set or throw an exception. As far as the callee is concerned, an empty set is a perfectly fine answer. And you can have more than one caller, with different opinions about whether empty sets are fine or not. – gnasher729 Dec 3 '16 at 20:11
There are two approaches to decide if there's no obvious answer:
Write code assuming first one option, then the other. Consider which one would work best in practice.
Add a "strict" boolean parameter to indicate whether you want the parameters to be strictly verified or not. For example, Java's SimpleDateFormat has a setLenient method to attempt parsing inputs that don't fully match the format. Of course, you'd have to decide what the default is.
JollyJokerJollyJoker
Based on your own analysis, returning the empty set seems clearly right — you've even identified it as something some users may actually want and have not fallen into the trap of forbidding some usage because you can't imagine users ever wanting to use it that way.
If you really feel that some users may want to force nonempty returns, then give them a way to ask for that behavior rather than forcing it on everyone. For example, you might:
Make it a configuration option on whatever object is performing the action for the user.
Make it a flag the user can optionally pass into the function.
Provide an AssertNonempty check they can put into their chains.
Make two functions, one that asserts nonempty and one that does not.
this doesn't seem to offer anything substantial over points made and explained in prior 12 answers – gnat Dec 1 '16 at 6:35
It really depends on what your users expect to get. For (a somewhat unrelated) example if your code performs division, you may either throw an exception or return Inf or NaN when you divide by zero. Neither is right or wrong, however:
if you return Inf in a Python library, people will assault you for hiding errors
if you raise an error in a Matlab library, people will assault you for failing to process data with missing values
In your case, I'd pick the solution which will be least astonishing for end users. Since you're developing a library dealing with sets, an empty set seems like something your users would expect to deal with, so returning it sounds like a sensible thing to do. But I may be mistaken: you have a much better understanding of the context than anyone else here, so if you expect your users to rely on the set always being not empty, you should throw an exception right away.
Solutions which let the user choose (like adding a "strict" parameter) aren't definitive, since they replace the original question with a new equivalent one: "Which value of strict should be the default?"
Dmitry GrigoryevDmitry Grigoryev
I thinked about using the NaN argument in my answer and I share your opinion. We cannot tell more without knowing the domain of the OP – CoffeDeveloper Dec 3 '16 at 3:26
It is common conception (in mathematics) that when you select elements over a set you could find no element and hence you obtain an empty set. Of course you have to be consistent with mathematics if you go this way:
Common set rules:
Set.Foreach(predicate); // always returns true for empty sets
Set.Exists(predicate); // always returns false for empty sets
Your question is very subtle:
It could be that input of your function has to respect a contract: In that case any invalid input should raise a exception, that's it, the function is not working under regular parameters.
It could be that input of your function has to behave exactly like a set, and therefore should be able to return an empty set.
Now if I were in you I would go the "Set" way, but with a big "BUT".
Assume you have a collection that "by hypotesis" should have only female students:
class FemaleClass{
FemaleStudent GetAnyFemale(){
var femaleSet= mySet.Select( x=> x.IsFemale());
if(femaleSet.IsEmpty())
throw new Exception("No female students");
return femaleSet.Any();
Now your collection is no longer a "pure set", because you have a contract on it, and hence you should enforce your contract with a exception.
When you use your "set" functions in a pure way you should not throw exceptions in case of empty set, but if you have collections that are no more "pure sets" then you should throw exceptions where proper.
You should always do what feels more natural and consistent: to me a set should adhere to set rules, while things that are not sets should have their properly thought rules.
In your case it seems a good idea to do:
List SomeMethod( Set someInputSet){
// the only information here is that set is empty => there are no combinations
// BEWARE! if 0 here it may be invalid input, but also a empty set
if(result.Count == 0) //Add: "&&someInputSet.NotEmpty()"
// we go a step further, our API require combinations, so
// this method cannot satisfy the API request, then we throw.
throw new Exception("you requsted impossible combinations");
But it is not really a good idea, we have now a invalid state that can occurr at runtime at random moments, however that's implicit in the problem so we cannot remove it, sure we can move the exception inside some utility method (it is exactly the same code, moved in different places), but that's wrong and basically the best thing you can do is stick to regular set rules.
Infact adding new complexity just to show you can write linq queries methods seems not worth for your problem, I'm pretty sure that if OP can tell us more about it's domain, probably we could find the spot where the exception is really needed (if at all, it is possible the problem does not require any exception at all).
CoffeDeveloperCoffeDeveloper
The problem is that you are using mathematically defined objects to resolve a problem, but the problem itself may not be requiring a mathematically defined object as answer (infact here returning a list). It all depends on the higher-level of the problem, regardless of how you solve it, that's called encapsulation/information hiding. – CoffeDeveloper Dec 1 '16 at 12:23
The reason for which your "SomeMethod" should no longer behave like a set is that you are asking a piece of information "out of Sets",specifically look at the commented part "&&someInputSet.NotEmpty()" – CoffeDeveloper Dec 1 '16 at 12:30
NO! You shouldn't throw an exception in your female class. You should use the Builder pattern which enforces that you can't even GET an instance of the FemaleClass unless it has only females (it's not publicly creatable, only the Builder class can hand out an instance), and possibly has at least one female in it. Then your code all over the place that takes FemaleClass as an argument doesn't have to handle exceptions because the object is in the wrong state. – ErikE Dec 3 '16 at 1:37
You are assuming that class is so simple that you can enforce its preconditions simply by constructor, in reality. You argument is flawed. If you forbid to no longer have females, then or you cannot have a method for removing studends from the class or your method has to throw a exception when there's 1 student left. You just have moved my problem elsewhere. The point is that there will be always some precondition/function state that cannot be maintained "by design" and that the user is going to break:that why Exceptions exist! This is pretty theoretical stuff,I hope the downvote is not yours. – CoffeDeveloper Dec 3 '16 at 2:07
The downvote is not mine, but if it was, I'd be proud of it. I downvote carefully but with conviction. If the rule of your class is that it MUST have an item in it, and all the items must meet a specific condition, then allowing the class to be in an inconsistent state is a bad idea. Moving the problem elsewhere is exactly my intention! I want the problem to occur at building time, not at use time. The point of using a Builder class instead of a constructor throwing is that you can build up a very complex state in many pieces and parts through inconsistencies. – ErikE Dec 3 '16 at 2:11
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Outstanding (but not well-known) sporting achievement
September 19, 2019 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
Everyone has heard of Kelly Slater and his bucket load of world surfing titles. Michael Jordan and his multitude of NBA titles are pretty common knowledge too. Michael Schumacher’s six world driver’s championships are pretty well known as well. Here is a sporting achievement all three would be jealous of. Manly surfer Greg Mossop has a sporting achievement that these three champions could only dream of and Mossop believes that, with a bit of luck, he could have done even better!
Rugby Trivia
Olympics Rugby Teams – Who are the greatest?
April 23, 2020 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
The rugby trivia question for the century! Which national rugby union team holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals in Rugby Union (the full-team fifteen a side game)?
Ethics and fairplay
Never cheated in my life!
November 19, 2020 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
What is cheating? Is cheating a black and white moral issue… or are there shades of gray. Socrates spent twenty years in the engine room of the beautiful game of rugby… the scrum. He loved being a rugby hooker. He reckons that being slap bang in the middle of sixteen enormous, sweating blokes desperate to secure possession of the ball for their team taught him quite a bit about the fine art of cheating… what it is… and what it isn’t…. and how it can be done. Here Socrates lifts the veil on aspects of the workings of the 1970’s and 80’s amateur rugby scrum revealing some of its secrets. In so doing he shows that cheating is not a simple moral issue. he also claims to haver never deliberately cheated. Do you believe him?
Sport and the question of ethics
“Come on. Get over it. Move on. It’s just a game!”
Most sports lovers have, at some stage of their sporting lives, experienced what they perceived to be a significant sporting injustice and had their complaints answered with just such a response. But is it “just a game?” Do injustices within the sporting realm have the potential to do real damage to individuals and to society. Socrates heard a story about a local sporting team who felt that they had been dudded by the organizers of their regional competition and he wondered whether their concerns about the perceived lack of fairness in their case and the potential consequences for all involved had any merit.
When Socrates heard former rugby referee and philosopher, Dr Simon Longstaff (Executive Director of The Ethics Centre), discussing the importance of ethics with great eloquence and passion on the radio he thought that he might be a good person to ask about whether ethics applies in sport and whether there are potential consequences for society when fair play in sport is sidestepped.
Simon was kind enough to agree to a chat. Click the pic to read the good stuff.
New surfing podcast
One of Australia’s greatest ever surfers – one of surfing’s greatest story tellers – “Rabbit” Bartholomew – talks to award winning journalist Tim Baker about life, surfing and stuff. Perfect listening for lockdown entertainment.
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Priorities in times of Covid-19
April 14, 2020 By SOCRATES NEWS DESK Leave a Comment
Here is a story about a new kid in town who suddenly, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, has to worry about how she will survive. At the same time, sports celebrities implore “loyal fans” to keep supporting their clubs financially. This kid…. and millions of others (many of them new kids in town) just WANT THEIR MONEY BACK. They need it! The elite sports leaders and many average punters come from totally different worlds. When someone asks the ones without jobs about how important the survival of professional sports teams is, I doubt that they have even given it any thought. They have more important things on their minds.
Its just a job. Grass grows. Birds fly. Waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali
sport at mardi gras
Athletes in the LGBTQI Mardi Gras
March 12, 2019 By SOCRATES 2 Comments
Twenty-one different sports teams marched in this years Sydney Mardi Gras. That’s twenty-one groups of out and proud queer athletes. The LGBTQI community need to be “fearless” and queer athletes are no exception. Check out these fearless sporting clubs living it up on their night of night!
A life with horses
A life with horses – or Lulu in wonderland
August 8, 2018 By TIMOTHY EDWARDS Leave a Comment
It’s well known that playing sport can be a life-changing experience. For one mum, adventurer and businessperson, having a sporty pastime was more than life-changing. Lulu’s friendship with her horses has touched her and her daughter’s lives in a million ways and created a whole new life in an ever-changing wonderland for them both. But don’t think for a moment that their horses are the purpose built catalysts for their ideal lives! Its way more complex than that… and more respectful. Read on! It’s worth it!
“Pressure? Pressure is a Messerschmidt up your arse. Playing cricket is not!”
One of the greatest cricket “all-rounders” of all time, Keith Miller was not only an exceptional performer in multiple elements of test cricketing (batting, bowling and fielding) but he was also gifted in numerous other aspects of his life. Witty, entertaining, handsome, a renowned war time pilot and gifted Australian Rules Footballer, Miller was famed for calling a spade a spade and acknowledging that there was much more to life than elite sports. Having flown fighter bombers in the Second World War under life threatening circumstances he was not one to take the “pressure” of high level sport too seriously!
Here is a cracker of a trivia question.
Who was the college recruiting scout talking about when he said the following to his head coach.
“I’ve just seen a fat guy… who can play like the wind!”
Yup. The same guy who told people that just because they had shoes like his, it didn’t make them like him in any other way. Charles Wade Barkley.
Where did the word canter come from?
August 8, 2018 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
A bit more horsey stuff for people who liked the story next door. Here is a cracker bit of etymology for all you word lovers (and horse lovers) out there. Where does the word canter come from? You’ll never guess in a million years! Click here to find out. It’s a beauty!
What is Elvis leg?
Admit it. You’ve never heard of “Elvis leg,” have you? What the blazes is “Elvis leg?” As is the case with every other “What does it mean…” story we have ever posted, the answer is not directly related to the name itself. It is indirectly related to Elvis, though. Have a guess what the relationship is… then click here and check out whether your were correct. Find out for certain which sport uses this term and what it means.
What is a liberator?
Of course most you aviation buffs will think that a liberator is an American WW2 heavy bomber. Fair enough. But in a sporting context does it have a completely different meaning? Indeed it does. You are going to have to click here to find out what a liberator is and does in the world of sport.
Aphorisms, insights and wisdom
“The thing that’s depressing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I will never be as good as a wall.”
More perceptive sporting analysis from Mitch Hedberg, comic genius.
Phillip has returned to the south of India after eighteen years. But who is the young girl staying in his hotel? And what will he learn about his estranged brother through Inez, the Spanish backpacker?
To buy The Bangalore Test, John Campbell’s new ebook novella, just click the link.
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Trestman says the Kromer drama has brought the team closer
By Maggie Hendricks December 15, 2014 2:48 pm
(Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports)
Marc Trestman’s Chicago Bears have had a rough week.
First, the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported a source inside the Bears’ organization said the team had buyers’ remorse over Jay Cutler’s big contract. Late last week, offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer admitted to his team that he had been Rapoport’s source. It was the latest in series of events that showed the Bears to be a dysfunctional team with little accountability and even less of an ability to win games.
The Bears are facing the Saints on Monday night, and Trestman was interviewed on WBBM Newsradio in Chicago on Monday morning. He said the Kromer saga brought the team closer together.
“A lot of things that appear to be outside the building, the distractions are things that can certainly bring a team together, and our team was able to capture that this week and turn it into a very positive work week for us,” Trestman said.
PLAYOFF PICTURE: Will 10 wins be enough?
Trestman has spoken before about outstanding practices, and how close his team is. But rarely has it turned into wins.
This isn’t a college program dealing with 18-23 year old men. Those players need guidance in how to transition from the teenage years to adulthood while also playing a demanding sport. This isn’t a high school program, where coaches often act as parents to their athletes.
This is professional football with billions of dollars on the line. Football players are highly paid professionals. Stop worrying about the bond as a team or how great the practices are. None of it matters if the Bears can’t win games.
MORE: Hard to explain 49ers fall
Besides, should we actually believe that the offensive coordinator leaking a story attempting to damage the quarterback’s reputation can be twisted into some sort of teachable bonding moment? Imagine you’re at the top of your profession, and then your direct supervisor goes on an epic Facebook rant saying he wishes he hadn’t paid you so much. Now picture the subsequent meetings and conversations. Are you flashing forward to the part where everybody’s drinking eggnog and vowing to be better than ever before? Didn’t think so.
The Bears need to focus on football.
Trestman’s biggest failing throughout his two seasons with the Bears has been an inability to adjust. He was a relative unknown coming from the CFL who was handed an offense ready to compete at the highest level. It did that last year.
It has regressed in an almost unfathomable way this season. Trestman seems to lack creativity. The Bears are easy to defend.
Trestman should focus on getting in the film room and putting Kromer and Cutler in position to gain yards and score TDs. A magical thing happens when teams succeed: Everybody tends to get along.
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Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount.: Chapter II
Chapter II.
4. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall by inheritance possess 17 the earth:” that earth, I suppose, of which it is said in the Psalm, “Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” 18 For it signifies a certain firmness and stability of the perpetual inheritance, where the soul, by means of a good disposition, rests, as it were, in its own place, just as the body rests on the earth, and is nourished from it with its own food, as the body from the earth. This is the very rest and life of the saints. Then, the meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good. 19 Let those, then, who are not meek quarrel and fight for earthly and temporal things; but “blessed are the meek, for they p. 5 shall by inheritance possess the earth,” from which they cannot be driven out. 20
5. “Blessed are they that mourn: 21 for they shall be comforted.” Mourning is sorrow arising from the loss of things held dear; but those who are converted to God lose those things which they were accustomed to embrace as dear in this world: for they do not rejoice in those things in which they formerly rejoiced; and until the love of eternal things be in them, they are wounded by some measure of grief. Therefore they will be comforted by the Holy Spirit, who on this account chiefly is called the Paraclete, i.e. the Comforter, in order that, while losing the temporal joy, they may enjoy to the full that which is eternal. 22
6. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Now He calls those parties, lovers of a true and indestructible good. They will therefore be filled with that food of which the Lord Himself says, “My meat is to do the will of my Father,” which is righteousness; and with that water, of which whosoever “drinketh,” as he also says, it “shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.” 23
7. “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” 24 He says that they are blessed who relieve the miserable, for it is paid back to them in such a way that they are freed from misery.
8. “Blessed are the pure in heart: 25 for they shall see God.” How foolish, therefore, are those who seek God with these outward eyes, since He is seen with the heart! as it is written elsewhere, “And in singleness of heart seek Him.” 26 For that is a pure heart which is a single heart: and just as this light cannot be seen, except with pure eyes; so neither is God seen, unless that is pure by which He can be seen. 27
9. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” It is the perfection of peace, where nothing offers opposition; and the children of God are peacemakers, because nothing resists God, and surely children ought to have the likeness of their father. Now, they are peacemakers in themselves who, by bringing in order all the motions of their soul, and subjecting them to reason—i.e. to the mind and spirit—and by having their carnal lusts thoroughly subdued, become a kingdom of God: in which all things are so arranged, that that which is chief and pre-eminent in man rules without resistance over the other elements, which are common to us with the beasts; and that very element which is pre-eminent in man, i.e. mind and reason, is brought under subjection to something better still, which is the truth itself, the only-begotten Son of God. For a man is not able to rule over things which are inferior, unless he subjects himself to what is superior. And this is the peace which is given on earth to men of goodwill; 28 this the life of the fully developed and perfect wise man. From a kingdom of this sort brought to a condition of thorough peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out, who rules where there is perversity and disorder. 29 When this peace has been inwardly established and confirmed, whatever persecutions he who has been cast out shall stir up from without, he only increases the glory which is according to God; being unable to shake anything in that edifice, but by the failure of his machinations making it to be known with how great strength it has been built from within outwardly. Hence there follows: “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Hereditate possidebunt. Vulgate omits hereditate. The passage is quoted almost literally in the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, iii. 7.
Ps. cxlii. 5.
Rom. xii. 21.
The order in which Augustin places this Beatitude is followed in Cod. D, and approved by Lachmann, Tischendorf, Neander, and others (not Westcott and Hort). The meek not only bear provocation, but quietly submit to God’s dealings, and comply with His designs. The temporal possession promised is one of the few temporal promises in the New Testament. The inheritance of the earth is referred to “earthly good and possessions,” by Chrysostom, Euthymius, Luther, etc.; to conquest of the world by the kingdom of God, by Neander, to the actual kingdom on this earth, first in its millennial then in its blessed state, by Alford; typically to the Messiah kingdom, by Meyer; to the land of the living beyond the heavens by Gregory of Nyssa. “Humility and meekness have been proved to be a conquering principle in the world’s history” (Tholuck).
Lugentes. Greek, πενθοῦντες. The Vulgate, qui lugent, which Augustin follows, p. 7.
The mourning is a mourning over sins of their own and others (Chrysostom, etc.); too restricted, as is also Augustin’s explanation. Spiritual mourning in general (Ambrose, Jerome, Tholuck, etc.) sorrow according to God (2 Cor. vii. 10). We are helped to the meaning by comparing the woe on those that laugh (Luke vi. 22); that is, upon those who are satisfied with earthly things, and avoid the seriousness of repentance.
Ipsorum miserabitur; closer to the Greek than the Vulgate ipsi misericordiam consequentur. The same thought that underlies the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, as Augustin also says, Retract. I. xix. 3.
Mundi corde; the Vulgate, mundo corde.
Wisdom 1.1.
“Pure in heart.” “Ceremonial purity does not suffice” (Bengel). The singleness of heart which has God’s will for its aim, and follows integrity with our fellow-men (Tholuck). “Shall see God:” the most infinite communion with God (Tholuck). The promise is fulfilled even here (Lange, Alford, Schaff, etc.). It concerns only the beatific vision in the spiritual body (Meyer). Not a felicity to the impure to see God (Henry). Comp. 1 John 3:2, Rev. 22:4, etc. Augustin has a brilliant description of the future vision of God in City of God (this series, vol. ii. pp. 507–509).
Luke ii. 14.
The “peacemakers” not only establish peace within themselves as Augustin, encouraged by the Latin word, explains, but diffuse peace around about them,—heal the alienations and discords of others, and bring about reconciliations in the world; not merely peaceful, but peacemakers. “In most kingdoms those stand highest who make war: in the Messiah’s kingdom the crowning beatitude respects those who make peace.” The expressions will be remembered, “peace of God” (Phil. iv. 7); “peace of Christ” (Col. iii. 15); “God of peace” (Rom. xv. 33), etc. “If the peacemakers are blessed, woe to the peacebreakers!” (M. Henry).
Next: Chapter III
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Windsor Lodge - Jamaica
Windsor Lodge Hotels and Apartments
Area : Saint Thomas
Jamaica (10991 km2) Countrycode : JM | Phone code : +1-876
Population : 3 mln Capital : Kingston
Currency : Dollar JMD ( 1 EUR = 158.22 JMD) (1 USD = 141.16 JMD)
Neighbours : None
The William E. Borah Apartment at Windsor Lodge is a historic apartment in a 16-unit apartment building at 2139-2141 Wyoming Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Apartment 21 in the building was a long-time home of William Edgar Borah (1865–1940), a U.S. Senator from Idaho and a candidate for president in 1936. Borah was a leading figure in American foreign policy in the years after World War I, contributing to the American non-acceptance of the League of Nations and the acceptance of the Washington Naval Treaty of the early 1920s. This apartment is the best-preserved surviving residence of Borah; for its association with his life, the entire building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Windsor Lodge / Area : Saint Thomas
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Norman & Anita meet with Dutch GISTers in Amsterdam
By LRG Staff|2019-12-26T14:59:42-05:00April 1st, 2010|News|
The following excerpt has been reprinted from an article in the Contactgroep GIST newsletter,“Van GISTeren naar morgen” with permission.
Norman Scherzer, the American who founded the Life Raft Group ten years ago, stayed with his wife Anita at the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam during the week of July 5th. He had invited the Contactgroup GIST at the hotel on July 8th. Current chairman Jack Asselbergs, former chairman of the first hour Ton de Keijser, treasurer Gonny Panis, PR Ronald Postma were present on behalf of the Board, and Helmer (IT) & Ellen van Arem (newsletter editor and author of this report).
It was a very enjoyable get together with this friendly American couple. Anita is a GIST patient for ten years now and has taken Gleevec since 2000, when she participated in a Gleevec trial in the USA.
The reason of their visit was the gift of no less than 1 million euros, donated by a philanthropist from Amsterdam , stipulating the money has to be spent on GIST research (see article on page 1). The generous giver himself is a patient and cannot tolerate Gleevec. Norman and his wife, however, were in for a big surprise: the huge amount of one million dollars was “slightly exaggerated”, the Dutchman had recently organized a charity evening and each of his guests had to pay 50,000 euros entrance fee. The man from Amsterdam thus handed over to Norman a 1.7 million euro check. Unthinkable!
The Life Raft Group in the U.S.A. now has an extraordinary challenge. Norman heartedly hopes that this money will not only provide for the discovery of a better treatment for all GIST patients worldwide, he also hopes that this desired research outcome will be in time for this special patient in Amsterdam!
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Early Morning Vibes: 3 Upgraded & 4 Pre Market Hot Stocks Inside
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On December 10, the American stock indexes finished trading in different directions. The S&P 500 Index dropped 0.13% to 3668 points, the Dow Jones lost 0.23% and the NASDAQ rose 0.54%. Investors could not determine the direction of movement and took a wait and see attitude. Note that small-cap stocks showed more pronounced positive dynamics: the Russel 2000 index rose 1.08%. The industrial sector was an outsider, shedding 0.93%.
Starbucks (SBUX: 5%) management presented a positive outlook for the company over the next few years.
Snap (SNAP: + 8.1%) and Twitter (TWTR: + 8.4%) have announced a service integration partnership. Tweets can be shared on the Snapchat platform.
Adobe’s quarterly results (ADBE: -1.4%) were better than expected, but its stock corrected.
Today, global stock exchanges are showing mostly negative dynamics. The focus of attention is the decision of the FDA expert panel, which recommended approval of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. However, no official permission was issued for the use of this drug, although market participants were counting on this. The market now assumes that a positive decision will be made this weekend, and then within 24 hours the first 6.4 million doses will be shipped to different states. Waiting for a vaccine approval within three months was the main driver of market growth.
Lack of further progress in negotiations on the US economic aid package, persisting tensions with China and COVID-19 incidence statistics are factors that reduce risk appetite in the short term. The alarming signal yesterday was the publication of data on applications for unemployment benefits. Their number unexpectedly increased to 853 thousand in a week, while the forecast was 725 thousand. Macro statistics were ignored by the market, however, in our opinion, it serves as a harbinger of a deterioration in the state of the economy in early 2021 due to quarantine restrictions reintroduced by some states.
The University of Michigan Preliminary Expectations and Consumer Sentiment Index for December will be released today. The consensus assumes an increase in the first indicator from 70.5 to 71.0, while the second decreases from 76.9 to 76.5 points. The Expectations Index should be boosted by consumer hopes for mass vaccinations. Before the pandemic, the sentiment index was at the level of 99-100, the pressure on it continues to be the absence of a new package of economic assistance measures and stabilization of the epidemiological situation.
Top Upgrades & Downgrades
Morgan Stanley turned bullish on Diamondback Energy Inc. (FANG), upgrading the stock to “Overweight” and assigning a $65.0 price target.
CommScope Holding Company Inc. (COMM) has won the favor of JP Morgan’s equity research team. The firm upgraded the shares from Neutral to Overweight and moved their price target to $18.0.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (CTSH) received an upgrade from analysts at JP Morgan, who also set their one-year price target on the stock to $93.0. They changed their rating on CTSH to Overweight from Neutral in a recently issued research note.
Earlier Friday JP Morgan reduced its rating on Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR) stock to Neutral from Overweight and assigned the price target to $25.0.
JP Morgan analysts reduced their investment ratings, saying in research reports covered by the media that its rating for Corning Incorporated (GLW) has been changed to Neutral from Overweight and the new price target is set at $39.0.
Today Top Movers
vTv Therapeutics Inc (VTVT) share price soared 184.47% at $6.23 in today’s pre-market session after the report that in compliance with the terms of the letter arrangement between the Firm and the Investor dated December 23, 2019, the company exercised the right to allow MacAndrews & Forbes Group LLC buy 625,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at a per share price of $1.60.
In trading session of premarket today, BioNTech SE (BNTX) share price went up 0.07% at $29.63 after the company and Pfizer reported the receipt FDA advisory committee vote in supporting potential first emergency use authorization for vaccine to combat COVID-19 in the U.S.
Sonoma Pharmaceuticals Inc (SNOA) showing bullish trend in early morning on Friday, increasing 33.44% of its share price at $8.18 following an announcement of agreement with Crown Laboratories, Inc., to Launch Microcyn technology-based anti-Itch over-the-counter products.
Zedge Inc (ZDGE) is going up 21.48% in premarket session on Friday after reporting first fiscal quarter revenue growth of 85% and record overall quarterly financial results.
Latest Insider Activity
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) President & CEO Su Lisa T announced the sale of shares taking place on Dec 08 at $92.89 for some 150,000 shares. The total came to more than $13.93 million.
Twitter Inc. (TWTR) Chief Financial Officer SEGAL NED D. sold on Dec 08 a total 634,970 shares at $47.93 on average. The insider’s sale generated proceeds of almost $0.34 million.
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (RGLS) 10% Owner Sonsini Peter W. declared the purchase of shares taking place on Dec 04 at $0.62 for some 4,398,602 shares. The transaction amount was around $2.74 million.
Boxlight Corporation (BOXL) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Pope Michael Ross bought on Dec 09 a total 287,942 shares at $1.65 on average. The purchase cost the insider an estimated $66,000.
Earnings To Watch
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Analysts expect Johnson Outdoors Inc. (NASDAQ:JOUT) to report a net income (adjusted) of $0.8 per share, when the bank releases its quarterly results shortly. Revenue for the fiscal quarter ended Sep 2020 is predicted to come in at $125.44M.
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It Makes Perfect Sense That QAnon Took Off With Women This Summer
Sept 18, 202012:58 PM
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The QAnon conspiracy theory isn’t just spreading. It’s evolving. Over the past few months, we’ve learned that women are becoming the primary drivers of a cult that started where most conspiracy theories do—on seedy hypermasculine spaces like 4chan or /pol/ or the febrile brain of Alex Jones—and are making a story about a satanic “cabal,” with Donald Trump as the savior, seem pretty, palatable, and an obviously good thing. Who doesn’t want to protect children and restore order? People who might not ordinarily be amenable to this kind of thing are flocking to it during this distressing period when we’re all spending more time inside and online because of the disaster-laden state of the country. QAnon offers the comfort of an answer, above all else, so perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the conspiracy theory is popping up on Peloton forums, circulating among Instagram influencers, and gaining traction with anti-vaxxers, yoga communities, and new moms.
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The makeover has not diluted the cult’s virulence. “The deep state is evil and Satanic,” one ’gram reads in a font as soothing and bland as a skin care ad. In a thread on “Pastel Qanon,” researcher Marc-André Argentino suggests that women on Instagram are sugarcoating the dark stuff with the soothing graphic design we’re used to associating with the platform. The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany reports that Q stuff flourishes on Instagram “with little visible pushback from the influencers’ communities or from the platform that hosts them.” The result is a kind of aesthetic context collapse. What’s more, there’s a winking vagueness to the way QAnon stuff circulates (much of it never mentioning Q explicitly). Nutty theories about Tom Hanks harvesting the fear of children don’t always appear outright; they materialize via elaborate “finally speaking out” videos in which influencers announce that they never talk about stuff like this, and most of their content will continue to be “normal,” but they have to speak “from their heart.” These videos rarely go into specifics; they tend to reference a documentary (that they’ll share with you over DM) or encourage the viewer to really prepare their self-care regimen before they go poking around into these dark truths and finally get “woke” in an entirely different sense. (“The reason we are ‘woke’ is because I became a mother and we saw a documentary that we’ve never been able to unsee,” one influencer says.) The allusions to darkness blend in with lemmas about well-being and are celebrated in that indistinguishably supportive you-go-girl argot. Specific Instagram Stories tend to be more explicit than posts. An influencer who mostly posts about her children and interior design captions a video with an all-caps reference to ELITES and the Q-marking #SaveTheChildren hashtag before resuming fuzzier warnings on a beige backdrop with delicate white stars. This stuff sometimes appears in combination with other theories about masks being bad for children, COVID-19 being “over,” a conspiracy to make everyone get vaccines, or a noble Trumpian ploy to make vaccines so obviously untrustworthy that more Americans will be recruited to the anti-vaxxer cause.
It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working. These accounts are growing quickly, even as Instagram tries to shut down some of the bigger players. The appeal is morally unambiguous, simultaneously frightening and reassuring, and perfectly crafted to draw in a certain slice of suburban women. There’s the psychology of the approach: Leftist discourse on these platforms can have a preacherly aspect that asserts moral truths without giving the listener the option of disagreeing. This can strike the not-yet-persuaded as condescending, bossy, or dismissive of their right to form independent judgments. Q-proselytizing folks err in the opposite direction: They tell tantalizing stories about their heartfelt conversions that are extremely light on detail and almost invariably conclude by saying, “Do your own research.” Of course this has power. It has the frisson of secrecy—find out what they’re not telling you. Most of all, it’s flattering: It expresses full faith in the reader’s abilities to discover the truth, promises a light at the end of the tunnel, and appears to invite independent verification and free inquiry. In practice, searching those hashtags tends to lead people into closed information ecosystems (and, yes, lectures) that are every bit as didactic as any “woke” explainer. The key is this: The new recruits feel that they have discovered these things.
All conspiracy theories try to make sense of paradigmatic ruptures to the world. Think of it as a kind of trauma response. Sometimes (in the United States) the psychic insult is to a nationalistic illusion of invulnerability—9/11 and Pearl Harbor broke that illusion, so it became easier for some to imagine both incidents as “inside jobs” Americans did to their own in order to justify going to war. Sometimes the theories emerge in response to horror and capitalize on preexisting suspicions: The murder of small children at Sandy Hook was so disturbing that many preferred to process it as a hoax intended to take away Second Amendment rights. The grief and horror you’re feeling isn’t real; it’s what “they” want you to feel. The psychological function these all serve is the same: They turn events that make the world frightening and incomprehensible into a plot. And the shared project of investigating these “theories” binds disoriented people together.
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This summer has been especially tough on mothers, who have seen normal life completely disrupted while bearing the disproportionate burden of pandemic child care. And the acuteness of that challenge has occurred at the same time as the rise of Q-stagram. You can almost understand the allure of succumbing to what I think of as a normalcy fetish—a dogma that insists things are actually fine, no matter what the media says. That the visible stressors are made up, that COVID-19 isn’t real, or it’s over, or that masks are just a “test” separating the sheep from the proudly noncompliant. The normalcy fetish must, paradoxically, create a different boogeyman for people to identify as the real problem, and Q does: No one wants to talk about the pedophile rings! But it posits that the president is competent and these real problems are being fixed as we speak. “For a ‘conspiracy theory’ it’s strange how many prostitution rings are being shut down & how many children are being saved. must be a coincidence,” reads one post, in white text over a watercolor gradient of coral and teal.
Most of all, it’s flattering: It expresses full faith in the reader’s abilities to discover the truth, promises a light at the end of the tunnel, and appears to invite independent verification and free inquiry.
Whatever your political predilections, it is not an easy time to be an American. Thanks to the pandemic, the fires, the hurricanes, the smoke, the high-profile police violence, the nationwide protests, the volatility (to the naked eye, at least) of the president, rarely have Americans felt more fragmented, isolated, confused, frightened, embattled, and unsafe. Suburban Americans tend to prioritize safety and order more than their urban compatriots do, and we’re living through a period where (at least in the West) not even the air is safe. Our social environments have changed too. The milieus in which Instagram influencers and their biggest audiences would usually get positive reinforcement aren’t thriving. You aren’t necessarily going to be celebrated for going on glamorous trips right now.
A 2017 study at the University of Kent shows that “belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (understanding one’s environment), existential (being safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (maintaining a positive image of the self and the social group).” We’re living through a perfect storm that undermines all three. And so a skyrocketing movement is taking advantage of an environment rife with uncertainty. It does so by providing a magical explanation that replaces a chaotic and distressing reality that doesn’t seem likely to improve anytime soon with proactive agents—people in charge working hard to bring down identifiable (and no less organized) “bad guys.” If this requires imagining that things aren’t what they appear to be but the opposite, so be it: The man who appears to be a lazy and self-interested liar hell-bent on winning the presidency even if he destroys every institution in the process is in fact a hardworking savior selflessly toiling to bring down the group that’s actually hurting children (and the country).
This is a comforting story. It is genuinely frightening to a lot of people that every new scandal that gets reported about Trump might be true. Thanks to the normalcy fetish, a segment of the population will decide that they cannot be. To think otherwise is intolerable. The office of the president commands a lot of respect, and the just-world thinking that Americans are particularly susceptible to dictates that a man who won the office must somehow be worthy of it. If America is what we think it is, no one who is as bad as Trump seems could possibly win. We can only take so much cognitive dissonance, and for those who still believe in American institutions, something has got to give.
In general, suburban women—white ones, especially—have been turning away from Trump since 2016. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be a splinter group branching another way. Desperate for moral clarity and proud of questioning everything, many of them read through the conventional wisdom until the truth flips inside out. It’s hard to blame them. For women in this group of recent converts who were already skeptical of expertise—like anti-vaxxers—the pandemic has confirmed their worst suspicions. We have all watched both the CDC and the FDA change their pandemic recommendations in response to the science and in response to political pressure from the Trump administration. It just depends which you want to believe was right.
It’s ironic but not actually counterintuitive, therefore, that pedophilia became a source of stability for a segment of our disoriented populace—as well as a much-needed basis for unquestionably correct moral action. If pedophilia is everywhere, if hundreds of thousands of children are being trafficked and no one is talking about it, then all the other news you see or hear doesn’t have to be taken as true. That is a huge relief. This is how “child trafficking” got weaponized into a gateway drug of sorts for Trump support even though Trump specifically—and singularly, and publicly! And repeatedly!— said of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that he “wished her well” when she was arrested in connection with sex trafficking and raping minors. What Trump does in public doesn’t matter. And whatever else Q is, it’s a story about a man with a plan. Trump is a hero whose private conduct is what matters; his public actions are just a cover, or a strategy, part of his brilliant 12-dimensional chess. His private achievements are innumerable; they just cannot be spoken of yet. What a relief it would be to believe that.
Americans have spent the past four years brawling over what reality is. Any shared consensus about the state of the union has eroded, partly because Americans no longer consume news from the same sources and partly because social media has made the incompatible sets of “beliefs” that divide us painfully clear and sadly unbridgeable. It’s also a predictable result of the generationslong Republican strategy to destabilize any shared framework through which claims can be evaluated for things like accuracy or merit. A major party staked its political viability on the denial of facts. In July of 2016, Newt Gingrich was asked about Trump’s nonsensical and untrue claim that crime rates were soaring. He said, presciently, “The average American—I’ll bet you this morning—does not think crime is down, does not think they are safer.” Alisyn Camerota pointed out that according to FBI data, crime was down and Americans were safer. Gingrich waved that away. “What I said is also a fact,” he said. “The current view is that liberals have a whole set of statistics, which theoretically might be right, but it’s not where human beings are.” Republicans had a theory about where “human beings” were, and it wasn’t with “liberals” or “statistics.” It makes sense, then, that the “current view” Gingrich articulated produced a Republican president who is, himself, a conspiracy theorist—and came to power not by appealing to any shared American ideals but by legitimizing the racist “birther” conspiracy theory about Barack Obama.
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If conspiracy theories flourish when one’s understanding of one’s country is badly shaken, it’s clear that many white Americans found the election of a Black man antithetical to their private sense of the American order of things. Their solution: He must not be American. Many women in America have had to deal with other traumatic revelations: They have watched their countrymen admire and celebrate a man who demeans female heads of state and brags about assaulting women. As citizens, they’ve watched him lie to the country he is supposed to be leading—even and especially about the pandemic. He falls short of everything most of us have historically understood the American presidency to require. Their solution? He must not be failing, or lying, or ignorant. Much better for the press to be wrong than for the president of the United States to be unconstrained by anything but his own self-interest. “Forget the press. Read the internet,” Trump said in October of 2016.
A lot of people have.
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Researchers Determine the Perfect Way to Ask an Online Favor
Published: Jun 2, 2014 Last Updated: Jun 1, 2020 by Shawn Hessinger In Research 3
As a small business owner, you may never have considered posting a request online for beer money or enough cash to cover your take-out pizza bill for the weekend.
That’s just as well, because as it turns out, requests of this kind are not the ones that get the most positive response on the Web.
However, if you ever feel the need to ask for favors related to your business from your followers, fans or customers, it could be a different story. It turns out there’s a fairly predictable pattern to the kinds of online favors to which people respond positively.
Researchers at Stanford University have built an algorithm that might help you ask for those favors even more effectively and with better results in the future.
The algorithm has predicted that very specific and predictable qualities of a request determine quite simply whether a request is honored. A resulting study (PDF) reveals some interesting results.
As a summary in the MIT Technology Review explains:
“They analyzed how various features might be responsible for the success of a post, such as the politeness of the post; its sentiment, whether positive or negative, for example; its length. The team also looked at the similarity of the requester to the benefactor; and also the status of the requester.”
The study looked specifically at more than 21,000 posts from Reddit’s altruistic Random Acts of Pizza subdomain between December 2010 and September 2013 to identify common threads between successful requests. Here are some of the findings.
The Narrative is Important
Narratives are extremely important in requests for favors online, researchers concluded. The substance of the narrative makes all the difference in determining whether a request receives a positive response or not.
Interestingly, longer narratives seem to have a greater chance of success, depending on the kind of request. And politeness seems to have no effect on whether a request is honored.
Real Needs Trump Cravings
If you’re asking your followers for beer money because you really want to hit the bars with your friends this weekend, better forget it. In many cases, researchers insist your request will go unanswered.
Request to satisfy what researchers call “cravings” go generally ignored by online communities, the study suggests.
On the other hand, requests connected to job, family, or money issues, classified by researchers as “need,” stand a much greater chance of being answered, the research concluded.
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Shawn Hessinger is the Executive Editor for Small Business Trends. A professional journalist with more than a decade of experience in the traditional newspaper business, he has another 10 years of experience in digital media for trade publications and news sites. Shawn has served as a beat reporter, columnist, editorial writer, bureau chief and eventually managing editor with responsibility for nine weekly newspapers, the Berks Mont Newspapers. He is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Makes sense to me. Need-based requests hit emotional nerves which can elicit the “illogical” desire to give someone something with nothing expected in return. “Cravings” are likely to evoke a logical response where the person weighs the cost and benefit. With no benefit, the request goes unanswered.
I agree. It always surprises me how some people are able to ask for favors and get instant returns while others can try asking for favors but hardly get anything. I guess it really depends on the narrative and the similarity of the sender to the receiver.
Martin Lindeskog
How about giver’s gain, “scratch your back…,” reciprocal links, etc., as tactics of online favors?
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Small-Scale Meat Producers Association
Small-Scale Meat Sector Challenged and Energized by COVID-19 Crisis
April 3, 2020 Julia Smith
Small-scale meat producers are a notoriously resilient faction, but the global pandemic is testing the resolve of even the most resolute, prepared producers.
The Small-Scale Meat Producers Association (SSMPA) is fielding emails and calls from concerned members and working directly with the Ministry of Agriculture to share the needs of this sector as the government and industry pull together to ensure that our local food systems are protected. Some producers are seeing an unprecedented spike in sales, but all are steering their operations through a world constructed on shifting sands where both challenges and opportunities are amplified and the future is uncertain.
While sales have been brisk for direct-to-consumer marketers, producers who primarily supply the food service industry have seen a dramatic decline. Others sell at farmers’ markets and are facing delayed start dates and uncertainty over market attendance. Efforts to connect with customers through online platforms are paying off. Customers have been grateful for continued safe access to local meats, with producers adjusting payment and fulfilment protocols to maintain social distancing requirements. Steve Meggait of Fresh Valley Farms explains, “It was very simple to adapt our existing system by positioning a table between us and our customers. We place their order on the table, step back six feet, and then they move forward to pick it up.”
Despite the demand, it could be difficult for producers to maintain or increase production given supply chain challenges and existing structural barriers to growth. Ongoing abattoir access issues frustrate producers who would like to scale up their operations to meet the growing demand for locally produced meat. At a time of year when abattoirs are generally slower, many are seeing a surge in bookings. With slaughter & processing facilities already operating near capacity and experiencing labour shortages, any disruption to service caused by illness or shutdowns would be disastrous, leaving producers with no option for getting products to customers.
The Ministry of Agriculture has held a number of consultations about on-farm slaughter in the past two years. The SSMPA has been actively involved in these conversations and continues to work with the Ministry to represent members in this regard. The SSMPA recently received funding to design an affordable on-farm slaughter facility that would meet the needs of Class D operators with the potential to become a Class B facility. An expansion of the current on-farm slaughter license designations could alleviate some of the bottleneck at abattoirs, create resiliency in case of disruptions to service and allow producers to scale to meet consumer demand.
Small-scale poultry producers are finding that they are not able to procure chicks. Some hatcheries have stopped offering pickup as an option. Cancellations to air freight service and the recent announcement from Canada Post that they will no longer be shipping live chicks leaves very few options for small-lot poultry growers, most of whom grow seasonally on a tight timeframe.
Another top issue causing concern is uncertainty around the supply of livestock feeds. While this has been designated an essential service, the delivery of feed often depends on a complex supply chain. That said, producers of ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats), which can be fed entirely on forage, have greater security than those who rely on grain (poultry, pigs). Well-managed grasslands and pastures may prove to be more important than ever.
The unfortunate reality for many small-scale operations is a reliance on income from other jobs to pay the bills and keep the farm running. For farm businesses operating in the red, the loss of off-farm income could be devastating. New loans or deferrals for debt payments are a stopgap, but they do not solve the underlying problems facing producers. Subsidizing the farm with other income or debt is particularly frustrating for producers who might scale up their operations were it not for structural challenges and regulatory barriers to growth.
But it isn’t all doom and gloom. This pandemic offers opportunities as demand and appreciation for local food continues to grow. With the right infrastructure, support and resources in place, the small-scale meat sector could come out of this stronger, growing regional food security and building livelihoods.
As is so often the case when faced with adversity, communities are coming together. Small-scale meat producers have close relationships with their customers and are working tirelessly to ensure an uninterrupted supply. There has been an outpouring of support for these producers, who are determined not to let the current crisis stand in the way of feeding the families who depend on them.
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Bitcoin.com Exchange To List HUB Token as the Next Gen Trust-Based Cryptocurrency
December 1, 2020 SmartWealth
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com Exchange is thrilled to announce the upcoming listing of HUB on the 1st of December 2020 at 14:00 UTC. HUB was created by the Human Trust Protocol Network, under founding member Eric Ly. HUB will be listed with BTC and USDT trading pairs.
What is the Human Trust Protocol?
Human Trust Protocol solves endemic trust problems, and provides verifiable and portable trust. The vision of the Human Trust Protocol, and that of its HUB token is to encode identity and reputation on the blockchain, to become the next digital identity protocol interoperable across multiple platforms. The platform focuses on 3 factors: Identity, Reputation and Trust. Each account will reference an identity using decentralized digital identities, having the capability to capture rich and raw reputation data by which applications can enable users to make the best interpretation of trustworthiness. After all, the solution the platform is providing is the ability to evaluate a user’s capability and intent on a new interaction via a Decentralized Trust Network.
Why should one choose HUB?
HUB has a number of unique properties:
Verifiable & portable trust
Self-sovereign reputation data
Multi-dimensional reputation
Context-sensitive trust scoring
Incentivization of trustworthy interactions
It effectively solves endemic trust problems and usability in any community and marketplace. It’s backed by an astounding and experienced team, with the platform being created by LinkedIn Co-Founder Eric Ly at the helm, as a seasoned veteran in the tech space and a successful entrepreneur the company surely has the potential to become the next big thing.
Outside of just the backing of the team, HUB’s seen major adoption as a blockchain platform, especially with its user base increasing this year by 603% and MAU increased 688% with tens of thousands of users on the HUB platform at joinhub.com.
Strong Endorsement
Danish Chaudhry, CEO of Bitcoin.com Exchange, shared his views on the HUB platform and the next stage in incentivising trustworthy interactions: “The Human Trust Protocol, and the HUB token is a very interesting project, billions of users on the internet interact with each other every day on messengers, online communities, social networks and peer-to-peer marketplaces, making constant contact with people they never met, let alone trust. This token will flourish within our exchange, and I am sure our users will gain a lot of interest in what their team has to offer.”
Eric Ly, Founder and CEO of HUB says that, “we are incredibly excited to partner with Bitcoin.com to begin trading the HUB token. Given the reputation of the HUB project and our global ambition to deliver economic prosperity through decentralized trust and reputation to every corner of the world, we were looking for a partner who shared our global ambitions for the project. We were impressed by the exchange’s unparalleled support of our efforts and its increasingly widespread reach across the globe.”
About Bitcoin.com Exchange
The mission of Bitcoin.com Exchange is to empower people from all over the world to trade cryptocurrencies with ease and confidence, from first-time traders to advanced trading professionals. With high liquidity, 24/7 multilingual support and dozens of trading pairs, complemented with a high level of security, we offer an attractive platform for trading any cryptocurrency. Within one year since launch, on average, our exchange has been visited by more than 500K active traders per month, and this number continues to grow as you read this sentence.
Started in 2018 by LinkedIn co-founder Eric Ly, HUB’s vision is to encode identity and reputation on the blockchain to become the next digital identity protocol interoperable across multiple platforms. By putting identity data, one of the most valuable data types, back into the hands of users, people will gain access to an unprecedented level of economic opportunity and prosperity. HUB’s ecosystem includes the HUB platform at joinhub.com, a rapidly growing rewards-based event and community platform, and partner companies in the background verification and DeFi areas.
This is a press release. Readers should do their own due diligence before taking any actions related to the promoted company or any of its affiliates or services. Bitcoin.com is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in the press release.
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Aamir Khan Opens Up on Divorce with Ex-wife Reena: It was traumatic
2018, Celebrity By hafsa
Aamir Khan Opens Up on Divorce with Ex-wife Reena: It was traumatic, Aamir Khan has romanced innumerable heroines on the big screen, but in real life, he fell for two women – Reena Dutta and Kiran Rao.Much before his Bollywood debut Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Aamir had already lost his heart to Reena, and the two stuck by each other for almost 16 years before calling it quits. It was in 2002 that Aamir Khan and Reena got divorced. But the two have remained cordial ever since. The ex-couple still comes together for family functions and gatherings.
Aamir on Karan Johar’s chat show opened up on his equation with ex-wife and revealed that their divorce was a traumatic experience for both of them. “Reena and I were married for 16 years and when we broke up it was traumatic for me, for her and both our families. But we tried to deal with it as best as we could. It did not mean that I lost respect for Reena, or for that matter, I lost my love for Reena. She is a really wonderful person,” Aamir revealed on the show.
He added, “I am lucky that I had the opportunity to be with her for 16 years. That enriched me and we grew up together. We were very young when we got married. I give a value to that and I’m glad that she does to.” In 2005, Aamir married Kiran Rao and the two have a son Azad Rao Khan.
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SUDEP Global Conversation raising awareness at World Congress of experts
Thousands of epilepsy specialists are attending the 31st International Epilepsy Congress (IEC) in Istanbul, which runs from 5th to 9th September, 2015.
SUDEP Global Conversation, an online resource launched in December 2014 will be promoted at IEC to raise awareness of epilepsy deaths. The SUDEP Global Conversation project, which began in 2005, aims to combat the myth that seizures do not kill and make knowledge available to tackle epilepsy deaths. It combines a collection of expert summaries with moving accounts by families bereaved from epilepsy.
Denise Chapman, co-editor of the SUDEP Global Conversation, is attending IEC to receive a major international award of Ambassador and is representing the SUDEP Global Conversation in Istanbul. She said: “It is great to see that prevention of epilepsy deaths is to have a high profile at this important event in the epilepsy calendar. ‘Understanding and Preventing Epilepsy Deaths’ is one of the first sessions at IEC and it features speakers from around the world, all of whom are contributors to the SUDEP Global Conversation resource”.
Another team of experts from the UK, Ireland and Australia, who have contributed to the SUDEP Global Conversation, are presenting a scientific poster on ‘The SUDEP and Seizure Safety Check List’ project and the ‘EpsMon App’, both new resources that are supporting professionals and people with epilepsy to engage and manage risk.
The success of the SUDEP Global Conversation is attributed to a powerful three-way collaboration between SUDEP Action, Epilepsy Australia and Canada’s SUDEP Aware, which together reach out to research teams from many countries and over 60 experts from around the world, enabling effective distribution. The SUDEP Global Conversation project produced 3 books since 2005, but made the decision to go online in 2014 as scientific publications have increased massively in recent years.
Jane Hanna, SUDEP Action and co-editor of the SUDEP Global Conversation, said: “We are able to reach audiences across the world by working closely together and having international support from the IBE. The SUDEP Global Conversation partners are also pleased to work with The Anita Kaufmann Foundation and Cassidy Megan, founder of Purple Day®, to bring greater awareness of mortality in epilepsy around the world via the distribution of bookmarks and posters directing the public to the SUDEP Global Conversation resource”.
The IEC is organized by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE). It is a major biennial event and is recognized as a landmark in the calendar of epilepsy specialists worldwide. In 2011, Rosey Panelli, SUDEP Action and co-editor of SUDEP Global Conversation, received the Ambassador award at the IEC. In 2013, Jane Hanna, SUDEP Action and co-editor of SUDEP Global Conversation, received the prestigious Social Accomplishment Award. The IEC gives delegates from all over the world the chance to come together and network with fellow researchers, clinicians and healthcare practitioners.
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is when a person who has epilepsy dies suddenly and unexpectedly, with no other cause of death established. It accounts for the majority of deaths in people with chronic epilepsy. Deaths are also caused by accidents, status epilepticus, and suicide.
Available from the IEC in Istanbul 6-8 September, 2015:
SUDEP Global Conversation bookmarks - at the IBE stand, #17; and
SUDEP Purple Day® materials - at The Anita Kaufmann Foundation stand, #14.
For more information, visit:
SUDEP Global Conversation website www.sudepglobalconversation.com
SUDEP Global Conversation Facebook page www.facebook.com/SUDEPGlobalConversation
Epilepsy Australia www.epilepsyaustralia.net/
SUDEP Aware www.sudepaware.org/
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“Our Democracy” under attack by “Lone Wolves”?
Posted By: SydneyTrads 24 March 2017
The mainstream press can no longer deny the “new normal” of progressive Europe, which now evidently involves the slow-burn effect of the consequences of decades-old idiocrat immigration and citizenship policies pushed by the “enlightened” heirs of a “post national” West (n.b. by governments of the official left and reluctant “right” alike). They will complain about Donald Trump’s recent comments concerning the sorry state of the Swedish public square, and what it might teach those of us who sincerely care about the future security of our national homelands. But his detractors’ objections cannot deny the US President’s honesty, cover up his comment’s truthfulness or ignore the prescient nature of his foresight. “France is no longer France” he said while on the campaign trail in 2016; and this could be said of most countries in the liberal western portion of the European Union, the United Kingdom included.
Every week that now passes vindicates the critics of liberal modernity in the epicentre of its civilisational genesis: the north-western parts of the Old Continent. What we are witnessing has been predicted in the post–bellum era by the Delphic-like premonitions of against-the-grain reactionaries in the political and literary world, such as Enoch Powell and Jean Raspail; but, of course, the “sensible centre” no less than the lunatic progressive fringe continue to hold their respective noses at these two visionarys’ work and warnings – they do so at our peril, but despise us for protesting against their recklessness. Thus the de facto alliance between both wings of the establishment left and faux-right that kept Wilders at bay and will likely keep Le Pen out of office later this year. This is possible only if representatives across the entire mainstream political spectrum are more concerned about momentarily retaining executive power and legislative influence instead of securing the existence of their people and culture.
Jean Raspail, French author of “Camp of the Saints” (1976)
Thus the mental bulwarks of the upside-down Orwellian elite remain uncompromised by reality’s relentless rebukes – rebukes that are tempted by the naïve utopianism of geriatric flower-children who have worked their way into the halls of the establishment they once rebelled against, but now occupy, and whose power they defend with fanatical zeal. Lies are peddled as truth – if “diversity is strength” then “ignorance is indeed bliss” – while the bobble-heads of the mainstream press claim that evidence of one thing is actually proof of its exact opposite. This is the mind of a Mad Emperor-like collective entity whose apparent shamelessness would likely mute any embarrassment even if he were to be struck by the realisation of his nakedness.
Perhaps the most pervasive example of this is the constant refrain, repeated as if it were a mitigating factor, that the latest terrorist was a “lone wolf”. No doubt the intention here is to douse with iced water any growing retaliatory sentiment directed at the Petri dish from which the virus spread. But where a society seems to be plagued by multiple “lone wolves”, all of whom share a common or closely related ideological faith in the righteousness of their terror, then this attempt to portray the latest assailant as a mere outlier becomes absurd. Within hours of the yesterday’s London terrorist attacks, perpetrated, we are told, by yet another “lone wolf”, UK authorities have detained eight suspects in six raids for further questioning and investigation. How many “lone wolves” must we suffer, before patterns are recognised by our political betters? How long must we wait until those patterns are identified as products of a social policy that has been pushed largely without the consent of the public for decades?
The lesson is simple and should be obvious to all: the “lone wolf” threat is a far more horrific spectre than any corporate menace to society because the source of the terror is ephemeral and cannot easily – or at all – be quarantined in a way that will satisfy an egalitarian polity. This is because the motivation does not come from an organisation, but an idea, and while organisations can be broken up, ideas are nigh impossible to eradicate. Far from feeling relieved at media portrayals of the latest perpetrator as an “independent actor”, a sane government would turn its attention to the terrorists’ animating ideology itself, where it might be concentrated on the home-front, how its influence may be curbed or neutralised, which existing policies that aid and abet its spread are to be terminated, and how to prevent a certain class of persons who carry it in their hearts and minds from entering the national hearth. Any leader who has the courage and vision to venture down this difficult path will likely find himself at war with his own bureaucracy, as President Trump’s consecutive (and frustrated) attempts at a targeted travel ban have shown in the US.
And so we turn our attention to today’s cover story in The Australian which simply reads, “Attack on Democracy”. Really? Has the franchise been restricted? So soon? Such headlines only serve to highlight the irrelevance of liberal critics of the present mess and underscore the ineffectiveness of their proposed solutions. To start with, they have no conceptual understanding of their own subject matter. The possibility of living in a “democratic” country – in the classical sense of the term – disappeared when the currents of social atomisation and cultural bulkanisation became dominant social pathologies; indeed, the socially and morally corrosive effects of these trends have proven to be fatal even in small doses. Democracy was under “attack” long before the burgers of London were blown up in the ‘tube or mowed down in the streets by the agents of hostile cultures. Nevertheless, the commentariate is evidently reluctant to come to terms with the fact that the “political religion” of liberal modernity is itself responsible for the current horrors that the present Muslim mayor of London once described as a necessary concomitant of living in a multicultural and modern metropolis.
Enoch Powell, British conservative MP.
This reluctance to acknowledge the obvious by those who are supposed to be journalists of record is either due to their inability to think outside of the box of liberal orthodoxy (the consequence of which they ostensibly criticize), due to a consternated refusal by an inherently liberal press to admit the error of its socio-political assumptions, or alternatively, due to the simple stupidity of feckless cowards. Either way, such headlines are merely another symptom of the establishmentarian delusion of the continued legitimacy of the status quo. Today’s vaunted mass-democracy, by reason of its scale, is anonymous and therefore necessarily mediated by faceless bureaucrats; likewise, the multicultural yet deracinated model of this “democracy” incentivises tribalism along multiple fault-lines of identity politics. Contrary to what the editor of The Australian may be thinking, democracy in its current form might come under additional pressure only if and when the British Parliament decides to react by getting to the root of the problem: highly improbable given the totalitarian reign of liberal sensibilities within the Isles’ political culture.
Let us recall the levels of sympathy noted among UK Islamic and Middle Eastern communities for the militants of al Qaida in the not-so-distant past, and ISIS presently, or the not-insignificant numbers who have declared a preference to live under Sharia rather than the common law. While “not every X is like that”, relying on exceptions to shape social policy is foolish, and allowing native tolerance to effectively facilitate a platform from which malicious foreign contagions are spread, is suicidal. Liberal egalitarians will undoubtedly consider this to be a dangerously heretical proposition, but preventing the kind of attacks we have just witnessed in London may actually involve rescinding – or at least questioning – certain civic privileges that are currently extended to groups who have demonstrated a fundamental incompatibility with the naïve polities that have agreed to host them. As unpleasant as this may seem, such a move might be a necessary first step to reasserting just who and what is the “we” that sentimentalist mainstreamers ritualistically appeal to when attempting to feebly reinforce propagandised messages of “unity” in a rapidly fraying society. But that first step would naturally lead to serious questions being posed about the nature and limits of the democratic systems throughout the West. Generosity has its limits, and goodwill is not in inexhaustible supply; while all civil societies ultimately depend on trust, the vacuum left behind by its dissipation is often filled by decentralised will to power. Avoiding this spiral towards potentially violent nihilism will therefore naturally require a reappraisal of our boundaries: moral and civic as well as geographic.
Australia is not immune to the degenerative effects of large scale demographic shifts on the democratic system, especially due to its ability to deform civil society and corrupt institutions of cultural transmission. We’ve mentioned this before – years ago – in the context of the Coalition’s odd preselection processes which saw minority and ethnic candidates intentionally placed in strategic federal seats that have become “multicultural” hotbeds of “enrichment” and “diversity”. This was spearheaded then by the soon-to-be (ex-) Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who Miranda Devine earlier this year referred to as a “cuckservative” for his hard counter-propositional stance on many issues dear to his core electoral support base. Demographic revolutions have effectively threatened our democratic system of representative government far more than the radicals of the militant left, right, or the zealots of religious or secular fundamentalism alone. Multicultural policies have made a mockery of systems of government predicated on individualism and inclusion because they fail to appreciate the tribal nature of the newcomers; but those who propagate these policies most aggressively cannot be accused of being so ignorant: that the political left uses immigration as a political vehicle to entrench its electoral prospects into a permanent majority is well known from Washington to London and throughout the capitals of Western Europe.
The future of the Old Continent is symbolised in the now infamous image of the the young, petite Swedish parking attendant, giving tickets to a row of burned out husks of vehicles that were demolished after a violent riot reduced a once-tranquil nordic screetscape into a warzone. This is not the future that we want for our country. To avoid it, we need to start questioning the underlying assumptions, not only of the progressive left, but those who purport to oppose them but are unwittingly slaves to the same stale thoughtlines of leftist morality.
– SydneyTrads Editors
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Punk fans from all over the region made their way to Funk N Waffles in Downtown Syracuse Saturday July 8 to witness punk legends, The Undead. Fans showed up donned in spiked studded jackets, lots of black and some wore Misfits shirts to pay homage to former guitarist Bobbly Steele. The band arrived in perfect horror punk fashion, in their custom 1995 Fleetwood Hearse.
The Undead’s current roster consists of Bobby Steele (ex Misfits) on guitar and vocals, Joe Stoker drums, Diana Steele keyboards, vocals and guitar, and Jason Fresta on bass. The band was welcomed by an excited crowd as they took the stage. Bobby Steele and bandmates started the night off right with the classic “ When The Evening Comes” and then went right into their version of the Misfit’s classic “Spook City.” The band treated die hard fans to their spooky version of the classic song “London Dungeon.”
Bobby paused for a moment to tell the crowd that they would be playing some songs off their soon to be released EP titled Undead Summer. The upcoming release, as Bobby puts it, will be a tribute…Undead style to the old beach movies of the 1960’s. The band played the title track “Undead Summer” along with another to be released track “Oh, Frankie.”
After an incredible performance, the band ended the night with style by performing some of their famous classics “Life of Our Own,” Put Your Clothes Back On,” “Never Say Die” and one of my all-time favorites “In 84!” One thing I can say about Bobby and his band is that for the first time seeing them in more years than I care to count, The Undead deliver high energy and intense punk rock songs with precision and they definitely do not disappoint! I hope to see them again soon, especially when the new EP comes out!
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Baked! is Tasty But Not Quite Done at CMTF
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Yuchi Chiu, Janelle Villas and Devon Hayakawa in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
Considering that Illinois just legalized recreational marijuana, nothing could be more timely at the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival than a show about high schoolers who try run a THC infused bake sale. Baked! The Musical, with book, music, and lyrics by Deepak Kumar and Jordan Liu, is a hot ticket for just that reason.
Ryan Tang, Eunice Park, Anna Brockman, Devon Hayakawa, Murtaza Kapasi, Janelle Villas, Yuchi Chiu, Adit Marciano, Joselle Reyes and Vicky Snyder in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
Baked! Is a show that displays a lot of raw writing talent. The adorable cast engages the audience at every moment. But now that the purple haze of hype around the show has cleared, we can see that Baked! Is a loveable, hot mess of a show that needs a lot more refinement as it moves forward from this Festival.
Janelle Villas, Ryan Tang and Vicky Snyder in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
In Baked! Jane Huang (Janelle Villas) is a high school senior from a working class Chinese family in a small Midwestern town. She works in their bakery alongside her father, Mingli (Ryan Tang) and mother, Yunzhou (Vicky Snyder). Jane’s parents are very Americanized. So there is no real conflict over culture and values between Jane and her parents at the center of this show. It would be a lot more interesting if there were.
Devon Hayakawa and Janelle Villas in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
Jane has applied to go to Harvard on a full academic scholarship, but doesn’t get it. She doesn’t want to tell her parents that she let them down. So she lies to them and tells them she got the scholarship after all. The only problem is, she now has to come up with the two hundred thousand dollars it will cost to go to Harvard over the summer, so she can go to school without letting her parents know that she lied.
Yuchi Chiu and Devon Hayakawa in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
She enlists the help of her lifelong best friend, Kasey (Devon Hayakawa) to run a bake sale business with goods they will make when the shop is closed. But Jane and Kasey soon learn they can’t make enough money selling plain mochi. So when they discover that their classmate, “Z” (Yuchi Chiu), who has eschewed college ambitions for the drug business, is making a killing selling a new hybrid drug made from pomegranates, which they dub “indigranate”, they form a partnership with him to sell drug infused Chinese pastries..
Adit Marciano and Joselle Reyes in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
Up to this point, the show is chipper and upbeat. It gets darker and darker, however, as Jane abandons her principles to pursue her financial goals. She becomes very much like the central character in the movie 21, who loses his moral compass and ultimately discovers that there’s a price to pay for ill-gotten gains. The net tightens when Jane’s guidance counselor, Mrs. Friedman (Anna Brockman) gets a part time job with the local police, and gets involved with their investigation into a new rumored “drug ring”.
Ryan Tang and Vicky Snyder in Baked! The Musical, part of the 6th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Photo by Katy Campbell.
The main plot turns very absurd when Jane, in order to clear out her dispensary at an awkward moment, tells her customers that their drugs are no good. In doing so, she loses all her regular customers. So she decides in desperation that she is going to sell her product to the mob instead. The ”mob” in this town turns out to be an acronym for the Militant Originalist Brotherhood (MOB), an organization of Chinese former Pepsi employees who act like Italian gangsters, and want to sell Pepsi laced with drugs, just like Coca Cola used to do. This bizarre choice is funny in a random way, like a bad SNL skit. But it is also out entirely of keeping with the serious tone of the rest of the show. This isn’t the Chinese Dear Evan Hansen, where the complications in the plot all actually make perfect sense.
Let’s leave the plot aside for a moment, and discuss how the songs fit into the show. Normally, the scenes in a musical build to emotional peaks, at which time characters break into song because the level of heightened emotion in that moment demands more than speech can sustain. Putting songs at the right place in the story, called “spotting” songs, is essential to the flow of a good musical.
Unfortunately, this writing team misses numerous opportunities to insert songs where the emotional moment demands them. Jane’s mom does not break out into an impassioned song when she vents at Jane about how she let down the family business to do her own thing. At the end, when Jane supposedly has learned her lesson, she doesn’t sing about that either. The team generally ends their dramatic scenes after the emotional moment has passed without singing, then tacks on a sad song of self-reflection, sung to no one in particular. That just isn’t great musical theater structure.
There are other missed opportunities which stick out. There are lots of jokes about “baked” people. But nobody onstage ever appears to be stoned. It would be really funny to see some customers get high without realizing it. Also, why Z’s stoner customers would flock for edibles instead of what they are used to using is not explained. A song with a title like “It’s Sweet to Get High” would be a welcome addition.
Romance is always a reason to sing in a musical. It would add a lot of emotional interest to let Kasey end up falling romantically for Z or, more interestingly, for Jane…especially if she were afraid to express that friendship had blossomed into something else for her over time. But that opportunity to complicate the plot, and those relationships, is also left unexplored.
The holes in the show feel plugged only because the cast is so wonderful. Janelle Villas’s Jane is very real. Devon Hayakawa as Casey is both touching and funny in a deadpan way that made me think of Alex Borstein on Mrs. Maisel.Ryan Tang has a light comic touch as Mingli, and Vicky Snyder is emotionally powerful as Jane’s mom Yunzhou. Yuchi Chiu brings the perfect amount of devil-may-care to Z. But the real audience favorite is probably Anna Brockman as Mrs. Feldman. She gets all the funniest bits and delivers them brilliantly, adding a comic lightness to the darkest moments.
Director Taylor Stark balances the heart and humor of the performances very well. Keyboard accompaniment by author Jordan Liu as Musical Director brought out the best in his music.
The laid back humor in the dialogue and the emotional music are the two big strengths of this show. They have all the ingredients here for a really great little musical about the choices we make and the values which we hold important. This young team clearly has talent, but a lack of theatrical experience to shape their show. If they seek developmental guidance from a more experienced producing hand, they could end up with a quirky hit, like a Fun Home. But for now,Baked! The Musical is only half-baked.
Remaining performances of Baked! The Musical are February 15 at 3 p.m., February 15 at 7:30 p.m., February 18 at 8 p.m. and February 21 at 7 p.m. For tickets, visit www.cmtf.org.
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Jeffery Lyle Segal is a multifaceted theater artist who has worn many professional hats. He started as a musical theater performer in his teens. He attended Stanford U., Northwestern University, and SUNY at Binghamton to study acting, directing and dramatic literature. He also wrote theater reviews for The Stanford Daily and was Arts Editor of WNUR Radio at Northwestern. After college, he is proud to have been the first full time Executive Director of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater Company. He left them to work as a theater actor and director. His special effects makeup skills got him into the movies, working on the seminal cult horror film, Re-Animator.He also did casting for several important Chicago projects, sometimes wearing both production hats, as he did on Chicago’s most famous independent movie, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. While living in Los Angeles, he joined the Academy for New Musical Theater, where he developed two book musicals as a composer, lyricist and librettist, Down to Earth Girl (formerly I Come for Love, NYMF 2008), and Scandalous Behavior! (York Developmental Reading Series 2010). He wrote, produced and performed his song “Forever Mine” as the end title theme of the horror film, Trapped! He also has written songs for his performances in cabaret over the years, and the time he spent pursuing country music in Nashville. Most recently he created a musical revue, Mating the Musical, for the Chicago Musical Theater Festival 2016. In NYC, he has attended the BMI musical theater writers’ workshop, and the Commercial Theater Institute 14 week producer program. He is currently creating a company to develop new musicals online. He still keeps up his makeup chops, working with top doctors in NYC and Chicago as one of the country’s most highly regarded permanent cosmetic artists (www.bestpermanentmakeup.com) and as a member of Chicago local IATSE 476. www.jefferylylesegal.com
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Rest of world: 270 – 1000 DKK depending size of package (Shipment quote will feature on order before checkout)
Pulcina Espresso Coffee Maker, 3 Cups quantity
Categories: Kitchen, New In SKU: MDL02/3 B
Egg Cup 29 DKK 220,00
9090 Espresso Coffee Maker, 6 Cups DKK 1.325,00
Ottagonale Tray DKK 1.025,00
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Twilight Breaking Dawn Sweepstakes
Enter the #Twilight Breaking Dawn sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for two to the Premiere in Los Angeles, California.
Eligibility: open to permanent legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia (excluding residents of Puerto Rico and US Territories and Possessions). Entrants must be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older at time of entry.
Entry Dates: begins on January 3, 2012, and ends at 11:59:59 PM EST on March 5, 2012
How to Enter: visit www.breakingdawnpremieresweeps.com
Entry Limit: one entry per person.
One (1) Grand Prize: a trip for two (2) to the Breaking Dawn Part II Premiere in Los Angeles,CA; two (2) round-trip, coach-class airline tickets on an airline of Sponsor’s choice to and from Los Angeles from the major U.S. gateway airport closest to Grand Prize Winner’s residence; and transportation for two (2) to and from the hotel of Sponsors choosing and the airport in Los Angeles. Total ARV of Grand Prize: $2,000 USD
Three (3) First Prizes: a trip for two (2) to Queensland, Australia consisting of two (2) round-trip, coach-class airline tickets on an airline of Sponsor’s choice to and from Brisbane, Australia and the major U.S. gateway airport closest to First Prize Winner’s residence; two (2) coach-class airline tickets to and from Brisbane and one or more Australian destinations included in the trip to be determined by Sponsor; seven (7) nights hotel accommodations for two (2) people at hotels selected by Sponsor; one or more tour experiences at Australian points-of-interest as determined by Sponsor; and (v) ground transportation to and from all airports and hotels (ARV of each First Prize: US $10,000.00)
One Hundred (100) Second Prizes: a collectible prop replica replica of Bella’s Wolf and Heart bracelet. (ARV $30.00 USD).
Drawing Date: on or about February 19, 2012
Rules: https://breakingdawnpremiere.brandmovers.net
Jamie Herda says
It says a code is required???
Send an email to [email protected] with “Code Request” in the subject line.
April Morrison says
Yes, I saw that in the official rules. I haven’t heard back yet. Maybe I should not have put anything in the body of the email?
Sweetie says
I haven’t heard back either. I didn’t put anything in the body of the email.
Valerie L says
Glad to know I am not the only one
Monica Y. says
I got a response within 24 hours with a code I didn’t put anything in the body of the email either.
Did it go on your spam? I think I sent 3 or 4 emails and still no code.
Monica Young says
No, surprisingly it went in my regular inbox I have AOL. Message was vague though all the body had was a code.
who was the sender? I search under code and under breaking… and nothing
unfortunately I have already deleted the email. If I recall it was from a womans name (first and last?) Sorry. I would try sending it again, maybe they are just behind or something??
Collene says
I got my codes this morning. Both emails I got had the same code so I’m assuming it’s a generic code. The code I received was VW7KTW.
That was the code that I just received too, so if anyone didn’t get a code yet, I’d try that one.
It works thanks for the code. Good luck to everyone
Melinda McAfee says
This one needs a code. Bummer.
The code from Collene works! Thanks Collene!
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