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Public Health Statement for Arsenic
Spanish: Arsénico
CAS#: 7440-38-2
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This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for Arsenic. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQs™, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-800-232-4636.
This public health statement tells you about arsenic and the effects of exposure to it.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites are then placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) and are targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Arsenic has been found in at least 1,149 of the 1,684 current or former NPL sites. Although the total number of NPL sites evaluated for this substance is not known, the possibility exists that the number of sites at which arsenic is found may increase in the future as more sites are evaluated. This information is important because these sites may be sources of exposure and exposure to this substance may harm you.
When a substance is released either from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. Such a release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact.
If you are exposed to arsenic, many factors will determine whether you will be harmed. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), and how you come in contact with it. You must also consider any other chemicals you are exposed to and your age, sex, diet, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that is widely distributed in the Earth’s crust. Arsenic is classified chemically as a metalloid, having both properties of a metal and a nonmetal; however, it is frequently referred to as a metal. Elemental arsenic (sometimes referred to as metallic arsenic) is a steel grey solid material. However, arsenic is usually found in the environment combined with other elements such as oxygen, chlorine, and sulfur. Arsenic combined with these elements is called inorganic arsenic. Arsenic combined with carbon and hydrogen is referred to as organic arsenic.
Most inorganic and organic arsenic compounds are white or colorless powders that do not evaporate. They have no smell, and most have no special taste. Thus, you usually cannot tell if arsenic is present in your food, water, or air.
Inorganic arsenic occurs naturally in soil and in many kinds of rock, especially in minerals and ores that contain copper or lead. When these ores are heated in smelters, most of the arsenic goes up the stack and enters the air as a fine dust. Smelters may collect this dust and take out the arsenic as a compound called arsenic trioxide (As2O3). However, arsenic is no longer produced in the United States; all of the arsenic used in the United States is imported.
Presently, about 90% of all arsenic produced is used as a preservative for wood to make it resistant to rotting and decay. The preservative is copper chromated arsenate (CCA) and the treated wood is referred to as “pressure-treated.” In 2003, U.S. manufacturers of wood preservatives containing arsenic began a voluntary transition from CCA to other wood preservatives that do not contain arsenic in wood products for certain residential uses, such as play structures, picnic tables, decks, fencing, and boardwalks. This phase out was completed on December 31, 2003; however, wood treated prior to this date could still be used and existing structures made with CCA-treated wood would not be affected. CCA-treated wood products continue to be used in industrial applications. It is not known whether, or to what extent, CCA-treated wood products may contribute to exposure of people to arsenic.
In the past, inorganic arsenic compounds were predominantly used as pesticides, primarily on cotton fields and in orchards. Inorganic arsenic compounds can no longer be used in agriculture. However, organic arsenic compounds, namely cacodylic acid, disodium methyl¬arsenate (DSMA), and monosodium methylarsenate (MSMA), are still used as pesticides, principally on cotton. Some organic arsenic compounds are used as additives in animal feed. Small quantities of elemental arsenic are added to other metals to form metal mixtures or alloys with improved properties. The greatest use of arsenic in alloys is in lead-acid batteries for automobiles. Another important use of arsenic compounds is in semiconductors and light-emitting diodes.
Arsenic occurs naturally in soil and minerals and it therefore may enter the air, water, and land from wind-blown dust and may get into water from runoff and leaching. Volcanic eruptions are another source of arsenic. Arsenic is associated with ores containing metals, such as copper and lead. Arsenic may enter the environment during the mining and smelting of these ores. Small amounts of arsenic also may be released into the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants and incinerators because coal and waste products often contain some arsenic.
Arsenic cannot be destroyed in the environment. It can only change its form, or become attached to or separated from particles. It may change its form by reacting with oxygen or other molecules present in air, water, or soil, or by the action of bacteria that live in soil or sediment. Arsenic released from power plants and other combustion processes is usually attached to very small particles. Arsenic contained in wind-borne soil is generally found in larger particles. These particles settle to the ground or are washed out of the air by rain. Arsenic that is attached to very small particles may stay in the air for many days and travel long distances. Many common arsenic compounds can dissolve in water. Thus, arsenic can get into lakes, rivers, or underground water by dissolving in rain or snow or through the discharge of industrial wastes. Some of the arsenic will stick to particles in the water or sediment on the bottom of lakes or rivers, and some will be carried along by the water. Ultimately, most arsenic ends up in the soil or sediment. Although some fish and shellfish take in arsenic, which may build up in tissues, most of this arsenic is in an organic form called arsenobetaine (commonly called "fish arsenic") that is much less harmful.
Since arsenic is found naturally in the environment, you will be exposed to some arsenic by eating food, drinking water, or breathing air. Children may also be exposed to arsenic by eating soil. Analytical methods used by scientists to determine the levels of arsenic in the environment generally do not determine the specific form of arsenic present. Therefore, we do not always know the form of arsenic a person may be exposed to. Similarly, we often do not know what forms of arsenic are present at hazardous waste sites. Some forms of arsenic may be so tightly attached to particles or embedded in minerals that they are not taken up by plants and animals.
The concentration of arsenic in soil varies widely, generally ranging from about 1 to 40 parts of arsenic to a million parts of soil (ppm) with an average level of 3–4 ppm. However, soils in the vicinity of arsenic-rich geological deposits, some mining and smelting sites, or agricultural areas where arsenic pesticides had been applied in the past may contain much higher levels of arsenic. The concentration of arsenic in natural surface and groundwater is generally about 1 part in a billion parts of water (1 ppb), but may exceed 1,000 ppb in contaminated areas or where arsenic levels in soil are high. Groundwater is far more likely to contain high levels of arsenic than surface water. Surveys of U.S. drinking water indicate that about 80% of water supplies have less than 2 ppb of arsenic, but 2% of supplies exceed 20 ppb of arsenic. Levels of arsenic in food range from about 20 to 140 ppb. However, levels of inorganic arsenic, the form of most concern, are far lower. Levels of arsenic in the air generally range from less than 1 to about 2,000 nanograms (1 nanogram equals a billionth of a gram) of arsenic per cubic meter of air (less than 1–2,000 ng/m3), depending on location, weather conditions, and the level of industrial activity in the area. However, urban areas generally have mean arsenic levels in air ranging from 20 to 30 ng/m3.
You normally take in small amounts of arsenic in the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the food you eat. Of these, food is usually the largest source of arsenic. The predominant dietary source of arsenic is seafood, followed by rice/rice cereal, mushrooms, and poultry. While seafood contains the greatest amounts of arsenic, for fish and shellfish, this is mostly in an organic form of arsenic called arsenobetaine that is much less harmful. Some seaweeds may contain arsenic in inorganic forms that may be more harmful. Children are likely to eat small amounts of dust or soil each day, so this is another way they may be exposed to arsenic. The total amount of arsenic you take in from these sources is generally about 50 micrograms (1 microgram equals one-millionth of a gram) each day. The level of inorganic arsenic (the form of most concern) you take in from these sources is generally about 3.5 microgram/day. Children may be exposed to small amounts of arsenic from hand-to-mouth activities from playing on play structures or decks constructed out of CCA-treated wood. The potential exposure that children may receive from playing in play structures constructed from CCA-treated wood is generally smaller than that they would receive from food and water.
In addition to the normal levels of arsenic in air, water, soil, and food, you could be exposed to higher levels in several ways, such as the following:
Some areas of the United States contain unusually high natural levels of arsenic in rock, and this can lead to unusually high levels of arsenic in soil or water. If you live in an area like this, you could take in elevated amounts of arsenic in drinking water. Children may be taking in higher amounts of arsenic because of hand-to-mouth contact or eating soil in areas with higher than usual arsenic concentrations.
Some hazardous waste sites contain large quantities of arsenic. If the material is not properly disposed of, it can get into surrounding water, air, or soil. If you live near such a site, you could be exposed to elevated levels of arsenic from these media.
If you work in an occupation that involves arsenic production or use (for example, copper or lead smelting, wood treating, or pesticide application), you could be exposed to elevated levels of arsenic during your work.
If you saw or sand arsenic-treated wood, you could inhale some of the sawdust into your nose or throat. Similarly, if you burn arsenic-treated wood, you could inhale arsenic in the smoke.
If you live in a former agricultural area where arsenic was used on crops, the soil could contain high levels of arsenic.
In the past, several kinds of products used in the home (rat poison, ant poison, weed killer, some types of medicines) had arsenic in them. However, most of these uses of arsenic have ended, so you are not likely to be exposed from home products any longer.
If you swallow arsenic in water, soil, or food, most of the arsenic may quickly enter into your body. The amount that enters your body will depend on how much you swallow and the kind of arsenic that you swallow. This is the most likely way for you to be exposed near a waste site. If you breathe air that contains arsenic dusts, many of the dust particles settle onto the lining of the lungs. Most of the arsenic in these particles is then taken up from the lungs into the body. You might be exposed in this way near waste sites where arsenic-contaminated soils are allowed to blow into the air, or if you work with arsenic-containing soil or products. If you get arsenic-contaminated soil or water on your skin, only a small amount will go through your skin into your body, so this is usually not of concern.
Both inorganic and organic forms leave your body in your urine. Most of the inorganic arsenic will be gone within several days, although some will remain in your body for several months or even longer. If you are exposed to organic arsenic, most of it will leave your body within several days.
Scientists use many tests to protect the public from harmful effects of toxic chemicals and to find ways for treating persons who have been harmed.
One way to learn whether a chemical will harm people is to determine how the body absorbs, uses, and releases the chemical. For some chemicals, animal testing may be necessary. Animal testing may also help identify health effects such as cancer or birth defects. Without laboratory animals, scientists would lose a basic method for getting information needed to make wise decisions that protect public health. Scientists have the responsibility to treat research animals with care and compassion. Scientists must comply with strict animal care guidelines because laws today protect the welfare of research animals.
Inorganic arsenic has been recognized as a human poison since ancient times, and large oral doses (above 60,000 ppb in water which is 10,000 times higher than 80% of U.S. drinking water arsenic levels) can result in death. If you swallow lower levels of inorganic arsenic (ranging from about 300 to 30,000 ppb in water; 100–10,000 times higher than most U.S. drinking water levels), you may experience irritation of your stomach and intestines, with symptoms such as stomachache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Other effects you might experience from swallowing inorganic arsenic include decreased production of red and white blood cells, which may cause fatigue, abnormal heart rhythm, blood-vessel damage resulting in bruising, and impaired nerve function causing a "pins and needles" sensation in your hands and feet.
Perhaps the single-most characteristic effect of long-term oral exposure to inorganic arsenic is a pattern of skin changes. These include patches of darkened skin and the appearance of small "corns" or "warts" on the palms, soles, and torso, and are often associated with changes in the blood vessels of the skin. Skin cancer may also develop. Swallowing arsenic has also been reported to increase the risk of cancer in the liver, bladder, and lungs. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that inorganic arsenic is known to be a human carcinogen (a chemical that causes cancer). The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that inorganic arsenic is carcinogenic to humans. EPA also has classified inorganic arsenic as a known human carcinogen.
If you breathe high levels of inorganic arsenic, then you are likely to experience a sore throat and irritated lungs. You may also develop some of the skin effects mentioned above. The exposure level that produces these effects is uncertain, but it is probably above 100 micrograms of arsenic per cubic meter (μg/m3) for a brief exposure. Longer exposure at lower concentrations can lead to skin effects, and also to circulatory and peripheral nervous disorders. There are some data suggesting that inhalation of inorganic arsenic may also interfere with normal fetal development, although this is not certain. An important concern is the ability of inhaled inorganic arsenic to increase the risk of lung cancer. This has been seen mostly in workers exposed to arsenic at smelters, mines, and chemical factories, but also in residents living near smelters and arsenical chemical factories. People who live near waste sites with arsenic may have an increased risk of lung cancer as well.
If you have direct skin contact with high concentrations of inorganic arsenic compounds, your skin may become irritated, with some redness and swelling. However, it does not appear that skin contact is likely to lead to any serious internal effects.
Almost no information is available on the effects of organic arsenic compounds in humans. Studies in animals show that most simple organic arsenic compounds (such as methyl and dimethyl compounds) are less toxic than the inorganic forms. In animals, ingestion of methyl compounds can result in diarrhea, and lifetime exposure can damage the kidneys. Lifetime exposure to dimethyl compounds can damage the urinary bladder and the kidneys.
This section discusses potential health effects in humans from exposures during the period from conception to maturity at 18 years of age.
Children are exposed to arsenic in many of the same ways that adults are. Since arsenic is found in the soil, water, food, and air, children may take in arsenic in the air they breathe, the water they drink, and the food they eat. Since children tend to eat or drink less of a variety of foods and beverages than do adults, ingestion of contaminated food or juice or infant formula made with arsenic-contaminated water may represent a significant source of exposure. In addition, since children often play in the soil and put their hands in their mouths and sometimes intentionally eat soil, ingestion of contaminated soil may be a more important source of arsenic exposure for children than for adults. In areas of the United States where natural levels of arsenic in the soil and water are high, or in areas in and around contaminated waste sites, exposure of children to arsenic through ingestion of soil and water may be significant. In addition, contact with adults who are wearing clothes contaminated with arsenic (e.g., with dust from copper- or lead-smelting factories, from wood-treating or pesticide application, or from arsenic-treated wood) could be a source of exposure. Because of the tendency of children to taste things that they find, accidental poisoning from ingestion of pesticides is also a possibility. Thus, although most of the exposure pathways for children are the same as those for adults, children may be at a higher risk of exposure because of normal hand-to-mouth activity.
Children who are exposed to inorganic arsenic may have many of the same effects as adults, including irritation of the stomach and intestines, blood vessel damage, skin changes, and reduced nerve function. Thus, all health effects observed in adults are of potential concern in children. There is also some evidence that suggests that long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic in children may result in lower IQ scores. We do not know if absorption of inorganic arsenic from the gut in children differs from adults.
There is some evidence that exposure to arsenic in early life (including gestation and early childhood) may increase mortality in young adults.
There is some evidence that inhaled or ingested inorganic arsenic can injure pregnant women or their unborn babies, although the studies are not definitive. Studies in animals show that large doses of inorganic arsenic that cause illness in pregnant females can also cause low birth weight, fetal malformations, and even fetal death. Arsenic can cross the placenta and has been found in fetal tissues. Arsenic is found at low levels in breast milk.
In animals, exposure to organic arsenic compounds can cause low birth weight, fetal malformations, and fetal deaths. The dose levels that cause these effects also result in effects in the mothers.
If your doctor finds that you have been exposed to substantial amounts of arsenic, ask whether your children might also have been exposed. Your doctor might need to ask your state health department to investigate.
Many communities may have high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, particularly from private wells, because of contamination or as a result of the geology of the area. The north central region and the western region of the United States have the highest arsenic levels in surface water and groundwater sources, respectively. Wells used to provide water for drinking and cooking should be tested for arsenic. As of January 2006, EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic in drinking water is 10 ppb. If you have arsenic in your drinking water at levels higher that the EPA’s MCL, an alternative source of water should be used for drinking and cooking should be considered.
If you use arsenic-treated wood in home projects, personal protection from exposure to arsenic-containing sawdust may be helpful in limiting exposure of family members. These measures may include dust masks, gloves, and protective clothing. Arsenic-treated wood should never be burned in open fires, or in stoves, residential boilers, or fire places, and should not be composted or used as mulch. EPA’s Consumer Awareness Program (CAP) for CCA is a voluntary program established by the manufacturers of CCA products to inform consumers about the proper handling, use, and disposal of CCA-treated wood. You can find more information about this program in Section 6.5. Hand washing can reduce the potential exposure of children to arsenic after playing on play structures constructed with CCA-treated wood, since most of the arsenic on the children’s hands was removed with water.
If you live in an area with a high level of arsenic in the water or soil, substituting cleaner sources of water and limiting contact with soil (for example, through use of a dense groundcover or thick lawn) would reduce family exposure to arsenic. By paying careful attention to dust and soil control in the home (air filters, frequent cleaning), you can reduce family exposure to contaminated soil. Some children eat a lot of soil. You should prevent your children from eating soil. You should discourage your children from putting objects in their mouths. Make sure they wash their hands frequently and before eating. Discourage your children from putting their hands in their mouths or engaging in other hand-to-mouth activities. Since arsenic may be found in the home as a pesticide, household chemicals containing arsenic should be stored out of reach of young children to prevent accidental poisonings. Always store household chemicals in their original labeled containers; never store household chemicals in containers that children would find attractive to eat or drink from, such as old soda bottles. Keep your Poison Control Center’s number by the phone.
It is sometimes possible to carry arsenic from work on your clothing, skin, hair, tools, or other objects removed from the workplace. This is particularly likely if you work in the fertilizer, pesticide, glass, or copper/lead smelting industries. You may contaminate your car, home, or other locations outside work where children might be exposed to arsenic. You should know about this possibility if you work with arsenic.
Your occupational health and safety officer at work can and should tell you whether chemicals you work with are dangerous and likely to be carried home on your clothes, body, or tools and whether you should be showering and changing clothes before you leave work, storing your street clothes in a separate area of the workplace, or laundering your work clothes at home separately from other clothes. Material safety data sheets (MSDS) for many chemicals used should be found at your place of work, as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the U.S. Department of Labor. MSDS information should include chemical names and hazardous ingredients, and important properties, such as fire and explosion data, potential health effects, how you get the chemical(s) in your body, how to properly handle the materials, and what to do in the case of emergencies. Your employer is legally responsible for providing a safe workplace and should freely answer your questions about hazardous chemicals. Your state OSHA-approved occupational safety and health program or OSHA can answer any further questions and help your employer identify and correct problems with hazardous substances. Your state OSHA-approved occupational safety and health program or OSHA will listen to your formal complaints about workplace health hazards and inspect your workplace when necessary. Employees have a right to seek safety and health on the job without fear of punishment.
Several sensitive and specific tests can measure arsenic in your blood, urine, hair, or fingernails, and these tests are often helpful in determining if you have been exposed to above-average levels of arsenic in the past. These tests are not usually performed in a doctor’s office. They require sending the sample to a testing laboratory.
Measurement of arsenic in your urine is the most reliable means of detecting arsenic exposures that you experienced within the last several days. Most tests measure the total amount of arsenic present in your urine. This can sometimes be misleading, because the nonharmful forms of arsenic in fish and shellfish can give a high reading even if you have not been exposed to a toxic form of arsenic. For this reason, laboratories sometimes use a more complicated test to separate “fish arsenic” from other forms. Because most arsenic leaves your body within a few days, analysis of your urine cannot detect if you were exposed to arsenic in the past. Tests of your hair or fingernails can tell if you were exposed to high levels over the past 6–12 months, but these tests are not very useful in detecting low-level exposures. If high levels of arsenic are detected, this shows that you have been exposed, but unless more is known about when you were exposed and for how long, it is usually not possible to predict whether you will have any harmful health effects.
The federal government develops regulations and recommendations to protect public health. Regulations can be enforced by law. The EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are some federal agencies that develop regulations for toxic substances. Recommendations provide valuable guidelines to protect public health, but cannot be enforced by law. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are two federal organizations that develop recommendations for toxic substances.
Regulations and recommendations can be expressed as “not-to-exceed” levels, that is, levels of a toxic substance in air, water, soil, or food that do not exceed a critical value that is usually based on levels that affect animals; they are then adjusted to levels that will help protect humans. Sometimes these not-to-exceed levels differ among federal organizations because they used different exposure times (an 8-hour workday or a 24-hour day), different animal studies, or other factors.
Recommendations and regulations are also updated periodically as more information becomes available. For the most current information, check with the federal agency or organization that provides it. Some regulations and recommendations for ARSENIC include the following:
The federal government has taken several steps to protect humans from arsenic. First, EPA has set limits on the amount of arsenic that industrial sources can release into the environment. Second, EPA has restricted or canceled many of the uses of arsenic in pesticides and is considering further restrictions. Third, in January 2001, the EPA lowered the limit for arsenic in drinking water from 50 to 10 ppb. Finally, OSHA has established a permissible exposure limit (PEL), 8-hour time-weighted average, of 10 μg/m3 for airborne arsenic in various workplaces that use inorganic arsenic.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2007. Toxicological profile for Arsenic. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO 888-232-6348 (TTY)
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ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
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Radiocarbon, Volume 46, Number 2 (Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference, Part 2 of 2, 2004)
Wiggle-Match Dating of Tree-Ring Sequences
Galimberti, Mariagrazia; Bronk Ramsey, Christopher; Manning, Sturt W. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Given the non-monotonic form of the radiocarbon calibration curve, the precision of single 14C dates on the calendar timescale will always be limited. One way around this limitation is through comparison of time-series, which should exhibit the same irregular patterning as the calibration curve. This approach can be employed most directly in the case of wood samples with many years growth present (but not able to be dated by dendrochronology), where the tree-ring series of unknown date can be compared against the similarly constructed 14C calibration curve built from known-age wood. This process of curve-fitting has come to be called "wiggle-matching." in this paper, we look at the requirements for getting good precision by this method: sequence length, sampling frequency, and measurement precision. We also look at 3 case studies: one a piece of wood which has been independently dendrochronologically dated, and two others of unknown age relating to archaeological activity at Silchester, UK (Roman) and Miletos, Anatolia (relating to the volcanic eruption at Thera).
Variation of the Radiocarbon Content in Tree Rings During the Spoerer Minimum
Miyahara, Hiroko; Masuda, Kimiaki; Furuzawa, Hideki; Menjo, Hiroaki; Muraki, Yasushi; Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Nakamura Toshio (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
This paper presents the variation of radiocarbon content in annual tree rings for the period AD 1413-1553, which includes the Spoerer Minimum period (AD 1415-1534). Since the variation of the production rate of 14C is strongly related to solar activity, the variation of 14C content in annual tree rings gives us information on the characteristics of variation of solar activity. We have studied solar activity during the grand solar minima, focusing especially on the stability of the 11-yr cycle. The minima are determined to have been almost free of sunspots. Our results, however, have revealed quite remarkably the existence of the 11-yr cycle for most of the time during the Spoerer Minimum. The 11-yr variation weakened around AD 1460-1510, suggesting that solar activity might have been strongly suppressed during these 50 yr.
Variability of Monthly Radiocarbon During the 1760s in Corals from the Galapagos Islands
Druffel, Ellen R. M.; Griffin, Sheila; Hwang, Jeomshik; Komada, Tomoko; Beaupre, Steven R.; Druffel-Rodriguez, Kevin C.; Santos, Guaciara M.; Southon, John (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Radiocarbon (∆14C) measurements of monthly samples from a Galapagos surface coral are among the first data sets from the new Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. An average ∆14C value of -62 is obtained for 144 measurements of samples from monthly coral bands that lived from about AD 1760-1771 (+/6 yr). High ∆14C values were found during January through March, when upwelling was weak or absent at the Galapagos Islands. Low ∆14C values were obtained mid-year during strong upwelling. The average seasonal variability of ∆14C was 15-25 ppm, which is greater than that at other tropical and subtropical locations in the Pacific Ocean because of intense seasonal upwelling at this site. Periods of sustained high ∆14C values were found during 1762-1763 and 1766. A spectral analysis revealed that the spectral density for the ∆14C data displays most of its variance at the 5-yr cycle, which is reflective of El Niño periodicity during the 20th century.
Tree-Ring Records of Near-Younger Dryas Time in Central North America—Preliminary Results from the Lincoln Quarry Site, Central Illinois, USA
Panyushkina, Irina P.; Leavitt, Steven W.; Wiedenhoeft, Alex; Noggle, Sarah; Curry, Brandon; Grimm, Eric (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The abrupt millennial-scale changes associated with the Younger Dryas (YD) event ("chronozone") near the dawn of the Holocene are at least hemispheric, if not global, in extent. Evidence for the YD cold excursion is abundant in Europe but fairly meager in central North America. We are engaged in an investigation of high-resolution environmental changes in mid-North America over several millennia (about 10,000 to 14,000 BP) during the Late Glacial-Early Holocene transition, including the YD interval. Several sites containing logs or stumps have been identified and we are in the process of initial sampling or re-sampling them for this project. Here, we report on a site in central Illinois containing a deposit of logs initially thought to be of YD age preserved in alluvial sands. The assemblage of wood represents hardwood (angiosperm) trees, and the ring-width characteristics are favorable to developing formal tree-ring chronologies. However, 4 new radiocarbon dates indicate deposition of wood may have taken place over at least 8000 14C yr (6000-14,000 BP). This complicates the effort to develop a single floating chronology of several hundred years at this site, but it may provide wood from a restricted region over a long period of time from which to develop a sequence of floating chronologies, the timing of deposition and preservation of which could be related to paleoclimatic events and conditions.
Time-Dependent Factors Inherent in the Age Equation for Determining Residence Times of Groundwater Using 14C: A procedure to Compensate for the Past Variability of 14C in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, with Application to the Wairau Deep Aquifer, Marlborough, New Zealand
Taylor, Claude B. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The radiocarbon concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon in groundwater is most logically and completely represented as the product of 5 time-variable factors; these are mutually independent, and all must be considered and evaluated to determine a groundwater residence time. In the case of one factor, the 14C/(12C+13C) ratio of atmospheric CO2, its time variability can be side-stepped by assuming it to be constant at the pre-bomb 1950 value, and assigning an apparent half-life in the radioactive decay term. Apparent half-lives are calculated here for 5 separate periods extending back to 24,000 BP, working from the INTCAL98 atmospheric calibration. This approach can be extended further back in time when the necessary atmospheric calibrations are updated with greater certainty. The procedure is applied to the recently-explored Wairau Deep Aquifer, underlying central areas of the coastal Wairau Plain, Marlborough. The evolution of dissolved inorganic carbon concentration for this river-recharged groundwater is apparent from distinct trends in 13C, and is confirmed by hydrochemical modelling. Extension to 14C concentrations yields minimum/maximum limits for groundwater residence times to 3 wells. In all 3 cases, the maximum is uncertain due to present uncertainty of the apparent half-life applicable before 24,000 BP. Residence times for the 2 wells closest to the recharge area are at least 17,400 yr, while that for a well further down the aquifer is at least 38,500 yr. Recharge, therefore, occurred during the Otiran glaciation, while the present-day near-surface fluvioglacial deposits of the Wairau Plain were accumulating. Drawdown-recovery records over 3 yr indicate a permeable connection to compensating recharge, enabling limited exploitation for vineyard irrigation.
The Comparison of 14C Wiggle-Matching Results for the ‘Floating’ Tree-Ring Chronology of the Ulandryk-4 Burial Ground (Altai Mountains, Siberia)
Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.; Slusarenko, Igor Y.; Hajdas, Irka; Bonani, Georges; Christen, J. Andres (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Two independent 14C data sets of 10 tree-ring samples from the longest master chronology of the Pazyryk cultural complex were obtained and wiggle-matched to the absolute timescale. The results show very good agreement, within 10-15 calendar yr. The Ulandryk-4 burial ground (mound 1) was dated to about 320-310 cal BC, and this is consistent with wiggle-matching of the Pazyryk burial ground date series.
The Cosmic Ray Increases at 35 and 60 Kyr BP
Florinski, V.; Axford, W. I.; Zank, G. P. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Concentrations of 10Be in ice cores and marine sediments exhibit 2 peaks with significant enhancements at 35,000 and 60,000 BP. This radioisotope is produced in the upper atmosphere by spallation of cosmic-ray protons and secondary neutrons on atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen. Previously suggested explanations for the increases include geomagnetic field reversals, a decrease in solar activity, and a supernova explosion. We propose an alternative explanation which involves a change in the galactic environment of the solar system. The structure of the heliosphere is investigated for a period when the Sun enters a cold, dense, unmagnetized interstellar cloud. Under these conditions, the heliosphere contracts to 25% its present size, significantly affecting galactic cosmic ray modulation and increasing anomalous cosmic ray fluxes. A tenfold increase in anomalous cosmic ray flux and a twofold increase in galactic cosmic ray intensity at Earth are possible in this high-density case if heliosheath modulation is reduced. We show that this increase in galactic cosmic ray intensity could be responsible for the peaks in 110Be records.
The "Sterno-Etrussia" Geomagnetic Excursion around 2700 BP and Changes of Solar Activity, Cosmic Ray Intensity, and Climate
Dergachev, V. A.; Raspopov, O. M.; van Geel, B.; Zaitseva, G. I. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The analysis of both paleoand archeomagnetic data and magnetic properties of continental and marine sediments has shown that around 2700 BP, the geomagnetic Sterno-Etrussia excursion took place in 15 regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The study of magnetic properties of sediments of the Barents, Baltic, and White Seas demonstrates that the duration of this excursion was not more than 200-300 yr. Paleoclimatic data provide extensive evidence for a sharp global cooling around 2700 BP. The causes of natural climate variation are discussed. Changes of the galactic cosmic ray intensity may play a key role as the causal mechanism of climate change. Since the cosmic ray intensity (reflected by the cosmogenic isotope level in the earth's atmosphere) is modulated by the solar wind and by the terrestrial magnetic field, this may be an important mechanism for long-term solar climate variability. The Sterno-Etrussia excursion may have amplified the climate shift, which, in the first place, was the effect of a decline of solar activity. During excursions and inversions, the magnetic moment decreases, which leads to an increased intensity of cosmic rays penetrating the upper atmosphere. Global changes in the electromagnetic field of the earth result in sharp changes in the climate-determining factors in the atmosphere, such as temperatures, total pressure field, moisture circulation, intensity of air flows, and thunderstorm activity. In addition, significant changes in the ocean circulation patterns and temperature regimes of oceans will have taken place.
Testing the Use of Bomb Radiocarbon to Date the Surface Layers of Blanket Peat
Garnett, M. H.; Stevenson, A. C. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The recently formed surface layers of peatlands are archives of past environmental conditions and can have a temporal resolution considerably greater than deeper layers. The low density and conditions of fluctuating water table have hindered attempts to construct chronologies for these peats. We tested the use of the radiocarbon bomb pulse to date recently accumulated peat in a blanket mire. The site was chosen because the peat profiles contained independent chronological markers in the form of charcoal-rich layers produced from known burning events. We compared chronologies derived from accelerator mass spectrometry 14C analysis of plant macrofossils against these chronological markers. The bomb 14C-derived chronologies were in broad agreement with the charcoal dating evidence. However, there were uncertainties in the final interpretation of the 14C results because the pattern of 14C concentration in the peat profiles did not follow closely the known atmospheric 14C record. Furthermore, samples of different macrofossil materials from the same depth contained considerable differences in 14C. Suggested explanations for the observed results include the following: i) minor disturbance at the site, ii) in-situ contamination of the 14C samples by carbonaceous soot, and iii) differential incorporation of plant material during blanket peat growth.
Temporal Changes in Radiocarbon Reservoir Age in the Dead Sea-Lake Lisan System
Stein, Mordechai; Migowski, Claudia; Bookman, Revital; Lazar, Boaz (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The Holocene Dead Sea and the late Pleistocene Lake Lisan were characterized by varying radiocarbon reservoir ages ranging between 6 and 2 ka in the Dead Sea and between 2 ka and zero in Lake Lisan. These changes reflect the hydrological conditions in the drainage system as well as residence time of 14C in the mixed surface layer of the lake and its lower brine. Long-term isolation of the lower brine led to 14C decay and an increase in the reservoir age. Yet, enhanced runoff input with atmospheric 14C brings the reservoir age down. The highest reservoir age of 6 ka was recorded after the sharp fall of the Dead Sea at approximately 8.1 ka cal BP. The lower reservoir age of zero was recorded between 36 and 32 ka cal BP, when the Lake Lisan mixed layer was frequently replenished by runoff.
Stepped-Combustion 14C Dating of Bomb Carbon in Lake Sediment
McGeehin, J.; Burr, G. S.; Hodgins, G.; Bennett, S. J.; Robbins, J. A.; Morehead, N.; Markewich, H. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
In this study, we applied a stepped-combustion approach to dating post-bomb lake sediment from north-central Mississippi. Samples were combusted at a low temperature (400 degrees C) and then at 900 degrees C. The CO2 was collected separately for both combustions and analyzed. The goal of this work was to develop a methodology to improve the accuracy of 14C dating of sediment by combusting at a lower temperature and reducing the amount of reworked carbon bound to clay minerals in the sample material. The 14C fraction modern results for the low and high temperature fractions of these sediments were compared with well-defined 137Cs determinations made on sediment taken from the same cores. Comparison of "bomb curves" for 14C and 137Cs indicate that low temperature combustion of sediment improved the accuracy of 14C dating of the sediment. However, fraction modern results for the low temperature fractions were depressed compared to atmospheric values for the same time frame, possibly the result of carbon mixing and the low sedimentation rate in the lake system.
Spatial and Temporal Impacts of 14C Releases from the Sellafield Nuclear Complex on the Irish Coastline
Keogh, Sinead M.; McGee, Edward J.; Gallagher, Donal; Mitchell, Peter I. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is estimated to be the largest single source of global anthropogenic radiocarbon discharge. This study addresses the impact of these releases on the Irish coastal marine environment. Spatial trends in the 14C content of seaweed (Fucus spp.) were assessed by collecting and analyzing samples from well-distributed locations around the Irish coastline. Temporal trends were studied by comparing 14C concentrations in present-day samples with levels found in archive material collected at the same locations during research campaigns conducted in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. The impact of 14C discharged from Sellafield was found to be most apparent in seaweeds from the northeastern Irish coast. This indicates that the pattern of residual currents and, in particular, the south to north transfer of water known to predominate in the Irish Sea, largely controls the spatial distribution of 14C releases. Maximum 14C discharge levels to the marine environment from Sellafield (between 12 and 13 TBq yr -1) were mirrored by peak concentrations found in seaweed from the mid-1990s and in present-day samples (highest recorded value of 130.4 pMC). Concentrations of 14C in seaweed from the west coast of Ireland correspond closely with values measured for seaweeds from the Atlantic coast of northwest Spain and do not appear to be significantly affected by Sellafield discharges.
Sources of Anthropogenic 14C to the North Sea
Gulliver, P.; Cook, G. T.; MacKenzie, A. B.; Naysmith, P.; Anderson, R. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant on the northwest coast of England is the largest source of anthropogenic radiocarbon to the UK coastal environment. In a mid-1990s study of 14C distribution around the UK coast, the pattern of dilution with increasing distance from Sellafield appeared to be perturbed by anomalously high 14C activities in marine biota in the coastal environment of northeast England. This present study was undertaken during 1998 and 1999 to determine whether this 14C enhancement was due to Sellafield or the nuclear power plants on the east coast. Seawater, seaweed (Fucus sp.), and mussel (Mytilus edulis) samples that were collected from the vicinity of the Torness and Hartlepool advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations were all enhanced above the contemporary regional background activity derived from natural production and atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. We used previously published dilution factors and transfer times for 99Tc between Sellafield and various points on the UK coast to determine likely Sellafield-derived 14C contributions to the activities at the nuclear power plant sites. The results suggest that the activities observed at Torness, which are only marginally enhanced above the natural background activity, are possibly due to discharges from Sellafield; however, the significant 14C enhancements at Hartlepool are not Sellafield-derived. Furthermore, since both reactors have the same fundamental design, the low activities at the Torness AGR imply that the activities at Hartlepool are not from the AGR, suggesting that there is an input of 14C to the marine environment in the vicinity of Hartlepool which is probably non-nuclear-power related. However, there is no other authorized site in the area that could account for the observed 14C enrichments; therefore, further research is required to ascertain the source of this 14C.
Shape Analysis of Cumulative Probability Density Function of Radiocarbon Dates Set in the Study of Climate Change in the Late Glacial and Holocene.
Michczyńska, Danuta; Pazdur, Anna (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
We report on a statistical analysis of a large set of radiocarbon dates for reconstruction of paleoclimate. Probability density functions were constructed by summing the probability distributions of individual 14C dates. Our analysis was based on 2 assumptions: 1) the amount of organic matter in sediments depends on paleogeographical conditions; 2) the number of 14C-dated samples is proportional to the amount of organic matter deposited in sediments in the examined time intervals. We quantified how many dates are required to give statistically reliable results. As an example, 785 peat dates from Poland were selected. The dates encompassed the Holocene and Late Glacial period. All dates came from the Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory. Results were compared with other paleoenvironmental records. Detailed analysis of the frequency distributions showed that preferential sampling plays an important part in the shape determination. The general rule to take samples from locations where visible changes of sedimentation are apparent (e.g. From the top and the bottom of the peat layer) results in narrow peaks in the probability density function near the limits of the Holocene subdivision.
Sellafield-Derived Anthropogenic 14C in the Marine Intertidal Environment of the NE Irish Sea
Cook, G. T.; MacKenzie, A. B.; Muir, G. K. P.; Mackie, G.; Gulliver, P. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
The intertidal biota from Parton beach, close to the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, were all found to be enriched in radiocarbon relative to ambient background. The degree of enrichment appears to reflect the positions of the biota in the food chain once the dilution in seaweed from atmospheric uptake is taken into account. Close to the low-water mark, the order was mussels > limpets > anemones congruent to winkles > seaweed. The same order was observed close to the high-water mark, except that anemones were absent from this area. The activities in the biogeochemical fractions of the water column reflect the fact that discharges are primarily in the form of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), which is subsequently transferred to the particulate organic carbon (POC) and, to a lesser extent, the dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and finally, the particulate inorganic carbon (PIC). Analysis of intertidal sediment suggests that there is likely to be a gradual increase in the specific activity of 14C in the inorganic component of this material as Sellafield contaminated organisms die and their shells are ground down by natural processes.
Seasonal Radiocarbon Variation of Surface Seawater Recorded in a Coral from Kikai Island, Subtropical Northwestern Pacific
Morimoto, Maki; Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Shibata, Yasuyuki; Kayanne, Hajime (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
A coral radiocarbon (Delta-14C) investigation with a high time-resolution is crucial for reconstructing secular and seasonal Delta-14C changes in the surface seawater which potentially reflect ocean circulations and dynamic ocean-atmosphere interactions. The Delta-14C values of a modern coral (Porites sp.) from Kikai Island, southern Japan, in the subtropical northwestern Pacific, were determined for the period of 1991-1998 at a monthly resolution. A coral Delta-14C time series for the 8 yr indicated seasonal cycles superimposed on a secular decreasing trend of 3.8 per mil per yr. The seasonal amplitude of the coral Delta-14C was about 18 per mil on the average and the minimum Delta-14C was observed in late spring and summer. The Delta-14C changes were tentatively explained by horizontal oceanic advections around Kikai Island or over the wide range of the equatorial and subequatorial Pacific.
Seasonal and Secular Variations of Atmospheric 14CO2 Over the Western Pacific Since 1994
Kitagawa, H.; Mukai, Hitoshi; Nojiri, Yukihiro; Shibata, Yasuyuki; Kobayashi, Toshiyuki; Nojiri, Tomoko (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Air sample collections over the western Pacific have continued since 1992 as a part of Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (CGER-NIES) global environmental monitoring program. The air samples collected on the Japan-Australia transect made it possible to trace the seasonal and secular 14CO2 variations, as well as an increasing trend of greenhouse gases over the western Pacific. A subset of CO2 samples from latitudes of 10-15 degrees N and 23-28 degrees S were chosen for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C analysis using a NIES-TERRA AMS with a 0.3-0.4% precision. These 14CO2 records in maritime air show seasonal variations superimposed on normal exponential decreasing trends with a time constant of about 16 yr. The Delta-14C values in the Northern Hemisphere are lower those in the Southern Hemisphere by 3-4 per mil during 1994-2002. The Northern Hemisphere record shows relatively high seasonality (2.3 +/1.5 per mil) as compared with the Southern Hemisphere (1.3 +/1.2 per mil). The maximum values of seasonal cycles appear in late autumn and early winter in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively. Oscillations of 1-10 yr over the western Pacific are found to correlate possibly with the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events.
Radiocarbon/Tree-Ring Calibration, Solar Activity, and Upwelling of Ocean Water
Knox, F. B.; McFadgen, B. G. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2004-01-01)
Least-squares fitted smooth curves to radiocarbon versus tree-ring calibration data for the period AD 1140 to 1950 are compared with climatic warming and cooling of the North Atlantic (Little Ice Age), and with recorded sunspot numbers over the period AD 1670 to 1950. Calibration curves from different parts of the globe are not identical, and appear to be determined by a combination of variable solar activity and variable oceanic upwelling of 14C-depleted water, with the variable upwelling itself partly determined by solar activity. |
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Drake Buys Himself $100K Championship Ring After Winning Rec League
Drake bought himself another championship ring, this one worth $100,000, after his team won this year’s SBL Recreation Basketball League Championship for the second year in a row.
The Toronto rap star and well-known basketball fanatic once again enlisted Jason of Beverly Hills to create the diamond ring that reads “Back to Back,” and “NTIG Champions” on the face of it and “The Boy” and the number 11 on the sides.
In an Instagram Story, Champagne Papi showed off the massive rec league championship ring, and captioned “Better luck next year,” over the image, according to screenshots obtained by Complex.
He had previously worked with the renowned jeweler on his team’s last championship ring, however that one reportedly only cost $50,000.
Drake Enlists Renowned Jeweler To The Stars Jason Of Beverly Hills For Second Championship Ring In A Row
This time around, Jason went all out with 15 carats of flawless diamonds, with the piece donning two large diamonds to symbolize Drizzy’s back-to-back titles.
Drake cops a new championship ring from Jason Of Beverly Hills for winning his basketball league back-to-back pic.twitter.com/9UEIN9Dd8S
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Jason released a statement on the ring, and said he “wishes he could play ball professionally” and that he “respects Drake for making his dream a reality with his own league.”
“As someone who wishes I could play ball professionally I respect Drake for making his dream a reality with his own league,” Jason said in a statement. “We always have a good time when we work together and it has been fun working on these championship rings with him the last three years.”
The jeweler-to-the-stars had previously worked with Drake in 2019 to design his custom $150,000 ring in celebration of the Toronto Raptors’ championship win that year.
That one featured 30 carats of diamonds and more design than any ring in NBA history, Complex reports.
Drake’s Jeweler-To-The-Stars Designed Seven NBA Championship Rings Over The Years
Jason has created seven NBA championship rings over the years for a few different teams, with the Lakes In 2019, 2010 and 2020, the Warriors in 2015, 2017, and 2018, and the Bucks in 2021.
The Beverly Hills-based jeweler added that for this year’s recreation league championship ring, Drake “had a clear vision of what he wanted” and that the two “worked really well together to make (it) happen.”
“Drake had a clear vision of what he wanted and we worked really well together to make that happen,” Jason added. “I enjoy the challenge of telling the story of the season and incorporating everything into the design and onto a ring, while still using as many diamonds as possible.”
Drake’s Passing Down His Love For Basketball To Four-Year-Old Son, Adonis
It’s no secret that Drake is a massive fan of basketball, and has even been training his son in the ways of the sport for years.
He featured his four-year-old son Adonis in an Instagram video in May, where his son boasted about his basketball skills after making four of five shots in a row.
“Yo, where you learn to shoot like that?” the Canadian superstar asked his son, who he shares with French artist and former model Sophie Brussaux.
The 35-year-old rapper has emerged himself in NBA culture as well, having been pictured alongside a victorious LeBron James after the Lakers won the championship in June.
Recreation League Championship Comes A Week After Lawsuit Against Drake, LeBron James
Drake and LeBron were actually both recently sued together, The Shade Room previously reported, for $10 million after being accused of stealing the rights to the name of their upcoming documentary about a segregated hockey league.
The two are being sued by former head of the NBA players union, Billy Hunter, who claims he owns the exclusive legal rights of any movie produced about Canada’s Colored Hockey League which formed back in 1895 and was in operation until 1925.
The devoted Toronto also regularly seen court side during Raptors’ games.
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Tyga will be taking a Eurotrip for his forthcoming tour set to kick off Feb. 23.
The rapper will embark on a four-city trek that will include stops in France, Sweden, and London. Tyga’s week-long engagement follows news of his recent signing to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint.
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What does Live Like You Were Dying mean?
Tim McGraw: Live Like You Were Dying Meaning
Tagged: Death | Disease | Inspirational Songs [suggest]
Live Like You Were Dying Lyrics
He said I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime
and I spent most of the next days
looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options
and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it...
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Feb 19th 2006 report
This song is about his dad (Late Baseball Pitcher for the Mets and Phillies) Tug McGraw. Tug came up with the Mets' motto, "Ya Gotta Believe". This song is written about finding out that his dad had Brain cancer, and the conversations and memories that ensued. He talks about what his dad did after the diagnosis(I went skydiving, rocky mountain climbing, went 2.7 seconds on a bull Fu Man Chu), and at the very beginning, he says "I was in my early 40's, with a lotta life before me, when a moment came that stopped me on a dime. I spent most of the next days, looking at the X-rays, talking bout the options, and talking bout sweet times. Asked him when it sank in, this might really be the real end, how's it hit ya when you get that kinda news, man what did you do?". This is all about his dad's diagnosis, and how he knew his dad was dying, just not how long he had left.
Oct 14th 2009 report
Live like you were dying means that if you knew that you were dying in a little while, what would you do for your last day? Would you just sit around and mope and dread, or would you do everything you wanted to do or forgive someone you never forgave. When you would die would you regret the life you lost? This song is a very deep and thoughtful song that not a lot of music has.
Oct 6th 2021 report
Im writing an explication for college on this song. The song,in fact, was not written by Tim McGraw nor was it written for his dad.. although it does refer to his father in the line about fishing.. but that was done so by the original writers.
Mar 13th 2020 report
This song is awesome ! And it is not only about his dad. It's about a few people that got diagnosis or wrong diagnosis... Saying they want to live to the fullest and fight. The rocky climbing came from a woman, the skydiving was a male, not all from his dad. But respect to the songwriters. You made something incredible with this. And Tim you just blow our ears ! Thank you !
Jan 4th 2020 report
This song is saying not if you are dying it is saying what you should be doing living life to the fullest not waiting to die not leaving issues unresolved but being your best self before you die so be your best self and live life to the fullest.
Nov 10th 2014 report
If you're not dying, you will never live a full life because it takes something to open your eyes to live to the fullest. So live like you are dying. Do want you want to because one day you wont be able to do anything.
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Tim McGraw rocks! The song means live life like you always wanted to and have no regrets and be the best person you can be because life is too short.
This song wants to say if you were diying what would you like to do sky diving mountain climbing or....
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This song is about living, not dying. It is about living to the fullest.
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For five years She Shreds has thrown totally unofficial, completely legit shows during Austin’s SXSW festival. Why do we do it? Well, let’s start with a bit of historical context.
Many of you know me as She Shreds’ founder and editor in chief, which I most certainly am. What I also pride myself for is my insatiable love for bringing together community through events, which you’ll learn is how this whole She Shreds lifestyle got started. Growing up in Austin, at age 16 I threw what I considered to be my first “official” show. It was during SXSW in 2009, hosted at what is now Figure 8 coffee. The lineup involved Des Ark, Explode Into Colors STRFKR, and myself (I know, classic move) performing in a tiny room surrounded by 200 sweaty, raging bodies. It was amazing and punk, and I loved every bead of sweat that came from it.
At the time I was inspired by the DIY subculture of SXSW, whether that meant late night shows at the pedestrian bridge or at Mrs. Bea’s (what was Cheer Up Charlies and what is now Wonderland), or basically just wherever Finally Punk, Vivian Girls or Mika Miko were playing. These shows brought me closer to my heroes, and without a doubt, helped shape who I am today.
Since that first show, I’ve had the opportunity to create similar spaces— always, free of charge and always independent. Those who have ever been to a She Shreds show before know the drill: community first, everyone is welcome, and no one is “good for a girl”, they’re just good. Fans and musicians come to our shows to be surrounded by people they love and look up to in an environment that in other contexts might be controlled by corporations. This necessity to be surrounded by an alternative yet necessary perspective on the music industry, one that celebrates diversity and identity is what fosters the spaces that She Shreds creates—no one can stop us from honoring that.
When our initial location at Kinda Tropical was shut down during Shamir’s set—due to an overcapacity issue and an unknown lack of permit by the venue—our community came together, strangers packed as much as they could in their cars, people who didn’t know each other caravanned, and we immediately relocated thanks to the incredibly generous humans at Sahara Lounge. Relocating 10 bands, all of our equipment, and 500+ people successfully in 40 minutes, for the love of community and music was by far the most punk thing I’ve ever done. A true testament to how strong this community really is.
Shortly thereafter, Hinds got on the stage and the show continued as if nothing had ever happened: hundreds of people surrounded the tiny stage inside waiting for their favorite bands to play, families, musicians, and fans lounged outside soaking up the sun and our amazing sound team Tzu-Wei and Bonnie Knight hustled to dial in as many bands we could. For me, personally, I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome.
Lastly, I want to thank all 13 of the bands involved for being a part of our family, supporting us and always having our back! On top of that She Shreds was proud to be able to pay our artists while providing a free of charge event thanks to our amazing partners—D’Addario Strings, Guild Guitars, Martin Guitars, Fender, Guitar Center, and Do512—who believe in our mission and are actively seeking progress in the guitar industry. In the weeks to come She Shreds will be publishing footage from the show and interviews with bands to answer the questions, “Who Is The Modern Guitarist,” documented at this year’s SX She Shreds event. Follow the conversation below on Instagram and add to it by tagging us on #IMAGUITARIST.
For decades, considering yourself a guitarist meant subscribing to a certain culture—one that for many was un-relatable and exclusive. Today, we expand on a conversation that is constantly discussed but seldom showcased: Who is the modern guitarist? What does being a guitarist mean to you? What gear do you play? How do you choose to learn? What are your obstacles and how do you overcome them? In this series started at last weeks #SXsheshreds event, we ask artists about being guitarists and document the incredibly wide spectrum of what that looks and sounds like. . Do you consider yourself a guitarist? Post a pic of yourself playing, tell us why in the caption and tag us to be included in the on-going conversation! . #IMAGUITARIST #SHESHREDS #SHESHREDSMAG ???? by @we_are_shopping (beginning) and @hindsband (end) ???? @cemeza
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So, will we be back? As long as you want us, we’ll be there without a doubt.
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Such an amazing and inspriring event, and we are so fortunate to experience it here. For a number of reasons, it’s become the coolest show at all of SXSW! Really hope yall return in 2019. Much love and respect
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Sarah McGlashan says:
Blasting event! Pity I couldn’t participate in this event cause I was out of the city. It seems like I really missed fun days. These pictures are so astonishing and every time I look upon these pictures it made me missed more this event. Will definitely participating next time.
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Monica Phillipa says:
I love this band and wanted to attend this event but I was busy with my work at https://www.vfmseo.com/ but I want to attend the show of this band. So can anyone help me that when and where they are going to show again?
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Why Tesla stocks are falling
A technology giant, a pioneer in sustainable electromobility, a company that doesn’t invest in promotion because it doesn’t need to. That’s a brief description of Tesla. Tesla stocks helped Elon Musk become the world’s richest man. Elon Musk, however, is not nurturing his masterpiece with as much attention as in years past. The “Musk effect” is moving into the social networking field of Twitter. How will this affect Tesla stock and who is Elon Musk? Find out in this article.
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The world-famous Tesla company was founded in 2003. Founder Elon Musk launched it with a mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy, on a global scale. The company’s first product appeared on the market in 2008. It was a Roadster sports car. Four years later, the Model S saw the light of day and received numerous awards. It was named the best overall car by Consumer Reports, and even earned Motor Trend’s Best Car of All Time award.
But Tesla isn’t just focused on making machines with four wheels. It also designs energy storage products. One of them is the Powerwall battery, which is used in households. Other battery storage devices are Powepack and Megapack for commercial use.
Sustainability runs through Tesla in every direction. In 2016, it completed the acquisition of SolarCity, bringing the leading solar energy system provider in the US under its wing. A year later, the solar roof was introduced to the market, bringing one of the best and most affordable solutions for energy production.
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The son of a South African and a Canadian has shown his talent and affinity for technology since he was young. At the age of 12 he programmed his own video game and at 17 he obtained a Canadian passport and left Africa for the more economically advanced world, not just for education. In 1995, he founded Zip2, which provided online city guide software to newspapers. Four years later, the company was bought by computer manufacturer Compaq for $307 million. Elon Musk then founded X.com, a financial services company, which he later sold to eBay for $1.5 billion under the name PayPal. He also founded the space company SpaceX.
But Elon Musk had to wait a while to get the moniker of the world’s richest man.
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In 2020, with a total fortune of $25.6 billion, he was only behind Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg in the list of the richest people on the planet. The massive increase in his wealth is mainly due to the Tesla car company. Its stock value has skyrocketed over the past five years, and its profits will soar to a staggering $54 billion in 2021. Yet in 2017, Tesla reported a profit of “only” $12 billion. Elon Musk became the world’s richest man in 2021, when he owned a total fortune of $340 billion.
Although Tesla stocks has delivered tremendous wealth, it has seen a steep decline in 2022. The top stock has fallen to below $150 since the first days of the year, when its price was at $400. This is a slump so deep that it raises concerns about the future of society.Musk became the owner of the social network Twitter after long negotiations that lasted from April to October, and he has been focusing his attention there in recent months. This worried many investors and was reflected in Tesla’s stocks price. They saw their first decline at the turn of the first and second quarter of 2022, but then came another bounce upwards. Not long after that, however, Tesla’s stocks began to plummet, and by the second half of the year, it was practically nowhere near the $300 mark.
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According to the owner himself, there will be no sale of Tesla shares in the next year. But Bloomberg pointed out that although Elon Musk has made this promise in the past, he has never delivered. Tesla will launch two new products in 2023-a Tesla Semi truck and a cyber car. Although the launch is not expected until next year, the announcement could have a significant impact on demand for the stock.
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But Tesla’s share price will also depend on its financial results for the fourth quarter of last year. If the expected scenario comes to pass and Tesla announces another decline in results, margins are likely to decline. If this happens, it will cause a slowdown in growth, so the stock could continue to fall relative to earnings.
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In this me-first, I’m-number-one, it’s-my-right society, those can be hard words to swallow, let alone digest. Even supposedly other-focused Christians can get it wrong. Last week we were encouraged to go forward for healing prayer in the service. Even there, in an atmosphere of seeking prayer, we have to check our motives, Anne reminded us this week.
Do we believe in and love God because of what He can do for us, rather than for Who He is? Yes, He wants us well; yes, He wants us healthy. But if we think we need our head-ache or sore back healed and He knows we need our heart healed first—or our memories, or our attitudes—well, it may seem like the prayer ‘didn’t work’.
"God answers prayers in four ways," Anne explained. "Yes, no, wait, or yes, but. And that last one we may not understand as a 'yes' since the answer wasn't what we asked for." |
Antique rattan furniture is as much at home on the porch or sunroom as in the bedroom. It works with many different decorating styles and is a favorite of decorators everywhere.
Rattan, bamboo, wicker; what is the difference?
These are all materials that have been used to make furniture that was especially popular during the Victorian era. Rattan and bamboo are plants, but wicker describes a certain way of weaving fibers. Wicker can be woven of bamboo, rattan, or even straw but only rattan can be rattan. It is the stem of a tropical tree that is related to the palm. It grows upward and then bends over and continues growing more like a vine than a tree. Unlike bamboo, the trunk or stem of rattan is solid which makes it a better candidate for making sturdy furniture.
When the rattan has matured it is cut into sections that measure twelve feet or more. The sections are dried and then processed in the processing plants, usually in Southeast Asia or the Philippines.
To make furniture the rattan is stripped of leaves and outer fibers. Small pieces are soaked and bent into shape while larger pieces are steamed to make them flexible. The large stems look like bamboo which can confuse the novice collector. Antique rattan furniture usually has the joints wrapped with fiber for stability. More modern furniture will have the joints wrapped with leather or plastic to hide any screws.
Rattan furniture was being made over 5,000 years ago in Egypt and was discovered in many ancient excavation sites. In America manufacturers began producing rattan furniture during the mid 1800s.
Victorian society had a hatred of germs and rattan was seen at being a clean alternative to upholstered furniture. The flexibility of the material allowed artisans to manipulate it into the complex patterns that the Victorians favored.
As the decades passed the versatile material was formed in the sleek lines of Art Deco and Modernist styles.
Rattan is difficult to identify because most of it is not labeled by the manufacturer. Some designers are easy to pick out because of their unique design style. Below are two that are well known for their rattan designs, especially chairs.
Paul Frankl was a furniture designer, probably the first to utilize rattan in a modern way in America during the 1930s through 1950s. His designs were sought after by the glamorous Hollywood crowd for their clean, Art Deco lines. You can see a beautiful example of Frankl's design in his 1930s vintage rattan couch.
Baughman designed rattan furniture in the 1940s and 50s for a company called Calif-Asia. Many beautiful rattan and wrought iron chairs are attributed to him.
With regular cleaning and maintenance your vintage rattan furniture can last for a very long time.
Use Murphy's oil soap and some water whisked up into thick suds.
Skim off the bubbles (not the water) and rub them into the rattan with a clean cloth.
Use a toothbrush to get stubborn dirt out of crevices.
Wipe with a dry cloth and allow to air dry completely.
Repeat this cleaning about once a month for best results. Dust it once a week with a feather duster.
After cleaning, rub lemon oil into the rattan. Keeping your antique rattan furniture oiled will help keep it from splitting.
If your furniture does split, apply furniture glue and use tape or a wrap to hold the pieces in place until the glue completely dries.
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CDR Brien Dickson departs the submarine following a change of command ceremony aboard USS Jefferson City (SSN 759).
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Here he stands on the bridge of his undersea kitchen, USS Jefferson City (SSN 759).
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One quick add-on to the piece on the Pew study, a statistic developed nationally but of special import to the Northwest.
The question was asked of everyone surveyed, which of these two views would come closest to your view: "It's best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs," or, "We should concentrate on problems here at home."
Every religious tradition chose "here at home" over "active in world affairs" - nearly all by big margins - with just two exceptions. For understandable specific reasons, Jews went for "world affairs" by 53% to 37%. Just behind them, however, is a less-expected group - by 51% to 37%, Mormons agreed - the only other group on that side of the choice.
Worth thinking about in national electoral politics.
Fine tuning on religion
The outlines of the Northwest on religion are clear enough. In most of southern Idaho and in patches of eastern Oregon and Washington, Mormons are dominant. The Seattle and Portland metro areas are relatively secular. Evangelicals are strong in many of the suburban areas. And so forth.
The latest study out of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life doesn't break down below state levels, but it goes beyond the labels and tags: Almost uniquely, it goes after specific beliefs and actions.
Washington, Oregon and Idaho vary more or less under this type of lens generally as you'd expect they would. But the differences are enlightening anyway.
Some of the numbers seem a little unexpected out of context; among adherents generally, evangelical Christians (26% nationally) account for 25% in Washington and 30% in Oregon, but just 22% in Idaho; but you have to bear in mind that Mormons are counted separately from them, and they are estimated at 23% in Idaho, but 5% in Oregon and just 2% in Washington. Add the two (which makes sense, since despite their theological differences they have many social policy similarities) and you get 27% in Washington, 35% in Oregon and 45% in Idaho. A picture emerges.
(Add to this: The percentage of Roman Catholics is higher in Idaho, at 18%, than in Washington's 16% or Oregon's 14%. ) (more…) |
Future wireless communication would accommodate massive number of devices, as represented by Internet-of-Things (IoT). In order to realize efficient data transmission of large number of devices, designing the transmission protocol of devices is crucial. While conventional grant-based access schemes (e.g. time division multiple access (TDMA)) can achieve highly-efficient transmission via resource allocation for devices, such allocation causes a large overhead in the presence of massive number of users, which results in the degradation of the throughput performance.
To this end, we have proposed an efficient random access protocol, namely frameless ALOHA with multiple base station cooperation. Multiple base stations are exploited to cooperatively retrieve transmitted packets, while devices transmit their packets using transmission probabilities. We have theoretically optimized transmission probabilities to maximize the achievable throughput. Upon the optimization, our proposed scheme achieves remarkable throughput performance.
While frameless ALOHA with multiple base station cooperation can start the packet retrieval process only from collision-free time slots, ZigZag decoding has been proposed as a technique to retrieve two colliding packets. We have then proposed ZigZag decodable frameless ALOHA, where frameless ALOHA protocol is modified so as to fully exploit ZigZag decoding. By dynamically increasing the transmission probability, ZigZag decodable frameless ALOHA enhances the throughput performance of the original frameless ALOHA.
To emancipate sensors from the limit of batteries, we proposed new MAC protocol named energy-neutral receiver-initiated MAC (ENRI-MAC). Our proposed protocol enables every sensor to autonomously decide its own intermittent interval based on their available energy and the number of neighboring sensors. Furthermore, we implemented our protocol using Lazurite 920J which is an off-the-shelf Arduino-compatible board and showed that our sensor network could operate very well only with unstable energy-harvesting power supplies.
Typical wireless channels suffer from multipath fading and shadowing which significantly reduce communication capacity for a given average transmission power and hinder reliable transmission. Although an effective option is using multiple antennas to obtain spatial diversity gain, it is practically difficult to equip multiple antennas in some applications such as sensor networks because of the size, complexity, and cost. In order to overcome this issue, another concept has been proposed in the literature; when the source cannot reliably communicate with the destination, other available nodes can temporarily work as relays in order to support the communication by expending their own energies regularly supplied by pre-charged batteries, which is called cooperative diversity and allows nodes to enjoy spatial diversity gain without equipping additional antennas. Cooperative diversity inherently consumes the battery of users to support some users having with small channel capacities, which may results in shorter network life since more nodes drain their batteries at the same time.
A remedy for this crucial battery issue is the use of energy harvesting. Energy harvesting technologies enable devices to harness energy from ambient sources such as solar, vibration, themoelectric effects, and so on. Since this might be an ultimate solution of the crucial energy constraint, it has gained much attention from researchers. Especially, radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting does not depend on availability of ambient energy sources where ambient RF radiation is captured by the receiver antennas and converted into a direct current (DC) voltage through appropriate circuits such as rectennas. Therefore, this RF energy transfer is considered as one of the most attractive candidate technologies to realize self-sustaining networks.
In our laboratory, we investigate the cooperative transmissions with RF energy harvesting and published lots of papers. It is noteworthy that we proposed a novel cooperative diversity technique based on dynamic decode-and-forward cooperation with RF energy harvesting named dynamic harvest-and-forward (DHF) cooperation. This cooperation allows us to obtain diversity gain with consuming neither extra energy nor extra bandwidth by exploiting the relay’s proximity advantage over the destination. |
Situated next to the entrance to Merimbula Lake, Mitchies Beach is a quiet little beach, populated by a few hundred local pelicans. Shallow clear waters make is a perfect spot for a refreshing swim and peaceful picnic area.
Where is Mitchies Beach? Drive via Market St and Fishpen Rd • 2.4 km travel from the heart of town.
Swimming Crystal clear waters make it a perfect location for a refreshing swim. Good for snorkelling and diving.
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Master of Engineering Management Students Compete in Business Simulation
Students learn business management in inter-school competition
Mar 28, 2013 //
Sarah Ostman
Students in McCormick’s Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program recently competed in a cross-school business simulation competition with fellow engineering management students from peer schools.
Organized by Northwestern at a Master of Engineering Management Programs Consortium (MEMPC) meeting, the four-week competition brought together master’s students from Northwestern, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, and Stanford.
Five teams — each composed of students from different schools — were challenged to manage a hypothetical automotive company, identifying target consumer markets and competing against one another for those markets. Using a set amount of capital, participants developed plans for research and development, product development, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution. The contest culminated in team presentations via webinar.
“The MEMPC competition is distinctive in that it is a multi-campus competition, between peer schools, using a business simulation as the basis,” said Mark Werwath, director of Northwestern’s MEM program. “The cross-school teaming requires teams to work in a geographically distributed way, which better emulates the real-world scenarios in global corporations today. This also maximizes the chances for student teams to develop more robust social networks.”
“Teamwork was the crucial factor here,” added Sue Fox, associate director of Northwestern’s MEM program.
“The great thing about a simulation is that it provides a practice-field for making business decisions in a 'laboratory' environment," said David Semb, a Northwestern adjunct professor and partner at PriSim Business War Games Inc., a business simulation and training company, who helped organize the competition. "In today’s business world, getting that chance to experiment and make realistic decisions helps build the business acumen you need in the real-world.”
Teams also had significant input into their scoring process. Early in the competition, student teams established their “balanced scorecard,” a performance management tool frequently used in business. Later, each team was objectively measured against that scorecard.
James Du, who represented Northwestern on the winning team, said he used many of the concepts he had learned in two recent MEM courses, Organizing for Innovation and Creating and Sharing Knowledge.
“My team worked extremely well together, and everyone bought into the organizational framework that we created,” Du said. “I'm actually most proud of the innovations that came from team members whom I originally disagreed with. I learned a lot by going through the process of tacitly and explicitly applying what I learned from my courses in real time."
Other members of the winning team were Matt Rice (Dartmouth), Terene Teo (MIT), Joanna Clark (Duke), Chi Hung Chong (Stanford), and Penmatsa Sruthi (Cornell). Each received a Nexus 7 Wifi Tablet as a prize.
The MEMPC is a small group of highly selective and forward-thinking professional graduate engineering management programs dedicated to maintaining outstanding, industry-relevant programs. Member programs share best practices and curricular innovations, provide a national network of MEM students, and promote the benefits of an MEM dregree to business and industry through joint outreach ventures.
Northwestern’s MEM program is designed for engineering and science professionals who want to develop core management and leadership skills while staying on the cutting edge of technology. With both full- and part-time options, the curriculum empowers engineers to communicate in the language of business and to move from thinking tactically to thinking strategically.
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The role of the “digital influencer” in the art world is often drawn into question, and conversations about their importance are heated, with lines drawn between the devotees and the detractors. Wherever you stand, there is no denying that a successful Instagram account, often tallying tens of thousands of followers, can draw attention to art in a way that even the best museum outreach programme has often failed to. Everyone from the Met in New York to the V&A in London have enlisted the services of social media specialists and bloggers, who have been known to gain earlier access than traditional press pundits.
Katy Hessel, founder of The Great Women Artists Instagram account, could be seen as one such influencer (although it is not a term she readily applies to herself). She makes use of the digital platform to offer an art-historical perspective on the times that we live in, drawing attention to female artists past and present through regular posts on everyone from Anni Albers to Maisie Cousins. Her celebration of female artists throughout history has led to her new exhibition, In the Company Of, at TJ Boulting in London. Three historic female artists, Barbara Hepworth, Lee Miller and Alice Neel, are being exhibited alongside twelve dynamic contemporary female artists.
“Instagram is quite a democratic platform in the sense that anyone can exhibit online, and you don’t have to reveal your age, gender, sexuality”
The mixture of artists is reflective of Hessel’s approach to her Instagram feed, placing the work of contemporary artists in a broader historical context and upholding the legacy of women who might otherwise disappear from view. It is also clear that the championing of female artists can never happen too early, as demonstrated by the fact that several of the artists included in the exhibition were discovered by Hessel on Instagram. “I think Instagram is quite a democratic platform in the sense that anyone can exhibit online. It’s not biased; you don’t have to reveal your age, gender, sexuality. It therefore allows for people from all backgrounds to be free from judgement, and I believe that it has allowed women artists to thrive in particular,” she reflects.
“It’s a platform that is taken seriously in the art world—Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst all use Instagram, for example, and it’s seen as a very valid tool. It’s also extremely valuable in the art world where it can be quite elitist, as it offers a different perspective through bitesize knowledge,” she adds. The exhibition offers a real-life context to the Instagram account, drawing connections across genre, era and medium. Sculpture and painting sit alongside photography and installation, placing contemporary artists like Juliana Cerqueira Leite in direct dialogue with the surrealist photographs of Lee Miller, while Alice Neel’s expressive and psychologically charged painting style can be felt in the work of Caroline Walker. Viewed together, the connections between them can be traced and understood, building a network of support and mutual trust for female artists.
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Until 17 November at TJ Boulting, London
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Earning an online degree means you have the flexibility to study anywhere, anytime. However, different people perform best in different environments, and it’s important to understand what helps and hurts your productivity. Answer the questions below to see which study environment is right for you.
1. How does outside noise affect your focus?
A. I like to be in control of things, whether I’m studying in silence, or with music.
B. A little noise here and there doesn’t bother me.
C. From chatter, to music, noise doesn’t bother me at all.
2. Do you prefer familiar spaces, or do you like to change it up?
A. I prefer a designated work space for my studies.
B. I like to have a general routine, but I also like to get out of the house.
C. A change of scenery always helps me refresh and focus.
3. Do you get distracted being around other people?
A. I enjoy my solitude.
B. It’s nice to see a few friendly faces here and there.
C. I feel best when I’m surrounded by others.
4. What time of day do you tend to do school work?
A. Late nights after work.
B. During normal working hours on my day(s) off.
C. Mornings, evenings, and whenever I have time between other responsibilities.
5. What digital device suits you best?
A. My personal desktop computer.
B. I sometimes need access to public computers.
C. I use my laptop and/or mobile device, which I take with me everywhere.
6. How do you feel about snacks?
A. I grab a snack from time to time when I’m studying.
B. Snacking and studying don’t mix.
C. My study session doesn’t start until I have my latte and a croissant.
7. Describe your ideal environment.
8. Generally, how easily do you get distracted?
A. I lose focus very easily.
B. I lose focus somewhat easily.
C. I can maintain my focus in most situations.
Your ideal study space is at home. You prefer a familiar, comfortable environment that you can control to minimize distractions, as well as the flexibility to study anytime, including late nights after your kids are in bed, or early mornings before work.
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Brexit and Britain’s place in the world
by Jeremy Williams October 20, 2018 July 16, 2019
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I can’t make the People’s Vote march in London today, so in the spirit of joining in I’m going to write about Brexit instead. Here are some facts about Britain’s standing in the world that I’d like to highlight.
Britain’s current trade deals have been negotiated through the EU. Negotiating as a bloc gives the EU the power of collective bargaining. When dealing with the US, for example, the EU commands an economy worth $18.8 trillion. That’s a decent match to the US at $19.3 trillion.
When Britain leaves the EU, it will negotiate trade deals independently. To Brexit campaigners, this freedom to make trade deals is one of the biggest and most compelling reasons to leave. But from a position of equals as part of the EU, this is the basis on which Britain enters negotiations independently: with an economy worth $2.6 trillion.
Britain will sit down with China, an economy six times larger and more powerful than ours. Or Trump’s America, an economy over seven times larger. How do think that’s going to go? Let me write you a sample tweet:
“American healthcare is the best in the world. UK says no role for our companies in failing NHS. I say NO DEAL!”
A leading slogan for the Brexit campaign has been ‘take back control’. That is going to prove impossible in the trade department. Terms will be dictated by more powerful nations.
We aren’t talking about it much because the figures aren’t in, but 2018 is likely to be the year that India’s GDP overtakes Britain’s. We regularly trade places with France and I couldn’t say what order they’ll come in, but Britain is no longer in the top five global economies.
These relative positions are entirely symbolic of course, but they illustrate a larger trend. As Niall Ferguson argues in his book Civilization, “what we are living through now is the end of 500 years of Western predominance.” After centuries of punching above its weight, Britain’s decline is inevitable. Personally, I find little to regret in that. We are, after all, a nation that has invaded 9 out of 10 of the world’s countries and this is still a point of pride in Britain, not shame. We have never had to face our legacy the way previous aggressors such as Germany and Japan have done. It gives us an entirely false sense of who we are in the world.
“It is not unusual for a country to succumb to a state of denial as a long chapter in its history is about to end” writes Sam Knight in his taboo-breaking article about the queen. He argues that because Queen Elizabeth has been in power for such a long time, we have had a sense of continuity from the days of empire until today. Her reign won’t be publicly assessed until the queen dies. When we stop to reflect, it is “likely to be remembered as a reign of uninterrupted national decline.”
Brexit is a denial response to Britain’s changing place in the world, and it’s the opposite of what we should be doing. With their enormous populations, China, India and others were always going to grow and catch up. And rightly so – their growth means people being lifted out of poverty and global inequalities reduced. The world is tilting to the East. The response for countries like Britain ought to be greater cooperation, not competition. Collective bargaining is our best chance of having a role in global affairs.
If we were able to hold a more realistic sense of who we are and how important we are going to be in future, we might want to keep our friends closer. We might tone down the talk of a ‘new Elizabethan age’ and plucky Britain forging its own way on the world. And we might want to march for a People’s Vote.
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Governments do not trade with each other. Trade takes place between individuals and companies. International trade is trade between individuals and companies who happen to be in different companies. They may even be members of the same family.
All that governments can do is get in the way. This may be desirable, to restrict sales of weapons or pests or invasive weeds. On the whole this interference is unnecessary and undesirable. It makes people poorer and serves the interests of the large producer cartels and associations. This has been known since the eighteenth century, when the mercantilist theories prevalent in the seventeenth century were refuted. Unfortunately, mercantilism has made a comeback, though in continental Europe it never really went away.
That is the evil of the EU’s mercantilist trade and economic policy. It is astonishing that people who think of themselves as progressive cannot see this. The EU might have reformed itself but that would be like turning round a supertanker.
Talk about trade deals reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of trade. All governments need to do is to declare that they will not get in the way of people who want to import goods into their country. If the declaration is not reciprocal, then the countries which do not reciprocate are making their own people poorer.
Why this is so difficult to see is a mystery to me. Perhaps it is because I am old enough to remember the time when returning holidaymakers were confronted on arrival at British ports by gimlet-eyed men in uniforms who made everyone open their suitcases while they went through them to make sure they had purchased such deadly items as cameras, jewellery, nylon stockings or Scotch Whisky.
Sure, but there’s no such thing as a completely free market, and governments set the terms under which trade can proceed.
DevonChap says:
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during “God Save the King” than of stealing from a poor box.”
Orwell got why the people’s vote mob isn’t going to work.
There is a great deal in this post that I think is deeply wrong but let me ask a practical question. Do you think that this article would make anyone who voted Leave change their vote? I voted Remain but if I’d read this before going into the polling booth my pencil would have hovered over leave far longer than it did.
You are basically say that Britain is too small, too weak and too morally compromised to be a fully independent country. We should wear sack cloth and ashes rather than look to our achievements. That ain’t going to win you converts but you only preach to the 20% who already agree with you.
I think the cultural cringe many in intellectual and soft left feel about patriotism is a cause of Brexit. The French don’t wring their hands over patriotism,despite a colonial history at least as bad a Britain’s., They see Europe as a way to promote Frenchness which they still see as something positive. Perhaps if the British cultural leadership had sought to support British identity within a European context rather than giving the impression they would rather it was dissolved away then maybe those who are happy with their country’s culture and history would be reconciled with the EU.
I didn’t grow up in Britain and so I don’t feel particularly British, so I can’t claim any sense of patriotism. But this is where I live, where I choose to live, and the country where I’m raising my children. Obviously I want the best for Britain and that’s the position I’m coming from.
It would be daft to say that Britain is too small to be an independent nation – as I said in the post, it’ll be the 6th of 7th largest economy in the world. (Incidentally, you should stop yourself when you start a sentence with ‘what you’re saying is…’. If in doubt, ask) Britain is still an influential country, but we’re making a big mistake thinking that the US and China will treat us as equals. Hence we should value cooperation more than we do.
Would it change a leavers’ mind? I honestly don’t know, but I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do. Say nothing?
‘What your saying is…’ can be a useful way to summarise an argument so as to check understanding.
I might venture that you could have not tried to link Brexit to the crimes of Empire or imply that Britain is responsible for evil on a par with the Nazis. They aren’t linked. It’s deeply alienating and offensive to try to do so.
Brexit is driven by identity. David Goodhart’s thesis of the ‘Somewheres’ rooted in a specific place verses the ‘Anywheres’, footloose and global in outlook, is a very good one to understand Brexit. Your post is a classic Anywhere take. It doesn’t connect with most of the people of this country.
The referendum was lost because the Remain campaign didn’t make it a patriotic choice to stay. The People’s Vote are making the same mistake. The March was a sea of blue and yellow, nowhere near enough red, white and blue. Patriotism isn’t a bad thing that is can only bashing foreigners but something that has importance to many people.
You are saying you are a bit of an outsider. I recommend that in order to influence your country of choice you should choose to understand it more.
I can only write from the perspective I have. Most of the time my outsider perspective is an advantage, and on the issue of Brexit it isn’t. I’m aware of that, and I’ve made no effort to comment on it beyond the occasional mention. I can’t ignore it though, and anyone who voted remain ought to be asking themselves what their part is in this.
There are remain campaigns that use a more patriotic approach, incidentally. Best for Britain is one of them, or Stronger In during the referendum. There were many voices for remain, just as there were for leave.
There’s no Nazi implication in my post. That’s you doing your usual thing of running ten steps on from what I say and then accusing me of saying something extremist. No point in coming back to me on that, I’m not going to get into straw man arguments. I believe Brexit is best understood in a post-colonial, post-empire context, and that is very much a matter of identity.
Unfortunately I couldn’t be on the march either though I was at the one last spring. There was so much more you could have said Jeremy if space had allowed. The EU was set up as peace project following two disastrous world wars. To me it is as much a social as an economic project. People like me who like leaving will be a disaster are not sneering at Englishness (although I do think the vote was passed because England has some kind of identity problem, I am English and British and live in Scotland), nor do we we think we are too small to go it alone.
We are realistic in thinking that cooperation is better than separation. That many of the problems we face such as climate change and migration plus standing up to bullies like Putin and Trump is done better in cooperation.
As for these mythical trade deals. There is nothing stopping selling more to the Chinese at the moment. The Germans do. They make more that the Chinese want to buy.
The problem with Brexit is like the Scottish indy ref. Everyone would have been disappointed since those who want to leave are formed of a number of minority groups with different agendas. These agendas are contradictory and therefore cannot all be satisfied. Therefore the great majority of people will be disappointed and betrayed; the 48% for obvious reasons, those who want migration controlled cause it won’t be. Those who want to “take back control” when they discover in global world with lots of problems that’s not possible etc.
PS the global elite were on both sides.
I live in the 21st century not some mythical 1950’s which never really existed.
By the way Jeremy I think you meant 2.6 trillion although the point still stands.
Yes, that should be trillions. Thanks for the correction. You’re right about the competing agendas, and that’s the saddest thing about it really, that the vast majority of people who voted leave won’t get what they wanted either.
As someone who has worked long term on four continents promoting collaboration between Britain and other countries to mutual benefit, I have watched Britain’s standing steadily diminish. We are a small island that has used up most of our natural resources. We were once dominent, due to ruthlessness (think slave trade & colonialism) and technological dominance (industrial revolution etc). Those times have passed; we might be a leading light in a few narrow fields, but countries with a much bigger resource base, including population, are bound to suppass us. Our best bet is to collaborate and co-operate with others.
There is much wrong with the EU, but even supertankers turn around. I was and am a reluctant remainer, because European collaboration started after WWII with the aim of making conflict between European nations less likely. The Balkans excepted, this has worked. Another war in Europe would make all other concerns seem tiny in comparison. So I’d rather us stay within Europe and work with our neighbours in a mostly constructive community (just like people (hopefully) do around their home.
What makes me really angry is the huge amount of distortion and wishful thinking that has been propogated by influential leavers, who seem blissfully unaware, or who do not care, that this will further Britain’s decline and leave many of us significantly worse off and more at risk.
OmniRunner says:
You voted for Brexit, we voted for Trump. Both nations decided to hasten their decline with poor decisions.
How will history judge us?
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Oh no will FIFA ban us from the World Cup and UEFA from all competition including the Premier League teams from the Champions League??? Comments please (reassure me?)…….
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Launch Pad Screenwriting Competition
From the start, the competition has leveraged our deep relationships with Hollywood’s top agents, managers, producers, and executives and consistently assembled a “who’s who” panel of 25 judges for each and every competition. This year is no exception, with judges participating from Paradigm, APA, Energy Entertainment, Circle of Confusion, Di Novi Pictures, Bellevue, and many more.
Golden Script Competition
The Golden Script Competition is a yearly competition founded in Glasgow, UK, of short and feature screenplays from all around the world.
Film Independent Screenwriting Lab
Through personalized feedback from experienced industry professionals and other writers in the program, Screenwriting Fellows will gain the tools to revise and refine their scripts for production. The Screenwriting Lab also helps to further the careers of its Fellows by introducing them to film industry veterans who can offer guidance on both the craft and business of screenwriting.
Creative Screenwriting Screenplay Contest
We have teamed up with several creative partners looking for Features and TV Pilots with unique voices and original stories. Our goal with this contest is to discover great writers then connect their authentic stories to those creative partners, and we are looking for the best writing in all of these genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family/Holiday, Mystery/Crime, Historical/Biopic, Horror/Thriller, Sci-Fi/ Fantasy, Western and Young Adult (YA).
Moondance International Film Festival
The objective of the Moondance International Film Festival is to inspire, motivate, promote and encourage the best writers & independent filmmakers, from every country in the world, and to inspire a greater understanding about the vital role of the arts in enhancing creativity, community spirit, and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
Rome Independent Film Festival
The screenplay award is organized and promoted by the RIFF. The intent is to offer new filmmakers a concrete opportunity to grow professionally by developing their films, and making them accessible to the public.
Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
The Cynosure Screenwriting Awards seek to expand the scope of mainstream cinema by recognizing and rewarding screenplays in two distinct categories: screenplays which feature compelling female protagonists; and screenplays that showcase diversity (ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, disability, etc.).
Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
OUR FOCUS IS TO DISCOVER THE BEST NEW SCREENWRITING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD How do we do that? 19 Oscar & BAFTA Winning Judges will read the final round of submissions. 75 Production Companies, Agents & Managers are signed up to read each year’s best scripts. 50+ Directors are on our roster to read the best Feature screenplays.
Houston Comedy Film Festival
The Houston Comedy Film Festival opened for submissions in 2008 and we had our first event in 2009. We are looking for a diverse palette of comedy screenplays with the following categories. 1-40 pages is considered a short and 41-150 pages is considered a feature in our world. 1) Comedy Short & Comedy Features 2) Dark Comedy Short & Dark Comedy Feature 3) Comedy TV Episode, Sitcom, or Webisode: Short & Feature (commonly called a Teleplay) 4) Romantic Comedy Short and Romantic Comedy Feature 80% of the submissions go to the Comedy Short & Feature Categories, which are the most competitive.
Illinois International Film Festival
Through screenings and associated events, the festival aims to present a wide spectrum of filmmaking - feature films, documentaries, animation, short films, experimental, student work, big budget, micro-budget, trailers and so on. The Illinois International Film Festival brings audiences and filmmakers together to better enjoy the art and fun of filmmaking.
Austin Comedy Short Film Festival
The Austin Comedy Short Film Festival held our first event in 2015. This event has been bi-annual since the beginning. We are looking for a diverse palette of comedy screenplays with the following categories. 1-40 pages is considered a short and 41-150 pages is considered a feature in our world. 1) Comedy Short & Comedy Features Screenplays 2) Dark Comedy Short & Dark Comedy Feature Screenplays 3) Comedy TV Episode, Sitcom, or Webisode: Short & Feature (commonly called a Teleplay) 4) Romantic Comedy Short and Romantic Comedy Feature Screenplays 80% of the submissions go to the Comedy Short & Feature Categories, which are the most competitive.
ScreenCraft Drama Feature Script Contest
Successful feature film dramas drive deep into the heart of what it means to be human, expressing universal themes with nuanced complexity. Our judges are looking for great stories with original voices and honest emotion. This competition celebrates great dramatic film writing. Whether you’re writing a sweeping period drama or a contained relationship movie, we want to read your script!
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
OUR FOCUS IS TO DISCOVER THE BEST NEW SCREENWRITING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD How do we do that? 12 EMMY & Golden Globe Winning Judges will read the final round of submissions. 43 Production Companies, Agents & Managers are signed up to read each year’s best scripts. 50+ Directors are on our roster to read the best TV Pilot scripts.
Athena List
The Athena List is an annual script competition that selects exceptional scripts with women leaders at the heart of the story. As the central program in the Athena Film Festival’s Parity Pipeline program, The Athena List’s goal is to raise the profile of the scripts and the writers within the industry with the purpose of getting these movies made and elevating their careers to the next level.
New York City Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
New York City's longest running horror film festival. Established by MooDude Films CEO / Producer / Director / Michael J. Hein in 2001. The NYCHFF is a four-day event that takes place each November in New York City. The NYCHFF has grown to be a world recognized event, with industry, filmmakers, and press attention from around the globe.The Hein Family is committed to keeping the festival alive in memory of the truly missed and loved founder Michael J Hein.
American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
The mission of the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest is to find and promote new and innovative voices in cinema. Every script is read closely by a select handful of professional readers, and Francis Ford Coppola selects a grand prize–winner from among the top ten finalists. The grand prize–winner receives a cash prize, and the scripts of all top ten finalists are sent by Zoetrope to leading production companies and talent agencies for consideration.
Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest
Breaking Walls is a contest for thriller screenplays with contacts at established Hollywood literary representation and production companies who have agreed to consider the full winning script and the top finalists' loglines. Well-written thrillers are always an excellent way for writers to show Hollywood pros a combination of commerciality, unique voice, and a clear understanding of effective feature film narrative.
Women in Film & Television Vancouver
The Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Screenplay Competition accepts English-language feature screenplays written by women. The festival is a forum for collaboration and networking with other screenwriters and filmmakers who contribute to the visibility of women through the ongoing practice of their craft. We encourage you to submit a feature film script of any genre, challenging the perceptions of what stories women write, and what we want to see.
Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
The Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming TV and web-series writers, as well as to empower and educate passionate and talented screenwriters still waiting for their invitation into the mainstream industry. Competition is open to TV pilots, webisodes and inventive TV-series scripts of all genres. Season 4 results will post by November 15, 2019.
WRPN Women's International Film Festival
Welcome to the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, where distribution and feedback opportunities abound for films made by women, or films that carry subject matter relating to concerns particular to women's issues. WWIFF is a sister festival to the Depth of Field International Film Festival, a FilmFreeway “Top 100 Reviewed” festival alumni.
trackingb.com Screenplay Contest
We are looking to find the next generation of great feature screenwriters by shining a spotlight on new, fresh voices. And we've enlisted a great industry judging panel from the feature world to help us. THE INDUSTRY PANEL: Brooklyn Weaver – Manager/Producer - Energy Entertainment Anna Culp – EVP – Imagine Jennifer Au – Lit Manager – Untitled Entertainment John Campbell – Creative Executive - Bruckheimer Films David Boxerbaum - Lit Agent/Partner - Verve Ken Freimann - Manager/Producer - Circle of Confusion Brin Lukens – Executive – AwesomenessTV Norm Todd – Creative Executive - Infinitum Nihil Erin Westerman - VP - Lionsgate Chris Sablan - Lit Manager/Producer - Avenue 220 Ava Jamshidi - Lit Manager - Industry Entertainment Tara Farney - Vice President - Vinson Films Janet Jeffries - Development Executive - Lawrence Bender Productions Lucas Carter - VP, Film - Intrigue Entertainment Josh Goldenberg - Lit Manager - Kaplan/Perrone Lucy Kitada - Executive - Michael De Luca Productions Ryan Cunningham - Lit Manager - Madhouse Entertainment John Swetnam - Writer/Producer - Mad Horse Films
ScreenCraft Pilot Launch
Our panel of Hollywood industry professionals is looking for the next great drama and comedy TV pilots for network, cable and online platforms! Accepting web series and non-traditional series pilots as well. Three winners will receive cash awards and introductions to industry professionals. The Industry Jury: This year's jury is our best one yet! Our industry judges are looking for fresh voices in comedy and drama writing for television and web series! Our mission is to connect great TV writers with great TV producers, managers and development executives.
Portland Comedy Film Festival
The Portland Comedy Film Festival, ranked in the Top 100 on FilmFreeway, is a unique forum for international independent comedy filmmakers to showcase their comedy films in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Comedy Film Festival is a bi-annual event, searching for funny and engaging films and screenplays to entertain a comedy loving audience.
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WriteMovies Fall 2019 Screenwriting Contest
WriteMovies has been helping writers succeed since 1999! Now in our 20th anniversary year, we are currently accepting entries to our Fall 2019 Screenwriting Contest! Grand Prize: $2000 A year of free script development worth up to $3200 Guaranteed pitching to industry Exclusive prizes from InkTip Get free entry to the contest when you commission a script report, with Judging Feedback from just $89 Through our exclusive arrangement with TALENTSCOUT INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT (TSIM) we can guarantee the contest winner representation.
Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing spec scripts, 1/2 hour existing sitcom spec scripts, original pilots, and reality programs. This competition is designed with the TV writer and crossover screenwriter in mind. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are individuals from established production companies.
Script Pipeline First Look Project
To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.
ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Script Contest
Top scripts will be considered by our industry jury of executives, writers, and managers who focus on the action and thriller genres: Jenny Wood, Elevate Entertainment Manager of Taylor Sheridan, writer of Hell or High Water, Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soledado. Belle Avery, Appelles Entertainment Producer of The Meg, a big budget action adventure starring Jason Statham in theaters August 10th.
Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
Filmmatic coined a slogan, "Hidden screenplays never get produced". As writers, we spend a lot of our precious time crafting unique scripts, yet we hardly ever employ an equal level of passion when attempting to get our work into the "right hands". The exposure and prestige one can gain from placing or winning a screenplay competition is invaluable, but what do you say this time around we also get you PITCHING! Let's get proactive, let's pick a production company that makes sense for our project, tell them we were a Pitch Now Finalist or Winner, and get them to review our work, now not later ;) All 100 finalists will be able to pitch to a studio or production company of their choice via Virtual Pitch Fest! The competition is open to feature-length and short works, screenplays and teleplays.
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Le quartier Ouest est l'un des 9 quartiers d'Avignon en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
On y trouve notamment le micro-quartier Monclar en son sein.
Localisation
Ce quartier est délimité :
à l'est, par les avenues Saint-Ruf et Tarascon qui le sépare des quartiers Nord Rocade et Sud Rocade ;
au nord, par le boulevard Saint-Roch qui le sépare du quartier Centre ;
à l'ouest, par le Rhône qui le sépare de la ville des Angles dans le Gard ;
au sud, par la Durance qui le sépare des villes de Barbentane et Rognonas dans les Bouches-du-Rhône.
Administration
Mairie de quartier
Tous les quartiers d'Avignon sont dotés d'une mairie de quartier. Celle du quartier Ouest est située au 30 avenue Monclar.
Poste de Police Municipale
Le quartier Ouest compte un poste de Police Municipale situé au 30 avenue Monclar.
Transports en commun
Le quartier est desservi par le réseau Orizo.
Bus
Le quartier Ouest est desservi par de nombreuses lignes de bus du réseau Orizo.
Tramway et Chron'hop
Le quartier Ouest est desservi par plusieurs lignes de Tramway et Chron'hop du réseau Orizo.
Vélopop'
Le quartier Ouest possède plusieurs stations Vélopop' du réseau Orizo.
Les micro-quartiers
Champfleury-Eisenhower
Situé au long de l'avenue du même nom, le micro-quartier abrite un hypermarché E.Leclerc ainsi que le parc Eisenhower.
Courtine
Le micro-quartier abrite la Zone Industrielle Courtine, le Centre Commercial Court'In, l'Opéra Confluence ainsi que la Gare d'Avignon TGV. Anciennement constitué de terrains agricoles, il tire son nom du château de Courtine, ancien domaine agricole et viticole aujourd'hui désaffecté.
Hôpital
Il comporte le Centre Hospitalier Henri Duffaut ainsi que la clinique Rhône-Durance d'Avignon et l'Institut contre le cancer (Sainte Catherine).
Saint-Ruf
Situé à l'extrème-est du quartier Avignon Ouest, le micro-quartier Saint-Ruf a une ambiance de village paisible avec des commerces de proximité et surtout des habitations pavillonnaires privées. Il est partagé sur deux quartiers de la ville : Avignon Ouest et Nord Rocade.
Notes et références
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Vélopop'
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Tramway d'Avignon
Ligne 1 du tramway d'Avignon
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Présentation du quartier sur le site de la Ville d'Avignon
Quartier d'Avignon
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Karabelnikov Hila (b. 1981, Israel) Lives and works in Bnei Barak. Holds a bachelor degree in art and art teaching from “Hamidrasha” School of Art, Beit Berl. Held a solo exhibition at Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv and participated in group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Karabelnikov uses unusual substances, such as colored masking tape, wallpaper and stickers, through which she crates works which express her perception of the Israeli – Jewish reality. |
Children from Redwood Class (am) and Acer Class (pm) visited Hodsock to take part in 'Teaching Trees' the children learned how to recognise different varieties of trees. They learned how to measure them and were given the opportunity to identify the trees while blindfolded... Afterwards they enjoyed a tour around Hodsock Priory. |
Today is the feast day of St Nicholas, and a day where the children of families who celebrate St Nicholas' Day often receive sweets, fruits and small gifts in their stockings, socks, shoes or bags.
Write the same story twice (or more), written from two (or more) different characters' points of view.
You can write two separate, stand-alone stories, or write one story told from multiple points of view.
For an extra challenge, write in the present tense and interleave the two different threads so that the reader experiences the events unfolding in the story from two points of view at once.
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Court: No Tort Liability Over Failure to Remove Online Material
An Oregon woman cannot impose tort liability on Internet service provider Yahoo! Inc. for allegedly failing to remove profiles in which her ex-boyfriend assumed her identity and posted explicit material soliciting sex, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
Rejecting a ruling that the federal Communications Decency Act immunized the company from tort claims, the court nonetheless held the act precludes tort liability when the duty allegedly breached derives from the defendant’s status or conduct as a “publisher or speaker.”
However, the three-judge panel ruled that Cecilia Barnes—who claimed the profiles led strange men to call, e-mail and visit her at work expecting sex—could bring a claim for breach of contract over Yahoo’s alleged failure to remove the profiles after promising to do so.
‘Indecent Use’
Writing for the court, Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain said the case “stems from a dangerous, cruel, and highly indecent use of the Internet for the apparent purpose of revenge,” but noted that Yahoo “hotly contest[ed]” Barnes’ factual allegations.
Barnes broke off a lengthy relationship with the man in 2004, and claimed that he responded by posting profiles of her on a website run by Yahoo that allows users to post public profiles for other Yahoo members to view.
The profiles contained nude photographs of Barnes and the man, allegedly taken without her knowledge, and solicitation—either express or implied—to engage in sexual intercourse. Barnes also claimed the man conducted discussions in Yahoo’s online “chat rooms” posing as her and directing male correspondents to the fraudulent profiles.
Barnes said she asked Yahoo to remove the profiles, and then repeated the request one month later after receiving no response, but only heard back from the company on the eve of a broadcast of a report on the incident by a local television news program.
Company Reaction
She claimed she was then advised by a “Ms. Osaka” from Yahoo that Osaka would “personally walk [Barnes’] statements over to the division responsible for stopping unauthorized profiles and they would take care of it, but that the company only pulled the profiles two months later after Barnes filed suit.
Barnes alleged causes of action under Oregon law based on Yahoo’s “negligent undertaking” and on her reliance on Osaka’s alleged promise to remove the materials, but U.S. District Judge Ann L. Aiken of the District of Oregon dismissed for failure to state a claim. Aiken reasoned that Sec. 230(c)(1) of the act immunized Yahoo from liability as a matter of law.
As noted by the Ninth Circuit in Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, Inc. (2003) 339 F.3d 1119, the statute bars courts from treating certain Internet service providers as publishers or speakers in tort actions “to promote the free exchange of information and ideas over the Internet and to encourage voluntary monitoring for offensive or obscene material.”
On appeal, Barnes argued the statute did not apply to her causes of action, but O’Scannlain—emphasizing that the statute precluded liability, but did not grant “immunity”—wrote that Barnes “could not escape Sec. 230(c) by labeling as ‘negligent undertaking’ an action that is quintessentially that of a publisher.”
Promissory Estoppel
However the judge said that Barnes’ second claim—based on Yahoo’s alleged failure to fulfill its promise to remove the material—could be “recast” in terms of promissory estoppel, and said that liability under the theory was “different from, and not merely a rephrasing of, liability for negligent undertaking.”
Remanding to determine whether Barnes had a viable contract claim, he explained:
“[Sec.] 230(c)(1) creates a baseline rule: no liability for publishing or speaking the content of other information service providers. Insofar as Yahoo made a promise with the constructive intent that it be enforceable, it has implicitly agreed to an alteration in such baseline.”
Judges Susan P. Graber and Consuelo M. Callahan joined O’Scannlain in his opinion.
The case is Barnes v. Yahoo! Inc., 05-36189. |
Louis Blériot (1872-1936) was an entrepreneur and producer of vehicle lamps. From 1900 he constructed his own aircraft, which he also flew himself. Unfortunately they were not very successful. The breakthrough came with the "Blériot XI", which he constructed in 1908 and which was to become the most successful aircraft of its time.
The fuselage and wings consisted of a construction made of ash wood. The front part of the fuselage was covered with material, the rear part remained open. The aircraft was about 8 m long, the wingspan about 8 m, and it was driven by an Anzani engine with 22-25 HP.
The first "Blériot XI" flew on 23rd January 1909. Already in the summer of 1909, the aircraft was able to set up several records. On 25th July it was the first aircraft to fly over the English Channel from Calais to Dover. The English daily newspaper "Daily Mail" had set up a competition and promised the winner a prize of 1,000 English pounds. During the flight, a very strong wind got up and the aircraft was driven off course, so that Blériot even considered turning back.
After that, Louis Blériot was so famous that he got a large number of orders for the construction of his "Blériot XI". He began mass production and by the end of 1913 he had sold about 800 aircraft. With that, he had the largest market share on the French aircraft market.
Fifty years after the first flight over the English Channel a memorial flight was organized with a reproduction of the "Blériot XI". An experienced pilot is said to have exclaimed: "I wouldn’t fly that thing for solid gold!" Eighty years after the flight, Louis Blériot’s grandson again tried to fly over the Channel with a Blériot. Unlike his grandfather, he wasn’t successful. |
Review: Motorola’s Moto G7 Lineup
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Motorola’s 2019 Moto G phones give you three good reasons to consider a cheaper Android model this year.
Rate9/10
Price$300
WiredAll three models are usable and well priced at between $200 and $300. Standard G7 is outstanding for the price and has plenty of RAM and storage. G7 Power battery can last two or three days. Headphone jack and MicroSD slot present on all models. Camera gets the job done. Works on all US wireless carriers.
TiredFragile glass design, except on the most affordable model. Water repellent, not waterproof. G7 Power and G7 Play have only 32 GB storage and lower-resolution displays. Mono speakers don't sound good (use headphones).
They say money can’t buy happiness, but getting a great phone for $300 sure feels pretty excellent. Like the Moto G-series phones that have come before it, the G7 series is designed to give you everything you need in a smartphone, and a little extra, for a third the price of a new iPhone or top Android phone.
When WIRED reviewed the first Moto G back in 2013, we said it signaled the “end of specs.” In a way, it did. In the past few years, affordable Android phones have blossomed into a respectable, popular corner of the smartphone garden. Flagship phones like the Galaxy S10 still sell in the millions, but they’ve had to bulk up and grow more luxurious than ever to attract eyeballs as they sit next to phones like the Moto G on store shelves.
Last year’s Moto G6 was a great value for $250, but its camera was molasses and menus would get herky-jerky if you surprised them. Motorola is selling three G phones for 2019: the standard Moto G7, a slightly pared down Moto G7 Power that gets more than two days of battery life, and a super-budget Moto G7 Play. I’ve spent several weeks testing all three Gs, and I’m impressed with the entire lineup. The Moto G7 devices are not without flaws, but they feel about as fast and useful as a midrange ($400–$500) phone did last year. And that’s huge.
I switched from a $1,000 Galaxy S10 Plus to a Moto G7 when I began the review, and it wasn’t all that difficult. On paper, the G7 would get steamrolled by the S10 in almost every metric, and the S10 is definitely a better phone. But outside of a few moments when I wished I had a better camera or when I wanted to Fortnite with the best settings, it didn’t make a whole lot of difference.
Brace Yourself. Numbers Are Coming
The standard Moto G7 has a 6.2-inch edge-to-edge HD display (19:9 aspect ratio) with a small notch up top for the selfie camera. There's a fingerprint sensor on the back. The power and volume buttons are in the same spot they are on most phones, lined up on the right side—easy enough to find and tap in the dark—and the phone looks like a Gorilla Glass and metal sandwich, just like every other phone in 2019. Unlike some more expensive sandwiches however, this one has a headphone jack and MicroSD card slot.
On the inside, every version of the Moto G7 has a moderate Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor and runs on a straight-laced version of Android 9 Pie operating system, the latest and greatest from Google. There are some differences beyond that, so I’ll lay them out here.
Moto G7 ($300): It has the best screen of the bunch (described above), comes with 4 gigabytes of RAM, 64 GB of storage for apps and photos, and a dual 12- and 5-megapixel camera setup on the back. It has a 3,000-mAh battery that typically had 20–30 percent left in the tank at the end of a day. Performance-wise, it's a cut above the other G7s.
Moto G7 Power ($250): It has 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, a 6.2-inch 720p display with a larger notch. The screen looks a little pixely in games and when taking photos, and it has a single 12-megapixel camera on the back. Its claim to fame is a ginormous 5,000-mAh battery that makes the phone a millimeter fatter (honestly, not that bad) and gives it enough battery that I usually end the day with 65+ percent left. This battery can last for days. If you’re not a huge gamer or huge app/game user, the battery benefits are worth it.
Moto G7 Play ($200): You’ll sacrifice the most with this model. It can get bogged down more than the others. It comes with 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, and also has a smaller 5.7-inch 720p display with the largest notch (iPhone-sized). I kind of like that it has a cheaper, less-crackable plastic back, but you may not. My wife also liked that it was smaller and easier to hold. As on the larger G7 Power, games like Modern Combat 5 and PUBG do not look as nice on this phone, but they do run.
Like the standard G7, every model has a headphone jack and MicroSD slot. Phone calls sound typical, though the speaker audio on all models is mono; nothing will sound leagues better than a phone call, so you'll want to use headphones. I haven’t had any strange reception issues with any model. They’re also all “water repellent,” not waterproof, so keep them away from liquids as best you can, and none of the models have Bluetooth 5, which helps some completely wirefree earbuds connect more smoothly.
Concert, Museum, and Baby
The Moto G7’s 12-megapixel dual rear camera had a few tough assignments. I took it with me to meet my friend's new baby, on a trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and all the way to Detroit Rock City for a KISS concert. KISS concerts have more pyrotechnics, stunts, and special effects than many Hollywood blockbusters, so it almost felt cruel, but hey, such is life.
Overall, the G7 performed a lot better than I thought it would. Our 8-megapixel baby selfies turned out just fine, and I got a few nice shots of the museum. For KISS (don’t knock ’em till you’ve seen them live), the camera did have trouble balancing their space-alien-like black and silver outfits against the glitzy stage lights. Many shots came out blurry or blown out. The ones above are my favorites. The G7 seemed to have an especially tough time capturing Paul Stanley as he ziplined onto a rotating platform in the middle of the arena and then sang to everyone in the nosebleeds. The lights were bright, and he never stopped moving. When singers weren’t rotating or flying and explosions weren’t going off—admittedly, this was rare—the G7 did take some photos that came out better than a lot of my concert pics from years past. My wife’s iPhone X photos came out far clearer than any of mine, so that’s what an extra $700 will buy you.
Motorola’s built-in gestures came in handy during the concert too. I twisted the phone a few times to open the camera, and when all the fans in the arena fumbled to turn on their flashes during a big ballad ("Beth"), all I had to do was shake the G7 in an ax-chopping motion and my flashlight turned on and off.
The Moto G7 is the best affordable phone this year. It’s fast, and the camera gets the job done. Like all glass phones, I wish it wasn’t so fragile and slippery (buy a case), but at least if it breaks you’ll only be out a few hundred dollars, not a thousand. And if you don’t mind a few less pixels on your display, an ever so slightly huskier build, and less onboard file storage, the Moto G7 Power can last as long as three days between charges. No matter which you choose, just know that the future you paying the credit card bills will probably say thanks.
(All three Motorola Moto G7 models come unlocked and will work on AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and many other wireless carriers. They cost $200-$300 from Amazon, Walmart, or Motorola.)
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How I learnt to finally say the L word
As a woman who has long been confident in her sexual identity, why has it taken me so long to say the L word?
WRODS BY GEORGIA ACTON
Gay woman. Homosexual woman. LGBTQ+. A WLW. I found a hundred different ways to avoid saying I’m a lesbian for 22 years. As a woman who has long been confident in her sexual identity, why has it taken me so long to say the L word?
As a teenager growing up, few of my peers were out and of those that were, none were women. The consensus amongst my classmates was that gay and a man was okay (according to 90s movies, all girls needed a gay best friend) but being a lesbian was just a bit ‘gross’.
In school, diversity seemed to be less of a fundamental pillar to becoming a young adult and more a topic to be crossed off in a single PSHE lesson. The relegation of LGBTQ+ life, culture, history and health to a one-off lesson in year 9 hardly made for an informed cohort of young people with the confidence to fully be themselves.
I was left entirely reliant on my family and on the media for representations of LGBTQ+ people. Too many representations of what a lesbian is are determined by those outside the community.
I found a hundred different ways to avoid saying I’m a lesbian for 22 years.
The little lesbian representation I saw was skewed heavily by a straight, cisgender, white, male gaze. My understand of what a lesbian is could be split into two categories: lesbians that men deemed attractive and butch lesbians that the media deemed ‘aggressive’.
The first usually had pink acrylic nails, long flowing hair and were oversexualised by the media. They were also presented as needing to meet the ‘right’ guy and ‘become’ straight. Bi-erasure and stereotyping all in one – not so great.
Type II lesbians were presented as the ‘real’ ones. They were butch and awesome but the media deemed their love of short hair, DIY and Birkenstocks as aggressive, anti-men and as such, undesirable.
As a teenager, I had girl crushes but I knew I wasn’t type I or type II. I knew it was fine if people were; I was passionate about LGBTQ+ rights and knew queer women were valid regardless of their expression. I just couldn’t accept that I was one of them.
There was a chasm between my understanding and empathy for other people and my ability to self-identify as LGBTQ+. I was left with two options if I was going to keep fancying women: either I had to start looking for better representation or resign myself to a lonely, romance-less life as I would never fit into one two narrow stereotypes.
I searched everywhere for better representation. Online resources, LGBTQ+ focused media and slowly increasing numbers of LGBTQ+ celebrities in TV and film helped to break down some of these stereotypes.
I began to see how my own understanding of my sexuality had become limited by my internal bias and finally began to accept myself as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
By the age of 19 I had come out to most people in my life but skirted around the subject of labels. I was exclusively dating women but when pushed, I clung to the word bisexual despite it not feeling quite true for me.
Of course I knew and am still certain that being a bisexual woman is totally valid, but while I continued using the word, my attraction to boys felt like something that was expected of me not something that was authentic.
Things started to change for me in my first long-term relationship with a woman. In becoming more comfortable with that relationship, I questioned whether my attraction to men was genuine or a default position I had assumed. Eventually, identifying as bisexual didn’t seem to fit for me anymore.
The first letter of the LGBTQ+ acronym seems like a glaringly obvious fit now but despite being comfortable in openly dating only women, “lesbian” still felt like a big word and an aggressive one. I had internalised the “aggressive” media stereotypes and so began instead to describe myself as a gay woman.
In 2017 I began volunteering with the LGBT+ young people’s charity, Just Like Us. In order to go into schools and speak about my life as an LGBTQ+ person, I needed to confront the language I used to describe myself.
At the same time, the charity’s network of ambassadors from all parts of the LGBTQ+ community allowed me to meet, discuss and learn from other LGBTQ+ youth.
I saw, for the first time, other women my age who identified as lesbian. I saw their unashamed pride as they declared themselves lesbians. And these women weren’t aggressive, anti-men or undesirable of course – they were amazing.
The diversity amongst Just Like Us’ growing team of ambassadors is incredible. Interacting with such a great group of people from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum and from a range of backgrounds, ethnicities and more allowed me to translate what I was telling kids in schools: “anybody can be LGBTQ+” and actually apply it to myself.
I am a lesbian. There. I said it.
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what make the PIP model work.
Our volunteer Group Leaders create a welcoming space for new parents to share, connect, and support one another. They are the best kind of experts: usually parents themselves, and also often grandparents, aunts or uncles. They don't have all the answers, but they are passionate about facilitating engaging discussions which help parents generate ideas, find information, and build neighborhood communities together.
Some of our Group Leaders are giving back as a way of honoring their own PIP experience. Others have children who are too old to be included in a PIPsqueaks Group, and see this as an ideal way to experience the magic of our groups. All will find great joy and satisfaction in helping new parents connect and share through their PIPsqueaks Group.
If this sounds like you, read on to find out how you can become a Group Leader.
Ready to apply? We're excited to meet you! Use the button below to get started.
We love our facilitators to be parents themselves. We appreciate warm, sensitive communicators who are accepting of varied child-rearing practices and diverse lifestyles. Interest in early childhood development, postpartum support, experience in education or facilitation, or previous PIPsqueaks Group participation are welcome pluses.
Leaders commit to working with their group for 10 consecutive weeks (or fewer if you choose to co-lead with a friend, spouse, partner or colleague - more on co-leading below). PIP provides specialized training for every Group Leader, and Group Leaders have access to experienced PIP mentorship.
Tdap Policy - To protect the precious babies in the PIPsqueaks Groups, ALL Group Leaders are encouraged to be up to date on the Whooping Cough (Pertussis) vaccination (Tdap).
It's our job to help you have a wonderful, fun, and rewarding experience as a Group Leader. We've designed lots of resources for you, and provide training and support all along the way. The information below outline key details about the role, and includes answers to prospective Group Leaders' most frequently asked questions.
Volunteers attend one 3 1/2-hour training session. Training explains the structure of a PIP meeting and provides practice with active listening, group dynamics, meeting planning, and discussion facilitation. Our training is designed to provide new skills and prepare you to lead a group, whether you are a seasoned facilitator or new to the experience.
Each Group Leader receives a handbook that provides detailed information and all the tools you'll need to plan meetings, guide discussions, and support new parents.
PIP staff will be available throughout your Group Leader experience to answer questions, provide suggestions, and help you navigate sensitive situations if they arise.
PIP works very hard to make a Group Leader's job straightforward while respecting busy schedules, aiming to minimize travel and logistical concerns so you can focus on leading your group.
Group Leaders work with PIP to choose the time and day of the week their group will meet. Typically, daytime groups begin anytime in the 10am to 3pm window, and evening groups start between 5pm and 6pm.
Newborn PIPsqueaks Groups are 10 weeks long, and Baby PIPsqueaks Groups are 8 weeks long. It is possible to take a week off to accommodate a vacation, or line up a substitute to accommodate illness or a special situation. On average, leaders dedicate 4 hours a week including preparation, travel, meeting time, and communication with PIP staff and their group.
This is a wonderful way to divide the time commitment and double the resources for group participants. Co-leaders typically attend the first and last meeting together, and either co-lead or alternate meetings in-between. This helps accommodate busy schedules and allows childcare swaps if need be. It also makes planning and leading groups a more fun, social experience!
Co-leaders are most successful when they are previously acquainted with one another and decide to lead together. Think creatively when inviting a co-leader; consider asking a friend from your PIPsqueaks Group, a colleague or friend who has also participated in a PIPsqueaks Group, or even someone who hasn't been a part of a PIPsqueaks Group. Leading with a friend who is new to Austin or new to PIP is a great way to introduce new folks to the PIP community. PIP participants especially appreciate the opportunity to hear perspectives from leaders of both genders.
Most PIPsqueaks Group meetings rotate between group members' homes (when families are able to invite each other into their homes, it adds a level of warmth that participants really enjoy), but it's also possible to host a meeting in a public location such as a preschool or community center when needed. Some of our PIPsqueaks Groups are hosted by our Community Partners, and take place at their facilities for the duration of the 10 or 8 weeks.
PIP strives to form groups according to geographic area, which means you can lead a group near where you live or work. We cluster groups as tightly as possible within neighborhoods and/or zip codes, making adjustments as necessary to accommodate families as quickly as possible after babies are born. Most groups travel less than 5 miles to a meeting, and members will be consulted before they are asked to travel farther distances.
We ask our volunteers to facilitate meetings without their own children in tow so they can give their full attention to the parents. PIP leaders are very resourceful about finding child care. For example: co-leaders can swap playdates, evening volunteers may have coverage at home, and some even pair with another Group Leader who can handle child care each week while the other leads their group and vice versa.
It is not unusual for a volunteer to need to be absent for a week, whether for a planned or unplanned event. With advanced notice, PIP is usually able to find a substitute for a meeting. Alternatively, a group may decide to meet on their own for one week, and extend the session to an 11th (Newborn)/9th (Baby) week that the leader can attend. Our goal is to ensure that families enjoy 10 (Newborn)/8 (Baby) facilitated meetings, however we can most seamlessly achieve it.
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Jurisdiction - Hong Kong
Hong Kong – Sovereign Immunity the Courts: Contracting With Sovereign Entities.
Two recent court decisions in Hong Kong have clarified the circumstances in which sovereign states and sovereign-controlled entities will be entitled to claim immunity from jurisdiction and execution in the Hong Kong courts.These decisions have reinforced the need to be careful when contracting with such entities. This memorandum examines the recent court decisions and their ramifications.
The Congo Case
This is a decision of the Court of Final Appeal (CFA), Hong Kong’s highest court.
The case concerned certain arbitral award claims against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo) that had been purchased by the plaintiff. The arbitral awards arose out of certain credit agreements under which funds had been lent to Congo — clearly a commercial transaction.
The plaintiff sought to enforce the awards in the Hong Kong courts against the assets of Congo in Hong Kong. Congo claimed sovereign immunity before the Hong Kong courts — and thus sought to argue that the Hong Kong courts had no jurisdiction over it in respect of this matter.
What the CFA had to decide was whether the courts of Hong Kong should apply the doctrine of restrictive sovereign immunity (as in the U.K. and various other jurisdictions) or the doctrine of absolute sovereign immunity (as in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)). Under the doctrine of restrictive sovereign immunity, states do not enjoy immunity from suit or execution in respect of transactions of a purely commercial nature. Under the doctrine of absolute sovereign immunity, however, states enjoy immunity in respect of all matters, including transactions of a commercial nature.
The CFA provisionally decided that, although prior to the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China on June 30, 1997, the courts of Hong Kong, following the position of Britain, had practiced restrictive sovereign immunity, since the handover in 1997 the courts of Hong Kong should have followed the position of the PRC in practicing absolute sovereign immunity, with the result that no claim (including a claim in respect of a commercial matter) can be maintained in the Hong Kong courts against a foreign state or sovereign body unless the foreign state or sovereign body voluntarily waives its right to immunity at the time of the proceedings brought against it — prior consent (for example in a prior contract) is not effective.
Accordingly, the CFA decided that the Hong Kong courts had no jurisdiction over Congo in this matter and, further, that Congo had not waived its immunity in respect of this matter.
The CFA’s decision was initially only provisional because it decided that it was under a duty to refer certain legal questions to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (SCNPC) of the PRC. These matters were referred to the SCNPC, which gave its decision in August 2011 confirming the CFA’s decision; as a result of this, in September 2011, the CFA affirmed its original provisional opinion.
The Hua Tian Long Case
Hua Tian Long is a crane-barge owned by the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau (the defendant). The defendant entered into a contract with the plaintiff to make Hua Tian Long available to the plaintiff on hire. The defendant failed to make Hua Tian Long available when required to do so under the contract and the plaintiff sued the defendant in the Hong Kong courts for breach of contract and damages.
After taking various steps in the litigation (including issuing a counterclaim), the defendant raised a defense in the Hong Kong courts claiming to be entitled to immunity from suit on the grounds that the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau was controlled by, and was an organ of, the PRC and therefore could not be sued in the courts of Hong Kong by virtue of the doctrine of crown immunity (being the immunity from suit accorded to a sovereign state by the courts of that state).
The judge held:
• that the PRC was entitled to crown immunity in the Hong Kong courts (Hong Kong being part of the PRC) and therefore could not be sued in the Hong Kong courts;
• that the PRC government had sufficient control over the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau (which was part of the PRC Ministry of Communications and not a separate legal entity) to make it an entity of the PRC government for these purposes and consequently that the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau was prima facie entitled also to plead crown immunity in the Hong Kong courts; and
• that in the present case the defendant, by its conduct in issuing a counterclaim in the proceedings and taking an active part in the proceedings, had waived its immunity, and thus was not entitled in this matter to claim immunity from the Hong Kong courts.
The case was decided by the Honorable Mr. Justice Stone in the Court of First Instance and may possibly be subject to appeal.
What lessons should we learn from these decisions?
• If you are entering into a contract with a sovereign state or a sovereign-controlled entity, it is very important that you take legal advice early on in the process — this will help you to frame the jurisdiction and dispute resolution clauses of the documentation to give you maximum protection.
• If you are entering into a commercial transaction with a sovereign state or a sovereigncontrolled entity, do not include a submission to Hong Kong court jurisdiction in your documentation. Rather, include a jurisdiction clause for a legal jurisdiction (such as England and Wales) that adopts restrictive (as opposed to absolute) immunity such that the impleaded state or state-controlled body cannot claim immunity in respect of a commercial transaction.
• Include a contractual waiver of immunity in the contractual documentation — although this will not be effective to waive immunity in the Hong Kong courts, it should, if properly drafted, be effective in the relevant courts if your contract includes a jurisdiction clause submitting to the jurisdiction of the courts of a country that practices the doctrine of restrictive (as opposed to absolute) immunity.
• Depending on the type of contract involved, consider selecting arbitration proceedings (rather than court proceedings) to be the chosen dispute resolution method as sovereign and crown immunity only apply to proceedings before courts and not to proceedings before arbitral bodies (although sovereign or crown immunity may potentially apply at a later stage if you attempt to enforce any arbitral award in a court).
• If you are dealing with an entity related to a state, investigate as far as you can the level of state control over that entity — this will help determine whether that entity is likely to be treated as a sovereign-controlled entity for the purposes of claiming immunity in court proceedings.
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BOSTON – Hyper Space Tour
WIBA-FM VAN’S SUMMER JAM
Hyper Space Tour
With Special Guest SIMO
VIP – $226.00
Gold Circle General Admission – $76.00
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TICKET LOCATIONS
Tickets may be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-745-3000,
at the Coliseum Box Office, and all Ticketmaster locations.
BOSTON burst onto the music scene with their eponymous best-selling debut album in 1976.
With over 17 million copies sold, Boston generated hits such as “More Than a Feeling,” “Peace of Mind,” and “Smokin’,” rock staples still in heavy rotation today. Their second effort, Don’t
Look Back was another platinum chart- topper that confirmed their place in rock history, followed by Third Stage, which hit #1 on the charts, with the top single of 1986, “Amanda.”
With over 31 million albums sold to date, their music has stood the test of time, as evidenced by live BOSTON audiences that span generations.
While the “band” seemingly had overnight success, the timeless music that Tom Scholz created in his crude basement studio, had taken over seven years of writing and recording, and would become far more than a labor of love for an engineering student. While studying Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scholz picked up a guitar for the first time in his junior year. Having taken piano lessons as a child in a home filled with classical music, Tom was a quick study on guitar, and soon was writing his own music. He wrote hIs first piece, “Foreplay” while still at MIT. After graduating with a Master’s Degree, Scholz worked as a Senior Design Engineer at Polaroid, developing hardware for the world’s first instant movie system. Drawing on his engineering experience, he built a rudimentary tape system in his basement, and with the help of Jim Masdea on drums, and Brad Delp on vocals, he started recording many of the songs he had written, playing all of the instruments himself.
Scholz sent his initial 4-song demo recording to countless record labels, only to receive as many rejection letters. After refining the songs additionally, he sent out the demo once again in a last-ditch effort to get a record deal. This time, two major labels were very interested. Scholz and Delp were signed to a contract with CBS/Epic Records in 1976, Tom left his job at Polaroid, and the whirlwind began. Boston was released in August of that year, and the album quickly became a smash hit. A world tour followed, with the band making their New York debut at a sold-out Madison Square Garden. Two years later brought the release of Don’t Look Back, as well as another world tour. Tom went back into the studio to work on the next album. It would end up taking 8 years, due in part to a monumental legal battle with CBS/Epic Records, who ironically claimed that Scholz was taking too long to produce records. During this time, Tom had started his own company to produce the specialized audio equipment that he had invented. His brand of amplifiers/gadgets, Rockman, became a big hit and business was booming. Gary Pihl was instrumental in helping develop the Rockman products, as well as working with Tom to finish the last song on the third album. Third Stage was released in spite of CBS’s efforts to stop it in 1986. A record- breaking tour of North America followed, with the band performing the album in its entirety. In 1990, Tom Scholz finally prevailed in the CBS lawsuit, forever freeing artists in the recording industry from unreasonable demands from record companies.
Once again, Scholz sequestered himself in the studio for four more years, creating Walk On, which became BOSTON’s fourth platinum album. Two tours followed, in ’95 & ’97. Since the release of Walk On, Tom has taken the band on 7 major tours, released Greatest Hits, as well as two new studio albums, and remastered Boston, Don’t Look Back, and Greatest Hits.
Culminating in the release of Life Love & Hope in 2013, a project 10 years in the making, BOSTON embarked on a world tour this year, ending with their first trip to Japan in over thirty years. Rave reviews have described the show as the best BOSTON show ever!
Traveling to Madison for the concert? Be sure to book a room at the Hilton Madison Monona Terrace with a special Breese Stevens Field Concert Series promotional rate. To book a room using this promotion, please click here.
Order a cab ride from Union Cab to avoid parking all together. Just call 242-2000 or order online at unioncab.com.
Ride the free shuttle from the downtown Great Dane to and from the concert and don’t worry about parking! Enjoy the Great Dane’s hand-crafted beers and fresh, hearty pub fare before and after the show. Late dining until 1 AM! The shuttle will run from 5:00-7:30 PM to Breese Stevens Field and from 10:30-11:30 PM back to the Great Dane. The Great Dane is located at 123 East Doty Street, Madison WI. Visit www.GreatDanePub.com
Keep the party going at the High Noon Saloon on East Washington Ave. with SIMO and special guest Gabe Burdulis! Bring your BOSTON ticket stub for free admission!
One factory sealed water bottle per person will be allowed, no other food or beverage will be allowed inside the stadium.
A detailed parking map can be found below. All highlighted lots will be free of charge to park. Parking attendants and signage will direct you into the appropriate lots. |
Dream Big with Jill Jack
Life, Love, Endurance, and Yoga with Linda Lexy
Linda Lexy returns to Dream Big with Jill Jack to discuss...oh just about everything under the sun that effects us all! Tune in for what is sure to be a highly dynamic conversation about life, love, endurance and of course Dreaming Big Baby!
Detroit broadcaster for both radio and TV, club DJ, event emcee and co-founder of Funky D Records, Linda Lexy, has enjoyed success in her hometown for nearly 25 years. An on-air personality on 4 terrestrial stations, 2 internet stations and currently has her own podcast launched from the Funky D Records website, produced & recorded at Funky D Studio. Her popular podcast was recently picked up by John Sinclairs' Radio Free Amsterdam and is a station favorite there. Always in classic urban format, she began her self-programmed show "Linda Lexys Party Train" on WGPR, Detroit, home of the Electrifying Mojo, in 1999, and has continued the show under that name to this day. She also hosts a live in-house broadcast at Detroit's Motor City Casino for 11 years and is still there for her many funk & soul loving fans. In 2009, 2010 & 2011, 2013, 2014 & 2016, 2017, Lexy was honored with a DMA (Detroit Music Award) for Outstanding DJ and in 2012 & 2015, 2018 was named a Special Honoree by the Motor City Music Foundation for consecutive wins. Her record label with partner/producer/musician Tino Gross has also won several awards and is raising eyebrows all over the industry, with their artists, events and releases. She feels fortunate to have built her entire career at home. She is also active in many causes and charities and highly involved in the Detroit music community. She is also a proud member of Detroit's legendary good will rock & roll cheerleaders and fishnet rocking music ambassadors,The Motor City Rah Rahs. ALL ABOARD the train that rolls on funk & soul....Linda Lexy's Party Train Podcast AND radiofreeamsterdam.com!
About Jill Jack:
Jill Jack is a 43 time Detroit Music Award winner who has traveled the world sharing her life experiences through song. What Jill has enjoyed the most over her 30 year music career was meeting people. Jill found that in sharing her trials and tribulations, her dreams and aspirations she connected with people of all walks of life. Her fans would reach out to her and ask for advise on how to pursue their dreams. Jill decided 3 years ago to create Dream Big Incorporated - a place where Jill could share her gift of believing in, supporting and guiding individuals of all walks of life pursue their biggest dreams! Dream Big with Jill Jack! A radio show that will inspire, educate, and encourage listeners to be and do what their hearts are nudging them to do. |
Reporting from the American Geophysical Union: Fire Risk Maps, Rocky Mountain Forests, Sierra Nevada Water
28 December 2015 / raminskibba / Leave a comment
Here are three new stories I reported on and wrote at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco a week ago:
Assessing U.S. Fire Risks Using Soil Moisture Satellite Data
Soaring hundreds of kilometers above the Earth, a NASA satellite monitors soil moisture in the ground far below, probing drought conditions. Scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) analyzed these data and combined them with wildfire information from the U.S. Forest Service and land cover data from the U.S. Geological Survey. They used the results to assess fire risks, taking the first important step toward developing predictive maps for fires throughout the continental United States.
Burning trees and brush in the 2013 Rim Fire, which burned more than 1000 square kilometers in California’s Stanislaus National Forest. The Rim Fire was the largest ever recorded for the Sierra Nevada mountain range. (Credit: Mike McMillan, USFS , CC BY-NC 2.0)
The JPL scientists, a team led by Nick Rousseau in NASA’s DEVELOP Applied Sciences Program, find that soil moisture data alone can approximately explain the distribution and extent of fires, from the Sierra Nevada to the western plains to the Florida wetlands. Their results determine how much the dryness of regions indicates fuel available for fires. They reported their findings on Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
Every year, wildfire outbreaks cause economic loss, property damage, and environmental degradation. Local, state, and federal agencies want to prepare for fire activity, and knowledge about particularly high risk areas would help them do so. If these new maps could be used to predict wildfire potential, then they would be an invaluable resource.
“This shows how much overall area is likely to burn, which could be a useful tool when Congress allocates resources for fire management,” said Sparkle Malone, a research ecologist at Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colo., who was not involved in the study.
[For more, check out the entire article in Eos magazine, published on 17 Dec. 2015. Thanks to Peter Weiss and Nancy Mcguire for help with editing it.]
Climate change and bark beetles spell doom for Rocky Mountain spruce forests
The combination of climate change and spruce bark beetles could drastically alter Rocky Mountain spruce and pine tree populations over the next three centuries, according to a new study. Using an improved model of forest growth, death, and regeneration, a group of scientists predicts that spruce populations will decline and lodgepole pines will take their place.
Nearly every mature spruce tree has been killed by spruce beetle in this area of the Rio Grande National Forest in southwest Colorado. (Credit: U.S. Forest Service; photo: Brian Howell)
According to new research presented at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the demographics of a forested region can be dramatically affected by insect outbreaks and fires over time. In addition, different kinds of trees have different tolerance to drought, strong winds and temperature changes. “These act to create competition between individual species and even between trees,” said Adrianna Foster, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and lead author of the new study.
Bark beetles are tiny–only a quarter inch in length, smaller than a grain of rice–but given the opportunity, they can rapidly consume a forest. According to the U.S. Forest Service, over the past 15 years, pine beetles have devastated Rocky Mountain forests, killing off tens of millions of lodgepole pines. But if the new study’s predictions are correct, the trees stand to make a comeback as spruce trees decline, according to Foster.
[For more, check out the entire article on the GeoSpace blog site, published on 21 Dec. 2015. Thanks to Lauren Lipuma for editing assistance.]
Parts of Sierra Nevada Mountains more susceptible to drought than previously thought, study finds
Particular areas in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains have a high capacity to store water but are more susceptible to droughts than previously thought, new research finds.
The Salt Springs Reservoir, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains east of Sacramento, has experienced dropping water levels, barely covering the lowest gauges installed by the U.S. Geological Survey. (Credit: Rowan Gaffney)
“The areas we think that are most resilient to drought are actually more vulnerable to the transition from historical droughts to more extreme ones, like the one happening now,” said Rowan Gaffney, a geoscientist at the University of Nevada, Reno, and lead author of the study.
Every year, accumulated snowpack in the region stores water, which melts during the summer and recharges groundwater that flows into river and stream areas. Ecosystems, communities and agricultural irrigation depend on that water downstream, Gaffney said.
In the new study, Gaffney and fellow University of Nevada geoscientist Scott Tyler investigated the relationship between groundwater and stream flow in 10 strategically chosen locations throughout the Sierra Nevada in eastern California. High groundwater storage areas are losing the most water during the current drought, Gaffney reported at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
[For more, check out the entire article on the GeoSpace blog site, published on Dec. 2015.]
New Planetary Science: Habitable Planets and Saturn’s Titan Moon
Here are two new stories I’ve written about interesting new research presented at recent conferences this fall, the National Association of Science Writers meeting in October and the American Geophysical Union meeting this week.
Sara Seager’s Search for Distant Habitable Worlds
Like a 21st-century Spock, Dr. Sara Seager seeks out new worlds and civilizations. With continually improving telescopes, she persistently and passionately pursues her grand quest: to search throughout our galaxy for habitable planets, a few of which might even resemble the Earth.
Sara Seager, MIT planetary physics professor. (Credit: MIT)
Seager, an accomplished professor of planetary science and astrophysics at MIT, gave an engaging presentation at the 2015 Science Writers meeting. She spoke clearly and intensely about her research and the exciting future of planetary exploration.
She and her research group have made important breakthroughs while characterizing newly discovered planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, using the NASA Kepler space telescope. With powerful next-generation observatories, she also looks forward to the next frontier, where her ongoing mission could come to fruition.
…In most exoplanet work, astronomers consider only certain planets as potentially life-friendly. Their orbit, atmosphere, surface and climate all must be just right, falling within narrow ranges of parameters. A successful search requires a daunting understanding of biology, chemistry, and geology, as well as astronomy and physics.
…Seager argues that the traditional concept of habitable zone is too rigid and should be expanded. “Exoplanets are diverse, covering nearly all masses, sizes and orbits possible,” she says. What scientists mean by habitable should be more inclusive, or they risk missing outlier planets that nonetheless could be conducive to life. Accounting for habitability varying depending on the type of star or planet alleviates the situation.
[For more, check out the entire article on the Minority Postdoc site, published on 14 Dec. 2015. Thanks to Matthew Francis for help with editing.]
Scientists Map Titan’s Lakes, Revealing Clues to their Origins
As Saturn’s largest moon, Titan earns its name. It’s also the only known body other than Earth with seas, numerous surface lakes, and even rainy weather. Now scientists have mapped out Titan’s polar lakes for the first time, revealing information about the moon’s climate and surface evolution. They found that the lakes formed differently than had been previously thought—and differently than any lakes on Earth.
A map of Titan’s North Pole, including its lakes, sediments and complex terrain.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.)
A collaboration of scientists led by Alexander Hayes of Cornell University presented their findings at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. They used NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to penetrate Titan’s smoggy atmosphere and probe the complex lake systems below.
Titan’s seas and giant lakes, which are larger than the Caspian Sea and Great Lakes, appear unique in the solar system, the study found. They consist of mostly liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, possibly making them a promising location to search for building blocks of carbon-based extraterrestrial life. Because Titan is tilted with respect to its orbit, it also experiences seasons, which drive these lakes toward its North Pole. But Saturn’s eccentric orbit makes the lakes shift from pole to pole, Hayes explained.
By combining Cassini RADAR mapper observations with other data, Hayes and his colleagues compiled detailed information about Titan’s lake systems and topography, allowing scientists to test ideas for how these lakes developed.
“Topography in geology is the key because it drives the evolution of landscapes,” said Samuel Birch, lead author of one of the Titan studies and a Ph.D. student at Cornell.
[For more, check out the entire article on GeoSpace, published on 14 Dec. 2015. Thanks to Lauren Lipuma for editing assistance.]
Philanthropists are Enabling and Influencing the Future of Astronomy
[This is a longer version of an op-ed I published in the San Jose Mercury News with the title “Tech moguls increasingly deciding what scientific research will be funded.” Thanks to Ed Clendaniel for help editing it.]
Billionaires and their foundations are both enabling and shaping scientific endeavors in the 21st century, raising questions that we as a society need to consider more seriously.
I have spoken to many astronomers, who consistently clamor for more reliable funding for scientific research and education. With broad public support, these scientists passionately explore the origins of life, the Milky Way, and the universe, and they naturally want to continue their research.
But what does it mean when private interests fund a growing fraction of scientific work? Can we be sure that limited resources are being directed toward the most important science?
Research & Development as a Fraction of Discretionary Spending, 1962-2014. (Source: Budget of the U.S. Government FY 2015; American Association for the Advancement of Science.)
After the Apollo program, federal funding for science and for astronomy in particular has never been a top priority, declining as a fraction of GDP. Since the Great Recession, science has received an increasingly narrow piece of the pie. Acrimonious budget debates perennially worry scientists that the mission or research program they’ve devoted their careers to might be cut.
Trends in Federal Research & Development. (Source: National Science Foundation, AAAS.)
Perhaps as a result, philanthropic funding for scientific research has bloomed, increasing sharply relative to the federal government, according to the National Science Foundation. For example, the Palo Alto-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, built on the success of Intel, agreed to provide $200 million for the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, intended to study distant stars and galaxies. This summer, Yuri Milner and the Breakthrough Prize Foundation dedicated $100 million to research at the University of California, Berkeley and elsewhere to expand the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
“Because the federal role is more and more constrained, there is a real opportunity for private philanthropy to have a lot of influence on the way in which scientific research goes forward,” Robert Kirshner, head of the Moore Foundation’s science program, told me.
These laudable initiatives put personal wealth to good use. They enable important scientific research and technology development, and some scientists benefit from the philanthropists’ largesse. But they also transfer leadership from the scientific community and public interest to the hands of a few wealthy businesspeople and Silicon Valley tech moguls.
While philanthropists support leading scientists and valuable scientific research, they and their advisors decide what is “valuable.” If they desire, they could fund their favorite scientists or the elite university they attended. They have no obligation to appeal to the scientific community or to public interests.
Philanthropists sometimes go for attention-getting projects that gets their name or logo on a major telescope (like Keck or Sloan) or a research institute (like Kavli), which also happen to enable important science for many years.
For better and perhaps also for worse, private funding of science is here to stay. Although fears of billionaires controlling science might be overblown, we should ensure that we support a democratic and transparent national system, with scientists’ and the public’s priorities guiding decisions about which projects to pursue.
Public funding involves thorough review systems involving the community, and projects develop upon a strong base with considerable oversight and transparency. This takes time, but it’s worthwhile.
Government agencies and universities support “basic” science research, allowing scientists to focus on science for its own sake and to explore long-term projects. Private interests often ignore basic research, typically spending 80 cents of every research and development dollar on the latter. In response to this shortcoming, the Science Philanthropy Alliance formed recently near Stanford University to advise foundations about how to invest directly in fundamental scientific research.
“If you’re going to have an impact in the long run, then you should be supporting basic research, which is often where some of the biggest breakthroughs come from,” said Marc Kastner, its president, referring to the Internet and the human genome.
These well-intentioned efforts offer no guarantee, however. We should urge policy-makers to reliably fund science and consider it as sacrosanct as healthcare and social security, regardless of budget limits. At the same time, we should clearly delineate the role philanthropy and private industry will play.
More Engineering News: Protein Engineering and Next-Generation Computer Architecture
Here are two new articles I’ve written about exciting newly published research on protein engineering and computer systems, led by engineers at Stanford University:
Stanford engineers invent process to accelerate protein evolution
A new tool enables researchers to test millions of mutated proteins in a matter of hours or days, speeding the search for new medicines, industrial enzymes and biosensors.
All living things require proteins, members of a vast family of molecules that nature “makes to order” according to the blueprints in DNA.
Through the natural process of evolution, DNA mutations generate new or more effective proteins. Humans have found so many alternative uses for these molecules – as foods, industrial enzymes, anti-cancer drugs – that scientists are eager to better understand how to engineer protein variants designed for specific uses.
Now Stanford engineers have invented a technique to dramatically accelerate protein evolution for this purpose. This technology, described in Nature Chemical Biology, allows researchers to test millions of variants of a given protein, choose the best for some task and determine the DNA sequence that creates this variant.
An overview of the directed evolution process with μSCALE: preparing protein libraries, screening them, extracting desired cells, and then inferring the DNA sequence at work. (Credit: Cochran Lab, Stanford)
“Evolution, the survival of the fittest, takes place over a span of thousands of years, but we can now direct proteins to evolve in hours or days,” said Jennifer Cochran, an associate professor of bioengineering who co-authored the paper with Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.
“This is a practical, versatile system with broad applications that researchers will find easy to use,” Baer said.
By combining Cochran’s protein engineering know-how with Baer’s expertise in laser-based instrumentation, the team created a tool that can test millions of protein variants in a matter of hours.
“The demonstrations are impressive and I look forward to seeing this technology more widely adopted,” said Frances Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech who was not affiliated with the study.
[For more, check out the entire article in Stanford News, published on 7 Dec. 2015. Thanks to Tom Abate for help with editing.]
Stanford-led skyscraper-style chip design boosts electronic performance by factor of a thousand
In modern computer systems, processor and memory chips are laid out like single-story structures in a suburb. But suburban layouts waste time and energy. A new skyscraper-like design, based on materials more advanced than silicon, provides the next computing platform.
For decades, engineers have designed computer systems with processors and memory chips laid out like single-story structures in a suburb. Wires connect these chips like streets, carrying digital traffic between the processors that compute data and the memory chips that store it.
But suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits, wasting time and energy.
That is why researchers from three other universities are working with Stanford engineers, including Associate Professor Subhasish Mitra and Professor H.-S. Philip Wong, to create a revolutionary new high-rise architecture for computing.
A multi-campus team led by Stanford engineers Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong has developed a revolutionary high-rise architecture for computing.
In Rebooting Computing, a special issue of the IEEE Computer journal, the team describes its new approach as Nano-Engineered Computing Systems Technology, or N3XT.
N3XT will break data bottlenecks by integrating processors and memory like floors in a skyscraper and by connecting these components with millions of “vias,” which play the role of tiny electronic elevators. The N3XT high-rise approach will move more data, much faster, using far less energy, than would be possible using low-rise circuits.
“We have assembled a group of top thinkers and advanced technologies to create a platform that can meet the computing demands of the future,” Mitra said.
Shifting electronics from a low-rise to a high-rise architecture will demand huge investments from industry – and the promise of big payoffs for making the switch.
“When you combine higher speed with lower energy use, N3XT systems outperform conventional approaches by a factor of a thousand,” Wong said.
[For more, check out the entire article in Stanford News, published on 9 Dec. 2015.]
Engineering News: Solar Cells and Plasma Combustion
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Check out these new articles I’ve written about solar cells and plasma combustion research led by Stanford University engineers:
Plasma experiments bring astrophysics down to Earth
New laboratory technique allows researchers to replicate on a tiny scale the swirling clouds of ionized gases that power the sun, to further our understanding of fusion energy, solar flares and other cosmic phenomena.
Intense heat, like that found in the sun, can strip gas atoms of their electrons, creating a swirling mass of positively and negatively charged ions known as a plasma.
For several decades, laboratory researchers sought to replicate plasma conditions similar to those found in the sun in order to help them understand the basic physics of ionized matter and, ultimately, harness and control fusion energy on Earth or use it as a means of space propulsion.
Now Stanford engineers have created a tool that enables researchers to make detailed studies of certain types of plasmas in a laboratory. Their technique allows them to study astrophysical jets—very powerful streams of focused plasma energy.
A long-exposure photographic image capturing the Stanford Plasma Gun during a single firing. The image shows where the plasma is brightest during the acceleration process, which occurs over tens of microseconds.
Writing in Physical Review Letters, mechanical engineering graduate students Keith Loebner and Tom Underwood, together with Professor Mark Cappelli, describe how they built a device that creates tiny plasma jets and enabled them to make detailed measurements of these ionized clouds.
The researchers also proved that plasmas exhibit some of the same behavior as the gas clouds created by, say, firing a rocket engine or burning fuel inside an internal combustion engine.
Their instrument, coupled with this new understanding of the fire-like behavior of plasmas, creates a down-to-earth way to explore the physics of solar flares, fusion energy and other astrophysical events.
“The understanding of astrophysical phenomena has always been hindered by the inability to generate scaled conditions in the laboratory and measure the results in great detail,” Cappelli said.
Stanford designs underwater solar cells that turn captured greenhouse gases into fuel
Taking a cue from plants, researchers figure out how to use the sun’s energy to combine CO2 with H2O to create benign chemical products, as part of a futuristic technology called artificial photosynthesis.
Stanford engineers have developed solar cells that can function under water. Instead of pumping electricity into the grid, though, the power these cells produce would be used to spur chemical reactions to convert captured greenhouse gases into fuel.
This new work, published in Nature Materials, was led by Stanford materials scientist Paul McIntyre, whose lab has been a pioneer in an emerging field known as artificial photosynthesis.
Stanford engineers have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. (Photo credit: Shutterstock)
In plants, photosynthesis uses the sun’s energy to combine water and carbon dioxide to create sugar, the fuel on which they live. Artificial photosynthesis would use the energy from specialized solar cells to combine water with captured carbon dioxide to produce industrial fuels, such as natural gas.
Until now, artificial photosynthesis has faced two challenges: ordinary silicon solar cells corrode under water, and even corrosion-proof solar cells had been unable to capture enough sunlight under water to drive the envisioned chemical reactions.
Four years ago, McIntyre’s lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. In the new paper, working with doctoral student Andrew Scheuermann, the researchers have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water.
“The results reported in this paper are significant because they represent not only an advance in performance of silicon artificial photosynthesis cells, but also establish the design rules needed to achieve high performance for a wide array of different semiconductors, corrosion protection layers and catalysts,” McIntyre said.
Such solar cells would be part of a larger system to fight climate change. The vision is to funnel greenhouse gases from smokestacks or the atmosphere into giant, transparent chemical tanks. Solar cells inside the tanks would spur chemical reactions to turn the greenhouse gases and water into what are sometimes called “solar fuels.”
[For more, check out the entire article in Stanford News, published on 18 Nov. 2015.] |
World of the Platypus
Woodlands Track
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Spirits of the Sky
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On the Main Track, a huge variety of reptiles and amphibians can be seen in their natural habitats. See majestic birds of prey and magnificent parrots on full display at our world-renowned flight area; besides kangaroos, koalas, emus and more! Share in Healesville Sanctuary’s sites of Aboriginal cultural significance on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
Emus are native to Australia and are found across most of the country. They can't fly, but they can run as fast as 40-50km per hour. Emus enjoy eating plants and occasionally insects. Male emus are dedicated parents, preparing nests for their chicks and caring for them after hatching.
Orange-bellied Parrot
One of only three migratory parrot species, the Orange-bellied Parrot is named for its vivid orange belly. They travel from Tasmania to south-eastern Australia every winter. These industrious fliers are critically endangered and at risk of extinction in the next three to five years without urgent action.
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Land of Parrots
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Flight Arena
See Australia's most beautiful feathered friends in the Spirits of the Sky Show - daily at 12pm and 3pm.
Lyrebirds are famous for their mimicry, echoing the sounds of everything from bird calls to chainsaws and cars. The male dances to show off his lyre-shaped tail during mating season. In their forest habitats, in south-eastern Australia, Lyrebirds use their claws to scratch for insects, worms, grubs, snails and spiders.
Wurundjeri Walk
Wurundjeri Walk celebrates the life of Indigenous Elder William Barak, a protector of his people and his culture. The walk takes visitors to sculpture and a Dreaming Place, and passes an ancient scar tree and bark canoe. Emotive soundscapes unfold as four generations of Elders reflect on their family stories and the spiritual heartland of Coranderrk Station.
Guthega Skink
The Guthega Skink is endangered in Victoria and is only found on the Bogong High Plains.
Brolga
Brolgas are found from the north east of Australia to Victoria. They're omnivorous and eat a range of plants and small animals. Brolgas partner for life, and the males and females both look after the chicks once they're born. These graceful birds are famous for their courtship ritual—an elaborate dance with trumpet-like calls.
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The Baltimore Drive-by, Part VIII: After overwrought heartstring-tugger, anguished journalist asks, "Why?"
Ex-journalist Nix Kauffman flees Baltimore ahead of two authors with crime on their minds. But don't believe a word he says. It's fiction. It never happened.
The waiter brought another round. "Cheerio, mates!"
"Knob!" muttered Romar, but he said it with affection; the waiter's English accent was good. Or maybe it just sounded that way to me. After six gin and tonics, my head had become a giant buzzing wad of wet cotton. The waiter might have sounded Australian. Or from the Midwest.
"You got a few hours?" I asked – Romar, not the waiter – "because I'll tell you."
"Tell it!"
"One night I'm in the sports department, and this story says the Ravens' quarterback shattered his knee. Thing is, he'd torn a ligament. Torn, not shattered! So I tell the night editor, but he looks at me like I was from Mars. Then this reporter says, `It's a matter of semantics.'"
I smacked the table as hard as Romar had. "Well, yeah, it goddamn was. Semantics. Meaning. You figure out what you want to say, you choose the right word, you say it."
"Let me guess who this night editor was: Your old friend, Mr. Joss."
"Too damn right. J-bloody-oss. Same Jimmy Joss who became editor twelve years later and fired my ass. Said I showed him up in front of President Obama." I slumped back in the metal lawn chair and took a contemplative sip of gin.
"An outrage, my friend. Obama was only running for president when you showed Joss up."
"Tosser!" I shot a wadded napkin at him. This was a man I could work with.
(Read all of "The Baltimore Drive-by" so far here.)
Labels: The Baltimore Drive-by
(Eugène Delacroix, "Hamlet sees the ghost of his father")
I'm rereading a crime story I've written about before, notably about its probing of killers' psyches. This time I'll highlight a device by which the author heightens tension:
And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
Doesn't the repetition tell you that the speaker is nervous? Another character, too, likely has something on his mind:
Hamlet: Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?
Marcellus: My good lord!
Hamlet: I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.
But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
Both selections are from Hamlet, Act I, scene ii. I suggest again that crime fiction might usefully be invoked in discussions of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in discussions of crime fiction.
Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare
They won "The Redbreast"
Readers in Texas and Colorado knew that Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast includes an amusingly vapid radio interview with a U.S. president just arrived in Norway for the 1993 Oslo conference. They also knew that Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat attended.
This knowledge wins them each a copy of the U.S. paperback release of The Redbreast. (Click here to learn why I liked the book.)
Labels: contests, Jo Nesbø, Nordic crime fiction, Norway crime fiction
More good lines to ease you into the new year, and a chance to win a book
I quoted one good line from Liam O'Flaherty's The Assassin yesterday. Here's another, this one more typical of the novel:
"(W)hen man feels weak and timid, it is then that he broods lovingly over misery, sin, death and the violent salvation of upheaval."
And lo, it transpires that Declan Burke took the working title of his big new Irish crime-fiction project from O'Flaherty's very next paragraph.
Yesterday's line was funny; today's is chilling. I'll wrap up the roundup up of good lines with one of each type from Adrian McKinty's Fifty Grand, and then later this week, a gem from Bill James.
First, McKinty:
"Listen to me, buddy, I can make you rich. I can get you money. A lot of money. Millions. Do you understand? Millions of dollars. Goddamnit! Why don't you understand, what's the matter with you? Millions of dollars? Do you speak English? Do you understand the goddamn English language?"
I do. It was my major.
Damn it. The other line you get when I can find the note where I wrote down what page it's on.
What good lines have you come across in your recent reading?
U.S. readers, you still have one chance to win a copy of Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast if you can answer this question correctly:
The novel's opening chapters include an amusingly vapid radio interview with a U.S. president just arrived in Norway for a major international summit conference. In what city did this real-life conference take place? What two other world leaders also attended?
Labels: Adrian McKinty, contests, Declan Burke, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin
"Don't mind him, Kitty. He's mad. Have a sausage."
Or, to give the full text, "Sit down or I'll throw a chair at you. Don't mind him, Kitty. He's mad. Have a sausage," and it's my favorite line from a crime novel this week.
The novel is The Assassin, the author is Liam O'Flaherty, and the subject matter is a good deal grimmer than this whimsically out-of-context example would suggest. Click here to find out why Declan Burke calls The Assassin "arguably the bravest Irish novel ever written."
Labels: Declan Burke, Ireland, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin
The Trip: Baltimore Drive-by, Part VI
Fictional character Peter Rozovsky leaps from a moving train and rolls down a grassy bank in Delaware, barely escaping desperate fictional fictionists John McFetridge and Declan Burke. He has the clothes on his back; a partly used, non-refundable train ticket in his hand; and one thought on his mind: Where do I go next?
"It's New-ARK."
"Excuse me?"
"New-ARK, Delaware; NYEW-urk, New Jersey. You're in New-ARK."
"Give me one from Nyew— from New-ARK to Philadelphia at 5:04, please. And one to Baltimore at 5:08."
An intake of breath at the other end of the line, and the clicking on her keyboard stopped. Just for a moment, though.
"Will that be round-trip or one-way, sir?"
"Which one? Never mind. One-way, both."
A few more clicks, and I was done.
"Pay on the train, sir. Whichever one you take. Thank you for choosing Amtrak."
It wasn't quite four o'clock, so I found myself a shady tree on the platform, and I lay down with a good book — not Burke's or McFetridge's. Those were sharing a non-quiet car to Philly with their authors and my luggage.
(Read all of "The Baltimore Drive-by" so far here or here. And remember: This is fiction. Almost none of it really happened.)
Labels: Declan Burke, John McFetridge, The Baltimore Drive-by
A Christmas contest
Season's greetings, and may the new year bring you peace and happiness.
A Detectives Beyond Borders favorite has its U.S. paperback release this week, and if you live in the U.S., you can win a copy.
The book is Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast, which explores a string of killings in 1990s Norway precipitated by strange activities on the cold, lonely Eastern Front during World War II. Among the novel's delights are its sly political humor, and that humor provides the question that can win you the book.
The Redbreast's opening chapters include an amusingly vapid radio interview with a U.S. president just arrived in Norway for a major international summit conference. In what city did this real-life conference take place? What two other world leaders also attended?
Labels: contests, Jo Nesbø, Norway, The Redbreast
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 28
(Photo courtesy Carnaval de Québec)
It's the Christmas edition of Carnival of the Criminal Minds, and boy, does the Rap Sheet ever stuff your stockings on this one with everything from publishing news to seasonal crime to a question about “senior sleuth novels” to a naked magazine-cover photo.
There's enough reading here for the twelve days of Christmas and well beyond. As always, visit the ghosts of carnivals past at carnival mastermind Barbara Fister's Carnival of the Criminal Minds archive.
Labels: blogs, Carnival of the Criminal Minds
A thinking man's exploration
That's two critical clichés in one post title; I must be a weak-minded critic. Maybe the coincidence was too much: that two consecutive books on my crime-fiction list should each exemplify what I think reviewers mean when they use a particular critical trope.
The thinking man's crime novel in this case is Adrian McKinty's Fifty Grand, for its nuanced view of migrant life in the United States and for its final pages. The novel offers a bang-up prologue of even higher tension than those to McKinty's Michael Forsythe books. Its final twist resembles those in Jean-Patrick Manchette's novels, in which the powerless are stripped by the powerful of almost everything that anchors them in this world.
In between, McKinty's first-person narrator/protagonist lives the life of an illegal Mexican immigrant in Colorado, a life replete with indignities, but also with astute observation and quiet moments of daily life and the odd behavior of one town's movie-star colony. The author is at least as interested in imagining his way into the lives of people different from himself as he is in telling a suspenseful story.
The exploration belongs to Bill James' In the Absence of Iles, twenty-fifth novel in the superlative Harpur and Iles series. The middle novels of the series especially, from Astride a Grave (1991) to Eton Crop (1999), are dark and humorous explorations of aspirations to respectability among the criminal classes and of the strange lives of odd, sometimes improvised families on both sides of the law.
Before that, James had written about a police undercover operation gone wrong, in the series' third book, The Halo Parade (1987). He returned to the theme several times in later novels, notably Kill Me (2000), in which an officer selected to infiltrate a criminal gang meets an exceedingly weird psychologist at a training course intended to prepare her for the operation.
Now, though, James explores the issue more thoroughly, concentrating and consolidating his fascination with police undercover work, its perils and its effects on those who send officers into harm's way.
Thus, an officer demonstrating for a gathering of police chiefs, particularly Assistant Chief Constable Esther Davidson, the skills required to work under cover:
"The cloth held to his shoulders in the affectionate, unruffled, congratulatory way a midwife might present a just-born baby to its mother. ... Not much of the waistcoat showed under his buttoned-up jacket, but Esther could tell it fitted right, and the pockets contained nothing bulky to destroy the general line. ...
"But then he turned his back for a moment and when he slowly spun and faced them once more seemed suddenly ... seemed suddenly what she'd originally expected: nervy and hesitant. ... His body signalled prodigious cringe now. ...
"Esther realized they were watching a performer who could have made it big in the theatre."
"Esther felt she had fallen into a sort of voodoo superstition, as if scared that to flout any part of the instructions from A and B and the rest of the Fieldfare performers would bring big punishment — big punishment signifying loss of the Out-located officer and failure of the operation."
James makes several interesting choices to narrow the focus on the officers who plan the undercover operation that drives the book, not all of which can be revealed without spoilers. One that can is that, shockingly for an author who has given crime fiction some of its funniest, grubbiest and most shabbily noble criminals, James gives no criminal anything more than a passing mention through the novel's first hundred or so pages.
More later, but for now, the novel's finest example yet of James' typical dark, wry humour, this from Officer B, the cool-headed counterpart to the flamboyant Officer A discussed above:
"Family enmities are generally more vicious than any others. Think of the punch-ups and knifings at typical weddings, christening parties and funerals."
Labels: Adrian McKinty, Bill James, Cuba, immigration
More new(ish)-media babble
I inched a bit closer to the 21st century this week, not only signing up with Twitter, but also taking my first careful read of one of those blogs that tell the truths you won't hear in the mainstream media. The discussion started deep in the comments to a post I made called "Welcome back, bloggers," and I'll reproduce it here, because I think it deserves a post of its own.
As it happens, I've found another example to cite in the content/context argument. I gave the Daily Kos a fairly thorough read last night for the first time. I found this stimulating but wearying.
The viewpoints were congenial, the strength of the opinions bracing, and the commenters by and large intelligent. But it was a gathering of the converted. Everyone agreed with everyone else, not a perfect recipe for the democracy these folks think they are championing, and fatiguing to read.
Newspapers may be bland and limited, but at least they pay lip service to the idea of offering a range of views. And what will the righteous Kosites kick around when the mainstream media die?
One of the Kos articles also made an extremely common mathematical error, the sort of thing good copy editors are trained to catch. But then, copy editors are so mainstream media. (I wrote to the Daily Kos about this error. I will let you know when I receive a reply. I will not hold my breath.)
seanag said...
I do think the problem of the sameness and general consensus of self-selected communities is a big unanswered problem of the current era. While newspapers and magazines do tend to hew to a certain predictable part of the political spectrum, a lot people who are not that close to that cast of mind may still read them, and send a pointed comment to the editorial page, which others are then quite likely to read and comment upon in turn. It's not the same with the niche market internet media. But I don't know what the solution is.
My sentiments exactly. I invoked the editorial page in a discussion today. An editorial might be lame, and letters disagreeing with it might be from whack jobs, but the forum creates something like a debate. Even such a fine Internet site as the Daily Kos, on the other hand, looks like a vigorous, eloquent debate with just one participant.
In this light, one might see niche media as an unfortunate reification of an instant-gratification, Me-decade mentality: I want to read only what I want to read, written only by people who agree with me. We will suffer if this media model becomes prevalent. How much and in what ways, I can't say.
Labels: blogs, miscellaneous
Bull****!
"I was provided with a receipt, and duly and officially accepted as an excursionist. There was happiness in that, but it was tame compared to the novelty of being `select.'"
"Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire ... how many people the committee were decreeing not `select' every day and banishing in sorrow and tribulation."
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Our coarse age can do no better than scream "bullshit!" at the daily abuse of language perpetrated by management, business, politics, advertising, media, celebrity journalism and those of us who take their cues from them.
How much more elegantly Mark Twain expressed his disdain! One can almost see the sneer in the quote marks he wraps around the word select, and Twain published those sentences in 1869. That must make him one of the first to recognize the calculated appeal to snobbery that select as an advertising adjective embodies.
But the best thing is that Twain both recognized the snobbery and threw himself into it headfirst and with great zest, joining the "select" passenger list for the pioneering trans-Atlantic tourist cruise that became the occasion for The Innocents Abroad. And that, friends, is one of the most enviable tasks a man can take on: to take part fully in what the world has to offer and to make fun of it at the same time.
Of course, Twain himself helped make the passenger list "select," a celebrity by the time the boat sailed, thanks to his lectures and to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." I shall read with interest to see whether he notes this irony.
The Twain paragraph marked my second recent discovery that an annoying word, expression or usage was older than I'd thought. (The first was the gratingly earnest Clinton-era "part of the (national) conversation," of which I was surprised recently to find an instance from the 1950s or '60s.)
Have you ever found that an expression or phrase you hated or loved turned out to be older than you thought? While you're at it, why not find some newer grating commonplaces at Patti Abbott's Expressions you could do without?
Labels: Mark Twain, miscellaneous
All come to look for America
"He has no personal name at all. His dadda is in far Amurikey."
"Which of the two Amurikeys?" asked MacCruiskeen.
"The United Stations," said the Sergeant.
"Likely he is rich by now if he is in that quarter," said MacCruiskeen, "because there's dollars there, dollars and bucks and nuggets in the ground and any amount of rackets and golf games and musical instruments. It is a free country too by all accounts."
— Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
A strip mall. 7-Eleven. Liquor store. Smoke shop.
Bits of tire. Fenders. License plates.
A gender reassignment clinic.
"America."
"I don't feel good."
— Adrian McKinty, Fifty Grand
Labels: Adrian McKinty, Flann O'Brien, Ireland
The Baltimore Drive-by, Part V: Too many strangers on a train
Did the milling crowds that packed Baltimore's hotels for Bouchercon only write about crime? And remember: This is fiction. Almost none of it really happened.
I'd split a cab to the station with someone I’d met at the convention, someone I hoped I could use as a source. I looked forward to the peace of the train’s quiet car. I hadn’t got the box, didn’t know how I'd get it now, but I had to learn what she knew about Burke and McFetridge.
The train was way more crowded than a train has the right to be on a Sunday, so we grabbed whatever seats we could find, quiet car or otherwise. We couldn’t even find two together. I was annoyed, a bit nervous, even, but the train wasn’t due in Philadelphia for an hour. I had plenty of time to get what I needed.
Across the aisle, a man had opened a book. The cover was Hard Case all the way: long-legged woman in green and yellow bodysuit, sleeveless, left leg raised high in a roundhouse kick. Bodily proportions that would make her eight-foot-three in real life. Title and author in stark block letters above and below the long, hot woman: Luchadora Be a Lady Tonight by Fista Krauss. I smiled. The reader probably had no idea who was sitting right in front of him.
Just outside Newark, Delaware, the woman next to me started having a family crisis over her cell phone. I commiserated, kept silent, tried to hold my temper. Then I slammed my own book down on the plastic seat tray and headed for the café car.
On my way back, the train took a sharp curve. I juggled my coffee and tuna, and the heavy metal doors between cars clanked open. From in front came the last voice I wanted to hear: “Geez, you’d think an American train could sell you a decent doughnut.” From behind, a voice I wanted to hear even less: “Quit yer fecking whining and hand me a cigarette, will you?”
The train pulled out of Newark with a long, shrill whistle. I mopped the coffee stains and tuna flecks from my shirt, and I watched it disappear.
(Read all of "The Baltimore Drive-by" so far here or here.)
The Baltimore Drive-by, Part IV: Thus spake Ali
Fictional characters John McFetridge and Declan Burke set out from Toronto to Baltimore for the Bouchercon crime writers' convention. A character loosely based on Peter Rozovsky is headed the same way. Burke and McFetridge hold up stores, Rozovsky holds up Burke and McFetridge, and soon the only question is — Who's chasing who!!!!
"A knob," he said, annoyed, "is a COCK — you knobs."
Laughter floated out over the Inner Harbor. "I cannot — cannot! — understand why these tossers have carried on the way they do about bloody boxes of sodding books. Can they not get more?"
"Must be something special in the books."
"Must be something special in the boxes!"
"And who are these knobs anyhow? Declan Burke? Jonathan McFetridge?"
"John."
"John McFetridge, not Jonathan. He's Canadian, Burke is Irish. They're crime writers, in town for Bouchercon."
"Do we know anything about them? Pass me that newspaper."
"Oh, you won't find anything in there." I walked over from the bench where I'd been eavesdropping. "I'm Peter Rozovsky, soon-to-be-ex-copy editor for the Baltimore Gazette. The culture reporter is filling in on night police duty and clerical work this week. No one's covering Bouchercon."
"That's a bloody outrage! This is a big event. Big!" He brought a meaty fist down on the metal patio table. Silverware jumped. "What kind of bloody fucking tossers run this newspaper of yours anyway?"
"You got a few hours?"
John McFetridge (the author, not the fictional character) posts notice that his novel Dirty Sweet is now available as an e-book. So, no more excuses. Order the book now, and be reading it before I log off.
The day's other news concerns one of the more creative ideas for a crime-fiction anthology that I've heard of. Co-editor Gerard Brennan explains:
"Morrigan Books aims to put out the very best in dark genre fiction, and who does dark crime fiction better than the Irish? Nobody, in my opinion. And luckily, Mark was willing to accept this opinion. It left one small problem, though. How to set this collection apart from Ken Bruen’s excellent Dublin Noir and Colin Bateman’s forthcoming Belfast Nights? Well, it’s Morrigan Books, right? Morrigan is the Celtic goddess of war. Why not ask for stories with an Irish mythology theme? Why not, indeed?"
Gerard says he has stories in hand from Ken Bruen, Adrian McKinty, Garbhan Downey, Sam Millar and Tony Bailie and in the works from even more of the talented cohort of Irish crime writers. About the only thing the book lacks is a title. But you can change that. Click here for details.
Labels: Gerard Brennan, Ireland, John McFetridge
The Baltimore Drive-by, Part III: Femme fatale, my ass!
Fictional characters John McFetridge and Declan Burke set out from Toronto to Baltimore for Bouchercon. Why not pull a few armed robberies to pass the time? Then they meet up with Peter Rozovsky and a whole lot of folks with crime on their minds.
It took discipline to punch like that: upper arms still, forearms whirling like a Wankel rotary as she danced lightly on the balls of her feet. All the power came from her elbows and the deadly backhand flick of her wrists. I didn't know why I was there, but I liked watching her work.
"Femme fatale?" Thwack. "Femme-effing fatale?" Thwack. Thwack. "You know what a femme fatale does? She brings the world crashing down on any man who comes near her." Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. "Sometimes she brings it down on herself, but let me tell you: I'm not bringing it down on anybody. You want to save yourself trouble? Look in that box you ripped off from Burke and McFetridge." Thwack. Thwack.
Burke wore a red T-shirt and blue jeans. He hunched forward, hands jammed in his pockets, moving fast. McFetridge held the rolled-up Leafs jacket in the crook of his elbow, the Tim Hortons bag half falling out of one pocket. He ambled and shambled but still kept up with his friend somehow. He put a hand on Burke's shoulder, and they stopped.
McFetridge indicated a door, and Burke shook his head. McFetridge held up one finger and ducked into the doorway. Burke shrugged, leaned against a pillar, and lit a cigarette.
Fifty Grand
Honor-bound as I am by my fervent belief in the mainstream media and everything they give us, I must obey the injunction on the back of my copy of Adrian McKinty's new novel, Fifty Grand: "This is an uncorrected proof. Any quotes for publication must be checked against the finished book."
Honor-bound as I am by said media's professed belief in full disclosure and avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, I hereby acknowledge that:
a) The author and I have for some time exchanged comments of a friendly nature on each other's blogs
b) He sent me the book, signed, with a note I presume he wrote himself
c) I have drunk Guinness in his sister's pub, and
d) Sod the mainstream media. I'm writing about the book anyhow.
I can't quote from the novel, but I will say that its prologue tiptoes to the precipice of death and peers over. And this prologue thing — McKinty makes votive offerings at the shrine of Ernest Hemingway, but I'd bet he's read an old horror tale or two as well. He knows how to lure a reader in.
Labels: Adrian McKinty
On surprise endings
I like Deon Meyer's sentences, and I like the glimpses his novel Dead Before Dying offers of daily life in post-apartheid South Africa.
The novel's Mat Joubert is also a believable example of the damaged police protagonist, his everyday struggles perhaps easier for the reader to identify with because of their very homeliness. A damaged protagonist need not be a total wreck in order to involve readers.
I'm less sure about the novel's ending, its solution to a string of killings that have galvanized much of South Africa's media and thrown a nervous police hierarchy into near-panic. The killer is, in fact, plausible, and Meyer lays some especially convincing false trails. I never guessed beforehand who the killer was, but I didn't slap myself in the forehead either and exclaim, "Oh my god, that's right!" when I did find out.
So, what makes for a successful shock ending? For an unsuccessful one? Give examples — if you dare.
Labels: Africa, Deon Meyer, miscellaneous, South Africa
A prox on both your houses and a miscellaneous note
Oz Mystery Readers (click that link for information and a free sign-up) has a good discussion going with author Katherine Howell.
Here's Howell on a case from her career as a paramedic. The question: Was a man she'd comforted on the job but who turned out possibly to have killed his wife ever called to account?:
"Worst thing is, I don't know! Usually in coroner's court they want to decide if anybody has to answer for the death. If they'd then charged him then we would have gone to criminal court to testify again. We were never called, so I have to think that either — maybe he died himself before the case reached the court — or there was not enough evidence to charge him — or the coroner decided there was no case. So is he really a murderer and still out there? Or did she accidentally or deliberately overdose herself? Hmmmmmmmm .... "
Closer to home, Whose role is is anyway? gives me a Proximidade Award, which means she likes this blog. Thanks. Like all honors, this one brings responsibility: I have to pass the honor along. This is a good occasion to single out Sucharita Sarkar's Past Continuous for its touching and sharply observed meditations on memory.
Labels: blogs, miscellaneous, Sucharita Sarkar, Whose role it is anyway?
The Baltimore Drive-by, Part II
Fictional characters John McFetridge and Declan Burke set out from Toronto to Baltimore for Bouchercon and decide to do some armed robberies on the way. What a hoot!
Then they meet up with Peter Rozovsky.
Her voice told a smoky tale of cigarettes and whiskey, but it lied. She never touched either.
"Think I'd be able to do this if I wasted all my time hanging in bars with you and Burke and McFetridge?"
"But — "
She whipped her fists into the speed bag so hard and fast that I felt sorry for the bag. Chin tucked, knees flexed, back straight. Elbows in, back heel lifting slightly each time she struck. Her two fists became four, then six, her breath short, spitting wheezes with each punch. I got tired watching her.
But she did hang in bars. But I didn't hang with Burke and McFetridge. I'd never heard of them till we set up the connection and I ripped them off. But —
"But why the hell all this? You write crime fiction. You — "
She stopped punching, and she smiled as she blew a wisp of platinum hair from her left eye. "Would you want to be whipped by a fat dominatrix?"
(Read the rest of "The Baltimore Drive-by" so far here or here. And remember: This is fiction. Almost none of it really happened.)
Louis Bayard at Philly's Sunday mystery brunch
Louis Bayard, author of The Black Tower, reads (and eats) at this Sunday's Crime Fiction Club Brunch sponsored by Robin's Bookstore in Philadelphia.
Find out why Bayard's writing is:
"Delicious. [Bayard] inbues(s) his characters with real soul. You may find yourself, more than two centuries after the fact, aching over the fate of the pitiful young Dauphin. A-"
Come hear why the Christian Science Monitor calls The Black Tower one of the best novels of 2008.
It all begins at 1 p.m. at Les Bons Temps, 114 S. 12th Street, 215-238-9100. For more information on the restaurant and to browse the menu, click here. Brunch is à la carte.
Labels: Louis Bayard
Drive-by fiction
John McFetridge is writing a piece of online fiction about his ramble from Toronto to Baltimore for Bouchercon with Declan Burke. In McFetridge's version, a pair of crime writers named John McFetridge and Declan Burke ramble from Toronto to Baltimore for Bouchercon and pull off armed robberies along the way. McFetridge's third installment ends with the pair setting out for Philadelphia to hook up with one Peter Rozovsky — a minor character so far, mentioned but not seen. But Rozovsky has other ideas.
I jabbed the .45 at the base of McFetridge's skull, and I cackled as his eyes grew wide.
"Bet you didn't think this was real. You hide guns in doughnut bags up there, don't you? No one would be stupid enough to wave a real gun, would he? What can I tell you; I don't like doughnuts. Now, out of the car. And leave the boxes."
I jerked the barrel to the right as Burke went for his jacket. "Hold it right there, Tiger."
Burke's hand froze. "Tiger? The fook?"
"Tiger. You're Irish, what am I going to call you? Paddy? Mick? Now, out of the car, Celtic, and keep your hands away from your — "
"From my bloody Marlboros, you Yankee gobshite. All right, I'm getting out."
I waved out the window of McFetridge's black 2008 Lexus as I pulled away. "See you later, gents. Put this in your books."
Two nights later I'm shouting to be heard above the seething crowd at a hotel bar in Baltimore, hooting and cheering as a sexy dominatrix lifts her blouse to reveal her tattoos. The crowd gathers in around her, all except two guys heading the other way, toward the door ...
The snake tattoo is flicking its tongue at its owner's scapula, but I've got one eye on the two guys.
One of them shouts: "I said, `I'M AFTER FECKING OUT OF HERE FOR A CIGARETTE, MATE!'."
His friend, a husky, saltish-pepperish dude with a Maple Leafs jacket and a Tim Hortons bag stuffed in his back pocket, shrugs and follows. Shit, it's McFetridge and Burke.
(Read all of "The Baltimore Drive-by" so far here or here. Disclaimer: It's fiction. Almost none of it really happened.)
I'm a fictional character
Labels: Declan Burke, John McFetridge
Noir at the Bar VI: Sandra Ruttan (and a chance to win free books)
(Brian Lindenmuth, Sandra Ruttan)
Sandra Ruttan, author of What Burns Within, The Frailty of Flesh, Suspicious Circumstances and the forthcoming Lullaby For The Nameless, drove up from Maryland for last night's sixth Noir at the Bar reading.
I enjoyed the reading and discussion so much that I realized toward its end I'd neglected to take notes. That's a testament to the intelligence and seriousness with which Ruttan discusses her matter and her craft. I urge all bookstores and event promoters to give her more chances to do so.
It's a testament to her intelligence, too, and that of the attendees that talk ranged over: gender differences in fiction, native peoples in Canada and the United States, cross-border crime, and the frustrating perception that Canada is safe, benign and a bad home for crime fiction with a hard edge. Ruttan also discussed a subject that I had not mentioned in my earlier posts about her work: the potential for conflict offered by an area of sometimes clashing police jurisdictions.
Now it's time to win some books. I'll send signed copies of What Burns Within and The Frailty of Flesh to the first reader who answers this question correctly: Ruttan sets her novels in the Lower Mainland region of which Canadian province?
And the winner is ... Congratulations to Marco in Italy, who was the first with the correct answer: British Columbia.
Labels: Brian Lindenmuth, Canada, Noir at the Bar, Sandra Ruttan
(U.S. Army recruiting poster, Tasker-Morris Station, South Philadelphia)
Labels: Philadelphia views
My dumb city: Philadelphia nicknames
Here in Philadelphia, fans and media have for decades conspired to confer on the city's athletes the lamest, most pathetically unimaginative collection of nicknames in all of sports.
Steve Carlton, a star lefthanded baseball pitcher, was called — get this — Lefty. And that's as creative as Philadelphia's sports minds get. Beyond that, Mike Schmidt was called Schmitty. Bobby Clarke was Clarkie. John Kruk was, if you can believe it, Krukker.
Just this week, an article about Flyers (hockey) forward Jeff Carter took the trouble to note that his teammates call him "Carts." Basketball's Julius Erving was Dr. J, but he got that evocative nickname before he came to the Philadelphia 76ers. Had he started his career here, he no doubt would have been called the Juler.
Where have you gone, Yankee Clipper, Splendid Splinter, Galloping Ghost, Night Train, Rocket? Sure as hell not to Philadelphia.
Hell, if Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known the world over as Pelé, had played soccer here, Philadelphia would have called him Edsie and been pleased with itself for doing so.
What are the lamest, feeblest, least creative, most Philadelphia-worthy nicknames, sports or otherwise, that you can think of?
Labels: miscellaneous, My dumb city, Philadelphia
Carnival of the Criminal Minds No. 27: Buy more books
(Flags from ScandinavianBooks)
Do you really need all that electronic crap that's going to be outdated in six months? Give books as gifts instead.
Carnival Queen Barbara Fister calls on Scandinavian Crime Fiction blogkeeper Barbara Fister for the twenty-seventh edition of the Carnival of the Criminal Minds, and Blogger Babs offers a more than usually hortatory, at times solemn, at times delightfully cranky carnival. This is true both of her own comments and of the blogs to which she links. One special treat: the picture of young girls with candles on their heads.
As always, visit the Carnival archives for a review of the current and all previous carnivals, plus a gorgeous photograph. And buy more books.
From a whisper to a meme
Just when I thought memes had gone the way of non-Blu-Ray discs, here comes a new one that is easy, fun and almost painless: Brian Lindenmuth, of the you-should-read-it Observations from the Balcony blog, tagged me with one that asks readers to:
1) List the authors that were new to you this year, regardless of year of publication.
2) Bold-face the ones that were debuts (first novel, published in 2008).
3) Impose these conditions on others.
I like that. It's simple, and it brings back memories of some of the year's exciting crime-fiction discoveries. I'm not sure which were published in 2008, but here's the list of authors I've read for the first time this year:
Matt Rees
Giles Blunt
Michael Pearce
Arthur Morrison
Michael Gilbert
Vicki Hendricks
Leighton Gage
Timothy Hallinan
Mehmet Murat Somer
Ian Sansom
J.F. Englert
Howard Engel
E.W. Hornung
Garbhan Downey
Flann O'Brien
Linda L. Richards
Henry Chang
John Lawton
Amara Lakhous
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Jacques Chessex
I'll tag Whose role is it anyway?, Linda L. Richards, Past Continuous, Crime Scraps, and the polyblogal seanag, all of whose blogs you ought to read. If you're not on that list, feel free to reply anyway and let me know which authors you have read for the first time this year.
Labels: blogs, book lists, lists, memes
Letter from South Africa, Part III
The excerpt from Deon Meyer's Blood Safari in yesterday's post was courtesy of the indefatigable Mike Nicol of Crime Beat (South Africa). He had sparked my curiosity with his observation that:
"We have also watched a venerated liberation movement slide rapidly off the high moral ground to wallow in greed, arms-deal kickbacks, fraud, corrupt land deals, you name it, without being of much help to a huge population of poor people for whom life hasn't changed. But I rant now. It's best to leave these things for funny asides between one's characters."
Naturally I asked for examples. Yesterday's excerpt was one. Here's the rest of Mike's letter:
"As crime has become a major problem in South Africa, and the state has neither the will nor the means to protect the citizenry, the private security industry has grown in leaps and bounds. Cop stations even have armed-response contracts with private security companies. An off-shoot of this has been vigilante groups, especially in the black sectors of society. Richard Kunzmann brought this phenomenon into his latest novel, Dead-End Road. In this scene Harry (his cop protagonist) gets told about a vigilante group called the Abasindisi that operates in the rural areas. The conversation plays about between Harry and one of his contacts in the townships, Makhe.
"`[…] you have a uniform, you have a gun. You are a symbol of violence that is state-sanctioned,' [said Makhe].
"`Yes?’
"`So any man that wants to protect his home when the state won’t do it has to create that same symbol for himself. He must be feared as a police officer is feared. Perhaps the Abasindisi’s methods involve what you might call crimes, but then the threat of violence you cops use to earn respect on the streets might also be considered criminal, only you can hide behind the barricades of laws and bureaucracy. You warp the process of justice to protect each other. No, English, [Harry is an English-speaking South African] these men, they exist because our state has forgotten us, because you cops only have your own interests at heart, and because not much has changed for us poor, apartheid or not. We are still left to fend for ourselves.’"
"The new crime writers have also turned their attention to the industrial giants. One of these is the diamond-mining concern, De Beers, which has long been accused of nefarious practices in their bid to control the diamond market. In his 2007 novel about blood diamonds, The Fence, Andrew Gray thinly disguised De Beers behind the name of his fictional Brano. In this extract the head of security at Brano, known only as The General, briefs an operative, Jan Klein, using the euphemistic double-speak that hides a language of violence:
"`I have said that Brano is a commercially-driven organisation, Jan Klein. This means, as you will soon discover, that we are also, necessarily, incentive-driven, conferring greater autonomy on employees, encouraging initiative and innovation, creativity but without prejudice, as it were.'
"He was smiling now as he used the legal term. `Without prejudice to the important notion of accountability.”’
"In my own novel, Payback, I was handed an arms scandal on a plate. An investigative journal, Noseweek, had discovered that despite a cabinet order to destroy an ammunition surplus, some officials had decided to make use of this surplus to run a small arms trade on the side. They were dealing with a company called Industrial Spreewald Lubben and had netted themselves some R12 million. In the extract a government agent, Mo, explains to two former arms dealers, Mace and Pylon, how it’s done.
"`What they’re then doing, the Krauts,’ [Mo] explained, `is selling it on to the United States. Guys there can’t get enough of our surplus for practicing and hunting. Mostly 5.56mm and 7.62mm. We got maybe a billion rounds supposed to be destroyed or dismantled. Which is a waste when you consider there’re people willing to pay for it.’ He drew on the Montecristo, blew the smoke out in a plume.
"Pylon said, `Makes you wonder what the boers [Afrikaners] were thinking producing all those rounds. Like they were heading for a major war.’
"`Silly buggers,’ said Mo. `On the other hand what we’ve got here is what we call unofficially The Opportunity. Not something the minister wants to hear about, but then not something he’s inclined to stop either supposing he has heard about it. Which he must’ve. Income is income.’ He flicked off a stub of ash, glanced from Pylon to Mace. `Welcome to The Opportunity. We’re happy to do business with you.’
"`Again,’ Mace said.
"Mo chuckled. ‘` suppose you could say again, in a manner of speaking. I suppose should you look at it in a certain light the cause is the same: the upliftment of the people. Fair trade. Guns ‘n ammo for houses.’ He pulled out the shopping list Pylon had hand-delivered earlier in the week. `I can get these,’ he said, tapping it with the damp end of his cigar, `any time you want, as the man said.’"
Labels: Africa, Andrew Gray, Deon Meyer, guest posts, Mike Nicol, Richard Kunzmann, South Africa
Prose style and a South African pro's style
I like Deon Meyer's sentences. I'm barely fifteen pages into his 1996 South African police procedural Dead Before Dying, and there's been much to enjoy so far, notably the laying of ground for an intra-police-force rivalry that crackles with potential for action, violence and all kinds of tension. But mostly I like the way Meyer and his translator, Madeleine van Biljon, put their words together.
Here, protagonist Mat Joubert has walked into a squad meeting where he and his colleagues are to meet their new supervisor:
"Benny Griessel greeted Mat Joubert. Captain Gerbrand Vos greeted Mat Joubert. The rest carried on with their speculations. Joubert went to sit in a corner."
Meetings are a routine part of police life, or at least of police procedurals, and Meyer echoes that routine in the repetition of Joubert's full name and in the identical syntax of the first two sentences. Eleven words. That's a pretty economical way of showing what other authors might have taken many more words to tell.
And now, a bit more on Deon Meyer from an expert: Mike Nicol of Crime Beat (South Africa):
In his latest novel Blood Safari – due out in the US next year – Deon Meyer takes some pot shots at the Afrikaners (effectively, the apartheid government was drawn almost solely from their ranks). As Meyer’s an insider, the criticism is particularly trenchant. His first-person narrator is a man known simply as Lemmer, and Lemmer has various laws. Thus:
"Lemmer’s Law of Rich Afrikaners: If a Rich Afrikaner can show off he will.
‘The first thing a Rich Afrikaner buys is bigger boobs for his wife. The second thing a Rich Afrikaner buys is an expensive pair of dark glasses (with brand name prominently displayed), which he only removes when it is totally dark. It serves to create the first barrier between himself and the poor. “I can see you, but you can’t see me any more.” The third thing the Rich Afrikaner buys is a double-storey house in the Tuscan style. (And the fourth is a vanity number plate for his car, with his name or the number of his rugby jersey.) How much longer will it be before we outgrow our inherent feeling of inferiority? Why can’t we be subtle when Mammon smiles on us? Like our rich English-speaking compatriots whose nose-in-te-air snootiness so offends me, but who at least bear their wealth in style. I stood in the dark and speculated about Carel-the-owner. […]
"The Rich Afrikaner does not use bodyguards, only home security – high fences, expensive alarms, panic buttons, and neighbourhood security companies with armed response."
[Watch and hear Krimi-Couch's interview with Deon Meyer here. Among other things, Meyer has interesting thing to say about the newness of South African crime writing, and: "Crime fiction only works, I think, in a normal,stable sociey, and that is what happened in South Africa."]
Labels: Africa, Deon Meyer, Mike Nicol, South Africa
Noir at the Bar VI: Sandra Ruttan
Noir at the Bar is proud to present Sandra Ruttan, author of What Burns Within, The Frailty of Flesh and Suspicious Circumstances.
“The Frailty of Flesh tore me asunder. Rarely has a novel of such art and skill reduced me to a wreck. It moved me in ways I didn’t even know I felt. It’s a kick in the head that is underwrit with sheer compassion.”
– Ken Bruen
"[Ruttan] is talented in the way that a natural musician is talented, making all the notes seem effortless. Characters that feel very real, and a wonderful sense of timing, Ruttan brings it all and leaves it on the page."
– Jon Jordan, Crime Spree Magazine
"The next stage in ensemble procedurals is here, and Sandra Ruttan is in its vanguard."
– Peter Rozovsky, Detectives Beyond Borders
Where: Tritone
1508 South Street
http://www.tritonebar.com/
When: Sunday, Dec.7, 6:00 p.m.
"Noir at the Bar: A Philadelphia Tradition Since 2008"
Labels: Noir at the Bar, Sandra Ruttan |
Q134. "Is there anything in the Constitution, Bill Of Rights or any Amendment that adds to discrimination due to race, color, or creed? I thought that 'Sexual Preference' was added, but I am told that I am wrong."
A. There is nothing anywhere in the Constitution that specifically bans discrimination based on sexual preference. There is not even a direct ban on discrimination based on race, color, or creed. What we do have are provisions that are often interpreted that way. The 15th and 19th Amendments, which ensured that blacks and women could vote, hint at a policy of non-discrimination, but they are actually quite specific. They only involve suffrage and nothing else. However, the due process clause of the 14th Amendment has been interpreted to mean that discrimination based on traits such as race are a violation of due process and not constitutional (when done by the government or an agent of the government). It is a complex issue. Again, a ban on discrimination based on sexual preference is not a part of the Constitution, but has been extended, to some degree, based on the 14th Amendment by the courts. The subject is far from a closed one at this time. |
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Sergio Ramos wants Neymar to leave Barcelona for PSG to make life easier for La Liga kings Real Madrid
Real captain on Neymar’s future: 'Everyone is free to choose their future. It would be less of a problem for us'
geoff sweet
REAL MADRID defender Sergio Ramos has urged Neymar to join Paris Saint-Germain.
Why? Because the Spanish World Cup winner wants an easier life for reigning La Liga champions Real.
Neymar has been urged to leave Barcelona by Real Madrid skipper Sergio RamosCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Ramos says La Liga without Neymar would be 'less of a problem for us'Credit: Handout - Getty
Barcelona striker Neymar, 25, is in the middle a £186million world record transfer debate.
His switch to PSG could be finalised by Monday or Tuesday.
The Brazilian showed why he is the subject of interest after dazzling against bitter rivals Madrid at the International Champions Cup on Saturday, setting up two goals in a 3-2 triumph.
And when asked about Neymar's future after the game, Madrid captain Ramos said:
"I do not know, everyone is free to choose their future.
"I hope [he leaves]. It would be less of a problem for us."
Neymar tangles with Real Madrid's Casemiro in the International Champions CupCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The Brazilian speeds his way past Karim Benzema in Barcelona's 3-2 victoryCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Ramos, who made his first pre-season appearance for Madrid, added:
"I changed the shirt with him and I hope it is the last one I have used with Barca."
Keep up to date with all the latest news, gossip, rumours and done deals in SunSport’s live transfer blog
Barcelona, meanwhile, are lining up Antoine Griezmann as a replacement for Neymar, according to reports in Spain.
The 26-year-old Frenchman has a release clause of £89.5m in his contract, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca.
Griezmann scored 26 goals last season as Atletico finished third in La Liga and reached the Champions League semi-finals. |
Google is now moving to continuous scrolling on Desktop Search Results
According to Google, continuous scrolling for desktop Search results will begin in October 2021.
Google has traditionally displayed up to 10 blue links, though you’re able to see 100 results per page from google.com/preferences.
Google has announced that you can now see up to six pages of results on a search results page, which is marked by a loading indicator. This means that users will be able to find information more easily and quickly than if they needed to scroll through pages of content and click “Next.”
Starting today, we’re bringing continuous scrolling to desktop in English in the U.S. so you can continue to see more search results easily. When you reach the bottom of a search results page, you'll now be able to see up to six pages of results. pic.twitter.com/xIuVP24FFm
— Google (@Google) December 5, 2022
This clear and concise feature has a feed-style layout that’s more common on mobile apps than desktop platforms.
When it comes to mobile, Google has tested and said that most people will only browse up to four pages of search results.
As of now, Google’s plans are to add more Search box suggestions on mobile, and richer layouts for key search results. The desktop equivalent has yet to be detailed. They’ve also slowly been testing out a new design for filters in Google Search. And as always, they are continually tweaking the algorithm and exploring new algorithms to explore.
Google search results on a desktop will start to offer continuous scrolling for English-speaking users in the United States.
Google Announces the End of its Political Campaign Email Exemption Program”
Google Layoffs: Over 1,800 Jobs Cut in California |
This policy is designed to provide guidance to shareholders, supporters and everyone connected with Dundee Football Club on the club’s attitude to racial harassment and abuse. Its aim is also to promote good relations between persons of different ethnic or national groups and maintain the good name of Dundee Football Club.
1. Dundee Football Club condemns racism in any form, either on or off the pitch. We aim to create and maintain a working and spectating environment free from racial harassment or abuse. Anyone connected with Dundee Football Club has a responsibility to prevent any form of racial harassment or abuse.
2. A racist incident is defined as any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim, or any other person. Racial harassment is defined by Dundee Football Club to be any verbal, physical, written or visible abuse that is based on a person’s race, ethnic background, colour, nationality, language or cultural background and is considered to be unwanted, unacceptable and offensive to the person.
3. Racial harassment or abuse that has been proven will lead to action being taken against the abuser and they will be reported to the Police. Dundee Football Club will give their full support to the Police in any criminal proceedings and the spectator will face a lifetime ban from Dens Park Stadium.
4. All Dundee Football Club employees have a responsibility to make it apparent that such behaviour by anyone connected to the club is unacceptable.
5. Dundee Football Club supporters will be informed on a regular basis that any racist taunts and abusive or threatening behaviour will not be tolerated by Dundee Football Club. Supporters will be encouraged to condemn and report any such behaviour.
6. Any supporters whether home or visiting behaving in this manner will be detained by stewards, passed to the police and face apprehension by the police. Season ticket holders detained for such behaviour will face having their season ticket revoked. Any spectator detained in this manner will face a lifetime ban from Dundee Football Club. |
Saint-Amand-sur-Ornain – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Grand Est, w departamencie Moza.
Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwały 82 osoby, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 14 osób/km² (wśród 2335 gmin Lotaryngii Saint-Amand-sur-Ornain plasuje się na 963. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 933.).
Bibliografia
Miejscowości w departamencie Moza |
How to choose the best rummy site?
Game of rummy is quite popular in India, and people love to experiment to hone their skills in the 53 card games.
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"It's increasing even more," Kyle said Tuesday, adding that "a great number of cases are mortgage related."
In the three courts that make up the Eastern District of California, 15,594 bankruptcy filings were made in fiscal 2007. This increased to 28,613 in fiscal 2008, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
In the Central District of California, which runs from San Luis Obispo County through Los Angeles and east to Riverside and San Bernardino counties, bankruptcy filings leapt 96 percent last year. Both of the California judicial districts include communities at or near the national top for home foreclosures.
In another sign of the financial times, the number of defaulted student loan cases increased by 10 percent nationwide.
Behind every search for bankruptcy protection there's a traumatic story, some more unique than others.
Last April, for instance, Jesse Adrian Wagner initiated Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. As part of the application, he indicated he had been unable to obtain the credit counseling or complete the personal financial management course that is normally required.
But Wagner had a good excuse, a bankruptcy judge concluded.
"The debtor in this case is incarcerated at the Sierra Conservation Center, and is unable to use the Internet or to make telephone calls longer than 15 minutes," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert S. Bardwil noted last year. "In an effort to comply with the credit counseling requirement, the debtor obtained a list of approved providers, and attempted to contact the 15 credit counseling agencies on the list, but none would accept his collect call."
Even with the increase, there are still fewer bankruptcies than before Congress passed a creditor-backed 2005 law intended to curtail allegedly abusive bankruptcy filings. The 2005 law added "a lot more work" to the previous requirements, Kyle noted. That year, there were over 2 million bankruptcy filings. |
Cuban Pitcher Hinojosa Granted Free Agency
By Tim Dierkes | July 16, 2013 at 11:52am CDT
Cuban righty Dalier Hinojosa received clearance from the U.S. government and has been granted free agency by MLB, tweets MLB.com's Jesse Sanchez. Hinojosa defected from Cuba in February, establishing residency in Haiti, according to a source. The Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Yankees are among the teams that have shown interest in the 27-year-old, Sanchez wrote in June. Hinojosa is represented by Praver/Shapiro, MLBTR has learned, and he has already showcased his talents for teams.
Hinojosa throws in the low-to-mid 90s with a slider, curveball, two-seam fastball, and changeup, according to Sanchez. He starred with the Cuban national team, and is a former teammate of Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez. Gonzalez has also been cleared to sign with MLB teams. There is no limitation to the contracts these Cuban defectors may receive, because they are at least 23 years old and have played as a professional in a Cuban professional league for at least three seasons. For the 2014-15 international signing period, that minimum requirement will jump to five seasons.
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'High On Hope' crowd funding appeal
Discuss 808 State and related.
High on Hope is a film which presents the real story behind what acid house meant in Northern England in the late eighties and early nineties. The documentary has already been premiered at several film festivals, winning best film in Barcelona's In-Edit festival. But whilst the film has been finished, there are still costs relating to licensing the music. Needless to say, the music features 808 State For the film to be released on DVD and shown in independent cinemas, a small amount of money needs to be raised. Donate now. A donation of 10 pounds will buy you the DVD.
Re: 'High On Hope' crowd funding appeal
Piers, the director of the movie, is hoping to get the money together by Christmas.
Total raised so far – £1929
Amount needed – £28,071
Location: Now back somewhere in Jutland...
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Post by dee3 » 18 Nov 2011 14:24
"High on Hope" has even gotten some column-spread on Defected's website:
http://www.defected.com/news-reviews/wo ... +Hope/1721
(Intel via RA)
Soon sending in a donation myself, BTW...!
Great insight, thanks for that link Don. I'm pasting it here for archive purposes, in case it disappears in time:
Piers Sanderson, the director of new club-centred film High On Hope, really is high on hope these days. It’s an impressive attitude when you consider how long his “labour of love” has been gestating for now… some 10 years or so.
Sanderson was immersed in acid house culture from an early age. He grew up in south Manchester during those formative late Eighties nights at the Hacienda; and even when he left to attend university in Bangor, Wales, he found himself zooming back to Fac 51 most weekends with the only other Englishman on his course, one Alexander Coe, now known more often than not as Sasha.
The pair started promoting house events in Bangor and when they eventually finished their studies moved back to Manchester to soak up more of the new and exciting music they worshiped. Invariably they’d end up partying in Blackburn, at one of several under-the-radar raves put on by edgy promoters keen to cater for the Hacienda’s closing time crowd. And that’s where High On Hope truly kicks in.
Blackburn’s maverick scene would provide an early platform for Sasha to establish his DJ career; Sanderson on the other hand would use it to establish his hoodie and ‘tee’ business. Over the following 11 years, Sanderson pursed other decks-less means of making a living from dance music, many in other countries. But he was never able to escape his memories of Blackburn.
In 2003, Sanderson made a short 20-minute documentary based on those classic parties, High On Hope. It was enough to get him into the National Film & Television School (NFTS) and deepen his ambition to turn High On Hope into a feature-length production. Today, aged 41, Sanderson is sitting on the finished product but his original plan was to release in 2009; the struggle to finance filming of High On Hope behind him, he quickly hit upon new problems with regards to music licensing.
And those problems still, sadly, remain. So what’s a low-budget filmmaker to do? In the spirit of Britain’s original dance music revolution, unite the community...
“I got no funding to make it [High On Hope]” Sanderson opens. “I borrowed around £60,000 to get it all done but didn’t allow for huge costs of clearing the various dance tracks I’d used. It was a blow but I hoped that by putting the film into a few festivals I’d get a distribution deal to sort everything. It just didn’t happen.
“I tried to reason with some of the labels directly but they were pretty inflexible. So, about a month ago, I looked at a crowd-funding model; it’s something that a lot of cash-strapped filmmakers are doing now. We’ve raised about three of the 30 grand we need but it’s definitely a start.”
Sanderson has a simple fundraising mechanic on the official High On Hope website; depending on the donation offered, members of the club-loving public will gain anything from a copy of the DVD (when it is eventually released) to launch party access and even placement among the end credits.
But why does Sanderson need to pursue such measures? Club culture has never been more popular in Britain, and around the world, fuelled to a large extent by the rise of a younger, more open-minded generation of music lovers.
“I know, you’d think support for the film would be a shoe-in, wouldn’t you?” he laughs. “But film distributors still see it as a risk; as something that will appeal to a niche only. It might as well be a film about flying fishing or rugby league!”
And yet some of the film’s impressive source material – grainy warehouse footage recorded on VHS cassette – has also, ironically, caused issues: “It’s a quality thing. I’ve looked at the TV angle too and the major channel controllers all have minimum quality requirements for their audiences these days. They saw some of the archive footage we’ve used and hurriedly ignored it.”
And the hugely interesting story it helps spell out. For this, Sanderson stresses, isn’t another hackneyed portrayal of clubland on big or small screen where mega-star DJs drone monotonously on about the good old days, the copious amounts of drugs flying about and the ‘amazing’ buzz on the dancefloor. This, he claims, is about earnest story-telling; about human lives sacrificed in the name of dance; and about the often unspeakably brutal reaction of the ‘system’ to newfound socio-cultural exuberance and creativity… to fun and freedom.
Sanderson has lived the lives of his film’s subjects many times over during his lengthy battle to get High On Hope released and make a “love in… not living” from dance music. He talks feverishly about characters like Preston Bob, whose parents owned a corner shop with a video camera for hire, which when not in use, would be used to film some of Blackburn’s first and finest raves. He references promoters abseiling through the dilapidated roofs of disused warehouses, unaware of what lay on the floor, as they scouted locations for events; he talks about hot-wiring traffic lights to “juice” sound systems; and about one promoter locked up in a horrifically Victorian-era Northern prison for 11 months, just so he couldn’t put on any new events in the local area.
“I considered doing an overview of the acid house revolution” Sanderson says, “but decided that a story would be the best way to convey all of that; to bring it all to life. Those Blackburn party people were an industry; they were a boom in the industrial north, not seen, perhaps, since the rise of the cotton industry in the 1950s. What was happening up there was social, political, cultural… it was real life.”
Sanderson’s film includes three long club scenes, based around the aforementioned archive footage. But it also weaves in wide-ranging, cliché free interview and some 20 minutes of animation – “the party footage tells some of the story but how do convey everything else away from the dancefloor? Animation was an ideal solution; it has a dream-like quality which fits with people’s use of substances at the time and that whole altered state perception of everything.”
The High On Hope story has swayed some fairly influential clubland names, most notably KLF’s Bill Drummond, who has a ferocious reputation for declining use of his work. He was happy to grant access to two tracks, including Grim Up North, whilst 808 State helped secure a reduction in licensing rates for their included material. A Guy Called Gerald, Candy Flip and Mr Fingers are among other artists on the killer soundtrack
“Films about music can’t exist without music” Sanderson bluntly summarises. “But record companies continue to adopt these archaic licensing regulations and that’s why there haven’t been an awful lot of club films over the years. It’s a shame. Perhaps the labels are mindful of having lost revenues via the download boom, so they need to maintain their licensing structures to make money back. There has to be an easier model. Surely filmmakers and labels can sit round a table and agree a percentage of sales, for example? Otherwise I fear we risk losing important records of these pivotal cultural times. They’re our history. British filmmakers want to talk about them.”
Club culture has still enjoyed an increasingly strong connection to film over the past two decades. Soundtracks to movies such as Trainspotting and Human Traffic have undoubtedly helped pave the way; but soundtracks aside, actual on-screen dancefloor content often remains disappointing. The generally weak reviews for recent club-angled release Weekender seem to back that point up. Does the trend steep further pressure on Sanderson?
“Not really. We have an amazing story which has already won key film festival awards. Once we get the licensing sorted - and I know we can - then we’ll have the opportunity to really engage people on a wide scale” Sanderson suggests. “Club films have largely failed to date because the dancefloor is such a personal experience for everyone and just how do you convey that? What with the demands of distributors and TV bosses for high quality, stylised footage, and a host of other things, the original, musical point often gets further scrambled.
“It why I think High On Hope stands out; the basic recordings we have, the grass roots interviews and, most of all, the story… together they convey just why this time of musical change was so special and why it’s had this impact for so long.”
Words: Ben Lovett
Sanderson hopes to release High On Hope early next year with an international tour of screenings and parties. To donate and find out more visit http://www.highonhope.com/
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Post by markus » 05 Feb 2014 00:10
A rare opportunity this Saturday 8th February 8pm in Manchester, screening at Underland plus A Guy Called Gerald plus MC Tunes!
Location: mcr
Post by graham » 22 Mar 2014 12:41
A most inspiring and long documentary ,really hope it gets a release.
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Wednesday — June 20th, 2018
ULTRA Worldwide Completes First Leg of 2018 Asia Tour
WELCOMES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FANS TO ASIA ACROSS TWO WEEKENDS
MORE THAN 10 MILLION VIEWERS TUNE IN TO WATCH THE SINGAPORE LIVE STREAM
ULTRA KOREA SPANS ACROSS THREE DAYS WITH MASSIVE AUDIENCE
ULTRA WORLDWIDE STAGE DEBUTS AT ULTRA SINGAPORE
The world’s largest, independent and most international festival brand – ULTRA Worldwide – continues to dominate the electronic music landscape in Asia, completing four events across two weekends on the continent. ULTRA Korea, Road To ULTRA Hong Kong, ULTRA Singapore and ULTRA Beijing together show that the ULTRA brand is the industry leader on the Asian continent.
ULTRA Live’s internationally celebrated live stream, presented by UMF TV (produced by NOMOBO) saw over 10 million viewers tune in to the Singapore feed around the world, smashing previous records on the continent and making it a landmark moment for the pioneering platform.
ULTRA Korea returned for its seventh edition and ran over three consecutive days June 8, 9 and 10. A record 180,000 attendees from over 60 countries danced their hearts out at the Olympic Park in Seoul to the sounds of headliners Above & Beyond, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, The Chainsmokers, David Guetta, Galantis, Ice Cube, Modestep (Live), Nicky Romero, RL Grime, Steve Angello, ZEDD, ZHU (Live) and many more. The RESISTANCE floor also commandeered a full crowd all weekend long, delivering mind-blowing performances by techno titans Nicole Moudaber, Popof and Carl Craig who closed out each night of the festival respectively, supported by many other sensational house and techno acts over the weekend.
On the following weekend of June 15 and 16, ULTRA Singapore saw more than 40,000 people descend on Ultra Park, with the debut of the Worldwide stage proving a huge success. This was the first time in history that the iconic Worldwide stage has been brought to a festival outside of the flagship Ultra Music Festival in Miami. Illenium and RL Grime closed out the packed stage each night in style, with an eclectic range of artists, both local and international, delivering electrifying sets over the course of the weekend. RESISTANCE once again played a larger role than ever at the festival, with headliner Loco Dice and support acts Nastia, Oxia and Popof topping the stage billing with stunning performances throughout.
On the same weekend, ULTRA Beijing featured top talent across 3 world-class venues in the bustling capital city, with performances from Afrojack, The Chainsmokers, DJ Snake and Illenium, along with many other headlining DJs. Loco Dice, Nastia and Coyu were among the band of RESISTANCE artists who delivered top tier house and techno across the weekend.
The first leg of ULTRA Worldwide’s 2018 Asia tour has proven the indomitable festival brand is showing no signs of slowing down its plans for global domination. With the second leg of the tour hitting the Asian continent in September, all eyes are on the sophomore edition of ULTRA China in Shanghai, ULTRA Japan’s fifth return to Tokyo and Road To ULTRA Taiwan in Taipei.
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ULTRA Japan – September 15,16,17
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Wednesday 31st December 2014
Captain and vice-captain Curtis Nelson and Peter Hartley are both in contention for Argyle's trip to York City on Saturday. John Sheridan explained how the two players have both trained and could be ready to start: "They trained today," said Argyle manager John Sheridan, after the New Year's Eve session at Home Park. "They both came through okay. They'll train tomorrow and we'll assess them from there, but both looked okay so we'll keep fingers crossed and I'll make a decision tomorrow. First and forest, both lads have got to be comfortable in the way they feel. Hopefully, they'll be okay. I don't want to jump the gun, but I've spoken to them and they are both positive. I think Pete's definitely going to be fit and I think Nelse is 90 per cent. It's a massive boost."
John Sheridan is also looking to sign a striker before Saturday's match at York and gave an idea of the type of player he was looking for, saying: "I'm trying to sign someone, but whether it will happen before Saturday I don't know. In my eyes, I have got two of the best strikers in the division, and I have got to be clever budget-wise with what we can afford and what I feel is right for us. I want someone who is hungry and is hopefully going to try to impress. It will be a young player. I could go for an experienced player but I don't know if they would be happy to possibly be on the bench. I have got to think around who I'm bringing in and, whoever it is, hopefully they will fit into what we are trying to do."
Argyle have had no word back from Nottingham Forest about Tyler Harvey's trial with the club shortly before Christmas. Sheridan said: "I thought they might have come back to me, or even Tyler's agent. He was the one pushing the move as well. It seems odd to me, but I don't think it's my problem to go chasing Nottingham Forest. I think they should be ringing me and saying whether Tyler fitted in. A bit of feedback would be nice."
John Sheridan is gutted at Argyle's 2-1 loss to Oxford in spite of a performance that he could find little fault with. Sheridan declared himself happy with how the ten men of Argyle conducted themselves for the vast majority of the match: "We have lost the game 2-1, but I thought we were outstanding. I told the lads that I thought they were magnificent. I do not care what anyone says, or what anyone tells me; I thought we were outstanding, and I will praise the lads to the hills. I just could not ask for any more. I am gutted for the lads, and for the supporters – it was a great following today. I am just gutted we did not get the result we deserved. If we had eleven men on the field, we would have won 3-0 or 4-0. I am sure we would have. I thought we were on top of the game, even with ten men. At the end of the day, Oxford look okay because they are 2-1 up, and we have got ten men and are deflated because of all the really good work we put in. I could not have asked for any more. We tried to win the game with 10 men. We did not hide, and that is the most pleasing thing for me. I am just gutted today, really gutted, because I thought the performance was excellent and we have lost the game. You will get people saying this, that or the other, but I honestly do not care, because I thought we were very good. I hope the opposition appreciate that; I thought they were very lucky today. Even a point with ten men would have been well deserved. We cannot fault anything today, with the way we have played.
"I thought we were outstanding with ten men until their goal, which again is a set play that we should be dealing with and doing better with. We did everything to try and see the game through, and it is again a set play that has come in the box, and I would just like us to go back and organise, be ruthless and get people switched on a little bit more. It does look soft: it is just a ball in, a header down, and they have reacted better than us. They get the second goal which just deflates us. It ends up a good goal, but we lose possession of the ball. I thought Ollie was magnificent today, but he just loses the ball. It is just those little things that sometimes cost you. Is those decisions today, instead of just hooking it and putting it in behind their back four, they lose it, they break and they score."
Sheridan also rejected any suggestion that youngster Aaron Bentley should be blamed for the loss in spite of his red card for serious foul play, saying: "He is young kid. It is very naïve, and I could just see it coming. Listen: he is a young kid and he will learn, and there is no blame whatsoever. Obviously it does help the opposition, because they get a bit of belief and a bit more of the ball and possession. Obviously it disrupts us, but afterward we adjusted and performed really well. He has come from twenty yards away. It is just a bit of naivety from him, but he will learn from it."
Andy Kellett had similarly positive words for Bentley after admitting that missed chances have cost Argyle dearly. Kellett said: "I thought we should have got points out of both games that we have played so close together – Newport and Oxford – but it just wasn't meant to be. We will kick on from it, like we have been doing all season and, hopefully, push for promotion. With football, you have just got to move onto the next game and that's our focus now. We have obviously lost two on the trot, which is not like us at all, but I think we could have won with both performances. We have been missing our chances lately and I think that is what has cost us. When we went to 10 men, we were still creating chances we should have scored. Everyone is behind Aaron. It's not his fault. He's inexperienced – I think it was his third game – and he's still learning the game. He has just got to move on from it. All of the lads have told him that. The past is the past now. I saw him in the changing room after the game and I think he thinks the defeat is because of him, but it's not. We are in it as a team."
Sheridan also revealed that he is hoping to keep hold of midfielder Bobby Reid by signing him on a loan deal until the end of the season. Another short-term loan would not be available under football league rules. Sheridan said: "I will ask the question about Bobby and see what's happening. I think everyone knows I would like to keep all the loan players if we can, and hopefully add one or two more players. It's the midway stage of the season and we have got to kick on and try to do even better in the second half, and we are capable of doing it.
Argyle's undefeated home run came to an end today with a 2-1 loss at home to Oxford. The Greens had not lost at Home Park since September 14th before the match. The game was marred by the first half sending off of youngster Aaron Bentley for a rash challenge shortly after Lewis Alessandra put the Greens ahead. The second half saw an Oxford comeback with two goals for the away side ensuring they left Plymouth with all three points. Argyle: McCormick, O'Connor, McHugh, Bentley, Mellor, Cox, Norburn, Bobby Reid, Kellett, Reuben Reid, Alessandra. Subs: Bittner, Purrington, Banton, Morgan, Harvey, Thomas, Blizzard.
John Sheridan has given mixed opinions on Argyle's 2-0 loss at Rodney Parade yesterday. Whilst he praised certain facets of Argyle's play, he went on to bemoan the occasional overplaying and defensive mistakes for the two goals. He said: "I was pleased with the way we came out in the second half. We have had a go and created some really good chances. I actually thought we played okay, but we have lost the game 2-0. I was pleased with the way we tried to get back in the game, and I thought we were the better team in the second half, without scoring goals. We did create chances: Reuben has had a good chance when he hit the bar; Kelvin has had one which has just gone past. We just did not get the breaks, and sometimes you need them to enable you to either get yourself into the game, or to go on and win it.
"One or two little things just did not go our way. We only had one corner, but I think we had lots of the ball. If we would have scored when he makes the save from Aaron, we are the team in the ascendancy; the game is totally different. I felt like we did try and play and get ourselves back in the game – that is the positive. We are going to lose games, and these are the kinds of games where you can and try and scrape even just a point. Even a point would have been a good point in the end, but it was not to be. We did not get the result, but I am pleased with how we went about the game.
"It was difficult conditions for both sets of players. We needed to score, and we needed to get ourselves back in the game. It was just a bit too slow. We kept possession of the ball, but we did not really hurt them. I think we penetrated without hurting them too much, and I thought we just overplayed it a little too much at times. [We should have put balls in the box a little bit more and make them defend. I think we just overplayed at times, instead of playing off the front, especially when we are 1-0 down. Play off the front a little earlier, get up there and support them earlier. I felt we were just predictable, but we did keep possession of the ball at times. We knew it would be a different game to when we are at home and passing it around. You have got to get that killer instinct, and sometimes you have got to change your game around. When Marvin Morgan comes on, I would have liked him to stand up against the young kid at the back and play off of him a little bit more, but we did not do that. I could have left Lewis Alessandra on if we were going to play to feet all day.
"The first goal is a poor goal because we should deal with it – just defend properly with it, but we end up conceding. There is no danger, but it ends up breaking and they score a goal. Then they get the second goal, which I thought was harsh on us, but is a soft goal and a poor goal to concede. It was two poor goals on our part. With the first goal, if they were going to score, that was how they were going to do it. We said 'Do not let them get corners and long throws. They just put balls in the box; they will play off the front, get in and around you and make life difficult for you'. That is something we have to stand up to, and have to get used to."
Argyle have ended their unbeaten run on Boxing Day with a 2-0 loss at Newport County. Previously, the greens had gone since 1997 since they last lost on December 26th. Their 15 game run was in jeopardy from the off as former pilgrim Chris Zebroski fired Newport into the lead within the first ten minutes. A game hampered by the rain-swept pitch did not result in any further goals until late into the game when the home side doubled their lead from a set piece. Argyle: McCormick, O'Connor, McHugh, Bentley, Mellor, Cox, Norburn(Morgan), Bobby Reid, Kellett, Reuben Reid, Alessandra(Banton). Subs: Bittner, Purrington, Allen, Harvey, Thomas.
Reuben Reid has given assurance to Argyle fans that he will remain at the club after the transfer window. Reuben attributed manager John Sheridan as a key reason why he is remaining at Home Park: "You never know in football, but I can tell you I'll be here for the season for sure; definitely; 100%. The manager here has given me – I won't say a new lease of life, because it could have happened elsewhere – but he has probably been the main factor why I have been able to get that consistency. He's backed me in times when I wasn't so hot, when no-one's talking about you. All of a sudden, people are talking about you. I've got a lot of time for him for doing that. When I first came back to the club 24 months ago, it was a struggle for a lot of the players, myself included. I got a lot of criticism. If I wasn't doing well, he wouldn't play me of course, but he hasn't been that [type of] manager where, if I have played a bad game then I'd be been out and you have got to start again. He kept chucking me in, even in times when I wasn't so sharp. Even though I was contributing to the team, the goals weren't coming so freely. If players have the backing of the manager, confidence can make you achieve good things."
John Sheridan revealed that is touch and go whether captain Curtis Nelson will be fit for the game against Newport on Boxing Day. Peter Hartley and Dom Blizzard will definitely be absent. Sheridan: "Peter had a jab before Saturday so we'll get it assessed and see what the real problem is. It's just a case of resting. We are probably looking at the York game, as the two games coming up are a bit early. Dom is another one. He'll be looking at York, probably just because games are a bit close together. He's running and coming on fine. I think Nelse be involved in one of the games against Newport and Oxford; we'll just wait and see. He's got a chance of being involved in both; we've just got to be careful with him because he's going running, and it's just one of those things where it could worsen if he does land on it again. We'll be careful and get him strong and fit enough."
Bobby Reid is enjoying his time at PAFC and spoke about his connection with striker Reuben Reid from their childhood days in Bristol. Bobby said: "We used to play football in the summer together. It's good to show it on the pitch now and I hope it can continue. It was at my old school and we played games maybe three or four times a week. There were about 30 of us. We did it for two or three years in a row, just for something to do in the summer. Basically, all the footballers from Bristol got together. It got competitive, to be fair, and the standard of football was crazy. It was enjoyable. I think we have got goals in our team and, defensively, we are solid as well. We are just trying to play the best we can and I think our football is attractive to watch as well. We are not talking about promotion. We are taking it game by game and trying to improve as a team and nullify mistakes. I think we are all enjoying it. We have got to keep carrying it on because it's early doors still."
Carl McHugh gave a ringing endorsement of his central defensive counterpart Aaron Bentley following his full debut in the 3-0 win against Dagenham on Saturday. The Irish centre-half went on to talk about the injury that resulted in a spell on the sidelines, saying: "I looked around and Pete had gone in. Then Sean McCarthy and Wottsie told Rodders to get ready. It was probably the best way for him. He didn't have much time to think about it. The three of us had never played together and for the first 10 minutes we were maybe a wee bit shaky. But after that, once we started our passing going, I thought defended really well.
"I was carrying it for probably three or four weeks before I got injured. In the Mansfield game it just came to a point where I had to pull out and get it sorted properly. I had a scan and there was a tear so I got my rest in. I feel fresh again and ready to go for the second half of the season."
John Sheridan gave a highly positive appraisal of Argyle's victory over Dagenham and Redbridge with specific praise reserved for the players who had just come into the side following injuries to regular starters. The Argyle manager said: "There were one or two scary moments early on, but other than that I thought we were top drawer. Some of our play was outstanding and the goals were all really quality ones. You can see the confidence in the team at the moment, especially at home. The ball is travelling with a purpose, we are taking care of it and we are causing teams a lot of problems. I'm pleased that some of the players who came in performed really well. I thought Ollie Norburn was excellent. We have had a settled team and we have been doing okay. Young Aaron Bentley has come in and Carl McHugh has had his first game in a while. Probably, none of them three would have played had Nelse, Pete and Dom been fit. I'm very pleased for the players who have come in. If anyone was watching us, they would say we look a really good team - on today's performance. Nelse and Pete are two big players for us but I didn't worry about that. I'm not one of those who panic. I prepared for young Rodders (Bentley) to be in the side because I knew Pete was 50-50. He had a jab on Friday and felt great. Pete wants to play anyway – he's like that. He went out and did the warm up but came back in and said it was too sore.Fair play to Marvin, he was in the middle of his meal but he wanted to be on the bench. That's what you want in your players. They all want to be a part of a winning team."
Sheridan reiterated his confidence that he is getting the best out of Reuben Reid at Argyle after the forward netted two more goals to take his overall tally for the season to 13: "I'm part of that as well because I keep pushing him and pushing him. I will be on his case all season. I think that's what he needs because he hasn't done it anywhere else, has he? He knows where I'm coming from. I gave him the captain's armband today as well. He's a very important player for us. Sometimes he doesn't like what I say but it's all for the benefit of him. I get my rewards when he plays like he did today and he gets his goals. If he gets 20 in consecutive seasons I'm doing something right."
Reuben himself shifted the focus from himself and onto the team in general giving praise to his teammates for their role in Argyle's success so far this campaign: "Honestly, I am just thankful to be playing regular football and training hard during the week to keep my fitness. Once I can start playing games consistently, as I have been over the past 24 months for this club, that's good enough for me – playing in a winning team. It seems to be a good tally. It could be better, I think. I didn't score for the last four games, which was disappointing for me, even though I still feel I'm contributing to the team. Obviously, I'm happy to get the goals and contribute to good team wins. Goals are in the back of my mind – I'm buzzing when we win games and I complete 90 minutes and feel good in my body.
"Lewi was on fire in the first half – what a performance from him – which helps me out, and the team," said Reuben. "He got behind again, and I made a good run; he fired the ball across and I was quite pleased with the finish, because it is one of those that, if you think too much about it, you won't get good contact. I aimed to keep it low and thankfully it went in; it was a really good team goal. He's a massive help to me, with his energy and the way he can manipulate the ball sometimes. There's always room for improvement between us two, which is a good sign; if we can click even better, then there could be a lot more goals to come.
"The first goal is crucial and we start on fire," said Reuben. "When you keep retaining the ball and then going again and attacking the ball…sometimes I've looked in centre-backs' faces and they are pouring with sweat and already looking flustered. So I've said to the lads 'Come on, kick on again – this is our time to score'. Thankfully, for the past few weeks and months, we have been doing that. Keeping the back door shut has been pretty key; the two wing-backs, myself, Lewi and Bobby are given a license to go and win the game for the lads. A massive point for us – what we have been doing well – is the energy levels and commitment to make runs for other people, and to get up and down the field. We're catching teams cold."
"With the squad the manager has put together – the quality in all areas – we have got to be fighting to get in the play-offs. We have done nothing yet. There is a massive amount of games and we are just coming up to Christmas now. You will see a little gap open up now and we have just got to hope we keep our performances up to the same level so we can be there or thereabouts at the end."
Argyle's exemplary home form continued with a 3-0 victory over Dagenham and Redbridge in spite of a depleted defence. Peter Hartley came off injured in the warm-up and first-year professional Aaron Bentley was handed his full Argyle debut. Reuben Reid made his debut with a cool finish on the stroke of half-time and he had a chance to score again after the interval for Argyle's second but instead selflessly squared to Bobby Reid to make sure of the finish. Reuben ensured he got a brace from the penalty spot after Lewis Alessandra was brought down in the area. Argyle: McCormick, O'Connor, McHugh, Bentley, Mellor, Cox, Norburn, Bobby Reid(Harvey), Kellett, Reuben Reid(Morgan), Alessandra(Bantom). Subs: Bittner, Purrington, Allen, Thomas.
Vice-captain Peter Hartley has been at Argyle for half a season now and has given a very positive appraisal of his time here so far. He stated: "I am really enjoying it - it is a great place, Plymouth. I am really settled. I love the lads, love the club; everyone at the club has been great. Obviously I have a lot of family at home, but I get to see them often, due to good results and getting them down here to watch games. My dad is a fisherman, funnily enough, so he comes here down here quite a lot. He has gone to Brixham quite a lot, so I probably see him more than I saw him when I was at home, to be honest with you! I am loving life, at the moment."
The board of PAFC have issued a response to questions about the funding of a cinema-anchored leisure scheme around Higher Home Park by publishing a letter from Legal & General Investment Management which can be found on the club's official website.
John Sheridan has given a synopsis of the current injury situation at Plymouth Argyle. Carl McHugh, Nathan Thomas and Marvin Morgan are nearing fitness whilst Dom Blizzard and Curtis Nelson are making good progress. Sheridan said: "Carl's trained this week, as well as all last week. He looked okay. Dom's got a similar injury to Carl, but he's getting better quickly and feeling better every day. The first diagnosis was probably three weeks, but I think it'll be shorter. He's been a regular in my side, and hopefully he's not out too long and that he's back soon. He's getting more game time, and he has been getting fitter game by game. Marvin's trained today, Nathan's trained today. Whether it's too early for them to come back or not for a game, as they're short on match time; they've only trained one or two days this week.
"I don't think Curtis will be out for three or four weeks," said John. "Curtis is a lad who likes playing, and we got to respect he's had a bad injury, but luckily for us, it hasn't come out as bad as we first thought. He was out running this morning, and he's getting better day by day, but that's only me talking, and it's down to the medical people, so we got to make sure if and when he does come back, he doesn't get any reaction from the injury. If I'm looking at him now and the way things are going, then he'll be back for Boxing Day. He's been one of my most consistent players and he's my captain."
Peter Hartley will wear the captain's armband on Saturday in the absence of Curtis Nelson and he said that in spite of Northampton's late revival, Argyle did the important stuff to hold onto all three points: "It looked very comfortable. The first goal was a bit of a sloppy goal from a defensive point of view. We have thrived off of sticking to good habits this season as a back five or six. We just switched off for a second, and that is all it takes to concede a goal. By all accounts, the second goal was a worldie. It was a great goal. We showed our character, we stuck in there, and we made sure that what happened against York did not happen again the week after. We have got back into good habits and done the nitty-gritty things we need to do to get the three points.
"Obviously Nelse is the club captain, and you can see he put himself through brick walls on Saturday to make sure we got the three points. It will be good to repay him the favour by leading the boys out. Carl has struggled with his calf for the three or four weeks now, but he has been out there training, and looks just as sharp as did before he had his injury. Carl will not have any problems stepping in for Nelse, and we will just stick to our good habits, do what we are told, and hopefully get another good three points."
Former Argyle manager Paul Sturrock believes that striker Reuben Reid is 'too good' for the division that he is currently playing in. Although 'Luggy' released the then teenage striker in late 2008, he is very impressed by his progress since then and believes he could even play as high as the championship. Sturrock said: "I released him when I first got down here the second time. He was a young boy and naive. I think he has learned his trade and probably become more professional in his approach as he has got older. You can see the benefits he has gained from that. In my opinion, he's miles ahead of League Two. He could be playing up at Championship standard at the minute. He likes the ball to his feet and he's the main weapon for getting up the football pitch for Plymouth. It surprises me people haven't sussed that out. I would have expected other teams to try to nullify that. I would worry if Reuben got injured. I see John Sheridan takes him off periodically if the games are going in their favour, which I think is a very wise decision."
Argyle have released three options for the home kit for the 2015/16 season next year. The kit will be worn with black shorts and white socks. Argyle fans can vote from a striped option, a pinstriped option and a plain green option and are able to see all three choices by viewing the club's official website which also includes instructions on how to vote and the voting deadline.
Curtis Nelson will be out of the Christmas and New Year period for Plymouth Argyle following a dislocated elbow in the last minute of Argyle's win at Northampton on Saturday. A scan revealed that the elbow is not broken and will not require an operation. Nelson is expected to be absent for 3-4 weeks.
Various media outlets have reported that Argyle teenage prospect Tyler Harvey is currently training with Championship outfit Nottingham Forest on trial.
After Andy Kellett's fantastic goal against Northampton on Saturday, Anthony O'Connor joked that he is determined to follow suit: "Andy is a good player and that's what he's all about – getting the ball and running with it. He's quite comfortable on the ball and quite quick and nippy; he has that in his armoury. I'm happy for him to get his first goal for the club and I'm hoping to get my first goal soon, as well. I've been saying to the lads that, next time we get a free-kick, I'm hitting it."
Paul Wotton re-iterated John Sheridan's consistent message about the importance of Argyle keeping their heads on the ground and taking one game at a time. He said: "You just try and get some momentum building again. It is three points today, and we have got a great game to look forward to on Saturday, against Dagenham at home. We spoke before the game about how the festive period is a chance to pick up a lot of points. Hopefully at the end of it, we are up and around the positions we want to be. Points-wise, today is a perfect start. We are ticking along all right. They are a great bunch of lads, and we are doing okay. All we are worried about now is Dagenham on Saturday. It is such a cliché, but you can only take it one game at a time. You cannot look too far ahead, because it will come back and bite you. Today is done, and we are looking at Dagenham on Saturday."
Paul Wotton, who stood in for manager John Sheridan in Argyle's post-match interviews, said that he was disappointed that Argyle did not see the game out in a less dramatic fashion. He was however keen to point out, that a win is a win nonetheless: "I would not say we were cruising, but we were keeping Northampton at bay and keeping good shape, looking good on the break. We are disappointed with Northampton's first goal. The second goal is a wonder-strike, and then injury time was a bit dramatic. They are a big strong team and they are throwing things in the box, with Ben Tozer's long throw. We could not get out of the box.
"We should have seen the game off easier than it was, but it is an away win, and it is three valuable points that sets us on the road. There are positives, and the bottom line is that it is three points away from home. It should have been more comfortable than it was, but it was not. At the end of the day, when you wake up tomorrow and read the paper, it will say that we have won the game."
Paul Atkinson gave an update on the injured arm of Argyle skipper Curtis Nelson following the elbow knock that he picked up in stoppage time. Atkinson gave an optimistic prognosis: "All being well, there are no fractures and it will not keep him out too long. It depends on how much damage there is to it. I would not like to say at this stage (how long he will be out). He was in a lot of pain, but the Entonox (a form of Nitrous Oxide, or 'laughing gas') took the pain away, and that was why we were able to relocate the elbow. He thinks he sort of landed on it, throwing himself in front of something. He has gone off to the hospital in an ambulance, and he is going to get an x-ray there. We will assess the damage further after that. It depends on the ligaments, and all the structures that hold the elbow in place. It depends how badly that is damaged."
Anthony O'Connor echoed the words of Paul Wotton and described John Sheridan's dressing room reaction following the final whistle and agreed that the game should have been put to bed earlier. O'Connor said: "It was a bit nerve-wracking at the end," said the Irish Under-21 international, "but the bottom line is we got the three points and we're all happy with that. It was disappointing to concede two goals, but one was a great strike. We dominated the game, especially with possession, and we got two good goals in the first half. Peter has scored two similar goals. That's the space he likes to get into and get his head on the ball. That got us off to a good start and got us a bit of momentum; then we got the second and we looked very settled. a couple more. Jason Banton had a chance and there were couple of others – we should have killed the game off. We probably invited a bit of pressure on ourselves but we got the three points and it's on to next week."
Argyle are back to winning ways after a 3-2 victory away to Northampton Town. For the second season in a row, Argyle went in at half-time 2-0 up against Northampton: this time due to a Peter Hartley header and a wonderful individual goal from Andy Kellett. Lewis Alessandra made it 3-0 not long after the restart and the game looked like petering out. However, Northampton threatened with a late revival which included two goals in the final 15 minutes. A goalline scramble almost saw them equalise in stoppage time but a last ditch block from Curtis Nelson (which saw him pick up an elbow injury) and a clearance from Anthony O'Connor ensured that Argyle came home from an away match with three points for the third time this season. Argyle: McCormick, Nelson, O'Connor, Hartley, Mellor, Cox, Bobby Reid, Blizzard(Norburn), Kellett, Reuben Reid(Banton), Alessandra(Harvey). Subs: Bittner, Purrington, Allen, Bentley.
Andy Kellett has extended with stay with Argyle for another month and into the New Year. Argyle and Bolton have agreed the extension which will see the left utility player remain a green until January 17th. This takes up the last of the 93 days allocated for short-term loan deals per player per season. If Bolton wished to loan Kellett to Argyle again, it would have to be as part of a long-term loan arrangement which could only be done in the January transfer window.
The injury suffered by Deane Smalley which has ruled him out for the season and possibly beyond has upset John Sheridan more than any other. The Argyle manager spoke about the circumstances of the injury and the forward's future prospects: "I do feel for him, because I was playing him at Sheffield United. I was not playing Reuben Reid.He played really well in the practice match – looked really sharp – and it was a crying shame for him. The injury happened in probably the last minute of training. It was innocuous; he has just gone for a ball. It is a real shame that he has got a bad injury. I am gutted for him. He has not had a lot of football, but I thought he was getting back and looking to be getting to where he should be. It is really unfortunate for him.
"Paul Atkinson took him to a specialist. It is a bad injury, there is no denying it. He will not be involved in any football this season, and possibly even the start of next season. We just want him to get the best treatment and recover.
"I just concentrate on what we have got. We are probably a bit short at the moment, but I have got to believe we will get results, and I do. That is the way I get on with it. I very rarely make excuses over anything, and I do not want to make excuses. I feel as though we have got good enough players, and it gives an opportunity to those who think they should be in the team to force their way in".
In spite of Argyle's injury crises, the Argyle manager still gave a full vote of confidence to his main two strikers, saying: "I have got two very good strikers at the moment in Lewis and Reuben, who are as good as any in the league. As long as they stay fit, I am happy. Hopefully they will stay fit, because they are two of the best strikers in the division. I am fortunate to have them. I know I have not got too much cover, but if those two are on their game, I will not need anyone else."
On the subject of Reid, Martyn Starnes said that Argyle would not consider selling their top scoring striker unless a club were to bid an 'absolutely stunning' offer. Whilst Starnes admitted that every player had his value, Reid's value would have to be extremely high to outweigh his possible value to the football team as the greens search for promotion to league one this campaign. Starnes stated: "Would I be surprised if we got a bid for Reid? No, I wouldn't be. But I think over the last few years the January transfer window hasn't really seen that many moves of players in the lower divisions that are still on contract. There is a lot of loan activity, and players may get released for whatever reason and find another club. In terms of clubs coming in and paying a fee in January for a player who is under contract, there aren't that many of them these days. They tend to leave it until the summer. I would be more inclined to think that if there is a club interested in his services that approach will come in the summer rather than January. But I have learned in this game never to be surprised.
"Some people won't like to hear this but every player has got a value. We would not be actively looking to sell Reuben Reid in this window – far from it. He's an important part of the squad. He's one of the top scorers in the division. Why would we want to let him go when we have got promotion as our major objective at the moment? So if an offer came in, it would have to be absolutely stunning for us to give it any serious attention.
"We get disappointed like we did in the summer when we get a relatively late approach from a club for a player like Conor Hourihane. We were really left with no alternative but to get the best value for him. These things happen in football and what you have to do is be quick to react and try to do something about it. That probably means we could be having a negative impact on another club, and so it goes in football, so we are sort of used to it. We get disappointed, but that disappointment has to be parked and we have to get on with the job."
Sheridan also said that this will be the part of the season that separates the men from the boys- and thus crucial to Argyle chances of promotion this season: "I think every manager will tell you that it is an important part of the season, because you can really get in the mix if you have a good Christmas and New Year, with the games coming think and fast. This is probably where the table starts showing itself. We have got to be positive, and make sure we are one of the teams who are in there. We have got to get wins, and it starts with Northampton. If you can get a couple of results early, you can get the momentum going again."
An Argyle line-up of mixed youth and experience won 3-1 at Buckland Athletic in the quarter-finals of the Edenvale Turf Ltd Devon St Luke's Challenge Cup. Aaraon Bentley scored a header to see Argyle go in at the break 1-0 up. Shortly after the interval, River Allen had a penalty saved but Mason Hughes netted to give the away side a two goal cushion. Buckland pulled a goal back but Jason Banton got Argyle's third to ensure it was a comfortable win in the end. Argyle: Bittner; Bentley, Sargent, Moxham; Hughes, Allen, Norburn, Lane (Hall), Purrington; Rooney(Vincent), Banton(Palfrey). Subs: C Harvey, Calver.
PAFC have issued a statement in response to the city council's backing of the British Land proposed Bretonside development. The club stated that the re-development of the grandstand could not go ahead if Bretonside did- due to the fact that there would be no leisure district next to Home Park with which to fund the rebuild. The full statement in which the club urged Plymouth to back the plans at Home Park can be found on the club's official site.
Deane Smalley is out injured for the remainder of the season following a cruciate ligament injury that he picked up in training last week. The former Oxford man will seek to meet with a specialist with a view to an operation in the very near future.
Argyle will visit Buckland Athletic in the quarter-final of the St Luke's Challenge Cup on Wednesday. The squad will include fringe first team players such as Ollie Norburn, Jason Banton, River Allen and Aaron Bentley.
John Sheridan has taken both positive signs and pointers to improve on from Argyle's defeat at Sheffield United yesterday. The manager said: "We were down – you could see it in the players – but we kept going and did not give up. Things just did not go our way, and Sheffield United made it difficult for us in the last 15 minutes. I do not think we finished the game very well. Our heads went down after probably the second goal, and it was difficult for us to get back in it. I think we could have done better with the ball. I think there were great opportunities to break and cause them even more problems. We looked lively at times, when we did take care of the ball. We have just got to learn these little things, like how they keep the ball and make the game look simple. That is what we have got to try and get in our game. Know what you are good at and stick to it: that is what makes good players."
Sheridan then urged Argyle to use the festive period as an oppurtunity to kick back on and get another run of good form together with their high volume of games. He also spoke about the perfornances on Ben Purrington and Jason Banton who came back into the side yesterday after absences with injury: "I am pleased that there are lots of games coming up thick and fast now, and we will need every player fit and ready for the Northampton game. We have just got to try and get back to winning ways. It was a bad defeat today but, again, I can take a lot of things out of it. We have just got to carry on. I have got a good group of players. They are all wanting to do well, and we want to do well in the league, so hopefully we can get back to winning ways against Northampton. Every game is critical, and they will all come thick and fast now over the Christmas period.
"Ben has come back; Jason played today, as well; so it is good for them to get a game. It was tough game, but Ben is a fit lad, and he has not lost a lot of fitness because he has been able to run. I thought he did okay. He did not let himself down."
Finally, Peter Hartley has admitted personal culpability to the goals Argyle conceded yesterday and has said he is taking it on the chin: "I've made a little bad decision for their first penalty – I should have cleared the ball first time and I've taken a touch. It's one of those things – I've made a personal bad decision and Ben's bought the boy down. For the second, the midfield runner came through; I came across with my striker; there was a gap between me and Nelse; the guy's run from midfield and I've come across him and got my arm across him; and Nelse has sandwiched him. To be fair, it should have been my yellow card. We've had a few chances today; everybody could have done better. If we'd all given five per cent more, it could have been a different score. But that's football – you don't come on to the pitch intending to make these mistakes; they develop as the game progresses. I know I've made a mistake and I'm man enough to take it on the chin – I'm that type of person – and I know it won't happen again. I'll go in next week and do everything I need to do to make sure we get the three points against Northampton. That's the way it is."
Argyle are out of the FA Cup having lost 3-0 away to Sheffield United in the second round at Bramall Lane. Argyle had made two changes and gone to four at the back following their draw with York and went in 0-0 at half-time. Reuben Reid had a chance to fire Argyle into the lead from 12 yards but blazed his penalty wide and over the bar. The home side were also awarded two penalties in quick succession and duly converted both of them to establish a 2-0 lead. They added their third late in the game. Argyle: McCormick, Mellor, Nelson, Hartley, Purrington(Cox), O'Connor, Blizzard(Harvey), Banton(Norburn), Alessandra, Kellett, Reid. Subs: Bittner, Allen, Bentley.
PAFC have reported a 'significant reduction' in their football creditor debts following the settlement offers that were made to them in recent weeks. More than two thirds of the outstanding football creditors have agreed to take a percentage of their outstanding money now rather than wait for the entirety of their payment between now and October 2016. Chief Executive Martyn Starnes said: "As a result of our negotiations, we have achieved a considerable reduction in the balloon payments scheduled for 2016. This represents a very successful outcome for the club in reducing overall debts."
Anthony O'Connor says he wants to extend his loan deal at Plymouth Argyle when it runs out in January. The 22-year-old defender has played 22 games since moving to Argyle before the start of the season. "When my loan comes up I'm sure we'll have a chat about it and I'm more than happy to stay here," said O'Connor. I've still got another month to go before my loan is up and I've had a couple of words with the manager and we've spoken about it."
O'Connor has not played a first-team game for parent club Blackburn Rovers and previously had loan spells at Burton Albion and Torquay United. "I don't want to go back to Blackburn and sit on the bench a couple of times and play under-21's football," he told BBC Radio Devon in an interview, "It's not for me now any more, the most important thing for me is to play every week and I'm getting the chance to do that at Plymouth."
The build-up to Argyle's FA Cup 2nd Round against Sheffield United at Brammall Lane touched upon John Sheridan's return to Sheffield and his expected reception from Blades' fans. Sheridan made almost 250 appearances for the Blades' arch rivals, Sheffield Wednesday, between 1989 and 1996. One of the highlights of Sheridan's time with Wednesday was when they beat United at Wembley in the 1993 FA Cup semi-final. Speaking of his likely reception, Sheridan said:"It doesn't really bother me. They are real good supporters – likewise with Sheffield Wednesday. "They get right behind the team and support them through thick and thin. I don't think many of them will remember me because it was quite a long time ago. Those (Sheffield) derby games were special. It was a good rivalry and it was always tough at Bramall Lane." Sheridan made 250 appearances for the Blades' city rivals, between 1989 and 1996 and having scored the winning goal for Wednesday when they beat Manchester United in the final of the 1990/91 League Cup at Wembley, remain a hero to this day on one side of Sheffield at least.
Argyle will be ball number 60 in the draw for the Third Round of the FA Cup should they leave Brammall Lane unbeaten.
Argyle could find themselves involved in a fixture conundrum should their FA Cup second round tie against Sheffield United require a replay. Should Argyle secure a draw, finding a date for the replay at Home Park would not be easy because of United's continued involvement in the Capital One Cup. The Blades have qualified for the last eight of the Capital One Cup and are scheduled to host Premier League club Southampton on Tuesday, December 16. However, the dates set aside for FA Cup second round replays are December 16 and 17. Dates for replays are usually agreed by both clubs in advance of FA Cup ties, but that has not been possible in this case. It is likely that that any replay should take place on December 16, with the FA Cup taking precedence, though this would mean United having to rearrange their Capital One Cup clash against Southampton.
Former Argyle defender Durrell Berry will be offered a full contract until the end of the season by Torquay United, after impressing during his trial with the Gulls. Manager and former Pilgrim Chris Hargreaves has confirmed that Berry earned an upgrade from his current non-contract deal, which has covered the first six games for the Plainmoor club. "Durrell has been terrific since he joined us, and he will be offered a deal to the end of the season. We are just sorting that out now," Hargreaves said.
The club have announced that the Devon Derby against Exeter City, on Saturday, February 21, will kick off at 1pm.
Argyle's away match at Exeter City on February 21st next year will instead kick-off at 1pm as opposed to the usual 3pm kick-off time.
Defender Stephane Zubar rates Argyle as serious promotion candidates after playing against the greens for York on Saturday. Former pilgrim Zubar also spoke about his underlying affection for the club, saying: "I just wish them all the best as they try to get promoted. Plymouth, as a club and a city, deserves it. The fans must understand that when you have been in administration, to come back from that is never easy. The great example is Portsmouth, so it's not easy at all. The one thing the fans can do is to get behind the lads, and if the team do well you know there will be big crowds for home games, and that helps a lot.
"I think they can challenge for promotion, definitely. It's not just because I'm a Plymouth fan. I thought they looked decent on Saturday and they have got a good squad. They know exactly how they want to play and they were unlucky not to beat us because they had quite a few chances. Fortunately for us, they didn't score a second goal and we got one at the end.
"It was quite emotional for me to come back because I had a great time here. It was the best season of my career so far. I was still at the ground an hour after the game finished, talking to people. I had been looking forward to playing here again. Plymouth will always be special to me. A lot happened during my time at the club. We went through a lot with the administration, and I want to thank the fans for the reception I got on Saturday. It was emotional for me." |
Hi everyone. Had another day of experimenting in my studio. So fun! :) Today I was trying out the bleaching technique on a brushos background that is a small part of this wonderful video from Dina of Splitcoaststampers. Even though this video is almost a year old, I only saw it for the first time last night and was mesmerized by all the way Dina shows how to use Brushos (or Color Bursts, or Bister Powders). Worth watching!
I have some empty water brushes, so filled one with bleach and used on one of my Brushos backgrounds from my stash. Didn't work the best. Took a long time to get the bleach to soak in. Then I remembered Dina mentioning about using it on "fresh" brushos to get more contrast and so created a smooshed Brushos background, dried it with my heat tool (not completely dry), stamped the flower sprig in Archival ink, and went over it lightly with a bleach filled waterbrush. LOVE how it turned out.
It's great to learn things. I'll be trying out more of Dina's techniques ... so many fantastic ideas.
This is gorgeous, Loll! Love the colors in the background and how the flowers are a light blue!
Beautifully done! I have not worked with bleach but it sounds fascinating! Thanks for the link and for describing this technique! Love how it looks, the slight fading color on the image!
This is really pretty, Loll! I love the colors and the outline sprig and simple sentiment are all that are needed to let your artistic background shine.
It sounds like a wonderful technique - your card is gorgeous!
Wow beautiful card Loll, thanks for sharing about new work vs old saved pages. Was wondering why use bleach rather than water as I have sen around lately. Is this because its quicker and easier?? Love the lightness of your brusho colours too, thats something I am really working on. Not being so heavy handed.
Awesome background! So fun to find "new' techniques to try!
Incredibly beautiful! Love the technique, and thanks for the trail to the video!
Love your background! And that you always inspire me to try new techniques! Will have to check out the video one I get my hands on some brushos (still on my wish list)!
You did an amazing job on this technique, Loll! I really love how you background turned out, and your sprig is gorgeous! Thanks so much for the link to the video...I can't wait to try it with my Brushos!
I love the way this turned out; it's a wonderful technique. Thanks for linking Dina Kowal's video. I have watched it a couple of times, and I think it's time to watch it again. |
The Rigged Boson
Posted on 20 July 2012 15 April 2018 Author ishinobu
The Higgs boson was predicted in 1964 by a group of theoretical physicists, as a way to explain how mass could arise for gauge bosons. One, the zippy photon, carrier of light, was massless. The nascent Standard Model predicted the same for other gauge bosons: the W & Z particles. But these bosons were found to be bulky. The Standard Model was wrong. So an awkward mathematical patch was applied: spontaneous symmetry breaking. This necessitated another boson, one that gave the W & Z their mass. Hence the Rigged Boson.
On July 4, 2012, based upon decay patterns of a certain variety that originated at 0.125 TeV, a new subatomic boson was declared by experimental physicists, to a worldwide rapturous response. The namesake for the particle, field, and mechanism went to British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs (1929 – ).
The Standard Model (SM) had no prediction of where the Higgs would show up. Leon M. Lederman, who wrote The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question?, complained of the Higgs as “so elusive.” “The publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing.”
The Economist noted: “no one knew how much the Higgs would weigh.” Not true. A competing theory, supersymmetry, was on the money in finding a Higgs at 0.125 TeV.
The Guardian declared: “The Higgs particle is the first truly new particle that mankind has conceived – and now discovered – for millennia.” Utter fabrication.
Earth, wind, fire and water were long thought the basic elements. The concept of atomism dates to the 6th century BCE, though atomic theory did not develop until the 1660s. Atoms were considered the smallest possible division of matter until 1897.
Once the water broke on subatomic particles, so many were found that Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900 – 1958) lamented: “Had I foreseen this, I would have gone into botany.”
Human discovery of physics has been a slow fall into a rabbit hole of surprises as to the basic bits of matter and energy. The Standard Model was finally cobbled together in the 1970s.
“They have discovered the long-sought Higgs boson – the last missing bit in their standard model,” proclaimed Science magazine. Another falsity.
Physicists have long acknowledged that SM’s accounting of fields that take a particulate appearance remains incomplete. Quite a few known fields/particles are not incorporated; gravity being the most glaring exception.
The decay patterns upon which the Higgs was declared have left it an open question as to what exactly was found. Nature magazine: “The way in which the new particle decays into other particles will also be key to verifying its precise nature. Already, the new boson seems to be decaying slightly more often into pairs of gamma rays than was predicted by theories, says Bill Murray, a physicist on ATLAS, the other experiment involved in making the discovery.”
There were other surprises out of the colliders that smashed the bits leading to the Higgs. Some of the particles created by proton collisions synchronized their flight paths, “like flocks of birds,” indicating interconnections that can only be explained extra-dimensionally. But explanation from physicists for this has yet to be made.
Fingering the Rigged Boson has not really forwarded human understanding of the nature of reality. If anything, the self-congratulatory tone of the mainstream press, fostering the illusion of superior knowledge, represents a setback. As long as humans suffer under the know-it-all delusion, the world suffers in its wake.
For more, read Spokes of the Wheel Book 1: The Science of Existence.
Ishi Nobu, Spokes of the Wheel Book 1: The Science of Existence (2012).
“Science’s great leap forward,” The Economist (July 7, 2012).
Adrian Cho, “At long last, physicists discover famed Higgs boson,” Science [Now] (July 4, 2012).
Themis Bowcock, “The Higgs boson discovery is another giant leap for humankind,” The Guardian (July 4, 2012).
Geoff Brumfiel, “Physicists declare victory in Higgs hunt,” Nature News (July 4, 2012).
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We’re beyond proud of our design team and Carlton Architecture who worked alongside us for this project.
Envisioned as a New York flagship, the design of the café represents a shift from the traditional Bluestone Lane experience to a more refined atmosphere with brass tones, industrial elements, exposed concrete floors and geometric printed wallpaper throughout. In the evening, the café transitions to a nighttime lounge. Concealed, integrated lighting, bronze finished track fittings, and decorative glass pendant lights contribute to relaxing and luxurious space.
I am thrilled to announce that our Manhattan West Café has been awarded a Gold Award by Driven x Design in the Interior Design – Hospitality category. This is an incredible achievement, following on our Dumbo Café winning Gold and our Upper East Side Café Silver respectively. A credit it our amazing team and brand-building focus! |
Call for Papers: Journal of Gender Studies, volume 22.
We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Papers is open for our upcoming issue of Journal of Gender Studies (volume 22). It is scheduled to be published in July 2019. We are currently calling for original manuscripts in any field of gender research, written in Japanese or English. Contributions by Gender Studies researchers worldwide are welcome.
15 February 2019 (Fri.), 5 p.m. Japan time.
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Wyeth’s approach to watercolor is so distinctive that viewers can often spot one of his paintings from across the room. Painted in 1946, Winter Morning was purchased from Boston’s Doll and Richards Gallery by an artist and contemporary of Wyeth, and it has remained in the same family to the present. It was featured in major shows of Wyeth’s work over the next six decades, including 1970’s comprehensive exhibition held at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The accompanying catalogue contains text pertaining to the inspiration behind certain landscapes, and of Winter Morning is written:
“This is the side of Karl Kuerner’s barn with his house beyond. Kuerners’ hill of ‘Winter 1946’ rises in front. Deer season never ends without Karl shooting his deer. German by birth and frugal by nature, every edible part of this deer will be carefully saved. At Christmas he will give his friend, the artist, a gift of venison.”[1]
[1] McCord, David and Frederick A. Sweet. Andrew Wyeth (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970), p. 57
Karl Kuerner served in the German army during the First World War before relocating to the United States and settling in Chadds Ford. He rented a farm, which after many years of work became his own, and grew close with the Wyeth family, Andy especially. As a child, Wyeth was enchanted by Kuerner’s war stories and grew to admire his pragmatism which came through in Kuerner’s vocation; on the Kuerner farm, everything had a place and purpose, nothing was wasted or neglected, be it a valuable piece of machinery or an animal, and Wyeth had free reign to explore where he liked, even possessing a key to the home. His fascination with the Kuerner homestead and surrounding landscape endured for decades, and Wyeth became a chronicler of the place, painting nearly every patch of field, every hill, pond, and outbuilding many times over, his imagination stirred by something new each time:
“The farm is very utilitarian in its quality. To enter that house with those heavy thick walls and have beer on draft or hard cider was an exciting thing. To see the hills capped with snow in the wintertime or to look at the tawniness of the fields in the fall all made me want to paint it…I didn’t think it was a picturesque place. It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally.”[1]
In Winter Morning, Wyeth’s innovation and skill with the challenging watercolor medium is on full display through his combination of fluid washes with his characteristic drybrush technique, wherein he would squeeze pigment and water from a loaded brush to achieve more texture and detail in certain passages. The drybrush method was particularly effective in rendering the buck’s soft fur and in scattered patches of grass on the rolling hills. Wyeth has also cleverly left most of the paper blank, allowing a visual conversation to flow between the buck in the foreground and the Kuerners’ house in the distance. These elements are painted using a similar muted palette, even the soft blues of buck’s shadow are echoed in the structure’s roof and siding, and its elegant antlers direct the viewer’s eyes to the home, which is ingeniously crowned with the antler-like branches of the tree just beyond.
[1] Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons (Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin, 1976), p. 40
With Doll & Richards Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
By purchase to private collection, Sudbury, Massachusetts, March 19, 1954
By gift to collector’s son, private collection, Buckfield, Maine, 2013 to present
Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts / No.: (typed) B 11032 / Artist: (typed) Andrew Wyeth. American (1917- ) / Title: (typed) Winter Morning / Medium: (typed) Watercolor
Andrew Wyeth Exhibition 1966-1967 / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Baltimore Museum of Art / Whitney Museum of American Art / The Art Institute of Chicago / Title: (typed) Winter Morning 1946 / Cat. No.: (typed) 17 / Lender: (Anonymous) / Address: (Anonymous)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts / Special Loan Exhibition / of / (typed) #5 / Title: (typed) Winter Morning / Artist: (typed) Wyeth / Owner: (Anonymous)
(typed sticker, unknown source, but likely from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1976 exhibition) SL.76.118.1 / Winter Morning / (Anonymous)
(handwritten sticker) “Winter Morning” / by Andrew Wyeth / Owned by – / (Anonymous)
(typed digital/computer label, unknown source) Winter Morning 1946 / Drybrush / Private Collection
Wyeth at Kuerners, by Betsy James Wyeth (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1976), illustrated in full color on page 209.
*Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, Doll & Richards Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, November 18 – December 7, 1946
*Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from February 5, 1948
*Watercolors by Alexander Bower, Eliot O’Hara, Vladimir Pavlosky, Andrew Wyeth, Doll & Richards Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15 – March 27, 1948
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1957
*Wyeth exhibition, Hilson Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, May 5 – June 6, 1957
Andrew Wyeth: Temperas • Watercolors • Dry Brush • Drawings • 1938 into 1966, An Exhibition Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 8 – November 27, 1966; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, December 13, 1966 – January 22, 1967; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, February 14 – April 2, 1967; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 21 – June 4, 1967), no. 17
Andrew Wyeth, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, July 17 – September 6, 1970, no. 5, illus.
Andrew Wyeth: Paintings & Drawings, Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, April 4 – May 2, 1971
Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 16, 1976 – February 6, 1977, no. 10, illus.
Wyeth Family Exhibit held at the Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, New Hampshire, July 25 – August 8, 1977
(*Exhibitions with an asterisk have been gleaned from the Wyeth Catalogue Raisonne’s summary report on the painting)
by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Drybrush watercolor on paper
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A woman angry with her live-in boyfriend grabbed his clothes, threw them in a bathtub and set them ablaze, Daytona Beach police said.
DAYTONA BEACH — A woman angry with her live-in boyfriend grabbed his clothes, threw them in a bathtub and set them ablaze, Daytona Beach police said.
And while Jessica Coyle admitted to police that she had done a “stupid thing,” her admission also got her arrested and charged with first-degree arson, a report shows.
Coyle told officers she had argued with her boyfriend Richard Johnson just before 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday and he left their residence at the 100 block of Taylor Avenue.
There were four children in the house who stayed behind, the report shows.
That's when Coyle, 28, grabbed some of Johnson's clothes, threw them in a tub and doused them with gasoline, the report shows. She set the pile of clothing on fire, but became alarmed when the flames quickly rose and grew into a large inferno, the report shows. Coyle tried to put out the blaze and it was contained to the bathroom, police said. However, the walls and ceilings of both the bathroom and an adjoining hallway were damaged and blackened by smoke.
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An Interview with Ron Barzso of Barzso Playsets.
September 8, 2018 September 8, 2018 / Warhorse Miniatures
“Remember the feeling you had as a kid when you received a playset for a present?”
“Looking at the box, opening those little bags that contained treasures never before seen, setting up for the first time… Well, now you can recapture those feelings with a brand new playset from BARZSO PLAYSETS!”
These are the words you will see when you visit the Barzso Playset website. In 1993 Ron brought back the second Golden Age of Toy Soldier Playsets. Barzso Playsets released their first playset “Roger’s Rangers, In the Attack on St. Francis”.
It was the first new American produced playset in about 25 years. Barzso Playsets would release a new playset almost every year after for the next 25 years. Most of his products were focused on early American history. From early colonial history to the American Civil War. The French & Indian War was a major theme of his. The Native American Indian figures are some of the best figures every produced. He also brought to life some of our childhood classic stories like John Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” and the medieval tale of “Robin Hood”.
Most of there early figures were casted in resin and so were the playset accessories. Their products were made in the USA. Later on they used plastic injected molds to make the figures and they were made in China. They still continued to use resin casted character figures and accessories that are made here in the USA.
Besides producing some great playsets Barzso sold figure packs, different kinds of small accessories and foam buildings. But some of his best products had to be the forts and castles they made.
Barzso brought collectors dreams come to life. Today his products are very desirable and can command a premium price.
This year at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show Barzso Playsets in a joint venture with LOD Enterprises will release a playset together.
The other day I got a chance to talk to Ron Barzso and ask him a few questions. He and his family were busy packaging their final playset the “Battle of Yorktown: Attack on Redoubt #10”.
We talked over the phone. This was the first time I did an interview over the phone. I had some questions written out to ask. The conversion was almost a half hour. As we talked I took notes to use later on for this article. The conversation moved into different directions as you will see as you read further.
Warhorse Miniatures: Hi Ron, thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions. I would like to say I am a big fan of your work and have followed your company for a while now. It started with the first playset, Roger’s Rangers.
My first questions is; Who is Ron Barzso and how did all of this start?
Ron Barzso: (Ron laughed at who is Ron Barzso) Ron told me he was a 5th grade teacher(his wife Mary is also a teacher) and a collector of toy soldiers. He would go to the shows in the 1980’s with like sixty dollars in his pocket and be amazed at the prices that some of the playsets were going for. After a while Ron got tired of seeing nothing new being produced or nothing that he was interested in. He started doing some research on making his own playsets. After seeing collectors spending a lot on old toys he realized that there would be a market for his products. So he started reaching out to different companies. He started working with some small local companies to start the business.
Roger’s Rangers raiding. Here is a picture from the http://playsetaddict.com/
Warhorse Miniatures: One of the main themes of your sets is early American Colonial history. Your first set was Roger’s Rangers playset. What was the main reason that you started here.
Ron Barzso: Ron told me he loved history. One of his favorite movies is “Northwest Passage” He said “that would be a cool playset”. He saw an ad about Hudon Allen Studio. He contacted them and met Ken Olsen. Ken was the sculptor of the Roger’s Rangers figures. Ron used a few different companies to put together the playset. One did the figures and accessories. Another produced the buildings.
Warhorse Miniatures: One of the things that I remember about your sets is the amount of detail given. Of all your playsets, do you have a favorite? Or which one was the most fun to produce.
Ron Barzso: After about 15 seconds of thought Ron said he had two that came to mind. “The Last of the Mohicans and Treasure Island”.
Treasure Island is one of Ron’s favorite books. Ron reread Treasure Island and used details from the book to design some of accessories. The late Steve Lortz sculpted the figures. Ron had a lot fun bringing this playset to life.
The second set was “Last of the Mohicans”. While at the West Coast Show in the mid 1990’s Ron was approached by some executives from 21st Century. They wanted Ron to develop a playset for them. These executives were also collectors of toys soldiers. After some talks they agreed to use “Last of the Mohicans” for the playset. Ron like the characters and story. Plus the historical background. Wes Studi even autographed a picture of himself for each playset. Ron said about 550 playsets were made. He was able to visit the studio set of the movie. They gave Ron some movie stills and few blue print designs they used in the movie. One of the blue prints was of Fort William Henry which Ron said is about twelve feet by 3 feet. It is a everlasting reminder of the playset and movie for him.
Both of these sets were followed up with expansion sets. A few ships where made and a Pirates cove set were made to go with the Treasure Island set. For the Last of the Mohicans set they made Fort William Henry.
Warhorse Miniatures: In 2017 you allowed Ken Ciak of LOD Enterprises to produce your Medieval and Revolutionary War figures. Now that your going to retire soon, do you have any plans for Ken to produce some of your other sets? And if yes, which other sets?
Ron Barzso: Ron said that he sold the rights to the Robin Hood medieval molds, Lexington Green molds and the Yorktown figure molds to Ken. They came to an agreement to work on the Yorktown Playset together. Ken providing the figures and Ron gathering the other parts for the playset.
Ron never did answer the second part of the question. But I asked Ken about it and he said “Ron and I have discussed his molds and the opportunity to purchase them. We have not delved too deep into the details but will look to do so in Schaumburg” at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show.
(As we talked about this Ron jumped back to question about favorite playsets)
Ron Barzso: Ron said he enjoyed meeting Fess Parker while they developed the Fess Parker Daniel Boone Playset. This was another licensed playset. He spent over 3 hours talking to Fess. Fess was surprised about that there was any interest about him acting as Daniel Boone after all the years. This playset was almost produced as much as the Last of the Mohicans playset.
(from here we jumped into the prices of Barzso)
Ron Barzso: Ron said he was a little surprised about prices of what some of his products are going for now. But he said collectors will spend whatever their willing to get what they want. He said he gets requests for some of his items that are over 17 year old sometimes. And that collectors from around the globe send such requests.
Warhorse Miniatures: You told me that you plan to retire after the Yorktown playset. If you could design another playset what would it be?
Ron Barzso: After some thought, Ron says that he would have liked to do a science fiction based playset. Maybe either the movies “Forbidden Planet” or “The Time Machine”. He said that he didn’t know what he would have used as the main display for Forbidden Planet. He said the idea of the Morlocks with the Time Machine would have been fun.
I later found some pictures of toys and images of what could have been?? The Barzso “Forbidden Planet” playset.
or The Barzso “The Time Machine” playset.
If Ron ever makes another playset I bet it will be really cool. I brought up the idea of zombies or the Walking Dead. He liked the Walking Dead zombie figures that where made at one point. He is surprised that they were not produced into a bigger production.
Warhorse Miniatures: Any new details about the Yorktown set you would like to share with us?
Ron Barzso: Ron talked a little about he history of the battle. He mentioned about the Redoubt #10 being a surprise attack and the American soldiers were ordered not to load their muskets. They would use their bayonets to charge the British to take the redoubt.
He said the redoubt would have 3 sides. Six different sets of figures included. A few character figures like Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. The figures were sculpted by Jim Holloway. These were some of the things he divulged.
We then talked about how much he liked the action poses that these figures had. He also mentioned that he had planned to originally release this playset the year after the Lexington Green set. But he ran out of gas and put it to the side until now. He is excited now to finally release the Yorktown set.
Warhorse Miniatures: This is my last question. I would like to thank you for the time you took to answer the questions. It saddens me that your retiring. At the same time I am happy to see that you will be enjoying yourself in retirement. Is there anything else that you would like to say about Barzso Playsets?
Ron Barzso: One of the things that we discussed was some of Ron’s plans when he retires. He talked about traveling and his interest in preserving wild flowers. He also mentioned that it was mainly he and his wife that would handle the daily tasks of the business. From taking the orders, to packaging item to be shipped. It was overwhelming at times. He is ready to retire. He is glad to have met all the collectors over the years. He has many fond memories of the toy soldiers and toy shows.
Ron will now be retired but he still will be at some of the shows for the near future.
Ron & Mary Barzso
This is the conclusion to the interview. As I was looking for some figures to take a few pictures of, I found some old flyers that Barzso Playsets would mail out to customers. I thought it would be interesting to take a few pictures of those. It was nice that Ron would send a personalized note at times to thank you or answer a question that you might have sent with an order.
I also came across some old order forms. I wish these items were still in stock );
I have been collecting Barzso playset products off and on since almost the beginning. Their playsets of early American History and Native Americans are my favorite sets from Barzso.
I hope that LOD Enterprises will continue the legacy of Barzso Playset. I have a feeling they will.
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10 thoughts on “An Interview with Ron Barzso of Barzso Playsets.”
Those large playsets/terrain features look awesome. I’d love to get a few myself one day.
I have some of the of playsets, Forts and Castles. They are getting hard to find, so try to get them now if you can.
Mike, absolutely agree. Ron Barzso is one of the “MASTERS”. Now I understand the winning combination: to love history + to love toy soldiers and playsets. He gave a great present to the toy soldier world. He can see today their (he and his wife) contribution. I love Barszo Playsets, they give me a lot of great ideas to our adventures. I will always thank him. You did it again Mike, a great interview. Another gift to your readers. Thank you so much.
I fully agree. I just wish that I would have purchased more when it was available at a decent price. It is what it is. I really didn’t have that expendable money at the time to spend on his products. Thanks for reading and the kind words. There are a few sets that I want to get and then I will be good with my Barzso collection. For now, lol.
An excellent interview with Ron Barzso. Enjoyed it all the way through.
Thank you Don. It was an enjoyable experience too to finally be able to talk to Ron. When I met him in Indiana show we talked off and on at the show for a while. We talked about an interview when he had the time. I thought this would be the best time to do this right before the Chicago show with his last hurrah for Barzso Playsets.
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Loved Ron’s stuff. When I got back into collecting plastic figures as an adult after years of other interests and responsibilities, I saw an ad in Toy Collector magazine and I got the sales lists from Stads and ordered some BMC Alamo figures and a grab bag of other plastic. When my next list came from Paul he discussed the Barzso New Orleans set. I ordered one from Ron, along with some extra figures. I was hooked again. I went on to get the first Rangers playset, then the Davy Crockett playset. All of them were great, and I’ve gotten many figure sets over the years since. Due to money crunches and real life I have had to sell my playsets, but still treasure work Ron did in bringing back toy soldiers and the fun involved.
Hi Michael, thank you for the comment. Almost the same here. I think I first ordered some of the Barzso figures from either Paul or Kent of Toy Soldier’s HQ. I order the Roger’s Rangers playset from one of them also. After that I started ordering from Barzso himself. I too had to sell some of my Barzso sets and then later on re-purchase them. I hope that I don’t have to do that again. His work is truly amazing.
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The C²DH is engaged in a vast variety of different research projects, at national and international level. A selection of completed, ongoing and future projects is displayed below.
Archives Artificial intelligence Augmented reality Banking and financial history Cold War Collaboration Computational linguistics Computational turn Cultural institutions Cultural policies Cultural studies Data Science Design Digital editions Digital hermeneutics Digital literacy Digital methods Digital research infrastructures Digital source criticism Digital tools Digitisation Economic history European integration European security Experimental media archaeology Globalisation Historiography History of justice History of popular culture History of science History of technology History of transportation History teaching Holocaust Human-computer interaction Industrial history International relations Internet history Interwar period Jewish history Labour history Latin American studies Literary studies Machine learning Media history Memory studies Methodology Migration history Multimodal pedagogies Museology Nation-building Network analysis Oral history Political history Post-war era Regional history Sensory studies Social history Sound studies Technology Telecommunications Text analysis Text encoding Text mining Theory of history Transnationalism Visual and material culture Visualisation WW1 WW2 War studies
Contractual research C²DH internal project European Commission: Horizon 2020 European Commission: eCOST International National: National Research Fund (FNR) National: Other
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1 October 2019 to 30 September 2029
Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (DHARPA)
The DHARPA (Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator) project will assess the impact of technology on historical research, and it will experiment with how technology can reshape the methodological underpinnings of history as a scientific discipline.
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Sean Takats
Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time
The research project “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age: Sounds, Images, Ecologies, Practices and Materialities in Space and Time” will be a sustainable contribution to the “European Capital of Culture Esch 2022” programme. Six sub-projects will explore the history of cultures, populations and territories of the Minette region...
Stefan Krebs
15 September 2019 to 14 December 2020
100 years of East Belgium: a digital exhibition
The year 2019-20 marks the 100th anniversary of the three cantons Eupen, Malmedy, and Saint Vith becoming Belgian. This virtual exhibition will retell this century by means of a multimedia story aiming at reaching users with varying interests and degrees of expertise.
Christoph Brüll
1 September 2019 to 31 January 2022
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA): Practice & Theory
This project aims to study the potential of hands-on experimentation so as to better understand and experience the materiality of old media technologies and their practices of use. It will provide a systematic reflection on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a practical and sensorial approach to media...
1 September 2019 to 31 August 2023
Repairing technology – fixing society? History of maintenance and repair in Luxembourg
The REPAIR project will be the first systematic historical study of repair practices, networks and infrastructures in the short 20th century. By revealing when, why and how technical objects were maintained, repaired or scrapped, the project will provide crucial insights into the historical and political contexts of the emergence of consumer...
13 June 2019 to 13 June 2029
EGO.DOC – Writing as a coping strategy in times of crisis in Europe
The international collaborative project EGO.DOC aims to address the theme of writing as a coping strategy from an analytical and digital perspective. The project will focus on various genres of writing by different groups to identify correlations between language and coping strategies. The temporal focus is broad and covers the entire 20th...
Gerben Zaagsma
1 March 2019 to 29 February 2020
The 'Time Machine: Big data of the past for the future of Europe' project will create advanced AI technologies to make sense of vast amounts of information from complex historical data sets. The project is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 programme.
1 January 2019 to 31 March 2020
New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities
As a result of the digital turn the humanities are currently in a process of rapid transformation, with consequences that reach far beyond the confines of academia. This lecture series explores how the digital turn is changing research, teaching and dissemination in the humanities. The series will also endeavour to historicise and contextualise...
1 November 2018 to 31 October 2020
Digital oral history inventory and integration strategy
This project aims to document oral history content, methods, and uses in current C²DH projects and Luxembourg archives. With a focus on improving content management for both individual researchers and large repositories, the project will evaluate infrastructure and tool development needs for oral history preservation, storage, management and...
Douglas Lambert
1 October 2018 to 31 December 2021
Fiscal competition in the Benelux states
The aim of the project 'Competition, convergence, harmonisation – a comparative analysis of taxation in Benelux states (1945-1992)' is to perform a comparative historical analysis of the development and specific characteristics of taxation in Luxembourg in a multidimensional context – national (Luxembourg), regional (relations with...
Elena Danescu
1 September 2018 to 1 August 2019
Building a Jewish studies and digital humanities online portal
This pilot project aims to build an online portal that provides information about the intersection of Jewish studies and digital humanities.
Foreign workforce in the Minette during the inter-war period
The FNR-funded project will examine foreign workforce flows, mobility and networks in the cross-border steel basin of the Minette during the inter- war period.
Arnaud Sauer
1 August 2018 to 31 December 2022
75 years of CFL (Luxembourg National Railway Company)
This project looks back at the history of the Société nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL).
Denis Scuto
1 June 2018 to 31 December 2020
Digital histor(iograph)y and Scale (DhScale)
The project combines the theoretical aspects of historical, historiographical, linguistic and literary studies with digital tools and methods for text analysis and visualisation to analyse scale variations as manifested in historical discourse. Two types of corpora will be used: historiographical (historical writings that blend micro and global...
Florentina Armaselu
The history of justice in Luxembourg
'The history of justice in Luxembourg – HISTJUST' is a research project in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the National Archives. It aims to cover 200 years of justice history in Luxembourg by producing a virtual exhibition.
1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022
Popkult60
'Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren' - This interdisciplinary research group composed of members of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the Institute for History at the University of Luxembourg and Saarland University will investigate transnational transfers of popular culture in...
16 October 2017 to 15 October 2021
New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent
Resistance and dissent in former socialist Europe 1945-1989 constitutes a remarkable chapter of Europe’s recent past, which not only informs in a decisive way the identities of post-socialist societies, but has also reshaped the continent as a whole and still provides an important reference for contemporary social movements worldwide. The main...
Lars Wieneke
1 October 2017 to 1 October 2021
Intertwined destinies, strengthened ties: Migration paths from Luxembourg to Brazil (1920-1965)
This PhD project looks at the migration paths from Luxembourg to Brazil between 1920 and the mid-1960s, which were deeply intertwined with the activities of the Luxembourg-based steelmaker ARBED – today ArcelorMittal – in Brazil following the inauguration of its subsidiary in 1921 in the State of Minas Gerais. As well as the PhD thesis, this...
100 years of BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg
The projects marks the centenary of BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg with a virtual exhibition tracing the bank’s history.
Benoît Majerus
175 years of POST Luxembourg
In 2017, POST Luxembourg celebrated its 175th anniversary. The project aims to trace the institution’s history from its early days as the state-owned Postal Administration to its current status as the country’s largest private employer, through a virtual exhibition and a PhD thesis. |
Prof. Yuval Shany
Vice President, Research
Yuval Shany joined IDI as a senior researcher in 2008, and has worked since then in the Institute’s Security and Democracy Program (now the Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Program on National Security and Democracy)
Among other things, he has researched questions of security detention, interrogation techniques, on-line surveillance, military investigations, proportionality in the application of force, jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals and counter-terrorism. In January, 2018 Prof. Shany assumed the position of Vice President of Research at IDI.
Prof. Shany is also a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law and has served as Dean of the Law Faculty (2012-2016). Since 2013, he also serves as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (he is currently the VIce-Chair of the Committee). Among his current research interests are international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international courts and tribunal and the regulation of cyber-space.
Prof. Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B, 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997) and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001). He is the recipient of the 2004 American Society of International Law book award (creative legal scholarship), a 2008 European Research Council grant awarded to pioneering research leaders (for a project on the effectiveness of international courts) and the 2010 Hebrew University Excellent junior faculty award.
International law; human rights law; law in war; international criminal law.
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Recent Publications written by Prof. Yuval Shany
Immunity for the Prime Minister: Explainer
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Dr. Amir Fuchs
IDI experts explain Israel’s immunity law, what happens when it’s requested and what the implications may be for the political system.
ICC in The Hague - Investigation Against Israel: Explainer
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Colonel (Res.), Adv. Liron A. Libman
Everything you wanted to know about the International Criminal Court in The Hague and its decision to open an investigation against Israel for war crimes
Remove Netanyahu Right Now on Grounds of Temporary Incapacity
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany
There's an unacceptable, extreme conflict of interest between Netanyahu the accused and Netanyahu, head of the executive branch
Israel's Political Crisis and the Challenge of Populism
Actual policy making in a liberal democracy is based on sophisticated nuances.
Democracy: Rule of the People?
The recent wave of populism forces us to sharpen our understanding of the literal meaning of 'democracy' and 'the rule of the people' as well as the accepted definition of liberal democracy
Whatever Happened to the Override Clause?
It turns out that voters actually want robust judicial oversight - which explains why the Override Clause and placing limitations on judicial review have not been prominant in the election campaign
The Voice that Doesn’t Count
One of the main explanations for the dramatic decline in voter turnout in the Arab Israeli sector in the last elections (49%, versus 63% in the 2015 elections) is the sense that the voice of Israeli Arabs — is a voice that doesn’t count.
Repealing Law to Dissolve the Knesset: Motivated by Personal Interests
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Dr. Amir Fuchs, Dr. Guy Lurie, Dr. Ofer Kenig
The proposal promotes personal and political interests, strikes a severe blow to the public’s trust in democracy and to elected officials’ obligation to act with integrity
Opinion: Repealing the Law to Dissolve the Knesset
An opinion submitted today (June 26th) to MKs, the Attorney General, and the Knesset Legal Advisor on behalf of the Israel Democracy Institute, opposes the proposal to repeal the law to dissolve the Knesset and seeks to take the proposal off the agenda.
Human Rights in an Age of Populism
The story of liberal democracies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been, to a large extent, the story of protecting personal liberties by independent democratic institutions.
We the People: Democracy in the Age of Populism
Populism means different things to different people – and political populism has an even more sinister meaning
The Weakest Constitution in the World
The Override Clause would not alter the balance between the branches of government – it would shift the balance of power between the government and the governed
Legal Ramifications if Israel Decided to Annex the West Bank
Annexation would result in a continuous state of affairs in which two sets of laws apply to two adjacent populations and would undermine Israel’s democracy
The Return of the Override Clause? A Dangerous and Unnecessary Step
Laws define the legal rules of our democracy and ensure the stability of the political system while guaranteeing individual rights and general public interest - enactment of the Override Clause would seriously undermine this balance.
UN Commission Report on Gaza – Response
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Colonel (Res.), Adv. Liron A. Libman, Prof. Amichai Cohen
The report and its conclusions, regardless of whether or not they will be acceptable to the State of Israel, once again highlight the importance of the rule of law, and bring to the fore the need for in-depth investigations of events which might be construed as in violation of international law
Response to A-G's Announcement to Indict PM Netanyahu Pending a Hearing
Written By: Yohanan Plesner , Prof. Yuval Shany
Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, and Prof. Yuval Shany, Vice President of Research "No democracy can tolerate public corruption or any exception to the principle of equality before the law."
House Demolition at the Israeli Supreme Court: Recent Developments
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Amichai Cohen
In its fight against terrorism, Israel has often been proud of its ability to effectively fight terrorism, while remaining faithful to democratic principles. House demolitions were always considered a necessary evil, which could be resorted to in very exceptional circumstances - are we now facing populist trends that runs contrary to the traditional ethos of subjecting counterterrorism policies to rule-of-law constraints.
Should Israel Have a Terrorists-only Death Penalty
A modern nation of laws isn’t supposed to act based on revenge. Its legal system is founded on decency, justice and equality, not primitive concepts like hatred.
A Show of Global Solidarity – The UN and Human Rights
The United Nations, with all its many flaws, has an essential role to play in promoting the basic idea that any and all individuals must enjoy human rights.
‘Black Friday’ and Other Investigations: Initial Observations
Written By: Prof. Amichai Cohen, Prof. Yuval Shany
Initial observations on Israeli's Military Advocate General's decision to conclude investigation into 'Black Friday'.
Letter to the Israeli Government on the Nation State Bill
Written By: Yohanan Plesner , Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern
The Israel Democracy Institute issued a letter to the Prime Minister regarding the Nation State Billl, asserting that if the value of equality is not anchored in the legislation alongside the other enumerated national characteristics of the state, the law may eventually erode Israel's democratic character
‘Special Interrogations,’ Confessions and the Duma Arson Attack
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
The Lod district court decision illustrates the possible dangers to criminal defendant’s human rights though the expanding defense of necessity and the lack of separation between the preventive and criminal phases of the investigation.
Quo Vadis, IDF?
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Amichai Cohen, Gilad Halpern, Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin
Professor Yuval Shany and Professor Amichai Cohen discuss the pivotal role of the IDF in Israeli life - past and present.
On Political Appointments of Legal Advisers in Government Ministries
The Israel Democracy Institute ahead of the Knesset Constitution Committee debate on political appointments of legal advisers in government ministries: "A blow to the civil service ethos; an opening for potential corruption, forsakes public interest".
Private Eyes: Data, Metadata and Civil Rights
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Gilad Halpern, Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin
Professor Yuval Shany discusses the seeming dissonance between Israel's advanced surveillance technology, the minimal restrictions on using it, and a citizenry that hardly cares– and why all this might have to change
Supreme Court Dismisses a Petition Against Gaza Rules of Engagement
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Elena Chachko
The Supreme Court of Israel recently dismissed a petition against the rules of engagement governing use of force by the Israeli security forces in the violent clashes in Gaza
Is Israel Justified In Shooting Protestors At Its Border?
Beyond the important political, humanitarian and moral issues raised by the “Great Return March” and the IDF’s response, complicated legal issues also present themselves.
A People’s Army Amidst Social Change
Written By: Arie O'Sullivan, Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Amichai Cohen, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Orna Barbivai
Despite the transformation of Israeli society, the IDF’s model of service has not changed. Military service continues to be a rite of passage for young Israelis and the IDF retains its status as the most trusted institution in Israel. Prof. Yuval Shany, Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Orna Barbivai and Prof. Amichai Cohen sit down to discuss the challenges facing the IDF and Israeli society in a changing security environment.
You can’t prepare a Nation State law the way you make a pizza!
Written By: Yohanan Plesner , Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
The nation state law is the "identity law" of the state, and this will have a revolutionary significance, since democracy is not mentioned in it.
The proposed Basic Law: Torah Study has far-reaching economic implications
In a letter to the Members of Knesset, IDI's management clarifies that the ultra-Orthodox proposed legislation will influence budgetary matters such as allocations to Yeshiva students and housing grants, and will place Israel’s national security in jeopardy
Proposed Basic Law: Torah Study
Written By: Yohanan Plesner , Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern, Prof. Yuval Shany
Letter to Members of the Knesset on the proposed Basic Law: Torah Study - "This is an extremist proposal to enshrine the principle of inequality in our law books.Its adoption could undermine the IDF’s model of service and place Israel’s national security in jeopardy"
The Debate Over Planned Deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese Nationals
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Adv. Alona Vinograd
Deporting people against their will to the countries they escaped from evokes strong and disturbing recollections of dark episodes in Jewish history.
Back to the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Doctrine
The Israeli High Court of Justice’s Dec. 12 decision in Abu Ghosh v. Attorney-General provides a good opportunity to reexamine the implementation of the prohibition against torture in Israeli law almost twenty years after the court’s landmark 1999 judgment in Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, which outlawed torture.
Under the Radar Screen?
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Amir Cahane
Israel's security agencies have sweeping surveillance powers, but are subjected to few checks and balances.
Security and Democracy in the Modern Era
Israel has been in a state of emergency since 1948. But the nature of the threat has changed over-time—from full-scale military invasions to isolated airplane hijackings, from suicide bombings to missile attacks, and most recently, cyber and lone wolf terrorism.
These ever-evolving threats necessitate new responses and strategies.
Israel’s Collision Course with the International Community
The primary significance of Resolution 2334 is that it strengthens other initiatives whose purpose is to punish Israel, its leaders and businesses for their involvement in the settlement enterprise.
The (Legal) Battle against the Islamic State
Written By: Prof. Amichai Cohen, Adv. Tal Mimran, Prof. Yuval Shany
Three IDI experts on terrorism and democracy discuss the key points of the UN Security Council resolution that condemns the abuse of human rights by the Islamic State, and note two points that they believe are missing from the resolution.
ISIS: Is the Islamic State Really a State?
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Amichai Cohen, Adv. Tal Mimran
What criteria must the caliphate of the Islamic State meet in order to be considered a State under international law? This article presents an analysis of this question by IDI experts on terrorism and democracy.
Investigating Allegations of Violations of the Laws of War by the IDF during Operation Protective Edge: The Alternatives Available to Israel
How should suspected violations of the international laws of war be investigated? As Operation Protective Edge winds down, Prof. Yuval Shany and Prof. Amichai Cohen discuss the options of an internal investigation by the IDF, an international investigation, and an Israeli commission of inquiry.
The Amendment of the Criminal Procedure Law
Written By: Prof. Yuval Shany, Ido Rosenzweig
In an op-ed originally published in Haaretz, IDI Senior Fellow Yuval Shany and IDI Researcher Attorney Ido Rosensweig critique an amendment that would allow interrogations of security defenders to go unrecorded, and warn that it is against public interest.
Half-Measures in the War on Terror: An Israeli Perspective
Written By: Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Prof. Yuval Shany
In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Prof. Yuval Shany discuss the need for measures, laws, and institutions designed to combat the war on terror in order to strike a balance between concern for national security and the need to safeguard democratic values such as human rights and the rule of law.
The Duty to Defend Human Rights Defenders
Does Israel have an obligation to defend the rights of human rights NGOs under international law? IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Yuval Shany discusses the international legal framework relevant to this issue, the duties to respect and ensure human rights, the obligation to offer effective remedies to victims, and the specific obligation to defend human rights defenders.
The Significance of International Recognition of the State of Palestine
United Nations recognition of Palestine as a state would confront Israel with complex challenges, but would also have some hidden benefits. IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Yuval Shany describes the risks and potential opportunities contained in such international recognition.
Crossing the Syrian-Israeli Border: Acts of War or Disturbances?
The violent incidents that took place on the Israeli-Syrian border in June 2011 raise the question of how the Israel Defense Forces should deal with violent events that resemble disturbances while at the same time affecting important Israeli security interests. IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Yuval Shany offers his analysis of the Israeli response to these events.
The Goldstone Retraction: Better Late than Never, and an Opportunity to Reconsider
Judge Richard Goldstone’s retraction of his commission's finding that Israeli actions in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead deliberately targeted civilians righted a historical injustice. But did the actions of the State of Israel contribute to the false impression received by the Goldstone Commission? In this op-ed, IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Yuval Shany explores the question of whether the Israeli government should also search its soul and consider participation in future international commissions of inquiry.
The Counter-Terrorism Memorandum Bill
Written By: Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Prof. Yuval Shany, Terror and Democracy Research Team
An analysis of the proposed comprehensive counter-terrorism bill that was prepared by IDI's Terrorism and Democracy research team and submitted to the Ministry of Justice.
New Comprehensive Counter-terrorism Memorandum Bill
Written By: Ido Rosenzweig, Prof. Yuval Shany
In this article, we discuss a new, comprehensive counter-terrorism memorandum bill recently published by the Israeli Ministry of Justice. This memorandum bill aims to consolidate the existing legislation, as well as to provide the authorities with new counter-terrorism tools (including a broad definition of an "act or terrorism").
Decade in Review: The Convergence of Israeli and International Law
IDI Senior Fellow Professor Yuval Shany explains the increasingly critical relationship between international law and the Israeli legal system, in an article that was published at the end of the third millennium as part of a collaboration between IDI and Walla!, a popular Israeli website.
Opinion: Goldstone Notwithstanding, IDF Obligated to Investigate Conduct
This op-ed by IDI Prof. Yuval Shany argues that despite the Goldstone Report’s shortcomings, it strengthens the demand to investigate claims raised against the IDF through an extra-military entity. As he sees it, the main question to address is whether the army's internal investigation of "Operation Cast Lead" meets the requirements of international law.
Books written by Prof. Yuval Shany
Recommendations for Reducing Online Hate Speech
Series: English Policy Papers
Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law
Amir Cahane,Prof. Yuval Shany
The IDF and Alleged International Law Violations
Reforming Policies for Self-Investigation
Prof. Amichai Cohen,Prof. Yuval Shany
Series: Hebrew Policy Papers
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Israel and the Two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions
Ruth Lapidot, Prof. Yuval Shany,Ido Rosenzweig
The Principle of Proportionality under International Law
Democratic Culture, Volume 8
Prof. Yuval Shany,Yehuda Brandes
Series: Hebrew Books |
NASA Administration Names Whitson First NASA ISS Science Off
by Johnson Space Center
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Research aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is getting a boost. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today named Dr. Peggy Whitson the first NASA ISS Science Officer.
In making the announcement, Administrator O'Keefe noted that with the space station nearing its second year with a permanent crew living on board, it's time to increase emphasis on the orbiting outpost's main mission -- research. Dr. Whitson, who has a doctorate in biochemistry from Rice University in Houston, became the station's first resident scientist when she arrived at the ISS June 7, 2002, as an Expedition 5 Flight Engineer.
"Dr. Peggy Whitson is an obvious choice for NASA's first ISS Science Officer," said Administrator O'Keefe. "In addition to a doctorate in biochemistry, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Before her selection as an astronaut, Dr. Whitson's NASA career included time spent as a researcher. She helped develop experiments to fly on the space shuttle, served as the project scientist for the Shuttle-Mir program and was the co-chair of the U.S.-Russian Mission Science Working Group.
"Dr. Whitson has dedicated her career to the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and she recognizes that some of the problems we face today here on Earth have answers that will be discovered in future activities on the International Space Station," added Administrator O'Keefe.
The NASA ISS Science Officer is a new duty assignment that will be made for a NASA astronaut on each ISS Expedition Crew. For now, the Science Officer will focus on U.S. research conducted aboard ISS. NASA will explore with its 15 international partners the potential to expand the Science Officer role as the station's research capabilities are increased.
The NASA ISS Science Officer will work with the U.S. research community to understand and meet the requirements and objectives of each ISS experiment. This will help achieve maximum scientific research returns. The Science Officer will continue to be the point-of-contact for the ISS crew with NASA-sponsored principal investigators as well as payload developers, integrators and trainers.
Dr. Whitson's Science Officer duties will continue when she returns to Earth for those experiments conducted during Expedition 5. Her post-flight responsibilities include participation in "debriefs" with NASA principal investigators and active collaboration with their analysis of experimental observations. Dr. Whitson will also communicate to the public her experiences as a researcher in space. |
Q: cheap reverse dns lookup Currently, I am running asp.net on a 4.0 Framework. I found one section of my code that is truly expensive for me to use. I currently get the IP Address and the reverse dns for users accessing my site, however, I am trying to keep performance in mind.
Is there a cheaper alternative to this?
return System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]).HostName;
A: Since the ServerVariables indexer returns a string, your code snippet calls the GetHostEntry string overload. Its documentation describes a three-step lookup algorithm, with two separate queries. The GetHostEntry IPAddress overload documentation doesn't describe any similar process, so perhaps it saves a query. Then again, it seems to provide the same info (all IP address and host names), so maybe it's the same, but just documented differently.
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Coppola: Will 60 -Game Season Give Us The Next DH Star?
June 24, 2020 5:59 PM·
By William Coppola: Bronx Chronicle Sports
Now that we will finally see some kind of baseball this year, will we see anything different? Obviously the answer is, Yes. There will only be 60 games. We will see a runner at second base to begin every inning of extra inning games, just like Little League. This is being done to protect players from too much exposure to each other for the day.
The playoff format will remain the same for the post season. Rosters will be expanded to 26 after four weeks, with 60 players eligible to play in 2020. The 40-man roster plus a “hey stay ready” group of 20 players for the season.
Those other 34 or so players will be sent to some other facility to keep ready for a call-up. Guess they will play inter squad games for the season somewhere close to their home city. Who knows? We will see a bunch of temporary changes just for this pandemic?
The one thing to watch will be the addition of the DH now in the National League. Who will shine and who will flop will be interesting to general managers, field managers, scouts, especially American League teams.
There are plenty of players in the NL who for a number of years have been thought of, as potentially being good DH hitters. The problem has always been that they were too valuable to those NL teams to trade until they were beyond age to be of any interest to an AL team.
My belief is that there are a number of young power hitters who could fit that bill, who are floundering around in the NL. This shortened season could now act as a proving ground for potential DH stars.
The first one who jumps out at me is the Mets ‘Dominick Smith who will get a legitimate chance to show what he can do at DH, hopefully for the majority of the sixty days and possible playoffs. Power from the left side, and only 25 years old, Smith has most scouts intrigued at the potential for another David Ortiz type of impact player for the future in the AL. Trust me, teams are interested and would be willing to give the Mets what the want for him.
Don’t get me wrong, there is a long road to becoming an Edgar Martínez or Ortiz but the potential is there. The adjustment from position player to DH is not easy and in many cases has frustrated players. But to me the frustration has been seen in mostly veterans who have been on the field most of their careers.
I have a gut feeling, Smith, being only 25 can make that adjustment and be comfortable. This is a player who just needs to play every day.
Averaging only 162 at bats per year over his three years in the majors, he has handled the disappointment of being stuck in “who am I land” with the Mets very well. He has the potential to be a 25 to 30 HR DH. Those numbers bring championships to clubs in the AL.
I would hate to see him go. He is well liked in that young Mets clubhouse and a natural team cheerleader in the dugout, and you hate to loose that on any team.
But I would also love to see him have a great career,a place where he can show off his hitting talents. Smith can always play first base from time to time, his natural position. Yet I feel the roll of DH could make him a star.
A Former player and scout with numerous teams, William Coppola is now writing about baseball and a talent evaluator. He, like many is anxious to get the ball rolling in what will be a different type of 2020 baseball season.
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Dana attended Roosevelt University in Chicago where she earned a Master’s of Science in Business Administration, with a General Management concentration, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration, with a Marketing focus. |
Hurricane recovery continues in Texas
ib2newseditor — December 14, 2017
Volunteers aid homeowners after year of historic storms
Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers prepare a meal for Hurricane Harvey victims in Vidor, Texas. The Illinois volunteers prepared over 40,000 meals during their callout. Facebook photo
A difficult year for many people in the U.S. meant Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR) volunteers were hard at work in 2017.
The most extensive callout was to Texas, where Hurricane Harvey left many homeowners displaced in August. Two childcare teams were the first Illinois units to deploy. They were stationed at the Dallas Convention Center, where they attended to children while their parents—refugees from flooding in Houston—stood in lines to meet with insurance companies and government agencies.
All other ILDR teams were sent to serve in the Vidor, Texas area. Two shower and laundry trailers from Franklin and Macoupin Associations were deployed. They provided 8,700 showers, and volunteers completed approximately 2,320 loads of laundry. Glenn and Sharon Carty spent three weeks in Vidor working with a laundry/shower trailer team. “You feel for the people and all they’re going through,” said Sharon. “But it’s the children who break your heart.”
IBDR: In 3 states and Puerto Rico
14,401 man hours worked
166 gospel presentations
326 gospel tracts distributed
161 Bibles given
16 salvations recorded
Also in Texas, a 26-person mobile kitchen team based out of Living Faith Baptist Church in Sherman was staffed by volunteers from around the state and used to prepare over 40,000 meals.
As the callout continued, IBDR was asked by national Send Relief to take on a greater role. Dwayne Doyle, IBDR state coordinator, said, “IBDR incident command led the First Baptist Church, Vidor, Texas, joint ministry site between the new Send Relief program of the North American Mission Board and Southern Baptist Texas Convention Disaster Relief. During this time, our volunteers gave leadership to more than over 500 students from churches and universities across the nation.”
Illinois teams are continuing the work in Vidor, with more workers scheduled to return in January.
Earlier in the summer, heavy rains led to record flooding in Lake County, near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Volunteers worked on nearly 150 homes, doing mold remediation in an effort to help homeowners get ready to rebuild. Their efforts have resulted in a church plant in Round Lake, as local Disaster Relief volunteers have followed-up with homeowners.
Disaster Relief volunteers also served in Illinois after early spring tornadoes in northern and southern parts of the state. Volunteer Don Kragness worked in the southern Illinois town of Vergennes. He summed up the motivation of many Disaster Relief volunteers when he told local television station WSIL, “We are here, basically, because we love Jesus and we want to serve him, and the best way we know how to serve him is to help people when they’re in need.”
Illinois has nearly 1,600 trained Disaster Relief volunteers. Their ministry is made possible through the generosity of churches and individual donors, and the volunteers themselves, who help provide equipment, supplies, and fuel for travel. To learn more about the callouts, training, and how to donate, visit IBSA.org/dr.
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Another Penniman Records must have, an instant classic early soul two sider.
"Ha, Ha, Ha" is without a doubt the band's heaviest original hit until it's release date. With it's stinging intro by Koko, this "catchy ode to lazy husbands" rolls into a stomping groove with New Orleans flavour that sticks to your mind for weeks. A concert staple since the first day it was played live, it was a must to release it on a 45 for dj's to spin endlessly party after party.
The usual B-side slow number is completely ignored here, since "I need you baby" shoots the frenzy dancing even higher. The early sixties Phil Flowers number is further proof of how this guys can turn any venue upside down, and you can play it again and again at home too! |
Joe Pigott sums up 'whirlwind week' that ended with debut joy
New Wimbledon striker interviewed after Saturday's magical debut
Joe Pigott’s spectacular second-half strike rounded off quite a first week for Wimbledon’s new striker, as it put the seal on three points on Saturday.
“From what I can actually remember of it – it was a second ball, over the top, from the centre-half,” said Joe in an interview to our iFollow Dons subscription channel. “Luckily, I got there first and smashed it across goal! It was a really good moment.”
A clip of the interview along with the goal is available below, via a link to our official club YouTube channel.
The former Maidstone forward then took only five minutes to announce himself to the Dons supporters, after coming on as a substitute in the 72nd minute, when he notched the second goal in the 2-0 victory over Blackpool.
“The man-of-the-match celebrations afterwards were amazing!” said Joe.” I really enjoyed that and getting to know them all.
“Where I go from here? That’s the question really! I’m just going to contribute as much as I can for the rest of the season. It’s all to my liking. There are certain things demanded of me, but I’ll get there and improve even more.”
Joe quickly fitted in amongst his new team mates, having walked through the doors at the training ground last Monday.
“It hadn’t even been the full week – Monday until Saturday, six days, and after the goal it’s been a bit of a whirlwind to be honest! It’s been really positive to help the team get three points. I’ve settled in pretty well so far and that goal helped me settle in that bit more as well.”
The former Charlton youngster was also quick to praise the contribution made by the Dons opening goal scorer Liam Trotter – who set Wimbledon on their way to victory in the 49th minute.
“The first goal was massive. He took it really well and that sort of gave us the platform to go on from there.
“It was a bit of a battle in the first half, what with the conditions and the pitch, which didn’t help. We did need the second goal, but when you think about it they didn’t really test us and our keeper (George Long) didn’t have too many saves to make. I’m just really happy that we came away with three points.”
Highlights and reaction from Neal Ardley, Lyle Taylor and Joe Pigott are available on our iFollow Dons channel.
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The following is a brief introduction of the 281st AHC History Section with links to other sites that have background information pertaining to missions or operations supported by the 281st AHC. Many of the links are to other websites, some are sub-files of this website. Some of the files are provided in Adobe Acrobat™ .pdf format and require the use of Acrobat Reader to view the files. Acrobat Reader™ is available as a free download by following the link provided.
The 281st Assault Helicopter Company has a rich history and involvement in Special Forces Operations and Special Operations. From the first UH-1A that was operational in-country until the day the colors were retired, the 281st AHC and its predecessor units were instrumental in the strategic reconnaissance mission that was the mainstay of the 5th Special Forces Group (ABN), Special Projects and Special Operations units. It is considered by the U.S. Army Special Warfare Museum and its Historians to be the legacy unit for today's Special Operations Aviation units as it was the only Aviation unit that was attached to the 5th Special Forces Group (ABN) during the Vietnam War. The Historical Chronology will show the events that helped shape and form the 281st AHC as well as the significant events, missions and operations the unit participated in during its time in the Republic of Vietnam. The Chronology is in no way all inclusive of the missions and operations of the 281st AHC, but rather those that we have been able to document. Contributions of documented actions are gratefully accepted and will be added to our files.
Some of the source material used to assemble the history of the 281st AHC was taken by permission from the CD, "Project Delta," Radix Press, Steve Sherman, Author.
The 281st Assault Helicopter Company was first placed on the rolls of the Army on 6 October 1965. The unit was activated on 7 October 1965 at Fort Benning, Georgia per General Order 318, Para 1, Third U. S. Army as the 281st Aviation Company (Airmobile Light). It was comprised of a Headquarters element, a Service Platoon, a Transportation Detachment (483rd) and a Signal Detachment (499th).
The 483rd Transportation Detachment and the 499th Signal Detachment were attached to the 281st Aviation Company (AML) (-) for purposes as stated by General Order 36, Para 2, 10th Aviation Group, dated 7 October 1965.
The 483rd Transportation Detachment was constituted on 6 October 1965 and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia on 7 October 1965 per General Order 318, Para 1. The history of the 499th Signal Detachment dates back to 10 October 1944 when the unit was constituted in the United States Army as the 3499th Signal Service Detachment. On 21 April 1945, the unit was redesignated as the 3499th Signal Equipment Installation Detachment. On 6 October 1965, the unit was once again redesignated, this time as the 499th Signal Detachment and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia on 7 October 1965.
The 281st Aviation Company (AML) (-) was attached to the 44th Aviation Battalion primarily for training, POR qualification and preparation for overseas movement. At this time, the unit was designated as the 281st Aviation Company (AML) (-), [NOTE: AML is the abbreviation for Airmobile Light and the minus indicates the unit is minus some of its elements]. After the train-up the unit was deployed to the Republic of Vietnam and arrived at Nha Trang Bay, Republic of Vietnam on 9 June 1966. The company set up its Headquarters adjacent to the the Nha Trang Airfield inside the 5th Special Forces Group (ABN) Special Forces Operating Base (SFOB) which became the company's location for the next four and a half years until its deactivation in early December 1970.
Since the 281st Aviation Company (AML) (-) had arrived in country minus the three flight platoons authorized by TOE, it absorbed the 2nd Platoon of the 171st Aviation Company. The 2/171st had recently been constituted by combining the assets and mission of the 145th Aviation Platoon (Airlift) and the 6th Aviation Platoon (Airlift). The experienced pilots of the 2/171st Aviation Company were spread out within the three newly created flight platoons of the 281st Aviation Company (AML). These experienced pilots acted as aircraft commanders (AC) and trained the inexperienced pilots in tactical flying in Vietnam. The addition of the flight platoons configured the 281st as an Assault Helicopter Company, thus the new designation of 281st Assault Helicopter Company.
Over the next four years of operation, the missions of the Lift Platoons became intermixed. The command relationship between 5th SFG and the 281st AHC changed and the unit began to provide administrative and tactical air support to other Major Commands (MACOM), Task Forces, Allied Commands and other ground units over the entire II Corps area as assigned by 10th Combat Aviation Battalion. Likewise, the 3rd Platoon (Armed) broadened its mission scope to provide their renowned gun cover throughout II Corps. The 483rd Transportation Detachment and the 499th Signal Detachment were inactivated and the assets and personnel were absorbed by the 281st. During its operational life in Vietnam, the 281st became the first organized Special Operations Helicopter unit in the U.S. Army and, as a unit, was decorated for Valor and Meritorious Service by the United States Army, the United States Navy and the Republic of Vietnam.
Operational Control — Command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or below the level of combatant command. Operational control is inherent in combatant command (command authority) and may be delegated within the command. When forces are transferred between combatant commands, the command relationship the gaining commander will exercise (and the losing commander will relinquish) over these forces must be specified by the Secretary of Defense. Operational control is the authority to perform those functions of command over subordinate forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission. Operational control includes authoritative direction over all aspects of military operations and joint training necessary to accomplish missions assigned to the command. Operational control should be exercised through the commanders of subordinate organizations. Normally this authority is exercised through subordinate joint force commanders and Service and/or functional component commanders. Operational control normally provides full authority to organize commands and forces and to employ those forces as the commander in operational control considers necessary to accomplish assigned missions; it does not, in and of itself, include authoritative direction for logistics or matters of administration, discipline, internal organization, or unit training. |
Remember “Friday night is speedway night in Adelaide!”? And the cartoon “Almost everybody goes to Rowley Park on Friday nights” which showed everyone from a grandmother to ambulance drivers and a jockey all making their way into the speedway.
Ah yes, the golden era of speedway with Kym Bonython and his company Speedway Pty Ltd.
In its heyday Rowley Park Speedway was attracting crowds every Friday night upwards of 15,000. In 1965 a reported crowd of 20,000 “Pie Eaters” (Kim Bonython’s nickname for the regular speedway crowd) packed into the speedway to see Australia’s first Demolition Derby. The police were called in to handle traffic and hundreds of fans were turned away as the ‘House Full’ signs went up. The derby itself had 100 entrants and lasted for over 75 minutes.
Bonython himself wasn’t just the promoter and director of Rowley Park Speedway. He was also a speedcar driver who had considerable success winning the South Australian Championship on two occasions. He was also involved in some of the more spectacular crashes seen at the speedway though luckily he didn’t suffer any serious injuries at the wheel in an era when driver safety wasn’t a major concern and major injuries or even death was accepted as just part of the sport.
Leighton Rutt recalled; “I went there on Fridays nights on many occasions, watching greats like Kim Bonython, Jack Scot (Scotty I think he was called) and many others such as the great Bob Tattersall, Bill Wigzell and Ray Skipper. Those were the days. Hence if you were near the fence I think the term ‘Here’s mud in your eye’ was conceived LOL”!!
Eddie Barton also reminisced; “ The early days of Rowley Park were great entertainment. Nicknamed the “Pughole” because of it’s location and the texture of the surface that the cars, solo’s’, sidecars and the “old stockies” plus “TQ”s raced on. Those early day’s had great “entertainers” on the track who gave there all with the likes of Jack Young (solo) 99 Joe Blow Schubert, Old Smokey, Kym Bonython plus many Interstate and Overseas competitors who judge Rowley Park as one of the best tracks to race at in Australia at that time”!
Rod Harrison wrote; “ We used to catch the train from Salisbury to get to Rowley Park. You could often collect enough empty deposit bottles to pay for your entry ticket plus the train ticket home” and Shaun Oxley commented; “Speedway was never he same after Rowley closed and moved to speedway park. At Rowley Park you were always so close to everything, I remember getting showered by stones and mud every time the cars sped around the bend”.
For Carol Shannon it brought back vivid memories too; “I remember standing right by the fence when I was a kid and the clods of dirt would fly up from the track and you were smothered in wet clay. Your hair was full of lumps of it! I loved it and still love motor sport to this day. We used to go and watch “Jack Larritt” I think his son Jacky drove the car and the family were friends of Dads. Beautiful memories”.
Rowley Park Speedway’s long-time Clerk of Course was Glen Dix, who would later become internationally famous as the man who waved the checkered flag at the Australian Grand Prix during its years in Adelaide from 1985 to 1995.
Due to complaints from residents about noise and the on-street parking, as well as the track becoming too small for the faster cars appearing on the scene, the speedway was closed after the 23rd meeting of the 1978/79 season.
I often pass the housing estate where Rowley Park used to be, on Torrens Road, Brompton (on my way to the football) and I’m immediately taken back to those summer nights with the huge crowds, the smell of the petrol fumes, the cars flying around the track, the noise and the sheer excitement of Rowley Park Speedway.
Any memories you would like to share?
The speedway was a pughole; brickyards and clay pipe makers sourced clay from that site creating a massive hole in the ground. The intention of the owner before it became a speedway was to make it a soccer stadium, but getting grass to grow was a problem they couldn’t overcome. My dad lay down the original cinders track and later dolomite track.
Went to Rowley Park from 1958 to it’s closure in 1979. Hardly missed a meeting. Still have a lot of old programs. It was the place to be on friday nights !! Sometimes I wish I could go to just One More Meeting.
The ironic thing about Rowley Park being too small for the faster cars (i.e. Sprintcars), the track was 358 metres long. They currently race Sprintcars at Murray Bridge which is only 2 metres longer than Rowley Park was and today’s Sprinters are faster than those which raced in 1979. Unfortunately it was more its location that killed it than anything else.
Speedway Park/City is a good facility and I practically grew up there on Friday nights during the 1980’s, but unfortunately if you live in the southern suburbs like I currently do it costs just as much to get there and home by car as it does to get into the place because its the only way to get there as its not serviced by public transport. At a guess I’d say that at least 80% of the regular Speedway City crowd is made up of those living north of the city. I know a number of people who live down south who don’t attend simply because of the costs and travel time, which is a shame.
I was 6 weeks old for my first visit to Rowley Park, and every Friday night we would go…how i miss those Fumes, Atmosphere, Bikes and Cars, the Mud the crowd, glory days!!
We would stand at the fence with our full face motorcross goggles on watching the solo’s and dodging the mud!
Aah but no gas off,very exilarating,like the duck for cover because we were clean with a girl.
..some of the cars use turn up in bits at work for a while,but they closed Rowley for speedway park to be used instead..up nth near A.I.R./drags..I wonder if the Christmas tree still gets used…at air that is.
Loved the Speedway at Rowley Park. First went with my Dad in about 1954 at 7 years of age. I remember Bob Leverenz was the best solo rider at that time and was handicapped at around 250 yards and Merv Harding at 210. Who remembers “Shorty Schirmer” also a solo rider and big Don Willison on the ‘Outfits’ and his bright red face? In the 60’s I remember having a Chiko Roll for dinner every Friday night at the Speedway and we always sat on Dunlop Corner. I have a number of photos and clippings from those days and I remember that we lived 2 houses away from Arny Sunstrom. He used to tear up and down Torinda Ave, Croydon, which was dirt in those days, when tuning up ready for the Friday night’s meeting. Sadly he died in 1959 as the result of an horrific crash. I consider myself so lucky to have been part of the ‘heart stopping’ action every Friday night and especially when the sidecars came out and you knew there would always be a prang during the race…great memories.
Anyway, my sister-in-law now lives in the housing estate that went up when Rowley Park Speedway closed!
My dad and i used to go to Rowley park for the solos. We’re from England and watched the British lions race against Australia.
Johnny Boulger was my favorite Aussie rider.
Speedway just isn’t the same.
first went to rowley park in the early sixties and loved the whole atmosphere.Ron Wood moved down the end of our street and talked to him quite a bit about his life as a driver.Eventually ended up buying his FB ute called Lady Luck ,a push car and later the fire tender at the [pughole].Speedway hasn,t been the same simce the sixties.Wish I could turn back the clock to those friday nights again! |
Kant: Political Writings
I. Kant, Immanuel Kant, Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, Donna M. Brinton, Janet M. Goodwin
Cambridge University Press, Jan 25, 1991 - History - 311 pages
The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first time, his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History, as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking?. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliogaphy and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since the first edition.
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
An Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment?
On the Common Saying This May be True in Theory but it does not Apply in Practice
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN MORALITY IN GENERAL
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN POLITICAL RIGHT
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL RIGHT
Perpetual Peace A Philosophical Sketch
ON THE DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN MORALS AND POLITICS IN RELATION TO PERPETUAL PEACE
IS THE HUMAN RACE CONTINUALLY IMPROVING?
Appendix from The Critique of Pure Reason
Introduction to Reviews of Herders Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History
Reviews of Herders Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History
Introduction to What is Orientation in Thinking?
What is Orientation in Thinking?
ON THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN POLITICS AND MORALITY ACCORDING TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL CONCEPT OF PUBLIC RIGHT
The Metaphysics of Morals
INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF RIGHT
PUBLIC RIGHT
The Contest of Faculties
Notes to the Text
Index of Names
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Pragmatism and Political Theory: From Dewey to Rorty
Matthew Festenstein
The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820
Robert A. Ferguson
The greatest of all modern philosophers was born in the Baltic seaport of Konigsberg, East Prussia, the son of a saddler and never left the vicinity of his remote birthplace. Through his family pastor, Immanuel Kant received the opportunity to study at the newly founded Collegium Fredericianum, proceeding to the University of Konigsberg, where he was introduced to Wolffian philosophy and modern natural science by the philosopher Martin Knutzen. From 1746 to 1755, he served as tutor in various households near Konigsberg. Between 1755 and 1770, Kant published treatises on a number of scientific and philosophical subjects, including one in which he originated the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system. Some of Kant's writings in the early 1760s attracted the favorable notice of respected philosophers such as J. H. Lambert and Moses Mendelssohn, but a professorship eluded Kant until he was over 45. In 1781 Kant finally published his great work, the Critique of Pure Reason. The early reviews were hostile and uncomprehending, and Kant's attempt to make his theories more accessible in his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783) was largely unsuccessful. Then, partly through the influence of former student J. G. Herder, whose writings on anthropology and history challenged his Enlightenment convictions, Kant turned his attention to issues in the philosophy of morality and history, writing several short essays on the philosophy of history and sketching his ethical theory in the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Kant's new philosophical approach began to receive attention in 1786 through a series of articles in a widely circulated Gottingen journal by the Jena philosopher K. L. Reinhold. The following year Kant published a new, extensively revised edition of the Critique, following it up with the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), treating the foundations of moral philosophy, and the Critique of Judgment (1790), an examination of aesthetics rounding out his system through a strikingly original treatment of two topics that were widely perceived as high on the philosophical agenda at the time - the philosophical meaning of the taste for beauty and the use of teleology in natural science. From the early 1790s onward, Kant was regarded by the coming generation of philosophers as having overthrown all previous systems and as having opened up a whole new philosophical vista. During the last decade of his philosophical activity, Kant devoted most of his attention to applications of moral philosophy. His two chief works in the 1790s were Religion Within the Bounds of Plain Reason (1793--94) and Metaphysics of Morals (1798), the first part of which contained Kant's theory of right, law, and the political state. At the age of 74, most philosophers who are still active are engaged in consolidating and defending views they have already worked out. Kant, however, had perceived an important gap in his system and had begun rethinking its foundations. These attempts went on for four more years until the ravages of old age finally destroyed Kant's capacity for further intellectual work. The result was a lengthy but disorganized manuscript that was first published in 1920 under the title Opus Postumum. It displays the impact of some of the more radical young thinkers Kant's philosophy itself had inspired. Kant's philosophy focuses attention on the active role of human reason in the process of knowing the world and on its autonomy in giving moral law. Kant saw the development of reason as a collective possession of the human species, a product of nature working through human history. For him the process of free communication between independent minds is the very life of reason, the vocation of which is to remake politics, religion, science, art, and morality as the completion of a destiny whose shape it is our collective task to frame for ourselves.
Title Kant: Political Writings
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Authors I. Kant, Immanuel Kant, Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, Donna M. Brinton, Janet M. Goodwin
Editors H. S. Reiss, H. B. Nisbet
Translated by H. B. Nisbet
Contributors עמנואל קנט, H. S. Reiss, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner
Edition illustrated, reprint, revised
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1991
History / Social History
Political Science / General |
Mar. 29, 2012: 10 years of Bt cotton-Whither other cotton?
10 YEARS OF BT COTTON IN KARNATAKA: WHITHER OTHER COTTON?
– 1-day state level workshop on March 29th 2012, IAT, Queen’s Road, Bangalore
On March 26th 2002, official approval was accorded to the commercial release of Bt cotton in India, for these GM seeds to be cultivated in six states initially – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (all three in the Southern Zone), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat (in the Central Zone). Earlier, in 2001, thousands of hectares of cotton land in Gujarat were found to have been planted with illegal Bt cotton seeds by the farmers there and the apex regulatory body of the country – Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (subsequently renamed as Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee in 2010, after an indefinite moratorium was placed on Bt brinjal) decided to allow the first GM crop into the country soon afterwards.
Farmers in the state used to grow Jayadhar, Suyodhar etc., in addition to hybrids like DCH 32, Varalaxmi and so on, before the advent of Bt cotton. A unique combination of growing varieties like Jayadhar along with chilli crop exists in this state. There has been a large scale shift to Bt cotton in various cotton growing pockets of the state over the years and Karnataka also has pockets where proprietary Bt cotton seed production is taken up with farmers by different companies on a contract farming basis. However, an overwhelming majority of cotton farmers/area is still under rainfed conditions.
There are varying views and materials of evidence around the performance of Bt cotton in the state of Karnataka, like in the case of other states. Official data on yields shows fluctuating trends especially the top five cotton growing districts of Karnataka.
Meanwhile, given that the state of Karnataka was one of the first to adopt an Organic Farming policy in the entire country, and given that a diversity of cotton cultivars used to exist in this state, it is a matter of interest to many to take a look at the current state of cotton cultivation in the state. Stakeholders interested in environmental conservation including biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and promotion of ecological farming are coming together in organizing a one-day state-level workshop on “10 Years of Bt Cotton in Karnataka: Whither Other Cotton?” in this context, on March 29th 2012 at IAT, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
This workshop will have discussions centred around presentations made by experts on the past ten years of cotton cultivation in Karnataka and changing trends, the situation with regard to cotton diversity in the state today and in the past, the experiences with regard to organic cotton cultivation and so on, in addition to a Panel Discussion led by eminent experts from the state. Further, the opportunity provided by the workshop will also be used to felicitate a farmer conserving cotton diversity in a unique endeavour of this kind.
The broad structure for the workshop will consist of:
11.00 – 11.30 am Inauguration and Felicitation of farmer conserving cotton diversity
11.45 – 01.00 pm Review of past 10 years of cotton crop in the state and presentation of recent findings from 3 districts of the state
02.00 – 04.30 pm Presentations on Status of Cotton Diversity in Karnataka, experiences of Organic cotton cultivation and marketing, sharing of experience by farmers growing Jayadhar and other cultivars, university’s efforts at revival of diversity etc.
04.30 – 05.15 pm PANEL DISCUSSION (a farmers’ leader, an agriculture scientist, an eminent organic farmer, a senior journalist, an NGO representative, a consumer group representative, biodiversity conservationist and state biodiversity board representative)
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Saker 2018 “man” of the year: the American “dissidents”
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[Cross-posted with the Unz Review]
Once a year I like to pretend like my blog is some kind of “respectable” mainstream outlet and I engage in the (admittedly totally silly!) exercise of nominating some “man” (sorry, “person” is unbearably politically correct and once you go down that route you end up calling mentally deranged freaks “ze/zir/zee/etc” and the like). Hey, if you cannot get the kind of financing AngloZionist propaganda outlets get, let us at least pretend like we are fighting on an even playing field once a year, no? So once a year I pretend like I am not a lonely “deplorable” and I chose my own heroes of the day and that sort of makes me feel the “momentary equal” to propaganda outlets like Time mag or The Economist :-)
FYI – past nominees have included “the Syrian solider” (2013), “the Russian solider” (2014), “the Russian Airmen in Syria, Major-General Qasem Soleimani and Alexander Zakharchenko” (2015), “the American basket of deplorables” (2016) and “all those who gave their lives for Syria” (2017).
(Now please pretend like you hear a dramatic drum-roll…..)
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2018 “Saker man of the year” award jointly goes to: (in alphabetical order)
The American “Dissidents”: Stephen Cohen, Bonnie Faulkner, Paul Craig Roberts and Ron Unz
Here are the reasons for my choice:
For all the empty talk about freedom of speech, diversity, pluralism and the like, the sad truth is that the USA is not a democracy, but a rather authoritarian plutocracy with strongly expressed elements of a totalitarian regime. True, nobody (that I know of) got sent to a labor camp (yet!) or shot in a cellar (yet!) for daring to speak up to power, but we must also remember the joke which says that “a totalitarian regime is one that commands you to “shut up!” whereas a liberal democracy simply says “keep talking!“. There is much truth to this. As an experienced anti-Soviet activist who opposed and fought against the Soviet regime, I can attest that it was much less effective at stifling dissent than the US regime. Furthermore, I am also sure that the Soviet regime had far more popular support than the current US plutocracy.
[Sidebar: it is important to note here that with a few very important, and now sadly forgotten, exceptions (such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Igor Ogurtsov, Leonid Borodin and a few others), the vast majority of the so-called “Soviet dissidents” were not Russian patriots at all and many of them were, in fact, rabid russophobes, Furthermore, both the West and the Soviet regime treated the Russian patriotic opponents (they should not be called or associated with “dissidents”) much worse than the russophobes. In the West, Russian patriots were called “authoritarian monarchists” and, of course, “anti-Semites” while the pro-West dissidents were given full support on Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, the BBC Russian Service and the rest of the western propaganda outlets. As for the Soviet regime, it is also interesting to see how it differentiated between patriotic opponents and the pro-western, russophobic, “dissidents”: the former typically got harsh sentences under Article 70 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR (Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda – 3 to 10 years) whereas the latter typically got sentenced under the much more lenient Article 190 (Distribution of knowingly false fabrications, discrediting the Soviet state and social system – up to 3 years). Finally, a lot of money was given to the russophobes, while the anti-Soviet patriots could only count on the help of the rather small patriotic Russian anti-Soviet resistance inside the USSR and abroad (including yours truly). It is even sadder that nowadays in Russia the Russian patriotic anti-Soviet opponents are either forgotten or, worse, assimilated to the russophobes by people who have never read much of Solzhenitsym or Ogurtsov or Borodin, but who categorically state that “show me an anti-Soviet activist and I will show you a russophobe” (which, by that definition, would also include me…). I understand that this is the inevitable “return of the historical pendulum” after decades when the anti-Soviet propaganda vastly exaggerated the evils of the Soviet regime (whose evils were very real, but not nearly as immense and evil as mistakenly accepted by the anti-Soviet activists, very much including myself, to my great regret). Right now the pendulum is way too far out towards quasi total whitewashing the evils and crimes of the Soviet regime, but with time it will reach some kind of fact-based equilibrium, at which point the anti-Soviet patriotic opponents will be recognized for what they really were and not lumped together with the russophobic dissidents]
The truth is that the level of education, including political education, was FAR HIGHER in the USSR than today in the USA and that the Soviet propaganda machine was (comparatively) rather benign and wholly ineffective and clumsy when compared to the multi-billion dollar AngloZionist propaganda machine of the Empire. The Soviet official ideology, by the way, was much more pluralistic and the Soviet media much more diverse than the western corporate media (I know, I used to read both for a living for a few years). So, as a result, while western dissidents don’t get physically oppressed (at least not yet!!) their struggle is, in some ways, much harder and a much more lonely one. We can see that in the life of my four nominees (again, in alphabetical order):
Professor Stephen Cohen
Already during the Cold War, Professor was a (then recognized and hailed) world class expert on the Soviet Union and a respected voice of reason. The liberals especially loved him for his views. When Putin came to power, however, Stephen Cohen did not fall into the russophobic trap of the US liberals and he dared to speak up openly, taking a position diametrically opposed to that of many of his (now former) supporters. For that he was vilified, copiously insulted, and called stuff like “Putin’s American Apologist“, “Putin’s Pal“, a “Desperate Putin Apologist“, and even a “Pathetic Putin Dupe“! This goes to show that while the English language does not yet (yet!) have the equivalent of the “wonderful” German expression “Putinversteher“, the level of intellectual intolerance of the US liberals is just as rabid as the one of their German colleagues. The exact same phenomenon happened with Alexander Solzhenitsyn who initially was the West’s darling for criticizing the Soviet regime, but as soon as his critique turned to the West, he was immediately shunned and vilified (by the exact same folks who are now smearing and vilifying Professor Cohen, by the way).
Bonnie has been a hero of mine for many years already. Her show Guns and Butter was one of the most interesting and original radio show ever and for a lone while it was truly the flagship of the Pacifica Public Radio Networks. Bonnie, one of the very best interviewers of our times, regularly invited fascinating and unique guests and conducted wonderful, open-ended, and absolutely fascinating interviews with them. Then Bonnie committed her first “crime”: she dared to doubt the official 9/11 fairy tale. This *almost* got her banned the first time around. Then Bonnie did something even “worse” – she did not buy into the entire official “Putin is a monster” cum “the Russians did it” fairly tale. Even worse, crime of crimes, Bonnie has now been officially labeled a “Holocaust denier” by KPFA General Manager. For all these “crimes” her show was simply terminated (until Ron Unz decided to host it on the Unz Review!). The most sickening part of it all is that Bonnie got censored by those who desperately try to impersonate some kind of “progressive” movement whereas in reality they are just your garden variety intolerant russophobic Trotskyists hiding under a new cloak of pseudo-liberalism.
Yet another story of a “fall from grace” – this time from the conservative Right who used to admire Roberts for his conservative values until he too dared to challenge the official narrative about Putin and Russia and, instead, denounced every step taken by the leaders of the Empire which bring our planet closer to a global nuclear war. Like Cassandra, Roberts has been an indefatigable voice in the (quasi total) “desert” warning us of the immense danger which is facing us all as a result of the sick messianic and imperialist ideology of the leaders of the AngloZionist Empire. For that he has been ridiculed and insulted, but none of that hateful ad hominem propaganda has succeeded in silencing him. Roberts clearly fears nobody and his voice remains one of the most powerful ones in our peace movement.
Ron Unz’s struggle for the future of the USA (because that is exactly what this is) is not as centered on Russia as Stephen Cohen’s or Paul Craig Roberts’ one, but like Bonnie Faulkner Ron Unz dedicated his talent and life to preserving true, as opposed to fictional, free speech in the USA. The Unz Review has now become the de-facto leader of free speech in the USA hosting a who’s who of political dissidents, opponents of the Empire and assorted “crimethinkers” (including yours truly) and a very wide spectrum of anti-Empire views ranging from paleo-libertarians (like Ilana Mercer), to what I would call a paleo-progressives (like Michael Hudson), to paleo-conservatives like (Pat Buchanan) to anti-Zionists (like Norman Finkelstein) and many, many, others. Not only that, but Ron has embarked on an amazingly courageous and most interesting series of articles entitled “American Pravda” in which Ron Unz exposed more sacred cows and unspoken taboos than any other public figure in recent memory. I highly recommend that you read every single one of these amazing texts and see for yourself how intellectual honesty and courage can be combined to achieve what I think will be recognized as a truly historical feat for intellectual freedom.
Better than just dissidents: “children of God”!
Stephen Cohen, Bonnie Faulkner, Paul Craig Roberts and Ron Unz are all true heroes whose struggles all have one thing in common: they are all struggles for peace. Thus, the words of Christ “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matt 5:9) fully apply to them all. They are also shining examples of what I call “the other West”, a West which far from constantly binging on messianic hubris (like the all the “official” intellectuals across the political spectrum do), seeks to make the USA a normal, healthy, sane country in which intellectual freedom and freedom of speech are not just vapid slogans. Cohen, Faulkner, Roberts and Unz do not necessarily share the same views, and neither do I necessarily always agree with everything they might say, but that commonality of purpose, their common desire to achieve true freedom through peace and their immense personal courage is what, I think, unites them and makes them ideal models and examples of a much larger, if hidden, reality: there are a lot of people who struggle for freedom and peace in the USA and elsewhere. The four that are selected are all shining examples of this “other West”, but they are also the trip of a much bigger iceberg of resistance to empire, beginning with the beautiful 9/11 Truth movement but also many, many other “resisters” (I think of Ron Paul, Chris Hedges and even, possibly, Tulsi Gabbard).
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Even in our post-Christian world (which actually looks very much like Sodom and Gomorrah did), most of us probably remember how Abraham begged God not to destroy the righteous with the wicked (Gen 18:23) Cohen, Faulkner, Roberts and Unz are very good examples of the kind of righteous people for the sake of which we can hope that God will spare the West, and the rest of the world, from destruction (which is where the Neocons are going to bring us unless we stop them). Cohen and Roberts are rather well known in the Runet (Russian Internet), Faulkner and Unz less so, but I hope that with time they will all be remembered and recognized as people who did not just look away or remain silent, but who followed their conscience and took action.
I want to conclude here with a beautiful poem written by Bobby Sands which, I think, applies to all those today whose righteousness and courage might well earn us God’s mercy.
The Rhythm Of Time
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
poem by Bobby Sands (1954-1981)
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Larchmonter445 on December 13, 2018 · at 12:33 am EST/EDT
Peace, Freedom and Heroes—truly a Christmas gift tied nicely with the Bobby Sands poetry as bow.
We must cherish all the Heroes who fight for Righteous Virtues.
Saker, I second your selection of 2018 American Dissidents for Honors.
They each are standing in front of the tanks, planes, missiles and bombs of the Empire.
Unlike the Tiananmen Tank Man on Chang’an Avenue 1989, we know their names and their life’s work.
They are no less solitary and singular and heroic.
Anonymous on December 13, 2018 · at 12:52 am EST/EDT
We are fortunate to be cared for by such brave souls.
As a dissident of sorts myself I say be wary the machinations of hidden rulers. I am reposting my comment from an earlier article…home that is ok.
The yellow vests are a sponsored phenomena.
Evidence for this was published on the 2017 Economist magazine cover on which can be viewed in the picture segment entitled ‘The Hermit.’ In the hermit segment can be seen yellow coloured protestors carrying placards emblazoned with messages like eg No Nato, No EU, No TTIP, No TPP. The image shows Alsace-Lorraine severed from France…the EU seat of Strasbourg. Also you will see in the image that France is joined to the UK so that they act as one entity. The English Channel is shown dryed out in the image to inform those woth knowledge that France and UK are together leaving the EU and shaking the entire globe.
https://ukshop.economist.com/products/the-world-in-2017?redirect=International
Here is link to The Economist 2017 magazine cover.
Take a look at the little globe atlas in the bottom right hand corner of ‘The Hermit’ portion of the cover image. You will find that the land being severed from the EU is none other than France. And that the UK and France are joined together in this split. Take a look at a map of Europe and see that the outline of the state struck by lightning corresponds to the borders of modern France. Note the adjoinment of the UK with France.
The so called Yellow Vests are a sponsored phenomena.
Anonymous on December 13, 2018 · at 7:58 pm EST/EDT
https://www.globalresearch.ca/suspicious-strasbourg-shootings/5662809
Yellow vests are for marshal law and dictatorship
On eschatalogical matters…
After death of Alexander his kingdom was divided amongst his four generals…one of those was named Ptolomey Macron. Macron joined forces with Antiochus Epithanes… and he is regarded as the first version of the antichrist.
Vuki on December 13, 2018 · at 1:40 am EST/EDT
Not Roberts .Paul Craig Roberts contributed to the successful demonization of Milosevic , making him largely responsible for the Yugoslav wars. Roberts contributed to one of the great propaganda triumphs of our era. . Roberts like the mainstream Western media, demonized the Serbian people and helped open the door to the breakup of Yugoslavia, invasions of the Middle East and North Africa. Why? Like many Western Liberals he was duped by the “humanitarian intervention” propaganda that people like Parenti saw. which Roberts did not see that this was an ant Serb crusade in order to eliminate the barrier for the Empire so they could partition the remnants of Socialism in Europe and achieve its objectives in the Balkans and beyond.
Tom Welsh on December 13, 2018 · at 7:40 am EST/EDT
Vuki, while I agree with what you say, I think perhaps you should give Dr Roberts credit for what he has said and done since then. I recently reached the age of 70, and for the first 55 or 60 of those years I was solidly trapped in the Matrix – in spite of being raised in an enlightened and toleranty home and going to a good school and university. I just believed what the powers that be, the media, and other influencers told me. (I still believe in the Moon landings, and that Australia exists!) Then I gradually began to see the light.
Please cut Dr Roberts a break.
“To err is human, to forgive divine”.
“Let him that is without sin cast the first stone”.
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance”.
Robert M. Peters on December 13, 2018 · at 10:49 am EST/EDT
I did not awaken from the thrall of my imperial schooling until 1990, having been born in 1949. It has taken me nearly thirty years to fully emancipate myself from its hold. If I may mix my metaphors, it is like the process of removing shrapnel from an old, nearly mortal wound; thinking to have gotten all of it out, a deeply buried piece festers up unexpectedly. Let us be patient with those who are moving toward freedom but who have not quite yet freed themselves from the chains of imperial bellicosity.
Mumia on December 13, 2018 · at 11:17 am EST/EDT
I’m impressed. Remaining asleep during the entire Vietnam War is a bit of an accomplishment. But still, better late than never is a good saying, and very true. Welcome to the opposition!
Vuki on December 13, 2018 · at 11:02 am EST/EDT
Yes I can do that . I read Roberts regularly but lets call a spade a spade.
Its a standard American technique to seize on one or two things from a person’s past and then to relentlessly attack the person for that.
There was probably a point in our lives when I was marching in protest in Washington against the Reagan administration and in favor of the No-Nukes movement, while Mr. Roberts was probably looking out of a window at the US Treasury and cursing us as a bunch of dang hippies. And I also disagree with Mr. Roberts on most of what he currently writes about Putin and the way Russia treats relations with the USA.
But, I do still recognize that Mr. Roberts is a very useful critic of general American policies, especially in the financial areas where he is expert. I am quite happy to see him on this list.
Flopot on December 13, 2018 · at 1:56 pm EST/EDT
John Moon on December 13, 2018 · at 5:26 pm EST/EDT
Tom Welsh – agreed.
As many of us see in most of our acquaintances, it’s nearly impossible to overcome the propaganda we’ve grown up with, and one’s current understanding is much more important than one’s position decades ago.
Saul of Tarsus effectively demonstrated that.
Serbian girl on December 13, 2018 · at 12:58 pm EST/EDT
Vuki, Criticizing politicians is fair game. However, in the case of Milosevic , PCR has actually supported him:
“Are the false war criminal charges brought against former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic an example of the fake news that google is going to suppress? Every Western presstitute, the corrupt Clinton regime, and Washington’s servile European puppet states demonized the innocent Milosevic as a war criminal and sent him off to The Hague to be tried by the War Crimes Tribunal. Milosevic died, or was murdered, in his cell while awaiting the verdict. The Tribunal pronounced him “not guilty,” and now eleven years after his death has again found him not guilty. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/07/hague-tribunal-exonerates-slobodan-milosevic-again.html”
Personally, I am not a fan of Milosevic, so it is far more meaningful to me that PCR has been outspoken about the unjust attack on our people, our country, our civilian infrastructure.
I therefore I think he is a great choice for Saker person of the year.
Vuki on December 13, 2018 · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT
No problem everyone is entitled to change their mind. When the bombs were falling he was supporting the bombers while Herman and Peterson were not and neither did UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Lord David Owen, General Michael Rose, Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie and the British joint intelligence committee. He ignored the Rambouillet Diktat , Tokaca statistics, Spanish conclusions on Srebrenica and many others. If Milosevich was responsible why were Muslims and Croats fleeing for safety to Serbia from Bosnia. Milosevic was guilty of one thing and that is attempting to protect the unity of Yugoslavia. Cheney the US war criminal once said “we create reality which you are now discussing and that will be quickly forgotten as we have moved on to create new realities”.
Hide Behind on December 16, 2018 · at 4:42 pm EST/EDT
I totaly agree with your assessment of P. C.Roberts actions in participating in furthering US hegemony upon the earth,
And for those past actions they are between he and the Creator.
He rose up to a position of wealth through aiding the growth of US belligerance upon worlds militarily and economicly poor until he reached a level that those once supporters and the PTB said he was not and could not be any longer of use to them,
And while today he but points of the extremes of American system he is but a part of the “Loyal Opposition” and remains within that same system, not outside of it.
Wallach on December 17, 2018 · at 6:37 pm EST/EDT
Vuki,
All of us commenting here had our “epiphany moment” at some point in our lives. Paul Craig Roberts is no different. In the 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix, you have the famous “What if I told you” dialogue between Morpheus and Nero. The key to escaping virtual reality referred to as The Matrix, is to choose between a “blue pill”, which allows the character to continue living in ignorance of their status, and the “red pill”, which wakes the character up to their true condition. That condition is invariably far less compelling than the life of comforting illusions he left behind.
I would have liked to see the late William Blum (1933-2018) on Saker’s list above. Apparently he had his “red pill” moment in the mid-1960s, long before most of us.
We need to re-read “The Mask of Anarchy:” Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
By Percy Bysshe Shelley to see that not much has changed.
‘Horses, oxen, have a home,
When from daily toil they come;
Household dogs, when the wind roars,
Find a home within warm doors.’
http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/anarchy.html
Yes Blum would be a good choice
Jose Garcia on December 13, 2018 · at 2:41 am EST/EDT
Thank you Saker for this list. I also thank you for even noting the great Solzhenitsyn in you article. I just read his Harvard speech. I was floored. I suggest all to read it.
one minion on December 13, 2018 · at 11:29 am EST/EDT
I second that, a great article all round. That Bobby Sands knew what he was doing.
Thanks, Saker.
Tomsen on December 13, 2018 · at 6:37 am EST/EDT
Journalist praising journalists, Hollywood actors praising other Hollywood actors. Nothing new, follow the money trade.
Harry_Red on December 13, 2018 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT
Dear Saker, dear readers,
I have so much respect and admiration for the four people mentioned in this article.
As someone in my late 30s, I am wondering how are these people attacked or made to pay for being truth seekers on a daily basis by others in their country ? So what is the price they have to pay for being honest and speaking out the truth ?
Also these people are either in retirement age or near retirement age. How are people that are more younger in the West able or encouraged to become truth speakers like the people mentioned above ? How do younger people actively speak out without losing their jobs, effecting their families, etc. ? Is their perhaps a certain strategy one can follow, like being self-employed, etc. ?
Here an interesting recent interview with Dimitri Orlov:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8oHtd7An4MI#
amarynth on December 13, 2018 · at 11:19 am EST/EDT
Harry_Red, yes, there are younger people but the style is different. Check out for example Lee Camp with his show, Redacted Tonight. https://www.youtube.com/user/redactedtonight
You will find those on youtube and on RT.
Check out Abby Martin … a documentary maker and good artist. You can follow her work from her twitter feed: https://twitter.com/empirefiles?lang=en
Take a look at Luke Rudkowski from WeAreChange (some controversy but nowadays the real story) https://www.youtube.com/user/wearechange
That is quick off the top of my head – there may be more.
Stephen Sivonda on December 15, 2018 · at 2:39 am EST/EDT
Good selection you’ve made . I would like to add to that Jimmy Dore, who in the last 2 years has built a following because of his ability to explain events by exposing the lies and obfuscations in a unique way. He only does youtube and covers a broad range of topics. His background is a comedian and occasionally uses salty language though I notice he has tamed down quite a bit in the past few months Most of his shows are less than 30 minutes and are on recent topics. Here is what I think is one of his best…. and it speaks to the failure of the MSM as only Jimmy can present it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2TRzA2ezk I will add that I also follow PCR’s and Prof. Cohen.
Ophita on December 19, 2018 · at 11:51 pm EST/EDT
Caitlin Johnstone is another young, strong voice of dissension through prose and poetry on her website! Love these choices too Saker.
imaginative on December 13, 2018 · at 11:06 am EST/EDT
very nice list – would have included “S-300 man” – whoever got those sent in response to the shoot down
Fred on December 13, 2018 · at 11:09 am EST/EDT
I guess technically he is not at a “labor camp”, but he has definitely spent most of his life in an American Prison.
Mumia Abu Jamal
American political prisoner, associated with the MOVE movement in Philadelphia which holds an apparent distinction as being the American dissident group to be officially aerially bombed by the American government.
His life is currently under threat even though he’s been removed (officially) from death row since he is denied proper medical treatment.
http://www.freemumia.com/who-is-mumia-abu-jamal/
And of course, we have the documented assassination of political dissident Fred Hampton.
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/watch_the_assassination_of_fred_hampton
A part of what America does is to try to make the world forget the crimes it has committed. The above is a very incomplete list quickly compiled.
Anonymous on December 13, 2018 · at 12:53 pm EST/EDT
For all the empty talk about freedom of speech, diversity, pluralism and the like, the sad truth is that the USA is not a democracy, but a rather authoritarian plutocracy with strongly expressed elements of a totalitarian regime. True, nobody (that I know of) got sent to a labor camp (yet!) or shot in a cellar (yet!) for daring to speak up to power, but we must also remember the joke which says that “a totalitarian regime is one that commands you to “shut up!” whereas a liberal democracy simply says “keep talking!“.
You could add Michael Hastings to this list of honorees, who was known for his critical articles on Gen. Stanley McChrystal, America’s wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and the National Security Agency … but he is dead, killed in a curious car “accident.”
And you could also add Gary North to the list, who wrote about American involvement in the Latin drug trade, which led to the crack cocaine epidemic in US inner cities. But he is also dead from a “suicide.”
The point is, yes, the Land of the Free persecutes journalists and dissidents and probably kills them. But it is able to get away with them by disguising state-sponsored assassinations as accidents, suicides, etc al.
In fact, you could argue that the real dissidents in the USA end up dead (like Hastings); or in exile (like CIA whistle-blower Phillip Agee and Black Panther Assata Shakur in Cuba); or imprisoned (like Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Geronimo Pratt, or Dhoruba Bin Wahad).
Let us not forget them down the American MemoryHole.
Also, check out the history of the US government’s COINTELPRO operation, which (officially) lasted throughout much of the Cold War as part of America’s war on dissent–even as the it claimed to be fighting “Communist totalitarianism” in this same time period!
FBI COINTELPRO: The U.S. Governement’s War Against DIssent
https://www.noi.org/cointelpro/
https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Government/COINTELPRO.S.pdf
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
https://www.amazon.com/COINTELPRO-Papers-Documents-Against-Classics/dp/0896086488
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
https://www.amazon.com/Agents-Repression-Against-American-Movement/dp/0896082938/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P6M06DCV3G5WBVFV5M2C
B.F. on December 13, 2018 · at 3:35 pm EST/EDT
Well, The Saker might be right that nobody as yet has been sent to a US labor camp, but I would like to remind him that years ago FEMA has indeed built such camps, to be used in case of a national emergency, like the collapse of the dollar or huge social unrest.
For Man of the Year, I vote for Dr Paul Craig Roberts. I do not always agree with his analysis of the situation in Russia, but his analysis of the situation in the West has been first class. Also, he has a very broad mind. Pity not all Americans are like this. I suppose this has something to do with the fact that he is a southern gentleman.
Barry on December 14, 2018 · at 7:37 pm EST/EDT
I was once concerned about the alleged FEMA “concentration camps”. The maps of their locations around the United States was easily available. I was surprised to find one located about 50 miles from my present home in Missouri, near a town in Arkansas where I once lived. I drove to the area where the FEMA camp was supposedly located and spent a day driving around exploring this semi rural area. What I found was only a small two room FEMA office in the small downtown area. Those old FEMA fear stories, like the one about “hundreds of railroad boxcars with guilotines waiting in railroad sidings to kill dissidents” were just right wing fear “porn”. During several of the terrible hurricanes in Mississippi and Louisiana, FEMA supplied many hundreds, if not thousands, of trailer/homes to house hurricane victims who lost their homes. The federal government apparently has no FEMA camps to put the immigrants in at the southern border. If I remember correctly, they were poorly housing children in empty WalMart stores. I’m a dissident but don’t expect to be dragged off kicking and screaming to any FEMA camp. That story has about the same “truth” as the stories we Americans hear that “Putin is a monster”.
B.F. on December 15, 2018 · at 12:07 pm EST/EDT
Debatable. I have even seen photographs of these FEMA camps, including heaps of plastic coffins to be used in case of an emergency.
Iconodule on December 13, 2018 · at 3:49 pm EST/EDT
Bravo Dear Saker!
Us Orthodox love a book called Prologue of Orchid, and in the current readings they talk about righteous Lot being led out of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was the only righteous guy there, and the angels of God led him and his family out. I truly think that God is sparing the West from a nuclear holocaust because of the righteous praying here. I think the righteous are few today, but there still are some.
I thank God for you, PCR and Professor Cohen. I view the group of you as the prophet Jonah calling out to the Ninevites (the West).
May the good and gracious God who is about to be born (Christmas!) have mercy on us and the rest of the west. May we heed the call of the prophets and come to our senses!
For those of you who are harsh towards PCR I say “calm down”. I have many relatives who were stuck in the Matrix their whole lives, and they are just beginning to see the light. From 9/11 to the current facist Anglo Zionist Empire people are beginning to wake up, but it is a slow process. The Saker is right that the media propaganda machine is SO STRONG most people are deluded. But, they are waking up, AND If each of us can wake 5 to 10 people up around us it will make a difference.
Case in point to the above – I was having drinks with a friend the other day. We talked about a potential war with Russia. My friend (a high school teacher) said “Going to war with Russia would be the worst thing that ever happen to them as the United States would kick their asses.” After choking on my beer I explained to him for the next 30 minutes how insane a war against Russia would be, and I talked about all their new weapon systems and capabilities. I also explained about what really happened in World War 2. I think most American people (like my friend) have no clue – they grew up playing video games and have been told that the American soldier will kill anyone (search Call of Duty video game). We are the best, we invincible, etc. etc. We all need to do our part to wake up people like my friend.
Love to all!
Ewan on December 13, 2018 · at 5:18 pm EST/EDT
I’m sorry, it was a genuine question: Why is Andrei Martynov scathing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?
That you need to ask Andrei, not me :-)
@Martynov scathing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Probably out of prudence. Don’t forget where is he speaking from.
Ewan on December 14, 2018 · at 4:20 am EST/EDT
D’oh! Don’t I feel daft. Sorry.
vot tak on December 14, 2018 · at 4:27 am EST/EDT
“Andrei Martynov scathing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?”
Where? I’m curious what he was wrote.
Anonymous on December 14, 2018 · at 7:42 am EST/EDT
Check his blog http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/ and his contributions at the Unz Review.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2018/10/first-order-of-business.html
“Solzhenitsyn stole many things, such as massive parts of his GULAG Archipelago being a direct steal from Varlam Shalamov’s diaries, which Shalamov categorically forbade to be exposed to Solzhenitsyn–he knew already then what “Genius of the First Spit” would do. But the truth is, before a humanistic and noble idea of preservation of Russian people was, as always wrongly, attributed to Solzhenitsyn, just couple hundred years before him a true Russian genius Mikhailo Vasilievich Lomonosov wrote his famous treatise On Preservation and Procreation Of Russian People. So, can we stop finally crediting a shallow mediocrity and plagiarizer as a writer and an ambitious falsifier of Russian history Solzhenitsyn with things which were simply beyond the grasp of his feeble mind? If the trend continues, who knows, somebody will credit him, in the end, with invention of the wheel and writing War and Peace.”
Growing up and going to school in Canada we were inundated with propaganda that they called education. Pictures of Russian women in our school books never showed the likes of Maria Sharapova. I visited Russia with a group of students and on our return through Helsinki we were treated to a huge banquet of fruit, dairy products, and everything under the sun which even a sixteen year old could see was an attempt to tell us look how bad things were in Russia. In our school books Marx’s writings were ignored and not studied and if mentioned the ideology was blamed for anti colonialism rather than blaming colonialism and its exploitation of the underdeveloped world. When workers rebelled or demanded rights this was followed by huge anti Communism campaign begins which in reality was nothing more than an anti union campaign. Democratic socialism was equated with dictatorship and anyone supporting Socialist views was labelled a commie love.
McCarthy Witch Hunts attacked anyone who questioned o promoted democracy. Books such as Animal Farm, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic, George Orwell’s 1984 required reading disguised as novel study in English classes at school. Hollywood movies and TV was inundated with anti Soviet propaganda such as I Spied for the FBI, Rocky IV , Dr. Strangelove and hundreds of others.. Our education was nothing more than indoctrination.
Shalamov is the real fiction writer about the GULAG. He was glamorized in the West specifically to oppose him to Solzhenitsyn (he was also a Trotskyist), whose guilt is that he wrote “200 years…” and the “Red Wheel” cycle, books banned in the West, because he points the finger at the real perpetrators of the ‘Revolution’. You can’t expect a writer who wants to see his books published expressing any appreciation for Solzhenitsyn. It would be a carrier killer.
Ewan Maclean on December 14, 2018 · at 10:22 am EST/EDT
vot tak
I was referring to his truly excellent book, which the Saker put me onto when he reviewed it. I highly recommend it. There are some passages, however, that are over my head, about the various dissidents post war. Also, as an aside, he touches on the current state of research on the body count in Stalinist times. Even with the archives briefly opened, scholars have been coming up with markedly different accounts. Andrei Martynov gives a couple of good references. My rusty Russian precludes further research. (It is startling how bookshops here in the UK stock only propaganda masquerading as history. I only noticed quite how prevalent the problem is when I read a few rightly dismissive comments by the Saker about Western “scholarship”. I have yet to find a proper alternative.)
vot tak on December 14, 2018 · at 10:27 pm EST/EDT
“you end up calling mentally deranged freaks “ze/zir/zee/etc” and the like”
It’s not necessary. English has full powers to describe all combinations namely ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’ or sheit when all are merged together.
Bacchante on December 14, 2018 · at 3:49 am EST/EDT
Chris Hedges should have been among them. His analyses are right to the point. This kind of American journalist you rarely see, he is a gem.
Have you seen this piece:
The Film the Israel Lobby Does Not Want You to See
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-film-the-israel-lobby-does-not-want-you-to-see/
One of those articles one wishes every English speaker read, and was translated into every other language so everyone else could read it. The same regarding the film he talked about – “The Lobby”.
Yes I saw that one, both the film and the piece. He is very clever, just in case a lazy reader is not willing to see the film, he literally dedicates more than half of his piece to the direct quotes from the film. He is an ideal leftist in my eyes, not embroiled in identity or gender politics, an anti-corporatist. He is down to the point when saying that the Democrats are actually central rightists now, and Republicans are wandering at far-right corners. A very good interview of him can be found:
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/07/chris-hedges-on-elections-christian-fascists-and-the-rot-within-the-american-system/
How good is this analysis of him about alt-right movement?
And I did dozens of interviews with followers, you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by their struggles with addiction, and underemployment, and sexual abuse, and domestic abuse. And so, this magic Jesus, this magical thinking is kind of the last protection that they have. So, I was in Detroit doing an End Times weekend with Tim LaHaye who wrote “The End Times” series and looking at— lust is the only word I can describe this, lust for apocalyptic violence. And I think I finally understood that that came from the euphoric desire to destroy the world that almost destroyed them. And at the end of the book, I said you will not break this movement by trying to argue these people out of creationism. You will only break this movement by reintegrating these people into the economy and rebuilding the social bonds that have been destroyed so that they have a possibility of meaningful work, of self-actualization. You know, of all people John Paul II wrote a very good encyclical about work. And Emile Durkheim’s book on suicide talks about how those societies and individuals that have a propensity for self-annihilation are those for whom these social bonds no longer function. And of course, ten years later, it’s much worse.
One hell of a dedicated journalism on Al Jazeera side by the way. Another name that comes to mind is Jeremy Scahill. These kinds of journalists truly leave their colleagues in MSM in shame.
“Her show Guns and Butter was one of the most interesting and original radio show ever and for a lone while it was truly the flagship of the Pacifica Public Radio Networks. Bonnie, one of the very best interviewers of our times, regularly invited fascinating and unique guests and conducted wonderful, open-ended, and absolutely fascinating interviews with them. Then Bonnie committed her first “crime”: she dared to doubt the official 9/11 fairy tale. This *almost* got her banned the first time around. Then Bonnie did something even “worse” – she did not buy into the entire official “Putin is a monster” cum “the Russians did it” fairly tale. Even worse, crime of crimes, Bonnie has now been officially labeled a “Holocaust denier” by KPFA General Manager. For all these “crimes” her show was simply terminated (until Ron Unz decided to host it on the Unz Review!). The most sickening part of it all is that Bonnie got censored by those who desperately try to impersonate some kind of “progressive” movement whereas in reality they are just your garden variety intolerant russophobic Trotskyists hiding under a new cloak of pseudo-liberalism.”
Back in the 70s I was an irregular listener to kpfa, mostly their excellent nightly news then. During the 80s and first half of the 90s, I was a regular listener. The quality of their news and other programming declined throughout that later period. Mainly due to an individual named david salnicker and the zionazi-gay sewage he brought with him to pacifica.
They gradually converted a very useful community resource into another zionazi divide and disillusion psywar tool, like the rest of their media propaganda machine. The 1970s Pacifica was cutting edge, now it is npr/democracy now.
who is Cassandra?
Jim Hickey on December 14, 2018 · at 9:57 pm EST/EDT
Check out Krista Wolf’s novel of that name. It’s a fictional biography of the Trojan prophetess who warned not to take in that wooden horse.
She is a priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology. She is cursed with being able to see the future but never being believed by anybody. Now next you look up my nick name :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
Harfang67 on December 14, 2018 · at 8:11 pm EST/EDT
Real heros! Real leaders!
Happen to be reading The Old Testament and (in french Les Actes des Apotres) and these people are following the traces of the prophet Jeremye or Saul(Paul). Quite inspiring indeed.
Harfang67
xray spex (@xray__spex) on December 14, 2018 · at 8:50 pm EST/EDT
Since we’re talking people who impress and your candidates of 2018 are “All Stars” I’d like to suggest an Honorable Mention to Caitlin Johnstone. She’s a truth teller and she’s fearless. Someone to reference and to read. A simple search should find her blog.
Best for 2019!
X-spex
Cirze on December 15, 2018 · at 3:36 pm EST/EDT
I thought Chris Hedges was an easy choice. Why didn’t you?
Also an excellent choice would be Jeremy Scahill.
And Caitlin Johnstone is fearless and prolific.
William Brutton on December 14, 2018 · at 9:54 pm EST/EDT
I totally agree with your choice for dissident of year 2018. Including you, they are all heroes to me. I am sure there are many people in the US who wish you all end up like Kashogui or at least like Assange or Snowden. Keep up the wonderful job
Richard E. Olsen on December 14, 2018 · at 10:41 pm EST/EDT
It is so refreshing to find an article written by someone not lost to the sea of ignorance, hostility, and near illiteracy that has made life in most of Western Civilization, and especially the part of it that I live in, the United States, much like being in an inescapable madhouse. Our leadership seems to revel in inflicting violence upon people everywhere motivated solely by unbounded evil. Our population, for the most part, seems indifferent to everything having any significance with respect to even their own well being, let alone the effect for generations to come. Every day when my work is done I look for Paul Craig Roberts’ articles, and those whose articles are listed in the footnotes. There, and in the small group of people that I belong to whose goal it is to restore constitutional government, and at least as much honesty as possible in government, I can escape for a few moments of truth amid the sea of lies that has prevailed over truth for longer than I care to remember. I was born in 1933, was schooled, have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, but consider myself to be self educated. I’m sure that most who now still have a respect for truth, besides being schooled, are of necessity, self educated as well. All of you, including the presenter, are worthy of the highest degree of praise for your efforts to bring truth to light about the den of iniquity that seems poised to overcome all decency or simply end all life as by the wrath of God.
fullback84 on December 15, 2018 · at 12:54 am EST/EDT
Very fitting Mr. Saker.
I started out listening to Dr. Roberts back in 2007 mostly in the progressive blog space. Always at the forefront of reason and truth, a hero of mine too. I have been reading ever since.
America is now a weird place to be. People are being sent to jail. (Butina from Russia and Meng from China) Even during the Bush W years, I can’t recall this level of intellectual rigidity. It’s a whole new level of censorship (and self-censorship) being leveled at anyone who doesn’t tow the neo-liberal/neo conservative line hawking for war.
Unspeakable levels of evil are leading us to the possibility nuclear war and the average Joe six pack doesn’t even speak of it in public.
Chris k on December 15, 2018 · at 2:21 am EST/EDT
A call to arms; a call to tend to the tree of liberty; a challenge for us all, and to the powers that be . . .
Wondering now, what are the actionable/tangible threats to the tyrant state? — the ones that result only, in a speedy compliance: denouncement, dishonor, and death; but not likely, in that exact order. From this blog, must agree that the principle threat of Russia, is not other than ‘civilizational’: as a distinct model of another way to life; one that directly confronts and undermines this particular ‘Gomorrah’ — however satisfied we yet may be — hence the ongoing discrediting attacks; hence the open deceptive deceit perpetrating against us Americans personally — as the potential purveyors of truth — as to the principle underlying motive for this ‘hybrid’ style of warring.
Populist rings a bell. Other posters have said as much, and Sands was certainly of this category ultimately. But why is populism an active threat; and not likewise the discontented, or disenfranchised, or deeply despairing detractors (Oh, my)? Why is a contrapositive populist a threat, and the unpopular contrarian is not? Is it because actions speak louder than words; and the words needn’t always be right, as long as the spirit is engaging? It seems this very question speaks to our most inner, passionate nature as men . . . and then ultimately, begs the question: what indeed do we live for?
Pat Buchanan has also been good. A consistent critic of US military adventurism.
war is coming on December 15, 2018 · at 1:16 pm EST/EDT
Check this list…
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-wtpA2NomEj35bbVe1-iHX7rt4YzahPINm5w9A-SkcQ/edit#gid=0
It doesn’t look as if this has been posted hear yet ….
“Honor Beyond Honor” by Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/12/14/honor-beyond-honor/
“The Saker just bestowed the highest, placing me in the company of Stephen Cohen, Bonnie Faulker, and Ron Unz. Talking about knowledge, integrity, and courage, the world has never seen the like of it.
The Saker himself is a remarkable personage. He deserves Person of the Year himself.”
Pft on December 15, 2018 · at 7:20 pm EST/EDT
Roberts is a Trump apologist and recently joined the Climate Change Alarmist parade.
My list includes Ron Unz, Michael Hudson, David Griffin , Ed Asner, William Engdahl and Judy Mikovitch
As a lover and admirer of poetry itself, but I much more admire the minds of the few that write poetry that enlightens the hearts, minds, and souls of man, and this Sands poem is one of those rare examples.
I care not one whit of politics and those who participate, nor for those who today profess to be messengers of Hod.; nor do I care a whit anout those who worship a flage or natoonalism of “My Country Right or Wrong.
Nor do I care about those who worship at the alters of Genrals and soldiers heroic hero warriors All. that that have lost their conscience ability to distingiish between Right or Wrong, as they personally commit acts of death and destruction.
Those I care most for are the few that speak of truth as fact and are if afraid or not have the inner conscience that demands of their self to Honor their conviction to free other of mankinds souls, and speak out.
Left out in those I most care about is that of my and others decemdents futures, and not of any personal ability to reach greatess of written words, expressions through art or vocal presentations I save those expressions ofvothers and pass them on through my own decendents.
Who knows but some day within a future darkness, they may welll have the ability to enlighten mankind.
I thank all those who have enriched my life by their Homorinh Truths.
Kevin Hester on December 17, 2018 · at 2:32 am EST/EDT
I would like to add William Blum to the list. A great anti-imperialist who died recently. I’ll miss his emails in my inbox.
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/oliver-stone-remembers-anti-imperialist-journalist-william-blum-chronicler-of-cia-crimes/?fbclid=IwAR24trwp1aSDCzBCg_YS264p7ZGZCLtHArbeIkgnrk5n9EgbUo7sXaB0rBs
Ben Sampson on December 17, 2018 · at 11:54 am EST/EDT
Gods mercy eh! I don’t think I will ever be that fortunate. I don’t believe anyway so if there is one IT wont be kind to me for that fact alone. there is of course much more.
sufficient as that may be I never expected the Saker to be in the man of the year sweepstakes..an elitist thing in my estimation. interesting!
However I do respect PCR and UNZ greatly..their contributions to the general understanding of truth and the progressive perspective sound and large
John Doran on December 18, 2018 · at 4:57 am EST/EDT
Thank you Mr Saker.
Dr. PCR is a fine analyst & commentator, I subscribe to his brave but pessimistic site.
He has one curious blind spot: the global warming/climate change fraud.
I say curious because this was the scam that woke me up.
For a start there’s been no significant warming for over 20 years, which is,of course, why the fraudstars changed to climate change: a totally safe bet as the climate is always changing. “Yeah, for about 4.5 billion years”, as Buzz Aldrin correctly said.
Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball reveals all & names names in his little gem of a book:
Human Caused Global Warming, The Biggest Deception In History
Only 121 pages.
He exposes the Bankster Rockefellers & their multibillionaire cronies as the main culprits. George Soros, Ted Turner & Maurice Strong, & many more. & their evil motives.
I cannot recommend this book too highly.
Website: http://www.drtimball.com
John Doran.
Fair dinkum on December 19, 2018 · at 4:57 am EST/EDT
Do you mean Dim Tim?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Ball
Kapimo on December 19, 2018 · at 6:58 am EST/EDT
I can only subscribe to The Saker choice of personalities for his award. Those persons do really lead in a way or another the resistance to the empire.
Outside the anglo world, we do have in France some very influential dissidents, but whose work is only in french. The most prominent would be Alain Soral, leader of the “Egalité et Reconciliation” association he created, who:
– is forbidden in all medias
– has seen his Facebook, instagram etc accounts closed
– has seen the Facebook, instagram etc accounts of his organization closed
– is de facto denied the right to have a bank account (as well as his organization)
– has been expelled from paypal and other electronic payments means
– is regularly condemned to heavy fines for publications on his internet site
– has been condemned to various jail sentences for publications on his internet site, still pending
– has seen his family threatened
– has been physically beaten various time, and lives with a bodyguard
BiloxiMarxKelly on December 20, 2018 · at 3:23 pm EST/EDT
The two Americas, Latin and South and also Cuba have now had Bolton’s gauntlets’ strike.
“Evildoers” are rabid and cannot get well.
The named “heros” are definately lodestars for all we the genes of altruism.
Those whom are the worst of our species do not have higher consciousness.
Expect the “new middle east wars without end” to continue in the other two Americas and Cuba too. How else to keep the boots stepping on the once called LIBERTY, an “enlightenment”?!
Indeed critical mass criminally insane.
Shyaku on January 01, 2019 · at 2:15 am EST/EDT
GREAT CHOICES!!
Listen to almost any 5 min segment of Ian Masters, the CIA’s geriatric at Pacifica, given full drive-time blare every weekday at 6pm on Pacifica KPFK, and you will come to understand who runs Pacifica, complete with their “mystery” donors :-) and Hyman Minsky’s son.
Its literally hate-speech, as they pathetically trip over themselves for breadcrumbs.
– Shyaku
Suzanne Majo De Kuyper on January 03, 2019 · at 2:33 am EST/EDT
Your premise is incorrect! Western dissidents are tortured frequently for life, and then killed if they cannot be convinced to kill themselves, or the country they live and work in so hard cannot be convinced to kill the dissidents as a favour to the all-power US/UK Deep States. I know this as, at a finally healthy 82 years, still writing daily, I have lived through the top secret FBI, J. Edgar Hoover file on me the year my first son was born in 1960. Hoover, at the time was an old, very powerful ,very gay man who became 100% carefully corrupted by his own before he died. Our most famous writer comes to mind who finally did (or may have) kill himself after years of incisive examination how to produce his self annihilation, The Old Man of the Sea was just about the last articulate gem he gave all of us.
Zalamander on January 08, 2019 · at 12:16 am EST/EDT
Saker, the World Socialist Website of the Socialist Equity Party are indeed Trotskyites. Whether you agree with them or not politically, they are definitely not Russophobic.
David Johnson on January 11, 2019 · at 7:05 pm EST/EDT
Would like to see an essay on the Financial policies of National Socialism. |
The making of community mental health policy in everyday street-level practice: An organizational ethnography
by Spitzmueller, Matthew C., Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2014, 201; 3615678
Scholars have used studies of “street-level organizations” to examine how policy is implemented, adapted, and changed through the practices of workers in real-world contexts. This dissertation follows in that tradition, tracing the ways in which Medicaid reforms work their way down to the street-level in a community mental health center with its origins in the clubhouse model of treatment. Based on twelve months of direct observation of street-level practices, interviews with workers, and analysis of agency documents and reports, I examine how new managerial reforms shape the strategies that workers use to provide access to community mental health services and to advance the clubhouse logic of recovery. These findings have implications for scholarship across the domains of community mental health practice, organizational studies, and policy research, suggesting the need for further investigation into how policy reform is produced through the everyday practices of street-level organizations.
This dissertation uses organizational ethnographic methods to study workers’ practices at Community Club, a community mental health center located in Chicago, Illinois. The clubhouse is based on the idea that individuals whose lives have been adversely affected by severe mental illness can benefit from treatment in a setting that functions as a social club, where members experience themselves as valued and needed. At the same time, community mental health reforms have been advanced largely by new managerial arrangements that emphasize accountability and performance measurement. These reforms in governance and management produced considerable uncertainty for workers in how Community Club would adapt to changes in policy. This site provides an opportunity to examine how reforms “worked” in this particular setting and what became of the clubhouse model under new managerial arrangements.
Data were collected from November 2009 until November 2010. I directly observed therapeutic interactions at Community Club and attended weekly team and managers meetings. Interviews were recorded with frontline workers, team leaders, and program administrators as questions emerged from my day-to-day observations of direct practices. I had access to multiple sources of organizational documentation, including corrective actions, internal notices, and training materials. I attended meetings, webinars, and teleconferences at the Illinois Division of Mental Health for a year. I also attended monthly meetings at the largest community behavioral health trade association in Illinois for two years. Interviews were conducted with key informants at the state and trade levels to better understand how community mental health policy reforms took shape in Illinois. Data were analyzed in an ongoing and iterative fashion for thematic connections. Multiple data sources allowed for triangulation and fact-checking as hypotheses emerged over the course of this study.
This study finds that workers adjusted to reforms in governance and management in ways that were not reducible to formal statutes alone. First, new managerial reforms restructured the tensions that played out at the street-level as workers negotiated the competing demands of access to care. This study suggests that reforms may place pressure on workers to limit flexibility and openness, may produce both direct and indirect forms of rationing, and may introduce barriers that unevenly affect individuals who are “harder to serve.” Second, reforms in governance and management restructured three key logics of the clubhouse. Street-level practices that advanced community participation, informal group arrangements, and client self-determination were reshaped by organizational incentives and penalties that increased the costs for workers of providing these services. These changes had observable implications for individuals’ access to services and for workers’ ability to act in consonance with manifest principles of the clubhouse and recovery models of treatment.
This dissertation supports the assertion that formal policy is changed through its implementation in real-world contexts of practice. By revealing the structures that shape most decisively what policy becomes in practice, this study enhances the visibility of social welfare reforms that may otherwise obfuscate how reforms “work” in practice. This study suggests that social policies should focus not only on accountability and performance measurement, but also on supplying workers with adequate resources to do their jobs well. If, as advocates and researchers have long suggested, there remains significant need for services that support social connection among people with severe mental illness, then it is important for scholars and policymakers to think about how to better equip organizations with the resources they need to facilitate this dimension of care. This dissertation is based on a single case study, which limits the generalizability of its findings. Street-level organizational studies build validity over multiple iterations of case selection, using a comparative perspective to distinguish particular from systematic features of organizational practice. More studies are needed that examine how community mental health policies are produced in the everyday life of organizations, in order to better understand how polices give shape to the nature and distribution of care.
Advisor: Brodkin, Evelyn Z.
Commitee: Floersch, Jerry E., Sites, William T.
School: The University of Chicago
Department: Social Service Administration
School Location: United States -- Illinois
Subjects: Mental health, Public policy, Organizational behavior
Keywords: Clubhouse, Community mental health, Medicaid policy, New public management, Recovery, Street-level organizations |
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Maxxis sponsors LPGA golfer
Maxxis International-U.S.A. will sponsor professional golfer Candie Kung during the 2004 LPGA Tour season.
Kung has been an LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) member since August 2001. She won three tour titles in 2003 and finished sixth on the LPGA money list.
Until now, Maxxis had confined its sports marketing efforts in the United States to on/off-road racing and rock crawling championships. The company recently announced it was sponsoring the 2004 United Rock Crawling & Off Road Challenge (UROC) series, which begins its six-event season this month. |
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China to build huge collider to study ‘God particle’
China racing against Japan, Europe to build largest machine in the world to study the Higgs boson
by Asia Times staff April 17, 2019 February 18, 2020
Image of a smaller collider in operation in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua
The Higgs boson, aka “God particle”, is the ultimate frontier in particle physics. The significance of the elementary particle and its properties is that it is able to be examined using existing knowledge and experimental technology as a means to confirm and study the entire Higgs field theory.
In layman’s terms, different subatomic particles are responsible for giving matter different properties. One of the most mysterious and important properties is mass: some particles like protons and neutrons have mass, while others, like photons, do not. The Higgs boson is believed to be the particle which gives mass to matter, according to scientists.
The elusive “God particles” were first spotted in 2012 in subatomic crashes that took place inside the Large Hadron Collider, a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator in a 27-km circular tunnel 175 meters beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva. The collider, dubbed the largest machine in the world and operated by the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), verified the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, a landmark event in particle physics.
A bird’s eye view of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Photo: Handout
The Large Hadron Collider verified the existence of the ‘God particle’ in 2012. Photo: Handout
But now China aims to construct a next-generation 100-km proton-proton circular electron-positron collider that will dwarf the European facility. The giant underground collider is designed to fire protons at near light speed and smash them together to mass produce the transient Higgs bosons for intensive study.
A funding proposal was submitted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to the central government in November, after the academy’s Beijing Institute of High Energy Physics finalized a detailed concept design. The first component is expected to be installed from 2022, according to the South China Morning Post.
Several sites have been suggested, including Qinhuangdao in Hebei province near Beijing, Yan’an in Shaanxi province and Shanwei in the southern Guangdong province, according to Chinese papers.
China is pouring in money and talent in a race against similar projects initiated by Japan and Europe to build a “God particle” factory, undaunted by prohibitive costs.
Japan has reportedly started designing its new collider after hearing about China’s plan, though the controversy is that the proposed site is in a seismically active zone, while the CERN has been working on plans for two new colliders, though it will have to break all the red tape to secure approval from all European Union member states to get the funding it needs.
By comparison, China’s funding for science and research will reach 2.5% of GDP in 2019, second only to the US.
Tagged: Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, AT Finance, God particle, news, particle collider, Particle physics, Technology |
NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
Early last week, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that will be run by private Israeli firms with close ties to Israel’s government, the so-called “Mega Group” tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and prominent pro-Israel lobby organizations operating in the United States. The centers were first announced in 2018 as was the identity of the firms who would run them: Israel-based Jerusalem Venture Partners and SOSA.
As MintPress has reported on several occasions, all three of these entities have a history of aggressively spying on the U.S. federal government and/or blackmailing top American politicians, raising concerns regarding why these companies were chosen to run the new centers in the heart of Manhattan. The news also comes as Israeli cybersecurity companies tied to Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200 were revealed to have access to the U.S. government’s most classified systems and simulating the cancellation of the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
The new cybersecurity centers are part of a new New York City public-private partnership called “CyberNYC” that is valued at over $100 million and officially aims to “spur the creation of 10,000 cybersecurity jobs and make New York City a global leader in cyber innovation.” CyberNYC is an initiative of New York City’s Economic Development Corporation.
However, the companies that will be responsible for creating those cybersecurity jobs will benefit foreign companies, namely Israeli and most of the jobs to be created will go to foreigners as well, as media reports on the partnership have quietly noted. Those reports also stated that, while the stated purpose of the centers is to create new jobs, the Israeli firms chosen to run them — Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and SOSA — view it as an opportunity to provide Israeli cybersecurity companies with a foothold into the American market and to see Israeli cybersecurity products adopted by both small and medium-sized American businesses, not just large corporations and government agencies.’
Read more: NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
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Makurdi, Nigeria
The first 40 Days for Life campaign in Makurdi began with an impressive outreach effort ? a march from the gates of Benue State University, near the center of town, out into the community.
The campaign leaders say the volunteers came out with passion and vigor to spread the word about the importance of life and why there is a need to put an end to abortion.
At a rally prior to the start of the march, the participants met with university students and passersby, engaging them in conversation and distributing flyers.
The march itself focused on those areas where young people are considered to be most at risk for abortion, and was able to reach those people where they live and shop.
A Nigerian TV network even covered the event.
The organizers say this initial outreach was successful, as many young people came out to listen with keen interest. They were told about the dangers of abortion and urged to reject it. The young people in turn promised to take the message home to their families and friends. |
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Community Calling, or making phone calls to fellow Australians to talk about issues we care about, is at the heart of what GetUp Action Groups do. Check out call scripts, calling tips and other handy guides in this section.
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Meetings are where the magic happens in groups! Check out these resources to help you along the way.
Slack is one of the main communication tools for the GetUp Action Network. Jump on to connect with other GetUp Action Group members around the country, get the latest updates on campaigns and ask questions. Follow this link for training resources.
Action Centre is an exciting new tool that allows your GetUp Action Group to create and manage events and access a database of local, active GetUp members. Check out these resources to get started!
Solid campaign strategy is an essential part of the GetUp movement. Check out these resources to better understand how campaign strategy is developed and apply some of the principles to work you are doing in your GetUp Action Group. |
O Rio Água Cola é um curso de água do arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe, localizado no distrito de Mé-Zóchi, ilha de São Tomé. Este curso de água corre para Oeste até encontrar o Rio da Água Grande de que é afluente.
Ver também
Geografia de São Tomé e Príncipe
Lista de Ilhéus do Arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe.
Lista de Rios do Arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe.
Referências
Grande Atlas Mundial, Selecções do Reader´s Digest, 1ª Edc. setembro, 2006, Pág. 223. ISBN 972-609-471-2
Grande Dicionário Enciclopédico Ediclube Vol. XVI, Pág. 5574 e 5575. 1996. ISBN 972-719-056-1
Ligações externas
Mapa do Arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe.
São Tomé e Príncipe.
worldatlas São Tomé e Príncipe.
Página do Governo da República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe.
Convite ao Paraíso Africano - São Tomé e Príncipe.
Cola |
Jack: PNM deserves award for developing Tobago
Kinnesha George
Joel Jack speaks to PNM supporters during a Bagatelle/Bacolet Council meeting in Calder Hall. PHOTO COURTESY PNM -
Finance Secretary Joel Jack believes the People’s National Movement (PNM) deserves an award for the development of Tobago in the last 20 years.
The PNM candidate for Bagatelle/ Bacolet made the statement as he addressed supporters on Sunday at the Black Rock hard court.
According to Jack: “The data is there, the information is loud and clear. We have to dispel the myth that we have done nothing. With the little money we have over the past years...to develop this little island, and we have done so much. This PNM administration in Tobago deserves an award.”
He said if Tobagonians objectively compare the island's transformation from 2001 to now, the evidence is clear.
“They won’t tell you that. We doubled the size of the economy from $900 million to $1.8 billion – they won’t tell you that."
He claimed when the PNM started human capital development, only seven per cent of the population had tertiary degrees. He said that figure is not at 23 per cent.
"They won’t tell you about the millions of dollars that we have invested, over $75 million to expand the private sector and to give entrepreneurs a chance – they would not tell you that.”
He added: “We have a responsibility to toot our own trumpet and to go throughout the length and breadth of this island and to remind Tobagonians – listen, open your eyes, what they’re telling you are blatant untruths. I can’t say is lies, what they’re trying to do is mamaguy you.”
PNM Tobago political leader and candidate for Signal Hill/ Patience Hill Tracy Davidson-Celestine said this election is about protecting one’s future.
“We have to examine the facts; you as a people have to understand what we are playing with and what is in front of us at this moment. So when they talk to you about change and change and change, you as a people have to ask them, 'Change from what to what?'
"What kind of state do you want to put the people of Tobago in?
"What kind of place do you want Tobago to become if we were to put those people in black or possibly green in office come December 6, 2021?”
She said unlike the Progressive Democratic Patriots, the PNM is offering a plan for all.
“A plan that is based on fact – that is what we’re saying. You cannot change from a situation where a party has a plan of action, a manifesto rolling our plans of action, talking about revolutionising the Tobago House of Assembly and development in Tobago, to a party that has no plan of action.
"What is their plan for the resuscitation of the tourism sector if they were to win? I have not heard anyone of them up to this point articulate what their plan of action is, more than to say Tracy stole their idea for Scarborough beautification.”
She added: “Whether you don’t like the PNM or you don’t like Tracy or you don’t like Learie Paul – this election is more than that. This election is about your future, this election is about ensuring that we can walk side by side with Trinidad.”
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Radhika Lalit made recommendations on sustainability targets as well as on solar power purchase agreements.
Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield), one of the leading health plans in California, engaged Radhika Lalit, an EDF Climate Corps fellow, to support its overall sustainability and renewable energy strategy. Lalit was tasked with advising Blue Shield on internal and external sustainability targets, while also assessing the business model for a solar power purchase agreement for Blue Shield's owned facilities in Lodi, Redding and El Dorado Hills in California. In her role, she was also asked to assist with determining the business case and emission reduction potential for specific energy efficiency retrofits and behavior change interventions.
Baseline and benchmark energy use data monthly by sub-metering facilities and documenting all energy and water use data in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
Execute a solar Power Purchase Agreement (3.01 MW DC) at Blue Shield owned facilities at El Dorado Hills, Lodi and Redding.
Replace MR16 halogen lights with more efficient LEDs in Blue Shield’s San Francisco headquarters.
Implement behavior change interventions in the form of a “Power Down” campaign encouraging employees to reduce their energy consumption.
Set a goal to achieve 30 percent renewable energy and 30 percent emissions reductions by 2020, which would be achievable for Blue Shield if it implements the solar PPA.
Overall, the impact of projects recommended by Lalit could be substantial in driving Blue Shield’s mission of providing affordable and good quality healthcare to all Californians. Her recommendations could help Blue Shield reduce its carbon footprint and also lower its administrative expenses by reducing energy costs. Collectively, these interventions could help Blue Shield save close to $500,000 every year, while reducing its electricity consumption by 4.8 million kilowatt hours and carbon footprint by more than 3,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in the first year alone. Overall, this would help Blue Shield reduce its emissions footprint by over 43 percent from 2012 levels and increase its use of renewable energy by around 27 percent. Over the lifetime of the proposed projects, Blue Shield could reap benefits of over $7 million in savings by implementing these sustainability interventions.
Radhika Lalit is a master's student in International Policy Studies at Stanford University concentrating in Energy, Environment and Natural Resources. Prior to this, she consulted leading corporations in India towards strategizing and implementing sustainability interventions. She is a qualified engineer and MBA. |
Nashi is also known as Asian Pear, Nashi Pear Apple, Sand Pear, Apple Pear, Water Pear, Japanese Pear and Salad Pear. They are crisp in texture and when mature, good to eat as soon as they are harvested or for several months after picking if held in cold storage. Nashi are available in Cyprus from August to December each year. They must be handled carefully as they have tender skin that bruises, discolours and blackens if not handled properly. They are best eaten when chilled, but are also very versatile and used in many recipes. |
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With the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft added quite a lot of new features and also improvements to existing ones. The release of Windows 8.1 is to fix the issues and address major concerns with Windows 8 like the lack of start button, customizations, improvements to Windows store etc. Along with these features Microsoft also shipped the latest version of Internet Explorer, the IE11 along with Windows 8.1.
IE11 also comes with quite a lot of new features, especially to the metro version, which is primarily useful for Windows RT Tablet. There are many new updates and improvements to the browser in Windows 8.1. In this article we will discuss the new features added to IE11 (metro version) in Windows 8.1.
The first thing probably you will notice is that tabs bar at the bottom, which allows you to switch tab easily and also open and close them. You can also open an InPrivate tab where history is not tracked. In Windows 8.1, Favorites makes a comeback, with a new interface which is accessible from the app bar. You can also browse the tabs side by side and this is available only in high resolution displays. Another big improvements is the number of tabs, initial version had limited the number of tabs to 10, but with IE11 the number of tabs is unlimited.
The metro version comes with a better download manager. You can view the progress of downloads from the app bar and then access the downloaded files from the settings menu. You can view and open these downloaded files from the Downloads page which open as a pop up and makes it easy to use.
Apart from this, the desktop version of IE 11 features completely redesigned developer tools that help you test across devices, browsers, and even Windows Store apps. Here is a quick video demo of the new features in IE11 on Windows 8.1
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Q: Search for value contained in array of objects in property of object contained in array can someone help me with this?
I need a function that given a fieldID, searchs within objects and returns the objectID that fieldID is in.
const objects = [
{
objectID: 11,
fields: [
{ id: 12, name: 'Source ID' },
{ id: 12, name: 'Source ID' },
],
},
{objectID: 14,
fields: [
{ id: 15, name: 'Creator' },
],},
{objectID: 16,
fields: [
{ id: 17, name: 'Type' },
{ id: 18, name: 'Name' },
{ id: 19, name: 'Description' },
],},
];
SOLVED:
Got it working like this:
const getObjectID = fieldId => {
for (const object of objects) {
if (object.fields.find(field => field.id === fieldId)) {
return object.objectID;
}
}
};
A: This will work:
const getObjectId = (fieldID) => {
const object = objects.find(object => object.fields.find(field => field.id === fieldID )!== undefined)
if(object) return object.objectID;
return null
}
A: Using the find array method:
const objects = [
{ objectId: 1, fields: ["aaa"] },
{ objectId: 2, fields: ["bbb"] },
{ objectId: 3, fields: ["ccc"] },
];
const getObjectId = (id) => objects.find(object.objectId === id);
console.log(getObjectId(2));
// { objectId: 2, fields: ["bbb"] }
Read more here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/find
|
FaceTime has been pretty much the same ever since Apple added support for cellular networks back in iOS 6 (FaceTime itself was released in iOS 4), though they did add "official" support for audio-only calls in iOS 7. But the one feature everyone has been wanting ever since then — group video calls — has evaded us, but it's finally here.
It's surprising that Apple waited so long to support group video calls in FaceTime when many of its competitors — Skype, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, etc. — have had group video calls for some time now. Nonetheless, Apple first showed off Group FaceTime on June 4 at WWDC 2018, but it wasn't ready when iOS 12 was released to everyone on Sept. 17. However, it is in the iOS 12.1 update, which was released on Oct. 30.
How Many Users Can Be in a Group FaceTime?
There can be a total of 32 users on a Group FaceTime at any time, including you; That means 31 additional users besides yourself. You may be able to invite more than 31 other users, but only the first 31 of them will be able to join.
What Devices Support Group FaceTime?
Any device that supports FaceTime can support Group FaceTime as long as it's running the appropriate software. For an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, they need to be running at least iOS 12.1. For a Mac computer, it's macOS Mojave 10.14.1 or higher. If a user is not using supported OS versions on their device, they will not be able to Group FaceTime, period.
Does Everyone Have to Use Video?
Nope. If you or anyone else starts a Video Group FaceTime, the video camera can always be turned off for anyone in the call. So, you can have a mix of audio-only and video users on any Group FaceTime.
Now, in our experience, not everyone can use video anyway. We had issues with an older iPad mini 2, which could be on a one-on-one video call in FaceTime no problem, but that couldn't enable the camera during a Group FaceTime (the option was grayed out). Apple may fix this issue in the near future.
How Do You Begin a Group FaceTime?
In the FaceTime app, start a call like you would for a one-on-one. Tap the + (plus) icon, then search for a contact to add. Tap their name when you see them appear.
In iOS 12, that's as far as you could go. You could search for other contacts, but their info would be grayed out, so you wouldn't be able to add them as additional chatters. However, in iOS 12.1, you can tap additional contacts, and you do just that to add them. If they're blue, they're fair game. If they're gray, they either aren't iMessage users or aren't running the required software.
Once you've selected all of the contacts you want to start a Group FaceTime with, select either "Audio" or "Video" to start the group call. Afterward, all you have to do is wait for the others to join.
How Do You Begin One from Messages?
If you already have a group conversation thread in the Messages app, you're halfway there. If not, you'll need to create one first.
Now, the group can have iMessage and non-iMessage users in it, but only the ones with compatible devices and software will be able to answer the call. If they are, say, Android users with a Windows PC, they will not even get a message, but they will remain as an active box in the Group FaceTime — which you can't delete. To keep the Group FaceTime clean, only start one from a group iMessage thread.
In the group thread, tap the group name or contact bubbles at the top. A new menu will expand below it where you can tap either "audio" or "FaceTime." The former will start an Audio Group FaceTime while the latter will start a Video Group FaceTime.
How Do You Answer a Group FaceTime?
Afterward, you won't be in the Group FaceTime just yet; It merely opens up the FaceTime app where you can then join. Even if the initiator started an Audio Group FaceTime, your camera will be enabled by default. So this gives you the opportunity to open the additional options via the ellipsis (•••) icon where you can disable the "camera." When you're ready to join, just tap the big green video icon to start.
If you dismiss the notification or forget about it, you can also join the call directly in the FaceTime app. Just open up the app, then select the green video button next to the active Group FaceTime call. Afterward, you'll be able to turn off your video camera before joining, just like above.
How Do You Answer One in Messages?
When someone starts a Group FaceTime with you via Messages, you'll still get the notification as seen above that you can use to dive right in. However, if you ignore that or forget about it, you can still join via the Messages app.
When you're in the main conversations view in Messages, if there is an active Group FaceTime you can join, you'll see "FaceTime" with a green camera icon. Open that thread, then tap the green "Join" button to jump in. Next to this button will also be an indicator as to how many users are currently active in the call, whether it's just one person or 30 people.
Unlike with the notification method, you won't be able to disable the video before entering the call, but you can do so right after if you're worried about that.
Once inside the Group FaceTime call, the message that had the "Join" button will now indicate elapsed time instead, which is not the elapsed time of the entire group call, just the elapsed time for your current session.
What Can You Do in a Group FaceTime?
During a Group FaceTime call, your icon will remain small in the corner, but you can double-tap on it to expand it to the foreground so you can check if you're looking as good as you think you do or want a clearer image of what's going on when you're playing around with FaceTime effects.
To add effects, just tap the ellipsis (•••) button, then "effects." From there, you can select an option from the app drawer. For instance, you can tap the Animoji icon to use Animoji or Memoji during the Group FaceTime call. You can also add filters, text, shapes, and whatever stickers are available from third-party iMessage apps — just like you would when adding effects in the Messages camera.
When you're not in the foreground, everyone else's icons will get bigger or little depending on how active they are in the call. If they have not joined yet, they will remain small little boxes. You can tap on any person's icon to bring them to the foreground for a little bit, unless they haven't joined the call yet, and you can tap on it again to expand the person's icon so that it locks in place, pushing everyone else to the background until you tap again to undo it.
Basically, you can do anything you could already do in a one-on-one FaceTime audio or video call in iOS 12, but the layout is obviously different for a Group FaceTime call and you can add more people.
How Do You Add More People to a Group FaceTime?
You're not limited to just the users that were originally invited — anyone in the Group FaceTime call can invite more people to join. Tap the ellipsis (•••) button, then "Add Person" under the list of invited users. Next, search for the contact you want, tap their name, then add more people if you'd like.
After, select the "Add Person to FaceTime" button that appears. All that's left to do is wait for them to join. You can repeat this is many times as you'd like until the max allowed 32 people are in the Group FaceTime already.
If someone that's invited joined the Group FaceTime and got disconnected for some reason, you can go back into the ellipsis (•••) menu and a "Ring" button should appear next to their name. Tap that, and they'll get a ring on their device to try joining again.
How Do You End a Group FaceTime?
If you're the initiator, and nobody else has joined yet, you can tap the red "X" button in the Group FaceTime to end it right away for everyone. However, if one person joins the call, if you "X" out of it, the call will still be open for everyone that was invited to join. Only when every user has either exited the Group FaceTime or has not joined yet can the call be ended for everyone.
How Do You Rejoin a Group FaceTime?
If you ended your session in a Group FaceTime, you can still join the call again; This can be done either from the FaceTime app or Messages app depending on how the call was initiated, and it's just like how you would first answer a Group FaceTime. |
describe('ngDialog', function () {
'use strict';
var any = jasmine.any,
spy = jasmine.createSpy;
beforeEach(module('ngDialog'));
afterEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $document) {
ngDialog.closeAll();
[].slice.call(
$document.find('body').children()
)
.map(angular.element)
.forEach(function (elm) {
if (elm.hasClass('ngdialog')) {
// yuck
elm.triggerHandler('animationend');
}
});
}));
it('should inject the ngDialog service', inject(function(ngDialog) {
expect(ngDialog).toBeDefined();
}));
describe('no options', function () {
var inst, elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $document, $timeout) {
inst = ngDialog.open();
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(inst.id);
}));
it('should have returned a dialog instance object', function() {
expect(inst).toBeDefined();
});
it('should include a document id', function() {
expect(inst.id).toEqual('ngdialog1');
});
it('should have created an element on the DOM', function() {
expect(elm).toBeDefined();
});
it('should have an empty template', function() {
expect(elm.textContent).toEqual('Empty template');
});
});
describe('with a plain template', function () {
var elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
var id = ngDialog.open({
template: '<div><p>some text {{1 + 1}}</p></div>',
plain: true
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id);
}));
it('should have compiled the html', inject(function () {
expect(elm.textContent).toEqual('some text 2');
}));
});
describe('with a plain template URL', function () {
var elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document, $httpBackend) {
$httpBackend.whenGET('test.html').respond('<div><p>some text {{1 + 1}}</p></div>');
var id = ngDialog.open({
templateUrl: 'test.html'
}).id;
$httpBackend.flush();
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id);
}));
it('should have compiled the html', inject(function () {
expect(elm.textContent).toEqual('some text 2');
}));
});
describe('with already cached template URL', function () {
var elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document, $httpBackend, $compile, $rootScope) {
$httpBackend.whenGET('cached.html').respond('<div><p>some text {{1 + 1}}</p></div>');
$compile('<div><div ng-include src="\'cached.html\'"></div></div>')($rootScope);
$rootScope.$digest();
$httpBackend.flush();
var id = ngDialog.open({
templateUrl: 'cached.html'
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id);
}));
it('should have compiled the html', inject(function () {
expect(elm.textContent).toEqual('some text 2');
}));
});
describe('with an appended class', function () {
var elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
var id = ngDialog.open({
appendClassName: 'ngdialog-custom'
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id);
}));
it('should have the additional class', inject(function () {
expect(elm.className.split(' ')).toContain('ngdialog-custom');
}));
});
describe('controller instantiation', function () {
var Ctrl;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $q) {
Ctrl = spy('DialogCtrl');
Ctrl.$inject = ['$scope', '$element', '$log', 'myLocal', 'localPromise'];
ngDialog.open({
controller: Ctrl,
resolve: {
myLocal: function () {
return 'local';
},
localPromise: function () {
return $q.when('async local!');
}
}
});
$timeout.flush();
}));
it('should have instantiated the controller', function() {
expect(Ctrl).toHaveBeenCalled();
});
describe('dependencies', function () {
var injected;
beforeEach(function () {
injected = Ctrl.calls.mostRecent().args;
});
it('should inject a scope', function() {
expect(injected[0].$watch).toEqual(any(Function));
});
it('should inject the root dialog html element', function() {
expect(injected[1].prop('id')).toEqual('ngdialog1');
});
it('should inject another angular service', inject(function($log) {
expect(injected[2]).toBe($log);
}));
it('should inject a local value', function() {
expect(injected[3]).toEqual('local');
});
it('should inject an asynchronous local value', function() {
expect(injected[4]).toEqual('async local!');
});
});
});
describe('public functions checking', function () {
var inst;
var elm;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $document, $timeout) {
inst = ngDialog.open();
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(inst.id);
}));
it('should be able to check if a dialog is open', inject(function(ngDialog) {
expect(ngDialog.isOpen(inst.id)).toBe(true);
}));
});
describe('bindToController data checking', function () {
var Ctrl;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout) {
Ctrl = spy('DialogCtrl');
ngDialog.open({
controller: Ctrl,
controllerAs: 'CtrlVM',
bindToController: true,
data: {
testData: 'testData'
}
});
$timeout.flush();
}));
it('should have placed ngDialogId on the controller', function() {
expect(Ctrl.calls.first().object.ngDialogId).toEqual('ngdialog1');
});
it('should have placed ngDialogData on the controller', function() {
expect(Ctrl.calls.first().object.ngDialogData.testData).toEqual('testData');
});
it('should have placed closeThisDialog function on the controller', function() {
expect(Ctrl.calls.first().object.closeThisDialog).toEqual(jasmine.any(Function));
});
it('should not have placed confirm function on the controller', function() {
expect(Ctrl.calls.first().object.confirm).toBeUndefined();
});
});
describe('bindToController data checking on openConfirm', function () {
var Ctrl;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout) {
Ctrl = spy('DialogCtrl');
ngDialog.openConfirm({
controller: Ctrl,
controllerAs: 'CtrlVM',
bindToController: true,
data: {
testData: 'testData'
}
});
$timeout.flush();
}));
it('should have placed confirm function on the controller', function () {
expect(Ctrl.calls.first().object.confirm).toEqual(jasmine.any(Function));
});
});
describe('openOnePerName', function () {
var dialogOptions = {
name: 'Do Something'
};
describe('when feature is off - default', function () {
var ngDialog;
var $timeout;
beforeEach(inject(function (_ngDialog_, _$timeout_) {
ngDialog = _ngDialog_;
$timeout = _$timeout_;
}));
it('should allow opening 2 dialogs with the same name', function () {
var firstDialog = ngDialog.open(dialogOptions);
expect(firstDialog).toBeDefined();
expect(firstDialog.id).toBe('ngdialog1');
var secondDialog = ngDialog.open(dialogOptions);
expect(secondDialog).toBeDefined();
expect(secondDialog.id).toBe('ngdialog2');
$timeout.flush();
});
});
describe('when feature is on (openOnePerName = true)', function () {
var ngDialog;
var $timeout;
beforeEach(module(function (ngDialogProvider) {
ngDialogProvider.setOpenOnePerName(true);
}));
beforeEach(inject(function (_ngDialog_, _$timeout_) {
ngDialog = _ngDialog_;
$timeout = _$timeout_;
}));
it('should not allow opening 2 dialogs with the same name', function () {
var firstDialog = ngDialog.open(dialogOptions);
expect(firstDialog).toBeDefined();
expect(firstDialog.id).toBe('do-something-dialog');
$timeout.flush();
var secondDialog = ngDialog.open(dialogOptions);
expect(secondDialog).toBeUndefined();
});
});
});
describe('with an width', function () {
var elm, open;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
open = function(width) {
var id = ngDialog.open({
width: width
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id).querySelector('.ngdialog-content');
}
}));
it('should transform number to px', function () {
open(400);
expect(elm.style.cssText.trim()).toBe('width: 400px;');
});
it('should set other width metrics', function () {
open('40%');
expect(elm.style.cssText.trim()).toBe('width: 40%;');
});
});
describe('with onOpenCallback', function () {
var elm, open;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
open = function (onOpenCallback) {
var id = ngDialog.open({
onOpenCallback: onOpenCallback
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
}
}));
it('onOpenCallback method should be called on opening of the dialog', function () {
var callback = spy();
open(callback);
expect(callback).toHaveBeenCalled();
})
});
describe('with custom height', function () {
var elm, open;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
open = function(height) {
var id = ngDialog.open({
height: height
}).id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id).querySelector('.ngdialog-content');
}
}));
it('should set modal height from number to px', function () {
open(400);
expect(elm.style.cssText.trim()).toBe('height: 400px;');
});
it('should set modal height using other units', function () {
open('40%');
expect(elm.style.cssText.trim()).toBe('height: 40%;');
});
});
describe('without custom height', function () {
var elm, id;
beforeEach(inject(function (ngDialog, $timeout, $document) {
id = ngDialog.open().id;
$timeout.flush();
elm = $document[0].getElementById(id).querySelector('.ngdialog-content');
}));
it('should have id', function() {
expect(id).toBeDefined();
expect(id).toEqual('ngdialog1');
});
it('should have created an element on the DOM', function() {
expect(elm).toBeDefined();
});
it('should have content', function() {
expect(elm.clientHeight).toBeGreaterThan(0);
});
});
describe('body classes should be applied / removed correctly', function () {
var elm, first, second, ngDialog, flush;
beforeEach(inject(function (_ngDialog_, $timeout, $document) {
ngDialog = _ngDialog_
first = ngDialog.open({
bodyClassName: 'ngdialog-first'
});
$timeout.flush();
second = ngDialog.open({
bodyClassName: 'ngdialog-second'
});
$timeout.flush();
elm = angular.element($document.find('body'));
flush = function () {
[].slice.call(
$document.find('body').children()
)
.map(angular.element)
.forEach(function (elm) {
if (elm.hasClass('ngdialog')) {
// yuck
elm.triggerHandler('animationend');
}
});
};
}));
it('should have two body classes applied', function () {
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-first')).toEqual(true);
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-second')).toEqual(true);
});
it('should properly remove one body class', function () {
first.close();
flush();
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-second')).toEqual(true);
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-first')).toEqual(false);
});
it('should properly remove all classes on closeAll', function () {
ngDialog.closeAll();
flush();
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-second')).toEqual(false);
expect(elm.hasClass('ngdialog-first')).toEqual(false);
});
});
});
|
Features the luggage shelf instead of the rear seats.
Originally painted White with the lower "Boxer" paint trim and with a Tan and Black leather interior.
From 1976 until 1978, the car was owned by Mr. C. B. of Columbus, Georgia. By 1977, the car had covered 27,000mi.
In 1978, the car was offered up in a consignment sale by: "FAF Motorcars" of Tucker, Georgia on behalf of Mr. C. B.
Later in 1978, the car was purchased by Mr. T. P. of Greenwich, Connecticut, through "Chinetti International Motors" of Connecticut, from "FAF Motorcars" of Georgia. By this time, the car was Red with the lower "Boxer" paint trim.
In October 2002, the car was located in Dickenson, Texas.
In April 2008, the car was offered up for sale by: "Motorcar Gallery" of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The mileage was stated to be 56,758mi. In October 2008, "Motorcar Gallery" offered it up for sale on "ebay". It failed to sell. As of November 2008, the car was reported as "sold" on Motorcar Gallery's website.
In late February 2009, the car was offered up for sale on "ebay" by "Texas Import Sales" of Dallas, Texas. Mileage stated to be 57,242mi. It failed to sell. Relisted in early March 2009 and it failed to sell again. |
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