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UK's plan to send refugees to Rwanda sparks criticism
Human Angle Trending News
by Loveworld April 19, 2022 0305
The British government has been accused of trading people like commodities after it unveiled a controversial plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way ticket 6,000km (3,700 miles) away to Rwanda.
In a speech on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said anyone who has entered the United Kingdom irregularly since the start of the year "may" be relocated to the country in central-east Africa.
Johnson said "thousands of refugees" could be transported during the years under the scheme, which, he argued, would "save countless lives" and clamp down on human smugglers.
Many disagreed, however. Rights groups and refugee organisations swiftly blasted what they called a "cruel", "inhumane" and "neo-colonial" plan, and questioned both its cost to the British taxpayers and effect on migration.
The mainstream media & Hollywood manipulates & controls the masses
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I'm really bad at finishing figures that I start. I tend to get about 75% done and then get sucked into something else. So, to try and help combat this, I'm going to post pictures each week of what's on my Painting Tray. Hopefully it'll shame me into finishing things. We shall see.
In this first photo I have a bunch of Dark Angels Tactical Marines, a couple of Assault Marines, a few veterans, a Techmarine and a couple of Plaguebearers acting as Heralds of Nurgle. The Marines mainly just need some details finished (eyes, chest, robes), Chapter icons added and bases completed. Most of them also need their guns added. The Plaguebearers have a few details to be finished and then their bases completed (The finished Nurglings in the picture show the style of base used on most of my Chaos Daemons army).
There's also a Dark Angels Banner Bearer on the tray, but I'm still not sure which banner I should give him. I have a metal Dark Angels Banner Bearer as well, which is most likely going to get the Dark Angels Chapter Banner, while the plastic one on the tray will most likely get one of the Sacred Standards or a Company Standard. I wish there was an easy way to switch them out. | RedPajamaC4_-5743608378859066643 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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Offshoring is when your main operations are in the U.S., and you have a team in the Philippines doing support tasks for you.
Nearshoring is when you are primarily based in the U.S., and you have a support team in Mexico.
The similarity between offshore and nearshore is the savings on labor costs. An example is software developer rates, which is estimated to save you at least 40% because rates of developers in Mexico (nearshore) and Philippines (offshore) are comparatively lower than rates of developers in the U.S. It's estimated that hiring 10 in-house developers will cost you at least $1.6 million that includes costs for salaries, paid time off and other employee benefits, retention and skills upgrade, medical care, and other related costs. In contrast, the same 10 developers located offshore or nearshore will cost you at least $700,000 including all the costs that we mentioned for the in-house team.
The main reason why a lot of corporations decide to hire from other locations is to cut down on production and labor cost. This is especially common in software development since there is a shortage of skilled IT talent in the U.S. Consequently, a lot of tech companies opt to hire their developers from other locations because they offer very affordable rates.
Nearshoring is derived from the business term "offshoring", and relatively follows a similar concept of external hiring, but doing so in a closer location. Specifically, nearshoring is located in the same geographical region like the U.S. and Mexico sharing the same borders. Both countries generally share the same time zones or have minimal differences.
Unlike taking a company function offshore, nearshore transfers a business process to a nearby country or within the same borders of the main office. Because the nearshore team is in close proximity, it allows a more convenient and frequent physical oversight. The company won't also have to deal with issues like cultural differences, language barriers and schedule conflicts, which are all present in offshoring.
Although nearshoring has its advantages in proximity, it also has its set of limitations and downsides. For one, it's significantly expensive compared to offshoring. With inflation rates rising and labor costs increasing in places like Mexico, the higher cost of resources will make it more expensive for your company to expand its offices.
Furthermore, the talent pool will shrink due to a shortage of qualified and experienced professionals in the area. In such places, the market is limited compared to other offshoring destinations like Philippines and India. These countries produce millions of graduates annually especially in the fields of science and technology. Therefore, most tech companies prefer to offshore their business processes to father locations.
Offshoring is the relocation of a business process to a country that is not in the same geographical region. It can be performed in two types – a company's subsidiary in another country, or by a separate company providing offshoring services to a client. An example of the first type is the Ford Motor Company (FMC) and Cisco – two large American companies that offshore some of their major business processes to India. FMC has an IT subsidiary in India that handles all of its e-commerce and e-business solutions. Cisco's research and development facility in Bangalore, India, helps in faster deployment of products and solutions, develop new technologies, and provide customer technical support.
An example of the second type of offshoring is our company – Full Scale – a leading offshoring provider in Cebu City, Philippines. We are partners with several clients in the U.S., to provide them with robust and scalable services in software development, web development, graphics design, digital marketing, content writing, and search engine optimization. Our business partnerships with our clients are on a long-term basis because this will contribute to the growth and expansion of their businesses.
Full Scale's offshoring operations have also helped the economy in Cebu by hiring local talent and our lease of several office spaces where our teams are located. The local talent we employ on a full-time basis enables them to pay taxes and spend their disposable income on the local economy. We are continuing to expand through the hiring of additional employees for our projects and our eventual transfer to a bigger, unified office space by the end of the year.
If you are choosing between offshoring and nearshoring, offshoring could be a better option for your business because it offers many advantages compared to nearshoring. It is specifically beneficial for companies who want to offshore their IT services such as software development, web design, IT infrastructure, application development, helpdesk services and solutions, and knowledge services.
Offshoring's main advantage is that it gives your company access to a large talent pool and resources at a substantially lower cost. The offshoring strategy takes part of your business process to a farther location but still letting you retain full managerial control. Although offshoring destinations aren't as ideal as nearshored ones, these locations have certain factors that offset those issues.
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Global businesses continue to suffer from a seemingly unbridgeable divide between their marketing and sales teams—a gap which undermines two of the most important competencies necessary to generate demand, capture revenue and gain competitive advantage. The traditional relationship between sales, marketing and channel groups tends to be more antagonistic than synergistic. Even in those enterprises where sales and marketing staff are merged into one department with one management structure, the adversarial dynamic is frequently both institutional and cultural.
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On average, an Automotive Locksmith will charge around $250 to make you a set of remote car keys. On average, traditional, non-remote car keys will set you back by around $200. Costs vary depending on your car's make and model. Of course, transponder keys cost more to replace.
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At NJ's Locksmiths, we are always fretting about service. Measuring it. Improving it – no matter what.
If your car was born after 1990, chances are it will use a Transponder key. Transponder keys are different because of what is embedded in their head. A microchip.
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Anita Antoinette Named Musical Ambassador for Nat'l Caribbean American Heritage Month
by kahlil wonda History, News, Pop Music, reggae, Soul/R&B • Tags: Anita Antoinette, Bob Marley, Boston, Caribbean American Heritage, Clinton Fearon, Erykah Badu, India Arie, Institute of Caribbean Studies, The Gladiators, The Voice, United States
Anita Antoinette to be Musical Ambassador for Celebration of June National Caribbean American Heritage Month 2016
Anita Antoinette, Musical Ambassador for National Caribbean American Heritage Month 2016
The Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS), the nation's leading Caribbean American advocacy and development organization, is pleased to announce that Anita Antoinette, who captured the attention of millions on the 7 th season of "The Voice", will serve as the Musical Ambassador for Caribbean American Heritage Month in 2016. Ms. Antoinette joins the ranks of CenCe, and URIM 7 as fresh voices who have served as Musical Ambassador since the program's founding in 2013.
Anita grew up dancing to the rhythm of her father's music Clinton Fearon, a member of The Gladiators, a Jamaican roots reggae band, most popular during the 1970s in Kingston, Jamaica. Self-taught singer and guitarist, Anita began writing her own music as a teenager, inspired both by her father and other legends, including Bob Marley, India Arie, and Erykah Badu. She graduated from the prestigious Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in 2008, and was accepted to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she earned a Bachelors Degree in Professional Music with a Concentration in Music Business and Songwriting.
Anita Antoinette has performed on stages large and small throughout New England, the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest, including 2008 appearance at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. She appeared on the 7th season of NBC's hit show, "The Voice", placing in the TOP TEN, and easily became one of the most loved and talked about performers. Antoinette who has been working on producing her first EP since The Voice will be launching a single "CARE" from the EP which will serve as her platform for JUNE.
"We are absolutely delighted to have Anita Antoinette as Musical Ambassador for 2016. She represents the new consciousness arising in the next generation of leaders in the Caribbean American community", stated Dr. Claire Nelson, ICS President & Founder. "Her poise and integrity shone through on the voice, and we anticipate that her artistic acumen will continue to be burnished as her star rises".
National Caribbean American Heritage Month has been celebrated annually every June since 2006. For ICS, it represents an opportunity to bring together Caribbean American community leaders across the country to address common concerns; to allow Caribbean Americans everywhere to feel a sense of place in the American public discourse; and to bring highlights to the contributions past, present and future being made by Caribbean immigrants to the USA. ICS, the architect of the Campaign to Celebrate June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month (NCAHM) now has partners in twenty cities and locales across the country from Atlanta to New Orleans to Los Angeles.
To interview Anita Antoinette or secure her for a performance, please contact Shelley at redcarpetshelley.com 404-618-5018.
For more information please visit our website at www.caribbeanamericanmonth.org.
About the ICS:
The Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS), founded in 1993, is the architect and campaign chair for commemoration of June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month, established by President George Bush in 2006. ICS is a non-partisan, non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization founded by Dr. Claire A. Nelson, White House Champion of Change. The premiere CaribbeanAmerican Think/Do Tank, ICS seeks to address development challenges facing Caribbean peoples, and to adopt a thorough, systematic and coordinated long-term perspective towards their resolution. To learn more about Caribbean American Heritage Month and the Institute of Caribbean Studies please visit our website.
"Where I Belong," A new single by Glen Washington and E-Dee
by kahlil wonda Movies, reggae • Tags: Associated Press, black lives matter, E-Dee, glen washington, Out the Gate, revolution, Roots reggae, United States, Where I Belong
There is a new single to take note of by Glen Washington and E-Dee of the movie "Out The Gate" and "Revolution" featuring Irie Love.
The song is called "Where I Belong." The lyrics talk about the challenges of living where the system puts the youth and minorities in general at risk to lose their life at the hands of law enforcement. "Teach the truth to the youth, remember Hands Up Don't Shoot" sings Washington.
The feeling of the record is peaceful, at such a un-peaceful topic, reflecting the positive hand of hope and faith in guidance and protection.
Various Artists: Pacific Reggae Vol. 1
by kahlil wonda News, reggae • Tags: Fiji, Hawaiian Islands, Hirie, House of Shem, J Boog, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, reggae, Sammy J, Sons of Zion, Tomorrow People, United States
Reggae is universal, and that certainly includes the west coast of The United States and the islands of the Pacific ocean. If you are a reggae lover, you will not be disappointed by this various artists compilation from VP Records, "Pacific Reggae Volume 1."
Various Artists: Pacific Reggae Vol. 1 Artwork
Homegrown Northwest Reggae Festival // July 25-26 in Carnation, WA
Cool up & join the Musical Heatwave in today's monthly Reggae MD Global Listening Party
California Roots Music & Arts Festival on the (5/23-5/25)
Calling All Reggae Lovers
Various Artists: ROOTS ROCKING REGGAE VOL. 3
Chronixx triggers a rush at Sumfest
Reggae lovers pay tribute to Marley
Reggae Sun Ska 2014 Full Line Up
Christopher Martin: Secret Love (Creep) #reggaelover
by kahlil wonda News, reggae • Tags: Amazura, Christopher Martin, Jamaica, Jamaica Queens, New York, Queens, Radio Lily, reggae, Shaggy, United States
Christopher Martin – Secret Love (Creep) – Artwork
Christopher Martin delivers a brand new single entitled "Secret Love (Creep)". Christopher just finished up a New York promo run where he made stops for interviews at Sirius XM, Randy's Reggae Radio and Radio Lily (Miss Lily's), before his appearance as a Co-headliner at Irie Jam's Ladies Ball Stage Show at the legendary night club Amazura in the heart of Jamaica Queens.
Christopher Martin LIVE At The 2013 Jamaican Jerk Festival
Shaggy Headlines Jerk Festival 2013 (Video)
Get Jah Involve Tour, Paul Elliott , Bronco Knowledge & Clotilde, DJ Snipe , Backed by Stargate Reggae Band
VP Records Signs Christopher Martin
Christopher Martin added to International Cast for Jam Zone Summer Break 2013
Live Event Photos : Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band, Live Babel Med World Music Festival, Marseille
BangON NYC – The 3D Underground Rave
The King & Queen Of Dancehall Set To Perform At Reggae Sumfest 2013
Miss Lily's
Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI)
One Day Spring Fling Pop Up Shop by The Honorary Citizen – @thcinl
by kahlil wonda events, Fashion, reggae • Tags: Atlanta, Clothing, Fallen Arrows, Fashion, Honorary Citizen, Sales, Shopping, Springtime, thc international, United States
One of my favorite clothing lines is offering huge savings – One Day Only! See the message from The Honorary Citizen boutique below.
Spring Fling Pop Up:
Tomorrow April 5th.
Fallen Arrows Showroom
858 Dekalb Ave. #Atlanta
Save big on all fleece + Up to 50% off last seasons items. Get to see and pre-order new pieces before anyone else.
Come shop and get any 2 tees for just $50 when you share/repost any of our IG pics. Be sure to mention @thcinl for credit.
Online: Beginning midnight tonight, the first 50 people to pre-order our Super Soft V neck tee will receive it for just $25. Use code: CLNHRT during checkout. Limit one per member.
Stephon Marbury Made An Honorary Citizen Of Beijing
Pre- Order Printed Prep Shorts | @thcintl
Damian Marley and Skrillex strike gold with 'Make It Bun Dem'
by kahlil wonda News, Pop Music, reggae • Tags: Damian Marley, Make It Bun Dem, marley, Music recording sales certification, Record chart, Recording Industry Association of America, Skrillex, United States
Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley's "Make It Bun Dem," the chart-topping collaborative effort with American producer, Skrillex has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Damian Marley and Skrillex
Damian Marley – Gunman World
Thursday's Diaspora Song of the Day (In Honor of Black Music Month) Damian Marley "Dem Neva Make It"
New Track: Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley "Is It Worth It?"
Terry Linen returns with "Welcome To My World" Album
by kahlil wonda News, reggae • Tags: album, Album Release, Jamaica, lover's rock, Miami, New York City, One Drop, reggae, singers, Studio album, Terry Linen, United States, VP Records, Welcome To My World
Reggae singer Terry Linen's new studio album "Welcome To My World" will be available in stores and online February 11, 2014.
Terry Linen – Welcome To My World – Artwork
Terry Linen promotional tour:
New York City: February 7 – 10
Miami: February 14 – 18
House Music Tastemakers Prok & Fitch Announce New Single Ft. Max Linen "Man With Soul" Out 2/3 + "Man With Soul" Tour This February
Tarrus Riley to drop new album in February
They Call It "Fusion" – Classic Jazz Fusion
Bruce Springsteen Performs AC/DC In Perth
Terri Clark Partnering with Her Fans to Make New Studio Album
I-octane Ignites With New Album, 'My Journey'
Her Destiny : Veronica Leigh releases debut album 'My Destiny My Purpose'
New Tarrus Riley album tops Billboard chart
Was 2013 the best year of music, ever?
Katy Perry Scores 11th No. 1 Hit; Possible Bieber Move Irks Atlanta
Beenie Man and Orisha Sound Oficial Video For "WORLD WAR 3"
by kahlil wonda News, Pop Music, reggae • Tags: BeenieMan, dancehall, Downtown Los Angeles, Israel, Jamaica, Kingston, Marvin Williams, Official Music Video, Orisha Sound, United States, World War 3
After much anticipation, 2013 breakout artist, Orisha Sound, and the dancehall king, Beenie Man have released the official video for their massive single, "World War 3". The video was shot both in Kingston, Jamaica (Waltham Park, Steven Lane) and Downtown Los Angeles. It was directed by Marvin Williams (USA), Shel-K and Winston Price (Jamaica).
Producers of "World War 3" are Shel-K (Jamaica), Josh Stevens (USA) and K-Kov (Israel). There are three official remixes for "world war 3"; a Jamaican (dancehall) mix which is done by Shel-K, an African mix which is done by Alexis Faku who is a multiple South African Music Awards winner, and finally there is a European remix done by Rayan Otter. All remixes will be released shortly.
CUPID – ORISHA SOUND Album in stores.
Beenie Man – Easier
Griffiths, Chronixx, Chalice, and Beenie Man Join the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival
All Set for "Captain meets King" concert this evening @ National Stadium
Jamaica bobsleigh awarded Sochi spot
On track: Evanston-based Jamaican bobsledders head to Sochi
Tony Matterhorn alongside King Addies in #ATL – Feb 1st, 2014
by kahlil wonda events, reggae • Tags: ATL, Atlanta, Club Pisces, dancehall, DJ Chigga, Dubplates, dubs, Georgia, Inner City Sound, King Addies, Love People Sound, Mark Dragon, reggae sound systems, selector, sound systems, Stone Mountain, Tony Matterhorn, United States, Warfile Sound
Tony Matterhorn alongside King Addies, Mark Dragon from Inner City Sound, Warfile and Love People
'Reunion' on Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 The #History Dance Inside Club-Pisces Stone-Mountain Atlanta Ga.
Admission is only $20 so come out early to enjoy the classics and exclusives from the Dubplate arsenal.
T.I. and Lauren London to return in ATL sequel?
The cast of R&B Divas Atlanta Season 2 blazes the red carpet and KeKe Wyatt hits the stage at their ATL fan appreciation event
#NowPlaying: "I Did It First" x Scotty ATL (feat. Shawn Chrystopher, Chase Allen and Coolismac)
When Pressure Makes A Diamond: The Evolution of DiamondATL [@diamondATL]
Kalenna of Diddy's 'Dirty Money' crew confirmed for Love & Hip Hop ATL?
Sex, Love, and Reggae: A spotlight on Gyptian's new album
by kahlil wonda Podcasts, reggae • Tags: Angela Hunte, Da Music Vault, Facebook, Gyptian, Hold You, Jamaica, Love, Melanie Fiona, podcast, reggae, sex, Sex Love and Reggae, United States, Wet Fete featuring Kes The Band
DOWNLOAD the Sex, Love, and Reggae: A spotlight on Gyptian's new album 11-13-13 PODCAST
LISTEN ONLINE To Sex, Love, and Reggae: A spotlight on Gyptian's new album 11-13-13 Podcast
FULL 'DA MUSIC VAULT WITH KAHLIL WONDA' 11-13-13 SHOW
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Listen to New Mr. Vegas Songs and Interview (highlanda.net)
Shaggy & Gyptian Talk Reggae with Tim Westwood (getitwrighthere.com)
Gyptian – "Sex, Love and Reggae"* (feat. Bunji Garlin & Angela Hunte) // Sex, Love and Reggae (berberuh.wordpress.com)
Spotlight on Vybz Kartel's new album 'Kartel Forever: Trilogy' (highlanda.net)
The reason why I fell in love with Jamaican music – > @RealGyptian #LovinThisAlbum #StuckOnReplay (clothesbym.wordpress.com)
Review: Gyptian's Sex, Love And Reggae – when dancehall goes pop (metro.co.uk)
New Gyptian album, 'Sex, Love and Reggae' tops Billboard chart (examiner.com)
*FRANTIK* Starring CAPLETON Live in Concert + The Prophecy Band
by kahlil wonda events, reggae • Tags: Arts, Capleton, Disc Jockey, DJ E-Cool, Elite Soundz, Ivey League, Jamaica, John Wayne, Johno, Love People Sound, music, Prophecy Band, reggae, SMP Allstar, The Prophet, United States
FRANTIK- Starring CAPLETON Live in Concert + The Prophecy Band. Music by: John Wayne l Love People l Elite Soundz & DJ E-Cool Saturday, November 16th @ Club Pisces.
Classic Reggae Mix from Da Music Vault with Kahlil Wonda (10-2-13 ) (highlanda.net)
MIDNIGHT RAVER chats up the great U-BROWN (midnightraverblog.com)
'ISLAND MADNESS' at Vibes Night Club EVERY 1ST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
by kahlil wonda events, Hip Hop, reggae, Soca, Soul/R&B • Tags: Birthdays, Disc Jockey, DJ Nolan, DJ Papa John, Fantasy Vybez, island madness, John Wayne, One Drop Events, Razor Ent, United States
EACH AND EVERY 1ST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH. CALL 678-820-8425 FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH A "FREE" PARTY.
Mad Decent Block Party 2013 Takes Over Philly (independentphilly.com)
Selena Gomez Continues Birthday Celebrations Before Big Party (hollywoodlife.com)
Taylor Swift Avoided Selena Gomez's Party Because Of Justin Bieber (hollywoodlife.com)
Twas The Night Before Lollapalooza (wxrt.cbslocal.com)
Exclusive 2013 Sean Paul Interview With Gemma Feare of Factory78
by kahlil wonda Hip Hop, Interviews, News, Pop Music, reggae • Tags: 2 Chainz, Damian Marley, Gemma Feare, Grammy Award, Juicy J, Junior Gong, Other Side Of Love, Sean Paul, Studio album, United States
Presenter Gemma Feare catches up with global superstar Sean Paul to find out about his new singles , "The Other Side of Love," "Entertainment" feat. 2 Chainz & Juicy J, and "Riot" featuring Damian "Junior Gong" Marley.
New Music: Sean Paul feat. 2 Chainz & Juicy J – Entertainment (highbrowhiphop.com)
FREE DOWNLOAD: ĀGARD – LIVE FROM PARK SLOPE PART 2
by kahlil wonda Live Sounds, News, Pop Music, Uncategorized • Tags: agard, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Bass, BBQ, Brooklyn, DaFlavaRadio.com, Dance, Disc Jockey, EDM, Highlanda, Highlanda Sound, Live Music, Live Performance, mp3, music, New York, New York City, nu disco, podcast, Progressive, Progressive House, remixes, Summer, Summer Events, Summer Music, United States
As promised ĀGARD returns with his second snippet from an exclusive live set in Brooklyn, New York. The last set was a "warm up" set. This set starts out with a power packed Electronic Dance Music (EDM) set and moves into some Nu Disco. Feel free to play, download, leave comments, and/or share. Enjoy!
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Laza Morgan Named Musical Ambassador for National Caribbean American Heritage Month
by kahlil wonda News, Pop Music, reggae • Tags: Brooklyn, Caribbean, Denroy Morgan, Gramps Morgan, Jamaican American, Laza Morgan, Morgan Heritage, National Caribbean American Heritage Month, Red Carpet Shelley, United States
The Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) led by Dr. Claire Nelson has announced its selection of Jamaican-American reggae artist Laza Morgan as Musical Ambassador for National Caribbean American Heritage Month (NCAHM).
As NCAHM Musical Ambassador Laza will help spread the word to a younger audience that June is Caribbean American Heritage Month. He will also serve as a role model to other young Caribbean American musicians and artists.
Laza Morgan is the son of acclaimed Jamaican music legend and hit maker, reggae singer Denroy Morgan. Laza was born into the Morgan Heritage Family Dynasty of reggae music and has been surrounded by music his entire life. Laza grew up in Brooklyn, NY, attended school in Springfield, MA and lived in a distinctly Jamaican household.
This year the NCAHM Musical Ambassador Program is being managed through RedCarpetShelley.com who has signed on as a National Media Partner. RedCarpetShelley.com is fast becoming the mecca for Caribbean Entertainment news.
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by kahlil wonda Live Sounds, Mixtapes • Tags: agard, aoagard, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn, Disc Jockey, disco, EDM, Highlanda, Highlanda Sound, Moombah, mp3, music, New York, New York City, nu disco, Old-School, podcast, R&B, schlomo, Trap, Trap Music, United States
ĀGARD, formerly known as Crisis Don, one Highlanda Sound's founding members resurfaces on the scene in Brooklyn, New York.
The longtime producer, DJ, and promoter has decided to share two DJ sets he did for an exclusive private event in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn.
The almost two hour first set includes an hour of rare Disco re-edits from Stevie Wonder to The Bee Gees to Wham. The set goes all the way from 70's Disco to Major Lazer. Listen and download the live set and let us know what you think.
Click link to download: ĀGARD – Live From Park Slope part 1
Impressions from Atlanta Carnival 2013
by kahlil wonda News, Party Pics, Soca • Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Atlanta, Atlanta Carnival, Atlanta Carnival 2013, Caribbean, Carnival, CNN, DJ Choice One, Events and Festivals, Guyana, Haiti, Highlanda Sound, Images, Impressions, Photos, Pics, Pictures, Prizm Mas, Red Carpet Shelley, Trinidad & Tobago, United States
Images Of Atlanta Carnival 2013
DJ Choice One MD
Repping Guyana
SuperPEC waving his rag
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Representing Haiti
Choice One and SuperPEC on the road with Prizm Mas
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Meta & The Cornerstones Interview
by kahlil wonda Interviews, reggae • Tags: Bob Marley & The Wailers, Cornerstones, Damian Marley, Forward Music, Junior Gong, Meta and the Cornerstones, Meta Dia, New York City, reggae, Tuff Gong, United States, West Africa, Youssou N'Dour
Check out this interview with Meta from Meta & The Cornerstones during their visit to last.fm!
Proclaimed the next 'African Reggae Voice', Meta's unforgettable vocals are complemented by the incomparable sounds of his band The Cornerstones. Meta and The Cornerstones' music is warm and embodying, immensely addictive, and destined to forever change the dynamics of Reggae music. Through pure musical genius and humble spirits, the band successfully fuses Reggae, Afro-Pop, Hip-Hop, Rock, and Soul music with passionate lyrics in English, French, Wolof and Fulani.
Born in Senegal, West Africa, lead singer of Meta and The Cornerstones, Meta Dia, discovered his love for music and desire to be a musician at a very young age. Listening to Reggae greats Bob Marley and Gregory Isaacs helped nurture his admiration and true appreciation for all types of music. As a self-taught musician, by age 14 he was performing on the street and stages of his hometown Dakar, Senegal. In 2000, Meta formed his first band YALLA SUUREN (God Bless), which was nominated for Best Hip-Hop/Reggae Group by the French Cultural Center the same year. Within two years, Meta had become one of the premier pioneering voices of the Hip-Hop culture in West Africa. After relocating to the United States, Meta immediately began collaborating with artists such as Sean Blackman, and Hip-Hop Ambassador Toni Blackman. Shortly after settling in New York City, he formed his visionary band, Meta and The Cornerstones.
With varying ethnicity, religion, and musical influences, Meta & The Cornerstones' sound is a melting pot rooted in diversity, strength, and unity. Lead singer Meta Dia hails from Senegal; Israeli Guitarist Shahar Mintz; Texas born Daniel Serrato, and Keyboard Player Aya Kato from Japan, join Jamaicans Wayne Fletcher on Drums and Rupert McKenzie on Bass, and combine their creative differences from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and America, which are clearly expressed in the repertoire of the band's music.
Meta and The Cornerstones channels the roots of Reggae while simultaneously breathing new life into the genre, thus creating what critics have called a "soul-pounding spiritual experience" during their live performances. Inspired by Alpha Blondy and Lucky Dubee, they have shared the stage with Reggae stars Luciano, Steel Pulse, Clinton Fearon, Israel Vibration, and Tanya Stephens amongst others. In 2007, the band was personally invited by Senegalese-born international superstar, Youssou N'Dour to perform at his annual African Ball concert at the Nokia Theater in New York. The following year Meta and The Cornerstones proudly released its first album entitled "Forward Music". Of this work Clive Chin; Jamaican producer for The Wailers, Dennis Brown, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, notes, "Meta and The Cornerstones have taken us back to the foundation of reggae music".
As he continues to establish new grounds, Meta is now the first African artist to be signed to the iconic record label VP Records, the#1 source for Reggae Music. Through VPAL/VP, Meta and The Cornerstones is set to release their second album 'Ancient Power' in the spring of 2013. Recorded at the infamous Tuff Gong Studio in Kingston Jamaica, 'Ancient Power' links Africa to Jamaica by paying tribute to the ageless sounds of reggae preserved by the history of its legends. The 15-track work features Reggae legend U-Roy, as well as today's leading artists Capleton and Damian Marley.
With the vision to transcend oceans, borders, and language barriers through positive music, Meta and The Cornerstones never fails to create and convey a sincere, loving, and unifying vibe for every audience blessed to experience it. They truly have something to offer those that listen and that offering is always a message of 'Peace, Love and Harmony'. So come… Immerse yourself in it.
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Caribbean American Movers and Shakers Networking Series
by kahlil wonda events, History, News, reggae, Soca, Uncategorized • Tags: Atlanta metropolitan area, Awards, Caribbean, Caribbean American Movers and Shakers Networking Series, Caribbean Media Network, Climax Thursdays, events, Fins Atlanta, Florida, Miami, networking, New York City, Red Carpet Shelley, United States
Recognizing Caribbean American Cross-Cultural Contributions to the Global Marketplace
The 2013 Caribbean American Networking and Social Media Series will kick off in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday May 23, 2013. The annual recognition identifies professionals and civic minded individuals of Caribbean heritage, living in the metro Atlanta area, who have contributed to the multicultural community. Our honorees were carefully considered amongst an excellent slate of distinguished nominees, which includes film producers, songwriters, executives, doctors, and community leaders. The accomplishments of our honorees, play a significant role in the continued growth of the metro Atlanta area, and surrounding counties.
The Caribbean Media Network, in conjunction with affiliates, will host a memorable networking celebration on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Fins Restaurant and Lounge, located in Midtown Atlanta. The event will start promptly at 7:00p.m. The event timing has a notable significance for Caribbean Americans in Atlanta, as the city plays host to the 25th Anniversary of Atlanta Caribbean Festival, on May 25, 2013.
The 2013 Caribbean American Movers and Shakers Networking Series includes a series of promotional events, in the prime markets of Atlanta, Georgia, New York City, and Miami, Florida, throughout the year. The 2013 Atlanta Networking Event, will be hosted by Caribbean American Diva, Red Carpet Shelley, who serves as an ambassador of Caribbean lifestyle and culture. Music will be provided by radio personalities Kahlil Wonda and Super Pec of Highlanda Sound, throughout the evening.
For more information on RSVP and celebrity involvement: Please contact Caribbean Media Network at 404-455-2944 or email mthomas@caribemedianetwork.com .
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Dancehall Retaliates
by kahlil wonda News • Tags: Arts, dancehall, Dancehall Retaliates, Jamaica, Karamanti, music, reggae, United States
Dancehall music, culture and lifestyle have been in the hot seat for some time now. Many in the corporate arenas have said that anything associated with Dancehall should not be sponsored and as thus have refused to offer support.
Jamaican based artist, Karamanti, has responded to all who speak negatively of Dancehall with a full length album and a video defending both the music and the culture.
The project is called "Dancehall Retaliates".
On some of the hardest Dancehall beats, she explains that no one should judge the genre of Dancehall based on a few negative elements within it.
As she puts it, she is also a part of the Dancehall community and she does not do slack, violent or degrading music.
Dancehall Retaliates is now available on itunes, and can be streamed for free on Karamanti's website.
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TORT REFORM A LA FRANQAISE: JURISPRUDENTIAL AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES ON DAMAGES FOR BODILY INJURY IN FRANCE
April 18, 2016 in Print Articles / Volume 13, Issue 2
13 Colum. J. Eur. L. 231 (2007)
David Corbé-Chalon. Attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche (Instructor), Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France; Member of the Groupe de recherches en droit des affaires (Research Group in Business Law). Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law.
Martin A. Rogoff. Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law.
There is a perception among many in the United States that the system for awarding tort damages for bodily injuries needs to be reformed. Some legal scholars have proposed the adoption of a system similar to that which presently exists in France. In France, too, however, there are concerns about the operation of the system for the award of tort damages jbr bodily injuries, particularly as to its rationality, transparency, and fairness. During the past few years several important government-sponsored reports have proposed changes to various aspects of the system. Also, the European Union, of which France is a member, has concerns regarding tort damage awards and has enacted legislation and entertained proposals to change the current regimes existing in EU member states. European human rights law and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights bear importantly on French law as well. French rethinking of the law in this domain is in addition occurring within the context of changing ideas about civil liability and the nature of bodily injuries, which have found expression in decisions of the Constitutional Council and in amendments to the Civil Code. After exploring these matters in Parts I and !!, our focus then narrows in Parts I/I, IV, and V to consider in detail the substantive standards for the award of tort damages, the procedural methodology for the application of those standards, and the operation of the system in practice. Such detailed analysis is necessary to understand how changing conceptions and values, in France and at the European level, affect the system in practice and lead to calls for change. In addition, any real understanding of the French system requires an appreciation of the complicated interplay of courts, lawyers, medical experts, private insurers, state insurance and indemnity funds, and other actors in the award of tort damages for bodily injuries. In Part VI and the Conclusion we return to broader considerations of policy and perspective to analyze the fundamental principle of "total reparation" and to consider its relationship to ideas of distributive and corrective justice.
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Biografia
Rimasto orfano a dodici anni, studiò a Rugby e quindi si trasferì in India, raggiunta via mare insieme al vescovo di Calcutta, Reginald Heber, che ne rinvigorì il fervore religioso e la fiducia nella missione civilizzatrice del cristianesimo.
Nel 1823, a soli sedici anni, entrò nel 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry facendo una rapida e brillante carriera da ufficiale che gli consentì di conseguire il grado di capitano.
Fu proprio lui a coniare il termine "Grande Gioco" per descrivere lo scontro tra l'impero britannico e quello russo per l'egemonia in Asia centrale e in India (1829).
Nel 1830-1831 effettuò una lunga esplorazione dell'Asia centrale partendo da Mosca, attraversando il Caucaso, il mar Caspio e il deserto del Karakum e infine raggiungendo l'India britannica.
Nel 1834, in seguito alle esplorazioni effettuate, pubblicò un lungo resoconto del viaggio che ne consacrò la fama di esploratore e scrittore.
Nel 1840 ripartì per l'Asia centrale per tentare di convincere i governanti dei tre canati del Turkestan (Khiva, Bukhara e Kokand) a mettere da parte i loro contrasti, a fare fronte comune contro i tentativi russi di penetrazione commerciale e militare, e a liberare i numerosi cittadini russi ivi tenuti in schiavitù: l'impresa era rischiosa, ma fu da lui accettata senza tentennamenti, sembra anche a causa di una recente e cocente delusione d'amore.
Nel settembre 1840 raggiunse Khiva ove fu ricevuto amichevolmente dal khan Allah Quli Bahadur che tuttavia declinò la sua offerta di allearsi con gli altri due canati in chiave antirussa.
Poco dopo raggiunse Kokand dove fu nuovamente ben accolto dal khan locale, Muhammad Ali Khan, detto Madali Khan, il quale stava però accingendosi a dichiarare guerra a Bukhara e quindi non era disponibile ad accettare alcuna proposta di alleanza. Nell'occasione, anzi, il khan mise Conolly in guardia dall'emiro bucarese Nasrullah Khan, sconsigliando il viaggio nel terzo canato.
Nonostante ciò nell'autunno 1841 l'ufficiale inglese decise di fare visita a Nasrullah, prefiggendosi di ottenere da questi, quanto meno, la liberazione del tenente colonnello Charles Stoddart, ivi fatto prigioniero qualche tempo prima (autunno 1838) con l'accusa di aver mancato di rispetto all'emiro per averlo salutato senza smontare da cavallo, secondo l'uso militare inglese.
Dapprima Nasrullah ricevette Conolly in modo cordiale e accettò di alleviare le condizioni di detenzione di Stoddart, consentendogli di risiedere con lui presso una dimora privata, l'abitazione di Abdul Samut. Quando però apprese della rivolta afgana e della successiva disfatta britannica in Afghanistan, l'emiro non esitò a privare della libertà anche Conolly.
Alla fine di aprile del 1842 una missione russa lasciò Bukhara senza che l'ufficiale che ne era a capo, il colonnello Buteneff, riuscisse a convincere l'emiro a liberare i due britannici.
Nel giugno 1842 Conolly e Stoddart furono condannati a morte con l'accusa di spionaggio.
L'esecuzione dei condannati, costretti a scavarsi la fossa con le loro mani, ebbe luogo di fronte alla cittadella bucarese (Ark) al cospetto di una folla silenziosa.
Il primo a cadere sotto la scure del boia fu proprio Stoddart: al momento dell'esecuzione ebbe la presenza di spirito di denunciare la tirannide dell'emiro; secondo un'altra versione, in punto di morte avrebbe invece rivendicato la propria fede cristiana. Fu poi il turno di Conolly che tuttavia ricevette da Nasrullah l'offerta di avere salva la vita se si fosse fatto musulmano come Stoddart: rifiutò, rilevando che la conversione non aveva salvato la vita al compagno e quindi non avrebbe potuto salvare la sua, e si disse pronto a morire. Fu giustiziato pochi istanti dopo.
Note
Bibliografia
Peter Hopkirk, Il Grande Gioco. I servizi segreti in Asia centrale, Milano, Adelphi, 2004, ISBN 978-88-459-1813-1.
Marcello Flores, Il genocidio degli armeni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, ISBN ISBN 978-88-151-0488-5.
Stephen Edward Wheeler, voce Charles Stoddart, in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900.
Voci correlate
Grande Gioco
Emirato di Bukhara
Khanato di Bukhara
Khanato di Khiva
Khanato di Kokand
Nasrullah Khan (Bukhara)
Alexander Burnes
Eldred Pottinger
Charles Stoddart
Aleksandr Michajlovič Gorčakov
Kim (romanzo)
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
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The presentation featured a special segment hosted by Kathleen Kennedy, Oscar-nominated producer and recipient of the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The segment highlighted the achievements of women working in the science and technology of filmmaking.
"In a year of upheaval, some things remain constant: around the world, extremely clever people are striving to push the technology of film to new heights, and the Academy is privileged to be able to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments," says Doug Roble, chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "After a lengthy investigation period, the committee, made up of a diverse group of industry experts, identified 17 different technical achievements that absolutely deserve to be honored."
The achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures, and unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards don't need to have been developed and introduced during a specific time period.
The Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements are:
Technical Achievement Awards (Academy Certificates)
Masato Nakashima, Koichi Ueno, Junji Sakuda and Junro Yonemitsu for the development of the Eizo auto-calibrating SDR monitors that incorporate a built-in sensor, digital uniformity equalizer and accompanying SDK.
Eizo auto-calibrating SDR monitors increase artists' confidence in facility-wide image reproduction accuracy and reduce disruptions to the creative process and production workflows. They have become indispensable for many major motion picture animation and effects facilities.
Alejandro Arango, Gary Martinez, Robert Derry and Glenn Derry for the system design, ergonomics, engineering and workflow integration of the widely adopted Technoprops head-mounted camera system.
The Technoprops head-mounted camera system, with its modular and production-proven construction, supports consistent face alignment with improved actor comfort, while at the same time permitting quick reconfiguration and minimizing downtime. This system enables repeatable, accurate and unobstructed capture of an actor's facial movements.
Babak Beheshti and Scott Robitille for the development of the compact, stand-alone, phase-accurate genlock synchronization and recording module, and to Ian Kelly and Dejan Momcilovic for the technical direction and workflow integration, of the Standard Deviation head-mounted camera system.
The Standard Deviation head-mounted camera system provides a robust method of accurate camera synchronization to the house clock. Combined with practical innovations for usability, it enables multiple head-mounted camera systems to be used in large capture volumes, resulting in adoption by numerous motion picture productions.
Sven Woop and Carsten Benthin for core development, Attila T. Áfra for motion picture feature development, and Manfred Ernst and Ingo Wald for early research and technical direction, of the Intel Embree Ray Tracing Library.
For the past decade, the Intel Embree Ray Tracing Library has provided a high-performance, industry-leading, CPU-based ray-geometry intersection framework through well-engineered open source code, supported by a comprehensive set of research publications. It has become an indispensable resource for motion picture production rendering.
Hayley Iben, Mark Meyer, John Anderson and Andrew Witkin for the Taz Hair Simulation System.
Taz is a robust, predictable and efficient mass-spring hair simulation system with novel formulations of hair shape, bending springs and hair-to-hair collisions. It has enabled Pixar artists to bring to life animated digital characters with a wide variety of stylized hair, from straight to wavy to curly.
Stephen Bowline for the ILM HairCraft Dynamics System.
The ILM HairCraft Dynamics System has a physically robust hair-dynamics model that simulates hair by embedding curves in tetrahedral mesh volumes. Its unique spring-based control system has helped ILM artists create a wide range of photorealistic digital characters and digital stunt doubles.
Kelly Ward Hammel, Aleka McAdams, Toby Jones, Maryann Simmons and Andy Milne for the Walt Disney Animation Studios Hair Simulation System.
The WDAS Hair Simulation System is a robust, predictable, fast and highly art-directable system built on the mathematics of discrete elastic rods. This has provided Disney artists the flexibility to manipulate hair in hyper-realistic ways to create the strong silhouettes required for character animation and has enabled a wide range of complex hairstyles in animated feature films.
Niall Ryan, Christoph Sprenger and Gilles Daviet for the Synapse Hair Simulation System.
The Synapse Hair Simulation System is a robust, predictable and highly scalable position-based dynamics system with a novel inverse parameter solver. It has helped Weta Digital artists create a wide range of photorealistic digital characters and digital stunt doubles.
Jens-Jørn Stokholm and Ole Moesmann for their innovative development of miniature high-performance DPA lavalier microphones.
The DPA 4061 and 4071 lavalier microphones exemplify creative design, precise manufacture and meticulous quality control, resulting in consistent performance and exceptional on-set motion picture audio recording.
Chris Countryman and Omer T. Inan for their engineering of the subminiature high-performance Countryman Associates lavalier microphones.
Originated by company founder Carl Countryman (1946–2006), these meticulously crafted subminiature microphones are easily concealed. Their spectral response-shaping filters, cable mounting and capsule design contribute to their wide adoption by motion picture production sound mixers.
Fredrik Limsäter, Björn Rydahl and Mattias Lagergren for the design, architecture and engineering of ftrack Studio.
An extensible, efficient and intuitive post production tracking software system, ftrack Studio has enabled small and large studios alike to efficiently schedule and manage complex digital motion picture animation and visual effects.
Don Parker for the product vision and design, Matt Daw for the core architecture, and Isaac Reuben, Colin Withers and Neil Brandt for the foundational engineering, of the Shotgun post production tracking system.
An extensible, web-based, flexible and scalable system, Shotgun has enabled the efficient management of highly complex visual effects and animation post workflows. By facilitating deep integration into a wide variety of facility pipelines, Shotgun has successfully productized the tracking of complex production data on large-scale motion pictures.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaques):
Dr. Zvi Reznic, Meir Feder, Guy Dorman and Ron Yogev for the development of the Amimon wireless chipset, which enables untethered, high-quality on-set, encrypted digital video monitoring with sub-frame latency.
By using novel extensions of digital data transmission and compression algorithms, and data prioritization based on error rate, the Amimon chipset supports the creation of systems with virtually unrestricted camera motion, expanding creative freedom during filming.
Nicolaas Verheem, Greg Smokler and Ilya Issenin for the development of the ruggedized Teradek Bolt wireless video transmission system for on-set remote monitoring.
The Teradek Bolt system features a frame-synchronized back channel for real-time camera control, an error-resilient timecode channel and integrated production metadata, which have led to its widespread adoption in motion picture production.
Alexey Lukin and the Team of Mathematicians, Software Engineers, Sound Designers and Product Specialists of iZotope, Inc. for the development of the RX audio processing system.
Featuring spectral processing algorithms enhanced with machine learning, the iZotope RX system is widely favored by motion picture sound professionals for audio repair and enhancement.
Jeff Bloom, Guy McNally and Nick Rose for the original concept and engineering of the Wordfit System for automatic ADR synchronization, and to John Ellwood and Jonathan Newland for the engineering and development of VocALign and Revoice Pro.
Wordfit revolutionized the process of post sync ADR by eliminating the need for manual editing to perfect lip sync. VocALign and Revoice Pro are software tools that together give sound editors unprecedented control over the final performance in replaced dialog. In use for many years, these technologies continue their predominance in the creation and seamless integration of replacement dialog tracks in motion pictures.
Sanken Microphone Company Limited for the original innovation and continuous refinement of the Sanken COS-11 series of miniature lavalier microphones.
Sanken's early engineering work in microphone orientation and miniaturization has inspired the current generation of lavalier microphones. The exceptional sound quality and durability of the COS-11 series have made them the predominant lavalier microphones used in motion picture production sound recording.
Congratulations to all the Honorees,
but a special congratulations to the ones in the sound field!
If you'd like to watch the full ceremony, you can find it here.
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#ifndef INCLUDE_stream_h__
#define INCLUDE_stream_h__
#include "common.h"
#include "git2/sys/stream.h"
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_connect(git_stream *st)
{
return st->connect(st);
}
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_is_encrypted(git_stream *st)
{
return st->encrypted;
}
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_certificate(git_cert **out, git_stream *st)
{
if (!st->encrypted) {
giterr_set(GITERR_INVALID, "an unencrypted stream does not have a certificate");
return -1;
}
return st->certificate(out, st);
}
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_supports_proxy(git_stream *st)
{
return st->proxy_support;
}
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_set_proxy(git_stream *st, const char *proxy_url)
{
if (!st->proxy_support) {
giterr_set(GITERR_INVALID, "proxy not supported on this stream");
return -1;
}
return st->set_proxy(st, proxy_url);
}
GIT_INLINE(ssize_t) git_stream_read(git_stream *st, void *data, size_t len)
{
return st->read(st, data, len);
}
GIT_INLINE(ssize_t) git_stream_write(git_stream *st, const char *data, size_t len, int flags)
{
return st->write(st, data, len, flags);
}
GIT_INLINE(int) git_stream_close(git_stream *st)
{
return st->close(st);
}
GIT_INLINE(void) git_stream_free(git_stream *st)
{
if (!st)
return;
st->free(st);
}
#endif
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The French financial regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has told the public not to enter in any relation with International Markets Live.
iMarkets Live offers trading education. The program is supposed to teach you to trade Forex profitably, you can also copy trades from alleged experts.
AMF has learned that iMarkets Live is targeting with this program people in France, even very young persons, also with a referral program. But iMarkets Live has no authorization to provide investment advice in France, it is not regulated.
Therefore, AMF recommended the French public not enter in any relation with International Markets Live.
The company behind this educational program is allegedly based in London, but it apparently has no licence from British FCA either, it is not regulated at all. | RedPajamaC4_-3117956213262293994 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Fulufjället National Park is a virtually untouched nature area in the southern part of the mountain range. The mountain rises in the landscape as a plateau that has steep sides and is flat on top. No reindeer graze here, so the mountain heath is covered with a thick carpet of lichen.
The Njupeskär waterfall is the highest in Sweden, cascading a total of 93 metres with a free fall of 70 metres. For thousands of years the water has chiselled out a deep canyon. Most of the visitors come to see it. From the top of the falls, you have a fantastic view of the canyon and the landscape.
The national park was dedicated in 2002. It measures 38,500 hectares (385 square kilometres), two-thirds of which is bare mountain heights and heath. | RedPajamaC4_7601386289733497904 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Hi, I'm Nicole. I'm currently studying for a Diploma in Records and Information Management. Currently I work for the Coromadel Heritage Trust in Thames, but if you're from Hamilton you might've seen me at Waikato Museum or at FASS at the University of Waikato. This is my first semester with Open Poly. | RedPajamaC4_8756168121464989997 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
These gorgeous Purple Rounded Beads are a beautiful way to add colour & texture to your mosaic design. Use them to create borders or lines within your mosaic. Each strand contains approximately 95 colourful beads. | RedPajamaC4_-3415173040617013740 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Elevate your sofa style by just switching out your sofa legs! These cylindrical sofa legs are 15cm in height and 4.5cm in diameter, perfect if you'd like to refresh the look of your sofa in minutes. You can also use these legs for a variety of DIY projects to add height to shelves or cabinets.
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It's Thanksgiving, so I thought I'd gives thanks to my favorite designer, Bernie Dexter! I've already done a Gaga for Bernie Dexter post, but BD dresses are clearly my most worn outfits! Plus I've collected a few new editions and styled some already showcased dresses differently since I did the 'Gaga for' post, so I figured I'd add a mostly pictorial post since half of us who love vintage repo compulsively search for images of the dresses we want/love being worn. (At least I do!) Hopefully this will help you kill time as you're sitting in a car en route to a family function, being lazy after a Thanksgiving Eve night, or have found yourself alone this year and are bored. Enjoy! I hope everyone is safe and gives thanks daily and not just today!
Happy Thanksgiving! What designer are you most thankful for??
I recently got some great deals on eBay on Bernie dresses! My mom is giving me one of them for Christmas :) Yay, you have the Christmas-y one, too! I'm so glad I snagged that one recently. And yes, I also compulsively search for the images ha!
I can't pick one designer I'm most thankful for, butttt....I would say Bernie, Hell Bunny and Folter!
Ahh I love your Bernie outfits! It's a shame they didn't have a whole modern vintage clothing mall in Denver that we could meet up at and have fun shopping in. *sigh* I was torn between Bernie Dexter and my Jenny skirts. There have been so many amazing clothing sales this week, it's been hard to decide which I wanted to get the most. In the end Pinup Girl's Jenny Skirts won and so did Fleet Collection. They had a killer sale that got me several skirts and a dress I'd been stocking for a while now. Last on my list is ModCloth's cyber monday sale. lol! I'm so baaaaad.
My gosh, I love your Bernie collection! You look amazing in all of them. I am always checking her eBay listings, sometimes you can snag one at a great price!
I've had the most luck on eBay price wise too :) Thank-you so much, lovely lady! | RedPajamaC4_-5292342672767003540 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Merrill Lynch, the nation's biggest brokerage, is buying Herzog Heine Geduld, one of the top three Wall Street market makers, for $1 billion.
The transaction, which a Merrill Lynch spokesman declined to confirm, vaults the powerful brokerage into position as the second-biggest stock-market middleman, behind only Knight Trading Group.
Merrill's stock slipped 50 cents to $107.50. Herzog Heine Geduld is privately-held.
Merrill had previously been the sixth-biggest market maker, but has recently expressed a desire to become more active in that part of the securities business.
Knight Trading Group stands to lose its pre-eminence if Merrill moves all of its current trading volume to Herzog. Accordingly, Knight's stock fell $4.56, or 13 percent, to $30.94 yesterday, its biggest drop in 10 months.
Just last week, Merrill said it would incrase the number of companies' shares in which it makes a market to 2,000 from 550 to capture more of the trading profits it now passes on to other market makers.
"It's very expensive to build from the ground up," said Dan Burke, a brokerage analyst at Gomez Advisors, who pointed out that by buying a leading market maker, Merrill hits the ground running.
What's more, technological advances have made processing trades much more economical – not to mention profitable, as most Wall Street firms have not passed cost savings on to their clients.
In fact, Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney unit is reportedly building its own automated market-making system, which, once it's up and running, will provide competition to Merrill. | RedPajamaC4_7462370696351512783 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
This is fixed in v0.7.
Greets to toki for the report.
You don't have access to this command.
200-User successfully added to the readd database.
when I just enter site deluser without a user after I guess I should get a helptext or something, not the above result.
Indeed. This has been fixed in my version.
Any suggestion or bug report ? | RedPajamaC4_-7565751001887794493 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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Forum » FFXI » Servers » Fenrir » Anyone still playing?
I'm planning on logging back on for the free week, and I was wondering if anyone was still playing?
No we play ffxiah now.
Whoever has the most posts wins right ?
I was going to say on Fenrir server there is about 3 people playing...and they all play monk...and are AFK.
More people post on this site than actually even play the game anymore.
What's this game you're talking about?
Of course Draylo is still playing! What a silly question.
Trust me the servers are ghost towns. Every player you might see is not a real player but a bot.
Lol. A serious answer is if you want a heavily populated server, Asura is #1 but it's known to be a merc server, where anything and everything is merc'd. Odin and Bahamut are the next most populated servers with NA and JP players fluctuate depending on the time of the day. | RedPajamaC4_6895511126178585910 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Auctions November 26, 2009 June 6, 2016
Original King Kong armature fetches $200,305 at Christie's South Kensigton auction
King Kong is one of the most memorable Hollywood films. Almost nobody has forgotten the climactic scene of the memorable 1933 film in which the ape climbs the Empire State building. So it was but obvious that any auction selling memorabilia from this movie would surely generate a lot of interest. That is exactly what happened when Christie's South Kensigton decided to auction the original armature used to film the final, climactic scenes of the 1933 epic King Kong film. Not only did the auction generate interest but the armature fetched a whopping $200,305! The metal armature measuring just 22 inches in height was sued to show the ape terrorize New York City and scale the Empire State Building. The armature now belongs to an anonymous client who was bidding in the room.
READ: Christie's set to auction rare Ammonite estimated at $68,000
The auction realized a total of $858,153 in sales with other highlights including a black silk evening dress previously owned by Marilyn Monroe which sold for $15,488 and a pair of sunglasses worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond in Quantum of Solace which realized $1,961.
[Artdaily]
Painting by Reuben owned by Princess Diana's family to be auctioned by Christies
The most expensive Rolex – a 1949 Oyster Perpetual model fetches a record breaking $1.2 million at Christie's
From a $55 million Jackson Pollock painting of strokes to a $115 million Picasso – We reveal the 10 most expensive Christie's lots of 2018
A rare Roman mask-style helmet to go under Christie's hammer for $465,000
Levi's pays $147k for Albert Einstein's leather jacket
From a Martain meteroide to a glowing torso – Our 7 picks from Christie's Second Annual 'Out of the Ordinary' Exhibition
Margaret Thatcher's famous handbag fetches $40,000
The most expensive ruby ring sells for $6.6 million at Christie's
Christie's just auctioned the world's largest heart shaped diamond for $14.9 million
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Q: How to screen capture a Window on WPF I am currently migrating an old Winforms project to WPF with the MVVM pattern, so I have been strugling with a lot of things. One on the last things I need to understand is how to do a screen capture of the application Window after a SaveDialog Close. On Winforms is easy and I have the following code that does the job:
Form frm = Form.ActiveForm;
if (frm != null)
{
using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(frm.Width, frm.Height))
{
frm.DrawToBitmap(bmp, new Rectangle(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height));
bmp.Save(saveFileDialog.FileName, ImageFormat.Png);
}
}
I have been struggling a lot with this and I have found something equivalent on WPF:
double screenLeft = SystemParameters.VirtualScreenLeft;
double screenTop = SystemParameters.VirtualScreenTop;
double screenWidth = SystemParameters.VirtualScreenWidth;
double screenHeight = SystemParameters.VirtualScreenHeight;
using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap((int)screenWidth, (int)screenHeight))
{
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp))
{
g.CopyFromScreen((int)screenLeft, (int)screenTop, 0, 0, bmp.Size);
bmp.Save(nombreArchivo);
}
}
The problem with the past code is the following:
-First it creates a picture of the Whole screen.
-Second it give me ghosting results as soon as the SaveDialog close.
I just ask a way of how to do it as simple as Winforms using Form.ActiveForm; or the equivalent on WPF which I can't find.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Even if is marked as duplicated, none of the "duplicated" questions satisfied my needs, but I finally realized how to do it in a similar way of Winforms (simple), in case anyone needs it.
Window? window = Application.Current.Windows.OfType<Window>().SingleOrDefault(x => x.IsActive);
if (window != null)
{
//Render Bitmap for Width and Height of window
RenderTargetBitmap renderTargetBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)window.ActualWidth, (int)window.ActualHeight, 96, 96, Pixelwindowats.Pbgra32);
renderTargetBitmap.Render(window);
//Define encoder png
PngBitmapEncoder png = new PngBitmapEncoder();
png.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderTargetBitmap));
using (Stream stm = File.Create(nombreArchivo))
{
png.Save(stm);
}
}
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SF Weekly est un journal hebdomadaire publié à San Francisco en Californie. Le journal, distribué chaque mardi tout le long de la région de la baie de San Francisco est édité par la San Francisco Newspaper Company. Fondé localement à la fin des années 1970 par Christopher Hildreth et Edward Bachman sous le nom de San Francisco Music Calendar, the Magazine or Poster Art, il a pour but de répondre à un besoin de concentré sur les artistes locaux afin de leur offrir un espace publicitaire pour leurs performances et leurs articles. Le passage principal était donc un calendrier recensant tous les événements artistiques de la région. Racheté en 1995 par Village Voice Media (maintenant New Times Media), SF Weekly remporte plusieurs récompenses notables en journalisme. Le journal sponsorise les SF Weekly Music Awards, aussi connus sous le nom de Wammies.*
En septembre 2012, les directeurs de Village Voice Media, Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan et Jeff Mars rachète tous les journaux de leur entreprise et s'associe avec les propriétés web de leur fondateur et forme le Voice Media Group. Quatre mois plus tard, SF Weekly est vendu à la San Francisco Media Company, propriétaire de The San Francisco Examiner et de son rival de longue date San Francisco Bay Guardian, donnant aux éditeurs le contrôle de trois des quatre journaux principaux en anglais à San Francisco. En 2014, San Francisco Media Co. devient la propriété exclusive de Black Press.
Lien externe
Site officiel
Titre de presse créé en 1979
Presse écrite dans l'État de New York
Presse hebdomadaire aux États-Unis
Presse hebdomadaire en anglais
Média en Californie | RedPajamaWikipedia_-3565440679956736449 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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Dec. 1 - Jan 2 | $1 Raw Oyster Deals @ Joe's Crab Shack - EAT WITH HOP!
Raw oysters anyone? Get the best bang for your buck this winter at a Joe's Crab Shack near you! This seafood chain is offering $1 raw oysters for an entire month until the new year! | RedPajamaC4_1113814870940819735 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
I haven't done one of these in such a long while but these are the last few days of school before the summer fun begins. And next year will be two different drop-offs and pick-ups… Basically life will never be the same again so I wanted to capture these memories….
Rise and shine. Brush teeth, morning face routine, weigh myself (I'm crazy like that) and chat with D a bit.
Head downstairs, put the kettle on. Unpack dishwasher. Check my messages.
My vitamins, daily planner, iPad and tea with milk for a few minutes.
The girls usually get up at 7 or a bit before…. after a quick snuggle. It's up and at 'em as A begins begging for milk.
A smoothie for me and D. This mornings concoction contains banana, frozen raspberries, canteloupe, spinach, unsweetened almond milk, kefir and chia seeds. Smoothies seriously give me more energy than any other breakfast.
I make lunch and snacks for D most days now that I'm not in the corporate world anymore. Cheaper and healthier for the win. Today's was an egg salad sandwich, a granola mix and some veggies with dip.
Then I clean up this mess!
Banana pancakes for the girls (leftover from the weekend). Weekdays are all about the quickie breakfasts.
After combing hair, making beds, tidying up, packing my gym bag, supervising outfit choices getting the girls and myself dressed, we head out at 8:15.
At about 8:46, I head into the gym for some running and a 55 minute weights class.
All showered and ready to go at about 10:30-ish.
I ran a few errands before heading to my friend/chiropractor at 11 am for a quick adjustment.
And then I pick up A at 11:30 and run into Cassia's class for a quick hair check- ever since the lice thing, I've been very vigilant with her hair tying.
A is a beast until she gets her milk!
And then some lunch- no she's not on Atkins- she had some bread too.
My lunch. We usually eat left-overs for lunch. Today is grilled shrimp (A had some of it too), turkey sausage and a garden salad. Once or twice a week, we have lunch with friends.
I let her watch about 30 minutes of TV while I wash my floors and tidy up a bit.
A heads upstairs for story and a nap. She comes back downstairs at least once.
During this time, I get most of my stuff done- my work (on a go slow for the summer, thank goodness), my blogging, my blog stalking, my cooking (not today, I made a double batch of soup so we're having that for dinner.), tidying up etc.
I made time for a snack.
Then we do some flashcards and some painting (mess free of course). Sometimes we watch TV, go outside or run errands when it's nice out.
My babysitter comes over and we head to Cassia's dance studio. Today is Picture Day so here they are- getting ready.
And A gets her sticker in her last Kindermusik class for the year. A started to get cranky in Kindermusik which was not typical.
Home for some leftover chicken tortilla soup.
I totally ate some Smart Pop after this.
A begins to lose it at this point so I take her to bed.
I checked a few more emails and tidied up a bit.
C practised her violin and then went outside with her dad for some bike riding. (when it's a normal school day, I usually do work at home with her as well) A played in the kitchen until they came back and then we did a couple practices for the big recital weekend coming up. Summer days are usually longer ones.
Working on her phonics with Dad. At this point she should be in bed but with the power nap she took at seven she is fine!
I watched UnReal which if you watch the Bachelor, you should definitely watch.
At this point it's 9:30 and Darin is doing bedtime (as he usually does) as I am wiped out and can't understand why my offspring is still up!
I read in bed until 10:30- (the new Judy Blume for the win) It's at this point I usually fall asleep.
However, as I was going to bed I heard some whimpering from A's room so I check on her and she has a temperature (this kid hardly ever gets sick).
I give her some meds and put her to sleep with me and D goes to sleep in C's room.
A then decides she wants to sleep in her own bed so I'm left to sleep on my own.
and then it's midnight and I finally drift off!
So there you have it--- didn't turn out to be such a typical night but that's how the days usually go around here! I will look back at these days one day and know that they were simply the best days of my life--- the time my babies were babies!
I love day in the life posts, the are just so much fun. I enjoy getting a peek into everyone's life :)!
Oh my gosh, busy mom much? More like super mom!
I just woke up and Im already exhausted ;) I enjoy milk in my tea too, makes me feel so proper and English haha. Also warm milk with a little bit of honey, delish!
Love day in the life posts! You get more done before 11 am than I get done in a week, and that's not even exaggerating... You're my new role model ;) And if your kiddo has to be sick, then a two hour illness is pretty lucky. Glad she recovered so quickly, that girl's a trooper!
I love day in the life posts. Love how productive your day is, I need some of your healthy eating to rub off on me!
Love this post!! Glad your little one got over her fever quickly. That's happened to my kids a few times too. My favorite part of this post though was "...then I can't sleep so I look for black rompers online" ha!! Love it.
That is a busy day!
Such busy schedule, you sure are super girl , every day pics of the girls are adorable. We all know it is such a big challenge to accomplish those everyday routine, especially the unexpected stuff like sickness. Excellent job!!!! | RedPajamaC4_-4363474651234737900 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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Pin Oak's Broken Vow Pensioned
Pin Oak stalwart Broken Vow (Unbridled--Wedding Vow, by Nijinsky II), the sire of 2016 Eclipse champion Champagne Room and 79 other black-type winners, has been pensioned from the stallion barn and will remain at his lifetime home. Racing as a homebred for Pin Oak Stud, the nom de course of Josephine Abercrombie's historic racing and breeding operation, Broken Vow was a five-time stakes winner for trainer Graham Motion. His top wins included the 2001 GII Philip H. Iselin H. and the GIII Ben Ali S., as well as another four...
Duke of Marmalade Pensioned in South Africa
Five-time Group 1 winner Duke of Marmalade (Ire) (Danehill--Love Me True, by Kingmambo) has been pensioned from stallion duty on veterinary advice, Drakenstein Stud announced via Twitter on Wednesday. Bred by Southern Bloodstock, the bay raced for Mrs. John Magnier and Michael Tabor. A winner at two for Aidan O'Brien, Duke of Marmalade was also second in the G2 Vintage S. At three the colt did not win, but placed three times in Group 1 company when second in the St. James's Palace S. and the Irish Champion S. and...
Champion Heart's Cry Pensioned
Japanese champion and successful sire Heart's Cry (Jpn) (Sunday Silence--Irish Dance {Jpn}, by Tony Bin {Ire}) has been pensioned from stallion duty, according to multiple reports. The Shadai Farm-bred bay is 20 and stood for a private fee this year. A winner of a 2000-metre maiden at first asking as a 3-year-old, the Kojiro Hashiguchi trainee had won a pair of listed stakes from 10 outings by the end of 2004 and he was also second in the then-listed Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and third in two more black-type races...
Stormy Atlantic Pensioned
Stormy Atlantic (Storm Cat--Hail Atlantis, by Seattle Slew) has been pensioned from stud duty, Hill 'n' Dale Farms announced Friday. The Arthur Appleton homebred won six of his 15 starts, including two stakes, and earned $148,126 before retiring to stud at Bridlewood Farm in his home state of Florida. He stood his first three seasons there before moving to Hill 'n' Dale in Kentucky. The 27-year-old stallion is responsible for 109 black-type winners and 48 graded winners. His eight Grade I/Group 1 winners include champion and two-time GI Breeders' Cup...
Lane's End Stalwart Lemon Drop Kid Pensioned
Lane's End Farm has announced that perennial leading sire and 2000 champion older horse Lemon Drop Kid (Kingmambo--Charming Lassie, by Seattle Slew) has been pensioned from stallion duties. The 25-year-old will remain at Lane's End Farm to enjoy the rest of his retirement. Lemon Drop Kid is responsible for siring 98 black-type winners and 46 graded winners worldwide to date, including Grade I winners Beach Patrol, Cannock Chase, Citronnade, Christmas Kid, Lemons Forever, Romantic Vision, Richard's Kid, Santa Teresita and Somali Lemonade. He is currently ranked 11th on the cumulative list...
Horse of the Year Azeri Pensioned
American Horse of the Year Azeri (Jade Hunter-Zodiac Miss {Aus}, by Ahonoora {GB}) has been pensioned from broodmare duty. The chestnut will instead become a lead horse, educating weanlings and yearlings at the Northern Horse Park in Japan according to a recent video posted by the park. The news was first reported by Daily Racing Form. Bred by Allen E. Paulson, Azeri raced in his living trust's colors to wins in 11 Grade I races, while picking up titles as Champion Older Mare in 2002/03/04 and a Horse of the...
British Champion Jumps Sire Kayf Tara Pensioned
Overbury Stud's Kayf Tara (GB) (Sadler's Wells--Colorspin {Fr}, by High Top {Ire}), a leading National Hunt sire in Britain for many years, has been pensioned due to declining fertility, Racing Post reported on Monday. Champion jumps sire nine times in Britain, the Meon Valley Stud-bred and 210,000gns Tattersalls Houghton September Yearling is credited with champions in that sphere like Carruthers (GB), Edwulf (GB), Identity Thief (Ire), Special Tiara (GB), Tea For Two (GB) and Thistlecrack (GB). A winner of four top level races, including two editions of the Irish St.... | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-1702382317353611591 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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At their regular meeting on March 19, 2019, the Board of Education of Community High School District 94 approved the hiring of Principal Dr. Moses Cheng as the next superintendent. Cheng will assume the District's highest leadership position effective July 1, 2019.
Cheng has been with Community High School District 94 since July, 2007, serving as principal of West Chicago Community High School. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, and Master of Arts in Education Leadership and Doctor of Education, both from Aurora University.
Cheng began his career in education in 1993 at West Aurora High School in West Aurora School District 129 as a Science teacher and head volleyball coach. He was promoted to dean of students in 1998, and six months later was hired as principal of Schneider Elementary School, also in District 129, where he worked for 7 years. From 2005-2007, he served as assistant principal at Hinsdale South High School before coming to West Chicago. During the 2015-2016 school year while serving as principal of West Chicago Community High School, Cheng was named DuPage County High School Principal of the Year by the Illinois Principals Association.
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When your son loses his supper in the middle of the night.
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It was indeed filled with tiny pieces of hot dog from the supper experience a few hours earlier.
Gross. It never gets less gross. But we do get quicker at the clean up and pretend nothing ever happened here part.
I think the sheer confusion that all parties simultaneously experience is the funniest part of this event.
My son was sleeping peacefully… until he wasn't.
And then very strangely he found himself face down in his expired dinner. That would be a shocking and confusing experience.
For myself, I was fast asleep as well… until suddenly I wasn't.
And it wasn't an alarm clock system where you have a phase in snooze program to alertness.
Next that follows is bed bowl instruction.
The huge pile of rinsed out bed-sheets were going to have a sleepover in the bathtub, scheduled to be sent through the sanitary wash setting as soon as morning arrived.
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Fortia (copyright 2019 KEYEZUA)
Writer and curator Jareh Das talks with photographer Lola Keyezua about the intricacies of producing art that tackles disability, loss and womanhood.
An Angolan-Dutch artist, Lola Keyezua challenges stereotypes about the African body through her deeply moving photography practice, which centres on portraiture. Photography serves as a critical tool for tackling a range of difficult subjects including female genital mutilation (FGM), the plight of African migrants affected by human trafficking, loss of loved ones, disability and illness.
Rendered in what can be described as Romantic-Realism, Keyezua's images also actively dispel a 'prejudiced narrative about Africa' and contribute to a more socially inclined narrative in art. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague, The Netherlands, Keyezua now lives and works in Luanda, Angola where she continues to develop works that explore the body (through portraiture) as a social, political and cultural site where meanings continue to be done and undone. In Fortia, 2017 (Latin for "strength") for example, the artist tackles losing her father to diabetes at a young age, as well as the disability that had followed as a result of his illness, in a series of images tackling loss of the father figure. With works titled My Mother's Womb, This is Not His Funeral, This is Life!, Sailing Back to Africa as a Dutch Woman and Womanhood – Sex, Love and Betrayal, Keyezua is reframing survivors' stories with pride rather than melancholy.
In her 2016 series Afroeucentric Face On, African masking tradition was invoked to question beauty standards that render Caucasian faces as the ideal. Commenting on this body of work, Keyezua explains, 'I first portray the face of one of the women with the most beautiful face and I slowly vandalize [this] by making the features Afroeucentric; destroying what is considered perfect to exhibit beautiful black features, as a black woman adorns a mask of a white woman from a magazine.'[1]
In this interview, the artist speaks about challenging African stereotypes, blackness, beauty ideals and the range of difficult subjects she addresses in her socially engaged photography practice.
[1] For a full text on Afroeucentric Face On visit Tumblr
Floating Nightmares (copyright KEYEZUA 2019)
Could you expand a bit on how photography has a served as a critical tool to countering stereotypes about Africans and Africaness in your practice?
The exhibited narratives in my work intend to challenge stereotypes that were constructed during colonialism and still exist in these post-colonial times, which causes both cultural and racial bias. In my photography, I seek to offer pride, solace and resilience of bodies. It is first portrayed through a black body as this is the body that I own and know through my social, political experience. Additionally, this body is placed in different societal contexts that still deal with discrimination and a dependence on Eurocentrism. The storytelling offers many perspectives and it gives one the freedom to be politically and economically critical to the current situation in the world.
What inspired or rather what questions were you raising about black beauty ideals with the work Afroeucentric Face On?
It is a response to Eurocentric beauty standards, I vandalize the "perfect face" as a reaction to mediocre studies and research about beauty standards, which are racially separating women instead of uniting them. There is no beauty ideal but rather a beautiful human in all of us and it is complicated to look at humans like this. Sometimes I see that the conversation started in Afroeucentric Face On tends to create separation. A black woman does not need to discriminate a white woman to validate her beauty or vice versa. This is not how I want this work to guide the conversation about beauty ideals, which were developed during colonialism and are still of use in post-colonial times.
'The power to confront without asking for permission empowers the artist and it creates opportunities for different social groups to debate.'
Your practice deals with social-political issues ranging from humanitarianism relating to human trafficking and disability. How has using a futurist lens in your photography helped to convey difficult subjects?
Blackness is in me and many stories start with what I have learned from the past few years as an artist working in Angola. Through photography I have been speaking to people that probably would not have accepted the conversation as I'm an artist and not a politician. The power to confront without asking for permission empowers the artist and it creates opportunities for different social groups to debate. My art does not wait for its receiver to give permission but rather exists to evoke emotions in visual storytelling. Only an artist can look into the future and almost touch the reality that is about to reveal [itself]. Subjects attached to pain, depression and trauma are often very difficult conversations to start with in the black community. Through images, we offer a visualisation in its romantic form which makes it easier for the viewer to start discussing their own beliefs and fear.
Nothing (Copyright KEYEZUA 2019)
The body with its strength and weaknesses are often themes addressed in your work. Fortier (2017), for example, deals with the female body, masking rituals and personal loss of your father at a young age. How did you resolve working with personal loss and grief alongside representations of disability with this body of work?
You don´t grow up to learn to deal with the death of a loved parent. In Fortia, I performed a ritual to remember my father differently – it's not the sadness and depression that dances around the pain of death. I want to honour my father and those that share the same story, as survivors of war or sickness with pride and solace rather than melancholy. The stigmatisation of disability can lead to discrimination and depression. In the details found in the masks in Fortia, I exhibit the resilience I saw in a group of men living in poverty with their legs amputated. Their strength in this body of work helped me understand how we can still rise after traumatic events.
'Bodies exhibiting disability tell a story about renouncement, but also survival and strength in continuing to tell stories and claiming their worth.'
Do you have personal reflections (positive or negative) on how people with disabilities are perceived inn Angola? Is this something your work seeks to address or counteract?
The lack of assistance and empowerment given is a negative part of our society, which we shall erase. For this to happen, we need all artists to contribute to positive, gripping narratives in their stories. Bodies exhibiting disability tell a story about renouncement, but also survival and strength in continuing to tell stories and claiming their worth. Disability is a very difficult subject to discuss between different social groups and governments. In Angola, every day I see what we inherited from war and what war has created in each individual. Poverty is an enemy to disability. I do not want to be part of the generation that offered silence to all these amputated bodies lying in the metropolitan city of Luanda.
Being of the diaspora with an Angolan-Dutch identity, how do you straddle the often-clashing cultures that this dual identity brings to your art and life?
My first thought has to do with empowerment of myself and not with my Angolan-Dutch identity. Teaching myself acceptance and to rise from situations where someone tried to erase my existence as a valuable human being was essential in both countries. One can respect both heritages by existing first as an individual and by placing as a priority the empowerment of who I am, before I exist to accept what people want me to be as a black woman in our society.
What projects are you currently working on and are performance and live art areas you seek to explore in future?
I gave birth to my first child in Luanda where daily, a lot of children die. There is so much pain and romance attached to giving birth. I want to explore the social, economic and political context of motherhood. In Angolan public hospitals, most mothers do not lay in a birth bed but rather in a death bed due to the lack of assistance and protection during labour and after birth. There are many layers attached to birth and I want to undress all of this to begin to tell my story and to connect my story to others.
Lola Keyezua is represented by Movart Gallery in Luanda.
Stone Orgasms (copyright KEYEZUA 2019)
Jareh Das
Angola, Disability, Luanda, Political art
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1/8 фіналу. Переміг Анхеля Пачедо (Венесуела) 5-0
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Strong, Tracy B.
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
by Tracy B. Strong
eISBN: 978-0-226-77747-4 | Cloth: 978-0-226-77746-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-10429-4
Library of Congress Classification JA83.S765 2012
From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively "thinking without a banister."
Politics without Vision takes up the thought of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists were liberals nor, excepting possibly Arendt, were they democrats—and some might even be said to have served as handmaidens to totalitarianism. And all to a greater or lesser extent shared the common conviction that the institutions and practices of liberalism are inadequate to the demands and stresses of the present times. In examining their thought, Strong acknowledges the political evil that some of their ideas served to foster but argues that these were not necessarily the only paths their explorations could have taken. By uncovering the turning points in their thought—and the paths not taken—Strong strives to develop a political theory that can avoid, and perhaps help explain, the mistakes of the past while furthering the democratic impulse.
Confronting the widespread belief that political thought is on the decline, Strong puts forth a brilliant and provocative counterargument that in fact it has endured—without the benefit of outside support. A compelling rendering of contemporary political theory, Politics without Vision is sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields.
Tracy B. Strong is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books, including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary, and The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World.
"An outstanding study of twentieth-century political thought, conceptually challenging but accessibly written. Strong's unmistakable voice is at once lyrical and sober, and Politics without Vision is erudite and illuminating at every turn."
— Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
"This is an important book that has needed to be written, that Tracy Strong is perhaps uniquely positioned to write, and that some of us have been waiting for him to write for a long time. He does so expertly and knowledgeably with an astonishing grasp of a rich variety of texts."
— Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles
"What does it mean to 'think without a banister,' without the support of the certitudes previously supplied by religion, science, and the philosophy of history? In Politics without Vision, Tracy B. Strong provides a remarkable and searching survey of the responses given by seven twentieth-century thinkers as they struggled to articulate the relation between morality and politics in a post-Christian, post-Enlightenment, and post-historicist world. The results are both surprising and bracing, moving judgment, decision, and action into the space previously occupied by falsely systemic accounts of the relation between theory and practice."
— Dana Villa, University of Notre Dame
"A marvelous tour de force brimming with intellectual excitement. With extraordinarily impressive scholarship, Tracy B. Strong carefully constructs the historical context of each of the thinkers he engages, while simultaneously keeping a laser-like focus on the urgent goal of accumulating pieces to the puzzle as to what sense we might be able to give to 'the political' in a world where we must think, as Arendt said, 'without banisters.' A book not to be missed."
— Stephen K. White, University of Virginia
"I've been waiting for this book all my life. If Strong's aim is to look on the past with new eyes, then he is undoubtedly successful. Each chapter provides a heady mixture of intellectual energy, scholarly passion, and fresh perspectives. And, like all good books, it raises as many questions as it answers. . . . This is a book that demonstrates Strong's rare gift for discussing complex issues in an accessible manner, and his capacity for bridging 'politics as theory' and 'politics as practice.'"
— Times Higher Education
"A magisterial exploration of solutions to what Tracy Strong sees as one of the key philosophical and political problems of modernity: the unavailability of authoritative foundations for knowledge and action. Politics withoutVision is a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."
— Perspectives on Politics
NOTE ON SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
The World as We Find It
Kant and the Death of God
Nietzsche: The Tragic Ethos and the Spirit of Music
Max Weber, Magic, and the Politics of Social Scientific Objectivity
"What Have We to Do with Morals?" Nietzsche and Weber on the Politics of Morality
Sigmund Freud and the Heroism of Knowledge
Lenin and the Calling of the Party
Carl Schmitt and the Exceptional Sovereign
Martin Heidegger and the Space of the Political
Without a Banister: Hannah Arendt and Roads Not Taken
Conclusion: The World as It Finds Us
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A Nuclear Community, Part 2
The Atom by Live Science
WE LIVE IN A NUCLEAR COMMUNITY of stars, galaxies and solar systems, all macro expansions of the micro atomic universe with its positively charged central hub and negatively charged cloud of orbiting electrons. Everything in the Universe orbits around a positive nucleus of some kind, a reflection of an inviolate heavenly design of angelic hosts orbiting around the Supreme Creator and Ruler of the Creating Universe—along with a myriad of focused configurations of LORDS and lesser Lords of lords.
The Atomic World of Controlled Power
The atom is a micro model of right relationships in true community. In it is manifest the working dynamic of the One Law, simply stated by Lloyd A. Meeker (Uranda) (1907-1954) as "Positive action, Negative reaction or response." Walter Russell called it "The Law of One" (which I will focus on in my next post). As I consider these two nomenclatures, I see how compliance with the One Law would bring about Oneness in the human family in "one nation under God."
Consider what we now know about the structure and dynamic operation of this fundamental building block of Creation. At the nucleus of the atom dwell one or more positively charged Protons and one or more neutral stabilizing particles called Neutrons. Orbiting around this central hub of focused power are a number of Electrons carrying a negative charge. Looming behind this atomic portal lies a reservoir of awesome power held in check by the integrity and stability of the tiny atom. Let's have a look at the smallest thing in the universe. The following excerpt is from Live Science website.
ATOMS are the basic units of matter and the defining structure of elements. The term "atom" comes from the Greek word for indivisible, because it was once thought that atoms were the smallest things in the universe and could not be divided. We now know that atoms are made up of smaller particles: protons, neutrons and electrons – which are composed of even smaller particles, such as quarks.
THE NECLEUS was discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford, a physicist from New Zealand. In 1920, Rutherford proposed the name proton for the positively charged particle of the atom. He also theorized that there was a neutral particle within the nucleus, which James Chadwick, a British physicist and student of Rutherford's, was able to confirm in 1932.
The NUCLEUS is held together by a strong force, one of the four basic forces of nature. This force between the protons and the neutrons overcomes the repulsive electrical force that would otherwise push the protons apart, according to the rules of electricity.
PROTONS are positively charged particles found within atomic nuclei. . . . Protons are about 99.86% as massive as neutrons.
The number of protons in an atom is unique to each element. For example, carbon atoms have six protons, hydrogen atoms have one and oxygen atoms have eight. The number of protons in an atom is referred to as the atomic number of that element. The number of protons also determines the chemical behavior of the element. Elements are arranged in the Periodic Table of Elements in order of increasing atomic number.
Three quarks make up each proton — two "up" quarks (each with a two-thirds positive charge) and one "down" quark (with a one-third negative charge) — and they are held together by other subatomic particles called gluons, which are massless.
THE NEUTRON: a subatomic particle of about the same mass as a proton but without an electric charge, are present in all atomic nuclei except those of ordinary hydrogen.
Neutrons bind with protons and one another in the nucleus via the nuclear force, effectively moderating the repulsive forces between the protons and stabilizing the nucleus.
PURPOSE: The extra attraction from the neutrons keeps the protons' electrical charge from tearing an atomic nucleus apart. So the reason for the neutrons is to allow more than one proton to coexist in an atomic nucleus.
[Consider this design and functional dynamic at work in a "nuclear community" comprised of people in consensus groups focused and facilitated by spirit-oriented leadership with the larger community orbiting around this hub and offering loving support in an atmosphere of accord and agreement, with input from all members of the community.]
THREE PARTS: A neutron contains two down quarks with charge –1/3 e and one up quark with charge +2/3 e. Like protons, the quarks of the neutron are held together by the strong force, mediated by gluons. The nuclear force results from secondary effects of the more fundamental strong force.
ELECTRONS are tiny compared to protons and neutrons, over 1,800 times smaller than either a proton or a neutron. Electrons are about 0.054% as massive as neutrons. Originally known as "corpuscles," electrons have a negative charge and are electrically attracted to the positively charged protons. Electrons surround the atomic nucleus in pathways called orbitals, an idea that was put forth by Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian physicist, in the 1920s. Today, this model is known as the quantum model or the electron cloud model. The inner orbitals surrounding the atom are spherical but the outer orbitals are much more complicated. (Live Science)
Then there's the "God Particle" that, simply stated, gives mass to energy vortices:
In 2012, scientists confirmed the detection of the long-sought Higgs boson, also known by its nickname the "God particle," at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. This particle helps give mass to all elementary particles that have mass, such as electrons and protons…., which allows them to bind together and form things, like stars and planets and Donald Trump's hair. More broadly, countless Higgs boson particles make up an invisible force throughout the universe called a Higgs field. (Chicago Tribune News, July 10, 2012)
More current yet, there's the "Dark Bason" that scientists cannot quite isolate and observe but strongly suspect exists somewhere in the cosmic soup of dark matter:
"Two experiments hunting for a whisper of a particle that prevents whole galaxies from flying apart recently published some contradictory results. One came up empty handed, while the other gives us every reason to keep on searching.
Dark basons are dark matter candidates based on force-carrying particles that don't really pack much force.
Unlike the basons we're more familiar with, such as the photons that bind molecules and the gluons that hold atomic nuclei together, an exchange of dark basons would barely affect their immediate surroundings.
If they existed, on the other hand, their collective energy could be responsible for making up dark matter – the missing mass that provides the extra gravity needed to keep our Universe of stars in their familiar formations.
Unfortunately, the presence of such basons would be about as detectable as a murmur in a storm. For the physicist, however, a murmur might be enough to still be noticeable given the right kind of experiment.
The two studies – one led by researchers from the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT), the other by Aarhus University in Denmark – looked for subtle differences in the positioning of an electron in an isotope as it jumped between energy levels. If it swayed, this could be a telltale sign of a dark bason's nudge. (Source: www.sciencealert.com)
VORTICES OF ENERGY
As science has concluded, atoms are not things. They are "vortices of energy" that have no material dimensions. In practical terms, they are not objects that can be placed under a microscope and examined, much less manipulated. They cannot be divided into their component parts without destroying their cohesive energetic structure and coherent functionality. As noted above, the word "Atom" literally means indivisible–although not totally invisible.
Our bodies are made up of these vortices of energy. They are nuclear communities—as are all "material" structures. In fact, there are no material structures. The universe of creating matter is one cosmic nuclear community made up of vortices of energy vibrating at a wide range of frequencies, the lower ranges becoming visible, as well as tangible to our low-range physical senses.
Now, just take a moment or two to let that sink in.
Let's turn our attention away from the anatomy and functionality of the atom and give thought to the "force" that holds it together, as mentioned in some of the definitions and descriptions above. What is this force that attracts neutrons and protons toward one other? It is described as "electromagnetism." I would describe it as the positive phase of the One Law; the radiation of Love originating from the other side of the atomic portal. This radiation engenders response and attraction leading to union, which in turn results in the creation of a unified "cloud" or field of radiant energy that holds electrons in an orbital pattern of both response and repulsion. In other words, they are both drawn toward and repelled from the nucleus at the same time, a dynamic found at work between all atoms of and throughout the Creating Universe—including in our relationship with God and with one another. That "force" is the Force of Love, the Fire of fusion that holds the Universe together.
While the irresistible force of Love draws us in toward union, the radiance of our own divine being incarnate in a flesh body keeps us in a creative proximity in relationship to the all-consuming fire of Love—as well as from one another. Only in spirit can we know union with God and with one another—that is until we ascend physically to a higher level in the transmutation and transfiguration of our outer forms. At that point, our sense of separation from God and from one another will cease to exist and we will know that union we only believed was possible before and had but a limited experience of.
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Well, are we ready for another dose of Walter Russel from The Secret of Light ? Here is the second half of chapter twelve in which Russell challenges current scientific thinking about the nature of light, presenting a new paradigm in which light does not travel at 186,400 miles per second. In his physics, light does not travel at all, not even from the sun! Hmm. If you liked the previous post — which you really need to read first if you're just tuning into this series — you will really like this one — especially after two or three readings! Enjoy!
CONFUSION CONCERNING LIGHT CORPUSCLES
There is much confusion concerning the many kinds of particles of matter such as electrons, protons, photons, neutrons and others. These many particles are supposedly different because of the belief that some are negatively charged, some are positively charged and some are so equally charged that one supposedly neutralizes the other.
There is no such condition in nature as negative charge, nor are there negatively charged particles. Charge and discharge are opposite conditions, as filling and emptying, or compressing and expanding are opposite conditions.
Compressing bodies are charging into higher potential conditions. Conversely, expanding bodies are discharging into lower potential conditions. To describe an electron as a negatively charged body is equivalent to saying that it is an expanding-contracting body.
Contracting and expanding bodies move in opposite directions. Contracting bodies move radially inward toward mass centers, and expanding bodies move radially outward toward space which surrounds masses. In this two-way universe, light which is inwardly directed toward gravity charges mass and discharges space. When directed toward space it charges space and discharges mass. All direction of force in Nature is spiral.
The charging condition is positive. It multiplies speed of motion into density of substance. The principle of multiplication of motion because of decrease of volume is the cause of the acceleration of gravity. The discharging condition is negative. It divides speed of motion into tenuity of substance. The principle of the division of motion because of expansion of volume, is the cause of the deceleration of radiation.
One can better comprehend this principle by knowing that what we call substance is purely motion. Motion simulates substance by its variation of pressures, its speed and its gyroscopic relation to its wave axis.
Particles are variously conditioned as to pressure but there are no different kinds of particles. All are light waves wound up into particles which are doubly charged. Their position at anyone point in their wave causes them to have the electric condition appropriate for that point.
Light particles are forever moving in their octave waves. All are either heading toward their cathode or their anode, which means toward vacuity or gravity. They are all moving either inward or outward, spirally.
ALL LIGHT PARTICLES ARE ALIKE
All light particles are either expressing the mother-light principle or the father-light principle. For example, if a particle is on the amplitude of the wave, it would be a true sphere, and as a true sphere it would be neither positive nor negative. It might then appropriately be called a neutron. A particle which is spirally heading inward toward the apex of a vortex in the process of becoming a sphere might appropriately be called a proton, because of its expressing the father-light principle.
Again,if it is moving spirally outward, it could appropriately be called an electron because it would then be discharging in excess of its charge or expanding in excess of its contraction.
Light rays, for example, leaving the sun, are discharging the sun. They are also discharging themselves because they are expanding into greater volume. They are also lowering their own potential by multiplying their volume. They reverse their polarity when radially converging upon the earth. They are then charging the earth and themselves by contracting into smaller volume and are simultaneously multiplying their own potential by thus contracting.
SEMI-CYCLIC ALTERATION
In an electric current there is a constant interchange between anode and cathode or positive and negative poles. A light particle expands as it leaves the anode in an outward radial direction and contracts as it radially approaches the anode.' This light particle has been the same light particle at all times in all parts of its journey.
Its variation of charge and discharge, its direction of motion and the condition of wave pressure in which it finds itself at any time are the sole reasons for its changing from one condition to another. The light particles are all the same light particles, all being different only in pressure condition.
This is also true of the elements of matter. Whether they be iron, carbon, silicon, bismuth or radium, all are composed of the same kind of light particles. They all seem to have different qualities and attributes, but those qualities and attributes are likewise given to them purely by the positions they occupy in their waves.
ALL THINGS SIMULATE LIGHT
A particle of light which belongs to an atomic system of sodium has in it all of the entire range of the elements, besides all of every other creating thing in the universe. It acts to carry out the purposefulness of the idea of sodium simply because it is in the pressure condition of sodium, and is a part of the unfolding pattern of the seed of inert gas of the octave from which it has unfolded.
If that same particle unfolded from the seed of the oak, it would be part of the wood fiber of its trunk, or leaf, or of the chlorophyll which colored its leaves, but it would be the same kind of particle while fulfilling the purpose of cellulose as while fulfilling the purpose of sodium.
All matter in this universe is but differently conditioned motion simulating light, and all differences in condition are pressure differences.
LIGHT DOES NOT TRAVEL
The speed with which light presumably travels is186,400 miles per second. The distance between stars is so great that the speed of light is computed as light years, for the distance computed by lesser units of time would yield figures so great that they would be meaningless.
Light only seems to travel. It is but one more of the countless illusions caused by wave motion. Waves of the ocean seem to traverse the ocean but they only appear to do so, for waves are pistons in the universal engines, and pistons operate up and down. Wave pistons of light, or of the ocean, operate radially and spirally inward and outward, toward and away from gravity.
Waves of light do not travel. They reproduce each other from wave field to wave field of space. The planes of zero curvature which bound all wave fields act as mirrors to reflect light from one field into another. This sets up an appearance of light as travelling, which is pure illusion.
The sunlight we feel upon our bodies is not actual light from the sun. What actually is happening is that the sun is reproducing its own condition on the earth by extending the reproductions out through cold space into ever enlarging wave fields until those reproductions begin to converge again toward our center of gravity into ever smaller wave fields. The heat we feel and the light we see are dependent entirely upon the ability of the wave fields to reproduce the light and heat, and that ability is conditioned upon the amount of moisture in the atmosphere.
If there were no moisture in the atmosphere, our bodies would carbonize from the heat thus reproduced. One cannot consistently think of that heat as direct rays of the sun, for that same sunlight was intensely cold during its reproduced journey through the immensely expanded wave fields of space between the sun and earth.
The light and heat which appear to come from the star or sun have never left the star or sun. That which man sees as light and feels as heat are the reproduced counterparts of the light and heat which are its cause.
The rate of vibration in a wave field depends upon its volume. Vibration in a wave field means the pulse of interchange between its compressed core and the space surrounding that core. A slow vibration in a large wave field would cool one's body, or even freeze it, while fast pulsing interchange in extremely small wave fields could burn one's body.
A lens which multiplies light and heat toward a focal point which sets paper on fire merely compresses larger wave fields into smaller ones. The rate of vibration increases for the same reason that the planets nearest the sun move much faster in their small orbits than those which are far away from the sun. Kepler's law covering the speeds of planets will apply to rates of vibration in wave fields as appropriately as with the vements in the solar system.
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Hydrogen can be harvested from the air we breathe. How? I'll let Walter Russell answer that question.
NEW POWER FOR SCIENCE
Man's transformation by science will take much time, but it can begin NOW. A beginning is a reversal of direction. To reverse the direction of the downward plunge is to begin to climb into the heights.
The first step for science is to insulate its countries from attack by other countries and thus save the lifeblood of its nations and return destroying armies to useful pursuits. As very little time is needed to bring this about after the principles involved are thoroughly understood, the threat and fear of war should pass from the mind of man forever. Even if war should start before this had been accomplished, it could not go far before it could be remedied.
The second step should be to give the world a new and inexhaustible fuel. Free hydrogen is the logical supply because free hydrogen is the basis of the four space octaves. The entire population of ten planets like ours could not lessen its total because Nature balances the withdrawals of gases with replacements continuously. Nature's replacements for withdrawals of solids consumes the amount of time taken to grow them.
Nature may take a million years to grow forests into coal. Coal is multiplied nitrogen, for nitrogen is a gas of carbon. Nitrogen can be transmuted continuously from the atmosphere in unlimited quantities forever.The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen and oxygen. Oxygen is carbon twice removed, just as nitrogen is carbon once removed. Likewise hydrogen is carbon one octave lower, but not removed tonally. Gyroscopically, carbon and hydrogen are the same, for their planes of structure are identical.
Hydrogen could, therefore, be transmuted from the atmosphere in unlimited quantities by merely changing the gyroscopic plane of nitrogen to the 90-degree angle of wave amplitude upon which hydrogen rotates.
It would simplify scientific thinking if science would view the universe of "matter" and "space" as gravity which accumulates generoactive predominance into hydrogen in the first three-and-a-half invisible octaves of matter that man today thinks of as space.
The visible universe begins at the middle of the fourth octave and continues to carbon—its generoactive maximum—where fourth and fifth octaves meet at wave amplitude.
From there on, radioactivity begins its depolarizing process but the "bodies of the octaves grow bigger" and keep within the visible range while dying, just as a tree, or man grows bigger of body during declining years.
If, therefore, science would form the habit of thinking of matter and space in terms of the carbon octaves and the hydrogen octaves it would simplify their work of' transmutation mightily.
Science should also form the mental picture of the visible carbon octaves as but a pea-sized volume of solid
matter suspended in the center of a great auditorium of rare gaseous matter millions of times greater in volume. Then realize that the very small globule of many solid elements of the carbon octaves are wound up from that vast volume of the hydrogen octaves of space.
Matter thus wound up is sequentially unwound into gases of the hydrogen space octaves, and its action-reactions are recorded in the inert gases which born each octave.
Thus matter gyroscopically emerges from space and is "swallowed up" by gyroscopic unwindings into the "space" which borned it, as has been rightly conceived.
"Space" is not empty – nor is it an "ether." The space which surrounds every particle of matter in every wave field is the negative half of the wave field. The solid nucleus is the positive half. Both halves are equal in potential but vastly unequal in volume.
The next step in habit-forming thinking is to think of matter as being the accumulation of the same thing—wave motion—rolled up in time layers like a snowball—the final layer being called carbon but all being different conditions and pressures of the same thing.
Add to this thought that the universe consists of wave fields within wave fields—stellar, solar and atomic in measure—but of a like "substance" and of a like structural formation. Nature has no separate method or process of creating systems. The heavens clearly evidence the unwinding of mass by the way of rings and systems, but the senses do not so clearly record the winding of mass as a basis for systems.
During this whole process, each succeeding element becomes another phase of the same thing throughout the whole journey. The change of attribute is due solely to the different relations of pressures and that is determined by polar relations.
Nature does not transmute one element into another. She merely makes her progressive change of elements by a continual readjustment of her gyroscope.
Elements are tonal. One wire of a piano can become a whole octave by changing its pressure relations sufficiently to either multiply or divide its vibration frequencies. Everyone is familiar with the fact that placing a book on top of an organ pipe lifts its tone just one octave higher.
Such effects are not transmutation. They are merely changed dimensions of states of motion. All of the notes which the organist plays are but one tone multiplied or divided in rhythmic pressure relations.
That is the way the chemist of tomorrow should think of the elements, and not think of them as different chemical substances with different attributes. Chemistry should be based upon the idea of gyroscopically changing the north-south–east– west polarities of one tone to increase – or decrease – its time frequencies. The piano tuner uses an instrument to wind up his pressures from lower to higher tones. The chemist should use the electric current and solenoids as his tuning instrument.
The very thought structure of tomorrow's chemist should very radically change in many other respects too
numerous to describe. One of these is to eliminate from his thinking the idea of one thing becoming another. That is not Nature's way.
In Nature, one tone ceases to be and another becomes. In other words, one formula for a patterned wave vibration ceases when another measured vibration begins. We must also carry this thought farther by not thinking of cessations, beginnings and endings. We must think of them as awakened continuities which we can "put to sleep" when we have no further need of them, or "awaken" when we have need of them.
The electric current of the universe is ready to motivate any tone as we desire to awaken it, just as the electric current of the organ is ready to awaken any tone when the organist desires to awaken it.
We should not think of sodium and chlorine as having become sodium chloride—or that sound has become silence—for each of them is and always will be. We should think of each of them as another note played on the universal organ. We change its tuning pattern if we want new isotopes which Nature has not yet given us—or we unite two unbalanced halves to secure stability—or produce explosives by multiplying unbalance.
That is Nature's way. Carbon unwinds to nitrogen because of the predominant power of east-west negative polarity. Likewise, nitrogen unwinds to oxygen. That does not mean that carbon has ceased to be, or that it has become nitrogen and oxygen. It means that carbon still is but it has changed its pressure dimensions, just as John Jones is the same John Jones that he was ten years ago.
Nature demonstrates this fact by "transmuting" nitrogen and oxygen back again into carbon. Every root of all vegetable growth rewinds both of them upward again into carbon. Likewise, the bodies of all animals rewind oxygen and nitrogen into the proteins of their flesh, bones, horns and hair.
The roots acquire the complex formula for rewinding into violets, pine, oak or apple trees—or man or bird—from the inert gases of their octaves which have recorded the unfolding of many ideas of Nature in the seed of these ideas.
As nature unfolds from the seed to record its patterns in moving body forms, it simultaneously refolds into its seed in order that the refolding can be repeated in like patterns.*
And we will continue this trend of thought next post. Isn't this great reading! Are you learning anything you didn't already know? I am. Until we meet again,
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ALL MATTER IS SIMULATED LIGHT — Walter Russell
Continuing our review of Walter Russell's challenge of scientific concepts and beliefs from his book A New Concept of the Universe, here are three more scientific misconceptions he rectified and clarified in his writings.
(I can't say that I grasp his concepts and ideas with my mind; only that I am finding it quite pleasurable to let his stream of thought flow through my mind . . . but only if I don't stop to try and grasp it. There is another Mind at work within me, perhaps meshing with my own human mind — much like two wheels interlocking, with the larger wheel turning the smaller — which fully understands what Russell is saying and writing. My desire is for my readers to share in that same exquisite pleasure reading these articles and excerpts.)
MISCONCEPTION OF ENERGY
3. Failure to recognize that this universal body of moving matter has been created by some power outside of itself has led science to conclude that the energy which created matter is within itself. Even more erroneous is the conclusion that energy is a condition of matter, such as heat.
This fallacy has led to the conclusion that Creation will disappear when heat energy "runs down." The first and second laws of thermodynamics are built upon the obviously wrong conclusion. The universe will never "run down." It is as eternal as God is eternal.
Throughout his writings, Russell describes the universe as "matter in motion." It's all "simulated light" — in other words, energy. That God created the universe is as much a truth as poetry is created by a poet and a symphony is written by a music composer. The poet's poem is not the poet nor is the symphony the composer. Creation is a product of God's Mind, a manifestation of his "IDEA for Creation." Just as the qualities of a poem and a symphony, or any other product, "have been extended to that product by their creator to manifest qualities, attributes and energies that are alone in the creator of that product," so are the qualities, attributes and energies of the universe extended to it by the Creator.
Nor is the IDEA which matter manifests within matter. IDEA is never created. Idea is a Mind quality. Idea never leaves the omniscient Light of Mind. Idea is but simulated by matter-in-motion.
IDEA never leaves its invisible state to become visible matter. Bodies which manifest IDEA are made in the image of their creator's imaginings.
Every creation, whether of God or man, is an extension of its creator. It is projected from him by a force which is within its creator and not in the projected product.
All the knowledge, energy and method of creating any product are properties of Mind alone. There is no knowledge, energy, life, truth, intelligence, substance or thought in the motion which matter is.
MISCONCEPTION OF MATTER
4. Electric Matter is but a mirror which reflects qualities outside itself to simulate those qualities within itself.
Matter cannot move itself. It is moved solely at the command and desire of the Mind of its creator.
The powers of 'attraction and repulsion' which science mistakenly attributes to matter are electrical effects performing their one and only function of dividing an equilibrium into two opposing conditions, which extend equally from a dividing equator. The magnetic Light controls the balance of these two opposing conditions which interchange two ways in their endeavor to void their opposing conditions, but the stresses and strains which seem to make matter attract and repel matter are electrical effects.
Electric effects of motion can be insulated from each other — but the magnetic Light of the Creator, which causes those effects, cannot be insulated from matter by matter.
All matter is electric. Electricity conditions all matter under the measured control of the ONE MAGNETIC LIGHT which forever balances the TWO electrically-divided, conditioned lights of matter and space.
Divided matter strains to find balance in the zero of equilibrium from which it was divided. The senses of man are mightily deceived by the illusions of appearance which cause him to conclude otherwise.
In a word, matter is light, as Russell explains in The Secret of Light:
All dense cold matter, such as iron, stone, wood, and all growing or decaying things, are light. We do not think of them as light but all are waves of motion, and all waves of motion are light.
Light is all there is in the spiritual universe of knowing, and simulation of that Light in opposite extensions is all there is in the electric wave universe of sensing. The simulation of Light in matter is not Light. There is no Light in matter.
Russell differentiates between the invisible and visible worlds of light:
Perhaps the confusion which attends this idea would be lessened if we classify concerning the spiritual universe, such as life, intelligence, truth, power, knowledge and balance as being the ONE LIGHT of KNOWING, and everything concerning matter and motion as being the TWO SIMULATED LIGHTS of thinking. Thinking expresses knowing in matter but matter does not think, nor does it know.
Thinking also expresses life, truth, idea, power and balance by recording the ideas of those qualities in the two lights of matter in motion, but matter does not live, nor is it truth, balance or idea, even though it simulates those spiritual qualities.
Man's confusion concerning this differentiation lies in his long assumption of the reality of matter. His assumption that his body is his Self, that his knowledge is in his brain, and that he lives and dies because his body integrates and disintegrates, has been so fundamental a part of his thinking that it is difficult for him to reverse his thinking to the fact that matter is but motion and has no reality beyond simulating reality.
This was not as common a realization in 1947 when Russell first wrote down these ideas as they are today in an age of spiritual awakening and transformation of consciousness. I resonate with what he says here in concluding his thoughts on our perception of energy and matter as being more about feeling than visual or sensory:
The light which we think we see is but motion. We do not see light. We feel the wave vibrations set up by the motion which simulates light, but the motion of electric waves which simulate light is not that which it simulates.
ON GRAVITY
Russell challenges Isaac Newton's law of gravity as being invalid and only half the story.
Newton's apple was not attracted to the ground by gravitation. The high potential condition of that solid apple sought a similar high potential condition. That is to say it "fell" toward the earth to fulfill Nature's law of like seeking like. Had Newton sat with the apple for a week or two he would have seen that same apple "rise" unto the heavens as a low potential gas seeking a like low potential to balance its electrically-divided state. The "rising" of the decaying, expanding apple again fulfills Nature's law of like seeking like.
All polarized bodies add to their densities and potentials. The apple which fell to the ground was a polarized body. All polarized bodies must reverse their polarities and depolarize. They then lose their densities and potentials. The depolarized apple returned to the zero of its beginnings.
The Newton law is in this respect invalid because it accounts for but one half of the apple's growth-decay cycle. This is a two-way universe of opposed effects of motion — not a one-way universe.
MISCONCEPTION OF SUBSTANCE IN MATTER
5. Sense of observation has led to the erroneous conclusion that there are 92 different substances in matter.
This universe is substanceless. It consists of motion only. Motion simulates substance by the control of its opposing wave pressures of motion which deceive the senses into seeing substance where motion alone is. The senses do not reach beyond the illusion of motion, nor do those who believe that they can gain knowledge of the secrets of this vast make-believe universe even faintly comprehend the unreality of this mirage of polarized lighty-in-motion which they so firmly believe is real.
Motion is two-way, for all motion is caused by the division of an equilibrium, and its extension in two opposite directions to create the two opposite conditions of pressures necessary to make motion imperative.
One of these two conditions of electric motion thrusts inward toward a center to create a centripetal vortice to simulate gravity. On the other side of the dividing equator, the other condition thrusts outward from a center to create a centrifugal vortice to simulate vacuity.
Moving waves of oppositely-conditioned matter simulate substance, but there is no substance to the motion which simulates IDEA in matter.
To make his point even more graphic, albeit more unbelievable to the orthodox mind, he draws this unlikely picture of a cobweb cutting through steel:
If a cobweb could move fast enough, it would simulate a solid steel disc — and it could cut through steel. If such a thing could happen it would not be the "substance" of the cobweb which cut through the steel — it would be the motion which cut it.
Fast-moving short waves simulate solids, which slow-moving long waves simulate the gases of space which surround solids. Waves of motion are substanceless, however. They merely simulate substance.
Russell brings it all Home to design, control and purpose in these final paragraphs:
Motion itself is controlled by the Mind of the Creator Who uses it to express His desire for simulating IDEA of Mind by giving it a formed body. There is no other purpose for motion.
Desire in the Light of Mind for creative expression is the only energy in this universe. All motion is Mind motivated. All motion records Mind thoughts in matter.
All matter is but pressure-conditioned motion. Varying pressure conditions yield varying states of motion. Varying states of motion are what science misinterprets as the elements of matter.
Varying pressures in a wave are tonal. In each octave wave there are four pairs of tones, each of which has the same relative position in its octave color spectrum as it has in its octaves of chemical elements. Waves are, therefore, electric pressure-conditioned octaves of tones.
It's all music and art . . . the "Music of the Spheres." The Creator is the Great Artist and Musician . . . and, I would add, Magician. And we are made in His image and likeness? Sometimes I see it, but mostly don't. We have a lot of evolving to go through before we can say in truth "Man is God-in-action on Earth." We are only designed that way. Revelation of that design is only minimal. Full apocalypse of the Light Man is created to manifest is a work in progress. I only know it in my own experience . . . and I do know that I Am the Light of my world. My blogging is an expression of my desire to share the light that I Am with my world. Isn't that the reason any one of us does anything?
We will continue to explore Walter Russell's "Two-Way Universe" and the mystery of Light the Creator in my next post. Until then,
Anthony Palombo
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Dawn of a Golden Age: Ascension at the Speed of Love
I am totally fascinated by David Wilcock's collection of weird science projects and experiments in his book The Source Field Investigations. Here's just one example of countless others.
Contrary to Einstein's theory of relativity, the closer matter approaches the speed of light, the more it looses, not gains, mass. In fact, if you give it a little push beyond the speed of light, it totally disappears into time-space. This is the key to teleportation and ascension . . . and you can take your body with you, as many already have!
Atoms are flip-flopping in and out of space-time and time-space all the time. When they spin so fast that they exceed the speed of light, they pop out of visible space-time and into invisible time-space. The matter they give form to vanishes from sight. This is apparently what has repeaterdly happened in the Bermuda Triangle, as well as a dozen other places where ships, airplanes, yachts and the people on them have vanished off the face of the earth. They've simply flipped over into a parallel universe Wilcock and others call "time-space." Let me attempt to explain.
Apparently, there are vortices in various locations around the earth, much like energy tornadoes, in which energy shifts occur and atoms comprising matter, which are already spinning at the speed of light, are pushed beyond the speed of light causing them to cross over into time-space. These vortices appear to hover over "sacred sites," such as ancient pyramids and stone monuments. Every atom and molecule is a tiny vortex of energy. Let's explain these terms.
Space and time are exact opposites of each other. Just as space is three-dimensional, so is time — according to American Engineer Dr. Dewey Larson (1898-1990), who "built a very successful model of our Universe, starting in 1950, by assuming time had three dimensions. . . . [and] solved many of the greatest quantum physics problems, as well as many perplexing issues in astronomy. . . ." His model of the Universe as a Reciprocal System, as he described it, was never accepted by mainstream scientists, who just could not think outside the box of Newtonian physics.
Larson concluded there was a three-dimensional Time Region, or what I and others now like to call time-space — which is constantly interacting with our own three dimensions of space-time. Larson's other big concept was that the entire Universe is formed by nothing more than motion — and what's moving, in my opinion, is the Source Field.
The reading then gets even more interesting, as Wilcock calls into question the very nature of one of our most "stable" of concepts — GRAVITY.
Gravity, electromagnetic energy, and all the other forces normally associated with quantum mechanics are just different ways of talking about the same thing. The entire Universe is built from nothing more than fluidlike, swirling vortexes within the Source Field. Einstein's greatest dream — of a Unified Field — was correct. . . .
Based on all the evidence, gravitation and the 'space-time progression' are the exact same thing — which is ultimately what Larson is saying by concluding that 'All is Motion.' It's a very mind-expanding concept to consider that gravity is powering physical matter. That's all there is. Nothing else. Just a flowing vortex within a mysterious force we usually call gravity. Without the flow of gravity doing its work, there would be no matter — at least not anything that was visible to our own space-time.
Then there's levity . . .
Gravity, as a downward force, must also have an upward force — and my favorite name for gravity's counterpart is levity. The Source Field, or gravity, rushes into our planet to create all the atoms and molecules on earth simultaneously — but it still has to keep moving. Once this same flow of energy streams back out of our planet, it has now lost some of its momentum — so it would be traveling a little more slowly than it went in. Once you understand this, you will see there may be an upward-pushing force from the earth that is in a constant tug-a-war with the downward-pushing force — and the downward force wins only by a very small amount. If we did not have the upward-pushing force to balance everything out, we would very likely be instantaneously crushed flat by the pressure of gravity. . . .
Or, vice versa, we would go floating off into space. Wilcock goes on to explain how atoms and molecules pop in and out of the visible material world. According to Larson's Reciprocal System model, there are two parallel worlds in which space and time are one dimension in a three-dimensional reality, and where the space in one reality creates time in the other, and vice versa.
There is a constant, flowing exchange between these two realities going on within every atom. When an atom pops over into time-space, its spinning momentum is transferred over into the fluidlike energy within the parallel reality — and it is no longer affected by gravity in our own space-time. The full transition can take fifteen to twenty minutes in a larger object with many atoms. . . .
Here's where Wilcock gets excited about his "favorite part."
Theoretically, an atom in space-time gets pushed on by gravity — but once an atom pops over into time-space, it gets pushed on by levity. This means that within our reality, that atom now has thrust . . . as long as it is still bound together with other atoms that have not yet popped over. Therefore, if you want to get an object to levitate, you would need to bring its molecules to a point where they are half in and half out of our three-dimensional reality of space-time. That way the levity force can then balance out against gravity — not unlike how you can float perfectly still underwater by controlling how much air you hold in your lungs. If you push an object too far into time-space, it will dematerialize. Then the same force that was causing it to rise up in our reality will now make it fall down in the parallel reality. Gravity takes over — but in a totally parallel reality. This may work is a manner similar to a Moebius loop as you pass between realities.
Nature uses these principles all the time. The DNA molecule stores photons of light, and it appears that this same flip-flopping at the light-speed boundary is what allows DNA to easily exchange energy and information between space-time and time-space — between our physical body and our energetic duplicate. . . .
The Universe is a verb, not a noun. God, the Source Field, is a verb. It's nothing more than MOVEMENT — or, as my Sacred Sound mystic guru, Sufi Murshid, Hazrat Inayat Khan would call it. . .
( ( ( V (I (B (R ( (A) )T )I )O )N ) ) )
The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived, and into which all again merges in time, is a silent, motionless, and eternal life which among the Sufis is called zat. Every motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations. Within one vibration are created many vibrations. As motion causes motion, so the silent life becomes active in a certain part and creates every moment more and more activity, losing thereby the peace of the original silent life. It is the grade of activity of these vibrations that accounts for the various planes of existence. These planes are imagined to differ from one another, but in reality they cannot be entirely detached and made separate from one another. The activity of vibrations makes them grosser, and thus the earth is born of the heavens. . . .
And returns to the heavens after flourishing and revealing the Light that made them, to the silent zat, the place of peace . . . and of light. . .
All existing things that we see or hear, that we perceive, vibrate. If it were not for vibration, precious stones would not show us their color and their brilliance; it is vibration that makes trees grow, fruit ripen, and flowers bloom. Our existence is also according to the law of vibrations, not only our physical body but also that of our thoughts and feelings. If it were not for vibrations, drugs and herbs would not have any effect upon us. If any explanation of electricity can be given, it is that its mystery lies only in vibrations. Vibrations are productive and produce electricity; electricity is composed of vibrations. In other words, that aspect of vibration which produces form could not do so if it could not first produce light. The Bible hints at this when it says that first there was light and then the world was produced. Light is the first form; all other forms come afterwards. . . .
Love thou art and unto love shalt thou return.
Light Divine, the Great Creator of the Universe
And so do we return to light — at the speed of love. The vibration of light is the frequency that conceived us in the Great Mother's Womb and brought us forth. It is the vibration of Love, the Father of life — our "Father, which art in Heaven." When we come to the point of absolute yielded love response to the Lord of Love — ". . . with all of thy heart and with all of thy mind and with all of thy strength. . . ," the atoms of our body cells will spin faster than the speed of light, as fast as the speed of love, and we will be changed in a moment — "in the twinkling of an eye." Our bodies will rise up from the earth, utterly poised between gravity and levity, suspended in a sphere of light, a vortex of Source Field energy — only not in fifteen or twenty minutes but instantly — and we will know beyond the shadow of a doubt, that we are Home in Heaven on Earth — not in some hoped-for "hereafter," but here and now. And it's all GOD, every space, time, atom and particle. It's all GOD and it's all GOOD!
I will continue along this theme in my next post, sharing some of the implications I see in Wilcock's presentations. Until then,
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Sources: David Wilcock, The Source Field Investigations; Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Music of Life.
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Dawn Of A Golden Age
The Ancients speak of the return of a "Golden Age" every 22,920 years. This is the length of the Mayan "Great Year," measured by the presession of the Earth's axis (the time it takes for the wobble of the Earth's axis to make a complete cycle through the Zodiac belt). The end of this cycle as we exit the Piscean Age marks the beginning of a new Mayan Great Year of 22,920 years and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which is thought by one source at least to begin sometime around July 26, 2014, one-and-one-half years after December 12, 2012. That source is Edwin Bernbaum who, in The Way to Shambhala says that. . .
. . . the golden age will come when the Sun, Moon and Jupiter all meet in the same quadrant as the Tishya constellation (which is part of Cancer). The next time this happens will be on July 26, 2014, according to my astronomical software [Cyber Sky]. . . . (D. Wilcock)
I am currently engrossed in David Wilcock's timely release of The Source Field Investigations – The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies. It's been a page-turner for me, because I live in consciousness on the edge of the proverbial envelope, always pushing it to reveal the MORE that life has to offer us as we travel in space among the stars of this awesome Universe. Isn't this picture of the Eagle Nebula absolutely stunning?! And we live here among all this colossal beauty. (Click on the picture twice for a larger image.)
Just as a brief intro, "David Wilcock is a professional lecturer, film-maker, and researcher of ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms of matter and energy. His thoughts and expertise on 2012 have reached millions of people through his website, www.DivineCosmos.com. He lives in California." His book, the result of thirty years of research, has just come out and can be purchased through Amazon Books. It is a substantial work, as thoroughly researched and well documented books usually are.
AWAKENING OF THE PINEAL GLAND
What piqued my interest in Wilcock's book — and in the author himself over the years I've followed him — are the numerous and enlightening references he makes to the significance of the pineal gland throughout history, particularly ancient history. We live in a time, Wilcock suggests, when the pineal gland is being "awakened" by the vibrational shift currently underway in our planet and solar system as we traverse our Milky Way Galaxy.
Ancient prophesies tell of a time when this would occur, bringing on a phoenix-like transformation in human experience. The Egyptians taught that the cry of the "Bennu" birds (the phoenix), depicted in Egyptian art as perched on either side of the "Benben stone" (the pineal gland), "were responsible for creating great cycles of time that were ordained by Divine intelligence." From the teachings in the Egyptian Book of the Dead we learn how
. . . the seeker could achieve his or her own phoenix-like transformation–and when this happened, they could levitate, perform miracles and glow with bright light. The mystery schools and the major religions all seem to agree on the importance of the pineal gland in this spiritual awakening process.
ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES EMERGING
What continues to hold my interest in Wilcock's book are the rare "weird science" experiments and unexplained incidents he cites that have gone unpublished over the duration of a hundred years or more, most of them squashed and disallowed public awareness by those in power with invested interests in maintaining the status quo. Wilcock brings all this to the fore as evidence that an emergence of ancient technologies in the advent of a returning Golden Age is underway, like that of pyramid power, a fascinating chapter for sure. As Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, states in his introduction to Wilcock's book, "David Wilcock . . . makes a magnificent case in the pages that follow that a Golden Age is indeed within our grasp and can be brought into manifestation if only we choose to make it so."
I will spend a few weeks sharing some of the insight in this book through the next few blog posts. The one that I would like to share today relates to the larger unseen context in which we are afloat that governs our very existence and function at the third dimension of life expression. We live in a multidimensional universe at the most exciting level of creativity, where form emerges out of the formless divine matrix – between heaven and earth. As my friend David Thatcher portrays it in his writings at thecosmicalarmclock.com, we are present at higher levels of frequency, invisible but nonetheless very present, and at one or more of these levels we are about the business for which we were created. In his words . . .
We are incarnate to pour the living matrix of Love into this 3D world from other dimensions where we already reside as radiant facets of the One I Am.
It would be much easier for us, and for the planet, were we to be fully conscious at the 3D level of form of our spiritual activities in the other levels, especially our life purpose for the current incarnation.
THE SOURCE FIELD
The focus of David Wilcock's investigations throughout his book is what he has called "The Source Field." From what I have gleaned from my reading thus far, he seems to be describing what Rupert Sheldrake called the "morphogenetic field" and what Gregg Braden calls "The Divine Matrix" in his book by the same title. Uranda coined the word "pneumaplasm" to represent the same invisible substance that bears the imprint of divine design and instruction for the creation and operation of the material world.
PHANTOM DNA
As I indicated, some very "weird science" has been mostly stumbled into by various explorers of the realm of quantum physics. One such weird phenomenon is what Wilcock describes as "phantom DNA," which proved that our DNA is interfacing with a field of intelligence (the Source Field) from which it is absorbing and storing light.
Dr. Peter Gariaev's DNA Phantom Effect proved that the DNA molecule captures and stores light. A mysterious force holds the light in the same place for up to 30 days after the DNA molecule itself has been removed from the area.
This discovery has many implications, as you can imagine, some of which I will share with you in my next post. Until then,
Be love ~ be loved.
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Sacred Minerals
Precious crystals of the mineral kingdom
How beautiful and colorful are these precious crystals of the Mineral Kingdom. Each color represents a different frequency of vibration. Each vibration composes and plays the Music of the Spheres . . . and all of them are part of our sacred body-temples.
Colorful stones of the mineral kingdom
As I promised in my last blog, I am posting a section from my book Sacred Anatomy which speaks inspiring words about the role of minerals and trace minerals in our body-temples. So, here is the first installment. I think you will enjoy it and be inspired.
Divine Technology at Work
" . . . and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices." (Rev. 4:5)
The throne of God in these temples is a living reality on earth. It reflects and manifests the throne of God which John of Revelation described as "a throne set in heaven, and one sat on the throne." This all relates, as we have seen, to the Pineal Body and the focus in this endocrine gland of the Spirit of Love, the incarnate angel in each one, who sits on this throne. Divine technology is at work here, just as it was at work in the Ark of the Covenant, which provided a throne for Deity in the midst of the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness.
The Ark may well have been more than just an elaborate and ornate box for carrying the tablets of the Ten Commandments around. It was more likely a very precisely designed instrument of a highly advanced technology. As I described it above, it was lined with pure gold. Gold is more than just a symbol of power in the world. Gold is power. There was real power associated with this ark.
Gold is symbolic of love, the only real power there is. Among other things, this gives rise to the question: What do we really know about love? It is powerful beyond human power. Love has been described as the "cohesive power that holds the universe together." That same power made itself evident through the Ark with its precise design and the precious metal of gold with which it was overlaid inside and out.
So is it with our own body temples. There is a correlation between the divine technology at work within the human cranium and that which was at work within the Ark of the Covenant. There is an arc of love in the cranium which gives life to the body. Great power comes to focus in the body with the Spirit of Love governing thought and action through the heart. These are the spiritual, or vibrational, factors relating to the heaven within. There are factors relating to the earth that need to be in place as well. I am referring to the elements of the mineral kingdom. These comprise the conduit and control mechanism through which the power of love can work in these human capacities.
Minerals and Cosmic Powers
In his Steps To Mastership, lesson thirteen, Uranda gives instructions relative to what he refers to as the "Twelve Cosmic Rays," among other sacred factors essential to the process of "spiritualization" of physical matter, which are "sometimes spoken of as zodiacal influences [which] form the directing urges by which mankind functions on the physical plane." He then makes this revealing statement: "The points of contact within the body through which the twelve Cosmic Rays are enabled to transmit life to the body, are the twelve Organic Minerals found in the body substance."
Uranda further instructs: "There is a Tree of Life on every plane of being. The twelve fruits of the Tree of Life on the physical plane are the twelve body minerals." He then goes on to say that all twelve minerals are needed for health in the body, which must be attained before one can be influenced by the Twelve Cosmic Rays. These twelve minerals and cosmic rays are represented by the "twenty and four elders" who stood around the throne and bowed down to the One who sat thereon casting their crowns down before Him. Great power is released in our bodies when these twelve minerals are present and their powers made available to the One I Am.
Inorganic minerals have a covalent power of their own which causes them to bond together as solid foundational rock. As they are taken up into the vegetable kingdom they are chelated, literally clawed apart, by organic acids in the plants and then re-arranged and proportioned so as to make them available to the animal kingdom. Inorganic compounds become organic through this process. In this sense they give up their crowns, their independence and power, to become part of the living temple. In the process of surrender, their powerful energies are released inside our bodies—the "thunderings and lightnings" that proceeded forth from out of the throne.
These organic minerals are: Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, Fluorine, Chlorine, Silica, Manganese, Sulphur, and Iodine. Their functions in the body temple are many and varied. All are essential to the function of the endocrine glands and the nervous system's capacity to carry electrical current, as well as in the production of enzymes. All are instrumental in the ceremony of ascension in both the body temple and in the larger Cathedral of the Natural World. (To be continued)
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Your Sacred Anatomy offers a powerful and personal theme for meditation. This book was written to evoke deep currents in the heart for the sacred in everyday life. The author takes you beyond mainstream and even alternative health care to consider the human body in its true purpose and function as a holy temple and an instrument for the magic of creation.
Have you ever wondered how spirit steps down into flesh and incarnates? If indeed our bodies are temples of the living God, as sacred scripture teaches, how does the spirit of God dwell in them? What is the mechanism through which spirit incarnates so completely as to govern every detail of our bodily functions?
Gain a deeper understanding of the sacred nature of your physical body. Discover a new perspective of an aspect of your anatomy that receives little attention until hormonal chemistry is thrown into a state of imbalance. Come to appreciate the vital role your seven endocrine glands play in bringing the gifts of spirit and learn how illness plagues human existence when these gifts are withheld and hormonal glands fail to function normally. You will see clearly the role you play in determining which way this plays out in your own life experience.
This book will profoundly change the way you view and treat your human capacities. You will find both inspiration and practical spirituality as you explore the chemistry and alchemy of the endocrine system which sets the stage for the dance of spirit with flesh.
(From the back cover of Sacred Anatomy . . . where spirit and flesh dance in the fires of creation.)
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Grounding Cosmic Energy
Our Milky Way Galaxy
To remain in altered states for long periods of time without grounding oneself in the lower Earth vibrations does create real field problems, and disturbances in the alkaline-acid balance in the blood. (Valerie Hunt)
Subtle energy, when rarefied, tends to ascend taking spiritualized substance with it. Ascension of rarefied spiritual substance ideally occurs during an attunement session, but not always. When it does, it creates a bridge between heaven and earth across which healing currents of divine love descend upon mortal flesh. This can be a bit ungrounding, both for practitioner and client, but especially for the client. Grounding, then, is helpful, even essential, in bringing a person back down to earth.
I know that working with sound as a carrier wave for these healing currents, especially the higher tones of the small metal bowls and tuning forks, can be very ungrounding for my client. I use a very low frequency (64 hertz) "C" body-tuner (tuning fork) on top of the feet in closing a session, holding the bottom of the foot with my other hand, to remind my clients that they have feet, a gentle way to end a session with a touch of light humor to ease their re-entry into the mundane world. Besides feeling wonderful, the lower frequency of the body-tuner is felt throughout the bones of the skeleton when transmitted by the body-tuner into the bones of the feet. Bones, especially those in our feet, are very much grounded in the minerals of the earth. Another very endearingly grounding technique is to take the client's feet into my hands and gently squeeze them, starting with the ankles and moving toward the toes. A drink of cold water and a walk around the room barefooted–or, better yet, on a lawn if available–also helps bring one down to earth.
[Here's some beautiful flute music by my friend, and muse, Norm Smookler, his latest release on You Tube: Sound Attunement ]
Speaking of minerals and the earth, this would be a good time to consider the role of the mineral kingdom in bringing cosmic energy and forces into the earth and thereby into the vegetable and animal kingdoms. It seems that the rocks ground and radiate cosmic forces. Likewise, the minerals in our bodies ground and conduct cosmic forces through them. Without a sufficient quantity and balance of these minerals, we would not be able to handle the power of these cosmic forces.
In her mind-engaging book, Infinite Mind – Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness, Dr. Valerie Hunt addresses with some depth of understanding the phenomenon of the alkaline-acid balance of the blood being disturbed during long visits to higher planes in "altered states" of consciousness. The pH (potential of Hydrogen) of the blood ideally stays a little on the acid side, which allows it to absorb minerals. The body spares no cost in keeping the blood pH balanced, the only condition that allows for the absorption of vitamins and minerals.
Now, acid-alkaline balance allows for the flow of energy through connected fields of positively and negatively charged molecles. Acids have a positive charge and bring a stimulating influence to the cells along with a coherent energy of attraction. Alkaline minerals have a negative charge, bringing a calming influence to the cells, as well as a grounding for positively charged atoms and a responsive field that is drawn toward the positive field of the acids. This is how a balance in blood chemistry is maintained, as well as in the flow of energy through the body.
This balance can be upset by dietary and lifestyle improprieties, such as toxins in foods, beverages, polluted air, and tobacco and other consciousness altering drugs. It is also disturbed when alkaline reserves are depleted in the body, either from a high acid-ash diet of meats and grains which draws heavily on these reserves, or simply from not eating enough mineral-rich foods — or both. Minerals are so lacking in the modern American diet that supplementation is wise.
I recommend Min-Tran ($20/330 tabs.), a combination of Organically Bound Minerals ($13/90 tabs.) and Calcium Lactate, ($20/330 tabs.) and Trace Minerals B12 ($15/90 tabs.) by Standard Process Labs. Drop me an order by email (tpal70@gmail.com) and I'll have it to you in a few days.
This imbalance in blood chemistry can easily be rectified and prevented by taking in a balanced amount of electrolytes (acids and alkalizing minerals). Acids will be found in fruits like oranges and alkalizing minerals in organic vegetables grown in mineral rich soil. Lemons and limes are balanced, so lemon aide and lime aide with a little sea salt and cane sugar or honey make great electrolyte replenishing beverages.
A word to the wise subtle energy worker: If ever you or your client experience faint or a drain of energy, even loose consciousness – "zone out" into an "altered state" – during an attunement, then look to this factor and consider organic mineral supplementation for both you and your client before having another session. Have some lemon or lime aide on hand. But most importantly, learn and use grounding techniques to bring your client down to earth where cosmic energies and the spiritual energies can be grounded. Heaven and earth, after all, are one and are best experienced by human beings that way.
Of course, if you are a well-grounded person and wise energy worker who has learned to approach your clients with a radiant regard toward what they bring in the way of health issues, as opposed to a responsive posture toward the client's problematic issues and a sympathetic desire to fix the problem and heal the client, then you are not likely to lose your footing in the earth and drift off with your client into altered states. Our job, as we seasoned practitioners have learned, is to hold a fully conscious point of orientation and provide a solid vibrational anchor for the client while they go through changes in their energetic field and physical body.
I would like to delve more deeply into this subject matter, if you are willing to take a little side trip with me. I am going to share with you an excerpt from my book, Sacred Anatomy, wherein I describe the individual function of the 12 organic minerals and a few of the 72 trace minerals within the context of a meditation on the sacred anatomy of our body temples. Apparently, it takes that many varied organic and trace minerals to step down and differentiate the powerful forces moving through the cosmos in our bodies. The excerpt isn't long for a book, but it is for a blog. So, I'll start it in my next post and see how and where it goes from there. I think you will enjoy the meditation.
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The Power of your Sacred Heart
The heart is the soul's gateway, both into life and beyond into eternity. The heart is the timeless and indestructible source of all higher knowledge. It is the one point within each person where the inner and outer forces are the same. Within the heart, the will of God and your own may be brought into harmony" — Jesus
Continuing my book review and sharing of Glenda Green's inspiring book, Love Without End — Jesus Speaks, the author contemplates in her chapter "The Heart is Your Higher Intelligence" the historical celebrations of the heart, such as on Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and other holidays on which we celebrate some aspect of our heart's devotion. Then there's country music which raises verse and song to the broken hearts . . . and the subsequent need for counselors to fix them. "How little," she writes, "we know about its fullest and truest meaning."
She then cites medical evidence and scientific data concerning our physical heart: "…physicians report that the physical organ has never been stronger, which accounts for our larger bodies and greater longevity. Yet, at the same time, heart disease is still on the best seller list of tickets to Heaven! The physical heart is a life-giving organ, with deep and wonderful resources, most of which have yet to be discovered."
Our physical hearts exemplify innocent perception and awareness. Just consider how, for instance, without judgment, complaint, or condemnation it pumps clean and dirty blood through its chambers with equal vigor and blessing. Sort of inspires me to have a more non-judgmental attitude toward what the River of Life brings through me and my world for blessing and passing on to other members in the larger body of Man, the Body of our Creator.
Speaking of the physical heart, Glenda also cites Oriental medicine and philosophy for bringing to our awareness "an important and wonderful energy field which surrounds both our bodies and our physical hearts, and every day more evidence is surfacing that this complex and intricate field of electrical energy is a life enhancing source to the physical heart." She cites acupuncture for revealing deeper and more pragmatic evidence of this energetic field in its exploration and therapeutic use of the meridians in and around the body, opening a door to "alternative" or "complementary" medicine's debut into western science and healthcare.
Moving from the physical heart to the psychological perspective of the heart, modern psychology has introduced the now popular view that there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" approaches to life, the right-brained people considered "heart people," who are "more intuitive, emotional, empathic and responsive, while, in contrast, left-brained people are more logical, analytical, competitive and initiatory. This dichotomy," she suggests, "is often carried to the extreme of referring to 'heart people' as feminine and 'logical people' as masculine." She lends a certain amount of credibility and truth to these observations based solely on the "bicameral nature of the brain." The real truth, she offers, lies in the "reflection such limited assumptions cast upon the culture in which we live…. In our culture, the heart has generally been considered the emotional, empathic, intuitive, and feminine side of our being. The complete spectrum of the heart's power has been missed by most people. All of the above considerations about the heart are important and valid, yet each alone is incomplete. Even taken collectively, they do not equal the Sacred Heart of which Jesus spoke."
Here is what Glenda recorded Jesus — whom she knows more historically as "Jeshua" and more intimately as "The Beloved" — as saying about the significance and power of the heart:
There is a point within each person where the physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual components of one's existence are in perfect synchronicity. At that point, there is no difference in elements, time, space, or condition. This is the personal 'zero point' which is known prior to birth, immediately after death, and anytime in between when a person's will has been perfectly reconciled with the will of God. A person is forever able to connect with his Creator in that sacred place, regardless of how far he has strayed through the process of living. At the point of true simplicity, you may enter into perfect communion with the Father. Whenever you do, your life will be renewed or even transformed.
The heart is a magnetic vortex through which the blessings of all essences and potentialities are received, integrated, and focused into living. Through the laws of electromagnetism, that power is converted into life energy. The heart, being essentially magnetic, functions best through innocent awareness which attracts and receives. Acts of judgment, which divide and repel, will shut the door of the heart behind you. If you would make the heart strong, you must first learn to perceive with innocence, accept, and forgive. As you empower your heart it will open to you. At first you may simply notice this change as more passion for living, more peaceful sleep, or better digestion of food. The heart is the center of your health and quality of living, therefore those things will be addressed first. As you progress in your affirmations of the heart, however, your life will begin to have more abundant fruits, and you will have the energy needed to make more dramatic changes. Eventually, what you gain from your heart visitations will surpass your wildest dreams. There will be levels of energy which are transformational and transmutational."
"In a world so preoccupied with power," Glenda writes, "is it not ironic that the heart is so little understood. For Jesus said, 'The heart center is the true source of human power.'"
Food for much thought and meditation. Certainly enough for today. See you in my next post. Until we meet again. . .
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Attunement with Sacred Sound
We will pause in our review of Glenda Green's book, Love Without End, to share something about Attunement from a brochure I just finished writing as it flows naturally from the current of our meditation on the Sacred Heart.
What is Attunement?
Attunement is a sacred healing art and a spiritual practice. It is sacred in that it serves life, and life is sacred. As a sacred healing art, attunement is a technology of Love. It serves to increase the flow and radiance of life in the body by healing, clarifying and strengthening its connection with spirit in the heart — the Sacred Heart — where oneness with Love is known.
As a spiritual practice, one can use attunement to focus a current of Love in one's Sacred Heart and allow love to radiate outward without concern for any particular desired results. The radiance of love alone brings peace to the heart, clarity to the mind and healing to the body. The Father, who is Love, knows what our real needs are even before we ask. Entering Sacred Heart space is the only requirement for experiencing attunement with the healing power of Love.
As a sacred healing art, attunement is administered by focusing a current of love and then extending the hands to share that current with another. The endocrine system of hormonal glands inside and the Chakra centers of energy outside and enveloping the body can be used as key gateways in the energy body to access organs and systems in the physical body. The practitioner may work with these two systems to bring about a state of balance and harmony in the body's energy fields.
What is Sacred Sound?
Sacred Sound is sound used specifically to convey life's healing currents. The sound can be produced using Tibetan and quartz crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, recordings (such as CD's), as well as the human voice to create an atmosphere for healing . . . and so much more. Offering a musical carrier wave for spirit, Sacred Sound produces a heavenly harmony of tones that lift the heart and mind to peaceful heights of serenity and utter stillness. Sacred Sound actually transforms and realigns the molecules of the body bringing them into beautiful patterns of harmony that manifest the health and radiance of life in body-mind and heart.
Toning Aum
Simply toning Aum with the release of a moderately deep breath, starting with the "ah" sound and open mouth for 5 seconds, then slowing closing the mouth around the ah sound to form the Aum sound, then breathing out the "m" sound through the nose for 10 seconds, will stimulate the pineal gland in the center of the brain and release beneficial hormonal chemistry for the ascension of consciousness to a higher frequency. Caution: Do this just a few time so as not to over stimulate the pineal gland to the point of becoming ungrounded.
What does attunement feel like?
Depending on one's openness to receive, one may experience a feeling of peace and inner stillness. A definite and magical healing can occur and is often keenly felt as a penetrating current moving at a core level within. Some have compared it to touching heaven and being "surrounded by a cloud of angels." Others have likened their experience to being "kissed by an angel." One may come away feeling as though one has left this world and entered a realm of light and peace, which I like to think of as the "kingdom of heaven within," the inner "closet" the Master Jesus spoke of where one may enter and pray "in secret" to one's "heavenly Father." By whatever name called, it is a place of communion with the Beloved and therefore sacred. The "Sacred Heart" describes it best for me.
What is the purpose of attunement?
Attunement is not so much "given" as it is "shared" by two or more who come together in a spirit of thankfulness. The whole and holy intention of attunement is to clarify and lift one's own frequency of life energy to a higher level of vibration, above the level where problems, distress and dis-ease are experienced and where oneness with Love is known and keenly felt. Attunement brings a natural sense of wholeness to one's experience of oneself.
Besides being used for personal healing, attunement can also be used to send healing currents to loved ones, or to enfold a life situation in love for peaceful resolution. Anyone can do this, as attunement with love is our natural state.
Harmony and balance are keys to health, happiness and longevity. Attunement — with or without sacred sound — offers all this and more as one makes attunement with love a way of life and part of one's daily health and wellness care.
Thankfulness in all things keeps one attuned with Life's creative flow. Self-attunement is taught and recommended as a way of re-visiting the sacred space created during an attunement session in one's quiet moments of morning and evening prayer and sanctification.
Fees and Appointments
Attunements are offered freely. Love offerings are welcomed and deeply appreciated. I invite you to call today to schedule an attunement session. Call anytime, day or night, for long-distance attunement and for special enfoldment.
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I made it a goal to re-read all of Jack Kirby's mid-seventies Marvel work this year. I hadn't liked it when originally published, but now I find them to filled with Kirby's wonderful imagination. See my reviews of The Eternals and Captain America's Bicentennial Battles. Yesterday I wrote about 2001 the movie adaptation, here it's 2001 the color comic.
The series I had the least hope for in terms of quality was the color comic series, 2001 A Space Odyssey. I collected these at the time but had no earthly memory at all, other than Machine Man appeared in issue 8 and that became a spin-off book. But I was wrong...this 2001 series is freaking great! The artwork on many splash pages is just bonkers, as you can see above.
This seems like a very experimental series for Kirby. The first issue seems like a replay of the main 2001 plot, with different characters. Many of the stories have the same ending as the movie: the Monolith appears and accelerates the aging process in someone to transform them into a Star-Child. But in issue #2, he does a short story about Vira the She-Demon. Half of the story is about Vira encountering the Monolith and learning how to use fear to subjugate the Neanderthals. The other half of the story is about Vera Gentry, an astronaut on Ganymede who also encounters the Monolith.
Another story takes place later on, with a character called Marakwho encounters the Monolith and figures out how to make use of swords, shields, wheels, water barrels, and other things to make his army more successful. He's not the most admirable character. But we can see civilization slowly advancing.
The series has no connection to Marvel. It has no plot that carries on between issues except for the occassional two-parter. It's like an anthology series that can take place in any time period. The only thing they have in common is an appearance by the Monolith.
One issue could be set in the time of barbarians. Another was set in a future where people play virtual reality games based on superheroes. I suspect Kirby always wanted a free floating anthology and this gave him the vehicle to do it.
It lasts for 7 issues in this anthology format, then Machine Man appears in issue 8 - where he was called X-51 at first.
The connection to the 2001 stories is tenuous; Machine Man sees the Monolith at one point, which gives him some insight as to what to do next. But it launches a new series, one separate from the 2001 license and wholly owned by Marvel. I shall cover that over on Giant-Siz Marvel. Nuff Said and Happy 100 Jack Kirby Birthday! | RedPajamaC4_4673143867924138799 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Peary caribou (Rangifer arcticus pearyi) is a subspecies of caribou found in the High Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada. They are the smallest of the North American caribou, with the females weighing an average of and the males . In length the females average and the males .
Like other caribou, both the males and females have antlers. The males grow their antlers from March to August and the females from June to September, and in both cases the velvet is gone by October. The coat of the caribou is white and thick in the winter. In the summer it becomes short and darker, almost slate-grey in color. The coat is made up of hollow hair which helps to trap warmer air and insulate the caribou.
The males become sexually mature after two years and the females after three years. Breeding is in the fall and depends on the female having built up sufficient fat reserves. The gestation period last for seven to eight months and one calf is produced.
Peary caribou feed on most of the available grasses, Cyperaceae (sedges), lichen and mushrooms. In particular they seem to enjoy the purple saxifrage and in summer their muzzles become purple from the plants. Their hooves are sharp and shaped like a shovel to enable them to dig through the snow in search of food.
The caribou rarely travel more than from their winter feeding grounds to the summer ones. They are able to outrun the Arctic wolf, their main predator, and are good swimmers. They usually travel in small groups of no more than twelve in the summer and four in the winter.
The Peary caribou population has dropped from above 40,000 in 1961 to an estimated 13,000 adults in 2016, according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). During this period, the number of days with above freezing temperatures has increased significantly, resulting in ice layers in the snow pack. These ice layers hinder foraging and are the likely cause for dramatic drops in caribou population in the future.
The Peary caribou, called tuktu in Inuinnaqtun/Inuktitut, and written as ᕐᑯᑦᓯᑦᑐᒥ ᑐᒃᑐ in Inuktitut syllabics, is a major food source for the Inuit and was named after the American explorer Robert Peary.
Morphology
Pelage
During the winter, the fur of the Peary caribou becomes thicker and whiter. In the summer it is shorter and darker. The pelage of the Peary caribou is white in winter and slate-grey with white legs and underparts in summer like the barren-ground caribou in the Dolphin-Union caribou herd. The Dolphin-Union caribou are slightly darker.
Like all caribou the hollow hairs help trap warm air and insulate their bodies.
Antlers
The Peary caribou and the Dolphin-Union caribou herd both have light slate-grey antler velvet. The antler velvet of the barren-ground caribou and the boreal woodland caribou are both dark chocolate brown.
Habitat
The Peary caribou may move seasonally up to each way, not necessarily on fixed migration routes that are used habitually, but rather broad migration zones that individuals use to travel from winter ranges to calving areas and summer ranges. They occupy High Arctic islands, including Banks Island, the northwest corner of Victoria Island, Prince of Wales Island, Somerset Island and the Queen Elizabeth Islands. In summer they search for the richest vegetation which is found "on the upper slopes of river valleys and uplands." In the winter, they "inhabit areas where the snow is not too deep such as rugged uplands, beach ridges and rocky outcrops."
Aulavik National Park at the northern end of Banks Island is also home to the Peary caribou. The Thomsen River runs through the park and is the northernmost navigable river (by canoe) in North America. Aulavik National Park, a fly-in park, protects about of Arctic lowlands at the northern end of the island. In Inuvialuktun Aulavik means "place where people travel" and caribou have been hunted there for more than 3,400 years, from Pre-Dorset cultures to contemporary Inuvialuit.
Archaeologists have found bones of pearyi-sized caribou that occupied Greenland in the Illinoian-Wisconsin interglacial and through the LGM and early Holocene (Meldgaard 1986). Degerbøl (1957) described R. t. eogroenlandicus, a small caribou that became extinct about 1900, from a relict enclave in north-eastern Greenland (Fig. 2). However, Anderson (1946) thought that the small caribou that were occasionally found in northwest Greenland were Peary caribou and implied the same for east Greenland caribou. Bennike (1988), comparing bones and noting that Peary caribou have been documented crossing Nares Strait to Greenland, doubted that pearyi and eogroenlandicus were subspecifically distinct. That Peary caribou shared certain mtDNA haplotypes and morphological similarities with it (Kvie et al. 2016) casts further doubt on the validity of R. t. eogroenlandicus. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (traditional or community knowledge) records that Peary caribou do, occasionally, cross to Greenland. In any case, the last live caribou reported from northern Greenland were most likely Peary caribou that had strayed from Ellesmere Island. They were last seen in Hall Land in 1922.<ref>Morten Meldgaard, (1986) The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics, p. 44</ref>
Conservation
It was assigned a status of threatened in April 1979. In May 2004 the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) listed the Peary caribou as endangered. In 2015, COSEWIC returned the status to threatened, noting:
Taxonomy
Originally named Rangifer pearyi Allen, 1902, it was made a subspecies of barren-ground caribou in 1960 as R. arcticus pearyi. When all caribou and reindeer in the world were made conspecific, the name became R. tarandus pearyi. A recent revision returned the name to R. arcticus pearyi.
See also
Caribou herds and populations in Canada
Footnotes
References
Peary Caribou – Endangered; Barren-Ground Caribou (Dolphin and Union Population) –Special Concern.
Further reading
Larter, Nicholas C, and John A Nagy. 2001. "Variation between Snow Conditions at Peary Caribou and Muskox Feeding Sites and Elsewhere in Foraging Habitats on Banks Island in the Canadian High Arctic". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 33, no. 2: 123.
Maher, Andrew Ian. Assessing Snow Cover and Its Relationship to Distribution of Peary Caribou in the High Arctic. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2006.
Manning, T. H. The Relationship of the Peary and Barren Ground Caribou. Montreal: Arctic Institute of North America, 1960.
Miller, F. L., E. J. Edmonds, and A. Gunn. Foraging Behaviour of Peary Caribou in Response to Springtime Snow and Ice Conditions. [Ottawa]: Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1982.
Northwest Territories. (2001). NWT peary caribou Rangifer tarandus pearyi. NWT species at risk fact sheets. [Yellowknife]: Northwest Territories Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development.
Tews, Joerg, Michael A D Ferguson, and Lenore Fahrig. 2007. "Potential Net Effects of Climate Change on High Arctic Peary Caribou: Lessons from a Spatially Explicit Simulation Model". Ecological Modelling''. 207, no. 2: 85.
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Young Frankenstein – Musical Review
The first thing everyone's going to do is compare Young Frankenstein to The Producers. That's an easy thing to do since The Producers was such an amazing theater experience that is hard to top when it comes to big musical numbers, great comedy, and amazing performances.
Mel Brooks is a comedy master, creating worlds that are both full of great laughs and great characters. And the addition of memorable songs in his musical adaptation of The Producers only adds to the fun. So how does he fare with his adaptation of the 1974 film, Young Frankenstein?
Young Frankenstein is a fun-filled, entertaining musical experience that celebrates its own ridiculousness with immense glee. With Vaudevillian gags and jokes, lavish musical numbers, and dazzling special effects, the musical is worth every penny to see up close and personal. It's just fantastic.
This particular show I saw at the Pantages in Hollywood, which featured many from the Broadway cast including Roger Bart as Fredrick Von Frankenstein. He captures the essence of Gene Wilder's role in the 1974 film while adding his own spin to the character.
One of the main issues with the musical is the popularity of the source material. Most people had never seen the original film version of The Producers (1968) with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. This is not the case with Young Frankenstein.
Almost everyone who loves Mel Brooks, spoofs, or comedy has seen, heard of, or can quote the film version of Young Frankenstein. It goes back and forth in an ongoing battle with Blazing Saddles (also 1974) as Brooks' best film. With such notoriety and recognition it's hard to please everyone with a stage adaptation of a masterpiece of classic comedy.
But much like Hairspray, Shrek, and other recent film-to-stage adaptations, one has to take a step back and realize that this is a different medium. Yes, many may feel that this is a cheap imitation of a great work of comic cinema, but just knowing that Brooks was behind this new version does help ease the minds of those who are unsure of what will happen.
If you've never seen the movie – and a few folks around me hadn't, which was odd – it still holds its own. Much like The Producers, not knowing the source material will probably help you form an opinion that isn't filled with comparisons to the original work.
Brooks and company did an excellent job. The musical has some amazing moments of spectacle and inspired musical numbers that are stunning to watch. I was thoroughly entertained and would see it again. It also made me want to watch the movie again!
If you've seen the movie you know what the big musical number will be: "Puttin' on the Ritz." Much like "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers, Brooks and director/choreographer Susan Stroman don't disappoint. It was a standing ovation moment by the end as were a few of the other great numbers.
So, do I think that Blazing Saddles should be the next adaptation by Mr. Brooks? No. I believe that Blazing Saddles is too sacred a cow in the pantheon of comedy to be adapted, changed, and turned into a musical.
Even though "The Ballad of Rock Ridge" would be fun to see as a big over-the-top dance number, I think that Blazing Saddles should remain a film only and not become a musical. It's a movie that could never be made in today's overly PC world, so why take it to the stage?
Young Frankenstein is a treat. For escapist fun at the theater, check it out and have a great time! Even if you hate theater, you'll definitely enjoy this show. Well done, Mel Brooks!
Author IanPosted on August 1, 2010 August 1, 2010 Categories Music, Musicals, Review, WatchTags Mel Brooks, Roger Bart, Susan Stroman, Young Frankenstein
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Sam Wildow | Daily Call Heather Maxwell, right, owner of Blue Bow Boutique, with her mother Judy Favorite, who will help operate the Piqua location of the Blue Bow Boutique at 325 N. Main St.
Sam Wildow | Daily Call The Blue Bow Boutique, located at 325 N. Main St., held a soft opening on Thursday morning. The pillows are handmade from a local artisan in Covington.
PIQUA — A new boutique held a soft opening on Thursday morning on Main Street, offering shoppers a variety of women's clothing options, accessories, and home decor items.
The Blue Bow Boutique, located at 325 N. Main St., will continue their soft opening through Friday and Saturday during Miami County's Holiday Welcome Weekend.
"This is our third location," owner Heather Maxwell said on Thursday. Maxwell opened her first location in Troy approximately five years ago, and they also have a location in Greenville. They were recently looking for a third location when they found their new spot on Main Street in Piqua.
"We kind of felt like this was the perfect location," Maxwell said.
Some of the home decor items in Blue Bow Boutique come from locally sourced artisans.
The variety of clothing in the Blue Bow Boutique come from vendors in California, Maxwell said.
Affordability is also a priority for the Blue Bow Boutique.
"We try to keep our price points really low," Maxwell said. She said that there is nothing over $52, which is a pair of jeans. The shirts that are available are in the $20 range.
Maxwell said that it had always been a dream to open a boutique, and a few years ago, she decided to take the leap.
The Blue Bow Boutique is filling the space that was previously occupied by the Harvest Pantry.
The Blue Bow Boutique is also located at 108 E. Main St. in Troy and 401 S. Broadway St. in Greenville. Their hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday through Friday, and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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When the Rotary Club of Meaford received its charter in 1937, having been sponsored by the Owen Sound club, there were 20 founding members. The first meetings were held at member's homes or their place of business. In 1938 noon meetings were started at the Blue Motor Hotel with meals costing 40 cents.
In the year that followed the founding of the Meaford club, Rotarians there continued the pattern by sponsoring clubs in Thornbury-Clarksburg and Markdale.
In 1939 the Meaford club held its first children's Christmas party with each underprivileged child receiving a gift valued at $1. The party was judged a huge success.
During the Second World War, the club undertook the sale of Victory Bonds for the area. Club members also helped out on area farms since many young farmers were serving in the military. The club raised money to send packages to the soldiers overseas.
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Vänner () är en amerikansk sitcom från 1994–2004, skapad av Marta Kauffman och David Crane. Den handlar om sex vänner som bor i New York.
Den första säsongen började sändas den 22 september 1994 i amerikansk TV, på nätverket NBC. Serien producerades av Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman och David Crane Productions tillsammans med Warner Bros. Television, där den sändes fram till den 6 maj 2004.
Översikt
Vänner utspelar sig i 1990-talets New York City och i stadsdelen Greenwich Village. Serien skapades av David Crane som sedan skrev serien tillsammans med Norman Lear och Marta Kauffman. Vänner riktar sig till personer i 20-årsåldern.
Serien handlar om sex personer, den bortskämda och modeintresserade Rachel Green, den pedantiska kocken Monica Geller, den sarkastiske lustigkurren Chandler Bing, tjejmagneten och skådespelaren Joey Tribbiani, den snälle paleontologen Ross Geller och den positiva massören och låtskrivaren Phoebe Buffay.
När första avsnittet av första säsongen börjar har Rachel precis lämnat sin blivande man Barry vid altaret och flyttar in hos sin barndomsvän Monica. Lägenheten ligger mitt emot Chandlers och Joeys. De fyra umgås med Monicas bror Ross, som precis har skilt sig från sin lesbiska fru Carol. Den sjätte av dem är Monicas gamla rumskompis Phoebe. Huvuddelarna av serien utspelar sig i Monicas lägenhet, Chandlers och Joeys lägenhet och i kaféet Central Perk som ligger på bottenvåningen.
Under seriens gång vill Rachel ta mer ansvar i sitt liv, hon får sitt allra första jobb på Central Perk, och senare jobb på Bloomingdale's och därefter på Ralph Lauren. Monica pendlar mellan olika jobb i flera säsonger men får till slut ett kockjobb på en bra restaurang. Chandler jobbar länge på ett kontor, men efter en livskris i slutet av serien byter han till ett jobb inom reklambranschen. Joey jobbar som skådespelare och har många olika roller, men hittar aldrig någon såpopera som han vill jobba inom. Till slut får han en roll i samma serie han fick sparken från i början av serien. Ross får sparken från sitt jobb på museet och blir professor i paleontologi på ett college. Phoebe jobbar genom hela serien som massös och på fritiden spelar hon sina egna låtar, oftast på Central Perk men också på andra ställen.
Genom hela serien får man följa relationen mellan Rachel och Ross. Han blev redan kär i henne på högstadiet och de blev ett par i andra säsongen. Deras relation pendlar fram och tillbaka. Man följer även Chandler och Monicas relation som tar fart i slutet av säsong fyra.
Vänner är en av de mest framgångsrika situationskomedierna som har visats i USA. Under sista säsongen av serien fick varje skådespelare en miljon amerikanska dollar för varje avsnitt av serien. Det allra sista avsnittet av Vänner sågs av över 52 miljoner tittare i USA. Detta avsnitt släpptes på DVD fem dagar efter att det sänts.
Seriens välkända signaturlåt "I'll Be There For You" av The Rembrandts blev en relativt stor hit världen över allt eftersom serien blev mer känd. Vänner var omåttligt populär under flera år, men intresset dalade under år 2000 och producenterna funderade på att lägga ned serien. I oktober 2001 ökade intresset för serien igen – många hävdar att detta berodde på terrordåden mot USA i september samma år – varpå producenterna beslöt fortsätta några år till. De bestämde dock 2003 att lägga ned Vänner efter den tionde säsongen som sändes i USA 2004. Det sista avsnittet spelades in i den 23 januari 2004 för att sedan sändas i maj. Marta Kauffman (en av grundarna till serien) försvarade beslutet med orden: Enjoy the ten seasons of this wonderful show, it is gonna last forever. Ungefär: Njut av de tio säsongerna av den här underbara serien, den kommer att vara för evigt!
Med undantag av den sista säsongen spelades avsnitten in i samma takt som de sändes. Skådespelarna fick ett första filmmanus på måndagen. Manuset bearbetades och repeterades till fredag eftermiddag då inspelningarna började. Inspelningen, som alltid gjordes inför en studiopublik, tog ungefär fyra timmar. Ofta användes upp till fem kameror samtidigt för att få med så många vinklar som möjligt. Därefter redigerades råmaterialet och gjordes klart för sändning på onsdagen. Detta innebar att publiken som såg inspelningen hade sett föregående avsnitt den veckan och därmed hade full koll på storyn.
I Sverige går serien, som fortfarande är populär, på Kanal 5 och även Comedy Central. En så kallad spin-off på serien kom år 2005 kallad Joey, där bara rollfiguren Joey Tribbiani finns kvar. I den flyttar han till Los Angeles till sin syster Gina Tribbiani.
Karaktärer
Huvudkaraktärer
Rachel Green
Spelad av Jennifer Aniston. Rachel dök upp i det första avsnittet av Vänner, "The Pilot", då hon kom inrusande på Central Perk i en genomblöt bröllopsklänning efter att ha rymt från sitt bröllop och lämnat sin blivande man Barry Farber vid altaret. Rachel som levt på sin far, får nu chansen att starta ett nytt liv med nya vänner i New York. Hennes passion i livet är mode och kläder, vilket hon sedan får jobb inom. Hon blir tillsammans (och gör slut) med Ross i säsong två. Deras relation är genomgående i hela serien, och de de får även dottern Emma ihop i säsong åtta.
Ross Geller
Spelad av David Schwimmer. Ross är den snälla, charmiga, nördiga akademikern i Vänner-gänget och mycket av hans karaktär bygger på det. Han är storebror till Monica Geller. Hans två bästa vänner är Chandler Bing och Joey Tribbiani. Ross är paleontolog och i början av serien arbetar han på Museum of Prehistoric History i New York. Senare i serien lämnar han detta jobb för att bli professor och lektor i paleontologi på New York University. Ross får precis i början av serien sitt första barn, Ben, med sin första fru Carol. I säsong åtta får han ett till, Emma, med Rachel Green. Ross absoluta favoritämne är dinosaurier som han gärna pratar om till sina vänners stora förtret.
Chandler Bing
Spelad av Matthew Perry. Chandler var Ross Gellers rumskamrat på college och träffade Ross syster Monica Geller och hennes vän Rachel Green, när de firade Thanksgiving 1986 tillsammans med familjen Geller under hans första år på college. Under större delen av serien är Chandler tjänsteman specialiserad på statistiska analyser och datorkonfiguration men säger upp sig och blir strax därefter junior copywriter på en reklambyrå. I början av serien bor han mittemot Monica och Rachel tillsammans med Joey. Han blir senare ihop med Monica och flyttar då in tillsammans med henne. Chandler friar till Monica i slutet av säsong sex och de gifter sig i slutet av säsong sju. I det sista avsnittet ser Monica och Chandler (som inte kan bli gravida på naturlig väg) sina adopterade tvillingar, Erica och Jack, födas.
Monica Geller
Spelad av Courteney Cox. Monica är lillasyster till Ross Geller och före detta skolkamrat med Rachel Green. Hon är pedantisk och helt besatt av hur hennes lägenhet ser ut, speciellt vad gäller städningen. Den personligheten förstärks mer och mer allt eftersom serien går vidare. I ett avsnitt avslöjas att hon kategoriserar sina handdukar i elva olika kategorier, till exempel Användning varje dag, Gäster, Snobbiga och Snobbiga gäster. Monica är kock till yrket och har nästan hela sitt liv varit beroende av och tävlingsinriktad kring matlagning. Hon gifter sig med Chandler i säsong sju. I det sista avsnittet ser Monica och Chandler (som inte kan bli gravida på naturlig väg) sina adopterade tvillingar, Erica och Jack, födas.
Phoebe Buffay
Spelad av Lisa Kudrow. Phoebe är gruppens spralliga och virriga person som alltid ser det goda i alla människor och ofta är godtrogen. Phoebe gillar att spela gitarr och sjunga och uppträder ofta på Central Perk. Hon har en tvillingsyster som heter Ursula. I serien får vi veta mer om Phoebes ovanliga familjehistoria. Hon är vegetarian och bryr sig om djurs rättigheter. Under seriens gång har Phoebe en rad olika yrken, men jobbar mest som massös. I säsong tio gifter hon sig med Mike Hannigan.
Joey Tribbiani
Spelad av Matt LeBlanc. Joey är gängets största livsnjutare. Hans största passioner i livet är kvinnor, mat och smörgåsar. Han har italienskt ursprung och har sju systrar. Han kämpar sig igenom sin dröm i hopp att bli skådespelare, vilket oftast går ganska dåligt. Det händer att han har får stora chanser, eller genombrott, men då förstör han det genom att klanta till det, som att försova sig, glömma bort, eller haka upp sig på småsaker som retar regissörer och manusförfattare. Det leder till att han får sparken. Hans största roll var som Dr Drake Ramoray i såpoperan Days of our Lives.
Återkommande karaktärer
Översikt och sammanfattning
Översikt
Säsong 1 (1994–1995)
Phoebe, Monica, Chandler, Joey, och Ross är fem vänner som träffas på det lokala fiket Central Perk strax efter att Ross fru Carol har avslöjat att hon är lesbisk och vill skiljas ifrån honom. Monica och Ross är syskon. Hon bor ensam i lägenheten där alla brukar hänga tillsammans på fritiden. Chandler och Joey bor tillsammans i lägenheten mittemot. Ross har en egen lägenhet några kvarter bort och Phoebe bor också några kvarter bort hos sin mormor eftersom hennes mamma tog livet av sig för ungefär 10 år sedan, hennes pappa lämnade dem när hon var liten. Monicas gamla skolkamrat Rachel stormar in i caféet med en bröllopsklänning på sig, hon har precis lämnat sin blivande make Barry Farber vid altaret. Hon flyttar in hos Monica, får jobb som servitris på Central Perk och får för första gången i sitt liv jobba för att få pengar. Ross upptäcker att hans ex-fru Carol är gravid. Hon föder en son, Ben, som uppfostras av Carol och hennes nya partner, Susan, som Ross ogillar.
Ross avslöjar att han var kär i Rachel i high school, och han har fortfarande har känslor för henne. Genom säsongen försöker han med stöd från Chandler och Joey, förklara sina känslor för henne, men lyckas aldrig riktigt. På Rachels födelsedag åker Ross till Kina med sitt arbete. När han är borta råkar Chandler avslöja för Rachel att Ross är kär i henne. Rachel bestämmer sig för att hon vill ha ett förhållande med Ross och åker till flygplatsen för att möta honom när han kommer hem. Hon vet dock inte att han stiger av planet med en annan kvinna.
Säsong 2 (1995–1996)
Ovetande att Rachel tycker om honom, startar Ross en ny relation med Julie som han träffade i Kina. När Rachel super sig full lämnar hon ett meddelande på hans telefonsvarare där hon säger att hon kommit över honom. Ross hör meddelandet och undrar hur han ska göra. Han och Rachel kysser varandra. Ross kan inte bestämma sig vem han vill ha av Rachel och Julie och bestämmer sig att göra en lista över för- och nackdelar över de två. Han bestämmer sig för Rachel och gör slut med Julie. Men när Rachel upptäcker Ross lista blir hon arg på honom och gör slut. De blir sedan tillsammans igen när hon ser en video från sin och Monicas studentbal då han försökte gå med Rachel eftersom hon blev utan kavaljer.
Joey får ett jobb i tv-serien Våra bästa år som Dr. Drake Ramoray, och börjar tjäna tillräckligt med pengar för att ha råd med en egen lägenhet. Han flyttar ut och Chandler skaffar en ny rumskompis, Eddie som är galen. När Joey berättar i en intervju att han skriver egna repliker till manuset dödar seriens manusskrivare hans rollfigur. Joey flyttar åter in till Chandler efter att Chandler till slut fått bort Eddie. Phoebe upptäcker att hon har en halvbror som heter Frank och de börjar bygga en relation. Monica dejtar Richard Burke (spelas av Tom Selleck), en vän till hennes föräldrar som är mycket äldre än hon och har mustasch. De gör slut när Richard berättar att han inte vill ha barn. Chandler har dejtat en kvinnan på nätet, när han träffar henne i verkligheten upptäcker han att det är hans ex, Janice, som han sedan kysser.
Säsong 3 (1996–1997)
Rachel slutar jobba på Central Perk för att börja jobba hos Bloomingdale's. Ross misstänker att Rachels nya medarbetare Mark vill dejta henne, och blir mer och mer svartsjuk. Spänningarna mellan Ross och Rachel kulminerar på deras årsdag och Rachel föreslår att de ska ta en paus från varandra. Efter att ha hört Rachels medarbetare i bakgrunden vid ett telefonsamtal, antar Ross att Rachel dejtar honom. Ross blir deprimerad och har sex med en annan kvinna. Han försöker sedan reparera förhållandet med Rachel utan att berätta att han legat med en annan kvinna. Han försöker övertala henne att inget av det han gjorde betydde någonting för honom och att det inte räknades som otrohet för att they were on a break. Men Rachel får veta det av Gunther, som jobbar på Central Perk, och hon gör slut med Ross.
Joey och Chandler köper en kyckling och en anka för att ha som husdjur. Joeys skådespelarkarriär fortsätter att gå dåligt. Phoebe hittar en kvinna som också heter Phoebe som kände hennes föräldrar. Hon tar med sig gänget och besöker henne. Hon får reda på att den andra Phoebe var hennes mammas och pappas bästa vän i ungdomen. Phoebe får också veta att hennes riktiga mor också är den andra Phoebe. Rachel blir upprörd när Ross börjar dejta Bonnie som oväntat dyker upp under resan. Rachel är olycklig och föreslår för Bonnie att hon ska raka sitt huvud så att Ross inte ska tycka att hon attraktiv längre. Ross och Rachel börjar gräla om detta och de börjar förstå att de fortfarande gillar varandra. Ross måste bestämma sig för om han vill vara tillsammans med Bonnie eller Rachel.
Säsong 4 (1997–1998)
Ross bestämmer sig för att han vill vara tillsammans med Rachel och gör slut med Bonnie. Han fortsätter att hävda att de hade gjort ett uppehåll när han var otrogen mot Rachel i säsong 3, och de gör slut igen. När Phoebe förstått att den äldre Phoebe är hennes mamma, berättar hon detta för sin tvillingsyster, Ursula, som vetat om det hela tiden. Phoebe går med på att bli surrogatmamma åt sin halvbror Frank och hans fru Alice. Efter att ha fått en insemination blir Phoebe gravid, med trillingar!
Joey börjat dejta Kathy men även Chandler gillar henne. Joey och Kathy gör slut efter att Kathy kysst Chandler. Joey är arg men förlåter Chandler när han ser att de älskar varandra. Chandler misstänker att Kathy har sex med en av skådespelarna i pjäsen som hon är med i efter att ha sett den. Efter att ha blivit konfronterad och anklagad, har hon sex med honom och Chandler och Kathy gör slut. Monica och Rachel byter lägenhet med Joey och Chandler efter att ha förlorat ett vad om vilka som känner varandra bäst. Tjejerna hatar sin nya lägenhet så de övertalar Joey och Chandler att byta tillbaka mot att de bjuder på säsongskort till New York Knicks och en möjlighet att se Monica och Rachel kyssas under en minut.
Ross dejtar den brittiska kvinnan Emily och de förlovar sig. Gänget reser till London för Ross och Emilys bröllop, alla utom Phoebe som snart ska föda och Rachel som inte vill se Ross gifta sig. På repetitionsmiddagen före bröllopet blir Monica deprimerad eftersom hon inte är gift, och en kille tror att hon är Ross mamma. Chandler tröstar henne och det slutar med att de har sex. Rachel inser att hon fortfarande älskar Ross och flyger till London för att berätta det för honom. När hon kommer dit ser hon honom med Emily och bestämmer sig för att det inte är rätt att förstöra bröllopet. Bröllopet börjar men får ett konstigt slut när Ross säger Jag tar dig, Rachel istället för Jag tar dig, Emily.
Säsong 5 (1998–1999)
Ross och Emilys bröllop fortsätter trots att Ross råkat säga fel namn vid altaret. Vid mottagandet efteråt försvinner Emily. Vännerna åker tillbaka till New York där Emily ringer Ross och säger att hon bara vill fortsätta vara gift med honom om han lovar att aldrig träffa Rachel igen. Ross går till en början med på detta, men allt eftersom Emily kommer med nya omänskliga krav skiljer de sig till slut. Ross flyttar därefter in i Ugly Naked Guys lägenhet som ligger mitt emot Monicas och Rachels, sedan han flyttat ut.
Phoebe föder trillingarna Frank Jr. Jr., Leslie och Chandler. Hon försöker behålla en av dem efter ha fäst sig vid dem, men märker att Frank och Alice vill behålla alla sina barn. Chandler och Monica fortsätter med sitt hemliga förhållande. Efter halva säsongen får Joey reda på deras relation, och efter många månader till får även Rachel reda på det. Till slut får alla veta det, och de kan slappna av. Rachel börjar på ett nytt jobb hos Ralph Lauren. Joey får en roll i en film och han tror att det kommer att bli hans stora genombrott. Joey och Chandler reser mot Las Vegas där filmen ska spelas sin, men mitt under resan säger Chandler att han inte tror att det kommer att bli Joeys genombrott. Joey kastar ut Chandler från bilen. När han kommer till produktionen i Las Vegas läggs den dock ner. Alla åker till Las Vegas för att träffa Joey där de får reda på att han jobbar som gladiator på kasinot Caesars Palace. I Las Vegas super sig Ross och Rachel fulla. Monica och Chandler bestämmer sig för att gifta sig, men stöter på Ross och Rachel som stormar ut nygifta från kapellet.
Säsong 6 (1999–2000)
När Rachel och Ross nyktrat till och upptäcker att de har gift sig kommer de överens om att annullera bröllopet så att han inte ska göra en tredje skilsmässa. Men egentligen vill Ross inte och ljuger för Rachel, han säger att han har annullerat äktenskapet fast han egentligen inte har det. Till slut upptäcker Rachel att Ross har ljugit och får honom att gå med på att annullera äktenskapet. Men då Rachel skriver massa saker som inte stämmer om Ross i papperen som sedan överlämnas till domaren så går domaren inte med på att annullera äktenskapet, varpå Ross tvingas genomgå en tredje skilsmässa i alla fall. Ross får ett nytt jobb, där han undervisar i paleontologi vid New Yorks universitet. Han dejtar Rachels lillasyster Jill under ett avsnitt och därefter en av sina elever, Elizabeth.
Chandler och Monica gifte sig inte men flyttar in tillsammans i Monicas lägenhet. Rachel flyttar till Phoebe. Joey får en ny rumskompis, Janine, och de börjar dejta. När Janine avslöjar att hon inte gillar Chandler och Monica gör Joey slut. Joey, som efter detta är arbetslös och helt pank, börjar jobba på Central Perk samtidigt som han söker olika skådespelarroller. Han får till slut rollen som stjärnan i serien Mac and Cheese. En eldsvåda börjar i Rachels och Phoebes lägenhet och förstör den helt. Rachel flyttar in hos Chandler och Monica och Phoebe hos Joey. Snart byter de plats så att Rachel bor med Joey istället.
Bruce Willis medverkar i tre avsnitt som Ross flickvän Elizabeths pappa och Rachels pojkvän. I slutet av säsongen beslutar sig Chandler för att fria till Monica. Det går dock inte som tänkt och Monicas ex-pojkvän Richard kommer in säsongsavslutningen och förstör nästan hans plan. I slutet friar Chandler dock till Monica, och Monica säger ja.
Säsong 7 (2000–2001)
Monica och Chandler börjar planera sitt bröllop. Rachel blir befordrad och anställer assistenten Tag, som hon börjar dejta. De gör senare slut när Rachel fyller trettio år.
Phoebes lägenhet repareras men det blir åter en lägenhet med ett sovrum (Phoebes mormor hade satte upp en vägg för att göra två sovrum) så Rachel fortsätter att bo hos Joey. Joeys nya tv-serie Mac and Cheese läggs ner men han lyckas komma tillbaka till Våra bästa år när hans roll, Dr. Drake Ramoray, får en ny hjärna från rollfiguren Jessica Lockheart som hade ramlat av en häst och åkt in i ett elstängsel. Joeys rollfigur vaknar sedan upp från koman med hennes hjärna.
Natten före sitt bröllop blir Chandler rädd och försvinner. När han är borta hittar Phoebe och Rachel ett positivt graviditetstest i Monicas badrum och Phoebe antar att Monica är gravid. Rachel får Phoebe att lova att de inte ska berätta för någon vad de har hittat. Phoebe och Ross hittar Chandler på hans kontor (när Rachel uppehåller Monica) och övertygar honom att komma tillbaka, men Chandler hör Phoebe och Rachel prata om Monicas graviditet och han försvinner igen. Han dyker snart upp igen på eget bevåg och bestämmer sig för att ett barn inte vore så dåligt. Chandler och Monica gifter sig, men när Chandler berättar för Monica att han vet allt om barnet så säger hon att hon inte är gravid och att det inte var hennes graviditetstest de hittade.
Samtidigt som Phoebe berättar för Rachel hur glad hon är för Monicas graviditet, håller Rachel med men är väldigt känslosam. Kameran zoomar in Rachel när hon tar ett djupt andetag innan allt slutar. Publiken blir kvar med frågan: Kan Rachel vara gravid?.
Säsong 8 (2001–2002)
I den här säsongen försvann klippen med New Yorks World Trade Center på grund av 11 september-attackerna.
Rachel erkänner att hon är gravid men berättar inte för någon vem pappan är. Oturligt nog för henne hittar Joey en tröja som barnets pappa glömt i deras lägenhet. Phoebe tror att det är Tags tröja men Ross hittar den och säger att det är hans. Efter att Rachel berättar för Ross att han är pappan, berättar de för vännerna att de låg med varandra ungefär en månad före Chandler och Monicas bröllop. Ross börjar dejta Mona (som han träffade på Chandler och Monicas bröllop) under några månader. Han gör dock slut eftersom det blir för komplicerat när han är far till Rachels barn. Eftersom Rachel och Joey bor tillsammans får Joey känslor för henne. När Ross missar flera faderliga saker föreslår Joey att Rachel ska flytta in hos Ross, och det gör hon. Joey avslöjar senare sina känslor för Rachel, som vänligt avvisar dem.
Efter en passionerad kyss med Ross får Rachel värkar och de åker till sjukhuset. Där försöker Ross mamma ge honom en ring som han ska fria till Rachel med. Ross behåller ringen i sin jackficka även om han inte vill fria till Rachel. Hon har värkar i 47 timmar (något som Chandler givetvis skämtar om) och delar rum med fem olika kvinnor (bland andra Janice) som allihop får barn före henne. Rachel föder en dotter, som namnges Emma.
Joey hittar förlovningsringen som ramlar ut från Ross jacka. Han böjer sig ner och tar upp den. Rachel som ser Joey på ett knä med en förlovningsring tror att han friar till henne och säger Okej. Monica och Chandler beslutar sig för att skaffa barn.
Säsong 9 (2002–2003)
Rachel får veta att Joey inte friande till henne, men Ross tar ändå inte chansen att göra det. Efter att Ross sett Rachel kyssa en kille från hennes kontor samt tagit emot ett meddelande menat för Rachel från en kille från en bar någon månad tidigare så bestämmer sig Ross för att hämnas genom att bjuda hem en främmande kvinna till lägenheten. När Rachel kommer hem börjar hon och Ross att bråka och snart kommer de underfund med att det är för svårt att ha barn och bo ihop. Därför bestämmer sig Rachel för att flytta tillbaka till Joey igen tillsammans med Emma.
Chandlers jobb tvingar honom att flytta till Tulsa i Oklahoma. Monica bestämmer sig för att inte följa med eftersom hon kan få sitt drömjobb i New York. Han väntar med att bestämma sig men vill lämna sitt jobb efter att han måste jobba i Tulsa över julen. När en kvinnlig medarbetare stöter på honom i Tulsa slutar han och börjar med ett nytt jobb i reklambranschen. Efter att ha försökt att få barn hela säsongen visar tester att Chandler och Monica inte kan få barn, så de bestämmer sig för att adoptera.
Phoebe börjar dejta Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd). De flyttar in tillsammans, men när han berättar för Phoebe att han inte vill gifta sig så gör de slut. Samtidigt börjar Rachel få känslor för Joey.
Vännerna åker till Barbados. Phoebe tar med sin pojkvän David som hon träffade i säsong ett, och Joey tar med sin flickvän Charlie. Chandler råkar ge David ett dåligt råd och David bestämmer sig för att fria till Phoebe. När Monica får reda på det berättar hon det för Mike och säger åt honom att bli tillsammans med Phoebe igen. Mike kommer till Barbados och friar till Phoebe. Hon säger nej, men eftersom hon nu vet att deras förhållande har en framtid så tar hon tillbaka honom och lämnar David. Joey och Charlie gör slut. Därefter får Joey reda på att Rachel gillar honom, men han vill inte gå vidare för han känner att han sviker Ross. När Joey ser Ross och Charlie kyssas ändrar han sig dock och kysser Rachel. Monica får veta något om Chandler som gör henne mycket förvånad.
Säsong 10 (2003–2004)
I början av säsongen trodde inte producenterna att detta skulle bli den sista säsongen, det pratades till och med om en film, men eftersom kontrakten inte gällde för en film meddelades det att det här var den sista säsongen.
Joeys och Rachels förhållande fungerar inte och Charlie går tillbaka till sitt ex som fortfarande är kär i henne. Mike och Phoebe gifter sig mitt i gatan utanför Central Perk en kall och snöig dag. Chandler och Monica bestämmer sig för att adoptera ett barn av unga gravida Erica. De bestämmer sig även för att flytta ut ur sin lägenhet till en förort till New York. Erica föder tvillingar, en pojke och flicka, som får namnen Jack (efter Monicas pappa) och Erica (efter riktiga mamman Erica). I det sista avsnittet kan Courteney Cox (Monica) inte längre gömma sin egen graviditet.
Rachel bestämmer sig för att ta ett jobb i Paris. Vännerna ordnar en farvälfest för henne där hon säger hej då till allesammans, förutom Ross. Ross tar detta som en enorm förolämpning och stormar iväg till henne, hon skriker åt honom att han inte fattade något. Att hon inte "glömde honom", utan saknade ord för hur mycket han betyder för henne och hur mycket hon skulle sakna honom. Detta slutar med en kyss och en natt tillsammans.
I det sista avsnittet kommer Ross underfund med att han fortfarande älskar Rachel, och efter att hon åkt till flygplatsen åker han efter. Han hinner ifatt henne men hon åker ändå. Han återvänder då hem till sin lägenhet och lyssnar av sin telefonsvarare där Rachel lämnat ett meddelande att hon själv insett att hon älskar honom och vill vara med honom och att hon försöker ta sig av planet som är på väg och lyfta. Meddelandet slutar dock innan man får klarhet i om hon lyckats ta sig av. I samma stund uppenbarar hon sig i Ross dörr och de kysser varandra.
Avsnittet slutar med att Chandler och Monica flyttar ut från sin lägenhet med sina nya tvillingar. Mike och Phoebe bestämmer sig för att skaffa barn. Ross och Rachel blir en familj med Emma och Joey flyttar till Los Angeles. (Det sista framgår dock inte i avsnittet utan bara i den nya serien, Joey). Därefter lämnar alla den gamla lägenheten för att gå och ta en kopp kaffe. Chandler har den sista repliken, som är Sure … where? (Javisst, var?). Ett typiskt Chandlerskämt eftersom det är självklart att de ska fika på Central Perk.
Innan Vänner skapades så var det tänkt att Monica skulle vara gravid i början av programmet, så att hon senare skulle kunna ha en fullvuxen dotter som var med och skapade drama i programmet. Producenterna hade till och med anlitat ett barn vid namn Rania, men det ställdes in av okända skäl.
Friends: The Reunion
Den 12 november 2019 meddelade Hollywood Reporter att Warner Bros. höll på att utveckla en återförening av Vänner för HBO Max där seriens originalskådespelare och skapare skulle medverka. Specialavsnittet Friends: The Reunion hade premiär den 27 maj 2021 på HBO.
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Utmärkelser
Vänner har fått flertalet utmärkelser i både USA och i Sverige.
Emmy Awards
2003 – Framstående gästskådespelare i en komediserie – Christina Applegate
2002 – Framstående komediserie
2002 – Framstående huvudroll i komediserie – Jennifer Aniston
2000 – Framstående gästskådespelare i en komediserie – Bruce Willis
1998 – Framstående stödjande skådespelare i komediserie – Lisa Kudrow
1996 – Framstående regisserat komediserie – Michael Lembeck (för avsnittet "The One After the Super Bowl")
Courteney Cox är den enda av skådespelarna i serien som aldrig har varit nominerad för en Emmy.
Golden Globe Awards
2003 – Bästa prestationen av en skådespelerska i en tv-serie, musikal eller komedi – Jennifer Aniston.
People's Choice Awards
2004 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
2004 – Bästa kvinnliga tv-skådespelerska – Jennifer Aniston
2003 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
2003 – Bästa kvinnliga tv-skådespelerska – Jennifer Aniston
2002 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
2002 – Bästa kvinnliga tv-skådespelerska – Jennifer Aniston
2001 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
2001 – Bästa kvinnliga tv-skådespelerska – Jennifer Aniston
2000 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
2000 – Bästa kvinnliga tv-skådespelerska – Jennifer Aniston
1999 – Bästa komediserien på tv.
1995 – Bästa nya komediserie på tv.
Screen Actors Guild Awards
2000 – Framstående prestation av en kvinnlig skådespelerska i en komediserie – Lisa Kudrow
1996 – Framstående prestation av en ensemble i en komediserie.
Aftonbladets TV-pris
2001 – Bästa kvinnliga utländska tv-personlighet – Jennifer Aniston
2002 – Bästa kvinnliga utländska tv-personlighet – Jennifer Aniston
2003 – Bästa kvinnliga utländska tv-personlighet – Jennifer Aniston
2004 – Bästa kvinnliga utländska tv-personlighet – Jennifer Aniston
David Schwimmer var den första av alla i Vänner-gänget att få pris. Utmärkelsen var för bästa birollsinnehavare.
Dvd och Blu ray
Hela serien med 10 säsonger har givits ut i flertalet länder i olika dvd/blu ray-versioner. Vissa av versionerna har extramaterial som:
Skådespelare och medverkande (texter med biografier)
Kommentatorspår av skaparna
Kuriosa och fakta
Interaktiva spel
Fakta om produktionen (till exempel, uppsättningen av rekvisitan, speciella inspelningsställen, utvecklingen av avsnitten med tillbakablickar och så vidare)
Dokumentär
"The One That Goes Behind the Scenes" är en dokumentär Discovery Channel gjorde.
Globala sändningar
Om serien
Förslag på namn på serien fanns det gott om, till exempel Six of One, Across the Hall, Insomnia Café och Friends Like Us.
David Schwimmer som spelar Ross har regisserat några avsnitt, till exempel The One With the Birth Mother, The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner och The One Where Joey Dates Rachel.
Det mesta av serien spelades in i delstaten Kalifornien och inte i New York där serien utspelar sig.
Vissa scener spelades inte in med studiopublik utan man använde inspelade skratt, som utomhusscener.
Janice, Chandlers exflickvän har dykt upp i alla säsonger, i varje fall hennes röst.
Adresserna vännerna har i serien är:
Joey och Chandler – 495 Grove St Apt 19, New York NY 10001
Monica och Rachel – 495 Grove St Apt 20, New York NY 10001
Phoebe – 5 Morton St Apt 14, New York NY 10001
Ross – Ugly Naked Guys lägenhet
I seriens intro dyker skådespelarna upp i alfabetisk ordning: Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, Le Blanc, Perry och Schwimmer.
Courteney Cox blev först ombedd att spela Rachel, men efter att ha läst manuset ville hon hellre spela Monica.
James Michael Tylers roll Gunther kom med i serien av en slump. Han var statist igenom hela säsong ett och hade i säsong två en replik. Regissörerna var tillräckligt imponerade för att ha med honom flera gånger. Han fick rollen eftersom han var den enda av statisterna i pilotavsnittet som visste hur man hanterar en espressomaskin.
Tjugofemårsjubileet för seriens premiär högtidlighölls 2019 med bland annat en världsturné för den ikoniska orangea Central Perk-soffan.
Se även
Joey – TV-serie baserad på rollfiguren Joey med Matt LeBlanc
Episodes – TV-serie med Matt LeBlanc
Mr. Sunshine – TV-serie med Matthew Perry
Cougar Town – TV-serie med Courtney Cox Arquette
Referenser
Fotnoter
Externa länkar
E4.com Friends (Vänner)
Friends (Vänner) på TV.com
Amerikansk officiell webbplats
Wikia har en wiki om det här ämnet: Vänner
Bolaget NBCs rapport om pilotavsnittet
TV-serieavslutningar 2004
TV-seriestarter 1994
Engelskspråkiga TV-serier
TV-program i NBC
Amerikanska komediserier på TV
Amerikanska TV-serier från 1990-talet
Amerikanska TV-serier från 2000-talet
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What is GERD?
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a more serious form of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), which is common. GER occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) opens spontaneously, for varying periods of time, or does not close properly and stomach contents rise up into the esophagus. GER is also called acid reflux or acid regurgitation, because digestive juices—called acids—rise up with the food. The esophagus is the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. The LES is a ring of muscle at the bottom of the esophagus that acts like a valve between the esophagus and stomach.
When acid reflux occurs, food or fluid can be tasted in the back of the mouth. When refluxed stomach acid touches the lining of the esophagus it may cause a burning sensation in the chest or throat called heartburn or acid indigestion. Occasional GER is common and does not necessarily mean one has GERD. Persistent reflux that occurs more than twice a week is considered GERD, and it can eventually lead to more serious health problems. People of all ages can have GERD.
What are the symptoms of GERD?
The main symptom of GERD in adults is frequent heartburn, also called acid indigestion—burning-type pain in the lower part of the mid-chest, behind the breast bone, and in the mid-abdomen. Most children under 12 years with GERD, and some adults, have GERD without heartburn. Instead, they may experience a dry cough, asthma symptoms, or trouble swallowing.
What causes GERD?
The reason some people develop GERD is still unclear. However, research shows that in people with GERD, the LES relaxes while the rest of the esophagus is working. Anatomical abnormalities such as a hiatal hernia may also contribute to GERD. A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach and the LES move above the diaphragm, the muscle wall that separates the stomach from the chest. Normally, the diaphragm helps the LES keep acid from rising up into the esophagus. When a hiatal hernia is present, acid reflux can occur more easily. A hiatal hernia can occur in people of any age and is most often a normal finding in otherwise healthy people over age 50. Most of the time, a hiatal hernia produces no symptoms.
Other factors that may contribute to GERD include
Common foods that can worsen reflux symptoms include
drinks with caffeine or alcohol
fatty and fried foods
garlic and onions
mint flavorings
tomato-based foods, like spaghetti sauce, salsa, chili, and pizza
What is GERD in children?
Distinguishing between normal, physiologic reflux and GERD in children is important. Most infants with GER are happy and healthy even if they frequently spit up or vomit, and babies usually outgrow GER by their first birthday. Reflux that continues past 1 year of age may be GERD. Studies show GERD is common and may be overlooked in infants and children. For example, GERD can present as repeated regurgitation, nausea, heartburn, coughing, laryngitis, or respiratory problems like wheezing, asthma, or pneumonia. Infants and young children may demonstrate irritability or arching of the back, often during or immediately after feedings. Infants with GERD may refuse to feed and experience poor growth.
Talk with your child's health care provider if reflux-related symptoms occur regularly and cause your child discomfort. Your health care provider may recommend simple strategies for avoiding reflux, such as burping the infant several times during feeding or keeping the infant in an upright position for 30 minutes after feeding. If your child is older, your health care provider may recommend that your child eat small, frequent meals and avoid the following foods:
sodas that contain caffeine
acidic foods like oranges, tomatoes, and pizza
fried and fatty foods
Avoiding food 2 to 3 hours before bed may also help. Your health care provider may recommend raising the head of your child's bed with wood blocks secured under the bedposts. Just using extra pillows will not help. If these changes do not work, your health care provider may prescribe medicine for your child. In rare cases, a child may need surgery..
How is GERD treated?
See your health care provider if you have had symptoms of GERD and have been using antacids or other over-the-counter reflux medications for more than 2 weeks. Your health care provider may refer you to a gastroenterologist, a doctor who treats diseases of the stomach and intestines. Depending on the severity of your GERD, treatment may involve one or more of the following lifestyle changes, medications, or surgery.
If you smoke, stop.
Avoid foods and beverages that worsen symptoms.
Lose weight if needed.
Eat small, frequent meals.
Wear loose-fitting clothes.
Avoid lying down for 3 hours after a meal.
Raise the head of your bed 6 to 8 inches by securing wood blocks under the bedposts. Just using extra pillows will not help.
Your health care provider may recommend over-the-counter antacids or medications that stop acid production or help the muscles that empty your stomach. You can buy many of these medications without a prescription. However, see your health care provider before starting or adding a medication.
Antacids, such as Alka-Seltzer, Maalox, Mylanta, Rolaids, and Riopan, are usually the first drugs recommended to relieve heartburn and other mild GERD symptoms. Many brands on the market use different combinations of three basic salts—magnesium, calcium, and aluminum—with hydroxide or bicarbonate ions to neutralize the acid in your stomach. Antacids, however, can have side effects. Magnesium salt can lead to diarrhea, and aluminum salt may cause constipation. Aluminum and magnesium salts are often combined in a single product to balance these effects.
Calcium carbonate antacids, such as Tums, Titralac, and Alka-2, can also be a supplemental source of calcium. They can cause constipation as well.
Foaming agents, such as Gaviscon, work by covering your stomach contents with foam to prevent reflux.
H2 blockers, such as cimetidine (Tagamet HB), famotidine (Pepcid AC), nizatidine (Axid AR), and ranitidine (Zantac 75), decrease acid production. They are available in prescription strength and over-the-counter strength. These drugs provide short-term relief and are effective for about half of those who have GERD symptoms.
Proton pump inhibitors include omeprazole (Prilosec, Zegerid), lansoprazole (Prevacid), pantoprazole (Protonix), rabeprazole (Aciphex), and esomeprazole (Nexium), which are available by prescription. Prilosec is also available in over-the-counter strength. Proton pump inhibitors are more effective than H2 blockers and can relieve symptoms and heal the esophageal lining in almost everyone who has GERD.
Prokinetics help strengthen the LES and make the stomach empty faster. This group includes bethanechol (Urecholine) and metoclopramide (Reglan). Metoclopramide also improves muscle action in the digestive tract. Prokinetics have frequent side effects that limit their usefulness—fatigue, sleepiness, depression, anxiety, and problems with physical movement.
Because drugs work in different ways, combinations of medications may help control symptoms. People who get heartburn after eating may take both antacids and H2 blockers. The antacids work first to neutralize the acid in the stomach, and then the H2 blockers act on acid production. By the time the antacid stops working, the H2 blocker will have stopped acid production. Your health care provider is the best source of information about how to use medications for GERD.
What if GERD symptoms persist?
If your symptoms do not improve with lifestyle changes or medications, you may need additional tests.
Barium swallow radiograph uses x rays to help spot abnormalities such as a hiatal hernia and other structural or anatomical problems of the esophagus. With this test, you drink a solution and then x rays are taken. The test will not detect mild irritation, although strictures—narrowing of the esophagus—and ulcers can be observed.
Upper endoscopy is more accurate than a barium swallow radiograph and may be performed in a hospital or a doctor's office. The doctor may spray your throat to numb it and then, after lightly sedating you, will slide a thin, flexible plastic tube with a light and lens on the end called an endoscope down your throat. Acting as a tiny camera, the endoscope allows the doctor to see the surface of the esophagus and search for abnormalities. If you have had moderate to severe symptoms and this procedure reveals injury to the esophagus, usually no other tests are needed to confirm GERD.The doctor also may perform a biopsy. Tiny tweezers, called forceps, are passed through the endoscope and allow the doctor to remove small pieces of tissue from your esophagus. The tissue is then viewed with a microscope to look for damage caused by acid reflux and to rule out other problems if infection or abnormal growths are not found.
pH monitoring examination involves the doctor either inserting a small tube into the esophagus or clipping a tiny device to the esophagus that will stay there for 24 to 48 hours. While you go about your normal activities, the device measures when and how much acid comes up into your esophagus. This test can be useful if combined with a carefully completed diary—recording when, what, and amounts the person eats—which allows the doctor to see correlations between symptoms and reflux episodes. The procedure is sometimes helpful in detecting whether respiratory symptoms, including wheezing and coughing, are triggered by reflux.
A completely accurate diagnostic test for GERD does not exist, and tests have not consistently shown that acid exposure to the lower esophagus directly correlates with damage to the lining.
Surgery is an option when medicine and lifestyle changes do not help to manage GERD symptoms. Surgery may also be a reasonable alternative to a lifetime of drugs and discomfort.
Fundoplication is the standard surgical treatment for GERD. Usually a specific type of this procedure, called Nissen fundoplication, is performed. During the Nissen fundoplication, the upper part of the stomach is wrapped around the LES to strengthen the sphincter, prevent acid reflux, and repair a hiatal hernia.
The Nissen fundoplication may be performed using a laparoscope, an instrument that is inserted through tiny incisions in the abdomen. The doctor then uses small instruments that hold a camera to look at the abdomen and pelvis. When performed by experienced surgeons, laparoscopic fundoplication is safe and effective in people of all ages, including infants. The procedure is reported to have the same results as the standard fundoplication, and people can leave the hospital in 1 to 3 days and return to work in 2 to 3 weeks.
Endoscopic techniques used to treat chronic heartburn include the Bard EndoCinch system, NDO Plicator, and the Stretta system. These techniques require the use of an endoscope to perform the anti-reflux operation. The EndoCinch and NDO Plicator systems involve putting stitches in the LES to create pleats that help strengthen the muscle. The Stretta system uses electrodes to create tiny burns on the LES. When the burns heal, the scar tissue helps toughen the muscle. The longterm effects of these three procedures are unknown.
What are the long-term complications of GERD?
Chronic GERD that is untreated can cause serious complications. Inflammation of the esophagus from refluxed stomach acid can damage the lining and cause bleeding or ulcers-also called esophagitis. Scars from tissue damage can lead to strictures-narrowing of the esophagus-that make swallowing difficult. Some people develop Barrett's esophagus, in which cells in the esophageal lining take on an abnormal shape and color. Over time, the cells can lead to esophageal cancer, which is often fatal. Persons with GERD and its complications should be monitored closely by a physician. Studies have shown that GERD may worsen or contribute to asthma, chronic cough, and pulmonary fibrosis.
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Vogue editor-in-chief Edwina McCann details an exclusive experience offering everything from Dom Pérignon champagne tasting to Great Barrier Reef diving.
When Prince Charles visited Lizard Island on royal tour in the 1970s he favoured safari suits, a suitable choice of attire at the time for exploring the remotest regions of the Commonwealth. I hope some clever planner in the Prime Minister's office has thought to include a visit to Lizard Island on his son's Prince Harry's upcoming Royal tour itinerary, because I have no doubt the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would love it.
The resort is the most northern and eastern on the Great Barrier Reef, making it as remote as destinations can get by English standards. Demi Moore, Orlando Bloom, Al Gore, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron and Russell Crowe have also blazed the trail before them.
The first thing that strikes you when you land on Lizard Island is the distinctly Australian look of the landscape. Set in a national park, and also home to researchers with Cook University who are the island's only other inhabitants, it is a naturalists' dream. The landscape is less tropical than islands in the neighbouring Pacific, but no less beautiful and wonderfully unique.
As if it weren't enough to be invited to spend a weekend on the spectacular island, Dom Pérignon have added the even more tantalising prospect of a special vintage champagne tasting experience. You know a resort offers the best in luxury when Dom Pérignon partner with them. Equally, because the Rockefellers once booked out the whole island for a family wedding.
The 40 tastefully appointed rooms and residences sit sympathetically in the environment which offers 24 secluded beaches within easy reach for a picnic in your own skippered boat, or with guides. The room interiors are chic, white and minimal, with every practicality thought through. The bungalow's outdoor foot showers are particularly good.
The Dom Pérignon partnership is a clever one. The idea is "to immerse yourself in the majestic Great Barrier Reef through exclusive Dom Pérignon experiences only available on Lizard Island". Dress code: barefoot. I am lucky enough to receive many invites over my desk but they rarely come better than that.
Those special experiences include a Dom Pérignon dive -which is really a snorkel - just off the beach in front of the resort. You certainly can scuba dive further out (Lizard Island offers some of the best in the world) if you are willing to waste valuable champagne tasting time. But the snorkelling is far from a second rate experience even for the most committed diver.
Just metres from shore I saw every single Nemo character (with the fortunate exception of Bruce the shark) and many more who obviously didn't make the cut. It's the reef as you imagine it, as you have seen in photographs, with beautiful green and blue lined clams, pink corals, and an abundance of fish, which, far from being scared, actually seem to want to play with you as you swim among them. Pop up and you can see the beach and your room, so no horror film moments of feeling far out to sea.
At the end of your snorkel (for which you are dressed in a rather fabulous and very James Bond Dom-branded wetsuit), there is Dom Pérignon 1996 vintage waiting for you on deck. It really doesn't get better than that- at least not until you arrive at the private picnic which has been set up for you on a private beach for oysters and more delicious Dom.
That evening we are treated to a six course tasting menu with matching Dom Pérignons from 2009, P2 2000, P2 1998 and Rosé 2005. The new chef on the island Ryan Locke formerly hails from Vue de Monde, Melbourne, and the menu choice is exquisite and reflects all dining experiences on the island.
Any island dining can be a risky endeavour thanks to the tyranny of distance and the need for ingredients to travel, but not so on Lizard Island where an original breakfast menu is created daily and offers healthier and trendier options than you'll find in Bondi, alongside the most wonderful lobster benedict. If breakfast is that good, it gives you an idea of just how good a Dom-matched six course meal might be. Privacy, exclusivity, and taste: this experience has them all.
Dom Pérignon Suite Upgrade: includes Dom Pérignon Retreat amenities which are yours to keep, a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2009 on arrival, Dom Pérignon silk pyjamas and scented candles and custom beach towels.
Dom Pérignon Reef Discover and Private Beach Picnic: gives you a private boat charter to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, followed by a chilled glass of Dom Pérignon and a private picnic on Sunset Beach feasting on lobster rolls and Dom Pérignon 2009.
Dom Pérignon Dining Under the Stars: gives you and up to 10 guests a Dom Pérignon tasting (including P2 2000 champagne) paried with a meal prepared by Ryan Locke. | RedPajamaC4_738706925871044858 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Two Faces of January (Review)
DIRECTOR: Hossein Amini
CAST: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Yiğit Özşener, Daisy Bevan
BASICALLY…: A tour guide (Isaac) assists a charming couple (Mortensen and Dunst) whose dark past is slowly catching up with them…
In our recent interview with writer-director Hossein Amini – of which you can read here – he talks about how he read Patricia Highsmith's novel The Two Faces of January at university and decided that it would be the first film he would both write and direct. Sure enough, after years of the adaptation going through various studios and directors – among them the late Anthony Minghella, whose previous Highsmith adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley would have made him an ideal candidate – Amini has finally gotten his wish, and judging by the sheer passion of the debut director it is clear that it has been worth the wait.
Amini has chosen to keep the story focused on its trio of characters, all played brilliantly by Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. This is an intelligent choice, because the weight of the story rests entirely on the relationships between all three characters. When you see Mortensen's Chester and Dunst's Colette together for the first time, they have legitimate chemistry and appear to be a believable couple. Isaac's Rydal is attracted to Chester because he reminds him of his father who recently passed away and to Colette because of her own beauty and charming personality. As the film goes on, these relationships are warped to the nth degree with none of them emerging unscarred by the end, highlighting the tragedies and inner complications of each character. Chester's paranoia increases as he begins drinking heavily and acting aggressively toward the others; Colette's dependency on Rydal increases as she continues to find herself trapped in a marriage that might not be as glamorous as first thought; and Rydal becomes trapped between his loyalty for the charming couple and his own moral compass. These are three very well-crafted characters brought to life in Amini's smart screenplay and focused direction, and it's down to the individual performances that help them literally leap off the pages and onto the screen as real people caught in undesirable situations.
It is also fascinating how, on the outside, the story seems very simple and easy to follow but there is still a lot happening underneath the surface that we are not even aware of. From character development to the choice of location – much of which is beautifully shot by DP Marcel Zyskind – there is a great deal to admire whether it's subtle or directly in front of you. One of the highest compliments anyone can give to a first-time director is to comment on how balanced everything feels, with everything given an equal amount of attention to stand out and improve the film as a whole. Some first-timers may choose to favour one element over another which would in turn make the product seem uneven and misguided in how to portray their stories. Amini avoids this pitfall, ensuring that all necessary elements from its cinematography to Alberto Iglesias' thrilling score to the production and costume designs are allocated a fair amount of screen time to dazzle the audience, never once letting the style overshadow the substance. It's a perfect blend of both, and ends up being a more satisfying movie because of it.
The third act is when things start to become a little by-the-numbers in terms of its thriller genre, but even then it's not entirely distracting. If anything, it showcases Amini's competence behind the camera even more. In lesser hands it probably would have strayed more into cliché and generic resolutions, but there is a genuine feel of tension that feels neither forced nor unnatural in addition to an underlying intelligence that makes the eventual outcome satisfying for all parties with no real plot threats left dangling loose.
If The Two Faces of January is anything to go by, Hossein Amini shows great promise as a writer-director that shows great passion for the stories and characters he is projecting onto the screen, and we anticipate learning where he aspires to go from here. Take note, Wally Pfister; THIS is how you make a directorial debut.
The Two Faces of January is an especially strong directorial debut by Hossein Amini, boosted by excellent performances by its trio of lead actors and an impressive use of mise en scène to tell Patricia Highsmith's classic story on the big screen.
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Large crowds gather at St Pancras to flee tough Tier 4 restrictions in London
Coronavirus: Large crowds gather at St Pancras to flee tough Tier 4 Christmas restrictions in London
By Stephen Mcilkenny @StephenBMci Digital Editor
This is the moment Londoners attempted to flee the capital following the announcement of tougher coronavirus restrictions.
St Pancras station was filled with people trying to leave London after Boris Johnson made the shock announcement that large parts of eastern and south-east England, including London, would be placed under Tier 4 restrictions.
Travellers were told that social distancing "will not be possible" due to the volume of people on board, and those that felt "uncomfortable" should not stay on the train.
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Following the announcement at 4pm by Boris Johnson, there were no trains available online from several London stations including Paddington, Kings Cross and Euston by 7pm.
Tier 4 effectively places London in similar restrictions to the national lockdown, with 18 million facing the harshest restrictions on Christmas Day.
Footage online showed large crowds at St Pancras station waiting to board trains to Leeds.
Cars on the M4 motorway leaving London (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
Harriet Clugston said that people on board the trains had attempted to secure space for themselves, but that there was not enough room to do so.
"As expected, train is crammed," she wrote on Twitter.
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"Announcement on Tannoy says social distancing 'will not be possible' due to volume and to get off if you are not comfortable with that.
"People have tried to secure social distance by placing on seats but being asked to remove them by other passengers as the train is so full."
Last train out of Saigon. Queue at St Pancras as we wait to board the Leeds bound train. pic.twitter.com/cFDBDNnYFC
— Harriet Clugston (@HarrietClugston) December 19, 2020
Another woman, who did not wish to be named, said she and her partner had made the "split decision" to take their young son to her parents' home on the coast.
Speaking to the Press Association she said: "We just made the decision to leave based on the fact that my parents said come, and we couldn't bear the thought of no fresh air and a toddler going rogue round a small flat for the foreseeable.
"We also really just felt we wanted to get the baby somewhere a bit safer with a garden, though we know a lot of people won't have that luxury.
She added: "The grandparents are just desperately happy they'll see their grandson.
"We obviously worry about taking something down to them, but they seem happy to take the risk."
Izzy, 22, from Bristol, said that she wanted "the security of being home for Christmas" and that her parents had come to collect her before the restrictions came into effect.
"I have a slight nervousness that they might block the roads or something stopping me going home," she said.
"I'm moving out of my flat so I need my dad to come and get me and he feels more comfortable doing it before Tier 4 kicks in."
A statement from transport secretary Grant Shapps: "It is incredibly important that people follow the guidance, stay at home and do not attempt to travel. Our focus must be stopping the spread of this virus, protecting lives and our NHS.
"If you are in Tier 4, the law means you must stay at home and you cannot stay overnight away from home. Across the rest of the country, you must stay local.
"Follow the guidance and please do not come to a station unless you are permitted to travel. Extra BTP officers are being deployed to ensure only those who need to take essential journeys can travel safely."
Matt Hancock has condemned scenes of people crowding into train stations to leave London following the announcement of the latest coronavirus restrictions.
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"We in Government of course have a responsibility, but so does every single person," the Health Secretary told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
"The plea that I have is that people will play their part, because it is only by acting – all of us – that we can get this under control."
Mr Hancock rejected suggestions by critics like the senior Tory MP Sir Charles Walker that he could resign.
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SBS Consulting Is Gearing Up To Accept New Challenges in Company Secretarial Services
SBS Consulting, by employing global service standards is ready to meet increasing demands of modern businesses. With a fresh approach and flexible support, sbsgroup.com.sg is all set to accept fresh challenges in Singapore Company Secretarial Services.
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"Innovative approach coupled with years of professional experience, allows SBS Consulting to balance complex corporate compliance and strict statutory obligations while offering Corporate Secretarial Services."
Ms. Meena, business head of SBS Consulting while elaborating the role of a company secretary said, "Company Secretaries have to fulfill multitudinous responsibilities related to the board, the company and shareholders. Therefore, at times, it becomes harder for them to accomplish complex tasks, when the legislative and regulatory environment is constantly changing". This statement she made is in context with the recent changes brought about by the Singaporean government, in the laws pertaining to Immigration and Passes as well as the Employment Act.
Standing away from the crowd, SBS Consulting while offering exceptional company secretarial services in Singapore, ensures that these services can be customized to suit specific needs of their clients. With ongoing changes in Singapore corporate and legal entities, implementing strict internal controls, in order to ensure effective compliance of legal matters on a global basis has become the unprecedented need of companies.
Convening, holding and drafting almost all the minutes of Boards of Directors and Annual General Meetings of shareholders, approval of annual accounting report, conducting appointments with the auditors and routinely concurring corporate compliance matters are few basic tasks handled by SBS company secretaries. Additionally, assessing current compliance status, conducting statutory check reports and indulging in special events as per company requirements, has always been a specialty of SBS Consulting.
"When we offer company secretarial services to our clients, we incorporate a specially designed methodological and streamlined process which helps us to reduce our efforts and increase overall productivity. Additionally, with the use of top notch automated software that covers governance, compliance and entity management, managing our day-to-day task, but by mitigating associated risks is what we achieve at the end," said Ms. Meena, to emphasize the competency of SBS Consulting.
One of the veteran CS professional in SBS consulting said "We have a team of in-house professionals, monitoring our performance as an individual and to gather feedback from our clients; in addition to that, this team also ensures that we are always following relevant international standards and the latest legal framework."
Multiple corporate governing authorities in Singapore are changing their legal framework at a faster pace, thereby, forcing companies to hit a moving target in terms of compliance and statutory obligations. When asked about this the SBS business head replied, "In these situations, we are depending on collaborative approaches; in fact, it has worked for us due to our in-house team keeping our professionals offering Corporate Secretarial Services in Singapore abreast on all the happenings and changes taking place around their field of service provision."
"SBS consulting offers Corporate Secretarial services as a stand-alone service that is strategically combined with other Incorporation, Accounting, Auditing, Bookkeeping, Taxation, HR and Payroll services," said Ms. Meena, the business head of the SBS Consulting Pte Ltd.
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SBS Consulting Pte Ltd is offering various services for entrepreneurs and professionals interested to incorporate their business in Singapore. In addition to that, they also provide Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Bookkeeping as well as HR and Payroll services. Those who are interested to hire affordable corporate secretarial services in Singapore can contact SBS Consulting from anywhere in the world.
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Sony moves 321,000 PS Vita portables in first two days
Shane McGlaun - Dec 20, 2011, 5:11am CST
We have been hearing a lot about the Sony PS Vita over the last few months leading up to its Japanese launch. The little portable console will launch here in the US in early 2012. In Japan, the launch has already come and Sony is reporting robust sales of the device. We had heard previously that the console had sold out in pre-orders in Japan.
Sony has officially offered no sales numbers so far. The tip on the Vitas it has sold totaling 321,000 in the first two days of sales alone comes from research firm Enterbrain. That would put the Vita about 50,000 units behind the 3DS sales numbers for its first two days of sales. However, the sales of the 3DS dropped significantly after the first week.
The Vita could fare better though; one of the key issues with the 3DS has always been the lack of games for the console. The Vita has a much stronger line up of games for launch with 24 titles in all. The Vita did sell well in comparison to the old Sony PSP with Reuters reporting that the PSP sold 166,000 units on the first day.
[via Reuters]
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Jason Whitlock Compares Brittney Griner To Jan. 6 'Political Prisoners'
Whitlock captioned a video of him rambling about the "tiny bit of sympathy" he has for "dumb" Griner.
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Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Jon Cherry / Getty
Conservative talking head and nature's blackface model Jason Whitlock appears to be on a tear when it comes to defending white terrorists like he's campaigning for a diversity membership card for white supremacy. Just Wednesday, we reported that Whitlock took to Twitter to defend the white nationalist group Patriot Front from KKK comparisons. Now, white America's favorite Black lapdog whose name isn't Candace Owens is throwing a cape on for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters by erroneously comparing their crimes to that of WNBA star and Russian prisoner Brittney Griner.
"Brittney Griner is a political prisoner, it's what we expect from Russia," Whitlock captioned a video of him rambling about the "tiny bit of sympathy" he has for "dumb" Griner. "The imprisoned #January6th protesters are political prisoners too. They deserve sympathy and freedom."
To be honest, I'm surprised Whitlock expressed any sympathy for Griner at all. I would have expected his whish-I-was-white nonsense to reach the level of conservatives like right-wing podcaster Michael Berry, who tweeted that crimes committed by Caucasian Can't Coup Right rioters were "far less" than what Griner—who pleaded guilty to nonviolent drug charges in a Russian court on Thursday—committed.
Here's a very obvious and non-debatable news flash for Whitlock and the whiny whites brigade: The Jan. 6 insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, attacked Capitol police officers and terrorized Democratic lawmakers in a deadly yet failed attempt to force the overturning of a legal election just to keep their orange-ish white nationalist president in office. Brittney Griner had vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her possession. If you are in any way, shape or form comparing these crimes, you're either racist or you're waiting for a white supremacist to show approval like Whitlock appears to be doing.
After all, we're talking about the same person who in 2017 mocked Colin Kaepernick on his TV show on FS1, complete with an impersonator wearing an afro wig and the quarterback's San Fransisco 49ers jersey while appearing to mimic a Black Power Movement hand gesture.
In that instance, Whitlock ultimately ended up deleting the tweet of video footage of the men mocking Kaepernick on Whitlock's show. Only time will tell if Whitlock decides to do the same with the video of his ill-advised comparison of Brittney Griner to people who were prosecuted and jailed for the treasonous and violent acts of breaking into the U.S. Capitol.
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Stepping stones: Drinkwitz's rise from Sun Belt to SEC
A visor sits on Eliah Drinkwitz's seat during his inaugural news conference Dec. 10 at Memorial Stadium in Columbia. Drinkwitz, like former MU coach Gary Pinkel, has a tendency to wear visors.
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Then-Appalachian State head coach Eliah Drinkwitz celebrates following his team's 45-38 win over Louisiana in the Sun Belt Conference Championship on Dec. 7 in Boone, N.C.
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Then-Appalachian State head coach Eliah Drinkwitz, center, joins his players as they celebrate with fans after the team pulled an upset win over North Carolina in a college football game Sept. 21, 2019, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Eliah Drinkwitz walks to the stage with two of his daughters, Addison, 9, and Emerson, 6, to be introduced as the new head football coach at the University of Missouri on Dec. 10 in Columbia. Drinkwitz became the 33rd head football coach at Missouri after coaching the 2019 season at Appalachian State.
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Then-Appalachian State head coach Eliah Drinkwitz directs the team during warmups before an college football game against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sept. 21, 2019.
Eliah Drinkwitz watches the news conference introducing him as the new football coach Dec. 10 at the Show Me Club at Memorial Stadium in Columbia. Drinkwitz was hired one week after previous head coach Barry Odom was fired.
Appalachian State coach Eliah Drinkwitz talks with quarterback Zac Thomas during the second half of the team's game against Troy on Nov. 29 in Troy, Ala.
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Missouri head coach Eliah Drinkwitz raises his arms during football practice Aug. 19 in Columbia.
Head coach Eliah Drinkwitz talks during practice March 11 at the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex. Spring and fall practices were cut short due to COVID-19.
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Through paintball and heart-to-hearts, new MU coach Eli Drinkwitz turned short-term head coaching success into a long-term contract
By Adam Cole
The first call came Dec. 1, the day after Missouri fired its four-year football coach, Barry Odom. Four more calls followed within the next week. "He wants the job," the caller kept saying. "He wants the job!" It was a former MU football player, whose name is kept private by MU associate athletic director Nick Joos. But the calls were insistent.
"I was like, 'OK, I've got it. I've got it,'" Joos said. "'He wants the job.'"
The former Tiger is a friend of Eliah Drinkwitz, the head coach at Appalachian State. Finally, on the morning of Dec. 6, Joos indulged the recommendation.
"Hey, Eli? This is Nick Joos. We'd love to talk."
That afternoon, Joos, Drinkwitz and MU athletic director Jim Sterk had their first conversation over the phone. Drinkwitz was to coach the Mountaineers in the Sun Belt Conference championship game the next day, so Sterk and Joos assumed the call wouldn't last more than 20 minutes. But 45 minutes later, associate ADs Sarah Reesman and Tim Hickman had joined the party in Sterk's office, still talking with Drinkwitz.
Immediately after, Sterk called then-MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright.
"I really want you to talk to this guy," Sterk said, "because I think he's really special."
Four days later, Missouri announced that Drinkwitz would be the 33rd football coach in program history. It capped Drinkwitz's meteoric rise through the coaching ranks from 22-year-old high school assistant to Southeastern Conference head coach at 37.
But 359 days prior to his introductory press conference in Boone County, Drinkwitz was donning black and gold at the same kind of event. He was being introduced in Boone, North Carolina, in what was his first head coaching position, at Appalachian State.
"How long is Eli here in Boone?" a reporter asked.
After thanking his predecessors, quoting Proverbs 16:9 ("The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps") and laying out his itinerary for the next month or so, Drinkwitz answered: "I don't know exactly what the future holds. I know that I'm going to work 365 days a year to make sure I uphold the tradition and standard of excellence at Appalachian State football. This is not a stepping stone job. This is a top-25 job in college football, and I've got no thought process of anything other than doing my part to make sure I don't let anybody down."
But less than a year later, Drinkwitz was no longer at that "top-25 job," instead bolting for the same position at an SEC school with a salary that multiplied more than five times over — a financial boost that's likely to impact the coach's family for generations to come.
Drinkwitz told the Missourian in July that the sacrifices his family has made were probably the hardest part of his 15-year journey to Columbia. He noted that at 10 years old, his oldest daughter, Addison, has moved seven times in her life.
There's a lot to be learned from Drinkwitz's lone season at App State. The manner in which he arrived, the ways in which he impacted the program and found success, and the fashion in which he left — turning the program into the stepping stone he said it wasn't — all provide insight into how the young coach may approach his newest task: leading the Missouri football program.
It was hard not to see the resemblance. Even Drinkwitz made light of it the first time he met with the Mountaineers.
The first graphic Appalachian State released of Drinkwitz in game attire depicted him in a visor and white polo, not unlike his predecessor, Scott Satterfield; so much so it became a joke with the team. Drinkwitz met briefly with his new team for the first time just before the Mountaineers' matchup with Middle Tennessee State in the 2018 New Orleans Bowl.
It came at a time when wounds were still fresh. On Dec. 4, Satterfield was introduced as the head coach at Louisville. An App State alum, Satterfield left after 23 years in Boone in several roles.
"We're not really a hot spot for coaches," quarterback Zac Thomas, now a senior, said. "So when Coach Satt left, you didn't really know what to expect because he took a lot of his staff with him. What happens next?"
What happened next was Drinkwitz, who was nearly everything athletic director Doug Gillin wanted in a new coach: a sitting Power Five coordinator, an offensive mind, successful at other levels and pedigree as a recruiter and quarterback developer.
Drinkwitz was convincing in his sale of what the program could be and how he fit into it, Gillin said. Tight ends coach Justin Watts said that vision was a part of what made it a "no-brainer" to stay on Drinkwitz's App State staff.
"He's a guy that can sell his vision to just about anybody," Drinkwitz's successor and former offensive line coach, Shawn Clark, said.
Drinkwitz's first meeting with his new team was brief. He shared a quick message, not wasting a chance to sell the players on his vision: win with class, integrity and academic excellence.
"That's the first time he told us that," defensive back Kaiden Smith said, "but he would tell us that 1,000 times after that."
In June 2019, App State's football staff was preparing for a coaches clinic at North Carolina State. The staff got up at 6:30 a.m., met with players and packed a van for the three-hour drive to Raleigh.
But eventually, the van pulled off to the side of the road.
"All right, change clothes," Drinkwitz said. "We're going paintballing."
"I won paintball for the whole team," Watts joked. "One, Coach Drink is a cheater. He showed up, had an automatic weapon, a better weapon than everybody else. So he wanted to kind of show he was the boss. He may or may not have gotten shot in the back a couple of times and does not know who did it. I think he did a lot of that so he could shoot at some of his assistants."
The detour was characteristic of Drinkwitz. As much as he fine-tuned the program's on-field product, he found equal value in taking the time to build relationships beyond the sport.
Clark remembers daily walks around the facility. A lot of times, he said, the walks led to talks that were less about football and more about life. The two would normally take a couple of walks each day, but that quickly multiplied to as many as 10 some days.
"He'd get to know his coaches, and by doing that, he built trust within his coaching staff," Clark said.
The winning was fun, but so was the trust-building. Especially when it came to the Mountaineer Olympics.
According to Smith, the Olympics were a team bonding activity that took place after nearly every practice of fall camp. The Mountaineers would participate in several different events, including mini-golf through the team complex, a dunk contest, dodgeball, a home run derby and a night of skits that poked fun at players and coaches.
The Olympics also introduced "unity meetings." Drinkwitz always kicked off the team gatherings by sharing a personal story. Then the team would break into small groups, each led by an assistant coach, and share their own personal stories based on whatever the topic was for the meeting.
"We would just talk to people that you wouldn't normally talk to on the team and get to know those guys and just figure out everyone's story," Smith said. "We always left those meetings better than we were before."
The Mountaineer Olympics concluded with one final event: a night spent on the field at Kidd Brewer Stadium. Darrynton Evans, the team's feature back in 2019, remembered being presented with the slumber party and thinking, "We really doing this?" But the point of the night, he said, was that between the blood, sweat and tears shed on that field, it was a home away from home.
"It makes it (so that) when it's third-and-1 or fourth-and-1 and the game's on the line," Watts said, "you realize that everybody has got the same interest in trying to pull in the same direction."
While Drinkwitz's efforts brought a heightened sense of unity, he also made changes that instilled a new wave of confidence. According to multiple players and coaches, those changes included upgrades to practice equipment, weight room gear, travel attire and additional meals during the week — even new soaps and gels in the team showers.
"We felt like a Power Five program," Evans said. "We're used to doing a lot with a little, so getting that extra stuff was big for us."
Everything seemed to culminate for the Mountaineers on Sept. 21, 2019. It was Week 3, and the team was en route to Chapel Hill to take on North Carolina. And with a loaded roster, a more detailed offense and chemistry and confidence, Appalachian State came out on top for its first win against a Power Five school since it upset Michigan in 2007.
"That's when we knew we were a special team and we were about to accomplish a lot that year," Thomas said.
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Drinkwitz had yet to put pen to paper, but the soon-to-be Missouri coach already had his first in-home visit.
The recruit? UM System Curator Darryl Chatman.
On Dec. 7, Sterk, Joos, Cartwright, curator Jeffrey Layman and UM System President Mun Choi had flown to North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to meet Drinkwitz at a Hampton Inn — after his daughter's performance of "The Nutcracker" in Boone, of course. The meeting went so well that Sterk wanted to get Drinkwitz in front of more curators. The following day, he flew out with Cartwright, Chatman, Layman and curator David Steelman for another meeting.
Now, here was Sterk again, watching Drinkwitz lay out a rough-and-ready recruiting pitch.
Chatman asked Drinkwitz to pitch to him as if he were a recruit. "Coach, you're sitting in our home," Chatman said. "I'm the athlete. Here's my mom. Here's my dad."
Almost immediately, Drinkwitz turned to Chatman's imaginary mother and father, played by Layman and Steelman, then to Chatman.
"Really targeted it. In, like, two seconds, he went like that," Sterk said, snapping his fingers. "It just impressed me. He immediately got in and took charge of the conversation and showed what he could do on the fly. It was like a practicum experience, and you could see it live."
"He was creative," Chatman said. "He made it funny, and he made it fun. And it wasn't like he promised me the world, either. Nothing was guaranteed. It was all based on my hard work. After that, I was pretty much sold."
Steelman was impressed, too. Not just by Drinkwitz's on-the-spot recruiting pitch but by what impressed Gillin and App State about a year prior: his vision for the future.
The other thing that impressed Steelman was that, during the meeting, Drinkwitz noted a text he had just received. It was from New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
"I feel if Bill Belichick thinks he's a good football mind," Steelman said, "Who am I to argue?"
When Gillin reflects on bringing Drinkwitz to Boone, he's quick to note the success and opportunities that came soon after for his head coach. Still, Gillin didn't expect the stint to last so briefly.
"You don't envision that being a one-year hire," he said.
It wasn't something the fan base saw wrapping up so quickly, either. Alex Johnson and Charles Haynes, App State alumni and donors who host a fan podcast, said "without question" fans were disappointed when Drinkwitz left.
"This guy that led us to this season is leaving — that sucks," Johnson said. "And that was the predominant emotion."
Smith said the sudden departure was polarizing, and Thomas noted that some people don't like Drinkwitz because of the decision he made. But to hear the program ambassadors talk about it, it doesn't negate the success of his lone season.
"I think his legacy here was definitely being a part of and leading one of the best teams that we've ever had," Smith said. "And I think that him leaving is just part of the business. I'd move to Missouri right now for that much money, for sure."
In one sense, the Mountaineers' and Missouri's successes in the last two decades feel comparable. Both former App State coach Jerry Moore, who spent 24 years in Boone, and Gary Pinkel carved out notable success at each of their programs. They retired within three years of each other, only to have men who were on their staff take the helm. In both scenarios, Drinkwitz replaced the in-house successors; first Satterfield, then Odom.
But Drinkwitz inherited a situation in Boone that was conducive to instant success. That's not entirely the case in Columbia.
Not only is MU coming off a season in which it finished at .500, it's also down a number of scholarships because of the NCAA sanctions handed down last year. And it's facing a 10-game SEC-only schedule that will kick off against the No. 2 team in the country. All that in the midst of a pandemic that could derail the entire season.
Despite those differences, Drinkwitz seems to be diving into his new job the same way he did the old. He told the SEC Network in August that he's already taken his MU staff for a paintball outing, and, according to a spokesperson, he's turned the Mountaineer Olympics into the "Tiger King Olympics" at MU. At his introductions in both Columbia and Boone, he said both programs needed to win with "pride, passion and purpose." He also mentioned that Missouri's goal will be to win the "Sun Bel — er, the SEC" and a bowl game with "class, integrity and academic excellence."
So even in what will likely be a down year for Missouri football, Drinkwitz has been brought in to take the program in a new direction ... and do so for a long while. Sterk is confident he's found someone who can lead a program for years.
"He could stay here a long time, have a Gary Pinkel-type of tenure," Sterk said.
Drinkwitz seems to think so, too.
"I think you look at (your family's sacrifices), and that's why you're excited about being at Mizzou," he said in July. "Because it feels like a place that we're going to be able to call home for a long time, and I'm hopeful my four girls can say they're from Columbia, Missouri, moving forward."
Still, it's hard not to wonder if he had the same feelings when he got to Boone.
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# Test del Codice
La prima cosa da testare in un'applicazione che sfrutta Vuex sono le mutation e le action.
### Testare le Mutation
Per testare le mutation non abbiamo bisogno di nessun tipo di sistema specifico dato che esse si basano solo sugli argomenti che gli vengono passati. Se state utilizzando i moduli ES2015 potete mettere le vostre mutation nel file `store.js`, e potete esportarle come qualsiasi altro modulo:
``` js
const state = { ... }
// esportiamo le mutation
export const mutations = { ... }
export default new Vuex.Store({
state,
mutations
})
```
Testiamo una mutation sfruttando Mocha e Chai (potete usare qualsiasi framework voi troviate comodo):
``` js
// mutations.js
export const INCREMENT = state => state.count++
```
``` js
// mutations.spec.js
import { expect } from 'chai'
import { mutations } from './store'
// creiamo la struttura
const { INCREMENT } = mutations
describe('mutations', () => {
it('INCREMENT', () => {
// facciamo un mock dello stato
const state = { count: 0 }
// applichiamo la mutation
INCREMENT(state)
// confrontiamo i risultati
expect(state.count).to.equal(1)
})
})
```
### Testare le Action
Le Action possono essere più complesse da testate dato che possono contenere chiamate ad API esterne a Vuex. Quando si testano le action, si dovrà fare uso, nella maggior parte dei casi, di un sistema di mocking - per esempio nel caso volessimo chiamare delle API ad un servizio di terze parti.
Per effettuare il mocking delle dipendenze, si può utilizzare il comodo sistema di [inject-loader](https://github.com/plasticine/inject-loader) assieme a WebPack.
Esempio su una Action asincrona:
``` js
// actions.js
import shop from '../api/shop'
export const getAllProducts = ({ dispatch }) => {
dispatch('REQUEST_PRODUCTS')
shop.getProducts(products => {
dispatch('RECEIVE_PRODUCTS', products)
})
}
```
``` js
// actions.spec.js
// utilizziamo la sintassi require per i loader inline
// tramte inject-loader, ci restituisce un model
// che ci permette di fare mocking
import { expect } from 'chai'
const actionsInjector = require('inject!./actions')
// creiamo il modulo tramite mock
const actions = actionsInjector({
'../api/shop': {
getProducts (cb) {
setTimeout(() => {
cb([ /* response dal mock */ ])
}, 100)
}
}
})
// testiamo le azioni con i risultati desiderati
const testAction = (action, args, state, expectedMutations, done) => {
let count = 0
const dispatch = (name, ...payload) => {
const mutation = expectedMutations[count]
expect(mutation.name).to.equal(name)
if (payload) {
expect(mutation.payload).to.deep.equal(payload)
}
count++
if (count >= expectedMutations.length) {
done()
}
}
action({dispatch, state}, ...args)
if (expectedMutations.length === 0) {
expect(count).to.equal(0)
done()
}
}
describe('actions', () => {
it('getAllProducts', done => {
testAction(actions.getAllProducts, [], {}, [
{ name: 'REQUEST_PRODUCTS' },
{ name: 'RECEIVE_PRODUCTS', payload: [ /* mocked response */ ] }
], done)
})
})
```
### Eseguire i tests
Se le tue mutation o action sono scritte in modo consono, i test non dovrebbero soffrire dipendeze esterne, come il browser e le sue API, anche durante l'uso di Mock. Detto questo potenzialmente è possibile pacchettizare i test tramite WebPack e farli girare sotto Node direttamente. Alternativamente è possibile utilizzare un sistema come `mocha-loader` o Karma assieme a `karma-webpack` per far girare i test in un browser reale.
#### Girare sotto Node
Ecco una config webpack per testare tramite Node:
``` js
module.exports = {
entry: './test.js',
output: {
path: __dirname,
filename: 'test-bundle.js'
},
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
loader: 'babel',
exclude: /node_modules/
}
]
},
babel: {
presets: ['es2015']
}
}
```
Successivamente:
``` bash
webpack
mocha test-bundle.js
```
#### Testare nel Browser
1. Installare `mocha-loader`
2. Cambiare l'`entry` dalla configurazione Webpack sopra citata in `'mocha!babel!./test.js'`.
3. Inizializzare `webpack-dev-server` utilizzando la configurazione sopra citata
4. Andare su `localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server/test-bundle`.
5. Profit!
#### Testare nel Browser tramite Karma e karma-webpack
Per una guida più dettagliata su Karma consultare la [documentazione di vue-loader](http://vuejs.github.io/vue-loader/workflow/testing.html).
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"Museum quality" may not be a phrase you're used to reading when applied to a 1983 Honda Civic 1300 hatchback, but it seems to apply to the Pick of the Day.
According to the advertisement on ClassicCars.com placed by a classic car dealership in Seekonk, Massachusetts, the car is a 14,275-mile original.
The dealer adds that the car was always garaged and "treated very well" and, basically, remains in showroom condition.
The Ivory paint has been tested for originality with an electric paint meter "and passed with flying colors." The tan leather interior is "like new" and "everything is in working order," the seller reports.
The car is a second-generation Civic designed to bring it closer in styling and performance to the Honda Accord.
The Civic for sale is powered by a 1.3-liter 4-cylinder engine linked to a 4-speed manual transmission.
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The Miracle of 1511 () was a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen. It is estimated that more than half of the snowmen portrayed pornographic or sexual characters. Examples of snowmen built included a snownun that was seducing a man, a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain and a naked snowboy urinating into the mouth of a drunken snowman. There were also snow unicorns, snow mermaids, a snow dentist, and snow prostitutes enticing people into the city's red light district. Among the political snowmen created were "a snow virgin with a unicorn in her lap", that was built in front of the ducal palace in Coudenberg, the home of Holy Roman Emperor This was in protest to him being absent and instead living with his aunt Margaret of Austria in Malines.
Before the Miracle, there had been six weeks of cold weather. Combined with mass population growth and a large wealth discrepancy between the peasants and the ruling House of Habsburg, the locals decided to use the snowmen as a form of protest. The different socioeconomic classes each constructed different kinds of snowman. As a result, the poor would destroy snowmen built by the ruling classes. Eventually, the Miracle concluded when the snow thawed during the warm following spring, which led to flooding in Brussels. Later that month when the water was all gone the King of France donated 1000 gold coins to the town.
Dutch poet Jan Smeken wrote about the Miracle in his poem "Dwonder van claren ijse en snee" [The miracle of pure ice and snow].
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Students collect plant samples in the crum woods as part of their laboratory work for Fundamentals of Ecology, taught by Associate Professor Jose-Luis Machado.
Associate Professor of Biology Jose-Luis Machado is part of a team of ecologists that has received a grant of $494,980 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN). The Network's mission is to work collaboratively to incorporate long-term research experiences into undergraduate education and share research findings and curricular products with ecological researchers and educators at other undergraduate institutions.
Machado says that this grant fulfills "the need to do research as a means to educate students and facilitate their training."
Incorporating long-term ecological research into undergraduate education is not new to Swarthmore. Machado has been using this method of teaching since 2001, using the Crum Woods as a living laboratory for the ecology curriculum. There, his students collect plant samples, dig below ground, and sort and weigh plant species, using their research to quantify how each species functions and contributes to reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
The NSF grant will offer all participating institutions the opportunity to work collaboratively implementing research projects to address ecological questions on a broader scale and to expand the integration of research into undergraduate education nationwide. "It will allow us to empower ecology teachers in smaller schools to participate in research that investigates questions at the continental scale level," Machado says. "It is about being part of a bigger ecological network, comparing pedagogical notes, and doing long-term research that requires similar methodology and large amounts of data for future use."
Members of the team include Laurel Anderson (Ohio Weslian University, OH), Tracy Gartner (Carthage College, Wis.), Karen Kuers (Sewanee: The University of the South, Tenn.), Erin Lindquist (Meredith College, N.C.), Bob Pohlad and Carolyn Thomas (Ferrum College, Va.), and Jeffrey Simmons, (Mount St. Mary's University, Md.). Others include faculty members from Elizabethtown College, Pa., Union College, N.Y., Mount Holyoke College, Mass., Bard College, N.Y., and St. Olaf College, Minn.
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First, I hope everyone celebrated a wonderful July 4th! Here in Ufa, we had a pelmeni baking party that featured performances of traditional, Russian folk songs and a lesson on baking"Siberian raviolis." I can't say it was my favorite way to celebrate America's independence, but it was a pleasant event nonetheless.
I have finally settled into life in Ufa. I wake up around 7 and get in two hours of studying/work before Liobov wakes up and we have breakfast. I am in class 10-2, and have the afternoon free. I usually do homework, explore the city and hand out with my tutor and other classmates. Russian students are now on summer vacation and are taking the time to relax and hang out with the CLS program participants. This is really refreshing, as most of my American friends (myself included) would not take two or three months vacation to just hang out -- they would find a job or an internship. Never wasting a minute. But in Ufa, the tutors are making a real effort to proactively engage with Americans and enhance our experience. For me, this is a great opportunity to practice my Russian and gain a better understanding of Russian culture.
Last Saturday, we took a day trip to a lake to cook shashlyk, swim, drink (responsibly) and hang out. The lake is actually a hot spring that feeds into a river, so the water is clean and suitable for swimming. The water, however, was around 60 degrees (I was told), so I did not go in, but rather enjoyed watching others react to the arctic-like water.
One of my American friends, Peter, bought a bottle of Tabasco at the local supermarket and brought it to the lake. I initially could not believe they sell Tabasco in Russia and then was thrilled because I LOVE spicy food and usually put Sriracha on EVERYTHING. Oh how I miss spicy food in Russia. Peter and I were eating tobasco like candy on top of vegetables, meat, bread, etc. One Russian, Vlad, asked us what Tabasco tastes like, so I gave Vlad a cucumber slice with a few drizzles of Tabasco, and another cucumber on top (a cucumber-tabasco sandwich). He ate it and his eyes began to water, grabbed my water bottle and started to chug water. We urged him not to, as water makes the effect worse. Instead, he should have milk or juice. He of course didn't listen and kept drinking water. After ten minutes, he asked "how long does this effect last?"
Given Vlad's reaction to Tabasco, I thought it would be funny to introduce Liobov and Renat to tabasco. So I bought a bottle, brought it home and explained the story with Vlad, and offered them Tabasco at dinner. Low and behold, Renat thought it was ok and Liobov was simply not a fan. The next day, Renat brought me "hot" Russian horseradish. While pungent and quite tasty, Russian horseradish cannot compare to the smoky, mouth-on-fire, eyes-about-to-pop-out-of-head, spicy sensation of Tabasco. I still, however, continue to spice up my Russian food with Tabasco -- it has become our little joke.
In other news, last night I went to a Shabbat service at the local Jewish community center -- one of the largest in the European portion of Russia (Ufa is considered part of "European" Russia). It is a modern facility built in 2005. It was pretty interesting to talk to some of the older women about how they never practiced their faith during the Soviet Union and only began to go to services after 1991.
I have more stories and photos about my trips to the library (which has an awesome rare and historical book collection!!!), adventures with Diana (my tutor) and discussions with Renat and Liobov. But this post is long enough -- I'll update soon. | RedPajamaC4_-8971379606892209588 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Upcoming Julien's Auction House Elvis Presley Auction
Julien Auction House is presenting the 'Icons and Idols 2013: Rock n' Roll' auction featuring Elvis memorabilia. The auction is Friday, December 6th and Saturday, December 7th, 2013.
Elvis' blue suede shoes from Memphis Mafia member Joe Esposito. The size 10 shoes have brogue details and gold grommets. Accompanied by a letter from Nudie's Rodeo Tailors requesting Elvis' sizes; a letter from Joe Esposito stating that Elvis gave the shoes to him after Presley returned from the Army in March 1960. This is the only known pair of Elvis' personally owned Blue suede shoes.
Elvis' Cadillac Fleetwood 1972 limousine outfitted with a plaque that reads "Custom made for Elvis Presley 70th Anniversary Edition."
Elvis' coat he wore on the album "Elvis is Back." The tan corduroy jacket worn by Elvis has a Paramount Studios costume label that is hand numbered "F10216" and typed "E. Presley." Maker label reads "The Browser/ Trade Mark Reg./ by/ Sunset House/ of California." Additionally stamped on interior "Paramount Wardrobe." Button closure with tab closure at neck.
Elvis' personal gold "partner cross" commissioned by Presley in which he made the other for Priscilla.
Diamond ring mounted in 14k yellow gold gifted by Elvis Presley to bodyguard and friend Sam Thompson while at Graceland.
1954 handpainted cardboard poster advertising Elvis Presley performing in person at the Eagle's Nest Club on August 7, 1954. It is the earliest known Elvis concert poster. The Eagle's Nest was located just outside of Memphis on Highway 78, where this poster hung in the doorway. Presley performed 16 times at the Eagle's Nest in 1954. This poster was purchased from "the back room" of the Eagle's Nest by Elvis memorabilia expert Rosalind Cranor. The poster is signed in 1987 by Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana.
A 1953 Martin 00-21 guitar from early in Elvis Presley's career, gifted to his friends Jack and Marie Lord. Serial number 133248. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Joe Esposito explaining that Presley visited the Hawaii Five - 0 star at his Hawaii home and was shown Lord's vintage instrument collection. Presley invited the couple to come see him in Las Vegas. Presley instructed Esposito to return to Graceland before the couple arrived to retrieve a guitar and other personal items to gift to the Lords. Esposito states that this guitar is the instrument he collected from Graceland and that Presley gifted to the Lords in 1973. Additionally accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Jack Lord estate.
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The DMX renaissance is in full swing. With many openly rooting for the rap legend's ongoing comeback, X has been increasingly active in his dealings. In the months following his release from prison, DMX has already kicked f an It's Dark And Hell Is Hot tour, moved to revitalize his cinematic career, laid down bangers in the studio, and given sermons at Kanye West's ongoing Sunday Service series. All things considered, X has the support hip-hop behind him, and seeing him win brings joy to any self-respecting hip-hop head.
While he didn't hold it down behind the pulpit for Kanye's Coachella edition Sunday Service, he was in attendance throughout the event. During his time roaming the festival grounds, X found himself running into Idris Elba, himself a legend in certain circles. The pair decided to post up for a picture, and one can only hope that discussions the cinematic variety were held.
Check out the picture below, courtesy DMX's Instagram. It's always nice to see worlds collide, and once again, we're reminded DMX's enduring musical legacy. Should you need reminding the Dark Man X's strengths as a writer, check out this analysis his "Damien" series right here.
HipHopDX Premiere – Burgeoning Long Beach artist Cliff Savage first caught steam as part of the Los Angeles' "jerkin" dance craze and mastermind of the Spotify hit, "Uber." Now, he's ready to make his mark with his debut EP, Lone Wolf.
Ahead of its release, the self-taught rapper, songwriter, engineer, producer and videographer has dropped a video for "Gas," one of seven new cuts on the forthcoming project.
Crafted by Mogel Minded and Different Family, the high octane visual features Savage and friends busting out choreographed dance moves in an abandoned warehouse as the 28-year-old spits out his verses.
Lone Wolf is expected to arrive on June 7 Cleopatra Records.
In the interim, rock the video up top.
People are calling the treatment a 15-year-old named "Lucca" by a Florida deputy police brutality after a video a recent incident has gone viral. According to an affidavit, Deputy Christopher Krickovich claims that he and his partner Sgt. Greg LaCerra were responding to a call at a McDonald's after the restaurant's employees complained that a large group teens were gathering outside their establishment for a fight. The fast-food restaurant was known as a popular place for teenagers to hang out after school, but the workers wanted authorities to help in case there was any trouble as there were frequent fights in the parking lot.
Krickovich says that he and his partner arrived on the scene after the fight was already over and told the teens to leave the area. One the boys from the fight was identified as someone who was allegedly engaged in an incident from the day before and was told not to return. "While I was dealing with the male on the ground, I observed his phone slide to the right me and then behind me. I observed a teen wearing a red tank top reach down and attempt to grab the male student's phone," Krickovich wrote.
The teen in the red shirt, identified on social media as a boy named "Lucca," was reportedly a friend the young man being arrested. He wanted to grab his phone and hold it for him before it was lost, stolen, or taken by the ficers. In the viral video, viewers can see the moment Lucca grabs the phone and stands up as LaCerra pepper-sprays the teen in the face, grabs him, and throws him forcefully to the ground. Krickovich says that Lucca "took an aggressive stance" toward LaCerra and "bladed his body and began clenching his fists," suggesting that the ficers felt threatened.
Krickovich goes on to say that his encounter with Lucca was meant to de-escalate a situation where 200 teens were in attendance. He admits to punching the teen on the right side his head as, what he calls, "a distractionary technique" in order to get Lucca to release his hands from under his head so that he could be handcuffed.
Celebrities including LeBron James, Anika Noni Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, Tevin Campbell, and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg all tweeted about the violent incident using the "#JusticeForLucca" hashtag while calling for others to get involved to help the teen.
The bleeding teen was taken into custody and charged with assault, resisting arrest, and trespassing. The public is calling for the ficers involved to be fired, but as now, Krickovich is the only one who has been disciplined by being placed on restricted duty.
In the last year, the world has been taken over by Billie Eilish. Not yet 18-years-old, the teenager has quickly risen to become one the most popular female artists in the world, breaking records with her debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Her out–the-ordinary image and anti-pop-star persona have helped her become insanely big with a young crowd, performing memorable shows during both Coachella weekends. She's even picked up some cred with fellow musicians as Machine Gun Kelly proved, blasting one her tracks as he rode in the car with his daughter and Pete Davidson.
Kanye West's ongoing Sunday Service recently reached an apex this past weekend, when Ye brought the tradition to the Coachella grounds. While the spectacle clearly captured the hearts and minds many in attendance, it wasn't entirely clear how many settled down to witness the Service in action. Now, TMZ has revealed the scope Kanye's pull, which found thousands upon thousands festival-goers rallying to check out the early morning sermon.
The report, which was conveyed by "Coachella production sources," claims that organizers ficially turned in a headcount. As it stands, fifty-thousand stood in attendance Ye's biggest Sunday Service yet, including several prominent names. DMX, the Kardashian clan, Chance The Rapper, Kid Cudi, Donald Glover, Lizzo, and more came through to enjoy the show. And what a show it was. Kanye ultimately premiered a new single called "Water," which found him taking his falsetto to previously unexplored heights.
Clearly, Kanye West's eye for experimental concepts is nigh unparalleled, and there's no telling where the increasingly grandiose Sunday Service series might go. Congratulations to Ye for building something wholesome and organic. Hopefully, this energy can carry over to the impending Yandhi, if and when that should surface.
Dentsu and Hyundai have now invested millions in Audioburst.
Several weeks ago, Blubrry, a podcast hosting company, inked an important deal with AI-powered audio search platform Audioburst.
Under the deal, Blubrry users would have access to the AI platform's search technology. Podcasters hosted by the former company could now sign up to use Audioburst's new Creators platform. This includes access to tools, including full episode transcripts and short clips shareable on social media.
"Our mission is to empower podcasters and radio professionals with a robust solution for monetization, distribution, and discovery.
Financial terms of the agreement remain undisclosed.
Now, the AI-powered search platform has secured more funding.
Signing to the tune of $10 million.
Audioburst has confirmed two new strategic and investment partnerships totaling $10 million. Dentsu Inc. and Hyundai Motor Company have joined the AI platform's list of investors. Both have made a $5 million investment.
The new investment brings the company's total funding to just under $25 million.
In June 2017, Advanced Media made a $6.7 million in Audioburst. In March 2018, Samsung Ventures helped the company raise $4.6 million. Then, Nippon Broadcasting System joined in the following August with a $3.1 million investment.
Audioburst transcribes, analyzes, and indexes radio content in real-time into short-form snippets. The company's API allows brands and marketers to leverage audio content for user engagement as well as monetization opportunities. Audioburst remains available on multiple platforms, including Amazon Alexa and Google Home. In addition, the company closely works with major brands, including Samsung, LG, ByteDance, and others.
With the funding, the company now will build unique advertising and in-car voice-based experiences in Japanese for Hyundai and Dentsu. Audioburst confirmed it will formally launch in the Japanese market at the end of 2019.
Featured image by Pictures of Money (CC by 2.0).
Kim Kardashian finally made her way to Coachella for the first time ever and her visit was spent watching her husband Kanye West perform his weekly Sunday Service for an adoring crowd festival attendees. While Kanye may be left dealing with some legal problems since his electrifying set, Kim is left feeling proud for the magical set Kanye delivered for his fans.
The photo gallery shared by Kim shows that Kid Cudi, 2 Chainz and Chance The Rapper were course in attendance as well.
For the second weekend in a row, Lizzo had to perform her set acappella for her adoring crowd who still cheered her on and loved her set.
Lizzo recently took to Twitter to vent some her thoughts about the industry and those who review albums. "PEOPLE WHO 'REVIEW' ALBUMS AND DONT MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED," she wrote, following up with an invitation for writers to spend time in the studio with her as a way for both parties to understand each other's worlds. | RedPajamaC4_1727273343214737809 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
D-Link's DXS-5000-54S 10 GbE Open Network Switch is a compact, high-performance switch that features full line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching and low latency at Layer 2 or Layer 3. With its open architecture and high port density, this switch is ideal in a data center for Top-of-Rack (ToR) applications or as part of a 10GbE/40GbE leaf-spine architecture. In addition, the scalability, capacity and advanced capabilities of the DXS-5000-54S are equally compelling for deployment as a Campus or Enterprise core switch.
The DXS-5000-54S is 1U high and includes forty-eight (48) SFP+ ports supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, or DAC/Direct Attach Copper.) These ports are also backwards compatible with 1GbE SFPs. In addition, there are six (6) QSFP+ ports supporting 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GBASE-SR, or 40GBASE-LR). Using optional DAC breakout cables, the switch supports up to 72 x 10GbE ports.
The DXS-5000-54S switch supports open networking, providing IT professionals with innovative third party operating systems and software options. This lowers costs by separating software from hardware and increases network agility and flexibility. With support for standards-based tools and standards-based applications, open networking simplifies scalability and future-proofs the network.
As a bare metal switch, the DXS-5000-54S ships preloaded with Open Network Install Environment (ONIE). ONIE is an open source install environment that acts as an enhanced boot loader. This small Linux operating system allows IT Professionals to install the network operating system of choice as part of data center provisioning process, in the same manner that their servers are provisioned.
For simple plug-and-play deployments, the DXS-5000-54S is also available pre-configured with the Pluribus Netvisor OS, the industry's most programmable, open source-based network operating system. The Pluribus Netvisor software is a virtualized network operating system that provides a best-in-class Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking foundation, advanced network services, VXLAN, distributed Adaptive Cloud Fabric™ intelligence and embedded network performance monitoring telemetry.
The Pluribus Netvisor software virtualizes the switch hardware, decoupling network resources from the underlying hardware to create multiple network containers on a single device. Each container can be dynamically allocated, and a single switch can instantiate multiple network containers. Each container has its own virtualized router and can support granular east/west and north/south network segmentation, strict multi-tenant services, security and policies, and the integration of virtualized network services and functions.
• Netvisor Enterprise — includes Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing functionality with all standard networking protocols and high availability features.
• Netvisor Fabric — adds VXLAN, Telemetry, Adaptive Cloud Fabric, Data Center Interconnect and security and segmentation capabilities.
The DXS-5000-54S switch features modular fans and power supplies for a high availability architecture. The hot-swappable design means that fans and power supplies can be replaced without affecting switch operation. Each switch ships with a full complement of two power supplies and four fan modules. Additional power supplies and fans may be purchased separately.
The DXS-5000-54S switch supports front-to-back airflow which optimizes air circulation inside the cabinet/rack, supports hot and cold aisles in data centers, and increases energy efficiency. Switches supporting back-to-front airflow are also available for applications where switches are mounted with data ports facing the rear of the cabinet/rack.
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Quarterback Head to Toe: Teaching the Throwing Motion
Coach Jeremy McGuire July 11, 2017 Analysis
Football is the ultimate team sport. Even so, the quarterback position has a far greater impact on a team's fortunes than any other single position. A quarterback injury can ruin an entire football season, as Ducks fans witnessed in 1987, 1991, 1993, 2007 and 2015.
The reason is the extreme talent needed to play the position. Let's see some instruction that can help refine some quarterbacking skills and learn more football!
In the series Quarterback Head to Toe, I will share insights I have acquired in 35 years of playing and coaching football. We'll start with how to teach the throwing motion: what is the correct form and process for fans to look for?
Fran Curci with Quarterback Standout Mike Deaton
I first started working on my throwing motion in eighth grade with my coach Mike Deaton, a former University of Kentucky QB standout. I noticed right away that he could really throw the ball, with a tight spiral and great distance.
But what really got my attention was a "snap" in his release that made the ball seem to shoot out of his hand. This was something I wanted to learn as well.
I worked on emulating Coach Deaton's throwing motion all season. Developing the perfect form got to be something of an obsession for me, and eventually I got it down to the point that it was pretty automatic. This helped give me the confidence that I needed to be able to face adversity on Friday nights.
Coach Deaton taught me quarterbacking skills that I have been able to apply throughout my playing and coaching career. The hardest of those skills to master is throwing the football — I spend a lot of time on it with my QBs. When a QB can throw the football well, it gives him the confidence he needs to learn all of the other things that he needs to know to get good at the position.
Start with the Mind
In my years of experience, I've coached many different types of QBs. Some were drop-back passers, some were runners and others were a hybrid of both. Regardless of the style of play, working on the mental side of the QB position has to come first.
When I begin working with a freshman quarterback, my first priority is to establish a rapport and trust. The next step is to instill a sense of pride about the craft of playing QB. That pride motivates a player to perfect his skills, which leads to confidence. With that confidence comes the ease of a leader who is fearless during adversity.
Ball and Foot Placement
Good throwing mechanics start with proper ball and foot placement. As you can see in the picture to the right, the back foot is placed on a line perpendicular to the hips. The front foot is set at about 45 degrees to the back foot, slightly wider than shoulder width.
This positions the feet in line with the step that the QB will take when throwing the football. It also aligns the hips with the target. This positioning allows the football to be thrown with greater accuracy.
The ball is placed in a comfortable position slightly in front of the back shoulder, secured with both hands. I teach QBs to keep the ball above the chest and parallel to the shoulders when throwing.
Hitting the Wall is a drill I use to help position the ball correctly during the throwing motion. The QB stands in front of a wall, with his feet positioned to throw at a target directly away from it. When he cocks his arm to throw, the nose of the ball should just tap the wall.
This promotes a quality release, giving the QB the greatest opportunity to throw the football at a high velocity. It promotes a high release as well, which makes the ball easier for receivers to spot in the air, and also helps to keep it from being batted down by oncoming defenders.
Above is a video of the drill.
The snap is an essential part of developing velocity when releasing the ball. It is paramount that quarterbacks develop this technique to maximize their throwing ability. A player does not have to have a 250-pound bench press to have strong velocity on the football if the snap is developed.
Look at the video above to see a quality throwing motion, from hitting the wall to the follow-through.
The snap begins when the QB separates his hands at the beginning of the throw, pressing the ball behind the head quickly. Notice how the throwing hand works across the body and the thumb is pointing towards the ground upon the release of the football. This creates greater rotation speed, which enhances the spiral of the football.
You will also notice that the rotation of the hips is important for velocity as well. The follow-through and hips should work together like a machine.
In the upcoming months, I will address hip placement, foot placement and many other aspects of QB play. These are universal techniques that you can view when watching your favorite QB, regardless of the level of play.
As each QB develops their own style, these techniques are the key to understanding how to throw the football with great velocity and accuracy. Watch for them this fall!
For more information, contact me at jmacqb@gmail.com.
Jeremy McGuire
College Football Analyst for CFF Network/FishDuck.com
Lebanon, Kentucky
Top Photo Credit: John Sperry
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Coach Jeremy McGuire
In his tenure as football coach he has had the opportunity to coach in 5 State Championships, winning 3. As the high school game continued to change, Jeremy began to study the Ducks style of play beginning in 2007. Jeremy took some time away from High School football to begin a career in School Administration. Football was never far from his thought as he continued to help local High School Coaches with game planning. After spending 5 years in School Administration Jeremy had the opportunity to start a Graphic Design program and get back into High School full time. Relocating to Lexington, Ky. Jeremy began coaching at Frederick Douglass High School. Jeremy was able to fulfill another goal by coaching his own son who is also a member of the Douglass Broncos. Over the past two years, this 6A powerhouse has a record of 20-4 winning back to back District Championships. His career has come full circle as he is now calling the defense for the Freshman team that is made up of over 30 players each of he 2 years he has coached. He also stays with his roots and works with skills players on offense for JV and Varsity. There are over 95 players on the Frederick Douglass team where Core values are at the center of their success.
As a former Campbellsville University quarterback, and over 20 years of coaching experience he is excited to provide football analysis with the FishDuck team.
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The warranty period is one-year and the unit is rated water resistant to IPX7 standards. Ratings and Reviews Write a review. This makes going back home the same way you came out very easy. The Highway page uses two, three, or four data boxes on the top of the page with a graphic directional display at the bottom. Another press of the Page button takes you to the Menu page.
The microSD card slot is located inside the battery compartment but does not require battery removal for access. The 76Cx measures 6.
This petite GPS device is waterproof and has a bright, clear, color screen that is readable even out on garmih water. The 76Cx ships with a blank microSD card with at least MB of capacity to store optional downloadable data like charts, user waypoints, and routes. Three navigational pages follow with each successive push the Page button.
I like this unit as it only take two batteries, has clear colors, zoom in and gatmin easily, quickly can name waypoints and the PC connectivity. Still to realize its full potential as a marine GPS handheld navigator, in our opinion, it requires the addition of optional map data from either a Garmin MapSource CD or a pre-loaded map card.
This high-resolution screen provided us with readable map images plus sharp and clear text and numbers. The Satellite page shows you tracked satellite position graphically and lists signal strength for each with a bar graph on the bottom of the page.
Feed the device with Garmin Bluechart or any other nautic charts I believe and It can guide you through a heavy haze or unknown region. This unit locks in good with little wait,has many features. This unit acquires garimn signal quickly and preforms well. People who bought this also bought. This makes going back home the same way you came out very easy.
Internal memory is preloaded with a marine point database. This one passed our submersion test. This unit features a removable microSD card for detailed mapping memory and a waterproof, rugged housing.
The lower half of the page is filled with a large compass rose. Garmin Carrying Case for Rino Series. Ratings and Reviews Write a review. An included MB microSD card allows you to garmjn optional map information.
Each unit comes with a blank MB microSD card. Lowrance HDS 7 Gen3. Garmin eTrex 10 Handheld This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. Eight pushbuttons and a rocker switch located toward the top of the case front panel operate this unit. Trip computer provides odometer, stopped time, moving average, overall average, total time, max speed, and more.
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People & Society Persona
In conversation with Pervez Musharraf
Nasir Jamal | Muhammad Badar Alam
Updated 18 Feb, 2016 01:08pm
General Pervez Musharraf addresses his party supporters at his house in Islamabad | AP
Nasir Jamal: How do you know General Raheel Sharif and since when have you known him?
Pervez Musharraf: Firstly, his elder brother Shabbir Sharif and I were course mates. But apart from being just course mates, Shabbir Sharif was also a good friend. In the final term of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) at Kakul, there are appointments to sort careers. He was an honour student and was the battalion senior under officer. I was also in the run and I was a battalion junior officer. Our rooms were right next to each other in the academy. No cadet could pass in front of our rooms. It was a custom in PMA that no one could walk in front of our rooms as a show of respect. Whichever room we visited, everyone would stand up before us.
That's how we became close and although he went into infantry and I went into artillery, our friendship continued. This is how I knew him [Raheel Sharif] — as Shabbir Sharif's brother. When I was Major General in Okara – as General Officer Commanding (GOC) – he was a brigade commander there. Obviously, everyone in a brigade does not report to the GOC, only the brigade commander does.
I was about to make him my Military Secretary (MS) when I was President and Chief of Army Staff. I had already selected him and he was about to join, but the other military secretaries of the army told me about a course at the Royal Institute of Defence Studies. It is a top-level course, and I say that by experience since I was once part of it. The Crown Prince of Thailand was there, the future President of Barbados was also there along with the Air Chief of Mozambique. So this is the calibre of that course. This is why I didn't make him my MS, because I thought he should attend this course.
Jamal: Tell me a little about when his brother (Shabbir Sharif) was martyred and you went to his place and told him that, "You are not alone in this, I'm here; I'm your older brother."
Musharraf: Yes, I did go to meet him as an older brother and said whatever was necessary.
Jamal: Were you in contact with him after you stepped down from the presidency?
Musharraf: No, after that I went abroad. So other than the occasional conversation, I did not have any contact with him. This is because I didn't want to embarrass him. You know about the political victimisation that exists in Pakistan and the overall political climate after my departure.
Jamal: Obviously, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was your immediate successor. But when you were choosing your successor, if you had the choice of Kayani and Raheel Sharif, who would you have chosen?
Musharraf: In hindsight, I would have chosen Raheel Sharif most definitely.
Muhammad Badar Alam: What would be the reason for that?
Musharraf: Look, Raheel has certain qualities. Firstly, he is a thorough gentleman. In PMA, we are taught that we are not only cadets; we are gentlemen first and then cadets. So, he is a gentleman, in terms of his character and dealing. He is refined and cultured and knows how to carry himself and how to talk like a commander.
Jamal: So he is a leader, and not just a commander?
Musharraf: Yes, that is absolutely right. Everyone in the army knows operational strategy and tactics. You get to know about the true qualities of a soldier when you are at a time of war and there is a threat of dying. When there are bullets being sprayed everywhere. This is the moment, when such a man is followed by others.
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Alam: Do you think he has provided the kind of leadership you are talking about during the entire Zarb-e-Azb operation?
Musharraf: Yes, certainly. I think a lot of big people out there will be terrified to go to the places he visits. They will be scared about getting blown in their helicopters in these sensitive areas. It's not easy if there is a machine gunner sitting somewhere and he shoots down your helicopter. But Raheel Sharif has tremendous guts.
Jamal: In the last year, there has been a peak in his popularity, even outside the military. But there is also criticism that the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has run an extremely sustained campaign in this regard. Did you ever feel you were so popular?
Musharraf: I knew I was popular. However, in 2007, I also knew my popularity was going down. We get the pulse from the bottom; intelligence agencies provide us with data and reports about what the public opinion is. This is one of the most important things commanders need to know, who they are and where they stand. I knew the importance of this.
When you say his popularity is linked to the ISPR's campaign … I would just say it is best not to overdo it because then there are negative consequences of such actions. His popularity is inherent irrespective of his pictures being on show or not … people have come up to me and have been critical about these pictures, giving negative remarks … I think they should refrain from doing this because he is already popular and by doing things like this, people start talking.
Alam: Why do you think he is popular among the people outside the military?
Musharraf: I think the biggest reason is his action against terrorism. Operation Zarb-e-Azb is no doubt the single biggest factor. You can see that the entire nation was behind this operation; the only people against it were religious fanatics.
One of the biggest reasons for his popularity is that he targeted the roots of the terrorists. I say 'roots' because in North Waziristan they had an indoctrination centre. They used to indoctrinate suicide bombers … [and] provide them training.
Also other than the fight against terror, Raheel Sharif is now involved in eliminating corruption, which is another curse in our society responsible for not allowing our nation to progress. Instead, it is heading backwards.
Jamal: Have you ever thought about how the civil government's weaknesses have resulted in Raheel Sharif's popularity?
Musharraf: Yes, absolutely. In between their weaknesses and misdoings, there is one person — in fact, an entire organisation's head. The fact that he speaks against them makes him popular. There is this huge ocean of corruption and nepotism which is engulfing the nation. Therefore, if there is a person who is against this whole process and is standing up to this, he is bound to be popular.
Alam: If we examine the flip side of this, we can see a number of people who are critical of the military's intervention or interference in these sectors. Do you think this is a positive sign for the development of a stable, democratic Pakistan?
Musharraf: Theoretically, it is not. The government should have a thorough foreign policy and should do everything themselves. But I believe in Pakistan first. Pakistan is going on a downward spiral, Pakistani people are becoming shabby and there are no checks and balances. There are no constitutional checks.
Look at Australia; in five years, five prime ministers have changed there. There was a check there. They wanted to change a prime minister for whatever reason and they changed him. Over here, the Pakistan People's Party phased through five years and I don't think there will be a single Pakistani who would praise that term other than their own people.
Why were they not replaced?
Then people come running to the army. In my own experience, when I was chief for one year, the situation wasn't as serious as it is today, but even in those days people used to come up to me and say: why don't you take over? What are you waiting for — for Pakistan to finish?
At that time, we only had $400 million left in our national reserves, our economy was completely shattered. In this instance, people ran after the army; [we were] in a fix. It's difficult to find constitutional solutions to deal with these issues, so that the army doesn't need to intervene. Why should the army come forward? It shouldn't. I'm a strong believer of that. But, Pakistan comes first and we cannot let Pakistan get ruined by sticking to the rules. Everything is for Pakistan. All rules and the entire constitution is for Pakistan; Pakistan is not for the constitution.
Alam: So do you think this is a manifestation of his [Raheel Sharif's] personality and leadership? Is it the military's collective desire as well as his personal?
Musharraf: The military follows the chief. Our army is extremely disciplined. Luckily, we are not a banana republic. There is a chief who directs. There are conferences like Corp Commander Conferences and Principal Staff Officer Conferences where people speak their mind. People have this misconception that the chief is a dictator. People talk in these conferences more democratically than most other places in the country. However, the chief reserves the final word and gives orders irrespective of whatever discussion people are having.
Jamal: It is said that the military is taking over certain functions of the foreign policy and even internal policy. Is that a desire of the military establishment or is the chief's assessment also present here?
Musharraf: Absolutely, the chief functions like that. The fact is that everything is analysed in the army. There are two directorates, the Military Operation (MO) directorate and Military Intelligence (MI) directorate; and apart from this the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provides input regularly.
Another thing, since you brought up foreign relations and the army chief going on foreign visits to meet heads of states, the fact is that in international affairs, there is a big interrelation between domestic performance and foreign relations. Your international standing is directly proportional to your domestic performance. You are not living in a vacuum. If you want to progress socially and economically, your international reputation should be good. This is linked to investments and other influences like debt servicing. Our debt services were the greatest in 1999-2000. I saw that five to six billion dollars were going in debt servicing annually. We tried to find out where all this money was going and found out it was going to Paris because of a 12.5 billion dollar loan we had taken out from them. After that, the process included meeting them, rescheduling the debt and finally writing it off. This happens when you have a standing domestically.
However, our own leaders are unable to do this or influence this — for example, when America announced to stop the Coalition Support Fund. Why? The fact is that when these aircrafts, helicopters and tanks operate, millions of dollars are spent to maintain them. This is not a small expense from any dimension. The ammunition that is required for all these operations needs to be supported by someone.
So considering all of these things, I think about Pakistan first. If the government cannot meet these requirements and the army chief is helping out, what's the harm?
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Alam: Do you think Raheel Sharif is following the same principle: Pakistan First?
Musharraf: Most certainly. Another thing I wanted to add earlier was that these policies and strategies … if [they] are not being properly designed at the top or implementation at the bottom is not happening, people at the bottom start making their own strategies since no action is being taken from the top. Obviously, foreign policy is something the civilian government and the foreign affairs department are responsible for. But if their strategies were actually working, why would anyone interfere?
Let's take the fight against terrorism, as an example. Why isn't the government saying to go and kill them? I remember back in 2007, in Swat, Maulana Fazlullah became active and, in the south, Baitullah Mehsud was involved in terrorism. The six southern districts that we have which include Kohat, Bannu and Lakki Marwat were all affected by terrorism. The government over there was of Maulana Fazlur Rehman. I asked them to requisition the forces. They just wouldn't. They didn't allow the troops to go there. Now, you tell me, what should I have done? The government was silent. Then I sent them a message. I will be frank here; I made sure that they deployed troops there. We had to forcefully do it. Then I sent two divisions, one from Gujranwala and the other from Okara to Swat and Bannu.
We had a discussion at the MO directorate [whether] to strike them together or one by one and we decided to take them one by one. We thought it best to first take care of Swat and then head south. We finished off Swat in 2007.
After that, the elections took place and the Awami National Party (ANP) came to power. When the ANP arrived, they reversed our policy of pressure; they just stopped it. Sufi Muhammad, who was earlier in custody in Lady Reading Hospital, was allowed to come back and he declared jihad as soon as he was back.
If you look at the time period between March and April 2008 till October and November 2008, they burnt 13 girls' schools and the beautiful ski resort of Malam Jabba. Once again, there was silence. Then people finally woke up and called on the army and the army took action. But it was too late at that point. We had one million internally displaced refuges. When the army attacked Swat, there was vast destruction, loss of life and property. There was no action from the civil government.
What Raheel Sharif has done in North Waziristan is that since the civilian government did not give any orders, he forcibly gave orders. Technically, you can say this was wrong of him to do, but I say Pakistan comes first. He did absolutely right.
Jamal: I am sure a number of people agree with whatever you are saying, but don't you think it would have been more feasible that the civilian government was taken into confidence and kept in a leadership role?
Musharraf: I'm very sure that a lot of people would have been saying this. The ISI's job entails telling the chief the reality of whatever is going on. It is important to note that the impact of this [operation] was not only domestic, but it was affecting things internationally. Our reputation was diminishing fast. Afghanistan was angry with us, the whole world was. America was saying horrible things about us and even China. I'm completely positive about the fact that the ISI gave the civilian government a briefing and I can also say the army must have given them one too. The army always invites them to come to GHQ and we will tell you what the ground reality is. It must have taken place for sure; it would only be possible to start the operation after that. But till when can you say no and stay quiet? It's a judgment call that you sit for a year and wait for Pakistan to get destroyed. So this is a judgment call and the buck stops at the chief. The chief is a lonely man. On top, everything is very lonely.
General Pervez Musharraf | File Photo
Alam: You are saying that the army chief is a lonely figure because he has to make all these calls and then take responsibility for them?
Musharraf: Decision making is a Napoleonic theory. Two-thirds of every decision consists of analysis and data input from the ISI and the MI, whichever intelligence organisation you choose. The last third is basically carefully evaluating the data and making a decision.
Jamal: Whatever his decision is, [is that on] his shoulders completely?
Musharraf: Yes. In civilian governments, there is always an element of blaming someone else. However, in the military, if you take the decision it's your responsibility, since you are the leader. You are solely responsible. Irrespective of whom you got advice from, because the final decision is yours to make. If the impact of the decision means that the prime minister is displeased or the government will not be happy, he will still have to make the decision depending on what he thinks best. This is the time no one will help you.
Jamal: The 'two-thirds' part is already established at this stage, so when you had to do the 'one-third' part, how did you go about it?
Musharraf: As they say in the military, the remaining third is always a leap in the dark. In that they say the leader should be lucky and its either his gut reaction or sixth sense on which he makes his decision.
Jamal: Jamal: Do you think General Kayani had that in him?
Musharraf: Maybe he did suffer from… paralysis by analysis.
Alam: So you think there is more decision-making power in General Raheel Sharif?
Musharraf: Yes, I think so.
Jamal: Is the decision-making power in him similar to what you used to have?
Musharraf: In my opinion, yes.
Jamal: Meaning that in making a decision, like you, he is not afraid either?
Musharraf: Yes, I think so. The operation in North Waziristan was a big decision, it was not something small. Not a small decision at all. It's not easy to kill so many people using tanks, helicopters and aircrafts. It's not easy to kill thousands of people, especially because they are your own people.
Making this decision by going to villages and killing people is a tough task. I also used to think about the place where the operation happened. I also wanted to go there. We had a general called Tariq Khan. I had assigned him to that place. He was fully prepared. But there was only one problem he found while planning: all these places were very small towns in which the terrorists had infiltrated … and – obviously – there would be collateral damage.
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Alam: Civil-military relations are extremely fractured at the moment. This has been going on and there is immense friction. In eight to nine months, General Raheel Sharif is going to retire. A number of people predict this to be 1999 all over again. What do you say?
Musharraf: What happened with me is beyond imagination. If someone cannot even think and reach to that conclusion, that [a general] was coming back from Sri Lanka and his plane was not allowed to land, I have no words.
Now, talking about a repetition of 1999, as I said, my wish is that this civilian government continues to function properly, but there have been so many distortions that there is a need for a major reformation. We need reformation in the political system because there are no checks and balances in the government. Corruption and nepotism is the biggest curse and how should we stop it if the government is itself involved in it. They don't see anyone beyond their relatives and dear friends and colleagues. They just want to have them work in big offices.
In 1999-2000 when I selected 14 ministers, I had never even seen the faces of 12 of them. My brother is extremely brilliant, he was a Karachi Electric Supply Company officer, but I didn't place him anywhere. I had other very capable relatives; my own son went to Stanford, but I didn't place him.
However, for these politicians, they can't see beyond realities, beyond their friends.
Alam: Assume if General Raheel Sharif retires and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tries to choose the next general on his own terms. Is it then possible to have a repeat of what happened in 1999?
Musharraf: No, it's the constitutional right of the prime minister to appoint the army chief. The military will not react; he [Nawaz Sharif] will choose whoever he wishes. We can only pray that he appoints the best from the top people and he does not appoint someone by just considering the person he thinks will listen to him the most.
Jamal: The last thing I want to ask you is that you had an interview on Dunya TV in which you said General Raheel Sharif should be given extension for another term. What was the basis for that?
Musharraf: In the same interview, they asked me if I think that other people are not capable, this is a double-edged weapon. They are obviously capable, all of them. Like I said, if someone becomes lieutenant general, there is only a marginal difference between him and the others, there is no doubt about that. Professionally, there might not be a big difference but the qualities of head and heart, as I talked about earlier, that is where there is a substantial difference. Now, you have a man who has exceptional qualities of head and heart, which are proven. And considering the times we are going through in Pakistan, Raheel Sharif is a perfect fit. Why should we remove and disturb him?
This interview was conducted in December 2015 as part of the Herald's Annual issue, in which General Raheel Sharif was a nominee for the title of Person of the Year. Sharif's profile appears in the Herald's Annual issue. To read more, subscribe to the Herald in print.
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Naveed
Why talk now after destroying this country's image?
Always a pleasure reading the General's interviews!
@Naveed I respect your opinion Sir, but please look at the overall picture. It was an excellent period when Musharraf was leading. I would recommend reading the economic surveys of those years.
Mehreen
This guy has gotten so irrelevant that the only way he can get some publicity is by talking about the current military set up. I think it's pathetic how he is instigating Raheel Sharif to go for extension. What he really wants is for Raheel Sharif to take over. And what is this rubbish about Pakistan comes first, this is the doctrine of necessity all over again and I think Pakistan has seen enough of that. These people had and have no respect for the constitution. Musharaff ruled the country unilaterally for 10 year, if he was any better we wouldn't have been in the mess we are in currently. He is no position to condemn the current government.
Shujaat Khan
People had high hopes from you and you Sir, failed them and the country.
You ruled Pakistan majority of years since it was founded. "It is the constitutional right of Prime Minister to nominate the army chief". Are you talking about the Constitution which was ridiculed, broken and 60 judges dismissed in one day? The same constitution?
Musharraf had a great opportunity to reform the systems of the government and of judiciary, create free market economy and build the politically controversial dams and power plants in the national interest, but he failed to deliver. He wasted the time and then his biggest crime was NRO for which he deserves punishment.
XMAESTRO
@Naveed So Pakistani had never had a Martial law before? Never fought any wars? The way I see it, he was the first one to try to fight the radical mindset and mullahs we are so afraid to touch these days. He stabilized economy for major part of his tenure and a lot of work was done for education during that time. He also empowered the media and telecom and brought us on the global map. Moreover, he had more integrity that current leaders.
We judge the dictators but we do not try to investigate what brought them on in the first place. Corrupt and indecisive politicians! When was the last time we had a leader whose sole purpose was not to rob the national treasury? Never!
wasim
He was just a sweet dish offered in a bitter situation.
"we are taught that we are not only cadets; we are gentlemen first " Do Gentlemen support barbaric terrorists?
JUST BRILLIANT
This is not a good read. One gets a sense of another take over going by the tone of this interview.
In this interview, Gen. Musharraf has talked like a statesman! Thank you for your candid views. We all must truly believe in one thing "PAKISTAN FIRST". Rest is garbage!
Rustom E Hind
What a guy. He said that they are thought to be gentlemen, I can see that in his comment about Muktharan Mai to journalists. Wow, what a gentleman!
ishrat salim
Brilliant Sir...Salute you & miss you. Pakistan will never be the same like before under your watch.
Kamal Pasha
Once interviewed by Indian TV host, and in the end the host complimented Gen.Musharaff for answering every question and not avoiding anything. This is the quality of an honest person.
"In hind sight" even Mr. N.S. would have chosen Mr. R.S. Without a doubt.
@Naveed : Haters will hate and best part is that Mr. Musharraf do not bother with those who hate him, he is consistently admired by several Pakistanis for his clear and logical instance, "Pakistan First". Keep it up Sir, We want a leader just like you if due to any reason not you.
Though I don't personally like him but I like his interviews.
Shehz
"The Pakistan People's Party phased through five years and I don't think there will be a single Pakistani who would praise that term other than their own people. People used to come up to me and say: why don't you take over? What are you waiting for — for Pakistan to finish? Pakistan comes first and we cannot let Pakistan get ruined by sticking to the rules. Everything is for Pakistan. All rules and the entire constitution is for Pakistan; Pakistan is not for the constitution." Today our debt stand at Rs.5000 Billion (US$50B); just like in 1998, we are on the verge of defaulting (Bloomberg). Corruption stands the same more or less but nepotism is at an all time high, and the leaders are so shameless that they do it so openly unabated. At such a bleak moment, even an army coup looks like a better solution; no wonder the public loves military coup more than democratic leaders - but they still don't see the fault in themselves. By the people, FOR THE PEOPLE.
Rashid Sultan
I don't doubt his sincerity but when he talks of Pakistan he obviously doesn't think Pakistani people from all walks of life and mostly the disenfranchised and illiterate poor but a notion that is Pakistan with lines on a map. For a man from a less developed poor country he has a big ego and shows little sign of appreciation for soft power as the need for the country rather than the machinations of MO, MI & ISI supported by expensive military hardware to kill our own misguided people.
Ifti
@Naveed Our democratic leaders need to step up, and deliver good governance. Musharraf delivered good governance in most cases and brought good name to the country. Unfortunately our politicians are globally known for corruption and continue to keep their heads bowed in front of world leaders. Our neighbour India Mr. Modi current PM and previous PM Mr. Singh are and were totally honest, can we say the same for our leadership?
S.Kamran Ansari
My question is why General Musharaf did not do himself what General Raheel is doing now. If we remember well, Musharaf was always against an operation in N. Wazirstan
It is wrong to put faith in a PM to choose next COAS, current COAS should choose next COAS, that should be the rule, PM would not know the capabilities of the military officers only a COAS can know.
In light of all the failures, corruption and chaos, don't we wish that Pervez Musharraf was at the helm in Pakistan? Or do people still think they made a good choice with PPP, PML-N, MQM leadership?
M. Malik
@Naveed I can say confidently, it was a much better era when Musharraf was running the country, than the dismal picture of daily tales of corruption, loot and plunder.
IF the general decides to run (after legal issues are resolved), I'll gladly vote for him to be PM or President of Pakistan.
Asif Jamil
Here is an honest, straight talking, brave man that the nation did not give full credit to!
He left Zardari and Kiyani for Pakistan. Pakistan first?
J.K.Sharma
Musharraf is always talking keeping in view his interests.The period of Kayani as COAS was not good for Musharraf.Kayani did not protect Musharraf for his bad deeds,therefore,Musharraf is against Kayani.Musarraf wants to encash the popularity of General raheel Shariff for his benefit.No doubt,General Raheel Sharief is one of the most popular generals of Pakistan because of his honesty and dedication to his motherland.But he should not provide undue protection to Musharraf as it will harm him in long term.
Shah Nawaz
In hindsight Nawaz Sharief would have never chosen you.
Shahid
@Naveed I did not understand when you say that he destroyed the country's image. I am living abroad since last 30 years. I think the country's image was the best during the time of his government.
m m amin
His undoing was his megalomania. He thought he was eighteen feet tall while the rest all were pygmies.
You were the worse thing that happened to Pakistan. No energy projects and all our resources were wasted. You are so afraid of the courts that you hide in Karachi waiting to catch a ship and run to Dubai.
M.M.Sherazi
Musharraf has been very instrumental with nature-gifted abilities of being honest and outspoken, He has highlighted the political as well and military regimes in the truest way. He deserves respect and recognition.
@Naveed People like Zadari were boosting this country's image. Don't let the hate turn you blind
He is a brave man, a loyal and patriotic Pakistani. He made less mistakes than any other politician!
Fudayl
Musharraf is wrong when he says Pakistan ranks ahead of its constitution. No it does not. Constitution of Pakistan makes Pakistan what we want and how we want. Pakistan ranking ahead of the constitution gives a connotation that anybody in his wisdom could think of overthrowing a democratic government just because he perceives that the democratic government is destroying the country. If democracy destroys us, so be it.
He had ten years to make his mark. Ruined the opportunity. And now he chooses to live in the past.
A dictator that almost destroyed our country. I am amazed that he has the audacity to comment on Pakistan's situation.
Tapish
This man lies through his teeth and feels no remorse or guilt about the same. Pity on those who have to accept him as a leader.
Mrs. Phannay Khan
@Ahmed In Musharraf's era money that came to Pakistan was mostly in the form of aid and remittances. Unfortunately however it was not utilised to develop infrastructures, industry or agriculture – which are the backbone of any economy. Every person carrying a phone, being able to lease a car on cheaper installments is not development. The only industries which saw boom were telecom and banking. Telecom because it was a global phenomenon then – money was brought in by investors at their own risk and it did create a few thousand jobs however as the market is saturated now, that sector too is shrinking and will continue to slide. Banking, because Shaukat Aziz was a banker – so new banks opened up.. Credit became more easily available and a few thousand jobs were created as well. However banking is a support industry. As long as there is no industrial and agricultural development going on – it cannot sustain by operating individual accounts and doling out credit cards and cars on lease.
Shehryar
Musharraf is bold as usual. He is opiniated and emphatic in his remarks. However, this is when one expects a seasoned, experienced general and politician to exercise maturity. Does he fall short? I don't think so. In fact, he comes across like a fresh, energetic man with a mission to accomplish. Look forward to hearing more about him in the news.
Ahmed Wm
@ Ahmed: I do agree that a lot of cash came into the country and we had good foreign reserves in Musharraf's time but all that cash went into a black hole it seems. How many dams, industries were built in his time? Hardly any. Did he make any system of money rolling? Even that money was in-fluxed in return of our services of fighting others war. Actually there was not much of a difference between him and Zia. Two faces of same coin. One used Islamic platform and other used "Roshan Khiyal Pakistan".
@Ahmed Thank you. Even highly educated people supporting PPP/PMLN refuse to look at economic figures during his tenure. The simplest measure of a good government is unemployment rate, which was lowest in his tenure than any democratic government post 1989. Pakistan had no IMF loans before 1989. Look at the loans taken by the then Zardari and the present NS governments. Is average citizen doing better under these so-called democratic governments? Serious political reform is a must, and this should be recognised by even those who want army to stay within its domain. Pakistan first, always.
Zahid Ali
Musharraf statements are a reflection of Pakistan's political system. He should be in jail.
Waqas Ahmed
I am big fan of "Sir Musharraf" but sorry to say Sir, in your era there was lack of accountability. Just look at your team. Chaudri brothers who have no vision and nothing to do with this country. Selection of your team was bad. You just controlled the things for your era without considering the future. No dam not was built during this time, not even a small one.
Houlbelat
Very positive and patriotic statements made by Musharraf. All his replies speak of high intelligence and deep rooted patriotism. I am sure if same questions were asked of any of our elected civilians (our so-called leaders), none would have talked so aptly and to the point. It also shows high level of diplomacy.
Abu Humza
In my opinion, and you may disagree, but Pakistan does not require democracy in any case. Democracy is a good tool, where you have enlightened masses, not where only 30% population know how to write their names. Democracy defeats the purpose of having a good governance, in Pakistan at least.
Nabeel
A great leader who never minces his words. But the sad reality is that we give power to leaders that we deserve.
Gerry D'Cunha
He speaks his mind and heart and he speaks the truth — it's a tragedy for Pakistan that he could not serve Pakistan for a further 10 years.
@Ayesha Wow. I suppose the democratically elected governments have done wonders for Pakistan? Let's see: 1) The foreign debt during Musharraf was under $20 Billion. it is now over $50 Billion, and more is being borrowed. 2) Foreign Exchange Reserve were over $14 billion during Musharraf, a record-high in the history of Pakistan. And now? 3) PKR was around 60 = 1USD. It stands at around 107 in the open market and sliding, a shocking 80% devaluation! 4) Direct Foreign Investment was rising by the time Musharraf left office. Now we have an industrialist in power, with not much to show. 5) Pakistan's profile and world-wide respect was better under Musharraf's time. Now we are in oblivion, known only for terrorism, intolerance and perhaps mediocrity. Enjoy it while you can. Tomorrow could be even worse!
Pak Khan
Look who is talking!
Guest66
@Naveed , because Sir, you do not read between the lines! His Pakistan first can be replaced with "Musharraf first", that's why he is talking now to make people see the change in whose first.
He continuously regrets his decisions. His talk is full of contradictions.
RQA
Nice interview. I think he has repeated mostly all the things which he has in mind in earlier interviews and mostly all the things seems right. Few points in response to the comments section: People saying that he is not favoring Kayani because he didn't help him in his return, friends tell me what has Kayani done as compare to Raheel Sharif for Pakistan? Even when the US killed our soldiers, the PM stopped the Afghan route for apologies and this guy kept silent. The routes which Raheel Sharif is targeting were all made strong in Kayani tenor because he was scared to enter North Wazirisitan. Even if Raheel Sharif helped him to return then what is the big deal? Musharraf helped Benazir for his return, would that be his biggest mistake? Asif Zardari helped Nawaz Sharif to return and we can see where we stand: 70% of our GDP in debt. To people saying that he removed constitution and judges, believe me if he wouldn't have done that, you may not be able do what you are currently doing as we would have been like Zimbabwe.
Musharraf's biggest crime against the country was NRO. Look at what Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have done to the country. They came back to Pakistan because of NRO and Musharraf is responsible.
immortal_soloist
A great man with a wonderful insight that this nation didn't appreciate due to the lies and the biases of the media and various other elements. Long live Musharraf.
A Sheikh
Always a pleasure to read or listen to General Musharraf. A true Pakistani.
Musharraf is the the most prescient leader in contemporary times. Better than many corrupt, dim-witted and bickering politicians. It's funny how constitution reigns supreme in utopian theories of certain liberal circles. None the less, they never compliment with actual circumstances and certainly are oblivious to ground realities. It's a sad reality today that constitution today is reduced to nothing more than a shield to mask the corrupt practices employed by our political elite. They mould law in their favours. Why not apply Article 62/63? Even if applied half-heartedly it would leave our supreme parliament empty. That would be too boring, right?
Zulfi
Musharraf trying to take indirect credit for Raheel's successes here. It is easy to be wise after the event. Every one knows that Kayani was his hand picked choice. Musharraf only started talking ill of Kayani when the latter did not tow his line after becoming COAS and refused to take sides when the newly elected parliament in 2008 decided to impeach Musharraf.
Two questions for the General. a) If his rule was so successful then why are we still worried about another army takeover or why would we need another takeover? b) If the army leadership is cream of the crop and the institution is the best in Pakistan then why would any COAS need an extension?
khanm
interesting comments. Musharraf could have achieved a lot if he would have made a similar strategy to Kargil for political home front while he was in power. It is too late now. Always strike the iron when it is hot. Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on the important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Parvez
How could he make him Raheel Sharif COAS, bypassing scores of generals? Musharraf continues to be a compulsive liar.
He is here again. He has told and admitted many things in the past. He does it often to stay in the limelight and to divert people's attention from his legal and political issues. He has no grand standing or credibility.
@Naveed; Musharraf left eight years ago, things must have improved a lot by now.
Sukhera
Sure. There were lot of things you should have done differently but the water has already passed the bridge. When army generals take over a civilian elected government, they become arrogant and believe they are above the law. He was running his own feudal government within the government. Kargil conflict was personally started by him and the GHQ was never consulted. Other generals learned from the media and asked him about it. He told them they don't need to know. Lal masjid was another issue which could have been resolved peacefully.
@XMAESTRO So you think army dictators are good for the country and whatever he did was right? The country's most sacred document was ignored and abused by him. The damage he did to the democratic process is unforgiveable.
Tahir Khan
General Musharraf was the best dictator one can think of; but he was a dictator in the end and could not strengthen other democratic institutions such as parliament, provincial governments, judiciary. The institutions mentioned above need space, time and independence, which can never be afforded by a dictator.
@Naveed On the contrary. We are proud of Musharraf's era. Compare the economy of that Pakistan to now.
@Mehreen Yes, because military set up is such a big secret right ? Not sure if we were reading the same article, but its his opinion that Raheel Sharif should get an extension, this by no means equates to instigating it.
The great General, always keeps Pakistan first and says it as it is.
As one comment sates 'democracy is not good for my country where only 30% can write their own name'. He is very right. Democracy is not something which is to be imposed. I remember watching TV before the Iraq war. One Iraqi politician had said that he liked democracy but was sorry to say that his people were not ready for democracy. We have seen the effects and results of ' imposing' democracy by force ( by America ) all over the world. The world was better before 10 to 15 years than now.
Ghaznavi
@Ajay "Do Gentlemen support barbaric terrorists?" They don't. However they have courage to support people fighting for their God given right "freedom".
@Mrs. Phannay Khan How many industries has Zardari started or revived during the PPP government? Do PIA, PS, Railways ring any bells? Are these bankrupt institutions an example of wonders done by successive governments since Gen. Musharraf resigned?
@Tahir Khan And how's the parliament, judiciary or provinces doing under democracy?
Syed Saad
Enjoyable read, but people need to remember before bashing Zardari/Nawaz (which they deserve), that the esteemed General Musharraf deserves a large part of the bashing himself for the NRO debacle. His megalomania, messiah complex and all round love of the kursi is what brought these locusts here. He does not have the moral authority to look down on their deeds
As people say on social media, I respect Pakistan military as much as they respect the constitution of my country.
@Ahmed Wm He may not have been the solution to ALL of Pakistan's problems that he inherited from Nawaz Sharif. But what has NS or PPP before him have done in the last ten years? ZERO! Pakistan is at the verge of defaulting. PIA is almost Bankrupt. PS is shambles, Railways is barely moving. Not much remittance from Pakistani expats taking place, hardly any direct foreign investment, no clear foreign policy, and no stature of any of these leaders that garners them respect of international community. Do I even need to remind of NS's speech at Davos last month. Or Pakistan's failure at the Climate Change conference? Does Pakistan even have a voice in the Security Council, General Assembly, Washington, OIC, or anywhere else?
just_someone
@Mehreen If hes not going to talk about the military who is? He was Army Chief... if there is ANYTHING is he eminently qualified to do, its talk regarding the military. You can blame him for a lot but cant say its wrong of him to present his views about the army.
I would like Raheel Sharif to retire on time so that he can enter politics after two years. Pakistan needs a leader, a real honest leader and I feel, it can be none but Raheel Sharif.
@Naveed is he the one who destroyed the image of the Pakistan? Let's get real.
@Mehreen why don't you compare his tenure and the current lot
@Ahmed Absolutely, no matter you like him or not but I can bet that even his opponents are glued to the tv when he speaks.
hamza khan
@Shujaat Khan Saving the country from economic collapse is letting the nation down? Good logic.
ksch
Mostly focused on General Raheel Sharif and one dictator trying to talk about a professional and beloved General with some controversial statements.
Pak Patriot
Civil society and all civilians constantly complain about Army influence, Army takeover and Army operations on civilians. The reason it is so, because our civilians are inherently corrupt, indisciplined and disloyal. Every commercial organization managed by civilians has been reduced to Bankruptcy. Our civilians are for the majority morally and ethically bankrupt, with not a stitch of moral fibre in them.
Good for General Raheel to have a genuine accolade from a retired General. Corruption problem in Pakistan has to be dealt with on war footing in a way that General Raheel has done in respect of terrorism in the Zarb-e Azb operation.
GAK Wazir
Nothing is good or bad, but a one man show spoils the entire system of governance. Anything which is ultra vires of the constitution destroys the very existential structure of a country. You put the constitution at abeyance and framed a new law protecting you and your military cum civilian junta. Things gradually went from bad to worse and ultimately reached a point of no return. Consequently, there was no option for you but to step down. You did so and left the country at the mercy of the angels.
Musharraf should have been asked another question about the qualities of Rashid Qureshi who was promoted by him as Local Major General [a unique promotion in history of Pakistan], posted as in charge of the ISPR and then given a post in his political party.
@J.K.Sharma Musharraf needs no ones protection, and he never asked for one. His disappointment with Kayani is due to his inaction against the foreign funded TTP. General Raheel, went in with a sledge hammer and squished them. That is Musharraf's style, hence the praise. Always remember Musharraf is from SSG. Need one say more.
Interesting and useful interview - Thanks to Herald and Dawn for arranging and publishing it.
Rakaposhi
Wouldn't Raheel Sharif be too junior back then?
@Ahmed So Musharraf is dismissing Kayani and wishes he chose Raheel ! Imagine what Nawaz Sharif says about appointing an opportunist like Musharraf who was unqualified to be army chief and wouldn't do anything to check unrest in FATA. Most people, think Musharraf's decade dictatorship was the worst thing to have happened to Pakistan. No one believes any of the figures about Musharraf's economic reforms. Imagine how stable and developed Pakistan would be now had Musharraf not disrupted the nation by taking over as a dictator. Pakistan now stands as one of the few functioning Muslim democracies in the world. We were no better than Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen under the likes of Musharraf who brought terrorism in the country and unrest in Baluchistan. Nothing can justify Musharraf and it's sad to hear anyone rationalize his rule. Musharraf was a blight on Pakistan's history but every other criminal, he doesn't want to give up the limelight.
Syed(Australia)
@Mehreen Compare the military rules and the civilian rules and you will find military rule better. Civilians so called custodian of democracy has destroyed this country to the extent that it will take years to put back on the right track. It was Ayub Khan who brought the industrial revolution in Pakistan but Bhutto has destroyed it in the name of nationalisation. East Pakistan was separated because Bhutto did not like the majority decision. Compare the corrupt rule of Zardai, Pervez Ashraf, Gilani with Musharraf and you will see a big difference. These civilians have no right to rule because they themselves have violated the constitution of Pakistan.
You Sir had your chance, more than eight years, and you blew it.
Musharaf rightly says that there are no checks in the constitution about nepotism and corruption. What was he doing when he was heading Pakistan as a President and the General? And now he says, "why should we remove and disturb him?". No body is removing him. Gen. Raheel's term is going to end. Even though we love him but he has to go at the end of the day. Musharraf says Pakistan first and from this interview it seems like he actually believes in Army first. Ask him about the Kargil disaster as well.
pathanoo
Feb 19, 2016 12:27am
Musharraf is a disgraced and irrelevant man.
Raj Patel
@Zak NS had chosen Raheel Sharif you forget.
Alas! Even after all those years he hasn't learned anything. Please save us from your rant. We already have paid and still are paying a heavy price for these so-called saviors including Ayub, Yahya, Zia and Musharraf.
@Mehreen One would think you are very happy with the current situation of your country.
@Rashid Sultan Sometimes in life you need to cut your own hand in order for the rest of your body to survive. He was getting rid of the cancerous tumor which has grown out of control today. Hopefully you are aware of it.
In hind sight I would have been Sachin Tendulkar.
Yawar
A truthful and honest person will never shy away from giving interviews and answering questions in a straight forward manner. Can't say that about our current or past politicians.
I killed the lion. Old hunters tails. He should be lucky for not having court martial for mutiny.
tauheed ahmed
In retrospect, Musharraf should have been rejected from joining the army.
Asgher Ali
Dear General Musharraf: I have always been your fan and a well wisher. After reading this interview my respect, love, esteem for you has gone up infinitely. I only hope to see the day when you are back with the reigns in this country to reintroduce reason in running a country.
After Qaid-e-Azam, Musharraf was the greatest leader Pakistan ever had!
Syed irfan ashraf
I respect the two journalists who interviewed Pervez Musharraf. But i do believe that there is huge room for raising critical inquiry into what our military and civil leaderships have been doing to Pakistan. Musharraf's rule was a glaring example of it. The lack of critique in journalism is the reason for conceptual crisis in the field, a problem much bigger than any material lack. I will request the Herald to keep your traditions of raising critical inquiry, something this interview lacks.
ABDUL MUQTADIR
@AG Do you mean the tenure he grabbed from the Elected representative of the people just as his predecessors General Zia, & General Ayub grabbed under the "law of necessity ?"- a normal excuse of these despots.
@Mahmood - I will take Democracy over the Military any time no matter how you cut it
@Mehreen well said. He infamously said if I have to choose between Pakistan and its constitution, I will always choose Pakistan. What he and many generals alongside him do not get is that these are not two things. Pakistan's constitution is Pakistan. There is no Pakistan without the constitution. The only way Pakistan can progress is by giving rights to her citizens, provinces, cities and villages...
@Skeptic . Democratic governments have not done wonders for Pakistan but in a democratic system people have the ability to remove it democratically elected government, unlike a Martial Law. The democratic system lets people and politicians grow together and learn from each other.
Pakistan First, Pervez Musharraf zindabad..
@M. Malik And what has Musharraf achied? For that matter, what have Generals like Zia, Yahya Khan achieved?
Great leader. Clear headed and courageous professional. General Musharraf it is always a pleasure to hear and read your views. We are still with you and will vote for your party.
Riaz mm
A failed president giving a pep talk and still deluded about the abilities of the military to run the country. How many times do they want to repeat the same experiment? The army failed to deliver repeatedly under Ayub, Yaha, Zia and Musharraf .At the end of all these military regimes Pakistan was worse off. Did Musharraf solve any one of the problems Pakistan was facing? In fact, he left us with more problems than his army regime inherited.
General was the best man before RS
Mohsin Patel
@Naveed what image are you talking?
Musharraf was the best ruler Pakistan had in its history. He was no way perfect but the 'best'. He was not corrupt!
Alla Bux
Dictators were always bad for our country. They started unwinnable wars with India - 1965 (Ayub), 1971 (Yahya), 1999 (Musharaff). What did they gain? Lost half the country.
arshad maza
@Ayesha Thank you, I agree too.
Arabinda Chakravarty
Pakistan does not have a political leader. Musharraf should be tried in the court again and given exemplary punishment for ousting an elected government — it is the only way. If Pakistan wants to prosper and earn respect from world civilised society it should try to get out of this army dilemma.
@Kiran Musharraf didn't bring Zardari. Pakistanis voted for them. Not Musharraf.
Only two men have proven leadership qualities after Jinnah, Ayub Khan & Pervez Musharraf; both with many similarities. I truly wish Musharraf comes back to lead the country, even if it means another military coup by General Raheel Sharif. The country has always progressed under military supervised democracies . The corrupt politicians come out of nowhere to contest and win elections with their dirty money only to make more of it, then leave the country and then re-enter to repeat the same. Its about time that military cleans it up altogether by leaving its own disciplined legacy, as the country is much more better off in just about all aspects in a military supervised democracy.
downunder
Typical Pervez Musharraf, so full of himself.
M Jamal
An honest,selfless and visionary leader in a lot of so called leaders who work for their personal benefits.It can be said with surety that we won't find siblings like Arsalan Iftikhar and orhers in Mr Musharraf's family.
@Ahmed Those surveys are still haunting us.
An honest,selfless and visionary leader in a lot of so called leaders who work for their personal benefits.It can be said with surety that we won't find siblings like Arsalan Iftikhar and others in Mr Musharraf's family whereas the political leaders in business are enjoying the loot with their family members.
space radio
General Pervez Musharraf's era was the finest era in the history of Pakistan. If these politician were governing this country after 911 then Pakistan would have soon become Syria.
The strange behaviour of Pakistani commentators is that they always talk about things that Musharraf didn't do and ignore all the great achievements that he accomplished during his rule. They say that he didn't get work done on any dams and primarily the Kala Bagh Dam. Pervez Musharraf has not been in power since 2008, why hasn't the present government or the one before this government done anything regarding Kala Bagh Dam. The facts are that he did get work done on dams and other mega projects: Work on 102 mega projects was initiated in various sectors from 2000. Such projects included Makran Coastal Highway, Lowari Tunnel, Pindi Bhattian – Faisalabad Motorway (M-3), Karachi Northern Bypass, Mirani Dam, Raising of Mangla Dam, Gomal Zam Dam, Sabakzai Dam, Satpara Dam, Kachhi Canal, Rainee Canal, Greater Thal Canal, Gwadar Port, Lining of Watercourses, Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road, Diamer-Bhasha Dam, Neelum-Jhelum Hydro Electric Project and Islamabad-Muzaffarabad Road.
@Mehreen Nope he is as relevant as ever and people go to talk to him, he doesn't call on anyone.
silajit
Full of contradictions. "There is only a marginal difference between candidates for the top post" and "Term must be extended". Do these make sense? Musharraf talks about acting against terrorists but he started the "Karachi project" and "Kargil". He talks about "owning your own decisions" and yet he does not own the decision to appoint Kayani?
Sohail
In hindsight, you should have never come back. Easy to say things in hindsight. 'Real leaders' make decision at the moment, not in hindsight.
Zain Syed
Musharraf is guilty of high treason for implementing emergency rule and suspending the constitution in 2007. He continued to rule for 9 years illegally. Whether he did good or bad as a ruler is totally irrelevant. He should be tried for his crimes.
@Ahmed with all due respect I dont think that economic growth was sustainable. Investments in consumer items never do any good to the country. Plus the biggest mess of terrorism was blessed to Pakistan by Musharraf who at the moment is commending RS's efforts. Economy was also growing when he took over so there is nothing additional that Mush did.
Rizwan Hamid, USA.
One COAS massaging another COAS's ego. Only a banana republic finds time to incessantly talk about and gives importance to a military chief. The rest of the civilized world believes in elected officials.
@stevenson I think you need to read the economic statistics in Musharaf era. Those people which are not agreeing are only politicians or brain wash people who need attentions/focus. The banking sector grew from dark ages b/c of SA. It was the time when our budget was surplus, it was time that we paid all our debt till 2005 and was on way to run country by our own money. We are below from Egypt and other countries now b/c of these political hand shake of Zaradari and Nawaz. Where is Zaradari now? Waiting for his turn in UAE. At least this man is in Pakistan and facing cases. He has guts. Read how much Nawaz has made expenses on his foreign tours till today. These 2 politicians will never do good until they see good for themselves even if it is good for Pakistan. People are supporting army not N nor PPP And yes, his biggest mistake was NRO but who knew Benazir will be killed. If Benazir would be PM and Musharaf as President, I think situation would have been good as compare to now.
Mustafa R.
@ABDUL MUQTADIR; If there is democracy anywhere in the world, Pakistan is certainly not a part of it.
@Zak Are you saying that barring one or two, the remaining army generals are not worthy? The Prime Minister has to choose from just a few senior generals who have served in the army for many decades .. they all are the same its not like choosing from half a million soldiers. The Prime Minister is an elected representative of the country rest are all serving under him.
Let us ask him how many power plants were built during his tenure? He was getting bounty money from the US. I am surprised that he is getting so much attention in the media. He committed the crime of overthrowing an elected government and abrogating the country's constitution which is punishable by death. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_3171894389845596359 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Home » » 3 Kidnappers Killed Outside of Prosecutor's Offices In Magdalena, Sonora
3 Kidnappers Killed Outside of Prosecutor's Offices In Magdalena, Sonora
By HEARST 11/01/2021 05:00:00 AM 13 comments
"HEARST" for Borderland Beat
Three cartel members were killed in a confrontation with members of the Ministerial Criminal Investigation Agency (AMIC) when they attempted to kidnap a person in the town of Magdalena de Kino, in the state of Sonora.
Warning: Graphic photos below this point.
On the night of October 28, 2021, a group of armed men attempted to deprive a person of his freedom, but the victim managed to reach the facilities of the Sonora Attorney General's Office (FGJE), which are located in the Fátima neighborhood of Magdalena de Kino, and ask for help.
In the press releases, it is unclear how the victim was able to arrive at the offices of the FGJE. It is also unclear if the armed men had simply threatened the victim earlier or if they had begun to take him by force but he managed to escape. A video, seen below, allegedly depicts the group of armed men.
Video Source: @vagoner35
At approximately 11:00 pm, the armed men arrived at FGJE facilities and according to a Tribuna article, the men "tried to steal a person from the offices." A confrontation broke out between the group and AMIC agents on a street outside. The shootout led to the death of three of the cartel members. All three reportedly died on scene, before the arrival of paramedics.
Photo Credit: Columna de Viveros
It is presumed that the other armed men seen in the video escaped, as no arrests were announced as part of the press release. A FGJE statement put out today alleges they were "all members of a criminal group in the region."
All three of the deceased have been identified by law enforcement. They are: Jesús Ramón 'N', alias "El Pilinqui", 36 years old, Julio César 'N' , 20 years old, and a 17 year old minor whose identity cannot be legally disclosed.
El Pilinqui is suspected of being involved in a series of recent homicides and attempted homicides. An arrest warrant had been issued for El Pilinqui based on evidence that he was involved in the execution of José Saúl Martínez Trillas who was the head of the AMIC in the town of Sáric, Sonora. This story was covered by MX in an article here.
Crime scene of Martínez Trillas execution.
The armed attack that killed José Martínez Martínez Trillas occurred at 5:50 pm at night on July 30, 2021 in Magdalena de Kino, near the exit to Tubutama, where the La Industria gas station is located. Martínez Trillas was reportedly on leave and he was traveling the city of Hermosillo to spend a few vacation days there when he was attacked. Milenio newspaper writes that the agent was "surprised by several men while driving through the San Isidro neighborhood aboard his white Ford Explorer SUV."
Martínez Trillas was 49 years old at the time of his death and he had 28 years of public service. He used to be one of the leading police sketch artists in Sonora, expertly drawing out portraits of a suspect as victims describe the facial features of the perpetrator of their attack. These composite sketches are now created digitally, phasing out Martínez Trillas' expertise in the area but he was nonetheless known for leadership, becoming the head of the Sáric AMIC office. Radar Sonora reports he was about to retire.
El Pilinqui is also suspected in the homicide and attempted homicide of Orlando Uriel and Irving Andrés, which occurred on October 4, 2021. Few further details on the October 4 incident are available.
The FGJE statement reports that they suspect El Pilinqui was involved in the Orlando Uriel and Irving Andrés crimes because "evidence collected that night determined that Jesus Ramon 'N' allegedly used a .40 caliber firearm, after Thursday's confrontation a pistol was found next to his body, Forensic Ballistics tests were performed and its use against the two victims was determined."
Cartel Landscape of the Area
In the last few months, the region around Magdalena de Kino has been plagued by violence from an internal dispute between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Magdalena has long been the territory of one of El Mayo's top lieutenants named Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, alias "El Gigio", who leads Los Gigios, a Sinaloa Cartel faction based out of Nogales. El Gigio works closely with Leonardo Pineda Armenta, alias "El 20" or "El Nayo", his second-in-command and right hand man. They are contested primarily by members of Los Salazars, who are loyal to the Los Chapitos side of the Sinaloa Cartel.
One of the seized firearms, a Smith & Wesson SD40 VE
Two more seized firearms, one is a AKMS style firearm, the other a M4 style carbine, appears to be 10.5" barrel
Sources: FGJE Official Tweet, FGJE Official Statement, El Universal, UniRadioInforma, Canal Sonora, La Silla Rota, Dario Valor, El Sol de Hermosillo, Pulso SLP, Tribuna, Expreso
José Saúl Martínez Trillas Sources: FGJE official statement, Milenio, Today.in-24, Borderland Beat, Expreso, Radar Sonora, La Opinion
Execution of José Martínez Martínez Trillas
CDS and CJNG are the most powerful criminal organizations in the world! No doubt about that!
5:59 you change your call sign, but we all know your the ignorant clown, Reddit kid, that the more we tell you it's not, the more you behave ignorant.
6:38 calm down clown..eat this 💩🖕💩🖕
El Bulldog November 1, 2021 at 8:35 AM
@6:38, bro relax
5:59 now now don't go stabbing people, when they tell you the truth, it's ok to be a cheerleader. No harm done.
@6:38 how did you know a Reddit kid infiltrated in here? I too remember this is the guy, that cheerleads those Cartels. Funny how he behaved, couldn't his under the rock, you discovered his azz.
@559 que nino erres.
El Gigio low key asf! A true gangster
But according to the reddit fans hes a low level sicario
9:04 jajajaja this guys knows everything lol! Thats some funny shit🤣
El de jAlisco November 1, 2021 at 11:04 AM
Lieutenant del Mayo like Macho Prieto back in the days
Excellent 👍 that will teach kidnappers, that crime does not pay die early.
Sinaloa looks like gulf alot of greed and infighting power grabs don't they the pie is big for everyone to share . | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-5771471373283567380 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Here's the story of James Lewis Cates, a rallying point for today's UNC demonstrators
BY Charlie McGee
Just before 2 a.m. on Nov. 21, 1970, a 22-year-old Black man laid dying in the center of UNC's campus after being stabbed multiple times by a member of a white supremacist biker gang.
James Lewis Cates, a Chapel Hill native, bled on the ground of the Pit amid a brawl sparked by members of the gang during an all-night marathon dance.
Somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes passed before Cates received assistance. James Moore, a sophomore at the time, thought the police delayed taking Cates to the hospital without reason.
"There are a lot of questions which I think the police ought to have to answer," Moore later told The Daily Tar Heel.
According to the Nov. 24 edition of the DTH from that year, Cates died at the campus hospital around 3 a.m. Numerous members of the gang, who called themselves the Storm Troopers, were present, but three were charged in connection with the murder.
The three were eventually acquitted by an all-white Orange County jury, and Cates' murder was left unsolved. Despite surges of activism and outrage from many in the Chapel Hill community, his murderer was never held accountable.
The story of Cates' murder was a centerpiece in the hours of demonstration leading up to Silent Sam's forced removal by an unidentified group Monday night. Hundreds of people attended to watch speakers highlight issues they felt represented longstanding racism and abuses of power from the University and Chapel Hill community.
Maya Little, a grad student facing a vandalism charge and potential expulsion from the University for her peaceful protest against Silent Sam earlier this year, focused on Cates' story as an example of UNC suppressing the memory of civil rights movements.
"One of these acts of violence has been the University taking every measure to conceal the history of revolt against white supremacy in this town and on this campus," Little said. "At UNC, you find no monuments to James Lewis Cates. None to his friends who protested against the double-murder by a motorcycle gang and later by this county's court system. There are no monuments to the countless acts of resistance against UNC's racism and against Silent Sam."
According to a 1971 article from The New York Times, Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee acknowledged "young blacks who were itching to get back at the establishment" following Cates' murder. One of the sources of outrage was campus police's response after he was stabbed.
The Times article stated there were "widespread reports that Mr. Cates might have lived had the ambulance service been faster or had campus police men allowed friends to remove him to the hospital."
Nate Davis, Cates' cousin who witnessed the incident, said in a 2001 interview that he thought police "were more concerned about getting the motorcycle gang members away" than getting Cates medical attention.
When the three white supremacists went to trial, community members raised funds to hire an outside attorney so the men could be properly prosecuted. They hired Adam Stein, a premier civil rights attorney at the time. Stein told the DTH he remembers confusion being key to the gang members' case.
"It was pretty clear to me that those three people who were charged were involved with the murder," Stein said. "I think it was not very clear, not certainly clear, who did the stabbing. And the defense lawyers worked very hard to keep that issue confused so that each of them had a reasonable doubt defense."
Eventually, community funds ran out, and Stein stopped working the case. Following that, the jury was not convinced any of the three individuals were definitely guilty.
"There was a general community feeling among the people who really cared about the issue that race was an important reason for the acquittals," Stein said.
Stein said he sees parallels between the activism that happened after Cates' murder and the activism against Silent Sam today.
Chancellor Folt and the UNC system have been publicly critical of the toppling of Silent Sam this week. Little said that criticism is an attempt to discredit the broader issues activists have been discussing, such as the legacy of Cates.
"It wasn't just about knocking down the statue that they needed to undermine," Little said. "They needed to undermine the fact that we were saying that Carolina is racist — that UNC is a white supremacist institution. They needed to undermine those things as well."
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Second Team to Bolster Syrian Arms Destruction
An OPCW inspector working at an undisclosed place in Syria in an image grabbed from Syrian TV Tuesday.
Naftali Bendavid
@naftalibendavid
Naftali.Bendavid@wsj.com
Oct. 8, 2013 11:41 am ET
BRUSSELS—The international agency overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons said it is deploying a second team of inspectors to Syria to supplement the work of those already there.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, has said its first team, which arrived in Syria on Oct. 1, has left the country. But some of the 19 OPCW experts remained behind.
Ahmet Üzümcü, the OPCW's director-general, told the agency's 41-member Executive Council on Tuesday that the Syria mission has enjoyed a constructive beginning but that it still faced "a long and difficult process."
The first team's mission was essentially to lay the groundwork for the inspection and destruction activities. The deployment of a second team suggests those activities are well under way.
The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons facilities began Sunday, carried out by Syrians but supervised by the OPCW. It targeted such items as unfilled munitions and devices. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_1739066387116744035 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
There are several types and styles of weight plates available on the market. Two major types are the standard one-inch size and the Olympic two-inch size. The standard one-inch size is suitable for light home use and is more budget friendly. There is really no major difference between types and brands. This article will be primarily geared towards the Olympic style plates.
Within the Olympic two-inch size plates, there are lots of options to choose from. The two-inch refers to the diameter of the hole. in the center of the plate. If you've ever watched an Olympic weightlifting competition you'll notice that all the plates are the same diameter and come in a variety of colors. The colors indicate the different weights used in Olympic lifting. These are also what's known as bumper plates. Bumper plates are designed to be dropped from an overhead height onto a gym mat or floor without causing damage. The other style is the standard two-inch weight room plate. These come in a variety of colors, shapes, and styles. The biggest difference you should concern yourself with when it comes to the two-inch standard plate is the finish or coating on the plates. The style recommended by fitprofree.com is the rubber coated plates. They typically have hand grips making them easier to load and unload.
A word of caution, if these are dropped from any heights above knee level they can cause some serious damage to floors. This is why it's important to take into consideration what you plan on doing with your barbell set. If you plan on performing Crossfit or Olympic style lifts and will possibly be dropping the weights, you might want to invest in at least one bumper plate for each side.
When using only one bumper plate on each side you must take care not load more weight with the smaller plates than you have with the bumper plates. For example, if you load a 10 kg bumper plate on each side you cannot add larger than 25lb iron plates on each side. You have to imagine where the brunt of the force is going when you drop the weights. Too much impact on the bumper plate and you are likely to cause damage. For explosive lifts, you are typically only lifting half of your one rep maximum so this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I recommend skipping the bumper plate and just getting a good set of rubber coated cast iron plates, at least for now. Unless you're aiming for the Olympic Games the majority of the exercises you do you will be in complete control of the weights. Should you decide later you want to start doing more Olympic or Crossfit style training you can then look for some quality bumper plates and gym mats.
As stated above I recommend a set of rubber coated iron plates with handles. You can also build up the set slowly by buying individual weights. Unless you plan on hosting a weightlifting competition, you don't have to break the bank on a set of precision engineered plates.
A great set of plates for getting a job done. The easy to grip handles and an integrated metal sleeve make for a quick and smooth weight change. These will certainly do a good job rounding out your home gym.
Body Solid Rubber Grip Olympic Sets are designed using state-of-the-art technology, surpassing all others in quality, accuracy, reliability, and price. Quad-grip design guarantees safer and easier performance than any other plate on the market.
Impervious to rusting, chipping, flaking or losing their color.
Integrated metal sleeve provides a smooth, secure fit onto any Olympic bar.
The plates come in three available weight sets; 255lbs, 355lbs, and 455lbs. When first starting out you can get the small set and then buy additional separate plates HERE as your strength improves. They can be a bit pricey but if you consider the number of exercises you can do by having a barbell set it certainly makes it worth the purchase. Especially if your goal is gaining strength.
To address some of the negative reviews found on Amazon.com many people complain about the plastic smell the plates emit. This is certainly due to the manufacturing process. It's recommended to wash the plates thoroughly in pine sol before bringing them inside. I personally recommend leaving them outside in the sun for a day or two after washing to help dissipate the smell. If this still doesn't work you can try soaking the in a water/pine sol solution for a couple hours.
I read another review about there being a slight wobble in the plates after they are loaded onto a barbell. As a safety precaution, you should always use a sleeve collar when lifting. Even if you are just doing a quick set of curls it only takes one plate to drop and damage the floor or worse break a toe. With a sleeve collar, you not only stay safe but it should eliminate any wobble in the plates. You can pick up a sleeve collar HERE.
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The LAX Firing Range was established on January 2, 1995. The range offers a 25 yard long, well ventilated, 14 automated shooting lanes. Shooters can fire with all handgun calibers, as well as hi-powered rifles and shotguns. Shotguns can be used with 00 Buck or Slug rounds, all rifle and shotguns can be shot with our range ammunition only. Our large selection of rentals offers shooters a chance to try before they buy! The LAX Firing Range does not sell firearms; however, we do have a large Pro Shop with gun related accessories, ammunition, tactical gear, knives, etc. The Range also offers Law Enforcement Sales, Beginning Firearms Training & Advanced Training Classes, Security Guard Training, NRA Instructor & Specialized classes, as well as an Ultrasonic Gun Cleaning Service, and our annual Glock Tournament. Not shooting? No Problem! Customers, can enjoy watching all shooters in our rest area with plenty of seating and flat screen TV's. | RedPajamaC4_-434418998034413132 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
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Exome sequencing resolves apparent incidental findings and reveals further complexity of SH3TC2 variant alleles causing Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy.
Title Exome sequencing resolves apparent incidental findings and reveals further complexity of SH3TC2 variant alleles causing Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy.
BACKGROUND: The debate regarding the relative merits of whole genome sequencing (WGS) versus exome sequencing (ES) centers around comparative cost, average depth of coverage for each interrogated base, and their relative efficiency in the identification of medically actionable variants from the myriad of variants identified by each approach. Nevertheless, few genomes have been subjected to both WGS and ES, using multiple next generation sequencing platforms. In addition, no personal genome has been so extensively analyzed using DNA derived from peripheral blood as opposed to DNA from transformed cell lines that may either accumulate mutations during propagation or clonally expand mosaic variants during cell transformation and propagation.
METHODS: We investigated a genome that was studied previously by SOLiD chemistry using both ES and WGS, and now perform six independent ES assays (Illumina GAII (x2), Illumina HiSeq (x2), Life Technologies' Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Proton), and one additional WGS (Illumina HiSeq).
RESULTS: We compared the variants identified by the different methods and provide insights into the differences among variants identified between ES runs in the same technology platform and among different sequencing technologies. We resolved the true genotypes of medically actionable variants identified in the proband through orthogonal experimental approaches. Furthermore, ES identified an additional SH3TC2 variant (p.M1?) that likely contributes to the phenotype in the proband.
CONCLUSIONS: ES identified additional medically actionable variant calls and helped resolve ambiguous single nucleotide variants (SNV) documenting the power of increased depth of coverage of the captured targeted regions. Comparative analyses of WGS and ES reveal that pseudogenes and segmental duplications may explain some instances of apparent disease mutations in unaffected individuals. | RedPajamaC4_-2908124728544563721 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Eicosanoids: Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation
Paulo N. Rocha, Troy J. Plumb, Thomas M. Coffman
Internal Medicine, Nebraska Medicine
Eicosanoids are a family of lipid mediators derived from the metabolism of arachidonic acid. Eicosanoids, such as prostanoids and leukotrienes, have a wide range of biological actions including potent effects on inflammation and immunity. It has been almost 20 years since the first reports emerged suggesting a role for eicosanoids in transplantation. Since then, a number of functions have been ascribed to these mediators, ranging from immunomodulation to regulation of allograft hemodynamics. In this review, we will highlight the effects of eicosanoids in transplantation, focusing particularly on evidence provided by gene targeting studies. In the future, pharmacological manipulation of eicosanoids and their receptors may provide a novel approach for controlling inflammation and promoting allograft acceptance.
Springer Seminars in Immunopathology
Eicosanoids
Eicosanoid Receptors
Gene Targeting
Rocha, P. N., Plumb, T. J., & Coffman, T. M. (2003). Eicosanoids: Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation. Springer Seminars in Immunopathology, 25(2), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-003-0132-4
Eicosanoids : Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation. / Rocha, Paulo N.; Plumb, Troy J.; Coffman, Thomas M.
In: Springer Seminars in Immunopathology, Vol. 25, No. 2, 01.09.2003, p. 215-227.
Rocha, PN, Plumb, TJ & Coffman, TM 2003, 'Eicosanoids: Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation', Springer Seminars in Immunopathology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-003-0132-4
Rocha PN, Plumb TJ, Coffman TM. Eicosanoids: Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation. Springer Seminars in Immunopathology. 2003 Sep 1;25(2):215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-003-0132-4
Rocha, Paulo N. ; Plumb, Troy J. ; Coffman, Thomas M. / Eicosanoids : Lipid mediators of inflammation in transplantation. In: Springer Seminars in Immunopathology. 2003 ; Vol. 25, No. 2. pp. 215-227.
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OPERATION EMERALD: Protect our Doctors, Nurses, Police, EMS and Fire Fighters! Donating to Operation Emerald allows us to distribute much-needed personal protective equipment to our front line. Click the Donate button below, choose Operation Emerald as the fund and contribute what you can via online donations. Checks are accepted and can be mailed to The Emerald Foundation 2120 Oregon PikeLancaster, PA 17601.
OPERATION EMERALD
Protect our Doctors, Nurses, Police, EMS and Fire Fighters! Donating to Operation Emerald allows us to distribute much-needed personal protective equipment to our front line. Click the Donate button below, choose Operation Emerald as the fund and contribute what you can via online donations. Checks are accepted and can be mailed to The Emerald Foundation 2120 Oregon PikeLancaster, PA 17601.
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Mollie Divet
Assistant Education Director, Access to Opportunities After School Program
With a passion for equipping individuals, Mollie assists in ensuring Emerald is providing the best resources available to the community. She finds it extremely important that all members of the community are aware of the resources available to them and to have an outlet through which they are able to more easily access these resources.
Mollie obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Millersville University and has worked in the human services field supporting adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities as well as mental health diagnoses. Her main emphasis at Emerald is the Access to Opportunities After-School Program.
mdivet@emeralde.org
Bob Houghton
Education Director, Access to Opportunities After School Program
As the Education Director for the Access to Opportunities After-School Program, Bob is charged with ensuring the Access to Opportunities is as effective as it can be. Both Bob and this program are dedicated to providing low-income students with the tools needed to not just survive school, but thrive.
Bob retired from 35 years in public education which included 11 years teaching of social studies in the Eastern York and Penn Manor School District and 24 years as a school administrator. Those 24 years included serving as an assistant middle school and high school principal in the Penn Manor School District and 19 years as the principal at Conestoga Valley Middle School.
bhoughton@emeraldfoundationpa.org
Hilary Reichler
Facilitator, Access to Opportunities After School Program
Her passion for the community brought Hilary to Emerald in a volunteer capacity, where she immediately fell in love with the program, its vision, and the children it serves. When the opportunity arose to become a more permanent fixture in the program, Hilary jumped on it.
Her goals while working with kids throughout the school year, are to encourage them to be the incredible humans that they already are. Some of the activities that Hilary facilitates are yoga practices, physical games and activities, mindful minutes, and a girls-only empowerment group. Hilary wholeheartedly believes that these children truly are the future of our community and is excited to support them in any way possible.
hreichler@emeralde.org
Alexis Rittenhouse
Program Facilitator, Access to Opportunities After School Program
Currently pursuing her Bachelor's degree in psychology, Alexis uses her communication and insightful people skills as the Program Facilitator, working with all program participants. She loves helping to create a safe and enjoyable environment for children to be a part of.
Alexis has experience working with elderly and physically disabled individuals, in a group home setting as well as an in-home setting. She is so passionate about Emerald's program and making it successful, which drives her each and every day. Alexis is proud to be a part of programs that help students grow educationally, socially, and individually.
arittenhouse@emeralde.org
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Q: XML file with ä I have a XML file that roughly looks like this:
<customer>
<name>Müller</name>
</customer>
I parse the file using following code:
File xmlFile = new File("file.xml");
DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = dBuilder.parse(xmlFile)
And get the error that the entity ü is referenced but not declared. What I want is that the entry is being read but not parsed in any way, I want to get the value as it is written in the file.
How do I do that?
A: I tried setting:
dbFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
but this doesn't work.
If you can't modify your xml content (using UTF-8 the xml can contain u umlaut), you might be able to add a DTD:
<!DOCTYPE definition [
<!ENTITY uuml "ü">
]>
If you can't modify your xml file, load the xml contents and prepend the DTD:
String dtd = "<!DOCTYPE definition [\n<!ENTITY uuml 'ü'>\n]>\n",
contents = <load xmlFile>;
Reader reader = new StringReader(dtd + contents);
InputSource src = new InputSource(reader);
Document doc = dBuilder.parse(src);
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A combination of the "Gang Green" defense and a 100-plus-yard rushing day for senior running back Andrew Lackowski helped the Bemidji State University football program to a comeback, 25-21 win over No. 21 University of Sioux Falls for its ninth straight Homecoming victory.
BEMIDJI, Minn. (Chet Anderson Stadium) – A combination of the "Gang Green" defense and a 100-plus-yard rushing day for senior running back Andrew Lackowski helped the Bemidji State University football program to a comeback, 25-21 win over No. 21 University of Sioux Falls for its ninth straight Homecoming victory.
The Beavers got off to a strong start during their first possession, driving 74 yards on 19 plays to take a quick 3-0 lead. Sioux Falls scored the next three touchdowns of the game, taking a 21-3 lead midway through the third quarter. All three of the Cougars' touchdowns came in BSU territory, including two touchdown drives that started on the BSU 15- and 14-yardlines.
Lackowski punched in his first of two rushing touchdowns on the day following USF's 21-3 score, getting into the end zone from five yards away. The squad attempted a two-point conversion to bring the deficit to 10 points, which was a successful pass from Lackowski to junior fullback Matt Gross out of the Wildcat formation.
Following the 8:30 mark in the third quarter, the "Gang Green" defense played unblemished. Sophomore linebacker Jaylen Jenkins put a stop to a USF drive on the BSU side of the field with a 40-yard interception return. Junior quarterback Jared Henning followed four plays later with a 40-yard touchdown connection through the air to senior wide receiver Jameson White, bringing the Beavers to within three points of the Cougars, 21-18.
BSU's defense came up huge again midway through the fourth quarter, halting a 16-play, 59-yard drive by USF for a turnover on downs. The Beavers proceeded to drive 74 yards on 13 plays to score Lackowski's second rushing score of the day and the team's first lead since the second quarter. Sioux Falls totaled minus-six yards on its final two drives of the game, setting up BSU's ninth straight victory on Homecoming.
Lackowski led the BSU offense with 126 rushing yards on 35 carries, the first time a BSU back has totaled at least 30 attempts since 2013. Henning led the aerial attack with 166 passing yards, including six completions for 49 yards to sophomore wide receiver Mannie Kugmeh and four completions and 48 yards to junior wide receiver Jacob Anderson.
The BSU defense forced 10 tackles for a loss for the second straight game, led by senior defensive lineman Dylan Ellingson and junior linebacker Grant Bushinski with 2.0 each. Joining Jenkins with an interception was senior defensive back John Vogeler. Sophomore linebacker Gabe Ames led the "Gang Green" with nine tackles, including 1.0 tackle for a loss and 0.5 sacks. Senior defensive back Maurice Willis followed Ames with eight tackles.
Bemidji State plays its final road game against NSIC South teams Saturday, Oct. 13 at Upper Iowa University. The Beavers and Peacocks kickoff at 2 p.m. in Fayette, Iowa. | RedPajamaC4_4155360069533898442 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: How to split a stream by pauses I have a stream of similar events and want to split it by proximity in time: every event that follows the previous one in, let's say, less than 5 minutes, must go into one chain where I can mark then the beginning and end of this chain. All in real time, no bufferization.
Like this (- denotes pause less than 5 min, = denotes 5 min time span):
a - a - a = a - a - a =-- a - a - a
B EB E B
A: You can make use of windowWhen + timeoutWith operators to accomplish this:
let sharedSource = source.share();
sharedSource.windowWhen(() =>
sharedSource.timeoutWith(5 * 60 * 60, Observable.empty()).ignoreElements())
.subscribe(window => {
window.subscribe(/*Handle items in the stream*/);
});
The above builds an Observable of Observables or windows, each window is made of elements that are at most 5 minutes apart.
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export { ValidatorImpl } from "./validator"
export { decoratorName, ValidatorBase, ValidatorDecorator } from "./baseclasses"
export { RequiredValidator } from "./required-validator"
export { RangeValidator } from "./range-validator"
export { EmailValidator } from "./email-validator"
export { TypeValidator } from "./type-validator"
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