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Irresistibly Undeniable by Zoey Derrick- Cover Reveal
Title: Irresistibly Undeniable
Author: Zoey Derrick
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Release Date: October 10
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She was his best friend’s chubby sister.
He was the star football player.
It never made sense that he would want her, but he did.
It’s been ten years since Dyson Cole walked out of the barn after taking Ireland McKidd’s innocence with him.
Another notch in his belt.
Then he was gone.
Ireland has lost everything she’s ever cared about. She’s trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart, when the last person to obliterate it barges back into her life – literally.
Dyson has everything – money, power, sex appeal – a real life Adonis and women line up outside his door. But he’d gladly give up his whorish ways for the one woman he walked away from.
She’s wrecked, broken, a shell of the girl he once knew.
He’s incapable of ignoring what she means to him.
She’s irresistible.
He’s undeniable.
Best Selling Erotic, Paranormal and Contemporary Romance author Zoey Derrick comes from Glendale, Arizona. Zoey, was a mortgage underwriter by day and is now a romance and erotica novelist full-time. She writes stories as hot as the desert sun itself. It is this passion that drips off of her work, bringing excitement to anyone who enjoys a good and sensual love story.
Not only does she aim to take her readers on an erotic dance that lasts the night, it allows her to empty her mind of stories we all wish were true.
Her stories are hopeful yet true to life, skillfully avoiding melodrama and the unrealistic, bringing her gripping Erotica only closer to the heart of those that dare dipping into it.
The intimacy of her fantasies that she shares with her readers is thrilling and encouraging, climactic yet full of suspense. She is a loving mistress, up for anything, of which any reader is doomed to return to again and again.
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BBWN Bites: Alaska Joins the Broadband Union, Comcast Buys WiFi Guys
Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/2/2019
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MTA Fiber Holdings (a wholly owned subsidiary of MTA) plans to build AlCan ONE -- Alaska Canada Overland Network -- an all-terrestrial fiber network to connect Alaska to the contiguous US (and beyond). The fiber network will initially have capacity of more than 100 terabits per second, according to MTA. It then will be expanded and bandwidth increased as required, said MTA CEO Michael Burke. Construction, which has already begun, should be completed by mid-2020, MTA said. Today, MTA pays "significant broadband transport fees to other carriers to facilitate high-speed access for its membership," the company said. By constructing its own network, MTA predicts lower transport expenses, a secure and reliable route to the contiguous US and a stable Internet transport connection for its long-term investment. Added Burke:
“This new terrestrial network will ensure the future viability and growth of the Internet in Alaska. Alaska's leaders have talked about a terrestrial fiber optic path out of the state for more than 20 years. We are pleased to be the ones to be able to make this a reality. This will be a major win for the people who live, play and work in Alaska, supporting business, job growth, and ultimately, the state’s economy."
Beautiful, Cold & Unconnected
Alaska is full of high-speed skiing and dog sledding, but not high-speed broadband. MTA expects to change that with a new network deployment, slated for completion in mid-2020.
Comcast Business acquired Deep Blue Communications, which manages WiFi network planning, engineering and installations across multiple verticals such as hospitality, retail, marinas and entertainment venues. Customers include Marriott, Wyndham, Best Western, Choice Hotels and Omni Hotels -- all of which require 24/7 reliable, acceptable-speed broadband for guests ranging from business professionals to vacationers. Details were limited: No info on financial terms, the number of Deep Blue employees who will move to Comcast Business, how Deep Blue will operate (as a separate division or melded into Comcast), or the role Deep Blue CEO Brian Epstein will or will not play post-acquisition. Service providers increasingly use WiFi as a way to help subscribers differentiate or keep their customers happy (by allowing shoppers or diners to connect while waiting or eating), to cement customer relationships (via whole-home connectivity) and to generate good will (such as providing free WiFi services to community areas like parks or downtown gathering venues to government customers).
Emtelle, a British manufacturer of blown fiber, cabling and ducted network solutions, today launched a flexible direct burial solution dubbed FibreFlow WebFlex, designed to simplify branching microproducts when deploying FTTx networks. CityFibre recently awarded a multi-million-pound contract to the global manufacturer for a variety of products that will be used for the fiber-only wholesaler's ambitious UK broadband deployment plans. These include Emtelle's uPVC primary duct and Polyethylene Micro-Duct solutions.
Elsewhere in Europe, Germany has one of the largest broadband markets, according to a new report by BuddeComm, which creates a lot of country-specific research. Germany, which is dominated by Deutsche Telekom, has a mix of VDSL and Gfast plus an expanding investment in vectoring VDSL, as well as "progressive" investment in DOCSIS 3 and D3.1, the report said. For their parts, Vodafone Germany plans to reach 25 million premises with its 1 Gbps services by 2025, and NetCologne is investing €100 million in Gfast and FTTP, Budde research found.
Hulu's subscriber base hit 28 million in the United States, an increase of 40% (or about 8 million people), compared with last year. To grow its ranks, Hulu slashed the price of its base, ad-supported plan to $6 monthly at a time when Netflix increased its fees. In addition, Hulu bundled its video service at no extra charge with Spotify's premium music offering. Of the 28 million, about 1.3 million are individuals testing the waters via Hulu's free trial, the company said. Hulu's paid subscribers, then, add up to 26.8 million at year-end 2018 versus 23 million at year-end 2017. Hulu, which is only available in the US, has seen its user base increase 133% over the last five years; Netflix, which is available in a growing number of countries worldwide, saw its US base increase 75% in that same timeframe.
All You Can Watch, All the Time
Of the 28 million Hulu subscribers watching old and new content on Hulu in 2018, about 1.3 million take advantage of the "Free Trial" offer, according to execs at the SVOD provider.
Huawei this week named Haosheng ''Hudson'' Liu its new Australian CEO. Before becoming the top exec at Huawei Australia, Liu held similar positions at the Chinese giant's operations in Indonesia and Belgium offices; he began his career at Huawei in 1998, according to his LinkedIn profile. Australia's government banned Huawei's participation in the country's 5G rollout, making Liu's job challenging, wrote the Sydney Morning Herald. Outgoing CEO George Ji Huang, who had the role since February 2018, leaves with posted profits of $29.3 million for 2018 and an 18% increase in revenue to $735 million. After-tax profit grew 89% from $15.6 million.
Keymile recently began offering MileGate 2042, a distribution point unit (DPU) with eight Gfast ports with profile 212a. MileGate 2042 is optimized for ultra-broadband FTTB applications, giving eight subscribers data rates previously feasible only via a direct optical fiber connection and pre-installed copper pairs. While the DPU supports Gfast with both 106a and 212a profiles, at the higher profile MDU subscribers attain an aggregated data rate of about 2 Gbps; with the earlier profile, customers get almost 1 Gbps aggregate speed. By configuring the Gfast interface's ratio of downstream to upstream data rate, operators can provide symmetrical transmission rates necessary for cloud, business or other services such as video-creation. Because Keymile designed MileGate 2042 for MDUs, the Micro-DSLAM does not require pre-assembled cabling and operators can install it on a basement wall without any additional housing. The housing cover is lockable and protected by a sensor that alerts if someone attempts unauthorized access. It can be used in a star or ring structure, and connects to optical fiber networks via 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet or GPON. Dasan Zhone Solutions acquired Keymile in 2018; the deal was finalized earlier this year. (See Dasan Zhone Snaps Up Keymile.)
Huawei Finds a Home With Consumers, Says Q1 Revenue
CityFibre's Eco-Friendly Fiber Study Creates Gfast Foes
Pay-TV Subs (& Cablecos) Love OTT Partnerships
— Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News. Follow us on Twitter or @alisoncdiana.
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Home » Latest Reviews » Edna & Harvey – The Breakout: review
Edna & Harvey – The Breakout: review
Posted by Ian D in Latest Reviews, PC, Reviews | 0 comments
Format: PC
Unleashed: February 11th
Publisher: Lace Mamba Global
Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
Site: http://edna.daedalic.de/?lang=en
Despite waking up in the padded room of an asylum, Edna is sure she isn’t crazy and Harvey (her talking stuffed toy) agrees with her. The scene is set for Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, a point and click adventure game created by Germany based developer Daedalic Entertainment and originally released in several other countries that has finally seen an English translation.
Following the more traditional style of the point and click genre, the game offers up action buttons to dictate whether Edna will use, pick up, look at or talk to any object or person within the game, though the shortcut of right clicking to do the most obvious thing also exists. Interaction never goes beyond these boundaries save for occasional time-based actions being required in certain situations as you explore the 120 rooms.
While the bulk of the game is set within the asylum in which Edna is a patient, there are also sections where Harvey will draw Edna into her past to re-live actions she performed as a child both to help her regain her memory of just why she is trapped, and also to gain ‘skills’ that will help her make progress – such as the ability to bite toenails off and use them to unscrew nails.
Here is the first of many rooms you will find yourself in.
The visual style of the game is that of all characters and backgrounds being drawn by hand. Not particularly well drawn by hand. It’s probably aiming for a particular style (reminiscent of interactive Flash movies from the late 90s) but in a retail release it comes across as slightly sloppy rather than artistic. While others may find it adorable or charming, we found the inconsistencies in quality – and the more than a little shaky sprite movement – a disappointing distraction.
The music and voice acting are the two stand out areas, with the actress playing Edna in particular doing a great job as she jumps between accents or intonations from interaction to interaction, while the score shifts from calming melancholy to eerie wailing medleys befitting the theme of each location well. On occasion Harvey can tend to sound a little too much like Bugs Bunny channelling Roger Rabbit, but that may have been on purpose.
The plot and characters of the asylum are suitably quirky, such as two people of different skin colours that believe they are conjoined twins or a manic depressive that Edna keeps accidentally almost pushing to suicide. There is a heavy slant on comedy and silliness; but still there are darker sides to the plot as you discover the truth about Edna’s past and her connection to Dr. Marcel, the asylum owner.
It’s just as well that the game does fall back on a more serious story as the humour, while funny at first, does wane a little eventually. We put this down to it playing the same angle every time: straight-faced insanity. Saying something stupid or weird without sounding stupid or weird is funny. A few times, at least. The same goes for straight-faced breaking of the fourth wall. But both styles of comedy are far too easy. There are some excellent jokes and observations, but not nearly enough of them.
A similar problem applies to the gameplay. There are two main types of point and click game: those where thinking logically can see you through, and those that have thrown logic out the window and force frequent use of the ‘use everything with everything’ last resort to find a hint on what to do next. Sadly, Edna & Harvey belong in the second column.
To be clear: it is not the same as being stuck by a tricky puzzle that you can eventually think your way out of. It is being stuck because it isn’t clear what to do or how to do it. Beyond the ultimate goal of escaping the asylum, many mini-tasks that you will easily label yourself (such as ‘how to get person A to let you change the TV channel’ or ‘how to get past Person B into the couch fort’) won’t seem to have a greater purpose until eventually you stumble upon the one person in the asylum who details the perfect escape plan; but even after that, individual puzzles still frequently lack logical (and thus achievable) solutions through anything other than guesses.
The last complaint is poor quality assurance within character interactions. It’s possible to get trapped within long-winded conversations that you’ve previously heard despite already moving the story along. For example: you can ask a crazy professor type character if you can borrow his laundry ticket and listen to him explaining why he won’t give it to you, even after he has done so.
Overall, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout lacks significant polish for a full retail release priced at £19.99 (even with soundtrack and poster included) and would have been better served as a cheaper digital release. It may still appeal to dedicated lovers of the genre or those that will fall in love with the visual style or setting (there will be a few), and is a pretty lengthy adventure. The mass market however, and those who expect a higher calibre of game for their money, will need to look elsewhere.
Written by Ian D
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MAGNUM OPUS: A Retrospective
The People Movers
Brooklyn Studios for Dance
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 8:00pm daily through April 14, 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/magnum-opus-retrospective-by-celine-nee-de-la-croix-tickets-58943869701
In 2018, The People Movers’ choreographer and artistic director Kate Ladenheim and performer–designer Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs devised a collaborative project titled OH, CELINE and its heroine, Celine (née De La Croix). This fictional Brooklyn-based avant-garde dancer was conceived as a hilarious yet sincere caricature of a downtown artist. Through a sequence of events – sometimes harrowing, sometimes funny – the clueless New Age-y diva evolved into a provocative, Borat-like figure through whom her creators set to unmask the power structures in the contemporary art scene and our society at large. Over the last few months, Celine’s experiences unveiled through a long series of disarmingly pretentious social media posts, a mystifying art film, and surprising live appearances — all of which inspired unexpected reactions from the audiences. Now, Landenheim and Lynn-Jacobs present a look at their heroine’s journey in MAGNUM OPUS: A Retrospective, a multidisciplinary evening of solo performance combining theater, dance, and scenic installation, presented by Brooklyn Studios for Dance.
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A’Namaa Poultry, Meethaq sign RO 50m project finance deal
A’Namaa Poultry Co SAOC and Meethaq, the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman from Bank Muscat, signed agreements on June 20, 2017 to successfully conclude long-term financing facilities of RO 50 Million to finance the biggest “Poultry Project” of the Sultanate with a poultry meat producing capacity of 60,000 MT p/a, near Ibri, in Al Sawmahan Water catchment area. The Project will comprise of 240 poultry houses in addition to a Hatchery, Feed mill, Processing plant, Water treatment plant, other utilities and administration block.
Eng Saleh Mohammed al Shanfari, Chairman, A’Namaa Poultry, and Sulaiman al Harthy, Deputy CEO Meethaq Islamic Banking, signed the financing agreement at a ceremony.
Eng Saleh Mohammed al Shanfari said, “the company is pleased to sign the financing facility with Meethaq Islamic Banking and we look forward to mutually beneficial deals in future.” Successful closure of this business deal clearly indicates availability of Shari’ah compliant financing facilities in Oman reducing the need to depend on external financing for major projects which will contribute significantly to the growth of the company and implementation of its business plans.
Shanfari explains that during year 2016, significant developments took place and Oman government has taken a strong initiative on the food security of the country under Tanfeedh initiatives (National Program for Enhancing Economic Diversification).
A new project, A’Namaa Poultry Company SAOC, came into being (to set up a fully integrated poultry farm, with 60,000 MT per year of poultry meat production capacity) to reduce reliance on the imports of the basic food ingredient like chicken meat. Eng Saleh Mohammed al Shanfari also thanked the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Regional Municipalities, Ministry of Housing, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Environment, management of Tanfeedh Program and Meethaq Islamic Banking for their support to the project.
Eng Yaqoob Mansoor al Ruqaishi, GM project emphasised that the project enjoys strong sponsors’ profile strong investors’ profile including 80 per cent shareholding from Sultanate’s investments arms & sovereign funds i.e. Oman Food Investment Holding Co SAOC, National Industrial and Resources Co LLC, Civil services employee pension fund, internal security services pension funds, Oman National investment Development Co and A’Saffa Food SAOG.
He further elaborated that the project aims to add to the Sultanate’s goal in diversifying the economic resources & generating new employment opportunities for Omani youth along with learning, and development of Omanis’ skills.
Sulaiman al Harthy, Deputy- CEO Meethaq Islamic Banking, said, “Meethaq is proud to successfully close the long-term financing facility for A’Namaa Poultry. Meethaq is grateful to the Government of Oman and the management of A’Namaa for the confidence reposed in the bank. As the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman, Meethaq takes pride in partnering with economically important and viable projects and the association with A’ Namaa will further strengthen this approach. During the past few years, we have been successful in financing a number of unique industrial projects in various fields.
The success of Meethaq stems from its commitment to offer world-class Islamic banking service to customers. Meethaq is contributing significantly to the growth and development of the Omani banking sector and we are witnessing an upswing in Islamic finance and investment compatible with the provisions of Shari’a laws. We see a growing interest among customers to take advantage of the opportunities offered by Islamic banking and finance.
Source: Oman Observer
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In coat and heels, Ana burst into the entrance hall of the school building. She struggled to close her umbrella, then hurried—knock knock knock against the parquet—down the corridor of closed offices. Her meeting had spilled into the late afternoon and she was late in picking Damir up. She had called the school from the office, from the tram, from the wet pavements near the school house, and no one had bothered to pick up, no one had bothered to return her messages, no one had bothered to show any acknowledgement whatsoever that a child had been left alone on the premises. Over and over again she pictured Damir walking off into the rain or getting into the back of a stranger's car, but she covered these fears with a tight steel lid and focused instead on hating the incompetence of Sarajevan officials.
The third door to her right stood ajar and she pushed it open with her fingers. Inside, the white walls glowed bluish with the light of day. A desk sat in the center, and by the windows, a large woman stood observing the rain and the bobbing branches outside. Her arms hung before her, hands clasped at the crotch.
Ana knocked against the doorframe.
The woman turned and took an in-breath. "Are you Damir's mother?"
Damir's crying face flashed before her eyes and she strode into the room. "What happened?"
"The school day ended two hours ago."
Ana's concern vanished. The school day had in fact ended just over an hour ago. She had glanced at her watch before stepping into the schoolyard.
"My watch must be slow," she said. Then, thinking better of it and remembering her tendency to grip things by the neck before their time, she added, "I'm sorry. I had a situation at the office and could not get here sooner. I left several messages but no one responded."
The woman's eyes dropped and she stepped to her desk to straighten a few files. Rain pattered against the windows. She grabbed a pair of scissors at the edge of the desk and slid them into the pen holder.
Ana waited. Then, "If you point me in the direction of my son, I'd be happy to get out of your way."
"Your son"—the woman looked up as if she had been waiting to say her piece—"is being entertained by Milan Ibramovic, the second-grade teacher, who is a man with a family, and whose wife and children are probably wondering if something happened to him on the way home for their evening meal."
The lawyer in Ana wanted to reply that they need not fret, since we lived in an age of telephones, and cellular ones at that, but she straightened her spine, gave a hollow apology, and repeated that she had left several messages and that, to her dismay, no one replied.
The woman pursed her lips as if sucking on a sour candy. "I'll get him. There is no point in having you wander aimlessly around the school."
Ana stepped into the hallway, bothered, clutching her purse to her side as if she were still avoiding pickpockets on the tram. The stress of the day had gotten into her neck and shoulders, and the last thing she needed was a life lesson from the school secretary.
The architect had been positively vile in the office today: he had accused her of not doing her job, he had gesticulated like a madman, he had left the room. She was a lawyer in urban planning, and she had found yet another problem with the residential housing project the architect-engineer-surveyor team was planning next to the site of the future expressway. It was the architect's problem, not hers. Yet the man—much like her ex-husband—had a way of blaming her for his mistakes.
Ana's ex-husband Goran had been misunderstood, messy-haired and unhappy. He believed the world owed him pearls and emeralds because he had graced it by crawling out of his mother's vaginal tract.
Ana had fallen for him out of rebellion, rebellion at thirty one, and she had relished raising her chin up at her Muslim aunts and telling them that he was Catholic and eight years younger and that he was a musician who worked at his cousin's perfume shop to pay the bills. They had had a life full of outings and brandy and glittery excitement in those days, and they went to bars and restaurants and cafes and Goran kissed at her neck and she hurled jokes at his friends. She felt invincible, and she felt wanted.
Then they married. Then he started snapping at her. Then he wanted to be left alone in the spare room of their apartment and she was not allowed to touch his sheet music or his instruments or go near that one corner in the living room because she might trip the cords over with her feet. She felt lost. She felt disoriented. She did not feel like the same person she had once been, but like a bloated, clumsy, unnecessary presence. A pink fluffy pompom on the front of a house slipper. And when he started rushing out at night in his open coat without telling her where he was going, she remained in the silence of their lighted kitchen and finally understood the deep loneliness her late parents had talked about most of their lives.
The Bosnian conflicts started in '92. Gunshots rang through the streets of Sarajevo at night. Goran told her, his eyes on the ashtray, that she should travel north to Slovenia until it all subsided and stay with his mother and cousins. He could put her on a bus. She glared at him in disbelief. He wanted to be free of her, was that it? He wanted to go out at night and touch those sluts he'd been eyeing? She stayed in the apartment to spite him and held back tears as she washed her hair and neck and arms in the bathtub.
And then the clouds rushed in and covered their sky. Sarajevo went under siege. Snipers, like the eye of God, positioned themselves on mountains and in tall buildings and decided when to kill this one or maim that one. People dashed across city squares, and at the sound of a shot they fell with their market bags and did not move again. Weeks without electricity followed. Water shortages. The burning of car tires for heat. The boiling of tree roots for food. And Goran came to her and she felt sad for him—sad like a country mother in a head kerchief—and she let him hug her and kiss her and yell at her and fuck her by the bathtub on the cold tile floor.
And then, as if from the heights of Mount Olympus, the peace treaty descended upon them—they were told about it on the television—and all that remained in them was the hate for the Orthodox brothers who had attacked them and the persistent tendency to duck upon hearing the explosive backfire of a tailpipe.
Damir came three years later, with a squished-up face and tiny hands which gripped at her fingers and chin and breasts. She opened again suddenly to warmth and tears and laughter and love, and she burped him and cradled him and protected him from the grabby hands of old women in the streets. Goran faded away to his bars—she did not turn to watch him go—and within a year he asked for a divorce. She felt bitter, of course, but it was not the desperate bitterness and jealousy from before. Rather, it was a bitterness which congealed against the new steadiness of her mind like an icicle, and she helped him pack and waved him off and changed the locks and started the divorce proceedings. As the mother, she obtained full custody and a portion of every paycheck Goran received.
A few years later, while leading Damir by the hand, she saw Goran across the
street. She turned the boy's attention to the mannequin in the window—it was
posing with a tennis racquet—and when she looked again, Goran was gone. She felt discomfort then—a faint reminder of drab afternoons and helplessness and years gone by—but she was solid and unmovable now, and she let her discomfort go by the time she and Damir climbed the steps to their apartment and unlocked the front door.
A shuffling sounded down the hall. The school secretary in her sensible flats. Ana, tight-lipped, turned to read an announcement on the wall while the woman slipped back into her office. Then she heard that familiar giggle. Her cheeks and neck warmed and Damir's happy face flashed before her eyes before she spun around to face him.
He walked with a man. The man was fat and sported a comb over and a suit jacket. He rested a big hand on Damir's shoulder as they walked, and he leaned into the boy's face and said things of importance and the boy listened. Damir walked tall for the man, even though his general tendency was to slouch. Ana shrank at their intimacy.
"Damir," Ana said. She raised her angular chin up in defiance.
The boy turned and saw her. He broke from the man and ran to her with his backpack bouncing and slipped his arms inside her coat and squeezed her waist and pressed his cheek to her breast. She relaxed into his warmth—a smirk pulled at her lips—and she ran a hand through his hair and kissed the crown of his head. His hair felt rough; he had likely played hard today.
"Mama, mama," he said. He twisted his head to look up into her face and poked her in the breast with his chin.
"What?" She laughed and pressed a hand to her chest to soothe the spot.
"Do you know who the dictator in Spain was?"
She felt playful, like a child revealing a big dark secret, and she leaned into his face so that their noses almost touched and said, "Franco."
"You know!" He was delighted. He let her go and turned to face his teacher and stood up straight and slipped his thumbs beneath his backpack straps. "She knows!"
"Your mother is a smart woman." The man stepped up, stomach first.
There was a sleaziness about him—testosterone doused in cologne—and she disliked him instantly.
The man nodded his approval and crossed one arm across his chest, hooked his elbow in it, and rested his face in his hand. He looked uncomfortable and ridiculous in the pose and his jacket stretched tight across his shoulders. "But does she know"—he squinted his eyes—"does she know the year that Franco died?"
Her jaw tightened. She had little patience for being tested. She pulled a folded-up raincoat from her purse, knelt down, and began to adjust it over Damir's head. She muttered, "One has a hard time keeping up with the politics of this country, much less those of other regions."
The man fell silent. Then he plunged his hands into his trouser pockets, jingled his coinage, and said, "Very true, very true."
"Well"—Ana grabbed her umbrella from the floor, rose to her feet, and took the boy's hand in hers—"thank you kindly for your multitude of attentions, but we must be off."
The secretary, complete with jacket, purse, and keys, exited her office and turned to lock the door.
Ana eyed her and continued in a flat tone, "We know that you have a wife and children and that they have been waiting for you for their evening meal and that they're likely wondering if something happened to you on the way home from school."
The secretary's looked at her in horror. Ana felt a jolt of amusement.
"What?" The man frowned, glancing back at the secretary as well. "No, no, no, no, no. I often stay late to prepare for the morning. Damir helped me prepare tomorrow's lesson. Didn't you, my boy?"
Damir beamed. Ana pressed him to her side a bit more roughly than usual.
"Your car is not parked too far from here?" the man wanted to know.
"I don't have my car."
"You mean you will walk?"
"I do."
The secretary was having some trouble with the lock. Ana felt tempted to come to her aid: the woman was kind enough to teach her a life lesson, the least that she could do was show her how to lock a door.
"You cannot take him out in this," the man said. "I will give you a ride."
"You will do no such thing."
"I insist."
"I insist that you don't."
"But think of Damir, think of the boy. He'll be soaked through and through, and when he comes down with something in the morning, what will you and your husband do?"
"We've been through worse."
"Mama," Damir tugged at her hand. "I'll be soaked through and through."
Was the universe mocking her?
"Look," the man who couldn't get a clue continued. "It's no trouble. No trouble at all. I'll get my coat and pull the car around. We'll have you back at your place, dry and safe, in no time. The rain's furious today." He gestured toward the windows near the main doors. "Furious."
Everyone turned to look. As if Mother Nature had heard him, a powerful rush of water hosed over the glass. Perhaps he was right. Damir would get soaked. Ana's breath grew shallow. She hated giving in. She noticed the secretary looking at the windows, looking at her, looking at the man's greasy comb over. It occurred to her that she might get a smidgeon of pleasure from this situation yet.
"Fine," she declared.
The secretary's chin quivered in humiliation. She locked the door with sudden force, pushed past Ana, and headed toward the main doors.
Minutes later, Milan Ibramovic eased his old Volkswagen into the school driveway and parked near the awning. He hopped out and, covering his head with a folded newspaper, ran round the car to open doors for them. The gesture was impractical and unnecessary and Ana stumbled over him to get into the front and almost cursed under her breath.
Once inside, she flipped down the mirror and wiped away the water droplets from her cheeks with her fingers. Then she scrutinized the dusty dashboard and the pine freshener hanging from the rearview mirror. Folk music—a man's wavering remixed voice—played on the radio, and as the teacher adjusted himself behind the wheel, Ana averted her eyes. It was the painfully traditional music of the illiterate masses, and it spoke of tears and brandy and pain and of women who abandoned you after making you love them. She wondered whether her son's teacher had ever been young and interesting. She wondered where he had been when she had gone to rock concerts in her youth and sat on Goran's shoulders and looked at the stage over a sea of heads.
"It's about fifteen minutes away," she told the man and turned to look at Damir, who had opened his backpack and was rearranging its contents.
They drove toward Zvornicka Street. The wipers wiped frantically. The man sat leaning toward her, lopsided, as if the car's interior was too small for him. She kept her body pressed against her door. Outside, a stray dog sneezed into the rain.
"Damir was very helpful to me today," the man said, proud, puffed up, aware of his desire to please the boy, aware that his was a noble and gallant intention.
Instantly, Damir moved to the center of the back seat and poked his blond head through the space between them.
"We talked about a lot of things. Didn't we, Damir?"
"Yeah," her boy said, and his little voice went to the core of her, but she felt protective and hesitant and uncertain about the fact that it was being used in the presence of this man she did not like. "Mama," the voice continued and the little fingers grasped at the sleeve of her coat. "Did you know that all the girls in Spain wanted to be like the queen? Isn't that right, teacher?"
Milan Ibramovic glanced at her sideways to gauge interest and then began in a deep and self-important tone. "This is true. Queen Isabel, though. Not the current queen. No, no, no." A finger was shaken in her face. "During the dictatorship, there was a magazine called Y. Just like that. The letter 'y.' Because that's how her name was spelled. In the old Castilian. Not the new Castilian."
Was Damir truly finding all this interesting? She looked at his profile.
He gaped at the man—an orphan eyeing a feast—and then he remembered himself and closed his mouth and swallowed hard and turned to her with the most curious expression. It was an uncertainty, a need, a desire for her to confirm that what the man was saying was important and had value. The look both tugged at her and left her self-protective. It was the same look Goran would give her after fingering the strings of his guitar. It was a look she had learned not to give into, because it drained her muscles dry and because she could never satisfy what was behind it. But this was her child.
She paused, uncertain. She did not want to engage this man. He was arrogant and ignorant and he would push into her business the second she cracked the door open—and she had forgotten how to be friendly with grown men, in any case—but Damir still sat there, looking and needing and waiting. She wished that she could soothe him with the caress of a hand, with a kiss to the temple, but he wanted this, and her resolve broke and she softened and stopped pressing her body to her door and sat in the center of her seat and turned to the man and said, "How interesting."
And then it happened. The dam broke. He became animated and loud and boisterous and told her of the years of hunger in Spain and of the republicans in the hills and of Franco's televised funeral, and he spoke and spoke and spoke and spoke until the car was full of poverty and war and famine and fear and then he made a joke to Damir and glanced into the rearview mirror and ran straight through a red light.
The red minivan came from the right. It crashed into the front bumper and carried them all to the corner of the intersection where the Volkswagen hit a traffic sign. Ana's head swung forward and back against the headrest. A silence followed. Then someone honked somewhere, perhaps a pensioner who was late in processing things.
Milan Ibramovic—a flurry of concern and activity—leaned into her face with his hot breath. "Are you okay?" When she nodded, pressing her fingers to her temple, he looked into the back seat. "Are you okay?" he repeated. Then he was off—off to the front of the car—to crouch down and touch his hand to the wrinkled bumper.
Rain pounded against hood. Rain pounded against his bald head, ruining his combed over hairdo. He jogged to his seat, grabbed the newspaper and, covering his head, hurried back to the bumper.
Ana's unclasped her seatbelt and looked into the back seat. Damir sat in the corner with his knees to his chest and his face buried in his arms. Waves of fear and urgency flooded her torso and arms and she stepped onto her seat with a foot in order to push her body into the back but she hit her head against the hard ceiling and whimpered. Pressing a hand to her crown, she stumbled out her door and touched her palms to the car's windows and trunk to find her way in the rain. She opened Damir's door and pulled him into her arms. She had not lifted him in years and he was too heavy but she wanted his chest to beat against her chest and she wanted the warm litheness of his body. He wrapped his legs around her waist and buried his face into her neck and she held the back of his head with a hand like she had done when he was a baby.
A siren sounded nearby or perhaps far away and she looked around and around in the rain, down one street and then another, and she was not sure where she was anymore. The buildings stood blurry and stark and lifeless. Then she noticed the wetness of the rain and the chill against the back of her neck, and she thought that Damir might get sick and she thought that she must save him and she thought of snipers in the tall buildings and she crouched to slide him into the dryness of the car. He clung to her—his arms and legs would not let her go—and she stumbled a little and got in after him.
Martha Ferguson
Lines of Desire
The Spirit in the Wall
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CRUNCH TIME FOR COVE IN TITLE RACE IS COMING UP IN NEW YEAR SAYS DOUBLE GOAL HERO JORDON
COVE Rangers goal hero Jordon Brown has warned they will have to dig deep if they want to make 2019 a happy year for their supporters.
Cove ended 2018 with a 3-0 home victory over Huntly to remain on top of the Breedon Highland League.
While happy to be leading the title race, Jordon accepts Cove can't afford to take anything for granted with Fraserburgh, Brora Rangers, Formartine United and Inverurie Locos still hot on their tail as they move toward the final stages of the campaign.
"Everyone knows the crunch time of the season is this next five months or so," said Jordon, who netted twice in the win over Huntly.
"We still have a mammoth battle ahead if we want to get this bid to win the league title over the line. There is still a lot of games to played and plenty of points to be won - or lost."
Mitch Megginson also scored a late penalty as Cove overcame stubborn resistance from Huntly and also ensured they ended the year without conceding a league goal at Balmoral Stadium.
"We weren't at our very best but got another clean sheet and three goals, so are happy enough," said Jordon.
"The guys at the back don't get enough praise for the job they've done so far, which is why I was delighted to see Scott Ross voted man of the match.
"Not losing a league goal at Balmoral Stadium in 2018 underlines just how good they all are at their jobs."
Jordon is pleased to have made his own contribution with the two goals, although he accepts he had a helping hand from Huntly keeper Euan Storrier for the first.
The Huntly No1 allowed Jordan's shot from the edge of the area to squeeze through his legs and over the line to gift Cove an early lead.
Jordon said: "Some of the lads joked it was because I hit the shot so poorly it was too soft for the keeper to deal with.
"I'm not worried, I was just delighted to see it go in and ensure we had control of the game.
"If you don't shoot you don't score and I at least made sure the effort was on target.
"My second was an easier finish but that was only because Mitch was unselfish enough to cut the ball back to me when he could probably have scored himself.
"That's me up to 10 goals now, which is very pleasing.
"I want to stay involved in the starting side as we move into the new year and scoring goals will help."
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Home / News / Trump and the Disease of Middle-Class Leftism
Trump and the Disease of Middle-Class Leftism
Gearóid Ó Colmáin 19th October 2018 News 4 Comments 6,374 Views
As mid-term elections approach in the United States, President Trump’s political future is at stake. In this essay, I argue that these elections are not only about Trump’s future but the future of reason and civilisation in a world where madness has seized the reins of power.
This is perhaps the first time in modern history where expressing support for the US president could get you fired from your job, or abruptly excluded from polite company. Ask any respectable middle-class person what they think of Trump and you are sure to hear negative feedback: how could anyone defend such an awful and odious creature? Trump is racist. Trump is a misogynist. Trump is fascist. Trump is nasty. Trump is bad. Trump is a danger. Trump is stupid. There aren’t enough synonyms for bad in the thesaurus of left-liberal Trumpophobia. Yet, in many respects, Trump is, thus far, probably one of the greatest presidents in modern US history. Since coming to power, the prospects of total war with Russia have diminished; North and South Korea have declared an end to their long war; NATO has been weakened, and the prospects of a final Assad victory in Syria look promising. Oh, I realise that liberals reading this may now be a little upset, perhaps even lachrymose; but intelligent liberals – and there are many – will nevertheless appreciate some contextualisation.
As president of the United States, Donald Trump sits at the top of the global ruling-class hierarchy; yet he is constantly threatened by the rank and file of his government. Trump is a king in an era when divine-right no longer exists. He is surrounded by a globalist Deep State determined to undermine any attempt to weaken the powers of global institutions- ironically institutions the United States created after the Second World War.
By now, most people realise that there is an enormous gap between what Trump says and what he ends up doing. Trump threatened to wipe North Korea off the map, then went further than any previous president down the road of peace. Trump even praised the DPRK’s leader Kim Jong Un, saying he was genuinely admired by his people! But of course, the liberal leftist will guffaw and say, “ How can one possibly praise such a regime as North Korea!?”
Explaining the fact that North Korea lost a quarter of its population during the US-led bombing in the 50s; that US sanctions have isolated and impoverished the country; that South Korea has consistently threatened the North over the years with US-backed military drills; that in spite of having to defend itself for 70 years against the most powerful empire in world history, the tiny Korean nation has managed to provide high-quality free housing, education and health care to its people – such facts are of no interest to middle-class leftists.
A wise man does not waste time explaining such things to a liberal for the liberal only sees the surface of things: North Korea doesn’t have RocknRoll, Hollywood and LGBT parades, so it’s obviously a tyranny! Trump was the first president to acknowledge that the US is partly responsible for escalating tension in the Korean peninsula. What is obsequiously lacking in the mainstream media discourse on Trump is any inkling of logical subtlety. Trump has been elected, pompous leftists say, because of the ignorance of the masses. It never occurs to them that it is the ignorance and stupidity of left-liberal pseudo- intellectuals which have been the fons et origo of right-wing populism’s Will-to-Power.
Trump is the bogeyman of the liberal leftist. He advocates policies that promote the Middle Class, yet it is precisely middle-class progressivist ideology which opposes him. There are several reasons for this: Middle-class progressivists are what Lenin referred to as the vacillating class; they want to be seen as supporting the worker but always get into bed with the capitalists. If they support any worker’s cause at all, they always make sure it’s financed by some philanthropic sugar-daddy oligarch.
Middle-class progressivism is simply degenerate vanity – all form and no content. The election of Trump has enabled the exposure of middle-class leftism to much-deserved ridicule. Middle-class leftism has become the burlesque of our era. Activists recently interviewed Bernie Sanders supporters and asked them if they agreed with his policy of exempting families who earn under $50,000 per annum from tax. They all agreed but were shocked to find out that the policy had been proposed by Trump! If you asked a middle-class leftist whether they would support a policy banning cars and forcing everyone to use public transport to ‘stop global warming’, they would probably agree, until you tell them that such policies would make our capitals like Pyongyang!
Leftwing and right-wing populism
So, how should we understand this new phenomenon of elected leaders with popular support but overwhelmed by government intrigue and the hostility and treachery of their rank and file? What is shows is that the global power dynamic has changed. Oligarchs may have financial power, enough to brainwash entire populations through the mass media; but they are losing political power as the mass discontent votes for the ‘far right’ or ‘alt-right’.
We have seen this phenomenon work in favour of the left in Latin America. Venezuela’s former President Hugo Chavez had massive popular support yet the oligarchy he opposed remained in power, with large sections of the mass media under their control. When I visited Venezuela in 2010, it was difficult to find pro-Chavez media amid the constant US-backed propaganda from CNN in Spanish and Columbian right-wing media. I met advisors and close collaborators of the Venezuelan president who lived among the people. It was clear to me that the government’s ideology had not acquired cultural hegemony. Something similar is happening with right-wing populism in the United States and some European countries, though there are important differences.
The US war against Venezuela has continued under Trump and shows no sign of abating. However, one of the problems in Latin America is the influence of left-liberal discourse from America and Europe. For example, Hugo Chavez was influenced by French climate change ideologue Hervé Kemp. He failed to realise that, far from being a threat to capitalists, the climate change agenda is being promoted by the most ruthless and greedy capitalists who have ever existed. If the global warmers have their way, we will pass from monopoly capitalism to world-state capitalism where C02, the basis of life itself, will be controlled, harvested and sold as a commodity by carbon speculators. People infected with CO2itis just never seem to get that!
Yet, unlike Trump, Venezuela’s incumbent Nicolas Maduro is astonishingly unaware of this. In his 2010 film, ‘Occupy Unmasked’ Trump’s chief ideologue Steve Bannon shows how petit-bourgeois anarchists, financed by oligarchs, promote social chaos in the United States – to the benefit of crony capitalists. Bannon correctly points out that many of these youth are well-meaning but hopelessly ignorant of how the world works. Many of them have connections with Venezuela. Bannon’s film is an excellent overview of the cultural, political and ideological crisis facing the United States and the entire Western world. You can be absolutely sure that the average anti-Trumpist leftist has never seen it and many anti-Trumpists would simply not have the intelligence to understand if they did watch it!
Brazil’s Trump?
The preponderance of the societal left and their oligarch-funded agendas of human rights, gender theory and global warming, anti-racism and other forms of middle-class bienpensance has opened the door to reaction. We can see this clearly in Brazil. The rise of Bolsarano in the recent election is largely a result of the stupidity of liberal left ideology.
When the CIA was destabilising the country with mass protests in 2013, the liberal left ranted and raved about a ‘spontaneous uprising’ against ‘neoliberalism’, completely unaware of the danger posed by left-nationalism, albeit tame in the case of Brazil, to US interests in Latin America. My series of articles on the 2013 uprisings ‘Brazil’s Vinegar Revolution: Left in form, right in content’ published on Dissident Voice was the only analysis which described the confluence of class struggle and geopolitical agencies of globalisation. I predicted then that the idiocy of the left would open the door to the right. But I suggested the Empire would back more globalist candidates such as Marina Silva. She failed.
It is unclear if Bolsarano is really the candidate of the Empire. His homophobia and strong nationalist stance may not chime with globalist interests. His admiration for the right-wing thug and freemason General Pinochet, installed in Chile in the 1973 coup by the US government, Henry Kissinger in particular and the brutal US-backed military regime in Brazil does not bode well for Brazil’s future if he is elected president. However, we should not overlook the fact that both the Chilian and Brazilian dictatorships were overthrown with help from the US National Endowment for Democracy. Thugish and murderous regimes they most certainly were, but thuggery with a liberal democratic facade is far more propitious to imperial interests and worse again for the labouring masses.
Arte television subsequently made a documentary on the ousting of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. They interviewed one of her supporters who said, “ The right-wing are white, heterosexual men!”. So the white heterosexual male is the reason millions of Brazilians live in poverty!
Journalist Glen Greenwald says that the corruption of left-wing governments is partly to blame for the rise of the populist right. No! From Eastern European colour revolutions to the Arab Spring, ‘anti-corruption’ has long been the tool with which oligarchs manipulate popular power to overthrow governments hostile to their interests.
Had the left actually investigated the imperialist motivations for the ‘anti-corruption’ campaign in Brazil from 2009 to today instead of cheering on CIA-backed ‘spontaneous uprisings’, they would have been doing the poor a service.
And if instead of denouncing Bolsarano’s ‘homophobia’, Glen Greenwald exposed the LGBT movement’s links to paedophiles and elite backing from hyper-capitalists such as Soros, reaction would have less breeding ground in Brazil. Glen Greenwald’s brand of smug, middle-class leftism is the reason why workers in Brazil are voting for Bolsarano. Who can blame them?
In any case, terms such as revolution and reaction are meaningless in an age where revolutions are sponsored by those in power and reaction is simply a symptom of popular frustration and resistance, often woefully articulated.
The New York Times and its French equivalent Le Monde are the belligerent harpies of some of the most heinous criminals of our era; they present child-raping, head-chopping mass murderers as ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘heroes’. They promote sexual degeneracy and every type of pseudo-science capitalism can invent. For those schooled in the classics of Marxism, such values represent the far right. Christians would call it the far wrong!
Left-wing colonialism
It is hardly surprising that these ideologues behave in such a smug fashion; they are absolutely convinced of their moral superiority, even though when challenged, they invariably fall back on the effete postmodern doxa that ‘ there is no truth’. As I’ve argued over the years, middle-class leftism is imperialism with a human face. It is, however, a far more degenerate form of imperialism than that of the past; and here it is time to break another taboo of leftist bien pensance!
When European powers scrambled for Africa, they did so on the basis of their own intellectual, moral and technological superiority. They did not hide the fact that they felt entitled to rule over African nations and many of the colonialists felt they were doing good, as they were spreading Christianity and that aspect of colonialism is most certainly true. Christian missionaries such as Charles de Foucauld and Archbishop Lefebvre dedicated much of their lives to spreading the Gospel in Africa. They preached love and charity while secular leftist colonialists such as Jules Ferry propagated hate and racism.
On this day, Catholics celebrate the life of St René Goupil, a French Jesuit missionary who was martyred in Canada by Iroquois savages; they tortured him to death. The Iroquois savages of our time are the middle-class, gender-confused, ecological nincompoops protesting against Donald Trump! Sancta Renate ora pro nobis!
It should be repeatedly and vehemently proclaimed that some of the most notable supporters of colonialism, were leftists, such as France’s Jules Ferry – the architect of the French education system. But I have never seen any protests to remove his name from public life.
No one criticised President Francois Hollande when he paid homage to the racist ideologue in 2012. But there was uproar when President Trump criticised violence on all sides when leftists attacked protestors against the removal of the statue of US Confederate leader Robert E Lee. Lee, unlike Ferry, Robert E Lee sympathised with the plight of black slaves and opposed slavery
Lee believed that black slaves were better off in America than in Africa where many had already been enslaved and were often treated with equal if not worse brutality. He also hoped that Providence would liberate them. He was arguably far more humane towards black people than Jules Ferry
But Jules Ferry’s racism is tolerated because Ferry was an anti-Catholic freemason; and, as former French Minister for Education Vincent Peillon has argued, secularism is the state religion of France and the Free Masons are its clergy.
Neocolonialism is far worse than colonialism. Colonialism built cities and infrastructure; and most importantly in the case of French and Spanish colonialism, spread Christianity among backward and barbaric cultures.
Neocolonialism bombs and invades developing countries in the name of human rights. Need I point out to the good reader, once again, that in 2011 France’s ‘left-wing’ leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon DEFENDED NATO’s carpet bombing of Libya while the ‘far-right’ candidate Marine Le Pen opposed it. Donald Trump was not among the cheerleaders of the war. Before his election, Donald Trump repeatedly opposed US military intervention in Syria. He admitted the US was arming terrorists and spreading chaos and destruction throughout the region. Trump’s position on foreign policy was clearly far to the left of belligerent neoconservative/liberal establishment. It is the reason why astute observers welcomed Trump’s election while idiots raved about the ‘rise of fascism’.
Today, middle-class progressives are perfectly happy to see any African country bombed into the stone age if word and image can depict its leader as a ‘brutal dictator’ who is ‘killing his own people’. The ‘left-wing’ of middle-class leftism has a tried and tested technique of hiding under the table during outrageous imperialist bombing campaigns, then defending their actions when the country is destroyed. For example, Le Monde Diplomatique published almost nothing during the 6-month bombing of Libya in 2011; not one article about the war propaganda and lies used to justify the destruction of Africa’s richest nation. A year later, Le Monde Diplomatique actually defended the bombing, claiming that democracy had come to Libya! The left-liberal rag constantly pokes fun at philosopher and Zionist activist Bernard Henri-Lévy; yet fails to praise him for his ‘good deeds’ in Libya and Syria!
Middle- class leftism is all about prestige. Leftists hate the working class because they do not have the same level of ‘culture’. Workers have no time for rhetoric about the ‘public sector’ and ‘neoliberalism’ and migrant rights, feminism and contemporary art. Workers want jobs, a country they can call their own and real families with real men and real women as parents and children who respect their parents.
What horrifies middle-class liberals is that Trump behaves in a fashion similar to their condescending view of workers. He says what he thinks and not what he should think. Now the New York Times fears Trump might strike a deal with Iran.
It says:‘For Mr Trump’s advisers, the biggest risk at the United Nations General Assembly this year is the reverse of what it was last year: not that he will be dangerously undiplomatic, but that he will be overly enthusiastic about engagement with wily adversaries.’
Leftist drive for war with Iran
Liberals fear Trump might make a lasting peace with Iran. They understand that Trumpism has far more in common, mutatis mutandis, with Khomenism than with left-liberalism. Trump’s support for Christian Supreme court judges; opposition to globalist education; reigning in (in an extremely limited form) LGBTP madness; defence of science and criticism of neo-conservative wars makes him the inveterate enemy of everything liberal leftists stand for.
The New York Times says Trump has strengthened ‘hardliners’ in Iran. They know that many so-called hardliners are supporters of populism and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It is as though the New York Times fears Trump is deliberately strengthening hardliners in Iran.
Ahmadinejad clearly understands the reasons why Americans voted for Trump and the common enemies of Trumpism and Iran. Ahmadinejad is currently under house arrest. The elites governing Iran hate him just as much as the elites governing the United States hate Trump.
It is now undeniable that Jewish power in America is what is driving Trump’s belligerent rhetoric toward Iran. But Trump’s recent statements criticising the Iraq war ( a war for Israel)and his disappointment with American Jewish ingratitude for his pro-Israeli policies, indicate that a deal with Tehran may still be possible. As my recent documentary for Press TV ‘Culture of Resistance’ shows, many Iranian Jews support the Islamic Republic of Iran and would be prepared to fight on its behalf in a war against Israel. In the politics of the real, all is complex.
In his recent UN speech, the most significant lines went unreported by the media. Trump said, “ The US will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control and domination”. Then, of course, Trump went on to threaten military intervention in Venezuela!
President Rohani is making a big mistake in refusing to meet with Trump. The Rohani leadership is too close to globalist interests and is hedging its bets on an alliance with Europe. Iran needs a strong populist leader like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deal with Trump. In my recent trip to Iran, I was joined by many former US government officials from the Department of Defense, CIA and the US diplomatic corps. None of them support the left. All of them preferred Trump to Clinton. That’s because they understand how imperialism operates. Leftists have never understood anything, apart from their feelings.
A significant section of Trump’s support comes from people who want peace, diplomacy and the rule of law. In fact, the vast majority of Americans do not support foreign wars waged on behalf of special interests. They want jobs and infrastructure and social hope and they are exactly the kind of people you will find all over Iran and other states Trump-the-Zionist calls “terrorist” states.
Donald Trump is a walking contradiction. He is not a particularly well-educated man. Although many of his policies are good, he remains ‘one of them’ and does have evil elites such as Henry Kissinger and Sheldon Adelson on his side. We should not become cheerleaders for Trump. But we should try to avoid the Scylla of liberal Trumpophobia just as much as the Charybdis of right-libertarian Trumpophilia. One should rather see Trumpism as the symptom of a rupture in the Washington Consensus, a radical rethinking of America’s role in the world among a section of its ruling class; a redirection, albeit tentative, which, I have argued, may be more propitious to the survival of Western civilisation and human freedom than its liberal alternative.
Here we have simply pointed out the reasons well-meaning people are supposed to abhor him. We are supposed to abhor all the good things he has done. In 2016 I participated in a workshop in Belgium with former Ethiopian diplomat Mohammed Hassan. We both agreed that Trump represented a major shift in US imperialism. Hassan believes Trump studied the writings of Professor Chalmers Johnson, a political scientist who argued that the US empire was destroying America. Chalmers held that America would suffer the fate of Rome if it did not roll back some of its imperialist excesses. Hassen lamented the fact that few people seem to have actually read what Trump and Chalmers wrote about the state of the US empire.
Right now, as the US mid-term elections approach, the greatest threat facing America is not Donald Trump; it is liberal leftism. I am happy to say that, apart from his reckless policy towards Iran, Trump has been a far better president that I predicted. However, if the Democrats win the November midterm elections, the impeachment of Trump could follow. The Democrats have elite-power on their side and in today’s world of fake news, fake morality and fake politics, that may be all that matters.
Previous Wildcats and Persian Cats: Trump’s Twitter War on Iran
Next Love your enemy!Reflexions on the Pittsburgh massacre
Julie E Ball
I couldn’t agree with your analysis more. I used to have common ground with the left with regard to the worker, imperialism and an anti-war stance, but has been abandoned by the left a long time ago. It was never about these things anyway. I believe Marxism, Post-Modernism and fundamentalism are just means to an end. that end being totalitarian control. Hence, we see the unholy alliance of the oligarchy and crony capitalists, neo-cons, fundamentalists and cultural Marxists. These are just tools. I remember your series on Brazil and the Vinegar Revolution very well. I thought I was alone in my thinking until I found your series. So, just writing to say that your analysis is very much appreciated.
“… he remains ‘one of them’ and does have evil elites such as Henry Kissinger and Sheldon Adelson on his side…”
Re: Kissinger: it has been said that Mr. K. — who is on the boards of hundreds of international corporations, and very much a representative of the deep state — has been a regular White House visitor over the years, paying deliberate and select calls to all sitting presidents after Nixon, “advising” them as necessary when they are going “off-track” from desired scenarios a little too much. Politesse is usually the tone adopted, but a threatening one has no doubt been employed as well. (Some may recall when both Reagan and Pope John Paul survived assassination attempts a few months apart in 1981.)
What to make of Trump vis-a-vis Kissinger, then? While he was definitely not the candidate the elites wanted, Trump has been “allowed” some freedom as long as he carried out certain objectives. Hence some erratic, sometimes contradictory viewpoints and performance have been witnessed.
Personally, I think Putin is very much in charge of things on the whole, and practically the only true statesman in the world at this time. He is definitely a master strategist, as one would expect from someone disciplined enough to have attained a high degree of accomplishment in martial arts. My sense is that Putin (as a Libra subject) cares deeply about the fate and success of his own nation but also would like to effect some diplomatic coups in his relations with others on the world stage. I think Putin is leading the world to peace and prosperity, which also involves a “co-operative” relationship with Trump.
What?, “leftist drive for war with Iran”???
Maybe neo-liberal interventionists. NOT real leftists.
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21. Wiley Plus Stand--alone to Accompany
22. Trick or Treat! (Adventures for
23. Lucifera's Pet
24. Cellar Door Fall 2000 (University
25. Human Geography: WITH Wiley Plus:
26. Waiting for Erin
27. Human Geography: Culture, Society
28. WileyPLUS Stand-alone to Accompany
29. WileyPLUS/ WebCT Stand-alone to
30. Saga and Myth in Ancient Ireland
31. Critical Matrix: The Princeton
32. Speeches from the dock;: Or, Protests
33. Speeches from the dock, or, Protests
34. Speeches from the dock; or, Protests
35. The Bleeder and Other Stories
21. Wiley Plus Stand--alone to Accompany Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture 8th Edition (Wiley Plus Products)
by H. J. de Blij, Alexander B. Murphy, Erin H. Fouberg
CD-ROM: Pages (2007-07-26)
22. Trick or Treat! (Adventures for the Average Woman)
by Faraz Gafoor, Karin Rita Gastreich, L S Murphy, Bill Finnegan, Linda Boltman, Vicki Carroll, Erin Thorne, Gillian Scott, Kay Lawson, Karen Wodke
Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-10-15)
Asin: B0047GN6MC
‘Tis the season for all things spooky, scary, eerie and ethereal. Welcome to our 5th Halloween Issue with fear-filled fiction, boo-some books, poems for the pumpkin patch, and much more for the macabre-minded reader! We scored with wicked submissions from new writers’ strutting their horrifying stuff! For some, this is their first crack at the publishing game. For others, we offer a showcase for their terrifying talent! To do this, we continually need your support through the purchase of our literary product and passing the good word for others to do the same.
Let us know if you like this and other issues by sending us your comments to: ideagems@aol.com. Thanks for reading!
by M.T. Murphy
Asin: B00381B4U8
Villains always have more fun.
Just ask Lucifera Romana. After nearly two thousand years as a vampire, she knows a thing or two about evil. When Emil Vladu, a powerful vampire from Lucifera’s past, decides he wants to take her position as the master vampire of Los Angeles her evil nature will be put to the test.
Lucifera’s tormentor sets into motion a treacherous scheme to take her power and destroy her empire. That plan fails to account for one important factor: Lucifera’s deadly werewolf companion. Death abounds when Emil is forced to lower himself to deal with the one he calls...
LUCIFERA’S PET.
Approximately 97,000 words
solid dark fantasy
3.5 stars, really.
my first foray into indie/self publishing was a pretty good one. if you're annoyed by unpolished things like typos or formatting boo-boos, fear not, this is very well put together.
technical stuff aside, the story is also good. on the continuum of supernatural love stories, I prefer more substance and less cheap smut, and this one certainly delivers. flashbacks of a centuries-old vampire's life as a roman trader is interspersed with the life of her future werewolf partner; these backstories actually take up more of the narrative than the here-and-now cat & mouse game between two master vampires. refreshingly, the monsters are villains rather than just whiny tormented souls, and the absence of angst alone makes it worth it.
aside from some stereotypical grandstanding by the big baddie and some head-scratching dialogue anachronisms in the werewolf's 1700s childhood, worth checking out.
Well done Mr. Murphy...
To say that I know the character Lucifera Romana would be an understatement. However all I thought I knew about her and her beloved, albeit shaggy, wolf means precisely nothing now after having read Lucifera's Pet, the debut novel by M.T. Murphy. I will say that I went into it with the mindset of already having love and affection for two of the main characters of the book, but even that love and affection has bloomed into something more.
I have heard several people recently who have said good horror has been lost in a world of pop-fiction. The horror characters we once grew up on are now a thing of the past. Not in this world. Unlike most books in the genre that I've read, there is no sugar-coating here not unless your brand of sugar happens to be blood.
This story unfolds giving you glimpse at the main characters in a clever way that I have rarely seen done successfully, told through each of their eyes in a way that makes you feel the story as it unfolds. Makes you feel their emotions, or in some cases, their lack thereof.A story that travels through the lives of two people from opposite worlds pulled together by a love and understanding of wanting their torture painful, their fights more bloody, and all the while you will be rooting for the good guys, even if they are by most standards, the bad guys.
All I can say is this was well worth the read, even for someone like me who it takes a lot to get engrossed in a story, I couldn't put it down. Well done Mr. Murphy, hats off to you and your wonderfully written characters, cannot wait to read more of this world as told through your stories.
I hate that there is only one review other than mine so far for this book. Lucifera's Pet is what I would call a Horror Romance by indie author M.T. Murphy. I don't think a mainstream publisher would have published it. Not because it's bad, quite the contrary. I think it's more original and interesting than NY likes to publish these days, and I shudder to think how a mainstream publisher would have squeezed the life out of this tale before they felt it was fit for mass consumption.
M.T. Murphy displays an amazing sense of dramatic and comedic timing in his debut novel. Lucifera's Pet is told in alternating first person viewpoints. Despite the unorthodox nature of this particular POV choice, it works very well for him. Murphy gets inside each character's head in first person bringing them to life as very distinctly different and multi-layered characters.
Particularly impressive is the male author's ability to create a realistic, strong, and very sympathetic female character that SOUNDS female instead of a female character that only serves as spank material for a predominantly male audience.
The characters are multi-dimensional and complex, and though evil, the reader is taken deep into their histories which makes them very sympathetic and ultimately likable characters that you root for.
It's a twisted, evil love story. I'd almost class it as really dark paranormal romance. But don't let that description put you off. This is most definitely a book both genders can enjoy and there is plenty of blood and carnage to offset the sweet parts. In fact, I think the blood and carnage makes the sweet parts more sweet.
The love scenes managed to be both hot and emotionally charged.
Definitely give this novel a read.
I very much look forward to the next work by this author.
A real Werewolf
Well Written and one of the best horror stories I have read and I have read alot of them ... Read more
24. Cellar Door Fall 2000 (University Magazine, Vol. 26, Number 1)
by Tony Earley, Daniel Wallace, Bruce Smith, Kristen Campbell, Jamie Hawes, Christie Koch, Cameron Mitchell, Kim O'Connor, Carolyn Shook, Joy Surles
Paperback: 108 Pages (2000)
Asin: B0025P9FDG
University of North Carolina Literature Magazine ... Read more
25. Human Geography: WITH Wiley Plus: People, Place, and Culture
by Harm J.De Blij, Alexander B. Murphy, Erin H. Fouberg
Hardcover: Pages (2007-09-20)
by Oonagh Murphy-Jack
'Mum!!' Orghlaith cried from the front - room. 'Mum I need you!!' Dympna dropped the spuds she was peeling in the kitchen and ran in to see her daughter. 'Oh Jesus Mary and Joseph! This is it!' Erin O' Meara arrived kicking and screaming into the world oblivious to the impact she would have upon her family. Her arrival sets in motion a series of events which forces all of them to confront their past, present and pride. Will Seamus get his Dympna back? Will Orghlaith come home? And what will the fate of Erin be? ... Read more
27. Human Geography: Culture, Society and Space
by H. J. de Blij, Alexander B. Murphy, Erin Fouberg
28. WileyPLUS Stand-alone to Accompany Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture
29. WileyPLUS/ WebCT Stand-alone to Accompany Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture
30. Saga and Myth in Ancient Ireland (Irish Life and Culture)
by Gerard Murphy
Mass Market Paperback: 75 Pages (1971)
Asin: B0014NVUM4
31. Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture Volume 7, Number 2, 1993 (Special Issue: Cultural Studies)
by Andrew Ross, Joanne Gottlieb, Gayle Wald, David Hawk, David Lewis, Jeffrey Schulz, Bruce Simon
Asin: B003ZFZBZG
Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture Volume 7, Number 2, 1993 (Special Issue: Cultural Studies). Paperback. Contents: "From the Editors: Feminism and Cultural Studies"; "Andrew Ross in Cultural Studies" by Andrew Ross; "Smells Like Teen Spirit: Riot Grrrls, Revolution, and Women in Independent Rock" by Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald; "Interview: Tricia Rose on Hip-Hop" by David Hawk; "A Home for Murphy Brown's Son(s)" by David Lewis; "Making a Spectacle, or, Is There Female Drag?" by Debra Silverman; and "Caught in Space? The Configuration of a TwentySomething Generation" by David Lewis, Jeffrey Schulz, and Bruce Simon. ... Read more
32. Speeches from the dock;: Or, Protests of Irish patriotism. The Manchester tragedy and the Cruise of the Jackmell Packet. "The wearing of the green"; or, The prosecuted funeral procession, &c.,
by Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Asin: B00086IM6A
This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more
33. Speeches from the dock, or, Protests of Irish patriotism: The Manchester tragedy and the Cruise of the Jackmell Packet ; The wearing of the green, or, The prosecuted funeral procession
Asin: B0008ASZQS
34. Speeches from the dock; or, Protests of Irish patriotism: The Manchester tragedy and the Cruise of the Jackmell Packet. "The wearing of the green"; or, ... Wolfe Tone, William Orr ... [and others]
Asin: B0008ADPC2
35. The Bleeder and Other Stories (Vampire for Hire, Bonus)
by J.R. Rain
Asin: B0040GJB8W
In "The Bleeder", Leo Dershowitz is an unsuccessful artist with minimal talent. But all that changes one day when he finds the macabre source of his artistic muse — and now nothing will stop Leo from creating his masterpieces.
In "Deal With the Devil", a private investigator gets the wrong end of a deal gone bad. Or does he?
In "The Back of Beyond", a lonely bar at the far edge of the world gives the owner much more than he bargained for.
(Plus a bonus scene from Vampire Moon, sequel to Moon Dance.)
**Reading Sample**
Leo Dershowitz stood in front of his painting and frowned. It wasn't quite right. He had a firm image in his head of what he wanted and this wasn't it. The color was wrong. And the shading was off. Yeah, that was it. The shading.
The problem was, the clear image in his head was fading, becoming hazy around its edges, amorphous.
Which meant only one thing.
He must be scabbing over again. He hated when that happened.
Leo looked down at his right arm, which hung over a white plastic bucket, inside of which was splattered with blood. His blood. Sure enough, the gash in his forearm was threatening to close. The steady flow of blood was nearly being cut off by a thick, congealing scab.
Using a very clean surgical knife, Leo deftly flicked away the scab, which broke off and fell with a splash into the bucket, itself partly filled with a finger or two of his own hemoglobin. Now, once again, sweet blood pumped freely from the gash just below his elbow, flowing rapidly over the many horizontal scars that lined the inside of his arm. Leo always thought the scars looked like piano keys.
Even though he had performed many such blood-letting rituals before, the site of so much blood at once gripped him briefly with nausea and an old fear. The fear of dying.
What if I bleed too much this time? What if I pass out and never awaken?
Leo knew the answer: If he passed out while bleeding, there was a very good chance he would never awaken. That he would bleed to death.
Then don't pass out.
But Leo had learned long ago to ignore such inhibiting fears. He had to ignore them. Because the moment he began to bleed, the moment the life-force flowed from his wounds, a magnificent vision would appear. A vision that hovered tantalizingly in his mind's eye. Clear as day. A vision that only lasted for as long as Leo would bleed.
And now, as the blood dripped steadily from his dangling fingertips, the vision, which had been losing it sharpness with the congealing of his blood, came starkly back into focus.
Leo had a painting to do.
He touched the tip of his paintbrush to his palette, rolled it gently, applying the perfect measure of light desert auburn mixed with pure white, and turned to the half-finished painting before him. And for the next hour or so he transferred the burning image of his mind to the canvas, twice more knocking away the damnable coagulating scabs.
And when the painting was done, when the bucket was splattered with his blood, Leo nearly wept at the painting's beauty....
Three months ago, Leo woke up from a dead sleep and knew he was going to die.
It was in the middle of the night and his heart was racing madly.In his dreams he saw a fragmented image, the sort of image that only occurred to him when bleeding.A vision.Leo quickly realized the relevance of this.
A vision had come to him without bleeding.This was big. No more bleeding!
Now, if he could just grab hold of this elusive image trying to make its way into his conscious thoughts from his dreams—or from wherever these vision came from.So he lay there in bed and tried his hardest to grab hold of the amorphous vision.
No good.
The harder he tried, the more it slipped away.He likened it to a photograph held just beyond his peripheral vision, a photograph that was slowly burning.And the more he strained to look at it, the faster it burned.... ... Read more
Great reads!
The Bleeder - Leo an unaccomplished artist finds out during an accident that he can bring out his inspiration. All he has to do is bleed. While he's bleeding he paints the best pictures that sell for thousands. One day he see's his masterpiece and he knows he'll never get another chance to paint it.
This story and masterpiece was ominous. Very freaky. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I think scary is the best word to describe it. Mostly, it leaves you thinking which road would you take?
Deal with the Devil - This story was different from what I've ever read. It was basically the first chapter or edition in a comic book. Unfortunately, the comic was never made. However, that wasn't necessary. The imagery in this book made me feel like I could see everything happening as it would in a comic book. Best short story of the lot in my opinion.
It's basically about a private eye who makes a deal with the devil. They'll let his father go free if he finds the one soul that escaped from Hell. I hope that Rain completes this story. I'm itching to read more.
The Back of Beyond - I honestly didn't remember reading this one. I had to go back to recap what happened. Basically, it's about a yuruk who starts a fight in a bar. The owner doesn't want to fight but when the yuruk hits his help he has a no hitting the help policy. This story was just that a story. I had no strong feelings whatsoever.
Vampire Moon - This is a deleted scene from a book that has not been published yet. It's the second book in the Vampire for Hire book. It basically puts Samantha Moon in jail talking to the warden because she appears to have punched through a bulletproof window. Samantha insists that the glass was cracked. The warden of course suspects something else.
I enjoyed the deleted/bonus scene. I can't wait for more. I really enjoy J.R. Rain's stories. They're creative and fun. There are a lot of things going on and some even have lessons to learn. I can't wait to read more.
Deliciously bloody!
I always enjoy anything J.R.Rain writes and this is no exception.I enjoyed the main characters visions and I really enjoyed this story. Five stars!!!!
Bloody Good Fun
Okay, I seriously cringed while reading "The Bleeder". That story will seriously stick with me. "Deal With the Devil" has a nice twist, and I'm looking forward to seeing the conclusion to that one soon. "The Back of Beyond" is an exciting, classic adventure story. And the snippet from Vampire Moon was a lot of fun. Once again, great job, J.R.!!
Too Much Bleeding
Pretty gross, don't see the link to his Vampire for Hire Series.Why not save the blood for the Vampire for Hire?Duh.
Disturbingly delightful story, and collection
I am not one to leave reviews, although I read new books frequently.I have been following this author for some time and unlike the lovers of a good vampire story, I am drawn most to J.R. Rain's PI hero, Jim Knighthorse. I am a sucker for a good hard-boiled detective mystery--every time.
J.R.Rain tells a good story, period--which is why I've started reading his other works.I must admit, Samantha Moon has found her way into my heart, and I can hardly wait until the next installment of his bestselling vampire series comes available.And I've now finished every other book Mr. Rain has available in Kindle, including "The Bleeder", which I just purchased this past Sunday.
I liked the story a lot, which is why I finally am writing my first review on Kindle.Other readers need to know that there is something of value here.In addition to the main story, there is another short story, a short graphic novel installment, and a great sneak-peak at the new novel, Samantha Moon (even if it is a deleted scene--which is strong enough that I was left wondering how awesome the new installment will be, if this is what ended up on the cutting floor).Not to mention, for those unfamiliar with J.R. Rain's work, there is a sample from his bestselling Moon Dance to complete the download.
"The Bleeder" is a disturbing story--well written, and a tragic tale about a marginally-talented artist who must literally bleed himself in order to rise above ordinary.Images from that one will stay with me for quite some time."Deal with the Devil" is quite interesting for those of us who wonder how a graphic novel is put together--very lucent descriptions of Lucifer and a story with a twist I didn't see coming.The other short story in this collection, "The Back of Beyond" is a sneak peak at a novella that begs to be fully fleshed out...hopefully, Mr. Rain will find time to do that in his obviously busy schedule.
Most readers on Kindle know about Samantha Moon by now...so I won't spoil anything from what Mr. Rain included here--especially since the sliced segment didn't make it into the final version of the upcomingsequel to "Moon Dance".
So, for those on the fence about this one....take a chance.Especially if you like this author.I guarantee that the vast majority of readers will be glad they did.
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Mercedes-Maybach S600 is here to rival Rolls-Royce and Bentley
25 November 2014 | 0 comments
Maybach name is back after the Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche announced in 2011, that the Maybach-brand will cease to exist in 2012 and the name “Maybach” would not be used anymore.
Well the name is clearly back and is now part of a luxury Mercedes-Maybach S600, that is basically a longer and more luxurious version of the S-Class LWB to rival the traditional British marques like Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
The Mercedes-Maybach is 5453mm long and has a wheelbase of 3365mm, making it 200mm longer than the long wheelbase S-Class.
These numbers also make it bigger than Bentley Mulsanne and a bit smaller than the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Visually it is not much different from the standard long-wheelbase S-class, but if you look in more details you will notice a modified front grille, shorter rear doors, a new third side window and unique wheels that remind the ones from discontinued Maybach 62.
The interior is all about luxury, boasting two executive rear seats with individually adjustable backrests and cushions.
Power comes from a 530bhp 6.0-litre twin-turbo V12 with 612 lb-ft of torque.
A less powerful S500 with a 455bhp 4.7-litre V8 bi-turbo will follow later, along with S400 4MATIC.
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Bentley Grand Convertible concept is all about exclusivity, production very likely
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Kats cruise past Georgia State
DJ Shafer
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Sam Houston State Bearkats took care of business on Friday, spoiling Georgia State’s home opener with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-12) win over the Panthers in the opening match of the GSU Invite at the GSU Sports Arena.
The win put an end to a modest two-match losing skid for the Kats (4-3) and pushed Sam Houston back over .500 for the young season. Sam Houston hit .270 for the match and turned in a balanced effort offensively with three players leading the way with nine kills.
Taylor Cunningham was one of those three and turned in another all-around match, adding 10 digs and four blocks to her totals. Meanwhile, freshman Breanne Chausse continued to shine in the early part of her career, landing nine kills on 17 swings without an error. Amanda Gooch also added nine scores on 16 tries, while Madison Wallace just missed a double-double with eight scores and 10 digs to go with three blocks.
Jaclyn Ward handled the majority of the setting duties, dishing out 32 assists with seven digs and two blocks. Addison Miller also added eight digs and a kill.
Sam Houston will close out the GSU Invite on Saturday with a pair of matches, beginning at 9:00 a.m. CT when they battle Ole Miss in the day’s opener. They will close it out at 3:00 p.m. when they take on Chicago State.
Cunningham delivered six scores on 10 swings in the opening set as the Kats took the early lead on GSU. They opened up with a quick 7-2 lead before GSU roared back, eventually tying things up at 16-16. But a kill from Ward was followed by two straight scores from Jordan Kiley, and from there the Kats did not surrender the lead. Amanda Gooch made it a 23-19 lead and Cunningham followed by putting the Kats at a set-point try before her second straight score closed it out at 25-21.
After hitting .300 in the opening set, the Kats did not slow down much in the second set, hitting a blistering .293 as a team to roll to a 2-0 lead. Gooch did the majority of the damage with four kill son six tries, while Jordan Kiley and Chausse got in the action with three kills apiece. They needed all they could get to neutralize GSU’s Dzemila Hadzic who had six kills on 10 attempts in the set.
After the Kats closed out the second set, they ran away from the Panthers in a 25-12 win in the third set. Despite hitting .200, its low percentage for a set in the match, Sam Houston made life difficult on the Panthers defensively. The Kats forced GSU into -.114 hitting, allowing just seven kills while forcing a dozen misfires. Sam Houston needed just 11 kills to close out the final set, getting four from Chausse. Cunningham had just two kills in the third set, but had a hand in all four SHSU blocks.
Volleyball releases 2019 schedule
Sam Houston State Bearkat Volleyball head coach Brenda Gray unveiled a challenging 2019 slate on Friday, complete with 11 matches to be played at Bernard G....
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OneFish DVD
Price: $25 $20!! $15!!!!!!
"The One Fish film is all about the passionate craving Spearfishermen have that drives us to extreme measures in hunting that one fish that will push us to our very limits.
This film is a collaboration of some of the best spearfishing footage from around the world. Making One Fish possibly the greatest spearfishing film project ever put together. The film climaxes with story of Chris Coates's incredible 500lb Black Marlin up in tropical Mozambique.
One fish boasts some of the most amazing close up kill shots on some mammoth fish. There are over 40 species of fish shot and around 120 shots on fish that are filmed."
Spearfishing adventure film set in the heart of Mozambique as well as showcasing spearfishermen from around the world who are all dreaming of that one fish. That one fish that defines them as spearfishermen. It is in the pursuit of this dream that these guys have been filming some of the best footage from all over the globe. There are Spearo's from 10 countries participating in this project making this film an array of diverse spearfishing styles and culture. These guys are possibly some of the best freediving underwater videogarphers in the world. It's this that sets this film apart from every other spearfishing film ever made.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur 2009 B.Tech Regular s,e ENGINEERING PHYSIC set - 3 - Question Paper
Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:10Web
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Code No: 09A1BS02 R09 Set No. 3
I B.Tech Regular Examinations,June 2010 ENGINEERING PHYSICS Common to CE, ME, CHEM, BME, IT, MECT, MEP, AE, BT, AME, ICE, E.COMP.E, MMT, ETM, EIE, CSE, ECE, EEE Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 75
Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks
1. (a) Explain Fermi-Dirac distribution function. Illustrate the effect of temperature
on the distribution.
(b) Derive an expression for density of states of an atom. [8+7]
2. (a) Derive the expressions for:
i. Acceptance angle and
ii. Numerical aperture of an optical fiber.
(b) Describe the different types of fibers by giving the refractive index profiles and
propagation details.
[8+7]
(a) What are Brillouin zones? Explain using E-K diagram.
(b) Define effective mass of an electron. Explain its physical significance.
(c) What is a hole? List out the properties of a hole.
[5+5+5]
(a) Write notes on point defects in crystals..
(b) Derive the expression for the density of Frenkel defects in a metallic crystal.
(c) What is Burgers vector? Explain.
(a) Describe the different methods of acoustic quieting.
(b) Describe various method to achieve soundproofing.
(a) Explain the terms:
i. Magnetic induction,
ii. Magnetic susceptibility,
iii. Permeability of a medium and
iv. Intensity of magnetization.
(b) What are hard and soft magnetic materials? Give their characteristic properties and applications.
(c) A paramagnetic material has a magnetic field intensity of 104 amp/m. If the susceptibility of the material at room temperature is 3.7 x 10-3. Calculate the magnetization and flux density of the material. [6+5+4]
7. (a) What do you understand by Miller indices of a crystal plane?
(b) Show that in a cubic crystal the spacing (d) between consecutive parallel planes of Miller indices (h k l) is given by d = a (h2 + k2 + l2)-1/2.
(c) NaCl crystals have FCC structure. The density of NaCl is 2.18 gm/cm2. Calculate the distance between two adjacent atoms. (Molecular weight of NaCl = 58.5). [4+7+4]
8. (a) Derive an expression for density of electrons in intrinsic semiconductors.
(b) Explain the variation of Fermi level with temperature in the case of p-type semiconductors.
(c) If the effective mass of holes in a semiconductor is 5 times that of electrons, at what temperature would the Fermi level be shifted by 15% from the middle of the forbidden energy gap? [Given that the energy gap for the semiconductor is 1.20 eV]. [7+4+4]
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Derbyshire motor racing team Hillspeed suffered a costly outing over the weekend, 18th/19th May, during the second event of the BRDC Formula 4 Championship season at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit where an incident-filled race meeting wrecked the squad’s hopes of retaining the series lead.
Arriving at the 1.2-mile Kent track with Seb Morris heading the title race after a podium hat-trick on the opening weekend at the end of April, the Hathersage squad encountered a difficult event from the off with qualifying not going according to plan and setting the scene for three tough races.
Morris was the best of the Hillspeed qualifiers for round four, albeit with an uncharacteristic ninth fastest time in Saturday’s session, while team-mates Struan Moore and Rahul Raj Mayer were 16th and 22nd quickest respectively
Welsh teenager Morris made a sensational start to the first of the weekend’s races and brilliantly sliced his way through into ninth but wasn’t able to make any further inroads thereafter with passing opportunities nigh-on impossible.
Moore, meanwhile, climbed into 15th position on the opening lap and continued his strong rate of progress to move into the top 12 a couple of laps later. From there though, the Jersey youngster spent the remainder of the race running in the midst of the tightly packed five car battle headed by Morris. Moore did, though, post a best lap time just 0.1 seconds off the fastest of all.
Mayer held 22nd position for some time before slipping to 23rd late on but the Malaysian made a marked improvement in round five on Sunday where he raced to a strong 17th place. He did climb as high as 14th position but was shuffled back during the latter stages.
For Morris and Moore, round five turned into a nightmare with both getting caught-up in the same incident at the end of lap four. As Morris battled hard to retain ninth ahead of Jack Barlow, the pair touched on the run into the pit-straight as Morris moved across to take the racing line – the resulting spin for the Hillspeed driver leaving his car prone on the track against the pitwall.
Thankfully avoided by the next group of cars, Morris had to retire on the spot while Moore had to take evasive action across the grass on the outside when almost collected by a rival. Although able to recover to the track, Moore thumped through an advertising hoarding heavily and the damage to the front of his car meant he also had to retire a few laps later.
Working incredibly hard to repair the two cars in time for round six, with only 90 minutes or so in which to turn them around, the Hillspeed mechanics did a superb job and Morris was able to work his way through from 17th on the grid into 13th position. Moore, meanwhile, was forced to retire with yet more damage on lap four while Mayer posted a 19th place finish.
“It really has been an incredibly tough weekend, certainly one we’d like to forget”, commented team principal Richard Ollerenshaw, “We haven’t done the amount of testing the others have been doing which put the drivers on the back foot a bit going into the weekend.
“We’re disappointed for Seb and Struan, especially with both of them losing points finishes in race two, although Rahul did make strong progress on his first time racing at Brands Hatch. All in all, a very tough weekend but one we will all bounce back from.”
The BRDC Formula 4 Championship now takes a four week break from action with the third event of 2013 taking place on 15th/16th June at Snetterton in East Anglia. In the meantime, Hillspeed’s Protyre Formula Renault Championship squad will be back on track for the sixth, seventh and eighth rounds of its season on 1st/2nd June at Thruxton in Hampshire.
Provisional 2013 BRDC Formula 4 Championship Standings (after Rd6):
6th Seb Morris, 90pts; 16th Struan Moore, 36pts; 19th Rahul Raj Mayer, 22pts
- May (4)
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Entering the age of biometrics
Once a technology solely seen in science fiction films like Minority Report, biometrics are coming into their own as consumers and businesses alike realise the benefits they bring.
Biometrics mean business
In 2013, the British banking industry lost over £450 million in card fraud, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Although the introduction of chip and PIN technology has greatly reduced the amount of counterfeit card fraud, the majority of fraud continues to take place online and there are still worries that passwords and PINs are not fraud proof.
Biometrics tackle these challenges by delivering a faster, easier and more secure authentication process, in sync with other trends such as the rise of mobile banking. According to Goode Intelligence, over one billion users will access banking services through biometric systems by 2017 and by 2020 biometrics will be the predominant identity authorisation method to access bank services.
Regional opportunities
The development and uptake of biometrics has not been uniform across the different types of biometric technology available. Finger vein, hand geometry, facial, voice, iris and signature recognition have all had varying degrees of success in different regions. Europe has been particularly open to trialling facial recognition, which has evolved and become far more sophisticated in recent years. For example, a German University has most recently developed a facial recognition tool that uses thermal signature. On the other hand, 80% of Japanese people already use vein recognition at ATM machines to withdraw money.
Banks in Europe and the UK are increasingly looking into biometrics for security – Barclays is introducing finger vein authentication for UK customers later this year. For this, they are using Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology which reads the pattern of the vein inside the finger, rather than external characteristics, making it very difficult to replicate. It is so difficult to capture the data without sophisticated technology that the chance of cloning is extremely slim – particularly in comparison to traditional card or password methods of authentication.
Benefits beyond banking
The benefits of biometrics are not just restricted to the finance sector. Biometric identity management technologies can play an important role for medical centres and clinics that see a high number of patients. Patient management systems that operate using biometrics rather than cards cuts down on administrative inefficiencies, adds accountability to records, break downs language barriers and makes medical fraud much more difficult for those who would abuse the system.
The traditional system of donor ID cards has far too many vulnerabilities and negative outcomes. They can be shared, duplicated, manipulated, lost and stolen. By introducing biometrics to the process, security and precision can be greatly enhanced.
Overcoming ‘the shock of the new’
An obstacle to the rise of biometric authentication has been consumer understanding. It can take time for consumers to get used to new technologies, particularly when they relate to personal data. For example, whilst some appreciate when advertising campaigns use facial recognition and other similar technologies to tailor an advert, others find this invasive or worry about how this data is used. However, this too is now changing as the public acclimatises to these developments and so the case for businesses to get involved in this growing industry has never been stronger.
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Youth and the City in the Global South
Karen Tranberg Hansen, with Anne Line Dalsgaard, Katherine Gough, Ulla Ambrosius Madsen, Karen Valentin and Norbert Wildermuth
Series: Tracking Globalization
Distribution: Global
Format: Paperback 37 b&w photos, 3 maps
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The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and future prospects of urban youth in the developing world. The economic and demographic trends that are transforming cities and widening the gap between North and South are also making it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for young people to establish themselves as independent, self-sufficient adults in many parts of the world. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban studies, and argues that youth is an experience in its own right, not merely a transition from childhood to adulthood. In-depth case studies in three cities—Recife, Hanoi, and Lusaka—offer compelling insights into the situation of urban youth, exploring how they use their city, spend their time, and prepare themselves for the future.
Cross-cutting essays examine how education shapes future citizens, young people's use of urban domestic space, and the media's role in expanding the life worlds of youth.
Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her books include Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia.
“Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban studies, and argues that youth is an experience in its own right, not merely a transition from childhood to adulthood. In-depth case studies in three cities—Recife, Hanoi, and Lusaka—offer compelling insights into the situation of urban youth, exploring how they use their city, spend their time, and prepare themselves for the future. ”
“Presents groundbreaking comparative research and makes a powerful, nuanced case for understanding the problems and dilemmas of youth in the global South.”
— Bradley Levinson, Indiana University
“The participants in this project issued themselves quite a challenge in bringing the results of a large study together in a book form. Given the task, they did admirably.”
— Ethnos
“This work offers a rich opportunity to witness the dynamics of youth development amid the tumult of poverty, hunger, crime, and desperation in various global communities. . . . While there are many uses for this text, Hansen's collaboration is best suited for library collections focusing on international human rights and youth. . . . Recommended.July 2009”
— Choice
“. . . an important volume that demonstrates the value of multi-sited collaborative research.Vol. 17.3 2009”
— DANIEL MAINS, Washington University in St. Louis
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Part 1. Situating Youth in the City
1. Introduction: Youth and the City Karen Tranberg Hansen
2. Youth across the Globe: Comparison, Interdisciplinarity, and Cross-National Collaboration Anne Line Dalsgaard and Karen Valentin
Part 2. Studying Youth in Cities
3. Dominant Ideas, Uncertain Lives: The Meaning of Youth in Recife Anne Line Dalsgaard, Mónica Franch, and Russell Parry Scott
4. Politicized Leisure in the Wake of Doi Moi: A Study of Youth in Hanoi Karen Valentin
5. Localities and Sites of Youth Agency in Lusaka Karen Tranberg Hansen
Part 3. Youth Making Meaning
6. Youth and the Home Katherine V. Gough
7. Toward Eduscapes: Youth and Schooling in a Global Era Ulla Ambrosius Madsen
8. The Work of the Imagination: Young People's Media Appropriation Norbert Wildermuth
9. Conclusion: Urban Youth in a Global World Karen Tranberg Hansen
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things
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The UK's five big killers
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that the UK needs to take action to manage preventable diseases.
His “call to action” comes as a major study has found that Britain has fallen behind many Western countries on progress on the five big killers of heart disease, stroke, cancer, lung and liver disease.
Figures show that they account for more than 150,000 deaths a year among under-75s in England alone and the Department of Health estimates 30,000 of these are entirely avoidable.
Coronary Heart Disease is the biggest killer, leading to 200 deaths a day in the UK with smoking, being overweight and having high blood pressure all risk factors.
Mr Hunt wants everybody aged 40-74 offered a health check once every five years to look for things like high blood pressure.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in England each year and the leading cause of disability while cancer has become so common that today one in 30 people living in the UK either has cancer or is in remission.
The Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, highlighted liver disease as an issue in her annual report. It is the only major cause of mortality and morbidity that is on the increase in England but it is decreasing elsewhere in Europe.
Wednesday 6th March 2013 @ 17:41
Alarming though these figures are, the fact that they pertain to an advanced European country like England is really surprising!
Title: The UK's five big killers
Date Added: 6th Mar 2013
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READING: Vik Muniz: “The only way you can feel all the senses at the same time is in a meal”
Vik Muniz: “The only way you can feel all the senses at the same time is in a meal”
The Brazilian artist on his thought process behind his collaboration with boutique champagne house, Ruinart
By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
Art, Wine, art, Artist, Brazil, bubbly, champagne, David Toutain, Frédéric Panaïotis, French, Michelin Guide, Michelin star, Paris, Ruinart, Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz.
Photos courtesy of Vik Muniz & Ruinart
ONE NIGHT WHILE LOOKING for a restaurant close to their pied-à-terre in Paris’s elegant 7th arrondissement, Vik Muniz and his wife stumbled upon two-Michelin-starred Restaurant David Toutain.
“We had an amazingly remarkable meal,” recalls the Brazilian artist, who was unaware of the restaurant’s accolades then. “It’s great when somebody you trust tells you (about a restaurant). But it’s much better when you go completely unaware, not expecting anything, sit down at the table and go, ‘Wow!’”
The next day, as Muniz was discussing a collaboration project with boutique champagne house Ruinart, he was asked if he knew any interesting chefs who could be invited to participate. “I said, ‘Yes, I do! I just went there yesterday: David Toutain.’ And then we discovered Toutain was also the first one on Ruinart’s list.”
Vik Muniz finds inspiration in Ruinart’s vineyards.
The shape of the vines offered a fascinating narrative for Muniz.
Reims Crayeres
Where Art Meets Gastronomy
A project that started serendipitously saw Muniz, Toutain and Ruinart’s cellar master, Frédéric Panaïotis, collaborate on an innovative new initiative, Food for Art — a combination of art, gastronomy, and the wines of the Maison. “In my opinion, the only way you can feel all the senses at the same time is in a meal,” says Muniz. The trio created a menu around root vegetables — such as beetroot which in one dish is paired with pigeon, salsify branches and white chocolate — that echoed the artworks Muniz had created, having been inspired by the vines he had observed during an art residency with Ruinart last Fall.
Muniz, who describes himself as a “low-tech illusionist,” is perhaps best known for his photography of ephemeral images, which often reference classical paintings, created with unusual materials such as sugar, chocolate syrup, caviar, and even garbage. “I like to use elements that everyone can relate to as much as I try to represent images that are part of our collective memory,” he says.
As Ruinart’s artist of the year, Muniz was given carte blanche to create artworks the maison will present at events that it supports around the world, such as Art Basel. While Muniz had previously collaborated with another champagne house, Perrier-Jouët, to create a limited edition bottle and packaging for its Belle Epoque cuvee, his work with Ruinart was the first time he had a “deep interaction” with a cellar master.
Food For Art
Art Hands
Art Flow
Ruinart x Vik Muniz
Muniz has had a long-time interest in trees and their morphology. The artist found the shape of vines particularly fascinating, as they “offer some sort of narrative.” He spent many hours in the vineyard alongside Panaïotis and was intrigued upon learning that champagne is a region that is “quite cold and difficult, with poor soils”.
He adds, “I liked this paradox. The adversity makes better fruit and makes better wines.”
Muniz created a series of compositions for photographic works that aim to emphasise the creative tensions that transform adversity into liquid wonder. In one of the photographs, later reproduced in blackened wood and charcoal, Panaïotis’s arms grasp gnarled vines. The tension in his veins blends into the knots found in the vines, blurring the boundaries between the human and nature.
“I was inspired by the notion of flow. I wanted to represent the slow flow of vines getting their nutrients and water from the chalky soil in Champagne. From far it looks like strong gestures, like Butoh dancers, and more closer you have all those details,” Muniz explains.
He also created Chardonnay Leaf, a time-lapse movie where the artist spent three days creating a giant chardonnay leaf on the floor of Ruinart’s chalk cellars, using shoots, branches and leaves from Ruinart’s Sillery vineyards. “For me the artwork is the final photograph and time-lapse,” Muniz notes.
“I’m interested in the process, not in the materials themselves.”
Ruinart has incorporated one of the blackened wood and charcoal artworks Muniz created on the packaging of the jeroboam case for a 3-litre bottle of Ruinart Blanc de Blancs. A limited edition of only 30 cases is available bearing the signature of the artist.
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It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander – until he becomes a murder suspect.
As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast’s story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
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he was lost. he wasn’t used to being lost. he was the kind of man who drew up plans and then executed them efficiently, but now everything was conspiring against him in ways he decided he couldn’t have foreseen. He had been stuck in a jam on the A1 for two mind-numbing hours so that it was already past the middle of the morning when he arrived in Edinburgh. Then he’d gone adrift on a one-way system and been thwarted by a road closed because of a burst water main. It had been raining, steadily and unforgivingly, on the drive north and had only begun to ease off as he hit the outskirts of town. The rain had in no way deterred the crowds – it had never occurred to him that Edinburgh was in the middle of ‘the Festival’ and that there would be carnival hordes of people milling around as if the end of a war had just been declared. The closest he had previously got to the Edinburgh Festival was accidentally turning on Late Night Review and seeing a bunch of middle-class wankers discussing some pretentious piece of fringe theatre.
He ended up in the dirty heart of the city, in a street that somehow seemed to be on a lower level than the rest of the town, a blackened urban ravine. The rain had left the cobbles slick and greasy and he had to drive cautiously because the street was teeming with people, haphazardly crossing over or standing in little knots in the middle of the road, as if no one had told them that roads were for cars and pavements were for pedestrians. A queue snaked the length of the street – people waiting to get into what looked like a bomb hole in the wall but which announced itself, on a large placard outside the door, as ‘Fringe Venue 164’.
The name on the driving licence in his wallet was Paul Bradley. ‘Paul Bradley’ was a nicely forgettable name. He was several degrees of separation away from his real name now, a name that no longer felt as if it had ever belonged to him. When he wasn’t working he often (but not always) went by the name ‘Ray’. Nice and simple. Ray of light, Ray of darkness. Ray of sunshine, Ray of night. He liked slipping between identities, sliding through the cracks. The rental Peugeot he was driving felt just right, not a flashy macho machine but the kind of car an ordinary guy would drive. An ordinary guy like Paul Bradley. If anyone asked him what he did, what Paul Bradley did, he would say, ‘Boring stuff. I’m just a desk jockey, pushing papers around in an accounts department.’
He was trying to drive and at the same time decipher his A–Z of Edinburgh to work out how to escape from this hellish street when someone stepped in front of the car. It was a type he loathed – a young dark-haired guy with thick, black-framed spectacles, two days of stubble and a fag hanging out of his mouth, there were hundreds of them in London, all trying to look like French existentialists from the Sixties. He’d bet that not one of them had ever opened a book on philosophy. He’d read the lot, Plato, Kant, Hegel, even thought about one day doing a degree.
He braked hard and didn’t hit the spectacles guy, just made him give a little jump, like a bullfighter avoiding the bull. The guy was furious, waving his fag around, shouting, raising a finger to him. Charmless, devoid of manners – were his parents proud of the job they’d done? He hated smoking, it was a disgusting habit, hated guys who gave you the finger and screamed, ‘Spin on it!’, saliva flying out of their filthy, nicotine-stained mouths.
He felt the bump, about the same force as hitting a badger or a fox on a dark night, except it came from behind, pushing him forward. It was just as well the spectacles guy had performed his little paso doble and got out of the way or he would have been pancaked. He looked in the rear-view mirror. A blue Honda Civic, the driver climbing out – big guy, slabs of weightlifter muscle, gym-fit rather than survival-fit, he wouldn’t have been able to last three months in the jungle or the desert the way that Ray could have done. He wouldn’t have lasted a day. He was wearing driving gloves, ugly black leather ones with knuckle holes. He had a dog in the back of the car, a beefy Rottweiler, exactly the dog you would have guessed a guy like that would have. The guy was a walking cliché. The dog was having a seizure in the back, spraying saliva all over the window, its claws scrabbling on the glass. The dog didn’t worry him too much. He knew how to kill dogs.
Ray got out of the car and walked round to the back bumper to inspect the damage. The Honda driver started yelling at him, ‘You stupid, fucking twat, what did you think you were doing?’ English. Ray tried to think of something to say that would be non- confrontational, that would calm the guy down – you could see he was a pressure cooker waiting to blow, wanting to blow, bouncing on his feet like an out-of-condition heavyweight. Ray adopted a neutral stance, a neutral expression, but then he heard the crowd give a little collective ‘Aah’ of horror and he registered the baseball bat that had suddenly appeared in the guy’s hand out of nowhere and thought, shit.
That was the last thought he had for several seconds. When he was able to think again he was sprawled on the street, holding the side of his head where the guy had cracked him. He heard the sound of broken glass – the bastard was putting in every window in his car now. He tried, unsuccessfully, to struggle to his feet but managed only to get to a kneeling position as if he was at prayer and now the guy was advancing with the bat lifted, feeling the heft of it in his hand, ready to swing for a home run on his skull. Ray put an arm up to defend himself, made himself even more dizzy by doing that and, sinking back on to the cobbles, thought, Jesus, is this it? He’d given up, he’d actually given up – something he’d never done before – when someone stepped out of the crowd, wielding something square and black that he threw at the Honda guy, clipping him on the shoulder and sending him reeling.
He blacked out again for a few seconds and when he came to there were a couple of policewomen hunkered down beside him, one of them saying, ‘Just take it easy, sir,’ the other one on her radio calling for an ambulance. It was the first time in his life that he’d been glad to see the police.
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Marsabit Biashara Centre Launched
UNDP to support small and medium scale entrepreneurs in Marsabit
UNDP Country Director Ms. Amanda Serumaga (left) and Marsabit County Governor H.E. Amb. Ukur Yatani take a look at some of the craft items that were being exhibited at the launch of the Marsabit Biashara Centre
Nairobi 27th June 2016….UNDP jointly with the County Government of Marsabit have launched the 3rd Biashara Center in the Country. The Biashara center is a Business Development model whose objective is to promote inclusive economic growth and job creation by empowering small and medium entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, youth, women and people living with disabilities.
“This Biashara Center will indeed be an important place for training our youth. They will access important trade information from within and outside the county to enable them launch and grow their businesses. The center will play an important role in nurturing the already existing talent among the youth in Marsabit Town even as we look forward to expanding the services to other areas within the county such as North Horr, Laisamis and Moyale,” said Marsabit County Governor, H.E. Amb. Ukur Yatani.
The Marsabit Biashara Center is a one one-stop-shop that prepares and nurtures entrepreneurs to start and grow their own businesses. The center empower the young population that is searching for opportunities, with linkages and skills to access markets. Women too will benefit from business development services, financial literacy, information and technology to improve their businesses.
“We all have a responsibility to facilitate productive and diversified economies in this country. Such centers will form an integral part for long-term development. This is because they create an environment in which our small and medium entrepreneurs can grow their capacity and forge ahead to create sustainable and resilient regional and global businesses,” said UNDP Kenya Country Director, Ms. Amanda Serumaga.
Already, over 50 local youth entrepreneurs have been trained on business skills development, market and market facilitation, feasibility studies, business plans, accounting and auditing, access to credit facilities and business incubation. One of the participants, Mr. Dogo is building an online platform that he envisions will transform livestock trading in Marsabit and neighboring counties. His idea born from the hope of making the trade less tedious and efficient. Currently people walk long distances to access Merille, the only livestock market in the county. He has created a mobile application that allows farmers and livestock traders to purchase livestock through the mobile phone linked to mobile money without having to meet at the livestock market.
“I went to Nairobi to search for knowledge and opportunity. Now that there are more opportunities at the county level, I intend to come back home and build my county. In Marsabit, we only have one technical training college that was started just recently, but through this Biashara Center, young people like me will have a place to access knowledge even if they are unable to further their studies in a university,” noted Mr. Robert Dogo.
A partnership in vocational skills training between UNDP Kenya, Housing Finance Foundation, Kuza Biashara fostered by and with the SDG Philanthropy Platform was also unveiled at the launch. More private sector and philanthropy partners are expected to join as well. It is anticipated that the training by this consortium will significantly transform the technology, access especially for youth, and the training offerings of the Biashara centre in line with 21st Century technology to reach more youth even in the most remote areas of Marsabit where youth cannot leave their occupations and income streams to learn full time.
“We are providing a product that goes beyond the physical space. With the routers we offer, the youth will be able to access the ICT services available at the Biashara Centre within the comfort of their homes or Jua Kali sheds.” noted the chief executive officer of Kuza Biashara Mr. Sriram Bharatam.
The Center will also create a platform that will facilitate the development of conducive policy, legal, and regulatory environment, infrastructure and entrepreneurship spirit thus increase business productivity, access to capital, markets and market information, and expand formal outreach in Marsabit. To achieve this, UNDP is working with the Micro and Small Enterprise Authority (MSEA) to deliver on its mandate to formulate and coordinate policies that will facilitate the integration and harmonization of various public and private sector initiatives, for the promotion, development and regulation of the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs).
“We want to encourage the people of Marsabit to look at the opportunities available to them and get creative with them. Our partnership with the Biashara center will extend our work to include not only the promotion of soft skills but technological as well,” remarked Ms. Caroline Sikasa from Housing Finance Foundation. Other partners in the project include the Kenya National Chamber of commerce and the Kenya Council of Governors.
200 Innovative Water Barrels Distributed
200 people from Marsabit County received free roll-able water containers that will help ease the manual work of fetching water. Women have to trek an average distance of 6 to 10 kilometers in Marsabit region and other parts of northern Kenya in search of water which they eventually carry on their heads or backs. These water barrels will help by saving them on time and the effort that is needed to carry the containers. The women empowerment project is a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UK-based Roll Out The Barrel (RoTB) Trust. RoTB have designed this unique barrels made of strong plastic molding with rubber tyres and is funded by UNDP. The project hopes to directly impact the lives of 400 women about 1000 members of their immediate family that includes children. The UNDP and RoTB initiative begun last year with a similar launch made in Taita-Taveta and Kwale counties.
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Microsoft's PowerShell for Linux
Microsoft released its PowerShell under a free license in August 2016 and ported the tool to Linux and Mac OS. Is PowerShell for Linux a mere marketing ploy or a real contender that can compete with native Linux shells?
New Shell on the Beach
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Author(s): Martin Loschwitz
Microsoft has done its part to perpetuate its image as the bogeyman of the Open Source movement. Who could forget the advertising campaign in which Microsoft gave penguins the mutant heads of other animals – such as a frog with antlers, implying that an open operating system with parts from different places is somehow unnatural? Or when former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a "cancer" [1]?
For a few years now, however, Microsoft has been toning down its rhetoric and pursuing something more like an appeasement policy, with vague statements about whether Windows would one day have an open license; Microsoft even perplexed the community at one point when it announced it was about to develop its own Linux for its cloud [2].
Recent signs, however, point to genuine improvement in the Microsoft-Linux relationship. A photo from LinuxCon 2016, which made the rounds on social media, showed Linux creator Linus Torvalds standing by the Microsoft booth, comfortably sipping a cup of coffee [3]. In 2000, Torvalds made an April Fools joke out of naming Microsoft as a partner for Linux development work. What once was a joke is now reality, and the biggest evidence of Microsoft's commitment to Open Source is the recent release of the Windows PowerShell command environment under a free license, along with the announcement that Microsoft was porting PowerShell to Linux and Mac OS.
What and Why?
The first major PowerShell release appeared in 2007. The idea of PowerShell is to create an alternative to the cmd.exe command-line tool, which was included on Windows systems until recently. The cmd.exe environment had very limited functionality.
I should also note, for reasons of fairness, that Microsoft considers cmd.exe more of a relic from the past than an up-to-date tool for admins. Microsoft introduced PowerShell to provide a tool for the power user. Over the years, PowerShell has gained many fans and indeed acquired prestige.
The goal of PowerShell is to provide a command-line environment that allows the user to execute commands without going through a GUI. Does Microsoft believe it is offering Linux users added value? What is behind the release of PowerShell for Linux?
The fact that Microsoft wants to promote its .NET framework is likely an important reason for the company's venture into PowerShell for Linux. Part of porting PowerShell to Linux was creating a core .NET platform for the Linux environment. With that platform providing the basis, putting PowerShell on Linux became a comparatively simple exercise.
However, Microsoft is also looking to the cloud. The popularity of Linux instances running in the cloud does not escape Microsoft's watchful eye. Redmond knows its cloud environment will have to support Linux, and by maintaining their own tools for administering both Linux and Windows systems, they can better maintain their position as a player in the server market. The combination of the PowerShell tools, DSC, and the Operations Management Suite makes it possible for you to administrate your own instances on Linux in Microsoft's Azure public cloud.
Under the hood, PowerShell is based on Microsoft's .NET framework. It mixes different methods: On the one hand, PowerShell allows you to execute simple command-line commands, just as admins would be familiar with from Linux. Different commands can also be combined to produce typical shell scripts. PowerShell controls central shell functions on Linux as well, including the ability to redirect the output of a program to another by piping. On the other hand, PowerShell follows an object-oriented approach: You can define methods and objects that then use the methods.
The central pivot points for working with PowerShell are the commandlets. In PowerShell speak, a cmdlet is a .NET class that performs a specified task after launching. Cmdlets are essentially the actual commands, which can be bundled together in the form of scripts or even binaries. Microsoft has invested a lot of work in equipping PowerShell with many useful cmdlets. Straight after installation, there are many commands available, such as for deleting files or directories, creating folders, or displaying the folder contents (Figure 1).
Figure 1: The classic Get-Childitem PowerShell cmdlet is equivalent to the dir command used with cmd.exe.
According to the PowerShell standard, cmdlets must have a unique name consisting of a verb and object. As a result, the cmdlet for deleting folders or files is officially remove-item. Another example: The cmdlet for downloads from the Internet is invoke-WebRequest; if you are accustomed to Linux, an alternative for invoke-WebRequest would be wget or curl.
To make the transition to PowerShell easier for experienced Linux admins, Microsoft alias-mapped common Linux commands to PowerShell cmdlets. After complaints from the user base, however, Microsoft rejected this approach, because it ultimately prevents users from executing the real command-line programs, such as ls or cd.
Installation on Linux
Microsoft is clearly keen to keep entry barriers as low as possible for PowerShell on Linux. The company is making the source code for PowerShell Version 6 available to the public on GitHub, but it is also offering a package version for the major Linux distributions. So it is very easy to get started, for instance, on Ubuntu 16.04 [4].
After the installation of the libunwind8 and libicu55 packages, you can install the PowerShell package with dpkg -i (Figure 2).
Figure 2: After the installation of libunwind8 and libicu55, PowerShell can install with the aid of the .deb product bundle from Microsoft.
The service would be even better if PowerShell came from a real package repository with signed release files, though this may still be too great an effort for Microsoft. Because packages for various RPM-based distributions are also available from the provider, Microsoft would have to convert the repository for several package systems. Even without their own repository, it works: Good job! So all kinds of others software projects can take a big page out of Microsoft's book.
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Microsoft’s new PowerShell relies on .NET framework libraries and thus has access to a treasure trove of functions and objects. How does PowerShell measure up to traditional shells like Bash?
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Hail Map for Bradshaw, NEadmin-001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
Hail Map for Bradshaw, NE
The Bradshaw, NE area has had 6 reports of on-the-ground hail by trained spotters, and has been under severe weather warnings 18 times during the past 12 months. Doppler radar has detected hail at or near Bradshaw, NE on 71 occasions, including 2 occasions during the past year.
Name: Bradshaw, NE
Where Located: 31.1 miles E of Grand Island, NE
Map: Google Map for Bradshaw, NE
More Info: Search Google for Bradshaw, NE
The Top Recent Hail Date for Bradshaw, NE is Monday, August 6, 2018 (24th out of 71)
Hail and Wind Damage Spotted near Bradshaw, NE
6/26/2019 6:09 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for york and northeastern fillmore counties will expire at 615 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however small hail and gusty winds are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 am cdt for south central and east central nebraska.
6/26/2019 5:48 AM CDT At 547 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near beaver crossing to near benedict, moving southeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, york, henderson, mccool junction, bradshaw, waco, benedict and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 342 and 364.
6/26/2019 5:25 AM CDT At 525 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near waco to near polk, moving southeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/26/2019 1:30 AM CDT At 130 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from marquette to near bradshaw to york, moving northeast at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
6/21/2019 2:31 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 300 am cdt for nance. york. northeastern hamilton. northeastern fillmore. northern merrick and polk counties. At 230 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near belgrade to near benedict to near friend, moving northeast at 40 mph.
6/21/2019 2:12 AM CDT At 211 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of palmer to near bradshaw to near geneva, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/21/2019 1:54 AM CDT At 150 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles southwest of archer to near hampton to near grafton, moving northeast at 60 mph (radar indicated. in addition, there were several reports of 60 to 70 mph winds and some damage in the hastings area, around 130 am cdt). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, grand island, york, aurora, central city, sutton, fullerton, stromsburg, harvard, henderson, osceola, doniphan, clay center, alda, exeter, fairmont, edgar, hampton, mccool junction, clarks and giltner. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 310 and 365.
6/21/2019 1:30 AM CDT At 128 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near grand island to near giltner to near edgar, moving northeast at 60 mph (radar indicated. in addition, there have been several recent reports of 60 to 70 mph winds in the hastings area). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/14/2019 9:14 PM CDT At 914 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near mccool junction to 7 miles southeast of york, moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. locations impacted include, york, henderson, mccool junction, bradshaw, waco, gresham, lushton and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 342 and 365.
6/14/2019 9:01 PM CDT At 846 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccool junction, or 9 miles south of york, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
5/28/2019 3:51 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for york and northern fillmore counties will expire at 400 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 700 am cdt for south central and east central nebraska.
5/28/2019 3:29 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 400 am cdt for york and northern fillmore counties. at 328 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near york to mccool junction to fairmont to near geneva, moving east at 40 mph. hazard. 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
5/28/2019 3:14 AM CDT At 314 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near hampton to henderson to near sutton, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/28/2019 2:56 AM CDT At 255 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from chapman to near giltner to near glenvil, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, york, aurora, sutton, harvard, henderson, clay center, hampton, giltner, glenvil, phillips, bradshaw, marquette, trumbull, grafton, inland, saronville, stockham and lushton. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 318 and 352.
5/28/2019 2:34 AM CDT At 234 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near grand island to hansen to near ayr, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
8/6/2018 7:48 PM CDT At 747 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or 10 miles northwest of york, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and ping pong ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, york, aurora, stromsburg, hampton, polk, bradshaw, waco, benedict, marquette, gresham, hordville and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 340 and 364.
8/6/2018 7:25 PM CDT At 725 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over hordville, or 21 miles northwest of york, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
7/19/2018 1:50 AM CDT At 149 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located north of bradshaw, or 9 miles northwest of york, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, york and bradshaw. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 344 and 358.
7/19/2018 1:38 AM CDT At 137 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over polk, or 15 miles northwest of york, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/1/2018 12:36 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for york, fillmore, thayer, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 1245 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
7/1/2018 12:06 AM CDT At 1205 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near benedict to near waco to bruning to near byron, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/30/2018 6:33 PM CDT At 633 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or 7 miles southwest of york, moving north at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, york, henderson, bradshaw and lushton. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 342 and 353.
6/30/2018 6:23 PM CDT At 623 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over lushton, or 14 miles southwest of york, moving north at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/9/2018 2:31 AM CDT At 230 am cdt, severe thunderstorm outflow winds were located along a line extending from near shelby to near lushton to glenvil, moving southeast at 60 mph (radar indicated. in addition, at 223 am cdt, hastings airport gusted to 62 mph). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/9/2018 2:20 AM CDT At 158 am cdt, severe thunderstorm outflow winds were located along a line extending from near clarks to near phillips to near kenesaw, moving southeast at 60 mph (radar indicated. in addition, at 154 am cdt, grand island airport gusted to 74 mph). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts or higher. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/11/2018 2:00 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 215 am cdt for york. fillmore and northern thayer counties. at 155 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from gresham to 6 miles northeast of mccool junction to near geneva to near davenport, moving east at 45 mph. hazard. 60 mph wind gusts.
5/11/2018 1:39 AM CDT At 135 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near benedict to near henderson to near ong to 6 miles north of nelson, moving east at 45 mph (trained weather spotters have reported 60 mph wind gusts with near zero visibility in blowing dust along the thunderstorm gust front out ahead of the thunderstorms. at 130 am cdt, hamilton county emergency management reported 60 mph wind gusts in aurora). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, york, aurora, geneva, sutton, harvard, henderson, clay center, exeter, fairmont, edgar, nelson, hampton, mccool junction, fairfield, giltner, shickley, davenport, milligan, bruning and bradshaw. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 324 and 365.
5/11/2018 1:13 AM CDT At 112 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near marquette to near giltner to near glenvil to rosemont, moving east at 45 mph (trained weather spotters and automated observing equipment have reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts with near zero visibility in blowing dust along the thunderstorm gust front out ahead of the thunderstorms). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
8/27/2017 5:36 AM CDT At 536 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near polk to near grafton to near edgar, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. these severe storms will be near, lushton around 540 am cdt. fairmont, shickley, bradshaw, benedict and grafton around 545 am cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 331 and 365.
8/27/2017 5:00 AM CDT At 459 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from marquette to near stockham to near deweese, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated. this line of storms has a history of downing trees and powerlines). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. severe thunderstorms will be near, saronville and stockham around 505 am cdt. sutton around 515 am cdt. edgar and lushton around 525 am cdt. grafton around 530 am cdt. ong around 535 am cdt. geneva, fairmont, mccool junction and benedict around 540 am cdt. york, exeter and shickley around 545 am cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 318 and 365.
6/16/2017 7:34 PM CDT At 734 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near henderson, or 9 miles southwest of york, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/13/2017 8:56 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for eastern clay, east central nance, northwestern york, hamilton, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 900 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 100 am cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service hastings. remember, a severe thunderstorm warning still remains in effect for york, polk and northern fillmore counties until 930 pm.
6/13/2017 8:54 PM CDT At 854 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near shelby to near grafton, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/13/2017 8:38 PM CDT At 838 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near duncan to near stockham, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, york, aurora, sutton, stromsburg, harvard, henderson, osceola, clay center, shelby, hampton, fairfield, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, bradshaw, benedict, marquette, gresham and hordville. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 324 and 350.
6/13/2017 8:24 PM CDT At 824 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near duncan to near saronville, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, york, aurora, central city, sutton, fullerton, stromsburg, harvard, genoa, henderson, osceola, clay center, shelby, hampton, fairfield, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, glenvil and phillips. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 318 and 350.
6/13/2017 8:17 PM CDT Pkwnd 73 mph at 822 p in york county NE, 3.3 miles E of Bradshaw, NE
6/13/2017 8:10 PM CDT Storm damage reported in york county NE, 4.1 miles SE of Bradshaw, NE
6/13/2017 8:09 PM CDT At 809 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near clay center, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/13/2017 7:53 PM CDT At 753 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near clarks to near aurora, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, grand island, aurora, central city, fullerton, genoa, henderson, doniphan, hampton, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, chapman, phillips, bradshaw, marquette, hordville, belgrade, stockham and archer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 310 and 343.
6/13/2017 7:41 PM CDT At 741 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near st. edward to near aurora, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, grand island, aurora, central city, fullerton, genoa, henderson, doniphan, palmer, hampton, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, chapman, phillips, bradshaw, marquette, hordville, belgrade and stockham. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 308 and 343.
6/13/2017 7:29 PM CDT At 729 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near giltner, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
3/23/2017 11:27 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern york, eastern hamilton, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 1130 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
3/23/2017 10:51 PM CDT At 1049 pm cdt, severe wind gusts from thunderstorm outflow were located near polk, or 12 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
9/12/2016 9:45 PM CDT At 943 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over york, moving east at 25 mph (trained weather spotters. at 942 pm cdt...trained weather spotters reported quarter size hail 2 miles west of york). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. locations impacted include, york, and, waco. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 348 and 365.
9/12/2016 9:28 PM CDT At 928 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over bradshaw, or near york, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
8/23/2016 7:11 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern hamilton and southwestern york counties will expire at 715 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however small hail and gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
8/23/2016 6:50 PM CDT At 648 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles south of hampton, or 16 miles west of york, moving northeast at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. locations impacted include, henderson and bradshaw. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 335 and 350.
8/23/2016 6:30 PM CDT At 629 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near stockham, or 19 miles west of york, moving northeast at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/7/2016 1:04 AM CDT At 104 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near aurora to saronville to near edgar to near nora to near bostwick, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
5/23/2016 10:10 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for york, polk and east central merrick counties will expire at 1015 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire.
5/23/2016 9:35 PM CDT The national weather service in hastings has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. york county in east central nebraska. polk county in east central nebraska. east central merrick county in central nebraska. Until 1015 pm cdt.
5/10/2016 10:01 PM CDT At 1000 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near york to near exeter to near strang, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, york, geneva, exeter, fairmont, mccool junction, milligan, bradshaw, waco, ohiowa, lushton, strang and thayer.
5/10/2016 9:35 PM CDT At 934 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bradshaw to near grafton, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/10/2016 8:41 PM CDT At 839 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near benedict, or 9 miles northwest of york, moving east at 30 mph. additional severe thunderstorms were located near aurora (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, york, aurora, hampton, bradshaw, waco, benedict, marquette, gresham and thayer.
5/10/2016 8:14 PM CDT At 812 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near marquette, or 20 miles west of york, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/10/2016 8:05 PM CDT At 801 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of aurora to near polk to near benedict, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. these storms have a history of producing gustnadoes along the storm outflow. gustnadoes appear as huge dirt devils with winds to near 70 mph and a significant amount of blowing dust. the rotation in gustnadoes is typically below the cloud base and not connected with the upper levels of the thunderstorm. Locations impacted include, york, aurora, hampton, giltner, polk, phillips, bradshaw, waco, benedict, marquette and thayer.
5/10/2016 7:43 PM CDT At 742 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or 10 miles northwest of york, moving east at 30 mph. additional severe thunderstorms are located in a line extending back to the west of bradshaw over northern hamilton county (radar indicated). Hazards include tennis ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, york, aurora, hampton, phillips, bradshaw, waco, benedict, marquette and thayer.
5/10/2016 7:34 PM CDT At 734 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over phillips, or 9 miles east of grand island, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/10/2016 7:19 PM CDT At 717 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near marquette, or 18 miles northwest of york, moving east at 15 mph. this is turning into a line of severe thunderstorms that are tracking across the same area resulting in heavy rain and flash flooding in addition to severe hail and wind (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, york, stromsburg, polk, bradshaw, waco, benedict, marquette, gresham, hordville and thayer.
5/10/2016 7:00 PM CDT At 659 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near polk, or 13 miles northwest of york, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/9/2016 5:06 PM CDT At 506 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near lushton, or near york, moving northeast at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
9/18/2015 10:14 AM CDT At 1013 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or near york, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include, york, bradshaw, and waco this includes interstate 80 between mile markers 342 and 365.
9/18/2015 9:54 AM CDT At 953 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near aurora, or 20 miles west of york, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
9/18/2015 9:22 AM CDT At 920 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near henderson, or 16 miles southwest of york, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect damage to roofs, siding, windows and vehicles. locations impacted include, york, henderson , bradshaw, waco, stockham, lushton and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 332 and 362.
9/18/2015 9:10 AM CDT At 909 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near stockham, or 22 miles northeast of hastings, moving east at 40 mph (storm chaser indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
7/31/2015 5:05 PM CDT At 504 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over york, moving southeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. locations impacted include, york, mccool junction, bradshaw and lushton. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 345 and 361.
7/31/2015 4:53 PM CDT At 453 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near york, moving southeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
7/24/2015 11:42 PM CDT At 1142 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near silver creek to near mccool junction, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, york, stromsburg, osceola, shelby, mccool junction, bradshaw, waco, benedict, gresham, lushton and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 344 and 365.
7/24/2015 11:13 PM CDT At 1113 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near silver creek to near lushton, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
7/24/2015 10:34 PM CDT At 1034 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near chapman to near aurora to near stockham, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
6/10/2015 8:35 PM CDT At 835 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near polk to near york, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
6/4/2015 8:33 PM CDT At 833 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or 8 miles northwest of york, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect damage to roofs, siding, windows and vehicles. locations impacted include, york, bradshaw, waco, benedict and thayer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 344 and 365.
6/4/2015 8:17 PM CDT At 817 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bradshaw, or 8 miles northwest of york, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect damage to roofs, siding, windows and vehicles.
6/4/2015 7:48 PM CDT At 748 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near hordville, or 16 miles northwest of york, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect damage to roofs, siding, windows and vehicles. locations impacted include, aurora, hampton, polk, phillips, marquette and hordville. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 318 and 341.
6/4/2015 7:32 PM CDT At 732 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near hordville, or 18 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail. People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect damage to roofs, siding, windows and vehicles.
6/4/2015 12:20 AM CDT At 1219 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over grafton, or 16 miles southwest of york, moving north at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
4/1/2015 8:59 PM CDT The national weather service in hastings has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. southern polk county in east central nebraska. hamilton county in south central nebraska. northwestern york county in east central nebraska. Until 930 pm cdt.
6/11/2014 8:47 PM CDT Ping Pong Ball sized hail reported 6 miles S of Bradshaw, NE, hail to around ping pong ball size
6/3/2014 8:24 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 0.3 miles NNE of Bradshaw, NE, social media report
4/27/2014 4:19 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 0.3 miles NNE of Bradshaw, NE
5/19/2012 5:30 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 0.3 miles NNE of Bradshaw, NE, hail sized from pea to slightly larger than a quarter. covered most of the ground
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Half Dollar sized hail reported 2.9 miles ENE of Bradshaw, NE
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Quarter sized hail reported 8.9 miles S of Bradshaw, NE, corrected earlier report that placed event in furnas county.
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Home Storage Vendors Propose Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Standard
Vendors Propose Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Standard
By Dan Muse | April 05, 2007
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A group of networking and storage vendors led by Emulex Corp., EMC, Brocade and others has proposed a new standard for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet. The new technology specification is called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and was presented to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
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The goal of the proposed standard, according to the vendors backing it, is to allow enterprises to attach the majority of lower-level data center servers to SANs.
With Fibre Channel in place and iSCSI gaining ground on the IP front, why the need for FCoE?
"Today we have separate networks for storage and traffic in the data center," Brian Garrett an analyst is Enterprise Strategy Group, said. "For enterprise-class applications, FC is the king. For general purpose networking, Ethernet rules."
The problem that each is managed differently by different groups and require separate tools for configuration and monitoring. "Clearly a converged fabric would reduce cost and complexity," Garrett said.
In the end, the decision between iSCSI or Fibre Channel over Ethernet could come down to culture and politics.
Brian Garrett,
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Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex, said server virtualization and blade servers are two of the driving forces behind the proposed protocol. As those technologies become more commonly deployed in data centers, FCoE will consolidate storage for those servers on a SAN. For example, Smith said, "Blade servers not designed to manage storage."
FCoE is expected to enable SAN traffic to be natively transported over Ethernet networks, while protecting and extending the investment enterprises have made in storage networks. The proposal for a new direct mapping of Fibre Channel over Ethernet has the support Brocade, Cisco, EMC, Emulex Corp., IBM, Intel, Nuova, QLogic and Sun Microsystems.
Fibre Channel was originally designed for new mass storage devices and other peripheral devices that require very high bandwidth more than Ethernet historically has provided. Fibre Channel supports full-duplex data transfer rates of 100MBps. However, Ethernet is becoming more attractive for storage neworks as its speed continues to increase thanks to standards such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
FCoE would allow enterprises to continue to run Fibre Channel over the same wires as their data networks. The goal, according to the companies proposing FCoE, is to reduce management complexity, reduce time to deployment, lower capital and operating costs, and lower power utilization.
According to the companies, FCoE will provide a unified fabric that's designed to meet the reliability, latency and performance requirements for storage and broader data center connectivity. The group described today's announcement as the first of many steps toward the development of this future standard.
With Fibre Channel locked in on the high-end and iSCSI gain ground of the low-end, FCoE will fit in between the two protocol, Smith said, as a mid-tier solution.
While the technology is important, the proposed standard also addresses some nontechnical issues. "In the end, the decision between iSCSI or FCoE could come down to culture and politics," Enterprise Strategy Group's Garrent said.
A move to iSCSI would require Fibre Channel admins to work with the networking admins, which could potentially cause tension. "FCoE enables the storage team to move towards Ethernet on its own terms. FCoE integrates better with their SANs than iSCSI and provides a platform for converged storage and networking traffic over time again on their own terms."
Dan Muse is executive editor of internet.com's Small Business Channel, EarthWeb's Networking Channel and ServerWatch.
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Home TourismCultural and Monumental HeritageSan Miguel Hermitage
Located some 2km from the town, the Ermita accommodates within its structure a natural cave excavated in the rock which hosts the Patron Saint of Istán, San Miguel.
From here you can see the Sierra Blanca, the Río Verde Valley with the Reservoir and, in the background, the Mediterranean Sea.
The Sunday prior to the Istán Fair, last week in September, the Tomillería is celebrated in the recreation area which is next to the Ermita and which has snack bars and barbeques. It is a pilgrimage in honour of San Miguel which a huge number of people attend.
How to get to the Ermita?
To reach it we must take the local A-7176 road from the Costa del Sol (Marbella) to Istán, or the rambler route P.R.-A 138, Istán-La Ermita.
Visiting hours: Closed to the public, its restricted dimensions enable observation only through its grilles.
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Decades of AFORD’s political woes
Written by Wisdom Ngwira
Muluzi and Mwenifumbo waves to supporters on arrival at Civo Stadium for manifesto launch
Mzuzu, April 9, 2019: Chakufwa Chihana is revered for being the first Malawian to openly challenge Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s autocratic rule.
In 1992, the ex-trade unionist, through an underground movement, spoke out of the time for Malawi to start multiparty democracy as opposed to single party.
Despite coming third during Malawi’s first General Elections in 1994, opposition Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) under Chihana scooped all 33 parliamentary seats in the northern region.
To put an icing on the cake, it further managed to get three more seats from the central region.
Just as United Democratic Front (UDF) and MCP were indisputably the strongest parties in the southern and central regions, respectively, AFORD was a face for the northern region.
In the elections, Chihana amassed 18.9 percent of the total votes which saw Bakili Muluzi of UDF becoming an eventual winner.
1999 tale: so close yet so far away
In the second general elections in 1999, still oozing with the 1994 elections confidence, AFORD did not field a presidential candidate, but rather opted to join forces with MCP to unseat UDF.
AFORD’s Chihana became running mate to Gwanda Chakwamba in the alliance.
The results, however, were disappointing as UDF defeated the MCP/AFORD alliance by collecting 52.38 percent against the alliance’s 45.17 percent of the total votes.
AFORD came out scathed as it lost its grip on the northern region. It lost seven of its 36 seats won in 1994. This was the genesis of the fall of the once mighty AFORD.
2002: Chihana’s loss of direction
After the 1999 defeat, AFORD’s leader Chihana, walked out of the MCP alliance and mutually agreed with President Bakili Muluzi to work together in a UDF/AFORD alliance.
Eventually, Chihana was appointed second vice-president of Malawi in 2002.
The decision by Chihana to go into an alliance with UDF did not go well with some AFORD senior members who argued that the alliance would benefit a few members of the party.
Subsequently, the disgruntled members later broke away from AFORD and formed the Movement for Genuine Democracy (Mgode).
Slowly, AFORD was heading for disaster in that later, during 2004 general elections, the party got six MPs only.
This clearly showed that even people from the northern region had lost hope in the party. Independent MP’s dominated the region.
2005: Chakufwa Chihana’s demise and the rise of Enoch
In 2005, still smarting from the 2004 parliamentary elections defeat, the party was dealt a huge blow when its leader Chakufwa Chihana died on June 17, 2005.
Dindi Gowa Nyasulu was later elected the party’s president.
The death of Chakufwa, however, paved way for his son Enoch Chihana as he won the by-elections to succeed his late father on the Rumphi Central Constituency parliamentary seat.
Enoch was previously a member of the UDF. Under Gowa Nyasulu, the party tried to reorganize itself but serious infighting still dogged the party’s progress.
In the 2009 elections, the party opted to take a go on the presidential elections but with completely little success as its candidate Gowa Nyasulu amassed 0.45 percent of the total votes.
2013: Enoch takes over and power struggle ensues
At its 2013 convention, Enoch, who was slowly gaining ground in AFORD’s fold, was elected the party’s president.
In the 2014 tripartite elections, the party got a single seat from the Rumphi Central Constituency where Enoch, himself, won.
After the elections, Karonga Central Constituency independent MP Frank Mwenifumbo rejoined AFORD.
“I have come back to this party in order to help it regain its lost glory.
“We need to return where we belong as a party. We need to revamp AFORD,” Mwenifumbo told people when he was welcomed in the party.
He subsequently crisscrossed the country mobilising people, who had left the party, to come back.
Many people believed that the party would soon be back on its heels as Enoch and Mwenifumbo embarked on a campaign dubbed ‘Revamp AFORD’, as the strongest party in the region.
However, Mwenifumbo later started pressing Enoch to call for an elective convention.
Mwenifumbo argued that the national executive committee’s mandate had expired according to the party’s constitution.
But Enoch argued that the party had no money to finance the convention.
Deep in Mwenifumbo’s mind, however, was ambition to become the party’s president. Battle lines were now clearly drawn between him and Enoch.
Their struggle later came to a climax in 2018 when they held two parallel conventions where each was elected president.
The two then sought court’s intervention on who was the legitimate president of the party.
Court adjournments were the older of the day. Each of the two leaders vowed never to give up on the presidency.
As all this drama was on show, time was not on the party’s side since the 2019 tripartite elections kept nearing.
Towards the end of 2018, Mwenifumbo surprised the nation when he told journalists that he had finally given up on the AFORD presidency and was recognising Enoch as the party’s legitimate leader.
It looked as if the party ended the year in unity.
2019: one party in two marriages?
On February 7, 2019, Enoch surprised many when he, together with former State President Joyce Banda, announced that they had entered an electoral partnership with Vice-President Saulos Chilima of United Transformation Movement (UTM).
Enoch said his party would not field a presidential candidate but rather render support to UTM’s candidate, Chilima.
“AFORD will go flat out to campaign for Dr Chilima in order for him to be president of the Republic of Malawi. AFORD believes Dr Chilima is the only candidate who can help develop this country.
“Above all, we share similar vision with UTM,” Chihana told the media after striking a deal with UTM to go into an electoral alliance.
Enoch said, subsequently, AFORD would mobilise its supporters to vote for Chilima and UTM.
The new arrangement was further cemented when Enoch accompanied by some AFORD followers were seen at COMESA hall in Blantyre during Chilima’s presentation of his nomination papers to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC).
Twenty four hours later, more drama unfolded when UDF’s presidential candidate Atupele Muluzi unveiled AFORD’s Mwenifumbo as his running mate in the tripartite elections.
Speaking at UDF northern region headquarters in Mzuzu during a briefing to the UDF and AFORD members in the north about his choice as running mate to Muluzi, Mwenifumbo urged supporters to vote for UDF.
“Muluzi has set aside many development projects to be done in the north; so I urge you all to vote for UDF during May 21 tripartite elections,” he said.
Meanwhile, University of Livingstonia political analyst George Phiri argues that it is AFORD that is losing out. He says the party is confusing its followers on which party to vote for.
“I can even predict more disaster for AFORD in the parliamentary elections as the party clearly shows lack of direction and leadership.
“A party cannot have two of its camps campaigning for two different presidential candidates.
“In the end, it’s the voters who will be confused as some will end up voting for UTM or UDF MPs as there is no clear direction for AFORD,” Phiri says.
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 353: Tissue Accumulations of Toxic Aconitum Alkaloids after Short-Term and Long-Term Oral Administrations of Clinically Used Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparations in Rats (Toxins)
Although Radix Aconiti Lateralis (Fuzi) is an extensively used traditional Chinese medicine with promising therapeutic effects and relatively well-reported toxicities, the related toxic aconitum alkaloid concentrations in major organs after its short-term and long-term intake during clinical practice are still not known. To give a comprehensive understanding of Fuzi-induced toxicities, current study is proposed aiming to investigate the biodistribution of the six toxic alkaloids in Fuzi, namely Aconitine (AC), Hypaconitine (HA), Mesaconitine (MA), Benzoylaconine (BAC), Benzoylhypaconine (BHA) and Benzoylmesaconine (BMA), after its oral administrations at clinically relevant dosing regimen. A ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS) method was developed and validated for simultaneous quantification of six toxic alkaloids in plasma, urine and major organs of Sprague Dawley rats after oral administrations of two commonly used Fuzi preparations, namely Heishunpian and Paofupian, at their clinically relevant dose for single and 15-days. Among the studied toxic alkaloids and organs, BMA demonstrated the highest concentrations in all studied organs with liver containing the highest amount of the studied alkaloids, indicating their potential hepatotoxicity. Moreover, tissue accumulation of toxic alkaloids after multiple dose was observed, suggesting the needs for dose adjustment and more attention to the toxicities induced by chronic use of Fuzi in patients.
Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 354: Membrane Permeabilization by Pore-Forming RTX Toxins: What Kind of Lesions Do These Toxins Form? (Toxins)
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Home > Business > Government to soon finalise policy on corporate governance: Moily
Government to soon finalise policy on corporate governance: Moily
PTI27 Sep 2012 2:39 AM GMT
Government will soon finalise the national policy on corporate governance after studying the suggestions made by the Adi Godrej panel on the subject. The panel, headed by industrialist Adi Godrej, was set up by the ministry to prepare a draft policy document on corporate governance.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, corporate affairs minister Veerappa Moily said the committee's report is being examined and the 'corporate affairs ministry will finalise the national policy on corporate governance soon'. However, specific details were not disclosed.
The committee has come out with 15 to 16 suggestions, including those related to independent directors, to boost overall corporate governance practices in companies. On the Companies Bill, Moily said its final draft is now before the Cabinet.
The final draft of the Companies Bill 2011,has been prepared after considering recommendations of the Standing Committee and comments from the Finance and Law Ministries as well as the Planning Commission.
'It is expected to be taken up for consideration in the ensuing Parliament session,' he said.
CENTRE WANTS GREEN REVOLUTION IN EAST INDIA
The centre is committed to make eastern region the granary of the nation by growing foodgrains in their natural ecology and to their full established potential, Union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said here in east India on Wednesday. ‘Seeing the performance of the region in the recent years, I am confident we can convert the region from a chronic food deficit to food provider to the nation in very quick time,’ Pawar said. He was inaugurating the first meeting of the committee of the chief ministers of seven eastern states on the centrally-sponsored programme of ‘Bringing Green Revolution in Eastern India’.
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Parks & Protected Sites /
Undersea revival
By treasures | On 18/02/2009 | Parks & Protected Sites
By Gregg K. Kakesako
The USS Arizona is in "far better shape than can be imagined based on scientific evidence," says Brett Seymour, of the National Park Service.
Navy divers are helping the Park Service map the hull of the sunken battleship using 3-D, high-definition imaging. The Park Service is finding soft and hard coral on the battleship -- where no hard coral was growing in the 1980s.
Also under way is a film of the underwater world of the Arizona that will be shown in the new visitors center.
Officials say the new technology helps them better understand the structural integrity of the 93-year-old vessel and whether it is any danger to the environment.
The camera system also will be used to videotape a Japanese midget submarine sunk off Pearl Harbor in the 1941 attack.
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PhD Studentship Opening at The University of Liverpool
Optical Coherence Tomography News May 16 2019 Jobs & Studentships
PhD studentship in the development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and artificial intelligence (AI) for precisely and automatically measurement of the corneal power. Successful students will receive a studentship of tuition fees paid at the Home/EU rate for 3.5 years and a stipend of £15,009 per annum for 3.5 years. In addition, students will have access to a research support fund of £1,000 per annum for purchasing equipment, consumables and conference costs co-managed by the academic supervisor.
The project is supported by the University of Liverpool Doctoral Network in Future Digital Health, which is directed at creating and maintaining a community of AI health care professionals that can realise the benefits that AI can bring to Health Care. The vision is that of a world-class centre providing high-quality doctoral training within the domain of AI for Future Digital Health. Each available PhD project has been carefully co-created in collaboration with a health provider and/or a healthcare commercial interest so that the outcomes of the PhD research will be of immediate benefit. The network will be providing doctoral training, culminating in a PhD, in a collaborative environment that features, amongst other things, peer-to-peer and cohort-to-cohort based learning. On completion students will be well-placed to take up rewarding careers within the domain of AI and Digital Health.
Informal enquiries can be addressed to Prof. Yaochun Shen at ycshen@liverpool.ac.uk.
For full details and to apply online, please visit: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/refractive-power-of-human-eye/#d.en.1141196
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Quantifying pharmaceutical film coating with optical coherence tomography and terahertz pulsed imaging: an evaluation also written by Yaochun Shen
Differentiating Generic versus Branded Pharmaceutical Tablets Using Ultra-High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography also written by Yaochun Shen
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Review - The Silence of Lorna (Le silence de Lorna)
The start of a Dardenne brothers film is always a rather disorienting experience. They like to cut straight into the story, spending no time on preliminaries or introductions, and leaving us to gather details and learn more about the characters in a gradual process, until we are fully involved in their experiences. Their fifth feature, The Silence of Lorna, opens in a bank, with money being handed over the counter and a young woman telling the clerk that she will soon be a Belgian citizen. This is Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), who has come from Albania to live in Liege, and who has earned her citizenship through a marriage to Claudy (Jérémie Renier). The pair live together in a small flat, but there is little warmth in their relationship, despite Claudy's best efforts to win over his frosty wife. For Lorna, this is strictly business, and that business is a green card scam that she has become involved in at the behest of her real boyfriend Sokol (Alban Ukaj) and local gangster Fabio (Fabrizio Rongione). The plan is to get rid of Claudy as soon as he has outlived his usefulness, by forcing the junkie to overdose on heroin, and that will leave the way clear for Lorna to remarry and pass on her citizenship to another, with a Russian gentleman already standing by brandishing a big cheque.
At this point, Lorna starts to get cold feet, and she suggests a quickie divorce as an alternative to murder. We can see now that her feelings for Claudy are much more complicated than they first seemed to be, although it's hard to get an exact reading on those feelings. Has she fallen in love with Claudy? Does she simply feel sympathy for him? Or perhaps she has simply woken up to the monstrousness of the plot she is involved in, and she suddenly feels compelled to act for fear of losing her soul? In this respect Lorna finds herself in a similar situation to Bruno, the character Jérémie Renier played in the Dardenne brothers' L'Enfant – being guilty of committing a terrible crime and desperately searching for a way to make amends – and her steely determination recalls the heroine of their first Palme d'Or winner Rosetta. But Lorna is very much her own character, a figure as complex and compelling as any the Dardennes have given us, and in Arta Dobroshi, they have unearthed another extraordinary new star.
Dobroshi's face doesn't reveal emotions easily. There's a guarded quality about her countenance, which she only drops occasionally, but those moments are enough for us to see a mixture of conflicting feelings raging inside her character. Dobroshi attacks the role with a sense of conviction that drives the movie forward, and we completely believe that everything she does is coming from somewhere deep inside herself. Whether she is banging her head painfully against a wall – in the hope that an accusation of abuse will speed up the divorce procedure – or suddenly lighting up as she imagines her future running a small café, she is a luminous presence. She also works brilliantly with Renier, a Dardennes regular, who gives a stunningly empathetic display as Claudy, which shouldn't be overlooked. He makes his lovelorn junkie feel desperately real, there's a powerful tenderness about the way he yearns for Lorna's companionship, and a sex scene between the pair – the first the brothers have ever shot – is unexpectedly moving.
I feel we should tread carefully at this juncture, and I will make a great effort not to discuss any more plot specifics to ensure the film's biggest surprises remain undiminished for the viewer (be warned, some other reviews have not been so conscientious); but there is one sudden development that occurs during The Silence of Lorna, which I must bring up. The interesting thing about this twist is not so much the shattering event itself, but more the manner in which the Dardennes handle it, allowing it to occur off-screen and simply moving the film on without exposition, until we slowly put the pieces together. It is a truly daring move, and it threw the whole audience for a loop at the screening I attended, but it also had something of a jarring and counterproductive effect, taking us momentarily out of the drama, as we struggled to comprehend the story's new direction.
This film is also taking the Dardennes in something of a new direction. Although The Silence of Lorna appears to fit neatly into their oeuvre at first glance, the brothers have taken a number of risky narrative and aesthetic decisions that mark this as something new. They've toned down the restless camerawork, which followed the characters at close quarters, in favour of a more objective, classical approach, and it's probably a smart move from the filmmakers, whose style was in danger of growing repetitive by the time they made L'Enfant. This film is a little more detached than the brothers' earlier work, which is perhaps why it has received a slightly cooler reaction from critics, but it still displays their exquisite control of mood, and their ability to explore complex moral issues with an incisive and unerring eye.
The Silence of Lorna is more reliant on plot than previous Dardennes efforts, although the brothers' handling of this narrative is typically unconventional. Aside from the audacious ellipsis I mentioned earlier, they take the film into a number of surprising and hitherto uncharted areas, with Lorna's fragile mental state becoming increasingly unsound as the picture progresses. This is ultimately another rich and nuanced character study from two of the most valuable filmmakers in world cinema, and the fact that the Dardennes are trying to spread their wings with this feature – to shake up the old formula – is an exciting prospect that we should embrace. The Silence of Lorna might lack the immediacy of something like Rosetta or their masterpiece The Son, but it offers a different kind of satisfaction, and the film's unbearably tense final fifteen minutes leads to a beautiful and deeply haunting climax, which is among the finest moments they have ever given us. It has been weeks since I saw The Silence of Lorna, but I find my thoughts drifting back to it again and again.
Read my interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne here.
Read my interview with Arta Dobroshi here.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 15 2019
Divorce probably would have been the easier option.
Conflict was Humphrey Bogart's follow-up to the crowd pleasing To Have and Have Not, and he takes a dark turn as a man whose bad marriage is complicated by the fact that he's fallen in love with his sister-in-law. He's willing to kill to be free, but his plan goes sideways, as they always do. We won't go into detail except to note that, interestingly, Bogart begins to see the same jumbled pyramidal shape everywhere—in a pile of fallen logs, in an architectural drawing, in the kindling set up to start a bonfire, etc. It's a Hitchcockian touch designed to symbolize the inner conflict of the title, but why exactly is he seeing these things? Is it because he killed his wife? Or because he botched his opportunity and now she's trying to drive him insane? We won't tell you. We'll only say that the winding road toward a resolution is reasonably entertaining, and Bogart can pull even a flawed film to the positive side of the ledger. Conflict, which co-starred Alexis Smith and Sydney Greenstreet, premiered in the U.S. today in 1945.
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Vintage Pulp Jan 26 2019
Organized crime finally meets its match.
How much does it cost to fight corruption? That's the question The Turning Point asks, and the answer is—everything. Fighting corruption costs relationships, trust, and often lives. It costs reputations, stability, and sometimes public belief in civil institutions, because corruption will destroy everything before being pushed from power—even the structures that made its rise possible in the first place. Edmond O'Brien, William Holden, and Alexis Smith star in this second night offering at the Noir City Film Festival that examines the lives of a prosecutor, his assistant, and a newspaperman, all of whom are drawn into an investigation of organized crime that is far tougher than any of them expected. And they thought they expected the worst.
The investigative body portrayed is presumably modeled after 1950-51's anti-crime Kefauver Committee, aka the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, which revealed to the general public that a national organized crime syndicate—popularly known as the Mafia—existed. Before the Committee the idea of the Mafia was mocked by many as a conspiracy theory, but the Committee's conclusions led to the creation of the RICO Act, which today is one of the most useful tools in the federal arsenal for combatting organized crime. The investigation in The Turning Point is on a smaller scale, focusing on a single city, but the idea is the same.
The crooks, of course, don't just stand idly by while they're being targeted by the authorities. Their retaliation comes on multiple fronts and pushes O'Brien, who heads the crime committee, to the point of quitting. But we know he won't. What kind of movie would that be? Does he win? In film noir victory is never a foregone conclusion. Tragedy of some sort is almost assured. But if it indeed strikes, who will fall? Therein lies the tension in The Turning Point. With O'Brien, Holden, and Smith in the leads, the movie is in the hands of confident performers, and what could have been mere pro-law enforcement propaganda turns out to be something more nuanced. Is it a top effort? Not quite, but if you watch it you definitely won't be wasting your time.
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Vintage Pulp Oct 20 2017
I'll see your ten thousand and raise you my wife. Sorry, babe.
The Big Bet tells the story of a professional gambler and owner of a gaming parlor who faces three obstacles—his health is poor, his son is ashamed of him, and his wife is unhappy. Retirement and a move to Florida seem to be the answer to all three problems. Over the course of one night the protagonist Charley King sees two lucky gamblers whittle away his fortune in a card game, learns that a police raid and jail is imminent, and is served a legal summons. In mounting desperation he must win his fortune back and deal with the other problems—and quickly—if he has any hope of escaping to a better life. If that sounds compelling we can tell you it is. The book, which appeared in 1945 under the title Any Number Can Play, was made into a stage production, and subsequently into a 1949 film starring Clark Gable and Alexis Smith. The cover art on this 1948 Bantam edition was painted by Robert Doares.
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Intl. Notebook Mar 8 2017
It's never too late to go to Paris.
Above are some scans from Paris-Hollywood issue #56, published in 1949. Paulette Goddard is the cover star, sporting a crazy hair-do that makes her look a bit like she has horns. The cover text explains that the shot was made as a promo for her role in Les Naufrageurs des mers du sud, better known as Reap the Wild Wind, and we'll just assume the wild wind did that to her hair. The movie was made in 1942 but due to a little inconvenience called World War II did not play in France until later. Inside the issue you get Alexis Smith (described as a protégée of Errol Flynn), Jane Russell, Mary Kay Dodson, and the always lovely Adele Mara. The back cover goes to Janis Paige, who's posing in costume for her role in the western Cheyenne. We have more of these magazines in the website and you can see them by clicking the keywords “Paris-Hollywood” below.
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Vintage Pulp Nov 2 2016
Ms. Smith goes to New York City.
Above is an alternate poster for the thriller Undercover Girl, a film we talked about previously on its premiere date, which was today in 1950. Read the other write-up and see the other poster here.
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If at first you don't succeed.
We watched The Two Mrs. Carrolls with the Pulp Intl. girlfriends, which is a shame because years of work trying to get them to like old films was finally bearing fruit, only to be partly undone by this one. Whereas In a Lonely Place is one of Bogart's best, The Two Mrs. Carrolls is one of his worst—which should make for an interesting double bill at Noir City tonight. There are problems in most elements of this film, but the main saboteur is the script, adapted by Thomas Job from Martin Vale’s 1935 play of the same name. Structurally, it has some problematic loose threads, and in terms of plot progression, relying upon a child to impart several pieces of crucial information to the heroine all at once all during a casual conversation is not a good move for a suspense movie. Having Barbara Stanwyck find the entire murder scheme outlined on a piece of notebook paper would have been less contrived. Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, and Alexis Smith give it a spirited go, but they can overcome only so much. At least the movie looks great. Credit director Peter Godfrey for that much, with a big assist from cinematographer J. Peverell Marley.
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Everybody who was anybody got inside.
Above and below, scans from the French show-biz and showgirl magazine Paris-Hollywood, issue 26, from 1948. The front cover features Marguerite Chapman, the rear Arlene Dahl, and in between you get Cyd Charisse, Patricia Roc, Martha Vickers, Alexis Smith, Anne Jeffreys, Luce Feyrer, Edwige Feuillère, Marlene Dietrich, and other luminaries. That's quite a collection of celebs. In upcoming years the magazine would spend more time on cabaret dancers, but its early issues were all about international stars. We picked up a few of these in Paris a while back and we’ll get to some detailed scans of those soon. In the meantime, you can see more from Paris-Hollywood here, here, and here.
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The cops and robbers go coast to coast in Undercover Girl.
Above, a promo poster for Undercover Girl. The depiction of star Alexis Smith at upper left is modeled directly after the image of her we shared a couple of weeks ago, minus the pistol she was holding. Undercover Girl is about a rookie NYC policewoman detached to L.A. to pose as a Chicago drug buyer, and who joined the force to avenge her cop father’s death. Lucky, then, one of the drug dealers she’s going after was coincidentally responsible. We probably don’t have to tell you her cover is blown later in the film—it’s a standard feature of these deep cover dramas even today. It’s still worth a glance, though, and we’re glad we mixed it into the slate of five horror movies we watched this weekend. Undercover Girl premiered in the U.S. today in 1950.
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Femmes Fatales Oct 15 2014
Undercover but not inconspicuous.
Above, Canadian actress Alexis Smith, née Gladys Smith, in a Universal International Pictures promo shot made in 1950 for her cop thriller Undercover Girl. She also appeared in Conflict, Of Human Bondage, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, and more than fifty other films.
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Meaningful Ageing Australia
In the first half of this year, Meaningful Ageing Australia, a national peak body supporting organisations and groups to respond to the pastoral and spiritual needs of older people, offered seminars in regional locations across Australia.
Host organisation chose a topic that met the learning needs of their staff. Topics included: ‘Spiritual care in a diverse world’; ‘Supporting older people in the transition to aged care’; and ‘Death, dying and hope: conversations at end of life’. The seminars, which kicked off in Albany, WA, were attended by staff of aged care services, older people and families.
In some locations there were opportunities for aged care residents and/or family members to ask questions and to reflect on how it is to be in aged care, or to have family members in aged care.
Following a recent seminar in regional Queensland, Meaningful Ageing Educator Merisa Holland spent some time with an aged care resident and their family member. Merisa learned that the resident had settled in beautifully and was enjoying a fulfilled life at the home. However, her son John said that he was feeling very guilty about putting his mum in a home. This is not uncommon for families and can cause great distress. Merisa asked some questions about his experience and listened closely as John talked. She then shared a simple model of transition into aged care showing an initial period of being overwhelmed, followed by adjustment, and then acceptance. John was able to articulate that he was in fact at the beginning, in the overwhelm phase. Merisa enabled John to name his resources and supports. At the end of the conversation John said he was able to see the value of Merisa’s skilled questioning and reflection as an educator with a spiritual care practitioner background.
The Meaningful Ageing Regional Seminars offered opportunities for aged care staff, including leaders, managers and direct care staff, to consider and reflect on the spiritual needs of older people and spiritual care. Participants learnt skills that could be integrated into their work immediately. They also learnt that, while every person has a role in spiritual care for older people, spiritual care specialists have the skills and capacity to enable deeper conversations and responses.
In one session, a nurse asked, “What is a chaplain? Is it good for an organisation to have a chaplain?” The educator then had the opportunity to talk about spirituality in a diverse world, and to say that organisations don’t have to have a chaplain, but as pointed out in the National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care, access to spiritual care specialists is important.
The regional series ran until the end of June. Seminars were held in Tanunda and Mount Gambier in South Australia; Bendigo in Victoria; Devonport in Tasmania; Rockhampton in Queensland; and Lismore and Tamworth in New South Wales and were made possible with the support of Prime Super.
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"I've been in Australia for a bit over a year now but I arrived in the country from Japan without knowing a single person. Throughout the course of settling down here, I was fortunate enough to meet my partner and got to know people through her network of friends but it wasn't until I started playing badminton with the Shuttlecats did I feel I had a place of my own I could feel completely comfortable with.
I've always enjoyed being active and have played badminton since high school (albeit it's been a brief 9 year intermission since my last competitive game). I had attempted other meetups for badminton, fitness groups and the like, but I always felt like an outsider, whether it being a huge mismatch in skill level or having to tip-toe around my sexual preferences. With the Shuttlecats, I wholeheartedly appreciate how welcoming, inclusive and relaxed it is. It's focused on supporting each other through playing badminton, building friendships and destressing from the pressures packed on during the day. I hope the Shuttlecats will continue to be a place for me and others to feel at home. I'm counting on it." - Stephanie C -
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St Nicholas’ Parochial Church Council is committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of all our members.
We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We are committed to implementing all safeguarding policies and practice guidance issued by the House of Bishops
We will carefully select and train all those who work or volunteer in positions of trust. We will use the Disclosure and Barring Service, amongst other tools, to check the background of each person.
We will respond, without delay, to every concern made that a person for whom we are responsible may have been harmed.
We will co-operate fully with statutory agencies during any investigation concerning a member of the church community.
We will seek to ensure that anyone for whom we have pastoral responsibility who has suffered abuse is offered support that meets their needs.
We will respond appropriately to those who have committed sexual offences who wish to join our fellowship, following House of Bishop’s guidance and the advice of the Safeguarding Team.
We will review this policy annually and as part of this process will ensure that all our procedures, particularly in relation to the Disclosure and Barring Service, are up to date.
Our Safeguarding Representative is: Heather Howlett. Heather’s contact details may be found on display on the noticeboard in church porch or by contacting the parish office.
For further information, or to contact the Diocesan Safeguarding adviser, please see the safeguarding pages on the Diocese of Chichester website: https://safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/
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The Seer
First published in Italy in 2011 by Skira Editore
This richly illustrated book includes more than eighty full-color reproductions of Qadri's canvas and paper works dating from the sixties to 2011. Essays by leading scholars Partha Mitter, Donald Kuspit, and Tushara Bindu Gude chronicle the evolution of Qadri's artistic development and the complex philosophy underpinning his powerful vision. With a foreword by museum curator Deepali Dewan and a detailed biography focusing on his early years by his gallerist Sundaram Tagore, Sohan Qadri, The Seer is the most authoritative record available of the artist's life and work.
A poet, philosopher, and painter, Sohan Qadri occupied a unique position in the history of late twentieth-century art. He was a modernist who developed an uncompromising non-objective visual language, while drawing inspiration from is age-old Indian roots as an initiated Tantric. A master of minimalism, he created luminous, vibrantly colored paintings that combine formal brilliance with spiritual content intended to awaken in the viewer something beyond the aesthetic--beyond even the senses. Born and educated in India and having spent his working life in Europe and North America, Sohan Qadri is part of the contemporary global diaspora whose work addresses the contradictions of modernity. More important, originating in another tradition, Qadri's forms bring an unexpected new dimension to the discourse on Western minimalism.
Jacket: Agamas II, 2008, ink and dye on paper
©2011 Sundaram Tagore, Inc. for the text and images
©2011 Skira Editore
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Red Wings Blog
Posts Tagged ‘Atlanta’
Tonight the Red Wings played the Thrashers in Atlanta. Jimmy Howard was in net for the Wings and for the Thrashers it was Pavelec.
This was not a good night for the Red Wings. The Thrashers beat them at their own game. Atlanta had the puck most of the night and outshot the Wings, especially in the second period. The Wings turned the puck over a lot and Jimmy Howard got shelled for two periods. Had Howard not been on top of his game it probably would have been five to nothing at the first intermission. He kept it close in the first by making some great saves but Atlanta broke it open in the second.
By the third period it was four to one Atlanta. Babcock put in Joey MacDonald for the third period. Not that it was Howard’s fault but it was a chance to shake up the team a little and get MacDonald some minutes.
All the games lately where the Red Wings have been out played and still found a way to win have been leading to this one. You can’t keep getting outplayed and keep winning. Eventually it’ll catch up with you and that’s happened in Atlanta. The Thrashers outworked the Wings and they deserved to win.
This 1-5 loss brings us to:
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Atlanta at Detroit (11/25/09)
The Atlanta Thrashers came to town to face the Red Wings tonight on the eve of Thanksgiving. Ondrej Pavelec was the goalie for the Thrashers and Jimmy Howard was in for the Wings.
In the first period Detroit was generating a ton of offense but Pavelec was standing strong. Then the Thrashers entered the Red Wings zone on the rush. Afinogenov passed across the slot to Antropov. Leino tried to cut off the pass but he didn’t act quickly enough to stop it. The puck hit his skate but still made it across to Antropov who tapped it in for the goal. It was the familiar situation of the Red Wings playing very well but making one costly mistake and falling behind.
The Red Wings’ first power play of the game was amazing. They had the puck in the Thrashers’ zone the whole time. They put on a passing clinic but Atlanta did a good job of clogging up the middle and Pavelec was on fire.
The amount of offense by the Wings in the first period was as much as some teams have in a whole game but they didn’t get a goal. They had 19 shots and 10 scoring chances but nothing to show for it. The period ended with Atlanta up one to nothing.
In the second period the Red Wings continued playing well. They had a great scoring chance when Pavelec came out to play the puck near the faceoff dot. He poked it back but not out. Leino got it before it exited the zone and passed it to Zetterberg. In the meantime Pavelec had moved back into position. Zetterberg one timed it and Pavelec snagged it out of the air with his glove. It was a heck of a save because he didn’t have time to get set.
A short time later Lebda was called for slashing. With only about 10 seconds left on the Thrashers’ power play, Kovalchuk made a perfect pass to spring our old friend Slava Kozlov who had just come off the bench. He took the puck to the net all alone, made a few moves and beat Jimmy Howard giving the Thrashers a two to nothing lead.
The second period wasn’t as lopsided offensively as the first was. Atlanta was catching up in shots on goal. Detroit seemed to have lost a little jump even though they were still playing pretty well.
Detroit continued to generate offense in the third period but they were never able to score. They pulled the goalie with a minute and forty seconds left but Cleary had been hit with a phantom interference call so the extra skater just got them back to even strength.
It was all for naught as Detroit ended up with forty shots and no goals. Pavelec got the shutout and he deserved it. He played a great game. The Red Wings were doing everything right tonight for the majority of the game. The only thing they need is maybe some confidence. They just seem to be snake bit right now.
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Detroit at Atlanta (3/20/09)
Detroit headed into Atlanta tonight to face the Thrashers. We had Osgood starting for us again tonight. He’s been playing pretty well lately. Filppula returned from injury in this game and it was also his 25th birthday. Holmstrom was still out. He didn’t go on the road trip so he’ll be out for at least the next two games as well. Hopefully, that time off will help him get back to 100% before the playoffs. Lehtonen was the starting goaltender for the Thrashers.
Detroit had some good scoring chances early in the game. It seemed like they had a lot of jump. You got the sense that it would be only a matter of time until they cracked Lehtonen. Atlanta had a power play early on. Osgood made several key saves to keep them off the board.
Later in the first Detroit got a power play because Atlanta had too many men on the ice. The Wings did great on the power play. They kept the puck in the Atlanta end for a long time and cycled it well. Just after the power play ended the puck came to Rafalski and he snapped it home for the first goal of the game. Technically it wasn’t a power play goal but Detroit still had a man advantage at the time because the Atlanta player hadn’t rejoined the play yet.
Atlanta had another power play close to the end of the first period. Osgood made an incredible save during the kill. The Atlanta crowd, which was apparently loaded with Red Wings fans, started the Ozzie chant. I don’t think I remember ever hearing that in a road game before. It happened again in the second period after another particularly awesome save. The crowd was also doing the let’s go Red Wings chant. That must REALLY annoy the home team.
In the second period there was some 4 on 4 play. Kronwall passed to Franzen who dished it to Datsyuk at the top of the circle on the rush. He fired a laser beam that beat Lehtonen making it two to nothing Detroit.
A few minutes later Detroit was really jumping. First Stuart laid a big hit in neutral ice along the boards, then Lebda sprung Hudler with a breakaway pass. Hudler split the D, and charged the net all alone. He took the shot and burned the goalie for Detroit’s third goal.
In the third period the Red Wings scored on the power play. Lidstrom took the shot and Lehtonen stopped it. The rebound dropped in front and Franzen poked it between Lehtonen’s legs. It trickled towards the goal line and probably wouldn’t have crossed but Franzen stayed with it and poked it again to get their fourth goal of the night.
Later in the third Atlanta scored a power play breaking the shutout. They had the puck down low and got it to Little in the slot. Stuart was guarding him and also apparently trying to prevent a shot from the guy on the goal line. Little backed away from the net and Stuart gave him the separation. That was enough room for him and he one timed it into the net.
A few minutes later Zetterberg entered the zone with the puck and passed it to the crossing Hossa. He skated in and shot one that beat Lehtonen making it five to one Red Wings.
Just a few seconds later the Thrashers scored on the power play. Kozlov ripped the shot over Osgood’s shoulder before he had a chance to react. I think the crowd cheered much more loudly when the Red Wings scored than when the Thrashers did.
With about three and a half minutes left in the third period Zetterberg got the puck to Cleary in the slot. Cleary shot it quickly and scored to make it six to two Wings.
A short time later Samuelsson started pushing and shoving with Oystrick. It quickly escalated into a fight and Samuelsson got the crap beat out of him. Oystrick got him in a headlock right away and hit him several times in the face and then in the head after pulling off his helmet. I don’t think Samuelsson even landed a punch. It was a bit of a bummer but at least he tried. He should have some nice shiners to show for it.
Just to screw up his numbers, Osgood gave up another goal with about 30 seconds left in the game. He ended up way over to the left side of the net and the puck came out to the other side. It was an easy goal for Stuart who had a mostly wide open net.
This was a great road win for the Wings. Osgood played very well although his numbers probably won’t show it because of the late goals that weren’t really his fault.
This 6-3 win brings us to:
Tonight Atlanta played Detroit for just the tenth time in history. The game started with a bang when the Red Wings got a Power play just 23 seconds in. Atlanta was attempting to clear and Zetterberg made a great play to knock the puck down and keep it in the zone. A few passes later it came back to Zetterberg in front of the net. He picked a corner and made it look easy, giving the Wings an early one to nothing lead.
Later in the first Atlanta attacked and took a shot that Osgood stopped. The rebound came right back out in front and bounced off of Lebda’s skate and into the net. That tied the game at one apiece.
Just a few seconds later Marian Hossa showed his old team what he’s capable of. He stole the puck at the blue line just before the Thrashers would have brought it out. Then he made a series of incredible moves which resulted in the goalie diving towards him and leaving the net exposed. He went forehand to backhand one last time and I swear he was already behind the net at that point. It was a truly amazing goal and an impressive individual effort. This goal will surely be one of the highlight goals of the year. Even though he scored the game winner in OT the other night, this one, to me, had more of an impact. I could almost feel him becoming a Red Wing after that goal. That kind of effort will go a long way towards becoming accepted on a new team. Not only that, but it also must have really hurt the morale of the Thrashers.
In the second period Detroit scored another beautiful goal. Hossa made a great pass to Kronwall who carried the puck in deep. He made a really unexpected and difficult pass back to Hossa right in the middle of the slot. Hossa one-timed it into the net. It was a bang bang play that you wouldn’t really expect to see between Kronwall and Hossa, but it sure was pretty.
Just over a minute later the game turned ridiculous when the Red Wings scored AGAIN. Franzen shot the puck and Zetterberg, all alone at the side of the net, put it into the top corner making it four to one. The Red Wings were really firing on all cylinders at that point.
In the third period Atlanta scored a goal during a 5 on 3 power play making the score four to two and leaving them with 1:33 left on the power play. Then Detroit put the puck in the seats from their own end so the Thrashers had another 5 on 3 power play and this was a long one. Ozzie made some saves and got lucky with a goal post and the Wings were able to kill off the 5 on 3. Then Atlanta got a penalty and Detroit went on the power play. Several more penalties and no goals later the game settled down into a rhythm again.
With 3:49 left in the game Atlanta scored again to bring them within one goal of tying the game. It was kind of a scrum in front of the net and Sterling whacked at it. Osgood got a piece of it but not enough and Sterling poked it again to make sure it crossed the line.
The Thrashers pulled their goalie at the end of the game and Cleary scored the empty net goal to wrap up the game. The game ended with the Red Wings winning five to three.
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Conservation farming - a crop establishment alternative or a whole-farm system?
J.E. Pratleya and P.S. Cornish
aRiverina Murray Institute of Higher Education, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
bAgricultural Research Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
Wind erosion devastated much of southern Australia in February, 1983 and the drought-breaking rains which followed in March also led to widespread soil loss. More severe water erosion occurred in northern NSW and Queensland in the autumn of 1984. Over this period the National Soil Conservation Programme was launched; with fortuitous timing and much publicity. The result of these events was a much better appreciation of the magnitude of the problem of soil degradation in Australia and, we perceive, an unprecedented commitment from Government and the farming community to do something about it. It is our belief that a change to more appropriate tillage practices offers the best prospects for maintaining a productive agriculture.
In this paper we develop the argument that the scientific and technological data base is largely adequate for us to move immediately to replace conventional, multi-pass tillage with practices which ensure soil stability.
The problem is that these data are all derived from classical experimentation in which one or at most a few factors are considered in isolation from the far more complex environment of the farm and the economic implications. Because research data are obtained in relatively simple experiments they tend to be presented to farmers in that way, often in isolation from the whole farm. Reports of, for example, simple comparisons between crop establishment methods, weed control options, stubble treatments and an infinite variety of other treatments or techniques are provided to farmers who are left to integrate the data and apply it to their own farm. Most farmers appreciate the need to integrate and adapt research data, but it is no surprise that many of them prefer instead to think in simpler terms: if a new technique does not fit the existing system it is rejected in preference to changing the system or modifying the technique.
Our review leads to the conclusion that a whole-farm approach to conservation farming, embracing many interacting factors, is necessary for economic success and to achieve the primary objective: more stable soil. The components of a whole-farm approach are discussed and areas requiring further work identified.
Reduced cultivation techniques for crop establishment
It has long been established that it is technically feasible to replace cultivation by herbicides (e.g. ICI Sprayseed Conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s). Considerable literature has been published indicating that in many situations equal or higher yields are achievable by direct drilling when compared with conventional cultivation. Some of this literature is surveyed in Appendices I and II. The exceptions appear to be in South Australia and perhaps in north western Victoria and central western NSW where yields have generally been lower, presumably because of hard setting soils and in some cases weed, disease and pest problems.
No-till or direct drilling and minimum tillage therefore are crop establishment alternatives to conventional multi-pass tillage. Farmers have seen them as viable alternatives and have increasingly adopted them since the mid 1970s (Table 1).
It is clear that these techniques are ecologically desirable because the destructive nature of traditional cultivation practices can result in soil structure degradation with consequent soil erosion and surface crusting. This can have substantial effects on farm productivity and at the same time cause siltation of waterways and water storages. In the past such erosion has blocked roads and railways and buried fences. The Standing Committee on Soil Conservation (33) indicated that 61% or 3 x 106 km2 of land used for agriculture was in degraded condition or required treatment. It was estimated that about two-thirds of this could be treated by changed management practices such as minimum tillage, direct drilling and stubble retention.
Table 1. The estimated area of cereal crops established by direct drilling and minimum tillage in winter rainfall areas of southern Australia, 1971-1983 (Pratley and Rowell, unpublished).
* tabulated figures in NSW related only to southern NSW with winter-dominant rainfall.
It is also apparent that these techniques can be either commercially successful or commercially disastrous depending upon the pre-disposing seasonal, soil and weed conditions and the level of management expertise involved. The popular farming press regularly reports on both success and failure thereby adding to farmer confusion as to the value of the techniques.
Rates of Adoption
The date in Table 1 provide sufficient evidence of the adoption of the techniques. While the figures at first reading indicate ready acceptance by farmers of reduced cultivation techniques, observations by the authors in the autumn of 1983 and 1984, especially in southern NSW, question whether farmers have had a real commitment to, and an understanding of soil management. The early autumn break in 1983 and the wet summer of 1983-84 saw the re-emergence, quite unnecessarily, of disc ploughs on land that had previously been direct drilled. Although cash flow problems in the aftermath of the drought together with low stock numbers may have been partially responsible in 1983 and the inflexibility of the Pesticides Act in NSW in not allowing the use of 2,4-D on cereal stubbles and fallow in the wet summer of 1983-84 also contributed, there may be some merit in evaluating the likely reasons for adoption during the last decade of reduced tillage techniques.
Instrumental in the rate of adoption has been the cost/price squeeze where the price for crop products has not kept parity with the costs of fuel, labour and machinery. In 1984, for example, one tonne of wheat purchased only 30% the amount of fuel, 70% the amount of labour and 60% the machinery than was the case in 1974. The cost of herbicides relative to wheat prices has, however, decreased during that period (Figure 1). The emphasis, therefore, in the eyes of practitioners and others has been a financial one although concerns about soil structure resulting from a decade of use of soil- incorporated pre emergent herbicides also existed.
Figure 1. The indexes of farm input and wheat prices, 1970-71 base (Godyn and Brennan, 1984).
The direct drill technique of crop establishment fitted neatly into the defined seasonal pattern in the West and was also appropriate in the southeast in the late 1970s - early 1980s when relatively dry autumns provided little weed growth to be controlled and little moisture on which to cultivate seedbeds. Because farmers had little option in these circumstances, we suggest therefore that direct drilling and minimum tillage was adopted often by default or for expediency.
Direct drilling has been seen by farmers only as a crop establishment technique, in which herbicides are substituted for cultivation, in isolation from the operations of the whole farm. This belief was encouraged by some commercial advertising ("the plough in the drum" concept) while advisory services also contributed by advising on the technique rather than on the system - understandably because it was simpler and easier to explain and have understood. This approach, however, tended to be interpreted by farmers as "all or nothing" with little flexibility for adaptation to particular conditions. In 1984, for example, many farmers in southern NSW endeavoured to direct drill into seedbeds compacted on the surface following grazing by livestock on the wet soils in autumn. The poor crop results obtained may have been avoided by using minimum tillage in these circumstances.
Researchers also have to share the blame. Most of the tillage research published in Australia (see the 2nd Australian Agronomy Conference Proceedings) is short-term and isolated from a farming system. Rarely is the non-crop period (from harvest to sowing) taken into account (except for fallow weed control) or the relationship of the crop to the remainder of the farm activities, in particular the livestock enterprises. It is pleasing to note that some papers relevant to this topic in the current Proceedings relate to long term effects and studies of systems.
It is clear, however, that there needs to be further research undertaken to fully understand the reasons for adoption, or non-adoption of reduced cultivation techniques. This work is necessary in order to identify the important extension and research needed to improve adoption rates.
It is worth noting that there is a change taking place in the definition of various practices. Traditional or conventional seedbed preparation has, in the past, generally inferred at least three workings prior to sowing. Minimum tillage has generally been considered to mean one working prior to sowing. In the popular press minimum tillage is now being regarded as traditional practice (24) - farmers disenchanted with direct drilling are "reverting" to the "traditional" practice of minimum tillage. In effect, therefore, the objective of reducing cultivation has been achieved to some extent.
Since the 1982 Australian Agronomy Conference there has been great interest by farmers and scientists in combining the advantages of direct drilling and minimum tillage with those of stubble retention. In the winter rainfall areas of the Australian wheat belt this has involved superimposing stubble retention techniques on direct drilled crops whereas in the summer rainfall areas the combination has required the replacement of stubble retention methods, which previously had relied upon blade ploughs and rodweeders for fallow weed control, by no-till fallow.
Winter-rainfall zone - the major difficulty in adopting stubble retention in this zone relates to the inability of sowing implements to proceed through the stubble without regular, time-consuming blockages, Dnlike the summer rainfall areas where stubble deterioration is at an advanced stage by sowing time and therefore brittle, the stubble in the south remains tough and resilient having experienced mainly hot dry conditions prior to sowing, with little deterioration. To date, no commercial machinery is available which can handle the stubble burdens from high yielding crops. Consequently, some farmers have tried to incorporate their stubbles, opting away from minimum tillage in favour of maximum stubble retention using disc implements. Curiously, this is a repetition of thinking in the 1960s when stubble retention was tried experimentally in southern NSW and found wanting (19). There is growing evidence that changes in soil organic matter and structural stability are most closely related to the amount of cultivation used (23). Stubble incorporation therefore may not be particularly useful due to the cultivation necessary to provide effective incorporation. Further research is needed to clarify this. Options for stubble management are considered later in this paper.
Summer-rainfall zone the development of no-till fallows in the northern cropping areas continues to depend on the development of short-term residual chemicals for fallow weed control. The use of non-residual herbicides like Roundup® and Sprayseed® necessitate repeated applications and may be precluded on the basis of cost. Residual herbicides under test include Gleans®, Bladex® and Atrazine®, the major concerns being the length of residual activity, the weed spectrum affected and the susceptibility of the crop species to be sown.
3. Conservation farming - a whole farm system
The substitution of herbicides for cultivation on an ad hoc basis does not take account of the dynamics of farm operations and resources management. Such a change in crop establishment methods has management and economic implications with respect to other factors such as feed availability for livestock, machinery depreciation, cash flow, rotations, stubble management. Some of these implications are considered in later sections of this paper.
The term 'conservation farming' is a new term coined to emphasise the whole-farm approach not generally inferred by the terms direct drilling and minimum tillage. It also allows for a flexibility of approach which has hitherto not been the case with the promotion of direct drilling. Such a systems approach is not only desirable from a management viewpoint, but also economically necessary, It is clear that the substitution of one herbicide for one cultivation is not an economic proposition. However, if this substitution also results in savings in labour, fuel and machinery costs, better weed control, improved animal production, long term soil stability and yield benefits from timeliness of operations - to name a few - the farmer then has a recipe for improved economic performance.
While the need for considering conservation farming as a whole farm system is emphasised in this paper, various aspects, or subsystems, need further comment and are treated separately for simplicity. Where appropriate, research needs are identified though clearly the treatment is not comprehensive. The primary technical objective of conservation farming is the development of soil stability - to enable this objective to be achieved by farmers ECONOMICALLY requires much broader considerations than simply a reduction in tillage.
Soil Management - With national concern on the degradation of soil structure in Australia, it is clear that one of the major thrusts of conservation farming is the reduction in the amount of cultivation undertaken in order to establish crops and pastures. The ultimate goal perhaps is that of direct drilling. However promotion of direct drilling per se has unwittingly led to disaster on many occasions where the technique was applied under conditions where it was inappropriate. The inflexibility interpreted by farmers (the "whole or nothing" approach) has clearly resulted in disenchantment by the practitioners who have endeavoured to direct drill into surface compacted soils, heavy stubble burdens, weedy conditions or into sodbound perennial pastures, culminating in disaster. A more flexible approach is therefore needed to adapt these techniques according to the conditions. For example, in areas where hard setting soils occur, such as in South Australia and in the western portion of the NSW wheatbelt, minimum tillage is likely to be more successful than direct drilling (S). This would apply also where surface soils have been compacted by livestock during the pasture phase or where stubbles have been grazed when the soil is wet. In the latter case, the compaction may be minimised by allowing grazing of stubbles when the soils are dry (13) although this may be impractical in some seasons. The factors leading to soil degradation (excess cultivation, burning of stubbles, grazing wet soils, etc) need to be ranked in terms of importance so that farmers can make informed decisions about which operations can be safely changed in a flexible conservation farming system. The need to direct drill will also depend on the intensity of the cropping activity and on the stability and hence erodibility of the soil type being cropped.
Weed Management - The use of knockdown chemicals such as Sprayseed®and Roundup® have in the past been expected by some farmers to provide a complete weed control programme. Early planning of weed control strategies during the pasture phase in a rotation system allows techniques such as spray-graze and spray topping to be employed which are inexpensive and highly effective. Weeds which are difficult or costly to control in crop can therefore be controlled by low rate of chemicals in the seasons preceding cropping activity. This is environmentally and financially more desirable. In the case of annual grasses which are alternate hosts to several cereal diseases, control at this stage provides a break in disease build-up with reduced incidence in the cropping phase. In all cases the production of desirable species in the pasture phase is enhanced as is the associated animal production. Although the techniques have been available since the early 1970s (25, 26) and practised in the west for many years, their incorporation into farming programmes on a regular basis in the east is relatively recent, Details of these techniques have been expertly reviewed in the special weed management issue of "The Direct Drill Farmer and Grazier" in 1983 together with other weed management options.
Where weeds such as silver grass (Vulpia spp) which are difficult to kill using the knockdown chemicals and for which chemicals are not available for in-crop control, strategies such as the use of a full combine, in preference to a modified combine or disc drill need to be implemented if the weeds are present at sowing (28).
Clearly there is a need for more information and guidance for farmers on suitable chemicals, rates, mixtures, water volumes and spray technology. Currently in NSW there are approximately 50 chemicals registered for use on winter crops. In other States there is a larger number with mixtures being used which are illegal in NSW. NSW farmers are using some of these with great effect. As a consequence the inability of district agronomists in this State to recommend such mixtures puts their credibility at stake and therefore lessens their impact on farmers to adopt other practices such as direct drilling. While appreciating the intention of the Pesticides Act of NSW it is our view that a national approach to pesticide use is necessary to overcome these current difficulties. This would be appreciated by farmers, extension officers and chemical companies. It should be noted that some chemicals are not available in NSW simply because companies have not proceeded with registration because of the difficulties involved, It must be noted that weed management in both pastures and crops is of paramount importance in the efficiency of plant production. A combination of methods and chemicals has the advantages in the long term of lower risks of residue buildup and herbicide resistance. It must be noted, however, that good weed control in crops, while contributing to higher crop yields and harvest efficiency, reduces the value of stubbles for livestock and reinforces the need to look more closely at stubble management. This is considered in part (d).
The extra grazing provided in autumn by direct drilled crops can have a significant effect on animal production (11). Conversely the animals are also important in managing the amount of vegetation so that an effective kill can be achieved by the knockdown herbicides prior to sowing. Where the cropping area on individual properties has increased because of financial needs, the number of stock available for grazing is necessarily reduced as is the ability therefore to have animal-organised weed management. In southern NSW, for example, it is not uncommon for a third of the farm to be cropped. As described by Patterson (24) this proportion allows for double stocking rates on cropped areas if necessary, However, where farmers have increased their cropping area to two-thirds of the property, as has happened since the 1982 drought, they can only achieve half the normal stocking rate on the cropped area. This has been inadequate to control the weeds which have flourished in the wet autumns and reduced and in some cases negated the effect of the presowing herbicides. Consideration of the whole farm implications before the event would have allowed remedial measures to be taken.
(c) Stubble Management - While crop stubbles are an integral part of the whole farm system they have been a much neglected resource. Ignored in much of the tillage research they have also been dispensed with by farmers as soon as conditions for burning allow. While they have been retained in the summer rainfall areas and on the sandy mallee soils as an erosion control measure, potential benefits have only recently been acknowledged in the winter rainfall areas, These benefits includes
an improvement in soil structure by contributing to soil organic matter levels and reducing raindrop impact and its effect on surface crusting;
a reduction in soil erosion; and
improved soil moisture storage by the reduced evaporation and improved infiltration (18).
For these benefits to be realised, however, stubble management practices must be developed, particularly in these winter rainfall areas, whereby the sowing operation can be facilitated, Current commercial seeding equipment can cope with up to 3t hr-1 stubbles, a performance which precludes their use in 3 to 4 t ha-1 cereal crops having 'on average' a stubble burden of 4 to 6 t hr-1.
Further work is necessary in winter rainfall areas to determine whether stubbles are best retained on the surface, partially or fully incorporated. Such information has implications for machinery, for weed control and for plant disease. Unless stubble breakdown has occurred between incorporation and sowing the physical problem of combine blockages still remains. Burning of residues just prior to sowing remains a management option which might be a useful compromise given that by this time the stubble will have made a significant contribution while the roots and any decayed material will add to soil organic matter levels providing it is not lost through subsequent cultivation. Assuming that the stubble is to be retained on the soil surface, two questions in particular remain to be answered:
how much stubble is it necessary to retain in order to maximise the benefits in its retention in terms of soil moisture and soil organic matter?
how best is the stubble managed to achieve the level identified in (i)?
While no answers are offered as to the levels needed for maximum benefit several options are available at harvest time for reducing the problems associated with stubble at sowing time. Cutting the crop low to the ground at harvest will reduce the level of standing straw but increases the amount of threshed residue. The more straw pushed through the header the slower and therefore more expensive the harvesting operation although the axial flow headers allow more straw throughput without substantial reduction in harvesting speeds but have not been readily available in the small range of equipment. Having harvested the straw, Hill and Butt (14) identify three options: spread the straw; chop and spread the straw; or chop and spread the chaff and straw. Straw spreaders are now fitted to most modern headers but usually only spread the straw over half to two-thirds of the machine, often in lumps. The straw is not reduced in length or pulverised and therefore straw breakdown is not assisted. Chaff however is not spread.
Straw choppers are available for some makes of large capacity and axial flow harvesters - straw is chopped and pulverised into 100-150 mm lengths and then spread over about two-thirds of the machine width. Straw stems are cracked thereby aiding stubble breakdown. The use of a "straw storm" attachment allows for better spread of both straw and chaff. This attachment consists of counter-rotating steel blades which cut and propel the strew onto spinning discs which spread the material. The major drawback with choppers and straw storms, apart from their limited range of machines, is the horsepower required and the consequent reduction in the capacity of the harvester. Hill and Butt (14) report capacity reductions may be as high as 5 t ha-1 on the large machines.
Also recently available are stubble mulchers or "busters" which consist of a rotating drum with a series of attached flails that smash the stubble into short lengths from 20-120 mm. The outer waxy layer of the stem is cracked allowing for improved breakdown of the stubble. A major problem with these machines is the high horsepower requirement and slow speed of operation with a cost of up to $12 hr-1. Farmer experience in southern NSW has been disappointing because of the cost, the incomplete coverage due to wheel tracks and the poor rate of breakdown by sowing time not alleviating the blockage problem at sowing. The presence of the straw at sowing also produced poor soil-seed contact and the partial incorporation caused nitrogen tie-up in proximity to the seed.
Improved utilisation of stubbles by livestock also offer a valuable and realistic option to reduce the amount of stubble (21, 22). It also provides a feed supply during a period of the year when feed is lacking. The significance of this feed source is indicated by calculation that NSW wheat stubbles potentially contain sufficient energy to maintain the State's sheep flock for more than 4 months (27), The Western Australian cereal stubbles have been calculated to have the potential to run that State's sheep population for half the year (32), To realise this potential, however, will require further research into feed supplements for livestock and appropriate management techniques.
The role of stubble in the efficiency of herbicide application needs further elucidation. Adsorption of chemicals by stubble and its retention of activity as well as the problem of targeting require further research. The commercial development of the electrodyn and weed sensing devices and the use of header-mounted boom sprayers may make major contributions in this respect.
(d) Water Management - It has long been appreciated that productivity of dryland agriculture in Australia depends on efficient water use. With wheat, for example, there is a linear relationship between yield and the water consumed by the crop, As a rule of thumb, 10 kg grain ha mm-1 of evapo- transpiration is a reasonable expectation in southern Australia. The actual figure on farms is frequently half of this or less (6, 10). Hence water management has always been a high priority although, in practical terms, it has not extended much beyond fallow management and choice of sowing rates and fertilisers.
Technological advances in recent years offer a wider range of possibilities for improving water management, These advances include a better understanding of plant physiology (especially water relations and growth), better techniques for measuring soil water (the neutron probe), a wider range of crop and pasture genotypes, better herbicides and the application of computer models to management decision-making. Armed with these tools it is likely that conservation farming will lead to more efficient water-use.
In this section we briefly review the options for improving water management, with particular reference to conservation farming.
Efficient water use depends on;
harnessing and storing all of the available water (minimising through- drainage and runoff);
minimising unproductive losses such as evaporation from the soil surface; and
directing water through the chosen plant (not weeds) at a rate and time of year that maximises yield of product per unit of water transpired.
All of these are within economic and, hopefully, environmental constraints. Conservation farming practices have the potential to improve water-use efficiency through a number of small, additive effects. To realise the potential increases in productivity requires attention to the package of practices. Reduced soil disturbance and the improved structural stability that usually follows will improve infiltration and, on occasions, increase crop-available water, Crop residue retention can also improve infiltration (via channelling) but the main benefit of stubble is reduced evaporation from the soil surface, This applies to both between crop (fallow) and in- crop soil evaporation, Responses are variable. Subsoil loosening may also improve waterless efficiency by removing any "throttle" to infiltration, increasing the depth of freely drained soil, in which roots can grow, and increasing rooting depth in mechanically strong soils. How widespread the response to subsoiling will be remains to be seen. The principles involved are reviewed in the Proceedings 13th Riverina Outlook Conference.
Timely sowing improves water use efficiency, Hence direct drilling can increase water use efficiency by allowing more timely sowing in wet seasons. This applies particularly in Western Australia where sowing traditionally has been delayed by ground preparation after the autumn break, Because wheat cultivars have been selected for this agro-climatic environment based on traditional practices, it is likely that longer season types will need to be selected to take advantage of the earlier sowing times.
No-till of summer crops has also led to improved water use through better water conservation and reduced soil temperatures C16). Double cropping and opportunity cropping are now likely to be more economic than in the past. It is important to note, however, that a change to the crop rotations used may be necessary in order to economically change to a conservation farming system.
Direct drilling has also brought an unexpected benefit in some dry seasons. Slow early crop growth following direct drilling leads to water-rationing which, in the event of a dry spring, has increased grain yields. On the other hand, direct drilling (graze-spray-sow) can forego some water conservation in a wet autumn, compared with a short cultivated (or chemical) fallow. Yield is a trade-off between these two effects. Cornish and Murray (unpublished) used a water balance model to find the frequency of autumn- fallow responses in the Wagga district. Their results indicate that a short fallow would increase water storage at sowing by 20 mm in about 40% of years.
Thoughts of autumn fallowing in a direct drill system emphasise the need for a systems approach to conservation farming. The weeds and volunteer crop or pasture controlled by herbicides would otherwise provide grazing for livestock. There is clearly a choice between autumn grazing and better crop yields although the value of autumn grazing can be small (5). The choice is the same, in principle, as that between long fallowing or stubble cropping in the southern (low rainfall) wheat belts, long fallowing or double cropping in the north, and the choice between opportunity cropping or a rigid rotation in areas as diverse as the Wimmera (P.E. Ridge, pers. comm.), northern NSW (15) and the eastern grain belt of Queensland (2). Some management decisions involve long-term or regional strategies (e.g. what are the long-term economics of opportunity cropping) and others are tactical in nature (following a given rainfall, should a farmer spray weeds to save water for the next crop?). Management decisions of this kind are particularly amenable to computer simulation. Soil water balance and numerous plant growth models are available, but they need to be applied to the management problems and interfaced with economic models. The approach is not new, but needs to be applied much more widely.
(e) Disease and Pest Management - Little is understood of the microbial activity associated with different farming systems. Some research has shown the increase in yellow leaf spot with wheat-stubble retention in the summer rainfall areas of north-eastern Australia (29). Whether similar increases occur in winter rainfall areas of southern Australia remains to be determined. Increases in Rhizoctonia bare patch with direct drilling have been reported in Victoria (17), South Australia (30) and Western Australia (20), although other reports suggest the opposite in Victoria (9). Rovira (30) reports an increase in take-all in direct drilled wheat in South Australia but whether this is due to the tillage treatment per se is questioned by work elsewhere (17, J,E. Pratley, unpubl.). Pratley (unpubl.) has shown lower incidence in eyspot lodging in direct drilled wheat than in conventionally cultivated wheat in a long-term tillage experiment in southern NSW. Clearly, changes in the cultural methods will have dramatic effects on the ecosystem. These changes will not occur instantaneously but evolve over time. Ad hoc short-term experiments therefore contribute little to our knowledge in this regard. There is, therefore, enough confusion in this area to suggest that there needs to be undertaken the important basic research in order to understand the ecological requirements of these diseases and to develop systems of weed, soil and stubble management which minimise the destructiveness of these diseases. Rotations involving break crops or pastures provide one simple and effective answer but are they really necessary to control diseases if we understand the microbiological subsystem? If the grass weeds, which are alternate hosts to the root rot diseases of wheat, are controlled in the pasture phase, for example, it may be unnecessary to grow a break crop to control these diseases, In any case the farmer may not wish to grow alternative crops to wheat if they are less attractive financially or otherwise.
Some reports indicate difficulties with pasture pests in the first year of direct drilling, These pests include red legged earthmite, lucerne flea, blackheaded pasture cockchafer and the pasture webworm (1) and require the application of insecticide with the pre-soaking herbicide spray. In South Australia the cereal curculio has also caused severe damage to direct drilled crops (12) although this can be minimised by barley grass removal during the pasture phase (D/L, Rowell, pers.comm.).
In 1984 in the central and southern wheatbelt of NSW farmers had to contend with a severe mice plague which devastated crops in some areas. Experience from this season has indicated that crops established by minimal disturbance techniques such as modified combines and disc drills are more prone to seed harvesting by rodents than if the crops are sown by full soil disturbance
methods such as a full combine or by minimum and conventional tillage. Mice damage was more severe where stubbles were retained. In spring, damage to crops at flowering was more severe in some crop species such as lupins and wheat than in triticale and in some varieties (N.A. Fettell, pers.comm.). Mice damage was also more severe where stubbles were retained. The lessons therefore for predicted plague conditions include full soil disturbance at sowing, stubble removal and, if appropriate information is available, judicious choice of crops and cultivars.
(f) Animal Management - Great significance has been made of the benefits to animal production from a swing to direct drilling in southern Australia. Indeed, increased animal production may be necessary for the change to be economic (11). In practice, however, there is evidence that these advantages are not being realised, In the higher rainfall wheat-sheep zone of NSW, Simpson (31) claims that, after five years of promotion, conservation farming has failed to integrate the farming system with livestock enterprises. Since the concept of 'direct drilling' was introduced to farmers in the late 1970s, no real attempt has been made to demonstrate the advantages that a conservation farming system can offer to livestock production. Consequently, the majority of landholders have continued with the same livestock management pattern that existed with a conventional farming system.
The failure to understand how a conservation farming system can be integrated with or affect livestock management and production is a major obstacle to the adoption of conservation farming practice. If returns from cropping relative to livestock continue to decline, then this obstacle will grow in importance.
On most properties where direct drilling or a similar practice has been adopted the only major difference in the livestock grazing pattern is that sheep are no longer grazed on fallow paddocks during autumn. Instead they are run, at various stocking intensities on proposed cropping paddocks, according to the pre-spraying grazing recommendations for the particular herbicide to be applied prior to sowing.
Crazing prior to herbicide application is acknowledged to be a vital part of the conservation farming system, Sheep are preferred to cattle and dry sheep are more effective than ewes and lambs. Where cattle are the only animals available, high stocking rates may be needed to control growth. This aspect is unlikely to appeal to the average beef producer who likes his cattle to be in good condition at all times.
These recommendations automatically place limitations on the type of sheep to be used for grazing prior to herbicide application. For example, a sheep reproduction cycle involving a spring joining for an autumn lambing is unlikely to fit in with a conservation farming programme. Winter lambing and conservation farming are the most successful combination (Figure 2). Joining is in February/March when the bodyweight of ewes is high and often gaining bodyweight grazing freshly harvested stubble, The post-joining period, when nutrition is not as critical, coincides with the need for autumn grazing in preparation for herbicide application and sowing. The prelamb buildup and lambing can be undertaken on a range of grazing crops and pastures, Finally, the natural spring flush ensures ewes have an abundant milk supply for their lambs. Weaning can be carried out at the end of spring with weaners having sufficient wool to be shorn so as to prevent losses caused by grass seed (Figure 2), In any case the grass seed risk should already have been reduced by spraytopping activities.
In livestock production, the advantages that a winter lambing-conservation farming combination offers to producers, may require a change in the lambing time, Although sheep producers are often reluctant to alter time of lambing, those who wish to adopt successfully a whole, farm approach to conservation farming will need to consider the complementary nature of this combination.
Figure 2. The relationship between the feed demands of sheep reproduction cycles and the grazing demands of a conservation farming system (adapted from Simpson, 1984).
In this context, the development of winter wheats for southern Australia also provides great prospects for augmenting pasture feed supplies, Their grazing contribution occurs at a time when pastures could be carried over into the winter feed trough but negating, at least partially, the need for extra land being devoted solely to forage crops.
(g) Pasture Management - Because of the emphasis of research on the cropping aspects of conservation farming little attention has been paid to the contribution of the pasture phase. In particular, the establishment of pasture species and the regeneration of annual legumes following a direct drilled cropping phase need to be clarified. It can be argued that the improvement in soil structure may facilitate the process of burr burial and radical penetration it may conversely be argued that the firmer, relatively undisturbed soils may prove inhibiting to these processes. If the latter is the case, not only will seed ecology and seedling re-establishment be influenced, but a high proportion of seed is at risk of being consumed by animals during summer, More research attention must also be given to pasture establishment by direct drilled methods involving stubble retention and the role of cover crops in these conditions, Direct drilled crops, with their slower early growth( 7 ) may be less competitive to establishing pasture seedlings and therefore more effective for cover cropping.
The trend towards increased intensity of cropping has implications for the bank of hard seed on which many farmers depend for pasture regeneration (3). In addition, Taylor (35), has shown that cultivation buries seed thereby reducing the breakdown of hard seed and improving pasture regeneration after extended cropping periods.
Perhaps consideration needs to be given to appropriate species and cultivars which are more suitable to the requirements of conservation farming in particular districts. More attention must also be paid to grazing management in the spring to enable large quantities of annual legume seed to be set. While weed management of pastures by herbicides can control both broadleaf and grass weeds, caution is needed to prevent a reduction in seed set by subterranean clover, This especially applies where spraytopping is carried out using Roundup®.
It should be noted that improved utilisation of stubble by livestock as previously described has substantial potential benefits in pasture production - it occurs at a time in southern Australia when feed supply is short, where lucerne pastures are struggling and often when annual pastures are regenerating. It therefore provides some respite to these pastures, in some years enabling them to regenerate more quickly with consequent benefits to animal production.
4. The potential role of simulation in research and extension of soil- conserving agricultural systems
We began by pointing to the gap between the relative simplicity of experiments and the complexity of the farm. At present, the farmer is left to integrate the research data and incorporate it into his own farm. Since the concepts of systems analysis and simulation modelling were first conceived in the 1960s they have been used widely to integrate the interacting components of complex systems. What application do they have in agriculture, and particularly to conservation farming systems?
With soil conservation as the major aim of a new agricultural system, we can define the components for inclusion in the systems (crop species, pasture species, weed control methods, cultivation options, stubble options, disease control options, stocking rate, etc). Clearly, with the combinations and permutations of the options of these components, there are hundreds of options or tactical day-to-day decisions to be made in order to successfully manage such a system. These decisions are further complicated by the uncertainty of climate and of commodity prices.
Classical agricultural experimentation techniques can only be used to investigate a small number of options in a few locations over a relatively short period of time. Even experiments with agricultural systems (e.g. (34)) suffer from too few treatments, inflexibility with respect to management and change of treatments, and from results which are valid strictly for the sites and seasons tested. Such experiments frequently give no insight to the mechanisms involved.
There is clearly a need to synthesise the information from many such experiments into a framework which will:
adequately represent the system; and
define the relevant management options.
This can be achieved by the development of simulation models. Such models can then be used to analyse the performance of the system under different management and environment conditions.
Economic analysis can then be applied to any combination of options and exogenous variables. Thus many criteria can be applied to decide what is a successful strategy for management of the system. Economic objectives such as profit, stability of income and cash flow can be considered together with other imperatives such as erosion, soil organic matter, fuel conservation.
Each objective can be assigned limits of acceptable results.
The development of such a model would in the first instance be a conceptual framework into which existing models which simulate parts of the overall system could be incorporated, Many such models now exist (water balance, erosion, crop and pasture growth, etc), The model can then be expanded in detail by successive identification of:
major subsystems (e.g. wheat growth, lupin growth, fallow water);
important components and relationships within each subsystem;
links between subsystems;
important environmental variables;
important management variables.
The process of modelling invariably identifies the gaps in our knowledge and results in a list of areas of research which are relevant to a full definition of the system. Once a model has been developed, sensitivity analysis can be used to allocate priorities for further research since parameters which have greater impact on the final output of the model must be more accurately defined, Sensitivity analysis would also alert advisory workers to the factors most affecting productivity or parameters of concern to soil stability.
Up to this stage the main benefits of the modelling exercises would accrue through improved appreciation of the system by research and advisory workers.
However, once a model has been validated it is reasonable to expect that farmers working together with advisers could use the model for day-to-day decisions on the farm.
To date in Australia no comprehensive model of an agricultural system has been developed or used to aid farm management. "SiragCrop" a joint venture
by CSIRO and the NSW Department of Agriculture, aims to do this for irrigated wheat.
The project is ambitious and will take some years to come to fruition. It would be naive to expect useful management-models of more complex dryland farming systems to be developed in the foreseeable future. Yet such models offer one of the best long-term prospects of raising productivity through research.
Successful management models have been developed for major subsystems or sets of interacting subsystems. Management models to aid fertiliser decisions (in the context of the whole-farm operation) have been used, as have pests and disease management models (e.g. Siratac) and water management models
in both irrigated and dryland crops. The application of modelling to water management has been considered already. These models do not represent the whole system (in detail), and they are often imperfect, but they have proven useful in aiding management.
5. A new approach to extension
There is an urgent need for farmers to adopt the conservation farming ethic. For this to happen extension services, educational institutions and commercial companies must become more professional in de-emphasising reduced tillage as a technique and increasingly emphasise it as part of a whole-farm system. A significant proportion of the farming population has tried or is using direct drilling, minimum tillage or no-till fallow and these techniques now have credibility. The next stage therefore is to develop these techniques into whole-farm systems. Vance and Chamala (36) describe an extension programme which complements the cropping systems approach now being developed by researchers in Queensland, Vance and Chamala indicate that whole conservation cropping systems require a high degree of management skill, and that this skill can be developed with an appropriate extension programme.
Central to the Vance and Chamala approach is the view that extension programmes are best planned when the specific needs of the target group have been identified. The idea is not new, as market surveys have been conducted by industry for many years. Yet it is very encouraging to see "public sector" extension specialists adopting this approach. The University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries have jointly studied farmers and the decision-making processes in relation to conservation farming. The practical result was an "information package" involving both written material and videotapes (4) which serves as a model for others. ICI adopted a similar approach when first promoting direct drilling.
B. Conclusion
Systems of farming will only be attractive to farmers where clear economic benefits are to be realised. Where herbicides are able to replace cultivation more cheaply, or in seasons where herbicides are not required, direct drilling will therefore be attractive. at other times farmers will revert to farming methods which are more cost effective. This situation, while meeting the economic constraints faced by farmers, is not consistent with the objective of soil conservation. It is our hope that soil conserving practices be consistently and universally adopted throughout Australia in order to maintain the productive capacity of our soils.
It is therefore imperative that farming systems for the different environments be developed and promoted which are consistent with the conservation ethic but which necessarily provide ECONOMIC incentives for their adoption. These economic incentives must be available in BOTH the short and long term. Simply promoting the technique of direct drilling or equivalent will not provide these incentives consistently and they will continue to be adopted on an ad hoc basis.
We therefore encourage researchers and research administrators to take account of the need to design and conduct experiments in the context of whole-farm systems. This is not to suggest that all researchers become systems analysts but rather that the data generated from their experiments be readily suitable for use in models and in systems analysis. A summary of those areas identified in this paper as requiring further research in order to encourage adoption of conservation farming is shown below:
stubble management
incorporation and retention
handling at sowing
supplements for improved livestock utilisation
ecological understanding for development of management systems
establishment by direct drilling including role of stubble retention and cover crops
adaptability of species and cultivars
more information on rates, water volumes, mixtures, spray technology, stubble
(b) Regulatory
national approach to pesticide usage
(c) Economic
integration of reduced cultivation techniques into whole farm systems
(d) Extension
understanding of reasons for adoption and non-adoption
methodology of promotion of conservation farming
ranking of importance of factors influencing soil degradation
(e) Modelling
development of whole farm models involving economics
We urge extension officers to promote these soil conservation methods in the context of the whole farm. Their consistent adoption will only take place if the economic benefits can be demonstrated. This is unlikely by promotion of the techniques in isolation from the whole farm.
The assistance given by Mr Z. Hochman in the preparation of the potential role of simulation is gratefully appreciated.
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APPENDIX 1. Yield of direct drilled wheat relative to that from conventional cultivation.
APPENDIX II. Yield from no-till fallow relative to that from conventional fallow.
* References are to the following publications:
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1984 - Proceedings of Meeting on No-Tillage Crop Production in Northern NSW, Tamworth, April 1984.
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Team shoots for league goal
Southland United football coach Luis Paiva watches on during a Southern Premier League game this season. Photo: Stu Munro
SOUTHLAND football is on the verge of qualifying for a new South Island league.
New Zealand Football last year revealed plans to launch a new league to boost interest and player pathways in the South Island.
The top three teams from Football South, which covers the lower South Island, and the top five teams from the Mainland League, which covers Canterbury and Nelson, will make up a new eight-team competition.
Eight teams from Football South are chasing the three spots available, with Southland United in a strong position to qualify with three games to play in the Southern Premier League.
The Luis Paiva-coached Southland United team currently sits tied on 10 points with Queenstown and Dunedin Technical at the top of the standings.
However, Queenstown and Dunedin Technical have a game in hand over Southland United.
Paiva believes 16 competition points will be enough to book a spot in the South Island league.
On that basis, Southland United will need two wins from its remaining three games to be safe.
“I’m not going to lie [the South Island league] is our goal, so if we can play well over the next three rounds hopefully we can get there,” Paiva said.
Southland United has the bye this weekend before an important showdown with Roslyn Wakari, which sits just two points behind Southland.
Southland’s leading football team has an international flavour to it this season.
Southland Football was able to encourage two Japanese players and two Americans to Invercargill to bolster its Southern Premier League team this year.
A German and an Australian player, who are studying at the Southern Institute of Technology, have also joined the team this season.
Paiva said they helped with accommodation for the international players, with the players themselves covering other expenses.
Enticing quality players from overseas was done to ensure Southland United could field a team in the Southern Premier League, and potentially the South Island league, he said.
“We do it for the young players in Southland. It raises the level of training because of [the international visitors] work ethic and standard. It just makes it a bit more professional, which helps improve our players.”
Southland United has also formed under-15 and under-18 teams this season to play in Football South leagues.
That was done done to help create clearer pathways for players through to the top-level Southland United team, Paiva said.
Southland United has also linked with Academy Southland this year to introduce three strength and conditioning sessions to its training schedule.
Those strength and conditioning sessions are on top of three on-field training sessions each week.
Paiva said the quest was to make the environment as professional as it could be, although with players holding down full-time jobs and study commitments he had to be wary of not pushing it too far.
Meanwhile, Old Boys is the only Southland team still in the national Chatham Cup knockout competition after Gore and Thistle were both eliminated on Saturday.
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Fresh new voice. Dublin’s Fontaines D.C.
Alongside frenetic and fresh punk and postpunk from Fontaines D.C. and Pom Poko, and dance music from Chemical Brothers, this week’s selection also includes a beautiful spread of mellow records from Anderson Paak and others
In albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, garage, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, punk, reggae, rock, soul Tags Fontaines D.C., albums, new releases, Anderson Paak, Chemical Brothers, Pom Poko, Labrinth, Sia, Diplo, LSD, The Leisure Society, Sun Kil Moon, Stubbleman, Band of Skulls, Eli 'Paperboy' Reed, Bibio, Partisan Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Virgin EMI, Bella Union, Syco, Ego Drain Records, Calvo Verde, Crammed Discs, So Recordings, Yep Roc, Warp Records
New albums: Toy, Swervedriver, Better Oblivion Community Center (Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers), DAWN, Rat Boy, Sunflower Bean, Mike Krol
January 29, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Dawn Richard - spreading her musical wings
From an experimental album by New Orleans artist DAWN to a collaboration between Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, as well as a return by 90s shoegazers Swervedriver, this week’s roundup has plenty of surprises
In albums, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, funk, hip hop, indie, pop, post-punk, punk, reggae, rock, soul Tags albums, new releases, Toy, Swervedriver, Better Oblivion Community Center, Conor Oberst, Phoebe Bridgers, DAWN, Rat Boy, Sunflower Bean, Mike Krol, Tough Love, Rock Action Records, Dead Oceans, Local Action Records, Parlophone, Lucky Number, Merge Records
Gazelle Twin to Villagers: favourite albums of 2018 – part 2
December 30, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Gazelle Twin - aka Elizabeth Bernholz, pushing the musical boundaries on Brexit Britain, past and present, with her extraordinary album Pastoral
The second part of our roundup of outstanding albums of 2018, in alphabetical order by title, marked by a number of great debuts from young bands, as well as more established artists releasing their best work to date
In albums, ambient, blues, classical, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, metal, pop, post-punk, punk, reggae, rock, soul, trip-hop Tags albums, new releases, Marlowe, L'Orange, Solemn Brigham, Mattiel, Hookworms, Go-Kart Mozart, Lawrence, Creep Show, John Grant, Stephen Mallinder, Cabbage, Cabaret Voltaire, Field Music, Gazelle Twin, White Denim, The Nightingales, Farao, Ólafur Arnalds, Ought, First Aid Kit, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Orielles, Jon Hopkins, Thee Oh Sees, Shame, Tunng, Jon Spencer, Courtney Barnett, Villagers, Suede, Josh T Pearson, Arctic Monkeys, Ezra Furman, Sunflower Bean, Wax Chattels, Parquet Courts, Jeffrey Lewis, Olivia Chaney, Hen Oggled, Richard Dawson, Domino Records
Anna Calvi to Idles: favourite albums of 2018 – part 1
Dystopia depicted: Gruff Rhys’s album Babelsberg
The first part of our annual roundup of notable albums includes several great debuts by young bands, plus work that reflects dystopian political turmoil, gender issues and growing human relationship with technology
In albums, blues, country, classical, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, metal, pop, post-punk, punk, reggae, rock, soul Tags albums, new releases, BEAK, The Breeders, Franz Ferdinand, David Byrne, Julia Holter, Gruff Rhys, Jack White, Paul Steel, Young Fathers, Aphex Twin, Czarface, MF DOOM, Joan As Policewoman, Mastersystem, Scott Hutchison, Frightened Rabbit, Low, Trembling Bells, Whyte Horses, The Beths, Goat Girl, Father John Misty, Kamasi Washington, Drinks, Cate Le Bon, Bodega, Teleman, Kathryn Joseph, Anna Calvi, IDLES, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Gwenno, LUMP, Laura Marling, Mike Lindsay, Django Django, BC Camplight, Dream Wife
New albums: LP, Van Morrison, Earl Sweatshirt, AMOR, Planningtorock, and compilations
LP aka Laura Pergolizzi
This week’s selection brings a mixture of mainstream pop and dance in the LGBTQ setting, hip-hop poetry, Van Morrison paying homage to old masters, some innovative electronica, and two intriguing compilations
In albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, pop, reggae, rock, soul, rocksteady Tags albums, new releases, LP, Laura Pergolizzi, Van Morrison, Earl Sweatshirt, AMOR, Richard Youngs, Luke Fowler, Michael Francis Duch, Franz Ferdinand, Paul Thomson, Planningtorock, Jam Rostrum, Rough Trade, Smalltown Supersound, Prins Thomas, Lindstrøm, Jon Savage, Spooky Tooth, Vagrant Records, Columbia Records, Caroline International, Bandcamp, Ace Records
New albums – Underworld & Iggy Pop, Dusty Limits, The Internet, Trojan artists, Rex Orange County, Phantastic Ferniture
August 2, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith with Iggy Pop
It’s slow summer season, but that doesn’t stop selection of variety and quality from Iggy and Underworld to cabaret legend Dusty Limits, songwriting from Surrey to Australia and a superb reggae compilation
In albums, classical, dance music, electronica, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, reggae, rock, soul, musical theatre Tags albums, new releases, Iggy Pop, Underworld, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, Dusty Limits, Michael Roulston, The Internet, Trojan Records, reggae, Jamaica, Lee Gopthal, Chris Blackwell, Public Image Limited, Apricot Princess, Phantastic Ferniture, Rex Orange County
New albums: Eleanor Friedberger, Plan B, Jon Hopkins, Gaz Coombes, DJ Koze, Daniel Blumberg, Leon Bridges, Iceage
The cover of Eleanor Friedberger's new album, Rebound
A varied and fascinating selection of mainly solo artists decorate this week’s selection, including the former singers of Fiery Furnaces and Supergrass, two dance DJs, Plan B returning to soul, and Danish rockers Iceage
In albums, dance music, electronica, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, pop, post-punk, reggae, rock, soul, trip-hop Tags Eleanor Friedberger, Fiery Furnaces, Plan B, Jon Hopkins, Gaz Coombes, Supergrass, DJ Koze, Roisin Murphy, Daniel Blumberg, Leon Bridges, Iceage, Frenchkiss Records, Atlantic Records, 679 Records, Domino Records, Hot Fruit, Caroline International, Pampa Records, Mute Records, Columbia Records, Matador Records
New albums: Drinks (Cate Le Bon), Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Jeffrey Lewis, Gurrumul, Sting & Shaggy, Perel
A unique and beautiful voice: Geoffrey Gurrumul
This week’s selection includes a farewell from great blind Aboriginal singer, plus Kate Le Bon’s new collaboration, the Hot Chip singer, East Berliner Perel, a Jeffrey Lewis tribute to counterculture, and a strange joint album between Sting and Shaggy
In albums, classical, electronica, folk, dance music, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, rock, soul, trip-hop, reggae Tags new releases, albums, Drinks, Cate Le Bon, Tim Presley, Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip, Jeffrey Lewis, Tuli Kupferberg, The Fugs, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Perel, Sting, Shaggy, Annegret Fiedler
Hendricks & tonic with cucumber
SNACK OF THE WEEK
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MORE MUSIC …
New albums: Jesca Hoop, Trash Kit, Africa Express, The Soft Cavalry, Mark Mulcahy, K Flay, Olympia, Willie Nelson, Kokoko!, John Luther Adams, Beak, Jeb Loy Nichols
The latest roundup includes more collaborations via Damon Albarn’s African Express, sharp postpunk from Trash Kit, sensitive songwriting from Jesca Hoop, a classical masterpiece, and more from veteran country singer Willie Nelson
New albums: Thom Yorke, The Black Keys, The Tallest Man On Earth, Tunng, Molly, House and Land, Body Type, 75 Dollar Bill, Kim Petras
The latest roundup includes the Radiohead frontman’s collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, a return for The Black Keys, beautiful heights by The Tallest Man On Earth, plus a variety of indie, pop and mostly folk in many forms
New albums: Bill Callahan, Kate Tempest, Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead, Calexico/Iron & Wine, Baroness, Jordan Rakei, Crumbs, Tusks, The Catenary Wires
A mellowness touches the landscape of this week’s releases, with various artists taking a more reflective, gentler direction, with a beauty from Bill Callahan, a more personal Kate Tempest, a lusher Bruce Springsteen and more
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
Song of the Day: On this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, and also on a full moon, an upbeat sounding rock-pop classic with a prescient, environmentally apocalyptic edge written by John Fogerty that was a hit half a century ago
Robert Forster – Inferno (Brisbane In Summer)
Song of the Day: As summer simmers on, a hot weather cracker from the new album by the Australian singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Go-Betweens, about his native Brisbane, but one that also hints heavily at global warming
Dr John – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk On Guilded Splinters / Right Place, Wrong Time / Qualified
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
D-day anniversary song special: Jim Radford, Iron Maiden, Joe Strummer
Song of the Day: To mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, three songs of contrasting styles, beginning with one by Hull-born 90-year D-day veteran, old folk singer and peace campaigner
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Toady Man's Hour
Song of the Day: After worms and slugs, we turn to a toad, but this time this metaphor by Sean Lennon and Les Claypool’s band appears to lambast the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, from their 2019 album South of Reality
Shana Cleveland – Night Of The Worm Moon / Face Of The Sun
Song of the Day: After John Myrtle’s slug song, a different take on a slimy earth creature, and in a another style, an exquisite title track and first single, by the lead singer of Los Angeles psych band La Luz, from her 2019 solo album
John Myrtle – Cyril The Slug
Song of the Day: After POZI’s Diggers and Squid’s Houseplants, it’s time to dig out an actual gardening connection, from the point of view of an unwanted guest, in a delightfully eccentric offbeat number by the London singer and songwriter
POZI - Watching You Suffer / Diggers
Song of the Day: After Houseplants by Squid, what’s the connection? With the title Diggers, it could be gardening, but these short, snappy numbers by the postpunk London trio hit more on housing problems and also have a drummer lead singer
Word of the week: nyckelharpa
Word of the week: It's a traditional Swedish instrument that sounds similar to and is bowed like the violin, but with greater resonance, has 16 strings and as many as 37 wooden keys that fret the strings to make particular note
Word of the week: ophicleide
Word of the week: It's an obscure hybrid of tuba and saxophone and evolved from the serpent, this rich-toned keyed brass instrument has a mouthpiece that makes it part of the bugle family
Word of the week: pungi
Word of the week: Know your scales? It is also known as the murli or the been, this double-reedpipe instrument made from a gourd is primarily associated with snake charmers on the Indian subcontinent
Word of the week: quena
Word of the week: It's an instrument that brings to mind the soaring condor and mountainous Andes – a haunting, beautiful sound emanating from this simple, traditional wooden flute
Word of the week: rebec
Word of the week: Most popular in the 13th-16th centuries, then largely replaced by the viol and violin, yet this beautiful wooden gut- and nylon-stringed instrument has a distinctive sound and still appears in some music today
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Health/Life Insurance
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Homeowners Insurance Definitions
Any necessary increase in living expenses incurred by the insured, so the household can maintain its normal standard of living.
Abandonment Clause
A clause in fire insurance policies and other property forms that prohibits the insured from abandoning partially damaged property to the insurer in order to claim a total loss.
Account Premium Modification Plan
A rating plan for Fire, Property Damage and Time Element coverage's. The maximum credit or surcharge is 25%, and it is available to risks which develop a three-year premium of at least $5,000.
Accounts Receivable Insurance
Insurance against the loss that occurs when an insured is unable to collect outstanding accounts because of damage to or destruction of the accounts receivable records by a peril covered in the policy.
Additional Living Expense Insurance
A contract to reimburse the insured for increased living costs when loss of his property forces him to maintain temporary residence elsewhere. Examples of these types of expenses are the cost for a hotel or motel, the extra cost for restaurant meals, and the cost of using a Laundromat. The term Extra Expense Insurance is defined with regard to additional expenses incurred by businesses.
After Charge
A charge sometimes included in fire rates for commercial buildings. It is usually added for conditions which can be corrected by the insured, such as failure to have the proper types of fire extinguishers.
Agreed Amount Clause
Under this clause, the insured and the insurer agree that the amount of insurance carried will automatically satisfy the coinsurance clause. The effect is to eliminate the necessity of determining whether or not the amount carried is equal to the stated percentage of the actual cash value indicated in the coinsurance clause.
Various insurance coverage's for additional types of losses, and against loss by additional perils, which are closely associated with and usually sold with fire insurance. Examples include coverage against loss by perils other than fire, coverage for sprinkler leakage damage, and business interruption coverage. The fire insurance field consists of coverage's for "fire and allied lines."
Amount Subject
The maximum amount which underwriters estimate can possibly be lost under the most unfavorable circumstances in any given loss, such as a fire or tornado. Contrast with Probable Maximum Loss.
Appurtenant Structures
Buildings on the same premises as the main building insured under a Property Insurance policy. Most Dwelling Property Insurance policies cover appurtenant structures under most circumstances.
The provision in a Property Insurance contract which states that if the insurer and insured cannot agree on an appropriate claim settlement, each will appoint an appraiser, and these will select a neutral umpire. A decision by any two of the three prescribes a settlement and binds both parties to it.
Automatic Reinstatement Clause
A stipulation in a Property Insurance policy which states that after a partial loss covered by the policy has been paid, the original limit of the policy will be automatically reinstated.
Average Clause
A clause providing that similar items in one location or several locations which are insured by a policy shall be covered in the proportion that the value of each bears to the value of all. Previously known as the "Pro Rata Distribution Clause" and the "Average Distribution Clause."
Average Rate
A rate for a policy established by multiplying the rate for each location by the value at that location and dividing the sum of the results by the total value.
Consequential Loss/Damage
(1) An indirect loss arising out of the policyholder's inability to use the property over a period of time, as opposed to a direct loss that happens almost instantaneously. Business Interruption, Extra Expense, Rents Insurance, and Leasehold Interest are the most common coverage's included under the category of Consequential Loss coverages. (2) A loss not directly caused by a peril insured against, such as spoilage of frozen foods caused by fire damage to the refrigeration equipment. See also Indirect Loss, and contrast with Direct Loss.
Contents Rate
The Fire Insurance rate on the contents of a building rather than on the building itself.
Coinsurance Clause
A clause requiring the insured maintains insurance on the property at least equal to a stipulated percentage of its value in order to collect partial losses in full.
Debris Removal Clause
A provision that may be included in a Property policy contract to provide the insured with indemnification for expenditures incurred in the removal of debris produced by the occurrence of an insured peril. Ordinarily a Property policy covers only the direct damage caused by an insured peril.
Demolition Clause
A provision that excludes liability for costs incurred in demolishing undamaged property, often necessitated by building ordinances requiring that structures must be demolished after a certain degree of damage has been sustained.
Demolition Insurance
Insurance written to cover the cost of demolition excluded by a demolition clause. It may be endorsed to Property Insurance for an additional premium.
Direct Loss/Damage
A loss which is a direct consequence of a particular peril. Fire damage to a refrigerator would be a direct loss. Spoiling of food in the refrigerator as a result of the fire damage would be an indirect loss. Contrast with Indirect Loss and Consequential Loss.
Earth Movement
A peril including landslide, mud flow, earth sinking, rising or shifting, and earthquake. Usually excluded on homeowners' and commercial property policies.
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Electrical (or Electrical Apparatus) Exemption Clause
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Explosion Insurance
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Fair Access to Insurance Requirements. A pooling plan reinsured by the United States government that makes insurance available to those in inner-city or other high risk areas who cannot obtain insurance through normal channels. Coverage's for fire and allied perils is available, with considerably high limits, after inspection of the premises.
Combustion which is rapid enough to produce a flame or glow. A fire, for purposes of Property Insurance, must be "hostile," which means it is not in a place in which it is intended to be. Fires in their proper contained area are called "friendly fires" and are not covered under most basic Property Insurance policies.
Fire Department Service Clause
A provision in a Fire Insurance policy that provides the insured with indemnification for charges he incurs due to action by a fire department to save his property. It is useful for property located outside the jurisdiction of the nearest fire department and where the call will be answered only for a fee.
A public official responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires. The marshal and his office are usually financed by a tax on the premiums of Property insurers.
A term used in describing building construction. It refers to buildings which are of such construction as to be practically undamageable by fire. However, the term is a misnomer, since no building is completely undamageable by fire, and it is gradually being replaced by the words "fire resistive."
Contract prescribed by each state insuring against direct loss by fire, lightning, and other defined causes.
Fire Resistive Construction
A building which has exterior walls, floors, and roof constructed of masonry or other fire-resistive materials.
A structure (wall) which is designed to seal off fires within a building.
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Coverage against damage caused by the rising or overflowing of bodies of water. This is available through a national insurance program and must be bought separately.
A type of construction. A frame building is primarily made with wood frames and joists
Homeowner's Policy
A form of package policy including fire and other perils, theft insurance, and comprehensive personal liability. The premium is stated as one amount.
Household Personal Property
The term given to household goods, furniture and personal belongings of residents of a farm dwelling. The Farm Property Coverage Form uses the term "household" to distinguish it from the separate coverage for "farm" property.
Insurance-to-Value
The amount of insurance written on property is approximately equal to its value.
Loss Payable Clause
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Loss of Use Insurance
Coverage to compensate an insured for the loss of use of his property if it cannot be used because of a peril covered by the policy.
Mobile Home Policy
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A clause in an insurance policy that makes a claim jointly payable to the policyholder and the party that holds a mortgage on the property.
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
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Non-Passive Alarm Federal program providing flood insurance for fixed property. Under a "dual" program coverage may be written directly by the NFIP or by private carriers whose losses may be reimbursed by the NFIP.
Structures, such as a garage or storage shed, which are separated from an insured dwelling by a clear space, or are connected only by a fence or utility line. Dwelling and Homeowner policies provide coverage for other structures.
The building insured or containing the insured property. Depending on policy conditions, it may also include an adjacent area.
Physical injury to, destruction of or loss of use of tangible property.
First party insurance of real and personal property against physical loss or damage.
The earth and all attached land and buildings, also known as real estate.
Coverage for replacing property with new material; depreciation is not taken into consideration.
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An employee of an insured whose duties are related to the maintenance or use of the insured residence premises.
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Principal residence of the named insured.
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Listing specific personal property for a stated insured value. This is usually considered for valuable items that are subject to limited coverage..
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You know what happens in October.
Julie October 1, 2014 at 6:06 AM
Oh Pirate Lily, how are you feeling ?
Lassiter Chase and Benjamin October 1, 2014 at 6:13 AM
Lily, looking good as a pirate!
We are gonna keep our paws crossed that your ouchie gets better!
Molly The Wally October 1, 2014 at 6:33 AM
Hope you are feeling better Lily and happy first day of October to you. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
Cinnamon October 1, 2014 at 6:36 AM
Good morning Lily.
We hope you are feeling much better today.
Happy first day of October.
Dory and the Mama October 1, 2014 at 6:39 AM
Our Mama gets SOOOOOO excited...Us...ummmmm, not so much!!
Hope you are feeling better today Miss Lily!!
Casey October 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM
...Pirates invade?
Melissa and Truffles (Mochas, Mysteries and Meows) October 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM
The fun costumes are already starting...YAY!!!
Zoe October 1, 2014 at 7:09 AM
Whoa, yu are the purfect pie rat Lily!
stellaroselong October 1, 2014 at 7:57 AM
Lily we hope you are feeling better today, that pain had to be no fun at all for you and momma and even Edward had to be worried, you look cute as a pirate.....stella rose
Diana (Angel Jazzi's mom) October 1, 2014 at 8:11 AM
your looking cute!! LOVE your new header
Reilly-Denny Cowspotdogs October 1, 2014 at 8:23 AM
time for dress up :)
Chase October 1, 2014 at 8:32 AM
Ma says October is all about fun with costumes, candy and yummy ham and cheese sammiches at Blondie's house!
Freya Rose Blossom October 1, 2014 at 8:53 AM
You look so like Jack Sparrow. Can't take my eye's off of you. Me, I is in luvs.
Luvs Freya Rose Blossom X
October is a fun month for sure! We are sending kitty purrs to Lily so she feels better and especially so she won't have to have any surgeries. Maybe the kitty purrs will help - I've heard they're kind of magic especially when directed at a pup! :)
Love, Sammy
Lovable Lily October 1, 2014 at 10:33 AM
We hope you're feeling much better today Lily! Disk problems are NO fun at all. Hope the medicine give you some relief.
Happy October to you and Edward too.
Ruby October 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM
Oh, don't remind me Lily!!! I've been hidin' from Ma cause she has that 'look' in her eyes....that look of doggie costumes!!
Hopes you are feelin' betters today!
Idaho PugRanch October 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM
hope you are feeling better today Lily!
Madi and Mom October 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM
I KNOW WHAT I HOPE HAPPENS IN OCTOBER...I HOPE YOUR OUCHIE GOES AWAY NEVER TO RETURN
Frankie Furter and Ernie October 1, 2014 at 1:40 PM
Are you gonna make us walk the PLANK???
Emma October 1, 2014 at 2:14 PM
You as a pirate will come over and steal my Halloween treats?
Mitch and Molly October 1, 2014 at 2:47 PM
We are so relieved that our mom doesn't make us wear costumes!
Laika October 1, 2014 at 3:25 PM
I can't wait to see what happens in October :-D
Murphy October 1, 2014 at 3:56 PM
How is the piratess feeling today?
Yep, we getting ready....we are practicing the Monster Mash!
K9friend October 1, 2014 at 4:51 PM
Arrrrrr! Bet you can talk like a pirate.
Jacobi October 1, 2014 at 4:57 PM
Dear Edward,
Yes, I do know what happens in October - the people go crazy and stick all sorts of weird things on us Dogs! Oh no, is it that time again?? (Nice hat though!)
Licks,
Sully October 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM
Yes I do and look forward to it.
Dachshund Nola October 1, 2014 at 5:44 PM
Sure do!!
KB Bear October 1, 2014 at 6:07 PM
Oh Lily, you are so cute!!! Looking forward to it!
Caren Gittleman October 1, 2014 at 6:08 PM
yepper...and my Mom's birthday :)
♥♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥♥ October 1, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Here come the wacky costumes!!! Hope you are feeling better today, Lily.
Woos- Phantom, Ciara, and Lightning
Sam October 1, 2014 at 9:19 PM
Oh wow, we barely recognized you!
Wallace Wright-Parkin October 1, 2014 at 11:15 PM
*GULP* actually we don't...but we bet it's got something to do with that pirate outfit you're wearing!
We hope you are feeling better dear Lily.
Whitley Westie October 2, 2014 at 12:56 AM
Yup, it are costume time.
Bella Roxy & Macdui October 2, 2014 at 2:55 AM
OMD! time for tricks or TREATS!!!
Jans Funny Farm October 2, 2014 at 9:30 AM
The Easter bunny comes? :)
FiveSibesMom October 2, 2014 at 1:14 PM
Cutest pirate everrrr!
Wyatt October 2, 2014 at 4:59 PM
Arrrg!
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Forgotten Horror (Finland): “Aeon of the Shadow Goddess”
Forgotten Horror were formed in 2004 in Kuopio, Finland, by Tuomas Karhunen, and debuted in 2007 with a demo and then in 2011 with the first full length The Serpent Creation. The band allegedly delivers lilithian black metal, but in practice it's blackened death metal; the label ‘lilithian’ refers primarily to the themes addressed by the band, the lyrics often revolving around the figure of Lilith.
The second album Aeon of the Shadow Goddess consolidates the already strong foundation that the band had laid with the first album by making an admirable effort to define the band's sound. Influences from other bands and genres are surely not lacking: I can hear influences from Swedish melodic death metal (I'm sure that the band knows very well Eucharist), or from the symphonic arrangements of Dimmu Borgir, or something of the gothic atmosphere of Cradle of Filth, or even from Venom, as in closing track “The Ghost of Time”, but everything is blended in a very personal way. The soundscape of Forgotten Horror is often enriched with atmospheric moments or what could be called openness. A good example is the beautiful clean guitars at the beginning of “Queen of an Ivory Moon”; a distorted guitar riff then suddenly starts, out of the blue, so to speak, but the initial motive is taken up again in the course of the song. Perhaps the best track is the third, “Lilithian”, but the entire album is solid and valid, and it is a pleasure to listen to it thanks also to very good production and the technical skills of the musicians.
I think we should give credit to this band that surely will give us more great releases in the future.
Release date: May 15 2015 on Woodcut Records. Both the digital and the physical album can be purchased through the Bandcamp player below.
1. The Adept
2. Behold a Shadow Goddess
3. ...of Man's First Rebellion
4. Lilithian
5. In Ravenous Darkness (The Shores of Mictlan)
6. Queen of an Ivory Moon
7. Babylon Emissaries
8. Her Crescent Horns
9. The Ghost of Time
Tuomas Karhunen – Guitars, vocals
Kassara – Drums
Kennet – Live guitars
Aeon of the Shadow Goddess by Forgotten Horror
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performanceUniversity of Memphis
Jose Torres-Tama
by Katie Maish - September 13, 2017
The Department of Art at the University of Memphis is pleased to bring to Memphis Jose Torres-Tama's performance, Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers: A Sci-Fi Latino Noir.
When: Thursday, September 14th, 2017 at 7pm
Where: University of Memphis, Art & Communication Building (ACB) Room 250 (in front of the Holiday Inn on Central Avenue)
Torres-Tama treads that dangerously vague turf of performance art gracefully...with dexterity and daring.
--The Village Voice (New York)
An adroit performer and lucid writer, Jose Torres-Tama bravely takes us to the dark side where most dare not to go.
--DC Theatre Scene
Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers is an inventive sci-fi Latino noir performance solo written by MAP Fund award-winning performance artist Jose Torres-Tama. He exposes the hypocrisies of a system that vilifies the same people whose labor it exploits, and satirizes the absurd status of immigrants as "extraterrestrials" through a sci-fi prism informed by comic film shorts inspired by Star Wars and The Matrix films.
He deftly shape-shifts into a variety of "aliens" who challenge a nation that has migrated to the "Dark Side," and offers a clarion call for the United States of Amnesia to remember the words emblazoned on its iconic Statue of Liberty, Give us your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Aliens was developed through a National Performance Network Creation Fund award from the NPN, and commissioned by the Ashe Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, MECA in Houston and GALA Hispanic Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Artist Biography:
Ecuadorian-born José Torres-Tama is a 2015 MAP Fund award recipient for his radical theater on wheels called the Taco Truck Theater / Teatro Sin Fronteras Project. Also, he has received a Regional Artist Project award from the NEA for his genre-bending performances and a Louisiana Theater Fellowship. The National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) just awarded him a 2016 grant for his Taco Truck Theater show.
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reCAP :: Willie Nelson & Family :: 2013.09.18
Written by: Meredith Berke
Photos by: Dino Perucci
Willie Nelson and his seven-piece Family Band brought down the house during their two-night stand at Port Chester’s Capitol Theater this week, breaking down the blues with a country twang. Accompanied by his sister Bobbi playing grand piano, Willie’s voice was strong and steady as he sang his famous hits to the excited crowd, and he included a number of call-and-responses with the audience throughout the shows.
Willie played acoustic guitar with three members on electric guitars filling in the gaps, a standup bass and harmonica player thrown in for good measure. The band took their solo turns easily and seamlessly, as the crowd hooted and hollered lovingly.
This band sounded like they’d been playing together for a while; their transitions between songs were precise. The show was 90 minutes, and it seemed to fly by. At eighy years old, Nelson’s masterful showmanship made this a very special show to watch, bringing a special intimacy the spacious Capitol Theatre. We sang, we danced and we strummed the blues with one of the greatest country singers alive.
The night ended with Willie shaking the hands of all the fans that wanted to hold a piece of the great country singer. He was gracious, he was funny, he engaged the audience and we were grateful he was there.
Whiskey River
Still Is Still Moving to Me
Beer For My Horses (Toby Keith cover)
Shoeshine Man (Tom T. Hall cover)
Funny How Time Slips Away
Instrumental Song
Me and Paul
Help Me Make It Through the Night (Kris Kristofferson cover)
Good Hearted Woman (Waylon Jennings cover)
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Ed Bruce cover)
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Always on My Mind (Brenda Lee cover)
Jambalaya on the Bayou (Hank Williams cover)
Hey Good Lookin’ (Hank Williams cover)
Move It on Over (Hank Williams cover)
I Never Cared for You
Walkin’ (Waylon Jennings cover)
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael cover)
I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train (Billy Joe Shaver cover)
City Of New Orleans (Steve Goodman cover)
Will You Remember Mine
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
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Decision Day
5.2: Part I: The south
5.3: The centre
5.4: The north
5.6: Part II: The Fortress Holland
5.7: Island of Dordrecht
5.8: Elsewhere in the Fortress Holland
5.9: The airforce
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In this summary we look back on the highlights of the third day of the invasion in the whole country and beyond the Dutch borders
The 12th had indeed been decision day at the two most important front sectors.
In the heart of the defences the Germans had successfully worked their way through the frontline defence at the Grebbeberg and were opposing the weaker last line. German challenges at the central and northern sector of the Grebbeline all failed. Some due to tough Dutch defences, some by poor efforts from the attackers themselves. The fights between the Dutch cavalry on one hand and the German 227.ID and SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler on the other, were of a dramatic and courageous nature, but did not affect the bigger picture in any significant way.
Still a glimpse of hope remained to hold the Grebbeline, but the senior commanders already realised that only a miracle would save the Grebbeline from collapsing in the Rhenen sector. Secretly in the late evening of the 12th, the Commander of the Field Army had his staff prepare orders and directives for orderly retreat to the eastern front of the Fortress Holland, better known as the Waterlinie [Waterline]. The major counter attack planned for the 13th at Achterberg was ambitious and daring, but it was clear to many that little could be expected from it.
In the south the eagle had landed. The French forces in Brabant had not been able to perform to standard and the remaining Dutch defences had been scattered to pieces. The disappointment over the very poor French performance had devastated all what was left of Dutch moral in the south. The fact that the relatively strong French defensive line around Tilburg had been evacuated prior to any serious fight had unlocked the backdoor to the German 9th Tank Division. Hardly challenged, their point units managed to reach the Moerdijk bridges in the afternoon, with the main force closely following a couple of hours later. The French had taken back their forces to create a dense defensive screen around Antwerpen, which would on the 13th still incorporate the city of Breda. They had no intentions whatsoever to challenge the Germans on their advance into the Fortress Holland. With that decision the fate of the Fortress Holland was sealed in the evening of the 12th...
In the far north the last hurdle in front of the Afsluitdijk had been fallen in German hands. The latter now prepared for an assault on the dike fortress itself. Here High Command could be relatively self assured about the strength of these last defences. Formidable and strategically positioned as they were, they were the one certainty in the defensive plan. The German attempts to organise a maritime action from the eastern provinces towards the west were prevented by Dutch navy operations on the IJsselmeer. But it had been at a considerable cost.
The Island of Dordrecht was the only primary front sector where opportunities had been in favour of the Dutch. The Light Division had deployed about 3.500 men on the Island on this third day and had launched a coordinated assault onto German positions south of the city. German tactics would however [unintendedly] counter the Dutch main assault, when the Kampfgruppe De Boer met head-to-head with one of the advancing Dutch taskforce. Another taskforce tried to force its way into the city-quarter Krispijn but was rejected by German defences. Only the most eastern taskforce would reach its goal, but its commander lacked any initiative to take advantage of his position.
The Germans temporarily lost control over the heart of the Zwijdrecht - Moerdijk corridor, when a boldly operating company of the 3rd Border Infantry Battalion took Wieldrecht from them. Again, lack of initiative and tactical vision prevented the Dutch from profiting from this side thorn in the German corpse. With the arrival of the spearhead of the German 9th Tank Division at 1620 hours at the Moerdijk bridgehead, the connection between the main force of the land operation and the air landing troops at the south front of the Fortress had been established .... Exactly according to schedule!
Allied perspective
Also in Belgium the 12th had been decision day, although the 13th would be an extension of that phase. The German masses along the Meuze river became clear when numerous air reconnaissance flights added up to an inventory that showed that massive German formations were pushing against the Meuze defences in virtually all sectors. Also ground reports started pouring in which specified the arrival of German formations at many points along the Meuze. It started to show what was about to happen.
The first large scale tank battle of the war occurred in the northeast of Belgium. Two German tank divisions - the 3.PD and 4.PD - clashed with two French armoured divisions 2.DLM and 3.DLM at Hannuit [east of Luik / Liege]. On the French side about 400 medium tanks [175 S-35 and 225 H-35/H-39] as well as a mere 65 AMR-35 light tanks. The German divisions had a combined total of about 600 tanks of all four types, amongst which 80 Pz.III and 50 Pz.IV medium tanks. The S-35 was the superior tank of all, thus presenting the French an advantage on paper. The battle itself did not involve the entire formations though. On the 12th a spearhead of the 4th PD clashed with a formation of 25 tanks of the French and crippled or destroyed sixteen against five German losses. A brief German encirclement of some elements of the French was broken by an S-35 raid that released the French pocket.
Again in the evening the French and German tanks and infantry clashed, but no decision fell. The French artillery and German Luftwaffe both contributed to the stale-mate. Fights continued overnight. The continueing battle itself would only end on the 14th. The battle was essential to the Allies. If both DLM's had not been shifted forward in the vast gap east of Liege, the push of both German tank divisions would have jeopardized the entire Belgian front, because they would not only have forced a wedge between the French and Belgian army, but also they could have outpased the Belgian retreat towards the KW-Dyle line. Both DLM's had to facilitate the Allied troops to buy ample time to prepare for battle in the main defence line in Belgium.
The situation was such that the Allies still felt confident that they would be able to finally withhold the German offensive at the KW-Dyle line. The first British units started arriving in their sectors, the French in the central and southern region needed at least another day. Allied commanders realized that time was of the essence. In stead of worries over the German masses reported in the sector Dinant-Sedan, they worried more over the ill cooperation between the three major players on the Allied side. The French again endeavoured to get more control over the Belgian army, but the Belgian King intervened. He was very aware of the fact that the French only focussed on their objectives and that when push came to shuff the French matter would easily prevail over the Belgian fate. Therefore the Belgians kept the strings in their own hands. Also the British were reluctant to submit to the French desires to full and unconditional military alliance. The British held on to their political autonomy, which meant that Lord Gort - commander of the BEF - would always keep an excuse up his sleeve to reject French strategic or tactical desires.
The genuine plot of the German strategy would not become clear to the Allies on the 12th, although the signs were hard to miss. The Allies were to much focussed on their own challenges though, and missed the emphasize of the German battleplan. That would not last much longer. In the morning of the next - the fourth - day, all would become clear. Perfectly clear ...
German perspective
The Germans had their share of worries too. Their logistic challenges had not been solved yet, but had improved considerably after both tankdivisions around Maastricht had managed to deploy in the room around Liege. These large mechanised formations had required much of the logistic room and their move westwards had created better space for the units to follow. Still the entire region between Maastricht and Liege was packed with vulnerable troops. The Luftwaffe guarded the region like a dedicated mother. That was more than a well deserved guard to the ground troops. The focus of the Luftwaffe on the Belgian northeast was also intended as a decoy, letting the Allies believe that the German emphasize would remain on a massive northern push into Belgian, much like the Von Schlieffen plan of WWI. The Germans threw every possible effort into this deception, because they realised that yet another day of sustained Allied believe in the von Schlieffen strategy was required to unleash the massive offensive in the Dinant-Sedan region on the next day, when the vast tank formations would be deployed along the Meuze front.
The Germans were overjoyed - yet surprised too - that the Allies had not countered the large formations in the heart and the south of the Meuze region. They had often enough spotted the low flying reconnaissance planes and were well aware that only a portion of those had been downed. The balance made it back home, obviously reporting the spotted army masses in the Ardennes region. When nothing happened and the German reconnaissance spotted no worrying French or British formations altering course, the Germans started thinking that perhaps their strategy of deception worked.
But many senior officers at the Army Headquarters remained anxious for sudden Allied surprises. In fact they were in disbelieve that the Allies failed to spot the German intentions and some even thought that the German believe in the success of deception, was a trap in itself and that it were the Allies that were making the Germans believe in their successfull deception strategy. That's why the senior field commanders were instructed to regroup on the west banks of the Meuze, once they would have crossed the Meuze on the next day. The tank formations were firmly instructed not to break out prior to effective regrouping on the westbank of the Meuze. Many field-commanders - General Guderian in particular - had quite opposide idea's ...
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JoLana Talbot donated eggs anonymously because she was not offered any other option. One thing we’ve learned since starting We Are Egg Donors is that this is a pretty common experience. What is uncommon about JoLana’s story is that she got the chance to connect with her ‘donor daughter,’ Brittan, 16 years after donating eggs. Even more unusual, JoLana and Brittan met in person for the very first time on Katie Couric’s daytime television show. The episode will air Wednesday, June 11 (find your local station here). JoLana filled us in on what it was like to meet a child produced from her donations. Check it out!
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INTERVIEW: “I’m a Queer Egg Donor”
This interview is about stigma, being queer, and navigating a heteronormative medical landscape. While egg donation is presented as a simple clinical procedure, there is a lot of room for reducing stigma and acknowledging a fuller scope of, you know, how people actually feel about it. To some of us, our narratives are more complex than “wham, bam, thank you for your huevos, good job, here’s a check, you’ll be fine, good bye.”
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I’ve wanted to write this article for such a long time.
Egg donation tends to be a sensitive subject for many different reasons. I’m going to share my story here in all aspects – the good, the bad, and the things I wish I knew before I started.
INTERVIEW: I Was Paid To Ship My Eggs from the USA to Australia
Skyping with the Australian clinic felt contradictory. I felt extremely confused during the interview because my interviewer kept referring to my egg donation as “altruistic.” To me, “altruism” means giving a gift, in this case it would be my eggs, but I wasn’t exactly altruistic because I would be getting paid.
“I Was an American Egg Donor in Bangkok”
Communicating with my doctor was a challenge; even though he really did try his best, he didn’t understand everything I was saying. I had never donated before and I had a lot of questions. But because of the language barrier, I had a really hard time getting answers. In retrospect, it would be a lot safer for egg donors if there were a translator who could make sure that pertinent medical information is being communicated, both ways.
CROSSING BORDERS: “Canada almost arrested me for allegedly selling my eggs”
Kylee* is an American egg donor who flew to Canada four times to donate her eggs. On her fourth trip, she was unexpectedly held up in customs, accused of illegal egg selling.
INTERVIEW: Why I am an Egg Donor
I will never forget the day my case manager called me last year and told me: “The family wants to let you know that they had a beautiful baby girl in November and are over the moon. She is absolutely beautiful.” I cried. Unknowingly, this family pushed me to be the best that I could be.
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I needed 5 extensive surgeries over a very short time period. I was extremely sick, and every doctor I saw was exasperated by how aggressive my case was. I went from being 100% healthy, to having one of the worst cases of endometriosis that even some of the top specialists had ever seen – and that all started within 6 months of donating my eggs.
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I felt like I had to sell myself. Saying the things although true are what people want to hear. It’s worse than a blind date. Specifically the motivation question — Why did you choose to be a donor? — I was specifically told not to say “financial incentive.” Which I think is most donors motivation. I feel like when you are looking for a life partner you are looking at the person as a whole, flaws and all, and I feel like this selection process should be treated the same.
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Elizabeth was what is called a “premier” egg donor: she was paid $15,000 per cycle. Due to the subsequent health issues she experienced, she was able to successfully appeal all taxes on her compensation. In this interview, I ask her about what it’s like being a high-demand donor, what her body has gone through, and for advice she has for egg donors.
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Sonja O’Hara is a New York-based writer and actress who wrote and starred in Ovum, a narrative feature film based on her experience as a three-time egg donor. 70 percent of her film was financed with her eggs — Ovum is meant to spur a conversation about eugenics, reproduction, and the unseen side of the market for elite and top shelf eggs.
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Enjoy a day of carefree fun this Fall season, and savor the last days of wonderful weather, beautiful foliage, and gorgeous scenery as you go on your Autumn adventure. You’ll be supporting local Long Island agriculture with your pumpkin picking trip, and making memories with your loved ones that will last a lifetime. Show Less.
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The South Brisbane woman had disturbed the offender as he was trying to break into her home but by the time she ran into him he had already ripped the door off its hinges.Unable to secure her home, Constable Boswell said the woman was very grateful to see the officers.was clear the lady was very shaken from the ordeal, Constable Boswell said.the first thing she said was, you want a cup of tea? was very thoughtful. Woman had been forced to cancel her plans for the entire day as a result of the attempted break in.The policing pair sat with the woman and had a conversation over a cup of tea, trying to put her at ease.wanted to make her feel safe in her own home once again, Constable Boswell said.The woman had recently lost her husband and was getting used to living alone when the break in happened.Constable Boswell, a former tradie, knew that was the moment he could come in handy.Constable Boswell worked to secure the Brisbane woman’s home. Picture: QPSSource:SuppliedUsing his carpentry skills from his previous life as a tradie, Constable Boswell set about the task of repairing her broken door.went to work bending the hinges back and drilling new screw holes to re hang the door on the door jamb, he said.was not a perfect by any means, but the door was locked and secured.
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Non-Space - predictions, proofs and implications
by gfellow » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:19 am
Non-Space, a gravitationally inducing natural phenomenon, can be demonstrated to exist in a laboratory experiment. A solar prediction is also offered.
Note to this forum:
In reading this, I think you may find a strong parallel between the Non-Space proposal and the plasma/electric view of the Universe. Please accept this in the heuristic spirit in which this overview is submitted. It is a thumbnail sketch and leaves more questions in its wake than it answers. However, I believe the concept submitted here is provable under lab conditions and will also be supported by a solar neutrino onservation. There are two videos that illustrate the idea, "An Empty Sun - Is Gravity being Induced?" and "Non-Space, Is Gravity being Induced? A Challenge to Plasma & Neutrino Physicists" [edited to correct links]
Does Non-Space exist, can it induce gravity?
I will be the first to admit that the concept of Non-Space and gravitational induction seem at first glance to be outrageously preposterous. After all, the three other states of matter, solid, liquid and gas exhibit no such qualities, and from these observations we have assumed a universe in which gravity is inviolate. However, to date no plasma scientist has looked to see if a high energy plasma discharge induces gravity. The concept of Non-Space rests on a plasma laboratory experiment that could be performed within the limits of contemporary technology, and an observational solar neutrino prediction which I am told will be forthcoming in the foreseeable future.
What is Non-space?
Consider the theorized black hole, an over-abundance matter falling in on itself becoming a gravitational sink that even light cannot escape from. It is useful to think of Non-Space as being on the other end of this spectrum.
Non-Space is a condition in which space is vacated from a volume. Thus, it is not an empty space, it is a volume empty of space. This Non-Space volume causes exterior space to implode gravitationally upon its boundary.
It is a violent reaction as space attempts to close up the non-space, and in doing so, annihilates mass into energy as it presses in upon the Non-Space boundary.
How can Non-Space come about?
Non-Space is achievable with a high energy plasma.
A high energy plasma imbued with a dynamo effect causes electrons to disassociate from protons. These then act within like camps, electrons with electrons, and protons with protons, each particle contributing its magnetic moment to the whole.
I believe it is the repulsion of these like camps that disturb the fabric of space, allowing for the appearance of gravitationally inducing Non-Space. This condition can be a momentary, or a sustained phenomenon.
What evidence is available to demonstrate the existence of Non-Space?
If Non-Space comes about at the moment when dissociated electrons and protons contribute their magnetic moment to the whole, then this ought to be observable. I propose that a gravity measuring device be coupled to a high energy plasma discharge, such as a z-pinch. If I am correct, this will demonstrate a minute but measurable momentary increase in the force of gravity towards the discharge and in doing so will demonstrate that gravity can be induced without a corresponding quantity of mass.
A successful outcome of this experiment will have far reaching implications, because it will confirm a direct link between the electric, magnetic and gravitational forces. Furthermore, gravitational induction will have fundamental implications upon the very foundation of contemporary physics, because the experiment will demonstrate that the relationship between mass and gravity are not inviolate.
From the many inquiries I have made over the years, I am given to understand that this experiment has not as yet been performed, and that there is no one other than myself who is expecting a positive result.
I liken it to Hans Christian Ørsted's accidental experiment, when he happened to notice a compass needle jump when inducing a current through a wire.
Solar neutrinos:
The observation I seek, is a compilation of solar neutrino data which will show that the angle of incidence of solar neutrinos emanating from the Sun will be expressed in a concave graph rather than a convex graph. A convex graph, is what one might expect from a standard model of the sun, with neutrinos emanating from the Sun's center.
The concave graph which is what I am predicting, will demonstrate that neutrinos are emanating from the shell and atmosphere of the Sun, and not from its core. To my knowledge, no one is expecting a concave graph.
The data will infer that the Sun is a magnetically constrained Non-Space volume. This volume is sustained by an exterior shell best described as a magnetically unified high energy plasma. The interior volume of Non-Space induces gravity, causing the Sun's shell to continually implode. This implosion of the Sun's mass releases energy, magnetically sustaining the Sun's interior volume of Non-Space.
I make no claim as to the particular electrical or nuclear chain reaction leading to solar energy output, merely that it is distributed in a shell, gravitationally crushing in on the Sun's interior non-space.
A Non-Space solar interior would also explain why sunspots are dark rather than light, and why strong magnetic fields are associated with these lower depressions in the Sun's photosphere.
Also, an expanded solar shell of matter with a Non-space interior would account for the Sun's slow rotation, in that the rapid expansion from a smaller, dense proto-star to larger shell would slow its angular momentum.
I expect significant skepticism for these extraordinary claims, and I realize that the experiment and observation might well return a null result, rightfully condemning my contemplations to the historical trash-heap of absurd ideas.
Consider though, that the plasma experiment is achievable with our present technology, and I suspect at a relatively reasonable cost, and I am to understand that the solar neutrino data-collection ought to be available the foreseeable future.
Science tacitly assumes that the forces of nature are unified. It would be a great shame not to perform the plasma experiment, for if by the slimmest chance the experiment produces a positive result, is that not in itself enough incentive?
And should the proposed experiment with the potential seed of a positive result languish, would history not condemn today's plasma physicists for their reticence? Would we have to wait, leaving the discovery to a future generation, a generation who would look back - and mock us?
Stephen Goodfellow
gfellow
Re: Non-Space - predictions, proofs and implications
by kevin » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:02 pm
gfellow,
Your links don't want to play though.
They work from Your website .
http://goodfelloweb.com/
by gfellow » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:21 pm
kevin wrote: gfellow,
Sorry Kevin, I messed up the script and can find no way to re-edit:
"An Empty Sun - Is Gravity being Induced?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fdhyhPu6PY
"Non-Space, Is Gravity being Induced? A Challenge to Plasma & Neutrino Physicists"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlhzb51AqGA
by davesmith_au » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:04 pm
THREAD REINSTATED
As I have written on many occasions, the Thunderbolts Forum is NOT a publishing house. This forum is for DISCUSSION, not publication or argument over who wrote what when...
This thread was removed from the forum after initial accusations of plagiarism made by Constantin Leshan against Stephen Goodfellow, who initiated the thread.
Leshan argues on the basis that he first published on the same topic in 1994, and that he has authored papers in peer-reviewed journals on the topic, which is easily verifiable.
Goodfellow responds (both privately and elsewhere on the web) that he first wrote on the subject in 1979 and whilst this is not publically verifiable, a search for "Can Gravity be induced?" brings up instances of Goodfellow having written publically on the topic at least as early as 1987.
http://totse2.net/totse/en/fringe/gravity_anti_gravity/gravity4.html
http://www.skepticfiles.org/crank/gravac.htm
EDIT: Goodfellow has posted a more explicit refutation here.
It is not unusual in science to find two or more people unearthing similar ideas at around the same time, often with no knowledge of the others' work. My recommendation to both parties would be to communicate directly with each other with a view to collaboration, rather than participate in a public feud. Should a reasonable compromise not be forthcoming, then Law Courts are the appropriate place for challenges of plagiarism.
As this forum is public domain I have decided to reinstate the thread, with the proviso that further argument over authorship of the theory not take place here. It is enough that a challenge has been raised, and it is in the public interest that it remain in the public domain.
Disclaimer: The Thunderbolts Project has no interest in theories which posit unseen/unknown/unlikely scenarios such as are often raised on the lower boards of this forum, and only allows such topics to remain in an effort to allow most people to have their say without being subject to over-censorship.
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by kevin » Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:47 am
If You view the universe as an electrical information filled place, then it would seem totally reasonable to presume that various people with similer intersests would attract the same or similer information in the same time frame.
Then instead of half the world looking for spies everywhere ,it could be realised that what is required is for the seperate parties to be brought together, not this isolation based system We have now.
We are stuck in tribalism still.
I thank both the posters involved here for enlightening myself with what they have revealed here.
And applaud this forum for re-instating this.
by gfellow » Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:35 pm
kevin wrote: IMHO,
...Then instead of half the world looking for spies everywhere ,it could be realized that what is required is for the separate parties to be brought together, not this isolation based system We have now.
Kevin, couldn't have put it better. My thoughts exactly.
by hellsreach » Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:00 pm
I'm sure this is a null-factor since the thread was reinstated, but...
While in high school, in the summer of 1990, I was attending a summer art program at the Center for Creative Studies College of Art and Design in Detroit and had the privilege for being able to visit Stephen Goodfellow in his art studio to learn about his micro-pointillism artwork. I'm not certain exactly what got us on the topic (I guess I must have mentioned my interest in physics), but we started to discuss his hypothesis on non-space. On my way out, he gave me a copy of his then paper, "Verifiable Observational Evidence for A Dynamic Non-Space Sun," which I drank up presently.
The point is, I had a copy of that paper in the summer of 1990 -- four years before Mr. Leshan published his paper (IIRC) and I would gladly sign any sworn statement for any court of law to attest to that and to defend Mr. Goodfellow from any accusation of copyright violation or plagiarism.
Eric J Gibson
Coatesville, PA
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by Solar » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:10 am
This seems to touch on something that has run through my head before; but not in the same terms. The thought being that perhaps a truly pure vacuum possibly exist beneath the outer 'shell' of planets/Suns etc. One that beckoned to be 'filled' but all efforts induced a variety of affects oriented about the 'surface' of that 'shell'. The similarity to that is what caught my attention and you're the first person that I've ever seen to actually concretize this! Very much like that.
You can judge the veracity of this by reviewing the general concepts expressed in this March 12 post. My compliments though you're working quite nicely with it.
Interestingly, and this is just a note, the idea came to me as a result of concepts regarding the Aether. There is a general hypothesis (for lack of a better word) in one or more of those theories that 'matter is the result of holes in the aether' i.e (space). That produced the thought, if true, 'My, that must be the purest of vacuums'. I've never forgotten it for some reason and so it sat in the Bag O' Options.
Mind you now, I make no claim to it whatsoever. (sorry to hear about your troubles with that)
Other than that - wasn't too thrilled with the Eddington appeal to conscience for Plasma Physicist. Could've done without that imho.
Thank you for sharing this.
"Our laws of force tend to be applied in the Newtonian sense in that for every action there is an equal reaction, and yet, in the real world, where many-body gravitational effects or electrodynamic actions prevail, we do not have every action paired with an equal reaction." — Harold Aspden
by gfellow » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:54 pm
Solar, you are quite right.
It was a fatuous comment in the video, possibly ill inspired from my just having watched a film on the interaction between Eddington and Einstein, which obviously left too strong an impression on me. Let me say right off the bat, "I've never met Einstein - but I know I'm no Einstein"
hellsreach wrote: On my way out, he gave me a copy of his then paper, "Verifiable Observational Evidence for A Dynamic Non-Space Sun," which I drank up presently.
Eric, believe it or not, I remember that day! So delighted to hear from you - and thanks so much, coming to my defense. You do me a great kindness.
by gfellow » Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:12 pm
I am presuming most of the forum members are familiar with H. C. Oersted's famous experiment. Upon placing a compass on a table while inducing an electrical current through the copper wire, he discerned that the magnetic compass needle jumped when an electrical current was turned on and switched off.
As you may have gathered from the thread, I am interested to see if electrical discharges create a gravitational induction, so for the sake of argument, I'm assuming that there was a proportional gravitational induction as well ( 1 x 10 to the 39th times weaker.) Could one find some way of discerning if this were true or false?
by indie05 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:50 am
Hello, gfellow, well, the the evidence at hand, demonstrating that electrical discharge contains the elements that allow for the induction of gravity (producing gravity without a corresponding quantity of mass,) simply lacks credibility.
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by gfellow » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:44 pm
indie05 wrote: Hello, gfellow, well, the the evidence at hand, demonstrating that electrical discharge contains the elements that allow for the induction of gravity (producing gravity without a corresponding quantity of mass,) simply lacks credibility.
Well, one DOES have to actually look for it.
Sleds & Wheels - We have the electric - Where's the Gravity?
by gfellow » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:11 pm
(To admin: If this is considered off-topic, I would be grateful if you would relocate post.)
A gravitationally inducing Non-Space Sun
I most throughly enjoyed going to the Albuquerque conference, and have just finished watching Bob Johnson's "The Electric Sun Revisited" http://youtu.be/JWpPetpI50U which I somehow missed. Bob Johnson concludes saying that we have to find a better means of maintaining the anode voltage.
His lecture was again a reminder to me how much our scientific knowledge is hampered by our inadequacy of finding a linkage between the electromagnetic and the gravitational phenomenon; our civilization is akin to one which understands the sled, but has not discovered the wheel.
In that spirit, I would like to to invite the forum to revisit "Non-Space - predictions, proofs and implications", the concept that electrical discharges produce momentary gravitational induction, (gravity without a corresponding quantity of mass) http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2313 posted on this site in '09. At the time it caused a distracting, unwanted stir in that an individual claimed I was plagiarizing his work. Fortunately the Thunderbolts admin resolved the misunderstanding. In brief, "Can Gravity be Induced" was written in 1979, the earliest online digital reference for the paper was uploaded in 1987:
http://www.zoklet.net/totse/en/fringe/gravity_anti_gravity/gravac.html
As you can see from the source, the concept of non-space back then was treated as lunatic-fringe, and no one felt plagiarized.
The concept that an electrical discharge induces gravity may be confirmed using a laser, an interferometer and a means to produce an electrical discharge. I have spent considerable time plowing through journals, looking for anyone who might have tried this, but no luck so far. I realize this is a simple description of an experiment and the devil is in the details, but the below diagram illustrates the principle. Yes, some have suggested to me that there is no such phenomenon, but if you're not looking for it, how do you know it's not there?
I do understand the reluctance; in today's scientific community such an experiment could be tantamount to professional suicide, because the concept is almost alchemic. There no known parameters. For example, what is the strength of the induction?
In a sense, it is as if one were going back in time to H.C. Oersted's accidental electromagnetic experiment in the 1820's.
The localized gravitational force could have a momentary potential stronger than that of the Sun; it could be so weak that it does not register on contemporary instruments. Yes, a nul result is a distinct possibility; but imagine the implications of a positive result?
The reasoning for this phenomenon is as follows: During an atmospheric electrical discharge, protons and electrons are known to organize into distinct separate camps. They then interact in a spiral manner which is not really understood. (Face to face conversations with the plasma physicist, Anthony Peratt.)
Consider an ion vacuum chamber; the atmosphere is initially pumped out mechanically, then ions are fired through the partial vacuum to catch particles in order to create an even better partial vacuum.
I propose that a lightning discharge does this on a much more efficient level, producing a dance of powerful repulsive magnetic forces that create a momentary absolute vacuum.
Absolute vacuum - I call it Non-Space - is an absence of mass/energy/time. It is a volume surrounded by space and can only be described through the behavior of that medium.
Non-Space induces gravity; space loves that, it crushes in on the Non-Space with annihilating force, an attraction indistinguishable from gravity, hence the imploding thunderclap. In this case it is a momentary phenomenon but I believe that on a larger scale, the phenomenon can be sustained, for example, our Sun.
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Selah Baseball Has Eyes Set On Fifth Straight District Title
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Photo credit: 1460 ESPN Yakima
Carter Young SS - One of the best high school baseball players in the country. He’s played on Team USA the past five years, and won a gold medal in 2017. Young is going into his fourth year as a starter for Selah, and has accumulated three First Team All League awards.
Dylan Bishop P/3B - He’s projected to be Selah’s opening day starter. Bishop is a location driven pitcher that uses his breaking ball to get third strikes. He’ll hit leadoff and will wreak havoc on the basepaths.
Payton Andreas P/CF - Total flamethrower that wracks up the strikeouts. Fastball touches upper 80s which is elite for high school. When he’s not pitching, he’s one of the top center fielders in the state.
The state of Washington features a bevy of quality baseball teams, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Selah is as good as any in the state.
Over the past four years they’ve accumulated a stunning record of 89-8 and also won a state championship.
Head coach Mike Archer has set the bar incredibly high for his players. He has a very strong core returning that will act as a base for a championship roster.
One starter he does not have returning is Reid Rasmussen. The southpaw had elbow surgery this off-season, and as a result will miss his entire senior season.
Anytime you lose a starting pitcher that had a sub 2.00 ERA over three years, that’s going to be a brutal loss.
The silver lining is Selah returns two high quality starters with good experience in Dylan Bishop and Payton Andreas.
Both are proven commodities. Andreas started the CWAC Title game against Ellensburg last year and shut them out. He finished his season with a 2.62 ERA, while Bishop had a 2.44 ERA.
A pitcher to look out for coming out of the bullpen is Caden Herbst. The varsity newcomer will likely see low pressure situations when Selah has 5+ run leads.
Handling catching duties will be a young sophomore prospect in Dean Pettyjohn. He’ll be counted on to develop good chemistry with the pitching staff. Anything Selah can get out of his bat will be a bonus.
Making up the middle infield will be the returning combo of Carter Young at shortstop and Brandon Bruner at second base.
Bruner got injured midway through last year, so he’s determined to put together a quality senior campaign. Young is exactly what you’d expect out of a team USA infielder. At the plate he’s an on-base-percentage machine.
Manning first base will be Nick Garretson. He played sparingly last year, but now will be a full time starter and add pop at the bottom of the order.
When Bishop isn’t on the mound, he’ll be handling hot corner responsibilities. He’s expected to bat leadoff and steal his way into scoring situations.
Lining the outfield is projected to be Andreas in centerfield, with new coming starters Wyatt Berrimann and Chase Eregson in the corner spots.
Andreas is a First Team All League returner who hit .366 last year. While Berrimann and Eregson are unproven commodities, they do have a solid track record at the lower levels.
Last year the Vikings season ended way earlier than they expected, losing to Liberty 3-1 in the first round of state. Selah absolutely does not want to repeat that this season. In order to prepare themselves for playoff baseball, they’ve stacked their non conference lineup against contenders like Anacortes, Steilacoom and WF West. Combine that with conference rivals like Ellensburg and East Valley, and Selah is going to be tested. Anything short of a 20+ win season would be surprising; pencil them in very lightly at the top of the CWAC standings.
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Brace yourself: the franchise may even roll out a whole line of “megetables.”
03:00 PM • 06/26/19 Franchisor Spotlight
While everyone else is going meatless, Arby’s is going full hog—or, in this case, full roasted-turkey-rolled-in-carrot-juice.
“People love meat already. What Americans have a harder time doing is enjoying vegetables,” Arby’s chief marketing officer, Jim Taylor, told Fast Company. “So we said, ‘If they can make meat out of vegetables, why can’t we make vegetables out of meat?’ We’re going to introduce to the world a category we call ‘megetables’—we’ve applied for trademark. Our first vegetable is going to be the marrot.”
We’d be remiss not to go into detail here, so, in the interest of transparency: Seasoned, marinated turkey breast is rolled into the shape of a carrot, then cooked sous vide. The turkarrot is rolled in dehydrated carrot juice, oven-roasted, brûléed with maple sugar and, naturally, adorned with a sprig of parsley to complete the effect.
The “meat snack” is currently in the test kitchen phase, but may be available as a future LTO depending on public response, notes Fast Company.
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The James A. Drake Interviews • Nina Morgana (Conclusion) and her 1920 Victor Test Recording
NINA MORGANA
Part 3 (Conclusion)
By James A. Drake.
Nina Morgana, c. 1920 (G. G. Bain Collection, Library of Congress)
On the subject of broadcasts, you sang with Gigli in one of the earliest Saturday matinee broadcasts, am I correct?
Yes. Radio became more and more important in the early and middle-1930s. I remember singing Inès in of one of the first radio broadcasts from the Met [on March 19, 1933], with Gigli as Vasco and Rethberg as Selika. But the most memorable broadcast I can recall was the silver-anniversary gala for Gatti-Casazza [on February 26, 1933]. Lily Pons sang the Lucia Sextet with Lauri-Volpi, Tancredi Pasero—what a voice!—and Armando Borgioli, and dear old Angelo Badà. The broadcast was quite special because Alma Gluck spoke on the air, and [Marcella] Sembrich and [Ernestine] Schumann-Heink were present for the gala.
Gigli also had a very memorable appearance in a broadcast that was billed as a “surprise party” in 1932. Certain parts of the playbill were titled after dishes that one would find on a restaurant menu—one scene was called “Russian Caviar,” another was “Wiener Schnitzel,” and “French Champaign.” I sang in the one called “Italian Minestrone” on the playbill. In the “French Champaign” segment, Gigli came onstage in the costume of Carmen and sang the “Habanera.” Not in falsetto, but in his real voice.
You mentioned Lily Pons singing in the Lucia Sextet at Gatti-Casazza’s silver-anniversary gala. I believe you sang in the Sextet at his farewell gala in March 1935.
The Lucia Sextet was the opening selection of the farewell for Gatti, but the most talked-about performance of that Gala was Melchior singing the last act of Otello with Elisabeth Rethberg. [5] Five days after that farewell gala, I sang my last performance at the Met. It was in Bohème—I sang Musetta, and Rethberg sang Mimì. It was a Saturday matinee broadcast, and a fragment of it was recorded. I have heard it, but the sound quality is so poor that I can barely make out my own voice. So the only sound recordings I have of my voice are the tests I made for Victor, which Caruso had made possible.
Were you present for any of Caruso’s recording sessions?
Just once, when he recorded “Rachel! Quand du Seigneur,” in September 1920. He invited me to come to the Victor studios with Bruno. [Caruso] recorded something else that day—a song, but I can’t recall its title now. Of course, Bruno was at all of Caruso’s recording sessions from 1917 until 1920. The first one he was present for was the recording of the Rigoletto Quartet and the Lucia Sextet in January 1917.
Do you recall seeing a test recording of the opening tenor measures of “Bella figlia dell’amore,” which Caruso sang? The test recording was cut off when the others in the ensemble began to sing.
Yes, we had a copy of it. Caruso inscribed the label to himself—either “To Enrico from Enrico,” or “To Caruso from Caruso,” something of that sort.
Do you still have that test pressing?
No. My husband managed not only to lose that one, but he also misplaced the private recording Caruso made of the “Coat Song” from Bohème.
When did you make your test recordings for Victor?
In 1920. On Thursday afternoon, April 29, 1920.
Were you intimidated at all by the conical recording “horn”?
Well, it wasn’t “conical,” it was octagonal. It was suspended by an adjustable chain, and there were two large mahogany doors below it. I wasn’t intimidated by it not only because I had watched Caruso make the Juive recording, but also because the director at Victor, Mr. [Josef] Pasternack, who accompanied me at the piano, explained the recording process to me in detail.
How many test recordings did you make that day?
Just two. I sang Chadwick’s “He Loves Me,” and then “Come per me sereno” from Sonnambula.
Were you able to hear the test recordings played back to you soon after you finished making the recordings?
No. I was invited to the Victor studios in Manhattan to hear the recordings played, and was given both of the discs after they were played for me.
Were you pleased with what you heard?
With “Come per me sereno,” yes. But my voice sounded too distant in “He Loves Me.”
Do you recall what type of piano, a grand or an upright, was used in your recordings, and where the piano was located?
It was a grand piano with the lid raised to its maximum, pointed toward the horn. I stood on a stool in front of the horn, with the bend of the piano immediately behind me.
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NINA MORGANA (Josef Pasternack, piano): Come per me sereno
Victor test: April 29, 1920
(A busy day at Victor; others who cut tests on this date, ahead of Nina Morgana, included Lew Brown, William Robyn, Fred Whitehouse, and the Finnish Mixed Quartette. Data from the Discography of American Historical Recordings.)
Do you know why your recordings were never released commercially?
There were two reasons, really. The first was that Caruso died unexpectedly. As soon as he recovered from his illness, he was to have recorded “É il sol dell’anima” with me. After he died, of course, that became a moot point. The other reason had to do with my husband. Bruno wanted only one “star” in our home, and being a traditional Italian man, he had to be the center of attention.
You were a classically-trained soprano who was taught through the solfeggio method by a legendary soprano. Mr. Zirato had no musical education at all, and yet he spent his career in the operatic and symphonic worlds. To what extent did he really “know” music?
He knew [opera] libretti as well as any conductor or coach. He knew them so thoroughly that he had an annoying habit of speaking the lines while a singer was singing them. He did that throughout every performance I attended with him, and no matter how many times I stuck my elbow into his arm to shut him up, he couldn’t stop reciting the lines. It annoyed everyone around us because his voice was so deep. I felt that he did it [i.e., reciting lines in his box seat while they were being sung onstage] to show off, to impress everyone around us with his vast knowledge of the repertoire.
But he could not read music, correct?
No, not at all. Nor did he have a very good sense of pitch. Unless a singer or an instrumental soloist was flat or sharp by at least a half-tone, his ear couldn’t detect it.
Did you sing at home, and did he give you any opinions about your singing?
Occasionally, I would go to the piano and accompany myself in arias that I loved but which were not a part of my repertoire. As I said earlier, I loved singing tenor arias such as “M’appari,” “Che gelida manina,” and “Come un bel dí di Maggio.” Once, I remember accompanying myself and seeing Bruno come to the piano, put his hands on the raised lid, and listen to me singing—or so I thought. As soon as I finished, he said to me, “My podiatrist says I have beautiful feet.”
Would you have continued to sing under the Johnson administration if you had been given more performances and more opportunities to sing the major coloratura roles?
It wouldn’t have been possible under the circumstances, for several reasons. Caruso had been my entré to the Met, and when he died I knew that my chances for the major coloratura roles would be limited. Galli-Curci came [to the Met], and then Lily Pons. They were Gatti-Cassazza’s and then Johnson’s coloraturas, and I was limited mainly to Amina in Sonnambula, an occasional Gilda, and more often than not, Musetta in Bohème. And as I said, my husband wanted to be the only celebrity in our home. So that was that.
Some twenty-five years after Caruso’s passing, you and your husband became very close to Arturo Toscanini. From some interviews that Toscanini gave, we know that although he admired and respected both Caruso and Gigli, he was not at all shy about criticizing them for taking on roles that were inappropriate for their young voices.
He repeated to Bruno and me many times his exclamation upon hearing Caruso in Italy for the first time: “Per Dio! If this young Neapolitan tenor keeps singing like this, he will have the whole word talking about him!” When Caruso began to take on gradually heavier roles, Toscanini was prone to lecture him—and later Gigli, and all of the rest of us—about the danger of impairing the voice by imposing the requirements of dramatic parts upon an essentially lyrical voice and technique.
Toscanini thought that Gigli was superb in Bohème, Elisir d’amore, and Rigoletto, but that Africana, Trovatore, and Aida were too weighty for his voice. Just as Toscanini had been critical of Caruso for taking on heavier roles too early in his career, he was critical of all of the other tenors who came after Caruso. But Toscanini, musical genius that he was, could be susceptible to irresistible personalities.
Two that come to mind were Giovanni Martinelli, who could do no wrong in Maestro’s eyes, and Geraldine Farrar, with whom he [Toscanini] had a prolonged love affair. Perhaps you know the story of the clashes between Toscanini and Farrar—especially his remark that she was not a “star” because the only stars are in the night sky, and her retort that audiences came to see her on the stage, not to stare at the back of Toscanini’s head in the orchestra pit.
Geraldine Farrar selling Liberty Bonds, 1918 (G. G. Bain Collection, Library of Congress)
Because of my husband’s close association with Toscanini through the New York Philharmonic, Bruno and I were often invited to the relatively few social events that Toscanini would attend. One of the most memorable of these events was a dinner that Farrar gave for Toscanini at her home in Connecticut in the early 1950s.
We rode there with Toscanini in his chauffeured car, and unlike other invitations that he initially accepted and almost immediately regretted, the invitation from Farrar put him in a very good mood. That mood changed abruptly when the main course was served. From then until we left, which was as soon as we politely could, Toscanini sat at her dinner table, glaring at his plate.
When we got into the car, he exploded! “I slept with that woman for seven years,” he shouted, “and she knows I hate fish!”
You sang under Toscanini. Do you recall how many times?
The only performance I remember distinctly was a Beethoven Ninth Symphony with Richard Crooks, Sophie Braslau, and Ezio Pinza, and the Schola Cantorum in 1928.
How was the Maestro’s temperament during the rehearsals?
“Vesuvian” is the word that comes to my mind. He broke at least one, maybe two batons, and he threw his pocket watch on the floor and crushed it with his heel! He pointed out poor Crooks and told him that he sang like a sick pig. Then he used a very crude Italian expression for Pinza. It would embarrass me to repeat it [but] he told Pinza that his singing had the same worth that the pig’s food has after the pig has digested and eliminated it.
Were you spared his wrath, since you knew him personally?
Definitely not! He told me that Madame Arkel, whom he had known very well in Italy, should have forbade me ever to mention her name in public because my singing was a disgrace to her name!
Did he finish the rehearsal?
Yes, but he rushed through it. He was still enraged at the end [of the rehearsal], and shouted at us to get out of his sight and not come back until we were prepared to give our very best. At the next rehearsal, I can assure you that Morgana, Braslau, Crooks, and Pinza and everyone else associated with the performance sang better than we ever knew we could!
Arturo Toscanini, c. 1921 (G. G. Bain Collection, Library of Congress)
Returning to Enrico Caruso, you sang a number of concerts with him. Do you recall how many you sang with him?
In all, there were eleven. The first one was in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in February 1919, and the last was in New Orleans on June 26, 1920. He had asked me to sing some upcoming concerts that fall [1920], two in Canada and three in the Midwest, but I was already scheduled to make my debut at the Metropolitan, so I had rehearsals and other obligations to attend to.
Did you sing most of the joint concerts that Caruso gave during World War One?
No, but I attended most of the ones he gave with other singers. He did concerts with Louise Homer, Claudia Muzio, Frances Alda, and Galli-Curci. I think he did one with Mary Garden, too. One concert I remember particularly well was with De Luca, Alda, and Martinelli. Can you imagine one of these tenors today inviting another famous tenor to appear with him? But Caruso invited Martinelli to sing with him. He was very fond of Martinelli, as I’ve told you.
Before Caruso invited me to appear with him, Carolina White and Mabel Garrison had sung [concerts] with him. And Ganna Walska sang at least one [concert] with him. But those were not really “joint concerts,” because Carolina White, Garrison, Ganna Walska and I were billed as “assisting artists” to Caruso. The [concerts] he did with Mary Garden, Galli-Curci, Alda, Muzio, and Homer were truly joint concerts because they were first-rank artists.
This program from October 1918 appears to contradict Morgana’s recollection that she toured with Caruso only during 1919–1920; however, another copy, in the Ann Arbor District Library, has the notation, “Postponed to Spring.” (William R. Bryant papers, Mainspring Press)
What did Caruso typically sing, and what did you sing—not only on the printed program, but as encores?
The violinist Elias Breeskin toured with us, so he would open the program. He had his own accompanist—ours was Salvatore Fucito—and [Breeskin] would usually play [the Dvorak] “Humoresque” or something similar. Then I would sing either “Come per me sereno” from Sonnambula or “Ombra leggiera” from Dinorah, Those were the two arias I sang in all of our concerts.
Caruso would then sing “Celeste Aida,” which was always his first aria on the program. Breeskin would then return to the platform and play two, sometimes three selections. After that, I would sing an aria—again, either the Sonnambula or Dinorah aria, whichever one I hadn’t opened with—and Caruso would sing “Vesti la giubba,” which would always earn him a standing ovation.
After the ovation, he would motion for me to join him at the center of the stage, and we would sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” together. Always—always—at the end of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” he would take me by the hands, and swing me around him. That delighted him to no end, and the audience loved it! Then he would motion for Breeskin and his accompanist, and also Fucito, to stand with us and take our bows.
After all of us left the stage, the applause would go on and on, and in the midst of it Caruso would walk back onto the stage from the wings—just two or three feet from the wings—and he would arch his eyebrows and turn the palms of his hands upward with a big smile, as if to say, “Would you like to hear more?” That’s when the fun would begin!
He would point to me, and then point to himself, as if to say, “Go ahead and sing something of mine!” This was all rehearsed, of course, and I would proceed to sing “M’appari” from Marta, Next, he would motion for Breeskin to join him for the Massenet “Elégie.” Then Caruso would sing three Tosti songs—and always the final one would be “’A vucchella.”
You also sang a joint concert with Gigli, am I correct?
Yes, it was in Boston during a two-concert appearance in which his assisting artist was scheduled to be Anna Fitziu, but she was indisposed and he asked me to take her place. I had sung a number of times in Philadelphia—in fact, I was in one of Gigli’s last performances there, a performance of L’Africana with Rethberg as Sélika [on April 12, 1932]. When I replaced Anna Fitziu as his assisting artist, Gigli told me to sing whatever I wanted to sing, so I chose my two tried-and-true arias, the Dinorah and Sonnambula, and both were well received.
Gigli opened that concert, as he did many others that he gave, with the two Elisir arias: he sang “Quanto è bella” and followed it with “Una furtiva lagrima.” After I sang “Come per me sereno,” he sang three Italian songs. He sang “Amarilli,” then “Primavera,” and before he sang the third one—“Tre giorni son che Nina”—he extended his hand to me, and he sang it to me. Then I sang “Ombra leggiera,” after which he sang “O paradiso,” which earned him another standing ovation.
After “O paradiso,” he left the stage for a few minutes, and when he returned he sang three French selections—two songs whose titles I don’t recall at the moment, and then the Aubade from Le Roi d’Ys. That was the last selection on the printed program. As the applause continued, I came onstage and sang “Caro nome” as an encore. Then Gigli sang five encores, mind you! He began with “Santa Lucia,” then he sang three Tosti songs—“L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra,” “Serenata,” and “Marechiare”—and he ended with “’O sole mio.”
If that isn’t a tour de force, what is? I can assure you that his voice was just as fresh, just as dolcissima, in “’O sole mio” as it was in “Quanto è bella” and “Una furtiva lagrima” at the start of the concert. Gigli’s entire career was that way: fresh and sweet and beautiful from beginning to end.
Nina Morgana with the author (Ithaca, New York, 1980)
[5] Lawrence Gilman in the Herald Tribune: “After a spirited curtain-raiser extracted from the immortal opus of Donizetti with Mme. Nina Morgana lending her gifts and skill and feeling and intensity as the unhappy heroine, the novelty of the evening was disclosed to us. This was a performance of the last Act of Verdi’s Otello with Mr. Melchior embodying the Moor of Venice for the first time in New York and Mme. Rethberg playing Desdemona. It is twenty-two years since the music of Otello was heard at the Metropolitan.”
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The Playlist • Arturo Toscanini and Walter Damrosch — Acoustic Recordings (1921–1923)
March 19, 2015 mainspring001
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/msp_damroschny_norwegian-dances.mp3
NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (WALTER DAMROSCH, conductor):
Norwegian Dances, Nos. 1 and 2 (Grieg, op. 35)
New York: May 1, 1923
Columbia 65001-D (mx. 98078 – 1)
“The La Scala Orchestra was made up of green Italian musicians and we found it very difficult to make them comprehend just what we wanted them to do for record making, and we, the Recording Staff, were not sorry when the engagement terminated… The sailing of the steamship on which they had booked passage, for some cause, was delayed or postponed on two different occasions, which prolonged the recording engagement, as the Victor Company thought it better to keep them engaged, fearing if they had open time they might sell their services to some other recording company.”
— Victor recording engineer Harry O. Sooy (Memoirs, David Sarnoff Collection)
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/msp_toscaninls_aragonaise.mp3
LA SCALA ORCHESTRA (ARTURO TOSCANINI, conductor):
Carmen (Bizet) — Prelude to Act 4 (Aragonaise)
Church Studio (114 N. Fifth Street, Camden NJ): March 31, 1921
Victor 64999 (mx. B 24750 – 6)
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/msp_toscaninils_farandole.mp3
L’ Arlésienne (Bizet) — Suite, No. 2 (Farandole)
For a history of early attempts at symphonic recording, see A Phonograph in Every Home and Recording the ‘Twenties, both available from Mainspring Press and many major libraries.
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Eighty-Fifth Fight – Phetseengern Gor. Adtison
Suranaree Stadium, Korat – Sept. 15th, 2014 (46 kg) – full fight video above This fight was sponsored by Wing Wong – thank you! Khorat This was my first...
by 8Limbs.Us September 17, 2014
Suranaree Stadium, Korat – Sept. 15th, 2014 (46 kg) – full fight video above
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Khorat
This was my first time in Korat. I think we drove through it on our way to Buriram last month, but actually staying in the capital city of Nakhon Ratchasima allowed us to actually experience the area. I love Korat. We stayed just outside the city in a small resort that was along the main highway but basically surrounded by fields. It was hard finding a place that would permit a dog to stay on the premises and, although I was told by the lady on the phone that it was no problem (in English), when I was actually checking in to the room at the front desk was a big sign that said “Sorry, No Dogs.” Nobody said anything to us when we came and went with Jai Dee, although the staff that did spot us always did a double-take and we kept him out of sight when anyone came to the room. But we probably would never have stayed at this place if it weren’t for trying to accommodate Jai Dee and the bungalow-style set up with separate rooms was actually a really lovely experience. So I’m glad we did find this place.
It was only a 20 minute drive into the main city and to the venue, which was on the grounds of what appears to be a military school, base, or sport complex. My corner Phutai was a friend of Sangwean (Phetjee Jaa’s dad and one of my trainers) and I’d called him the night before to see when I was supposed to come weigh in. He’s a very eccentric fellow, and I really like him. I’d met him in person at the O. Meekhun gym once when he was scouting for the promoter here. He’s very loud and says virtually everything in multiples, which is kind of how all Thais talk but he’s definitely more prone to it than anyone I’ve ever met. And he doesn’t speak English, so while our communication was always successful I was definitely a little nervous about making sure I asked him several times the details of where, when, how many kilos, etc. He told me to come at 6:30-7:00 AM to weigh in, which was much earlier than the 8:00 AM time I’d initially been given. That was fine though; they’d also changed the weight from 45 kg t0 46 kg the night before we drove up, so my weight cut was a slight bit easier anyway.
Cutting the Water
I’d done my water cut for the three days prior to driving up, then had the “dry” day on the actual travel day, so I could only have a very tiny amount of liquid and decided to have plain rice and a fried egg at the end of the day to keep my energy up. I reckon I could have done without the food and it definitely just sat inside me as weight after I’d eaten it, since I was already dehydrated from not drinking all day and still expelling water through urination. But it probably made the hunger element more comfortable in the long run. I can go hungry, no problem, but being thirsty just sucks. You can’t think about anything when you’re thirsty.
A while back I bought a portable “closet sauna” that works by creating a little hot box via a small rice cooker inside a tent, basically. It’s a brilliant little set up and being able to throw it in the trunk of the car and cut weight at night this way was a huge deal. I also invested in a small digital scale (only 300 Baht – $10), but its calibration is a little off and I knew I had to go check it against a 7-11 scale after the long drive since it might have been knocked around a bit in the trunk. It was still the same 3 oz skew, so I just had to do math in my head every time I stood on it. That’s not hard math at all, but when you are trying to hit a number and feel like nothing would be more lovely than guzzling some water to end it all, having to adjust in your head that you’re still 3 oz off even though the number is what you want just isn’t a positive experience. I sat in my sauna for about 30 minutes and got close enough to 46 kg that I decided to go to sleep and let the few ounces that you just lose with time come out overnight. You might sweat, or pee, or whatever and wake up lighter than you were before. But I set an alarm to have time to cut any final ounces in the morning if I needed to.
I didn’t sleep well at all and Jai Dee made me take him outside for an epic grass-sniffing session at about 4:30 AM. By go-time though I was exactly on mark weight-wise, a touch under 46 kg, while wearing my shorts and shirt, so we headed over to find the venue using our GPS on the phone. It wasn’t hard to find, but when we arrived it looked like there was nobody else there to weigh in yet. I walked up the steps to the stadium and there were enormous color posters for fights on the right hand side, although I couldn’t see dates on them. To the left of the stairs was a middle-aged, shirtless man who looked at me with total bewilderment when I wai-ed and said hello. I explained I was here to weigh in and he still looked at me like I was an alien. But he did rummage around and find a small digital scale, while a late-teen kid assisted him and an early-teen kid with designs shaved into the sides of his head started doing laps around the building. That, at least, seemed to indicate that there was a weigh-in taking place. I stepped on the digital scale and the numbers blinked, then set on 47.3 kg. I didn’t cry, but I could have. A kilo and a 1/3 over. I stepped off the scale and shook my head. The guy seemed to not even know how much I should weigh and just at that moment my corner Phutai appeared. He’s like a tornado of energy and he whirled over and told me to stand on the scale. I said morosely that it was high, and that my own scale had read 46 kg. The guy who’d brought over the scale started telling him it was 47 while I stepped up on the wicked little thing again. The numbers blinked and settled on 45.5 kg. The first guy startled and announced we should move the scale, that it must have been on uneven ground. Phutai scratched that whole idea and just led me over to an old-fashioned, analog scale and we all looked with eager eyes while the needle settled between 45 and 46 kg.
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“Ah!” Phutai said and I added riap roy (“tidy” or “all set”). He told me to come back at 7:00 PM for the fights at 8:00. My opponent wasn’t there, and nor was much of anyone else and it seemed like the whole weigh-in was informal enough that I didn’t need to hang around. Sangwean had told me a couple weeks ago that my opponent might be bigger than I am, so I wasn’t worried. She’d be whatever she was and I’d fight her regardless.
I sent Tawan, Jee Jaa’s mom, a message and said I’d weighed in fine. She was shocked to learn my opponent wasn’t there and must have had a side-bar conversation with my corner at the same time because she wrote back and was calmer. She said it was no problem, that my opponent was “taller” than I am but that it was no problem.
Back and Forth – the Chaos of “Fight Time”
We got to the venue at 6:40 PM and it seemed like nothing was set up yet. There were some food stalls out in the parking lot and some people sitting in the ticket office, but we would definitely have some waiting around to do at this point. Kevin was overly concerned that we couldn’t bring Jai Dee into the stadium but I’d seen a dog that lived there when we came in the morning and really wasn’t worried about it. So Kevin walked around outside while I went in to see if I could buy some tape for my handwraps, and if not we’d have time to go find a pharmacy. I was again met by a man I didn’t know, different from this morning, who looked at me like I was the first westerner he’d ever seen. I asked where I could buy tape and he pointed me to a table on the other side of a wall. The lady at the desk was nice enough and pulled out two rolls for me, after asking if the tape was for handwraps. I think she considered that I might just be some lost falang who stumbled in to buy tape for whatever reason a crazy person might buy tape. Now the guy who’d pointed the table out had come over and was looking me over and I told him I was fighting tonight. He asked if it was western boxing (say-goan) and I kept telling him that I would fight Muay Thai, not boxing. When I would eventually come back and have my hands wrapped, this guy was nearly second-in-command over the whole ordeal because, I reckon, he’d decided to bet a lot of money on me.
I found Phutai and he showed me the program. I was the sixth fight and start was actually 8:30 PM. He said he wanted to wrap my hands at the second fight and so I must be there by then, but he said it was fine for me to go out and come back. Kevin and I decided to drive back to the room to have a rest there instead of waiting a few hours at the venue or being stressed by traffic or getting lost by driving around the city. I looked at the program as we walked to the car and saw that my fight was listed at 53 kg. I’ve fought that size before. I just wondered why I had to cut weight at all if the difference was going to be that great!
Outside the stadium, before the fights
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We made it back to the room and had maybe 20 minutes of rest and I ate some dinner before my phone rang and Phutai was telling me to “come now!” (maa loi, maa loi!) Parking was a bit harder this time around but we made it into the stadium before the fights had started, just before 8:30. (I think they actually started at about 9:00.)
Phutai started wrapping my hands immediately, right next to the table where the gloves were lined up to be checked out to fighters. I wondered if my fight had been moved up to first or second but when I finally asked him, Phutai said I would be number 4. The stadium was nowhere near full, but already there were gamblers milling around the stands and a few of the men came by to stare at me and ask me questions to see if they wanted to put money down for or against me. I still had my jacket on, so there was less arm squeezing than what normally goes on in those situations.
Phutai’s hand wrapping is… creative. He stacked lots of tape on areas of my hand that don’t really make sense, but he did so very quickly and studiously, like he was thinking about it but didn’t really have the experience to back it up. He kept asking me if I punch a lot, then would add more tape. When he wrapped the cloth around he covered the palm of my hand, which I couldn’t handle and actually unwrapped that part while he was distracted and re-wrapped it myself. The guy who had helped me find the tape earlier in the night watched me do this and nodded, somewhat knowingly but also probably making an assessment about my own experience. He seemed to approve. My “plasters” had already been made by my corner in Buriram, Frances’ trainer named Dam. (A “plaster” is a mold of tape that is built up on the knuckles and can be torn off at the end of the fight and kept to be used as a plaster cast of sorts for the next time. It saves time, but it also gets harder and harder the longer you reuse them. They’re technically not permitted, so everyone on big fight shows makes these fresh for the show, but in general practice everybody has these molds in their hand-wrapping kits. Trainers usually want me to keep mine because my hands are smaller than their other fighters and they can’t use the shared plasters on me.) As Phutai was putting the finishing touches of tape on my fists the guy who had pointed me to the tape and was now seemingly a head-honcho in my corner due to gambling (I presume) would periodically authoritatively “test” the tape over my knuckles with his fingertips. He’d squish it and press it, as if trying to work it down around each knuckle, the way fighters do inside their own gloves – working the knuckles to the front. The gloves for this stadium are only 4 oz (I love that), so being heavy handed was definitely an advantage I wanted to emphasize.
My opponent was getting ready about 20 feet away from me. She did look pretty tall and had heavy legs, but she was probably 50 kg and not the listed 53. This one guy kept coming up to me, just a random gambler from the crowd, and pantomiming a cross to the body and a left hook to the head. He clearly wanted me to do this. I only smiled at him and then he started trying to convince Kevin to make me do this. Kevin doesn’t speak Thai but he pantomimed back that I am a knee fighter, pointing to his knee and making a clinch gesture with his arms, then adding khao (the word for knee). This gamblers eyes got wide and he darted off, probably to go place more money.
There was a bit of confusion when explaining to Phutai that he couldn’t put my Mongkol on my head yet, since I have to go under the ropes. This is always a clear sign that my corner isn’t used to women, but he figured it out. He pulled my shorts up incredibly high – higher than I’ve ever had any pair of pants on my waist, including when I used to pull my pajama pants up to my shoulders to make my mom laugh, simply because these are shorts so it’s actually unseemly how high they were. I laughed when he did so, remembering the line from John Waters’ “Cry Baby” movie, where the head of the debutante group complains about how tight the Rockabilly girl’s pants are, “hysterectomy pants, I call them!” That’s about how these shorts felt. He also tied the string around the waist so tightly that I knew for sure they weren’t going to slip down (which is good), but I also couldn’t breathe comfortably (which is bad). I had to devote a good 5 minutes to untying that knot to just loosen it up a bit, let alone to make sure both of my ass cheeks were covered! (I do wear undershorts, so actually flashing my butt isn’t a possibility.)
The fight right before mine was two older men and it ended in KO. The crowd went absolutely crazy. Then, I’m not sure why, the KO was ruled a fowl or somehow void and there was another roar, this time of displeasure, and the corner of the guy who thought he’d won all crowded up on the corner to object. Two MP policemen in full uniform and wearing helmets had to pull them down, one by one, and when the last one had passed I climbed into the ring.
Man, that ring was messed up. I love how rickety rings can be, with holes in the boards, tears in the canvas, stains, wet spots, etc. This ring had it all. It looked like the edges had been chewed off by an enormous monster and the number of lumps and holes were too many to count. The crowd was pretty quiet while I did my Ram Muay (my opponent didn’t do one), but when I started stalking her into the corner they all got excited and cheered.
I have not watched the fight video yet, but this was my recollection. My aim was to keep my guard up, my blocking rhythm, block her left kick (she’s a southpaw) and clinch the hell out of her. From the first bell my corner was screaming for me to go at her, to dern, dern, dern! (literally to “walk” but it means just go forward.) I did pretty good in the first round with this, failing to check some kicks but that didn’t stop me. In the first round I could feel my dominance building but knew to turn it up more in the second. I dominated her a lot in the second round, hitting her with a lot of knees, hurting her with them, taking her back and putting her on the canvas. I think most people thought I was going to knock her out in that round, including me, but she was tough and got up. Now I had to go even harder in round 3, to show an increase in the overall progression. You can’t start strong and level out, you have to keep getting stronger as the fight goes on otherwise you look like you faded.
Phutai squirted something out of a little perfume bottle onto his palm and put it near my face. Kru Nu does this too, with something that’s pretty much like Namman Muay – very peppery – as a way to kind of wake you up between rounds. Kru Nu just holds his palm around your mouth and you breathe deeply. That is not advised for whatever the hell Phutai squirted on his palm, which smelled like ammonia but worse – this is for little sniffs, not for big inhalations. By GOD, it’s horrible. And it definitely wakes up your mind.
I went hard in round 3 but her corner had clearly told her to start kicking me with her right leg. I cross-blocked those, for whatever reason, and just kept coming. I think I still won that round and landed some nice punches, but I couldn’t let the rest of the rounds be like that one. By round 4 I could feel her not responding to my knees anymore, which means she’s just too tired from them – I’ve been on that end before, it sucks so bad – and she went down. When she went to the canvas I wanted to hurry into the neutral corner because I thought she might get up, but I was disoriented in that ring and the crowd was going nuts while I tried to find the neutral corner; within seconds I knew it was over. Everyone was very excited. I think this girl is well-known in the area and because she was bigger, the odds were probably against me and those who bet on me must have made a good profit. When I climbed out of the ring people were giving me thumbs up and Phutai was answering people that I didn’t even hear, saying that I train with Phetjee Jaa.
Lots of folks wanted pictures, lots of women, which is always awesome. The fight doctor came up to me and I thought she was making sure I was okay, so I was telling her that nothing hurt. But she was actually just wanting to know about me – how long I’ve done Muay Thai, wanted a picture, etc. I told her I hope to come back soon, that I love to fight in Korat and she answered, “oh yes! Please come back!” That was lovely. (She is at the end of the video.)
After a bit the promoter called me up to him by leaning over the back of the tall stands, where he was sitting in the VIP section. He looked very familiar to me but I don’t think I’d met him before. I climbed up the stairs while the people I displaced in my process gave me big smiles and thumbs up. I got to the promoter and sat by his feet, thanking him for the fight. He asked if I was leaving and I was hoping to get back to the room so I nodded and he stood up to pull money out of his fanny pack. (Men wear these leather fanny packs as their money satchels, almost universally. Den tries to be suave with it by wearing it over his shoulder, like artillery, but it’s still a fanny pack.) Normally money is handed in an envelope with your name on it, but it looked like he was counting money for me. I looked away because I’m socialized in my own upbringing to do so, but everyone else was looking right at him, probably for the exact same reason. He handed me a wad of 1,000 Baht bills and all the people watching him in the immediate surrounding on the stands applauded when I took it and wai-ed to him in thanks. How bizarre and a little bit cool. I found my way back down the stands and got a few more cheers from folks as I did so.
As I got my stuff together a lady came over to the desk to check out some gloves for her daughter, who was up in the next fight. This woman gave me a huge grin and thumbs up, then told me that her daughter (who is probably actually 53-55 kg) had fought my opponent and lost. I think she was very happy to see my fight, maybe as a kind of comeuppance or something. I smiled at her daughter, who gave me a very sweet smile back. There’s something really satisfying about affecting women with my fighting. I absolutely love when women come up and want pictures afterwards, and this mother and daughter duo, who are involved in fighting also, was just awesome. I don’t mean to be all hippie about it, but the level of community that comes out of fighting makes me blink with utter disbelief when I’m asked about the “violence” of what I do. Yes, there’s some violence in what we do; but if that were the crux of it, even the majority of it, then people would recoil from it, as is the typical natural response to actual violent acts. But it’s been my experience that people are largely drawn toward the energy of fighters and fights – conflating the two is like confusing a camp fire with a raging brush fire. They’re the same element but not at all the same expression.
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NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen killed by friendly fire during Queens robbery
RICHMOND HILL, Queens (WABC) -- The New York Police Department and New York City are in mourning after an NYPD detective was killed by friendly fire during a robbery in Queens Tuesday night.
Detective Brian Simonsen, 42, a 19-year veteran of the force, died from injuries suffered in the shooting. NYPD Sergeant Matthew Gorman was also struck by gunfire but is expected to survive.
The incident unfolded as the officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a T-Mobile store around 6 p.m. near Atlantic Avenue and 121st Street in Richmond Hill. A 911 caller reported seeing the suspect take two employees into the back of the store at gunpoint.
Authorities said Simonsen and Gorman were in the area conducting an unrelated case when the call came in and went to investigate, arriving at the same time as other officers.
Gorman entered the store with other responding officers, police said, while Simonsen did not, consistent with protocol that requires the highest rank to remain outside
Related: Who is NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen?
Police said the suspect, 27-year-old Christopher Ransom, was carrying a fake weapon and charged at officers. Seven officers then fired 42 shots from both sides of the store, striking Simonsen, Gorman and Ransom.
"This happens in seconds," NYPD Chief of Department Terrence Monahan said. "It goes from zero to sixty."
Simonsen was shot in the chest and died on the way to the hospital, while Gorman -- an 8-year veteran -- remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the thigh.
It isn't clear if Simonsen was struck directly or by a ricochet off metal framing, and authorities don't yet know which gun fired the shot.
"This scene is caused by a man advancing toward police officers," Monahan said. "The blame goes toward that individual."
Friendly fire aside, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Simonsen's death was due to the actions of the suspect, described as a career criminal.
"I ask that every New Yorker keep Brian's family and every cop in the 102 Precinct in their prayers," Monahan said.
Ransom is currently listed in stable condition.
"Brian was a good man, he was a good detective, just to tell you a little bit about him, I saw him this morning and whether you know it or not, he's the elected delegate of the 102nd Precinct Detectives Squad," said Michael Palladino, with the Detectives' Endowment Association. "What that means is his fellow detectives saw leadership skills in him."
The detective was so dedicated he was not even required to be at work that evening.
"Because he's the delegate in the 102 Detectives Squad and today was the delegate meeting, he was actually excused from duty," Palladino said. "But we had this pattern going, so he felt compelled to go to the delegate meeting, ignore the excusal and go to work. He was the kind of guy that led by example, not by words."
"Dangerous situations that we ask our men and women to go into every day," said Monahan. "They're human. And the emotion that they're feeling right now, losing a great friend, it's hurting. They're hurting. One of their best friends died."
Earlier Wednesday Mayor Bill de Blasio began his public schedule paying tribute to Det. Simonsen and asking for a moment of silence in his memory.
Officers from all over the city responded to Jamaica Hospital after news of the shooting.
In a moving display outside Jamaica Hospital, officers from all over the city gather to salute fallen NYPD Det. Brian Simonsen. https://t.co/4ibh6UVIlt pic.twitter.com/FzRdIoCc9x
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) February 13, 2019
This is believed to be the first fatal shooting of an officer in the line of duty in New York City since Miosotis Familia on July 5, 2017.
Josh Einiger has the latest from Jamaica Hospital.
Governor Andrew Cuomo directed flags to half-staff on all state government buildings in memory of Detective Simonsen.
"I am deeply saddened by the shooting of NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen," he said. "This tragedy is a heartbreaking reminder of the risks the brave men and women in law enforcement face every day to keep us safe. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I offer my deepest sympathies to Detective Simonsen's loved ones and fellow members of the NYPD."
A ceremonial procession carried Simonsen's body to a Long Island funeral home Wednesday night.
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Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
A Scheduled Monument in Monk Bretton, Barnsley
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OS Eastings: 437335.830217
OS Northings: 406530.407466
OS Grid: SE373065
Mapcode National: GBR LWDB.HP
Mapcode Global: WHDCQ.WXGR
Entry Name: Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
Scheduled Date: 9 October 1981
Last Amended: 10 June 1992
County: Barnsley
Electoral Ward/Division: Monk Bretton
Built-Up Area: Barnsley
Church of England Parish: Lundwood St Mary Magdalene
Monk Bretton Priory is situated in what is now a residential area on the
outskirts of Barnsley. The monument consists of a single constraint area
containing the standing remains and part of the precinct of the Cluniac priory
of St.Mary Magdalene, which was later transferred to the Benedictine Order and
includes two monastic fishponds.
The visible remains at Monk Bretton Priory are of the church and domestic
ranges arranged round a central cloister and occupying the south and west
parts of the precinct. Northwards, these are divided from the main gatehouse
and a separate administrative building by the outer court while, to the south,
a second court served the prior's lodging and the guesthouse. The church,
which formed the north cloister range, was built in the second half of the
twelfth century and followed in its design the austerity of the Cistercian
churches of the time. By the end of the twelfth century, however, the
presbytery had been extended and a series of alterations were subsequently
carried out including, in the mid-fourteenth century, the reconstruction of
the west front and the north aisle wall of the nave. Apart from the south
transept, only the lower walls of the church remain standing but several areas
of paved floor survive in the nave, aisles and transepts. The two storey
administrative building, though altered in the seventeenth century, is of late
thirteenth or early fourteenth century date, while the main gatehouse, as it
appears today, is early fifteenth century though it incorporates the remains
of an earlier building. Within the gatehouse is a gate hall with a porter's
lodge and a room which has been interpreted as an almonry, where the almoner
would have distributed alms to the needy. On the first floor are two chambers
interpreted as the living quarters of lay officers of the priory. A second
gatehouse was built in the seventeenth century when the priory was occupied by
the Armyne family. The remains of this can still be seen to the south
spanning Abbey Lane.
South of the church, and conforming to the traditional layout, are the
cloister ranges of the priory. The temporary buildings, erected after the
priory's foundation, were replaced in stone throughout the thirteenth century
and were altered at various times during the later Middle Ages. From north to
south, the east cloister range consisted on the ground floor of the chapter
house, inner parlour and an early warming house. A passage ran between the
parlour and warming house, linking the infirmary with the cloister garth. On
the first floor was the monks' dorter or dormitory. Immediately south of the
warming house was a separate building built in the mid thirteenth century and
overlying the main drain. The first floor of this building formed the
reredorter or latrine and to the south of this lay the fourteenth century
guesthouse. East of the east range are the remains of the infirmary, with the
cemetery lying between these and the church.
The south cloister range was occupied by a later warming house and the frater
or refectory. On the north side was the lavatory, a long trough supplied with
water from a series of taps where the monks washed at mealtimes. South of the
west end of the frater are the thirteenth century remains of the kitchen,
scullery and kitchen yard, and also part of an ancillary building which is
believed to have been a bakehouse. The west cloister range comprised an outer
parlour and a vaulted undercroft used for cellarage and storage, and largely
continued in this use even after being remodelled in the mid-fourteenth
century. On the first floor were the prior's apartments which, after the
Dissolution in the sixteenth century, were altered to become accommodation for
the Talbot family. At this time, two new buildings were built to the west
and, in the seventeenth century, the Armyne gatehouse was built between them.
The gatehouse is the only part of the post-Dissolution wing to have survived
the drastic alterations caused by this wing's continued use as a farmhouse
down to the twentieth century. Also west of the prior's lodgings was a
thirteenth century pigeon cote which collapsed in the late nineteenth century.
The north and east parts of the precinct were occupied by the meadows and
gardens of the priory and have only partially survived the urbanisation of the
area. During the Middle Ages, the precinct was enclosed partly by a stone
wall and partly by an oak fence. In the south-east corner were two fishponds,
the remains of which, measuring c.20m by 50m, can still be seen. In the outer
areas of the precinct would have been a wide variety of ancillary buildings
which would have included, amongst other examples, barns and stables. The
remains of these will survive as buried archaeological features in the open
areas of the precinct. In addition, approximately 200m to the south-west of
the precinct is the priory mill, a Grade II Listed Building formerly linked to
the priory by a drain that ran south-west to north-east to flush the kitchen
and reredorter. The line of this drain, where it turned south again out of
the reredorter, can be seen within the precinct. However, the section lying
outside the precinct is not included in the scheduling as its precise
alignment and state of preservation are unknown at this time. The priory mill
is also excluded being adequately protected by current Listed Buildings
legislation.
The priory was founded as a Cluniac house by Adam Fitzwane in c.1154. After a
number of disputes concerning the appointment of its priors, it severed its
ties with its mother houses, La Charite sur Loire and St.John's in
Pontefract, to become, in 1281, an independent Benedictine Priory under the
jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York. After its suppression in 1538, the
prior's house was adapted as a dwelling and subsequently passed through a
number of owners until the ruins of the priory were purchased by John Horne.
Horne arranged for partial excavations of the site to be carried out between
1923 and 1926 under the direction of Dr.J.W.Walker. The ruins have been in
State care since 1932 and are also Grade I Listed. Excluded from the
scheduling are the custodian's lodge and garden, all English Heritage fixtures
and fittings, the surface of Abbey Lane, the surfaces of the paths and
carpark, all modern fencing and walling and the ticket office and toilet. The
ground beneath these features is, however, included.
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
Reasons for Scheduling
From the time of St Augustine's mission to re-establish Christianity in AD 597
to the reign of Henry VIII, monasticism formed an important facet of both
religious and secular life in the British Isles. Settlements of religious
communities, including monasteries, were built to house communities of monks,
canons (priests), and sometimes lay-brothers, living a common life of
religious observance under some form of systematic discipline. It is estimated
from documentary evidence that over 700 monasteries were founded in England.
These ranged in size from major communities with several hundred members to
tiny establishments with a handful of brethren. They belonged to a wide
variety of different religious orders, each with its own philosophy. As a
result, they vary considerably in the detail of their appearance and layout,
although all possess the basic elements of church, domestic accommodation for
the community, and work buildings. Monasteries were inextricably woven into
the fabric of medieval society, acting not only as centres of worship,
learning and charity, but also, because of the vast landholdings of some
orders, as centres of immense wealth and political influence. They were
established in all parts of England, some in towns and others in the remotest
of areas. Many monasteries acted as the foci of wide networks including parish
churches, almshouses, hospitals, farming estates and tenant villages. The
Cluniac order had its origins in the monastic reformations which swept across
continental Europe in the tenth century. The reformations which occurred were
partly a response to the impact of Viking raids and attacks on established
monastic sites in the preceding century but were also a reaction against the
corruption and excesses which were increasingly noted amongst earlier
establishments. The Cluniacs were amongst the most successful of the new
reformed orders that developed. The founding house of Cluny in south-east
France was established in AD 910. Here the community obeyed a stringent set of
rules which, amongst other things, involved celibacy, communal living and
abstention from eating meat. The ideals of the Cluniac reformers passed on to
England in the tenth century. Influential Cluniac houses had been established
in England by 1077. Once established, Cluniac houses were notable for the
strong links they maintained both with the founding house of Cluny in France
and also with other houses of their order. Most Cluniac houses in England were
established near major towns and they particularly sought locations in valley
bottoms within the protection of a nearby castle. Cluniac monasteries are
notable for highly decorated, elaborate buildings. Cluniac houses are
relatively rare, with some forty-four houses known in England, and all
examples exhibiting good survival of archaeological remains are worthy of
Monk Bretton is important for its well-preserved upstanding remains which,
together with extensive documentary and archaeological evidence, demonstrate a
continual programme of building and alteration which lasted from the twelfth
to the seventeenth centuries. The diversity of the features found at the
priory provides an important insight into Cluniac and Benedictine monasticism
and the effects of the Dissolution. Additional remains will survive in situ in
the unexcavated areas of the precinct and will include organic material in the
waterlogged deposits of the fishponds.
Graham, R, Gilyard-Beer, R, Monk Bretton Priory, (1966)
Roebuck, J., Letter to Jim Lang (IAM PIC North),
Other nearby scheduled monuments
Monk Bretton standing cross
Monk Bretton Ward
Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood
Wombwell Ward
East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm
St Helens Ward
Wayside cross known as Kirk Cross
Royston Ward
Cross in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Darfield
Darfield Ward
Hallsteads moated site, Grimethorpe
North East Ward
Rockley blast furnace
Penistone East Ward
Rockley engine house
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Manga vs Anime
By Optic, October 19, 2014 in Manga
Persona 80
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Occupation: 𝗡𝗲𝗸𝗼 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁
Talk about personal preference!
My point of view will always be that one cannot honestly put up a comparison on which was better. Yes, it can be easily done and has. But a manga will always have the original story and detailed information. One cannot expect an anime series to have the same elements as a manga. That's just ludicrous. If there is an anime based off of a manga, chances are things were changed or left out for certain reasons or just trying to give it a different spin. It's like books being made into a movie and people always saying the book was much better. I find it fun when you see your favorite manga being turned into an anime and most times the show is pretty decent and sometimes some turn out really freaking amazing. Then there are those moments where you wish it was left on the manga and not animated. The more passionate you are about the manga, the more you'll criticize the anime. That's how I see it. It just depends on your attachment to the manga.
KeilynLocke 46
7 hours ago, Persona said:
This is a very good point. It's not really a choice to pick between them, because although they contain the same story, like @Persona said, things do get left out when taking a piece of literature, either graphic or text, changes are made to fit the budget and time allotted for a serial or film production.
Personal experience, Shijou Saikyou no Deshi: Kenichi dropped the last two thirds of the story from production and cut off after the final episode of the first complete story arc. I was disappointed because I had also picked up reading the manga and knew that there was more content and the story was only getting deeper and more interesting, to me, at that point. They made attempts at a later time to fill out the series, but never completed it and some of the additional episodes/OVAs/short films, left out a lot of content that made the manga interesting so, that is something I easily picked up on.
Another case in point, the conclusion to the Fairy Tail anime skips about at least a full volume's worth of content that was in the manga at the very beginning, the episode that's supposed to follow the finale of the second series. I wasn't even able to get more than 5 minutes into the episode and haven't watched the new series at all because I was so disappointed that they skipped a really good mini-arc.
While I do understand WHY they cut/change content, doesn't always make the anime or manga better than what it's based on.
If you would have asked me 5 years ago I would have easily said manga is better in appeals that it's more detailed and more interesting within the characters dynamics but now I couldn't honestly choose between the two I personally love both now and apperciate both equally in their appeal and platform of unique artwork and animation.
4 hours ago, Sassy said:
After reading this I have to agree that anime over time especially in the past 4 to 5 years as certainly caught up to manga in how well the story telling is done as well as character development within said stories. It only adds to the fire of anime just feeling so much more alive then manga. Though with that said manga is a entirely different form of media, and as such should be viewed as a different form of stimuli. It is hard not to compare the two though.
Right excatly it's a comparison that is easily arguable but also easily combined in agreement.
1 minute ago, Sassy said:
This is made even more true when you consider that some anime is in fact the source content rather then the manga even though this is largely the other way around.
I agree completely. Of course it depends on the story as well. Most action manga are better experienced as anime for the action parts.
12 hours ago, tisu said:
Interesting that you mention that as I found I enjoyed the dbz anime more then the dragonball manga as a whole. This was also a true of Yu Yu Hakusho where is I find slice of life, or romance stories often tend to be better in manga at least for me.
Personally i prefer the novel form if available. However I'm not picky on anime or manga if not. I enjoy both the mediums.
WeepinnWillow 10
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Location: Behind you
Occupation: Musician/DJ/Producer
Honestly anime keeps my attention longer. I only pick up the manga/light novels of stuff I really enjoyed (e.g. Durarara)
Koh108 0
AF New Member
It's honestly safe to say the original source will always hold true to the creator's intentions than a project crafted by multiple individuals, every member having a different interpretation from the original's intentions. For example, while manga tells a fuller narrative, the animation brings the movement to life and can give a different experience on the same event. The vice versa also applies (yes there are exceptions when the creator has full dibs on both mediums, but that's rather and most creators never have full authority over their creation, although the odd times this has happened, both mediums tend to be consistent and highly accepted by the consumers).
It's funny because I was recently searching up live action movie comparisons where each film is essentially telling the same narrative but there is still outrage between fans of the original and fans of the adaptation. Obviously cultural context and social significance plays a big part, the dubbing too but the point still stands is that each film, while telling the same narrative, are completed by two different groups. As such, it's unsurprisingly either staff's interpretation of the films would differ and have different aims/target altogether.
People probably hate this because it's overused but comparing manga vs anime is like comparing apples and oranges. Sure they're both otaku products for consumption much like fruits but the intentions of each one is different. They should be enjoyed as separate experiences and really should be viewed as such. Hey, as long as it was enjoyable, that's all that really mattered no?
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I enjoy reading manga more. My favorite artist is Kaori Yuki and most of her stuff has not been made into an anime series. I love the Deathnote manga. It just strikes me more in a manga format- not to say the anime wasn't good, it was, but I prefer the manga. I also like purchasing manga so I can have the series on hand, literally. Plus, you can go at your own pace with it and go back to read a certain part if you enjoyed it. etc. etc. My vote is manga.
HanaApril 234
Growing up I did prefer just watching anime more than reading manga back when I was younger because I struggled with reading from mild dyslexia I had. However I did manage to get my reading skills up more where it's easier and enjoyable to read books now. I guess you can say I was a bit against manga for a time since I felt bad about my reading disability I had. I really love reading to the point of myself escaping reality even if it's only for a little while to get lost in a good book and thrown into a world other than the one we live in. So my opinion now is I like both anime and manga. ( though I prefer light novels a bit more to be honest )
On 2/21/2019 at 2:20 AM, HanaApril said:
I like how you described that. Thats quite the journey I am sure your quite proud to be able to take advantage of a media that is now way easier to direst now. I am newish to light novels not as familiar with them, but they are growing on me.
@ArchieKun Thank you for the compliment~
1 minute ago, HanaApril said:
No problem happy reading in both watching anime, and manga as well.
As far as my actual behavior it’s pretty one-sided: I’ve watched HUNDREDS of anime series, but have only read probably less than twenty manga series.
From an analytical POV, it really depends. If a series is more action oriented, anime tends to do a better job of reflecting that. If the emphasis is on character development or psycological, manga usually does a better job.
Of course, I think there are more things that can go wrong with an anime adaption. With manga, your own mind supplies the voices. With anime, if the voice doesn’t suit the character or doesn’t seem to reflect the proper mood, it makes it harder to enjoy. Likewise, poor animation quality can be distracting. Though I do find anime’s ability to add music can make scenes more emotive.
Finally, anime adaptions are more expensive to produce, so if there is a lot of source material, it has to achieve a higher degree of popularity to continue the story.
In all honesty, I rarely bother with manga anymore, though I do have some interest in Visual Novels.
On 2/26/2019 at 8:43 AM, Ohiotaku said:
I think this is the case for so many for the reason that anime is just far more accessible then manga. Not that one can't find manga, and read it its fairly easy. Though manga like comic bonks, or other graphic novels rare far more of a nich interest. Anime is also the words we are all used to. We say anime con not manga con even though there is always manga at a anime con. I like both equally for different reasons.
I posted here before but I think for now I'm going focus more on reading manga or light novels for the time being and put watching anime on hold. It's not like I don't like anime no more It's just.. sometimes hard to watch them with anxiety I have. sadly But regardless when that's more under control which hopefully be soon then I'll watch more anime. Plus why not read more since it is good for you.
I feel ya there at least in terms of reading being a much more calming activity. I can see how it can help with that.
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Husbando
Location: Somewhere in the Naruto-verse
Occupation: Graphics
For me I usually find that I like watching anime more as opposed to reading manga. I get more into just being able to sit on my couch and mindlessly snack while watching something I guess personally lol. There are still some mangas that I feel are better though and I do feel there is sometimes more in depth things about a character/series in a manga that can't always be conveyed via an anime.
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Album Review: Freedom by Refused
Posted by altdialogue in Albums, Discography // 0 Comments
Fifteen years since their seminal and genre defining album The Shape Of Punk To Come, Swedish hardcore punks return with their new album Freedom on 29th June. It’d be fair that the influence and appreciation of The Shape Of Punk To Come has grown exponentially since its release, now a revered album, many people will probably see Freedom as tainting its legacy. It’s a reasonable response.
The 1998 version of Refused were a politically charged hardcore punk beast. There were anti-capitalist chants and a left wing manifesto blasting into your face, yet the real magic was in the music. It was gloriously brutal and visceral punk with elements of electronica and a groove thrown in for good measure.
The 2015 version of Refused are still a politically charged beast but it’s certainly no longer hardcore punk. This is a pop version of Refused. Freedom isn’t a terrible album, there’s fleeting moments of genius, it’s just bitterly disappointing. If his was a new band on their first album you could accept this as average middle of the road rock. Refused have always wanted to be a band that goes against the grain and subverts you’re expectations, on Freedom they aren’t going against the grain of mainstream rock, this is as accessible as a Refused album could be. It is horribly accessible, bland and inoffensive.
Lead single and opener ‘Elecktra’ kicks off with a churning riff that has all the ingredients to get your blood pumping. It’s a good song and being the lead single it upped the expectation for Freedom, it’s a high point that the album barely touches again. The chant “nothing has changed” couldn’t be further from the truth, the world is a different place, Refused are a different band and you have the feeling that Dennis Lyxzen’s political cries are barely relevant. Sure the war cries have been updated slightly, to look at the European Union etc (on ‘Useless Europeans’), but unlike the music they seem to have their basis in 1998.
It’d be pointless to go into all the low points of Freedom. We’d be here all day, look no further than the Maroon 5 style acoustic guitars on ‘Old Friends / New Ware’ and the backing vocal on ‘Francafrique’. The best moments come in the form of the previously mentioned ‘Elecktra’, ‘366’ (both written in collaboration with pop supremo Shellback) and the fantastic ‘Dawkins Christ’. All three feature some brilliant guitar work and give you fleeting memories of the energy and passion that Refused used to have (and induced in the listener). The rest is all a little meh. It doesn’t leave any lasting impression. The only other song to make you take notice is ‘Servants Of Death’ and that solely due to its pop-rock bluster.
Freedom is a decent middle of the road rock album. It lacks any of the magic or passion of previous Refused output, this won’t be influencing any further generations. The band may be doing what they want and subverting your expectations, that doesn’t mean it has to be good. Some may call it Art Punk, I’ll call it boring.
AD Rating 5/10.
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Last updated on July 9, 2019 by Mary
LiveLeak was founded by Hayden Hewitt 11 years ago. It is a site that shares a similar concept with Youtube that allows people to share videos. However, the goal is to uncover reality footage of important events concerning world issues, politics, war and more. The site stands for freedom of Speech with a non-biased belief of certain issues that is why often the website is facing controversies about the videos or live broadcast being published. For example, back then the website uploaded some videos about “Panorama” which is a very sensitive topic to talk about because it is about physically assaulted young people. Despite the delicacy of the topic, videos were released to unveil the truth. Likewise, more and more sites like LiveLeak are becoming popular these days. Being that said, here are some of the most popular websites similar to Liveleak nowadays
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EngageMedia is a non-profit website that aims to create change through media and technology by emphasizing human rights and exercising freedom of speech. It is an open video sharing site for everybody. Years after its launch the site announced a collaboration with Canadian TV, strengthening the usage of Social Justice and democracy in media and continually making progress up to this day. Just like other video sharing sites, you have to register an account to be able to upload and share videos. In addition to this, EngageMedia can be streamed in almost any device such as desktop, Android, and iOS smartphones. Below are the steps on how to stream the site using your Android and iOS mobile devices.
Xfinity Video
Xfinity is another website similar to LiveLeak. The first site on this segment is a warm-up for what is to come. The movies right here are probably just shocking for extremely conservative types, but where would you go if you want to enjoy watching things like a rabid dog Got Talent of America, Howard Stern kissing Matt Lauer, someone who was bitten by a rattlesnake or Gisele Bundchen exposing her bra on a clip Celebrity event! During Hurricane Harvey, an audio clip posted here, Savior, who reported: Civilians are shooting raiders or simply looters in sight, God bless Texas.
Metacafe is also a video sharing site where you can find the most popular videos roaming around the internet. Unlike the sites as mentioned above, this site focused on what is trendy no matter what genre may it be. When it comes to the website interface, it is straightforward and direct. All videos are categorized into three tabs; “Latest” “Popular” and “Trending.” Similarly, you also need to register an account to make use of all access available. Also, Metacafe can be streamed on your computer, iOS, and Android devices. See below on how to stream the website using Android and iOS smartphones.
So far, the sites mentioned were mostly from western countries. This last on the list is Break. It is a video sharing site developed for Viet people. The website is in Viet language, and most only people who speak the language might understand the webpage content. However, you can also use Google translate to translate the site to your preferred one. Through this site, you can also watch, upload and share content like videos. The majority of videos are about Viet people and issues within their country. The site is straightforward to navigate and easy to understand. When it comes to navigation it’s fast and each video loads at a reasonable speed.
If perhaps you love watching a wide range of shocking movie content, then this popular site (Ebaum’s World) is the only place you truly want to head to. The video section includes everything from news events (like Nurse Utah who were forcibly arrested), or more viral and punching random videos (as a student doing a tantrum after the student’s teacher takes her fake Identity)
You never know what to expect while you visit the videos section of the Ebaum’s World, and that’s what Ebaum’s World’s so much fun for. Here are great NSFW videos (certainly organized under the heading NSFW), so be careful. However, should you love unpredictable funny, shocking or scary videos you will never go wrong visiting the Ebaum’s World site.
Third to the last on the list is my Vidster. This is a social video sharing and hosting site, that allows you to explore videos, taken by other people. It gives the option to compile a collection of videos, and let others watch them. Likewise, you can also view the video collections of other people. That is why this site has been gathering a lot of attention over the years because it fosters a good environment for streamers. Above all, it makes a great alternative to Liveleaks, due to its wide range of videos to choose from.
DailyMotion is a video sharing community site where you can upload, share, and watch your favorite videos online. Its community is one of the largest, for many users create an account and use the site to freely watch movies, music videos, documentaries, and even films. You can register for an account for free and use the service without being limited. There is no restriction set by the site. Search, watch and upload all you want. However, every bean has its black. You may find videos on this site in low quality. In spite of that fact, many people are still using the site for entertainment.
DTube may not be that familiar to you. It is also an excellent alternative to watch videos online. The site interface is similar to YouTube that makes it easier to use. Since you are familiar with how it works, you can maximize the site all you want. What makes this a good alternative is that it is Ad free. You can enjoy watching videos without being bugged by on click ads or on or before ads on videos while watching. It is a good alternative for you can view all the different video genres for free. Just like any other site, you need to create an account for free to use the site fully.
If you are looking for a site which comes loaded with entertaining and yet quality videos, then you should consider Veoh. Here you can find a broader selection of categories to keep you entertained. This site includes adventure, movies, different niches, comedy, anime, horror and a lot more. You can also watch streaming web videos from Web using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod which is somehow similar to YouTube. However, YouTube only publishes video clips, compared to Veoh, viewers can watch TV shows with full episodes as well as movies in full-length.
This great site is offered by the well known Crate Network. Here are some videos that are surreal and weird. Examples include a man lighting a cigarette while refuelling gas and causing almost an explosion, a Ferrari with a red light and a collision, and a truck colliding with many cows.
These videos are crazy enough to justify passing on your friends, but not as surprising as you’re fired when you surprise them watching during lunch time.
The Hell TV is tagged out as having crazy or maybe insanee, funny, viral movies according to the number of videos you’ve seen on Facebook, I agree, most of them are more viral than news. A video shows a kayaker surrounded by killer whales. Another shows a slow-motion close-up bite of a yellow jacket, yet another show all the bad things in a pimple!
This is not as scary as it is psychologically harmful. Be warned.
Just as the Insanee concentrates more on viral movies, the OMG News actually concentrates a great deal on the controversy. It is an attempt to exploit the phenomenon of online anger. You will find a video regarding a scientist who is forbidden to question traditional science. And again, another warns all parents that their own child has already seen violent and annoying videos. Another warning viewers that these little sea creatures could eat you alive.
The effort here is to surprise and amaze viewers to share these vital content on social networks. If perhaps you like the kind of conspiracy theory or simply other controversial videos, and you never want to spend a lot of time on YouTube looking for them, this is the best location for you. See this OMG News as a great list of the best YouTube videos in which you could get your rage on.
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Low Temperature Fluorescence Studies of Crude Petroleum Oils
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Owens, Peter
Ryder, Alan G.
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Owens, P. & Ryder A. G. (2011) Low temperature Fluorescence Study of Crude Petroleum Oils, Energy & Fuels, in press, (2011).
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef201030t
We have studied the low-temperature (133-298 K) fluorescence emission of crude petroleum oils using a combination of steady-state and time-resolved measurements. This was done, first, to see if we could generate linear correlations between the oil composition information and the fluorescence measurements and, second, to better understand how static and dynamic quenching affect fluorescence emission. It was observed that the fluorescence intensity and the lifetime of the crude oils increased rapidly with decreasing temperature down to the freezing point, and then, they either remained constant or, surprisingly, began to decrease slightly. These changes could not be correlated accurately with the compositional data available. However, despite the very large variations in sample composition, it was found that these lifetime temperature changes followed simple Arrhenius and Eyring behavior. For the cold liquid phase, an Arrhenius model enabled the calculation of an intrinsic lifetime, the magnitude of which was inversely related to the degree of static quenching. The low values of the calculated activation energies (4.6-19.2 kJ mol-1) implied that, in the liquid phase, nonradiative decay was primarily diffusion based quenching. At the lowest temperatures, when all samples have solidified, the lifetime data followed Eyring like behavior, giving typical enthalpy and entropy values of -1 kJ mol-1 and from -67 to -93 J K-1 mol-1, respectively. The Eyring model was used to describe the nonradiative decay mechanism arising from the vibrational coupling from the fluorophores to the surrounding matrix. This modeling of the temperature dependence of the fluorescence lifetime has provided a clearer, quantitative picture of the fluorescence quenching processes in crude petroleum oils.
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Home • Boston • Press Releases • 2009 • Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, Inc. Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Marketing of Bextra
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Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, Inc. Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Marketing of Bextra
U.S. Attorney’s Office September 15, 2009
District of Massachusetts (617) 748-3100
BOSTON, MA—PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC., a subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc (“Pfizer”) today pled guilty to a felony violation of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, for misbranding the drug, Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead. PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. admitted to its criminal conduct in the promotion of Bextra and, in the plea agreement, agreed to pay a criminal fine of $1.195 billion, the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the United States for any matter. PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. also agreed to forfeit $105 million, for a total criminal resolution of $1,300,000,000. United States District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock took the plea but deferred his decision as to the acceptance of the plea until the date of sentencing. Sentencing has been scheduled for October 16, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
In addition, as announced on September 2, 2009, Pfizer agreed to pay an additional $1 billion plus interest to settle civil allegations that it fraudulently promoted and marketed Bextra, as well as three other drugs in its portfolio, Geodon, an anti-psychotic drug, Zyvox, an antibiotic, and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug, as well as claims that it paid kickbacks for these, as well as other drugs, to induce physician prescribing. Pfizer also agreed to comply with the terms of a new and significantly expanded corporate compliance program, which seeks to ensure that in the future there are procedures and reviews in place to avoid, or, at a minimum, timely detect such violations.
At today’s plea hearing, the prosecutor informed the court that if the case had gone to trial, the government’s evidence would have proven that:
When Bextra received its approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) in November 2001, the FDA notified PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. that Bextra was approved for three indications: osteoarthritis (“OA”), adult rheumatoid arthritis (“RA”) and for the treatment of primary dysmennorrhea (“PD”). PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. had originally sought approval of Bextra for higher dosages for general acute pain, including surgical pain. However, the FDA declined to approve Bextra for these uses and for any dosage for arthritis above 10 mg., in part, because of safety concerns about Bextra. In particular, the FDA cited as a safety concern the results of a study of Bextra and its injectable form, parecoxib, used in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (the “CABG I” trial); the FDA specifically noted that there was an excess of serious cardiovascular events in the Bextra/parecoxib arm of the trial.
Under the provisions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, a company must specify the intended uses of a product in its new drug application to FDA. Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called "off-label" uses—any use not specified in an application and approved by FDA.
Nonetheless, from in or about February 2002 through Bextra's removal from the market in April 2005, PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC., first through a co-promotion agreement with Pfizer, and then as a subsidiary of and with Pfizer (hereinafter together “PHARMACIA”), promoted the sale of Bextra for some of the very uses and dosages that the FDA had declined to approve—such as for general acute pain and surgical pain—and about which the FDA had raised specific safety concerns. It also promoted Bextra with false and misleading claims of safety and efficacy. Moreover, when so promoting Bextra, PHARMACIA did not inform physicians, customers and others that it had asked the FDA to approve Bextra for these uses, but that the FDA had specifically refused to do so in part because of safety issues, including potential cardiovascular risks. PHARMACIA did this in the following ways:
1. Headquarter Marketing Plans: PHARMACIA’s marketing team positioned Bextra for acute pain, surgical pain, and other unapproved uses and dosages, commissioned market research to test its sales materials, and confirmed these unapproved messages. In such documents, PHARMACIA marketing team stated as the “intended” use and message for Bextra that Bextra was for “acute pain.”
2. Field Force Implementation: PHARMACIA’s sales force promoted Bextra directly to physicians for these unapproved uses and dosages, including by drafting and distributing proposed physician standing orders and hospital wide protocols and pain pathways that called for unapproved uses of Bextra. The sales force also made false and misleading claims to physicians about Bextra's safety and efficacy.
3. Payments and Other Remuneration to Physicians/Purported Consultants: PHARMACIA used so-called advisory boards, consultant meetings and other remuneration, including travel to lavish resorts, to promote Bextra to medical prescribers for unapproved uses and dosages and with false and misleading claims as to its safety and efficacy.
4. Sham Physician Requests for Off-Label Information: PHARMACIA’s sales force created sham physician requests for medical information in order to send unsolicited information to physicians about unapproved uses and dosages.
5. Distributing Samples for Unapproved Uses and Dosages: PHARMACIA provided promotional samples to surgeons and other medical prescribers who had no FDA-approved use for the Bextra samples, or at that dosage;
6. Control of Purportedly Independent Medical Education ("CME"): PHARMACIA sponsored purportedly independent CME to disseminate messages about unapproved uses of Bextra, including for acute and surgical pain.
7. Use of a Publication Strategy to Disseminate Off-label Messages: PHARMACIA initiated and paid vendors to draft articles about Bextra for unapproved uses without appropriate disclosures of PHARMACIA’s role.
As part of the Plea Agreement, PHARMACIA accepted responsibility for its illegal conduct and the United States agreed that PHARMACIA had fully cooperated in the investigation.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks said, “PHARMACIA has pled guilty to marketing Bextra for unapproved uses with the intent to defraud and mislead. The record-breaking criminal resolution here reflects the seriousness and the profitability of PHARMACIA's crime. We can only hope that with this resolution, the era of pharmaceutical companies carrying on illegal marketing activities with impunity with the cost born by the patients and the health care system, has come to an end.”
This case was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sara Miron Bloom, Susan M. Poswistilo and Zachary Cunha of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Sanjay Bhambhani, of the Department of Justice’s Civil Fraud section, Trial Attorney Jill Furman of the Justice Department Office of Consumer Litigation and Anne Walsh of the FDA General Counsel’s Office. The investigation was conducted by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Office of Criminal Investigations for the Food and Drug Administration, the Veteran’s Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations, the Office of the Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Postal Service.
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Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character. It has been greatly influenced by Ottoman cuisine, while it also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbours, such as Germans, Serbs, Bulgarians and Hungarians. Quite different types of dishes are sometimes included under a generic term; for example, the category ciorbă includes a wide range of soups with a characteristic sour taste. These may be meat and vegetable soups, tripe (ciorbă de burtă), and calf foot soups, or fish soups, all of which are soured by lemon juice, sauerkraut juice, vinegar, or traditionally borş. The category ţuică (plum brandy) is a generic name for a strong alcoholic spirit in Romania, while in other countries, every flavour has a different name.
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Measuring and modeling optical diffraction from subwavelength features
Wang, Xu and Mason, Jeffrey and Latta, Milton and Strand, Timothy C. and Marx, David and Psaltis, Demetri (2001) Measuring and modeling optical diffraction from subwavelength features. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 18 (3). pp. 565-572. ISSN 1084-7529. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:WANjosaa01
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We describe a technique for studying scattering from subwavelength features. A simple scatterometer was developed to measure the scattering from the single-submicrometer, subwavelength features generated with a focused ion beam system. A model that can describe diffraction from subwavelength features with arbitrary profiles is also presented and shown to agree quite well with the experimental measurements. The model is used to demonstrate ways in which the aspect ratios of subwavelength ridges and trenches can be obtained from scattering data and how ridges can be distinguished from trenches over a wide range of aspect ratios. We show that some earlier results of studies on distinguishing pits from particles do not extend to low-aspect-ratio features.
© 2001 Optical Society of America. Received January 5, 2000; revised manuscript received August 8, 2000; accepted August 21, 2000. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at California Institute of Technology.
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Diffraction theory; Optical inspection; Scattering measurements; Scattering from rough surfaces
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http://josaa.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=63671
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Painting background and mounting animals for Tiger Group, 1934
Rice, H. S.
Title: Painting background and mounting animals for Tiger Group, 1934
Creator: Rice, H. S.
Subject: Mammals, Asia, Exhibition preparation, Dioramas, Museum artists, Taxidermy, Painting
Rights: Information on rights available at the repository.
Repository: American Museum of Natural History
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History Library
Original Number: 59.07(74.71)
Original Caption: Painting background and mounting animals for tiger group
Medium: Glass negatives
Identifier: 281096
Format: 4 x 5
Department / Discipline: Mammalogy
Date: 12451
Coverage: New York, New York, United States
Collection Title: Photographic Collection
Collection Name: Photographic Collection
Collection Description: The Photographic Collection at the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History consists of over one million black-and-white photographs including approximately 850,000 negatives and 900 collections of photographic prints containing 125,000 individual photographs. In addition, there are more than 200,000 color transparencies, including 35 mm slides and over 55,000 lantern slides, many hand-colored, that were once used for lectures and loaned to schools throughout New York State. The images showcased here are a sampling of these vast collections housed at the Museum Library. The Photographic Collection documents the history of the Museum, Museum staff at work, scientists in the field and in the laboratory, and permanent and temporary exhibitions. The images document scientific work worldwide in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, geology, paleontology, and zoology. It includes images of objects and specimens from the Museum collections as well as illustrations from the Library's Rare Book Collection. The earliest negatives date from the late 1800's.
Removing inner layer of plaster on female elephant for Indian Elephant Group, 1926
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Orangutan, Hall of Primates, 1964
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Exterior View of BOSU.
Parque de los Periodistas Ilustres
View of O&C Building Altitude Chambers.
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“It’s Showtime” celebrates fifth anniversary with new logo
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MANILA, Philippines – “It’s Showtime” kicked off its fifth anniversary festivities last Wednesday (October 1) by unveiling a multi-colored anniversary logo to signify that madlang people of all backgrounds can join the momentous celebration of the country’s number one noontime program.
As if to echo the program’s theme song with the lyrics “anumang lahi, anumang kulay,” hosts Anne Curtis, Vhong Navarro, Kuya Kim Atienza, Billy Crawford, Karylle, Jhong Hilario, Jugs Jugueta, Teddy Corpuz, Ryan Bang, Coleen Garcia, Eruption Tai, and Vice Ganda opened the show with a colorful dance medley in anticipation of a vibrant and jam-packed October.
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“It’s Showtime” will also hold the second monthly finals of its segment PinaSikat on Saturday (Oct 4) and will present the 58 grand finalists for its “Gandang Lalake” tilt who will fight for the grand title in the middle of October.
Exciting surprises await viewers every day of the month leading to the much-anticipated Magpasikat Week, the hosts’ annual week-long talent showdown.
Don’t miss the fun and celebration in “It’s Showtime’s” fifth anniversary this October, 12:15PM from Mondays to Fridays and 12NN on Saturdays on ABS-CBN.
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Tag Archives: Newton
[Originally posted 31 January 2014; ; revised 3 August 2016. The most recently added information is highlighted in green.]
The following persons appear in Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia at 415 A Street, SE:
[1871] William H. Marshall (laborer); Daniel Newton (Newton & Bro.).
[1872] William H. Marshall (waiter); Daniel P. Newton (huckster).
[1875] George Scott (laborer); John Scott (laborer).
[1878] Nelson Bell (carpenter); Amos Bell (carpenter).
[1879] William Davis (waiter); William H. Davis (barber); Ann S. Sidney (widow of Jesse Sidney).
[1880] William Davis (laborer).
[1881] William Davis (waiter); William H. Davis.
[1882] William Davis (waiter); William H. Davis (barber); Ann Sidney (servant).
[1883] Sydney M. Davis (printer); William Davis (barber); William H. Davis (waiter).
[1884] Sydney M. Davis (Government Printing Office); William Davis (waiter); William H. Davis (barber); Ann Sidney (servant).
[1885] Edward Henson (laborer); William Davis (waiter)
[1887] William Hobbs (laborer).
[1888] Agnes Ford (widow of Robert Ford); Bertha Ford (sewing); Edward Gray (driver).
[1889] Agnes Ford (widow of Robert Ford); Edward Gray (driver).
[1891] William H. Tubbs (superintendent, Document Room, House of Representatives); John H. Roeth (Coast and Geodetic Survey).
[1892] Martha C. Burgess (widow of George Burgess, clerk, Pension Office); Mary E. Crowell; John H. Roeth (Coast and Geodetic Survey).
[1893] John H. Roeth (Coast and Geodetic Survey); Martha H. C. Burgess (clerk, Pension Office).
[1895] L. W. Habercom (lawyer).
[1896] John B. Peyton (clerk); Lucien B. Peyton (messenger).
[1897] Orville Van Deusen (student); Joseph I. Peyton (patents); James S. Roy (clerk, Pension Office).
[1898] Constance L. Roy (student); E. May Roy; James S. Roy (clerk, Pension Office); Libbie Roy; Maud B. Roy; Thomas B. Roy (salesman); Orville Van Deusen (student).
[1903] Robert M. Day (carrier, Post Office); John F. Mackenzie (machinist); John S. Mackenzie (machinist).
[1904] Anna G. Dugan (student); Jeannette Dugan (teacher); John A. Dugan (clerk); Mary A. Dugan (Department of Agriculture).
[1905] Anna G. Dugan (teacher); Jeannette F. Dugan (teacher); Leo T. Dugan (machinist); Mary Dugan (Department of Agriculture).
[1906] Anna G. Dugan (teacher); Jeanette F. Dugan (teacher); Mary A. Dugan (Department of Agriculture).
[1907] Ann G. Dugan (teacher); John A. Dugan (Geological Survey); Mary A. Dugan (Department of Agriculture).
[1908] James H. Anderson (Navy Yard); Beal Lusby (Navy Yard); John P. Shaffer (motorman); Mabel Shaffer (clerk); Maud Shaffer (clerk).
[1909] John F. Franke (Navy Yard); John A. Dugan (Geological Survey).
[1908] James H. Anderson (Navy Yard); Beal Lusby (Navy Yard); Iola Schaffer (stenographer); John P. Schaffer (motorman); Mabel Schaffer (clerk); Maud Schaffer (clerk).
[1909] John A. Dugan (Geological Survey); Clarence Fisher (tinner); John F. Franke (Navy Yard).
[1910] Ellis F. Beauchamp (Bureau of Printing); Ulysses Beauchamp (clerk); Bertie M. Menefee (bookkeeper); Richard S. Menefee (Pension Office).
[1912] Saul Wilder (stenographer); Ethel Hayden (laundress).
[1914] Vacant.
[1910] Bertie M. Menefee (bookkeeper); Richard S. Menefee (Pension Office).
[1916] Eula Robey (assistant, Bureau of Printing); Harry M. Brown (photographer).
[1917] Harry M. Brown; Eula Robey (operator, Bureau of Printing); Charles Otis (driver); Sarah Otis (clerk).
[1919] Nettie Able (clerk); Virginia Able (clerk); Harry M. Brown (photographer).
[1920] Harry M. Brown; Annie I. Heard (clerk, Woodward & Lothrop); L. R. Heard (clerk, Woodward & Lothrop); Blanche Young (clerk).
[1921] Mary N. Abell [sic] (clerk, Census Office); Rose Abell (telephone operator); Virginia Abell (telephone operator).
[1922] Detie Heard; Herbert Heard (conductor); Lilleth R. Heard (clerk, Woodward & Lothrop).
[1923] Harry M. Brown.
[1925] Mrs. Minnie Brown.
[1928] Howard B. Leonard.
[1932] Harry Limerick.
[1934] Bolvin H. Mack.
[1936] Joseph M. Edmonds.
[1967] No return.
[1973] Not listed.
[Originally posted 30 January 2014; revised 29 July 2016. The most recently added information is highlighted in green.]
[1871] James C. Lucas (cook); John A. Lucas (laborer); William F. Lucas (laborer).
[1872] Annie E. Lucas (washer); Wallace Ashton.
[1873] John Lucas (cook).
[1875] John Lucas (laborer).
[1876] Ann E. Lucas (washer); Annie E. Griffiths (widow of John Griffiths); William F. Bryant (carpenter); John A. Lucas (laborer); William Lucas (laborer).
[1877] Ann E. Lucas (widow of Henry Lucas, boards); William Lucas (cook).
[1879] Bridget Doons (widow of James Doons).
[1880] Bridget Dorsen [sic?] (widow of James Dorset).
[1881] Philip J. Winfield (driver); John Bennett (laborer); Philip Fields (driver).
[1886] Frank Newton (laborer).
[1887] Francis Newman (laborer).
[1888] William Ellis (shoemaker).
[1891] Frederick R. Wallace (teller).
[1892] Mary Payne (domestic); Frederick R. Wallace (teller).
[1893] Mary P. V. Payne (domestic).
[1894] Mary P. V. Payne (domestic); Frederick R. Wallace (teller).
[1896] Frederick R. Wallace (teller); Mary P. V. Payne (domestic).
[1897] Mary P. V. Payne (cook); James S. Roy (clerk, Pension Office).
[1898] Louisa Stewart (domestic).
[1899] Mittie Brent (domestic).
[1900] Mary M. Abel (dressmaker); John Allen (machinist); Julia Buckley (bookkeeper); Charles Conner (conductor); Rouss O. Crump (House of Representatives—Michigan).
[1902] J. Lawrence Turner (motorman).
[1903] Sarah Elkins (dressmaker); Edward Turner (insurance); Lawrence J. Turner (motorman); Margaret A. Turner.
[1904] Edward Turner (clerk); Helen M. Turner (clerk). Henry A. Turner; James L. Turner (motorman); Margaret A. Turner (boarding); Frank La Porte (machinist).
[1905] John Allen (machinist); John W. Monroe (Monroe & Co.).
[1906] Irving C. Barber (Navy Yard); James F. Dougherty (Navy Yard); Caleb W. Fisher (Navy Yard); John W. Monroe (engineer); Laura V. Monroe; Ernest R. Sasscer (Department of Agriculture).
[1907] Oliver Jenkins (Navy Yard); Irving C. Barber (Navy Yard); Caleb W. Fisher (Navy Yard); Laura V. Monroe; Joseph Porter (machinist).
[1908] William R. Bolten (Government Printing Office); James F. Dougherty (Navy Yard); Caleb W. Fisher (Navy Yard); Oliver Jenkins (Navy Yard); Bessie Kerby (bookkeeper); Laura V. Monroe.
[1910] John H. Bradley (undertaker).
[1911] Alfred H. Anadale (plumber); William H. Stratton (bricklayer).
[1913] Alfred H. Anadale (plumber); Gladys Anadale; John A. Anadale (clerk); William H. Stratton (bricklayer).
[1914] William H. Stratton (bricklayer, boards); Alfred H. Anadale (plumber); John A. Anadale (clerk, J. H. Anadale).
[1915] William H. Stratton (bricklayer).
[1916] Alfred H. Anadale (plumber); John A. Anadale (clerk).
[1919] Edward Keiler (watchman); Irving Keiler (inspector); Isabelle A. Lacy (phone operator, War Department).
[1920] Edward Keiler (watchman); J. R. Ward (mechanic).
[1921] Ruth M. Lacey (clerk, War risk).
[1922] Isabell R. Lacy (widow of Richard A. Lacy).
[1923] Aloysius O. Simms (machinist).
[1925] Aloysius O. Simms.
[1932] Sherman P. Brooking.
[1934] Fitzhugh Sandidge.
[1936] Mrs. Virginia B. Embrie.
[1967] Mrs. Dorothy B. Daly.
[1872] John B. Taylor.
[1873] John Taylor (laborer).
[1875] Edwin Taylor (laborer); John B. Taylor (laborer).
[1876] John B. Taylor (laborer); Judson Taylor (laborer).
[1877] Edwin Taylor (porter); John Taylor (whitewasher).
[1878] John B. Taylor (whitewasher).
[1879] John B. Taylor (laborer).
[1881] Edwin L. Taylor (waiter); John B. Taylor (whitewasher); Julia M. Taylor (teacher).
[1882] John B. Taylor (laborer); Catharine V. Taylor (dressmaker); Edwin L. Taylor (Taylor & Wells).
[1883] Francis Newton (waiter).
[1884] Francis Newton (sawyer); William M. Brown (waiter).
[1887] William Neal (shoemaker); Francis Newton (laborer).
[1889] Albert White (shoemaker).
[1892] Carrie Jones (domestic); Julia Jones (widow of Frank Jones).
[1893] Francis F. [sic] Obold (builder).
[1894] Francis S. Obold.
[1898] Francis S. Obold; Annie Tuohy.
[1903] Sarah J. Obold (widow of Francis Obold); Annie C. Tuohy (widow).
[1904] George W. B. Evans (clerk).
[1905] Frank Mague (engineer); Maggie Bryerton (binder, Government Printing Office); Harry T. Clark; Russell Cyphers (machinist); Louis A. Radcliff (clerk).
[1906] H. P. Andrews (clerk, Capitol); Charles Fisher (machinist); Charles Morris (clerk); John Renwick (clerk); David Tassler (Navy Yard); Louis A. Ratcliffe (clerk).
[1907] John B. Kernshaw [or Kershaw] (machinist, Navy Yard); Louis A. Ratcliff (fire department); Maggie Bryerton (Government Printing Office); William S. Davenport (clerk, Treasury Department).
[1908] Margaret U. Bryerton (Bureau of Printing); William S. Davenport (clerk, Treasury Department); Louis A. Ratcliffe (inspector, District Building).
[1910] Margaret V. Bryerton (Bureau of Printing); Louis A. Ratcliffe (fire department).
[1911] Austin J. Morgan (musician); Eugene L. Morgan (clerk); Margaret U. Bryerton (Bureau of Printing); Annette Castell (teacher); Nanette R. Castell (teacher); William S. Davenport (clerk, Treasury Department); William A. Gebicke (clerk); Louis A. Ratcliffe (Fire Department).
[1912] Maggie Bryerton (Bureau of Printing); Carl Hookstadt (Library of Congress).
[1913] Maggie Bryerton (Bureau of Printing); Louis A. Ratcliffe (Fire Department); Robert E. Schofield (Bureau of Printing).
[1914] John A. Dorney (assistant, Library of Congress); Louis A. Ratcliffe (city fireman); Paul Ratcliffe (clerk, Newman’s Shoe Store, boards); Margaret U. Bryerton (operator, Bureau of Printing, boards); Carl Hookstadt (clerk, boards); James C. Mitchell (private secretary, Hon. J. J. Mitchell, boards); Owen Reese (page, boards); Edwin E. Witte (private secretary, Hon. J. M. Nelson, boards).
[1915] James C. Mitchell.
[1916] Maggie H. Bryerton (operator, Bureau of Printing); William S. Davenport (clerk); Louis A. Ratcliffe (clerk).
[1917] Louis A. Ratcliffe.
[1918] William S. Davenport (clerk).
[1919] William S. Davenport (clerk); Albertine A. Bird (Library of Congress); John Ratcliffe (U.S. Army); Louis A. Ratcliffe (fire department).
[1921] J. Paul Ratcliffe (clerk); Louis A. Ratcliffe (fire department); L. Johnson Ratcliffe (clerk, Department of Labor); William S. Davenport (clerk, Treasury Department).
[1922] Johnson P. Ratcliffe (library, Department of Labor); Louis A. Ratcliffe (fire inspector).
[1932] John T. Sewell (hauling).
[1934] John T. Sewell.
[1956] Martin A. Bryant.
[1967] Walter K. Bennett.
[1973] Harold E. Engle.
[Originally posted 1 February 2014; revised 15 August 2015.]
[1893] Moses D. Baker (contracting paper-hanger).
[1895] William E. Davy (Robert Callahan); Henry S. Weyand (printer).
[1896] John K. Hench (clerk); Charles S. Rice (clerk); Henry S. Weyand (printer).
[1897] John K. Hench (clerk, Pension Office); Henry S. Weyand (Government Printing Office).
[1898] Charles S. Rice (clerk, Pension Office); Henry S. Weyand (Government Printing Office); Mary J. Parker (domestic); James B. Hench (clerk, Pension Office); John K. Hench (clerk).
[1899] Henry S. Weyand (proofreader); John K. Hench (Pension Office); Charles S. Rice (Pension Office).
[1903] Florence R. Cole (clerk); William Cole (clerk); William H. Cole (Library of Congress); Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher).
[1904] Florence R. Cole (clerk); Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Mary E. Graves (teacher); Lucilla Graves (widow of John A. Graves).
[1905] Alena Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher).
[1906] Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher); Frank E. Newton (Government Printing Office); Gertrude G. Newton.
[1908] Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher); Frank E. Newton (Government Printing Office).
[1909] Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher); Florence E. Newton (Bureau of Printing); Francis E. Newton (Government Printing Office).
[1910] Florence E. Newton (Bureau of Printing); Francis E. Newton (Government Printing Office).
[1911] Florence E. Newton (Bureau of Printing); Francis E. Newton (Government Printing Office); Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing); Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher).
[1912] Lucilla W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher).
[1913] Frank E. Newton (Government Printing Office); Lucille W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves); Mary E. Graves (teacher).
[1914] Alena E. Graves (Bureau of Printing, boards); Lucille W. Graves (widow of John A. Graves, boards); Mary E. Graves (teacher, Ketcham School, boards).
[1915] Franklin E. Newton (helper, Government Printing Office).
[1920] F. Hobart (clerk); James Taylor (clerk).
[1922] James Taylor (steamfitter); Edward Taylor (steamfitter); Arnold M. Shaw (agent, Pullman Car Co.).
Residents of A Street in 1914
Street and Avenue Guide, Boyd’s Directory (1914), p. 1434.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Newton: Halloween party
“The World of Society.” Washington Evening Star, 4 November 1905, p. 5.
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As we have examined elsewhere, the Purāṇas differentiate between material or prākṛt sattva and viśuddha sattva. The distinction between these two is important to understand, because it helps us understand why Bhagavān is not perceivable to us, and how He can be perceived.
The definition of viśuddha sattva. In Anuchheda 99 from the Bhagavat Sandarbha, Śrī Jīva begins by quoting a famous verse from the Viṣnu Purāṇa:
hlādinī sandhinī samvit tvayy ekā sarva-saṁsthitau hlāda-tāpa-karī miśrā tvayi no guṇa-varjite
The one energy, having the three divisions of hlādinī (bliss), sandhinī (eternal existence) and samvit (knowing), exists in you, the support of everything. But the energy that yields material happiness, misery and their mixture, does not abide in you, because You are free from the gunas. (VP 1.12.69).
The idea is that Bhagavān, who is one, has only one intrinsic energy or svarūpa śakti, but this energy is divided into three because He has three aspects to Him: sat, cit and and ānanda (एकस्यैव तत्त्वस्य सच्चिदानन्दत्वाच्छक्तिरप्येका त्रिधा भिद्यते). Śrī Jīva identifies this one svarūpa śakti as viśuddha sattva. The viśuddha sattva is divided into hlādinī (bliss), sandhinī (eternal existence) and samvit (knowing) energies, which have distinct functions.
Śrī Jīva defines viśuddha sattva as follows:
तस्या मूलशक्तेस्त्र्यात्मकत्वेन सिद्धे येन स्वप्रकाशतालक्षणेन तद्वृत्तिविशेषेण स्वरूपं वा स्वयं स्वरूपशक्तिर्वा विशिष्टं वाविर्भवति तद्विशुद्धसत्त्वम्
That is viśuddha sattva,
1. which is a specific function of the original energy or mūla śakti (here Śrī Jīva is referring to the “one energy” bolded in the translation above),
2. which has the characteristic of being self-revealing,
3. by which Bhagavān’s svarūpa [Brahman], or Bhagavān’s svarūpa śakti, or Bhagavān’s form become manifest,
4. which is untouched by māyā [and is therefore called viśuddha].
The reason Bhagavān is not perceivable to us is that we lack viśuddha sattva, in which He exists, and which reveals Him. When it is bestowed on us (this happens at the stage of bhāva), we can perceive Him. Because Bhagavān can only be revealed by Himself, it is futile to try to perceive Him by any other means, such as the methods of science and so forth.
The meaning of hlādinī (bliss), sandhinī (eternal existence) and samvit (knowing). Śrī Jīva next explains how, depending on which aspect of viśuddha sattva dominates, different functions are performed and different goals attained. According to the predominance of specific aspects, there are different names for the one viśuddha sattva.
To understand the functions of viśuddha sattva, we have to understand what hlādinī, sandhinī, and samvit are. Here are the definitions Śrī Jīva gives of these three terms:
यया [भगवान] सत्तां दधाति धारयति च सा सर्वदेशकालद्रव्यादिप्राप्तिकरी सन्धिनी: That śakti, by which Bhagavān sustains His own existence and bestows existence upon others, and which pervades space, time, objects and so on, is called sandhinī.
तथा संविद्रूपोSपि यया संवेत्ति संवेदयति च सा संवित्: Similarly, though He is the embodiment of samvit, that śakti by which He knows and induces others to know is called samvit.
तथा ह्लादरूपोशपि यया संविदुत्कटरुपया तं ह्लादं संवेत्ति संवेदयति च सा ह्लादिनी: In the same way, although He is the embodiment of hlāda (delight), which is the highest form of samvit, the śakti by which He experiences this delight and causes others to experience it is called hlādinī.
The different functions of viśuddha sattva.
Because viśuddha sattva has the nature of being self-revealing, it can be analyzed based on what it reveals or manifests. Based on its different self-revealing functions, viśuddha sattva also takes on different names.
When the viśuddha sattva is dominated by its sandhinī aspect, it is called ādhāra śakti, or the śakti of support. Śrī Jīva explains that the ādhāra śakti is what manifests or reveals the abode of the Lord to a worshipper. It is also the śakti by which His abode exists and is sustained.
When dominated by samvit, viśuddha sattva is called ātma-vidyā. ātma-vidyā reveals self-knowledge to a worshipper.
When dominated by hlādinī, viśuddha sattva is called guhya-vidyā. guhya-vidyā means uttamā bhakti which exists in His abode, and which also functions to reveal itself to the worshipper.
When all three aspects are prominent at the same time, viśuddha sattva is called mūrti, or the form of Bhagavān. Bhagavān’s form exists through its function and it also reveals the form of Bhagavān to another.
The function of viśuddha sattva of revealing the form of Bhagavān is also called Vasudeva. Bhagavān is called Vāsudeva, which means He manifests in or is perceived in the state of Vasudeva, and also that He dwells in or exists in the state of Vasudeva. This state is one of pure being (viśuddha), devoid of any tinge of māyā.
In this way, everything related with Bhagavān – whether His own form, His own abode, His knowing and His experience of bliss, or the manifestation/perception of these to another – are functions of the three aspects of Bhagavān’s viśuddha sattva.
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Jewish Blogger Claims Snake Seen Wriggling Out Of Israel’s Western Wall is Sign of Messianic Prophecy
A Biblical prophecy predicting the return of the Messiah has reportedly come true after a live snake was seen slithering out of Israel’s Western Wall.
People visiting the famous Kotel this week filmed the serpent wriggling out from between the ancient stones.
In the footage, the snake can be seen coming out of the wall after scaring off a pigeon that had been perched there.
And it is reportedly a sign of the return of the Messiah.
“We are truly in the dangerous times that directly precede Mashiach (Messiah),” Breaking News Israel reported, quoting a Hebrew blogger.
“Just as the pigeon is safe so long as it seeks shelter among the stones of the Temple Mount, the Jews are protected by the Torah commandments.
“When the pigeon comes out from the stones or the Jews move away from the Torah, they are in danger.”
It continues: “The site also claimed the appearance of a snake coming out of the stones of the Temple Mount could be seen as an auspicious sign.
“The Zohar (the basis of Jewish mysticism) explained that the evil inclination, personified by the snake in Eden, will make a resurgence in the days before Messiah, tempted to come and drink sustenance from the enormous levels of holiness that will appear in the world in the end-of-days.”
SOURCE: Rachel O’Donoghue
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Interview: Sawa Angstrom
Kyoto-based electronic trio Sawa Angstrom sing about the moments when we feel as solitary as if we were in outer space, in “Tape Loop”, the first single off their first EP “DdTPt”.
This cosmic music video was directed by Jun Hamada who is member of Sawa Angstrom Lainy J Groove and YeYe band. That’s how he explains the concept of this video:
“We tried to make a unique movie. This video’s theme is outer space which is contrary to this song’s common lyrics. In this video, the heroine is searching for the Earth while warping with a half-broken spaceship. But at the end, her spaceship was completely broken. It is a sad story.”
“The highlight of this video is that we expressed the universe with common things such as water and paints, using computer graphics as little as possible.”
“The universe also exists in our daily life, and it links to the values of the lyrics. The universe and our daily life are distant but same time connected. However, she can’t return to the Earth.”
Satoshi Yoshioka (also from Llama) is Sawa Angstrom’s male singer and sound engineer. He told us about the way they made their debut EP “DdTPt” sound:
“Our sound was made by software except for our voices. There are no rules for us to compose, write, and arrange. We shared a lot of time to understand each person’s advantages and sensitivity.”
“Our beats are minimal but we carefully created each and every tone. We avoided excessive compression, but we emphasized sense of speed and transient. By doing so, I think that we were able to express syncopation pleasantly.”
“The tone of the synthesizer was made from the simple oscillator. Even Alias noises generated by lowering the sampling rate also helped to “DdTPt” sound the way it sounds.”
“We were not bound by the rhythm and pitch. We often cut and pasted freely read nouns and conjunctions to make songs. All process was done by Pro Tools, and we kept the mixing clear and roomy.”
The band’s female singer and solo singer-songwriter Marina Kodama said:
“Sawa Angstrom is a producer team that can create works that combine video and music. We actually do such production works as well.”
“We all can write, compose and sing songs. So we always make songs with a very exciting relationship. We make the wide range of music from pop songs to experimental tracks.”
“It is the same during our gigs, we can play in various venues such as cafes, nightclubs and outdoor events. However, we cannot do anything without electricity, haha.”
In the music video for “Tape Loop”, Marina is floating and turning in a spaceship. But of course, they are not in outer space. They toured not only in Japan, but also in EU and Taiwan last year. And they plan more tours in other countries. Hopefully, you’ll also get a chance to see them live in your city.
Stream “DdTPt” EP on Spotify.
Sawa Angstrom on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: Jun Hamada, Satoshi Yoshioka, Marina Kodama.
Toyokazu Mori 15.03.2019
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Book Blitz, Excerpt, and Giveaway– Phantom Pact: The Bearer’s Burden
May 12, 2018 | betwixt-these-pages
Phantom Pact: The Bearer’s Burden
Chad Queen
Publication date: May 8th 2018
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cade Elegy’s mind is tearing itself apart, crowded with the phantoms of the dead, and he must carry the burdens they could not.
This bond lends him their experience and allows him to bend the laws of the physical world — a power he desperately needs if he is to discover the truth of what happened to his missing family.
The trail has gone cold, but he is given one last chance when he is recruited by a princess to solve a murder. They soon uncover proof that their war with the Wraiths, a hostile alien race dominating their planet, never really ended.
Together with the princess, an overzealous archaeologist, and an ancient computer intelligence, Cade must stop the Wraiths before they annihilate the last remaining cities of Chalice and before the phantoms he bears destroy what’s left of his mind.
One more day, Cade Elegy thought as the hills before him screamed of battle. One more day to keep the dream of hope alive, or one more day until the dream vanished for good.
They assembled the last of their remaining army to bear upon Gigan’s Hill. Just beyond lay a great structure known as the Thread—the bastion in which the mysterious enemy known as the Wraiths had taken refuge.
Hulking soldiers of the Wraiths, humanoid yet possessing an exoskeleton like a great mantis, swarmed the battlefield. While they looked like giant insects, they also bore a striking resemblance to humans—walking on two feet, and articulating finger-like appendages on their hands. Within seconds, the enemy surrounded their entire legion. There were thousands more than reported. Their intelligence was wrong.
“What are you waiting around for? Move!” Commander Jord Black of the 12th Bearer Corps led the mission. Cade didn’t need to be told twice. The unit advanced, rushing toward the enemy line.
They were the tip of the spear for the assault. The mission was simple in order, but not in execution: kill the Wraith scouted in the area—a message to the world the Wraiths were mortal.
Cade fought, taking down one creature after another, as the rest of his dwindling unit fought alongside him. The smell of gunpowder and smoke hung thick in the air. The clash of weapons and the cries of agony bled together into a nightmarish cacophony. “Get down!” A voice pierced through the chaos. Jord’s voice. Cade felled another creature as he turned to find a Bearer-class grenade hurtling toward their position.
Time slowed to a crawl. Jord snatched the grenade with both hands and threw himself down on the ground.
Cade reached out—a futile attempt to halt the inevitable. A dark, metallic color spread across Jord’s body as the man attempted to harden his body against the blast. As the grenade detonated, the concussive force tore into Jord’s body. Cade looked away.
Selfless to the end, Cade thought. A wave of grief swelled within him, outmatched only by the rage following in its wake. There wasn’t time to mourn; he had to keep moving. He knew Jord, and Jord’s determination to finish the mission. “You will, my friend, you will.”
Cade afforded himself a moment to close his eyes, searching for the phantom Jord left behind in death. It was there, faint but recognizable to Cade amongst the discordant sounds of combat. Cade spoke the words, the ones sealing a pact with his former commander.
Cade, bolstered by Jord’s phantom, fought with renewed vigor. They needed to cut straight through to the camp with their dwindling force. It would be suicide, but it was the only option left.
“Incoming!” a corporal wailed as the body of a soldier hurtled past him.
“Hells,” Cade spat.
A gigantic creature, one Cade had never seen, lumbered toward him and the remaining men. Exposed sinewy muscle and dark metallic plating covered its body in overlapping segments, like the scales of a reptilian beast.
He continued to fight—fight for Jord, fight for the phantoms he bore, fight to live to sing the songs of those who had passed.
His zeal got the best of him. As he struck at the massive creature, he felt the last of the power granted by his phantoms drain from him. The creature lunged at Cade. His vision went dark as excruciating pain enveloped him.
When he came to, Cade found himself hoisted on the shoulders of the soldiers from his unit. He felt his sidearm against him, hot as if discharged, though he had no recollection of firing it.
But it did not matter. They had won the battle. They had defeated the Wraiths.
They could go home.
Countless black motes swirled from Cade’s sight as the waking vision ended and he returned to reality. It’s over. It’s over, he thought again to calm himself, his heart still pounding. The war was over.
The drug the military issued to members of the Bearer Corps still brought him these unbidden visions. They called the side-effect “veiling”. Cade was glad he no longer needed the vile stuff.
Protector of the Realm, they now called him. Cade tried on the honorific as the vibrations from the railbus he rode rattled his tired mind. The title didn’t fit. He shut his eyes as he sat in the seat of the passenger car and tried to control his breathing.
He was almost home. His mind raced, still trying to process the end of the war. The king himself had heralded Cade a hero. And his prize, the only one that mattered, lay at the end of this track.
The old metal railbus slowed, and his heart beat faster. The car was near bursting with passengers eager to return home. He was thankful they left him be. The newfound celebrity he gained in Toltaire, the capital of Chalice, was unnerving. He preferred the quiet comfort of his simple home, and above all else the company of his wife and children.
The thought conjured up memories of them, waiting at the table for him. His youngest, Jessa, unable to sit still, bounding from the table and running circles around the kitchen, wooden spoon in hand. Etan, just shy of ten years old, leafing through an archaic tome from the library, one he had already read at least six times before. Cade smiled.
And his wife, Serafina. Her smooth brown hair falling just past her shoulders, her soft green eyes melting him with a simple glance, and her smile. He could see it with perfect clarity, the same smile she would give him when he saw her again. His heart skipped a beat. It still did, even after all these years. She would busy herself with some trivial chore, awaiting his arrival. When she was nervous, she had to keep herself occupied with some task, no matter how menial it might be. She would look out the window, trying to glimpse him walking up the worn red-brick path that led to the house.
The once boisterous passengers settled down as the railbus slowed. Soon, the entire car was silent. Something is wrong, Cade thought. His eyes snapped open, and he rubbed the sleeve of his worn duster jacket on the dirty window. He could just make out the village coming into view. There were many long, colorful banners pulled taut from building to building, congratulating the returning soldiers. But something felt off. He looked at the houses and storefronts surrounding the humble train station.
“Where is everybody?” an old man said, clutching his hat to his chest as if it might fly away from inside the car. Cade continued to scan the village, but not a single person was in sight. It was not a large village, but there were always people roaming the streets, and there should have been a crowd gathered to welcome them home.
The railbus was coming to a stop, and while most of the passengers stayed frozen in shock and confusion, Cade leapt from his seat—not bothering to grab his rucksack—and threw open the door to the still moving railbus. He jumped, tumbling across the
gravel ditch running alongside the tracks. He stood up, ignoring the rising pain from his fall, and cut a path through the center of town.
His head whipped from side to side, trying to glimpse someone, anyone who might have answers as he sprinted down the brick road.
“Was the city evacuated?” he panted to himself as he stopped to catch his breath. The sun was at its highest point, and his heart raced as sweat beaded upon his forehead. It didn’t make sense. The war was over. They wouldn’t have evacuated, not anymore.
The pit that had formed in his stomach grew like a rooted weed. Stay focused, Cade, he told himself. Don’t panic. There must be an explanation for this.
He turned the corner from the main road, down the street to his house. He could see the house now. The faintest bit of smoke trickled from the cobblestone chimney. There, you see? he thought. They must be there. But he did not slow his pace. Cade ran up the steps, trying to peer into the front window. He expected to see his wife poking her head out and then calling to the children, but there was no sign of her. The door was already ajar, and he could see the brass hinges of the front door had been ripped from the frame. He popped the leather strap securing his caster, a rare handgun of ancient origin, and drew the firearm from its sheath.
“No. No, no,” he said as he threw the door aside. “Sera? Etan? Jess?” he called out, going from room to room. No reply. He entered the kitchen, where all he found was a single white plate shattered upon the floor in front of the sink.
Cade wheeled around, frantic, his heart pounding. His right arm, still clutching his weapon, fell to his side. He closed his eyes and tried to control his breathing.
He listened, not for signs of life, but for the absence. His body trembled, not prepared for the answer. As the heartbeat in his eardrums subsided, he heard the music he did not want to hear. It was like the song of a music box, its notes spilling out one by one as the cylinder turned. It was the song of a phantom; of one who had passed on but remained with one ethereal foot planted within the world of the living.
It was the song of his family—gone.
Cade’s knees gave out. He collapsed to the floor, fighting back tears. His family…taken from him—murdered. The entire town, taken. The war was over. Who, or what, could have done this? He pushed his grief down deep within himself, and his face grew hot with anger. He had fought to protect his family, and now he was alone.
No. Not alone. He was a Bearer. One who could ally with phantoms.
He spoke the words his father had taught him long ago. “Song that lingers unfinished,” he said, his voice a hoarse whisper. “The one whose sigh has escaped to the stars…” He could feel the energy of the phantom grow as he spoke. “Allow me to sing your final verse.”
The song—notes drifting from an unfathomable instrument played as if hidden behind a divine curtain—became clear, grew louder, and swallowed him whole. He held his breath as the notes played within him, becoming a part of his own song.
A maelstrom of memories and emotions that were not his own crashed and roiled inside him. He clutched his head with his hands as if to contain the deluge. His mind shifted and transformed as the phantom became part of him, already adapting to
survive within the shared space. The storm retreated, and Cade lowered his hands, breathing heavily.
A faint voice echoed
within him. “Pact accepted.”
I am a new author of science fiction fantasy. By day, I am a game developer of 20 years. I have worked on role playing games like Dungeon Siege, and real-time strategy games like Supreme Commander and Age of Empires Online. I currently work with a truly amazing team at Wargaming.net developing a very exciting AAA project.
I strive to blend what I write with my experiences from creating games. There are games which can evoke an intense visceral energy, and I try to bring that same dynamism to the written page. Having worked on both fantasy games and science fiction games, I found myself compelled to combine those two worlds in fun new ways.
I live in Washington state with my wife and two wonderfully active children whose limitless curiosity is a continual source of inspiration, perspective, and exhaustion.
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Beer Distributors Respond Following Hurricane Florence
Beer distributors have stepped up again following a natural disaster.
The North Carolina Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association this week presented a $50,000 donation from the Independent Beer Distributors Relief Fund (IBDRF) to the North Carolina Community Foundation Disaster Relief Fund. The donation will assist recovery efforts in the Carolinas following the devastation of Hurricane Florence. The check was presented at “Come Together for the Coast,” a fundraiser to support businesses, families and communities affected by the storm.
“America’s 3,000 independent distributors have roots in every corner of our country,” says NBWA President and CEO, and IBDRF board member, Craig Purser. “For these folks, helping their neighbors is second nature. When Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas, this community was right there and ready to help. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the people of the Carolinas as they recover from the wrath of Hurricane Florence.”
North Carolina’s independent beer distributors employ nearly 4,000 people statewide across 68 distributor facilities. The lives of many members of this community have been upended by the recent hurricane, the NBWA says, and those in other parts of the state are lending a helping hand to impacted communities and families.
“Hurricane Florence caused unprecedented destruction in Wilmington and all across Eastern North Carolina,” says Tee Nunnelee, president of Coastal Beverage in Wilmington. “From a halt in business to employees losing their homes, I’ve seen first-hand the damage caused by this storm. On behalf of Coastal Beverage, I want to thank everyone who has volunteered their time and provided resources to the recovery effort. Getting back to normal won’t be easy, but I find comfort knowing that our community and state have overwhelming support from across the country.”
“Come Together for the Coast” was created to raise proceeds for the hurricane-ravaged communities left behind by Hurricane Florence. In partnership with The Sunday Supper, a Raleigh-based non-profit organization, and Chef Scott Crawford of Crawford and Son, the event included signature dishes, music and a live auction all benefiting Hurricane Florence recovery efforts. Net proceeds were contributed to the Sunday Supper Gift Fund of the North Carolina Community Foundation.
Initiated after the devastation left behind by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, several Texas beer distributors created the IBDRF to enable America’s independent beer distributors to come together as an industry and provide assistance to communities recovering from natural disasters.
“We started the Independent Beer Distributors Relief Fund as a way to help after Hurricane Harvey hit,” says IBDRF board member Val Peisen. “As family-owned businesses deeply ingrained in our communities, we believe it is essential to help our neighbors. That’s why when Florence hit, we were ready to get involved to help those affected. We’re pleased to be able to make this donation to the North Carolina Community Foundation Disaster Relief Fund, and we hope that it makes rebuilding their lives just a little bit easier.”
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More on the News Limited Code of Professional Conduct, and Knowledge of Same
See my previous two posts if you are coming in to this late. It is all about whether I am right when I claim that awareness and knowledge of the News Limited Code of Professional Conduct is low in News Limited newsrooms. News Limited CEO John Hartigan’s statement claiming that it lay at the heart […]
Margaret Simons
See my previous two posts if you are coming in to this late. It is all about whether I am right when I claim that awareness and knowledge of the News Limited Code of Professional Conduct is low in News Limited newsrooms. News Limited CEO John Hartigan’s statement claiming that it lay at the heart of what the company expects of its journalists was published widely in News Ltd titles today.
See the comments thread on previous posts for some views both ways.
Meanwhile, I have just received the following from a News Limited journalist who has worked for community newspapers, and who now works as a journalist and editor for a major News Limited masthead.
Now in relation to News Ltd and the code of conduct; the claim that it is included in the new starter induction material or whatever they want to call it, is simply not true.
Now, I can only comment in relation to News Ltd community papers in NSW and [major masthead name] where I now work as [title of position].
Being an organised creature I still have my induction pack from when I started with [masthead name] a year ago. I just went through it and lo and behold – no code of ethics.
As one of the biggest News Ltd newsrooms this is quite revealing.
I am also certain I also never got a copy of the code when working at News’ community papers either. In fact I only learnt of its existence during one of your news writing courses.
The code is on the intranet, but not easy to find and it’s never mentioned or considered in the course of a normal day in the newsroom.
It’s an inconvenient piece of window dressing from News’ point of view.
The way news in Australia has approached the NoW scadal is really interesting. There was a moment on Friday morning of near hysterical panic as editors tried to guess what they were expected to do about coverage of the scandal – how would we cover a massive story we knew was not really welcome on our sites. In the end they played it fairly straight but tended to focus on the individuals involved rather than News as a media organisation.
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Tzvi Silver
Learning from Our Ancestors’ Mistakes
Ramban, in his commentary on Sefer Beresheet, quotes the famous teaching in Beresheet Raba of “אמר לו הקב”ה (לאברהם): שב אתה סימן לבניך,” explaining: “כל מה שאירע לאבות- סימן לבנים-” every story, every encounter, every significant event that happened to our forefathers has significance to us. For the past few weeks, we’ve shown how different examples of Avraham’s conduct with his Canaani neighbors and Kasdi cousins can shed light on how we, his modern-day descendants, should interface with our neighbors, cousins, and allies.
However, we must wonder how Avraham’s mesorah was understood in times before the Torah was given. How did Yaakov feel about going down to Egypt after hearing from his grandfather how the natives treated his grandmother? Why would Eisav marry Cana’aniyot after remembering Avraham’s reluctance to let Yitzchak marry one? The questions go on and on…
However, perhaps most confusing of these questions of mesorah and ma’aseh avot is the story of Yitzchak’s journey to Gerar, the land of the Pelishtim, in the face of the famine. Hashem commands our second forefather: “גור בארץ הזאת ואהיה עמך- stay in this land (Gerar) and I will be with you,” but surely Yitzchak must have feared for his and his family’s safety after hearing of the Pelishtim’s treatment of his father. Nonetheless, Yitzchak settles in the land of the Pelishtim, even using the time-old ruse of pretending his wife is his sister. When “אחד העם,” (euphemistically Avimelech, the ruler of the Pelishtim) sees our patriarch and matriarch getting a little too friendly, he realizes that he had fallen prey to the ruse of the Ivrim again, and sends them out of the city before he gets his people in any trouble (perhaps the memory of the punishment for taking Sara must still have been fresh in his memory, more than seventy years later).
At the same time, Yitzchak was doing rather well for himself, and the Pelishti shepherds, jealous of his success, begin to block up his wells and argue about the ownership of the remaining ones (deja vu, anyone?). Once again, Yitzchak is forced to leave the Pelishtim, and he settles in Rehovot (which those of us familiar with Israeli geography know as being quite far from Gush Katif, the biblical Land of the Philistines).
Hashem appears to Yitzchak that night, promising to bless him and his descendants, and the next day, Avimelech and his head general Pichol come and ask to renew their covenant together.
Pause. So far, Yitzchak’s time in Gerar seems to almost exactly parallel his father Avraham’s. Both have their wives targeted by the Pelishti king, and both have quarrels with Pelishti shepherds (some mefarshim highlight that these are the royal shepherds of Gerar, making it very personal between Yitzchak and Avimelech) over wells that the latter had taken. And, both were sent away from Gerar by a mob of jealous and angry Pelishtim.
After all of this, Avimelech surely had some nerve to come before Yitzchak and claim:
אִם תַּעֲשֵׂה עִמָּנוּ רָעָה כַּאֲשֶׁר לֹא נְגַעֲנוּךָ וְכַאֲשֶׁר עָשִׂינוּ עִמְּךָ רַק טוֹב
If you will do to me bad as I didn’t hurt you, and just as I’ve done only good to you, you should only do good to me. (בראשית כו:כט)
Not only had Avimelech done the opposite of good to Yitzchak, but all of his aggression seems in direct contradiction to his covenant with Avraham, which was still in effect. How could Avimelech come forward and ask Yitzchak to reaffirm the covenant, lying directly to his face about how he and his people had treated the Ivrim only a few weeks ago?
Ramban (שם) agrees with our question, only adding that technically Avimelech wasn’t lying to Yitzchak. The Pelishti king tries to brush away his recent agression against Yitzchak, by reminding our forefather that his people had not actually slept with Rivka or even taken her, and that when the violent mob sent them away from Gerar, they didn’t steal anything this time. In this passuk, Avimelech effectively tries to convince Yitzchak that he handn’t broken his brit with Avraham, because he hadn’t “been as bad this time.”
Yitzchak until now had seemingly not learned from “מעשה אבות סימן לבנים” by returning to Gerar, pretending his wife was his sister, and fighting with the shepherds over his wells until they drove him away. After seeing how the Pelishti king tried to twist his wrongdoings into being less bad, and tried to obligate him in another covenant, how does Yitzchak react? Does he follow in Avraham’s footsteps again?
וַיַּעַשׂ לָהֶם מִשְׁתֶּה וַיֹּאכְלוּ וַיִּשְׁתּוּ.
And He made for them a feast, and they ate and drank.
וַיַּשְׁכִּימוּ בַבֹּקֶר וַיִּשָּׁבְעוּ אִישׁ לְאָחִיו וַיְשַׁלְּחֵם יִצְחָק וַיֵּלְכוּ מֵאִתּוֹ בְּשָׁלוֹם
And they woke up the next day and made vows, each man to his brother, and Yitzchak sent them and they left in peace (כו:ל-לא)
While Yitzchak was certainly cordial, and he was very polite to and peaceful with the royal delegation from Gerar, he never makes another brit with them. The passuk “וישבעו איש לאחיו” is very vague, especially compared to Avraham’s “אנכי אשבע” (כא:כא). Furthermore, Yitzchak opens this encounter by berating Avimelech over his poor treatment- even after a feast and a sleepover, no one would ever accuse Yitzchak of considering himself Avimelech’s “brother.” It’s much more plausible that Avimelech (“איש”) swore to his brothers, perhaps to continue to treat Yitzchak and his descendants badly, but the most difficult understanding of this passuk would be to say that Yitzchak renewed his father’s covenant with Avimelech.
If this is the case, then we see that, at least at the end of this story, Yitzchak understood “מעשה אבות סימן לבנים” and learned from the lesson of his father. Whereas Avraham had faith in the Pelishtim to keep their side of the bargain, even after that Avimelech refused to accept responsbility for his servant’s actions, Yitzchak realized that his neighbors would never keep their side of the bargain, so he cordially rejected their offer of renewing a brit.
Rav Yissachar Teichtel, in his landmark work Em Habanim Semecha, builds off of this theme of the importance of “מעשה אבות סימן לבנים” and learning from the past. There (פרק ג’, סימן ל”ט), he writes about two seemingly unconnected cases in halacha- the sword that is used for a Bet Din execution (הרג), and an animal which was subject to human bestiality. Their common denominator? The כלי (whether a sword or an animal) must be destroyed afterwards, and they are אסור בהנאה- no benefit can be had from them. Why? Because we are afraid that as this animal passes through the market, people will point at it and say “this is the animal which caused [ploni bar ploni] to be killed,” or if this sword is used in public afterwards, others will say “this is the sword that executed [ploni bar ploni]. Since this would cause a terrible embarrasement to Am Yisrael, Chazal decreed that these items must be destroyed and cannot be reused afterwards (even for הרג, which is a mitzva).
Rav Teichtel continues:
וגם, איך נעבור בארצות הללו עוד ונאמר: במקום פלוני ובמקום פלוני נהרגו ונשרפו ונסקלו ונשללו ונחטפו פלוני ופלוני. כי אין משפחה בישראל שלא נלקט להם אחד מבני המשפחה בפח יקשם, אב או אח או בן ובת, למאות ולאלפים ולרבבות, כידוע ומפורסם בעולם. ועתה, איך אפשר עוד להביט על המקומות הללו, ומי הוא האדם שיש בו רק קצת רגש זק, שיוכל להתרועע עוד עם מקומות כאלו, אשר שפכו עלינו בוז וקלון ועשו לנו תקלות גדולות במדה גדולה כזו אשר לא נשמע עוד בכל קורות ימי חיינו שעברו עלינו עד עתה. זאת וכזאת צריך לעורר ולהזכיר את הנשארים מפליטת הגולה במדינות אלו.
In a nutshell, Rav Teichtel writes that the Shoah is very much the same. After the killing was finished, after Six Million of our brethren were no longer, how could anyone still live in the land of our enemies, passing by the cities where Jews were gathered up and shot, or sent to death camps? “Here, hundreds were killed… There, thousands were killed.” No, writes Rav Teichtel, we must remember what the Germans did to us and get out of their lands, for “how can we live in a land where we were embarrased, harrassed, and slaughtered on scales that had never been heard of before?”
This is the principle that our forefather Yitzchak grasped in refusing to reaffirm Avraham’s covenant with Avimelech in biblical times. This is the principle that thousands of Jews understood as they tried to escape the furnace of Europe for the hope of Mandatory Palestine in the 1930’s and ’40’s, and this is a message that each every one of us needs to understand now and today.
With the exception of perhaps Canada and some third world countries in Central America, there is NOT a SINGLE country who does not have Jewish blood on its hands. Forgetting about current struggles in and around Israel, and terorism against Jews abroad; looking back to the time of the Shoah, nearly every country in the world had some part in killing the six million. For some, like Germany, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, it was allowing Hitler to rise to power and selfishly supporting his Kampf in the hope that it would stop the elected leader from invading them (spoiler alert: it didn’t work).
For more Western European countries, such as France, Spain, and the UK, they turned a blind eye to Hitler’s aktion in exchange for a deal that they wouldn’t be touched (again, how did that “brit” work out for them?). The British were especially at fault, for their racist emigration policy to the Mandate, in an attmept to placate the insatiable anger of the Arabs, very much limited escape routes for Jews trying to get away from the Nazis. Even the United States, “Israel’s greatest ally,” had a terrible immigration policy in the early Twentieth Century which made it almost downright impossible for any Jews to seek sanctuary from war-ridden Europe. Evidence has also surfaced that the American Army deliberately ignored concrete evidence of Hitler’s Final Solution because they didn’t want to get involved in World War Two. And, don’t even get started with the Middle Eastern Arab countries who kicked their Jews out around the same time, and supported Germany’s attempted extermination of the Jews with a special zeal.
Contrast this the world’s openness and willingness to help and take in refugees from Syria, and one can’t help but wonder where they were for us fifty years ago. But, putting that aside, we can’t help but feel hurt by the world who refused to help us until it was too late, and are now at our throats about the racism that they see in Zionism. But, the truth is that we shouldn’t feel hurt. We, like our forefather Yitzchak, should just be disapointed, that a world which committed to “never again” is back at its old tricks, less than a century later. As countries including Germany, Austria, the UK, the United States, Saudia Arabia, Turkey and Syria, guilty of inhumane crimes against the Jews and their own people, get up and accuse the Jewish State of violating international law and committing war crimes, we must resist the urge to get up and scream “j’accuse?! How dare you!” We must sit this one out, and take it as a very direct and open reminder that the knife which was used for an execution must be disposed of afterwards. It’s time to distance ourselves from the knife, those who engineered and enabled the Shoah, and make our way home.
“כל מה שאירע לאבות- סימן לבנים”
Nations have been making empty promises to us for millenia, only to abandon us at our time of need. Yitzchak realized this, and refused to renew his covenant with Avimelech after his mistreatment in Gerar. Rav Teichtel and six million of our other brethren realized this too late, as Germany and civilized Western culture left them to die in the concentration camps. As global anti-Zionism slowly but surely transforms into anti-Semetism, and being Jewish is becoming dangerous in even more countries of the Disapora, let us not wait for the next round of מעשה אבות סימן לבנים. Let us learn from the lessons of our Avot and over two milenia of enmity from the nations, and remove ourselves from the execution knife before it finds its way into us again.
With Hashem’s help, may we merit to see a fulfillment of the positive stories of Jewish history, seeing Jews leaving the lands of our enemies for our ancestral home of Eretz Yisrael. Through this, we will surely merit the safety, security, and the impending redemption very very soon.
Born and raised in Teaneck NJ, Tzvi Silver moved to Israel in 2012 after catching aliyah fever while learning abroad. Tzvi is now pursuing a degree in Engineering from the Jerusalem College of Technology, and works on the side as a contributor for local newspapers in the New York Area. Tzvi's interests include learning Torah, rabble-rousing, and finding creative ways of mixing the two.
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Teyana Taylor’s 10 Tattoos & Their Meanings
Teyana Me Shay Jacqueli Taylor better known as Teyana Taylor is an American Actress, Singer, Dancer, and a Model. In 2005, before making her first national appearance on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 she also signed a record deal with American musician Pharrell Williams’ Star Trak Entertainment imprint. As an aspiring songwriter, Taylor has worked with and written records for various artists such as Usher, Chris Brown, and Omarion.
1. ‘Portrait’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a large tattoo on her left hip as an extension to her waistline tribal design. This includes an artistic portrait of a woman with an afro hairstyle.
2. ‘Diamond and Writing’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a tattoo on her right upper arm in the shape of a diamond.
Meaning: This ink on her right bicep also carr the words “shine on you crazy diamond”, which is the name of a Pink Floyd song.
3. ‘Roman Numeral’ Tattoo
4. ‘Gummy Bear Flag’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a tattoo on her right butt cheek of three gummy bears which are inked in red, yellow, and green. They represent the pan-African colors, and together they form the flag of Guinea.
5. ‘Tribal Design on Stomach’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a tribal tattoo the lower part of her stomach. Her complete ink has not been revealed yet but she showed off the edges in a high-cut swimsuit on the runway at The Blonds’ New York Fashion Week show on September 2017.
6. ‘Lightning Bolt’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a tattoo under her left breast which represents some roman numerals.
7. ‘Rolling Stones Tongue’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Taylor carries an ink on her left butt cheek which is the Rolling Stones Tongue Tattoo colored in red and black.
8. ‘Tribal Design On Left Hip’ Tattoo
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9. ‘Good Music’ Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a tattoo of an angel along with the logo of ‘GOOD music’, which is the record label that she signed to. The tattoo says “good / getting out our dreams”.
10. Graffiti Tattoo
Tattoo: Teyana Taylor has a large tattoo on her side of a graffiti design which was done by famous street artist Banksy. It shows a girl shooting her head with a gun and Red butterflies exploding out of her head.
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Floating Apps
I was quiet for some time. That doesn’t mean that Floating Apps is not on its way to the next and better version ;-). However, it’s not only about fancy new features. I invest a tremendous amount of effort to keep the codebase up to date. For example, I’ve finally migrated the app to AndroidX.…
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How to fix MirrorLink on Samsung with Android 9
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Version 4.10 – Improved backup feature
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Version 4.10 – Full changelog
NEW LANGUAGE: Bulgarian (Please, help us to complete the translation) Backup: Adds an option to restore from local backup file. Backup: Adds support for offline backups with local files only. Browser: Adds an option to switch between single close button and close buttons in tabs. Browser: Adds a menu with extra options for long-tap on…
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Outcome of the Paris Accord: a re-founding act of American democracy?
June 15, 2017 / climatewise101 / 20 Comments
Interview with Drieu Godefridi, Belgian philosopher, jurist, author of “Le GIEC etMort; Vive le Science” (The IPCC is Dead: Long Live Science) published in English under the title “The IPCC: A Scientific Body?” Godefridi discusses his view that the exit of the Trump Administration from the Paris Agreement is a sensible return to American democracy. Godefridi traces the incremental takeover of public policy by globalists and minority view activists using unelected, unaccountable politically-rife bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under the guise of ‘science’ to foist ever-more economically detrimental demands on the West. These groups use contrived morality and guilt to affect a bank hold-up, the trigger-about-to-be-pulled being the ‘climate catastrophe.’
Without arguing the science, President Trump called that bluff as he exited the Paris Agreement.He called it on economic and common-sense grounds, being accountable and representing the interests of Americans as an elected official. This is in stark contrast to the EU where the unelected, unaccountable EU commission has become detached from the people’s needs and entrenched in the ideological fantasy of the day. This translation includes this introduction and clarifying details for North American audiences.
Question: Drieu Godefridi, you qualify the American decision to leave the Paris Agreement as the re-founding act of the American democracy. Could you expand on this surprising point of view, surprising at least, compared to that of most European politicians and analysts?
Reply: You are right, this point of view is undoubtedly in the minority. Globalists are now considered as opposed to nationalists. The Europeans and the American Democrats would be the Globalists. The nationalists are the Republican supporters of “America First”. From this point of view, to the Globalist, everything is simple: the American exit from the Paris Accord is a selfish act of a narrow nationalist who cares about the immediate economic interests of America at the expense of the collective interest and that of the planet.
On the surface, this narrative is very convincing, it has only one fault: it is false.
The Paris Accord marks the apotheosis, not of “globalism,” but of a particular version of globalism, which one should rather qualify as socialist. Indeed, let us recall the actual content of the Paris Agreement! What does it foresee? Essentially, two things: the drastic reduction of CO2 emissions in the West, right away, with the possibility for states such as China – the world’s largest CO2 emitter – to continue to increase emissions to 2030, with no requirement whatsoever to reduce emissions. The second essential component of “Paris” is the Green Fund, which provides for the transfer of $ 100 billion a year from the West to the rest of the world. “Paris” is therefore, first and foremost, the triumph of what was called “support for the Third World” in the 70s and 80s, that is to say, a massive and permanent transfer of wealth from the West to the rest of the world.
Question: We can see the socialist component. But what about globalism? How does the Paris Agreement contribute to globalism?
Reply: “Paris” is doubly globalist: first, because the transfer of wealth will be done through a clever network of international institutions, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Green Fund — an institution, with a secretariat, directors, exotic meeting places, etc. —and all the intermediate institutions created by the Paris Agreement.
Secondly, “Paris” is driven by “morality” with the IPCC itself employing the services of moral philosophers to help them make their political case. The founding moral intuition which presides over the Paris Agreement is internationalist socialism. International socialism has always considered that the differential of wealth that benefits the West results from the pillage of the rest of the planet. This is described in terms of imperialism, colonization, exploitation of weaker partners. In that world view, the only “just” solution (aka “climate justice”) to this is the immediate and unconditional transfer of a substantial portion of these wealth to the rest of the world. Thus, the Paris Accord discloses itself clearly as a matter of globalism, but of a very particular vision of it – internationalist socialism.
Question: Even if the Paris Agreement is indeed motivated by a socialist vision, is it not selfish and unjust on the part of the Americans to refuse to share their wealth?
Reply: The founding thesis of universalist socialism is that the wealth of the West is born of the plunder of the rest of the world. This is obviously false, and this has been demonstrated time and time again. The West owes its surplus of wealth to the preference given over five centuries to a particular economic system, capitalism! [1] The West has rejected the alternatives, socialism or subsistence. Moreover, the falsehood about the capitalist West as simple global robber barons is so well entrenched in leftist/socialist/globalists that even the concessions and foreign aid made to date by the West on are never enough to satisfy the transfer of wealth desired by the Third Worldists.
With the Paris Accord, which is not born from nothing, we enter a completely different dimension. This time, it is no longer morality, generosity or compassion (i.e. disaster relief) that requires the transfer of the wealth of the West. It’s science! It is the idea that because the Western industrial world has polluted the world for so many years should mean that the West must transfer its wealth to the rest of the world, which can continue to pollute. Further, this guilt money must be paid into the Green Fund which puts unaccountable, unelected green groups and green rent-seekers an opportunity to exploit this ultimate global subsidy for renewable-intermittent energies! Admire the finesse of the process: it employs the very strength of the West — capitalism — to show that the West has sinned. How naive and amateur are the Third Worldists of the past, with their moral arguments, faced with the omnipotence of the scientific argument!
However, and this should have put the flea in the ear of at least some of the European “leaders”, the results are exactly the same: bleeding the West to the benefit of the rest of the world.
Question: This coincidence of the present scientific argument with the moral argument of the past does not invalidate the scientific argument! If science tells the truth, is it not fair that the West polluter “pays” the rest of the planet?
Reply: Your question is perfectly intelligent. The coincidence of the two arguments does not invalidate the science. However, you likely will have noticed, like me, that the climate debate does not deserve to be described as scientific in any way, anymore. What is the matrix of climate science? That is the IPCC, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As early as 2010, I demonstrated in the book “Le GIEC est mort, vive la science”/ “The IPCC: A Scientific Body?” that by its composition, competences and functioning, the IPCC is a totally political organization, and not a scientific one as it claims. I do not have the competence to pronounce on the science of climate as such, nor do I need it: for it is easy to understand that a political organization can only produce political reports. The current “science” of climate is that of a scholar steeped in science… and politics – with a dominant political gene.
Question: Are you telling us that there is no such thing as credible climate science?
Reply: Certainly not. But what matters is that so much of the science is skewed by politics – via the IPCC – and by massive public subsidies for scientists, NGOs and companies in line with the IPCC, that it is not possible to qualify the thesis as dominated by science. (It should be noted, moreover, that public subsidies are now supplemented by subsidies from the renewable-intermittent industries, which are closely dependent on public subsidies.)
By way of example, here is how John Broome, IPCC moral philosopher, describes the writing process of the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) – which is the document used by governments to set national climate policies:
“In effect, the text is edited by several hundred people sitting together in a big room. One hundred and seven countries sent delegations of varying sizes. Saudi Arabia is said to have sent ten or more. The delegates arrive with political interests. Many oppose each other diametrically. Moreover, their governments are already locked in negotiations preparing for the major climate-change meeting that is planned for Paris next year under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The wording of the SPM matters to the delegates, since it may be quoted in the negotiations. At our IPCC meeting, they treated the SPM as though it were a legal document rather than a scientific report. It was flattering in one way to find so many governments giving our work such serious attention. But the effects of their attention were often infuriating. To achieve consensus, the text of the SPM was made vaguer in many places, and its content diluted to the extent that in some places not much substance remained.” [2]
Question: So the American release of “Paris” is neither selfish nor contrary to science?
Reply: One thinks what one wants of the American president, but he perfectly grasped the essence of the Paris Agreement, which is to redistribute the wealth of the West to the rest of the world – he expressly declared it on the Lawn of the White House, on June 1st, 2017 when making the American exit from Paris official. In so doing, he has stopped the formidable internationalist socialist machinery that was in the process of being set up. In other words, he has refused to validate the third-world moral intuition, and the scientific pretext that gave birth to the Paris Agreement. I do not think there is any other way to read this outcome.
Question: Yet, in so doing, he is reforming American democracy?
Reply: In my view, yes. We live in a reality of which we know that it has become strongly globalized economically. There has been much less attention to the other globalization that has taken place before our eyes, that of an extremely dense network of international organizations and institutions that has increasingly been given the power to create standards by right.
Question: How would this second globalization – that of the law – be more problematic than the first one? Are the two not complementary?
Reply: The difficulty is that these global organizations are not subject to the same democratic requirements – election and accountability – as well as separation of powers, as are our democratic national institutions. We have denounced so much the “democratic deficit” of the European institutions! Indeed, it is wrong that the faceless and very ideological judges – here I point at the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU – decide on the future of Europe in such major areas as immigration or terrorism. They do so, completely apart from the wishes of European citizenry. But this deficit is nothing compared to that of the other international organizations, which generally have only a vague idea of democracy (and often appoint despots to human rights commissions, for instance)! One notes here, before all, the United Nations, whose umbrella organization in the field of climate, the UNFCCC, is just an emanation.
What we have been seeing for the past two decades, in the areas of climate, gender theory, immigration and terrorism, and so on, is that activist minority ideologues have confiscated democratic debate. By acting at the international level, they have an enormous advantage. As soon as such an unaccountable international body has seized a cause, its standards prevail over national parliaments! When gender theory was enshrined in its most radical version in 2011 by a Council of Europe Convention, it became virtually impossible to dislodge it. When, in cases such as HIRSI (2012), the European Courts devoted the “no border” ideology, it became almost impossible for the national ministers who wished to defend their own borders to do so. Examples that come to mind are Francken in Belgium, his British and Austrian counterpart, or the countries of the Visegrád group – a handful able to oppose it effectively. But it is in the domain of climate that this confiscation of democratic debate is the most masterful, reaching a kind of virtuosity.
Question: Why?
Reply: But by the effect of science! The theory of gender is meant to be scientific, but it does not deceive anyone: it is an ideology, assumed as such by authors like Judith Butler. The ideology of the “no border” is moral, it does not claim to be scientific. Climate is something else! Every time since its birth in the fold of the IPCC, the ideology of the climate has claimed science as its foundational authority – and science in its most precise version! Physics! The politicized IPCC has never stopped claiming it is presenting science since. So, it is this second globalization, a prelude to a world government that is openly called for by the elites of internationalist socialism, which is threatened today by the American exit of the Paris Agreement.
Question: Let us finish with a prognosis: and now, what will happen?
Reply: In my humble opinion, two things: first, “Paris” is dead. We are going to witness a form of hysterical “debate” in Europe. It is clear that France, Belgium and Germany will compete as to who is more virtuous, climate-wise, and that they are supported by the gigantic economic sector of the $1.5 trillion/year sector of “Big Climate” – that of industries and investors in Renewable-intermittent energies, and by high finance helped by ‘green’ groups, which would have had control over the massive transfers of the Green Fund. Of course, economically, the European position is not tenable. The Paris Accord would have been the bank heist of the millennium had Americans complied, is not possible with only the funds of European states such as France, Belgium or the countries of the Southern Europe. These are completely drained financially. These countries are over-indebted, have historically unprecedented levels of taxation, they owe a large amount of money to NATO, how could they finance the Green Fund? Through the EU climate policies, they are increasing the price of their energy every day while the rest of the world – beginning with the Americans – will now lower the price of theirs? Simply stating it this way exposes the lack of serious intent.
As for the science of climate, we are going to experience interesting developments. The head of the American environmental agency, Scott Pruitt, announced the setting up of working groups to disentangle the Science from the Ideology in climate science.
Question: You believe that this will be the outcome?
Reply: I believe this even more today – that this is the solution that I foresaw in 2010! However, this will only have a “virtuous” outcome if the Americans do not replicate the UN error, that is to say, to subject scientists to politics, and pretend – what the IPCC has done with impunity since its foundation – to derive moral and juridical norms from “science”, which is of course an aberration.
Question: A word of conclusion?
Reply: What dies with “Paris” is the socialist globalism in its present format. It will be reborn from its ashes! After the Third World-ism, after climatism, it will arise as a New Emperor in New Clothes, do not doubt it! The (twisted) egalitarian drive that presides over socialism in all its forms is not ready to disappear. Under the aegis of the previous occupants of the White House, America itself, traditionally more resistant to socialism than the Europeans, has already largely embarked on this path. Therefore, from this point of view, the American break from the Paris-globalist bank heist, deserves to be described as a re-founding – as a return to the roots of American democracy and the wisdom of its founding fathers.
Read the original interview with Drieu Godefridi here.
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Craig King
Great insight. Political science at its worse and far too many of the educated but foolish have been taken in by it.
Let us all hope that President Trump sticks to his position for the sake of all of us.
Robert Lyman
What an absolutely fascinating interview! Godefridil clearly understands the international forces in play, and the competition between political objectives of the European socialists and the people in other countries who value real science-based and market-based policy approaches. I hope that he is right in his prognosis that the American withdrawal from COP21 is the beginning of the end for the U.N. agenda, but there are far too many “useful idiots” at work to feel confident about that.
Ron Clutz
Thanks for providing this article. I reblogged it with some additional material and this comment:
This post shares Dr. Godefridi’s views of the geopolitical frame built upon the climate change issue shifting due to US withdrawal from the Paris accord. Later on are excerpts from an article by Jon Huntsman sketching a future world shaped by global trade rather than global government.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/climate-geopolitics/
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yes indeed, a great discussion, however, America needs to withdraw from the UN IPCC and stop any and all funding of that organization. The great Dr. knows that to kill the snake one must remove its head, in this case literally with USA as its financial head.
Thank you for this wonderful interview. Essential stuff all must know. I have reposted it.
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Bad as politicized science is , it rarely ventures as far into the realm of self-parody as this exercise in pure, as opposed to apllied pseudocience,
Order a G&T at Calgary’s Friends of Science Bar and you’ll find a thick deposit of tar sand at the bottom of the glass.
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Mr. Seitz is trying the old Big Oil smear – never thinking that Big Climate is much bigger and is holding hands with Big Green and related crony capitalists. Friends of Science Society represents our members who are concerned scientists, economists, Professional Engineers, taxpayers and business people. We do not represent any industry. Aside from our in-house expertise, we consult with an international network of climate science, economics, and policy experts. This network has steadily grown over the past 15 years. Don’t let people like Mr. Seitz mislead you: https://youtu.be/-iUUIjbM45U
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Congratulations to the Winners of 2017 Young Scholar Research Competition
The Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and the Co-Chairs of the Third Annual Organizational Frontline Symposium (February 2017) are pleased to announce the awards for 2017 Young Scholar Research Competition.
The competition accepted research proposals focused upon ‘frontline’ topics, and the lead author was required to be either a current doctoral student or an assistant professor who is fewer than three years removed from graduation. Twenty submissions were received and evaluated by an expert panel of judges.
The awarded projects include (in alphabetical order):
Corinne Kelley, Florida State University, “The Ambassador Effect: A Frontline Tactic to Enhance Customer Commitment, Loyalty, and Prosocial Behavior”
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We congratulate the winners of the 2017 Young Scholar Research Competition and wish the award recipients and all the applicants the best with their research projects!
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The Center for Services Leadership is continuing its role as a leader in service education with the announcement of the Strategic Service Institute (SSI), March 13-17, 2017. SSI is the only program that provides an immersive executive education experience that focuses on the delivery of service excellence. The development of this new format is the next evolution of service education. Two modules are now offered, one that delivers the foundational essentials for the managerial knowledge of service delivery and execution and a second that provides cutting edge toolsets and strategies essential to taking an organization’s service excellence to the next level. An individual may take either one, or both, of these modules.
Dr. Douglas Olsen, Academic Director of SSI, explains advantages of the new format, “we provide incredibly solid grounding in service excellence during the first module and then, with these foundational principles in place, in the second module we introduce key frameworks for implementing strategies for leading service-centric organizations. Throughout the program we create opportunities for engaged discussion and collaborative learning.” The Institute curriculum is led by academics and business practitioners who are at the vanguard of service, and is delivered in a university environment at McCord Hall, of the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.
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The Digital Landscape has changed over the past decade. While businesses and companies understand the power of digital innovation, many firms struggle with either taking advantage of the opportunities or reducing risks that accompany digital transformation. Automotive industry is a great example that demonstrates the impact of digital transformation. The push for development of autonomous cars affects a wide spectrum of industries: from transportation & logistics to insurance, law & order, healthcare, hotels etc. Similarly, other innovations such as block-chains, machine learning, virtual reality etc. will potentially have an impact on a number of industries.
While leading digital transformation, companies have to address two fundamental questions: “Why” and “How”. ‘Why’ pertains to understanding the opportunities and threats that exist because of a rapid digitization. “How” covers the capabilities and roadmaps traditional companies need to create to sustain competitive advantage. Yet, data suggests that most digital transformations fail – the reason lies in inability to push for organizational transformation alongside technology transformations.
Beyond technology, companies need to change their approach to business strategy. According to conventional thinking, strategies are developed with a clear understanding of where the company currently is and where it wants to be. However, in today’s world, predicting the future has become extremely complex. Instead, to compete in digitally disruptive environments, companies must build multiple strategies backed by core digital business agility. The following capabilities are key to building digital business agility:
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Hyperawareness is being fully alert to the internal & external environments, particularly to changes that spotlight opportunities or risks. Data & information collection are the core for this principle, which can be accessed by humans, IoT machines or sensors. Key metrics to measure hyperawareness include the company’s ability to capture insights about/from its employees, customers, partners internal operating environment, competitors and about new digital technology & business trends.
Informed decision-making pertains to collaborating & empowering people to make quick, evidence-based decisions. Decision making power needs to be pushed to the edge of the network (Intelligence at the Edge) to gain speed & accuracy. Informed decision making is measured by the business’s ability to make decisions quickly & based on analytics, to empower people, to share information across organization and to access & display important data in real-time.
Finally, fast execution is putting decision into practice rapidly, mobilizing resources dynamically and continuously monitoring options and progress against goals. Fast execution is measured by our ability to act quickly based on new information, turn decisions into actions, dynamically acquire & allocate people & resources, continuously learn & adapt.
IMD’s digitization piano is one of the tools to help companies navigate the “how” of digital transformation. This tool breaks down the organization’s value chain into 10 distinct keys, broadly categorized under Digital Strategy, Digital Engagement & Digital Enablers. Companies should play multiple keys simultaneously instead of trying to address one specific area in isolation as they navigate their digital transformation journey.
Finally, at the core of transformation, the critical questions that companies must ask are:
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How do we digitize across organizations?
BACKG ROUND: Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy at IMD and holds the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. He is the Director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco Initiative. His areas of expertise relate to strategy, innovation, and digital transformation. Previously, he was the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program in Canada. Michael has been nominated for teaching awards in the MBA, International MBA, and Executive MBA programs. He obtained HonoursBA, MBA and PhD degrees from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
CLIENTS & INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: At IMD, Michael teaches in several open programs and has directed partnership programs related to strategy and digital business transformation with Vodafone, Ooredoo, AXA, Honda, Zurich Financial Services, Credit Suisse, KONE, and Richemont, among others. He co-Directs IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance and Leading Digital Business Transformation programs. He provides consulting services, executive education and expert evaluations to several public and private sector organizations. He has lived and worked in Britain, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Costa Rica.
RESEARCH AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Michael has published works on a variety of topics, including digital business transformation, innovation, social media marketing, information systems strategy, eCommerce, and SME performance. He has more than 50 articles and presentations to his credit in leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, MIS Quarterly and the Communications of the ACM. One of his articles was among the top 20 cited articles in business, management and accounting worldwide for five years, according to Scopus (the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature). He’s published eight books, more than twenty case studies and appears frequently in the mainstream media. His Latest book is Digital Vortex: How Today’s Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors At Their Own Game. He was named one of the top ten digital thought leaders in Switzerland by Bilanzmagazine in October, 2016.
APPROACH “I define digital business transformation as organizational change through the use of digital technologies to materially improve performance. It is a simple definition, yet difficult to master. Certain industries have been on the vanguard of this changes. Other lag behind. Eventually, digital will become the ‘new normal’. I enjoy working with organizations to help them come to terms about what digital transformation means for them, and then to take appropriate action.”
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Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin received an MBE – Member of the British Empire, June 2009
In June 2009 Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, Exec Director of Chabad North East London & Essex, received an honour from Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.
The award was bestowed upon Rabbi Sufrin by Her Majesty herself in a prestigious ceremony in Buckingham Palace, attended by his wife Mrs Devorah Sufrin and two of their children, Chavi and Yaakov Yehudah.
The citation read:
Awarded to Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin for “Presented to Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin by Her Majesty the Queen For Services to Jewish Community Relations and Drugsline”.
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By Geoff Decker - June 23, 2014
The State Education Department will announce New York’s statewide graduation rates on Monday morning, though the numbers will be six months late for New York City.
In an unusually-timed press conference last December, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city’s four-year graduation rates for 2013 had increased about 1 percent, to 61.3 percent (or 66 percent if students who needed an extra summer of classes are included). That also represented a nearly 15-point jump since 2005—an achievement too big for the outgoing mayor not to use to burnish his legacy before leaving office.
Still, the state’s announcement will include additional insights about the city’s ability to push its high school students past the finish line. Namely, it will include the all-important college and career readiness rate, an imperfect but helpful measurement for knowing what students are prepared to do when they leave high school.
It will also include school-by-school graduation rates, compare the city to other urban school districts, and provide a first look at how the de Blasio administration will spin the numbers to support his own policy agenda.
Here are four things to watch for:
How does New York City compare to the rest of the state and to its other urban districts?
When it suited him, Bloomberg played up the comparison between New York City’s graduation rates and those of other urban districts in the state. When the numbers didn’t add up, like in 2012, Bloomberg said the city’s flatter graduation rate change was impressive in the face of higher standards.
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New York City’s graduation rates are far below the statewide average of 75 percent, but among the state’s “big five” urban districts, the city lags behind only Yonkers, which has a 66 percent graduation rate. The others are Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester, considerably poorer cities whose graduation rates have ranged between 48 percent and 43 percent.
How will the de Blasio administration react?
When he was running for mayor last year, Bill de Blasio castigated the city’s 60 percent graduation rates. During and after the campaign, de Blasio has said that expanding access to prekindergarten and after-school programs would “provide the foundation young people need to finish school and succeed.”
Now that he’s made it to City Hall, he is likely to face additional pressure to offer nearer-term solutions for improving a school system in which four in 10 students don’t graduate on time.
For now, de Blasio has ruled out school closures, which Bloomberg regularly cited as the single most important policy behind the city’s graduation improvement from 51 percent in 2001 to 61 percent in 2013. But the city has offered hints at what its immediate efforts to lift graduation rates will look like: providing some high schools with perennially low graduation rates with extra resources and attention, while converting other schools into “community schools” with access to health and other services.
How do college and career readiness rates compare to graduation rates?
The state delayed tying higher Common Core standards to graduation requirements until the class of 2022, giving officials a prolonged buffer from the kind of criticism that followed steep drops in reading and math proficiency rates when states tests became Common Core-aligned.
But no one disputes that graduation rates statewide say little about what students actually know when they finish high school. Education officials say the college and career readiness rate, which shows how many students earn at least a 75 on the English Regents exam and an 80 on a math Regents exam, has become an equally important metric because it is indicative of a student’s likelihood of persisting in college or succeeding in a skilled job.
Like graduation rates, college and career readiness rates have improved slightly over time. Still, just 22 percent of all students in the city graduated with qualifying scores in 2012, with only 11 percent of black students and 13 percent of Hispanic students hitting those targets.
De Blasio has often referred to the city’s low college and career readiness rate as an example of the city school system’s ongoing failures, and cites it as a reason to shake up the school system’s “status quo.” He’s mostly talked about those numbers in reference to his pre-K and after-school expansion plans, so it will be notable if he identifies any high school-oriented policies in his response to tomorrow’s release.
What do the graduation achievement gaps look like?
Though Bloomberg noted the disparities in the data in December, the continued gap between graduation rates of traditionally underserved students and their peers will be again a focus on Monday, especially for a Board of Regents that has crafted a policy agenda to narrow those gaps.
According to the figures the city released in December, black and Hispanic students’ graduation rates both climbed since 2012, but both rates are roughly 20 percentage points lower than the rates of white and Asian students. Students with disabilities saw their graduation rate rise 7 points over last 2012, while the rate for English language learners slipped by nearly 2 points.
But even those numbers mask a larger disparity within the city school system. In an analysis of the school-by-school graduation rates last year, the United Federation of Teachers found that just 10 percent of schools produced nearly half of the city’s college-ready graduates.
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Blade II (2002)
February 17, 2014 January 2, 2015 / Sally
This is a pretty good sequel. Blade II has the same gory violence and random humor that made the first one so enjoyable to watch. It also puts its own twist on vampire lore by creating a new type of monster: the reaper. Reapers are genetically engineered vampires, who are stronger and thirstier than their predecessors. Sunlight is still deadly to them, but not much else is. Blade must team up with his blood sucking advisories to defeat their common enemy.
From there the movie is pretty typical. Lots of violence, betrayals, semi-hatched relationships, and impressive action sequences. I don’t really have much to say other than it was fun to watch, but really just more of the same after Blade. Norman Reedus, now of The Walking Dead fame, joins the cast as Blade’s new partner. He’s basically a vampire hunting Daryl Dixon, so I guess he’s been typecast?
Rating: B
As I’ve said previously in this blog, the best sequels don’t just make a louder version of the first one. The best sequels take the characters in new directions and improve on what was done well in the original. This sequel to the surprise vampire hunting film Blade, does what all sequels aspire to do, be better than the first one.
Wesley Snipes returns as the moody vampire hunter Blade. His second outing as the half human half vampire hybrid is a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the fact he had to join up with the hated vampires in order to defeat an enemy that was a threat to both of them, the Reapers. The Reapers are deadly creatures that feed on vampires and humans alike turning all they feed on into Reapers themselves. They are immune to garlic and silver, and can only be defeated by sunlight, so quite a challenge compared to the original vampires Blade has spent his whole life killing. Blade reluctantly agrees to join with a group of vampire assassins, the Blood Pack, and help them eradicate this new threat.
This is a gory action film and there is probably nobody better than Guillermo Del Toro to bring it to the screen. He is really good at the action and horror scenes, but is also able to craft a decent story rather than just fill the screen with lots of action and blood. I also really liked some of the cool weapons that were designed for this film. The UV ray bombs are particularly cool.
The supporting cast is surprisingly good and has some faces people should recognise. Kris Kristofferson returns as Blade’s weapons maker, Whistler. His return to the series raises some questions about his allegiances as he was thought dead at the end of the first movie. Daryl Dixon himself, Norman Reedus has replaced Whistler as Blade’s primary source of weaponry and is particularly wary of Whistler’s return. Del Toro regular Ron Perlman also shows up as an outspoken member of the Blood Pack. His interactions with Snipes are one of the film’s highlights. 80s boy band member Luke Goss, also appears as the leader of the Reapers, Nomak.
I enjoy this film a lot whenever I watch it. It is a comic book film for adults. It has gore, horror and awesome action. Snipes is a charismatic lead who owns the role of Blade now after playing him a second time. His fight scenes are great. I forgot how much I enjoyed this film.
Rating: B+
Rated B
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Blade: Trinity (2004) →
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1st Dan
Three patterns are required for your 2nd dan grading, Kwang-Gae, Po-Eun and Ge-Baek. Below is a link to the videos for each pattern.
Grading Requirements:
Additional syllabus set sparring is also required for your second dan grading.
Three step sparring 1-10
Two step sparring 1-10
Syllabus one step sparring 1-5
Student’s own one step 5 , including take downs. All from a punching attack.
Kicking one step 2 x front, 2 x turning
Click HERE for all videos on Set Sparring
KWANG-GAE (39 Moves) is named after the famous Kwang-Gae-Toh-Wang, the 19th King of the Koguryo Dynasty, who regained all the lost territories including the greater part of Manchuria. The diagram represents the expansion and recovery of lost territory. The 39 movements refer to the first two figures of 391 A.D, the year he came to the throne
PO-EUN (36 Moves) is the pseudonym of a loyal subject Chong Mong-Chu (1400) who was a famous poet and whose poem "I would not serve a second master though I might be crucified a hundred times" is known to every Korean. He was also a pioneer in the field of physics. The diagram represents his unerring loyalty to the king and country towards the end of the Koryo Dynasty.
GE-BAEK (44 Moves) is named after Ge-Baek, a great general in the Baek Je Dynasty (660 AD). The diagram represents his severe and strict military discipline.
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Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights
By Tom Warner
Shedding a bright light on a dark side of Canadian politics, Losing Control critically examines Canada’s social conservative movement and discovers a reactionary, anti-reform insurgency of evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics. Tom Warner chronicles the religious right’s advocacy on a range of moral issues–from abortion and the regulation of consensual sex to same-sex marriage and moral instruction in the public schools. He finds a movement desperate not to lose control of the state’s moral agenda in an age of Charter rights.
This timely and important book raises truly alarming questions about the close relationship between a resilient, never-say-die social conservative constituency and the political direction of the federal Conservative Party.
Paperback / softback, 300 pages
No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
To Set the Captives Free
Liberation Theology in Canada
Shout Your Abortion
A meticulous study… impressive in both scope and detail.
– Literary Review of Canada
Losing Control is a real contribution to our understanding of Canadian politics. We have precious little serious writing about evangelical Christian involvement in Canadian public life. This wide-ranging chronicle brings together a huge amount of material produced by religious conservatives across the country, covers an impressive array of issues, and presents the material accessibly in its historical and political context.
– David Rayside, Professor, Political Science and Sexual Diversity Politics, University of Toronto
Tom Warner maps out the moral conservative right wing that queer liberation activists, feminists, and human rights activists have been up against. His meticulous tracing out of the networks of social conservatism from individual religious activists to those currently in positions of power in the Harper government allows us to see both the strengths and weaknesses of our enemies. This book provides critical analysis of the right-wing but also powerful ammunition that we need in our struggles today and in the future if we are to prevent the social conservatives from seizing the agenda.
– Gary Kinsman, Professor, Sociology, Laurentian University, and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation
Chapter 1 Social Conservatism and the Canadian State
Chapter 2 The Right to Life and the Right to Choice
Chapter 3 Regulating Sexuality and Social Order
Chapter 4 Anti-Gay Activism in the Age of Rights
Chapter 5 The Defence of Family and Marriage
Chapter 6 Conflicting Rights and Clashing Values
Chapter 7 Faith, Politics, and the Transformation of Canada
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Jordanian Prime Minister meets UAE Ambassador.
Khalifa Fund, Ethiopian Ministry of Finance sign US$100m agreement to boost Ethiopia’s economy.
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Stratolaunch Completes Historic First Flight of Aircraft
April 14, 2019 Asianet Pakistan
World’s largest aircraft takes to the sky for its test flight over Mojave Desert
MOJAVE, California, April 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by Paul G. Allen, today successfully completed the first flight of the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, the Stratolaunch. With a dual fuselage design and wingspan greater than the length of an American football field, the Stratolaunch aircraft took flight at 06:58 AM PDT from the Mojave Air & Space Port. Achieving a maximum speed of 189 miles per hour, the plane flew for 2.5 hours over the Mojave Desert at altitudes up to 17,000 feet. As part of the initial flight, the pilots evaluated aircraft performance and handling qualities before landing successfully back at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
“What a fantastic first flight,” said Jean Floyd, CEO of Stratolaunch. “Today’s flight furthers our mission to provide a flexible alternative to ground launched systems. We are incredibly proud of the Stratolaunch team, today’s flight crew, our partners at Northrup Grumman’s Scaled Composites and the Mojave Air and Space Port.”
The test team conducted standard aircraft testing exercises. Initial results from today’s test points include:
Performed a variety of flight control maneuvers to calibrate speed and test flight control systems, including roll doublets, yawing maneuvers, pushovers and pull-ups, and steady heading side slips.
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The Stratolaunch aircraft is a mobile launch platform that will enable airline-style access to space that is convenient, affordable and routine. The reinforced center wing can support multiple launch vehicles, weighing up to a total of 500,000 pounds.
“We all know Paul would have been proud to witness today’s historic achievement,” said Jody Allen, Chair of Vulcan Inc. and Trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust. “The aircraft is a remarkable engineering achievement and we congratulate everyone involved.”
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Why should you support Project Hubbard? November 3, 2017 19:48
So, why should you back Project Hubbard?
Project Hubbard is the only and official Rob Kickstarter. It a reward for him, a reward for the musicians he inspired, and a reward for his many fans on all platforms: a reward they've been waiting for since 1988. He's in it, fully engaged, and ready to do this. We've both been working hard on getting SID fans and the London Symphony Orchestra in the same place. We can almost taste it!
https://c64audio.com/blogs/news/8-bit-symphony-a-symphonic-celebration-of-home-microcomputer-gaming
This is also a chance to get new SIDs, get Rob back into the studio with modular synths, to get unreleased and rare stuff, transcripts, scores and loads more: and to get an orchestral concert.
In the book, you get to hear the story of Rob's abortive pop career in the mid-80s and stories of Rob's band-playing days with bands such as "Muffin" and "Snoopy Woodstock". You get to understand why his music was so meaningful to you. You get a meaningful definitive timeline, an analysis of his driver that won't leave you confused, and so much more you won't believe. It's the entire Rob, lovingly compiled.
Please back and share if Rob ever made you happy, or made you sad, or blew your mind. You can back the book (which will be detailed and meaty). You can back the music (numerous and lovely). Or choose both. All pledges are available at both physical and digital levels.
14 new SIDs? Rob Hubbard's definitive remix album? A load of unheard Hubbard stuff done on synths prior to the SIDs... in what Universe isn't that the best thing ever for a Rob Hubbard Fan? Give 15 year old you a break, and back this. Cheers.
The Story of "Task Force" - the SID that wasn't. Then was. October 29, 2017 10:24
There are a lot of stories in Project Hubbard. This one is about one of Rob's favourite pieces that never got out to play: Task Force.
The story begins at the Opera. In 1982, Rob worked in the studio with a musician called Steve Daggett.
(From the Lindesfarne Wikipedia page): "During the second half of the 1980s they played annual Christmas tours and released Dance Your Life Away (1986) and C'mon Everybody (1987) – the latter made up of covers of old rock and roll standards and reworkings of some of the band's most popular songs. Keyboardist Steve Daggett, formerly of new wave band Stiletto, produced both these albums and augmented the onstage line-up for two tours."
Working on a 4-track recorder and with all the synths they could muster, and mostly played/mixed live with Rob running around the studio keeping everything moving, they produced a rock opera about the world of work, with cheeky vocals and guitar performed by Steve, with vocal help from Bren Laidler.
Here's Rob, talking about the process.
How we wrote? Well some of it we jammed, and then set about refining. I'd write down bits on paper so we didn't forget. Some of these then became more structured. We hooked up our synths with CV and triggers (I remember building electronic trigger converts), and sometimes this led to some interesting sounds and textures.
We recorded onto a revox, and wrote out recording scripts, so that we knew when to set levels, change synth knobs during the recording.
Very low analogue tech indeed.
Some of the gear we used (from what I recall):
Roland TR808
Sequential Circuits Pro One
Multimoog
Roland TB303
My old Casio
Some Roland organ/string keyboard.
This was all part of my learning process....
In the Newcastle of the time, unemployment was a big social issue, given the decline of the North-East in the early 1980s, and the unemployment it brought with it.
They did nothing with the rock opera, until...
An interview with the Newcastle Chronicle (featured in full in Rob Hubbard - the official reference) interviewed Rob about his burgeoning SID career, and happened to mention that the work opera (a shortened version of it at least), had been shown as part of a TV programme that same week: "Work... A Four Letter Word" as part of the TV Company Tyne Tees' "The Works" programme. This would not have been seen outside of the Tyne Tees area (the North-east of England centred on Rob's home of Newcastle).
The full version of the Rock Opera was never screened or released. However, correcting this kind of historical injustice is the sort of thing this Kickstarter is trying to achieve.
The full version of this Rock Opera, which is the most 80s thing I've heard and is packed full of delightful Rob Hubbard touches, will appear in full on "The Rob Hubbard Archive" in the Kickstarter.
Now, there is one song that is particularly important here: Task Force, one of the few instrumentals on the album, and of which Rob says "Task Force is about the option of joining the army - and has a certain darkness to it.".
Task Force started, as virtually all of Rob's compositions do, as a sketch. Did you know Rob has a list of composing rules? They will be reproduced in the book too.
It's very easy when you're using sequencers to build a tune off of a cool effect: but most of Rob's pieces started off as doodles on the keyboard, and a tune painstakingly constructed on paper.
This ensures that Rob's pieces have a certain portability musically: they can be converted to other forms relatively easily, all the way from SID to Score, and aren't reliant on any given sound or sonic environment. In many ways, this is a lost skill: even many symphonic composers don't read or write musical notation these days.
So, Task Force in the Work Opera started off like this (remember, in 1980/1981 there was no MIDI, so much of this was performed "live").
At some point in the 1990s while at EA, Rob converted this to Voyetra Sequencer on the PC as a SNG file (kind of a proprietary MIDI file) for the MT32. If Task Force becomes an orchestration, this is what it will be based on.
Even in a MIDI rendition, the overall mood remained inexorable, dark and gloomy: like some kind of Lair. A Dragon's Lair II, maybe?
The whole point of Alt-SIDs on the Project Hubbard project is to convert to SID pieces which might have been converted, but which weren't. This one, with its Dragon's Lair II vibe was an ideal candidate (and it's also a personal favourite of Rob's).
And so, Jason Page got to work, taking Rob's original composition, and matching it seamlessly with the Dragon's Lair II sounds, initially developing in Sidtracker 64 for the iPad (the plan being to release it in a form using Rob's original driver).
So, it will appear on the archive CD (in its original recorded form), on Alt-SIDs (as a new SID), and also might even appear on Hubbard '80, brought to life as it was meant to be in the first place, and would have been if Rob and Steve had much bigger budget in 1980. The Hubbard '80 track listing is still in flux, so this track may not appear.
However, this gives you an idea of how one track might flow through the project: being a subject of interesting anecdotes in the book, being in the archive, becoming a SID, and then maybe becoming a modular synth track.
That's the story of Task Force. The SID that wasn't, then was.
Now support Project Hubbard. 15 year old you is counting on it!
Rob Hubbard - The Official Reference - Explained! October 26, 2017 20:00
Project Hubbard was an ideal opportunity to give Rob Hubbard fans on all platforms the best book they could possibly get. 29 years after he left for EA, fans could be forgiven for thinking it would never happen. But, if Kickstarter is good for something, it's about making the unlikely happen.
But why does Rob deserve a book?
"Because as well as being a great composer, he also made himself a part of the community both back in the 80s and now, and he always stands his round. Galway's musical contribution is possibly greater, but Rob .. he had a bizarre Northern star quality. He's just a lovely bloke. And funny. And swears a lot. But seriously, I bought up a pint at the thing up north that time, and he promptly bought me one back. That kinda thing sticks with you. :)
During his stage performances, he's always played with and bantered with the audience. That always makes things feel special, and personal. This Night Only, Mr. Rob Hubbard. He plays other nights, but none will be like that one." - Mark Hennessy-Barrett, Video FX "The Orville".
This opinion is widely shared, albeit with a statistically biased sample :)
What book do you write?
Rob himself habitually underplays the impact of his work on other people, or its effect on the video games industry: which we contend is substantial. But what book do you write?
It's certainly not a Rob Hubbard picture book. We believe that fans of Rob's work are thirsting over the details and aching for the nitty-gritty. Sure, there's pictures... lots of them. But they've got to serve the text. What did his EA development environment look like? Just what was the band Muffin up to in Norway? What did his sounds look like if you draw them, for instance?
More than a biography
Most music biographies seem to spend very little time on the actual music produced by the personality. This is partially because it's quite difficult to write about music using words, and traditional musicology is a very dry subject not suited to a general readership.
However, Rob's defining feature isn't his own life: it's that his music affected the lives of others, sometimes drastically so.
Here's Ian Flory, the author of the free Rob Hubbard PC game "RoboRob" on what Rob means to him:
Others also owe Rob a debt:
"I kinda owe all I have done with music to Rob and the SID" - Tim Koch"
"I grew up on his game music in the 80/90, his C64 music was a great influence on me, and is one of the major reasons I got interested in game design/development. I didn't go the music route, but rather graphics & 3d design, but still, if it wasn't for his contributions in the 80s & 90s, I might not have went into this profession." - John Gado
Provisional outline (open in new tab for full-size):
Getting the time right
His music deserves historical accuracy, by getting timelines right so that we can create a primary source to make sure Wikipedia is correct.
We have access to Rob's own invoice books, and of course the brain of Rob himself, to ensure that this book is definitive. No more Wikipedia arguments!
His music also deserves expansion and context such as fun facts and cool background information about the music.
Quite often the music was cleverer than you thought: and we want to explain why!
In this case, Dr Kenny McAlpine, the UK's premier chipmusicologist is the ideal person to step in. A published academic with a book about chipmusic about to appear on Oxford University Press.
Kenny is very keen to analyse Rob's music properly. He will look in-depth at how he used both the technology and the musical content to create the feelings and atmosphere that the fans responded to, and will do it in a readable and interesting way.
For a composer such as Rob, to whom life has always been about the music, this is the ideal way to pay respect: giving his music a suitably deep analysis that isn't bogged down by dry music theory.
Behind the Tech
We've all wished we knew how Rob (or any of the composers) did what they did. In this book, you can find out.
We're taking great pains to present Rob's Electronic Arts Driver in a way that makes it understandable. Of course we print the driver itself in a technical appendix, but we will also analyse how it works at a high level. Thanks to Jason Page porting Rob's driver to object oriented code, we can show much more easily how it works conceptually.
You might never be able to write a driver, but finally, after all these years, you'll get an idea of how it all works.
Rob is other people
Rob's impact on lives all over the world was immense. That's something that should be looked at in as much depth as we can fit in. He built software houses, and he changed lives. He inspired more devotion, disciples and innovation than he could ever have imagined.
It was, and is, a double life where the modest musician from Hull is some sort of global rock-star, but one who, in the immortal words of Ben Daglish, "can still go down to the supermarket without being hassled."
The Whole Rob
Of course, it was his work on the Commodore 64 in the mid-80s that made his name: but Rob had a long career before that, and a long career after: innovating, composing and orchestrating. The book covers that: his time playing in over 20 bands (he's doing to try and remember the names of most of them, but two of them are "Muffin" and "Snoopy Woodstock"), his time spent working on "Work Opera" with Steve Daggett (re-produced in full for the first time) and his other life working the cruise ships.
The Project Hubbard Archive CD allows people to experience his "lost works": and in some cases, works that were released, but in a better form.
Not just for SID
Just as any book on Paul McCartney would concentrate on his music after the Beatles, this book gives proper credit and exposure to his work on other technical platforms, such as the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, PC, 3DO and even PSX.
Anyone who has enjoyed Rob's music, whether they be a 90s Mega Drive owner who lived through Road Rash and John Madden, a NES fanatic who head-banged to Skate or Die 2 or thrilled to "The Immortal", or a PC owner who fell in love with Rob's Sherlock music while solving crimes in Victorian London... this book should be of interest to them all.
If the campaign makes £55,000, each Rob book will come with a Rob Hubbard source code bookmark exclusive to the Kickstarter.
Hopefully we've explained enough about the book to make you realise how much we're planning to do.
Each section of the book is self-contained and focussed, so it's also ideal for dipping into.
Now, why not support it?
We have a great team on board: Dr McAlpine, Paul E. Morrison (published author), Roger Kean (game industry and Newsfield legend), Anna Black (media expert) and definite.design.
It's Rob's Gig
Of course, Rob himself is the star of the book, and his involvement is what sets this book apart. He has raided his archives to find scans and unreleased tracks, and made exclusive material available that's never been seen.
Holy Sheet!
There's even sheet music: easy piano and guitar tabs, and if space permits, C64 Orchestra scores (if space doesn't permit, these PDFs will be made available as separate digital downloads).
The Mighty Robb
Help us create a better book by pre-ordering/backing it: one stretch goal is to create additional pages for the book which have Zzap! style talking heads reviewing Rob's music, called "Robb!64", with the blessing of Roger Kean and Oli Frey.
Project Hubbard - How many albums?? October 2, 2017 18:21
Remix albums are a big part of Project Hubbard (digital, and of course on CD). and not only Rob and Marcel's main "Hubbard '80" album.
The Audio part of Project Hubbard comes in "Standard" and "Deluxe" editions.
The standard edition has THREE audio albums:
Hubbard '80 (Rob and Marcel)
Alt-SIDs (Rob and Jason Page)
The Hubbard Archive (Rob)
The deluxe one has those three, plus a potential extra SIX albums: NINE albums in total, all completely amazing. You'll love them.
"Rob and the Bacon" - Uncle and the Bacon
10 brand new big band/swing/boogie C64 remixes. Why not catch up with "Big Band Bacon"?
"Rock Hubbard" - FastLoaders
Progressive Metal Rob Hubbard Remixes from the Norwegian wonders "FastLoaders", following on from their forthcoming "Progressive 64" album.
"Escape from New Rob" - Mark "TDK" Knight
John Carpenter-style Rob Hubbard remixes.
Escape from New Rob artwork by Trevor Storey
"Robdez-Vous Special Edition" - Marcel Donné
A customised edition of "Robdez-Vous" from Marcel Donné's multi-disk Project Sidologie.
(Stretch goal) "Hubbard Remixed"
Various legends contributing their favourite Rob Hubbard tracks in their favourite style including Allister Brimble, Barry Leitch and Johan Andersson.
(Stretch goal) "Robformation" - Matt Gray
8 brand-new Rob Hubbard remixes from the legendary Matt Gray, plus Sanxion from Reformation 1 and Commando from Reformation 2, making 10 tracks in total.
You know who likes C64 remix albums? I'm not naming names, but...
Project Hubbard: Rob's Life September 24, 2017 18:02
Project Hubbard has always been about celebrating Rob's entire career (the lion's share of attention always falls on the SID years, but he has a long and productive career either side of that, and also a second career as "Robb Hubbard - 8-Bit Zzap!64 celebrity".
So was born: an NTSC/PAL cartridge as an add-on into the Project Hubbard Kickstarter. Not the main event, just a fun little thing.
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The Story of "Task Force" - the SID that wasn't. Then was. Posted on 29 Oct 10:24
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Does Weight Loss Always Lead To A Significantly Lower Metabolism?
During weight loss, there is a process of metabolic adaptation that can increase hunger and reduce energy requirements. This is believed to be part of why weight loss maintenance is difficult for many.
But does weight loss always lead to a reduced metabolism, or is this something that only some individuals experience?
In adaptive thermogenesis, the resting energy expenditure (REE) decreases further than what is predicted based on changes in body mass and composition. This is one way that the body is able to adapt the metabolism during weight loss.
There is some research that suggests that REE drops beyond the predicted level, and can persist over the long term. One recent study evaluated 14 contestants from The Biggest Loser, and found that after 6 years, their REE was 500kcal/day lower than predicted. Some researchers suggest that this shows the futility of maintaining weight loss.
However, there may be factors that influence how much metabolic adaptation occurs during weight loss. It could even be that individuals who have minimal or no adaptation are more successful in maintaining weight loss.
With this in mind, researchers designed a case-control study to evaluate whether successful weight-loss maintainers experienced a lower than predicted REE.
Three groups of participants were recruited for the study. One group consisted of 34 weight loss maintainers (WLM) who had maintained a ≥13.6kg weight loss for ≥1 year. There were two control groups – one group of normal weight participants (NC) with a similar BMI to the WLM group, and one of overweight and obese participants (OC) with a similar BMI to the WLM group pre-weight loss.
Researchers measured the REE of each group using indirect calorimetry, which measured the respiratory gas exchange over a 30 minute period. They then calculated predicted REE for the WLM group using the data from the NC and OC group, as well as using 3 standard predictive equations – Harris and Benedict, Mifflin et al. and an equation based on tissue-specific metabolic rates.
The findings
The REE of WLMs was accurately predicted using the equations from NCs and OCs, as well as the 3 predictive equations. In the WLM, the difference between the predicted REE and actual REE ranged from -257kcal to +163kcal/day.
A lower REE compared to prediction was correlated with the amount of weight loss, but not the duration of maintenance.
The researchers concluded that they had no consistent evidence of a significantly lower REE than predicted in people who successfully maintained weight loss over a long period of time. They suggested that sustained weight loss may not always cause a substantial reduction in metabolism.
Limitations in the study were noted, such as the limited number of participants with a BMI over 40. This means the results may vary for people with morbid obesity. The WLM sample was 76% female and 100% Caucasian, so further research may be needed to confirm these findings in males and different ethnicities.
Ostendorf, D.M., Melanson, E.L., Caldwell, A.E., Creasy, S.A., Pan, Z., MacLean, P.S., Wyatt, H.R., Hill, J.O. and Catenacci, V.A., 2018. No consistent evidence of a disproportionately low resting energy expenditure in long-term successful weight-loss maintainers. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 108(4), pp.658-666.
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Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King says Manafort doesn’t deserve Rikers
Rikers Island is so bad, that not even Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort deserves to go there, Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King said on Twitter.
King tweeted his thoughts Tuesday after Fox News reported that Manafort, who is serving a federal prison sentence for bank and tax fraud charges, will be transferred to Riker’s Island later this week.
“I see people excited to see Paul Manafort sent to Rikers Island and put in solitary confinement,” King tweeted. “We must be so principled in our calls for reform that we want them even for our enemies.”
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: WHY IS PAUL MANAFORT OFF TO RIKERS? PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED (AND OUTRAGED)
Rikers, which holds nine of New York City’s 13 jails, is renowned for its brutal violence, corruption, and gang rivalries. Rikers’ inmates have included some of the 20th century’s most notorious criminals including the “Son of Sam” and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Despite millions poured into reform efforts, violence has escalated in recent years.
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Though it may be “exciting” to see someone of “privilege” being sent to a place where “hundreds of thousands of us have been sent to,” Rikers is still a “hell hole that nobody should have to go to. Even Paul Manafort,” King added.
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Will Denver Save Lives By Expanding Its Tiny Red Light Camera Program?
The City Council voted overwhelmingly to continue Denver’s red light camera program, but it remains to be seen whether the city will expand it beyong four intersections. Image: Denver 8 TV
The City Council voted Monday to continue and possibly expand the Denver Police Department’s electronic traffic enforcement program over the next five years. The 10-1 vote with one abstention approved a $6.6 million contract with the operator of the cameras.
Red light cameras save lives. A study of dozens of American cities conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimated that the cameras reduce the rate of fatal red light running 24 percent.
Denver PD currently has red light cameras at four intersections. Each has seen a reduction in red light running since the program began in 2008, according to Denver PD. (At individual locations, the reductions have been 61 percent, 54 percent, 39 percent, and 6 percent.)
The size of the current program is peanuts compared to cities with similar populations. Seattle has cameras at 31 intersections and Washington, D.C., has them at 47. While the contract allows the city to expand the number of intersections with red light cameras, it remains to be seen whether the city will do so.
Councilman Paul Kashmann called for placing red light cameras at more locations. “If we’ve really decided that this is an effective program, I think we really need to look at a substantial expansion of this program,” Kashmann said. “People are driving like lunatics in the city.”
The contract does call for newer camera technology that will make it easier to move them from intersection to intersection. That means the city will have greater flexibility to place cameras at dangerous intersections, instead of being locked into static locations that may not address the most pressing public safety risks.
The one vote against the program came from Councilman Kevin Flynn, who said the yellow phase at signals should be lengthened instead. Flynn’s argument is that the city should set up traffic signals to accommodate speeding drivers instead of ticketing them.
Kashmann said speeding needs to be brought under control, not catered to. “If people are driving too quickly then we need to employ whatever traffic calming measures that we can, whether it’s electronic signs telling you how fast you’re driving, whether it’s striping, narrowing lanes, whatever, we need to address it to control the speeds,” Kashmann said.
Filed Under: Denver City Council, red light cameras, safety
As long as cars have time to stop from when the light turns yellow when they’re traveling the speed limit then that’s fine. No allowances for speeding should be made. You know there’s “standards” out there for this calculation.
Jeff Cohn
Which intersections marked as red light cameras hould be removed from this map? http://www.photoenforced.com/denver.html
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